hi,
for the first time i tried pressing edit in facebook and came out in
the wiki-text editor. are there statistics available how many persons
come along this way?
best,
rupert
hi,
now we are approaching 400 days of lila tretikov at the helm of the
wikimedia foundation, and 60 million us dollars spent, i was not able
to sign a simple wikipedia page via the mobile app. i think something
is going seriously wrong here :(
what was the use case? the european union wants to harmonize the
freedom of panorama:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama#European_Union. the
german wikipedia had a wikipedia banner to sign a petition, and also
wrote mails about it. which i thought is a nice idea. i am reading
mails on the phone following links to wikipedia, i tried it this time
as well, and i was not able to accomplish the most simple task of
contribution - to add my signature at the bottom of a list. earlier in
the year i already tried to add a link and i could not do it - but i
admit that is a much more difficult task in the mobile app.
the german links:
* sign here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Offener_Brief_an_die_Mitglieder_des…
* https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Initiative_f%C3%BCr_die_Panoramafre…
just as a side note, up to know this page collected close to 4'000 signatures.
best,
rupert
thank you guys :)
hopefully our user group would one of the most active user groups, we have
already plan our next steps,
Mardetanha
Mardetanha
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> From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 17:38:30 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Innovation
> Hoi,
> Collecting hundred ideas is indeed easy. I am sure that when I look back
> in my 3000+ blog posts[1] I will find hundreds of ideas easily. It is not
> the numbers that important, it is about the relevance of the ideas, some of
> mine are more relevant and others less so.
>
> Arguments that are relevant are:
>
> - technical difficulty
> - impact on our community
> - impact on the amount of work it generates
> - impact on the ability to write new articles
> - impact on the ability to involve new editors
> - ability to generate meaningful statistics
>
> The idea I proposed in this thread is likely to score really high except on
> the first argument.
>
> Would you for argument's sake walk through this idea with me and see your
> process in action. The purpose would be to shine some light in the black
> box. A fringe benefit could be to get a ball rolling.
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> [1] http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/
>
> On 14 July 2015 at 21:44, Luis Villa <lvilla(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
> > gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hoi,
> > > Luis I like what I read. What you can do to make it even more pleasing
> is
> > > establish better how this will benefit projects other than Wikipedia.
> > >
> > > For instance I blogged abut "red link" functionality that will easily
> > > enhance the quality of links and red links in most project including
> > > Wikipedia because it allows for providing information where there is
> none
> > > yet to bothnot readers and editors AND maintains the functionality as
> if
> > > nothing has changed.
> > >
> > > I have no idea if the WMF would consider such an idea. My impression is
> > > that the WMF and its agenda is very much a black box. When you explain
> > how
> > > an idea like this might get attention, it is less theoretical and it
> > > explains me and others if innovation in the WMF has a place and what
> that
> > > place is.
> > >
> >
> > Hi, Gerard-
> >
> > Thanks for asking. I think calling us a "black box" on code/ideas from
> > outside WMF is pretty fair, though we're working on it.
> >
> > *tl;dr:* this is and will always be hard; I'd love to hear thoughts or
> > examples on how we can do it better.
> >
> > Note that I have not formally shared this thinking with
> > product/engineering, so none of this is a promise to do any specific
> thing
> > mentioned below. I share it to show, in good faith, that we're thinking
> > hard about the problem and what to do about it, and to make clear why it
> > isn't easy to solve.
> >
> > *Ideas*
> > We can easily collect thousands of ideas. (For example, just one person
> > already had a list of 200+ sorted/filed bugs ready when we announced
> > community tech.) Sorting, prioritizing, and implementing them takes work
> > (which
> > non-programmers sometimes underestimate ;) <http://xkcd.com/1425/>. Some
> > things we'd need in order to handle incoming ideas well:
> >
> > - *Overall process/timeline* for product development, so that people
> > know who to talk to when and through what channels. CE is working with
> > product/engineering on this, but it will always be ongoing - there
> > won't be
> > one "final" process, since we'll learn and adjust as we go.
> > - *Clear priorities* - if you have 1,000 ideas, you have to have
> > priorities so that you can sort through them, and decide "we'll do
> this
> > one
> > first because..." This is hard - there are still some people who
> > respond to
> > VE by disagreeing that we should be trying to get more new editors!
