Hi all,
Wikimedia Deutschland's monthly report for February is out now. This month
about
- a reformation of the German copyright
- how WMDE starts the conversation about Open Educational Resources
- and many projects that helped gather more pictures for Wikipedia, e.g.
by means of a helicopter flight
Please find the report on Meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Deutsch…
Best,
Katja
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Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.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.
*After learning the basics needed to create a Wikipedia article, the
participants improved existing articles related to feminism, as part of a
celebration of International Women’s Day*
[image: Primeiro mutirão de edição da Wikipédia para e com
mulheres]<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Primeiro_WikiMulheres.jpg>
Primeiro mutirão de edição da Wikipédia para e com mulheres
Para aproximá-las do universo “wiki,” os voluntários dos projetos
Knowledge is power: no one should doubt that. Although the possibility of
contributing knowledge to the biggest encyclopedia of the world, Wikipedia,
is free and open for anyone, about 91 percent of its editors are men. What,
then, is the prospect for women in this story?
In order to engage women in the “wiki” universe, volunteers of the
Wikimedia projects in Brazil, with the support of the Wikimedia Foundation,
organized a workshop about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia
projects<http://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/chapter:Dia_Internacional_da_Mulher/2013>
and
proposed a joint effort for editing the encyclopedia in homage to International
Women’s Day <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day>. The
meeting took place on March 2nd at The Hub <http://saopaulo.the-hub.net/> and
gathered men and women interested in learning and practicing the editing of
Wikimedia projects.
About 15 people attended the event, where they discussed the criteria for
writing and publishing a Wikipedia article, the sources that may be
considered reliable and the collaborative dynamic of editing. At the end of
the workshop, the group dedicated themselves to improving articles related
to women and feminism: “Women’s Rights” and “Grace Hopper” (“Direitos da
mulher” <http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direitos_da_mulher> and “Grace
Hopper”<http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper> in
Portuguese) were two examples of such contributions.
“The steps for editing an article are simple, and from what I have observed
in the meetup, anyone can learn them quickly,” said Fernanda Campagnucci,
from Ação Educativa <http://www.acaoeducativa.org.br/>, who edited the
article about women’s rights, her first contribution to the project. “But
we live in a society where the sharing of knowledge is unequal and the
technology is still often considered part of the masculine universe. It is
this vision that we need to break.”
To discuss and overcome the lack of women collaborating on Wikipedia, the
Wikimedia movement maintains a page (Gender
Gap<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_Gap>)
to gather information, references and ideas on the subject, in addition to
promoting activities like this workshop. With the goal of increasing
women’s participation in the project, new women editors are encouraged to
join mailing lists <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap>
and online communities<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_Gap#Projects_within_Wikimedia_communi…>
.
The Wikimedia movement in Brazil expects that this initiative in Sao Paulo
will inspire volunteers from other regions of the country to help the event
become regular every March, extending the debate about women’s
participation in Wikipedia and lowering the gender gap. You can
contact the Wikimedia
volunteers in Brazil <http://br.wikimedia.org/> to obtain more information.
Everybody is welcome to participate and organize upcoming events!
*Fernanda Campagnucci (NGO Ação Educativa)*
*Translation by Tom and Cristiana Gonzalez*
- See more photos of the edithaton
here<http://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dia_Internacional_da_Mulher/2013#Fotos>
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/08/wikipedia-editing-workshop-in-brazil-h…
Happy women's day!
Tom
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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful
than a life spent doing nothing."
Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities will take place on Thursday, March
7, 2013 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be
broadcast as a live YouTube stream.
The current structure of the meeting is:
* Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also
specialized reports and analytics* Review of financials* Welcoming
recent hires* Brief presentations on recent projects, with a focus on
highest priority initiatives* Update and Q&A with the Executive
Director, if available
Please review https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings
for further information about how to participate.
We'll post IRC logs and the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you, Praveena
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Praveena Maharaj
Executive Assistant to the VP of Engineering and Product Development
+1 (415) 839 6885 ext. 6689
www.wikimedia.org
Greetings, Wikimedia community,
It is my pleasure to share with you that the Funds Dissemination
Committee has received four proposals in Round 2 of funding from
entities seeking funds for their annual plans. An additional proposal
was withdrawn. These four proposals from Wikimedia Czech Republic,
France, Hong Kong, and Norway request a total of over $1.2 million
USD:
WM Czech Republic: $14,084.50
WM France: $747,259
WM Hong Kong: $211,916.67
WM Norway: $235,715
We need your help in reviewing the proposals in order to consider the
potential impact of movement funds. To this end, we have launched the
community review period to help the FDC strategically allocate
Wikimedia movements funds. We invite you, members of the Wikimedia
community, to review the proposals and provide thoughts and ask
questions. [1] The community review period is open until March 31.
A bit more about the community review period: the FDC proposal
submission deadline (March 1) is followed by a 30-day open comment
period when community members are invited to provide input on and ask
questions about each proposal. During this period, fund-seeking
entities (that is, those that submitted proposals) are requested to
respond to questions about their proposals on the proposal discussion
pages. All community input and entity responses are submitted as part
of each proposal package to the FDC. While the community may comment
on proposals after the open comment period closes on March 31, the FDC
may not be able to take comments made after this period into
consideration. After this, on April 8, the FDC staff will share their
assessments of the proposals, which will take into account the
community input. On May 1, the FDC announces its recommendations to
the WMF Board, and on June 1, the Board will make decisions about
funding allocations.
To join the community review for Round 2 proposals, please visit the
FDC proposal page [1], which links to all current proposals and their
discussion pages. You can review the proposal by opening the proposal
form for each entity, and submit questions or comments on the proposal
discussion pages. While the proposals are unfortunately only available
in English, we hope that the longer period for review this round will
help address this challenge. We hope that this community review period
will bring an in-depth and robust review to each of the four
proposals.
The FDC seriously values the input and feedback of the Wikimedia
community. Therefore, they ask for your comments and questions on
these proposals. The community review process helps to ensure that
this is a transparent and collaborative process. We look forward to
hearing from you on the discussion pages of the four proposals!
Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns. The FDC
support staff can be reached at FDCsupport(a)wikimedia.org
Warm regards,
Katy Love and the FDC support team
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposals
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Katy Love
Senior Program Officer, Funds Dissemination Committee
Wikimedia Foundation
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I'd like to know more about the non-disparagement clause which
multiple people have stated that the Foundation's NDA includes. In
particular, does it forbid employees from discussing the fact that the
Foundation's policy of paying below market salary discriminates
against potential hires with large expenses such as kids in college or
a mortgage from 2007? Does it forbid employees from discussing the
fact that the only evidence ever produced by Foundation employees in
support of that policy is a non-peer reviewed popular press book which
is not only contradicted by all of the recent secondary sources on the
subject, but the interpretation of which is contradicted by the author
of the book himself?
I today discovered and nominated for deletion a large hoax article
written in 2008 (Yuri Gadyukin on en.wp).
Is this the longest ever living hoax we had on any project, or were
there others that survived longer?
Cheers
Yaroslav
