Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France Governance review

[Balázs Viczián]

Thank you Asaf. This seems to be a mixture of ppl mgmt and org skills,
shifted heavily towards the latter. The last time I was at wmcon was 2014
[1] when this was bearly a topic at all, only touched it here and there a
bit, when it was inevitable.

Good to see the progress on this.

Hi Mike,

perhaps in the future one could undergo such a review before a crisis
happens. Like a medical checkup, not yearly thoufh, but say every 3-5 years
to prevent/treat in early stage such events.

So far all governance reviews (including this) were responses to a collapse.

[1]  https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014



Michael Peel  ezt írta (2018. július 12., csütörtök):

> Nominally, the WMF is going to be the next Wikimedia organisation to do a
> governance review, as per:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_
> round_2#Wikimedia_Foundation
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2017-11-17,
> 18,19#Governance_Review
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> > On 11 Jul 2018, at 02:36, Balázs Viczián 
> wrote:
> >
> > This report is pretty useful in terms of comparing my chapter's policies
> to
> > this. Probably some fine tuning will follow. Thank you for sharing!
> >
> > Note the pattern: UK, Germany, France, all 'big' chapters. My guess is
> that
> > the next one will very likely to be another 'large' chapter (100+
> members,
> > multiple employees, many paralel projects etc)
> >
> > As the report says very few has at least some experience in running
> > organizations (true worldwide) so no suprise such events happen every few
> > years, not to say those that stay 'local'.
> >
> > Just having 50-100-150k edits is not enough to be a 'boss'
> >
> > Would love to see people management skills workshops, and organizational
> > skills (logistics) workshops...but I attend an event only every 2-3 years
> > (or less), so this is just an almost silent suggestion :)
> >
> > Balazs
> >
> > 2018. júl. 10. 7:44 ezt írta ("Alphos OGame" ):
> >
> > Forgive my (usual ?) bluntness, but I don't think congratulations are in
> > order for undertaking the governance review ;-)
> >
> > As a member and unwilling observer, I can tell you it was dearly needed,
> be
> > it by internal or external auditors, and mandated by the WMF.
> >
> > However, as a long time member of the community and of Wikimedia France,
> I
> > do salute the effort of publishing the results of the review, as the
> > previous board of directors probably wouldn't have wanted to publish
> > anything critical of their method of governance ; and the review covers
> > both old and more recent times.
> > That indeed deserves credit, so thank you Nadine !
> >
> > @ Cornelius : smart thinking on your part, collecting them in one place.
> I
> > hope there won't be any more crisis requiring a governance review in one
> of
> > our chapters, but in any case it will be interesting for all chapters to
> > know what to avoid in the future, and where to look for it, so thank you
> as
> > well.
> >
> > Roger / Alphos
> >
> >
> >
> >> Le 9 juil. 2018 à 13:44, Chris Keating  a
> > écrit :
> >>
> >> Congratulations to Wikimedia France for undertaking this review and
> >> publishing the results.
> >>
> >> I believe all of the 3 governance reviews are important reading for
> >> anyone involved with the WMF or any of the affiliates, and all have
> >> important lessons for the movement. It's interesting to note that this
> >> is the first one that touches on the WMF-affiliate relationship in
> >> much detail.
> >>
> >> Also - while so far governance reviews have only happened as a result
> >> of a crisis, this doesn't have to be the case! I would urge Wikimedia
> >> affiliates to take external advice on their governance, the
> >> suggestions offered by governance experts who know the laws, norms and
> >> cutlure in which you operate will be very helpful for you.
> >>
> >> Chris
> >> (who was Chair of Wikimedia UK at the point we had a governance
> review...)
> >>> On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 10:43 PM Nadine Le Lirzin <
> nlelir...@wikimedia.fr>
> > wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> As announced last month on this list[1], the Governance Assessment
> Report
> >>> by external auditors "Associés en gouvernance" has been published, and
> we
> >>> want to share it with you.
> >>>
> >>> The auditors did a great work, first in their rather good understanding
> > of
> >>> our movement complexity, and then in the numerous improvement
> suggestions
> >>> they delivered.
> >>>
> >>> The consultation of our members – to fully associate them to the
> > rebuilding
> >>> – is still in progress. Main changes will be submitted to a vote at
> next
> >>> General Assembly, by the end of the year.
> >>>
> >>> The document has been translated in English and is now available on
> >>> Commons[2].
> >>>
> >>> May these suggestions be useful not only for Wikimédia France, but also
> > for
> >>> any other chapter or affiliate that would be in need of governance
> advice
> >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France Governance review

