Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia ED Sue Gardner named to Global Voices Board of Directors
wonderful news! Congratulations, Sue! Oona On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:35 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Jay Walsh wrote: Hi folks - happy to share this news that WMF and Global Voices are releasing today. Also posted on the WM Blog, https://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=21160 [...] SAN FRANCISCO -- January 16, 2013 -- The Wikimedia Foundation is happy to announce that Sue Gardner has been named to the Board of Directors at Global Voices. Global Voices is a community of more than 1300 authors and translators in dozens of countries around the world that publishes reports from global citizen journalists, with an emphasis on voices that aren't ordinarily heard in major international media. “Global Voices does great work, and I’m really looking forward to sharing experiences and expertise with the people involved there.” said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “The Wikimedia Foundation and Global Voices hold a lot of the same values, and for me the most important is our shared commitment to freedom of expression. The world needs strong voices advocating for internet users’ right to express themselves and to access information without impediment.” Congrats, Sue! :-) Global Voices is lucky to have you. Given the mention of global citizen journalists in the blog post, I was a little surprised to not see a mention of Wikinews. Some collaboration between the Wikinewsies and the Global Voices folks might be good to explore. (I'll admit that I'm still somewhat trying to wrap my head around what Global Voices exactly is, but a collaboration between the two seemed like it might have promise. If I'm off-base, ignore me.) MZMcBride ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia, top Internet brand in Germany
On 01/17/2013 02:08 PM, Quim Gil wrote: Wikipedia has debunked Google as top Internet brand in Germany, according to http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/handel/yougov-brandindex-2012-das-sind-die-lieblingsmarken-der-deutschen/7643120.html We're almost as popular as chocolate and skin cream (Ritter Sport, Nivea)! Maybe someone is capable of finding the actual index (not me at 6am, apparently). I found another source for this story, but apparently YouGov, the company behind the ranking, hasn't made any press release yet or put the actual ranking online http://www.markenartikel-magazin.de/no_cache/unternehmen-marken/artikel/details/1004363-beliebteste-marken-der-deutschen-canon-vorn/ Kudos Wikipedia! --Tobias ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia, top Internet brand in Germany
On 17 January 2013 14:37, Tobias church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com wrote: Maybe someone is capable of finding the actual index (not me at 6am, apparently). I found another source for this story, but apparently YouGov, the company behind the ranking, hasn't made any press release yet or put the actual ranking online http://www.markenartikel-magazin.de/no_cache/unternehmen-marken/artikel/details/1004363-beliebteste-marken-der-deutschen-canon-vorn/ Here's their release (in German) and links to the top-5 rankings in each category: https://research.yougov.de/presse/2013/pressemeldung-yougov-topperformer-brandindex-2012/ -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia, top Internet brand in Germany
Tobias church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com wrote: On 01/17/2013 02:08 PM, Quim Gil wrote: Wikipedia has debunked Google as top Internet brand in Germany, according to http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/handel/yougov-brandindex-2012-das-sind-die-lieblingsmarken-der-deutschen/7643120.html We're almost as popular as chocolate and skin cream (Ritter Sport, Nivea)! Maybe someone is capable of finding the actual index (not me at 6am, apparently). I found another source for this story, but apparently YouGov, the company behind the ranking, hasn't made any press release yet or put the actual ranking online http://www.markenartikel-magazin.de/no_cache/unternehmen-marken/artikel/details/1004363-beliebteste-marken-der-deutschen-canon-vorn/ Kudos Wikipedia! Here it is: http://research.yougov.de/presse/2013/pressemeldung-yougov-topperformer-brandindex-2012/o Posted https://twitter.com/saperski/status/291927761281486849 //Saper ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation named Knight News Challenge winner
(This press release is also available online at: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_Knight_News_Challenge_winner) Wikimedia Foundation named winner of Knight News Challenge $600,000 in Knight Foundation funding supports innovation across Wikimedia mobile initiatives SAN FRANCISCO, CA - January 17, 2013 - The Wikimedia Foundation was named a winner in the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge for its efforts to expand and improve Wikimedia's mobile projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is enhancing the Wikipedia mobile experience and making it easier to access Wikipedia, particularly for readers in developing countries. As mobile technology is increasingly the primary opportunity for billions of people around the world to access the Internet, the Wikimedia Foundation is working to remove the two biggest hurdles to access free knowledge: cost and accessibility. The News Challenge grant will be utilized in four areas: *Improving the way that users experience our mobile platform on feature phones; *Expanding Wikipedia Zero, which gives mobile users free access to Wikipedia on their phones; *Developing features to improve the mobile experience regardless of how feature-rich the device is, including new ways to access Wikipedia via texting; *Increasing the number of languages that can access Wikipedia on mobile. The Wikimedia Foundation is one of eight mobile projects to receive a total of $2.4 million today through the Knight News Challenge, which accelerates projects with funding and advice from Knight's network of media innovators. A full list is at knightfoundation.org. Knight Foundation's funding will support us making the mobile version of Wikipedia easier to use, as well as enabling us to expand Wikipedia Zero, our project with mobile operators that lets their customers access Wikipedia for free, said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm very happy Knight has chosen to support us; it's an important affirmation of our mobile work. Knight Foundation, the nation’s leading funder of journalism and media innovation, is committed to promoting democracy by supporting informed and engaged communities. Founded by newsmen John S. and James L. Knight, the foundation launched the Knight News Challenge in 2007 to find the next generation of innovations that help communities get the information they need. Wikipedia has helped define the way that people collaboratively create content. Making the site available to more people across the world will help foster and spread that culture, said John Bracken, director for journalism and media innovation at Knight Foundation. The $600,000 News Challenge grant is for two years and follows a general support grant of $250,000 that Knight Foundation awarded to the Wikimedia Foundation in December 2012. The Wikimedia Foundation and the other winners of the challenge will present their projects via live Web stream at 12:30 p.m. ET/ 10:30 a.m. MT Friday, January 18 at knightfoundation.org/live, from a gathering on the future of mobile at Arizona State University. (Follow #newschallenge on Twitter.) About the Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 483 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, November 2012). Available in 285 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 24 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of roughly 80,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. Press contact Jay Walsh Senior Director, Communications Wikimedia Foundation Tel. +1 415-860-8166 jwa...@wikimedia.org About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. The foundation believes that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. For more, visit knightfoundation.org or newschallenge.org Press contact Andrew Sherry VP for Communications, Knight Foundation Tel. 305-908-2677 she...@knightfoundation.org (To unsubscribe from Wikimedia Foundation press releases, reply with unsubscribe in the subject line.) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia ED Sue Gardner named to Global Voices Board of Directors
(this announcement is also posted online at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Sue_Gardner_joins_Global_Voices_board_of_directors) Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner named to the Board of Directors at Global Voices SAN FRANCISCO -- January 16, 2013 -- The Wikimedia Foundation is happy to announce that Sue Gardner has been named to the Board of Directors at Global Voices. Global Voices is a community of more than 1300 authors and translators in dozens of countries around the world that publishes reports from global citizen journalists, with an emphasis on voices that aren't ordinarily heard in major international media. “Global Voices does great work, and I’m really looking forward to sharing experiences and expertise with the people involved there.” said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “The Wikimedia Foundation and Global Voices hold a lot of the same values, and for me the most important is our shared commitment to freedom of expression. The world needs strong voices advocating for internet users’ right to express themselves and to access information without impediment.” Global Voices works at the intersections of citizen media, information production, and volunteer communities. It was founded in 2005 by anti-censorship advocate and former journalist Rebecca MacKinnon and technologist and Africa expert Ethan Zuckerman, while they were both fellows at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. “Sue brings to Global Voices a unique combination of knowledge and experience that is particularly beneficial to the organisation. We're really happy to be working with Sue, learning from her experience at the Wikimedia Foundation,” said Ivan Sigal, Executive Director of Global Voices. “We're also looking forward to having her presence and creative thinking enlivening our board conversations.” The Global Voices nine-member board meets four times per year, and has been an active, engaged and vital part of their community since its inception. The board is composed of its two founders, three community representatives and four external members. About Global Voices http://globalvoicesonline.org/about/ http://globalvoicesonline.org/about/board-of-directors/ Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online - shining light on places and people other media outlets often ignore. Our international team of volunteer authors, regional editors and translators are guides to global citizen media. Every day, they provide dozens of links to interesting blog posts, social networks, podcasts, photographs and videos from their regions, and translate, analyze, and explain what’s happening around the world in citizen media. Press contact Ivan Sigal Executive Director i...@globalvoicesonline.org Tel: +1 202 361 2712 About the Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 483 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, November 2012). Available in 285 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 24 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of roughly 80,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. Press contact Jay Walsh Senior Director, Communications Wikimedia Foundation Tel. +1 415-860-8166 jwa...@wikimedia.org (to stop receiving press releases from the Wikimedia Foundation, reply with unsubscribe in the subject line) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia ED Sue Gardner named to Global Voices Board of Directors (MZMcBride)
