Wikimedia-l July 2012

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Wikimedia Foundation's use of Mingle
by MZMcBride 17 Jul '12

17 Jul '12

Hi. Someone recently asked me about the Wikimedia Foundation's installation of Mingle (<https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/>) and when I went to find documentation about it, I came up dry. I started a page in the most logical place I could think of: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mingle>. It's a very barebones page at the moment. If anyone who's familiar with Mingle (particularly the Wikimedia Foundation's use of it) could glance at or improve the page, that would be great! MZMcBride

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Feedback page
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

I don't know if there will be an official survey, but beceause nobody had created it yet, and until everyone has things fresh in their memory, I've started a feedback page listing the main topics from previous years'. Please list all your thoughts! https://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feedback Nemo

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia UK report - May 2012
by Stevie Benton 16 Jul '12

16 Jul '12

Hello everyone, I've just published Wikimedia UK's report for May 2012. You can find the report at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2012/May The report for June 2012 will be ready in the next couple of days. Best wishes, Stevie -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 Wikimedia UK is the operating name of Wiki UK Limited, a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents. _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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Board resolution on personal image hiding feature
by Bishakha Datta 15 Jul '12

15 Jul '12

Dear all, At its 11 July board meeting, the Board of Trustees passed a resolution rescinding its previous direction to implement the personal image hiding feature. The resolution is online at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:_Personal_Image_Hiding_Featu… We are working on a Q&A document that will be published after Wikimania. The following is the resolution's text: "In May 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees unanimously passed a resolution regarding controversial content. The resolution included a request to the Executive Director to implement a "personal image hiding feature" for the Wikimedia projects. Following a community poll organized by the Foundation, and extensive discussion in various venues, it has become clear that this issue can be be highly divisive and distracting to the Wikimedia community. We trust our community, and we respect the arguments that have been made opposing the feature as well as those in support of it. We affirm our support for better user choice and user preferences, but do not want to prescribe a specific mechanism for offering that choice. Therefore we rescind the request to develop this feature. The remainder of the May 2011 resolution remains in effect." Cheers Bishakha

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Wikimedia Foundation Announces 2012-13 Board of Trustees and Elected Officers at Wikimania in Washington DC
by Matthew Roth 14 Jul '12

14 Jul '12

Hello all, Please find a press release from the Wikimedia Foundation announcing Board of Trustees election results and welcoming Alice Wiegand and Patricio Lorente to the Board. thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Wikimedia Foundation (This release is also posted at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/WMF_Board_Election_July_… ) *Wikimedia Foundation Announces 2012-13 Board of Trustees and Elected Officers at Wikimania in Washington DC* Washington, DC -- July 12, 2012-- The Wikimedia Foundation today announced recent appointments and elected officers for the 2012-13 Board of Trustees. Every year at Wikimania, the annual gathering of Wikimedia contributors from around the world, the Wikimedia Board appoints its officers for the coming year, and this year’s appointments were announced in Washington, DC. This year, Kat Walsh was appointed Chair of the Board, Jan-Bart de Vreede was re-appointed Vice-chair, Stuart West was re-appointed as Board Treasurer and Bishaka Dhatta becomes Board Secretary. The Board expressed its great thanks to former Board Chair Ting Chen, as well as outgoing trustees Arne Klempert and Phoebe Ayers. Their leadership has strengthened and nurtured the growth of the worldwide Wikimedia movement. "I am honored to have been chosen to chair the Board in the coming year,” said Kat Walsh, Chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. “I want to thank Ting Chen for his service in his period as Chair, and I look forward to working closely with him as I take on this new role. It's an important time in the history of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia movement: I look forward to leading the Board in the year ahead." “It’s been a pleasure to serve the Wikimedia movement as Chair of the Board of Trustees,” said Ting Chen. “Since I took on the role of Chair we’ve worked with our global community and the Foundation to introduce an ambitious five-year plan to increase the diversity and overall population of our community, while also establishing long-term financial plans to ensure sustainability for our movement and our projects. Our Board has matured and strengthened, and I’m proud of the tireless work of my colleagues.” There are 10 seats on the Board and according to the Foundation's bylaws, three members are elected by the Wikimedia community, two are selected by the Wikimedia chapters, the Founder seat is held by Jimmy Wales, and four members are appointed by the Board itself to provide additional, specific expertise. The Foundation is happy to welcome its two newest members of the Board, Patricio Lorente and Alice Wiegand, who were elected to the Board by the Wikimedia chapters in May 2012. The chapters seat selection process was created in April 2008, in order to demonstrate the Board's commitment to the chapters as an important player in the fulfillment of the Wikimedia mission. Patricio Lorente is the former President of Wikimedia Argentina. He has worked as Project Manager of the Association for Social Development in Argentina and he currently serves as General ProSecretary of the National University of La Plata. Alice Wiegand is personal aide to the Mayor of Meerbusch, Germany. She has recently begun her Master’s studies in Public Policy and Governance. *The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees for 2012-2013:* *Kat Walsh, Board Chair (current term until July 2013) *Jan-Bart de Vreede, Vice Chair (current term until December 2013) *Stuart West, Treasurer (current term until December 2013) *Bishakha Datta, Secretary (current term until December 2012) *Jimmy Wales, FounderTing Chen (current term until 2013) *Samuel Klein (current term until July 2013) *Matt Halprin (current term until December 2012) *Alice Wiegand (current term until July 2014) *Patricio Lorente (current term until July 2014) *About Wikimania* http://wikimania.org Wikimania 2012 is being held in Washington, DC, USA, where more than 1000 Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia advocates, researchers and educators from 87 countries are in attendance. The previous Wikimanias were held in Frankfurt, Germany (2005), Cambridge, USA (2006), Taipei, Taiwan (2007), Alexandria, Egypt (2008), Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009), Gdańsk, Poland (2010), and Haifa, Israel (2011). *About the Wikimedia Foundation* http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 492 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, May 2012). Available in 285 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 22 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 85,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. *Press contact * Jay Walsh Head of Communications Wikimedia Foundation Tel. +1 415-860-8166 jwalshwikimedia.org

