Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[James Salsman]

Rogol Domedonfors wrote:
>
> Do you believe truth and accuracy are to be found only
> at one ppint on the spectrum of political belief?

There is a very strong correlation which has, since November, become
much stronger. Compare for example:

http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/ (16% "True" or
"Mostly true") with

http://www.politifact.com/personalities/barack-obama/ (48% "True" or
"Mostly true.")

> Do you believe that facts about (how the world is) are
> identical with beliefs about (how the world ought to be)?

No, but if people around the world are misled because we fail in our
mission to collect, develop, and disseminate educational content
effectively, then they are likely to have much different goals than if
they were able to access accurate information.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[Peter Southwood]

Fighting against an inhumane stance is entirely a political move.
Cheers,
Peter

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We are not taking a stand in different positions each party is taking on 
economical matters. No one here wearing a donkey hat. Problem begins when a 
party takes inhumane stance, fighting against it should not be considered a 
political move. Trust me, that's exactly what happened in Iran.

Best

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017, 10:50 AM Rogol Domedonfors 
wrote:

> James
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 7:10 AM, you wrote:
>
> >
> > Do you think remaining politically neutral is compatible with 
> > remaining accurate?
> >
>
> I would say yes.  Let me put two converse questions to you.  Do you 
> believe truth and accuracy are to be found only at one ppint on the 
> spectrum of political belief?  Do you believe that facts about (how 
> the world is) are identical with beliefs about (how the world ought to be)?
>
> "Rogol"
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[Peter Southwood]

Some political philosophies are more amenable to truth and accuracy than 
others. Facts about how the world is do not have any necessary connection to 
beliefs about how the world should be. Beliefs are not constrained by reality, 
facts are. Any overlap is coincidental.
Cheers,
Peter

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James

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 7:10 AM, you wrote:

>
> Do you think remaining politically neutral is compatible with 
> remaining accurate?
>

I would say yes.  Let me put two converse questions to you.  Do you believe 
truth and accuracy are to be found only at one ppint on the spectrum of 
political belief?  Do you believe that facts about (how the world is) are 
identical with beliefs about (how the world ought to be)?

"Rogol"
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[Amir Ladsgroup]

We are not taking a stand in different positions each party is taking on
economical matters. No one here wearing a donkey hat. Problem begins when a
party takes inhumane stance, fighting against it should not be considered a
political move. Trust me, that's exactly what happened in Iran.

Best

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017, 10:50 AM Rogol Domedonfors 
wrote:

> James
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 7:10 AM, you wrote:
>
> >
> > Do you think remaining politically neutral is compatible with
> > remaining accurate?
> >
>
> I would say yes.  Let me put two converse questions to you.  Do you believe
> truth and accuracy are to be found only at one ppint on the spectrum of
> political belief?  Do you believe that facts about (how the world is) are
> identical with beliefs about (how the world ought to be)?
>
> "Rogol"
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[Rogol Domedonfors]

James

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 7:10 AM, you wrote:

>
> Do you think remaining politically neutral is compatible with
> remaining accurate?
>

I would say yes.  Let me put two converse questions to you.  Do you believe
truth and accuracy are to be found only at one ppint on the spectrum of
political belief?  Do you believe that facts about (how the world is) are
identical with beliefs about (how the world ought to be)?

"Rogol"
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[James Salsman]

Pine,

Which facts do you think the "facts matter" theme should have emphasized?

Do you think remaining politically neutral is compatible with
remaining accurate?

To what extent does staying focused on mission involve pointing out
issues with freedom and accuracy in society, in your view?


On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Pine W  wrote:
> Hi Heather,
>
> Thanks for commenting.
>
> The theme of "facts matter" seems good to me, and I generally like Victor's
> video. However, the way that this report comes across to me is that it
> advocates for certain points of view on issues which, however important
> they may be (I happen to think global warming is a very important issue),
> are not integral to Wikipedia's mission. Also, I found it strange that the
> "front page" of the report has a "Facts matter" section that leads off with
> information about refugees and the Earth's temperature trends. On the
> whole, that section comes across to me as being off-message. I would
> encourage revising the report so that it's more consistent with the themes
> and tone of Victor's video.
>
> Social impact in the form of informing public dialogue is a valuable
> attribute to Wikipedia, and I would encourage a more neutral approach to
> articulating that attribute as has been discussed in this thread. It's
> possible to highlight social impact while remaining compatible with NPOV
> and staying focused on mission.
>
> Thanks for engaging here.
>
> Pine
>
> Pine
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Heather Walls  wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This has become an interesting and important conversation. First, many
>> thanks to everyone as they bring their intellect, experience, and
>> thoughtfulness to this topic. And thanks to Zack for many months of work
>> organizing a complex project, with a theme that became increasingly
>> sensitive due to external public discourse, and especially for making a
>> tremendous and honest effort to hear feedback and to respond quickly here.
>> I’d also like to thank all the people who helped read, write, edit, and
>> consider this report.
>>
>> We chose this theme in October, and have used it successfully in messaging
>> since then. It was part of the December English-language fundraising
>> campaign, in emails and banners to donors, and received very positive
>> response. It was the theme of a video, shared in December,[1] that became a
>> featured video on Commons.[2] We also shared our work and development
>> process on this report publicly when we published the Communications
>> department’s check-in slides covering the 2nd fiscal quarter (Sep - Dec
>> 2016).[3]
>>
>> Social impact is a very important part of Wikimedia that is hard to
>> understand from the outside, but that impact is one of the things that
>> makes your work so meaningful, and helps us find contributors and partners
>> around the world. As Zack mentioned, our annual reports are created for an
>> audience that includes ongoing financial contributors and people new to us.
>> They are intended to be timely and relevant to the interests of people who
>> are not as deeply involved in Wikimedia as the rest of us. They tell the
>> story of what Wikimedians have achieved in the context of the world, and
>> are related to topics in international conversations. Some of those stories
>> are efforts supported by the Foundation, and many are celebrations of the
>> importance and timeliness of independent work of members of the movement.
>> Wikimedia is rich and complex, and we revise our theme each year to share
>> new facets. The Foundation has been making these since 2008.[4]
>>
>> Yes, our report was meant to bring up relevant topics for a global
>> audience, and to tie important facts to the work of Wikimedians. It was
>> meant to focus on the range of things people can learn from Wikipedia, from
>> the historical to the social to the controversial. But it was not a
>> response to anything that occurred in recent weeks, or in any one country.
>> We debated the relationship between the theme and public discourse as that
>> discourse changed, but decided that Wikimedia’s relationship with facts
>> hadn’t changed. The report is not perfect, and many people have pointed out
>> excellent alternative directions we might have taken. We’re listening, and
>> we will learn from your suggestions and ideas in our continuing work.
>>
>> I am proud of the intentions, hard work, experience, and many difficult
>> decisions my colleagues on the Communications team and our collaborators
>> across the Foundation and community make every day. I hope the abridged
>> timeline of events, below, will help make some our process more visible to
>> you as well.
>>
>> -Heather
>>
>>
>> [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/12/27/not-post-fact-world/
>> [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_-_
>> FactsMatter2016.webm
>> [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%
>> 3AWikimedia_Foundation_Communications_Q2_(Oct-Dec_
>> 2016)_-_Jan_2

