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[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 03 -- 16 January 2012
by Wikipedia Signpost 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Sister projects: What are our sisters up to now? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-16/Sister… Special report: English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-16/Specia… News and notes: WMF on the looming SOPA blackout, Wikipedia turns 11, and Commons passes 12 million files http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-16/News_a… WikiProject report: WikiProject Beer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-16/WikiPr… Featured content: Lecen on systematic bias in featured content http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-16/Featur… Arbitration report: Four open cases, Betacommand case deadlocked, Muhammad images close near http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-16/Arbitr… Technology report: ArticleFeedback moves into new trial phase; and how MediaWiki integrates with Facebook, IPv6, and PostgreSQL explored http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-16/Techno… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-16 http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost _______________________________________________ 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] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?
by Domas Mituzas 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Hi! we recently did some practice on italian wikipedia, are we going to protest IP legislation in US by taking down English Wikipedia? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/disastrous-ip-legislation-back-%E2%80… Domas

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Re: [Foundation-l] Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific
by James Heilman 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Hey John. Not sure we why at WMC should be interested? Can you explain further... James Heilman Wikimedia Canada On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:11 AM, <foundation-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>wrote: > Send foundation-l mailing list submissions to > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > foundation-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > foundation-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of foundation-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Spanish website blocking law implemented (emijrp) > 2. Re: the limits for fundraising. Was Blnk tag jokes are now > obsolete. (Thomas Dalton) > 3. Reminder: IRC office hours with the WMF features team, Jan. > 4th 2012 (Steven Walling) > 4. Re: Spanish website blocking law implemented (Kim Bruning) > 5. Re: Spanish website blocking law implemented (Christophe Henner) > 6. Re: Spanish website blocking law implemented (Kim Bruning) > 7. Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific Partnership > (John Vandenberg) > 8. Re: A fundraiser for editors (Yaroslav M. Blanter) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:02:32 +0100 > From: emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <CAPgALA73SE0QBZBbDSvokfk-3Q_CTUXjU4uXZ5FrtTKMshK-qw(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > http://gigaom.com/2012/01/04/how-spains-version-of-sopa-is-setting-the-web-… > > 2012/1/4 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> > > > emijrp, 04/01/2012 18:59: > > > With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain can > > block > > > any (for-profit or non-profit) website, from Spain or overseas, that > > > _links_ to copyrighted works. Including Google, Wikipedia or whatever. > > > Without a judge. > > > > That's entirely different! > > > > > For further details, search for an analysis. > > > > The slashdot post links end up to a 6 months old WSJ article, is there > > some more recent one you recommend? (Also Spanish.) > > Thanks, > > Nemo > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 19:13:30 +0000 > From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] the limits for fundraising. Was Blnk tag > jokes are now obsolete. > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <CALTQcce67b9xZ5ofPFJ1AmaNgEgjJOQwuZBrDyF2HzGEq84axA(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On 4 January 2012 16:24, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Check the IP history; Jan-Bart added them ;p > > Now I'm on an actual computer and not trying to go through page > histories on my phone, I've taken a closer look. The bit about being > truthful was in the initial version. The other bit is the result of > edits from several people (including me, although I'm not sure any of > my wording survived the process). > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:48:03 -0800 > From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Foundation-l] Reminder: IRC office hours with the WMF > features team, Jan. 4th 2012 > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <CAMryOMW11Gy7EPA=6iUMQsGPe4jmTkGziD8PD=Vgm9Bk=Wcfxg(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Reminder that this is happening at 23:00 in #wikimedia-office. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Steven Walling <swalling(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:58 AM > Subject: IRC office hours with the WMF features team, Jan. 4th 2012 > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Hey everyone, > > Since folks have been asking about it, I wanted to announce that the > features development team at the Wikimedia Foundation will be holding an > office hours (in #wikimedia-office) about the general past, present, and > future of MediaWiki features being worked on here at the WMF. > > This will be on January 4th, 2012 at 23:00 UTC. Documentation is on Meta > for time conversion and IRC how-tos.[1] > > -- > Steven Walling > Community Organizer at Wikimedia Foundation > wikimediafoundation.org > > 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours > > > > -- > Steven Walling > Community Organizer at Wikimedia Foundation > wikimediafoundation.org > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:29:09 +0100 > From: Kim Bruning <kim(a)bruning.xs4all.nl> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <20120105172909.A22444(a)bruning.lan> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:02:32PM +0100, emijrp wrote: > > > http://gigaom.com/2012/01/04/how-spains-version-of-sopa-is-setting-the-web-… > > > > 2012/1/4 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> > > > > > emijrp, 04/01/2012 18:59: > > > > With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain can > > > block > > > > any (for-profit or non-profit) website, from Spain or overseas, that > > > > _links_ to copyrighted works. Including Google, Wikipedia or > whatever. > > > > Without a judge. > > > > > > More links off of slashdot: > > > http://torrentfreak.com/us-threatened-to-blacklist-spain-for-not-implementi… > > > To make a long story short, the USA is already pushing for SOPA in other > countries. The game is afoot. I wonder if we've missed other countries that > might > implement similar legislation soon? > > In any case, it might be a good idea to check how and if the new spanish > laws (will) affect WMF, and what measures need to be taken to stay safe for > now. > > sincerely, > Kim Bruning > > > -- > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 18:27:12 +0100 > From: Christophe Henner <christophe.henner(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <CAFaJbjeeY6-R_8T2Ox4P3oCPR5Qo4eEMYTp61fqzuaVRY1P9XQ(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > In France we we're that far [me showing a little space between my > fingers] to get a similar law in 2006 and 2009. The law passed but all > the "site blocking" things were removed following some lobbying (in > which WMFr did not take part but some of the members did on a personal > level). > > All the plan for similar laws has been postponed due to the 2012 > elections (presidential and parliement) but we know lobbyist are > pushing forward to get it back on track. They actualy tried to had it > through our online gambling law, but failed. > > Christophe > > > On 5 January 2012 17:29, Kim Bruning <kim(a)bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 08:02:32PM +0100, emijrp wrote: > >> > http://gigaom.com/2012/01/04/how-spains-version-of-sopa-is-setting-the-web-… > >> > >> 2012/1/4 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> > >> > >> > emijrp, 04/01/2012 18:59: > >> > > With this law, a special team in the Ministry of Culture of Spain > can > >> > block > >> > > any (for-profit or non-profit) website, from Spain or overseas, that > >> > > _links_ to copyrighted works. Including Google, Wikipedia or > whatever. > >> > > Without a judge. > >> > > > > > > > More links off of slashdot: > > > > > http://torrentfreak.com/us-threatened-to-blacklist-spain-for-not-implementi… > > > > > > To make a long story short, the USA is already pushing for SOPA in other > countries. The game is afoot. I wonder if we've missed other countries that > might > > implement similar legislation soon? > > > > In any case, it might be a good idea to check how and if the new spanish > laws (will) affect WMF, and what measures need to be taken to stay safe for > now. > > > > sincerely, > > ? ? ? ?Kim Bruning > > > > > > -- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 19:14:18 +0100 > From: Kim Bruning <kim(a)bruning.xs4all.nl> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <20120106191418.A30118(a)bruning.lan> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > And canada is considering pushing back the public domain 20 years, under > ... us influence yet again. > > http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6225/125/ > > (Proposed and existing) US policy (foreign and domestic) is not really > in favor of wikimedia at the moment, is it? :-/ > > > sincerely, > Kim Bruning > -- > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 7 > Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 09:35:42 +1100 > From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [Foundation-l] Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific > Partnership > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: Wikimedia Canada list <wikimedia-ca(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: > <CAO9U_Z6T5AVza5O01RBwbiKCqk7NBCG=ZB_HdC4nQk_1Hgvd4A(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > > subject was: Spanish website blocking law implemented > > Canadian public consultation on TPP closes February 14, 2012. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Pacific_Partnership > > Is WMF and/or WM-CA intending to submit their views? How can we help!? > > Do we have a list of submissions to govt.by the Wikimedia community? e.g. > there was an EU submission last year, and here is a WM-AU one > > http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Submission_on_Australian_Digital_Future_Di… > -- > John Vandenberg > DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE CONSULTATIONS ON > POTENTIAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS WITH TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP > MEMBERS > > The Government of Canada is seeking the views of Canadians on the scope of > possible free trade negotiations between Canada and Trans-Pacific > Partnership (TPP) members, which include > > - Australia > - Brunei Darussalam > - Chile (see footnote > 1)< > http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2011/2011-12-31/html/notice-avis-eng.ht… > > > - Malaysia > - New Zealand > - Peru (see footnote > 2)< > http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2011/2011-12-31/html/notice-avis-eng.ht… > > > - Singapore > - United States (see footnote > 3)< > http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2011/2011-12-31/html/notice-avis-eng.ht… > > > - Vietnam > > Additional countries have also expressed their interest in consultations on > joining the discussions: > > - Japan > - Mexico (see footnote > 4)< > http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2011/2011-12-31/html/notice-avis-eng.ht… > > > > This notice is part of the Government of Canada?s domestic consultation > process with business, citizen-based organizations and individual > Canadians, as well as with provincial and territorial governments, to > obtain advice and views on priorities, objectives and concerns to help > outline the parameters of this initiative. > > Background > > The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a free trade agreement under > negotiation to liberalize trade in the Asia-Pacific region. Nine countries > are currently participating in the negotiations: Australia, Brunei > Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam and the > United States. Japan and Mexico have recently announced their intentions to > begin consultations to join the TPP. With the participation of Canada, > Mexico and Japan, the TPP would represent a market of more than 775 million > people and a combined GDP of $25.7 trillion (or US$24.9 trillion) ? a > market larger than the European Union. > > The intent of TPP negotiators is to create an ambitious, high-standard > regional free trade agreement that covers a wide range of areas related to > trade and investment. On November 12, 2011, leaders of the TPP member > countries meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, for the Asia Pacific Economic > Cooperation (APEC) forum announced the achievement of a broad outline of an > agreement that would enhance trade and investment, promote innovation, > economic growth and development, and create and sustain jobs. Nine rounds > of negotiations have taken place. > > Following review of the November 2011 outline released by TPP members, > Canada notes the high degree of complementarity between what is being > pursued in the TPP and the approach Canada takes in its own trade > negotiations. > > Additional information on the TPP can be found at www.ustr.gov/tpp (in > English only). > > Submissions by interested parties > > The Government is embarking on a public consultation process to allow all > interested stakeholders an early opportunity to provide comments, input and > advice on possible free trade negotiations with TPP countries (current nine > members and other interested countries: Japan and Mexico). It is essential > that the Government of Canada be fully aware of the interests and potential > sensitivities of Canadians with respect to this initiative. We welcome > advice and views on any priorities, objectives and concerns relating to > possible free trade negotiations with TPP countries. In particular, we are > seeking views with respect to the following: > > - Opinions on areas of goods export interest (identified by Harmonized > System [HS]/Tariff codes, if possible), including products that would > benefit from the early removal of tariffs and other barriers by TPP > countries. > - Views on market access liberalization for TPP countries products > (identified by HS/Tariff codes, if possible) into the Canadian market, > including input on those products for which the elimination of tariffs > should be expedited or phased-in over time. > - Advice and views on trade in services, particularly the identification > of sectors/activities of export interest for Canadian service providers, > and opinions on domestic regulatory measures that restrict or otherwise > affect market access for Canadian service providers. > - Advice, views and experiences regarding the temporary entry of > business persons from Canada into TPP countries and into Canada from TPP > countries (e.g. impediments to entering or working in TPP countries on a > temporary basis, including licensing or certification requirements at the > border). > - Advice, views and experiences regarding measures affecting exports > destined for TPP countries, including non-tariff barriers (such as import > licensing), technical barriers to trade (including technical regulations, > standards and/or conformity assessment procedures) and sanitary and > phytosanitary measures. > - Views on general rules of origin and/or advice on appropriate rules of > origin for specific products or sectors. > - Advice on ?trade facilitation? issues (e.g. significant impediments > related to import procedures). > - Advice, views and experiences with customs procedures and with > commercial goods entering and/or leaving TPP countries. > - Advice, views and experiences regarding investment barriers faced by > Canadian investors in TPP countries, including restrictions imposed on > foreign ownership or entry to market, questions of transparency of > regulation, performance requirements (i.e. local content requirements, > use > of local labour and services), and any other impediments/barriers. > - Advice and views on government procurement markets of interest to > Canadian suppliers and exporters to TPP countries, including the > government > departments, agencies or enterprises of interest and the goods, services > or > construction services that Canadian suppliers are interested in selling > to > those government organizations. Note that participation in government > procurement may include bidding as the prime contractor or exporting > goods > and/or services to the prime contractor who in turn bids on government > contracts. > - Advice, views and experiences regarding barriers (e.g. availability > and transparency of information, domestic preferences) when selling or > attempting to sell to governments of TPP countries. > - Views and experiences with the protection of intellectual property > rights. > - Advice and views on competition policy matters, including development > of possible cooperation mechanisms. > - Views on capacity-building measures that could assist developing > countries in achieving the objectives of the agreement. > - Views on ways to reflect the interests and values of Canadians in the > area of sustainable development, environmental protection and > conservation. > - Views on ways to reflect the interests and values of Canadians in the > areas of workers? rights, human rights, transparency in business and > commercial practices and other social concerns, as they relate to TPP > countries. > - Views on other related issues not mentioned above. > > All interested parties are invited to submit their views by February 14, > 2012. Please be advised that any information received as a result of this > consultation will be considered as public information, unless explicitly > stated otherwise. Submissions should include > > 1. the contributor?s name and address and, if applicable, his/her > organization, institution or business; > 2. the specific issues being addressed; and > 3. precise information on the rationale for the positions taken, > including any significant impact it may have on Canada?s domestic or > foreign interests. > > Contributions can be sent by email to consultations@ international.gc.ca, > by fax to 613-944-3489 or by mail to Trade Negotiations Consultations > (TPP), Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, Trade Policy and > Negotiations Division II (TPW), Lester B. Pearson Building, 125 Sussex > Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Kim Bruning <kim(a)bruning.xs4all.nl> > Date: Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:14 AM > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Spanish website blocking law implemented > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > > And canada is considering pushing back the public domain 20 years, under > ... us influence yet again. > > http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6225/125/ > > (Proposed and existing) US policy (foreign and domestic) is not really > in favor of wikimedia at the moment, is it? :-/ > > > sincerely, > Kim Bruning > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 8 > Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:11:24 +0400 > From: "Yaroslav M. Blanter" <putevod(a)mccme.ru> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] A fundraiser for editors > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List > <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <a928845e4d5d105163894dd69f1c005a(a)mccme.ru> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Actually, do we have somewhere a concise page with a list of say ten most > urgent needs we need money for? Smth a banner can link to? > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > End of foundation-l Digest, Vol 94, Issue 10 > ******************************************** > -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

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Re: [Foundation-l] just wondering, are we going to take down en.wikipedia.org?