> > - *A friendly space
> > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Friendly_space>
> > understanding*
> > - people often get emotional/angry when you tell them their idea is
> not
> > a
> > high priority, or hard to understand, etc. Dealing with that once is
> > easy;
> > dealing with it repeatedly over months or years is literally
> > threatening to
> > mental health.
> > - *Bodies:* Reading and processing incoming ideas can take a *ton* of
> > time from the people involved. Andre helps with this somewhat in his
> > role
> > as bugmaster, but we're asking a lot from product and engineering
> > already,
> > so there is tension between "fix core platform issues" and "innovate
> > within
> > WMF" and "listen carefully to community innovation" - there are just a
> > limited number of hours in the day.
> >
> > We've always done parts of this informally (ideas come in through
> > phabricator; I read your blog post when it was first posted via planet;
> > etc.) but we need to make it more formal if we want to seriously scale
> it.
> > We're in the *extremely* initial brainstorming phases of some of this
> right
> > now, which Lila referred to in her email.
> >
> > *Code*
> > Innovative *code *should be easier to deal with than ideas, because
> writing
> > code is hard so there is less code than ideas. But you still have to be
> > able to deal with:
> >
> > - *Usability:* the innovative idea might be generally great, but has
> it
> > had evaluative design research
> > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Design_Research>?
> > A/B
> > testing of key concepts/language? Etc
> > <
> >
> https://web.archive.org/web/20080805012124/http://mpt.net.nz/archive/2008/0…
> > >
> > .?
> > - *Maintainability:* will the code still work in 2-3 years? Who will
> > bugfix during that time?
> > - *Scalability:* will it work for hundreds of millions of users?
> >
> > We address some of these currently simply by encouraging people to extend
> > the platform and use Labs, rather than relying on us. So one possible
> > option is to do more of that (like investing in APIs, as I mentioned
> > in my innovation
> > survey
> > <
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Innovation#Survey_of_WMF_innovation-related…
> > >
> > ).
> >
> > The journey of hovercards
> > <
> >
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/03/26/hovercards-now-available-as-a-beta-fea…
> > >
> > is
> > a pretty good example of the potential and difficulty of this process -
> we
> > know we can turn non-WMF code into deployed code, but it is hard (and in
> > that case still not done a year later).
> >
> > *Serious question*
> > Those are my off-the-cuff, very long-term thinking about how we get
> > community code into the projects at scale. Gerard, Magnus, others who
> write
> > code - are there other routes I'm not seeing? Other things we could be
> > doing?
> >
> > Luis
> >
> > [0] Hard enough that I don't think I've ever seen a mass-audience
> free/open
> > project do it really well?
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> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 23:10:00 +0300
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Iranian Wikimedians UG
> Dear all,
>
> I'm pleased to announcce the recognition [1] of a new member of the family
> of Wikimedia affilates, the Iranian Wikimedians User Group. Among their
> main interests are encouraging the use of Wikimedia resources in education
> (at cultural centres, associations and Universities), outreach work and the
> use of social media to tell people about Wikipedia and its sister projects;
> edit-a-thons and participation in different cultural events, photo trips
> and upload-a-thons to teach users how to upload images to Commons.
>
> Welcome!!
>
> 1:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Iranian_…
> --
> "*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua
> junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
> Carlos M. Colina
> Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 | www.wikimedia.org.ve
> <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
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> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 15:10:50 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Iranian Wikimedians UG
> Excellent news!
> Sydney
> On Jul 18, 2015 3:10 PM, "Carlos M. Colina" <maorx(a)wikimedia.org.ve>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I'm pleased to announcce the recognition [1] of a new member of the
> family
> > of Wikimedia affilates, the Iranian Wikimedians User Group. Among their
> > main interests are encouraging the use of Wikimedia resources in
> education
> > (at cultural centres, associations and Universities), outreach work and
> the
> > use of social media to tell people about Wikipedia and its sister
> projects;
> > edit-a-thons and participation in different cultural events, photo trips
> > and upload-a-thons to teach users how to upload images to Commons.
> >
> > Welcome!!
> >
> > 1:
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Iranian_…
> > --
> > "*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua
> > junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
> > Carlos M. Colina
> > Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
> www.wikimedia.org.ve
> > <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
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> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 13:20:56 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Iranian Wikimedians UG
> Congratulations and much success!
>
> A.
