[Foundation-l] Strategic Planning Office Hours
Hi everyone, The next strategic planning office hours are: Tuesday, 20 April, from 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: -Tuesday (1-2pm PDT) -Tuesday (4-5pm EDT) Office hours will be a great opportunity to discuss the work that's happened as well as the work to come. As always, you can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net and filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. More details at: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours Thanks! Hope to see many of you there. Philippe Beaudette Facilitator, Strategy Project Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Chris Clayton
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Re: [Foundation-l] Chris Clayton
There's been an unusually aggressive set of these this spring; one of my accounts got hijacked for a week before I noticed it, and a friends' gmail account as well. Sigh. -george On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Cary Bass c...@wikimedia.org wrote: Alex Mr.Z-man wrote: http://www roulette-casino-en-ligne.com/home.php If it hasn't been said yet... someone's email got a trojan. Don't click. -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook
Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know about new features Facebook is planning on launching later today that involve articles from Wikipedia. Facebook is going to begin integrating Wikipedia’s free knowledge into a new part of the Facebook.com site experience to help users be more connected and informed about the topics and activities that interest them. They're calling this service Facebook Community Pages, portal pages which will be owned and managed by the Facebook community. Wikipedia articles on Facebook will further increase the reach of free knowledge on the internet. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users, and now more than 70% of their traffic is coming from outside of the US. Our hope is that many Facebook users (if they are not already) will also be inclined to join the large community of Wikipedia contributors. Facebook will follow the free licenses (CC-BY-SA) and help us find more ways people can share knowledge. Furthermore, we will be looking at other ways that both parties can cooperate in the future. Initially it looks like this service will be focussed on English Wikipedia, but considering Facebook's multi-lingual community it seems likely that other languages will be brought in quickly. Because Facebook members build the Community Pages, they will be able to suggest or add more Wikipedia articles (as well as other relevant content from the web). They will also have a built-in feedback system in case the article provided is not correct or has any display problems. It's going to be a learning situation for both us and them so we'll see how this goes. --Kul -- Kul Takanao Wadhwa Head of Business Development Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. k...@wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 ext. 603 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook
Will there be any way to encourage/allow people to edit the Wikipedia articles Facebook will be using? On the one hand, I think it's definitely praiseworthy that we have found another outlet for distributing Wikipedia articles and thus fulfilling our mission. But to be perfectly honest, the idea of a Facebook mirror that siphons off potential editors and lets Facebook slap ads around our work feels like a bum deal for Wikimedia. Steven Walling On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know about new features Facebook is planning on launching later today that involve articles from Wikipedia. Facebook is going to begin integrating Wikipedia’s free knowledge into a new part of the Facebook.com site experience to help users be more connected and informed about the topics and activities that interest them. They're calling this service Facebook Community Pages, portal pages which will be owned and managed by the Facebook community. Wikipedia articles on Facebook will further increase the reach of free knowledge on the internet. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users, and now more than 70% of their traffic is coming from outside of the US. Our hope is that many Facebook users (if they are not already) will also be inclined to join the large community of Wikipedia contributors. Facebook will follow the free licenses (CC-BY-SA) and help us find more ways people can share knowledge. Furthermore, we will be looking at other ways that both parties can cooperate in the future. Initially it looks like this service will be focussed on English Wikipedia, but considering Facebook's multi-lingual community it seems likely that other languages will be brought in quickly. Because Facebook members build the Community Pages, they will be able to suggest or add more Wikipedia articles (as well as other relevant content from the web). They will also have a built-in feedback system in case the article provided is not correct or has any display problems. It's going to be a learning situation for both us and them so we'll see how this goes. --Kul -- Kul Takanao Wadhwa Head of Business Development Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. k...@wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 ext. 603 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook
I would go with Contribute to this article - click edit button that takes you back to the Wikipedia, where new editors can edit to their hearts' content without the ads getting into the way of the knowledge project. Regs, Rui On 19 April 2010 22:04, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote: Will there be any way to encourage/allow people to edit the Wikipedia articles Facebook will be using? On the one hand, I think it's definitely praiseworthy that we have found another outlet for distributing Wikipedia articles and thus fulfilling our mission. But to be perfectly honest, the idea of a Facebook mirror that siphons off potential editors and lets Facebook slap ads around our work feels like a bum deal for Wikimedia. Steven Walling On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi everyone, I just wanted to let you know about new features Facebook is planning on launching later today that involve articles from Wikipedia. Facebook is going to begin integrating Wikipedia’s free knowledge into a new part of the Facebook.com site experience to help users be more connected and informed about the topics and activities that interest them. They're calling this service Facebook Community Pages, portal pages which will be owned and managed by the Facebook community. Wikipedia articles on Facebook will further increase the reach of free knowledge on the internet. Facebook has hundreds of millions of users, and now more than 70% of their traffic is coming from outside of the US. Our hope is that many Facebook users (if they are not already) will also be inclined to join the large community of Wikipedia contributors. Facebook will follow the free licenses (CC-BY-SA) and help us find more ways people can share knowledge. Furthermore, we will be looking at other ways that both parties can cooperate in the future. Initially it looks like this service will be focussed on English Wikipedia, but considering Facebook's multi-lingual community it seems likely that other languages will be brought in quickly. Because Facebook members build the Community Pages, they will be able to suggest or add more Wikipedia articles (as well as other relevant content from the web). They will also have a built-in feedback system in case the article provided is not correct or has any display problems. It's going to be a learning situation for both us and them so we'll see how this goes. --Kul -- Kul Takanao Wadhwa Head of Business Development Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. k...@wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 ext. 603 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Rui Correia Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Consultant Angola Liaison Consultant 2 Cutten St Horison Roodepoort-Johannesburg, South Africa Tel/ Fax (+27-11) 766-4336 Mobile (+27) (0) 84-498-6838 ___ áâãçéêíóôõúç ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook
On 19 April 2010 21:08, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote: I would go with Contribute to this article - click edit button that takes you back to the Wikipedia, where new editors can edit to their hearts' content without the ads getting into the way of the knowledge project. Yep. But having the content right there as part of Facebook is *excellent*. Facebook is one of those sites that people tend to live in. (The original Web 1.0 promise of the portal. Me, I live in my Gmail ...) - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook
On Apr 19, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Steven Walling wrote: Will there be any way to encourage/allow people to edit the Wikipedia articles Facebook will be using? My current understanding is yes, but it's possible that's wrong and/ or out of date. Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations and Facilitator, Strategy Project Wikimedia Foundation phili...@wikimedia.org ofc: +1 415 839 6885 (x 643) mobile: 918 200 WIKI (9454) Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook
Hey Steven, On the one hand, I think it's definitely praiseworthy that we have found another outlet for distributing Wikipedia articles and thus fulfilling our mission. But to be perfectly honest, the idea of a Facebook mirror that siphons off potential editors and lets Facebook slap ads around our work feels like a bum deal for Wikimedia. That's a good point and we did give this a lot of thought. Facebook wanted to do this anyway (and they could take the content as long as they follow the license(s)) but we thought that, in the end, it would be better if we work with them on this to influence them to do it in a positive. Plus, we let them know that we will be forwarding on our community's feedback so this give us a better way to deal with them. This will be a learning experience. We hope that things move in a positive direction on this and Facebook has been very cooperative. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook
Rui, On 4/19/10 1:08 PM, Rui Correia wrote: I would go with Contribute to this article - click edit button that takes you back to the Wikipedia, where new editors can edit to their hearts' content without the ads getting into the way of the knowledge project. Facebook told us that they would have links that would take people back to Wikipedia so they could edit. --Kul ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Heads up: Wikipedia on Facebook
At this point it looks like all links inside of the community pages link directly back to Wikipedia, including the history, 'source,' and 'edit' tabs. Also, all images in the community pages, when clicked, take you directly to Wikipedia. It doesn't appear that all Facebook users have access to community pages yet. I can see them, but I can't get to them from my profile. I think they're rolling the service out slowly, so some changes to how the WP articles are presented seems likely. -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw On Apr 19, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa wrote: Rui, On 4/19/10 1:08 PM, Rui Correia wrote: I would go with Contribute to this article - click edit button that takes you back to the Wikipedia, where new editors can edit to their hearts' content without the ads getting into the way of the knowledge project. Facebook told us that they would have links that would take people back to Wikipedia so they could edit. --Kul ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
