Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikisource-l] interesting reading

mmm, scam? Aubrey On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Wikimedia-l wrote: > Hi friend! > > > > I've found a nice book that makes interesting reading, please read it here > continue > reading > > > > Yours faithfully, Wikimedia-l > > > _

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

Last time I remember we had a discussion¹ was September 2011 (!): https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-September/thread.html There are several threads worth revisiting: I was looking for an old-but-great Andrew Lih's post about Wikinews², and I re-discovered that a project had f

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

ubrey ¹ https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyAllProjects.htm ² https://tools.wmflabs.org/siteviews/?platform=all-access&source=pageviews&agent=user&range=latest-20&sites= On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:15 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 26 April 2017 at 09:23, Andrea Zanni

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Naive questions: what could do the movement with 1B dollars/euros?

With that amount of money, we could probably put an end on closed science in less than a decade, and make open access and open science the new standard. There's already a lot of efforts going on, but incumbent publishers are much more rich and resourceful. Lobbying, advocacy, outreach could do a lo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Naive questions: what could do the movement with 1B dollars/euros?

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > I love it, although I suspect that 1B wouldn't be enough. The industry of > for-profit academic publishing is probably worth much more than that, and > it won't give up easily. > > Not that I don't support th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's set up a Tor onion service for Wikipedia

Quick update, as this story went on Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wikipedians-want-to-to-put-wikipedia-on-the-dark-web ;-) Aubrey On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:22 PM, Cristian Consonni wrote: > On 06/06/2017 02:10, Risker wrote: > > As far as I can tell (and from comments

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource type of site for sheet music at kickstarter

The English Wikisource already has the Lilypond extension to host Sheet music: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:PagesWithProp/score&limit=500 AFAIK, though, Lilypond notation is not easy and I'm not sure how widespread is the use of transcribing music notation in Wikisource comm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding the endowment

Personally I think the endowment is a great idea, stability and growth for our movement are paramount, IF, we use our money in the best way we can. I also don't really care about how big the banner is: it's a minor inconvenience to click the "Hide" button (provided that we are able to hide automat

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Funding the endowment

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Lisa Gruwell wrote: > Just jumping in with a few points of information regarding the Endowment: > > 1) I met with Lukas at Wikimania regarding SRI and the endowment. As James > indicated, the endowment is invested through the Tides Foundation and this > is one of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Emerging Communities: a proposed new definition

FWIW, I always liked the term "emerging communities" because it's very broad, and it can be applied not just to countries but also cultures, minorities, sub-communities of any sort. For example, I would very much like to call the Wikisource community an "emerging" one, because it needs the exact c

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

Maybe, instead of thinking about CC0 vs CC-BY-SA, we should try to think at the goal: how can we, as a movement, "fight" the exploitation from over-the-top players of community-generated content? Of course, license is the primary tool every one of us thinks about. But (and please correct me if I'm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appropriation of the Wikimedia Blog by the WMF

Hi David, we're not good friends, we saw each other in real life very few times, in Berlin and in Hong Kong, but I always remember our work for the Wikisource IEG¹ one of the coolest projects I've ever done in my life as a wikimedian. We did well, I think, even if our results were small and there w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Appropriation of the Wikimedia Blog by the WMF

On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 10:25 PM, David Cuenca Tudela wrote: Dear David, your mail is very long and dense, I don't know where to start: so I'll start from a random point ;-) > You say that that WMF bears responsibility in the "failure" of our > Wikisource community project, and that it is not im

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Israel joins the nationwide strike to protest the exclusion of gay couples the right to become parents

Hi all, I'll ask forgiveness in advance for starting a probable flame. I support WMIL stance: equity is absolutely within our Wikimedia values, and supporting LGBTQ rights is always a good thing. But I cannot help but see the enormity of omission here: the Israeli government just passed a law pro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] fallout from 2018 Wikimedian of the Year announcement

Il giorno mer 29 ago 2018 19:56 Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < f...@yandex.com> ha scritto: > Dear colleagues, > > Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @ http://tatarstan.ru/ (including > websites of the http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet > http://prav.tatarstan.ru/, ministries/d

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Greener travel and the ethics of carbon offset for Wikimedia community events

I agree with Bence. Right now, offsetting is cheap, likely 1-2 percentage points of the cost of travel. Those money could be asked directly in the grant to the WMF, for example, because offsetting several tonnes in bulk is probably cheaper than doing it person by person. But carbon offsetting is j

