Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA

2015-03-11 Thread phoebe ayers
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:03 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: Hi. I'm of two minds here. I would love for mass surveillance to stop; the revelations of the past few years are disgusting. However, this lawsuit has the appearance of being the start of a completely un-winnable case

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Guy Kawasaki joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2015-03-24 Thread Juliet Barbara
This press release is also available online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Guy_Kawasaki_joins_Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees A version of this as a blog post is available here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/24/guy-kawasaki-joins-wikimedia-board/ *Guy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Well-Tempered Clavier

2015-03-24 Thread Chris Sakkas
Hi Sage and all, Thanks for looping me in. I haven't been following the Wikimedia mailing list before now, so forgive me if I miss something. I (and, infrequently, others) use the #FundFreeCulture hashtag on Twitter to keep track of free and open projects that you can contribute money to,

[Wikimedia-l] Inspire Campaign: Help turn ideas into action!

2015-03-24 Thread Alex Wang
Hello Wikimedians, On March 4th, the Community Engagement team initiated the first “Inspire Campaign”, a drive to foster and support new ideas to improve gender diversity on Wikimedia projects. The organizers set a goal of having 100 proposals by the end of March; this was met in the first week,

[Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Office hours on strategy

2015-03-25 Thread Philippe Beaudette
Just a reminder that we're going to hold an office hours on the Wikimedia Foundation strategy development process in about 15 minutes. Usual place and stuff... #wikimedia-office on freenode. :-) More info on meta at [[IRC Office hours]] Thanks, pb *Philippe Beaudette * \\ Director, Community

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

2015-03-28 Thread Andreas Kolbe
I find the term Advancement Department has a somewhat Orwellian ring. The FAQ mentions that – The new role is focused on creating value for the Wikimedia movement and on supporting our ability to fulfil our mission. Value can be understood in many different ways. We believe that it can be about

[Wikimedia-l] IEG page on mobile

2015-03-30 Thread rupert THURNER
Hi, I was just wondering if any of you looked at the IEG page on a mobile phone: http://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG For me this experience looks rather broken. Best, Rupert ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

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

2015-03-28 Thread Hasive Nurunnaby
Welcome, Kourosh! On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: I find the term Advancement Department has a somewhat Orwellian ring. The FAQ mentions that – The new role is focused on creating value for the Wikimedia movement and on supporting our ability to

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing: The Wikipedia Prize!

2015-03-30 Thread Brian
I'm sure many of you recall the Netflix Prize http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize. This is that, for Wikipedia! Although the initial goal of the Netflix Prize was to design a collaborative filtering algorithm, it became notorious when the data was used to de-anonymize Netflix users.

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

2015-03-30 Thread Katherine Casey
Publicly identifying anonymous Wikimedians, especially with reference to their editing histories, is not just an academic way to make a point; it's messing with people's real lives, and it's not something I'm particularly comfortable seeing suggested, especially for a reward, on a wikimedia-hosted

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

2015-03-30 Thread Jens Best
Saying that it is a normal term in the USA doesn't contradict the impression Andreas has. 2015-03-29 14:03 GMT+02:00 Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com: I find the term Advancement Department has a somewhat Orwellian ring. It's quite a normal term in the USA. For instance, the

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Kourosh Karimkhany as VP of Strategic Partnerships

2015-03-30 Thread Juliet Barbara
This press release is also available online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_welcomes_Kourosh_Karimkhany_as_VP_of_Strategic_Partnerships A version of this as a blog post is available here:

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

2015-03-30 Thread Nathan
I'm hoping this is satire, but if it isn't, I think anyone paying others to out Wikimedians should minimally be barred from further participation in the movement. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] function titles 'n stuff

2015-03-30 Thread Aleksey Bilogur
Lodewijk, See the following category on the WMF site: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Category:Job_Descriptions. This contains descriptions of all of the positions hired for since 2007-ish, though it is definitely not necessarily reflective of the role that these positions have in the