>
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Carlos M. Colina <maorx(a)wikimedia.org.ve>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I'm pleased to announcce the recognition [1] of a new member of the
> family
> > of Wikimedia affilates, the Iranian Wikimedians User Group. Among their
> > main interests are encouraging the use of Wikimedia resources in
> education
> > (at cultural centres, associations and Universities), outreach work and
> the
> > use of social media to tell people about Wikipedia and its sister
> projects;
> > edit-a-thons and participation in different cultural events, photo trips
> > and upload-a-thons to teach users how to upload images to Commons.
> >
> > Welcome!!
> >
> > 1:
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Iranian_…
> > --
> > "*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua
> > junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
> > Carlos M. Colina
> > Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
> www.wikimedia.org.ve
> > <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
> > Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
> > Phone: +972-52-4869915
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Carlos M. Colina" <maorx(a)wikimedia.org.ve>
> To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Cc:
> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 23:22:06 +0300
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Community UG Belarus
> Dear all,
>
> It is an honour and a pleasure to announce on behalf of the Affiliations
> Committee the recognition [1] of the newest Wikimedia User Group: Wikimedia
> Community User Group Belarus. Among their objectives are to represent both
> Belarusian Wikipedias (classical and academic) in international relations;
> to widen media presence and public awareness about Belarusian Wikipedias'
> community activities; and to make collaborative projects with other
> interest groups, social initiatives, NGOs and local communities in Belarus
> and abroad.
>
> Please join us in welcoming a new member of the family! :-)
>
>
> 1:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wikimedi…
> --
> "*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua
> junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
> Carlos M. Colina
> Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 | www.wikimedia.org.ve
> <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
> Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Tito Dutta <trulytito(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 01:52:24 +0530
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Iranian Wikimedians UG
> Congrats and wishes.
>
> On 19 July 2015 at 01:50, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > Congratulations and much success!
> >
> > A.
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Carlos M. Colina <
> maorx(a)wikimedia.org.ve>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I'm pleased to announcce the recognition [1] of a new member of the
> > family
> > > of Wikimedia affilates, the Iranian Wikimedians User Group. Among their
> > > main interests are encouraging the use of Wikimedia resources in
> > education
> > > (at cultural centres, associations and Universities), outreach work and
> > the
> > > use of social media to tell people about Wikipedia and its sister
> > projects;
> > > edit-a-thons and participation in different cultural events, photo
> trips
> > > and upload-a-thons to teach users how to upload images to Commons.
> > >
> > > Welcome!!
> > >
> > > 1:
> > >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Iranian_…
> > > --
> > > "*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee
> wayuukanairua
> > > junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya
> junain."
> > > Carlos M. Colina
> > > Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
> > www.wikimedia.org.ve
> > > <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
> > > Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
> > > Phone: +972-52-4869915
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> > --
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> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 15:28:46 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Iranian Wikimedians UG
> Congrats!
>
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Tito Dutta <trulytito(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Congrats and wishes.
> >
> > On 19 July 2015 at 01:50, Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Congratulations and much success!
> > >
> > > A.
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Carlos M. Colina <
> > maorx(a)wikimedia.org.ve>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Dear all,
> > > >
> > > > I'm pleased to announcce the recognition [1] of a new member of the
> > > family
> > > > of Wikimedia affilates, the Iranian Wikimedians User Group. Among
> their
> > > > main interests are encouraging the use of Wikimedia resources in
> > > education
> > > > (at cultural centres, associations and Universities), outreach work
> and
> > > the
> > > > use of social media to tell people about Wikipedia and its sister
> > > projects;
> > > > edit-a-thons and participation in different cultural events, photo
> > trips
> > > > and upload-a-thons to teach users how to upload images to Commons.
> > > >
> > > > Welcome!!
> > > >
> > > > 1:
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Iranian_…
> > > > --
> > > > "*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee
> > wayuukanairua
> > > > junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya
> > junain."
> > > > Carlos M. Colina
> > > > Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
> > > www.wikimedia.org.ve
> > > > <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
> > > > Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
> > > > Phone: +972-52-4869915
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> > > --
> > > Asaf Bartov
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*Start the MediaWiki User Survey <http://hexm.de/MWSurvey>*
*Alternate link*
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1j2ThONROvc0bGY5d3yx4tJln4Aa2Fs130j5OlHbjW1…>
Sincerely,
Chris Koerner and other members of the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group
The 2015 Call to Action identified the need to Support innovation &
new knowledge
* Integrate, consolidate, and pause or stop stalled initiatives.
