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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Board appointment of Executive Director

2016-06-24 Thread Oona Castro

Congratulations! Very good news indeed!
Em 24/06/2016 06:29, "Samuel Klein"  escreveu:

> Brilliant news for the foundation!  Thank you for resolving this so
> swiftly.   ~SJ
> On Jun 24, 2016 11:26, "James Heilman"  wrote:
>
> > Wonderful news. Katherine is an amazing selection. Congrats and thanks to
> > all those involved.
> >
> > James
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Patricio Lorente <
> > patricio.lore...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > It is our great pleasure to share that during the Board meeting at
> > > Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, we unanimously voted to appoint
> Katherine
> > > Maher as Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. This is
> > effective
> > > as of our resolution dated Thursday, 23 June.
> > >
> > > Katherine served as interim Executive Director for the past three
> months,
> > > during which time she consistently and repeatedly demonstrated the kind
> > of
> > > leadership our organization needs. She is deeply committed to our
> > > movement’s values, and brings expertise in civic technology and
> > > international development that will be an asset to the Wikimedia
> > Foundation
> > > and the movement.
> > >
> > > We came to this conclusion after an intensive discovery process led by
> > the
> > > ED search committee. Our decision was also informed by direct feedback
> > from
> > > staff and community, and our own experience working closely with
> > Katherine.
> > >
> > > In March, we assembled an Executive Director search committee[1]
> > > consisting of four Board members¹ who were chosen to represent
> different
> > > perspectives and capacities.² Additionally, the Board asked the
> > > Foundation’s Chief Advancement Officer Lisa Gruwell to represent the
> > > executive team, and Foundation staff member Katie Horn was selected by
> > her
> > > peers as someone who could represent staff perspectives. The committee
> > was
> > > charged with keeping the process on track and on time, engaging
> important
> > > stakeholders, and facilitating transparency in communications. Their
> > first
> > > tasks were to identify a search firm, and define the position
> > description.
> > > You can review the committee’s updates on Meta.[2]
> > >
> > > The committee recruited Viewcrest Advisors,³ to identify our leadership
> > > needs and design a hiring process. Kathleen Yazbak of Viewcrest worked
> > with
> > > the committee to conduct interviews with every Foundation department,
> the
> > > executive, the Board, and nearly 20 additional one-on-one interviews
> with
> > > staff. Kathleen attended the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin, collecting
> > > feedback from community members and affiliates. The committee launched
> a
> > > community survey in June, receiving more than 1,600 responses about the
> > > qualities needed in the next ED; they also asked for feedback on
> Meta.[3]
> > > Taking all of this into account, the transition team developed a
> profile
> > > and requirements for the next Executive Director that reflect our
> values
> > > and our communities.
> > >
> > > Throughout this process, the Board and the transition team received
> very
> > > clear and often unsolicited feedback from both staff and community
> > members
> > > that Katherine embodies the values of our movement and the traits
> needed
> > in
> > > our next ED. This feedback was only reinforced by the latest Foundation
> > > engagement survey results, which showed a strong shift toward renewed
> > trust
> > > in leadership. After taking this all into account, and considering what
> > the
> > > organization needs at this moment of transition, we moved to appoint
> > > Katherine now.
> > >
> > > In just three months as interim ED, Katherine worked with the
> > organization
> > > and community to make huge strides in management, execution, and
> > > transparency. She brought much-needed clarity to our strategic
> direction,
> > > and mobilized the organization to clearly communicate that direction
> > > through this year’s annual plan.
> > >
> > > After her appointment, she worked with the leadership team to swiftly
> > > identify the organization’s priorities during the transition period and
> > > execute against them, setting ambitious but reachable targets. Under
> > > Katherine’s leadership, the Foundation submitted its annual plan to the
> > > Funds Dissemination Committee, leaving ample time for community
> feedback
> > > and discussion.
> > >
> > > Katherine is an excellent fit for our movement. She is longtime
> advocate
> > > for global open communities, culture, and technology. She was the
> > > Foundation’s Chief Communications Officer from April 2014 until she was
> > > appointed interim ED in March. Throughout her career she has focused on
> > > freedom of expression, access to information, and digital rights;
> > > supporting the efforts of people around the world to deepen
> > participation,
> > > advance transparency, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Departure

2015-09-25 Thread Oona Castro

Garfield,
I wish you the best of luck in your future endeavours. It's been awesome to
meet you, to work with you and to see you dancing.

Thank you for all your support, ever, when we needed.

I'm sure you'll missed in the Wikimedia movement.

Oona

2015-09-24 18:03 GMT-03:00 Alex Wang :

> Garfield,
>
> I have deeply appreciated your guidance, humility, and humor whenever I
> have come to you for advice. You respect for our communities and desire to
> support them no matter how crazy the situation has been inspiring. You
> could easily create and enforce rigid processes and rules, but instead
> consider each situation uniquely and think creatively to support our
> affiliates and individual volunteers. I really appreciate that level of
> commitment. You will be missed.
> .
> Alex
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:57 AM, phoebe ayers 
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Garfield Byrd 
> > wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > > For the last four years, I’ve led the Wikimedia Foundation’s finance,
> > > administration, and office IT teams.
> >
> > Four years but I feel like you've been a part of the movement forever!
> > Thank you for everything. Your contributions include managing our
> > largest financial decisions and projects, but also have included many
> > quiet acts of support behind the scenes, from helping run Wikimania to
> > talking with contributors who wanted to know how to run their local
> > group better. You've always been present in moments of crisis and
> > emergency, and also in our most joyous moments out on the dance floor
> > :) You'll be missed.
> >
> > All the best with everything,
> > Phoebe
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Board of Trustees Chair and Vice Chair positions

2015-07-20 Thread Oona Castro

Very good news! Congratulations, Patricio!

I'm happy for you and for Wikimedia movement!

