[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

[Ivan Martínez]

It is not difficult to do something that is already happening. By referring
to encyclopedic videos I am talking about multimedia that can enrich
existing content. I understand your point, it's a bit like what happened
with the project of reading recorded Wikipedia articles that after years
seem obsolete.

What I am referring to is all that multimedia material that is visual, that
can be made into video to complement articles. The process you mention is
complicated, but not impossible, in fact, there are many of us editors who
have all those skills already implemented in the projects.

El vie, 26 ene 2024 a las 12:06, geni () escribió:

> On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 22:24, Ivan Martínez  wrote:
> > By not having a Youtube 2.0 we are avoiding a Wikipedia 2.0 with pure
> encyclopaedic videos. I see a false dilemma there.
>
>
> Creating good encyclopaedic videos is from a video production point of
> view a far harder problem that dealing with the technical hurdles in
> uploading video to commons. Going to take a lot of effort in
> scripting, shooting, lighting and editing. And having your editor of
> choice render the final project in a wikipedia friendly format should
> not present a problem (and if it does handbrake exists).
>
> I really doubt we will ever get much in the way of encyclopaedic
> videos on our platforms since they take so much time and cost so much
> to make that they are only viable at scale from people who can do it
> at as a full time job. Youtubers find ways to do that through adsense,
> sponsor spots and Patreon. Not really something you can do on
> wikipedia.
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

[Ivan Martínez]

And with this thread, we had an example of exactly what tends to happen to
novices, to new contributors, to interested people who are used to other
simpler interfaces. Faced with raising a problem like the one Galder
exposed, and having as an answer the technicalities and the tortuous path
of having to go through 10 steps to place a video that is aligned with the
Commons mission.

I love the *different* way of our free and openly developed community
tools, except that Strategy 2030 was clear that the way was in the opposite
direction
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Recommendations/Improve_User_Experience>
.

Best,

El mié, 24 ene 2024 a las 11:13, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga (<
galder...@hotmail.com>) escribió:

> Thanks for the links, Yaroslav, I'll take a look.
>
> About the embedding, yes, you can embed an image using HTML code. You
> can't embed an image or a video using oEmbed, so you can't share a video
> from Commons in, lets's say, Facebook. And you can't just add the URL of
> the video in WordPress and play it, like millions of blogs are doing with
> YouTube or Vimeo videos. So you can't share externally a video (or an
> image) just using the URL, which is one of the main entry points YouTube is
> using for external playing. Is it technically possible to embed a video
> from Commons in a place which is not Facebook/Xitter/Mastodon... yes, it
> is, but coding is necessary, which is not how to make Commons part of the
> essential ecosystem of free knowledge.
>
> In the same way, you can upload a video to Commons. We upload two every
> week for the project Ikusgela (
> https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari:Hezkuntza/Ikusgela), but it's not a
> simple process, which is the point of this message.
>
> Thanks
>
> Galder
>
>
> --
> *From:* Yaroslav Blanter 
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 24, 2024 5:59 PM
> *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List 
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are
> doing it wrong
>
> Dear All,
>
> I can easily find two recent discussions which touch the topic of video on
> Commons:
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2023/12#Prioritizing_our_technical_needs
>
> and
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Requests_for_comment/Technical_needs_survey#No_objection,_but.
> ..
>
> I am sure there were more.
>
> I do not know whether videos can be embedded externally, but images
> certainly can. I for example embed them in my blog (random example:
> https://ymblanter.dreamwidth.org/146913.html; the text is in Russian
> which is irrelevant for my point). I have been doing this for years and
> never encountered any issues.
>
> Best
> Yaroslav
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 8:00 AM Gnangarra  wrote:
>
> Kaya
>
> I'd like to my perspective from wikimania side the amount of effort
> volunteers and time to bring every session alive on commons is all
> consuming yes YouTube is the best place to put that content.  It gets
> harder the smaller the event is. Video needs to be addresses as a priority
> along with issues raise by galder. Simple mp4 upload option would be a
> starting point, surely we are big enough for any copyright holders to
> donate the licensing if wmf comes made a request
>
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2024, 2:44 pm Mrb Rafi,  wrote:
>
> +1 to Galder.
>
> Sharing a current situation.
>
> A significant number of non wikimedian photographers participate in the
> wiki loves X campaigns and since the upload process in commons is complex
> than any other site, most of them feel lost and don't retain.
>
> We are arranging wiki loves folklore in Bangladesh this year and we have
> prepared a handbook for the participants considering the above situation.
> The handbook has been uploaded to commons and now we're receiving feedback
> that our participants are feeling lost after visiting the description page,
> they can't decide how to view the pdf.
>
> Wikimedia commons needs a user friendly and intuitive pdf viewer asap.
>
> Best,
> Rafi
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 4:24 AM Ivan Martínez  wrote:
>
> Thank you Yaroslav, I would very much appreciate a link to the discussion.
> By not having a Youtube 2.0 we are avoiding a Wikipedia 2.0 with pure
> encyclopaedic videos. I see a false dilemma there.
>
> El mar, 23 ene 2024 a las 16:03, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga (<
> galder...@hotmail.com>) escribió:
>
> Thanks to everyone for your comments.
> We don't need to worry about Commons being "Youtube 2.0", because we can't
> embed Commons video outside. Furthermore, we can't even embed Commons
> images or videos in Diff, because oEmbed is not working for Commons and
> Wordpress c

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

[Ivan Martínez]

Thank you Yaroslav, I would very much appreciate a link to the discussion.
By not having a Youtube 2.0 we are avoiding a Wikipedia 2.0 with pure
encyclopaedic videos. I see a false dilemma there.

El mar, 23 ene 2024 a las 16:03, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga (<
galder...@hotmail.com>) escribió:

> Thanks to everyone for your comments.
> We don't need to worry about Commons being "Youtube 2.0", because we can't
> embed Commons video outside. Furthermore, we can't even embed Commons
> images or videos in Diff, because oEmbed is not working for Commons and
> Wordpress can't take directly images or videos from Commons. This has been
> known since... 2010!
>
>
>- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T27854
>- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T309101
>
>
> Again, the problem is not about this code or that specific piece of code.
> The problem is lack of direction, ambition and goals.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Galder
> --
> *From:* James Heilman 
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 23, 2024 10:49 PM
> *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List 
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are
> doing it wrong
>
> Yes we see this sentiment regarding a number of issues in our movement.
> The existing community wants to keep certain processes more difficult /
> time consuming to make sure that those involved in the process are
> sufficiently "dedicated".
>
> Maybe we just need a flag which can be given to allow certain folks we
> trust to use an easier process or only allow video upload by people with so
> many edits which can be removed if they misuse it?
>
> James
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 2:38 PM Yaroslav Blanter  wrote:
>
> Specifically related to video uploads, we had discussions on Commons on
> different strategic issues recently, in particular, about this. The general
> sentiment was, to my understanding (pls correct me if I am wrong) that
> Commons has no ambition to become Youtube 2.0 and we do not have any
> resources for this. If video upload is encouraged, very strict policies
> must be in force concerning of what is in the scope of Commons.
>
> Best
> Yaroslav
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 10:05 PM Brion Vibber 
> wrote:
>
> Converting them to suitably compact files in h.264/aac in .MP4 format
> would be by far the simplest way. Use ffmpeg as we do on the server side
> for online playback.
>
> Conforming to the arbitrary Wikimedia prohibition on h.264 you could use
> mpeg-4 visual instead, still in .mp4 - afaik patents are expired and it'll
> play in standalone files (not in HLS)
>
> If you jump through enough hoops you might get vp9 working in HLS offline,
> but adaptive streaming may be irrelevant to offline use.
>
> -- brion
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 12:52 PM James Heilman  wrote:
>
> It would be amazing if one could play videos on iPhones when the videos
> are within ZIMs in an offline environment aswell. Brion not sure what
> barriers there are to this currently?
>
> James
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 12:48 PM Paulo Santos Perneta <
> paulospern...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Should read 2030 Strategy, not 2023 strategy, sorry.
>
> Paulo Santos Perneta  escreveu (terça,
> 23/01/2024 à(s) 19:41):
>
> I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment. We are currently grappling
> with rather rudimentary approaches when it comes to uploading and reusing
> video and music files...
> The incredibly useful Graph has been down for quite some time. The
> extensive capabilities of Wikidata query representations, particularly with
> geolocated data on maps, appear to have barely scratched the surface.
> Listeria frequently experiences issues and underwent a major update that
> disrupted previous queries.
>
> On a personal note, I attempted to create a dynamic digital library of
> works under a free license using Wikidata for our Digital Humanistics
> centre. However, I discovered that with the available tools, I would need
> to code the presentation myself, as the options for reuse outside of
> Wikidata were very basic.
>
> On the whole, the Wikipedia experience remains challenging, especially for
> newcomers. The much wanted Visual Editor developments and improvements seem
> to have stopped years ago. The recent changes made by the 'Desktop
> Improvement' team to the default Wikipedia skin seem to be more geared
> towards readers than editors and have apparently worsened the overall
> experience, according to feedback I've received from newcomers.
>
> These are just a few instances that have underscored, and continue to
> underscore, my belief that we are likely not on the path towards achieving
> the objectives outlined in the 2023 Strategy.
>
> My personal impression is that the issue doesn't necessarily stem from a
> lack of funding to pursue these objectives but rather from the ineffective
> expenditure and allocation of those funds. I wish I knew how to contribute
> to changing or improving this situation.
> It would also be great to see a comment/opinion from current CEO Maryana
> Iskander on 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

[Ivan Martínez]

Hi Galder, I certainly share your sentiment. The world is undoubtedly
moving at such a speed that other sites have invested millions to make the
experience better. But ours has millions as well, and those of us who edit
on a day-to-day basis still have the worst internet experience when it
comes for an example to editing and uploading photos. Not to mention the
long and tortuous road to video uploading (Commons has no decent support
for this ), in the midst
of the biggest generational shift in video consumption.

There is a phrase in my country that if civil servants were on public
transport, we would probably have faster improvements. Will it be the same
for us, if we do not have staff who do not face our daily "challenges"?

I don't know.

El mar, 23 ene 2024 a las 5:03, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga (<
galder...@hotmail.com>) escribió:

> Dear wikimedians,
> Nearly one year ago, the Graphs extension was disabled from all wikis,
> because there was a security issue that should be solved (
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940). A wide team from the WMF
> worked on a solution for some weeks, but after Northern Hemisphere spring
> ended, summer came, then the monsoon season, and now it is again summer in
> the Southern Hemisphere... and Graphs are still disabled. All the solutions
> proposed have been dismissed, but every two months there's a proposal to
> make a new roadmap to solve the issue. We have plenty of roadmaps, but no
> vehicle to reach our destination.
>
> Seven years ago, we were discussing our Strategy for 2030. We used
> thousands of volunteer hours, thousands of staff hours and millions of
> dollars to build a really well-balanced strategy. There we concluded that "*By
> 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem
> of free knowledge*". We also made some recommendations to improve the
> User Experience (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Recommendations/Improve_User_Experience)
> and claimed that we wanted to Innovate in Free Knowledge (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Recommendations/Innovate_in_Free_Knowledge).
> Well, the situation is now worse than it was seven years ago, let me give
> some examples:
>
>
>- Graph extension is used in thousands of pages, some of them highly
>relevant, as COVID or Climate Change information. There are thousands of
>graphs broken now, and the only partial solution give is loading these
>graphs as images, instead of promoting an interactive solution.
>- Meanwhile, a place like Our World in Data has been publishing data
>and interactive content with a compatible license for years. (Remember, 
> "*By
>2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem
>of free knowledge*"). Trying to add this data and graphs to Wikimedia
>projects has been done by WikiMed, and it is technically possible, but
>still blocked to deploy (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303853).
>- Wolfram Alpha is like a light year ahead us on giving interactive
>solutions to knowledge questions, even the silliest ones (
>https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=how+many+oranges+fit+in+the+Earth%3F).
>We have good technical articles about a lot of things, but sometimes 
> "*becoming
>the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge*"
>needs to provide solutions to exact problems, like the answer to an
>equation, and how to solve it. That's also "free knowledge".
>- Brilliant (https://brilliant.org/) is brilliant if you want to learn
>lots of things, like geometry or programming. Way better than Wikipedia.
>But... you need to pay for it. How could we even try if we can't add
>anything interactive to our platforms?
>- We can build interactive timelines using Wikidata, but we can't
>embed them at Wikipedia. Weird, because I can do it in any external page.
>Hopefully, Histropedia will do it better. http://histropedia.com/
>
>- We could have something very special: inline links in video and
>audio subtitles. We used to have them, but the new video infrastructure
>doesn't allow it. Imagine a world where you can watch a video and link a
>link in the subtitles just to know more about that.
>- ...
>
>
> The list can go on an on ("which phase the moon is today?"), but I think
> that the idea is clear. We could have interactive content, but we are going
> in the opposite direction, and every year we are further from our goal,
> because other platforms are doing it better, way better. And this seems
> like some wild ideas, but then I read the 2023-2024 annual plan section
> called "Wiki Experiences" (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024/Goals/Infrastructure#Bucket:_Wiki_Experiences)
> and it looks like we should be going there. But we aren't.
>
> I'm sorry if this e-mail 

[Wikimedia-l] Leadership Development Working Group is ready for community feedback!

[Ivan Martínez]

TL;DR: The draft leadership definition[1] prepared by the Leadership
Development Working Group is ready for community feedback! Please share
your feedback on Meta[2], the feedback form[3] or the Movement Strategy
Forum[4]. You can also directly mail us at
leadershipworkinggr...@wikimedia.org. The feedback will be collected till
October 6, 2022.

Hello everyone!

I hope you are aware that the Leadership Development Working Group[5] has
been working over the past few months to formulate and find ways to nurture
the leadership of our movement. The Leadership Development Working Group
(LDWG) is a group of Wikimedia volunteers representing different
communities, languages, roles, and experiences. We are pleased to inform
the community that our draft definition of leadership is now available for
community feedback. This first draft definition of leadership was written
after months of discussion, learning, and sharing from our community
perspective. The Wikimedia Movement, which is by nature diverse and
distinctive in its own way, is expressly addressed by this definition.

Please consider going through the definition and letting us know what you
think by October 6, 2022. The draft definition includes a general
definition of leadership and subcategories that elaborate on the actions,
qualities, and outcomes of good leadership.

There are many places where you can express your ideas, suggestions, and
comments, such as the meta talk page[2], the feedback form[3], and Movement
Strategy Forum Post[4]. You can also directly mail us at
leadershipworkinggr...@wikimedia.org.

