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[Foundation-l] Mailing lists server migration today
by Mark Bergsma 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hi, Today I will be migrating the mailing lists from a very old server (lily) in Amsterdam, to a new server (sodium) in our new Ashburn data center. Mailman will be upgraded to version 2.1.13 along the way. During the migration, mail will be delayed as all data will need to be transferred to the new host. No mail should go lost, but no new mails will be sent out during the process until done, and the web interface will be unavailable. This shouldn't take more than one hour, if all goes well. I will report here when things should be back up and running. Afterwards, please let us know of any new issues, in bugzilla or on IRC (#wikimedia-tech). We don't expect any problems, but as with any software upgrade or migration, this can't be guaranteed... Thanks, -- Mark Bergsma <mark(a)wikimedia.org> Lead Operations Architect Wikimedia Foundation

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[Foundation-l] mobile website
by John Vandenberg 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Why is the mobile site operational for English Wikipedia? -- John Vandenberg

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[Foundation-l] Just cruel (was: January 18: Nick Drake)
by Lodewijk 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

This is just cruel... "read the rest" yeah right :P ---------- Mensagem encaminhada ---------- De: English Wikipedia Article of the Day < daily-article-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Data: 18 de Janeiro de 2012 01:05 Assunto: [Daily article] January 18: Nick Drake Para: daily-article-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org 100px|Nick Drake's grave in Tanworth-in-Arden Nick Drake (1948–1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician, best known for his sombre guitar-based songs. He failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime, but now ranks among the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years. Drake released his debut album, Five Leaves Left, in 1969. None of his first three albums sold more than 5,000 copies on their initial release. Drake suffered from depression and insomnia throughout his life, and these topics were often reflected in his lyrics. On completion of his third album, 1972's Pink Moon, he withdrew from both live performance and recording, retreating to his parents' home in rural Warwickshire. He died from an overdose of amitriptyline in 1974 (grave pictured). Drake was credited as an influence by numerous artists during the 1980s, including The Dream Academy, who in 1985 reached the UK and US charts with "Life in a Northern Town", a song written for and dedicated to him. By the early 1990s, Drake represented a certain type of "doomed romantic" musician in the UK music press. In 2000, Volkswagen featured the title track from Pink Moon in a television advertisement, and within a month Drake had sold more records than he had in the previous 30 years. (more...) Recently featured: Mauna Kea – Press Gang – Diffuse panbronchiolitis Archive – By email – More featured articles... Read the rest of this article: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Drake> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1126: Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty of China abdicated the throne in favour of his son Qinzong. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Huizong_of_Song> 1884: Welsh physician William Price was arrested for attempting to cremate his deceased infant son; he was acquitted in the subsequent trial, which led to the legalisation of cremation in the United Kingdom. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Price_%28physician%29> 1919: World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opened in Versailles, France, to set the peace terms for the Central Powers. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Conference%2C_1919> 1943: World War II: As part of Operation Iskra, the Soviet Red Army broke the Siege of Leningrad, opening a narrow land corridor to the city. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Iskra> 1958: African Canadian Willie O'Ree of the Boston Bruins played his first game in the National Hockey League, breaking the colour barrier in professional ice hockey. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_O%27Ree> 1990: In a sting operation conducted by the FBI, Mayor of Washington, D.C., Marion Barry was arrested for possession of crack cocaine. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Barry> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: chiasmus (n): An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chiasmus> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day: "Elohim," the name for the creative power in Genesis, is a female plural, a fact that generations of learned rabbis and Christian theologians have all explained as merely grammatical convention. The King James and most other Bibles translate it as "God," but if you take the grammar literally, it seems to mean "goddesses." Al Shaddai, god of battles, appears later, and YHWH, mispronounced Jehovah, later still. --Robert Anton Wilson <http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson> _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Daily Article mailing list. To unsubscribe, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l Questions or comments? Contact dal-feedback(a)wikimedia.org

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[Foundation-l] Blackout notice errors
by David Levy 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

[crossposted to Foundation-l and WikiEN-l] Can someone please correct the following errors in the English Wikipedia's blackout notice? internet -> Internet zip code -> ZIP code Thanks! David Levy

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[Foundation-l] According to Reuters, Wikipedia is an "online dictionary"
by Orionist 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

A horrible piece of "journalism": http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/18/us-internet-protest-idUSTRE80H01U… Regards, -- Orionist

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[Foundation-l] CfP - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge.
by Nicole Ebber 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

(Apologies for cross-postings) CALL FOR PAPERS - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge. June 29 - July 1, 2012 | Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Main_Page Submit your papers here: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012 The “Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge” provides a platform for the research community and the Wikipedia community to connect, present, discuss and advance research on Wikipedia in particular and on free knowledge in general. The Wikipedia Academy 2012 is organized by Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. in collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and Freie Universität Berlin. The conference will take place in Berlin, June 29 to July 1, 2012. The event will be open to all interested parties and features a variety of session formats, ranging from panel discussions and tracks with traditional paper presentations to break-out sessions, lightning talks, poster presentations and a science fair. We particularly invite young doctoral and postdoctoral researcher to participate and to submit extended abstracts. For research paper and poster sessions, we encourage the submission of extended abstracts addressing issues in the overall nexus of Wikipedia and free knowledge. == Dates == * Submission of extended abstracts: March 31, 2012 * Notification of acceptance: May 01, 2012 * Submission of full papers: June 1, 2012 * Event: June 29 - July 1, 2012 == Topics of interest == Submissions are invited for the following categories, further details will be available soon on the conference website: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Submission_process === Wikipedia Analytics === * Wikis and Wikipedia as a research tool * Analyzing Wikipedia as a source of "Big Data" * Assessing and measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles === Wikipedia Global === * Relations and Differences between national Wikipedias * Differences between and critique of free/open knowledge ideologies * Regional studies of Wikipedia and free knowledge with global lessons === Sharing Cultures and Practices === * Sharing culture(s) in Wikipedia and other projects of commons-based peer production * Incentives, innovation and community dynamics in open collaborative peer production * Wiki theory and wiki practices === Research on Users of and Contributors to Wikipedia === * Diversity among users of and contributors to Wikipedia * Influencing participation by adapting user interfaces in open collaborative settings * Using information visualization as information instrument to users and contributors === Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Free Knowledge === * Economic, regulatory and societal implications of (increased) access to free knowledge * Different Modes of Governance: Emergence of Order and Coordination in Wikipedia * The role of licensing decisions for Wikipedia and other collaborative forms of knowledge production == Submission Guidelines == Extended Abstracts must be submitted by the given deadline for peer review. Conference language is English, exceptions can be made on a case-by-case basis. Submission entails a commitment that at least one author will attend the event in the case of acceptance and deliver a full paper version prior to the event. Also, authors grant the organizers the right to publish accepted papers in the form of online proceedings or a similar format, to be determined at a later stage. In addition, accepted submissions will be automatically licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, unless the authors explicitly state in their submission that they wish to opt out of this licensing agreement. We encourage authors to use said license in order to promote open access to scholarly work, although decisions to opt out will be respected and will not influence the review process in any way. In any case, authors of accepted submissions cannot opt out from the basic condition that they grant the organizers the right to publish at least the extended abstract online. Please submit your extended abstract (about 2-3 pages) in PDF, Open Document Format (ODF) or plain text format at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012 Note: You will need an easychair account to submit. You can create one on the spot if you don't already have one. -- Nicole Ebber Projektmanagerin Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Eisenacher Straße 2 10777 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 219158260 http://wikimedia.de Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition: http://wikipedia.de/wke/. Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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[Foundation-l] Year: 2012 Week: 4 Number: 132
by EN Wikizine 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

************************************************************ __ __ _ _ _ _ / / /\ \ \(_)| | __(_) ____(_) _ __ ___ \ \/ \/ /| || |/ /| ||_ /| || '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / | || < | | / / | || | | || __/ \/ \/ |_||_|\_\|_|/___||_||_| |_| \___| .org Year: 2012 Week: 4 Number: 132 ************************************************************ An independent internal news bulletin for the members of the Wikimedia community //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// === The EN Wikipedia goes offline for 24 hours === The community of the English language Wikipedia has decided to "blackout" the English Wikipedia for 24 hours. A sort of strike thus. The blackout goes in to effect from 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18. The blackout is a protest against the proposed law of the United States of America "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA). The protest is there because the proposed law is could harm the operation of community driven website like Wikipedia. The decision of the Community of the English language Wikipedia is supported by the Wikimedia Foundation. This in the first time the English Wikipedia - the oldest and most popular of all Wikipedias - does something like this. The Italian language Wikipedia did this a couple of months ago. Other language Wikipedias have indicated to show support by displaying a banner but not also go "dark". Also non-Wikimedia websites will take part but not all by going dark. Google will put a link on there homepage about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-so… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-16/Specia… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-16/News_a… http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/58755 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/how-pipa-and-sopa-violate-white-house… http://www.sopastrike.com/ -- websites that join the strike //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @@@@@@@@@@--------Wikizine-seeks-editors----------@@@@@@@@@@ °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° Editor(s): Walter Contact: http://report.wikizine.org Website: http://www.wikizine.org Gophersite: gopher://gopher.wikizine.org °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° @@@@@@@@@@-------Wikizine-loves-feedback----------@@@@@@@@@@ //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Wikizine.org makes no guarantee of accuracy, validity and especially but not limited to, correct grammar and spelling. Satisfaction is not guaranteed. Some content can be highly inspired or directly copied from other sources. Those sources are listed above at "Sources-Attributions". Wikizine.org is published by [[meta:user:Walter]]. Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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Re: [Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimania 2012 now accepting scholarship applications
by Asaf Bartov 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 8:41 PM, James Hare <messedrocker(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Scholarship applications are now being accepted for Wikimania 2012 in > Washington, D.C. The application window will be one month (through > February 16). To learn more about Wikimania scholarships, see > http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships > > To apply for a scholarship, you can fill out the application form > here: https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/ > > For the Wikimania 2012 team, > James Hare > Yay! Kudos to the team for delivering this! I'd like to encourage everyone to spread the word about these scholarships! Asaf -- Asaf Bartov <asaf.bartov(a)gmail.com>

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[Foundation-l] THIS is why we support WMF! Sincere thanks for a blackout.
by Alec Meta 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Wikimedia is a movement. We're not a game, we're not a website, we're not even just an encyclopedia-- we're a nonviolent revolution in information sharing. For-profit media is harder to trust-- we've seen that "For-profit" media often means "For sale". In a time where it's hard to trust a congress or mainstream media, one thing we can agree to trust is each other-- in the form of the Wikimedia community and its leaders. Today, I'm so proud to be a part of this community. It's _extra-clear_ today that we do stand for something-- indeed, we stand for something quite revolutionary. MSNBC and CNN can never afford to go back-- they have advertisers. We are one of the few truly-non-profit information sources-- and that gives us a unique value unlike for-profit information sources. In a sea of alphabet soup, three letters we CAN trust are WMF. I hope in 2012, the WMF will take its governance model and continue to apply it outside the limited scope of encyclopedias. Genealogy is the goto example-- Ancestry.com can't afford to blackout for good causes-- WE can. We're not just another information source-- we're an information source with a conscience. That makes all the difference. Good work, WMF. Thank you for what you've done, thank you for what you're doing.

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[Foundation-l] Vietnamese Wikipedia join protest SOPA and PIPA
by Minh Huy (WMF) 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Vietnamese Wikipedia community is planning to show banner on 18/1. Similar to ItalianWiki, GermanyWiki, and Commons. See https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Th%E1%BA%A3o_lu%E1%BA%ADn/%C4%90%E1… -- --Minh Huy (Minata Hatsune) ---volunteer and Vietnamese translation coordinator of the Wikimedia Foundation---

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