Re: [Wikimedia-l] Yet Another Cybercrime Law (Philippines)

[Paolo B.]

Hello Benjamin,

As far as Wikipedia is concerned, some members of the Filipino editors'
community (myself included) are trying to gather a consensus before
requesting for a blackout of the English Wikipedia for the Philippines
(that is, a 24-hour blackout that will only take effect here and not
including other countries). We might probably include other local
Philippine-language Wikipedias as well, but that's still under discussion,
here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:TAMBAY#Proposed_blackout

I have only been able to participate in soliciting the input of other Pinoy
WIkipedians (through messages in their Talk pages) just now, as I was away
from my desktop computers recently. So I'm not sure how many other Filipino
Wikipedians are yet to hear of our proposal. (This proposal, by the way, is
an initiative of the local editing community and is not an official action
of the local chapter, Wikimedia Philippines.)

Outside Wikipedia, however, the rage against the bill is pretty strong. A
lot of Filipinos have changes their Facebook and Twitter profile pictures
into a solid black square. Even a news website
(http://www.interaksyon.com/) changed
its layout to a black background. There was a protest movement yesterday at
the Supreme Court, in support of the seven (7) petitions asking for a
temporary restraining order (TRO) of Republic Act 10175; however, no TRO
was issued yesterday as a number of judges were absent because of official
duties. Suffice it to say that, yes, there is a significant opposition to
the Cybercrime Law (specifically on the provisions on libel), and for sure
it will be in the news in the days to come


Paolo Barazon
Trustee, Wikimedia Philippines
(speaking on a personal capacity, not on behalf of Wikimedia Philippines)



On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Benjamin Lees  wrote:

>
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/09/philippines-new-cybercrime-prevention-act-troubling-free-expression
> I suppose this is old news by now, but I haven't seen it mentioned here
> yet.  Are any projects taking action?
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[Wikimedia-l] Yet Another Cybercrime Law (Philippines)

[Benjamin Lees]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/09/philippines-new-cybercrime-prevention-act-troubling-free-expression
I suppose this is old news by now, but I haven't seen it mentioned here
yet.  Are any projects taking action?
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[Wikimedia-l] Travel Guide Naming poll open

[Philippe Beaudette]

Hi all,

The naming poll for the Travel Guide site is now open.  For the next 14
days, you may be eligible to vote for as many of the proposed names as you
wish.  For full details on voting criteria and other process notes as to
how the name will be selected, please see the voting page at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide/Naming_Process.

Thanks,
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC Proposals

[Anasuya Sengupta]

Dear all,

Thank you very much for sharing these concerns with us - and thank you,
Anders, for responding so promptly!

While the deadlines for proposals has been very clear from the start - in
the framework, and in mails shared with the community - I want to
acknowledge that as primary FDC support staff, I *did* miss sending out a
reminder last week (I thought I had, but realise to my horror it's still
sitting in my drafts folder!). My apologies for that. I had also
(mistakenly, as it turns out) assumed that eligible entities would be
looking at the FDC portal regularly, where the landing page very clearly
has deadlines mentioned. I will certainly do better around deadline
reminders the next time round.

However, chapters have been in touch with Garfield, Christine, Asaf,
Winifred, Meera and me over much of the past few months, and I believe we
have been prompt over responding to any concerns, and about reminding them
of deadlines.  In particular, I know that the forms have been giving people
some trouble, and Heather, who's been designing and maintaining the FDC
Portal, has also been very responsive to those concerns. In addition, we've
pro-actively reached out to many of you to help us design and improve our
processes and our forms, and we have very much appreciated the excellent
feedback, and incorporated it wherever possible.

We can obviously do better still, and would very much like to: this is the
first time we are all doing this together, and we are learning what works
and what doesn't. As Nicole said, I believe that the Ombudsperson is
actually the correct person to address any process related concerns and
comments to, particularly if we wish to document them for future learning
and improvement. However, anyone should feel free to reach out to staff at
the same time, so we can address concerns as quickly as possible. In
addition, of course, do reach out to FDC members if you would like to.

As Anders mentioned, please do see this page on the FDC portal, which has
the details of the FDC support staff, the Ombudsperson and the FDC members:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Comments

Once the recommendations from the FDC are made to the Board, any complaints
related to those recommendations should be made to the Board
representatives on the FDC: Jan-Bart and Patricio. Again the page to do so
is linked from the Comments page above.

Please do reach out to any of us - the more we share on wiki, the more
public and transparent this process, and the better equipped we will be to
create a really strong and effective FDC.

