Sometimes I have the perception that it is not just not aligned but diverting more and more as time passes by..
M
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Date: 25/03/2014 02:23 (GMT+02:00)
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Hi Gayle,
During the ED transition, who is responsible for insuring that
Foundation advocacy is aligned with the interests of Foundation
volunteers?
Thank you!
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Hi Gayle,
During the ED transition, who is responsible for insuring that
Foundation advocacy is aligned with the interests of Foundation
volunteers?
Thank you!
Definitely a cultural thing -I still don't understand why someone can feel intimidated or harassed by that e-mail....I'd better not go into details because it can be understood as I'm attacking an ethnic/linguistic group of wikimedians :-)
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Date: 23/03/2014 23:47 (GMT+02:00)
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Setting ticket prices
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Carlos M. Colina
<maorx(a)wikimedia.org.ve>wrote:
> Wait, are we in kindergarden? I think Rupert's email was sent off-list, so
> basically there is no need to bring it up to the list, regardless how
> related it is to the thread. Private discussions between two people should
> remain that, _private_, no?
>
> I just don't get it.
>
> M.
>
While in general that is the goal (private emails staying private) I would
say that in a case like this, no, you have no expectation of privacy when
you go 'off list' to, in my opinion, harass and intimidate someone about
what they did on the list. I think Nathan was completely reasonable to
bring it back on list and that MZs comment is completely correct. It's like
'taking it outside' of a bar to have a fight, the bar is completely
reasonable in banning you for it and it's still illegal.
Rupert's email was completely unacceptable and I'm glad Nathan brought it
to our attention rather then either getting into a prolonged off-list
debate that helps no one or letting it lie so that no one else was aware of
the attacks.
James
> El 23/03/2014 04:33 p.m., MZMcBride escribió:
>
> I just wanted to chime in here to say that, at least in a vacuum, I found
>> Rupert's e-mail to be highly inappropriate and I found Nathan's response
>> to it to be wholly appropriate.
>>
>> Rupert, I hope to never see a repeat of this incident, in which you
>> attempt to badger a list participant and Wikimedia volunteer off-list with
>> uninformed and irrelevant questions under the guise of "saving bandwidth"
>> and faux concern. Cut it out.
>>
>> MZMcBride
>>
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Hi all,
It probably means nothing, but the other day I noticed that the Executive
Director post had been removed from the Job Openings page on the WMF wiki (
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings#Office_of_the_Executive_D…)
and was curious. Has there been an update on the search for the new ED, has
Sue decided to stay or was it all just a coincidence and nothing has
changed? :)
Steve
Dear community,
By means this mail I want to announce you, on behalf Wikimedia Mexico, our
monthly report of February. You can read it online on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Mexico…
In spanish in our wiki:
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Febrero_2014
And here the transcription:
*February 2014*
February 1
- Transmission of episode 14/02 of Moebius
90.9<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proyectos:Moebius_90.9> at
90.9 FM and ibero909fm.
February 5
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CONABIO.JPG>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CONABIO.JPG>
Workshop as an introduction about Wikipedia at Conabio
- Wikipedia editing workshop at
Conabio<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proyectos:CONABIO/Primer_taller_CONABIO>
February 7
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Programa_de_Educaci%C3%B3n_de_Wikipedi…>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Programa_de_Educaci%C3%B3n_de_Wikipedi…>
During the class given by Ernesto Priani, Ph.D.
- Introduction to Wikipedia and the values of free knowledge for Ernesto
Priani's students at UNAM's School of Philosophy and Literature (de
Educación de Wikipedia Wikipedia Education
Program<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programa>
).
- Reviewing advances and new students who will comply with the social
service program at the same school with professor Pablo Miranda
Quevedo (Estudiantil
FFyL UNAM FFyL-UNAM Students Wikiclub<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Club>
).
February 8
- Transmision of episode 14/03 of 90.9 Moebius
90.9<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Moebius> at
90.9 FM and ibero909fm.
February 10
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charla_sobre_Wikipedia_durante_la_Sema…>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charla_sobre_Wikipedia_durante_la_Sema…>
Talk about Wikipedia during the Week Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of
CEUAMI (UAM Iztapalapa's Center of Students)
- Talks by Carmen Alcázar and Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs of WMMX about
copyright/copyleft, Wikipedia and wikitranslations. Department of Electric
Engineering, the Department of Undergraduate Courses on Computer Sciences
and the Computer Science Student Chapter at the Autonomous Metropolitan
University-Iztapalapa (CEUAMI).
February 12
- Assisting Pablo Miranda to load the files created during the Social
Service Program/Wikipedia Club at UNAM's School of Philosophy and
Literature. Article: Eugenia
Meyer<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia_Meyer#Obras>,
written by Rodrigo Calleja.
February 14
- Wikipedia workshop by professors Francisco Barrón, Iván Salgado
García, Adriana Sánchez and Óscar Santana, fromWikipedia Education
Program<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programa_de_Educaci%C3%B3n_de_Wikipedia>,
at UNAM's School of Philosophy and Literature.
February 15
- Semiannual report of activities accomplished by University of
Ecatepec's Club WikiUNE. This student group has been editing Wikipedia and
Wikisource during several months regarding Mexican laws and legal issues.
The authorities of San Cristóbal Ecatepec school attended the event, which
took place at the auditorium: professor [Usuario:Jorge Luis Esquivel Zubiri
Jorge Luis Esquivel Zubiri], who is the project's coordinator and an
ambassador of Wikipedia in the university, and Guadalupe García García, the
club's coordinator. Club WikiUNE has already sent its formal application to
obtain its recognition as a student organization before Wikimedia México.
*Read more about this project at the Wikimedia Foundation's global blog. >>
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/20/wikimedia-mexico-education-program/>*.February
18
- Mounting WikiLovesMonuments México 2013's winning photographs at
UNAM's School of Philosophy and Literature.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exposici%C3%B3n_WLMMX_2013.JPG>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Exposici%C3%B3n_WLMMX_2013.JPG>
Inauguration, at UNAM's School of Philosophy and Literature, of the
travelling exhibition of WLMMX 2013's winning photographs.
February 20
- Meeting with Campus Party in order to plan Campus Party 2014 edition
and the participation of Wikimedia México
- Inauguration of the exhibit of WikiLovesMonuments México 2013's
winning photographs at UNAM's School of Philosophy and Literature
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inauguraci%C3%B3n_exposici%C3%B3n_itin…>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inauguraci%C3%B3n_exposici%C3%B3n_itin…>
Inauguration the exhibition of WikiLovesMonuments México 2013's winning
photographs
February 21
- Meeting and definition of activities at Reunión y definición de
actividades en el de Cultura Digital Centro de Cultura Digital Estela de
Luz <https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proyectos:Centro>. Read the minute de
Cultura Digital/Minutas:Reunión 20 de febrero de 2014
here<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proyectos:Centro>
.
February 22
- New emission of episode 14/03 of 90.9 Moebius
90.9<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proyectos:Moebius> at
90.9 FM and ibero909fm
- Monthly Wikipedia workshop: in order to reinforce the participation in
the Wikimedia Foundation's best known project, we decided to start offering
a monthly Wikipedia workshop, an activity which seeks to establish a
periodic meeting for those people who wish to start participating in the
project, improve the edition abilities of the current members of the
chapter and generate more members in the community.
February 24
- Annual planning meeting with Eva Gómez, from Centro Cultural de España
en México.
February 25
- Workshop for professor Adriana Sánchez Álvarez's students, as part of
the de Educación de Wikipedia Wikipedia Education
Program<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programa> at
UNAM's School of Philosophy and Literature.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taller_mensual_de_Wikipedia_febrero_-_…>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taller_mensual_de_Wikipedia_febrero_-_…>
Our volunteer Andrés (user:Andycyca) in our montly workshop of February.
February 28
- Project planning meeting with Soumaya Soumaya
Museum<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proyectos:Museo>.
Read the minute Soumaya/Minutas:Reunión 28 de febrero de 2014
here<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proyectos:Museo>
*.*
During the month of February
- Supporting the translation into Spanish of the Wikimedia Foundation's
social networks.
- Planning the implementation of MediaWiki with UNAM's School of
Philosophy and Literature's translation module.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guadalupe_Garcia_y_Jorge_Luis_Esquivel…>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guadalupe_Garcia_y_Jorge_Luis_Esquivel…>
Guadalupe, president of student club WIKIUNE and Jorge, law professor and
Wikipedia embassador.
Highlights[editar<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wik…>
]WikiUNE students
club[editar<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wik…>
]
Leaded by one teacher that received some talks from Wikimedia Mexico, a
group of students of the University of Ecatepec started some activities
related to mexican law in the Wikimedia projects. They have uploaded the
text of some mexican laws and acts to spanish Wikisource, they made up a
course of Law of obligations in Wikiuniversity and write down some articles
in Wikipedia about legal topics. They worked all the past semester and on
February, 2014 they invited WMMX board members and school authorities to be
in a presentation about the achievements of the club. The group is now
called "*WikiUNE Club*" and is asking for be recognized as official club
affiliated to Wikimedia Mexico. The teacher and lawyer Jorge Luis Esquivel
Zubiri <https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Jorge_Luis_Esquivel_Zubiri>is
now interested in create a new club in other university where he is teacher
either.
*Read the post in Wikimedia Blog >>
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/20/wikimedia-mexico-education-program/>*Wiki
Loves Monuments México 2013
exhibition[editar<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wik…>
]
As we did the last year, we organized an exhibition of the ten winner
photographs of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in Mexico. The images were printed
out in big format and the exhibition room was donated by our partners of
the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the National Autonomous
University of Mexico. In the inauguration attended the principal of
faculty, some winners of the contest and WMMX board members and volunteers.
The exhibition was there till March 15th, and in the next months it will
start a tour inside Mexico city and around other cities of this country.
Wikipedia Education Program in
Mexico[editar<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wik…>
]
Since last year we launcher a pilot education program with some
universities of Mexico in which we are teaching how to use Wikipedia in the
classroom, how to edit it and evaluation techniques. So far, we have
implemented this program in:
- Facultad de Estudios Superiores Aragón de la UNAM.
- Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UNAM.
- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, campus Iztapalapa.
- Universidad de las Américas Puebla.
Now, we are on talks with Wikimedia Argentina to interchange experiences in
this field and create a sort of syllabus to standardize the contents and
teachings of this program. Besides we are introducing the use of the
education program extension to measure the successful of these efforts.
*Proyectos:Programa Educativo UDLAP >>
<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proyectos:Programa_Educativo_UDLAP>**Programa
de Educación de Wikipedia >>
<https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programa_de_Educaci%C3%B3n_de_Wikipedia>*Monthly
Wikipedia workshop[editar<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wik…>
]
This year we started a new project which consist in a monthly Wikipedia
workshop. The point is to have a regular activity in fixed dates and place
to announce it permanent activity and allow people to attend, learn how to
edit Wikipedia and know some mexican wikipedists. This workshop will be
give independently of the number of new people that assist because it will
be used also as permanent meeting of volunteers for teaching each other
their own experiences in Wikimedia projects.
--
*Salvador Alcántar*
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Before we start thinking about the implications for WiR in general or WMF's relationship with Stanton, I think we should focus on establishing the facts of what happened here. After we have a good understanding of the facts we can discuss the implications.
I'm still waiting for Arbcom to get back to me before I comment more extensively. I'm guessing that they may take awhile if they need to establish consensus among themselves before responding.
Pine
I submitted the proposal to be able to eliminate certain parts of the
articles in certain countries, where the local governments find those
parts illegal: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62231
But it got rejected, and I am not sure I am clear why.
The problem is that there are countries that lack the freedom of speech
(most of the countries), and some of them get very aggressive about
banning materials that most reasonable people wouldn't find
objectionable. The very recent example, provided in the bug report
above, is banning of any references of Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf"
in Russia. While this case may seem not as important, but I don't see
why users outside Russia should be affected by such decision, when they
may not even support any decisions or values of the said government.
Yet, everybody's version of wikipedia page is affected, and materials
are hidden.
My suggestion, if implemented, would allow to hide certain parts of the
articles in the country (or area) of jurisdiction of the corresponding
court, while allowing users not living there to still see the original
version.
If such governments get their way in banning materials globally, this
will effectively make wikipedia biased, and reflecting various POVs of
various courts, which has never been intended by wikipedia.
Yuri
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