Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: First public peek at Daala, "next-next-generation" video codec from Xiph

[Matthew Flaschen]

On 06/20/2013 07:09 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
> And what should pop up in my mailbox but a discussion about the next
> free video codec the Xiph Foundation is working on.  This looks pretty
> amazing, and is worth a read:
> 
> http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo1.shtml

Thanks for pointing this out.  It's great to see they're working on a
new codec and taking a somewhat different path.  I was even able to
understand a bit of the technical documentation.

Matt Flaschen

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] On now: European Dialog on Internet Governance

[Bishakha Datta]

Here's a call from ISOC for applying for funding to attend the Internet
Governance Forum to be held 22-25 October in Bali:
http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-programmes/next-generation-leaders/igf-ambassadors-programme

Deadline: 24 June.

2013 calendar of the Internet Governance Forum at:
http://www.intgovforum.org/cms/component/content/article/121-preparatory-process/1278-2013-calendar
Includes the European Dialog on Internet Governance that is on now.

Best
Bishakha


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Manuel Schneider <
manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch> wrote:

> Those oft you interested in Internet governance can follow the EuroDIG
> conference in Lisbon right now via webcast:
>
> http://www.eurodig.org/important/webcast-remote-participation
>
> and / or follow the hastag #EuroDIG in Twitter.
>
> Yesterday we had the General Assembly oft EURALO, the regional at-large
> organisation where I represent Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia Österreich AS
> members of ICANN At-Large. I will serve another term von the EURALO board.
> We had a very interesting visit from ICANN's new president and CEO Fahdi
> Chehade. With its multi-stakeholder approach and also developed and grown
> based in external needs and in ever-changing environment it faces similar
> challenges like the Wikimedia movement. This was a surprising understanding
> for me, having experienced ICANN as a big, bureaucratic organisation. I am
> aiming toward an exchange, being aware that is still hard to be heard
> within ICANN but without our critical and demanding voices we give away our
> ability to influence policy making on the Internet.
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: First public peek at Daala, "next-next-generation" video codec from Xiph

[Samuel Klein]

I was just writing about file formats, thinking about the discussion
on Commons of its scope (and the many free formats that we still do
not support)...

And what should pop up in my mailbox but a discussion about the next
free video codec the Xiph Foundation is working on.  This looks pretty
amazing, and is worth a read:

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo1.shtml

Sam.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Privacy Policy - Call for Community Input

[Michelle Paulson]

Of course!  I'm really looking forward to reading everyone's input.  The
community's input will truly be invaluable to this process.

Best,

Michelle

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Samuel Klein  wrote:

