[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Commons
Hello. I am Wikipedian in residence and want to upload a high quality tiff archive and I can't seem to upload more than 100.00 MB. I get this message: You can only upload files with a size of up to 100.00 MB. What is happening ? Do you know what I can do? -- *Wikipedia es algo especial. Es como una biblioteca o un parque público. Es como un templo para el pensamiento. Un lugar al que todos podemos ir a pensar, a aprender, a compartir nuestros conocimientos con otros. JW* Carmen Alcázar (@metik) Secretaria, Wikimedia https://www.facebook.com/wikimediamxMéxico A.C. Coordinadora Hospitalidad Wikimanía https://www.facebook.com/wikimania20152015 (@Wikimanía2015) ___ 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 Mexico. Report of Activities December 2014 and January 2015
Dear community: Below you will find the report of activities of December 2014 and January 2015 done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or only to make some suggestions. The report is also available on Spanish and English in our wiki: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Diciembre_2014 (December/Spanish) https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Diciembre_2014/en (December/English) https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Enero_2015 (January/Spanish) https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Enero_2015/en (January/English) Greetings from the Wikimedia Mexico community. On behalf of our chapter. Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito) WMMX Secretary. ==Journal December== December 1 *Transmission of Möebius radio show: From Hospital de la Castañeda to Pink Floyd. December 3 *Meeting with Archivo Tomás Montero A.C. towards a possible donation of pictures as part of the Tlatelolco Cultural Centre. *Backstage tour on the Fonoteca Nacional (National audio archive) December 8 *Transmission of Möebius radio show: From Jack Thomas Andraka to Cake ==Journal January == January 5 * Transmission of Möebius radio show: From Tres Tenores to Brazilian Girls January 10 * Wikimedia Mexico Board meeting at Puebla. January 12 * Transmission of Möebius radio show: From Ñusta to Michael Jackson January 15 * Presentation of GLAM projects with Circuito Cultural Norte Chapultepec: Museo de la Basílica de Guadalupe, Museo Casa Carranza, Museo de la Biblia, Mapoteca Orozco y Berra, Museo Indígena, Museo de los Ferrocarrileros, Museo Tecnológico de la CFE, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Museo de Antropología e Historia, Museo Casa de la Bola, Museo del Chocolate and Museo Soumaya. Following meeting with Cineteca Nacional for February 14th editathon. Planning meeting about Wikipedia gender gap project with NGO partners: Impetú, Social TIC, Mujeres Construyendo, Luchadoras TV and La Sandía Digital. January 20 * Presentation of the GLAM projects to the Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud staff. January 21 *Creative Commons como alternativa autoral talk by Iván Martínez in the Seminario Permanente de Investigación-Producción en Arte y Diseño de la Facultad de Arte y Diseño de la UNAM, session: “El problema de la apropiación, el plagio y los derechos de autor en las artes visuales, el diseño y la comunicación visual”. Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco. January 24 * Monthly Wikipedia editing workshop, by Christian Cariño. January 26 * Transmission of Möebius radio show: From JLo to Madonna * Meeting with Luz María Silva, teacher from ITAM, about Wikipedia Education Program January 27 * Meeting with Instituto de la Juventud de la Ciudad de México (Mexico City Youth Institute) for their participation in the Wikimania 2015 Volunteer Program. * Transmission of Editatona program in LuchadorasTV, RompevientoTV internet television channel. (http://rompevientotv.mediafire.com/?5nt81iuedc5d420) January 31 *First ''Editatona'' editathon from Gender Gap project. Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir, Mexico City. ___ 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 Mexico. Report of Activities October and November 2014
