http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60585 <pre>Dear Wikimedia Community, As many of you know, a deep discussion has been happening on Meta over the past few weeks about the design of the new Funds Dissemination Committee. For those of you who haven't followed along in great detail, we've created a short summary of the goals of the work and the recommendation that is emerging. The link to this summary is here [1]. (See the full draft resolution here [2] and the corresponding discussion here[3]). Three requests: * Please read the summary, as this has important implications for future funding within the movement * Please forward it along to any lists or communities that you think should be aware of this work * Please translate it or ask others to translate it so that other communities can stay up to date as well. To date, the majority of this discussion has happened in English and we are eager to share this update in other languages as well. Thanks in advance for helping us on this! As always, let me know if you have any questions. Best, Meera [1] h</pre> Chary, Meera 2012-05-25T19:04:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60584 <pre>Just a quick reminder that this is happening in less than an hour. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steven Walling &lt;swalling-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Date: Mon, May 21, 2012 at 6:08 PM Subject: Office hours about the new mobile site and other mobile work at the WMF To: Wikimedia Mailing List &lt;wikimedia-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; Hi everyone, This Friday the Wikimedia Foundation's mobile team will be hosting an IRC office hours to talk about the new version of the Wikipedia mobile site, along with other upcoming updates to the way readers and contributors experience the projects on mobile devices. This is the first office hours with Phil Chang, the product manager for mobile, since the Foundation has worked to release new versions of the mobile site, iPhone app, and the Android app. If you're interested in those projects and future work on mobile contributions, I highly encourage attending. :) We'll be in #wikimedia-office from 18:00-19:00 UTC, Frid</pre> Steven Walling 2012-05-25T17:16:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60582 <pre>(Pardon the crosspost) Hi everyone! Our second Smithsonian edit-a-thon is going to start in about an hour (1 PM EST) and we'll be utilizing an Etherpad compliments of Wikimedia DC http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/SIEdit2 Feel free to join in! We'll also be utilizing the #glamwiki hashtag. Our goal is to improve content about Smithsonian people and places and we've love your help - translations, lending a hand, writing something yourself, whatever! See you there :) -Sarah </pre> Sarah Stierch 2012-05-25T15:57:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60575 <pre>Dear Chapter Leaders, A quick reminder that we ask you to complete the Chapter Finances Survey (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Chapter_Finances_Survey) by Friday, May 25th (that's tomorrow). This information is absolutely crucial to the recommendation for the Board of Trustees on the Funds Dissemination process. We ask that ALL chapters respond, regardless of budget. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me or to Asaf Bartov at WMF. Many Thanks, Divya (User:Divyanarayanan_tbg) The Bridgespan Group ___________________NOTICE____________________________ This electronic mail transmission, including any attachments, contains confidential information of the Bridgespan Group ("Bridgespan") and/or its clients. It is intended only for the person(s) named, and the information in such e-mail shall only be used by the person(s) named for the purpose intended and for no other purpose. Any use, distribution, copying or disclosure by any other persons, or by the person</pre> Narayanan, Divya 2012-05-24T18:42:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60573 <pre>(Appologies for cross posting) From 29 June until 1 July 2012 the Wikipedia Academy (#wpac2012) [1] will take place in Berlin, under the theme “Research and Free Knowledge”. For the first time, Wikimedia Deutschland organises this conference in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin [2] and the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society [3]. This year, we lay the focus on research on, with and within Wikipedia and invite researchers who scientifically deal with Free Knowledge and its implications for research and society to participate in the conference. The Wikipedia Academy is aimed to address an international audience. The conference language is English. On Friday and Saturday the conference will be set at Freie Universität Berlin, School of Business &amp; Economics, Garystrasse 21. The event venue for Sunday will be announced soon. == Registration == For participation you have to register for a participant pass in advance. The online registration (http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Registrati</pre> Nicole Ebber 2012-05-23T16:30:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60557 <pre>From the editor: New editor-in-chief http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-21/From_the_editor News and notes: Two new Wikimedia fellows to boost strategies for tackling major issues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-21/News_and_notes WikiProject report: Trouble in a Galaxy Far, Far Away.