> Thank you Michelle, for starting this public discussion, and for the
> speedy translations.   SJ
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Michelle Paulson
>  wrote:
> > Announcement now in français, español, and Deutsch* below:
> >
> > *Apologies in advance for any errors or suboptimal phrasing in the
> > translations!
> >
> > ==
> >
> > Bonjour à tous,
> >
> > Je voudrais attirer votre attention sur la présence d’un nouveau billet
> sur
> > notre blog (disponible sur
> > Meta<
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy/Call_for_input_%282013%29
> >et
> > sur le blog
> > Wikimedia<
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/18/input-on-wikimedia-foundation-privacy-policy/
> >)
> > relatif à la mise à jour de notre politique de confidentialité actuelle.
> > Notre politique de confidentialité n’a plus été mise à jour depuis
> l’année
> > 2008 et nous pensons qu’il est temps de revoir cette politique afin de
> nous
> > assurer qu’elle reflète la situation des Projets aujourd’hui et leur
> > évolution future potentielle.
> >
> > Il est important pour nous que la nouvelle politique reflète les valeurs
> de
> > la communauté. C’est pourquoi nous sollicitons l’intervention de la
> > communauté Wikimedia tout au long de ce processus. Nous aimerions que
> vous
> > nous fassiezpart<
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Call_for_input_on_WMF_privacy_policy
> >,
> > au cours du prochain mois, des problèmes liés à la confidentialité qui
> > comptent pour vous. Une fois que nous aurons rédigé une version préalable
> > de la nouvelle politique de confidentialité (en tenant compte des
> > commentaires que vous nous aurez adressés au cours du mois), nous
> lancerons
> > une période prolongée de consultation de la communauté pour vous donner
> > l’occasion de réviser la version préalable et de nous faire part de vos
> > commentaires plus précis.
> >
> > Nous vous invitons à lire le billet sur le blog pour obtenir plus de
> > détails et nous vous encourageons à participer à ce processus important.
> > Nous vous demandons de ne laisser vos commentaires que sur la page de
> > discussion Meta<
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Privacy_policy/Call_for_input_%282013%29
> >afin
> > que chacun prenne connaissance de la même façon des sujets faisant
> > l’objet d’une discussion et dispose de l’occasion de participer
> pleinement
> > à la discussion qui l’intéresse.
> >
> > Avec tous mes remerciements,
> >
> > Michelle Paulson
> >
> > Conseiller juridique
> >
> > Remarque : Cette annonce devrait être traduite dans les quelques jours à
> > venir. Nous demandons à la communauté Wikimedia internationale de
> > contribuer à la traduction des billets publiés sur le blog et de la page
> de
> > commentaires (qui sont pratiquement identiques) ainsi qu’à celle des
> > commentaires fournis par les internautes tout au long de cette période de
> > consultation.
> >
> > ==
> >
> >  Hola a todos:
> >
> > Me gustaría que echarais un vistazo a la nueva entrada del blog
> (disponible
> > en Meta<
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy/Call_for_input_%282013%29>y
> > en el blog
> > de Wikimedia<
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/18/input-on-wikimedia-foundation-privacy-policy/
> >)
> > sobre la actualización de nuestra actual política de privacidad. No la
> > hemos actualizado desde 2008 y creemos que ha llegado la hora de hacerlo,
> > para asegurarnos de que refleja el punto en el que se encuentran los
> > proyectos en este momento y cuál es la posible dirección hacia la que se
> > encaminarán en un futuro.
> >
> > Para nosotros, es importante que la nueva política refleje los valores de
> > la comunidad; por eso, estamos pidiendo a toda la comunidad de Wikimedia
> > que aporte sus ideas durante el proceso. A lo largo del próximo mes, nos
> > encantaría escuchar<
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Call_for_input_on_WMF_privacy_policy
> >lo
> > que tenéis que decir sobre las cuestiones de privacidad que os atañen.
> > Una vez que hayamos completado un borrador de la nueva política de
> > privacidad (con los comentarios que nos enviaréis durante el próximo
> mes),
> > abriremos una amplia consulta a la comunidad para que tengáis la
> > oportunidad de revisar el borrador y proporcionar más comentarios en
> > detalle.
> >
> > Os animamos a que leáis la entrada del blog para conocer más información
> y
> > a que participéis en este proceso tan importante. Dejad vuestros
> > comentarios únicamente en la página Meta para el
> > debate<
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Privacy_policy/Call_for_input_%282013%29
> >para
> > que todos, por igual, estéis enterados de los temas que van a tratarse
> > y podáis participar en los debates que os interesen.
> >
> > Muchas gracias,
> >
> > Michelle Paulson
> >
> > Asesora jurídica
>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Privacy Policy - Call for Community Input

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you Michelle, for starting this public discussion, and for the
speedy translations.   SJ

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Michelle Paulson
 wrote:
> Announcement now in français, español, and Deutsch* below:
>
> *Apologies in advance for any errors or suboptimal phrasing in the
> translations!
>
> ==
>
> Bonjour à tous,
>
> Je voudrais attirer votre attention sur la présence d’un nouveau billet sur
> notre blog (disponible sur
> Metaet
> sur le blog
> Wikimedia)
> relatif à la mise à jour de notre politique de confidentialité actuelle.
> Notre politique de confidentialité n’a plus été mise à jour depuis l’année
> 2008 et nous pensons qu’il est temps de revoir cette politique afin de nous
> assurer qu’elle reflète la situation des Projets aujourd’hui et leur
> évolution future potentielle.
>
> Il est important pour nous que la nouvelle politique reflète les valeurs de
> la communauté. C’est pourquoi nous sollicitons l’intervention de la
> communauté Wikimedia tout au long de ce processus. Nous aimerions que vous
> nous 
> fassiezpart,
> au cours du prochain mois, des problèmes liés à la confidentialité qui
> comptent pour vous. Une fois que nous aurons rédigé une version préalable
> de la nouvelle politique de confidentialité (en tenant compte des
> commentaires que vous nous aurez adressés au cours du mois), nous lancerons
> une période prolongée de consultation de la communauté pour vous donner
> l’occasion de réviser la version préalable et de nous faire part de vos
> commentaires plus précis.
>
> Nous vous invitons à lire le billet sur le blog pour obtenir plus de
> détails et nous vous encourageons à participer à ce processus important.
> Nous vous demandons de ne laisser vos commentaires que sur la page de
> discussion 
> Metaafin
> que chacun prenne connaissance de la même façon des sujets faisant
> l’objet d’une discussion et dispose de l’occasion de participer pleinement
> à la discussion qui l’intéresse.
>
> Avec tous mes remerciements,
>
> Michelle Paulson
>
> Conseiller juridique
>
> Remarque : Cette annonce devrait être traduite dans les quelques jours à
> venir. Nous demandons à la communauté Wikimedia internationale de
> contribuer à la traduction des billets publiés sur le blog et de la page de
> commentaires (qui sont pratiquement identiques) ainsi qu’à celle des
> commentaires fournis par les internautes tout au long de cette période de
> consultation.
>
> ==
>
>  Hola a todos:
>
> Me gustaría que echarais un vistazo a la nueva entrada del blog (disponible
> en 
> Metay
> en el blog
> de 
> Wikimedia)
> sobre la actualización de nuestra actual política de privacidad. No la
> hemos actualizado desde 2008 y creemos que ha llegado la hora de hacerlo,
> para asegurarnos de que refleja el punto en el que se encuentran los
> proyectos en este momento y cuál es la posible dirección hacia la que se
> encaminarán en un futuro.
>
> Para nosotros, es importante que la nueva política refleje los valores de
> la comunidad; por eso, estamos pidiendo a toda la comunidad de Wikimedia
> que aporte sus ideas durante el proceso. A lo largo del próximo mes, nos
> encantaría 
> escucharlo
> que tenéis que decir sobre las cuestiones de privacidad que os atañen.
> Una vez que hayamos completado un borrador de la nueva política de
> privacidad (con los comentarios que nos enviaréis durante el próximo mes),
> abriremos una amplia consulta a la comunidad para que tengáis la
> oportunidad de revisar el borrador y proporcionar más comentarios en
> detalle.
>
> Os animamos a que leáis la entrada del blog para conocer más información y
> a que participéis en este proceso tan importante. Dejad vuestros
> comentarios únicamente en la página Meta para el
> debatepara
> que todos, por igual, estéis enterados de los temas que van a tratarse
> y podáis participar en los debates que os interesen.
>
> Muchas gracias,
>
> Michelle Paulson
>
> Asesora jurídica
>
> Nota: Las traducciones de este anuncio estarán disponibles en los próximos
> días. Nos encantaría que la comunidad internacional de Wikimedia nos
> ayudara a traducir la entrada del blog y la página con los comentarios (que
> son prácticamente idénticas), así como todas las aportaciones de la gente
> que se produzcan en el transcurso de este periodo de consulta.
> ==
>
> Hallo zusammen,
>
> ich möchte Sie gern auf einen neuen Blog-Eintr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Celebrating ten years of Wikimedia Foundation

[Victor Grigas]

I had the opportunity to interview Jimmy last year about starting the
foundation (The interview was used for editor engagement and fundraising
purposes):

I think that this is appropriate for today :)

(press play)
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Thank_You/Jimmy_Wales

