[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge

2015-03-22 Thread Juliet Barbara 
This press release is also available online here:

*https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_adopts_Open_Access_Policy_to_support_free_knowledge
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A version of this as a blog post is available here:

*https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/18/wikimedia-open-access-policy/
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*Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge*

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   Future research supported by the Wikimedia Foundation to be made freely
   available

The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to making knowledge of all forms
freely available to the world. Beginning today, our new Open Access Policy
 will ensure that
all research work produced with support from the Wikimedia Foundation will
be openly available

to the public and reusable on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. We are
pleased to announce this new policy at the 18th ACM conference on
Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work and Social Computing  (CSCW
2015).

“Wikimedia is committed to nurturing open knowledge for all, unrestrained
by cost barriers,” said Lila Tretikov
, executive director of the
Wikimedia Foundation. “The Wikimedia movement has a longstanding commitment
to open access practices. Today, we are excited to formalize that
commitment with this policy.”

Over the past decade Wikipedia has been the subject of hundreds
 of academic
studies on topics such as flu forecasting
,
the influence of major global languages
, and Wikipedia’s
own geographic imbalances
. The
Wikimedia Foundation has made this research possible through a commitment
to making Wikipedia’s data open and accessible.

Open access scholarship is central to Wikimedia's mission to empower people
around the world to participate in knowledge creation. Access to these open
sources is critical to ensuring that articles on Wikipedia are reliable,
accurate, and reflect our ever-evolving understanding of the world.
Paywalls and copyright restrictions too often prevent the use of academic
research in this effort.

Our new Open Access Policy will ensure that all research the Wikimedia
Foundation supports through grants, equipment, or research collaboration is
made widely accessible and reusable. Research, data, and code developed
through these collaborations will be made available in Open Access venues
and under a free license  in keeping with the
Wikimedia Foundation’s mission to support free knowledge.

The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to join the growing ranks of leading
institutions with open access policies.

Wikimedia Foundation Open Access Policy


1. Expectations

Researchers will need to provide unrestricted access to and reuse of all
their research output if their research receives support from the Wikimedia
Foundation in the form of:

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   funds;
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   letters of endorsement;
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   equipment, hosting, or office space;
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   access to non-public data or special API privileges; or
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   other support under an agreement between researchers and the Wikimedia
   Foundation.


A. Proposal. Researchers will document their project on Meta-Wiki,
including the original research proposal, main research questions, and key
outcomes.

B. Supporting Materials. Researchers will deposit their work in a public
repository by the time of publication of any respective research article or
within three months after the termination of the project, whichever comes
first. The deposited work should be licensed as follows:

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   aggregated and properly anonymized data produced as part of the project
   under an Open Definition-conformant license
   , preferably CC0;
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   source code under the GNU General Public License version 2.0 or any
   other Open Source Initiative-approved license
   ;
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   media files under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 or any
   other free license .


C. Published Materials. Researchers will publish all output in an Open
Access outlet under a Free License.

   -

   If a work based on the project is accepted for publication in a peer
   reviewed outlet that does not make its articles available online, free of
   charge, and under free licenses

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Approval of Tec de Monterrey Wiki Learning application by Affiliations Committee

2015-03-22 Thread Samir Elsharbaty 
Congratulations guys!

That's great news to hear especially with the great work you have been
doing in the past couple of years. Keep up the great work!

My endless regards,

Samir

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Gerard Meijssen 
wrote:

> Hoi,
> Congratulations :)
> GerardM
>
> On 22 March 2015 at 16:51, Gregory Varnum 
> wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Please join me in congratulating Tec de Monterrey Wiki Learning on having
> > their Wikimedia User Group application approved by the Affiliations
> > Committee.[1] The group will be officially recognized once they have
> signed
> > the new Wikimedia User Group agreement and code of conduct.
> >
> > As a quick bit of info, the agreement and code of conduct are currently
> > being redrafted and will soon be made available on Meta-Wiki for comment
> > before being officially put in place.
> >
> > Tec de Monterrey Wiki Learning is a group for "Professors and students at
> > the Tecnológico de Monterrey dedicated to the development of open source
> > knowledge, working primarily with Wikimedia. Participants work to improve
> > knowledge in topics related to Mexico as well as general knowledge in the
> > languages of the country, primarily Spanish."
> >
> > You can find more information about this group on their page and
> > application:
> > -
> >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups/Applications/Tec_de_Monterrey_Wiki_Learning
> > -
> >
> >
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/México/Tec_de_Monterrey
> >
> > Again, congratulations to our latest Wikimedia User Group.
> >
> > -greg aka varnent
> > Vice Chair, Wikimedia Affiliations Committee
> >
> > [1] -
> >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Tec_de_Monterrey_Wiki_Learning_-_Liaison_approval,_March_2015
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Well-Tempered Clavier

2015-03-22 Thread Sage Ross 
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Quim Gil  wrote:

> Crowdfunding is on the rise, and tags in this field are important because
> once you fund a project about #tag you get recommendations for more #tag
> projects. Maybe we could partner with Creative Commons and friends to
> request Kickstarter and the other platforms to include a #freeknowledge
> tag, or a similar alternative (this example could have also been
> #public-domain)? Or maybe someone is already working on this?

