Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil
And so they did sanction at NetMundial! http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-bill/ To read and/or give contributions to ongoing debates in NetMundial, http://document.netmundial.br/introduction/ Governments have commented there too. Oona On 23 April 2014 19:57, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: Yei! That's something that must be replied in many countries. Congratulations Brazil. 2014-04-23 17:20 GMT-05:00 Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org: Now YES we can celebrate. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-bill/ Cheers! Tom 2014-03-26 12:05 GMT-07:00 Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com: Fair enough, you're right. There is a long path yet ahead. The government is expecting to be able to sanction/sign it during NetMundialhttp://netmundial.br/meeting and has invested a lot on negotiations to make it real. Let's wait and see how far it can go. For those interested in regulation related matters, I'm attaching a draft version in English made by Raquel Gatto from ISOC Brazil and shared by Carolina Rossini, whom some of you might know. Oona On 26 March 2014 03:30, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote: Humm let's wait until the bill become a *law*. This is an important step, but we still need a lot of work here. When our access to information law [1] were approved by the chamber of deputies, its bill got stuck in the senate for a looong time. It was really, really hard to have any civil society influence to have it approved. I didn't believe when I saw it happening - as Spain, Brazil was one of the last big democracies without an access to information law. Now we have to analyse the senate situation and *if* it will be approved with the actual configuration. It is possible the bill will have to pass on several commissions and, if any lobbyist find its amable senator, this bill can easily get stuck. And we are in the presidential elections year, thus if eveything goes as usual, the law will likely be approved only next year. And if the presidential situation changes (workers party go out of the power, which is be very constrained with the world cup results, as incredible it can be for a gringo), things can change a lot regarding the actual political scenario. [1] * https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o* https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm 2014-03-26 2:23 GMT-03:00 Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org: Yaho! On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for the future of projects like ours. Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has just been approved by the Brazilian Congress http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559 . Now the Senate still needs to approve it. The bill has been recently supported http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1] Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal law over certain uses of internet. This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round of public comments on 2010. A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of lobby over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about net neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries, but mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the content should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need of a justice decision about that). The case of NSA spying Brazil
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How Wikimedia could help languages to survive
Comet styles, 24/04/2014 00:57: on the left of whatever page in their vernacular language welcoming them and asking them if they want to be part of Wikipedia Fiji with a direct link to that language wikipedia's This will be achieved by the following two features combined when/if made default: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/Interlanguage_links/Compact_interlanguage_links_as_a_beta_feature * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation ** https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Entry_points Even worse when the article doesn't exist in the language you searched. * On Special:Search and noarticletext (red link filler) you can now add wdsearch on your wiki: http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=108 ** Cf. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47979 * On the multilingual portals the search is not multilingual. SPQRobin did something here but I don't find a bug report. Nemo ___ 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] Big Fat Brussels Meeting started today
Today started the second Big Fat Brussels Meeting in Brussels. [1] Representatives from several Wikimedia chapters and other volunteers are now present to discuss, draft and decide the future of our advocacy efforts on the European Union level and the general organisational development of the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU. Besides the present chapters, other European chapters support us in work of the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group. We started today with a short round who is who, including the adoption of our mascot Wendy the Weasel, acronym for Wikimedia European Action System for Enthusiastic Lobbying. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wendy_the_Weasel.jpg A part of the program of these days is organized together with UNSECO; World Book and Copyright Day. [2] Next meetings/activities: at Wikimania in London and in autumn in Brussels. Greetings from the group from Brussels! Romaine [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_Policy/Big_Fat_Brussels_Meeting_Vol._2 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/World_Book_and_Copyright_Day ___ 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] Introducing WMIL's Community Coordinator
I'm pleased to introduce Chen Spector who started to work at WMIL as Community Coordinator at April 1st. Chen is an active Wikipedia editor, especially in the fields of psychology and education. Username: chenspec. Chen has a BA in psychology and sociology from Bar - Ilan University and a master's degree in learning disabilities from the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa. Chen holds a teaching certificate in Special Education from Oranim College and certification for coaching by the Israeli Coaching Association. Chen has extensive experience in remedial teaching and the use of assistive technology for children and adults with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder. Plaese welcome Chen to Wikimedia World! Michal Michal Lester Executive Director Wikimedia Israel http://www.wikimedia.org.il/ 972-50-8996046 ; 972-77-751-6032 *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. **That's our commitment.* ___ 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] Internet rights approved in Brazil
On 23 April 2014 23:20, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote: Now YES we can celebrate. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-bill/ Cheers! Tom For what? You know somewhere there is an ABIN employee vaguely wondering if they should make certain things public. Then deciding that Rio de Janeiro is preferable to Moscow. Eh its not as if ABIN had a great record of obeying the previous set of laws. geni ___ 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] Wikimedia Mexico. Report of Activities of March
Dear community: Below you will find the report of activities of the month of March done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or only to make some suggestions. Best regards on behalf our chapter. Salvador Alcántar WMMX Treasurer. *March 2014* JournalMarch 1 - First General Assembly of Wikimedia México civil association, held at Edificio Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Faculty of Philosophy and Literature) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City. March 3 - Talk about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects by Iván Martínez in the Seminario de Humanidades Digitales of Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD). Edificio Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Faculty of Philosophy and Literature) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City. Wikipedia monthly workshop at Telmex Hub, March 2014. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taller_Wikipedia_TelmexHub_Marzo_2014.JPG March 4 - Presentation meeting about Wikimedia Mexico to Biblioteca Vasconcelos staff. - Talk about Wikipedia and Wikimedia by Iván Martínez at Escuela Nacional de Música (National School of Music) of UNAM. March 5 - Talk by Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs about A translation on the left: wikitranslators (Círculo de Traductores/17, Instituto de Estudios Culturales/Centro Cultural de España en México). Centro Cultural de España en México, Ciudad de México. March 8 - Meeting with Hacker Garage and Zapopan Lab representatives in Guadalajara, Jalisco, to make possible alliances with Wikimedia México. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simposio_AXIS.jpg Attendees to Wikimedia Mexico's talk in the International Simposium of Engineering AXIS in Sonora. March 14 - Official presentation of Mexico City's nomination for Wikimanía 2015https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Mexico_City March 20 - Meeting with the Meetropers community in Guadalajara, state of Jalisco, and preparation for Campus Party 2014. March 22 - Editathon in Reynosa, state of Tamaulipas, to celebrate the 265th anniversary of the foundation of the city of Reynosa, jointly with the municipality's government. March 27 - Talk Wikimedia, technology and free knowledge by Omar Sandoval during the Simposio Internacional de Ingeniería, Sistemas y Tecnología (International Symposium on Engineering, Systems and Technology) AXIS 2014. Hermosillo, state of Sonora. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editat%C3%B3n_Reynosa._Marzo_2014-2.jpg https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Editat%C3%B3n_Reynosa._Marzo_2014-2.jpg Wikipedia workshop in Reynosa. March 28 - Talk What did humanity do to have a free encyclopedia?, by Christian Cariño at the Centro Universitario de Economía y Ciencias Administrativas (University Center of Economy and Administration Sciences) of the Universidad de Guadalajara. Zapopan, state of Jalisco. March 29 - Wikipedia monthly workshop at Telmex Hub, Mexico City. - Reynosa's City Hall donation of historical photos event with the presence of Iván Martínez, president of the chapter, and José Elías, president of Reynosa's City Hall. March 31 - Wikipedia edition workshop by Nohemí Chilpa at Autonomous Metropolitan University Campus Iztapalapa (UAM-I) during the Semana de Talleres (Week of Workshops) of UAM Iztapalapa Computer Sciences Chapter (CEUAMI). Mexico City. During March - Wikimania 2015 bid for Mexico City: planning, research, meetings, write and translations. - Development of a new management and project management protocol for the chapter - Development of a content strategy for the wikimedia.mx website and for the chapter's social networks - Translation into Spanish of the contents of Wikimedia Foundation social media channels. - Diffusion tasks during Migrahackhttp://justicejournalism.org/es/events/ciudad-de-mexico-mexico-2014/, a hack-a-thon to tell stories about migrations with open data. HiglightsWikimania 2015 bid https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2015_Mexico_City_identity_2.jpg https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2015_Mexico_City_identity_2.jpg Identity of the Mexico City's bid After at least six months of work about research, planning and meetings among with the WMF staff, Wikimedia Mexico presents its bid for host Wikimania in Mexico City. The bid was leaded by Iván Martínez and conduced by Carmen Alcázar, Christian Cariño, Andrés Cruz y Corro and Omar Sandoval. In March 21th, the staff of Wikimedia Mexico had an evaluation meeting with the Judging Committee. Reynosa's City Hall donation of historical photos[editarhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Mexico/March_2014action=editsection=4 ]
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2014
Revenue for the month of January is $3.42MM versus plan of $0.01MM, approximately $3.41MM or 58,335% over plan. Year-to-date revenue is $38.17MM versus plan of $45.04MM, approximately $6.87MM or 15% under plan. Can we please use the word fiscal if we don't mean calendar year? Expenses for the month of January is $3.97MM versus plan of $4.53MM, approximately $559K or 12% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, legal fees, grants and travel expenses partially offset by higher outside contract services and payment processing fees. Year-to-date expenses is $22.75MM versus plan of $27.39MM, approximately $4.64MM or 17% under plan, Cash position is $54.67MM as of January 31, 2014. Imagine a world in which the Foundation wanted to make life easier for volunteers. ___ 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] Wikimedia Foundation Report, February 2014
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:09 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Revenue for the month of January is $3.42MM versus plan of $0.01MM, approximately $3.41MM or 58,335% over plan. Year-to-date revenue is $38.17MM versus plan of $45.04MM, approximately $6.87MM or 15% under plan. Can we please use the word fiscal if we don't mean calendar year? I added a wikilink to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/year-to-date . It's a standard expression in this context, always referring to the fiscal year. I think inventing a new one specifically for the Foundation's reports would add rather than reduce confusion. -- Tilman Bayer Senior Operations Analyst (Movement Communications) Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ 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
