(Standard apology for cross-posting.)
Greetings everyone!
I am pleased to announce a new project, WikiProject X, funded by a Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grant. WikiProject X's goal is to improve the experience of WikiProjects, which are subject-area (or goal-oriented) collaborative spaces on the English Wikipedia. By making WikiProjects easier to use and maintain, it will be easier to build sub-communities of like-minded people, giving editors a sense of community on a huge and daunting website like Wikipedia. This includes mechanisms for recruiting new participants and encouraging the creation of safe spaces where editors, new and experienced alike, can feel like they can participate in discussions without fear of intimidation or jargon.
The project will begin with some research, both qualitative research in the form of interviews and case studies, and quantitative research based on Wikipedia’s database. Our focus will be on WikiProjects that have been successful in organizing editors, and learning more about what makes them work. Based on this research, we will develop new tools and interfaces that make WikiProjects easier to use and easier to maintain. Please note that this is an opt-in program for WikiProjects; no WikiProject will be required to make changes.
I would like to invite the community to check out our new page on Wikipedia, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X> (shortcut WP:WPX). There, you can share your experiences with WikiProjects and sign up to become a pilot tester. Community participation is crucial for the success of this project, and the more voices we hear, the better.
If you want to sign up for more updates, sign up for our newsletter here: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X/Newsletter>.
Please let me know if you have any questions. I am very much looking forward to working with everyone on making this project succeed!
Cheers,
James Hare
Project Manager, WikiProject X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_X
The 4th annual WikiWomen's History Month is in March, coinciding with
Women's History Month.
Please start planning your events to contribute content to Wikipedia and
related Wikimedia websites about women's history! You can post your events
and find resources on how to implement edit-a-thons and workshops here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month
Any questions just let me know!
I look forward to your participation!
Sarah
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Hey,
Forwarding on from the Advocacy list. Since there have been several
postings around fashion editathons on this list, I thought some of you
might be able to share useful thoughts with Dimi (CCed). He is not
subscribed to this list, so you might want to get in touch directly.
Thanks a lot,
Nicole
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From: Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov(a)gmail.com>
Date: 12 January 2015 at 11:43
Subject: [Advocacy Advisors] Europeana Fashion Conference - Sharing
Fashion Online
To: Advocacy Advisory Group for WMF LCA <Advocacy_Advisors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
I've been invited to attend the Europeana Fashion Conference [1] and
participate in a workshop that will aim to:
"inspire attendees with a better understanding of intellectual
property and fashion and to support attendees with best practices in
sharing fashion images online"
I'm assuming that's a working title. There will be an IP lawyer
representing fashion businesses, people from cultural institutions and
me.
I've been specifically asked to share best practices of sharing
fashion images online and to show the different licensing options.
Since fashion is not only about copyright, but also trademarks and
industrial designs (at least in the EU and Japan), I wanted to show a
few examples of what goes, what not and some issues we haven't fully
solved yet. Is anyone on this list aware of any
cases/discussions/decisions on Commons regarding fashion pictures and
IP? Anything interesting will help.
Thanks!
Dimi
FYI: WMBE and WMNL have in the past co-organised a fashion edit-a-thon
with the Fashion Museum of Antwerp. [2]
[1]http://www.europeanafashion.eu/portal/blogdetail.html?post=europeana-fashion-international-conference-digital-fashion-futures
[2]https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/September_2013/Conten…
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Nicole Ebber
Referentin Internationale Beziehungen
Advisor International Relations
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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 27/681/51985.
Was thinking about reforming wikipedia again! (fool that I am) and I
started fantasizing about running into some billionaires I used to know
and suggesting they just grab a mirror of Wikipedia and do it the right
way....
Well, anyway, to make a long story, short I ran into this Wikipedia page
that tells you the copyright compliant way to do it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks
And various interesting things when I searched:
https://www.google.com/search?q=wikipedia+mirror+sites&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
It does seem in the past there were some mirror sights that would jump
up and be very up-to-date, but for whatever reason don't seem to run
into them as much as in the past.
Well, back to reality, but just in case there are any pissed off
multimillionaires in the audience :-)
CM
Another trolling I think. A "Wikimedia Lesbians" group this time.
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From: "toby.dollmann (Google Groups)" <wikimedia-l+noreply(a)googlegroups.com>
Date: Jan 9, 2015 10:36 AM
Subject: Google Groups: You've been added to Wikimedia-l
To: <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>
Cc:
Some disturbing news entered my mailbox the past days. The grant making
team is going to shut down the grantmaking process for Project and Event
Grants (PEG) and Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) for three full months!
They have decided that they want to focus only on a specific strategic
priority: the gender gap, and that all other good projects are refused for
3 months (February-April)
Good projects to be ignored, just because the WMF think those are less
important. They say this is a positive campaign, but this sounds as a
negative campaign to me. This discourages many volunteers in doing
projects.With increasing vandalism and disruption the WMF seems looking to
close some mailing lists for lack of volunteers. This is a negative signal
to all those volunteers who are currently working on project plans.
As LGBT related proposals will presumably be amongst the first to be
rejected, a small actively moderated external mailing list for action is
formed of engaged Wikimedians.
About this group:
A group for Wikimedian Lesbians
The owner of the group has set your subscription type as "Email",
meaning that you'll receive a copy of every message posted to the group as
they are posted. Visit This Group
<http://groups.google.com/d/forum/wikimedia-l?hl=en>
[image: Visit Google Groups] <https://groups.google.com/?hl=en>
Start your own group <http://groups.google.com/d/creategroup?hl=en>,
unsubscribe
from this group
<http://groups.google.com/d/forum/wikimedia-l/unsubscribe/P7gvqhQAAABonccx-O…>,
or stop invitations like this
<http://groups.google.com/d/optout?hl=en>. or report
spam
<http://groups.google.com/d/abuse/YQAAAKBXSy7zAAAAf5nKiUUAAABPi6LFT8Iru9AmBR…>.
Thought this was interesting.
How to ge more women to join the debate
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/how-to-get-more-women-to-join-t…
>"Women were clearly underrepresented in my data. They made only a quarter
of comments, even though their
>comments got more recommendations from
other readers on average. Even when they did speak up, they
>tended to cluster
in stereotypically “female” areas: they were most common on articles
about parenting, caring
>for the old, fashion and dining. (Women got more
recommendations than men on most of the sports blogs, but
>they still
made, for example, only 5 percent of comments on the soccer blog.)"
>"It seems unlikely that these effects are confined to The New York Times; studies of online commenting find
>broad signs of inequality. (While women are well-represented on some websites, like the image-sharing site
>Pinterest,
these sites do not tend to focus on expressing and defending opinions.
Online forums that do often
>have mostly male commenters: examples
include Wikipedia edit pages, the social news site Reddit, and the
>question-answering sites Quora and Stack Overflow.) I also spoke to Katherine Coffman, an economist whose
>results echoed mine: she found that women were less willing than men to contribute their ideas in stereotypically
>male areas.
Marie