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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Release of educational videos under creative commons

2012-05-02 Thread emijrp

Another example of a recent video donation
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_from_the_Australian_Broadcasting_Corporation

2012/4/25 emijrp 

> 2012/4/24 Samuel Klein 
>
>> Where's the latest thread on the Timed Media Handler progress?
>>
>> I am meeting with MIT Open CourseWare tomorrow - they want to expand
>> the set of videos they released last year under CC-SA, starting with
>> categories / vids that would be fill gaps on Wikipedia.  Any thoughts
>> on how to make that collaboration more effective would be welcome.
>>
>> SJ
>>
>>
> You can upload them to Internet Archive, if Wikipedia has temporal issues
> with videos. When the problems are fixed, we can move them from Internet
> Archive to Wikimedia Commons.
>
> --
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> Projects: AVBOT  | 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours reminder

2012-05-02 Thread Risker

On 1 May 2012 15:32, Steven Walling  wrote:

> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Tom Morris  wrote:
>
> > On the IRC front, I note that Sue last had an IRC office hours session on
> > 13 March and there doesn't seem to be any scheduled sessions with Sue in
> > May. Might it be an idea to have another office hours session with Sue
> soon?
>
>
> I've currently got a suggestion in for Sue to have an office hours on 5/11,
> we're just in the midst of scheduling. :)
>
>

Have to say that the last several office hours (of varying nature) have all
been during "business/school hours" in the Americas - and in some cases for
(western) Europe/Africa as well - and the ones on the current schedule are
all pretty much in the middle of business hours for these regions.  When so
many office hours are occurring within the same narrow time window, it
really limits the potential participation group to the same people all the
time, and risks becoming a walled garden.  Please consider a more diverse
window for office hours in the future. And no, I don't expect that every
office hour be during a time that I'm available, but there's only been one
(out of fifteen) that occurred during the period where Wikimedians are most
active.

Risker/Anne
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours reminder

2012-05-02 Thread Nathan

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Risker  wrote:

>
> Have to say that the last several office hours (of varying nature) have all
> been during "business/school hours" in the Americas - and in some cases for
> (western) Europe/Africa as well - and the ones on the current schedule are
> all pretty much in the middle of business hours for these regions.  When so
> many office hours are occurring within the same narrow time window, it
> really limits the potential participation group to the same people all the
> time, and risks becoming a walled garden.  Please consider a more diverse
> window for office hours in the future. And no, I don't expect that every
> office hour be during a time that I'm available, but there's only been one
> (out of fifteen) that occurred during the period where Wikimedians are most
> active.
>
> Risker/Anne
> 
>

That's a good point (that I think has been made and partially addressed in
the past), and I don't to detract from it at all, but let's also note the
difficulty of scheduling off-hours "office hours" for WMF staff members -
they participate during their own work day, which for US-based staff of
course means business hours in the Americas range.

~Nathan
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours reminder

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Snow


On 5/2/2012 10:25 AM, Nathan wrote:

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Risker  wrote:

Have to say that the last several office hours (of varying nature) have all
been during "business/school hours" in the Americas - and in some cases for
(western) Europe/Africa as well - and the ones on the current schedule are
all pretty much in the middle of business hours for these regions.  When so
many office hours are occurring within the same narrow time window, it
really limits the potential participation group to the same people all the
time, and risks becoming a walled garden.  Please consider a more diverse
window for office hours in the future. And no, I don't expect that every
office hour be during a time that I'm available, but there's only been one
(out of fifteen) that occurred during the period where Wikimedians are most
active.

That's a good point (that I think has been made and partially addressed in
the past), and I don't to detract from it at all, but let's also note the
difficulty of scheduling off-hours "office hours" for WMF staff members -
they participate during their own work day, which for US-based staff of
course means business hours in the Americas range.
Also a good point. That being said, as I understand it the office staff 
are generally allowed a fairly flexible schedule, rather than being 
locked into specific hours like a 9-to-5 workday. So I'd consider it a 
generous gesture if some of them would occasionally use that flexibility 
to arrange for IRC office hours to take place in other time windows.


--Michael Snow

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours reminder

2012-05-02 Thread Sue Gardner

On 2 May 2012 10:10, Risker  wrote:

> Have to say that the last several office hours (of varying nature) have all
> been during "business/school hours" in the Americas - and in some cases for
> (western) Europe/Africa as well - and the ones on the current schedule are
> all pretty much in the middle of business hours for these regions.  When so
> many office hours are occurring within the same narrow time window, it
> really limits the potential participation group to the same people all the
> time, and risks becoming a walled garden.  Please consider a more diverse
> window for office hours in the future. And no, I don't expect that every
> office hour be during a time that I'm available, but there's only been one
> (out of fifteen) that occurred during the period where Wikimedians are most
> active.

