Re: [Wikimedia-l] Event coordinators: how to create many accounts from 1 IP address
So, I often find myself doing outreach related to enwiki before large groups, and while I have no interest in becoming a sysop, could really use the Account Creator permission. Is there really no page to publicly request this? The instructions cited below, taken from here[1], suggest so, but that just feels broken. I don't like the idea of privately reaching out to some admin for this permission. :-/ Asaf [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation#Becoming_an_.22account_creator.22 On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: K. Peachey, 17/05/2012 05:38: On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, MZMcBridez...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Before this guide gets distributed too widely, I'd think about its scalability. Shell requests can take weeks, months, or even years to get resolved, even when filed properly. Anyone in the world of tomorrow! can do shell requests (Git), Then we just need to bug people to get it merged (eg: Reedy/Roan/others etc etc). That will cut down a lot of time. Not really, the associated bugzilla paperwork or IRC begging is still needed. Nemo __**_ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] [Re]-Introducing the Participation Support program
Dear all: Here are two announcements and one request from the Participation Support Program Committee (formerly the Participation Grants Committee) and the WMF regarding the Participation Support Program (formerly the Participation Grants Program). ==A note from the Participation Support Program Committee regarding the Participation Support Program's name change== In order to better comply with US tax regulations that affect the Wikimedia Foundation, we must change the name of the Participation Grants Program to Participation Support Program to more consistently reflect the nature of these transactions as reimbursements rather than grants. This will allow WMF and WMDE to continue to administer this program without imposing additional burdensome technical requirements on recipients of these funds, while still keeping us in compliance with US regulations. We will not be changing this program substantially or procedurally: we are only naming it more accurately. To read more about this program, see [1]. If you'd like to discuss the name change, see [2]. ==A related note from the WMF grants team regarding funding participation in Wikimedia-organized events== The Participation Support Program (a partnership between WMF and WMDE distinct from the WMF Grants Program) will not fund individual participation in Wikimedia-organized events (defined as events organized by Wikimedia chapters, the WMF, or other Wikimedian groups). However, WMF is likely to fund participation in Wikimedia-organized events when the event organizers apply for funding through the WMF grants program. Therefore, individuals seeking funds for participation in Wikimedia-organized events should apply through the event organizers during the planning stages of the event so that the organizers can budget appropriately to cover these costs. This note applies especially to event organizers and to individuals who may apply for funding to participate in Wikimedia-organized events. Our hope is that these guidelines will streamline this process for event organizers and attendees alike and that we might avoid duplication of efforts and excessive administrative burdens for all. For more details on this policy how may affect participants and event organizers, see the QA[3]. ==Please help make this accessible to all== We need your help in bringing the news about the availability of this program to our non-English-speaking colleagues. Please help translate the program information page by clicking the Translate this page in [1]. Please relay this message to your local chapter/community mailing lists to help us find volunteer translators to make this program as accessible as possible. Thanks, Asaf Bartov (WMF) Johannes Rohr (WMDE) [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support/Program_Name [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support/Guidelines_on_funding_participation_in_Wikimedia-organized_events -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Grant Advisory Committee is expanding!
Reminder: The Grant Advisory Committee is expanding. If you'd like to help grantees and the Foundation in its grantmaking, consider submitting your candidacy here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates Cheers, Asaf On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear colleagues, The Wikimedia Foundation would like to expand its Grant Advisory Committee[1], and we would like you to consider whether you might be interested in volunteering in that capacity. The GAC (as it is affectionately known) is an advisory body performing a double function in relation to the Wikimedia Foundation's Grants Program[3] -- 1. The GAC advises grant applicants on how to improve and clarify their proposals and their plans. This often extends to advice not just about how to secure the funds, but how to improve the planning of the project/event or what precedents to look at, for positive or negative examples. 2. The GAC advises the Foundation on the mission fit, frugality, and expected impact of grant proposals, expressing support or concerns about open grant proposals. If this sounds like something you might want to help with, please review the description of the GAC[1] and the membership criteria[2]. If you think you meet the criteria, add your name to the candidates page[4] with a brief statement demonstrating your meeting the criteria. This is to be an open process, and the number of seats on the GAC is not predetermined; we expect all qualifying candidates to be admitted into the GAC. Please help us reach potential volunteers by sharing/forwarding this announcement in appropriate community mailing lists. Finally, I'd like to thank the incumbent members of the GAC (founded exactly one year ago), who are putting in their time and experience and have been making a real difference in our grantmaking this past year. Thank you, Asaf [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Membership_criteria [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] FDC Nominations are open
Hi, everyone. As you probably know, we have been discussing the creation of a new Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)[1] across the movement for several months now, following the board resolution[2]. Now is a good time to start collecting potential nominees to serve on the future FDC, as we hope to select members by late August, and to have a working committee some time in September. Following the second Advisory Group meeting[3], the draft proposal[4] is coming along, and you can read it to get an idea of what the FDC will be tasked with, and what kind of work and background are expected of its volunteer members. ==Why you'd want to volunteer with the FDC== * you will be reviewing proposals and making recommendations about the effective spending of millions of dollars, shaping the direction of impact of a significant portion of our movement's financial resources. * your decision-making will be supported by professional staff tasked with a lot of the decision-supporting information gathering, summarizing, etc. * you will gain valuable experience in grant-making, project evaluation, and planning on a global and multi-cultural level. * you will be working with 8 other great and dedicated individuals from across the movement. ==Why you might not want to volunteer with the FDC== * The FDC will commit to, and enforce, a high standard of participation, and you may not be ready to seriously commit to a high level of participation for at least two years. * The FDC's work will be conducted in English, and even with maximal support and summarization from staff, you will be required to read a lot of text in English, and to make your contributions in English. * You don't meet the membership criteria[5], or you're confident other candidates are better qualified or positioned to serve on the committee. If you're interested in serving on the future FDC, please add your name to the nominations page[6]. You will be contacted shortly and asked to make a statement. Thanks, Asaf [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee [2] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Funds_Dissemination_Committee [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC_Advisory_Group_meeting_June_9-10,_2012 [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Draft_FDC_Proposal_for_the_Board [5] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Draft_FDC_Proposal_for_the_Board#Membership [6] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Nominations -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Grant Advisory Committee Expanded
Hello, everyone. I'm pleased to announce that we have significantly expanded the Grant Advisory Committee (GAC)[1] as of today, and it now numbers 30 volunteers, following an open process and public calls for volunteers. The updated list of members is here[2]. With this expansion, we hope to achieve a higher degree of community participation in the Foundation's evaluation of grant proposals for its Wikimedia Grants program[3], as well as more diverse feedback and advice for grant applicants on how to refine their proposals for best impact. The GAC was set up almost exactly one year ago, and has been quietly doing what is frankly a thankless job. I applaud and thank the volunteers who have done this work so far, and look forward to easing their load a little now that the GAC is larger, considering an expected rise in the number of grant proposals they would be called upon to review. Welcome to the new volunteers, and may we all have much success in fostering innovation and impactful mission-aligned activities through the grants program. Asaf [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee#Membership [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Grant Advisory Committee Expanded
Hi, Anirudh. Thanks for the welcoming note. As others have noted, we have not required all members to identify to the Foundation, and those that are identified are so in other capacities. As Katie and Nemo pointed out, GAC work is all done in the open on Meta, and no personal information or actual money is involved, so it is not felt necessary to require identification. Furthermore, it is hoped that the open nomination process gave ample time to express concerns, publicly or privately. So we take the wiki way, which is to trust people in their chosen identities to the extent practical and permissible by law. Cheers, Asaf On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Asaf, Thank you for posting this and a grand welcome to all the new arrivals in the GAC. ;) I see that some of the folks have chosen to remain anonymous (many of whom I identify as prolific contributors to our projects) but I would like to know whether the Wikimedia Foundation has independently verified their identity prior to induction into the body? I understand that the body plays only an advisory role into the process with the final decision resting on the staff, however, the GAC voice carries a fair amount of weight as well (as far as I'm aware). Therefore, I believe, it would serve the interest of all the stakeholders, specially the community, to know and be assured that the WMF has already taken steps to identify those who would be responsible for advising the WMF on the dissemination of funds to grant applications from individuals and chapters (non-FDC). My personal opinion is that though anonymity is great motivator for our volunteer contributors on projects, but at the same time it can lead to reduced accountability and moral responsibility for work that has direct implications in the real world. I apologize in advance if I have made any mistake in fact, and would be happy to hear any differing views on the subject. Sincerely, Anirudh Bhati On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello, everyone. I'm pleased to announce that we have significantly expanded the Grant Advisory Committee (GAC)[1] as of today, and it now numbers 30 volunteers, following an open process and public calls for volunteers. The updated list of members is here[2]. With this expansion, we hope to achieve a higher degree of community participation in the Foundation's evaluation of grant proposals for its Wikimedia Grants program[3], as well as more diverse feedback and advice for grant applicants on how to refine their proposals for best impact. The GAC was set up almost exactly one year ago, and has been quietly doing what is frankly a thankless job. I applaud and thank the volunteers who have done this work so far, and look forward to easing their load a little now that the GAC is larger, considering an expected rise in the number of grant proposals they would be called upon to review. Welcome to the new volunteers, and may we all have much success in fostering innovation and impactful mission-aligned activities through the grants program. Asaf [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee#Membership [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Event coordinators: how to create many accounts from 1 IP address
Thanks! http://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Best_practices_in_organizing_a_Wikipedia_workshopaction=historysubmitdiff=38805oldid=24788 A. On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks to everyone who helped work on this documentation. I really appreciate it. Please distribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation and, within it, link to the relevant becoming an account creator pages on particular wikis. Thanks. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation On 05/24/2012 06:15 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: Thanks, Alex! That was what I was looking for. :) It is now mentioned in the instructions on Meta. :) Cheers, Asaf On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:02 PM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov alexandrdmitriroma...@gmail.com wrote: There is indeed a page on en.Wikipedia specifically for requests for the Account creator permission : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions/Account_creator I don't know about other languages or projects. Alex 2012/5/24 Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org So, I often find myself doing outreach related to enwiki before large groups, and while I have no interest in becoming a sysop, could really use the Account Creator permission. Is there really no page to publicly request this? The instructions cited below, taken from here[1], suggest so, but that just feels broken. I don't like the idea of privately reaching out to some admin for this permission. :-/ Asaf [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mass_account_creation#Becoming_an_.22account_creator.22 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2012-13 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation
Hi, folks. I've also tried to address the (truly confusing) use of the word grants across the plan. See here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_budget#Wikimedia_Grants_budget Cheers, Asaf On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 1 August 2012 09:47, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 August 2012 17:36, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org wrote: I checked the page a couple of days ago and didn't see any questions: maybe I was looking at the wrong page? The questions are on the page SJ suggested using: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_budget Yep, got it, thanks. There are some questions that Garfield and Asaf have already answered -- I will take a look later today and see what remains. I think there's one outstanding from you, and one from Nemo. Thanks, Sue ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Jamaican editathon
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: We've had an email from a gentleman at an educational institution in Jamaica, who'd like to run an editathon. He's contacted Wikimedia UK as a starting point, presumably because of the shared history: but we can't do a great deal more than send him some booklets, etc, by post. He's simply too far away! Are there any individuals or chapters (or the WMF) based nearby who could help? We have nothing going on in Jamaica, but I'm happy to be put in touch with him and see what we can do. Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott
http://aubreymcfato.com/2013/01/15/how-to-exploit-academics/ is a brief and amusing analogy to what the academic publishing racket is like. It's particularly poignant in that it really is the case because academics put up with it, and for no other reason. (of course, for them to stop putting up with it, a significant minority would have to lay their careers, or existing reputations, on the line. Hence the inertia.) A. On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Nikola Smolenski, 15/01/2013 09:59: On 15/01/13 09:50, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: I'm also an ArchiveTeam member, and the JSTOR liberator was definitely NOT set up for humorous purposes: it's a serious project, and everyone should consider joining. For the occasion, it also gives people the option to add a message of memorial about Aaron. I'd just like to remind that while people who liberate documents do violate JSTOR's TOS, people who subsequently access the documents have never agreed to the TOS and are not bound by it, so everything should be perfectly legal for them. Sure, thanks for reminding. That's why we were able to share on archive.org the JSTOR PD Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London shared by gmaxwell, a year ago: https://archive.org/details/** philosophicaltransactionshttps://archive.org/details/philosophicaltransactions Nemo __**_ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Using the Wikipedia logo for Wikimedia South Africa projects
That's right. We should probably send a reminder/refresher to all chapters and groups about this. The address does appear in the [[wmf:Trademark policy]] page. And for further clarity -- WMZA need not be a party to the trademark agreement, if it doesn't make sense. The city of Johannesburg, or whatever subsidiary body is actually producing and placing the plaques, is the entity that needs permission, and the one that should seek it. (WMZA can, of course, help and advise!) Cheers, A. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:52 PM, David Richfield davidrichfi...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks! I'll forward the request to the trademarks address. On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:27 AM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote: David, You should probably contact Jay Walsh or any one from WMF Legal and ask for permission. Abbas. (I emailed David off-list) Those are fail-safe followups, Jay and the legal team can and do review those. Within the past year or so the WMF legal team set up trademarks AT wikimedia DOT org. That's the best starting point of contact. It's not a very well-known address, but it's on the contact page somewhere. Hope this helps for future requests here. -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Provisional Wikimedia Kenya no longer a chapter
Hello, everyone. I would like to inform you that the group known as Wikimedia Kenya is no longer a provisionally-recognized chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, as its provisional recognition has expired, and the WMF did not extend it. We encourage the Wikimedians in Kenya to regroup and make some plans for activity, and then to affiliate with the movement as a Wikimedia User Group (a model not available at the time the group was provisionally recognized as a chapter). Please see our message to the Kenyan group on their list, here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediake/2013-February/003359.html We remain supportive of the group's next steps, when they are ready to take them. I am updating Meta now, but do lend a hand if I've missed anything. Asaf Bartov -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Provisional Wikimedia Kenya no longer a chapter
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.comwrote: On Mar 1, 2013 11:27 PM, Michael Peel michael.p...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Yes, I had read the email to the Kenyan list. My questions took that email into account. Then your first question confuses me. That email clearly says they haven't incorporated. That means they can't have signed the chapter's agreement, since there is no entity to sign it... (To my knowledge, chapter's agreements are always entered into by chapters in their own names, not by individuals.) That's correct. And to Mike's second question: the group is not _barred_ from seeking recognition as a chapter once more. It can do so at any time. As things stand, though, the group does not meet AffCom's criteria for chapters, so if attempted right now, the group would not attain recognition. That fact, combined with the availability of the User Group model of affiliation, seems to suggest an easy low-commitment path for the Kenyan group to develop. As Bence pointed out, a successful Kenyan WUG could well be the basis for a future chapter. Cheers, Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiAfrica Cameroon
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Guillaume Goursat guillaume.gour...@wikimedia.fr wrote: Hello all, I'm currently working at Doual'art (Douala, Cameroon) for the WikiAfrica project [1]. [..] If you want more information about WikiAfrica Cameroon, we'll communicate about this project soon. I would love to hear more about the work in Cameroon. I'll wait patiently for more information. :) A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Longest living hoax?
