[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011: Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Promo

[Itzik Edri]

Hi,

Someone asked me today about the 10th Anniversary video that we made to
Wikimania in Haifa...

And I just realized that we didn't share him with the people who didn't
came to Wikimania, so about six months after:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISIRS3Qj8NM

If someone want the video as a file for screening, I can send him..

We going to show it again on our editors conference that we are hosting on
Friday to celebrate the 11th Anniversary :)


Itzik
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Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Legal strategy background doc

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Great overview Geoff!

- Sent from my mobile device
On Dec 29, 2011 11:58 PM, "Philippe Beaudette" 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Prior to office hours, Geoff prepared a nice legal strategy overview.
>  Based on the interest there, I thought it might make sense to distribute
> this more widely so that everyone knows what the Foundation's legal team is
> up to and what their priorities are.
>
> You can read the document at:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Geoffbrigham/Strategy.
>
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[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 videos - mission complete!

[Itzik Edri]

Hi,

*I happy to announce that all the videos from Wikimania 2011 in Haifa are
now available on our channel in YouTube!: http://www.youtube.com/WikimediaIL
.*
Next week I will send a HDD with all the footage and the edited videos to
the WMF so they will have a copy for archive and so they can upload it to
commons also.

*Don't forget also to check our Flickr stream!:
http://www.flickr.com/WikimediaIL*

On the schedule you will find links to the videos:
http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schedule

Also, on each submissions page there is a links to the video, slides and
Etherpad (if available). *For the presenter who didn't upload their slides
yet, please do so and update your submissions page.*

*** Bonus! - a video clip that we made after Wikimania to summarize the
(amazing!) beach party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1-MzHGA6fc ***

It was harder than we thought - to record 3 days, in 5 simulation
High-Definition cameras, and than edit, upload and tag them - really not an
easy thing. What we thought will take us few weeks, took about 2 months -
but I'm happy that we finish with that finally :)

I think now we've made this step, we finished our commitment to the
community and to the conference participants. I Hope everyone will enjoy
and will found our (hard) work useful. I personally going to find time to
watch some of lectures... (a tip for Wikimania organizers - don't plan to
attend session during the conference, you will fail :).

And some statistics:
We have about 2TB of footages, 135GB of edit videos, all of them are in HD.
During the confrtence we produce 3 summaries video clips (and one more
after that)
Until now the videos on our YouTube channel had been watched more than
16,000 times and our Flickr stream, who have 1,425 photos been seen more
than 83,000 times!


Thanks everyone for the great opportunity to have this conference in Haifa,
and good luck to the great guys in D.C next year!


Itzik
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(probably the last time i'm going to use this title...)
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Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Poland to start a travelling POTY pictures exhibition in Warsaw (an announcement)

[Itzik Edri]

Tomasz, that's absolutely great project and from the pictures he look
amazing.

During Wikimania in Haifa we also held a POTY exhibition, but I must say -
your exhibition is lovely and look much more professional!

Good luck!

Itzik.

2011/11/24 Tomasz Kozłowski 

> [I am crossposting this announcement to two mailing lists, feel free to
> pick up the topic on either of them.]
>
> Dear All,
> I am--yet again!--delighted to announce that Wikimedia Polska, the
> Polish chapter of the WMF, is organising a travelling exhibition of the
> winning POTY contest pictures. 16 images chosen by Wikimedians from all
> over the world in the annual POTY contests from 2006 onwards are going
> to be shown at exhibitions in various places around Poland.
>
> As some of you may recall, the exhibition premièred during the 10th
> anniversary of the Polish Wikipedia conference, having been visited by a
> few hundred visitors in just two weeks; some images from the pubic
> viewing of the exhibition are available on Wikimedia Commons at
> <
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Picture_of_the_Year_exhibition_-_Pozna%C5%84_2011
> >.
>
> Our first stop is Przystanek Książka (a Polish wordplay for "Book
> Break"), a media library of the Public Library of the district of Ochota
> in Warsaw. The exhibition starts on Monday, November 28, and will remain
> until the end of the year. 16 pictures, the best of the best of the
> Wikimedia movement, will be shown in an exhibition open for the public,
> with descriptions available in Polish, English and German.
>
> For those of you currently living in Warsaw or going to visit the
> capital in the upcoming weeks: the library is located at 42 Grójecka
> Street, just two tram stops (and 8 minutes) away from the Warsaw Central
> railway station (tram lines "9" and "25"), and is open on working days
> from 10 AM until 7 PM (2 PM-7 PM on Wednesdays).
>
> We are still looking for more organisations and institutions willing to
> hold the exhibition--if  there's anyone from the neighbouring (European)
> countries willing to get involved or just looking for some information,
> feel free to approach me at .
>
> We hope to have a great event, and even if you can't visit the
> exhibition, please keep your fingers crossed that it goes well, and
> spread the news!
>
> PS For those going to take a peek at the exhibition _in real life_,
> there's also a Facebook event:
> .
>
> Regards,
> --
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>
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Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Thank you from the Wikimedia Foundation