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [recent changes]

>>>I feel that Denny's decision to resign makes sense, and in no way does this >>>decision put a cloud over his continued involvement in our community. Pine, I don't necessarily disagree with you, but you are doing a very common mistake in the Wikimedia world: you are not taking into account peopl

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Account of the events leading to James Heilman's removal

Pardon my naivety, but is it possible that "whistleblowers" didn't want the whole Board to know their identity, because other Board members were very close to Lila? It's pretty clear to me that there was serious fear of retribution (not implying that retribution was likely, just saying that the *f

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New GLAM-Wiki Role at Wikimedia Foundation

Yeah! Happy to hear that. More good things to come. Aubrey On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Patrick Earley wrote: > Much support for you in your new role, Alex, and I'm sure you'll have fun > working with all the amazing people around the world involved with GLAM > work! > > On Fri, May 20, 201

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Direction] WMF Board of Trustees 2016 priorities

Thanks Christophe. Looking forward to (collectively) work on the strategy. I personally welcome a quick and hopeful mail like this, and I'm quite happy about where we are right now. Aubrey On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Christophe Henner wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > The Wikimedia Foundation Bo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Tremendous Wiktionary User Group

Kudos! User groups for sister projects really help for advocacy and coordination between different language communities, I'm happy the Wiktionarians chose this path. Aubrey On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Carlos M. Colina wrote: > Dear all, > > I am pleased to announce, on behalf of the Affil

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#1!)

Hi Katherine, thanks for the email. Regarding the external expert for inclusive process you are looking for, maybe this article is of help: https://hbr.org/2016/12/how-employees-shaped-strategy-at-the-new-york-public-library I'm posting here for everyone to see because I think is interesting for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exciting update about development of structured data on Commons

This is great news. Very excited for the future :-) Thanks! Aubrey On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Wes Moran wrote: > Hello Wikimedia community, > > It’s our delight to inform you that we received a US$3,015,000 grant from > the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Politics

Having a global and diverse movement means finding value, albeit implicitly, in diversity (of language, sex, gender, culture, pov). The NPOV is not a "null" concept: it means giving weight to different point of views, merge them together to find a balanced article on something. Mostly, we as a mov

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Politics

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Yair Rand wrote: > "Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It > is like a temple for the mind. It is a place we can all go to think, to > learn, to share our knowledge with others." > The point is, you are implicitly assuming that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

t see other solutions. I hope this mail cleared a bit the situation. Cheers Andrea Zanni Wikimedia Italia On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Peter Southwood < peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > Is there not a method for time to be booked in advance for these things? > Like

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

I think Andrew is right: the WLM banner serves as a pointer, and it's very easy to remember "go on Wikipedia and click into the banner on the top". It's much more difficult to remember the strange name of the contest (in Italy it's still called "Wiki Loves Monuments", even if it's English). And of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

all other Wikimedia Affiliates: collaboration is the very pillar of all the Wikimedia movement. We would like to thank all the people who supported us and gave us opinions and advices on this mailing list and elsewhere. We are very proud to be part of such a great community, and we would like to see it be

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

io.lore...@gmail.com; > > >> me.ly...@gmail.com; ubifri...@gmail.com; jmh...@gmail.com; > > >> dar...@alk.edu.pl; denny.vrande...@kit.edu; jwa...@wikia.com; > > >> s...@wikimedia.org > > >> > CC: wikilovesmonume...@lists.wikimedia.org; > > &g

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Unless "just" meant something like "five hours" ago, Andrea at least only > seems to have learned of this agreement *after* the RfC launched. > Yes, it was meant as "a few hours ago". I received the mail from Lisa's before the Romaine sent

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Biggest disappointment from Wikimania 2017

Hi Yaroslav > To be honest, I can not recollect a single instance WMF people ever >> apologized to the community for any decision, even when it was immediately >> clear that they screwed up badly (like removing admin rights on WMF Wiki >> etc). > > I think it's worth remembering one time they did

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I'll be moving on

Thanks Jan. I do understand what you say, and I'm happy for you that a new chapter of your life is beginning. Happy editing, and happy new life. Tack Aubrey On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Jan Ainali wrote: > All, > > For the last three years I have been the Executive Director for Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris

Megan Hernandez, from WMF, living in Paris, is well. I hope she don't mind me saying in public, but she was the only one I didn't check, and replied to me few minutes ago. Aubrey On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Christophe Henner < christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Drop an email to me or te

