TU Telecom Young Innovators Competition has started a new challenge on
preserving diversity of digital content. We are calling for concept papers
or start-ups from all around the world, started by young women and men (age
18-26) who work to inspire the creation of local content in a less
frequently used on the Internet language. We recognize the dis-balance of
digital content available and are devoted to help diversify the content by
supporting talented young entrepreneurs who have projects in this field. We
accept concept papers or start-ups (already up and running and in need of
further help to scale up). We offer up to USD 10 000 of seed funding to the
best 10 submissions, and we really hope that some of them will be for our
challenge on digital content.
More information at our website<http://world2013.itu.int/participate/innovate/>
http://world2013.itu.int/event/innovation/
Any questions, as well as applications, should go to
young.innovators(a)itu.int or email me directly at dimitrina.todorova(a)itu.int
Hi all,
I just saw a nice thread at the Portuguese Wikipedia [1] where
[[user:rjclaudio]], a very active wikipedian, point out the importance
of highlighting also good contributions and what is good for Wikimedia
projects, instead of only saying what is wrong, what you cannot do,
that you have done a mistake.
The discussion in this thread continues with wikipedians sharing their
general feeling of all policies and recommendations emphasizing too
much what cannot be done, what Wikipedia is not, what is not notorious
or reliable, instead of acknowledging and encouraging contributors
(mainly new ones), for small that is his or her contribution.
I see this as a general pattern in the Wikimedia movement, not only
online. But when asking people from other Wikimedia projects, like the
Arabic and Swedish Wikipedias, I was told there is a better reception
for new contributors, for instance.
What about the Wikimedia projects you are involved with, do you see
this pattern of highlighting only the odds? Or sometimes you only see
destructive critics? If so, how can we improve that? No visual editor
or editor engagement will improve that is we, as a global community,
do not acknowledge there is some problem.
Tom
[1] http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Fa%C3%A7a_coisa…
--
Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more
useful than a life spent doing nothing."
Hello,
This is a reminder that the Language Engineering team will be hosting
a bug triage session today, i.e. 24th of April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000
PDT on #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode). The bug list is at
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-i18n-2013-04 . Event details
can be found be in the section below.
Thanks
Runa
What: Translation User Interface bug triage
Date: April 24 2013
Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT (Timezone conversion: http://hexm.de/r0)
Channel: #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode)
Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-i18n-2013-04
Questions can be sent to: runa at wikimedia dot org
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 1:02 AM
Subject: [Language Engineering] Bug triage on Wednesday, April 24 2013
at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT
To: mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Mailing List
<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
What: Translation User Interface bug triage
Date: April 24 2013
Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT (Timezone conversion: http://hexm.de/r0)
Channel: #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode)
Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-i18n-2013-04
Questions can be sent to: runa at wikimedia dot org
Hello,
The Language Engineering team would like to invite everyone for the
upcoming bug triage session on Wednesday, April 24 2013 at 1700 UTC
(1000 PDT). During this 1 hour session we will be using the etherpad
listed above to collaborate. We have already listed some bugs, but
please feel free to add more bugs, comments and any other related
issues that you’d like to see addressed during the session. You can
send questions directly to me on email or IRC (nick: arrbee). Please
see above for event details.
Thank you.
regards
Runa
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
--
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi there,
I was reading some fundraising-related pages today, and stumbled upon
the planning cycle for the 2013/2014 fiscal year budget at
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=File:Part_II-_2012-13_Yea…>.
I noticed that there is no space left for open community consultation
period, and since this has been published by a WMF staff member /and/
on the WMF wiki, I'm assuming it's the official stance of the
Foundation.
Without going into unneccessary detail, let me just ask a simple
question: are there any particular reasons why the WMF does not want
community input on the budget, and drafts such a vital document in
total privacy?
Thanks,
--
Tomasz W. Kozłowski
a.k.a. [[user:odder]]
Hi all,
as Ting has announced in his earlier mail, the WMF Board prepared an
amendment for its Bylaws to clarify the wording and ensure its ability to
act especially in situations where a resignation reduces the number of
trustees to less than nine or an officer position is affected.
Please take a look at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/May_2013_-_Artic…
leave your comments on the talk page. Tell us what you think about it,
your comments are welcome.
Regards, Alice.
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Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
"The Human Hacking Field Guide" - a story about open source and open content
hackerdom - What's in it for you and how you can help.