[Michael Peel]

Nominally, the WMF is going to be the next Wikimedia organisation to do a 
governance review, as per:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_round_2#Wikimedia_Foundation
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2017-11-17,18,19#Governance_Review

Thanks,
Mike

> On 11 Jul 2018, at 02:36, Balázs Viczián  wrote:
> 
> This report is pretty useful in terms of comparing my chapter's policies to
> this. Probably some fine tuning will follow. Thank you for sharing!
> 
> Note the pattern: UK, Germany, France, all 'big' chapters. My guess is that
> the next one will very likely to be another 'large' chapter (100+ members,
> multiple employees, many paralel projects etc)
> 
> As the report says very few has at least some experience in running
> organizations (true worldwide) so no suprise such events happen every few
> years, not to say those that stay 'local'.
> 
> Just having 50-100-150k edits is not enough to be a 'boss'
> 
> Would love to see people management skills workshops, and organizational
> skills (logistics) workshops...but I attend an event only every 2-3 years
> (or less), so this is just an almost silent suggestion :)
> 
> Balazs
> 
> 2018. júl. 10. 7:44 ezt írta ("Alphos OGame" ):
> 
> Forgive my (usual ?) bluntness, but I don't think congratulations are in
> order for undertaking the governance review ;-)
> 
> As a member and unwilling observer, I can tell you it was dearly needed, be
> it by internal or external auditors, and mandated by the WMF.
> 
> However, as a long time member of the community and of Wikimedia France, I
> do salute the effort of publishing the results of the review, as the
> previous board of directors probably wouldn't have wanted to publish
> anything critical of their method of governance ; and the review covers
> both old and more recent times.
> That indeed deserves credit, so thank you Nadine !
> 
> @ Cornelius : smart thinking on your part, collecting them in one place. I
> hope there won't be any more crisis requiring a governance review in one of
> our chapters, but in any case it will be interesting for all chapters to
> know what to avoid in the future, and where to look for it, so thank you as
> well.
> 
> Roger / Alphos
> 
> 
> 
>> Le 9 juil. 2018 à 13:44, Chris Keating  a
> écrit :
>> 
>> Congratulations to Wikimedia France for undertaking this review and
>> publishing the results.
>> 
>> I believe all of the 3 governance reviews are important reading for
>> anyone involved with the WMF or any of the affiliates, and all have
>> important lessons for the movement. It's interesting to note that this
>> is the first one that touches on the WMF-affiliate relationship in
>> much detail.
>> 
>> Also - while so far governance reviews have only happened as a result
>> of a crisis, this doesn't have to be the case! I would urge Wikimedia
>> affiliates to take external advice on their governance, the
>> suggestions offered by governance experts who know the laws, norms and
>> cutlure in which you operate will be very helpful for you.
>> 
>> Chris
>> (who was Chair of Wikimedia UK at the point we had a governance review...)
>>> On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 10:43 PM Nadine Le Lirzin 
> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> As announced last month on this list[1], the Governance Assessment Report
>>> by external auditors "Associés en gouvernance" has been published, and we
>>> want to share it with you.
>>> 
>>> The auditors did a great work, first in their rather good understanding
> of
>>> our movement complexity, and then in the numerous improvement suggestions
>>> they delivered.
>>> 
>>> The consultation of our members – to fully associate them to the
> rebuilding
>>> – is still in progress. Main changes will be submitted to a vote at next
>>> General Assembly, by the end of the year.
>>> 
>>> The document has been translated in English and is now available on
>>> Commons[2].
>>> 
>>> May these suggestions be useful not only for Wikimédia France, but also
> for
>>> any other chapter or affiliate that would be in need of governance advice
>>> or ideas.
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> 
>>> Nadine Le Lirzin
>>> *Wikimedia France Board Secretary*
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-
> June/090413.html
>>> [2]
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_France_-_
> Governance_Assessment_Report_-_2018.pdf
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cheat sheets visual editing on Wikipedia

[Strainu]

There are a bunch of such cheatsheets around, I did one myself based on the
old Editing Wikipedia brochure, but what Arne has managed is to somehow put
the image (screenshot)  in the spotlight in a way much better than anything
I've seen before.

Having a svg version will ease the translation effort a lot.

Strainu

Pe joi, 12 iulie 2018, Nick Wilson (Quiddity)  a
scris:

> Traditionally, the centralized spot is at
> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf
> I've added an item for that, to the Wikimedia Resource Center.
>
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 2:31 AM Cornelius Kibelka <
> cornelius.kibe...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
> > Sure, I / we are happy to add this (and other) material somewhere. I
> > couldn't find the best spot in the Wikimedia Resource Center (somewhere
> > here
> >
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center/For_program_
> coordinators
> > ?
> >  coordinators?>),
> > so I'm happy to get any pointers.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Cornelius
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 10:54, Delphine Dallison <
> > d.dalli...@scottishlibraries.org> wrote:
> >
> > > It would be great to get all these cheat sheets gathered up in a meta
> > page
> > > on Wikimedia Resources so we can do a concerted effort to get them
> > > translated into as many languages as possible and so we don't keep on
> > > reinventing the wheel. I think both Arne's cheat sheets and the
> Wikimedia
> > > Deutschland ones are great. Personally I would probably chose to go
> with
> > > Arne's if I was doing institutional level outreach and the other set
> for
> > > more relaxed public editathons, so they both have their value. Is
> anyone
> > on
> > > here with metawiki to help us gather these in one place including the
> > > translations as they start to come through?
> > >
> > > Best wishes,
> > >
> > > Delphine Dallison
> > > Wikimedian in Residence
> > > Scottish Library and Information Council
> > > Turnberry House
> > > Suite 5:5, Fifth Floor
> > > 175 West George Street
> > > Glasgow G2 2LB
> > > Tel: 0141 202 2999
> > > www.scottishlibraries.org
> > >
> > >
> > > Enriching lives through libraries
> > >
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Wikimedia-l  On Behalf
> Of
> > > Cornelius Kibelka
> > > Sent: 11 July 2018 08:17
> > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
> > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cheat sheets visual editing on Wikipedia
> > >
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > not meant to be competing with Arne ;) , but if you're looking for
> > another
> > > design: Wikimedia Deutschland has created similar "cheat sheets", just
> > > with another, a bit funnier style:
> > > *
> > >
> > >
> > https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=
> https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_
> Artikel_f%25C3%25BCr_Wikipedia_schreiben.pdf&
> data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%
> 7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7a
> db76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=tvr327cjcUS%2B64%
> 2BPCx0G6rEi8AyE4vU2CU%2B3hfmzVq0%3D&reserved=0
> > > ("Writing
> > > articles for Wikipedia")
> > > *
> > >
> > >
> > https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=
> https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%
> 3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_In_Wikipedia_kommunizieren.pdf&
> amp;data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%
> 7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7a
> db76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=AM5n4Cchj%
> 2FWscHNK6jQ40foKXvdcBl63A6ZpmL0z1Aw%3D&reserved=0
> > > ("Communicating within the Wikipedia community")
> > > *
> > >
> > >
> > https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=
> https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%
> 3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_Mit_dem_Smartphone_Wikipedia_
> bearbeiten.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%
> 7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7a
> db76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=R2WKNW0GTQIMOScU5n7NIZKA%
> 2FVydv2Q3sfue51B4jfY%3D&reserved=0
> > > ("Edit Wikipedia with your smartphone")
> > > *
> > >
> > >
> > https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=
> https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_
> Wikipedia_bearbeiten_und_korrigieren.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%
> 40scottishlibraries.org%7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%
> 7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&
> sdata=ov%2FufcPlsVnc8YwvKu7mc61FtZzbJoAI221uCyPGoUM%3D&reserved=0
> > > ("Editing & correcting Wikipedia articles")
> > >
> > > Let me know if you are interested in, we can share the Illustrator
> files.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Cornelius
> > >
> > > On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 08:27, Arne Wossink 
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > @Strainu: once the English translations are available, you could
> > > > translate those into Romanian, and I could help you with formatting
> > > > them. As long as the texts are as long as the English ones (or
> > > > shorter

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cheat sheets visual editing on Wikipedia

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

Traditionally, the centralized spot is at
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf
I've added an item for that, to the Wikimedia Resource Center.

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 2:31 AM Cornelius Kibelka <
cornelius.kibe...@wikimedia.de> wrote:

> Sure, I / we are happy to add this (and other) material somewhere. I
> couldn't find the best spot in the Wikimedia Resource Center (somewhere
> here
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center/For_program_coordinators
> ?
> ),
> so I'm happy to get any pointers.
>
> Cheers
> Cornelius
>
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 10:54, Delphine Dallison <
> d.dalli...@scottishlibraries.org> wrote:
>
> > It would be great to get all these cheat sheets gathered up in a meta
> page
> > on Wikimedia Resources so we can do a concerted effort to get them
> > translated into as many languages as possible and so we don't keep on
> > reinventing the wheel. I think both Arne's cheat sheets and the Wikimedia
> > Deutschland ones are great. Personally I would probably chose to go with
> > Arne's if I was doing institutional level outreach and the other set for
> > more relaxed public editathons, so they both have their value. Is anyone
> on
> > here with metawiki to help us gather these in one place including the
> > translations as they start to come through?
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Delphine Dallison
> > Wikimedian in Residence
> > Scottish Library and Information Council
> > Turnberry House
> > Suite 5:5, Fifth Floor
> > 175 West George Street
> > Glasgow G2 2LB
> > Tel: 0141 202 2999
> > www.scottishlibraries.org
> >
> >
> > Enriching lives through libraries
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Wikimedia-l  On Behalf Of
> > Cornelius Kibelka
> > Sent: 11 July 2018 08:17
> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cheat sheets visual editing on Wikipedia
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > not meant to be competing with Arne ;) , but if you're looking for
> another
> > design: Wikimedia Deutschland has created similar "cheat sheets", just
> > with another, a bit funnier style:
> > *
> >
> >
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_Artikel_f%25C3%25BCr_Wikipedia_schreiben.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=tvr327cjcUS%2B64%2BPCx0G6rEi8AyE4vU2CU%2B3hfmzVq0%3D&reserved=0
> > ("Writing
> > articles for Wikipedia")
> > *
> >
> >
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_In_Wikipedia_kommunizieren.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=AM5n4Cchj%2FWscHNK6jQ40foKXvdcBl63A6ZpmL0z1Aw%3D&reserved=0
> > ("Communicating within the Wikipedia community")
> > *
> >
> >
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_Mit_dem_Smartphone_Wikipedia_bearbeiten.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=R2WKNW0GTQIMOScU5n7NIZKA%2FVydv2Q3sfue51B4jfY%3D&reserved=0
> > ("Edit Wikipedia with your smartphone")
> > *
> >
> >
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_Wikipedia_bearbeiten_und_korrigieren.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=ov%2FufcPlsVnc8YwvKu7mc61FtZzbJoAI221uCyPGoUM%3D&reserved=0
> > ("Editing & correcting Wikipedia articles")
> >
> > Let me know if you are interested in, we can share the Illustrator files.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Cornelius
> >
> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 08:27, Arne Wossink  wrote:
> >
> > > @Strainu: once the English translations are available, you could
> > > translate those into Romanian, and I could help you with formatting
> > > them. As long as the texts are as long as the English ones (or
> > > shorter), that shouldn't be too hard. Since there's one available in
> > > English already, you could start the translation of that one right
> away,
> > if you want.
> > >
> > > @Advrk Aplmrkt: that's a good suggestion! I'll see if I can upload SVG
> > > versions of the files as well.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > >
> > > Arne Wossink
> > >
> > > Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland
> > >
> > > *(Werkdagen: maandag, dinsdag, donderdag / Office hours: Monday,
> > > Tuesday,
> > > Thursday)*
> > >
> > > Tel. +31 (0)6 11000505
> > > E-mail: woss...@wikimedia.nl
> > >
> > > *Post/bezoekadres / Mail/visiting address:* Mariaplaats 3
> > > 3511 LH Ut

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Research Showcase July 11, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT| 18:30 UTC)

[Sarah R]

Hi Folks,

Just a reminder this is happening today!

