[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia CH is looking for a temporary project manager for Wiki Loves Monuments 2013
Project manager for Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 Contractor for a temporary position 50 % Reporting directly to the board and working in close collaboration with the Community managers and Wiki Loves Monuments working group, the project manager will be responsible for the implementation of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in Switzerland. He/she will manage the Wiki Loves Monuments and its budget, coordinate the volunteers, organize and support the jury, organize the final ceremony and check the advancement of the organization, and deliver internal and external reports. We offer a position in a typical not-for-profit setting, inside a high-profile association with interesting and varied tasks. The contractor agrees to provide Wikimedia CH with full non exclusive copyright of the content he/she will produce; the contractor and Wikimedia CH will be authorized to sub-license his/her work. QUALIFICATIONS The ideal candidate will have: Commitment to, and understanding of, free knowledge issues Knowledge of the Wikimedia movement and of the Wiki Loves Monuments contest Experience in the management and communication of Wikimedia projects Experience in the management and communication of events/contests Excellent computer skills and specific knowledge of uploading content and editing Wikis and the Wikimedia projects Strong familiarity with social networks (OTRS an asset) Fluent (orally and in writing) in English (German, French and Italian an asset) Sense of humor an asset. Start date: 1st July 2013 (or to be discussed) - End date: 31st October 2013. APPLICATIONS Close on 30 June 2013 and should be addressed with your resume, a cover letter and the names and contact details of referees to Chantal Ebongue, CAO, Wikimedia CH Escaliers-du-Marché 2, 1003 Lausanne, 021 340 66 20, recruitm...@wikimedia.ch Charles ___ I use this email for mailing list only. Charles ANDRES, Chairman Wikimedia CH – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] OSM Funding Drive success, extension
Yesterday, the OpenStreetMap Foundation completed a funding drive of £40,000 ($60,000) to buy two new servers. Because of the success of the fundraising, they have decided to extend the campaign to raise another £32,500 ($50,000). See http://blog.openstreetmap.org/2013/06/26/extending-funding-drive/ for details. If you've got some spare cash and want to support the technical development of the map anyone can edit, go to http://donate.openstreetmap.org/server2013/ You can also donate via Bitcoin. OSM is growing at a phenomenal rate. The success and ramping up of OSM Foundation fundraising shows that OpenStreetMap is perhaps experiencing the same kind of organisational growing up process as Wikimedia has... -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] OSM Funding Drive success, extension
2013/6/26 Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org: You can also donate via Bitcoin. It's not immediately obvious to me how I can do that. Care to elaborate? Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] OSM Funding Drive success, extension
Their bitcoin address is listed at the bottom of the donate page: it's 1J3pt9koWJZTo2jarg98RL89iJqff9Kobp Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 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.* On 26 June 2013 12:57, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/6/26 Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org: You can also donate via Bitcoin. It's not immediately obvious to me how I can do that. Care to elaborate? Thanks, Strainu ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] OSM Funding Drive success, extension
2013/6/26 Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk: Their bitcoin address is listed at the bottom of the donate page: it's 1J3pt9koWJZTo2jarg98RL89iJqff9Kobp Thanks, I hadn't scrolled all the way down :) Strainu ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Recognizing the GLAM-Wiki U.S. Consortium as a Wikimedia User Group
Hi all, It is my pleasure to draw your attention to the resolution adopted by the Affiliations Committee yesterday [1] that recognizes the GLAM Wiki U.S. Consortium[2] as the fifth Wikimedia User Group. The GLAM-Wiki US Consortium will bring together cultural organizations, Wikipedians, Wikimedia chapters, and individuals in an independent community of practice devoted to supporting the GLAM-Wikimedia initiative in the United States Wikimedia User Groups[3] are one of the three new types of affiliations created last year to empower volunteers wanting to conduct offline work. User group status is meant to be an easy form of affiliation, where the main requirements are an agreed goal, plans for offline work and a history of projects, and at least three people participating, as well as a public wiki page with all the relevant information. Please join me in welcoming the Consortium to the Wikimedia affiliate family, and go ahead and sign up to be a member if you would like to participate in its work. Best regards. Bence Damokos, Affiliations Committee [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/GLAM-Wiki_U.S._Consortium_%E2%80%93_June_2013 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Consortium [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Groups ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result
On 06/18/2013 06:35 PM, Adam Baso wrote: Update: We've added an enhancement to Wikipedia Zero so that if a user who isn't on a participating carrier network navigates to a Wikipedia Zero page on language.zero.wikipedia.org, such as http://en.zero.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse_%28band%29 , the user will be presented an option to visit the canonical URL of the article. If clicked, the canonical URL should get the user to the mobile or desktop version of the page, based on device type. That's good to hear. It would be helpful if when visiting on desktop (the original report, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48856, is about desktop search), it did not mention mobile carriers, data charges, and such. Perhaps it could even redirect silently. If that's not feasible for now, perhaps the message could be a bit more general so it reads better on desktop. Matt Flaschen ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result
