A main belt asteroid No. 274301 was named after Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia.
The minor planet was discovered by the team of astronomers of Andrushivka
Astronomical Observatory (A50) in Ukraine. At first it was observed by that
team on August 25, 2008.
The name was proposed by the Wikimedia Ukraine Board member Andriy Makukha.
For details see:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_belt_asteroid_No._274301_named_Wikipedia
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Анатолій Гончаров
mailto:ahonc@wikimediaukraine.org.ua
ICQ: 364-176-156
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Siko Bouterse <sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org>wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:42 PM,
> <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org<wikimedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
>
> >
> > > Anasuya will be responsible for running all grantmaking processes (for
> > > both individuals and entities) and for helping movement entities, like
> > > chapters and thematic organizations, to develop and mature. Reporting
> > > to Anasuya will be Asaf Bartov, Jessie Wild, Oona Castro and Siko
> > > Bouterse, as well as a Senior Program Officer for the FDC (a new
> > > position that will be filled within the next month or so).
> > > * The Senior Program Officer will be responsible for facilitating the
> > > FDC process, which recommends funding allocations for the largest and
> > > wealthiest Wikimedia organizations such as Wikimedia Germany and
> > > Wikimedia France.
> > > * Asaf continues to be responsible for the Wikimedia Grants Program,
> > > supporting younger, smaller Wikimedia organizations like Wikimedia
> > > Venezuela and Wikimedia Mexico, and for finding non-Wikimedia
> > > organizations that we can fund to carry out good programmatic
> > > activities in developing countries, particularly where there are no
> > > chapters.
> > > * Jessie will be responsible for evaluation and learning for all our
> > > grantmaking --- both helping us internally optimize our processes, and
> > > helping us and the grant recipients assess organizations? development
> > > (for Anasuya) and the impact of the programs funded by movement
> > > dollars (for Frank).
> > > * Oona will continue to run the Brazil program. Consistent with the
> > > Narrowing Focus plan, she is actively seeking a partner to continue
> > > the work in Brazil within a grants structure similar to the one we
> > > recently negotiated with CIS in India.
> > > * Siko is taking over responsibility from Asaf for all funding for
> > > individuals. This will make it possible for us to grow our individual
> > > grant-making, and it will also free up Asaf to do more small
> > > organization development. Siko will also be responsible for
> > > documentation and analysis of all grants except the ones funded by the
> > > FDC. It?s important for us to grow grantmaking to individuals because
> > > individuals create 99% of the value in the projects. They do it with
> > > practically no funding, but in some cases a little money will be able
> > > to make something great happen.
> >
>
> Hi all,
> As Sue mentioned, we're looking at growing WMF's grant-making to
> individuals. This allows us to accomplish the goals of narrowing focus (on
> WMF's capacity as grant-makers, in this case), while finding new ways to
> support projects led by individual community members. Some more specifics
> are on meta:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Engagement_Grants
> Please share your thoughts on-wiki if possible.
> Thanks!
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> Siko Bouterse
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>
>
Likewise, we're starting to put up some initial thinking regarding Learning
& Evaluation for Grantmaking & Evaluation!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grantmaking_and_Programs/Learning_%26_Evalu…
Feel free to jump in on-wiki as it is being developed; definitely work in
progress :)
Jessie
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*Jessie Wild*
*Wikimedia Foundation*
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>
> Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:19:25 +0200
> From: Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: "wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
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> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Big data" benefits and limitations
> (relevance: WMF editor engagement, fundraising, and HR practices)
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> Hi Pine,
>
> It might be because of the alcohol I've ingested these last days, but
> - what are you proposing exactly?
>
> Hapy new year,
> strainu
>
I wasn't proposing any specific action. I was thinking, "Big Data is a
cool topic, it's a big topic in its own right, it's relevant to several
aspects of Wikimedia, and other people might be interested in reading
about it or thinking about it in relation to work that they're doing or
priorities that they have".
Happy new year,
Pine
Very interesting things happening in Antigua and the US:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21247683
Essentially, the World Trade Organization (WTO) have ruled that the islands
have the right to suspend US intellectual property rights. It all stems
from a trade dispute in 2003, where the US effectively banned electronic
interstate gambling, which in turn damaged Antigua's economy."
This has led to one thing and another, and "...on Monday the WTO's dispute
settlement body gave final authorisation for Antigua to sell movies, music,
games and software via a store that would be able to ignore US copyright
and trademark claims."
I'm not sure what this means for the movement - I'm sure there will be a
long and lively discussion - but it's a very interesting turn of events in
IP law.
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 EC2A 4LT.
United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
A not really hypothetical question:
Let say one is the director of marketing at a 16 billion dollar company and
decides to come to Wikipedia in an attempt to alter its coverage of one of
your companies key products (which has been hit fairly hard lately by the
evidence). One also invites 50 of your best friends (most of which are on
your pay role to join you in this effort).
Let say you are trying to do it anonymously but both you and your
associates send out a whole bunch of intimidating emails to a long standing
editor. Than this long standing editor without any real difficulty figures
out who you are (as you sort of did email him). You than "vanish" from
Wikipedia.
What if this long standing editor decided to either hand the story over to
the press or write something up for publication in a peer review journal as
said editor does not stand for intimidation easily? And this long standing
editor believes that the world / patients might be better off if
this behavior become more widely known. How would the Wikimedia community
apply the above two policies / guidelines (WP:COI and WP:OUTING)?