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

[rupert THURNER]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 7:09 AM, Gerard Meijssen
 wrote:
> On 8 March 2017 at 06:45, MZMcBride  wrote:
>> Risker wrote:
>> >I am very curious. Why is it that there seems to be so much resistance to
>> >this draft code of conduct?
>>
>> You may find these links helpful:
>>
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-
>> February/086595.html
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#Summary_of_criticisms
> With all respect, the summary is not a summary. Wading through long, long
> more of the same is not helpful. We have had more of the same here on this
> list.
risker asked if it is process or contents. as far as i was able to
follow: both. isarra hits it so much on the spot, with "When designing
anything - processes, software, architecture - you need to know your
use cases in order to properly address them."  from process
perspective it is driven by WMF employees. (nearly) no input from
volunteers, and if there was input, it was "WMF, please let the
volunteers run making policies for volunteers". from a content
perspective, the policy is bloated, does not remove something else. no
case was shown where the pre-existing or common sense is not good
enough. the WMF persons driving it seemed to be fine with ignoring
these inputs - or mainly the "no-input". at the end of the day if you
have 1000 pages of policies, or 1050, what is the big difference? what
is the difference of having 40 committees or 41? one. or, maybe 42 for
the douglas adams fans.

sometimes i feel a mentality of "less is more" would be a benefit.
1050 pages of policies sounds like a harassment by itself. but would i
invest time to address it? no way - i is not fun and makes tired. if
we want less policies or more efficient ones, WMF could pay less
persons, they would then have no time any more to produce texts like
this. or WFM could pay a person to delete pages, instead of paying a
person to add pages. kind of paying a fitness trainer to loose weight
i guess.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[Pine W]

Hi Heather,

Thanks for commenting.

The theme of "facts matter" seems good to me, and I generally like Victor's
video. However, the way that this report comes across to me is that it
advocates for certain points of view on issues which, however important
they may be (I happen to think global warming is a very important issue),
are not integral to Wikipedia's mission. Also, I found it strange that the
"front page" of the report has a "Facts matter" section that leads off with
information about refugees and the Earth's temperature trends. On the
whole, that section comes across to me as being off-message. I would
encourage revising the report so that it's more consistent with the themes
and tone of Victor's video.

Social impact in the form of informing public dialogue is a valuable
attribute to Wikipedia, and I would encourage a more neutral approach to
articulating that attribute as has been discussed in this thread. It's
possible to highlight social impact while remaining compatible with NPOV
and staying focused on mission.

Thanks for engaging here.

Pine

Pine


On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Heather Walls  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This has become an interesting and important conversation. First, many
> thanks to everyone as they bring their intellect, experience, and
> thoughtfulness to this topic. And thanks to Zack for many months of work
> organizing a complex project, with a theme that became increasingly
> sensitive due to external public discourse, and especially for making a
> tremendous and honest effort to hear feedback and to respond quickly here.
> I’d also like to thank all the people who helped read, write, edit, and
> consider this report.
>
> We chose this theme in October, and have used it successfully in messaging
> since then. It was part of the December English-language fundraising
> campaign, in emails and banners to donors, and received very positive
> response. It was the theme of a video, shared in December,[1] that became a
> featured video on Commons.[2] We also shared our work and development
> process on this report publicly when we published the Communications
> department’s check-in slides covering the 2nd fiscal quarter (Sep - Dec
> 2016).[3]
>
> Social impact is a very important part of Wikimedia that is hard to
> understand from the outside, but that impact is one of the things that
> makes your work so meaningful, and helps us find contributors and partners
> around the world. As Zack mentioned, our annual reports are created for an
> audience that includes ongoing financial contributors and people new to us.
> They are intended to be timely and relevant to the interests of people who
> are not as deeply involved in Wikimedia as the rest of us. They tell the
> story of what Wikimedians have achieved in the context of the world, and
> are related to topics in international conversations. Some of those stories
> are efforts supported by the Foundation, and many are celebrations of the
> importance and timeliness of independent work of members of the movement.
> Wikimedia is rich and complex, and we revise our theme each year to share
> new facets. The Foundation has been making these since 2008.[4]
>
> Yes, our report was meant to bring up relevant topics for a global
> audience, and to tie important facts to the work of Wikimedians. It was
> meant to focus on the range of things people can learn from Wikipedia, from
> the historical to the social to the controversial. But it was not a
> response to anything that occurred in recent weeks, or in any one country.
> We debated the relationship between the theme and public discourse as that
> discourse changed, but decided that Wikimedia’s relationship with facts
> hadn’t changed. The report is not perfect, and many people have pointed out
> excellent alternative directions we might have taken. We’re listening, and
> we will learn from your suggestions and ideas in our continuing work.
>
> I am proud of the intentions, hard work, experience, and many difficult
> decisions my colleagues on the Communications team and our collaborators
> across the Foundation and community make every day. I hope the abridged
> timeline of events, below, will help make some our process more visible to
> you as well.
>
> -Heather
>
>
> [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/12/27/not-post-fact-world/
> [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_-_
> FactsMatter2016.webm
> [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%
> 3AWikimedia_Foundation_Communications_Q2_(Oct-Dec_
> 2016)_-_Jan_2017_quarterly_check-in.pdf&page=13
> [4] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report
>
> *Our fact criteria:*
> Global, relevant to general readers and to 2016, verifiable, related to the
> work of Wikimedians, surprising or interesting
>
> *2016*
> 13 Oct: Meeting where “Facts Matter” was established, our deadline for a
> full draft was December 15
> 28 Oct: First design review of website mockups.
> 7 Nov: Design team meeting, notes include:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
With all respect, the summary is not a summary. Wading through long, long
more of the same is not helpful. We have had more of the same here on this
list.
Thanks,
  GerardM

On 8 March 2017 at 06:45, MZMcBride  wrote:

> Risker wrote:
> >I am very curious. Why is it that there seems to be so much resistance to
> >this draft code of conduct?
>
> You may find these links helpful:
>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-
> February/086595.html
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#Summary_of_criticisms
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

[MZMcBride]

Risker wrote:
>I am very curious. Why is it that there seems to be so much resistance to
>this draft code of conduct?

