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Re: [Wikimedia-l] French intelligency agency forces removal of a Wikipedia article
by Adrienne Alix 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Hi folks, We published a blogpost in french : http://blog.wikimedia.fr/la-dcri-menace-un-administrateur-de-wikipedia-pour… And translation in english : http://blog.wikimedia.fr/dcri-threat-a-sysop-to-delete-a-wikipedia-article-… Many journalists and bloggers are taking back the story in the media. Everyone supports us. Adrienne -- ================================== Adrienne Charmet-Alix Directrice des programmes - Wikimedia France adrienne.alix(a)wikimedia.fr fixe : 09 67 28 73 79 / mobile : 07.62.92.42.01 http://www.wikimedia.fr ==================================

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The value of Wikipedia for the economy
by Lodewijk 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Hi all, Last weekend we had a discussion about how to 'sell' the importance of Wikipedia to economics-focused people (a.k.a. politicians etc), and the question came up on how much Wikipedia contributes to the global economy. Many people access it daily, and the information they get from that might help them to run businesses, be more efficient etc. Third world countries (and maybe even the rest of the world) might have better educated people thanks to Wikipedia, which might make better and more efficient workers, higher literacy and cheaper university educations. Has there been any scientific (or other) research on the effect Wikipedia has (or had) on the world economy, or even the economy of a specific country/region? There are some numbers what Wikipedia would be 'worth' if it were a commercial company, but that is not what I'm looking for. What is Wikipedia worth to society, the way it currently runs. Alternatively, are there similar studies to other knowledge compendiums, or even 'the internet'? Thanks for any pointers! Lodewijk

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Wikimedia Gadgets
by Everton Zanella Alvarenga 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Hi all, I've started a page on meta for Wikimedia Gadget http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Gadgets This page serves for people participating of the Wikimedia movement to brainstorm on news cool, fun and interesting Wikimedia gadgets. The ideas can discussed in several languages on the talk page to facilitate each local group to speak their ideas in their local language, if necessary. The idea is to expand the possibilities on what we have so far in the Wikimedia Shop <http://shop.wikimedia.org/> and other local groups shops using the global community ideas and help local groups to outreach Wikimedia projects. A lot of times someone saw a Wikipedia backpack I have and they found really cool - people find these kind of things cool. This can help also local groups to develop their own things to outreach Wikimedia projects. Also, several times, I was faced in discussions with colleagues on possible new gadgets beyond those produced by Wikimedia Foundation, like a Wikipedia flip flop, for instance. Or when volunteers in Brazil organized a challenge with a initial idea to give some new gadgetd, like these ones in this news about this activity <http://blogs.estadao.com.br/link/positivo-quer-wikipedia-offline-em-computa…>. I do think this can also help to outreach other less known Wikimedia Projects. For instance, when a cool banner was made here in Brazil <https://docs.google.com/file/d/1c3Op5hG6ugo6gsQdmG7MzuG5jXyj_YJjYkcZ61DLi2a…> by volunteers to use at events, I've heard more than once people saying they didn't know other projects and that that was really cool. As another example, I've just discovered a cool t-shirt of Wikimedia Sweeden for the Wikipedia education program <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_i_utbildning_tshirt.jpg> and their local shop <http://wikimediasverige.spreadshirt.se/> with original and creative products. I hope this can bring new ideas and new gadgets. Please, make comments in the wiki page. Tom

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Economy of the United States
by Alex Peek 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

Here is the proposed format for the project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_the_United_States#…

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Wikiecon
by Alex Peek 07 Apr '13

07 Apr '13

Discussion at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Economics

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] French intelligency agency forces removal of a Wikipedia article
by Fred Bauder 06 Apr '13

06 Apr '13

Typical. They were not willing to tell our legal counsel why or what was classified; she, of course, has no French security clearance; now it is spread all over an administrators noticeboard, and restored. They weren't wrong but neither is our legal counsel or the users; so "fell between the cracks." Hopefully the matter was not too important; I'm sure we have enough money to pay for relocating the facility to a secure location. Fred > This is where the discussion is happening on-wiki: > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Bulletin_des_administrateurs#Se… > > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote: > >> Hard to know what was involved from the information you provide. The problem is there is classified information that amounts to nothing and then there is classified information release of which can cause serious damage. Defiance will eventually result in serious trouble. Not that we should knuckle under to nonsense. >> >> Fred >> >> > Hi there, >> > I guess you might be interested to hear that Direction Centrale du Renseignement IntÃ©rieur (Central Directorate of Interior >> Intelligence, >> > DCRI), a French intelligence agency that reports directly to the Ministry of the Interior, has apparently forced a French Wikipedia administrator to delete an article that in their opinionâas I understand itârevelead classified information deemed very harmful >> to >> > the French national defence ("compromission du secret de la DÃ©fense nationale"). >> > >> > Interestingly, they contacted the WMF legal team with a request to remove (delete? suppress?) this article a couple of weeks before >> that, >> > but were refused after failing to provide further information on why the article should be removed (in the words of a Foundation legal counsel). >> > >> > Undounted by that, they approached the said administrator â who operates under his real name, so I guess it was pretty easy to track him â and asked him to delete this article, a request which he obliged. (The article has since been restored by a different >> > administrator). As far as I understand, the version of the article they wanted to have deleted was >> > <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=81104004>. >> > >> > I guess that when an intelligence agency asks their citizen to remove information from Wikipedia citing the penal code (article 413-11 of the French penal code in this case), it is something worth sharing >> (no >> > harm intended). >> > >> > Further reading in English: >> > * <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=91703508> * <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=91705235> >> > >> > -- >> > Tomasz W. KozÅowski >> > a.k.a. [[user:odder]] >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list >> > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> > > > > -- > > Matthew Roth > Global Communications Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > +1.415.839.6885 ext 6635 > www.wikimediafoundation.org > *https://donate.wikimedia.org* >

