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[A2K]: Blog updates on recent Wikipedia events in India
by noopur 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

Dear all, As announced earlier [1], the Access to Knowledge team at the Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore in India has been supporting Wikimedia activities in India. Here are a few blog post updates on the recent events, education program workshops as well as the Access to Knowledge program plan. Please do have a look and post your feedback on how we could do things better! All Wikipedia - Access to Knowledge posts are filed here: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog Recent updates: # Gujarat Wikipedia outreach and education program: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/gujarati-wikipedia-education-program-raj… # Malayalam Wikipedia education program update http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/malayalam-wikipedia-education-program-au… # Launch of the Assamese Wikipedia education program: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/launch-of-assamese-wikipedia-education-p… # Wikipedia workshop @ Inmantec College, Ghaziabad: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-workshop-ghaziabad # Bengaluru: A Hub for Kannada and Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects!: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/bengaluru-a-substratum-to-kannada-and-sa… # Access to Knowledge program plan: http://cis-india.org/a2k/access-to-knowledge-program-plan Thank you, Best Noopur Raval Programme Officer Access to Knowledge Center for Internet and Society, Bangalore India http://cis-india.org/ Links: ------ [1] http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/288555?do=post_view_t…

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 44 -- 29 October 2012
by Wikipedia Signpost 31 Oct '12

31 Oct '12

News and notes: First chickens come home to roost for FDC funding applicants; WMF board discusses governance issues and scope of programs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-29/News_a… WikiProject report: In recognition of... WikiProject Military History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-29/WikiPr… Featured content: On the road again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-29/Featur… Technology report: Improved video support imminent and Wikidata.org live http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-29/Techno… Recent research: WP governance informal; community as social network; efficiency of recruitment and content production; Rorschach news http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-29/Recent… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-29 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 Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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Upcoming Survey, Feedback requested, and Office Hour
by Christine Moellenberndt 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

*Hi everyone, It's been a bit since I last emailed this list (or any list, for that matter!)... you may remember me, I worked at the Foundation last year in the Community Department, working with Philippe on any number of issues, as well as with the OTRS team. I've come back to work on a short term project with the Foundation, and I have to say it's great to be back! (and a great break from my Master's thesis!) We're getting ready to run the next version of the Editor Survey, for August 2012. This will be the third incarnation we've run since 2011. As with the prior incarnations of the survey, we'll be looking at a variety of topics, this time with the goal of not only understanding your needs and pressing issues while interacting with fellow editors, but also focusing on editors' satisfaction with the work of the Foundation. The last time we ran an editor survey, it was completed by over 6,000 respondents. When you break that down, it means that each minute of time demanded by the survey corresponds to 100 hours of Wikipedians' time. We want to make sure that this time is spent wisely, ensuring that the questions we have are worded clearly, don't cause confusion, and will generate meaningful answers. So we'd like to ask you to take a look at the survey, and give us feedback on the questions. You can find them here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_August_201… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:Wikipedia_Editor_Surv…> ... and please leave your feedback on the talk page there so we can keep the discussion in one place :) You can find out more information about the survey here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Editor_Survey_August_2012 Also, we are planning an IRC Office Hour on the survey, this **Tuesday, July 31 at 1700 UTC.** (See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hoursfor general information about IRC Office hours) I know there has been some discussion about offering Office Hours in a broader range of times, and I know this time may not be the greatest for some... but this was the best time we could find currently. Thanks everyone!! -Christine Wikimedia Foundation*

