Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott
I'm sorry, let me a pedant librarian: * the topic of Access to research has been mainly referred to with the term Open Access. You will find tons of material with that name. * we have a Wikimedian in Residence for Open Access, Daniel Mietchen. * *Open Access and the divide between “mainstream” and “peripheral” science* is a great essay by Guédon (underlines some social drawbacks of the current publishing system), one of the best I read. You can find it here: http://eprints.rclis.org/12156 * *Reinventing discovery* is a great 2011 book from Michael Nielsen, it speaks about Open Access and also crowdsourcing in escience. Very interesting. * the folks at archiveteam set up this: http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/ It is not properly legal, read it all. * if you want to publish in/read a OA journal, find it here: http://www.doaj.org As for us, the Wikimedia movement, we can definetely do more. It is just a matter of tactics, but we want this, so make it happen. Aubrey On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Etienne Beaule betie...@bellaliant.netwrote: There is also Access2Research http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Access2Research about free research articles in the Us. On 2013-01-14 21:06, Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvare...@wikimedia.org wrote: Don't worry, Richard, this news is now hot, but the situation din't progress that much from what it could be. We have the Busapest Open Access Initiative since 2002 http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/read. We can find videos of professor Jean-Claude Guédon, one of the person who wrote this initiative one decade ago, explaining in details the logics behind all this. The publish (on closed journals) or perish still reigns in the academia, so it is very important we explain the importance of knowledge to be free for every single person we meet. Still a lot to do. Tom On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Good lord, so it did. My apologies! It was making the rounds tonight and my excitement got the better of me. This is why I don't work in communications! ___ 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] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott
On 15 January 2013 08:26, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: * the folks at archiveteam set up this: http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/ It is not properly legal, read it all. Note, btw, that this page was set up for humorous purposes - the papers it liberates are the public domain papers JSTOR has recently made freely available. The one not properly legal thing the user does is do something outside the JSTOR terms of service. - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:30 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: Note, btw, that this page was set up for humorous purposes - the papers it liberates are the public domain papers JSTOR has recently made freely available. The one not properly legal thing the user does is do something outside the JSTOR terms of service. Thanks for clarifying this, I actually thought so, but wasn't sure. Aubrey ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott
David Gerard, 15/01/2013 09:30: On 15 January 2013 08:26, Andrea Zannizanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: * the folks at archiveteam set up this: http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/ It is not properly legal, read it all. Note, btw, that this page was set up for humorous purposes - the papers it liberates are the public domain papers JSTOR has recently made freely available. The one not properly legal thing the user does is do something outside the JSTOR terms of service. I'm also an ArchiveTeam member, and the JSTOR liberator was definitely NOT set up for humorous purposes: it's a serious project, and everyone should consider joining. For the occasion, it also gives people the option to add a message of memorial about Aaron. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott
On 15/01/13 09:50, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: David Gerard, 15/01/2013 09:30: On 15 January 2013 08:26, Andrea Zannizanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: * the folks at archiveteam set up this: http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/ It is not properly legal, read it all. Note, btw, that this page was set up for humorous purposes - the papers it liberates are the public domain papers JSTOR has recently made freely available. The one not properly legal thing the user does is do something outside the JSTOR terms of service. I'm also an ArchiveTeam member, and the JSTOR liberator was definitely NOT set up for humorous purposes: it's a serious project, and everyone should consider joining. For the occasion, it also gives people the option to add a message of memorial about Aaron. I'd just like to remind that while people who liberate documents do violate JSTOR's TOS, people who subsequently access the documents have never agreed to the TOS and are not bound by it, so everything should be perfectly legal for them. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott
Nikola Smolenski, 15/01/2013 09:59: On 15/01/13 09:50, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: I'm also an ArchiveTeam member, and the JSTOR liberator was definitely NOT set up for humorous purposes: it's a serious project, and everyone should consider joining. For the occasion, it also gives people the option to add a message of memorial about Aaron. I'd just like to remind that while people who liberate documents do violate JSTOR's TOS, people who subsequently access the documents have never agreed to the TOS and are not bound by it, so everything should be perfectly legal for them. Sure, thanks for reminding. That's why we were able to share on archive.org the JSTOR PD Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London shared by gmaxwell, a year ago: https://archive.org/details/philosophicaltransactions Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention (was Re: Big data benefits and limitations (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices))
