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The final session of the day was a plenary/wrap-up. Liam Wyatt led the group in going through all of the things that had been achieved throughout the weekend, and who would continue to work on them. Another potential GLAMcamp conference was discussed – which would be held in Europe, if at all – as
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clarifications on a number of points, most especially NFCC#8 in regards to television screenshots , NFCC#1 in regards to living people (ex. if a person was a notable child actor and is now 50 and still alive, if there are no free images of him as a child does NFCC#1 still apply?) and NFCC#2 (ex.
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Although many participants had arrived the day before, the event itself began on Friday, with a public workshop. Fifty extra people attended, from four US states, museums, libraries and archives (large and small), as well as several private art galleries, government agencies, universities,
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This is all very nice, and it's good to make it official. That being said, there are other pressing issues where clarification from the legal team could be useful. For one thing, the only way that the current battle over the NFCC is going to get settled is with the WMF legal team issuing
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On the final day around half of the participants made their way towards the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library. Sunday was mostly spent working on the projects that had been started during the previous two days.
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The final session of the day was a lengthy discussion of metrics and tools that could be used for GLAM-Wikimedia collaborations. Participants mentioned various tools, which can be seen on the
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and its subpages. The GLAM ambassadors group decided on a complete overhaul of the project, and renamed the system to "Local contacts", although the term "e-volunteer" was also suggested.
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for "knowingly distributing" such matter. (These allegations were rebutted by the Foundation's legal counsel at the time and do not appear to have resulted in any action by the FBI.)
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Day 2 started where Day 1 had left off: writing documentation. The POE group continued with what they were doing, and work began on a mass uploading tool. During this time,
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using the feature at the time of writing. An ArbCom injunction governed the mode in which PC protection was being replaced by semi- or full protection on BLPs, see
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From 20–22 May, around 30 Wikimedians from all around the world – four continents and eight countries in all – came together at the New York Public Library for
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speakers as bereft of their own Knowledge, – 4.9 million / 2 million people, respectively -, although they can be assumed to be familiar with the
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passed 150,000 articles on Sunday. At the time of writing, Farsi Knowledge has 1,738 active users and 20 administrators, and is the
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retain Vaoverland's recollections about his contributions to Knowledge since 2002, emphasizing the value of collaboration, and his
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The workshop lasted for two hours, and included a keynote presentation from Meg Bellinger from Yale University, which has
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has been published. Among other items reported previously in the Signpost, it notes that the legal department won an "
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at the "Deceased Wikipedians" page commends him for having been "unfailingly kind to new editors and veterans alike."
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it will release the contents of its digital archive into the public domain. This was followed with a quick talk from
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The first parallel sessions after lunch focused on more coding/documentation and a discussion of the proposal of a
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earlier this month, the Pending Changes protection was removed from all pages on the English Knowledge, with
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In the evening, the Wikimedians were given a VIP tour of the Met and visited normally unseen areas.
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case for the domain names wikkipedia.org and wekipedia.org", which had been used by a
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for the Greater Chesapeake Region and member of the Ambassador program's
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population data with the list of existing Wikipedias. (However, it was
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documenting internal staff practices in various matters. These include
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The rest of the day was spent on various tasks, although primarily on
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1.3 billion of humans don't have Knowledge in their native language
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A different version of the article about the GLAMcamp will appear
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on Schoolbusfleet.com (Fisher had been the owner and president of
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Temporary site logo celebrating the 150000th page on the
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WMF legal department publishes draft of internal policies
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from the first ever in-person meeting of the Wikimedia
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well as finishing off all of the new guides and tools.
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