Thanks Jimmy for the interview


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Jay Walsh  wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> I have the awesome pleasure of notifying everyone today of a special
> anniversary. Ten years ago today, Jimmy Wales announced the creation
> of the Wikimedia Foundation on the still pretty new Wikipedia-l
> mailing list.
>
> Today you'll find a blog post (also posted below) that looks back on
> an extraordinary 10 years of growth for the Foundation, our projects,
> our movement organizations, and our volunteer community.
>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/20/ten-years-of-supporting-free-knowledge
>
> Birthdays are often one-day-focused things, but like our recent ten
> year anniversary of Wikipedia, I know we'll be thinking about this
> incredible milestone over the entire coming year. We look forward to
> hearing your reflections and thoughts about the Foundation - whether
> your contact with the org started ten days ago or ten years.
>
> Thank you for being a part of the Foundation and part of the Wikimedia
> movement. Here's to another huge ten years!
>
> ---
>
> Ten years of supporting free knowledge
>
> Posted by Jay Walsh on June 20, 2013
>
> Ten years ago today, on June 20, 2003, Jimmy Wales announced the
> founding of the Wikimedia Foundation. He entrusted the new nonprofit
> with the operation of Wikipedia, launched two and a half years prior.
>
> Wales recalled the early days of Wikipedia and marveled that it has
> grown to be such an important and ubiquitous source of free
> information for the world. “It is hard to imagine that in 2003,
> Wikipedia was still running on just two servers – which I used to
> administer myself in the beginning,” said Wales, who noted that he
> founded the Wikimedia Foundation because he believed Wikipedia would
> need the support of a stable and trusted institutional base for years
> to come.
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation’s second Board of Trustees (photo taken at
> Wikimania 2006). From left to right: Tim Shell, Florence
> Nibart-Devouard, Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales, Michael Davis, Angela Beesley
>
> “Ten years later, the Foundation continues to fulfill that role,
> thanks to the trust of our millions of donors, the hard work of its
> staff, the thoughtful oversight enacted by my fellow Board of Trustees
> members and last but not least the many thousands of volunteers who
> not only manage and build our projects, but also take an active part
> in the governance of the Foundation,” Wales said.
>
> Those two early servers, which belonged to Jimmy Wales’ company at the
> time, have now grown to more than 800 servers operated by the
> Wikimedia Foundation. They are the backbone of the free knowledge
> projects that serve over half a billion readers each month, with 21
> billion monthly pageviews. The Foundation also provides the legal
> basis for projects, defending them against legal threats and
> protecting the trademarks that have come to represent the global
> community’s work.
>
> The name “Wikimedia” had been suggested earlier in 2003 by Wikipedia
> editor Sheldon Rampton for an endeavour that would “use Wiki-style
> rules to enable public participation in the creation and editing of
> all kinds of media: encyclopedias and other reference works, current
> news, books, fiction, music, video etc.”
>
> During the following decade, Wikipedia was joined by several sister
> projects to realize parts of the vision of a world in which every
> single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. The
> Foundation continues to work on creating a richer Wikimedia experience
> beyond text, making use of the web’s expanding possibilities. It has
> also taken on the challenge of sustaining and increasing editor
> participation, with projects such as the VisualEditor, the most
> complex software development project undertaken by the Foundation so
> far, which is already being live-tested on numerous language versions
> of Wikipedia, and slated for a full rollout next month.
>
> As part of its commitment to increase access to free knowledge, the
> Wikimedia Foundation has launched Wikipedia Zero, a program to
> convince telecommunications operators to waive data charges to
> Wikipedia for the billions of people around the world whose primary
> opportunity to access the internet is via a mobile device. Keeping up
> with the mobile revolution on the internet, the Foundation has
> upgraded Wikipedia’s interface for mobile users, including introducing
> a “Nearby” feature and starting to enable contributions from mobile
> devices.
>
> Wikimedia Foundation staff (September 2012)
>
> Erik Möller, a volunteer Wikipedian in Germany in 2003, and today the
> Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, high

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 25 -- 19 June 2013

[Wikipedia Signpost]

Op-ed: Two responses to the 'Tragedy of Wikipedia's Commons'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-06-19/Op-ed

News and notes: Swedish Wikipedia's millionth article leads to protests; WMF 
elections—where are all the voters?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-06-19/News_and_notes

In the media: South African learners want Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-06-19/In_the_media

Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-06-19/Traffic_report

Discussion report: Citations, non-free content, and a MediaWiki meeting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-06-19/Discussion_report

Featured content: Cheaper by the dozen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-06-19/Featured_content

WikiProject report: The Volunteer State: WikiProject Tennessee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-06-19/WikiProject_report

Arbitration report: The Farmbrough amendment request—automation and 
arbitration enforcement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-06-19/Arbitration_report

Technology report: VisualEditor set for early July rollout
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-06-19/Technology_report


Single page view
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single

PDF version
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-06-19


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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Celebrating ten years of Wikimedia Foundation

[Jay Walsh]

Dear friends,

I have the awesome pleasure of notifying everyone today of a special
anniversary. Ten years ago today, Jimmy Wales announced the creation
of the Wikimedia Foundation on the still pretty new Wikipedia-l
mailing list.

Today you'll find a blog post (also posted below) that looks back on
an extraordinary 10 years of growth for the Foundation, our projects,
our movement organizations, and our volunteer community.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/20/ten-years-of-supporting-free-knowledge

Birthdays are often one-day-focused things, but like our recent ten
year anniversary of Wikipedia, I know we'll be thinking about this
incredible milestone over the entire coming year. We look forward to
hearing your reflections and thoughts about the Foundation - whether
your contact with the org started ten days ago or ten years.

Thank you for being a part of the Foundation and part of the Wikimedia
movement. Here's to another huge ten years!

