Wikimedia-l June 2013

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM
by Fred Bauder 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

> Le 2013-06-11 14:09, Fred Bauder a Ã©critÂ : >> There will always be humans maintaining the system who must, in order to >> do their work, have potential access to everything. > > A "potential access to everything" is a so vast and vague assertion that it practicaly denote nothing. > > Also, one could come with the exact opposite assertion, full of > always/never nothing/everything. "We hack network backbones like huge internet routers, basically that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one," http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/12/edward-snowden-us-extradition-f… Fred

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[Wikimediach-l] Wikimedia CH is hiring two new staff
by Chantal Ebongué 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

Dear all, After my decision to resign, the board of WMCH decided to create an hiring committee (Ilario Valdelli, Frederic Schutz and me) for hiring two staff, CAO and CSO. · The CAO will take care of the RH, administrative and financial management of the chapter. · The so-called Chief Scientific Officer will take care of the relationships with the GLAMs (or scientific partners). In Switzerland, our reality is that most of our projects are connected with GLAMs, education and academic institutions. Scientific involves hard and soft sciences in this case. It means somebody that can manage projects and be accepted in the academic and educational field and who knows well the wikimedian tools and culture. We want to have a complementary team that can manage together our chapter, and let the board be a board and not waste his tame in operational tasks. The relationships with the community and WMF as well as the reporting to WMF will be done by both, but the CSO will coordinate it. Hope it answers to your questions, and please ask me if there are others ! Chantal Ebongué Wikimedia CH - <http://www.wikimedia.ch/> www.wikimedia.ch Escaliers-du-Marché 2 - 1003 Lausanne - Switzerland Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 - cell phone +41 (0)78 744 21 82 Skype : chantal.ebongue - chantal.ebongue(a)wikimedia.ch De : Ilario Valdelli < <mailto:valdelli@gmail.com> valdelli(a)gmail.com> Objet : Rép : [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimediach-l] Wikimedia CH is hiring two new staff Date : 12 juin 2013 23:02:44 UTC+02:00 À : Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Répondre à : Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> I don't know exactly the selection of this definition, but I suppose that it has been due to the "choice" to don't be project manager because any project has its own project manager. He is project manager in some cases but for other projects is mainly a supervisor. About the projects I would say that WM CH is focusing the efforts mainly in "scientific" projects. "Scientific" means not only "science" but is connected with the approach had in the projects (also a project in the literature may be "scientific"). I think that his effort is mainly focused to give to the projects a "scientific" approach in order to give to the projects more quality. Regards On 12.06.2013 22:47, Mike Peel wrote: Isn't that more program/project management rather than science? Thanks, Mike On 12 Jun 2013, at 10:53, Ilario Valdelli wrote: https://www.wikimedia.ch/scientific-director Reporting directly to the board and working in close collaboration with the Chief Administrative Officer, the CSO will be responsible for all the free knowledge related projects conducted inside the association. He/she will work with the community, the Wikimedia movement and other partners in order to achieve our goals. He/she will actively search and promote collaborations with external partners (cultural institutions in particular). He/she will search for external funding, and will be in particular responsible for the annual grant request to the Wikimedia Foundation. He/she will manage the annual call for projects, making recommendations to the board with regards to the annual plan. He/she will directly manage staff and contractors working on projects, will lead some of the projects, will be responsible for the delivery of reports and will manage the communication. He/she will also participate in the strategic management of the association Regards . -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour lavancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l Aucun virus trouvé dans ce message. Analyse effectuée par AVG - www.avg.fr Version: 2013.0.3345 / Base de données virale: 3199/6406 - Date: 12/06/2013

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WikiReaders4Kids
by Victor Grigas 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

Hello everyone, My partner and I just started a campaign on Indiegogo.com to raise funds to buy all remaining WikiReaders and distribute them to schools and kids in places that don't have internet at no charge to the schools and kids. The campaign is here: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-distribute-wikireaders-to-kids The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j07ROeiaFg0 Please consider funding the campaign and if you can't fund the campaign, please share the link with others! While I am an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation, I am doing this entirely as a volunteer. Thanks! -- *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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Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM
by James Salsman 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

