Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updated Terms of Use

[Andrew Garrett]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Philippe Beaudette
wrote:

> 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.
> [2]
>
> Best wishes,
> Philippe
>

Terms of use are boring, and most of us are pretty jaded by how
impenetrable, legalistic and, well, awful, most terms of use are on the
internet.

I want to congratulate you and your department on NOT doing this. The new
terms of use are written in clear English, well set out, and cover what
seem to be the appropriate bases without being overly verbose and cautious.

Well done, Philippe, Geoff, and everyone else.

-- 
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Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Thank you, thank you!

[Audrey Abeyta]

Dear Wikipedia contributors,

We did it! For the past six weeks, you have all graciously tolerated my
emails requesting participants for my undergraduate senior thesis
project
on
users’ motivations to contribute to Wikipedia. On Monday, I reached out to
this community, begging for just eighteen more participants to reach my
target sample size of 100 respondents. We not only reached that goal, but
exceeded it: 161 Wikipedia contributors responded to my questionnaire!

Your insightful responses are invaluable to my project and I cannot express
my gratitude for this community enough, so thank you, thank you, thank you!

When my final paper is written in June, I will make it available to the
Wikipedia community.

Thank you once again for your insight, thoughtful questions, and feedback.

Best,

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

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Andrea Zanni  wrote:
> 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).

 This isn't clear yet. It's unlikely to happen before the end of the
 initial development in a year. We still have to see what happens after
 that. It might happen before 2015 or not.
>>>
>>> Andrea will run out of tears by 2015. ;-(
>>
>> Heh we don't want that to happen obviously.
>
> I'm not crying yet :-)

Puh... Good ;-)

>> .. if people want to
>> help and work towards bringing Wikidata also to the sister-projects
>> then that would be welcome from our side. And of course they will be
>> able to use Wikidata like any other 3rd party as soon as that is
>> possible.
>
> Thank you Lydia for your reply,
> I would be definetely good to be be in touch with the WikiData team as
> sister projects users.

Sounds good. Do try to come to the office hours.

>> I have to clarify my previous statement. The team doing the initial
>> development will mainly be focusing on getting this up and running for
>> the Wikipedias. (We will obviously keep sister-projects and projects
>> outside Wikimedia in mind while doing that.)
>
> I know this won't change anything, and I know that I'm very biased,
> but let me unburden just this time. :-)
>
> It seems to me that it would be more logical, for a start, to work
> on a simpler and well-defined framework for meta/data.
>
> Wikisource just need a way to manage bibliographic metadata:
> it could use Dublin Core, as a standard, fetch its data from Commons,
> and maybe use OAI-PMH as a protocol. Of course, it needs the technical
> infrastructure for "manage" data.
> Commons would be the repository for both data and scans, and the data
> could be taken from Author and Books template.
> It seems to me that this metadata issue, in both Commons and
> Wiksource, wouldn't need gazillions hours of work,
> but I guess it has always been low priority (not your fault of course,
> but still here we are)
>
> I know that working on Wikipedia has a much broader reach,
> so it's OK.
>
> I just wanted to say this louder :-)

As far as I understand it it shouldn't be a problem to store data from
the Author and Books template for example in Wikidata and use it (if
the community agrees that this is something that should be stored
there). Daniel said it needs a bit of modification on the client
extension that someone would need to do though.

>>> Could we have one sister-projects IRC session in the near future?
>>
>> Questions regarding sister-projects and how they can fit into the
>> whole Wikidata picture are obviously very welcome at the next office
>> hours on Monday (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events). If
>> there is more demand for it we can also do office hours specifically
>> for that of course.
>
> I'll try to participate and understand better what you are going to do.
> Thanks for the info.

Great. Let me know if you have more questions.


Cheers
Lydia

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

[Andrea Zanni]

 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).
>>>
>>> This isn't clear yet. It's unlikely to happen before the end of the
>>> initial development in a year. We still have to see what happens after
>>> that. It might happen before 2015 or not.
>>
>> Andrea will run out of tears by 2015. ;-(
>
> Heh we don't want that to happen obviously.

I'm not crying yet :-)

> .. if people want to
> help and work towards bringing Wikidata also to the sister-projects
> then that would be welcome from our side. And of course they will be
> able to use Wikidata like any other 3rd party as soon as that is
> possible.

Thank you Lydia for your reply,
I would be definetely good to be be in touch with the WikiData team as
sister projects users.

> I have to clarify my previous statement. The team doing the initial
> development will mainly be focusing on getting this up and running for
> the Wikipedias. (We will obviously keep sister-projects and projects
> outside Wikimedia in mind while doing that.)

I know this won't change anything, and I know that I'm very biased,
but let me unburden just this time. :-)

It seems to me that it would be more logical, for a start, to work
on a simpler and well-defined framework for meta/data.

Wikisource just need a way to manage bibliographic metadata:
it could use Dublin Core, as a standard, fetch its data from Commons,
and maybe use OAI-PMH as a protocol. Of course, it needs the technical
infrastructure for "manage" data.
Commons would be the repository for both data and scans, and the data
could be taken from Author and Books template.
It seems to me that this metadata issue, in both Commons and
Wiksource, wouldn't need gazillions hours of work,
but I guess it has always been low priority (not your fault of course,
but still here we are)

I know that working on Wikipedia has a much broader reach,
so it's OK.

I just wanted to say this louder :-)

>> Could we have one sister-projects IRC session in the near future?
>
> Questions regarding sister-projects and how they can fit into the
> whole Wikidata picture are obviously very welcome at the next office
> hours on Monday (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events). If
> there is more demand for it we can also do office hours specifically
> for that of course.

