Proposal:
The mission of the Wikimedia California Chapter is to assist the Foundation in empowering and engaging people around the world by implementing software and hardware systems to, and holding events to encourage collection and development of educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
That is adapted from http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement
Let's also adopt http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Values in its entirety.
Any objections?
Does "implementing software and hardware systems...and holding events" cover projects? You know, members helping deploy, populate, administrate and manage wikis in and of the public interest?
I guess I ask because I have spent much of my professional career as a writer/content producer for the tech industry and them folks usually don't consider content as part of software...
Apologies if this is a newbie question that has been addressed and put to rest in the evolution of the text we're adopting.
On the Values side, I would just advocate a more front-and-center place for a conscious effort to overcome what we call "Institutional Bias", but really is just gaps in information and perspectives (imbalance in content and opinions, if you will) that are the result of things like the digital divide and uneven access and contribution to media, both old and new. Heaven knows that's one of strongest motivations for my contribution to the Wikipedia and other projects. California seems like the ideal place home for efforts in that regard.
My tuppence 'orth,
Sabahat ('iFaqeer" on Wikimedia projects I am part of) --- Sabahat I Ashraf ("iFaqeer") iFaqeer @ Gmail/Gtalk, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, .com darwaish @ yahoo 415 881 7834
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:18 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Proposal:
The mission of the Wikimedia California Chapter is to assist the Foundation in empowering and engaging people around the world by implementing software and hardware systems to, and holding events to encourage collection and development of educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
That is adapted from http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement
Let's also adopt http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Values in its entirety.
Any objections?
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Sabahat,
Of course the Wikipedia Chapter should become as skilled as possible at creating mirrors from dumps, which too few people know how to do (because it's so poorly documented) but I don't know whether anyone would expect to host projects. Provisioning, testing, and loading mirrors on hardware is the only emperically accurate way to benchmark it. The Foundation is too overloaded to effectively deal with the marketing barrage associated with exploring new implementations of Mediawiki services, so that's clearly a way to help even if we don't leave entire forks up for more than a few months at a time.
Do you think there are projects we should host that the Foundation is unlikely to host?
The digital divide is a symptom of income inequality, and I'm not sure what a Chapter could do to counter that kind of institutional bias. Should we add specific economic principles to the Values?
Regards, James Salsman
On May 5, 2010 4:05 AM, "Sabahat Ashraf/"iFaqeer ashrafs@alum.rpi.edu wrote:
Does "implementing software and hardware systems...and holding events" cover projects? You know, members helping deploy, populate, administrate and manage wikis in and of the public interest?
I guess I ask because I have spent much of my professional career as a writer/content producer for the tech industry and them folks usually don't consider content as part of software...
Apologies if this is a newbie question that has been addressed and put to rest in the evolution of the text we're adopting.
On the Values side, I would just advocate a more front-and-center place for a conscious effort to overcome what we call "Institutional Bias", but really is just gaps in information and perspectives (imbalance in content and opinions, if you will) that are the result of things like the digital divide and uneven access and contribution to media, both old and new. Heaven knows that's one of strongest motivations for my contribution to the Wikipedia and other projects. California seems like the ideal place home for efforts in that regard.
My tuppence 'orth,
Sabahat ('iFaqeer" on Wikimedia projects I am part of) --- Sabahat I Ashraf ("iFaqeer") iFaqeer @ Gmail/Gtalk, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, .com darwaish @ yahoo 415 881 7834
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:18 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Proposal:
The mis... _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-california mailing list Wikimedia-california@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-california
Hold on. As much as I love the idea of abusing this little chapter to host un-foundation things... aren't we starting to stretch this a little far? If we start hosting projects that are in no way related to the foundation (I'd accept something like translatewiki as being "related", to use as an example), this really is no longer wikimedia chapter.
I'm not saying I'm against the idea per say... but... lets try to stick to stick to our designated scope.
-Jon
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 04:24, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Sabahat,
Of course the Wikipedia Chapter should become as skilled as possible at creating mirrors from dumps, which too few people know how to do (because it's so poorly documented) but I don't know whether anyone would expect to host projects. Provisioning, testing, and loading mirrors on hardware is the only emperically accurate way to benchmark it. The Foundation is too overloaded to effectively deal with the marketing barrage associated with exploring new implementations of Mediawiki services, so that's clearly a way to help even if we don't leave entire forks up for more than a few months at a time.
Do you think there are projects we should host that the Foundation is unlikely to host?
The digital divide is a symptom of income inequality, and I'm not sure what a Chapter could do to counter that kind of institutional bias. Should we add specific economic principles to the Values?
Regards, James Salsman
On May 5, 2010 4:05 AM, "Sabahat Ashraf/"iFaqeer ashrafs@alum.rpi.edu wrote:
Does "implementing software and hardware systems...and holding events" cover projects? You know, members helping deploy, populate, administrate and manage wikis in and of the public interest?
I guess I ask because I have spent much of my professional career as a writer/content producer for the tech industry and them folks usually don't consider content as part of software...
Apologies if this is a newbie question that has been addressed and put to rest in the evolution of the text we're adopting.
On the Values side, I would just advocate a more front-and-center place for a conscious effort to overcome what we call "Institutional Bias", but really is just gaps in information and perspectives (imbalance in content and opinions, if you will) that are the result of things like the digital divide and uneven access and contribution to media, both old and new. Heaven knows that's one of strongest motivations for my contribution to the Wikipedia and other projects. California seems like the ideal place home for efforts in that regard.
My tuppence 'orth,
Sabahat ('iFaqeer" on Wikimedia projects I am part of)
Sabahat I Ashraf ("iFaqeer") iFaqeer @ Gmail/Gtalk, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, .com darwaish @ yahoo 415 881 7834
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:18 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
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