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-21/WikiProject_report Featured content: Lemurbaby moves it with Madagascar: Featured content for the week http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-21/Featured_content Arbitration report: No open arbitration cases pending http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-21/Arbitration_report Technology report: On the indestructibility of Wikimedia content http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-21/Technology_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wik</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2012-05-22T02:01:52 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60555 <pre>Hi everyone, This Friday the Wikimedia Foundation's mobile team will be hosting an IRC office hours to talk about the new version of the Wikipedia mobile site, along with other upcoming updates to the way readers and contributors experience the projects on mobile devices. This is the first office hours with Phil Chang, the product manager for mobile, since the Foundation has worked to release new versions of the mobile site, iPhone app, and the Android app. If you're interested in those projects and future work on mobile contributions, I highly encourage attending. :) We'll be in #wikimedia-office from 18:00-19:00 UTC, Friday the 23rd. As usual, docs are on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours </pre> Steven Walling 2012-05-22T01:08:40 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60531 <pre>From Rick Falkvinge, an English-language writeup of a Swedish study: http://falkvinge.net/2012/05/21/study-despite-tougher-copyright-monopoly-laws-sharing-remains-pervasive/ http://svt.se/nyheter/fortsatt-fildelning-trots-skarpt-lag (Swedish news report) 61% of 15-25-year-olds in Sweden fileshare personally, and heavy sharers have gone up. Furthermore - industry copyright education campaigns create resentment, defiance and disrespect for the law in general. So, is the time ripe yet for us to start pushing for a 14-year term, or do we wait a bit? I suggest we start contemplating it, however. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l </pre> David Gerard 2012-05-21T12:09:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60521 <pre>Resending with subject line more descriptive. Sydney On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Béria Lima &lt;berialima-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; wrote: _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l </pre> Sydney Poore 2012-05-19T14:11:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60519 <pre>Hi everyone, I am pleased to announce that Tilman Bayer has officially joined the Wikimedia Foundation's Global Development team as Senior Operations Analyst focused on movement communications starting this week. He has just relocated to SF after receiving his work visa. As most of you will be aware, Tilman has been working in the communications team focusing on movement communications since last July, as a remote contractor based in Germany. He has been instrumental in the enhancement to our monthly reporting, continued improvement to our blogging and the development of our last annual report among other things. Tilman and Dario Taraborelli co-founded and continues to edit the monthly Wikimedia research newsletter. In particular, I'd like to highlight his work to get our reports translated, so that they are more accessible for the whole community. In his new role as a staff member, Tilman will continue to work closely with the communications team in support of the whole foundation team, e.g. working on </pre> Barry Newstead (WMF 2012-05-18T23:10:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60517 <pre>Dear Chapter Leaders, As you may have heard last week, our team at The Bridgespan Group is seeking information on the Wikimedia movement's current and future funding needs. This information will be used to develop recommendations for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees on the Funds Dissemination Committee. We would appreciate your help answering the following survey by Friday, May 25th: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Chapter_Finances_Survey . Estimates you make of future Chapter funding needs are not binding - this data will be used for general planning purposes. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to reach out to me or to Asaf Bartov at the Foundation. Many Thanks, Divya User:Divyanarayanan_tbg ___________________NOTICE____________________________ This electronic mail transmission, including any attachments, contains confidential information of the Bridgespan Group ("Bridgespan") and/or its clients. It is intended only for the person(s) named, and the </pre> Narayanan, Divya 2012-05-19T00:31:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60512 <pre>Hi everyone, You're invited to the IRC office hours with the Localization team [1] at the Wikimedia Foundation. Date: 2012-05-23 Time: 16.30 UTC Venue: #wikimedia-office As usual, more logistical info and time conversion links are available on Meta.[2] For a taste of what the localization team has been up to, I highly recommend the following links: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Localisation_team_Sprint_15_demo.pdf Thanks, and we hope to talk to you next week! [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Localisation_team [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours </pre> Siebrand Mazeland (WMF 2012-05-18T10:34:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60498 <pre>The following translation are now available for the April 2012 "Wikimedia Highlights", which combine some of the most relevant information from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for April with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement. Help is welcome in spreading the translated versions among the project communities for these languages, where this has not already been done. Many thanks to all translators! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2012/ar مقتطفات من تقرير مؤسسة ويكيميديا و اتقرير لقسم التقني في ويكيميديا لشهر أبريل 2012، ومختارات من أحداث هامة من حركة ويكيميديا https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2012/ja 2012年4月のウィキメディア財団報告書及びウィキメディア技報の抄録ほかウィキメディア運動の重要行事について https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim</pre> Tilman Bayer 2012-05-17T20:15:45 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60479 <pre>Everyone, It’s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff member. James will help prioritize the short term and long term work log on the Visual Editor, conduct user research, and incorporate community feedback into the development process. As many of you know, James is a long-time Wikimedian. He started contributing to English Wikipedia in October 2002, and was a founding member of their Arbitration Committee. He was also the movement’s volunteer Chief Research Officer, helping shepherd the predecessor of what is today the Research Committee, has for years been the “gopher-in-chief” at the Wikimania community conferences, and helped found Wikimedia UK in 2005. James joins us following a successful career in the UK government, where he implemented key open access and open </pre> Howie Fung 2012-05-17T16:52:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60474 <pre>It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang. Tanvir Rahman is a Wikimedian who serves the movement locally and globally, both on- and off-wiki. Tanvir has been an active editor of Bengali Wikipedia since 2009, he holds administrator rights on multiple projects and he was elected a steward in 2011. He also volunteers on the Small Wiki Monitoring Team, the Countervandalism Network, as an OTRS agent, and is a translator for translatewiki. Tanvir helped found Wikimedia Bangladesh and organizes local outreach activities to raise awareness for Wikimedia and bring new editors to the projects. In his fellowship project, Tanvir will be experimenting with on-wiki strategies to encourage and grow the editing community on small language versions of Wikipedia, with specific focus on the Bengali Wikipedia. Smaller projects have different needs and challenges than the large language communities and may require different approaches to enga</pre> Siko Bouterse 2012-05-17T15:32:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60428 <pre>There's a nice interview with Ward Cunningham (father of the wiki) this week in Dr. Dobb's [a programming journal]. The interview covers programming, techniques for working well, wikis and Wikipedia: http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/240000393 On wikis (p.2): "I think that the thing I did right there was respect the people who would come that I didn't even know, who had no right to deserve my respect because I know nothing about them. But I would say, "Come on in and I'll trust you to contribute in good faith and to make your words a gift to this community." And we did. It was magical." There's also a note that Ward is this year's recipient of the "Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award", which is an exclusive award given to just a handful of elite programmers (past recipients: http://www.drdobbs.com/232500316). The award comes with a $1000 prize, which Ward donated to the Wikimedia Foundation. Thanks, Ward, and many congratulations! </pre> phoebe ayers 2012-05-17T01:20:57 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60427 <pre>Hello, everyone. Due to the work load and some attrition, we are looking to expand the Grant Advisory Committee[1] (GAC) soon. If you are interested in joining the advisory body reviewing and making recommendations about the WMF's grants program, please take a look and see if you'd like to express interest. Details about the selection process will be posted in the coming few days. Cheers, Asaf [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee </pre> Asaf Bartov 2012-05-17T00:21:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60418 <pre>When you're running an event, sometimes you want to help lots of people create accounts on Wikimedia sites. To prevent spamming/vandalism, ordinarily there's a cap on the number of accounts that can be created from one IP address in a single day. But there's a way to ask for a temporary removal of that restriction. The Foundation's Maggie Dennis has written a quick HOWTO: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_request_lift_of_an_IP_cap and so please feel free to link to it in your outreach HOWTOs, event planning checklists, and so on. Thanks, Maggie! </pre> Sumana Harihareswara 2012-05-16T15:23:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60407 <pre> Kind Regards, Kelly </pre> Kelly Kay 2012-05-15T20:04:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60406 <pre>Special report: Wikimedia and the "seismic shift" towards open-access research publication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-14/Special_report News and notes: Finance debate drags on as editor survey finds Wikipedia too bureaucratic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-14/News_and_notes WikiProject report: Welcome to Wikipedia with a cup of tea and all your questions answered - at the Teahouse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-14/WikiProject_report Featured content: Featured content is red hot this week http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-14/Featured_content Arbitration report: R&amp;I Review closed, Rich Farmbrough near closure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-14/Arbitration_report Technology report: Cross-wiki watchlist controversy; and is "go file a bug" really a useful response? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-14/Tec</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2012-05-14T21:59:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/60404 <pre>Fight For the Future, along with some of the other orgs that helped coordinate SOPA protests, are working to coordinate alerts about future threats to internet freedom. They hope to provide brief pointers about what's at stake to everyone interested, once major problems are identified. Right now their work seem to focus on issues affecting the Internet in the US; and it's not clear to me yet who define what threatens 'net freedom. But in principle this is an important thing for the Internet to have, covering every jurisdiction. Has anyone been working on projects like this around the world? This seems like something wikimedians could support in a less in-your-face way than by blacking out wikipedia language projects, once problematic issues become crises. At the very least, by offering a place to summarize neutral information about the issues [and tackling the related style and context issues; which we already do], and by helping to make the conversation a global one. SJ _____________________________</pre> Samuel Klein 2012-05-14T20:12:15 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation