Re: [Wikimedia-l] Idea of a new project: Wikifacts ?

2021-02-09 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Jimmy has a project that does exactly that.

I like Jimmy’s project but do not see it progressing to the direction what I 
was imagining.

Having said that, what we could do is have a project investigating the missing 
information in Wikidata.

Wikidata is great, but I do not see how it could serves the purpose, I was 
thinking about.I was visioning a wiki site where one could start a page with 
the title:

General Min Aung Hlaing's[1] speech on TV Feb 8th 2021[2]

On this page people could edit transcript of the speech and do fact checking on 
the claims he make.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_Aung_Hlaing
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55975746

- Teemu
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[Wikimedia-l] Idea of a new project: Wikifacts ?

2021-02-04 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi all,

Has there been any discussion to start a new Wikimedia project focusing on fact 
checking? 

Fact checking of course is in the core of editing Wikipedia, but I was thinking 
about dedicated wiki-site that is dedicated for fact checking of current events 
and news. Why this would be important? 

(1) There are many fact checking site in the English speaking world but much 
less elsewhere. I am afraid that there is still greater need for fact checking 
in the rest of the world. {{Citation needed}}

(2) Our community is very well educated to do fact checking the wiki-way. Again 
internationally, many of our community members are real fact champions in their 
home countries and language groups. The practice of Wikipedia could be applied 
to fact checking of fast moving current events and news, too.

(3) This could help us to get new young people to the movement, as editing 
Wikipedias is not anymore so easy to start (because they are so good already).

(4) In many parts of the world, fact checking can also be dangerous. With our 
anonymous and community driven practices and services we could protect the fact 
checkers in many parts of the world.

I am not sure what is the state of the Wikinews, but my impression is that it 
is not really working. It was a good idea, but maybe wiki or wiki-way is not 
the way to produce news. Also the beautiful idea of citizen journalism has not 
really become reality. Maybe we could try if wiki and the wki-way works better 
in fact checking.

Peace, 

 - Teemu 


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia coediting spaces?

2020-07-30 Thread Leinonen Teemu
> On 30. Jul 2020, at 18.08, Uwe Herzke  wrote:
> In Germany we have several kind of co-editing spaces, listed here:
> 
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community-Space

Thanks you Sänger. Very cool! 

(Global) network of co-editing spaces, with some common principles of 
operations (brand, services, opening hours) could be beneficial for the 
movement. This way affiliates and chapters could easier start and run their 
spaces. 

Do you in Germany have any polices or instructions for the co-editing spaces 
and Stammtisches? 

- Teemu
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia coediting spaces?

2020-07-29 Thread Leinonen Teemu
> On 29. Jul 2020, at 15.47, Yaroslav Blanter  wrote:
> do you mean a cafe run by the WMF or an affiliate?

Run by affiliate with a license provided by WMF.

> How is this compatible
> with the non-profit status? Or is there smth I misunderstand?

I do not see why a non-profit could not run a coffee shop for fundraising. The 
profit, if any, would naturally be used to the cause.

- Teemu 

> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 2:15 PM Leinonen Teemu 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Have there ever been a serious discussion on the idea of having a network
>> of Wikipedia branded (co)editing spaces / coffee shops / tea rooms around
>> the world?
>> 
>> They could work so that a chapter may apply from the WMF a license to run
>> a Wikipedia coediting coffee shop. The WMF could provide some basic things
>> such as Wikipedia branded coffee cups, barista aprons and specification of
>> the tables, chairs, menu etc. Each Wikipedia coediting space could also
>> offer some local delicacies.
>> 
>> The coediting space could seek for profit (shared between the chapter and
>> the WMF?), but the primary aim would be to be self-sustainable.
>> 
>> I am sure there are some cons, but I made a quick list of pros:
>> 
>> * Outreach and education
>> * Community building
>> * Jobs for Wikipedians
>> * Fun places for all Wikipedians to visit when in town
>> 
>> Any thoughts?
>> 
>> - Teemu
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia coediting spaces?

2020-07-29 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi all,

Have there ever been a serious discussion on the idea of having a network of 
Wikipedia branded (co)editing spaces / coffee shops / tea rooms around the 
world?

They could work so that a chapter may apply from the WMF a license to run a 
Wikipedia coediting coffee shop. The WMF could provide some basic things such 
as Wikipedia branded coffee cups, barista aprons and specification of the 
tables, chairs, menu etc. Each Wikipedia coediting space could also offer some 
local delicacies.

The coediting space could seek for profit (shared between the chapter and the 
WMF?), but the primary aim would be to be self-sustainable.

I am sure there are some cons, but I made a quick list of pros:

* Outreach and education
* Community building
* Jobs for Wikipedians
* Fun places for all Wikipedians to visit when in town

Any thoughts?

- Teemu

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Huhall] Viola wikipedia

2019-10-01 Thread Leinonen Teemu

> On 1 Oct 2019, at 18.46, Samuel Klein  wrote:
> From a Harvard biology list, via my friend Chris: a newly named species of
> Viola !
> /SJ

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing. -Teemu

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing our newest chapter, Wikimedia Colombia

2019-08-01 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Great! Felicidades! -Teemu

> On 31 Jul 2019, at 19.02, Kirill Lokshin  wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I'm very happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
> has approved the recognition of Wikimedia Colombia [1] as a Wikimedia
> chapter.
> 
> Over the past five years, Wikimedia Colombia has successfully planned and
> executed a significant portfolio of innovative and effective programs,
> attracting new contributors, forming partnerships with local institutions,
> promoting the Wikimedia movement throughout the Republic of Colombia, and
> demonstrating a substantial record of programmatic impact.
> 
> It is our hope that recognition as a Wikimedia chapter will empower the
> Wikimedia Colombia community to continue fostering the Wikimedia movement
> in Colombia and enable them to more effectively engage with government
> entities and other partners.  We additionally hope that Wikimedia Colombia
> will prove to be a source of inspiration and support for emerging Wikimedia
> communities in the surrounding geographic areas, furthering affiliate
> development across northern South America and Central America.
> 
> I want to thank everyone who has been involved with setting up the new
> chapter, and recognize their commitment and patience over the past two
> years as we've worked through the chapter recognition process.  Please join
> me in congratulating the entire Wikimedia Colombia team for their
> accomplishment!
> 
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
> 
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Colombia
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell, Erik!

2019-02-06 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi Erik,

When I saw the Wikistats the very first time in mid 2000 (?) I was very 
impressed. After meeting with Erik, I respected the project and him even more. 
The impact of the Wikistats to researchers and students around the world, but 
also to the open data movement in general, has been incredible. I hope the 
future historians will notice this.

Thanks Erik. Your new project looks very interesting.

- Teemu

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On 6 Feb 2019, at 23.17, Dario Taraborelli 
mailto:dtarabore...@wikimedia.org>> wrote:

“[R]ecent revisions of an article can be peeled off to reveal older layers,
which are still meaningful for historians. Even graffiti applied by vandals
can by its sheer informality convey meaningful information, just like
historians learned a lot from graffiti on walls of classic Pompei. Likewise
view patterns can tell future historians a lot about what was hot and what
wasn’t in our times. Reason why these raw view data are meant to be
preserved for a long time.”

Erik Zachte wrote these lines in a blog post

almost
ten years ago, and I cannot find better words to describe the gift he gave
us. Erik retired  this
past Friday, leaving behind an immense legacy. I had the honor to work with
him for several years, and I hosted this morning an intimate, tearful
celebration of what Erik has represented for the Wikimedia movement.

His Wikistats project —with his signature
pale yellow background we've known and loved since the mid 2000s
—has
been much more than an "analytics platform". It's been an individual
attempt he initiated, and grew over time, to try and comprehend and make
sense of the largest open collaboration project in human history, driven by
curiosity and by an insatiable desire to serve data to the communities that
most needed it.

Through this project, Erik has created a live record of data describing the
growth and reach of all Wikimedia communities, across languages and
projects, putting multi-lingualism and smaller communities at the very
center of his attention. He coined metrics such as "active editors" that
defined the benchmark for volunteers, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the
academic community to understand some of the growing pains and editor
retention issues

the movement has faced. He created countless reports—that predate by nearly
a decade modern visualizations of online attention—to understand what
Wikipedia traffic means in the context of current events like elections

or public health crises
.
He has created countless
 visualizations

that show the enormous gaps in local language content and representation
that, as a movement, we face in our efforts to build an encyclopedia for
and about everyone. He has also made extensive use of pie charts
,
which—as friends—we are ready to turn a blind eye towards.

Most importantly, the data Erik has brougth to life has been cited over
1,000 times

in the scholarly literature. If we gave credit to open data creators in the
same way as we credit authors of scholarly papers, Erik would be one of the
most influential authors in the field, and I don't think it is much of a
stretch to say that the massive trove of data and metrics Erik has made
available had a direct causal role in the birth and growth of the academic
field of Wikimedia research, and more broadly, scholarship of online
collaboration.

Like I said this morning, Erik -- you have been not only an invaluable
colleague and a steward for the movement, but also a very decent human
being, and I am grateful we shared some of this journey together.

Please join me in celebrating Erik on his well-deserved retirement, read
his statement  to learn
what he's planning to do next, or check this lovely portrait
 Wired published a
while back about "the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia's Massive Data
Trove".

Dario


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is the death of Wikipedia imminent?

2019-01-04 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi, 

Please, remember the Wikipedia / Wikimedia mission and vision.

Our aim is to be a global movement of free, global, multi-lingual knowledge. 
Globally smartphones are already the main and primary device to access the 
Internet for the majority of people. Therefore:

(1) We should do everything we can to invite the the mobile Internet-users to 
become editors. All improvements to the mobile editing experience helps.

(2) We should invite people to work on content that works well on smartphones. 
Short summary texts and videos summarising topics are good. 

Another idea: Have anyone tried to create podcasts / audio book our of 
categories? It could be a bit like a “create a book” -feature. You collect 
articles or select a category and a software create text to audio file with the 
content. Audio works well on mobiles. 

- Teemu 


> On 4 Jan 2019, at 9.10, Paulo Santos Perneta  wrote:
> 
> As someone already mentioned earlier in this thread, I believe there is a
> concrete structural obstacle in mobile editing, which has to do with the
> ability of searching resources, quickly reading books, papers, PDF
> articles, a plethora of websites, news, etc, and using them in Wikipedia
> articles in such a limited visual space. Turning "dumb editing" easier will
> certainly have the collateral effect of bringing huge amounts of vandalism
> from some given networks, leading to the complete blocking of those
> networks from editing in Wikipedia, or even in all Wikimedia projects, as
> is has been happening with some regularity since mobile editing was
> released. This for smartphones.
> 
> Editing from tablets is a total different story, as it can be very similar
> to what we do in the laptops and desktop computers, a tablet solution, as
> proposed, possibly could have success in providing a better environment. On
> the other hand, the current desktop version works fairly well in tablets,
> so we just have to switch from the mobile version, which is really
> suboptimal, and quite difficult to use, to that one.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paulo
> 
> 
> Yethrosh  escreveu no dia terça, 1/01/2019 à(s) 21:19:
> 
>> I believe much depends on Wikipedia Mobile app. Users are mostly on mobile
>> now and they feel it natural to do any thing from mobile. If only, creating
>> articles and adding citations could be done easily through mobile app, can
>> make a big difference.
>> 
>> On Mon, 31 Dec 2018, 2:22 a.m. David Cuenca Tudela > wrote:
>> 
>>> Answering the initial question: It depends on how you understand "death".
>>> Wikipedia is the manifestation of a collection of algorithms running in
>> the
>>> minds of thousands of people. With time it could become less popular to
>> run
>>> that algorithm in your life, or you would like to try a different one.
>> With
>>> less people then the Wikipedias would be different as they are today.
>> More
>>> out-of-date information, less capacity to oversee the project,
>> stagnation,
>>> and perhaps eventually irrelevance. Myspace, digg, and winamp are still
>>> alive, however people prefer other options these days.
>>> 
>>> I think it is important to move with the flow, and open new opportunities
>>> for collaboration as the technology and our contributor base are ready
>> for
>>> them. Wikidata started 6 years ago, Structured Commons is in the making,
>>> and who knows what could come next.
>>> 
>>> In the age of review manipulation and mistrust, I see opportunities in
>>> identifying thought leaders, and building a balanced critique on a
>> subject
>>> based on multiple sources. Wikipedia does this partially, but it is not
>> its
>>> main aim. Assigning trust to people or organizations is something that
>> the
>>> community does quite well, so it could be applied to other contexts.
>>> 
>>> A snippet-pedia also sounds useful, specially if a topic could be
>> explained
>>> with different levels of complexity. Layman's explanations are really
>>> useful and there are communities built around them (for instance ELI5
>> with
>>> 16 million subscribers), however their explanations are neither
>>> collaborative nor structured, so it is quite difficult to improve them or
>>> navigate them.
>>> 
>>> It doesn't matter so much that Wikipedia "dies", what matters is that the
>>> Wikimedia community adapts with new projects that keep the spirit of
>>> gathering, organizing, and sharing knowledge alive. Perhaps we could also
>>> consider other approaches that could be executed in real life. With
>> diverse
>>> approaches, there would be different kind of contributors, aka more
>>> diversity. I would definitely welcome projects that would attract 90% of
>>> female contributors, even if they are radically different and they are
>> not
>>> a wiki. In the end our mission is to enable everyone to share knowledge,
>>> not necessarily encyclopedic, and not necessarily using current
>> technology.
>>> Just because we have a hammer doesn't mean that all problems can be
>> solved
>>> with it.
>>> 
>>> 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation and Kiwix partner to grow offline access to Wikipedia

2018-07-25 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi Anne,

On 23 Jul 2018, at 19.24, Anne Gomez 
mailto:ago...@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
Personally, I see the New Readers efforts as a step in that direction, and
not the end goal. We're working on bringing more people to understanding
Wikipedia/Wikimedia with the hope that they'll contribute down the line...
but, in my opinion, we can't expect people to contribute if they don't
visit our sites or understand the values and structures we have built to
support building knowledge.

Fair enough. I am just afraid that people who are from the beginning invited to 
be a “reader”, called “readers”, not having “edit” -button, not getting the 
full Wikipedia -experience, will not get the “values and structure”, either. 
For them Wikipedia will be a free encyclopedia, not the free encyclopedia that 
anyone can edit.

I think the message for the people using the offline Wikipedia should be 
something like that we are really, really sorry that at this point of time we 
can only provide you access to read the content, but we are working hard to 
make it possible that your knowledge, in your own languages will be part of the 
"sum of all knowledge”. :-)

Best regards,

- Teemu

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation and Kiwix partner to grow offline access to Wikipedia

2018-07-21 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Thanks Anne,

I have followed the Kiwix and now checked the WikiFundi’s status, too. Thanks 
for the links.

My point is that words matters and for instance, I find the concept “New 
Readers” problematic in the case of us reaching “Global South” (often offline).

-Teemu

Lähetetty iPhonesta

> Anne Gomez  kirjoitti 21.7.2018 kello 0.00:
> 
> Hi Teemu,
> 
> I agree that there is a lot we can, and should, do for people who are not
> online... I'm really excited about this partnership with Kiwix because they
> are the base of a lot of different initiatives in the offline space.
> 
> Are you aware of WikiFundi[1]? It is a project, built on Kiwix, that is
> taking steps towards offline editing. Offline editing is a really complex
> problem from a technical and user experience perspective. The WikiFundi
> team has been working on the product for a couple of years now, with
> support from WMF and the Orange Foundation.
> 
> In January, the Foundation funded a project grant[2] to support WikiFundi
> developing their user experience and effectiveness.
> 
> Cheers,
> Anne
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.wikifundi.org/
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WikiInAfrica/WikiFundi
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 11:39 AM, Leinonen Teemu 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Offline is important but when doing these things we should same time
>> remember our vision statement’s part saying “*every single human being* can
>> freely *share* in the sum of all knowledge”.
>> 
>> We should never consider the people in the “offline world” being only
>> readers, users or consumers of the content, but people who naturally have a
>> lot of knowledge to share for the rest of the world.
>> 
>> With the offline distribution, let’s keep working on to have more
>> languages and active communities in the Wikimedia. Let’s have the
>> edit-button when ever possible.
>> 
>> -Teemu
>> 
>>> James Heilman  kirjoitti 20.7.2018 kello 12.54:
>>> 
>>> Agree amazing news. Offline is key for much of the world.
>>> 
>>> We are developing and distributing "Internet-in-a-Boxes" to help
>> compensate
>>> somewhat for the pull back from zero rating.
>>> 
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box
>>> 
>>> James
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 4:27 AM Lucas Teles 
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Those are excellent news!
>>>> 
>>>> I wonder if there are any plans on working on less rich countries. They
>>>> usually have less internet access and would benefit from that.
>>>> 
>>>> Wikipedia Zero has just expired in Angola and I can’t imagine a best
>> way to
>>>> replace that source of knowledge withou having to deal with the negative
>>>> side of it.
>>>> 
>>>> Concerning the many users from Angola that reached out to me complaining
>>>> about the end of Wikipedia Zero in Angola, giving them access to Kiwix
>> will
>>>> be of enormous help.
>>>> 
>>>> Teles
>>>> 
>>>> Em qui, 19 de jul de 2018 às 19:16, Samantha Lien 
>>>> escreveu:
>>>> 
>>>>> This press release is also available on the Wikimedia blog here:
>>>>> 
>>>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/18/wikimedia-
>> foundation-and-kiwix-partner-to-grow-offline-access-to-wikipedia/Wikimedia
>>>>> Foundation and Kiwix partner to grow offline access to Wikipedia
>>>>> *The Wikimedia Foundation and Switzerland-based Kiwix announce a global
>>>>> collaboration to increase offline access to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia
>>>>> projects.*
>>>>> 
>>>>> Lausanne, Switzerland, and San Francisco, USA, 18 July 2018 – The
>>>>> Wikimedia Foundation has announced a partnership with Kiwix, the free
>> and
>>>>> open-source software solution that enables offline access to
>> educational
>>>>> content, to expand and improve access to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia
>>>>> projects globally. This partnership will include a $275,000
>> contribution
>>>> to
>>>>> Kiwix to further enhance offline access to Wikipedia in parts of the
>>>> world
>>>>> where consistent, affordable internet connectivity presents a
>> significant
>>>>> barrier to accessing Wikipedia.
>>>>> 
>>>>> “Our hope is that one day everyone will have access to the internet,
>> a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation and Kiwix partner to grow offline access to Wikipedia

2018-07-20 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi all,

Offline is important but when doing these things we should same time remember 
our vision statement’s part saying “*every single human being* can freely 
*share* in the sum of all knowledge”. 

We should never consider the people in the “offline world” being only readers, 
users or consumers of the content, but people who naturally have a lot of 
knowledge to share for the rest of the world.

With the offline distribution, let’s keep working on to have more languages and 
active communities in the Wikimedia. Let’s have the edit-button when ever 
possible.

-Teemu

> James Heilman  kirjoitti 20.7.2018 kello 12.54:
> 
> Agree amazing news. Offline is key for much of the world.
> 
> We are developing and distributing "Internet-in-a-Boxes" to help compensate
> somewhat for the pull back from zero rating.
> 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet-in-a-Box
> 
> James
> 
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 4:27 AM Lucas Teles  wrote:
>> 
>> Those are excellent news!
>> 
>> I wonder if there are any plans on working on less rich countries. They
>> usually have less internet access and would benefit from that.
>> 
>> Wikipedia Zero has just expired in Angola and I can’t imagine a best way to
>> replace that source of knowledge withou having to deal with the negative
>> side of it.
>> 
>> Concerning the many users from Angola that reached out to me complaining
>> about the end of Wikipedia Zero in Angola, giving them access to Kiwix will
>> be of enormous help.
>> 
>> Teles
>> 
>> Em qui, 19 de jul de 2018 às 19:16, Samantha Lien 
>> escreveu:
>> 
>>> This press release is also available on the Wikimedia blog here:
>>> 
>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/07/18/wikimedia-foundation-and-kiwix-partner-to-grow-offline-access-to-wikipedia/Wikimedia
>>> Foundation and Kiwix partner to grow offline access to Wikipedia
>>> *The Wikimedia Foundation and Switzerland-based Kiwix announce a global
>>> collaboration to increase offline access to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia
>>> projects.*
>>> 
>>> Lausanne, Switzerland, and San Francisco, USA, 18 July 2018 – The
>>> Wikimedia Foundation has announced a partnership with Kiwix, the free and
>>> open-source software solution that enables offline access to educational
>>> content, to expand and improve access to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia
>>> projects globally. This partnership will include a $275,000 contribution
>> to
>>> Kiwix to further enhance offline access to Wikipedia in parts of the
>> world
>>> where consistent, affordable internet connectivity presents a significant
>>> barrier to accessing Wikipedia.
>>> 
>>> “Our hope is that one day everyone will have access to the internet, and
>>> eliminate the need for other offline methods of access to information.”
>>> said Kiwix CEO Stephane Coillet-Matillon. “But we know that there are
>> still
>>> serious gaps in internet access globally that require solutions today.
>>> Kiwix is a tool to start fixing things right now.”
>>> The Wikimedia Foundation and Kiwix have had a long-standing collaborative
>>> relationship to expand access to Wikipedia around the world. This
>> includes
>>> recent support to Kiwix and WikiProject Medicine to improve the
>>> availability of offline Wikipedia medical content [1], as well as
>>> improvements to the Kiwix desktop experience.
>>> 
>>> Through this partnership, the two organizations will collaborate to
>> create
>>> a long-term strategy for third party reuse of Kiwix’s free access
>> platform,
>>> fix longstanding code debt, improve Kiwix’s usability across mobile
>>> platforms including Android, and integrate Kiwix’s and the Wikimedia
>>> Foundation’s technical operations more closely for improved Wikipedia
>>> offline experiences.
>>> 
>>> “As part of the 2030 direction for Wikimedia’s future [2], we’re thrilled
>>> to be partnering with Kiwix to invest in solutions to address one of the
>>> critical barriers to participating in Wikipedia globally: reliable
>> internet
>>> access,” said Anne Gomez, Senior Program Manager at the Wikimedia
>>> Foundation. “We have made a commitment as an organization to actively
>>> address the challenges and barriers to reaching our global Wikimedia
>>> vision: a world in which everyone can freely share in knowledge. Today
>>> marks an important step toward realizing that commitment.”
>>> 
>>> The Wikimedia vision is global: a world in which everyone can freely
>> share
>>> in the sum of all knowledge. While there has been a significant reduction
>>> in high mobile data costs and other barriers to participating in
>> Wikipedia,
>>> more than half the world’s population is not yet online. [3]
>>> 
>>> Today, Kiwix sits at the heart of the offline ecosystem with more than 3
>>> million users from more than 200 countries. It can store millions of
>>> Wikipedia articles from any of Wikipedia’s nearly 300 languages along
>> with
>>> thousands of books and videos on a single flash drive or microSD card for
>>> access on smartphones and computers. Kiwix has 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Executive Director's Letter to Donors

2018-07-11 Thread Leinonen Teemu

> On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 6:37 AM, Gerard Meijssen 
> wrote:
> 
>> We just won a major victory in our battle to keep the internet free [...] Our
>> established positions are
>> against corporate interests.
> 
> When the Guardian reported[1] on the recent European copyright campaign, as
> supported by Wikimedia projects, their spin was that it served the
> corporate interests of Facebook, Google and YouTube:
> 
> "Google, YouTube and Facebook
>  could escape having to
> make billions in payouts to press publishers, record labels and artists
> after EU lawmakers voted to reject proposed changes to copyright rules that
> aimed to make the tech companies share more of their revenues."

The publishers and record labels are also corporations. I see that our stand is 
to be in the side of the “artists”. In the future we should support them to 
start collective bargaining and to reach collective agreement with the new 
online publishers. 

