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Fwd: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use
by Itzik Edri 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

cross-posting ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tomer Ashur <tomerashur(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:27 PM Subject: [Internal-l] Israeli Government to Release its images under a free license for public use To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all, I am very proud to announce that Wikimedia Israel just won one of its main struggles. The Israeli government has announced[1] that all imaged in which the state is the copyrights holder and that were uploaded to the government's websites can be freely used with the following restrictions: 1. The image will be attributed to the state of Israel (or the relevant office) 2. The user cannot change the license (Share-alike) 3. No derivative work. 4. Each office will create a policy about commercial use (i.e., commercial use is allowed, unless otherwise specified). Wikimedia Israel has pushed for this change since 2010, when MK Meir Sheetrit proposed an amendment for the Israeli copyright act. The chapter pushed for the acceptance of this amendment by the Knesset (the Israeli parliament). During this time, we were able to make a complete shift in the paradigms employed by the government and government officials. From being strong opposers to the bill, they become adopters of the changes, thus making the bill itself, redundant. Now, a new struggle begins - Wikimedia Israel will work to remove the ND clause from the decision, and will make sure that all government offices publish their policy as required. Nonetheless, this is still a huge achievement, the government has accepted the importance of free culture in modern world. On a personal note, as the leader of this project, I wish to send my many thanks to all of those who made this miracle happen. A special thanks is due to the great people of the Israeli Internet society, the (just as great) people of Creative commons Israel, Adv. Jonathan Klinger, Mathias Schindler, the awsome volunteers of Wikimedia Israel and the editors of Hebrew Wikipedia. If there's anyone I forgot by name - my apologies, I'm still terribly excited of these news. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here or send me a private email, Tomer Ashur Chairman Wikimedia Israel [1] http://www.pmo.gov.il/Secretary/GovDecisions/2012/Pages/des5268.aspx _______________________________________________ Internal-l mailing list Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l

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Wikivoyage logo caption
by James Heilman 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Hello all We are discussing what text should accompany our logo. We have a straw poll up and running. The hope is to officially launch on Wikipedia's birthday so a little pressed for time. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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Fwd: Open Definition forges ahead - get involved!
by Everton Zanella Alvarenga 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

You are welcome. Best, Tom ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mike Linksvayer <ml(a)gondwanaland.com> Date: 2012/12/17 Subject: [open-government] Open Definition forges ahead - get involved! To: od-discuss(a)lists.okfn.org Cc: Open Government WG List <open-government(a)lists.okfn.org>, Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list <okfn-discuss(a)lists.okfn.org> Text below my name copied from http://opendefinition.org/2012/12/17/open-definition-forges-ahead-get-invol… 2013 will be an important year for Open. If you'd like to get involved at the meta level, there are a bunch of ways to do so via Open Definition work. I encourage sending this call to ought-to-be-interested people. I've copied okfn-discuss and open-government here for generality and because many of the licenses we're discussing now and are from governments. Look forward to a 2012 in review post. Mike http://opendefinition.org (OD) is one of the first projects that the the Open Knowledge Foundation created. Its purpose has been to provide, promote -- and protect -- a meaningful Open in Open Data and Open Content. It does this primarily through curating the Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) -- http://opendefinition.org/okd working with license stewards to ensure new licenses intending to be open are clearly so, and keeping lists of licenses that conform to the OKD, and those that do not -- providing any entity intending to create an open project, or mandate "open" in policy, with a clear reference as to which licenses will achieve their aims. With the growth in "open" and especially of open data initiatives in the last few years there has been an increasing amount for the project to do especially in terms of reviewing and evaluating licenses. For 2013 we see several important areas of work: * OKD v1.2 -- https://github.com/okfn/opendefinition/blob/master/source/open-knowledge-de… -- we've seen license conditions cropping up that are certainly contrary to the spirit of the definition and implicitly non-conformant. It ought be possible for anyone with some understanding of public licenses to do a quick read of the definition and understand its meaning for a particular license without having to know all of the history of open definitions and licenses. * Review important new licenses and license versions for OKD compliance, e.g. Open Government License Canada, and version 4.0 of CC-BY and CC-BY-SA. * Moving linguistic translations into a git repository for better review and updating. * Improve explanations and graphics available on the OD site for anyone who wants to learn about open knowledge and services, and proudly announce to the world that their projects are open. * Extend our work on license APIs that provide information about open licenses at http://licenses.opendefinition.org and integrate with the main OD site; also look to cooperate with other projects eg https://spdx.org/licenses/ and https://licensedb.org/ providing Linked Open Data about licenses. * Provide regular updates about OD work to the broader OKFN network, open communities, and general public. * Develop a version git-based repository of license texts so they can be tracked over time * Growing out of discussions from http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-discuss/2006-October/000177.html and http://blog.okfn.org/2007/07/18/we-need-an-open-service-definition/ the OD project developed the Open Software Service Definition (OSSD) -- http://opendefinition.org/software-service/ -- recognizing the complementarity of open content and data (knowledge) and open source web platforms and other network services that open knowledge is created, curated, and distributed on. The OSSD hasn't been touched in a long time, but software services (some of them called "the cloud") have become more important than ever, including in domains nearest to the OKFN community's most active work, such as platforms used by and for open government. Shall we update the OSSD and revitalize evangelism for open services, or declare not a core competency, and look to other groups to take leadership? If you're a legal or policy expert, software freedom advocate, linked data hacker, translator, designer, communications maven -- and want to go "meta" about openness, we could use your help! Join the od-discuss mailing list -- http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/od-discuss -- and pitch into the discussion, start a new one, or lurk until you're ready. Final decisions about license conformance and definition updates are made by the http://opendefinition.org/advisory-council/ ... this is not a big time commitment, but it is a big responsibility. If you'd like to join the AC someday, join od-discuss today. We're especially keen to have AC members from every continent. Currently we only have Europe and North America, and recognize that's a big problem for the long-term impact of the Open Definition project. Especially if you're from the global South and care about the fundamentals of openness, please join od-discuss and http://opendefinition.org/contact/ ! _______________________________________________ open-government mailing list open-government(a)lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-government Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/open-government

