At Stanford Monday afternoon; RSVP required:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/law/forms/AaronSwartz.fb
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Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:43 PM
Subject: [opensource] The Legacy of Aaron Swartz - event at Law
School, January 28, 2013 12:45pm - 2:00pm
Event next week
https://www.law.stanford.edu/event/2013/01/28/the-legacy-of-aaron-swartz
The Legacy of Aaron Swartz
January 28, 2013 12:45pm - 2:00pm
Room 190
Aaron Swartz's tragic death has been covered by the news media in a
wide array of contexts, from his contribution to internet technology
to the criminal prosecution that ultimately led to his decision to
take his own life. What has not been discussed in depth is what Aaron
was really trying to do, and why he was trying to do it. Join CodeX,
SLS ACS, and SLATA in a discussion about the many implications of
Aaron's legacy, work that is being done at Stanford related to his
interests, and policy changes that need to be made.
Lunch will be served.
Hi all,
I would like to ask some help to do one thing and brainstorm a little
about some tools for crowdsourcing wikimedians ideas.
1) My first question is if someone could help me to create a RSS feed
of threads of the Portuguese Wikipedia village pump (= /esplanada/).
The feed would contain the title and link to the thread, the thread
body and the author. Our /esplanada/ has one subpage per thread, which
makes easy to watch what I want. See bellow
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/geral
But I miss sometimes topics being created only using my watchlist and
a RSS feed would facilitate my life to read and follow all threads I
am interested in using an aggregator or even making the feed send each
thread by e-mail. Once I created a RSS feed using a Web service that
found HTML patterns, so I think that could be done in a similar way (I
cannot remember the service name now). Would be easy to create a
Python script for that? (maybe with beautifulSoup?) Any other method
suggestion?
2) Not only for reading purposes, I also would like to add this
threads and possible ideas inside the discussion on systems like All
our ideas <http://www.allourideas.org/>, OSQA <http://osqa.net> (see
this example <http://ideas.okfn.org/>) or possible other softwares to
evaluate the best ideas and threads using a crowdsourcing model -
other ideas for tools welcome.
Any help for 1 and any idea for 2 is welcome. Thanks,
Tom
--
Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing."
All,
I have a question for you which I am sure you will enjoy discussing. It's
about licencing.
Wikimedia sites do not use a 'byline' on their images - for example,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page requires an image to be clicked
on before you can view the licence and the author information. The same
applies for Wikipedia, and the WMF (and WMUK) blogs.
The CC family of licences, and Commons re-use guidelines, however, say that
you need to have attribution using a byline next to the image, in the
fashion 'Horation Nelson/CC-BY-SA'.
It appears that opinion is divided on whether a hyperlink is acceptable as
attribution, therefore I'm asking the experts:
- Does anyone have any input on this?
- Has this discussion been had before, if so, where?
- Should Wikipedia, Commons and the various Wikimedia sites use the full
byline, or are we OK just using a hyperlink?
Your thoughts much appreciated!
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.*
Greetings,
The snapshot summary and numbers for statistics of emails sent to Volunteer
Response Team for the year 2012 have been posted to Meta[1]. The Volunteer
Response Team, also known as OTRS, processes email inquiries, requests, and
comments about Wikimedia projects[2]. The data was derived from the OTRS
statistics module by Cbrown1023.
This is the first of further future documentation of traffic received to
the general OTRS queues. In the report you will find data breakdowns for
OTRS admin logged action, all info queues, breakdowns of info queues with
subqueues, sister projects, and other maintenance details. Since the
report contains a large number of datasets, I am not including the text
here. If you need, I'll happily provide it by email.
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Reports/2012
2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS
For the team,
--
~Keegan
(OTRS Admin hat)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan
Hi all,
It's been on the meta office hours page for a while but I'm not sure it's
been announced here yet. Geoff Brigham (WMF General Counsel) and his team
will be having an office hour Tuesday January 22nd (Tomorrow or today
depending on your location) at 18:00 UTC/10:00 PST to answer questions
about the work of the Legal and Community Advocacy Department. The office
hours will take place on the Freenode IRC network in the #Wikimedia-office
room.
For more information including a webchat link and time conversion links go
to the Meta office hour page:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_Hours#How_to_participate
James
James Alexander
Manager, Merchandise
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
Hi Everyone,
2013 is an election year for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia
Foundation.
