http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/667 <pre>Foundation elections: Trustee candidates speak about Board structure, China, gender, global south, endowment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-20/Foundation_elections&lt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-20/Foundation_elections&gt; News and notes: Spanish Wikipedia leaps past one million articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-20/News_and_notes&lt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-20/News_and_notes&gt; In the media: Qworty incident continues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-20/In_the_media&lt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-20/In_the_media&gt; WikiProject report: Classical Greece and Rome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-20/WikiProject_report&lt;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-20/WikiProject_report&gt; Featured content: Up in the air http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2013-05-23T07:38:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/666 <pre>This press release is also available online here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/The_search_for_our_next_Executive_Director The Wikimedia Foundation announces search for new Executive Director to lead the Wikimedia movement SAN FRANCISCO, California -- 22 May 2013 -- The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and its sister projects, has kicked off its global search for a new Executive Director to lead the organization through its next phase of innovation and growth. The new Executive Director will lead a thriving international organization that operates the number five most-popular web property in the world. The Wikimedia Foundation operates free knowledge projects used by more than half a billion people. Wikipedia contains more than 25 million volunteer-authored articles in 285 languages. The Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the ful</pre> Matthew Roth 2013-05-22T22:59:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/665 <pre>Dear all, This afternoon Kat Walsh, Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation announced the kick-off of the search for the next ED of the Wikimedia Foundation: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/21/search-for-next-wikimedia-foundation-executive-director/ Please take a moment to read through Kat's note, and please support this process by sharing the news of the ED search throughout your networks (be they digital or analog :). We are hoping to get significant, international coverage of this opportunity, something that will help us reach a wide range of amazing candidates. We'll also be sharing the opportunity via twitter/identi.ca (&lt; at &gt;wikipedia and &lt; at &gt;wikimedia) and on Facebook and LinkedIn. Thanks for your help, Jay Walsh --- https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/21/search-for-next-wikimedia-foundation-executive-director/ Kicking off the search for our next Executive Director Posted by Kat Walsh on May 21, 2013 Today we launch our search for the next Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foun</pre> Jay Walsh 2013-05-21T22:32:09 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/664 <pre>April was a busy month for Wikimedia Nederland. Our report is available on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201304 It is also included as text in this message. We have changed the structure of our monthly report to match our Annual Plan 2013 and our FDC application. COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors - Wikimedia Nederland Conferentie Preparations have begun for the annual Wikimedia Nederland Conference which will take place on November 2. One of the themes will be 'editor diversity' - we are cooperating with WMDE who will be holding an international event on that topic a week later on November 9. We are still looking for volunteers to take charge of programming and publicity. - Wikipedia Training National Museum of Ethnology A basic editing training was given to students and employees of the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden by volunteers Erik Zachte, Hay Kranen and Boardmember Hans Muller.WORK: content, collaborati</pre> Sandra Rientjes 2013-05-20T09:31:10 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/663 <pre>Hello all, Are you interested in policy and legislative issues that could affect the Wikimedia movement? If so, please join the the Advocacy Advisory Group at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors The Advocacy Advisory Group is an open, public email list that focuses on legislative advocacy, affiliations, and other related issues. The group discusses these topics, advises the Wikimedia Foundation on advocacy and affiliation actions, and shares updates on similar activities by chapters and other organizations. Additional background is available in the Foundation's Policy and Political Association Guideline: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Affiliations_Guideline Many thanks, Stephen </pre> Stephen LaPorte 2013-05-17T15:48:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/662 <pre>* Hey all, For the last 18 months, the Engineering &amp; Product Development department has been experimenting with the role of “Community Liaison, Product Development” - a staff member embedded in the Product team and tasked with factoring community concerns into our software development process, keeping