Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?
Hoi, Jura1 created a list using the latest software by Magnus of people who died in Brazil this year. Magnus added functionality to the template so that it is really easy to add images that are missing. This list makes use of Wikidata and it gets updated by a bot. It may live on any Wikipedia. Thanks, GerardM https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_Brazil On 5 June 2015 at 07:55, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: I am AWFULLY biased about this, but I'll be shameless anyway; please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion. I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in Pretoria yesterday. As far as I know, it was the first one ever that focused on using the recently enabled ContentTranslation beta feature. It was six hours long and had nine participants, only two of whom had any editing experience. It produced *fourteen* complete articles in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaans and French. Except the latter two, the Wikipedias in these languages are barely active. I conducted dozens of editing workshops, and this one was, by far, the most productive ever by the amount of content created, considering the time and the participants' experience. Time will tell how well can it be replicated and improved upon and how many participants will stick, but I'm optimistic. I'll write a more detailed post later today. בתאריך 5 ביוני 2015 00:41, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com כתב: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :) What's happening over in your part of the project? Phoebe ___ 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] What's cool?
That we had the highest-ever votes in a Wikimedia Foundation board election - and participation from many more wikis. Cheers Bishakha On 5 Jun 2015 13:01, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Jura1 created a list using the latest software by Magnus of people who died in Brazil this year. Magnus added functionality to the template so that it is really easy to add images that are missing. This list makes use of Wikidata and it gets updated by a bot. It may live on any Wikipedia. Thanks, GerardM https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_Brazil On 5 June 2015 at 07:55, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: I am AWFULLY biased about this, but I'll be shameless anyway; please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion. I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in Pretoria yesterday. As far as I know, it was the first one ever that focused on using the recently enabled ContentTranslation beta feature. It was six hours long and had nine participants, only two of whom had any editing experience. It produced *fourteen* complete articles in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaans and French. Except the latter two, the Wikipedias in these languages are barely active. I conducted dozens of editing workshops, and this one was, by far, the most productive ever by the amount of content created, considering the time and the participants' experience. Time will tell how well can it be replicated and improved upon and how many participants will stick, but I'm optimistic. I'll write a more detailed post later today. בתאריך 5 ביוני 2015 00:41, phoebe ayers phoebe.w...@gmail.com כתב: I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right. What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world? My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :) What's happening over in your part of the project? Phoebe ___ 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 ___ 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] Is Phabricator appropriate for managing non-coding projects?
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:34 AM, David Cuenca Tudela dacu...@gmail.com wrote: Although I must say it feels a bit unconventional since I haven´t figured out yet how to do scheduling, process flow, and other standard non-coding project management tasks in Phabricator. unconventional, standard... tsk tsk, you know better than this. ;) Phabricator aligns better with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development) -- see also the recent Wikimedia Tech Talk about this topic: https://plus.google.com/events/cg2sb5m878c8ot3nhf2uk4mii34 When compared with standard tools like MS Project, on the Project Planning Properties realm Phabricator seems to be lacking many features; http://project-management.zone/system/microsoft-project,phabricator Sure. After deprecating Bugzilla, RT, Scrumbugz, Mingle, and Trello, we have accumulated a ton of feedback on features that are really really missing, features that are kind of missing, and also many features that users thought that would miss, but by now they have forgotten about. Try it out, give yourself a week, and let us know what you miss exactly. If you really want to dig... https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/phabricator-upstream/ I guess I will start trying and learning to see how far I can get with it. It doesn´t need to be complex in order to be effective. I'll invite you to a great dinner if you miss MS Project after using Phabricator in a real Wikimedia activity for more than a month. :) -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ 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] ContentTranslation gets to 2000
Amir, This tool is great in theory and sounds wonderful but I am personally having some trouble putting it into practice.The short video was VERY helpful, but I am afraid I still ran into some problems on my second attempt at a translation. Here is a roundup of links: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Content_Translation_Screencast_%28English%29.webm I decided to translate a short article from Spanish to English but since my Spanish is almost zero I first tried to change the translation interface to English but no luck. Then I tried to enable it for my 'Dutch userpage and got the extension up and running for Spanish-Dutch but couldn't find which link was the from link and the to link (a couple of tries and I got the dashboard up and running). Then I found myself in the Visual editor (yikes!) and tried to wikify some text with no luck. I then clicked on one of the reference links and lost my work. I restarted the page and saved some basics, but was disappointed that there was no translation of the infobox or the image, which was what I was hoping for. Here's the original: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_sala_del_concejo_del_ayuntamiento_de_%C3%81msterdam Here's the result (all I got was the Wikidata item link, lead sentence and the category) https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raadskamer_in_het_stadhuis_van_Amsterdam Wikimagic added the Dutch infobox already, but shouldn't this be possible to do from the dashboard? Thanks for all of your work on this, because I do believe translating existing content is a direction that I personally want to take in the Wikiverse in general. Jane Thanks, Jane On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: [ cross-posted to MediaWiki-i18n, Wikimedia-L and Wikitech-L ] Dear Wikimedians, The 2000th article that was written using the ContentTranslation extension was published today. Article #2000 was translated from English to Greek, and it's about Škocjan Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Slovenia. Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0kocjan_Caves Translated: https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%80%CE%AE%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B9%CE%B1_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%A3%CE%BA%CF%8C%CE%BA%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BD In case you're wondering what ContentTranslation is, here's a brief summary: ContentTranslation is an extension that helps Wikipedia editors to create articles quickly and easily by translating them from other languages. It's being developed by the Language Engineering team. Its design started in the summer of 2013 and its coding started in early 2014. You can find more info at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CX as well as in the following blog posts: * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/10/content-translation-beta-coming-soon/ * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/ * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/06/content-translation-improved-my-edits/ * http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/08/the-new-content-translation-tool/ Some more data about ContentTranslation: * Our first deployment was in mid-January to Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese, Esperanto, Norwegian Bokmal, Danish, Indonesian and Malay. Now we support 43 languages, and this number is growing every week as we extend the deployment (a special thank-you to the Ops and Release Engineering people, who continuously and tirelessly support our deployment effort). * In all the Wikipedias in which ContentTranslation is deployed, it is currently defined as a Beta feature, which means that it is only available to logged-in users who opted into it in the preferences. * The 1000th article was written on April 10th, so it took much less to get to 2000 than to 1000. * The language into which the most articles were translated is Catalan: 762. The Catalan Wikipedia community always had a strong inclination to translation, it was the first one that volunteered to test the tool in labs in the summer of 2014 and provided a lot of useful feedback, and it also has good machine translation support thanks to the Freely-licensed Apertium engine. * The second most popular target language is Spanish. It started slowly in the first couple of months, but it's quickly growing since March. * Other target languages that are quickly growing lately are French, Portuguese and Ukrainian. * The language from which the largest number of articles is translated is English. It is followed by Spanish, from which a lot of articles are translated to the closely related Portuguese and Catalan. * The total number of people who published at least one translated article into any language is 663. * Of more than 2000 articles that were created, about 60 were deleted, so we have a reason to think that the quality of the created articles is pretty OK. * In Catalan we see that ContentTranslation has some influence on the number of articles created per day - it was usually between 60 and 90 before 2015, and in January and February it
Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?
At least 33 hackathon projects were developed and showcased in 3 days, all crowd-documented at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96378 before the end of the event. Unseen in Wikimedia as far as I'm aware, and we'll try again in Wikimania For instance, Experiment with video.js was basically a one-person-three-day effort (but not just any person, TheDJ no less), and it was demoed with a functional and funny sneak preview. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100106 -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ 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] [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)
Thanks Pine for pushing in the direction of metrics. Any list aiming to be operational will need to be in a better support than an email, though. The tech community section of your list has many similarities to the list we are working on as Engineering Community quarterly goal right now. Ensure that most basic Community Metrics are in place and how they are presented https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94578 See also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: * Number of contributors to Phabricator * Average Phabricator unbreak now task wait time to closure * Average Phabricator high priority task wait time to closure * Average Phabricator task wait time to closure * Number of contributors to Gerrit * Number of patches created * Number of code reviewers * Average patch code review wait time * Maximum patch code review wait time -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil ___ 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] [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)
Yes, but may I also point out that one of our biggest problems on EN wiki is that even good faith newbies will often have their edits reverted. If you add uncited facts to a page you are now much more likely to have your edit reverted than to have someone add citation needed so I would suggest a metric that includes persistence v reversion of edits that are not vandalism. Another issue worth measuring is the number of edit conflicts and the frequency that having an edit conflict triggers a newbies departure. This would require WMF help as I don't think that edit conflicts are publicly logged. But some research on this might resolve the divide between those who consider this a minor issue deserving only the lowest priority at bugzilla, and those such as myself who suspect this is one of the most toxic features of the pedia and reducing edit conflicts the easiest major improvement that could be made. By contrast commons is a relatively lonely place. From my experience you can do hundreds of thousands of edits there without ever needing to archive your talkpage. It would be interesting to see some community health metrics that looked at how many interactions people have with other editors, whether thanks or talkpage messages. My suspicion is that editor retention will vary by interaction level, and there will be a sweet spot which is best for retention, above this interaction level some people finding things distracting, and below this level people leave because they feel ignored. Another metric, and probably one best derived from polling organisations who survey the general public would be to identify how many of our readers would fix an error if they spotted it. One of the arguments that our perceived decline in editor recruitment is a cost of quality is the theory that readers who are willing to fix obvious errors are finding fewer errors per hour of reading Wikipedia. I know that casual readers are less likely to spot typos and vandalism than they were a few years ago, but I'm not sure the best way to measure this phenomenon Regards Jonathan Cardy On 5 Jun 2015, at 02:27, Stuart A. Yeates syea...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a list of possible metrics that we could use for measuring community health. That's a great list, with some great metrics. I'd be included to add some silo-breaking metrics which measure activity across projects or across silos within projects: * Number of editors with actions/edits on more than N wikis (N=2, N=3, etc) * Number of editors with actions/edits on more than N namespaces on the same wiki (N=2, N=3, etc) ... cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky ___ Wiki-research-l mailing list wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l ___ 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] Changing our volunteer structure at Wikimedia UK
Dear movement colleagues I thought you might like to hear about a new WMUK initiative, following on from our recently-completed staff restructure. We are hopeful our local community will react positively to much greater levels of volunteer engagement. Our initiative might be of interest to other chapters who are trying - as we are - to get away from a perception of not being sufficiently open to community involvement. Also, we are looking for movement-wide input. If you can provide thoughts, ideas or feedback, do please make contact. For the full details on wiki see: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 Best regards Michael Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK *From:* Michael Maggs *Date:* 5 June 2015 14:38 *To:* wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org *Subject:* [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action Wikimedia UK needs your help. We want to transform the way we work so that we can bring volunteering right into the heart of the charity. We plan to: * Establish a new volunteer engagement panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_engagement_panel or steering group, focusing specifically on volunteering and volunteer engagement * Embed members into our day-to-day decision making via a new evaluation panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Evaluation_panel * Encourage the setting up of volunteer special-interest working groups https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Working_groups to replace the existing non-board committees https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Committees#Non-board_committees * Set up cultural/GLAM https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_and_GLAM_advisory_board and educational outreach https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Educational_outreach_advisory_board expert advisory boards to advise the WMUK main board on high-level strategy * Change our Articles of Association https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.29_Enabling_non-trustees_to_become_full_members_of_Govcom.2C_ARC_and_any_other_board_committees_that_may_be_constituted to allow volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees * Provide more effective support for volunteers via the new project coordinator https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_Coordinator staff roles * Move toward project-based https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project-based_working working practices to improve efficiency and to enable better self-evaluation of our work These draft plans follow on from the excellent feedback we received from our last Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015. They deliberately don't attempt to answer all possible questions about implementation, as we think it best that both further questions and the answers to those questions should come out of collaborative discussions. The plans are not set in stone, and with the community's help they can be improved, strengthened and fleshed out. We would like your feedback, either online or in person at our next Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015 on Saturday 25th July 2015, in London. For more information, see the links on the right. Feedback, comments and discussion are more than welcome on the discussion page, or you can email chairatwikimedia.org.uk if you have feedback you would prefer not to make public. To read the full details on wiki see here: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 Best regards Michael ___ Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK ___ 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] Changing our volunteer structure at Wikimedia UK
Of course you don't need to be a member to volunteer with us or to be part of this or any other consultation. There are only a very few things that are restricted to members or that need member support, for example borrowing our equipment and handling the charity's money. Michael Fæ mailto:fae...@gmail.com 5 June 2015 15:22 Do you have to be a paid up member of the charity to be part of the consultation or the envisaged interest groups? As last year you changed the charity policies to limit all equipment to paid members only, which caused WM-LGBT+ a pointless degree of hassle to even borrowing a projector, I presume that the same policy of exclusivity would apply. Fae Previous Chairman of Wikimedia UK, uniquely excluded from membership of the UK charity or elections. Michael Maggs mailto:mich...@maggs.name 5 June 2015 15:14 Dear movement colleagues I thought you might like to hear about a new WMUK initiative, following on from our recently-completed staff restructure. We are hopeful our local community will react positively to much greater levels of volunteer engagement. Our initiative might be of interest to other chapters who are trying - as we are - to get away from a perception of not being sufficiently open to community involvement. Also, we are looking for movement-wide input. If you can provide thoughts, ideas or feedback, do please make contact. For the full details on wiki see: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 Best regards Michael Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK *From:* Michael Maggs *Date:* 5 June 2015 14:38 *To:* wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org *Subject:* [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action Wikimedia UK needs your help. We want to transform the way we work so that we can bring volunteering right into the heart of the charity. We plan to: * Establish a new volunteer engagement panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_engagement_panel or steering group, focusing specifically on volunteering and volunteer engagement * Embed members into our day-to-day decision making via a new evaluation panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Evaluation_panel * Encourage the setting up of volunteer special-interest working groups https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Working_groups to replace the existing non-board committees https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Committees#Non-board_committees * Set up cultural/GLAM https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_and_GLAM_advisory_board and educational outreach https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Educational_outreach_advisory_board expert advisory boards to advise the WMUK main board on high-level strategy * Change our Articles of Association https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.29_Enabling_non-trustees_to_become_full_members_of_Govcom.2C_ARC_and_any_other_board_committees_that_may_be_constituted to allow volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees * Provide more effective support for volunteers via the new project coordinator https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_Coordinator staff roles * Move toward project-based https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project-based_working working practices to improve efficiency and to enable better self-evaluation of our work These draft plans follow on from the excellent feedback we received from our last Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015. They deliberately don't attempt to answer all possible questions about implementation, as we think it best that both further questions and the answers to those questions should come out of collaborative discussions. The plans are not set in stone, and with the community's help they can be improved, strengthened and fleshed out. We would like your feedback, either online or in person at our next Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015 on Saturday 25th July 2015, in London. For more information, see the links on the right. Feedback, comments and discussion are more than welcome on the discussion page, or you can email chairatwikimedia.org.uk if you have feedback you would prefer not to make public. To read the full details on wiki see here: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 Best regards Michael ___ Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK ___ 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] Changing our volunteer structure at Wikimedia UK
Hi All, Despite Fae’s attempt to derail the conversation and make this all about him (which I am guessing it isn’t) I would like to applaud this initiative. I hope that in the coming months you can keep us all up to date on your experiences. All of the movement entities are struggling to find meaningful and effective ways to keep people involved in all levels of our decision making. The different approaches in the initiative described below should teach us a lot and I am glad that you are taking such an active approach! Thanks! Jan-Bart On 05 Jun 2015, at 16:14, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote: Dear movement colleagues I thought you might like to hear about a new WMUK initiative, following on from our recently-completed staff restructure. We are hopeful our local community will react positively to much greater levels of volunteer engagement. Our initiative might be of interest to other chapters who are trying - as we are - to get away from a perception of not being sufficiently open to community involvement. Also, we are looking for movement-wide input. If you can provide thoughts, ideas or feedback, do please make contact. For the full details on wiki see: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 Best regards