Wikimedia-l January 2013

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This is an encyclopedia
by Everton Zanella Alvarenga 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

THIS IS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve the well of our future, The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us, The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands, And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know. *Catherine Munro* inspired by *This is a printing office<http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/rbsc2/ga/unseenhands/labels/wardePrintOffic…> *, by Beatrice Warde <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Warde> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:CatherineMunro Just discovered from a wikipedian friend from Kenya. Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

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15% off merchandise today at the Wikimedia Shop
by Marcin Cieslak 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

Hello, I just wanted to share my feelings: I went to en.wikipedia.org today and I saw this message on top: Happy Birthday Wikipedia! 15% off merchandise today at the Wikimedia Shop My first impression was: I think I mistyped the URL... //Saper

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Call for volunteers: Election Committee
by Ting Chen 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

Hi Everyone, 2013 is an election year for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. As you may recall the board has three directly elected representatives on it which serve for two years. Currently those are Mindspillage, SJ and Wing. As in the past years we rely on an effective election committee to coordinate the elections for us. They not only guarantee that the election is overseen by an independent body, but they also make sure that the tremendous amount of work that needs to be done is taken care of. My job is to coordinate the formation of this committee. This is a call for volunteers to serve on the election committee. If you feel that you can contribute to this committee, please contact me and give a small summary of why you think you would be able to help out with this process. Just to make sure we all understand: you cannot be part of the election committee if you are planning to be a candidate or are planning to support any candidate publicly. Deadline for any extra volunteers is January 31st 12:00 UTC. The timeline for the next steps in the process will be published somewhere in February by the election committee. So if you are interested in becoming a candidate, time to start preparing! Regards -- Ting Chen Member of the Board of Trustees Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. E-Mail: tchen(a)wikimedia.org

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New grants program for individuals
by Siko Bouterse 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

*Hi all, I’m pleased to announce the launch of a new grantmaking program at the Wikimedia Foundation: Individual Engagement Grants. These grants will support Wikimedians as individuals or small teams to complete projects that benefit the Wikimedia movement, lead to online impact, and serve the mission, community, and strategic priorities. This new program is intended to complement WMF’s other grantmaking programs as well as the grants that chapters and affiliate organizations provide. The first round of proposals will be accepted from now until 15 February 2013. We’re also seeking committee members to help select the first round of grantees. Please help spread the word to other lists! To get involved, share your thoughts, submit a proposal, or join the committee: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG For more information on all of WMF’s grantmaking programs: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start Best wishes,* Siko -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!*

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Welcome: Siko Bouterse and Katy Love join the Grantmaking team at WMF
by Anasuya Sengupta 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

Dear all, As you know, we recently re-named the Global Development department at the Wikimedia Foundation, as the Grantmaking and Programs department. The Grantmaking team is committed to supporting our community and meeting our shared goals at the different levels of contribution - whether individuals, groups or organisations - and we will be working with you over the next few months to deepen our strategies for doing so, and for evaluating our impact. In the meantime, however, I am delighted to announce some changes to the Grantmaking team that reflect this commitment. Siko Bouterse [1] needs no introduction to most of you, having worked at WMF since 2011, most recently coordinating the Fellowships program. Siko is coming on to the Grantmaking team as Head of Individual Engagement Grants, a program that will support individual or small team projects for online impact. This is to be launched later today... watch out for Siko's announcement and details of the program, coming soon to a wiki near you. Siko will also shortly be taking on the responsibility for the Participation Support Program (which WMF and WMDE fund together), and supporting the documentation and analysis of our project-based grants. We are really pleased to have Siko's experience and insights on our team. Katy Love is new to the team, the organisation and the movement, but I have no doubt that her experience and insights, as well, will help us be more effective. Katy has just joined us as the Senior Program Officer for the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) [2] with a passion for strategic and impactful grantmaking, participatory collaborative work, and transparent decision-making. Her background spans philanthropic activities and NGO programs, systems, and operations. She spent the last four years at CARE International with the Emergency Capacity Building Project, a collaboration between six of the largest NGOs, aimed at improving humanitarian response. Please join me in welcoming them to our team! Warmly, Anasuya [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Sbouterse [2] http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=owwHWfwp&c=qSa9VfwQ -- ***Anasuya Sengupta Senior Director of Grantmaking Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/> -- ***Anasuya Sengupta Senior Director of Grantmaking Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing the Individual Engagement Grants program
by Siko Bouterse 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

*Hi all, I’m pleased to announce the launch of a new grantmaking program at the Wikimedia Foundation: Individual Engagement Grants. These grants will support Wikimedians as individuals or small teams to complete projects that benefit the Wikimedia movement, lead to online impact, and serve the mission, community, and strategic priorities. This new program is intended to complement WMF’s other grantmaking programs as well as the grants that chapters and affiliate organizations provide. The first round of proposals will be accepted from now until 15 February 2013. We’re also seeking committee members to help select the first round of grantees. Please help spread the word to other lists! To get involved, share your thoughts, submit a proposal, or join the committee: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG For more information on all of WMF’s grantmaking programs: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start Best wishes,* Siko -- Siko Bouterse Head of Individual Engagement Grants Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!* _______________________________________________ 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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[Wikimedia Announcements] Welcome: Siko Bouterse and Katy Love join the Grantmaking team at WMF
by Anasuya Sengupta 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

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Harvard urges Elsevier boycott
by Richard Symonds 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

Not quite Wikimedia related, but fantastic news: Harvard faculty advisory council says scientific publishers have made scholarly communication 'fiscally unsustainable' http://t.co/CcKSHlqX

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[PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation announces the official launch of the Wikivoyage online travel guide
by Matthew Roth 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

