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
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
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
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:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-10-12/In_the_news
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On 24 July 2012 10:35, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2012/7/24 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com:
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
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
2012/7/24 Frederic Schutz sch...@mathgen.ch:
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.
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.
On 24 July 2012 10:21, Frederic Schutz sch...@mathgen.ch 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
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
2012/7/24 Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk:
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
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote:
On 24 July 2012 10:21, Frederic Schutz sch...@mathgen.ch 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,
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 anirudh...@gmail.com
Hi Asaf,
Thank you for posting this and a grand welcome to all the new arrivals in
the GAC. ;)
I see that some
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
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
Thank you very much for the opportunity and trust. I'll do my best!
Saludos.
2012/7/23 Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com
Welcome!
Looking forward to working with the new members.
SincerelyAbbas.
From: abar...@wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:20:20 -0700
To:
2012/7/24 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il:
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
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
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
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
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Frederic Schutz sch...@mathgen.ch 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
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 question
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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2012/7/24 birgitte...@yahoo.com:
[...] 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
2012/7/24 Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com:
2012/7/24 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il:
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
Forwarding per request.
Alex
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From: Melanie Brown mbr...@wikimedia.org
To: foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: Garfield Byrd gb...@wikimedia.org, Anasuya Sengupta
asengu...@wikimedia.org
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:04:27 -0700
Subject: FDC Eligibility
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 polime...@gmail.com
2012/7/24 Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com:
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
2012/7/24 Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org:
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
~ Keegan
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On Jul 24, 2012 2:50 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il
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
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
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:
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 michael.j...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Just about to put this information on
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
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