Re: [Wikimedia-l] Updates for failed logins and OurMine

[John Bennett]

Hello,

Additional details for the May dictionary attack and the 2016 OurMine
attack have been provided at:

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/blog/view/13/

Thanks
John Bennett

On Mon, 2018-08-27 at 12:13 -0500, John Bennett wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The Security team will be putting together a brief summary of events
> for both of these incidents and plan on sharing an overview by Sept
> 7th.  
> 
> Thanks
> John Bennett


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Sverige receives $324k+ in funding for the project FindingGLAMs

[Stryn]

Good news, congrats WMSE!

*Stryn*

*Wikimedia StewardAdmin and checkuser on the Finnish Wikipedia** | Admin on
Wikidata*
* | Admin on Meta-Wiki*


to 6. syysk. 2018 klo 16.38 Sailesh Patnaik (sailesh.patnaik...@gmail.com)
kirjoitti:

> Amazing News, Thank for sharing it, John. Congratulation to Wikimedia
> Sweden. :)
> ---
> *Sailesh Patnaik*  "*ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ "*
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>
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 4:18 PM John Andersson  >
> wrote:
>
> > Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of $324,500 in support
> from
> > the Swedish Postcode Foundation for our project FindingGLAMs
> > .
> >
> > We will work in collaboration with UNESCO and the Wikimedia Foundation to
> > achieve a number of ambitious goals over the 15 month long project. We
> will
> > work to:
> >
> >- Collect and include data about GLAM[1] institutions around the world
> >on Wikidata (e.g. where they are located). This will be done both
> > through a
> >campaign and from batch uploads of datasets;
> >- Batch upload collections of media files, in collaboration with the
> >Structured Data on Commons program;
> >- Organize networks of experts to discuss issues with disseminating
> >different types of material through the Wikimedia projects;
> >- Create a white paper consisting of a number of case studies based on
> >the work and discussions outlined above;
> >- Communicate about the Wikimedia movement’s work with GLAMs at
> >conferences;
> >- Organize a number of activities both on- and offline to use the
> >material. This include some work around Wikimania 2019 that will take
> > place
> >in Stockholm, Sweden.
> >
> > We hope many of you would like to get involved in the project and work
> with
> > us to connect to GLAM partners in your countries. At this point we are
> > looking for your help to identify institutions that maintain lists of
> GLAM
> > institutions (similar to the collection of monuments lists for WLM) and
> > later to identify GLAM institutions with specific types of collections
> that
> > would like to work with the Wikimedia movement.
> >
> > Please contact the project manager John Andersson (
> > john.anders...@wikimedia.se) if you have any questions. If you are
> > interested to take part, please sign up on the project portal at Meta:
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs
> >
> > As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish):
> > https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:FindingGLAMs_2018/Ansökan
> >
> > [1] GLAM is an acronym for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums.
> >
> > We look forward working with you!
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > John
> > - - - -
> > John Andersson
> > Executive Director
> > Wikimedia Sverige
> >
> > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
> > Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se 
> > Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Proposals to Host Wikimania in 2020

[Joseph Seddon]

Hello Ellie,

Is Wikimania still on its programme of "1 EU/US Wikimania" followed by an
"Away Wikimania"?

Seddon

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 11:44 PM Ellie Young  wrote:

> The Wikimania Steering Committee and Wikimedia Foundation are seeking
> expressions of interest from interested parties for
>  hosting
> Wikimani
> a 2020.
>
> Please see the following for more information:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2020
>
> If you are interested in discussing the possibilities and working with the
> WMF Events Manager in preparing a proposal to host and organize Wikimania
> 20
> 20
> , please contact eyoung at wikimedia.org
>  by October
> 15th.  Also, if you
> know of an individual or group that we should approach about hosting, we
> encourage  nominations as well. The Steering Committee and WMF expect to
> make a decision by early
> 2019.
>
>
> Thanks, Ellie
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