Greetings,
I am pleased to announce that the Midwest region of the United States now has our own email list!
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-mw - wikimedia-us-mw(a)lists.wikimedia.org.
This discussion list allows for individuals in the Midwest US to discuss Wikimedia related collaborations and events. It will also be used to discuss the possible formation of a Midwest US Wikimedia Chapter, already in discussion at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Midwest
The list will also house information on the upcoming Midwest US Meetup at Wikimania 2012: https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Midwest_US_Meetup
I have volunteered to moderate the list at its start. Hopefully as leaders step up for the Midwest, they can be added and take that task on in the future.
I look forward to engaging with folks in discussion there on the future of Wikimedia involvement in the great Midwest!
-greg aka varnent
Recently, the Wikimedia Foundation was approached by the founders of an
organization called the Internet Defense League, which is soon to be
launched. The founders would like the Foundation to join the League.
However, the online community as a whole is the heart of this proposed
grassroots movement and therefore, the Foundation would like guidance from
the community as to whether or not the community feels the Foundation
should join this effort. Please let the Foundation know how you feel at <
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Internet_Defense_League>.
Thanks!
pb
___________________
Philippe Beaudette
Director, Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
415-839-6885, x 6643
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
@Tobias O.:
You are wrong, the day before yesterday
RalfR. wrote,
that only the winners will write history
(Aber es stimmt schon,
der Sieger schreibt die Geschichte, so
falsch das auch sein mag
<http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diskussion:Deutsche_Demokratische…>),
a sentence which was (and is) used in
germany against the
international Nuremberg Trials
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials>
after WWII, (the court-trial against
the Hitlers gang) till today. In RalfRs
opinion, the former goverment
of east germany was not a dictatorship.
If you would take this sentence as
true, no enzyklopaedian would have
written their books.
It looks like as if RalfR. wants to be a
winner...
The posting I wrote to the german
chapter mailinglist, was object to
anonymous censorchip by the german
mailinglist administration,
nevertheless I would never use a word
like bullshit :) :
On Tue, Jun 28, 2012 at 14:32 PM (CET), Paul<paul.m.nz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Ihre Anfrage an die Mailingliste WikiDE-l
>
> Veröffentlichung Ihrer Nachricht betreffend "Re: WikiDE-l
> Nachrichtensammlung, Band 107, Eintrag 10"
>
> wurde vom Listenmoderator mit folgender Begruendung abgewiesen:
>
> "Ihre Nachricht wurde vom Moderator als unangebracht erachtet. Keine
> PAs auf der ML."
>
> Fragen oder Kommentare richten Sie bitte an den Listenadministrator:
>
> wikide-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org
It is not only the writing of RolfR. and
a signifcance part of the
german admins, it is their
far-right-wing political behavior which I
criticize. Till today FrankS., member of
the far-right-group "Schlagende
Verbindung
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_fencing>"
is responsible in the foundation for the
Outreach project.
A bad joke. Another bad joke is the
exclusion of the user Brummfuss,
he was founder of the Nazipedia-Warning
page
<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Brummfuss/Nazipedia>
which listed the
articles with right wing bias writers.
First the page was deleted,
and then Brummfuss
<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Brummfuss>was
deleted.
I will continue to criticize that:
inside and outside of the WP-project.
Thomas7
(Pardon for my bad English).
More informations about the nazi- and
fascistoid problems in the german wikipedia:
http://thomas7.netau.net/
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:55:33 +0200 Tobias Oelgarte<tobias.oelgarte(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> If you only write bullshit like this, then i know why you got blocked. I
> know RalfR in person and he did never advocate anything related to the
> right wing. Considering the given example you are completely
> illusionary. RalfR did not take the image itself but uploaded it to
> Wikiversity under the assumption that it falls under the "Zitatrecht",
> which is not assumed for Wikipedia itself, because the community is not
> 100% (only 90%) sure that it would allow to "cite" such images, roughly
> comparable to fair use on EN.