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:15 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote: It's also telling that the longest hoax was about ancient history: it matches the popular belief that history is by far the biggest weakness of Wikipedia. Our historical coverage is patchy, but I don't think it's our biggest weakness - art and culture probably are. I believe that non-computer related engineering fields (mechanical engineering, structural engineering, civil engineering, materials science) are still large gaps as well, though better than 3 years ago. Can't resist pasting this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/All_human_knowledge To work, comrades! :) A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין
אני לא בטוח שכתבה כזו תועיל למטרותינו בשום צורה. אם מישהו בכל זאת רוצה לספר את הסיפור, אני ממליץ להיזהר מלשון הרע. - אסף 2013/3/11 Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il כתב מעיתון מוביל מבקש לדבר עם מישהו על בן הטבע. מישהו מעוניין? -- Forwarded message -- To: it...@wikimedia.org.il הי איציק, בהמשך לשיחתנו, אני מעוניין לדבר עם עורך שהיה שם מימיה הראשונים של ויקיפדיה העברית, ומכיר מקרוב את יהודה בלו, שערך בעבר תחת השם בן הטבע לפני שהושעה ונחסם. ברצוני לשמוע את הסיפור המלא על מה שקרה שם, ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] בקשה למרואיין
No bad words. My phrase was לשון הרע, which is a legal term in Israel, originating in Jewish religious law[1], roughly equivalent to defamation or the Roman law 'calumnia', and I was advocating _avoiding_ that if anyone chooses to discuss this person (from the Hebrew Wikipedia's past) with the press. A. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lashon_hara On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: I too thought the gmail translate worked really well, until I saw Asaf suggest they stop using bad words - which I guess gmail stripped out, because I didn't see any! ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] WMF Grants Program Retrospective 2009-2012 published
Dear friends and colleagues, Another component of the Wikimedia Foundation's increased focus on grantmaking is now ready for discussion: it is a retrospective report on the history, evolution, and processes of the Wikimedia Grants Program (the Foundation's first, and until fairly recently only, grants program). We were interested in an independent report by someone with a good understanding of wikis and our shared values, and chose a local Wikipedian named Kevin Gorman (User:Kevin Gorman), active on English Wikipedia, who has volunteered in the Wikipedia Education Program and also had an (unpaid) internship at the Foundation office in San Francisco for a few months in 2011. Kevin was paid our standard contractor wage for his work on this. Kevin has posted the report here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Retrospective_2009-2012 I'd like to thank Kevin for his work. I invite anyone interested to read the report and discuss it on its talk page. We believe your inputs will help us improve our current and future processes, especially as we deepen and widen our grantmaking programs and strategies. We look forward to a productive discussion. Please _do_ share this message and link with your respective communities and lists; please _don't_ discuss this on the lists, but on the talk page, so that Kevin can respond to questions, and so that I and others at WMF can provide input as well. Cheers, Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Armenia
Welcome, Wikimedia Armenia, and congratulations to Susanna and the rest of the team for their progress so far. Asaf On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am happy to announce that the the WMF Board of Trustees have resolved to recognize Wikimedia Armenia as the newest Wikimedia chapter: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Armenia This group has already put a lot of effort into promoting Wikipedia and the other projects in Armenia on their road to recognition and I am really looking forward to hearing of their future endeavours. Please give a warm welcome to Wikimedia Armenia! Best regards, Bence (Affiliations Committee) ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 11:30 AM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: In the meantime, I hope that you add to your list of all places receiving movement funding resources any major projects within WMF. I think the situation with AFT5 repeating some errors from IEP which were well documented by a consultant that WMF hired, which tells me there is need for improvement within WMF. I think WMF should get its own house in order before, or at least concurrently, with looking at evaluations and accountability for outside organizations like chapters. I've been seeing repeated assertions that AFT5 repeated some errors from IEP, but not a clear statement about what those were, i.e. specifically the errors that were repeated. Was this spelled out anywhere? I might have missed it. A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board FDC elections?
Also agree with Nathan. Those chapter board members who are not active on the projects already have a far greater relative weight in selecting the chapter-selected board seats. A. On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Nathan, 27/04/2013 21:34: I would go the other way, and limit the participants in the election for the community seat to people who are members of the volunteer community. Presumably that would include most members of most organizational boards, but only include those staff and other paid workers who also participate as volunteers. I agree with Nathan, simplifying the rules is useful while complicating them for a few dozens voters is not. Nemo __**_ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board FDC elections?
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: I agree. We should limit it to only community members, or to give equal right to everyone. Asaf, you right, but we are talking also about the FDC elections. a processes where we are not granting chapters and others organizations the right to vote but granting to the WMF. Giving only WMF staff, and not chapters staff the right to vote in community process, it's like saying the first are part of the community, but the second are not. I don't even want to refer to the sensitive issue of the staff voting for their bosses.. That's a very good point, and I think the chapter board members and staff definitely _should_ be given a voice _at least_ in the FDC elections. I leave it to the Elections Committee to propose solutions. A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Comments on compliance and the FDC Round 2 decisions
/2013-April/125536.html [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grants_talk%3AWM_HK%2FEducation_Toolkits_For_Liberal_Studies%2FReportdiff=5285395oldid=5237667 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:WM_HK/Education_Toolkits_For_Liberal_Studies/Report [3] The assessment for WMHK's proposal is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikimedia_Hong_Kong/Staff_proposal_assessment [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/FDC_recommendations/2012-2013_round2 [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index/Requests#Grant_submissions_not_approved -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] The one-employee secretariat model
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:21 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Florence Devouard wrote: I was thinking of the numerous (quite successful) associations in France, which are simply made of entrepreneurs wishing to do things together (from networking, to training, to visits, conferences etc.). Most of those associations have only one staff member, a long-term hired secretary who takes care of secretarial work. The rest of the association activity is 100% taken care of by the volunteer entrepreneurs (usually through an extended board of volunteer members). Yes, this kind of association is also somewhat common in the United States as well. I agree that it might serve as a very good model for a healthy number of Wikimedia chapters. Yes, this model clearly works in some countries and for some non-profits. It has also been working for some Wikimedia groups, e.g. WMPL. However, it is not obvious that this model is what all (or even most) groups are looking for (judging by grant applications and informal conversations I have had with many groups). I would be willing to consider funding such a position on a part-time basis (say 3 days a week) if a group presented a compelling case for the need for such a person. In many cases, the secretary is paid with sponsorship and membership fees. The Wikimedia Foundation seems to be in a good place to ensure that this need is met for chapters in need of a full-time staff person. A little seed money. What needs to happen in order to ensure requests like this are met if membership fees and sponsorships aren't sufficient? The Foundation is indeed in a good place to fill this need, where it exists. I think very few groups have been able to demonstrate the need for _sustained_ support of this kind (i.e. not the two afternoons needed to finish some particular report, but actual ongoing labor of the order that would require such a position). Again, I am happy to discuss this with any group, on any channel, including privately if they prefer (I prefer public conversations). For example, in the context of the recent FDC proposals, WMCZ's staffing plan[1], assuming that student could be a *part-time* employee, could certainly have gone through the Wikimedia Grants Program (NB: not the GAC -- the GAC is the advisory body to the Wikimedia Grants Program), as in WMCZ's case, I am aware of a relatively large amount of administrative work around reimbursements, related to their two current grants. A case will still need to be made for such positions, each and every time -- we can't, and shouldn't, assume that this model is a panacea, so requests like this will be met wherever they make sense, in terms of both need and capacity (unfortunately, retaining paid help has a non-trivial up-front cost in time and planning, and the capacity to put in that time, responsibly, needs to be there for us to approve such a position). Asaf [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals/2012-2013_round2/Wikimedia_Czech_Republic/Proposal_form -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resignation announcement, and a parting remark to everyone
at the peril of my degree studies, with the wishful thinking that one day the help will come to let WMHK and all the other small but well-established chapters professionalise. I was wrong. With the FDC process hammering the final nail into my scepticism about where WMF and the movement is heading, I figured that with a degree in environmental engineering from Cambridge my life will be much better spent helping other worthy causes than wasting days on Wikimedia administration work only to have them go unappreciated time and time again. But I feel that it is necessary for me to leave a parting message to my fellow Wikimedians, a stern warning about where I see our movement heading. I feel that we're losing our character and losing our appreciation for volunteers, in particular the limitations of volunteer effort. I leave you all with a final thought from Dan Pallotta: charitable efforts will never grow if we continue to be so adverse about overheads and staffing. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong.html With Wiki-Love, Deryck PS. I wish there was an appropriate private mailing list for me to send this to. Unfortunately, most of the important WMF stakeholders aren't subscribed to internal-l, and most veteran chapters folks know what I want to say already. I just hope that trolls wouldn't blow this out of proportion. Or perhaps I do want this to be blown out of proportion so that my voice will actually be heard. Thanks for reading. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] 108 Wikipedias had their logo updated
This is wonderful. Many thanks to all the volunteers involved! A. On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: As you may remember, in 2010 the Wikipedia puzzle logo was updated: https://commons.wikimedia.**org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0 The localisation and update of logos has always been a volunteer-driven effort, organised mostly by Casey at the time. Building on his work,[1] in the last 6 months over 100 Wikipedias had their logo updated,[2] with the last batch yesterday. Like the 55 Wiktionaries in December,[3] many of those wikis have never had a localised before; the others were still using the v1 logo or had some other breach of the visual guidelines. Many thanks to all the translators and users checking the new logos, and to the tireless Odder who drew some 66 of those logos and uploaded even more in the process of doing so. Again, you can still help by adding translations and reporting errors on the coordination page.[1] Nemo [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/User:Cbrown1023/Logoshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cbrown1023/Logos [2] 108 if I'm counting correctly. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.** org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=40285,**44974,46589,48397https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=40285,44974,46589,48397 [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/**pipermail/translators-l/2012-** December/002193.htmlhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2012-December/002193.html __**_ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million
Awesome! Congratulations to ESWP contributors and to all Spanish speakers for the wealth of free knowledge at their fingertips. :) A. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks! Maybe many of you have it already noticed. Nevertheless, spanish speakers wikimedians want to share with you our joy of that the spanish version of Wikipedia has surpassed the million of articles. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Estad%C3%ADsticas Thanks and congratulations to all volunteers that make it possible. Let's party! -- *Salvador Alcántar* *WMMX* *Iberocoop* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki goes to radio: Möebius at Ibero 90.9
How lovely!
A.
On May 31, 2013 9:32 AM, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote:
{{Crossposting}}
Dear all,
From June 8, Wikimedia Mexico will co-produce Möebius a weekly radio
program in Ibero 90.9 FM [1], one of the trendsetter media in Mexico City.
The
creative concept of the program is to find two topics allegedly
disconnected
, but united by four or five Wikipedia articles, with a sound design that
will
reinforce the concept.
It has been several months of planning the concept, which will serve to
further spread our mission in Mexico, thanks our GLAM partnering with the
Universidad Iberoamericana and their radio station, Ibero 90.9 FM.
This program will be conducted by Almendra Hernández, Carmen Alcázar and
me. We
will upload the audios for those wishing to listen to them, so you can
practice
your Spanish :)
Best regards.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHUIA-FM
--
*Atentamente:
Iván Martínez
Presidente
Wikimedia México A.C.
wikimedia.mx
Imagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso libre
a la suma total del conocimiento humano.
Eso es lo que estamos haciendo http://es.wikipedia.org. *
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)
Hubertl, your e-mail was rude, even if you did not mean it to be. Please remember hundreds of people read every e-mail sent to this list, and civility is expected. Thanks, Asaf On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Per A.J. Andersson p...@telia.com wrote: Hi! Nice to know German language Wikipedia is full of sane people. Good for you. But maybe you don't need bots, so that's your decision. (You do not need infoboxes either, as I see it, and that's also your decision. Lsjbot makes infoboxes, among other things.) Yes, a larger database is more of a burden to support than a smaller one. Our experience at svwp is that automated help does not take away from the human part of the user community. Personally I think a larger database of comparable quality (built by any method) makes for a larger footprint = a greater chance of catching new editors. Wikipedia did that for me. My view on it is that larger communities can sustain and maintain a certain database easier than smaller communities. Wikipedia communities to a large extent depend on the language size surrounding it. We already have automation around us at several levels, and there are editing tools that make for faster editing – by humans. The use of these are seldom questioned. Best of wishes, /Per A.J. Andersson user Paracel63 at svwp (carbon-based lifeform from Sweden) 2013-06-17, 12:09, skrev Hubertl: Payin´ peanuts, gettin´ monkeys Servin´ facts, gettin´ idiots. An unmanageable, not maintainable mass of articles is the best way to breed idiots. Because facts do not create knowledge. If that is our goal, then automatically created Wikipedias ar the best way to solve one of our biggest problems, namely the permanent loss of authors. Maybe it is completely sufficient if you know that somewhere facts are stored in a most possible stupid form. I started more than fifty years ago learning about facts, facts without understanding. But nine years ago I startet to learn something about knowledge, understanding and correlations. Why do not you need people like me? If we have bots now? Do we want to make ourselves more important with impressive numbers? Hubertl! The german language Wikipedia has no single article that was generated by a bot. I'm proud of it. If this would take place in de:WP, many people will leave this project. With certainty. Anyway, that does not matter, a bot is probably much better for monkeys! __**_ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?
