Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Learning & Evaluation

2012-12-18 Thread Jessie Wild
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Siko Bouterse wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:42 PM,
> 
> > wrote:
>
> >
> > > Anasuya will be responsible for running all grantmaking processes (for
> > > both individuals and entities) and for helping movement entities, like
> > > chapters and thematic organizations, to develop and mature. Reporting
> > > to Anasuya will be Asaf Bartov, Jessie Wild, Oona Castro and Siko
> > > Bouterse, as well as a Senior Program Officer for the FDC (a new
> > > position that will be filled within the next month or so).
> > > * The Senior Program Officer will be responsible for facilitating the
> > > FDC process, which recommends funding allocations for the largest and
> > > wealthiest Wikimedia organizations such as Wikimedia Germany and
> > > Wikimedia France.
> > > * Asaf continues to be responsible for the Wikimedia Grants Program,
> > > supporting younger, smaller Wikimedia organizations like Wikimedia
> > > Venezuela and Wikimedia Mexico, and for finding non-Wikimedia
> > > organizations that we can fund to carry out good programmatic
> > > activities in developing countries, particularly where there are no
> > > chapters.
> > > * Jessie will be responsible for evaluation and learning for all our
> > > grantmaking --- both helping us internally optimize our processes, and
> > > helping us and the grant recipients assess organizations? development
> > > (for Anasuya) and the impact of the programs funded by movement
> > > dollars (for Frank).
> > > * Oona will continue to run the Brazil program. Consistent with the
> > > Narrowing Focus plan, she is actively seeking a partner to continue
> > > the work in Brazil within a grants structure similar to the one we
> > > recently negotiated with CIS in India.
> > > * Siko is taking over responsibility from Asaf for all funding for
> > > individuals. This will make it possible for us to grow our individual
> > > grant-making, and it will also free up Asaf to do more small
> > > organization development. Siko will also be responsible for
> > > documentation and analysis of all grants except the ones funded by the
> > > FDC. It?s important for us to grow grantmaking to individuals because
> > > individuals create 99% of the value in the projects. They do it with
> > > practically no funding, but in some cases a little money will be able
> > > to make something great happen.
> >
>
> Hi all,
> As Sue mentioned, we're looking at growing WMF's grant-making to
> individuals.  This allows us to accomplish the goals of narrowing focus (on
> WMF's capacity as grant-makers, in this case), while finding new ways to
> support projects led by individual community members. Some more specifics
> are on meta:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Engagement_Grants
> Please share your thoughts on-wiki if possible.
> Thanks!

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>
>
Likewise, we're starting to put up some initial thinking regarding Learning
& Evaluation for Grantmaking & Evaluation!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grantmaking_and_Programs/Learning_%26_Evaluation_portal/About

Feel free to jump in on-wiki as it is being developed; definitely work in
progress :)

Jessie


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] And you thought the Amazon "Wikipedia" books were bad

2012-12-18 Thread David Gerard
On 18 December 2012 21:21, Pavel Richter  wrote:

> And on the first page, it says: "A portion of the proceeds of each book
> will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission". Do
> we have any records on wether these donations actually happend and how much
> they were? And do we have a point of view in regards to such donations? I
> know that the books are propably OK under our licence, but I do not think
> it is a good idea to accept their money.


I'm pretty sure using our name to imply the books are in any way
charitable is something we could reasonably question on trademark
grounds - direct intent to deceive the end consumer.


- d.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use

2012-12-18 Thread Mark

On 12/18/12 8:35 AM, Daniel Mietchen wrote:

In order to get rid of the -ND clause, it may help to gather examples
of derivative works. I just noticed that we do not keep track of these
and thus started
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Derivative_versions .


There are some existing categories that may be relevant to include in 
this tracking somehow, using the term "edited" rather than "derivative":


* 
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Edited_versions_of_Flickr_originals

* http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Edited_images

-Mark


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] And you thought the Amazon "Wikipedia" books were bad

2012-12-18 Thread Pavel Richter
And on the first page, it says: "A portion of the proceeds of each book
will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission". Do
we have any records on wether these donations actually happend and how much
they were? And do we have a point of view in regards to such donations? I
know that the books are propably OK under our licence, but I do not think
it is a good idea to accept their money.

