[Wikimedia-l] [Reminder] [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on 18 February 2015 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC
Hello, A quick reminder about Language Engineering team's monthly IRC office hour thats happening later today at 1300 UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please see below for the original announcement, local time, and agenda. We will post logs on metawiki[1] after the event. Thanks Runa [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Office_hour_logs -- Forwarded message -- From: Runa Bhattacharjee rbhattachar...@wikimedia.org Date: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:47 PM Subject: [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on 18 February 2015 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC To: MediaWiki internationalisation mediawiki-i...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia GLAM collaboration [Public] g...@lists.wikimedia.org [X-posted announcement] Hello, The next monthly IRC office hour of the WMF Language Engineering team will be on February 18, 2015 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please note that for this instance the session has been set to a much earlier hour. We will be taking questions and discussing about our ongoing projects, particularly the recent activation of Content Translation as a beta feature on several Wikipedias[1]. We’d love to hear comments, suggestions and any feedback that will help us make this tool better. Please see below to check local time and event details. Logs from our earlier office hours are available at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Language_Engineering Thanks Runa [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/ Monthly IRC Office Hour: == # Date: February 18, 2015 (Wednesday) # Time: 1300 UTC (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150218T1300) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Ongoing projects - Content Translation beta feature 2. Q A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event) -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ 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] Wikimedia Mexico. Report of Activities December 2014 and January 2015
Dear community: Below you will find the report of activities of December 2014 and January 2015 done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or only to make some suggestions. The report is also available on Spanish and English in our wiki: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Diciembre_2014 (December/Spanish) https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Diciembre_2014/en (December/English) https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Enero_2015 (January/Spanish) https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Enero_2015/en (January/English) Greetings from the Wikimedia Mexico community. On behalf of our chapter. Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito) WMMX Secretary. ==Journal December== December 1 *Transmission of Möebius radio show: From Hospital de la Castañeda to Pink Floyd. December 3 *Meeting with Archivo Tomás Montero A.C. towards a possible donation of pictures as part of the Tlatelolco Cultural Centre. *Backstage tour on the Fonoteca Nacional (National audio archive) December 8 *Transmission of Möebius radio show: From Jack Thomas Andraka to Cake ==Journal January == January 5 * Transmission of Möebius radio show: From Tres Tenores to Brazilian Girls January 10 * Wikimedia Mexico Board meeting at Puebla. January 12 * Transmission of Möebius radio show: From Ñusta to Michael Jackson January 15 * Presentation of GLAM projects with Circuito Cultural Norte Chapultepec: Museo de la Basílica de Guadalupe, Museo Casa Carranza, Museo de la Biblia, Mapoteca Orozco y Berra, Museo Indígena, Museo de los Ferrocarrileros, Museo Tecnológico de la CFE, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Museo de Antropología e Historia, Museo Casa de la Bola, Museo del Chocolate and Museo Soumaya. Following meeting with Cineteca Nacional for February 14th editathon. Planning meeting about Wikipedia gender gap project with NGO partners: Impetú, Social TIC, Mujeres Construyendo, Luchadoras TV and La Sandía Digital. January 20 * Presentation of the GLAM projects to the Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud staff. January 21 *Creative Commons como alternativa autoral talk by Iván Martínez in the Seminario Permanente de Investigación-Producción en Arte y Diseño de la Facultad de Arte y Diseño de la UNAM, session: “El problema de la apropiación, el plagio y los derechos de autor en las artes visuales, el diseño y la comunicación visual”. Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco. January 24 * Monthly Wikipedia editing workshop, by Christian Cariño. January 26 * Transmission of Möebius radio show: From JLo to Madonna * Meeting with Luz María Silva, teacher from ITAM, about Wikipedia Education Program January 27 * Meeting with Instituto de la Juventud de la Ciudad de México (Mexico City Youth Institute) for their participation in the Wikimania 2015 Volunteer Program. * Transmission of Editatona program in LuchadorasTV, RompevientoTV internet television channel. (http://rompevientotv.mediafire.com/?5nt81iuedc5d420) January 31 *First ''Editatona'' editathon from Gender Gap project. Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir, Mexico City. ___ 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] Weird statistics