editors informed about what we’re doing, and maintaining a dialogue between those who write code and those who write articles. While there is always room for improvement, I think this role has shown a lot of promise. We have a number of large projects coming down the pipeline (e.g., visual editor, discussion systems) and we need more help reaching out to our contributor communities, especially our non-English speaking projects, as our outreach there has traditionally been challenged. We’d like to recruit a small number of English-speaking or multilingual editors to do the Community Liaison job with different development teams and focuses. In particular we’re looking for people with a strong hist</pre> Howie Fung 2013-05-18T06:00:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/661 <pre>News and notes: WMF–community ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/News_and_notes In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/In_the_media Featured content: A mushroom, a motorway, a Munich gallery, and a map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/Featured_content WikiProject report: Knock Out: WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/WikiProject_report Arbitration report: ''Race and politics'' opened; three open cases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/Arbitration_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13 http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wiki</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2013-05-16T01:14:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/660 <pre>Hi all, the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#51) is available. This time we write about our scolarships for Wikimania 2013, the money we got from Italian taxpayers who chose to support us, echoes of Wiki Loves Monuments 2012, WikiWomen and our next appointments. As usual a link has been added to meta, ay Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia ; more-or-less raw text of the bulletin follows below. ciao, .mau. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= == Wikimania 2013 scholarships == As previously announced, Wikimedia Italia is assigning [http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Programma_borse_di_partecipazione_per_Wikimania_2013 8 scholarships] for Wikimania, of the value of €1,250 each, to encourage participation of Italian Wikipedians and Wikimedian to the event. The evaluation committee has reviewed many requests, almost all worthy of attention, and eventually declared the winners who will go to Hong Kong to [http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_page Wikimania 2013]. Here is the list, in alphabetical order </pre> .mau. (maurizio codogno 2013-05-15T20:18:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/659 <pre>News and notes: Candidates nominating for Foundation elections; Looking ahead to Wikimania 2014 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-06/News_and_notes In the media: New Wikipedia for Schools edition; Anders Behring Breivik's Wikipedia contributions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-06/In_the_media Featured content: WikiCup update: full speed ahead! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-06/Featured_content WikiProject report: Earn $100 in cash... and a button! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-06/WikiProject_report Technology report: Foundation successful in bid for larger Google subsidy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-06/Technology_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-06 http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2013-05-10T17:34:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/658 <pre>*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org. *This Month in GLAM – Issue IV, Volume III – April 2013* ------------------------------ From the team: Some personal thoughts on GLAM http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2013/Contents/From_the_team Australia and New Zealand report: Wikipedia in academia and libraries in Australia http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2013/Contents/Australia_and_New_Zealand_report Denmark report: Upcoming Edit-a-thon 1864 http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2013/Contents/Denmark_report Finland report: WLPA; GLAM Sessions; Funding http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2013/Contents/Finland_report France report: Brest http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wik</pre> The 'This Month in GLAM' team 2013-05-08T22:04:27 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/657 <pre>Hi folks, It’s my great pleasure to announce that today, Jared Zimmerman will start as Wikimedia Foundation’s Director of User Experience. As UX Director, Jared will lead the design team and have a hands-on role on the team, contributing his own design work. It’s still a small team (Brandon, Vibha, May, and Pau), but we expect to hire an additional 3-4 designers in the coming 12-18 months. Prior to Wikimedia, Jared was Principal Interaction Designer at Autodesk, where he worked with engineers, visual artists, and user experience researchers to create new software solutions for architecture and design professionals with an emphasis on AutoCAD for Mac and soon to be released online design collaboration tools. Jared has led cross-disciplinary design teams in his roles at Autodesk, Ammunition Group, and iconmobile, including creative direction. At Autodesk, he was part of the transition to agile development and helped his design teams apply those principles to their work. During his time there he worked</pre> Erik Moeller 2013-05-06T16:44:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/656 <pre> Hi all, the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#51) is available. You may find a report on the Wikimedia Conference held in Milano, read about some initiatives in libraries and nursing university, know about an interview to our "capa" and a couple of talks of our members. As usual a link has been added to meta, ay Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia ; more-or-less raw text of the bulletin follows below. ciao, .mau. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= == Wikimedia Conference 2013 in Milano == From April 18 to 21 Milan hosted the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2013 Wikimedia Conference 2013], the annual international meeting for discussing the state of the Wikimedia movement. Some numbers: about 150 delegates from all over the world attended the meeting from forty chapters and groups, a dozen of volunteers of Wikimedia Italia for support, two facilitators moderated the sessions, 200 notebooks were used, as many pens were consumed too, 12 eggs (!) were needed... If you want to know more,</pre> .mau. (maurizio codogno 2013-05-02T15:39:33 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/654 <pre>News and notes: Chapter furore over FDC knockbacks; First DC GLAM boot-camp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-29/News_and_notes In the media: Wikipedia's sexism; Yuri Gadyukin hoax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-29/In_the_media Traffic report: Most popular Wikipedia articles of the last week http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-29/Traffic_report Featured content: Wiki loves video games http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-29/Featured_content WikiProject report: Japanese WikiProject Baseball http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-29/WikiProject_report Arbitration report: ''Sexology'' closed; two open cases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-29/Arbitration_report Recent research: Sentiment monitoring, Wikipedians and academics favor the same papers, UNESCO and systemic bias, How ideas flow on Wikiversity http://en.wikipedia.</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2013-05-02T05:19:54 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/653 <pre>This press release is also available online here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room/The_Wikidata_Revolution The Wikidata revolution is here: enabling structured data on Wikipedia San Francisco, 25 April 2013 -- A year after its announcement as the first new Wikimedia project since 2006, Wikidata has now begun to serve the over 280 language versions of Wikipedia as a common source of structured data that can be used in more than 25 million articles of the free encyclopedia. By providing Wikipedia editors with a central venue for their efforts to collect and vet such data, Wikidata leads to a higher level of consistency and quality in Wikipedia articles across the many language editions of the encyclopedia. Beyond Wikipedia, Wikidata's universal, machine-readable knowledge database will be freely reusable by anyone, enabling numerous external applications. "Wikidata is a powerful tool for keeping information in Wikipedia current across all language versions," said Wikimedia Foundation Executiv</pre> Matthew Roth 2013-04-25T17:58:34 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/652 <pre>News and notes: Milan conference a mixed bag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-22/News_and_notes In the media: Wikipedia inaccurate, says Florence; New Wikipedia app for breaking news http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-22/In_the_media Featured content: Batfish in the Red Sea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-22/Featured_content WikiProject report: WikiProject Editor Retention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-22/WikiProject_report Arbitration report: ''Sexology'' case nears closure after stalling over topic ban http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-22/Arbitration_report Technology report: A flurry of deployments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-22/Technology_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-22 htt</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2013-04-25T11:48:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/651 <pre>Dear friends and colleagues, We want to share with you information about the Letter of Intent process and the FDC schedule for next year (July 2013 - June 2014). As you may remember, the *Letter of Intent (LoI)* is the first step towards applying for funds from the FDC, as discussed in the FDC framework [1]. This was not part of the first year's process, but is meant to be an integral part of the FDC calendar from this next round (Round 1, 2013-14) onwards. *The Letter of Intent asks all entities who intend to apply for Round 1 (or Round 2) to formally state their intention to do so.* In addition, the LoI now asks applying entities to include a notional dollar figure (or local currency figure) in the Letter of Intent. Applying entities will be able to update this amount in their final FDC proposals. The updated Letter of Intent template will be available on the FDC portal [2] by May 1, but the sample is here for reference [3]. With the Letter of Intent, the FDC staff can support applying entities in their </pre> Patricio Lorente 2013-04-18T07:02:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/649 <pre>Op-ed: How do we fix RfA inactivity? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-15/Op-ed News and notes: Another admin reform attempt flops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-15/News_and_notes Featured content: The featured process swings into high gear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-15/Featured_content WikiProject report: Unity in Diversity: WikiProject South Africa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-15/WikiProject_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-15 http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list </pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2013-04-17T19:34:21 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/648 <pre>Hi all, the new bulletin from Wikimedia Italia (#50) is available. We wrote about the upcoming Wikimedia Conference in Milano, the not-so-incoming Wikimania 2013, the tax days (Italian people may choose to devolve a small part of their taxes to Wikimedia Italia), and past and forthcoming meetings where we attended as experts or rapporteurs. As usual a link has been added to meta, at Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Italia ; more-or-less raw text of the bulletin follows below. ciao, .mau. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= == Wikimedia Conference 2013 in Milano == Tomorrow, Thursday, April 18, [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2013 Wikimedia Conference 2013] starts. The conference is held every year to improve coordination between the various Wikimedia chapters, discuss the next challenges and share national experiences. For the first time the Wikimedia Conference will be held in Milanp, Italy; we are proud that Wikimedia Italia is in charge of the organization. You may find further information</pre> .mau. (maurizio codogno 2013-04-17T14:30:18 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/647 <pre>Dear fellows, The following message is just to keep you informed about the activities developed during the last month by Amical Viquipèdia. Kind regards, David Parreño Mont User:Davidpar (As a member of Amical Viquipèdia) ---- *Source:* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Associaci%C3%B3_Amical_Viquip%C3%A8dia/March_2013 GLAM-WIKI - March 1st. GLAM-WIKI workshop at Basque Contry Cultural Institutions. Kippelboy - March 5th. Museu d'Història de Catalunya (Catalan Museum of History) announces its Wikipedian in Residence, user Galazan. - March 6th. Meeting with Fundació Joan Miró to preparate the 35-hour-long edit-a-thon to be held in April. Kippelboy - March 8th. Meeting to organize wiki workshop in Tarragona. Kippelboy - March 8th. Meeting to find a possible Wikipedian in Residence at Museu de la Música (Music Museum). Kippelboy - March 9th. Edit-a-thon at Palafrugell Archive[1] about women who have a street dedicated. During WikiWomen's History Month[2]. Davidpar </pre> David Parreño Mont - Comunicació 2013-04-16T19:00:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/646 <pre>Hello, Please find below the WMF Board of Trustees' draft agenda for the upcoming meetings on April 17, 2013 - April 19, 2013. == Wednesday, April 17, 2013 == '''16:00 - 18:00''' - Governance Committee Meeting == Thursday, April 18, 2013 == '''09:00''' - Greetings and Introductions '''09:10''' - Committee Reports * Audit Committee Report * Governance Committee Report '''09:45''' - Committee Reporting Guidelines '''10:00''' - Open Resolutions * Resolution on guidelines on potential conflicts of interest * Resolution on recognition of Wikimedia Armenia * Resolution on the Board Governance Committee Charter * Resolution appointing another trustee to the Board Governance Committee '''10:15''' - Annual Plan Update '''11:00''' - FDC Year Two Guidance '''12:00''' - Lunch '''13:00''' - WMF and FDC '''13:45''' - Strategy Committee Proposal '''13:30''' - Guiding Principles for the Wikimedia Foundation == Friday, April 19, 2013 == '''09:00''' - Editor Retention '''10:00''' - Transition Team Update </pre> Stephen LaPorte 2013-04-16T13:40:43 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/645 <pre>Hi all, please find below the WMF report for March 2013, in plain text. As always, the editable and formatted version has been published on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_March_2013 and the reports are being posted on the Wikimedia blog, too: https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/corporate/wmf-monthly-reports/ As usual, we are also publishing a separate "Highlights" summary. Please consider helping non-English-language communities to stay updated, by providing a translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_March_2013 Many thanks to those who have translated the February "Highlights" into Asturian, Catalan, Danish, German, Spanish, Maltese, Russian and Simplified Chinese (and partially into some other languages like French, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål andTraditional Chinese)! While still focussing on WMF activities, the "Highlights" include a small selection of the most noteworthy events from the whole movement. Suggestions for the upcoming April issue are</pre> Tilman Bayer 2013-04-12T18:55:48 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce