[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to “Engaging local Wikipedians” and “German Wikipedia” Workshop at Wikimania

2016-06-17 Thread Martin Rulsch 
Hi Wikimaniacs!

Wikimania is just around the corner and many people looking forward to the
wide range of topics. Following the general idea of sharing knowledge about
best practices, the Volunteer Support Department of Wikimedia Deutschland
warmly invites you to the pre-conference workshops “Engaging local
Wikipedians” and “German Wikipedia”.

*“Engaging local Wikipedians” workshop*

The German Chapter supports several groups with the installation, funding,
and support of local spaces where community members can sozialize, write
articles, plan projects, share knowledge, start cooperations, teach new
editors, and so one. These are places where Wikipedians have a face.

Several local groups will hold lightning talks about their activities.
Further, a study by Wikimedia Deutschland on the local spaces will be
presented. Nevertheless, getting local Wikipedians together does not only
work in actual rooms but in several other ways, fitting to the respective
needs of the communities and general conditions. One solution for example
is the Kumusha Bus that educates several communities in Africa about the
Open Movement. Of course, organizing student groups for Wikipedia in
several cities is another one.

We warmly invite you to share your experiences in this workshop. Learning
from each other is the main goal of this workshop.

Basic information for “Engaging local Wikipedians” workshop:

   - Date: Thursday, 23 June
   - Time: 9.30–13.00
   - Place: Villa Rogo (20 min away from the center)
   - Find more information on
   https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop:_Engaging_local_Wikipedians

*“German Wikipedia” workshop*

The community of the German-language Wikipedia is one of the most active
ones in the Wikiverse. Several volunteers will attend Wikimania this year
and prepared presentations on a broad variety of topics they are interested
in, from a presentation of the Young Wikipedians group to a photography
workshop focused on flashes.

They warmly invite you into the German house, the Villa Rogo, to the
“German Wikipedia” workshop that follows the previous “Engaging local
Wikipedians” workshop (we plan to serve Italian pasta for you in our
kitchen ;-)).

If you ever wanted to know what the German community is doing, or when you
are curious what their affairs of the heart are, join this workshop and be
excited!

Basic information for “German Wikipedia” workshop:

   - Date: Thursday, 23 June
   - Time: 14.00–18.00
   - Place: Villa Rogo (20 min away from the center)
   - Find more information on
   https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Workshop:_German_Wikipedia

If you have any question, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Best,
Martin

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Freedom of panorama today approved by Belgian parliament

2016-06-17 Thread Caitlin Cogdill 
Congratulations and thank you for your work on this, Wikimedia Belgium!
What great news.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Osmar Valdebenito <
b1mbo.wikipe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations to all the people involved! Finally we will have the
> Atomium!
>
> El vie, jun 17, 2016 12:30, Alex Wang  escribió:
>
> > Wonderful news!! Congrats!
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:15 AM, James Heilman  wrote:
> >
> > > Hopefully this is just a start and the rest of Europe will follow
> > Belgium's
> > > lead.
> > >
> > > J
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Tanweer Morshed <
> > wiki.tanw...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Great news indeed! Thanks to the people who worked to promote FoP.
> > > >
> > > > On Friday, June 17, 2016, Omar David Sandoval Sida <
> > omarsa...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Good news, congratulations!
> > > > > El 17/06/2016 9:54 a.m., "Shani"  > >
> > > > > escribió:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Wonderful news! Congrats!
> > > > > > On 17 Jun 2016 02:38, "Romaine Wiki"  > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Great news!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Freedom of panorama has been voted today in the Belgian
> > parliament.
> > > > > > > A mayority voted in favour of freedom of panorama, including
> > > > commercial
> > > > > > > use.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Soon images of artworks and modern buildings in Belgium can be
> > > > restored
> > > > > > on
> > > > > > > Commons.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > But first the law needs to be published in the Staatsblad, and
> > ten
> > > > days
> > > > > > > later it will be official, but that is just a formality. (Will
> > keep
> > > > you
> > > > > > > updated on that.)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Article in the news in Dutch:
> > > > > > > http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/politiek/1.2685852
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > In the past weeks, as well as since the campaign in Europe last
> > > year,
> > > > > we
> > > > > > > from Wikimedia Belgium have worked hard on this subject and
> > > > > communicated
> > > > > > > with the members of the parliament informing what this subject
> > > means
> > > > > for
> > > > > > > Wikipedia.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > With the founding of Wikimedia Belgium in 2014, this subject
> was
> > a
> > > > > > priority
> > > > > > > for us.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks all for the support!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Let's get this implemented elsewhere too!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Greetings from Belgium,
> > > > > > > Romaine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Freedom of panorama today approved by Belgian parliament

2016-06-17 Thread Osmar Valdebenito 
Congratulations to all the people involved! Finally we will have the
Atomium!