---

Ten years of supporting free knowledge

Posted by Jay Walsh on June 20, 2013

Ten years ago today, on June 20, 2003, Jimmy Wales announced the
founding of the Wikimedia Foundation. He entrusted the new nonprofit
with the operation of Wikipedia, launched two and a half years prior.

Wales recalled the early days of Wikipedia and marveled that it has
grown to be such an important and ubiquitous source of free
information for the world. “It is hard to imagine that in 2003,
Wikipedia was still running on just two servers – which I used to
administer myself in the beginning,” said Wales, who noted that he
founded the Wikimedia Foundation because he believed Wikipedia would
need the support of a stable and trusted institutional base for years
to come.

The Wikimedia Foundation’s second Board of Trustees (photo taken at
Wikimania 2006). From left to right: Tim Shell, Florence
Nibart-Devouard, Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales, Michael Davis, Angela Beesley

“Ten years later, the Foundation continues to fulfill that role,
thanks to the trust of our millions of donors, the hard work of its
staff, the thoughtful oversight enacted by my fellow Board of Trustees
members and last but not least the many thousands of volunteers who
not only manage and build our projects, but also take an active part
in the governance of the Foundation,” Wales said.

Those two early servers, which belonged to Jimmy Wales’ company at the
time, have now grown to more than 800 servers operated by the
Wikimedia Foundation. They are the backbone of the free knowledge
projects that serve over half a billion readers each month, with 21
billion monthly pageviews. The Foundation also provides the legal
basis for projects, defending them against legal threats and
protecting the trademarks that have come to represent the global
community’s work.

The name “Wikimedia” had been suggested earlier in 2003 by Wikipedia
editor Sheldon Rampton for an endeavour that would “use Wiki-style
rules to enable public participation in the creation and editing of
all kinds of media: encyclopedias and other reference works, current
news, books, fiction, music, video etc.”

During the following decade, Wikipedia was joined by several sister
projects to realize parts of the vision of a world in which every
single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. The
Foundation continues to work on creating a richer Wikimedia experience
beyond text, making use of the web’s expanding possibilities. It has
also taken on the challenge of sustaining and increasing editor
participation, with projects such as the VisualEditor, the most
complex software development project undertaken by the Foundation so
far, which is already being live-tested on numerous language versions
of Wikipedia, and slated for a full rollout next month.

As part of its commitment to increase access to free knowledge, the
Wikimedia Foundation has launched Wikipedia Zero, a program to
convince telecommunications operators to waive data charges to
Wikipedia for the billions of people around the world whose primary
opportunity to access the internet is via a mobile device. Keeping up
with the mobile revolution on the internet, the Foundation has
upgraded Wikipedia’s interface for mobile users, including introducing
a “Nearby” feature and starting to enable contributions from mobile
devices.

Wikimedia Foundation staff (September 2012)

Erik Möller, a volunteer Wikipedian in Germany in 2003, and today the
Deputy Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, highlighted the
importance of this programmatic work. “Today, the Wikimedia Foundation
is well positioned to modernize the user experience and the
infrastructure supporting our projects, while dedicating all its
efforts to the public, working transparently, and releasing code as
open source,” said Möller. “This wouldn’t be possible if Jimmy hadn’t
laid the foundation 10 years ago to dedicate the operation of
Wikipedia and our other projects to a non-profit organization,
supported by a community of donors.”

The Foundation wo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing four new Community Liaisons (Product)

[Kevin Gorman]

Congratulations all :)

---
Kevin Gorman

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury wrote:

> Congratulations all & good luck..
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Steven Zhang  wrote:
>
> > Congratulations to you all, and good luck. I'm sure you will all do a
> > great job!
> >
> > Steven Zhang
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On 20/06/2013, at 4:04 am, Philippe Beaudette 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > Howie and I are pleased to announce the onboarding of four new
> community
> > > liaisons for the product team.  Howie has generously allowed me to send
> > > this email, since their initial tasking will be to VisualEditor and the
> > > Change Management team, working with me.  At the conclusion of the
> > > deployment of VisualEditor, they will be assigned as community liaisons
> > to
> > > other groups within the product team.
> > >
> > > Please welcome four new contractors:  Erica Litrenta, Sherry Snyder,
> > > Patrick Earley, and (a returning face) Keegan Peterzell.
> > >
> > > These positions are temporary, contract-based positions, each with an
> > > initial term of roughly 90 days.  Below, I've pasted below a brief
> > summary
> > > of each of the four so that you can get to know them.  I know you'll
> join
> > > me in wishing them the best with their new work!
> > > pb
> > >
> > > ___
> > > Philippe Beaudette
> > > Director, Community Advocacy
> > > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *Erica / Elitre*
> > > Erica will be initially primarily tasked with supporting the deployment
> > on
> > > Italian Wikipedia, but will also be helping out with other wikis as
> well.
> > > She edits as User:Elitre 
> > on
> > > the Italian Wikipedia.  Born and raised in Cosenza, Italy, she
> graduated
> > > from Università della Calabria (with a Master's degree in Foreign
> > Languages
> > > and Literature), and now lives in Bologna.  Her favorite work
> experience
> > so
> > > far was last year with lettera27 Foundation, where she wrote case
> studies
> > > for the WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge projects (go GLAMs!) and hunted
> > for
> > > more free contents and institutions to involve (She's been involved
> with
> > > the Wikimedia Movement and has evangelized about our projects since
> > 2005).
> > > She's  fond of: playing life/construction and management videogames,
> > taking
> > > pictures, making cheesecakes, studying and writing about Italian
> > folklore -
> > > notably the Palio di Siena, listening to symphonic metal/rock.
> > >
> > > She's in a romantic relationship with OTRS (yes, you read that right -
> > she
> > > was once dubbed "romantic and dreadful" because of this) since 2006
> > which,
> > > she points out, is longer than her relationship with her boyfriend: she
> > met
> > > him later.
> > >
> > >
> > > *Sherry / WhatamIdoing*
> > > Some of you know her well, if nothing else, for her descriptive
> username
> > ("
> > > WhatamIdoing ").  She
> > > writes:
> > >
> > > *My name is Sherry Snyder, better known as "WhatamIdoing" on several
> > > English-speaking projects.  My culinary quest for the summer is a
> > low-sugar
> > > chocolate peanut butter, which those of you with European tendencies
> > should
> > > interpret as "like Nutella, only better."  (In response to this, my
> > husband
> > > says, "POV-inline, dubious - discuss?")  I've been a Wikipedian since
> > > 2007.  I am a metapedian by nature and a typo fixer by compulsion.  I'm
> > > still a little amazed that the WMF hired me for this project and happy
> to
> > > be joining the team that is trying to make the transition to
> VisualEditor
> > > be more successful and less surprising.
> > > *
> > >
> > > Sherry will be supporting the deployment on the English Wikipedia and
> > > non-English speaking projects to be assigned still.  She was a huge
> help
> > > during the development of the Terms of Use, and I'm looking forward to
> > > working with her.
> > >
> > >
> > > *Patrick / The Interior*
> > > Patrick is from Kamloops, British Columbia (yes, another Canadian!), a
> > > logging and cattle town in the Interior of the province.  He edits
> enwiki
> > > as "The Interior ".
>  He
> > > has studied library science and film, and has worked a variety of
> > > interesting jobs so far, including wildland firefighting, documentary
> > > filmmaking, treeplanting, sorting books at a second hand store,
> > > cataloguing, screenwriting, teaching English in Taiwan and, now,
> liaising
> > > for the WMF! He currently lives in Vancouver in the aptly named Mount
> > > Pleasant neighbourhood.  He wishes to point out that he uses Canadian
> > > spelling.  :P
> > >
> > > Patrick has been a Wikipedia editor since 2008. He loves working on
> > > geography and both natural and human history.  He has worked with the
> > > Education Program, hopes 

[Wikimedia-l] Happy birthday Wikimedia Foundation!

[Svavar Kjarrval]

I'd like to wish the Wikimedia Foundation a happy 10th birthday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiMedia_Foundation

With regards,
Svavar Kjarrval


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Privacy Policy - Call for Community Input

[Michelle Paulson]

Announcement now in français, español, and Deutsch* below:

*Apologies in advance for any errors or suboptimal phrasing in the
translations!

==

Bonjour à tous,

Je voudrais attirer votre attention sur la présence d’un nouveau billet sur
notre blog (disponible sur
Metaet
sur le blog
Wikimedia)
relatif à la mise à jour de notre politique de confidentialité actuelle.
Notre politique de confidentialité n’a plus été mise à jour depuis l’année
2008 et nous pensons qu’il est temps de revoir cette politique afin de nous
assurer qu’elle reflète la situation des Projets aujourd’hui et leur
évolution future potentielle.