by Mike Godwin 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Dan Collins writes: > Hey guys, > > http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/204167-sopa-shelved-unt… > > The House decided they're going to stop bothering with this bill for a > while, so while we should continue to think about what we will do when > the time comes to protest this, that time is not right now. The bill > can be reconsidered just as it was left off any time before the end of > this congressional session, and the Senate still has a live bill, but > the fact that HR 3261 is not being considered at the moment means that > even if the Senate passes their bill, the House may refuse to consider > that one too. Dan, you're misreading the implications of what the story you link to says. What's actually happening is that the House sponsors hope to defuse opposition by delaying and slightly modifying SOPA. My experience as a DC lawyer for much of my career strongly suggests that there's no reason to suspend expressions of opposition to SOPA or PIPA or the general effort by content companies to change the internet as we know it. In my view, it is wholly incorrect to say "that time is not right now." Anything that the legislators can interpret as a lack of resolve from the internet communities will encourage them to resubmit SOPA or its equivalent in another form. The time for protesting this is, in fact, right now. --Mike

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[Foundation-l] Bosnia's Top Cultural Institutions Shutting Down
by emijrp 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Dear all; Bosnia's top cultural institutions[1] (National Museum, Historical Museum, National Gallery) and the National Library which was burnt in 1992, are closing their doors for funding disputes. This is a disaster for the spreading of human knowledge, and I don't see any blog post in the Wikimedia blog. Are you so worried and biased with the US bills? Imagine the WMF reaction if Library of Congress closes. Regards, emijrp [1] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=144755322

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[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2012 now accepting scholarship applications
by Sage Ross 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Greetings all and sundry! 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/ Good luck! Sage Ross Wikimedia DC

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Re: [Foundation-l] Canadian consultation on Trans Pacific
by James Heilman 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Thanks for the clarification. Yes we at Wikmedia Canada we had discussed starting a Wikisource north of the border due to the benefits of our copyright law. I will send this out to some of our members to see if anyone is interested in taking it on. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

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[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia India Chapter : December 2011 Report
by Naveen Francis 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Dear all, Greetings from Wikimedia India !!! We are delighted to present the last monthly Wikimedia India report of the year 2011, almost a year after the chapter received the formal recognition from the Government of Karnataka on 3 January 2011. The journey so far wasn't easy, but we appreciate your continued patronage , support and participation. *Organisational Updates* *Formation of Task Forces:* As announced earlier, with the objective of increasing the engagement and participation of the members of the chapter actively in various initiatives, the India chapter has come up with focused Task Forces for coordinating and driving various chapter activities [1]. There are two types of Task Forces - Project Task Forces and Operations Task Forces. The Project Task Forces are focused on growing the Wikimedia projects. The Operations Task Forces are critical functions to enable the Project Task Forces and the Chapter in growing the movement. The operations group consists of Administration, Fund raising, & Communications. The Projects task force consists of City and Langugage SIGs and Special Projects. The new task forces will be led by the following people: - Anirudh Bhati, Head, Fundraising. - Arun Ramarathnam, Chair, Special Projects. - Srinivas Gunta, Head, Administration. - Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Chair, City and Language Special Interest Groups. - Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications, PR & Media Relations. *Membership:* The Chapter membership stands at 190 members as of 31 December 2011. *Donations:* Total donations received in Dec 2011 - INR 700 Average donations in Dec 2011 - INR 350 *FCRA:* Our application for FCRA prior permission under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act with the Government of India is still pending. An official from the Home Ministry has visited Arjuna Rao Chavala, President. *Internet Relay Chat(IRCs):* >From time to