You may find these links helpful:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086595.html
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#Summary_of_criticisms

MZMcBride



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Erzyan Language User Group

[Biyanto Rebin]

Yeay! Another language user group. Congratulations!

2017-03-07 23:38 GMT+07:00 Kirill Lokshin :

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> the Wikimedians of Erzyan Language User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User
> Group.
>
> The group aims to promote the development of Wikipedia in the Erzya
> language, and to document topics related to the Erzya language, culture and
> community.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimaps User Group

[Biyanto Rebin]

Congratulations, Wikimaps user group!

2017-03-07 23:37 GMT+07:00 Kirill Lokshin :

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>
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> the Wikimaps User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.
>
> The group aims to gather Wikimedia users engaged in a variety of
> activities related to geographic information from across the movement, so
> that people with different ideas for using geographic components in their
> projects are able to come together, share their expertise, and help each
> other.
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

[Biyanto Rebin]

Congratulations for West Bengal User Group!


Best,

2017-03-07 23:39 GMT+07:00 Kirill Lokshin :

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.
>
> The group aims to build a strong and diverse volunteer community base
> throughout West Bengal by increasing interaction among community members,
> encouraging them to develop content in different Wikimedia projects and
> organizing various online and offline activities.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Affiliations Committee
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

[Pine W]

Commenting generally (i.e. not specifically to Risker), this topic has been
giving me enough of a headache that I would like to see some kind of path
forward, preferably one with the most harmony. I suggest that what should
happen based on my admittedly not-detailed look at the draft's history and
present state is that the whole document should go forward with an RfC.
After that happens, I hope we'll all have enough clarity about the document
to figure out what should happen next.

Personally, I'm kind of tired of this topic and would like to move on with
something that is less contentious.

I do want some kind of behavior policy for Phabricator in particular. I'm
not sure that it's this one as it's currently written, but I'm more
concerned at this point about procedure than substance. Whatever the
outcome of an RfC on the whole document is, I'd suggest accepting it and
moving forward from there.

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

[Risker]

I am very curious. Why is it that there seems to be so much resistance to
this draft code of conduct?  This document closely parallels both the WMF
friendly space policy and similar policies in the broader tech/developer
community. It is also not that far from policies that exist on many
Wikimedia projects, with the possible exception of having a better
delineated path of reporting of problem behaviour, and a stronger
expectation of having problem behaviour addressed. Do people have a problem
with the document itself, or just the process of its development?

If, for example, the communities of Polish Wikipedia and Polish Wikisource
got together with Wikimedia Poland and they jointly developed a similar
policy to apply in those projects and in events relating to those projects
and organizations, would people from other projects be upset because (in
the rare event that they might edit Polish Wikipedia or attend a Wikimedia
Poland event) those expectations would be applied to them?  Would we, as a
broader community, think that it would be okay to (attempt to) block those
closely related projects/organizations from developing such a policy?

This is a genuine question; I'm having a hard time sorting out some of the
comments that have been made in this thread.

Risker/Anne
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

[Matthew Flaschen]

On 02/26/2017 01:23 PM, Adrian Raddatz wrote:

The benefit to individual admins (and whatever the equivalent
is on phab) making decisions about blocks is that you know who did it and
how to appeal it.


There is no equivalent on Phabricator.  That just had enforcement by 
Developer Relations, first based on best judgment and the Phabricator 
etiquette and later their own interpretation of the community-written 
CoC draft.


Going forward, Phabricator enforcement will be less WMF-centric, since 
it will be done by the Committee (once it's up and running), with only 
appeals handled by Technical Collaboration.


Matt Flaschen

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

[Matthew Flaschen]

On 02/25/2017 02:15 PM, MZMcBride wrote:

The "no conduct policy for technical spaces" argument was debunked here:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-November/085573.html


This is false.  None of the three policies you cited are a code of 
conduct for technical spaces that applies online to everyone, including 
volunteers:


* https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Code_of_conduct_policy - Only 
binding on staff and Board.


* https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use - Not a code of 
conduct, does not define harassment.  A legal document that encourages 
creating project policies like the code of conduct ("The Wikimedia 
community and its members may also take action when so allowed by the 
community or Foundation policies applicable to the specific Project 
edition, including but not limited to warning, investigating, blocking, 
or banning users who violate those policies.")


* https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy - Does not 
apply online, or to Wikimedia tech events that are not funded by the 
foundation.



Pine W also wrote:

Well, WMF will have to deal with this policy too. (:


Sort of. The proposed text currently includes "If a WMF employee or
contractor is accused of wrongdoing, or a WMF employee or contractor is
reported as being subjected to wrongdoing, the Committee will forward the
report to the employee's or contractor’s manager, and to WMF HR in
writing." It remains very unclear whether this code of conduct policy can
apply to Wikimedia Foundation employees, given comments from the Wikimedia
Foundation's Legal and Human Resources departments.


No "sort of".  It unambiguously applies to all members of the community 
regardless of status, and Legal posted consistent with that 
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#Freedom_of_the_Code_of_Conduct_Committee)



It's darkly amusing to see you citing the English Wikipedia. When I
pointed out to you on mediawiki.org that "it would never be appropriate
for the person who began a discussion to then also close that discussion,"
you replied that "English Wikipedia policies do not apply here."


I noted that in response to a claim about all WMF wikis: "That is always 
the case.", so in this case citing any wiki was a sufficient 
counter-example to disprove that claim.


Matt Flaschen

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[Leigh Thelmadatter]

I can see how it can attract AND repel volunteers overall, just as we see it 
attractive and off-putting to people discussing on this list.


From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of James 
Salsman 
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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter  wrote:
>
> Equally James, how is this advocacy "extremely helpful"? How does it help the 
> building and maintainence of Wikimedia projects? How does it help the many 
> volunteers who work on these projects?

Taking a stand for personal freedom attracts volunteers in support of
free culture, just as supporting scientific consensus opposed by money
in politics attracts those who value accuracy.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

[Es Be]

Thank you.
And Congratulations! :)

*“**OMNIA VINCIT AMOR**”*

শুভেচ্ছান্তে,

*সূর্যদেব বসু *

*Sūrjodē**b Basu*

ই surjodeb.b...@ashoka.edu.in


* -"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their
common sense"- Gertrude Stein*

On 7 March 2017 at 22:09, Kirill Lokshin  wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.
>
> The group aims to build a strong and diverse volunteer community base
> throughout West Bengal by increasing interaction among community members,
> encouraging them to develop content in different Wikimedia projects and
> organizing various online and offline activities.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Affiliations Committee
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[James Salsman]

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Leigh Thelmadatter  wrote:
>
> Equally James, how is this advocacy "extremely helpful"? How does it help the 
> building and maintainence of Wikimedia projects? How does it help the many 
> volunteers who work on these projects?

Taking a stand for personal freedom attracts volunteers in support of
free culture, just as supporting scientific consensus opposed by money
in politics attracts those who value accuracy.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[Heather Walls]

Hello,

This has become an interesting and important conversation. First, many
thanks to everyone as they bring their intellect, experience, and
thoughtfulness to this topic. And thanks to Zack for many months of work
organizing a complex project, with a theme that became increasingly
sensitive due to external public discourse, and especially for making a
tremendous and honest effort to hear feedback and to respond quickly here.
I’d also like to thank all the people who helped read, write, edit, and
consider this report.

We chose this theme in October, and have used it successfully in messaging
since then. It was part of the December English-language fundraising
campaign, in emails and banners to donors, and received very positive
response. It was the theme of a video, shared in December,[1] that became a
featured video on Commons.[2] We also shared our work and development
process on this report publicly when we published the Communications
department’s check-in slides covering the 2nd fiscal quarter (Sep - Dec
2016).[3]

Social impact is a very important part of Wikimedia that is hard to
understand from the outside, but that impact is one of the things that
makes your work so meaningful, and helps us find contributors and partners
around the world. As Zack mentioned, our annual reports are created for an
audience that includes ongoing financial contributors and people new to us.
They are intended to be timely and relevant to the interests of people who
are not as deeply involved in Wikimedia as the rest of us. They tell the
story of what Wikimedians have achieved in the context of the world, and
are related to topics in international conversations. Some of those stories
are efforts supported by the Foundation, and many are celebrations of the
importance and timeliness of independent work of members of the movement.
Wikimedia is rich and complex, and we revise our theme each year to share
new facets. The Foundation has been making these since 2008.[4]

Yes, our report was meant to bring up relevant topics for a global
audience, and to tie important facts to the work of Wikimedians. It was
meant to focus on the range of things people can learn from Wikipedia, from
the historical to the social to the controversial. But it was not a
response to anything that occurred in recent weeks, or in any one country.
We debated the relationship between the theme and public discourse as that
discourse changed, but decided that Wikimedia’s relationship with facts
hadn’t changed. The report is not perfect, and many people have pointed out
excellent alternative directions we might have taken. We’re listening, and
we will learn from your suggestions and ideas in our continuing work.

I am proud of the intentions, hard work, experience, and many difficult
decisions my colleagues on the Communications team and our collaborators
across the Foundation and community make every day. I hope the abridged
timeline of events, below, will help make some our process more visible to
you as well.

-Heather


[1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/12/27/not-post-fact-world/
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_-_FactsMatter2016.webm
[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%
3AWikimedia_Foundation_Communications_Q2_(Oct-Dec_
2016)_-_Jan_2017_quarterly_check-in.pdf&page=13
[4] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report

*Our fact criteria:*
Global, relevant to general readers and to 2016, verifiable, related to the
work of Wikimedians, surprising or interesting

*2016*
13 Oct: Meeting where “Facts Matter” was established, our deadline for a
full draft was December 15
28 Oct: First design review of website mockups.
7 Nov: Design team meeting, notes include:

   - “Reaffirm facts matter”
   - “Reacting to present moment is antithetical to the WMF movement”
   - “We care just as much about facts as we did a year ago, 10 years ago,
   and will care in five years”

14 Dec: Facts final, content drafted
27 Dec: Facts matter video posted

*2017*
6 Jan: Site and content review with other departments (locked to major
changes)
17 Jan: Print layout of all content
27 Jan: Communications quarterly review[3] posted Feb 7
1 Mar: Sharing the Facts Matter site


On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Yair Rand  wrote:

> Risker has outlined many of the issues with the report much better than I
> would have been able to. While I'm happy to hear there will be some
> reordering and that one of the images will be replaced, the report still
> has many very serious problems.
>
> How can we fix this? I can think of a few options:
> * The report could be made open to edits from the community. (I was hopeful
> when the report was posted on Meta that it would be editable, but it was
> apparently posted primarily for translation purposes and is not editable.)
> Over the course of a few weeks much of the content could be rewritten to be
> close enough to neutral.
> * We could continue discussing specific problems in tone and focus, errors

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[Leigh Thelmadatter]

Equally James, how is this advocacy "extremely helpful"? How does it help the 
building and maintainence of Wikimedia projects? How does it help the many 
volunteers who work on these projects?


From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of James 
Salsman 
Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2017 4:53:29 PM
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Yair,

Would you please explain what you mean by damaging?

> To have a huge banner placed over every article on
> the whole project linking to 43px-font blatant political
> advocacy which can't be reverted, is really damaging.

My opinion remains that 43pt blatant advocacy in support of both
personal freedom of movement and scientific consensus disputed by
fossil fuel interests is extremely helpful to the Foundation, its
Mission, and in attracting additional volunteers, especially because
those issues have been disfavored by recent political trends brought
about by political leveraging of xenophobia and lobbyist money.

Why do people think it is reasonable to claim that such advocacy is
damaging without presenting any evidence in support of their opinion?
Clearly many people do, but why?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] a second commons, prevent cease and desist business

[Lilburne]

It probably isn't fair. But then again without actually contacting the 
copyright holder the CC licenses are nothing more than a indicator that 
reuse may be OK. Then when you get into chains of derivatives you are in 
a world of pain. Websites are particularly prone to fouling up the 
licenses. Flickr does not allow people to upload CC licensed images from 
other people because the attributions will be wrong. Suppose Jane Doe 
uploads an CC image from Joe Blow, everywhere the site displays the 
image it will end up being credited to Jane Doe not Joe Blow. 
Accreditation becomes very hard if Joe Blow's image is actually a 
derivative that contains parts of images from multiple other people.


When those on Commons start cloning out watermarks on images they create 
a liability for down stream reusers.



On 07/03/2017 03:13, Andreas Kolbe wrote:

People usually encounter images in Wikipedia, and Wikipedia does not comply
with the CC licence requirements either, the way downstream re-users are
expected to comply with them. That's a problem.

For example, the CC BY 3.0 licence requires re-users to name the image's
author, and much else besides. But when a CC BY 3.0 image is used in
Wikipedia, or indeed on a content page in Commons, none of that information
is present. All Wikipedia does provide is a link to the image's Commons
page.[1]

Wikipedia is advertised as the free encyclopedia. This includes people
being free to re-use any part of it, even for commercial purposes. So why
shouldn't people think that they are allowed to use an image in exactly the
same way Wikipedia is using it?

If a user sees an image in Wikipedia, it is quite natural for them, given
what they have been told, to right-click on it and select copy, without
even going to the Commons page with the detailed licence info. But if they
do what Wikipedia does, i.e. only providing a link to the source, they can
get slapped with a bill for several thousand dollars or euros.

One recent press article[2] gave the example of a single mum on benefits
who received a demand for 7,500 euro (nearly 8,000 dollars) from a
Wikipedian because of two images she had used without giving the required
attribution.

It doesn't seem fair.


[1] Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercospora_capsici
[2]
https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Wikipedia-beraet-ueber-Distanzierung-von-Fotolizenz-Abzockern-3630842.html?seite=2


On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 6:37 AM, Gergő Tisza  wrote:


I can read some German and looked into a similar case the last time this
came up (the thread was called "harald bischoff advertising to make images
"for the wikimedia foundation" and then suing users"). It involved (amongst
others) an amateur news blog which took an image from the Wikipedia article
of some politician and credited it to "Wikipedia" (with link to the image
description page; but no author or license), and was slapped with a ~$1000
fee. These kind of predatory tactics hurt the reputation and moral standing
of the movement IMO.




I think asking for damages might be acceptable if
- the reuser is a big organization which has its own copyright lawyers
(e.g. a commercial news publisher) and really should have known better
- the reuser refuses to fix the attribution when asked
- the reuser does not even attempt to indicate that the image is from
elsewhere
but when none of those is the case, threatening to sue violates the spirit
of free content, even if it is in accordance with the fine print of the
license.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] a second commons, prevent cease and desist business

[Lilburne]

On 06/03/2017 06:37, Gergő Tisza wrote:

On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Todd Allen  wrote:


I'm not a German speaker, and I know context and nuance can be lost in
machine translation. That being said, the one about someone who was
offering attribution and then got slapped with a bill for a simple
technical error is very disturbing. Especially since as brought up before,
a direct link would always lack the attribution contained on an
accompanying page.


I can read some German and looked into a similar case the last time this
came up (the thread was called "harald bischoff advertising to make images
"for the wikimedia foundation" and then suing users"). It involved (amongst
others) an amateur news blog which took an image from the Wikipedia article
of some politician and credited it to "Wikipedia" (with link to the image
description page; but no author or license), and was slapped with a ~$1000
fee. These kind of predatory tactics hurt the reputation and moral standing
of the movement IMO.

I think asking for damages might be acceptable if
- the reuser is a big organization which has its own copyright lawyers
(e.g. a commercial news publisher) and really should have known better
- the reuser refuses to fix the attribution when asked
- the reuser does not even attempt to indicate that the image is from
elsewhere
but when none of those is the case, threatening to sue violates the spirit
of free content, even if it is in accordance with the fine print of the
license.


But Commons does the same thing in reverse. I recall some 12yo uploading 
a photograph of a butterfly in the mistaken belief that it could only be 
used on wikipedia. Then when realising the mistake wanted the image 
removed. The Commons denizens harangued and hounded the kid across 
various talk and administrator pages for several weeks in respect to the 
fine print of the license.



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] a second commons, prevent cease and desist business

[Lilburne]

On 07/03/2017 02:24, James Forrester wrote:
On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 at 18:14 Lilburne > wrote:


For the last 12 years Flickr have a system where people can click on a
link and get the HTML or BBCODE that properly attributes the image
along
with the link to the license and all the rest of the requirements for
the CC license. Why can't commons do the same?

Otherwise its not hard to properly attribute a CC- licensed image.


This was provided in MediaViewer some years ago. (See e.g. today's 
Commons POTD 
, 
unless you're logged into an account that has the feature disabled.)





In which case I have little sympathy for those too lazy to use the tools 
provided.



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[James Salsman]

Yair,

Would you please explain what you mean by damaging?

> To have a huge banner placed over every article on
> the whole project linking to 43px-font blatant political
> advocacy which can't be reverted, is really damaging.

My opinion remains that 43pt blatant advocacy in support of both
personal freedom of movement and scientific consensus disputed by
fossil fuel interests is extremely helpful to the Foundation, its
Mission, and in attracting additional volunteers, especially because
those issues have been disfavored by recent political trends brought
about by political leveraging of xenophobia and lobbyist money.

Why do people think it is reasonable to claim that such advocacy is
damaging without presenting any evidence in support of their opinion?
Clearly many people do, but why?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[Yair Rand]

Risker has outlined many of the issues with the report much better than I
would have been able to. While I'm happy to hear there will be some
reordering and that one of the images will be replaced, the report still
has many very serious problems.

How can we fix this? I can think of a few options:
* The report could be made open to edits from the community. (I was hopeful
when the report was posted on Meta that it would be editable, but it was
apparently posted primarily for translation purposes and is not editable.)
Over the course of a few weeks much of the content could be rewritten to be
close enough to neutral.
* We could continue discussing specific problems in tone and focus, errors,
and general issues with the report here on this mailing list or on Meta
while the relevant people implement fixes and rewrites (hopefully in a
transparent manner), including the large content changes/replacements
required.
* The entire "Consider the facts" section could be removed/replaced. The
rest of the report probably could stand on its own, but that may not be
ideal. I don't know whether rewriting it from scratch is doable, or whether
there may be relevant time constraints here.

I'd like to reiterate the seriousness of displaying non-Wikimedia-related
political advocacy over Wikimedia projects. Many editors work very hard at
removing any biases in articles. To have a huge banner placed over every
article on the whole project linking to 43px-font blatant political
advocacy which can't be reverted, is really damaging.

