[Foundation-l] WikiRoll
I hope, that this stats-page written by Maciej Smoleński will be helpful: http://www.wikiroll.com/ check it and enjoy przykuta ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll
This is really interesting. Do tyou think is it possible to have similar stats also for sister projects (eg. quote, source, commons, etc.) ? Aubrey 2011/2/15 Przykuta przyk...@o2.pl I hope, that this stats-page written by Maciej Smoleński will be helpful: http://www.wikiroll.com/ check it and enjoy przykuta ___ 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] WikiRoll
Wow, this is really useful. In this moment for the Spanish Wikipedia Ronaldo and Hipotiroidismo are 5th and 6th respectivelly; Ronaldo has just announced his retirement from football because of health problems related to hypothyroidism. 404 error on top of the English Wikipedia? Cheers, Mariano.- --- El mar 15-feb-11, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com escribió: De: Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll Para: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Fecha: martes, 15 de febrero de 2011, 11:15 This is really interesting. Do tyou think is it possible to have similar stats also for sister projects (eg. quote, source, commons, etc.) ? Aubrey 2011/2/15 Przykuta przyk...@o2.pl I hope, that this stats-page written by Maciej Smoleński will be helpful: http://www.wikiroll.com/ check it and enjoy przykuta ___ 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 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll
Hoi, Would it be possible to add other Wikipedia languages... I would not only welcome Dutch :) Thanks, GerardM On 15 February 2011 14:15, Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com wrote: This is really interesting. Do tyou think is it possible to have similar stats also for sister projects (eg. quote, source, commons, etc.) ? Aubrey 2011/2/15 Przykuta przyk...@o2.pl I hope, that this stats-page written by Maciej Smoleński will be helpful: http://www.wikiroll.com/ check it and enjoy przykuta ___ 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 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll
i fwd your questions to the author best regards przykuta Dnia 15 lutego 2011 15:38 Gerard Meijssen lt;gerard.meijs...@gmail.comgt; napisał(a): Hoi, Would it be possible to add other Wikipedia languages... I would not only welcome Dutch :) Thanks, GerardM On 15 February 2011 14:15, Andrea Zanni lt;zanni.andre...@gmail.comgt; wrote: gt; This is really interesting. gt; Do tyou think is it possible to have similar stats also for sister projects gt; (eg. quote, source, commons, etc.) ? gt; gt; Aubrey gt; ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll
Something must be wrong with this stat counter. Back in 2009, Main Page was getting two million views per month, more or less http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/most-popular-wikipedia-pages/4hmquk6fx 4gu/191#view This counter show an amazing drop off if its now only getting about 12,000 views per month based on this weekly figure here http://www.wikiroll.com/popularity_en.cgi?lang=enday_first=15008; day_count=7 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll
Double check your numbers, based on those results I get 2,304,720 hits/month John ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India
Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Hisham Mundol as a consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation to support us in our program initiatives in India. As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation declared India to be a strategic priority during the strategic planning process [1]. I announced our plans for the formation of an office in August 2010 and the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved the creation of the Wikimedia India chapter in June 2010. India is a priority for the Wikimedia movement as it has a strong and growing community of Wikimedians building the Indic and English language projects. It is a country where the Wikimedia movement can achieve our mission and learn important lessons for achieving impact elsewhere. The engagement of Hisham will enable the Wikimedia Foundation to pilot new initiatives aimed at accelerating the growth of the community in India. I am very happy we’ve now reached this point. As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in India but we have a long way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement. Indians represent 4% of the world’s Internet users today (and this share is growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page edits on Wikipedia. We should be able to rapidly increase this share - across all projects - and expand readership in a corresponding fashion. Hisham’s title will be Consultant, India National Programs. He will report to me. His role will be to design and implement specific pilot programs that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our projects in Indic languages as well as English. The National Programs initiative will focus on the following areas in the first year: - Design and implement an India-wide program to increase Wikimedia’s footprint on university and college campuses with students and faculty with the aim of encouraging contributions to Wikimedia projects - Support the launch and implementation of community-initiated programs that seek to increase the editor base for Wikimedia projects - Engage with the community and chapter to build a strong relationship among these stakeholder groups and create communications forums that allow for effective partnerships As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham’s first task will be to deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks (not months!) in learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting with community members in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25 and then Hisham will join community meetings across the country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time in San Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as with other like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the chapter conference in Berlin. Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will share what he is learning and develop the core elements of the action plan going forward. We encourage active community engagement on this wiki. We aim to move to action quickly and welcome input and guidance from across the community. Hisham was most recently a consultant with the Public Health Foundation of India (in a partnership with the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation). He designed and implemented large-scale national programs on HIV/AIDS prevention. He worked to understand the dynamics of hard-to-reach communities by conducting in-depth, on-the-ground analysis (ask him to tell you about his experience talking to drivers while sitting under their trucks). The programs he designed and implemented sought to convince people in large numbers - 400 million young people across the nation - to change very personal behaviours. While we are not tackling issues of such an intimate nature, we do aim to convince large numbers of people across the country to contribute their personal time to Wikimedia projects. During this assignment, Hisham worked closely with public, private and community groups (local and international) to work through the details of the programs and build partnerships for implementing them at scale. He did so in a manner that used persuasion rather than power to build support to move things forward. We think his experience navigating these varied groups position him well to work in the Wikimedia community. His earlier career was in marketing and business development with a number of well-known businesses: Infosys, Accenture, Cadbury and Unilever. This experience positions him well to engage with a movement and organization that is global in nature, in particular to work with a team that is based halfway around the world. We have scheduled an IRC chat with Hisham and myself for Thursday, February 17 at 22:00 India Standard Time (16:30 UTC). I want to thank everyone who helped in the selection process that identified Hisham. It was a five month process in which we made an open call for consultants
Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India
Barry Newstead wrote: As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in India but we have a long way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement. Indians represent 4% of the world¹s Internet users today (and this share is growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page edits on Wikipedia. We should be able to rapidly increase this share - across all projects - and expand readership in a corresponding fashion. To what end? What's the virtue of going after India? Hisham¹s title will be Consultant, India National Programs. He will report to me. His role will be to design and implement specific pilot programs that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our projects in Indic languages as well as English. Is this position a staffer or a contractor? As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham¹s first task will be to deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks (not months!) in learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting with community members in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25 and then Hisham will join community meetings across the country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time in San Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as with other like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the chapter conference in Berlin. So Hisham has never edited a Wikimedia wiki? I'm curious how much of a factor having a familiarity with Wikimedia was in choosing an individual for this role. Can you elaborate? Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will share what he is learning and develop the core elements of the action plan going forward. We encourage active community engagement on this wiki. We aim to move to action quickly and welcome input and guidance from across the community. The strategy wiki was intended to be used to create a five-year strategic plan for Wikimedia. He should be using Meta-Wiki for cross-project coordination, right? MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] FAQ: Consultant for National Programs, India
Barry Newstead wrote: Here is the link to the FAQ. Feel free to add questions if you have them and I'll attempt to answer ;) I've moved this FAQ to Meta-Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_Consultancy_for_National_Programs,_India Meta-Wiki is the project coordination wiki (and has been for pretty much the past decade). I consider the strategy wiki to be dead. It's full of noise like Wikimedia-pedia that nobody is interested in and it doesn't need to be in everyone's way. The purpose of the strategy wiki was to create a five-year plan. That purpose has been served, so it's now time to move any remaining content to Meta-Wiki and move on. (There seems to be fairly widespread agreement about this on this mailing list and elsewhere.) I've also updated the contractors page at Meta-Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_contractors Thank you, Barry, for creating the FAQ and being so detailed in your initial e-mail. I'm told you spent quite a bit of time putting this announcement together and I want you to know that I appreciate it. :-) MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll
On 15/02/11 15:30, Mariano Cecowski wrote: 404 error on top of the English Wikipedia? The '404 error' article is linked from the Wikimedia Foundation own 404 error page. See http://en.wikipedia.org/doesnotexist :) -- Ashar Voultoiz ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Fwd: IRC office hours this Friday on chapters and fundraising
