Hi all,
On Friday, the Legal and Community Advocacy team posted a call for
community input on our trademark policy and practices:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/07/call-for-community-input-trademark-pol…
We have identified some trademark practices that we think are going well,
as well as some areas that could be improved. We have also raised specific
questions for discussion and seen great community engagement on this issue.
To date, community members have provided excellent input on how the
trademark policy can be clarified [1] and started translating our initial
trademark statement [2] into German, Greek, Spanish, French, Hebrew,
Italian, Korean, Russian, and Swedish to make the discussion more
approachable internationally. We would like to get as many community
members as possible to participate in the discussion and look forward to
your comments.
Many thanks for your wisdom and help with this!
Yana Welinder, Legal Counsel
References:
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Trademark_practices_discussion
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_practices_discussion
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They tap directly into the internet backbone. Only if there is some
particular matter which interests them which they would need our help to
decipher would they contact the Foundation. There are a few things out
there that I can imagine them being interested in, but very few. For
example, there are small groups of people in the United States that
support The Shining Path or the Naxalites. Active steps to open a
military front in the United States would probably kick them into gear
and they might be interested in who edited our articles on these subjects
as advocates for that tendency.
Fred
> If the NSA, CIA, or some other spook agency is getting information off
of Wikimedia servers, they don't have a CU account or anything like
that.
> They'd have a program running at the operating system level that
> extracts
> the data in a standardised format and sends it off to some secret
server somewhere where it can be collated for data mining purposes. If
they have
> some way of getting private information, it's going to be well hidden
and not something you or I are likely to (or capable of) stumbling
across.
>
> Cheers,
> Craig
>
>
> On 10 June 2013 20:09, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10 June 2013 10:56, Florence Devouard <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Precisely, they could ask to have "CU" accounts...
>>
>>
>> There are people who closely monitor who has what powers.
>>
>>
>> - d.
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Dear Wikimedia friends,
thanks for the valuable input on the project draft for the Chapters
Dialogue[1] in the recent weeks and at the Chapters Meeting in Milan.
I have now integrated the feedback and updated the Meta page
accordingly. The process is designed to be open and transparent, so
please feel free to comment on and enhance the description.
As of now, we are looking for a contractor (paid position, 6 months)
from within the Wikimedia movement to design, realise and evaluate
this project. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated person.
== Requirements ==
* Background knowledge of the Wikimedia movement
* Ability to shape and actively guide the dialogue
* Willingness and ability to travel world-wide
* Skills in inter-cultural communication
* Good written and spoken English skills, favourably also in Spanish
and possibly other languages
* Knowledge of project management and interview techniques
* Ability to work independently and remotely
* Attendance at this year's [[Wikimania 2013]]
* Experiences in survey design and data analysis are nice to have
* Be more of a story collector than a story teller ;)
Please apply until June 10, 2013 via email to
nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de and include
* a short motivation letter
* an overview of your experiences in this field
* a short description (max. 1500 characters) of what your first steps
in this project would be
* your earliest entrance date
* your time availability (full-time, part-time)
Find all the relevant information on the meta page. I am available for
all your questions and input, feel free to get in touch or leave
comments on the talk page.
Cheers,
Nicole
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Dialogue
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Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Dear all,
==AGM==
Wikimedia CH had its Annual General Meeting, April the 27 this year.
A new board has been elected, and will officially start its mandate June 27:
President: Charles Andrès (reelected)
Secretary: Frédéric Schutz (reelected nut new secretary, FR press contact)
Treasurer: Bagawathram Maheswaran (reelected)
Patrick Kenel (reelected, DE press contact)
Gabriel Thullen (reelected)
Matina Hämmerli (newly elected)
Mauro Cassina (newly elected)
Matina originally studied theology, became an enterpreneur (software company) and founder of care projects in India. Observed the miraculous and prospective development of community technology and culture, the internet, from the early 90's. Recognized Wikipedia as a milestone because it proofed and made visible to everybody: community and technology matches. She joined the board with the to support the organization with strong and efficient structures.
Mauro, born in the 1954 in Lugano, is active in Wikimedia communities since 2005 and active mainly in Commons as he is photographer like hobby.
In the real life he is the account manager for the provider of the energy and water of the town of Lugano.
For his job he is also an organizer of events and he has been one of the main organizer of the Wikipedia Day in Lugano.
Documents available:
2012 Annual report
2012 Financial report
2012 Auditors report DE EN
==Call for Project==
Wikimedia CH launched its second cal for project last June 1st.
The CfP is intend Into prepare the 2014 Wikimedia CH budget and the associated annual plan. Please note that this program plan may not be the definitive Wikimedia CH 2014 program plan, but the one included in the next FDC proposal.
This year we introduce two definitions for the projects:
• Volunteer driven
• Staff driven
The Volunteer driven projects are projects proposed by one, or a group of WMCH members, that require only financial support and basic staff support (standard Community manager support). The Volunteer driven projects should be recognized as useful for the association or the Wikimedia movement, and so it should be a community decision to decide whether or not they should be supported.
The Staff driven projects are projects proposed by volunteers that require essentially staff work, or proposed by staff themselves. These projects should also be recognized as useful for the association or the Wikimedia movement, and so the community opinion is needed to decide whether or not they should be support. Eventually, the staff driven projects need to be chosen by the Board among the projects supported by the members in order to assure a good distribution of the workload between the staff.
Wikimedia CH adopt the following guidelines to rules our projects: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Project_Guidelines
The call for project will follow a 4 month process:
June 1st, launch of the call
July 1st, start of the community comment period
July 31th, end of application
August 31th, publication by the board of the 2014 annual plan on Meta
September, Whole movement comments period on meta
October 1st, Application to the FDC
The first phase of the CfP will happen on wikimedia CH members wiki (restricted access), followed by a public comment period on META.
sincerely
Charles
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Federico Leva wrote:
>...
> WMF will log the same (partial) data, but for 100 % of visits rather than 1/1000.
How much more will that cause the Foundation to spend on processing
subpoenas from law enforcement agencies? Will those agencies be
charged for the time and organizational overhead of their requests?
Will they be charged for the chilling effects on readers?
How can we measure the cost of chilling effects on readers for 100% logging?
I think this is a terrible idea. It's a huge step backwards to go from
statistical sampling to logging all accesses. Exactly as far backwards
as transitioning to A/B testing to multivariate analysis of
fundraising messaging would be a step forwards. People say that
donors' funds should be spent efficiently. When is the Foundation
actually going to do so on both of these subjects?
"increasing surveillance ... does not decrease ... criminal
activities. Ironically, ... increased surveillance might ... increase
the number of inmates"
-- http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42937.pdf
Dear all,
Thought you might like to hear news from Wikimedia UK's AGM.
We held elections for four Trustees - we elect 3 one year and 4 the next,
for two-year terms.
Saad Choudhri and Greyham Dawes were elected for the first time, but are
not new to the Board, as they were both co-opted to fill vacant seats over
the course of last year. Michael Maggs and Alastair McCapra were elected
for the first time. Michael is a long-standing Wikimedian principally
active on Commons where he is a Bureaucrat, and has recently retired from a
career as a patent attorney. Alastair has not previousy been a Wikimedian
but has extensive experience in the not-for-profit and education sectors -
he is currently Chief Executive of the Landscape Trust.
Continuing on the Board having been elected for two-year terms last year
are myself, Mike Peel, and Ashley van Haeften (Fae). Doug Taylor
(User:Rexxs) retires from the Board but still intends to play an important
role in our education outreach work. We also have three news seats on the
Board which are currently empty and will be filled by co-option.
I would like to welcome Alastair and Michael, who I'm sure will be
subscribing to this list shortly if they haven't already.
Regards,
Chris
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Hello everyone,
As you may know, Wikimedia UK held its AGM yesterday in Lincoln. This
included elections for trustees to serve on the Board of the charity.
You can find details of the elected candidates on our blog at
http://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2013/06/wikimedia-uk-announces-election-of-new…
Many thanks to all candidates, both successful and unsuccessful, for taking
part.
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
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Nathan wrote:
>...
> How would transcoding the stoplist stop censorship?
The paper Leslie linked to indicates that the Great Firewall operates
through automated packet inspection, but its stoplist is regularly exposed
in peer-to-peer applications such as TOM-Skype. We could replace its
stoplist words with alternate encodings which do not match textually.
There are an infinite number of ways to do this, from insertion of <span>
tags, to graphical image replacement, to use of javascript which evaluates
to the stoplist words, or any other of a literally countably infinite
number of steganographic techniques. Most people simply capitulate to the
Great Firewall. Shouldn't we be setting the example for others of showing
how it's easily defeated?
> Who are we asking what?
On these any other topics involving activism, we should be asking the
community for solutions and discussing them, but the centralization of the
WMF is drifting further away from that. For example, the annual plan has
apparently been drafted without any community review before going to the
Board this year. Last year we had regular fundraising testing updates about
once per werk, but we've only had one so far this year. Who approved the
tighter restrictions on who can vote in Board elections this year? Nobody
has bothered to ask donors whether they would prefer to pay staff market
pay rates instead of following the ”peer group” practice of huge raises for
the top and uncompetitive salaries for new hires, based on an
interpretation of Dan Pink's work which he and the secondary literature
both firmly reject.
Perhaps the elections and ED replacement will provide leadership who care
more about the evidence than suffering through having to admit that they've
been misguided.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:28 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> If we transcoded the stoplist would we still trigger censorship in China?
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Sug…
>
> All centralized authorities engage in misguided attempts to impose content
> restrictions on what they percieve as threatening. Asking others for their
> opinions on how to counteract these mistakes is an integral part of
> building reference material in general, not just encyclopedias.
>
> I see no better solution than to institute such requests.
If we transcoded the stoplist would we still trigger censorship in China?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/Newsroom/Sug…
All centralized authorities engage in misguided attempts to impose content
restrictions on what they percieve as threatening. Asking others for their
opinions on how to counteract these mistakes is an integral part of
building reference material in general, not just encyclopedias.
I see no better solution than to institute such requests.