Hi all,
I just want to give an update on our Wikimedia NYC group and the
nascent "New York City Free Culture Alliance". We're currently
planning a joint event for March 28 with the Students for Free Culture
chapter at Columbia University, with students to be scrambling all
over Manhattan in a competition to snap Wikipedia-requested photos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan
This should be a fairly big event, which they told me might attract up
to 200 students (but then again, it's hard to predict).
And the real-life (as opposed to on-wiki) component is being organized
almost entirely by our friends at Columbia Free Culture. All it
really took on our part was a willingness to approach them.
Because Wikimedia has I think more friends than many of us realize,
and many partners that would be eager to work with us on a local
level.
Now, if only Chapcom could progress a little faster on the US chapters
issue... :)
Thanks,
Pharos
Seriously, guys.
We're all pretty easy-going; for years we shied away from moderating
people on Foundation-l, only falling back to that as a last resort.
Since this is the list you take Foundation matters to, in the past
people have exercised a certain level of self-control, lest they not
be taken seriously. I won't say that there weren't occasional flames,
but it was more or less self-moderating.
Now, however, it's gotten out of control. Board members and WMF
executives alike have told me that they don't give much heed to
Foundation-l; Mike Godwin unsubscribed for a time, and in a post to
this list Jimmy described it as a "sewer." Something has to change.
If people want their input to make a difference, they'll have to
maintain a forum that people actually pay attention to.
Michael and I pledged a couple of months ago to maintain closer
supervision of Foundation-l, and in that time quite a few people have
seen themselves moderated. Lately, we've taken the extraordinary step
of killing entire threads; I just killed once twice over, not without
a few angry e-mails.
Please, please do your best to be civil and on-topic. Everyone shares
the goal of an open forum for reasonable discussion of Foundation
matters, but this isn't helped by posts attacking Egyptians as hating
gays and joking about U.S. genocide of American Indians.
tl;dr be nice or b&.
Austin
>> About statistics: we don't have any statistics since Oct. 2006 :
>> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaZZ.htm . Maybe Greg
>> Maxwell, as CRO, has more up-to-date data, but stats.wikimedia.org is
>> currently of no help. It's quite difficult to update leaflets if we
>> have no new data, given that stats are almost the only thing that
>> needs to be updated; the rest of the content doesn't need much update:
>> core principles, free content, are still up-to-date and not likely to
>> change.
A few months ago I explained on this list that a full dump for en: Wikipedia
had not been produced for over a year. Not much I could do then.
See post 'Dump process need serious fix.'
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-September/033073.html
Coincidentally today the final step of the English dump job finished and
according to the report all steps were succesfull, which is no guarantee but
promising.
By the way the whole dump process took 58 days, over 8 weeks, for English
Wikipedia alone.
Two weeks ago the one but last step in the job yielded a usable dump file.
Currently wikistats runs for all other wikis, and has a few days to go.
After that I will try to process the English dump if a suitable server (>= 4
Gb physical memory) can be supplied.
> Hmmmm.
> The data is available per language, even if not available generally.
> So I think the problem is perhaps not the Foundation not providing data,
but the tool itself. In which case, that would be a question for Erik
Zachte ?
> Ant
Project wide totals can only be presented for those months where counts for
all significant languages are known.
Without counts for English Wikipedia project wide totals are meaningless.
----
By the way, you may find some useful input for leaflets on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Erik_Zachte/Wikimedia_projects_in_figure
s_-_Wikipedia
Similar but incomplete pages like this exist for all projects. See
navigation box at bottom of page.
Data are annotated and referenced.
----
Let me advertise a report I created autumn 2007 with project wide figures:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesCurrentStatusVerbose.htm
Same for other projects
Erik Zachte
In a message dated 2/23/2008 1:29:46 PM Eastern Standard Time,
geniice(a)gmail.com writes:
The difference being there was no reason to think those places might
be a target more than any other tourist point. If there really is a
special threat to wikimania the Egyptian government will take special
steps to protect it (ie even more men with guns).
Great headlines: "Troops called out to protect conference participants."
By the way, wasn't Sadat killed at a military parade? I remember all the
footage from when it happened, and I seem to recall plenty of men, guns, tanks,
APCs, airplanes, etc.
D
**************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living.
(http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-du…
2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)
The Dutch leaflet is very good (I believe, the Germans took over the
graphical concept). But the quotation from Jimmy Wales could be in Dutch,
and the bank accounts in NL and BE should be mentioned in the end, because
it is much easier to transfer money in one's own country.
I am planning to take photographs of pupils of my wife, with a computer and
maybe watching the Wikipedia.
My ideal would be a brochure telling a story: how a "real" (though fictive)
person learns about the Wikipedia. The idea is to make people - ordinary
people, not those who are already in the open-content-movement - curious and
willing to read, to write or to support.
One more item on the ever-to-do-list...
Ziko
2008/3/1, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk(a)googlemail.com>:
>
> The Dutch leaflet is very good (I believe, the Germans took over the
> graphical concept). But the quotation from Jimmy Wales should be in Dutch,
> and the bank accounts in NL and BE should be mentioned in the end, because
> it is much easier to transfer money in one's own country.
>
> I am planning to take photographs of pupils of my wife, with a computer
> and maybe watching the Wikipedia.
> My ideal would be a brochure telling a story: how a "real" (though
> fictive) person learns about the Wikipedia. The idea is to make people -
> ordinary people, not those who are already in the open-content-movement -
> curious and willing to read, to write or to support.
> One more item on the ever-to-do-list...
> Ziko
>
>
>
> 2008/3/1, Husky <huskyr(a)gmail.com>:
> >
> > I did the design for the Dutch leaflet, which is still based
> > (design-wise) on an older version so it might be a bit outdated
> > graphically. The text is very up-to-date however. I did the designs in
> > Adobe Illustrator, so if anybody needs the original designs and uses
> > Illustrator, please let me know, i could mail some source files.
> >
> > -- Hay / Husky
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Following a question from a french wikipedian, I visited the page on
> > > meta related to leaflets: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leaflet
> > >
> > > Many of these leaflets are outdated. Some never went beyond the draft
> > > stage. Some seem to be finished, but were never produced in pdf
> > version.
> > >
> > > Is there anyone willing to help finish some of these leaflets ?
> > >
> > > Of if projects or chapters have other leaflets being done and not
> > listed
> > > on this page, can someone complete the meta page ?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Ant
> > >
> > >
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> Ziko van Dijk
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> NL-7064 BN Silvolde
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Ziko van Dijk
Roomberg 30
NL-7064 BN Silvolde
Festival of Free Culture No 2
Creative Commons Salon
(7th - 10th of March 2008)
http://creativecommons.org.yuhttp://slobodnakultura.org
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The first local Creative Commons Salon will consist of series of talks
about intellectual property
and the politics of ownership and distribution within the context of
contemporary production of
"content", and will present current local production relevant for the
topic. Guests from Brazil,
Sweden and Croatia will share experiences and opinions connected with
their own activistic
approach towards the issues. This time we focus more on popular
"content" such are music,
video games and movies.
Connected with the recent launch of CC licenses in Serbia, will also
present CCBit, first Creative
Commons-licensed music CD compilation in Serbia, and Freedom Toaster, a
device/interface for
individual file-sharing in public spaces.
Welcome!
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FRIDAY 7th of March, Dom omladine Beograd, Cultural center Rex
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18:00
Panel room of Dom omladine Beograd
Great album - can you burn it for me?
Alternative economies and creative industries
Themes of the talks and presentations will be focused towards
alternative economies and
creative industries in the surroundings outside of legal regulations of
intellectual property.
Among other topics, we want to present the case of Techno Brega music
scene of northern
Brazil, Croatian EgoBooBits music label, and to talk about
exitfest.org/CC <http://exitfest.org/CC> stage at
EXIT festival.
We will also present CCBit, our first Creative Commons licensed
electronic music CD compilation.
participants:
Ronaldo Lemos (Brazil, chairman of the board of iCommons International),
Marcell Mars (Zagreb, egoboobits.net <http://egoboobits.net>, Mi2.hr
<http://Mi2.hr>),
Vladan Joler (EXITfest.org, Novi Sad),
Edi Bon (CreativeCommons.org.yu <http://CreativeCommons.org.yu>).
