Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Release of educational videos under creative commons (Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 97, Issue 73)

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Dale
Thanks Sumana! :) --michael On 04/24/2012 09:10 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap indicates that we aim to have TimedMediaHandler deployed onto Wikimedia Foundation sites by the end of May 2012. TimedMediaHandler has been reviewed by Ian Baker and Kandalgao

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

2012-04-24 Thread Pedro Sanchez
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 8:06 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Casey Brown wrote: > > Is there an auditable log of these actions?  i.e. one that OTRS admins > cant doctor? > > -- > John Vandenberg > > ___ > Wikimedia-l maili

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

2012-04-24 Thread Rjd0060
There is no such log within the OTRS software. Admin actions are logged by the OTRS admins on the OTRS wiki. Yes, these are manual edits. There has never (that I know of) been an issue with the OTRS admins accessing queues they shouldn't. While of course it is possible for them to, as others hav

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Release of educational videos under creative commons (Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 97, Issue 73)

2012-04-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Roadmap indicates that we aim to have TimedMediaHandler deployed onto Wikimedia Foundation sites by the end of May 2012. TimedMediaHandler has been reviewed by Ian Baker and Kandalgaonkar extensively, with lots of changes made in response by Michael Dale. Review note

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-24 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 04/23/2012 01:03 PM, Jan Ku?era wrote: > Hi there, > >> If, on the other hand, you just mean "features to promote greater >> communication and networking between editors", that's a clear priority - >> I'm happy to talk to people about the work we're doing, and to hear any >> suggestions along t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

2012-04-24 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Casey Brown wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Thehelpfulone > wrote: >> You would be able to easily keep track of what tickets have >> been answered, but as far as I am aware the OTRS admins >> are technically able to view all the emails in any queues - >

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing Haitham Shamma and the Editor Growth and Contribution Program

2012-04-24 Thread Siko Bouterse
It is my great pleasure to announce a new program being launched in the Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Development department and a new member of the team: Haitham Shamma has been engaged as program consultant for the Editor Growth and Contribution Program.  Pending approval of the U.S. immigration

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard University: Drop paywalled journals, publish open access

2012-04-24 Thread Richard Symonds
I wouldn't even say it's tangential: I would say that it is, in fact, exactly what we want and exactly what we should be supporting. +10 internets to Harvard. They may not be as good as Cambridge, but they're proving to be a good second all the same ;-) Richard Symonds Office & Development Manager

[Wikimedia-l] Harvard University: Drop paywalled journals, publish open access

2012-04-24 Thread David Gerard
Tangential, but highly relevant to the goal of free content: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices "Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to make their res

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Release of educational videos under creative commons

2012-04-24 Thread Samuel Klein
Where's the latest thread on the Timed Media Handler progress? I am meeting with MIT Open CourseWare tomorrow - they want to expand the set of videos they released last year under CC-SA, starting with categories / vids that would be fill gaps on Wikipedia. Any thoughts on how to make that collabo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikipedia-l] Fwd: Harvard Library releases 12M bibliographic records under CC0

2012-04-24 Thread emijrp
Very good news for Open Library, and for us too. 2012/4/24 Samuel Klein > This is big news -- though still only part of Harvard's full > collection of records. > > Following the British Library's release of 3M bib records under CC0 18 > months ago: > http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Harvard Library releases 12M bibliographic records under CC0

2012-04-24 Thread Samuel Klein
This is big news -- though still only part of Harvard's full collection of records. Following the British Library's release of 3M bib records under CC0 18 months ago: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373 David Weinberger writes: > This is the largest contribu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

2012-04-24 Thread Thehelpfulone
On 24 April 2012 01:00, Casey Brown wrote: > Queues are normally setup so that the OTRS admins can see all tickets. > This makes things easier when checking for errors, making sure there > are no backlogs, cleaning up cross-queue spam, etc. However, there are > definitely some private queues -- l

[Wikimedia-l] Doctors use, but don’t rely totally on, Wikipedia

2012-04-24 Thread Richard Symonds
All, We think you might find our latest blog post interesting. It's about research in which an online survey of medical staff at two large hospital trusts in England was conducted. Nearly all the 109 responses included free-text comments. Unsurprisingly, the respondents - all medical professional

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

2012-04-24 Thread Bod Notbod
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 18:41, Jan Kučera wrote: > Hi there, > > how do we want to work on editor retention if we lack social features at > all??? > > These go in the right direction: > http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Improving_our_platform > http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sandra Rientjes director of Wikimedia Nederland

2012-04-24 Thread Sarah Stierch
Great news! Welcome Sandra! And +1 to more women's leadership! Sarah Sent via iPhone - I apologize in advance for my shortness or errors! :) On Apr 24, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Dear friends of free knowledge, > > As of May 1, Wikimedia Nederland is going to have a director:

[Wikimedia-l] Sandra Rientjes director of Wikimedia Nederland

2012-04-24 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Dear friends of free knowledge, As of May 1, Wikimedia Nederland is going to have a director: Sandra Rientjes. After a lengthy selection process the Board was able to choose between two candidates, preselected by the professionalization committee. The Board felt that Sandra Rientjes presented an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedians in Other Languages Needed

2012-04-24 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:40:20 -0600, James Heilman wrote: Hello All The project we have been working on to develop medical content and translate it into other languages is going well. We have an initial set of 13 top importance GAs ready for translation by "Translators Without Borders". Article

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedians in Other Languages Needed

2012-04-24 Thread James Heilman
Hello All The project we have been working on to develop medical content and translate it into other languages is going well. We have an initial set of 13 top importance GAs ready for translation by "Translators Without Borders". Article should begin arriving in a couple of weeks. http://en.wikipe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Release of educational videos under creative commons

2012-04-24 Thread David Gerard
On 24 April 2012 13:26, emijrp wrote: > Also, this message is more related to Wikimedia or Commons mailing lists > (cc:). If you are the owner of those videos and you want to donate them, > some people can help you in the process. Well, not really - uploading video is still laborious because we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Release of educational videos under creative commons

2012-04-24 Thread emijrp
2012/4/24 Andrew Cates > Um. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Video appear to all be > images relevant to the topic of videos. Not themselves videos. > > Sorry, a missing S, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Videos > Owner? Not personally but I am the CEO of the charity whi

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 17 -- 23 April 2012

2012-04-24 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
Investigative report: Spin doctors spin Jimmy's "bright line" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-23/Investigative_report News and notes: Help-space revamp, WikiTravel RfC, and Justin Knapp scores a million edits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signp

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Release of educational videos under creative commons

2012-04-24 Thread emijrp
2012/4/24 Andrew Cates > I am wondering about releasing many hundreds of Africa educational videos > under creative commons. > > They are the videos currently at www.our-africa.org which is a child > generated reference site about Africa. > > There is a lot of material in the videos which could b