[Wikimedia-l] Maithili Wikipedia surpasses 10k articles

[Biplab Anand]

Hi,

I am delighted to share with you that Maithili Wikipedia has reached 10,000
articles .

To reach the milestone Maithili Wikimedians has taken a challenge
named Maithili
Wikipedia Mission 10
.
In the month of December, Maithili Wikipedia shows high level of activity
.

We are really proud of the Maithili Wikipedia Community and Maithili
Wikimedians volunteers who run and support the Mission 10. We would also
like to thanks each and one contributor who contributed to the Mission 10.

Happy New Year 2017!!!

Best
Biplab
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Noongarpedia - Perth Western Australia

[Gnangarra]

Kaya Pine

Yes, please share my original email around to other lists, chapters or any
group who might find benefit from the work being done here.

I am happy for my contact details to be shared and to answer questions
about the project.

Thank you

On 1 January 2017 at 12:54, Pine W  wrote:

> Thanks for sending this, Gnangarra. Cascadia Wikimedians has an interest in
> content relating to the indigenous peoples of North America, so I'm
> forwarding your email to the Cascadia mailing list for others to read.
>
> Pine
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Gnangarra  wrote:
>
> > Kaya
> >
> > Some of you would have become aware of a project in Perth Western
> Australia
> > that has been ongoing since 2014. The ultimate aim is have
> > nys.wikipedia.org
> > currently its at https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nys with 500
> > articles
> >
> > While everyone has been focused on enjoying the holiday break the people
> > facilitating this project have been busily writing a report on the
> project
> > and it was publish last night.
> >
> > It looks at working with an Indigenous cultural/language group in the
> > southwest of Western Australia, the first chapter covers this detail.
> >
> > The project has been working on a number of very specific challenges
> facing
> > minority and Indigenous cultures in contributing to the projects. It
> > discusses what worked how that evolved, we investigated intangible
> > knowledge sources and even challenged the methods of collecting the
> > statistics behind the conclusion that Noongar language is a threatened
> > language.
> >
> > The project has worked with multiple generations of Nyoongar people in
> > differing environments, its worked with students  from the early years of
> > primary school 6,7 8 years old through to post graduate students.
> >
> > Wikimedia Australia is currently organising opportunities to discuss with
> > facilitators of the project, the first event is in Darwin in March and
> > later in Perth during October.  As always if you find yourself in Perth
> let
> > me know we are always ready to have yarn. In the mean time enjoy reading
> > about Noongarpedia and we hope it offers insights
> >
> > http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience
> >
> > ​--​
> >
> > G
> > ​ideon
> > President Wikimedia Australia
> > WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
> > Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Noongarpedia - Perth Western Australia

[Pine W]

Thanks for sending this, Gnangarra. Cascadia Wikimedians has an interest in
content relating to the indigenous peoples of North America, so I'm
forwarding your email to the Cascadia mailing list for others to read.

Pine


On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Gnangarra  wrote:

> Kaya
>
> Some of you would have become aware of a project in Perth Western Australia
> that has been ongoing since 2014. The ultimate aim is have
> nys.wikipedia.org
> currently its at https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nys with 500
> articles
>
> While everyone has been focused on enjoying the holiday break the people
> facilitating this project have been busily writing a report on the project
> and it was publish last night.
>
> It looks at working with an Indigenous cultural/language group in the
> southwest of Western Australia, the first chapter covers this detail.
>
> The project has been working on a number of very specific challenges facing
> minority and Indigenous cultures in contributing to the projects. It
> discusses what worked how that evolved, we investigated intangible
> knowledge sources and even challenged the methods of collecting the
> statistics behind the conclusion that Noongar language is a threatened
> language.
>
> The project has worked with multiple generations of Nyoongar people in
> differing environments, its worked with students  from the early years of
> primary school 6,7 8 years old through to post graduate students.
>
> Wikimedia Australia is currently organising opportunities to discuss with
> facilitators of the project, the first event is in Darwin in March and
> later in Perth during October.  As always if you find yourself in Perth let
> me know we are always ready to have yarn. In the mean time enjoy reading
> about Noongarpedia and we hope it offers insights
>
> http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience
>
> ​--​
>
> G
> ​ideon
> President Wikimedia Australia
> WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
> Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Congratulation, Hebrew Wikipedia

[Saroj Dhakal]

Congratulations !

