Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-04 Thread mathieu stumpf guntz 

Hi Chistian, and others

First congratulation to Esra’a Al Shafei.

Le 02/12/2017 à 05:31, Cristian Consonni a écrit :

I agree with the idea that occupying a high-profile position and trying
to limit one's own exposure are conflicting goals, but I am sure that
this was very carefully.

I feel like there is a verb missing at the end of this sentence, isn't it?

So, I understand that this may seem different from the usual, but,
actually, it is not.
Well, it is a bit different as this is not the same context. Although 
it's already sometime a difficult task, it's far easier to protect 
online contributors anonymity than it is for a person occupying such a 
visible position in the organization chart. We can apply usual 
precautions, but possibly it requires additional ones. Plus it's easier 
to do our best to protect anonymity of our fellow wikimedians in our own 
environment, but it's far harder outside this scope. Laws might help in 
some cases when people are clearly trying to harm someone with personal 
information disclosure, but when you are a public figure laws also 
grants some freedom to general press to which such a position might expose.


ĝis,


Ciao,



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-04 Thread Vi to 
I think Esra’a and the WMF people already took into considerations these
risks.

Though I fear it's impossible to prevent pictures from "leaking", I trust
their judgment on the matter.

Since I never attend events I, for one, can do few, apart from supporting
any effort to prevent Esra’a's photos from being shared.

Vito

2017-12-03 22:33 GMT+01:00 James Salsman :

> > But clearly my worry isn’t significantly shared by others, so I’ll park
> this here.
>
> It's shared by me, but first let me agree with you on this:
>
> > to be clear, I think Esra’a is an excellent addition to the WMF board.
>
> I do too. The problem with the photography restriction is that we've
> had a substantial number of deliberately anti-social detractors over
> the years, including moderately well-organized trolls, many of whom
> are still active, and a few of whom that have managed to consolidate
> substantial power among the alt-right and would love to humiliate the
> WMF and Ms. Al Shafei. What reasons are there to think that the state
> actors from whom we are trying to hide Ms. Al Shafei's  images would
> not be prompted by her appointment to try to obtain such photos, too?
>
> I would prefer that we go a bit further than simply asking people to
> refrain from taking photographs, and provide some sort of measures to
> prevent them. I have no idea of the pros and cons of different
> solutions, but a few that come to mind, roughly ordered from easiest
> to most difficult, are: veils, room-dividers or opaque audio booths in
> group events, photography-capable-equipment-at-the-door social rooms,
> private entrance/exit accommodations, and security details.
>
> If you simply ask people to refrain from taking photos, not everyone
> will comply, some out of spite, and some because it may be their job.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jim
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraising Week Beginning Update

2017-12-04 Thread Peter Southwood 
Beringian wolf banner is better than the bigger one, mostly because it is 
smaller. I would cut down on the Uriah Heep effects too. Are Americans really 
persuaded by that sort of thing? Try being honest and straightforward for a 
change, maybe it will work just as well.
Who are the tiny images upper right supposed to represent?
Cheers,
Peter

-Original Message-
From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of 
Joseph Seddon
Sent: Tuesday, 05 December 2017 5:31 AM
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==TODAY’S ASK ==

Today we are going to be testing a banner with a community quote included 
alongside the main appeal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple?banner=robin_20171201_dsk_lg_guardian_rosie=1=US

This quote originated from a fundraising interview of Rosie 
Stevenson-Goodknight conducted at Wikimania 2017.

So we have two asks:

1) We want to hear your stories about Wikipedia, what motivates you to 
contribute and why you think it’s important. It can be a sentence or two or 
something long, just go to the following link and tell us your story:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2017-18_Fundraising_ideas#Story_Ideas

2) We are testing banners showcasing the many diverse faces of the movement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringian_wolf?banner=B1718_120114_en6C_dsk_p2_sm_dsn_fcpcntrl=1=US

We tested on staff for ease but we would really like to do a community faces 
banner. If you would like to potentially see your face in a banner go to the 
following link:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2017-18_Fundraising_ideas#We_need_your_help:_Face_Banners

Add your name and link to your photo on Wikimedia Commons. The photo MUST be 
compatible with Commons hosting policies:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing

==BRIEF UPDATE==

--Community selected banner content--

Over the weekend, we ran an experiment in deferring some of fundraisings 
decision making to the community. Based on the outcome of that survey, we’ve 
started updating our banners to the winning text with what we refer to as the 
“heart and soul” line:

~~~The heart and soul of Wikipedia is a community of people working 
passionately to bring you unlimited access to reliable, neutral information.~~~

A huge thanks to all those who helped direct our efforts.

--Image ideas for emails--

We really need your ideas for new images to test in our fundraising emails.
We are looking for capitivating, fascinating or interesting images or gifs.

Please do get involved and submit your ideas here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2017-18_Fundraising_ideas#We_need_your_help:_Favourite_Commons_photos

--Campaign Progress--

We launched our mobile campaign last Thursday and so had a busy weekend.
Things are progressing well and it’s looking like our efforts on mobile show 
good growth from last year. Mobile fundraising still presents a challenge as we 
try to make it as effective as desktop as our audience shifts to mobile 
platforms. After a good first week we are taking stock of where we are after 
our first week of testing and preparing our plans for week two.

Will provide a more detailed update later this week!

Many Thanks

--
Seddon

*Community and Audience Engagement Associate* *Advancement (Fundraising), 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraising Week Beginning Update

2017-12-04 Thread Peter Southwood 
The message from Rosie is the only part of that message that has any appeal at 
all. It doesn’t compensate for the cringeworthy piece of misdirection above it, 
but it helps.
Cheers,
Peter

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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] English Fundraising Week Beginning Update

==TODAY’S ASK ==

Today we are going to be testing a banner with a community quote included 
alongside the main appeal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple?banner=robin_20171201_dsk_lg_guardian_rosie=1=US

This quote originated from a fundraising interview of Rosie 
Stevenson-Goodknight conducted at Wikimania 2017.

So we have two asks:

1) We want to hear your stories about Wikipedia, what motivates you to 
contribute and why you think it’s important. It can be a sentence or two or 
something long, just go to the following link and tell us your story:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2017-18_Fundraising_ideas#Story_Ideas

2) We are testing banners showcasing the many diverse faces of the movement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringian_wolf?banner=B1718_120114_en6C_dsk_p2_sm_dsn_fcpcntrl=1=US

We tested on staff for ease but we would really like to do a community faces 
banner. If you would like to potentially see your face in a banner go to the 
following link:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2017-18_Fundraising_ideas#We_need_your_help:_Face_Banners

Add your name and link to your photo on Wikimedia Commons. The photo MUST be 
compatible with Commons hosting policies:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing

==BRIEF UPDATE==

--Community selected banner content--

Over the weekend, we ran an experiment in deferring some of fundraisings 
decision making to the community. Based on the outcome of that survey, we’ve 
started updating our banners to the winning text with what we refer to as the 
“heart and soul” line:

~~~The heart and soul of Wikipedia is a community of people working 
passionately to bring you unlimited access to reliable, neutral information.~~~

A huge thanks to all those who helped direct our efforts.

--Image ideas for emails--

We really need your ideas for new images to test in our fundraising emails.
We are looking for capitivating, fascinating or interesting images or gifs.

Please do get involved and submit your ideas here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2017-18_Fundraising_ideas#We_need_your_help:_Favourite_Commons_photos

--Campaign Progress--

We launched our mobile campaign last Thursday and so had a busy weekend.
Things are progressing well and it’s looking like our efforts on mobile show 
good growth from last year. Mobile fundraising still presents a challenge as we 
try to make it as effective as desktop as our audience shifts to mobile 
platforms. After a good first week we are taking stock of where we are after 
our first week of testing and preparing our plans for week two.

Will provide a more detailed update later this week!

Many Thanks

--
Seddon

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[Wikimedia-l] English Fundraising Week Beginning Update

2017-12-04 Thread Joseph Seddon 
==TODAY’S ASK ==

Today we are going to be testing a banner with a community quote included
alongside the main appeal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple?banner=robin_20171201_dsk_lg_guardian_rosie=1=US

This quote originated from a fundraising interview of Rosie
Stevenson-Goodknight conducted at Wikimania 2017.

So we have two asks:

1) We want to hear your stories about Wikipedia, what motivates you to
contribute and why you think it’s important. It can be a sentence or two or
something long, just go to the following link and tell us your story:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2017-18_Fundraising_ideas#Story_Ideas

2) We are testing banners showcasing the many diverse faces of the movement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beringian_wolf?banner=B1718_120114_en6C_dsk_p2_sm_dsn_fcpcntrl=1=US

We tested on staff for ease but we would really like to do a community
faces banner. If you would like to potentially see your face in a banner go
to the following link:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2017-18_Fundraising_ideas#We_need_your_help:_Face_Banners

Add your name and link to your photo on Wikimedia Commons. The photo MUST
be compatible with Commons hosting policies:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing

==BRIEF UPDATE==

--Community selected banner content--

Over the weekend, we ran an experiment in deferring some of fundraisings
decision making to the community. Based on the outcome of that survey,
we’ve started updating our banners to the winning text with what we refer
to as the “heart and soul” line:

~~~The heart and soul of Wikipedia is a community of people working
passionately to bring you unlimited access to reliable, neutral
information.~~~

A huge thanks to all those who helped direct our efforts.

--Image ideas for emails--

We really need your ideas for new images to test in our fundraising emails.
We are looking for capitivating, fascinating or interesting images or gifs.

Please do get involved and submit your ideas here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2017-18_Fundraising_ideas#We_need_your_help:_Favourite_Commons_photos

--Campaign Progress--

We launched our mobile campaign last Thursday and so had a busy weekend.
Things are progressing well and it’s looking like our efforts on mobile
show good growth from last year. Mobile fundraising still presents a
challenge as we try to make it as effective as desktop as our audience
shifts to mobile platforms. After a good first week we are taking stock of
where we are after our first week of testing and preparing our plans for
week two.

Will provide a more detailed update later this week!

Many Thanks

-- 
Seddon

*Community and Audience Engagement Associate*
*Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation*
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2017-12-04 Thread Maria Cruz 
This is fantastic news!



*María Cruz * \\  Communications and Outreach project manager, L
Team \\ Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc.
mc...@wikimedia.org  |  Twitter:  @marianarra_


On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Christophe Henner 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> With the appointment of Raju to the Board of Trustees a couple of months
> ago, we were left with a remaining open vacancy to fill. I am thrilled to
> share that after several months of searching and discussions, we have made
> another important appointment. At our November Board Retreat, the Board
> appointed and welcomed Esra’a Al Shafei to fill our vacant expert seat.
>
> Esra'a is a prominent international human rights activist and social
> entrepreneur. She founded and directs Majal, a nonprofit which utilizes
> digital media to amplify under-reported and marginalized voices throughout
> the Middle East and North Africa. For those of you that heard her keynote
> presentation at this year's Wikimania, I think you will agree she will make
> a very valuable addition to the Board and brings an important perspective
> and skillset to the Board's efforts.
>
> Below (and on the Wikimedia Blog) you will find the official announcement
> about Esra’a Al Shafei. Please join me in warmly welcoming her to the
> Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and to the Wikimedia movement!
>
> Christophe
> Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
>
> P.S. Due to the nature of Esra’a’s work, sharing photos or videos of Esra’a
> may endanger her safety or the safety of others. To help ensure the privacy
> and safety of Esra’a and her colleagues, we are not sharing any photographs
> or videos of Esra'a. We ask that you please join us in supporting this
> important safety consideration.
>
>
> Press release
>
> Header: Esra'a Al Shafei joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
>
> Subheader: Bahraini human rights activist and social entrepreneur brings to
> the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees more than a decade of experience
> in applying creative solutions to challenges faced by underserved and
> underrepresented communities.
>
> Image: https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esraa.png[a]
>  LuEi5a9gJDpB7HWEft4/mobilebasic#cmnt1>
> [b]
>  LuEi5a9gJDpB7HWEft4/mobilebasic#cmnt2>
> [c]
>  LuEi5a9gJDpB7HWEft4/mobilebasic#cmnt3>
> [d]
>  LuEi5a9gJDpB7HWEft4/mobilebasic#cmnt4>
>
> San Francisco, California, 1 December 2017 — The Wikimedia Foundation today
> announced the appointment of Esra'a Al Shafei, a prominent human rights
> activist and a passionate defender of free expression, to the Wikimedia
> Foundation Board of Trustees.
>
> A native of Bahrain, Esra'a’s work aims to increase and protect free
> speech, promote expression for youth and underrepresented voices, and
> improve the lives of LGBTQ people in the Middle East and North Africa. She
> founded and directs Majal, a network of online platforms that
> amplify under-reported and marginalized voices.
>
> “Esra'a shares Wikimedia's foundational belief that shared knowledge can
> facilitate shared understanding,” said Wikimedia Foundation Executive
> Director, Katherine Maher. "Her achievements exemplify how intentional
> community building can be a powerful tool for positive change, while
> her passion
> for beautiful and engaging user experiences will only elevate our work. We
> are so fortunate to have her perspective in support of our global Wikimedia
> communities."
>
> Esra'a founded Majal in 2006 as Mideast Youth, at the time a series of
> blogs bringing a voice to marginalized and underrepresented young
> people across the Middle East. Today, the organization's team helps build
> communities that celebrate, protect, and promote diversity and social
> justice. Their endeavors include CrowdVoice.org, which curates crowdsourced
> media to contextualize social movements throughout the world; Mideast
> Tunes, the largest web and mobile app showcasing underground musicians in
> the Middle East and North Africa who use music as a tool for social change;
> and Ahwaa.org, an open discussion platform for Arab LGBTQ individuals that
> uses game mechanics to protect and engage its community.
>
>
> “When I first encountered Wikipedia shortly after obtaining an internet
> connection in the early 2000s, I felt that the true purpose of the internet
> was realized. With Wikipedia, I accessed research regarding persecuted
> communities in my home country and the wider region: ethnic and religious
> minorities whom we were discouraged from learning about, and whose
> histories and beliefs were dictated to us from a singular government
> perspective. Wikipedia’s open source and crowdsourcing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

2017-12-04 Thread Yann Forget 
Hi,

Any CC license on Wikidata would be like puting a copyright on facts.
I obviously strongly object on that, and therefore I also strongly object
puting anything other than public domain or CC0 on Wikidata.

The whole database could have a copyright in Europe, but I am also strongly
against copyright on databases, that's why Wikidata should be under CC0.

Regards,

Yann


2017-12-03 23:59 GMT+01:00 mathieu stumpf guntz <
psychosl...@culture-libre.org>:

> Dear Leila
>
>
> Le 02/12/2017 à 21:48, Leila Zia a écrit :
>
>> [I apologize for the longish response, and I will do what I can to take
>> the rest of this offlist as needed. I just see a couple of places where I
>> need to add more explanation.]
>>
> Then I feel somewhat bond to respond too. But too make it shorts, I don't
> think I add in this email says anything that wasn't already said before. So
> anyone already fed up with this thread can just skip this message with no
> fear to miss any revelation. And to make it clear, I don't expect any
> answer to this message on the list, but will diligently reply in private if
> you are looking for more information from my part.
>
>>
>> ​(​Side-note. We should take this part offline but for the record: I
>> couldn't find a place where transparency was listed as an agreed upon and
>> shared value of our movement as a whole. There are subgroups that consider
>> it a core value or one of the guiding principles, and it's of course built
>> in in many of the things we do in Wikimedia, but I'm hesitant to call it /a
>> core value of our movement/ given that it's not listed somewhere as such.
>> btw, for the record, it's high on my personal and professional list of
>> values.)
>>
> Here is an official Wikimedia Foundation presentation support of 2017
> related to leadership where /being transparent/ is explicitely stated in a
> silde titled "Staying true to our values": https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/i
> ndex.php?title=File%3AWhat_is_Leadership%3F.pdf=25
>
>>
>> ​While I agree that transparency is a value for many of us, it is not
>> very clear, to at least me, how we as a whole define transparency to the
>> level that can be used in practice. In the absence of a shared practical
>> definition for transparency, each of us (or groups of us) define a process
>> as transparent as a function of how big/impactful the result of a process
>> is at each point in time, our backgrounds/cultures/countries-we're-from,
>> how much personal trust we have in the process or the people involved in
>> the process, etc. If this is correct, this means that in practice we as
>> individuals or groups define what transparency means for us and we will
>> demand specific things based on our own definition. So, while in theory you
>> are requesting/demanding something that is likely a shared value for many
>> of us, in practice, you are entering your own checklist (that may be shared
>> with some other people's view on transparency in a specific case) that once
>> met, you will call the process transparent. That's why I interpreted what I
>> heard from you as "I" demand transparency, versus "we, as a movement"
>> demand transparency in this case.
>>
> I completely agree with you with the lake of clear definition of some
> crucial core notions we use all the time. This is also a feedback I red in
> several comments in the 2017 strategy consultation. Staying vague brings
> both pros and cons of flexibility. An other example is "free license",
> which is for example used in the foundation bylaws <
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Bylaws>, but not defined it it. One
> might argue that "free license" has a clear cultural meaning in the
> free/libre culture movement, with the four famous freedom inherited from
> free software. But this is a legal document, what is not clearly explicitly
> stated is subject to large interpretation variations. But at list the
> foundation has "free license" in its bylaws, I know that the equivalent is
> not even mentioned in the French chapter similar document <
> https://www.wikimedia.fr/documents-officiels/statuts-de-lassociation/>.
>
>
>> To give you a more specific example: as an Iranian involved in Wikimedia
>> movement who knows Markus through his contributions to Wikidata and at a
>> professional/work level, I trusted Markus' words when he said that those in
>> early stages of the project didn't think of Wikidata as a project that one
>> day becomes as big as it is today. I believe it that this was a fun project
>> that they wanted to see succeed, but they were not sure at all if it gets
>> somewhere, so the natural thing to do for them was to spend time to see if
>> they can help it take off at all as opposed to spending time on documenting
>> decisions in case it takes off and they need to show to people how they
>> have done things. If trust between Markus and I were broken, however, I
>> would likely not be content with that level of response and I would
>> ask/demand for more explanation. In case

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

2017-12-04 Thread Yann Forget 
Hi,

Any CC license on Wikidata would be like puting a copyright on facts.
I obviously strongly object on that, and therefore I also strongly object
puting anything other than public domain or CC0 on Wikidata.

The whole database could have
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