On 15/01/13 00:21, Richard Farmbrough wrote: Of course any effort to make article source more readable meets with opposition - in the case of references in particular. And not only from those who cite CITEVAR legitimately, but from at least one admin who will block for putting references in numerical order. These are the sorts of things which would not have lasted long in (admittedly slightly mythical) Good Old Days Unfortunately, even this admin has some justification for what he's doing: he probably encountered someone who was using reordering to introduce subtle vandalism (since it can't be checked in diff). Again I see that part of the problem is that there are too few people guarding too much content, but I don't see what to do to change this. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot has now started to generate 1-1, 5 M articles of species on sv:wp
Anders Wennersten, 12/01/2013 12:20: We had a very lengthy dissusion of course with all the common arguments. We were and are as negative as all others to the botgeneration of articles from other language versions as was done around 2008. During our discussion we evolved the concept quite a bit (special templates, categories, messages on talk page etc). Could you elaborate on this evolution of the concept? I'm not able to see what's new, from the titles in parentheses. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot has now started to generate 1-1, 5 M articles of species on sv:wp
Federico Leva (Nemo) skrev 2013-01-15 11:02: Anders Wennersten, 12/01/2013 12:20: During our discussion we evolved the concept quite a bit (special templates, categories, messages on talk page etc). Could you elaborate on this evolution of the concept? I'm not able to see what's new, from the titles in parentheses. Nemo This bot puts a template in all generated articles clearly stating it is botgenerated and text stating /This article has been created by Lsjbot and can have language errors and/or a mildly confusing setup of illustrations. This template can be deleted after checks of content has been done/ For the botgenerated articles for birds more then half have afterward been manually reviewed. This was our major concern, that botgenerated articles must not by a reader be given the impression they are manually created. Example http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthochitona_arragonites The bot does a major effort translating English text, like the geographical name of the area of inhabitance for the specie. In the balance of making these translation table too big, and to skip translation when complicated, the bot now puts the complicated text on the talkpage. In the example above it is for Gulf of California. In this way the reader or the one doing the manual afterfix find the info and can make use of it. The set of categories that all bot generated articles will have, even if and after it is manually checked/corrected, is partly for general keeping track but also to be able to initiate automatic check/corrections of a special set of botgenerated articles, if a problem/error is found some time after the generating time. Also there are processes set up for the inspectors of the articles in order to easy report any questions, and get feedback it is been taken care of. If a backlog occurs of reported problems, the bot generation stops, until all is fixed (very few thing being reported by this stage). On sv:wp there are around 6-8 frequest contributers in the zoological area with 10-15 more infrequent contributers. These are very competent and are all supporting this effort with inspecting etc. Without the support of these the project would never have got off the ground Anders re the question re Xeon-cant, thanks I will forward this to Lsj. A link to Wikipecies for corresponding articles already included (of course) ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot has now started to generate 1-1, 5 M articles of species on sv:wp
Thanks for the reply. Anders Wennersten, 15/01/2013 12:15: Federico Leva (Nemo) skrev 2013-01-15 11:02: Anders Wennersten, 12/01/2013 12:20: Could you elaborate on this evolution of the concept? I'm not able to see what's new, from the titles in parentheses. This bot puts a template in all generated articles clearly stating it is botgenerated and text stating /This article has been created by Lsjbot and can have language errors and/or a mildly confusing setup of illustrations. This template can be deleted after checks of content has been done/ For the botgenerated articles for birds more then half have afterward been manually reviewed. This was our major concern, that botgenerated articles must not by a reader be given the impression they are manually created. Example http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthochitona_arragonites Oh, sure, such warnings are customary on most bot creations nowadays. The bot does a major effort translating English text, like the geographical name of the area of inhabitance for the specie. In the balance of making these translation table too big, and to skip translation when complicated, the bot now puts the complicated text on the talkpage. In the example above it is for Gulf of California. In this way the reader or the one doing the manual afterfix find the info and can make use of it. I don't know if talk page is better than a central wikiproject page with task subpages which are usually used for such cases, but yes this is useful. The set of categories that all bot generated articles will have, even if and after it is manually checked/corrected, is partly for general keeping track but also to be able to initiate automatic check/corrections of a special set of botgenerated articles, if a problem/error is found some time after the generating time. This is very useful, I liked it in particular for the geograph bot-uploads on Commons by multichill. Also there are processes set up for the inspectors of the articles in order to easy report any questions, and get feedback it is been taken care of. If a backlog occurs of reported problems, the bot generation stops, until all is fixed (very few thing being reported by this stage). On sv:wp there are around 6-8 frequest contributers in the zoological area with 10-15 more infrequent contributers. These are very competent and are all supporting this effort with inspecting etc. Without the support of these the project would never have got off the ground I agree, the success of such initiatives lie in how much human work they're able to instigate and be supported from. 6-8 editors is much better than nothing. It's still a drop in the ocean for such an amount of articles, of course: at least on it.wiki we usually have a similar amount of checkers for something like three orders of magnitude less articles (asteroids in recent years; Italian municipalities in the ~2005 golden age). Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?
