Wikimedia-l November 2014

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Fwd: [Wiki-research-l] WikiProject Biophysics in The Atlantic
by Pine W 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Forwarding a nice article from The Atlantic. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jonathan Morgan" <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Nov 20, 2014 3:09 PM Subject: [Wiki-research-l] WikiProject Biophysics in The Atlantic To: "Wiki Research-l" <Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Inspiring and touching: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/11/what-wikipedia-taught… -- Jonathan T. Morgan Learning Strategist Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l

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Community Liaison job openings at WMF
by Erica Litrenta 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hello, and apologies for the cross-posting. There are currently two job openings [0], and I thought someone here might be interested. Specifically: *Community Liaison [1] - this position will initially focus on working with the Flow team and also with the Editing (VisualEditor) team [2], mostly at non-English wikis; however, a lot of smaller or short-term tasks continually come up, so the WMF is particularly looking for someone who is adaptable, and with diverse interests. *Community Liaison (Part time contract) [3] - this part-time position will primarily focus on working with the Mobile teams [4], as the link explains. If you need further information, feel free to send an email to cep(a)lists.wikimedia.org (but do not use the address to apply!). Please pass this message along, if you know someone who might be interested or a good fit for the Community Engagement team [5]. Thanks! Best, Elitre (WMF) [0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us#Wikimedia_Careers [1] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/34698?t=i2jvpo#.VGaj8MluQfI [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow , https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor [3] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/35259?t=kyra75#.VGakF8luQfI [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product)

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Upcoming Office Hours for Structured Data on Commons proposal
by Keegan Peterzell 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Greetings all, My apologies for cross-posting lists. I would like to invite everyone interested in the proposal for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons[1] to join our third Office Hours today, 20 November, from 19:30 to 20:30 UTC[2 for time conversion]. The conversation is free to join on IRC using freenode[3] in #wikimedia-office. Discussion will continue about the different possible data structures, very early development work, and touch base on some work that was done during a small hackathon in Amsterdam[4] working with structured data and GLAM. As always, other questions and discussion about the topic are always welcome. I look forward to seeing you there! 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data 2. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=30&sec=0&d… 3. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office 4. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2014 -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation

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Agenda Board Meeting November 21, 2014
by Patricio Lorente 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Hi Wikimedians! The Wikimedia Board of Trustees will have a board meeting on November 21 at the Wikimedia Foundation office. This meeting has the following agenda: == November 21, 2014 == * Welcome and Introduction * Updates from Board Committees * Update on the Board Candidate Search * Housekeeping: Review of Updates to the Board Handbook * Operational Updates from Staff * Executive Update from Fundraising * Legal Presentation If you have additional comments or questions please feel free to leave a message on the Board noticeboard: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard -- Patricio Lorente Vice Chair Wikimedia Board of Trustees

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Founding event in the federal parliament of Belgium - today
by Romaine Wiki 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Hello all, We had a great founding event in the drawing rooms of the president of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives. A good step also has been taken for getting Freedom of Panorama in Belgium! The Chamber of Representatives also Twitters, and did send this tweet today: https://twitter.com/DeKamerBE/status/535105474916798464 On the photo the President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and 6 of 7 board members of Wikimedia Belgium And be aware, Belgium hosts the European Commission and the European Parliament as well largely, we like to think beyond the borders of language and country and like to work together and engage with other organisations and people inside and outside Belgium. You want to help us? The difficulty of Belgium is that we have multiple official languages. To move forward, we will need help in getting short and longer texts, translated and improved, in multiple languages. So if you want to help to translate or improve some text for us in English, French, German or Dutch, let us know! You got interested? Membership of Wikimedia Belgium is open to anyone, also for you! See: http://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Be_a_member_of_Wikimedia_Belgium Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_BE Join our mailinglist to stay informed: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediabe-l Next events in Belgium: * 26 November in Brussels: prize giving ceremony Wiki Loves Monuments http://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Invitation_to_the_prize_giving_ceremony_of_Wik… * 24 January in Brussels: general assembly The first general assembly will be organized on 24 January 2015. More information will follow later. You want to contact us, see: http://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contact_page Wikimedia Belgium has arrived! Romaine

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IMF data free of charge, license?
by rupert THURNER 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Christine Lagarde tweets that IMF Data will be free of charge next year. Anybody knows about the license? https://mobile.twitter.com/Lagarde/status/534715250927759361

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Fwd: [Kiwix-developer] [KIWIX][GUTENBERG] 50.000 public domain books available to everybody, everywhere, offline
by rupert THURNER 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Allow me to crosspost this... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Emmanuel Engelhart" <kelson(a)kiwix.org> Date: Nov 19, 2014 1:18 PM Subject: [Kiwix-developer] [KIWIX][GUTENBERG] 50.000 public domain books available to everybody, everywhere, offline To: "Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline" < offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <gutvol-d(a)lists.pglaf.org>, < wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: "kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net" < kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, "kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net" <kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Hi, The Kiwix team is happy to release the whole Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/) library in a ZIM format: http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11.zim.torre… . We also provide a few language specific versions here http://download.kiwix.org/zim/gutenberg. This file is dedicated to an offline usage (no connection to Internet) and it readable with Kiwix (http://www.kiwix.org). This allows anybody with a computer or a smartphone to own his own copy of this 50.000 books big library. You can also make it available for read to other people on your network, they only need a web browser. In this ZIM file, you will find all the books available in HTML (directly readable), but also in EPUB (and time to time in PDF). We have created a custom user interface which is really simple to use: in a few clicks you can find your book, read it or download it. What is also unique is that Kiwix proposes a fulltext search engine over all books content. You can see by yourself using this demonstration web site: http://library.kiwix.org/gutenberg_mul_all_2014-11/ Most of the work was done during a week long hackathon in Lyon, France by four Kiwix volunteer developers. This hackathon was funded by the Fondation Orange with the administrative help of Framasoft and Wikimedia CH. The Fondation Orange is the first beneficiary of this work and use it already for its own deployments in Africa. The solution to build this ZIM file is 100% free software and is available here https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg. This solution allows to release easily new up2date versions. This is not a "one shot" project and we will release periodically new version of this offline version of the Project Gutenberg. We also plan to use this code base to aggregate other online PD/free books libraries. Wikisource is one of the first we would love to add, this might be done pretty easily as soon as an OPDS feed is available. We hope to see this work deployed by other third part organisation which are on place where Internet is not available, expensive or censored. We also need more developer (mostly Python) workforce for the next steps, a hackathon with this purpose will hopefully be organised in 2015 (sponsor needed). Last but not least: users, please report any problem here: https://github.com/kiwix/gutenberg/issues Regards Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Kiwix-developer mailing list Kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kiwix-developer

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Join the Grant Advisory Committee!
by Alex Wang 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hello Everyone! We're sending out another call for new Grant Advisory Committee (GAC) members! The GAC are community volunteers who are explicitly invited[1] to review and evaluate grant proposals made in the Wikimedia Foundation Project and Event Grants Program[2], and offer advice to both grant applicants and the Foundation. Read all about it on the Candidates page[3]. The deadline for signing up for this round is December 30, 2014, so be sure to step forward before then. New members will be inducted by the middle of January 2015. Please help this message reach as many people as possible, by relaying it to appropriate lists and village pumps. And many thanks to our current and former GAC members[4]! Cheers, Alex [1] _everyone_ is implicitly invited! [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee/Candida… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee -- Alex Wang Program Officer Project & Event Grants Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> +1 415-839-6885 Skype: alexvwang

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Fwd: Honorary degree for Wikipedia
by Romaine Wiki 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

Hi all, A local newspaper in the Netherlands had today as headline: Eredocteraat voor Timmermans en Wikipedia Translated: Honory degree for Timmermans and Wikipedia * Who is coming to Maastricht? * Can we organize a wikimeet that day in Maastricht? Romaine Rough translation of the newspaper: Maastricht University (UM) awarded an honorary doctorate to Frans Timmermans and the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. They will be honored for the exceptional contributions they, directly or indirectly, have made to academic education and research. Commissioner Frans Timmermans is praised for his great contributions to both European and international relations. The American Jimmy Wales Wikipedia has established a platform accessible to everyone, which (in particular) for students not to imagine that it does not exist as infinite source of information. The honorary doctorates will be awarded during the official celebration of Dies Natalis, which takes place on 16 January 2015 at Sint Janskerk in Maastricht. Besides Timmermans and Wales, are also academics Michelle Craske (nominated by the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience) and Wolfgang Wahlster (nominated by the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences) awarded an honorary doctorate. Original in Dutch below: Eredocteraat voor Timmermans en Wikipedia De Universiteit Maastricht (UM) reikt een eredoctoraat uit aan Frans Timmermans en de oprichter van Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. Zij worden gehuldigd voor de uitzonderlijke bijdragen die zij, direct of indirect, hebben geleverd aan academisch onderwijs en onderzoek. Eurocommissaris Frans Timmermans wordt geprezen om zijn grote bijdragen aan zowel Europese als internationale relaties. De Amerikaan Jimmy Wales heeft met Wikipedia een voor iedereen toegankelijk platform opgericht, dat (in het bijzonder) voor studenten niet meer weg te denken is als oneindige bron van informatie. De eredoctoraten worden uitgereikt tijdens de officiële viering van de Dies Natalis, die plaatsvindt op 16 januari 2015 in de Sint Janskerk te Maastricht. Naast Timmermand en Wales worden tevens academici Michelle Craske (genomineerd door de Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience) en Wolfgang Wahlster (genomineerd door de Faculty of Humanities and Sciences) onderscheiden met een eredoctoraat.

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 44 -- 12 November 2014
by Wikipedia Signpost 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

In the media: Amazon Echo; EU freedom of panorama; ''Bluebeard's Castle'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-11-12/In_the… Featured content: Wikipedia goes to church in Lithuania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-11-12/Featur… WikiProject report: Talking hospitals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-11-12/WikiPr… Traffic report: Holidays, anyone? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-11-12/Traffi… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-11-12 https://www.facebook.com/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost _______________________________________________ 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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