Oh, this video is amazing! It could make a great introduction as background
information for an educational talk, and so much more :)
Lodewijk
On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Claudia Garad <claudia.garad(a)wikimedia.at>
wrote:
> Thanks for the resources Zack!
>
> Our project partner the simpleshow foundation made a freely licensed
> educational video about Wikipedia as a birthday present - feel free to use
> and share everyone:
>
> Commons:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_Wikipedia_contributes_to_free_k…
>
> youtube:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cndZ9jISks
>
> Regards from Vienna!
> Claudia
>
> --
> Claudia Garád
> Geschäftsführerin
>
> Wikimedia Österreich - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
> www.wikimedia.at
>
>
>
> Am 15.01.2016 01:41, schrieb Zachary McCune:
>
>> Hello everyone!
>>
>>
>> 15 January is Wikipedia's 15th birthday. That's right, it's Wikipedia Day!
>> This is the day we celebrate the beginning of the Wikimedia movement and
>> all of the free knowledge projects we share with the world.
>>
>> To celebrate, we are asking Wikipedia visitors (both anonymous readers and
>> logged-in users) to tell us what Wikipedia means to them. It's all about
>> celebrating the impact of our movement.
>>
>> For the next 6 days, we will use some Central Notice banners to notify
>> users of our birthday milestone and ask for their thoughts. The banners
>> will be visible on Meta, Commons, and all language Wikipedias. The
>> messages
>> have been translated by the community into more than 98 languages (and
>> counting). The banners will link to the Wikipedia15 microsite [1], where
>> visitors can read the stories of 15 Wikimedians, review milestones from 15
>> years of Wikipedia, and contribute thoughts on what Wikipedia means to
>> them.
>>
>> Per MediaWiki, the timing will follow UTC. And of course, if you dismiss
>> the notice, it will permanently opt you opt of seeing Wikipedia15 banners
>> for the rest of the week.
>>
>> Questions? Send them my way.
>>
>> Want to get involved? Why not go to a Wikimedia party or event[2], edit
>> something new, share a Wikipedia15 illustration[3], or share a Wikipedia
>> birthday wish with #Wikipedia15 on your preferred social media!
>>
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> - Zack
>>
>>
>> [1] https://15.wikipedia.org
>> [2] There are 149 events planned! Find one near you:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events
>> [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia15_Mark
>>
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Dear Wikimedians,
It is that time of year again (but earlier this year because we are making
some changes based on your -- and FDC -- feedback :), the time when we all
at the WMF work together to craft our plans and the budget for the upcoming
fiscal year - July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017. This year the initial draft of
the Annual Plan will be submitted using the FDC Format and will be
available on the April 1 FDC deadline date.
Why are we doing this? We want to give our communities more time and
insight into the WMF budgetary and impact planning, hear feedback from the
FDC, and to experience how our affiliates do this planning ourselves.
The 2016-17 Annual Plan Timeline, as currently composed, is posted
here: 2016-17
Annual Plan Time Line
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ys1JLDhpT93BrduEuA4jE3_RYOYHqakiyvR8LAS…>.
As you would expect, there are typically minor changes that will occur in
the timeline as we work through the process, so if you want to know where
we are in the process at any given moment, please feel free to check in.
Based on Community and FDC input, we have scheduled the following review
periods of the 2016-2017 Annual Plan and Budget which will be posted on
Meta on April 1, 2016:
- April 1 - April 29 - Community review and recommendations
- April 1 - May 16 FDC review and recommendations
- June 6 - June 13 Audit Committee review and recommendations
- April 1 - June 17 Board review, recommendations and consideration for
approval
Input offered during the Community review period will be forwarded directly
to the appropriate C-Level Team Member for response. The FDC will make
their final recommendations as a group during their Spring meeting. The
Audit Committee will review the second version of the 2016-17 Annual Plan
once the Community and FDC input has been integrated into the first
version; but they will also have access to the earlier version when it is
posted online on April 1, 2016. The Board’s vote is expected on June 17.
The final 2016-17 Annual Plan, Budget and FAQ are posted on July 1, 2016.
We look forward to working with everyone this year to build an Annual Plan
and Budget that will support our mission, our staff, and our global
Community of volunteers.
