Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

Gerard, You start off by correctly specifying that Wikipedia is about 300 projects and make several good points about how people confuse Wikipedia with English Wikipedia, how this bias adversely affects various other projects, and then claim that "Wikipedia" is "universally understood to be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

I put a reply on the "What does free knowledge mean to you" questionnaire, but it did not turn up on the list below the edit box. Is the set of published replies being censored or cherry-picked to remove anything that someone does not like? Cheers, Peter -Original Message- From:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

The movement has events a couple of magnitudes more important and urgent to spend time on. As for being invited to take part in a "brand network" discussion, of all places on *Facebook*, this is so fundamentally wrong, I would think it was a joke. WMF management, stop flushing away the donor's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

Perhaps you do, but do the volunteer communities of the projects you would like to rename share this enthusiasm? Peter -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dennis During Sent: 14 March 2020 00:20 To: Wikimedia Mailing List

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Memorandum of Understanding with NDLI, CIS and WMF

Hi Ilario, If you check this link , you can find it written at the Terms and Conditions section - *The actual contents are subject to the copyright laws of the respective data providers as the authors or publishers retain copyright to these works which are used by

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Memorandum of Understanding with NDLI, CIS and WMF

Thank you for that, I have checked some languages but it seems that this digital library have books of some languages completely taken from Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org) or from World Ebook Library (http://www.worldebooklibrary.org/) and they have their own licenses. It's not

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikisource-l] Memorandum of Understanding with NDLI, CIS and WMF

Hi Nicolas, Thanks for your reply and interest in the partnership. It was discussed during the Delhi meeting that as a first step, NDLI will come up with a unique authority control for the authors listed in their website and we will match them with corresponding Wikidata items, thus starting to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

Essie, The answer to that proposal was a clear, unambiguous "no". Not "keep asking". Immediately stop this process. And don't use an agency blocked for spamming our projects. Todd On Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 11:33 AM Essie Zar wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > There are some new updates and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Brand Project: Who are we as a movement?

Hoi, Essie, the work done by Snøhetta centres on the notion of Wikipedia as a unifying brand. The problem is that Wikipedia on its own is 300 projects and that for many, if not most people English Wikipedia *is *Wikipedia. When we are all to be Wikipedia we will all suffer from the bias that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Status of APG and FDC?

Hello, While the FDC deliberations were indeed suspended at the start of movement strategy discussions, several FDC members participated in the Movement Strategy process, in working Groups and through their local community involvement. The valuable points of learning from the work accomplished by

[Wikimedia-l] Memorandum of Understanding with NDLI, CIS and WMF

Hi all, It gives us immense pleasure to announce to the Wikimedia community that National Digital Library of India (NDLI), Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) have signed a tripartite non-binding