[Itzik Edri]

Congratulations and thank you for everyone who working on it. the next 2
month is not going to be easier! :)



On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Sue Gardner wrote:

> The campaign for this year is officially launched! Congratulations to
> everyone working on it, and fingers crossed for its success.
>
> Thanks,
> Sue
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: "Sue Gardner" 
> Date: Nov 15, 2011 2:30 PM
> Subject: Thank you from the Wikimedia Foundation
> To: "Susan Gardner" 
>
> Dear Susan,
>
> You are amazing, thank you so much for donating to the Wikimedia
> Foundation!
>
> This is how we pay our bills -- it's people like you, giving five dollars,
> twenty dollars, a hundred dollars. My favourite donation last year was five
> pounds from a little girl in England, who had persuaded her parents to let
> her donate her allowance. It's people like you, joining with that girl, who
> make it possible for Wikipedia to continue providing free, easy access to
> unbiased information, for everyone around the world. For everyone who helps
> pay for it, and for those who can't afford to help. Thank you so much.
>
> I know it's easy to ignore our appeals, and I'm glad that you didn't. From
> me, and from the tens of thousands of volunteers who write Wikipedia: thank
> you for helping us make the world a better place. We will use your money
> carefully, and I thank you for your trust in us.
>
> Thanks,
>
> *Sue Gardner*
> Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director
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Re: [Foundation-l] Tragedy: videos and slides from presentations Wikimanias (lately 2011 in Haifa)

[Itzik Edri]

JFI...

I Just finish upload about 15 videos you our channel on youtube. the editor
is working on the rest of them, and we uploading them (again, very heavy
files..). As I said, I hope that until of the month we will finish edit,
upload, and tag them..

http://www.youtube.com/WikimediaIL


Itzik

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Jan Kucera (Kozuch) wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I think WMF should set up some "quality measures" to make sure there
> actually is some reasonable online output from every Wikimedia conference.
> There might be thousands of editors not being able to attend but wanting to
> watch what was going on. Now you have to dig and beg for any slides or video
> on Commons. I do not know the decision process for a location but so far
> almost every host failed miserably to deliver some reasonable online content
> like videos and slides from the presentations.
>
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Re: [Foundation-l] Tragedy: videos and slides from presentations Wikimanias (lately 2011 in Haifa)

[Itzik Edri]

Hi,

As I said before - all Wikimania sessions had been recorded (in HD format!).
As everyone who work with video know, to produce 120 hours of HD videos, is
not an easy thing at all.

We had to finish a lot of administrative work which related to Wikimania,
and we just back to take care for this issue - to edit, decode and upload.
Videos are already on their way online to Youtube and we hope to upload all
of them until the end of the month. After we will finish that, we will need
to find more time again to decode them and compress them so we can upload to
Commons (every decode file who been uploads right now to youtube is about
3-4GB).

All the footage are backup on two hard drive, one that belong to Wikimedia
Israel and one which will be sent to WMF for archive. So we have all the
data, and it is only matter of time. Be patients please.

Itzik

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Jan Kucera (Kozuch) wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I think WMF should set up some "quality measures" to make sure there
> actually is some reasonable online output from every Wikimedia conference.
> There might be thousands of editors not being able to attend but wanting to
> watch what was going on. Now you have to dig and beg for any slides or video
> on Commons. I do not know the decision process for a location but so far
> almost every host failed miserably to deliver some reasonable online content
> like videos and slides from the presentations.
>
> Kozuch
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Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 video on Commons?

[Itzik Edri]

Each files is about 2GB size... As commons allow us to upload only 100MB per
file, we will need later to resize them and upload them via the sys-admins..
Now we trying to finish working on the original files so they could be
upload to youtube. Commons is, of course, is our next task...


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Waihorace  wrote:

> I am interest in using them on wiki. Thanks.
>
> HW
>
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> 傳送日期︰ 2011年08月10日 (週三) 5:54 PM
> 主題︰ Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011 video on Commons?
>
>
> Not yet.
>
> So far you can find some videos here:
> http://www.youtube.com/user/WikimediaIL
>
> But they will be in Commons soon
> _
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> acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a
> fazer.
>
>
>
> On 10 August 2011 02:40, Waihorace  wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> >
> >Are the Wikimania 2011 video on YouTube aviliable on Wikimedia Commons?
> Where is the link? Thanks.
> >
> >HW@zhwp
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Re: [Foundation-l] Scheduled intermittent downtime on all Wikimedia projects on May 24

[Itzik Edri]

I totally agree with Thomas.

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Thomas Morton  wrote:

> So, just a quick thought for future reference - during maintenance is it
> possible in future to update the error message to explain that maintenance
> is ongoing?
>
> Seeing as how widely WMF projects are used by a non-technical project the
> current MySQL connection error I am seeing on Commons is just going to
> cause
> confusion :) And the standard error page WIkipedia was showing a minute ago
> is not particularly helpful/explanatory in this specific situation.
>
> Indeed, given the almost certainty of downtime from this maintenance, would
> it not just be best to bite the bullet (in such cases) and take the
> affected
> sites off-line with a useful maintenance message? It's essentially the same
> end point.
>
> What's the best way of addressing this suggestion to the right people?
> (i.e.
> the ops team?)
>
> Tom
>
> On 23 May 2011 21:19, Guillaume Paumier  wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > The Wikimedia Foundation will be performing network maintenance on
> > Tuesday, May 24 between 13:00 and 14:00 (UTC) (see other timezones on
> > timeanddate.com: http://ur1.ca/49cl2 ).
> >
> > During the maintenance period, you may experience intermittent
> > connection issues to Wikimedia Foundation websites, including
> > wikipedia.org.
> >
> > We have been experiencing router networking issues (and as a direct
> > result, latency issues) since last week. After much investigation, and
> > temporary fixes, the Operations team decided to update the router
> > software and tune the configuration.
> >
> > We apologize for the inconvenience.
> >
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Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Announcing new Chief Global Development Officer and new Chief Community Officer

[Itzik Edri]

More Canadians to the staff?! I tought we already talk about that!!!

Good luck :)

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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Sue Gardner  wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Forwarding from the announce list, since it does not yet auto-forward :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Sue
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Sue Gardner 
> Date: 2 June 2010 19:08
> Subject: Announcing new Chief Global Development Officer and new Chief
> Community Officer
> To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I am really happy to announce two important new Wikimedia Foundation
> hires.  Zack Exley will be Wikimedia's new Chief Community Officer,
> and Barry Newstead will be our Chief Global Development Officer.  Both
> will start just before Wikimania, and will join us in Gdansk.
>
> There will be a press release going out tomorrow, but the news isn't
> confidential: please feel free to tell whoever you like.
>
> Zack Exley will be our new Chief Community Officer.  Zack joins
> Wikimedia from the Chicago-based firm Thoughtworks where he oversaw
> strategy and technology projects for organizations like Obama For
> America, Rock the Vote, and Global Zero.
>
> Zack has a long history of mobilizing people and facilitating them
> reaching their goals.  During the nineties, he worked as a labour
> organizer and software developer.  In 2002, he joined MoveOn.org as
> director of organizing, where he ran mobilization and fundraising
> campaigns – and in the same period, helped the Howard Dean campaign
> with its online fundraising.  Zack left MoveOn.org to become online
> communications and organizing director for the 2004 Kerry-Edwards U.S.
> presidential campaign, where he ran the team that raised $125 million
> online for Kerry, and also oversaw online-to-offline organizing
> efforts responsible for mobilizing hundreds of thousands of field
> volunteers.  In 2005, he led internet strategy and online fundraising
> for the UK Labour Party's 2005 election campaign, and since 2005 he
> has acted as a senior strategist and advisor helping many
> mission-driven organizations advance their fundraising and
> mobilization goals, including the American Civil Liberties Union,
> Amnesty International, the National Association for the Advancement of
> Colored People (NAACP), the International Rescue Committee and
> Greenpeace USA.
>
> Zack grew up in Connecticut and has also lived in Kenya, China and the
> United Kingdom. He has an BA in Economics from the University of
> Massachusetts.
>
> As Chief Community Officer, Zack will be responsible for developing
> the Wikimedia Foundation's relationships with key constituencies
> including readers, editors and donors.  This will include our work
> aimed at recruiting new editors (including the public policy project)
> and supporting community health, as well as fundraising. The people
> who will report to Zack are Philippe, Cary, Frank, Rand, Rebecca and
> Sara, plus their direct reports.
>
> Zack currently lives in Kansas City: he'll be relocating to the Bay
> Area in July.
>
> Barry Newstead will be our Chief Global Development Officer.  Some of
> you know Barry from Buenos Aires or Berlin, where he attended
> Wikimania and the chapters meeting, respectively.  He comes to us from
> the strategy consultancy firm The Bridgespan Group, where he has spent
> the past year leading the Bridgespan team supporting Wikimedia with
> its strategic planning process.  For the past six years, Barry has led
> Bridgespan's work in education innovation and social technology, which
> mainly consisted of working with CEOs on strategy development,
> organizational development and leadership issues.  Prior to joining
> Bridgespan, he spent eight years at The Boston Consulting Group, where
> he worked with global clients in the financial services, media and
> energy sectors on global strategy, organizational restructuring,
> change management and post-merger integration.
>
> Barry was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and raised in Toronto,
> Canada.  He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Western
> Ontario, and a master's degree in public policy from the John F.
> Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
>
> In this new role with us, Barry will be our Chief Global Development
> Officer (CGDO), the position formerly known as the Chief (Global)
> Programs Officer.  As CGDO, Barry will be responsible for our
> activities focused specifically on in