Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives
Minutes and slides from three recent quarterly review meetings held last week are now available: Language Engineering team: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Language_Engineering/January_2015 MediaWiki Core team https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/MediaWiki_Core/January_2015 Talent Culture team (slides only:) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Quarterly_Review-_2014-15_Q2_-_Talent_%26_Culture,_Redacted.pdf On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi folks, to increase accountability and create more opportunities for course corrections and resourcing adjustments as necessary, Sue's asked me and Howie Fung to set up a quarterly project evaluation process, starting with our highest priority initiatives. These are, according to Sue's narrowing focus recommendations which were approved by the Board [1]: - Visual Editor - Mobile (mobile contributions + Wikipedia Zero) - Editor Engagement (also known as the E2 and E3 teams) - Funds Dissemination Committe and expanded grant-making capacity I'm proposing the following initial schedule: January: - Editor Engagement Experiments February: - Visual Editor - Mobile (Contribs + Zero) March: - Editor Engagement Features (Echo, Flow projects) - Funds Dissemination Committee We’ll try doing this on the same day or adjacent to the monthly metrics meetings [2], since the team(s) will give a presentation on their recent progress, which will help set some context that would otherwise need to be covered in the quarterly review itself. This will also create open opportunities for feedback and questions. My goal is to do this in a manner where even though the quarterly review meetings themselves are internal, the outcomes are captured as meeting minutes and shared publicly, which is why I'm starting this discussion on a public list as well. I've created a wiki page here which we can use to discuss the concept further: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews The internal review will, at minimum, include: Sue Gardner myself Howie Fung Team members and relevant director(s) Designated minute-taker So for example, for Visual Editor, the review team would be the Visual Editor / Parsoid teams, Sue, me, Howie, Terry, and a minute-taker. I imagine the structure of the review roughly as follows, with a duration of about 2 1/2 hours divided into 25-30 minute blocks: - Brief team intro and recap of team's activities through the quarter, compared with goals - Drill into goals and targets: Did we achieve what we said we would? - Review of challenges, blockers and successes - Discussion of proposed changes (e.g. resourcing, targets) and other action items - Buffer time, debriefing Once again, the primary purpose of these reviews is to create improved structures for internal accountability, escalation points in cases where serious changes are necessary, and transparency to the world. In addition to these priority initiatives, my recommendation would be to conduct quarterly reviews for any activity that requires more than a set amount of resources (people/dollars). These additional reviews may however be conducted in a more lightweight manner and internally to the departments. We’re slowly getting into that habit in engineering. As we pilot this process, the format of the high priority reviews can help inform and support reviews across the organization. Feedback and questions are appreciated. All best, Erik [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vote:Narrowing_Focus [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] 2015 Ombudsman Commission
Hello, everyone. I'm writing with information about the Ombudsman Commission (OC), the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the privacy policy, and in particular concerning the use of CheckUser tools, on any Wikimedia project for the Board of Trustees. I apologize for the length of the announcement. :) The application period for new commissioners for 2015 recently closed. The Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work. As with last year, this year’s OC will consist of seven members, with a two-member advisory team who will guide the new commission and also, if necessary, fill in in the event that the OC is unable to act due to incapacity or recusal. Last year’s advisors rose to full membership when two members found themselves unable to complete their terms due to competing time demands. I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2015 OC. - User:Avraham, who primarily edits English Wikipedia, where he is a CheckUser, oversighter, admin and bureaucrat. He also serves on Commons as an admin and oversighter and is a steward. He joined the OC in 2014. - User:Gnom, Lukas Mezger, who primarily edits German Wikipedia. Lukas, a licensed attorney, has previously served Wikimedia as a legal intern for the Wikimedia Foundation. In 2014, he was elected to the Board of Wikimedia Deutschland, where he serves as co-Vice Chair. Gnom joined the OC in 2014. - User:Polimerek, Tomasz Ganisz, who primarily edits Polish Wikipedia (where he is an admin and former arbitrator), Polish Wikibooks and Wikimedia Commons. He also serves the Wikimedia movement as the president of Wikimedia Poland and on the Grant Advisory Committee. He is a former CheckUser. Polimerek joined the OC in 2014. - User:Alhen, Erlan Vega, who primarily edits Spanish projects. He is a bureaucrat and administrator on the Spanish Wikipedia and Spanish Wikibooks, and is also an administrator on Commons. A prior member of the Spanish ArbCom, before it was dismantled, he is a checkuser on the Spanish Wikipedia. - User:Barras, who is primarily active on the Simple English Wikipedia and Meta. He’s a steward, an oversighter on Simple English and Meta, and also a CheckUser on Simple and Meta. - User:PhilKnight, who primarily edits the English Wikipedia. A former member of its arbitration committee and currently serving on its mediation committee, he is also a checkuser, oversighter and administrator there. - User:Rubin16, who primarily edits the Russian Wikipedia, where he is a bureaucrat and administrator. He is formerly a member of their Arbitration Committee. He is an administrator on Wikimedia Commons and is a Central Notice and translation admin on Meta. (He is also a translation admin on Commons.) He is a member of Wikimedia Russia, responsible for press contacts and financial reporting. He also serves on the IEG and Grant Advisory Committees. The 2015 OC’s advisors are: - User:Huji, who primarily edits Farsi Wikipedia, where he is an administrator, bureaucrat and former CheckUser. He has also contributed substantially to Simple Wikipedia, English Wikipedia and Meta and is a Wikimedia developer. Huji joined the OC in 2013. - User:Thogo primarily edits the German Wikipedia, where he is an administrator and former arbitrator, and has also focused on Meta. He is a former steward and has served as an administrator on several other projects. He joined the OC in 2011. Their willingness to remain, to bring their familiarity with processes and their experience to the new arrivals, is greatly appreciated! Please join me in thanking the following volunteers, who have given substantially of their time to serve the commission: - User:Levg, who primarily edits Russian Wikipedia, where he is an administrator, oversighter and bureaucrat and where he has twice served as an arbitrator. He joined the OC in 2013. - User:Sir48 primarily edits the Danish Wikipedia, where he has previously served as a CheckUser. He also has focused on Meta and Commons, especially in translation. He joined the OC in 2011. Last year, he agreed to stay on in advisory capacity, and we are so grateful that he was willing to step back into full service mid-year when several members were forced to depart. - User:M7, Mario Benvenuti, who primarily edits Italian Wikipedia, where he is also known as M/. Mario is also an admin and bureaucrat on Meta and a steward. He is a former CheckUser. (Resigned in June due to time conflicts.) - User:Stryn, who primarily edits the Finnish Wikipedia and Wikidata, serving as an admin on both and formerly serving as an oversighter on Wikidata. (Resigned in July due to time conflicts.) I'd also like to say a hearty thank
Re: [Wikimedia-l] This Month In Education: January 2015: Volume 4, Issue 1
I have received this message with formatting issues on another email address. In case you are facing the same issue, please go directly to: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News And here is another copy. Hopefully it will work this time: This Month in Education: January 2015 *Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.* - Czech Republic: Young Czech scientists upload pictures at Fluorescent Night https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/Young_Czech_scientists_upload_pictures_at_Fluorescent_Night - India: 100+ Indian college students will contribute to Wikipedia to support national pilgrimage https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/100%2B_Indian_college_students_will_contribute_to_Wikipedia_to_support_national_pilgrimage - Sweden: Master students design prototypes for categorizing images on Wikimedia Commons https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/Master_students_design_prototypes_for_categorizing_images_on_Wikimedia_Commons - Egypt: Wikipedia Education Program expands to new campuses in Cairo https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/Wikipedia_Education_Program_expands_to_new_campuses_in_Cairo - Syria: Pilot Wikipedia Education Program in Syria https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/Pilot_Wikipedia_Education_Program_in_Syria - Wikimania: Get a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2015 and discuss education with the worldwide movement https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/Get_a_scholarship_to_attend_Wikimania_2015_and_discuss_education_with_the_worldwide_movement - Mexico: Wiki Learning expands to three campuses at Tec de Monterrey https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/Wiki_Learning_expands_to_three_campuses_at_Tec_de_Monterrey - Sweden: Open Badges in the Education Program in Sweden https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/Open_Badges_in_the_Education_Program_in_Sweden - Czech Republic: Senior citizens learn to edit Wikipedia in the Czech Republic https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/Senior_citizens_learn_to_edit_Wikipedia_in_the_Czech_Republic - Media: Articles of interest in other publications: Egypt, India, Armenia, Books, Jimmy Wales, and more https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/Articles_of_interest_in_other_publications *Headlines https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Education/Newsletter/January_2015 · Highlights https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/Highlights · Single page https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/Single · Newsroom https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Newsroom · Archives https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/Archives · Unsubscribe https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/This_Month_in_Education* Thank you! *--* *The This Month In Education Team* https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:47 PM, The 'This Month In Education' Team thismonthineducat...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, (Sorry for cross-posting) I am sending January's Education newsletter. The first education newsletter in 2015. This month we had great achievements around the world. The program is getting ready to kick off in Syria and is expanding in Mexico and Egypt. Updates about Wikimania scholarships and submissions are in this issue with many other stories. Thank you for everyone who participated in writing this issue. We look forward to hearing more stories from you! Best regards, Samir Elsharbaty, Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program. This Month in Education: January 2015 *Updates, reports, news, and stories about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects are used in education around the world.* - Czech Republic: Young Czech scientists upload pictures at Fluorescent Night https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/Young_Czech_scientists_upload_pictures_at_Fluorescent_Night - India: 100+ Indian college students will contribute to Wikipedia to support national pilgrimage https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/100%2B_Indian_college_students_will_contribute_to_Wikipedia_to_support_national_pilgrimage - Sweden: Master students design prototypes for categorizing images on Wikimedia Commons https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Newsletter/January_2015/Master_students_design_prototypes_for_categorizing_images_on_Wikimedia_Commons - Egypt: Wikipedia Education
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Benchmark of Versions
Anders, Sounds like an interesting test, but what were the home ranges of the six bird species? If they are not native to China or Japan but native to Catalonia and the Basque Country then it is a little more understandable that they are in some Wikipedias and not others. I can appreciate that ultimately all bird species might merit an article in every version of Wikipedia, but clearly we have a long way to go in many languages and it would not be unreasonable to start with birds that are likely to be seen by people who speak that language. Atomic elements, planets and parts of the human body might be more culturally neutral topics for a benchmark. Regards Jonathan Cardy On 2 Feb 2015, at 16:01, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: 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 You can reach the person managing the list at wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest... Today's Topics: 1. Benchmark of versions (Anders Wennersten) 2. Re: Its not goodbye, but au revoir (Richard Symonds) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:53:42 +0100 From: Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Benchmark of versions Message-ID: 54ce4c06.8010...@anderswennersten.se Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed As a test of our status of the different language versions of Wikipedia, I have done a small survey of that status of Birds. There exist just over 1 species, very well documented and there are people interested of birds all over the world, so it should be be possible for all versions to have complete set of articles for all bird species. I used a small sample of just 6 species and gave article a mark between 1-5, where 1 is substandard, 2 extremely elementary, 3 OK, 4 good, 5 complete Versions which seems to have all species *en 4 of 6 botgenerated and stubmarked given mark 2,5 by me. The other two were created manually and were given mark 4,5 and 5 by me *nl 4 or 5 of 6 bot, given 2,5 the sixth