Pavel



Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Pavel Richter
Vorstand

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tel.: +49 - 30 - 219 158 260
Twitter: @pavel



2012/12/18 Andy Mabbett 

> Here's a good one:
>
> <
> http://www.amazon.com/Data-Governance-High-impact-Strategies-Definitions/dp/1743048122/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1355548609&sr=8-14&keywords=data+governance#_
> >
>
> the review says "When I got the Data Governance book, I was surprised
> to find that the first 80 pages were the score for Vivaldi's Gloria
>
> On 13 December 2012 18:25, David Gerard  wrote:
> >
> http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-one-professor-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-amazon-books-and-counting/
> >
> > He's patented the method, too. Hopefully he will enforce the patent.
> >
> >
> > - d.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] And you thought the Amazon "Wikipedia" books were bad

2012-12-18 Thread Andy Mabbett
Here's a good one:



the review says "When I got the Data Governance book, I was surprised
to find that the first 80 pages were the score for Vivaldi's Gloria

On 13 December 2012 18:25, David Gerard  wrote:
> http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/13/patented-book-writing-system-lets-one-professor-create-hundreds-of-thousands-of-amazon-books-and-counting/
>
> He's patented the method, too. Hopefully he will enforce the patent.
>
>
> - d.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage logo caption

2012-12-18 Thread James Heilman
Sorry an here is the link
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikivoyage/Logo#Round_2_results

James

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:53 AM, James Heilman  wrote:

> Hello all
>
> We are discussing what text should accompany our logo. We have a straw
> poll up and running.
>
> The hope is to officially launch on Wikipedia's birthday so a little
> pressed for time.
>
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>
> The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
> www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
>
>
>


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[Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage logo caption

2012-12-18 Thread James Heilman
Hello all

We are discussing what text should accompany our logo. We have a straw poll
up and running.

The hope is to officially launch on Wikipedia's birthday so a little
pressed for time.

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MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use

2012-12-18 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Nice, Daniel, I didn't know this category.

Just added on Jimbo Claus image:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimbo_Claus.png

Long life to the remix culture. :)

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Daniel Mietchen
 wrote:
> In order to get rid of the -ND clause, it may help to gather examples
> of derivative works. I just noticed that we do not keep track of these
> and thus started
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Derivative_versions .
>
> Daniel


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use

2012-12-18 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Once I told to a guy from a secretary of education in Brazil that if
he didn't remove the non-commertial restriction he could not have
their resources used on Wikimedia projects with this restriction. I
didn't need to argue too much, as I usually do, so it was the easiest
negotiation I've ever saw.

Although they still need to remove this restriction from old resources.

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Mathias Schindler
 wrote:
> The license will be at minimum free as in beer. It will be up to the
> negotiation skills of WMIL to turn the actual license into a free one
> that satisfies the Definitions from Freedom Defined.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use

2012-12-18 Thread Daniel Mietchen
In order to get rid of the -ND clause, it may help to gather examples
of derivative works. I just noticed that we do not keep track of these
and thus started
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Derivative_versions .

Daniel

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Itzik Edri  wrote:
> cross-posting
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Tomer Ashur 
> Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:27 PM
> Subject: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free
> license for public use
> To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"
> 
>
>
> Hi all,
> I am very proud to announce that Wikimedia Israel just won one of its main
> struggles. The Israeli government has announced[1] that all imaged in which
> the state is the copyrights holder and that were uploaded to the
> government's websites can be freely used with the following restrictions:
> 1. The image will be attributed to the state of Israel (or the relevant
> office)
> 2. The user cannot change the license (Share-alike)
> 3. No derivative work.
> 4. Each office will create a policy about commercial use (i.e., commercial
> use is allowed, unless otherwise specified).
>
> Wikimedia Israel has pushed for this change since 2010, when MK Meir
> Sheetrit proposed an amendment for the Israeli copyright act. The chapter
> pushed for the acceptance of this amendment by the Knesset (the Israeli
> parliament). During this time, we were able to make a complete shift in the
> paradigms employed by the government and government officials. From being
> strong opposers to the bill, they become adopters of the changes, thus
> making the bill itself, redundant.
>
> Now, a new struggle begins - Wikimedia Israel will work to remove the ND
> clause from the decision, and will make sure that all government offices
> publish their policy as required. Nonetheless, this is still a huge
> achievement, the government has accepted the importance of free culture in
> modern world.
>
> On a personal note, as the leader of this project, I wish to send my many
> thanks to all of those who made this miracle happen. A special thanks is
> due to the great people of the Israeli Internet society, the (just as
> great) people of Creative commons Israel, Adv. Jonathan Klinger, Mathias
> Schindler, the awsome volunteers of Wikimedia Israel and the editors of
> Hebrew Wikipedia. If there's anyone I forgot by name - my apologies, I'm
> still terribly excited of these news.
>
> If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here or send me a private
> email,
> Tomer Ashur
> Chairman
> Wikimedia Israel
>
> [1] http://www.pmo.gov.il/Secretary/GovDecisions/2012/Pages/des5268.aspx
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Open Definition forges ahead - get involved!