Hope to see you there!

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 10:30 AM Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday,
> July 11, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK7AvNKq0sg
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here.
> 
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> This month's presentations:
>
> Mind the (Language) Gap: Neural Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia
> Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholdersBy *Lucie-Aimée Kaffee*While
> Wikipedia exists in 287 languages, its content is unevenly distributed
> among them. It is therefore of the utmost social and cultural interests to
> address languages for which native speakers have only access to an
> impoverished Wikipedia. In this work, we investigate the generation of
> summaries for Wikipedia articles in underserved languages, given structured
> data as an input.
> In order to address the information bias towards widely spoken languages,
> we focus on an important support for such summaries: ArticlePlaceholders,
> which are dynamically generated content pages in underserved Wikipedia
> versions. They enable native speakers to access existing information in
> Wikidata, a structured Knowledge Base (KB). Our system provides a
> generative neural network architecture, which processes the triples of the
> KB as they are dynamically provided by the ArticlePlaceholder, and generate
> a comprehensible textual summary. This data-driven approach is tested with
> the goal of understanding how well it matches the communities' needs on two
> underserved languages on the Web: Arabic, a language with a big community
> with disproportionate access to knowledge online, and Esperanto.
> With the help of the Arabic and Esperanto Wikipedians, we conduct an
> extended evaluation which exhibits not only the quality of the generated
> text but also the applicability of our end-system to any underserved
> Wikipedia version. Token-level change tracking: data, tools and insights
> By *Fabian Flöck*This talk first gives an overview of the WikiWho
> infrastructure, which provides tracking of changes to single tokens
> (~words) in articles of different Wikipedia language versions. It exposes
> APIs for accessing this data in near-real time, and is complemented by a
> published static dataset. Several insights are presented regarding
> provenance, partial reverts, token-level conflict and other metrics that
> only become available with such data. Lastly, the talk will cover several
> tools and scripts that are already using the API and will discuss their
> application scenarios, such as investigation of authorship, conflicted
> content and editor productivity.
>


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Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Executive Director's Letter to Donors

[Leinonen Teemu]

> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 6:37 AM, Gerard Meijssen 
> wrote:
> 
>> We just won a major victory in our battle to keep the internet free [...] Our
>> established positions are
>> against corporate interests.
> 
> When the Guardian reported[1] on the recent European copyright campaign, as
> supported by Wikimedia projects, their spin was that it served the
> corporate interests of Facebook, Google and YouTube:
> 
> "Google, YouTube and Facebook
>  could escape having to
> make billions in payouts to press publishers, record labels and artists
> after EU lawmakers voted to reject proposed changes to copyright rules that
> aimed to make the tech companies share more of their revenues."

The publishers and record labels are also corporations. I see that our stand is 
to be in the side of the “artists”. In the future we should support them to 
start collective bargaining and to reach collective agreement with the new 
online publishers. 

We should do the same with scholars, too: help them to find alternatives to the 
scientific publishers. In this EU hasn’t done a great job either, although they 
like to promote “open science” (in a close collaboration with the established 
publishers).

-Teemu
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Executive Director's Letter to Donors

[Andreas Kolbe]

On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 6:37 AM, Gerard Meijssen 
wrote:

> We just won a major victory in our battle to keep the internet free [...] Our
> established positions are
> against corporate interests.



When the Guardian reported[1] on the recent European copyright campaign, as
supported by Wikimedia projects, their spin was that it served the
corporate interests of Facebook, Google and YouTube:

"Google, YouTube and Facebook
 could escape having to
make billions in payouts to press publishers, record labels and artists
after EU lawmakers voted to reject proposed changes to copyright rules that
aimed to make the tech companies share more of their revenues."

The Guardian – a paper that has traditionally been a staunch supporter of
Wikimedia, and had Jimmy Wales on its board until last year – added,

"More than 1.3 billion users of Google-owned YouTube
 regularly watch music
videos, making it the biggest music service in the world. However, artists
receive only 67 cents per user annually in royalties."

