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From: Jayanta Nath <jayanta(a)wikimedia.in>
Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:45 PM
Subject: Wikimedia India Chapter: Current state of affairs
To: wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com
Cc: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
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Dear Wikimedia India Chapter members and other interested stakeholders in
the list,
Dear members,
The Executive committee of Wikimedia India has held an emergency
teleconference on their official DSNL channel on 31 Aug 2014. As salient
items on the agenda, the following topics were discussed and decided upon:
1. Earlier, Radhakrishna Arvapally, a senior chapter member and former
Chair of Bangalore SIG, was co-opted by an emergency resolution. The
resolution was passed unanimously. The resolution had also proposed another
senior member. However, due to heavy personal engagements, the second
nominee requested the EC to exempt from such considerations.
Radhakrishna was invited to the telecon and was officially welcomed to be
part of the EC.
2. Jayanta Nath, a senior Wikipedian from Kolkata and EC member, was
unanimously elected as the new President of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
Also, Radhakrishna Arvapally and Viswanathan Prabhakaran were elected as
the new Secretary and Treasurer of the chapter respectively.
3. Any decision about hiring is kept on hold for now. The current EC agreed
together that the opinion of the new EC (emerging through the upcoming
general elections) should also be taken on-board for a major decision like
this, since they are the ones to deal with the newly hired candidate(s)for
a longer term.
4. Another extra ordinary EC Telecon was scheduled to be conducted
tentatively on 02 September 2014, 9.00 PM to take up other urgent matters
pending for decisions.
This is for the general information for all chapter members and other
interested stakeholders.
Thank You,
Jayanta Nath
President
Wikimedia India Chapter
FYI,
Nahid Sultan
User:NahidSultan
twitter.com/nahidunlimited
From: kmaher(a)wikimedia.org
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 10:49:55 -0700
To: press-release(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] The Wikimedia Foundation hires Damon Sicore as Vice President of Engineering
This press release is also available online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/The_Wikimedia_Foundatio… Wikimedia Foundation hires Damon Sicore as Vice President of Engineering
New role strengthens Foundation’s commitment to excellence in engineeringThe Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce that Damon Sicore will be joining the Foundation in the newly created role of Vice President of Engineering. Damon brings nearly two decades of engineering and product experience to Wikimedia, the non-profit organization responsible for Wikipedia -- the world’s fifth most visited website, serving half a billion readers every month.Damon will manage the Foundation’s engineering team dedicated to ensuring the development, scale, and reliability of Wikimedia’s technical architecture. Before joining Wikimedia he spent six years at Mozilla Corporation, three of them as Vice President of Engineering, where he led a team of more than 600 open source software engineers, technical leads, managers, and directors in developing Mozilla Firefox, the Mozilla open source platform, Firefox for Android and Firefox OS. Under his leadership Mozilla delivered some of their most significant browser releases and launched Mozilla’s entry into mobile with Firefox OS.“Damon has extensive experience with high-scale, open source technologies and an intrinsic understanding of our mission and values,” said Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director, Lila Tretikov. “He brings organizational and scaling skills necessary to improve and innovate for our communities of contributors and the next generation of knowledge seekers.”Most recently, Damon led engineering at Edmodo, an emerging platform for sharing educational content for teachers and students, where he oversaw and grew the company’s web, platform, and mobile engineering, security, IT operations, support, and QA efforts."The Wikimedia projects are front and center in the fight for free knowledge, and that’s why I am here,” said Damon Sicore. “I'm looking forward to challenging us to ensure our software is up to the task. We need to move fast and produce the high quality software and services our users will love. It's what the world expects and deserves from us.”Damon joins the Wikimedia Foundation as part of planned growth of the organization’s technical capacity, first announced in November 2012. Erik Moeller, who has filled the role of Vice President of Product and Engineering since 2011, will continue to focus on product in the role of Vice President of Product and Strategy.About the Wikimedia Foundationhttps://wikimediafoundation.orghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Across its 287 language versions, Wikipedia contains more than 32 million articles. Every month, roughly 80,000 active volunteers contribute to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. According to comScore Media Metrix, the projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive 413 million unique visitors per month on desktop alone, making them the fifth-most popular web property worldwide (July 2014). Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.Wikimedia Foundation Press Contact:Katherine Maher+1 415-839-6885 ext 6633katherinewikimedia.org
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:45:59 -0700
From: wiki.pine(a)gmail.com
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; security(a)wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] ***Security notice*** for IRC: vulnerability prior to September 15, change passwords
All,
As you may have heard, Freenode found some compromised servers on their networks. Network traffic, including SSL traffic, may have been sniffed by a third party.
This likely affects many Wikimedia IRC users, including users who do not speak English, so please forward this notice and translate as needed for the benefit of other Wikimedians.
If you have not changed your nickserv password on September 15 or later, please do so now.
>From the Freenode blog:
"Before changing your password, please check your email address in
/msg nickserv info and, if needed, update it – see /msg nickserv help
set email (remember to check your new email for the verification key).
This will ensure that we can send you a password reset email should, for
whatever reason, your password change not work properly. If you have no
email set on your account or an email set that you cannot access, we
cannot send password resets to you, so do please keep this up-to-date.
"To change your password use /msg nickserv set password newpasshere
"Since traffic may have been sniffed, you may also wish to consider
any channel keys or similar secret information exchanged over the
network."
Please direct questions to Freenode IRC ops. They are voiced in the #freenode channel.
Pine
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Blog post about Wikimedia Commons 10 year:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/09/05/celebrating-the-10th-anniversary-of-w…
Bengali news about Wikimedia Commons 10 year published today at Prothom
Alo: http://www.prothom-alo.com/technology/article/313096
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Date: Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:54 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia
Commons celebrates its 10th anniversary
To: press-release <press-release(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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Wikimedia Commons celebrates its 10th anniversary
- *22 million+ images make Wikimedia Commons world’s largest freely
licensed educational media repository.*
(San Francisco, USA) September 5, 2014 -- This Sunday marks the 10th
anniversary of Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>. Its creation was officially
announced on September 7, 2004.
More than 22 million media files have been uploaded by the Wikimedia
volunteer community over the decade since Commons came into being. The
Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to have a dedicated community of
creators and institutions who continue to share their images and other
media so that the project has flourished and will continue to thrive.
Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Lila Tretikov said: “Many people
don’t know that the incredible, freely-licensed images that illustrate
Wikipedia are curated and maintained by the volunteer community of
Wikimedia Commons editors. Wikimedia Commons is the visual engine of the
Wikimedia projects, and we look forward to its next decade of
contributions, collaboration, and sharing.”
In the past ten years, creators have contributed to Commons in a variety of
ways, including the annual Wiki Loves Monuments contest, which is currently
inviting submissions through the end of September. The Guinness Book of
World Records named Wiki Loves Monuments the largest photo contest in the
world, and it has inspired more 900,000 image uploads since 2010.
On this occasion we also celebrate the partnerships with dozens of cultural
institutions (GLAM) from around the world that have donated portions of
their collections. Their contributions have allowed Wikimedia Commons to
become a vital resource for educational and historical content, and ensured
the increasing depth and richness of the illustrations for articles on
Wikipedia.
The Foundation recognizes the vibrant Wikimedia Commons community, which is
responsible for increasing the availability of freely licensed images and
information to the public. The Commons community takes its role as a
guardian of the rights of creators extremely seriously, working diligently
to confirm authorship and licensing status of the media uploaded to
Commons. This work is reflected in the low number of DMCA takedown requests
received by the Wikimedia Foundation every year.
Erik Moeller, then a volunteer Wikimedian, first proposed the Commons in
March 2004 as a common repository for the images that Wikipedians had begun
uploading to illustrate the free online encyclopedia’s growing collection
of articles. Today, Moeller is the Wikimedia Foundation’s Deputy Director
and VP of Engineering, and Commons is the world’s largest repository of
freely licensed educational media on the internet.
“The Wikimedia Commons community is the reason these freely-licensed images
exist for everyone to enjoy." said Moeller. “Our next steps are to prepare
Wikimedia Commons for the future, including support for rich, structured
metadata; a massively improved user experience for uploading media; better
tools for editing media content through the web; and better support for
video. The first decade was just the beginning.”
The Foundation is thrilled to be celebrating these and many more
achievements of the project’s first decade.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
https://wikimediafoundation.orghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
receive 413 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most
popular web property world-wide (comScore, July 2014). Available in 287
languages, Wikipedia contains more than 32 million articles contributed by
a global volunteer community of roughly 80,000 people. Based in San
Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3)
charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants.
Wikimedia Foundation Press Contact:
Communications, Wikimedia Foundation
+1 415-839-6885 ext 6633kmaher[image: @]wikimedia.org
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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 1:16 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Education] Individual Engagement Grant funding available
To: "wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Editor Engagement <ee(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "A mailing list for the
Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and
analytics." <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Education <
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Forwarding from Siko Bouterse:
Greetings! The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants program is
accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG>
Your idea can improve Wikimedia projects by building a new tool or gadget,
organizing a better process on your wiki, conducting research on an
important issue, or providing other support for community-building. Whether
you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your
own project development time in addition to funding for a team to help you.
The program has a flexible schedule and reporting structure, and
Grantmaking staff are there to support you through all stages of the
process.
Do you have have a good idea, but you are worried that it isn’t developed
enough for a grant? Put it into the IdeaLab, where volunteers and staff
can give you advice and guidance on how to bring it to life. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab> Also, IEG will be hosting
three Hangout Sessions for real-time discussions to help you make your
proposal better - the first will happen on September 16th. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events#Upcoming_events>
For inspiration, you can read more about past projects <
https://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/individual-engagement-grants/> that received
funding or review open proposals <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-reviewing>. We are excited
to see some of the new ways your grant ideas can support our community and
make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects.
Submit your proposal in September! <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-apply>
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সুধী,
মাসিক উইকিমিটআপের ধারাবাহিকতায় আগামী ৬ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০১৪ তারিখে অনুষ্ঠিত
হবে *উইকিমিটআপ
ঢাকা ১৯। *স্থানঃ শেলটেক নিরিবিলি, ২১০/২ এলিফেন্ট রোড, (বাটা সিগন্যালের
কাছে), ঢাকা। সময় বিকাল ৫টা থেকে সন্ধ্যা ৭টা। বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ার দশ বছর
পূর্তি, বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া ফটোগ্রাফি প্রতিযোগিতা এবং অন্যান্য বিষয়ে আলোচনা
হবে।
আগ্রহীরা দয়া করে উইকিপিডিয়া ইভেন্ট পেজ-এ নাম অন্তর্ভুক্ত করুন।
বিস্তারিতঃ
ফেসবুক ইভেন্ট পেজঃ https://www.facebook.com/events/292010884331448/?source=1
বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া সম্মিলনঃ https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/
উইকিপিডিয়া:সম্মিলন/ঢাকা_১৯
ইংরেজি উইকিপিডিয়া ইভেন্টঃ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Dhaka/Dhaka19
Regards -
Tanweer Morshed
Wikimedia Bangladesh
Dear All,
A good news. Bengali Wikipedia Administrator & Long time wikipedian Jayanta
Nath elected as new President of Wikimedia India chapter. Congratulation
Jayanta da..
:)
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From: Jayanta Nath <jayanta(a)wikimedia.in>
Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:52 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Chapter: Current state of
affairs
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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From: Jayanta Nath <jayanta(a)wikimedia.in>
Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 10:45 PM
Subject: Wikimedia India Chapter: Current state of affairs
To: wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com
Cc: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." <
wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedia India Chapter members and other interested stakeholders in
the list,
Dear members,
The Executive committee of Wikimedia India has held an emergency
teleconference on their official DSNL channel on 31 Aug 2014. As salient
items on the agenda, the following topics were discussed and decided upon:
1. Earlier, Radhakrishna Arvapally, a senior chapter member and former
Chair of Bangalore SIG, was co-opted by an emergency resolution. The
resolution was passed unanimously. The resolution had also proposed another
senior member. However, due to heavy personal engagements, the second
nominee requested the EC to exempt from such considerations.
Radhakrishna was invited to the telecon and was officially welcomed to be
part of the EC.
2. Jayanta Nath, a senior Wikipedian from Kolkata and EC member, was
unanimously elected as the new President of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
Also, Radhakrishna Arvapally and Viswanathan Prabhakaran were elected as
the new Secretary and Treasurer of the chapter respectively.
3. Any decision about hiring is kept on hold for now. The current EC agreed
together that the opinion of the new EC (emerging through the upcoming
general elections) should also be taken on-board for a major decision like
this, since they are the ones to deal with the newly hired candidate(s)for
a longer term.
4. Another extra ordinary EC Telecon was scheduled to be conducted
tentatively on 02 September 2014, 9.00 PM to take up other urgent matters
pending for decisions.
This is for the general information for all chapter members and other
interested stakeholders.
Thank You,
Jayanta Nath
President
Wikimedia India Chapter
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