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next Wikidata office hours
by Lydia Pintscher 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Heya :) On 18 December Denny and I will do the next round of Wikidata office hours. Everyone with questions about Wikidata is welcome. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Events#IRC_office_hours Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Office hours with the mobile team
by Maryana Pinchuk 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Hi all, This Thursday at 18:00 UTC (10 a.m. PST) the mobile development, design, and product team will be hosting IRC office hours. In addition to general introductions and Q&A, we'd like to spend some time talking about our current work – bringing contributory features like editing and image uploads to mobile devices. Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hoursformo… details. Thanks, and hope to see you in #wikimedia-office on Thursday! -- Maryana Pinchuk Associate Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF grants for individuals
by Siko Bouterse 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:42 PM, <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org<wikimedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > Anasuya will be responsible for running all grantmaking processes (for > > both individuals and entities) and for helping movement entities, like > > chapters and thematic organizations, to develop and mature. Reporting > > to Anasuya will be Asaf Bartov, Jessie Wild, Oona Castro and Siko > > Bouterse, as well as a Senior Program Officer for the FDC (a new > > position that will be filled within the next month or so). > > * The Senior Program Officer will be responsible for facilitating the > > FDC process, which recommends funding allocations for the largest and > > wealthiest Wikimedia organizations such as Wikimedia Germany and > > Wikimedia France. > > * Asaf continues to be responsible for the Wikimedia Grants Program, > > supporting younger, smaller Wikimedia organizations like Wikimedia > > Venezuela and Wikimedia Mexico, and for finding non-Wikimedia > > organizations that we can fund to carry out good programmatic > > activities in developing countries, particularly where there are no > > chapters. > > * Jessie will be responsible for evaluation and learning for all our > > grantmaking --- both helping us internally optimize our processes, and > > helping us and the grant recipients assess organizations? development > > (for Anasuya) and the impact of the programs funded by movement > > dollars (for Frank). > > * Oona will continue to run the Brazil program. Consistent with the > > Narrowing Focus plan, she is actively seeking a partner to continue > > the work in Brazil within a grants structure similar to the one we > > recently negotiated with CIS in India. > > * Siko is taking over responsibility from Asaf for all funding for > > individuals. This will make it possible for us to grow our individual > > grant-making, and it will also free up Asaf to do more small > > organization development. Siko will also be responsible for > > documentation and analysis of all grants except the ones funded by the > > FDC. It?s important for us to grow grantmaking to individuals because > > individuals create 99% of the value in the projects. They do it with > > practically no funding, but in some cases a little money will be able > > to make something great happen. > Hi all, As Sue mentioned, we're looking at growing WMF's grant-making to individuals. This allows us to accomplish the goals of narrowing focus (on WMF's capacity as grant-makers, in this case), while finding new ways to support projects led by individual community members. Some more specifics are on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Individual_Engagement_Grants Please share your thoughts on-wiki if possible. Thanks! -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!*

