The following translation are now available for the May 2012
"Wikimedia Highlights", which combine some of the most relevant
information from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia
engineering report for May with a selection of other important events
from the Wikimedia movement. Help is welcome in spreading the
translated versions among the project communities for these languages,
where this has not already been done. Many thanks to all translators!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_May_2012/tr
Mayıs 2012 Vikimedya Vakfı Raporu ve Vikimedya mühendislik raporu ile
diğer önemli Vikimedya hareketi etkinliklerinden oluşan bülten
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_May_2012/ru
Важные новости из отчёта Фонда Викимедиа за май 2012 и технического
отчёта за май 2012 года, с подборкой важнейших событий движения
Викимедиа
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_May_2012/nl
Dit zijn de hoogtepunten uit de Wikimedia Foundationrapportage en de
Wikimedia technische rapportage voor mei 2012, aangevuld met een
selectie van andere belangrijke gebeurtenissen binnen de
Wikimediabeweging.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_May_2012/mk
Значајни новости од Извештајот на Фондацијата Викимедија и
Инженерскиот извештај на Викимедија за месец мај 2012, со избор на
други поважни збиднувања во движењето Викимедија
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_May_2012/ja
2012年5月のウィキメディア財団報告書及びウィキメディア技報の抄録ほかウィキメディア運動の重要行事について
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_May_2012/fr
Temps forts du rapport de la Wikimedia Foundation et du rapport
d’ingénierie Wikimédia pour mai 2012, avec une sélection d’autres
événements importants du mouvement Wikimédia.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_May_2012/da
Hovedpunkter fra Wikimedia Foundations månedsrapport for maj 2012 og
Wikimedias tekniske rapport for maj 2012 med et udvalg af andre
betydningsfulde hændelser i Wikimedia-bevægelsen
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_May_2012/ar
مقتطفات من تقرير مؤسسة ويكيميديا و تقرير القسم التقني في ويكيميديا
لشهر مايو 2012، ومختارات من أحداث هامة من حركة ويكيميديا
Of course further translations continue to be welcome at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_May_2012 .
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Dear all,
a full English translation of Wikimedia Deutschland's 2011 annual report[1]
is available at Wikimedia Commons. Giving you a 40-page equivalent to the
German original report[2] (instead of a summary) is a first for Wikimedia
Deutschland.
[1]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/WMDE_2011_Annual_Report_…
[2]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Wikimedia_Deutschland_T%…
Regards,
Michael
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Michael Jahn
Public Relations / Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
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.
This is great! Forwarding to wikimedia-l.
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Ariel T. Glenn <ariel(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Folks who are interested in downloading tarballs of media for their
> particular project can now do so from:
>
> http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/wikimedia/imagedumps/tarballs/
>
> In this directory you will see two subdirectories, "fulls" and "incrs".
> The way this works is that once a month near the beginning of the month
> we will produce a series of tarballs for each project of media uploaded
> locally and media stored on commons. During the month, at least once
> but hopefully twice, we will produce tarballs containing the files
> uploaded locally or included from commons since the "full" tarball
> date.
>
> No tarballs are being produced for commons itself, given that it's 14T
> and there would be no separate locally uploaded/remotely uploaded lists.
> Instead please use rsync to get those files directly from:
>
> rsync://ftpmirror.your.org/wikimedia-images/wikipedia/commons/
>
> Also, please bear in mind that for author and license information you
> should download the corresponding pages-meta-current.xml.bz2 file from
> http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ or your local mirror, and check the
> corresponding File: description pages for your project or commons.
>
> And now it's time as usual for the Big Fat Disclaimer:
>
> We're still running these manually, it's possible that we won't make the
> planned schedule for a given run or runs, network connectivity might be
> unstable, etc. etc. Its also possible we will restructure the fulls so
> that they take a lot less space and rely on three series of tarballs for
> some projects.
>
> Thanks once again to your.org for donating the time, space and bandwidth
> to make this possible.
>
> Ariel
>
>
>
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Dear all,
I was the [[:m:User:555]], mainly active on the last years of my volunteers
actions on Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource. I've left the Wikimedia
projects mainly because the lack of energy from my side to keep trying to
get free time to work in projects fully neglected by the Wikimedia staff,
developers team and some volunteers in the core of the Foundaction acts.
A friend told me about the http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/ . I've
checked http://labs.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrixand...
surprise! no Wikisource wikis with blue color links! I asked myself
random things about the [[bug:21653]] lasted for 26 months until gets
PARTIALLY fixed and decided to check some 'Recent changes' pages and found
this:
http://pt.wikisource.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=233269
Come on guys! What is the point to run a bot spamming on all wikis if the
tests are only to the Wikipedias? Attempt of a 'politically correct' action
to these worse guys from others projects get's 'socially included'? Like in
the real life, those worse guys aren't in need of assistencialism [1]
actions...
Well, I don't expect any change on the Wikipediocentric actions in short,
medium or long time (in fact the Foundation and some local chapters are
trying to make things for the Wikimedia Commons project, but only because
that project is the central media source for Wikipedias), this was only a
mutter.
Despite my apparently hatred on this message, I really hope that the 3-4
extensions only enabled on Wikisources wikis don't get's any aditional bugs
than the current ones in the new version of MediaWiki in the same intensity
that your guys hopes that focusing in a project that only describes the
knowledge in an encyclopedic way fully meets the
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mission_statement
[1] - wow, a concept from social sciences yet not defined neither on
en.wikpedia or en.wiktionary? O_O
As on all of my previous messages, sorry for my limited English skills.
Best regards,
[[:m:User:555|Lugusto]]
In anticipation of some major changes that are coming up in the U.S. and Canada Education Programs, the Wikimedia Foundation staff for the Wikipedia Education Program (Frank Schulenburg, Annie Lin, LiAnna Davis, Jami Mathewson, and I) will be hosting a scheduled public office hour in the #wikimedia-office IRC channel.
Date: Thursday, 21 June 2012
Time: 16:00 – 17:00 UTC (noon-1 p.m. EDT, 9-10 a.m. PDT) (click here for local time)
If you have questions or concerns about the programs, or are simply curious, this is a great opportunity to gain better insight into these programs. If you are unable to attend, a link to the chat log will be posted at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for public viewing following the session.
Details on how to join the session are included below. We look forward to chatting with you!
Rob Schnautz
Online Communications Contractor
Global Development
Wikimedia Foundation
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For more information about IRC software you can install on your computer, go to the Wikipedia entry on IRC or the Meta page on Wikimedia IRC. If using dedicated software, connect to the channel #wikimedia-officeconnect on the freenode network.
Hi all,
June 6, 2012 is IPv6 Day ( http://www.worldipv6day.org/ ). The goal of
this global event is to move more ISPs, equipment manufacturers and
web services to permanent adoption of IPv6.
We're planning to do limited production testing of IPv6 during the
Berlin Hackathon 2012 (June 2-3). Provided that the number of issues
we encounter are manageable, we may fully enable IPv6 on IPv6 day, and
keep it enabled.
MediaWiki has been used with IPv6 by third party wikis for some time.
Wikimedia uses a set of additional features (GlobalBlocking,
CheckUser, etc.) which weren't fully IPv6-ready until recently. In
addition, we're working to ensure that all of Wikimedia's various
services (mailing lists, blogs, etc.) are IPv6-ready.
== What's the user impact going to be? ==
At least in the June 2-3, 2012 time window, you may see a small number
of edits from IPv6 addresses, which are in the form
"2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334". See [[w:IPv6 address]].
These addresses should behave as any other IP adress would: You can
leave messages on their talk pages; you can track their contributions;
you can block them. CIDR notation is supported for rangeblocks.
An important note about blocking: A single user may have access to a
much larger number of addresses than in the IPv4 model. This means
that range blocks (e.g. address with "/64") have to be applied in more
cases to prevent abuse by more sophisticated users.
In the mid term, user scripts and tools that use simple regular
expressions to match IPv4 addresses will need to be adapted for IPv6
support to behave correctly. We suspect that IPv6 usage is going to be
very low initially, meaning that abuse should be manageable, and we
will assist in the monitoring of the situation.
User:Jasper Deng is maintaining a comprehensive analysis of the long
term implications of the IPv6 migration here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jasper_Deng/IPv6
We've set up a test wiki where you can see IPv6 IP addresses. This
works by assigning you a fake IPv6 address the moment you visit the
wiki, and allows you to see the behavior of various tools with the new
address format:
http://ipv6test.wmflabs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
The best way to report issues is to register them in Bugzilla and to
ensure that they are marked as blockers for the IPv6 tracking bug:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35540
We'll post updates to wikitech-l and elsewhere as appropriate.
All best,
Erik
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Forwarding this from the CC-licenses list. The WMF should explore
what impact, if any, one-way CC-BY-SA to GPL compatibility would have
on WMF projects. Is anyone at the WMF talking to CC/FSF about this?