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

It one day that I have this reply in my Drafts... --- On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 6:25 PM, Samir Elsharbaty wrote: > Some suggestions of things we can do: > Use the centralnotice. --- Gerard said it too. I understand that this is something unprecedented, as it was the Wikipedia "strike" for SOPA

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] FDC recommendations for 2015-2016 Round 1 APG grant requests

Il 25/nov/2015 05:01 "MZMcBride" ha scritto: > The Wikimedia Foundation has a section under "Organisation-specific > remarks", but isn't included in the "Funding recommendations" chart and > there's no amount requested, amount allocated, or proposal listed for the > Wikimedia Foundation. Why is t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Bassel

ov 24, 2015 3:13 AM, "Tito Dutta" wrote: > > >> > > >> > Sad news. Agree with everyone here that we should do something. > > >> > > > >> > On 24 November 2015 at 16:38, Gerard Meijssen < > > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Video: "Wikipedia, an introduction - Erasmus Prize 2015"

It's great :-) Aubrey On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > There was a real nice musical intermezzo, violin and piano. I spoke with > the pianist and the violinist and they are happy when we use their music in > our article(s) on the Erasmus prize :) > Thanks, >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-hub

I don't really mind WMF working with closed-access publishers, if that works. What I think is that we don't put the same effort indoing something with the openaccess world: all the initiatives I know are volunteer-based. Two pop up in my mind: the Signalling Open Access project, aimed to put an i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Endowment Discussion

I'm not an expert, but I like the idea of an endowment: there are many ways to put your money to good use out there, and if we will manage to do it ethically and in a transparent way, many good things can happen. Of course, "ethically" and "transparent" are crucial factors here, and a lot of work.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] (no subject)

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:03 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > For me Commons and Wikisource could do with an abundant sprinkling of > improved user interface. > Well, of course. But, from where I see it, this is something to be address centrally: Commons and Wikisource communities are fairly small a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] (no subject)

On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Pine W wrote: > Under the redesigned grants scheme, WMF Project grants might be able to > help with this kind of software development work for Commons and/or > Wikisource. I happen to know a developer here in Cascadia who might be > interested, either as an indivi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Hi Yaroslav, > > Thanks for the background. The "POV pushing" you describe is of course what > Graham and Ford are examining in their paper. > > For what it's worth, the Wikidata item for Jerusalem[1] still contains the > statement "capital o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

I really feel we are drowning in a glass of water. The issue of "data quality" or "reliability" that Andreas raises is well known: what I don't understand if the "scale" of it is much bigger on Wikidata than Wikipedia, and if this different scale makes it much more important. The scale of the issue

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

t's a single point of openness, correction, information. I was just wondering if this different scale is a factor in making Wikipedia and Wikidata different enough to accept/reject Andreas arguments. Andrea > On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Andrea Zanni > wrote: > > > I really fe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Danny Horn wrote: > The Wikisource community did a tremendous job in showing up and giving > support to the Wikisource proposals. The top wishes in that category got 41 > and 39 votes, which is really impressive considering the relative size of > the projects. > >

[Wikimedia-l] Wikisource technical issues (was Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!)

(splitting as per Richard request) > Question for the Wikisource folks: would Project Grants be a way to get > resources for you? If you can design a project and find people with the > right skills, that avenue might be beneficial for you. I have a software > developer in mind who would probably l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > > A single point of failure. > > > > Exactly: a single point of failure. A system where a single point of > failure can have such consequences, potentially corrupting knowledge > forever, is a bad system. It's not robust. Andreas, you app

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

hough, that it would bring a hell of issues for Wikidata itaself). Aubrey On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Andrea Zanni > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

I totally second James' invitation to avoid a certain tone, language and conspiracy theories. I will also add that the more those tone, language, and conspiracy theories are used in these threads, the *less* likely a good chunk of the community will participate in conversation. If we really want t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better thankspam

I agree with Chris too! Thank you Chris! Aubrey. Il 13/gen/2016 22:32 "Shabab Mustafa" ha scritto: > And "thank you" Fæ, for brining this up! [pun intended] [sarcasm alert] > [weapons down] > > Pardon my poor sense of humour, but I couldn't resist! :P > > I believe "thank you" and "please" are m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Better thankspam

If I'm not mistaken, we recently discussed about this. I'd love using Discourse myself... Aubrey Il 15/gen/2016 06:08 "Alice Wiegand" ha scritto: > My experiences with discourse in a non-Wikimedia context is great. Worth > a try. > > Alice. > > - Ursprüngliche Nachricht - > Von: "Samuel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's 15th BD

In the tradition of originality that belongs to Wikipedians, here for your enjoyment there is a video of a XVII century version of "Happy Birthday, Wikimedia": https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Happy_Birthday_Wikipedia_2016_-_Flavio_Colusso_-_WM-IT.webm Here's the audio version: https://comm

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

Do you think? I'm genuinely not sure. I think that the difference in scale from what Google does with our data and the general developer/researcher is pretty big. One million times big. I actually think that "over-the-top" players like Google do actually exploit free licensed materials like Wikipe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:59 AM, David Goodman wrote: > Nor am I concerned that our information might be used by people who oppose > our > principles. We ask just the same of our contributors--that the information > they contribute may be used for ''any'' purpose. > My concern is when our CC-BY

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

I'm waiting for the day when Magnus will have a profile on the New Yorker, but this is nice, for the time being :-) Aubrey On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Andrew Lih wrote: > There’s an excellent profile of Magnus Manske in the Wikimedia blog today. > It’s hard to think of people more importan

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Piloting a Discourse installation for discussion (was: Better thankspam)

> > I wanted to install it, so we could test it and then move to a WMF > server. I wasn't fully demotivated after I've seen it's written in > Ruby (nothing against syntax, but on infrastructure side it's easier > to install .NET framework on Linux). Then they say the only way they > support install

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Piloting a Discourse installation for discussion (was: Better thankspam)

y. Aubrey On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:34 PM, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Andrea Zanni > wrote: > > Why? > > As a user, you would just need to login and participate, Discourse is > like > > a website. You don't need to install anything. &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: >- It is really laborious to add references. Many references are a book a >publication and I give you one example of a book [1]. It takes MUCH more >time to add a source than it is to add a statement. The book, the > authors >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Anthony Cole wrote: > To cite a book just add the ISBN and page number. Leave it at that; or > perhaps you could devise a bot that follows up, converting ISBN + page > number into a full-blown reference. > Most of the time, I think your approach is good enough.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ethics of launching Wikidata, vs. ethics of WMF plans for Wikidata

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > You write about your fear, uncertainty and doubt .. Why have us waste time > on it? Do something useful. > Thanks, > I, for one, think that the mail Pete sent (both in content and tone) is perfectly fine and helpful. I don't know if I s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Profile of Magnus Manske

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Anthony Cole wrote: > Most editions of most books published in the last 40 years (certainly books > from reliable publishers) have an ISBN that identifies one edition. Most > reliable journal articles these days have a doi. For simple citing of web > pages, you c

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Elsevier?

As much as I'd **love** to see that, I think it would be a very bold step from the WMF, supporting a heroic BUT illegal operation as Sci-Hub, against a despicable BUT legal operation like Elsevier. If the WMF does want to be bold, this is a great battle to fight. Aubrey On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 9:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Elsevier?

As much as I love Jake and Alex's work, and I think they are doing a terrific job, we still have to acknowledge that "playing by the rules" here is not going to change anything. Every time the academia says "we have to think about Science!", so they play along, keeping the system alive and well. W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The conversation is happening elsewhere :(

Thanks Asaf, I didn't know about that group. May I also mention that the conversation is also becoming *exhausting*, being in English and at very high level? I know we can't do nothing about it, but it's worth noting, IMHO, that the more we go on the fewer people with incredible stamina, analytic

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An Open Letter to Wikimedia Foundation BoT

Thanks Ido. For what is worth, and in my personal capacity (I'm not affiliated with Wikimedia Italia any more) I completely second your concern, Discussions are ongoing from months now and BoT seems frozen in silence. People really don't understand why. I would also like to thank you for expressi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Shared list

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:31 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > You are not the only one who is told that dissent is not appreciated. It is > ironic that when openness and shared values are considered, these same > values are swept under the rug when people are not in line with "common" > thought. > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transition plans for WMF leadership - Board Reform

I don't really want to generate yet-another-thread, but it seems to me that many people in this conversation don't really understand the need of chapter-elected seats, which to me feels like "I don't understand the need for chapters". I have mixed feeling about this. Of course, I've been in a chap

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Transition plans for WMF leadership - Board Reform

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: > What I will disagree on is with the notion that the board has to take the > org's side against the movement by definition. It is my understanding that > the board has the role of oversight of the org -- that is, it's the board's > job to ensu

[Wikimedia-l] Alessio Guidetti, Cotton

last goodbye here on his userpage: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discussioni_utente:Cotton#Ciao. Andrea Zanni on behalf of Wikimedia Italia ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata-l] Birthday gift: Missing Wikipedia links (was Re: Wikidata turns two!)

