[Wikimedia-l] Copyright infringement - The real elephant in the room

2013-11-12 Thread James Heilman 
The Wikimedia Foundation needs to wake up and deal with the "real tech
elephant in the room". Our primary issue is not a lack of FLOW, a lack of a
visual editor, or a lack of a rapidly expanding education program.

Our biggest issue is copyright infringement. We have had the Indian
program, we have had issues with the Education program, and I have today
come across a user who has made nearly 20,000 edits to 1,742 article since
2006 which appear to be nearly all copy and pasted from the sources he has
used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DrMicro#Copyright_infringement
This
has seriously shaken my faith in Wikipedia.

This is especially devastating as there is a tech solution that would have
prevented it. The efforts are being worked on by volunteers here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Turnitin and has been since at
least March of 2012. We NEED all tech resource at the foundation thrown at
this project. Other less important project like FLOW and the visual editor
need to be put on hold to develop this tool.

-- 
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia engineering report, October 2013

2013-11-12 Thread Guillaume Paumier 
Hi,

The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in October 2013 is now
available.

Wiki version:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/October
Blog version:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/12/engineering-report-october-2013/

We're also proposing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this
report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/October/summary

Below is the HTML text of the report.

As always, feedback is appreciated on the usefulness of the report and its
summary, and on how to improve them.

--

Major news in October include:

   - A report on the Open Access Media
Importer,
   a tool that transfers multimedia files from scientific publications to
   Wikimedia Commons;
   - A request for proposals for a new datacenter in the continental
US,
   published by the Operations team;
   - The creation of the Autonym
Font,
   which allows language names to be displayed properly without degrading page
   loading time.

*Note: We're also providing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of
this report

that does not assume specialized technical knowledge.*
Personnel Work with us 

Are you looking to work for Wikimedia? We have a lot of hiring coming up,
and we really love talking to active community members about these roles.

   - Software Engineer -
Fundraising
   - Software Engineer -
Growth
   - Software Engineer - Core
Features
   - Software Engineer - Language
Engineering
   - Software Engineer 
   - Senior Software Engineer - Team
Lead
   - Software Engineer Data Analytics (Back
End)
   - Dev-Ops Engineer -
SRE
   - Ops Engineer - Labs
Contractor
   - User Experience
Designer

Announcements

   - Ori Livneh transitioned to the Platform Engineering group as Senior
   Performance Engineer
(announcement
   ).
   - Gergő Tisza joined the Platfom Engineering group as Software Engineer
   on the Multimedia team
(announcement
   ).
   - Leslie Carr and Ryan Lane were both promoted to the position of Senior
   Operations Engineer
(announcement
   ).
   - Rummana Yasmeen joined the Platfom Engineering group as Software Test
   Engineer on the QA team, working primarily on VisualEditor
(announcement
   ).
   - Vibha Bamba was promoted to the position of Senior User Experience
   Designer 
(announcement
   )

Technical Operations

*Site infrastructure*
The team continued to heavily refactor the Puppet configuration: manifests
for MySQL, nginx, SSH, puppetmaster, and several others are now properly
organized as modules. Alexandros Kosiaris has made considerable progress
towards supporting multiple puppetmasters on our cluster, which will
greatly improve Puppet performance.

*Wikimedia Labs *
Andrew Bogott has been working with Yuvaraj Pandian to get the new proxy
system properly deployed; this will greatly reduce our need to hand out
public IPs to labs users. We're close to hiring a contractor to help with
the upcoming migration of Labs from Tampa to Ashburn. Features
Engineering
Editor
retention: Editing tools

*VisualEditor *
In October, the VisualEditor team continued to improve the stability and
performance of the system, and add new features. The deployed version of
the code was updated five times
(1.22-wmf20,
1.22-wmf21,
1.22-wmf22

[Wikimedia-l] [Job position] Fwd: Looking for an OKFestival events coordinator

2013-11-12 Thread Everton Zanella Alvarenga 
Hi all,

since we have several people here involved in organizing events or someone
from your network might have this experience, please, see bellow this job
position for an open knowledge event and spread the word for those who
might be interested.

Tom

-- Forwarded message --
From: Zara Rahman 
Date: 2013/11/12
Subject: [OKFN-Local-Coord] Looking for an OKFestival events coordinator
To: OKFN-Local-Coord 


 Hi all,

We're on the hunt for an events coordinator to work with my lovely
colleague Beatrice Martini on the Open Knowledge Festival
2014- know anyone who might be a good
fit? Please encourage them to apply!

 http://okfn.org/jobs/#event

 Keywords: big participatory community event, inclusivity, diversity, great
offline event experience, fantastic pre-during-post online engagement,
proactive enthusiastic hands-on person. *Based anywhere in the world! *

 Deadline to apply is November 24 – very soon!

Thanks,

Zara

 --
Zara Rahman
International Community Manager | skype: zara.rahman |
@zararah
The Open Knowledge Foundation 
*Empowering through Open Knowledge*
http://www.okfn.org | @okfn  | OKF on
Facebook|
Blog  | Newsletter 


-- 
Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
OKF Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre
http://br.okfn.org
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