Wikimedia-l September 2012

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E ai não vão ficar com medinho?????
by Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

http://g1.globo.com/pb/paraiba/eleicoes/2012/noticia/2012/09/juiz-eleitoral… Já estou vendo 3 diretores de uma associação presos, acusados de serem responsáveis de "desobediência" (SIC). Ai Castelo, olha que tu arranjou pra nossa cabeça :D. Alias, bateu uma vontade de enviar essa notícia para todo mundo de fora do Brasil que insistia que a gente tinha que ser uma instituição legal... To vendo a nossa diretoria ter mais passagens pela polícia que o Fernandinho Beiramar.... -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argenton(a)gmail.com +55 11 97 97 18 884

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC members - update: ombudsperson
by Patricio Lorente 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

Dear friends: I've just updated the same page [1] to announce the appointed ombudsperson, who is Susana Moraes (username Lusitana). Congratulations, Susana, and many thanks to Anne Clin (Risker), Craig Franklin and Anders Wennersten (Yger). With this announcement, the FDC composition is now complete. Resolutions will be published as soon as possible. Many thanks to Anasuya who did a great work and to the Advisory Group for your valuable help in this process. Patricio [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/2012_FDC_membe… -- Patricio Lorente Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar Identi.ca // Twitter: @patriciolorente

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FDC members
by Patricio Lorente 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

Dear friends: I just posted the initial composition of the Funds Dissemination Committee in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/2012_FDC_membe… as resolved today by the Board of Trustees. The resolution will be published as soon as possible. I would like to thank all the nominees, on behalf of the Board of Trustees. Many committed and valuable wikimedians nominated themselves to serve in this Committe. For those who were not appointed, we will ask you to help us in other ways. For those who were appointed, welcome aboard! Best, Patricio. -- Patricio Lorente Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar Identi.ca // Twitter: @patriciolorente

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Open Knowledge Fest this upcoming week
by Sarah Stierch 15 Sep '12

15 Sep '12

Hi everyone, I'll be in Helsinki, Finland this upcoming week for Open Knowledge Fest, where I'm co-planning the gender and diversity sessions and also participating in some other aspects of the conference. I know this is super last minute, but, if any Finnish Wikipedians (or Wikipedians living in Helsinki) want to get a drink or are going to the conference, ping me off list. Feel free to forward this message to anyone you know. -Sarah -- *Sarah Stierch* */Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow/* >>Mind the gap! Support Wikipedia women's outreach: donate today <https://donate.wikimedia.org/><<

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Fwd: Mobile site banner to promote the WLM App
by Philip Chang 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Philip Chang <pchang(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM Subject: Mobile site banner to promote the WLM App To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition < wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear WLM Members, As of yesterday, a banner promoting the WLM Android App has appeared on all pages of the WIkipedia mobile site and the sister projects, on Android devices only. This banner can be closed easily by the user, and won't appear again until the user clears the data of his/her browser. To summarize, the banner: - appears on the mobile site only - appears on Android devices only - appears on all pages in all languages - can be closed easily and persistently - is being localized - links to the app on Google Play We are tracking downloads of the app to see what impact this makes. To all of you who considered putting the banner on your WIkipedia main page, this removes the need for making the manual change. I believe there were no cases where this was actually done, but if it was, the banner would appear twice on the main page, so the manual version can be removed. Thank you for your support. Phil -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810 -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810

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IPv4 close to end of road for RIPE,
by FT2 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

General info for anyone who wants. Not that new, announced imminent a week ago or so. (Also apparently not the first, APNIC hit this point last year) http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion/last-8-phases http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/9543870/Internet-IPv4-addres… http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2012/09/ripe-warn-eu-and-uk-supply-of-… Availability graph: http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion/ipv4-available-po… FT2

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia UK report, August 2012
by Stevie Benton 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

Hello everyone, I'm writing to let you know that our report for August 2012 is now published. You can see the report here<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports/2012/August> . This month's report includes updates on education and expert outreach, communications, GLAM, fundraising, membership and other activities. There's also a special report from the National Eisteddfod, Wales's primary cultural event, where we had a presence for the first time. You can view that report here<http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visit_report_-_National_Eisteddfod_8_Aug_2012> . Thanks and regards, Stevie -- Stevie Benton Communications Organiser Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton 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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Fwd: [WikiEducator] Scientists, Foundations, Libraries, Universities, and Advocates Unite and Issue New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All Online
by Samuel Klein 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

via CC ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cable Green <cable(a)creativecommons.org> [Forwarding from the Open Society Foundations and SPARC.] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 12, 2012 CONTACT: Andrea Higginbotham, SPARC, andrea(a)arl.org; 202-296-2296 Amy Weil, Open Society Foundations, aweil(a)sorosny.org; 212-548-0381 Scientists, Foundations, Libraries, Universities, and Advocates Unite and Issue New Recommendations to Make Research Freely Available to All Online WASHINGTON -- In response to the growing demand to make research free and available to anyone with a computer and an internet connection, a diverse coalition today issued new guidelines ( http://www.soros.org/openaccess/boai-10-recommendations) that could usher in huge advances in the sciences, medicine, and health. The recommendations were developed by leaders of the Open Access movement ( http://www.soros.org/openaccess/participants), which has worked for the past decade to provide the public with unrestricted, free access to scholarly research—much of which is publicly funded. Making the research publicly available to everyone—free of charge and without most copyright and licensing restrictions—will accelerate scientific research efforts and allow authors to reach a larger number of readers. “The reasons to remove restrictions as far as possible are to share knowledge and accelerate research. Knowledge has always been a public good in a theoretical sense. Open Access makes it a public good in practice,” said professor Peter Suber, director of the Open Access Project at Harvard University and a senior researcher at SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). The Open Access recommendations include the development of Open Access policies in institutions of higher education and in funding agencies, the open licensing of scholarly works, the development of infrastructure such as Open Access repositories and creating standards of professional conduct for Open Access publishing. The recommendations also establish a new goal of achieving Open Access as the default method for distributing new peer-reviewed research in every field and in every country within ten years’ time. “Science and scholarship are activities funded from the public purse because society believes they will lead to a better future in terms of our health, environment, and culture,” said Heather Joseph, executive director of SPARC. “Anything that maximises the efficacy and efficiency of research benefits every one of us. Open Access is a major tool in that quest. These new recommendations will underpin future developments in communicating the results of research over the next decade.” Today, Open Access is increasingly recognized as a right rather than an abstract ideal. The case for rapid implementation of Open Access continues to grow. Open Access benefits research and researchers; increases the return to taxpayers on their investment in research; and amplifies the social value of research, funding agencies, and research institutions. The Open Access recommendations are the result of a meeting hosted earlier this year by the Open Society Foundations, on the tenth anniversary of the landmark Budapest Open Access Initiative ( http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read), which first defined Open Access. “Foundations rarely have the good fortune to be actively present at the birth of a world-wide movement that fundamentally changes the rules of the game and provides immediate benefit to the world,” said István Rév, director of the Open Society Archives and a member of the Open Society Foundations Global Board. “This is what happened when the Open Society Foundations initiated a meeting at the end of 2001 that gave birth to the Open Access movement.” ### SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan, is an international alliance of more than 800 academic and research libraries working to create a more open system of scholarly communication. SPARC’s advocacy, educational, and publisher partnership programs encourage expanded dissemination of research. SPARC is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/sparc. The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens. Working with local communities in more than 100 countries, the Open Society Foundations support justice and human rights, freedom of expression, and access to public health and education. The Open Society Foundations is on the Web at http://www.soros.org. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator(a)googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266

