Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Anna Torres Adell as new Wikimedia Argentina ED
Hi Anna I think you worked for the municipality of Tarragona. I wonder if you had any relationship with tarracowiki: www.tarracowiki.cat Sorry if I have confused you with another Anna Torres Adell. Anyway welcome to Anna and congratulations to Wikimedia Argentina. 2014-02-22 7:08 GMT+01:00 wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org: Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:49:37 -0300 From: Galileo Vidoni gali...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Anna Torres Adell as new Wikimedia Argentina ED Message-ID: cadibolicsjr1kh5m+eyks+tmacg+apjkiugvjsvphjkbs9q...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dear movement fellows, I'm pleased to announce that Wikimedia Argentina has a new Executive Director. Please welcome Anna Torres Adell to our movement! Anna was born in Barcelona but settled in Buenos Aires a couple of years ago. She is a licentiate in Political Science for the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and has post-graduate studies in International Cooperation; Management and Control of Public Policies; and Local Development and the Social Economy. She developed an interest on international cooperation and social matters since her teens, helping establish an educational NGO in Guatemala when she was just over 20. She has since lived and worked in Spain, México, Guatemala and Argentina. Before joining us at Wikimedia Argentina, Anna was the ED of PROEM Foundation, an organization aimed at coaching small businesses. Anna's track record also includes working with AECID, the Spanish agency for international cooperation, and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). She has extensive knowledge and experience in the five dimensions that we cared the most when recruiting: commitment with the social goal of free knowledge, working with volunteers, administration, program management and funding. Selecting Anna was not easy, but not because we couldn't find the right person: We had just too much good EDs we wanted to hire! Thankfully we could choose from an important pool of candidates and proceed to evaluate thoroughly each one of them. We received over 100 applications, of which not less than half were pertinent. We gave all of them a score and made successive filtering stages before arriving to the eight people we interviewed in person over the last days. As you may have read on this list back in January, our decision to hire a new ED has to do with Osmar leaving us to return to his home country. Let me highlight that this good news could not have been possible without Osmar's work and commitment. Not only he helped designing the work description for his replacement, but he also participated in the recruiting and hiring process. We are extremely grateful to all what he has done to advance our mission in Wikimedia Argentina, and while we are certainly saddened to see him go we know that both he and us are doing everything possible to leave the organization on track and in good hands. Programmatic work will not suffer from this leadership change; if any, we as Board will ensure it gets reinforced. Anna will formally start working with us on March 1, and throughout all of that month Osmar will continue with us in Benedict fashion as ED emeritus to ensure that all the necessary knowledge, proceedings and contacts are transferred from one administration to another. We are glad to have achieved this level of stability as an organization, and we'd love to spread the word about this happy and smooth transition in the WikimediaConference with whoever wants to hear us :). We asked Osmar to be one of our representatives in Berlin as his last act of service, so it will also be a nice opportunity for you to meet him. In the meantime, please welcome Anna to the Wikimedia movement and to this mailing list! Best regards, *Galileo Vidoni* Presidente A. C. Wikimedia Argentina ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Using Wikidata for your projects
Hoi, The tooling that Magnus has developed is gaining in maturity. It now has the functionality to enrich and visualise the data in Wikidata from the content of categories and lists in Wikipedias. It is possible to make sure that the subjects of *YOUR* project includes all the statements implied by categories. Adding statements to Wikidata items in this way is something that you can iterate over the many Wikipedias (the content of the categories is different in the many languages). Reasonator, the tool that makes information from the Wikidata data, is now able to show the content of that list in near real time. Such a list makes it exceedingly easy to add labels in *YOUR* language; it only takes a click, writing the label and one more click. Obviously, you will develop *YOUR* project and consequently Wikidata will be biased towards your data. The alternative worse; it is not having data. I have been adding information to Wikidata in this way and frankly it is really compelling to add this category or that category as well and consider consequences. What I am curious about is: - what you would like to see for your project. - how this works when many people work together in this way on Wikidata - how this translates to other Wikimedia projects. Thanks, GerardM List of Indian actors - http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/index.html?q=1291621 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Anna Torres Adell as new Wikimedia Argentina ED
Dear movement fellows, Thank you so much for your warm welcoming! As Galileo said and thanks to the support of the team and specially at this very first stage, from March 1st onwards I will asume the ED of Wikimedia Argentina Foundation. To be part of Wikimedia Argentina Foundation means to me an excellent professional challenge that I am prepare to assume and also the perfect place where to project - generating more and better results- all the years of trainning and work experience acquired during my career. During the last ten years I have worked in the field of human development and international cooperation from all its aspects- attempting different development sectors like social, economic, educational, sustainable and cultural development among others- and so I considere the development as the comprehensive management of all of these concepts which are nowadays the key in order to ensure fairer societies. With your support, our work together and a tool like Wikipedia, I'm sure that Wikimedia Argentina Foudations aswell as the rest of the chapters around the world, can set up a new framework to encorage the social, economic and cultural change we would like to see in the nearly future. In this connection, I hope not only, all of us, to create more inclusive projects, but these projects to be the result and the impact each one of us would like to build up! Thanks you so much for the opportunity! Anna Torres Adell On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Galileo Vidoni gali...@gmail.com wrote: Dear movement fellows, I'm pleased to announce that Wikimedia Argentina has a new Executive Director. Please welcome Anna Torres Adell to our movement! Anna was born in Barcelona but settled in Buenos Aires a couple of years ago. She is a licentiate in Political Science for the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and has post-graduate studies in International Cooperation; Management and Control of Public Policies; and Local Development and the Social Economy. She developed an interest on international cooperation and social matters since her teens, helping establish an educational NGO in Guatemala when she was just over 20. She has since lived and worked in Spain, México, Guatemala and Argentina. Before joining us at Wikimedia Argentina, Anna was the ED of PROEM Foundation, an organization aimed at coaching small businesses. Anna's track record also includes working with AECID, the Spanish agency for international cooperation, and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). She has extensive knowledge and experience in the five dimensions that we cared the most when recruiting: commitment with the social goal of free knowledge, working with volunteers, administration, program management and funding. Selecting Anna was not easy, but not because we couldn't find the right person: We had just too much good EDs we wanted to hire! Thankfully we could choose from an important pool of candidates and proceed to evaluate thoroughly each one of them. We received over 100 applications, of which not less than half were pertinent. We gave all of them a score and made successive filtering stages before arriving to the eight people we interviewed in person over the last days. As you may have read on this list back in January, our decision to hire a new ED has to do with Osmar leaving us to return to his home country. Let me highlight that this good news could not have been possible without Osmar's work and commitment. Not only he helped designing the work description for his replacement, but he also participated in the recruiting and hiring process. We are extremely grateful to all what he has done to advance our mission in Wikimedia Argentina, and while we are certainly saddened to see him go we know that both he and us are doing everything possible to leave the organization on track and in good hands. Programmatic work will not suffer from this leadership change; if any, we as Board will ensure it gets reinforced. Anna will formally start working with us on March 1, and throughout all of that month Osmar will continue with us in Benedict fashion as ED emeritus to ensure that all the necessary knowledge, proceedings and contacts are transferred from one administration to another. We are glad to have achieved this level of stability as an organization, and we'd love to spread the word about this happy and smooth transition in the WikimediaConference with whoever wants to hear us :). We asked Osmar to be one of our representatives in Berlin as his last act of service, so it will also be a nice opportunity for you to meet him. In the meantime, please welcome Anna to the Wikimedia movement and to this mailing list! Best regards, *Galileo Vidoni* Presidente A. C. Wikimedia Argentina ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing Anna Torres Adell as new Wikimedia Argentina ED
Welcome, Anna. Sydney Poore User:FloNight Sent from my iPhone On Feb 22, 2014, at 8:23, Anna Torres a...@wikimedia.org.ar wrote: Dear movement fellows, Thank you so much for your warm welcoming! As Galileo said and thanks to the support of the team and specially at this very first stage, from March 1st onwards I will asume the ED of Wikimedia Argentina Foundation. To be part of Wikimedia Argentina Foundation means to me an excellent professional challenge that I am prepare to assume and also the perfect place where to project - generating more and better results- all the years of trainning and work experience acquired during my career. During the last ten years I have worked in the field of human development and international cooperation from all its aspects- attempting different development sectors like social, economic, educational, sustainable and cultural development among others- and so I considere the development as the comprehensive management of all of these concepts which are nowadays the key in order to ensure fairer societies. With your support, our work together and a tool like Wikipedia, I'm sure that Wikimedia Argentina Foudations aswell as the rest of the chapters around the world, can set up a new framework to encorage the social, economic and cultural change we would like to see in the nearly future. In this connection, I hope not only, all of us, to create more inclusive projects, but these projects to be the result and the impact each one of us would like to build up! Thanks you so much for the opportunity! Anna Torres Adell On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Galileo Vidoni gali...