Cross-posting. Begin forwarded message: From: Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org Date: February 15, 2011 11:37:54 AM PST To: board and officers coordination (closed subscription) Local Chapters interna...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: IRC office hours this Friday on chapters and fundraising Hi all, This Friday at 19:00 UTC, Barry Newstead and Moushira Elamrawy will be holding a discussion about chapters and fundraising. In introducing Moushira and Asaf last week, we didn't get to spend much time talking about this issue, and we'd like a chance to have an informal chat with everyone about it. As usual instructions about when it is and how to join are on Meta at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours. If you have questions you'd like to post in advance, please feel free to use the same page for that purpose. Thanks! Steven Walling Fellow at the Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll
Something must be wrong with this stat counter. Back in 2009, Main Page was getting two million views per month, more or less http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/most-popular-wikipedia-pages/4hmquk6fx 4gu/191#view This counter show an amazing drop off if its now only getting about 12,000 views per month based on this weekly figure here http://www.wikiroll.com/popularity_en.cgi?lang=enday_first=15008; day_count=7 hmm per hour in last day/week/month. But yes, something is wrong http://stats.grok.se/en/201102/Main_Page He, Maciej, use data from http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ It's no problem to add other language wikis, but for sister projects he needs logs przykuta ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll
Well, I don't know if you knew that you can cheat stats.grok putting the right URLs: http://stats.grok.se/it.s/201102/Pagina_principale for example, gives you the stats of it wikisource main page. So there must be logs somewhere (I just don't know where ;-), even if you can't use directly the form. Aubrey 2011/2/15 Przykuta przyk...@o2.pl Something must be wrong with this stat counter. Back in 2009, Main Page was getting two million views per month, more or less http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/most-popular-wikipedia-pages/4hmquk6fx 4gu/191#view This counter show an amazing drop off if its now only getting about 12,000 views per month based on this weekly figure here http://www.wikiroll.com/popularity_en.cgi?lang=enday_first=15008; day_count=7 hmm per hour in last day/week/month. But yes, something is wrong http://stats.grok.se/en/201102/Main_Page He, Maciej, use data from http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ It's no problem to add other language wikis, but for sister projects he needs logs przykuta ___ 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] Showing the difference between the sexes
2011/2/12 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com: Given that we want to be more welcoming to women, I think it is awesome that we will be able to address women as women. The fact that we gain some statistical insight is a fringe benefit. The only question left is, when can this be implemented.. I raised this question in the Hebrew Wikipedia Village Pump. All the people who replied–female, male and of unknown gender–were generally in favor of implementing such a thing. As it often happens in Wikipedia, the discussion veered off into proposals to change the translation of the word User itself into something else, such as Editor, Contributor, Participant, etc., but even then, all the proposals were m/f pairs. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] FAQ: Consultant for National Programs, India
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:58 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Barry Newstead wrote: Here is the link to the FAQ. Feel free to add questions if you have them and I'll attempt to answer ;) I've moved this FAQ to Meta-Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_Consultancy_for_National_Programs,_India Thanks for moving this to an easier to find place. Meta-Wiki is the project coordination wiki (and has been for pretty much the past decade). I consider the strategy wiki to be dead. It's full of noise like Wikimedia-pedia that nobody is interested in and it doesn't need to be in everyone's way. The purpose of the strategy wiki was to create a five-year plan. That purpose has been served, so it's now time to move any remaining content to Meta-Wiki and move on. (There seems to be fairly widespread agreement about this on this mailing list and elsewhere.) Noted I've also updated the contractors page at Meta-Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_contractors Thank you, Barry, for creating the FAQ and being so detailed in your initial e-mail. I'm told you spent quite a bit of time putting this announcement together and I want you to know that I appreciate it. :-) MZMcBride Best, Barry ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:32 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Barry Newstead wrote: As I have mentioned in the past, we have a lot of momentum in India but we have a long way to go to achieve our full potential as a movement. Indians represent 4% of the world¹s Internet users today (and this share is growing), yet they only represent 1.5% of page edits on Wikipedia. We should be able to rapidly increase this share - across all projects - and expand readership in a corresponding fashion. To what end? What's the virtue of going after India? The end is the achievement of Wikimedia's vision and the movement's priorities of increasing participation and reach. India represents a significant share of all human beings and a larger share of all human beings living in a relatively free and uncensored environment. Hisham¹s title will be Consultant, India National Programs. He will report to me. His role will be to design and implement specific pilot programs that encourage many more Indians to become contributors to our projects in Indic languages as well as English. Is this position a staffer or a contractor? Contractor/consultant As a newcomer to the Wikimedia movement, Hisham¹s first task will be to deepen his understanding of us: our history, goals, values, culture and mission. To that end, he will be spending the coming weeks (not months!) in learning mode: Hisham and I will be meeting with community members in Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore on Feb 23-25 and then Hisham will join community meetings across the country as they occur. Hisham will also spend time in San Francisco with the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as with other like-minded individuals and organizations and he will attend the chapter conference in Berlin. So Hisham has never edited a Wikimedia wiki? I'm curious how much of a factor having a familiarity with Wikimedia was in choosing an individual for this role. Can you elaborate? We had very few candidates from the Wikimedia community apply, so in the end most of the candidates we were looking at had some familiarity, but that was limited and didn't differentiate them from each other in a way that was meaningful vs. other dimension such as the ability to design and implement national scale programs or the ability to work in an environment with a range of stakeholders. These dimensions were big differentiators. Hisham will be creating a workspace on strategy wiki where he will share what he is learning and develop the core elements of the action plan going forward. We encourage active community engagement on this wiki. We aim to move to action quickly and welcome input and guidance from across the community. The strategy wiki was intended to be used to create a five-year strategic plan for Wikimedia. He should be using Meta-Wiki for cross-project coordination, right? WMF has been using strategy wiki for some of our ongoing projects. I'm open to alternatives, so long as we are on public wikis, which Meta is. MZMcBride ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll
Andrea Zanni, 15/02/2011 21:52: for example, gives you the stats of it wikisource main page. So there must be logs somewhere (I just don't know where ;-), even if you can't use directly the form. They're in the usual gz, cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Killiondude/stats (FAQ) and http://www.archive.org/details/wikipedia_visitor_stats_200712 (doc). Nemo ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA]
This re-licensing seems even more legally complex than ours (although uncontroversial). Nemo Messaggio Originale Oggetto: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA Data: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:39:08 + (UTC) Da: Ubuntu Community Council A: undisclosed-recipients:; Dear Contributor to the Ubuntu Wiki, We are contacting you because you have contributed content to the Ubuntu wiki at http://wiki.ubuntu.com. The license of content of the Ubuntu Wiki has always been publically listed as copyright Canonical Ltd. Working with the Ubuntu Community Council, Canonical has decided to transition the content in the Ubuntu Wiki to the the CC-BY-SA license[1]. This license is a free culture license[2] and is the same license used both by the Ubuntu Documentation wiki [3] since 2007 [4] and by Wikipedia. If you are happy with the idea of this transition for the content you have provided, you do not need to do anything. If you have problems or issues, please read the feedback section below and contact us. The rest of this message provides a rationale, details, and information on providing feedback. = Decision = After discussion among the Ubuntu Community Council, it has been decided that the material on the Ubuntu wiki should be licensed under a free license, CC-by-SA[1]. The Ubuntu wiki will be changed to make this clear to those creating or editing pages, and of course external links from the Wiki to material under other licences will continue to be welcome. This decision is not intended in any way to underestimate the value of contributions, but rather to ensure that the material on the wiki complies with the same standards of openness as the Ubuntu project as a whole. = Rationale = The Ubuntu wiki is a collaborative resource, and the product of the Ubuntu community as a whole. Its content, put together by many contributors with different knowledge and points of view, is immensely valuable to us all. Unfortunately, at the moment, there is no clear definition of what rights contributors to the content retain over the material that they post, or the extent to which other persons are entitled to copy or modify the material. For example, it would be very useful to ensure that community contributed content may be shared by many teams without complex licensing issues, ensuring that those working on content can concentrate on producing the best information possible rather than legal negotiations. Furthermore, consistent with Ubuntu's philosophy, it is important that material created for use on the Ubuntu wiki be available for other communities outside ours to benefit from. Using an open license on the Ubuntu wiki allows other communities to re-use material which may be useful to them under terms which are widely recognised in the free software community. = Feedback = We would again like to make a good-faith attempt to ensure that contributors of existing material are happy with this change. We invite any contributors who have any questions or concerns about this plan to contact us at community-coun...@lists.ubuntu.com. Given that the re-licensing of http://help.ubuntu.com/community was fairly uncontroversial and since the aim to re-license the Ubuntu wiki at some point later has not brought up any objections, we hope that contributors will welcome it. In the absence of a substantial number of objections, this change will be made to the Ubuntu wiki after approximately one month. More details can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WikiLicensing Many thanks for your contributions to the Ubuntu Wiki, and we hope that you will continue to help! = Exceptions = If you want to license a code snippet on the wiki under another open source license [5], please specify the relevant license in the snippet itself. In the event that no license is specified, the license applicable to the code snippet would be the same as that applicable to any other material on the wiki. [1] See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ [2] http://freedomdefined.org/Definition [3] http://help.ubuntu.com [4] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-April/000275.html [5] http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA]