I guess it's all a matter of perspective.

A.

[1]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/05/youtube-could-escape-billions-in-copyright-payouts-after-eu-vote
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cheat sheets visual editing on Wikipedia

[Cornelius Kibelka]

Sure, I / we are happy to add this (and other) material somewhere. I
couldn't find the best spot in the Wikimedia Resource Center (somewhere
here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center/For_program_coordinators
?), so I'm happy to get any pointers.

Cheers
Cornelius

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 10:54, Delphine Dallison <
d.dalli...@scottishlibraries.org> wrote:

> It would be great to get all these cheat sheets gathered up in a meta page
> on Wikimedia Resources so we can do a concerted effort to get them
> translated into as many languages as possible and so we don't keep on
> reinventing the wheel. I think both Arne's cheat sheets and the Wikimedia
> Deutschland ones are great. Personally I would probably chose to go with
> Arne's if I was doing institutional level outreach and the other set for
> more relaxed public editathons, so they both have their value. Is anyone on
> here with metawiki to help us gather these in one place including the
> translations as they start to come through?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Delphine Dallison
> Wikimedian in Residence
> Scottish Library and Information Council
> Turnberry House
> Suite 5:5, Fifth Floor
> 175 West George Street
> Glasgow G2 2LB
> Tel: 0141 202 2999
> www.scottishlibraries.org
>
>
> Enriching lives through libraries
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l  On Behalf Of
> Cornelius Kibelka
> Sent: 11 July 2018 08:17
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cheat sheets visual editing on Wikipedia
>
> Hey all,
>
> not meant to be competing with Arne ;) , but if you're looking for another
> design: Wikimedia Deutschland has created similar "cheat sheets", just
> with another, a bit funnier style:
> *
>
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_Artikel_f%25C3%25BCr_Wikipedia_schreiben.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=tvr327cjcUS%2B64%2BPCx0G6rEi8AyE4vU2CU%2B3hfmzVq0%3D&reserved=0
> ("Writing
> articles for Wikipedia")
> *
>
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_In_Wikipedia_kommunizieren.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=AM5n4Cchj%2FWscHNK6jQ40foKXvdcBl63A6ZpmL0z1Aw%3D&reserved=0
> ("Communicating within the Wikipedia community")
> *
>
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_Mit_dem_Smartphone_Wikipedia_bearbeiten.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=R2WKNW0GTQIMOScU5n7NIZKA%2FVydv2Q3sfue51B4jfY%3D&reserved=0
> ("Edit Wikipedia with your smartphone")
> *
>
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_Wikipedia_bearbeiten_und_korrigieren.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=ov%2FufcPlsVnc8YwvKu7mc61FtZzbJoAI221uCyPGoUM%3D&reserved=0
> ("Editing & correcting Wikipedia articles")
>
> Let me know if you are interested in, we can share the Illustrator files.
>
> Cheers
> Cornelius
>
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 08:27, Arne Wossink  wrote:
>
> > @Strainu: once the English translations are available, you could
> > translate those into Romanian, and I could help you with formatting
> > them. As long as the texts are as long as the English ones (or
> > shorter), that shouldn't be too hard. Since there's one available in
> > English already, you could start the translation of that one right away,
> if you want.
> >
> > @Advrk Aplmrkt: that's a good suggestion! I'll see if I can upload SVG
> > versions of the files as well.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> >
> > Arne Wossink
> >
> > Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland
> >
> > *(Werkdagen: maandag, dinsdag, donderdag / Office hours: Monday,
> > Tuesday,
> > Thursday)*
> >
> > Tel. +31 (0)6 11000505
> > E-mail: woss...@wikimedia.nl
> >
> > *Post/bezoekadres / Mail/visiting address:* Mariaplaats 3
> > 3511 LH Utrecht
> >
> > 2018-07-10 14:40 GMT+02:00 Advrk Aplmrkt :
> >
> > > Amazing work and much needed, thank you!
> > >
> > > I can't use proprietary file formats like AI, can you export it to SVG?
> > >
> > > On 10/07/2018, Arne Wossink  wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > For WMNL I've been working on several 1-page cheat sheets on how
> > > > to
> > edit
> > > > Wikipedia in visual editing mode, to be used during editathons.
> > > > These currently include "create an account", "make your first
> > > > edit", "insert
> > a
> > > > reference", "up