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia UK report - September 2012
by Stevie Benton 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Hello everyone, Please find below Wikimedia UK's report for September 2012. The text of the whole report is posted in the email due to numerous requests for this. You can also view the report on the WMUK wiki at https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2012/September - and this wiki version includes all hyperlinks and images (which aren't included below). If you have any comments or questions please do let me know. Thanks and regards, Stevie Below is the Wikimedia UK monthly report for the period 1 to 31 September 2012. If you want to keep up with the chapter's activities as they happen, please subscribe to our blog, join our mailing list, and/or follow us on Twitter. If you have any questions or comments, please drop us a line on this report's talk page. *Community* *Editor decline* Wikipedia reaches a turning point: it's losing administrators faster than it can appoint them, Telegraph Blogs, 5 September *Jimmy Wales* Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales attacks government's 'snooper's charter', Guardian, 5 September Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia will use encryption to beat snooper's charter, Telegraph, 6 September Also see WMUK's Submission on Communications Data Bill on the UK wiki. *Philip Roth* Philip Roth 'not a credible source to edit his own novel's Wikipedia page', Telegraph, 7 September How Philip Roth Outfoxed Wikipedia’s Idiotic Rules, Gizmodo, 8 September Author Roth rebukes Wikipedia over Human Stain edit, BBC News, 8 September Boot up: Bezos on profit, Pirates' German problems, Windows Phone's lost SDK and more (includes Roth on Wikipedia), Guardian blog, 10 September Philip Roth's complaint to Wikipedia, Guardian, 11 September Philip Roth knows his own book but let's not judge Wikipedia harshly, Independent, 12 September *Political edits* Grant Shapps 'edited Wikipedia page to remove school records', Telegraph, 9 September Top Tory 'airbrushed his Wikipedia page', new chairman 'deleted political gaffes and altered exam details', Daily Mail, 9 September Tory MPs fiddling with their Wikipedia entries: Grant Shapps is just the tip of the iceberg, Telegraph blogs, 10 September Grant Shapps's Wikipedia page was edited to remove byelection gaffe, Guardian, 11 September *Gender bias* Wikipedia editors' gender visualised, Guardian, 11 September *Wikitravel* Wikitravel versus Wikimedia: something is going badly wrong with the free content movement, Telegraph, 11 September *GLAM activities* See also the This Month in GLAM UK report for this month. *Wikipedia Takes Coventry* Wikipedia Takes Coventry was the first Wikipedia Takes... event in the UK Interview with Erin Hollis and Harry Mitchell on Wikipedia Takes Coventry BBC Coventry and Warwickshire (1 September 2012) Clock is ticking for scavengers to capture Coventry Leamington Courier (1 September 2012) Also: Kenilworth Weekly and Warwick Courier *Other activities* Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon at the library of the Royal Society, BoingBoung, 5 September *Expert outreach* Delete the Wiki worries and get close to the edit Times Higher Education, 20 September *Microgrants approved this month include ...* An extension to the Operation Barras and Operation Flavius microgrant for source material for getting w:en:Operation Flavius and w:en:Operation Barras to featured article status. Operation Barras is now going through A-class review, and is expected to reach FA status without too many problems. Our thanks go to HJ Mitchell for his valuable work putting time into these articles! *UK press coverage (and coverage of UK projects & activities)* There has been a substantial amount of media coverage during over the last couple of months. The online coverage has been aggregated into a PDF file that includes links to the articles. Topics include Ada Lovelace Day, Monmouthpedia and Gibraltarpedia, Mentions of Wikipedia articles, Wikipedia Zero, Jimmy Wales, GLAM Camp London, EduWiki, our relationship with the PR industry and a collaboration with Know How Non-Profit. You can see the full list on the UK wiki. We also published the following blog posts in September: Three months as a Wikipedian in Residence, by Andrew Gray EduWiki kicks off amid great anticipation by Stevie Benton Board update (notification that Joscelyn Upendran had stood down from the Board) Wikipedia Takes Coventry - the winners! by User:Rock drum EduWiki 2012 - a review by Martin Poulter Wikimedia UK appoints Saad Choudri to its Board by Chris Keating Board update (notification that Roger Bamkin had stood down from the Board) Gibraltarpedia: WMUK press release (with clarifications about the project) First ever Wikimedia UK intern waves goodbye by Isabelle Yates Joint statement from Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK (announcing the independent review into WMUK governance) *Activities in October* 01 - Wikipedia and images workshop/October 2012 01 - Board meeting (TBC) - call 01 - Conference Committee meeting (postponed from 24 September) 02 - Imperial College Wikipedia Society Freshers' Fair 02 - 03 - Cambridge University Wikipedia Society launch at the Freshers' Fair 04 - Robin Owain meeting Dr. Ted Jones, Digitisation on Demand from the National Library of Wales about work with Wikimedia UK 08 - Wikipedia talk and training workshop at the University of Oxford 08 - JISC Digital Infrastructure Team workshop, London 11 - Parkinson's UK Wikipedia training 12 - AHRC Wikipedia training workshop at the British Library 13 - 14 - Fæ and Andy Mabbett separately addressing the Central and Eastern Europe Wikimedia conference. 14 - London meetup 15 - Roger Bamkin speaking at the Oxford Internet Institute 16 - Roger Bamkin speaking at De Montfort University 19 - Ada Lovelace Day event 21 - Coventry meetup 23-26 - Dunhuang Project editathon, British Library 26 - Black History Month event 26 - Women in Science editathon, Oxford 27 - 28 - Train the trainer workshop, October 2012 28 - Cambridge meetup For events in November and onwards, please see Events. *Finances* The current state of each of our budgets is outlined in a Google Spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org.uk/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkP38YPQ7Tg…. This details spend to date, and a rough estimate of future spending. This spreadsheet is too complex to be placed directly on a wiki. Our yearly spend is heavily 'end-loaded', partially due to the rapid growth of Wikimedia UK. Although we may underspend in one or two budgets, the next few weeks will see a refocussed effort, led by a committee of editors, to work out how they would best like to spend this underspend. We also expect to be moving money between some budgets in the not too distant future. *News from the Chief Exec* For information on Jon's activities this month, see News from the Office. The updates about the Wikimedia UK Interns can be found there too, together with here. *Communications* There were some notable communications successes this month. Both the EduWiki conference and our work around Ada Lovelace Day attracted a good deal of positive media attention. You can see the full breakdown of press coverage in the report linked to in the UK press coverage section above. In other ways this has been a challenging month in terms of communications and it was unfortunate timing that our Communications Organiser was on annual leave for the second half of the month. There have been appointments and departures on our Board of Trustees and the announcement of an independent review into Wikimedia UK's governance. There has been much conflation and presumption at the heart of much of the media coverage, both in terms of Roger's resignation and the announcement of the review, that it has been difficult to be clear and factual about what has actually taken place. In many ways September was something of a gift to our critics because of the perception of events - regardless of what those events actually were. Moving forward, we need to be more secure in making our own voice heard in amongst the media hubbub. *Fundraising and Membership* *Fundraising* This month, we received £1,258.35 in one-off donations, with 68 individual donations. The average donation amount was £18.50 - 63% of these donors have had Gift Aid Declarations made and matched with their records. If anyone would like a full (but anonymised) csv file with more information, please get in touch with katherine.bavagewikimedia.org.uk and let her know your requirements. As for direct debit donations, there were 6026 successful direct debits this month, bringing in a total of £24,765. *Membership* Up to 30th September 2012: 214 new (membership commenced in preceding three months) and current members 41 'grace' members (membership within six months after date membership should be renewed) This adds up to 255 members who are eligible to vote 152 Expired members Katherine is developing HTML templates for welcome emails for new and renewing members to sign-post them to resources and information and will be scheduling a regular job to email members who have renewed (monthly) and newly approved (post-board meetings). -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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Fwd: [altmetrics:21] SF hackathon
by James Salsman 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Apparently I am moderated on wikimedia-sf. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:56 PM Subject: Fwd: [altmetrics:21] SF hackathon To: San Francisco Wikimedians <wikimedia-sf(a)lists.wikimedia.org> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jason Priem <jp(a)jasonpriem.org> Date: Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:58 PM Subject: [altmetrics:21] SF hackathon To: altmetrics(a)googlegroups.com If you're in the Bay Area November 3rd, check out the altmetrics hackathon at PLOS. lots of good folks already scheduled to be there. Would love to have some more! http://altmetricshackathon2012.eventbrite.com/ -- Jason Priem UNC Royster Scholar School of Information and Library Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Jamaican editathon
by Richard Symonds 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

