Wikimedia-l October 2011

wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

164 participants
136 discussions

[Foundation-l] GOOD Magazine: The Most Important Occupy Wall Street Photographer You've Never Heard of
by David Gerard 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

http://www.good.is/post/the-most-important-occupy-wall-street-photographer-… An interview with David Shankbone that's actually about the joys of contributing good, useful, original free content to the general commons. A very good advertisement for the concept. "You may not know his name, but if you've been paying attention to the Occupy Wall Street protests for the past several weeks, you've no doubt come across David Shankbone's photographs. They've run in New York magazine, Gawker, Business Insider, and The New York Observer, and here on GOOD—not to mention on countless blogs from around the world. With so many major outlets running his OWS documentation, one would think Shankbone would have amassed a small fortune in the past several weeks. And he probably would have, if he charged any money for his photographs. For years now, well before OWS was a glimmer in anyone's eye, Shankbone, a native New Yorker, has been taking photos of famous people and events and uploading them to his Flickr account and Wikimedia Commons. From those sites, all of his pictures are in the public domain by way of Creative Commons licensing, meaning anyone can download them and use them for free for whatever purposes they'd like. Shankbone believes it adds to the greater good to distribute his work this way, and if any photographer represents the spirit of OWS, it's him." - d.

2 1

[Foundation-l] Feedback Dashboard launched today
by Howie Fung 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hey Everyone, I wanted to let everyone know that earlier today, we launched the Feedback Dashboard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedbackDashboard This dashboard is a running list of comments that new editors submitted via Moodbar (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MoodBar). The idea behind this feature is to capture, in a lightweight fashion, the editing experience of folks that are just starting out. After either attempting or submitting an edit, new editors get an invitation in the upper left hand corner inviting them to provide feedback on their editing experience. The Feedback Dashboard provides a feed of these comments. This feature is still experimental, so please excuse any wonkiness and let us know of any bugs you find. Take a look to find out what makes new editors Happy, Sad, or Confused! Also, if you'd like to either comment on the feature or participate in its further development, please leave a message here [1] or here [2]. Howie [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Feedback_Dashboard [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:New_editor_feedback

2 1

[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool office hours
by Oliver Keyes 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Hey guys So, Office Hours for the AFT is now over; thanks to all who attended. The logs can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2011-10-27 for those who missed it - we're talking about trying to hold a second session at a more North America-friendly time. Is that something that interests anyone? Meanwhile, the plans for the new AFT version can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AFT5 - if you have any opinions, just drop a note on the talkpage. All comments and perspectives are welcome :). Thanks Oliver Keyes Community Liason, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation

1 0

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.
by Robin McCain 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

On 10/27/2011 6:43 AM, foundation-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > On 26 October 2011 14:15, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote: >> > And apparently that's fine, if you are making a faithful reproduction >> > of the image in its original context. ?But tagging an image PD does >> > not imply "you may only make faithful reproductions of this image in >> > their original context". > However in some cases that is what it can actually mean. Exactly so. Remember - much of what we now define as copyright in law is based on our morality and ability to make decisions for the good of all. Our intent is the basis of the doctrines of Fair Use.

1 0

[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedian in residence in Cape Town, South Africa / WikiAfrica
by Marco Chiesa 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Forwarding from Wikimedia Italy, mailing list (we have an ongoing project called WikiAfrica with an association called Lettera27 Dear all, I'm forwarding a call for applications for a Wikipedian in residence in Cape Town. It is a one year position, offering expenses refund and implies living in Cape Town. Information can be found below. Please do not hesitate to forward the message to anyone may be interested. Marco (Cruccone) p.s. I am not really involved with this call, so do not send applications to me! *Da: *Isla Haddow-Flood <islahf(a)africacentre.net> *Oggetto: **Re: WikiAfrica Wikipedian-in-Residence* *Data: *27 ottobre 2011 08:08:03 GMT+02:00 * * Dear All The wikipedian-in-residence call that I sent through two weeks ago has been vetted by the Wikipedian cultural partners group and has been very enthusiastically accepted. It is now ready to be released. Please find below the link to the call: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18yAZxGcBuRO2Zp7vHGHV0q5aM1XaCzqIRSgQWm8… The Africa Centre will be funding this position. Please can you get it out to your networks so that we can get as many applications as possible. I look forward to working closely with you in the future. Warmest Isla : : Isla Haddow-Flood Marketing and Communications Manager Project Manager : WikiAfrica *a.* 1st Floor, 44 Long Street, Cape Town *w.** *www.africacentre.net *t.* +27 21 422 0468 *f. *+27 21 422 0446 *skype. *islahaddow The Africa Centre is a non-profit social innovator that creates platforms to explore contemporary Pan-African artistic practice and knowledge creation as catalysts for social change. _______________________________________________ Mailing list dell'associazione Wikimedia Italia Associazione(a)wikimedia.it http://mailman.wikimedia.it/listinfo/associazione

1 0

[Foundation-l] Two fundraisng test updates
by Megan Hernandez 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Hi all, I just posted two new fundraising test updates to meta. Check it out: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011 Also, don't forget we're looking for help drafting ideas for the community appeal. Please share a couple ideas and send this around. Thanks! http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/communityappeal -- Megan Hernandez Head of Annual Fundraiser Wikimedia Foundation