People can help by filling out this Doodle. If a
sufficiently-geographically-representative group fills this out, that
will help us standardize on a few times that (among them) would work
for a large majority. Please share the link on IRC or wherever if you
like, to encourage broad-enough participation :-)

http://doodle.com/hnivrcvz3t5sf2gf

Thanks,
Sue

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland: monthly report April 2012

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Jahn

Dear all,

Wikimedia Deutschland's monthly report for April 2012 comes to you with
greetings from Germany's most important web conference. There is no en.wp
article about the "re:publica" (yet), so I'll link you to the German
article[1]. The re:publica 2012 takes place in Berlin, May 2-4. 270
speakers from more than 30 countries will address an audience of 4,000
bloggers, politicians and media people.

Wikimedia Deutschland is taking our core goals to this years re:publica. In
a dozen sessions at our own event booth we tell people about free
knowledge, free licenses, why Wikipedia needs more (female) editors, and
many more topics from participation to usability and quality. Among other
things, Wikidata is of course one of the most prolific subjects regarding
media coverage.

A Wikimedia recap of the event will certainly be part our next monthly
report. For now rest assured that the April report[2][3] holds its own ;-)
Go to Meta and learn about why we're posting a Wikipedian in Residence job
description and who was hired recently to support GLAM activities. Find out
about Wikidata's first month and what accounts for Wikimedia Deutschland's
upcoming surge of chapter members. No more spoilers.

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re:publica
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Deutschland/April_2012
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports

Kind regards
Michael
--
Michael Jahn
PR / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260

http://wikimedia.de

Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der
Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!

*Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales
Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition:*
http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=de

Re: [Wikimedia-l] article feedback tool, do the links really point where they should to?

2012-05-02 Thread Oliver Keyes

Thanks for bringing these issues up, Rupert :).

So, in reverse order (because I'm contrary like that!):

*The directing-people-to-edit-semi-protected-or-protected-pages issue is a
known problem :(. We're hoping to correct it in our next deployment (this
Thursday) or the following Thursday so that people aren't confronted with
such confusing messages.

*The tutorial doesn't link directly to the "edit" page, no; we thought it
would be too jarring :). Do people think we should link directly there? I'm
not adverse to doing so.

*The "learn more" text could use some clarification; I'll bring it up and
see if the designers/developers/product people think we should alter it in
the next deployment.

Thanks for these really helpful suggestions; please feel free to send me
any more you think of :)

On 1 May 2012 22:34, rupert THURNER  wrote:

> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:28 PM, rupert THURNER
>  wrote:
> > when looking at an article, a little "improve this page" popped up at
> > the bottom. can it be that some of the links are misguided?
> >
> > "learn how to edit" does not link to the "learn how to edit" page
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Editing).
> > but it links on a page telling how to navigate around, how to create
> > an account, and how to edit.
> >
> > the "learn how to edit" page,
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Editing
> > does not contain a short reason or wizard to create an account.
> >
> > the help icon "?" pops up a little window saying "wikipedia wants to
> > know what you think".
> >
> > on this little pop up there is a link "learn more" (about wikipedia
> > wants to know what you think obviously?) which then links to a help
> > page showing on top an image (png) where one should enter the
> > feedback. (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5/Help
> )
> >
> > then i tried to type in feedback into that image - which finally made
> > me write this mail :)
>
> and - if you really press edit - one ends up at an article saying:
>
> This article has a long history of vandalism. Please note that such
> disruption will be met with blocks from editing. Please report
> vandalism on this article to the administrator's vandalism
> noticeboard.
> This article uses British English and spellings such as "artefacts"
> should not be changed to American English spellings such as
> "artifacts".
> Thank you.
>
> Note: This page has been semi-protected so that only autoconfirmed
> users can edit it. If you need any help getting started with editing,
> see the New contributors' help page.
>
>
> rupert
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Deutschland: monthly report April 2012

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Jahn

Dear all,

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re:publica
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Deutschland/April_2012
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports

Kind regards
Michael
--
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PR / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260

http://wikimedia.de

Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der
Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!

*Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales
Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition:*
http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=de

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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[Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong

2012-05-02 Thread James Forrester

On behalf of the Wikimania 2013[0] selection Jury[1], I can announce
that we have awarded the conference to Hong Kong. Congratulations to
the bidding team, and to the London team who also did a particularly
excellent job.

There were five official bids: Bristol, Naples and Surakarta, as well
as the two finalists of Hong Kong and London[2]. The Jury and the
bidding teams discussed them in three public IRC meetings in April. We
determined that Hong Kong and London were the strongest contenders,
and decided to focus on these two as the finalists. After further
e-mail enquiries, and considering evaluation by Wikimedia Foundation
staff, a final, private meeting was held to reach a final decision.

The Jury was pleased by the high quality in both the final bids, and
required over three hours' discussion to reach the final verdict. We
considered each bid according to the criteria[3], focussing on
following factors: Venue, Program, Geo-location & Logistics, Local
Opportunities, Accommodations, Team & Chapter, and Budget & Finances.
We found consensus that the Hong Kong bid was the stronger, especially
because of their strong advance planning; solid support by the local
Wikimedia Chapter, the community, local government, and a partner
organisation that is experienced in planning conferences; and their
good combination of venue and accommodation.

The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off
a magnificent Wikimania, and we are pleased for our global community
to return to Asia once again. With a motivated group of volunteers who
have experience in organizing smaller Wikimedia activities, and a
partner with experience in organizing larger-scale events, they have
found a good mix to create a successful conference. The Jury did also
identify some weaker points in each the bids, and will be happy to
share those privately with the teams so that the Hong Kong team can
use that to their advantage in organizing Wikimania 2013, and the
other teams can use the feedback to improve their bids for a future
year.

We thank all candidate teams - the process is gruelling and requires a
very substantial time investment. They are all to be commended for
their submissions.

To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
Please, do join in the discussions.

Yours,

James Forrester
Moderator, Wikimania 2013 Jury
For the Wikimania 2013 Jury

[0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury
[2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
[3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_judging_criteria
[4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Advisory_Group
-- 
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jdforres...@wikimedia.org | jdforres...@gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong

2012-05-02 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede

Congratulations to the winning bid ! Its amazing to see all the hard work all 
the cities put in their bids!

And a thanks to James and all the jury members for once again going through an 
intensive process to reach a decision!

Jan-Bart





On 3 mei 2012, at 01:52, James Forrester  wrote:

> On behalf of the Wikimania 2013[0] selection Jury[1], I can announce
> that we have awarded the conference to Hong Kong. Congratulations to
> the bidding team, and to the London team who also did a particularly
> excellent job.
> 
> There were five official bids: Bristol, Naples and Surakarta, as well
> as the two finalists of Hong Kong and London[2]. The Jury and the
> bidding teams discussed them in three public IRC meetings in April. We
> determined that Hong Kong and London were the strongest contenders,
> and decided to focus on these two as the finalists. After further
> e-mail enquiries, and considering evaluation by Wikimedia Foundation
> staff, a final, private meeting was held to reach a final decision.
> 
> The Jury was pleased by the high quality in both the final bids, and
> required over three hours' discussion to reach the final verdict. We
> considered each bid according to the criteria[3], focussing on
> following factors: Venue, Program, Geo-location & Logistics, Local
> Opportunities, Accommodations, Team & Chapter, and Budget & Finances.
> We found consensus that the Hong Kong bid was the stronger, especially
> because of their strong advance planning; solid support by the local
> Wikimedia Chapter, the community, local government, and a partner
> organisation that is experienced in planning conferences; and their
> good combination of venue and accommodation.
> 
> The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off
> a magnificent Wikimania, and we are pleased for our global community
> to return to Asia once again. With a motivated group of volunteers who
> have experience in organizing smaller Wikimedia activities, and a
> partner with experience in organizing larger-scale events, they have
> found a good mix to create a successful conference. The Jury did also
> identify some weaker points in each the bids, and will be happy to
> share those privately with the teams so that the Hong Kong team can
> use that to their advantage in organizing Wikimania 2013, and the
> other teams can use the feedback to improve their bids for a future
> year.
> 
> We thank all candidate teams - the process is gruelling and requires a
> very substantial time investment. They are all to be commended for
> their submissions.
> 
> To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
> the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
> this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
> everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
> select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
> Please, do join in the discussions.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> James Forrester
> Moderator, Wikimania 2013 Jury
> For the Wikimania 2013 Jury
> 
> [0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
> [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury
> [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
> [3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_judging_criteria
> [4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Advisory_Group
> -- 
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> jdforres...@wikimedia.org | jdforres...@gmail.com
> [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong

2012-05-02 Thread Osmar Valdebenito

Congratulations to Hong Kong!

El 02-05-2012 19:52, "James Forrester"  escribió:

On behalf of the Wikimania 2013[0] selection Jury[1], I can announce
that we have awarded the conference to Hong Kong. Congratulations to
the bidding team, and to the London team who also did a particularly
excellent job.

There were five official bids: Bristol, Naples and Surakarta, as well
as the two finalists of Hong Kong and London[2]. The Jury and the
bidding teams discussed them in three public IRC meetings in April. We
determined that Hong Kong and London were the strongest contenders,
and decided to focus on these two as the finalists. After further
e-mail enquiries, and considering evaluation by Wikimedia Foundation
staff, a final, private meeting was held to reach a final decision.

The Jury was pleased by the high quality in both the final bids, and
required over three hours' discussion to reach the final verdict. We
considered each bid according to the criteria[3], focussing on
following factors: Venue, Program, Geo-location & Logistics, Local
Opportunities, Accommodations, Team & Chapter, and Budget & Finances.
We found consensus that the Hong Kong bid was the stronger, especially
because of their strong advance planning; solid support by the local
Wikimedia Chapter, the community, local government, and a partner
organisation that is experienced in planning conferences; and their
good combination of venue and accommodation.

The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off
a magnificent Wikimania, and we are pleased for our global community
to return to Asia once again. With a motivated group of volunteers who
have experience in organizing smaller Wikimedia activities, and a
partner with experience in organizing larger-scale events, they have
found a good mix to create a successful conference. The Jury did also
identify some weaker points in each the bids, and will be happy to
share those privately with the teams so that the Hong Kong team can
use that to their advantage in organizing Wikimania 2013, and the
other teams can use the feedback to improve their bids for a future
year.

We thank all candidate teams - the process is gruelling and requires a
very substantial time investment. They are all to be commended for
their submissions.

To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
Please, do join in the discussions.

Yours,

James Forrester
Moderator, Wikimania 2013 Jury
For the Wikimania 2013 Jury

[0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury
[2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
[3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_judging_criteria
[4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Advisory_Group
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong

2012-05-02 Thread Kul Wadhwa

Congratulations to Team Hong Kong!

Looking forward to dim sum in 2013 ;)

--Kul

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:52 PM, James Forrester  wrote:
> On behalf of the Wikimania 2013[0] selection Jury[1], I can announce
> that we have awarded the conference to Hong Kong. Congratulations to
> the bidding team, and to the London team who also did a particularly
> excellent job.
>
> There were five official bids: Bristol, Naples and Surakarta, as well
> as the two finalists of Hong Kong and London[2]. The Jury and the
> bidding teams discussed them in three public IRC meetings in April. We
> determined that Hong Kong and London were the strongest contenders,
> and decided to focus on these two as the finalists. After further
> e-mail enquiries, and considering evaluation by Wikimedia Foundation
> staff, a final, private meeting was held to reach a final decision.
>
> The Jury was pleased by the high quality in both the final bids, and
> required over three hours' discussion to reach the final verdict. We
> considered each bid according to the criteria[3], focussing on
> following factors: Venue, Program, Geo-location & Logistics, Local
> Opportunities, Accommodations, Team & Chapter, and Budget & Finances.
> We found consensus that the Hong Kong bid was the stronger, especially
> because of their strong advance planning; solid support by the local
> Wikimedia Chapter, the community, local government, and a partner
> organisation that is experienced in planning conferences; and their
> good combination of venue and accommodation.
>
> The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off
> a magnificent Wikimania, and we are pleased for our global community
> to return to Asia once again. With a motivated group of volunteers who
> have experience in organizing smaller Wikimedia activities, and a
> partner with experience in organizing larger-scale events, they have
> found a good mix to create a successful conference. The Jury did also
> identify some weaker points in each the bids, and will be happy to
> share those privately with the teams so that the Hong Kong team can
> use that to their advantage in organizing Wikimania 2013, and the
> other teams can use the feedback to improve their bids for a future
> year.
>
> We thank all candidate teams - the process is gruelling and requires a
> very substantial time investment. They are all to be commended for
> their submissions.
>
> To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
> the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
> this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
> everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
> select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
> Please, do join in the discussions.
>
> Yours,
>
> James Forrester
> Moderator, Wikimania 2013 Jury
> For the Wikimania 2013 Jury
>
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> [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong

2012-05-02 Thread Samuel Klein

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:52 PM, James Forrester  wrote:
>
> To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
> the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
> this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
> everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
> select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
> Please, do join in the discussions.
<
> [4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Advisory_Group

A standing community group that helps guide wikimania bids would be wonderful.
Let's make it happen!  Are any of ths year's jurors interested in
being involved over the coming months in that sort of work?

