Hi!
I''m getting this kind of e-mails since yesterday... Did they use the list
of people on those lists to mail this?
They use foundation-l, commons-l en wikitech-l
best,
Huib
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From: <foundation-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: 2011/8/25
Subject: Working Part Time
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WickedWay.nl
Webhosting the wicked way.
On wikimedia projects that are not Wikipedia (Wikia in specific comes
to mind) I often find myself using templates that have not been
defined on that installation. The English Wikipedia (which I am most
familiar with) has many very usefull templates, especially the
{{citeFoo}} templates, but numerous others as well. Trying to 'import'
one is a bit of a pain though. Many templates depend on other
templates, and it is not often very clear how (as a fun exercise for
the reader, try to import the {{convert}} template to a new wiki, and
see how easy it is!). I was wondering if it might be a good idea to
include a standard template library to Wikimedia installations,
containing a set of utility templates along with the Wikimedia
distribution. I'm cross-posting foudation, for possible discussion if
this is desirable, and wikitech, for possible discussion if this is
feasable.
Some professional advice:
Need a Social Media Strategy? Start with These Three-Pronged Approaches
https://www2.guidestar.org/rxa/news/articles/2011/three-pronged-social-medi…
I wonder if we could tweet recent changes... Well, after a short delay.
I think there is probably other obvious but good advice here.
Fred
Dear all,
The Board has been working on a report of our activities; please find the
first report, covering May and June of this year, below. This is a short
summary, meant to help share our work with the community and movement, and
help make Board work and trustee activities more accessible & transparent.
This first report took some time to put together, but we hope to post future
reports on a regular schedule. Please let me know if you have any feedback
or suggestions.
-- Phoebe
-----------------------
*Board of Trustees -- activity report May-June 2011
Resolutions and votes*
*Controversial content*
* Controversial content resolution -- this resolution was passed in May
after a year-long process of discussion and research. It reaffirms the
Board's position on censorship, calls for continued community involvement in
image review and asks for the creation of a personal image filter feature
which would allow readers to not choose whether to view certain classes of
images.
* Images of identifiable people resolution -- this resolution was passed
in May along with the controversial content resolution. It lays out the
Board position on image subject consent, specifying that evidence of consent
should be obtained and documented from the subject of the media for images
and videos of living, identifiable persons in private situations that are
hosted on Wikimedia projects.
*New chapters
*
* Wikimedia Canada and Wikimedia Chile were recognized. Both are recently
incorporated.
*New advisors and observers*
* Advisory board additions -- Jessamyn West and Veronique Kessler were
nominated for the advisory board by trustees and approved by Board vote.
Jessamyn is a U.S.-based librarian and blogger who is also a community
manager of Metafilter, a global online community; and Veronique is the WMF's
outgoing Chief Financial Officer.
* Board Visitors -- passed in May, this resolution lays out parameters
and criteria for inviting visitors to Board meetings, and defines that
approved Board visitors may be invited to one meeting a year for most agenda
items. Visitors will not have voting rights or email list access.
* Visitor appointment -- the first visitor to be invited was Doron Weber
from the Sloan Foundation, invited in June for the coming year.
*Strategy and planning*
* Annual plan approval -- The Board unaminously approved the WMF's annual
plan for 2011-2012. The plan is developed by the executive director with
input from the Board and senior staff, and lays out WMF's budgeting, hiring
and programmatic plans for the year. A draft of the plan was shared with the
Board in May, and the final document was reviewed in June, with review led
by Stu as the board Treasurer.
*
Other Board work*
* The Board Governance Committee (Matt, Jan-Bart and Ting) contracted
with a consultant and scheduled the 2011 trustee evaluation process. They
also kicked off the officer election process by calling for candidates and
candidate statements. Elections will be held in Haifa.