>
> Whats next - Will you call him also an left wing otaku because he
> suggested to me to write an article about Nagisa Furukawa?[1] Pure nonsense.
>
> [1]
> http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Kurs:Zeichnen_im_Stile_von_Manga_und_Anime_i…
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:42:12 -0700
> From: Jay Walsh<jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] O'Dwyer
> Message-ID:
> <CADmSKuHEtMkr7P2xAjZyhYQSqHnzGw93CTAEF0anCYx1fEFJ+g(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
>>
>>> It would be interesting to see the community develop its own high profile
>>> media contacts so this view can be communicated to the world!
>>>
>>>
>> If Jimmy can write this in The Guardian (a paper which really seems to like
>> him a lot),
>>
>> ---o0o---
>>
>> Together, we won the battle against Sopa and Pipa. Together, we can win
>> this one too.
>>
>> ---o0o---
>>
>> and it ends up copied in newspapers around the world,
>>
>>
>> https://news.google.co.uk/news/story?q=%22Together,+we+won+the+battle+again…
>> .,cf.osb&biw=1066&bih=743&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ncl=dgWkAFmBLjQBsNMJyGJqPnbvsPpkM&sa=X&ei=xXTrT8rQHYqp8QO_hqXVBQ&ved=0CC0QqgIwAA
>>
>> attributed to the Wikipedia founder, then there really is no discernible
>> difference between his view and Wikipedia's, or Google's.
>>
>>
> Hi folks - I'm a bit late to this thread, but I wanted to chime in. The
> Communications Committee list/group brought up the issue of some wildly
> inaccurate headlines on this story over the last 48hrs, and with their help
> and some outreach we've tried to get some corrections.
>
> The press is going to make a very logical, if occasionally wildly
> inaccurate, series of judgements on how to frame this whole topic/issue up.
> Headlines are commonly over-generalized to the point of being dead wrong -
> "Wikipedia backs Richard O'Dwyer petition" etc.
>
> The Wikimedia (chapter etc) folks who work with the press around the world
> are regularly doing everything possible to avoid the overly general
> summaries that come out in the media. We (and certainly WMF) are highly
> sensitive to incorrect facts, and generally the media actually appreciate
> it when we're able to reach out and get corrections. Wikimedians and
> readers of the stories who offer up comments/responses on stories - below
> the story - can help with this too. In some cases we have relationships
> with senior editors at outlets and can get things fixed quickly. In other
> cases timezones and publication timelines make this harder to resolve.
>
> I know how quickly a bad headline can spiral into more headlines and
> echoing of false information. We hold the news outlets who originate those
> stories and the ones that continue to repeat them accountable, and we ask
> them to get it right.
>
> Just wanted to let you know that there's almost always an effort underway
> to get corrections recorded. Jimmy is also very sensitive to these facts
> and frequently when he sees an issue in a story he was interviewed for he
> writes directly to the reporter for a fix.
>
> jay
>
All,
FYI
The Board of Trustees passed a resolution extending and making
permanent the Board Visitors visitors program, which we tried out for
a one-year trial in 2011.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_Visitors_%282012%29
The language is the same as that in the resolution establishing the
trial program:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_visitors
The resolution allows for having up to two visitors per year, who
would attend one meeting apiece. Board visitors sit in on the meeting
they attend for most items, but do not participate in voting or the
board email list.
The intent is that by having visitors the board can learn from
significant contributors and related institutions, while at the same
time related projects and institutions as well as individuals can
learn more about the WMF. The number of visitors and the amount they
can participate is deliberately limited to avoid becoming a
distraction.
Suggestions of potential visitors are welcome and should be made
directly to the board (via me or another trustee).
best,
phoebe
--
* I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers
<at> gmail.com *
The following mail to the mailinglist of
the german chapter
is subject to far-right-wing censorship:
> Damit Landserheft-Foto-Verbreiter
> (http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Datei:Der_Landser.JPG)
> im geschmackvollen Hellbraunhemd
> (http://tinyurl.com/hellbraunes-hemd*)*
> wie RalfR. in der Wikipedia freie Bahn
> haben?
