[Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?
Hi all, When I'm not editing Wikimedia projects, I work for Mondelez International, and our Social Media team has contacted me for advice on responsible engagement with Wikipedia. I know that different language projects have different rules on whether company representatives should: * Edit pages directly or only ever edit talk pages * Edit under their own names or under company names What are the rules for the Nordic languages? Thanks, David -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +491723724440 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?
In no-wp we have a policy that usernames shall be for individuals and thus typical company usernames are blocked and asked to request change of names. These users then have no restrictions on which pages to edit. As long as we don't demand identification of users, restrictions on edits would IMO be futile anyway. Hans A. Rosbach / User:Haros On 21 October 2013 15:14, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, When I'm not editing Wikimedia projects, I work for Mondelez International, and our Social Media team has contacted me for advice on responsible engagement with Wikipedia. I know that different language projects have different rules on whether company representatives should: * Edit pages directly or only ever edit talk pages * Edit under their own names or under company names What are the rules for the Nordic languages? Thanks, David -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +491723724440 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?
Thanks for the quick reply, Hans! If our representatives would (for example) translate an English company page into Norwegian, and then explain the edits on the talk page, and identify their conflict of interest on their user pages and also the article talk page, would you expect that that would be seen as fair and transparent by the Norwegian Wikipedia community? On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Hans A. Rosbach hans.a.rosb...@gmail.com wrote: In no-wp we have a policy that usernames shall be for individuals and thus typical company usernames are blocked and asked to request change of names. These users then have no restrictions on which pages to edit. As long as we don't demand identification of users, restrictions on edits would IMO be futile anyway. Hans A. Rosbach / User:Haros On 21 October 2013 15:14, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, When I'm not editing Wikimedia projects, I work for Mondelez International, and our Social Media team has contacted me for advice on responsible engagement with Wikipedia. I know that different language projects have different rules on whether company representatives should: * Edit pages directly or only ever edit talk pages * Edit under their own names or under company names What are the rules for the Nordic languages? Thanks, David -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +491723724440 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +491723724440 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Nederland report for September
The Wikimedia Nederland report for September is available: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201309 It is also included as text in this message. COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors - Our two-weekly Wiki-Saturdays remain successful: on a Wiki-Saturday the WMNL office is open for members of the community as a venue for meetings, a quiet place to work on projects or just to have a coffee and a chat with fellow Wikimedians. In September, the office was open twice, hosting volunteers and board members working on our annual conference, wiki loves monuments and the annual work plan 2014. - Preparations for the Wikimedia Nederland Conference (November 2, Utrecht) are in full swing. WMF chair of the Board Jan Bart de Vreede has agreed to give the keynote speech. See for conference programme: http://www.wikimediaconferentie.nl/ - There was a Wikipedia Café in Amsterdam on September 6. Four community members attended. WORK: content, collaboration and activity development - Wiki Loves Monuments. September is Wiki Loves Monumentshttp://www.wikilovesmonuments.nl/month. There were photo-safari’s (Wiki Takes) in Groningen, Nijmegen and The Hague. One of our volunteers arranged a special tour of Kasteel de Haar so that photographs could be taken inside the castle. - World War II. A group of active community members has decided to focus on World War II. We cooperated with the National Committee for the Commemoration of World War II earlier this year in a small pilot-project to gather photographs of war monuments for Wikimedia Commons. We are looking to expand this cooperation. - Fashion edit-a-thon Antwerpen. The MoMu fashion museum hosted an Europeana Fashion Edit-a-thonhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nl:Wikipedia:GLAM/MoMu_Fashion_edit-a-thon_2013in Antwerp. Around 25 participantshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nl:Wikipedia:GLAM/MoMu_Fashion_edit-a-thon_2013/deelnemersworked on articleshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/nl:Wikipedia:GLAM/MoMu_Fashion_edit-a-thon_2013/Onderwerpsuggestiesand a special tour through the museum was given. - Public Libraries. BiSC Utrecht http://www.biscutrecht.nl/, the service organisation for libraries in the province of Utrecht, and Wikimedia Nederland organised a workshop for libraries. The goal of the workshop was to generate ideas for cooperation. The workshop was inspired by the earlier Wiki Loves Bieb http://www.wikilovesbieb.nl/ project. - 25/9 Creative Commons Conference. Wikimedia Nederland attended the celebration of 10 years of Creative Commons in the Netherlands. The future of the licenses and their use was being