[Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Update - English Wikipedia Fundraising

[Joseph Seddon]

Hey all!


Just a quick update and heads up on our upcoming fundraising activities.


This quarter marks an exciting time for the Wikimedia Foundation
Fundraising team as we run our English fundraiser, the largest campaign of
the year. As with previous years, that means running banners on English
Wikipedia and sending emails to past donors. It means hundreds of A/B tests
analyzing the impact of our messages to learn what kinds of content
resonates best with Wikipedia readers.

We’re just a few weeks away from the official launch of our banner campaign
on Giving Tuesday, November 28. [1] In the meantime, our email campaign has
launched and we are running periodic banner tests. By spreading out our
testing throughout the quarter, we are able to make more thoughtful choices
with regards to banner and email content, while limiting overall disruption
to our readers. We will not be showing more appeals or sending more emails
per user than previous years.

Last year, we ran a number of feedback sessions and surveys with both staff
and community, and we are hugely grateful to everyone who participated and
shared their feedback. We will be reaching out to English-languages
affiliates to take part in such sessions again. If you are interested in
joining such a session, please contact me offlist or sign up on the
Fundraising Ideas page. [3]

There are a number of other ways you can help support the fundraiser:


   -

   Have specific ideas or stories we should tell via social media, banners,
   emails etc.? We’re also looking for nice images, if you could point us to
   your favorites from Commons. Please add them to our fundraising ideas page.
   [3]


   -

   If you need to report a bug or technical issue, please create a
   Phabricator ticket. [4]


   -

   If you see a donor on a talk page, OTRS, or social media with questions
   about donating or having difficulties in the donation process, please refer
   them to donate{{at}}wikimedia.org.
   -

   Feel free to test our payments flow [5] and suggest improvements. [4]


We look forward to working with you all in the coming weeks.

Many thanks

-- 

Seddon

*Community and Audience Engagement Associate *

Wikimedia Foundation

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giving_Tuesday

[2]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2016-2017_Fundraising_Report#Online_Fundraising_Banners

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2017-18_Fundraising_ideas

[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?template=118862
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement under DMCA attack!

[David Goodman]

The simple reply that a CC content is irrevocable shouldhave been enough to
deal with this (Unless GoDaddy got confused,)

