Re: [Wikimedia-l] Moving forward: a proposal (Re: Community/WMF)
FT2, 13/05/2013 01:59: [...] This is not at all the first time of clumsy handling, or conflicting actions and perceptions, leading to tensions and drama between the editing community and foundation. [...] I don't know if that's the actual problem, I would like the outcome to be a *living document*, like any other major policy, that can be used to *understand how to reduce friction*, and *best practices and understandings of viewpoints, within different parts of our Movement*, and thereby ensuring everyone involved is more aware of these aspects and of best practices in working with other areas and subgroups in our Community. [...] nor if this may help, even if it was possible to write such a document. I thought yes after reading https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Patience and remembering http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/CommunityMayNotScale «community standards and unwritten rules stop working», which may suggest to make rules written. But Clifford Adams notes on that page: «I wonder if it is the community focus that is not scaling». Indeed, what's the focus/scope of foundationwiki now? I don't have the slightest idea, after the recent facts. Perhaps the WMF does, but it completely failed to communicate it: [[Wikimedia:Welcome]] has never been updated; roles are now more unclear than ever. We also have a precedent: for a while people tried to establish standards for Internal-l, and mostly failed; then they started wondering *why* did Internal-l even exist, and again failed to answer; conclusion, they just decided to stop communicating and now hardly look at each other. Lovely. So the two concrete suggestions to which I came while writing this are: 1) Decide who at WMF is in charge of WMF wiki (Comms would seem the most obvious? it's all LCA department anyway), define its scope and communicate it; decide roles and technologies in consequence. If [[Wikimedia:Welcome]] hadn't been so outdated, maybe community members would have understood what was expected from them; etc. 2) Appoint Clifford Adams to the advisory board and start using the AB at last? ;-) Sunir Shah too (already noted several times on this list). Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] 2012 Fundraiser report
Hello all, The 2012 fundraiser report is up on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2012/report We are currently working on a separate report with the results from our A/B tests (from 2012 as well as previous years). If you have questions or comments, please leave them on the report talk page. Thanks, Megan -- Megan Hernandez Head of Annual Fundraiser Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Flow Portal(s)
Hi Brandon, Thanks for the announce and also for the effort of letting the door open for suggestions and feedback. I regard Flow as an excellent tool for centralizing all communications in one spot and I really hope user involvement is as high as this tool would deserve. So far the test page looks really appealing! I would like to make you aware of a related problem which is that of interwiki or interproject presence. Sometimes it is wanted that a certain set of pages is present across several wikis (like in the case of the Flow portal), and the best approximation we had to this is interwiki transclusion. This kind of soft transclusion is less than ideal, because users following a transcluded page won't get notified of a change, cannot edit the transcluded page and besides they are difficult to create. Would be there any way to simulate a hard transclusion? What I have in mind is: - a set of pages in meta can be declared of interest for selected projects/languages - mirror pages are created on the selected wikis/projects/languages (bot drudgery? db necromancy? flow magic?) - changes are notified in the recent changes of all relevant projects, subscribers are notified What are your thoughts on this? Cheers, David --Micru On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Brandon Harris bhar...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hello! As many of you know, the Wikimedia Foundation is now actively engaged in designing a next-generation discussion and workflow system called Flow, initially slated to replace user talk pages. Flow is an ambitious project (on par with the VisualEditor) and will touch nearly every aspect of the Wikimedia experience. We need ''your'' help and input. We have started a portal for information and discussion. You can find it on the English Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Flow And on MediaWiki here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal (We'll be creating one on meta as well). At the Flow portal, you can read about what we're doing and why, as well as play around with an interactive prototype. We're desperately interested in your feedback and thoughts. There are things that we know, and things that we know that we don't know. But there are also things that we *don't* know that we don't know. And we want to reduce that lack of knowledge. We will also be conducting additional office hours for a variety of timezones - as many as we need to - and will also be open to having conversations via Google hangouts and/or Skype as need be. I am always around on irc (freenode, username jorm) and am willing to answer any questions you may have. -b. --- Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Etiamsi omnes, ego non ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Elections 2013
While there are enough candidates for almost unpredictable elections for Board (thanks to Sj's late candidature) and there are three good candidates for two positions in FDC, there is no candidate for FDC Ombudsman position and deadline is tomorrow evening. So, if you have experience in finances and you are willing to read complains and act upon them, or you know someone like that, please take the initiative and become or find a candidate. And, of course, you can consider to make Board and FDC elections more interesting by submitting your candidature there :) On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are now being accepted for the 2013 Wikimedia Foundation Elections. This year, elections are being held for the following roles: - Board of Trustees The Board of Trustees is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long term sustainability of the Foundation, so we value wide input into its selection. There are three positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/Board_elections/2013. - Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Framework_for_the_Creation_and_Initial_Operation_of_the_FDCmakes recommendations about how to allocate Wikimedia movement http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia funds to eligible entities. There are two positions being filled. More information about this role can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/FDC_elections/2013. - Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Ombud The FDC Ombud receives complaints and feedback about the FDC process, investigates complaints at the request of the Board of Trustees, and summarizes the investigations and feedback for the Board of Trustees on an annual basis. One position is being filled. More information about this role can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013/FDC_Ombudsperson_elections/2013. The candidacy submission phase lasts from 00:00 UTC April 24 to 23:59 UTC May 17. More information on this election can be found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2013. Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump, or to translate it and distribute it on other Wikimedia movement mailing lists. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, board-elections AT wikimedia.org On behalf of the Election Committee, Risker ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee 2012 Annual Report
Gregory Varnum, 12/05/2013 19:47: Nemo, I'm not sure what you mean by a single person's POV. Are you referring to Stephen? No. It doesn't matter who that is. While it is true that WMF Legal did the final writing of some guidelines - a few points: 1. They are guidelines - and AffCom has flexibility if it so desires and finds necessary. 2. They were written based on feedback from non-AffCom folks on talk pages, Milan, and elsewhere - as well as based on input from AffCom. 3. Naming guidelines exist for chapters and other entities - this is nothing new. 4. A final summarizing guideline or document being written by one person with unique skills, such as legal, is also nothing new, unusual, or implies that only their views are represented - that's just not true. A talk page post is not a final summarizing guideline. At best, it should be moved to main namespace and tagged properly (explaining how it got to guideline status etc. etc.). Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliations Committee 2012 Annual Report
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: Gregory Varnum, 12/05/2013 19:47: Nemo, I'm not sure what you mean by a single person's POV. Are you referring to Stephen? No. It doesn't matter who that is. Geoff speaking and signing his post as General Counsel is definitely carrying weight. Due to their initial nature, it was necessary to see whether it would change based on discussions, but if only by nature of the time elapsed and the repeated commitments from the legal department confirming that these guidelines are operative make them policy. While it is true that WMF Legal did the final writing of some guidelines - a few points: 1. They are guidelines - and AffCom has flexibility if it so desires and finds necessary. 2. They were written based on feedback from non-AffCom folks on talk pages, Milan, and elsewhere - as well as based on input from AffCom. 3. Naming guidelines exist for chapters and other entities - this is nothing new. 4. A final summarizing guideline or document being written by one person with unique skills, such as legal, is also nothing new, unusual, or implies that only their views are represented - that's just not true. A talk page post is not a final summarizing guideline. At best, it should be moved to main namespace and tagged properly (explaining how it got to guideline status etc. etc.). Indeed, I think now we can consider those initial thoughts to have stuck and as general clean up we will be incorporating it by reference or directly into the guidelines on setting up thematic organizations. (It is already included in the user group guidelnies by reference, but a cleaned up version on a separate page or a summary would be the way to go). Thanks, Bence ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] All the lakes in Sweden
A new major botgenerating effort is now under way on sv:wp. All lakes (3, all down to ones of pondsizes with no name) is now produced based on lake data from Swedish metereology institute and all lake environment data from a newly set up authority demanded by EU, in order to register and track all data of lakes in all Europe. The articles are generated by AWB and with some manual effort to take care of text in existing articles and a major effort taking care of all with the same name (Little lake, Black lake etc) Examples http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96ren,_Sm%C3%A5land http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunn Also on maps from Google or Bing you can localize all lakes if you do not know the name (and for the ones missing name) https://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://toolserver.org/~para/cgi-bin/kmlexport%3Fproject%3Dsv%26article%3DKategori%253AInsj%2525C3%2525B6ar_i_J%2525C3%2525B6nk%2525C3%2525B6pings_kommun or http://www.bing.com/maps/?mapurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolserver.org%2F%7Epara%2Fcgi-bin%2Fkmlexport%3Fproject%3Dsv%26article%3DKategori%253AInsj%2525C3%2525B6ar_i_J%2525C3%2525B6nk%2525C3%2525B6pings_kommun As you can see the text is substantial around 5000 characters and even thing like fisharts in the lakes are generated from databases. We are now starting to contemplate to put these type of basedata in Wikidata (we are experimenting with this for some adm units), and to generate the articles from that as a base instead of from database extracted from the authorities and put on personal PCs We have excellent relations with involved authorities that are really happy with the result, and we are now being approached by other authorites who wants to follow and get their data from theirs databases used to generate qualified Wp articles (like all runestones, all archaeological excavations sites, all artworks placed on official grounds etc) Are there any other effort like this going on, especially if any one come further in establish links from authorities databased to wikidata? Anders ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patience
I agree that patience is a very important virtue in some situations, such as when we coach newbies or seek consensus among many people. But it's sometimes not a virtue, such as in many crisis situations. As a metrics and performance enthusiast, I feel that it's possible to have an appropriate mix of patience and impatience, and people should be appropriately accountable for their performance. Pine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patience
I agree that patience is a very important virtue in some situations, such as when we coach newbies or seek consensus among many people. But it's sometimes not a virtue, such as in many crisis situations. As a metrics and performance enthusiast, I feel that it's possible to have an appropriate mix of patience and impatience, and people should be appropriately accountable for their performance. Pine Fine, so long as people don't make emergencies out of things that could very well be carefully considered and decided. We are not [plug in name of political idiot]. Fred ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patience
On 5/16/2013 11:52 AM, ENWP Pine wrote: I agree that patience is a very important virtue in some situations, such as when we coach newbies or seek consensus among many people. But it's sometimes not a virtue, such as in many crisis situations. As a metrics and performance enthusiast, I feel that it's possible to have an appropriate mix of patience and impatience, and people should be appropriately accountable for their performance. I suppose it depends what implications you attach to those words, but I would not recommend using impatience when what you really want is urgency. In my experience, the self-discipline that goes into everyday patience can actually remain a virtue in crisis situations as well, as it may help you remain clear-headed and make better decisions than you would if you let the circumstances overwhelm your ability to think rationally. And as Fred points out, a big part of my message relates especially to making emergencies out of things that are not. I also do not believe that patience is in any way incompatible with accountability. Patience does not require ignoring commitments, discarding performance evaluation, or even disregarding agreed timeframes. However, it does mean that the results of the evaluation should be well-considered and any consequences appropriate to the circumstances. Impatience tends to drive us to choose excessive consequences, like a lot of the somebody should be fired kind of talk over things that are honest mistakes. --Michael Snow ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] All the lakes in Sweden
In Italian Wikipedia, we are in contact with the National Library of Florence, and are establishing links between Wikipedia articles and the New national Thesaurus. Es. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q281108 In the Italian WP, we will have a sentence like https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikido#Collegamenti_esterni The bot on Wikidata is running right now, the bot in Wikipedia will run in the weekend. Aubrey On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: A new major botgenerating effort is now under way on sv:wp. All lakes (3, all down to ones of pondsizes with no name) is now produced based on lake data from Swedish metereology institute and all lake environment data from a newly set up authority demanded by EU, in order to register and track all data of lakes in all Europe. The articles are generated by AWB and with some manual effort to take care of text in existing articles and a major effort taking care of all with the same name (Little lake, Black lake etc) Examples http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%**C3%96ren,_Sm%C3%A5landhttp://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96ren,_Sm%C3%A5land http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Bunn http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunn Also on maps from Google or Bing you can localize all lakes if you do not know the name (and for the ones missing name) https://maps.google.com/maps?**q=http://toolserver.org/~para/** cgi-bin/kmlexport%3Fproject%**3Dsv%26article%3DKategori%** 253AInsj%2525C3%2525B6ar_i_J%**2525C3%2525B6nk%2525C3%**2525B6pings_kommunhttps://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://toolserver.org/~para/cgi-bin/kmlexport%3Fproject%3Dsv%26article%3DKategori%253AInsj%2525C3%2525B6ar_i_J%2525C3%2525B6nk%2525C3%2525B6pings_kommun or http://www.bing.com/maps/?**mapurl=http%3A%2F%** 2Ftoolserver.org%2F%7Epara%**2Fcgi-bin%2Fkmlexport%** 3Fproject%3Dsv%26article%**3DKategori%253AInsj%2525C3%** 2525B6ar_i_J%2525C3%2525B6nk%**2525C3%2525B6pings_kommunhttp://www.bing.com/maps/?mapurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftoolserver.org%2F%7Epara%2Fcgi-bin%2Fkmlexport%3Fproject%3Dsv%26article%3DKategori%253AInsj%2525C3%2525B6ar_i_J%2525C3%2525B6nk%2525C3%2525B6pings_kommun As you can see the text is substantial around 5000 characters and even thing like fisharts in the lakes are generated from databases. We are now starting to contemplate to put these type of basedata in Wikidata (we are experimenting with this for some adm units), and to generate the articles from that as a base instead of from database extracted from the authorities and put on personal PCs We have excellent relations with involved authorities that are really happy with the result, and we are now being approached by other authorites who wants to follow and get their data from theirs databases used to generate qualified Wp articles (like all runestones, all archaeological excavations sites, all artworks placed on official grounds etc) Are there any other effort like this going on, especially if any one come further in establish links from authorities databased to wikidata? Anders __**_ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] All the lakes in Sweden
On 16 May 2013 18:36, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se wrote: All lakes (3, all down to ones of pondsizes with no name) is now produced based on lake data from Swedish metereology institute and all lake environment data from a newly set up authority demanded by EU, in order to register and track all data of lakes in all Europe. The articles are generated by AWB and with some manual effort to take care of text in existing articles and a major effort taking care of all with the same name (Little lake, Black lake etc) Are these all on OpenStreetMap, too? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 19 -- 13 May 2013
News and notes: WMFâcommunity ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/News_and_notes In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/In_the_media Featured content: A mushroom, a motorway, a Munich gallery, and a map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/Featured_content WikiProject report: Knock Out: WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/WikiProject_report Arbitration report: ''Race and politics'' opened; three open cases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/Arbitration_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13 http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Project Med Foundation Newsletter: The Stethoscope
Lovely. Congrats, all of you. Keep it up. SJ On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Jacob Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The first edition of the The Stethoscope, our Wiki Project Med Foundation newsletter is out! Give it a read: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med/Newsletter Cheers, Jake Orlowitz Wikipedia: Ocaasi http://enwp.org/User:Ocaasi ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] FDC Letter of Intent due June 8 IRC office hours
Dear members of the Wikimedia community, You will have seen an email recently from Patricio Lorente and Jan-Bart de Vreede, the Board Reps to the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), about the FDC's new Letter of Intent process. The Letter of Intent (LOI) is the first step in applying for funds from the FDC, as outlined in the FDC Framework. [1] This upcoming year (2013-2014) will be the first time we institute the LOI process. As you heard from them, we anticipate the LOI will be a helpful planning tool for the FDC as well as offering us a chance to begin working with entities in advance of the FDC proposal deadline. We hope it will allow us to work closely with applying entities and to address questions and concerns (and clear up any misunderstandings) significantly before the proposal deadline. Interested entities must submit an Letter of Intent in order to apply for FDC funding. For Round 1 of 2013-2014, the LOI is due on June 8. The LOI asks potential FDC applicants to state their intentions to apply and to include a notional dollar figure (or local currency figure). The Letter of Intent can be created on the FDC portal [2], and a sample is here for your reference [3]. The LOI is non-binding, but it is required in order to be able to submit a proposal for Round 1. In anticipation of the LOI's June 8 deadline, the FDC staff is holding office hours twice to respond to questions. We welcome entities considering applying for Round 1 funding to join us. Our two office hours will be held on #wikimedia-office on: * Tuesday, May 28 at 0:00 UTC * Wednesday, May 29 at 15:00 UTC These two sessions will have the following agenda: 1. Introductions 2. Brief explanation of the FDC 3. Explanation of the purpose of the Letter of Intent and general FDC proposal process 4. QA on the LOI And finally, for your reference, here is the 2013-2014 Round 1 proposal process [4] schedule: - *Letter of Intent deadline for Round 1: 8 June 2013* - Deadline for WMF Staff to post eligibility: 15 July 2013 - Deadline for entities to meet eligibility requirements: 15 September 2013 - Proposal submission deadline: 1 October 2013 - Community review period: 1 October - 31 October 2013 - Staff assessment deadline: 8 November 2013 - FDC recommendation due: 1 December 2013 - Board decision due: 1 January 2014 As always, contact us questions or requests for support: fdcsupp...@wikimedia.org. Warm regards, Katy and the FDC support team [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Framework_for_the_Creation_and_Initial_Operation_of_the_FDC#Process_overview [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Sample_letter_of_intent [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposal_process ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] FDC Letter of Intent due June 8 IRC office hours
Hello again, all, I made a mistake with the two FDC Letter of Intent office hour times. The two times are actually: * Wednesday, May 29 at 0:00 UTC (which is Tuesday still in some parts of the world), and * Wednesday, May 29 at 15:00 UTC Sorry about that--I am usually better at navigating time zones. :) Hope to see some of you there! Katy On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Katy Love kl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear members of the Wikimedia community, You will have seen an email recently from Patricio Lorente and Jan-Bart de Vreede, the Board Reps to the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), about the FDC's new Letter of Intent process. The Letter of Intent (LOI) is the first step in applying for funds from the FDC, as outlined in the FDC Framework. [1] This upcoming year (2013-2014) will be the first time we institute the LOI process. As you heard from them, we anticipate the LOI will be a helpful planning tool for the FDC as well as offering us a chance to begin working with entities in advance of the FDC proposal deadline. We hope it will allow us to work closely with applying entities and to address questions and concerns (and clear up any misunderstandings) significantly before the proposal deadline. Interested entities must submit an Letter of Intent in order to apply for FDC funding. For Round 1 of 2013-2014, the LOI is due on June 8. The LOI asks potential FDC applicants to state their intentions to apply and to include a notional dollar figure (or local currency figure). The Letter of Intent can be created on the FDC portal [2], and a sample is here for your reference [3]. The LOI is non-binding, but it is required in order to be able to submit a proposal for Round 1. In anticipation of the LOI's June 8 deadline, the FDC staff is holding office hours twice to respond to questions. We welcome entities considering applying for Round 1 funding to join us. Our two office hours will be held on #wikimedia-office on: * Tuesday, May 28 at 0:00 UTC * Wednesday, May 29 at 15:00 UTC *Correction*: * Wednesday, May 29 at 0:00 UTC * Wednesday, May 29 at 15:00 UTC These two sessions will have the following agenda: 1. Introductions 2. Brief explanation of the FDC 3. Explanation of the purpose of the Letter of Intent and general FDC proposal process 4. QA on the LOI And finally, for your reference, here is the 2013-2014 Round 1 proposal process [4] schedule: - *Letter of Intent deadline for Round 1: 8 June 2013* - Deadline for WMF Staff to post eligibility: 15 July 2013 - Deadline for entities to meet eligibility requirements: 15 September 2013 - Proposal submission deadline: 1 October 2013 - Community review period: 1 October - 31 October 2013 - Staff assessment deadline: 8 November 2013 - FDC recommendation due: 1 December 2013 - Board decision due: 1 January 2014 As always, contact us questions or requests for support: fdcsupp...@wikimedia.org. Warm regards, Katy and the FDC support team [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Framework_for_the_Creation_and_Initial_Operation_of_the_FDC#Process_overview [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Sample_letter_of_intent [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FDC_portal/Proposal_process ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million
Hi folks! Maybe many of you have it already noticed. Nevertheless, spanish speakers wikimedians want to share with you our joy of that the spanish version of Wikipedia has surpassed the million of articles. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Estad%C3%ADsticas Thanks and congratulations to all volunteers that make it possible. Let's party! -- *Salvador Alcántar* *WMMX* *Iberocoop* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million
Awesome! Congratulations to ESWP contributors and to all Spanish speakers for the wealth of free knowledge at their fingertips. :) A. On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks! Maybe many of you have it already noticed. Nevertheless, spanish speakers wikimedians want to share with you our joy of that the spanish version of Wikipedia has surpassed the million of articles. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Estad%C3%ADsticas Thanks and congratulations to all volunteers that make it possible. Let's party! -- *Salvador Alcántar* *WMMX* *Iberocoop* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million
On 17 May 2013, at 01:19, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks! Maybe many of you have it already noticed. Nevertheless, spanish speakers wikimedians want to share with you our joy of that the spanish version of Wikipedia has surpassed the million of articles. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Estad%C3%ADsticas Thanks and congratulations to all volunteers that make it possible. Let's party! Congratulations! I've just updated www.wikipedia.org to reflect the new article count. :-) --- Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million
Hi. A curiosity. How could you go from 991k articles [1] to 1016k [2] in so few time? That is more than 20k articles in less than 2 days. Tom [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=5486358 [2] http://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Especial:Estad%C3%ADsticasaction=raw -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga t...@wikimedia.org wrote: [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=5486358 Well, it seems this page on meta get dynamicaly this number from some other place: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesArticlesTotal.htm I read once some discussion on the definition of total number articles because of this difference, I cannot remember where. -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million
Haha, gracias for clarifying! And congratulations for the mark, it is indeeed impressive. Although my main goal for the Portuguese Wikipedia will be to help our comunity catalyse the quality of key articles for educational purposes, not necessarily the quantity. ;) On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: In fact, was a technical mistake for which the counter was not taking into account ~20,000 lists articles wich in spanish Wikipedia have a special name space (Anexo:...). Was a surprising also for us when that bugg was fixed today and true was revealed. However, the fact is today we have 1,000,000 articles and a plus. Don't be jealous Everton! :P I'm kidding :D -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spanish Wikipedia first million
Hooray!!! Felicitaciones! This is so exciting. And hooray for 30,000 lists! (anexo:) :) -- phoebe On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Salvador A salvador1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks! Maybe many of you have it already noticed. Nevertheless, spanish speakers wikimedians want to share with you our joy of that the spanish version of Wikipedia has surpassed the million of articles. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Estad%C3%ADsticas Thanks and congratulations to all volunteers that make it possible. Let's party! -- *Salvador Alcántar* *WMMX* *Iberocoop* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers at gmail.com * ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue
Hi A few weeks ago MZMcBride proposed an exit interview for Sue on Meta. I believe his intention was something similar to Reddit's IAmA. I thought that this was a good idea and supported it. Sue has been at the helm for a long while, it would be interesting to get her reflection on all the changes, and give everyone who missed the last IRC office hour session, a chance to ask any lingering questions. Sue graciously accepted to do an exit interview a couple of weeks ago. The page is already set up on Meta[1] for this, and we have a few questions already. So far, things are organizing themselves pretty well with everyone voting on what questions are finally picked. Please understand that we want this to be a slow process, so everyone has time to see the questions and it can take weeks to get your answer. I would like to invite everyone reading this to have a look at the page. Please feel free to post your questions or vote for the ones already listed. Signpost, Wikinews or any other project/group that wants to use the exit interview is welcomed to follow that page and add to it. Thanks to MZ for getting things rolling on Meta and Sue, for accepting to do this. Regards Theo [1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_exit_interview/Sue_Gardner ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue
This was a wonderful idea. Thank you both for organizing it. SJ On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi A few weeks ago MZMcBride proposed an exit interview for Sue on Meta. I believe his intention was something similar to Reddit's IAmA. I thought that this was a good idea and supported it. Sue has been at the helm for a long while, it would be interesting to get her reflection on all the changes, and give everyone who missed the last IRC office hour session, a chance to ask any lingering questions. Sue graciously accepted to do an exit interview a couple of weeks ago. The page is already set up on Meta[1] for this, and we have a few questions already. So far, things are organizing themselves pretty well with everyone voting on what questions are finally picked. Please understand that we want this to be a slow process, so everyone has time to see the questions and it can take weeks to get your answer. I would like to invite everyone reading this to have a look at the page. Please feel free to post your questions or vote for the ones already listed. Signpost, Wikinews or any other project/group that wants to use the exit interview is welcomed to follow that page and add to it. Thanks to MZ for getting things rolling on Meta and Sue, for accepting to do this. Regards Theo [1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_exit_interview/Sue_Gardner ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue
Is there any thought or discussion as to whether Sue could (or would want to) additionally do an actual Reddit IAmA, as Jorm did? Don't get me wrong, I understand why it is on Meta and I think the Meta interview is a great idea, but there is also something to be said for presenting to an audience of people beyond our immediate community of users who even know about meta, which Reddit's IAmA subreddit is. Especially since Sue has done some very important work on things like gender issues and her departing thoughts on broader internet governance issues that would benefit from a wider audience. -Dan Dan Rosenthal On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: This was a wonderful idea. Thank you both for organizing it. SJ On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:09 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi A few weeks ago MZMcBride proposed an exit interview for Sue on Meta. I believe his intention was something similar to Reddit's IAmA. I thought that this was a good idea and supported it. Sue has been at the helm for a long while, it would be interesting to get her reflection on all the changes, and give everyone who missed the last IRC office hour session, a chance to ask any lingering questions. Sue graciously accepted to do an exit interview a couple of weeks ago. The page is already set up on Meta[1] for this, and we have a few questions already. So far, things are organizing themselves pretty well with everyone voting on what questions are finally picked. Please understand that we want this to be a slow process, so everyone has time to see the questions and it can take weeks to get your answer. I would like to invite everyone reading this to have a look at the page. Please feel free to post your questions or vote for the ones already listed. Signpost, Wikinews or any other project/group that wants to use the exit interview is welcomed to follow that page and add to it. Thanks to MZ for getting things rolling on Meta and Sue, for accepting to do this. Regards Theo [1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_exit_interview/Sue_Gardner ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exit Interview - Sue
Dan Rosenthal, 17/05/2013 07:32: Is there any thought or discussion as to whether Sue could (or would want to) additionally do an actual Reddit IAmA, as Jorm did? Don't get me wrong, I understand why it is on Meta and I think the Meta interview is a great idea, but there is also something to be said for presenting to an audience of people beyond our immediate community of users who even know about meta, which Reddit's IAmA subreddit is. Especially since Sue has done some very important work on things like gender issues and her departing thoughts on broader internet governance issues that would benefit from a wider audience. Note however that Reddit is an all-male environment, as noted on some other list linking this: https://infobeautiful3.s3.amazonaws.com/2013/01/1276_chicks_rule.png. (Still not as bad as Wikimedia!) Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