Some friends asked me today about the Wikivoyage launch, and the reasoning behind it. I hopped over to https://blog.wikimedia.org/ and found... nothing. Then I went to https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room and also found... nothing. Any reason why the Foundation hasn't published anything about the official launch of Wikivoyage? It'd be quite useful to be able to point my enquiring friends to oh, this is what the Foundation are saying about it, but apparently the Foundation aren't saying anything about it. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?
Hi Tom et al, There is indeed a release - but it is embargoed until 1600 GMT / 0800 PST... It's uploaded to the WMUK blog in readiness to go live at the appointed hour. I am absolutely certain that the Foundation are equally prepared. Hope this is helpful, Stevie On 15 January 2013 14:35, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: Some friends asked me today about the Wikivoyage launch, and the reasoning behind it. I hopped over to https://blog.wikimedia.org/ and found... nothing. Then I went to https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room and also found... nothing. Any reason why the Foundation hasn't published anything about the official launch of Wikivoyage? It'd be quite useful to be able to point my enquiring friends to oh, this is what the Foundation are saying about it, but apparently the Foundation aren't saying anything about it. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation announces the official launch of the Wikivoyage online travel guide
Forwarding from Announce-l. This is the official announcement from WMF of the Wikivoyage launch. There is also a blog post on the WMF blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-launches-wikivoyage-a-free-worldwide-travel-guide-that-anyone-can-edit/ thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* (This press release can also be found online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_launches_Wikivoyage ) Wikimedia Foundation launches Wikivoyage, a free, worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit Wikivoyage becomes the 12th official Wikimedia project and debuts on Wikipedia's 12th birthday SAN FRANCISCO -- 15 January, 2013 -- The Wikimedia Foundation is excited to announce the launch of its 12th official project: Wikivoyage (www.wikivoyage.org), a free, worldwide, online travel guide. Like Wikipedia and its sister projects, Wikivoyage is free to edit, free of ads, and built collaboratively by volunteers from around the globe. Wikivoyage is currently available in nine languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. There are already approximately 50,000 articles, which are edited and improved by a core group of approximately 200 volunteer editors. There's a huge global demand for travel information, but very few sources are both comprehensive and non-commercial. That's about to change, said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikivoyage is a great, useful service for travelers, and I'm expecting that with the support of the Wikimedia Foundation and the global Wikimedia editing community, it's going to get even bigger and better. Wikivoyage has been an active wiki-based travel guide since 2006 in German and Italian, supported by the German non-profit Wikivoyage Association. The contributors on that site and the non-profit requested to migrate their content and offered to donate their brand to the new project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The proposal was approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in October 2012. The site was moved over to the Wikimedia Foundation servers in November of 2012, where it was in Beta until today. The purpose of the Wikivoyage Association is to promote education and knowledge of all countries and regions in the world, as well as understanding among nations, said Stefan Fussan, Chairman of the board of the Wikivoyage Association. We're very excited about the launch of Wikivoyage as a Wikimedia project, and about the future role of the Association in supporting the Wikivoyage community through its programs. Wikivoyage is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, which allows anyone the right to read, copy, print, save, download, modify, distribute, sell, and update its content in any way, provided the terms of the free license are respected. This includes giving proper attribution to the creators of the content and ensuring that any reuse or derivative works are also freely-licensed. As contributors to Wikivoyage, we work hard to create high-quality content, written by travelers, for travelers, in their own language, said Peter Fitzgerald, an administrator on Wikivoyage. We're very excited to be part of the Wikimedia community, and we invite travelers to join us in creating an independent, non-commercial, online travel guide for the world. We are confident that it will become the number one travel resource on the web. The Wikivoyage launch coincides with the 12th anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001. Official Wikivoyage logo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikivoyage-logo-en-TTO-attempt.svg Visit the Wikivoyage portal site here: http://www.wikivoyage.org/ About the Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 483 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, November 2012). Available in 285 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 24 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. Press contact Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation Tel. +1 415-839-6885 x6635 mr...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?