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

2015-03-30 Thread Jens Best
Well, first of all, welcome Kourosh. I'm looking forward to see how the reality of this exciting job description gonna look like. For me this also sounds like a clear move to a more politically positioned understanding of this aspect of the growing importance of the Wikimedia-Movment globally.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] IEG page on mobile

2015-03-30 Thread Aleksey Bilogur
This is true of any non-encyclopedic page in general. The mobile browser is (correctly) optimized for encyclopedia pages, not the project pages behind them. On Mar 30, 2015 2:35 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was just wondering if any of you looked at the IEG page on

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

2015-03-30 Thread Richard Symonds
I worry that encouraging people to do this to prove a political point could be inappropriate. It's one thing to point out a potential privacy flaw, but paying people to exploit it may be seen as a step too far. Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by

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

2015-03-30 Thread David Gerard
Context: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2015-March/thread.html Brian believes that Wikimedia recording non-logged-in editors' IPs is *literally* the same as the NSA hoovering up all data they can get anywhere. On 30 March 2015 at 18:13, Katherine Casey

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

2015-03-30 Thread Andreas Kolbe
The recent Newsweek story on the Wifione / IIPM admin corruption case[1] has clear implications for Wikipedia Zero. Wikipedia Zero creates hundreds of millions of passive Wikipedia users who: - Cannot see the sources of a Wikipedia article (I believe SMS users cannot even see which statements

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

2015-03-30 Thread Anders Wennersten
I can agree on the dilemma you present. But would not a better solution then the close down on Wikipedia Zero, be to close down the projects that is not run compatible with the values underlying the idea of a free and open web?. I am (still) of the opinion that is is of utmost importance for

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

2015-03-30 Thread Newyorkbrad
I agree with the others who have opined that this should not happen. Newyorkbrad On 3/29/15, Brian reflect...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure many of you recall the Netflix Prize http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize. This is that, for Wikipedia! Although the initial goal of the Netflix Prize

Re: [Wikimedia-l] function titles 'n stuff

2015-03-30 Thread Lodewijk
Hi Aleksey, Thank you for the link. However, what I was looking for, was more of a very general description of the difference between the titles in use: director, manager, chief, etc. More in... an encyclopedic way. A link to a relevant Wikipedia article would do the trick too. An organizational

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

2015-03-30 Thread Richard Farmbrough
Moreover this may well be a breach of policy, TOS and even law. On 31 March 2015 at 01:15, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote: So, let me get this right: 1. You announced that, as David puts it, noting anonymous IPs is the same as all-the-NSA-stuff-ever; 2. People disputed it, but

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

2015-03-30 Thread Lila Tretikov
Wikimedians, Per my commitment, we have now added this escalation process/whistleblower policy to the WMF staff handbook to address the issues discussed in this thread: To serve the WMF Guiding Principles of shared power and stewardship, it's important that our work reflects community policies.

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

2015-03-30 Thread geni
On 31 March 2015 at 03:15, Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk wrote: Moreover this may well be a breach of policy, TOS and even law. Eh probably not. Go through a bunch of wikipedia bios of not very notable people. Find the edits obviously made by the subject of the article. Note IPs.

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

2015-03-31 Thread Tim Starling
On 30/03/15 09:25, Brian wrote: I suspect this challenge will be very easy for anyone who is determined. Indeed, even if MediaWiki no longer displayed IP addresses, there would still be enough information to identify people. Completely getting rid of the edit history would largely solve the

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

2015-03-31 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, With Wikipedia Zero people have access to knowledge that they would not have otherwise. It is well established that having information readily available is an important indicator for further development. Not having Wikipedia available is absolutely a worse situation than having it. Your

[Wikimedia-l] The Signpost, 1 April 2015

2015-03-31 Thread Wikipedia Signpost
News and notes: New edits-by-mail option will revolutionize Wikipedia and its editor base http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-01/News_and_notes Special report: Pictures of the Year 2015