* The Audit committee, led by Stu, wrapped up its work for its 2010-2011
year. During the year, the committee held three meetings in August, October,
and March. It covered the basics, reviewing the audit plan, audit results,
and the Foundation's annual IRS filing, as well as helping improve the FAQs
and other public disclosures of the Foundation's financial position. The
primary non-routine issue this year involved the transparency and financial
control implications of certain chapters directly receiving donor funds, and
the committee contributed some energetic editing to support the new
consolidated movement-wide reports page on meta. The Committee also weighed
the alternatives for independent auditors over the upcoming year and decided
to re-engage KPMG and expand KPMG's role somewhat to provide further
guidance and assistance around fundraising models. Finally, Stu sent out a
call for volunteers for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
* As Board Treasurer, Stu held a few meetings with Sue and her staff to
review the annual plan and then provided a recommendation that the Board
approve the plan.
* Stu was also active in the interviewing process for the Foundation's
new Chief of Finance and Administration.
* Movement roles work to define the relative roles of Wikimedia entities
continued on Meta, including Sam, Bishakha, and Arne, producing a set of
draft recommendations to the Board and to movement groups.
* In May-June 2011 the Board met twice online to review the annual plan.
* The Board's next in-person meeting is scheduled for Wikimania in Haifa,
Israel.
* Meeting agendas and details are shared at m:Board meetings.
*Trustee outreach and other activities*
* In May, Kat visited the WMF offices, to meet with Foundation lawyer
Geoff Brigham and to help develop a summary of WMF legal practices. This has
been posted for comment.
* In June, Ting attended an event organized by Wikimedians in Almaty,
Kazakhstan and spoke to an audience of students. The local Wikimedia group
has freed an entire 16-volume Kazakh-language encyclopedia by getting the
publisher to agree to a free license and release the digital files, with the
goal of adding the content to the Kazakh Wikipedia. They have received a
grant to work on this project, and are also interested in becoming a
chapter.
* June 14, Sam attended a meeting of the Digital Public Library of
America (DPLA) project, which is bringing together several major research
and public libraries as well as library organizations to develop a common
framework for shared digital library collections in the U.S.
* ALA: in June, Phoebe, along with Sue and staff members Frank
Schulenberg and Annie Lin, attended the American Libraries Association (ALA)
annual conference, the largest library conference in the world, in New
Orleans, USA. Sue gave the keynote address, Frank and Annie staffed a booth
promoting the campus ambassador project, and Phoebe participated on a panel
called "The Wikipedia Effect: How Wikipedia Has Changed the Way the World
Finds and Evaluates Information" (also on the panel: Paul Kobasa,
editor-in-chief of the World Book encyclopedia).
* In May, Bishakha visited Bangalore and met with the India chapter's
Executive Committee members and attended Bangalore meetup 33. On May 14, she
attended Pune meetup 13 and met with prospective Campus Ambassadors in Pune.
In June, Bishakha attended the daylong 4th Malayalam wikimeet in Kannur,
Kerala. Highlights: the release of the first Malayalam WikiSource CD, a
visually impaired man's demo of using text to speech software on Wikipedia,
and meeting the youngest Malayalam contributor, a 7-year-old who shot and
uploaded 14 images of food to Wikimedia commons. National program consultant
Hisham Mundol was also present at all these meetups.
* Jimmy was as usual traveling the world for meetings, speeches, and
press work. He was scheduled to speak at a conference of Nobel Prize winners
in Morocco in early May, but the conference was cancelled due to the
terrorist attack. In mid-May he went to Germany at the request of Wikimedia
Deutschland to film a video in support of the UNESCO initiative, as well as
a fund raising video. At the eG-8 meeting in Paris, he was invited to a
private lunch with President Sarkozy at the Élysée Palace. Other attendees
included Rupert Murdoch (News Corporation), Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. (New York
Times), Eric Schmidt (Google), and others; copyright enforcement was high on
the agenda, and Jimmy spoke about the importance of free culture and
community sharing. Other meetings took place in London, Washington DC,
Moscow, Zermatt (Switzerland), and Israel (met with Shimon Peres).
