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

2018-04-12 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz
Le 10/04/2018 à 11:03, David Cuenca Tudela a écrit : Regarding the question if the WMF should build a social network for the masses, I don't think it should. A general purpose social network is mainly used for sharing personal events, viral stories, cat pictures, and so on. It does not offer long

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Odisha Government's Social media accounts are now under CC-BY 4.0

2018-04-12 Thread Sailesh Patnaik
Hi everyone, I'm happy to share that, Two more websites by Government of Odisha are now under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Both the websites were launched by Govt. marking the 70th anniversary of Bhubaneswar as the capital city of the state and till date Govt. has made s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

2018-04-12 Thread James Salsman
> Only works if most people aren't trying to scam you What else works that way? > you'd need to get Bitpay to accept FoldingCoin in this arrangement https://twitter.com/jsalsman/status/984428258530705408 On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 4:39 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 11 April 2018 at 22:56, geni w

[Wikimedia-l] Notification of data disclosure from two Wikimedia Foundation mailing lists

2018-04-12 Thread Gregory Varnum
This weekend the Wikimedia Foundation was notified by an outside security expert that they had discovered public access to what was intended to be a private mailing list. External access to the mailing list was immediately disabled, and our Office IT team began assessing which other private mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] convert from BitCoin to FoldingCoin and other proofs of useful work

2018-04-12 Thread geni
On 12 April 2018 at 14:50, James Salsman wrote: >> Only works if most people aren't trying to scam you > > What else works that way? > Thing where most people don't have money on the line. Its Cryptocurrency. If your first thought isn't "how could a scammer exploit this" you are doing it wrong.

[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase April 18, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT| 18:30 UTC)

2018-04-12 Thread Sarah R
Hi Everyone, The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1pa-pr6xis As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And, you can watch our past research showca

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase April 18, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT| 18:30 UTC)

2018-04-12 Thread Sarah R
Hi All, A quick correction.* "*The Critical Relationship of Volunteer Created Wikipedia Content to Large-Scale Online Communities" will be presented by *Nicholas Vincent.* Kind regards, Sarah R. On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Sarah R wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > The next Research Showcase will