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Wikipedia wins Erasmusprize 2015
by Romaine Wiki 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

http://www.erasmusprijs.org/?page=Erasmusprijs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Prize

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[Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikipedia receives the Erasmus Prize for collective achievement of its community
by Juliet Barbara 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

This press release is also available online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_receives_the_… *Wikipedia receives the Erasmus Prize for collective achievement of its community* - *Becomes the first collaborative community to receive the honor* The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation (Dutch <http://www.erasmusprijs.org/>, English <http://www.erasmusprijs.org/?lang=en>) in the Netherlands has announced that it will award the Erasmus Prize 2015 to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia community. The Erasmus Prize is one of Europe’s most distinguished recognitions, awarded annually to “a person or institution that has made an exceptional contribution to culture, society or social science.” “The Erasmus Prize has a wonderful history of recognizing people who contribute great things to our shared culture, and I am thrilled that Wikipedia now joins these ranks,” said Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. “I am particularly pleased to note that this is the first time a really large community of people - and the millions of you who have built Wikipedia to date know who you are - has received this prestigious award.” The official announcement came from the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation on the same day that Wikipedia marks its 14th anniversary, today, January 15, 2015. This honor provides all the more reason to celebrate the remarkable community whose contributions have made Wikipedia the most comprehensive repository of free information in the history of humanity. “I can’t think of a better present for all of the tireless Wikipedia contributors around the world than to win the Erasmus Prize on our 14th birthday,” said Jan-Bart de Vreede, Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees and a citizen of the Netherlands where the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation was founded. “I sincerely thank the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation for this great honor.” In presenting Wikipedia with the Erasmus Prize, the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation pointed to the massive contribution that volunteers all across the globe have made: “Wikipedia receives the prize because it has promoted the dissemination of knowledge through a comprehensive and universally accessible encyclopaedia. To achieve that, the initiators of Wikipedia have designed a new and effective democratic platform. The prize specifically recognises Wikipedia as a community — a shared project that involves tens of thousands of volunteers around the world.” “I am proud that Wikipedia is being recognized for the incredible collective impact it has had to date,” said Lila Tretikov, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “As we look to the future of free knowledge, we will continue to be guided by the principles the Erasmus Prize today honors.” This honor is accompanied by an award of €150,000. In keeping with the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation’s intent to recognize the contributions of the Wikimedia community, the Wikimedia Foundation is redirecting these funds towards the Wikipedia community in the form of individual grants and other support for editors and contributors. *About the Wikimedia Foundation* - https://wikimediafoundation.org - https://blog.wikimedia.org/ The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia consists of more than 33.5 million articles in 287 languages. Every month, hundreds of thousands of active volunteers contribute to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. According to comScore Media Metrix, the projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive 460 million unique visitors per month on desktop alone, making them one of the ten most popular web properties worldwide (October 2014). Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. *Wikimedia Foundation Press Contact* Katherine Maher - +1 415-839-6885 ext 6633 - katherine(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ 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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** DATE CHANGE ** Invitation to WMF December 2014 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, January 15, 19:00 UTC
by Praveena Maharaj 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Dear all, The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). Please note, on this occasion, we are holding this meeting on the third Thursday in January. We will resume holding the meetings on the first Thursday of each month beginning in February 2015. The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream. Each month at the metrics meeting, we will: * Welcome recent hires * Present reports/updates that are focused on a key theme or topic. The theme for January's meeting is: Quality * Engage in questions/discussions Please review https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further information about how to participate. We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting. Thank you and Happy New Year! Praveena -- Praveena Maharaj Executive Assistant to the VP of Product & Strategy and the VP of Engineering Wikimedia Foundation \\ www.wikimediafoundation.org

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[Reminder] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on 14 January 2015 (Wednesday) at 1600 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

Hello, A reminder that the Language Engineering office hour will be happening later today at 1600UTC on #wikimedia-office. The original announcement can be found in the section below. We will be posting the logs at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Office_hour_logs Thanks Runa ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:48 AM Subject: [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on 14 January 2015 (Wednesday) at 1600 UTC To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org> [x-posted announcement] Hello, Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting the next IRC office hour on January 14, 2015 (Wednesday) at 1600 UTC on #wikimedia-office . We will be taking questions and discussing about our ongoing projects. You may have also read our recent announcement about making Content Translation available very soon as a beta feature[1] on a few Wikipedias. We will be happy to address questions you may have about this. Please see below to check local time and event details Thanks Runa [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/10/content-translation-beta-coming-soon <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/10/content-translation-beta-coming-soon/> Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: January 14, 2015 (Wednesday) # Time: 1600 UTC (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150114T1600 ) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation beta feature 2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event) -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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The extra money raised is to be put to use
by Gerard Meijssen 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Hoi, I am really happy that our fundraising has proven itself yet again to be really effective. Now that we have all this money we have to put it to use. Arguably: - as a movement we have a stellar reputation of sharing knowledge cheaply - our current central command system breaks under the strain - there is too much paperwork preventing us from being effective - our chapters are accountable to its members, we can trust them because they are us - our chapters can easily find objectives that puts our money to work - in a distributed way we do not have central staffing as a bottle neck Thanks, GerardM

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March is WikiWomen's History Month
by Richard Ames 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: March is WikiWomen's History Month Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:12:48 -0800 From: Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com> To: wikimedia-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hello! Can you please forward the following message to your mailing list - thank you! --- Hi everyone! The 4th annual WikiWomen's History Month is in March, coinciding with Women's History Month. This event is cross-cultural, international, and multi-lingual. Please start planning your events (offline and online) to contribute content to Wikipedia and related Wikimedia websites about women's history! You can post your events and find resources on how to implement edit-a-thons and workshops here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen's_History_Month Any questions just let me know! I look forward to your participation! Sarah

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Fwd: [WikiEN-l] (Cross-post) METRO Wikipedia webcast on Reference and Citation today 1/12 at 2-3:15pm EST
by Pine W 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Forwarding in case anyone wants to tune in to this event live. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Elias Friedman" <elipongo(a)gmail.com> Date: Jan 12, 2015 9:51 AM Subject: [WikiEN-l] (Cross-post) METRO Wikipedia webcast on Reference and Citation today 1/12 at 2-3:15pm EST To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikipedia mailing list" <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Cross-posting from the Wikimedia-NYC list for wider audience. Sent from my Droid 4 Elias Friedman A.S., CCEMT-P אליהו מתתיהו בן צבי elipongo(a)gmail.com "יְהִי אוֹר" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Dorothy Howard" <dhoward(a)metro.org> Date: Jan 12, 2015 12:20 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-US-NYC-Discuss] METRO Wikipedia webcast on Reference and Citation today 1/12 at 2-3:15pm EST To: "Wikimedia New York City Discussion list" < wikimedia-us-nyc-discuss(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "New York City Wikimedians" < wikimedia_nyc(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Dear All, A reminder that today METRO is hosting a Wikipedia webcast on Reference and Citation from 2-3:15pm EST with: - Andy Mabbett, Wikipedian-in-Residence atORCID < http://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/87810012013/interview-with-andy-mabbett-… > (the Open Researcher and Contributor ID, an authority control) and the Royal Society of Chemistry <http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/wikimedian-residence-royal-society-chemistry/>; - Jake Orlowitz and Patrick Earley of the Wikipedia Library <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library>; - and Maximilian Klein, member of the “WikiProject Open Access/Signaling OA-ness (Open Access) < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_… > ." To tune in, go to our event page right at 2pm to find the live link: http://metro.org/events/562/ or visit METRO’s Youtube channel between 2:00pm and 3:15pm. The video will also be archived on Youtube after the webcast finishes. Thanks, and let me know if you have any questions! Best wishes, Dorothy Howard -- Dorothy Howard, Wikipedian-in-Residence and Open Data Fellow Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) 212.228.2320 x127 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-US-NYC-Discuss mailing list Wikimedia-US-NYC-Discuss(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-us-nyc-discuss _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

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[x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on 14 January 2015 (Wednesday) at 1600 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