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> A message from your list moderators:
>
> This thread does not belong on this list.
>
> It is spillover of a long and bitter conflict in the Portuguese community,
> and this list's membership is not well situated to contribute to a solution
> through discussion on this list.  Those particularly interested and able
> can participate in relevant threads on the Portuguese Wikipedia.
>
> However, moving the mutual recriminations onto this list is escalation that
> can only upset people and exacerbate the conflict, and is not an effective
> way to seek help.
>
> As was mentioned, the matter involves allegations of harassment --
> investigated by the Support and Safety team in the Community Engagement
> department at WMF -- as well as legal action.  Both avenues would not
> benefit from partial and probably-biased context shared on this list.
>
> The parties in conflict should continue to seek a modus vivendi on the wiki
> they share, on-wiki, as well as through the channels they are already
> pursuing.  Smearing the other side on this list won't accomplish anything.
>
> Accordingly, *please stop posting on this thread*.  We have also placed the
> Brazilians involved in this conflict on temporary moderation, to prevent
> further escalation.
>
> (putting on my WMF hat for a moment -- As a further point of context, both
> sides have at one point requested WMF intervention in Brazil.  WMF has not
> yet announced whether and how it would intervene, though several
> alternatives have been discussed. Stay tuned.)
>
>  A.
>
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 5:47 PM Vi to  wrote:
>
> > This is a very complex long-term "war" which, in my experience, never
> ends
> > in a "reconciliation".
> >
> > Also, honestly, I don't think how can this comply with wikiversity
> mission.
> >
> > Vito
> >
> > <
> > https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_
> source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=webmail
> > >
> > Mail
> > priva di virus. www.avast.com
> > <
> > https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_
> source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=webmail
> > >
> > <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
> >
> > 2017-11-06 15:30 GMT+01:00 mathieu stumpf guntz <
> > psychosl...@culture-libre.org>:
> >
> > > Thank Chico and Henrique for your reports and related links.
> > >
> > > I encourage both of you to document further this topic. But as the
> > mailing
> > > list format might quickly turn it into a flameware, to avoid list
> > > moderators some disagreeable work, you could preferably find more
> suited
> > > place to develop your points. Punctual feedback on the list to signal
> > > creation or update of additional external resources is welcome, as far
> as
> > > I'm concerned.
> > >
> > > You might, inter alia, use wikimedia-timeline[1] to generate an
> overview
> > > of main statements you are claiming, each linked to related resources
> > which
> > > let reader deepen their inquiry on the topic if they have interest and
> > > resources to do so.
> > >
> > > If you are interested to turn that in a research project as objective
> as
> > > you might be able to create, I also encourage you to open a research
> > > project on a Wikiversity instance, after a check of how such a project
> > > might be conducted on the selected instance. You might also like to
> > create
> > > and conduct some interviews and publish them on Wikinews.
> > >
> > > I hope that the difficult situation you are passing through will end up
> > in
> > > the most contributive, positive and placid possible resolution.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > mathieu
> > >
> > > [1] https://github.com/molly/wikimedia-timeline
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Le 06/11/2017 à 11:59, Chico Venancio a écrit :
> > >
> > >> Ended up with out the links, sorry:
> > >> [1]http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/wikibrasil.org.html
> > >> [2]https://www.whois.com/whois/107.180.2.118
> > >> [3]http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9610.htm#art24
> > >>
> > >> Chico Venancio
> > >>
> > >> 2017-11-06 7:53 GMT-03:00 Chico Venancio :
> > >>
> > >> To all on the list, *this is characterization is filled with obvious
> > >>> lies.*
> > >>>
> > >>> The DMCA was filed a month ago simply *DID NOT TAKE the site
> down*.[1]
> > >>> Henrique quickly took down the article offending copyright and
> Godaddy
> > >>> allowed it to continue to be hosted.[2]
> > >>>
> > >>> Henrique is a paid contractor of the user group Wiki Education Brazil
> > >>> that
> > >>> has repeatedly harassed several members of our user group (Joalpe and
> > >>> myself included). And is probably here acting as a Meatpuppet of
> > another
> > >>> user who is under an Office action interaction ban to interact with
> > >>> either
> > >>> myself or João.
> > >>>
> > >>> That he goes on an 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement under DMCA attack!

[Asaf Bartov]

A message from your list moderators:

This thread does not belong on this list.

It is spillover of a long and bitter conflict in the Portuguese community,
and this list's membership is not well situated to contribute to a solution
through discussion on this list.  Those particularly interested and able
can participate in relevant threads on the Portuguese Wikipedia.

However, moving the mutual recriminations onto this list is escalation that
can only upset people and exacerbate the conflict, and is not an effective
way to seek help.

As was mentioned, the matter involves allegations of harassment --
investigated by the Support and Safety team in the Community Engagement
department at WMF -- as well as legal action.  Both avenues would not
benefit from partial and probably-biased context shared on this list.

The parties in conflict should continue to seek a modus vivendi on the wiki
they share, on-wiki, as well as through the channels they are already
pursuing.  Smearing the other side on this list won't accomplish anything.

Accordingly, *please stop posting on this thread*.  We have also placed the
Brazilians involved in this conflict on temporary moderation, to prevent
further escalation.

(putting on my WMF hat for a moment -- As a further point of context, both
sides have at one point requested WMF intervention in Brazil.  WMF has not
yet announced whether and how it would intervene, though several
alternatives have been discussed. Stay tuned.)

 A.

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 5:47 PM Vi to  wrote:

> This is a very complex long-term "war" which, in my experience, never ends
> in a "reconciliation".
>
> Also, honestly, I don't think how can this comply with wikiversity mission.
>
> Vito
>
> <
> https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=webmail
> >
> Mail
> priva di virus. www.avast.com
> <
> https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=webmail
> >
> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
>
> 2017-11-06 15:30 GMT+01:00 mathieu stumpf guntz <
> psychosl...@culture-libre.org>:
>
> > Thank Chico and Henrique for your reports and related links.
> >
> > I encourage both of you to document further this topic. But as the
> mailing
> > list format might quickly turn it into a flameware, to avoid list
> > moderators some disagreeable work, you could preferably find more suited
> > place to develop your points. Punctual feedback on the list to signal
> > creation or update of additional external resources is welcome, as far as
> > I'm concerned.
> >
> > You might, inter alia, use wikimedia-timeline[1] to generate an overview
> > of main statements you are claiming, each linked to related resources
> which
> > let reader deepen their inquiry on the topic if they have interest and
> > resources to do so.
> >
> > If you are interested to turn that in a research project as objective as
> > you might be able to create, I also encourage you to open a research
> > project on a Wikiversity instance, after a check of how such a project
> > might be conducted on the selected instance. You might also like to
> create
> > and conduct some interviews and publish them on Wikinews.
> >
> > I hope that the difficult situation you are passing through will end up
> in
> > the most contributive, positive and placid possible resolution.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > mathieu
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/molly/wikimedia-timeline
> >
> >
> >
> > Le 06/11/2017 à 11:59, Chico Venancio a écrit :
> >
> >> Ended up with out the links, sorry:
> >> [1]http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/wikibrasil.org.html
> >> [2]https://www.whois.com/whois/107.180.2.118
> >> [3]http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9610.htm#art24
> >>
> >> Chico Venancio
> >>
> >> 2017-11-06 7:53 GMT-03:00 Chico Venancio :
> >>
> >> To all on the list, *this is characterization is filled with obvious
> >>> lies.*
> >>>
> >>> The DMCA was filed a month ago simply *DID NOT TAKE the site down*.[1]
> >>> Henrique quickly took down the article offending copyright and Godaddy
> >>> allowed it to continue to be hosted.[2]
> >>>
> >>> Henrique is a paid contractor of the user group Wiki Education Brazil
> >>> that
> >>> has repeatedly harassed several members of our user group (Joalpe and
> >>> myself included). And is probably here acting as a Meatpuppet of
> another
> >>> user who is under an Office action interaction ban to interact with
> >>> either
> >>> myself or João.
> >>>
> >>> That he goes on an international platform to call on the Dean of the
> >>> university were João works is egregious harassment and WMF should not
> >>> only
> >>> impose severe sanctions, but review both the grant and affiliation
> >>> agreements with the "user group" were this comes from.
> >>>
> >>> On the merits, after the event the organizer harassed several of our
> >>> members, and to me it is completely understandable that João does not
> >>> want
> >>> 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] 2017 Community Wishlist Survey starts today!

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

Completely fixed link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey
:-)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2017 Community Wishlist Survey starts today!

[Danny Horn]

Darn, that link is last year's. It should be:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017 Community_Wishlist_Survey


On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Danny Horn  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> The third annual Community Wishlist Survey starts today, and you're
> invited to post proposals for projects that you'd like WMF's Community
> Tech team to work on:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey
>
> The Community Tech team builds features and makes changes that active
> Wikimedia contributors want, and the Wishlist Survey sets the team's
> agenda for the year.
>
> The Wishlist Survey starts with a two-week proposal period, when
> contributors from all Wikimedia projects are invited to post, discuss and
> improve propsals. After that, there's a two-week voting period, when
> everyone can post support-votes on the proposals that they think are
> worthwhile. We end up with a ranked list of wishes, measured by the
> participants' enthusiasm for each idea.
>
> Community Tech is responsible for addressing the top 10 wishes on the
> list, as well as some wishes from smaller groups and projects that are
> doing important work, but don't have the numbers to get their proposal into
> the top 10. The Wishlist is also used by volunteer developers and other
> teams, who want to find projects to work on that the community really
> wants.
>
> So I hope that everybody comes and participates; it's an opportunity to
> set the agenda for a Wikimedia Foundation product team.
>
> We would also ask that you help us spread the word. Please do post on your
> wikis and tell others this is happening, and that if they don't feel
> comfortable writing in English, proposals are welcome in any language.
>
> I hope to see everyone there!
>
> Danny Horn
> WMF Community Tech
>
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[Wikimedia-l] 2017 Community Wishlist Survey starts today!

[Danny Horn]

Hi everyone,

The third annual Community Wishlist Survey starts today, and you're invited
to post proposals for projects that you'd like WMF's Community Tech team to
work on:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey

The Community Tech team builds features and makes changes that active
Wikimedia contributors want, and the Wishlist Survey sets the team's agenda
for the year.

The Wishlist Survey starts with a two-week proposal period, when
contributors from all Wikimedia projects are invited to post, discuss and
improve propsals. After that, there's a two-week voting period, when
everyone can post support-votes on the proposals that they think are
worthwhile. We end up with a ranked list of wishes, measured by the
participants' enthusiasm for each idea.

Community Tech is responsible for addressing the top 10 wishes on the list,
as well as some wishes from smaller groups and projects that are doing
important work, but don't have the numbers to get their proposal into the
top 10. The Wishlist is also used by volunteer developers and other teams,
who want to find projects to work on that the community really wants.

So I hope that everybody comes and participates; it's an opportunity to set
the agenda for a Wikimedia Foundation product team.

We would also ask that you help us spread the word. Please do post on your
wikis and tell others this is happening, and that if they don't feel
comfortable writing in English, proposals are welcome in any language.

I hope to see everyone there!

Danny Horn
WMF Community Tech
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement under DMCA attack!

[Vi to]

This is a very complex long-term "war" which, in my experience, never ends
in a "reconciliation".

Also, honestly, I don't think how can this comply with wikiversity mission.

Vito


Mail
priva di virus. www.avast.com

<#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

2017-11-06 15:30 GMT+01:00 mathieu stumpf guntz <
psychosl...@culture-libre.org>:

> Thank Chico and Henrique for your reports and related links.
>
> I encourage both of you to document further this topic. But as the mailing
> list format might quickly turn it into a flameware, to avoid list
> moderators some disagreeable work, you could preferably find more suited
> place to develop your points. Punctual feedback on the list to signal
> creation or update of additional external resources is welcome, as far as
> I'm concerned.
>
> You might, inter alia, use wikimedia-timeline[1] to generate an overview
> of main statements you are claiming, each linked to related resources which
> let reader deepen their inquiry on the topic if they have interest and
> resources to do so.
>
> If you are interested to turn that in a research project as objective as
> you might be able to create, I also encourage you to open a research
> project on a Wikiversity instance, after a check of how such a project
> might be conducted on the selected instance. You might also like to create
> and conduct some interviews and publish them on Wikinews.
>
> I hope that the difficult situation you are passing through will end up in
> the most contributive, positive and placid possible resolution.
>
> Kind regards,
> mathieu
>
> [1] https://github.com/molly/wikimedia-timeline
>
>
>
> Le 06/11/2017 à 11:59, Chico Venancio a écrit :
>
>> Ended up with out the links, sorry:
>> [1]http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/wikibrasil.org.html
>> [2]https://www.whois.com/whois/107.180.2.118
>> [3]http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9610.htm#art24
>>
>> Chico Venancio
>>
>> 2017-11-06 7:53 GMT-03:00 Chico Venancio :
>>
>> To all on the list, *this is characterization is filled with obvious
>>> lies.*
>>>
>>> The DMCA was filed a month ago simply *DID NOT TAKE the site down*.[1]
>>> Henrique quickly took down the article offending copyright and Godaddy
>>> allowed it to continue to be hosted.[2]
>>>
>>> Henrique is a paid contractor of the user group Wiki Education Brazil
>>> that
>>> has repeatedly harassed several members of our user group (Joalpe and
>>> myself included). And is probably here acting as a Meatpuppet of another
>>> user who is under an Office action interaction ban to interact with
>>> either
>>> myself or João.
>>>
>>> That he goes on an international platform to call on the Dean of the
>>> university were João works is egregious harassment and WMF should not
>>> only
>>> impose severe sanctions, but review both the grant and affiliation
>>> agreements with the "user group" were this comes from.
>>>
>>> On the merits, after the event the organizer harassed several of our
>>> members, and to me it is completely understandable that João does not
>>> want
>>> his name attached to an event that harassed him and others. There was on
>>> more than one occasion hints of physical violence from a member of Wiki
>>> Education Brazil, and at one point those hints came to level of actually
>>> using the words "beating" in reference to another member of our user
>>> group,
>>> Teles, who was also called a famous Wikipedia despot, that he needed
>>> psychiatric attention, and that he needed to find a boyfriend on a public
>>> facebook thread.
>>>
>>> The CC-BY 3.0 Henrique alleges to have on the article is clearly invalid
>>> for several reasons, one being he did not have one from the co-authors of
>>> the work. Even if he did, Brazilian law supersedes it and clearly states
>>> that the author has the inalienable moral right to revoke any license and
>>> remove from circulation in any form when the use represents an affront to
>>> his image or reputation.[3] That Henrique confesses that he, and the user
>>> banned from interacting with myself or Joalpe, knew that license was not
>>> given by João and that an explicit revocation was placed onwiki, only
>>> makes
>>> the copyright violation willful and demonstrates that no assumption of
>>> good
>>> faith can be reasonably made. This was an explicit provocation from the
>>> "User Group" Wiki Education Brazil to João.
>>>
>>> Best to all on the Wikimedia Movement,
>>>
>>> Hoping for a movement with less tolerance for harassment,
>>>
>>> Chico Venancio (User:Chicocvenancio)
>>>
>>> 2017-11-06 1:08 GMT-03:00 Henrique de Andrade <
>>> henriquedeandr...@gmail.com
>>>
 :
 Friends, it took me a month to join forces and get the courage to write
 the
 story below.