On Jan 1, 2017 9:49 AM, "Anthony Cole"  wrote:

> Outstanding (normal for Hebrew Wikipedia)
>
> On 30 Dec 2016 8:49 AM, "Sam Klein"  wrote:
>
> > Huzzah!  Congrats, and thanks for sharing this, Itzik :)
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel <
> > it...@wikimedia.org.il> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm happy to share with you that this morning the 200,000th article has
> > > been written on the Hebrew Wikipedia - The Southern Pudu (there is not
> > > article about him in English!):
> > > https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%93%D7%95_%D7%
> > > 93%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99
> > >
> > > Yesterday we released to the press a list of the top 20 most viewed
> > > articles on HEWP during the last year. Most of the news outlets in
> Israel
> > > published the list, but alongside the list, we added also some
> > statistics:
> > > An average of 45 articles are written on by 760 active editors and 150
> > very
> > > active editors. The number of very active editors increased by 20%
> > compare
> > > to last year [1] - while number globally increased only by 0.11% [2]
> and
> > 0%
> > > on ENWP [3] .
> > >
> > > We are really proud of the Hebrew community and Wikimedia Israel
> > volunteers
> > > who run and support great projects and initiatives, alongside the
> > community
> > > members, to consistently increase the number of editors and their
> > activity.
> > > This achievement is thanks to their efforts!.
> > >
> > >
> > > Happy near year from Israel!
> > >
> > >
> > > Some of the coverage about the most viewed articles on HEWP:
> > >
> > >- http://net.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1225240
> > >-
> > >http://www.mako.co.il/news-money/tech-q4_2016/Article-
> > > c3f561fba944951004.htm
> > >-
> > >http://reshet.tv/item/news/economics/computers-science-
> > > technology/wikipedia-most-read-2016-79561/
> > >- http://hakolkalul.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1225272 (minute
> > >21:15)
> > >-
> > >http://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/first-edition-q4_2016/Article-
> > > c7cea84f8464951004.htm?sCh=e3be6603e7478110=25483675
> > >(minute 38:39)
> > >- http://www.calcalist.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3704729,00.html
> > >- http://www.ch10.co.il/news/335964/#.WGUkkht97mE
> > >- http://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/439575
> > >- http://mizbala.com/news/117472
> > >- http://www.maariv.co.il/news/israel/Article-568404
> > >- http://www.kipa.co.il/tarbut/70410.html
> > >- http://www.kipa.co.il/tarbut/70410.html
> > >- http://www.pc.co.il/it-news/231238/
> > >- http://www.ice.co.il/media/news/article/460324
> > >- http://tech.walla.co.il/item/3026625
> > >- http://www.hidabroot.org/article/215941
> > >
> > > [1] https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryHE.htm
> > > [2] http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/#secondary-graphs-tab
> > > [3] https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryEN.htm
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *Regards,Itzik Edri*
> > > Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel
> > > +972-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il
> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
> the
> > > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment!
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Congratulation, Hebrew Wikipedia

[Anthony Cole]

Outstanding (normal for Hebrew Wikipedia)

On 30 Dec 2016 8:49 AM, "Sam Klein"  wrote:

