Re: [Wikimedia-l] Getting Wikipedia whitelisted for Twitter DMs

[Jan Ainali]

Update: It seems that wikipedia.org, wikimedia.org and mediawiki.org links
now are whitelisted in DMs.


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2014-08-03 19:35 GMT+02:00 Srikanth Ramakrishnan :

> Only twitter and Facebook links go thru DMs. I think if several people file
> a support ticket for this we may achieve something. Else get Jimbo to send
> a mail to the Twitter folks. Problem would be solved in no time. :)
>  On Aug 3, 2014 10:52 PM, "Luis Villa"  wrote:
>
> > Everything I had seen suggests that no URLs go through, but a little
> > Googling suggests that there is a whitelist:
> >
> >
> http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2013/11/04/handy-hacks-sending-links-via-twitters-direct-message/
> >
> > That said, every other source I can find mentioning a whitelist points
> back
> > at that same article - no one seems to have independently confirmed that.
> > So I'll poke some folks but don't hold your breath :)
> >
> > Luis
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Andy Mabbett 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > Some URLs go though, others do not. I doubt it's random ;-)
> > >
> > > On 3 August 2014 17:06, Luis Villa  wrote:
> > > > I can ask around, but I've not heard of them even having a whitelist
> > for
> > > > this situation - do we know for a fact that's the case?
> > > >
> > > > Luis
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Andy Mabbett <
> > a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> For some months, Twitter have been blocking most URLs in their
> direct
> > > >> messages (DMs), supposedly as an anti-spam measure.
> > > >>
> > > >> Do we have someone who has a contact there, who could ask them to
> > > >> whitelist Wikimedia project URLs in DMs?
> > > >>
> > > >> --
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> > > >> @pigsonthewing
> > > >> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
> > > >>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

[Ivan Nikčević]

Congratulations and best of luck in future efforts for Christian and WMDE!

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On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:59 AM, Erik Moeller  wrote:

> Thanks for the update, Tim Moritz, and congratulations on a successful
> search. Christian -- willkommen in der Wikimedia-Bewegung und viel
> Erfolg! :-)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

[Gheorghe Zugravu]

Hi,
a big thank you to Yuri for flagging this case of manipulation of public
opinion.

Reading through the links provided - i can say WP edit time was mostly
discussed among ”pro-state” media. One journalist even went as far as
insinuating  that assassination was planned in the ”west” and that WP
was used to provide for media coverage (sic!)

I think that RU:WP should ask for apologies from the newspapers.

regards,
/gheorghe

On 03/02/2015 03:55 PM, Habib M'henni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> FYI we had the same issue two years ago in Tunisia when a Tunisian
> politician was shot and an IP made the edit in UTC. See our response
> in (in French)
> http://www.wikimedia.tn/nouvelle-polemique-sur-wikipedia-en-tunisie/
>
> Finally the Radio station who relayed this "scoop" wrote an apologize
> text.
>
> Habib,
> from Wikimedia TN User Group
> Le 02/03/2015 14:37, Yuri Astrakhan a écrit :

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] EU copyright rules are maladapted to the increase of cross-border cultural exchange on the web

[Richard Symonds]

I have replied to Carcharoth off-list :-)

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On 3 March 2015 at 00:22, Carcharoth  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to this mailing list (mainly active on en-Wikipedia over the
> past ten years or so), so apologies if this is not the right place to
> ask this.
>
> I've been catching up with posts to this mailing list since I started
> subscribing back in December 2014, and this thread on proposed changes
> to the EU copyright rules is one that I'd like to follow up on and
> find out what progress has been made and what the Wikimedia movement
> and individuals can do to help. I'd be particularly interested in
> whether it might be possible for changes to be made to the Freedom of
> Panorama restrictions, which is one of the things that would really
> help with some of the topics I work on over at Commons (mainly images
> of war memorials in France). If changes were possible, what sort of
> timescale would we be looking at? Several years at least?
>
> Carcharoth
>
> On 1/22/15, Federico Leva (Nemo)  wrote:
> > Cristian Consonni, 22/01/2015 02:29:
> >> A shorter version with the most important points is the press release:
> >> [2]https://juliareda.eu/2015/01/press-release-eu-copyright-report/
> >
> > There's also a short summary at
> >
> http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2015/01/breaking-news-pirate-party-mep-julia.html
> > And at https://www.discuto.io/en/consultation/6240 everyone can comment
> > and make proposals for the EU parliament committee.
> >
> > Nemo
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

[Lene Gillis]

Hi Pine,

Thank you for your inquiry and for following up the status of this project.

We’ve updated the information on our meta page[1], so that it is more clear
to everyone. We would like to clarify that the Draft Report is a
finalization of the raw dataset and is not intended to be published. We are
currently focusing on representing the data, so that everyone can easily
understand the outcomes of our project. This will be revised internally and
the outcome of that will be the Final Report, which will be published in
April.

All the best,

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[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement-wide_Financial_Report

On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Keegan Peterzell 
wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Pine W  wrote:
>
> > Keegan,
> >
> > May I point out that the term on the timeline is "deadline", as in
> > "commitment", not as in "estimate". I view commitments as serious
> business.
> > I believe that in IEGCom we met our deadlines every single time when I
> was
> > on that committee, the Signpost is published weekly with rare exceptions,
> > and there were a number of nights as a WMF intern when I got less than 6
> > hours of sleep in my semi-successful efforts to keep my commitments to
> WMF
> > and to my other employer. ( I do thank WMF for that internship, it was a
> > good experience overall). Of course there may be variances from schedules
> > on occasion (people do get sick, have their cars break down, etc), but I
> > believe that Lila made a point in the All Hands that projects are to be
> > completed on time, and I think it's reasonable that commitments should be
> > kept whenever possible. I try to do this myself and I hope that WMF takes
> > its commitments seriously too.
> >
> > The report of the Finance Fellows will inform some of my thinking about
> > Cascadia's budget and it would be helpful to have the draft published
> early
> > this week.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Pine
>
>
> ​Pine,
>
> I do not believe I was questioning the commitments of anyone​, nor was I
> seeking to argue those points with you. I am simply saying, and I still
> believe this is true, that it's not an unreasonable observation that this
> is the weekend nor is it unexpected for people to take weekends off.
> Weekends are terrible times to release news, for the very reason that
> people are taking them off. Having some patience for Monday to arrive is
> not too much to ask at all.
>
> Thanks!
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

[Samuel Klein]

This is a quite wonderful report, and interesting data.  Thank you, Patrik.

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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] December 2014 and January 2015 minutes of the Board of Trustees

[Stephen LaPorte]

Hi all,

I have posted the minutes from the Board of Trustees meetings on December
22, 2014 and January 12, 2015, which you can find here:

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2014-12-22
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2015-01-12

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

[Katherine Maher]

The Communications team relies on OTRS volunteers every week, so I really
enjoyed reading this report and learning more about your critical
contribution to our movement. I passed this along to some of our colleagues
outside the WMF that help support media inquiries, and got this response
that I wanted to share:

"WowOTRS is kind of magical. It's incredible that it's mostly handled
by volunteers -- amazing humans! Thanks for sharing :)"

Thank you again for all the wonderful work you do!

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> This is a quite wonderful report, and interesting data.  Thank you, Patrik.
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> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:48 AM, pajz  wrote:
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> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > it is my pleasure to announce the release of the 2014 annual report on
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