"* Blog access has been restricted (as noted).
* Bugzilla adminship has been restricted to staff only.
* wikimediafoundation.org adminship is now restricted to staff and Board
Members.
* Shell access has been restricted to staff only (no more volunteer
sysadmins). Relatedly, the Toolserver is being slowly killed in favor of a controlled
sandbox called “Wikimedia Labs” and all Wikimedia accounts are being
unified (with forceable usurps/renames) to make it easier to track and
control users across all Wikimedia wikis. It’s very surprising that the Board has been so quiet about all of this.
Generally, a few staff members (notably Philippe and his team) have tried
to create “tiers” in which paid staff are above volunteers. Even the most
trusted volunteers are no longer allowed to hold positions of trust within
the Wikimedia community. This is very bad."

[Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

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UK: The National Archives opens up war art with Wikipedia
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/97058461

UK: The National Archives opens up war art with Wikipedia

http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/97058461

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awesomearchives:

‪The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, has donated more than 19,000 freely-licensed images of artworks to Wikimedia Commons. The Walters’ collection includes ancient art, medieval art and manuscripts, decorative objects, Asian art and Old Master and 19th-century paintings. The images and their associated information will join our collection of more than 12 million freely usable media files, which serves as the repository for the 285 language editions of Wikipedia. ‬

via the Wikimedia Blog

Well done Walters. This is an amazing resource!

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The Tulip Folly, Jean-Léon Gérôme, from the Walters Museum collection - http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/08/walters-museum-uploads-19000-photos-to-wikimedia-commons/

The Tulip Folly, Jean-Léon Gérôme, from the Walters Museum collection - http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/08/walters-museum-uploads-19000-photos-to-wikimedia-commons/

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