[Wikimedia-l] Call for smaller language wikis to participate in the technical capacity building program

2021-09-27 Thread Srishti Sethi
Hello all, The Small wiki toolkits initiative is looking for new smaller language wikis to participate in its technical capacity-building program! Learn more about the initiative, updates to date, and the process to sign-up for communities:

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee - Community Elections to take place October 11 - 24

2021-09-27 Thread Shaba 50
I'm done with. https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/ On Mon, Sep 27, 2021, 4:28 PM Cornelius Kibelka wrote: > Just a quick info: > > We were asked to extend the deadline for submitting statements for the > Election Compass. We will do so and extend it until tomorrow (28th of >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

2021-09-27 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Thanks, Mike. My comments about Denny were definitely off the mark in one respect: in the 2012 snippet I was quoting, Denny was already arguing for CC0. What changed was that at that time, Denny felt and said that CC0-licensed Wikidata would not (and should not) extract content out of ShareAlike

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

2021-09-27 Thread Mike Peel
Hi Andreas and Cunctator, I partially agree with you with the WMF's budget and fundraising. It's a lot of money that is being raised, and there seems to be a big disconnect between the fundraising messages being used and the actual expenditure. The money is being well spent and on worthwhile

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee - Community Elections to take place October 11 - 24

2021-09-27 Thread Cornelius Kibelka
Just a quick info: We were asked to extend the deadline for submitting statements for the Election Compass. We will do so and extend it until tomorrow (28th of September), end of day (anywhere on Earth), upvoting starts on Wednesday (29th) and goes until Sunday (3rd). So, check out Meta and

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

2021-09-27 Thread The Cunctator
Congratulations on developing a useful service for the most profitable and powerful corporations on the planet. On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 2:34 AM Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Facts are in and of themselves not copyrightable. Collections of data may > be copyrighted.We choose not to and as a

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

2021-09-27 Thread Andreas Kolbe
The Cunctator's point about Wikidata's copyright-free CC0 licence is actually one issue that I had meant to include in the list of WMF ethical lapses in my other post . Wikidata has imported very large amounts of content from Wikipedia, which, as The Cunctator points out, has a Creative Commons