El vie, jun 17, 2016 12:30, Alex Wang  escribió:

> Wonderful news!! Congrats!
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:15 AM, James Heilman  wrote:
>
> > Hopefully this is just a start and the rest of Europe will follow
> Belgium's
> > lead.
> >
> > J
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Tanweer Morshed <
> wiki.tanw...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Great news indeed! Thanks to the people who worked to promote FoP.
> > >
> > > On Friday, June 17, 2016, Omar David Sandoval Sida <
> omarsa...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Good news, congratulations!
> > > > El 17/06/2016 9:54 a.m., "Shani"  >
> > > > escribió:
> > > >
> > > > > Wonderful news! Congrats!
> > > > > On 17 Jun 2016 02:38, "Romaine Wiki"  > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Great news!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Freedom of panorama has been voted today in the Belgian
> parliament.
> > > > > > A mayority voted in favour of freedom of panorama, including
> > > commercial
> > > > > > use.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Soon images of artworks and modern buildings in Belgium can be
> > > restored
> > > > > on
> > > > > > Commons.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > But first the law needs to be published in the Staatsblad, and
> ten
> > > days
> > > > > > later it will be official, but that is just a formality. (Will
> keep
> > > you
> > > > > > updated on that.)
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Article in the news in Dutch:
> > > > > > http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/politiek/1.2685852
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > In the past weeks, as well as since the campaign in Europe last
> > year,
> > > > we
> > > > > > from Wikimedia Belgium have worked hard on this subject and
> > > > communicated
> > > > > > with the members of the parliament informing what this subject
> > means
> > > > for
> > > > > > Wikipedia.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > With the founding of Wikimedia Belgium in 2014, this subject was
> a
> > > > > priority
> > > > > > for us.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks all for the support!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Let's get this implemented elsewhere too!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Greetings from Belgium,
> > > > > > Romaine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Freedom of panorama today approved by Belgian parliament

2016-06-17 Thread Alex Wang 
Wonderful news!! Congrats!

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 7:15 AM, James Heilman  wrote:

> Hopefully this is just a start and the rest of Europe will follow Belgium's
> lead.
>
> J
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Tanweer Morshed 
> wrote:
>
> > Great news indeed! Thanks to the people who worked to promote FoP.
> >
> > On Friday, June 17, 2016, Omar David Sandoval Sida 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Good news, congratulations!
> > > El 17/06/2016 9:54 a.m., "Shani" >
> > > escribió:
> > >
> > > > Wonderful news! Congrats!
> > > > On 17 Jun 2016 02:38, "Romaine Wiki"  > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > Great news!
> > > > >
> > > > > Freedom of panorama has been voted today in the Belgian parliament.
> > > > > A mayority voted in favour of freedom of panorama, including
> > commercial
> > > > > use.
> > > > >
> > > > > Soon images of artworks and modern buildings in Belgium can be
> > restored
> > > > on
> > > > > Commons.
> > > > >
> > > > > But first the law needs to be published in the Staatsblad, and ten
> > days
> > > > > later it will be official, but that is just a formality. (Will keep
> > you
> > > > > updated on that.)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Article in the news in Dutch:
> > > > > http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/politiek/1.2685852
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > In the past weeks, as well as since the campaign in Europe last
> year,
> > > we
> > > > > from Wikimedia Belgium have worked hard on this subject and
> > > communicated
> > > > > with the members of the parliament informing what this subject
> means
> > > for
> > > > > Wikipedia.
> > > > >
> > > > > With the founding of Wikimedia Belgium in 2014, this subject was a
> > > > priority
> > > > > for us.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks all for the support!
> > > > >
> > > > > Let's get this implemented elsewhere too!
> > > > >
> > > > > Greetings from Belgium,
> > > > > Romaine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Freedom of panorama today approved by Belgian parliament

2016-06-17 Thread James Heilman 
Hopefully this is just a start and the rest of Europe will follow Belgium's
lead.

J



On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Tanweer Morshed 
wrote:

> Great news indeed! Thanks to the people who worked to promote FoP.
>
> On Friday, June 17, 2016, Omar David Sandoval Sida 
> wrote:
>
> > Good news, congratulations!
> > El 17/06/2016 9:54 a.m., "Shani" >
> > escribió:
> >
> > > Wonderful news! Congrats!
> > > On 17 Jun 2016 02:38, "Romaine Wiki"  > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Great news!
> > > >
> > > > Freedom of panorama has been voted today in the Belgian parliament.
> > > > A mayority voted in favour of freedom of panorama, including
> commercial
> > > > use.
> > > >
> > > > Soon images of artworks and modern buildings in Belgium can be
> restored
> > > on
> > > > Commons.
> > > >
> > > > But first the law needs to be published in the Staatsblad, and ten
> days
> > > > later it will be official, but that is just a formality. (Will keep
> you
> > > > updated on that.)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Article in the news in Dutch:
> > > > http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/politiek/1.2685852
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > In the past weeks, as well as since the campaign in Europe last year,
> > we
> > > > from Wikimedia Belgium have worked hard on this subject and
> > communicated
> > > > with the members of the parliament informing what this subject means
> > for
> > > > Wikipedia.
> > > >
> > > > With the founding of Wikimedia Belgium in 2014, this subject was a
> > > priority
> > > > for us.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks all for the support!
> > > >
> > > > Let's get this implemented elsewhere too!
> > > >
> > > > Greetings from Belgium,
> > > > Romaine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fresh data on the gender gap in content

2016-06-17 Thread Magnus Manske 
Nepali seems to have come a long way since I ran my analysis:
http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=250
(see the big dot-plot; note that I compare the length of the articles,
rather than their number)

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:01 AM Ting Chen  wrote:

> Hello Asaf, hello Florence,
>
> the inbalance is surely partly due to the cultural bias (both
> contemprary as well as historical) of our world. Across the cultures in
> before 18th century women found less notice in the historical
> documentation. As far as I know about Japanese history, this bias was
> less prominant in the Japanese history, this only change since the rise
> of the Shoguns (about 12th century). Could this be part of the reason of
> the ja-wp result?
>
> If it is the case than Wikipedia and Wikidata could be a very valuable
> resource for cultural history researches since never before there was
> such a systematic gathering of so much correlated data.
>
> Take the 20th century, would the data reflect the change (or reluctance
> to change) of the bias in art, politics and economy?
>
> If yes, I think we should spread word inside of the research community
> because in my opinion the research community had until now still didn't
> pay attention to this pile of data that all the volunteers had put
> together and are just waiting for them to mine.
>
> Greetings
> Ting
>
>
> Am 16.06.2016 um 23:14 schrieb Florence Devouard:
> > Hello Asaf,
> > Just making sure that you knew about WHGI :
> > http://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html
> >
> > Do you know if there are differences in analysis between the two
> > analysis ?
> >
> > I checked a few figures and it fits pretty well.
> >
> > Flo
> >
> >
> > Le 16/06/16 à 21:14, Asaf Bartov a écrit :
> >> Hullo everyone.
> >>
> >> I was asked by a volunteer for help getting stats on the gender gap in
> >> content on a certain Wikipedia, and came up with simple Wikidata Query
> >> Service[1] queries that pulled the total number of articles on a given
> >> Wikipedia about men and about women, to calculate *the proportion of
> >> articles about women out of all articles about humans*.
> >>
> >> Then I was curious about how that wiki compared to other wikis, so I ran
> >> the queries on a bunch of languages, and gathered the results into a
> >> table,
> >> here:
> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap
> >>
> >> (please see the *caveat* there.)
> >>
> >> I don't have time to fully write-up everything I find interesting in
> >> those
> >> results, but I will quickly point out the following:
> >>
> >> 1. The Nepali statistic is simply astonishing! There must be a story
> >> there.  I'm keen on learning more about this, if anyone can shed light.
> >>
> >> 2. Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
> >> articles about women among all biographies.
> >>
> >> 3. among the top 10 largest wikis, Japanese is the least imbalanced.
> >> Good
> >> job, Japanese Wikipedians!  I wonder if you have a good sense of what
> >> drives this relatively better balance. (my instinctive guess is pop
> >> culture
> >> coverage.)
> >>
> >> 4. among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
> >>
> >> 5. I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
> >> eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
> >>
> >> 6. Your efforts, particularly on small-to-medium wikis, can really
> >> make a
> >> dent in these numbers!  For example, it seems I am personally
> >> responsible[2] for almost 1% of the coverage of women on Hebrew
> >> Wikipedia!
> >> :)
> >>
> >> 7. I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities.
> >> Perhaps
> >> you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
> >>
> >> 8. I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request.
> >> Or you
> >> can do it yourself, too. :)
> >>
> >>A.
> >>
> >> [1] https://query.wikidata.org/
> >> [2] Yay #100wikidays :) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays
> >>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fresh data on the gender gap in content

2016-06-17 Thread Ting Chen 

Hello Asaf, hello Florence,

the inbalance is surely partly due to the cultural bias (both 
contemprary as well as historical) of our world. Across the cultures in 
before 18th century women found less notice in the historical 
documentation. As far as I know about Japanese history, this bias was 
less prominant in the Japanese history, this only change since the rise 
of the Shoguns (about 12th century). Could this be part of the reason of 
the ja-wp result?


If it is the case than Wikipedia and Wikidata could be a very valuable 
resource for cultural history researches since never before there was 
such a systematic gathering of so much correlated data.


Take the 20th century, would the data reflect the change (or reluctance 
to change) of the bias in art, politics and economy?


If yes, I think we should spread word inside of the research community 
because in my opinion the research community had until now still didn't 
pay attention to this pile of data that all the volunteers had put 
together and are just waiting for them to mine.


Greetings
Ting


Am 16.06.2016 um 23:14 schrieb Florence Devouard:

Hello Asaf,
Just making sure that you knew about WHGI : 
http://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html


Do you know if there are differences in analysis between the two 
analysis ?


I checked a few figures and it fits pretty well.

Flo


Le 16/06/16 à 21:14, Asaf Bartov a écrit :

Hullo everyone.

I was asked by a volunteer for help getting stats on the gender gap in
content on a certain Wikipedia, and came up with simple Wikidata Query
Service[1] queries that pulled the total number of articles on a given
Wikipedia about men and about women, to calculate *the proportion of
articles about women out of all articles about humans*.

Then I was curious about how that wiki compared to other wikis, so I ran
the queries on a bunch of languages, and gathered the results into a 
table,

here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap

(please see the *caveat* there.)

I don't have time to fully write-up everything I find interesting in 
those

results, but I will quickly point out the following:

1. The Nepali statistic is simply astonishing! There must be a story
there.  I'm keen on learning more about this, if anyone can shed light.

2. Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
articles about women among all biographies.

3. among the top 10 largest wikis, Japanese is the least imbalanced.  
Good

job, Japanese Wikipedians!  I wonder if you have a good sense of what
drives this relatively better balance. (my instinctive guess is pop 
culture

coverage.)

4. among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.

5. I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
eventually have some sense of trends and changes.

6. Your efforts, particularly on small-to-medium wikis, can really 
make a

dent in these numbers!  For example, it seems I am personally
responsible[2] for almost 1% of the coverage of women on Hebrew 
Wikipedia!

:)

7. I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities.  
Perhaps

you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)

8. I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request.  
Or you

can do it yourself, too. :)

   A.

[1] https://query.wikidata.org/
[2] Yay #100wikidays :) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays





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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fresh data on the gender gap in content

2016-06-17 Thread Tanweer Morshed 
Hi Asaf,

The table is quite interesting! This is the first time I could imagine the
actual situation about the coverage of women biographies in various
Wikipedias, especially in my home Wiki, the Bengali Wikipedia. I'm going to
spread this statistics among the community.

And I have asked Ganesh, one of the veteran Nepali Wikipedian, as to why
the statistics of Nepali WP is that much astonishing. I'll convey his reply
to this thread.