MZMcBride wrote: ... Given the mention of global citizen journalists in the blog post, I was a little surprised to not see a mention of Wikinews. Some collaboration between the Wikinewsies and the Global Voices folks might be good to explore. (I'll admit that I'm still somewhat trying to wrap my head around what Global Voices exactly is, but a collaboration between the two seemed like it might have promise Global Voices a blog aggregator focusing on the developing world started by Harvard's Ethan Zuckerman and former CNN bureau chief Rebecca MacKinnon. Their FAQ is far better than their about page or the press release: http://globalvoicesonline.org/about/faq-frequently-asked-questions/ I agree mentioning Wikinews would have been a great idea, in particular because Global Voices' blogs' content is the sort of thing which almost always gets immediately reverted from Wikipedia if it's at all controversial (I saw such a revert of a Global Voices blog re-post on a Shell abuse in Nigeria just yesterday) in a way that less reliable but popular US and UK blogs such as Slashdot rarely are. Global Voices occasionally cites Wikinews and Wikinewsies: http://globalvoicesonline.org/?s=wikinews So I trust this bodes well for the (originally 2008) proposal to fund Wikinews reporters which has surfaced from the community in various forms through the years -- e.g. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Reporter_Reimbursement_Program -- but has never received the merest hint of support from the Foundation. Now that will certainly change. Right? ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia ED Sue Gardner named to Global Voices Board of Directors (MZMcBride)
On Jan 17, 2013 7:11 PM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: So I trust this bodes well for the (originally 2008) proposal to fund Wikinews reporters which has surfaced from the community in various forms through the years -- e.g. http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Reporter_Reimbursement_Program -- but has never received the merest hint of support from the Foundation. Now that will certainly change. Right? I don't see why you would assume that... So Sue supports Global Voices, why would that mean the foundation will now fund travel for Wikinewsies? That said, there are lots of chapter microgrants programs and now a foundation individual grants program that could be used for this sort of thing. I thought they point of citizen journalism was to make use of people that are already there, though... ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Brasil] Fwd: Demand justice for Aaron Swartz
-- Forwarded message -- From: Alexandre Hannud Abdo abdo at member.fsf.org Date: 2013/1/17 Subject: [Wikimedia Brasil] Fwd: Demand justice for Aaron Swartz To: Wikimedia BR wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org Ni! Friends, I just received this email from Demand Progress and Lawrence Lessig, in response to Aaron Swartz's tragic passing. Click here to support Aaron's Law and the effort to achieve justice for Aaron: http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/aaron_justice/?referring_akid=1969.1596981.8zbJ9Vsource=mailto We spent yesterday burying and mourning our friend Aaron. We're sad, we're tired, we're frustrated -- and we're angry at a system that let this happen to Aaron. Now we want to set upon honoring his life's work and helping to make sure that such a travesty is never repeated. We and Aaron's friends and family have been in touch with lawmakers to ask for help, and several of them -- who've worked with Aaron and Demand Progress on SOPA and other issues -- are beginning to take action. We're asking them to help rein in a criminal justice system run amok, wherein authorities are encouraged to bring frivolous charges and hold decades of jail time over the heads of people who are accused of committing victimless crimes. 1) Representative Zoe Lofgren has introduced what's been named Aaron's Law. It would fix a key part of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which is one of the statutes under which Aaron was indicted. We need to pass Aaron's Law AND further amend the CFAA. The CFAA makes violations of a website's terms of service agreement or user agreement -- that fine print you never read before you check the box next to it -- a FELONY, potentially punishable by many years in prison. That's how over-broad this dangerous statute is, and one way it lets showboating prosecutors file charges against people who've done nothing wrong. Aaron's Law would decriminalize violating these agreements: They're essentially contracts, and as with other contracts, disputes about them should be settled in civil courts rather than in out of control criminal trials under threat of decades of prison time. Aaron's Law alone wouldn't have saved Aaron -- there is still more to do to make sure that victimless computer activities are not charged as felonies -- but this is a solid start that we can pass now and it's a law he wanted to change. Then we'll keep pushing forward. Click here to join us in demanding justice for Aaron: http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/aaron_justice/?referring_akid=1969.1596981.8zbJ9Vsource=mailto 2) Additionally, we asked Congressman Darrell Issa -- who controls the powerful Oversight Committee -- to open an investigation into prosecutorial misconduct in Aaron's case. Amazingly, he's already responded and is sending an investigator to the office of the U.S. Attorney who was pressing charges against Aaron. We want the inquiry to proceed, and to be broadened to include a more thorough investigation into rampant over-prosecution of alleged crimes with no victims -- as in the case of what Aaron was accused of. And we want those who abused their power to be held to account. We loved Aaron -- so many people loved Aaron -- and his death is tragic. We and others who were close to him are overwhelmed by the outpouring of support, and the calls for justice. Thank you for joining us in that fight. Click here to join us in demanding justice for Aaron: http://act.demandprogress.org/letter/aaron_justice/?referring_akid=1969.1596981.8zbJ9Vsource=mailto -Demand Progress ___ WikimediaBR-l mailing list wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediabr-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Brasil] Fwd: Demand justice for Aaron Swartz
Everton Zanella Alvarenga, 17/01/2013 21:11: 1) Representative Zoe Lofgren has introduced what's been named Aaron's Law. It would fix a key part of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which is one of the statutes under which Aaron was indicted. We need to pass Aaron's Law AND further amend the CFAA. The CFAA makes violations of a website's terms of service agreement or user agreement -- that fine print you never read before you check the box next to it -- a FELONY, potentially punishable by many years in prison. That's how over-broad this dangerous statute is, and one way it lets showboating prosecutors file charges against people who've done nothing wrong. Aaron's Law would decriminalize violating these agreements: They're essentially contracts, and as with other contracts, disputes about them should be settled in civil courts rather than in out of control criminal trials under threat of decades of prison time. And they link this article: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/01/aaron_swartz_suicide_honor_his_memory_by_fixing_the_computer_fraud_and_abuse.html «An infamous example is United States v. Drew, a case in which a woman created a fake MySpace page to taunt a teenage girl. The girl became distraught and committed suicide. No crime made the bullying itself illegal, so prosecutors charged Drew under the CFAA, claiming her fake profile violated MySpace's terms of use, which made her access to the social networking site's computers unauthorized. «An obvious problem with this argument is that it would mean anyone who runs afoul of a web site's fine print is a criminal—and many of us intentionally or unintentionally violate those agreements every day. Prosecutors wouldn't bother filing criminal charges against most of us, of course. But if they wanted to, they would have the leeway to do it under the government's theory.» Do our terms of use contain anything that may broadly interpreted by such a prosecutor under the CFAA? https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use Could passages like this cause criminal charges: «We encourage you to be civil and polite in your interactions with others in the community, to act in good faith, and to make edits and contributions aimed at furthering the mission of the shared Project»? Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation named Knight News Challenge winner
Congrats to everyone who worked on the Knight grant! As someone who applied three years in a row for a News Challenge grant, I can assure you this is no small feat. ;o) The News Challenge contest is very competitive, with thousands of applications submitted in each round from some of the top names in nonprofit journalism. So it's a testament to all your hard work that we were named a winner this year. Nicely done, you guys! Fabrice On Jan 17, 2013, at 11:09 AM, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:20:45 -0800 From: Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org To: press-rele...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation named Knight News Challenge winner Message-ID: CAHNo=vby2sf0jwpeg3nmeyy4kwaahv-mzhn5xb6+1abnnsr...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 (This press release is also available online at: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_Knight_News_Challenge_winner) Wikimedia Foundation named winner of Knight News Challenge $600,000 in Knight Foundation funding supports innovation across Wikimedia mobile initiatives SAN FRANCISCO, CA - January 17, 2013 - The Wikimedia Foundation was named a winner in the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight News Challenge for its efforts to expand and improve Wikimedia's mobile projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is enhancing the Wikipedia mobile experience and making it easier to access Wikipedia, particularly for readers in developing countries. As mobile technology is increasingly the primary opportunity for billions of people around the world to access the Internet, the Wikimedia Foundation is working to remove the two biggest hurdles to access free knowledge: cost and accessibility. The News Challenge grant will be utilized in four areas: *Improving the way that users experience our mobile platform on feature phones; *Expanding Wikipedia Zero, which gives mobile users free access to Wikipedia on their phones; *Developing features to improve the mobile experience regardless of how feature-rich the device is, including new ways to access Wikipedia via texting; *Increasing the number of languages that can access Wikipedia on mobile. The Wikimedia Foundation is one of eight mobile projects to receive a total of $2.4 million today through the Knight News Challenge, which accelerates projects with funding and advice from Knight's network of media innovators. A full list is at knightfoundation.org. Knight Foundation's funding will support us making the mobile version of Wikipedia easier to use, as well as enabling us to expand Wikipedia Zero, our project with mobile operators that lets their customers access Wikipedia for free, said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm very happy Knight has chosen to support us; it's an important affirmation of our mobile work. Knight Foundation, the nation?s leading funder of journalism and media innovation, is committed to promoting democracy by supporting informed and engaged communities. Founded by newsmen John S. and James L. Knight, the foundation launched the Knight News Challenge in 2007 to find the next generation of innovations that help communities get the information they need. Wikipedia has helped define the way that people collaboratively create content. Making the site available to more people across the world will help foster and spread that culture, said John Bracken, director for journalism and media innovation at Knight Foundation. The $600,000 News Challenge grant is for two years and follows a general support grant of $250,000 that Knight Foundation awarded to the Wikimedia Foundation in December 2012. The Wikimedia Foundation and the other winners of the challenge will present their projects via live Web stream at 12:30 p.m. ET/ 10:30 a.m. MT Friday, January 18 at knightfoundation.org/live, from a gathering on the future of mobile at Arizona State University. (Follow #newschallenge on Twitter.) About the Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 483 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, November 2012). Available in 285 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 24 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of roughly 80,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. Press contact Jay Walsh Senior Director, Communications Wikimedia Foundation
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation named Knight News Challenge winner
This is great news. Congratulations to those who worked on this grant proposal. I'm always glad to hear that progress continues to be made at making Wikimedia content more accessible and/or editable on mobile. Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia ED Sue Gardner named to Global Voices Board of Directors (MZMcBride)
Philippe Beaudette wrote, in response to: ... http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Reporter_Reimbursement_Program ... I'm not sure that link makes the point you wish to make, James. For instance, you note that it has NO supporting signups? Per http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Proposals_by_level_of_discussion only three of the nineteen proposals which are listed in the first through fifth level of discussion attained signups: Wikimedia social networking platform, Stop using wikis for tasks for which wikis are not suitable, and Brand name consolidation, which each got exactly one signup, some of which appear to be from the proposals' authors. What we really need to know is how the Foundation measures support for community proposals. Could you please explain that? My informal tally suggests that the Foundation gives its most serious consideration to community proposals which are discussed on this list. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] This is an encyclopedia
Hi, Pine. I want add the Portuguese version on mine later. I added on our village pump and a volunteer from Portugal kindly translated it http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Isto_%C3%A9_uma_enciclop%C3%A9dia_(16jan2013) A wikipedian even suggested a Wikipedia globe around the pale blu dot and some other artistic ideas after the above thread. Kindness will bring kindness. Beaty will bring beauty. :) Tom On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:41 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: Tom, I too like that work of Catherine. I have it on my userpage also. Pine -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] This is an encyclopedia
CECI N'EST PAS UNE ENCYCLOPEDIE. Newyorkbrad On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:41 PM, ENWP Pine deyntest...@hotmail.com wrote: Tom, I too like that work of Catherine. I have it on my userpage also. Pine - Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:41:26 -0200 From: Everton Zanella Alvarenga ezalvare...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Mailing list do Cap?tulo brasileiro da Wikimedia. wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] This is an encyclopedia Message-ID: caexlhe_d2mylt5bhj75mogaqe24yjkgcqcqrgod9ox_y1sx...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 THIS IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve the well of our future, The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us, The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands, And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know. *Catherine Munro* inspired by *This is a printing office http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/rbsc2/ga/unseenhands/labels/wardePrintOffice.html *, by Beatrice Warde http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Warde http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CatherineMunro Just discovered from a wikipedian friend from Kenya. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Office hours with Sue
Hello, all. Sue Gardner, the Wikimedia Foundation's Executive Director, is doing an IRC office hours on Saturday January 19 at 18:30:00 UTC. There is not currently an agenda set for the meeting, but I will update the particulars on Meta if that changes. Please see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours for particulars. Thanks! Maggie -- Maggie Dennis Community Liaison WikimediaFoundation.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] adding SM to the Blog Calendar on Meta
Do you guys think it makes any sense to use Meta to help handle the workflow for both the blog and social media messages? See the item for tomorrow where I've added proposed social media message for the two blog posts I'm publishing tomorrow: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog/Calendar#January_2013 I don't know how we can make Meta work for this kind of thing, but it seems to make sense to me to try to consolidate the tool we use for seeking and giving feedback on these. thoughts? M -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