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

2015-03-31 Thread Josh Lim
I’m sorry, Andreas, but I cannot in good conscience support your stance calling for the closure of Wikipedia Zero, coming from a country that has so far benefited from the program not only in terms of the number of new readers that we have, but also potentially pave the way for more users as

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

2015-04-01 Thread Mike Godwin
GerardM writes: With Wikipedia Zero people have access to knowledge that they would not have otherwise. It is well established that having information readily available is an important indicator for further development. Not having Wikipedia available is absolutely a worse situation than

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

2015-04-01 Thread Mike Godwin
If only my emails were wiki-editable. Thanks for the correction regarding my affiliation. Seems to me that in its current form it's just going to drag along---Zero either needs a clear procedural rethink or it needs to be would down. The only two possible choices, eh? --Mike On Wed, Apr

[Wikimedia-l] The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015

2015-03-26 Thread Rob
The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 12 – 25 March 2015 News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation adopts open-access research policy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-03-25/News_and_notes Op-ed: How my father's railroad image collection now

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

2015-03-29 Thread Chris Keating
I find the term Advancement Department has a somewhat Orwellian ring. It's quite a normal term in the USA. For instance, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education is the (global, but US-dominated) professional body for university fundraisers. Chris

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge

2015-03-22 Thread Juliet Barbara
This press release is also available online here: *https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_adopts_Open_Access_Policy_to_support_free_knowledge

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Approval of Tec de Monterrey Wiki Learning application by Affiliations Committee

2015-03-22 Thread Samir Elsharbaty
Congratulations guys! That's great news to hear especially with the great work you have been doing in the past couple of years. Keep up the great work! My endless regards, Samir On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Congratulations :)

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

2015-04-01 Thread Aleksey Bilogur
Er, Mike, this is a minor point but your signature seems to indicate that you were general counsel for over a millennium---very impressive! Personally I think that Zero should be evaluated from an impact perspective. While it's indisputable that it's strategically aligned with the WMF mission, if

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

2015-04-01 Thread Jens Best
Dear Gerard, your arguments are just emotional rhetorics. Saying that white, privileged and well educated people aren't allowed to critize ways how first-world-led telecoms (like Orange, Telenor) are spreading a wrong, non-open internet in developing countries is just plain emotional rhetoric far

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

2015-04-01 Thread Josh Lim
Hi Jens, 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? We talk of a more sustainable way to bring free knowledge (which is far more than Wikipedia)”, yet we’re not seeing anything coming out

[Wikimedia-l] New Free Research Accounts via the Wikipedia Library

2015-03-02 Thread Jake Orlowitz
Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available: Project MUSE (humanities and social science books and journals): http://enwp.org/WP:Project_MUSE DynaMed (clinical reference for medical topics): http://enwp.org/WP:DynaMed Royal Pharmaceutical Society (pharmaceutical

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

2015-03-02 Thread Oliver Keyes
This idea, I like it! And I think Yuri just volunteered to write the patches :P On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote: On 2 March 2015 at 13:49, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote: But if we're going to implement something, why not just..have timezone

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

2015-03-02 Thread Erik Moeller
Thanks for the update, Tim Moritz, and congratulations on a successful search. Christian -- willkommen in der Wikimedia-Bewegung und viel Erfolg! :-) -- Erik Möller VP of Product Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

2015-03-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:00:38 +0100 Tim Moritz Hector tim-moritz.hec...@wikimedia.de wrote: Dear Wikimedia friends, On behalf of our board, I am delighted to announce that Christian Rickerts will be the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutschland. The board followed the transition team’s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

2015-03-03 Thread Ivan Nikčević
Congratulations and best of luck in future efforts for Christian and WMDE! *Ivan Nikčević* Executive Director Wikimedia Serbia - rs.wikimedia.org - +381 60 7454 772 *Imagine http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Imagine a world http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/World in which every single person on the planet

Re: [Wikimedia-l] EU copyright rules are maladapted to the increase of cross-border cultural exchange on the web

2015-03-03 Thread Richard Symonds
I have replied to Carcharoth off-list :-) Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

2015-03-02 Thread Richard Symonds
All of us at Wikimedia UK bid you welcome to the movement, Christian! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

2015-03-02 Thread Oliver Keyes
Well, not all users have JavaScript. But, on the core of the proposal: What threats? What users? How many, how serious? Have they been reported to Legal and Community Advocacy? These are the questions we tend to ask about this sort of issue. Do we need to insert technical features to prevent it?

[Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

2015-03-02 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
A few days ago, a well known Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was assassinated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Boris_Nemtsov near the Kremlin. This murder had a huge political resonance, and conspiracy theories flourished. Yet, one of the theories was due to Wikipedia's representation of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

2015-03-02 Thread Shabab Mustafa
Congrats Christian! Best wishes!! --- Shabab Mustafa On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Hasive, Nurunnaby nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd wrote: Congratulation Christian ​!​ On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 10:00:38 +0100 Tim Moritz

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

2015-03-02 Thread Tim Moritz Hector
Dear Wikimedia friends, On behalf of our board, I am delighted to announce that Christian Rickerts will be the new Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutschland. The board followed the transition team’s unanimous recommendation and hired Christian effective May 1, 2015. Wikimedia Deutschland is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

2015-03-02 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Threats: This page http://novorus.info/news/analytics/34163-vikipediya-soobschila-ob-ubiystve-nemcova-za-2-chasa-do-samogo-ubiystva.html (in Russian, very non-credible source of information, but has enough following to make it to MK.ru), discuss a well known wikipedian Dmitry Rozhkov. I saw

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

2015-03-02 Thread Liam Wyatt
Speaking of changes to the timestamps and UTC... Whatever happened to this change that was announced in 2012? http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-revision-history-experiment/ Something like this now happens on the Mobile view, but I thought this experiment (as described in the WMF blog)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

2015-03-02 Thread Andrew Gray
On 2 March 2015 at 13:49, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote: But if we're going to implement something, why not just..have timezone be an element of the timestamps on history pages? It's UTC unless the user explicitly changes it, and if they explicitly change it that's known in the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

2015-03-02 Thread Andrew Gray
On 2 March 2015 at 13:49, Oliver Keyes ironho...@gmail.com wrote: But if we're going to implement something, why not just..have timezone be an element of the timestamps on history pages? It's UTC unless the user explicitly changes it, and if they explicitly change it that's known in the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

2015-03-02 Thread Habib M'henni
Hello, FYI we had the same issue two years ago in Tunisia when a Tunisian politician was shot and an IP made the edit in UTC. See our response in (in French) http://www.wikimedia.tn/nouvelle-polemique-sur-wikipedia-en-tunisie/ Finally the Radio station who relayed this scoop wrote an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Deutschland's new Executive Director will be Christian Rickerts

2015-03-02 Thread Katy Love
Congratulations to Wikimedia Deutschland in this appointment! Great news. And a most warm welcome to the Wikimedia movement, Christian! I'm glad to know a bit about your experiences and background. I look forward to working together and meeting you in person at the Wikimedia Conference. Katy On

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Education Program is now on Facebook!