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:57 PM, James Forrester <james(a)jdforrester.org> wrote:
> On 24 August 2011 15:55, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I know I can look at noc.wikimedia.org, but could you please add some
>> info about the default configuration so that at least sysops know what
>> to expect. Or is it supposed to be used only by [global sysops and]
>> stewards (as it happened on some small wikis recently)?
>
> It says in the blog post to which Guillaume linked that the default
> set up is blank, and that any sysop can set one up as they see fit,
> with a link to the documentation on how we've used in on enwiki (given
> that it's been active there for two years).
This is correct. Admins will be the ones able to create and manage
filters, and there will be no default filters.
The full configuration file is at
http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=abusefilter.php
--
Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
http://donate.wikimedia.org
Registration is now open for the CC
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Global_Summit_2011 September 16-18 in
Warsaw.
Versioning the CC license suite will be a (the) major topic of the
summit, which will launch a long process of developing version 4.0.
All of the topics raised in the years before Wikimedia sites started
using BY-SA 3.0 as the default license (e.g., [im]moral rights,
copyleft scope, attribution, compatibility) will be explored.
Any Wikimedians are extremely welcome to attend. Whether or not in the
fullness of time Wikimedia sites move to the eventual BY-SA 4.0, it
will be at least pertinent for Commons. Summit attendee or not, if
you're interested in BY-SA 4.0 (and the rest of the CC license suite),
I encourage you to subscribe to the low volume, moderated
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-licenses where further
announcements and discussion will occur.
Thanks,
Mike
Dear friends,
>From time to time we talked in de.wp about a 'Wikipedia diploma',
useful e.g. for those who want to present or teach Wikipedia in
tertiary education and have to prove their skills. The usual reaction
is: "Ridiculous, that sound's like the Yodeling diploma!"
Every German speaking person who saw the 1970s or grew up afterwards
knows what the Yodeling diploma is: a sketch by Loriot (Vicco von
Bülow).
Loriot died today. Let's commemorate him and his Yodeling diploma,
luckily someone put it on Youtube with an English translation.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lliHC7QSiG8
Kind regards
Ziko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicco_von_B%C3%BClow
--
Ziko van Dijk
The Netherlands
http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/
>
> Dear friends,
>
> One element of the discussions on "Movement Roles" was about other /
> new entities within our movement, aside the already existing
> Foundation and the Chapters, which I prefer to call "national
> Wikimedia organizations". I would like to present to you here my idea
> of "Language Contact Persons" who form a link between the Foundation
> and the Wikipedia language versions.
>
> == New entities?==
> James Forrester and his group (sorry, I don't remember who was the
> official primus inter pares) presented in/before Haifa a list of new
> kinds of Wikimedia entities:
> * Chapters not based on national boundaries, but subjects such as
> railways, art, ethnic cultures, mathematics etc.
> * informal groups
> * Official partners, e.g. a museum we (the Foundation? a national
> Wikimedia organization?) that already exists outside our movement
>
> ==Scepticism==
> I myself, and also some people I have talked to, are very sceptical
> about such new entities. I believe that in theory it is possible to
> create and maintain them, but in practice there can come up a lot of
> problems. Imagine that a group wants to join that is occupied with
> Marxism, or Zionism, or other potentially controversial subjects. And
> then groups with antimarxism, antizionism etc. What subjects exactly
> (and what kind of behavior) do we want to allow? And what actual
> problem we would try to solve with such new entities?
>
> One particular question is the organization of ethnic or linguistic
> groups which cannot have a national Wikimedia organization (chapter),
> but which also cannot or don't want to integrate into existing
> national Wikimedia organizations. The best known example are the
> Catalans together with the Scottish Wikipedians (or just some of
> them?).
>
> == A concrete problem to be solved ==
> I must mention here my personal interests. I am an editor of Wikipedia
> in Esperanto, a small, transnational language that never can have a
> national Wikimedia organization. We Esperanto-Wikipedians can also not
> easily integrate into existing national Wikimedia organizations
> because we live in many different countries, where other (national)
> languages are dominant. So, as an Esperantist I would like it very
> much to see a Esperanto "chapter" of Wikimedia, but as a Wikimedian in
> general I am afraid that it would open a box of Pandora.
>
> Thinking of practical problems, I remember that we small language
> Wikipedians often don't have good connections with the Wikimedia
> organizations. We don't know well how to make use of the existing
> material and other ressources. And the Foundation and the national
> Wikimedia organizations know little of us. When I go to the Foundation
> and ask whether we are allowed to use the logos for a flyer in my
> small language, then the Foundation might ask itself: *Who is this
> Ziko, can we trust him, does he speak for more people than only
> himself?*
>
> == Language Contact Person (LCP) ==
> I would like to suggest a small solution to solve a part of the
> problems. Every language version of Wikipedia should designate a
> "Language Contact Person" for relations with the Foundation (and
> national Wikimedia organizations). This LCP is to be elected by a poll
> with the same requirements as for admins.
>
> A deputy LCP is also to be elected, in order to replace a LCP when
> necessary. If one of both is no longer active, it will be the task of
> the remaining one to take care of a new election of that other
> position.
>
> You know, originally it is often an admin who represents a language
> version in one way or other. But that is not really the task of an
> admin, and other people might be a suitable LCP but are not
> interesting in becoming an admin. The LCP would be only a liaison
> officer, he won't "officially represent" the language version. Like
> adminship it will be less a position of honour but of work.
>
> The LCP has to report to the Foundation about the language version and
> its community and outreach, monthly or at least once a year. (Think of
> my "Tell us about your Wikipedia" project on Meta.) And when the
> Foundation wishes to contact that language version, for example when
> it needs a translation or wants the whole movement to know about
> something important, the LCP is the best way to take care of that. The
> LCP knows the village pumps and mailing lists etc. of his language.
> So, in future, Casey Brown does not have to search and contact all
> those language versions and their activists, but will simply post to a
> common mailing list of all LCPs and they will do the rest.
>
> On the other hand, when the Wikipedians of a particular language
> version have a specific problem and seek for help from the Foundation,
> they can do that most efficiently via their LCP.
>
> Of course, a LCP is not only useful for small languages. Think of
> Spanish, a global language. Some Spanish speaking countries have a
> national Wikimedia organization, others have not. A Spanish Wikipedia
> LCP can be the coordinator of a flyer in Spanish for all of the
> Spanish speaking countries.
>
> == Experimental phase ==
> My suggestion is that the Foundation asks the Wikipedia language
> versions to elect LCPs (and their deputies). After a year, the
> Foundation evaluates the experiences with the LCPs, whether they
> really make communication more efficient or not. Then,
> * the LCP system can remain the same as it is,
> * or has to be abolished because it caused more work than it helped,
> * or the system will be given a more formal basis, with the LCP
> getting a higher status or more tasks, or even becoming the nucleus of
> language based formal Wikimedia organizations.
> Maybe the LCP experiences can be of value with regard to Wikimedia
> projects such as Wikisource, Wikibooks etc.
>
> Please let me know what you think about the possibility and potential
> usefulness of Language Contact Persons.
>
> Kind regards
> Ziko
>
> --
> Ziko van Dijk
> The Netherlands
> http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/
>
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> mvh
> Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>
>
>
Just a heads-up: we are trying to do something that is a bit similar to this
in this year's fundraiser translation. What we're trying to do is to make a
team of translators for each language, which is then headed by a translation
coordinator for that language. The coordinator can be seen somewhat as an
LCP, since their tasks are - among other things - to reach out to their
local community to help find more translators and proofreaders.
The idea is somewhat similar, though of course what we are doing is much
smaller in scope compared to the LCP idea. But the experience from this can
be still be useful with regards to LCP, in my opinion.
--
Jon Harald Søby
Fundraiser Production Coordinator