[Wikimedia-l] EU Policy Monitoring Report - October

2013-11-07 Thread Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
Sorry for cross-posting (from Advocacy Advisors-l), but I want to popularise the mailing list. Hello, everybody! This month there has been some gossip about legislative or non-legislative copyright reform which might be proposed either before or after the elections and might include an opt-in

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Research position ... WikiAfrica's Kumusha Takes Wiki

2013-11-07 Thread Florence Devouard
fyi Florence Original Message Subject:Research position ... WikiAfrica's Kumusha Takes Wiki Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 13:39:14 +0200 From: Isla Haddow-Flood isl...@africacentre.net To: wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org Research position ... WikiAfrica's

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation announces Wikipedia Zero partnership with Telenor in Myanmar

2013-11-07 Thread Matthew Roth
(This press release is also available online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Telenor_Wikipedia_Zero_extension_Myanmar ) Myanmar to get access to the world's knowledge through Wikipedia Zero (Fornebu, Norway, and San Francisco, California) 7 November 2013 -- Telenor

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF October 2013 Metrics Activities Meeting: Thursday, November 7, 19:00 UTC

2013-11-07 Thread Praveena Maharaj
REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Praveena Maharaj pmaha...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Dear all, The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Preparing a proofreading contest for Wikisource's 10th aniversary

2013-11-07 Thread Jayanta Nath
Good initiative! Thank you Micru. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: What a great idea! Thanks for sharing, Micru. I definitely want to... could we get some crossover promotion from Distributed Proofreaders? On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 6:58 PM, David Cuenca

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Preparing a proofreading contest for Wikisource's 10th aniversary

2013-11-07 Thread Vishnu T
Dear Micru, Wonderful initiative! From India the Malayalam Wikisource community might be keen to take part in this. They have also recently released an offline CD (volume 2) of the Malayalam Wikisource. Taking the liberty to copy the Malayalam list on this for them to take lead on this. CIS

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Preparing a proofreading contest for Wikisource's 10th aniversary

2013-11-07 Thread Sarah Stierch
Super cool. I know a lot of GLAM folks in the US who would be excited about this. And I'm a fan of more love for WS that's for sure! -Sar On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Vishnu T visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Micru, Wonderful initiative! From India the Malayalam Wikisource community

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2013-11-07 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from the third quarterly review of the Foundation's Mobile Contributions team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Mobile_contributions/October_2013 On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller