[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Highlights: November issue translated (Dansk, Español, Français, Italiano, 日本語, Nederlands, Tiếng Việt) / news suggestions wanted for December issue
This is to draw attention to the translations that have been made available for the November 2011 "Wikimedia Highlights" - combining some of the most relevant information from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for November 2011 with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement. Help is welcome in spreading the translated versions among the project communities for these languages, where this has not already been done.Many thanks to all translators! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/da Hovedpunkter fra Wikimedia Foundations månedsrapport og Wikimedias tekniske rapport for november 2011 med et udvalg af andre betydningsfulde hændelser i Wikimedia-bevægelsen https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/es Destacados del Informe de la Fundación Wikimedia y del informe de los ingenieros de la Fundación para el mes de noviembre de 2011, con una selección de otros eventos importantes del movimiento Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/fr Éclairages sur le rapport de la Fondation Wikimedia et le rapport d’ingénierie Wikimedia pour novembre 2011, avec une sélection d’autres évènements importants du mouvement Wikimedia. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/it Approfondimenti dal rapporto della Wikimedia Foundation e dal rapporto ingegneristico Wikimedia di novembre 2011, con una selezione di altre importanti iniziative dagli eventi di Wikimedia. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/ja 2011年11月のウィキメディア財団報告書及びウィキメディア技術報告の抄録ほかウィキメディア運動の重要行事について https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/nl Hoogtepunten uit de Wikimedia Foundationrapportage en de Wikimedia technische rapportage voor november 2011, aangevuld met een selectie van andere belangrijke gebeurtenissen binnen de Wikimediabeweging. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_November_2011/vi Những điểm nổi bật từ Bản báo cáo Wikimedia Foundation và phản hồi kỹ thuật Wikimedia vào tháng 11 năm 2011, bao gồm các sự kiện quan trọng khác của phong trào Wikimedia The December "Wikimedia Highlights" are currently being prepared. Suggestions for notable items to be covered in the short movement news part are still welcome until Tuesday afternoon UTC, see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights . Also a quick note that on the suggestion of users Timeshifter and Buster Keaton, we're starting a (still experimental) global subscription service for the "Wikimedia Highlights", similar to that of the Signpost. If you would like to receive a summary message delivered to your user talk page on any Wikimedia project right after each issue is published, add yourself to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikimedia_Highlights (at the moment this is for the English original, but eventually subscription should become available for the translated versions as well). Regards, Tilman -- Tilman Bayer Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ 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
Re: [Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet
Unfortunately, the kind of political action editors wished to promote in situations like Italy or the USA wouldn't have the same effect in more restrictive countries like China or Iran. On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Given the conversations about Bosnia and SOPA, I felt this was worth > mentioning. > > There are a number of stories online about the government limiting > Internet access within Iran: > > http://mashable.com/2012/01/06/iran-intranet-tests/ > > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57354267-83/iran-squeezes-web-surfers-prepares-censored-national-intranet/ > > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577142713916386248.html?mod=googlenews_wsj > > > Please note that I'm not volunteering to help with any actions (sorry) and > not (yet) necessarily advocating for or against action. However, I felt it > was worth mentioning topic given recent discussions and the obvious > conflict this presents for Wikimedia's interest in accessing any parts of > Iran. > > I also have it from a reliable source that their government is indeed > planning on a total Internet shut off in two weeks. I'm not comfortable > sharing more on a public listserv, but if you have a logical reason for > needing to know, email me off-list and I'll share more. :) > > Based on how I learned this, I suspect bloggers and others will be > reporting on this soon (if they aren't already). Feel free to consider it > wild speculation until then (and even after that if you'd like - I don't > mind either way), but I'm confident in the source and that their government > is preparing for these actions. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail before > it gets out of hand. > > In the interest of getting discussion going, I'll refrain from sharing my > own personal take on what's likely to happen. :) > > -greg aka varnent > > > > > --- > Gregory Varnum > Lead, Aequalitas Project > Lead Administrator, WikiQueer > Founding Principal, VarnEnt > @GregVarnum > fb.com/GregVarnum > > ___ > 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] Intellectual property policy for open organisations