============================================================================
Hi all,
you will hopefully enjoy reading this story:
http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/human-hacking/
The Human Hacking Field Guide
Taglined: "Who said girls can't code?"
Furthermore, if you read it and enjoyed it, you can help by translating it to
other languages (there are already translations to Arabic and to Hebrew), by
making a sound recitation of parts of the story or one of its translations, or
in extreme cases, also create recording of dramatic versions of it or selected
scenes. And if you don't like it, you can make a derivative work: a parody, a
mutation, etc.
Here is the abstract for the story:
[QUOTE]
Jennifer is a trendy and popular high school senior who is living and studying
in the vicinity of Los Angeles. Her best friend, Taylor, convinces her to try
to become a developer of open source software. He puts her under the tutorship
of a different friend of his, the female open source contributor Eve, who
prefers to be called “Erisa”, and who is a self-conscious and rebelling punk,
with whom Jennifer finds it hard to deal. Jennifer remains determined to learn
how to become an open source developer from Erisa, but there are some surprises
along the road.
The story (a novella) is original and complete, and is made available, along
with its source code, under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License
(Unported), either version 3.0, or at your option, any later version. Share,
build upon, even sell, and Enjoy! (As long as you keep the derivatives under
the same licence.)
[/QUOTE]
The story emulates a teenage story (but was enjoyed by many people - both old
and young, who detest most of this genre), and certainly is not perfect, and has
some unrealistic elements (see
http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/human-hacking/conclusions/ ), and in a sense I
tend to project a very good reality that may not take place yet, in hope that
it will materialise in part and carry reality forward and make it progress,
rather than just reflect or echo reality as badly as it is or I think it is.
( Like I said in a different story
- http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Star-Trek/We-the-Living-Dead/ :
« Some people may rather err on naïvity than on cynicism. » and that includes
me. I've been an idealist from a very early age, and still am today, even
though I'm a very different idealist than what I used to be even a year ago.
I hope to remain an idealist forever. )
Anyway, if you are interested in contributing to the Human Hacking Field Guide
(or "HHFG" for short) project, its publicity, etc. just reply. I'm not
forcing you to, but it will be appreciated.
<NOTE>
If you have a good accent in English, and good English diction, you can help me
with recording this story. Here is my best attempt at it:
http://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/sounds/HHFG-chapter-1-The-Things-you-…
and it's not too good.
This story may be useful for advocating contributing to open source and open
content, so any help with it, may pay in spades with a lot of interest among
young and old people in contributing to it.
If you want, you can make the samples CC-by-sa, but I can also exempt you for
having a different, non-commercial-by-default licence (in exchange to a share
of the profit).
</NOTE>
Best Regards,
Mr. Shlomi Fish (a.k.a "Rindolf").
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"The Human Hacking Field Guide" - http://shlom.in/hhfg
There is no IGLU Cabal! Its members can be arranged in N! orders to form N!
different Cabals. The algorithm to find which order formulates the correct
IGLU Cabal is NP‐Complete.
Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
The majority of chapter boards (and the proposed thematic
organizations) do not routinely have an induction process with
training in expected reporting requirements, liability as directors,
the role of oversight and how to maintain a competent and professional
board function, etc.
At the Milan conference, I shall be proposing that the WCA takes a
lead in arranging a shared training course and workshop with the aim
of this being a regular planned activity, so that chapters and other
groups agree basic expectations for the behaviours and competencies of
board members, and benefit from the efficiencies of a shared training
event, hopefully hosted by one of the chapters with handy facilities
to support it.
I have chatted about this proposition during coffee breaks with 4
different 'large' chapters, and the feedback so far is that this would
be an easy way of improving the quality of our governance and of
definite direct benefit to many of our organizations.
Cheers,
Fae
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Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae
Hi,
It's already there:
- Provide advice (on request) with regards to other large-scale
Wikimedia events to the community and movement bodies.
*~Orsolya*
2013/4/23 Butch Bustria <butch(a)wikimedia.org.ph>
> Hi,
>
> I suggest "Wikimedia Conference Coordination Committee (WC3)" so that
> conferences similar to "*Regional Wikimanias*" or "*Thematic Wikimania*"
> be accommodated.