@gmail.com wrote: Dear movement fellows, I'm pleased to announce that Wikimedia Argentina has a new Executive Director. Please welcome Anna Torres Adell to our movement! Anna was born in Barcelona but settled in Buenos Aires a couple of years ago. She is a licentiate in Political Science for the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and has post-graduate studies in International Cooperation; Management and Control of Public Policies; and Local Development and the Social Economy. She developed an interest on international cooperation and social matters since her teens, helping establish an educational NGO in Guatemala when she was just over 20. She has since lived and worked in Spain, México, Guatemala and Argentina. Before joining us at Wikimedia Argentina, Anna was the ED of PROEM Foundation, an organization aimed at coaching small businesses. Anna's track record also includes working with AECID, the Spanish agency for international cooperation, and the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM). She has extensive knowledge and experience in the five dimensions that we cared the most when recruiting: commitment with the social goal of free knowledge, working with volunteers, administration, program management and funding. Selecting Anna was not easy, but not because we couldn't find the right person: We had just too much good EDs we wanted to hire! Thankfully we could choose from an important pool of candidates and proceed to evaluate thoroughly each one of them. We received over 100 applications, of which not less than half were pertinent. We gave all of them a score and made successive filtering stages before arriving to the eight people we interviewed in person over the last days. As you may have read on this list back in January, our decision to hire a new ED has to do with Osmar leaving us to return to his home country. Let me highlight that this good news could not have been possible without Osmar's work and commitment. Not only he helped designing the work description for his replacement, but he also participated in the recruiting and hiring process. We are extremely grateful to all what he has done to advance our mission in Wikimedia Argentina, and while we are certainly saddened to see him go we know that both he and us are doing everything possible to leave the organization on track and in good hands. Programmatic work will not suffer from this leadership change; if any, we as Board will ensure it gets reinforced. Anna will formally start working with us on March 1, and throughout all of that month Osmar will continue with us in Benedict fashion as ED emeritus to ensure that all the necessary knowledge, proceedings and contacts are transferred from one administration to another. We are glad to have achieved this level of stability as an organization, and we'd love to spread the word about this happy and smooth transition in the WikimediaConference with whoever wants to hear us :). We asked Osmar to be one of our representatives in Berlin as his last act of service, so it will also be a nice opportunity for you to meet him. In the meantime, please welcome Anna to the Wikimedia movement and to this mailing list! Best regards, *Galileo Vidoni* Presidente A. C. Wikimedia Argentina
[Wikimedia-l] extend mediawiki software to allow append a group, and COI to an edit
hi, could wmf please extend the mediawiki software in the following way: 1. it should knows groups 2. allow users to store an arbitrary number of groups with their profile 3. allow to select one of the groups joined to an edit when saving 4. add a checkbox COI to an edit, meaning potential conflict of interest 5. display and filter edits marked with COI in a different color in history views 6. display and filter edits done for a group in a different color in history views 7. allow members of a group to receive notifications done on the group page, or when a group is mentioned in an edit/comment/talk page. reason: currently it is quite cumbersome to participate as an organisation. it is quite cumbersome for people as well to detect COI edits. the most prominent examples are employees of the wikimedia foundation, and GLAMs. users tend to create multiple accounts, and try to create company accounts. the main reason for this behaviour are (examples, but of course valid general): * have a feedback page / notification page for the swiss federal archive for other users * make clear that an edit is done private or as wmf employee this then would allow the community to create new policies, e.g. the german community might cease using company accounts, and switch over to this system. this proposal is purely technical. current policies can still be applied if people do not need something else, e.g. wmf employees may continue to use sue gardner (wmf) accounts. what you think? best regards, rupert --- swissGLAMour, http://wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open!
Dear Wikimedians, Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2013) to produce a single Picture of the Year. Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more. There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category have continued to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year. Round 2 will end on 7 March 2014. Visit https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2013/Introduction to learn more and vote for your favorite image. Thanks,User:MonoPicture of the Year Committee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] extend mediawiki software to allow append a group, and COI to an edit
I do mind 5 and 6, since their submissions would be deleted aggressively. I feel that you may introduce a marker if you want, but not a separate queue. On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, at 2:25, rupert THURNER wrote: hi, could wmf please extend the mediawiki software in the following way: 1. it should knows groups 2. allow users to store an arbitrary number of groups with their profile 3. allow to select one of the groups joined to an edit when saving 4. add a checkbox COI to an edit, meaning potential conflict of interest 5. display and filter edits marked with COI in a different color in history views 6. display and filter edits done for a group in a different color in history views 7. allow members of a group to receive notifications done on the group page, or when a group is mentioned in an edit/comment/talk page. reason: currently it is quite cumbersome to participate as an organisation. it is quite cumbersome for people as well to detect COI edits. the most prominent examples are employees of the wikimedia foundation, and GLAMs. users tend to create multiple accounts, and try to create company accounts. the main reason for this behaviour are (examples, but of course valid general): * have a feedback page / notification page for the swiss federal archive for other users * make clear that an edit is done private or as wmf employee this then would allow the community to create new policies, e.g. the german community might cease using company accounts, and switch over to this system. this proposal is purely technical. current policies can still be applied if people do not need something else, e.g. wmf employees may continue to use sue gardner (wmf) accounts. what you think? best regards, rupert --- swissGLAMour, http://wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ukraine -- is everyone safe?
A lot of cordial thanks to everybody for your concerns and worryings in our safety as well as your wishes, we appreciate that very much. As for today all WMUA members are safe (according to information available), but there is more troubles so dangers (risks) ahead, mainly in Kharkiv and other cities and parts of Ukraine. We comprehend the situation in Venezuela and wish that all wikipedians from there will stay safe as well. Thanks once again. On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski tom...@twkozlowski.net wrote: The BBC reports that at least 22 people have died today in Kiev, Ukraine, as result of the violent clashes between the opposition and the government forces. I have briefly visited Maidan Nezalezhnosti in March 2012 on my way to a Wiki Loves Monuments workshop; the city of Kiev and the square itself were beautiful, and it is absolutely terrible to witness the events that are happening there now. My thoughts are with Wikimedia Ukraine, which I know has at least a few members living in the city of Kiev, and with other Wikimedia contributors living in that city, as well as in the rest of Ukraine. Please let us know if everyone is safe, and if there is any way we can help you. Stay safe! Залишайтеся в безпеці! Tomasz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] extend mediawiki software to allow append a group, and COI to an edit
Hoi, Why ? Thanks. GerardM On 22 February 2014 21:13, Gryllida gryll...@fastmail.fm wrote: I do mind 5 and 6, since their submissions would be deleted aggressively. I feel that you may introduce a marker if you want, but not a separate queue. On Sun, 23 Feb 2014, at 2:25, rupert THURNER wrote: hi, could wmf please extend the mediawiki software in the following way: 1. it should knows groups 2. allow users to store an arbitrary number of groups with their profile 3. allow to select one of the groups joined to an edit when saving 4. add a checkbox COI to an edit, meaning potential conflict of interest 5. display and filter edits marked with COI in a different color in history views 6. display and filter edits done for a group in a different color in history views 7. allow members of a group to receive notifications done on the group page, or when a group is mentioned in an edit/comment/talk page. reason: currently it is quite cumbersome to participate as an organisation. it is quite cumbersome for people as well to detect COI edits. the most prominent examples are employees of the wikimedia foundation, and GLAMs. users tend to create multiple accounts, and try to create company accounts. the main reason for this behaviour are (examples, but of course valid general): * have a feedback page / notification page for the swiss federal archive for other users * make clear that an edit is done private or as wmf employee this then would allow the community to create new policies, e.g. the german community might cease using company accounts, and switch over to this system. this proposal is purely technical. current policies can still be applied if people do not need something else, e.g. wmf employees may continue to use sue gardner (wmf) accounts. what you think? best regards, rupert --- swissGLAMour, http://wikimedia.ch ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