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: This re-licensing seems even more legally complex than ours (although uncontroversial). How can they relicense without explicit permission from each contributor, or an update clause in the licence? -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA]
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:38 AM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: This re-licensing seems even more legally complex than ours (although uncontroversial). How can they relicense without explicit permission from each contributor, or an update clause in the licence? I should rtfm. The current copyright notice states that the copyright belongs to Canonical. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] FAQ: Consultant for National Programs, India
2011/2/15 MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com: The purpose of the strategy wiki was to create a five-year plan. That purpose has been served, so it's now time to move any remaining content to Meta-Wiki and move on. That's a legitimate viewpoint, but not the one that's informing StrategyWiki's current use by WMF. Our current use is for StrategyWiki to be a place to develop and document strategic research (which is an ongoing process that doesn't end with the five-year plan), where we can easily refer back to and develop some of the accumulated wisdom on StrategyWiki, and where we can pick up work using some of the established practices and processes when necessary (launch a new call for proposals, build new task forces, etc.). In other words, StrategyWiki has an identity and a purpose that extends past the strategic planning process. We may be able to ultimately accomplish all these things by creating spaces within Meta to do them, importing supporting tools/namespaces, etc., or within some future wonderful information architecture, but for the time being, StrategyWiki lives. :-) The FAQ, on the other hand, definitely did not belong there. I've commented a bit more on the issue of merging wikis in this post, and the same arguments apply here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-January/063690.html -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, 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
Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA]
2011/2/16 John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: This re-licensing seems even more legally complex than ours (although uncontroversial). How can they relicense without explicit permission from each contributor, or an update clause in the licence? Well - if their terms of use said that the all contributors transfer the copyrights to Canonical Ltd. - the company can licence such the content as it wishes and in fact E-mails send to their contributors is just a matter of their goodwill to be moral toward them. -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29title=tomasz-ganicz ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Another 1.17 maintenance window
( repost from http://techblog.wikimedia.org ) Continuing with the work started last week[1], we plan to deploy 1.17 to more wikis in a couple hours. We had hoped we would be able to figure out the performance issues in the past week, but unfortunately, the only practical way we have to see the load problems we witnessed last week is to put the software into production. We have put a lot of instrumentation in place to help us diagnose our load issues. We plan to start the upcoming deployment by rolling out to nl.wikipedia.org, and do some debugging (rolling back if necessary). If we’re able to diagnose and fix the problems quickly, we then plan to roll out 1.17 more widely. If we’re still stumped, we may still roll out to a few more low-traffic wikis, but leave the high-traffic sites until we figure this out. We plan to have more updates and detailed information on the deployment page on mediawiki.org[2]. Thanks for your patience! Rob [1] http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/1-17deployment-attempt2/ [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.17/Wikimedia_deployment ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Wikipedia lesson in Maharashtra class 7 textbook ( India)
Maharashtra State SSC syllabus , 7th standard ( Class) has a chapter on Wikipedia. http://twitpic.com/40b7oj ( See below for more details) The text book is called Balbarathi and in English. Note that state syllabus is applicable for most schools in state of Maharashtra in India. Some time back I heard Kerala state syllabus also had plans ( already incorporated ? ) a chapter on Wikipedia in Malayalam... Regards Tinu Cherian On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Was very surprised to see a lesson on Wikipedia in my brother's 7th std text book today. Picture - http://twitpic.com/40b7oj The content is concerning Wikipedia - compares it with an encyclopedia, details about volunteers contributing to Wikipedia, talks about the presence of Indic language Wikipedia, talks about vandalism. It has the following sub-topics: 1. Introduction 2. What is an encyclopedia? 3. What is Wikipedia? 4. How is Wikipedia created? 5. sidebar: general info on Wikipedia wef September 2009 6. sidebar: How is Wikipedia different from an encyclopedia printed on paper? 7. vandalism 8. Wikipedia policy 9. Request an article warm regards, Pradeep ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
