Re: [Wikimedia-l] Khalid Mahmood is gone

[Bodhisattwa Mandal]

I had a chance to meet him during Wikimania 2015. Sorry to hear the news.
Truly a huge loss for Western Punjabi Wikipedia.

Bodhisattwa
On 1 Nov 2015 10:23, "Anna Stillwell"  wrote:

> Thank you for letting us know, Asaf. Rest in peace, Khalid.
> /a
>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Asaf Bartov 
> wrote:
>
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > Our colleague User:Khalid Mahmood, the most prolific contributor to the
> > Western Punjabi Wikipedia[1], has died earlier this month, after long
> > illness.
> >
> > Khalid was an educator from Pakistan who was passionate about creating
> and
> > sharing free knowledge.  He had great plans for promoting the mission in
> > Pakistan.  He has made more than 67 thousand edits across the projects.
> He
> > attended Wikimania 2012 and 2014, where some of us met him.
> >
> > If you wish to leave condolences or share memories of Khalid, I suggest
> his
> > talk page on Meta:
> >
> >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Khalid_Mahmood#Condolences_and_remembrances
> >
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> >
> >Asaf
> >
> >
> > [1] Western Punjabi [used in Pakistan] and Eastern Punjabi [used in
> India]
> > are practically the same language, but Western is written in the
> > Perso-Arabic Shahmukhi script, whereas Eastern is written in the Gurmukhi
> > script.)
> > --
> > Asaf Bartov
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WLM Brasil 2015 - Winners / Numbers

[Fæ]

On 31 October 2015 at 17:43, Ilario Valdelli  wrote:
...
> Rodrigo reports:
>
> Pictures uploaded: 4.443
> Uploaders: 411
> New users registered on Commons:  325
> New users engagement: 79%
> Pictures user on Wikipedia: 86 (2%)
>
> Are the goals reached? Basically yes. When the project has been financed it
> was clear that the definition "success" was based on those measures.

The comment here puzzled me, especially from an involved GAC member,
as grant targets should not be "stretch targets" but realistic
commitments to be met with the invested money. I went back to read the
grant page and accurately it can be stated (traffic light colours
added by me):[1]

1. [GREEN] at least 400 participants uploading one photograph or more;
2. [RED] at least 5,000 photos uploaded;
3. [RED] at least 15% of photos used on Wikipedia [i.e. > 666
photographs in use];
4. [GREEN] at least 50% of new users engagement during the contest;
5. [RED] at least 10 new articles about natural heritage sites in
Brasil [no report];
6. [RED] at least 10% of new user retention after 2 months of the
contest [no report].

There are a number of clarifications on the grant talk page,
especially Wang's (WMF) significant questions raised under "WMF
comments". The clarifications add detail to the above 6 measures, but
also make some further commitments which have yet to be reported on.
Based on this detail, it would not be possible to "close-out" the
grant against reported results until December 2015. I recommend that
the Wikimedia Community Brazilian Group of Education and Research go
the extra mile to measure and report the detail so that their 2016
grant applications can demonstrate learning from the targets that were
met or not met in this project.

== Technical Note ==
Most of the measurements can be produced from using SQL on the Commons
and Wikipedia(s) databases, if the more web-friendly tools such as
Catscan are not up to the job. It may be worth asking for help at [2]
or [3] if this gets stuck/seems a lot of effort, as such scripts are
fairly easy to re-run each month and can be 'recycled' in coming years
once worked out.

== Community Observation ==
It might help future on-wiki discussion if questions are
enumerated/logged and seen to be responded to in a non-personalized
style. Even if the perception is that someone is griefing the project
or organization, if you can bat back questions with formal and direct
replies with hard measurements and statistics, or a clear explanation
of why it is not worth the volunteer or staff time to report in some
areas, then not only would the questions dry up, but they form a
useful foundation for future more robust grant requests. Keep in mind
that testing questions do add value.

Links:
1. 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_Community_Brazilian_Group_of_Education_and_Research/Wiki_Loves_Earth_Brasil_2015#Measures_of_success
2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bots/Work_requests
3. IRC #wikimedia-tech
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels#MediaWiki_and_technical

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Khalid Mahmood is gone

[Tito Dutta]

Sad news. :(
I agree with Bodhisattwa that it is a huge loss.


   1. His English Wikipedia userpage is fully protected (WP:DECEASED
   guideline #1)
   2. His name is added here:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians/2015

Thanks.

On 1 November 2015 at 16:16, Shlomi Fish  wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 21:14:11 -0700
> Asaf Bartov  wrote:
>
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > Our colleague User:Khalid Mahmood, the most prolific contributor to the
> > Western Punjabi Wikipedia[1], has died earlier this month, after long
> > illness.
> >
>
> sorry to hear about that. My condolences go to his family and friends.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Khalid Mahmood is gone

[Shlomi Fish]

On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 21:14:11 -0700
Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> Dear friends,
> 
> Our colleague User:Khalid Mahmood, the most prolific contributor to the
> Western Punjabi Wikipedia[1], has died earlier this month, after long
> illness.
> 

sorry to hear about that. My condolences go to his family and friends.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Khalid Mahmood is gone

[Lila Tretikov]

Thank you Asaf. A huge loss. Condolences to all who were close.

sent from mobile. please excuse typos.
On Nov 1, 2015 4:47 AM, "Tito Dutta"  wrote:

> Sad news. :(
> I agree with Bodhisattwa that it is a huge loss.
>
>
>1. His English Wikipedia userpage is fully protected (WP:DECEASED
>guideline #1)
>2. His name is added here:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians/2015
>
> Thanks.
>
> On 1 November 2015 at 16:16, Shlomi Fish  wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 21:14:11 -0700
> > Asaf Bartov  wrote:
> >
> > > Dear friends,
> > >
> > > Our colleague User:Khalid Mahmood, the most prolific contributor to the
> > > Western Punjabi Wikipedia[1], has died earlier this month, after long
> > > illness.
> > >
> >
> > sorry to hear about that. My condolences go to his family and friends.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Shlomi Fish
> >
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> >
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> > Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you
> > think it means.
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[Wikimedia-l] Announcement: English Wikipedia has passed 5 million articles

[Pine W]

English Wikipedia has passed 5 million articles.

The community has written an open letter (which includes video):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_million_articles

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Khalid Mahmood is gone

[Tanweer Morshed]

Condolences to friends and family and dear ones of Khalid. That it
definitely a irreparable loss.

Regards,
Tanweer Morshed
Wikimedia Bangladesh

On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Lila Tretikov  wrote:

> Thank you Asaf. A huge loss. Condolences to all who were close.
>
> sent from mobile. please excuse typos.
> On Nov 1, 2015 4:47 AM, "Tito Dutta"  wrote:
>
> > Sad news. :(
> > I agree with Bodhisattwa that it is a huge loss.
> >
> >
> >1. His English Wikipedia userpage is fully protected (WP:DECEASED
> >guideline #1)
> >2. His name is added here:
> >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deceased_Wikipedians/2015
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On 1 November 2015 at 16:16, Shlomi Fish  wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 21:14:11 -0700
> > > Asaf Bartov  wrote:
> > >
> > > > Dear friends,
> > > >
> > > > Our colleague User:Khalid Mahmood, the most prolific contributor to
> the
> > > > Western Punjabi Wikipedia[1], has died earlier this month, after long
> > > > illness.
> > > >
> > >
> > > sorry to hear about that. My condolences go to his family and friends.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Shlomi Fish
> > >
> > > --
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> > > Shlomi Fish   http://www.shlomifish.org/
> > > http://youtu.be/xZLwtc9x4yA - Anime in Real Life!! (Parody)
> > >
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> > > Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what
> you
> > > think it means.
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[Wikimedia-l] Looking for Wikipedians in the Balkans, Caucasus and Turkey for project with Osservatorio Balcani-Caucaso

[Cristian Consonni]

Dear Wikimedians,

Wikimedia Italia has started since this month a project with
"Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso" (Balcan and Caucasus Observatory,
).

Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso (OBC) is a research institute focused on
South-East Europe, Turkey and the Caucasus which was launched in the
year 2000 and which is based in Rovereto (Trento), in the north-east
of Italy. The main focus of OBC is to produce studies and reports
related to freedom of the press in the 26 countries that they monitor.
They collaborate with a net of over 50 correspondents, including
journalists, researchers, and activists in the various countries.

With the help of WM-IT, OBC selected a Wikipedian in Residence for the
next months. His name is Davide Denti[1] and you can find his contact
in copy. Davide is a long-time Wikipedian, contributing on it.wiki
since 2007, he is also a PhD candidate at the University of Trento, in
Trento in the north of Italy, where is working on his thesis about EU
enlargement policies with respect to the western balkans and in
Bosnia-Herzegovina in particular.

The residence is fully founded through a EU project called "European
Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)" 
with partners - both individuals, for example journalists, and
organisations - in several countries[2a][2b].

In the scope of this project we would like to come in touch with
Wikipedians in the region of Balkans that may find this project of
interest, we also think that you may be interested in building
relations with institutions in your country that participate in this
project.

We look forward to collaborating with you to make this project, and
the content on Wikipedia about Balkans and Caucasus, better.

Cristian
on behalf on Wikimedia Italia

[1] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Davide_Denti_%28OBC%29
[2a] http://ecpmf.eu/members
[2b] http://ecpmf.eu/ecpmf/people-and-partners/consortium

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Agenda for the November 7-8, 2015 Board Meeting

[Pine W]

Glad to see long term planning and endowment discussion on the Board
agenda. Will the subjects of the long term planning discussion at the Board
meeting be more or less the same as the discussion scheduled for Metrics on
Thursday?

Thanks,
Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: English Wikipedia has passed 5 million articles

[Andreas Kolbe]

The Community Letter is included in this week's Signpost issue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-10-28/Community_letter

And there is a separate short write-up in News and Notes, which notes
Wikidata's third birthday as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-10-28/News_and_notes

Andreas

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> English Wikipedia has passed 5 million articles.
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to Wikimania 2016 Scholarship Committee

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Dear Wikimaniacs,we are now calling for a scholarship review committee.This 
year, we additionally want a scholarship ambassador for each major geography or 
language, including a representative from each entity which pays for additional 
scholarships; the ambassadors will be committee observers.The scholarship 
review committee is an important and diverse group of volunteers who help to 
run the scholarship program in accordance with the pillars of this Wikimania. 
We encourage people from all Wikimedia wikis to apply for this position so that 
the committee can handle applications in many different languages.The main 
duties of the committee members prior to Wikimania 2016 are:   
   - Participation in periodic online meetings with scholarships program 
manager and other committee members.
   - Review and edit communications material (e.g. Scholarship wiki, 
application questions).
   - Assistance in determination of scholarship applicant requirements.
   - Assurance of due consideration and speedy response time to Wikimania 
scholarship applications in multiple languages.
   - Work with the local team.
For further information please visit m:Wikimania/Scholarships/Tasks (the 
committee will also be polishing this page).We are looking for Wikimedians from 
all over the world, who are:   
   - fluent in written English and have good communication skills, or can name 
local community member(s)/ambassadors who help them with English translations.
   - discreet and able to handle confidential applicant information, and 
objectively assess candidates.
   - willing to review scholarship applications in late 2015/early 2016.
   - having either or both:  
  - previously attended Wikimania.
  - strong knowledge of the cross-project Wikimedia community.

You will be working remotely. While we hope that scholarship review committee 
members will enjoy Wikimania 2016 by giving significant input to it, the local 
team cannot guarantee financial support for the committee members' travel 
expenses since scholarship review committee members may not apply for a 
scholarship themselves.If you're interested in serving on the scholarship 
reviewing committee and/or as scholarship ambassador, please send us an email 
at domande.wikima...@wikimedia.it. If you have any questions, please don't 
hesitate to contact us.Deadline to apply is Sunday, November 15, 2015. The 
local team will contact all candidates and publish the list of scholarship 
committee members right afterwards. Please help with translations on 
wm2016:Scholarship committee.Proposed timeline   
   - Nov 1–Nov 15: Call for Scholarship Committee
   - Nov 16–Dec 6: Preparations of the Scholarship Committee
   - Dec 6–Jan 9: Submission time
Thanks,
Federico Leva and Martin Rulsch
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[Wikimedia-l] Train-a-Wikipedian (TAW): New initiative

[Tito Dutta]

Hello,

I want to inform you about a new project “Train-a-Wikipedian” (TAW),
powered by CIS-A2K.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian

You may know of the English Wikipedia program Adopt-a-user
. We wanted to start
something similar for the Indian Wikimedia communities.

In February and June this year, CIS-A2K conducted Train the Trainer
 (TTT) and MediaWiki Train
the Trainer

(MWTTT). After conducting these two events, and communicating with the
participants we found the necessity to start a training program that we’ll
be running on regular basis, and from there we conceived this
“Train-a-Wikipedian” program.

Initially, we’ll concentrating on these 5 Indian languages Wikis: 1)
Kannada, 2) Konkani, 3) Marathi, 4) Odia, 5) Telugu. But, we may expand
soon, if our program is a success.

In our TAW main page
, we have
listed a number of topics those we’ll discussing during our training. We
hope to conduct hangout or webinar sessions.

Please provide your feedback and suggestion. :-)

Regards.

User:Titodutta

English Wikipedia administrator
CIS-A2K Program Associate (consultant)
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