Re: [Wikimedia-l] Europeana post on Wikimedia Commons large batch upload projects

Thank you Fae for sharing this post (and for uploading those Photocrom images! People who want to see more or use them in WP articles can find them on Commons at Category:Photocrom prints collection ) The GLAMwikiToolset (pr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

Dear Erik, (Also copying in the Cultural Partners and GLAMwiki Toolset mailing lists as Erik's email below is directly is related to them). Thank you for this email with the explicit invitation for groups in the Wikimedia movement to directly take responsibility for supporting the technology needs

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Chair of the Supervisory Board – the 14th WMDE General Assembly in retrospect

Congratulations on your new role Tim. In all noise generated on this list by the bizzare detour into Wikipediocracy last week, I was surprised that the other major announcement - about the fundamental changes at WMDE (particularly regarding Pavel Richter) - were not discussed at all. For such a ma

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sponsorship/donations to other organizations

I too think the idea, in the general sense, is a good one (we SHOULD be supporting our fellow-travellers) but there are lots of difficulties in the detail. Forgive me if this is not correct, but isn't the idea of having a close (potentially financial) relationship to likeminded organisations what

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fuck the community, who cares

On Tuesday, 8 April 2014, Michael Peel wrote: What happened to the intelligent conversation that used to take place here? > > There used to be intelligent conversation on wikimedia-l? As I remember it foundation-l was always famous for a seemingly endless supply of controversy (mostly hyperbole)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

On 1 April 2014 16:22, MZMcBride wrote: > Sue Gardner wrote: > >For everyone: following up on Erik's e-mail, the WMF has done a > >postmortem of the Belfer situation, which I've just posted at the link > >from Erik above. Suffice to say here that we implemented the Belfer > >Wikipedian-in-Residen

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

Myself and several other community members who are heavily involved in the development of 'Wikipedian in Residence' and GLAM-WIKI became aware of this project in early 2012, just before the job description was published. I will let them speak for themselves if they wish to weigh-in. But the TL;DR v

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] (press release) Frank Schulenburg named executive director of new Wiki Education Foundation

On 13 February 2014 10:04, Andy Mabbett wrote: > " > On 12 February 2014 21:16, Jay Walsh wrote: > > [...] > > Congratulations to Frank, but... > > > The Wiki Education > > Foundation, a new nonprofit organization that supports the Wikipedia > > Education Program in the United States and Canada

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: Should we support MP4 Video on our sites?

Or better yet... elaborate on your reasons on the RfC page. https://commons. wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Requests_for_comment/MP4_Video I think it is commendable that the WMF legal team is proposing this discussion in such an open and honest way. It is a discussion that has been bubbling away for a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid editing v. paid advocacy (editing)

Thank you very much for raising this distinction MZ. It's a very important one and, in the recriminations about this particular event, I would hate for the 'baby to get thrown out with the bathwater' by losing this distinction. -Liam / Wittylama wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata On 9 January

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Dells are backdored

As a non-technical person on this list, I have no idea what you just said Lesile (and Tim, earlier in this thread) but I greatly enjoyed reading it! Keep up the good work :-) -Liam / Wittylama On Tuesday, 31 December 2013, Leslie Carr wrote: > Oh man --- > > The trolling here is amazing!!! > > Fi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] access to journals

With regards to getting access to closed journals... I'm now working for the National Library of Australia and we offer free, at home, access to JSTOR and MANY other restricted access databases to any Australian, if they get a free library card. [You can see the full list at the NLA eResources page

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Feedback for the Wikimedia Foundation

On 23 July 2013 07:10, David Cuenca wrote: > It seems there was a problem in what the definition of success is. > For the WMF success was to deploy the VE according to the plan and budget > and to reach certain usage percentage. > For the community it was a different kind of metric, maybe a more

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in jail!

Now THIS is seriously clever! Well done WMCH - that is a truly innovative way to provide access to knowledge to a community who is often forgotten. Can you link to the press release here, please? -Liam / Wittylama wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata On 17 June 2013 14:15, Charles Andrès wrote

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)

grattis mina kompisar! *Jag känner en bott, hon heter Lsjbot, Lsjbot heter hon...* It looks like Polish will be the next to hit the symbolic number: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#100_000.2B_articles wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata On 16 June 2013 22:39, Tonmoy Khan wro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM

Perhaps we as individuals, or the WMF as an organisation, might also like to sign up to Mozilla's campaign "stopwatching.us"? Blogpost - https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/06/11/stopwatching-us-mozilla-launches-massive-campaign-on-digital-surveillance/ Website - https://optin.stopwatching.us/ I n

[Wikimedia-l] PRISM

This is a simple question with a potentially very complicated answer. What, if any, are the implications of the PRISM scandal for Wikimedia? Does the fact that our servers are based in the US now compromise our mission either in a technical, privacy or an ethical sense? - Liam / Wittylama

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Recognition of Amical Wikimedia

Agreed with what others have said - this is great news! Many of us know what a longstanding issue this has been - how to recognise and support the excellent work of the Catalan community in a way that fits within our structures. There have been many years of sometimes controversial debates about t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage logo

Very eloquently put Denny. I think your point is very well made that independently of what we as individuals think about the legal Trademark merits of this particular case, or the community processes of choosing a logo, the point remains that our fighting this would not help to serve the mission (e

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia (Foundation) endowment

On 15 March 2013 01:51, Erik Moeller wrote: > The "what's the level required > for bare survival" question is, IMO, only of marginal interest, > because it is much more desirable, and should be very much possible, > to raise funds for sustaining our mission in perpetuity. > Perhaps a more useful

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Are there plans for interactions between wikidata and wiktionaries ?

On Tuesday, 12 March 2013, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Gerard Meijssen, 11/03/2013 17:51: > >> PS as to restricting the world... we do not allow people to state that >> Julius Caesar is a contemporary of Napoleon Bonaparte in Wikipedia either >> do we ? >> > > I'm quite sure we do. > > Nemo > T

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Legal Blog Post: "WMF trademark practices for QR codes and wikitowns"

Thank you Geoff for the quick and sensible response, and for James for pointing it out here. -Liam On Saturday, 9 March 2013, James Alexander wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Liam Wyatt > > wrote: > > > Thanks for posting a definitive answer on this topic - it is goo

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Legal Blog Post: "WMF trademark practices for QR codes and wikitowns"

Thanks for posting a definitive answer on this topic - it is good to get clear instructions about this longstanding question, even if I don't personally agree with the outcome. However, I would like to take issue with part of this blogpost: "will continue to allow nominative

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

I had to sign a NDA when I became a "Fellow" three years ago. It was mailed to me (not emailed) so I don't have a copy to refer to anymore. But from what I recall it was actually quite sensible and not "over-reaching". It talked about not publishing other staff's employment details if you happen to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's support of OTRS

On 21 February 2013 19:02, MZMcBride wrote: > I'm not sure moving to Meta-Wiki is a good idea. "OTRS" is the current > software. It's unclear what a "Software" talk subpage would be used for. > I understood him to mean that we should move the *discussion* to meta - not the handling of the email

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application

Yes, I think that writing "I will bring Stroopwafels" gives you an automatic extra 10points in the scholarship assessment ;-) wittylama.com Peace, love & metadata On 18 February 2013 21:05, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:52:13 +0100, Lodewijk wrote: > >> oh... so replying

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application

On Monday, 18 February 2013, Abbas Mahmood wrote: > > From: liamwy...@gmail.com > > Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:47:06 + > > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting > application > > > > > > " Hong Kong is an international gour

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaau-l] Sue Gardner interview on ABC Radio

It was recorded by the ABC, SLQ was just the venue. So, no free license possible. -Liam On Friday, 15 February 2013, K. Peachey wrote: > Perhaps we should find out from the SLQ what license that is under, If > its under a decent license It might be worthwhile uploading it to > commons (in the app

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2013 scholarship now accepting application

Glad to see the process is coming along :-) Could you please clarify the purpose of one of the mandatory questions in the form: " Hong Kong is an international gourmet paradise. Please use less than 200 words to describe your favourite dish of food." Is this an English-language test? Or, is this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposed urgent Board of Trustees resolution without a meeting

Whereas I'm confused. On Monday, 24 December 2012, James Salsman wrote: > Kat Walsh > Chair > Board of Trustees > Wikimedia Foundation > > In accordance with your discretionary power to divert from the Board > deliberation procedures approved July 8, 2010,[1] and because of > certain recent serio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the 2011-12 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report

Congrats :-) Interesting format choice too. I see that "Tripling Elephants" has donated somewhere between $5,000 and $25,00 dollars! Is this for real, or has Tillman been adding Easter Eggs to the report? :-) See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiality_and_Other_Tripling_Elephants (I a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

On Wednesday, 12 December 2012, Bishakha Datta wrote: > > > I'm just imagining how much easier it will be to do wiki workshops and > outreach sessions as this develops further. > > YES! When this is the default for new users we're going to have to re-write all the training manuals to remove many of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Alpha version of the VisualEditor now available on the English Wikipedia

I just made my first, very minor, edit using the Visual Editor alpha. I feel paraphrasing Neil Armstrong is appropriate here: This is one small edit for a Wikipedian, one giant leap for Wikimedia. My most enthusiastic congratulations James and the whole team working on this project. We all know it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wiki Support

Hi Jan, Can you elaborate a bit on what your Mission is, and what WikiSupport is as compared to WikimediaCZ? -Liam On Monday, 10 December 2012, Jan Lochman wrote: > Dear Wikimedia friends, > > > let me announce the foundation of Wiki Support – Czech Republic based NGO > focusing the human resou

Re: [Wikimedia-l] photography restrictions at the Olympics

This issue is not merely theoretical. Many will recall the controversy surrounding the free-licensed photo of Usain Bolt, on Commons, taken during the Beijing Olympics: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-10-12/In_the_news - http://ragesoss.com/blog/2009/10/09/wikipedi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Facebook goes turncoat on the "squash internet freedom" battle.

On 17 April 2012 19:52, David Gerard wrote: > On 17 April 2012 20:32, Todd Allen wrote: > > > Would it be possible to get enough other sites behind another protest? > > The last one didn't succeed just because of Wikipedia, it succeeded > > because there were so many. > > > I think you're dead w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

Hi Kozuch, While not specifically a "social" feature, you might be interested to look at a major project the WMF seems to be preparing for the future - called "Echo": https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_%28Notifications%29 It is a proposed, fully integrated, notification system for mediawiki. As it

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