20:00
Rex, Jevrejska 16
CCBit
Promotion of the first CC licensed CD music compilation. Artists:
Mistakemistake, Wolfgang S, Zvukbroda, Mkdsl, Flip, The Good Guys, Tron,
Evidence,
Shazalakazoo, Shazz, Luka Toyboy, Atomska sarma, Boom Tschak, Margita Je
Mrtva,
Casper, Diagramm, Proggy & Bass.
live: Zvukbroda, Tron, Luka Toyboy
Feedback Loop
Overview of the recent production published under CC and other open &
free licenses.
In the framework of a display we present the artworks, printed
publications and multimedia
content produced by following artists, creative collectives and
institutions of culture:
Ana Hus(man, Biro Beograd, Dubravka Sekulic', Dejan Grba, KONTEKST
galerija, Ivan Bon,
Ivan Kucina, kuda.org <http://kuda.org>, Mis(ko S(uvakovic' - MSLU Novi
Sad, MSU Beograd, slobodnakultura.org <http://slobodnakultura.org>,
TKH, Queer Beograd, Vladan Jeremic'.
exhibition setup: Ana Knez(evic' i Milica Gudovic'.
Most of the content and material presented at Feedback Loop visitors can
take away -
Freedom Toaster is the device-interface project to serve for individual
and independent
file exchange in public spaces.
Freedom Toaster mashed up by homoludens at slobodnakultura dot org.
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SATURDAY 8th of March, Gallery of MOCAB, Pariska 14a
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17:00
in collaboration with the Institute for flexible technologies -- NAPON
presenting the project
Playground @Play Cultures
The exhibition Play Cultures is an international exhibition that
presents contemporary
artistic production that uses the language of digital games and shows
one possible view of
how the genre of digital games can be used in a creative and engaging way.
The curator and the editor of the Play Cultures conference Kristian
Lukic' wili talk about the
exhibition and accompanying events and discussions related to the
positions and questions
problematized by this project, with a special focus on the issues of
licensing, participation in
contemporary gaming and virtual platforms.
18:00
discussion:
After copyright
Who is curating the archives, who uses the archives, and in how? Do we
enter the times in
which the politics will be conducted trough the culture of interface and
control of meta-data?
participants:
Rasmus Fleischer, Magnus Eriksson (piratbyran.org
<http://piratbyran.org>), Tom Medak, Marcell Mars (mi2.hr <http://mi2.hr>),
Ronaldo Lemos (icommons.org <http://icommons.org>).
intro: Vlidi (slobodnakultura.org <http://slobodnakultura.org>)
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SUNDAY 9th of March, Panel room of Dom omladine Beograd
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18:00
in collaboration with Wikimedia Serbia
panel
Creative Commons licenses and Wikipedia in Serbian
speakers: Nevenka Antic' (Legal Lead, Creative Commons Serbia),
Dragan Sataric', Nikola Smolenski (Wikimedia Serbia)
The transition of the Wikipedia project to Creative Commons licenses on
the global and local
level. Presentations of the less known Wikimedia projects: Wikisource.
21:00
Star Wreck, screening
directed and produced by: Timo Vuorensola, Samuli Torssonen
and 300 of volunteers and collaborators
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a science-fiction parody, a result of
collaborative work of the
small Finnish team and more of 300 of fans, assistants, volunteers and
collaborators worldwide.
This is the first projection of Star Wreck in Serbia.
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MONDAY 10th of March, CK13, Vojvode Bojovic'a 13, Novi Sad
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19:00
in the collaboration with cultural center CK13
presentation and discussion
Piratbyran and Pirate Bay - activsm and service economy
Is theory today irrelevant if not offering it's own models of the ideas
it contemplates, applied in
material practice? On the history of the organization Piratbyran and the
project of PirateBay.org.
Is hyper-production of activistic initiatives presents a step further
towards the economy of
content and services? Self-organization as the model of organizing
collectives and societies...
participants: Rasmus Fleischer, Magnus Eriksson (piratbyran.org
<http://piratbyran.org>), Milica Gudovic', Vladan Jeremic',
Vlidi (slobodnakultura.org <http://slobodnakultura.org>)
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All the events are free of charge and open for the public.
Welcome!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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MORE DETAILS ON THE PROGRAM:
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Festival of Free Culture No 2
Creative Commons Salon
(7th - 10th of March 2008)
http://creativecommons.org.yu
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FRIDAY 7th of March, Dom omladine Beograd, Cultural center Rex
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18:00
Panel room of Dom omladine Beograd
http://www.domomladine.org/?hl=en_US
Great album - can you burn it for me?
