Hi everyone,
This Friday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia
Foundation's Legal Counsel. If you don't know Mike Godwin, you can
read about him at <http://enwp.org/Mike_Godwin>.
Office hours this Friday are from 2230 to 2330 UTC (3:30PM to 4:30PM
PDT). Mike will also be taking the following Thursday from 1600 to
1700 UTC (9:00AM to 10:00AM PDT).
The IRC channel that will be hosting Mike's conversation will be
#wikimedia-office on the Freenode network. If you do not have an IRC
client, you can always access Freenode by going to
http://webchat.freenode.net/, typing in the nickname of your choice and
choosing wikimedia-office as the channel. You may be prompted to click
through a security warning. Go ahead.
--
Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Dear press(a)fora.tv,
I am both an active Wikimedian, and a senior member of the Wikinews
community; a sister site to Wikipedia where we do our best to work as
citizen journalists.
I have encountered Fora.TV content in the past and found it to be
extremely well put together, intelligent and articulate, and have just
made use of a couple of the "teasers" on your YouTube channel to
illustrate points on Facebook and elsewhere.
I would love to see this content on Wikipedia, and have the option to
use it in my home project, Wikinews.
Of course, I would not expect you to make available your full-length
features, it is the 5-10 minute excerpts on YouTube I'd like.
This would involve releasing these excerpts under a quite liberal
license and uploading them to Wikipedia's media repository.
I would be delighted to discuss the potential issues with this, and some
of the technical considerations.
As a participant on Wikinews, an arrangement enabling this would be
particularly newsworthy to me - and an opportunity to illustrate an
article with samples of these excerpts.
I would also expect that one or more of these excerpts would end up
featuring on your Wikipedia page[1], putting it in a rare class -
Wikipedia articles with video content.
Regards,
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fora_tv
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Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil
Content of this message in no way represents the opinions or official
position of the Wikimedia Foundation or any of its projects.
sir/madam,
I am a freelance photojournalist from Amritsar, Punjab,
India.
I have been in photography for more than two years, do have my own
equipment (NIKON D40X, NIKON D70, Lens AF 18-55mm 3.5-5.6 GII ED, AF 18-70mm). I would love to contribute to
such an esteemed group like yours. My place 'Amritsar' being a border
area (adjoining borders with Pakistan) and being 'The city of Golden
Temple' is one of the most happening
areas all over the world. I am sure that I may
contribute worth to your group. Apart from
that I would be ready to work 'on en off' for any location.In case of any suitability plz consider.
Pls see the link below for your ref:
http://www.demotix.com/dashboard
regards,
sanjeev syal
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Strategic Planning office hours tomorrow - Tuesdays from 20:00-21:00
UTC, which is: 1-2pm PDT, 4-5pm EDT.
This is one of those rare and fun occasions when Eugene and Philippe
are co-located, so maybe we'll even turn on the skype camera or
something.... no promises, I'm not even sure if Skype works in the new
office yet. :-)
We meet in #wikimedia-strategy on the freenode network. You can
access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and filling
in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You may be
prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine. Another
option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
For more information about IRC clients, go to the Wikipedia entry on
IRC or the Meta page on Wikimedia IRC.
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Facilitator, Strategic Planning
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
For background to those not in the know, Sandy used to be the Wikimedia
Foundation press handler. Jay Walsh has the job she used to do, and some
of the 'tectonic shifts' around the time the office was moved to
San-Francisco saw her part ways with them.
She's still active online in a journalism related role, and approached
me for an interview based on interest in Wikinews/Citizen journalism.
The attached is my response which she'll likely publish. I want an
unedited version available to people who might care, so here it is.
Jason and Mike H. should perhaps pay particular attention to how I've
framed my responses. You will recognise my oblique references to you and
the work you do on Wikinews.
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Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>
Wikinewsie.org
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Hi everyone,
This Thursday's office hours will feature Mike Godwin, the Wikimedia
Foundation's Legal Counsel. If you don't know Mike Godwin, you can
read about him at <http://enwp.org/Mike_Godwin>.
Office hours this Thursday are from 1600 to 1700 UTC (9:00AM to 10:00PM
PDT).
The IRC channel that will be hosting Mike's conversation will be
#wikimedia-office on the Freenode network.
If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser: First is using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
#wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.
Also, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as
the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning.
It should be all right.
Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other
relevant email lists you happen to be on.
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Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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Just a reminder that it's time for strategic planning office hours
again....
Today's office hours are 20:00-21:00 UTC, which is: Tuesday, 1-2pm
PDT, Tuesday, 4-5pm EDT.
You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and
filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-strategy). You
may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine.
Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
I need technical help for some of this - and am quite busy on other
things. ;-)
Based on previous ramblings - there's the following:
- The Editors' Blog is running an out-of-date version of WordPress, the
'click here to update' is broke, so it'd probably be better just
extracting the database, starting from a fresh WordPress install and
loading the data into that.
- We need a 'proper' WordPress skin, one that doesn't involve hacks into
the core WordPress install. My thoughts on that are to have something in
keeping with the MediaWiki Vector skin/scheme. [Also, should take into
account the look/feel of the enwp main page and articles (from articles:
the {{Social bookmarking}} template).
- I don't think Vector has been released as a ready-to-go MediaWiki
skin, files are available, but implementing the skin is a little bit of
hacking.
Can't think of anything else, perhaps someone can suggest ways/api
features that would allow pulling data out of the Public: namespace on
the Wikinewsie wiki to go into more static pages outwith the wiki. Like
pulling out only the html-formatted content as happens on-wiki with a
template inclusion.
Brian
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Wikinews-l] Wikinewsie
> From: Tristan Thomas <tris(a)waterhay.co.uk>
> Date: Thu, October 08, 2009 3:41 pm
> To: Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> So with the basic ideas discussed of a few separate blogs, how do we
> progress? Brian, do you want to do it or would you like a team effort?
>
> Regards<hr>_______________________________________________
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