-- Yair Rand

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 1:41 AM, Risker  wrote:

> Well, Erik...I really don't think my personal beliefs have a role in this
> discussion, except as they very narrowly apply to the Wikimedia mission,
> vision and "values". That's actually one of my issues with this report - it
> reads as though it's been written by a bunch of well-paid, talented people
> who've been given rein to express personal and cultural beliefs unrelated
> to Wikimedia.  And my personal belief in relation to that is that this
> annual report has positioned political advocacy far ahead of the mission
> and vision of the movement, starting with the selection and ordering of the
> "facts".  Let's go through them one by one.
>
> The focus on the value of education is an entirely valid, even necessary,
> part of the annual report; it is entirely central to our mission.  The
> focus on refugees is out of place, though.  The fact that there is a single
> page on one WMF-hosted site that links to a refugee handbook created by
> other groups that include some Wikimedians (and the support of WMDE, which
> we all know is NOT the same thing as the WMF) isn't justification for
> making  "REFUGEES!1!!!11!" a big headline.  It's peripheral to the
> educational activities of the WMF, and ignores or downplays many of the
> actual WMF-supported initiatives. There's something wrong when the WMF is
> so busy touting someone else's project that it forgets to talk about its
> own.  But why show a bunch of Uruguayan kids actually using Wikipedia, when
> you can make a political statement using a photo of very adorable refugee
> children who, generally speaking, aren't accessing any WMF projects?
>
> Am I impressed by Andreas' images?  of course!  Look at the amazing iceberg
> images [featured image example at 1] - which illustrate climate change
> issues much better than the photo of a starving polar bear.  We don't
> actually know why that bear is dying - is he sick or injured, the most
> common cause of wild animal deaths? Has he consumed (anthropogenic) harmful
> chemicals or materials such as plastic wastes - increasingly common in
> arctic animals?  Or did he miss the ever-narrowing migration window to the
> prey-rich northern arctic ice fields (due to climate change)?  We can't be
> sure.  But we can be a lot more sure that the iceberg images are
> illustrating something that can be linked more directly to climate change.
> Of course, nobody is getting a lump in their throat by looking at icebergs;
> it's not any where near as good an emotional button-presser that a dying
> animal is.   There's also the trick of referring to "the hottest year on
> record" instead of giving the *whole* truth, which is it is the hottest
> year since these types of records started being kept beginning just a few
> hundred years ago - and it's that long only if you count all types of
> record keeping.  Yes, it's much more impressive to imply that we're talking
> about all of history rather than just the last few centuries.  A lot of
> people reading this list have been creating articles for years; we know
> those tricks too. And none of this explains why climate change is even a
> factor in the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Report.  It would be worth
> including if the WMF was a major contributor to anthropogenic climate
> change (I am quite sure it isn't!), or was taking major, active steps to
> reduce its carbon footprint and talked about that.  But tha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimaps User Group

[Anna Stillwell]

Congratulations. May the force be with you. :)
/a

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Sydney Poore 
wrote:

> Congratulations Wikimaps User Group and welcome to the Wikimedia
> affiliate family.
> Warm regards,
> Sydney
>
> Sydney Poore
> User:FloNight
> Co-founder Kentucky Wikimedians,
> Co-founder WikiWomen User Group,
> Co-founder WikiConference North America
> Board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation,
> Member of Simple Annual Plan Grant Committee
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Kirill Lokshin 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> > the Wikimaps User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.
> >
> > The group aims to gather Wikimedia users engaged in a variety of
> > activities related to geographic information from across the movement, so
> > that people with different ideas for using geographic components in their
> > projects are able to come together, share their expertise, and help each
> > other.
> >
> > Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kirill Lokshin
> > Affiliations Committee
> >
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[Wikimedia-l] Approval: Wikimedia UG Fan Club, University of Ibadan, Oyomo state. Nigeria.

[shola ishola]

Dear All, 
Trust you are fine 
As part of our efforts to improve the awareness of Wikimedia related projects 
and activities in Nigeria. This is to officially inform the global community 
that Wikimedia UG Nigeria (WUGN) has been official approved  to run Wikimedia 
Fan Club, University of Ibadan at the oldest University in Nigeria, University 
of Ibadan (UI). 
We will really appreciate all your supports and assistance. 
Best Olushola Team Lead, Wikimedia UG Nigeria  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikimaps User Group

[Sydney Poore]

Congratulations Wikimaps User Group and welcome to the Wikimedia
affiliate family.
Warm regards,
Sydney

Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Kirill Lokshin 
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> the Wikimaps User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.
>
> The group aims to gather Wikimedia users engaged in a variety of
> activities related to geographic information from across the movement, so
> that people with different ideas for using geographic components in their
> projects are able to come together, share their expertise, and help each
> other.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Affiliations Committee
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimaps_User_Group
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Karavali Wikimedians User Group

[Sydney Poore]

Congratulations Karavali Wikimedians User Group, and welcome to the
Wikimedia affiliate family.
Warm regards,
Sydney



Sydney Poore
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Co-founder WikiWomen User Group,
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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Kirill Lokshin 
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> the Karavali Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.
>
> The group is dedicated to working on the Wikimedia projects in the Indian
> languages used in coastal Karnataka and the northern part of Kerala State
> in India, including the Tulu, Kannada, and Konkani language Wikipedias.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Affiliations Committee
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karavali_Wikimedians
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Erzyan Language User Group

[Sydney Poore]

Congratulations Wikimedians of Erzyan Language User Group, and welcome to
the Wikimedia affiliate family.
Warm regards,
Sydney

Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Co-founder Kentucky Wikimedians,
Co-founder WikiWomen User Group,
Co-founder WikiConference North America
Board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation,
Member of Simple Annual Plan Grant Committee





On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Kirill Lokshin 
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> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> the Wikimedians of Erzyan Language User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User
> Group.
>
> The group aims to promote the development of Wikipedia in the Erzya
> language, and to document topics related to the Erzya language, culture and
> community.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Affiliations Committee
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Erzya_
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

[Sydney Poore]

Congratulations West Bengal Wikimedians User Group, and welcome to the
Wikimedia affiliate family.

Sydney

Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Anna Stillwell 
wrote:

> Congratulations. I look forward to your/their contributions.
> And thank you Affiliations Committee for this work.
> Warmly,
> /a
>
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Kirill Lokshin 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> > the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.
> >
> > The group aims to build a strong and diverse volunteer community base
> > throughout West Bengal by increasing interaction among community members,
> > encouraging them to develop content in different Wikimedia projects and
> > organizing various online and offline activities.
> >
> > Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kirill Lokshin
> > Affiliations Committee
> >
> > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Erzyan Language User Group

[Anna Stillwell]

Congratulations. I look forward to your contributions.
And thank you Affiliations Committee for this work.
Warmly,
/a

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Kirill Lokshin 
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> the Wikimedians of Erzyan Language User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User
> Group.
>
> The group aims to promote the development of Wikipedia in the Erzya
> language, and to document topics related to the Erzya language, culture and
> community.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Affiliations Committee
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

[Anna Stillwell]

Congratulations. I look forward to your/their contributions.
And thank you Affiliations Committee for this work.
Warmly,
/a

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Kirill Lokshin 
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.
>
> The group aims to build a strong and diverse volunteer community base
> throughout West Bengal by increasing interaction among community members,
> encouraging them to develop content in different Wikimedia projects and
> organizing various online and offline activities.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Affiliations Committee
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Lëtzebuerg User Group

[Anna Stillwell]

Congratulations. It's always good to see new user groups.
And thank you Affiliations Committee for this work.
Warmly,
/a