> Ich habe in der Wikipedia geschrieben,
> bevor
> RalfR. da war und werde dort
> schreiben, wenn
> RalfR. und seine Gesinnungsfreunde
> schon weg sind.
> Thomas7 Sieben.
> http://thomas7.netau.net/
>
>
> Am 27.06.2012 , fragte RalfR.:
>> Hat dich jemand nach deiner Meinung
>> gefragt?
> und forderte:
>> Bitte diesen Account von der ML löschen.
My first account in the meta-wikipedia
Thomas7 was blocked
by the far-right-wing member of the
"schlagende verbindung"
FrankS, responsible for the foundations
Outreach-Program, which is itself
a scandal. The german community is
object of a group of people,
mobbing liberal and left-liberals out of
the project, so the thanks-deserving
Brummfus...
Thomas7
http://thomas7.netau.net/
Am 27.06.2012 18:36, schrieb
wikimedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org:
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> 1. Re: TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in title under
> advertising pressure. (Marc A. Pelletier)
> 2. Re: TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in title under
> advertising pressure. (Andreas Kolbe)
> 3. Re: TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in title under
> advertising pressure. (David Gerard)
> 4. Re: TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in title under
> advertising pressure. (David Richfield)
> 5. Re: TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in title under
> advertising pressure. (David Gerard)
> 6. Re: TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in title under
> advertising pressure. (David Richfield)
> 7. Re: TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in title under
> advertising pressure. (David Gerard)
> 8. O'Dwyer (Andreas Kolbe)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:05:43 -0400
> From: "Marc A. Pelletier"<marc(a)uberbox.org>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in
> title under advertising pressure.
> Message-ID:<4FEB0527.7080400(a)uberbox.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> On 27/06/2012 12:10 AM, Anthony wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Kim Bruning<kim(a)bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> The SOPA strike was necessary for us to retain neutrality.
>> Figuratively speaking, or do you think it actually made a whit of difference?
> I'm pretty sure it had an effect; if only that of increased media
> coverage (Wikipedia's visible action did focus much of the coverage).
> To me, at least, it seems evident that the backlash against SOPA was
> stoked by that media coverage.
>
> So yes, I'm pretty sure it did make a difference.
>
> -- Coren / Marc
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:03:53 +0100
> From: Andreas Kolbe<jayen466(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in
> title under advertising pressure.
> Message-ID:
> <CAHRTtW_r9Da4ZzKhGpe+Cxk6r1FQwJGJRyysS9+iFONYikL7ng(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Theo10011<de10011(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So, a chain of events during a 4 month period can not be incidental. What
>> you neglect to mention that there was an annual fundraiser during the end
>> of the year, this was not the first grant Google made to Wikimedia, in
>> fact, it might not even be the second, they donated in the past fundraisers
>> as well, larger amounts I believe. I am thinking of the 2
>> Million received from Google in 2010.
>>
>
> I know Google gave 2 million in 2010, though I am unsure whether that makes
> Google influence less or more likely.
>
> To recap, posters here said that what happened to TV Tropes ? i.e. Google
> influencing their content decisions ? couldn't happen to Wikipedia. That
> seems rather blue-eyed.
>
>
>
>> Now, far be it for me to defend Jimmy, but the central assumption in your
>> polemic is, that jimmy is devoid of caring about any social issues, issues
>> that might even affect the identity he has created. He would have to be
>> paid in order to care, if not Google than someone else paying him off to
>> care, can't it just be that he believes in something? even if there is
>> a perceived threat? I know it might be hard to believe, but people have
>> been known to care about legislation and larger social issues from time to
>> time, and use the platform they have.
>>
>
> I'm sure Jimmy would not have been a friend of SOPA, regardless of what
> Google thought. But I was truly surprised to see Wikipedia jettison its
> "holy of holies" ? NPOV ? in a poll inviting participation from IPs and
> SPAs, and becoming a political actor. Whether the money greased the wheels
> or not, it was the sell-out of a principle many had signed up for.
