Wikimedia-l April 2011

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[Foundation-l] Fwd: survey about copyright in the digital age - last call
by musicali＠libero.it 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

FYI > By this message I would like to thank all of you that helped me with > my survey about copyright in the digital age. > I collected a respectable number of responses and I received a lot of > comments and suggestions. > Now I am going to close the survey in a few days. So before starting > in processing the data I'd rather to ask you a last effort in > promoting the initiative. > I will be very grateful if you could spread the link for the last > time. And if you did not have the chance to fill the questionnaire, > please do it soon. > Here is the link: http://www.aliprandi.org/en/survey . > If you are on Facebook, you can help me sharing the public event and > the fan-page that I created: they are available searching by the > Facebook search-engine the words "survey copyright digital age". > Thanks very much for your support. > -- > Simone Aliprandi - Ph.D. Candidate at Bicocca University of Milan > http://www.aliprandi.org/en >

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[Foundation-l] HOWTO turn your scholarly journal into an open access journal
by David Gerard 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

This is not directly relevant to WMF projects, but it's of great importance in helping the free content world along. http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/13/howto-turn-your-scho.html http://repository.alt.ac.uk/887/ Is there anything we can do to push this along?e.g. Would a blog post be apposite? - d.

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Re: [Foundation-l] Can it get any worse?
by Ashar Voultoiz 20 Apr '11

20 Apr '11

On 10/04/11 22:47, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: > Of course. No doubt about it. We have now reached a level beyond > personal attacks. Now my name is used as a thread. So much for "focus > on the comment, not the person making the comment." > > Will I ever address the comments made? As sure as day follows night. You are complaining about being considered as an inconvenience since may 2009. What about taking this less personally and get back to the [edit] button? -- Ashar Voultoiz

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[Foundation-l] Better user experience and retention through e-mail notifications
by MZMcBride 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

Hi. I'm not sure about other people, but one of the primary reasons I get on Facebook is that Facebook reminds me to get on. It sends notification e-mails about a Wall post or a comment or whatever. Without these, I wouldn't check it more than once every few days. There's been a lot of talk about getting new editors and keeping them. I would think something like working e-mail notifications would be a high priority. There are plenty of features and enhancements that could improve the user experience and user retention/return, but this piece of fruit seems particularly low-hanging. Even on some Wikimedia wikis, it's the e-mail notifications that get me to go back to the site. I only ever visit strategy.wikimedia.org when someone edits my talk page, as it triggers an e-mail notification to me. The smaller sites have had these types of notifications for a long time. The notification system is built in to MediaWiki, it's just not enabled on larger sites such as the English Wikipedia. It's being tracked by bug <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5220>. MZMcBride

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[Foundation-l] Dynamics of Online Interactions and Behavior
by MZMcBride 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_of_Online_Interactions_and_Behavior Does anyone know what this is? There was some discussion on the talk page, but that's now apparently been cleared away. MZMcBride

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[Foundation-l] WMF privacy policy & a third party web clone of et.wikipedia.org
by Raul Kern 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

Hi, an unknown third party has made a web proxy of Estonian Wikipedia at his webaddress (let's not promote this address here any futher, but You can guess it -- it's in form of www."popularwebencyclopedianame".ee ). His web clone looks just like real Wikipedia site. How can an unknowing web user be sure, that his site follows WMF privacy policy? Is that kind of usage of Wikipedia and WMF logos ok for the WMF? -- Raul

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[Foundation-l] [wiki loves monuments] Voting has opened for Wiki Loves Monuments logo contest!
by Delphine Ménard 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

[xpost foundation-l/commons-l] Hello all, By now surely you have heard of Wiki Loves Monuments, an event destined to populate Wikimedia Commons with photos of listed monuments across the world. As advertised some time ago, a logo contest has been launched to find a great logo for Wiki Loves Monuments. It has prompted more than 50 entries, some of which unfortunately did not match the rules. [1] However, competition yielded a lot of very good ideas and it's now time to choose. After review of basic compliance with the rules of guidelines, more than 30 logos are left to choose from. It's a lot, so we need lots of eyes to tell us what logo they'd like to see on caps, mugs, flyers et al. for the Wiki Loves Monuments events. Voting has now opened and we need your participation! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Logo_contest… Please visit this page and vote. Voting is opened until the 27 of April. Have fun voting! Best, Delphine [1] removed entries from the competition can be seen on this page: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons Talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments/Logo_contest/Submissions -- @notafish NB. This gmail address is used for mailing lists. Personal emails will get lost. Intercultural musings: Ceci n'est pas une endive - http://blog.notanendive.org Photos with simple eyes: notaphoto - http://photo.notafish.org

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[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 7, Issue 16 – 18 April 2011
by Wikipedia Signpost 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

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[Foundation-l] Archiving wikis
by emijrp 18 Apr '11

18 Apr '11

Hi all; We know that websites are fragile and that broken links are common. Wikimedia (and other communities like Wikia) publish dumps of their wikis, but, that is not common. Most wiki communities don't publish any backups, so their users can't do anything when a disaster occurs (data loss, attack), if they want to fork, etc. Of course they can use Special:Export, but that requires a huge hand-made effort, and the images are not downloaded. I'm working in WikiTeam,[1] a group inside Archive Team, where we want to archive wikis, from Wikipedia to tiniest ones. As I said, Wikipedia publishes backups, so not problem here. But I have developed a script that downloads all the pages of a wiki (using Special:Export), it merges them into an unique XML file (as pages-history dumps) and downloads all the images (if you enable that option). That is great if you want to have a backup of your favorite wiki, or to clone a defunct wiki (abandoned by its administrator), or you want to move your wiki from a free wikifarm to a personal paid hosting, etc. Also, of course, you can use this script to retrieve the full histories of a wiki, and research, just as a Wikipedia dump. We are running this script in several wikis and uploading the complete histories to the download section[2], building a little wiki library. Don't be fooled by their sizes. They are 7zip files which usually expand to many MB. I hope you enjoy this script, make backups of your favorite wikis and research them. Regards, emijrp [1] http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/ [2] http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/downloads/list?can=1

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[Foundation-l] Fundraising committee?
by MZMcBride 18 Apr '11

18 Apr '11

Hi. Someone pointed out to me that in 2006, the Wikimedia Board of Trustees approved a resolution to create a fundraising committee: <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_committee>. A few months later, it passed a subsequent resolution specifying the fundraising committee's membership: <http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_committee/Membership>. In 2010, the Board passed a resolution about fundraising principles: <http://wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_fundraising_principles>. The history of the fundraising committee (and what happened to it) is what's confusing me. Did a subsequent resolution/motion abolish it? Was it simply disbanded (and is that possible with the force of a Board resolution behind it)? There are now fundraising staff, but I'm not quite sure how that happened or what happened to any type of committee/workforce. Any pointers to pages about this or info about this would be appreciated. It would make it much easier to update pages such as <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_committees#Fundraising_committee> with accurate information. MZMcBride

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