Wikimedia-l October 2013

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Hearing Loop at Wikimedia UK
by Richard Symonds 29 Oct '13

29 Oct '13

All, We've just purchased a hearing loop for the UK chapter, to make it easier for those with hearing difficulties to partake in discussions and events. The loop doesn't have a huge range, so it's not good for full conferences, and is instead best for smaller meetings of 3-4 people. We'll work to update the various event pages to include this information in the next few weeks. This loop can be requested by anyone running or attending events (provided we know who's in charge of it). I'd be really keen on hearing from people how it can be "effectively utilised", and doesn't just sit around gathering dust. Every time that it could be used, we want it to be used. We'd be happy to lend it to other chapters for short periods too (although it's a UK/240v charging system). All the best, Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is 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.*

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities
by Vishnu T 29 Oct '13

29 Oct '13

Dear Ansuman, On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman <ansumang(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is part of the replies of Vishnu four months ago. > > > --------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > > Me: > And also tell the community, who are all involved in the interview process > and selection process, and why? > > Vishnu: > BEFORE EVEN PUBLISHING THE JOB ADVERTISEMENT WE HAD DECIDED TO PUBLISH A > BLOG POST/WRITE-UP ON THE SELECTION PROCESS AND SHARE IT WITH THE WIKIMEDIA > INDIA COMMUNITY AS PART OF OUR TRANSPARENCY MEASURE. ONCE THIS IS UP, WILL > SHARE THE LINK. > We have published a blog post on the Program Officer selection process on September 10, 2013.[1] This has also been shared with the Indian Wikimedia community as part of the September A2K Newsletter [2], which was posted on all the Indian Wikimedia lists. Best, Vishnu [1] http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/selection-of-programme-officer-pilot-pro… [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2013-October/010575.h…

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Wikimedia ES Report - July, August and September 2013
by Lucien leGrey 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Dear friends, Here is the Wikimedia España (Spain, ES) Report of Activities for the months of July, August and September 2013. It is also avaliable, as all the precedent, in Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C…<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C3…> Best regards, -- Jorge A. Sierra Presidente Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es July - 4.07.2013: Meeting with María Calzada, profesor of UJI. Evaluation of the 3rd year of using Wikipedia in a subject of Translation degree. - 8-31.07.2013: Courses on "Wikis in education: an introduction" in Universidad de Cádiz (4 sessions). It includes a lesson on "Wikipedia edition" (Free resources updated for the course: slides and exercises<https://github.com/DrPantera/wikis4education/tree/master/uca-2012_07> ). - 11.07.2013: Presentation of a paper about UCAC2/wikiArS project<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:UCAC2>in "X Jornadas Internacionales de Innovación Universitaria" conference about educational innovation in Madrid. Proceedings<http://www.uem.es/myfiles/pageposts/jiu/jiu2013/pdf/x_jiiu_2013.pdf?#page=9…>(pages 917-924) - 15.07.2013: Meeting with Fundació Isonomia to explain the gender gap in Wikimedia, show activities done by other chapters and talk about doing activities next year. - 19.07.2013: Collaboration in newspaper article about Wikipedia conflicts for El Confidencial Opus Dei y Athletic de Bilbao, entre los artículos más controvertidos de Wikipedia<http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2013-07-19/opus-dei-y-athletic-de-…> - 27.07.2013: Photographic coverage of music festival *Músicos en la naturaleza 2013*. Pictures of Deep Purple, Loquillo and Bebe. [1]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:M%C3%BAsicos_en_la_naturaleza_2…> August - 08-11.08.2013: Participation of 7 members of the chapter in Wikimania with intensive exchange with members of other chapters, along with an extensive summary of everything that happened there in order to keep all chapters members informed. - 09-10.08.2013: Co-organisation of a photowikimeetup on-site in Hong Kong<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photowikimeetup_in_Hong_Kong_duri…>by "Poco a poco" (WMES member) to take pictures of the city, as well as of monuments for WLM13. - 11.08.2013: Attendance to the Iberocoop meeting on-site in Hong Kong. - 11.08.2013: Talk by David Gómez about wikiArS in Edu-III<http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/wikiArS,_involving_art_…>(Wikimania) - 11.08.2013: Interview to Jorge Sierra, president of Wikimedia España, for El Confidencial (newspaper) "Hay empresas que pagan por hablar bien de ellas, pero siempre se detecta"<http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2013-08-11/hay-empresas-que-pagan-…> - 16.08.2013: Agreement<http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Colaboraci%C3%B3n_con_la_UPM_sobr…>between the departament of applied physics of the Telecommunications ETSI of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Wikimedia España. The first agreement comprises the improvement of the 10 most visited articles about physics in the Wikipedia in Spanish that need to be expanded or improved (wording or references). Discussion is going on to expand and formalize the collaboration. - 28.08.2013: We were able to register the Internet domain wikimedia.esafter several years - 01-30.08.2013: Organization of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in Spain - Collaboration with Quo (magazine) in a report about conflicts in Wikipedia <http://www.quo.es/tecnologia/errores-wikipedia> September - 09.09.2013: Meeting with Eugenio Monesma, film producer and director, and owner of the largest ethnographic archive in Spain. - 10.09.2013: Interview to Jorge Sierra, president of Wikimedia España, for La Vanguardia (newspaper) "Mis alumnos me han entregado a veces trabajos copiados de Wikipedia escritos por mí"<http://www.lavanguardia.com/internet/20130910/54380178639/entrevista-jorge-…> - 13.09.2013: Meeting with Fundació Globalis - 13.09.2013: Photographic coverage of a stage of Vuelta a España 2013. [2]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Vuelta_a_Espa%C3%B1a_2013_-_Sup…> - 14.09.2013: Photographic coverage of the football match between Atlético de Madrid and UD Almería, of the Liga (Spanish Premier League). [3]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atl%C3%A9tico_de_Madrid_vs_UD_A…> - 17.09.2013: Meeting with María Calzada, professor of "Traducción e interpretación" to prepare the new year of Wikipedia project *Aprendices de traducción con la Wikipedia* [4]<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proyecto_educativo/Aprendices_de_tr…> - 17.09.2013: Meeting with Vila-real Town council to organize Wikimedia Conference and GM of WMES in Vila-real. - 17.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Intereconomía. - 18.09.2013: Participation in the *UPM: Convocatoria ETSI de Telecomunicación: Edición Wikipedia 2013_14*, an event to give students of the Politecnic University of Madrid a introduction to the edition in Wikimedia. - 24.09.2013: Press conference at Vila-real city hall about Wikimedia Conference in Vila-real - 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Vila-real [5]<http://www.radiovila-real.es/protagonistes-del-24-de-septiembre-de-2013/> - 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Onda Cero - 27.09.2013: Workshop about Wikimedia projects in Vila-real - 28.09.2013: Photo hunting in Vila-real - 28.09.2013: Wikimedia and education Conference in Vila-real, with two talks and one debate, in Vila-real - 29.09.2013: III General Assembly of WMES in Vila-real - 30.09.2013: Finishing upload campaign for WLM 2013. - During the month; wikiArS online work. David Gómez. Adaptation of UploadWizard for wikiArS using Campaign: Campaign:wikiArS<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wikiArS>, creation of mechanisms to create assignments<http://wiki.wikimedia.org.es/priv/index.php?title=Outreach:WikiArS/assignme…>, and other improvements of templates, categories and documentation in Commons, and Outreach. -- + Lucien ------------------------------------------------------------ ¡Participa en Wikimedia España!: http://www.wikimedia.org.es/

