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WikiNews...no NOT Wikinews

Jason Safoutin — 2012-02-27T20:03:26

This is interesting. Upon my daily sift through Google News for agencies
that might post Wikinews articles, I came across this (A video from
WikiNews...no not Wikinews):http://vimeo.com/35988111  It was posted on
another site a week ago:http://www.vhx.tv/644528  I don't know who made the video.
All I know is this poses a potential threat to our project. I don't know enough
about copyright laws in regards to the use of Wikipedia's project names
or the use of logos. Regardless, this is not good and quite frankly
kinda scared me a little. So I am sending this message through Foundation-1 in hopes that someone might be able to explain this. Wikinews Water Cooler discussion
on this:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/miscellaneous#WikiNews_makes_a_video...

Re: Al Jazeera photos

Brian McNeil — 2011-12-08T21:24:32

I've "spammed" this on-wiki:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikinews/en/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/technical#Al_Jazeera_images_and_video

What Al Jazeera is offering is *not* to be sniffed at! Personally, I
would love if their "act of good faith" pays off. It's an extremely
shrewd move, but with some associated risks.

AP, Reuters, AFP, et-al, now have to deal with an upstart Mid-East-based
competitor who is *giving away* all but the cream of their photo/video
journalism work. It goes into relevant Wikipedia articles, a
million-and-one blogs, and proves that information=>knowledge=power.

Given my upbringing, I'd love to beat the BBC over the head with this
and force them to do the same. It, sadly, isn't about to happen.

I'll probably greatly upset some of my Wikinews colleagues on the
western side of the Atlantic, but I see a possibility of Wikinews
working with Al Jazeera. That provocative statement is based on the fact
that Al J. could readily put a few Western journalists in situations
where, alone, they

Call for image filter referendum

Casey Brown — 2011-07-01T19:55:22

/Please distribute this message widely/

*Call for referendum*:  The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of
the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether
members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in
personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen
particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly.
The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be
conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party.  Referendum
details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will
be posted at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_filter_referendum
shortly.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

[ResourceLoader] JavaScript may break on your wiki: Fix it before that happens

Guillaume Paumier — 2011-02-12T09:53:58

Greetings,

As you may know, the Wikimedia teach team has started to upgrade
MediaWiki on some wikis. MediaWiki is the software that runs all
Wikimedia wikis.

The most visible change for Wikimedia users will be the deployment of
ResourceLoader [1].

ResourceLoader optimizes the use of JavaScript in MediaWiki, speeding up
its delivery by compressing it sometimes, and cutting down on the amount
of unused JavaScript that gets delivered to the browser in the first
place.

The installation of ResourceLoader may cause compatibility issues with
existing JavaScript code.

Trevor Parscal and Roan Kattouw, the main developers of ResourceLoader,
will be available on IRC [2] on Monday, February 14th, at 18:00 (UTC)
[3], to answer questions and help fix issues related to ResourceLoader.

*If you maintain JavaScript code on your home wiki, please attend.*
Don't wait until your wiki's JavaScript is all broken.

Please spread this information as widely as possible; it's critical to
reach as many local JavaScript maintainer

Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....)

Philippe Beaudette — 2010-10-06T01:49:18

Hi everyone,

I wanted to take a moment to bring you up to date on the planning of  
the 2010-2011 fundraiser, and ask once again for your participation in  
the process.  Our updated meta pages (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010 
  ) will give you an overview as well.  There's a lot of information  
here, because we've made huge progress: I hope you'll take the time to  
read it and join in the planning for the fundraiser.

There's no doubt about it: the appeal from Jimmy Wales is a strong  
message.  We've tested it head-to-head against other banners, and the  
results [1] are unequivocal - especially when you also compare its  
performance last year and the year before.

But nobody wants to just put Jimmy up on the sites and leave him up  
for two months!

So we're issuing a challenge:  Find the banner that will beat Jimmy.

Data informed conclusions
Here's the trick:
We have to make our decisions based on the facts, not our instinct.   
Please read the summaries below for really important d

IRC office hours with Zack Exley

Philippe Beaudette — 2010-10-03T21:17:08

Hi all,

Zack Exley, the Chief Community Officer [1] of the Wikimedia  
Foundation, will
be having office hours this Tuesday (October 5)  at 21:00 UTC
(14:00 PT, 17:00 ET, 23:00 CEST) on IRC in #wikimedia-office.

If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser:  First, using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>.  Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
#wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.

Or, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as
the channel.   You may be prompted to click through a security warning,
which you can click to accept.

Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other
relevant email lists you happen to be on.


[1] - http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Chief_Community_Officer

____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Head of Reader Relatio

Re: Office hours with Sue Gardner

Philippe Beaudette — 2010-08-31T12:06:38

Just a reminder.... this is in about 11 hours :)

Philippe

On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:08 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:

Re: [Foundation-l] Office hours with Sue Gardner

Philippe Beaudette — 2010-08-19T04:09:44

Just a reminder about this, about 13 hours from now.  :)



On Aug 16, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Philippe Beaudette wrote:

Office hours with Sue Gardner

Philippe Beaudette — 2010-08-16T17:15:38

Hi all,

Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will  
be having office hours this Thursday at 17:00 UTC (10:00 PT, 13:00 ET)  
on IRC in #wikimedia-office.

If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser:  First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>.  Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
#wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.

Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as
the channel.   You may be prompted to click through a security warning,
which you can click to accept.

Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other
relevant email lists you happen to be on.

____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Head of Reader Relations
Wikimedia Foundation

philippe< at >wikimedia.org

Imagine a world in which every human being ca

Viewpoint from Ascend

Lise Colyer — 2010-03-08T13:13:35

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Re: Around enWikinews - September '09

Casey Brown — 2009-10-04T13:59:35

I just saw <http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Wikinews_Bulletin>
mentioned on <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internal_news_media>, is
that what you were talking about?

Re: Wikinewsie

gopher65 — 2009-10-04T13:36:48

I'd suggest 3 wikinewsie blogs, for the reasons specified by Tristan and 
Brian (rants look unprofessional, but unused personal blogs do too, if 
they're associated with Wikinews). Blog 1: technical stuff related to 
Wikinews. Blog 2: strict editorial content. Rules are much the same as they 
are with an on-wiki article, but the NPoV requirement is dropped (and 
probably a few of the other reqs as well). Blog 3: Combined personal space 
for accredited reports, for any crap that doesn't fit in either of the other 
2 blogs (including the occasional inappropriate rant that we *know* will 
happen whether we want it to or not).

I've read blogs before that attempt to combine those 3 separate aspects of 
blogging into a single blog, and it does indeed look unprofessional (see the 
badastronomy blog for an example. You have Science posts (good), editorial 
posts (the author can do as he pleases I guess), and rants (bad) all in one 
section). I think we should attempt to avoid this problem by separating out 
our ran

Re: Wikinewsie

Tristan Thomas — 2009-10-04T13:25:21

Those points make sense-however the only issue with having multiple
blogs is they look unused and dormant If there are too many.

On Sunday, October 4, 2009,  <brian.mcneil< at >wikinewsie.org> wrote:

Re: Wikinewsie

2009-10-04T12:13:32

#blog on front page

I know who past accredited reporters were, and who some of those who
still are, are.

Sooner or later someone will "rant" in an inappropriate and extremely
poorly thought out way. Sure, it is themselves they're opening up to
comments that rip their arguments apart for being poorly thought out and
not based in reality. But it will reflect poorly on us all, and look
highly unprofessional. That's why I would rather have more than one
blog, define a clear scope for any blogs we do have, not have them
in-your-face up-front, and if anyone does feel the need to "rant" they
do it on their own personal blog.

#list of accredited users on wikinewsie

The email domain is < at >wikinewsie.org. If you contact someone, and they
decide to see who/what a "Wikinewsie" is, they'll look at that domain's
website. If they're redirected to en.wn, they could attach all the
"unreliable", "anyone can change it", &c connotations from seeing a
wiki. Presenting the data (list of reporters & bios) in such a way that
it l

Re: Wikinewsie

Tristan Thomas — 2009-10-04T08:22:09

I like Jon's proposal.  I want to keep list of accredited users on Wikinews
as there's no reason it needs to be anywhere else.  We can start having
quick biogs of reporters on there if that's what people want.  Agree with
Gmail-Godaddy is forwarded to it anyway for me, so not too bothered.  TBH I
can't see it is worth it to get SUL-it's only a few things & you can have
the same details.
Thoughts on Jon's idea?

2009/10/4 Jon Davis <wiki< at >konsoletek.com>

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Wikimania 2009: Call for Participation reminder

Mark (Markie — 2009-04-04T23:15:16

Just to remind you all that the Call for Participation for Wikimania 2009
closes soon.  You can view the Call for Participation on the following page:
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation with many
translations available.

For more information about Wikimania 2009, see
http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/

Regards

Markie

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Returned mail — 2009-04-01T11:06:50

Tech updates: code updates going live to Wikimediasites

Brion Vibber — 2009-03-25T13:22:42

After a few weeks of bug fixes, we've caught up with MediaWiki 
development code review and I'm pushing out an update to the live sites. 
This fixes a lot of little bugs, and hopefully doesn't cause introduce 
too many new ones. :)

* Change logs: http://ur1.ca/2rah (r47458 to r48811)

As usual in addition to lots of offline and individual testing among our 
staff and volunteer developers, we've done a shakedown on 
http://test.wikipedia.org/ -- and as usual we can fully expect a few 
more issues to have cropped up that weren't already found.

Don't be alarmed if you do find a problem; just let us know at 
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or on the tech IRC channels 
(#wikimedia-tech on Freenode).

We should be resuming our weekly update schedule soon -- I won't be 
doing a mega-crosspost like this every week! -- and will continue to 
improve our pre-update staging and shakedown testing to keep disruption 
to a minimum and awesome improvements to a maximum.

I'd also like to announce that we've started a blog

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