חדשות ויקימדיה, מרץ 2015

הנה החדשות מ[וויקימדיה] במרץ 2015.

Editatonas photo by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 4.0. Raspberry Pi photo by Janet Chapman, CC BY-SA 4.0. Terry Gilbey photo by Myleen Hollero, CC BY-SA 3.0. Open data graph by Ellery Wulczyn and Dario Taraborelli, CC0 1.0. Kourosh photo by Myleen Hollero, CC BY-SA 4.0.

וויקימדיה נגד NSA: קרן וויקימדיה בתביעה נגד NSA לשינוי תוכנית הפיקוח ההמוני

Photo by Roland Meinecke, GFDL 1.2. במרץ השנה, קרן וויקימדיה הגישה תביעה כנגד הסוכנות לביטחון לאומי (NSA) ומשרד המשפטים של ארצות הברית. התביעה מאתגרת את תוכנית המעקב ההומוני של ה NSA.

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חודש היסטוריה של נשים

Photo by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Last month, we featured a special collection of stories on women and gender diversity in the Wikimedia movement, to celebrate International Women’s Day and WikiWomen’s History Month. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did.

• Meet some of the women who contribute to Wikipedia.

• Art+Feminism Events on International Women’s Day

• 15 women who made a difference

• Gender as a text field: What Wikipedia can learn from Facebook

• Inspire Campaign to fund new gender diversity initiatives.

• Why Italian fashion history should be just a click away: Virginia Gentilini.

• The Editatona: Helping women edit Wikipedia in Mexico

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Growing free knowledge through open data

Graph by Ellery Wulczyn and Dario Taraborelli, CC0 1.0.

Open data can help us understand how people find and share knowledge online. The Wikimedia Foundation’s Research and Data Team published 5 open data sets about Wikimedia projects.

Raspberry Pi in Masekelo: Bringing Wikipedia to a school without electricity

Photo by Janet Chapman, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Students in a Tanzanian high school without electricity can now access Wikipedia via Wi-Fi, using a donated Raspberry Pi computer. Find out how a generous donation is bringing this school into the 21st century.

Wikimedia Foundation adopts Open Access Policy to support free knowledge

Photo by LSE Library, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Wikimedia Foundation announces a new policy to make all research it directly supports freely available to the public under open licenses.

ברוכים הבאים לחברים חדשים בקרן וויקימדיה

Guy

Guy Kawasaki, Board of Trustees

קרן וויקימדיה שמחה להכריז שגאי קוואסאקי הצטרף לחבר הנאמנים שלנו. אדון קוואסאקי הוא סופר מעורך, יזם ומטיף לאינטרנט, שיביא שפע של ניסיון ופרספקטיבה לתנועה שלנו.
Photo by Nohemi Kawasaki, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Terry

Terry Gilbey, Chief Operating Officer

This month, we also welcomed Terry Gilbey as interim Chief Operating Officer, reporting to Executive Director Lila Tretikov. Previously, Terry was Executive Director of Enterprise Operations at Kaiser Permanente, and served in various management roles at IBM Global Services.

Photo by Myleen Hollero, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kourosh

Kourosh Karimkhany, VP Strategic Partnership

And Kourosh Karimkhany joined the WMF as VP of Strategic Partnerships, reporting to Lisa Gruwell. A longtime media executive, Kourosh has worked with leading companies such as Yahoo and Conde Nast — where he spearheaded the acquisition of Wired.com, Ars Technica and Reddit.

Photo by Myleen Hollero , CC BY-SA 4.0.

Andrew Sherman, Digital Communications Intern, Wikimedia Foundation

Fabrice Florin, Movement Communications Manager, Wikimedia Foundation