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Grassroots campaign for free access to Wikipedia on cellphones
by Victor Grigas 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Hello Wikipedians: There is a class of impoverished high schoolers in South Africa who started a campaign on Facebook for free access to Wikipedia on their cellphones so that they can do their homework. I just shot a film about the class (currently editing) and published a blog post on the WMF blog about it: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/19/movement-for-free-access-to-wikipedia-… I'm looking for Wikipedians who might want to be involved with this campaign. Please contact me off list. Thank you! -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0> Wikimedia Foundation vgrigas(a)wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/

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If you are passionate about world hunger, sustainability and global issues please read this
by Alex Peek 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Homepage: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Economic_Map The goal of this project is to improve public understanding economic data and serve public administration. It's time that we create a standardized model that everyone can understand and relate to. Given the challenges that our world faces today, our civilization must realize the economic reality that we live in. Global warming, world hunger, education and unemployment are all economic issues that require a new perspective. The voting public must be provided the materials to properly allocate resources. We can end world hunger with foreign aid. We can create a modern day renaissance by building schools around the world. We should put more public money R&D into renewable energies and create a cheaper alternative. The world must understand wake up to the reality. This format can be repeated for all 196 countries, every locality and city. There can also be a standardized format for every company (model does not exist yet). Countries ranked by 2011 GDP 1. United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_the_United_States 2. China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_China 3. Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_Japan 4. Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_Germany 5. France: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_France 6. Brazil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_Brazil 7. United Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_the_United_Kingdom 8. Italy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economic_summary_of_Italy 9. India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economic_summary_of_India 10. Russia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economic_summary_of_Russia

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'Periodic Table of Economics': Mapping the Global Economy
by Alex Peek 19 Jun '13

19 Jun '13

Project Home page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Economic_Map The goal of my project is create the *periodic table* for economics readable to laypersons. To my knowledge, no other economist has attempted to make a 'periodic table' for economics. I am using Wikipedia as a platform for this project to gain recognition. I demand that my project gets global attention. I cannot emphasize how important this is. The current political leadership has shown incapable of addressing our current problems. Change is needed. A new economic perspective is needed. This project will enable the voting public to clearly see the injustices of today's world economy. I feel morally responsible to stand on top of a mountain and yell for attention. My intentions are altruistic. People are dying of starvation everyday and I will not shut up until they have food. We must build schools in developing countries with taxpayer money in rich countries. We have the power to fix a lot of the world's problems if we only allocated our resources properly. I have listed below draft article that I have been working on (not finished). Please check them out. I would love any help I can get. 1. United States: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_the_United_States 2. China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_China 3. Japan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_Japan 4. Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_Germany 5. France: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_France 6. Brazil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_Brazil 7. United Kingdom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economy_of_the_United_Kingdom 8. Italy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economic_summary_of_Italy 9. India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economic_summary_of_India 10. Russia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mcnabber091/Economic_summary_of_Russia

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Fwd: [okfn-discuss] OKCon 2013 Call for Proposals – out now!
by Everton Zanella Alvarenga 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

It'd be great to see wikimedians there. Tom ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Beatrice Martini <beatrice.martini(a)okfn.org> Date: 2013/5/7 Subject: [okfn-discuss] OKCon 2013 Call for Proposals – out now! To: Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list <okfn-discuss(a)lists.okfn.org> Hi! We are glad and excited to give you the news: the *OKCon Call for Proposals is launched today*! Read all about it on the OKCon website<http://okcon.org/call-for-proposals/> . Submit your proposals and share the news – we are looking forward to your ideas! Best, Beatrice -- Beatrice Martini Events Coordinator Open Knowledge Foundation Skype: beatricemartini Twitter: @beatricemartini Support OKF: okfn.org/support _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list okfn-discuss(a)lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss Unsubscribe: http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org

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Wikipedia for Diplomats (June 21)
by Everton Zanella Alvarenga 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Hi all, a friend of mine is moderating a debate about Wikipedia for diplomat, professor Marília Maciel, and I think it is of interested of some wikimedians. Please, see more infomation bellow http://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/webinar-wikipedia-diplomats Diplo Foundation has cood courses on Internet Governance that may be of interest of those participating of some recent threads I've seen here. Share also with your local community. Regards, Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org

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UN subscribe me from Wikimedia---IMMEDIATELY
by Isaacs 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

I request to removed from the lists of people interested in receiving information from Wikimedia. UNsubscribe my account Immediately. My E-Mail Address: dwimki(a)yahoo.com I will EXPECT to receive a confirmation that my Wikimedia Account is PERMANENTLY CLOSED. Mary K. Isaacs

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Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)
by Anders Wennersten 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Yesterday sv:wp reached 1 M articles. The one who did the passing was a bot generated article of a butterfly http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erysichton_elaborata. The bot behind this article is Lsjbot who creates articles from the database Catalogue of Life http://www.catalogueoflife.org/services/res/2011AC_26July.zip which (complemented by other databases) which holds data of around 1.5 million species. The bot genrates about 5000 new articles per day and has generated just under 400 000 of the sv:wps million and continues... The guy who runs he bot is a member of the Swedish chapters board http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kandidater_2013/Sverker_Johansson and is in his civil life a University teacher. In this capacity he is also a guest lecturer at the university of the Phillipines where he stayed the last couple of months (and the bot was on hold). He is there active in Cebuano-Wikipedia http://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unang_Panid and supporting their local community, and he is now running his bot on their wikipedia as well as on the Warai-Warai Wikipedia http://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syahan_nga_Pakli. So perhaps at the end of the year these two language versions will also pass the 1 million mark! Anders PS out other major botgenerating effort of all lakes in Sweden is also making very nice progress, done 25% of all DS

