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....
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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…
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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.
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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
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FYI
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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
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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
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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
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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.”
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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.
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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 :).
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Wikimedia Foundation
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…
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