You can check if the general definition, and the subcategories align with
your idea of leadership in the movement. You can also try finding the gaps,
maybe some qualities of a leader or anything else are missing in the draft
definition or you can check if the definition applies to all cultural,
linguistic, community or other contexts of the movement and share your
thoughts with us.

Together, let's celebrate the movement's diverse and distinctive
leadership!

Cheers!

[1] Link to the draft definition on meta


[2] Link to meta talk page


[3] Link to the feedback form 

[4] Link to the Movement Strategy Forum post


[5] Link to the meta page of LDWG


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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO

[Ivan Martínez]

Welcome on board Maryana!
All the best,

El mar, 14 sept 2021 a las 17:43, Camelia Boban ()
escribió:

> Welcome to our movement Maryana.
>
> Il giorno mar 14 set 2021 alle ore 17:42 Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
> galder...@hotmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>> Welcome: https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryana_Iskander
>>
>
> You will have time to get to know the wikimedians, but writing or
> improving someone's biography in Wikipedia
> is perhaps one of the most heartfelt and sincere welcome that a Wikipedian
> can give.
>
>
> Camelia & WikiDonne UG
>
>
> --
> *Camelia Boban (she/her)*
>
> *| Java EE Developer |*
>
> WikiDonne | Wikimedia Diversity Ambassador | *AffCom*
>
> M. +39 3383385545
> camelia.bo...@gmail.com
> *Wikipedia  **| 
> **WikiDonne
> UG * | *WikiDonne Project
>  *| *WikiDonne APS
> *
>
> [image: File:WDG - Wikipedia20 background Cake slim.jpg]
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Il giorno mar 14 set 2021 alle ore 23:17 Risker  ha
> scritto:
>
>> Welcome, Maryana.  We can all look forward to getting to know you better,
>> and for you to get to know us, too.
>>
>> Feel free to reach out to people with your questions, your ideas, and
>> your concerns.
>>
>> Risker/Anne
>>
>> On Tue, 14 Sept 2021 at 11:36, Maryana Iskander 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> Thank you for this opportunity to introduce myself to you.
>>>
>>> When I read the job position [1] for the next leader of Wikimedia
>>> Foundation, I noticed that it opened with a seemingly simple statement:
>>> “Knowledge belongs to all of us.” Does it, really? It’s a striking
>>> statement. In an increasingly unequal and polarizing world, one in which
>>> almost nothing belongs to all of us, the idea that knowledge *must *belong
>>> to all is enough to capture anyone’s attention and imagination – certainly
>>> mine.
>>>
>>> My story is shaped by a twin belief that knowledge can also set us free.
>>> Shortly after I was born in Cairo, Egypt, my parents left for the United
>>> States. During my time at university, graduate school, and law school, I
>>> was consistently pulled towards some of society’s toughest issues – women’s
>>> rights, civil rights, and the rights of prisoners. I was equally pulled by
>>> the need to be effective in making change – seeking out leadership
>>> positions and raising my hand and voice to change the institutions of
>>> power, not just protest against them. I learned that the opportunity to
>>> make meaningful impact often sits ‘in-between’ traditional spheres:
>>> in-between research and teaching at Rice University, in-between healthcare
>>> delivery and advocacy at Planned Parenthood, and in-between government and
>>> the private sector at Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator. My time at all
>>> of these organisations required listening to and learning from many diverse
>>> stakeholders – including volunteers – and using my position of leadership
>>> to champion often unheard voices.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In 2012, I followed my heart to South Africa and its very complicated
>>> society – a legacy of apartheid perpetuating deep inequality despite the
>>> resilience of communities full of potential and hope, and a country with
>>> one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world. A new
>>> organisation had just been formed with a big vision to close this
>>> opportunity gap. I signed up, first as an unpaid volunteer, and then for
>>> many years as the CEO. My job has been to cultivate a common space of trust
>>> for the collective assets of the society – from government, the private
>>> sector, civil society, and millions of young people – to work in a
>>> coalition to tackle one of the most daunting challenges of our time. To do
>>> this, we relied on an inclusive, multi-channel platform that leverages all
>>> forms of technology as a way to serve communities still riddled by a basic
>>> lack of access. Our successes came from the power of connection,
>>> partnership, and a collective belief that young people are the solution,
>>> not the problem. As I began my tenth year, I felt it was time to make space
>>> for new leaders.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Why am I joining the Wikimedia Foundation at this moment? There are many
>>> reasons: (1) this collective of projects is growing what is perhaps the
>>> most important commons infrastructure of our modern world. I am excited to
>>> add my time and talents to this vision. What will it take to create – not
>>> just imagine – a world in which every single human being can freely share
>>> in the sum of all knowledge? (2) I have experienced first-hand that
>>> distributed leadership models can usually achieve more than any group of
>>> people can do on their own. I am eager to support processes that will make
>>> this even more true for our movement; and (3) I am drawn to working with
>>> people of integrity and commitment, who 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Agreement Reached Between Wikimedia Israel and Israeli Archives

[Ivan Martínez]

Congratulations Michal and Wikimedia Israel!

El mié., 27 feb. 2019 a las 2:33, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel (<
it...@wikimedia.org.il>) escribió:

> You can also read more about it on Haaretz:
>
>
> https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-after-uploading-28-000-historical-images-wikimedia-signs-deal-with-national-library-1.6976376
>
>
>
> *Itzik Edri*
> Chairperson
> it...@wikimedia.org.il
> +972-54-5878078
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 6:19 PM Michal Lester 
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm happy to share with you that last Monday, nearly four months after
> > Wikimedia Israel’s extraction of nearly 28-thousand public-domain
> > photographs  from
> archives
> > affiliated with the State of Israel and the Zionist movement, an
> agreement
> > was finally reached to reconcile the differences between the parties and
> to
> > assure future cooperation.
> >
> > The archives from which the photographs had been extracted last November
> > questioned the legitimacy of Wikimedia Israel’s move and demanded an
> > apology for the misuse of their websites. They agreed, on the other hand,
> > to enhance access to public-domain material stored in their archives and
> to
> > further cooperation with Wikimedia Israel.
> >
> > Following the agreement, Wikimedia Israel released a statement saying it
> > “regrets the situation that has resulted from lack of communication
> between
> > the archives and Wikimedia Israel”. The statement further says that
> > “different world-views and organizational cultures harmed the dialogue
> and
> > distorted the understanding of the intentions of the archives and of
> > Wikimedia Israel”. The statement ends by saying that “this is not how the
> > affairs should have been conducted, and we wish to apologize to anyone
> who
> > sees themselves offended by the move”.
> >
> > The agreement calls for better access to public material, while
> maintaining
> > better sensitivity, and “respecting the rights of those who deposited the
> > material and the Israeli law”. In addition, Wikimedia Israel offered its
> > help in the effort to digitalize the material and make it more
> accessible.
> > This should serve not only Israelis, but also people throughout the
> Middle
> > East, who could find interest in historical photographs taken decades ago
> > in neighboring countries and territories.
> >
> > I hope that in the near future this agreement will lead to a better
> > collaboration and releasing of materials.
> >
> > Michal
> >
> >
> >
> > *Michal Lester,*
> >
> > *Executive DirectorWikimedia Israel*
> > ___
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2019

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Congratulations Wikimedia Sweden!
Will be a nice Wikimania :)



El 7 feb. 2018 8:14 AM, "Bobby Shabangu"  escribió:

Congratulations Sweden.

On 7 Feb 2018 13:17, "Fæ"  wrote:

> On 7 February 2018 at 11:06, Felix Nartey  wrote:
> > Congratulations Wikimedia Sweden!
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Leinonen Teemu 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Heja Sverige! Congratulations!
> >>
> >> Making me happy this week,
> >>
> >> - Teemu
> >>
> >> On 7 Feb 2018, at 3.58, Ellie Young > yo...@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >> *All,On behalf of the Wikimania Steering Committee and the Wikimedia
> >> Foundation, I am pleased to announce that we have decided to have
> Wikimania
> >> located in Sweden in 2019.
>
> Hi Ellie,
>
> Is there a good on-wiki page for people to leave their names and
> congratulation messages for WMSE and/or the Wikimania Steering
> Committee for their decision?
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sharing sad news about Bassel

[Ivan Martínez]

Thanks for the (sad) update, Gregory.
Best,

2017-08-02 16:11 GMT-05:00 Enock Seth Nyamador :

> Very sad. A legend he is.
>
> Best,
>
> - Enock
>
> 2017-08-02 20:42 GMT+00:00 Bobby Shabangu :
>
> > This is very heartbreaking news indeed!
> >
> > May his family find strentght in these dark times. 
> >
> > On 2 Aug 2017 01:01, "Katherine Maher"  wrote:
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I am very deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of our
> fellow
> > > community member Bassel Khartabil, also known to some as Bassel Safadi.
> > >
> > > Bassel was detained on March 15, 2012 amid arrests on the one-year
> > > anniversary of the Syrian uprising. He had been missing since October
> > 2015,
> > > when he was removed from the Syrian prison where he was being held. His
> > > wife, Noura, confirmed earlier today in a statement on Facebook that he
> > was
> > > executed by the Syrian government shortly after his disappearance.
> > >
> > > Bassel was a leader, advocate, and member of so many open culture
> > > communities it is difficult to do them all justice. In addition to his
> > > contributions to Wikimedia, he was project lead and public affiliate
> for
> > > Creative Commons Syria, a member of the Global Voices community, a free
> > > software advocate and contributor to Mozilla, and much more. The
> European
> > > Parliament statement on his detention credited him with “opening up the
> > > Internet in Syria and vastly extending online access and knowledge to
> the
> > > Syrian people."[1] He was known for his boundless enthusiasm and
> passion,
> > > always encouraging others to share, create, and connect with a better
> > world
> > > around them.
> > >
> > > Many of you cared deeply about Bassel, working to raise awareness of
> his
> > > detention and disappearance. Please know that his friends and family
> knew
> > > of and appreciated these efforts, both as a voice on his behalf and a
> > > reminder of the values of the communities to which he devoted his time
> > and
> > > attention. I personally am grappling with profound anger and sorrow
> that
> > > someone so brilliant, humane, and generous should be taken in this way.
> > For
> > > those who did not know Bassel, you can learn more about his life and
> work
> > > at his article [2], and at https://freebassel.org.
> > >
> > > The Wikimedia Foundation will publish a statement soon, and ask for
> your
> > > support in helping us translate that message to share more broadly. We
> > will
> > > also work to find a way to celebrate Bassel’s life and honor his
> > > contributions at Wikimania next week.
> > >
> > > Yours, sadly,
> > >
> > > Katherine
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//
> > > TEXT+WQ+E-2013-014046+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN
> > > [2] (en) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Khartabil; (ar)
> > > https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D8%
> > > AE%D8%B1%D8%B7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84
> > >
> > > --
> > > Katherine Maher
> > >
> > > Wikimedia Foundation
> > > 149 New Montgomery Street
> > > San Francisco, CA 94105
> > >
> > > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635
> > > +1 (415) 712 4873
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Sharing sad news about Bassel

[Ivan Martínez]

Dear all. Sad and terrible news for the movement.

Just want to be sure about if Wikimedia Foundation and/or Jimmy Wales
Foundation have proofs of Bassel's death. Some international conventions
about forced disappearance have protocols to talk in public and confirm
this terrible cases. One of that protocols is talk about "forced
disappeared" victims until families have a scientific confirmation from an
official source. In many cases around the world governments or other
persons use rumors to undermine morale of the families of the victims and
organizations around them or force to the victim to be abandoned.

While we don't have that kind of confirmation for respect we must insist to
refer our colleague as "dissapeared".

Best,

2017-08-02 12:02 GMT-05:00 Marti Johnson :

> Such heartbreaking news.  Thank you for sharing it, Katherine.
>
> It's supportive to know he will be remembered and celebrated at Wikimania.
> I'm grateful that's happening.
> ᐧ
>
>
> *Marti JohnsonProgram Officer*
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>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share
>  in the sum of all knowledge.  Help us make
> it
> a reality!
> Support Wikimedia 
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu <
> rayyakka...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > I am crying :(
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:04 PM, Shlomi Fish 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 19:00:19 -0400
> >> Katherine Maher  wrote:
> >>
> >> > Dear all,
> >> >
> >> > I am very deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of our
> fellow
> >> > community member Bassel Khartabil, also known to some as Bassel
> Safadi.
> >> >
> >> > Bassel was detained on March 15, 2012 amid arrests on the one-year
> >> > anniversary of the Syrian uprising. He had been missing since October
> >> 2015,
> >> > when he was removed from the Syrian prison where he was being held.
> His
> >> > wife, Noura, confirmed earlier today in a statement on Facebook that
> he
> >> was
> >> > executed by the Syrian government shortly after his disappearance.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Sorry to hear that.
> >>
> >> -- Shlomi
> >>
> >> --
> >> -
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> >> Beginners Site for the Vim text editor - http://vim.begin-site.org/
> >>
> >>  Time flies when you’re using Linux.
> >>  Yeah, infinite loops in 5 seconds.
> >>  Has anyone re-tested that with 2.2.x ?
> >>  Yeah, 4 seconds now.
> >>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [PRESS] Turkish authorities block Wikipedia

[Ivan Martínez]

+1 to Ting's idea about a statement

Also we can support from our corner sending tweets and e-mails to our local
embassies. Our friends from Turkey or someone who speaks turkish can
support us with a hasthag? I posted #WikipediaSansürlendi but maybe is
incorrect.