Briefly, from the train (so no links): 1. The Wikipedia Challenge competitions were not community initiatives; they were Google initiatives. 2. Agree with Nemo about tools' importance. 3. I'd call out the Tamil Wikipedia Media Contest: great return on very modest investment (of funds); and the Malayalam WikiSangaMotsavam, a series of community and outreach events around a big community gathering, that correlates with a noticeable rise in active editors in MLWP. Both are community initiatives supported by WMF grants. A. On Jun 25, 2013 11:05 AM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: 1) I'm confused: first you ask about community initiatives then you list activities by chapters and the like. Community initiative makes me think of edit drives, custom tools and scripts, processes, guidelines, configurations. Sorry for the confusion. I'm open to hearing about any non-WMF activity, but I assumed that people would be most knowledgeable about initiatives that came from chapters or other parts of the community. 2) Are you interested in last year or all our history? Let's say since about 2011, with more recent being of primary interest. 3) Is it really impossible to look for the impact on the statistics (assuming you're speaking of eiting activity) and then ask what caused the impact? How much big but indetected/undetectable impact is there? (There must be contrasting forces for that.) Are you interested in impact that can't be even seen in statistics? We're also looking at which projects are growing, so as you say, looking at the stats and then asking what caused it. If you are aware of a editor recruitment or retention activity that measured, I'd also be interested in hearing about that, even if it didn't necessarily make some kind of visible jump in the total active editors of a project. Steven P.S. Thanks to the folks who reached out off-list with examples. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Erik Zachte on bot-generated articles
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Jon Davies jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.ukwrote: I learnt yesterday that the Welsh Wicipedia does not have 'stubs'. It has 'Little Acorns' - so much nicer and more descriptive. That's wonderful! :) A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Let's report and learn from non-successes (more often)
Dear colleagues, I wanted to remind us all of the importance of learning from when our plans and efforts don't succeed, whether due to mistakes or just an experimental hypothesis turning out to not be the case. We at the Wikimedia Foundation have had such an experiment a few months ago, and an idea we thought had potential turned out to have none of the hoped-for impact. We wrote it up and drew some (I think) interesting learning points from it, including possibly next steps for those who may want to experiment along similar lines. The learning is featured in a Wikimedia Blog post here: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/02/english-wikipedia-editor-pilot-philippines/ which also links to the full report on Meta. I am also pleased at the discussion the blog post has already generated. Cheers, Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's report and learn from non-successes (more often)
Hi, Nemo. Certainly, this was an ENWP experiment, and it's not unreasonable that there would be no learnings for other projects. The post's audience was absolutely anyone in the movement who may care; after all, anyone can replicate this experiment or something like it, in other countries, other languages, etc. We used community tools and no magic. I'm not sure what question you consider unanswered on that link. A. On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks. The problem of the blog post is IMHO that it's unclear what audience it's directed to. The learnings and suggestions *might* be useful for some en.wiki WikiProjects, but en.wiki is obviously the least suitable wiki for such experiments. There are no learnings for other projects and I see no answer e.g. to questions I had for a similar fr.wiki banner a few weeks later. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/**index.php?title=Meta%** 3ARequests_for_help_from_a_**sysop_or_bureaucratdiff=** 5337142oldid=5337118https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta%3ARequests_for_help_from_a_sysop_or_bureaucratdiff=5337142oldid=5337118 It will be for next time then. :) Nemo P.s.: It's not particularly surprising, I see that I had already predicted this failure. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/**index.php?title=Talk:** CentralNotice/Calendaroldid=**5337147#Philippines_** recruitment_for_two_weekshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CentralNotice/Calendaroldid=5337147#Philippines_recruitment_for_two_weeks -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi Steven, When the facts show that having the CAPTCHA is a demonstrable BAD idea. It should be easy to prevent CAPTCHA from being implemented again. To be precise, the facts do not show that. They show the CAPTCHA is responsible for significantly fewer good-faith contributions from casual editors. That is is or is not a bad idea, however, is a subjective judgment, based on one's weighing of multiple factors. Evidently, large parts of the PTWP community remain convinced that the downsides of not having the CAPTCHA (easier vandalism? admin workload? -- I'm not really following that debate) outweigh the upsides. You (and I) may well disagree, but let's recognize that this depends on our _judgment_ of priorities. Whether or not an editing community's mandate for self-governance should extend to the right to make such a fundamentally anti-wiki measure as the emergency CAPTCHA feature a permanent one is debatable, of course. Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] The GAC wants you!
Hello, everyone. We could use some fresh b--- er, volunteers! -- in the Grant Advisory Committee (GAC). As you may know, the GAC are community volunteers who are explicitly invited[1] to review and evaluate grant proposals made in the Wikimedia Foundation Grants Program[2], and offer advice to both grant applicants and the Foundation. Read all about it on the Candidates page[3]. New members will be inducted Aug 20th 2013, so be sure to step forward before then! :) Please help this message reach as many people as possible, by relaying it to appropriate lists and village pumps. Cheers, Asaf [1] _everyone_ is implicitly invited! [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] The GAC wants you!
Hi, Rupert. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I'm not quite sure I follow your thinking though. With that in mind, I'll offer some statements from my perspective: 1. I don't think we expect anyone to be perfect. _We_ certainly aren't perfect... 2. I don't think we incentivize complete spending of grant budgets. Underspending is not only acceptable, but often congratulated -- look at our responses on reports with underspending, and you'll find we often congratulate grantees on frugality and economizing. 3. Spending does not have to be precise; we allow a 20% variance in smaller grants, or a 10% variance in larger grants. That should be enough for a reasonably-planned grant. 4. The best-laid plans of mice and men[1] often go wrong, we recognize. That is why grantees can submit a request to change the budget _during_ the grant's execution. Take a look at a funded grant, e.g. [2], and you'll see a handy button called Request changes to budget. We generally approve these requests, because they're generally reasonable. 5. The best advice I can give grantees, present and future, is: talk to us! Share your doubts, fears, and uncertainties with us -- we're here to help, and, like you, we want to promote the Wikimedia Mission. We don't like paperwork any more than you do! :) In my observation, the most unhappy grantees were those who did not seek advice or help, or did not communicate about difficulties or unexpected events in real time. Finally, I appreciate your honesty in saying you don't feel you'd be willing to put in the amount of work the GAC requires. That's certainly better than signing up and not doing anything! :) Cheers, Asaf [1] Robert Burns, To a Mouse [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_AM/WikiConference_Yerevan_2013#Benefits On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 4:10 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.comwrote: hi, many thanks for that great invitation! i'd really consider this, if the GAC process would be less work and would target imperfect people. the grants incentive should imo be changed to get more for the bucks. what do i mean with this: 1. if the GAC decides to grant money to somebody, it should be clear that this money can be spent. 2. if somebody underspends, he has the right to spend it somewhere else, without asking for approval. why do i consider this so important? the current incentive is to spend the money exactly as planned. which causes waste in two areas (1) people try to spend everything and trick it to spend so it looks great. and (2) heavy workload on checking if these tricks all make sense. if you do not hit the target or fail somehow, there is heavy punishment. and this gives another disadvantage, it (3) makes to most important asset vanish, the core wikipedia people, and it is editor dis-engangement. if people have the right to do what they want with remaining funds, there is an incentive to save, and an incentive to get more out of the bucks. it might be to additional squish an activity in. it makes room for imperfection, cover losses from other disorganized people. this makes the numbers reported back more honest. additionally, it's a good faith approach, and it attracts typical content providing persons. i used imperfect people, core wikipedia people and typical content providing person in the last paragraphs, which probably needs a little explanation. wikipedia is built traditionally by imperfect volunteers, error-prone, partially educated, school or university drop outs, poor in project management, time management, financial management, constantly failing, redoing, miscalculating. the current process specifically targets these people with great accuracy and punishes them. it attracts a different type of person, and with it risks wikipedias lifeblood: the contents. the contents attracts donors, and it's the heart of the money flow. like you i would love to see that angela merkel, barack obama or bill gates edit wikipedia - but up to now they did not show any sign of having enough time for it :) rupert. On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello, everyone. We could use some fresh b--- er, volunteers! -- in the Grant Advisory Committee (GAC). As you may know, the GAC are community volunteers who are explicitly invited[1] to review and evaluate grant proposals made in the Wikimedia Foundation Grants Program[2], and offer advice to both grant applicants and the Foundation. Read all about it on the Candidates page[3]. New members will be inducted Aug 20th 2013, so be sure to step forward before then! :) Please help this message reach as many people as possible, by relaying it to appropriate lists and village pumps. Cheers, Asaf [1] _everyone_ is implicitly invited! [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How Wikipedia Works on Wikibooks
This is very wonderful! I'll try to pitch in. A. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:51 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm pleased to announce that Charles Matthews and I re-licensed the text of our book How Wikipedia Works, and the text is now in Wikibooks: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_Wikipedia_Works I'd like to issue an open invitation to help format and update the book. We published HWW in 2008, and while many of the chapters hold up today, others (especially those dealing with specific templates, etc) do not. In addition, there's a lot of additional new material to cover. For instance: * When the VisualEditor is stable, there should be a chapter about using the VE, followed up with more advanced chapters about wikitext * The education program and GLAM projects were just getting going when we published, and it would be nice to have a full chapter about these (since in my experience many of the readers of the book have been educators) * I'd love to see full chapters about each of the sister projects; I didn't have the space in the printed book or the expertise to write these originally, but covering all of Wikimedia was always part of my ideal book. Also, the figures are not in Wikibooks. While I will work on uploading the originals (it will be slow), I don't have all of them in a good format, and most of the screenshot-type figures need to be redone anyway. I'd love help with this. Of course, one of my great joys about the printed book was that it was so nicely produced; the publisher, No Starch Press, did a fantastic job of layout and the book itself is quite high-quality. For those who want that, the print book is still available for purchase; but making the Wikibooks text pretty should also be a goal (the current text was cut pasted, so there's a lot of formatting that needs to be cleaned up). I know this has been a long time coming; that's my fault! This has been a side project for us for many years, and I was happy to recently find some time to work on it again. It's my hope that the book is still useful, and that we can make it more useful still for the future. (There's also a new website for the book at http://howwikipediaworks.net). best, phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] The GAC wants you!
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Alex Peek alexpe...@gmail.com wrote: I am interested to sign up and learn more about the process Ok, go ahead, then. :) A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] The GAC wants you!
