Wikimedia-l August 2007

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[Foundation-l] 2007 Fundraising planning begins: request for your help
by Sue Gardner 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Hi folks, As announced at Wikimania, the Foundation plans to launch our 2007 fundraiser this fall. Currently we’re targeting September 23 to November 22, although those dates may change. Our goal is to paint a compelling and accessible picture of the work we do, and why it’s important. In doing that, we hope to persuade new people to support us – those who don’t know much about us, but would be sympathetic if they did. Here are some areas where we anticipate needing your help: - We need people to help collect compelling human stories that show why the projects matter. We know we’re making a major impact on real people’s lives, and we want to collect together some of those stories, and make sure they get told. If you can help with this, please contact Cary Bass at cbass(a)wikimedia.org, or put your stories here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communication_Projects_Group/Success_stories…. Please note though we’re not necessarily looking for stories about how the projects have changed *your* life; we want stories that demonstrate all kinds of impact –e.g., on schools, language groups, countries, communities of interest, etc.–, not just impact on individual people. - We will need translation help. That will happen through the translation committee – http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translations. - We will need lots of help designing and implementing the message. That will happen through the WMF Communications Committee (AKA ComCom). - And we will need lots of people to help us plan and carry out the plans as they're developed. If you can help us with that, please let Cary know. Please feel free to distribute this note to anyone who should see it. Thanks, Sue

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[Foundation-l] FW: [Wikinews-l] Proposal for the creation of a Wikinews foundation
by Brian McNeil 22 Aug '07

22 Aug '07

Only sent to Wikinews-l, forwarding to foundation-l -----Original Message----- From: wikinews-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikinews-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brian McNeil Sent: 22 August 2007 13:11 To: 'Wikinews mailing list' Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Proposal for the creation of a Wikinews foundation I think we have a long way to go to firm up what we're actually doing here, and what the organization should have as a remit. However, what may - to my thinking - exclude non-wikinews journalists is NPOV. I believe that any organization that is set up should adopt that as a core tenet. I am not aware of the detailed technical differences between a union and a non-profit, but to me it appears that a union's objective is to represent its members' interests, a non-profit is to represent its goals. So, whilst you could set up a non-profit with the goal of representing its members that is putting the non-profit goals on shifting sands. So, to consider the idea of including citizen journalists outside the Wikinews community, I believe the association with WMF should require an adherence to NPOV. This *will* exclude a lot of excellent reporters who write good editorial and opinion pieces. Is there any way we can be inclusive of these people if they clearly label online work as opinion or editorial when it doesn't meet NPOV? A key issue for me would be getting bloggers to work within the WN NPOV framework to produce an article then doing their opinion/editorial introduction to the "neutral" story. Going back to what we call this, I tried all the http://www.wju.org (Wikinews Journalists' Union) acronyms I could think of at short notice. Only free one was http://www.upj.org - Union of Pajama Journalists. :) Brian. _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l

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[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2008 Bidding opens
by Cary Bass 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

Please consider this an announcement that formal bidding has begun today for Wikimania 2008 host city. Bids can be placed on <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids>. Also, the candidate city selection jury has been announced, the names can be found here: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Jury> Please share this information with any local mailing lists, and translate where applicable. Thank you. Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 727.231.0101 Fax: 727.258.0207 E-Mail: cbass(a)wikimedia.org

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[Foundation-l] Wikinews
by Przykuta 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

Since January 2007 something is wrong :/ http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?url=wikinews.org but one message is good - pl Wikinews has reached 5,000 articles ;) We have to write more articles per day (min. 10-20) in every bigger project. przykuta

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[Foundation-l] automated response
by martin.mai＠split.uni-bamberg.de 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

martin.mai(a)split.uni-bamberg.de wieder erreichbar ab 06.09.2007 mails werden dann gelesen ... ;-)

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[Foundation-l] Alternative to paypal
by Ben Yates 17 Aug '07

