Liam Wyatt wrote:
>... we all believe in the greater mission of free-knowledge
"The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
people around the world to collect and develop educational content
under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally."
That is not a noun phrase, it is a verb phrase: Empowering and
engaging, collection and development, and predication on education are
all precedent to whether the content is free and how well we
disseminate it.
Some will say that the order doesn't matter. Those people are
mistaken. Ask the billions of people who only see the first few
sentences of article introductions every day on Google.
I do not believe in "the mission of free knowledge." If empowering and
engaging people requires paying them, then by all means pay them. I
have preliminary data showing that creating new articles is more fun
than maintaining old ones, so we might want to figure out how to pay
people to maintain them.
Best regards,
James Salsman
Dear Wikimedian friends and colleagues,
tl;dr We have just launched our second round of voluntary reporting.
This is the
most epic data collection and analysis of Wikimedia programs we've done so
far as a movement, and all program leaders are invited to take part. :-)
You can do so here:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0B3azKpdZ7ggCtD (or get in touch
with the L&E team for support).
As we did in the Fall of 2013, we invite community members leading and
evaluating Wikimedia programs to share their data with the rest of the
movement (i.e., Edit-a-thons, Editing Workshops, On-wiki Writing Contests,
Photo Events, etc.). Last year’s data was collected and analysed in a
series of reports that was the beginning of telling the Wikimedia story of
impact: the incredible work of over 60 program leaders implementing 119
programs or projects in 30 countries across the world. This helped us start
building a set of good and best practices for effective programs across our
movement.[1] This year’s data drive will be critical to help us continue to
do and learn better from each other.
To best prepare, program leaders can review the reporting items [1] and
start gathering that data you have filed away about your programs since the
last reporting round. We are looking for data on programs completed any
time from September 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014. You can ask
questions directly on the reporting form preview [2] or on our portal talk
page [3]. If you are planning to report and may need support from us, do
let us know so that we can help in any way needed.
When ready, you will find the reporting collector at:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_0B3azKpdZ7ggCtD
We also welcome your data in different formats. For example, if you have
already reported data elsewhere, we are happy to work with you to make the
process as easy as possible. Message eval(a)wikimedia.org and we can work out
the easiest way to include your data.
We are expanding the number of programs covered in the reporting this year,
and extend the reporting window longer for some new programs, GLAM, and
Wiki Loves Monuments. See the schedule below for timelines for reporting for
each program type.
Data submission deadlines by program:
Due by October 20th
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Edit-a-thons/editing parties
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Editing Workshops
Due by November 3rd
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On-wiki Writing Contests
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Photo Events (Wiki Loves Earth, WikiExpeditions, WikiTakes, etc.)
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Wikipedia Education Program
Due by November 17th
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Conferences
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GLAM Content Donation
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Hackathons
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Wiki Loves Monuments (2013 and 2014)
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Wikimedian in Residence
Remember, reporting is voluntary but the more people do it, the better
representation of programs we can make. This voluntary reporting allows us
to come together and generate a bird’s eye view of programs [4]. We want to
understand the impact of programs across different contexts, to examine
both more broadly, and more deeply, what works best to meet our shared
goals for Wikimedia and to, together, grow the awesome [5] in Wikimedia
programs!
On behalf of the Program Evaluation and Design team, thank you for your
time and support in this initiative.
Warmly,
Anasuya
Resource links:
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Evaluation_reports/2013
[2]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CG-K8I1d9JPqyRRyHTIQ5x7fASQXcHZsEMKutdA…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Evaluation
[4]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evaluation_Report_(beta)_Poster_Wik…
[5] http://www.nbp.org/nbp/images/book_photos/MAG-AWESOME.jpg
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EduWIki, here:
Please answer there, rather than here, for the benefit of other attendees,
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Forwarding this here, as Sumana's role seems relevant to a wider audience
than just wikitech-l :)
Thanks Sumana for all your work!
Lodewijk
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 2014-09-12 18:09 GMT+02:00
Subject: [Wikitech-l] I'm leaving the Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I write this email with regret to let you know that I've decided to leave
the Wikimedia Foundation after nearly four years working here, and that my
last day will be 30 September.
I go into my reasoning and plans in this personal blog post:
http://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2014/09/12/0
I'm grateful for what I've learned here and will take these lessons
wherever I go. And I've made many friends here; thank you. I'll remain
[[User:Sumanah]] in any volunteer work I do onwiki. Quim Gil will be the
person to contact for any loose threads I leave behind; still, if you have
questions for me, the next two weeks would be a good time to ask them.
best,
Sumana Harihareswara
was Volunteer Development Coordinator, then Engineering Community Manager,
now Senior Technical Writer
Wikimedia Foundation
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All,
As you may have heard, Freenode found some compromised servers on their
networks. Network traffic, including SSL traffic, may have been sniffed by
a third party.
This likely affects many Wikimedia IRC users, including users who do not
speak English, so please forward this notice and translate as needed for
the benefit of other Wikimedians.
If you have not changed your nickserv password on September 15 or later,
please do so now.
>From the Freenode blog:
"Before changing your password, please check your email address in /msg
nickserv info and, if needed, update it – see /msg nickserv help set email
(remember to check your new email for the verification key). This will
ensure that we can send you a password reset email should, for whatever
reason, your password change not work properly. If you have no email set on
your account or an email set that you cannot access, we cannot send
password resets to you, so do please keep this up-to-date.
"To change your password use /msg nickserv set password newpasshere
"Since traffic may have been sniffed, you may also wish to consider any
channel keys or similar secret information exchanged over the network."
Please direct questions to Freenode IRC ops. They are voiced in the
#freenode channel.
Pine
Hi folks,
I'd be interested in hearing broader community opinions about the
extent to which WMF should sponsor non-profits purely to support work
that Wikimedia benefits from, even if it's not directed towards a
specific goal established in a grant agreement.
This comes up from time to time. One of the few historic precedents
I'm aware of is the $5,000 donation that WMF made to FreeNode in 2006
[1]. But there are of course many other organizations/communities that
the Wikimedia movement is indebted to.
On the software side, we have Ubuntu Linux (itself highly indebted to
Debian) / Apache / MariaDB / PHP / Varnish / ElasticSearch / memcached
/ Puppet / OpenStack / various libraries and many other dependencies [2],
infrastructure tools like ganglia, observium, icinga, etc. Some of
these projects have nonprofits that accept and seek sponsorship and
support, some don't.
One could easily expand well beyond the software we depend on
server-side to client-side open source applications used by our
community to create content: stuff like Inkscape, GIMP and LibreOffice
(used for diagrams). And there are other communities we depend on,
like OpenStreetMap.
So, should we steer clear of this type of sponsorship altogether
because it's a slippery slope, or should we try to come up with
evaluation criteria to consider it on a case-by-case basis (e.g. is
there a trustworthy non-profit that has a track record of
accomplishment and is in actual need of financial support)?
I could imagine a process with a fixed "giving back" annual budget
and a community nominations/review workflow. It'd be work to create
and I don't want to commit to that yet, but I would be interested to
hear opinions.
MariaDB specifically invited WMF to become a sponsor, and we're
clearly highly dependent on them. But I don't think it makes sense for
us to just write checks if there's someone who asks for support and
there's a justifiable need. However, if there's broad agreement that
this is something Wikimedia should do more of, then I think it's worth
developing more consistent sponsorship criteria.
Thanks,
Erik
[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Freenode_Donation
[2] Cf. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Upstream_projects
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VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
From: gladjonatan(a)outlook.com
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: To revdel (RD1) or not to revdel. That is a question....
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:38:16 +0200
I have had some discussions w/ users on IRC about the need to revdel/legal obligation to revdel copyvios.
If it had copyvios in it but has since been edited and rewritten, and no longer can be deleted per G12, nor revdeled per RD1 (since then it would ruin attribution, if the user had actually written something themself).
How should the example below be revdeled handled?
Example:Revision 1. mixed copyvio and own words by user X.Revision 2. Fixed typos by User Y.Revision 3. User Z rewrote the coied tex, left user X own words.
How should this be revdeled, and how should this be atributed? (sorry for my bad English....)
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
Azerbaijani Wikimedians [1] as a Wikimedia User Group [2]. They are a
group of very enthusiastic wikimedians interested in expanding the
access to free knowledge about Azerbaijan and the development of more
reusable content in the Azerbaijani language (but not exclusively).
Let's give them a warm welcome to the family of Wikimedia affiliates!!!
Regards,
Carlos
1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_Wikimedians_User_Group
2:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Azerbaij…
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junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
Carlos M. Colina
Vicepresidente, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
www.wikimedia.org.ve <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
Phone: +972-52-4869915
Twitter: @maor_x
