Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Thoughts on carrying the Wikimania conversation forward

[Paolo B.]

Hi Liang,

Ellie did reach out to Josh recently regarding the Manila bid (after which
Josh relayed the message to our team) and, supposedly, she is also reaching
out to members of the Bali and Perth bids. We (in the Manila team) are
still discussing this, so I am not at liberty to provide further details at
this point.


Best regards,

Paolo Barazòn
Wikimedia Philippines

On Saturday, October 10, 2015, Liang-chih Shang Kuan 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to kindly ask a follow up on the issue Isabella Apriana has
> mentioned - "...it's not official yet for Montreal, but seems like
> there's nothing we can do about 2017 now because community discussion is
> expected to focus on 2018-2021."
>
> Is that true? Should all the bid team except Montreal stop to spend their
> energy for the 2017 bid anymore, or should they keep contact the local
> venue and service providers to have a better research on their bid?
>
> I personally really want to have another Wikimania in Asia (if so, I won't
> have big jet lag issue, haha), I see WMID is putting some lot of efforts of
> their organization on the bid process (I was having a meeting with them for
> 2 hours to know better about the venue situation in Bali), so I ask this
> question. Just want to make sure how the follow up should go for the
> bidders before the community consultation in November to prevent burned out
> and reduce feeling of frustration.
>
>
> Best,
>
>
> Liang, Wikimedia Taiwan
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mexican case law on Wikipedia reliability

[Paolo B.]

The Philippines' Supreme Court has, on some occasions, cited Wikipedia
articles in their decisions to provide supplementary background
information. Here's one example---and one that was written as early as 2005!

http://sc.judiciary.gov.ph/jurisprudence/2005/jan2005/155282.htm

(the citation is on Footnote #34, near the bottom of that page)

More examples can be found here:
https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=site%3Asc.judiciary.gov.ph+wikipedia&oq=site%3Asc.judiciary.gov.ph+wikipedia&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i58.16344j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

There are probably more that doesn't show up on the Google search link
above. This is because the Supreme Court has published the more recent
decisions as PDF files. Since some of the decisions are scanned PDFs rather
than true PDFs, some recent Wikipedia citations might not have been indexed
(yet).


Regards from Manila,
Paolo


On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Tomasz Ganicz  wrote:

> Szymon Grabarczuk (Tar Lócesilion) - made a study how many times Wikipedia
> was cited in Polish courts, by browsing public database of courts'
> decissions:
>
> https://depot.ceon.pl/handle/123456789/2232
>
> He counted (till 2012) 223 such cases :-)
>
> Some uses of Wikipedia by the courts are quite controversial. I mean - it
> may happed that someone edit or even write an article in order to use it as
> an argument in the court. I personally would not liked to be judged based
> on Wikipedia entires :-)
>
>
>
>
> 2015-06-17 10:49 GMT+02:00 Pine W :
>
> > To the best of my knowledge, the US Supreme Court has yet to cite
> > Wikipedia, but US Federal appeals courts have done so. Also, a state
> > supreme court cited Wikipedia prominently in a decision about insurance
> > coverage:
> >
> >
> http://abbottlawfirm.com/blog/2012/08/16/utah-supreme-court-cites-wikipedia-in-published-decision/
> >
> > Pine
> > On Jun 16, 2015 5:35 PM, "Salvador A"  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi folks!
> > >
> > > This month one mexican federal court generated an interesting case law
> > > related to use of Wikipedia as source of knowledge on trials, specially
> > in
> > > law resolutions. The tribunal that solved this was the "Tribunal
> Federal
> > de
> > > Justicia Fiscal y Administrativa". This court is not the supreme court
> of
> > > Mexico but is the most important tribunal after that one in all the
> > matter
> > > related to tax and administrative law and its precedents are binding
> for
> > > all mexican administrative authorities and al the judges on
> > administrative
> > > and fiscal law.
> > >
> > > The case law is the number VII-J-SS-191 and you can read it in the next
> > > link:
> > >
> > > (only in Spanish)
> > >
> > > http://sctj.tfjfa.gob.mx/SCJI/assembly/detalleTesis?idTesis=41716
> > >
> > > The title is at the same time a brief of the content of the precedent,
> > and
> > > it can be translated in this way:
> > >
> > > *"Wikipedia".- The information that is obtained from this website can
> > help
> > > to elucidate some controversial matter, thence the courtrooms of this
> > > tribunal may use it when ruling.*
> > >
> > > Inside the text the court makes a fair clarication: "*It must not be
> the
> > > only source of knowledge in which the resolutions are based on [...]
> the
> > > judges must care about gathering diversity of sources of information
> such
> > > as specialized books, encyclopedia, including the electronic ones,
> [...]
> > > and others*."
> > >
> > > Maybe is just a curiosity, but for me is ilustrative of the good
> > reputation
> > > that our work is getting even in some closed circles as the law
> practice.
> > > At least in Mexico is not common to see a court quoting Wikipedia, but
> > > maybe this first precedent might change the things.
> > >
> > > Do you know other similar case laws?
> > >
> > > Regards!
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribunal_Federal_de_Justicia_Fiscal_y_Administrativa
> > > --
> > > *Salvador Alcántar*
> > > *@salvador_alc*
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