time, Wikimedia India conduct planned online IRC chat sessions. The Dec 17, 2011 was anchored by Arun with the focus on Chapter City & Language Special Interest Groups. [2] *Board Meetings:* The Chapter Executive Committee had two Tele-conference meetings in the month of December (dated 07 Dec and 14 Dec, 2011). The Wikimedia India chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint co-ordination call on 21 Dec 2011, which was attended by Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov and Hisham Mundol. The summary of the joint coordination call was shared earlier [3]. Community City and Language Special Interest Groups City and Language Special Interest Groups are a mechanism to engage the diverse interests of members across India. The objective is to grow the wiki projects in their areas of interest by reviewing the status, planning and executing events of interest through growing the community involvement. The leadership of these groups is part of the extended leadership of the Chapter. The Wikimedia Chapter is proud to announce the appointment of the next batch of City and Language Special Interest Group Chairs [4] as given below: *City* - Delhi SIG - Noopur Raval (noopur [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Bangalore SIG - RadhaKrishna (Arkrishna [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Mumbai SIG - Kundan Amitabh (kundan.amitabh [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Pune SIG - Mandar Kulkarni(mandar.kulkarni [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Kolkata SIG - Kalyan Sarkar (kalyan [at] wikimedia [dot] in) *Languages* - English SIG - Ashwin Baindur (ashlin [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Kannada SIG - Omshivaprakash H L (omshivaprakash [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Marathi SIG - Mahitgar (mahitgar [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Telugu SIG - Rahimanuddin Shaik (rahimanuddin [at] wikimedia [dot] in) The current sign-ups of Members for the SIGs are as follows: *City Special Interest Groups* City Members Bangalore 10 Delhi 2 Mumbai 3 Pune 6 Kolkata 2 *Language Special Interest Groups* Language Volunteers Bengali 1 English 15 Hindi 1 Kannada 3 Marathi 4 Malayalam 8 Nepali 1 Odia 3 Sanskrit 2 Telugu 3 Events A round-up of Wikimedia events and initatives around the nation is as follows. - *Wiki Academy @Jaya Engineering college * ( 10 Dec 2011) : The first Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering college, Chennai,[5] was organized by the Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by Jaya FOSS Club. Odia Wiki Chair & Chapter member, Subhashish Panigrahi explained basics of Wikipedia, how it is edited by millions of volunteers, how Wikipedia is exclusively encyclopedic and kind of articles and notability of articles in Wikipedia, how Wikipedians communicate and form community, and organization of Wikimedia foundations and active projects. Then he took the audience through active editing by signing up, searching for articles, choosing articles to create. Then he demonstrated about creating an article by using the Edit toolbar, citing the text by searching the web and uploading and adding pictures in articles. The editing session was followed by a Q & A session. Hisham Mundol, Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation India Programs, connected with the audience via Google Hangout. Hisham interacted with the audience by giving a talk about the nature of the event, few details about Wikipedia, WMF and Chapter and foundation are trying to do in India. He answered questions raised by the audience. Nitika Tandon , Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation India Programs, later explained about the India Education program (IEP), how it functions and the student-teacher-foundation collaborations through the education program. The photos of the event are available here [6]. - *Coimbatore 1st Meetup*( 10 Dec 2011) : The first Kovai (Coimbatore) meetup [7] was held at KGISL Campus, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore. The Meetup was organised by Srikanth Ramakrishnan (User:Rsrikanth05) and User:Sodabottle. - *Bangalore Wikimeetup 40* ( 11 Dec 2011) : Around 11 people attended the 40th Wikimeetup in Bangalore [8]. The Bangalore SIG Chair, RadhaKrishna presented a talk on the experiences on WikiConference India 2011 and WikiAcademy events in IT companies. Experiences of Wiki Academy in Jaya engineering college and way forward was shared by by Subhashish Panigrahi. Plans regarding Wiki Eleven in January 2012 was discussed. The photos of the event are available here [9]. - *Wikipedia Meetup1 Salem*( 11 Dec 2011) : A Wikimeetup was organised at Salem, Tamil Nadu, [10] by Tamil Wikipedians Sodabottle and Surya Prakash. - '*Wikipedia Takes Kolkata /Kolkata Photo Walk* (18 Dec 2011) : A Photo Walk was organised in Kolkata, West Bengal [11] by Kalyan Sarkar (Kolkata SIG Chair), Jayanta Nath (Bengali SIG Chair) and Biswarup Ganguly. Around 437 images were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as a part of this initiative.