discussed at the event. - ECNC. Volunteers of Wikimedia Nederland supported the ECNC photo competition http://www.ecnc.org/photo-competition/ by setting up the upload wizardhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard%3Fcampaign%3DECNC-Beautiful_Europe_2013. One of the goals for Wikimedia Nederland to support this competition is to see if and how we can support initiatives by other organisations that lead to more content on commons and/or other Wikimedia projects. - Tropenmuseum. The Tropenmuseumhttp://www.tropenmuseum.com/smartsite.shtml?ch=TMUid=5853is looking for the fourth Dutch Wikipedian in Residence (job description in Dutchhttps://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vacature_Wikipedian-in-Residence_op_expeditie) for their project about expeditionshttps://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/De_grote_Wikipedia_Expeditie . Money - WMNL submitted its application for FDC fundinghttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2013-2014_round1/Wikimedia_Nederland/Proposal_formin time of the October 1 deadline. We are requesting € 356,068, a 20% increase on the 2013 FDC allocation. GLOBAL: International collaboration - Board member international affairs Ziko van Dijk visited the Wikipedia-Stammtisch in Bochum (DE) - Wiki Loves Monuments International: WMNL is acting as fiscal sponsor to the Wiki Loves Monuments International team, taking care of accounting and payments. - Kira Kraemer (WMDE) visited the WMNL offices as part of the Chapters Dialogue programme. She interviewed representatives of board, community and staff. ORGANISATION: board, management and support - The board met in Utrecht on September 5. - The Algemene Ledenvergadering (General Assembly) took place on September 21 (the second in 2013). Main points on the agenda were the Annual Workplan and Budget 2014. Both were approved by the members. Sandra Rientjes Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland tel. (+31) (0)6 31786379 *Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:* Postbus 167Mariaplaats 3 3500 AD Utrecht
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?
I'm not sure. Someone who posts deficient article that they obviously have a special relationship to, where the language in addition is deficient, may easily be meet by a deletion request. The difficulty with promoting a company in Wikipedia is the promotion part, not the identity of the author. For a well sourced, well written, well structured article that takes a neutral point of view about a clearly relevant subject, I cannot see that the identity of the author should make much difference. That said, obviously there may be someone who disagrees with me in this. Hans On 21 October 2013 16:07, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the quick reply, Hans! If our representatives would (for example) translate an English company page into Norwegian, and then explain the edits on the talk page, and identify their conflict of interest on their user pages and also the article talk page, would you expect that that would be seen as fair and transparent by the Norwegian Wikipedia community? On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Hans A. Rosbach hans.a.rosb...@gmail.com wrote: In no-wp we have a policy that usernames shall be for individuals and thus typical company usernames are blocked and asked to request change of names. These users then have no restrictions on which pages to edit. As long as we don't demand identification of users, restrictions on edits would IMO be futile anyway. Hans A. Rosbach / User:Haros On 21 October 2013 15:14, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, When I'm not editing Wikimedia projects, I work for Mondelez International, and our Social Media team has contacted me for advice on responsible engagement with Wikipedia. I know that different language projects have different rules on whether company representatives should: * Edit pages directly or only ever edit talk pages * Edit under their own names or under company names What are the rules for the Nordic languages? Thanks, David -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +491723724440 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +491723724440 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Thank you for this update.
HI Patricio: Thank you very much for sending along this updated list of your new authorities. I have updated our internal list. Will you please send along the email addresses for these new officers. You will remember that this information is for internal use only. Ivana Molena Esteban Zarate Juan Ignacio Iglesias Alberto Robles Malena Lorente Leandro Kibisz Thank you, Amy On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Patricio Molina patriciomol...@gmail.comwrote: Dear friends, Yesterday we had our Annual Assembly in Wikimedia Argentina, and it's my great pleasure to announce our new authorities for the next two years (2013-2015). The new Board is composed as follows: President: Galileo Vidoni Vicepresident: Ivana Lysholm Secretary: Patricio Molina Deputy Secretary: Ivana Molena Treasurer: Nicolás Giorgetti Deputy Treasurer: Mariano Pérez Board Member: Beatrice Murch Board Member: Esteban Zárate Board Member: Juan Ignacio Iglesias Deputy Board Member: Nahuel Kahles Deputy Board Member: Alberto Robles Statutory Auditor: Leandro Ferrari Statutory Auditor: Malena Lorente Statutory Auditor: Leandro Kibisz Sincerely, *Patricio Molina* Secretario A. C. Wikimedia Argentina ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Amy Vossbrinck* *Executive Assistant to the* *Chief of Finance and Administration* *Wikimedia Foundation* *149 New Montgomery Street* *San Francisco, CA 94105* *415.839.6885 ext 6628* *avossbri...@wikimedia.org* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?