As you may recall the board has three directly elected representatives
on it which serve for two years. Currently those are Mindspillage, SJ
and Wing. As in the past years we rely on an effective election
committee to coordinate the elections for us. They not only guarantee
that the election is overseen by an independent body, but they also make
sure that the tremendous amount of work that needs to be done is taken
care of. My job is to coordinate the formation of this committee.
This is a call for volunteers to serve on the election committee. If you
feel that you can contribute to this committee, please contact me and
give a small summary of why you think you would be able to help out with
this process. Just to make sure we all understand: you cannot be part of
the election committee if you are planning to be a candidate or are
planning to support any candidate publicly. Deadline for any extra
volunteers is January 31st 12:00 UTC.
The timeline for the next steps in the process will be published
somewhere in February by the election committee. So if you are
interested in becoming a candidate, time to start preparing!
Regards
--
Ting Chen
Member of the Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
E-Mail: tchen(a)wikimedia.org
(Sorry for the cross-posting, but today is Saturday.)
*Important dates:*
Proposals Submission Due: January 31, 2013
Full Chapters Due: March 15, 2013
Final Submission Due: July 1, 2013
*Editors (to whom chapters should be sent and questions addressed):
Pnina Fichman (fichman at indiana.edu <mailto:fichman at indiana.edu>); Noriko
Hara (nhara at indiana.edu <mailto:nhara at indiana.edu>) Indiana
University, Bloomington.
*Introduction:*
Wikipedia offers articles in 285 languages and more than 80% of
Wikipedia articles are written in languages other than English. In
addition, the English Wikipedia itself attracts users from all over the
world. This global nature of Wikipedia provides a rich socio-technical
environment to examine a wide range of international and cross-cultural
issues. Despite the global reach of Wikipedia, most of the published
works about Wikipedia are based on the English site. More research
should pay attention to the global, multilingual nature of Wikipedia to
gain a better understanding of online international cooperation, on one
hand, and of cross-cultural variations in mass knowledge production
processes and outcomes, on the other. The purpose of this book is to
explore a wide range of international and cross-cultural issues as they
are manifested on Wikipedia. We are particularly interested in research
that takes a socio-technical perspective on the global Wikipedia and
integrates social theory to explain online interactions. For example, we
invite studies on online global collaboration, coordination, and
conflict management in this rich socio-technical environment. We hope
that these works will highlight implications for other socio-technical
environments or extend the use and development of social theory. This
unique publication aims to be a collection of international and
cross-cultural research on the Wikipedia.We expect that this edited
volume will appeal to academic researchers, graduate, and undergraduate
students interested in Wikipedia and, more broadly, in social studies of
information and communication technologies, as well as to Wikipedia
contributors.
*Recommended topics*:
We are seeking chapters that include both empirical and conceptual work
and soliciting innovative analysis of international and cross-cultural
aspects of Wikipedia to be part of this book.
Appropriate topics for chapters include (but are not limited to) the
following list:
·Case studies of Wikipedia in one of the 285 languages, with special
interest in small and medium size Wikipedias; for example, focusing on
policies, processes, interactions or information quality
·Conflict and collaboration in editing international entries on any
particular language of Wikipedia
·International and cross-cultural collaboration; for example,
international cooperation in fighting vandalism
·Intercultural synergy across boundaries on Wikipedia or Wikimedia projects
·Cross-cultural studies that compare more than one Wikipedia, for
example, focusing on:
·Cross-cultural comparisons of content, structures, and contributions
·Comparative studies of policies, interactions, and processes
·Efforts to understand similarities and differences across Wikipedia in
multiple languages in user motivations, establishment and maintenance of
local communities and challenges
·Comparative analysis of editing policies around the globe
·Information quality across two or more Wikipedia languages
·Comparison of scope and representation of topics across Wikipedia in
several languages
·Vandalism and trolling behaviors across national and language boundaries
Chapters are expected to have between 4000 and 5000 words (excluding
references, figures, and tables). Only original work whose copyright is
owned (or cleared) by the chapter authors and not considered for
publication elsewhere can be considered for inclusion.
*Important dates*:
*January 31, 2013: submit 2-3 page chapter proposals and authors’ bios
(200 words)
*Feb 1, 2013: receive acceptance notification
*March 15, 2013:*submit first full chapters
*May 15, 2013: receive reviewers’ comments
*July 1, 2013: submit final versions
This book is scheduled to be published by Scarecrow Press. For
additional information, please visit https://rowman.com/Scarecrow.
Scarecrow Press is the publisher of, among other titles, /Digital
Media/: /Technological and Social Challenges of the Interactive World/
(2011). The publication is anticipated to be released in 2014.