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"an exemplary service"
by Oliver Keyes 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/13/putting-an-end-to-the-biggest-lie-on-the-i… has been doing the rounds recently: just in case people haven't seen it - "It’s long been said that “I agree to the terms of service” is the biggest lie on the internet. And even if you do read them, many TOS are so ridden with legalese that you practically need to be a lawyer to understand them. Also, as I wrote in a gloomy post last weekend, users have no choice but either agree to the terms offered by a web app or simply not use the service at all. But a new project called TOS;DR wants to change that. The site aims to give more power to users by summarizing terms of service, flagging potential issues and rating apps on a scale from A (the best) to E (the worst)....Project lead Hugo Roy tells me that he considers Wikipedia to be an exemplary service, though it hasn’t been rated by TOS;DR. He says both Wikipedia’s short, clear summary of its TOS and its practice of soliciting feedback from users before a change in terms should be widely adopted as best practices for the web." Similarly, via http://www.clickwrapped.com/results we find another project has ranked our policies as pretty much the best on the internet. Kudos to the legal team for doing such a good job on these, particularly the new Terms of Use :). -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Seeks Declaratory Relief in response to Legal Threats from Internet Brands
by Kelly Kay 13 Sep '12

13 Sep '12

A few moments ago we posted this to the Wikimedia Foundation Blog, it is self explanatory. Today the Wikimedia Foundation filed a suit<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:WMF_complaint_for_declaratory_jud…> in San Francisco against Internet Brands seeking a judicial declaration that Internet Brands has no lawful right to impede, disrupt or block the creation of a new travel oriented, Wikimedia Foundation-owned website in response to the request of Wikimedia community volunteers. Over the summer, in response to requests generated by our volunteers, the Wikimedia community conducted a lengthy Request For Comment<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Travel_Guide> (RFC) process to facilitate public debate and discussion regarding the benefits and challenges of creating a new, Wikimedia Foundation-hosted travel guide project. The community extended the RFC at the Wikimedia Foundation Board’s request to allow for greater community input, and to encourage input from Internet Brands. Once concluded, the RFC process revealed the community’s desire to see a new travel project created. The Wikimedia Foundation Board supports the community’s decision and is moving forward with the creation of this new project. Unfortunately, Internet Brands (owner of the travel website Wikitravel) has decided to disrupt this process by engaging in litigation against two Wikitravel volunteers who are also Wikimedia community members. On August 29, Internet Brands sued two volunteer administrators, one based in Los Angeles and one in Canada, asserting a variety of claims. The intent of the action is clear – intimidate other community volunteers from exercising their rights to freely discuss the establishment of a new community focused on the creation of a new, not-for-profit travel guide under the Creative Commons licenses. While the suit filed by Internet Brands does not directly name the Wikimedia Foundation as a defendant, we believe that we are the real target. We feel our only recourse is to file this suit in order to get everything on the table and deal head on with Internet Brand’s actions over the past few months in trying to impede the creation of this new travel project. Our community and potential new community members are key to the success of all of our projects. We will steadfastly and proudly defend our community’s right to free speech, and we will support these volunteer community members in their legal defense. We do not feel it is appropriate for Internet Brands, a large corporation with hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, to seek to intimidate two individuals. This new, proposed project would allow all travel content to be freely used and disseminated by anyone for any purpose as long as the content is given proper attribution and is offered with the same free-to-use license. Internet Brands appears to be attempting to thwart the creation of a new, non-commercial travel wiki in a misguided effort to protect its for-profit Wikitravel site. The Wikimedia movement stands in the balance and the Wikimedia Foundation will not sit idly by and allow a commercial actor like Internet Brands to engage in threats, intimidation and litigation to prevent the organic expression of community interest in favor of a new travel project, one that is not driven by commercial interests. The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:free_content> or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. We are devoted to creating and nurturing free knowledge projects supported by volunteers. Our actions today represent the full stride of our commitment to protect the Wikimedia movement against the efforts of for-profit entities like Internet Brands to prevent communities and volunteers from making their own decisions about where and how freely-usable content may be shared. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/05/wikimedia-foundation-seeks-declaratory… Kelly Kay, Deputy General Counsel -- Kelly Kay Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation * <http://walk.avonfoundation.org/site/TR?px=6370274&pg=personal&fr_id=2173&s_…>This message might have confidential or legally privileged information in it. If you have received this message by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. For legalreasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their individual capacity.* <http://walk.avonfoundation.org/site/TR?px=6370274&pg=personal&fr_id=2173&s_…> _______________________________________________ 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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