Mailing List Archive: Re: Personal stories about Wikimedia / free portrait photos

Re: Personal stories about Wikimedia / free portrait photos

Aug 3, 2017, 10:24 PM

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What would you consider a significant percentage?

Peter

From: Wikimania-l [mailto:wikimania-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W
Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 11:19 PM
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For what it's worth, I agree with Kudpung that WMF should stop saying that "All of the articles on Wikipedia are written by volunteers". I doubt that anyone has reliable statistics on what percentages of articles are started and/or edited by individuals who likely benefit financially from their edits in one way or another, but the percentage on English Wikipedia is likely to be significant.

Pine

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:45 AM, cs <cs@edubkk.org> wrote:

‘All of the articles on Wikipedia are written by volunteers’

You’ll need to correct that for your next video - if you knew the extent of paid editing, blackmail, and extortion we are discovering and trying to combat you’d fall off your chair or drop your camera.

Kudpung

On 3Aug, 2017, at 00:33, Victor Grigas <vgrigas@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hello Wikimedians!

My name is Victor Grigas, I’m a storyteller and <https://www.youtube.com/user/WikimediaFoundation/videos> video producer at the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that supports Wikipedia. Many of you may already know me or my work. I'll be in Montreal at Wikimania from Thursday August 10th through Sunday August 13th and wanted to ask that if you know someone or are someone who has an inspiring story to share about how you use Wikimedia projects, then we'd like to hear it!

If you are interested, please answer a few questions on this private Google form or share it with someone you know who will be attending Wikimania:

<https://goo.gl/forms/h6a9TWFyFMs4qgua2> https://goo.gl/forms/h6a9TWFyFMs4qgua2

(All answers are confidential and we will not publish your story without first getting your written permission.)

We publish profiles of Wikimedians here regularly:
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/communications/profiles/> https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/communications/profiles/

Then, in Montreal I can take your portrait photo <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_%28WMF%29#A_few_Wikipedians> for free to publish on Wikimedia Commons. I’ll be there from Thursday August 10th through Sunday August 13th. I’ll only need a few minutes of your time to take your photo and we can co-ordinate by email. Once I'm there, I'll have a better idea of where I'll be for the best lighting setup.

If you have any questions, feel free to email Victor Grigas - <mailto:vgrigas@wikimedia.org> vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Thank you!

--

Victor Grigas

Video Production Manager

and Storyteller

Wikimedia Foundation <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4ba28-oGs>

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

https://donate.wikimedia.org/

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Re: Personal stories about Wikimedia / free portrait photos [ In reply to ]

lists at revi

Aug 3, 2017, 10:28 PM

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Hi,

I don't think this is an appropriate topic ('paid editor') for wikimania-l, in a thread for 'personal stories about Wikimedia / free portrait photos'.

Thanks.

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2017. 8. 4. 14:24 Peter Southwood <peter.southwood@telkomsa.net> ???:

> What would you consider a significant percentage?
> Peter
>
> From: Wikimania-l [mailto:wikimania-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W
> Sent: Thursday, August 3, 2017 11:19 PM
> To: Wikimania general list (open subscription)
> Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Personal stories about Wikimedia / free portrait photos
>
> For what it's worth, I agree with Kudpung that WMF should stop saying that "All of the articles on Wikipedia are written by volunteers". I doubt that anyone has reliable statistics on what percentages of articles are started and/or edited by individuals who likely benefit financially from their edits in one way or another, but the percentage on English Wikipedia is likely to be significant.
>
> Pine
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:45 AM, cs <cs@edubkk.org> wrote:
> ??All of the articles on Wikipedia are written by volunteers??
>
> You??ll need to correct that for your next video - if you knew the extent of paid editing, blackmail, and extortion we are discovering and trying to combat you??d fall off your chair or drop your camera.
>
> Kudpung
> On 3Aug, 2017, at 00:33, Victor Grigas <vgrigas@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Wikimedians!
>
> My name is Victor Grigas, I??m a storyteller and video producer at the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that supports Wikipedia. Many of you may already know me or my work. I'll be in Montreal at Wikimania from Thursday August 10th through Sunday August 13th and wanted to ask that if you know someone or are someone who has an inspiring story to share about how you use Wikimedia projects, then we'd like to hear it!
>
> If you are interested, please answer a few questions on this private Google form or share it with someone you know who will be attending Wikimania:
>
> https://goo.gl/forms/h6a9TWFyFMs4qgua2
> (All answers are confidential and we will not publish your story without first getting your written permission.)
>
> We publish profiles of Wikimedians here regularly:
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/communications/profiles/
>
> Then, in Montreal I can take your portrait photo for free to publish on Wikimedia Commons. I??ll be there from Thursday August 10th through Sunday August 13th. I??ll only need a few minutes of your time to take your photo and we can co-ordinate by email. Once I'm there, I'll have a better idea of where I'll be for the best lighting setup.
>
> If you have any questions, feel free to email Victor Grigas - vgrigas@wikimedia.org
>
> Thank you!
>
> --
>
> Victor Grigas
> Video Production Manager
> and Storyteller
> Wikimedia Foundation
> vgrigas@wikimedia.org
> https://donate.wikimedia.org/
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikimania-l mailing list
> Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
>
>
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Re: Personal stories about Wikimedia / free portrait photos [ In reply to ]

gnangarra at gmail

Aug 3, 2017, 10:31 PM

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I think the videos are a great idea I did one back in 2012 in Washington, I
think that its important for our stories to be captured by the WMF so that
people can understand some of the people behind making Wikipedia. Our
history and our people are as important as those that we are sharing

Please get behind Victor and make this happen, I'd offer to do another but
I wont be in Montreal

On 4 August 2017 at 13:28, Yongmin H. <lists@revi.pe.kr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't think this is an appropriate topic ('paid editor') for
> wikimania-l, in a thread for 'personal stories about Wikimedia / free
> portrait photos'.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Yongmin
> Sent from my iPhone
> https://wp.revi.blog
> Text licensed under CC BY ND 2.0 KR
> Please note that this address is list-only address and any non-mailing
> list mails will be treated as spam.
> Please use https://encrypt.to/0x947f156f16250de39788c3c35b625da5beff197a.
>
> 2017. 8. 4. 14:24 Peter Southwood <peter.southwood@telkomsa.net> ??:
>
> What would you consider a significant percentage?
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> *From:* Wikimania-l [mailto:wikimania-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org
> <wikimania-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org>] *On Behalf Of *Pine W
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 3, 2017 11:19 PM
> *To:* Wikimania general list (open subscription)
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimania-l] Personal stories about Wikimedia / free
> portrait photos
>
>
>
> For what it's worth, I agree with Kudpung that WMF should stop saying that
> "All of the articles on Wikipedia are written by volunteers". I doubt that
> anyone has reliable statistics on what percentages of articles are started
> and/or edited by individuals who likely benefit financially from their
> edits in one way or another, but the percentage on English Wikipedia is
> likely to be significant.
>
> Pine
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:45 AM, cs <cs@edubkk.org> wrote:
>
> ‘All of the articles on Wikipedia are written by volunteers’
>
>
>
> You’ll need to correct that for your next video - if you knew the extent
> of paid editing, blackmail, and extortion we are discovering and trying to
> combat you’d fall off your chair or drop your camera.
>
>
>
> Kudpung
>
> On 3Aug, 2017, at 00:33, Victor Grigas <vgrigas@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hello Wikimedians!
>
> My name is Victor Grigas, I’m a storyteller and video producer
> <https://www.youtube.com/user/WikimediaFoundation/videos> at the
> Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that supports Wikipedia. Many of you
> may already know me or my work. I'll be in Montreal at Wikimania from
> Thursday August 10th through Sunday August 13th and wanted to ask that if
> you *know someone *or *are someone* who has an inspiring story to share
> about how you use Wikimedia projects, then we'd like to hear it!
>
>
>
> If you are interested, please answer a few questions on this private
> Google form or share it with someone you know who will be attending
> Wikimania:
>
> https://goo.gl/forms/h6a9TWFyFMs4qgua2
>
> (All answers are confidential and we will not publish your story without
> first getting your written permission.)
>
>
> We publish profiles of Wikimedians here regularly:
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/communications/profiles/
>
>
>
> Then, in Montreal I can take your portrait photo
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:VGrigas_%28WMF%29#A_few_Wikipedians> for
> free to publish on Wikimedia Commons. I’ll be there from Thursday August
> 10th through Sunday August 13th. I’ll only need a few minutes of your time
> to take your photo and we can co-ordinate by email. Once I'm there, I'll
> have a better idea of where I'll be for the best lighting setup.
>
> If you have any questions, feel free to email Victor Grigas -
> vgrigas@wikimedia.org
>
> Thank you!
>
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> *Victor Grigas*
>
> Video Production Manager
>
> and Storyteller
>
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ4ba28-oGs>
>
> vgrigas@wikimedia.org
>
> https://donate.wikimedia.org/
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikimania-l mailing list
> Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
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>
>
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