Dear friends,
An Wikipedia Meet-up/Workshop arranged by *Wikimedia India* (West
Bengal) and in association with *Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
<http://www.iift.edu/iift/index.asp>* (Kolkata Campus) has been held
on *Saturday*,*12th February 2011* 3 PM at Saltlake, EP Block, Sector
V,Kolkata, West Bengal,India.
For other details and register yourself add your name* **"Attending"
*section at wikipage below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata3
The details tentative schedule
**
*1500* *Opening Speeches*
*Wikipedia & FOSS Culture
* Speaker 1(Mr Indranil Das Gupta)
*Crowdsourcing* Speaker 2 (Rimi B Chatterjee)
Wikimedia India chapter updates Mr. Jayanta Nath
*1600* *Panel Discussion*
World's Strongest Medium
Sumit Roy
TBD Ranjit Goswami (tentative)
*1715* *Open Floor Discussion*
*1730* *Snack Break*
*1745* *Wiki Workshop* Mr. Jayanta Nath *1815* *Closing lecture*
*1830* *Wiki next Meetup discussion*
With Warm Regards,
*Jayanta Nath*
Wikimedia India,West Bengal
+91 9836294438
Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth
Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth
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From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 5:17 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] New General Counsel!: Geoffrey Brigham
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Hey folks,
I'm delighted to tell you that the Wikimedia Foundation has a new
General Counsel.
Geoff Brigham, formerly of eBay, will start with us March 7 once he's
relocated from Paris to San Francisco. He'll report to me.
To recap: In late October, I hired m|Oppenheim to find us a new
General Counsel. I expected it to be a tough search, because
appropriate GCs for the Wikimedia Foundation don't exactly grow on
trees. As a growing U.S.-based non-profit that operates one of the
world's most popular websites in partnership with a global network of
volunteers, we need a GC who can handle a broad range of legal issues
including the legal defense of our projects in an international
context, an array of matters related to policy and regulatory
compliance, issues such as privacy, and helping us with the challenges
of opening a new office in India. Very few people have that kind of
breadth. And for our GC as with all our jobs, we are also looking for
someone who is passionate about the mission, has a collaborative and
inclusive personal style, is inclined towards transparency, and
ideally is a bit of an iconoclast. It's a lot to ask of one person :-)
So we braced ourselves for a long and difficult search. But in fact it
turned out to be highly enjoyable. Over a period of several months,
m|Oppenheim talked with hundreds of connectors and candidates, and in
the end we interviewed about a dozen finalists. They were terrific,
inspiring lawyers: I was glad to meet them all. And I am delighted
that we discovered Geoff.
Geoff spent eight years at eBay during its main growth years, which
gives him important experience managing the legal challenges and risks
inherent in operating a popular site. His work at eBay encompassed
North America, Europe, Asia and Australia where he handled legal
issues throughout the world. He's worked alone and led large teams. He
is hands-on, collaborative, open-minded and inclusive. And he is
extremely excited about working with us.
A little more about Geoff's background: Most recently, Geoff was
Vice-President and Deputy General Counsel at eBay in San Jose,
California. There, he directed legal affairs in more than 15 countries
throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, encompassing
litigation, copyright and trademarks, privacy, ethics, product and
site content review, policy and regulatory compliance, new market
advice, contracts, governance and site security. Previously he worked
for eBay in Bern, Switzerland for four years as Vice-President &
Senior Director, and in Paris, France for two years as Senior
Compliance and Litigation Counsel.
Prior to joining eBay, Geoff was Assistant United States Attorney in
Miami, Florida. Before that he worked for the U.S. Department of
Justice in Paris and Washington, was an Associate with Finley, Kumble,
Wagner et al. in Washington, and was a law clerk for the Honorable
Howard F. Corcoran, U.S. Judge for the District of Columbia. Geoff
received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in
Washington DC. He also holds a B.A. in Political Science and French,
from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
He speaks English and French. He's a passionate music fan and an
accomplished flute player: he used to busk many years ago, playing
jazz and classical music on the Parisian streets, and he was well
known at eBay for playing his flute in the office in the early
mornings. Maybe that will happen at the Wikimedia Foundation too :-)
Many thanks to Lisa Grossman of m|Oppenheim for leading this important
search for us. My thanks also to everyone who helped Lisa and me
define the General Counsel role and surface and interview candidates,
including (roughly in order of their involvement) Erik Moeller, Cyn
Skyberg, Kat Walsh, Arne Klempert, Stu West, SJ Klein, Barry Newstead,
Veronique Kessler, Danese Cooper, Zack Exley, Jimmy Wales, Bishakha
Datta, Matt Halprin, Gautam John, Pavel Richter and Shari Steele. My
thanks also to Derrick Coetzee, who happened to be in the office one
day and got pulled into an impromptu conversation helping brief Geoff
about some of the issues facing us. I also want to thank Wikimedia
France for staging its GLAM conference in Paris recently: Geoff
attended it and says that meeting Wikimedians there, and watching them
work, significantly contributed to his desire to join us.