We should do the same with scholars, too: help them to find alternatives to the 
scientific publishers. In this EU hasn’t done a great job either, although they 
like to promote “open science” (in a close collaboration with the established 
publishers).

-Teemu
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?

2018-04-10 Thread Leinonen Teemu
> On 10 Apr 2018, at 9.58, Michael Snow <wikipe...@frontier.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4/9/2018 11:14 PM, Leinonen Teemu wrote:
>>> On 10 Apr 2018, at 7.02, Erik Moeller <eloque...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Wikimedia projects are social networks, but they are purpose-driven
>>> social networks [1] where participants are more strongly connected
>>> through their overlapping interests than through pre-existing social
>>> connections.
>> I agree. I however, see that if the movement is interested in to be _the_ 
>> ecosystem of free knowledge, a social media where the overlapping interest 
>> is actually the free knowledge itself and not some area of knowledge is not 
>> a bad idea.
> I am wary of the idea that we would have interest in being _the_ ecosystem of 
> free knowledge, certainly if as this implies, that's ecosystem of free 
> knowledge in the singular. I believe we want to be a part of such an 
> ecosystem, but hopefully a very diverse ecosystem, as is necessary to its 
> success.

Hear hear. I was also surprised about the expression "the ecosystem" in the WMF 
strategic direction. On the other hand, I am worried that there are not that 
many species in the “free knowledge” ecosystem, in addition to the projects, 
products and chapters of the Wikimedia. So, as relatively large (and powerful) 
movement (we cold do better, too), we could take a leadership in here and 
cherish these other species of the ecosystem. For this purpose a free knowledge 
social media service could be a smart move. :-)


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?

2018-04-10 Thread Leinonen Teemu
> On 10 Apr 2018, at 7.02, Erik Moeller  wrote:
> Wikimedia projects are social networks, but they are purpose-driven
> social networks [1] where participants are more strongly connected
> through their overlapping interests than through pre-existing social
> connections.

I agree. I however, see that if the movement is interested in to be _the_ 
ecosystem of free knowledge, a social media where the overlapping interest is 
actually the free knowledge itself and not some area of knowledge is not a bad 
idea. 

> To the extent that Wikimedia should develop better social
> networking tools, they should IMO be along the lines of the ideas
> being prototyped by WikiProject X [2][3]. Improving other social tools
> routinely used in connection with Wikimedia work, such as IRC and
> mailing lists, likely would also have near term benefit.

Thanks for the links. Better social tools to the Wikipedia / for the movement 
are definitely needed. 

I guess I am not the only one who is worried that we may loose the interest of 
the general public on the movement, because we are not able to provide various 
kind of opportunities for people to contribute to the free knowledge movement 
(except to donate). 

I see that Wikipedia is just one — although extremely important — offering of 
the movement aiming to advance the idea of free knowledge. 

> I don't think that you can make a compelling argument that building
> general purpose social networking software (as in, share cat+baby
> pictures with friends) is in scope of Wikimedia's mission.

Yes. The mode of operation should be aligned with the Wikipedia’s mission. 

But it we want to address the challenge of “free knowledge” globally, a social 
media, that is not run by financial interest, but by the interest of the 
public, is badly needed. I think Wikimedia movement could play a role in here, 
too. 

- Teemu 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?

2018-04-09 Thread Leinonen Teemu
On 9 Apr 2018, at 11.28, Peter Southwood 
<peter.southw...@telkomsa.net<mailto:peter.southw...@telkomsa.net>> wrote:

Why would we want to?

Because we want to "become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of 
free knowledge”.

How would it further the aims of the movement?

Knowledge is dynamic. Today social media services are the most influential 
knowledge and belief creation services online. When Wikipedia was started,  
websites use to hold this position. With Wikimedia social media service, that 
would rely on the four last of the five pillars[1], I think we could really 
further the aims of the movement.

How much would it cost?

Hard to say.

Who would run it?

Us.

- Teemu

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars

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Hi,

I have been looking for social networking service that would be fair: not 
abusing personal data, funded by community, respecting privacy, accepting 
anonymity, free/libre/ open source etc. Haven’t found many. The Diaspora* 
Project[1] is not moving forward very fast and the Mastodon[2] is more a 
microblogging service rather than a social network service.

Would it make sense for Wikimedia movement to build its own social network 
service?

In the "2017 Movement strategy” we state: “By 2030, Wikimedia will become the 
essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge”. If we consider 
discussions and information shared on social network services to be 
“knowledge”, I think we should have a role in here too.

We have 33 million registered users and fulfil all the requirements of being a 
“fair service”. A minimum list of features to make Wikimedia Social would be:

(1) Status updates
(2) Comments
(3) Likes
(4)Groups
maybe:
(5) Events

I am pretty sure that by integrating this to other Wikimedia services (Commons 
etc.) we could achieve something awesome.

- Teemu

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Social: non-profit social networking service ?

2018-04-09 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi, 

I have been looking for social networking service that would be fair: not 
abusing personal data, funded by community, respecting privacy, accepting 
anonymity, free/libre/ open source etc. Haven’t found many. The Diaspora* 
Project[1] is not moving forward very fast and the Mastodon[2] is more a 
microblogging service rather than a social network service.

Would it make sense for Wikimedia movement to build its own social network 
service? 

In the "2017 Movement strategy” we state: “By 2030, Wikimedia will become the 
essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge”. If we consider 
discussions and information shared on social network services to be 
“knowledge”, I think we should have a role in here too.

We have 33 million registered users and fulfil all the requirements of being a 
“fair service”. A minimum list of features to make Wikimedia Social would be: 

(1) Status updates 
(2) Comments 
(3) Likes 
(4)Groups 
maybe: 
(5) Events 

I am pretty sure that by integrating this to other Wikimedia services (Commons 
etc.) we could achieve something awesome.

- Teemu

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategy Report Released: Wikimedia 2030: Wikimedia’s role in shaping the future of the information commons

2018-02-15 Thread Leinonen Teemu
On 15 Feb 2018, at 19.36, Adam Wight 
> wrote:
Punk rock!  These consultants seem to actually understand what we’re about, and 
the report is a great collaboration all around.  The heavy use of actual 
Wikimedians’ quotes lets us tell our own story.  The recommendations on page 31 
look right to me personally, and are “actionable”.

The recommendations are very good. Lately, however,

I have been thinking that maybe we in the Wikimedia movement should take even 
greater role in the attempt to protect free access to knowledge? I am not sure 
if this is clear in our current 2030 strategy.

For instance, we could invest in and increase the visibility of some other 
successful Wikimedia projects, than the Wikipedia (and Wikidata).

Wiktionary is one of these. It is not very well known although widely used, 
especially as a source for other services. This is simply because we do not 
have a easy to use UI to the service. Webxicon.org [1] is 
and example of a third party service using the Wiktionary data. No doubt, it is 
more user friendly than our own Wiktionary [2]. Designing new UI and promoting 
Wiktionary would also emphasise our global nature and respect of different 
cultures and languages.

Another field were we could play a bigger role is the Open Educational 
Resources (OER). Wikipedia is the world largest OER repository but there is 
also a need for free and open digital school materials (previously known as 
textbooks) in all the languages of the world. We have Wikibooks and Wikiversity 
to develop these, but again, because of their poor usability they have not 
become THE places to create learning materials in large scale. Services to 
create and share free and open educational materials, that are replacing 
textbooks, could be one area to improved our products.

I am afraid that in the future there is more work to do in the field of free 
and open knowledge, than what we are able to imagine today. Therefore, I think 
we should rather expand than to focus on a single encyclopaedia — in practice 
to have more (great) products.

- Teemu

[1] http://webxicon.org
[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2019

2018-02-07 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Heja Sverige! Congratulations!

Making me happy this week,

- Teemu

On 7 Feb 2018, at 3.58, Ellie Young 
> 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.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Leadership of Wikimedia Foundation's Communications department

2018-01-07 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi, 

Thanks for the good news, Katherine!
Welcome Kui!
Congratulations Heather!

What it comes to “how to engage such a large a diverse movement”, I think the 
WMF communication people are already doing good job in here. The solid vision 
and the clear mission of the movement are the bases on what it is good to build 
on. They also show that, although we are a large and diverse movement in 
various way, there are things we share and agree on, too. 

