"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
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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.
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.
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
> >
>
>
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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
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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
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!
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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