Hi all,
Wiknic is Wikipedia's annual community picnic. For those of us who are in parts of the world where the current season is summer, we usually celebrate Wiknic in June or July. Wiknic started in the United States, and I'm told that the idea has spread to other countries with diverse languages including the Netherlands, Israel, and France. This year's suggested Wiknic dates are Sunday, July 5th or Saturday, July 25th.
So, organize or join a Wiknic in your area!
You might also consider inviting members of other open source, technology enthusiast, and public service communities to join you at Wiknic. We are doing this in Cascadia Wikimedians.
More information about Wiknic is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic
Photos from a few of last year's Wiknics made it to Commons. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiknic_2014
Have fun,
Pine
Hey y'all! Been forever since I've been active on a Wikimedia-based site, though I have been active in other free and open knowledge movements. I think it would be neat to try to do joint meetups with editors of other sites. Here are a few that share our common goals, but this certainly is only a small spectrum:
Wikia iNaturalist Google Mapmaker Waze Map Editor GasBuddy IMDB
This could be a great way to cross-pollinate ideas and even editors.
Rob
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 23:27 Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Wiknic is Wikipedia's annual community picnic. For those of us who are in parts of the world where the current season is summer, we usually celebrate Wiknic in June or July. Wiknic started in the United States, and I'm told that the idea has spread to other countries with diverse languages including the Netherlands, Israel, and France. This year's suggested Wiknic dates are Sunday, July 5th or Saturday, July 25th.
So, organize or join a Wiknic in your area!
You might also consider inviting members of other open source, technology enthusiast, and public service communities to join you at Wiknic. We are doing this in Cascadia Wikimedians.
More information about Wiknic is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic
Photos from a few of last year's Wiknics made it to Commons. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiknic_2014
Have fun,
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Hi there, I would like express concern about the goals of wikipedia.
if you look at the blurb at the top of the wikipedia article about itself : """Wikipedia is a free-access, free-content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation."""
Now how many of the sites you mentioned are free-access and free-content. I think many are not free content.
Google map maker, sharing a common goal seems strange to me, I always thought that the goal of wikipedia is is create an unburdened source of knowledge, and google's goal is to sell advertising via restrictive licensing of all contributions.
Btw, did you forget openstreetmap?
So, I agree we might want to try and advertise to other people contributing to non free-content websites and try and sell them on the merits of supporting the freedom of content vs the locking down of content.
mike
On 6/12/15, Rob Schnautz bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
Hey y'all! Been forever since I've been active on a Wikimedia-based site, though I have been active in other free and open knowledge movements. I think it would be neat to try to do joint meetups with editors of other sites. Here are a few that share our common goals, but this certainly is only a small spectrum:
Wikia iNaturalist Google Mapmaker Waze Map Editor GasBuddy IMDB
This could be a great way to cross-pollinate ideas and even editors.
Rob
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 23:27 Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Wiknic is Wikipedia's annual community picnic. For those of us who are in parts of the world where the current season is summer, we usually celebrate Wiknic in June or July. Wiknic started in the United States, and I'm told that the idea has spread to other countries with diverse languages including the Netherlands, Israel, and France. This year's suggested Wiknic dates are Sunday, July 5th or Saturday, July 25th.
So, organize or join a Wiknic in your area!
You might also consider inviting members of other open source, technology enthusiast, and public service communities to join you at Wiknic. We are doing this in Cascadia Wikimedians.
More information about Wiknic is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic
Photos from a few of last year's Wiknics made it to Commons. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiknic_2014
Have fun,
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I am not saying Google shares this goal, but that contributors to its maps share our goal. People adding road names and speed limits are working toward free and open knowledge just as we do. And like I said, the list is by no means comprehensive. I only listed a few I contribute to myself.
Rob
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015, 07:54 Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi there, I would like express concern about the goals of wikipedia.
if you look at the blurb at the top of the wikipedia article about itself : """Wikipedia is a free-access, free-content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation."""
Now how many of the sites you mentioned are free-access and free-content. I think many are not free content.
Google map maker, sharing a common goal seems strange to me, I always thought that the goal of wikipedia is is create an unburdened source of knowledge, and google's goal is to sell advertising via restrictive licensing of all contributions.
Btw, did you forget openstreetmap?
So, I agree we might want to try and advertise to other people contributing to non free-content websites and try and sell them on the merits of supporting the freedom of content vs the locking down of content.
mike
On 6/12/15, Rob Schnautz bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
Hey y'all! Been forever since I've been active on a Wikimedia-based site, though I have been active in other free and open knowledge movements. I think it would be neat to try to do joint meetups with editors of other sites. Here are a few that share our common goals, but this certainly is only a small spectrum:
Wikia iNaturalist Google Mapmaker Waze Map Editor GasBuddy IMDB
This could be a great way to cross-pollinate ideas and even editors.
Rob
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 23:27 Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Wiknic is Wikipedia's annual community picnic. For those of us who are
in
parts of the world where the current season is summer, we usually celebrate Wiknic in June or July. Wiknic started in the United States, and I'm
told
that the idea has spread to other countries with diverse languages including the Netherlands, Israel, and France. This year's suggested Wiknic dates are Sunday, July 5th or Saturday, July 25th.
So, organize or join a Wiknic in your area!
You might also consider inviting members of other open source,
technology
enthusiast, and public service communities to join you at Wiknic. We are doing this in Cascadia Wikimedians.
More information about Wiknic is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic
Photos from a few of last year's Wiknics made it to Commons. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiknic_2014
Have fun,
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I agree that we should welcome a broad range of collaborative communities to the local Wiknics, especially other free/open projects like OpenStreetMap.
Start a Wiknic for your city, in your local park!
Thanks, Pharos
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Rob Schnautz bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
I am not saying Google shares this goal, but that contributors to its maps share our goal. People adding road names and speed limits are working toward free and open knowledge just as we do. And like I said, the list is by no means comprehensive. I only listed a few I contribute to myself.
Rob
On Sat, Jun 13, 2015, 07:54 Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi there, I would like express concern about the goals of wikipedia.
if you look at the blurb at the top of the wikipedia article about itself : """Wikipedia is a free-access, free-content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation."""
Now how many of the sites you mentioned are free-access and free-content. I think many are not free content.
Google map maker, sharing a common goal seems strange to me, I always thought that the goal of wikipedia is is create an unburdened source of knowledge, and google's goal is to sell advertising via restrictive licensing of all contributions.
Btw, did you forget openstreetmap?
So, I agree we might want to try and advertise to other people contributing to non free-content websites and try and sell them on the merits of supporting the freedom of content vs the locking down of content.
mike
On 6/12/15, Rob Schnautz bobthewikipedian@gmail.com wrote:
Hey y'all! Been forever since I've been active on a Wikimedia-based
site,
though I have been active in other free and open knowledge movements. I think it would be neat to try to do joint meetups with editors of other sites. Here are a few that share our common goals, but this certainly is only a small spectrum:
Wikia iNaturalist Google Mapmaker Waze Map Editor GasBuddy IMDB
This could be a great way to cross-pollinate ideas and even editors.
Rob
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 23:27 Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Wiknic is Wikipedia's annual community picnic. For those of us who are
in
parts of the world where the current season is summer, we usually celebrate Wiknic in June or July. Wiknic started in the United States, and I'm
told
that the idea has spread to other countries with diverse languages including the Netherlands, Israel, and France. This year's suggested Wiknic dates are Sunday, July 5th or Saturday, July 25th.
So, organize or join a Wiknic in your area!
You might also consider inviting members of other open source,
technology
enthusiast, and public service communities to join you at Wiknic. We
are
doing this in Cascadia Wikimedians.
More information about Wiknic is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic
Photos from a few of last year's Wiknics made it to Commons. See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiknic_2014
Have fun,
Pine _______________________________________________ Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
-- James Michael DuPont Kansas Linux Fest http://kansaslinuxfest.us Free/Libre Open Source and Open Knowledge Association of Kansas http://openkansas.us Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://www.flossk.org Saving Wikipedia(tm) articles from deletion http://SpeedyDeletion.wikia.com
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