"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
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.
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
>>
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> 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
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.
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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.
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