Alternative economies and creative industries
participants:
Ronaldo Lemos (Brazil, chairman of the board of iCommons International),
Marcell Mars (Zagreb, egoboobits.net <http://egoboobits.net>, Mi2.hr
<http://Mi2.hr>),
Vladan Joler (EXITfest.org, Novi Sad),
Edi Bon (CreativeCommons.org.yu <http://CreativeCommons.org.yu>).
A talk by the special guest of Creative Commons Serbia, Ronaldo Lemos da
Silva Junior,
the representative of iCommons.org, the international organization led
by the vision to
develop a unite global cultural front for production and distribution of
common goods within
the fields of culture and science, trough the collaboration with
communities which support
open content approach, the right to access to knowledge, free software,
open approach
towards education and free culture.
Themes of the talks and presentations will be focused towards
alternative economies and
creative industries in the surroundings outside of legal regulations of
intellectual property.
Among other topics, we want to present the case of Techno Brega music
scene of northern
Brazil, Croatian EgoBooBits music label, and to talk about
exitfest.org/CC <http://exitfest.org/CC> stage at
EXIT festival.
We will also present CCBit, our first Creative Commons licensed
electronic music CD compilation.
<language of the presentations: local, english>
20:00
Rex, Jevrejska 16
http://www.rex.b92.net
CCBit
http://creativecommons.org.yu/lounge/CCBithttp://indietronic.org
Promotion of the first CC licensed CD music compilation. Artists:
Mistakemistake, Wolfgang S, Zvukbroda, Mkdsl, Flip, The Good Guys, Tron,
Evidence,
Shazalakazoo, Shazz, Luka Toyboy, Atomska sarma, Boom Tschak, Margita Je
Mrtva,
Casper, Diagramm, Proggy & Bass.
live: Zvuk broda, Tron, Luka Toyboy
Feedback Loop
Overview of the recent production published under CC and other open &
free licenses.
Feedback Loop presents different local production published under
Creative Commons and
other open content licenses, in the new and electronic media as well as
in traditional formats
such are printed publications or documentary and feature movies. Works
presented either
deal with the notion of intellectual property and multiple potentials of
sharing of artistic and
critical content today, or trough the system of the distribution of
their choice are establishing
a different-then-traditional positions on the issue.
Feedback Loop consists of two segments.
In the framework of a display we present the artworks, printed
publications and multimedia
content produced by following artists, creative collectives and
institutions of culture:
Ana Hus(man, Biro Beograd, Dubravka Sekulic', galerija KONTEKST, Ivan
Bon, Ivan
Kucina, kuda.org <http://kuda.org>, Mis(ko S(uvakovic' - MSLU Novi Sad,
MSU Beograd, slobodnakultura.org <http://slobodnakultura.org>,
TKH, Queer Beograd, Vladan Jeremic'.
exhibition setup: Ana Knez(evic' i Milica Gudovic'.
Most of the content and material presented at Feedback Loop visitors can
take away -
Freedom Toaster is the device-interface project to serve for individual
and independent
file exchange in public spaces.
Freedom Toaster mashed up by homoludens at slobodnakultura dot org.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SATURDAY 8th of March, Gallery of MOCAB, Pariska 14a
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
17:00
in collaboration with the Institute for flexible technologies -- NAPON
http://napon.org
presenting the project
Playground @Play Cultures
http://napon.org/content/view/17/9
The exhibition Play Cultures is an international exhibition that
presents contemporary
artistic production that uses the language of digital games and shows
one possible view of
how the genre of digital games can be used in a creative and engaging
way. The exhibition
consists of standalone games, mods, video works, multiplayer games and
interactive
storytelling.
The curator and the editor of the Play Cultures conference Kristian
Lukic' wili talk about the
exhibition and accompanying events and discussions related to the
positions and questions
problematized by this project, with a special focus on the issues of
licensing, participation in
contemporary gaming and virtual platforms.
What is the position of the class of "gamers" in today's culture and
society? Could game
culture be used for emancipatory purposes and education? Is the
militarization of game
culture something that can be deconstructed or does it represent a
highly customizable
recruitment and ideological tool of the war culture?
18:00
discussion:
After copyright
Sooner or later, the changes within traditional models of economy and
ownership are inevitable.
