Hi all,
the Wikimedia Foundation's 2014-15 Annual Plan has just been published at
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:2014-15_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan.pdf
accompanied by a Q&A:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2014-2015_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers
The plan was approved by the
Hi Nathan,
At the moment the WMF legal team is monitoring the situation. We have been
informed that we will receive notifications by Google of takedowns, but we
have not received any notifications that have resulted in a takedown of a
Wikipedia page to date. We're assessing the impact on the Wikim
Now that Google has begun processing (tens of thousands) of "Right to be
forgotten" claims from individuals, has the WMF [or any chapter] received
notification of any Wikimedia content being removed from search results?
Is there a plan on how to respond to these? Some (notably the BBC) have
publis
On 7 July 2014 21:08, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
> wrote:
>> Brad Jorsch (Anomie), 07/07/2014 17:37:
>> > And the robots.txt for the new
>> > version of the site denies everything, likely because the new owners
>> don't
>> > want the redire
James, I think you may have missed the part of my message about "and are
willing to work with us to address concerns we may have about their
existing services" :)
In any case, given that the IA in general is way more eager to test the
boundaries of copyright law and given that they (through Brewst
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
wrote:
> Brad Jorsch (Anomie), 07/07/2014 17:37:
> > And the robots.txt for the new
> > version of the site denies everything, likely because the new owners
> don't
> > want the redirects or other old content showing up in Google searches.
> Bu
Brad Jorsch (Anomie), 07/07/2014 17:37:
> And the robots.txt for the new
> version of the site denies everything, likely because the new owners don't
> want the redirects or other old content showing up in Google searches. But
> this has the unfortunate side effect that IA removes all the old conte
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:21 AM, James Salsman wrote:
> Kevin Gorman wrote:
>
> > Regarding the IA: they have a significant interest in working with the
> > Wikimedia projects, a lot more experience than the Wikimedia projects
> have
> > caching absolutely tremendous quantities of data, a willinne
Some party!
On 7 July 2014 14:16, Itzik Edri wrote:
> We also hosted Wiknic last Friday (to celebrate HEWP 11th anniversary):
>
>
> https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%A9_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A5_201
We also hosted Wiknic last Friday (to celebrate HEWP 11th anniversary):
https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%A9_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A5_2014/%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at
> IA's legality in general has apparently never been tested in court,
A bit too generic a statement; I assume you're talking only of the
legality of giving public access to Wayback copyright-eligible all
rights reserved content.
IA follows a standard which is designed to avoid litigation:
http://w
Kevin Gorman wrote:
> Regarding the IA: they have a significant interest in working with the
> Wikimedia projects, a lot more experience than the Wikimedia projects have
> caching absolutely tremendous quantities of data, a willinness to handle a
> degree of legal risk that would be inappropriate
There was also Wiknic organized in French speaking region in end of May
2014:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wiknic
Since mid-2011 we also have regular events such as "Tuesday Wiki" <
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Mardi_c%27est_Wiki>.
2014-07-07 9:42 GMT+02:00 Pine
Wiknic New York City 2014:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_one.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_two.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_three.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014_WikNYC_by_Elias_Frie
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