As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update.
Thanks to the developer meetup in Germany and mid-term exams for Aaron,
there has been no significant change since last week. However, the lack
of new requests suggests we're pretty close to something releasable.
If you'd like to verify that for yourself, start here:
http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
To see the upcoming work, it's listed in our tracker, under Current and
Backlog:
http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/46157
We expect to release to labs again next week, and each week thereafter
until this goes live on the English Wikipedia
William
My name is David Castor and I am known on Swedish Wikipedia (and less known
but somewhat active on Commons and a few foreign language Wikipedias) by the
user name dcastor. I am one of the users who have been pushing for a change
in the way we handle the copyrighted WMF logos. I would like to clarify and
announce a few things on the way the dilemma is presently being handled.
First off, we have not yet made any final decisions; the topic is still open
for discussion at the Swedish village pump. No changes have yet been widely
implemented.
As a background it is important to know that there is an almost unchallenged
consensus on Swedish Wikipedia not to allow fair use imagery, in part
because the "fair use" concept is not applicable in Swedish law, Sweden
being of course home soil for a majority of the users. It's been years since
we blocked local media upload, now depending solely on Commons. This means,
as far as I am aware, that the WMF logos are the only pictures used on
Swedish Wikipedia that are not being spread under a "free" license, free in
this case concerning copyright of course, and not trademark or personality
rights (making comparisons to proper names irrelevant to the discussion).
The use of these logos are thus the only thing standing in the way of
stating that all material from Swedish Wikipedia can be freely reused,
without any further permission. (The license template on the WMF logos
reserve all rights and call for specific permission for use.)
The argument is not, and has never been, whether or not we are allowed to
use the logos. Some users on Swedish Wikipedia as well as in this thread
have given replies suggesting that they think that is what the issue is
about. It is not. The issue is whether it is compliable with the principles
of Wikipedia to include copyrighted material, which may not be re-used by
others. I suppose that this dilemma is less problematic in jurisdictions
that implement a "fair use" system, but where such are not present a
copyrighted picture may not be freely redistributed.
The current discussion on Swedish Wikipedia is divided into three main
branches:
1. Should we keep even the Wikipedia logo in the top left corner?
2. Should we keep the WMF logos of navigation templates placed in
articles?
3. Should we illustrate articles on the Wikimedia projects with the
logos?
The discussions have, as far as I can tell, led to a near consensus "yes"
for question 1, with the rationale that the picture is part of the GUI
rather than of the article, and a near consensus "no" for number "3". Most
of a lengthy debate has been over discussion number 2.
The opinions on how to relate to number two diverge greatly. Some of us,
including myself, would prefer to have all WMF logos removed from article
space, including template use, making it free to redistribute printouts and
PDF:s from Wikipedia articles. Some argue that since WMF will not pursuit
any copyright breaches, we don't need to bother. This viewpoint is supported
by those who think that the usability of the logos is too important to let
the copyright issues take effect. A few have, in support of status quo,
stated that there may be more to it, legally, than we know, but such claims
have yet to be supported.
For some users a main perspective is that of NPOV. They argue that since no
other external links are supported by pictures, neither should the links to
sister projects be. Also, since no other copyrighted logo are allowed,
neither should WMF:s logos be. To some of these users, the use of the logos
in well framed templates is agreeable, since this implies that the links are
part of the GUI rather than of the article itself.
Right now it seems like one of two suggestions will be the result of the
discussions. Either (1.) to allow the WMF logos in a few specific navigation
templates. These may be javascript-controlled to exclude the logos from
printouts and PDF:s. This has been tested and seems to work. The second (2.)
solution discussed is to implement a separate section for sister project
links, including logos, in the GUI menu section on the left.
I hope that I, despite having made rather clear stands on the issue, have
managed to convey a fair description of the discussion.
/David Castor
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
> Aradhana Ravindra will support the Bookshelf project as a contractor
Glad to see that the bookshelf project is getting additional staffing -
however didn't some staff leave the project as well?