[12] - *GLAMcamp Amsterdam * Noopur Raval ( Delhi SIG Chair and GLAM enthusiastic) attended GLAM worskop in Amsterdam, hosted by Wikimedia Nederland. [13] - *Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo , 2011*: Indian Wikipedians participated in the annual CMDA IT Expo 2011, Pune.[14] The stall were manned by Sudhanwa Jogalekar ( EC member), Mahitgar ( Marathi SIG Chair), Ashwin Baindur ( English SIG Chair) , Hisham Mundol and Nitika Tandon ( WMF India Programs), and Campus Ambassador (IEP) volunteers. - *Malayalam Wiki-Academies:* Malayalam Wiki-community organised two Wiki-Academies in Kerala in the month of December at Alappuzha ( Dec 13) and Kollam (Dec 31). The Alappuzha (2nd Wikiacademy) held at St.Joseph Vanitha College was led by Adv. T.K Sujith, Adv. M.P.Manojkumar and Akhil Krishnan. The Kollam (4th Wikiacademy) held at Govt. Higher Secondary School, Anchal West, was led by Kiran Gopi ( User:Kiran_Gopi) , Faud A.J. ( User:Faudaj) , Kannan Shanmugam ( User:Fotokannan)and Sugeesh ( User:Sugeesh) Other News - A new initiative named *"Featured Wikimedian* was started on the public wiki of Wikimedia India. Every month, one Indian wikimedian will be featured. [15] - * Tamil Wikimedia contest*: The Tamil Wikimedia community has organised an international contest to get more photos, videos and audios related to Tamil, Tamilians and Tamil culture to the Tamil Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. [16] (themed “Eluthu mattum arivanru” or “Knowledge beyond text”) . The Tamil Wikipedia Community and the Wikimedia Foundation have jointly sponsored a prize money of $850 (with nine prizes) for winners. (The first, second and third prizes are $200, $100 and $50. Three prizes of $100 each are for those uploading the maximum number of quality entries. A special prize of $150 is for media files on traditional Tamil arts and crafts. Winners would be announced on March 15, 2012 and they would get certificates with their entries displayed on the front pages of Tamil Wiki projects. The contest (, November 15, 2011 to February 29, 2012) is open to all and is on Facebook [17]. - India Wikipedians Sengai Podhuvan , Karthik Nadar and Aniruddha Kumar joins Jimmy Wales among others in the *Wikimedia Fundraising 2011 banners * [18]. - *New Mailing lists* are created for Gujarati Wikipedia[19], Assamese Wikipedia [20], GLAM India [21] and India related content on English Wikipedia & related projects. [22]. Milestones & Anniversaries * December 2011* [23] 25 - The Tamil Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Ta:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 1,000,000 page edits. - The Urdu Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur:> has reached 10,000 total pages. 21 - The Malayalam Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Ml:&action=edit&redlink=1>has turned 9. 18 - The Bengali Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bn:> has reached 2,000 entries, as a user adds over 1,300 entries for Malagasy words in 5 hours. 16 - The Bihari Wikipedia<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Bh:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 100,000 page edits. 9 - The Sanskrit Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sa:> has reached 100 entries. - The Urdu Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur:> has reached 5,000 entries. 5 - The Marathi Wikibooks<http://internal.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=B:mr:&action=edit&redlink=1>has reached 1,000 registered users. 4 - The Kannada Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kn:> has reached 150,000 entries. Media Coverage - 28 Dec : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs<http://www.mydigitalfc.com/knowledge/wikipedians-say-indian-govt-should-eas…> - 27 Dec : Ahmedabad Mirror : " Ahmedabad to go Wiki with your clicks" <http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/2/2011122720111227022617405d732bc46/…> - 24 Dec : The Economic Times : "Wikipedia enlists Indians to be the standard-bearers for its fund-raising efforts"<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/wikipedia-enlists-indians…> - 18 Dec : The Hindu : "Creative Commons: the licence to evolve"<http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/article272537…> - 16 Dec : The Hindu : "Contest to add files to Tamil Wikipedia gathers steam"<http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2719118.ece?textsiz…> - 1 Dec : Tech Marathi: मराठी विकिपीडिया संपादन – अवघड की सोपे?<http://techmarathi.com/?p=1243>( Marathi) We look forward to your continued support and active participation. Best, On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India) Thanks, Naveen Francis Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter [image: File:Wikimedia India logo.svg] <http://wikimedia.in/> reachout एक ऐसे विश्व की कल्पना करें, जहां प्रत्येक अकेला मानव सम्पूर्ण ज्ञान के भण्डार को सबसे बांट सकता है।* यही हमारा संकल्प है। **.