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Airtasker adds for articles
by Gnangarra 24 May '18

24 May '18

I find this rather disturbing that Airtasker accepts adds for people wanting to have articles written, on wikipedia. The person writing the add is asking someone to violate WMF terms & Conditions as you can some of the respondents are indicating that they do this regularly https://www.airtasker.com/tasks/copywriter-for-a-wikipedia-article-10031171/ Would it be prudent for the WMF legal to contact Airtasker, highlight our T&Cs and have them block such requests from being posted. Airtasker themselves also gets paid when people write Wikipedia articles -- GN. Noongarpedia: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nys/Main_Page WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com Out now: A.Gaynor, P. Newman and P. Jennings (eds.), *Never Again: Reflections on Environmental Responsibility after Roe 8*, UWAP, 2017. Order here <https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/never-again-reflections-on-environmental-r…> .

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 14, Issue 6 – 24 May 2018
by Wikipedia Signpost 24 May '18

24 May '18

>From the editor: Another issue meets the deadline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/From_t… Op-ed: Has the wind gone out of the AdminShip's sails? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/Op-ed Opinion: Integrating my many lives on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/Opinion WikiProject report: WikiProject Portals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/WikiPr… Discussion report: User rights, infoboxes, and more discussion on portals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/Discus… Featured content: Featured content selected by the community http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/Featur… Arbitration report: Managing difficult topics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/Arbitr… News and notes: Lots of Wikimedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/News_a… In the media: Wikipedia in Turkish politics; COI politics in Wikipedia; most cited work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/In_the… Traffic report: We love our superheros http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/Traffi… Technology report: A trove of contributor and developer goodies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/Techno… Blog: Why I write about women on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/Blog Recent research: Why people don't contribute to Wikipedia; using Wikipedia to teach statistics, technical writing, and controversial issues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/Recent… Humour: Play with your food http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/Humour Gallery: Wine not? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/Gallery >From the archives: *The Signpost* scoops *The Signpost* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-05-24/From_t… Single-page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single https://facebook.com/wikisignpost https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- *Signpost* team http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost> _______________________________________________ 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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Recent statement on the block of Wikipedia in Turkey
by Eileen Hershenov 24 May '18

24 May '18

Hello, Thank you to everyone who participated and supported the #WeMissTurkey efforts marking the one-year anniversary of the block in Turkey of all language versions of Wikipedia. The Wikimedia Foundation remains committed to restoring access to Wikipedia in full, upholding our values and stance against censorship, and supporting the local Wikimedia community in Turkey. As part of our ongoing efforts, we have been monitoring discussions and mentions in the media around Wikipedia in Turkey. Last Friday, May 18, the Turkish Minister of Transport, Maritime, and Communications, Ahmet Arslan, made a number of incorrect comments[0] to the press in Turkey about Wikimedia and the block of Wikipedia. Minister Arslan’s position includes oversight of the BTK, the Internet Regulatory Agency that sought the block of Wikipedia. The Foundation has replied to the Minister’s statements with an open letter sent to the Minister and shared with the media who covered the Minister's statements. The statement has also been shared with the local Wikimedia community in Turkey, and we have posted it on the Wikimedia Blog in both English[1] and Turkish[2] to address any further public confusion. We will continue to keep you updated as we work with the local community to monitor the situation, and take appropriate actions to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey. Thank you, Eileen [0] https://www.ntv.com.tr/teknoloji/bakan-ahmet-arslandan-wikipedia- aciklamasi,UaPHfIgSq0yDPoVfXo5SOw [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/05/22/a-letter-to- minister-ahmet-arslan/ [2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/tr/2018/05/22/bakan-ahmet-arslan- vikipedi-dunyadaki-herkes-tarafindan-gelistirilmeye-aciktir-ve-turkiyedeki- editorler-icin-de-acik-olmalidir/

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Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania
by Kirill Lokshin 22 May '18

22 May '18

Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized [1] Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to promote the Wikimedia movement in Tanzania, creating awareness of Wikimedia projects among Tanzanians and developing Tanzania-related content on Wikimedia projects in Swahili and English. Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group! Regards, Kirill Lokshin Chair, Affiliations Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Tanzania