Best,

2017-04-29 12:16 GMT-05:00 Ting Chen :

> I think the Foundation and the chapters *must* make a statement that
> decisively contradicts the reason of the block: That Wikipedia supports
> terrorism. There could be further texts in the statement which stresses our
> principle of neutrality and our goal to spread knowledge, but the first and
> most important statement is to contradict the accusation.
>
> Ah some times I miss Jay, he would immediately recognize how important it
> is to make such a statement. When national newspapers and broadcasts are
> referring (I just heard the one in Deutschland Funk
> http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/dlf24-startseite.1441.de.html ) this event,
> there should be not only the accusation but always also a reaction.
>
> Greetings
>
> Ting
>
>
>
> Am 29.04.2017 um 10:43 schrieb Itzik - Wikimedia Israel:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> FYI -  sad news from Turkish.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Regards,Itzik Edri*
>> Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel
>> +972-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il
>> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
>> sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment!
>>
>>
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> From: Itzik - Wikimedia Israel 
>> Date: Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 11:42 AM
>> Subject: [PRESS] Turkish authorities block Wikipedia
>> To: Communications Committee 
>>
>>
>> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39754909
>>
>> Reuters just published that a 15 minutes ago, so it will be soon all over
>> the news.
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> *Turkey has blocked all access inside the country to the online
>> encyclopaedia Wikipedia, one of the world's most popular websites.*
>>
>> It was not initially clear why the ban had been imposed.
>> The Turkey Blocks group said the site was inaccessible from 08:00 (05:00
>> GMT) by order of the Turkish authorities.
>> People in the capital Istanbul were unable to access any Wikipedia pages
>> without using a Virtual Private Network (VPN).
>> "After technical analysis and legal consideration based on the Law Nr.
>> 5651, an administrative measure has been taken for this website," Turkey's
>> Information and Communication Technologies Authority was quoted as saying.
>> No reason was given.
>> Turkey Blocks and Turkish media, including the Hurriyet Daily News, said
>> the provisional order would need to be backed by a full court ruling in
>> the
>> next few days.
>>
>> Social media was in uproar as news of the ban emerged, with some users
>> speculating that it might be a bid to suppress criticism on President
>> Recep
>> Tayyip Erdogan's Wikipedia page.
>> Mr Erdogan narrowly won a controversial 16 April referendum on increasing
>> his powers, but the issue has deeply divided the country.
>> Turkey has temporarily blocked popular social media sites including
>> Facebook and Twitter in the past, especially in the wake of mass protests
>> or terror attacks.
>> The government has previously denied censoring the internet, blaming
>> outages on spikes in usage after major events.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Regards,Itzik Edri*
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Politics

[Ivan Martínez]

I may write this biased message from my place of enunciation: a country
that has been threatened for several days directly by the decisions of the
President of the United States.

Only if you were a follower of Trump would you see unnecessary a proactive
defense of potential damage to people both from our community and the
Foundation staff. Personally, reading a statement from Katherine Maher let
me know that in front of threats, people in your movement will react. Let's
not be deluded, Trump's decision-making route over the past few weeks
(outside privacy, airport reviews) will sooner or later lead to a threat to
the Wikimedia Foundation. And we must be prepared.

And please, let's leave the false dilemma that as a Wikimedia movement we
should not take political positions because of Wikipedia neutrality. They
are different things clearly.

2017-02-03 6:08 GMT-06:00 Andy Mabbett :

> On 3 February 2017 at 00:00, MZMcBride  wrote:
>
> > I guess this is referring to
> > .
>
> There were speakers and delegates at Wikimania 2012, in Washington DC,
> who would not have been able to attend under the current ban.
>
> I therefore have no problem with the WMF speaking out against such a
> ban; indeed I applaud them for doing so.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikimedia DC Board Members

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Congratulations to the new Board members! This is a positive movement in
benefit of more women in directive positions in the Wikimedia movement.
Best,

2016-10-31 10:03 GMT-06:00 Katy Love :

> Congratulations, Kelly and Rosie, and to the Board of Wikimedia DC! Very
> cool. :)
>
> Katy
>
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Kirill Lokshin <
> kirill.loks...@wikimediadc.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I'm very pleased to announce that Kelly Doyle and Rosie
> > Stephenson-Goodknight have joined the Wikimedia DC Board of Directors.
> >
> > I'm sure that most of you already know Kelly and Rosie; for anyone who
> > doesn't, Kelly currently serves as the Wikipedian in Residence for Gender
> > Equity at West Virginia University Libraries, while Rosie is a co-founder
> > of WikiProject Women in Red and the WikiWomen's User Group, among many
> > other projects.
> >
> > Please join me in congratulating them on their new roles!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kirill
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedians of Iowa User Group

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Awesome, welcome!

2016-08-08 10:42 GMT-05:00 Sydney Poore :

> Welcome to the United States User Group family, and congratulations!
> Warm regards
> Sydney
>
> Sydney Poore
> User:FloNight
>
> WikiConference North America https://wikiconference.org/
> wiki/2016/Main_Page
>
> Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sydney.e.poore
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 7:06 AM, Carlos M. Colina 
> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > On behalf of the Affiliations Committee, I am pleased to announce the
> > recognition of the newest Wikimedia User Group: Wikimedians of Iowa User
> > Group [1]
> >
> > The group is composed of  wikimedians from Iowa, who seek to organize
> > activities all over the state, like editathons and meetups, reaching out
> to
> > local educational institutions, libraries, and holding competitions. They
> > can trace the idea for the creation of the group during a Wikimedia DC
> > editathon this year ;-)
> >
> > Welcome, Iowan colleagues!
> >
> > 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Iowa_User_Group
> > --
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> > junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
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> > Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
> www.wikimedia.org.ve
> > 
> > Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
> > Phone: +972-52-4869915
> > Twitter: @maor_x
> >
> > El logotipo y el nombre de Wikimedia, Wikimedia Venezuela, Wikipedia,
> > Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Incubator, Wiktionary y otros proyectos
> > relacionados son marcas registradas usadas bajo permiso expreso de su
> > titular, la Fundación Wikimedia, Inc., una organización sin fines de
> lucro.
> > Otros nombres y marcas pertenecen a sus respectivos propietarios.
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farsi Wikipedia

[Ivan Martínez]

Congratulations!

2016-07-27 13:15 GMT-05:00 Kevin Payravi :

> Awesome to hear, Mardentanha! Congratulations to you and the rest of the
> Farsi Wikipedia editors.
>
> Kevin Payravi
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>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Asaf Bartov 
> wrote:
>
> > Fantastic news!  Congratulations to all Farsi contributors! \o/
> >
> >A.
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Mardetanha 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I would to let everyone know, after 13 years and millions of edits,
> > Finally
> > > Farsi Wikipedia has reached 500,000 article. This is a very historic
> > moment
> > > for all us in Farsi Wikipedia.
> > >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

[Ivan Martínez]

Thanks for sharing Pine, quite interesting.
Best,

2016-05-11 13:33 GMT-05:00 Pine W :

> Forwarding since this may be of general interest regarding Wikipedia
> readership.
>
> Thanks Tilman!
>
> Pine
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Tilman Bayer 
> Date: Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:23 AM
> Subject: [WikimediaMobile] "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms
> of popularity"
> To: mobile-l 
> Cc: Wikimedia developers , Analytics Team
> -
> Internal 
>
>
> New study (US only) by the Knight Foundation:
> https://medium.com/mobile-first-news-how-people-use-smartphones-to ,
> summarized here:
>
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/05/people-love-wikipedia/482268/
>
> "People spent more time on Wikipedia’s mobile site than any other news
> or information site in Knight’s analysis, about 13 minutes per month
> for the average visitor. CNN wasn’t too far behind, at 9 minutes 45
> seconds per month. BuzzFeed clocked in third at 9 minutes 21 seconds
> per month. (BuzzFeed, however, slays both CNN and Wikipedia in time
> spent with the sites’ apps, compared with mobile websites. BuzzFeed
> users devote more than 2 hours per month to its apps, compared with
> about 46 minutes among CNN app users and 31 minutes among Wikipedia
> app loyalists.)
>
> Another way to look at Wikipedia’s influence: Wikipedia reaches almost
> one-third of the total mobile population each month, according to
> Knight’s analysis, which used data from the audience-tracking firm
> Nielsen."
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliate Selected Board Seats - Result

[Ivan Martínez]

Congratulations to the new members!
And also thanks to organizers.
Warmly,

2016-05-09 13:30 GMT-05:00 Tim Moritz Hector :

> Congratulations to Christophe and Nataliia! It's great to see two strong
> candidates join the Board soon, and I am confident of your ability to shape
> the Board and strengthen our movement. We are looking forward to working
> with you over the coming years.
>
> Also many thanks to everyone else who was running and of course to Chris,
> Lorenzo and Lane for facilitating these elections.
>
> Best,
> Tim
>
>
> 2016-05-09 16:11 GMT+02:00 Chris Keating :
>
> > Dear Wikimedians,
> >
> > We are writing to let you know the result of the election for the 2
> > Affiliate Selected Board Seats on the Wikimedia Foundation board.
> >
> > The successful candidates were *Christophe Henner* and *Nataliia Tymkiv.*
> >
> > A total of 40 chapters and thorgs voted - all except for the Macedonia
> and
> > Macau chapters - which is a record.
> >
> > The number of first preferences received by each candidate was as
> follows:
> >
> > Christophe Henner (9.00);
> > Siska Doviana (6.75);
> > Jan Ainali (5.50);
> > Osmar Valdebenito (5.50);
> > Nataliia Tymkiv (4.75);
> > Susanna Mkrtchyan (3.25);
> > Lodewijk Gelauff (2.50);
> > Maarten Deneckere (1.50);
> > Kunal Mehta(1.25);
> > Leigh Thelmadatter (0.00)
> >
> > As you know the election was conducted under the Single Transferable
> Vote,
> > which meant that votes were redistributed between candidates to come up
> > with the final result. In the 9th round of voting the final place, after
> > Christophe was elected, was between Nataliia (16.09) and Siska (9.91). We
> > will be putting the full count narrative on the Chapters Wiki so that
> > others can verify it if they wish.
> >
> > We would like to congratulate Christophe and Nataliia and thank everyone
> > who stood. It is the closest ASBS result for some time, and all
> candidates
> > brought very valuable perspectives to the work of the WMF.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Chris Keating, Lorenzo Losa, Lane Rasberry
> > Election Facilitators
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation executive transition update

[Ivan Martínez]

Querida Katherine, cuenta con mi respaldo en esta etapa y no tengo duda
alguna en tus capacidades, integridad y simpatía para asumir el reto.

Como miembro de la comunidad agradezco al Board por esta buena decisión.

El jueves, 10 de marzo de 2016, Nabin Sapkota 
escribió:

> Congratulations Katherine! Wish you all the best.
>
> Cheers,
> Nabin Sapkota
> On Mar 11, 2016 11:24 AM, "Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive)" <
> nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd > wrote:
>
> > Great! Congratulations Katherine!
> > Really a positive move from the Board.
> >
> > -Hasive
> > WMBD
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Bodhisattwa Mandal <
> > bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com > wrote:
> >
> > > Congrats Katherine,
> > >
> > > As a community member from the other side of the world, you have my
> > > complete trust and support. A very positive move from the Board, no
> doubt
> > > about it.
> > >
> > > Best wishes,
> > > Bodhisattwa
> > > On Mar 11, 2016 10:05 AM, "Risker" >
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Thank  you, Patricio and the rest of the board, for this first step
> in
> > > > rebuilding.
> > > >
> > > > I have had the pleasure of working with Katherine in my capacity as a
> > > > "regular" volunteer and as a member of the FDC, and have found her to
> > be
> > > > highly professional and very focused on the mission of the WMF.  She
> > has
> > > > demonstrated her ability to attract and lead an excellent team in her
> > > role
> > > > as Chief Communications Officer, and has the support of staff and her
> > > > (former) C-level organizational leaders as the WMF takes its next
> steps
> > > to
> > > > recovery.  In my opinion, this is what is needed at this time.
> > > >
> > > > Katherine, thank you for agreeing to take on this responsibility.  I
> > look
> > > > forward to working with you and the rest of the team in the months to
> > > come.
> > > >
> > > > Risker/Anne
> > > >
> > > > On 10 March 2016 at 22:52, Todd Allen  > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Katherine,
> > > > >
> > > > > Welcome, and best of luck in your new role. I'm very pleased indeed
> > to
> > > > hear
> > > > > that it will be you to fill it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Todd
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Katherine Maher <
> > kma...@wikimedia.org 
> > > >
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Thank you, Patricio.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I want to thank the Board for this opportunity, and for their
> > > > confidence
> > > > > in
> > > > > > the Foundation. I also want to thank community members and staff
> > for
> > > > > > continuing to be such committed advocates for our future -- your
> > > > passion
> > > > > > and belief in our movement and purpose have been tremendous
> things
> > to
> > > > > > behold.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As a movement, we’ve had some challenges lately. We’ve started
> on a
> > > > > process
> > > > > > of change, but as Lydia Pintscher (User:Lydia Pintscher (WMDE))
> > > > recently
> > > > > > reminded us,[1] “Change happens at the speed of trust.” We will
> > need
> > > to
> > > > > > work together over these coming months to build that trust, and
> > open
> > > > > > critical lines of communication and accountability. I get the
> sense
> > > > from
> > > > > > many people that that’s exactly what they’d like to do: absorb
> the
> > > > > lessons
> > > > > > we’ve learned, re-engage with each other, and get back to
> advancing
> > > our
> > > > > > global movement.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > At the Foundation, we have an opportunity to center around our
> > > values,
> > > > > and
> > > > > > practice open and collaborative communication. During the interim
> > > > > period, I
> > > > > > want to get things working well and improve transparency and
> > > > > communication,
> > > > > > both internally and with the communities. We will work to create
> a
> > > > > > supportive, fair environment where people can get things done,
> > engage
> > > > > with
> > > > > > their colleagues and community members, and understand how their
> > work
> > > > has
> > > > > > an impact on our mission. This includes delivering on important
> > > > deadlines
> > > > > > for the Annual Plan and strategy,[2] filling key roles, and
> making
> > > > > progress
> > > > > > on issues raised in our recent engagement survey.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > We are committed to delivering the first version of the 2016-2017
> > > > Annual
> > > > > > Plan no later than April 1st for community and FDC review, and
> are
> > on
> > > > > track
> > > > > > to meet this deadline. The WMF 2016-2018 strategy development is
> > also
> > > > > > underway, with a draft version open for comments until March
> 18.[3]
> > > > Over
> > > > > > the coming weeks, we’ll be moving forward with our Chief
> Technology
> > > > > Officer
> > > > > > (CTO) search, and working with the Talent and Culture team to
> > > reinvest
> > > > in
> > > > > > 

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

[Ivan Martínez]

Thanks for sharing, my friend!


2016-01-15 10:55 GMT-06:00 Lila Tretikov :

> Mardetanha, thank you for kicking off the celebration from Tehran.
> Congratulations
> Wikimedians of the world on your massive achievement.
>
> Lila
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:30 PM, Mardetanha 
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Fellow Wikimedians
> > I would like to congratulate you on Wikipedia's 15th birthday, it was
> > historic moment for all of us, I am glad to let you know we had a
> > celebration in Tehran and we were the first country to celebrate it.
> > you can find images here
> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_15_in_Iran
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Free Basics

[Ivan Martínez]

In Mexico Virgin Mobile is offering since December 11 this service and of
course Wikipedia is announced as a part of the offer. With an intentional
way, in my opinion, because although our free licenses that allow reuse of
the Wikipedia contents, communication of this criticized service seems to
be an alliance that take advantage of the moral quality of Wikipedia to
attract confidence.

