[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Nederland monthly report for April
April was a busy month for Wikimedia Nederland. Our report is available on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201304 It is also included as text in this message. We have changed the structure of our monthly report to match our Annual Plan 2013 and our FDC application. COMMUNITY: supporting and mobilising volunteers and editors - Wikimedia Nederland Conferentie Preparations have begun for the annual Wikimedia Nederland Conference which will take place on November 2. One of the themes will be 'editor diversity' - we are cooperating with WMDE who will be holding an international event on that topic a week later on November 9. We are still looking for volunteers to take charge of programming and publicity. - Wikipedia Training National Museum of Ethnology A basic editing training was given to students and employees of the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden by volunteers Erik Zachte, Hay Kranen and Boardmember Hans Muller.WORK: content, collaboration and activity development - WIki Loves Monuments The Wiki Loves Monuments team is preparing for the 2013 competition. This year, the focus will also be on municipal monuments and we are looking for funds to organise a combined Wiki Loves Monuments - editor training - publicity event in Den Haag. Wikimedia NL volunteer Els Arends published an article in the magazine 'Monumenten' about Wiki Loves Monuments, encouraging people to get involved. - Wikipedian in Residence at National Library and Archives The National Archives and National Library are going to hire a Wikipedian in Residence, a first for the Netherlands! This promises to be the start of a wider ranging cooperation between WMNL and these two national institutions. Focus of the cooperation will be improving content and recruiting editors. - CoSyne: final presentation to European Commission WMNL Board member Frans Grijzenhout attended the final presentation of the CoSyne http://cosyne.eu/index.php/Main_Page project to the European Commission in Luxembourg. WMNL's involvement was appreciated by the other partners in this project. - Wiki loves sound Wiki Loves Sound is a new initiative to promote use of sound in Wikimedia projects. In April, 1838 of the 2300+ sounds donated by The Netherlands Institute For Sound and Vision were uploaded to Commons and 50+ sounds were added to Wikipedia pages during an editathon. A Dutch spoken instructional video about adding sounds was made. - Wikivoyage Field research for Wikivoyage was carried out by students of the Nijenrode Business School. Reports and recommendations to be expected in May.WMNL: participation and support - The WMNL newsletter was distributed to members, donors and other interested parties. RESOURCES: Strong and sustainable financial position - Finalising Q1 report The first quarterly report following our FDC application was completed on time.GLOBAL: International collaboration *NB: reports by WMNL volunteers, board and staff who have attended international events can be found on the WMNL Wiki http://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internationaal* - Milano Wikimedia Conference WMNL Chair Ziko van Dijk, Treasurer Ad Huikeshoven and Executive Director Sandra Rientjes attended the Milano Wikimedia Conference. WMNL volunteer Lodewijk was also there on behalf of the Wiki Loves Monuments International coordination group. - EU policy working group meeting On April 6 and 7, representatives of WM-chapters met in Brussels to discuss EU-policy affecting copyright and internet freedom. Lodewijk and Romaine represented WMNL. A full reporthttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_Policy/Big_Fat_Brussels_Meeting/minutes of the meeting is available on Meta. - GLAM-Wiki Volunteers Lodewijk, Romaine and Maarten attended the Glam WIki event in London, as did GLAM coordinator Sebastiaan ter Burg. - International Amsterdam Hackathon preparations Preparations for the International Hackathon picked up pace in April with the programme being finalised and arrangements made to support visa applications and travel. It is expected that 140 participants will gather in Amsterdam, May 24-26.ORGANISATION: board, management and support - Board retreat weekend 6-7 April Board and Executive Director attended a two-day meeting, following the Board elections in March. Topics on the agenda were: division of tasks within the Board, cooperation and communication, recruiting new volunteers. - Hiring part-time staff member for finances Tom Kisters will start work on May 1. He will work on finances and office management. Sandra Rientjes Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland tel. (+31) (0)6 31786379 *Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:* Postbus 167Mariaplaats 3 3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht ___ Please
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?
Still about this: Thehelpfulone wrote: Last week I noticed a nice design for the list info page of the WLM-US mailing list that I tweaked for this mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-l Can you share the source? I'm happy to try it for wikitech-announce, tweaking it to fulfill the requests made (more accessible color schema and subscription fields visible without having to scroll down). Thank you! ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?
On 20 May 2013 18:04, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: Still about this: Thehelpfulone wrote: Last week I noticed a nice design for the list info page of the WLM-US mailing list that I tweaked for this mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-l Can you share the source? I'm happy to try it for wikitech-announce, tweaking it to fulfill the requests made (more accessible color schema and subscription fields visible without having to scroll down). Thank you! Sure! I haven't managed to get around to making those tweaks myself, so I'd appreciate your (and anyone else's) help. The code's at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone/Wikimedia-l and is generalised so that the only bits that manually need changing on a per-list basis are: - Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. - The logo: img src=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Wikimedia_logo_text_RGB.svg/200px-Wikimedia_logo_text_RGB.svg.png; class=aligncenterbr / - The LEARN MORE button and link: pa href=https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Our_projects; class=link-styleLearn more/a/p The Wikimedia Mailing List can be changed by modifying A terse phrase identifying this list. whilst the detail about the list can be modified at by adjusting An introductory description - a few paragraphs - about the list. It will be included, as html, at the top of the listinfo page. Carriage returns will end a paragraph - see the details for more info. in the list admin interface. Feel free to move the code to a more appropriate place and/or tweak as you see fit. :-) -- 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] movement blog, not WMF blog, was: Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:54 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 May 2013 15:40, Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org wrote: I'm not the right person to say it categorically, but as far as I'm aware, there haven't been any non-staff Admin level users on the blog, at least for some time (again, I've only been at the Foundation for two years and I'm qualifying this statement in case there were exceptions). As I understand it, because the blog is on the cluster and it could potentially be a security concern, there aren't volunteer admins. Right now the admins are the 5 people in Communications manager positions at the Foundation, plus Jay Walsh and a bunch of Ops folks. I don't imagine that will be changing, but that's above my level of understanding security and our other sites. This is about right. Admin in WordPress is much, much more powerful than admin in MediaWiki, much more like system administrator, and I really didn't have any need for the power to, e.g., add and remove plugins. I can approve/trash/spam comments, though, and when I do log into the blog that's what I use it for. interesting, and a little confusing at the same time. if it is system administrator why a communications manager does have this role then? and even more confusing, matthew, you are saying being a volunteer is a security concern? rupert. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?
On 05/20/2013 10:37 AM, Thehelpfulone wrote: Last week I noticed a nice design for the list info page of the WLM-US mailing list that I tweaked for this mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-l Sure! I haven't managed to get around to making those tweaks myself, so I'd appreciate your (and anyone else's) help. The code's at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone/Wikimedia-l I simplified it drastically: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce Feedback, please. Source (ugly after several mutations, but seems to work) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/wikitech-announce -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?
On 20 May 2013 23:41, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org wrote: I simplified it drastically: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-**announcehttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce Feedback, please. It certainly looks like accessibility have been improved. :-) However, it's missing the instructions on how to post a message to all list members (a bit obvious but probably still useful). Also that View this Page in language box needs to be in the default design as there are lists where English isn't the primary language used (the code for that is MM-lang-form-startMM-displang-box MM-list-langsMM-form-end). Could you make that Based on design by.. text just plain black without the shadow? Also perhaps a link to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists would be useful somewhere. Changing About Wikimedia to link to https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en instead with Our projects as a separate link is also something to consider. -- 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] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)
Well, it's Monday SF time (4 PM if Google doesn't lie to me), and we're still waiting for some explanations on why this situations happened /at all/. -- Tomasz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:02 AM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.net wrote: Well, it's Monday SF time (4 PM if Google doesn't lie to me), and we're still waiting for some explanations on why this situations happened /at all/. The problem with this kind of actions is personal inability to suppose what the action can produce. It could be a bureaucratic decision or something perceived as a small revenge, but I don't think that it would be done if the full consequences of the action were known, even the full consequences means raising this issue on wikimedia-l. If we are not talking about geeks with obsessive-compulsive disorder (where I belong from time to time), that's normal human behavior. What the real issue is and what is something which should and have to be solved, are the [cultural] norms, which the Board and the top management should enforce (mostly, through the education of staff). In that sense, it isn't productive to search for a scapegoat. The best way for dealing with the issues like this one is to make a pressure on Board and top management not to see something like this anymore. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?
Quim Gil wrote: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce Feedback, please. I would love to see this design or something similar become the default for Wikimedia's mailing lists. Compared to the current default,[1] I find the new design vastly more friendly and engaging. MZMcBride [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] making tech journalism easier to read
When you're trying to write a blog.wikimedia.org entry or wikitech-ambassadors email about a technical topic, but you want to make sure nontechnical Wikimedians can read it, is there an automated check you can run through? For general readability we have http://www.readability-score.com/ to check, for example, the Flesch-Kincaid reading ease. My blog entry https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/02/05/how-the-technical-operations-team-stops-problems-in-their-tracks/ has a grade level of 11.5, meaning that it would be difficult for someone to read it unless they had about as much English fluency as an average US student in their last year of pre-college schooling. In the future I will probably aim more for a grade level of 10 or so; we have a lot of non-native English speakers in our community. I think it's too difficult to rewrite everything in Up-Goer 5 http://splasho.com/upgoer5/ or Simple English Wikipedia style, even for regular-person-friendly blog entries about WMF Engineering,[0] but I am willing to be told if I am wrong. Aside from general readability, I also want to be careful about using jargon, and substitute more accessible terminology where possible. I may whip up a script to check whether some text has words from https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Glossary and the other site glossaries in it, unless someone has a better idea. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation [0] I just tried rewriting a couple sentences from my blog post in Up-Goer 5 style. Now, we are looking forward to making more places to give people their words and pictures, more quickly. The team is planning to make another place like that. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?
I'm glad you like it. I will wait for more feedback and once we feel that this is good I will clean the code (we are just using a small portion of all those styles). On 05/20/2013 03:56 PM, Thehelpfulone wrote: On 20 May 2013 23:41, Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org mailto:q...@wikimedia.org wrote: I simplified it drastically: https://lists.wikimedia.org/__mailman/listinfo/wikitech-__announce https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce All changes requested done: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User%3AQgil%2Fwikitech-announcediff=692551oldid=692469 About this: Also that View this Page in language box needs to be in the default design as there are lists where English isn't the primary language used (the code for that is MM-lang-form-startMM-displang-box MM-list-langsMM-form-end). Wikitech-announce only has English (USA) supported, therefore the language selector is pointless there. I have added the following to the template: !-- Optional multilingual selector -- !-- Mailman needs to be restarted to localize this custom template -- !-- http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030605 -- !-- MM-lang-form-startMM-displang-box MM-list-langsMM-form-end -- Those wanting the language selector must uncomment the last line and ask an admin to restart Mailman, otherwise the non-English versions will still appear with the old default template. Restarting *might* be also needed for lists with only one language supported different than English. (It would be nice if someone would test this to see if it really works. I'm just interpreting what the URL above says.) -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New design for the list info page?
MZMcBride, 21/05/2013 04:22: Quim Gil wrote: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-announce Feedback, please. I would love to see this design or something similar become the default for Wikimedia's mailing lists. Compared to the current default,[1] I find the new design vastly more friendly and engaging. Can't be the default because it's English only, isn't it. A workaround could be to remove custom linguistic content (for instance make About Wikimedia Foundation just Wikimedia and point it to some translatable page on Meta), but I've no idea how localisation of all this works. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