- Teemu 

> On 6 Jan 2018, at 11.25, Renée Bagslint  wrote:
> 
> I'm glad to hear that as Chief Creative Officer, Heather will "oversee the
> organization and movement’s voice, tone, and visual assets, and how they
> are incorporated into everything from our recent awareness videos to our
> press statements."  It would be good to know exactly who "we" are in this.
> It seems that "we" include the "movement", which is to say, all of us as
> users, volunteers and donors.  I look forward to hearing more about how
> Heather and her team will engage such a large and diverse movement to find
> out what it is that we want to say and find ways of helping us to say it.
> 
> On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 8:58 PM, Katherine Maher 
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I am excited to share with you all the results of our search for permanent
>> leadership of the Wikimedia Foundation's Communications department.
>> 
>> Our own Heather Walls will transition from interim Chief of Communications
>> to leading the department full-time, in the newly created role of Chief
>> Creative Officer. She will be joined by a new Vice President of
>> Communications, Kui Kinyanjui, who will join us from her home in Nairobi,
>> Kenya in early March. Please join me in congratulating Heather and
>> welcoming Kui!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-02 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Welcome Esra’a! 

And thank you Cristian for remming us all, about one of the (non-written :-) 
core values of Wikimedia. From the very beginning of the movement the idea that 
people can participate anonymously and that we respect privacy has been 
important. Lets keep it this way. 

- Teemu 

> On 2 Dec 2017, at 6.31, Cristian Consonni  wrote:
> 
> On 01/12/2017 23:22, Michael Peel wrote:
>> Thank you, Esra’a, for volunteering!
> 
> Welcome,Esra'a!
> 
>> However, I’m very concerned by this:
>> 
>> "P.S. Due to the nature of Esra’a’s work, sharing photos or videos of Esra’a 
>> may endanger her safety or the safety of others. To help ensure the privacy 
>> and safety of Esra’a and her colleagues, we are not sharing any photographs 
>> or videos of Esra'a. We ask that you please join us in supporting this 
>> important safety consideration.”
>> 
>> This is security by obscurity (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133735) - 
>> which is at best a temporary measure that won’t last, particularly in a 
>> high-profile position like this. Aside from the potential media coverage, 
>> Wikimedia events are very well photographed by Wikimedians who want to 
>> illustrate a rather well-read encyclopaedia… This leads to an awkward 
>> situation where someone’s safety and Wikimedia’s openness are conflicting, 
>> which is not OK.
> 
> Sorry, but I have to disagree, Mike.
> 
> Openness - as generally understood in Wikimedia - does not conflict with
> respecting someone's privacy, much less so with not endangering their
> safety. I believe that respecting the privacy and anonymity of our
> editors (and readers, as well) is a value of Wikimedia.
> 
> Furthermore, I feel that Wikimedians value very highly their privacy and
> anonimity, in fact, there are several Wikipedians with whom I have
> edited pages for years now, and I still have no idea of their real
> names, their age, their gender or where they live. All I know is their
> nicknames on the projects and it's perfectly fine like that. There are
> several rules that the communities have adopted to protect the privacy
> and anonymity of every user.
> 
> Even at in-person events, there are usually ways to signal the fact that
> one does not want to be photographed or have photos or recordings of
> him/her, put online. You can also wear a badge with just your nickname
> and not your real name, so that's not new even for our live events.
> 
> I agree with the idea that occupying a high-profile position and trying
> to limit one's own exposure are conflicting goals, but I am sure that
> this was very carefully.
> 
> So, I understand that this may seem different from the usual, but,
> actually, it is not.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-02 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Welcome Esra’a,

Thanks Cristian for remming us all, about one of the (non-written :-) core 
values of Wikimedia. From the very beginning of the movement the idea that 
people can participate anonymously and that we respect privacy has been 
important. Lets keep it this way.

- Teemu

On 2 Dec 2017, at 6.31, Cristian Consonni  wrote:

On 01/12/2017 23:22, Michael Peel wrote:
Thank you, Esra’a, for volunteering!

Welcome,Esra'a!

However, I’m very concerned by this:

"P.S. Due to the nature of Esra’a’s work, sharing photos or videos of Esra’a 
may endanger her safety or the safety of others. To help ensure the privacy and 
safety of Esra’a and her colleagues, we are not sharing any photographs or 
videos of Esra'a. We ask that you please join us in supporting this important 
safety consideration.”

This is security by obscurity (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133735) - which 
is at best a temporary measure that won’t last, particularly in a high-profile 
position like this. Aside from the potential media coverage, Wikimedia events 
are very well photographed by Wikimedians who want to illustrate a rather 
well-read encyclopaedia… This leads to an awkward situation where someone’s 
safety and Wikimedia’s openness are conflicting, which is not OK.

Sorry, but I have to disagree, Mike.

Openness - as generally understood in Wikimedia - does not conflict with
respecting someone's privacy, much less so with not endangering their
safety. I believe that respecting the privacy and anonymity of our
editors (and readers, as well) is a value of Wikimedia.

Furthermore, I feel that Wikimedians value very highly their privacy and
anonimity, in fact, there are several Wikipedians with whom I have
edited pages for years now, and I still have no idea of their real
names, their age, their gender or where they live. All I know is their
nicknames on the projects and it's perfectly fine like that. There are
several rules that the communities have adopted to protect the privacy
and anonymity of every user.

Even at in-person events, there are usually ways to signal the fact that
one does not want to be photographed or have photos or recordings of
him/her, put online. You can also wear a badge with just your nickname
and not your real name, so that's not new even for our live events.

I agree with the idea that occupying a high-profile position and trying
to limit one's own exposure are conflicting goals, but I am sure that
this was very carefully.

So, I understand that this may seem different from the usual, but,
actually, it is not.

Ciao,



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[Wikimedia-l] Call for Wikimania '18 Program Committee Members

2017-11-26 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi, 

I volunteer to help with the Wikimania 2018: to promote the call, to recruit 
speakers, to review submissions etc. 

I am a long time “wikipedian”, with first time editing already the very first 
year of the project. I have also worked in many conference program committees 
of various kind of international research conferences. More information about 
me is available in here: 

https://teemuleinonen.fi/about-teemu-leinonen/ 

- Teemu 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] September 28: Strategy update - Final draft of movement direction and endorsement process (#25)

2017-10-10 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi all, 

This is super interesting and important discussion. One idea. 

> On 10 Oct 2017, at 3.44, Erik Moeller  wrote:
> And for most of the sources amalgamated in this manner, if provenance
> is indicated at all, we don't find any of the safeguards we have for
> Wikimedia content (revisioning, participatory decision-making,
> transparent policies, etc.). Editability, while opening the floodgate
> to a category of problems other sources don't have, is in fact also a
> safeguard: making it possible to fix mistakes instead of going through
> a "feedback" form that ends up who knows where.

Would it make sense to help and maybe even demand the proprietary service 
providers and AI application (Siri, Google, etc) using the Wikimedia content to 
include a statement if their reuse is from a "native version of live Wikimedia” 
and also this way tell that they do not? 

I think this can be compared to the consumer movement requiring that the origin 
of food products should be trackable all they way to the original producer (eg. 
farm).

I was thinking that if the service providers are taking data dumps of Wikimedia 
for their own use, today we do not know if they have made some edits in it.

- Teemu
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] June 23: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#19)

2017-06-24 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hej,

Gerard made some very important points. My observation (not an opinion :-) is 
also that the initiatives in, and with a focus on, global south are under 
served. They are more difficult to do, because of various reasons, but this 
should not be a reason not to do them. It is also true that large majority of 
research on Wikipedia/Wikimedia is about the en-Wikipedia. If WMF could do 
something to promote research looking  beyond it would be great.