There are few voices[1] that point how Free Basics is an enemy of freedom
of internet as Electronic Frontier Foundation [2], Mexican NGO Red en
Defensa de los Derechos Digitales [3], Chilean NGO Derechos Digitales [4]
among others.

Will be nice if we can start the discussion as community and movement and
take action. I don't know if WMF have something in plans about Free Basics.

Regards,

[1]
https://www.facebook.com/notes/accessnoworg/open-letter-to-mark-zuckerberg-regarding-internetorg-net-neutrality-privacy-and-/935857379791271/
[2]
https://www.eff.org/es/deeplinks/2015/09/facebooks-free-basics-more-open-better-security-still-walled-garden
[3]
https://r3d.mx/2015/12/15/facebook-da-internet-gratis-demasiado-bueno-para-ser-verdad/
[4]
https://www.derechosdigitales.org/9585/free-basics-expands-in-latin-america-cause-for-concern-or-potential-opportunity/




2015-12-30 19:49 GMT-06:00 Tito Dutta :

> Free Basics campaign is both confusing and misleading, They are posting ads
> around India "What net neutrality activists won’t tell you” etc.
> There are a number of good articles on the web. This one is one of my
> favourite:
>
> http://www.catchnews.com/tech-news/should-facebook-become-internet-s-gatekeeper-or-free-basics-must-comply-with-net-neutrality-sunil-abraham-has-some-thoughts-1450954347.html
> I don't know anyone who supported it with its understanding. On the other
> hand a large number of my friends who signed this Facebook petition (I have
> talked to many of them) supported it without having any idea what they are
> supporting, In my opinion that's the worst part.
>
> On 31 December 2015 at 06:56, Milos Rancic  wrote:
>
> > Today I've learned about it. And I think WMF is the perfect prey for such
> > initiative.
> >
> > I hope nobody sane is taking that seriously.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] TPP - copyright

[Ivan Martínez]

Hi folks, following this conversation, Creative Commons published this post
yesterday.

https://creativecommons.org/campaigns/trans-pacific-partnership-would-harm-user-rights-and-the-commons

2015-11-07 2:15 GMT-06:00 Ivan Martínez <gala...@gmail.com>:

> Hi, there's a lot of review and analyze about TPP because not only in the
> States we will have potential strong legal modifications. In Wikimedia
> Mexico we are aware since one year ago at least following the analysis of
> other NGOs devoted to internet freedom and copyright which can be a
> potential risk to Wikimedia mission.
>
> The main issue in the next days is that the extension of the revealed text
> needs to have much analysis to have clear points that can be potential
> risks to our mission.
>
> Thanks,
>
> 2015-11-07 1:16 GMT-06:00 Gergő Tisza <gti...@gmail.com>:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I don't see anything in the TPP requiring retroactive application of
>> > copyright terms. We'll have to wait and see how the various countries
>> > choose to apply the new terms. Applying terms retroactively is uncommon,
>> > but possible. We also have no idea when these countries are actually
>> going
>> > to apply the new terms.
>> >
>>
>> I don't think it's uncommon, the US is the odd one out on this (or almost
>> out, since in the end it did apply Berne  terms retroactively). For
>> example
>> the EU Copyright Directive prescribes a death + 70 copyright term so
>> countries joining the EU restore copyright to all works for which they had
>> shorter protection. International copyright treaties tend to be
>> retroactive
>> by default; "works shall be protected for X years after the death of the
>> author" applies to all works, whether they are in the public domain
>> currently or not.
>>
>> From the regulator's point of view this is reasonable; the point of these
>> treaties is harmonization of the law, and harmonizing the protection term
>> of one group of works but leaving another group protected in some
>> countries
>> and unprotected in others doesn't really make sense. The alternative would
>> be a rule of the shorter term, but the US does not have that, and they are
>> the driving force behind TPP, so...
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] TPP - copyright

[Ivan Martínez]

Hi, there's a lot of review and analyze about TPP because not only in the
States we will have potential strong legal modifications. In Wikimedia
Mexico we are aware since one year ago at least following the analysis of
other NGOs devoted to internet freedom and copyright which can be a
potential risk to Wikimedia mission.

The main issue in the next days is that the extension of the revealed text
needs to have much analysis to have clear points that can be potential
risks to our mission.

Thanks,

2015-11-07 1:16 GMT-06:00 Gergő Tisza :

> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Ryan Kaldari 
> wrote:
>
> > I don't see anything in the TPP requiring retroactive application of
> > copyright terms. We'll have to wait and see how the various countries
> > choose to apply the new terms. Applying terms retroactively is uncommon,
> > but possible. We also have no idea when these countries are actually
> going
> > to apply the new terms.
> >
>
> I don't think it's uncommon, the US is the odd one out on this (or almost
> out, since in the end it did apply Berne  terms retroactively). For example
> the EU Copyright Directive prescribes a death + 70 copyright term so
> countries joining the EU restore copyright to all works for which they had
> shorter protection. International copyright treaties tend to be retroactive
> by default; "works shall be protected for X years after the death of the
> author" applies to all works, whether they are in the public domain
> currently or not.
>
> From the regulator's point of view this is reasonable; the point of these
> treaties is harmonization of the law, and harmonizing the protection term
> of one group of works but leaving another group protected in some countries
> and unprotected in others doesn't really make sense. The alternative would
> be a rule of the shorter term, but the US does not have that, and they are
> the driving force behind TPP, so...
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimania 15 videos

[Ivan Martínez]

Sorry for the crosspost.
Thanks,

-- Forwarded message --
From: Ivan Martínez <gala...@gmail.com>
Date: 2015-09-04 22:38 GMT-05:00
Subject: Wikimania 15 videos
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
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Hi everyone, the featured speakers videos are up now, both on Commons and
Youtube. We have two versions of each speaker, the original audio and the
simultaneous translation English or Spanish according to the case.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_presentation_videos

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxdLXCagb6RAiK9w2y0DsDUzWF7dgj7j-

Our volunteers will work in the next months in the closed caption of each
talk. Will be very nice if we can have many translations many languages as
possible.

We have pending only the publication of the Wikimania 15 documentary, that
will be premiered soon at National Film Archive of Mexico (Cineteca
Nacional) and TV UNAM, public digital TV with national reach, and then
shared by all our channels. Stay tuned!

Thanks again for the great moments we lived in Mexico City.

Cheers,

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Board of Trustees Chair and Vice Chair positions

[Ivan Martínez]

Congratulations, Patro!

2015-07-16 20:05 GMT-05:00 Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org:

 What a great news! Congratulations Patricio and Alice both. Looking
 forward to see you here in Wikimania.

 Best!
 Subhashish Panigrahi
 Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
 Centre for Internet and Society
 @subhapa

  On 16-Jul-2015, at 7:18 pm, Vinicius Siqueira vinicius.sme...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  Felicitaciones!
 
  Vini
  Em 16/07/2015 19:09, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org
 escreveu:
 
  Wonderful officer choices; welcome to the new Board, thanks to the
  departings.
 
  pb
 
 
  *Philippe Beaudette * \\  Director, Community Advocacy \\ Wikimedia
  Foundation, Inc.
  T: 1-415-839-6885 x6643 |  phili...@wikimedia.org  |  :  @Philippewiki
  https://twitter.com/Philippewiki
 
  On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Patricio Lorente 
  patricio.lore...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Thank you all for your nice words. Just to follow up Jan-Bart's email
 I'd
  like to add that today were officially apointed to the Board the
 recently
  elected Board members: Dariusz Jemielniak, James Heilman and
  Denny Vrandečić. Please, join me in congratulating them as well.
 
  And also to thank the work and continuous commitment with the Wikimedia
  movement of Maria Sefidari, Phoebe Ayers and Samuel J. Klein, who left
  today the Board but we all know that they will continue working along
  with
  our community.
 
  And thank you, Jan-Bart, for leading the Board in these past two years
 of
  changes and transition. You did a great work!
 
 
  Patricio
 
  El jue., 16 de jul. de 2015 a la(s) 7:37 p. m., Edward Galvez 
  egal...@wikimedia.org escribió:
 
  Congratulations!
 
  On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Katy Love kl...@wikimedia.org
  wrote:
 
  Congratulations Patricio and Alice!!
  Katy
 
  On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Christophe Henner 
  christophe.hen...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Congrats Patricio and Alice.
 
  Jan-Bart when are you buying rounds?
  Le 16 juil. 2015 5:12 PM, Pierre-Selim pierre-se...@huard.info
  a
  écrit :
 
  Congrats Patricio and Alice!
 
  And thank you Jan-Bart :)
 
  2015-07-16 17:08 GMT-05:00 Gregory Varnum 
  gregory.var...@gmail.com
  :
 
  Congratulations (and condolences) to Patricio and Alice! Good
  news.
  :)
 
  Thank you Jan-Bart for your service as Chair and for staying
  for
  sticking
  around for the transition. :)
 
  -greg
 
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  On Jul 16, 2015, at 5:04 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede 
  jdevre...@wikimedia.org
  wrote:
 
  Hello Everyone
 
  I am happy to inform you that the Board has unanimously
  appointed a
  new
  Chair and Vice Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
  Trustees.
 
  Patricio Lorente will be the new Chair and Alice Wiegand will
  be
  the
  new
  Vice-Chair. Both have several.years of experience on the board
  and
  we
  are
  confident that they will help the board grow and be successful
  in
  the
  coming years.
 
  Personally I am looking forward to helping them get
  acquainted
  with
  their new role in the coming months as my time on the Wikimedia
  Board
  ends
  in December.
 
  I hope you can join me in congratulating them on their new
  position
  and
  wish them success in the challenges facing them.
 
  Jan-Bart de Vreede
  Wikimedia Board of Trustees
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell

[Ivan Martínez]

Thanks for all your kindly support this last years, Fabrice! Good luck in
the next challenges.

El jueves, 18 de junio de 2015, Subhashish Panigrahi 
subhash...@cis-india.org escribió:

 Sorry, misspelt your name in the previous mail.

 Subha

  On 19-Jun-2015, at 5:30 am, Subhashish Panigrahi 
 subhash...@cis-india.org javascript:; wrote:
 
  Hi Fabtice,
 
  It feels terribly bad to learn that you're leaving the foundation. But
 I'm sure we would not miss you in all your community activities in a
 personal capacity. Wish you all the best for the future projects.
 
  Best!
  Subha
 
  On 19-Jun-2015, at 1:36 am, Stevie Benton 
 stevie.ben...@wikimedia.org.uk javascript:; wrote:
 
  Fabrice, you may not recall my name or know me well, but your thoughtful
  contributions to Wikimedia comms over the past years have been greatly
  appreciated. Seeing your name appear in my inbox has always been an
  indication of something worth reading and giving attention to.
 
  I wish you the best for the future, and hope you appreciate that you
 will
  be missed.
 
  Very best wishes,
 
  Stevie
 
  On 18 June 2015 at 18:18, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com
 javascript:; wrote:
 
  Thank you Fabrice for all of your work over the years! We will miss
 you -
  but hopefully will still see you around the project wikis.  :)
 
  -greg (User:Varnent)
 
  On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Fabrice Florin 
 fflo...@wikimedia.org javascript:;
  wrote:
 
  Hello everyone,
 
  After three great years working at the foundation, the time has come
 to
  say goodbye.
 
  I will be leaving WMF at the end of June, to spend more time with my
  family, focus on personal art projects and consult part-time on worthy
  causes.
 
  I would like to thank all the community and team members I have had
 the
  pleasure to work with over the years. It has been an honor to serve
 our
  movement together — and to help our contributors share free knowledge
  with
  each other and the world.
 
  I’m particularly grateful to Katherine Maher and our WMF
 communications
  team for being such wonderful collaborators. I really enjoyed working
  with
  them to manage and edit the Wikimedia blog, help grow our team and
  publish
  some great stories together, to celebrate the heroes of our movement.
 
  Going forward, WMF's Juliet Barbara will manage the Wikimedia blog, in
  close collaboration with Ed Erhart. As many of you know, Ed is the
 former
  editor-in-chief of the Wikipedia Signpost and has now joined our team
 for
  the summer. I've worked with him for nearly a month now and find him
  uniquely qualified for this project. Starting today, please contact
 them
  directly with any questions about the blog (they are Cc:d on this
  message).
 
  After June 30, you can reach me at fabriceflo...@gmail.com
 javascript:; — or follow
  me on Twitter ( @fabriceflorin ) or on my blog (
  http://fabriceflorin.com
  ).
 
  The last three years have been an incredible experience for me, and I
 am
  grateful for all that I have learned from so many of you. You’ve been
 an
  inspiration to me and I have many fond memories of our time together.
 I
  wish you all the best with the next chapter of the Wikimedia movement
 and
  can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with next.
 
  Best regards,
 
 
  Fabrice
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia wins Spain's prestigious Asturias prize for international cooperation

[Ivan Martínez]

I think it's relevant for the Spanish speaking countries. In my country the
media have this theme today and the Princesa de Asturias Prize (formerly
Príncipe de Asturias) is compared frequently to the Nobel Prize for the
Iberoamerican world.

I'm very glad today for the prize!

2015-06-17 12:43 GMT-05:00 Lucien leGrey lucienleg...@gmail.com:

 Thanks for the updating. This prize is the most prestigious in Spain and
 today, at Wikipedia España, we have had a day of many interviews,
 televisions, newspapers...

 It is a great honor, shared by all the volunteers of Wikipedia.
 Congratulations to all.

 Best regards,

 2015-06-17 16:11 GMT+02:00 Raymond Leonard raymond.f.leonard...@gmail.com
 :

  Folks,
 
  I thought that this was good enough to send directly to this list.
 
  Wikipedia wins Spain's prestigious Asturias prize for international
  cooperation
 
 
 http://bigstory.ap.org/article/eae55ea0d15841f5bb4f30ff00bf5430/wikipedia-wins-spanish-prize-international-cooperation
 
  Yours,
  Peaceray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Peaceray
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Commons mobile app

[Ivan Martínez]

Hi,
There is some update about Wikimedia Commons mobile app or it is planned to
do something about it?
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 60 Minutes episode link

[Ivan Martínez]

James, the restriction was only for on-air broadcast. I can watch the
videos now (with a lot of Viagra ads :P)
Thank you!


2015-04-06 0:52 GMT-05:00 James Alexander jalexan...@wikimedia.org:

 Ivan: I think we were told the link should be without country restrictions.
 Do you get a 'not available in your country' type warning when you go?

