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Regards, Richard.
Hi, everyone. :)
I just wanted to let you know so you could mark your calendars if
interested that CA is having a very informal office hour next Friday,
September 18, at 1500 UTC. (See
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours for
time conversion links.)
In the original spirit of these events, we have no particular agenda - we
are available for drop-by conversation.
If you'd like to talk, please join us. :) The logs will be posted on meta
after the office hour completes.
Please see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for more
information on what office hours are and how to join in.
Best,
Maggie
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Treasurer highly Commended at Financial Leadership Awards
Press release issued by Wikimedia UK, 18 September 2015:
Greyham Dawes was awarded Highly Commended by the judges at the Financial Leadership Awards last night.
The judges recognized that Greyham Dawes, who has been Wikimedia UK’s treasurer since February 2013, had completely changed both the charity's financial reporting and its planning. His pragmatic approach has helped the charity focus on the future, and his overwhelming positivity moves difficult conversations towards solutions.
Carol Cambell, Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee said “Wikimedia UK is a high profile charity within the open knowledge movement and Greyham has been an important and influential part in enabling the organisational transparency that is an essential part of our work."
Wikimedia UK is a young charitable organisation that is at the forefront of the open knowledge movement. They are the UK chapter of the global Wikimedia movement, and work with volunteers and a range of national organisations to help create and preserve open knowledge and to provide easy access for all.
Please find a summary of last month’s highlights from the Wikimedia blog at
the following link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_August_2015
Contents:
• Hundreds of “black hat” English Wikipedia accounts blocked following
investigation
• The Hunt for Tirpitz
• My life as an autistic Wikipedian
• Content Translation updates from Wikimania 2015
• Using Wikipedia to preserve indigenous languages of Colombia
• When cultural heritage gets a digital life
Translations for August are greatly appreciated.
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Hello everyone,
**Wikipedia’s 15th birthday is coming. We want to celebrate with you. Read
this whole email for more information about resources and plans, and join
us on the Meta page to participate and coordinate:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15**
As many of you know, the first Wikipedia was created January 15, 2001. That
means that the idea of our movement is nearly 15 years old! After the
celebration of Wikipedia’s 10th birthday <http://ten.wikipedia.org/> five
years back, we’re eager to coordinate celebrating this upcoming milestone
with you on January 15, 2016.
Wikipedia’s 10th birthday <https://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>
resulted in 470 events across 113 countries, providing our global community
with an opportunity to gather, share stories, and bake many, many cakes
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_cakes>.
As a way to kickstart planning around the 15th, there is a page on
Meta for Wikipedia
15 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15> (thanks to User:Pharos
and User:JSutherland (WMF)) for coordination. Eventually, we plan for the
page will have resources including:
1.
Resources plan events and meetups locally to celebrate the 15th.
2.
More information on sharing birthday photos, videos, stories, Wikipedia
content, and other media.
3.
Tips for pitching to local media to cover your event.
Many of the sections on the meta page are blank for now, but we’ll be
working with you to add more information to the page over the next few
months leading up to the birthday celebration in January. Please feel free
to add, edit, and discuss what you’d like to see for Wikipedia’s 15th
birthday!
We look forward to working with you to celebrate Wikipedia’s 15th!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team
If you have any questions, please feel free to send an email to Joe
Sutherland (jsutherland(a)wikimedia.org) and Sam Lien (slien(a)wikimedia.org).
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Hello,
A reminder that the online office hour hosted by the Wikimedia Language
Engineering team is scheduled for later today at 1500 UTC. You can join the
hangout or watch the session from:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c1c0msurhua7enopsu3q8l42j3s
Please note, due to the limitation of Google Hangouts there are few seats
available. So do let us know before hand if you would like to participate
on the hangout. We will also be on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office to
take questions. Please see below for the event details, local time and
original announcement.
Thanks
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language Engineering office hour session
# When: September 16th, 2015 (Wednesday) at 15:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150916T1500)
# Where: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c1c0msurhua7enopsu3q8l42j3s and
on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode)
# Agenda: Content Translation updates and Q & A
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 5:21 PM
Subject: Language Engineering office hour and online meeting on 16
September 2015 (Wednesday) at 1500 UTC
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, MediaWiki
internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia &
GLAM collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing
List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next office hour of the Wikimedia Language Engineering team is
scheduled for next Wednesday, September 16th at 15:00 UTC. Like our last
office hour, this time also we are hosting it as an online discussion over
Hangout/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the limitation
of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of slots are available. Hence, do
let us know (on the event page
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c1c0msurhua7enopsu3q8l42j3s>) if you
would like to participate on the Hangout. The IRC channel #wikimedia-office
and the Q&A channel for the youtube broadcast will be open for interactions
during the session.
Our last online round-table session was held in June 2015. You can watch
the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbXyHmpZJGE
Please read below for the event details and do let us know if you have any
questions.
Thank you
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language Engineering office hour session
# When: September 16th, 2015 (Wednesday) at 15:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150916T1500)
# Where: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c1c0msurhua7enopsu3q8l42j3s and
on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode)
# Agenda: Content Translation updates and Q & A
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For the last few years I am thinking about this issue, and as I didn't see
anybody talking about that, I think we should start a kind of low level
discussion, as it doesn't require immediate action.
>From what I read, Bay Area is not particularly endangered (although it
could be in the future). Even so, I am sure all WMF employees have enough
money to buy bottled water. I know, of course, they are not in the same
position as Google or Facebook employees, but I think the whole story is
not about water safety of our headquarters.
It's about responsibility. WMF shouldn't spend resources unreasonably if it
doesn't have to. And it's not just about possible "fund for water", which
could become a standard for every Bay Area employer, but also about the
environmental harm of the attitude of keeping yourself in hostile place if
not necessary.
United States don't have the same climate everywhere. There are many places
not that endangered because of the climate change. And I am sure you could
find a good place for the office somewhere else. (OK, Florida is the second
worst option because of floods, but there are many better places.)
I know it doesn't sound solidary. We have a number of friends in Bay Area,
not working for WMF and not willing to move. However, WMF's responsibility
is far beyond local patriotism.
Keep in mind that it's better to move in a year or two and be able to
choose the place, than to do it in five years, when Google decides to move
it's own headquarters.
And we should start talking about this. We need to analyze the risks and
then WMF should make the best possible decision at the best possible time.
One thing the Foundation could do to help with climate change and
water issues other than move office locations, and which is on topic
because the Foundation has chosen to purchase renewable energy through
contracting with suppliers in the past, is if the Foundation attempted
to secure desalinated water from electrodialysis through contracting
with San Francisco Public Utilities:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B73LgocyHQnfV1Q4VE45RmFFeFlPSDlKalctVS1nR…
There are two benefits: first, electrodialysis is much less expensive
than reverse osmosis, in which almost all existing desalination
companies have a huge amount of institutional inertia-causing
investments of expert personnel, time, money, tooling, and effort;
secondly, the same process can directly remove carbon from seawater:
http://talknicer.com/co2extraction.pdf
That is the least expensive method of removing carbon from the
atmosphere other than collecting it at the smokestack, flare, exhaust,
and tailpipe. And it pays for itself because it produces fresh water
as a side effect.
Hello folks,
I am looking for someone/institution which is applying a Universal Design,
by the means of removing all barriers for people with disabilities. Could
you give me any contacts, case studies or links?
Thank you very much!
Juandev