-Teemu 

> Gerard Meijssen  kirjoitti 24.6.2017 kello 13.00:
> 
> Hoi,
> The one serious flaw of the current practice is that English Wikipedia
> receives more attention than it deserves based on its merits[1]. This bias
> can be found in any and all areas. There is for instance a huge educational
> effort going on for English and there is no strategy known, developed,
> tried to use education to grow a Wikipedia from nothing to 100.000
> articles.. the number considered to be necessary by some to have a viable
> Wikipedia. When you consider research it is English Wikipedia because
> otherwise it will not get published [2].
> 
> A less serious flaw is that the WMF is an indifferent custodian of projects
> other than Wikipedia. When it provides no service to Wikipedia like
> Wikisource, its intrinsic value is not realised to the potential readers
> that are made available. There is no staff dedicated to these projects and
> there is no research into its value.
> 
> The angst for the community means that there is hardly any collaboration
> between the different Wikipedias. Mostly the "solutions" of English
> Wikipedia are imposed. There are a few well trodden paths that habitually
> get attention. When it comes to diversity, the gender gap is well served
> but the global south is not. A lot of weight is given to a data driven
> approach but there is hardly enough data relevant to the global south in
> English Wikipedia to make such an approach viable.
> 
> Yes, I have tried to get some attention for these issues in the process so
> far but  as bringer of the bad news I am happy that it is the message
> and not the messenger who is killed .
> 
> Please tell me I am wrong and proof it by using more than opinions.
> Thanks,
>   GerardM
> 
> 
> [1] less than 30% of the world populace and less than 50% of the WMF
> traffic.
> [2] comment by a professor whose university does a lot of studies on
> Wikipedia..
> 
>> On 24 June 2017 at 12:33, Yaroslav Blanter  wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Strainu  wrote:
>>> 
>>> 2017-06-23 23:48 GMT+03:00 Pine W :
 Could you elaborate on the benefits of this timetable change for people
>>> who
 are not involved with affiliates?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Starting from this assumption, and considering the fact that even the
>>> most active wikimedians (not involved in a chapter) have real life
>>> commitments that do not allow them to follow this process carefully,
>>> it is obvious that the main responsibility of the team that
>>> coordinates the process should have been outreach. In my particular
>>> geographic area, Track B contributors were engaged with only 2 weeks
>>> prior to the end of the last cycle, which is hardly enough time to
>>> read, understand, and think about the vast quantity of material
>>> available in the strategy process.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I am an active Wikimedia not involved in a Chapter. In Round 1, I was
>> pretty active, and in the Russian Wikivoyage we collected quite some
>> feedback and translated it into English. It was essentially ignored. None
>> of us participated in Round 2 since we thought it is a waste of time. Round
>> 2 was organized in the same way as Round 1 (many discussions opened i n
>> different places, meaning there is no possibility to really discuss
>> anything, merely to leave one's opinion). I have corresponding pages on 3
>> projects on my watchlists (with is 15 pages, and this is a lot), but I have
>> not seen in these discussions anything new not said before in Round 1. May
>> be smth useful would come out from other tracks, but I am not really
>> looking forward to Track B Round 3 either. I believe it is completely
>> failed, and individual contributors did not have a chance to form a
>> considated opinion. The message for me is essentially: If you want to be
>> heard, find a chapter or a thematic organization first. I hope the next
>> process will be organized differently in 10 years from now.
>> 
>> Cheers
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you for our time together.

2016-02-25 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Thank you Lila for keeping things moving. Continuous development is the only 
way to keep movements, organizations and products relevant. I really appreciate 
your hard work and the results achieved. 

Best of luck in all of your future endeavors,

- Teemu 

> On 25.2.2016, at 20.45, Lila Tretikov  wrote:
> However, I am moved by the
> accomplishments we have achieved during this time:

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Can we see the Knight grant application and grant offer?

2016-02-15 Thread Leinonen Teemu
> On 12.2.2016, at 18.31, Liam Wyatt  wrote:
> - Lack of Strategy -
> 
> Now, maybe an open-source search engine would be a good thing for the
> WMF to create! But that would be a major strategic decision. 

Search is a critical feature in all online services, especially for a service 
with a mission to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and 
develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and 
to disseminate it effectively and globally". 

Putting resources to improve search is no a "major strategic decision”. it is 
business-as-usual.

Also federated / semantic search to all the Wikipedia projects and outside 
sources of free content is definitely worth of exploring. Any  strategies 
should have space to explore things that are advancing the mission.

- Teemu 

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Elsevier?

2016-02-15 Thread Leinonen Teemu
> On 15.2.2016, at 18.07, Pete Forsyth  wrote:
> Apart from brand affiliation, what do you see as a potential benefit from
> partnering with PLoS?

I think brand affiliation would be a good start and could help PLoS, that is 
not so well known as the Wikipedia. 

I wouldn’t be agains giving PLoS some financially supported, too, because they 
are like-minded non-profit organization with very similar mission as we have 
(and I am saying this without knowing anything about their financial 
situation). 

- Teemu 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Elsevier?

2016-02-15 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi Alex and all, 

I hope you / we already have a partnership with the PLOS? 

https://www.plos.org 

- Teemu

> On 15.2.2016, at 17.27, Alex Stinson  wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As always, we are happy to see the conversations about the publishing and
> research industry within the Wikimedia community. We very much believe that
> our readers, and other researchers, should, whenever possible, have open,
> or at least toll-free, access to materials when possible.  We share the
> open-access communities values, and I highly recommend exploring the two
> links shared by Keegan [1] and Pete[2], to better understand our position.
> 
> As a matter of transparency: we have provided access to nearly 80 accounts
> so far via our Elsevier partnership; we have also distributed access to
> over 500 accounts via JSTOR.
> 
> These partnerships have been ones which we continue to value and cultivate,
> because they are high-demand resources from large percentages of our
> volunteer community-- not because of a moral judgement about their business
> practices. If there were an overwhelming consensus among our patrons
> (editors who have access to those resources), to return their access in
> boycott (or to not use it), I can understand and would support that
> volunteer effort: after all our community is values-based. However, as long
> as we continue to get access requests: building the encyclopedia and our
> other free knowledge projects is our first priority, because it unlocks at
> least some of the locked content in these databases as summaries in our
> projects.
> 
> However, we also recognize that these partnerships give us more than just
> access, its also gives us opportunities to influence the publishing
> industry from the inside. For example, both JSTOR and Elsevier are going to
> be part of research into how our https change last June created dark
> traffic for research databases, and this work will be giving us access to
> referral data that is quite hard to get from anyone in the publishing
> industry [3]. With this data from industry leaders, we will better be able
> to influence open access, and make arguments for our editors and library
> allies to use Wikimedia projects to promote open materials.
> 
> As for supporting Sci-Hub: that is an interesting concept from TWL's
> perspective of providing access to research for our community. We would be
> happy to support community consensus on how to use the tool in our research
> processes. Thus far, we have tried to cooperate with established
> institutions that work within the existing system to help create long-term
> stable versions of academic resources, like partnering closely with
> libraries, advocacy and industry groups like CrossRef and SPARC, and
> supporting development of tools to create Wikimedia use metrics for the
> open-access community (more on this hopefully coming in the next few
> months). Sci-hub is a great short term tool for creating pressure for
> change in this industry, but the publishing community also needs to figure
> out the best long term solutions for creating and persistently accessing
> academic work.[4]
> 
> As for legal support, that is not within the mission of The Wikipedia
> Library, and in my personal opinion, this probably should be pursued
> through direct engagement with aligned organizations whose mission is to
> promote these efforts: like OKF and SPARC.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex Stinson
> Project Manager
> The Wikipedia Library
> 
> 
> [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/16/open-access-in-a-closed-world/
> [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-cF7433aT4
> [3]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy
> [4] Open access does not solve all the problems of academic publishing. For
> example, academic monographs in the humanities and social sciences, for
> instance, do cost university presses over 20,000 USD to publish and
> maintain persistently available, this amount of money is not readily
> available in non-scientific fields. Open access communities still haven't
> fully figured out how to solve this problem, when they are crucial to the
> output of those academics:
> http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/forum15-walters-emerging-models-humanities-publishing.pdf
> . Moreover, in my last job, I worked with a William Blake scholar who
> worked on a free to use Digital humanities project, but who thought Open
> access journals undermined his copyright and the prestige of his
> publications in tenure applications. We are still a long way off from
> making Open Access, as a long-term solution for academic publishing.
> 
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Shani  wrote:
> 
>> Would love to hear what the Wikipedia Library Project team has to say on
>> the issue.
>> 
>> Pinging Jake Orlowitz & Alex Stinson.
>> 
>> Shani.
>> 
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Pete Forsyth 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> As the panel moderator, I felt there 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

2015-09-08 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi all, 

Right, Jane. The ”box" is not connected to the internet but is a mass storage 
with WiFi. People can access the content saved to the device with their mobile 
phones. 

