Re: [Wikimedia-l] Presenting Community Engagement Insights 2016-17 Report: Tuesday, Oct 10, 1600 UTC

2017-10-09 Thread Jan Ainali
2017-10-09 22:44 GMT+02:00 Todd Allen : > ...and regardless is certainly not a free (as in speech at least) content > platform. I'd rather question the choice there. > It is possible to, and WMF usually do, mark content on Youtube with a CC BY license. The link provided in the start of the thread

Re: [Wikimedia-l] September 28: Strategy update - Final draft of movement direction and endorsement process (#25)

2017-10-09 Thread Erik Moeller
On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > ... and it will all become one free mush everyone copies to make a buck. We > are already in a situation today where anyone asking Siri, the Amazon Echo, > Google or Bing about a topic is likely to get the same answer from all of > them, beca

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Presenting Community Engagement Insights 2016-17 Report: Tuesday, Oct 10, 1600 UTC

2017-10-09 Thread Todd Allen
Will there be anything available for editors who will not be able to view or participate in the event when it is live? Also, Youtube has seemed to be under criticism lately for taking steps to not allow all features of its site to be accessible to those of all views, and regardless is certainly no

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Presenting Community Engagement Insights 2016-17 Report: Tuesday, Oct 10, 1600 UTC

2017-10-09 Thread Maria Cruz
Hi all, As a reminder of this event, and a follow up, please note the presentation tomorrow is at 9 am PST (1600 UTC), not 10 am, as it says in the email body. Hope to see many of you there! Best, María On Oct 4, 2017 15:42, "Maria Cruz" wrote: > Hi all, > > In 2016, the Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] what made me happy this week: the offline app

2017-10-09 Thread James Salsman
Good point. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box made me even happier, and getting to explain to wikipedians-since-2003 in person that the work they have done is literally equivalent to thousands of years working on traditional academic literature made me happier still. On Mon, Oct 9,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] what made me happy this week: the offline app

2017-10-09 Thread Lodewijk
Hey James, I'm glad to see that something made you happy this week. I'd like to note that the whole idea of 'what made me happy this week' is to also have some positive conversations about things that excite us. Which kind of becomes moot when you start the message with complaints of what you don

[Wikimedia-l] looks like SOPA is still dead because of our work five years ago

2017-10-09 Thread David Gerard
It's scared them off SOPA-like activities. https://torrentfreak.com/sopa-ghosts-hinder-u-s-pirate-site-blocking-efforts-171008/ The main reason why pirate site blocking requests have not yet been made in the United States is down to SOPA. When the proposed SOPA legislation made headlines five yea

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: WMAu Committee - changes

2017-10-09 Thread Delphine Ménard
Congratulations to all committee members, looking forward to continue working with you all! Best, Delphine 2017-10-08 9:53 GMT+02:00 Gnangarra : > Wikimedia Australia held its Annual General Meeting(AGM) of members this > afternoon(8 - Oct) Australian Time. As a requirement under law here at t