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⠠⠺⠓⠁⠞⠄⠎ ⠍⠁⠅⠊⠝⠛ ⠽⠕⠥ ⠓⠁⠏⠏⠽ ⠞⠓⠊⠎ ⠺⠑⠑⠅⠦ / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 20 May 2018)
by Pine W 21 May '18

21 May '18

*Between the Brackets* Yaron Koren produced a 30 minute digest of previous episodes of this podcast. Much of the episode will be understandable by people who are not developers but are familiar with how MediaWiki works. I enjoyed listening to this: https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-8-btb-digest-1 *WMF awards of Project Grants and Rapid Grants* * Nine Rapid Grants, with maximum amounts of $2000 each, were awarded to promote readership: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/05/16/rapid-grants-awarded/ * Eleven Project Grants, totaling $354,654, were awarded for diverse projects: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-May/090291.html. There will be a Project Showcase video meeting on June 14. *Reports from Wikimedia Conference 2018 participants* I especially appreciated this detailed report from Peaceray and Joe Mabel which mentions a wide range of subjects including Structured Data on Commons, Learning Days, possible ways to incorporate more diverse citations into Wikipedia, lightning talks, libraries and partnerships, and general thoughts about the conference: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_Wikimedians/2018_Wikimedia_Confere…. Conference reports are currently available in English, Thai, French, Ukrainian, Latvian, German, and Polish: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Further_reports. *Report from the Wikimedia Conference 2018 Strategy Track* Significant good-faith effort appears to be invested in the strategy process: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Documentation/Mov… What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any language. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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A note on our approach to privacy
by Tony Sebro 21 May '18

21 May '18

*We at the Wikimedia Foundation are pleased that organizations across the world are currently rethinking their privacy policies. We have always strongly valued the privacy of our volunteers, readers, and donors, but this moment has given us an opportunity to look at our own privacy policy and see how it can be strengthened.* We see privacy as an important foundation for intellectual freedom, and we believe that the trust of our community is deeply linked to several practices: * We intentionally collect very little data about readers and contributors, and provide a transparent view of the data we keep—and do not keep. * We work with our communities and invite open community vetting of our privacy-related policies. * We remain accountable to the community, including a volunteer ombudsman commission that responds to any reported privacy-related concerns. * We support our open source platform, which among other benefits, allows anyone to examine and discover any vulnerabilities in our code. We do not allow third-party tracking of visitors to our sites. We have short data retention periods (see our data retention guidelines[1]). We proactively publish a transparency report[2], informing the public about requests for data about our contributors. We have a comprehensive privacy policy[3], developed with community input. We are always looking for ways to improve our privacy and data security practices in partnership with our community of contributors and users. As a result of our most recent review, we are updating our privacy policy, which now clarifies the definition of “personal information,” and has been reorganized to improve readability without changing the overall intentions previously set by the community. As promised[4] in the policy, we are providing these minor changes with three (3) calendar days’ prior notice. These changes will go into effect on May 24, 2018. As always, we want your thoughts and feedback, and invite everyone to comment on the policy talk page[5] over the next thirty (30) calendar days. We are also grateful to our volunteer community, who are actively working on translations of this policy. We will continue looking for ways to improve and help make clearer to everyone our privacy practices and policy as technology and the world change rapidly around us. Look out for more updates here on the Wikimedia-l mailing list to learn more about our approach to privacy and data security practices. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_retention_guidelines [2] https://transparency.wikimedia.org/ [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy [4] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#Changes_to_ This_Privacy_Policy [5] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Talk:Privacy_policy -- Tony Sebro Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600 San Francisco, CA 94104 tsebro(a)wikimedia.org (415)839-6885 ext. 6784 *NOTICE: 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 and 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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[Wikimedia Announcements] A note on our approach to privacy
by Tony Sebro 21 May '18