Dear community: Below you will find the report of activities of October and November 2014 done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or only to make some suggestions. The report is also available on Spanish and English in our wiki: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Octubre_2014/ (October/Spanish) https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Octubre_2014/en (October/English) https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Noviembre_2014/ (November/Spanish) https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Noviembre_2014/en (November/English) Happy holidays! See you next year. Greetings from the Wikimedia Mexico community. On behalf our chapter. Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito) WMMX Secretary. ==Journal October== ;October 3 to 5 * Carmen Alcázar and Iván Martínez participated in the First Meeting of Digital Activists of Indigenous Languages, organized by Global Voices of Rising Voices, Surco, A.C., and the Research Library Juan de Córdova. ;October 4 * Wikipedia edition workshop at Capilla del Arte, in the city of Puebla, state of Puebla, offered by Pepe Flores. ;October 14 *Participation in the seminar France-Mexico Learning communities and digital resources, organized by Digital Communities for Learning in Higher Education (Codaes), the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), and the Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, France Université Numérique. ;October 16 *Participation in ''Diálogos para una #CiudadAbierta'' (Talk towards an #OpenCity) in Mexico City ;October 17 *Meeting with Ricardo Trujillo Vega, Communications Sub-Director at the National Museum of Art (MUNAL) about GLAM projects. *Talk about Wikipedia to undergraduate studies at the Police Academy (Calz. Desierto de los Leones, Mexico City) by Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs. *Carmen Alcázar meeting with Mariel García and Indira Cornelio from SocialTic towards the organization of a Feminism Edit-a-thon: #EditatónFeminista ;October 20 *Virtual meeting with Salvador de Jesús Sánchez García, Promotion Coordinator at the Ciudad Juárez Museum of Art, aboutGLAM projects. ;October 23 *Participation in the 21st National Week of Science and Technology at the Milpa Alta Technogoly Institute. Topic of the talk was Wikipedia and its roots in freedom, by Iván Martínez. *Talk in the Art University (Unarte) in the city of Puebla ;October 24 *Meeting with representatives of the Digital Humanities Network, for consulting in Wikimania 2015's content and programme ;October 25 * Monthly Wikipedia editing workshop, by Christian Cariño, Fernanda López and Omar Sandoval. *Workshop at Capilla de Arte in Puebla, by Pepe Flores ;October 27 * Moebius 909 radio show: From Dying of laughter to Tom Waits ;October 29 * Meeting with Micaela Chávez Villa, Director and Staff of the Daniel Cosío Villegas Library, part of El Colegio de México (Colmex) about GLAM projects. ;October 30 * Talks in the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, within the #EditatónAgs (Aguascalientes Edit-a-thon): Wikipedia and its roots in freedom by Iván Martínez and Wikimedia Commons and free licenses by Carmen Alcázar ;October 31 *Editatón Aguascalientes at the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes. ==Journal November== ;November 3 *Moebius 90.9 radio show: From Lenin to pan de muerto (bread of the dead). ;November 4 *Presentation of GLAM projects to Nelson Carro, head of the Department of Film Programming at Cineteca Nacional. *Meeting with SocialTic, Ímpetu, A.C. (impetumexico.org) and others to work at the Projects:Gender gap reduction project in Wikipedia. ;November 6 *Participation of Iván Martínez in the meeting held at Fonoteca Nacional: From copyright to copyleft. Intellectual property of files. ;November 11 *Carmen Alcázar offered workshops about Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons to four groups at Hebrew College Maguen David. *Followup meeting with Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco. *Presentation of GLAM projects to Lidia Camacho, director of the Fonoteca Nacional [Mexico's National Audio Library]. ;November 12 *Conference offered by Iván Martínez: El impacto de la Reforma en Telecomunicaciones [The effects of the telecommunications reform], Technological Institute of Ciudad Madero. *Conference offered by Carmen Alcázar: Proyectos Wikimedia y Licencias Creative Commons [Wikimedia Projects and Creative Commons Licenses], Technological Institute of Ciudad Madero. ;November 13 *Conference offered by Iván Martínez: Lo libre de la Enciclopedia Libre o de cómo Wikipedia llegó a convertirse en la referencia en Internet [What is free in the Free Encyclopedia or how did Wikipedia became the reference in Internet], Technological Institute of Ciudad Madero. *Basic Wikipedia edition workshop offered by Carmen Alcázar, Technological Institute of Ciudad Madero. ;November 14 *Followup meeting with Lidia Camacho, director of the Fonoteca
[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Mexico. Report of Activities of July 2014
