Those oft you interested in Internet governance can follow the EuroDIG conference in Lisbon right now via webcast:
http://www.eurodig.org/important/webcast-remote-participation
and / or follow the hastag #EuroDIG in Twitter.
Yesterday we had the General Assembly oft EURALO, the regional at-large organisation where I represent Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia Österreich AS members of ICANN At-Large. I will serve another term von the EURALO board.
We had a very interesting visit from ICANN's new president and CEO Fahdi Chehade. With its multi-stakeholder approach and also developed and grown based in external needs and in ever-changing environment it faces similar challenges like the Wikimedia movement. This was a surprising understanding for me, having experienced ICANN as a big, bureaucratic organisation. I am aiming toward an exchange, being aware that is still hard to be heard within ICANN but without our critical and demanding voices we give away our ability to influence policy making on the Internet.
/Manue
EU parliament approved a very concerned report about fundamental rights
in Hungary. Is the Hungarian community concerned?
<http://www.presseurop.eu/de/content/news-brief/3939611-die-regierung-hat-un…>
For instance this passage hints at a situation similar to the one of the
"DDL ammazzablog" which worried us in Italy: «BW. Whereas, while
welcoming the amendments to the media legislation adopted in March 2011,
the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right
to freedom of opinion and expression has highlighted the need to address
remaining concerns pertaining to regulation of media content,
insufficient guarantees to ensure the independence and impartiality of
the Media Authority, excessive fines and other administrative sanctions,
applicability of the media legislation to all types of media, including
the press and the internet, registration requirements, and lack of
sufficient protection of journalistic sources;»
<http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A7-…>
Nemo
Wikipedian in Residence at the Swiss National Archives from the 1st July
2013
The Swiss Federal Archives and Wikimedia CH are joining forces to review
source materials from the Federal Archives and publish them online through a
Wikipedian in Residence. The first joint project will provide access to a
photographic collection on the First World War.
The Wikipedian in Residence at the Swiss Federal Archives started work at
the beginning of July. Micha L. Rieser has been an active Wikipedian since
2005 (user page: <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Micha_L._Rieser>
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Micha_L._Rieser). He will assist the
Federal Archives in publishing selected documents as part of Wikimedia
projects and advise the Federal Archives staff on how to contribute to
Wikipedia. Micha Rieser is also the contact for anyone in the Wikipedia
community wishing to learn more about the tasks and fonds of the Federal
Archives.
This project was initiated by Wikimedia CHs volunteers, Rupert Thurner and
Beat Estermann. Wikimedia CH volunteers and CAO had several meeting with
the Federal Archives direction and an agreement was signed on April : a
paid Wikipedian in Residence will be hired for a period of 4-6 months by the
Swiss Archives. Wikimedia CH will share the salary costs with the Archives
and advertise the position in the movement, as well as give advice on the
applications.
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
Hello everybody,
I have posted the FDC Ombudsperson annual report, concerning feedback and
appeals received during 2012-13 (
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Ombudsperson_annual_report_-_2012…
).
If you would like to comment on any of the subjects, feel free to do so on
the discussion page!
Regards,
Susana Morais (Lusitana)
Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson
--
Susana Morais
Wikimedia Portugal
http://www.wikimedia.pt
Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre
acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a
fazer.
Participe também: http://www.wikimedia.
<http://www.wikimedia.pt/>pt<http://www.wikimedia.pt/>
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team [1] invites everyone to join
the team’s monthly office hour on July 10, 2013 at 1700 UTC/ 1000 PDT
on #wikimedia-office. During this session we would be talking about
some of our recent activities, including the Universal Language
Selector (ULS) rollout and updates from the ongoing projects.
See you all at the IRC office hour!
regards,
Runa
Event Details:
==========
Date: July 10, 2013 (Wednesday)
Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 AM PDT
IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net
Agenda:
1. ULS Rollout
2. Other updates
3. Q/A - We shall be taking questions during the session. Questions
can also be sent to runa at wikimedia dot org or siebrand at wikimedia
dot org before the event and can be addressed during the office-hour.
[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Language_Engineering_team
--
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
> Also, did Grants have a review recently?
Minutes of the Grantmaking quarterly review are avaliable at :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_r…
*--*
*Haitham Shammaa*
*Wikimedia Foundation*
*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. *
*Click the "edit" button now, and help us make it a reality!*
From: Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 12:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF
> initiatives
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> Minutes and slides from the second quarterly review meeting of the
> Wikipedia Zero team are now available at
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_r…
> .
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > to increase accountability and create more opportunities for course
> > corrections and resourcing adjustments as necessary, Sue's asked me
> > and Howie Fung to set up a quarterly project evaluation process,
> > starting with our highest priority initiatives. These are, according
> > to Sue's narrowing focus recommendations which were approved by the
> > Board [1]:
> >
> > - Visual Editor
> > - Mobile (mobile contributions + Wikipedia Zero)
> > - Editor Engagement (also known as the E2 and E3 teams)
> > - Funds Dissemination Committe and expanded grant-making capacity
> >
> > I'm proposing the following initial schedule:
> >
> > January:
> > - Editor Engagement Experiments
> >
> > February:
> > - Visual Editor
> > - Mobile (Contribs + Zero)
> >
> > March:
> > - Editor Engagement Features (Echo, Flow projects)
> > - Funds Dissemination Committee
> >
> > We’ll try doing this on the same day or adjacent to the monthly
> > metrics meetings [2], since the team(s) will give a presentation on
> > their recent progress, which will help set some context that would
> > otherwise need to be covered in the quarterly review itself. This will
> > also create open opportunities for feedback and questions.
> >
> > My goal is to do this in a manner where even though the quarterly
> > review meetings themselves are internal, the outcomes are captured as
> > meeting minutes and shared publicly, which is why I'm starting this
> > discussion on a public list as well. I've created a wiki page here
> > which we can use to discuss the concept further:
> >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_r…
> >
> > The internal review will, at minimum, include:
> >
> > Sue Gardner
> > myself
> > Howie Fung
> > Team members and relevant director(s)
> > Designated minute-taker
> >
> > So for example, for Visual Editor, the review team would be the Visual
> > Editor / Parsoid teams, Sue, me, Howie, Terry, and a minute-taker.
> >
> > I imagine the structure of the review roughly as follows, with a
> > duration of about 2 1/2 hours divided into 25-30 minute blocks:
> >
> > - Brief team intro and recap of team's activities through the quarter,
> > compared with goals
> > - Drill into goals and targets: Did we achieve what we said we would?
> > - Review of challenges, blockers and successes
> > - Discussion of proposed changes (e.g. resourcing, targets) and other
> > action items
> > - Buffer time, debriefing
> >
> > Once again, the primary purpose of these reviews is to create improved
> > structures for internal accountability, escalation points in cases
> > where serious changes are necessary, and transparency to the world.
> >
> > In addition to these priority initiatives, my recommendation would be
> > to conduct quarterly reviews for any activity that requires more than
> > a set amount of resources (people/dollars). These additional reviews
> > may however be conducted in a more lightweight manner and internally
> > to the departments. We’re slowly getting into that habit in
> > engineering.
> >
> > As we pilot this process, the format of the high priority reviews can
> > help inform and support reviews across the organization.
> >
> > Feedback and questions are appreciated.
> >
> > All best,
> > Erik
> >
> > [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vote:Narrowing_Focus
> > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings
> > --
> > Erik Möller
> > VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
> >
> > Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
> >
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> Wikimedia Foundation
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Hey everyone,
Today, a french contributor informed us that this morning he uploade
the 40 000th file on commons in the "media supported by Wikimedia
France" category
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_supported_by_Wikimedia_Fra…)
The file is a picture of the Solidays festival stage in Paris
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solidays_2013_-_La_sc%C3%A8ne_Paris_…
This program started few years ago, in 2007, when we asked for
accreditations for french contributiors to music festival, and then
for the political rallies during the 2007 presidential election.
Through the years we have supported more and more users to get press
accreditations. We went one step further by buying photo material,
owned by the chapter, and lent to contributors.