Oona

2015-07-17 15:48 GMT-03:00 Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com:

 Great news! Congratulations Patricio and Alice!

 thanks
 Nasir Khan
 Wikimedia Bangladesh


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 On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Tito Dutta trulyt...@gmail.com wrote:

  Congratulations Patricio and Alice
 
  On 17 July 2015 at 17:11, Erik Zachte erikzac...@infodisiac.com wrote:
 
   Congratulations to Patricio and Alice for their well deserved
  recognition.
   Many thanks to Phoebe, Samuel and Maria for all the time and efforts
 they
   devoted to our shared passion.
   Welcome to Dariusz, James and Denny and proficiat (again) for the trust
   they earned from the community.
   Kudos too all board members, new and old, for their willingess to bear
   this enormous responsibility.
   Special mention for Jan-Bart. May you and your family enjoy the
 step-wise
   growing control over your personal timetable :-)
  
   Erik Zachte
  
   -Original Message-
   From: wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
   wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rodrigo Padula
   Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 4:23
   To: Wikimedia Mailing List
   Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Board of Trustees Chair and Vice
   Chair positions
  
   Congratulations Patricio and Alice!
  
   Regards from Brazil!!!
  
   Rodrigo Padula
  
   2015-07-16 19:04 GMT-03:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org
 :
  
Hello Everyone
   
I am happy to inform you that the Board has unanimously appointed a
new Chair and Vice Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
 Trustees.
   
Patricio Lorente will be the new Chair and Alice Wiegand will be the
new Vice-Chair. Both have several.years of experience on the board
 and
we are confident that they will help the board grow and be successful
in the coming years.
   
Personally I am looking forward to helping them get acquainted with
their new role in the coming months as my time on the Wikimedia Board
ends in December.
   
I hope you can join me in congratulating them on their new position
and wish them success in the challenges facing them.
   
Jan-Bart de Vreede
Wikimedia Board of Trustees
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Portugal's Board

2015-07-15 Thread Oona Castro

Hey, Wikimedia Portugal, good news! Happy to read them.
Also, congratulations for WikiLovesEarth contest. Beautiful photos there!

Oona

2015-07-09 14:49 GMT-03:00 Vinicius Siqueira vinicius.sme...@gmail.com:

 Congratulations to our friends from Portugal! We are very happy to hear
 such good news. The best wishes from the Brazilian User Group.

 On Thursday, July 9, 2015, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote:

  Congratulations WMPT! We are happy to hear you are starting to move
  forward.
 
  We are waiting to hear more from you in the future.
 
  Best!
  El jul 8, 2015 2:35 a.m., Joao Miguel Vasconcelos 
  mvasconcell...@gmail.com javascript:; escribió:
 
   Dear members of the international Wikimedia Community,
  
  
   I would like to announce that Wikimedia Portugal’s General Assembly has
   elected a Board, as well as other statutory positions.
  
  
   The Board is now comprised of:
  
   João Vasconcelos – President
  
   André Barbosa – Vice President
  
   Cristina Couto Soares – Secretary
  
  
  
   The official posts are compliant with legal requirements of Wikimedia
   Portugal, as a legal entity. However, according to an internal
 regulation
   change, the activity of Wikimedia Portugal will be coordinated without
 a
   hierarchical structure, with neither fixed positions nor formal
   responsibilities.
  
   Members are able to form temporary working groups for specific projects
   and to collaborate in areas such as: Coordination, Outreach,
   Communications, Computing activities, Treasury, Fund-raising and other
   actions.
  
   Main coordination of activities will be made through an online
   collaborative platform, which enables communication between members,
 such
   as organizing tasks.  I’ll oversee these activities as executive
   coordinator.
  
   This platform should be publicly accessible for the purposes of
   transparency, visibility of activities, and to encourage new members to
   participate in the Chapter activities.
  
   Regards,
   Joao
   --
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   *Wikimedia Portugal*
  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Farewell

2015-06-22 Thread Oona Castro

Dear Fabrice,
it was a pleasure to collaborate with your work. You did a very good job
and I enjoyed the atmosphere you created with your colleagues.
wish you all the best
Oona


2015-06-20 18:48 GMT-03:00 attolippip attolip...@gmail.com:

 May you fare well!

 We have published a few blog posts and you have been a great help to us.
 Wish you all the best!

 Best regards,
 antanana
 ED of Wikimedia Ukraine

 2015-06-18 19:25 GMT+03:00 Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.org:

  Hello everyone,
 
  After three great years working at the foundation, the time has come to
  say goodbye.
 
  I will be leaving WMF at the end of June, to spend more time with my
  family, focus on personal art projects and consult part-time on worthy
  causes.
 
  I would like to thank all the community and team members I have had the
  pleasure to work with over the years. It has been an honor to serve our
  movement together — and to help our contributors share free knowledge
 with
  each other and the world.
 
  I’m particularly grateful to Katherine Maher and our WMF communications
  team for being such wonderful collaborators. I really enjoyed working
 with
  them to manage and edit the Wikimedia blog, help grow our team and
 publish
  some great stories together, to celebrate the heroes of our movement.
 
  Going forward, WMF's Juliet Barbara will manage the Wikimedia blog, in
  close collaboration with Ed Erhart. As many of you know, Ed is the former
  editor-in-chief of the Wikipedia Signpost and has now joined our team for
  the summer. I've worked with him for nearly a month now and find him
  uniquely qualified for this project. Starting today, please contact them
  directly with any questions about the blog (they are Cc:d on this
 message).
 
  After June 30, you can reach me at fabriceflo...@gmail.com — or follow
  me on Twitter ( @fabriceflorin ) or on my blog (
 http://fabriceflorin.com
  ).
 
  The last three years have been an incredible experience for me, and I am
  grateful for all that I have learned from so many of you. You’ve been an
  inspiration to me and I have many fond memories of our time together. I
  wish you all the best with the next chapter of the Wikimedia movement and
  can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with next.
 
  Best regards,
 
 
  Fabrice
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Venture Beyond

2014-06-22 Thread Oona Castro

I like reading this. Excellent, indeed!


On 3 June 2014 03:50, Nurunnaby Chowdhury n...@nhasive.com wrote:

 +1 Lila..

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 Sent from my iPhone device


 On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Jasper Deng jas...@jasperswebsite.com
 wrote:

  If only you made this an actual verbal speech! That's how inspiring I
 find
  this statement :).
 
 
  On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote:
 
   +1 Lila. Best wishes.
  
   Vishnu
  
  
   On Tuesday 03 June 2014 10:52 AM, Lila Tretikov wrote:
  
   A month ago, I met some of you for the first time at the WMF’s monthly
   metrics meeting. Officially, today is my first day as Executive
 Director
   of
   the Foundation. In practice, it’s a day like many others: Today and in
  the
   future, we’ll keep working together towards our mission.
  