Dear community: Below you will find the report of activities of the month of July 2014 done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or only to make some suggestions. The report is also available on Spanish and English in our wiki: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Julio_2014/ (Spanish) https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Julio_2014/en (English) Kindly regards. On behalf our chapter. Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito) WMMX Secretary. ==Highlights== ===Three simultaneous Wikipedia workshops in three different cities=== On July 26, three Wikipedia workshops were given in three cities of Mexico. The venues was TelmexHub in Mexico City by Omar Sandoval, Carmen Alcázar, Iván Martínez, y Gustavo Sandoval; HackerGarage in Guadalajara by Salvador Alcántar and Capilla del Arte in Puebla by José Flores. It is the first time in the history of Mexican chapter that we have three training activities in three Mexican cities simultaneously and in the case of Guadalajara, this workshop was the first to be taught in that city. [1] ===Volunteer's WikiPicnic for Wikimania 2015=== On July 20, a Volunteer's WikiPicnic for Wikimania 2015 was held in the Second Section of Chapultepec, bound for Wikimania 2015. Carmen Alcázar initially spoke about the event and solve some questions about the Wikimedia projects, giving way to a soccer match among the attendees. At the end, the picnic was held with everyone within a casual and fun time. The last to leave the park did about 6 pm. [2] Jul 5 * Moebius radio program 14/19: ''De Juan O'Gorman a Alberto Kalach'' (From Juan O'Gorman to Alberto Kalach) Jul 10 * Working meeting for Wikimania 2015 Jul 12 * Moebius radio program 14/20: ''De lambada a murciélagos'' (From lambada to Chiroptera) Jul 14 * Beginning of Wikipedian In Residence project in Museo Soumaya [3] Jul 20 * Picnic at the second section of Bosque de Chapultepec in order to meet the team of volunteers who will participate in Wikimania 2015. Jul 23 * Participation of Carmen Alcázar in Participación de las mujeres en el campo tecnológico discussion table at Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, among other female involved in tech initatives. [4] * Interview to Carmen Alcázar for La Jornada newspaper with the title Demandan políticas tecnológicas con perspectiva de género on July 24. [5] Jul 26 * Workshop: Introduction to Wikipedia at Capilla del Arte, Puebla. * Workshop: Introduction to Wikipedia at Hackergarage, Guadalajara. * Wikipedia Monthly Workshop at Telmexhub, Mexico City. [6] Jul 30 *Virtual meeting of the Wikimedia Mexico board. Jul 31 *GLAM meeting with Centro de Cultura Digital staff. [7] [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_workshop_at_Telmex_Hub Photos in Wikimedia Commons [2] https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Wikipicnic_Wikimania_2015_volunteers.jpg [3] https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proyectos:Museo_Soumaya [4] https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Participaci%C3%B3n_de_las_mujeres_en_el_campo_tecnol%C3%B3gico..jpg [5] http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2014/07/24/sociedad/039n1soc [6] https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Taller_Mensual_de_Wikipedia_Julio_06.JPG [7] https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proyectos:Centro_de_Cultura_Digital ___ 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 Mexico. Report of Activities of June 2014
Dear community: Below you will find the report of activities of the month of June 2014 done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or only to make some suggestions. The report is also available on Spanish and English in our wiki: *https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Junio_2014/ https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Junio_2014/* (Spanish) *https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Junio_2014/en https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Junio_2014/en* (English) Kindly regards. On behalf our chapter. Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito) WMMX Secretary. ==Highlights== ===Edit-a-thon at Museo Soumaya=== On June 6th, we performed our first Edit-a-thon in Museo Soumaya, a private museographic institution belonging to Fundación Carlos Slim, at its Plaza Carso venue, previously planned jointly with the museum's curators about topics related to their collections. As the first activity, the Wikimedia México community attendees received a special backstage guided tour with the museum closed. At 10 a.m. we began the edition marathon and a workshop for beginners attending the event who do not have any previous experience in Wiki edition. The event was held at the lobby of the museum, a plain and blank area surrounded by master workshops as an exact replica of Michelangelo's Pietà and Rodin's Kiss, plus murals by Mexican masters Rufino Tamayo and Diego Rivera. The event generated awareness among the visitors of the museum, some of whom received explanations offered b the volunteers of the Mexican chapter about the activity we had been performing. Wikimedia Mexico's volunteers, jointly with the museum, created 9 new articles in Spanish Wikipedia and one in Wikivoyage. Rufino Tamayo's works such as Naturaleza muertaand El día y la noche, or Edgar Degas's Woman Bathing have now an article on the main Internet reference. This event was actively supported by the director of the museum, Alfonso Miranda, as well as by his research and outreach staff, who provided the information necessary to give depth to the writing and verifiability. Officialy the event ended at 3 pm, but some of the members of the chapter remained at the museum discussing and improving the contents written with the support of Soumaya staff until 10 pm. This event was part of the GLAM initiative between the Mexican chapter and Museo Soumaya. Images on Wikimedia Commons [1] Event on Spanish Wikipedia (with a list of edited articles) [2] Social media posts and impact around the event on Storify [3] ===First Spanish Republican Exile Edit-a-thon=== Francisco Franco's dictatorship and the Civil War in Spain forced hundreds of Spanish citizens to exile: they left their country as one of the aftermaths of the persecution period. Nearly 220 thousand supporters of the Second Republic left Spain to other countries such as Argentina and Mexico, who welcomed him differently. To mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of Sinaia vessel to the Mexican port of Veracruz, three Wikimedia chapters (Wikimedia Argentina, Wikimedia Spain and Wikimedia Mexico) ran the First Spanish Republican Exile Edit-a-thon of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource about the historical facts, biographies and testimonials related to this process. The coordination of this event, performed under Iberocoop's initiative, meant that the work would be done at different times on June 16th. Articles were written in Spanish and Catalan. Several original texts and photographs of documents of those years were downloaded to both Wikisource and Commons either during the event or during the days following. The event was simultaneously held at Centro Cultural de España en México, in Mexico City, and at Casal de Catalunya in Buenos Aires, Argentina; editors from Spain participated from their home computers in the Spanish territory. Watch the video about the event in Mexico City. [4] Images and documents from Exile on Wikimedia Commons [5] Event on Spanish Wikipedia (with a list of edited articles) [6] ===Campus Party 2014=== This year Campus Party took place in Zapopan, Jalisco in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, western Mexico. Wikimedia Mexico participated through our members Alan Lazalde, Omar Sandoval and Salvador Alcántar. During the event was diffused Wikimedia Mexico activities and sought new contacts within the technological environment. Also the team gave two talks, one about Wikipedia and other about Wikipedia Education Program in Mexico, but also was given last minute talks within the event. Near 300 stickers of Wikipedia and Wikimedia Mexico were distributed. Due to some acts of sexism and misogyny occurred during the event, the chapter members demonstrate his oppose against that kind of doings in technology events. The board of Wikimedia Mexico drafted and approved a special position on the situation, which was widely shared on social media. ===New GLAM friends on board
[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Mexico. Report of Activities of May 2014
Dear community: Below you will find the report of activities of the month of May 2014 done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or only to make some suggestions. The report is also available on Spanish and English in our wiki: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Mayo_2014/ (Spanish) https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Mayo_2014/en (English) Kindly regards. On behalf our chapter. Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito) WMMX Secretary. ==Highlights== ===First meeting of volunteers for Wikimania 2015=== https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Primera_reuni%C3%B3n_de_voluntarios_y_voluntarias_para_Wikimania_2015_09.jpg The Mexican chapter had its first meeting of volunteers for Wikimania 2015, the Wikimedia movement international conference which is to be held next year at Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City. The meeting was held at the same place where the conference will take place. 