I just wanted to let you know about this milestone that is really
really cool for us :)
Best,
Christophe HENNER | Vice-chair
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› Mail : christophe.henner(a)wikimedia.fr
› Mobile : +33(0)6 29 35 65 94
› Tel : +33(0)5 62 89 12 01
› Twitter : @Wikimedia_Fr
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Wikimédia France | Association pour le libre partage de la
connaissance | Visitez notre blog http://blog.wikimedia.fr
Rick Falkvinge has been writing a book, "Swarmwise", on how the Pirate
Party organised. He's been posting it a chapter at a time to his blog.
You know how Wikipedia/Wikimedia has (or had) the meme that "voting is
evil"? This sets out why.
http://falkvinge.net/2013/07/01/swarmwise-the-tactical-manual-to-changing-t…
tl;dr: voting creates winners and losers, and losers are unhappy and disengage.
- d.
The Wikimedia Nederland activity report for May is available. (June to
follow shortly) :
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederla…
It is also included as text in this message.
*COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors*
* *· Amsterdam Hackathon
149 participants from 31 countries came to Amsterdam for the Hackathon in
late May. Technologists taught and attended sessions on how to write and
run a bot, use the new Lua templating language, how to move from Toolserver
to the new Wikimedia Labs, design, Wikidata, security, and the basics of
Git and Gerrit. The Amsterdam Hackathon was the best attended event in the
history of the Hackathon so far. Check out the workshops
page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013/Workshops>
for
slides, tutorials, and other reference material. So far, 90 participants
have submitted the post-event survey and results are largely positive, with
(of course) several suggestions for improvements.
*WORK: content, collaboration and activity development*
- Europeana Fashion Editathon
Centraal Museum Utrecht and The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision,
two partners of the Europeana Fashion project, organised a fashion themed
edit-a-thon in cooperation with Wikimedia Nederland and ModeMuze. The goal
of the edit-a-thon was to improve the information and visibility of fashion
articles on the Dutch Wikipedia The day started with a general introduction
about Wikimedia projects and editing Wikipedia pages. 37 participants (many
of them first time contributors and many of them women) edited, translated
or created 27 pages in total. More information: Project
information<https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cursussen/Europeana_Fashion_Editathon>
(Dutch)
and Photos<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Europeana_Fashion_Editathon_in_U…>
of
the edit-a-thon
- Wikipedian(s) in Residence
The National Archives of The Netherlands (NA) and the National Library of
The Netherlands (KB) started the recruitment process for the first Dutch
Wikipedian in Residence (WiR). The group of Special Scientific Libraries
will start looking for two more WiR's later this year. Currently there is
one more project in preparation for WiR's. The expectation is that there
will be 3 to 4 Dutch WiR's by the end of the year.
- Wiki loves libraries
The project Wiki loves Libraries has been given a new impulse after an
inactive period. Wiki loves bieb is a project of the Public Library and
Wikimedia Nederland (WMNL) to promote the use of and improve the quality of
articles on Wikipedia. A brainstorm session will be organised in August by
BiSC Utrecht and WMNL to make an inventory of activities in the province
Utrecht for 2014. Possibly these activities will also take place in the
provinces Zeeland, Friesland, Noord-Holland and Zuid-Holland.
*WMNL: participation and support*
- Brainstorming on participation and communication
On May 4, members, board & staff of Wikimedia Nederland met with
researchers from Motivaction to discuss how the results of the survey
Motivaction carried out <https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Motivaction> among
the Netherlands Wikimedia community will be translated into action. The
meeting resulted in new ideas on how to increase participation and
communicate the WIkimedia message.
- Another issue of the
newsletter<http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nieuwsbrief/23> was
published.
*RESOURCES: Strong and sustainable financial position*
· WMNL submitted a request for funding to organise activities in
the city The Hague, within the framework of Wiki Loves Monuments. We are
awaiting the outcome of our application.
*ORGANISATION: board, management and support*[
· Tom Kisters joined the WMNL office on May 1 as staff member for
finances and office management.
Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland
tel. (+31) (0)6 31786379
*Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:*
Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3
3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht
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