[Wikimedia-l] Re: What happened to the cc-by-sa-4.0 initiative?

[Strainu]

Hi Isaac,

See https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0

Strainu

Pe joi, 30 septembrie 2021, Isaac Olatunde  a
scris:
> Hi Strainu,
> I can't find the previous discussions.Could you please provide a link to
the public consultations (or proposal) you mentioned to allow people on
this list have a clear understanding of what was discussed?
> Best regards
> Isaac
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, 23:22 Strainu,  wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A few years ago there was a public consultation on moving the Wikimedia
license to cc-by-sa-4.0 instead of 3.0. Now, obviously that never happened
but I couldn't find the decision documented anywhere. Why was the proposal
scrapped? Are there any plans to revisit this?
>>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: What happened to the cc-by-sa-4.0 initiative?

[Isaac Olatunde]

Hi Strainu,

I can't find the previous discussions.Could you please provide a link to
the public consultations (or proposal) you mentioned to allow people on
this list have a clear understanding of what was discussed?

Best regards

Isaac

On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, 23:22 Strainu,  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A few years ago there was a public consultation on moving the Wikimedia
> license to cc-by-sa-4.0 instead of 3.0. Now, obviously that never happened
> but I couldn't find the decision documented anywhere. Why was the proposal
> scrapped? Are there any plans to revisit this?
>
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[Wikimedia-l] What happened to the cc-by-sa-4.0 initiative?

[Strainu]

Hi,

A few years ago there was a public consultation on moving the Wikimedia
license to cc-by-sa-4.0 instead of 3.0. Now, obviously that never happened
but I couldn't find the decision documented anywhere. Why was the proposal
scrapped? Are there any plans to revisit this?

Steainu
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Quick upvoting of statements for the Movement Charter Election Compass until Sunday, Oct 3

[Vi to]

There was that fancy series of js buttons for stewards' elections
autosaving the vote, I think it will help voting on so many statements.

Vito

Il giorno mer 29 set 2021 alle ore 16:39 Cornelius Kibelka <
ckibelka-...@wikimedia.org> ha scritto:

> TL;DR: Upvote your favorite Movement Charter Election Compass statements
> 
> until October 3rd.
>
> ///
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> in roughly 10 days, on October 11, we will start the voting on the
> community candidates for the drafting committee that will draft the
> Movement Charter. We got 72 candidates running for the committee!
>
> To be able to guide all of you through so many candidacies, we want to
> provide a Voting Advice Application. You can find the prototype here on
> Toolforge .
>
> Over the last week, we got 110 statements proposed by community members:
> On values and principles, on resource allocation, on the charter drafting
> process. Thank you very much!
>
> *The next step is now to select 15 to 20 of these statements for the final
> advice application -- your turn! *Upvote the statements you would like to
> see included in the voting advice application:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Election_Compass_Statements
>
> You can vote on as many statements as you like, but only one vote per
> statement. *Think about which statements you would like to see the
> candidates positioning themselves to, which might help you in your
> decision-making.* The ~20 statements with the most votes will be selected
> and send to the candidates on Monday, October 4th.
>
> All of this is an experiment, we're happy to get feedback!
>
> Best regards
> Cornelius
>
>
> --
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>
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>
> Movement Strategy + Governance
>
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>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: About raising money

[William Chan]

I think zh.wiki adds that into the list of reasons why UCoC should be
enforced.

Of course I hope the foundation can be as transparent as possible.

On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 06:35, Vi to  wrote:

> Hr.wiki case proves that some very basic things must be enforced, anyway.
>
> Vito
>
> Il giorno mar 28 set 2021 alle ore 23:29 Todd Allen 
> ha scritto:
>
>> If UCOC is such a great idea, it should be made opt-in, or at least
>> opt-out. After all, if it's so brilliant, surely everyone will want it
>> anyway, right?
>>
>> It is the imposition of "You will get this whether you like it or not"
>> which is the problem.
>>
>> Todd
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 4:39 AM Vi to  wrote:
>>
>>> UCOC must surely be ruled out of this list. The reasons behind its
>>> creations are indisputable.
>>>
>>> Anyway donations are collected because of volunteers' work, but should
>>> be mainly bound to readers' (donors') will.
>>>
>>> Vito
>>>
>>> Il giorno mar 28 set 2021 alle ore 10:19 Todd Allen <
>>> toddmal...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>>
 It's not only that.

 When the WMF uses its funds to actively act against its volunteer
 community (ACTRIAL, MEDIAVIEWER, FRAMBAN, and more lately UCOC), that
 raises issues beyond disgust. The projects we spent our time building are
 now actively being used to do things we don't want to do. It is not just
 that WMF is using its money on frivolous or useless projects (though that
 would be a problem), it is that WMF is using its funds from what we built
 to actively punch us in the face and act against us.

 If WMF were using its funds to take trips out to Barbados for no
 reason, well--we'd probably still be irritated about that. But use our
 funds to actively stomp on our volunteer community, and ignore what they
 say?

 Well that's not just disgust. That's anger, and that's what you're
 seeing.

 Regards,

 Todd Allen

 On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 2:51 PM Guillaume Paumier <
 gpaum...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> (Sending this as a personal opinion, albeit one informed by my work on
> revenue strategy in the past few years.)
>
> Discussions about fundraising in the Wikimedia movement often involve
> the same arguments over time. My theory, after observing and participating
> in those discussions for 15 years, is the following.
>
> Objections to Wikimedia fundraising (and, more broadly, revenue
> generation) tend to stem from three main sources:
> * the moral superiority of financial disinterest
> * outlandish budgets and fundraising goals
> * improper means used to raise money.
>
> The first one is relatively simple. A significant number of us find
> any relationship between money and free knowledge viscerally disgusting.
> We've been editing as volunteers for years, devoting our free time to the
> advancement of humankind through knowledge. We have done so through
> countless acts of selflessness. Our financial disinterest is
> inextricably woven into our identity as Wikimedians. The Foundation should
> only raise the minimum funds required to "keep the lights on." Anything
> more is an attempt to profit from our free labor, and that's revolting.
>
> This is not unlike discussions of business models in the libre
> software community; we can also see those arguments surface in discussions
> around paid editing. I will leave the moral argument aside, because little
> can be done to change individual identities and moral judgments of money.
> But let's name them explicitly, in hopes that we can separate them from
> more fact-based arguments, if we are willing and able.
>
> The second point of contention is how much we raise. To those of us
> who remember the early years ("May we ask y'all to chip in a few dollars 
> so
> we can buy our second server?!"), raising $150+ million a year these days
> seems extravagant, and probably always will. The much smaller budgets from
> our past act as cognitive anchors, [1] and in comparison recent budgets
> appear greedily outsized. Instead of being outraged by the growth of the
> budget, we should instead ask ourselves how much money we really need.
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring_(cognitive_bias)
>
> And the fact is that, as a movement, we need as much money as we can
> get to advance our mission. Our vision is so ambitious and expansive that
> it is also bound to be inevitably expensive. This is something that the
> Board understood: shortly after endorsing the Strategic Direction in 2017,
> they directed the Foundation to prepare to raise more funds than usual, to
> be able to move towards our collective vision for 2030. [2] My fellow
> members of the working group on Revenue Streams for movement strategy also
> understood the scope of the mov

[Wikimedia-l] Quick upvoting of statements for the Movement Charter Election Compass until Sunday, Oct 3

[Cornelius Kibelka]

TL;DR: Upvote your favorite Movement Charter Election Compass statements

until October 3rd.

///

Hello everyone,

in roughly 10 days, on October 11, we will start the voting on the
community candidates for the drafting committee that will draft the
Movement Charter. We got 72 candidates running for the committee!

To be able to guide all of you through so many candidacies, we want to
provide a Voting Advice Application. You can find the prototype here on
Toolforge .

Over the last week, we got 110 statements proposed by community members: On
values and principles, on resource allocation, on the charter drafting
process. Thank you very much!

*The next step is now to select 15 to 20 of these statements for the final
advice application -- your turn! *Upvote the statements you would like to
see included in the voting advice application:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Election_Compass_Statements

You can vote on as many statements as you like, but only one vote per
statement. *Think about which statements you would like to see the
candidates positioning themselves to, which might help you in your
decision-making.* The ~20 statements with the most votes will be selected
and send to the candidates on Monday, October 4th.

All of this is an experiment, we're happy to get feedback!

Best regards
Cornelius


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Event Coordinator

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2030.wikimedia.org



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[Wikimedia-l] 2022 Ombuds Commission nomination process now open

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