- -Mike
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAkvFScoACgkQst0AR/DaKHt8awCgp8YRJr81v6mTkngE+wEOLyH3
KnwAn2u7PvU2UOR4FTyxUyqOJT0Z29aA
=HK1x
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Creating Financial Freedom Using Honor, Integrity, And $6.00 "seen on Opera Winfrey and 20\20"
I am typically not a person that pays a lot of attention to,so called, "Money Making Schemes."
Especially Pyramid, Birthday, and Chain Letter type scams. Which I thought this was until I
read a letter that came to me in the mail. It said how you could invest $6.00 and make thousands
in 30 days! I first continued to read it because I wanted to see what was the new
"Get Rich Quick Scheme" that was on the horizon getting ready to scam thousands of people
out of $6.00 dollars to make a small group of people overnight millinoaires. I WAS WRONG!
Being a business man myself, I saw the wonderful simplicity in the idea of generating a
Legal mailing list and circulating it through the world to generate cash flow for all its
participants. WOW! What a concept, using a system of -honor and integrity- to generate
money for everyone who will take part. I know how expensive it is to acquire a mailing list to
generate leads for your business, but how about generating a mailing list being your business,
and it only costing you an investment of $6.00, and starting out with 5 partners that the only thing
between you is honesty and integrity, and to put the cherry on top, having Paypal ( the internets
most safe and easy way of conducting financial transactions) as a virtual accounting source.
I Was Sold! I also searched the net to see if there were any other success stories about this
venture and there were literally thousands. Enough said, HERE'S HOW IT WORKS ! ! !
$ $ REQUIREMENTS: You Must have a verified PayPal account. If you do not have an
account you can go to www.paypal.com and follow the instructions to set up a free account
( it only takes a few minutes). In order to place the initial $6.00 into your account, you will
have to verify your bank account with PayPal (wich may take a few days). PayPal is 100%
secure and is used by millions of people world wide.
STEP 1: Here is where the action occurs. The first thing to do is to send a $1.00 payment
to each of the 6 email addresses on the current lists from your PayPal account.
To do this quickly and successfully, follow these simple steps:
1. Login to PayPal and click on the "send money" tab near the top of the screen.
2. In the "Recipient's Email" field enter the email address
3. In the "Amount" field enter "1" ( This is your $1.00 payment)
4. In the "Category" field select "Personal" (Keeping it legal)
5. In the "Subject" field type "EMAIL LIST". By doing this, you are creating
a service and maintaining the legality of the system by "paying" for the service.
6. Finally, click on the "Continue" button to complete the payment.
Repeat these steps for each of the 6 email addresses. That's it! By sending
the $1.00 payment to each address, you are implementing the copmounding POWER
of the system.
Here is the current e-mail list:
1. tdno(a)netzero.net
2. servants4christ2004(a)yahoo.com
3. dwalton721(a)hotmail.com
4. rae_nos2(a)yahoo.com
5. servants4god4ever(a)yahoo.com
6. pastort16(a)yahoo.com
Copy and paste the above addresses, one per payment, into PayPal for easier and faster results.
STEP 2: After sending the money to the first 6 people on the list, you copy this entire posting
into Microsoft Word or Notepad Document and save it.
Then on the saved document remove the email address of the #1 person on the list and move
the rest of the names up one position ( #2 becomes #1, #3 becomes #2, ect..) Then place
your name in the #6 position. Then save it again.
�@
�@
STEP 3: When you have completed the instructions, copy your amended letter with your
email address on it and take this letter and go to (Google, Yahoo, and other search engines)
and type in (Making Money Message board, Money Message Board, Money forum, Free
Money Forum, or anything along those lines that are fourms) and start posting your copy
of this message at least 200 times, to as many unique message boards as you can.