2012-12-18 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
You are welcome.

Best,

Tom

-- Forwarded message --
From: Mike Linksvayer 
Date: 2012/12/17
Subject: [open-government] Open Definition forges ahead - get involved!
To: od-disc...@lists.okfn.org
Cc: Open Government WG List , Open
Knowledge Foundation discussion list 


Text below my name copied from
http://opendefinition.org/2012/12/17/open-definition-forges-ahead-get-involved/

2013 will be an important year for Open. If you'd like to get involved
at the meta level, there are a bunch of ways to do so via Open
Definition work.

I encourage sending this call to ought-to-be-interested people. I've
copied okfn-discuss and open-government here for generality and
because many of the licenses we're discussing now and are from
governments.

Look forward to a 2012 in review post.

Mike


http://opendefinition.org (OD) is one of the first projects that the
the Open Knowledge Foundation created. Its purpose has been to
provide, promote -- and protect -- a meaningful Open in Open Data and
Open Content.

It does this primarily through curating the Open Knowledge Definition
(OKD) -- http://opendefinition.org/okd working with license stewards
to ensure new licenses intending to be open are clearly so, and
keeping lists of licenses that conform to the OKD, and those that do
not -- providing any entity intending to create an open project, or
mandate "open" in policy, with a clear reference as to which licenses
will achieve their aims.

With the growth in "open" and especially of open data initiatives in
the last few years there has been an increasing amount for the project
to do especially in terms of reviewing and evaluating licenses. For
2013 we see several important areas of work:

* OKD v1.2 -- 
https://github.com/okfn/opendefinition/blob/master/source/open-knowledge-definition.markdown
-- we've seen license conditions cropping up that are certainly
contrary to the spirit of the definition and implicitly
non-conformant. It ought be possible for anyone with some
understanding of public licenses to do a quick read of the definition
and understand its meaning for a particular license without having to
know all of the history of open definitions and licenses.

* Review important new licenses and license versions for OKD
compliance, e.g. Open Government License Canada, and version 4.0 of
CC-BY and CC-BY-SA.

* Moving linguistic translations into a git repository for better
review and updating.

* Improve explanations and graphics available on the OD site for
anyone who wants to learn about open knowledge and services, and
proudly announce to the world that their projects are open.

* Extend our work on license APIs that provide information about open
licenses at http://licenses.opendefinition.org and integrate with the
main OD site; also look to cooperate with other projects eg
https://spdx.org/licenses/ and https://licensedb.org/ providing Linked
Open Data about licenses.

* Provide regular updates about OD work to the broader OKFN network,
open communities, and general public.

* Develop a version git-based repository of license texts so they can
be tracked over time

* Growing out of discussions from
http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2006-October/000177.html
and http://blog.okfn.org/2007/07/18/we-need-an-open-service-definition/
the OD project developed the Open Software Service Definition (OSSD)
-- http://opendefinition.org/software-service/ -- recognizing the
complementarity of open content and data (knowledge) and open source
web platforms and other network services that open knowledge is
created, curated, and distributed on. The OSSD hasn't been touched in
a long time, but software services (some of them called "the cloud")
have become more important than ever, including in domains nearest to
the OKFN community's most active work, such as platforms used by and
for open government. Shall we update the OSSD and revitalize
evangelism for open services, or declare not a core competency, and
look to other groups to take leadership?

If you're a legal or policy expert, software freedom advocate, linked
data hacker, translator, designer, communications maven -- and want to
go "meta" about openness, we could use your help! Join the od-discuss
mailing list -- http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/od-discuss --
and pitch into the discussion, start a new one, or lurk until you're
ready.

Final decisions about license conformance and definition updates are
made by the http://opendefinition.org/advisory-council/ ... this is
not a big time commitment, but it is a big responsibility. If you'd
like to join the AC someday, join od-discuss today.

We're especially keen to have AC members from every continent.
Currently we only have Europe and North America, and recognize that's
a big problem for the long-term impact of the Open Definition project.
Especially if you're from the global South and care about the
fundamentals of openness, please join od-discuss and
http://opendefinition.org/contact/ !