*bump* (thank you for the folks who have stepped up so far!) A. On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello, everyone. We could use some fresh b--- er, volunteers! -- in the Grant Advisory Committee (GAC). As you may know, the GAC are community volunteers who are explicitly invited[1] to review and evaluate grant proposals made in the Wikimedia Foundation Grants Program[2], and offer advice to both grant applicants and the Foundation. Read all about it on the Candidates page[3]. New members will be inducted Aug 20th 2013, so be sure to step forward before then! :) Please help this message reach as many people as possible, by relaying it to appropriate lists and village pumps. Cheers, Asaf [1] _everyone_ is implicitly invited! [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Index [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Approval of WCUG Greece as Wikimedia User Group
Congratulations, everyone! I look forward to working with you all. Fuzzy On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Dennis Tobar dennis.to...@gmail.comwrote: Congrats to all members and supporters of WUG Greece, welcome aboard! :) On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am happy to inform you that the Affiliations Committee has recognized a Wikimedia User Group today: Wikimedia Community User Group Greece Please give them a warm welcome, and keep your eyes on the cool Wikimedia activities taking place in Greece. == WCUG Greece == WCUG Greece is a group of enthusiastic Greek Wikimedians who are interested in organizing and participating in outreach activities on a national level. They have been active for the past two years already, doing among others workshops, presentations in free software events, educational partnerships, Mediawiki Geek Day 2013 and organized an edit-a-thon recently on el.wp as part of the World War I edit-a-thons. The group is also working towards chapterhood in the future. The Affiliations Committee's recognition is valid until 31 July 2014. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliatons Committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Dennis Tobar Calderón Ingeniero en Informática UTEM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why the WP will never be a real encyclopaedia
speaking for themselves are not. Best regards, Rui -- Rui Correia Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Consultant -- _ Rui Correia Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Work Consultant Bridge to Angola - Angola Liaison Consultant Mobile Number in South Africa +27 74 425 4186 Número de Telemóvel na África do Sul +27 74 425 4186 ___ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMUA chapter mailing list switched to 'read-only' mode
When one reads the links offered by Pavlo, the picture is clearer. The board is trying to suppress on-list criticism with this step, claiming people (no doubt including Pavlo) are trolls and spammers. I think we all know things are often not black and white, and that accusations of trolling are sometimes used by people to brand legitimate opponents (and sometimes people really are trolls). I can't presume to know whether Pavlo is a troll or not, or what the subtance of his criticism is, and how justified it may be. WMUA's current leadership elected to (try to) halt the debate rather than face the criticism (no doubt they have engaged in multiple previous rounds as well), and we can assume the WMUA membership will judge their action as they see fit. But let's not pretend this is a question of a sudden need to set up a new mailing list. That's not what this is about. A. On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Pavlo Shevelo pavlo.shev...@gmail.comwrote: WikimediaCH-l list to become a closed list due to some issues we had with private information (unwillingly) disclosed on that list. Nobody questioned that change. The said WMUA mailing list from the moment of creation was closed for anybody else but WMUA members. I was one of the members, who questioned that but after explanation private information might be (unwillingly) disclosed otherwise I decided that it's not really a matter (or an important one) and stopped questioning. the chapters community / members have an appropriate place to conduct their work Yours wording is exactly like that (above) while what Nemo questioned is: do the member of the chapter have a suitable and working place where to discuss among themselves to carry out their duties and rights as members of the chapters? The main issue is what is work for you (and duties for Nemo)? The point of WMUA Board is that members MUST do their work (carry out their duties) and execution of Board ruling is part of that. So any critics of Board (or separate Board members) is distraction from the work :) The Nemo mentioned and rights in his questioning, so I believe his perception is closer to mine (while critics or at least questioning - is one of the rights for me and I guess for Nemo as well). On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote: Am 18.08.2013 17:47, schrieb Pavlo Shevelo: is there any precedents known, when chapter Board do some alike rulings? all precedence known to me have been much less restrictive actions, such as the WikimediaCH-l list to become a closed list due to some issues we had with private information (unwillingly) disclosed on that list. Nobody questioned that change. Does it seems appropriate? My personal opinion is that the board may decide so, under consideration of what Nemo questioned: That the chapters community / members have an appropriate place to conduct their work. This may be disputed as it was the formerly open and public list which has been closed but it could also be considered that WikiUK-l could act as such place as well. So from my point of view it is really up to the community at WikimediaUA-l and WikiUK-l whether WikiUK-l is an appropriate replacement or if another list is needed due to this change. /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Join the GAC! Deadline extended by one week
Hi, folks. Due to some last-minute interest, I've extended the deadline to Aug 27th. So you are still welcome to join the Wikimedia Foundation's Grant Advisory Committee, and help review and advise on all grant proposals in the Project and Event Grants program[1]. Take a look and sign up! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candidates (please also relay to your local/language lists.) Cheers, Asaf [1] the new name of the artist formerly known as the Wikimedia Grants Program. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] WMF's New Global South Strategy
Hi, everyone. I have finally uploaded my Wikimania talk to Commons. It took some time to add links and explanatory notes that were spoken aloud at Wikimania, hence the delay. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF%27s_New_Global_South_Strategy.pdf If you have read it elsewhere (I had to upload my speaking copy to a temporary space for the venue computer to present from, but it was not meant for reading, and was not shared by me), I encourage you to read this expanded version -- it will make a lot more sense. If you have linked to the temporary copy somewhere, please do change the link or re-share with this full version. I welcome discussion and questions. Cheers, Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] The next Wikimedia Conference (AKA Chapters' Meeting)
for financially supporting the participation of Foundation staff, FDC Members and WMF Board Members - including all lodging, travel and non-conference meals. *To enable more chapters to offer their city/country as the hosting entity, the Foundation has made the decision to financially support the hosting expenses for the Wikimedia Conference itself; to include the cost of the main conference venue and miscellaneous meeting rooms, the cost of internet access at that venue, the cost of meals provided at the conference venue during the conference for all participants and any group ground transit needs related specifically to the meetings at the conference. Additional reasonable/miscellaneous costs may also be covered per discussions between the hosting groups and the Chief of Finance and Administration at the WMF offices in San Francisco. We look forward to any and all input and suggestions as we work together to refine the planning and execution of the annual Wikimedia Conference. Thank you, Asaf [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_Wikimedia_Conference -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] : WMF resolution on neutral point of view
I'd say be bold and start drafting. Many people respond to a flawed (or at least improvable) text more readily than they do to an open invitation to contribute. I, for one, share your perception that NPOV is a problem on some (perhaps most) Wikipedias, and think it'd be a good idea to bolster NPOV with a Board resolution. Not because it would instantly solve the problem, of course, but I see its value in supporting those editors who'd fight to uphold NPOV. A. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:26 PM, とある白い猫 to.aru.shiroi.n...@gmail.com wrote: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Legal_and_Community_Advocacy#Draft_of_text_for_a_binding_Neutral_Point_of_View_WMF_policy I started above text to draft a text for the board to review. -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 5:56 PM, とある白い猫 to.aru.shiroi.n...@gmail.com wrote: A talk page on meta wont be noticed by much which is why perhaps this is the better location for the discussion. It is not like I am proposing a meta policy. -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: I am not disputing how settled it is but I don't think meta sufficiently achieves expressing how settled this core value really is. As you stated it would be more of a restatement and re-emphasis of what already is a core value. -- 㠨㠂る白㠄猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko) Yes, good idea, needs to be done. Please notify the board of directors... Fred That was snippy... Editing a major meta policy page must be done with considerable caution, starting by making suggestions on its talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Neutral_point_of_view There is some, rather limited, discussion in section 3. Fred ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who will host Wikimedia Conference 2014? Bidding process is open!
Quick note: I have moved the Questions and answers to the talk page, to keep the bids page readable for those wanting to compare the bids on their own. A. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Cornelius Kibelka jckibe...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks, Bence Nicole, for the quick response! Best Cornelius Cornelius Kibelka Twitter: @jaancornelius Mobile:+258-84-4260524 (Vodacom MZ) German number currently offline On 2 October 2013 20:34, Nicole Ebber nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de wrote: Only to make the process easier; WMF board, FDC and AffCom members are also not considered in the calculation, but their meetings are an important part of the conference. We were just trying to find a practical way to roughly estimate the range of the travel costs. HTH, Nicole Nicole Ebber International Affairs http://wikimedia.de On 2 Oct 2013 20:23, Cornelius Kibelka jckibe...@gmail.com wrote: Just a small formal question: is there any reason why Amical as a thematic organization was not considered in the travel costs? I thought it's a Wikimedia Conference, and not a Chapters Conference anymore. But maybe that's a further question, whether Thematic Organizations and User Groups are invited or not.. Best, Cornelius Cornelius Kibelka Twitter: @jaancornelius Mobile:+258-84-4260524 (Vodacom MZ) German number currently offline On 30 September 2013 20:35, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: ... and there's also Italy! WM-IT wants to put to good use the 2013's experience, so here's our application: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_the_Wikimedia_Conference#Application_4:_WMI (also, the venue for this WMConf is very close to the location of this bid for Wikimania[1], the bid as been started by some WM-IT and the chapter as a whole will a vote to officially support the bid during the General Assembly on October 19th, 2013) Four bids, exciting! Cristian [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids/Lake_Como_(Esino_Lario) ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.comwrote: On 10/2/13 9:04 PM, Laura Hale wrote: It might also be worth looking at Wikinews. [..] documents created on editing that might be useful for new contributors. Some one from Wikinews would probably be more than happy to customize learning materials for the project to local needs. Sincerely, Laura Hale Great idea ! I think that would be setting people up for disappointment. Consider the high bar set out in Laura's own (recommended reading) essay on Wikinews: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikinewsie_Group/Newsletter/3/What_news_is_not It is no less exacting than the norms of Wikipedia, and is not an obvious companion to the much looser space Florence was describing in the original post on this thread. A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia ES Report - July, August and September 2013
Almería, of the Liga (Spanish Premier League). [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atl%C3%A9tico_de_Madrid_vs_UD_Almer%C3%ADa_14-9-2013_-_Supported_by_Wikimedia_Espa%C3%B1a - 17.09.2013: Meeting with María Calzada, professor of Traducción e interpretación to prepare the new year of Wikipedia project *Aprendices de traducción con la Wikipedia* [4] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proyecto_educativo/Aprendices_de_traducci%C3%B3n_con_la_Wikipedia - 17.09.2013: Meeting with Vila-real Town council to organize Wikimedia Conference and GM of WMES in Vila-real. - 17.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Intereconomía. - 18.09.2013: Participation in the *UPM: Convocatoria ETSI de Telecomunicación: Edición Wikipedia 2013_14*, an event to give students of the Politecnic University of Madrid a introduction to the edition in Wikimedia. - 24.09.2013: Press conference at Vila-real city hall about Wikimedia Conference in Vila-real - 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Vila-real [5] http://www.radiovila-real.es/protagonistes-del-24-de-septiembre-de-2013/ - 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Onda Cero - 27.09.2013: Workshop about Wikimedia projects in Vila-real - 28.09.2013: Photo hunting in Vila-real - 28.09.2013: Wikimedia and education Conference in Vila-real, with two talks and one debate, in Vila-real - 29.09.2013: III General Assembly of WMES in Vila-real - 30.09.2013: Finishing upload campaign for WLM 2013. - During the month; wikiArS online work. David Gómez. Adaptation of UploadWizard for wikiArS using Campaign: Campaign:wikiArShttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wikiArS, creation of mechanisms to create assignments http://wiki.wikimedia.org.es/priv/index.php?title=Outreach:WikiArS/assignmentsaction=editredlink=1 , and other improvements of templates, categories and documentation in Commons, and Outreach. -- + Lucien ¡Participa en Wikimedia España!: http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource Community User Group recognized
Congratulations to the Wikisourcerers and Wikisourceresses! A. On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, You can learn more about the group and how to join at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_User_Group The Affiliations Committee resolution is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wikisource_Community_User_Group_%E2%80%93_November_2013 . The group has already signed the user group agreement, their first round of recognition runs until 31 November 2014. Please join me in welcoming them and wishing them luck. Welcome and good luck. :) It is very encouraging to see people from sister projects coming together to try to work more collaboratively together inside their own language groups and to develop more formal ties with existing chapters to facilitate programming to support the work being done on them. :) Sincerely, Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] National Museum of Korea releases images of artifacts and old books.
These are wonderful news, Cheol! Thanks for sharing them. Are you or any other Wikipedians in touch with them at all? If not, it might be a good time to get in touch, congratulate them on this decision, and describe the ways the Wikimedia community (not just in Korea!) can help get more exposure for Korean heritage and art via articles and translations, and also (perhaps) to contribute corrections to metadata, photo captions, etc. Cheers, Asaf On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:23 PM, RYU Cheol rch...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, folks. The National Museum of Korea announce high quality images of 7,300 artifacts would be released. And they will release the 100 thousands pages of old books. They said the material will be available for commercial uses. But the exact license term is not known. http://www.museum.go.kr/program/board/detail.jsp?menuID=001009001boardTypeID=32originalBoardTypeID=28boardID=19154 I hope I could find the images on Commons. Cheol ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] National Museum of Korea releases images of artifacts and old books.
If memory serves, the GLAMwiki Toolset project supports ingesting large amount of metadata in Dublin Core. See here: http://gwtoolset.wmflabs.org/wiki/GWToolset And perhaps David Haskiya (CCed) can shed more light. Cheers, A. On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 6:42 PM, RYU Cheol rch...@gmail.com wrote: It means that even you can get the metadata from the museum, we could not import it with a general tool? The museum is going to release the content by exposing it on their website. Currently I advised them to publish with DC(Dublin Core) attributes. Then I need to write some codes which can handle DC attributes or extended attributes for museums? Cheol 2013/12/18 rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com just out of interest, is there any template on wikimedia commons which follows dublin core? the only reference i could find was: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Dublin_Core rupert. On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:42 AM, RYU Cheol rch...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for your attention, Asaf. I am contacting them for better release but they seem very busy for the release. From the conversation with them, I think they need some help from some experts from GLAM-WIKI fellows of Wikimedia movement for continuing the opening and long term success. I found the release lacks some important meta data in my thought, for example the location of the heritage, and they do not understand Dublin Core and its extension for the museums. Korean Wikimedians will start to draft our opinion for better sharing. I hope we could borrow some wisdom who have the experience to lead a successful museum information releasing. Cheol 2013/12/17 Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org These are wonderful news, Cheol! Thanks for sharing them. Are you or any other Wikipedians in touch with them at all? If not, it might be a good time to get in touch, congratulate them on this decision, and describe the ways the Wikimedia community (not just in Korea!) can help get more exposure for Korean heritage and art via articles and translations, and also (perhaps) to contribute corrections to metadata, photo captions, etc. Cheers, Asaf On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:23 PM, RYU Cheol rch...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, folks. The National Museum of Korea announce high quality images of 7,300 artifacts would be released. And they will release the 100 thousands pages of old books. They said the material will be available for commercial uses. But the exact license term is not known. http://www.museum.go.kr/program/board/detail.jsp?menuID=001009001boardTypeID=32originalBoardTypeID=28boardID=19154 I hope I could find the images on Commons. Cheol ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l , mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org ?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l , mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Old Wikipedia logo is still widely used - what can we do?
On Dec 20, 2013 1:58 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote: Most news agencies don't just go to the web for their images due to copyright reasons. They will have a media collection system that they have the logo stored in. That is no doubt true for major media corporations, but a lot of the uses of the old logo are by born-digital outfits, where I fully expect the procedure to often be Google X plus logo and grab the first decent hit. So there may be much value in the (admittedly unorthodox) rename proposal relayed by Amir. To my mind, the fact it is a logo justifies it. Also, thought experiment: suppose a certain laborer-abusing gadget-producing company, say Elppa, changed its logo last year; suppose it reached out to the community asking to replace our hosted version of their old logo with the new one, because the media keeps getting it wrong. Would we not accommodate them? A. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Alexandra Wang joins the WMF Grantmaking team
Hi, everyone. I'm thrilled to announce that as of last week, WMF's new Project and Event Grants (PEG) Program Officer is Alex Wang. She will be supporting the PEG program's scaling up, and will enable us to offer our grantees a much higher level of support in project management and frequent check-ins during grant execution. She brings great expertise in project management, event planning, and grantmaking in the non-profit sector, including much experience in the developing world. Before joining Wikimedia, she worked with the ClimateWorks Foundation and the Energy Foundation, in sustainable energy projects in India, Europe, and China. (She's fluent in Mandarin.) When she wasn't setting up non-profits from scratch in India, she could be found practicing and teaching yoga, installing solar panels in rural maternity clinics in Nepal, and taking photos in precarious situations (mostly while mountaineering and backcountry skiing)[1]. In 2003-2004, she could also be spotted riding a pony around Ulaanbaatar in her quest to study the development of the Morin Khuur (upright two-stringed violin[2]) along the Silk Road[3]. We are very excited to have her join the WMF Grantmaking team, and look forward to improving our ability to serve the needs of applicants and grantees alike. Asaf [1] http://www.alexwangphotography.com/adventure/ [4] [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morin_khuur ; https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D1%85%D1%83%D1%83%D1%80 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road [4] I personally also recommend her portraits: http://www.alexwangphotography.com/ -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] New Program Evaluation report: Wiki Loves Monuments
Thanks! The most interesting datum I've noticed so far is the rate of active editor (5+ edits/month) retention among new contributors after six months, which is about 0.4%. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/WLM#New_users That (along with the easy-to-measure and already known sheer quanities of photos generated) seems to me to be the most robust number to use in evaluating WLM (and comparable) funding requests. 0.4% may be considered worthwhile or not enough, depending on local contexts, so I'm not drawing a universal conclusion from it, just noting it. (just thinking out loud here.) A. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks! Great to see this summary. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 6:00 PM, LiAnna Davis lda...@wikimedia.orgwrote: (please excuse cross-posting) Hi everyone! I posted the latest in the string of program evaluation reports on Meta today, on Wiki Loves Monuments: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/WLM Highlights of the report include: * About 17% of the images uploaded through Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 are in use on our projects. * The majority of Wiki Loves Monuments participants are new users; however, the survival rate of new users is low (1.7% of the 2012 participants made at least one edit and 1.4% uploaded at least one new file to Commons six months after the event). * Half of the existing editors who participated in Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 also participated in Wiki Loves Monuments 2013, with new users making up for the other half. * The global Wiki Loves Monuments organizing team helps support Wiki Loves Monuments organizers around the world, providing replication opportunities via direct support. This makes it easier for someone to organize their own Wiki Loves Monuments contest. Questions are welcomed and encouraged on the talk page. On behalf of the Program Evaluation team, LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation http://education.wikimedia.org +1-(415) 839-6885 x6649 ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list wikilovesmonume...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list wikilovesmonume...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Round 1 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open!