Lila
Dear Fellow Wikimedians
I would like to congratulate you on Wikipedia's 15th birthday, it was
historic moment for all of us, I am glad to let you know we had a
celebration in Tehran and we were the first country to celebrate it.
you can find images here
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_15_in_Iran
Mardetanha
Dear all,
This is a kind reminder for the upcoming StrepHit IEG project kick-off
seminar.
Schedule: 15 January 2016, 11:00 am
**Important update:** the location has moved to downtown Trento.
**New location:** Aula Grande - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via S.Croce 77,
Trento, Italy - http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/67197096
The seminar will be streamed online, a link will be shared as soon as it is
available.
See you in Trento!
Cheers,
Marco
2015-12-23 17:03 GMT+01:00 Marco Fossati <fossati(a)spaziodati.eu>:
> [Begging pardon if you read this multiple times]
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I would like to announce with great pleasure the StrepHit IEG project
> kick-off seminar.
> Of course, you are all invited to attend.
>
> The event will be held in a special day: Wikipedia's birthday!
>
> Below you can find the details.
>
> Schedule: 15 January 2016, 11:00 am, Luigi Stringa Conference Room
> Location: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive 18, Povo, Trento, Italy
> - http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/28933739
>
> Abstract: We kick-off StrepHit, a project funded by the Wikimedia
> Foundation through the Individual Engagement Grants program.
> StrepHit is a Natural Language Processing pipeline that understands human
> language, extracts facts from text and produces Wikidata statements with
> reference URLs.
> It will enhance the data quality of Wikidata by suggesting references to
> validate statements, and will help Wikidata become the gold-standard hub of
> the Open Data landscape.
>
> Link:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Va…
>
> Speaker's bio: Marco Fossati is a researcher with a double background in
> Natural Languages and Information Technologies. He works at the Data and
> Knowledge Management (DKM) research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler,
> Trento, Italy. He is member of the DBpedia Association board of trustees,
> founder and representative of its Italian chapter. He has interdisciplinary
> skills both in linguistics and in programming. His research focuses on
> bridging the gap between Natural Language Processing techniques and Large
> Scale Structured Knowledge Bases in order to drive the Web of Data towards
> its full potential.
>
> See you in Trento and long live Wikipedia!
> Cheers,
>
> Marco
>
Hi people,
just a friendly reminder that the deadline for submitting critical
issues presentation for Wikimania 2016 is approaching. The deadline is
*January, 17th* at 23:59 of your own timezone.
This is the link you should follow:
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
Please read carefully the "Guidelines" section. If you want to know more
about the other presentation formats, you can look at these slides:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1_year_to_get_your_things_done_and_…
This deadline is *only for critical issues presentations*. The calls for
collecting discussions, posters and meetups are not opened yet, you'll
have more info in the following weeks.
If you submitted a discussion or a poster using the critical issues form
don't worry: we will take care of redirecting all the non-critical
issues proposals in the right channels.
We are waiting for your ideas!
Ginevra
Programme Committee General Coordinator
Wikimania 2016
Forking the issue of Board composition.
We tend to think of Board as the governing body of the movement, not just
WMF. Board members tend to think of themselves as the governing body of
WMF, with shiny cool movement supporting it.
We tend to discuss of community representation, they tend to assimilate
anyone who joins them. While "trust and honesty" are noble words, they tend
to be the words of excuse, covering forced imposition of the dominant
position over everybody inside of the group.
The Board composed as it is now has no capacity to overcome this problem. I
am not talking about particular persons inside of the Board, but about the
culture of assimilation, which usually ends in assimilation, but, as we
could see now, it could end in removal of a Board member.
I see two options to overcome this problem and both of them require wide
consensus, including the present Board.
One option is to restructure the Board itself, the other one is to create
new cover organization, with WMF as one of its institutions.
It's obvious to me that Wikimedia is not an ordinary organization or even
an ordinary movement. The importance of Wikimedia movement is on the level
of smaller country. Our needs are on the level of a city-sized society. And
our governance should be so.
At the moment, we have a kind of a mix which works because of that culture
of assimilation and because WMF makes enough money. Destroying any of those
corruptive powers would destroy WMF itself. So, if we want to change
something, we have to reorganize the structure, not to fix it.
What every organized social group? Yes, assembly (or whatever the name is
inside of the particular structure). If it's about business, it's the
assembly of shareholders. If it's about democratic institutions, it's about
the assembly which represents all members of the society.
WMF Board is quasi-assembly, quasi-government. It will always has partial
excuse that it's about community-elected members, but also that it needs
"an expertise" as a governing body. It's no surprise that the turnover on
the best elections (the last one) was around 10%. Not a lot of Wikimedians
think they are able to change anything and they are right.
I suggested few times that we should create assembly as a real democratic
institution. Such assembly could then appoint the Board as a governing body
or leave to ED and staff to be executive body of the movement.
The other option is to create assembly outside of WMF and make the relation
between them later.
As long as we don't talk about this issue, we will have the same stories
again and again. The set of mistakes Board could make is not finite. And
whenever something odd or harmful happens, we will be talking the same
stories.
By moving it into openly political discourse, we will avoid secrecy and
Wikimedians will be able to influence decisions, outside of closed groups
and personal connections.
(At the end, I am wondering why I am repeating this, as nobody responded to
this idea previous few times. Not even with "this is bad idea because
of...".)
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Date: Jan 9, 2016 19:34
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF trustee Arnnon Geshuri and part in
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To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
> There is still a significant problem the Board does have, though.
> "Chapter/thorg selected seats" are not community seats. And we've recently
> found out that none of the seats at all are actually considered to be
> community-selected, and that a community elected board member can be
> removed without referendum to the community.
>
> A majority, at least six seats, on the Board, should be directly elected
by
> the Wikimedia community. (Not "chapters", the entire community). And
> "directly elected" should mean that the member cannot be removed
> involuntarily except by vote of that same electorate, whether by
referendum
> or the community's own initiative.
>
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 9 January 2016 at 10:09, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> >
> >
> > > We are well overdue for a major turnover of board members.
> > > Fae
> > > --
> > >
> > >
> >
> > While I have largely kept out of this thread to this time, this
statement
> > needs to be rebutted. There are ten seats on the board. Five of them -
> > all three "community-selected" seats and two of the four board-appointed
> > seats - have changed hands in the last six months. An additional
> > board-selected seat changed hands not long before Wikimania last year
(Guy
> > Kawasaki). That means six of the 10 board members have less than a
year's
> > experience in the role. (One of those has now been removed, but that
still
> > means half the board has very limited experience.)
> >
> > Of the remaining seats, two are "Chapter/Thorg-selected" seats that
will be
> > contested in the near future. Historically, only one of the incumbents
of
> > those seats have been reseated, and I make no predictions for this year.
> > Jimmy Wales is assumed to still hold the Founder seat, and the fourth
> > board-appointed seat is held by longtime community member Alice Weigand.
> >
> > We do not know how the board will decide to fill the recently vacated
> > "community-selected" seat - the options appear to be narrowed to
appointing
> > the fourth-place candidate from the last election (which would bring an
> > experienced board member back to the table) or an election, which could
> > also bring a completely new trustee.
> >
> > At minimum, we already have five board members who weren't board members
> > this time last year. By the end of their Wikimania board meeting, we
could
> > have as many as eight trustees with less than 18 months of experience
under
> > their belt. Of all the problems the board has, insufficient turnover is
> > NOT one of them.
> >
> > Risker
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hi,
I'm writing to you to bring the news that, after a while of work and
discussion, the Board has finally addressed the need to amend the scope of
our Ombudsman Commission, following the community consensus from a while
back [1]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scope_of_Ombudsman_Com…>
.
The resolution was approved in November [2]
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_O…>
and
has been just published.
As a former ombudsman, as well as an endorser of the proposal, I can say
that while this may not be a huge thing, it still is important and will,
hopefully, make our work easier :)
best,
dj
The Ombudsman Commission is currently the body which investigates
complaints about violations of the privacy and access to nonpublic
information policies established by Wikimedia Foundation and which apply to
all Wikimedia wiki projects. The Ombudsman Commission was appointed on 23
July 2006 by the Wikimedia Foundation Board with the generally narrow scope
of investigating potential privacy violations performed by users having
access to the CheckUser interface (namely CheckUsers and Stewards).
Over time, the Ombudsman Commission has received a growing number of
requests to investigate cases which are not clearly complaints about
individual CheckUser actions but may be potential or real violations of the
privacy policy. Following the 2006 Board Resolution's definition of the
scope, the Ombudsman Commission has consistently rejected these requests,
and the applicants remain unsatisfied as there is no other body in the
Wikimedia movement tasked to resolve these problems. Therefore, the members
of Ombudsman Commission, with help of the WMF legal team, asked the WMF
Board to redefine the scope of the Ombudsman Commission.
The Board of Trustees of the Foundation has accepted the community's
consensus and has authorized an expansion of the Ombudsman Commission's
scope to include two more tasks:
To review, upon request, local project CheckUser and Oversight policies to
ensure that they do not violate the respective global policies.
To investigate, upon request, potential violations of the appropriate
global policies by local CheckUsers and Oversighters.
Investigation of potential violations of local policies which are not
violations of the global polices remain the responsibility of the local
project and not within the scope of the Ombudsman Commission at this time.
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scope_of_Ombudsman_Com…
[2]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amending_the_Scope_of_the_O…
Le 15/01/16 00:52, Juliet Barbara a écrit :
> This press release is also available online here:
>
>
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_celebrates_15…
>
>
>
> And as a blog post here:
>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/14/wikipedia-15-foundation-endowment/
>
>
> For more information, see our commemorative website:
>
> https://15.wikipedia.org/
>
> Wikipedia celebrates 15 years of free knowledge
>
> Community celebrates Wikipedia and sister projects with nearly 150
> events on six continents
>
> Wikimedia Foundation announces endowment to sustain Wikipedia for the future
>
> San Francisco, CA. January 14, 2016 -- This Friday marks the 15th
> anniversary of Wikipedia <https://www.wikipedia.org/>, the world’s free
> encyclopedia that anyone can edit. This week, we celebrate not just
> Wikipedia, but the birth of an idea: that anyone can contribute to the
> world’s knowledge. Globally, readers and editors are coming together to
> celebrate, with nearly 150 events across six continents. From editing
> marathons
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events/Bangladesh>in
> Bangladesh and lectures
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events/Lugano,_Switzerland>in
> Switzerland, to picnics
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events/South_Africa>in
> South Africa and a conference
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events/Mexico_City>in
> Mexico, the world is celebrating the joy of knowledge
> <https://15.wikipedia.org/>.
>
> As part of this milestone, the Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to
> announce the Wikimedia Endowment
> <https://15.wikipedia.org/endowment.html>, a permanent source of funding
> to ensure Wikipedia thrives for generations to come. The Wikimedia
> Endowment will empower people around the world to create and contribute
> free knowledge, and share that knowledge with every single human being.
> Our goal is to raise $100 million over the next 10 years. The Endowment
> has been established, with an initial contribution by the Wikimedia
> Foundation, as a Collective Action Fund at the Tides Foundation
> <https://www.tides.org/>.
>
> Wikipedia launched on January 15, 2001 with a bold vision: a world in
> which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all
> knowledge.At the time, the idea that people around the world would
> collaborate to build an encyclopedia—for free—seemed unbelievable. Since
> then, Wikipedia has grown to more than 36 million articles in hundreds
> of languages, used by hundreds of millions of people all over the world.
> Wikipedia and its sister projects are still built by volunteers around
> the world: each month, roughly 80,000 volunteer editors contribute to
> Wikimedia sites.
>
> "Wikipedia challenged us to rethink how knowledge can be gathered and
> shared." said Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, "Knowledge is no longer
> handed down from on high, instead it is freely shared by everyone
> online. Wikipedia seemed like an impossible idea at the time—an online
> encyclopaedia that everyone can edit. However, it has surpassed
> everyone's expectations over the past 15 years, thanks to the hundreds
> of thousands of volunteers around the world who have made Wikipedia
> possible."
>
> We're celebrating Wikipedia's global community with a commemorative
> website <https://15.wikipedia.org>and week-long campaign, collecting and
> sharing the stories of individuals and organizations that have helped
> develop Wikipedia into the world's largest collection of collaboratively
> created free knowledge. These stories show the truly global nature of
> the Wikimedia community: from Ziyad Alsufyani
> <https://15.wikipedia.org/people/ziyad-alsufyani.html>, a medical
> student at Taif University in Ta’if, Saudi Arabia who has been editing
> the Arabic Wikipedia <https://ar.wikipedia.org/>since 2009, to Susanna
> Mkrtchyan <https://15.wikipedia.org/people/susanna-mkrtchyan.html>, a
> professor and devoted grandmother working to giveArmenian students
> better educational opportunities. We will continue to collect stories
> throughout the month of January.