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use

2012-12-18 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga
Hi,

just a correction. This license is not free. Please, see

http://freedomdefined.org/Definition

http://opendefinition.org/

I hope this was a step for in the near future this government
contribute to the commons.

Best,

Tom

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Itzik Edri  wrote:
> cross-posting
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Tomer Ashur 
> Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:27 PM
> Subject: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free
> license for public use
> To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"
> 
>
>
> Hi all,
> I am very proud to announce that Wikimedia Israel just won one of its main
> struggles. The Israeli government has announced[1] that all imaged in which
> the state is the copyrights holder and that were uploaded to the
> government's websites can be freely used with the following restrictions:
> 1. The image will be attributed to the state of Israel (or the relevant
> office)
> 2. The user cannot change the license (Share-alike)
> 3. No derivative work.
> 4. Each office will create a policy about commercial use (i.e., commercial
> use is allowed, unless otherwise specified).
>
> Wikimedia Israel has pushed for this change since 2010, when MK Meir
> Sheetrit proposed an amendment for the Israeli copyright act. The chapter
> pushed for the acceptance of this amendment by the Knesset (the Israeli
> parliament). During this time, we were able to make a complete shift in the
> paradigms employed by the government and government officials. From being
> strong opposers to the bill, they become adopters of the changes, thus
> making the bill itself, redundant.
>
> Now, a new struggle begins - Wikimedia Israel will work to remove the ND
> clause from the decision, and will make sure that all government offices
> publish their policy as required. Nonetheless, this is still a huge
> achievement, the government has accepted the importance of free culture in
> modern world.
>
> On a personal note, as the leader of this project, I wish to send my many
> thanks to all of those who made this miracle happen. A special thanks is
> due to the great people of the Israeli Internet society, the (just as
> great) people of Creative commons Israel, Adv. Jonathan Klinger, Mathias
> Schindler, the awsome volunteers of Wikimedia Israel and the editors of
> Hebrew Wikipedia. If there's anyone I forgot by name - my apologies, I'm
> still terribly excited of these news.
>
> If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here or send me a private
> email,
> Tomer Ashur
> Chairman
> Wikimedia Israel
>
> [1] http://www.pmo.gov.il/Secretary/GovDecisions/2012/Pages/des5268.aspx
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] next Wikidata office hours

2012-12-18 Thread Lydia Pintscher
2012/12/5 Lydia Pintscher :
> Heya :)
>
> On 18 December Denny and I will do the next round of Wikidata office
> hours. Everyone with questions about Wikidata is welcome.
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events#IRC_office_hours
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia

Hey :)

Just a quick reminder that this is in 3.5 and 4.5 hours respectively.
Looking forward to seeing many of you there.


Cheers
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use

2012-12-18 Thread Itzik Edri
cross-posting

-- Forwarded message --
From: Tomer Ashur 
Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:27 PM
Subject: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free
license for public use
To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"



Hi all,
I am very proud to announce that Wikimedia Israel just won one of its main
struggles. The Israeli government has announced[1] that all imaged in which
the state is the copyrights holder and that were uploaded to the
government's websites can be freely used with the following restrictions:
1. The image will be attributed to the state of Israel (or the relevant
office)
2. The user cannot change the license (Share-alike)
3. No derivative work.
4. Each office will create a policy about commercial use (i.e., commercial
use is allowed, unless otherwise specified).

Wikimedia Israel has pushed for this change since 2010, when MK Meir
Sheetrit proposed an amendment for the Israeli copyright act. The chapter
pushed for the acceptance of this amendment by the Knesset (the Israeli
parliament). During this time, we were able to make a complete shift in the
paradigms employed by the government and government officials. From being
strong opposers to the bill, they become adopters of the changes, thus
making the bill itself, redundant.

Now, a new struggle begins - Wikimedia Israel will work to remove the ND
clause from the decision, and will make sure that all government offices
publish their policy as required. Nonetheless, this is still a huge
achievement, the government has accepted the importance of free culture in
modern world.

On a personal note, as the leader of this project, I wish to send my many
thanks to all of those who made this miracle happen. A special thanks is
due to the great people of the Israeli Internet society, the (just as
great) people of Creative commons Israel, Adv. Jonathan Klinger, Mathias
Schindler, the awsome volunteers of Wikimedia Israel and the editors of
Hebrew Wikipedia. If there's anyone I forgot by name - my apologies, I'm
still terribly excited of these news.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here or send me a private
email,
Tomer Ashur
Chairman
Wikimedia Israel

[1] http://www.pmo.gov.il/Secretary/GovDecisions/2012/Pages/des5268.aspx

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