2015-03-02 Thread Samir Elsharbaty
Hello everyone, We are happy to announce a new channel of discussion and collaborative work. Wikipedia Education Program Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikipediaEducationProgram/.[1] Please join us in the group and add your facebook friends who are involved/interested in Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

2015-02-27 Thread MZMcBride
pajz wrote: MZMcBride, [...] I'm curious about this as well. I see that source code is mentioned at https://tools.wmflabs.org/otrsreports/index.html, but I didn't see a link off-hand. If a code repository exists somewhere that people could contribute to, it might be nice to add a link in the

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF February 2015 Metrics Activities Meeting: Thursday, March 5, 19:00 UTC

2015-02-27 Thread Praveena Maharaj
Dear all, The next WMF metrics and activities will take place on Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream. Each month at the metrics meeting, we will: * Welcome recent

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

2015-02-26 Thread pajz
Hi, thank you all for your feedback. Asaf and MZMcBride, I'll try to answer your questions in one email, hope that's fine: Asaf, I am curious in my volunteer capacity about the prominence of the commons-permissions-he queue among other permission queues and relative to the size of the Hebrew

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] How can the Wikimedia Blog help you?

2015-02-27 Thread Fabrice Florin
Hi folks, We’d love to hear what you think of the Wikimedia Blog, so we can improve it to better serve you. Could you please take this short survey? https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/wikimedia-blog?c=email-ann If you are not familiar with the blog, we invite you to visit it before you take the

[Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

2015-03-04 Thread Anders Wennersten
On svwp there has over the years been 45 individuals who have each made more then 38000 edits. Of these 45, 44 are still active, only one has left (in 2009) making 97,7 still around. For the users with less then 38 000 edits, only about 6 out of 10 is still active. Is this a global valid

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

2015-03-04 Thread Ricordisamoa
Il 04/03/2015 17:44, Anders Wennersten ha scritto: On svwp there has over the years been 45 individuals who have each made more then 38000 edits. Of these 45, 44 are still active, only one has left (in 2009) making 97,7 still around. For the users with less then 38 000 edits, only about 6 out

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

2015-03-04 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, I hope not.. If it were I am a basket case. Hmmm not Wikipedia ... does Wikidata count ? What number of edits would be sufficient ?? Thanks, GerardM On 4 March 2015 at 17:44, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: On svwp there has over the years been 45 individuals who

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Inspire Campaign launches today!

2015-03-04 Thread Alex Wang
Hello Wikimedians, Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the Inspire Campaign in IdeaLab! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire This campaign aims to encourage, foster, and support new ideas for improving gender

[Wikimedia-l] Inspire Campaign launches today!

2015-03-04 Thread Alex Wang
Hello Wikimedians, Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the Inspire Campaign in IdeaLab! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire This campaign aims to encourage, foster, and support new ideas for improving gender

Re: [Wikimedia-l] EU copyright rules are maladapted to the increase of cross-border cultural exchange on the web

2015-03-04 Thread Mathias Schindler
Greetings, On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: That would be the advocacy advisors list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors -Liam / Wittylama I can strongly encourage anyone interested in that topic to join the advocacy advisors

Re: [Wikimedia-l] EU copyright rules are maladapted to the increase of cross-border cultural exchange on the web

2015-03-04 Thread Strainu
2015-03-03 18:45 GMT+02:00 Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk: I have replied to Carcharoth off-list :-) Why off-list? :) Lacking a dedicated mailing list for keeping up with the work of our lobbyists, Wikimedia-l sounds like the next best thing. My2c, Strainu

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Library Books Bytes Newsletter (Issue 10)

2015-03-04 Thread Jake Orlowitz
Hi library aficionados, Catch up on the latest 2 months of news and developments from The Wikipedia Library: In this issue of Books Bytes... * New donations - ProjectMUSE, Dynamed, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Women Writers Online * New TWL coordinators, conference updates, and new guide

Re: [Wikimedia-l] EU copyright rules are maladapted to the increase of cross-border cultural exchange on the web

2015-03-04 Thread Liam Wyatt
On Wednesday, 4 March 2015, Strainu strain...@gmail.com wrote: Lacking a dedicated mailing list for keeping up with the work of our lobbyists, Wikimedia-l sounds like the next best thing. That would be the advocacy advisors list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

2015-03-04 Thread Leigh Thelmadatter
uy! I have 77617. Can I excuse myself by saying that much of that is combined with my work as a teacher using WP with students? Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 18:19:24 +0100 From: ricordisa...@openmailbox.org To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

