Hi, we have recycled wikitech-announce as a subscription list to know
about new Wikimedia technical activities for volunteers and calls for
action:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce
If you are interested please subscribe. Low traffic and no discussion,
just announcements.
I will forward less of these announcements here, assuming that whoever
is interested will subscribe to wikitech-announce.
Thank you!
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
You are potential contributors to many of our MediaWiki / Wikimedia tech
activities so please consider taking this very short survey (one
question, many options). :)
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Survey: best times for volunteering
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 08:51:50 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi, please find 5 minutes for this survey:
>
> http://www.doodle.com/minqnd6ngz9npfdv
22 people answered. If you couldn't find the time yet please do it
before the end of the week.
We are simply asking in which time slots you are most likely available
during a regular week. We don't want to default to working hours in San
Francisco just by inertia. The survey is anonymous. That's all.
> VERY IMPORTANT: select your timezone!
>
> Deadline: end of Sunday, May 21.
>
> We want to organize activities for technical volunteers at the times that
> suit you best. But we have contributors with different habits in different
> parts of the World. This survey will help us covering better everybody's
> preferences.
Thank you!
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hello California Wikimedians,
There is a state bill being proposed that would introduce open access
requirements for California-funded research. See below for more info.
This would definitely be a positive development for the open knowledge
community.
A fact sheet from the sponsor, Brian Nestande, is available at
http://republican.assembly.ca.gov/member/AD42/?p=myLeg; he's
requesting letters of support be sent to his staffperson at
annabelle.kleist(a)asm.ca.gov.
According to Nestande,
"This bill will require each researcher receiving a state-funded
research grant to submit an electronic copy of their research
publication to the California State Library no later than six months
after the work is published. This policy will apply to peer-reviewed
research publications that have been supported, in whole or in part,
with direct costs from a California state agency, and not
indiscriminately to all public postsecondary faculty members receiving
their salary from the state. The completed research publications will
become openly accessible, free of charge, to the public through an
online database."
cheers,
phoebe
----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "MacKenzie Smith" <macsmith(a)ucdavis.edu>
To: "openscience" <openscience(a)ucdavis.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 4:45:31 PM
Subject: State government considering an Open Access bill
Hi list,
I haven't seen any discussion of this here so I wanted to make sure
y'all know that the California State government will conduct a hearing
in Sacramento next Wednesday on AB 609, the California Taxpayer Access
to Publicly Funded Research.
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_609&sess=CUR
UC supports the bill with a few amendments (e.g. to align the embargo
terms with the NIH policy and clarify who's affected by it) and will
testify so at the hearing. I'm providing a private letter of support
and encourage you to consider doing likewise (there's an example
attached).
If passed, California would become the first state in the country with
an Open Access requirement for state-funded research, corresponding to
the federal policy now being developed. I gather there is significant
opposition forming from publishers who will be well-represented at the
hearing next week against it. So if you do support the bill, let them
know!
Thanks,
MacKenzie
MacKenzie Smith
University Librarian
University of California, Davis
fyi, and a reminder of the special meetup for students & potential
interns about Google Summer of Code, Outreach Program for Women and
other internship programs:
http://www.meetup.com/Wikipedia-Engineering-Meetup/events/109096132/
Thursday, April 11, 2013
5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
San Francisco + video stream
Please forward to any students you know loving Wikipedia & tech.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: GSoC: accepted! Mentors: apply, please
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:40:30 -0700
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Organization: Wikimedia Foundation
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
It's official! Today Wikimedia has been accepted into Google Summer of
Code together with other 176 organizations:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/wikimedia
The next step in the process is to get the mentors registered.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_mentors
Which means that if you were still considering mentoring then yes, you
still have time to join us. Hurry up! The list of project ideas is
(imho) pretty impressive, and we have just started receiving more ideas
from students interested in spending the Summer with us.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Hi all -
I announced this on the list a couple weeks ago, but figured I'd make a
second announcement now. I'll be hosting an editathon at Hoyt Hall, one of
the Berkeley Student Cooperative's all-women houses. It'll be at 2519
Ridge Road in Berkeley from 3-6pm, with a primary audience of co-opers and
Berkeley students, although anyone is welcome to attend. The event will
generally be themed around women's history and our gendergap, with an
especial focus on improving Wikipedia's coverage of prominent women in the
history of the cooperative movement.
The attendance of a few extra experienced Wikipedians would be especially
appreciated (I do realize that, unfortunately, I cross-scheduled with the
iconathon at WMF :).) We had originally intended for this to be a 15-20
person event which I would be comfortably able to facilitate myself, but
it's looking like we may have as many as 70 or 80 people show up - so
having a few extra experienced Wikipedians beyond what we already have
floating to help make sure everything is running smoothly would be awesome.
Most of the participants will be students, and many of them will never have
edited Wikipedia before. From talking to some of them, many of them
haven't even previously realized that Wikipedia is something that can be
edited. In other words, they are pretty much our target outreach
demographic :)
If you're interested in helping out on the administrative side, please feel
free to drop me a note tonight or to show up an hour or so early tomorrow
so we'll be able to hammer out the last details of a gameplan. I'll
definitely have a list of target articles for improvement and intro to
Wikipedia resources present, but don't have an as thoroughly laid out plan
as I'd like to handle an event of this size - I ended up spending half this
week just fixing Hoyt's network problems and installing extra capacity so
that we'd actually be able to have this many extra laptops on the wireless
without everything going kaboom.
Regardless of how well the event tomorrow goes, there will likely be a
number of themed editathons at BSC house in the future. I'll ensure that
none of those wind up being cross-scheduled :)
Thanks,
Kevin Gorman