(cross-posted on mobile-l) Okay, looks like the index of zero.wikipedia.org pages in Google has shrunk by some 20 million entries. Nonetheless, a number of really old pages (e.g., going back to 6-May-2013) are still in the Google index with article text. I'll set a reminder to check on the Google index again in 30 days, and hopefully then we can finally put the no-index rules in place at that time. The good news is that many of the pages are now correctly suppressed in natural search as non-canonical pages. In other words, a user would need to go through omitted results or do a site:domain search to see them. -Adam On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: Update: We've added an enhancement to Wikipedia Zero so that if a user who isn't on a participating carrier network navigates to a Wikipedia Zero page on language.zero.wikipedia.org, such as http://en.zero.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse_%28band%29 , the user will be presented an option to visit the canonical URL of the article. If clicked, the canonical URL should get the user to the mobile or desktop version of the page, based on device type. We're hoping that by next week the Google index will be refreshed so as to correctly mark the language.zero.wikipedia.org pages as duplicate pages in the omitted section. Upon confirmation of as much, the current plan is to introduce https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/69420/ to prevent indexing of language.zero.wikipedia.org altogether. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: All, My mistake. The pages in Google's index that I used for sampling - the ones that have Sorry, ... in their description in Google search results - are cached pages. I assumed incorrectly that those pages were based on recent indexing (e.g., in the past few days). I think we can actually stick to the original plan of Google re-indexing and the search results de-emphasizing the language.zero.wikipedia.orglinks within the next 30 days. I still find it strange that there are language.zero.wikipedia.orglinks that turned up higher in the search engine rankings than their better-established language.wikipedia.org counterparts. But I suppose with fewer competing page elements, especially on long-tail articles with fewer or no direct links to the desktop page, this is maybe not totally unexpected. -Adam On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello All, We had shelved my patch, patch 64629https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/64629, in hopes that an earlier patch, patch 61809https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/61809(bug 35233 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35233), would resolve the issue naturally as Google re-indexed. But it appears Google has re-indexed and yet the .zero.wikipedia.org URLs are still present in Google's index, instead of the language.wikipedia.org URLs. I have thus resubmitted patch 64629https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/64629 for re-review. We will need to further discuss whether it is appropriate to have Google completely remove .zero.wikipedia.org links from their cache, or if perhaps we need to open a support thread with Google about canonical URLs. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Kul Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Adam Baso (copied on this email) is working on it and a fix is ready. He'll do some testing to make sure it's resolved. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Looping Dan Foy in who's managing the Zero backlog. On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: K. Peachey wrote: Can you please file this in bugzilla https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org ? https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48856 MZMcBride ___ 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 -- Kul Wadhwa Head of Mobile Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Legal victory for Wikipedia in Italy
Hi All, I am very happy to announce a favorable decision we have recently received in an Italian defamation case brought against the Wikimedia Foundation by former Italian Minister of Defense and Berlusconi advisor, Mr. Cesare Previti. You can read more about it in our latest blog posthttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/26/wikimedia-foundation-legal-victory-italy/(available in English and Italian). Best, Michelle -- Michelle Paulson Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 mpaul...@wikimedia.org 415.839.6885 ext. 6608 (Office) 415.882.0495 (Fax) NOTICE: *This message might have confidential or legally privileged information in it. If you have received this message by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. For legal reasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Legal victory for Wikipedia in Italy
The blog has been already posted in the Italian mailing list and I would say that this is an excellent result. The justice in Italy is really slow in general, but in this case the timeline has been short and the result of the court of justice really good for the future. The definition that the prosecutor is able to change the definition in Wikipedia and for this reason there is no sense to accuse Wikipedia or WMF, it's a good way to give an indication for the future. Thank you On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Michelle Paulson mpaul...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi All, I am very happy to announce a favorable decision we have recently received in an Italian defamation case brought against the Wikimedia Foundation by former Italian Minister of Defense and Berlusconi advisor, Mr. Cesare Previti. You can read more about it in our latest blog post http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/26/wikimedia-foundation-legal-victory-italy/ (available in English and Italian). Best, Michelle -- Michelle Paulson Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 mpaul...@wikimedia.org 415.839.6885 ext. 6608 (Office) 415.882.0495 (Fax) NOTICE: *This message might have confidential or legally privileged information in it. If you have received this message by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. For legal reasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