   When I first started learning about Wikimedia, I thought to myself:
 this
   will be different. Now, seeing the world from within the information
 Big
   Bang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang, I know: it is.
  
   Every second the universe of information is expanding around us, and
   Wikimedia is a major force that turns this information into knowledge.
  It
   is beholden to no one, yet accountable to each and every human being.
  We,
   the people who create knowledge and bring it to every corner of the
  world,
   are the ones that help it expand. We, the people who read and learn,
 are
   the ones that hold the power to make this world a better place.
  
   I often speak about human experience. Most have understood this as
  talking
   about user experience: the way we access the information or contribute
   knowledge. You are — partially — right. But what I mean is bigger than
   that.
  
   What I am after is our connection to the world and each other through
   knowledge. What I’d like us to do is to think big. Think beyond
  ourselves.
   Think about humanity as a whole. Because you can. Because Wikimedia is
  the
   place to transcend the now and to build the future.
  
   This means that what’s ahead is bigger than any one of us. Yet,
  together,
   we can make it happen. It means thinking beyond ourselves. It means
   thinking as a student in Cambodia learning about Khmer poetry
   https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%80%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%
   9A%E1%9E%98%E1%9E%84%E1%9F%89%E1%9E%BB%E1%9E%99,
   or a doctor in France writing about infectious diseases
   https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maladies_infectieuses. This means
   empathy,
   altruism and compassion. It means making things accessible, friendly
 and
   easy for everyone.
  
   This is what makes Wikimedia big.
  
   This is what makes each of us bigger than we could ever be.
  
   This is the what. Our job, as the community and the Foundation, is to
   build
   the how. Where is the will, there is a way. We are here to walk it.
  
   Let’s think big.
  
  
   *Lila Tretikov https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LilaTretikov
   Executive
   Director*
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ukraine's anniversary

2014-06-04 Thread Oona Castro

Congrats!


On 2 June 2014 15:50, Amy Vossbrinck avossbri...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 Very nice work!!

 Take good care, Amy


 On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Cristian Consonni kikkocrist...@gmail.com
 
 wrote:

   Today, our organization celebrates anniversary - 5 years from the date
   of creation.
  
   Exactly 5 years ago, on May 31, 2009, in Kyiv was held the constituent
   meeting, which approved the bylaws and elected its first Board of the
 new
   organization, known as Wikimedia Ukraine.
  
   Our community has gone through a long and difficult path. Birthday of
   Wikimedia Ukraine for our community is the third remarkable date this
   year. On January 30 was the 10th anniversary of the establishment of
   Ukrainian Wikipedia and on May 12 Ukrainian Wikipedia has crossed the
   threshold of 500 000 articles.
  
   We want to thank to Wikimedia Foundation Inc. for their help, to our
   neighboring communities for fruitful cooperation with us and of course
   to our community for their contributions!
  
   Regards, Levon Azizian
   Deputy chair
   Wikimedia Ukraine
 
  Congratulations!
 
  Cristian
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED

2014-05-01 Thread Oona Castro

Congratulations and a warm welcome from Brazil, Lila!
Wish you all the best in such challenging and important position.

Also many thanks to Sue, for all her work and vision.

Please feel free to ask us anything if it's helpful in the onboarding
process.

Oona


On 1 May 2014 16:51, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote:

 Congratulations, Lila!
 On 1 May 2014 20:49, Frans Grijzenhout fr...@wikimedia.nl wrote:

  Welcome Lila, hope to meet you in person in London. And thanks to
 Jan-Bart
   the other members of the transition team. I will forward this great
 news
  to the Dutch board  community.
  Frans Grijzenhout
 
 
  2014-05-01 20:15 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org:
 
   Dear fellow community members,
  
   On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted
 to
   announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation
 will
   be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology
 leader,
   most recently with SugarCRM.
  
   As many of you know, about a year ago Sue Gardner announced she planned
  to
   step down as our ED. As we launched the search for her successor, we
  spent
   some time working through the most critical requirements for the role.
 We
   decided the new ED should be someone with a product/engineering
  background,
   ideally in an open-source or other online community context. We wanted
   someone experienced with organisations that were growing, who'd managed
   staff and budgets comparable to ours, and who had experience creating
   continuous delivery of technology improvements in an agile context. We
   wanted a person who is oriented towards collaboration, transparency and
   openness, with some experience with complex stakeholder environments,
 and
   with an international orientation. We knew we needed someone with
 courage
   and strong personal integrity, who wouldn't be intimidated by attempts
 to
   censor the projects.
  
   Lila is precisely what we set out to find.
  
   Lila was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the United States alone,
  as
   a teenager. She's been working for technology companies, primarily in
  open
   source, in the Bay Area for the past 15 years. In 1999 she started her
   career at Sun Microsystems. Shortly afterwards she founded
 GrokDigital, a
   technology and design company. She spent three years as senior director
  of
   development at Telespree, a company that provides cloud-based wireless
  data
   services for mobile carriers. For the past eight years, she was at
   SugarCRM, where she held positions of increasing responsibility as the
   organization grew, including being in charge of internal IT, marketing,
   customer support and professional services, engineering, and product
   development. She has a stellar reputation as a leader who is highly
   skilled, collaborative, open, passionate and curious.
  
   We think Lila will be a terrific fit for the ED role. The Transition
 Team
   (Phoebe, Alice, Kat, Sue, Erik, Geoff, Gayle and I) voted unanimously
 to
   recommend her to the Board, and the Board voted unanimously to accept
 the
   recommendation. She strikes all of us as smart, brave and
 unpretentious,
   and we believe she has the skills the WMF needs.
  
   Lila is going to spend the next few weeks in learning-and-listening
 mode,
   and will take over the ED position from Sue at the end of the month.
 Her
   first priority will be to immerse herself in deepening her
 understanding
  of
   the Wikimedia projects.
  