given 4 *sv 5 of 6 bot, given 2,5 , the sixth given 3 *vietnamese all bot given 2 *bg all bot given 2 *basque all bot given 2 versions with 5 out of 6 species *es all manully created, given 2-5 *fr all manually created, given 2,5-4 versions with 3-4 out of 6 *fi 3 manually created, given 2-2,5 *pt 4 where of two bot, bot given 2,5, the manual given 1,5 and 4 *farsi 3 all bot, given 2 *catalan 3 all bot, given 2 of the rest can be mentioned *punjabi croatia who had 1 botgenerated, given 1-1,5 *esperanto botgeneted the only one not direct from source but from otehr language version *germany who had only one specie manually created but that given 5 from me ( 1-2 manually created also was found from it, pl, hungary, russia, serbocroatia, africaans and malay) It is also worth mentioning that a little over 50% have pictures in Commons, used by all, but one bird had only a picture locally uploaded on Malay and Finnish Wikipedia I also wonder why Japanse and Chinese wre all missing out, are they not fond of birds or are their interwiki not working? it gives me a total of 11 verions who have used bots to generate (and Cebuano and Winary which I did not include). Is not a combination of botgenerted ones manually checked and complemented a preferred option besides the one who will be extensively written all manually Anders -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Benchmark of Versions
I took them by random, one in Australian region, where many missed out like fr and es. 3 from etiopian och netropical region and 1 from palearchtic region. Anders WereSpielChequers skrev den 2015-02-02 14:58: Anders, Sounds like an interesting test, but what were the home ranges of the six bird species? If they are not native to China or Japan but native to Catalonia and the Basque Country then it is a little more understandable that they are in some Wikipedias and not others. I can appreciate that ultimately all bird species might merit an article in every version of Wikipedia, but clearly we have a long way to go in many languages and it would not be unreasonable to start with birds that are likely to be seen by people who speak that language. Atomic elements, planets and parts of the human body might be more culturally neutral topics for a benchmark. Regards Jonathan Cardy On 2 Feb 2015, at 16:01, wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: 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 You can reach the person managing the list at wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest... Today's Topics: 1. Benchmark of versions (Anders Wennersten) 2. Re: Its not goodbye, but au revoir (Richard Symonds) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 16:53:42 +0100 From: Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Benchmark of versions Message-ID: 54ce4c06.8010...@anderswennersten.se Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed As a test of our status of the different language versions of Wikipedia, I have done a small survey of that status of Birds. There exist just over 1 species, very well documented and there are people interested of birds all over the world, so it should be be possible for all versions to have complete set of articles for all bird species. I used a small sample of just 6 species and gave article a mark between 1-5, where 1 is substandard, 2 extremely elementary, 3 OK, 4 good, 5 complete Versions which seems to have all species *en 4 of 6 botgenerated and stubmarked given mark 2,5 by me. The other two were created manually and were given mark 4,5 and 5 by me *nl 4 or 5 of 6 bot, given 2,5 the sixth given 4 *sv 5 of 6 bot, given 2,5 , the sixth given 3 *vietnamese all bot given 2 *bg all bot given 2 *basque all bot given 2 versions with 5 out of 6 species *es all manully created, given 2-5 *fr all manually created, given 2,5-4 versions with 3-4 out of 6 *fi 3 manually created, given 2-2,5 *pt 4 where of two bot, bot given 2,5, the manual given 1,5 and 4 *farsi 3 all bot, given 2 *catalan 3 all bot, given 2 of the rest can be mentioned *punjabi croatia who had 1 botgenerated, given 1-1,5 *esperanto botgeneted the only one not direct from source but from otehr language version *germany who had only one specie manually created but that given 5 from me ( 1-2 manually created also was found from it, pl, hungary, russia, serbocroatia, africaans and malay) It is also worth mentioning that a little over 50% have pictures in Commons, used by all, but one bird had only a picture locally uploaded on Malay and Finnish Wikipedia I also wonder why Japanse and Chinese wre all missing out, are they not fond of birds or are their interwiki not working? it gives me a total of 11 verions who have used bots to generate (and Cebuano and Winary which I did not include). Is not a combination of botgenerted ones manually checked and complemented a preferred option besides the one who will be extensively written all manually Anders -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Its not goodbye, but au revoir
