THIS
IS AN
ENCYCLOPEDIA
One gateway to the wide garden
of knowledge, where lies
The deep rock of our past,
in which we must delve
the well of our future,
The clear water we must leave untainted
for those who come after us,
The fertile earth, in which
truth may grow in bright places,
tended by many hands,
And the broad fall of sunshine,
warming our first steps toward knowing
how much we do not know.
*Catherine Munro*
inspired by *This is a printing
office<http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/rbsc2/ga/unseenhands/labels/wardePrintOffic…>
*,
by Beatrice Warde <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Warde>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CatherineMunro
Just discovered from a wikipedian friend from Kenya.
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."
Hello,
I just wanted to share my feelings: I went to en.wikipedia.org today and
I saw this message on top:
Happy Birthday Wikipedia!
15% off merchandise today at the Wikimedia Shop
My first impression was: I think I mistyped the URL...
//Saper
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
*Hi all,
I’m pleased to announce the launch of a new grantmaking program at the
Wikimedia Foundation: Individual Engagement Grants. These grants will
support Wikimedians as individuals or small teams to complete projects that
benefit the Wikimedia movement, lead to online impact, and serve the
mission, community, and strategic priorities. This new program is intended
to complement WMF’s other grantmaking programs as well as the grants that
chapters and affiliate organizations provide.
The first round of proposals will be accepted from now until 15 February
2013. We’re also seeking committee members to help select the first round
of grantees. Please help spread the word to other lists!
To get involved, share your thoughts, submit a proposal, or join the
committee:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG
For more information on all of WMF’s grantmaking programs:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start
Best wishes,*
Siko
--
Siko Bouterse
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org
*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. *
*Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today,
and help us make it a reality!*
Dear all,
As you know, we recently re-named the Global Development department at the
Wikimedia Foundation, as the Grantmaking and Programs department. The
Grantmaking team is committed to supporting our community and meeting our
shared goals at the different levels of contribution - whether individuals,
groups or organisations - and we will be working with you over the next
few months to deepen our strategies for doing so, and for evaluating our
impact.
In the meantime, however, I am delighted to announce some changes to the
Grantmaking team that reflect this commitment. Siko Bouterse [1] needs no
introduction to most of you, having worked at WMF since 2011, most recently
coordinating the Fellowships program. Siko is coming on to the Grantmaking
team as Head of Individual Engagement Grants, a program that will support
individual or small team projects for online impact. This is to be launched
later today... watch out for Siko's announcement and details of the
program, coming soon to a wiki near you. Siko will also shortly be taking
on the responsibility for the Participation Support Program (which WMF and
WMDE fund together), and supporting the documentation and analysis of our
project-based grants. We are really pleased to have Siko's experience and
insights on our team.
Katy Love is new to the team, the organisation and the movement, but I have
no doubt that her experience and insights, as well, will help us be more
effective. Katy has just joined us as the Senior Program Officer for the
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) [2] with a passion for strategic and
impactful grantmaking, participatory collaborative work, and transparent
decision-making. Her background spans philanthropic activities and NGO
programs, systems, and operations. She spent the last four years at CARE
International with the Emergency Capacity Building Project, a collaboration
between six of the largest NGOs, aimed at improving humanitarian response.
Please join me in welcoming them to our team!
Warmly,
Anasuya
[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Sbouterse
[2] http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=owwHWfwp&c=qSa9VfwQ
--
***Anasuya Sengupta
Senior Director of Grantmaking
Wikimedia Foundation*
*
*
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>
--
***Anasuya Sengupta
Senior Director of Grantmaking
Wikimedia Foundation*
*
*
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>
*Hi all,
I’m pleased to announce the launch of a new grantmaking program at the
Wikimedia Foundation: Individual Engagement Grants. These grants will
support Wikimedians as individuals or small teams to complete projects that
benefit the Wikimedia movement, lead to online impact, and serve the
mission, community, and strategic priorities. This new program is intended
to complement WMF’s other grantmaking programs as well as the grants that
chapters and affiliate organizations provide.
The first round of proposals will be accepted from now until 15 February
2013. We’re also seeking committee members to help select the first round
of grantees. Please help spread the word to other lists!
To get involved, share your thoughts, submit a proposal, or join the
committee:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG
For more information on all of WMF’s grantmaking programs:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start
Best wishes,*
Siko
--
Siko Bouterse
Head of Individual Engagement Grants
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org
*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. *
*Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today,
and help us make it a reality!*
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Dear all,
As you know, we recently re-named the Global Development department at the
Wikimedia Foundation, as the Grantmaking and Programs department. The
Grantmaking team is committed to supporting our community and meeting our
shared goals at the different levels of contribution - whether individuals,
groups or organisations - and we will be working with you over the next
few months to deepen our strategies for doing so, and for evaluating our
impact.
In the meantime, however, I am delighted to announce some changes to the
Grantmaking team that reflect this commitment. Siko Bouterse [1] needs no
introduction to most of you, having worked at WMF since 2011, most recently
coordinating the Fellowships program. Siko is coming on to the Grantmaking
team as Head of Individual Engagement Grants, a program that will support
individual or small team projects for online impact. This is to be launched
later today... watch out for Siko's announcement and details of the
program, coming soon to a wiki near you. Siko will also shortly be taking
on the responsibility for the Participation Support Program (which WMF and
WMDE fund together), and supporting the documentation and analysis of our
project-based grants. We are really pleased to have Siko's experience and
insights on our team.
Katy Love is new to the team, the organisation and the movement, but I have
no doubt that her experience and insights, as well, will help us be more
effective. Katy has just joined us as the Senior Program Officer for the
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) [2] with a passion for strategic and
impactful grantmaking, participatory collaborative work, and transparent
decision-making. Her background spans philanthropic activities and NGO
programs, systems, and operations. She spent the last four years at CARE
International with the Emergency Capacity Building Project, a collaboration
between six of the largest NGOs, aimed at improving humanitarian response.
Please join me in welcoming them to our team!
Warmly,
Anasuya
[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Sbouterse
[2] http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=owwHWfwp&c=qSa9VfwQ
--
***Anasuya Sengupta
Senior Director of Grantmaking
Wikimedia Foundation*
*
*
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>
--
***Anasuya Sengupta
Senior Director of Grantmaking
Wikimedia Foundation*
*
*
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>
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Not quite Wikimedia related, but fantastic news:
Harvard faculty advisory council says scientific publishers have made
scholarly communication 'fiscally unsustainable' http://t.co/CcKSHlqX
Forwarding from Announce-l. This is the official announcement from WMF of
the Wikivoyage launch. There is also a blog post on the WMF blog:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-launches-wikivoya…
thanks,
Matthew
--
Matthew Roth
Global Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
+1.415.839.6885 ext 6635
www.wikimediafoundation.org
*https://donate.wikimedia.org*
(This press release can also be found online here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_la…
)
Wikimedia Foundation launches Wikivoyage, a free, worldwide travel
guide that anyone can edit
Wikivoyage becomes the 12th official Wikimedia project and debuts on
Wikipedia's 12th birthday
SAN FRANCISCO -- 15 January, 2013 -- The Wikimedia Foundation is
excited to announce the launch of its 12th official project:
Wikivoyage (www.wikivoyage.org), a free, worldwide, online travel
guide. Like Wikipedia and its sister projects, Wikivoyage is free to
edit, free of ads, and built collaboratively by volunteers from around
the globe.
Wikivoyage is currently available in nine languages: Dutch, English,
French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.
There are already approximately 50,000 articles, which are edited and
improved by a core group of approximately 200 volunteer editors.
"There's a huge global demand for travel information, but very few
sources are both comprehensive and non-commercial. That's about to
change," said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia
Foundation. "Wikivoyage is a great, useful service for travelers, and
I'm expecting that with the support of the Wikimedia Foundation and
the global Wikimedia editing community, it's going to get even bigger
and better."
Wikivoyage has been an active wiki-based travel guide since 2006 in
German and Italian, supported by the German non-profit Wikivoyage
Association. The contributors on that site and the non-profit
requested to migrate their content and offered to donate their brand
to the new project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The proposal
was approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in October
2012. The site was moved over to the Wikimedia Foundation servers in
November of 2012, where it was in Beta until today.