21 May '18

*We at the Wikimedia Foundation are pleased that organizations across the world are currently rethinking their privacy policies. We have always strongly valued the privacy of our volunteers, readers, and donors, but this moment has given us an opportunity to look at our own privacy policy and see how it can be strengthened.* We see privacy as an important foundation for intellectual freedom, and we believe that the trust of our community is deeply linked to several practices: * We intentionally collect very little data about readers and contributors, and provide a transparent view of the data we keep—and do not keep. * We work with our communities and invite open community vetting of our privacy-related policies. * We remain accountable to the community, including a volunteer ombudsman commission that responds to any reported privacy-related concerns. * We support our open source platform, which among other benefits, allows anyone to examine and discover any vulnerabilities in our code. We do not allow third-party tracking of visitors to our sites. We have short data retention periods (see our data retention guidelines[1]). We proactively publish a transparency report[2], informing the public about requests for data about our contributors. We have a comprehensive privacy policy[3], developed with community input. We are always looking for ways to improve our privacy and data security practices in partnership with our community of contributors and users. As a result of our most recent review, we are updating our privacy policy, which now clarifies the definition of “personal information,” and has been reorganized to improve readability without changing the overall intentions previously set by the community. As promised[4] in the policy, we are providing these minor changes with three (3) calendar days’ prior notice. These changes will go into effect on May 24, 2018. As always, we want your thoughts and feedback, and invite everyone to comment on the policy talk page[5] over the next thirty (30) calendar days. We are also grateful to our volunteer community, who are actively working on translations of this policy. We will continue looking for ways to improve and help make clearer to everyone our privacy practices and policy as technology and the world change rapidly around us. Look out for more updates, both here and on the Wikimedia-l mailing list, to learn more about our approach to privacy and data security practices. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_retention_guidelines [2] https://transparency.wikimedia.org/ [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy [4] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#Changes_to_This_Privacy… [5] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Talk:Privacy_policy -- Tony Sebro Deputy General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600 San Francisco, CA 94104 tsebro(a)wikimedia.org (415)839-6885 ext. 6784 *NOTICE: 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 and 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>.* _______________________________________________ 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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Validbook – a universal platform for cooperation
by Bohdan Andriyiv 21 May '18

21 May '18

To Whom It May Concern, I would like to propose to cooperate on the development and maintenance of Validbook. The proposal is available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19pJ3_xMyNX-bAZSHTXvnwr5x LWsV-ShVv3Vy1S4gN6E/edit?usp=sharing The alpha version of Validbook is available at: http://futurama1x.validboo k.org/ The code is available at: https://github.com/Validbo okFoundation/Validbook-Services-Backend and https://github.c om/ValidbookFoundation/Validbook-Services-Frontend Validbook definitions Main definition: Validbook – a universal platform for cooperation. Functional definition: Validbook is a suite of protocols and services used to enhance cooperation between things, people and virtual entities. Validbook slogan: Do important stuff with confidence. Validbook mission: To improve cooperation between things, people and virtual entities by making it more transparent and reliable and to support unalienable human rights among which are the right for Self-Sovereign Identity, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The crux of Validbook idea - Use graph analysis to prove the unique representation of a human individuals by digital self-sovereign identities - Distribute tokens among self-sovereign identities that proved to uniquely represent human individuals, in a such way that incentivizes participation of people in Validbook tokens distribution and makes tokens valuable - Use tokens to fund development and maintenance of Validbook services - Use tokens to align interest of Validbook maintainers and developers with interests of Validbook users and Validbook mission This proposal was originally published at W3C Credentials Community Group mailing list (https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/201 8May/0024.html), where technical standards for Self-Sovereign Identity, Verifiable Credentials are being created. As Validbook's governance and policies are inspired by Wikipidea/Wikimedia example, I hope it is suitable to discuss the idea of Validbook and "Proposal to cooperate on the development and maintenance of Validbook" here. To discuss technical details of Validbook Statements and Identity please use W3C CCG mailing list. See full proposal at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19pJ3_xMyNX-bAZSHTXvnwr5x LWsV-ShVv3Vy1S4gN6E/edit?usp=sharing -- Bohdan Andriyiv Validbook Foundation P.S. Adding a few clarifications in anticipation of the most likely reservations and questions: *- Q.* Is it an ICO scam? A. No. *- Q*. The Validbook name sounds a lot like Facebook. Is it an open source clone of Facebook with a coin attached to it? A. No, it is not a Facebook clone. Social networking service is only one part of Validbook that may or may not used by Validbook users. Validbook Social Service is a social networking service that combines UX features from Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook. By using Validbook books, Validbook channels and other Validbook-specific UX features, Validbook Social Service provides a new, functionally unique, universal, low engaging UX solution for posting (information dissemintation/signalling) and following (information consumption/screening). *- Q.* Who stands behind Validbook? Why did they do it? How did they do it? What are their incentives? A. Who? - Validbook was created (designed and speced out) by Bohdan Andriyiv. Why? - Long story short, about 5-6 years ago I was bored and wanted to work on something complex from technical and social point of view. Validbook is a result of continuous evolution of UX design changes and me trying to understand how people, technology (especially trustworthy computing) and economics work. At the beginning I was doing it part time and for the last 10 months full time. How? - It was developed with the help of small team of freelance and for the last 10 months full time developers. Incentives? - besides doing something interesting, and having satisfaction from seeing something cool and useful like Validbook built; Kudos - afterall, they are forever. *- Q.* Is Validbook doable? It looks like this idea is too gigantic, not realistic. A. Yes, it is doable. Taking into considerations developments in the area of trustworthy computing (DLT), self-sovereign identity, verifiable credentials, graph analysis capabilities, and the general state of the Internet, I do not see reasons why Validbook cannot be done. *- Q.* Will arbiters, graph analysis work against Sybil attacks? A. In short – it remains to be seen. Long answer - as of now, there are no definitive proofs that arbiters and graph analysis will work against Sybil attacks. It can only be checked in practice. I think, initially, about 95-98% of identities with SURLHI claim will be real (which is good enough to deem kudos distribution fair and for kudos to be valued). With time as practices and tools to do graph analysis and check SURLHI claim become better, close to 100% of identities with SURLHI claim will be real. I do not have hard mathematical way to prove it. It is an intuitive understanding, based on the fact that we can show to an arbiter paths between identity with SURLHI claim and Giant Component (graph component that includes known valid and trustworthy identities). It will be the most important way to eliminate fake identities and communities of fake identities as they will not have many connections to the Giant Component. On Facebook real people generally do not add unknown/fake identities to their friends, this will be even more so when endorsing SURLHI as it is *much more official*. Also, arbiters will be able to see and evaluate shortest paths between identity in question and known high trustworthy identities (for example, path between identity that claims to be a student of some university and the president of that university). Graph analysis is a natural, "evolutionary fun" activity for people, so arbiters will have easy time to uncover false SURLHI claims. Also, the fact that we have quite precise estimates of human population in different localities and in the world allows to put an upper limit on possible number of fake identities. After all, maybe not perfect analogy, but the fact that Wikipedia works, gives me hope that arbiters and Validbook in general will work also. *- Q.* Validbook idea looks interesting, but so far it is a private work, basically a one man job. It needs to be a community work. A. Definitely, yes. It needs to be developed with community's input and supervision, and also more directly via open Kudos tenders and bounties. Development and maintenance of Validbook should be done in open and transparent way, similar to how Wikipedia is developed.