I'll try to participate and understand better what you are going to do.
Thanks for the info.

Aubrey

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

[Craig Franklin]

Firstly, let me say this is very very cool news.

I went to go and have a browse though, and it's all tied up in a
massive (around 3gb) archive file rather than being easily browsable.
I know that WikiData is the obvious place to put it, but perhaps it
would be useful as a reference work on Wikisource in its own right,
decompressed and machine formatted into an easier to search format?

Cheers,
Craig

On 25 Apr 2012, at 19:29, emijrp wrote:
> 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 between hundreds or thousands of entities and it's
>> very hard to change the licenses.
>> The main problem is usually deduplication and quality of the records, any
>> information on this for Harvard's data?
>>
>> Mateus Nobre, 25/04/2012 19:44:
>>
>>> Add ALL at Wikisource!
>>>
>>
>> Wikisource? This is only metadata.
>>
>
> Perhaps it is OK for Wikidata.
A mass dump of all of the information onto Wikisource wouldn't be good
- but being able to extract complete bibliographies of specific
authors on demand would actually be quite useful for properly building
author pages on Wikisource, rather than the current ad-hoc and
incomplete lists that currently exist. (With the consequence that
bibliographies on Wikipedia could be 'outsourced' to Wikisource,
bringing that project much-needed readers and editors).
Thanks,
Mike

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

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:50 AM, John Vandenberg  wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Lydia Pintscher
>  wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Andrea Zanni  
>> wrote:
>>> 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).
>>
>> This isn't clear yet. It's unlikely to happen before the end of the
>> initial development in a year. We still have to see what happens after
>> that. It might happen before 2015 or not.
>
> Andrea will run out of tears by 2015. ;-(

Heh we don't want that to happen obviously.
I have to clarify my previous statement. The team doing the initial
development will mainly be focusing on getting this up and running for
the Wikipedias. (We will obviously keep sister-projects and projects
outside Wikimedia in mind while doing that.) However if people want to
help and work towards bringing Wikidata also to the sister-projects
then that would be welcome from our side. And of course they will be
able to use Wikidata like any other 3rd party as soon as that is
possible.

> Could we have one sister-projects IRC session in the near future?

Questions regarding sister-projects and how they can fit into the
whole Wikidata picture are obviously very welcome at the next office
hours on Monday (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events). If
there is more demand for it we can also do office hours specifically
for that of course.


Cheers
Lydia

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Community Communications for Wikidata

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Obentrautstr. 72
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.

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

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Lydia Pintscher
 wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Andrea Zanni  
> wrote:
>> 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).
>
> This isn't clear yet. It's unlikely to happen before the end of the
> initial development in a year. We still have to see what happens after
> that. It might happen before 2015 or not.

Andrea will run out of tears by 2015. ;-(

Could we have one sister-projects IRC session in the near future?

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

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Andrea Zanni  wrote:
> 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).

This isn't clear yet. It's unlikely to happen before the end of the
initial development in a year. We still have to see what happens after
that. It might happen before 2015 or not.


Cheers
Lydia

-- 
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Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on the CISPA drafting process, and its significance to the Wikimedia movement.

[Alec Meta]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
 wrote:
> There have been drastic changes to the CISPA language, (and
> here "drastic" is an understatement).
...
> At this point I think *any* action by Wikimedia would be misinterpreted.
> There is no-longer any text there that would affect Wikimedia directly.

I think we should take our cues from the American Library Association.
  Wikimedia is really an outcrop of the Public Library movement.   If
the librarians oppose it, we are on solid ground opposing it to.
Indeed, we can justify our opposition merely by pointing to the ALA's
position--   Librarians are like the Military in the US-- everyone
loves librarians.

Going full black may not be justified, but releasing a statement of
some kind (or a small banner of some kind) might be appropriate.

Also, remember that we are a global organization.  If the US
'legitimizes' universal cyber-surveillance, it could have deep
ramifications for our readers editors living under authoritarian
regimes.  Even if the US is a good steward of these new powers, non-US
users are unlikely to be so lucky.

The language is reportedly in flux.  I strongly suggest taking our
cues from the ALA.   If they librarians oppose it, let us oppose it
too.

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

[Michael Peel]

On 25 Apr 2012, at 19:29, emijrp wrote:

> 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 between hundreds or thousands of entities and it's
>> very hard to change the licenses.
>> The main problem is usually deduplication and quality of the records, any
>> information on this for Harvard's data?
>> 
>> Mateus Nobre, 25/04/2012 19:44:
>> 
>>> Add ALL at Wikisource!
>>> 
>> 
>> Wikisource? This is only metadata.
>> 
> 
> Perhaps it is OK for Wikidata.

A mass dump of all of the information onto Wikisource wouldn't be good - but 
being able to extract complete bibliographies of specific authors on demand 
would actually be quite useful for properly building author pages on 
Wikisource, rather than the current ad-hoc and incomplete lists that currently 
exist. (With the consequence that bibliographies on Wikipedia could be 
'outsourced' to Wikisource, bringing that project much-needed readers and 
editors).

Thanks,
Mike


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ombudsmen commission

[Katie Chan]

On 25/04/2012 23:50, Casey Brown wrote:


I'm not advocating for anything in particular -- I could care less if
the ombudsman commission made an OTRS queue. It's entirely up to them.
:-)


I knew this was going to happen LOL. When I said "you", I wasn't aiming 
it at anyone in particular but making a general statement. Apology for 
any confusion.


KTC

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