http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/02/britain-loves-wikipedia-and-about-time.html I've added some background on what we do (ask nicely, take things slowly) and why. Others welcome, particularly as I've only done minimal GLAM liaison myself- d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@... Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
On 1 February 2010 13:40, David Gerard <dgerard@...> wrote: > http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/02/britain-loves-wikipedia-and-about-time.html > I've added some background on what we do (ask nicely, take things > slowly) and why. Others welcome, particularly as I've only done > minimal GLAM liaison myself
On 1 February 2010 14:41, David Gerard <dgerard@...> wrote: > On 1 February 2010 13:40, David Gerard <dgerard@...> wrote: > >> http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/02/britain-loves-wikipedia-and-about-time.html >> I've added some background on what we do (ask nicely, take things >> slowly) and why. Others welcome, particularly as I've only done >> minimal GLAM liaison myself
Today I'm excited to announce the Foundation's second major, multi-national partnership with a respected leader in global telecommunications: Telefónica. Most of you will have heard of, or perhaps are customers of, one of Telefónica's many properties and portals already. They are a Fortune 500 global telecommunications company - one of the largest in the world - with a major presence in Europe and especially throughout Latin America. This news will be announced fairly soon (Monday, 4:00PM UTC / 8:00AM PST) but I wanted to give all of you a quick heads-up before it went public. Today Wikimedia and Telefónica will co-announce the partnership, which consists of a three year, strategic partnership to extend the reach and access of Wikimedia's educational content. You may recall from Wikimania that Telefónica and Terra (a Telefónica company) were the main sponsors of the event and have already supported chapter activities in Argentina. We have extended this relationship into a multi-phase partnership to distribute Wikimedia's educational content in Telefónica territories worldwide. This partnership will support the Foundation's mission objectives, give us access to new technologies and R&D, and provide revenue to help us achieve financial sustainability. Telefónica also runs a non-profit Foundation that supports non-business activities to promote education in Spanish and Portuguese languages and, with good faith efforts, will find ways to help us with the development of content in those languages (via chapter activities, etc). Telefónica will also explore the development of offline readers for Wikimedia content to increase distribution. This is another significant opportunity to increase the access to(Continue reading)
This year, the International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (aka WikiSym) will be co-located with Wikimania in Gdańsk, Poland. WikiSym will be 7-9 July, while Wikimania will be 9-11 July. We intend to have one day of overlap, but the conferences are otherwise separate, but related events. The call for papers is below, and we hope that Wikimania attendees interested in research about wikis will participate. We are still working some of the logistics out, but I've written up a quick FAQ on WikiSym vs. Wikimania at http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiSym_and_Wikimania - if you have any more questions, feel free to ask. Thanks, Stuart Geiger (User:Staeiou) WikiSym '10 Publicity Co-Chair, Wikimedia Liason ====== CALL FOR PAPERS ====== W I K I S Y M 2 0 1 0 The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration http://wikisym.org/ws2010/Call+for+Papers July 7-8-9 in Gdańsk, Poland. Co-located with Wikimania 2010 (Intl. Conference on Wikimedia Foundation projects, http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org).(Continue reading)
Hmmm.... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: geert lovink <geert@...> Date: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:30 AM Subject: [Air-L] Critical Point of View: Wikipedia Research Conference (Amsterdam, March 26/27) To: air <air-l-aoir.org@...> Critical Point of View: Second international conference of the CPOV Wikipedia Research Initiative Date: 26-27 March 2010 Location: OBA (Public Library Amsterdam, next to Amsterdam central station), Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam Organized by the Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India. Website: www.networkcultures.org/cpov Discussion List: http://p10.alfaservers.com/mailman/listinfo/cpov_listcultures.org Wikipedia is at the brink of becoming the de facto global reference of dynamic knowledge. The heated debates over its accuracy, anonymity, trust, vandalism and expertise only seem to fuel further growth of Wikipedia and its user base. Apart from leaving its modern(Continue reading)
Dear all, As some of you will know, the Chapters Committee [1] is a Wikimedia Foundation board-appointed committee that is mainly responsible for the preparation of approval of new chapters. Currently, there are six members in the committee, and we are asking for candidates to increase the membership again. The chapters committee mainly reviews applications for the forming of a chapter on legibility and viability and reviews the bylaws of the organization. This requires communication with chapter candidates all over the world. Sometimes are applications straight forward and is the job mainly about reviewing the bylaws and ensuring stability in the long term that way, sometimes it involves more complex conversations about whether there are for example enough people involved in the candidate chapter. At the end of the process, the committee advices the board of the WMF on the decision to approve the chapter or not. The board makes the formal decision, but usually follows the advice. Key skills/experience that we are looking for in new members, are typically: * willing to work in a sometimes bureaucratic process (reviewing bylaws is boring) * 1-2 hour per week (on average) available * internationally oriented * Good communication skills in English * Communication skills in other major world languages are a pre * able to work and communicate with other cultures * a strong understanding of the structure and work of both chapters and the WMF(Continue reading)
Just to add my personal wish: I would like to see inside of the ChapCom members who are coming from a culturally/ethnically diverse areas (or members with significant experience in those areas). For example, India, Russia (out of monoethnic areas, but including Moscow), Middle East, Indochina, Indonesia, multiethnic African and European countries and similar. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@... Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Jay Walsh <jwalsh@...> wrote: > Hi all, > > In the next day or so Rand and the fundraising team will be sending out an email to all of our donors (about 230,000 - thanks to a tremendous fundraiser) recapping the campaign sharing our 2nd annual report, which you can also read here: > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Annual_Report Late to the party -- but just to reiterate what others have said -- this is a really lovely document, nice work. I especially like the article anatomy spread -- it's very well done and could make a nice separate handout on its own (with the timeline cut out). I also really like the choice of quotes on the back... we should get Nicholson Baker to speak sometime at an event :) A couple notes for next time: * I don't think the photo of Jimmy is identified anywhere? The photo credit is given but it doesn't say who he is :) perhaps this is intentional... stealth founder... like a stealth bomber but so much cooler. * the timeline is quirky and fun and I like it. But I wonder if some of these events could be tied back to wikip/media better. E.g. there's a note about swine flu; but it could also be noted that our articles on swine flu got over 200,000 hits/hour in the same time period, making wikipedia the 2nd most popular website in the U.S. on the subject.[1] There's a ton of interesting Wikimedia events, meetup dates, project milestones, etc. that could populate such a timeline instead of/in addition to general world events -- such a timeline(Continue reading)
This is exactly what I was working on : http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/02/facebook_hiphop_unveiled/ Compile php to c++. mike _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@... Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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