I'm not sure. Someone who posts deficient article that they obviously have a special relationship to, where the language in addition is deficient, may easily be meet by a deletion request. The difficulty with promoting a company in Wikipedia is the promotion part, not the identity of the author. For a well sourced, well written, well structured article that takes a neutral point of view about a clearly relevant subject, I cannot see that the identity of the author should make much difference. That said, obviously there may be someone who disagrees with me in this. Hans What you are saying, in practice, is that a major firm that hires a professional public relations firm that writes the best sort of article, from the viewpoint of the firm, that could be expected to be acceptable is OK, but a crude amateur effort by an inexperienced free-lancer is not. What makes a Wikipedia article better for a firm if serious attention by a public relations firm is regularly paid to it is rather subtle. The brights are a little brighter, the dulls a little less boring, and the pig is cute. Fred On 21 October 2013 16:07, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the quick reply, Hans! If our representatives would (for example) translate an English company page into Norwegian, and then explain the edits on the talk page, and identify their conflict of interest on their user pages and also the article talk page, would you expect that that would be seen as fair and transparent by the Norwegian Wikipedia community? On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Hans A. Rosbach hans.a.rosb...@gmail.com wrote: In no-wp we have a policy that usernames shall be for individuals and thus typical company usernames are blocked and asked to request change of names. These users then have no restrictions on which pages to edit. As long as we don't demand identification of users, restrictions on edits would IMO be futile anyway. Hans A. Rosbach / User:Haros On 21 October 2013 15:14, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, When I'm not editing Wikimedia projects, I work for Mondelez International, and our Social Media team has contacted me for advice on responsible engagement with Wikipedia. I know that different language projects have different rules on whether company representatives should: * Edit pages directly or only ever edit talk pages * Edit under their own names or under company names What are the rules for the Nordic languages? Thanks, David -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +491723724440 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +491723724440 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?
Is skewing an article easier if you are good at it? Yes I think it is. Hans On 21 October 2013 21:13, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: I'm not sure. Someone who posts deficient article that they obviously have a special relationship to, where the language in addition is deficient, may easily be meet by a deletion request. The difficulty with promoting a company in Wikipedia is the promotion part, not the identity of the author. For a well sourced, well written, well structured article that takes a neutral point of view about a clearly relevant subject, I cannot see that the identity of the author should make much difference. That said, obviously there may be someone who disagrees with me in this. Hans What you are saying, in practice, is that a major firm that hires a professional public relations firm that writes the best sort of article, from the viewpoint of the firm, that could be expected to be acceptable is OK, but a crude amateur effort by an inexperienced free-lancer is not. What makes a Wikipedia article better for a firm if serious attention by a public relations firm is regularly paid to it is rather subtle. The brights are a little brighter, the dulls a little less boring, and the pig is cute. Fred On 21 October 2013 16:07, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the quick reply, Hans! If our representatives would (for example) translate an English company page into Norwegian, and then explain the edits on the talk page, and identify their conflict of interest on their user pages and also the article talk page, would you expect that that would be seen as fair and transparent by the Norwegian Wikipedia community? On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Hans A. Rosbach hans.a.rosb...@gmail.com wrote: In no-wp we have a policy that usernames shall be for individuals and thus typical company usernames are blocked and asked to request change of names. These users then have no restrictions on which pages to edit. As long as we don't demand identification of users, restrictions on edits would IMO be futile anyway. Hans A. Rosbach / User:Haros On 21 October 2013 15:14, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, When I'm not editing Wikimedia projects, I work for Mondelez International, and our Social Media team has contacted me for advice on responsible engagement with Wikipedia. I know that different language projects have different rules on whether company representatives should: * Edit pages directly or only ever edit talk pages * Edit under their own names or under company names What are the rules for the Nordic languages? Thanks, David -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +491723724440 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +491723724440 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?
2013/10/21 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com Hi all, For Swedish Wikipedia, as I understand our consensus and relevant texts (WP:IK, WP:Användarkonto, WP:Att skriva om näringsliv, företag och varumärken): When I'm not editing Wikimedia projects, I work for Mondelez International, and our Social Media team has contacted me for advice on responsible engagement with Wikipedia. I know that different language projects have different rules on whether company representatives should: * Edit pages directly or only ever edit talk pages Talk pages only, please. * Edit under their own names or under company names Their own names (or pseudonyms). We discourage company names as user names. //Johan Jönsson -- http://vetsaga.se ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Statement from Wikimedia Foundation's Sue Gardner in response to paid advocacy editing and sockpuppetry
This statement is also available online:
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Statement from Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation,
in response to paid advocacy editing and sockpuppetry
Editors on the English Wikipedia are currently investigating allegations of
suspicious edits and sockpuppetry (i.e. using online identities for
purposes of deception). At this point, as reported, it looks like a number
of user accounts -- perhaps as many as several hundred -- may have been
paid to write articles on Wikipedia promoting organizations or products,
and have been violating numerous site policies and guidelines, including
prohibitions against sockpuppetry and undisclosed conflicts of interest. As
a result, Wikipedians aiming to protect the projects against non-neutral
editing have blocked or banned more than 250 user accounts.