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
Hello everyone,
I've just published the Wikimedia UK activity report for December, which
was a shortened month for the office due to the winter break. You can find
the report at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2012/December
For those of you who prefer plain text, this is below.
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
Reports/2012/December
Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1 to 31 December
2012. If you want to keep up with the chapter's activities as they happen,
please subscribe to our blog, join a UK mailing list, and/or follow us on
Twitter. If you have any questions or comments, please drop us a line on
this report's talk page.
Community
The office hosted a shared lunch in December for staff and volunteers.
Everyone who came brought some food and drink along and we spent some time
enjoying each other's company and getting to know each other a little. A
very pleasant and useful afternoon!
GLAM activities
Wikimedians in Residence program resulting from our November 2012
recruitment has been progressing with Wikimedia UK in negotiations with the
institutions taken forward. We are working with Natural History Museum and
Science Museum, National Library of Scotland, Black Cultural Archives in
cooperation with Equiano Centre, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums.
Technology
During December we spent time setting up the new infrastructure and began
migrating Wikimedia UK properties. For example, the board, office and other
private Wikis were moved to a new server - and preparations were made to
move Civi CRM and email in the new year.
Other activities
Microgrants
Information about microgrants that are currently running, and how to submit
a microgrant application of your own, are at Microgrants/Applications.
UK press coverage (and coverage of UK projects & activities)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20680725http://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-12-11/wikipedia-we-want-those-start-ups…http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9736665/Wikipedia-founders-…http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/williamhenderson/100008453/wikipedi…http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/us-news-blog/2012/dec/19/cards-against…http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2012/12/cards-against-humanity-holiday-stats/http://tyneandwear.sky.com/newcastleunited/article/50706http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f3fc3be1-0146-4b64-a4c5-d9792…http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/20865218http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/24/technology-links-news…http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9764719/Wikipedia-co-founde…http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/378829/breakfast-briefing-outlook-features-stri…http://metro.co.uk/2012/12/29/most-read-wikipedia-pages-revealed-facebook-o…http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_chugging/http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/26/koh-wikipedia-apple-s…http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/dec/27/wikipedia-most-viewedhttp://www.itv.com/news/2012-12-28/wikipedias-top-10-viewed-articles-in-201…http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/facebook-tops-list-of-most-viewed-wikipedi…http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20858333http://video.sky.com/news/related/55523/0/Wikipedia%20Boss%20Hope%20For%20O…http://www.breakingnews.com/item/ahZzfmJyZWFraW5nbmV3cy13d3ctaHJkcg0LEgRTZW…http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01p8g6s
Upcoming activities in January and February
January
08 - Board meeting - call
12 - Manchester meetup
13 - London meetup
13 - Oxford meetup
14 - AHRC Wikipedia training workshop at the British Library
16 - IRC office hours
20 - Reading Meetup
February
08 - Introduction to Wikipedia workshop at the British Library
09–10 - Board meeting - in person
10 - London meetup
16 - Liverpool meetup
17 - Coventry meetup
20 - IRC office hours
23–24 - Training the Trainers/February 2013 event - Manchester
For events in March 2013 and onwards, please see Events.
Administrative activities
Board activities
There was a meeting of the Executive Working Group, and the minutes are in
the process of being drafted. Work continued with Compass Partnership on
our Governance Review.
News from the Chief Exec
For information on Jon's activities this month, see News from the Office.
Communications
Links to December's press coverage can be found higher up this page.
In general December was a fairly quiet month for Wikimedia UK
communications. In part this is because the chapter didn't participate
directly in the Wikimedia Foundation annual fundraising campaign. It was
also a short month in terms of office activity as the winter break began on
22 December.
There were interesting blog posts on the first stage implementation of the
new visual editing tool for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons reaching the
landmark of hosting 15 million files and a Manchester Girl Geeks editing
event. Also covered by the blog were a training session for editors in
Stanford and an update on the Communications Data Bill.
We experimented a little with video this month, using the festive season as
an opportunity to record a message from staff to the community, accompanied
by a written message from Jon. This was well received so we'll be looking
to try out more video in the future. Also in keeping with the festive
season we designed and distributed some festive e-cards, which we hope you
enjoyed.
A loose framework has been created for this year's Annual Review. You can
see the top level page here. Each section breaks down into its own page.
Please do get involved in helping to shape this report and all content
contributions are welcome.
In more general terms Stevie has been trying to build networks and
relationships with organisations that share our broad objectives. During
December he met with Creative Commons, attended a Google-hosted event
called Interactivism and met with the Shoreditch Network. This work carries
over into January.
Fundraising and Membership
Fundraising
This month, we received £13,128.78 in one-off donations, with 49 individual
donations, of which 3 were defined as major gifts (over £1000). Removing
those from consideration, the average donation amount was £39.69 - 75% of
these donors have had Gift Aid Declarations made and matched with their
records. If anyone would like a full (but anonymised) csv file with more
information, please get in touch with katherine.bavage(a)wikimedia.org.uk and
let her know your requirements.
There were 5,783 successful direct debits this month, bringing in a total
of £23,817.37.
Membership
Up to 31st December 2012:
138 new (membership commenced in preceding three months) and current
members.
123 'grace' members (membership within six months after date membership
should be renewed)
This adds up to 261 members who are eligible to vote
124 Expired members
A reminder was sent to all members in the January 2013 members newsletter
to renew their membership. Results of this will be included in the January
2013 monthly report.
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Stevie Benton
Communications Organiser
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173
@StevieBenton
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 EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a
global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the
Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal
control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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