 The Wiki Education Brazil user group has had 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement under DMCA attack!

[mathieu stumpf guntz]

Thank Chico and Henrique for your reports and related links.

I encourage both of you to document further this topic. But as the 
mailing list format might quickly turn it into a flameware, to avoid 
list moderators some disagreeable work, you could preferably find more 
suited place to develop your points. Punctual feedback on the list to 
signal creation or update of additional external resources is welcome, 
as far as I'm concerned.


You might, inter alia, use wikimedia-timeline[1] to generate an overview 
of main statements you are claiming, each linked to related resources 
which let reader deepen their inquiry on the topic if they have interest 
and resources to do so.


If you are interested to turn that in a research project as objective as 
you might be able to create, I also encourage you to open a research 
project on a Wikiversity instance, after a check of how such a project 
might be conducted on the selected instance. You might also like to 
create and conduct some interviews and publish them on Wikinews.


I hope that the difficult situation you are passing through will end up 
in the most contributive, positive and placid possible resolution.


Kind regards,
mathieu

[1] https://github.com/molly/wikimedia-timeline


Le 06/11/2017 à 11:59, Chico Venancio a écrit :

Ended up with out the links, sorry:
[1]http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/wikibrasil.org.html
[2]https://www.whois.com/whois/107.180.2.118
[3]http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9610.htm#art24

Chico Venancio

2017-11-06 7:53 GMT-03:00 Chico Venancio :


To all on the list, *this is characterization is filled with obvious
lies.*

The DMCA was filed a month ago simply *DID NOT TAKE the site down*.[1]
Henrique quickly took down the article offending copyright and Godaddy
allowed it to continue to be hosted.[2]

Henrique is a paid contractor of the user group Wiki Education Brazil that
has repeatedly harassed several members of our user group (Joalpe and
myself included). And is probably here acting as a Meatpuppet of another
user who is under an Office action interaction ban to interact with either
myself or João.

That he goes on an international platform to call on the Dean of the
university were João works is egregious harassment and WMF should not only
impose severe sanctions, but review both the grant and affiliation
agreements with the "user group" were this comes from.

On the merits, after the event the organizer harassed several of our
members, and to me it is completely understandable that João does not want
his name attached to an event that harassed him and others. There was on
more than one occasion hints of physical violence from a member of Wiki
Education Brazil, and at one point those hints came to level of actually
using the words "beating" in reference to another member of our user group,
Teles, who was also called a famous Wikipedia despot, that he needed
psychiatric attention, and that he needed to find a boyfriend on a public
facebook thread.

The CC-BY 3.0 Henrique alleges to have on the article is clearly invalid
for several reasons, one being he did not have one from the co-authors of
the work. Even if he did, Brazilian law supersedes it and clearly states
that the author has the inalienable moral right to revoke any license and
remove from circulation in any form when the use represents an affront to
his image or reputation.[3] That Henrique confesses that he, and the user
banned from interacting with myself or Joalpe, knew that license was not
given by João and that an explicit revocation was placed onwiki, only makes
the copyright violation willful and demonstrates that no assumption of good
faith can be reasonably made. This was an explicit provocation from the
"User Group" Wiki Education Brazil to João.

Best to all on the Wikimedia Movement,

Hoping for a movement with less tolerance for harassment,

Chico Venancio (User:Chicocvenancio)

2017-11-06 1:08 GMT-03:00 Henrique de Andrade 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement under DMCA attack!

