I see dmoz.org is going offline in few days after a couple decades. It is a
community-written project. Will it be absorbed into wikidata? Sort of a
snapshot-in-time of the web. Get it while you can, at http://rdf.dmoz.org/
All,
A reminder that the deadline for submissions for Wikimania '17 is in two
weeks - March 30!
Please spread the word!!!!
The Wikimania Montréal Call for Submissions can be found in French here:
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/fr
and in English here:
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/en
On behalf of the Wikimania program committee,
Ellie Young
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Que vous soyez un membre de la communauté de l’un des projets Wikimédia
(tels que Wikipédia, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikimedia
Commons, Wiktionnaire, MediaWiki ou autres), un créateur de contenu libre
ou un consommateur, nous recevrons avec plaisir votre proposition pour une
session lors de Wikimania 2017.
*dates importantes*
Appel aux propositions ouvert : 2 février 2017
Date limite de soumission des présentations (conférence, panneau, table
ronde et atelier) : 30 mars 2017
Date limite de soumission des brefs exposés, affiches et réunions d’oiseaux
de la même plume : 15 mai 2017.
Notification d’acceptation des présentations : 20 avril 2017
Notification d’acceptation des brefs exposés, affiches et réunions
d’oiseaux de la même plume : 10 juin 2017
*Types de soumissions & Comment soumettre: *
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/fr
*Des questions ?* Merci de contacter le Comité du programme par
wikimania-program(à)wikimedia.org.
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Whether you are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects (such
as Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wikimedia Commons,
Wiktionary, MediaWiki or others), or a fellow open content creator or
consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session at Wikimania 2017.
*Important dates*
Call for proposals opens: February 2, 2017
Deadline for submitting presentation (lecture, panel, roundtable and
workshop) submissions: March 30, 2017
Deadline for submitting lightning talks, poster, and birds of a feather
submissions: May 15, 2017
Notification of acceptance for presentations: April 20, 2017
Notification of acceptance for lightning talks, poster and birds of a
feather submissions: June 10, 2017
*Submission types & how to submit:*
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/en
*Any questions?* Please contact the Programme Committee at
wikimania-program at wikimedia.org
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Ellie Young
Events Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
eyoung(a)wikimedia.org
Hello,
As most of you are aware, the Wikimedia movement has embarked on an
ambitious initiative to discuss our collective future and determine a
movement-wide strategic direction. [1]
The movement is composed of people in many different roles, notably
individual contributors who may not be affiliated with any organized
group. It can be challenging to reach individual contributors and
involve them in strategy discussions, since they may not monitor the
usual communication channels, and they may not think that strategy
discussions are relevant to them.
For this year’s movement strategy process, the Wikimedia Foundation
has decided to hire 19 part-time discussion coordinators to better
bridge the gap between the strategy discussions and local communities
of contributors.
Today, I am thrilled to announce that we have concluded the search and
assembled a stellar team of 19 long-time Wikimedians, who have agreed
to join the movement strategy efforts in this capacity.
As you go through the team’s page on Meta-Wiki, you will see many
familiar names. [2] The team is composed of Abbad, Bohdan, Chico,
Gereon, Jonatan, Ran, Marco, Nahid, Niccolò, Tomasz, Robin, Samuel,
Satdeep, Szymon, Oleg, Takashi, Todd, Tuan, and Venus. Because of the
team’s geographic distribution, Jan Eissfeldt, from the Foundation’s
Support and Safety team, has agreed to help lead the day-to-day
activities of the group of Asian language coordinators.
All the coordinators started on Monday for a 3-month contract, and
they have already been hard at work, translating materials on Meta and
organizing the outreach to their local communities. [3] Some will
focus their efforts on specific language communities [4], and others
will support an array of smaller communities.
If you are interested in working with the coordinators to bridge the
gap with your local communities, I invite you to take a look at the
description of the coordinator role, and sign up using the form on
that page. [5] You can also contact them directly via their talk page.
I want to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who was involved in
this ultra-fast hiring process, most notably the Foundation’s Talent &
Culture team, who handled the recruiting and administrative onboarding
masterfully, and the Community Engagement department, who reached out
to their contacts, thoroughly reviewed applications, and made this
ambitious wave of recruiting ridiculously easy for me.
Please join me in welcoming Venus, Tuan, Todd, Takashi, Oleg, Szymon,
Satdeep, Samuel, Robin, Tomasz, Niccolò, Nahid, Marco, Ran, Jonatan,
Gereon, Chico, Bohdan, and Abbad in their new role.
Guillaume Paumier
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/People/Str…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_B/Ou…
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017#Langu…
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Toolkit/Di…
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Guillaume Paumier
Hello everyone,
I'm not one who usually writes on these lists, but since it seems like a good way to get others opinions (and ince I've already formed my own), I thought it was a good way to see what others had to say and think.
The mobile team for the iOS app (who are all awesome!) has recently released (in beta) a version of the app which incorporates Apple Maps a one of it's main feature, to find articles nearby.
"The Wikipedia iOS app has released a beta version (5.4.0 1081) which uses Apple maps as its map data source. This is not an easy decision and has already sparked some discussion of whether this is acceptable given our project's values."
These maps are not free (non-libre) and is in my strong opinion against our values. We only create and publish things which are freely licensed (with fair use imagery being the only exception, after a board resolution regarding EDP's).
Some reasons why this was done can be read here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Maps_service
I was asked if we could use non-free elements as long as we said it was non-free and you may not be allowed to re-ue it, and I responded with "If we can't find enough editors for Wikipedia, would it ever be alright if we copied text from Britannica, as long as we said it was from Britannica, and that reusers can not use it" i.e. just because we can't make something, doesn't mean we should use something else (non-free thing) to reach our 'wants', if it causes us to loose what is... 'us'.
I'm seeking imput and opinions from you all whether this i allowed or not our according to values, which states:
"An essential part of the Wikimedia Foundation's mission is encouraging the development of free-content educational resources that may be created, used, and reused by the entire human community. We believe that this mission requires thriving open formats and open standards on the web to allow the creation of content not subject to restrictions on creation, use, and reuse.
At the creation level, we want to provide the editing community with freely-licensed tools for participation and collaboration. Our community should also have the freedom to fork thanks to freely available dumps.
The community will in turn create a body of knowledge which can be distributed freely throughout the world, viewable or playable by free software tools."
Hi all!
It’s the 10th update! According to English Wikipedia, the traditional gift
for a 10th anniversary is tin and aluminum.[1] So, here is a photo of some
art taken during Wiki Loves Art Netherlands that features a Ta'zīya[2] made
from bamboo and aluminum foil: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=7623863
And now, on with the update!
*Feedback requested*
This week there are two items in particular on Meta-Wiki that would benefit
from your thoughts:
- What should every participant in the strategy discussions know? The
briefing document still needs your comments and input to help answer that
question.
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10184031
- There have been very few comments on the basic premises that should be
mutually agreed upon by all participants and used as the basis of
arguments. Once the discussions start, the premises will be fixed, so we
would like to invite you to review them now.
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10191140
*All Tracks*
- The Core Team began mapping out a draft of the movement strategy
process beyond Wikimania. They will share more details next week.
- Guillaume and Nick Wilson worked on expanding the content and
navigation of the Meta-Wiki based Movement Strategy Portal.[3]
- Victor Grigas completed a video which will be used to promote the
movement strategy process.[4]
*Track A (Organized groups) and Track B (Individual contributors)*
- The Core Team spent last week in Seattle with Nicole and Jaime A.,
onboarding them as Track Leads and working through the details of launching
Tracks A and B by March 14th.
- Nicole sent 240 emails to invite organized groups to prepare to host
discussions. So far, 29 have signed up to be Discussion Coordinators.
- The Core Team and Track Leads posted the toolkit for coordinating
community discussions on Meta-Wiki and are finalizing the discussion guide
and discussion prompts.[5]
- Nicole published the charter for the Track A Advisory Group and
started to reach out to potential members.[6]
- The Core Team discussed types of movements, and how different
movements are organized, as examples for the strategy briefing on Meta.[7]
- They also proposed a process to read, interpret, and summarize the
expected volume of ideas from the consultation in an efficient manner.
- Guillaume has begun onboarding the 19 part-time language coordinators
who will be supporting discussions with their language communities.[8] Jan
Eissfeldt is leading the group of Asian language coordinators. The
coordinators have already started translating strategy materials and
planning the outreach to their communities.[9] The coordinators are looking
for additional volunteers to assist them in their and other communities.[10]
*Track C (Partners and readers in higher awareness regions) and Track D
(Partners and readers in lower awareness regions)*
- The proposed process for Track C has been published on Meta.[11] We
welcome your thoughts and feedback on the Track’s talk page.
- Track Leads have developed a job description for a contract Project
Assistant to support research, event management, and general coordination.
If you are interested or have a referral, please apply![12]
- The Core Team and Track Leads received some great recommendations on
experts to consult across most regions. The team is discussing how to best
collect your recommendations and will share an update next week.
- The Core Team is reviewing research proposals from two potential
research partners to support survey research and desk research.
- Track D is talking to Reboot,[13] the firm we have worked with for the
New Readers project, about coordinating the overall track research. They
are interviewing local research firms for Egypt, Indonesia, and Brazil.
They expect to have a final arrangement by the middle of next week.
- The proposed process for Track D will be posted on Meta-Wiki in the
coming week.
*Next steps*
- Final preparations for the launch of Track A & B discussions,
including posting discussion guide and prompts, strategic direction
definitions/examples, summary pages/templates on Meta-Wiki, and process map
(currently being designed by the Communications department).
- Plan and host orientation sessions for paid and volunteer coordinators
and translate pages to prepare for launch.
- Publish program outline for the Strategy Track at Wikimedia Conference
and finalize the schedule.
- Identify and select Track C & D research firms and consultants.
- Continue building out the list of experts and developing the expert
interview guide for Tracks C & D.
Thank you for joining us for the tenth update - happy weekend!
Cheers,
Katherine
PS. A version of this message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.[14]
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_anniversary#Traditional_and_modern_an…
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%27zieh
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017
[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2030.wikimedia.org.webm
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Toolkit
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_A/Ad…
[7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Process/Br…
[8] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-March/086878.html
[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_B/Ou…
[10]
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.de/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyzOcB9FmgWWrenoe0…
[11]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_C/Pr…
[12]
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/622379?gh_src=af8duk1#.WMMNGhIr…
[13] https://reboot.org
[14]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Updates/10…
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Katherine Maher
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
+1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635
+1 (415) 712 4873
kmaher(a)wikimedia.org
> If the nonfree content is presented as an integral part of the interface, such as inline with the article, that's a problem.
It is an "integral part of the interface", so mcu so, it is it's own "thing" in the app, and not part of "in articles". See screenshot (which I can't upload to Commons) here: https://snag.gy/5RpbXZ.jpg It does not just "pull up" Apple Maps, but incorporates in it to the app itself.
Jonatan
Hello everyone
Wiki Loves Women is officially launching its presentation video today.
Please check it out here and tell us what you think :
https://vimeo.com/207432965
It is also on Commons :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_loves_Women_-_English_WebM_-_F…
This video was a partnership between WikiAfrica, Goethe Institute and
Blink Tower.
It brought quite a few challenges... such as myself being completely
happy with the exact terms of the script, succeeding to get every
element of the video under a free licence including the background
music, getting a nice african women voice for the narrative, getting
curly hair rather than flat ones, identifying nice examples of western
as well as african concerns... etc. We tried to be as inclusive as possible.
Well, we hope you like it.
If you do... please litterally "like" the video and "like" our facebook page
A French version is currently being recorded and should follow shortly.
Last, we would love to see the video subtitled in many langages. If you
want to give a hand for the translation, please get in touch with us (by
email, or twitter, or facebook, or on our meta talk page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women)
I'll set up a page for translation on meta shortly.
http://www.wikiloveswomen.orghttps://www.facebook.com/WikiLovesWomenhttp://www.twitter.com/wikiloveswomen
Isla and Florence
Hello everyone!
I’m writing you in behalf of Wikimedia Serbia, regarding to organizing the
second World Mime Day edit-a-thon.
Last year Wikimedia Serbia collaborated with World Mime Organization
<http://www.worldmime.org/>, whose president is Marko Stojanovic
<https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D1%82%D…>,
famous actor in Serbia, mime artist and acting professor. Along with this
organization and Singidunum University
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singidunum_University> we successfully
realized this event
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_Mime_Day_Wiki_edit-a-thon#Local_organ…>.
The edit-a-thon aims to have international character. In 2016 Wikimedians
and Wikipedians from Macedonia and Armenia joined us in celebrating this
day by writing about notable mime artist, theaters and mime plays.
The support for this event came from the United nations as well: Ms. Irena
Vojackova-Sollorano, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident
Representative for the Republic of Serbia, visited the edit-a-thon
<http://blog.wikimedia.rs/?p=2231> and praised the volunteers mission.
This year we are planing to do the same and we are inviting everyone who is
interested in this topic and who thinks that GLAM cooperation could be
achieved. World Mime Organization has a network of mime artists and
theaters worldwide, so you can use Marko as a contact to reach local
theaters and artist.
The Meta page is created, and you can sign and join the project
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_Mime_Day_Wiki_edit-a-thon_2017#Local_…>.
There is also an event page on Serbian Wikipedia
<https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0…>.
If you need any additional information, please contact me.
Best regards,
Ivana Guslarevic
Wikimedia Serbia
Ивана Гусларевић
менаџер комуникација Викимедија Србије
p: 011/3348-468 m: 060/74-54-772
w: rs.wikimedia.org e: ivana.guslarevic(a)vikimedija.org
*Замислите свет у коме свака особа на планети има слободан приступ
целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.*
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
the Karavali Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.
The group is dedicated to working on the Wikimedia projects in the Indian
languages used in coastal Karnataka and the northern part of Kerala State
in India, including the Tulu, Kannada, and Konkani language Wikipedias.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Affiliations Committee
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Karavali_Wikimedians
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.
The group aims to build a strong and diverse volunteer community base
throughout West Bengal by increasing interaction among community members,
encouraging them to develop content in different Wikimedia projects and
organizing various online and offline activities.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Affiliations Committee
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians
