John Resig has just published some excellent data analysis combining
TinEye, image archives, and image clustering and deduplication to
identify identical and similar images across a large corpus.
http://ejohn.org/research/computer-vision-photo-archives/
Are we doing any commons analysis like this at the moment?
Is any similarity-analysis done on upload to help uploaders identify
copies of the same image that already exist online? Or to flag
potential copyvios for reviewers?
I'm sure TinEye would be glad to give us high-volume API access to
enable that sort of cross-referencing.
SJ
Have come across a collection of basic college textbooks that appear to be
more or less based on text from Wikipedia. There are 21 of them. The
company claims that they are being used by more than 2 million students.
They are under a CC BY SA license and if you follow the links seen here
http://books.google.ca/books?id=7avpAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2058 they do eventually
attribute Wikipedia.
They are being offered for free on amazon.comhttp://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywo…
and
are being sold for $19.99 on their website. https://www.boundless.com/
So the question is should we have a response? I think this could generate
position press for our movement. Attribution could be better (I would
consider theirs to be borderline). Additionally should we be adding this
textbooks to Wikiversity or Wikibooks to make sure they stay free available?
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
Nemo has found this wiki which I find very interesting [1]. it contains
1,68 million articles and seems to be a copy of articles from Lithunian
Wikipedia + some 1,5 million botgenerated articles, with focus on
species (i know from Lsjbot that there are at least some 1,3 M articles
of species to be found from reliable databases)
The effort seems to be done by just a few lithuanians wikipedians with
the right technical skill and insight on wikipedia, they are probably
active also on ltwp[2].
For me it is a reminder what will happen if we continue to be sceptical
of botgerneration of articles with correct info with verfied sources.
Creative people will do it anyway and then outside Wikpedia, which could
make Wikipedia redundant in the same way Wikipedia has made the old
paperbased encyclopedias redundant. The online encyclopedia with most
knowledge to the readers will survive, and botgenerated verified
articles contains more knowledge then no article on the subject. Also
note that the most active now are languages like Vietnamese and
Lithunian, with small communities all aware it will take eons of time if
to expected these will be created manually
I do would like the movement and upcoming strategy to make a proactive
stand re semiautomted articles
On sv:wp we have had this focus, since last august with including upload
on wikidata as part of the articlegeneration. We have found the
inclusion of Wikidata much more complex then we anticipated. We thought
half a year would be enough to "get a set of items with proper 100%
quality data into Wikidata", but we now think it will take something
like two years for just a small set of 10000 articles :( This have not
changed our belief in this approach, but we would certainly appreciate
it there were other entities doing the same and with whom we could
exchange experience (or a central initiative)
Anders
[1]
Start page http://lietuvai.lt/wiki/Pagrindinis_puslapis
Latest changes http://lietuvai.lt/wiki/Specialus:Naujausi_puslapiai
For random article press Atsitiktinis puslapis
<http://lietuvai.lt/wiki/Specialus:Atsitiktinis_puslapis/Straipsnis>
[2]
ltwp https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagrindinis_puslapis
Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
February 6, 2014 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as
a live YouTube stream.
The current structure of the meeting is:
* Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also
specialized reports and analytic
* Review of financials
* Welcoming recent hires
* Brief presentations on recent projects, with a focus on highest priority
initiatives
* Update and Q&A with the Executive Director, if available
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further
information about how to participate.
We'll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Praveena
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Executive Assistant to the VP of Engineering and Product Development
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www.wikimedia.org
[x-posted]
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the monthly IRC
office hour on February 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC/ 0900 PDT on
#wikimedia-office.
This time we would be talking about the recent changes made to the
Universal Language Selector (ULS) - the MediaWiki extension that provides
unified language configuration[1] - and the impact on the Wikimedia wikis.
We look forward to addressing any questions you may have about this. Please
see below for the event details.
Questions can also be sent to me before the event. See you all at the IRC
office hour!
Thanks
Runa
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector
Event Details:
==========
# Date: February 12, 2014
# Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 0900-1000 PDT (
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140212T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net
Agenda:
======
1. Universal Language Selector (ULS) update and developments
2. Q & A
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Wikimedia Foundation
Dear all,
we would like to use this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to
the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and the Foundation’s Legal
and Community Advocacy department for reaching their decision to abandon
the trademark registration for the Wikimedia community logo.
We are also thankful to all community members who expressed their
opinions in the community logo trademark consultation that took place
between September and December.
We hope that all the legal formalities can be fulfilled in the coming
days and weeks, and that the matter can be finally put to rest so to
allow our rich history of community logo derivatives and red, green &
blue logos to continue.
Reclaim the Logo squad
Artur Fijalkowski (WarX)
Tomasz Kozlowski (odder)
Federico Leva (Nemo)
John Vandenberg (jayvdb)
Hi all,
We are happy to announce that the Board of Trustees approved the new
Trademark Policy this Saturday.[1] The policy is based on a seven-month
consultation with the community to replace our 2009 policy. The new policy
is unconventional in how it provides expansive use of the Wikimedia marks.
Thanks to the community's collaboration, the policy is more readable,
thorough, and consistent with our values.
The Board also approved our recommendation to withdraw trademark
registration and protection for the Community logo.[2] We will now initiate
withdrawal of US and worldwide registrations.
Many thanks to everyone who participated in these two consultations!
Thanks,
Yana and Geoff
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_policy
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Logo/Request_for_consultation
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Hello everyone,
Wikimedia UK's board and staff have been working hard over the last few
months on our new Strategic
Plan<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_plan_2014-2019>,
and we have just released the draft for community consultation. We hope
that the model we have
used<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_and_operational_models>
may
be of general interest to the wider wiki community, and we hope that as
many Wikimedians as possible will help us in critiquing and building on it.
The model starts with our Vision and
Values<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Vision,_values_and_mission_(proposed)>,
and uses those to inform our Mission. Within the Mission, we have
identified five high-level Strategic
Goals<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_Goals> that
will help us focus our activities. For each goal, we will be measuring our
ongoing progress against a series of desired outcomes, using numerical
targets where possible and narrative measures where we are unable to track
hard numbers.
This approach should ensure that our day-to-day activities are closely
focused on our Mission, and that our 'distance travelled' charitable impact
can be tracked over the entire five year term of the plan.
Please do get involved in the discussion following the links above. There
is also a page for general feedback and comments
here<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_Plan_2014-2019/General_feedback_page>.
The consultation period closes on 28 February 2014 with a view to the
board approving the documents at their meeting in March.
You may also be interested in a related blog post by Simon
Knight<http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/2014/02/wikimedia-uk-strategy-consultat…>,
one of the WMUK trustees who has been closely involved in this work.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Stevie
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Head of External Relations
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.*
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia UK's board and staff have been working hard over the last few
months on our new Strategic
Plan<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_plan_2014-2019>,
and we have just released the draft for community consultation. We hope
that the model we have
used<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_and_operational_models>
may
be of general interest to the wider wiki community, and we hope that as
many Wikimedians and other interested parties as possible will help us in
critiquing and building on it.
The model starts with our Vision and
Values<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Vision,_values_and_mission_(proposed)>,
and uses those to inform our Mission. Within the Mission, we have
identified five high-level Strategic
Goals<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_Goals> that
will help us focus our activities. For each goal, we will be measuring our
ongoing progress against a series of desired outcomes, using numerical
targets where possible and narrative measures where we are unable to track
hard numbers.
This approach should ensure that our day-to-day activities are closely
focused on our Mission, and that our 'distance travelled' charitable impact
can be tracked over the entire five year term of the plan.
Please do get involved in the discussion following the links above. There
is also a page for general feedback and comments
here<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_Plan_2014-2019/General_feedback_page>.
The consultation period closes on 28 February 2014 with a view to the
board approving the documents at their meeting in March.
You may also be interested in a related blog post by Simon
Knight<http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/2014/02/wikimedia-uk-strategy-consultat…>,
one of the WMUK trustees who has been closely involved in this work.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Stevie
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Stevie Benton
Head of External Relations
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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