Pavel, On behalf of all at Wikimedia UK - including Jon, our old Chief Executive whom I know you had a good relationship with - we're sorry to see you go. I hope we'll still see you online! Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* On 31 January 2015 at 06:46, Nurunnaby Hasive nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd wrote: Dear Pavel, Best wishes, and best of luck! On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 5:20 AM, Katy Love kl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Warm wishes, and best of luck! -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive :: নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী হাছিব* Global User: Nhasive http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nhasive Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive Member | GAC Committee, Wikimedia Foundation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People Director | Wikimedia Bangladesh Operations Committee http://www.wikimedia.org.bd fb.com/nhasive | @nhasive http://www.twitter.com/nhasive | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] New software; Gendergap; FOSDEM; Government collaboration
Hi all, The past weekend was great! Wikimedia was at FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting, organised as the university ULB in Brussels, Belgium! We had there a stand with flyers about Wikipedia, Wikimedia, Wikimedia Belgium, and a lot of goodies. In the Wikimedia movement we often discuss the Gendergap, as one of the gaps we have. Wikipedia/Wikimedia looks very much likes FOSDEM, but there the Gendergap is even larger. Wikipedia/Wikimedia needs a more social development, we need software which enables users to form groups in an easy way. The female contributors to Wikipedia do like two things: having in person meetings to socialize with other editors, and second they need more social software. The education extension is a primitive form of what is needed. We need an extension where users easily can form groups (namespace Groups: or something, used by an extension), where they easily can see the recent changes of edits of group members only, to be able to actively interact with other group members and having a long term participation in Wikipedia. Having software where users, interest groups or a group of editors from an external organisation can work together. To translate it for the tech community: Wikipedia needs a kind of *phabricator* with groups, tasks, assignments, and so on, but then for on Wikipedia itself. Yes, Wikipedia is not a social network, but we need to create an environment in what we enable people to have a collaboration on a more visible way (if people want to). That is my clear conclusion after this conference where I spoke with a lot of women about editing on Wikipedia, but also based on many project of the past years we organised. At FOSDEM I also spoke with someone from the Dutch government who is working on creating an open source free licensed dictionary for words that are used in specific parts of the government and they like to do a project with Wikimedia! They also like to re-use the data from Wiktionary, but they experienced that that was a bit difficult. So a large donation of words for Wiktionary is on its way! If anyone is interested to go to next years FOSDEM and want to help at the stand, where we also like to include more information about MediaWiki, let us know! Romaine ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Commons / OTRS is broken
Someone has thankfully read this issue and has agreed to deal with it. Many thanks to the person involved :-) It is a huge amount of work to get release for a single medical image. If commons admins wish the details they can email me. James On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 9:52 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: OTRS does not even bother replying to the consents I send them. Thus the images I have received releases for get deleted. Going forwards I am simply uploading to En Wikipedia. Not ideal but not sure what the solution is. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Commons / OTRS is broken
OTRS does not even bother replying to the consents I send them. Thus the images I have received releases for get deleted. Going forwards I am simply uploading to En Wikipedia. Not ideal but not sure what the solution is. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Commons / OTRS is broken
Depending on where the content is coming from uploading the images to Flickr and then importing them may be an option. When I worked for the Science Museum we simply changed the licence of some of the images on their Flickr account and I used Flickr2Commons to import them, it also records the attribution and which CC licence the images used. I'm currently working with UNESCO to release some of their archive and will most probably suggest this route which as a bonus creates a second large audience for the content on Flickr. Hope this is helpful John On 2 Feb 2015 22:52, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: OTRS does not even bother replying to the consents I send them. Thus the images I have received releases for get deleted. Going forwards I am simply uploading to En Wikipedia. Not ideal but not sure what the solution is. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Open Letter to Lila (Harassment Policy)
I wrote an open letter to Lila because I saw Philippe Beaudette saying he was taking advice from English Wikipedia Arbcom on the matter of offsite harassment. The problem is that is that Arbcom has an history of harassing. So it should not be giving any advice on the matter of stopping it. To make this case, I used the examples of FT2's Anvil Email threatening an editor's family and AGK's filing a trumped-up complaint to an editor's employer, and then on a similar theme I pointed to Wikimedia Foundation steward JurgenNL and administrator TBloemink's real-life stalking of MoiraMoira (they laughed about her on IRC and then took a train trip to visit her house). I won't copy-paste the whole thing here, but if you're interested you'll find it here: http://timsongfan.livejournal.com/1971.html. Feedback is welcome. I think the WMF's policy of according IP and other sensitive user data via checkuser and UTRS and so forth to anonymous administrators is creating real risks to Wikipedia editors, and that is the case I make in the open letter. Trillium Corsage ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Open Letter to Lila (Harassment Policy)
Uhm, was JurgenNL steward? I thought TBloemink was, not JurgenNL. -Yena Hong (Revi) [[User:-revi]] -- Sent from Android -- 2015. 2. 2. 오후 11:49에 Trillium Corsage trillium2...@yandex.com님이 작성: I wrote an open letter to Lila because I saw Philippe Beaudette saying he was taking advice from English Wikipedia Arbcom on the matter of offsite harassment. The problem is that is that Arbcom has an history of harassing. So it should not be giving any advice on the matter of stopping it. To make this case, I used the examples of FT2's Anvil Email threatening an editor's family and AGK's filing a trumped-up complaint to an editor's employer, and then on a similar theme I pointed to Wikimedia Foundation steward JurgenNL and administrator TBloemink's real-life stalking of MoiraMoira (they laughed about her on IRC and then took a train trip to visit her house). I won't copy-paste the whole thing here, but if you're interested you'll find it here: http://timsongfan.livejournal.com/1971.html. Feedback is welcome. I think the WMF's policy of according IP and other sensitive user data via checkuser and UTRS and so forth to anonymous administrators is creating real risks to Wikipedia editors, and that is the case I make in the open letter. Trillium Corsage ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Open Letter to Lila (Harassment Policy)
I wasted the few minutes necessary to read Trillium's blog post, and I don't recommend anyone else make that same mistake. He's taken a few incidents in a 7 year period, presented them utterly without the totally necessary context, and ignored any evidence that might make it clear how silly and ignorant his (or her) position is. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Commons / OTRS is broken
We have a 57 days backlog now ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS/backlog) and we are processing first-come, first-served. In case of emergencies, please make a note at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS/Noticeboard or on my talk page. Regards, Jee On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:57 AM, John Cummings john.cummi...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: Depending on where the content is coming from uploading the images to Flickr and then importing them may be an option. When I worked for the Science Museum we simply changed the licence of some of the images on their Flickr account and I used Flickr2Commons to import them, it also records the attribution and which CC licence the images used. I'm currently working with UNESCO to release some of their archive and will most probably suggest this route which as a bonus creates a second large audience for the content on Flickr. Hope this is helpful John On 2 Feb 2015 22:52, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote: OTRS does not even bother replying to the consents I send them. Thus the images I have received releases for get deleted. Going forwards I am simply uploading to En Wikipedia. Not ideal but not sure what the solution is. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Open Letter to Lila (Harassment Policy)
One is a steward the other is an administrator, I may have reversed their roles, but they are definitely the two that stalked Moiramoira. Thanks for the notification, I'll doublecheck which is which and see about correcting that. Trillium Corsage 02.02.2015, 14:55, Hong, Yena li...@revi.pe.kr: Uhm, was JurgenNL steward? I thought TBloemink was, not JurgenNL. -Yena Hong (Revi) [[User:-revi]] -- Sent from Android -- 2015. 2. 2. 오후 11:49에 Trillium Corsage trillium2...@yandex.com님이 작성: I wrote an open letter to Lila because I saw Philippe Beaudette saying he was taking advice from English Wikipedia Arbcom on the matter of offsite harassment. The problem is that is that Arbcom has an history of harassing. So it should not be giving any advice on the matter of stopping it. text clipped for brevity ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Open Letter to Lila (Harassment Policy)
Nathan, there is no context that could possibly justify those evidenced incidents of harassment and stalking. There is no excuse. The information is out there for anyone who wants to read about them, but it's wrong to attempt to rationalize them in a sea of details and that's why I didn't do it. Trillium Corsage PS: yes, I identify as male (he, his etc.). 02.02.2015, 15:03, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com: I wasted the few minutes necessary to read Trillium's blog post, and I don't recommend anyone else make that same mistake. He's taken a few incidents in a 7 year period, presented them utterly without the totally necessary context, and ignored any evidence that might make it clear how silly and ignorant his (or her) position is. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Open Letter to Lila (Harassment Policy)
It is true that our Arbitrators have not always behaved as we would wish, and the cases that Trillium brings are are especially egregious, those familiar with the the Arbcom leaks or indeed who have followed the actions of the Committee, or dealt with individual Arbitrators on the English Wikipedia, will be aware of many errors and abuses. (They will also be aware that the majority of Arbitrators have been assets to the community the majority of the time.) However the fact that a proportion, even if it were a significant proportion, of the committee have feet of clay, does not mean that they are not a useful collective resource to consult over harassment issues. What we should take form the issues over the years is that it is worth looking at ways to improve the governance structure. Splitting check-user form arbitration is one possible means. Making checkuser more transparent is another. And real name accountability is a third. Note that one Arbitrator resigned (and pretty much left the project too) rather than provide the WMF with his real name. On 2 February 2015 at 15:12, Trillium Corsage trillium2...@yandex.com wrote: Nathan, there is no context that could possibly justify those evidenced incidents of harassment and stalking. There is no excuse. The information is out there for anyone who wants to read about them, but it's wrong to attempt to rationalize them in a sea of details and that's why I didn't do it. Trillium Corsage PS: yes, I identify as male (he, his etc.). 02.02.2015, 15:03, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com: I wasted the few minutes necessary to read Trillium's blog post, and I don't recommend anyone else make that same mistake. He's taken a few incidents in a 7 year period, presented them utterly without the totally necessary context, and ignored any evidence that might make it clear how silly and ignorant his (or her) position is. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Landline (UK) 01780 757 250 Mobile (UK) 0798 1995 792 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Open Letter to Lila (Harassment Policy)
If the WMF is consulting any specific entity of an individual Wikimedia project out of 800 for a crosswiki matter, that's ridiculous, period. I don't see why bother looking into the specific merits of the entity in question, or the allegations about them. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines 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] Commons / OTRS is broken
James Heilman, 03/02/2015 05:52:
not sure what the solution is.
Usually, following the docs: «use {{subst:OP}} to tell others that it's
in progress»
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS#Templates_to_use_on_image_pages
Nemo
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Letter to Lila (Harassment Policy)
Because the Arbitration Committee does have experience dealing with harassment. Not many projects have such a body dedicated to dealing with conflict. You are of course right that a general consultation should be made, and I'm sure if there are other bodies you can point to the WMF would love to consult with them too. On 2 February 2015 at 18:04, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote: If the WMF is consulting any specific entity of an individual Wikimedia project out of 800 for a crosswiki matter, that's ridiculous, period. I don't see why bother looking into the specific merits of the entity in question, or the allegations about them. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Landline (UK) 01780 757 250 Mobile (UK) 0798 1995 792 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
