[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool office hours - Today, #wikimedia-office, 19:00 UTC
Hey guys! Just a reminder that there will be an office hours session at 19:00 UTC today to discuss the new Article Feedback Tool. This is the last session before the prototype is deployed, so if you have any last-minute requests or issues, or want to find out precisely what is going on, this is probably a good one to come to :). -- Oliver Keyes Community Liason, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] External free image repositories
Hi, Has the foundation ever expressed an opinion on using external free image repositories in WMF projects? The licensing policy only says that the content should be free, but without the specific limitations that are present on Commons. I was wondering if it would be acceptable for a project to serve (without hosting) content that is PD in another country (presumably the country with the project's language as an official language) but not in the US. And if it would be, how could we ensure that the project would indeed be for free images only? Thanks, Strainu ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] External free image repositories
Typically the Foundation has been very reluctant serve any content that is not under their control. There are two primary reasons for this: * Security/privacy - This is mainly an issue for remote Javascript, but also for images. Images can set cookies via their headers and thus be used for user tracking. * Stability - If a 3rd party service goes down, we have no control over getting it fixed in a timely manner. This is one of the reason we don't use ReCaptcha for our login captcha. Ryan Kaldari On 12/16/11 1:57 PM, Strainu wrote: > Hi, > > Has the foundation ever expressed an opinion on using external free > image repositories in WMF projects? The licensing policy only says > that the content should be free, but without the specific limitations > that are present on Commons. I was wondering if it would be acceptable > for a project to serve (without hosting) content that is PD in another > country (presumably the country with the project's language as an > official language) but not in the US. > > And if it would be, how could we ensure that the project would indeed > be for free images only? > > Thanks, >Strainu > > ___ > 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] Wikimedia Foundation's 2010-11 Annual Report
The Wikimedia Foundation is happy to announce the release of the 2010-11 Annual Report, which is now posted on the WMF Wiki at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report >From here you can download a high and lo res PDF of the report, or go right to the meta-hosted wiki version. And for the first time, you can access translated 'summary' reports in 6 languages. Printed copies are being worked on right now (proofs being developed) and copies should be in the WMF office next week. This year we considerably expanded our multi-lingual effort by adding 6 translated 'summary' reports in Arabic, Japanese, French, German, Portugese, and Spanish. It's our first really visible multi-lingual communications product, and it took some serious coordination to time translation, design, production and wiki publishing. This year's report focusses on global celebrations around Wikipedia 10, our emerging work in India, the global education program, our mobile expansion efforts, and on our major engineering/product accomplishments and ambitions. We center the book around the amazing Arab Spring article, highlighting the inspiring quote from Wael Ghonim 'Our revolution is like Wikipedia...' The report is as much a story of the work and activities of our international community as it is a traditional report on the work of WMF through the year. We hope it's not construed as a report focussed on the work of WMF staff, rather a wide-ranging review of the work of chapters, volunteers, partners - individuals and other kinds of volunteers. We aim to enlighten the reader with the incredible range of activity and innovation in our movement - to take them beyond the idea that Wikipedia is simply text living on the web and show them a thriving and dynamic community. We also hope that the report can find an audience in those completely new to our projects and our movement. It should enlighten and deepen someone's understanding of what this world is about - spurning (requiring!) that they join us - whether as an editor, donor, partner or even employee. We open the book with the declaration 'the way the world tells its story' - an idea the report production team was fascinated by. Wikipedia grown to become the default place where all people are welcome to share their history, geography, cultures - the story of the world. The Arab Spring article stands in the center of this metaphor, a page that took shape in this extraordinary year and helped millions of people around the world develop a deeper, neutral, and timely understanding of the events that have changed the middle east and the world forever. As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions. You can add comments along with the community on the meta wiki talk pages. Many thanks to the report production team: Tilman Bayer, design strategist David Peters, and our story consultant David Weir. Our communications intern AJ was also a big help. Mostly we owe huge thanks to the Wikimedians who made and shared the beautiful imagery in the book by posting it to Commons. This is an ambitious, 100% fueled-by-free-works project. I'd like to think it's one of the more unique and successful free culture printed works out there - and it wouldn't be possible without our community. Thanks and enjoy! -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation's 2010-11 Annual Report
The Wikimedia Foundation is happy to announce the release of the 2010-11 Annual Report, which is now posted on the WMF Wiki at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report >From here you can download a high and lo res PDF of the report, or go right to the meta-hosted wiki version. And for the first time, you can access translated 'summary' reports in 6 languages. Printed copies are being worked on right now (proofs being developed) and copies should be in the WMF office next week. This year we considerably expanded our multi-lingual effort by adding 6 translated 'summary' reports in Arabic, Japanese, French, German, Portugese, and Spanish. It's our first really visible multi-lingual communications product, and it took some serious coordination to time translation, design, production and wiki publishing. This year's report focusses on global celebrations around Wikipedia 10, our emerging work in India, the global education program, our mobile expansion efforts, and on our major engineering/product accomplishments and ambitions. We center the book around the amazing Arab Spring article, highlighting the inspiring quote from Wael Ghonim 'Our revolution is like Wikipedia...' The report is as much a story of the work and activities of our international community as it is a traditional report on the work of WMF through the year. We hope it's not construed as a report focussed on the work of WMF staff, rather a wide-ranging review of the work of chapters, volunteers, partners - individuals and other kinds of volunteers. We aim to enlighten the reader with the incredible range of activity and innovation in our movement - to take them beyond the idea that Wikipedia is simply text living on the web and show them a thriving and dynamic community. We also hope that the report can find an audience in those completely new to our projects and our movement. It should enlighten and deepen someone's understanding of what this world is about - spurning (requiring!) that they join us - whether as an editor, donor, partner or even employee. We open the book with the declaration 'the way the world tells its story' - an idea the report production team was fascinated by. Wikipedia grown to become the default place where all people are welcome to share their history, geography, cultures - the story of the world. The Arab Spring article stands in the center of this metaphor, a page that took shape in this extraordinary year and helped millions of people around the world develop a deeper, neutral, and timely understanding of the events that have changed the middle east and the world forever. As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions. You can add comments along with the community on the meta wiki talk pages. Many thanks to the report production team: Tilman Bayer, design strategist David Peters, and our story consultant David Weir. Our communications intern AJ was also a big help. Mostly we owe huge thanks to the Wikimedians who made and shared the beautiful imagery in the book by posting it to Commons. This is an ambitious, 100% fueled-by-free-works project. I'd like to think it's one of the more unique and successful free culture printed works out there - and it wouldn't be possible without our community. Thanks and enjoy! -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Vendetta?
Thank you all for your support. The editors involved stirred up the pot and learned something in the process. One of them had already been warned about deleting content just for the fun of it, so this was instructional for all. In looking through the threads, one of them found one of my efforts, didn't like it and decided to traverse all the content to which I had contributed (thus the appearance of a "vendetta") This did bring up some very important issues that we all need to consider: 1. The recent past is also historically important. Events that occurred less than 20 years ago in real time are already as remote in Internet time as the times of the first Pharoahs of Egypt in real time. 2. We are already so used to online access to everything that the concept of actually going to a library and digging through old newspapers or memorabilia is alien to the young. 3. Efforts to preserve Silicon Valley's recent past by the Computer History Museum, the Intel Museum, the Tech Museum, the now defunct Ampex Museum, the Perham Collection at History San Jose (originally the Foothill College Electronics Museum) and others need the kind of online support that WP provides. WP contributors can help create a legacy for coming generations by citing these resources, performing research using their collections and writing commentary. 4. Many of us still have original documents from events in the recent past. How can these be preserved so future historians will have source material? 5. Many other locations in the world have had similar social changes - how about a WM project that seeks to capture the pase before it vanishes completely? 6. The captured past is already being lost by preservationists. I was involved in an episodic performance arts web site launched in 1995 that was included in the very first capture of the Internet by archives.org - That capture has already vanished! (later ones are still present). On 12/16/2011 3:34 PM, foundation-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:44:16 -0700 (MST) > From: "Fred Bauder" > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Subject: Re: Vendetta? > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" > > Message-ID: > <42740.66.243.192.69.1323974656.squir...@webmail.fairpoint.net> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > >> > It isn't so much about having my stuff edited as it is that there seems >> > to be a mindset among en.wp editors that stuff needs to be deleted >> > unless they personally think it is important. We have a virtually >> > infinite space in which to write and add to the body of knowledge, so >> > why act as though it needs to be made smaller by applying some arbitrary >> > criterion? >> > >> > I do not have that much free time to be arguing over trivialities - I'm >> > trying to record history as it has happened from my perspective. If you >> > don't like my objectivity then go do your own research and do some >> > editing - don't go for a 1984 style darconian rewrite/deletion. >> > >> > Right now I'm spending all my free time wrestling with the article on >> > "light bulb sockets", which I did not originate. It is difficult to talk >> > about the sockets without bringing in all sorts of technical reasons why >> > they are the way they are. I didn't throw out the originator's material >> > - I've expanded it based on my experiences in the theatrical lighting >> > industry. I'm sure someone will eventually want to edit the material and >> > take the time to organize it a bit more. That is ok - it is what >> > collaboration is all about. > Our criteria are not arbitrary: notability is established by information > published in generally reliable sources, see Wikipedia:Notability > > "history as it has happened from my perspective" sounds like original > research. > > With respect to light bulb sockets one imagines there is a specialized > literature, and many patents... > > Fred > > > > > -- > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:04:48 -0500 > From: The Cunctator > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Subject: Re: Vendetta? > To:fredb...@fairpoint.net,Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > In other words, Wikipedia does not have space for what you find > interesting. Sorry. > > On 12/15/11, Fred Bauder wrote: >>> >> It isn't so much about having my stuff edited as it is that there seems >>> >> to be a mindset among en.wp editors that stuff needs to be deleted >>> >> unless they personally think it is important. We have a virtually >>> >> infinite space in which to write and add to the body of knowledge, so >>> >> why act as though it needs to be made smaller by applying some arbitrary >>> >> criterion? >>> >> >>> >> I do not have that much free time to be arguing over trivialities - I'm >>> >> trying to record history as it has happened from my perspective. If you >>> >> don't
Re: [Foundation-l] sopa debate now live
Further SOPA debate postponed 'till wednesday. https://twitter.com/#!/jasoninthehouse/status/147819972498948097 sincerly, Kim Bruning ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] [Internal-l] Regarding Berkman/Sciences Po study
I just wanted to mention here that I've started a new thread at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Berkman_Sciences_Po_banner_taken_down Since our research banner was taken down, we've been paying a great deal of attention to the various concerns raised here and on wiki about its design and functioning. So I've tried to carefully describe what kind of work we are doing now to address these concerns, with the hope that we could move forward with the research in a community compliant way and collect the 650 additional responses that we would need to complete it. I hope that this is helpful... Regards, Jérôme. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
