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"Selfie of the Ape - The Copyright Wars"
by Jens Best 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

"Selfie of the Ape - The Copyright Wars" - http://youtu.be/E8y1bhEj7j8 A Selfie Defines An Ape As It Defines A Human Being. Just made a short Trailer. Have fun. best regards Jens -- -- Jens Best Präsidium Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. web: http://www.wikimedia.de mail: jens.best <http://goog_17221883>@wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Advocacy Advisors] Transparency and "right to be forgotten" notices from search engines
by Nathan 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Thanks very much for this, Stephen and the legal team. I especially appreciate that the WMF has decided to make public the specific notifications of the use of the "Right to be forgotten" in the EU.[1] It's interesting that the bulk of the suppression requests have come from a single (ex?) Wikimedian targeting internal process pages of his home wiki. Not shockingly, the RtF request is now in the top 5 results on a Google search of that persons name. The NY Times covered the transparency report: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/06/wikipedia-details-government-data-… [1]: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Notices_received_from_search_engines On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Stephen LaPorte <slaporte(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > The “right to be forgotten” has been the subject of much discussion and > debate (including on this list),[1] particularly following the May European > Court of Justice judgment ordering Google to delist some links related to a > Spanish citizen.[2] Since then, search engines have been receiving requests > to remove hundreds of thousands of URLs from search results. Google > recently released more information about its right to be forgotten > requests.[3] > > The WMF legal team has been watching the “right to be forgotten” issue > closely and considering what legal strategies we should take going forward. > Today, the WMF published its first transparency report[4]—you can read more > in this blog post.[5] WMF held a press briefing announcing our strategy of > advocacy and transparency on link censorship. We will oppose what we see as > a misguided court decision that has resulted in a crude implementation of > the “right to be forgotten.” Lila has also issued a statement,[6] and, > Geoff, WMF’s general counsel, and Michelle Paulson, WMF's legal counsel, > have published a blog on the subject.[7] As the topic is of interest to > this group, we wanted to keep you informed of these recent legal > developments. > > Thanks, > Stephen > > [1] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-June/000547.html, > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-June/000539.html > [2] http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:62012CJ0131 > [3] > https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/file/d/0B8syaai6SSfiT0EwRUFyOENqR3M… > [4] http://transparency.wikimedia.org/ > [5] > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/06/wikimedia-foundation-releases-first-t… > [6] > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/06/european-court-decision-punches-holes… > [7] > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/06/wikipedia-pages-censored-in-european-… > > -- > Stephen LaPorte > Legal Counsel > Wikimedia Foundation > > *NOTICE: As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and > ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, > community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. > For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.* > > _______________________________________________ > Advocacy_Advisors mailing list > Advocacy_Advisors(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy_advisors > >

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Community liaison advocacy in support of the community
by James Salsman 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Steven Walling wrote: > The community liaisons put in a lot of blood, sweat, > and tears to advocate not only *to* the community, > but *for* it within the Foundation. How is the effectiveness of their advocacy of the community measured? Back when I was the only wikimedian speaking out in support of grants to individuals, at least two (three if I remember right, over the years) of the community liaisons were stridently opposed to the point of being rude and insulting, one even going so far as to say they would leave the movement if individual grants ever came to pass. I'm glad that their relative effectiveness has finally been measured as more effective per dollar than grants to chapters. Who can I ask to advocate in support of me getting unbanned on Meta? I was banned there because I was accused by Foundation staff of violating a research policy which had never been adopted.

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Subject for Wikimedia Hackathon(s) 2014-2015: CoSyne
by Romaine Wiki 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

As a subject of one/more hackathons I would like to recommend CoSyne [1]. CoSyne is translation and multilingual synchronisation tool. The project was set up by Wikimedia Netherlands together with several universities and other partners, including the EU. The tool makes it possible to translate much more easier from one Wikipedia (etc) to another with much better quality translations than existing translating tools. It does not matter if an article is already written, it is possible with this tool to expand existing articles and to update articles with a new section when on one Wikipedia this was added. It makes it possible to exchange information in more languages and helps users to keep the articles up-to-date. I have tested the Bèta version of this tool and these tests were very successful. [1] https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/CoSyne Romaine 2014-07-09 13:55 GMT+02:00 Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>: > So far there are no candidates to organize the next Wikimedia Hackathon in > Europe. If any chapter, thorg, or group of volunteers is thinking about > applying, please let us know. We want to announce the new host at > Wikimania. > > Very important: the budget for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 will be > discussed and eventually approved as an independent Project and Event Fund. > This means that organizers will be able to define the budget and manage it > without depending on general chapter funds and FDC rounds. This will avoid > any risk of budget cuts caused by factors alien to the hackathon > organization, a problem we have seen in previous editions. Background: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Fr… > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG > > On Friday, May 30, 2014, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > (CCing wikimedia-l as well, please send any replies to wikitech-l only) > > > > The Wikimedia technical community wants to have another hackathon next > > year in Europe. Who will organize it? > > > > Interested parties, check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons > > > > We would like to confirm a host by Wikimania, latest. > > > > The same call goes for India and other locations with a good > concentration > > of Wikimedia contributors and software developers. Come on, step in. We > > want to increase our geographical diversity of technical contributors. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Quim Gil > > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > > > > > -- > Quim Gil > Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Transparency Report & Right To Be Forgotten
by Michelle Paulson 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Hi All, We are very happy to report that we have released the Wikimedia Foundation's first transparency report, which can be found at transparency.wikimedia.org. You can read more about the release in this blog post <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/06/wikimedia-foundation-releases-first-t…>. We encourage you to take a look and explore the report! We would also like to update you on some news regarding the "right to be forgotten." The right to be forgotten has been the subject of much discussion and debate, within the Wikimedia movement and throughout the world, particularly following the May European Court of Justice judgment <http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:62012CJ0131> ordering Google to delist some links related to a Spanish citizen. Since then, search engines have been receiving requests to remove hundreds of thousands of URLs from search results. Google recently released more information <https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/file/d/0B8syaai6SSfiT0EwRUFyOENqR3M…> about its right to be forgotten requests. Since the judgment, the WMF legal team has been watching the “right to be forgotten” issue closely and considering what legal strategies we should take going forward. Over the course of the last week or so, we have received our first five notices from Google advising us that over 50 links to Wikimedia sites were to be removed from search results. Today, WMF held a press briefing announcing our strategy of advocacy and transparency on link censorship. We will oppose what we see as a misguided court decision that has resulted in a crude implementation of the “right to be forgotten.” Lila has also issued a statement <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/06/european-court-decision-punches-holes…>, and Geoff and I have published a blog <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/08/06/wikipedia-pages-censored-in-european-…> about the notices we have received and our plan going forward. Best, Michelle -- Michelle Paulson Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 6th Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 mpaulson(a)wikimedia.org 415.839.6885 ext. 6608 (Office) 415.882.0495 (Fax) *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation and for legal/ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.* _______________________________________________ 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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Effective censorship of Wikipedia by Google
by Fæ 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

Re: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/02/wikipedia-page-google-lin… If Google "disappearing" a Wikipedia article is a notable news event, wouldn't that meet the Wikipedia notability requirements to make an article about it? The information being disappeared is the 2009 Muslim conversion of Adam Osborne, brother of the chancellor, George Osborne. Fae -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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Rarest records
by Andy Mabbett 05 Aug '14

05 Aug '14

This is a good read in its own right: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/07/amanda_petrusich_s_do_not_… but the thesis that some 78rpm records constitute the only surviving example of a particular recording, with no master in an archive somewhere, sent chills up my spine. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Multilingual office hours
by Pine W 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

Most office hours are understandably in English, but I for one would be interested in supporting language diversity in our office hours. I believe that at least three WMF employees in the Grantmaking Department speak some Spanish, and Spanish is spoken by a large percentage of the "global south", so I am wondering if there would be interest in having a bilingual Grantmaking office hour in English and Spanish. If there is interest in adding a third language to the mix I would suggest French due to the acclaim given to Wikimedia France in their most recent review from the Funds Dissemination Committee, with the hope that other thematic organizations can learn from Wikimedia France's experience. Similarly, due to the substantial number of technical contributors to the Wikimedia projects who speak German, I am wondering if there would be interest in an explicitly bilingual German and English office hour for the Product and Engineering Department or for Wikidata. I would also suggest that Indic languages could be valuable for a Product and Engineering office hour, due to my unscientific perception that there is substantial interest in Language Engineering from Wikimedians who speak Indic languages. Pine

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Wikimania Hackathon wants your signatures
by Quim Gil 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

1,6 days before the start of the Wikimania Hackathon... #impatient If you are planning to attend, there is something simple that you can still do. Please go to https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon#Topics and leave your signature in the sessions that you wish to attend. It's pretty straightforward and requires no commitment. Do it now! Why is this useful? 1. The sessions with a critical mass of signatures will be featured at the all-hands session opening the hackathon. We will call the promoters of each of these sessions and they will pitch their intentions and goals. This, in turn, might get them some more participants. 2. Having an approximate idea of the relative interest of each session will help everybody scheduling in rooms with appropriate size. Note that most of the scheduling will happen during and after this opening session. We have pre-scheduled just a few exceptions: sessions focusing on new contributors and sessions requiring the participation of remotes or other people with busy agendas. In other words, by adding your signatures now you are already starting to shape the Wikimania Hackathon program. See you soon! -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Wikimedia Serbia ED
by Filip Maljkovic 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

Dear friends, We would like to inform you that Wikimedia Serbia board of trustees and Wikimedia Serbia Executive Director, Mile Kiš, have mutually decided to part ways and to end Mile's employment at the position of ED. Mile will remain Wikimedia Serbia ED until September 1. We would like to thank Mile for many years of cooperation and all the effort that he put into developing Wikimedia Serbia and its projects. His work was crucial in the initial steps of professionalization of Wikimedia Serbia. We wish him the best of luck in his future professional and personal endeavors. We plan to post a job opening soon, so that we could find a new ED, but in the meantime, that job will be carried out by Ivana Madžarević, Project and Community Manager of Wikimedia Serbia. On behalf of Wikimedia Serbia Board, Filip Maljković President of Wikimedia Serbia

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