Michael Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK *From:* Michael Maggs *Date:* 5 June 2015 14:38 *To:* wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org *Subject:* [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action Wikimedia UK needs your help. We want to transform the way we work so that we can bring volunteering right into the heart of the charity. We plan to: * Establish a new volunteer engagement panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_engagement_panel or steering group, focusing specifically on volunteering and volunteer engagement * Embed members into our day-to-day decision making via a new evaluation panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Evaluation_panel * Encourage the setting up of volunteer special-interest working groups https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Working_groups to replace the existing non-board committees https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Committees#Non-board_committees * Set up cultural/GLAM https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_and_GLAM_advisory_board and educational outreach https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Educational_outreach_advisory_board expert advisory boards to advise the WMUK main board on high-level strategy * Change our Articles of Association https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.29_Enabling_non-trustees_to_become_full_members_of_Govcom.2C_ARC_and_any_other_board_committees_that_may_be_constituted to allow volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees * Provide more effective support for volunteers via the new project coordinator https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_Coordinator staff roles * Move toward project-based https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project-based_working working practices to improve efficiency and to enable better self-evaluation of our work These draft plans follow on from the excellent feedback we received from our last Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015. They deliberately don't attempt to answer all possible questions about implementation, as we think it best that both further questions and the answers to those questions should come out of collaborative discussions. The plans are not set in stone, and with the community's help they can be improved, strengthened and fleshed out. We would like your feedback, either online or in person at our next Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015 on Saturday 25th July 2015, in London. For more information, see the links on the right. Feedback, comments and discussion are more than welcome on the discussion page, or you can email chairatwikimedia.org.uk if you have feedback you would prefer not to make public. To read the full details on wiki see here: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 Best regards Michael ___ Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK ___ 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:
[Wikimedia-l] Developing new language editions of Wikipedia
I've created the draft for our future approach in building new
Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects) editions:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developing_new_language_editions_of_Wikipedia
Feel free to contribute to it :)
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{{draft}}
The aim of this page is to help creation of new Wikipedia editions.
== Rationale ==
As of 2015, any new request for Wikipedia will almost for sure assume
specific anthropological environment.
[[List of articles every Wikipedia should have]] is not just heavily
biased in favor of the broad Western civilization (thousands of years
of Chinese and Indian civilizations have been mostly neglected), but
it's not appropriate approach to the ethnolinguistic communities which
usually don't even have the contemporary concepts. And while the list
has been created as eventualist recommendation, it's de facto used as
requirement for new projects.
That turned to be counter-productive, as people willing to share their
knowledge have been stuck in searching for the right terminology
source, usually not easily accessible; or they've been forced to start
creating neologisms, which are generally forbidden by Wikipedia rules,
as original research.
To move this process from the dead end, we have to adapt our
recommendations from the point of the willingness to create Wikipedia
in particular language to the point of having fully developed
community, capable to deal with contemporary knowledge.
== Steps ==
The steps are broad and presently built on assumption that: (1)
particular language has writing system which could be used in
contemporary computers (i.e. mapped in Unicode, standard fonts exist
and could be easily reached); (2) it has enough bilinguals, capable to
communicate with broader Wikimedia community; (3) internet access
exists in the area (that includes migrants living in capital cities or
other countries).
Those are the minimums necessary for sustainability of
Wikipedia/Wikimedia community. It's likely that we'd build in the
future recommendations for the languages which don't fulfill
requirements above.
=== Step 1: Local knowledge ===
Both -- contemporary educated bilinguals and native monolinguals --
are the most interested in preserving local knowledge. That knowledge
is usually not according to the standards of one contemporary
encyclopedia, but gathering that kind of knowledge is fundamental
because of two reasons: (1) we want them to share their knowledge with
us, no matter if it's mythological or consisted of protoscientific
descriptions of the nature around them; (2) it's necessary to attract
population to build knowledge repository in their native language.
It's likely that this type of knowledge will have common topics all
over the world: what's sky, what's river, local flora and fauna etc.
However, while potential persons engaged in field work could ask them
to describe something particularly, this should be fully open to the
will of local population.
As mentioned above, the first step assumes field work. Persons doing
the job should be equipped with tools and knowledge to record spoken
language and then transcribe it (in Wikisource) and build articles
about particular topics in Wikipedia.
This type of work is against common rules, which forbid original
research. However, this is the only way to start the project. This
type of the knowledge should be the only category which would assume
violating OR rule. (It should be mentioned that this was and is a
common practice on the most not well developed Wikimedia projects,
although they exist in much more developed and literate environment
than the languages with which we are starting to deal.)
As mentioned above, this is also the time when we should start using
Wikisource for collecting data. Depending on the capacity of
particular ethnolinguistic group, it should be hosted either on
Multilingual Wikisource or on their own edition of Wikisource.