>
> Today, we celebrate all of the projects, partnerships, events, and joy
> the Wikimedia movement has inspired over the past 15 years, with many
> still to come. Wikipedia is much more than a website. Wikipedia and its
> sister Wikimedia projects represent a global, ever-expanding resource
> and community for free knowledge. Here are just a few examples:
>
> *
>
> Wikipedia started in January 2001 in English, but soon expanded to
> other languages—within the first year, it grew to 18 languages.
> Today, it is available in nearly 300.
>
> *
>
> Volunteers constantly edit and improve Wikipedia. Every hour,
> roughly 15,000 edits are made to Wikipedia. Every day, around 7,000
> new articles are created.
>
> *
>
> Wikipedia became one of the top 10 websites in the world in 2007,
> and the only non-profit website anywhere near the top.
>
> *
>
> It’s not just Wikipedia. There are 11 other Wikimedia free knowledge
> projects, including Wikimedia Commons
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/>, with more than 30 million
> freely licensed images, as well as Wiktionary
> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/>, Wikisource
> <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page>, Wikivoyage
> <https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Main_Page>, and more.
>
> *
>
> The Wikimedia community supports global projects that spread the joy
> of knowledge. Wiki Loves Monuments
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments>, a global
> photo competition, launched in 2010 to document images of cultural
> heritage. In 2011, the contest was named the largest photo
> competition in the world. Companion projects like Wiki Loves Earth
> <http://wikilovesearth.org/>, Wiki Loves Africa
<appreciation mode on> it gives me happiness to see Wiki Loves Africa
mentionned</on>
Florence
> <http://wikilovesafrica.org/>, and even Wiki Loves Cheese
> <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Essen_und_Trinken/Wiki_Loves_Cheese>document
> more knowledge from around the globe.
>
> *
>
> Volunteers around the world have built hundreds of partnerships with
> galleries, libraries, museums to make institutional collections more
> broadly available. These partnerships have contributed to more than
> 1.5 million images of cultural works on the Wikimedia projects.
>
> If you’d like to help celebrate Wikipedia’s 15th anniversary, you can
> share on social media what Wikipedia means to you by tagging @Wikipedia
> <https://twitter.com/Wikipedia>and using the hashtag #wikipedia15. To
> learn more about Wikipedia and the joy it inspires, visit
> 15.wikipedia.org <http://15.wikipedia.org>.
>
> 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 hundreds of languages containing a
> total of more than 36 million articles, and visited by nearly half a
> billion people every month. Wikimedia and its sister projects are the
> largest collection of free knowledge in human history.
>
> About the Wikimedia Foundation
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that supports
> and operates Wikipedia and its sister projects. Wikipedia attracts more
> than 15 billion page views each month. Every month roughly 80,000 people
> edit Wikipedia and its sister projects, collectively creating,
> improving, and maintaining its more than 35 million articles across
> hundreds of languages -- this all makes Wikipedia 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 the Wikimedia Endowment
>
> The purpose of the Wikimedia Endowment is to serve as a perpetual source
> of support for the operation and activities of Wikipedia and its sister
> projects. It will empower people around the world to create and
> contribute free knowledge, and share that knowledge with every single
> human being. The Endowment has been established, with an initial
> contribution by Wikimedia Foundation, as a Collective Action Fund at
> Tides Foundation. Tides is a public charity with a 40-year track record
> of holding and managing charitable funds for nonprofit organizations. An
> Advisory Board, nominated by the Wikimedia Foundation and appointed by
> Tides, will make recommendations to Tides related to the Endowment.
> Tides or the Wikimedia Foundation may choose to transfer the Endowment
> from Tides to the Wikimedia Foundation, or other charities identified by
> the Wikimedia Foundation. At that point, the Endowment would continue to
> be a permanent, income-generating fund to support the Wikimedia projects.
>
>
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>
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Today in the Metrics & Activities meeting, the WMF took a significant step
toward improving its transparency and accountability -- something under
much discussion in recent weeks.
The cause of this was not the recent drama around the Board, but a
recommendation given by the FDC in November 2015, that the WMF should hold
its own financial decisions to a standard similar to that expected of the
organizations it funds.
Kudos to the FDC for taking the initial step, the WMF board for approving
the recommendation, and Luis Villa (who discussed the issue in some depth
at the meeting) and everyone at WMF who worked toward implementing the
recommendation. I'm sure many of us will be looking forward to the results.
I have discussed this in a bit more detail on my blog:
http://wikistrategies.net/fdc-recommendation/
-Pete
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