I didn't saw email about it yet, but just want to say that the web version
of the report is nothing then amazing. Great interactive way rather than
the old pdf versions. Well done!
https://annual.wikimedia.org/2014/
*Regards,Itzik Edri*
Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel
+972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment!
A charming Northern Italian village of 775 people for a conference of 1,000.
Congratulations indeed on such a bold choice!!!
So where are people gonna sleep? And what's the nearest international
airport???
Tim Davenport
"Carrite" on WP
Corvallis, OR
Dear Wikimedians,
On the recommendation of the Wikimania 2016 selection Jury Committee, we have accepted the proposal from the Esino Lario Italy team. The Wikimania Esino Lario team is composed mainly of volunteers. It is promoted by Wikimedia Italia and Wikimedia CH in partnership with Esino Lario city council, Ecomuseo delle Grigne, Pro Loco Esino Lario, Parco Regionale della Grigna Settentionale and the Esino Lario local associations and community. nThe proposal will be further vetted by the WMF staff in the coming months, after which time we hope to confirm the award. Please join us in congratulating Wikimania Esino Lario!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2016_bids/Esino_Lario
We would also like to thank the team from Manila, Philippines for their efforts in putting together excellent proposal. As a volunteer-led movement, it is hugely encouraging to have so many who want to support Wikimania. The bidding process requires a substantial time investment, and we are most grateful for every team’s hard work.
For those of you who are considering hosting in future years, we expect to issue the Request for Proposals for 2017 in September.
Sincerely,
Ellie Young, WMF Conference Coordinator
On behalf of the Wikimania Steering Committee
Hi all,
Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2015 which is being held in Mexico City
on July 15-19, 2015 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Monday 16 February 2015 23:59 UTC.
A scholarship will the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation,
and conference registration as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and
selection criteria by the Scholarship Committee, who will determine
which are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2015 scholarships,
please visit:
https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
To apply for a scholarship, fill out the application form on:
https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply
It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page
and the associated FAQ before submitting an application.
If you have any questions, please contact:
wikimania-scholarships(a)wikimedia.org
or leave a message at:
https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships
Ellie Young
WMF Conference Coordinator on behalf of the Scholarship Committee
Hi
=== Introduction ===
One of the core intentions of Wikimedia projects is to make information
freely available to everyone.
You can access free to charge the websites of the WMF-projects, you can
download a database dump. There are efforts to get access to Wikipedia
on mobile devices without data charges.[1]
But some people have to use an internet connection that is censored [2]
or are just not comfortable with the idea that others way be monitoring
there internet activity’s.
There are software solutions to access websites with high anonymity and
that are difficult to block access to. I think about TOR [3] and I2P
[4]. Tor has a larger userbase then I2P but the second is especially
designed to host services inside I2P while Tor is a proxy-system to
clearnet that supports also hidden services.
Both systems support anonymous web hosting. If you can get TOR of I2P to
work you can access the hidden websites available on that network.
But off course you can only access websites that exist on that network.
End of 2014 Facebook made there website accessible on the TOR-system
[5][6] . That is so far I know the only big name.
Encyclopedia Dramatica, using MediWiki, is also on TOR [7].
=== The idea ===
Making the projects available on TOR and I2P as a hidden website. I see
only positive aspects by doing it.
# people who have censure on there internet have more change to get
access to the information
# people who care about privacy can use it
# WMF has the hardware and the people to get it up at a marginal cost
# great public-relations move! This will get positive press coverage
# some people are against TOR/I2P because it is a freehaven for
pedophiles. Getting the WMF-projects on these networks could provide an
important example of other use of these systems.
# it would support to the cause of free access to information and
important for the people working on the TOR/I2P software if a big name
as the WMF-projects would join-up
=== External links ===
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_and_surveillance_by_count…
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I2P
[5]
https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/making-connections-to-face…
[6] https://facebookcorewwwi.onion/
[7] https://encyclopediadramatica.se/ED:TOR (hidden service is
currently offline but will be back soon)
Dear Wikimedians,
please find here an information about one of the outcomes of the Wikipedian in Residence experience at the Swiss National Library, a Wikimedia CH initiative.
Charles
IT:
Oltre 1000 Schweizer Kleinmeister on-line
La Biblioteca nazionale svizzera ha reso liberamente accessibili, su Wikimedia Commons, più di 1000 opere dei cosiddetti Kleinmeister svizzeri. Si tratta di una serie di paesaggi realizzati tra Settecento e Ottocento che offre uno scorcio ricco di sfaccettature su come apparivano il territorio e la cultura della Svizzera a quel tempo.
Grazie alla collaborazione con Wikimedia Svizzera, la Biblioteca nazionale svizzera (BN) è in grado di rende accessibili on-line sempre più documenti di dominio pubblico provenienti dalle sue collezioni. Recentemente sono state caricate oltre 1000 opere dei Kleinmeister svizzeri su Wikimedia Commons, l’archivio multimediale di libero accesso di Wikipedia.
