Wikimedia-l February 2012

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[Foundation-l] Journal Boycott
by Fred Bauder 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

"Elsevier is emblematic of an abusive publishing industry. "The government pays me and other scientists to produce work, and we give it away to private entities," says Brett S. Abrahams, an assistant professor of genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. "Then they charge us to read it." Mr. Abrahams signed the pledge on Tuesday after reading about it on Facebook." http://chronicle.com/article/As-Journal-Boycott-Grows/130600/ http://thecostofknowledge.com/ "Elsevier has supported a proposed federal law, the Research Works Act (HR 3699), that could prevent agencies like the National Institutes of Health from making all articles written by grant recipients freely available." http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:h.r.03699: "Research Works Act - Prohibits a federal agency from adopting, maintaining, continuing, or otherwise engaging in any policy, program, or other activity that: (1) causes, permits, or authorizes network dissemination of any private-sector research work without the prior consent of the publisher; or (2) requires that any actual or prospective author, or the author's employer, assent to such network dissemination. Defines "private-sector research work" as an article intended to be published in a scholarly or scientific publication, or any version of such an article, that is not a work of the U.S. government, describing or interpreting research funded in whole or in part by a federal agency and to which a commercial or nonprofit publisher has made or has entered into an arrangement to make a value-added contribution, including peer review or editing, but does not include progress reports or raw data outputs routinely required to be created for and submitted directly to a funding agency in the course of research." Fred

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Re: [Foundation-l] Fw: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links
by Fred Bauder 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

> To list! > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > > -----Original Message----- > From: dgerard(a)gmail.com > Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:46:58 > To: BÃ©ria Lima<berialima(a)gmail.com> > Reply-To: dgerard(a)gmail.com > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal > data through edit links > > 3 months I can live with :-) Can someone from WMF just confirm what data > is kept for how long? > > > - d. The exact time is confidential. Fred

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[Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links
by Teofilo 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links I have started a strike to protest against the collection of personal information through edit links. I won't edit articles with articleFeedbackv5_ct_token= ids in their URLs, as has become the case with the English Wikipedia article Costa Concordia disaster. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5… Also it is becoming uncomfortable to edit section 0 of an article. On a normal wiki article, to edit section 0, one copy-pastes the edit link of section 1 and changes "1" into "0". This is no longer possible in a reliable enough way, as the effect of changing the URL becomes obscure. If you started editing Wikipedia trusting that the WMF would not collect personal data beyond the strict minimum that is necessary to create an encyclopedia, you might be disappointed like I am. An other problem is that the contents of those URLs are "leaked" at least to your own Internet Service Provider (like any URL), and potentially to all websites you are browsing, as they become part of your browser history, untill you clear your browser history. And please don't tell me that those URLs are harmless. I don't wan't to edit a faith-based website. I want to edit a website without obscure features.

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Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links
by Fred Bauder 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

A US law would affect only US providers; however the National Security Agency is already authorized to monitor all other internet traffic, and other communications traffic, in the world. They have complex search algorithms that single out individual messages based on their security priorities. Fred > Correct if I'm wrong (And i'm probably wrong) but that would work for every > single site if approved, so why strike only Wikipedia? I would stop use internet altogether. :P > _____ > *Béria Lima* > <http://wikimedia.pt/>(351) 925 171 484 > > *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>* > > > On 4 February 2012 13:46, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote: > >> > Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links >> >> See http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10448060-38.html >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> >

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[Foundation-l] Fw: Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links
by dgerard＠gmail.com 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

To list! Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -----Original Message----- From: dgerard(a)gmail.com Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 16:46:58 To: BÃ©ria Lima<berialima(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: dgerard(a)gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links 3 months I can live with :-) Can someone from WMF just confirm what data is kept for how long? - d. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

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Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links
by Fred Bauder 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

> FWIW, I know our devs are not at all keen to keep personal data even > sitting around - even checkuser data is cleared after six months, I > think. What is the current policy? > > > - d. About right. Keeping personal data creates disclosure problems with children under 13. Fred

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Re: [Foundation-l] Strike against the collection of personal data through edit links
by dgerard＠gmail.com 04 Feb '12

04 Feb '12

FWIW, I know our devs are not at all keen to keep personal data even sitting around - even checkuser data is cleared after six months, I think. What is the current policy? - d. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

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[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Language committee report - January 2012
by Robin Pepermans 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

