I emailed mobile-l and wikitech-l about this, now I'm moving this
discussion to wikimedia-l. Here's the longer technical thread:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-April/006884.html
In summary, to show Wikipedia Zero banners for the correct mobile networks,
we are planning once for each cellular-based app session to log two pieces
of data in a specialized logfile, deleting log entries older than 90 days.
1. MCC-MNC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_country_code> code (format
is ###-##), which denotes the mobile operator
2. Exit (gateway/proxy) IP address
* These data points would not be logged alongside the normal web access
logs.
This information could be used to estimate rough demand for Wikipedia in
potential Wikipedia Zero geos, although remediating the out-of-sync IP
addresses on file for existing partners is primary.
Internal review suggests this is in alignment with privacy policy, and we
wanted to see if there were other thoughts on this approach here on
wikimedia-l.
-Adam
Wikimedia Nederland published its report on activities in May:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederl…
It is included in this message as plain text.
*COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors]*
· *Wiki-Saturdays.*
The WMNL office was open for community members on May 10 and May 24. In
total, 12 people came to the office to discuss (inter alia) the education
programme, projectmonitoring and reporting.
· *Wikidata - DBPedia cooperation*
The working group on Wikidata and DBPedia cooperation met at the WMNL
offices on May 15.
*WORK: content, collaboration and activity development[edit]*
· *Wiki Loves Earth events*
The Wiki Loves Earth kick off took place in De Weerribben-Wieden National
Park on May 3. After a presentation a group of participants went into the
national park by boat with a ranger (from Staatsbosbeheer to take pictures
of this park.
On May 25, a further three Wiki Loves Earth events took place: in Sallandse
Heuvelrug National Park a sound workshop was organized to record sounds of
nature. In Utrechtse Heuvelrug National Park and Drentsche Aa National
Landscape photo workshops were organized.
· *Editathon Women and Art, Amsterdam*
On 17 May, a group of Wikipedians held a new edit-a-thon about women and
art at De Appel art centre in Amsterdam. This event was a follow-up to the
first Dutch Art+Feminism edit-a-thon on February 1 and was also financially
supported by Wikimedia NL. Both events together have, so far, resulted in
more than 50 new or improved articles about women in the arts.
· *Education Programme*
The two consultants engaged to carry out a feasibility study on developing
a WMNL education programme presented their interim results during the
Wiki-Saturday on May 24 . This was followed by a brainstorming session on
aims and ambitions of the programme
· *Maps and Wikipedia meeting, Amsterdam*
Wikipedians in Residence Sandra Fauconnier and Hay Kranen have organized an
expert meeting on old maps and Wikimedia projects on Saturday 24 May in
Amsterdam. More than 20 participants, including curators / collection
managers of map collections, and Dutch Wikipedians listened to the keynote
presentation was by Susanna Ånäs (Wikimedia Finland) on the WikiMaps
project. Further presentations, and a brainstorm session, included
historical map collections from Koninklijke Bibliotheek, old maps on
Wikimedia Commons, and a case study of storytelling via maps: visualizing
the 1934 world trip of Felix Vening Meinesz, a project by TU Delft.
· *Presentation Libraries Zeeland*
Sebastiaan ter Burg gave a presentation about cooperation between external
wiki initiatives and Wikimedia projects at the Zeeuwse Bibliotheek
(libraries in Zeeland) and met with the library of Vlissingen for future
cooperation.
· *World War Two*
Board member Justus de Bruijn and director Sandra Rientjes visited NIOD
(the national institute for war, conflict and genocide studies) to explore
cooperation concerning the the topic of World War Two. NIOD is keen to make
their collections better accessible to the public.
· *Bonnefanten Museum*
We met with the Maastricht Bonnefanten Museum to explore cooperation.
*WMNL*
· *Newsletter*
The newsletter was published on May 22. At the moment, 814 people receive
the WMNL newsletter.
*GLOBAL*
· *Zurich Hackathon*
Three members of the community attended the Hackathon in Zurich, supported
through a WMNL scholarship.
· *Wikimania*
We started advertising our scholarships for Wikimania. The aim is to give
scholarships to ten members of the community.
*GOVERNANCE*
· *Board*
The WMNL Board met on May 8.
Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland
tel. (+31) (0)30 3200238
mob. (+31) (0)6 31786379
www.wikimedia.nl
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Hi,
Wmde had big success coupling the fundraising banner with a "how ti
contribute" message (active, passive chapter members, community projects
...). There is only one other chapter currently beeing able to do that,
wmch.
Would it be possible to allow this to all chapters in future if they want
to? To note, this is _not_ about changing the payment processing.
