If you look up "Wikimedia" in Amazon Smile, you find "Wikimedia foundation
Inc., Washington DC, Incorporation year 2003". Any idea why that is so?
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Hey all,
I wanted to let you know that we launched an initiative this morning
called: Initiative for Open Citations <https://i4oc.org/> (I4OC).
Prior to the launch of I4OC, only 1% of scholarly papers made citation data
available in the open. Today, that number has jumped to 40%. We're proud to
make a growing piece of fundamental data for open knowledge available to
everyone, with no copyright restriction whatsoever.
The I4OC has been in the making for the past 6 months, with lots of
individual discussions with scholarly publishers, asking them to flip the
switch and release this data. Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia UK, the Wiki
Edu Foundation, the Internet Archive, Mozilla, PLOS and many other open
knowledge and open data organizations are among the official endorsers of
the initiative.
You can read more about this initiative on a post
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/06/initiative-for-open-citations/> we
published this morning on the Wikimedia Blog, on the joint press release
<https://i4oc.org/press.html>, or follow @i4oc_org
<https://twitter.com/i4oc_org> for more updates.
Best,
Dario
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2017-04-05 20:24 GMT+02:00 Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de>:
> Dear all,
>
> We would like to let you know that WMDE has just received the audit of
> our financial statement for the fiscal year 2016, which led to no
> reservations from the auditing company.
>
> You can find the English version on Commons [1] as well as linked on
> the reports page on Meta [2].
>
> Best,
> Nicole
>
> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_DE_
> Audited_Financial_Statement_2016_English.pdf
File has been deleted :/
>
>
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports
>
>
>
>
> --
> Nicole Ebber
> Adviser International Relations
> Movement Strategy Track Lead: Organized Groups
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
> V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
> Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
> anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
> Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
>
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Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207
Dear all,
We have extended the deadline for submitting presentations, panels,
roundtables and workshops to Wikimania until *April 10*. The deadline for
posters and birds-of-a-feather sessions remains *May 15*.
Please see below for the call for submissions for Wikimania, and submit
your ideas! Please also note, for those who have already submitted, there
is now a field in the registration form for "completed" or "in-progress"
submission. When you are ready to have your submission reviewed, please
note that it is "completed". Thank you!
Please contact us with any questions: wikimania-program(a)wikimedia.org
best,
Phoebe
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:10 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> All,
> I'm very pleased to send out the Wikimania Montréal Call for Submissions,
> which 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 programme committee,
> Phoebe Ayers
> -----
>
> 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) : *15 avril 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.
>
> ----
>
> 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: *April 10, 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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Hi Rogol,
If you want to make an exception to pseudonymity and require real name disclosure for volunteers in such a post then a post on a talkpage or on this mailing list isn't enough to get a change. You or someone else would need to start a request for comment, presumably on meta, and you'd need enough to agree with you to get consensus.
It would be a big change from the principle of only requiring real names for paid staff, and for volunteers such as trustees who are in roles where it is legally required.
Regards
WSC
>
> Nataliia,
>
> Thanks for your prompt response. You have made your decision, and if you
> have solicited applications for the Committee on the basis that the members
> may remain pseudonymous, then I would not expect you to resile from that.
> However for the next round perhaps you may wish to reconsider your policy
> in the light of two points.
>
> Firstly, I am not suggesting that members of the Committee be required to
> link their real names and Wikimedia handles. I am suggesting that they be
> required to act under their real names. This allows a transparent exercise
> of their powers to, for example, bar candidates from standing for
> nomination to the Board, and make it clear to the community in general and
> the potential candidates in particular, where they might have a conflict of
> interest. If a potential member of the Election Committee canot take the
> risk of associating their name with the Foundation for fear of reprisals,
> then that is regrettable, but the same would be true if they wished to
> stand for the Board. There must be a balance between transparency and
> getting the best candidates and in this case I suggest that you have struck
> the balance in the wrong place.
>
> Secondly, it has been claimed by Adrian that there is no need for this, as
> he has been involved in government elections and has never been required to
> disclose his name to the electors. I do not know which government he is
> referring to, or how important a role he had in the election process, but
> in the stable mature democracy where I live, the members of the electoral
> commission are publicly named, the returning officers with responsibility
> for conducting the elections are named (and are usually elected officials),
> the count is conducted in a public forum, often televised, to which the
> candidates have right of access, and the returning officers announce the
> results in public, explicitly giving their names as part of the
> announcement. I think that you can afford to be as transparent as that.
>
> "Rogol"
>
> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 12:21 AM, Nataliia Tymkiv <ntymkiv(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
Greetings,
The Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee has been joined by two new
members, Masssly and Matanya. They were appointed by the Board Governance
Committee at the recommendation of the current Elections Committee members
following an open call for additional members earlier this year [1].
They have each been appointed for two-year terms, in accordance with the
new setup for the standing Elections Committee. The now 8-member volunteer
committee is tasked by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees to
facilitate the elections for the Board of Trustees and Funds Dissemination
Committee [2].
Additionally, the committee has selected KTC to serve as its chair for the
upcoming year. As we prepare for an upcoming election, we have also changed
the Board Liaison from Dariusz to myself, and asked Tim Moritz Hector from
the Board Governance Committee to serve as an additional advisor to the
committee.
The upcoming process for both the Board and Funds Dissemination Committee
elections will begin soon and run through June. There will be more
information coming from the committee on the timeline and nomination
process in the coming days.
Please join me in welcoming, congratulating, and thanking Massly, Matanya,
KTC and Tim!
Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-February/086239.html
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee
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Hi, There is a very active campaign for strategic conversation defining
the future role of Wikimedia in the world. In the last weekend has been
hold the Wikimedia Conference 2017
in Berlin. On this conference was a spacial group organized from
Representatives
for the Movement Strategy Track. I paid great attention the conference
program, but unlike the former practice on the conference page on the meta
was not e bit information about what happened in this section. No
Ethernet, no abstract of presentation, nothing.
I don't understand the new policy of organizers, that the conference out
of the ordinary way was hold in totally confidential or secret wise. My
question this should bee the new Wikimedia strategy?
Texaner
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