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Kirill Lokshin 
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> the Wikimedians of Lëtzebuerg User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.
>
> The group aims to encourage Wikimedia movement activities amongst
> Luxembourgish communities through the implementation of various projects
> and training & outreach events.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Affiliations Committee
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Karavali Wikimedians User Group

[Anna Stillwell]

Congratulations. It's always good to see new user groups. I lived in
Karnataka for a year. It's difficult to believe that was over 20 years ago.
And thank you Affiliations Committee for this work.
Warmly,
/a

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Kirill Lokshin 
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> the Karavali Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.
>
> The group is dedicated to working on the Wikimedia projects in the Indian
> languages used in coastal Karnataka and the northern part of Kerala State
> in India, including the Tulu, Kannada, and Konkani language Wikipedias.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Affiliations Committee
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] March 2: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#9)

[Leila Zia]

Hi,

Rogol and team: Let's try to keep the email threads focused on their
immediate topics. Katherine's email is an email to provide update about
specifics of the strategy process at this point. There is quite a bit of
content in her email that can be discussed in this thread or in the
corresponding meta pages. Let's try to keep this thread focused on the
items that are relevant to the original email and refrain from branching to
other topics. This, among other things, can help the audience of this list
with discoverability of relevant content and discussions later on.

Thanks,
Leila

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On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 12:46 AM, Joseph Seddon 
wrote:

> And define "associated with".
>
> George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President is 8th cousin to Bill Gates for
> example (apparently)
>
> Seddon
>
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Andreas Kolbe  wrote:
>
> > Could anyone name major donors or consultants to the Wikimedia Foundation
> > who are associated with, or open supporters of, –
> >
> > 1. the United States' Republican party?
> > 2. a major conservative, or at least slightly right-of-centre, party in
> any
> > other country?
> >
> >
> >  On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
> > amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> >
> > > This makes me want to ask the following: Do we have any professional
> > > advisors who are experienced with working with places outside of the
> five
> > > largest English-speaking countries?
> > >
> > > (It's quite possible that this was already answered in other emails,
> and
> > I
> > > apologize if I missed it.)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimaps User Group

[Stryn]

Congrats!

Stryn
Sent from 📱

7.3.2017 18.38 "Kirill Lokshin"  kirjoitti:

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
the Wikimaps User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.

The group aims to gather Wikimedia users engaged in a variety of activities
related to geographic information from across the movement, so that people
with different ideas for using geographic components in their projects are
able to come together, share their expertise, and help each other.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

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Kirill Lokshin
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[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

[Kirill Lokshin]

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.

The group aims to build a strong and diverse volunteer community base
throughout West Bengal by increasing interaction among community members,
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organizing various online and offline activities.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

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Kirill Lokshin
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[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Erzyan Language User Group

[Kirill Lokshin]

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
the Wikimedians of Erzyan Language User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User
Group.

The group aims to promote the development of Wikipedia in the Erzya
language, and to document topics related to the Erzya language, culture and
community.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

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[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Lëtzebuerg User Group

[Kirill Lokshin]

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
the Wikimedians of Lëtzebuerg User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.

The group aims to encourage Wikimedia movement activities amongst
Luxembourgish communities through the implementation of various projects
and training & outreach events.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

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[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Karavali Wikimedians User Group

[Kirill Lokshin]

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
the Karavali Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.

The group is dedicated to working on the Wikimedia projects in the Indian
languages used in coastal Karnataka and the northern part of Kerala State
in India, including the Tulu, Kannada, and Konkani language Wikipedias.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

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Kirill Lokshin
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[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimaps User Group

[Kirill Lokshin]

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
the Wikimaps User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.

The group aims to gather Wikimedia users engaged in a variety of activities
related to geographic information from across the movement, so that people
with different ideas for using geographic components in their projects are
able to come together, share their expertise, and help each other.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

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Kirill Lokshin
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] a second commons, prevent cease and desist business

[Lodewijk]

I believe we already have that in the upload form - this user chose not to
use it.

Someone mentioned earlier that if someone is of bad faith, they will always
find a way to fool the system. So lets not worry too much - I'm just saying
that this is a social issue even more than a technical one.

Lodewijk

2017-03-07 14:53 GMT+01:00 Todd Allen :

>  Could we set it up so that the uploader could set their preferred
> "Attribute me as..." text, if they want something different from the
> default? And make the facilities for generating it automatically more
> prominent?
>
> That would both help good faith uploaders to get better compliance without
> a lot of hassle, and hinder bad faith ones from setting traps. I see that
> as good for everyone.
>
> On Mar 7, 2017 6:35 AM, "Lodewijk"  wrote:
>
> > Well, that would technically violate the terms as stated in the template.
> > The result of those buttons would be:
> > "By Taxiarchos228 (Own work) [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons"
> >
> > According to the detailed description it has to be (I think):
> > "By Wladyslaw Sojka, www.sojka.photo"
> > (from the description it's not even 100% clear to me whether the license
> > has to be mentioned).
> >
> > I'm not sure whether this kind of 'trapping' is part of the bad
> practices,
> > but given the stories I read so far, I wouldn't be surprised.
> >
> > Lodewijk
> >
> >
> > 2017-03-07 13:16 GMT+01:00 Jonatan Svensson Glad <
> gladjona...@outlook.com
> > >:
> >
> > > Also, the MediaViewer offers HTML and plain text attribution, if you
> > press
> > > the right icons.
> > >
> > > Jonatan Svensson Glad
> > > Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons
> > >
> > > > On 7 Mar 2017, at 13:01, "wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org" <
> > > wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Re: a second commons,prevent cease and desist business
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] a second commons, prevent cease and desist business

[Todd Allen]

 Could we set it up so that the uploader could set their preferred
"Attribute me as..." text, if they want something different from the
default? And make the facilities for generating it automatically more
prominent?

That would both help good faith uploaders to get better compliance without
a lot of hassle, and hinder bad faith ones from setting traps. I see that
as good for everyone.