* Notes: - 1) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Call_for_participation_of_Members_in… - 2) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Dec_17,2011 - 3) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/Chapter-Foundation:_Co-Ordination_Ca… - 4) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_SIG_subcommittee_chair - 5) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Jaya_Engineering_College - 6) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jaya_Engineering_College_Wiki_Ac… - 7) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore/Coimbatore1 - 8) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore40 - 9) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_December2011 - 10) http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SALEM1 - 11) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata - 12) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata - 13) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMcamp_Amsterdam - 14 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/006135.… - 15) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Category:Featured_Wikimedian - 16) http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest/en - 17) http://www.facebook.com/tawmc - 18) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#A_Parade_of_Appeals.21_Dece… - 19) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu - 20) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-as - 21) http://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-in - 22) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en - 23) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Milestones_and_Anniversary _______________________________________________ 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. 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[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA
by emijrp 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Forwarding an alarming e-mail for your interest. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Wade Mollison <info(a)demandprogress.org> Date: 2012/1/13 Subject: Wikipedia To: "\"emijrp\"" <emijrp(a)gmail.com> Emily, Quick request: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA, the Internet censorship bills. *It'd be huge news, jar rank-and-file Internet users out of complacency, and serve as a turning point in the effort to beat these bills.* *Will you encourage Wikipedia to protest censorship by going dark? Just click here.* And you can use these links to ask your friends to join the cause: If you're already on *Facebook*, click here to share with your friends. If you're already on *Twitter*, click here to tweet about the campaign: Tweet Thanks! Demand Progress Paid for by Demand Progress (DemandProgress.org<http://demandprogress.org/>) and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee. Contributions are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. *One last thing -- Demand Progress's small, dedicated, under-paid staff relies exclusively on the generosity of members like you to support our work. Will you click here to chip in $5 or $10? Or you can become a Demand Progress monthly sustainer by clicking here. Thank you!* You can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time.

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[Foundation-l] Duolingo, potential way of getting good quality translations?
by Liam Wyatt 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Hi all, I just found this today, from New Scientist: "learn a language, translate the web" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328476.200-learn-a-language-transla… It's an article about a startup (from the same fellow who did ReCaptcha) that provides language lessons by asking the students to translate sentences from websites - Duolingo http://duolingo.com/ The examples used in their own video and also the New Scientist article are all about translating the English Wikipedia into Spanish. Has anyone had any contact with them before? Whilst this project provides language lessons at no-cost I do NOT expect this system to be "free" in the FOSS sense. Nevertheless, if the translations are valuable, and the project proves to be popular (generating lots of translations), do we think it would be worthwhile to contact the organisation to try and feed their "best" wikipedia translations back into the Wikipedias as suggestions? Perhaps a bot could place it on the talkpage of existing articles by under the heading of "suggested content from en.wp by crowdsourced translations"? Though, I don't know how it would work for articles that don't exist in that language yet... >From a legal standpoint I believe translations are derivative works and therefore, because of the Share-Alike principle, the translations are already legally compatible to be re-imported. Just a thought, no idea if it can work in practice though. In any case, Duolingo seems to be an interesting project and time will tell whether it actually is a useful method for people to learn a language (or not)! -Liam Peace, love & metadata

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