This is a segment in the Fault Lines series on AJE about SOPA, the Blackout
and other issues around "Controlling the Web."
Features some footage of the WMF offices and clips from Jimmy, among many
others.
http://youtu.be/6FD9urcUWXw
thanks
Matthew
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We've just published the report for the Understanding Sources ethnographic study of Wikipedia sources - including the case study of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution article and an analysis of social media sources on Wikipedia http://scr.bi/NfsKQg
The Understanding Sources project is detailed on meta here: http://bit.ly/NfuSY3
I'd be really interested in any feedback from folks on this list -- especially re. the table on page 50...
Best,
Heather.
Heather Ford
Ethnographer: Ushahidi / SwiftRiver
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Dear all,
our department for education and knowledge is looking for a contact
person in Latvia or Lithuania who is active within the field of
"Wikipedia and Education". We are planning a Wikipedia workshop with a
German partner organisation there and would be glad to find someone to
share experiences with. We asked various persons already, but our
search has not been successful, yet.
Does any of you probably know someone from a chapter or the local
communities who might be interested? If so - or if you are interested
yourself, of course :) - please get in touch with my colleague Elly
Koepf (CCed).
Thank you very much, best regards from Berlin,
Nicole
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Projektmanagerin
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Tel. +49 30 219158 26-0
http://wikimedia.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.
Dear Wikimedia friends and colleagues,
It is bittersweet for me to share with all of you that I will be leaving
the Wikimedia Foundation at the end of August to relocate to Australia for
personal reasons.
It is difficult for me to leave Wikimedia and particularly leave the Global
Development team, which I’ve had the pleasure of building and leading over
the past two years. I am proud of what we have accomplished in raising the
priority of much of the globe within the Wikimedia movement, strengthening
our mobile strategy and education program, globalizing communications, and
tackling the difficult movement roles issues that I hope can be put in the
past. It hasn’t been easy or uncontroversial, but I truly believe that we
are heading in the right direction.
One of the great joys of my work has been the opportunity to travel and
meet many amazing Wikipedians and to share the Wikimedia story with the
world. It is so inspiring to hear first hand how much people love our
projects and the amazing things that so many people do in support of the
movement. This is what helped me survive the many long flights and
jetlag-filled nights. It was an honour representing the Wikimedia
Foundation and often the Wikimedia movement in so many places.
I am confident that the Global Development work will thrive with the team
in place and with all of the dedicated community members who see us as
partners. I look forward to becoming a volunteer member of the movement and
supporting the work in new ways. Sue will share plans for the transition
shortly.
Many thanks to all who have supported me and our work.
Kind regards,
Barry
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Hi folks,
I want to thank Barry for everything he’s done for the Wikimedia
movement, and express my regret that he’s leaving the Foundation.
Barry’s done a lot for the movement. He's been involved for three
years: first, as the Bridgespan lead for our strategy project, and
afterwards as Chief Global Development Officer for the Foundation. He
was a major contributor to the five-year strategic plan, and as CGDO
he’s set up and launched a number of key projects that arose as a
direct result of that plan, including the catalyst initiatives and
Wikipedia Zero. He’s also done some tough and useful work helping
Wikimedia grapple with issues related to movement roles and funds
dissemination -- the fact that we're now in a position to launch the
Funds Dissemination Committee is very much a credit to Barry. I want
to thank him for everything he’s accomplished for the movement, and
wish him all the best in the future. I know he plans to stay involved
as a volunteer, and I'm happy about that.
Here’s a quick summary of what will happen next:
Barry’s last day with the Wikimedia Foundation will be August 31. It
will likely take 4-6 months for us to complete the recruitment process
for his successor.
Beginning August 31 therefore, Global Development will be co-managed
by Frank Schulenburg and Anasuya Sengupta. Anasuya will be responsible
for grantmaking and the catalyst projects: Asaf Bartov, Jessie Wild,
and Winifred Olliff will report to her, and she will manage our
relationships with CIS for India, with Oona Castro for Brazil, and
with the Arabic Language Initiative. Frank will continue, of course,
to hold responsibility for the Global Education Program, and will also
now newly take on responsibility for fellowships and Wikipedia Zero,
with Siko Bouterse and Kul Wadhwa reporting to Frank.
I want to thank Frank and Anasuya for agreeing to take on, on an
interim basis, these extra responsibilities.
Also, we’re moving Communications to Legal and Community Advocacy from
Global Development: Jay Walsh will now report to Geoff Brigham. This
is independent of Barry’s departure. Why? There’s lots of natural
synchronicity between Community Advocacy and Communications -- both
groups need to understand and support the Wikimedia communities and
ensure good communications between them and the Wikimedia Foundation,
including coordinating translations with and for the
non-English-speaking communities. And, unlike the rest of Global
Development but like Legal, Communications is a service department
that supports the entire organization/movement. So it makes sense to
me that Communications should move over to become a part of LCA.