Hi Denny, great tool! I really like this kind of "human computation" tools, as they are quick to grasp and easy to perform. The Wikidata Game from Magnus is a great example too, IMO. I wonder: could it be hard to find a way to "count" how many merging one accomplishes? This would work both for an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] WikiCheese crowdfunding - Let's photograph 'em all

Me too me too! But before, Brussels on beer. Aubrey On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Craig Franklin wrote: > Forget that, I'd like WMUK to fly me to Scotland so that I can, uh, > "research" and write about various types of whisky. > > Cheers, > Craig > > On 25 November 2014 at 18:59, Jon Davie

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia France] WikiCheese crowdfunding - Let's photograph 'em all

The day before yesterday I heard that some beers from Brussels are > typical > > Brussels as the region has a special local micro climate. > > > > But I must say, I think it is good to document cheese, as well as other > > food/drinks, we should have more photos with bet

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director

y this Saturday, and this is her second week of work. Please welcome her in our incredible Wikimedia movement. Best regards, Andrea Zanni -- Presidente Wikimedia Italia ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Congratulations

Thanks Ad, and congratulation to all. Cheers! Aubrey On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Christophe Henner < christophe.hen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > I've already congratulate them in Private not to spam everyone, but your > solution is much more clever. > > Congratulations to all of you :) >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014

This is an incredible video. Congratulations to everyone involved. Now I need to get a tissue *sniff*. Aubrey On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Takashi OTA < supertakot+foundatio...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Asaf for quick response! > I'll get started soon. > > --[[User:Takot]] > > On Thursda

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 9:44 AM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Two weeks ago I emailed the fundraising team with the following note, > quietly and discretely pointing out an error in their messaging. Sadly I > haven't had a reply and I think that in the UK they are sti

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Our final email

I support the idea that "translation" also needs to happen between cultures within the same language. I made the example of the Italian because it is my own, but of course there are other English-speaking cultures other the American one, and they would deserve the same attention. Of course it is di

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is there some Wikimedia project to host contents based on original research?

The Wikisource dogma is: "If things are published and free, they belong to Wikisource". Unfortunately, there is no Wikimedia project for original research, Sucheta. As an example, some years ago I wanted to host my bachelor thesis (about Wikisource) in a fixed form on Wikisource (and I could do it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia charity chairman resigns after pornography row

Date of the article says 02 Aug 2012. Why is this relevant now on this list? Aubrey On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Toby Dollmann wrote: > Why ? > > Have you forgotten Section 230 of Communications Decency Act ? > > Toby > > On 1/11/15, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > > can someone shut this guy up

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia charity chairman resigns after pornography row

bscribed then unsubscribe yourself and report it to Google. > There are instructions in other messages. > > However, please *don't* respond to messages from that fake mailing list on > the real one, that just adds confusion and helps the trolls achieve their > aims. > > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Its not goodbye, but au revoir

Goodbye Pavel, it has been a pleasure. And as you said last Chapters Conference, please take care of yourself. Of course, we hope to see you around :-) Aubrey On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Pavel Richter wrote: > Dear Friends of Free Knowledge, > > today is my last day at the office as the fo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons / OTRS is broken

Thanks Ryan for the clarification. My question is: what could we ask, as a community, to the WMF, o to chapters? Is there some tool/task/workflow that could receive help from Wikimedia? Maybe a new software, or some trusted agents in key position, or something else. What could speed up the voluntee

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Extension

Also related... Maybe I am not aware of an existing tool, but: often, tutors need to control the wikiwork of some users. This happens when we make and editathon, a course, a lesson. Wikimetrics was supposed to help us with this, but it has weird metrics, and nobody understands them. Aubrey On Tu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cc-by-sa 4.0, Wikimedia logos

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Kat Walsh wrote: > tl;dr: CC has its struggles but this is not something I currently see > as a major concern. > Is there something we can do as * Wikimedia movement? * Wikimedia Foundation? Aubrey ___ Wikimedia-l mail

[Wikimedia-l] Events and editathons with journalists

Dear all, I was wondering if anyone, in the Wikimedia movement, has done editathons and wiki-events with *journalists*. In April, Wikimedia Italia will host a workshop at the International Journalism Festival, and we'd welcome tips and suggestions. Cheers Aubrey __

