Wikimedia-l April 2010

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[Foundation-l] Flagged Protection update for April 8
by William Pietri 09 Apr '10

09 Apr '10

As requested, here's the weekly Flagged Protection update. More progress has been made, and new requests have tapered off substantially, which suggests that a release is within reach. If you'd like to verify that for yourself, start here: http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page To see what we've changed this week, there's a list here: http://flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Flagged_Protection_upd… To see the upcoming work, it's listed in our tracker, under Current and Backlog: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/46157 The backlog was relatively stable again this week, so we are definitely moving closer to launch. We expect to release to labs again next week, and each week thereafter until this goes live on the English Wikipedia. William

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[Foundation-l] Flagged Protection API
by Voice of All 08 Apr '10

08 Apr '10

As you may know, there is a planned trial of FlaggedRevs on English Wikipedia. The proposal page can be found at WP:FPPR. People interested in writing user tools that interact with FlaggedRevs components will of course want to use the API. A reasonable documentation of the existing pages is provided at www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs#API. Anyone interested in testing of these pages should visit flaggedrevs.labs.wikimedia.org to try out these components. It may help to first browse the regular GUI to get a feel for what is going on. Problem reports and feature request should go on Wikimedia:FlaggedRevs_issues/API (on that wiki). A few quick notes specific to the flaggedrevs.labs site: * API page "action = review" * Use flag_status (1 or 0) not flag_accuracy (each wiki can have it's own tag names) * API page "action = stabilize" * Use protectlevel (none, autoconfirmed, or review) * Analogous to "publish" restriction GUI at action=protect -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Flagged-Protection-API-tp28174134p28174134.html Sent from the WikiMedia Foundation mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2010 Scholarship sign-up ending April 11
by Cary Bass 07 Apr '10

07 Apr '10

Hi everyone! This is a friendly reminder that the period for acceptance of Wikimania 2010 Scholarship Applications is ending on *April 11, 2010* at 23:59:59 UTC. After that time, applications will not be accepted. You can read all about scholarships here at <http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships>, as well as find a link to the application page. Thanks! Cary Bass

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[Foundation-l] open letter by Wikiversity users to the WMF Board of Trustees
by Erkan Yilmaz 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

please see at: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity_open_letter_project/WMF_Board_Ma… ********************************************************************************************** This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient (or have received this e-mail in error) please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. Diese eMail enthaelt vertrauliche und/oder rechtlich geschuetzte Informationen. Wenn Sie nicht der richtige Adressat sind oder diese eMail irrtuemlich erhalten haben, informieren Sie bitte sofort den Absender und vernichten Sie diese Mail. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die unbefugte Weitergabe dieser Mail ist nicht gestattet. **********************************************************************************************

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[Foundation-l] Wikiversity: Proposals for Improvement in 2010
by Chris Lee 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

In response to the Petition to Shut Down Wikiversity, I want everyone who believes that it only needs retooling and some more contributions, not removal, to speak up with any ideas they have. I created a page on Meta for this discussion: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity_Proposals_for_Improvement_2010

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[Foundation-l] Invitation: RecentChangesCamp (RoCoCo) 2010
by Laura Hale 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

Recent Changes Camp 2010: Montréal will be held June 25-26-27, 2010 at the Comité Social Centre Sud (CSCS), located at 1710 Beaudry, in Montréal. What is Recent Changes Camp, anyway? Recent Changes Camp was born from the intersection of wiki and Open Space. Since 2006, participants from all over North America and the globe have gathered together for a common purpose: discussing the past, present, and future of the technology and collaborative method that is wiki. RCC is a chance for everyone in the wiki community, something we like to call Wiki Ohana, to meet and have a fun, productive conversation about our passion for wikis of all stripes. Going far beyond technology, we're interested in wiki culture and other networks/groups/etc. that share many of the values implicit in it — from cultural creatives, to public participation and free culture advocates. If you use a wiki or you value open collaboration, Recent Changes Camp is created for you. RCC is about openness and inclusion, collaboration and community, creativity and flow. Further down this page you can check out a sampling of sessions we've enjoyed in the past, along with pictures and videos from previous events. This unconference/BarCamp has been held at least once every year since 2006 (and twice in 2007). Unlike a conventional conference, where everything's pre-planned and structured, RecentChangesCamp is a gathering where we decide for ourselves what we're going to get out of it by offering sessions each morning on whatever we want (and of course ad hoc sessions can form at any time). There's no agenda until we make it up! Now, that might sound a bit chaotic if you're never been to this type of gathering, but be prepared to be surprised at how much people can learn and create when they collaborate spontaneously. With an emergent agenda, it can be hard to describe specifically what you will get from participating in Recent Changes Camp. In large part, that is up to you to be responsible for. Participants often say greater sense of wiki community, broader sense of wiki way and wiki tools, or more excitement about our future together as well as inspiration and discovery. At Recent Changes Camp, everybody is welcomed. You don't need to be an expert on anything, and you certainly don't need to consider yourself a geek. Collaboration thrives on diversity! All you need to bring is an open mind, and a willingness to participate, whether by teaching or by taking an active role in discussions. And, don't forget, an unconference is what we make it, so let's make it enlightening and fun. http://rococo2010.org/ <http://rococo2010.org/i> http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114318455249901 http://twitter.com/rccamp http://identi.ca/rccamp Sincerely, Laura Hale