   I want to close this announcement by saying a heartfelt and deeply
   appreciative thanks to Sue, who has been the Executive Director of the
   Wikimedia Foundation for the past seven years. When the Board and I
 hired
   Sue in 2007, we were just a chaotic little non-profit in small-town
   Florida, with a tiny staff and not much money. Over the past seven
 years,
   Sue's leadership has built the Foundation into an effective,
 well-funded
   and well-managed organisation, with integrity and a clear sense of
  purpose,
   and her steady and committed presence throughout the search process was
   integral in helping us come to this excellent result. We will be
 forever
   grateful for her leadership and vision, and I hope we can continue to
  rely
   on her support in the months and years ahead.
  
   In June Sue will move into a new role as a special advisor to me and
  Lila.
   She'll also take a well-earned holiday, and maybe even a bit of a
   wiki-break, before beginning to think about what she's going to do
 next.
   Many of us will get a chance to see her in London, at Wikimania, in
  August.
  
   The Wikimedia Foundation is delighted to have reached such a successful
   outcome to the search. My thanks to Lisa Grossman of m/Oppenheim for
   helping us with it, and I ask you to please join me in extending a warm
   welcome to Lila Tretikov, our new ED.
  
   Jan-Bart de Vreede
   Chair
   Wikimedia Board of Trustees

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil

2014-04-24 Thread Oona Castro

And so they did sanction at NetMundial!

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-bill/

To read and/or give contributions to ongoing debates in NetMundial,
http://document.netmundial.br/introduction/

Governments have commented there too.

Oona

On 23 April 2014 19:57, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote:

Yei!

That's something that must be replied in many countries.

Congratulations Brazil.

2014-04-23 17:20 GMT-05:00 Everton Zanella Alvarenga
everton.alvare...@okfn.org:

Now YES we can celebrate.

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/04/23/brazil-marcocivil-netmundial2014-senate-approves-bill/

Cheers!

Tom

2014-03-26 12:05 GMT-07:00 Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com:

Fair enough, you're right. There is a long path yet ahead. The
government
is expecting to be able to sanction/sign it during
NetMundialhttp://netmundial.br/meeting and has invested a lot on
negotiations to make it real.

Let's wait and see how far it can go.

For those interested in regulation related matters, I'm attaching a
draft
version in English made by Raquel Gatto from ISOC Brazil and shared by
Carolina Rossini, whom some of you might know.

Oona

On 26 March 2014 03:30, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote:

Humm let's wait until the bill become a *law*.

This is an important step, but we still need a lot of work here.

When our access to information law [1] were approved by the chamber
of
deputies, its bill got stuck in the senate for a looong time. It was
really, really hard to have any civil society influence to have it
approved. I didn't believe when I saw it happening - as Spain, Brazil
was
one of the last big democracies without an access to information law.

Now we have to analyse the senate situation and *if* it will be
approved
with the actual configuration. It is possible the bill will have to
pass
on
several commissions and, if any lobbyist find its amable senator,
this
bill
can easily get stuck. And we are in the presidential elections year,
thus
if eveything goes as usual, the law will likely be approved only next
year.
And if the presidential situation changes (workers party go out of
the
power, which is be very constrained with the world cup results, as
incredible it can be for a gringo), things can change a lot regarding
the
actual political scenario.

[1]
*

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o*

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o

http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm

2014-03-26 2:23 GMT-03:00 Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org:

Yaho!

On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com
wrote:

Hello all!

Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely
important
for
the
future of projects like ours.

Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights
bill)
has
just
been approved by the Brazilian
Congress

http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559
.
Now the Senate still needs to approve it.

The bill has been recently supported

http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/
by
Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1]

Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations
started
to
fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a
penal
law
over certain uses of internet.

This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with
other
Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative
platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the
creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions
were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another
round
of
public comments on 2010.

A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot
of
lobby
over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles
about
net
neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by
telecommunication companies and the intellectual property
industries,
but
mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to
be
obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming
the
content
should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for
the
need
of
a justice decision about that).

The case of NSA spying
Brazil

http://g1.globo.com/fantastico

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil

2014-03-26 Thread Oona Castro

Fair enough, you're right. There is a long path yet ahead. The government
is expecting to be able to sanction/sign it during
NetMundialhttp://netmundial.br/meeting and has invested a lot on
negotiations to make it real.

Let's wait and see how far it can go.

For those interested in regulation related matters, I'm attaching a draft
version in English made by Raquel Gatto from ISOC Brazil and shared by
Carolina Rossini, whom some of you might know.

Oona

On 26 March 2014 03:30, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
everton.alvare...@okfn.org wrote:

Humm let's wait until the bill become a *law*.

This is an important step, but we still need a lot of work here.

When our access to information law [1] were approved by the chamber of
deputies, its bill got stuck in the senate for a looong time. It was
really, really hard to have any civil society influence to have it
approved. I didn't believe when I saw it happening - as Spain, Brazil was
one of the last big democracies without an access to information law.

Now we have to analyse the senate situation and *if* it will be approved
with the actual configuration. It is possible the bill will have to pass on
several commissions and, if any lobbyist find its amable senator, this bill
can easily get stuck. And we are in the presidential elections year, thus
if eveything goes as usual, the law will likely be approved only next year.
And if the presidential situation changes (workers party go out of the
power, which is be very constrained with the world cup results, as
incredible it can be for a gringo), things can change a lot regarding the
actual political scenario.

[1]
*https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o*
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lei_de_acesso_%C3%A0_informa%C3%A7%C3%A3o

http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2011/lei/l12527.htm

2014-03-26 2:23 GMT-03:00 Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org:

Yaho!

On Mar 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Oona Castro oonacas...@gmail.com wrote:

Hello all!

Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for
the
future of projects like ours.

Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has
just
been approved by the Brazilian
Congress

http://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559
.
Now the Senate still needs to approve it.

The bill has been recently supported

http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/
by
Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1]

Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to
fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal
law
over certain uses of internet.

This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other
Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative
platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the
creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions
were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round
of
public comments on 2010.

A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of
lobby
over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about
net
neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by
telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries,
but
mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be
obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the
content
should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need
of
a justice decision about that).

The case of NSA spying
Brazil

http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html
made
the government become fonder of the Marco Civil bill, fostering its
approval in the Congress.

Since the first draft of the bill, some aspects were lost, but the bill
remains important and mostly beneficial to internet rights in my
opinion.
It's been a long process, with lots of threats to this initiative, but
in
the end the balance seems good. Good the the freedom of expression and
good
for net neutrality.