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Information from the Board about the creation of a travel guide project
by Alice Wiegand 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Hi all, the Board of Trustees held a discussion at its Board meeting this week regarding the creation of a travel guide project. Based upon those discussions and the current state of the RFC, we would like the community to continue its discussions for at least 6 more weeks to ensure all interested parties have an opportunity to express their views. During the meeting we discussed many things all of which are important for the community to understand: a) We are excited to see this proposal from the community, and hope the wider community of editors can reach consensus on it. We are waiting for the conclusion of the RfC to take a decision on the issue. b) We are committed to making knowledge freely reusable, and feel there is room for multiple travel sites to coexist. c) We feel it is important to be transparent with the community, that should consensus be reached and a travel project created, the foundation could support the initial creation of a travel guide project, but could not provide a great deal of additional engineering or staff support. Further technical efforts would have to come from the community. Please leave your Comments at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Travel_Guide Regards, Alice

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Mexican government signs ACTA
by Ivan Martínez 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Dear all, The agency that regulates in Mexico the Industrial Property (IMPI) signed the ACTA agreement in Japan yesterday. Here's the official press release[1]. In July 2011, a plural working group (composed of senators, experts, enthusiasts and academics) had warned the risks of ACTA for Internet freedom in our country, and exhorted the federal government to not sign it. Even last week the European Parliament was rejected the same agreement. The next step is to put pressure on Mexico to the Senate not to approve the reform, due to the conclusions reached last year with the plural working group. We're taking actions as a local chapter, and asking that the community of Wikipedia in Spanish to put an informative banner. We hope that these actions can be supported and disseminated by the Wikimedia movement. [1] (In spanish, press release by IMPI) http://www.impi.gob.mx/work/sites/IMPI/resources/LocalContent/3388/4/IMPI_0… [2] (In spanish, Conclusions of the plural working group) http://www.senado.gob.mx/comisiones/LX/grupo_acta/content/docs/20julio11.pdf -- *Atentamente: Iván Martínez Coordinador General Wikimedia México mx.wikimedia.org Imagina un mundo en donde cada persona del planeta pueda tener acceso libre a la suma total del conocimiento humano. Eso es lo que estamos haciendo <http://es.wikipedia.org>. *

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English Wikipedia crossed 4 million articles milestone
by Tanvir Rahman 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Just a note, today, English Wikipedia crossed 4 million articles milestone. Stay up forever old buddy! :-D \\o o// \o/ /o\ And today is the second day of Wikimania! Surely they have something new to celebrate and brag about now! :-D Regards, Tanvir -- Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir

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Board resolutions from 11 July 2012 meeting
by Bishakha Datta 13 Jul '12

13 Jul '12

Dear all, Greetings from Wikimania! At its board meeting on 11 July 2012, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees passed the following resolutions: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:2012-2013_Annual_Plan This resolution approves management's proposed 2012-13 annual plan, and also directs the Executive Director to carry out an assessment of the Foundation's programs and strategic priorities. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Funds_Dissemination_Committe… This resolution approves the initial operation and charter of the Funds Dissemination Committee. Please let us know if you have any questions. Best Bishakha

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation announces new Board of Trustees and Elected Officers
by Jay Walsh 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

(this press release is posted online at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/WMF_Board_Election_July_… ) *Wikimedia Foundation Announces 2012-13 Board of Trustees and Elected Officers at Wikimania in Washington DC* * * Washington, DC -- July 12, 2012 -- The Wikimedia Foundation today announced recent appointments and elected officers for the 2012-13 Board of Trustees. Every year at Wikimania, the annual gathering of Wikimedia contributors from around the world, the Wikimedia Board appoints its officers for the coming year, and this year’s appointments were announced in Washington, DC. This year, Kat Walsh was appointed Chair of the Board, Jan-Bart de Vreede was re-appointed Vice-chair, Stuart West was re-appointed as Board Treasurer and Bishaka Dhatta becomes Board Secretary. The Board expressed its great thanks to former Board Chair Ting Chen, as well as outgoing trustees Arne Klempert and Phoebe Ayers. Their leadership has strengthened and nurtured the growth of the worldwide Wikimedia movement. "I am honored to have been chosen to chair the Board in the coming year,” said Kat Walsh, Chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. “I want to thank Ting Chen for his service in his period as Chair, and I look forward to working closely with him as I take on this new role. It's an important time in the history of the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia movement: I look forward to leading the Board in the year ahead." “It’s been a pleasure to serve the Wikimedia movement as Chair of the Board of Trustees,” said Ting Chen. “Since I took on the role of Chair we’ve worked with our global community and the Foundation to introduce an ambitious five-year plan to increase the diversity and overall population of our community, while also establishing long-term financial plans to ensure sustainability for our movement and our projects. Our Board has matured and strengthened, and I’m proud of the tireless work of my colleagues.” There are 10 seats on the Board and according to the Foundation's bylaws, three members are elected by the Wikimedia community, two are selected by the Wikimedia chapters, the Founder seat is held by Jimmy Wales, and four members are appointed by the Board itself to provide additional, specific expertise. The Foundation is happy to welcome its two newest members of the Board, Patricio Lorente and Alice Wiegand, who were elected to the Board by the Wikimedia chapters in May 2012. The chapters seat selection process was created in April 2008, in order to demonstrate the Board's commitment to the chapters as an important player in the fulfillment of the Wikimedia mission. Patricio Lorente is the former President of Wikimedia Argentina. He has worked as Project Manager of the Association for Social Development in Argentina and he currently serves as General ProSecretary of the National University of La Plata. Alice Wiegand is personal aide to the Mayor of Meerbusch, Germany. She has recently begun her Master’s studies in Public Policy and Governance. *The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees for 2012-2013* Kat Walsh, Board Chair (current term until July 2013) Jan-Bart de Vreede, Vice Chair (current term until December 2013) Stuart West, Treasurer (current term until December 2013) Bishakha Datta, Secretary (current term until December 2012) Jimmy Wales, Founder Ting Chen (current term until 2013) Samuel Klein (current term until July 2013) Matt Halprin (current term until December 2012) Alice Wiegand (current term until July 2014) Patricio Lorente (current term until July 2014) *About Wikimania* http://wikimania.org Wikimania 2012 is being held in Washington, DC, USA, where more than 1000 Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia advocates, researchers and educators from 87 countries are in attendance. The previous Wikimanias were held in Frankfurt, Germany (2005), Cambridge, USA (2006), Taipei, Taiwan (2007), Alexandria, Egypt (2008), Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009), Gdańsk, Poland (2010), and Haifa, Israel (2011). *About the Wikimedia Foundation* http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 492 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, May 2012). Available in 285 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 22 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 85,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. *Press contact* Jay Walsh Head of Communications Wikimedia Foundation Tel. +1 415-860-8166 jwalsh(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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