Re: [Wikimedia-l] Non-WMF funding sources for community work

2017-05-08 Thread Ramzy Muliawan
I do not think that WMF funding would be the best solution for the Signpost, as it would raise questions about their journalism independence and integrity. There are many other options to explore, though, like grants from Knight Foundation and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] May 5: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#15)

2017-05-08 Thread Gabriel Thullen
Yes, we need to promote Kiwix. We need to ensure that people with no internet access can get Kiwix and that means that we do need to "clone Wikipedia content". It is quite expensive to download Kiwix because of the huge data charge that it implies, and it also takes for ever with a poor

Re: [Wikimedia-l] May 5: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#15)

2017-05-08 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
We need to promote Kiwix - definitely, but should we promote Wikipedia zero? May be not, unless the issue of net neutrality is clearly addressed. We need to remember that some countries had to ban different zero services, as they clearly violated net neutrality and people were against them.

[Wikimedia-l] Improving Wikinews and pending changes backlogging at Wikibooks

2017-05-08 Thread George Ho
Wikinews is currently having major issues, like insufficient participation and aging software infrastructure. Revitalizing Wikinews is discussed at https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/miscellaneous#How_else_to_revitalize_Wikinews Also, Wikibooks has a huge backlog of changes

Re: [Wikimedia-l] May 5: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#15)

2017-05-08 Thread Ilario Valdelli
In these cases the big advantage is the capacity to be cloned. A governement can block an ip or a domain but it would be hard to block internet. The good approach is to invite the web to host kiwix and zim files for downloading. That would be easier than cloning Wikipedia content. However that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Non-WMF funding sources for community work

2017-05-08 Thread Pine W
A distinction that I see between funding the WMF blog from funding the *Signpost *is that the former is WMF corporate communications and the latter is community journalism. It would be difficult to maintain journalistic integrity and independence at the *Signpost *if its staff feel like their

[Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 7 May 2017)

2017-05-08 Thread Pine W
I was happy to see the final WMF list of GSoC 2017 and Outreachy Round 14 projects. What's making you happy this week? Pine -- Forwarded message -- Hello, Please join me in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2017 and Outreachy Round 14! Google