Best regards
Oona

[1]

http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/
[2] http://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/
[3]

http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html

Other links:
a. Research about media piracy - the Brazilian chapter brings the
history
of the Marco Civil da Internet by 2010. -

http://piracy.americanassembly.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/MPEE-PDF-1.0.4.pdf
b.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/brazil-legislate-online-civil

[Wikimedia-l] Internet rights approved in Brazil

2014-03-25 Thread Oona Castro

Hello all!

Subject is not 100% related to Wikimedia, but definitely important for the
future of projects like ours.

Marco civil da Internet (the Brazilian internet civil rights bill) has just
been approved by the Brazilian
Congresshttp://oglobo.globo.com/pais/camara-aprova-marco-civil-da-internet-projeto-segue-para-senado-11984559.
Now the Senate still needs to approve it.

The bill has been recently supported
http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/by
Sir Tim Berners-Lee.[1]

Back in 2007, several Brazilian civil society organizations started to
fight against bills which were about to be approved creating a penal law
over certain uses of internet.

This fight led the Brazilian government to build, together with other
Brazilian organizations, a request for comment/collaborative
platformhttp://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/[2] for the
creation of a civil rights bill for the internet. Contributions
were gathered together and a first draft was proposed for another round of
public comments on 2010.

A first draft was negotiated within the government in 2011. A lot of lobby
over the Congress was carried out especially against the articles about net
neutrality and internet service providers liability (both by
telecommunication companies and the intellectual property industries, but
mainly the former - they wanted all internet service providers to be
obliged to remove content under a simple notification claiming the content
should be removed. Internet civil rights activists claimed for the need of
a justice decision about that).

The case of NSA spying
Brazilhttp://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.htmlmade
the government become fonder of the Marco Civil bill, fostering its
approval in the Congress.

Since the first draft of the bill, some aspects were lost, but the bill
remains important and mostly beneficial to internet rights in my opinion.
It's been a long process, with lots of threats to this initiative, but in
the end the balance seems good. Good the the freedom of expression and good
for net neutrality.

Best regards
Oona

[1]
http://www.webfoundation.org/2014/03/marco-civil-statement-of-support-from-sir-tim-berners-lee/
[2] http://culturadigital.br/marcocivil/sobre/
[3]
http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-states-spied-brazilian-oil-giant.html

Other links:
a. Research about media piracy - the Brazilian chapter brings the history
of the Marco Civil da Internet by 2010. -
http://piracy.americanassembly.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/MPEE-PDF-1.0.4.pdf
b.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/01/brazil-legislate-online-civil-rights-snowden
c.
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/02/19/amendments-to-brazils-bill-of-rights-for-internet-users-jeopardizes-privacy/
d.
https://globalvoicesonline.org/2014/03/12/brazil-marcocivil-bill-of-rights/
e. https://twitter.com/marcocivil
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annoucement from the Executive Director of Wikimedia Argentina

2014-02-19 Thread Oona Castro

Best of luck, Osmar! And congratulations for the work you've done.
Let's keep in touch.
Oona


On 29 January 2014 07:16, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.inwrote:

 Really sad to see you go!
 Wishing you the very best in your future endeavors.


 On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Michael Jahn michael.j...@wikimedia.de
 wrote:

  Take care, Osmar, and all the best to you!
 
  Michael
 
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  Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
  Tel. (030) 219 158 260
 
  http://wikimedia.de http://www.wikimedia.de/
 
  Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der
  Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
 
  Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
  Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg
 unter
  der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
  Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
 
  2014-01-28 sydney.po...@gmail.com
 
   Osmar,
  
   Sorry to see you leaving the position. And I'm glad to you are
 assisting
   with the transition and plan to stay involved.
  
   Best of  luck with your future ventures.
  
   Sydney Poore
   User:FloNight
  
   Sent from my iPhone
  
   On Jan 28, 2014, at 11:59, Osmar Valdebenito os...@wikimedia.org.ar
   wrote:
  
Dear members of the Wikimedia Movement:
   
In the past weeks, I've taken the decision to resign to my position
 of
Executive Director of Wikimedia Argentina. This decision was
 presented
  to
the Board of the chapter past Saturday and it was accepted.
   
For personal and professional reasons, I've decided to return to my
country, Chile, in the following weeks and start a new stage of my
  life.
Two years ago, I was presented with the opportunity of living in
   Argentina
and working for one of my passions. This was a big challenge for me:
 I
   had
to leave my country and my family and work in a foreign country.
 These
   last
18 months have been a unique experience and I've learnt a lot,
  becoming a
better professional and a more mature person. However, at the same
  time I
feel that I need to move on and continue with new projects and
   challenges.
   
Certainly, this has not been an easy decision for me, because I'm
 very
   fond
of this work, the people that have participated in our activities and
  the
projects we worked on and we are still working on.
   
I leave the Association in a very different position than when I took
office. We have several ongoing projects and we regularized all the
   delayed
paperwork. We became the first organization from a developing country
  to
get an Annual Plan Grant via FDC and have been one of the best-graded
chapters in both processes. We are now a reliable and serious
   organization,
continuing a process of professionalization that can improve our
   programs,
making them more efficient and more effective. Clearly, this has not
  been
only due to my work, which is why I thank the Board of the Chapter
 that
helped me in everything and to María Cruz, which has been a great
   colleague
these months.
   
My main interest is that Wikimedia Argentina continues to grow, which
  is
why we have decided that my departure occurs at the end of March.
 This
   will
allow us to work calmly to ensure the continuity of the ongoing
  projects
   of
Wikimedia Argentina and the transfer of knowledge once the new
  Executive
Director takes office. In any case, I will continue to participate
 as a
member and Wikimedia volunteer, once this period expires. By request
 of
   our
Board, I will also attend the next Wikimedia Conference, so I will be
   able
to transmit the experiences of Wikimedia Argentina in the last year.
   
I appreciate the trust placed in me by the Board and all the members
 of
Wikimedia Argentina and their support all these months. I'm sure they
   will
continue the great work we have done lately.
   
