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Wiki Loves Monuments Algeria 2016 Top 10
by Mohammed Bachounda 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

We are pleased to announce the Top 10 best photos Wiki Loves Monuments Algeria who will compete for the international competition the largest photo competition in the world Congratulations to the winners and thank you all for your best photos, which as you know will help build articles contained in the global internet. Open source, open data, open knoledge, free accessible to all thank you again to all participants https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_Alg… Best Mohammed Bachounda leader WikiDZ Algeria

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikimedia DC Board Members
by Katy Love 31 Oct '16

31 Oct '16

Congratulations, Kelly and Rosie, and to the Board of Wikimedia DC! Very cool. :) Katy On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Kirill Lokshin < kirill.lokshin(a)wikimediadc.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm very pleased to announce that Kelly Doyle and Rosie > Stephenson-Goodknight have joined the Wikimedia DC Board of Directors. > > I'm sure that most of you already know Kelly and Rosie; for anyone who > doesn't, Kelly currently serves as the Wikipedian in Residence for Gender > Equity at West Virginia University Libraries, while Rosie is a co-founder > of WikiProject Women in Red and the WikiWomen's User Group, among many > other projects. > > Please join me in congratulating them on their new roles! > > Cheers, > Kirill > > -- > Kirill Lokshin > President > Wikimedia District of Columbia > kirill.lokshin(a)wikimediadc.org > https://wikimediadc.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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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikimedia DC Board Members
by Natacha Rault 30 Oct '16

30 Oct '16

Dear Rosie, dear Kelly, Bravo for this new function, it is certainly good news for anyone dedicated to the gender gap! Good luck in these new responsibilities to both of you, Nattes à chat / Natacha > Le 30 oct. 2016 à 21:27, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin(a)wikimediadc.org> a écrit : > > Hello everyone, > > I'm very pleased to announce that Kelly Doyle and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight have joined the Wikimedia DC Board of Directors. > > I'm sure that most of you already know Kelly and Rosie; for anyone who doesn't, Kelly currently serves as the Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity at West Virginia University Libraries, while Rosie is a co-founder of WikiProject Women in Red and the WikiWomen's User Group, among many other projects. > > Please join me in congratulating them on their new roles! > > Cheers, > Kirill > > -- > Kirill Lokshin > President > Wikimedia District of Columbia > kirill.lokshin(a)wikimediadc.org > https://wikimediadc.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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Wikiobject - Project Proposal
by Quico Prol 29 Oct '16

29 Oct '16

Hi, how about a wikipedia about objects? Instead of generic articles of , for example, "Ballpoint pen" or "Bic cristal" it would be "Ballpoint pen Bic cristal 2014" Doing these for millions of objects would allow people to have an open, free, universal and central place to refer specific objects. *Some possible applications:* - Creating neutral and standard lists: Nowadays if anyone create, for example, a tutorial for building something (DIY projects, receipts, ...) they have to link all items to a comercial or no-neutral web which could change its url in the future or redirect it to adds or whatever. Lists could be created in external webpages linking wikimedia objects webpage or/and could be created as category pages in Wikipedia. For example, currently, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_of_the_Year article lists cars which won COTY award but not links to the specific car (AUDI A3 Hatchback 2012 - Present) but generic serie (Audi A3). The good thing at this point it's that to start creating object lists only item name is necessary, no infoboxes or description needed. - Universal repository for inventories: Lot of business fill their inventories again and again with same data ("cardboard box 50x30x15", "step by step nema motor 17", ... ) they should be able to import this data from a open website with their corresponding info like GTIN , SKU , Barcode... and more in the future weight, size, ... - Encourage Recycling and Reutilitation: Imagine if we use wikidata properties ( https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties/Generic) like "has part" and "part of" , people will find other uses for objects, or discover were to find - Social activism and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Companies have info and metrics about their costumers (habits, location, ...) why not costumers have info about companies products, who manufacture what?, what products have a good carbon footprint <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint>?, what products have been retired from some problem?, what are Fair Trade?. This also can moved companies do better. *Very rough roadmap*: 1. At the very begining, using wikidata infrestructure, objects would only have common info like "name", " image", "related links" (datasheets?), GTIN. First use cases could be doing lists or grouping objects by categories. 2. Step by step new fields could be added like "manufacturer" , "tags", ... 3. A separated website could be created. wikiobject.org isn't availiabe so url could be something like objects.wikpedia.org 4. In a long-term in order to explote all the possibilities of this project more complex fields and relations would have to be managed, like for example "fridges with energy class A+++ and width less than 80 cm", which could be easy if all always were similar but nothing further from reality A friend of mine and me tried to build a demo version in an home-made apache cassandra cluster four years ago, but we don't have enough resources and knowledge for that. *Funding* In my humble opinion, problem with wikipedia funding It's that most part of its users don't see culture as a need (sorry for that, I am a sporadic donor). In Wikiobject case I think it could rather be different. If part of companies business lies on this project, companies will be very inclined to donate to improve performace, usability, etc.. maybe similar to what happens in Linux. Where came this need from? Data needed for some software to run, product vissibility, costumer requests, etc ... , no advertisement needed, It could be a need and standart. I trully believe that world need something like this, and the correct people to do it, to warranty openness and independence, are you. thanks for your time and attention, grettings