Il est important pour nous que la nouvelle politique reflète les valeurs de
la communauté. C’est pourquoi nous sollicitons l’intervention de la
communauté Wikimedia tout au long de ce processus. Nous aimerions que vous
nous 
fassiezpart,
au cours du prochain mois, des problèmes liés à la confidentialité qui
comptent pour vous. Une fois que nous aurons rédigé une version préalable
de la nouvelle politique de confidentialité (en tenant compte des
commentaires que vous nous aurez adressés au cours du mois), nous lancerons
une période prolongée de consultation de la communauté pour vous donner
l’occasion de réviser la version préalable et de nous faire part de vos
commentaires plus précis.

Nous vous invitons à lire le billet sur le blog pour obtenir plus de
détails et nous vous encourageons à participer à ce processus important.
Nous vous demandons de ne laisser vos commentaires que sur la page de
discussion 
Metaafin
que chacun prenne connaissance de la même façon des sujets faisant
l’objet d’une discussion et dispose de l’occasion de participer pleinement
à la discussion qui l’intéresse.

Avec tous mes remerciements,

Michelle Paulson

Conseiller juridique

Remarque : Cette annonce devrait être traduite dans les quelques jours à
venir. Nous demandons à la communauté Wikimedia internationale de
contribuer à la traduction des billets publiés sur le blog et de la page de
commentaires (qui sont pratiquement identiques) ainsi qu’à celle des
commentaires fournis par les internautes tout au long de cette période de
consultation.

==

 Hola a todos:

Me gustaría que echarais un vistazo a la nueva entrada del blog (disponible
en 
Metay
en el blog
de 
Wikimedia)
sobre la actualización de nuestra actual política de privacidad. No la
hemos actualizado desde 2008 y creemos que ha llegado la hora de hacerlo,
para asegurarnos de que refleja el punto en el que se encuentran los
proyectos en este momento y cuál es la posible dirección hacia la que se
encaminarán en un futuro.

Para nosotros, es importante que la nueva política refleje los valores de
la comunidad; por eso, estamos pidiendo a toda la comunidad de Wikimedia
que aporte sus ideas durante el proceso. A lo largo del próximo mes, nos
encantaría 
escucharlo
que tenéis que decir sobre las cuestiones de privacidad que os atañen.
Una vez que hayamos completado un borrador de la nueva política de
privacidad (con los comentarios que nos enviaréis durante el próximo mes),
abriremos una amplia consulta a la comunidad para que tengáis la
oportunidad de revisar el borrador y proporcionar más comentarios en
detalle.

Os animamos a que leáis la entrada del blog para conocer más información y
a que participéis en este proceso tan importante. Dejad vuestros
comentarios únicamente en la página Meta para el
debatepara
que todos, por igual, estéis enterados de los temas que van a tratarse
y podáis participar en los debates que os interesen.

Muchas gracias,

Michelle Paulson

Asesora jurídica

Nota: Las traducciones de este anuncio estarán disponibles en los próximos
días. Nos encantaría que la comunidad internacional de Wikimedia nos
ayudara a traducir la entrada del blog y la página con los comentarios (que
son prácticamente idénticas), así como todas las aportaciones de la gente
que se produzcan en el transcurso de este periodo de consulta.
==

Hallo zusammen,

ich möchte Sie gern auf einen neuen Blog-Eintrag (auf
Metaund
dem
Wikimedia-Blogverfügbar)
bezüglich der Aktualisierung unserer Datenschutzrichtlinie
aufmerksam machen. Unsere Datenschutzrichtlinie wurde seit 2008 nicht mehr
aktuali

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing four new Community Liaisons (Product)

[Nurunnaby Chowdhury]

Congratulations all & good luck..


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Steven Zhang  wrote:

> Congratulations to you all, and good luck. I'm sure you will all do a
> great job!
>
> Steven Zhang
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 20/06/2013, at 4:04 am, Philippe Beaudette 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Howie and I are pleased to announce the onboarding of four new community
> > liaisons for the product team.  Howie has generously allowed me to send
> > this email, since their initial tasking will be to VisualEditor and the
> > Change Management team, working with me.  At the conclusion of the
> > deployment of VisualEditor, they will be assigned as community liaisons
> to
> > other groups within the product team.
> >
> > Please welcome four new contractors:  Erica Litrenta, Sherry Snyder,
> > Patrick Earley, and (a returning face) Keegan Peterzell.
> >
> > These positions are temporary, contract-based positions, each with an
> > initial term of roughly 90 days.  Below, I've pasted below a brief
> summary
> > of each of the four so that you can get to know them.  I know you'll join
> > me in wishing them the best with their new work!
> > pb
> >
> > ___
> > Philippe Beaudette
> > Director, Community Advocacy
> > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> > *Erica / Elitre*
> > Erica will be initially primarily tasked with supporting the deployment
> on
> > Italian Wikipedia, but will also be helping out with other wikis as well.
> > She edits as User:Elitre 
> on
> > the Italian Wikipedia.  Born and raised in Cosenza, Italy, she graduated
> > from Università della Calabria (with a Master's degree in Foreign
> Languages
> > and Literature), and now lives in Bologna.  Her favorite work experience
> so
> > far was last year with lettera27 Foundation, where she wrote case studies
> > for the WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge projects (go GLAMs!) and hunted
> for
> > more free contents and institutions to involve (She's been involved with
> > the Wikimedia Movement and has evangelized about our projects since
> 2005).
> > She's  fond of: playing life/construction and management videogames,
> taking
> > pictures, making cheesecakes, studying and writing about Italian
> folklore -
> > notably the Palio di Siena, listening to symphonic metal/rock.
> >
> > She's in a romantic relationship with OTRS (yes, you read that right -
> she
> > was once dubbed "romantic and dreadful" because of this) since 2006
> which,
> > she points out, is longer than her relationship with her boyfriend: she
> met
> > him later.
> >
> >
> > *Sherry / WhatamIdoing*
> > Some of you know her well, if nothing else, for her descriptive username
> ("
> > WhatamIdoing ").  She
> > writes:
> >
> > *My name is Sherry Snyder, better known as "WhatamIdoing" on several
> > English-speaking projects.  My culinary quest for the summer is a
> low-sugar
> > chocolate peanut butter, which those of you with European tendencies
> should
> > interpret as "like Nutella, only better."  (In response to this, my
> husband
> > says, "POV-inline, dubious - discuss?")  I've been a Wikipedian since
> > 2007.  I am a metapedian by nature and a typo fixer by compulsion.  I'm
> > still a little amazed that the WMF hired me for this project and happy to
> > be joining the team that is trying to make the transition to VisualEditor
> > be more successful and less surprising.
> > *
> >
> > Sherry will be supporting the deployment on the English Wikipedia and
> > non-English speaking projects to be assigned still.  She was a huge help
> > during the development of the Terms of Use, and I'm looking forward to
> > working with her.
> >
> >
> > *Patrick / The Interior*
> > Patrick is from Kamloops, British Columbia (yes, another Canadian!), a
> > logging and cattle town in the Interior of the province.  He edits enwiki
> > as "The Interior ".  He
> > has studied library science and film, and has worked a variety of
> > interesting jobs so far, including wildland firefighting, documentary
> > filmmaking, treeplanting, sorting books at a second hand store,
> > cataloguing, screenwriting, teaching English in Taiwan and, now, liaising
> > for the WMF! He currently lives in Vancouver in the aptly named Mount
> > Pleasant neighbourhood.  He wishes to point out that he uses Canadian
> > spelling.  :P
> >
> > Patrick has been a Wikipedia editor since 2008. He loves working on
> > geography and both natural and human history.  He has worked with the
> > Education Program, hopes to be more involved in GLAM projects in the
> > future, and is very interested in the Wikipedia/library interface.
>  Patrick
> > will be focused on non-English speaking wikis.
> >
> > *Keegan*
> > Some of you will remember that
> > Keegan previously
> > worked with us  on the 2010 Fundraiser.  He has been editing s

[Wikimedia-l] On now: European Dialog on Internet Governance

[Manuel Schneider]

Those oft you interested in Internet governance can follow the EuroDIG 
conference in Lisbon right now via webcast:

http://www.eurodig.org/important/webcast-remote-participation

and / or follow the hastag #EuroDIG in Twitter.

Yesterday we had the General Assembly oft EURALO, the regional at-large 
organisation where I represent Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia Österreich AS members 
of ICANN At-Large. I will serve another term von the EURALO board. 
We had a very interesting visit from ICANN's new president and CEO Fahdi 
Chehade. With its multi-stakeholder approach and also developed and grown based 
in external needs and in ever-changing environment it faces similar challenges 
like the Wikimedia movement. This was a surprising understanding for me, having 
experienced ICANN as a big, bureaucratic organisation. I am aiming toward an 
exchange, being aware that is still hard to be heard within ICANN but without 
our critical and demanding voices we give away our ability to influence policy 
making on the Internet.

/Manue
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