32 persons attended. A general presentation was offered, then the general coordinations and their specific tasks were described. ===Wikimania 2015 announcement on the Internet Day=== Past May 16 Iván Martínez , president of Wikimedia Mexico, was invited by the Laboratory for the City of Mexico to preside over the Internet Day in Mexico City. The ceremony took place after an inauguration of a Telmex Digital Classroom at the Centro de Transferencia a Menores of Procuraduría General de la República (Center for Minor Transfer of the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City). By request of the city authorities, Iván Martínez made a speech focused on social participation and collaborative phenomenon behind Wikipedia. This message was written by Salvador Alcantar . The mayor of Mexico City, Miguel Ángel Mancera, formally announced the realization of Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City and expressed his approval. Watch the video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ULTgf_hfjM == Journal == May 2 Talks by Gustavo Sandoval about Wikipedia at two self-managed public high schools in Chicoloapan, State of Mexico: high school number 55 and high school Próceres de la Educación. See, http://linuxchicoloapan.org/flisol-2014-en-chicoloapan-resena/ here, a brief review by Adrián Vergara, a local chronicler who assisted us; some images and opinions of some of the students are also included. These talks are some of the activities included in the Latin-American Festival for the Installation of Free Software (FLISOL). https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Pl%C3%A1tica_sobre_Wikipedia_en_secundarias_autogestivas_de_Chicoloapan_de_Ju%C3%A1rez,_Estado_de_M%C3%A9xico._(9).jpg May 6 Interview for Wikinoticias and presentation of Wikimania before the head of the Government of the Federal District, Miguel Ángel Mancera. Iván Martínez and Carmen Alcázar attended the Government's office. May 13 * Iván Martínez meets the authorities of the Institute of High School Education of the Government of Mexico City in Iztacalco to talk about their interest in joining Wikimedia México's Wikipedia Education Program. *Wikimania 2015 staff work meeting at Jardín de Innovación, Mexico City. May 14 * Wikimedia Mexico meets the authorities of the Laboratorio para la Ciudad (Lab for the City) of the Government of the Federal District to talk about Wikimania 2015. May 15 *Wikimania 2015 staff meets Biblioteca Vasconcelos' staff. May 16 * Iván Martínez participates in the ceremony to celebrate the Internet Day in Mexico City, invited by Laboratorio para la Ciudad of the Government of the Federal District. May 17 Iván Martínez talks during the Latin-American Festival for the Installation of Free Software (FLISOL) at National Polytechnic Institute's Escuela Superior de Cómputo (ESCOM, School of Computer Science). May 18 *Wikimedia México's board's monthly meeting *Wikimania 2015 staff work meeting *First meeting of volunteers for Wikimania 2015. Vasconcelos Library, Mexico City. May 22 *Presentation of the Report of Semester 2013-2 of the Wikipedia Education Program at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)'s Faculty of Higher Studies Aragón (FES Aragón). May 23 *Talk by Iván Martínez at the Second Meeting of Digital Humanities, organized by Red de Humanidades Digitales (Digital Humanities Network), UNAM's Faculty of Philosophy and Literature (FFyL) and Biblioteca Vasconcelos. May 27 *Participation of Alan Lazalde at Cumbre del Buen Conocer (Well Knowing Summit) in Quito, Ecuador, organized by FLOK Society. May 31 *Wikipedia Monthly Workshop at Telmex Hub. During May *Meetings and activities related to Wikimania 2015. ___ 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 Mexico. Report of Activities of April 2014
Dear community: Below you will find the report of activities of the month of April 2014 done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or only to make some suggestions. The report is also available on Spanish and English in our wiki: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Abril_2014/ (Spanish) https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Abril_2014/en (English) Kindly regards on behalf our chapter. Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito) WMMX Secretary. ==Migrahack Mexico City== Wikimedia Mexico was part of the initiative of running a migrahack in Mexico City and supported the organization. The point of the event was to gather together journalists, academics, students, NGOs and programmers to collect and put order to disperse data about migration in Mexico and to do some data mining to obtain new knowledge on that topics, and generate statistics. Wikimedia Mexico, trough our volunteer and Board member Alan Lazalde gave some talks to show the importance of free knowledge and open access to data in order to create new knowledge based on that. The results of the Migrahack are in the web page ot the Institute for Justice and Journalism. ==Aldea Digital 2014== For the second year in a row, Aldea Digital was held at Mexico City, a digital inclusion event at the main square of Mexico City, with a very high attendance. A strategy covering the full 17 days of the event was planned, but a few days before the event its organizers made changes to its program and thus only required Wikimedia Mexico's presence during only one day of talks and a keynote by Iván Martínez. On April 11, the Wikimedia Mexico team gave a full day of introductory 20 minutes talks of Wikipedia. According to organizers stats, about 1,300 people attended to our program of talks given by volunteers Omar Sandoval (10 talks), Christian Cariño (5 talks), Andrés Cruz y Corro (5 talks), Adrián Cerón (5 talks), Rodolfo Galicia (5 talks), Anny Garcia and Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs (5 talks). This event required a high effort on our part, but was a very grateful experience for our chapter. In order to avoid the fatigue of talking for several hours in a row, our volunteers took turns giving the talks, reducing the overall tiredness and encouraging everyone to become a better speaker for future Wikimedia Mexico events. On April 21, Iván Martínez gave the keynote Freedom in the Free Encyclopedia. The Foundations of Wikipedia's Freedom. The talk, with a duration of an hour and a half, was attended by 131 participants and was presented as one of the main contents of the event by Aldea Digital's organizing staff. In the same stage Steve Wozniak, Moshe Hogeg (Mobli creator), Walter Bender (MIT researcher) and Yin Lou (Coursera) gave a keynote each. - // Photo: Andres Crúz y Corro during a talk in Aldea Digital: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andres_Cruz_en_Aldea_Digital.jpg ==Children's Day at Biblioteca Vasconcelos== The Biblioteca Vasconcelos (Vasconcelos Library), venue for the next Wikimania 2015, held an event organized on occasion of Children's Day, celebrated annually in Mexico on April 30. The Library gave us the option to read stories to children. However, when the Wikimedia Mexico community realized the public was expected to be aged 3 to 10 years, we decided to innovate and make an original story based on the core values of Wikipedia: free knowledge, sharing, curiosity and freedom. Our volunteer Andrés Cruz y Corro, also a NaNoWriMo participant, wrote a story called An adventure called knowledge. This story was told on April 27 and was very well received by the children as a way to convey the values behind Wikipedia in a fun and different way. We encourage other Wikimedia colleagues to use this story as a way to reach out to younger children and instill the seed of free knowledge. A translated copy of the story to English will be available in a few days. // Watch the gallery in Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Children%27s_Day_at_Biblioteca_Vasconcelos ==Journal== - April 1 *Second day of the Wikipedia workshop by Nohemí Chilpa at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa (UAM-I) as part of CEUAMI's Semana de Talleres del Capitulo de las Ciencias de la Computacion de la UAM-Iztapalapa (Worhshop Week at the Computer Sciences Chapter of UAM) *Meeting of Wikipedistas en Puebla with SocialTic. - April 3 * Q A session by Christian Cariño with Prof. Adriana Álvarez' class under WMMX's Education Program at National Autonomous University of Mexico's (UNAM) Philosophy and Letters Faculty within the Historical Analysis Seminar. // Read the full report: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes_abril_2014_Seminario_FFyL_de_la_UNAM - April 8 * WMMX's Participation at Universidad Tecnológica Emiliano Zapata's Technology Fest 2014 event in Morelos State: Omar Sansi imparted a Wikipedia workshop and Christian gave
[Wikimedia-l] Why the Wikimedia Foundation should openly articulate its political POV by establishing a new neutral wiki for world political knowledge (modeled on Wikipedia)