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Fwd: FOSS Outreach Program for Women: call for candidates, projects, and mentors
by Quim Gil 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Your help promoting the Free and Open Source Outreach Program for Women is welcome. We are looking for candidates to become full-time interns in a Wikimedia tech project between December and March. We are also looking for mentors and projects. See the details below. Wikimedia chapters and other organizations can also help promoting this program in their areas. So far the only countries with a slightly decent representation of candidates are India and USA. Thank you! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: FOSS Outreach Program for Women: call for candidates, projects, and mentors Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:02:37 -0700 From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> PLEASE FORWARD TO WHOEVER MIGHT BE INTERESTED Wikimedia will participate in the FOSS Outreach Program for Women - Round 7. Interns of this program work full time in an open source project during 4 months. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women Candidates interested are encouraged to add themselves to the table at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_7#Candidates - even if you are still preparing your proposal. We are actually running late (my fault). The application process is open until November 11. The internship period goes from December 10 to March 10, 2014. The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to fund up to 8 interns. This is a great opportunity for Wikimedia / MediaWiki related projects. Our process is quite simple: define a project, find the mentors and go for it! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_mentors The previous featured projects and confirmed mentors have been moved respectively to the Raw and Bench sections. If you want to participate in this OPW round move the entries back to the featured sections. New projects and mentors are welcome too, of course! If you have any questions please ask. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities
by Vishnu T 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Dear Ansuman, Thanks for flagging your concerns pertaining to the Access to Knowledge (A2K) program at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). Most of these are in the pipe-line (or works in progress) and we will share updates on each one of the queries you have posted, on the mailing lists and/or on-wiki in the next 15-20 days. We will also update on our failures in meeting some of the plans. There are some delays with the taking off of some of our current year plans [0]. However, I fail to understand where we have lied? All the A2K work is periodically i.e. monthly, (except for once where we clubbed two months newsletters as we were redesigning the newsletter based on feedback received from some Indian Wikimedia community members0 published through A2K Newsletter. The Newsletters were widely circulated on all Indian Wikimedia mailing lists. Please also see: a) All CIS-A2K Newsletters here [1] under the section "The Access to Knowledge Bulletin". b) All the Events CIS-A2K has organized towards strengthening the Wikimedia movement in India. We are currently updating all the events on this [2] Meta page and soon you will see all the events conducted/supported by A2K since September 2012. c) Support to various requests placed by the Indian Wikimedia community. [3] More updates to follow. Vishnu [[:m:User:Visdaviva]] [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2… [1] http://cis-india.org/about/newsletters [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests & https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Requests On 28 October 2013 16:46, ansuman <ansumang(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is part of the replies of Vishnu four months ago. > > > --------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > > Me: > And also tell the community, who are all involved in the interview process > and selection process, and why? > > Vishnu: > BEFORE EVEN PUBLISHING THE JOB ADVERTISEMENT WE HAD DECIDED TO PUBLISH A > BLOG POST/WRITE-UP ON THE SELECTION PROCESS AND SHARE IT WITH THE WIKIMEDIA > INDIA COMMUNITY AS PART OF OUR TRANSPARENCY MEASURE. ONCE THIS IS UP, WILL > SHARE THE LINK. > > > Me: > Please make available the job descriptions/roles for all the employees at > meta and share the same in the mailing list. > > Vishnu: > YES WE ARE REWORKING THE PROFILES AS THE EARLIER ROLES ARE NO MORE > RELEVANT. WE WILL TAKE THIS UP ON PRIORITY AND PUT IT UP ON META. THE LINKS > TO A2K TEAM MEMBER PROFILES, SHARED EVERY MONTH IN A2K NEWSLETTERS, WILL IN > FUTURE BE LINKED TO THE META PAGES. > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > If I've missed any updates on this from A2K, let me know. > > What happened to the decision? When do you plan to share this, next year? > If so you should have told the community. Don't you think so? > > Besides user pages (User pages don't have detailed information about the > job description) there is no proper work details of anybody on meta > officially > . I don't think there is any even off-wiki > . (Profiles at CIS site are not detailed enough to know their works) > > > We don't know who is responsible for which work!! Who is doing what? > > > Few more questions.. > > Why still *2* new recruits are missing even after several months, at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Team<http://bl-1.com/click/load/ADAAMlM2Um8Hb1w7CTw-b0231> > , > > Why there is no *monthly reports* updated on meta, > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports<http://bl-1.com/click/load/VGRaaABlVmtQOFA3AjA-b0231> > > Why there is no *community Mid-year reports* updated, > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Reports<http://bl-1.com/click/load/VmZZawdiAj9ROVUyBDc-b0231> > > If there is any report available anywhere, when do you plan to update the > meta pages? > > Why there is no response to this, Evaluation results after months? *How > long are your two weeks?* > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_Ap…<http://bl-1.com/click/load/UGAKOFw5WmcCagZhV2c-b0231> > > What about "*Quarterly Community Survey*" mentioned here, > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_2…<http://bl-1.com/click/load/XW0PPQdiBzoFbVA3VGU-b0231>? > Is there any plan to do this ever? > > And on this > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum/Archives/2013-08#Terms_.2F_…<http://bl-1.com/click/load/BDRcblQxATwFbQFmUmw-b0231>, > which Shyamal brought it up; I'd like to see something concrete from the > Foundation. > > I don't know about off-wiki, but there hasn't been proper communication on > anything on-wiki. If there is a change in plans or updates on any event, we > don't get to see that! Why? > > * Who is accountable for all these discrepancies??* > > I request the foundation or whoever is responsible for this to make sure > everything goes as it planned or discussed, and let the community know what > is happening regularly on-wiki. > Thanks. > > > Regards, > Ansuman > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Adventure, alpha testers needed
by Jake Orlowitz 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

David, I think I just fixed it with the help of Village Pump Tech. Please give it another go. http://enwp.org/WP:TWA Cheers! Jake (Ocaasi)