Kind regards,
   
*Osmar Valdebenito G.*
Director Ejecutivo
A. C. Wikimedia Argentina
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why the WP will never be a real encyclopaedia

2013-08-01 Thread Oona Castro

I rarely jump in controversial topics here in Wikimedia-l, but I've decided
to share my 2 cents today.

I sign up for what Laura Hale said on facts  data based support for such a
claim, but would like just to add a question:
* what does a real encyclopedia look like?

While I do see Rui Correia's points on diversity (of content, perspectives
and editors), and while I do agree that's important to call attention to
what could be a (even if unintentional) biased frame to whole set of
subjects, I do not see how this valuable concern and criticism might take
us to the assumption that it's not a real encyclopedia. At least in
Wikipedia we (I mean anyone) can fight for more diverse approaches on that.

Perhaps changing the framework of such criticism (how can we pursue less
intentional or unintentional biased perspectives in WP?) might lead us to a
more interesting conversation, with more potential to succeed in terms of
real change.

Oona




On 1 August 2013 18:38, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:

 Let me pose a set of questions -

 1; Do you feel this is systemic bias in people not wanting some articles?

 2; and/or, do you feel this is systemic bias in people not having yet
 reached creating some articles?

 3; and/or,!do you feel this is systemic bias in lack of depth of coverage
 in accessible reliable sources of some article topics?

 If more than one of the above, what do you feel the relative weights of
 cause are for that aspect of systemic bias?


 George William Herbert
 Sent from my iPhone

 On Aug 1, 2013, at 2:29 PM, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote:

  David
 
  I am glad to see to see that so far everybody agrees with me, just nobody
  can see the forest for the trees and most prefer to demonstrate how
  offended they feel at my pointing out how naked the emperor is.
 
  So, whereas I write complete rubbish, what do you do to fight systemic
  bias [which] is a serious problem?
 
  Rui
 
  On 1 August 2013 23:23, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  On 1 August 2013 22:19, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote:
 
  So you mostly agree with m, but prefer to come out knee-jerking first
 and
  only after that showing that you somehow agree.
 
 
  No, he's saying you're full of it, because you are. Under your
  definition, there has never been an encyclopedia in human history.
  This is not a useful definition.
 
  Systemic bias is a serious problem, but writing complete rubbish isn't
  going to solve it.
 
 
  - d.
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 3rd Global Congress on IP OpenAir Conference on Innovation IP in Africa

2013-07-28 Thread Oona Castro

Thanks!



On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Peter Southwood 
peter.southw...@telkomsa.net wrote:

 David Ricfield (User:Slashme) might be interested
 Cheers,
 Peter
 - Original Message - From: Oona Castro ocas...@wikimedia.org

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  Hi Lodewijk,
 I haven't.. I actually don't remember of knowing anyone from South Africa
 here. But, yes, I think that would be awesome to have someone from there,
 as I suggested in the email - I just don't know to whom I should send it
 to. Would you suggest anyone in particular?

 Oona



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[Wikimedia-l] 3rd Global Congress on IP OpenAir Conference on Innovation IP in Africa

2013-07-21 Thread Oona Castro

Hi all,

I've received an email from the organizers of the 3rd Global Congress on IP
 OpenAir Conference on Innovation  IP in Africa (
http://www.openair.org.za/capetown2013) which will take place from 9 to 13
December, in Cape Town, calling for participation from Wikimedia movement.

I've attended the Global Congress on IP in the the past, when I was leading
researches on the subject in Brazil, and they were an opportunity to engage
with other researchers, know better the global picture and problems of IP
and discuss global initiatives and threats among both global north and
global south perspectives.

Would there be anyone interested in participating of this meeting this year?

I strongly recommend people engaged in IP and international treaties
debates join them.

Perhaps someone from South Africa?

Best regards
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 3rd Global Congress on IP OpenAir Conference on Innovation IP in Africa

2013-07-21 Thread Oona Castro

Hi Lodewijk,
I haven't.. I actually don't remember of knowing anyone from South Africa
here. But, yes, I think that would be awesome to have someone from there,
as I suggested in the email - I just don't know to whom I should send it
to. Would you suggest anyone in particular?

Oona



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What community initiatives have made an impact on editor engagement?

2013-07-06 Thread Oona Castro

That's been a very complex issue. Henrique will bring more context into
here.

For now, it's worth mentioning the Portuguese Wikipedia community has been
working on this antivandalism project
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia_Discuss%C3%A3o:Projetos/AntiVandalismoin
order to build alternative measures to deal with vandalism and
inappropriate edits with a very small portion of the community reverting
edits - considering the short and mid terms.

They are already aware that even the return of emergency CAPTCHA won't be a
definite measure (lasting no more than one year, as per what was agreed)
and are handling to create other ways of preventing inappropriate content
through new approaches.

I actually believe that's a good idea and am happy to see there has been a
lot of work on that - out of comfort zone, but also conscious of the
current limitations in place.

Oona

On 6 July 2013 20:22, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:

Asaf Bartov, 06/07/2013 23:51:

To be precise, the facts do not show that. They show the CAPTCHA is
responsible for significantly fewer good-faith contributions from casual
editors. That is is or is not a bad idea, however, is a subjective
judgment, based on one's weighing of multiple factors.

Evidently, large parts of the PTWP community remain convinced that the
downsides of not having the CAPTCHA (easier vandalism? admin workload? --
I'm not really following that debate) outweigh the upsides.

It's worth noting, among other things, that the vote in question ended
just before the stats were released.

Nemo

You (and I)
may well disagree, but let's recognize that this depends on our _judgment_
of priorities.

Whether or not an editing community's mandate for self-governance should
extend to the right to make such a fundamentally anti-wiki measure as the
emergency CAPTCHA feature a permanent one is debatable, of course.

Asaf

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in jail!

2013-06-19 Thread Oona Castro

That's a really nice initiative indeed!
Em 19/06/2013 08:16, Patricio Lorente patricio.lore...@gmail.com
escreveu:

 Charles, this is an amazing initiative. Thanks for sharing, I think we
 could probably try to do something similar in Argentina.

  Patricio

 2013/6/19 Charles Andrès charles.andres.w...@gmail.com:
  Hello and thanks Bishaka,
 
  We planned two type of post about this story, today or tomorrow we
 should publish a short one about the genesis of the project and the
 relation volunteer/staff.
 