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Seeking feedback on Communications Resource Center
by Gregory Varnum 27 Oct '16

27 Oct '16

Greetings! The Wikimedia Foundation Communications department has been working on the development of the Communications resource center (started thanks to Wikimedia Deutschland as the Movement communications skills library). The goal of this center is to help share resources related to movement communications with interested volunteers across the movement. We appreciate the feedback that people have shared with us since its launch. We are excited to share that we have completed improvements based on your feedback, and included content from many of the trainings done by the Communications department into the resource center. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Resource_center In a few months, we will be more formally introducing the center, but wanted to do a round of feedback with those of you who are interested. In addition to hearing your overall feedback, we would be interested in hearing more about if this type of approach is helpful, what resources you would like added, and how we can make it more usable. Please feel free to post your feedback here, emailing it to me ( gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org) or posting it on the center's talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Communications/Resource_center Also, a reminder that you are invited to contribute resources to the center as well. It is a wiki - be bold! :) Finally, for some additional context, the Communications resource center will be integrated into a broader organization-wide resource center which the Learning and Evaluation team is currently developing. Thank you! -greg -- Gregory Varnum Communications Strategist (Contractor) Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/> gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org

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Open commenting on WMF Seeking Additional Resources for Structured Data on Commons
by Joseph Seddon 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

Hello Wikimedia-l, The Wikimedia Foundation, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, is currently exploring an opportunity to potentially secure additional resources to expedite development work on Structured Data for Commons [1]. In light of this, we would like feedback on a 3 year plan that potentially accelerates software development for both Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata if these resources should become available. We would like to invite you to participate in a conversation about the plan [2] and look forward to your comments and thoughts. -- Joseph Seddon & Alex Stinson *Advancement Associate & **GLAM-Wiki Strategist* *Wikimedia Foundation* [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Overview

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Invitation for review: Technical Collaboration Guideline
by SarahSV 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Keegan Peterzell <kpeterzell(a)wikimedia.org > wrote: > > Greetings, > > Wikimedians, please review something we are working on for the Wikimedia > Foundation, the Technical Collaboration Guideline [0]. > > > Keegan, thank you for this, to you and everyone who has worked on it. It's a very welcome development. Sarah

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Unified Wikimania wiki
by Rehman Abubakr 22 Oct '16

22 Oct '16

(cross-posting to Wikimania-l and Wikimedia-l) Hi, As earlier discussions on this topic received relatively little response from the community, I'm sending this email to let you know about the new topic posted at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Wikimania_wikis, with regards to having a single unified Wikimania wiki. I have copied the original post below for ease of reading. Please post your comments on the meta page. ********** Hi. I was looking at Special:SiteMatrix<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix> and couldn't help noticing the whopping 14 separate wikis (and growing) for all the different Wikimanias, including a separate wiki for a "Wikimania team". Is there any current plans of a more sustainable or streamlined approach to running these wikis? I am aware that this has been discussed a few times before, but no significant effort was put into it. Wikimania project domain<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_project_domain> is the most significant discussion which I could find, but participation was quite low on that, with no(?) WMF staff comments. >From what I understand from the above linked discussion, some key points against a unified Wikimania wiki was that: 1. We will not be able to preserve old Wikimania wikis as a "time capsule" 2. Older Wikimania organizers may face new organizers "steamrolling" over their pages 3. Organizers will not have complete control over the site as old admins might interrupt for whatever reasons. (or vice versa) My though for these points was: 1. Why not have each Wikimania project branch their pages as wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016/Main page, or alternatively, have separate namespaces for each project (i.e. 2016:, 2017:, etc). We could then protect all pages under a project (i.e. 2016/ or 2016:) once a project is over. 2. This could be avoided by protection, as stated above. 3. Make it much less complicated. Once the project is over, all previous admin rights will be revoked, and the new organizers will get the rights. New admins can be advise to not modify previous project namespaces, or if better, if we can block previous projects' namespaces from editing? Furthermore, there could be a bot logging all changes made to old project namespaces, for transparency. Is there any other views on this? Did I miss something obvious? Looking forward to your comments. Cheers, Rehman. ********** Thanks and regards, User:Rehman<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>

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Creative Commons 4.0 IRC office hour #2 - October 21, 19:00 UTC
by Joe Sutherland 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

Hello again, Following the office hour today, we are planning to hold another from 19:00–20:00 UTC on Friday, October 21 in the #wikimedia-office channel on IRC. The format and topic will be the same as today's. You can learn more about the license and join the discussion on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0 This is a good opportunity to raise questions about this potential change in real time with several attorneys in the Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Team. Learn more about joining IRC office hours here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours To propose discussion topics ahead of time (if, for example, you cannot make this time), feel free to add them here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0/IRC_offic… The logs from today's office hour are available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2016-10-19 If you have any questions or comments about the license, please do join the discussion! We hope to see you there. Best regards, Joe Sutherland Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation P.S.: This tool might be useful in working out this time in your local timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Creative+Commons+…

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We appear have been partially blocked in France (probably accidentally)
by geni 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

Apparently on the orders of the french government orange added us to their blocked terrorist sites list. This did apparently have the fun effect of DOS the government page people were redirected to, Source (among others): http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2016/10/17/une-erreur-bloque-l-acces-a… -- geni

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