On Mar 7, 2017 6:35 AM, "Lodewijk"  wrote:

> Well, that would technically violate the terms as stated in the template.
> The result of those buttons would be:
> "By Taxiarchos228 (Own work) [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons"
>
> According to the detailed description it has to be (I think):
> "By Wladyslaw Sojka, www.sojka.photo"
> (from the description it's not even 100% clear to me whether the license
> has to be mentioned).
>
> I'm not sure whether this kind of 'trapping' is part of the bad practices,
> but given the stories I read so far, I wouldn't be surprised.
>
> Lodewijk
>
>
> 2017-03-07 13:16 GMT+01:00 Jonatan Svensson Glad  >:
>
> > Also, the MediaViewer offers HTML and plain text attribution, if you
> press
> > the right icons.
> >
> > Jonatan Svensson Glad
> > Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons
> >
> > > On 7 Mar 2017, at 13:01, "wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org" <
> > wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Re: a second commons,prevent cease and desist business
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] a second commons, prevent cease and desist business

[Lodewijk]

Well, that would technically violate the terms as stated in the template.
The result of those buttons would be:
"By Taxiarchos228 (Own work) [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons"

According to the detailed description it has to be (I think):
"By Wladyslaw Sojka, www.sojka.photo"
(from the description it's not even 100% clear to me whether the license
has to be mentioned).

I'm not sure whether this kind of 'trapping' is part of the bad practices,
but given the stories I read so far, I wouldn't be surprised.

Lodewijk


2017-03-07 13:16 GMT+01:00 Jonatan Svensson Glad :

> Also, the MediaViewer offers HTML and plain text attribution, if you press
> the right icons.
>
> Jonatan Svensson Glad
> Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons
>
> > On 7 Mar 2017, at 13:01, "wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org" <
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] a second commons, prevent cease and desist business

[Jonatan Svensson Glad]

Also, the MediaViewer offers HTML and plain text attribution, if you press the 
right icons.

Jonatan Svensson Glad
Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons

> On 7 Mar 2017, at 13:01, "wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org" 
>  wrote:
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> Re: a second commons,prevent cease and desist business

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] a second commons, prevent cease and desist business

[Steinsplitter Wiki]

Hello Lilburne,


https://lizenzhinweisgenerator.de/?lang=en


--Steinsplitter


Von: Wikimedia-l  im Auftrag von 
Lilburne 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. März 2017 03:14
An: Wikimedia Mailing List
Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] a second commons, prevent cease and desist business

For the last 12 years Flickr have a system where people can click on a
link and get the HTML or BBCODE that properly attributes the image along
with the link to the license and all the rest of the requirements for
the CC license. Why can't commons do the same?

Otherwise its not hard to properly attribute a CC- licensed image.

On 02/03/2017 05:44, rupert THURNER wrote:
> on the german wikipedia there was a poll to ban images of users who
> send cease and desist letters, triggered by a recent case of thomas
> wolf trying to charge 1200 euro out of a tiny non-profit which
> improperly reused one of his images [1]. thomas article work includs
> "improving text deserts, and changing bad images to (often his own)
> better quality images"[2]. there is a broad majority against people
> who use cease and desist letters as a business model. anyway a small
> number of persons do have such a business model, some of them even
> administrators on commons, like alexander savin [3][4].
>
> but the topic of course is much more subtle than described above, the
> discussion was heated, and the result close - as always in the last 10
> years. a digital divide between persons supporting the original
> mindset of wikipedia which sees every additional reuse, unrestricted,
> as success, and the ones who think it is not desired to incorrectly
> reference, or feel that others should not make money out of their
> work.
>
> as both are viable opinions would it be possible to split commons in
> two, for every opinion? the new commons would include safe licenses
> like cc-4.0 and users who are friendly to update their licenses to
> better ones in future. the old commons would just stay as it is. a
> user of wikipedia can easy distinguish if she wants to include both
> sources, or only one of them? there is only one goal: make cease and
> desist letters as business model not interesting any more,
> technically, while keeping the morale of contributors high, both
> sides.
>
> [1] 
> https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/keine_Bilder_in_Artikelnamensraum_von_direkt_abmahnenden_Fotografen
> [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/Der_Wolf_im_Wald
> [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:A.Savin
> [4] 
> https://tarnkappe.info/ausgesprochen-peinlich-abmahnfalle-wikipedia-interview-mit-simplicius/
>
> best
> rupert
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] March 2: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#9)

[Joseph Seddon]

And define "associated with".

George W. Bush, the 43rd U.S. President is 8th cousin to Bill Gates for
example (apparently)

Seddon

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 2:25 PM, Andreas Kolbe  wrote:

> Could anyone name major donors or consultants to the Wikimedia Foundation
> who are associated with, or open supporters of, –
>
> 1. the United States' Republican party?
> 2. a major conservative, or at least slightly right-of-centre, party in any
> other country?
>
>
>  On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
> amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>
> > This makes me want to ask the following: Do we have any professional
> > advisors who are experienced with working with places outside of the five
> > largest English-speaking countries?
> >
> > (It's quite possible that this was already answered in other emails, and
> I
> > apologize if I missed it.)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is the Code of Conduct in force?

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
As far as I am concerned we have working and workable procedures. The
problem that I see is that the primacy is not with the "community" in
everything. We have multiple communities and there is no single subset that
can claim sovereignty over everything with the possible exception of the
board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Who has an explicit role in this.

What I have observed is that there is too much discussion that can be
characterised with "turf war" and too little discussion about what it is we
do and how we can improve on it. Quality of the content of our projects
trumps what some of the community want every time. We are so engrossed in
what we do and for most of the vocal ones it is English Wikipedia so much
so that we accept its resolutions as resolutions. They are often baked in
the software and to be honest that is extremely problematic.

When you start with our primary objective; sharing the sum of all
knowledge, the experiment performed on the Volapük Wikipedia is of extreme
interest. It generated a lot of articles using translation software and the
result was a lot of interest including people reading it. Fast forward and
you find articles created based on DATA for Wikipedias that are actually
useful. These articles provide a purpose and are read. People still object
because their role as an editor is diminished and "who is going to update
when the data is wrong?".  Issues like this can be solved but they do not
get attention by the WMF staff because of "the community". They do not get
attention from the "community leaders" because obviously it would not play
well with "their" community.

Just consider what we are about. Are we about what we aim to achieve or are
we about whatever "community" and the interplay with its "adversary"  the
Foundation? I do care about what we aim to achieve, I resent the
inattention our objectives get.
Thanks,
 GerardM



On 6 March 2017 at 20:07, Rogol Domedonfors  wrote:

> Gerard
>
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 7:28 AM, you wrote:
>
> >
> > For Rogol and Pine I have an additional challenge; when the WMF is to
> > support the community, is their time better spend serving quality or is
> > their time better spend discussing endless procedures that make us stick
> in
> > the mud as it stifles initiative?
> >
>
> A fallacious dichotomy, as no doubt you were well aware.  We need to
> establish working and workable procedures that allow Community and
> Foundation to engage together in planning at the level of long-term
> strategy and medium-term technical roadmap so that the WMF are able to
> deliver quality products that support the mission effectively.  Do you
> think we have those already?  Or do you think we can do without them?
>
> "Rogol"
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