Greetings, all.
And apologies. This resolution approving the Wikimedia Chapters' selections
to the Board of Trustees was unanimously approved, in-person, on July 11,
2012.
It took much longer to publish than it should have due to a procedural
issue.
It has finally been published at:
http://wikim
Hi, Anirudh.
Thanks for the welcoming note. As others have noted, we have not required
all members to identify to the Foundation, and those that are identified
are so in other capacities. As Katie and Nemo pointed out, GAC work is all
done in the open on Meta, and no personal information or actu
Hi Michael and everyone,
I added the IRC office hours on meta, and made the mistake. Sorry
about this. Thanks to the WMF for holding two office hours so
Australians can attend.
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Michael Jahn wrote:
> Just about to put this information on WMDE's blog, but I'm con
FYI: Spanish Wikinews today bears a site notice in protest against the
Mexican government signing the ACTA agreement. It says: The internet
must remain free. The Freedom of the internet is in peril."
The Spanish Wikinews community has issued a press release on the matter:
https://es.wikinews.org/
The project is empty. It's recent changes feed shows no edits (not sure how
that is even possible). All the links on the front page are redlinks. The
point of the project is stated as influencing the decisions of politicians.
I suspect few will dispute the conclusion that Ratiopol is not ripe for
~ Keegan
Sent mobile
On Jul 24, 2012 2:50 PM, "Amir E. Aharoni"
wrote:
>
> Most of all, I'm still curious about the reasons that the IOC (or
> whoever is in charge) provided for the refusals.
>
>
In the immortal words of Steve Martin in The Jerk, "It's a profit deal!
That really takes the pressur
2012/7/24 Lodewijk :
> Would it make sense to start a more thorough long term lobby on this issue?
> Considering that this will be a returning issue every two years, I guess
> that would be worth the trouble...
Generally, I think that it would be a good idea. I'm just not very
comfortable with the
Hello,
For your information, I have made a proposal for a project to be
adopted by the Wikimedia Fundation. It is called Ratiopol, and it's
about politics, if you want more informations, you can go here :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ratiopol
Feel free to contact me.
Regards,
Bretwa
__
Would it make sense to start a more thorough long term lobby on this issue?
Considering that this will be a returning issue every two years, I guess
that would be worth the trouble...
Lodewijk
2012/7/24 Tomasz Ganicz
> 2012/7/24 Cristian Consonni :
> > 2012/7/24 Amir E. Aharoni :
> >> Hi,
> >>
Forwarding per request.
Alex
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From: Melanie Brown
To: foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org
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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:04:27 -0700
Subject: FDC Eligibility Status
Dear Wikimedia Community,
>
> As y
2012/7/24 Cristian Consonni :
> 2012/7/24 Amir E. Aharoni :
>> Hi,
>>
>> The Olympic games are beginning soon. Apparently, ticket holders
>> cannot use photo equipment longer than 30cm and cannot use the photos
>> and videos for commercial purposes without accreditation.
>>
>> Practically everythin
On Jul 24, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Cristian Consonni wrote:
> 2012/7/24 :
>> [...] So I definitely believe what it.WM wants to do, to connect people with
>> local events, has real value. And that it has value for the individual
>> people just as much as for it.WM.
>
> strong +1.
>
>> The main
2012/7/24 :
> [...] So I definitely believe what it.WM wants to do, to connect people with
> local events, has real value. And that it has value for the individual people
> just as much as for it.WM.
strong +1.
> The main question is whether the benefit from being able to connect people
> wit
As the GAC doesn't actually take any decision, nor handles any private
data (it seems), I don't see why it should require identification.
Nemo
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>> Which means the answer is no: not all committee members have been
>> identified.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Yaroslav
Hardly any are, including existing members. Those that are identified to
the foundation are so because of other current or former positions.
On 24/07/2012 16:13, Béria Lima wrote:
The
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Frederic Schutz wrote:
> Has anyone from the Wikimedia community contacted the IOC on this matter?
>
This conversation came up about a month ago on the Communications Committee
list and Jimmy mentioned that he had made requests through his channels and
had also b
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:13:05 -0300, Béria Lima wrote:
The question is: They will?
(For disclosure, I'm a member of GAC - since the beginning last year
- and
I'm identified since 2008.)
_
*Béria Lima*
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de
ter
livre acesso ao
The question is: They will?
(For disclosure, I'm a member of GAC - since the beginning last year - and
I'm identified since 2008.)
_
*Béria Lima*
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
constru
On 24/07/2012 15:48, Chary, Meera wrote:
Hi all,
The correct starting times for these IRC office hours are 16:00 UTC (9PDT) and
23.00 UTC (16PDT) as stated in the Wikimedia-l posts last week. The times are
now corrected on Meta - thanks for alerting us to this, Michael!
Correction was only
2012/7/24 Amir E. Aharoni :
> Hi,
>
> The Olympic games are beginning soon. Apparently, ticket holders
> cannot use photo equipment longer than 30cm and cannot use the photos
> and videos for commercial purposes without accreditation.
>
> Practically everything that happens at the Olympics is notab
Thank you very much for the opportunity and trust. I'll do my best!
Saludos.
2012/7/23 Abbas Mahmood
>
> Welcome!
> Looking forward to working with the new members.
> SincerelyAbbas.
>
> > From: abar...@wikimedia.org
> > Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:20:20 -0700
> > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.o
Hi all,
The correct starting times for these IRC office hours are 16:00 UTC (9PDT) and
23.00 UTC (16PDT) as stated in the Wikimedia-l posts last week. The times are
now corrected on Meta - thanks for alerting us to this, Michael!
