Re: [Wikimedia-l] 60 Minutes episode link

Yup - just watched it in the Netherlands, with lots of Viagra ads too! It's a great piece and I hope it helps spread the message that Wikipedia is a non-profit written by volunteers. One of the outcomes of the WMNL reader and editor survey was that most of the Dutch public didn't know that Wikiped

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 60 Minutes episode link

(I've got the Adblock Plus free add-on on Firefox/Windows 8 and it seems to filter out the ads - as it does for YouTube.) Anthony Cole On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Ivan Martínez wrote: > James, the restriction was only for on-air broadca

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 60 Minutes episode link

James, the restriction was only for on-air broadcast. I can watch the videos now (with a lot of Viagra ads :P) Thank you! 2015-04-06 0:52 GMT-05:00 James Alexander : > Ivan: I think we were told the link should be without country restrictions. > Do you get a 'not available in your country' type

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 60 Minutes episode link

Ivan: I think we were told the link should be without country restrictions. Do you get a 'not available in your country' type warning when you go? James Alexander Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Ivan Martínez wrote: > Than

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 60 Minutes episode link

Thanks for sharing Kevin. In countries like mine CBS is not available for free. Regards, 2015-04-05 19:17 GMT-05:00 Kevin Rutherford : > Hey all, > > Here is a link to the segment that just aired earlier tonight that > Katherine mentioned earlier today. There are also some bonus bits on the > sid

[Wikimedia-l] 60 Minutes episode link

Hey all, Here is a link to the segment that just aired earlier tonight that Katherine mentioned earlier today. There are also some bonus bits on the side, and it lasts for under fifteen minutes, so check it out when you have a moment as it features a lot of footage from last year’s Wikimania:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

* Josh Lim wrote: >In the absence of any meaningful alternative, what should we do then? >Close down Wikipedia Zero and let the developing world languish in the >dark? Technically it would be entirely possible for service providers to offer access to Wikipedia "for free" even if the Wikimedia F

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 133, Issue 17

On 05/04/2015 14:13, Mike Godwin wrote: Lilburne writes: "> My friends and colleagues at EFF, Access Now, and elsewhere -- as well as individual scholars and commentators like Marvin Ammori -- know me, "Those will all be Google shills correct?" Incorrect. My work, and EFF's work, to take two

[Wikimedia-l] Request

There has been a protracted thread in the last couple of days that seems to amount to an escalating ego battle among 2-3 participants. I could be wrong, but I don't think this has much interest beyond those 2-3 individuals. I'd like to request that the participants or the list moderators take step

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [US media] Wikimedia on US television program 60 Minutes tonight

Excellent, thanks Katherine. I'll check the 60 Minutes segment to see if they have ideas that I can reuse for the video productions that some of us are working on this year. It sounds like their intended audience is different, more aimed at educating readers than educating potential editors or rese

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Regarding knowledge

For medical articles we at svwp are very wary as there exist very good webpages issued by the health authorities related to all healthproblems and we certainly do not want our wp pages to contradict those. We encountered severe problems when the English(American) articles were first introduced

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Regarding knowledge

Has there been work to determine the accuracy of our medical coverage that's found it lacking? All the studies I've seen have said it's pretty good, but that was a while ago, and I know anecdotally that we've got a lot of work to do around, for example, womens' health issues. On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 133, Issue 17

Lilburne writes: "> My friends and colleagues at EFF, Access Now, and elsewhere -- as well > as individual scholars and commentators like Marvin Ammori -- know me, "Those will all be Google shills correct?" Incorrect. My work, and EFF's work, to take two example, predate Google's involvement in

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

Boi, All comparisons of WP with other sources were cherry picked. They picked articles where the science was well established, or they picked articles which were being edit warred to exhaustion if you know of comparisons where that isn't the case then cough them up. Wikipedia happens to figu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

Hello, Might I suggest that if folks want to continue talking about this, they rename this thread, as it is no longer about Kourosh Karimkhany, and it is just creating background noise for those of us who have no desire to discuss the whole Wikipedia Zero freedom thing yet again? Cheers, Craig O

[Wikimedia-l] [US media] Wikimedia on US television program 60 Minutes tonight

Hi everyone, For the past year, the US television program* 60 Minutes*[1] has been working on a segment on Wikimedia. We learned that it will air today Sunday, April 5, at 7 p.m. EST/PST, and will be available for streaming on the* 60** Minutes* website (http://www.cbsnews.com/60-minutes/), report

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

Hoi, Research is not what we compete with. Research is not encyclopaedic either. The research I refer to compared a set of subjects and compared those in several sources... Then again why bore you with information you already could know.. Cherry picking an article from Brittanica is wonderful, it

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

On 05/04/2015 06:36, Gerard Meijssen wrote: Hoi, Reliable is not an absolute. Wikipedia is in the final analysis an encyclopaedia. It is not original research. One can indeed engage in original research by cherry picking the sources. Studies have indicated that Wikipedia is as reliable as i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

On 02/04/2015 02:54, Mike Godwin wrote: Andreas writes: "Prominent organisations campaigning for a free and open web very strongly disagree with your view." I said there are no facts, and you responded by citing opinion pieces. That's cool, but opinions are not themselves facts. Furthermore, i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing: The Wikipedia Prize!

All, As Tim mentioned we are seriously looking at privacy/identity/security/anonymity issues, specifically as it pertains to IP address exposure -- both from legal and technical standpoint. This won't happen overnight as we need to get people to work on this and there are a lot of asks, but this i