for convenience, the correct link is of course without the thanks bit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2013/Introduction I've started voting, and I've had to stop to express my thanks and admiration for the _fantastic_ experience provided this year. I'm sure it was a tremendous amount of work -- it's really appreciated! Everything is neat and responsive, the announcement comes when the information is already localized to quite a few languages, and the whole thing is just tremendously appealing. So thank you, everyone involved with all aspects of making this the awesomest POTY experience ever, right from the start. Even if you've never participated in POTY before, or didn't like the process previously, I encourage you to give it a shot this year! (those who know my wiki ways will know I am very much a verbal rather than visual kind of Wikimedian; I assure you some of my colleagues at WMF are double-checking the From: line in disbelief. I'm really that impressed!) Asaf On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:11 PM, User Mono userm...@outlook.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians, Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2013) to produce a single Picture of the Year. Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more. For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topical categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you may vote for as many images as you like. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category will continue to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year Round 1 will end on 7 February 2014. To vote, visit https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2013/Introduction Thanks,User:Mono Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] New Program Evaluation report: Wiki Loves Monuments
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 6:10 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Asaf Bartov, 25/01/2014 03:12: Thanks! The most interesting datum I've noticed so far is the rate of active editor (5+ edits/month) retention among new contributors after six months, which is about 0.4%. Is active editor retention a metric defined somewhere? It's not in https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WMF_ standardized_editor_classes. I guess it isn't, and it seems to me it should be. But I'm not a researcher, and I leave it to the research community to figure out if this is an interesting metric for them. I can tell you it's an interesting metric to _me_, because making 1 edit some time within six months of registration is _much_ less meaningful than making at least 5 edits a month (which is the active editor definition). (I note that https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Active_editor is not in the above category, and is also not defined on Meta. Once again, I'm not taking it upon myself to fix those pages, as I feel they are !owned by others. But it behooves us to get these a little more aligned. CCing Dario and crossing my fingers. Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] More new editors?
Another version of this that has been tried by WMF, more similar to Charles's second suggestion, is documented here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geo-targeted_Editors_Participation/report A. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: We've tried this before and so far it hasn't worked very well. See results from 2012-13 at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Donor_engagement/Thank_You_campaign Generally speaking, we're moving away from trying to use banners to blast lots of readers with the same messages. That's true in both fundraising (where they've learned to only show someone a donation request 1-2 times) and in editor engagement work. Our next work trying to convert unregistered people to become editors is going to be focusing on targeting anonymous editors, asking them to signup, and teaching them about the benefits of having an account so they can make an informed choice. See draft docs at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anonymous_editor_acquisition Steven Are you sure that's not because the banners are poorly suited for what you want to achieve? The create account link is hidden, the fact that the banner is trying to entice you to join and contribute is not obvious, it's content is similar enough to the regular fundraising banners that people accustomed to ignoring the banners won't notice any difference, etc. It seems... obvious that those banners would not ultimately be very effective in converting readers to registered users, but I wouldn't use that as a basis to dismiss the entire idea of outreach campaigns. Certainly the WMF iterated the fundraising presentation many times before finding highly effective methods. So, as has been suggested on this list before (by me, and others), maybe you should run a separate outreach campaign, with actually useful and targeted banners, and not make it an exhausting carry-on of the fundraiser or indistinguishably similar to fundraising banners. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2015 Bids to host are in
:) -- Forwarded message -- From: Ellie Young eyo...@wikimedia.org Date: Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 5:13 PM Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2015 Bids to host are in To: open subscription wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org This is to let the community know that the deadline for receiving bids to host Wikimania in 2015 has passed. There are 6 bids at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_bids Between now and April 1st the jury committee and community at large has an opportunity to reach out to the proposers with feedback and questions. This can be done via the proposal's talk page, holding a public meeting with a bidder on IRC (#wikimaniaconnect channel on Freenode); or via other personal means as you see fit. We also After April 1, the jury committee will further evaluate and deliberate, with a decision and recommendation made by mid-April to the WMF and Wikimania Steering Committee. Thanks again to all the bidding teams for all the hard work in preparing the bid to host. Ellie Ellie Young Conference Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 p. 415 839 6885 x6862 c. 510 701 8649 ___ Wikimania-l mailing list wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil
Excellent! \o/ A. On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for the future of projects like ours. Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has just been approved by the Brazilian Congress http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559 . Now the Senate still needs to approve it. The bill has been recently supported http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1] Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal law over certain uses of internet. This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round of public comments on 2010. A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of lobby over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about net neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries, but mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the content should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need of a justice decision about that). The case of NSA spying Brazil http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html made the government become fonder of the Marco Civil bill, fostering its approval in the Congress. Since the first draft of the bill, some aspects were lost, but the bill remains important and mostly beneficial to internet rights in my opinion. It's been a long process, with lots of threats to this initiative, but in the end the balance seems good. Good the the freedom of expression and good for net neutrality. Best regards Oona [1] http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/ [2] http://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/ [3] http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html Other links: a. Research about media piracy - the Brazilian chapter brings the history of the Marco Civil da Internet by 2010. - http://piracy.americanassembly.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/MPEE-PDF-1.0.4.pdf b. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/brazil-legislate-online-civil-rights-snowden c. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/02/19/amendments-to-brazils-bill-of-rights-for-internet-users-jeopardizes-privacy/ d. https://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/03/12/brazil-marcocivil-bill-of-rights/ e. https://twitter.com/marcocivil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] ELWP reaches 100000 articles
Dear colleagues, Please join me in congratulating our colleagues of the Greek Wikipedia, upon reaching 10 articles, a symbolic milestone for Wikipedias. Some of them are on this list, but a lot more people would see and appreciate your message on-wiki, so you can sign and (if you like) add a message in your language, here: https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%85%CE%B6%CE%AE%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7_%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:100.000_%CE%BB%CE%AE%CE%BC%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1 Cheers, Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sponsorship/donations to other organizations
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:48 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: I would love to see the Foundation support archive.org and webcitation.org. I have seen dozens of community members express hopes for Foundation monetary support of both continued survival and faster response time for both. But I am not aware of any acknowledgement from the Foundation other than Jimmy saying that he hoped someone would help them apply for grants. Did anyone in the Foundation ever do that? Yes: re Webcite, at the specific request of community members, I responded on the [[m:Webcite]] discussion and commented on the prospects of a grant (making clear that the Webcite operator may apply for one). A grant application was never submitted, and it appears the immediate need has been addressed in some other manner. And re the Internet Archive, shortly after the recent fire at the Archive in San Francisco, concerned community members urged us to look into whether the Archive needed help. We did. There was no such need. It seems the Archive is doing okay with its own revenue model and institutional supporters. Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Indonesia and Humanitarian Open Street Map receive ALL VOICES GRANT
Congratulations, WMID and HOT OSM! Where can one read more about the project? The link provided was not enough for me to get a sense for what the grant actually funds, and it would be interesting to learn from, and perhaps applicable elsewhere too. Thanks, Asaf On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote: Congrats! Eager to see what great things are built. On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Isabella Apriyana isabella.apriy...@wikimedia.or.id wrote: Dear all, We are happy to inform you that Wikimedia Indonesia and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT OSM) just received the news that our proposal submitted to Making All Voices Count grant program was accepted. We got £ 31,000 worth of grant to work on growing open content in Kalimantan, Indonesia. The proposal was submitted last year and co-written by Wikimedia (Siska Doviana, Ivonne Kristiani, John Vandenberg) and HOT OSM (Kate Chapman and Yantisa Akhadi). We are so excited because this is our first big collaboration project together and out of 500 proposals worldwide (well, seven countries) only 28 received funding, and we are one of them. We also realized that we just became internationally competitive in grant seeking. Thank you to them, and back to work for us! Official page from Making All Voices Count: http://www.makingallvoicescount.org/project/open-content-in-kalimantan-wikipedia-openstreetmap-for-transparency/ Cheers, -- *Isabella Apriyana* *Wakil Sekretaris Jendral* *(Deputy Secretary General)Wikimedia Indonesia* Seluler +628889752858/ +6281213700084 Surel isabella.apriy...@wikimedia.or.id Dukung upaya kami membebaskan pengetahuan! http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi Support us to free the knowledge! http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How Wikimedia could help languages to survive
and, at the moment, without a miracle (or hard work, but I assume the most of our movement is used to miracles, not to hard work), the trend will continue. Contrary to that, number of readers has increased. Unfortunately, in this case a miracle is not necessary for that trend to end. * If we count languages with relevant statistics for editors per million, the top of them belong either to the highly motivated communities (Hebrew), either to the rich countries with harsh climate, which makes writing on Wikipedia as a good fun (Estonian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Finish), either to the community which belongs to the both categories (Scots Gaelic). And it's around 100 users per million. If a community has 100,000 of speakers, it would mean that the community would have 10 editors with 5 or more edits per month. In the cases of the languages with 10,000 of speakers, it would mean 1 editor with 5 or more edits per month. That won't work. I'd say that Scots Gaelic could be a good test (Wikimedia UK help needed!). It's a language with ~70k of speakers and if it's possible to achieve 100 active editors per month, we could say that it could somehow work in other cases, as well. * Besides preserving languages and cultural heritage, we want to have useful information on those Wikipedias. That's a tough job for many communities because of various issues: from the lack of reasonable internet access to the inherent cultural biases. But we have some tools -- Wikidata as the most important one -- to create a lot of useful content. But the entrance level is very high. Editors have to know to use computers well, as well as to think quite formally. That's serious obstacle in areas without well developed educational systems. * Good news is that we have chapters in three countries with a lot of languages: India, Indonesia and Australia (though, it's about very small languages in Australia; though, Australia is much richer). So, we have organizational potential. * There are, of course, a lot of other issues. Many of them, actually. But if we wouldn't start, we wouldn't do anything. * * * As you could see, I wrote this not as a kind of plan, but as the set of open questions. I'd like your input (first here, then on Meta): What do you think? How can we start working on it? What do you think it would be the most efficient way? Ways? Any other idea? I'd call you to give wings to your imagination. To be able to solve that, we need bold ideas. At the other side, I'd appreciate people with more organizational skills to give their input, as well. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Metrics - accuracy of Wikipedia articles
I will just add that I agree [content] Quality is a strategic goal we have made little systematic progress on (much progress was made in sheer coverage, of course, e.g. via funding and support for content-centered initiatives such as writing and photo competitions). In the Grantmaking department, we are definitely interested in ideas and proposals to improve (and measure) quality of content on the projects, and not just of outside assessors, but also internal approaches to assessing quality (serving different purposes, to be sure). I encourage those with concrete ideas to propose something, perhaps in the IdeaLab[1], for further development and refinement. Asaf [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] How to Criticize with Kindness
This seems like very good advice, Tom. Have you tried it? A. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote: Hi, I remember once I shared here some thoughts from Dennett on the importance of making mistakes http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/dennett/papers/howmista.htm. Now I saw this article about his new book, *Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking* http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393082067/braipick-20, and I would like to share here also: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/28/daniel-dennett-rapoport-rules-criticism/ How to compose a successful critical commentary: 1. You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way. 2. You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement). 3. You should mention anything you have learned from your target. 4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism. If someone here read it, please, share your impressions. I'm tempted to do it. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Teaching Critical Reading through Wikipedia
Hi. Does anyone know of specific materials developed for teaching critical reading skills (either in K-12 or higher education) *through* reading Wikipedia? I vaguely remember coming across some, but don't remember the details. I'm thinking about things like how to identify bias, how to distill the argument from a paragraph, what are weasel words, logical fallacies, etc. Thanks, A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ukraine's anniversary
Congratulations, WMUA and UKWP! :) A. On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Enock Seth Nyamador kwadzo...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Wikimedia Ukraine and Happy 5th Anniversary. -Enock On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 7:38 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: Congratulations Wikimedia Ukraine on these milestones. 500,000 articles, 10 years as a language wiki, and 5 years as an organization are great reasons to celebrate. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feuerwerk_Dreiländerbrücke.jpg Pine Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 21:13:16 +0200 From: Richard Ames rich...@ames.id.au To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ukraine's anniversary Message-ID: 538a29cc.7030...@ames.id.au Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed - оригінальне повідомлення - Тема: Wikimedia Ukraine's anniversary Від кого: Levon Azizian levonaziz...@bigmir.net Кому: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Копія: Правління Вікімедіа Україна bo...@wikimedia.in.ua Відправлено: 31.05.2014 18:40, Today, our organization celebrates anniversary - 5 years from the date of creation. Exactly 5 years ago, on May 31, 2009, in Kyiv was held the constituent meeting, which approved the bylaws and elected its first Board of the new organization, known as Wikimedia Ukraine. Our community has gone through a long and difficult path. Birthday of Wikimedia Ukraine for our community is the third remarkable date this year. On January 30 was the 10th anniversary of the establishment of Ukrainian Wikipedia and on May 12 Ukrainian Wikipedia has crossed the threshold of 500 000 articles. We want to thank to Wikimedia Foundation Inc. for their help, to our neighboring communities for fruitful cooperation with us and of course to our community for their contributions! Regards, Levon Azizian Deputy chair Wikimedia Ukraine -- The greatest collection of shared knowledge in history. Help Wikipedia, participate now: http://wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] VisualEditor on English Wikipedia