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WMCON18: Movement Strategy Track report has been published
by Cornelius Kibelka 18 May '18

18 May '18

*Dear participants of the Wikimedia Conference,Dear Wikimedians, I am happy to announce that we have just published the report for the Movement Strategy Track at WMCON.https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Documentati… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Documentation/Mov…> The documentation for the other tracks will be coming up within the next two weeks, and I am currently working with all speakers and hosts to finalize their session reports. The report is pretty extensive and if you’d print it, over 100 pages long. This is mostly due to the vast quantity of data the participants of the Strategy Track have produced together, and of course also due to the excellent work of our facilitators and harvesters Bhav, Luis, Rob, Olha and Anna Lena and the unique photos taken by Jason. **The summary at the beginning will help you find your way through the report, and through each single session of the track.**The Strategy Core Team will provide an update on the coming steps in the process following this email, so stay tuned! Happy reading, and please feel invited to leave any feedback and questions on the talk page. Best,Cornelius *-- Cornelius Kibelka Program and Engagement Coordinator (PEC) for the Wikimedia Conference Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207

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reason for happiness this week
by James Salsman 18 May '18

18 May '18

The English Wikipedia has finally returned to economics topics: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Weeklypedia Digest <weeklypedia(a)hatnote.com> Date: Fri, May 18, 2018 at 4:20 AM Subject: Weeklypedia English #218 the WEEKLYPEDIA Issue 218, May 18, 2018 (English Wikipedia edition) Hello there! Welcome to our weekly digest of Wikipedia activity. ARTICLES This week, 112,696 authors made 823,694 changes to 396,351 different articles. The top 20 articles for the week: 1. Corporate haven (766 changes by 4 authors) 2....

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