Thanks.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Florence Devouard 
wrote:

> I think the project evolved over time. It may be that this page did not
> exist in the first version.
>
> Clearly, the site has been modified recently because the name changed from
> WIGI to WHGI. And I see the main four pages has been updated.
>
> If you look at "Gender by language" for example, it mentions "As of
> January 2016 about 98% of biographies were attached to at least one
> Wikipedia site, so this data is mostly complete."
>
> Gender by date of birth and death mentions "As of January 2016, only about
> 72% and 36% of biographies, had date of birth and date of death data,
> respectively, so this data is incomplete."
>
> Gender by country mentions "As of January 2016, only about 30% of
> biographies, had place of birth, so this data is incomplete."
>
> and "As of January 2016, only about 65% of biographies, had culture, so
> this data is incomplete."
>
> Recently, these dates were much further in the past. I know because I
> noticed and ask Max for fresher data
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wigi-project/CCLSKN2tmQE
> A small table published there may answer part of your questions.
>
> Ant
>
> Le 17/06/16 à 00:22, Asaf Bartov a écrit :
>
> Thanks, Florence!
>>
>> I was aware of the WIGI research project (and have linked to it in the
>> ==See Also== section of my page), but I was not aware of this page.  Neat!
>> So I won't need to update my own page. :)
>>
>>A.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Florence Devouard 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Asaf
>>>
>>> Just making sure that you knew about WHGI :
>>> http://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html
>>>
>>> Do you know if there are differences in analysis between the two
>>> analysis ?
>>>
>>> I checked a few figures and it fits pretty well.
>>>
>>> Flo
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 16/06/16 à 21:14, Asaf Bartov a écrit :
>>>
>>> Hullo everyone.

 I was asked by a volunteer for help getting stats on the gender gap in
 content on a certain Wikipedia, and came up with simple Wikidata Query
 Service[1] queries that pulled the total number of articles on a given
 Wikipedia about men and about women, to calculate *the proportion of
 articles about women out of all articles about humans*.

 Then I was curious about how that wiki compared to other wikis, so I ran
 the queries on a bunch of languages, and gathered the results into a
 table,
 here:
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap

 (please see the *caveat* there.)

 I don't have time to fully write-up everything I find interesting in
 those
 results, but I will quickly point out the following:

 1. The Nepali statistic is simply astonishing! There must be a story
 there.  I'm keen on learning more about this, if anyone can shed light.

 2. Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
 articles about women among all biographies.

 3. among the top 10 largest wikis, Japanese is the least imbalanced.
 Good
 job, Japanese Wikipedians!  I wonder if you have a good sense of what
 drives this relatively better balance. (my instinctive guess is pop
 culture
 coverage.)

 4. among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.

 5. I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
 eventually have some sense of trends and changes.

 6. Your efforts, particularly on small-to-medium wikis, can really make
 a
 dent in these numbers!  For example, it seems I am personally
 responsible[2] for almost 1% of the coverage of women on Hebrew
 Wikipedia!
 :)

 7. I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities.
 Perhaps
 you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)

 8. I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request.  Or
 you
 can do it yourself, too. :)

A.

 [1] https://query.wikidata.org/
 [2] Yay #100wikidays :) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Freedom of panorama today approved by Belgian parliament

2016-06-17 Thread Tanweer Morshed 
Great news indeed! Thanks to the people who worked to promote FoP.

On Friday, June 17, 2016, Omar David Sandoval Sida 
wrote:

> Good news, congratulations!
> El 17/06/2016 9:54 a.m., "Shani" >
> escribió:
>
> > Wonderful news! Congrats!
> > On 17 Jun 2016 02:38, "Romaine Wiki"  > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Great news!
> > >
> > > Freedom of panorama has been voted today in the Belgian parliament.
> > > A mayority voted in favour of freedom of panorama, including commercial
> > > use.
> > >
> > > Soon images of artworks and modern buildings in Belgium can be restored
> > on
> > > Commons.
> > >
> > > But first the law needs to be published in the Staatsblad, and ten days
> > > later it will be official, but that is just a formality. (Will keep you
> > > updated on that.)
> > >
> > >
> > > Article in the news in Dutch:
> > > http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/politiek/1.2685852
> > >
> > >
> > > In the past weeks, as well as since the campaign in Europe last year,
> we
> > > from Wikimedia Belgium have worked hard on this subject and
> communicated
> > > with the members of the parliament informing what this subject means
> for
> > > Wikipedia.
> > >
> > > With the founding of Wikimedia Belgium in 2014, this subject was a
> > priority
> > > for us.
> > >
> > > Thanks all for the support!
> > >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Freedom of panorama today approved by Belgian parliament

2016-06-17 Thread Omar David Sandoval Sida 
Good news, congratulations!
El 17/06/2016 9:54 a.m., "Shani"  escribió:

> Wonderful news! Congrats!
> On 17 Jun 2016 02:38, "Romaine Wiki"  wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Great news!
> >
> > Freedom of panorama has been voted today in the Belgian parliament.
> > A mayority voted in favour of freedom of panorama, including commercial
> > use.
> >
> > Soon images of artworks and modern buildings in Belgium can be restored
> on
> > Commons.
> >
> > But first the law needs to be published in the Staatsblad, and ten days
> > later it will be official, but that is just a formality. (Will keep you
> > updated on that.)
> >
> >
> > Article in the news in Dutch:
> > http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/politiek/1.2685852
> >
> >
> > In the past weeks, as well as since the campaign in Europe last year, we
> > from Wikimedia Belgium have worked hard on this subject and communicated
> > with the members of the parliament informing what this subject means for
> > Wikipedia.
> >
> > With the founding of Wikimedia Belgium in 2014, this subject was a
> priority
> > for us.
> >
> > Thanks all for the support!
> >
> > Let's get this implemented elsewhere too!
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Freedom of panorama today approved by Belgian parliament

2016-06-17 Thread Shani 
Wonderful news! Congrats!
On 17 Jun 2016 02:38, "Romaine Wiki"  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Great news!
>
> Freedom of panorama has been voted today in the Belgian parliament.
> A mayority voted in favour of freedom of panorama, including commercial
> use.
>
> Soon images of artworks and modern buildings in Belgium can be restored on
> Commons.
>
> But first the law needs to be published in the Staatsblad, and ten days
> later it will be official, but that is just a formality. (Will keep you
> updated on that.)
>
>
> Article in the news in Dutch:
> http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/politiek/1.2685852
>
>
> In the past weeks, as well as since the campaign in Europe last year, we
> from Wikimedia Belgium have worked hard on this subject and communicated
> with the members of the parliament informing what this subject means for
> Wikipedia.
>
> With the founding of Wikimedia Belgium in 2014, this subject was a priority
> for us.
>
> Thanks all for the support!
>
> Let's get this implemented elsewhere too!
>
> Greetings from Belgium,
> Romaine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Freedom of panorama today approved by Belgian parliament

2016-06-17 Thread Redon Skikuli 
Great news guys. We are thinking of startin a campaign in Albania about
this. Are there any materials or a proposed strategy we could follow? Thank
you.
---
Redon Skikuli
Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group.
On Jun 17, 2016 09:34, "Michael Jahn"  wrote:

> *joins the chorus* Congrats! A good day.
> Am 17.06.2016 01:39 schrieb "Romaine Wiki" :
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Great news!
> >
> > Freedom of panorama has been voted today in the Belgian parliament.
> > A mayority voted in favour of freedom of panorama, including commercial
> > use.
> >
> > Soon images of artworks and modern buildings in Belgium can be restored
> on
> > Commons.
> >
> > But first the law needs to be published in the Staatsblad, and ten days
> > later it will be official, but that is just a formality. (Will keep you
> > updated on that.)
> >
> >
> > Article in the news in Dutch:
> > http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/politiek/1.2685852
> >
> >
> > In the past weeks, as well as since the campaign in Europe last year, we
> > from Wikimedia Belgium have worked hard on this subject and communicated
> > with the members of the parliament informing what this subject means for
> > Wikipedia.
> >
> > With the founding of Wikimedia Belgium in 2014, this subject was a
> priority
> > for us.
> >
> > Thanks all for the support!
> >
> > Let's get this implemented elsewhere too!
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Freedom of panorama today approved by Belgian parliament

2016-06-17 Thread Michael Jahn 
*joins the chorus* Congrats! A good day.
Am 17.06.2016 01:39 schrieb "Romaine Wiki" :

> Hi all,
>
> Great news!
>
> Freedom of panorama has been voted today in the Belgian parliament.
> A mayority voted in favour of freedom of panorama, including commercial
> use.
>
> Soon images of artworks and modern buildings in Belgium can be restored on
> Commons.
>
> But first the law needs to be published in the Staatsblad, and ten days
> later it will be official, but that is just a formality. (Will keep you
> updated on that.)
>
>
> Article in the news in Dutch:
> http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/politiek/1.2685852
>
>
> In the past weeks, as well as since the campaign in Europe last year, we
> from Wikimedia Belgium have worked hard on this subject and communicated
> with the members of the parliament informing what this subject means for
> Wikipedia.
>
> With the founding of Wikimedia Belgium in 2014, this subject was a priority
> for us.
>
> Thanks all for the support!
>
> Let's get this implemented elsewhere too!
>
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