This is a wonderful idea. There is an occasionally-active hashtag
already, #FundFreeCulture, but it would be a lot more useful if it had
support from Creative Commons and other organizations and the people
asking for funding started using such a tag proactively.

See also the FOSsil Bank updates (run by Chris Sakkas, cc'd, who
started that hashtag) which has intermittent posts about free culture
crowdfunding campaigns:
https://livinglibre1.wordpress.com/category/round-ups/fossil-bank-updates/

-Sage

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Well-Tempered Clavier

2015-03-22 Thread Samuel Klein 
That's wonderful; in the air here also.  Thank you for sharing.
I wonder if we could get a recording studio to sponsor the recording &
post-production for winners of a performance contest in the name of free
music: to increase the throughput of efforts like this.

SJ

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Gergo Tisza  wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Rob  wrote:
>
> > Fantastic!  Any idea if they will be recording book II of the Clavier as
> > well?
>
>
> *Are you going to work on bringing BWV 870—893 (Well-Tempered Clavier Book
> 2) to the audience next? Or would you explore something else?*
>
> *Kimiko:* My next project, which will be an audio-only project, will be to
> record the Chopin Préludes on a Pleyel piano that Chopin himself actually
> played.
>
> It's an exciting project, especially when you realize that Chopin dedicated
> the Préludes to Camille Pleyel, piano maker and owner of Salle Pleyel in
> Paris, at the time Chopin lived there.
>
> There will be a Kickstarter campaign for this project that launches very
> very soon!
>
>
> http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/kimiko-ishizaka-and-musescore-team-release-open-well-tempered-clavier
>
> The whole interview is worth reading, lots of interesting stuff there.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Approval of Tec de Monterrey Wiki Learning application by Affiliations Committee

2015-03-22 Thread Gerard Meijssen 
Hoi,
Congratulations :)
GerardM

On 22 March 2015 at 16:51, Gregory Varnum  wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> Please join me in congratulating Tec de Monterrey Wiki Learning on having
> their Wikimedia User Group application approved by the Affiliations
> Committee.[1] The group will be officially recognized once they have signed
> the new Wikimedia User Group agreement and code of conduct.
>
> As a quick bit of info, the agreement and code of conduct are currently
> being redrafted and will soon be made available on Meta-Wiki for comment
> before being officially put in place.
>
> Tec de Monterrey Wiki Learning is a group for "Professors and students at
> the Tecnológico de Monterrey dedicated to the development of open source
> knowledge, working primarily with Wikimedia. Participants work to improve
> knowledge in topics related to Mexico as well as general knowledge in the
> languages of the country, primarily Spanish."
>
> You can find more information about this group on their page and
> application:
> -
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups/Applications/Tec_de_Monterrey_Wiki_Learning
> -
>
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/México/Tec_de_Monterrey
>
> Again, congratulations to our latest Wikimedia User Group.
>
> -greg aka varnent
> Vice Chair, Wikimedia Affiliations Committee
>
> [1] -
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Tec_de_Monterrey_Wiki_Learning_-_Liaison_approval,_March_2015
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[Wikimedia-l] Approval of Tec de Monterrey Wiki Learning application by Affiliations Committee

2015-03-22 Thread Gregory Varnum 
Greetings,

Please join me in congratulating Tec de Monterrey Wiki Learning on having
their Wikimedia User Group application approved by the Affiliations
Committee.[1] The group will be officially recognized once they have signed
the new Wikimedia User Group agreement and code of conduct.

As a quick bit of info, the agreement and code of conduct are currently
being redrafted and will soon be made available on Meta-Wiki for comment
before being officially put in place.

Tec de Monterrey Wiki Learning is a group for "Professors and students at
the Tecnológico de Monterrey dedicated to the development of open source
knowledge, working primarily with Wikimedia. Participants work to improve
knowledge in topics related to Mexico as well as general knowledge in the
languages of the country, primarily Spanish."

You can find more information about this group on their page and
application:
-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups/Applications/Tec_de_Monterrey_Wiki_Learning
-
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/México/Tec_de_Monterrey

Again, congratulations to our latest Wikimedia User Group.

-greg aka varnent
Vice Chair, Wikimedia Affiliations Committee

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Tec_de_Monterrey_Wiki_Learning_-_Liaison_approval,_March_2015
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