  As president of Wikimedia CH I'm very proud of the work accomplish by
 Emmanuel and Chantal, and we would like to share more about this aspect of
 the project.
 
  The second post will arrive later this year with more information about
 the project itself and its usage.
 
 
  Thanks too, SJ,
 
  unexpected refers more to there eager of the newspaper.
 
  It's really rare, if not totally absent, to read positive things about
 prisons. In this way, the public expect bad news when talking about
 prison, and when a nice story about prison arise, it's unexpected. :-)
 
  Sincerely
 
 
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  Le 18 juin 2013 à 10:52, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com a
 écrit :
 
  Fantastic - and fascinating.
 
  Would love to see a blog post by someone from the chapter or by one of
  them.
 
  Bravo for reaching out to forgotten people.
 
  Bishakha
 
 
  On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  Charles - How beautiful.   Thank you for doing and sharing this.
  In what way was the partnership unexpected?  Did the Bellevue prison
  approach Wikipedians?
 
  Here is the announcement page w/PDF from the WM-CH site:
  https://www.wikimedia.ch/%5Bi18n-termpath-raw%5D/wikipedia-jail
 
  SJ
 
  SJ
 
 
  On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Now THIS is seriously clever!
  Well done WMCH - that is a truly innovative way to provide access to
  knowledge to a community who is often forgotten.
  Can you link to the press release here, please?
 
  -Liam / Wittylama
 
  wittylama.com
  Peace, love  metadata
 
 
  On 17 June 2013 14:15, Charles Andrès charles.andres.w...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Wikipedia for prisoners – an unexpected partnership between a swiss
  prison
  and Wikimedia CH
 
  Following an initiative from Emmanuel Engelhart, with the support of
  Wikimedia CH CAO, Chantal Ebongué, since March 2013, prisoners who
  request
  can have an access to Wikipedia offline (Kiwix project). The idea is
 to
  stimulate or to support the interest for education of prisoners who
  were,
  for a large majority, condemned to long-time sentences.
 
  After three months of pilot phasis, the project is successful : Among
  the
  36 prisoners of the Bellevue’s prison in Gorgier, 18 possess or rent
 a
  computer. All of them requested the upload of Wikipedia offline on
 their
  PC. For security reasons, swiss prisoners have a very restricted
 access
  to
  internet.
 
  More informations in the press releases (ENG, DE, FR, IT) that was
 sent
  today to the swiss media
 
  Regards,
 
  Charles
 
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids

2013-05-05 Thread Oona Castro

Hi Victor,
hope you're well.

I found the campaign awsome and will be donating some money.
I was wondering whether that would be nice to donate some of them to the
global south, though import taxes might be an issue, as well as the fact
that it comes with the English Wikipedia and downloading other languages is
not that intuitive, though it's possible.

Perhaps we could do the work of dowloading different languages and make a
contest to give them to a few here in Brazil, in India, Argentina, Egypt,
elsewhere?

The other thing I though of was: I recently was gifted by Henrique with one
of those and in Amazon it's being sold by less than 10 dollars. So I think
you may get a good bargain for less than US$ 25 if you talk through it.

let me know what you think

Best regards

Oona


On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Abbas Mahmood abbas...@hotmail.com wrote:

 All the best, Victor!
 Abbas.

  Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 12:46:22 -0300
  From: t...@wikimedia.org
  To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  CC: wikimediab...@lists.wikimedia.org
  Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiReaders4Kids
 
  That is a cool project. Congrats, Victor.
 
  I've a wikireader with me someone gave a few years ago. Have someone
 tried
  to install a Wikipedia of another language? I will try 
  http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/ sometime soon (alguém da
 WMBR
  com mais tempo, se quiser, fale comigo).
 
  What about using their software http://thewikireader.com/ on Linux? If
  you were successfull with that, please, let me know. Their apps are just
  for Windows and Mac stuff.
 
  I'll check if'd possible to have these machines sold somehow in South
  America. Ideas? At least we still don't have at our recent Amazon 
  http://www.amazon.com.br/ site.
 
  Maybe it would be good to suggest wikireader producers to have the
 hardware
  source open as well, if that don't make they go bankrupt. Who knows we
  could produce locally.
 
  Tom
 
 
  On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 1:27 AM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:
 
   Hello everyone,
  
   My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise
 funds to
   buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids
 in
   places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids.
  
   The campaign is here:
  
 http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids
  
   The video is here:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0
  
   Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the
 campaign,
   please share the link with others!
  
   While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this
   entirely as a volunteer.
  
   Thanks!
  
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

2013-03-13 Thread Oona Castro

Congratulations to all involved!

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov 
dimitar.parvanov.dimit...@gmail.com wrote:

 That is so cool! Congratulations!
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation named Knight News Challenge winner

2013-01-18 Thread Oona Castro

+1 to what Fabrice said (not only myself but many others I know have
applied a couple of times)

Congratulations!

Oona

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Fabrice Florin fflo...@wikimedia.orgwrote:

Congrats to everyone who worked on the Knight grant!

As someone who applied three years in a row for a News Challenge grant, I
can assure you this is no small feat. ;o)

The News Challenge contest is very competitive, with thousands of
applications submitted in each round from some of the top names in
nonprofit journalism. So it's a testament to all your hard work that we
were named a winner this year.

Nicely done, you guys!

Fabrice

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Wikimedia Foundation named Knight News Challenge
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(This press release is also available online at:

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_Knight_News_Challenge_winner
)

Wikimedia Foundation named winner of Knight News Challenge

$600,000 in Knight Foundation funding supports innovation across
Wikimedia mobile initiatives

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - January 17, 2013 - The Wikimedia Foundation was
named a winner in the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight
News Challenge for its efforts to expand and improve Wikimedia's
mobile projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is enhancing the Wikipedia
mobile experience and making it easier to access Wikipedia,
particularly for readers in developing countries.

As mobile technology is increasingly the primary opportunity for
billions of people around the world to access the Internet, the
Wikimedia Foundation is working to remove the two biggest hurdles to
access free knowledge: cost and accessibility. The News Challenge
grant will be utilized in four areas:
*Improving the way that users experience our mobile platform on feature
phones;
*Expanding Wikipedia Zero, which gives mobile users free access to
Wikipedia on their phones;
*Developing features to improve the mobile experience regardless of
how feature-rich the device is, including new ways to access Wikipedia
via texting;
*Increasing the number of languages that can access Wikipedia on mobile.