The Wikimedia Foundation takes this issue seriously and has been following
it closely.
With a half a billion readers, Wikipedia is an important informational
resource for people all over the world. Our readers know Wikipedia's not
perfect, but they also know that it has their best interests at heart, and
is never trying to sell them a product or propagandize them in any way. Our
goal is to provide neutral, reliable information for our readers, and
anything that threatens that is a serious problem. We are actively
examining this situation and exploring our options.
In the wake of the investigation, editors have expressed shock and dismay.
We understand their reaction and share their concerns. We are grateful to
the editors who've been doing the difficult, painstaking work of trying to
figure out what's happening here.
Editing-for-pay has been a divisive topic inside Wikipedia for many years,
particularly when the edits to articles are promotional in nature. Unlike a
university professor editing Wikipedia articles in their area of expertise,
paid editing for promotional purposes, or paid advocacy editing as we call
it, is extremely problematic. We consider it a black hat practice. Paid
advocacy editing violates the core principles that have made Wikipedia so
valuable for so many people.
What is clear to everyone is that all material on Wikipedia needs to adhere
to Wikipedia's editorial policies, including those on neutrality and
verifiability. It is also clear that companies that engage in unethical
practices on Wikipedia risk seriously damaging their own reputations. In
general, companies engaging in self-promotional activities on Wikipedia
have come under heavy criticism from the press and the general public, with
their actions widely viewed as inconsistent with Wikipedia's educational
mission.
Being deceptive in your editing by using sockpuppets or misrepresenting
your affiliation with a company is against Wikipedia policy and is
prohibited by our Terms of Use. We urge companies to conduct themselves
ethically, to be transparent about what they're doing on Wikipedia, and to
adhere to all site policies and practices.
The Wikimedia Foundation is closely monitoring this ongoing investigation
and we are currently assessing all the options at our disposal. We will
have more to say in the coming weeks.
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Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
receive 500 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most
popular web property world-wide (comScore, August 2013). Available in 287
languages, Wikipedia contains more than 29 million articles contributed by
a global volunteer community of roughly 80,000 people. Based in San
Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3)
charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New access to non-public information policy, re-ID requirements and data retention
Tomasz W. Kozlowski wrote: The discussion is taking place at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Access_to_nonpublic_info_policy and I invite every interested person (with a special invitation to people holding advanced user rights on any Wikimedia wiki) to take an active part in it. This discussion... isn't going great. There's now a talk page section devoted to users signing a pledge that should the policy, as written, be enacted by the Board, they'll resign their advanced privileges (steward access, CheckUser access, etc.). It's up to eight signatories. Reading through some of the discussion, I have two questions for the Wikimedia Foundation Board (copied on this e-mail): * Is the Board interested in updating its 2007 access to nonpublic data policy? * Has there been any consideration of removing volunteers from these types of roles and relying solely on staff? On a typical site, paid staff would deal with problematic users. There's a lot of hoopla being put in place (confidentiality pledges, etc.) that would be much easier to implement if everyone with this type of access were simply paid staff members or contractors. (Though contractors can still leak, heh.) But this seems like a legitimate enough question in the context of the current discussion: should volunteers be filling these roles or should they be focused more purely on education content creation? MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?
Thanks all! Surprising as it might seem for a company our size, we don't have any consultants polishing our Wikipedia pages. I'm not in communications at all: I'm in RD, but our Corporate Communications team really does want to act in good faith, which is why they started talking to me: they're trying to understand the rules before doing anything, and I want to help them connect with the right people in the projects, and help them figure out how they're allowed to contribute responsibly and openly. Kind regards, David On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Johan Jönsson brevlis...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/10/21 David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.com Hi all, For Swedish Wikipedia, as I understand our consensus and relevant texts (WP:IK, WP:Användarkonto, WP:Att skriva om näringsliv, företag och varumärken): When I'm not editing Wikimedia projects, I work for Mondelez International, and our Social Media team has contacted me for advice on responsible engagement with Wikipedia. I know that different language projects have different rules on whether company representatives should: * Edit pages directly or only ever edit talk pages Talk pages only, please. * Edit under their own names or under company names Their own names (or pseudonyms). We discourage company names as user names. //Johan Jönsson -- http://vetsaga.se ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +491723724440 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