>
> Scott put it rather well:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_MacDonald
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:08:53 +0100
> From: David Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in
> title under advertising pressure.
> Message-ID:
> <CAJ0tu1GpwdyrA+aZzwZHxAn1eEE7UsYZP529EOcbCUBRKNwQnQ(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> On 27 June 2012 05:59, geni<geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 27 June 2012 05:15, Andreas Kolbe<jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I was actually thinking of the board, or just Jimbo himself, rather than
>>> any wider group of luminaries (or actual Wikipedia editors). If Google
>>> wanted something, I am sure they would speak in person to the people they
>>> have had personal contact with.
>> The problem with your theory is that firstly it assumes a level of
>> control that those people don't have and secondly that you are
>> forgetting that Google is a PLC.
>
> It's already been established that Wikimedia conspires directly with
> Rupert Murdoch's news organisation:
>
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-October/061602.html
>
> - so in comparison, Andreas' claims are *relatively* sane.
>
>
> - d.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:02:36 +0200
> From: David Richfield<davidrichfield(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in
> title under advertising pressure.
> Message-ID:
> <CAE_D4n447Q0Spk9aFMyLADcYU9EgrrSbmWxchdqmLDVBmo8kJQ(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> This must be the most misleading mailing list title I've seen in a
> long time. Almost all of these tropes are untouched:
> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes?fr…
> - it seems they just had a problem with Google withdrawing ad revenue
> because they hadn't clearly demarcated all the pages which were not OK
> according to Google's terms.
>
> With that said, it does make a great case for why Wikimedia should
> remain independent: we have enough to do to ensure the quality of our
> project without also worrying about whether we'll irritate Google.
>
> [[:en:User:Slashme]]
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:10:12 +0100
> From: David Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in
> title under advertising pressure.
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>
> On 27 June 2012 16:02, David Richfield<davidrichfield(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This must be the most misleading mailing list title I've seen in a
>> long time. ?Almost all of these tropes are untouched:
>> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes?fr…
>> - it seems they just had a problem with Google withdrawing ad revenue
>> because they hadn't clearly demarcated all the pages which were not OK
>> according to Google's terms.
>
> This is pretty much completely wrong, as you'd know if you'd read the
> links at the beginning. The pages were already marked "don't put ads
> here". Google objected to their presence on the site at all. The pages
> were removed, the internet said "wtf" and TVtropes has now restored
> them without hearing back from Google.
>
>
> - d.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:30:26 +0200
> From: David Richfield<davidrichfield(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in
> title under advertising pressure.
> Message-ID:
> <CAE_D4n6xkc2r8bt9FCTrZtrziWzqEL=YhMcNzX6WdJxeh+4t4g(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:10 PM, David Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 27 June 2012 16:02, David Richfield<davidrichfield(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This must be the most misleading mailing list title I've seen in a
>>> long time. ?Almost all of these tropes are untouched:
>>> http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SexualHarassmentAndRapeTropes?fr…
>>> - it seems they just had a problem with Google withdrawing ad revenue
>>> because they hadn't clearly demarcated all the pages which were not OK
>>> according to Google's terms.
>>
>> This is pretty much completely wrong, as you'd know if you'd read the
>> links at the beginning. The pages were already marked "don't put ads
>> here". Google objected to their presence on the site at all. The pages
>> were removed, the internet said "wtf" and TVtropes has now restored
>> them without hearing back from Google.
> Wow, they moved fast! I read the blog post and then went to check,
> and found the supposedly deleted articles up, less than a full day
> after the original mailing list email, so I assumed there had to be
> some mistake. How long were the articles actually deleted?
>
Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:05:10 +0100
> From: Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] O'Dwyer
> Message-ID:
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> >
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>
> >
> > Jimmy is not Wikipedia. What about that is hard to understand?
