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

2012/4/24 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 th

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

2012/4/24 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

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

Welcome Haitham! Just for a bit of clarification, the post says: > Haitham is joining the Wikimedia Foundation in order to support new > editor growth on small-to-medium sized Wikimedia projects, And then... > Haitham will be beginning his work with the Arabic Wikipedia > community, and based o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:52, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > It really amazes me how much we distrust the people who have been > doing a great work (otrs admins, ombudsmen, etc). I'm going to suggest a "benefit of the doubt response" and wonder aloud whether it's more to do with what we've come to expe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

Phillipe, We are now to day's futher. Still no responds from you on or off list, or any responds at all from the foundation. best, Huib On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Bod Notbod wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 03:52, Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > > It really amazes me how much we distrust the

[Wikimedia-l] Updated Terms of Use

Hi everyone, As you may be aware, Wikimedia has updated its Terms of Use. This updated version will become effective on May 25, 2012, and can be reviewed here.[1] A short overview of some of the changes is set out here

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

Add ALL at Wikisource! On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 3:45 PM, emijrp wrote: > 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

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

Thanks for sharing, I had read about it on the NYT but nothing was said on license. So now the USA have more open bibliographic data than Germany/Europe? :) lobid.org is a very nice initiative, but other catalog systems have very complex interactions between hundreds or thousands of entities and

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

2012/4/25 Federico Leva (Nemo) > Thanks for sharing, I had read about it on the NYT but nothing was said on > license. > So now the USA have more open bibliographic data than Germany/Europe? :) > lobid.org is a very nice initiative, but other catalog systems have very > complex interactions betwe

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

Hi, yes, there surely were comments from developers... that is positive. But the result as general is still nothing at all (the feature is not even nearing deployment). WMF should invest in new features. I am not a dev and thus can not contribute any code. Kozuch 2012/4/25 Sumana Harihareswara :

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:06 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > Is there an auditable log of these actions?  i.e. one that OTRS admins > cant doctor? As Rjd said, there isn't. Nothing will ever be perfect though. For example, the mailman mailing list that they currently use can easily be accessed by a

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

2012/4/25 emijrp : > Perhaps it is OK for Wikidata. I think it's perfectly OK with Wikidata, and it would be with Wikisource (if we had a metadata management system :-). As far as I understood, Wikidata will engage sister projects data in 2015 (i'm gonna cry). Aubrey

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

On 25/04/2012 03:52, Pedro Sanchez wrote: It really amazes me how much we distrust the people who have been doing a great work (otrs admins, ombudsmen, etc). And all upon contrived hypothetical scenarios. "And how about one of the root-access devs is secretly working for the goverment of... is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Pedro Sanchez wrote: >.. > > It really amazes me how much we distrust the people who have been > doing a great work (otrs admins, ombudsmen, etc). > > And all upon contrived hypothetical scenarios.  "And how about one of > the root-access devs is secretly working

Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Katie Chan wrote: > Of course it's all very well believing in the good work and ethics of those > currently with those type of rights. However it's a different issue entirely > to assume there will never be a bad apple. If that's your attitude, then it > have to fo