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:55 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > There are an increasing number of organisations which have indicated > that their output is Creative Commons by default, however there are > not as many that have a public IP policy which clearly allows staff to > publish "their" work. > > i.e. We have moved from the IP policy being the stick used to prevent > openness, and the "work for hire" and "publish process" are the next > frontier. > > A few staff at University of Canberra (UC) have written an IP policy > proposal which clearly gives staff ownership of their work, and > requires CC licensing if their staff use organisational infrastructure > to create their work. > > http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/University_of_Canberra/Proposed_policy_on_intellectual_property > > Otago Polytechnic adopted an IP policy like that in 2007. > > http://wikieducator.org/Otago_Polytechnic/Intellectual_property > > Are there other examples, within or outside academia, where the > organisation empowers its staff by providing a policy which clarifies > when "work for hire" principle is enforced in this murky world of > online collaboration? > > Does the WMF have an intellectual property policy for works created by > WMF employees? > Employees edit and upload using free licenses under their own name, > but does the copyright belong to the employee or to the WMF? Roan provide some info re this at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-January/057377.html It would be nice if these elements of the WMF contract was placed on meta. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:22 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 8 January 2012 18:19, James Heilman wrote: > >> Thanks for the clarification. Yes we at Wikmedia Canada we had >> discussed starting a Wikisource north of the border due to the >> benefits of our copyright law. Any progress since https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Canada/Wikisource_Canada ? >> I will send this out to some of our >> members to see if anyone is interested in taking it on. > > > http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/Main_Page To elaborate on what David has pointed out, .. Yann *wants* to give wikilivres to WMCA, and Eclecticology (Ray Saintonge) has the 'wikisource.ca' domain already. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Wikimedia España Chapter Report (October-December 2011)
Hi all, You will find below the Chapter Report of Wikimedia España for the last trimester of the year. You can also find it in Meta.[1] Best regards, [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C3%B1a/2011-10-12 -- Jorge A. Sierra Presidente Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es == October == *01.10.2011: Workshop about Catalan Wikipedia at ''Aplec de la Plana''. Moncofa, Castellón. [ http://www.moncofa.com/public/?section=agenda&dia=1&mes=10&anyo=2011] *07-08.10.2011: Participation in European Heritage Days: Landscape and Archeology. Sagunto. [ http://wikimedia-es.blogspot.com/2011/10/jornadas-europeas-de-patrimonio-paisaje.html ] *21.10.2011: Interviews for article of La Vanguardia (newspaper). Barcelona. [ http://www.lavanguardia.com/estilos-de-vida/20111021/54232200370/wikipedia-cambia-de-modelo.html ] *21.10.2011: Meeting with Comunication Agency [http://www.f2-8.es/?page_id=2f2.8]. Valencia. *22-29.10.2011: Participation with Press pass at Seminci 2011. Valladolid. [ http://www.seminci.es/indexweb.php] Pictures uploaded to Commons: [ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Seminci_2011] *23.10.2011: Interwiew for article of Diario de Ferrol (newspaper). El Ferrol. [ http://www.diariodeferrol.com/index.php/periodico-impreso/ferrol/30090-ferrol-noticia ] *26.10.2011: Agreement with Real Dreams. Barcelona. *27-28.10.2011: Participation at "II Jornadas de Debate. Museos y Bibliotecas: nuevas Estrategias en Internet." (2nd Conference of debate. Museums and Libraries: new strategies in Internet) organized by Museum of Prehistory of Valencia. Valencia. [ https://sites.google.com/site/museosybibliotecaseninternet/] *28.10.2011: Participation at "VI jornadas de la asociación nacional de podcasting" (6th National Association of Postcasting Conference). Alicante. [http://jpod11.com/] == November == *01.11.2011: Official results of Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain are announced. [ http://wikimedia-es.blogspot.com/2011/11/resultados-de-wiki-loves-monuments-en.html ] *05.11.2011: Awards Ceremony of Wiki Loves Monuments in Spain. Plasencia. [ http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xm6oqk_premios-wiki-loves-monuments_news] *16.11.2011: Participation in the III Meeting of Free Knowledge in Cadiz. [ http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/III_Encuentro_sobre_Conocimiento_Libre_en_C%C3%A1diz] [http://www.uca.es/es/cargarAplicacionNoticia.do?identificador=3916] *22.11.2011: Participation in FICOD 2011: Workshop on "Wikipedia, Wikimedia and Collaborative Projects of the Digital World". Madrid. [ http://www.ficod.es/ficod/taller-debate/wikipedia-wikimedia-y-los-proyectos-colaborativos-del-mundo-digital ] *25.11.2011: Radio interview about Wikipedia in Aragón Radio 2. [ http://www.aragonradio2.com/podcast/emision/ventajas-y-riesgos-de-la-wikipedia/ ] *29.11.2011: Workshop about WikiAfrica: "How to share your knowledge about Africa in Wikipedia". Collaboration with Casa de África. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. [http://www.africafundacion.org/spip.php?article10176] [ http://www.casafrica.es/agenda_europa_africa.jsp?PROID=549005] [ http://wikimedia-es.blogspot.com/2011/12/taller-wikiafrica-en-las-palmas.html ] == December == *05.12.2011: Interview about Wikipedia in "Gaceta Tecnológica" [ http://www.gacetatecnologica.com/entrevista/2040-wiki.html] *16.12.2011: Seminar eMadrid "Wikipedia as a technology enhancing tool" at Rey Juan Carlos University. Madrid. [ http://www.emadridnet.org/en/emadrid-seminar-wikipedia-learning-tool] *16.12.2011: Interview in La Sexta (national tv) on Wikipedia and SOPA. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific
On 8 January 2012 18:19, James Heilman wrote: > Thanks for the clarification. Yes we at Wikmedia Canada we had > discussed starting a Wikisource north of the border due to the > benefits of our copyright law. I will send this out to some of our > members to see if anyone is interested in taking it on. http://www.wikilivres.info/wiki/Main_Page - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific
Thanks for the clarification. Yes we at Wikmedia Canada we had discussed starting a Wikisource north of the border due to the benefits of our copyright law. I will send this out to some of our members to see if anyone is interested in taking it on. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] New partnership: Translators Without Borders and Wikipedia's Wikiproject Medicine
Translators Without Borders and Wikipedia's Wikiproject Medicine would like to announce a partnership to improve the free global access to high quality health information. Wikipedia, as many are aware, is one of the foremost health care information resources. It is freely usable by all people globally and can be re-purposed or changed for other uses as long as Wikipedia is acknowledged and the resulting product is released under a license that allows the same. Wikipedia's 26,000 medical articles receive approximately 150-200 million page views a month in English alone with some content available in over 280 other languages. The top 300 medical articles receive more than 100,000 page views a month[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Popular_pages] and it is used extensively by both health care providers and the lay public with between 50-70% of physicians using it in clinical practice. Availability of high quality content is however limited in many languages. Even in English less than 1% of articles have passed a semi formal peer review process. Our efforts are attempting to both improve the English content and translation articles on humankind's 80 most important health care conditions to as many other languages as possible. This will be for many people the first time high quality health information becomes available in their own language. We are looking for people to both help us at Wikipedia improve articles in English and people to help Translators Without Borders do translation. We are also needing people with both language abilities and the ability or desire to learn how to edit Wikipedia to integrate the translated material back in the Wikipedia edition in question. This project is just beginning and we are planning on caring it out over the next three to five years. If you wish further details or want to become involved feel free to contact me or sign up here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Translation_task_force#People_involved_.28with_language_ability.29 . Also please be extra nice to all the people I am recruiting and give me a heads up if problems are encountered. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet
Given the conversations about Bosnia and SOPA, I felt this was worth mentioning. There are a number of stories online about the government limiting Internet access within Iran: http://mashable.com/2012/01/06/iran-intranet-tests/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57354267-83/iran-squeezes-web-surfers-prepares-censored-national-intranet/ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577142713916386248.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Please note that I'm not volunteering to help with any actions (sorry) and not (yet) necessarily advocating for or against action. However, I felt it was worth mentioning topic given recent discussions and the obvious conflict this presents for Wikimedia's interest in accessing any parts of Iran. I also have it from a reliable source that their government is indeed planning on a total Internet shut off in two weeks. I'm not comfortable sharing more on a public listserv, but if you have a logical reason for needing to know, email me off-list and I'll share more. :) Based on how I learned this, I suspect bloggers and others will be reporting on this soon (if they aren't already). Feel free to consider it wild speculation until then (and even after that if you'd like - I don't mind either way), but I'm confident in the source and that their government is preparing for these actions. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail before it gets out of hand. In the interest of getting discussion going, I'll refrain from sharing my own personal take on what's likely to happen. :) -greg aka varnent --- Gregory Varnum Lead, Aequalitas Project Lead Administrator, WikiQueer Founding Principal, VarnEnt @GregVarnum fb.com/GregVarnum ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions > Shutting Down
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 10:23, David Gerard wrote: > On 8 January 2012 09:09, Milos Rancic wrote: >> Structural help is not Wikimedia's task [yet]. There are a lot of >> other institutions which could give them money for daily operations or >> artifacts preservation and not require from them knowledge liberation. >> In other words, it's presently better for Wikimedia and regional >> cultural institutions to be separated until new generations of >> management come. Said so, any articulated action of knowledge >> liberation should be welcomed; and we should work on them. But, the >> scale difference between structural help and particular project is >> huge. > > So it sounds like the first thing we (in this case, local Wikipedians) > should do is approach them and say "We don't have money, but is there > anything else we can positively help with? What's the programme?" I think that they would treat such offer as one problem more. They want money for their salaries and artifacts preservation, not volunteers, who would prove that they could do the job with less money. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions > Shutting Down
2012/1/8 David Gerard : > > So it sounds like the first thing we (in this case, local Wikipedians) > should do is approach them and say "We don't have money, but is there > anything else we can positively help with? What's the programme?" It's not so simple - you might very well find that there is no programme. While Romania's cultural institutions are far from the desperate situation in Bosnia, they have a tradition of doing just what the bosses are asking and little more. So if the Ministry of Culture is saying "create a long term plan for conserving such or such category of artefacts", they will make and follow such a plan; otherwise, they will just go along as if degradation never happens. I expect you might find a somewhat similar situation in Bosnia - there is no boss (Ministry of Culture) and no money, so why make plans? The wikimedians willing to help should in this case concentrate on *creating* the links with institutions able to help the Bosnians either financially or with know-how. The Wiki Loves Monuments and other GLAM events showed that we have the contacts and willingness to make that happen. Anyhow, we need to consider that we've discussed this quite a lot already. Perhaps it's time for someone to take the lead on this? My personal view is that you, David, are a much better candidate than emijrp :) Strainu ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions > Shutting Down
On 8 January 2012 09:09, Milos Rancic wrote: > Structural help is not Wikimedia's task [yet]. There are a lot of > other institutions which could give them money for daily operations or > artifacts preservation and not require from them knowledge liberation. > In other words, it's presently better for Wikimedia and regional > cultural institutions to be separated until new generations of > management come. Said so, any articulated action of knowledge > liberation should be welcomed; and we should work on them. But, the > scale difference between structural help and particular project is > huge. So it sounds like the first thing we (in this case, local Wikipedians) should do is approach them and say "We don't have money, but is there anything else we can positively help with? What's the programme?" - d. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Re: [Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions > Shutting Down
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 02:42, Craig Franklin wrote: > I might just be a crypto-American chauvinist (and really, that sort of > inflammatory message is completely unnecessary on this list), so I > apologise for any ignorance on the situation, but would Wikimedia > Serbia really be the best organisation to help out here. My > understanding is that Bosnia-Serbia relations are still very... > delicate... and a Serbian organisation coming in to help out with > Bosnian cultural artefacts, no matter how well meaning, might not get > the most enthusiastic of receptions. The situation is not as bad as you think in the sense of ethnic and countries relations. Besides that, every national institution of Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs to both entities, of which one is Republic Srpska; and three constitutive nations, of which one are Serbs. However... * Much bigger problems are corruption and obstruction in Bosnia itself. * It's not clear how could Wikimedia Serbia help? There are a lot of Bosnian Wikimedians and it's better to have them organized than to go from Belgrade to Sarajevo on regular basis. * Cf. my argument in previous email: Besides extraordinary obstruction problems in Bosnia, the whole region has highly inefficient managements of cultural institutions; they are usually against knowledge liberation etc. Starting cooperation with them now would mean that we could start with some real work in a couple of years. Structural help is not Wikimedia's task [yet]. There are a lot of other institutions which could give them money for daily operations or artifacts preservation and not require from them knowledge liberation. In other words, it's presently better for Wikimedia and regional cultural institutions to be separated until new generations of management come. Said so, any articulated action of knowledge liberation should be welcomed; and we should work on them. But, the scale difference between structural help and particular project is huge. ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