Besides Wikisource, Wiktionary is also important. If it's about very
small ethnolinguistic community -- with less than 1,000 speakers and
declining number of them -- it's much more rationale to use one of the
larger Wiktionaries (likely in dominant L2) to describe the meanings
of the words. However, if it's about a sustainable ethnolinguistic
community, it would be better to create Wiktionary in their own
language.
Organizationally, this step -- which could last for a long time, even
after the completion of the next two steps -- assumes significant
field work. This could be done by Wikimedians and Wikimedia
organizations, but it could also be done by unaffiliated
organizations. In the second case, we should coordinate with them.
Besides our own aims, there are many other organizations with similar,
educational goals. It's also useful to work in coordination with them.
For example, if one organization is interested in donating laptops to
particular ethnolinguistic group, we should be ready to prepare
Wikimedia-related program once those people get laptops.
===
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Changing our volunteer structure at Wikimedia UK
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: The bizarre part of this is that the charity you are currently chairman of, does not do any meaningful checks on members when they join (for five quid). The fact remains that only one person is excluded from membership, voting or taking part in advisory committees, and as a previous chairman of the charity, you would think I would be more trustworthy with charity owned equipment than people who may well be using fake names or temporary addresses. The real-politic is that you chose to spend a large amount of donated funds on legal advice to censor me from asking the last CEO any relevant questions about the financial control of the charity. Considering how costly and embarrassing the lack of adequate trustee oversight of finances has worked out to be, I would hope you might realise that my concern for the charity were valid. You might even find a way to let me positively help you again with the organization you are responsible for. Hopefully this will be a part of your excellent, if significantly delayed, volunteer consultation. Fae Fae - why do you think you alone, of all people and despite your history of contributions, have been excluded from membership, moderated on the list, barred from voting, etc.? Is it merely because you pointed out hard truths? If that's the case, then certainly excluding you must be unjust. But under the assumption that the leaders and members of WMUK are generally reasonable people, it's hard to imagine there aren't other factors. In any case, it might be helpful if your personal issues with WMUK didn't derail all other public discussions (on wikimedia-l or elsewhere) about the charity itself. ___ 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] Changing our volunteer structure at Wikimedia UK
The bizarre part of this is that the charity you are currently chairman of, does not do any meaningful checks on members when they join (for five quid). The fact remains that only one person is excluded from membership, voting or taking part in advisory committees, and as a previous chairman of the charity, you would think I would be more trustworthy with charity owned equipment than people who may well be using fake names or temporary addresses. The real-politic is that you chose to spend a large amount of donated funds on legal advice to censor me from asking the last CEO any relevant questions about the financial control of the charity. Considering how costly and embarrassing the lack of adequate trustee oversight of finances has worked out to be, I would hope you might realise that my concern for the charity were valid. You might even find a way to let me positively help you again with the organization you are responsible for. Hopefully this will be a part of your excellent, if significantly delayed, volunteer consultation. Fae On 5 June 2015 at 15:38, Michael Maggs mich...@maggs.name wrote: Of course you don't need to be a member to volunteer with us or to be part of this or any other consultation. There are only a very few things that are restricted to members or that need member support, for example borrowing our equipment and handling the charity's money. Michael Fæ mailto:fae...@gmail.com 5 June 2015 15:22 Do you have to be a paid up member of the charity to be part of the consultation or the envisaged interest groups? As last year you changed the charity policies to limit all equipment to paid members only, which caused WM-LGBT+ a pointless degree of hassle to even borrowing a projector, I presume that the same policy of exclusivity would apply. Fae Previous Chairman of Wikimedia UK, uniquely excluded from membership of the UK charity or elections. Michael Maggs mailto:mich...@maggs.name 5 June 2015 15:14 Dear movement colleagues I thought you might like to hear about a new WMUK initiative, following on from our recently-completed staff restructure. We are hopeful our local community will react positively to much greater levels of volunteer engagement. Our initiative might be of interest to other chapters who are trying - as we are - to get away from a perception of not being sufficiently open to community involvement. Also, we are looking for movement-wide input. If you can provide thoughts, ideas or feedback, do please make contact. For the full details on wiki see: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_strategy_consultation_2015 Best regards Michael Michael Maggs Chair, Wikimedia UK *From:* Michael Maggs *Date:* 5 June 2015 14:38 *To:* wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org wikimediau...