> Huzzah!  Congrats, and thanks for sharing this, Itzik :)
>
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel <
> it...@wikimedia.org.il> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm happy to share with you that this morning the 200,000th article has
> > been written on the Hebrew Wikipedia - The Southern Pudu (there is not
> > article about him in English!):
> > https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%93%D7%95_%D7%
> > 93%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99
> >
> > Yesterday we released to the press a list of the top 20 most viewed
> > articles on HEWP during the last year. Most of the news outlets in Israel
> > published the list, but alongside the list, we added also some
> statistics:
> > An average of 45 articles are written on by 760 active editors and 150
> very
> > active editors. The number of very active editors increased by 20%
> compare
> > to last year [1] - while number globally increased only by 0.11% [2] and
> 0%
> > on ENWP [3] .
> >
> > We are really proud of the Hebrew community and Wikimedia Israel
> volunteers
> > who run and support great projects and initiatives, alongside the
> community
> > members, to consistently increase the number of editors and their
> activity.
> > This achievement is thanks to their efforts!.
> >
> >
> > Happy near year from Israel!
> >
> >
> > Some of the coverage about the most viewed articles on HEWP:
> >
> >- http://net.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1225240
> >-
> >http://www.mako.co.il/news-money/tech-q4_2016/Article-
> > c3f561fba944951004.htm
> >-
> >http://reshet.tv/item/news/economics/computers-science-
> > technology/wikipedia-most-read-2016-79561/
> >- http://hakolkalul.nana10.co.il/Article/?ArticleID=1225272 (minute
> >21:15)
> >-
> >http://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/first-edition-q4_2016/Article-
> > c7cea84f8464951004.htm?sCh=e3be6603e7478110=25483675
> >(minute 38:39)
> >- http://www.calcalist.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3704729,00.html
> >- http://www.ch10.co.il/news/335964/#.WGUkkht97mE
> >- http://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/439575
> >- http://mizbala.com/news/117472
> >- http://www.maariv.co.il/news/israel/Article-568404
> >- http://www.kipa.co.il/tarbut/70410.html
> >- http://www.kipa.co.il/tarbut/70410.html
> >- http://www.pc.co.il/it-news/231238/
> >- http://www.ice.co.il/media/news/article/460324
> >- http://tech.walla.co.il/item/3026625
> >- http://www.hidabroot.org/article/215941
> >
> > [1] https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryHE.htm
> > [2] http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/#secondary-graphs-tab
> > [3] https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryEN.htm
> >
> >
> >
> > *Regards,Itzik Edri*
> > Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel
> > +972-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il
> > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment!
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>
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Noongarpedia - Perth Western Australia

[Gnangarra]

Kaya

Some of you would have become aware of a project in Perth Western Australia
that has been ongoing since 2014. The ultimate aim is have nys.wikipedia.org
currently its at https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nys with 500
articles

While everyone has been focused on enjoying the holiday break the people
facilitating this project have been busily writing a report on the project
and it was publish last night.

It looks at working with an Indigenous cultural/language group in the
southwest of Western Australia, the first chapter covers this detail.

The project has been working on a number of very specific challenges facing
minority and Indigenous cultures in contributing to the projects. It
discusses what worked how that evolved, we investigated intangible
knowledge sources and even challenged the methods of collecting the
statistics behind the conclusion that Noongar language is a threatened
language.

The project has worked with multiple generations of Nyoongar people in
differing environments, its worked with students  from the early years of
primary school 6,7 8 years old through to post graduate students.

Wikimedia Australia is currently organising opportunities to discuss with
facilitators of the project, the first event is in Darwin in March and
later in Perth during October.  As always if you find yourself in Perth let
me know we are always ready to have yarn. In the mean time enjoy reading
about Noongarpedia and we hope it offers insights

http://cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience

​--​

G
​ideon
President Wikimedia Australia
WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF and the Ladder of Citizen Participation

[Rogol Domedonfors]

Sorry, typo: the CAAs serve an average of about 16,000 people a year: see
http://www.communityactionpartnership.com/index.php?option=com_content=view=21=50

"Rogol"

On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 7:46 AM, Rogol Domedonfors 
wrote:

>
>> Rogol, there are some interesting ideas in this model, and perhaps useful
>> language to prompt discussion, but you cannot fit a societal model to a
>> modest sized organization.
>>
>> Your conclusion would rely on the WMF (or indeed the Community of
>> Wikimedians) having an inexhaustible supply of politicians and bureaucrats
>> jockying for their sinecures. Though there are quite a few people with
>> related interests, they fail to have a systematic coordination or a
>> machaevelian strategy, nor seem very interested in having these things.
>
>
> Thanks for that.  Arnstein's ladder is based on a study of the working of
> Community Action Agencies [https://en.wikipedia.org/
> wiki/Community_Action_Agencies] in US cities, of which around a thousand
> were set up,  They seem to match the WMF in terms of number of officials
> and citizens (read: staff and volunteers) reasonably well (typically 115
> staff, according to http://www.communityactionpartnership.com/ serving an
> average of 160,000 people each year).   However, as you say, the question
> is whether the model fits the Wikimedia situation and whether it can be
> useful for discussion and planning.  Personally, I was struck by how good
> the fit was.
>
> As to whether there is an inexhaustible supply of volunteers jockeying for
> jobs at the WMF, which I believe to be the correct analogy, I could not
> say.  I do note, however, that it is a common practice for the WMF to
> explicitly seek to hire people with experience of volunteer working on the
> various projects.  In this context I simply note Arnstein's comment
> "Depending on their motives, powerholders can hire poor people to co-opt
> them, to placate them, or to utilize the have-nots' special skills and
> insights."
>
> "Rogol"
>
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Fæ  wrote:
>
>> Rogol, there are some interesting ideas in this model, and perhaps useful
>> language to prompt discussion, but you cannot fit a societal model to a
>> modest sized organization.
>>
>> Your conclusion would rely on the WMF (or indeed the Community of
>> Wikimedians) having an inexhaustible supply of politicians and bureaucrats
>> jockying for their sinecures. Though there are quite a few people with
>> related interests, they fail to have a systematic coordination or a
>> machaevelian strategy, nor seem very interested in having these things.
>>
>> A more pragmatic way to measure the WMF is using an organizational
>> maturity
>> model. In these terms the WMF may be measured as doing lots of
>> firefighting
>> (making mistakes and then fixing them) and though having good intentions
>> of
>> learning from the past, this has yet to be seen to be meaningfully
>> repeatable. A key aspect of the stickiness of firefighting is that the WMF
>> can be seen as part of its Americanocentrist thinking to put the interests
>> of the individual over other concerns, so individual firefighters get
>> attention and rewards, while effective project managers are likely to
>> remain invisible.
>>
>> Thanks for your email,  I rarely reply to your stuff on-list or on-wiki,
>> but I appreciate your critical thoughts.
>>
>> Fae
>>
>> On 29 Dec 2016 22:15, "Rogol Domedonfors"  wrote:
>>
>> I was reading Sherry Arnstein's 1969 paper "A Ladder of Citizen
>> Participation" (JAIP, Vol. 35, No. 4, July 1969, pp. 216-224)
>> available at
>> http://lithgow-schmidt.dk/sherry-arnstein/ladder-of-
>> citizen-participation.html
>> or at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01944366908977225 and found it remarkably
>> relevant to the issue of the engagement beween the volunteer community and
>> the formal structures of the WMF (Board and executive).
>>
>> The analysis proposes eight stages or rungs to the ladder:
>>
>>1. Manipulation
>>2. Therapy
>>3. Informing
>>4. Consultation
>>5. Placation
>>6. Partnership
>>7. Delegated Power
>>8. Citizen Control
>>
>> They are grouped as 1-2: Non-participation; 3-5: Tokenism; 6-8: Citizen
>> Power (see
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ladder_of_citizen_
>> participation,_Sheey_Arnstein.tif
>> )
>>
>> Reading "volunteer" for "citizen" throughout, I thought it instructive to
>> map some of the WMF activities onto the scale, with quotes from the
>> analysis.
>>
>> 1. Manipulation "In the name of citizen participation, people are placed
>> on
>> rubberstamp advisory committees or advisory boards for the express purpose
>> of "educating" them or engineering their support. Instead of genuine
>> citizen participation, the bottom rung of the ladder signifies the
>> distortion of participation into a public relations vehicle by
>> powerholders."
>>
>> 2. Therapy "under a masquerade of involving citizens in