All, We've had an email from a gentleman at an educational institution in Jamaica, who'd like to run an editathon. He's contacted Wikimedia UK as a starting point, presumably because of the shared history: but we can't do a great deal more than send him some booklets, etc, by post. He's simply too far away! Are there any individuals or chapters (or the WMF) based nearby who could help? All the best, Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*

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Romney and copyright
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 29 Oct '12

29 Oct '12

If the question is indiscreet/offtopic forgive me and ignore it/more it another list, but: what are Romney's views on copyright? I read on today's Financial Times Europe (p. 4) that he has a couple millions dollars invested on Hollywood funds, so is it pessimistic to say that he must hold horrible positions on copyright? Nemo

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Four Board resolutions from 26 October 2012
by Bishakha Datta 28 Oct '12

28 Oct '12

Dear all, The following resolutions, which were passed at the in-person Board meeting of 26 October, have now been published. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:HR_Committee_Charter This resolution approves the charter for the Human Resources Committee. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Audit_Committee_Charter This resolution approves the charter for the Audit Committee. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Committee_appointments This resolution approves the appointment of Trustees to serve on Board committees and Board-created committees. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Legal_Fees_Assistance_Program This resolution approves the Legal Fees Assistance Program. Best to all, Bishakha

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Minutes of 11 July Board meeting, Agenda of 26-27 Oct Board meeting
by Bishakha Datta 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

Dear all, The minutes of our board meeting of 11 July 2012 were ratified yesterday, and have been published at: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2012-07-11 The agenda of our board meeting of 26-27 October 2012 (ongoing) has now been published at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_meetings#October_26-27.2C_2012 Questions and comments, as always, are welcome. Best Bishakha

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Thanking Matt Halprin
by Kat Walsh 27 Oct '12

27 Oct '12

At this point, as his term will finish in December and this is his last meeting as a member of the board, I would like to thank Matt Halprin for all of his work with the Wikimedia Board of Trustees. Over the past three years, Matt has contributed greatly to our organization, bringing with him a level of professionalism and experience which helped us tremendously while he chaired the Board Governance Committee. Though this is goodbye from his formal position within the Foundation, his commitment to our mission and values has made him a great colleague, and I hope we will continue to see him within the Wikimedia movement. Thank you, Matt. -Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia free: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate Web: http://www.mindspillage.org Email: kat(a)wikimedia.org, kat(a)mindspillage.org (G)AIM, Freenode, gchat, identi.ca, twitter, various social sites: mindspillage

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