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Signpost, 1 April 2015

Well, I was really excited about the Sister project news... :-( (but I think it's a pretty neat joke) Aubrey On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > (reminder: This is a prank, for "April Fools Day". Please feel free to > ignore this issue entirely, or at any rate don't waste you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Not all pixels are created equals: introducing brand new Wikimedia France's metrics

As always, every tool is developed thinking about Wikipedia and Commons, never all the other sister projects! What about those poor pixels? Are they different from Commons pixels??!?!!1! Luckily, today the WMF said otherwise: see the "Sister projects" news here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Helping Nepal Through Collaborative Mapping

We're going to do one in Italy too.More info soon. Aubrey On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Jan Ainali wrote: > And in the Stockholm Area: > > HOT Mapping for Nepal > https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:HOT_2015/Jordb%C3%A4vning_i_Nepal > Today, 17.00-21.00 CEST > > > > *Best regards,Jan Aina

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2015

[sorry for cross-posting] Hello everyone, I would like spend a minute thanking Wikimedia Deutschland for organizing the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin, and thanking everyone who participated in it. I'd like to say out loud that I really liked the atmosphere, that I enjoy more and more the simple

Re: [Wikimedia-l] While Election committee counts the votes...

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 4:38 AM, Luis Villa wrote: > (I know some FOSS communities are having good experiences with > discourse.org, for example.) > Please, please, can we do that too? :-) FWIW, I studied Discourse a bit and I think it has enormous potential. It is developed with the explicit goa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

TL;DR: the Italian Wikisource has been indexed by a digital library platform used by over 4500 libraries in Italy [1]. This means that over 3500 texts (proofread and/or validated) can be read by library patrons. Many libraries will add them to the catalog too (!). Longer and librarianer explanati

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell

Goodbye Fabrice, and thank you for all your enthusiasm. It was very appreciated :-) Good luck! Aubrey On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Michael Jahn wrote: > May your next steps be joyful, thrilling and challenging. All the best to > you, Fabrice! > Michael > > 2015-06-18 18:25 GMT+02:00 Fabrice

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Renewal of the Recognition to Wikisource Community User Group

Yes! Thank you Carlos and all the AffCom for the renewal. It's a good moment for Wikisource (as an international project), and we are already preparing a survey for the whole community, to get feedbacks and opinions for future projects. We are trying really hard to coordinate and build a committed

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thousands of images on Wikipedia and Commons in danger, action needed

FWIW, today WIkimedia Italia had a Barcamp at the Italian Parliament to talk about Wiki Loves Monuments, FOP (which we already don't have) and related stuff. Several politicians were present and we discussed also this matter. They already alerted their MEPs. Hopefully this will contribute to the di

[Wikimedia-l] Environmental impact of Wikipedia

Hello everyone. I tried to find the info myself, with little success: I'm interested to know about the environmental impact of running Wikipedia (carbon emissions, etc.) and what we are doing about it. Sorry if I missed wikimedia-l threads, or other sources. The only thing I found regarding a gree

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Environmental impact of Wikipedia

n, Jul 5, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Guillaume Paumier wrote: > Hello Andrea, > > Le dimanche 5 juillet 2015, 17:45:34 Andrea Zanni a écrit : > > > > I tried to find the info myself, with little success: > > I'm interested to know about the environmental impact of running >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Feedback on the last 2 years

Thank you Christophe. This mail is really useful and I really hope, as Pine said, you will be able to share some of the documentation in English. It would be really helpful for chapters to understand these issues and, above all, the solutions. Aubrey On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:26 PM, Jon Davies

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I'm back

Welcome back! Andrea On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Interested in your old haunts at the language committee ? Any way, wb ! > Thanks, > Gerard > > > On 17 April 2014 22:47, Milos Rancic wrote: > > > For those who care, I'm back. > > > > My absence wasn't r

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How Wikimedia could help languages to survive

[snip] For the things we could do, I quote form other people: * encourage Wikisource, Commons, Wiktionary as primary projects for new/endangered languages. You could scan books or documents if the language is written, or record audio/interviews and put that on Commons if t the language is just ora

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How Wikimedia could help languages to survive

IMHO is easier to start a Wikisource than a Wikipedia: you just need scans of some written works out of copyright. It's a fisrt stemp, and a low hanging fruit. Aubrey On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Unicode support is not that big of a

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