(META: I have to wonder why Wikimedia-l was chosen as the venue for this conversation. Visual Editor is deployed and working in quite a few of our projects, including very active ones and difficult ones such as the right-to-left Hebrew Wikipedia; this discussion, then, is very much about the English Wikipedia and VE, and would be appropriate in a venue more specific to ENWP -- whether list or wiki.) A. On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:57 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: I think having a two part RfC with the first part discussing the minimum conditions the community would like VE to meet before having a discussion about more widely enabling VE in the second portion of the RfC makes sense. This raises the possibility that as VE becomes more and more functional that the community will incrementally approve of wider default use over time and different presentations of VE to editors. There are a lot of options for how extensively VE could be enabled and how it can be presented to users with the community's consent, which we can discuss in the second portion of the RfC. I have a draft for that portion off-wiki that I will tweak depending on how the first portion looks before I put it on-wiki for other editors to review. Risker, would you like to set up the first portion of this, if this arrangement sounds good to you? Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Bangladesh has completed its local registration in Bangladesh
Fantastic news! I know how frustrating it has been for all of you. Looking forward to continued collaboration! A. On Jun 10, 2014 10:42 AM, Rodrigo Padula rodrigopad...@gmail.com wrote: Great news!! Congratulations to all members of the Wikimedia Bangladesh! Rodrigo Padula 2014-06-10 14:28 GMT-03:00 Tonmoy Khan tonmoy...@gmail.com: Dear All, It gives me great pleasure to announce that Wikimedia Bangladesh (WMBD) has successfully completed its local registration in Bangladesh. Our application for registration was approved by the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies Firms - Bangladesh on 9th June, 2014 and I have collected the certificate of registration today (10th June, 2014). Wikimedia Bangladesh has been registered under the Societies Registration Act of Bangladesh our official name is Wikimedia Bangladesh Foundation. The registration process was a very long and demanding one, but our perseverance and determination finally prevailed. It has become very difficult to get registration of a society/foundation in Bangladesh as the incumbents have to have security clearance from the National Security Intelligence (NSI) of Bangladesh, which is very difficult to get if not impossible. In the course of dealing with the registration process of WMBD, I learned that less than 5 applications for registration as societies get approved out of every 100. We submitted our application in May 2012 and it took us a little over two years to get the security clearance from NSI complete all the bureaucratic process! It gives us a great sense of achievement that we could uphold the Wikimedia movement volunteerism spirit with passion, integrity and professionalism despite being a small volunteer community. The pending registration issue could not hold us from doing outreach activities locally taking in the greater Wikimedia Movement. We organized some excellent programs, workshops meet-ups with our limited resources during this time period. This effort successfully brought in good number of new contributors to Bengali Wikipedia increased the article count. Volunteers from WMBD/Bangladesh are also actively participating in the international Wikimedia movement by taking part in discussions, conferences as committee members in different Wikimedia committees. We, as a chapter, want to make small but steady steps towards sustainable progress in fostering the Wikimedia movement in Bangladesh so that we can make the sum of all human knowledge accessible to the people of this region. Cheers Ali Haidar Khan (tOnmOy) Treasurer Wikimedia Bangladesh ভাবুনতো এমন এক পৃথিবীর কথা, যেখানে প্রতিটি মানুষ সমস্ত জ্ঞান বাধাহীন ভাবে আদান প্রদান করতে পারবে। এটাই আমাদের অঙ্গীকার। ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Joint office Jakarta - Wikimedia Indonesia, HOT Open Street Map, and World Wide Web Foundation
Excellent news! Congratulations to WMID. A. On Jun 29, 2014 11:59 PM, Tanweer Morshed wiki.tanw...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations to Wikimedia Indonesia for their new office. Wish you all the best! Tanweer Board member Wikimedia Bangladesh On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Isabella Apriyana isabella.apriy...@wikimedia.or.id wrote: Hi Pine, We'd be happy to share about our collaboration with HOT-OSM here in Indonesia. Cheers, On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Isabella. I might want to talk with you or someone else at Wikimedia Indonesia about the relationship of the chapter to OpenStreetMap more in the future. OpenStreetMap is active in what I am hoping will become Wikimedia Cascadia territory and we have already made first contact with one of the OSM organizers. It might also be nice to hear from WMF about how their plans for improving mapping functions in the next fiscal year could tie into work with OpenStreetMap. Maybe someone could organize an office hour about the roadmap for location tools. I'm also sending this email to Quim Gil to see if an office hour is feasible. Pine On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Isabella Apriyana isabella.apriy...@wikimedia.or.id wrote: Hi Pine, Every organization has their own administrative staff. WMID only has project-based paid staff and the rest are volunteers, while other organizations have full time paid-staff. While for programs, WMID and HOT-OSM just recently secured a grant from Make All Voices Count [1] to conduct local open content mapping and encyclopedia writing in Kalimantan, a generally remote and underdeveloped area in Indonesia. Cheers, Isabella Ref: [1] http://www.makingallvoicescount.org/project/open-content-in-kalimantan-wikipedia-openstreetmap-for-transparency/ . On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Oh, I like hearing about collaborations like this! We are working on collaborations with other open source groups here in United States Cascadia also. (The existence of our Cascadia group is pending approval from Affcom.) In addition to sharing a building, are you sharing administrative staff or other resources? What programmatic collaborations are you developing? Thanks, Pine On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com wrote: Congratulation Wikimedia Indonesia! -- Nurunnaby Chowdhury | @nhasive Sysop, Bengali Wikipedia | User: Nhasive Member, IEG, WMF Sent from my iPhone device On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-06-23 13:28 GMT+02:00 Tonmoy Khan tonmoy...@gmail.com: Congratulations to WMID. Wish you do wonderful activities from your new address :) Go WM-ID! Go! Congrats! Cristian ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org ?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org ?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org ?subject=unsubscribe -- *Isabella Apriyana* *Wakil Sekretaris Jendral* *(Deputy Secretary General)Wikimedia Indonesia* Seluler +628889752858/ +6281213700084 Surel isabella.apriy...@wikimedia.or.id Dukung upaya kami membebaskan pengetahuan! http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi Support us to free the knowledge! http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2014-15 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for the update, Alex. I find it problematic that WMF would override a community grantmaking committee that WMF previously had agreed to work with, especially if the override is to approve a proposal. I understand that WMF might find a reason to decline a grant after committee approval because WMF finds something in its due diligence process that is unacceptable such as that the grantee has overdue reports on prior grants, but if a grantmaking committee develops consensus against a proposal and WMF approves it anyway, I think that is a problem, it shows a lack of trust, and it suggests that the WMF isn't serious about its own grantmaking process. As Alex explained above, the committee's role is advisory (to both WMF and applicants) and implicit in that is that its opinions -- while always taken carefully into account -- can and (rarely) will be in opposition to the final decision. That's been the committee's design from the start, and we are not breaking any agreement (as you seem to imply by previously had agreed to work with) in doing so. We are doing our job. Also contrary to what you say, we are yet to approve a proposal against which the committee has develop[ed] consensus. Take another look at the examples you brought yourself -- one oppose vote in a committee of 28 does not consensus make. I appreciate the flexibility of GAC's process but apparently the current system is not working, as everyone seems to agree. I disagree. In fact no one agrees the system is not working, as far as I can tell, except you. On the contrary the system, i.e. the Project and Event Grants program, is working fairly well, _despite_ a less-than-desired level of participation in its advisory committee. While that is certainly something we are endeavoring to improve (recognizing, of course, it is ultimately up to the committee members, but we can improve ways and means), it should not be taken to mean the system is not working. I am curious, what alternatives are you exploring? You are welcome to read all about it[1][2][3]. Cheers, Asaf [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Revamp [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Revamp [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Revamp_Discussion -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Review of grantmaking costs and outcomes for APG, PEG, and IEG
see a lot about someone's motivation and creativity based on their past reports if they are a returning grantee. I would definitely encourage our committees to look back on past reports from returning grantees! - Jessie [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Learning/Round_1_2013/Impact [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Learning/2013-14 -- *Jessie Wild SnellerGrantmaking Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Review of grantmaking costs and outcomes for APG, PEG, and IEG
(C) suggestion, and your (B) suggestion is very interesting too - we haven't discussed that one. It may be worth considering if there are larger project-based grants. For the annual plan grants, we have this in terms of quarterly reports (and midpoint reports for IEG), so we do try to do interventions with grantees if it looks like they are off-track. As for (A), based on what we saw through our evaluation of IEG[1], motivation is definitely important but the key difference for outlier performance was from those grantees that had *specific target audiences* identified, so they knew exactly who they wanted to be working with and how to reach those people. So, I would want committees to take into account grants with a specific target audience or specific target topic area (for quality improvements, for example; we saw this for successful outreach in PEG grants[2]). More explicitly on motivation, while it is difficult to measure for new grantees, you can see a lot about someone's motivation and creativity based on their past reports if they are a returning grantee. I would definitely encourage our committees to look back on past reports from returning grantees! - Jessie [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Learning/Round_1_2013/Impact [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Learning/2013-14 -- *Jessie Wild SnellerGrantmaking Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] First Wikipedia Article has been Formally Peer Reviewed and Published
Kudos, doc! You've done it again. :) A. On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:24 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: Article published by the journal Open Medicine http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/viewFile/562/564 Will soon be pubmed indexed. Editorial regarding the efforts are here http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/view/652/565 Hope these sorts of efforts will improve the reputation of Wikipedia and the number of contributors. I guess we will see. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal
That's correct. And for completeness, I am the primary staff liaison to AffCom, with Stephen LaPorte providing support on legal matters. A. On Oct 10, 2014 3:40 PM, Kirill Lokshin kirill.loks...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kirill, my understanding is that Affcom functions under the Legal department, much like the Individual Engagement Grants Committee functions under the Grantmaking department. Is that so, and if not, which department is responsible for Affcom? Hi Pine, That's not the case. AffCom reports directly to the Board of Trustees [1] rather than to any staff department. Kirill [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Affiliations_Committee_Charter ___ Affiliations Committee mailing list aff...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/affcom ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [AffCom] Quarterly goals for WMF Legal
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: 3. I don't hear of a need for more staff support for Affcom from the most recent Grantmaking quarterly review [1], so I am not sure if and when this is going to happen. This may be a point that Asaf can address. The idea of providing some staff support for the committee's work has been discussed with AffCom, but with no conclusion so far. It is therefore too soon for WMF to announce or allocate any such resources. However, it does not seem to me that staff support would address the primary difficulty for the committee to respond in a more timely manner. That would have to do with the generally low participation by most of its members, an issue to be addressed by the committee itself (or the board), and to be partly ameliorated, no doubt, by the upcoming addition of new members. As you noted, the AffCom work is pretty thankless, and very few community members take an interest in the committee's work, even from the outside, and this is to its detriment. Even you, as a volunteer with exceptionally broad interests in governance and movement topics, only took an active interest when your own group needed AffCom's approval. A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Serbia Executive Director
Congratulations, WMRS! I look forward to working with Ivan. A. On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Filip Maljković dungod...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I'd like to announce Ivan Nikčević as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Serbia. After a two month process, and with more than 200 submissions, we finally managed to narrow it down to one person, who we hope will be a great contribution to our organization, and a successful leader thereof. Ivan's first day was on Friday. Here's a short auto-bio that he provided: Born in the 1970, an Information Technologies engineer by education. During his 20 years long work experience Ivan was marketing and PR manager, journalist, TV producer, TV host and presenter and an editor in chief for a weekly TV show on IT on Serbian national TV, he also was digital communications consultant. His last post before joining Wikimedia team in Serbia was project and online communications manager in Serbian Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications. Ivan was awarded twice for his exceptional contribution for development and promotion of IT technologies in Serbia, by major professional associations from Serbian ICT sector and was an author of a documentary film “50 years of ICT in Serbia”. Behind an amazing professional career, a proud father of 17 years old daughter, a lead singer and song writer in a pop band, addicted on movies and popcorn, pop music, internet and video games he lives his life online and offline trying to be as one of his icons – George Carlin would say “a modern man, digital and smoke-free; a man for the millennium.” Cheers, Filip Maljković Wikimedia Serbia President ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Audit - June 30, 2014
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: reviewed by the Board? I am particularly interested in making sure that the investments chosen are in alignment with the values of the Foundation and have suitable risk levels, and I hope that the Board reviews these issues periodically. While Garfield would no doubt answer the concrete question, let me recommend to you that the best place to exercise this particular interest is the Audit Committee (a board committee), which regularly calls for new volunteers. Most recently this past May: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-May/071495.html A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference[1] 2015