(There are literally thousands of them). The more times you post this at a unique board, the more
money you will make. You can email your message to as many people as you can but
remember, the more you post and email the more money you can make! Keep a copy of this
letter so you can use it as many times as you want. Post it again in six months; just repeat
the system with an updated set of email addresses you find in another fourm. It will work as
often as you work it. Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000 new users everyday, with thousands
of those getting their own internet service. Rember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will
work for everyone. Again, if you don't have a PayPal account you can copy the link below and
follow the instructions. It's totally secure, cost you nothing to set-up and is a very useful way
of transfering and more importantly receiving money. You will be amazed every time you check
your account to see how much money has been paid in to it, and this money goes right into
your PayPal account...even while you sleep,work,go to Church,play, ect. To sign up for PayPal
go to www.paypal.com Just make sure that you use the same email address for your PayPal
account that you put on this list, thats how your payments are made and received.If you already
have a personal paypal account, you will need to upgrade to a premier, or Business account,
(This is very important, I can't stress enough how important this is for you to do, for you, and
the rest of the people on your list to continue the prosperity of this venture increasing and not
stalling out).If you don't upgrade to a premier or buiness account,you are limited to how much
money you can receive per month. This will result in you being unable to receive new payments
and stopping the flow of currency that will come to you and your partners on your list. New
people trying to send you money will not be able to do so, and that will cut into your profits,
and possibly keep you from making money. You don't Want That!
STEP 4: This program remains successful because of the honesty, integrity, discipline, and
diligence of the participants that follow the system.Please continue its success by carefully
adhering to the instructions. In this business, your product is not solid and tangible; it's a
service you are providing. You are in the business of developing Mailing list. Many
coroprations are happy to pay big bucks for quality list. However, the money made from
the mailing list is secondary to the income which is made from people like you and me asking
to be included in and generating that list.
HOW THE MONEY WORKS
When you post 200 messages in various fourms, it is estimated that as LEAST 15 people
will respond and send you a $1.00 ($15.00). those 15 will post 200 post each, and 225
people send you $1.00 ($225.00), ect. through 6 levels of email addresses. For comprehension
purposes, here is an easy viewing chart:
1) 15(1)= 15 people ($1) = $15
2) 15(15)= 225 people ($1) = $225
3) 15 (225)= 3375 people ($1)= $3375
4) 15 (3375)= 50625 people ($1)= $50625
5) 15 (50625)= 759375 people ($1)= $759375
IT'S THE LAW OF COMPOUNDING!
STEP 5: This is perfectly legal! If you have any doubts, refer to 18 Sec. 1302 & 1241 of the
postal laws. Keep a copy of these steps for yourself and you can use it again and agian.
This is the biggest growing internet money making endeavor on the net, you will see that for
yourself as you post your letter to the message boards. This is an excellent way of generating
capitol to start a business, publish a book, or anything that you have been desiring to do.
but just didn't have the resources to do it. Don't put it off another second, minute, hour, of day.
DO IT NOW!! and please remember to PAY YOUR TITHES!!!!!!!!!!
�@
STRESSING THE POINT: IT IS EASY, BUT IT DOES MATTER WHAT EMAIL LIST YOU
CONNECT WITH! IF THE PEOPLE YOU CONNECT WITH DO NOT FOLLOW THROUGH
WITH EITHER UPGRADING TO, OR STARTING A PAYPAL PREMIER OR BUSINESS
ACCOUNT, IT WILL NOT BE VERY EFFECTIVE AT ALL! THIS IS A GOOD LIST THAT I
HAVE JOINED. I DID MY DUE DILIGENCE AND CHECKED IT OUT. AND IT'S ALL GOOD.
JUST SIMPLY TELLING YOU TO CHECK OUT THE LIST YOU CONNECT WITH TO
MAXIMIZE YOUR INVESTMENT TO THE FULLEST!! GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND REMEMBER
*******TO PAY YOUR TITHES OR GIVE 10% TO CHARITY AND YOU WILL PROSPER********
____________________________________________________________
Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat!
http://www.netzero.net/freeemail?refcd=NZTAGOUT1FREM0210
Hi all,
Here is a short update about some ongoing and new projects of the
Wikimedia Foundation's outreach department:
(1) Aradhana Ravindra will support the Bookshelf project as a contractor
It is my pleasure to announce that Aradhana Datta Ravindra started in
April to help us as a contractor. She will assist with structuring and
managíng the work for the Bookshelf Project.
Aradhana has over ten years experience as a Learning Strategist and is
also a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Recently, she
drove Palm's mobile learning initiative from functional and project
management perspectives. Prior to that, she worked for Nokia where she
designed, implemented and managed a mobile learning inititiative for
the organization.