17 Aug '07

The new amazon payment API looks really good. Support for micropayments, etc. http://paulstamatiou.com/2007/08/04/why-you-shouldnt-ignore-amazons-new-fps/ -- Ben Yates Wikipedia blog - http://wikip.blogspot.com

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Re: [Foundation-l] WikProject Classroom coordination
by SJ Klein 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

This would be useful for a number of projects. It would be useful to have this sort of list from smaller countries as well. We could use a system for collaboratively building structured datasets such as these around Wikimedia projects... perhaps the Open Library folks can help in this regard. (would any of the semwiki projects scale to querying millions of records?) SJ On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Debbie Garside wrote: > Hi Durova > > I have a list of 23,101 UK schools. I am not sure how good it is or how > many are primary/secondary/colleges/unis but I do know that 17,000+ have > email addresses. If this would be of interest let me know. > > Best regards > > Debbie Garside > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: foundation-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Durova >> Sent: 05 August 2007 21:18 >> To: foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> Subject: [Foundation-l] WikProject Classroom coordination >> >> With fall semester coming up, now is a good time to let >> educators know about one of our resources. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Classroom_c >> oordination >> >> This project aims to help professors and teachers who >> incorporate Wikipedia editing assignments into their >> curricula. Instead of (or as an adjunct to) regular student >> term papers, students would make cited improvements to >> Wikipedia articles. >> >> How does the Foundation usually get the word out about >> something like this? >> I think the *Chronicle of Higher Education* would be >> interested in running a notice if they were informed about >> the project. Should I get in touch with them, or are there >> others who have contacts already? >> >> Durova >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >

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[Foundation-l] Deleting blatant copyright violations from the database
by Brian 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

[0] is the addition of an abstract from the journal Nature [1]. It was in the encyclopedia for four months until I accidentally found it. I was told in IRC that the procedure for this situation is to simply remove the change from the current revision of the article, because it is technically difficult to permanently remove things from the database. This seems incredibly problematic to me. From a legal perspective, I don't see any difference in viewing an old version of an article which contains a copyright violation, and that copyright violation still being in the current version. There is some effort to hide old revisions from search engines, but the violation still exists on the Internet, and the copyright owner's rights are still being violated. Please note that I have no special interest in this text. I thought it was common sense that blatant violations like this would be deleted from the database, and so am very surprised at the lackadaisical attitude I have encountered. This seems like a tremendous legal risk, and there must be some technical solution for easily removing old revisions from the database, especially in cases like this where the text remained essentially unchanged. After I asked for more information about the procedure for deleting text like this from the database, I was told to nominate the article for deletion so that it could be rewritten without the copyright violation. The community solution was to remove the text from the current revision and speedy keep the article. This does nothing to protect the rights of the journal Nature, and if the community is going to be left in charge of handling copyright violations, they should be empowered with tools for permanently removing that text. I hope someone here can tell me about all the aspects of this situation of which I am unaware in addition to the actual legal perspective. /Brian Mingus User:Alterego [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Deep_brain_stimulation&diff=prev&… [1] http://www.nature.com/npp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/1301408a.html;jsessioni…

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Re: [Foundation-l] Deleting blatant copyright violations from the database
by Brian 13 Aug '07

13 Aug '07

http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/ > In order to qualify for safe harbor protection, an OSP must: > > - have no knowledge of, or financial benefit from, the infringing > activity > - provide proper notification of its policies to its subscribers > - set up an agent to deal with copyright complaints > > Reverting a copyright violation seems to violate the first point.

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[Foundation-l] Florence's presentation on Wikimania
by Shun Fukuzawa 11 Aug '07

11 Aug '07

Hi all, I'm Shun, Japanese wikipedian. I attended Wikimania and saw Florence's session. I think that was a great pretentation. Please give me the presentation file. I intend to show it to the Japanese people that didn't come to wikimania with my impression. Thanks.

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