Re: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Tarc Meridian t...@hotmail.com wrote: This has been tried before, i.e. wikialpha.org. Pages are speedily deleted for a reason, many of them quite properly so. Moving potentially libelous BLP attack pages and other sundry junk to a publicly viewable wiki is not a very well-thought-out idea. Every new article is potentially libelous. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] TomTom does a Britannica
2012/5/29 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote: Yes, TomTom is dying. But it's because of Google, not because of OSM. I'd actually flag smartphones as the culprit. Well, the empire strikes back: http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/11/apple-tomtom-ios-6-maps/ :) Another usable app for Romania. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Office hour: Wikipedia Education Programs in Canada and U.S.
In anticipation of some major changes that are coming up in the U.S. and Canada Education Programs, the Wikimedia Foundation staff for the Wikipedia Education Program (Frank Schulenburg, Annie Lin, LiAnna Davis, Jami Mathewson, and I) will be hosting a scheduled public office hour in the #wikimedia-office IRC channel. Date: Thursday, 21 June 2012 Time: 16:00 – 17:00 UTC (noon-1 p.m. EDT, 9-10 a.m. PDT) (click here for local time) If you have questions or concerns about the programs, or are simply curious, this is a great opportunity to gain better insight into these programs. If you are unable to attend, a link to the chat log will be posted at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for public viewing following the session. Details on how to join the session are included below. We look forward to chatting with you! Rob Schnautz Online Communications Contractor Global Development Wikimedia Foundation --- If you haven't used IRC before, it may be easiest to use a web client; this means you don't have to install any software on your computer. Just click here to join in, and then choose a username when prompted: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-office You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. For more information about IRC software you can install on your computer, go to the Wikipedia entry on IRC or the Meta page on Wikimedia IRC. If using dedicated software, connect to the channel #wikimedia-officeconnect on the freenode network. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Grant Advisory Committee is expanding!
Reminder: The Grant Advisory Committee is expanding. If you'd like to help grantees and the Foundation in its grantmaking, consider submitting your candidacy here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates Cheers, Asaf On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear colleagues, The Wikimedia Foundation would like to expand its Grant Advisory Committee[1], and we would like you to consider whether you might be interested in volunteering in that capacity. The GAC (as it is affectionately known) is an advisory body performing a double function in relation to the Wikimedia Foundation's Grants Program[3] -- 1. The GAC advises grant applicants on how to improve and clarify their proposals and their plans. This often extends to advice not just about how to secure the funds, but how to improve the planning of the project/event or what precedents to look at, for positive or negative examples. 2. The GAC advises the Foundation on the mission fit, frugality, and expected impact of grant proposals, expressing support or concerns about open grant proposals. If this sounds like something you might want to help with, please review the description of the GAC[1] and the membership criteria[2]. If you think you meet the criteria, add your name to the candidates page[4] with a brief statement demonstrating your meeting the criteria. This is to be an open process, and the number of seats on the GAC is not predetermined; we expect all qualifying candidates to be admitted into the GAC. Please help us reach potential volunteers by sharing/forwarding this announcement in appropriate community mailing lists. Finally, I'd like to thank the incumbent members of the GAC (founded exactly one year ago), who are putting in their time and experience and have been making a real difference in our grantmaking this past year. Thank you, Asaf [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Membership_criteria [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on IPv6
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 11:12:58PM +0200, Erik Moeller wrote: Hi all, We're planning to do limited production testing of IPv6 during the Berlin Hackathon 2012 (June 2-3). Provided that the number of issues we encounter are manageable, we may fully enable IPv6 on IPv6 day, and keep it enabled. What with XS4ALL (my ISP) now also offering IPv6 out-of-the-box, there's at least one extra IPv6 anon on en.wp. ;-) I noticed that my current IPv6 address appears to be assigned dynamically by XS4ALL. I can probably get static if I choose it. But the dynamic assignment option does alleviate some people's privacy concerns, right? sincerely, Kim Bruning ps. We all know that everyone needs to switch to IPv6 eventually. Don't be surprised when people in your neighborhood decide to do so, with or without additional warning. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched
This has been debated numerous times; to what extent does the attribution have to relate to the exact contribution of each author. A list of authors has been considered acceptable in the past (including on-wiki). Tom On 12 June 2012 23:48, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:44:40AM +, Mike Dupont wrote: Hi, Again the full history is available on archive.org and i think that no one is going to think that this data is from me, it is clearly marked as being from wikipedia. You are very concientious, and normally this would indeed be adequate (not perfect, but definitely adequate :) It is adequate because wikipedia itself retains full attribution information in page history. One can follow the chain from the copy back to the wikipedia original back to the page history and voila, more than you ever wanted to know. The problem with deleted/hidden articles on en.wp is that the history information is also deleted/hidden; and therefore the attribution chain is broken. Attribution information is important for legal and open content reasons of course. Is it possible to keep a copy of page history somewhere also? I know the mediawiki export/import functions support this, and work via GET request. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export eg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Train sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched
In theory, yes. However, if you're fetching page dumps conforming to the schema at http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.6/ http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.6.xsd to some extent you've already got all the information anyway. It *almost* takes more work to filter out just the authors. :-P If you're getting page data in some different format, sure. :-) sincerely, Kim Bruning On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:47:31AM +0100, Thomas Morton wrote: This has been debated numerous times; to what extent does the attribution have to relate to the exact contribution of each author. A list of authors has been considered acceptable in the past (including on-wiki). Tom On 12 June 2012 23:48, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:44:40AM +, Mike Dupont wrote: Hi, Again the full history is available on archive.org and i think that no one is going to think that this data is from me, it is clearly marked as being from wikipedia. You are very concientious, and normally this would indeed be adequate (not perfect, but definitely adequate :) It is adequate because wikipedia itself retains full attribution information in page history. One can follow the chain from the copy back to the wikipedia original back to the page history and voila, more than you ever wanted to know. The problem with deleted/hidden articles on en.wp is that the history information is also deleted/hidden; and therefore the attribution chain is broken. Attribution information is important for legal and open content reasons of course. Is it possible to keep a copy of page history somewhere also? I know the mediawiki export/import functions support this, and work via GET request. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export eg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Train sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- [Non-pgp mail clients may show pgp-signature as attachment] gpg (www.gnupg.org) Fingerprint for key FEF9DD72 5ED6 E215 73EE AD84 E03A 01C5 94AC 7B0E FEF9 DD72 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:44:40AM +, Mike Dupont wrote: Hi, Again the full history is available on archive.org and i think that no one is going to think that this data is from me, it is clearly marked as being from wikipedia. ps. It occurs to me that if the full history is available on archive.org, that linking to the relevant archive.org data might be adequate. sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] FDC Nominations are open
Hi, everyone. As you probably know, we have been discussing the creation of a new Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)[1] across the movement for several months now, following the board resolution[2]. Now is a good time to start collecting potential nominees to serve on the future FDC, as we hope to select members by late August, and to have a working committee some time in September. Following the second Advisory Group meeting[3], the draft proposal[4] is coming along, and you can read it to get an idea of what the FDC will be tasked with, and what kind of work and background are expected of its volunteer members. ==Why you'd want to volunteer with the FDC== * you will be reviewing proposals and making recommendations about the effective spending of millions of dollars, shaping the direction of impact of a significant portion of our movement's financial resources. * your decision-making will be supported by professional staff tasked with a lot of the decision-supporting information gathering, summarizing, etc. * you will gain valuable experience in grant-making, project evaluation, and planning on a global and multi-cultural level. * you will be working with 8 other great and dedicated individuals from across the movement. ==Why you might not want to volunteer with the FDC== * The FDC will commit to, and enforce, a high standard of participation, and you may not be ready to seriously commit to a high level of participation for at least two years. * The FDC's work will be conducted in English, and even with maximal support and summarization from staff, you will be required to read a lot of text in English, and to make your contributions in English. * You don't meet the membership criteria[5], or you're confident other candidates are better qualified or positioned to serve on the committee. If you're interested in serving on the future FDC, please add your name to the nominations page[6]. You will be contacted shortly and asked to make a statement. Thanks, Asaf [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee [2] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Funds_Dissemination_Committee [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_Group_meeting_June_9-10,_2012 [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Draft_FDC_Proposal_for_the_Board [5] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Draft_FDC_Proposal_for_the_Board#Membership [6] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Nominations -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched
yes, good point, and while checking this I found a problem. it turns out that up to now I dont have the full history, I have modified the extractor to pull the full version. For the other articles, I dont have the full history. mike On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Kim Bruning k...@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 05:44:40AM +, Mike Dupont wrote: Hi, Again the full history is available on archive.org and i think that no one is going to think that this data is from me, it is clearly marked as being from wikipedia. ps. It occurs to me that if the full history is available on archive.org, that linking to the relevant archive.org data might be adequate. sincerely, Kim Bruning ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org Contributor FOSM, the CC-BY-SA map of the world http://fosm.org Mozilla Rep https://reps.mozilla.org/u/h4ck3rm1k3 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