If I remember correctly how this list works, replies to this mail
should go directly to foundation-l. (That's how it's intended to work:
I hope it's actually true.) Geoff is subscribed to foundation-l, so
if you do reply there, he'll see it. He doesn't yet have a Wikimedia
e-mail address, but once he does, you will likely see it turn up on
this and other lists. Please note he's not on the job until March 7:
until then, he's only really available to us socially, not for work.
Please join me in welcoming Geoff to the Wikimedia movement :-)
Thanks,
Sue
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From: Barry Newstead <bnewstead(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 8:08 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Hiring of Asaf Bartov and
Moushira Elamrawy contract extension
To: Announce Mailing List <WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I am very pleased to announce that Asaf Bartov has agreed to join the
Wikimedia Foundation as Head of Global South Relationships (pending the
completion of the U.S. visa application process) and Moushira Elamrawy
has agreed to a contract extension to serve as Chapter Relations
Manager. These positions are both part of the Global Development team
and seek to enhance WMF's relationships with and support of chapters and
other groups/individuals in the movement.
We expect Asaf to join WMF in March 2011 and the position will be based
in San Francisco. Asaf is a long-time Wikipedian and Wikimedian. He
began editing Wikipedia in 2001, his home project is the Hebrew
Wikipedia. His first contribution to Hebrew Wikipedia was to initiate
the article on Homer (not the four-fingered guy from Springfield) in
2003. He has been a member of Wikimedia Israel since 2008, and served as
board member and international liaison. Asaf has been making his living
in software, but has always cultivated a wide range of interests in the
humanities -- studying literature and classics, and then teaching
ancient Greek and Latin at Tel Aviv University -- as well as voluntary
activities in the open source and open content worlds. He is the
founding editor of Project Ben-Yehuda, a free 100% volunteer-run
repository of public-domain Hebrew texts. He is also active in
transforming library technology to 21st-century open standards, having
served as consultant at the National Library of Israel, and an invited
expert at the W3C's Library Linked Data Incubator Group (LLD XG).
Asaf's primary role will be to support the growth of the Wikimedia
movement in the Global South with a specific focus on working with
chapters, groups who seek to become chapters and mission-aligned
groups/individuals. He will play an advisory role to support these
groups to advance their work in support of the movement. He will manage
WMF's grants program (globally) with the aim of providing funding for
strategy-aligned initiatives with a strong focus on innovation. Asaf
will work with groups to design effective grants and help create model
grants that groups can readily adapt to their local needs. Finally, Asaf
will help improve our knowledge repository of program and grant
experiences with a priority to create systematic means for evaluating
and learning from each program.
I would also like to announce that WMF has extended the contract of
Moushira Elamrawy, who was serving as Global Campaigns Manager during
the 2010/11 fundraiser, to serve in a Chapter Relations capacity. She
will continue to be based in Alexandria, Egypt. Moushira was introduced
to Wikimedia in April 2007 during filming the footage of "Truth in
Numbers" in Alexandria, Egypt: a few weeks later she was appointed from
Bibliotheca Alexandrina to become the main organizer from the library's
side for Wikimania 2008. Her responsibilities started along with the
bidding process and extended until after the conference was over to
include co-organizing Wikipedia editing sessions, Arabic Wikipedia Day,
and an "Introduction to Free Open Source OS" sessions series. She
continues to help with new initiatives and offline activities concerning
Arabic Wikipedia, including ongoing efforts for creating an Arabic
Wikipedia signpost, organizing events that help attract new users such
as editing and licensee sessions. She recently initiated a cross
collaboration among Arabic users across north Africa, in order to create
a base of user groups across this region. Last fall, Moushira was
engaged by WMF's community department to focus on liaising between the
chapters and WMF during the 2010 fundraising campaign. Moushira has
previously worked for sustainable development projects in desert areas
of Egypt and Morocco focusing on ecological building approaches. She is
a Greenpeace volunteer and retired vegan.