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Wikimedia ES Report - July, August and September 2013
by Jorge Sierra 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Dear friends, Here is the Wikimedia España (Spain, ES) Report of Activities for the months of July, August and September 2013. It is also avaliable, as all the precedent, in Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C…<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C3…> Best regards, -- Jorge A. Sierra Presidente Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es <http://www.wikimedia.org.es/> July - 4.07.2013: Meeting with María Calzada, profesor of UJI. Evaluation of the 3rd year of using Wikipedia in a subject of Translation degree. - 8-31.07.2013: Courses on "Wikis in education: an introduction" in Universidad de Cádiz (4 sessions). It includes a lesson on "Wikipedia edition" (Free resources updated for the course: slides and exercises<https://github.com/DrPantera/wikis4education/tree/master/uca-2012_07> ). - 11.07.2013: Presentation of a paper about UCAC2/wikiArS project<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:UCAC2>in "X Jornadas Internacionales de Innovación Universitaria" conference about educational innovation in Madrid. Proceedings<http://www.uem.es/myfiles/pageposts/jiu/jiu2013/pdf/x_jiiu_2013.pdf?#page=9…>(pages 917-924) - 15.07.2013: Meeting with Fundació Isonomia to explain the gender gap in Wikimedia, show activities done by other chapters and talk about doing activities next year. - 19.07.2013: Collaboration in newspaper article about Wikipedia conflicts for El Confidencial Opus Dei y Athletic de Bilbao, entre los artículos más controvertidos de Wikipedia<http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2013-07-19/opus-dei-y-athletic-de-…> - 27.07.2013: Photographic coverage of music festival *Músicos en la naturaleza 2013*. Pictures of Deep Purple, Loquillo and Bebe. [1]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:M%C3%BAsicos_en_la_naturaleza_2…> August - 08-11.08.2013: Participation of 7 members of the chapter in Wikimania with intensive exchange with members of other chapters, along with an extensive summary of everything that happened there in order to keep all chapters members informed. - 09-10.08.2013: Co-organisation of a photowikimeetup on-site in Hong Kong<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photowikimeetup_in_Hong_Kong_duri…>by "Poco a poco" (WMES member) to take pictures of the city, as well as of monuments for WLM13. - 11.08.2013: Attendance to the Iberocoop meeting on-site in Hong Kong. - 11.08.2013: Talk by David Gómez about wikiArS in Edu-III<http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/wikiArS,_involving_art_…>(Wikimania) - 11.08.2013: Interview to Jorge Sierra, president of Wikimedia España, for El Confidencial (newspaper) "Hay empresas que pagan por hablar bien de ellas, pero siempre se detecta"<http://www.elconfidencial.com/tecnologia/2013-08-11/hay-empresas-que-pagan-…> - 16.08.2013: Agreement<http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Colaboraci%C3%B3n_con_la_UPM_sobr…>between the departament of applied physics of the Telecommunications ETSI of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Wikimedia España. The first agreement comprises the improvement of the 10 most visited articles about physics in the Wikipedia in Spanish that need to be expanded or improved (wording or references). Discussion is going on to expand and formalize the collaboration. - 28.08.2013: We were able to register the Internet domain wikimedia.esafter several years - 01-30.08.2013: Organization of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in Spain - Collaboration with Quo (magazine) in a report about conflicts in Wikipedia <http://www.quo.es/tecnologia/errores-wikipedia> September - 09.09.2013: Meeting with Eugenio Monesma, film producer and director, and owner of the largest ethnographic archive in Spain. - 10.09.2013: Interview to Jorge Sierra, president of Wikimedia España, for La Vanguardia (newspaper) "Mis alumnos me han entregado a veces trabajos copiados de Wikipedia escritos por mí"<http://www.lavanguardia.com/internet/20130910/54380178639/entrevista-jorge-…> - 13.09.2013: Meeting with Fundació Globalis - 13.09.2013: Photographic coverage of a stage of Vuelta a España 2013. [2]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Vuelta_a_Espa%C3%B1a_2013_-_Sup…> - 14.09.2013: Photographic coverage of the football match between Atlético de Madrid and UD Almería, of the Liga (Spanish Premier League). [3]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Atl%C3%A9tico_de_Madrid_vs_UD_A…> - 17.09.2013: Meeting with María Calzada, professor of "Traducción e interpretación" to prepare the new year of Wikipedia project *Aprendices de traducción con la Wikipedia* [4]<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proyecto_educativo/Aprendices_de_tr…> - 17.09.2013: Meeting with Vila-real Town council to organize Wikimedia Conference and GM of WMES in Vila-real. - 17.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Intereconomía. - 18.09.2013: Participation in the *UPM: Convocatoria ETSI de Telecomunicación: Edición Wikipedia 2013_14*, an event to give students of the Politecnic University of Madrid a introduction to the edition in Wikimedia. - 24.09.2013: Press conference at Vila-real city hall about Wikimedia Conference in Vila-real - 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Radio Vila-real [5]<http://www.radiovila-real.es/protagonistes-del-24-de-septiembre-de-2013/> - 24.09.2013: Radio interview in Onda Cero - 27.09.2013: Workshop about Wikimedia projects in Vila-real - 28.09.2013: Photo hunting in Vila-real - 28.09.2013: Wikimedia and education Conference in Vila-real, with two talks and one debate, in Vila-real - 29.09.2013: III General Assembly of WMES in Vila-real - 30.09.2013: Finishing upload campaign for WLM 2013. - During the month; wikiArS online work. David Gómez. Adaptation of UploadWizard for wikiArS using Campaign: Campaign:wikiArS<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaign:wikiArS>, creation of mechanisms to create assignments<http://wiki.wikimedia.org.es/priv/index.php?title=Outreach:WikiArS/assignme…>, and other improvements of templates, categories and documentation in Commons, and Outreach.