2015-03-04 Thread Pine W
Pinging Analytics to ask about editor longevity data (: My understanding is that newbies (= 10 edits) are more likely to disappear early in their careers than they were 5 years ago, but that editors that have been active for years are likely to remain active for years. It would be interesting,

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog

2015-03-04 Thread Fabrice Florin
Greetings! Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Inspire Campaign to fund new gender diversity initiatives https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/04/inspire-campaign-funds-gender-diversity/ • Women and gender diversity on Wikimedia: Help find quality articles

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...

2015-03-05 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all, On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 20:37:13 +0530 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

2015-03-05 Thread Jane Darnell
Yes I assumed as much - in Catholic circles you often see the word confraternity which may include women, and I understand there are a few Co-ed fraternities these days, but yes I totally agree that translation remains a tricky thing. I had to chuckle because I am knee-deep in preparation for the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...

2015-03-05 Thread Andrew Lih
Condolences to the community. I let the Signpost folks know, and there will be a writeup on this coming shortly. -Andrew On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Viswa, Thank you so much for letting us know of this editor's inspiring story. We are sorry to lose

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...

2015-03-05 Thread Alex Wang
Thanks so much for this great tribute. Inspiring. On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Andrew Lih andrew@gmail.com wrote: Condolences to the community. I let the Signpost folks know, and there will be a writeup on this coming shortly. -Andrew On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Pine W

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding

2015-03-04 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Just as a postscript to the Belfer Center affair, regular readers will remember that Russavia wrote in March 2014[1] that – *The Stanton Foundation has been a long-term donor to the Wikimedia Foundation [...] Stanton has no website, and apart from several high-profile grants to the Wikimedia

[Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...

2015-03-05 Thread വിശ്വപ്രഭ
Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by several

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...

2015-03-05 Thread Jeevan Jose
My deep condolences. Jee On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:37 PM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians all over the world, One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug ( https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug)

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

2015-03-05 Thread Anders Wennersten
I deeply apologize. It is not easy with wordings when you are non native English. I meant to use a word meaning member of an order if now Order means the same in English as in Swedish. Or member in a collective group which share some common insights/experiences. Of the 45 I mention 6 are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...

2015-03-05 Thread Eduardo Testart
Hi all, I was thinking, it is possible to create some sort of hall of fame from/for Wikipedia? It would be nice that stories like this one get a place to stay in time. Just a though... El mar. 5, 2015 12:08 PM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) vp2...@gmail.com escribió: Dear Wikimedians all over the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

2015-03-03 Thread Katherine Maher
The Communications team relies on OTRS volunteers every week, so I really enjoyed reading this report and learning more about your critical contribution to our movement. I passed this along to some of our colleagues outside the WMF that help support media inquiries, and got this response that I

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] December 2014 and January 2015 minutes of the Board of Trustees

2015-03-03 Thread Stephen LaPorte
Hi all, I have posted the minutes from the Board of Trustees meetings on December 22, 2014 and January 12, 2015, which you can find here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2014-12-22 https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2015-01-12 Thank you, Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

2015-03-04 Thread Pine W
Hi Lene, OK, thanks for the update. As you can tell, I am very interested in your work. I am sensitized to anything having to do with Meta-type documentation and deadlines at the moment, seeing as I am juggling so many of them with intricate dependencies (including weekend projects), but I

[Wikimedia-l] CIS-A2K Quarterly Reports

2015-02-28 Thread Vishnu
Dear Wikimedians, We are happy to share with you the quarterly reports of CIS-A2K for the period July to December 2014. These reports give a comprehensive overview of all the Wikimedia activities undertaken by CIS-A2K under the current FDC Grant in India. We welcome your suggestions and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

2015-03-01 Thread Pine W
Keegan, May I point out that the term on the timeline is deadline, as in commitment, not as in estimate. I view commitments as serious business. I believe that in IEGCom we met our deadlines every single time when I was on that committee, the Signpost is published weekly with rare exceptions, and