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Fwd: Fwd: Re: Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots)
by Kurt Kulac 18 Jun '13

18 Jun '13

Am 17.06.2013 16:01, schrieb Jan Ainali: > 2013/6/17 Ilario Valdelli <valdelli(a)gmail.com> > >> One of the strategic goal of the plan of wikimedia movement is the quality. >> > That is true. However, the strategic plan does not go into detail on how to > measure it. Is it an article that only has claims backed by sources? If so, > the bot-generated articles are very high-quality. Is it a featured article? > Then I guess that reaching the goal of 25% will be pretty tough. > > Actually, the most reasonable way to reach that goal, having 12,5 million > quality articles in two years, is to use some sort of automation. > > /Jan Ainali i don´t want to repeat all those arguments already quoted (lennard already mentioned achim raschkas criticism, which i fully agree with), since what happend, already happend, and will unstoppably happen in the future. but i would say first of all the strategic goal is not to contribute hundreds of mistakes a day. just to take the 1 millionth article Erysichton elaborata: after an advice on the talk page a HUMAN added, that the species is probably synonymized with Erysichton palmyra. so far, so good. but even this correction is not enough. in 2010 the genus erysichton was redefined and a new genus, jameela was described. both taxa now desrcibed as in sv.wikipedia are invalid. so just concerning this tiny tiny group of articles, there is already a bunch of mistakes, the bot copied out of outdated databases. wouldn´t be a big deal, if somebody mentioned that the articles sticked to the old view. but that´s something a bot can´t handle. so how reliable is the rest of the articles? a bot can be a convenient helper for authors, who know, how to handle it, as it seems has happened with the creation of the articles about swedish lakes (i´m no expert with that though). but it is a desastrous tool for our whole movement, if you create hundreds of thousands (!) articles, without the slightest idea, how to handle the contradictions, that will appear doubtlessly? it´s a sad thing, that you mention quality and this action in one centence... truly utterly disappointed encyclopedic greetings, kurt -- Mag. Kurt Kulac, Obmann _______________________ Wikimedia Österreich Gesellschaft zur Förderung freien Wissens Siebensterngasse 25/15, 1070 Wien www.wikimedia.at +43 664 4128615

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Toby Negrin joins Wikimedia Foundation as Director of Analytics
by Erik Moeller 17 Jun '13

17 Jun '13

Hello all, it’s my great pleasure to announce that as of today, Toby Negrin is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as the new Director of Analytics. Toby will be responsible for leading the analytics team, which is responsible for enabling data-driven decisions in the Wikimedia Foundation and the broader Wikimedia community. As of today, the team consists of: Diederik van Liere, Dario Taraborelli, Andrew Otto, Evan Rosen, Dan Andreescu, Stefan Petrea (contractor), Erik Zachte (part-time), and Aaron Halfaker (contractor). Newly integrated into the team are Dario, Evan and Aaron. Toby joins us from DeNA (formerly ngmoco), a $2B Japanese mobile gaming company where he was Director of Analytics in the US from 2011 to 2013. He enabled data-informed decision making throughout the company, established an Insights team and scaled the Analytics team to 21 members. He managed a 300+ node Hadoop platform, multiple data driven applications and led the effort to open source Mobilize, a script deployment and dataviz framework developed in-house at DeNA. Prior to DeNA, Toby was Director of Product Management for Cloud Platforms and Hadoop at Yahoo! from 2008-2011. Leading 10 PMs at peak, through this group Toby was responsible for interfacing between the hundreds of internal users of analytics, storage and other cloud services and the developers/maintainers of said infrastructure. There aren’t many jobs that could prepare you for Wikimedia’s complex network of analytics stakeholders, but this surely is one of them. Toby has worked as a software engineer for many years and holds a BS Equivalent in Computer Science from California State University, an MBA from NIMBAS Graduate School of Management in Utrecht, and a BA in Visual Culture and History from University of California, Santa Cruz. After growing up in the Bay Area, Toby’s lived recently in Stockholm and Amsterdam so he’s using his spare time to explore California’s wilderness on two feet and two wheels with his family. His two daughters keep him pretty busy! Toby is looking forward to making the shift to a mission-driven non-profit organization. When I asked him what he’d be doing if not Wikimedia, he expressed an interest in urban planning, green cities, and public transport. In an alternative universe, San Francisco is becoming a greener city with a more reliable public transport system. In this one, we get awesome Wikimedia analytics instead. There are always tradeoffs. ;-) Toby’s incredibly excited about working with the team to tackle Wikimedia’s analytics challenges and the increasing hunger for data across the organization and the movement. Please join me in welcoming him on board. :-) All best, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ 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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WCA/Journal: if you report anyway, why not in the Journal, too?
by Ziko van Dijk 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

Hello, In the WCA telephone conference we talked about the Journal. We were discussing on useful content: what happened in your chapter, what events, what contacts with national authorities, did you decide to become a FDC chapter... a lot of things to report about. And we report anyway, in our chapter reports, so why not putting the highlights in a short contribution for the Journal? Kind regards Ziko http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Journal -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ziko van Dijk voorzitter / president Wikimedia Nederland deputy chair Wikimedia Chapters Association Council Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht http://wikimedia.nl --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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