[x-posted announcement] Hello, Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting the next IRC office hour on January 14, 2015 (Wednesday) at 1600 UTC on #wikimedia-office . We will be taking questions and discussing about our ongoing projects. You may have also read our recent announcement about making Content Translation available very soon as a beta feature[1] on a few Wikipedias. We will be happy to address questions you may have about this. Please see below to check local time and event details Thanks Runa [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/10/content-translation-beta-coming-soon <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/10/content-translation-beta-coming-soon/> Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: January 14, 2015 (Wednesday) # Time: 1600 UTC (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150114T1600 ) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation beta feature 2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event) -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia charity chairman resigns after pornography row
by Andrea Zanni 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

Date of the article says 02 Aug 2012. Why is this relevant now on this list? Aubrey On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Toby Dollmann <toby.dollmann(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Why ? > > Have you forgotten Section 230 of Communications Decency Act ? > > Toby > > On 1/11/15, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > can someone shut this guy up? > > Thanks, > > GerardM > > > > On 11 January 2015 at 07:37, Toby Dollmann <toby.dollmann(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> > >> > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/9447161/Wikipedia-charity-c… > >> > >> Wikipedia charity chairman resigns after pornography row > >> > >> The chairman of the charity responsible for promoting Wikipedia in > >> Britain has resigned after he was banned from editing the online > >> encyclopaedia, following rows about the inclusion of pornography. > >> > >> By Christopher Williams, Technology Correspondent > >> 3:55PM BST 02 Aug 2012 > >> > >> Ashley van Haeften resigned as chairman of Wikimedia UK today, citing > >> concerns the controversy over his ban could cause divisions among > >> Wikipedia supporters. > >> > >> “I have discussed this matter with [Mr van Haeften] this morning,” > >> said Jon Davies, the chief executive of the charity, which distributes > >> £1m of donations from Wikipedia supporters annually. > >> > >> “He is keen that there should be no division in the Wikimedia UK > >> community over his role as Chair, especially at a time when so many > >> great things are being achieved. > >> > >> “He has therefore resigned as Chair.” > >> > >> The Telegraph reported this week how Mr van Haeften had been banned > >> indefinitely from contributing to the English version of Wikipedia by > >> ArbCom, an elected committee of senior editors. > >> > >> > >> > >> ArbCom applied the sanction after finding he mounted personal attacks > >> on people with concerns about explicit material on Wikipedia, > >> including about material he had posted. He was criticised for > >> including a “highly inappropriate” link to pornography in the > >> biography of a living person. > >> > >> Wikipedia carries a large quantity of explicit material, despite > >> promoting itself as an educational website suitable for > >> schoolchildren. Critics such as Larry Sanger, a co-founder of the > >> website, and people attacked by Mr van Haeften, have argued for > >> filters or age controls to be introduced. > >> > >> Mr van Haeften, who works as an IT project manager, was also found by > >> ArbCom to have violated a series of editing rules, including by using > >> multiple accounts to change pages after he had asked for a “clean > >> start”. > >> > >> His resignation follows a call by members of Wikimedia UK for an > >> Extraordinary General Meeting to discuss the controversy. They said > >> the decision of the charity’s board to keep Mr van Haeften on as > >> chairman despite his ban from contributing to Wikipedia “not a > >> sufficient response to this situation”. > >> > >> An EGM could still go ahead, however, as the call was for a vote on a > >> resolution “to remove Ashley Van Haeften from the Board of Trustees of > >> Wikimedia UK”, not only to strip him of the chairmanship. > >> > >> “By not resigning as chair immediately after the ArbCom decision was > >> announced I am afraid that [Mr van Haeften] made an error which can > >> now only be corrected by his resignation from the board altogether,” > >> said one Wikimedia UK member. > >> > >> Mr van Haeften remains on the Wikimedia UK board. A new chairman will > >> be elected at a meeting this evening. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Wikimedia-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to wikimedia-l+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >

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Please report to Google [was Re: Warning: "Wikimedia-l" Google Group]
by Luis Villa 11 Jan '15

11 Jan '15

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Karthik Nadar <karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in> wrote: > I think it will be better if most of us can "Report the Group". Yes, please do this. We're also talking with Google about trying to resolve the issue, but my understanding is that reporting that you've been fraudulently subscribed will help move that conversation along. [Same applies to the fake gender-gap list.] Thanks- Luis -- Luis Villa Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext. 6810 *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, 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>.*

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