 James Alexander
 Community Advocacy
 Wikimedia Foundation
 (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur

 On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote:

  Thanks for sharing Kevin. In countries like mine CBS is not available for
  free.
  Regards,
 
  2015-04-05 19:17 GMT-05:00 Kevin Rutherford ktr...@hotmail.com:
 
   Hey all,
  
   Here is a link to the segment that just aired earlier tonight that
   Katherine mentioned earlier today. There are also some bonus bits on
 the
   side, and it lasts for under fifteen minutes, so check it out when you
  have
   a moment as it features a lot of footage from last year’s Wikimania:
  
 
 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wikipedia-jimmy-wales-morley-safer-60-minutes/
  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

[Ivan Martínez]

That's great!
Pending for translation.


2015-03-10 10:21 GMT-06:00 Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com:

 There's a relevant research project outlined on Meta, about HTTPS:

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy

 Here's the nutshell description:

 Since we started switching to HTTPS and an increasing portion of inbound
 traffic happens over SSL, Wikimedia sites stopped advertising themselves as
 sources of referred traffic to external sites. While this is a literal
 implication of HTTPS, it means that Wikimedia's impact on traffic directed
 to other sites is becoming largely invisible: *is Wikimedia turning into a
 large source of dark traffic?* I review a use case (traffic directed to
 CrossRef) and discuss how other top web properties deal with this issue by
 adopting a so-called Referrer Policy.

 I don't know anything about this beyond what I've read on Meta, but I think
 it offers some useful background for this discussion.

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 On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote:

  Probably a good time for everyone to know about EFF's HTTPS Everywhere:
 
  HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension that encrypts
  your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more
  secure. Encrypt the web: Install HTTPS Everywhere today.
 
  https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
 
 
 
  On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Johan Jönsson brevlis...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
   2015-03-10 13:26 GMT+01:00 Comet styles cometsty...@gmail.com:
  
for an organization taking on the NSA  for spying..why are we using
https? doesn't that show that we are already scared of them and
running with our tail between our legs?
   
  
   (For non-technical readers: the HTTP protocol is the normal way to send
   around information on the web. HTTPS is the secure way of sending said
   information, adding encryption among other things, to avoid
  eavesdropping.)
  
   HTTP traffic can easily be tracked by people sharing the same network,
 by
   your Internet service provider and so on. If one cares about privacy,
  HTTPS
   is always important. It's worth noting that the NSA is not the only
   government agency in the world. I'd be even more worried about a number
  of
   countries where there would be little chance to fight the intruding
 party
   in the courtroom.
  
   Side note: you could probably track most HTTPS traffic to Wikipedia as
   well, even if you're not the NSA. Normally you would see that the user
  has
   accessed Wikipedia, but not which article. A way around that would be
 to
   let a spider (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler) track the
 byte
   size of Wikipedia articles, which should be individual enough as soon
 as
   images are involved and compare it to the size of the page the user
 just
   accessed. If two articles happen to be of exactly the same size,
 compare
   with incoming and outgoing wiki links and see if the user accessed any
  page
   linking to or linked from one the articles to determine which one. But
 it
   would at least take some sort of effort, and wouldn't be perfect.
  
   //Johan Jönsson
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New ED of Wikimedia Norway

[Ivan Martínez]

Congratulations and all the best!

2015-02-25 0:32 GMT-06:00 Edward Galvez egal...@wikimedia.org:

 Congratulations Astrid!

 On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote:

  Many congratulations, Astrid and WMNO!
 
  Wishing you all many more successes.
 
  Best,
  Vishnu
 
 
  On 02/23/2015 10:10 PM, Katy Love wrote:
 
  Congratulations, Astrid and Wikimedia Norge!
 
  Astrid, you have been a wonderful colleague over the last year plus. I
  wish you well in the new role, and I look forward to working together
  more closely.
 
  Warmly,
  Katy
 
 
  On Feb 23, 2015, at 3:15 AM, Tanweer Morshed wiki.tanw...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
   Congratulations Astrid for being ED! Wish you and WMNO a prosperous
  future ahead.
 
  Tanweer
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: A new structure for WMF Community Engagement

[Ivan Martínez]

Well, It's a sad announcement. Anasuya personally I think the goodbyes are
not overrated. Thanks for your kindly way of be, and the energy to push the
mission in other level. Wikimedia is not important but your sooner recovery
are the most and I hope all it will be solved.

And welcome to the new team!

2015-02-20 0:39 GMT-06:00 Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org:

 Anasuya,

 Thanks so much for all your support and I'm personally so obliged to you
 for being with us during the rough phase of WMF-CIS transition. It will be
 sad to see you go but I'm sure you'll always be part of this great
 community. Hope for your quick recovery. And I'm always up to join for
 having Uttara Kannada delicacies when you're here. :)

 Luis and Siko, congratulations for your new roles and looking forward to
 see you all soon!

 best,
 Subha


 On 20-02-15 07:24, Siko Bouterse wrote:

 On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:

  Anasuya, I will miss you. You did fabulous work for WMF and I hope that
 we
 will continue to have the benefit of your wisdom.

 Siko, I knew that you'd get promoted someday (: Question: who will
 directly
 run IEG? They will have big shoes to fill.

  Thanks for your support, Pine. I'll sorely miss Anasuya as well, but
 look
 forward to working with Luis and all of you in this expanded capacity. As
 for a program officer for IEG, that who is not yet settled, though we're
 aiming to backfill quickly. For the next few weeks, I'll still be holding
 down the IEG fort with support from the Community Resources team, as we
 work towards a longer-term replacement. More about that soon!

 Siko


  Luis, congrats on the new role.

 Pine

 Pine

 *This is an Encyclopedia* https://www.wikipedia.org/






 *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
 our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water
 we
 must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
 which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
 fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do
 not
 know.*

 *—Catherine Munro*

 On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Delphine Ménard notafi...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  Anasuya, I'm whistling to a new tune already, get ready to dance. We'll
 just change dance floors.
 Thank you for it all and many many *hugs*

 Luis, Siko, can't wait to work with you more, congrats on the new
 responsibilities.

 Asaf, 'bout time you stop killing kittens every time you introduce
 yourself. And congrats for the step!

 All the best,

 Delphine


 On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:20 PM, Anasuya Sengupta 
 asengu...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:

  Dear friends and colleagues, fellow adventurers on the Wikimedia

 journey

 -

 Goodbyes are overrated.[1] But since I’m sure this will be au revoir,

 I’ll

 continue: I am leaving the Foundation as head of the Grantmaking
 department, at the end of March. This was not an easy decision to make;
 this is not an easy email to write.

 As some of you know, I have been battling health issues over the past

 few

 months. I’ve learnt sharp and intimate truths about myself as I’ve

 worked

 to get better, and what I’ve kept coming back to is the compassionate

 but

 fierce feminist slogan around self-care and sustainability: ‘what’s the
 point of the revolution if we can’t dance?’[2] To reassure you all, I

 will

 be well,[3] but I need a little time and space to focus on getting my
 dancing legs strong again.

 That said, I am pleased that we have a really solid plan in place as I
 leave. As Lila’s email announced, Luis Villa (our current Deputy

 General

 Counsel) will be taking over the team effective immediately, and

 leading

 the organisation further in our support of Wikimedia communities

 worldwide.

 Luis brings with him a range of skills and qualities that I know will

 stand

 him, the team, and the movement in wonderful stead through it all. As a
 friend and colleague, I am so delighted to be supporting Luis through

 the

 next few weeks of transition.

 I joined the Foundation in July 2012 to oversee and implement the FDC
 process. Since then, I’ve had the privilege of creating and leading a
 department of more than twenty remarkable and passionate people who

 care

 about our mission, our communities, and the resources needed to match

 the

 two.

 We went from Asaf managing a small grants portfolio on his own, ably
 supported on occasion by Winifred, to a fully fledged grantmaking
 department with a spectrum of monetary and non-monetary resources. We

 have

 been able to offer these in different ways to different parts of our
 movement: to individual volunteers with great ideas in need of project
 management, to small groups experimenting with new initiatives, and to
 established organisations who form critical content and policy

 partnerships

 in their local contexts. We built an infrastructure for understanding

 our

 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Cinema editathon

[Ivan Martínez]

Thanks to all for your kindly messages! We are very enthusiastic about the
results.

And of course, we will have popcorn, Jaime! In reciprocity to the edition,
our editors will receive an introductional talk about film appreciation and
Cinema of Mexico and maybe some goodies.



2015-02-10 11:19 GMT-06:00 Alex Wang aw...@wikimedia.org:

 Sounds like a fantastic event and partnership! Excited to hear how it turns
 out!

 On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Jaime Anstee jans...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:

  Great idea! Thanks for sharing, Ivan. Our team looks forward to hearing
  more about this event and how the new partnership develops.
 
  ... will there be popcorn? ;)
 
 
 
 
   On Feb 9, 2015, at 8:04 AM, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote:
  
   Dear all, we are very pleased to announce our first editathon Wikipedia
  ama
   el cine (Wikipedia Loves Cinema), an editathon focused in improve
  articles
   related to Cinema of Mexico in Spanish Wikipedia. Of course all the
  support
   from the whole Wikimedia community to write about the theme will be
 very
   welcome!
  
  
 
 https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editat%C3%B3n_Wikipedia_ama_el_cine
  
   This is the first activity as a party of a new agreement with Cineteca
   Nacional, the main film archive of our country.
  
   Best,
  
   --
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 200 000 articles on Slovak Wikipedia

[Ivan Martínez]

Great news, Michal!

2015-02-10 13:04 GMT-06:00 Katy Love kl...@wikimedia.org:

 Yes, congratulations! This is exciting news!

 On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Leigh Thelmadatter osama...@hotmail.com
 
 wrote:

  Congratulations!
 
   Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 19:48:57 +0100
   From: michal.matu...@wikimedia.sk
   To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
   Subject: [Wikimedia-l] 200 000 articles on Slovak Wikipedia
  
   Dear community,
  
   On February 5th 2015 the Slovak Wikipedia reached 200 000 articles and
   is the 35th largest Wikipedia by number of articles.
  
   Chapter-to-be Wikimedia Slovakia send press release and it was
   republished by TASR (Slovak press agency) -
  
 
 http://www.teraz.sk/magazin/slovenska-wikipedia-dvestotisic-clankov/119561-clanok.html
  
   Especially nice was interview for new but famous journal Denník N with
   lots of details about everyday editing and preview of future of
   (especially Slovak) Wikipedia:
  
 
 https://dennikn.sk/46502/slovenska-wikipedia-ma-22-milionov-zobrazeni-mesacne/
  
   Cheers!
  
   --
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   Dom služieb ALFA
   Februárová 1478/2
   958 01 Partizánske
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[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Cinema editathon

[Ivan Martínez]

Dear all, we are very pleased to announce our first editathon Wikipedia ama
el cine (Wikipedia Loves Cinema), an editathon focused in improve articles
related to Cinema of Mexico in Spanish Wikipedia. Of course all the support
from the whole Wikimedia community to write about the theme will be very
welcome!

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editat%C3%B3n_Wikipedia_ama_el_cine

This is the first activity as a party of a new agreement with Cineteca
Nacional, the main film archive of our country.

Best,

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

[Ivan Martínez]

Good luck, Pavel!
All the best.

2015-01-29 12:39 GMT-06:00 Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com:

 Dear Pavel,

 Best wishes for day 2013 and onward!

 See you around.

 Vishnu


 On 01/29/2015 11:50 PM, Andrea Zanni wrote:

 Goodbye Pavel,
 it has been a pleasure.
 And as you said last Chapters Conference,
 please take care of yourself.
 Of course, we hope to see you around :-)

 Aubrey

 On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Pavel Richter 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,

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF 2014 Annual report

[Ivan Martínez]

Congratulations to the WMF staff involved in the report!
Happy to collaborate in translation to Spanish.


2015-01-22 9:59 GMT-06:00 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com:

  If you look at the Wiki version here:
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Annual_Report/2013-14

 The very first line says:
 This report is a work in progress, you are welcome to translate but there
 will be some updates and additions during the next few days. Thank you!

 It is perfectly reasonable that the WMF should publish the master edition
 first and then translations come soon afterwards... In the past there have
 sometimes been small errors that the community has discovered in the
 original that, because translations were launched simultaneously (and in
 hardcopy too), they were not as easy to correct across multiple versions.

 -Liam

 On 22 January 2015 at 16:48, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  Itzik - Wikimedia Israel, 22/01/2015 16:18:
 
  https://annual.wikimedia.org/2014/
 
 
  I don't see a language selector. Clearly a regression compared to
  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/
  Annual_Report/2012-2013/Front
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement regarding Host for Wikimania 2016

[Ivan Martínez]

Auguri!
Will be a peculiar but a successful Wikimania!

2015-01-21 0:32 GMT-06:00 Emeric Vallespi emeric.valle...@wikimedia.fr:

 Congratulations to all people involved in this choice and, on behalf of
 Wikimédia France, special big congratulations to Wikimedia IT and Wikimedia
 CH who led it all \o/ !!


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  On 21 Jan 2015, at 00:24, Ellie Young eyo...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 
  Dear Wikimedians,
 
  On the recommendation of the Wikimania 2016 selection Jury Committee, we
 have accepted the proposal from the Esino Lario Italy team.   The
 Wikimania Esino Lario team is composed mainly of volunteers.  It is
 promoted by  Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia CH in partnership with Esino
 Lario city council, Ecomuseo delle Grigne, Pro Loco Esino Lario, Parco
 Regionale della Grigna Settentionale and the Esino Lario local associations
 and community. nThe proposal will be further vetted by the WMF staff in the
 coming months, after which time we hope to confirm the award.   Please join
 us in congratulating Wikimania Esino Lario!
 
  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids/Esino_Lario
 
  We would also like to thank the team from Manila, Philippines for their
 efforts in putting together excellent proposal.  As a volunteer-led
 movement, it is hugely encouraging to have so many who want to support
 Wikimania. The bidding process requires a substantial time investment, and
 we are most grateful for every team’s hard work.
 
  For those of you who are considering hosting in future years, we expect
 to issue the Request for Proposals  for 2017  in September.
 
  Sincerely,
 
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2015 Call for submissions

[Ivan Martínez]

// Sorry for crossposting //

Dear all:

We would like to invite submissions[0] proposing presentations, panels,
tutorials and workshops for Wikimania 2015 to be held in Mexico City in
July 2015.

Note that the deadline is the February 28; we hope to have final decisions
about the program by early April 2015.

Additionally, we would be delighted to have any additional volunteers for
the program committee[1], which will be finalized shortly.

[0] – https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions

[1] – https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme_Committee

Warmly,
Deror Avi, James D. Forrester, and Ivan Martinez
Wikimania 2014 Program Committee
wikimania2015 (at) gmail (dot) com

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising campaign update

[Ivan Martínez]

What a wonderful news, Megan!
We will sharing with our social media channels this inspiring quotes.

2014-12-15 18:25 GMT-06:00 Megan Hernandez mhernan...@wikimedia.org:

 Hi everyone,

 We are two weeks into the English fundraising campaign.  We've had
 incredible support from our community of readers these past two weeks and
 we are thankful to everyone who has contributed so far.

 We have raised roughly $18 million from 1.6 million readers since we
 launched the campaign on December 2nd. This number is preliminary as
 donations are still coming in and settling in our accounts. The team is on
 track to reach the $20 million campaign goal this month.

 Banners have been showing to all readers these past two weeks.  At this
 point, we are starting to limit the number of banners each reader sees. We
 will run the campaign at a higher traffic level again at the end of
 December for a final year-end push.

 Thank you again for your support.  I also want to thank everyone on the
 fundraising team as well as staff and community members who have worked on
 the campaign.  We work incredibly hard throughout the entire year, but
 there has been exceptional effort the last month.  Thank you.

 One of my favorite parts about the campaign is reading the notes from our
 readers.  Please take a moment to read through some of these comments.  And
 thank you for making Wikipedia a treasured resource that people are happy
 to support :)

 Quotes from Wikipedia readers:

 --I consider Wikipedia one of the few (the only?) big internet company who
 are actually trustworthy. I value Wikipedia and I want to support it

 --Wikipedia is too valuable to be taken for granted. Donating is for me an
 act of fairness, responsibility, and gratitude.

 --I read a comic about a Wikipedia-Comcast merger. It was terrifying.

 --Keep doing what you are doing. I love Wikipedia. My most visited site by
 a mile. Any time I watch a new documentary, nature show, or read a book
 about a topic I find fascinating, I always Wikipedia the information.
 Irreplaceable!

 --It's so convenient to pop onto the computer (Wikipedia) and find out
 almost anything I want to know. Sure beats the old encyclopedias I grew up
 with. It's helpful with medical advice and also, at my age, when you can't
 think of a name of somebody famous, etc. It makes life easier to find out
 RIGHT NOW instead of waiting for your brain to compute the answer 3 days
 later.

 --Very helpful! As a nursing student I frequently use Wikipedia to
 reference science and engineering topics so I can get a deeper
 understanding concepts and extra learning. Ilove it. As a young child in
 the early 1960s I thought that computers were going to be giant machines
 you could ask any question and get answers, Wikipedia is that machine! It's
 wonderful! Just sharing.

 --It's 10pm and I have to write a history essay. I'd love to sit and tell
 you about all the times Wikipedia saved my ass by giving me quick start
 points on projects. I simply love Wikipedia, keep it up guys! :)

 --It can finish a debate in a couple of clicks

 --Reduces intellectual irritation: Whenever, I encounter a word I don't
 know or am fuzzy about, I look it up on Wiki; whenever I need facts to
 resolve a political, religious, scientific or technical question, Wiki is
 there.

 --Once upon a time far far away I wanted a set of encyclopedias, but, alas
 I could not afford them. Wikipedia now fills that void.

 --I visit and utilize Wikipedia multiple times every week, sometimes daily.
 Going to Wikipedia has become second nature to me. It is synonymous with
 knowledge - there's nothing more profound. I support it with the small
 donations I can afford in the hope of setting an example, and so that
 others may have the same opportunities I've had.

 --There have been so many ways that the internet has disappointed me in my
 hopes that it would improve the human condition. However, there is this one
 shining exception, and from my least expected source. Wikipedia is that
 best thing that humanity has done with the internet, contributing to both a
 common knowledge set and re-learning how to find areas of agreement with
 others, instead of just shouting and not listening.

 --i use Wikipedia for 'fact checking  naming space ships, realizing that
 it still a secondary source... but trust the communal effort to gravitate
 towards a mostly accurate centerpoint. The Encyclopedia Galactica of
 Trantor in the making..

 --You've killed the bar-gument but that's okay, I'd prefer to be informed
 rather than simply louder than the next guy. ;)

 --Most often I turn to Wiki in order to answer a question that my grandson
 has asked about life, the universe and everything...in the old days we had
 a kids' encyclopedia on the bookshelf, but it became outdated and Wiki has
 taken its place.

 --I frequently look things up while watching TV or movies. For example,
 while watching Mad Men, I have frequently looked up specific dates or
 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Best promo videos?

[Ivan Martínez]

Dear Andy: our friends of Wikimedia Argentina produced this professional
video about What is Wikipedia? with a nice production and a professional
actress.

http://youtu.be/tRbWDGbBAHA

It is also available in Commons with subtitles. I can translate to English
if you need.

Cheers,
 El oct 22, 2014 7:41 a.m., Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
escribió:

 [NB: cross-posted]

 I'm in need of a couple of short videos, promoting Wikipedia and its
 sister projects, to show at an event. It's surprisingly hard to find
 them!

 We have lots of videos in:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_project_videos

 but many, while no doubt useful for their educational content, are not
 the kind of things to show to a lay audience - either the quality is
 not high enough, or the content is too specific.

 I'm looking for things with impact, like


 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AOpen_Letter_for_Free_Access_to_Wikipedia_-_three_months_later%2C_MTN_responds.webm

 Suggestions, please! 

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Best promo videos?

[Ivan Martínez]

Also if you want to show an editathon in two minutes, our Wikipedistas de
Puebla community produced this HQ cool video:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Primer_Editat%C3%B3n_en_Puebla..ogv
 El oct 22, 2014 9:34 a.m., Leigh Thelmadatter osama...@hotmail.com
escribió:

 Very true, Andy.

 I should mention here that although its not a Wikimedia community video,
 documentary filmmaker has a really nice clip on a primary school class in
 Peru which wrote the Wikipedia article for its village.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOUOnIabrRE  Tec de Monterrey had the
 filmmaker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kleiman) present the
 entire documentary to our campus, but this clip served as inspiration for
 the Mati Wiki pilot project (
 http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries/M%C3%A9xico/Tec_de_Monterrey/Mati_Wiki)
 which is going on right now. The project has my campus collaborating with
 three Mexico City primary schools to create articles and other content
 related to the colonias (official neighborhoods) where the schools are
 located, with Tec providing technical and other support.

 So videos can have an impact!



  From: a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
  Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:24:26 +0100
  To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Best promo videos?
 
  On 22 October 2014 13:58, Leigh Thelmadatter osama...@hotmail.com
 wrote:
 
   They are rare because they are not easy to make!
 
  All the more reason to make the ones we have easier to find!
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Monument for Wikipedia in Poland

[Ivan Martínez]

Really amazing! So, the monument will have freedom of panorama? ;)

2014-10-09 13:29 GMT-05:00 Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.com:

 ;-) Actually just one monument :-) By the way our woman wikipedians
 complan that only men are holding the globe in this statue :-) So, we
 have at least sent a woman - Magalia, to represent our community and
 fill a little bit gender gap :-)




 2014-10-09 19:52 GMT+02:00 Mathias Schindler mathias.schind...@gmail.com
 :
  In Poland, Monument loves Wikipedia
 
  On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  I saw something appear in the media:
 
 
 http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_26694189/poland-honor-wikipedia-monument
 
 
  Romaine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

[Ivan Martínez]

Congratulations, Jon, sounds great!
Regards.

2014-10-08 16:07 GMT-05:00 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com:

 Hi, all!

 The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, and in
 cooperation with Wikimedia Norge, the Nobel Peace Center
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Center has invited Wikipedians
 from the Norwegian Wikipedia community to an editathon to improve the
 article about the winner(s?) as soon as possible. We'll be sitting
 practically in the next room from where the announcement is made, updating
 relevant articles as fast as we can.

 For this to be a global event, I'd like to invite anyone who's interested
 to join us in the IRC channel #wikipedia-nobel
 irc://freenode/#wikipedia-nobel, where we'll be talking and coordinating.
 We'll also try to livetweet the event using the hashtag #wikinobel
 https://twitter.com/hashtag/wikinobel, probably mainly from the account
 @WikimediaNorge https://twitter.com/WikimediaNorge.

 The press conference will be start around 10:30 Norwegian time, which is
 *08:30
 UTC*, like I said on *Friday, 10th of October*. Please join us, and help
 spread this invitation to your community.

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[Wikimedia-l] Mexico facts about Wikipedia

[Ivan Martínez]

Hi folks,

For any interested, today appear in the blog Codigo Espagueti[1] a survey
about the trust in Wikipedia and the use both in Mexico and the United
States. Some facts:


   - 60% of people with internet access in Mexico has heard about Wikipedia.
   - 82% are very or somewhat confident. In contrast, only 16% have little
   or no credibility.
   - In Mexico 59% use this site to learn about different topics and 53% in
   USA.

The blog post does not indicate the method of the survey, but is a
interesting exercise.

Cheers.
[1] http://codigoespagueti.com/noticias/wikipedia-mexico-encuesta/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Egypt Wikimedians User Group

[Ivan Martínez]

Welcome Egypt!


2014-07-29 11:21 GMT-05:00 Rodrigo Padula rodrigopad...@gmail.com:

 Congratulations to all members of the new user group!

 Best regards!

 Rodrigo Padula
 Brazil


 2014-07-28 16:25 GMT-03:00 Carlos M. Colina ma...@wikimedia.org.ve:

  Dear all,
 
  It is an honor to announce that the Affiliations Committee has resolved
  [1] recognizing the Egypt Wikimedians User Group as a Wikimedia User
 Group;
  their main focus areas are supporting the Wikimedia projects in Egypt as
  well as their fellow Egyptian Wikimedians, and becoming eventually the
  recognized chapter in the land of the Pharaohs and the Nile.  Let's
 welcome
  the newest member of the family of affiliates -and the second one from
 the
  Arab World!
 
 
  Regards,
  Carlos
 
  1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/
  Resolutions/Egypt_Wikimedians_User_Group_-_July_2014
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  junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain.
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  Vicepresidente, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Israel received the Roaring Lion Award for the Hebrew Wikipedia 10th anniversary PR

[Ivan Martínez]

Congratulations!
Muchas felicidades :)
El jul 3, 2014 8:57 p.m., Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com escribió:

 That's awesome. Congrats to Hebrew Wikipedia !

 Sydney

 Sydney Poore
 User:FloNight
 Wikipedian in Residence
 at Cochrane Collaboration


 On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel 
 it...@wikimedia.org.il wrote:

  Hey,
 
  I'm very excited to share that last night, we received the award at an
  event presence with of hundreds of guests (Picture of the award:
 
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roaring_Lion_2014_award_to_Wikimedia_Israel.jpg
  )
 
  The Roaring Lion competition is an award for excellence within Israel's
  communications and public relations industry awarded by the Israel Public
  Relations Associations. The campaign was chosen among many, judged by a
  committee of public relations executives, academics and public figures.
 
  Last July the Hebrew Wikipedia celebrated her 10th anniversary. The
  celebrations were followed by massive press coverage - TV radio, internet
  and print. You can give a look on some of them in our Press Book:
 
 
 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iobJg3Vpp0bDdKaDExNmU2VEU/edit?usp=sharing
 
  The strategy was to show the volunteers – the people behind the projects,
  so each cover presented another volunteer. To show the power of Wikipedia
  we collected a lot of numbers such the most viewed articles of the last 5
  years, numbers of edits, words and many others – which leads to many
 items
  covering the history of HEWP.
 
  But besides arranging massive coverage for the celebrations we were
  looking for a special way to celebrate – to do something that has never
  been done before. The result was a unique collaboration with TV Channel
 2,
  the most viewed channel in Israel! For an entire week, five of the most
  senior Channel 2 reporters, who learned to edit Wikipedia by our
  volunteers, wrote or extended an article on Hebrew Wikipedia. Then, each
  recorded a one minute video, explaining why they have decided to write on
  this specific topic. Every day, just before the evening news broadcast,
 the
  video was broadcasted and while the anchor presented the project, he
  explained we wanted to celebrate Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary and show
  that everyone can write an article on Wikipedia. Happy Birthday
 Wikipedia!”
 
  Due the success of the project Channel 2 decided to broadcast it all over
  again on the week after. According to the ratings records 2.033 million
  people (cumulatively) watched the project. On the celebrations month
 pages
  views on Hebrew Wikipedia showed increase of 12% (compare to 1%
  internationally) and increase of 12% in new articles (compare to 14%
  internationally decrease).
 
  You can watch them the videos (translated to English) on our Youtube
  Channel:
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuQcXKjU3rwJ-TOL8lyru7oHvoufnWtED
 
  I wish to thank all the volunteers who take part making this happen, to
  the Wikimedia Israel team, and to Gidoen Amichay who supported and helped
  lead the Channel 2 cooperation.
 
 
 
  *Regards,Itzik Edri*
  Chairperson and Spokesperson, Wikimedia Israel
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  sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment!
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Ivan Martínez]

¡Bienvenida!
El may 1, 2014 3:50 p.m., Carlos M. Colina ma...@wikimedia.org.ve
escribió:

 Welcome!!!

 M.

 El 01/05/2014 09:15 p.m., Jan-Bart de Vreede escribió:

 Dear fellow community members,

 On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to
 announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will
 be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader,
 most recently with SugarCRM.

 As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned
 to step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we
 spent some time working through the most critical requirements for the
 role. We decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering
 background, ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We
 wanted someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd
 managed staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience
 creating continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile
 context. We wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration,
 transparency and openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder
 environments, and with an international orientation. We knew we needed
 someone with courage and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be
 intimidated by attempts to censor the projects.

 Lila is precisely what we set out to find.

 Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone,
 as a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in
 open source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
 career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded GrokDigital, a
 technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director of
 development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless data
 services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
 SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
 organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing,
 customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
 development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
 skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.

 We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition Team
 (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously to
 recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept the
 recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and unpretentious,
 and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.

 Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening mode,
 and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month. Her
 first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her understanding of
 the Wikimedia projects.

 I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
 appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
 Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I hired
 Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
 Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven years,
 Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective, well-funded
 and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of purpose,
 and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was
 integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be forever
 grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to rely
 on her support in the months and years ahead.

 In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and
 Lila. She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
 wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do next.
 Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in August.