@lists.wikimedia.org *Subject:* [Wikimediauk-l] Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action Volunteering with Wikimedia UK: a call to action Wikimedia UK needs your help. We want to transform the way we work so that we can bring volunteering right into the heart of the charity. We plan to: * Establish a new volunteer engagement panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_engagement_panel or steering group, focusing specifically on volunteering and volunteer engagement * Embed members into our day-to-day decision making via a new evaluation panel https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Evaluation_panel * Encourage the setting up of volunteer special-interest working groups https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Working_groups to replace the existing non-board committees https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Committees#Non-board_committees * Set up cultural/GLAM https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Cultural_and_GLAM_advisory_board and educational outreach https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Educational_outreach_advisory_board expert advisory boards to advise the WMUK main board on high-level strategy * Change our Articles of Association https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/2015_Annual_General_Meeting/Resolutions#.281.29_Enabling_non-trustees_to_become_full_members_of_Govcom.2C_ARC_and_any_other_board_committees_that_may_be_constituted to allow volunteers to be appointed full members of board committees * Provide more effective support for volunteers via the new project coordinator https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project_Coordinator staff roles * Move toward project-based https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Project-based_working working practices to improve efficiency and to enable better self-evaluation of our work These draft plans follow on from the excellent feedback we received from our last Volunteer Strategy Gathering https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Volunteer_Strategy_Gathering/July_2015. They deliberately don't attempt to answer all possible questions about implementation, as we think it best that both further questions and the answers to those questions
Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion. No no, please go on. This is one of the best wiki tools in a while. I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in Pretoria yesterday. Next time: video? ! Quim writes: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96378 (33 hackathon events) Experiment with video.js was basically a one-person-three-day [TheDJ special]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100106 Very neat. Does this work with popcorn? ___ 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] Results of 2015 WMF Board elections
That's quite a surprise! I am really happy to see the substantial changes! Congratulations! On Jun 6, 2015 01:14, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, The certified results of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election are now available on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Results Congratulations to Dariusz Jemielniak (User:pundit), James Heilman (User:Doc James), and Denny Vrandečić (User:Denny), for receiving the most community support. They will join the Wikimedia Foundation as Trustees, after they are appointed by the Board at their July meeting at Wikimania. These results have been certified by the committee, the Wikimedia Foundation's legal department, and the Board of Trustees. There were 5512 votes cast, with 5167 of those being valid. The 345-vote difference comes from recast ballots, where eligible voters recast ballots to change their votes, and struck votes, of which there were 4. Additional information is available on the Wikimedia Blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results More statistics on the elections, a post mortem from the committee, and a blog post on the process behind the elections will be published in the coming days. In the meantime, we would appreciate your input—what went well for you in this election? What could we do better next time? These reports are crucial to helping future elections be even more successful, and we hope that you will offer your feedback and ideas: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Post_mortem The committee thanks everyone that participated in this year’s election for helping make it one of the most diverse and representative in the movement’s history. Sincerely, – 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee Adrian, Anders Wennersten, Daniel, Gregory Varnum, Katie Chan, Mardetanha, Ruslan, Savh, and Trijnstel ___ 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] Results of 2015 WMF Board elections
Congratulations, Dariusz, James and Denny! And thanks, of course, to María, Phoebe and SJ for the time they've served on behalf of the community, as well as to all the other candidates, who were prepared to serve, and to the elections committee. //Johan Jönsson -- 2015-06-06 1:14 GMT+02:00 Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com: Greetings, The certified results of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election are now available on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Results Congratulations to Dariusz Jemielniak (User:pundit), James Heilman (User:Doc James), and Denny Vrandečić (User:Denny), for receiving the most community support. They will join the Wikimedia Foundation as Trustees, after they are appointed by the Board at their July meeting at Wikimania. These results have been certified by the committee, the Wikimedia Foundation's legal department, and the Board of Trustees. There were 5512 votes cast, with 5167 of those being valid. The 345-vote difference comes from recast ballots, where eligible voters recast ballots to change their votes, and struck votes, of which there were 4. Additional information is available on the Wikimedia Blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results More statistics on the elections, a post mortem from the committee, and a blog post on the process behind the elections will be published in the coming days. In the meantime, we would appreciate your input—what went well for you in this election? What could we do better next time? These reports are crucial to helping future elections be even more successful, and we hope that you will offer your feedback and ideas: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Post_mortem The committee thanks everyone that participated in this year’s election for helping make it one of the most diverse and representative in the movement’s history. Sincerely, – 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee Adrian, Anders Wennersten, Daniel, Gregory Varnum, Katie Chan, Mardetanha, Ruslan, Savh, and Trijnstel ___ 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] Results of 2015 WMF Board elections