Do others feel that the "letter to US Congress" text at https://optin.stopwatching.us/ (for which there does not seem to be a direct URL, sorry) is appropriately worded? I am far more impressed by the text at http://bestbits.net/prism-nsa/ which Jan Engelmann suggested on the Advocacy Advisors list, and by https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/international-customers-its-time-call… which urges economic action. What are the arguments for and agains using project banner space for: (1) Calls for boycott (Liam Wyatt says this is unlikely, and as a practical matter I have no illusions but to agree. However, I must insist to those considering starting or participating in an RFC on the topic: there is only one way to find out); (2) Shareholder resolution organisation (Google is immune to shareholder resolutions, so what is an appropriate alternative in Google's case -- picketing the triumvirate's residences?); (3) Calls for divestiture; and (4) Calls for individual court action on First and Fourth Amendment grounds, and on the grounds of disproportionate spending and incarceration relative to other threats to health, safety, and security than crime?

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Fwd: [Wikimediach-l] Wikimedia CH is hiring two new staff
by Manuel Schneider 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:05:45 +0200 Von: Chantal Ebongué <chantal.ebongue(a)wikimedia.ch> Dear all, We are looking for two new staff members : 1. Chief Administrative Officer, 80-100 %, since 1.9.2013 2. Chief Scientific Officer, 80-100 %, since 1.9.2013 Ads are also published on www.wikimedia.ch, www.jobs.ch and www.linkedin.com. Applications (or request for information) can be send to me or to info(a)wikimedia.ch. Please inform you network ! Regards Chantal Ebongué, CAO *Wikimedia CH - *www.wikimedia.ch <http://www.wikimedia.ch/> Escaliers-du-Marché 2 - 1003 Lausanne - Switzerland Office +41 (0)21 340 66 20 - cell phone +41 (0)78 744 21 82 Skype : chantal.ebongue - chantal.ebongue(a)wikimedia.ch <mailto:chantal.ebongue@wikimedia.ch>

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WikiData and WikiSpecies
by Ting Chen 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

Hello dear all, I happened to worked with a few biology interwikis on WikiData today and saw the taxnomical data on it. Given that WikiData is growing and more potential would not it be a good idea to merge WikiSpecies data into WikiData and close WikiSpecies (hope now there will no stones or rotten tomatos flying for this naive question ;-) )? Greetings Ting

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Language Engineering office hour on 2013-06-12 at 17:00 UTC/10:00 PDT
by Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

Event Details # Date: 2013-06-12 # Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT #IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net The Wikimedia Language Engineering team [1] invites everyone to join the team’s monthly office hour on June 12, 2013 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT in #wikimedia-office. During this session we would be talking about some our recent activities and updates from the ongoing projects. The provisional agenda is outlined below. See you all at the IRC office hour! Siebrand Mazeland Product Manager Language Engineering Wikimedia Foundation Agenda # Introductions # Universal Language Selector - Phase 1 deployment was on Tuesday 2013-06-11 [2,3,4] # Universal Language Selector - Phase 2 and later # Q/A - We shall be taking questions during the session. Questions can also be sent to "siebrand at wikimedia dot org" before the event, and will be addressed during the office hour. [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Language_Engineering_team [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/FAQ [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design

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Some Unanswered Questions
by Fred Bauder 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

We can guess, of course, and some of us are very good guessers, but here: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=5-basic-unknowns-nsa-black… Fred

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Blocking of HTTPS connection by China
by Benjamin Chen 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Hi, Since 31 May, China's Great Firewall has blocked the HTTPS connection to all language versions of Wikipedia, by blocking port 443 on two of our IPs. I was also told that service to Wikimedia Commons may be affected. Other projects, such as en.wikisource are not affected by this block (but they may still be subjected to keyword censoring on HTTP). Compared to the previous short-lived half-day block, this time the block has been in place for a week and as usual no one knows if it will last for long. Here is an article that has some explanation, some comments, and (their) opinions and suggestions for the Foundation. https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jun/wikipedia-drops-ball-china-not-too-l… Regards, Benjamin Chen / [[User:Bencmq]]

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] PRISM
by Fred Bauder 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote: > >> Everything passing over the internet is archived. Nearly everything done >> at Wikipedia passes over the internet. >> > > Encrypted, if you're using https everywhere (and Wikipedia hasn't intentionally or unintentionally compromised their certificate). > But simple encryption that NSA can break at will. Fred

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