[Chico Venancio]

Ended up with out the links, sorry:
[1]http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/wikibrasil.org.html
[2]https://www.whois.com/whois/107.180.2.118
[3]http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9610.htm#art24

Chico Venancio

2017-11-06 7:53 GMT-03:00 Chico Venancio :

> To all on the list, *this is characterization is filled with obvious
> lies.*
>
> The DMCA was filed a month ago simply *DID NOT TAKE the site down*.[1]
> Henrique quickly took down the article offending copyright and Godaddy
> allowed it to continue to be hosted.[2]
>
> Henrique is a paid contractor of the user group Wiki Education Brazil that
> has repeatedly harassed several members of our user group (Joalpe and
> myself included). And is probably here acting as a Meatpuppet of another
> user who is under an Office action interaction ban to interact with either
> myself or João.
>
> That he goes on an international platform to call on the Dean of the
> university were João works is egregious harassment and WMF should not only
> impose severe sanctions, but review both the grant and affiliation
> agreements with the "user group" were this comes from.
>
> On the merits, after the event the organizer harassed several of our
> members, and to me it is completely understandable that João does not want
> his name attached to an event that harassed him and others. There was on
> more than one occasion hints of physical violence from a member of Wiki
> Education Brazil, and at one point those hints came to level of actually
> using the words "beating" in reference to another member of our user group,
> Teles, who was also called a famous Wikipedia despot, that he needed
> psychiatric attention, and that he needed to find a boyfriend on a public
> facebook thread.
>
> The CC-BY 3.0 Henrique alleges to have on the article is clearly invalid
> for several reasons, one being he did not have one from the co-authors of
> the work. Even if he did, Brazilian law supersedes it and clearly states
> that the author has the inalienable moral right to revoke any license and
> remove from circulation in any form when the use represents an affront to
> his image or reputation.[3] That Henrique confesses that he, and the user
> banned from interacting with myself or Joalpe, knew that license was not
> given by João and that an explicit revocation was placed onwiki, only makes
> the copyright violation willful and demonstrates that no assumption of good
> faith can be reasonably made. This was an explicit provocation from the
> "User Group" Wiki Education Brazil to João.
>
> Best to all on the Wikimedia Movement,
>
> Hoping for a movement with less tolerance for harassment,
>
> Chico Venancio (User:Chicocvenancio)
>
> 2017-11-06 1:08 GMT-03:00 Henrique de Andrade  >:
>
>> Friends, it took me a month to join forces and get the courage to write
>> the
>> story below.
>>
>> The Wiki Education Brazil user group has had its website [1] shutted down
>> due to an attack using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and
>> the
>> most shocking of this story is that the legal threat was made by a
>> "member"
>> of the Wikimedia community: Mr. João Alexandre Peschanski, who uses the
>> username Joalpe.
>>
>> My unreal saga began on October 7th when I received an email informing me
>> that the WMF Support and Safety team had received a complaint from Joalpe
>> that his copyright was being violated by the publication on the I CCBWIKI
>> (I Brazilian Scientific Congress of Wikipedia) website of a paper which he
>> is a co-author.
>>
>> I thought this situation was very strange and I imagined it was a
>> misunderstanding. I promptly in good faith emailed Joalpe, copying WMF
>> team, trying to figure out what could have led to this misleading
>> interpretation that we were committing a copyright infringement. In the
>> email I reminded him that he knows several members of the Wiki Edu Brazil
>> group and that he could communicate directly with us if he was bothered
>> with something and that, if he wanted to, I could remove from the site the
>> work of which he is a co-author, even though it is on the CC-BY 3.0
>> license.
>>
>> To my surprise I never received a reply from Joalpe. Instead, two days
>> after my contact arrives a message from GoDaddy (company where the Wiki
>> Edu
>> Brasil’s site is hosted in the United States) informing that we have
>> received a "complete DMCA complaint", made by the Center for Research,
>> Innovation and Diffusion in Neuromamatics of the University of São Paulo
>> (CEPID NeuroMat - USP), signed by João Alexandre Peschanski.
>>
>> In this complaint he alleges that in the page that I made with the texts
>> sent to the I CCBWIKI there would be a text of which he is one of the
>> authors and that he would have revoked our authorization to publish it,
>> accuses us of not giving the due credits in the work and implies that we
>> would have copied the content from another conference, prior to 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia movement under DMCA attack!

