Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Annual report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

[Biplab Anand]

Fantastic report and Best of luck for 2018.


Best
Biplab

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 7:36 PM, Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please find below the annual report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians/Reports/2017
>
> Thanks,
> Bodhisattwa
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Records Retention and Destruction Policy

[Gregory Varnum]

Hi Andy,

Great to hear you are doing this work with Charity Navigator. Very cool! To 
answer your question about the Foundation’s 990, the policy you linked covers 
user data and does not apply to this specific 990 question. However, we do now 
have an internal policy. It was not finalized in time for periods covered by 
past 990s, but we will be reporting this policy in future filings.

Thank you for checking!
-greg


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> On Feb 20, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Andy Mabbett  wrote:
> 
> I'm liaising with Charity Navigator, to import data about US charities
> into Wikidata.
> 
> As an example, I've been looking at their page about the WMF
> 
>   https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary=11212
> 
> and note that their otherwise excellent rating of the foundation is
> reduced by four points (the maximum is 100) due the apparent absence
> of a Records Retention and Destruction Policy, "as reported by the
> charity on its Form 990".
> 
> However,
> 
>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_retention_guidelines
> 
> suggests that this is an error. Is the policy really missing from the 990?
> 
> -- 
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New board at Wikimedia Estonia

[attolippip]

Congratulations! And thank you for keeping us in the loop :)

Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv

2018-02-18 17:07 GMT+02:00 Tanel Pern :

> Dear friends,
>
> Wikimedia Eesti is happy to announce the election of a new board at our
> yesterday's general assembly. The new board sees the return of
> long-standing board member Eva Lepik. Other members of the new board
> include Märt Põder, Käbi Suvi and Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren.
>
> On my part, I would like to thank Wikimedia Eesti for their trust and
> support over the last four years, and wish the new board the best of luck.
>
> Tanel Pern,
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 14, Issue 3 – 20 February 2018

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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Annual report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

[Bodhisattwa Mandal]

Hi,

Please find below the annual report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians/Reports/2017

Thanks,
Bodhisattwa
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimedia vs. NSA

[Greg Varnum]

Hello and thank you for the interesting question! While the Wikimedia 
Foundation does see mass surveillance as a violation of international free 
expression and privacy rights, we do not yet see many options for an 
international claim. Additionally given the requirement of many international 
courts to exhaust national remedies before filling an appeal, we believe it 
makes the most sense to first focus our challenge of a nation's surveillance 
practices in that nation's courts.

-greg

PS. Apologies for the delay! I meant to send this last week, but got distracted.

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> On Feb 7, 2018, at 3:34 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz 
>  wrote:
> 
> Thank you Katherine for the update.
> 
> For Greg, I would like to know if there are some international courts in 
> which this could also lead to a lawsuit. I'm thinking to the International 
> Court of Justice, or the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, as I guess 
> something like European Court of Human Rights would be out of scope, although 
> the global spying practice might suggest otherwise.
> 
> If any lawsuit is possible in an international court, had this been attempted 
> by anyone, or had this been avoided for some specific reasons?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Le 30/01/2018 à 01:14, Katherine Maher a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I’d like to share an update and next steps in our lawsuit against the U.S.
>> National Security Agency (NSA), Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA.[1] As you’ll
>> recall, in March 2015, the Wikimedia Foundation joined eight other
>> plaintiffs in filing a suit in United States Federal District Court against
>> the NSA[2] and the Department of Justice,[3] among others. We have been
>> represented pro bono[4] by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)[5] and
>> the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.[6] The law
>> firm Cooley LLP[7] has also been serving as pro bono co-counsel for the
>> Foundation.
>> 
>> Since we’re coming on the three-year anniversary, I wanted to offer a
>> reminder of why we filed this suit. Our challenge supports the foundational
>> values of our movement: the right to freedom of expression and access to
>> information. Free knowledge requires freedom of inquiry, particularly in
>> the case of challenging and unpopular truths. Each day people around the
>> world engage with difficult and controversial subjects on Wikipedia and
>> other Wikimedia projects. Pervasive mass surveillance brings the threat of
>> reprisal, creates a chilling effect, and undermines the freedoms upon which
>> our projects and communities are founded. In bringing this suit, we joined
>> a tradition of knowledge stewards who have fought to preserve the integrity
>> of intellectual inquiry.
>> 
>> Our lawsuit challenges dragnet surveillance by the NSA, specifically the
>> large-scale seizing and searching of Internet communications frequently
>> referred to as “Upstream” surveillance.[8] The U.S. government is tapping
>> directly into the internet’s “backbone”[9]—the network of high-capacity
>> cables, switches, and routers that carry domestic and international
>> communications—and seizing and searching virtually all text-based internet
>> communications flowing into and out of the United States. It’s this
>> backbone that connects the global Wikimedia community to our projects.
>> These communications are being seized and searched without any requirement
>> that there be suspicion, for example, that the communications have a
>> connection to terrorism or national security threats.
>> 
>> Last May, we reached an important milestone: a Federal Court of Appeals[10]
>> in the United States ruled[11] that the Foundation alone had plausibly
>> alleged “standing”[12] to proceed with our claims that Upstream mass
>> surveillance seizes and searches of the online communications of Wikimedia
>> users, contributors and Foundation staff in violation of the U.S.
>> Constitution and other laws. The Court of Appeals’ ruling means that we are
>> the sole remaining plaintiff among the nine original co-plaintiffs. There
>> is still a long road ahead, but this intermediate victory makes this case
>> one of the most important vehicles for challenging the legality of this
>> particular NSA surveillance practice.
>> 
>> As a result of our win in the appellate court, we are now proceeding to the
>> next stage of the case: discovery.[13] In the U.S. court system, parties
>> use the discovery stage to exchange evidence and ask each other questions
>> about their claims. We have requested information and documents from the
>> government, and they have made similar requests from us. The entire phase,
>> which will also involve research and reports from experts, is expected to
>> last the next few months.
>> 
>> As part of our commitment to privacy, I want you to know about what this
>> 

[Wikimedia-l] Records Retention and Destruction Policy

[Andy Mabbett]

I'm liaising with Charity Navigator, to import data about US charities
into Wikidata.

As an example, I've been looking at their page about the WMF

   https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary=11212

and note that their otherwise excellent rating of the foundation is
reduced by four points (the maximum is 100) due the apparent absence
of a Records Retention and Destruction Policy, "as reported by the
charity on its Form 990".

However,

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_retention_guidelines

suggests that this is an error. Is the policy really missing from the 990?

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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