The Wikimedia Foundation is one of eight mobile projects to receive a
total of $2.4 million today through the Knight News Challenge, which
accelerates projects with funding and advice from Knight's network of
media innovators. A full list is at knightfoundation.org.

Knight Foundation's funding will support us making the mobile version
of Wikipedia easier to use, as well as enabling us to expand Wikipedia
Zero, our project with mobile operators that lets their customers
access Wikipedia for free, said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of
the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm very happy Knight has chosen to support
us; it's an important affirmation of our mobile work.

Knight Foundation, the nation?s leading funder of journalism and media
innovation, is committed to promoting democracy by supporting informed
and engaged communities. Founded by newsmen John S. and James L.
Knight, the foundation launched the Knight News Challenge in 2007 to
find the next generation of innovations that help communities get the
information they need.

Wikipedia has helped define the way that people collaboratively
create content. Making the site available to more people across the
world will help foster and spread that culture, said John Bracken,
director for journalism and media innovation at Knight Foundation.

The $600,000 News Challenge grant is for two years and follows a
general support grant of $250,000 that Knight Foundation awarded to
the Wikimedia Foundation in December 2012.

The Wikimedia Foundation and the other winners of the challenge will
present their projects via live Web stream at 12:30 p.m. ET/ 10:30
a.m. MT Friday, January 18 at knightfoundation.org/live, from a
gathering on the future of mobile at Arizona State University. (Follow
#newschallenge on Twitter.)

About the Wikimedia Foundation

http://wikimediafoundation.org
http://blog.wikimedia.org

The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
receive more than 483 million unique visitors per month, making them
the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, November
2012). Available in 285 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 24
million articles contributed by a global

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia ED Sue Gardner named to Global Voices Board of Directors

2013-01-17 Thread Oona Castro

wonderful news!
Congratulations, Sue!

Oona

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:35 AM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote:

 Jay Walsh wrote:
 Hi folks - happy to share this news that WMF and Global Voices are
 releasing today. Also posted on the WM Blog,
 https://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=21160
 
 [...]
 
 SAN FRANCISCO -- January 16, 2013 -- The Wikimedia Foundation is happy
 to announce that Sue Gardner has been named to the Board of Directors
 at Global Voices. Global Voices is a community of more than 1300
 authors and translators in dozens of countries around the world that
 publishes reports from global citizen journalists, with an emphasis on
 voices that aren't ordinarily heard in major international media.
 
 “Global Voices does great work, and I’m really looking forward to
 sharing experiences and expertise with the people involved there.”
 said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “The
 Wikimedia Foundation and Global Voices hold a lot of the same values,
 and for me the most important is our shared commitment to freedom of
 expression. The world needs strong voices advocating for internet
 users’ right to express themselves and to access information without
 impediment.”

 Congrats, Sue! :-)  Global Voices is lucky to have you.

 Given the mention of global citizen journalists in the blog post, I was a
 little surprised to not see a mention of Wikinews. Some collaboration
 between the Wikinewsies and the Global Voices folks might be good to
 explore. (I'll admit that I'm still somewhat trying to wrap my head around
 what Global Voices exactly is, but a collaboration between the two seemed
 like it might have promise. If I'm off-base, ignore me.)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikivoyage project launch/migration update

2013-01-03 Thread Oona Castro

Awesome, Gerard!

Muito obrigada!

Happy new year and great guides to Portuguese speaking countries ;-)

Oona



On 3 January 2013 18:28, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hoi,
 The Portuguese Wikivoyage has been created. :)
 Thanks,
  GerardM


 On 12 November 2012 22:31, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton 
 rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com wrote:

  So you're telling me there's files, but you will not import because no
 one
  of the Portuguese speakers helped in the cleaning process? Then I'll
  have to start
  from scratch (something that already exists), denying the existence of a
  community and the previous project and I still have to go through
  various bureaucratic
  processes, so that maybe one day the project (that already exists) come
  into
  existence?
 
  More than that, we have to manually import the WikiTravel, and as we
  have no import
  tool, we will not be able to bring together the history, so authorship is
  not properly credited, breaking the license, something which we can not
 do.
  Soon, we will have to find a way to give credit to those who wrote, or
 even
  write from scratch... so pretty...
 
  I really wanted to understand the reason for not bringing all the
 languages
  of Wikitravel ... everything was under a free license, it would give a
  lot more work? More work than the work to make 2000 new articles in pt?
 
  Tomorrow I restart the project, and maybe in 6 years it will come to have
  the 2000 articles again. For today I have to cancel activities for the
 next
  semester that could increase project visibility, after all it does not
  exist
  .
 
 
  I know that Wikipedia is The priority, but for the love of god!
 
 
  On 12 November 2012 15:33, MF-Warburg mfwarb...@googlemail.com wrote:
 
   2012/11/12 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
  
Roland Unger, 12/11/2012 07:46:
   
 Hi folks,
   
the Wikivoyage e.V. got the xml files of more language versions, I
think also for es, fi, hu, ja, pl, pt, ro and zh from user Wrh2.
   
   
Where are they? Again, please publish them.
   
   
   I can only underline this. It would be quite necessary to know how many
   pages existed there and how active the project actually was (There is
 no
   reason for the language committee to make an exception for all these
   languages IN BULK if some have actually no current interest from
 users).
   The XML dumps can of course be imported to Incubator in the case that
 an
   own subdomain is not immediately created.
   Note that some pages for a wikivoyage in Spanish have already been
  started
   on Incubator, as well as this request/discussion:
  
  
 
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikivoyage_Spanish
  
   Besides, can these old wikis from which the xml files were taken still
 be
   accessed? At least it is not http://pt.wikivoyage-old.org/ .
  
  
  
But there were no users who helped us to check to contents.
   
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Wikivoyage/New_language_**versions
 
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/New_language_versionsis
 now
   on Meta, by the way.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki/New_wikis_importers
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_wikis_importers/might/ want to
 help
   doing the XML import, depending on how much
pre-emptive cleanup is actually needed; you can try asking them.
   
  
Indeed ;-)
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