(2) Instructional video released
Last week, we released our first educational video, covering the
concepts of "Verifiability" and "Neutral point of view". It is a
2-minute video, produced by Common Craft and released under an
CC-by-SA 3.0 license:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verifiability_and_Neutral_point_of_…
Many of you will know Common Craft as producers of witty videos which
are understandable to users with any level of computer proficiency.
Common Crafts strength is to introduce complex subjects with paper
cut-outs in a fun and accessible way.
If you are curious about how Common Craft produces these videos,
please have a look at the following story on their blog:
http://www.commoncraft.com/scenes-common-craft-video-shoot
(3) Upcoming new outreach initiative
Rod Dunican, who joined us as an Education Program Manager, will lead
a new outreach initiative which we are about to launch.
The goal of this initiative will be to significantly increase the
quality of Wikipedia's articles in a particular subject area.
Additionally, we are planning to create structures that will support
continued improvement after the Initiative's conclusion.
Right now, we are working on a FAQ that will be published later this
week. I will let you know once it is online.
Thanks,
Frank
-----
NB. This mail address is used for public mailing lists. Personal
emails sent to this address will get lost.
Hello, Wikimedians.
This weekend I plan on finalizing the timeline for phase two of the Living
Person Task Force: a community findings recommendation.
What we are interested in is people from all size wikis participating in
discussing common interests and problems on interpersonal and intrapersonal
interaction relating to Wikimedia projects. This includes statistics
gathering, examination of how projects handle OTRS complaints/issues, image
use, quotation use, and sourcing. It is very important that we get
participation in these areas, if anything just to received feedback on the
wiki. I have subpages set up for these discussion on the Strategy site, <
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People>.
In six to eight weeks we'd like to develop recommendations from the Task
Force that are more in-depth than the proposed recommendations to be passed
by the Board this month, to assist in developing projects identify and set
up structures for the issues that come with societies.
If you have experience dealing with living people on any of our wikis, or if
you have ideas on how policies can be established/improved, please
participate in the discussions so that we can adequately asses the projects
as a whole.
Thanks for your time, see you on the wiki!
--
~Keegan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan
In addition to the committee reorganizations I mentioned, which are sort
of "internal" to the board (that is, the purpose is to improve the
board's own functioning), something we are starting to work on is to
think systematically about different roles within Wikimedia as a
movement. These roles may be those of individuals as volunteers, or in
groups such as chapters; it may include roles that exist, or those we
determine are needed. Defining these better, so that they can be filled
more effectively, and so that people can be more effective in their
work, could help us build a stronger working community.
Part of this is an outgrowth of the strategic planning project, where we
have a task force on movement roles, and I encourage people to do
further work on the strategy wiki in this area. I would suggest the
board believes this is also a larger ongoing question, one we will be
wrestling with even after the strategy plan is in some sense completed
later this year. We intend to keep this moving beyond that. Arne in
particular has taken a strong interest in this issue, and he and
Jan-Bart have been preparing some thoughts to share with the chapters
leading up to next week's chapters and board meeting. Coming out of
that, I hope we will start to develop a better sense of fundamentally
who we are and what kinds of relationships we should create to better
develop the Wikimedia projects.
--Michael Snow
The Content scope Task Force at strategy.wikimedia.org is at the
moment compiling a "List of things that need to be free". The purpose of
this list is to list all kinds of content that ought to be available
for free, to see what other organizations provide such content, and to
judge in which areas WMF can help providing such content. Any help in
filling this list in would be very much appreciated.
You will find it at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_that_need_to_be_free
/Dafer45
_________________________________________________________________
Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft.
https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
On 6 April 2010 22:16, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod(a)mccme.ru> wrote:
> And actually his contribution to English Wikiversity is impressive: More
> than a half of his edits over there are related to this open letter, and
> only one edit (typo corrected) is a contribution to the Wikiversity core
> activities.
Perhaps for a more positive outlook:
What useful projects have been produced by en.wv or are in an advanced
state of production?
That is, what has it to show for itself?
- d.