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[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Nederland report over March
by Sandra Rientjes Wikimedia Nederland 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

The Wikimedia Nederland monthly report over March is available on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederl… . It is also included as text in this message. *COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors* · DBpedia - WikiData meeting Volunteers working on the DBPedia project met with volunteers working on Wikidata at the WMNL office to discuss cooperation and synergy between the projects. · Zurich Hackathon Three volunteers applied for and received scholarships to attend the Wikimedia Hackathon in Zürich. *WORK: content, collaboration and activity development* · Education Programme WMNL wants to explore the feasibility of developing a successful education programme in the Netherlands. Following a brainstorming meeting with interested community members, we issued a call for tender asking proposals concerning a first exploratory feasibility study. We received 7 responses and selected a small consultancy with a good track record in the education field. As a first step, they will interview key stakeholders. A meeting with the community is planned on May 24. More information, including the proposal of the 'winning' consultants can be found on the project page on the WMNL wiki. · Wiki Loves Earth WMNL is organising a Wiki Loves Earth competition in the Netherlands as part of wider drive to improve content and coverage of issues related to nature, wildlife and biodiversity in the Wikimedia projects. A group of volunteers is taking the lead in organising a series of activities in May. This will be done in cooperation with the Dutch National Parks. A series of activities are in preparation, including workshops on uploading images and sounds, writing events and photo-safaris. · World War II: photos of war monuments This year, improving and adding to content on the Wikimedia projects related to World War II is a priority for WMNL. As a first step a group of volunteers is organising a photo-drive to obtain images of all war monuments in the Netherlands. WMNL cooperates with the Nationaal Comité 4 en 5 mei (the official organisation in charge of remembrance). The photo-drive kicked off April 1. (Spoiler: on April 15, already 677 images had been uploaded.) · Other On March 10, Frans Grijzenhout and Wikipedian in Residence Hay Kranen demonstrated working with Wikipedia for students of the Social science dept of the University of Amsterdam. The students (bachelor level) take part in a special honors program. The theme of their course is crowd findings. On March 20, Ziko van Dijk presented Wikipedia issues at the IPON fair for educational resources, in the Utrecht Jaarbeurs. *WMNL* · General Assembly and Board elections On March 29, there was a WMNL General Assembly, which included Board Elections. Chair Ziko van Dijk and Treasurer Paul Becherer stepped down, both after having served on the Board for a good many years. Frans Grijzenhout, Ad Huikeshoven en Jan Anton Brouwer were re-elected. They were joined on the Board by newcomers André Engels, Ronn Boef, Marlon Thé and Justus de Bruijn. The General Assembly also approved the annual report and the accountsof WMNL. · Newsletter An issue of the newsletter was sent out. *FUNDING* · A private grant making foundation donated €30,000 to WMNL. This is in support of our planned work with public libraries (with a possible focus on Dutch literature and writers) and a pilot project to provide access to relevant Wikipedia articles via image recognition of objects in a museum collection. *GLOBAL* · Board Governance Training Workhop London On March 1 and 2, WMUK organised a training workshop for Board members of Wikimedia affiliates. WMNL Board member Frans Grijzenhout took part in the training. Executive director Sandra Rientjes was involved as a facilitator. *GOVERNANCE* · Reporting March was a busy month for reporting. The Annual report and accounts over 2013 were approved by the auditor. Also WMNL submitted its impact report to the Funds Dissemination Committee. · Board The (old) board met on March 13 and discussed i.a. last preparations for the annual assembly. *Upcoming* · April: War monuments photo-drive · May 24: Education Programme - presentation and discussion at the Wikimedia office in Utrecht · May - June: Wiki Loves Earth Sandra Rientjes Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland tel. (+31) (0)30 3200238 mob. (+31) (0)6 31786379 www.wikimedia.nl *Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:* Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3 3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht _______________________________________________ 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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Fwd: COI editing by WMF staff
by rupert THURNER 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Zack Exley <zexley(a)thoughtworks.com> Date: Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 6:57 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] COI editing by WMF staff To: rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com> Cc: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Yes, sorry - I was being immature with that comment. I was just feeling grumpy. But I do think this kind of thing is very counter productive and off-putting for new and low-level editors who would like to do good work. It's just too bad. The community of editors is shrinking and the experience that new editors are having is getting worse and worse. I am very worried about the future of Wikipedia. There are so many amazing editors. The problem is not that "experienced editors are being mean to newbies." In fact, analysis we did while I was still at WMF (that we were never able to refine and verify to publishable quality) showed that the vast majority of heavy editors are welcoming and good to editors. But a few are not. And a huge portion of editors who are like me -- i.e. who would really like to contribute more, but need to learn more -- find their talk pages covered with cryptic warnings and have their first articles (whether they're about themselves or a legitimate topic) deleted. This is totally anecdotal -- I'm not sure if anyone's actually benchmarking this -- but I feel like I keep finding gaps in Wikipedia that wouldn't have been there a few years ago. Like new bands, local politicians, software products etc... I want to read about these things on Wikipedia, not on commercial sites. So does the bast majority of the world. If the community continues to shrink and Wikipedia continues to fall behind, it's only a matter of time before a Google or Facebook or new start up takes what Wikipedians have created and continues in a more open and inviting way. Hopefully that's a more mature version of my offhand, frustrated comment about grinding Wikipedia to halt from yesterday. On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:44 AM, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Zack Exley <zexley(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > I haven't read this thread, but I'll explain my editing history as > > Wikitedium: > > > > First of all, I listed my user name as soon as I started at Wikipedia. It's > > still listed here on my (out of date) staff/contractor page: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zackexley > > > > I did start an article about myself a long time ago. I didn't know there > > was a policy against it. I wasn't an active editor and knew virtually no > > policies. I created the article because right wing media personalities were > > doing hit pieces on me and the Republican party was sending out emails > > asking people to write letters to the editor about me featuring lots of > > false facts. So I saw Wikipedia as an open encyclopedia "that anyone can > > edit" where I could set the record straight. Later I learned it was against > > policy and FELT REALLY BAD. > > > > As for the other edits on projects I was involved with. My personal opinion > > is that those kinds of edits are vital to the future of Wikipedia. I want > > everyone to add everything they're working on to Wikipedia -- and then all > > their critics to come and add what they know. I'm saddened every time I go > > looking for something I expect to be in Wikipedia and find nothing -- and > > am forced to rely on the organization's own site or whatever. > > > > OK -- I think that's all you need from me. Now enjoy yourselves as you > > continue to grind Wikipedia to a whining halt. > > zack, i find this a little offending. most of the persons in this > discussion thread did more edits in the last months than you in your > lifetime - and this without touching an article about self, or > accepting that the colleagues at work do so. its you who gets a 6 > digit number of donors money wired to your bank account every year. > you can be sure they did not give it because of your edits. > > instead of "feeling bad" you might consider doing something about the > cause. e.g. you might propose your own article for deletion > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion). > > what makes this whole story confusing to me are the following pages: > * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Organizing_Institute > * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_freeman > * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Carteroni > * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Mstemp > > the zack exley wikipedia page says you are president of new organizing > institute, and you let some one time wikipedia user create an article > about your organization again, and let another one time user create a > page for your only partner in that organization? after feeling > terribly bad? after being chief community officer at WMF responsible > for developing the foundations relationship with the editing > community? > > many thanks, zack, that you are there. otherwise "the whole thing > would have fallen apart" (wikimedia), as you say in this interview: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQfHVGMrHCY > > rupert

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The upcoming TOU amendment
by Russavia 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

I came across Pete Forsyth's blog on the upcoming TOU amendment at: http://wikistrategies.net/terms-of-use-amendment and it raises quite a few interesting talking points. Thought you all might like to take a peek and discuss. Cheers Russavia

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] community broadband
by James Salsman 22 Apr '14

22 Apr '14

>... the Foundation is not going to be active on stuff like > pushing for community broadband. Who is going to stop monoculture ISPs from interposing ads on top of Foundation content HTTP streams? >... It's not within even the broad remit of the Foundation. That's entirely debatable. It's far more empowering to give someone 10x faster internet at cost plus than keep them on a slow line paying three times as much to make sure CEOs get more villas in France than it is to be one of 8,000 voices in the copyright policy cacophony. I welcome a cost-benefit-risk-resource analysis of all strategic options, based on facts instead of mere assertions.

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community broadband
by James Salsman 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

http://stopthecap.com/2014/01/30/anti-community-broadband-bill-introduced-i… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-kushnick/alec-tech-and-the-telecom_b_16… Is the Foundation active on this issue? My question to the advocacy_advisors mailing list was not approved by the moderator, but after a few days now I don't have any reason that it's not a legitimate question. Was there any discussion about whether that list should be moderated? Does the Foundation want to base advocacy efforts on issues that can help a declining number of volunteers instead of the no longer extant exponentially growing number of volunteers?

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[Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Board of Trustees: Minutes of January 2014 meeting
by Stephen LaPorte 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

At the request of the WMF Board of Trustees, I am posting the minutes of the January 31 - February 1, 2014 meeting, which you may find here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2014-01-31 Best, Stephen LaPorte Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation *For legal reasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.* _______________________________________________ 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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Wikimedia España (WM Spain) Report October 2013 to February 2014
by Jorge Sierra 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

Dear fellows, Here is the Activity Report of Wikimedia España (WMES) from October 2013 to February 2014. Please forgive the delay. All the reports are avaliable on these links: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C… https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Espa%C… Kind regards, -- Jorge A. Sierra Presidente Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es ---- October - 3.10.2013: 2 Workshops for students of "Traducción en interpretación" Degree at University Jaume I of Castellón, for Aprendices de traducción project<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proyecto_educativo/Aprendices_de_tr…> - 5.10.2013: Talk about Wikimedia projects at Ciberia Lan Party<http://ciberia.org/>in Segorbe (Valencian Community) - 5-6.10.2013: Coverage of the Spain Truck Grand Prix 2013 at the Jarama Circuit. Wikinews: [1]<https://es.wikinews.org/wiki/Antonio_Albacete_se_acerca_al_t%C3%ADtulo_euro…>, and Commons: [2]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GP_Cami%C3%B3n_de_Espa%C3%B1a_2…> - 6.10.2013: Photographic coverage of a stage of Spanish ciclocross championship in Oviedo, Spain [3]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Spain_cyclocross_championship_2…> - 13.10.2013: Taking photos of Faitanar, a neibourghood in Valencia, Spain. More than 300 photos uploaded, and 15 subcategories created. - 12-15.10.2013: Participation of 2 members in Wikimedia Iberoconf 2013 in Mexico City - 22.10.2013: Press (photographical coverage) of Seminci 2013. Valladolid. [4] <http://www.seminci.es/indexweb.php> Pictures uploaded to Commons: [5]<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Seminci_2013_-_Supported_by_Wiki…> - 25.10.2013: Meeting of wikimedians in Madrid. Discussed possibility of organising Iberoconf'14. - 26.10.2013: Gave a How to Edit Wikipedia (both code and VE) presentation and workshop at Medialab Prado for the course "Women, Technologies of Information, and Activism". Aprox. 30 women attended, and their progress will be followed using the WikiMetrics tool. Madrid. - 29.10.2013: Virtual meeting in WMES IRC Freenode channel to talk about Iberoconf 2013 - 30.10.2013: Talk and workshop about Wikipedia at Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid [6]<http://www.upcomillas.es/noticias/actividadcompleta.aspx?ID=2097> November - 05.11.2013: Meeting with Paradores de Turismo. - 06.11.2013: II Introductory Wikipedia workshop in Oviedo. First session. - 07.11.2013: Two workshops about editing Wikipedia (2nd session) for Traslation Degree of Jaume I University of Castelló. - 09.11.2013: II Introductory Wikipedia workshop in Oviedo. Second session. - 12.11.2013: Meeting of wikimedians in Barcelona - 12.11.2013: Collaboration with Eldiario.es, where an article about Wikipedia was written Cuando los artículos de Wikipedia son pagados<http://www.eldiario.es/turing/wikipedia-articulos-pagados_0_193530871.html> - 13.11.2013: Participation in the International Seminary organized by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), and more concrete by wiki4HE Project, two members as speakers and also some members who attended the seminary [7] <http://oer.uoc.edu/wiki4HE/seminari-internacional/> [8]<http://in3.uoc.edu/opencms_portalin3/opencms/es/activitats/seminaris/agenda…> - 15.11.2013: Meeting with University of Valladolid - 15.11.2013: Agreement with the Joaquín Díaz<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_D%C3%ADaz_Gonz%C3%A1lez>Foundation. ~2500 old pictures uploaded to Commons. - 20-11-2013: Conference on the wikiArS initiative during the Semana de la Ciencia<http://setmanaciencia.fundaciorecerca.cat/ai1ec-event/seminari-geociencia-a…>(Science Week) at the Institute of Earth Science Jaume Almera (CSIC, Barcelona): "Wikipedia, Ciencia y Arte. Contribuyendo ilustraciones científicas a través de wikiArS", by David Gómez Fontanills & Daniel García-Castellanos [9] <http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiArS> [10]<http://blog.wikimedia.org.es/2013/11/wikipedia-ciencia-y-arte-generando.html> - 18-11-2013: Two posters on the wikiArS<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiArS>initiative during the Semana de la Ciencia<http://setmanaciencia.fundaciorecerca.cat/ai1ec-event/seminari-geociencia-a…> Poster on the<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiArs_MessiniaSC-simple-traz.svg> w:en:Messinian salinity crisis<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Messinian_salinity_crisis> ; Poster on the<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiArs_Naica_poster.svg> w:en:Naica mine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Naica_mine> megacrystals - 26-11-2013: Meeting with "Regidoria de Normalització Lingüística" of Vila-real city council at Vila-real town hall. - 26-11-2013: Participation in the First Workshop Internacional de Fotografía y Obra Pública <http://workshop.blogs.uv.es/> with one member as speaker (subject: "Digital Archives and Photography of Public Works<http://workshop.blogs.uv.es/programa/> ") - 29-11-2013: Meeting with Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia December - 05.12.2013: Participation in a roundtable discussion about Open licenses and dessign at Medialab Prado (Madrid) [11]<http://medialab-prado.es/article/licenciasdisenoabierto> - 05.12.2013: Attendance to I Foro Nacional de la Innovación of Vila-real - 07.12.2013: Meeting of wikimedians in Valladolid - 13.12.2013: Meeting with students and teachers of Arte 10 School of Art (Madrid) to explain the wikiArS initiative. - 15.12.2013: Virtual meeting of members on IRC - 16.12.2013: Presentation of the IEG *Consolidate wikiArS to involve art schools* final report<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Grants:IEG/Consolidate_wi…>; publication of wikiArS case studies<https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiArS/Case_studies>. Dvdgmz - 17.12.2013: Workshop about editing Wikipedia at Library "Reina Sofía" of University of Valladolid [12] <http://tackk.com/bursofiawikipedia> - 18.12.2013: Final project Dissertation<http://rodin.uca.es/xmlui/handle/10498/15705>on "Ingeniería Técnica en Informática de Gestión", developing an Android application (Photoupload) to ease photo uploads to Commons, with a specific interface for "Wiki Loves Monuments" contest. APP and software available under free license in its forge<http://forja.rediris.es/frs/?group_id=1148>. Wikimedia Spain supported the development with knowledge about WLM issues, software requirements and testing. - 18.12.2013: Meeting with Intropia Media about a cultural project related with women from 27 generation "Las Sin Sombrero"<https://intropiamedia.jux.com/985140> . - 25.12.2013: The migration of the official site and blog from wikimedia.org.es to wikimedia.es was effective - 26-27.12.2013: Workshop about editing Wikipedia in Palencia [13]<http://www.cyldigital.es/curso/edicion-de-wikipedia> - 27.12.2013: Meeting with "Regidoria de Joventut" of Vila-real city council at Vila-real Espai Jove. - 28.12.2013: Photographic coverage of a volleyball game between the national teams of Portugal and Spain, none of which had pictures in Commons. [14]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bilateral_de_voleibol_Espa%C3%B…> January - 07.01.2014: Meeting with Mr Francesc Torres, Director of Archivo del Reino de Valencia. - 10.01.2014: Photographic coverage of a concert by Spanish band Dover. [1]<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Concert_of_Dover_-_Supported_by…> - 12.01.2014: At the request of Wikimedia España, Numismática Pliego<http://subastas.pliego.es>relesases under a CC-BY-SA license its entire online collection of hundreds of images of historical coins and banknotes, including metadata. Volunteers of the Chapter are currently uploading the files to Commons, starting with topics of which few images were previously available like Visigothic or Hispano-Muslim coins. - 12.01.2014: Board meeting on IRC - 15.01.2014: Participation in campaign for 13th anniversary of Wikipedia in social networks (Facebook and Twitter) with other chapters of Iberocoop. The hashtag was #GraciasWikipedia. This message has a potential audience of 7.8 milions of users and had a good impact in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and Spain, and trending topic in Mexico. 1777 Tweets, 854 users and potential reach of 7867416 (data provided by WMAR) - 19.01.2014: Meeting of members on IRC - 19.01.2014: Purchase of domains for Wiki Loves Earth - 29.01.2014: Finish report of Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 Grant - 30.01.2014: Radio interview on Ràdio Vila-real (92.2 FM) [2]<http://www.radiovila-real.es/protagonistes-del-30-de-enero-de-2014/> February - 02.02.2014: Board meeting on IRC - 04.02.2014: Press conference at Vila-real city hall to present Wikimedia Conference in Vila-real (8th, 15th and 22nd of February): - Les Jornades Viquimèdia donaran a conéixer la història de Vila-real en 285 idiomes a través de la Viquipèdia<http://www.vila-real.es/portal/p_20_contenedor1.jsp?seccion=s_fnot_d4_v1.js…>Vila-real City Council (Catalan) - Las Jornadas Viquimèdia darán a conocer la historia de Vila-real en 285 idiomas a través de la Wikipedia<http://www.vila-real.es/portal/p_20_contenedor1.jsp?seccion=s_fnot_d4_v1.js…>Vila-real City Council (Spanish) - Jornades Viquimèdia a Vila-real<http://www.vila-real.es/portal/p_20_contenedor1.jsp?seccion=s_fact_d4_v1.js…>Vila-real City Council (Catalan) - Jornadas Wikimedia en Vila-real<http://www.vila-real.es/portal/p_20_contenedor1.jsp?seccion=s_fact_d4_v1.js…>Vila-real City Council (Spanish) - JORNADES VIQUIMÈDIA A VILA-REAL<http://cultura.vila-real.es/es/festivals/avui-jazz/programacio/248-programa…>Cultura Vila-real (Catalan) - Les Jornades Viquimèdia donaran a conèixer la història de Vila-real en 285 idiomes <http://www.larodalia.es/?dep=1&id_noticia=31547> La Rodalia (Catalan) - Las Jornadas Viquimèdia darán a conocer la historia de Vila-real en 285 idiomas a través de la enciclopedia de la Wikipedia<http://www.elperiodic.com/vila-real/noticias/284132_jornadas-viquimedia-dar…>Elperiodic.com (Spanish) - Las Jornadas Vikimedia darán a conocer Vila-real en 285 idiomas<http://www.elperiodicomediterraneo.com/noticias/vilareal/jornadas-vikimedia…>El periodico Mediterráneo (Spanish) - Vila-real insta a los vecinos a aportar contenido sobre la ciudad en Vikimedia<http://www.elperiodicomediterraneo.com/noticias/vilareal/vila-real-insta-ve…>El periódico Mediterráneo (Spanish) - Vila-real busca tener más presencia en redes sociales<http://www.levante-emv.com/castello/2014/02/05/vila-real-busca-presencia-re…>Levante (Spanish) - Les Jornades Viquimèdia donaran a conèixer la història de Vila-real en 285 idiomes<http://www.laplanaaldia.com/vila-real/noticias/99763/les-jornades-viquimedi…>La Plana al dia (Catalan) - Las Jornadas Viquimèdia darán a conocer la historia de Villarreal<http://castellonconfidencial.com/las-jornadas-viquimedia-daran-a-conocer-la…>Castellón Confidencial (Spanish) - 06.02.2014: Radio interview on Onda Cero Vila-real (99.2 FM) about Wikimedia Conferences in Vila-real - 07.02.2014: Radio interview on Ràdio Vila-real (92.2 FM) about Wikimedia Conferences in Vila-real - 08.02.2014: First session of Wikimedia Conferences in Vila-real - Las Jornadas Viquimèdia llevan el conocimiento libre al Espai Jove<http://www.vila-real.es/portal/p_20_contenedor1.jsp?seccion=s_fnot_d4_v1.js…>(es) - Les Jornades Viquimèdia porten el coneixement lliure a l'Espai Jove<http://www.vila-real.es/portal/p_20_contenedor1.jsp?seccion=s_fnot_d4_v1.js…>(ca) - 08.02.2014: Creation of Wikiproject about Las Sin Sombrero [3]<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Las_Sin_Sombrero> - 15.02.2014: Second session of Wikimedia Conferences in Vila-real - 16.02.2014: Meeting of members on IRC - 19.02.2014: Creation of Whatsapp group for WMES members - 19.02.2014: Wikimedia España letter to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees regarding the deletion of images from Commons under URAA. [4]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Espa%C3%B1a/Letter_to_the_BoT_reg…> - 19.02.2014: First seminar<https://twitter.com/ProyectoUCAC2/status/436439931729485825>of the 2014 edition of the UCAc2 project. Campus de Jerez (University of Cadiz) - 19.02.2014: Radio interview about Uiquimaratón in Asturian in *El Tren*of RPA [5]<http://www.ivoox.com/entrevista-uiquimaraton-audios-mp3_rf_2848344_1.html> - 20.02.2014: Short presentation of the 2014 UCAc2 project<http://www.reporterosjerez.com/2014/02/14/uca-crue-y-red-es-celebran-una-jo…>in collaboration with Libre Software and Open Knowledge Office, within the "Jornada de Profesionales Digitales". Organized by public enterprise Red.es (that belongs to the Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Turismo - MINETUR), Conferencia de Rectores de las Universidades Españolas (CRUE) and University of Cadiz. Campus de Jerez (University of Cadiz) - 20.02.2014: First session (Workshop and talk about Uiquipedia) of Uiquimaratón in Blimea (Samartín del Rei Aurelio) in Asturian because the International Mother Language Day. - Una Uiquimaratón cellebra esati añu en Samartín del Rei Aureliu'l Día Internacional de la LLingua Materna del 21 de febreru<http://www.asturnews.com/index2008.php?idn=13704>Asturnews - Día Internacional de la Llingua Materna con Uiquimaratón en Samartín<http://www.asturiasmundial.com/noticia/56372/dia-internacional-de-llingua-m…>Asturias Mundial - Samartín celebra’l Día Internacional de la Llingua Materna con una Uiquimaratón <http://www.smra.eu/node/6001> San Martín del Rey Aurelio - sitio web oficial del Ayuntamiento - Samartín celebra'l Día Internacional de la Llingua Materna con una Uiquimaratón<http://www.queyeho.com/index.php/socieda/2308-samartin-celebral-dia-interna…>Queyehó.com - Samartín entama una Uiquimaratón nel Día de la Llingua Materna<http://www.asturies.com/node/24771>Asturies.com - Samartín celebra’l Día Internacional de la Llingua Materna con una Uiquimaratón y talleres informáticos<http://www.asturnews.com/index2008.php?idn=13811>Asturnews - San Martín crece en la Wikipedia autóctona<http://www.lne.es/nalon/2014/02/22/san-martin-crece-wikipedia-autoctona/154…>La Nueva España - 21.02.2014: Second session (Editathon) of Uiquimaratón in Blimea (Samartín del Rei Aurelio) in Asturian because the International Mother Language Day. - 21.02.2014: Interview to Jorge Sierra in Reporteros Pucelanos blog [6]<http://reporterospucelanos.blogspot.com.es/2014/02/entrevistajorgesierrawik…> - 22.02.2014: Third and last session of Wikimedia Conferences in Vila-real - 24.02.2014: Interview about Wikipedia in La Aventura del Saber, of La 2 (National TV) [7]<http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/la-aventura-del-saber/aventura-del-saber…> - Press contact because the Wikipedia article about Astorga is on the Main page of Spanish Wikipedia: - Astorga salta a la portada de Wikipedia y llegará a dos millones de usuarios<http://www.leonoticias.com/frontend/leonoticias/Astorga-Salta-A-La-Portada-…>Leonnoticias.com 25.02.2014 - Astorga será portada en Wikipedia<http://astorgaredaccion.com/not/4007/astorga_sera_portada_en_wikipedia/>Astorga Red Accion. 25.02.2014 - Wiki Astorga<http://www.ileon.com/politica/provincia/037572/wiki-astorga>iLeon.com 26.02.2014 - Reconocimiento municipal a los jóvenes creadores de 'Astorga' en la Wikipedia<http://astorgaredaccion.com/not/4036/reconocimiento_municipal_a_los_jovenes…>Astorga Red Accion. 26.02.2014 - 28.02.2014: Talk about Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in Castellón de la Plana. -- Jorge A. Sierra Presidente Wikimedia España http://www.wikimedia.org.es

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The Economist: "Wikipeaks? The popular online encyclopedia must work out what is next"
by ENWP Pine 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

Here's a recent article from The Economist. Some of the reader comments about the article were interesting, especially considering the population that is likely to be reading and commenting about an article in The Economist. http://www.economist.com/news/international/21597959-popular-online-encyclo… Pine

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Wikimedia Indonesia and Humanitarian Open Street Map receive ALL VOICES GRANT
by Isabella Apriyana 21 Apr '14

21 Apr '14

Dear all, We are happy to inform you that Wikimedia Indonesia and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT OSM) just received the news that our proposal submitted to "Making All Voices Count" grant program was accepted. We got £ 31,000 worth of grant to work on growing open content in Kalimantan, Indonesia. The proposal was submitted last year and co-written by Wikimedia (Siska Doviana, Ivonne Kristiani, John Vandenberg) and HOT OSM (Kate Chapman and Yantisa Akhadi). We are so excited because this is our first big collaboration project together and out of 500 proposals worldwide (well, seven countries) only 28 received funding, and we are one of them. We also realized that we just became internationally competitive in grant seeking. Thank you to them, and back to work for us! Official page from Making All Voices Count: http://www.makingallvoicescount.org/project/open-content-in-kalimantan-wiki… Cheers, -- *Isabella Apriyana* *Wakil Sekretaris Jendral* *(Deputy Secretary General)Wikimedia Indonesia* Seluler +628889752858/ +6281213700084 Surel isabella.apriyana(a)wikimedia.or.id Dukung upaya kami membebaskan pengetahuan! http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi Support us to free the knowledge! http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi

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VisualEditor Office Hours for March & April
by Maggie Dennis 19 Apr '14

19 Apr '14

Hi, guys. I just wanted to let you know, so you could mark your calendars if interested, that there are two IRC office hours scheduled to discuss VisualEditor in March and one in April. The first will be held on Monday March 17 at 1500 UTC and the second will be held on Wednesday March 19 at 0100 UTC. (See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for time conversion links.) Logs will be posted on meta after each office hour completes. You'll find them, along with logs for older office hours on the topic, at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:VisualEditor_office_hours_logs The April office hour is scheduled for Saturday April 19 at 2000 UTC. Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for more information on what office hours are and how to join in. Thanks! Maggie -- Maggie Dennis Senior Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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