[Foundation-l] Wikipedia lesson in Maharashtra class 7 textbook ( India)

[CherianTinu Abraham]

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
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[Foundation-l] Another 1.17 maintenance window

[Rob Lanphier]

( 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

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA]

[Tomasz Ganicz]

2011/2/16 John Vandenberg :
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
>  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.



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Re: [Foundation-l] FAQ: Consultant for National Programs, India

[Erik Moeller]

2011/2/15 MZMcBride :

> 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

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA]

[John Vandenberg]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:38 AM, John Vandenberg  wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
>  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. "

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Fwd: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA]

[John Vandenberg]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
 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?

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[Foundation-l] [Fwd: Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA]

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

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 . 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


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Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

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

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Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India

[Barry Newstead]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:32 AM, MZMcBride  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
>
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Re: [Foundation-l] FAQ: Consultant for National Programs, India

[Barry Newstead]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:58 AM, MZMcBride  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

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Re: [Foundation-l] Showing the difference between the sexes

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2011/2/12 Gerard Meijssen :
> 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.

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Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll

[Andrea Zanni]

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 

> > 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=en&day_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
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Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll

[Przykuta]

> 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=en&day_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

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: IRC office hours this Friday on chapters and fundraising

[Steven Walling]

Cross-posting.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Steven Walling 
> Date: February 15, 2011 11:37:54 AM PST
> To: "board and officers coordination (closed subscription) Local Chapters" 
> 
> 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
> 






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Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll

[Ashar Voultoiz]

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

:)

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Re: [Foundation-l] FAQ: Consultant for National Programs, India

[MZMcBride]

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



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Re: [Foundation-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India

[MZMcBride]

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



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[Foundation-l] FAQ: Consultant for National Programs, India

[Barry Newstead]

Here is the link to the FAQ. Feel free to add questions if you have them and
I'll attempt to answer ;)
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/FAQ_Consultancy_for_National_Programs,_India

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[Foundation-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India

[Barry Newstead]

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 (usi

Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll

[John]

Double check your numbers, based on those results I get 2,304,720 hits/month


John
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Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll

[WJhonson]

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=en&day_first=15008&;
day_count=7
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Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll

[Przykuta]

i fwd your questions to the author
best regards 
przykuta
Dnia 15 lutego 2011 15:38 Gerard Meijssen  
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  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
>
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Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll

[Gerard Meijssen]

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  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 
>
> > I hope, that this stats-page written by Maciej Smoleński will be helpful:
> > http://www.wikiroll.com/
> > check it and enjoy
> > przykuta
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Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll

[Mariano Cecowski]

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.-

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> De: Andrea Zanni 
> Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll
> Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" 
> 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 
> 
> > I hope, that this stats-page written by Maciej
> Smoleński will be helpful:
> > http://www.wikiroll.com/
> > check it and enjoy
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Re: [Foundation-l] WikiRoll

[Andrea Zanni]

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 

> I hope, that this stats-page written by Maciej Smoleński will be helpful:
> http://www.wikiroll.com/
> check it and enjoy
> przykuta
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[Foundation-l] WikiRoll

[Przykuta]

I hope, that this stats-page written by Maciej Smoleński will be helpful:
http://www.wikiroll.com/
check it and enjoy
przykuta
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[Foundation-l] Partnership Wikimedia France / Palace of Versailles

[Adrienne Alix]

Hello,

I am very pleased to announce today that Wikimedia France has just concluded
a very nice partnership. A partnership with the Palace of
Versailles,
which was negotiated very discreetly (at the request of Versailles) and just
publicly announced this morning.

http://www.wikimedia.fr/partenariat-avec-le-ch%C3%A2teau-de-versailles

This partnership is a consequence of the first Glam -partnerships signed by
Wikimedia France in 2010 and glam-wiki Paris in December 2010.

The partnership prompt Wikimedia France and Versailles to work together to
perform "production and dissemination of cultural and scientific data on the
Wikimedia projects". That means working together to release the content from
the cultural riches of Versailles in the projects. This can be taking
pictures, digitization, video, other things, everything is open.

Under this partnership, Versailles therefore allowed a "Wikimedian in
residence". Its mission is:

* Teaching the teams of the Castle and the Centre for Research,
including scientists, about how Wikimedia projects work and how valuable
they are ;
* Increasing the awareness of the Castle audience about Wikimedia
projects, their functioning and value ;

* Identifying existing articles on the Palace of Versailles, its art and
its heritage, people and events etc.
* Improve and facilitate a community of editors to improve these
articles ;

* Working with the education department on similar topics.

Benoit - [[user:Trizek]] - , the "wikimedian in residence", will have a
great leeway to set up projects with the contributors of the projects, with
the public, to publicize the Wikimedia projects, raise awareness even within
Versailles, and enriching the projects. Benoît will work on engaging
Wikimedians from all projects and from all countries in this effort to bring
together Wikimedia and Versailles resources.

This is a great opportunity for Wikimedia France to advance our projects,
and to make both the cultural and general public more aware of our work. The
prestige of Versailles is incomparable and their willingness to open is very
valuable.


Adrienne

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Adrienne Alix
Présidente | Wikimedia France
adrienne.a...@wikimedia.fr | + 33 (0)6 33 40 70 80
http://www.wikimedia.fr
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