There are initiatives to provide Internet connections to the refugee camps, as 
it is nowadays relatively high in a priority list (probably right after the 
sanitation, water, food, health services and electricity). Still, I am afraid 
that there are many less well-organized refugee camps where there are no 
internet connection. In these locations thousands of people could find the 
offline content, such as the one provided by the internet-in-box very useful. 

This would be a nice way to realize our mission "to disseminate educational 
content effectively and globally".

- Teemu 

PS. In general I am against offline-Wikipedia but exceptional situations need 
exceptional solutions. 

> On 8.9.2015, at 10.13, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> all they need is wifi to connect to the box I think, so it would be just
> one box not connected to the internet with a wifi access.
> http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/surprised-that-syrian-refugees-have-smartphones-well-sorry-to-break-this-to-you-but-youre-an-idiot-10489719.html?cmpid=facebook-post
> 
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:15 AM, Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well.. this is imaginable scale - I don't think if WMF have enough
>> resources to provide free internet to such a huge group of people packed in
>> a number of huge camps sometimes without basic facilities such as
>> electricity... See the picture of just one camp:
>> 
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:An_Aerial_View_of_the_Za'atri_Refugee_Camp.jpg
>> 
>> Syrian people live in camps in Lebanon and Turkey for third year (since
>> 2012)... There is even not enough basic schools and simple paper textbooks
>> for children...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 2015-09-07 21:45 GMT+02:00 Leinonen Teemu <teemu.leino...@aalto.fi>:
>> 
>>> Hello people,
>>> 
>>> Just an idea. Number of Syrian refugees is over 4,000,000 people, mostly
>>> residing in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.[1] Refugee camps are set in
>>> all in these countries.[2]
>>> 
>>> Internet-in-a-Box[3] is a a WiFI-device with "Wikipedia in 37 languages,
>> a
>>> library of 40,000 e-books, most of the world's open source software and
>>> source code, hundreds of hours of instructional videos, and world-wide
>>> mapping down to street level.”
>>> 
>>> Could we as a movement get the internet-in-a-box to the refugee camps?
>>> 
>>>- Teemu
>>> 
>>> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War
>>> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_refugee_camps
>>> [3] http://internet-in-a-box.org
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

2015-09-08 Thread Leinonen Teemu
On 8.9.2015, at 20.04, Keegan Peterzell  wrote:
> However, before we get all excited with plans, it might be important for
> someone who is interested to contact the project lead and see if
> internet-in-a-box is even still active. The website hasn't been regularly
> updated since April of 2013. If there are no resources available from the
> project still then it's back to square one.​

Right. I think we should not go with the internet-in-a-box, but rather with the 
Kiwix. See: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Kiwix-plug 

- Teemu 

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[Wikimedia-l] internet-in-a-boxs to the refugee camps?

2015-09-07 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hello people,  

Just an idea. Number of Syrian refugees is over 4,000,000 people, mostly 
residing in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.[1] Refugee camps are set in all 
in these countries.[2]

Internet-in-a-Box[3] is a a WiFI-device with "Wikipedia in 37 languages, a 
library of 40,000 e-books, most of the world's open source software and source 
code, hundreds of hours of instructional videos, and world-wide mapping down to 
street level.” 

Could we as a movement get the internet-in-a-box to the refugee camps?

- Teemu

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_refugee_camps
[3] http://internet-in-a-box.org

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikkipedia and Press Freedom?

2015-05-03 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi all, 

Today is the World Press Freedom Day [1]. Does anyone know any resent review 
looking the freedom of press in the world that is including Wikipedia in the 
study? 

For instance, I would like to read about the state of Wikipedia and Wikipedians 
in the Russian Wikipedia. How is the community? What sources are used in the 
Russian Wikipedia? Are there any public discussion about possible censorship? 
Are there any threats? etc.

Best regards, 

- Teemu 

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Day

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] A transition and a new chapter.

2015-04-13 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Toward Peace, Love  Progress! 

All the best with the new chapter, 

- Teemu

 On 13.4.2015, at 21.12, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 I’m proud of and happy with what we've achieved. 

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF is shutting down grantmaking for good projects for 3 months for no reason

2015-01-03 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hei,

5 cents: would it make a difference if the Wiki Loves Monuments / Art project 
plans (and others) will explicitly promise that, for instance, the gender (f/m) 
balance of the participants (n 500) will be 40/60 and +50% of them will be new 
editors?

This would be meet the strategic objectives.

-Teemu

On Sat Jan 03 2015 05:27:47 GMT-0500 (COT), Romaine Wiki wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 Some disturbing news entered my mailbox the past days. The grant making
 team is going to shut down the grantmaking process for Project and Event
 Grants (PEG) and Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) for three full months!
 
 They have decided that they want to focus only on a specific strategic
 priority: the gender gap, and that all other good projects are refused for
 3 months (February-April).
 
 Having more attention to a strategic priority is fine to me. Having more
 attention to the problem of the gender gap, sounds good to me as such, we
 can use much more projects and content in those areas. But that does not
 mean that many many volunteers who are organizing other projects should
 become the victim of other projects.
 
 This is a negative signal to all those volunteers who are currently working
 on project plans to be submitted in February, March and April. Good
 projects to be ignored, just because the WMF think those are less
 important. They say this is a positive campaign, but this sounds as a
 negative campaign to me. This discourages many volunteers in doing projects.
 
 And even worse: this is only to be generally announced 2 weeks before that
 period of shutting down starts! (this sounds like a joke, sadly it isn't)
 
 To organize a good project volunteers (yes, we are still unpaid! and
 organize these projects in our spare time!) we need the time to communicate
 well with all our partners and sponsors, and need the time to come up with
 a good project plan with a stable basis. Rushing a project in just a couple
 of weeks time is very unpleasant and does not help in getting a good
 quality project. And announcing it two weeks before the period indicates
 that organizers aren't taken seriously (enough).
 
 For example, we are currently planning to organize Wiki Loves Monuments in
 2015 again, the world wide contest to have a better documentation and
 better display of all the cultural monuments worldwide, recognised as
 largest photo contest in the world by Guinness World Records. We are
 currently working on forming a team and want to have a good stable plan to
 be submitted within some weeks, but now we need to rush. And yes we need to
 start in January/February or it will be too late to organize it properly.
 
 Also all the national teams of Wiki Loves Monuments, the international team
 recommend all the national teams to start in January/February, to have a
 proper organisation together with various local partners and sponsors, but
 now all these teams are delayed for three months.
 
 And a personal project of mine in Belgium, I am planning to organize Wiki
 Loves Art in Belgium, together with various partners and sponsors. We
 intent to start in February, but now have to rush to get such done.
 
 By the way: did you know there is a Belgium Gap? Belgian subjects are
 relatively less and worse described on the various Wikipedias.
 
 
 This shutting down results in:
 * Discouraging many volunteers who are planning to submit good project
 proposals.
 * Having volunteers rushed with project plans, which lowers the quality of
 the plans.
 * Having volunteers being late and delayed with projects, for no good
 reason.
 
 Grantmaking is intented to support the communities, not frustrating them.
 WMF: stop this negative campaign!
 
 
 And for all project teams who want to organize a gender gap project: great
 you organize this, it is very very welcome! But I like to make a
 suggestion: submit the proposal on the first day after the shutting down
 period to give a strong signal to WMF that shutting down is a bad idea.
 
 
 It is time for a new strategic priority: closing the Community Gap. That is
 the gap between WMF and the local communities worldwide. It is not new, it
 exists for many years already. (It resulted also in the drama of the
 situation around the Mediaviewer in 2014, the drama with the Visual Editor
 in 2013, etc. in what WMF didn't sense well the community.) (Maybe the gap
 is less between WMF and the English speaking part of the world, but the
 world is larger. We have many people around the world who are speak a
 different language. WMF is not sensing the worldwide community well
 enough.)
 Finally we should do more about this Community Gap.
 