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cheat sheets visual editing on Wikipedia

[Delphine Dallison]

It would be great to get all these cheat sheets gathered up in a meta page on 
Wikimedia Resources so we can do a concerted effort to get them translated into 
as many languages as possible and so we don't keep on reinventing the wheel. I 
think both Arne's cheat sheets and the Wikimedia Deutschland ones are great. 
Personally I would probably chose to go with Arne's if I was doing 
institutional level outreach and the other set for more relaxed public 
editathons, so they both have their value. Is anyone on here with metawiki to 
help us gather these in one place including the translations as they start to 
come through?

Best wishes,

Delphine Dallison
Wikimedian in Residence
Scottish Library and Information Council 
Turnberry House 
Suite 5:5, Fifth Floor
175 West George Street
Glasgow G2 2LB
Tel: 0141 202 2999
www.scottishlibraries.org 


Enriching lives through libraries


-Original Message-
From: Wikimedia-l  On Behalf Of 
Cornelius Kibelka
Sent: 11 July 2018 08:17
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cheat sheets visual editing on Wikipedia

Hey all,

not meant to be competing with Arne ;) , but if you're looking for another
design: Wikimedia Deutschland has created similar "cheat sheets", just with 
another, a bit funnier style:
*
https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_Artikel_f%25C3%25BCr_Wikipedia_schreiben.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=tvr327cjcUS%2B64%2BPCx0G6rEi8AyE4vU2CU%2B3hfmzVq0%3D&reserved=0
("Writing
articles for Wikipedia")
*
https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_In_Wikipedia_kommunizieren.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=AM5n4Cchj%2FWscHNK6jQ40foKXvdcBl63A6ZpmL0z1Aw%3D&reserved=0
("Communicating within the Wikipedia community")
*
https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_Mit_dem_Smartphone_Wikipedia_bearbeiten.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=R2WKNW0GTQIMOScU5n7NIZKA%2FVydv2Q3sfue51B4jfY%3D&reserved=0
("Edit Wikipedia with your smartphone")
*
https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3AWikipedia_Spickzettel_Wikipedia_bearbeiten_und_korrigieren.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cd.dallison%40scottishlibraries.org%7Cdfc73bc663fe486a919308d5e6fe5ad1%7C6414ad35a3824075ab2600ed2b7adb76%7C1%7C1%7C636668902476712848&sdata=ov%2FufcPlsVnc8YwvKu7mc61FtZzbJoAI221uCyPGoUM%3D&reserved=0
("Editing & correcting Wikipedia articles")

Let me know if you are interested in, we can share the Illustrator files.

Cheers
Cornelius

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 08:27, Arne Wossink  wrote:

> @Strainu: once the English translations are available, you could 
> translate those into Romanian, and I could help you with formatting 
> them. As long as the texts are as long as the English ones (or 
> shorter), that shouldn't be too hard. Since there's one available in 
> English already, you could start the translation of that one right away, if 
> you want.
>
> @Advrk Aplmrkt: that's a good suggestion! I'll see if I can upload SVG 
> versions of the files as well.
>
> Best,
>
>
> Arne Wossink
>
> Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland
>
> *(Werkdagen: maandag, dinsdag, donderdag / Office hours: Monday, 
> Tuesday,
> Thursday)*
>
> Tel. +31 (0)6 11000505
> E-mail: woss...@wikimedia.nl
>
> *Post/bezoekadres / Mail/visiting address:* Mariaplaats 3
> 3511 LH Utrecht
>
> 2018-07-10 14:40 GMT+02:00 Advrk Aplmrkt :
>
> > Amazing work and much needed, thank you!
> >
> > I can't use proprietary file formats like AI, can you export it to SVG?
> >
> > On 10/07/2018, Arne Wossink  wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > For WMNL I've been working on several 1-page cheat sheets on how 
> > > to
> edit
> > > Wikipedia in visual editing mode, to be used during editathons. 
> > > These currently include "create an account", "make your first 
> > > edit", "insert
> a
> > > reference", "upload an image to Wikimedia Commons", and a general 
> > > cheat sheet on the visual editor. They're all in Dutch, except for 
> > > the Visual editing cheat sheet, which is also available in English.
> > >
> > > If anyone's interested in having these available in their own 
> > > language,
> > I'm
> > > more than happy to work with them to make these available (time 
> > > permitting). Source files are available in Adobe Illustrator 
> > > format,
> so I
> > > can make those available as well to those who would like to do the
> > editing
> > > thems