Matthew distributed the release and the blog post this morning (around 0900 PT), it should have made its way to this list as well: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_launches_Wikivoyage https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-launches-wikivoyage-a-free-worldwide-travel-guide-that-anyone-can-edit/ Also, happy birthday, Wikipedia! And welcome to our new friends at Wikivoyage :) On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hi Tom et al, There is indeed a release - but it is embargoed until 1600 GMT / 0800 PST... It's uploaded to the WMUK blog in readiness to go live at the appointed hour. I am absolutely certain that the Foundation are equally prepared. Hope this is helpful, Stevie On 15 January 2013 14:35, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: Some friends asked me today about the Wikivoyage launch, and the reasoning behind it. I hopped over to https://blog.wikimedia.org/ and found... nothing. Then I went to https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room and also found... nothing. Any reason why the Foundation hasn't published anything about the official launch of Wikivoyage? It'd be quite useful to be able to point my enquiring friends to oh, this is what the Foundation are saying about it, but apparently the Foundation aren't saying anything about it. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Jay Walsh Senior Director, Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?
Drat, my apologies. I forwarded to Wikimedia-l and neglected to send here. Busy morning :/ -Matthew On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote: Matthew distributed the release and the blog post this morning (around 0900 PT), it should have made its way to this list as well: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_launches_Wikivoyage https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-launches-wikivoyage-a-free-worldwide-travel-guide-that-anyone-can-edit/ Also, happy birthday, Wikipedia! And welcome to our new friends at Wikivoyage :) On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hi Tom et al, There is indeed a release - but it is embargoed until 1600 GMT / 0800 PST... It's uploaded to the WMUK blog in readiness to go live at the appointed hour. I am absolutely certain that the Foundation are equally prepared. Hope this is helpful, Stevie On 15 January 2013 14:35, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: Some friends asked me today about the Wikivoyage launch, and the reasoning behind it. I hopped over to https://blog.wikimedia.org/ and found... nothing. Then I went to https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room and also found... nothing. Any reason why the Foundation hasn't published anything about the official launch of Wikivoyage? It'd be quite useful to be able to point my enquiring friends to oh, this is what the Foundation are saying about it, but apparently the Foundation aren't saying anything about it. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Jay Walsh Senior Director, Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation announces the official launch of the Wikivoyage online travel guide
(This press release can also be found online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_launches_Wikivoyage) Wikimedia Foundation launches Wikivoyage, a free, worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit Wikivoyage becomes the 12th official Wikimedia project and debuts on Wikipedia's 12th birthday SAN FRANCISCO -- 15 January, 2013 -- The Wikimedia Foundation is excited to announce the launch of its 12th official project: Wikivoyage (www.wikivoyage.org), a free, worldwide, online travel guide. Like Wikipedia and its sister projects, Wikivoyage is free to edit, free of ads, and built collaboratively by volunteers from around the globe. Wikivoyage is currently available in nine languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. There are already approximately 50,000 articles, which are edited and improved by a core group of approximately 200 volunteer editors. There's a huge global demand for travel information, but very few sources are both comprehensive and non-commercial. That's about to change, said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikivoyage is a great, useful service for travelers, and I'm expecting that with the support of the Wikimedia Foundation and the global Wikimedia editing community, it's going to get even bigger and better. Wikivoyage has been an active wiki-based travel guide since 2006 in German and Italian, supported by the German non-profit Wikivoyage Association. The contributors on that site and the non-profit requested to migrate their content and offered to donate their brand to the new project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The proposal was approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in October 2012. The site was moved over to the Wikimedia Foundation servers in November of 2012, where it was in Beta until today. The purpose of the Wikivoyage Association is to promote education and knowledge of all countries and regions in the world, as well as understanding among nations, said Stefan Fussan, Chairman of the board of the Wikivoyage Association. We're very excited about the launch of Wikivoyage as a Wikimedia project, and about the future role of the Association in supporting the Wikivoyage community through its programs. Wikivoyage