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising updates?
by James Salsman 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Hi Zack, Thanks very much for your updates: > What saved us was taking text from the personal appeals and putting it into > the banner itself. These banners did very well. These new message-driven > banners are what made us split the campaign in two -- because we knew we > were going to develop a lot of new messages and not have time to translate > them well.... As you know I've been saying for years that the variance among the volunteer-supplied messages, originally submitted in 2009 and hundreds of which have not yet been tested (as far as I know), was large enough to suggest that some messages would certainly outperform the traditional banners and appeals. While it's refreshing to be validated, as you might imagine I feel like Cassandra much of the time for reasons that have nothing to do with the underlying mathematical reasoning involved. The last time I heard from you, you said that you intended to test the untried messaging from 2009 with multivariate analysis. However, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2012/We_Need_A_Breakthrough shows only three very small-N multivariate tests, the last of which was in October, and no recent testing. Do you still intend to test the untried volunteer-submitted messages with multivariate analysis? If so, when? Thank you. Sincerely, James Salsman

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"Wikipedia in the classroom" in Guarani language
by Osmar Valdebenito 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

This week, Wikimedia Argentina published the first edition of "Vikipetã mbo'eha kotýpe" [1], "Wikipedia in the classroom" in Guarani, an indigenous language spoken in Northern Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. It is the first Wikipedia related publication made in an American indigenous language. The goal of “Wikipedia in the classroom”, made originally in Spanish, is to help teachers to understand what is Wikipedia, how it works and how they can use it in an useful way. Most students already use Wikipedia so it is really important that teachers know what to do. “Wikipedia in the classroom” is an initiative launched in 2010 by Wikimedia Argentina with the support of different institutions, including the Education portal of the Argentine government, educ.ar. They released an special website about the project.[2] Wikimedia Argentina will print 500 booklets of the Guarani edition to be distributed in schools and other educational institutions, and we expect to publish new editions in other indigenous languages in 2013. Kind regards, Osmar Valdebenito G. Director Ejecutivo A. C. Wikimedia Argentina [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vikipet%C3%A3_mbo%27eha_kot%C3%BDpe… [2] http://wikipediaenelaula.educ.ar/

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Fundraising updates?
by Itzik Edri 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Hi, Could we get some updates (or that I missed them?) about how the fundraising goes? WMF and Chapters will be great. Since we only focus on few countries this year, the discussions regarding it is very low, but it still very interesting to know how much we collect and how the banners works (and which one of them). Thanks, Itzik

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brief WMDE fundraising update
by Michael Jahn 17 Dec '12

17 Dec '12

Dear all, just a brief update from Wikimedia Deutschland on our current fundraising campaign. It's been running since November 13, involving variations of facts banners in combination with personal appeals. We're on track to reaching our campaign goal of around € 5 m. by the end of this year. The personal appeals appear as drop-down messages along our donation form, once readers click on the sticking facts banners.The appeals include messages from Wikipedians, donors, readers and WMDE staff. In short, we're combining facts with changing elements. As in past years, a personal message by Jimmy is one of the personal appeals. Unlike past years, various other appeals are performing well enough for us to be able to significantly reduce Jimmy's presence, favoring a more diverserepresentation of the people behind Wikipedia. Note, however, that these observations are to be evaluated in the context of thefacts bannersattracting attention first. More detailed information will follow as soon as reliable figures are available. One more thing: We created a short video clip as a further means todiversifying our campaign approach. It's a 2 min. piece that we produced with a small team while the campaign got off the ground in late November. It features Wikipedia readers who talk about their favorite Wikipedia word, capped off by our CEOPavel Richter. In essence, he points to the fact that we've come to take Wikipedia for granted and why we all should support it. We've been using the video since last Wednesday, interchangeably with text appeals. Again, no in-depth evaluation (not while the campaign is in full swing), but the video seems to be at a performance level with the most effective of our personal appeals. Find the video here. It's in German, though! https://vimeo.com/55612721 Facts and figures to follow. Regards, Michael -- Michael Jahn Public Relations Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de <http://www.wikimedia.de> Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei! *Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition:* http://wikipedia.de/wke/Main_Page?setlang=de 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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