What will happen with billions of texts, images, music and video on
offer? How all this material
will be organized, and how we are going to navigate trough it? Who is
curating the archives,
who uses the archives, and in how? Do we enter the times in which the
politics will be conducted
trough the culture of interface and control of meta-data?
participants:
Rasmus Fleischer, Magnus Eriksson (piratbyran.org
<http://piratbyran.org>), Tom Medak, Marcell Mars (mi2.hr <http://mi2.hr>),
Ronaldo Lemos (icommons.org <http://icommons.org>).
intro: Vlidi (slobodnakultura.org <http://slobodnakultura.org>)
<language of the discussion: english>
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SUNDAY 9th of March, Panel room of Dom omladine Beograd
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18:00
in collaboration with Wikimedia Serbia
panel
Creative Commons licenses and Wikipedia in Serbian
speakers: Nevenka Antic' (Legal Lead, Creative Commons Serbia),
Dragan Sataric', Nikola Smolenski (Wikimedia Serbia)
Which licenses are being used for Wikimedia projects, and why? The
transition of the
Wikipedia project to Creative Commons licenses on the global and local
level. Presentations of
the less known Wikimedia projects: Wikisource - what it is the purpose
of Wikisource, how it works,
the history of Wikisource ... And, ofcourse, the issues of licensing on
Wikisource.
<language of the panel: serbian>
21:00
Star Wreck, screening
http://www.starwreck.com
directed and produced by: Timo Vuorensola, Samuli Torssonen
and 300 of volunteers and collaborators
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a science-fiction parody, a result of
collaborative work of the
small Finnish team and more of 300 of fans, assistants, volunteers and
collaborators worldwide.
The driving force behind this demanding production was the enthusiasm of
this group of SF
fans, especially their love and respect towards the Star Treck series.
The work on this
full-featured movie full of stunning special effects lasted for almost 7
years. This is the first
projection of Star Wreck in Serbia.
<film is in english and klingon. no subtitles :-) >
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MONDAY 10th of March, CK13, Vojvode Bojovic'a 13, Novi Sad
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19:00
in the collaboration with cultural center CK13
http://ck13.org
presentation and discussion
Piratbyran and Pirate Bay - activsm and service economy
Is realaktivism the realpolitik of the present? Is theory today
irrelevant if not offering it's own
models of the ideas it contemplates, applied in material practice? But
does activism turns to
real-activism, and is there an ideology blurred by particular and
fragmented short-term goals
of myriad of activistic initiatives?
On the history of the organization Piratbyran and the project of
PirateBay.org.
Is hyper-production of activistic initiatives presents a step further
towards the economy of
content and services? Self-organization as the model of organizing
collectives and societies...
participants: Rasmus Fleischer, Magnus Eriksson (piratbyran.org
<http://piratbyran.org>), Milica Gudovic',
Vladan Jeremic', Vlidi (slobodnakultura.org <http://slobodnakultura.org>)
<language of the discussion: english>
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this is a joint project by:
Creative Commons Serbia, slobodnakultura.org
<http://slobodnakultura.org>, Bureau for culture and communication, Dom
omladine Belgrade, Cultural center Rex, NAPON.org, Wikimedia Serbia,
CK13.org, indietronic.org <http://indietronic.org>
support: Fund for an Open Society
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*Play Cultures:
Artist:
AES + F (RU), Afkar Media (SY), Alon Tzarafi (IL), Fiambrera (ES),
Gonzalo Frasca (UY),
Jodi (BE, NL), Molleindustria (IT), Personal Cinema (GR), Persuasive
Games (US),
Robert Praxmarer (AT), Serious Games Interactive (DK), Tale of Tales
(BE), Vladan Joler (RS),
Vladimir Todorovic' (RS, SG), Urtica (RS)
Production
Institute for Flexible Cultures and Technologies - NAPON
www.napon.org <http://www.napon.org>
Coproduction
Musem of Contemporary Art Vojvodina
www.msuv.org <http://www.msuv.org>
New Media Center_kuda.orgwww.kuda.org <http://www.kuda.org>
Patron:
Executive Council of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina
Sponsors:
Ministry of Culture of Republic of Serbia
Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade,
BS Procesor, Neobee.net <http://Neobee.net>, Fund for an Open Society
Belgrade,
MagicBoxMultimedia, Student Cultural Center
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