is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, which allows anyone the right to read, copy, print, save, download, modify, distribute, sell, and update its content in any way, provided the terms of the free license are respected. This includes giving proper attribution to the creators of the content and ensuring that any reuse or derivative works are also freely-licensed. As contributors to Wikivoyage, we work hard to create high-quality content, written by travelers, for travelers, in their own language, said Peter Fitzgerald, an administrator on Wikivoyage. We're very excited to be part of the Wikimedia community, and we invite travelers to join us in creating an independent, non-commercial, online travel guide for the world. We are confident that it will become the number one travel resource on the web. The Wikivoyage launch coincides with the 12th anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001. Official Wikivoyage logo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikivoyage-logo-en-TTO-attempt.svg Visit the Wikivoyage portal site here: http://www.wikivoyage.org/ About the Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 483 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, November 2012). Available in 285 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 24 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. Press contact Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation Tel. +1 415-839-6885 x6635 mr...@wikimedia.org ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?
Hi, maybe it would be good to consider at some point in the near future the timing of press releases, embargoes etc - keeping our international climate in mind. Unfortunately SF is quite at the far edge of timezone-land, and when we want to announce something on a certain date, that can indeed be confusing this way. We faced the same problems at Wiki Loves Monuments (where we mostly used European timezones, as the vast majority of the countries was in that), and some good thoughts about the general issue would definitely be welcome. Maybe not today though. Best, Lodewijk 2013/1/15 Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org Drat, my apologies. I forwarded to Wikimedia-l and neglected to send here. Busy morning :/ -Matthew On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote: Matthew distributed the release and the blog post this morning (around 0900 PT), it should have made its way to this list as well: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_launches_Wikivoyage https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-launches-wikivoyage-a-free-worldwide-travel-guide-that-anyone-can-edit/ Also, happy birthday, Wikipedia! And welcome to our new friends at Wikivoyage :) On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hi Tom et al, There is indeed a release - but it is embargoed until 1600 GMT / 0800 PST... It's uploaded to the WMUK blog in readiness to go live at the appointed hour. I am absolutely certain that the Foundation are equally prepared. Hope this is helpful, Stevie On 15 January 2013 14:35, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: Some friends asked me today about the Wikivoyage launch, and the reasoning behind it. I hopped over to https://blog.wikimedia.org/ and found... nothing. Then I went to https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room and also found... nothing. Any reason why the Foundation hasn't published anything about the official launch of Wikivoyage? It'd be quite useful to be able to point my enquiring friends to oh, this is what the Foundation are saying about it, but apparently the Foundation aren't saying anything about it. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Jay Walsh Senior Director, Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* ___ 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] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott
http://aubreymcfato.com/2013/01/15/how-to-exploit-academics/ is a brief and amusing analogy to what the academic publishing racket is like. It's particularly poignant in that it really is the case because academics put up with it, and for no other reason. (of course, for them to stop putting up with it, a significant minority would have to lay their careers, or existing reputations, on the line. Hence the inertia.) A. On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Nikola Smolenski, 15/01/2013 09:59: On 15/01/13 09:50, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: I'm also an ArchiveTeam member, and the JSTOR liberator was definitely NOT set up for humorous purposes: it's a serious project, and everyone should consider joining. For the occasion, it also gives people the option to add a message of memorial about Aaron. I'd just like to remind that while people who liberate documents do violate JSTOR's TOS, people who subsequently access the documents have never agreed to the TOS and are not bound by it, so everything should be perfectly legal for them. Sure, thanks for reminding. That's why we were able to share on archive.org the JSTOR PD Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London shared by gmaxwell, a year ago: https://archive.org/details/** philosophicaltransactionshttps://archive.org/details/philosophicaltransactions Nemo __**_ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- 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] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?