Best,
Meera
Meera Chary
Case Team Leader
The Bridgespan Group
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:13:27 +, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov wrote:
You can always check the list of users identified to the Foundation:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Identification_noticeboard
Alex
Which means the answer is no: not all committee members have been
identified.
Cheers
Y
You can always check the list of users identified to the Foundation:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Identification_noticeboard
Alex
2012/7/24 Anirudh Bhati
> Hi Asaf,
>
> Thank you for posting this and a grand welcome to all the new arrivals in
> the GAC. ;)
>
> I see that some of the folks h
>From the editor: ''Signpost'' developments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-07-23/From_the_editor
Op-ed: The future of PR on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-07-23/Op-ed
Paid editing: Does Wikipedia pay? The skeptic: Orange Mi
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 24 July 2012 10:21, Frederic Schutz wrote:
> > Has anyone from the Wikimedia community contacted the IOC on this matter?
> >
> > If not, WM CH could give it a try (their headquarters are in Switzerland,
> > actually less than 2km away from
2012/7/24 Richard Symonds :
> WMUK have asked, and we live in London; some of us next door to the
> stadium. The answer is a resounding 'no' from all corners, even when we
> speak to the government. We've got a volunteer with very good access to the
> games, but even behind the scenes it's difficul
WMUK have asked, and we live in London; some of us next door to the
stadium. The answer is a resounding 'no' from all corners, even when we
speak to the government. We've got a volunteer with very good access to the
games, but even behind the scenes it's difficult to get photographs.
The IOC are n
2012/7/24 Andrew Gray :
> On 24 July 2012 10:21, Frederic Schutz wrote:
>> Has anyone from the Wikimedia community contacted the IOC on this matter?
>>
>> If not, WM CH could give it a try (their headquarters are in Switzerland,
>> actually less than 2km away from my place). I'm not overly optimis
On 24 July 2012 10:21, Frederic Schutz wrote:
> Has anyone from the Wikimedia community contacted the IOC on this matter?
>
> If not, WM CH could give it a try (their headquarters are in Switzerland,
> actually less than 2km away from my place). I'm not overly optimistic, but
> it may be worth a t
On 24/07/12 11:43, Tomasz Ganicz wrote:
Has anyone from the Wikimedia community contacted the IOC on this matter?
If not, WM CH could give it a try (their headquarters are in Switzerland,
actually less than 2km away from my place). I'm not overly optimistic, but
it may be worth a try.
Accord
2012/7/24 Frederic Schutz :
> Has anyone from the Wikimedia community contacted the IOC on this matter?
>
> If not, WM CH could give it a try (their headquarters are in Switzerland,
> actually less than 2km away from my place). I'm not overly optimistic, but
> it may be worth a try.
>
According to
Hi Asaf,
Thank you for posting this and a grand welcome to all the new arrivals in
the GAC. ;)
I see that some of the folks have chosen to remain anonymous (many of whom
I identify as prolific contributors to our projects) but I would like to
know whether the Wikimedia Foundation has independentl
I assume that a photographer with an accreditation may take photos also for
commercial use.
I suppose that the IOC connects the right to take this kind of photos with
the accreditation and to pay a contingent grant as soon this accreditation
is assigned.
The use of limited photo equipments for th
Has anyone from the Wikimedia community contacted the IOC on this matter?
If not, WM CH could give it a try (their headquarters are in
Switzerland, actually less than 2km away from my place). I'm not overly
optimistic, but it may be worth a try.
Frédéric
On 24/07/12 11:05, Liam Wyatt wrote:
On 24 July 2012 10:35, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> 2012/7/24 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) :
>> May be we should take such anomalies to public forums!
>
> I'm not actually sure that it's an anomaly. As I said, I don't follow
> sports and I only noticed such a thing now for the first time, but I
> don't fin
This issue is not merely theoretical.
Many will recall the controversy surrounding the free-licensed photo of
Usain Bolt, on Commons, taken during the Beijing Olympics:
-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-10-12/In_the_news
-
http://ragesoss.com/blog/2009/10/09/wikipedi
2012/7/24 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) :
> May be we should take such anomalies to public forums!
I'm not actually sure that it's an anomaly. As I said, I don't follow
sports and I only noticed such a thing now for the first time, but I
don't find it extremely surprising.
I can even understand the res
May be we should take such anomalies to public forums!
Slash dot? Free knowledge forums? Press? Media?
Olympics is not just a money spinning sponsored affair. Information about
the happenings there is the right of every universal citizen!
The 'long' camera may have something to do with security.
Wikimedia Ch gives usually accreditations and we did it in the past also
for sport's events.
Naturally we gives accreditation only to people who send as formal request
and are identified (no unknown people).
In general we contact the press office of the event and inform them that a
defined number
Just about to put this information on WMDE's blog, but I'm confused about
the timing:
16:00 UTC and 23.00 UTC are given as starting times in the below email
(which is 9 PDT and 16 PDT). But on Meta it reads 9 _UTC_ and 16 _UTC_,
respectively:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_Office_Hours
Clarif
Hi,
The Olympic games are beginning soon. Apparently, ticket holders
cannot use photo equipment longer than 30cm and cannot use the photos
and videos for commercial purposes without accreditation.
Practically everything that happens at the Olympics is notable and
should be on Wikipedia, Commons,
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