SJ

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[Wikimedia-l] IRC office hours with the Wikimedia blog team on May 9

2012-05-02 Thread Tilman Bayer

The team behind https://blog.wikimedia.org/ will hold its first IRC
Office hours on Wednesday, May 9th at 18:00 UTC.

We invite everyone who wants to discuss ideas for future posts
highlighting interesting aspects of the community's work (e.g. some of
the recent innovations in the sister projects, or some of the great
organizing around events by Chapters and other individuals). We also
want to hear your questions about the blog's publishing process or
feedback you have for us from the readers' perpective.

Office hours are held in #wikimedia-office on the freenode IRC network.
More details, time conversions and logs of past office hours can be found at
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] [Commons-POTY-l] 10th anniversary of Wikimedia Commons

2012-05-02 Thread Mateus Nobre

Hahaha, right in the Brazilian independence day ;P

I am thinking in something really big.
Something like ''Wikimedia Commons, showing the world with free media''.

And, the best Common's images of all times, in a global scope (like, each
one of every nice place of our planet).

Good luck. {{support}}

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 1:46 PM, とある白い猫 wrote:

> The voting could be carried out with the global event. Vote eligibility
> could be participating in the events for example.
>
> Of course not every country will have an event so not sure if this approach
> is a good one.
>
>  -- とある白い猫  (To Aru Shiroi Neko)
>
>
> 2012/4/18 Tadija Mileti? 
>
> >   Hmm, and maybe something where we can invite more people to Wikipedia?
> > Billboards with :
> >
> > Join decade of knowledge. Participate! Write new article!
> >
> > Or something similar. I am also against POT-DEC, poor thing for big
> global
> > event such as this.
> >
> >  --WhiteWriter
> >
> >  *From:* Gnangarra 
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 18, 2012 9:45 AM
> > *To:* Wikimedia Commons Discussion List 
> > *Cc:* smole...@eunet.rs ; Wikimedia Mailing List<
> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
> > *Subject:* Re: [Commons-l] [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-POTY-l] 10th
> > anniversary of Wikimedia Commons
> >
> > Why not a world wide Wikitakes or a Photowalk day that way everyone
> > everywhere can participate in it, no need for big off Commons
> organisation
> >
> > 2012/4/18 とある白い猫 
> >
> >> I do not think we want to select POT-DEC (lets not call it POTD which is
> >> something else :) ) from older POTYs since we don't have a large number
> to
> >> choose from. Also, it would be very boring to re-nominate the same
> winner
> >> again. If anything existing POTY winners perhaps should be disqualified
> for
> >> this reason.
> >>
> >> I am not too sure about the procedure would be best to be honest. I hope
> >> this discussion would determine that very aspect. :)
> >>
> >> US GLAM is appealing but we do want something global. Certainly US GLAM
> >> partnerships should be part of it but they should not be all of it.
> >> WikiLoves Monuments was a good precursor to this kind of activity.
> Perhaps
> >> a kind of "lessons learned" assessment may be useful while working on
> this.
> >>
> >>   -- とある白い猫 (To Aru Shiroi Neko)
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 07:31, Nikola Smolenski  >wrote:
> >>
> >>> > > 2012/4/17 とある白い猫 :
> >>>
> >>> > > > We already have POTY as an annual event so perhaps a "decade"
> >>> event could
> >>> > > > be something interesting to consider.
> >>>
> >>> The obvious: select POTD from all the POTYs :)
> >>>
> >>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong

2012-05-02 Thread Mateus Nobre

Awesome!!!

Congratulations!
Hope to be there.