Hello, everyone. Weeks go by, and the previous conversation was throughly derailed, so out of a profound interest in ensuring a high-value event, I am bringing this up again: we[3] *need to make progress* with planning the working-meeting-featuring-Wikimedia-affiliates-and-WMF-and-the-WMF-Board-and-AffCom[4], whatever we may end up calling it[1]. In the interest of moving on to focus on more substantive issues, and in light of there being only a single bid submitted so far[5], may I boldly *suggest that it be accepted* and that we devote the rest of the time until the spring to ensuring the lessons[6] of the previous years be heeded in *significant preparatory work* by the program team and the affiliates? Asaf [1] or whatever we may choose to rename it. The previous thread was successfully killed by the digression into the event's name. Let's try to keep this one on track, and discuss the name ELSEWHERE[2], shall we? [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Conference_2015 [3] yes, not all the hundreds of people on this mailing list. But this is still the channel that reaches the greatest number of Wikimedia affiliates. [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015 [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Bids [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_the_Wikimedia_Conference -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimédia France AGM: new board announcment
Welcome, WMFR board members old and new! I join the particular appreciation for Rémi's long service. A. On Oct 17, 2014 3:33 AM, Benoît Evellin benoit.evel...@wikimedia.fr wrote: Dear movement fellows, Wikimedia France held its Annual General Meeting on October 11th, 2014. During this AGM, we elected 6 board members, of which 4 are new. Benjamin Smith and Rémi Mathis were not running for a new term. Wikimedia France board is thanking them a lot for their dedication, energy, thoughts, ideas and every single awesome thing they brought to the board during their terms: * Benjamin had been on the board for two years and a half, serving as deputy treasurer then secretary. Among other awesome things, he had been key in the recruitment process of our ED last year. * Rémi had been on the board since 2009, and serving as chair since 2011. He has been the public face of the chapter for many years − including our fundraising banners in 2011 and 2012. He was named Wikipedian of the Year by Jimmy Wales at Wikimania 2013 for reasons that shall not be named here. Of course, considering their overall awesomeness, we are not letting them go anywhere ; they plan to remain active members of the chapter, and we as board look forward to continuing working with them. Christophe Henner and Jean-Frédéric Berthelot were running again and were reelected. As a reminder: * Christophe is 29, hardly needs introduction, currently lives in Aurillac where he is Head of Marketing for the biggest French video game website (top 3 in the World). He has been around in the movement forever, and at the board of Wikimédia France for seven years − serving as vice chair since 2012. His focus lies on the internal organisation and international affairs. You may refer to his Wikidata item [[Q18219536]] for more information. *Jean-Frédéric is 27, a research engineer in Lille (North) currently relocating to London, UK. He is a dedicated Commonist, focusing on GLAM − especially upload of collections to Wikimedia Commons − and Wiki Loves Monuments. He has been serving as a board member since May 2012. His interests lie in quality management and impact evaluation, coopeating sharing our awesomeness at the international level, and fostering Cuteness in the Wikimedia movement. In his free time he enjoys geocaching, curating commonscat.tumblr.comand baking pastries to his colleagues and chapter fellows. Now, we would like you to welcome returning and new board members: * Sébastien Beyou is 28 and is living in Rennes (Brittany), PhD in applied mathematics and now a self-employed Web developer. He edit(ed) French Wikipédia from 2005 to 2011, and is a member of Wikimédia France since 2007, mainly active in tech and communication topics. He was member of the Board from 2011 to 2012 and served as deputy treasurer; in particular he co-organised the Finance Meeting in February 2012, whose the discussion there contributed to the creation of the FDC. During his free time, he enjoys explaining Wikipedia to public and promoting (often surprising) physical-life-actions linked to Wikipedia. * Pierre-Selim Huard is 31 and living in Toulouse. PhD in computer science with a background in aeronautics, he works as a RD engineer in green aviation development. A rugby and photography lover, he is a dedicated Commonist and OTRS agent. He is active in programmatic actions such as Wiki Loves Monuments or local actions in Toulouse, and is thus one of the craftsmen of our long-standing project with the Museum de Toulouse; he also had been a board member of our organisation previously. As a board member, his main focus are documentation, quality and evaluation. You may have had the pleasure to meet him during one of the last three Wikimanias. * Samuel Le Goff is 40 and living in Paris. He works as a journalist, former assistant of a MP for several years. His interests lie in relationship with French authorities, and contributions to public consultations, to expose Wikimédia positions in public debates in France and European Union. * Benoît Prieur lives in Lyon where he is an engineer. He has a background in computer science and sociology. He is a regular contributor on supported projects and especially on Wikipedia (but not only!). He participates in events supported by Wikimedia France and particulary likes editathons. Our board is now structured as follow: * Christophe Henner, Chair * Émeric Vallespi, Vice-chair * Guillaume Goursat, Treasurer * Sébastien Beyou, Deputy treasurer * Benoît Évellin, Secretary * Pierre-Selim Huard, Deputy secretary * Jean-Frédéric Berthelot, Board member * Alexis Marise Bique, Board member * Léa Lacroix, Board member * Samuel Le Goff, Board member * Ludovic Péron, Board member * Benoît Prieur, Board member Please welcome these newcomers and do not hesitate to join us in expressing your gratitude to our former board members! All the best, Benoît
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alessio Guidetti, Cotton
Terrible news. I had the pleasure of knowing him, and had a few interesting conversations with him over the years. Like the best, he was modest, tireless, and collegial. My condolences to the family and all his friends in the community. Asaf On Oct 18, 2014 6:26 AM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: It is with great sorrow that Wikimedia Italia announces the death of Alessio Guidetti, better known on the projects as Cotton. He has been treasurer of the organization for about five years, from 2009 until last April. Alessio started to contribute to Wikipedia at the end of 2006: after a few months he became already a sysop. He was a tireless translator of English articles in the most diverse fields, and also part of the small group of the patrollers -and, indeed, he continued his precious work until the last, even if invisible for most of the editors. From the moment he joined Wikimedia Italia, Alessio was very keen to contribute effectively, guided by his well-known pragmatism. He run for the Board: as soon as he was elected, he took the role of treasurer, a difficult task and a fundamental one for us but little recognized. It was Alessio who took care of the most delicate and complicated tasks, and he did so in the years during which Wikimedia Italia was starting to grow big, the years of our quantum leap. This spring he decided to not run again for the Board, but he kept collaborating with his successor for an effective -and not only formal- handover. He took care of the accounting, donations and employees' paychecks till his very last days. He has been an incredible help: trustworthy, precious, always ready for a joke. Alessio has been a pillar of Wikimedia Italia: his pragmatism, his hardworking disposition, his sense of humor were, and are, a part of our organization. A part of how it was born and how it is growing. A part of what we are. Wikimedia Italia is close to the family and the friends of Alessio in this grievous moment. We will terribly miss him. Many of you have know Alessio in Wikimanias and conferences. If you wish, you can leave a 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 Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata-l] Birthday gift: Missing Wikipedia links (was Re: Wikidata turns two!)
This is great, thanks! A. On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:10 AM, James Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed Oct 29 2014 at 10:56:42 Denny Vrandečić vrande...@google.com wrote: There’s a small tool on WMF labs that you can use to verify the links (it displays the articles side by side from a language pair you select, and then you can confirm or contradict the merge): https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry This is really fun, and so useful too. Thank you so much, Denny, Jiang Bian, Si Li, and Yicheng Huang – Denny and the Googlers is a new band name if ever there was one. ___ Wikidata-l mailing list wikidat...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation of Wikimedia Belgium
To clarify, Romaine is talking about an event to be held in Brussels. A. On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com wrote: We have the honour of inviting you to the celebration of the official constitution of Wikimedia Belgium asbl/vzw. Wikimedia Belgium asbl/vzw has been recognised by the worldwide Wikimedia Foundation as an official chapter, that supports the quest for and promotes a universal and freely accessible source of free information. The celebration will take place in the drawing rooms of the president of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 12 on Wednesday 19th of November 2014 at 15 p.m. Please confirm your presence by e-mail via w...@wikimedia.org We hope to meet you there. On behalf of the board of Wikimedia Belgium, Romaine PS: The entrance to the drawing rooms of the president is for visitors at the rear of the building at the Rue de Louvain/Leuvenseweg. Foundation of Wikimedia Belgium: https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Foundation_of_Wikimedia_Belgium Become a member: https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Be_a_member_of_Wikimedia_Belgium Our website: http://www.wikimedia.be ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Algeria Wikimedians User Group
Congratulations to our Algerian colleagues (I hope some are subscribed to this list!) from the Wikimedia Foundation. A. On Nov 1, 2014 11:17 AM, Carlos M. Colina ma...@wikimedia.org.ve wrote: Dear all, We are pleased to announce the recognition [1] of the third Wikimedia User Group from the Arab World and the fifth from Africa: Algeria Wikimedians User Group. Our Wikimedian brothers and sisters in Algeria have for a long time wanted to associate and multiply their contributions tigether, since as early as 2009, when started attempts to create projects in different languages spoken in Algeria in the Incubator, an education program in an Algerian university, and participating in Wiki Loves Monuments in 2013 Algeria, which was quite a success and created a lot of awareness at a local level about the need of making more and more knowledge open in Algeria. So, now we have them joining the family of affiliates.Please, let's give them a warm welcome! Soyez les bienvenus, amis algériens! Carlos 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ Resolutions/Algeria_Wikimedians_User_Group_-_ Liaison_approval,_October_2014 -- *Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain. Carlos M. Colina Vicepresidente, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 | www.wikimedia.org.ve http://wikimedia.org.ve Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee Phone: +972-52-4869915 Twitter: @maor_x ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference[1] 2015
Reminder: We'd like to finalize the Wikimedia Conference 2015 Program Team by Nov 10th. If you'd like to help craft a high-quality program to make sure we make the most of this important (and expensive) face-to-face opportunity, do sign up! Details here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Programme_team In particular, at least one team member from a smaller or newer chapter would be great! A. On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:08 AM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-21 3:40 GMT+02:00 Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org: Neither I nor WMF are trying to exert undue control over this process; rather, I am moving this forward in good faith and relying on other people to be equally bold in editing (or reverting!) anything I've stated there. Looking forward to making this the most productive WMCON[1] ever! :) [...] [1] I remain entirely uninterested in what this event gets called. Feel free to advocate for calling it The Great Platypus Appreciation Society Gathering of 2015 or anything else, here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Conference_2015 Speaking of appreciation, thank you Asaf and Ad for caring about this. C ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMVE Annual General Meeting and Board Elections
Congratulations, WMVE! I look forward to hearing more about your plans, and to assist in any way I can. May I ask that some time be taken to keep [[m:Reports]] up-to-date with WMVE activities[1]? Note that the chapter agreement requires chapters to send WMF an annual activity report and financial statement. Cheers, A. [1] I do see some activities are briefly logged here: http://wikimedia.org.ve/wiki/Reporte_de_actividades On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Oscar Costero os...@wikimedia.org.ve wrote: Dear all, This last weekend, Wikimedia Venezuela (WMVE) held its annual general meeting at Caracas, Venezuela. During our meeting, the members held the elections for seats in the Board, to be vacated by five (5) Board members through a period of 3 years. The results of the Board Seats election are: *(Terms to begin on February 1, 2015)* 1. *Oscar Costero - President* *(reelected)* 2. *Tomás Guardia - Vicepresident* 3. *Ybsen Lucero - Treasurer **(reelected)* 4. *Kevin D Landaeta - **Secretary* 5. *Jenner Fuentes - **Spokesperson* We are excited to have three new members in the Board, and we look forward to working with them in the coming months. At the same time, we would like to extend our thanks to our outgoing board members, *Carlos M Colina, Samuel Cirilo *and* Fhaidel Dominguez*, for their service to the Board and to Wikimedia Venezuela. Cheers, -- Oscar Costero (+58) 0412-9161792 Presidente | Wikimedia Venezuela J-40129321-2 http://wikimedia.org.ve | @wikimedia_ve http://twitter.com/wikimedia_ve ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Congratulations to Bulgaria! How do we get in touch with you? Their Meta page, linked from the announcement linked from the top of this thread, is useful: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Bulgaria#Communication A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Literary works under public domain
Thanks for sharing these great news! \o/ A. On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Tanweer Morshed wiki.tanw...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, A workshop on Bangla Wikipedia was held yesterday (12 November 2014) at State University of Bangladesh [1]. Students of the university and some faculty members participated at the workshop. Wikimedia Bangladesh (WMBD) executive members Ali Haider Khan and Tanweer, Bangla Wikipedia administrator Nahid Sultan and Campus Ambassador Zahid Hossain spoke at the workshop on Bangla Wikipedia, Bengali Wikimedia projects and Wikimedia movement in Bangladesh. Later the participants were given hands-on training about contributing to Wikipedia. At the end of the event, prominent Bangladeshi writer Mujtoba Ahmed Murshed, also a faculty member of the university, gave away all his literary works under public domain to publish them at Bangla Wikisource. Soon he will give WMBD relevant legal documents regarding copyright issues. [1] http://www.prothom-alo.com/technology/article/369241/%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%9F%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%9F%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%A2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F-%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE-%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B7%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A4 Photos of the workshop: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Workshop_at_State_University Regards, Tanweer Wikimedia Bangladesh ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference[1] 2015
Dear colleagues, Thank you to all who volunteered to serve on programme team[1]. Continuing my informal facilitation of this team, I will be contacting the team off-list to schedule a kick-off call to discuss how to go about planning this event, so as to maximize the benefit to the movement. My own preference is for materials to be continually updated and available on Meta, so as to allow casual participation or ad-hoc comments by anyone interested (whether or not they are part of a recognized movement organization). Watch the event pages on Meta to keep up. I will also update this list on major milestones as they take place (perhaps: selection of major themes, draft programme, final schedule). I'm sure I speak for the team when I say we welcome your input on any and all aspects of the programme team's work. I look forward to a productive event. Cheers, A. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Programme_team#Team_members On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Reminder: We'd like to finalize the Wikimedia Conference 2015 Program Team by Nov 10th. If you'd like to help craft a high-quality program to make sure we make the most of this important (and expensive) face-to-face opportunity, do sign up! Details here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Programme_team In particular, at least one team member from a smaller or newer chapter would be great! A. On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 3:08 AM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-10-21 3:40 GMT+02:00 Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org: Neither I nor WMF are trying to exert undue control over this process; rather, I am moving this forward in good faith and relying on other people to be equally bold in editing (or reverting!) anything I've stated there. Looking forward to making this the most productive WMCON[1] ever! :) [...] [1] I remain entirely uninterested in what this event gets called. Feel free to advocate for calling it The Great Platypus Appreciation Society Gathering of 2015 or anything else, here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Conference_2015 Speaking of appreciation, thank you Asaf and Ad for caring about this. C ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/guidelineswikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: New board elected, annual plan postponed.