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

2015-03-01 Thread Pine W
Hi Finance Fellows, The timeline for your work says that your draft report should be finished. May we look at it? I am very curious about your findings. Thanks (: Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Events and editathons with journalists

2015-03-01 Thread Balázs Viczián
Wikimedia Hungary did a workshop as well with sport journalists. What we learnt is to keep it simple (teaching the basics is enough) and brake it into multiple rounds (we broke it into two rounds - not enough) and make it interactive (edit together from the first to the last sec). Hope I helped

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 10th anniversary celebration of Bengali Wikipedia

2015-03-01 Thread Hasive, Nurunnaby
Dear All, Last February 26 successfully end our Bengali Wikipedia 10th year celebration gala event. Jimmy Wales join with us as a chief guest. We share our all event photo this link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bengali_Wikipedia_10th_Anniversary_Gala_Event,_Dhaka Cheers! On Wed,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New ED of Wikimedia Norway

2015-03-01 Thread Hasive, Nurunnaby
Congratulation! On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations and all the best! 2015-02-25 0:32 GMT-06:00 Edward Galvez egal...@wikimedia.org: Congratulations Astrid! On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Events and editathons with journalists

2015-03-01 Thread David Parreño Mont
Hi, In Barcelona this March we'll host an editathon with journalists too. It will be in the headquarters of Catalunya Radio with the purpose to improve the article of the prominent journalist Ramon Barnils https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Barnils, one of the founders of Catalunya Radio, the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

2015-03-01 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Finance Fellows, The timeline for your work says that your draft report should be finished. May we look at it? I am very curious about your findings. Thanks (: Pine ​I'd like to point out that the timeline estimates

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

2015-03-01 Thread Risker
So I read the page that is linked. It says that their *DRAFT* report will be completed February 28. It does not say that it will be publishing its draft report. Presumably the draft will be reviewed by selected partners (particularly the WMF) before the final report is completed. That is due

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Finance Fellows to develop first-ever movement-wide financial report and metrics

2015-03-01 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Keegan, May I point out that the term on the timeline is deadline, as in commitment, not as in estimate. I view commitments as serious business. I believe that in IEGCom we met our deadlines every single time when I was on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

2015-03-05 Thread WereSpielChequers
On the English language Wikipedia we definitely have a phenomenon that editors with high edit counts will stay until a major event drives them away. But the the threshold may not be 38,000 edits, we have 1,444 editor accounts that have achieved that, and that may no longer be enough to commit

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

2015-03-05 Thread Anders Wennersten
Very, very interesting to get a perspective from the biggest, svwp being a small project. You use the word full member of the community which I like. I would say we 45 at svwp could be seen a a fraternity, we know each other rather well. It will not be possible in the same way if you are

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ciritical level for addiction to Wikipedia

2015-03-05 Thread Jane Darnell
Anders, Very ironic to read the word fraternity here when we are in the middle of the whole Inspire campaign launch, but I assume there are women in that group and they are just lost in translation? Jane On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: Very,

Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

2015-03-03 Thread Gheorghe Zugravu
Hi, a big thank you to Yuri for flagging this case of manipulation of public opinion. Reading through the links provided - i can say WP edit time was mostly discussed among ”pro-state” media. One journalist even went as far as insinuating that assassination was planned in the ”west” and that WP

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New ED of Wikimedia Norway

2015-02-23 Thread Tanweer Morshed
Congratulations Astrid! Wish you and WMNO a prosperous future ahead. -- Regards, Tanweer Morshed ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New ED of Wikimedia Norway

2015-02-23 Thread Tanweer Morshed
Congratulations Astrid for being ED! Wish you and WMNO a prosperous future ahead. Tanweer Wikimedia Bangladesh -- Regards, Tanweer Morshed ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines

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