 For those celebrating: I wish you a happy new year with great projects that
 make every single human being freely share in the sum of all human
 knowledge!!
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Statement for the police about the fundraising?

2014-02-10 Thread Leinonen Teemu
On 8.2.2014, at 13.51, Jane Darnell jane...@gmail.com wrote:
 I love this thread - it make me think of Matti Wuori in the movie The
 man without a past


Heh :-) These days, I also miss Matti Wuori. :-'( 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Wuori

- Teemu 

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[Wikimedia-l] Statement for the police about the fundraising?

2014-02-07 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi, 

I just got a message that the Finnish Police have asked the fi.wikipedia, by 
sending an email to the wikifi-ad...@list.wikimedia.org, to give a written 
statement about their possible violation of the laws that regulate fundraising 
in Finland. There is a little news about this already online in English. Here: 

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2014/02/07/finnish_police_probe_wikipedia_donation_requests

I chat about this with a lawyer friend and he was afraid that the police msy go 
after the volunteers that have participated in the fundraising, e.g. by 
translating the fundraising messages. 

Is there any equivalent cases from other countries? 

In Finland one needs a pre-given permission to do fundraising.

- Teemu  

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet.org and Wikipedia Zero ?

2013-08-27 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hei, 

I kind of sympathize with Jens' points. Mr. Zuckerberg, and especially Facebook 
as a business, are not necessary in a perfect synchrony with the mission and 
vision of the Wikimedia / Wikipedia movement. Even if this is the case we may 
ask does it still make sense for us to collaborate with their initiative? Would 
it advantage our very own mission and vision?

I also think that we are all people, also Mr. Zuckerberg, and people have 
different sides. I interpret that in the internet.org a group of *people*, 
working for big corporations, have seen a possibility to do something *good* 
that is same time in the interests of their businesses. I think we often forget 
that also in big corporation there are people, individuals who do choices. I do 
not see in here any hidden agendas or wrong doing. I see people trying to do 
something good.

Like GerardM pointed out, the internet.org may help us to get knowledge for 
people who otherwise would not have access to the Wikipedia. I do not see that 
this would move us somehow to the dark side, especially when the *people* in 
the internet.org are not necessary evil. 

With the fact that the Wikimedia foundation is financially sustainable, we also 
have a great position to negotiate with the internet.org people. I actually 
think that they need more Wikimedia / Wikipedia than we need them. Still, I 
think collaboration with them could advance our mission.

Best regards, 

- Teemu

On 27.8.2013, at 9.32, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hoi,
 Jens, I am sorry there is nothing in what you say that has a bearing on
 what the aim is of the Wikimedia Foundation. Our aim is to get
 information/knowledge to every person in the world. The people that may be
 reached by this initiative are the ones we do not reach.
 
 When we can reach them through something like a Wikipedia ZERO approach,
 this would be awesome never mind if Facebook et al make money out of it.
 The NSA et al have a reach that includes us all. Nothing is likely to
 change at that. It is however beside the point. The point is that we may
 reach more people and consequently do a better job at what our aim is.
 Thanks,
 GerardM
 
 
 On 26 August 2013 23:58, Jens Best jens.b...@wikimedia.de wrote:
 
 The internet Mr. Zuggerberg wants was nothing to do with the ideas of free
 knowledge, online collaboration and open source as it is provided and
 promoted by Wikimedia.
 
 Don't believe the Hype. Even and especially if it is Hype 2.0.
 
 Just because the Silicon Valley billionaires got caught with sleeping with
 the NSA suddenly they push an open internet for the world-Idea to
 distract everybody from the dark roots.
 
 Wikimedia should stay far away from this crowd and its initiatives. Maybe
 in the future we should even get more distance between them (Facebook,
 Google, etc.) and us.
 
 Jens
 
 2013/8/26 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
 
 Hoi,
 For your information ... an interview with Mr Zuggerberg... In my opinion
 there is an opportunity as he is looking for dense information.. we are
 really good at that :)
 Thanks,
 Gerard
 
 http://www.wired.com/business/2013/08/mark-zuckerberg-internet-org/
 
 
 On 23 August 2013 14:38, Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada emi...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 Looks like NSA has bought some new hard drives and needs moar data.
 
 
 2013/8/23 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
 
 Hoi,
 But when they provide the infrastructure that allows our content to
 be
 seen
 by many more people, they do us a service.
 
 In the end it is what we are about. Last thing I heard we were first
 of
 all
 about getting the knowledge out there.
 Thanks,
  GerardM
 
 
 On 23 August 2013 12:14, Jens Best jens.b...@wikimedia.de wrote:
 
 Nothing good comes with people like Mark Zuckerberg or Peter Thiel,
 they
 don't share our vision of a *really* free and open internet. So,
 actually,
 Emmanuel, I couldn't care less which direction they gonna make
 their
 next
 moves. It will all be a disguise of what they really attempt and
 with
 whom
 they really cooperate.
 
 It's time to realize that there isn't a shared vision of the web
 between
 Silicon Valley and Wikimedia. Their words are empty. When they
 speak
 of
 freedom, they speak of the freedom of money and control. Just
 because
 they
 use the word internet they don't speak of the same thing we do.
 
 Jens
 
 2013/8/23 Emmanuel Engelhart kel...@kiwix.org
 
 Le 23/08/2013 10:59, Kul Wadhwa a écrit :
 I have my concerns as well so we're watching how things unfold
 for
 now.
 Perhaps to add to Teemu's question (If I could be so bold) how
 would
 internet.org need to evolve to make it worth our time and
 effort
 to
 be
 involved?
 
 If what I fear becomes real, then I would be sad that our
 movement
 joins
 such a dishonest project.
 
 If they want to give access to a subset of Internet services and
 adapt
 their communication (honesty about the product), then we face a
 dilemma.
 A dilemna between our 

[Wikimedia-l] Internet.org and Wikipedia Zero ?

2013-08-23 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi, 

Have you noticed the new internet.org initiative by Facebook, Samsung, Nokia, 
Qualcomm, Ericsson and MediaTek? 

Internet.org is a global partnership between technology leaders, nonprofits, 
local communities and experts who are working together to bring the internet to 
the two thirds of the world’s population that doesn’t have it.[1, 2] 

Would it make sense for the WMF's Wikipedia Zero program to collaborate with 
this? 

Any comments?

Best regards, 

- Teemu 

[1] http://www.internet.org
[2] 
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/technology/facebook-leads-an-effort-to-lower-barriers-to-internet-access.html



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] If I could talk to the wiki folks...

2012-12-29 Thread Leinonen Teemu
On 29.12.2012, at 9.35, birgitte...@yahoo.com birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:

 I am not affiliated with Wiki Med. However as an American, Health to my ear 
 means scammy quacky bullshit that wants to pretend it is medicine for the $$$.

OK. I am sure in the US the World *Health* Organization is also seen by many as 
scammy quacky bullshit that wants to pretend it is medicine for the $$$. :-) 

In other places the WHO is the international organization that is concerned 
with public *health*.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Knowledge Fest this upcoming week

2012-09-15 Thread Leinonen Teemu
Hi Sarah et all, 

I am in Helsinki and also partly organizing the Open Knowledge Festival 
(http://okfestival.org/) - the main venue is my Department of the Aalto 
University. I'll come to say hi to you.

If you (or anyone else from the Wikimedia community coming over to Helsinki for 
the OK Fest) need any help, advice etc. do not hesitate to contact me. 

Welcome to Helsinki!

- Teemu 

On 15.9.2012, at 19.17, Sarah Stierch wrote:
 I'll be in Helsinki, Finland this upcoming week for Open Knowledge Fest, 
 where I'm co-planning the gender and diversity sessions and also 
 participating in some other aspects of the conference. I know this is super 
 last minute, but, if any Finnish Wikipedians (or Wikipedians living in 
 Helsinki) want to get a drink or are going to the conference, ping me off 
 list. Feel free to forward this message to anyone you know.

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