[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 04 -- 23 January 2012
News and notes: SOPA blackout, Orange http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-23/News_and_notes In the news: World watched as Wikipedia shut down for SOPA blackout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-23/In_the_news WikiProject report: The Golden Horseshoe: WikiProject Toronto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-23/WikiProject_report Featured content: Interview with Muhammad Mahdi Karim and the best of the week http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-23/Featured_content Arbitration report: Four open cases, proposed decision in Muhammad images, AUSC call for applications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-23/Arbitration_report Technology report: Looking ahead to MediaWiki 1.19 and related issues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-23/Technology_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-23 http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost ___ 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] iBooks vs. wBooks?
Hi Gerard, if you read my original email, I do emphasise Apple's walled garden, and my proposal is specifically *not* to put our contents there. Rather, I would like us to take advantage of the breach in the educational material monopol that Apple will undoubtedly create, by generating our own pure-HTML5 books (which I call wBooks to differentiate from Apples iBooks), which would work on all tablets (and probably phones), not just the iPad. Cheers, Magnus On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:42 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, The EULA currently in use prohibits the use of material that is offered anywhere except in the Apple store. They have also broken the mold of the standard. Consequently adopting the Apple model would technically support Apple devices. Both reasons are enough not to use Apple at all in an education setting and for material available under a free license. Thanks, Gerard On 25 January 2012 23:12, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: I'm confused by what you mean by walled garden. If this were the same as the App Store model where they have a custom iOS app format and their store is the only place to get it - that would make sense to me. That doesn't seem to be the case here.. My understanding was the ebooks created with iBook Author works in any ebooks store that supports HTML5 standards. I've been testing some ebooks we threw together on lots of devices (almost all non-Apple) with no problems. We've even turned some of them into interactive web pages. I haven't heard of this software breaking the current standard so much as further enabling HTML5 within it - but I could be wrong. -greg On Jan 25, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, I think we should not support Apple in breaking the standard and in preventing us from using our work anywhere else. We take pride in being freely licensed and there is no excuse for the walled garden approach taken by Apple. There is also no excuse for us endorsing this behaviour. Obviously as what we do is freely licensed or public domain you can do whatever as long as the license requirements are maintained. I am sure that as a consequence you cannot legally publish in Apple's walled garden. I hate to see anything done in this area that is endorsed by the Wikimedia Foundation. Thanks, Gerard On 20 January 2012 10:46, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote: (This mail is focused on books, but the topic is of more general interest IMHO, thus foundation-l) Hi all, I just saw the iBooks Author news: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/19/a-closer-look-at-ibooks-author-textbooks-and-exclusivity/ Of course, all these pretty books will be only available in the Apple paywalled garden. So I thought: As they use basically HTML5 (plus a few proprietary libraries), could we produce such interactive, tablet/phone-enabled e-books (wBooks as in Wikimedia:-) from free content? I believe the answer is yes, though it might be quite a push technologically (just to be clear, I am speaking of the books here, not of the authoring software). Also: Should we? I believe the answer is yes as well, for two reasons. One, Apples work here might (yet again) set a new standard, which means everything falling short of that standard will be neglected by the target audience, which runs counter to our declared goal of disseminating free knowledge; standing still might well mean falling behind. Another reason is the opportunity that Apple creates for us here: Once such e-books become accepted as general teaching tools in schools, it will be much easier to switch from Apple-only, costly books to run-everywhere, free books; they might just win the technology battle for us. What do you think? Cheers, Magnus ___ 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 ___ 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] Adding a comment section under every Wikipedia article
Yao Ziyuan is thinking along the right lines. Wikipedia can be more than it currently is. We need experiments, we need to be experimental again. FT2 makes the excellent case that we need a level of 'insulation' to protect our existing project from the potential negative effects of failed experiments. FT2 asks: 3. *Discussion of the _topic_, or general chat, forum-y stuff, random whatever* ... What is worth asking is, is there a place in Wikimedia for (3)? My own answer is a resounding yes.The total set of the world's personal opinion is an exciting data set. Facebook, Google+, and Twitter capture discussion data in bulk. But Facebook and Google and Twitter don't have Wikimedia's Values. I don't trust Facebook with my data. I don't trust Google+ with my data-- they unilaterally change their privacy policies. For-Profit companies sell out their users and we all know that's a risk. At the same time, we know that Wikimedia respects its users. Wikimedia stops things like SOPA in the tracks. I trust Wikimedia. The more data we have, the more services we provide, the more our movement thrives and the more we prove that Wikimedia Values work. Whenever feasible, grow grow. Don't just be Wikipedia-- be more! :) AlecMeta ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool - Office Hours, 27th January, 19:00 UTC
Hey guys We'll be holding another AFT office hours session at 19:00 tomorrow, in #wikimedia-office; hope to see a lot of you there :). If you can't make it, drop me an email and I'll send you the logs. Thanks! -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] ACTA signed but not ratified Re: ACTA analysis?
==Update== ACTA has been signed by the EU and 22 member states, but must still be ratified. We have time for a good analysis, and time to set up a game plan before that time. OTOH If we decide to act, we shouldn't be *too* slow, or we'll lose the momentum that has built up. Currently la quadrature du net is coordinated best. http://www.laquadrature.net/en/acta-signed-by-the-eu-lets-defeat-it-together https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA sincerly, Kim Bruning -- ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Official Wikipedia Android App Released
In case you missed our blog post or reports in the tech media: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/26/announcing-the-official-wikipedia-android-app/ https://market.android.com/details?id=org.wikipedia We recently released the first version of a Wikipedia smartphone app for Android phones. It's based on Apache Cordova (AKA Phonegap), and of course fully open source. I'm really proud of our mobile team; it's a great app and if you haven't tried it already, you should. :-) This is still an early release and lots of fixes and enhancements are yet to come. All best, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ 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] Call for moderators
Hi everyone -
Sue has asked me to create a mailing list to discuss advocacy and
Wikimedia's position in it for the future. Although I don't yet have the
list created, I wanted to put out a call for moderators. If you're
interested in moderating this mailing list (a bit more of an active
moderation role, nudging people on topic, etc), would you please let me
know by private email (philippe{{@}}wikimedia.org)? Depending on how many
people express interest, I'll figure out how we proceed forward.
Thanks!
pb
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