Hey all!
In the name of Wikimedia France, I express to all attendees our deepest
gratitude to see so much motivation for the hackathon!
On the other hand, I'd like to remind all of you that you can apply for a
scholarship til the 31st of March.
Follow the link to apply:
https://dons.wikimedia.fr/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=8
Don't miss the deadline! :)
Best regards,
Alex.
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Hi,
They were quite a few expressed thoughts on the 2015 Strategy -
Community consultation that raised in a way or another the idea of a
"Wikipedia for children". I've made some excerpt of them on the
following page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids/Excerpt_from_the_2015_Strategy/Com…
It actually does exist and are thriving in some languages (especially in
Dutch and French, and we actually worked for a while on [[m:Wikikids]]),
however they seem to be also some rampant objections. The WMF may not be
the most suited organization to host and promote such wikis, is it?
--
Mathias Damour
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Astirmayshttps://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Astirmays
This press release is also available online here:
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A version of this as a blog post is available here:
*https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/18/wikimedia-open-access-policy/
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/18/wikimedia-open-access-policy/>*
*Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge*
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Future research supported by the Wikimedia Foundation to be made freely
available
The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to making knowledge of all forms
freely available to the world. Beginning today, our new Open Access Policy
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy> will ensure that
all research work produced with support from the Wikimedia Foundation will
be openly available
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Open_Access_Initiative#Definition_of…>
to the public and reusable on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. We are
pleased to announce this new policy at the 18th ACM conference on
Computer-Supported
Cooperative Work and Social Computing <http://cscw.acm.org/2015/> (CSCW
2015).
“Wikimedia is committed to nurturing open knowledge for all, unrestrained
by cost barriers,” said Lila Tretikov
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lila_Tretikov>, executive director of the
Wikimedia Foundation. “The Wikimedia movement has a longstanding commitment
to open access practices. Today, we are excited to formalize that
commitment with this policy.”
Over the past decade Wikipedia has been the subject of hundreds
<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2021326> of academic
studies on topics such as flu forecasting
<http://www.technologyreview.com/view/532246/how-wikipedia-data-is-revolutio…>,
the influence of major global languages
<http://language.media.mit.edu/visualizations/wikipedia>, and Wikipedia’s
own geographic imbalances
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geographic_imbalance>. The
Wikimedia Foundation has made this research possible through a commitment
to making Wikipedia’s data open and accessible.
Open access scholarship is central to Wikimedia's mission to empower people
around the world to participate in knowledge creation. Access to these open
sources is critical to ensuring that articles on Wikipedia are reliable,
accurate, and reflect our ever-evolving understanding of the world.
Paywalls and copyright restrictions too often prevent the use of academic
research in this effort.
Our new Open Access Policy will ensure that all research the Wikimedia
Foundation supports through grants, equipment, or research collaboration is
made widely accessible and reusable. Research, data, and code developed
through these collaborations will be made available in Open Access venues
and under a free license <http://freedomdefined.org/> in keeping with the
Wikimedia Foundation’s mission to support free knowledge.
The Wikimedia Foundation is proud to join the growing ranks of leading
institutions with open access policies.
Wikimedia Foundation Open Access Policy
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy>
1. Expectations
Researchers will need to provide unrestricted access to and reuse of all
their research output if their research receives support from the Wikimedia
Foundation in the form of:
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funds;
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letters of endorsement;
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equipment, hosting, or office space;
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access to non-public data or special API privileges; or
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other support under an agreement between researchers and the Wikimedia
Foundation.
A. Proposal. Researchers will document their project on Meta-Wiki,
including the original research proposal, main research questions, and key
outcomes.
B. Supporting Materials. Researchers will deposit their work in a public
repository by the time of publication of any respective research article or
within three months after the termination of the project, whichever comes
first. The deposited work should be licensed as follows:
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aggregated and properly anonymized data produced as part of the project
under an Open Definition-conformant license
<http://opendefinition.org/licenses/>, preferably CC0;
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source code under the GNU General Public License version 2.0 or any
other Open Source Initiative-approved license
<http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical>;
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media files under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 or any
other free license <http://freedomdefined.org/Licenses>.
C. Published Materials. Researchers will publish all output in an Open
Access outlet under a Free License.
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If a work based on the project is accepted for publication in a peer
reviewed outlet that does not make its articles available online, free of
charge, and under free licenses, an electronic copy of the author’s
accepted manuscript will be submitted to a public and permanently
archived repository by the official date of publication, without any
embargo period, and released under a Free License.
2. Limited waiver
Specific waivers from the expectations above may be applied in limited
circumstances on a case-by-case basis. Researchers wanting a waiver are
required to submit to the Wikimedia Foundation, in writing, a detailed
explanation of why they require the waiver. The Wikimedia Foundation will
publicly post a summary of the request and its response.
The WMF Open Access Policy is effective as of March 18, 2015 for all new
research agreements. For more information, see the Frequently Asked
Questions <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy/FAQ> on
this policy.
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Dear Wikimedians,
At the Wikimedia Foundation, our mission is to empower, support and engage
people around the world to share in free knowledge. One of our top
priorities for the WMF in 2015 is improving organizational effectiveness in
service of this mission. This means we need to strengthen WMF's ability to
set and deliver on commitments, improve organizational discipline around
decision making, and mature internal processes and systems.
To ensure we can execute on our vision, mission, forthcoming strategy and
our Call to Action, we have hired for a new position within our C-level
team. Terry Gilbey will be joining us as interim Chief Operating Officer,
responsible for building rigor and discipline around our operational
processes. Terry’s role will help WMF stabilize our core operations so we
will be ready and able to adapt and innovate in our changing environment.
It will also help me find more time to focus on our products and
communities.
Terry comes from managing his own consulting firm and has been in a
consulting role at WMF working on a number of projects such as
goal-setting, financials, and budgeting. He has first-hand experience
working with the WMF leadership team, and we are all excited to work more
closely with him. Previously, Terry was the Executive Director of
Enterprise Operations at Kaiser Permanente, a nationwide healthcare
organization, and served in various management roles at IBM Global Services.
Terry is originally from England and has lived in the U.S., Europe, Asia,
and Central America. He currently lives in the South Bay, but also spends a
lot of time in Panama on a rural farm. He spends his spare time pursuing
unusual hobbies, such as bull riding, surfing, and more recently,
supporting a women’s flat track roller derby team. He also rides
motorcycles, does metal work, and has an avid interest in sustainability.
An early adopter of Tor, Terry believes strongly in the right to privacy
and the free and open access to knowledge as an equalizer.
With the COO position, we will be organizing our HR and Finance teams to
report to Terry. Garfield will continue as the CFO for the organization, a
member of the C-level team, and Treasurer of the Board. His roles and
responsibilities will remain unchanged, reporting to Terry. Terry and
Garfield will manage all financial and business planning activities and are
already making progress together. We’ll introduce Terry properly with a
short Q&A at the April metrics meeting.
It is with sadness that I report to you that Gayle Karen Young, Chief
Talent and Culture Officer has decided move onto her next adventure. Gayle
let me know she has been looking to move on some time ago, and she felt
this was the right moment in time. In her three and a half years within the
Foundation, she has made a tremendous impact creating a HR department that
is fundamentally about caring for the people in the organization and
offering services that allow people to do their best work, which has
supported our mission to help our communities thrive and curate knowledge.
While we will miss her wisdom and warmth, we thank her for her leadership
and celebrate her future adventures. HR will report directly to Terry at
this time.
Our purpose is to help Wikimedians around the world make the sum of all
knowledge available to everyone. We believe these changes, effective
immediately, will help us focus on our continued service to our community
and readers, and progress toward this mission.
Please join me in welcoming Terry as the newest member of our leadership
team and wishing Gayle well. We have much exciting work in 2015, and I’m
looking forward to all the great things we will accomplish as we work
together to support our vision.
~~~~Lila
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From: Sylvain Boissel <sylvain.boissel(a)wikimedia.fr>
Subject: Wikimedia Hackathon Lyon: registrations opened
Hi everyone,
Wikimédia France invites all developers to the *Wikimedia Hackathon 2015 in
Lyon, France*, from *23-25 May*. This event is the opportunity for all
Wikimedia community developpers and sysadmins to come together, squash bugs
and write great new features & tools.
The event is open to a wide range of developers. We welcome both seasoned
and new developers as well as people working on MediaWiki, tools,
pywikipedia, Wikidata, maps, gadgets, extensions, templates … . Please
suggest and discus topics at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/Wikimedia-Hackathon-2015/
We are also experimenting in pairing "*potes*" (buddies) to help newcomers
mingle in the hackathon. You can read more about it on
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#Pairing_buddies and put your name
on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015/Buddies if you are
interested.
You can indicate that you're coming at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015/Attendees (This doesn't
replace registration, it's just to let others know what you're up to.)
*The registration is now open* and also includes the possibility to apply
for a travel, accommodation or full scholarship; You can find the form at
https://dons.wikimedia.fr/civicrm/event/register?reset=1&id=8
Keep an eye on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015 for
updates!
See you in Lyon,
Sylvain.
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Hi all,
We're proud to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation today joins the
growing ranks of major institutions with open access policies. Our new Open
Access Policy <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy>[1]
will ensure that all research the Wikimedia Foundation supports through
grants, equipment, or research collaboration is made widely accessible and
reusable. Research, data, and code developed through these collaborations
will be made available in open access venues and under a free license
<http://freedomdefined.org/>[2] in keeping with the Wikimedia Foundation’s
mission to support free knowledge. You can read more about this effort in
today's blog post
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/18/wikimedia-open-access-policy/>[3].
[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy
[2] http://freedomdefined.org/Definition
[3] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/18/wikimedia-open-access-policy/
Manprit Brar
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Sorry if address here two questions but I am collecting some data and I
would double check to supply the most accurate information.
First question: can someone say me if there was a GLAM project managing
more than 4 languages?
Second question: do you know a GLAM project managing material in Latin
language?
Regards
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Ilario Valdelli
Wikimedia CH
Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens
Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre
Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera
Switzerland - 8008 Zürich
http://www.wikimedia.ch
Hi Bishakha,
Pardon my forking the thread here.
I have previously asked about having more transparency and openness for WMF
Board meetings. From my skimming of Board minutes, it's difficult to
perceive what level of diligence is being done by the Board. I realize that
corporate notetaking practices sometimes suggest summarizing discussions in
meeting minutes as "discussion about X" rather than listing detailed
questions. I would encourage more detail and transparency about Board
deliberations, along the lines of what is being done for departmental
quarterly reviews (which I greatly appreciate).
James' and others' points about the WMF Board's role being about high-level
strategic direction are well taken. I realize that the Board has limited
capacity to manage the organization, as do all the levels of management in
the organization. Even at the strategic level, I would hope to see more
Board transparency about deliberations for major decisions, which would in
turn give everyone in this quasi-democratic movement more visibility into
the Board's thinking and more confidence (I hope) that the Board is
providing sound leadership on behalf of the community.
How to reconcile the need for more transparency with the need to have frank
discussions is a difficult question. I would suggest that the Board take a
look at our laws in Washington State regarding open meetings for
governmental organizations, and the exceptions to open meetings laws.
Overall, I think we do pretty well here at having civil, frank discussions
in public most of the time. I have a lot of faith in the goodness of
democratic processes, and I believe that a quasi-democratic system is the
only viable way for a crowdsourced project like Wikipedia to succeed and to
thrive.
I suggest that WMF Board transparency, roles and composition would be good
subjects for discussion at the upcoming Wikimedia Conference. I hope that
current serving Board members would be willing to have that discussion
there in person. I'm sure that at least a few other attendees would be
interested in participating, and it might be possible to arrange remote
participation as well via live IRC interactions similar to what is done for
WMF metrics meetings.
Thank you very much,
Pine
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm generally supportive of this legal action, but I am troubled by this
> statement:
>
> "I trust our legal team to make decisions about what legal actions to
> participate in."
>
> ...WMF needs an activist board. All of the guidance that
> I read about boards in general says that good boards do due diligance, and
> I would encourage the WMF board to be proactive and ask tough questions.
> This can be done while maintaining a positive and respectful atmosphere.
>
> Dear Pine,
As a recently-retired board member, I want to briefly chime in here.
Apologies for dragging this thread off-course from the announcement.
There seems to be an assumption that board members don't ask good questions
unless they are 'activists' - that is simply not true of any board I'm on,
and most certainly not of the WMF board. To combine this with James' email
replying to yours, 'providing oversight', 'strategic direction' and 'doing
due diligence' often means asking the right questions, including 'tough'
questions - at board meetings or via email, but not publicly.
Over the last five years, we've seen greater and greater clarity in
separating board and staff roles at the WMF - that's a good thing that most
organizations need to do as they mature, and helps both the board and the
staff do what they should be doing, instead of getting their roles mixed
up.
Best
Bishakha
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*