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http://www.media-anthropology.net
For further information please contact:
Dr. John Postill
RMIT University, Melbourne
jrpostill(a)gmail.com
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--
Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing."
Dear all,
I'd like to inform everyone that Steward Election 2013 [1] has now begun. Self-nominations from eligible candidates is open since 15 January. Interested candidates can check their eligibility and procedure to submit the nomination on the guidelines page [2]. We are open to accept candidate submissions till January 28, 2013, 23:59 (UTC). Questions to the candidates can also be posted.
Confirmation of existing stewards [3] is scheduled to run concurrently with the election.
Please remember, the voting and confirmation discussion have not yet begun and will be not until February 8, 2013, 00:00 (UTC). Voters eligibility is outlined at the guideline page as well.
For those who want to help us out with translation, please see our translation portal [4]. Your contribution is really appreciated. If you have any questions or comments about the election and confirmation, feel free to post on the talk page, or the IRC channel #wikimedia-stewards-elections.
Lastly, do feel free to forward this email and inform your local community. There is only slightly more than 1 week before candidate submission closes.
[1] Election main page:
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2013
[2] Guidelines and information:
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2013/Guidelines
[3] Confirmation:
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/confirm/2013
[4] Translation portal:
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2013/Translation
Regards,
Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]]
Regards,
Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]]
(This press release is also available online at:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_Kn…)
Wikimedia Foundation named winner of Knight News Challenge
$600,000 in Knight Foundation funding supports innovation across
Wikimedia mobile initiatives
SAN FRANCISCO, CA - January 17, 2013 - The Wikimedia Foundation was
named a winner in the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Knight
News Challenge for its efforts to expand and improve Wikimedia's
mobile projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is enhancing the Wikipedia
mobile experience and making it easier to access Wikipedia,
particularly for readers in developing countries.
As mobile technology is increasingly the primary opportunity for
billions of people around the world to access the Internet, the
Wikimedia Foundation is working to remove the two biggest hurdles to
access free knowledge: cost and accessibility. The News Challenge
grant will be utilized in four areas:
*Improving the way that users experience our mobile platform on feature phones;
*Expanding Wikipedia Zero, which gives mobile users free access to
Wikipedia on their phones;
*Developing features to improve the mobile experience regardless of
how feature-rich the device is, including new ways to access Wikipedia
via texting;
*Increasing the number of languages that can access Wikipedia on mobile.
The Wikimedia Foundation is one of eight mobile projects to receive a
total of $2.4 million today through the Knight News Challenge, which
accelerates projects with funding and advice from Knight's network of
media innovators. A full list is at knightfoundation.org.
"Knight Foundation's funding will support us making the mobile version
of Wikipedia easier to use, as well as enabling us to expand Wikipedia
Zero, our project with mobile operators that lets their customers
access Wikipedia for free," said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of
the Wikimedia Foundation. "I'm very happy Knight has chosen to support
us; it's an important affirmation of our mobile work."
Knight Foundation, the nation’s leading funder of journalism and media
innovation, is committed to promoting democracy by supporting informed
and engaged communities. Founded by newsmen John S. and James L.
Knight, the foundation launched the Knight News Challenge in 2007 to
find the next generation of innovations that help communities get the
information they need.
"Wikipedia has helped define the way that people collaboratively
create content. Making the site available to more people across the
world will help foster and spread that culture," said John Bracken,
director for journalism and media innovation at Knight Foundation.
The $600,000 News Challenge grant is for two years and follows a
general support grant of $250,000 that Knight Foundation awarded to
the Wikimedia Foundation in December 2012.
The Wikimedia Foundation and the other winners of the challenge will
present their projects via live Web stream at 12:30 p.m. ET/ 10:30
a.m. MT Friday, January 18 at knightfoundation.org/live, from a
gathering on the future of mobile at Arizona State University. (Follow
#newschallenge on Twitter.)
About the Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.orghttp://blog.wikimedia.org
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
receive more than 483 million unique visitors per month, making them
the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, November
2012). Available in 285 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 24
million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of
roughly 80,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the
Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded
primarily through donations and grants.
Press contact
Jay Walsh
Senior Director, Communications
Wikimedia Foundation
Tel. +1 415-860-8166
jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org
About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation supports transformational ideas that promote quality
journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster
the arts. The foundation believes that democracy thrives when people
and communities are informed and engaged. For more, visit
knightfoundation.org or newschallenge.org
Press contact
Andrew Sherry
VP for Communications, Knight Foundation
Tel. 305-908-2677
sherry(a)knightfoundation.org
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