I also want to note, because I'm not sure if it's been announced
outside the staff, that beginning August 5 Winifred will move into a
new position. She has been the Program Assistant for Global
Development: as of August 5, she will be Grants Administrator for that
team, responsible for administering Wikimedia Foundation grants, funds
awarded by the Funds Dissemination Committee and other Wikimedia
Foundation volunteer support programs, and for supporting the
Wikimedia Foundation grants program in the areas of program
development, communications, relationship-building, compliance, and
community engagement.
Again: I want to thank Barry for everything he's done for the
movement, and I look forward to his continued involvement from
Australia :-)
Thanks,
Sue
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... so I might as well tell you too. Info gathered by joggling the
elbows of the people on #wikimedia-tech actually doing the work:
This was two overland cables between Tampa and Virginia (Washington
DC, to be precise). *Both* cables were cut, near the Tampa end. The
"redundant" fibre wasn't redundant. Currently awaiting the vendor
postmortem.
The cables were broken for 1 hour 6 minutes, but it's taken another
hour to bring up basic service. Some stuff's still broken. Search and
API (hence mobile) are back now. It'll all be back in due course.
The WMF office in San Francisco should be getting into work in the
next hour or so ... should have more detail then.
- d.
Hi, after crashing an hour or so ago EN Wikipedia has started to come back
but with a really strange appearance - less usable than Vector. Rumour has
it that someone cut through a fibre optic cable in Florida, so far none of
the parties to various incidents on the Dwamah boards have fessed up as
responsible. If anyone in the know could give more details it would be nice.
TTFN
WSC
Hi,
In the 2012-13 WMF plan document I saw an interesting thing:
"We’ve hosted key community stakeholders such as English Wikipedia’s
ArbCom and Portuguese Wikipedia’s top contributors, in an effort to
better understand and respond to issues they're facing." (page 41).
I was very happy to read this. In general, I hope that such focused
meetings will be held with more language communities. I don't think
that I need to explain why :)
I don't know how did the meeting with the Portuguese Wikipedians go; I
suppose that it was good. I don't remember that I read anything about
it in blogs or mailing lists, but I may have missed it. Maybe what I'm
about to write is known already, but I'll say it anyway.
An important thing in such meetings is to have a community member who
contributes to the Wikipedia in that language AND to the English
Wikipedia. This is needed because the Foundation people are probably
familiar with policies, customs and jargon in the English Wikipedia.
Even simple terms, like "Village Pump", are not necessarily familiar
to people who primarily edit in other languages; not all Wikipedias
have ArbComs; not all Wikipedias prohibit voting; etc. Such a person
will be able to "translate" between the English Wikipedia terms and
the local Wikipedia terms. Without such a person misunderstandings
will definitely happen, even if everybody knows the English language
well.
That's it, hope it helps.
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hi there,
It looks like Trent Franks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Franks)
is a fan of wikipedia, but needs some information about how it works.
He quotes Wikipedia, ``One year after the Fort Hood shooting, the
motivations of the perpetrator were not yet established.'', maybe he
needs to learn how to update the article if he has more information
about it. Why would quoting wikipedia here be something that is a good
idea? As if the article is always the most up to date. I think that
quoting the sources are more import. He could add tags as well. Maybe
someone should sit down with him and give him some tutoring.
mike
See :
http://origin.www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2012-08-03/html/CREC-2012-08-03-pt…https://scout.sunlightfoundation.com/item/speech/CREC-2012-08-03-pt1-PgE141…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Hood_shootinghttp://www.theblaze.com/blog/2012/07/30/newt-gingrich-wikipedia-michele-bac…
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From: Scout (Sunlight Foundation) <scout(a)sunlightfoundation.com>
Date: Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 2:20 PM
Subject: wikipedia - 1 speech
To: "jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com" <jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com>
Aug 3, 2012 - Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said:
"...o avoid confronting his acts as inspired by his support for
radical Islamism. An American of Palestinian descent, Hasan had been
in touch with a radical American cleric in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki. He
declared Hasan a hero. Al-Awlaki was himself declared a ``specially
designated global terrorist'' and, with presidential approval, was
killed by a predator missile. Yet, despite the evidence, Wikipedia
reports, ``One year after the Fort Hood shooting, the motivations of
the perpetrator were not yet es..."
http://scout.sunlightfoundation.com/item/speech/CREC-2012-08-03-pt1-PgE1416…
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