[Wikimedia-l] Wiknic reports and photos

2014-07-07 Thread Pine W
Wiknic New York City 2014: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_one.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_two.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikNYC_July_6,_2014_three.jpg

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiknic reports and photos

2014-07-07 Thread Pierre-Selim
There was also Wiknic organized in French speaking region in end of May 2014: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wiknic Since mid-2011 we also have regular events such as Tuesday Wiki https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Mardi_c%27est_Wiki. 2014-07-07 9:42 GMT+02:00 Pine W

[Wikimedia-l] Internet archive and strategy survey (was Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please)

2014-07-07 Thread James Salsman
Kevin Gorman wrote: Regarding the IA: they have a significant interest in working with the Wikimedia projects, a lot more experience than the Wikimedia projects have caching absolutely tremendous quantities of data, a willinness to handle a degree of legal risk that would be inappropriate for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet archive and strategy survey (was Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please)

2014-07-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
IA's legality in general has apparently never been tested in court, A bit too generic a statement; I assume you're talking only of the legality of giving public access to Wayback copyright-eligible all rights reserved content. IA follows a standard which is designed to avoid litigation:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiknic reports and photos

2014-07-07 Thread Itzik Edri
We also hosted Wiknic last Friday (to celebrate HEWP 11th anniversary): https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9D/%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%92%D7%A9_%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A5_2014/%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA On Mon, Jul 7, 2014

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiknic reports and photos

2014-07-07 Thread Jon Davies
Some party! On 7 July 2014 14:16, Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il wrote: We also hosted Wiknic last Friday (to celebrate HEWP 11th anniversary):

[Wikimedia-l] Internet archive and automatic retroactive robots.txt (was Re: Internet archive and strategy survey (was Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please))

2014-07-07 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:21 AM, James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com wrote: Kevin Gorman wrote: Regarding the IA: they have a significant interest in working with the Wikimedia projects, a lot more experience than the Wikimedia projects have caching absolutely tremendous quantities of data,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet archive and automatic retroactive robots.txt (was Re: Internet archive and strategy survey (was Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please))

2014-07-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Brad Jorsch (Anomie), 07/07/2014 17:37: And the robots.txt for the new version of the site denies everything, likely because the new owners don't want the redirects or other old content showing up in Google searches. But this has the unfortunate side effect that IA removes all the old content

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet archive and automatic retroactive robots.txt (was Re: Internet archive and strategy survey (was Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please))

2014-07-07 Thread Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Brad Jorsch (Anomie), 07/07/2014 17:37: And the robots.txt for the new version of the site denies everything, likely because the new owners don't want the redirects or other old content showing up in Google

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet archive and strategy survey (was Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please)

2014-07-07 Thread Kevin Gorman
James, I think you may have missed the part of my message about and are willing to work with us to address concerns we may have about their existing services :) In any case, given that the IA in general is way more eager to test the boundaries of copyright law and given that they (through

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Internet archive and automatic retroactive robots.txt (was Re: Internet archive and strategy survey (was Re: 24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please))

2014-07-07 Thread David Gerard
On 7 July 2014 21:08, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: Brad Jorsch (Anomie), 07/07/2014 17:37: And the robots.txt for the new version of the site denies everything, likely because the new owners

[Wikimedia-l] Right to be forgotten

2014-07-07 Thread Nathan
Now that Google has begun processing (tens of thousands) of Right to be forgotten claims from individuals, has the WMF [or any chapter] received notification of any Wikimedia content being removed from search results? Is there a plan on how to respond to these? Some (notably the BBC) have

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Right to be forgotten

2014-07-07 Thread Katherine Maher
Hi Nathan, At the moment the WMF legal team is monitoring the situation. We have been informed that we will receive notifications by Google of takedowns, but we have not received any notifications that have resulted in a takedown of a Wikipedia page to date. We're assessing the impact on the

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 2014-15 Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation

2014-07-07 Thread Tilman Bayer
Hi all, the Wikimedia Foundation's 2014-15 Annual Plan has just been published at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:2014-15_Wikimedia_Foundation_Plan.pdf accompanied by a QA: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2014-2015_Annual_Plan_Questions_and_Answers The plan was approved by the