On 15 January 2013 21:07, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: maybe it would be good to consider at some point in the near future the timing of press releases, embargoes etc - keeping our international climate in mind. Unfortunately SF is quite at the far edge of timezone-land, and when we want to announce something on a certain date, that can indeed be confusing this way. We faced the same problems at Wiki Loves Monuments (where we mostly used European timezones, as the vast majority of the countries was in that), and some good thoughts about the general issue would definitely be welcome. Maybe not today though. There's a timezone other than UTC? - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?
There's GMT. That's not FAR off UTC. Maybe we can compromise there ;-) /joke On Jan 15, 2013 9:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 January 2013 21:07, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: maybe it would be good to consider at some point in the near future the timing of press releases, embargoes etc - keeping our international climate in mind. Unfortunately SF is quite at the far edge of timezone-land, and when we want to announce something on a certain date, that can indeed be confusing this way. We faced the same problems at Wiki Loves Monuments (where we mostly used European timezones, as the vast majority of the countries was in that), and some good thoughts about the general issue would definitely be welcome. Maybe not today though. There's a timezone other than UTC? - d. ___ 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] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?
On 15 January 2013 21:15, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: There's a timezone other than UTC? Only in summer. HTH. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?
This is what happens when you people get an empire, isn't it? :-) — Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc On Jan 15, 2013, at 1:20 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: There's GMT. That's not FAR off UTC. Maybe we can compromise there ;-) /joke On Jan 15, 2013 9:16 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 January 2013 21:07, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: maybe it would be good to consider at some point in the near future the timing of press releases, embargoes etc - keeping our international climate in mind. Unfortunately SF is quite at the far edge of timezone-land, and when we want to announce something on a certain date, that can indeed be confusing this way. We faced the same problems at Wiki Loves Monuments (where we mostly used European timezones, as the vast majority of the countries was in that), and some good thoughts about the general issue would definitely be welcome. Maybe not today though. There's a timezone other than UTC? - d. ___ 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 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?
I think we should all just use TAI. None of this nonsense about leap days, or pesky little quibbles about leap seconds. God forbid the notion of daylight savings. On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.ukwrote: On 15 January 2013 21:15, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: There's a timezone other than UTC? Only in summer. HTH. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- ~Matt Walker ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?
On 15 January 2013 21:45, Philippe Beaudette pbeaude...@wikimedia.org wrote: This is what happens when you people get an empire, isn't it? :-) They're not too bad a bunch once you get used to them. You can always beat them at games they invented. - d. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?
The objects of a press embargo are to, as I understand it, coordinate the release of information and make sure that staff are available to answer questions or react to developments after release. I'm sure the WMF has some flexibility within their normal business hours, but... as with any global enterprise, any timezone you pick is going to bug someone somewhere. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or press release?
On 1/15/2013 1:51 PM, David Gerard wrote: On 15 January 2013 21:45, Philippe Beaudette pbeaude...@wikimedia.org wrote: This is what happens when you people get an empire, isn't it? :-) They're not too bad a bunch once you get used to them. You can always beat them at games they invented. Even better, distort those games into vaguely recognizable new forms and pretend that you invented them yourself. --Michael Snow ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Welcome: Siko Bouterse and Katy Love join the Grantmaking team at WMF
Dear all, As you know, we recently re-named the Global Development department at the Wikimedia Foundation, as the Grantmaking and Programs department. The Grantmaking team is committed to supporting our community and meeting our shared goals at the different levels of contribution - whether individuals, groups or organisations - and we will be working with you over the next few months to deepen our strategies for doing so, and for evaluating our impact. In the meantime, however, I am delighted to announce some changes to the Grantmaking team that reflect this commitment. Siko Bouterse [1] needs no introduction to most of you, having worked at WMF since 2011, most recently coordinating the Fellowships program. Siko is coming on to the Grantmaking team as Head of Individual Engagement Grants, a program that will support individual or small team projects for online impact. This is to be launched later today... watch out for Siko's announcement and details of the program, coming soon to a wiki near you. Siko will also shortly be taking on the responsibility for the Participation Support Program (which WMF and WMDE fund together), and supporting the documentation and analysis of our project-based grants. We are really pleased to have Siko's experience and insights on our team. Katy Love is new to the team, the organisation and the movement, but I have no doubt that her experience and insights, as well, will help us be more effective. Katy has just joined us as the Senior Program Officer for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) [2] with a passion for strategic and impactful grantmaking, participatory collaborative work, and transparent decision-making. Her background spans philanthropic activities and NGO programs, systems, and operations. She spent the last four years at CARE International with the Emergency Capacity Building Project, a collaboration between six of the largest NGOs, aimed at improving humanitarian response. Please join me in welcoming them to our team! Warmly, Anasuya [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Sbouterse [2] http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=owwHWfwpc=qSa9VfwQ -- ***Anasuya Sengupta Senior Director of Grantmaking Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ -- ***Anasuya Sengupta Senior Director of Grantmaking Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] New grants program for individuals
*Hi all, I’m pleased to announce the launch of a new grantmaking program at the Wikimedia Foundation: Individual Engagement Grants. These grants will support Wikimedians as individuals or small teams to complete projects that benefit the Wikimedia movement, lead to online impact, and serve the mission, community, and strategic priorities. This new program is intended to complement WMF’s other grantmaking programs as well as the grants that chapters and affiliate organizations provide. The first round of proposals will be accepted from now until 15 February 2013. We’re also seeking committee members to help select the first round of grantees. Please help spread the word to other lists! To get involved, share your thoughts, submit a proposal, or join the committee: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG For more information on all of WMF’s grantmaking programs: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start Best wishes,* Siko -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcome: Siko Bouterse and Katy Love join the Grantmaking team at WMF
Dear all, As you know, we recently re-named the Global Development department at the Wikimedia Foundation, as the Grantmaking and Programs department. The Grantmaking team is committed to supporting our community and meeting our shared goals at the different levels of contribution - whether individuals, groups or organisations - and we will be working with you over the next few months to deepen our strategies for doing so, and for evaluating our impact. In the meantime, however, I am delighted to announce some changes to the Grantmaking team that reflect this commitment. Siko Bouterse [1] needs no introduction to most of you, having worked at WMF since 2011, most recently coordinating the Fellowships program. Siko is coming on to the Grantmaking team as Head of Individual Engagement Grants, a program that will support individual or small team projects for online impact. This is to be launched later today... watch out for Siko's announcement and details of the program, coming soon to a wiki near you. Siko will also shortly be taking on the responsibility for the Participation Support Program (which WMF and WMDE fund together), and supporting the documentation and analysis of our project-based grants. We are really pleased to have Siko's experience and insights on our team. Katy Love is new to the team, the organisation and the movement, but I have no doubt that her experience and insights, as well, will help us be more effective. Katy has just joined us as the Senior Program Officer for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) [2] with a passion for strategic and impactful grantmaking, participatory collaborative work, and transparent decision-making. Her background spans philanthropic activities and NGO programs, systems, and operations. She spent the last four years at CARE International with the Emergency Capacity Building Project, a collaboration between six of the largest NGOs, aimed at improving humanitarian response. Please join me in welcoming them to our team! Warmly, Anasuya [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Sbouterse [2] http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=owwHWfwpc=qSa9VfwQ -- ***Anasuya Sengupta Senior Director of Grantmaking Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ -- ***Anasuya Sengupta Senior Director of Grantmaking Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing the Individual Engagement Grants program
*Hi all, I’m pleased to announce the launch of a new grantmaking program at the Wikimedia Foundation: Individual Engagement Grants. These grants will support Wikimedians as individuals or small teams to complete projects that benefit the Wikimedia movement, lead to online impact, and serve the mission, community, and strategic priorities. This new program is intended to complement WMF’s other grantmaking programs as well as the grants that chapters and affiliate organizations provide. The first round of proposals will be accepted from now until 15 February 2013. We’re also seeking committee members to help select the first round of grantees. Please help spread the word to other lists! To get involved, share your thoughts, submit a proposal, or join the committee: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG For more information on all of WMF’s grantmaking programs: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start Best wishes,* Siko -- Siko Bouterse Head of Individual Engagement Grants Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today, and help us make it a reality!* ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or pressrelease?
