Wikimedia-l October 2011

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: board meeting agenda
by Samuel Klein 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Forwarding to foundation-l. Comments are welcome on the agenda talk page; suggestions for future meetings welcome here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Board_meetings ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:15 AM Subject: [Internal-l] board meeting agenda To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> The agenda for the upcoming WMF Board meeting is now published here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_meetings/October_7-8,_2011 -- phoebe -- Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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[Foundation-l] Italian Wikipedia protest - retrospective legislation?
by WereSpielChequers 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

> > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:14:51 +0200 > From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <4E8B855B.5010804(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > WereSpielChequers, 04/10/2011 23:46: > > If someone tried to use this law > > to > > force an editor to publish a rebuttal of something posted before the > > freeze, then surely that would be retrospective legislation? > > I don't see why. Web pages are permanent, they ask the > correction/declaration to be published after the new law (there's no > time limit for it) and you have to publish it. You're not punished for > having published the original text. > > Nemo > > > Webpages are only permanent if someone keeps hosting them. I can see that if the Italian Wikipedia was back up someone in Italy might send a note to the WMF asking them to comply with this Italian law. But if an editor is no longer active on the site it would be retrospective legislation to oblige them to return to a site in 2012 and publish a rebuttal note to something they wrote in 2006. If it is retrospective legislation then there may an opportunity for the opposition to appeal to the European Court. If this legislation is passed then one option would be for the Italian Wikipedia to be restored, but with a site notice explaining that "This site is hosted n the USA and operates under US law rather than Italian law, click here if you are in Italy and need to see rebuttals posted under Italian law" . Then you could have a rebuttal namespace transcluded onto the article for those who have said they are in Italy and therefore need to see the rebuttals. This blackout is bound to lead to more Italians reading and perhaps editing other language versions of Wikipedia instead. It would be interesting to hear from the WMF what their policy would be on IP requests from the Italian Police, particularly if any were made re Italian editors editing other language versions of Wikipedia. In the meantime there may be an unusual number of Italian editors seeking renames from named accounts to pseudonymous ones. Would it be possible to upgrade that process so that mailing list archives, former signatures on talkpages and other uses of an editor's name were also amended? WereSpielChequers

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[Foundation-l] The Wikimedia Foundation seems to want to repudiate Creative Commons 3.0 article 5, and make text contributors liable for every kind of complaint
by Teofilo 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

I want to say very clearly that without the provisions included under Creative Commons 3.0 article 5, it will be very difficult for volunteer contributors to consider working for a project that makes them liable to all kinds of complaints. For that reason, the proposed "Indemnity" clause of the proposed new terms of use is a tremendous change. This sort of major change should be discussed in a very wide consultation with the community, with a "sitenotice" announcement on all projects, rather than making a surreptitious change as is being proposed on Meta. See also http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Terms_of_use#Terms_of_use.2316._Indemni…

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[Foundation-l] Im*ge f*lt*r poll on fr:wp
by David Gerard 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Sondage/Installation_d%27un_Fil… - d.

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[Foundation-l] WMF blog post on Italian Wikipedia
by Jay Walsh 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hi folks - apologies for starting a new thread on this topic... We've just posted a short blog post on the topic of the unfolding issues around Italian Wikipedia http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/04/regarding-recent-events-on-italian-wik… We've had a few calls to WMF - not many, and we've responded with the basic messages in this post. Thanks, jay -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 6609, @jansonw

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[Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia
by Theo10011 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hi There seems to be a situation developing at Italian Wikipedia related to a local law that would infringe neutrality on Wikipedia. The discussions even mention a possible blackout/lockdown in reaction. Is anyone aware of this situation? Is it likely to have any effect on other projects and outside communities? Is WMF aware since it is mentioned in the discussion as well. The announcement that was linked to on IRC: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Vituzzu/comunicato/en A discussion which might be relevant: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Comma_29_e_Wikipedia Theo

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Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia
by Aaron Adrignola 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Whoever has locked out access to it.wikipedia.org should be immediately desysopped under emergency procedures. This site is run by the Wikimedia Foundation and I've seen no authorization by the WMF for the vandalism of one of its websites.