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French intelligency agency forces removal of a Wikipedia article
by Tomasz W. Kozłowski 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Hi there, I guess you might be interested to hear that Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence, DCRI), a French intelligence agency that reports directly to the Ministry of the Interior, has apparently forced a French Wikipedia administrator to delete an article that in their opinion—as I understand it—revelead classified information deemed very harmful to the French national defence ("compromission du secret de la Défense nationale"). Interestingly, they contacted the WMF legal team with a request to remove (delete? suppress?) this article a couple of weeks before that, but were refused after failing to provide further information on why the article should be removed (in the words of a Foundation legal counsel). Undounted by that, they approached the said administrator — who operates under his real name, so I guess it was pretty easy to track him — and asked him to delete this article, a request which he obliged. (The article has since been restored by a different administrator). As far as I understand, the version of the article they wanted to have deleted was <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=81104004>. I guess that when an intelligence agency asks their citizen to remove information from Wikipedia citing the penal code (article 413-11 of the French penal code in this case), it is something worth sharing (no harm intended). Further reading in English: * <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=91703508> * <https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=91705235> -- Tomasz W. Kozłowski a.k.a. [[user:odder]]

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Jointly they edit
by Виктория 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Greetings, everybody This PLoS One paper about Wikipedia community had been cited by the traditional press: Jessica J. Neff, David Laniado, Karolin E. Kappler, Yana Volkovich, Pablo Aragón, Andreas Kaltenbrunner *Jointly They Edit: Examining the Impact of Community Identification on Political Interaction in Wikipedia* Our results indicate that users who proclaim their political affiliation within the community tend to proclaim their identity as a ‘Wikipedian’ even more loudly. It seems that the shared identity of ‘being Wikipedian’ may be strong enough to triumph over other potentially divisive facets of personal identity, such as political affiliation. Regards Victoria

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 13 -- 01 April 2013
by Wikipedia Signpost 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Special report: Who reads which Wikipedia? The WMF's surprising stats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-01/Specia… News and notes: Funding for the Wikipedia Library and six other projects; April Fool's Day ructions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-01/News_a… Featured content: What the ''?'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-01/Featur… WikiProject report: Special: FAQs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-01/WikiPr… Arbitration report: Three open cases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-01/Arbitr… Technology report: Wikidata phase 2 deployment timetable in doubt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-01/Techno… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-01 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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Recognition of Esperanto kaj Libera Scio as user group
by Bence Damokos 05 Apr '13

05 Apr '13

Hi all, I am happy to inform you that the Affiliations Committee has recognized a new Wikimedia User Group yesterday: Esperanto kaj Libera Scio<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_kaj_Libera_Scio>(Esperanto and free knowledge). Please give them a warm welcome. Some background information follows: == Esperanto kaj Libera Scio == Esperanto kaj Libera Scio<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_kaj_Libera_Scio> is a group of Wikimedians who speak Esperanto. Their focus is to unite Esperanto speaking persons who edit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, or want to support Free Knowledge in other ways. Its activities include among others participating at Esperanto language events promoting Wikimedia projects, organizing Wikimedia workshops, trying to recruit new volunteers and technical cooperation on creating a translation gadget for the Esperanto Wikipedia. The Affiliations Committee's recognition is valid until 30 April 2014. == Wikimedia User Groups == Wikimedia User Groups are one of the three new types of affiliations created last year to empower volunteers wanting to conduct offline work. User group status is meant to be an easy form of affiliation, where the main requirements are an agreed goal, plans for offline work, at least three people participating and a public wiki page with all the relevant information). User groups are by default non-incorporated, although they may choose to incorporate (this is not the case with this group). One of the requirements of the status, and especially of its renewal is to publish a short report of activities at least once a year. Under the movement roles recommendations<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/User_Groups> , user groups are to be recognized in a quick and easy process directly by the Affiliations Committee, for a fixed, renewable time-period and they are to enjoy limited trademark use and simplified access to grants. Best regards, Bence Damokos Chair, Affiliatons Committee

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