Congratulations to WMDE, and welcome back to some familiar names! :) A. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Tim. Welcome to the incoming board and thanks to all of the candidates. -- Sam On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Several great comebacks here! Thanks Tim and everyone for this new 2 years commitment. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia Executive Director
Congratulations to WMIT! And it is heartwarming to learn of this final act of service by our late friend and colleague Alessio. Tanti auguri! A. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:31 AM, Andrea Zanni andrea.za...@wikimedia.it wrote: Hello everybody, It's with great pleasure that I announce Giuliana Mancini as the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Italia. It took us over 6 months to select her within a pool of 450 candidates: it has been an incredibly hard work, and tough decisions were made. I'd like to acknowledge that one of the most active members of the selective committee was Alessio Guidetti aka Cotton, who recendly passed: it saddens us to know that he won't have the chance to see her working with us. But this is a moment of joy, because the Wikimedia family just got a new member. Giuliana will help us become a more mature and structured association: her deep experience and competence will be used to for make Wikimedia Italia scale and increase its impact in the world of free and open knowledge. Before being appointed Executive Director at Wikimedia Italia, in the last 12 years, she has covered several roles of increasing commitment in the field of arts and culture. She spent 9 years in a grant making foundation where she supervised the activities of a cello academy and the concerts of an ensemble of classical musicians, assisting the board in setting strategies and coordinating the comprehensive management. She participated in the board of a company in the field of Fine Arts with a mandate for promotion of a multimedia exhibition, creating strategic relationship with Italian and foreigner museums. She drafted several feasibility studies and business plans for theatres and other cultural institutions as well as for start up companies. She can speak English fluently and has a good understanding of Spanish and French, and she graduated in Economics and in Law (her second degree was completed while working). She was officially introduced to the Wikimedia Italia assembly 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/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF November 2014 Metrics Activities Meeting: Thursday, December 4, 19:00 UTC
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:23 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks everyone for a fantastic metrics meeting. I had two questions which I raised on IRC which didn't get a chance to be addressed. Briefly: 1) Is the rise in global south page views specifically to *enwiki*, or is it to local wikis? Not actually an either/or. The answer seems to me to be yes, i.e. all wikis -- that is, all projects, all languages. It seems that our thinking about redirecting to localized content and the rise of mobile in the global south should be informed by these analytics. Are folks coming to enwiki because that's where the content and editors are? Some definitely do. Another major factor, mentioned today, is that in some countries, mobile devices just don't come with good local languages support, and people are putting up with that and using what the device does give them, which are generally the major, colonial languages. If so we might be doing readers a disservice by redirecting them to a local wiki without the content they are seeking. (Perhaps the Content Translation tool can help.) If our userbase in the global south is coming from mobile, than it is important to provide localized editing tools for mobile; less so if they are primarily English-speaking and can take advantage of the desktop editors of enwiki. Remember that while global south is a shorthand label we use for convenience to group together a large number of countries, it's often quite misleading to generalize about it, *particularly* around language questions. In Anglophone Africa, for example, most people are used to looking for information online in English and not in indigenous languages. But in Brazil, people consume information in Portuguese, but many (16%) also refer to the English Wikipedia (and intriguingly, 1 in 3 *edits* from Brazil is to ENWP!), presumably for its broader coverage or higher average quality. In Ukraine, 70% read the Russian Wikipedia and only 17% read the Ukrainian Wikipedia; interviews tell me this is largely due to device defaults, beyond the obvious different in size and average quality. This page reveals some of those breakdowns: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportPageViewsPerCountryBreakdown.htm Will investment in the Content Translation tool affect the balance between enwiki and local wiki pageviews going forward? That would be one long-term effect to watch for, I think! Thanks for digging up further info! A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF November 2014 Metrics Activities Meeting: Thursday, December 4, 19:00 UTC
Hi. On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 9:27 AM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 7:18 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:23 PM, C. Scott Ananian canan...@wikimedia.org wrote: 1) Is the rise in global south page views specifically to *enwiki*, or is it to local wikis? Not actually an either/or. The answer seems to me to be yes, i.e. all wikis -- that is, all projects, all languages. It may *seem to you* to be yes, but the data indicates that the answer differs, depending where you look. For example, the data clearly indicates that the stunning rise in Iran is almost entirely due to enwiki. enwiki gains over 80 million page views, fawiki gains only 10 million. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cscott/2014_December_metrics for a convincing graph. I think it's important that we determine the actual answers to these questions, instead of trusting our instincts. I definitely agree. I had misread your question to mean is the rise computed across all wikis, which is indeed not what you were asking. I apologize for the irrelevant answer. Some definitely do. Another major factor, mentioned today, is that in some countries, mobile devices just don't come with good local languages support, and people are putting up with that and using what the device does give them, which are generally the major, colonial languages. Hm, the word colonial bothers me here. I know you mean historically colonial, but in the modern world English is also a trade language, not just a formerly-colonial language. Much access to enwiki is due to its trade-language status. Certainly, there are very strong economic incentives to use English these days, and additionally other incentives, such as prestige real and imagined, still operating (and those, themselves, are still ripples of colonialism), but I did not mean 'colonial' here particularly strongly. I could have written European, I suppose, except there are many languages in Europe, and only a handful have been colonial languages. But the term is not important here, I think. I feel strongly that we have a moral obligation to offer good local language support, but I also feel that we shouldn't label and dismiss readers who want to learn/practice/find information in a trade language. (This is one of the reasons I'm a fan of simplewiki, but that's a whole 'nuther discussion.) I don't see that I (or anyone) did dismiss that. In terms of our strategic goals of Reach and Participation, we are agnostic about which languages people contribute in, or consume in. In terms of our strategic goal of Diversity however, we do want to work towards adequate offerings in all languages in which people are actually seeking to consume knowledge. On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: I was reading the presentation on metrics and the point about Mexico's decreasing of views on Wikipedia called my attention. I dug into the numbers a little more; see the graphs at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cscott/2014_December_metrics It's a bit confusing. At this moment I'm inclined to say that the computation of decliners was in some way erroneous; neither the page views for Mexico nor the overall pageviews for eswiki seem to support the large annual declines reported. On https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cscott/2014_December_metrics I compute an annual decline for Mexico of 12.4% (compared to 23.2% reported at the metrics meeting), which compares to an eswiki annual decline of 4.8% (excludings bots and spiders). So Mexico is indeed concerning -- it's declining at three times the eswiki rate. But eswiki as a whole seems like it ought to also be a concern. And I'd like to understand why I can't reproduce the much higher numbers shown in the Metrics meeting. Thanks for taking another swing at the data. I do think it's important to get better data that we have high confidence in. We're not quite there yet. A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Community Ireland as a Wikimedia User Group
Congratulations! We at WMF look forward to assisting you in any programmatic work you are planning. A. On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Santi Navarro santiagonava...@wikimedia.org.es wrote: Congratulations to Irish wikimedians and welcome on board. Regards from Spain. El 2014-12-09 22:39, Carlos M. Colina escribió: Dear all, The Affiliations Committe has recently recognized [1] Wikimedia Community Ireland [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. They have been pretty busy doing activities (and participated in WLM) in the green Erin and are interested in the growth and distribution of open and multilingual knowledge, especially in Ireland. Let's give them a warm welcome! Fáilte! :-) Carlos 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/ Resolutions/Wikimedia_Community_Ireland_User_Group_-_Liaison_approval,_ December2014 2: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_Ireland -- Santiago Navarro Sanz Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter Announcements:Executive Committee for 2014-15 takes charge
Congratulations to the new EC, and thanks to the outgoing EC members. WMF is looking forward to continue the positive momentum of the past few months, and I look forward to supporting WMIN in its upcoming activities. A. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Jayanta Nath jaya...@wikimedia.in wrote: Dear Wikimedia India Chapter members and other interested stakeholders in the list, Dear members, At the outset, on behalf of Wikimedia India Executive Committee for 2013-14, I would like to thank you all for the support for the Chapter during the past year, as we strive hard to complete the difficult phase of the Chapter. I am glad to report that the huddle phase is now complete, as the Chapter is financially healthy, staffed and has conducted AGM and Elections for EC of six vacancies successfully. I would like to place on record my thanks to all co-founders and EC team members,volunteers from members and community, , WMF staff,WMF board members and partners and consultants for all the contributions and support towards reaching this important milestone. Last weekend we had inducted the newly elected EC members with an EC induction program at Bangalore. As part of it, we have completed the office bearer elections for the 2014-15. I would like to introduce the new team that has taken charge. The results of the office bearer elections are as follows: - Dr. Abhiraj Suryawanshi : President - Jayanta Nath : Secretary - Sanket Oswal : Treasurer - Priyanka Tiwari : Member - Yohann Varun Thomas : Member - Dr. Ekbal Bappukunju : Member - Nikhil Kawale : Member We are confident that under the new EC's leadership Wikimedia Movement and Chapter in India will grow to greater heights in the year to come. We request you all to extend the support and actively engage with Wikimedia India to achieve the vision of sharing free knowledge with every one for building a Knowledge Society. Please join me in wishing the new team all success. Cheers Jayanta Nath Secretary,Wikimedia India ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: #Edit2014
Hi, Takot! Edit this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm.ja.srt A. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Takashi OTA supertakot+foundatio...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Victor for sharing this awesome video! It's really really awesome. BTW, could you tell me where of the commons/meta the translations have been done? I'd like to fix some of the Japanese subtitles. --[[User:Takot]] On Thursday, December 18, 2014, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, I'm happy to share the first-ever Wikimedia year-in-review video, Wikipedia: #Edit2014. Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Edit_2014.webm Youtube: http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/114673230 It's the story of 2014 through the lens of Wikimedia in under 3 minutes. (We know we didn't get it all!) We're about to launch this to the rest of the world, on the WMF blog, on social media, and to the press. The whole point of the production is we want the world to get a sense of what it feels like to press edit for the first time, and what it's like to contribute to something that millions of people use, love, and rely on. We hope you like it. Thanks to everyone who contributed to making this. It's based entirely on what YOU contributed to the projects -- images you uploaded and video you migrated to Commons. It's based on the texts of books and documents on Wikisource and the Wikipedia articles that you wrote. And thanks to everyone who volunteered and shared feedback with us while we were editing to make it sound and feel like Wikipedia. I talked to many people in putting this together, so thank you all. If you want to contribute to this particular effort, you can of course share this video, but what would be even better is if you could translate the captions into more languages so that even more people can understand it. We'll migrate the captions from Commons to YouTube and Vimeo as they come in. (BTW does anyone know why YouTube or Vimeo doesn't have open captions? Maybe once we have this captioned in 50 languages, we can use it to advocate that they should.) We're already thinking of ways to open up this process for even more collaboration next year. We put this together in about eight weeks, so we had a pretty big time constraint for making it an open process from the beginning. We're publishing two blog posts on the topic shortly and will send them as soon as they're out. Thanks! :) Victor the WMF Communications team -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org javascript:; https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; ?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference - Come to Berlin in May 2015!
I would like to re-emphasize that there are *new criteria* for participating in the annual Wikimedia Conference in Berlin. You can read all about them here[1]. The current eligibility status of different movement organizations (chapters, the thematic organization, and user groups) is tracked here[2]. If your group is not yet eligible and you don't take *very quick steps *to address the gap, your group will not be invited to the conference this year. If you have questions about this, please reach out to me. A. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Who_should_register%3F [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Overview_Eligibility_Statuses On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Nicole Ebber nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de wrote: tl;dr: Wikimedia Conference 2015 in Berlin https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015 Date: May 14-17, 2015 Registration: Will open soon Dear Wikimedia friends, Thanks to the generous support of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland will be hosting the Wikimedia Conference from May 14-17, 2015 [1]. It is my pleasure to invite Wikimedia Affiliates to join us in Berlin and I am delighted that the Funds Dissemination Committee and the Affiliations Committee will also hold their meetings as part of this conference. This will give us all the opportunity to discuss ideas, exchange experience, build capacities, and shape the future of our movement together. I am extending this invitation also to the board and staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, and I hope that they again choose to join us for a couple of productive days. == Themes and program == The program team [2] has already kicked-off its planning process and is now structuring the conference tracks: Capacity building, sharing and collaboration, fundraising and finance, movement strategy. Team members come from several entities and countries in the movement, including the Wikimedia Foundation, and generously volunteered to manage this process together. They will present the major goals and schedule for the conference within the coming weeks. == Participation and registration == Registration will open in the coming days. The eligibility criteria for participating in the Wikimedia Conference 2015 have been aligned to the Affiliates’ Agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation. Please note that the criteria have changed compared to last year’s. Further information on the eligibility criteria and registration will be published on Meta [3]. Affiliates are asked to send delegates that are well-informed in goings-on at the affiliate, able to confidently answer questions about it and share experience from their group. They should also be empowered to commit their group to involvement in proposed projects or initiatives. == Logistics == Our event team will shortly open the registration and send out further information on logistical matters such as travel and accommodation booking. Daniela Gentner will be the main contact for all questions regarding the logistics, you can reach out to her via wm...@wikimedia.de. On behalf of the Wikimedia Deutschland board, I am looking forward to welcoming you in Berlin in May. Best regards, Nicole Ebber [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Programme_team [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Who_should_register%3F -- Nicole Ebber Referentin Internationale Beziehungen Advisor International Relations Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annual Report from the Wikimedia Foundation
On Jan 29, 2015 4:35 AM, Austin Hair adh...@gmail.com wrote: On an unrelated note, is there a particular reason we're highlighting two of our (more than two) former board members in the bottom section? Yes: it is that unlike the other former board members, those two were on the board during the year the report covers. A. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Its not goodbye, but au revoir
Dear Pavel, you have always been a great ally and an able partner in serving this movement. Whenever our paths crossed, it has always been a joy to work with you, and your professional and yet warm attitude was a constant in any room you were in. Best wishes in your next career steps, and see you around the wikis. :) Asaf On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Pavel Richter m...@pavelrichter.de wrote: Dear Friends of Free Knowledge, today is my last day at the office as the former Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutschland. For 2012 days, I had the great opportunity and the tremendous pleasure to work for one of the greatest causes I can think of: Free Knowledge for everybody. What Wikimedia does is nothing short of changing the world, one edit at a time. I reflect a little about this in this blog post: http://blog.pavelrichter.de/2012-days-later/ Thank you all for the best time I had in my (professional) life. Of course, while I leave my job, I will not leave the Wikimedia movement. Looking forward to this! Cheers, Pavel ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