Warmly,
Anasuya

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Anders Wennersten
wrote:

> I am not an official spokesperson for the newly formed FDC but one of its
> members.
>
> The FDC staff is operational but we as a committee is still not
> operational but will be in the the weeks to come, .
>
> For the list of submissions the FDC staff can need today to sort out one
> or two proposals in the list that had problems at the time of the exact
> deadline
>
> For comments on the proposals use the discussion page on the proposal
>
> For comments on the proposal form use
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Template_talk:FDC_**proposal_form_v1
>
> For general concerns arounf the FDC process use
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/FDC_portal/2012/FDC_**members/Comments
>
> Ombudsperson is to involved if it is felt FDC or the FDC staff has
> mismanaged the process, so too early yet to let that function be involved
>
> Anders Wennersten
> Member FDC
>
>
>  D managing those suggestions of behalf of the
>> FDC?
>>
>> It would be sensible to ensure, and be seen to ensure, that the
>> administrative burden on Chapter staff and volunteers is kept to a
>> minimum.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Fae
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC Proposals

[Anders Wennersten]

I am not an official spokesperson for the newly formed FDC but one of 
its members.


The FDC staff is operational but we as a committee is still not 
operational but will be in the the weeks to come, .


For the list of submissions the FDC staff can need today to sort out one 
or two proposals in the list that had problems at the time of the exact 
deadline


For comments on the proposals use the discussion page on the proposal

For comments on the proposal form use

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:FDC_proposal_form_v1

For general concerns arounf the FDC process use

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/2012/FDC_members/Comments

Ombudsperson is to involved if it is felt FDC or the FDC staff has 
mismanaged the process, so too early yet to let that function be involved


Anders Wennersten
Member FDC


D managing those suggestions of behalf of the
FDC?

It would be sensible to ensure, and be seen to ensure, that the
administrative burden on Chapter staff and volunteers is kept to a
minimum.

Thanks,
Fae
'' Writing as me, personally, rather than in any role people might think I have.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC Proposals

[charles andrès]

The talk page of the template is a good place to start 

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:FDC_proposal_form_v1

even if it's clear that a real effort has been done about the wording, it's 
still need internationalization, too much sentence are ambiguous for non native 
english speaker.

cheers

Charles



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Le 2 oct. 2012 à 14:06, Fae  a écrit :

> I have quite a few emails in my inbox that mention problems using the
> submission form, and how much of an administrative burden this
> created. Where is the best place to raise suggestions for improvement
> (including, I hope, pointing out the aspects that are working well),
> and who will be promptly managing those suggestions of behalf of the
> FDC?
> 
> It would be sensible to ensure, and be seen to ensure, that the
> administrative burden on Chapter staff and volunteers is kept to a
> minimum.
> 
> Thanks,
> Fae
> '' Writing as me, personally, rather than in any role people might think I 
> have.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC Proposals

[Nicole Ebber]

Hi all,

On 2 October 2012 14:06, Fae  wrote:
> I have quite a few emails in my inbox that mention problems using the
> submission form, and how much of an administrative burden this
> created. Where is the best place to raise suggestions for improvement
> (including, I hope, pointing out the aspects that are working well),
> and who will be promptly managing those suggestions of behalf of the
> FDC?
>

Wouldn't this be part of the Ombudsperson's tasks? To collect feedback
about the process? Not sure whether there already is a page on meta
for these issues.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Ombudsperson_role,_expectations,_and_selection_process#Expectations_for_FDC_Ombudsperson

Best,
Nicole



> It would be sensible to ensure, and be seen to ensure, that the
> administrative burden on Chapter staff and volunteers is kept to a
> minimum.
>
> Thanks,
> Fae
> '' Writing as me, personally, rather than in any role people might think I 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC Proposals

[Fae]

I have quite a few emails in my inbox that mention problems using the
submission form, and how much of an administrative burden this
created. Where is the best place to raise suggestions for improvement
(including, I hope, pointing out the aspects that are working well),
and who will be promptly managing those suggestions of behalf of the
FDC?

It would be sensible to ensure, and be seen to ensure, that the
administrative burden on Chapter staff and volunteers is kept to a
minimum.

Thanks,
Fae
'' Writing as me, personally, rather than in any role people might think I have.

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[Wikimedia-l] FDC Proposals

[Itzik Edri]

Hi,

Yesterday was the last day to submit proposals to the FDC for round 1 (and
it strange that we didn't saw any reminder email about it..). I think it's
a great opportunity to see (and give opinion about) the chapters &
foundation (core) programs and budget plans for 2013 (although it seem like
not everyone finished filling out the forms):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals


Itzik
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Wikimedia India Annual Report 2011-12 released in 2nd AGM

[Arjuna Rao Chavala]

*cross posting*

-- Forwarded message --
From: Arjuna Rao Chavala 
Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:56 PM
Subject: Wikimedia India Annual Report 2011-12 released in 2nd AGM
To: wmin-members 


>From Wikimedia India blog. 

Chapter held its second Annual General body Meeting on 23 Sep 2012. Arjuna
Rao Chavala, President welcomed the members to the meeting. Naveen PF,
Secretary presented a brief account of Chapter activities during the year
2011-2012. He highlighted the launch of Membership,  large number of Wiki
Academies across India, Wiki Conference India 2011  and Wikimedia India
portal  launch. On behalf of Anirudh Singh Bhati, Treasurer who could not
be present in the meeting, Arjuna presented the report of Auditor.  Report
of activities and auditor’s report were approved by the general
body.Annual report
2011-12covering
both the activities and financials was released. Read
more.

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Regards
Arjuna
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