There are two immediately obvious possibilities for this. 1GMT/Universal time, which would be relatively unsurprising to most, as it is traditionally the zero offset timezone. 2+12 so that New Zealand and other extreme east timezone users would see something when the time arrives. A more complex option would be to link to the user's timezone and release when that reaches the relevant time. This may not be feasible or even particularly useful. Linking to a time zone which is tomorrow for half the world would be counterproductive, better early than late. I would recommend GMT as least surprise option. Cheers, Peter - Original Message - From: Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:07 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage launch: why no blog post or pressrelease? Hi, maybe it would be good to consider at some point in the near future the timing of press releases, embargoes etc - keeping our international climate in mind. Unfortunately SF is quite at the far edge of timezone-land, and when we want to announce something on a certain date, that can indeed be confusing this way. We faced the same problems at Wiki Loves Monuments (where we mostly used European timezones, as the vast majority of the countries was in that), and some good thoughts about the general issue would definitely be welcome. Maybe not today though. Best, Lodewijk 2013/1/15 Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org Drat, my apologies. I forwarded to Wikimedia-l and neglected to send here. Busy morning :/ -Matthew On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org wrote: Matthew distributed the release and the blog post this morning (around 0900 PT), it should have made its way to this list as well: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_launches_Wikivoyage https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-launches-wikivoyage-a-free-worldwide-travel-guide-that-anyone-can-edit/ Also, happy birthday, Wikipedia! And welcome to our new friends at Wikivoyage :) On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Stevie Benton stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Hi Tom et al, There is indeed a release - but it is embargoed until 1600 GMT / 0800 PST... It's uploaded to the WMUK blog in readiness to go live at the appointed hour. I am absolutely certain that the Foundation are equally prepared. Hope this is helpful, Stevie On 15 January 2013 14:35, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote: Some friends asked me today about the Wikivoyage launch, and the reasoning behind it. I hopped over to https://blog.wikimedia.org/ and found... nothing. Then I went to https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room and also found... nothing. Any reason why the Foundation hasn't published anything about the official launch of Wikivoyage? It'd be quite useful to be able to point my enquiring friends to oh, this is what the Foundation are saying about it, but apparently the Foundation aren't saying anything about it. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Jay Walsh Senior Director, Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome: Siko Bouterse and Katy Love join the Grantmaking team at WMF
On Jan 15, 2013, at 9:52 PM, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Congrats, Siko and Katy! So glad to hear you'll be spearheading these important initiatives. Siko, I'm thrilled that we'll keep working together in your new role. Katy, welcome aboard! Look forward to meeting with you next week ... Onward! Fabrice Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:51:31 -0800 From: Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome: Siko Bouterse and Katy Love join the Grantmaking team at WMF Message-ID: cakk0pry76bxwtzexqvsnrjcdmth7j0_+pesyyi3a52ovepr...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear all, As you know, we recently re-named the Global Development department at the Wikimedia Foundation, as the Grantmaking and Programs department. The Grantmaking team is committed to supporting our community and meeting our shared goals at the different levels of contribution - whether individuals, groups or organisations - and we will be working with you over the next few months to deepen our strategies for doing so, and for evaluating our impact. In the meantime, however, I am delighted to announce some changes to the Grantmaking team that reflect this commitment. Siko Bouterse [1] needs no introduction to most of you, having worked at WMF since 2011, most recently coordinating the Fellowships program. Siko is coming on to the Grantmaking team as Head of Individual Engagement Grants, a program that will support individual or small team projects for online impact. This is to be launched later today... watch out for Siko's announcement and details of the program, coming soon to a wiki near you. Siko will also shortly be taking on the responsibility for the Participation Support Program (which WMF and WMDE fund together), and supporting the documentation and analysis of our project-based grants. We are really pleased to have Siko's experience and insights on our team. Katy Love is new to the team, the organisation and the movement, but I have no doubt that her experience and insights, as well, will help us be more effective. Katy has just joined us as the Senior Program Officer for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) [2] with a passion for strategic and impactful grantmaking, participatory collaborative work, and transparent decision-making. Her background spans philanthropic activities and NGO programs, systems, and operations. She spent the last four years at CARE International with the Emergency Capacity Building Project, a collaboration between six of the largest NGOs, aimed at improving humanitarian response. Please join me in welcoming them to our team! Warmly, Anasuya [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Sbouterse [2] http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=owwHWfwpc=qSa9VfwQ -- ***Anasuya Sengupta Senior Director of Grantmaking Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