Per Kleinmeister svizzeri s’intendono gli artisti attivi tra metà Settecento e metà Ottocento che, con la diffusione del viaggio culturale, iniziarono a immortalare in disegni, acquerelli e dipinti ad olio paesaggi e scene caratteristiche di vita quotidiana, vendendo in seguito le loro opere in originale o riprodotte in stampe ai viaggiatori. L’opera artistica dei Kleinmeister svizzeri offre uno scorcio ricco di sfaccettature sul territorio e la cultura della Svizzera a quel tempo. Per questo motivo è tuttora di grande attualità sia per la storia dell’arte e della cultura, sia per la ricerca nelle scienze naturali.
La BN possiede la collezione di Schweizer Kleinmeister dal 1982. In quell’anno Annemarie Gugelmann le cedette la collezione che aveva costituito insieme al fratello Rudolf. Si tratta di una delle donazioni più preziose mai ricevute dalla BN. La fondazione Graphica Helvetica, nata anch’essa dall’impegno dei fratelli Gugelmann, permette di ampliare costantemente la collezione.
FR:
1000 petits-maîtres suisses en ligne
La Bibliothèque nationale suisse met à disposition plus de 1000 tableaux des petits-maîtres suisses sur Wikimedia Commons. Il s’agit de paysages des 18e et 19e siècles. La collection donne un riche aperçu des paysages et de la culture suisses d’antan.
Grâce à sa collaboration avec Wikimedia Suisse, la Bibliothèque nationale suisse (BN) met régulièrement en ligne des documents libres de droits de ses collections. Elle vient de téléverser sur Wikimedia Commons, les archives libres de Wikipedia, 1000 tableaux des petits-maîtres suisses.
Les petits-maîtres suisses sont des artistes dont la production va du milieu du 18e au milieu du 19e siècle. Avec l’apparition du voyage d’études classique, ils s’étaient mis à illustrer des paysages et des scènes du quotidien typiques au crayon, à l’aquarelle et à l’huile. Ils vendaient les originaux les estampes aux voyageurs. La production des petits-maîtres suisses donne un riche aperçu des paysages et de la culture suisses d’antan. Elle toujours d’actualité, tant pour l’histoire de l’art et des civilisations que pour la recherche ès sciences naturelles.
La Bibliothèque nationale suisse possède depuis 1982 une collection de petits-maîtres suisses. Il s’agit d’un don d’Annemarie Gugelmann, qui avait constitué cette collection avec son frère Rudolf. C’est un des cadeaux les plus précieux que la BN ait jamais reçus. C’est également à l’engagement de la famille Gugelmann qu’on doit la création de la fondation Graphica Helvetica grâce à laquelle la collection continue d’être élargie.
DE:
1000 «Schweizer Kleinmeister» online
Die Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek stellt über 1000 Bilder der «Schweizer Kleinmeister» auf Wikimedia Commons zur freien Verfügung. Es handelt sich umLandschaftsbilder aus dem 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Die Sammlung gibt einen reichhaltigen Einblick in Landschaft und Kultur der Schweiz von damals.
Dank der Zusammenarbeit mit Wikimedia Schweiz macht die Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek (NB) laufend gemeinfreie Dokumente aus ihren Sammlungen online zugänglich. Seit neustem sind 1000 Bilder von «Schweizer Kleinmeistern» auf Wikimedia Commons, dem freien Medienarchiv von Wikipedia, hochgeladen.
Bei den «Schweizer Kleinmeistern» handelt es sich um Künstler, die von der Mitte des 18. bis in die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts wirkten. Mit dem Aufkommen der klassischen Bildungsreise haben sie damit begonnen, Landschaften und charakteristische Alltagsszenen in Zeichnungen, Aquarellen sowie in Öl festzuhalten. Diese Werke verkauften sie im Original oder als grafische Blätter an Reisende. Das Schaffen der «Schweizer Kleinmeister» gibt einen breit gefächerten Einblick in Landschaft und Kultur der Schweiz von damals. Es ist bis heute für die kulturhistorische, kunstwissenschaftliche und die naturwissenschaftliche Forschung von Interesse.
Die Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek ist seit 1982 im Besitz einer Sammlung von «Schweizer Kleinmeistern». Dabei handelte es sich um ein Geschenk von Annemarie Gugelmann, welche die Bilder zusammen mit ihrem Bruder Rudolf gesammelt hatte. Es ist eines der wertvollsten Geschenke, das die NB je entgegennehmen durfte. Auf das Engagement der Geschwister Gugelmann geht zudem die Stiftung Graphica Helvetica zurück, dank der die Sammlung kontinuierlich erweitert werden kann.
Links
The little Masters on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Masters <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Masters>
Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CH-NB-Collection_Gugelmann <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CH-NB-Collection_Gugelmann>
HelveticArchives: https://www.helveticarchives.ch/detail.aspx?id=160780 <https://www.helveticarchives.ch/detail.aspx?id=160780>
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Charles ANDRES, Chief Science Officer
"Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge –
www.wikimedia.ch <http://www.wikimedia.ch/>
Skype: charles.andres.wmch
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Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the ninth edition of Picture of
the Year competition is now open.
Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on
Commons during the year 2014 to produce a single Picture of the Year.
Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the
international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered
in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant
shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical
images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive
human portraits, and so much more.
For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topical categories.
Two rounds of voting will be held:
In the first round, you may vote for as many images as you like. The top 30
overall and the most popular image in each category will continue to the
final.
In the final round, you may vote for three images (first vote is counted as
3 points, the second as 2 and the third as 1 point.) to become the Picture
of the Year
Round 1 will end on 31 January 2015. To vote, visit
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2014
Thanks
Odisha1
on behalf of Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee
It is now clear that the superprotect affair was only a preliminary move.
Now they hide themselves behind a collective account
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:WMFOffice> issuing batches of
global locks
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=globalauth&…>
and writing boilerplate replies
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:WMFOffice&diff=10982…>.
As with the superprotect, the how is to blame, not the what. Note that I
do not object global locks at all.
What I object is the lack of a published reason for them, and the
community interaction that Lila called so deeply for.
They can play with the Terms Of Use, protecting any page on any project
and global-locking any account "to protect the integrity and safety of
the site and users", actually at their sole discretion.
The breach of trust is complete now. The only thing that may stop me
from leaving the projects for good is my loyalty to the volunteer community.
It turns out that something happens when you stop grumbling and start
doing things. To be honest, initially I was really surprised that it's
working. So, I want to assure you that that works and I would
recommend you to try the same.
This issue was raised at least two times on this list during the past
five years. As participants in our global events, I saw one Black
American (Wikimedia Conference 2012, among staff). Counting that there
were a couple of hundreds of Americans in London, we should have
expected a couple of dozens of Black Americans. Unfortunately, I saw
none.
If I counted well, they are approximately 5 *times* less represented
among WMF staff counting demographics of San Francisco and 10 times
less represented counting general US population.
But that's the grumbling cliche. So, a couple of months ago I finally
started doing something and, surprisingly, something happened.
I realized that in 2007 in Zagreb, during the Open Translation Tools
event [1] I saw unusually high number of Black Americans for one free
software/content event: two. It was actually very high in relative
terms, as well. I think that they were something like 40% percents of
American participants.
So, I approached Alice [2] in October and it turned out that she had
been very enthusiastic about the idea which I had represented to her:
To reach Black Americans and incorporate them into our global
movement. And we started working on that.
(Yes, as she is Brooklyn based, we approached WM NYC, but it's quite
regular Wikimedia chapter. They are doing great things, sometimes the
rest of the world doesn't even realize the size of what they are
doing, but they have so WikiPedian relationship to the phenomenon of
time: eventually, everything will be fine. In the meantime we'll
likely die, but that's fine, to. In relation to this, I have to say
that, as a movement, we lost a lot of very good people because that
type of relationship to time. In other words: Yes, WM NYC has one
outreach program in Harlem, but the dynamics is too slow. And, again,
WM NYC outreach to ethnic minorities is much better than in many other
places, as it exists.)
As I didn't want to spend Alice's enthusiasm on Wikimedia bureaucracy,
we started doing things alone. The product is the project [3], which
will be started during the first weekend of February in Brooklyn
Public Library, during their program "Celebrate Black History Month!"
[4].
I am aware that this is a hot topic in American society, but there are
ways to solve hot topics and, surprisingly again, it's not hard at
all. I needed just conviction that I am doing the right thing when I
went to Zagreb in 2005 and in Pristina in 2009. And we had wars here,
ended 10 years ago at that time.
There is one important thing to have in mind: We are not doing that to
have one more badge on our list of political correctness. We are doing
that because we want not just to share our knowledge with the world,
but to allow others to share their knowledge with us and the rest of
the world. (In relation to what we could get is at least one real gem:
Garifuna language [5], a Native American language of Honduras spoken
by Garifuna people [6], who are, because of historical events,
actually black.)
Speaking generally, as Wikimedian and human, this *is* my job. But
speaking particularly, this is the job of American Wikimedians. I'd
like to see you on February 7th and 8th events in Brooklyn Public
Library. Yes, I will teach attendees how to edit Wikipedia and other
Wikimedia projects via video stream, but, obviously Wikimedians in BPL
would be much more useful than me.
And, finally, if you are a Black American Wikimedian and reading this
email, this is the time for you to come out and empower other Black
Americans to become Wikimedians.
[1] https://aspirationtech.org/events/opentranslation
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aliceba
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/AFROcroWd_and_Interglider.ORG/Ou…
[4] http://www.bklynlibrary.org/events/celebrate-black-history-month
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garifuna_language
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garifuna_people