[Chico Venancio]

To all on the list, *this is characterization is filled with obvious lies.*

The DMCA was filed a month ago simply *DID NOT TAKE the site down*.[1]
Henrique quickly took down the article offending copyright and Godaddy
allowed it to continue to be hosted.[2]

Henrique is a paid contractor of the user group Wiki Education Brazil that
has repeatedly harassed several members of our user group (Joalpe and
myself included). And is probably here acting as a Meatpuppet of another
user who is under an Office action interaction ban to interact with either
myself or João.

That he goes on an international platform to call on the Dean of the
university were João works is egregious harassment and WMF should not only
impose severe sanctions, but review both the grant and affiliation
agreements with the "user group" were this comes from.

On the merits, after the event the organizer harassed several of our
members, and to me it is completely understandable that João does not want
his name attached to an event that harassed him and others. There was on
more than one occasion hints of physical violence from a member of Wiki
Education Brazil, and at one point those hints came to level of actually
using the words "beating" in reference to another member of our user group,
Teles, who was also called a famous Wikipedia despot, that he needed
psychiatric attention, and that he needed to find a boyfriend on a public
facebook thread.

The CC-BY 3.0 Henrique alleges to have on the article is clearly invalid
for several reasons, one being he did not have one from the co-authors of
the work. Even if he did, Brazilian law supersedes it and clearly states
that the author has the inalienable moral right to revoke any license and
remove from circulation in any form when the use represents an affront to
his image or reputation.[3] That Henrique confesses that he, and the user
banned from interacting with myself or Joalpe, knew that license was not
given by João and that an explicit revocation was placed onwiki, only makes
the copyright violation willful and demonstrates that no assumption of good
faith can be reasonably made. This was an explicit provocation from the
"User Group" Wiki Education Brazil to João.

Best to all on the Wikimedia Movement,

Hoping for a movement with less tolerance for harassment,

Chico Venancio (User:Chicocvenancio)

2017-11-06 1:08 GMT-03:00 Henrique de Andrade :

> Friends, it took me a month to join forces and get the courage to write the
> story below.
>
> The Wiki Education Brazil user group has had its website [1] shutted down
> due to an attack using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and the
> most shocking of this story is that the legal threat was made by a "member"
> of the Wikimedia community: Mr. João Alexandre Peschanski, who uses the
> username Joalpe.
>
> My unreal saga began on October 7th when I received an email informing me
> that the WMF Support and Safety team had received a complaint from Joalpe
> that his copyright was being violated by the publication on the I CCBWIKI
> (I Brazilian Scientific Congress of Wikipedia) website of a paper which he
> is a co-author.
>
> I thought this situation was very strange and I imagined it was a
> misunderstanding. I promptly in good faith emailed Joalpe, copying WMF
> team, trying to figure out what could have led to this misleading
> interpretation that we were committing a copyright infringement. In the
> email I reminded him that he knows several members of the Wiki Edu Brazil
> group and that he could communicate directly with us if he was bothered
> with something and that, if he wanted to, I could remove from the site the
> work of which he is a co-author, even though it is on the CC-BY 3.0
> license.
>
> To my surprise I never received a reply from Joalpe. Instead, two days
> after my contact arrives a message from GoDaddy (company where the Wiki Edu
> Brasil’s site is hosted in the United States) informing that we have
> received a "complete DMCA complaint", made by the Center for Research,
> Innovation and Diffusion in Neuromamatics of the University of São Paulo
> (CEPID NeuroMat - USP), signed by João Alexandre Peschanski.
>
> In this complaint he alleges that in the page that I made with the texts
> sent to the I CCBWIKI there would be a text of which he is one of the
> authors and that he would have revoked our authorization to publish it,
> accuses us of not giving the due credits in the work and implies that we
> would have copied the content from another conference, prior to CCBWIKI,
> where it would have been originally published.
>
> I lack words to describe my revolt at such absurd lies. First: not only was
> the authorization not revoked but also a Creative Commons publication could
> not have its permission revoked for sharing. Secondly, in fact his name did
> not appear on the page listing the papers, because the main author of the
> article did not register it correctly in the system,