>
>
> Butch
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:17 PM, James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > A small group of long-time Wikimaniacs have been working on the
>> > perrenial plan to produce a "Wikimania Committee" - a community group
>> > who would help steer Wikimania from year to year, advising each local
>> > hosting team and ensuring that the processes are open, transparent and
>> > community-led.
>> >
>> > Here are our drafts of what we think we'd want the committee to be
>> > like, a charter, and the resolution which we're submitting to the WMF
>> Board:
>> >
>> > * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee
>> > * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee/Charter
>> > *
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_resolutions/Wikimania_Committee
>> >
>> > Comments are very welcome; we're trying to get this done fairly
>> > quickly, and of course we will iterate these plans as we get feedback
>> > and hopefully more forward on the oft-stalled next steps.
>> >
>> > J.
>> > --
>> > James D. Forrester
>> > jdforrester(a)gmail.com
>> > [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
>> capacity)
>>
>> I've been working on these documents as well, and am glad that we're
>> once again moving forward on this idea. It's been discussed for a long
>> time -- for at least the last five Wikimanias!
>>
>> And from the conversations I've been in over the years, I think
>> there's been pretty broad consensus that having a community-driven
>> oversight committee for Wikimania, as proposed here, is a good idea.
>> The idea is that the committee would ensure continuity and planning
>> from year to year as well as help provide oversight of annual
>> conference planning; and it would be a more formal and representative
>> mechanism than we've had in the past. After long discussions, I think
>> we are finally (!) in a good position to make the committee happen
>> now. Please add your feedback and questions, and help make this
>> proposal better.
>>
>> I'm also happy to propose James as the initial chair of the committee,
>> and also very happy that he's willing to do it :) He's been working
>> hard at keeping the Wikimania process generally on track this year
>> and for the past several years, has helped shepherd many ideas into
>> this proposal, and is in my opinion the best person to get the
>> committee off the ground.
>>
>> best,
>> Phoebe
>>
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>> Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Roman "Butch" Bustria Jr.
> Vice President (2012-2013)
>
> Wikimedia Philippines Inc.
>
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Hello,
At the Wikimedia Conference in Milan several people have asked me about the
strategy document of Wikimedia Nederland. We have the link on our chapter's
page on Meta Wiki:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland
Then, I looked up the Meta Wiki page "Strategy". It seems that the page can
use some update. I allowed myself to link to the WMF Strategic Plan, and
start a section with chapter strategies.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy
Would you like to make a link to your strategy document?
Kind regards
Ziko
-----------------------------------------------------------
Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter
http://wikimedia.nl
Wikimedia Nederland
Postbus 167
3500 AD Utrecht
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On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:42 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.ayers(a)gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:17 PM, James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > A small group of long-time Wikimaniacs have been working on the
> > perrenial plan to produce a "Wikimania Committee" - a community group
> > who would help steer Wikimania from year to year, advising each local
> > hosting team and ensuring that the processes are open, transparent and
> > community-led.
> >
> > Here are our drafts of what we think we'd want the committee to be
> > like, a charter, and the resolution which we're submitting to the WMF
> Board:
> >
> > * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee
> > * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee/Charter
> > *
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_resolutions/Wikimania_Committee
> >
> > Comments are very welcome; we're trying to get this done fairly
> > quickly, and of course we will iterate these plans as we get feedback
> > and hopefully more forward on the oft-stalled next steps.
> >
> > J.
> > --
> > James D. Forrester
> > jdforrester(a)gmail.com
> > [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
> capacity)
>
I've been working on these documents as well, and am glad that we're
once again moving forward on this idea. It's been discussed for a long
time -- for at least the last five Wikimanias!
And from the conversations I've been in over the years, I think
there's been pretty broad consensus that having a community-driven
oversight committee for Wikimania, as proposed here, is a good idea.
The idea is that the committee would ensure continuity and planning
from year to year as well as help provide oversight of annual
conference planning; and it would be a more formal and representative
mechanism than we've had in the past. After long discussions, I think
we are finally (!) in a good position to make the committee happen
now. Please add your feedback and questions, and help make this
proposal better.
I'm also happy to propose James as the initial chair of the committee,
and also very happy that he's willing to do it :) He's been working
hard at keeping the Wikimania process generally on track this year
and for the past several years, has helped shepherd many ideas into
this proposal, and is in my opinion the best person to get the
committee off the ground.
best,
Phoebe