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: It.wikipedia will be turned on
by Ilario Valdelli 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Sorry for the cross-posting, but I write here what I have already submitted to internal. It seems that there is the majority to put it.wikipedia.org alive again in the following hours. The law has not been approved yet but the committee, who has in charge the proposal, has accepted some amendments like that of the paragraph 29 (which is the point in discussion in it.wikipedia.org). It means that a proposal will be submitted to the approval of the Parliament but it's not sure that it will be approved or not. The Parliament can: A) reject the whole law B) approve the law but reject the amendments C) approve the law and the amendments At the moment there is still a big conflict in the Parliament to proceed with the point A but if the point A will be approved, the feeling is they will proceed with the scenario C. Anyway what is very important is the impact of the action of it.wikipedia.org in Italy and how it has been perceived, and I think that this is an interesting point like "post-mortem" phase to analyze some results: A) Wikipedia is considered in Italy like a "vital"service, important like the power supplier or the transportation and the strike in Wikipedia has been considered like a strike of the railroads B) The impact in all persons have been strong and all of them have understood what is in discussion and the consequences of paragraph 29. In my opinion Wikipedia has supplied to a missed information in the media C) No one understand that the editors in Wikipedia are volunteers and this is not a real strike or a "public" service (this is really a strange feedback) These are three important points, in my opinion, that can help to understand what Wikipedia is for any normal people in Italy. Ilario

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[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Stanton Foundation Awards Wikimedia $3.6 Million for Technology Improvements
by Jay Walsh 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

*Stanton Foundation Awards Wikimedia $3.6 Million for Technology Improvements* SAN FRANCISCO, CA – October 5, 2011 – The Wikimedia Foundation announced today it has been awarded the largest-ever grant in its history: $3.6 million from the Stanton Foundation. The purpose of the grant is to fund major investments in the technology infrastructure that supports Wikipedia and its sister projects, in order to successfully serve their growing readership. The Wikimedia projects currently reach more than 422 million unique visitors around the world every month (comScore, August 2011), making Wikipedia the fifth most-popular website in the world. The grant will fund development of a new editing interface that will make it possible for people to easily edit Wikipedia without needing to learn special wiki syntax. It will also support development of new technical features to make Wikimedia a friendlier and more understandable environment for new editors, and an improved mobile experience for readers and editors. "The Stanton Foundation is a long-time funder of the Wikimedia Foundation, and I am thrilled they're increasing their investment in us," said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. "The Stanton Foundation was one of the first institutions to recognize that Wikipedia is a serious educational endeavor that's having a significant impact on people around the world. I will always be grateful to them for taking a risk in first funding us, many years ago." The Stanton Foundation is the foundation created by the American broadcasting executive and media pioneer Frank Stanton, who, in 1960, organized the first-ever televised presidential debate. Among its previous grants to the Wikimedia Foundation, the Stanton Foundation provided $1.2 million in 2010 for the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, a program designed to improve the quality and quantity of information related to public policy topics in Wikipedia. The project resulted in 800 American students at universities such as Harvard and University of California Berkeley adding the equivalent of 5,800 printed pages of material to Wikipedia, and has now been expanded to include universities in Canada and India. *About the Wikimedia Foundation* http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization which operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 422 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, September 2011). Available in more than 280 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 18 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. Media Contact: Jay Walsh Head of Communications Wikimedia Foundation Tel. +1 415 839 6885 x 6609 jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org *(to be removed from future mailings, please reply to this email with 'UNSUBSCRIBE' in the subject line)* _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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[Foundation-l] Social support for It.Wiki: half a million people expressing support in less than 24 hours
by Veneziano Wikipedia 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

FYI, meanwhile more than *HALF A MILLION* Italian citizens, in less than *24 hours*, expressed strong support for it.wiki in the social network/blogsphere: I think this is an incredible result for the Wiki movement and philosophy (for Italy, but also at the international level). It is the most massive, coherent and rapid social mobilization ever happened in Italy, to my knowledge. For anything. Some data: more than Half a million people in 24 hours, growing at the impressive rate of *one thousand people/minute*, expressed support on FB and liking the Wikistrike; tens of thousands of comments and posts in FB, Google+ and the whole italian blogsphere to support Wiki, and openly expressing how Wikipedia is now essential for the everyday life of so much people; every main Italian media dedicating articles at the Wikistrike; tens (hundreds ?) of relevant international media reporting on it. Everything happened in less than 24 hours. It is a huge international PR- and mass-sensibilization success, focused on the value and defence of the Open Knowledge, and its diffused and ubiquitous relevance for the life of many millions of people. Ven

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