I would like to thank Geoff Brigham for the excellent job he did analysing the consequences of SOPA for wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Legal_overview
Would it be possible to analyse ACTA in a similar manner? This is apparently the treaty text:
http://www.international.gc.ca/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/assets/…
Possibly we've already done so, and I've missed it? :-)
I'm especially interested in the following questions:
* What issues, if any, does ACTA raise, for wikipedia?
* what points would be wise to point out to legislature, to ensure wikipedia does not come to harm, if implemented anyway?
We can then proceed to engage with the diverse members of the diverse committees in .eu (as required), or engage with our local
legislature (as required)
Once appropriate for us, note that La quadrature du net is taking action, and has collected all relevant phone numbers and addresses etc:
https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA#Contact_your_Elec…
The window for action on ACTA is now very narrow, time is short.
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
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Hi Phoebe, Often the most interesting thing about an agenda is what it
omits. So the first board meeting after the SOPA blackout is not going to
discuss blackouts, SOPA and lobbying?
WereSpielChequers
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> The WMF Board of Trustees is planning our winter meeting for next
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Phoebe, this meeting is not the one to approve or not the Recomendations
from Sue, right? I always imagined that would be AFTER the meeting in Paris.
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On 27 January 2012 17:22, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> The WMF Board of Trustees is planning our winter meeting for next
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Hi all,
The WMF Board of Trustees is planning our winter meeting for next
weekend. The draft agenda is posted here for comment:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_Meetings/February_3-4,_2012
This is a very full agenda, focusing on three main topics: the WMF
annual planning process for 2012/2013, fundraising and funds
dissemination models, and the movement roles process.
-- Phoebe
(Board of Trustees Secretary, 2011-2012)
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* I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers
<at> gmail.com *
I opened a RFC request on Meta,
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/POV_in_Chechen_Wikipedia
In my view, this is a situation similar to the one in Acehnese Wikipedia,
which we had recently - when a group of users basically "hijack" a WMF
project and start to promote goals incompatible with the WMF mission.
Whereas we still need to listen to all sides of the conflict and I might be
wrong on that, I still find the situation alarming and I would like to get
reactions. Note that I was not involved (and I would prefer not to be
involved), I am just an observer.
Cheers
Yaroslav
Hi all,
the Wikimedia Foundation's Global Development department has recently
published a midyear report on its activities, regarding the 2011-12
annual plan. You can find it on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Global_Development_Midyear_report_2011-…
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In case you missed our blog post or reports in the tech media:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/26/announcing-the-official-wikipedia-andr…https://market.android.com/details?id=org.wikipedia
We recently released the first version of a Wikipedia smartphone app
for Android phones. It's based on Apache Cordova (AKA Phonegap), and
of course fully open source.
I'm really proud of our mobile team; it's a great app and if you
haven't tried it already, you should. :-) This is still an early
release and lots of fixes and enhancements are yet to come.
All best,
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Hey guys
We'll be holding another AFT office hours session at 19:00 tomorrow, in
#wikimedia-office; hope to see a lot of you there :). If you can't make it,
drop me an email and I'll send you the logs.
Thanks!
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Hello All,
I just filed a feature request which I think is of strategic interest
to Wikipedia:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33889
Bug 33889 - Request to add a comment section under every Wikipedia article
By providing a comment section under every Wikipedia article, we can enable
people interested in that topic to talk with each other, make friends and
exchange external resources pertaining to that topic (e.g. books, products,
jobs, external references, etc.).
Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia; it is also a very valuable "topic
navigation and positioning service" that navigates you to any conceivable topic
in your mind, and once you're at that topic's Wikipedia article, the article's
URL becomes a unique address that "positions" that topic. With this position,
we can do many useful things (such as the ones mentioned in the previous
paragraph), just like we can do many useful things with a geographic
information system (GIS) such as Google Earth.
There are many MediaWiki extensions that can add a comment section to every
Wikipedia article. Just go to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_Matrix/AllExtensions and search for
"comment" or "discussion".
Best Regards,
Ziyuan Yao