Rupert
On Beta Wikiversity someone is active now who uses the project as his
personal notepad/sandbox. The pages created in Dutch are short Wikipedia
articles, copy of a message of the yearplan of WMNL, texts of Wikisource,
Wikinews articles, and for every person he contacted he creates a page. In
his communication towards those people he presents himself as Wikiversity
and says such in these pages. All these pages do not contain educational
content.
Another major issue is that private information is added to these pages,
privacy violation for no reason.
Another issue is the adding of copyrighted material
Because of there is no Dutch community there, nobody takes action. At the
moment the Dutch chapter is working on setting up an education program, but
the current material would discredit the attempt and we do not consider it
realistic to start up this project at Beta Wikiversity.
How to act?
Romaine
Craig, et al
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Craig Franklin <cfranklin(a)halonetwork.net>
wrote:
> Russavia,
>
> I'm a bit confused though about the
> parody/satire angle, my understanding is that a CC licence does not
> extinguish things such as moral rights that are not related to copyright.
Sorry, I should make myself more clear -- sometimes it's easy to forget
that people may not be thinking on the same level as oneself.
If an image is out of copyright in Israel, but still has copyright
protection in the US due to URA, lets say one was to parody/satirise that
work in the US, and let's say they sell that work for profit.
Whilst parody and satire are covered under the 1st amendment in the US, the
Israeli government could invoke the copyright protection in the US of that
work to stop its distribution. And it's an argument that would work.[1]
This is why it is required for the Israeli government to state clearly that
when an Israeli government work falls into the public domain it
relinquishes it's copyright over those works worldwide, and for this to
cover both past (required due to URAA), present and future cases
(preferable). If that doesn't occur, then Commons won't be able to host
those materials until they fall out of copyright in the US due to the
rejection of the loosening of the PRP policy, and by extension the URAA
RfC, on Commons.[2]
> But, I guess what I'm trying to get at, is that if these images *are*
> useful, a more productive course of action than arguing about it on a
> mailing list would probably be to identify what steps can be taken in good
> faith to move them from a disputed copyright situation to a situation
where
> everyone is comfortable that there are no problems with re-use.
On this point I agree entirely. WMIL now has an ally, the Ministry of
Education, I hope they use it to their advantage.
Cheers
Russavia
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Joker%22_poster
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Review_of_Precautio…
A month ago, I met some of you for the first time at the WMF’s monthly
metrics meeting. Officially, today is my first day as Executive Director of
the Foundation. In practice, it’s a day like many others: Today and in the
future, we’ll keep working together towards our mission.
When I first started learning about Wikimedia, I thought to myself: this
will be different. Now, seeing the world from within the information Big
Bang <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang>, I know: it is.
Every second the universe of information is expanding around us, and
Wikimedia is a major force that turns this information into knowledge. It
is beholden to no one, yet accountable to each and every human being. We,
the people who create knowledge and bring it to every corner of the world,
are the ones that help it expand. We, the people who read and learn, are
the ones that hold the power to make this world a better place.
I often speak about human experience. Most have understood this as talking
about user experience: the way we access the information or contribute
knowledge. You are — partially — right. But what I mean is bigger than that.
What I am after is our connection to the world and each other through
knowledge. What I’d like us to do is to think big. Think beyond ourselves.
Think about humanity as a whole. Because you can. Because Wikimedia is the
place to transcend the now and to build the future.
This means that what’s ahead is bigger than any one of us. Yet, together,
we can make it happen. It means thinking beyond ourselves. It means
thinking as a student in Cambodia learning about Khmer poetry
<https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%80%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%9A%E1%9E%98%E1%9E%84…>,
or a doctor in France writing about infectious diseases
<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maladies_infectieuses>. This means empathy,
altruism and compassion. It means making things accessible, friendly and
easy for everyone.
This is what makes Wikimedia big.
This is what makes each of us bigger than we could ever be.
This is the what. Our job, as the community and the Foundation, is to build
the how. Where is the will, there is a way. We are here to walk it.
Let’s think big.
*Lila Tretikov <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LilaTretikov>Executive
Director*
I recommend that the Foundation amend its Investment Policy to limit
investment in equities to no more than 10% of its assets, to be
purchased only after the Foundation investments staff has at least
three years experience in debt investment, with a requirement to hold
all equity investments for at least five years after purchase.
Foundation staff would likely be among the best debt investors while
simultaneously being among the worst possible equity investors because
of the low volatility anomaly. Plus, with a large number of
detractors, the Foundation could harm equity-poor investments
indirectly. It would be like a visual editor for "Yo" with bronies
versus brogrammers fighting over graphical styles when what people
really want is adaptive rate voice buffering.
Please do not contribute to the perpetuation of the business cycle. Thank you.
Sincerely,
James Salsman