See the wiki version here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee/Reports/2012-01 This is the language committee report for January 2012 (and also December 2011). === 2011 report === * MF-Warburg wrote a relevant report for the year 2011, see <http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:News/2011_report>. === Approvals === * The Wikipedia in Veps (a Uralic language spoken by about 6,000 people) has been created. <http://vep.wikipedia.org/> * The Wiktionary in Punjabi (in Shahmukhi script) has been created. <http://pnb.wiktionary.org/> * The Wikisource in Marathi has been created. There is a bit of content on the OldWikisource (that still needs to be transferred). However, the Maharashtra Government has promised to provide free content for the Marathi Wikisource. <http://mr.wikisource.org/> * The Wikipedia in Lezgian (a Northeast Caucasian language spoken by about 784,000 people) is approved by the committee. <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Lezgi> === Requests === * Some discussion about the Belarusian Wikisource request. It is very active, but the issue is that it be in both the official and Taraskevica orthography. <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikisource_Belaru…> * There is a request for a Wikiquote in Oriya/Odia, however there is concern about the language/orthography used on Oriya projects. <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikiquote_Oriya> _______________________________________________ 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] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Hungary Report - January 2012
by Bence Damokos 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

Dear all, The January 2012 report of Wikimedia Hungary is now available at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma… . For your convenience, it is reproduced below. Best regards, Bence Damokos, Wikimedia Hungary *Wikimedia Hungary Report* *Vol 5 Issue 1* *January 2011* *Prepared by: Bence Damokos* This is an update on Wikimédia Magyarország's activities covering January 2012. Reports covering the September - December 2011 period have been prepared but due to a server crash<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma…> they will only be released at a later time. Meetings During the month of January we had one general membership meetup and a board meeting. The membership meetup was aimed at community building and discussing ongoing projects and ideas. The main reason for the board meeting was to admit three new members. With the admission of the newest members, Wikimedia Hungary now has 60 members. Employee January has been a great leap professionally for Wikimedia Hungary by hiring Tamás Mészöly as our office manager in charge of most administrative duties and special projects we assign to him. He has started working at the end of December, but due to holidays, January was his first full month. His first main tasks have been setting up the office (telephone, printer, access to the bank account), working with our accountant, members and board on closing the books on 2011 and as gesture towards our partners, ordering and sending out our greetings cards. Server crash On or around 11 January the RAID controller component of a server hosting our websites and a number of web services (like our membership application form, among others) has crashed and due to an error of the replacement controller some data has been corrupted. We have already migrated essential services (like e-mail) to our own server<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Ma…>, and are working on restoring and recreating the content that was stored on the crashed server (and obviously, implementing an off-site backup solution). In the mean time, wikimedia.hu redirects to our Meta-Wiki page<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_Magyarorsz%C3%A1g> . Zagreb trip Wikimedia Hungary has received much help from its partners in previous years and we wanted to contribute back this year by encouraging the self-organization of Wikimedia communities in the neighbouring countries and supporting the participation of Wikipedians in the neighbouring regions in Hungarian and regional Wikimedia events. It is this theme that the independently conceived idea of a Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees–Chapters Committee<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Committee> trips to the region fit into; and as the first step, Ting Chen from the Board of Trustees, and Miloš Rančić (Wikimedia Serbia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Serbia>) and Bence Damokos (Wikimedia Hungary) from the Chapters Committee visited Zagreb between 20-22 January. On the trip they made contact with and between the local Wikipedians, who have already founded the not-yet-recognized Wikimedia Croatia chapter and a local hackerspace organization called MAMA. The visitors tried to encourage Croatian Wikipedians to have regular meetups (possibly facilitated by a travel costs grant from the Wikimedia Foundation) and to restart the recognition process of Wikimedia Croatia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Croatia> . The next destination is Slovenia<http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Pod_lipo#Obisk_iz_Wikimedie>, which we will visit on the weekend of 26 February, on the 10th anniversary celebration<http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:V_%C5%BEivo/Desetletnica> of the Slovenian Wikipedia. Ongoing projects and project ideas In January a number of projects have started life in the discussion phase and some have gotten to later stages of completeness, however, they will only bear fruit at later times. - We have started working on replenishing our supply of smaller value goody items (pens, pencils, yo-yos, etc.), which will probably continue in February once we find a printer who can confidently print on curving surfaces (for the pencils and other round items we were considering). - We have offered six partial scholarships<http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships> for Wikimania 2012, and have approved one travel support request to the Open Wiki GLAM of Serbia<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Wiki_GLAM_of_Serbia> event in February. - Based on the suggestions of Wikimedia Estonia to have a dedicated workshop in the summer, we have begun thinking on what resources we could mobilize to help the development of Wikipedias in Finno-Ugric languages (e.g. presentations at conferences, getting students involved, etc.). - We also had started discussing the idea of a joint Estonian-Hungarian article writing competition on Wikipedia. - Finally, a call<http://szoc.bme.hu/sites/default/files/Wikim%C3%A9dia-gyakornok.pdf> was issued for a PR&Communications intern position. _______________________________________________ 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] Vice President?
by MZMcBride 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Hi. Erik took on the temporary title "VP of Engineering and Product Development" after Danese left.[1] Just recently it was codified on wmfwiki.[2] I don't really think much of job titles anywhere, but it seems strange to have a Vice President without having a President.[3] Mostly just noting for posterity. MZMcBride [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-June/054040.html [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?diff=78986&oldid=78985 [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors

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