 The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful
 outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for
 helping us with it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a warm
 welcome to Lila Tretikov, our new ED.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement regarding Host for Wikimania 2015

[Ivan Martínez]

Michael, thanks for the recommendations. We will add this information to
the public information of the event. I think most popular overland ways to
come to Mexico from the States are safe, but is more safe have this
information direct from the Mexico Federal Government.

Regards.


2014-04-22 13:23 GMT-05:00 Christopher Cooper 
ct-cooper.wikimedia...@hotmail.co.uk:

 I find it difficult to believe it would be that bad. Yes, it might causes
 some issues if it turned out that a bid won because it was the least
 worst
 and was actually still very unpopular with the jury. However, I think
 people
 understand that no bid is ever perfect and wouldn't expect every jury
 decision on who hosts Wikimania to be unanimous.

 At the very least there should be a written explanation on what the
 strengths of the winning bid were, and what the problems of those that
 didn't were. This has been done in past years and would help prevent
 mistakes being repeated. Also, since Wikimania is a public conference, I
 think those that attend it and support it deserve to know why and how it
 gets to be hosted in a particular place.

 As someone who has followed the bidding process over multiple years, I
 think
 it is fair to say that communication between the jury and the community
 during the bidding process has not been as good this year as in previous
 years. I believe improving this should be a priority for the next round of
 bidding for 2016. As a member of the Scholarship Committee, I note that the
 scholarships process was in the past criticized for just the same issue and
 that has now been rectified, and from my perspective doing so has improved
 community confidence in the process.

 Kind regards,
 Christopher
 User: CT Cooper

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CT_Cooper
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CT_Cooper
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CT_Cooper

 -Original Message-
 From: Richard Symonds [mailto:richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk]
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 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement regarding Host for Wikimania 2015

 No, Aya, I don't think there will be a public report - I don't think it's
 happened in previous years.

 I for one would not be happy with making my marking grid public because the
 bidders didn't know that the marking grids were going to be made public -
 and for that matter, neither did I! I am also a little worried about being
 second-guessed by the community at large. Imagine, *for example,* if the
 jury was split down the middle, with half hating the Mexico bid and half
 loving it: it could be very damaging for the volunteer team morale to show
 that not everyone supported them, and it might damage the conference.
 Perhaps in future it would be a good thing to do...

 However, I see where you're coming from - it would be good to have feedback
 on the individual bids for posterity's sake, and to make sure that mistakes
 or omissions aren't repeated in future...

 Richard Symonds
 Wikimedia UK
 0207 065 0992

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 Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
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 United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
 movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
 operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).

 *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
 over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*


 On 22 April 2014 16:27, Aya Mahfouz mahfouz.saif.elya...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  Thanks Richard for the reply! Will there be any public report with a
  matrix indicating the scores of the bidding cities in each judging
 criterion?
 
  Kind Regards,
  Aya Saif El-yazal Mahfouz
 
 
  On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Richard Symonds 
  richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
 
   Christopher, Aya,
  
   Speaking as a jury member, the reason we disqualified Bali and Dar
   es Salaam was that those two bids were not really complete enough to
 score.
  
   Richard Symonds
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   and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513.
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   Street, London EC2A
  4LT.
   United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
   movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation
   (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
  
   *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal
   control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
  
  
   On 21 April 2014 21:03, Aya Mahfouz mahfouz.saif.elya...@gmail.com
   wrote:
  
Congratulations to Wikimedia Mexico and Mexico City!
   
I add my voice to that of Cooper concerning the criteria of
choosing
  the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement regarding Host for Wikimania 2015

[Ivan Martínez]

Thanks to all for your kindly regards and comments :)

Steven, concerning to the public safety, our city are different from the
known issues of the northern states of the country. In the link you quote
for United States citizens are properly pointed for Mexico City: no
advisory is in effect. Also, the Centro Historico area (the venue are in
the north of this Downtown area) is safe for tourism. But we will have in
addition the special support and coordination with the Mexico City
authorities for more vigilance and a special operative for reduce any risk
to the minimum in the venue and their perimeter.



2014-04-21 22:55 GMT-05:00 Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.org:

 On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  it would be comforting to hear how we've assessed the bid
  regarding the safety issue, and how we're going to be prepared in case
 the
  worst (robberies, kidnappings) do happen.
 

 Not a small concern.  But, I should point out, one that we've dealt with
 before.  We had laptops stolen in Argentina, and physical safety concerns
 in Alexandria, as I recall.  I say this not to put a panacea of oh, there
 there, it'll be fine in place, but to assure people that this is something
 that I know that Garfield and Elle, and the rest of the WMF team working on
 this will consider and keep in mind. :-)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 10 years of wikimedia-l

[Ivan Martínez]

Nice post, Phoebe!
Congrats to all, indeed.


2014-04-18 13:56 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru:

 On 18.04.2014 00:13, phoebe ayers wrote:

 Hello everyone!

  ...

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 Thanks Phoebe for - how should I say - an exciting post? I enjoyed reading
 it a lot.

 And, well, yes - happy birthday to all of us.

 Cheers
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] I'm back

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Glad to read you again my friend.

Kindly regards.
El abr 17, 2014 3:48 p.m., Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com escribió:

 For those who care, I'm back.

 My absence wasn't related to Wikimedia. It was about first world
 problems, which hit me quite hard. I never thought that the transition
 from the second to the first world problems would be painful. Few
 years ago I'd have called it decadence.

 So, lesson learned.

 Anyway, I thought that I would see something completely different here
 and was worried a bit about my ability to adapt. But, I see that
 everything is as it was. Good old heated debates. And known [virtual]
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 I feel I am home again :)

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[Wikimedia-l] Letter of support from WM-MX board to Patricio Lorente 2014 candidacy

[Ivan Martínez]

Dear members of the Wikimedia movement:

Wikimedia México supports Patricio Lorente's candidacy to a second term as
a member of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. We believe
that Patricio's role as a trustee has been active and truly representative
of our chapter's vision on Wikimedia's governance.

He has also been a relevant actor within the movement towards the
generation of a perspective from Spanish-speaking chapters. Wikimedia
México has had in Patricio a confident conversation partner about our
worries on the Wikimedia movement.

In our view, a movement with global reach should be represented by people
with a free, open, fair and equitable view. Those qualities are present in
Patricio.

We are pleased to have the kind of support he provides us: he is always
ready to collaborate, to advise us on how he believes we can enhance our
role within Wikimedia and, since many years ago, to encourage us to be bold
in our performance as a chapter. It is no accident that over the last years
the Spanish-speaking environment has acquired more relevance within the
Wikimedia movement, what is also worth mentioning.

However, Patricio mustn't be seen as an exclusively Latin option, because
his performance accounts to the basic philosophy of all members of the
Wikimedia movement, and is based on principles that we all recognize as
ours: collaboration, solidarity and good faith. Patricio's presence in the
Board of Trustees reminds the movement, in a constant way, the principles
over it is founded.

Patricio has always been a friend ready to help, kind and dedicated to the
Wikimedia mission in a transparent and legitimate way. That is something
that should permeate all and every one of us who integrates this movement.
Sincerely,

The Board of Wikimedia Mexico: Iván Martínez, Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs,
Carmen Alcázar, Salvador Alcántar, Alan Lazalde, José Flores.

You can read the letter here:
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_support_from_Wikimedia_M%C3%A9xico_board_to_Patricio_Lorente_2014_candidacy

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Katherine Maher joins the Wikimedia Foundation as Chief Communications Officer

[Ivan Martínez]

Welcome Katherine!
Regards from Mexico.
El mar 28, 2014 5:37 p.m., Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org
escribió:

 Welcome on board Katherine! I'm looking forward to see you at work.

 Lodewijk


 2014-03-28 15:10 GMT+01:00 Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com:

  Hi Katherine, Congratulations  Welcome!
 
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  On Mar 28, 2014 6:21 PM, David Parreño Mont david.parr...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
   Welcome, Katherine! Congratulations!
  
   David Parreño Mont
   Communication
   Amical Wikimedia
  
  
   2014-03-28 6:03 GMT+01:00 Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org:
  
Hey folks,
   
I'm pleased to announce we've hired a Chief Communications Officer
 for
   the
Wikimedia Foundation, replacing Jay Walsh who left us in October. Our
  new
head of communications will be Katherine Maher, and she will join us
 on
   14
April, reporting to me.
   
Katherine comes to the WMF from Washington DC, where she was Advocacy
Director for the global digital rights organization Access. At
 Access,
   she
was responsible for all media and communications work, including
communications between the organization and its 350,000 members. She
  also
handled coalition work and advocacy efforts and urgent global threats
  to
digital rights, participated in the organization's strategic
 planning,
   and
was deeply involved with the production of RightsCon.
   
Before Access, Katherine worked on the launch of the Open Development
Technology Alliance at the World Bank, and was a program manager for
internet freedom projects at the National Democratic Institute.
  Earlier,
she worked on the UniWiki initiative for the UNICEF Innovation team,
intended to improve MediaWiki's usability for people who were new to
computer use, using early-model technology, or connecting in
   low-bandwidth
environments. Through her career she's been a frequent media
  spokesperson
and writer of op-eds and other media materials.
   
Katherine has lived and worked in nine countries and visited many
 more.
   She
is a native speaker of English, and has a basic knowledge of French,
   Arabic
and German.
   
The purpose of the CCO role is to ensure fast, easy information flow
   about
Wikimedia in multiple languages, both internally within the movement
  and
outside of it, and I think Katherine will be a wonderful fit for that
   work.
Her experiences advocating for the rights of ordinary internet users
  and
communicating with a large global volunteer community are both rare
 and
directly relevant. She's got a solid understanding of internet
technologies. She's a crisp, clear communicator, and an experienced
spokesperson.
   
I want to thank the people who helped with the interviewing process:
   Geoff
Brigham, Jove Oliver, Gayle Karen Young, David Gerard, Erik Moeller,
  Lisa
Gruwell, Frank Schulenburg, and Jimmy Wales. A special thanks to
 Geoff,
who's ably overseen our communications functions for the past several
years, and to Jay, who's generously filled in when it took us longer
  than
we expected to hire for this role. Geoff and Jay will be helping
   Katherine
get on-boarded, and I know she'll benefit enormously from their
  guidance
and support.
   
Please join me in welcoming Katherine, who's on CC.
   
Thanks,
Sue
   
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] UC Berkeley hires Wikipedian in Residence

[Ivan Martínez]

I published a note about Kevin in FayerWayer, a well-known Spanish
technology site:

http://www.fayerwayer.com/2014/03/berkeley-y-harvard-contaran-con-wikipedistas-residentes/

Regards.


2014-03-19 7:08 GMT-06:00 Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk
:

 No, but it's the first paid one at a US educational institution I
 believe...
 and possibly the first paid one worldwide at a traditional university.

 But that doesn't change the impact that the position will have.
 Congratulations!

 Richard Symonds
 Wikimedia UK
 0207 065 0992

 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
 Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
 Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT.
 United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
 movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
 operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).

 *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
 over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*


 On 19 March 2014 12:57, Russavia russavia.wikipe...@gmail.com wrote:

  Pine,
 
  This isn't the first paid Wikipedian-in-Residence position you know :)
 
  Russavia
 
 
 
 
  On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:00 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com
  wrote:
 
   This was covered by the Associated Press and a number of other news
   organizations. According to these stories UC Berkeley is the first US
   university to hire a WIR. I've seen WIR positions advertised at other
 US
   universities but this is the first paid position. Congrats to Kevin.
  
  
  
 
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wikipedian-in-residence/2014/03/18/16b5a556-aea4-11e3-b8b3-44b1d1cd4c1f_story.html
  
  
  
 
 http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/03/copyright/kevin-gorman-berkeleys-wikipedian-in-residence/
  
  
  
 
 http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_25364220/uc-berkeley-hires-first-wikipedian-residence
  
   I hope we'll see more universities taking this path. (:
  
   Pine
  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Anna Torres Adell as new Wikimedia Argentina ED

[Ivan Martínez]

Welcome, Anna.
We will very pleased in work together, as Mexico and Argentina are working
since three years.

Best regards.


2014-02-21 15:49 GMT-06:00 Galileo Vidoni gali...@gmail.com:

 Dear movement fellows,

 I'm pleased to announce that Wikimedia Argentina has a new Executive
 Director. Please welcome Anna Torres Adell to our movement!

 Anna was born in Barcelona but settled in Buenos Aires a couple of years
 ago. She is a licentiate in Political Science for the Universitat Pompeu
 Fabra and has post-graduate studies in International Cooperation;
 Management and Control of Public Policies; and Local Development and the
 Social Economy.

 She developed an interest on international cooperation and social matters
 since her teens, helping establish an educational NGO in Guatemala when she
 was just over 20. She has since lived and worked in Spain, México,
 Guatemala and Argentina. Before joining us at Wikimedia Argentina, Anna was
 the ED of PROEM Foundation, an organization aimed at coaching small
 businesses. Anna's track record also includes working with AECID, the
 Spanish agency for international cooperation, and the United Nations
 Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM).

 She has extensive knowledge and experience in the five dimensions that we
 cared the most when recruiting: commitment with the social goal of free
 knowledge, working with volunteers, administration, program management and
 funding.

 Selecting Anna was not easy, but not because we couldn't find the right
 person: We had just too much good EDs we wanted to hire! Thankfully we
 could choose from an important pool of candidates and proceed to evaluate
 thoroughly each one of them. We received over 100 applications, of which
 not less than half were pertinent. We gave all of them a score and made
 successive filtering stages before arriving to the eight people we
 interviewed in person over the last days.

 As you may have read on this list back in January, our decision to hire a
 new ED has to do with Osmar leaving us to return to his home country. Let
 me highlight that this good news could not have been possible without
 Osmar's work and commitment. Not only he helped designing the work
 description for his replacement, but he also participated in the recruiting
 and hiring process.

 We are extremely grateful to all what he has done to advance our mission in
 Wikimedia Argentina, and while we are certainly saddened to see him go we
 know that both he and us are doing everything possible to leave the
 organization on track and in good hands. Programmatic work will not suffer
 from this leadership change; if any, we as Board will ensure it gets
 reinforced.

 Anna will formally start working with us on March 1, and throughout all of
 that month Osmar will continue with us in Benedict fashion as ED emeritus
 to ensure that all the necessary knowledge, proceedings and contacts are
 transferred from one administration to another. We are glad to have
 achieved this level of stability as an organization, and we'd love to
 spread the word about this happy and smooth transition in the
 WikimediaConference with whoever wants to hear us :).