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber(a)creativecommons.org>
Date: Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:51 PM
Subject: [cc-community] CC 4.0 and the GNU GPL
To: cc-community(a)lists.ibiblio.org
Hi all... to revive a thread that's been quiet publicly (but not
privately) for some time:
Brett Smith <brett(a)fsf.org> writes:
>> How receptive generally might be the FSF to working on GPL
>> compatibility? (Is the case made for compatibility rationale
>> compelling enough?)
>
> Very receptive. Some of the toughest questions I deal with in my job
> pertain to license interactions in cases like you describe, where a
> piece of software is under the GPL and associated materials under
> another, often CC BY or CC BY-SA. Being able to simplify the answers to
> those questions would be very worthwhile.
There haven't been any updates on this in a while, but I wanted to
inform that there is work being done to try and move this forward.
Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation (with the assistance
of the Software Freedom Law Center as counsel) are working together
and are doing our best to explore this as a serious possibility.
As license stewards of CC licenses and the GNU GPL respectively, we wanted
to make clear that both Creative Commons and the Free Software
Foundation think this is an important issue and worth persuing. Both
of our organiztions agree that license interoperability, especially
amongst copyleft licenses, is an important goal.
At the moment, the general plan is to try to explore both CC BY and CC
BY-SA one-way compatibility with the GNU GPL, aiming for direct
compatibility of terms (think Apache 2.0 and GNU GPL compatibility) with
CC BY, and compatibility between CC BY-SA and the GNU GPL via optional
relicensing (think MPL 2.0 and GNU GPL compatibility). We are still
exploring possibilities, however.
Thanks for your interest, we will try to keep this conversation
updated as we move along.
- Chris
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>> If all the people in favour of filters had spent their time building them
>> rather than arguing about them, we would have had a wide array of different
>> solutions, without any politics or drama.
>>
>> That said, if people want to filter Wikipedia, a client-side solution
>> rather than a filtered mirror is preferable....
>
> The technical solution is a fairly trivial part of the problem; a
> client-side filter could probably be put together in a few days IMO.
>
> The *hard* problem is convincing the "not censored" abusers that it's a
> useful feature for our community.
I'm not so sure about that. Submitting a patch to
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Bad_Image_List adding a user
preference to add one or more URLs with arbitrary media files to block
instead of using only the centralized list would not require the
approval of the community, just the developers.
Line 17 of http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/BadImage/BadImag…
performs image censorship in the centralized, top-down way that the
community already rejected, so a patch to add a distributed filter
list would actually be in line with community decisions.
Tilman,
Thanks for the report.
I would like to suggest that for the foreseeable future (not just for June),
these monthly reports should include a fuller set of updates on the editor
engagement and retention efforts. My understanding is that this is a high
priority effort for WMF, it seems to involve a fairly significant number of
WMF FTEs and LTEs, and I think it is of interest to the global Wikimedia
community.
Personally I am very concerned about the continuing slide in the number of
active editors. There are many areas on ENWP where having a few more active
editors would be very helpful, and I speculate that other projects would
also appreciate having additional active editors. My concerns are
illustrated beautifully on some of the graphs here:
"http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/new_editors",
"http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors", and
"http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors_target".
I would like to hear more about what progress is being made to improve the
trends. We heard about the Teahouse and new initiatives for Arabic
Wikipedia, which are very good, and I especially appreciated the detailed
reports on the Teahouse pilot that were sent to ENWP participants' talk
pages through "The Tea Leaf" newsletter, including links to
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host_lounge/Metrics" and
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Pilot_report". I also
appreciated reading about the progress of India communications and community
support. I would like to hear more about what the projected effects of these
initiatives will be on the editor statistics in the global report cards,
have the projections compared to actuals, and get updates on these
projections and actuals each month. The amount of staff and financial
resources that are invested in editor engagement (including development of
the visual editor), and the importance of the outcomes of those efforts for
the movement and Wikimedia Strategic Plan priorities, are of significant
interest to me and I imagine to many other members of the global Wikimedia
community.
Thank you,
Pine
>... == Visitors and Guests ==
>
> Visitors to the WMF office in May 2012
>
> 1. Jocelyn Berl (NexGenEdu)
Jocelyn was visiting on behalf of hackthefuture.org, not NextGenEdu.
I would correct that, but I am not permitted to edit Meta because two
separate Foundation employees have claimed that I did not discuss the
Inactive Administrators Survey with them before it was distributed. In
fact, I did in both cases.
Sincerely,
James Salsman