1 0

[Foundation-l] Office Hours on the article feedback tool
by WereSpielChequers 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

> ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:11:57 +0100 > From: Oliver Keyes <scire.facias(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Office Hours on the article feedback tool > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <CAPYupWA34CujYan_vV_cHgYxWfCT3EJnb4d-Nrav_U20QejZ1A(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > No, the data will remain; you can find it at > http://toolserver.org/~catrope/articlefeedback/ (we really need to > advertise > that more widely, actually). > > To be clear, we're not talking about junking the idea; we will still have > an > "Article Feedback Tool" that lets readers provide feedback to editors. The > goal is more to move away from a subjective rating system, and towards > something the editors can look at and go "huh, that's a reasonable > suggestion as to how to fix the article, I'll go do that" or "aw, that's > really nice! I'm glad they liked it so much" > > O. > > As someone who was never exactly a fan of the Article Feedback Tool I'm glad to hear that the current version is to be canned. The sort of subjective ratings it could produce were never going to be useful at improving articles, certainly not useful enough to justify the screen space. My fear was that it might divert people from improving articles to complaining about them. Since we skipped a key stage in the testing we will never know whether it did that. I didn't realise at the time that it was going to abuse our readers trust by collecting shed loads of data that we weren't going to use. We took a big risk in implementing the Article Feedback Tool without first testing to see whether it would do more harm than good. It is hard to tell in hindsight whether it has been negative or neutral in effect. Yes recruitment of new editors has fallen sharply - September's new editors on EN wiki are down to levels not seen since 2005 http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm#editdistribution but things were on the decline anyway so we don't know whether and to what extent the Article Feedback tool exacerbated the trend. My concern about turning it into something that collects more meaningful comments is that this could exacerbate the pernicious trend from improving articles to tagging them for others to improve. I appreciate that there are various competing theories as to why the community went off the boil circa 2007, but for me and anyone else who considers that the trend to template rather than improve articles has been a major cause of community decline, an "improved" version of the Article Feedback Tool is a worrying prospect. Can we make sure that any new generation Article Feedback tool is properly tested, and that testing includes: 1. Implementing it on a random group of articles and comparing them with a control sample to see which group of articles had the more edits from newbies; 2. Whether the collecting of feedback on ways to improve the article generates additional comments or diverts some editors away from actually fixing the article. 3. Which group of articles recruited the most new editors to the pedia. Please don't implement it if the testing shows that it diverts people from fixing articles to pointing out things that others can fix. On a broader note I suggested some time ago that for the community to give meaningful input into article development we need a process for the community to give feedback on the priority of various potential developments. Wikimania does something like that in the way the program is put together. The image filter "referendum" came close in that it asked people to rate the image filter for importance, unfortunately it didn't include other proposals so that people could put them in order of relevant importance (we also need a quite separate question for whether you think something is worth doing at all). In your new role as liaison between the community and the development team please could you initiate something like that, so that those of us who would give a higher priority to global watchlists or enhancing catalot so that it works on uncategorised articles can say so? Regards WereSpielChequers

4 3

Re: [Foundation-l] Public domain Mickey Mouse. At last.
by Robin McCain 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

On 10/25/2011 2:57 PM, foundation-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > You've made quite a few incorrect assumptions there. > > Of course Commons editors should be deciding which images are PD. But > when there is a dispute, it makes no sense for people who don't even > know what a derivative work and an underlying work are, to be > discussing the applicable law. > > Anyway, the deletion process obviously doesn't work. File:"Appreciate > America. Come On Gang. All Out for Uncle Sam" (Mickey Mouse)" - NARA - > 513869.tif is clearly not public domain. And File:"Appreciate > America. Come On Gang. All Out for Uncle Sam" (Mickey Mouse)" - NARA - > 513869 - cropped and tidied.png is probably a copyvio. Yet both > remain, despite deletion discussions, marked as public domain. (The > deletion discussion over the latter is especially humorous.) It is fair use - here's my 2 cents worth on why. The purpose of this image was the sale of war bonds - not the display of a character whose image is owned by the Walt Disney Company. As a piece of history it is NOT a derivative use of Mickey Mouse. If someone were to remove the mouse image from context and try to pawn it off as being ok to use in unrelated creations, they would probably be sued - because that might be a derivative use. NARA has many images of war bonds collateral and all were commissioned by or for the U.S. government - which means they are public domain unless otherwise specified. Walt Disney gave up control of this image in this context for the public good, as did everyone in the entertainment industry. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_home_front_during_World_War_II#P…

3 2

[Foundation-l] Office Hours on the article feedback tool
by Oliver Keyes 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

Hey guys So, on Thursday we're going to be holding an Office Hours session on IRC to discuss the Article Feedback Tool and what we're planning to do with it - namely, scrapping it and replacing it with an entirely new version ;). Attending will be Fabrice Florin, the contractor leading development on the new version, Howie Fung, the WMF's product manager, and myself. If you're interested in the AFT, whether because you think the existing version is good or because you think it's really bad, we'd love for you to attend - every opinion and viewpoint is welcome. The session will be held in #wikimedia-office at 19:00 GMT/UTC, and I hope to see a lot of you there :). Thanks Oliver Keyes Community Liason, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation

7 9

[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 43 – 24 October 2011
by Wikipedia Signpost 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

1 0

Jump to page:

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

Wikimedia-l October 2011