"The purpose of the Wikivoyage Association is to promote education and
knowledge of all countries and regions in the world, as well as
understanding among nations," said Stefan Fussan, Chairman of the
board of the Wikivoyage Association. "We're very excited about the
launch of Wikivoyage as a Wikimedia project, and about the future role
of the Association in supporting the Wikivoyage community through its
programs."
Wikivoyage is published under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, which allows anyone the right to
read, copy, print, save, download, modify, distribute, sell, and
update its content in any way, provided the terms of the free license
are respected. This includes giving proper attribution to the creators
of the content and ensuring that any reuse or derivative works are
also freely-licensed.
"As contributors to Wikivoyage, we work hard to create high-quality
content, written by travelers, for travelers, in their own language,"
said Peter Fitzgerald, an administrator on Wikivoyage. "We're very
excited to be part of the Wikimedia community, and we invite travelers
to join us in creating an independent, non-commercial, online travel
guide for the world. We are confident that it will become the number
one travel resource on the web."
The Wikivoyage launch coincides with the 12th anniversary of the
founding of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001.
Official Wikivoyage logo:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikivoyage-logo-en-TTO-attempt.svg
Visit the Wikivoyage portal site here:
http://www.wikivoyage.org/
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
Matthew Roth
Global Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Tel. +1 415-839-6885 x6635
mroth(a)wikimedia.org
(This press release can also be found online here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_la…)
Wikimedia Foundation launches Wikivoyage, a free, worldwide travel
guide that anyone can edit
Wikivoyage becomes the 12th official Wikimedia project and debuts on
Wikipedia's 12th birthday
SAN FRANCISCO -- 15 January, 2013 -- The Wikimedia Foundation is
excited to announce the launch of its 12th official project:
Wikivoyage (www.wikivoyage.org), a free, worldwide, online travel
guide. Like Wikipedia and its sister projects, Wikivoyage is free to
edit, free of ads, and built collaboratively by volunteers from around
the globe.
Wikivoyage is currently available in nine languages: Dutch, English,
French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.
There are already approximately 50,000 articles, which are edited and
improved by a core group of approximately 200 volunteer editors.
"There's a huge global demand for travel information, but very few
sources are both comprehensive and non-commercial. That's about to
change," said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia
Foundation. "Wikivoyage is a great, useful service for travelers, and
I'm expecting that with the support of the Wikimedia Foundation and
the global Wikimedia editing community, it's going to get even bigger
and better."
Wikivoyage has been an active wiki-based travel guide since 2006 in
German and Italian, supported by the German non-profit Wikivoyage
Association. The contributors on that site and the non-profit
requested to migrate their content and offered to donate their brand
to the new project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The proposal
was approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in October
2012. The site was moved over to the Wikimedia Foundation servers in
November of 2012, where it was in Beta until today.
"The purpose of the Wikivoyage Association is to promote education and
knowledge of all countries and regions in the world, as well as
understanding among nations," said Stefan Fussan, Chairman of the
board of the Wikivoyage Association. "We're very excited about the
launch of Wikivoyage as a Wikimedia project, and about the future role
of the Association in supporting the Wikivoyage community through its
programs."
Wikivoyage is published under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, which allows anyone the right to
read, copy, print, save, download, modify, distribute, sell, and
update its content in any way, provided the terms of the free license
are respected. This includes giving proper attribution to the creators
of the content and ensuring that any reuse or derivative works are
also freely-licensed.
"As contributors to Wikivoyage, we work hard to create high-quality
content, written by travelers, for travelers, in their own language,"
said Peter Fitzgerald, an administrator on Wikivoyage. "We're very
excited to be part of the Wikimedia community, and we invite travelers
to join us in creating an independent, non-commercial, online travel
guide for the world. We are confident that it will become the number
one travel resource on the web."
The Wikivoyage launch coincides with the 12th anniversary of the
founding of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001.
Official Wikivoyage logo:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikivoyage-logo-en-TTO-attempt.svg
Visit the Wikivoyage portal site here:
http://www.wikivoyage.org/
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
Matthew Roth
Global Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Tel. +1 415-839-6885 x6635
mroth(a)wikimedia.org
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