* Create spaces for future community-led innovations and new
knowledge creation.
* Facilitate and support new models and structures for knowledge curation.
* Strengthen partnerships with organizations that use or
contribute free content, or are aligned with the WMF in the
free-knowledge movement.
Yet no-one at WMF seems tasked with driving innovation in the
community. I have started a Meta page for Innovation at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Innovation to stimulate discussions.
Rogol
Dear all,
The Indic meetup will happen over lunch today at Dona Sol, 4th Floor. If
you are interested in joining the meetup, pick up your lunch now and head
to Dona Sol!
Meetup page : https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Meetup
See you in Dona Sol!
If you have trouble locating the room, please ask any volunteer at the
India booth in Chapters Village.
--
Netha Hussain
Student of Medicine and Surgery
Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode
Blogs :
*nethahussain.blogspot.com
<http://nethahussain.blogspot.com>swethaambari.wordpress.com
<http://swethaambari.wordpress.com>*
This press release is also available online here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Press_conference_introd…
*Press conference introduces annual Wikipedia conference Wikimania in
Mexico City *
- *Announcements include a partnership between Wikimedia México and
the *National
Council for Culture and the Arts of Mexico
<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9xico> (*Conaculta) and the launch
of the Wikimedia Foundation’s latest Transparency Report*
Wikimania <https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>, the annual
conference celebrating Wikipedia and its sister free knowledge projects,
was introduced with a press conference held today at the Hilton Mexico City
Reforma. Wikimanía 2015 marks the conference’s 11th year and is
co-organized by the Wikimedia México chapter and the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikimedia México <https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1gina_principal> and
the National Council for Culture and the Arts of Mexico
<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9xico>, or Conaculta
<http://www.conaculta.gob.mx/>*,* announced an inaugural partnership for
the purpose of increasing open and freely reusable content about Mexico’s
history, culture, and art on the Wikimedia. This partnership will engage
Conaculta’s national network of museums, cultural centers, libraries, art
galleries. Daniel Goldin, Director of Biblioteca Vasconcelos, was present
as representative of Conaculta for the announcement.
“Collaboration with cultural and artistic institutions is essential for the
dissemination of free information,” said Iván Martínez, President of Wikimedia
México. “When libraries, archives, and museums open their institutions,
they enrich not merely the Wikimedia projects but the world. They break
down the barriers to free knowledge for everyone.”
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, opened the press conference with a
welcome to all and an overview of the event. “Wikimania is a time for the
community of volunteers who build Wikipedia and its sister projects to
share experiences and celebrate free knowledge. We are thrilled to be in
Mexico City this year and recognize and celebrate Latin America’s
contributions to the Wikimedia free knowledge movement,” said Wales. Wales
highlighted that Mexicans visit Spanish Wikipedia more than any other
country in the world.
Geoff Brigham, General Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation, introduced the
Wikimedia Foundation’s latest Transparency Report
<https://transparency.wikimedia.org/>. This biannual report, now in its
third installment, details the number of requests received to disclose user
data or alter or remove content from the Wikimedia projects. According to
the report, the Wikimedia Foundation reviewed 23 requests for user data,
including informal government and non-government requests, one criminal
subpoena, and one court order. None resulted in the disclosure of nonpublic
user information. Of the 234 requests to remove or alter general content,
none were granted.
Lila Tretikov, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, said: “Free
knowledge does not come for free; it comes from people like you and me. Our
speech must be protected and our personal information must be secure.
Wikimedia defends user privacy
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy> and fights censorship
so that every human can safely share knowledge critical to all.”
Luis von Ahn, Guatemalan entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Duolingo,
closed the event. He addressed the importance of free education and
language activities and described recent initiatives of Duolingo, a free
language-learning application.
The press conference opened what will be several days of Wikimania
activities held at the Hilton Mexico City Reforma, from July 17 - July 19.
This year’s event is co-organized by Wikimedia México
<https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conference_organizers> and
the Wikimedia
Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>.
The Wikimania 2015 programme includes an array of meetings, workshops and
activities focused on themes such as the state of free knowledge, the role
of Wikipedia in education, privacy and digital rights, using technology to
grow participation, and more. The conference will be opened by Miguel Ángel
Mancera, mayor of Mexico City.