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:52 PM, James Forrester wrote:

> On behalf of the Wikimania 2013[0] selection Jury[1], I can announce
> that we have awarded the conference to Hong Kong. Congratulations to
> the bidding team, and to the London team who also did a particularly
> excellent job.
>
> There were five official bids: Bristol, Naples and Surakarta, as well
> as the two finalists of Hong Kong and London[2]. The Jury and the
> bidding teams discussed them in three public IRC meetings in April. We
> determined that Hong Kong and London were the strongest contenders,
> and decided to focus on these two as the finalists. After further
> e-mail enquiries, and considering evaluation by Wikimedia Foundation
> staff, a final, private meeting was held to reach a final decision.
>
> The Jury was pleased by the high quality in both the final bids, and
> required over three hours' discussion to reach the final verdict. We
> considered each bid according to the criteria[3], focussing on
> following factors: Venue, Program, Geo-location & Logistics, Local
> Opportunities, Accommodations, Team & Chapter, and Budget & Finances.
> We found consensus that the Hong Kong bid was the stronger, especially
> because of their strong advance planning; solid support by the local
> Wikimedia Chapter, the community, local government, and a partner
> organisation that is experienced in planning conferences; and their
> good combination of venue and accommodation.
>
> The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off
> a magnificent Wikimania, and we are pleased for our global community
> to return to Asia once again. With a motivated group of volunteers who
> have experience in organizing smaller Wikimedia activities, and a
> partner with experience in organizing larger-scale events, they have
> found a good mix to create a successful conference. The Jury did also
> identify some weaker points in each the bids, and will be happy to
> share those privately with the teams so that the Hong Kong team can
> use that to their advantage in organizing Wikimania 2013, and the
> other teams can use the feedback to improve their bids for a future
> year.
>
> We thank all candidate teams - the process is gruelling and requires a
> very substantial time investment. They are all to be commended for
> their submissions.
>
> To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
> the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
> this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
> everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
> select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
> Please, do join in the discussions.
>
> Yours,
>
> James Forrester
> Moderator, Wikimania 2013 Jury
> For the Wikimania 2013 Jury
>
> [0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
> [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury
> [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
> [3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_judging_criteria
> [4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Advisory_Group
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong

2012-05-02 Thread Nurunnaby Chowdhury

Congrtz Hong kong team!

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Mateus Nobre wrote:

> Awesome!!!
>
> Congratulations!
> Hope to be there.
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:52 PM, James Forrester  >wrote:
>
> > On behalf of the Wikimania 2013[0] selection Jury[1], I can announce
> > that we have awarded the conference to Hong Kong. Congratulations to
> > the bidding team, and to the London team who also did a particularly
> > excellent job.
> >
> > There were five official bids: Bristol, Naples and Surakarta, as well
> > as the two finalists of Hong Kong and London[2]. The Jury and the
> > bidding teams discussed them in three public IRC meetings in April. We
> > determined that Hong Kong and London were the strongest contenders,
> > and decided to focus on these two as the finalists. After further
> > e-mail enquiries, and considering evaluation by Wikimedia Foundation
> > staff, a final, private meeting was held to reach a final decision.
> >
> > The Jury was pleased by the high quality in both the final bids, and
> > required over three hours' discussion to reach the final verdict. We
> > considered each bid according to the criteria[3], focussing on
> > following factors: Venue, Program, Geo-location & Logistics, Local
> > Opportunities, Accommodations, Team & Chapter, and Budget & Finances.
> > We found consensus that the Hong Kong bid was the stronger, especially
> > because of their strong advance planning; solid support by the local
> > Wikimedia Chapter, the community, local government, and a partner
> > organisation that is experienced in planning conferences; and their
> > good combination of venue and accommodation.
> >
> > The Jury has confidence that the Hong Kong bidding team will pull off
> > a magnificent Wikimania, and we are pleased for our global community
> > to return to Asia once again. With a motivated group of volunteers who
> > have experience in organizing smaller Wikimedia activities, and a
> > partner with experience in organizing larger-scale events, they have
> > found a good mix to create a successful conference. The Jury did also
> > identify some weaker points in each the bids, and will be happy to
> > share those privately with the teams so that the Hong Kong team can
> > use that to their advantage in organizing Wikimania 2013, and the
> > other teams can use the feedback to improve their bids for a future
> > year.
> >
> > We thank all candidate teams - the process is gruelling and requires a
> > very substantial time investment. They are all to be commended for
> > their submissions.
> >
> > To use this soap-box for a moment, as Moderator I would like to remind
> > the community that we hope that this time was the last that we use
> > this ad-hoc process to decide on the Wikimania venue, and encourage
> > everyone to engage with the discussion on Meta[4] about how we might
> > select Wikimania 2014 and beyond in a more open, community-led way.
> > Please, do join in the discussions.
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > James Forrester
> > Moderator, Wikimania 2013 Jury
> > For the Wikimania 2013 Jury
> >
> > [0] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013
> > [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_jury
> > [2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids
> > [3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_judging_criteria
> > [4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Advisory_Group
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