 We asked Osmar to be one of our representatives in Berlin as his last act
 of service, so it will also be a nice opportunity for you to meet him. In
 the meantime, please welcome Anna to the Wikimedia movement and to this
 mailing list!

 Best regards,

 *Galileo Vidoni*
 Presidente
 A. C. Wikimedia Argentina
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of two new user groups

[Ivan Martínez]

Welcome, folks.
It's been a long road for Brasil, BTW. ¡Parabens!


2014-01-29 Santi Navarro santiagonava...@wikimedia.org.es

 Parabens Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil!

 Congratulations New England Wikimedians!

  Dear Community Members,
 
  It is with great pleasure that I can announce that the Affiliations
  Committee has recognized two new user groups in the movement in December.
 
  The Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil and New England Wikimedians are
  two active groups of Wikimedians on the American continents with a
 history
  of projects and great plans for the future. You can learn more about
 their
  work on their respective websites at:
  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Brasil_user_group
  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_England_Wikimedians
 
  The resolutions are published at
  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions, and
  the
  groups are in the process or have already completed the execution of the
  user group agreement, the final step in the process towards recognition.
 
  Please give a warm welcome to these groups and provide them encouragement
  for their future.
 
  Best regards,
  Bence Damokos
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Amendment would affect Wikimedia projects

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Hi Samuel. I don't know if there's some movement. I contacted to Electronic
Frontier Foundation for this. Do you have another suggestion?
Best regards.


2013/12/9 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com

 Interesting.  Thank you for taking a public stand and for keeping us
 informed.  Is there any international movement so far to support the
 advocates in Mexico that are arguing against this amendment?

 Sam.


 On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote:

  Dear all:
 
  A proposed amendment to the Industrial Property Law, Federal Law on
  Copyright and the Federal Penal Code, recently presented at the Chamber
 of
  Deputies of Mexico, very similar to SOPA and the Sinde Law in Spain,
 would
  affect the functioning of the Wikimedia projects in Mexico.
 
  Our chapter decided to issue a position that can be found at the
 following
  link:
 
  http://ow.ly/rBKx6
 
  This document was sent to the email address of the legislators who are
  driving this proposal, deputies Héctor Gutiérrez and Aurora Ugalde, no
  response so far. If this proposal in advance approval, our chapter would
  evaluate what actions could be taken.
 
  Best regards.
 
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[Wikimedia-l] Amendment would affect Wikimedia projects

[Ivan Martínez]

Dear all:

A proposed amendment to the Industrial Property Law, Federal Law on
Copyright and the Federal Penal Code, recently presented at the Chamber of
Deputies of Mexico, very similar to SOPA and the Sinde Law in Spain, would
affect the functioning of the Wikimedia projects in Mexico.

Our chapter decided to issue a position that can be found at the following
link:

http://ow.ly/rBKx6

This document was sent to the email address of the legislators who are
driving this proposal, deputies Héctor Gutiérrez and Aurora Ugalde, no
response so far. If this proposal in advance approval, our chapter would
evaluate what actions could be taken.

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[Wikimedia-l] Iberoconf 2013

[Ivan Martínez]

Dear all:

Today we start the first day of sessions of the Third Ibero-American
Wikimedia Summit (Iberoconf 2013), hosted this year in Mexico City by
Wikimedia México.

You can follow the sessions in the next links:

Etherpad http://cor.to/AlOL
Live streaming http://www.livestream.com/eventostelmexhub2
Twitter follow the hashtag #Iberoconf

Best regards.

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Wikimedia México A.C.
wikimedia.mx

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2014 location decision

[Ivan Martínez]

Thanks to all the team involved in the bidding and decision. We will have a
very nice conference in Berlin.

Regards.
El oct 12, 2013 8:31 a.m., Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com escribió:

 Dear all,

 Following considerable deliberation it is with great pleasure that we
 announce that the Location Committee has selected Berlin as the location
 for the 2014 Wikimedia Conference.

 We received a total of four bids from Germany, India, Italy and Sweden. In
 selecting the Berlin location we have taken into consideration the
 experience and capacity of the team; the travel time and cost for
 attendees; the cost of hosting the conference; and the facilities and room
 configuration of the proposed venues.

 Throughout our deliberations we kept an open mind towards having the
 conference in a new location/country, and we have appreciated the compact
 solutions offered by having all participants close to each other or staying
 at the same lodging; however, we felt that the Berlin bid provides – by a
 small margin – the best combination of price, distance and experience this
 year.

 We thank all the organisations that have entered a bid for their time and
 effort and we hope that even if they were not selected this year, they can
 make use of the experience when they organise other meetings that will
 further the Wikimedia mission.

 In closing, we would like to thank all Wikimedia organisations for placing
 their trust in this process and committee, which was an interesting
 experience for all of us. In the hope that the Wikimedia organisations keep
 the hosting choice an open process, we would like to propose a number of
 potential process improvements[1], and we would invite all the bidders and
 other interested parties to provide their own feedback.

 Best regards,

 Asaf Bartov, Bence Damokos, Arnau Duran, Itzik Edri, Mike Peel, Osmar
 Valdebenito, Ilario Valdelli
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Approval of WCUG Greece as Wikimedia User Group

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Welcome, congrats!

El sábado, 20 de julio de 2013, Sophie Österberg escribió:

 Congratulations, this is lovely!!

 *Be Bold!
 Sophie Österberg
 sosterb...@wikimedia.org javascript:;*


 *Every single contribution to Wikipedia is a
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 2013/7/20 Mile Kiš mil...@vikimedija.org javascript:;

  2013/7/20 Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org javascript:;
 
   Congratulations
 
 
  Congratulations
  Wikimedia Serbia looking to have some regional cooperation with you
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Russian Wikipedia in trouble /yet/ again

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Hi, I posted a report in the Spanish daily ElDiario.es about this theme.

http://www.eldiario.es/turing/Wikipedia-SOPA-Duma_0_152934722.html

Best regards.


2013/7/10 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com

 On 10 July 2013 21:20, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:

  I do not see any reaction whatsoever from Wikimedia.ru , but from our WLM
  experience you probably remember that they are ... hmm ... not the
 fastest
  to react, and usually only do it after other people start complaining
 that
  they do not.


 WMRU are aware - I asked about this on the comcom list and they noted
 it was actually a serious issue - but I would expect they don't do
 anything until they're quite sure the community is moving in that
 direction, for probably-sensible reasons.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki goes to radio: Möebius at Ibero 90.9

[Ivan Martínez]

Thanks to all for your kindly comments.

Daniel: The broadcast production considers songs and sounds with copyright,
but I think we can upload a CC version without restrictive sounds to
Wikimedia Commons. This is our first big project with the GLAM partnering
and sounds fine the collaboration in Wikipedia recorded articles. We have
already talked with them about donating content, and is pending by these
copyright details. We hope to have good news soon.

Samuel: we will document all the programs, and put this connections on
line. For an example, the first successfull draft of the program was made
with the articles Isaac Asimov = Encyclopedia Galáctica = The Hitchikers
Guide's to the Galaxy = Marvin, the Paranoid Android = Ok, Computer =
Paranoid Android = Radiohead

Regards.


2013/5/31 Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietc...@googlemail.com

 Hi Iván,

 that's an interesting concept - looking forward to listening to the
 recordings.

 Do you envision that collaboration to broaden a bit over time? For
 instance, there does not seem to be any mention of Creative Commons on
 their site, or their trained voices might help in getting some more
 Wikipedia articles spoken in Spanish, or they might have a sound
 archive (or contacts to one), which could then be asked about
 releasing materials under Wikimedia-compatible licenses.

 Cheers,

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  {{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
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Approval of Wikimedians of Nepal user group

[Ivan Martínez]

Welcome to board, friends.
I know it has not been easy for Ganesh and to the Nepal team.
Congrats!


2013/5/30 Tonmoy Khan tonmoy...@gmail.com

 Congratulations to Nepali Wikimedians!!

 Ali Haidar Khan (Tonmoy)
 Wikimedia Bangladesh
 On May 30, 2013 11:12 PM, Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hk wrote:

  Congratulations Ganesh and the Nepal team! Are there plans to move on and
  transition to an incorporated Wikimedia chapter?
  Deryck
 
  On 30 May 2013 17:32, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote:
 
   Dear all,
  
   I am happy to inform you that the Affiliations Committee has approved
 the
   recognition of a Wikimedia User Group today:  Wikimedians of Nepal.
  
   Please join me in welcoming this new group into the fold of Wikimedia
   entities, and let's celebrate their success and hard work as Wikipedia
   turns eleven in Nepal!
  
   == Wikimedians of Nepal ==
  
   Wikimedians of Nepal http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nepal
  is a
   group of enthusiastic Nepali Wikimedians working towards developing and
   promoting Wikimedia projects in Nepal. They've been actively working to
   help expand the community, launch projects in more languages of Nepal
 and
   promote and support the existing ones.
  
   The group is working towards chapterhood, and have a good chance of
   attaining that status this year. Granting them user group recognition
   allows the movement to express its appreciation for their hard work
 even
   while they are working on the bureaucratic aspects of meeting the
   requirements of chapterhood. The timing is fortuitous  in that the
 group
  is
   going to mark the 11th anniversary of Wikipedia in a Nepali language
 on 3
   June, next Monday.
  
   Ganesh, the group's interim president has been invited to this year's
  Milan
   conference, where he gave a comprehensive overview of the group's
  history,
   its projects (including a successful 'wikiwomen programme) and its
   ambitions. The slides are at:
  
 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/WMNepal_WMC_2013.pdf
  
   The Affiliations Committee's
   recognition
  
 
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wikimedians_of_Nepal_-_May_2013
   is
   valid until 28 May 2014, or until they are recognized as a chapter.
  
  
   == Wikimedia User Groups ==
  
   Wikimedia User Groups are one of the three new types of affiliations
   created last year to empower volunteers wanting to conduct offline work
  and
   provide them recognition from the Wikimedia movement.
  
   User group status is meant to be an easy form of affiliation, where the
   main requirements are an agreed goal, plans for offline work, at least
   three people participating and a public wiki page with all the relevant
   information).
  
   Under the movement roles
   recommendations
  
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/User_Groups
   , user groups are to be recognized in a quick and easy process directly
  by
   the Affiliations Committee, for a fixed, renewable time-period and they
  are
   to enjoy limited trademark use and simplified access to grants.
  
  
  
   Best regards,
   Bence Damokos
   Chair, Affiliatons Committee
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million

[Ivan Martínez]

In Puebla city, too :D


2013/5/27 Osmar Valdebenito os...@wikimedia.org.ar

 Thanks for the announcement, Salvador.
 It was a really hard work to coordinate the recordings in Buenos Aires,
 Puebla, Jerusalem and La Paz, but I think we did a good job :)

 *Osmar Valdebenito G.*
 Director Ejecutivo
 A. C. Wikimedia Argentina


 2013/5/26 Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com

  Also, it's in Commons:
 
 
 
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Un_mill%C3%B3n_de_gracias,_de_Wikipedia_en_espa%C3%B1ol.webm
 
 
  2013/5/26 Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com
 
   To celebrate this milestone, Iberocoop chapters have made this video
 that
   we share with you:
  
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SLw_Z8w604
  
   Enjoy it!
  
   Regards!
  
  
   2013/5/17 ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com
  
  Felicitaciones a la española Wikipedia!
   http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fogos_artificiais.jpg
  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Video] WMMX Puebla's Edit-a-thon

[Ivan Martínez]

Hi Itzik! The videographer was Alfonso González, who works in one of the
sponsors of the event, Astrolabio media agency.  They will upload sooner a
copy of the video to Commons and I'm asking now about the model of the used
DSLR camera.


2013/4/3 Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il

 Hi Salvador, thanks for sharing this video with us. Looks great. Who was
 the videographer? with which camera?


 On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  Hi folks!
 
  I just wanna share with you a nice video made by one of our cultural
  partners (Atrolabio). Is about our chapter last Edit-a-thon in Mexico,
 the
  first in the city of Puebla. You can watch our chapter president Iván
  Martínez and two board members: Carmen Alcazar and Gustavo Sandoval
 giving
  the talks.
 
  It's a musical clip, then it's no needed to know spanish to enjoy it.
 
  http://vimeo.com/63202555
 
  Best regards!
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

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Awesome!
Poca madre ;)

El martes, 12 de marzo de 2013, Sarah Stierch escribió:

 Congratulations!

 Viva le revolution!!

 -Sarah

 On 3/12/13 6:28 PM, Kul Wadhwa wrote:

 Hey all,

 Wikipedia Zero just won the Activism Award @ SXSW!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Earth hour in English Wikipedia

[Ivan Martínez]

Thanks for the tip, Sarah, I will write in the WikiProject page.
Regards!


2013/3/5 Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.com

 This is very cool. It might be a good idea, if you haven't already, to
 ping folks on the talk pages of the following English WikiProject:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:WikiProject_**Environmenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Environment

 Hope that helps a bit, that's often what I do when digging up support or
 help for a project - and even pinging the most active members directly on
 their talk pages. Might also be worth to leave a comment on the WWF
 Wikipedia talk page.

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 In Wikimedia Mexico we are working with the World Wildlife Fund to
 improvemexican
 biodiversity contents. They asked me to seek contact with a chapter /
 editor who
 wants to work their contents on the upcoming Earth Hour in the English
 Wikipedia.

 If someone wants to work on this theme, I can contact with WWF staff.

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[Wikimedia-l] Earth hour in English Wikipedia

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In Wikimedia Mexico we are working with the World Wildlife Fund to
improvemexican
biodiversity contents. They asked me to seek contact with a chapter /
editor who
wants to work their contents on the upcoming Earth Hour in the English
Wikipedia.

If someone wants to work on this theme, I can contact with WWF staff.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Grant Advisory Committee Expanded

[Ivan Martínez]

Thank you very much for the opportunity and trust. I'll do my best!
Saludos.

2012/7/23 Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com


 Welcome!
 Looking forward to working with the new members.
 SincerelyAbbas.

  From: abar...@wikimedia.org
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  Subject: [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
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong

[Ivan Martínez]

Congratulations to our brothers of Hong Kong. Hope to have a nice Wikimania
2013!

There's other *amigos* who want to have to all in their country in a
Wikimania 2016 XD

2012/5/3 Jeromy-Yu Chan (Jerry~Yuyu) jerry.tschan...@gmail.com

 Halo Everyone

 Thank you for your congratulations, we honored that we are awarded to host
 the 9th global Wikimedia Conference.
 our team will work as best as we can, to facilitate such conference, and
 meet your expectations.

 and we are lOOking forward to seeing you here in Hong Kong, and hope you
 will enjoy the conference!

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