Moushira's role will be to support WMF and chapters in living up to our
responsibilities to each other and to the movement, particularly with
regard to smoothing and systematizing communications mechanisms with the
goal of increased transparency and openness. She will help establish
processes that enable us to meet our commitments to each other and the
movement. She will facilitate the completion of requirements under our
fundraising and chapter agreements relating to revenue sharing,
reporting and accountability. She will support us monitoring progress
against these commitments, designing systems for tracking and creating
simple ways to work together in a manner that achieves mutual
accountability, while keeping the burden on volunteer board members and
other chapter members to a minimum. Moushira will also serve as WMF's
process manager over the next year for key activities such as the
signing of chapter agreements and fundraising agreements, compliance
with agreement requirements and more systematic capture of reports
to/from chapters. Please note that WMF doesn’t intend this role to be an
oversight function nor do we expect that it’s our role to remind
chapters of their responsibilities: the role is to both help WMF fulfill
our responsibilities and to help us all improve our processes. This is a
big challenge and she will work collaboratively with chapters to achieve
it.
I am thrilled to add Asaf and Moushira to the WMF Global Development team.
We will jointly host an IRC at the following times to address any
questions or comments that you might have about these roles.
1. Friday, February 11 at 1500 UTC
2. Friday, February 11 at 2200 UTC
________________
FAQ
How did we source candidates for these roles?
The Chapter Development Director position was publicly posted in August
2010, and we interviewed a number of candidates. We had some strong and
interesting candidates, but we did not find anyone who could fulfill the
role as we had initially designed it. Asaf Bartov applied for the
Chapter Development Director and was interviewed by a panel of
interviewers. Moushira Elamrawy did not apply for the position, however
she was fulfilling some functions in the Global Campaigns role that we
saw as needed in our Chapter Development work (items that were listed in
the original job description).
As such, we decided that the best course of action was to split the
initial role into two that would meet our needs and not require a reset
of the entire process. We did a review of the prior candidates to see if
any would be a good alternative to Asaf and Moushira and concluded that
we were comfortable with them as our selection. Please note that
Moushira’s role is temporary: that’s because the relationship between
the Wikimedia Foundation and the chapters is actively evolving, and so
we think this role may change significantly over time.
How does the appointment of these two roles change the relationship
between WMF and chapters?
Our hope is that these engagements will improve our relationship by
providing dedicated resources to our chapter interactions. This will
allow WMF to be more responsive and will provide resources to invest
time in creating new solutions to problems that we have dealt with in
the past, but haven't solved effectively.
We also hope that Moushira and Asaf will help to enhance the
effectiveness of chapters by serving as advisors on program work,
helping to make connections between program work in different places and
by creating systems that ease the administrative burden on volunteers,
freeing you to focus more time on program activities.
These engagements do not change the formal relationships between WMF and
chapters. We both will continue to be independently responsible for
meeting our commitments and for solving problems that arise in a timely
and collaborative manner.
Why is Asaf's position focused on the Global South vs. all chapters?
We do not have sufficient resources available to expend our resources
equally in all areas and still achieve impact and so we need to
prioritize. The movement priorities set out during the strategy process
set clear targets for our growth in the Global South and we are aligning
our resources to this priority. We will continue to support grants
across the globe and will engage with all chapters, but Asaf's first
responsibility will be to the work focused on the Global South.
What does WMF plan to do with other groups/individuals in the movement?
We continue to believe in the principle of a decentralized movement and
the importance of supporting good efforts by volunteers regardless of
organizational affiliation. While we expect chapters to play a strong
role in designing and running programs as well as funding
groups/individuals within their geographies to do such work, we also
want to keep the door open for groups or individuals who want to conduct
program work that supports the movement priorities outside of a chapter
structure. In recent months, this has included, for example, funding for
the Wikipedia in Schools program in Kenya and support for GLAM work by a
US-based volunteer, Aude.
Does the appointment of Asaf change WMF's view of grant-making?
We see grant-making as an important process for supporting chapters and
other groups/individuals to achieve movement priorities. The appointment
of Asaf provides us with an opportunity to expand grant-making and make
it more systematic. We believe that many chapters will not be in a
position to generate sustainable funding locally to fund the full array
of programs that may be needed to achieve our goals. Grant-making is an
effective way to fill that gap.
We would like to see our grant-making work evolve to include much more
community participation in helping chapters and other groups/individuals
design good programs, in helping WMF make good decisions and in
evaluating and capturing the learning from grants after they are
implemented. This will be a core initiative for Asaf in his first year.
I’ve got other questions that aren’t answered here.
Barry, Asaf and Moushira will host an IRC at the following times to talk
through the roles in more detail.
1. Friday, February 11 at 1500 UTC
2. Friday, February 11 at 2200 UTC
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Barry Newstead
Chief Global Development Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 6634
Skype: barry.wikimedia
Twitter: @bazanews
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Just to clarify a little , CC by SA is also a copyright license. The only
difference is that these licenses allow creators to communicate which rights
they reserve, and which rights they "waive" for the benefit of recipients or
other creators.
There is a common miunderstanding that Wikipedia articles are not
copyrighted and all free software are not copyrighted, which is not in
actual.
And also Google cannot put another copyright for their articles in any wiki,
because they are already CC by SA on Wikipedia.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:47 PM, <wheredevelsdare(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tinu Cherian,
>
> You might want to remind the journo that we (Wikipedia) are non profit and
> our info comes under CC-BY-SA license, however Google is a Business set up
> for profit with all their info being subject to copyright.
>
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> User:AroundTheGlobe
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> > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
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Hi Tinu Cherian,
You might want to remind the journo that we (Wikipedia) are non profit and our info comes under CC-BY-SA license, however Google is a Business set up for profit with all their info being subject to copyright.
Regards,
User:AroundTheGlobe
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> 2. Wikipedia workshop in Carte Blanche, Chennai (BalaSundaraRaman)
> 3. Hindustan Times confuses Wikipedia with Wikileaks
> (CherianTinu Abraham)
> 4. Google Translation on Indian language Wikipedias & Paid
> editing (CherianTinu Abraham)
> 5. Re: Google Translation on Indian language Wikipedias & Paid
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> From: jayanta nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com>
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> Dear friends,
> An Wikipedia Meet-up/Workshop arranged by *Wikimedia India* (West
> Bengal) and in association with *Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
> <http://www.iift.edu/iift/index.asp>* (Kolkata Campus) has been held
> on *Saturday*,*12th February 2011* 3 PM at Saltlake, EP Block, Sector
> V,Kolkata, West Bengal,India.
>
>
> For other details and register yourself add your name* **"Attending"
> *section at wikipage below
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata3
>
>
> The details tentative schedule
>
> **
>
> *1500* *Opening Speeches*
>
>
> *Wikipedia & FOSS Culture
> * Speaker 1(Mr Indranil Das Gupta)
>
> *Crowdsourcing* Speaker 2 (Rimi B Chatterjee)
> Wikimedia India chapter updates Mr. Jayanta Nath
>
>
> *1600* *Panel Discussion*
>
> World's Strongest Medium
> Sumit Roy
> TBD Ranjit Goswami (tentative)
>
>
>
>
>
> *1715* *Open Floor Discussion*
>
>
>
> *1730* *Snack Break*
>
>
>
> *1745* *Wiki Workshop* Mr. Jayanta Nath *1815* *Closing lecture*
> *1830* *Wiki next Meetup discussion*
>
>
> With Warm Regards,
> *Jayanta Nath*
> Wikimedia India,West Bengal
> +91 9836294438
> Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth
> Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth
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Hindustan Times confuses Wikipedia with Wikileaks
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Two-Indian-cos-tried-to-sell-dual-use-product…
"The US had alerted India that Syria was trying to buy products from two
Indian firms that could have been used in making chemical and biological
weapons, secret cables posted by* whistle-blowing site Wikipedia *has
revealed."
Regards
Tinu Cherian
Changed the subject line again.. ( Subject deviation again :) )
Hi Praveen,
May I ask , what is not really clear about the chapter ? Wikimedia India
chapter is registered now as a legal entity in India [1] in Jan 2010 ; there
is an Executive committee with 7 members , the office bearers are [2] Arun
Ramarathnam, President ; BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan, Secretary ; Arjuna
Rao Chavala, Treasurer etc
May be it is time for the chapter to open up the membership to the
community?
or even making the agenda & meeting minutes of the Wikimedia India chapter
EC available to all like the Wikimedia Foundation Board [3] ( so that these
confusions to "common Wikimedians" can be avoided) ?
If there are still any misunderstandings/unclear things, the EC members must
be happy to answer them.
I'm all excited to see the Wikimedia India chapter getting more active and
the chapter & community working closely in the coming days.
[1] http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-PostChapComVer
[3] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings
Regards
Tinu Cherian
N.B. I am not speaking on behalf of the chapter , neither am I a EC
member/ordinary member. My understandings are based on various threads on
the mailing lists.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:40 AM, praveenp <me.praveen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> I like that "incidental fallout" phrase. ;-) I can now understand why
> chapter and none of its activities are clear to common wikimedian. :)
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Hi all,
I am mayur a hindi wikipedian.I have prepared a survey to determine
overall quality of a wikipedia project.Here is the link
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IFphBpq14eMUjoBcy0wk-WWQNTQ5vxpq_o285Dy…
for
survey report. Here is the Summary for that
*Why did we do that survey?*
As we know there are lots of Indic wiki projects having different number of
active users and article. However we simply differentiate them on behalf of
number of articles or depth but that cannot give us an actual overall growth
of that project because many projects are simply bot generated as we know
about Nepal bhasha and Bishnupriya Manipuri Wikipedia. Simply a project
growth can be measured from its article quality and number of articles both.
A project having large no of articles having good quality of article has
grown faster.
*How did we measure quality of a wiki project?*
Quality of a wiki project is simply depends upon how many articles are
developed from their stubs root. Generally each article is started from a
stub. Now quality of the article mainly depends upon how much time it has
been edited and how many words are in it or how many long the article is? So
we choose different factor which directly affects the quality of article.
These are-
1) *Nr. of good articles (Articles having size>2 KB)*
Simply a project having more articles of size 2 KB has grown much in
comparison to another. But this alone cannot decide quality of a project
that’s why we included some another factors. We simply took the percentage
of articles having size greater than 2 KB. We gave a marking scale of 150 to
this.
2) *Nr. of Average articles (Articles having size>0.5 KB)*
Simply to filter the stubs we choose this criteria, we gave marking scale of
100 to this just less than above because article having size greater than 2
KB reflects much growth in comparison to 0.5 KB article.
3) *Average number of words in an article*
That was too tricky to calculate but we simply divided total number of words
in a project by total nr. of articles in it for a rough estimate. To keep
this in the marking scale of 100 we simply multiplied the output value by
0.1 In our formula.
4) *Avg. size of article (KB)*
That was also tricky to calculate but we simply divided total size of a
project by total nr. of articles in it for a rough estimate. To keep this in
the marking scale of 100 we simply multiplied the output value by 10 In our
formula.
5) *Main space edit per total nr. Of articles*
That was also an important factor to know how frequently an article is being
edited for being updated. Output value was already on a scale of 100 so we
did not multiply of divided that value.
6) *Total Edits/article*
This is also an Important factor because it reflects how much extra edits
(that includes categorization, image uploads and some other similar factors)
are being performed in a wiki project. As Output value was already on a
scale of 100 so we did not multiply of divided that value.
7) *Bot edits*
That was the most important factor because all the factor that we discussed
can be gained at high value by running bots like in Nepal bhasha and
Bishnupriya Manipuri Wikipedia. So we simply multiplied the overall score by
percentage non bot edits. However bots edits in some extant are also a
necessary part. So we just set the 50% bot edits as a cut off mark. For A
wiki having more than 50% of bot edits we simply multiplied total score by
(100-(bot edits if larger than 50%-50))
*Formula for Quality factor = (R*0.1+Q*10+E+F*1.5+P+O)*(100-N)/100*
*R- Average number of words in an article*
*Q- Avg. size of article (KB)*
*E- Article greater than 2kb*
*F-* *Article greater than 0.5kb*
*P-* *Total Edits/article*
*O-* *Mainspace edit per total nr. Of articles*
*N-* *Share of Bot edits (%)*
* *
*Overall Score = Number of articles * Quality factor*
* *
* *
**
*Thank you and Regards*
*Mayur*
hi,
Gerard M posted this on his blog today -
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/02/imslp-would-fit-in-with-wmf-pro…
While we are discussing GLAM, it might be worth looking at the wealth of
Indian music and whether these could be archived under such a project as
well. Any idea on Carnatic, Hindustani , old films music etc in various film
industries?
warm regards,
Pradeep