The number of access from fixed devices in [1] show a hefty decrease on a yearly basis accelerating from September. (total -16%, for sv -35%) I wonder if there is an error in the measurements? And while one the the data tables for access from mobile devices [2] shows a steady progress, the other [3] show quite different magnitudes (for sv 50% less acceses and increase of +22% instead of +58) Is there an explanation to these anomalies? Anders [1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm [2] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyMobile.htm [3] http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/TablesPageViewsMonthlySquidsMobile.htm ___ 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] Call to Action
Pine, The Wikimedia Foundation Mid Year Financial Statements will be available by the end of March 2015. Regards, Garfield On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Just following up on this: when will the mid-year WMF financials be published with Annual Plan alignment/divergance info? This info is relevant for 2015-2016 planning, and to some extent, the strategy update. Thanks. (: Pine On Oct 9, 2014 12:18 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Lila. Pine On Oct 9, 2014 11:50 AM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: We are planning to do a review of alignment/divergence with the plan mid year. That would be the right time for this discussion as we will have a good overview/gap analysis at that time. On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the detailed comments, Erik. As someone who spent several volunteer hours reviewing the current Annual Plan, I would appreciate getting an understanding of how the change of emphasis to quarterly reviews affects budgets, hiring plans, and fundraising goals. Is that something that you can address or should I ask Garfield? Thanks, Pine On Oct 9, 2014 4:44 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure a Board member, Lila, or Erik will correct me if I am mistaken, but my understanding is that there is internal agreement at Board level that the Product side of the org needs some systemic changes, that Lila was chosen with the goal of making those changes, and that some changes are already happening. There's agreement at all levels that we want to continue down the path set by Sue back in 2012 [1] for WMF to truly understand itself as a technology and grantmaking organization. That path led to where we are today: 1) As part of the ED transition, Sue recommended (and the Board accepted the recommendation) to seek an ED with a strong technology/product background, and we hired Lila Tretikov as Sue's successor who matches those requirements. 2) In November 2012, I recommended that we prepare for building out new functions for UX and Analytics, and prepare for dedicated leadership for Engineering and Product. Sue accepted this recommendation. I hired Directors for UX and Analytics in 2013, followed by Community Engagement in 2014, and finally we hired a VP Engineering last week to complete the process. 3) To better account for the need to learn quickly and adjust course as appropriate, we introduced quarterly reviews in December 2012 [3] and increasingly reduced the specificity of Annual Plan level commitments while increasing the focus on metrics and accountability in the reviews. 4) On the technology and product front, many improvements to process and support infrastructure have been implemented in the last couple of years, including but not limited to: - Development of MediaWiki Vagrant as a standardized dev environment, to reduce failure cases due to developer environment inconsistencies - Improvements to continuous integration infrastructure for PHP unit tests and QUnit JavaScript unit tests, and increased focus (but not nearly enough yet) on automated tests, especially for newly developed features - Introduction and continued improvement of BetaLabs as a staging environment for all commits, increased use of automated end-to-end browser tests and QA testing by humans to catch bugs and regressions prior to production rollouts - Introduction and use of various tools for measuring the impact of features, including EventLogging as a standard instrumentation framework for measuring feature usage, dashboards for visualizing usage, WikiMetrics for analyzing editor cohort behavior, Editor Engagement Vital Signs for understanding system-wide user behavior, analysis of pageview data using Hadoop (just rolled out), etc. - Highly specialized automated testing frameworks for specific projects, e.g. Parsoid round-trip testing and visual diffing (!) to detect dirty diffs or output problems - Introduction of design research as a discipline in the UX team (through hiring of Abbey Ripstra as User Research Lead) and incorporation of user studies in a much more systematic way across products - Community liaisons dedicated to key products, responding to user feedback and helping Product Managers understand more complex community needs - Continued shortening of release/deployment cycles; significant improvements to deployment tooling, rewriting our legacy scap tools to increase the ability to monitor and reason about deployments; introduction of daily SWAT deploys to quickly release fixes,
