[Wikimedia-l] New Free Research Accounts via the Wikipedia Library Card

[Jake Orlowitz]

Hi!

The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available through
the Library Card platform:


NEW
* Rock's Backpages (Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards):<
https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/69/>

* Invaluable (Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000
artists): 

* Termsoup (Translation tool):


EXPANSIONS
* Fold3 - Available content has more than doubled, now including new
military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand:


* Oxford University Press - The Scholarship collection now includes
Electronic Enlightenment (http://www.e-enlightenment.com/):


* Alexander Street Press - Women and Social Movements Library (
https://alexanderstreet.com/products/women-and-social-movements-library)
now available:  

* Cambridge University Press - Orlando Collection (
http://orlando.cambridge.org/) now available:


Many other partnerships are available through the Wikipedia Library Card
Platform: 

Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references
across Wikimedia projects: sign up today!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group

[Zachary McCune]

So many congrats to the Igbo Wikimedia community!

On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Sam Oyeyele  wrote:

> Big congrats. Looking forward to the great projects this new user group
> has in store! Welcome.
>
> Sam.
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Global Audiences
Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] GDPR and Wikimedia content?

[Andre Engels]

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 11:32 PM, David Gerard  wrote:
> I'm a big fan of the GDPR and why it had to be created. (I'm doing a lot of
> the bureaucratic work on the tech side at the day job and am getting very
> used to thinking of ways something could constitute Personally Identifying
> Information.)
>
> But I'm wondering how we'll approach it for the Wikimedia sites. Not just
> the log data - but the content.
>
> We already have problems with Right To Be Forgotten, and well-cited content
> being removed from the search engines.
>
> What do we have in place to deal with this when - not if - we get GDPR
> requests to remove information about a person from the site?
>
> I don't mean just the letter of the law, in the EU or the US - I mean also,
> how we can handle this *right*. Because there are multiple competing
> legitimate interests here, and the editing communities tend to take a lot
> more care than they're strictly required to by law, because we are here to
> get things right. (This is why our DMCA numbers are ridiculously low for a
> top 10 site, for example.)

In general Wikipedia falls under the journalistic exemption
("publication of ideas, information or opinions"), which means many
rules from the GDPR are dropped. Mostly what remains is just that a
weighing has to be done between the subject's privacy interest and
Wikipedia's own reporting interest. Even the possibility to object to
that decision is dropped in this case, so if, as I assume will happen,
such a request is taken as a reason to re-evaluate that decision, we
are already going beyond the minimum of what the law requires.

-- 
André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com

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