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[Foundation-l] Petition to shut down Wikiversity
by David Gerard 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

FYI: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Petition_to_Shut_Down_Wikiversity - d.

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[Foundation-l] LPTF update: Recommendations
by Keegan Peterzell 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

With the upcoming Board meeting, we will be present recommendations for adoption: The Wikimedia Foundation and the Board always have maintained a hands off policy on editorial practice and policy as long as local projects fall within the mission statement of the Foundation and laws. However, the Board and the staff also realize that while not responsible for the content directly, they should have processes and policies by which projects should operate when relating to living people. Hence the task force (applications went out last June, started in September), and I'll forgo the history of all that for another time. What we're doing is creating a guideline and policy for global application- this is not aimed at en.wp in a way that a magic bullet will change it. Instead it is supposed to create a framework for smaller projects that have no process in place, as well as influence the larger projects that we have learned from. The issues relating to living people range from foo.wp to quote to commons to wikt, even. The purpose is to provide a long term viability guide that will help both the readers, the subjects, and the users to work together in creating quality treatment of living people. This also includes community interaction in a tangential way, but that's for another project. The recommendations that we have written up are a culmination of examination off the problems that face all wikis, and are simply defined with the goal of establishing a mindset in projects that are developing a proper method of dealing with living people. The Recommendations can be found here: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People/Drafting_pages/… I would like to emphasize that while I am the primary author of this page, I cannot link to the three legal pads full of notes from hundreds of Wikimedians over the past nine months. Please discuss these issues if you see something in particular, and email me if you have a particular concern you'd like to discuss in private. I can also be found on freenode IRC as Keegan. Thanks! -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan

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[Foundation-l] Resolving conflicts and reaching consensus
by Peter Tesler 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Hi everyone - This is a project presented at Wikipedia Day 2010 at NYU in New York last January..http://ideagra.ph We presented this as a way to discuss a few of the most complicated/controversial Wikimedia-related issues that haven't yet garnered a consensus. It was specifically designed to fix the current problems with Wikipedia's discuss pages (arguments get very long, complex, and messy). What makes a debate here different from one on a standard discuss page? Statements have a color (green/red) which represents their current state of consensus (something that's been refuted, for instance, is red). You can also re-use facts concluded in other debates by other people - thus allowing the work of debating/reasoning to be distributed among (potentially) billions of people. We've created a Wikipedia category for issues surrounding Wikipedia: http://ideagra.ph/1870 We need your feedback... -Peter Twitter: http://twitter.com/ideagraph Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ideagraph/319390481771

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Re: [Foundation-l] Copyrighted maps and Derived works from copyrighted sources.
by WJhonson＠aol.com 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

In a message dated 3/31/2010 12:21:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com writes: > In openstreetmap we are not allowed to import the positions of items > based on the locations in wikipedia because they are derived from > geoeye/googlemaps for the most part. So there is a rift between what > is supposedly creative commons and what is really creative commons. > Basically wikipedia is turning into a minefield of copyrighted material.>> Are you suggesting that the mechanical determination of a longitute and latitude of some object is copyrightable material? I.E. it's "position" is copyrightable? Or am I reading this wrong? Perhaps you're suggesting merely that the map, as an entirety is copyrightable. W.J.

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