[Wikimedia-l] Picture of the Year 2014 Results

2015-03-21 Thread Srikant Kedia
Dear Wikimedians, The 2014 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year -- more people voted in Picture of the Year 2014 than ever before. In both rounds, 6698 different people voted for their favorite media

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Well-Tempered Clavier

2015-03-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:39:52 +0200 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, Plenty of things like this happen in the Wikimedia world every day, but as a music lover I'm especially happy about this one: The Open Well-Tempered Clavier project was completed yesterday with the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Well-Tempered Clavier

2015-03-21 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Likewise, I adore this project. I'm so delighted to see this, and love that it happened just before 3/21, 330 years after the birth of JS Bach. Thank you, Amir, for sharing this. pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 |

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Well-Tempered Clavier

2015-03-21 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I don't know, I wondered, too. בתאריך 21 במרץ 2015 17:58, ‏Rob gamali...@gmail.com כתב: Fantastic! Any idea if they will be recording book II of the Clavier as well? On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:39:52 +0200 Amir E.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Most obnoxious banner yet

2015-03-21 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 9:11 PM, Megan Hernandez mhernan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, Here's a quick follow up on a couple issues from this thread. The fundraising team will be posting feedback analysis on March

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adding your own works as sources possible conflict of interests

2015-03-21 Thread Rui Correia
Hi Peter Thanks for your reply. I was not aware that there might be that much difference from one Wp to another, but, yes, I am referring to the English WP. The editor himself added his name in a post, in one other post another editor refers to him by name. From there, googling his name leads to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Well-Tempered Clavier

2015-03-21 Thread Rob
Fantastic! Any idea if they will be recording book II of the Clavier as well? On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 5:04 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2015 15:39:52 +0200 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, Plenty of things like this happen in the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Well-Tempered Clavier

2015-03-21 Thread Quim Gil
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: The Open Well-Tempered Clavier is a project to record a complete performance of this work and release the music files, as well as proofread digital sheet music, to the public domain. It was crowd-funded

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adding your own works as sources possible conflict of interests

2015-03-21 Thread Rui Correia
Thanks, Geni I just wanted to hear a few opinions before making it 'official' by taking it up on a notice board. I will try the list you suggest. Regards, Rui 2015-03-21 18:53 GMT+02:00 geni geni...@gmail.com: On 21 March 2015 at 15:22, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adding your own works as sources possible conflict of interests

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Southwood
Hi Rui, I have no idea of the policies of other Wikipedias in this matter, they may be identical for all I know, or may differ considerably. That is why I qualified my response. The possibility exists that more than one person may have the same name, and he may not be the same person

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adding your own works as sources possible conflict of interests

2015-03-21 Thread geni
On 21 March 2015 at 15:22, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote: Hi Peter Thanks for your reply. I was not aware that there might be that much difference from one Wp to another, but, yes, I am referring to the English WP. The English Wikipedia has an adequate selection of noticeboards

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Well-Tempered Clavier

2015-03-21 Thread Gergo Tisza
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Rob gamali...@gmail.com wrote: Fantastic! Any idea if they will be recording book II of the Clavier as well? *Are you going to work on bringing BWV 870—893 (Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2) to the audience next? Or would you explore something else?* *Kimiko:*

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Adding your own works as sources possible conflict of interests

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Southwood
Rui, I think this is a Wikipedia policy issue, and the policy may differ depending on which Wikipedia is involved. In the case of en: I speak under correction, but as far as I remember this would be considered a conflict of interests. I don’t know what you consider overwhelming proof of

[Wikimedia-l] Adding your own works as sources possible conflict of interests

2015-03-21 Thread Rui Correia
Dear All if this is the wrong place to post this, please accept my apologies. If a scientist has published works - papers and books - on a specific area of expertise, and that scientist is also a Wikipedia editor, USING a made up username 1. can they use/ cite their own works as sources and