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Annual Plan development
by ENWP Pine 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

What is the plan for community and board involvement in the development phases of the Annual Plan? Pine

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Data mining for media archives
by Samuel Klein 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

John Resig has just published some excellent data analysis combining TinEye, image archives, and image clustering and deduplication to identify identical and similar images across a large corpus. http://ejohn.org/research/computer-vision-photo-archives/ Are we doing any commons analysis like this at the moment? Is any similarity-analysis done on upload to help uploaders identify copies of the same image that already exist online? Or to flag potential copyvios for reviewers? I'm sure TinEye would be glad to give us high-volume API access to enable that sort of cross-referencing. SJ

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Textbooks Which Borrow Heavily from Wikipedia
by James Heilman 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Have come across a collection of basic college textbooks that appear to be more or less based on text from Wikipedia. There are 21 of them. The company claims that they are being used by more than 2 million students. They are under a CC BY SA license and if you follow the links seen here http://books.google.ca/books?id=7avpAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2058 they do eventually attribute Wikipedia. They are being offered for free on amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywo… and are being sold for $19.99 on their website. https://www.boundless.com/ So the question is should we have a response? I think this could generate position press for our movement. Attribution could be better (I would consider theirs to be borderline). Additionally should we be adding this textbooks to Wikiversity or Wikibooks to make sure they stay free available? -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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Botopedia?
by Anders Wennersten 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Nemo has found this wiki which I find very interesting [1]. it contains 1,68 million articles and seems to be a copy of articles from Lithunian Wikipedia + some 1,5 million botgenerated articles, with focus on species (i know from Lsjbot that there are at least some 1,3 M articles of species to be found from reliable databases) The effort seems to be done by just a few lithuanians wikipedians with the right technical skill and insight on wikipedia, they are probably active also on ltwp[2]. For me it is a reminder what will happen if we continue to be sceptical of botgerneration of articles with correct info with verfied sources. Creative people will do it anyway and then outside Wikpedia, which could make Wikipedia redundant in the same way Wikipedia has made the old paperbased encyclopedias redundant. The online encyclopedia with most knowledge to the readers will survive, and botgenerated verified articles contains more knowledge then no article on the subject. Also note that the most active now are languages like Vietnamese and Lithunian, with small communities all aware it will take eons of time if to expected these will be created manually I do would like the movement and upcoming strategy to make a proactive stand re semiautomted articles On sv:wp we have had this focus, since last august with including upload on wikidata as part of the articlegeneration. We have found the inclusion of Wikidata much more complex then we anticipated. We thought half a year would be enough to "get a set of items with proper 100% quality data into Wikidata", but we now think it will take something like two years for just a small set of 10000 articles :( This have not changed our belief in this approach, but we would certainly appreciate it there were other entities doing the same and with whom we could exchange experience (or a central initiative) Anders [1] Start page http://lietuvai.lt/wiki/Pagrindinis_puslapis Latest changes http://lietuvai.lt/wiki/Specialus:Naujausi_puslapiai For random article press Atsitiktinis puslapis <http://lietuvai.lt/wiki/Specialus:Atsitiktinis_puslapis/Straipsnis> [2] ltwp https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagrindinis_puslapis

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Invitation to WMF January 2014 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, February 6, 19:00 UTC
by Praveena Maharaj 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Dear all, The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, February 6, 2014 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream. The current structure of the meeting is: * Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also specialized reports and analytic * Review of financials * Welcoming recent hires * Brief presentations on recent projects, with a focus on highest priority initiatives * Update and Q&A with the Executive Director, if available Please review https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further information about how to participate. We'll post the video recording publicly after the meeting. Thank you, Praveena -- Praveena Maharaj Executive Assistant to the VP of Engineering and Product Development +1 (415) 839 6885 ext. 6689 www.wikimedia.org

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Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on February 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

[x-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the monthly IRC office hour on February 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC/ 0900 PDT on #wikimedia-office. This time we would be talking about the recent changes made to the Universal Language Selector (ULS) - the MediaWiki extension that provides unified language configuration[1] - and the impact on the Wikimedia wikis. We look forward to addressing any questions you may have about this. Please see below for the event details. Questions can also be sent to me before the event. See you all at the IRC office hour! Thanks Runa [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector Event Details: ========== # Date: February 12, 2014 # Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 0900-1000 PDT ( http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140212T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net Agenda: ====== 1. Universal Language Selector (ULS) update and developments 2. Q & A -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Reclaimed the Logo (thanks)
by Tomasz W. Kozlowski 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

Dear all, we would like to use this opportunity to express our sincere thanks to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees and the Foundation’s Legal and Community Advocacy department for reaching their decision to abandon the trademark registration for the Wikimedia community logo. We are also thankful to all community members who expressed their opinions in the community logo trademark consultation that took place between September and December. We hope that all the legal formalities can be fulfilled in the coming days and weeks, and that the matter can be finally put to rest so to allow our rich history of community logo derivatives and red, green & blue logos to continue. Reclaim the Logo squad Artur Fijalkowski (WarX) Tomasz Kozlowski (odder) Federico Leva (Nemo) John Vandenberg (jayvdb)

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[Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Board approval of new Trademark policy and recommendation on the Community logo registration
by Yana Welinder 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hi all, We are happy to announce that the Board of Trustees approved the new Trademark Policy this Saturday.[1] The policy is based on a seven-month consultation with the community to replace our 2009 policy. The new policy is unconventional in how it provides expansive use of the Wikimedia marks. Thanks to the community's collaboration, the policy is more readable, thorough, and consistent with our values. The Board also approved our recommendation to withdraw trademark registration and protection for the Community logo.[2] We will now initiate withdrawal of US and worldwide registrations. Many thanks to everyone who participated in these two consultations! Thanks, Yana and Geoff [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trademark_policy [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Logo/Request_for_consultation -- Yana Welinder Legal Counsel 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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Have your say on Wikimedia UK's strategy
by Stevie Benton 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hello everyone, Wikimedia UK's board and staff have been working hard over the last few months on our new Strategic Plan<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_plan_2014-2019>, and we have just released the draft for community consultation. We hope that the model we have used<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_and_operational_models> may be of general interest to the wider wiki community, and we hope that as many Wikimedians as possible will help us in critiquing and building on it. The model starts with our Vision and Values<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Vision,_values_and_mission_(proposed)>, and uses those to inform our Mission. Within the Mission, we have identified five high-level Strategic Goals<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_Goals> that will help us focus our activities. For each goal, we will be measuring our ongoing progress against a series of desired outcomes, using numerical targets where possible and narrative measures where we are unable to track hard numbers. This approach should ensure that our day-to-day activities are closely focused on our Mission, and that our 'distance travelled' charitable impact can be tracked over the entire five year term of the plan. Please do get involved in the discussion following the links above. There is also a page for general feedback and comments here<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_Plan_2014-2019/General_feedback_page>. The consultation period closes on 28 February 2014 with a view to the board approving the documents at their meeting in March. You may also be interested in a related blog post by Simon Knight<http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/2014/02/wikimedia-uk-strategy-consultat…>, one of the WMUK trustees who has been closely involved in this work. Thanks in advance for your help, Stevie -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Have your say on Wikimedia UK's strategy
by Stevie Benton 04 Feb '14

04 Feb '14

Hello everyone, Wikimedia UK's board and staff have been working hard over the last few months on our new Strategic Plan<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_plan_2014-2019>, and we have just released the draft for community consultation. We hope that the model we have used<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_and_operational_models> may be of general interest to the wider wiki community, and we hope that as many Wikimedians and other interested parties as possible will help us in critiquing and building on it. The model starts with our Vision and Values<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Vision,_values_and_mission_(proposed)>, and uses those to inform our Mission. Within the Mission, we have identified five high-level Strategic Goals<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_Goals> that will help us focus our activities. For each goal, we will be measuring our ongoing progress against a series of desired outcomes, using numerical targets where possible and narrative measures where we are unable to track hard numbers. This approach should ensure that our day-to-day activities are closely focused on our Mission, and that our 'distance travelled' charitable impact can be tracked over the entire five year term of the plan. Please do get involved in the discussion following the links above. There is also a page for general feedback and comments here<https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategic_Plan_2014-2019/General_feedback_page>. The consultation period closes on 28 February 2014 with a view to the board approving the documents at their meeting in March. You may also be interested in a related blog post by Simon Knight<http://people.kmi.open.ac.uk/knight/2014/02/wikimedia-uk-strategy-consultat…>, one of the WMUK trustees who has been closely involved in this work. Thanks in advance for your help, Stevie -- Stevie Benton Head of External Relations Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 20 7065 0993 / +44 (0) 7803 505 173 @StevieBenton Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* _______________________________________________ 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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