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Chapters report Wikimedia Sverige September 2013
by Jan Ainali 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

The Chapters report for Wikimedia Sverige has now been published on our wiki: https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_reports/2013-09 *HIGHLIGHTS:* - The Gothenburg Book fair, which featured a community driven project taking pictures and making interviews conducted by 11 volunteers, as well as presentations on Wikipedia in Education and Copyright. - The final delivery of the brochure Free public information to each of the Members of Parliament. - The chapter and Wikipedia were mentioned five times in the Governmental budget proposition for 2014. - Our board member Ylva Pettersson was awarded second prize in The Innovative Teacher Award for her and her students' work with creating articles, videos, music and photos for Wikipedia in a project on local history. *GROWTH:* - Editors involved in chapter activities: 26 - Media uploaded helped by chapter resources: 555<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cm…> - Media viewed: 1,824,524<http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama.php?group=Media+created+by+techn…> - Persons engaged in workshops and seminars: 118 - Persons reached in presentations: >425 - Number of events held (edit-a-thons, workshops, seminars, presentations, other): 18 - New chapter members: 5 - Facebook page likes: +20 (756 in total) *Best regards, Jan Ainali* CEO, Wikimedia Sverige <http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Huvudsida> +46 729 67 29 48 _______________________________________________ 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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New access to non-public information policy, re-ID requirements and data retention
by Tomasz W. Kozlowski 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

Hi, I would like to bring your attention to yet another discussion that's currently taking place, namely the one about the new privacy policy, and the related access to non-public information policy. The privacy policy consultation is obviously important to all of us. but I'm personally more interested in the draft access to non-public information policy, which influences my daily work as an oversighter on Commons, and also the not-so-regular work as an OTRS agent. It seems that the Wikimedia Foundation is planning to require users with access to non-public information to re-identify to them, this time with the intention to retain copies of the submitted IDs, for as long as those users have access to such information, and additional three years. We already went through a similar discussion two and a half years ago, when the WMF planned to make all OTRS agents re-identify to them by sending a copy (or a scan) of their ID to a secure e-mail address (or by using another option provided). This time, the new requirements are going to concern /all/ users with access to non-public information (such as OTRS agents, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards), and their IDs are planned to be kept by the Foundation, something which was never required before. The discussion is taking place at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy and I invite every interested person (with a special invitation to people holding advanced user rights on any Wikimedia wiki) to take an active part in it. Thanks, Tomasz

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 42 -- 23 October 2013
by Wikipedia Signpost 26 Oct '13

26 Oct '13

News and notes: Grantmaking season—rumbling in the German-language Wikimedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-23/News_a… In the media: The decline of Wikipedia; Sue Gardner releases statement on Wiki-PR; Australian minister relies on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-23/In_the… Featured content: Your worst nightmare as a child is now featured on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-23/Featur… Traffic report: Your average week... and a fish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-23/Traffi… Discussion report: More discussion of paid advocacy, upcoming arbitrator elections, research hackathon, and more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-23/Discus… WikiProject report: WikiProject Elements http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-23/WikiPr… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-10-23 http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost _______________________________________________ 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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