This year’s conference will also feature a special focus on efforts in
Latin America and other countries including Brazil, Spain, and Portugal to
grow the quality and amount of knowledge on Wikipedia and the other
projects. The programme also has a large list of featured speakers
including:
· *Jimmy Wales, *Founder, Wikipedia (USA/UK)
· *Lila Tretikov, *Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation (USA)
· *Luis von Ahn,* entrepreneur and academic, founder of reCAPTCHA
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA>, and co-founder and CEO of Duolingo
(Guatemala <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo>)
· *César Rendueles,* sociologist and researcher (Spain)
· *Carlos A. Scolari,* renowned digital media researcher (Argentina)
· *Katitza Rodríguez,* director, Electronic Frontier Foundation
<https://www.eff.org/> (Peru)
· *Carlos Brito,* coordinator, Red en Defensa de los Derechos
Digitales (Mexico) <http://r3d.mx/>
· *Renata Ávila,* coordinator, Web We Want (Guatemala)
· *Paz Peña, *advocate, Derechos Digitales (Chile)
<https://www.derechosdigitales.org/>
To see the full programme, please visit:
https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme
*Follow Wikimania 2015 on social:*
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/wikimania2015
Twitter https://twitter.com/Wikimania2015
*Follow Wikimedia México on social:*
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/wikimediamx
Twitter https://twitter.com/Wikimedia_mx
GNU Social https://social.mayfirst.org/wikimediamx
Diaspora Wikimedia México <https://diasp.net/u/wikimedia_mx>
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv614ar6uOFcbpI1ocCbgfw
*# # #*
*About the Wikimedia Foundation*
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wikipedia consists of more than 34
million articles in 288 languages. Every month, tens of thousands of active
volunteers contribute to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. With
nearly half a billion monthly users, projects operated by the Wikimedia
Foundation are one of the most popular web properties in the world. Based
in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3)
charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.
*About Wikimedia México*
Wikimedia México A.C. (WMMX) is a local chapter of the Wikimedia movement
and one of the most active in the Spanish speaking countries. Since its
recognition in 2011, it has been involved in almost 300 events, including
workshops, conferences and more. WMMX has strong ties with the culture,
education, TI companies, government sectors, as well as other volunteer
organizations that actively support the chapter’s work in the Mexico. Among
the institutions that WMMX have worked with are: Fine Arts Palace Museum
(Museo Palacio de Bellas Artes), Center for Digital Culture (Centro de
Cultura Digital), Chopo University Museum (Museo Universitario del Chopo),
and Soumaya Museum (Museo Soumaya) to name just a few. WMMX is working on a
wide variety of projects this year including their current support of
the *Wikipedistas
en Puebla* initiative to form a future Wikimedia User Group in that state.
*About Conaculta (the National Council for Culture and the Arts)*
Conaculta mission is to promote Mexico’s diverse, artistic, historic, and
cultural traditions. The Council has oversight for the nation’s museums,
monuments, and national archives, and coordinates policies governing
cultural organizations and institutions. Conaculta promotes, supports, and
sponsors various cultural events and cultural institutions throughout
Mexico, and defends the tradition of full creative freedom in the arts.
Conaculta is a body of Mexico’s Secretariat of Public Education
<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretar%C3%ADa_de_Educaci%C3%B3n_P%C3%BAblic…>
.
*About Wikimania*
Wikimania is an annual conference centered on the Wikimedia projects
(Wikipedia and its sister projects) and the Wikimedia community of
volunteers. It features presentations on Wikimedia projects, other wikis,
free and open source software, free knowledge and free content, and the
social and technical aspects which relate to these topics. Wikimania 2015
marks the 11th year of the conference.
*About Wikipedia*
Wikipedia is the world’s free knowledge resource. It is a collaborative
creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people from
around the globe since it was created in 2001: anyone can edit it, at any
time. Wikipedia is offered in 288 languages containing a total of more than
34 million articles, and visited by nearly half a billion people every
month. It is the largest collection of free knowledge in human history, and
today its content is contributed and edited by the community of more than
75,000 volunteer editors each month.
*Press Contacts*
Martha Oliver
Another Company – Mexico City
(55) 6392 1100 ext. 2416
55-28800940
moliver(a)anothercompany.com.mx
Katherine Maher
The Wikimedia Foundation
+1 415-839-6885 ext 6633
press(a)wikimedia.org
--
*Juliet Barbara*
Senior Communications Manager I Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street I San Francisco, CA 94105
jbarbara(a)wikimedia.org I +1 (512) 750-5677
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