[Paolo B.]

On behalf of Wikimedia Philippines, congratulations, Lila! We wish you
all the best and we look forward to working with you. Mabuhay at
maligayang pagdating!

Paolo Barazon
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Philippines

On 5/2/14, Markus Glaser  wrote:
> Congratulations and a very warm welcome, Lila! Hope you will find it
> easy to be at home in the Wikimedia world. Thanks to everyone involved
> in the process. The task is not completely done, yet. Let us work
> togehter, with Lila, to make her start as smooth as possible!
>
> Best,
> Markus
>
> Am 01.05.2014 21:59, schrieb Tim Moritz Hector:
>> A warm welcome from Germany and all the best for your new role at the
>> Foundation, Lila!
>> Looking forward to meeting you in real life, probably in London.
>>
>> Big thanks to the transition team for the hard work you've done in the
>> past year.
>>
>> Best,
>> Tim
>>
>> Am 01.05.2014 21:51, schrieb Chris Keating:
>>> Congratulations, Lila!
>>> On 1 May 2014 20:49, "Frans Grijzenhout"  wrote:
>>>
 Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to
 Jan-Bart
 & the other members of the transition team. I will forward this
 great news
 to the Dutch board & community.
 Frans Grijzenhout


 2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede
 :

> 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,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Yet Another Cybercrime Law (Philippines)

[Paolo B.]

Hello Benjamin,

As far as Wikipedia is concerned, some members of the Filipino editors'
community (myself included) are trying to gather a consensus before
requesting for a blackout of the English Wikipedia for the Philippines
(that is, a 24-hour blackout that will only take effect here and not
including other countries). We might probably include other local
Philippine-language Wikipedias as well, but that's still under discussion,
here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:TAMBAY#Proposed_blackout

I have only been able to participate in soliciting the input of other Pinoy
WIkipedians (through messages in their Talk pages) just now, as I was away
from my desktop computers recently. So I'm not sure how many other Filipino
Wikipedians are yet to hear of our proposal. (This proposal, by the way, is
an initiative of the local editing community and is not an official action
of the local chapter, Wikimedia Philippines.)

Outside Wikipedia, however, the rage against the bill is pretty strong. A
lot of Filipinos have changes their Facebook and Twitter profile pictures
into a solid black square. Even a news website
(http://www.interaksyon.com/) changed
its layout to a black background. There was a protest movement yesterday at
the Supreme Court, in support of the seven (7) petitions asking for a
temporary restraining order (TRO) of Republic Act 10175; however, no TRO
was issued yesterday as a number of judges were absent because of official
duties. Suffice it to say that, yes, there is a significant opposition to
the Cybercrime Law (specifically on the provisions on libel), and for sure
it will be in the news in the days to come


Paolo Barazon
Trustee, Wikimedia Philippines
(speaking on a personal capacity, not on behalf of Wikimedia Philippines)



On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Benjamin Lees  wrote:

>
> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/09/philippines-new-cybercrime-prevention-act-troubling-free-expression
> I suppose this is old news by now, but I haven't seen it mentioned here
> yet.  Are any projects taking action?
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