Forwarding from Announce-l. This is the official announcement from WMF of the Wikivoyage launch. There is also a blog post on the WMF blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/15/wikimedia-foundation-launches-wikivoya… thanks, Matthew -- Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 www.wikimediafoundation.org *https://donate.wikimedia.org* (This press release can also be found online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_la… ) Wikimedia Foundation launches Wikivoyage, a free, worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit Wikivoyage becomes the 12th official Wikimedia project and debuts on Wikipedia's 12th birthday SAN FRANCISCO -- 15 January, 2013 -- The Wikimedia Foundation is excited to announce the launch of its 12th official project: Wikivoyage (www.wikivoyage.org), a free, worldwide, online travel guide. Like Wikipedia and its sister projects, Wikivoyage is free to edit, free of ads, and built collaboratively by volunteers from around the globe. Wikivoyage is currently available in nine languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. There are already approximately 50,000 articles, which are edited and improved by a core group of approximately 200 volunteer editors. "There's a huge global demand for travel information, but very few sources are both comprehensive and non-commercial. That's about to change," said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. "Wikivoyage is a great, useful service for travelers, and I'm expecting that with the support of the Wikimedia Foundation and the global Wikimedia editing community, it's going to get even bigger and better." Wikivoyage has been an active wiki-based travel guide since 2006 in German and Italian, supported by the German non-profit Wikivoyage Association. The contributors on that site and the non-profit requested to migrate their content and offered to donate their brand to the new project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The proposal was approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in October 2012. The site was moved over to the Wikimedia Foundation servers in November of 2012, where it was in Beta until today. "The purpose of the Wikivoyage Association is to promote education and knowledge of all countries and regions in the world, as well as understanding among nations," said Stefan Fussan, Chairman of the board of the Wikivoyage Association. "We're very excited about the launch of Wikivoyage as a Wikimedia project, and about the future role of the Association in supporting the Wikivoyage community through its programs." Wikivoyage is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, which allows anyone the right to read, copy, print, save, download, modify, distribute, sell, and update its content in any way, provided the terms of the free license are respected. This includes giving proper attribution to the creators of the content and ensuring that any reuse or derivative works are also freely-licensed. "As contributors to Wikivoyage, we work hard to create high-quality content, written by travelers, for travelers, in their own language," said Peter Fitzgerald, an administrator on Wikivoyage. "We're very excited to be part of the Wikimedia community, and we invite travelers to join us in creating an independent, non-commercial, online travel guide for the world. We are confident that it will become the number one travel resource on the web." The Wikivoyage launch coincides with the 12th anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001. Official Wikivoyage logo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikivoyage-logo-en-TTO-attempt.svg Visit the Wikivoyage portal site here: http://www.wikivoyage.org/ 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 483 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, November 2012). Available in 285 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 24 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of roughly 80,000 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 Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation Tel. +1 415-839-6885 x6635 mroth(a)wikimedia.org

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[Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation announces the official launch of the Wikivoyage online travel guide
by Matthew Roth 15 Jan '13

15 Jan '13

(This press release can also be found online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_la…) Wikimedia Foundation launches Wikivoyage, a free, worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit Wikivoyage becomes the 12th official Wikimedia project and debuts on Wikipedia's 12th birthday SAN FRANCISCO -- 15 January, 2013 -- The Wikimedia Foundation is excited to announce the launch of its 12th official project: Wikivoyage (www.wikivoyage.org), a free, worldwide, online travel guide. Like Wikipedia and its sister projects, Wikivoyage is free to edit, free of ads, and built collaboratively by volunteers from around the globe. Wikivoyage is currently available in nine languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish. There are already approximately 50,000 articles, which are edited and improved by a core group of approximately 200 volunteer editors. "There's a huge global demand for travel information, but very few sources are both comprehensive and non-commercial. That's about to change," said Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. "Wikivoyage is a great, useful service for travelers, and I'm expecting that with the support of the Wikimedia Foundation and the global Wikimedia editing community, it's going to get even bigger and better." Wikivoyage has been an active wiki-based travel guide since 2006 in German and Italian, supported by the German non-profit Wikivoyage Association. The contributors on that site and the non-profit requested to migrate their content and offered to donate their brand to the new project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. The proposal was approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees in October 2012. The site was moved over to the Wikimedia Foundation servers in November of 2012, where it was in Beta until today. "The purpose of the Wikivoyage Association is to promote education and knowledge of all countries and regions in the world, as well as understanding among nations," said Stefan Fussan, Chairman of the board of the Wikivoyage Association. "We're very excited about the launch of Wikivoyage as a Wikimedia project, and about the future role of the Association in supporting the Wikivoyage community through its programs." Wikivoyage is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, which allows anyone the right to read, copy, print, save, download, modify, distribute, sell, and update its content in any way, provided the terms of the free license are respected. This includes giving proper attribution to the creators of the content and ensuring that any reuse or derivative works are also freely-licensed. "As contributors to Wikivoyage, we work hard to create high-quality content, written by travelers, for travelers, in their own language," said Peter Fitzgerald, an administrator on Wikivoyage. "We're very excited to be part of the Wikimedia community, and we invite travelers to join us in creating an independent, non-commercial, online travel guide for the world. We are confident that it will become the number one travel resource on the web." The Wikivoyage launch coincides with the 12th anniversary of the founding of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001. Official Wikivoyage logo: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikivoyage-logo-en-TTO-attempt.svg Visit the Wikivoyage portal site here: http://www.wikivoyage.org/ 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 483 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, November 2012). Available in 285 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 24 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of roughly 80,000 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 Matthew Roth Global Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation Tel. +1 415-839-6885 x6635 mroth(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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