Hi Everyone Thank you to the Election Committee for all the hard work in both these and the FDC elections! It is amazing to see how many votes were cast this year, which is great. And voters came from a much larger spread of projects than before. As we can see from the results every vote really can make a difference. I would like to give a special thanks to all the affiliates who facilitated discussion within their community’s and encouraged people to vote. Congratulations to Dariusz, James and Denny on being elected to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees! Their formal appointment will take place at Wikimania. When that time comes we will also thank Maria, Phoebe and SJ properly for all the hard work over the past years :) Apart from thanking all those who voted I would like to do a final thank you to everyone who ran in these elections. It is an incredible amount of work to run in these elections (especaily with all the questions that have to be answered, often not in a native language). You are a great pool of volunteers and hopefully you are able to help in other places within the movement. As discussed with some of you we are looking at a way to keep the candidates involved and somehow benefit from your expertise in the future :) Jan-Bart de Vreede Chair Board of Trustees Wikimedia Foundation On 06 Jun 2015, at 01:14, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, The certified results of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election are now available on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Results Congratulations to Dariusz Jemielniak (User:pundit), James Heilman (User:Doc James), and Denny Vrandečić (User:Denny), for receiving the most community support. They will join the Wikimedia Foundation as Trustees, after they are appointed by the Board at their July meeting at Wikimania. These results have been certified by the committee, the Wikimedia Foundation's legal department, and the Board of Trustees. There were 5512 votes cast, with 5167 of those being valid. The 345-vote difference comes from recast ballots, where eligible voters recast ballots to change their votes, and struck votes, of which there were 4. Additional information is available on the Wikimedia Blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results More statistics on the elections, a post mortem from the committee, and a blog post on the process behind the elections will be published in the coming days. In the meantime, we would appreciate your input—what went well for you in this election? What could we do better next time? These reports are crucial to helping future elections be even more successful, and we hope that you will offer your feedback and ideas: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Post_mortem The committee thanks everyone that participated in this year’s election for helping make it one of the most diverse and representative in the movement’s history. Sincerely, – 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee Adrian, Anders Wennersten, Daniel, Gregory Varnum, Katie Chan, Mardetanha, Ruslan, Savh, and Trijnstel ___ 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] Results of 2015 WMF Board elections
Thank you, Greg. Kudos to the committee on a well-run election process, particularly in encouraging participation. And warm congratulations to Dariusz, Denny, and James! I know you will be excellent in this role. SJ On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com wrote: That's quite a surprise! I am really happy to see the substantial changes! Congratulations! On Jun 6, 2015 01:14, Gregory Varnum gregory.var...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, The certified results of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election are now available on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Results Congratulations to Dariusz Jemielniak (User:pundit), James Heilman (User:Doc James), and Denny Vrandečić (User:Denny), for receiving the most community support. They will join the Wikimedia Foundation as Trustees, after they are appointed by the Board at their July meeting at Wikimania. These results have been certified by the committee, the Wikimedia Foundation's legal department, and the Board of Trustees. There were 5512 votes cast, with 5167 of those being valid. The 345-vote difference comes from recast ballots, where eligible voters recast ballots to change their votes, and struck votes, of which there were 4. Additional information is available on the Wikimedia Blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results More statistics on the elections, a post mortem from the committee, and a blog post on the process behind the elections will be published in the coming days. In the meantime, we would appreciate your input—what went well for you in this election? What could we do better next time? These reports are crucial to helping future elections be even more successful, and we hope that you will offer your feedback and ideas: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Post_mortem The committee thanks everyone that participated in this year’s election for helping make it one of the most diverse and representative in the movement’s history. Sincerely, – 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee Adrian, Anders Wennersten, Daniel, Gregory Varnum, Katie Chan, Mardetanha, Ruslan, Savh, and Trijnstel ___ 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 -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ 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