> >
>
> I would have agreed with you half a year ago. But Jimbo decided there would
> be a SOPA blackout, and a SOPA blackout was had. And every press article
> that mentions his campaign for O'Dwyer has the obligatory "Wikipedia
> founder" label. Whether you like it or not, Wikipedia is now associated
> with that effort in the public's eye, for better or worse.
>
> Yes, you can argue it's his right to act as an individual, it's not his
> fault that the press describe him as the Wikipedia founder, etc.
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> SOPA is a bad example, not least because those of the community who
expressed an opinion mostly agreed with Jimmy.
Better examples would be the rumour floated a year or so back that Jimmy
was interested in a Senate seat, and Jimmy's porn purge attempt on
Commons. The senate bid is a good example because the press were able to
differentiate between what Jimmy was planning to do and what Wikipedia was
planning. The porn purge is a good example because it shows what happens
when Jimmy tries to do something on wiki but doesn't take the community
with him. "Jimbo decided there would be a SOPA blackout, and a SOPA
blackout was had" implies that Jimmy has a merely to make a decision and
the community will dutifully obey. Reality is very different.
WSC
Hi!
We've finally gotten everything sorted and we can start the official
search for a Wikidata logo. If you're a skilled artist please read
http://blog.wikimedia.de/2012/06/09/wikidata-needs-a-logo-and-you-can-help/
for details and make a submission. If you're not then please spread
the word to your friends who are ;-)
Cheers
Lydia, who is really looking forward to many rocking submissions
--
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unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hi all,
I ran some analysis last week, to get some numbers out of the
Wikipedia language links. One type of reports that were generated was
the list of all articles in the main namespaces of the Wikipedias that
link to more than one article in another language edition of Wikipedia
(so called double language links). There are not that many of them
(about 19,000 in total), split by language, all available here:
<http://simia.net/languagelinks/>
Double language links are not errors per se, but they contain a few nuisances
* they lead to two links in the language links list that just look the
same (you have to hover over them to see that they link to different
languages), which is not really optimal from the user experience side
* they are not saved in the langlinks table and thus are ignored in
certain reports and also in the respective export
I am not sure how to reach out to the respective Wikipedia
communities, or if I should at all. Should I post to their respective
version of the village pump? Remembering from the time I was active on
the Croatian Wikipedia, I would have appreciated that list to check
the entries. I reckoned the wikipedia-l list would be the right place,
but that list looks rather dead.
Cheers,
Denny
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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.
Wikimedia España and Fundación ONCE have signed a collaborative agreement
aimed to promote the accesibility of the projects hosted by Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc., including internationally famed Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia.
In a first phase of this agreement, reading access to content will be
studied, although it is also contemplated the possibility of people with
disabilities being able to edit Wikipedia.
A team composed of highly qualified personnel in accesibility by Fundación
ONCE and Grupo Fundosa company Technosite, and another in MediaWiki (the
software of Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia) put forward by
Wikimedia España will work coordinately to try to achieve the set purpose.
Even though both teams will initially focus their work in Spanish
Wikipedia, everything possible will be done so that results can be shared
and used in all language Wikipedias.
Wikimedia España
Wikimedia España is a non-profit Spanish association, officialy recognised
by Wikimedia Foundation Inc., as a Wikimedia Chapter in Spain. Its puepose
is to promote, directly or indirectly, all free content initiatives, such
as those hosted and supported by WMF. Wikimedia España promotes free
knowledge especially through the work of volunteers. Its commiment is to
work to achieve a world in which all human beings can access knowledge.
Fundación ONCE
ONCE, in 1988, creates Fundación ONCE for the Cooperation and Social
Inclusion of People with Disabilities. It has as purpose the full inclusion
in society of this collective and the improvement of their quality of life,
through their incorporation to the work market and by doing activities that
support universal accesibility, the design of products and services for
everbody, and access to an independent life. Fundación ONCE has contributed
to create more than 69,000 jobs and has destined to accesibility projects
more than 500 million euros.
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Jorge A. Sierra (aka Lucien leGrey)
Chair, Wikimedia España
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