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cheat sheets visual editing on Wikipedia

[Cornelius Kibelka]

Hey all,

not meant to be competing with Arne ;) , but if you're looking for another
design: Wikimedia Deutschland has created similar "cheat sheets", just with
another, a bit funnier style:
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Spickzettel_Artikel_f%C3%BCr_Wikipedia_schreiben.pdf
("Writing
articles for Wikipedia")
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Spickzettel_In_Wikipedia_kommunizieren.pdf
("Communicating within the Wikipedia community")
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Spickzettel_Mit_dem_Smartphone_Wikipedia_bearbeiten.pdf
("Edit Wikipedia with your smartphone")
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Spickzettel_Wikipedia_bearbeiten_und_korrigieren.pdf
("Editing & correcting Wikipedia articles")

Let me know if you are interested in, we can share the Illustrator files.

Cheers
Cornelius

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 at 08:27, Arne Wossink  wrote:

> @Strainu: once the English translations are available, you could translate
> those into Romanian, and I could help you with formatting them. As long as
> the texts are as long as the English ones (or shorter), that shouldn't be
> too hard. Since there's one available in English already, you could start
> the translation of that one right away, if you want.
>
> @Advrk Aplmrkt: that's a good suggestion! I'll see if I can upload SVG
> versions of the files as well.
>
> Best,
>
>
> Arne Wossink
>
> Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland
>
> *(Werkdagen: maandag, dinsdag, donderdag / Office hours: Monday, Tuesday,
> Thursday)*
>
> Tel. +31 (0)6 11000505
> E-mail: woss...@wikimedia.nl
>
> *Post/bezoekadres / Mail/visiting address:*
> Mariaplaats 3
> 3511 LH Utrecht
>
> 2018-07-10 14:40 GMT+02:00 Advrk Aplmrkt :
>
> > Amazing work and much needed, thank you!
> >
> > I can't use proprietary file formats like AI, can you export it to SVG?
> >
> > On 10/07/2018, Arne Wossink  wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > For WMNL I've been working on several 1-page cheat sheets on how to
> edit
> > > Wikipedia in visual editing mode, to be used during editathons. These
> > > currently include "create an account", "make your first edit", "insert
> a
> > > reference", "upload an image to Wikimedia Commons", and a general cheat
> > > sheet on the visual editor. They're all in Dutch, except for the Visual
> > > editing cheat sheet, which is also available in English.
> > >
> > > If anyone's interested in having these available in their own language,
> > I'm
> > > more than happy to work with them to make these available (time
> > > permitting). Source files are available in Adobe Illustrator format,
> so I
> > > can make those available as well to those who would like to do the
> > editing
> > > themselves.
> > >
> > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cheat_sheet_Visual_
> > editing_on_Wikipedia.pdf
> > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spiekbriefje_
> > Visueel_bewerken.pdf
> > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maak_een_account_
> > aan_op_Wikipedia.pdf
> > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doe_je_eerste_
> > bewerking_op_Wikipedia.pdf
> > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Voeg_je_eerste_
> > referentie_toe_aan_Wikipedia.pdf
> > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_je_eerste_
> > foto_naar_Wikimedia_Commons.pdf
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Arne Wossink
> > >
> > > Projectleider / Project Manager Wikimedia Nederland
> > >
> > > *(Werkdagen: maandag, dinsdag, donderdag / Office hours: Monday,
> Tuesday,
> > > Thursday)*
> > >
> > > Tel. +31 (0)6 11000505
> > > E-mail: woss...@wikimedia.nl
> > >
> > > *Post/bezoekadres / Mail/visiting address:*
> > > Mariaplaats 3
> > > 3511 LH Utrecht
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