[This essay was rudely rejected by the gatekeepers at Signpost calling it irrelevant but not explaining why. Could someone please suggest where I might submit this for a fair hearing by the WMF community?] Why the Wikimedia Foundation should openly articulate its political POV by establishing a new neutral wiki for world political knowledge (modeled on Wikipedia) By Carmen Yarrusso Carmen Yarrusso, a software engineer for 35 years, designed and modified computer operating systems (including Internet software). He has a BS in physics and studied game theory and formal logic during his years with the math department at Brookhaven National Lab. He lives in New Hampshire and often writes about uncomfortable truths. Nobody can deny WMF has done a great service to humanity. Wikimedians and especially Wikipedians around the world deserve our utmost respect and gratitude for their outstanding efforts. But there's a political zeitgeist in the air that began with the Arab Spring that WMF can and should be part of. The WMF should stop pretending it's politically neutral (NPOV). The declared philosophy of the movement (see Movement roles/charter) expresses a clear political POV. There's lots of implied politics in trying to imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. WMF was part of an amicus brief in the past. There's been chapter and community political activism, including the recent Italian Wikipedia shutdown. The recent Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) forced WMF to take a clear political stance. WMF even helped organize an Internet Censorship Day: http://americancensorship.org/ , urging people to lobby Congress and petition the US state department against SOPA. That's political POV! But expressing POV on Internet censorship or expressing a commitment to free access to knowledge, transparency, openness, independence, quality, and privacy is fundamentally different than expressing POV in an encyclopedia article. The very essence of political knowledge is understanding and critically evaluating conflicting POV. Considering the present state and direction of our world, which is largely controlled by politics, isn't it time for the world's largest free knowledge resource to openly acknowledge that free political knowledge is at least as important to humanity as free encyclopedic knowledge? Isn't reliable knowledge about what our respective governments are doing in our names at least as important to our well being as reliable knowledge about the Brooklyn Bridge or the French Revolution? Encyclopedic knowledge becomes rather moot if we destroy our planet earth. Currently there's no comprehensive source of reliable political knowledge. Deceptive 30-second political ads on TV are certainly not a source of reliable political knowledge. Blathering TV pundits are not a source of reliable political knowledge. Even our mainstream media are not a source of reliable political knowledge. On the contrary, they often provide specious propaganda disguised as reliable political knowledge because their revenue is deeply dependent on special interest money. Though the Internet provides many sources of reliable political knowledge, it's spread out (hit or miss) and very difficult to assemble into a coherent body of knowledge on any given political issue. Thanks to WMF and the power of the Internet, countless millions of people around the world have access to a free source of vast, reliable encyclopedic knowledge. But these same countless millions have no source of reliable political knowledge, the kind of knowledge they need to critically evaluate the policies and actions of their government representatives. Why not? You Wikipedians have the power to change the downward spiral of the planet and to radically change the course of history by providing a free source of reliable political knowledge. By trying to maintain a staunch NPOV policy with no exceptions, the WMF has been throwing out the baby with the bath water. The WMF already has the infrastructure and the vast resources needed to provide the world with a free source of reliable political knowledge if it could get over this misplaced NPOV mindset and realize that political knowledge can be provided in a neutral manner where the WMF facilitates (necessarily POV) political knowledge without imposing its own political POV. How a new neutral wiki for world political knowledge (modeled on Wikipedia) might work This idea is described in more detail under Proposals for new projects (see WikiArguments: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiArguments). Here are the basics of how a political knowledge Wikipedia would work as opposed to the present encyclopedic knowledge Wikipedia: For articles in the encyclopedic Wikipedia, NPOV makes perfect sense. But for articles in a political Wikipedia, POV