[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to the Wikimedia Foundation February 2018 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, February 22, 19:00 UTC

[Lena Traer]

Hello everyone,

The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take
place on Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC
channel is #wikimedia-office on https://webchat.freenode.net, and the
meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream.[1]

During the February 2018 meeting, we will receive some project updates and
hear about how the Wikimedia Foundation is preparing for the upcoming
fiscal year and next steps in the movement strategy process.

Please review the meeting's Meta-Wiki page for further information about
the meeting, how to participate, and an agenda once it is finalized:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities_meetings

We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.

Thank you,
Lena

[1] https://youtu.be/DRK_MltUezA

Lena Traer
Project Coordinator // Communications // Advancement
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Structured Data on Commons feedback - What gets stored where (Ontology)

[Keegan Peterzell]

Greetings,

There is a new feedback request up on Wikimedia Commons regarding
Structured Data on Commons. The topic is a very important discussion:
between wikitext-in-Mediawiki, Wikibase on Commons, and Wikibase on
Wikidata, what file metadata gets store where?

The discussion is here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Feedback_requests/Ontology
[0]

It will formally run for two weeks, closing on 1 March. There will not be
decisions made at that time, this is a part of the information-gathering
process in order to make the informed decisions.

Thank you for your time, see you on the wiki.

0. Plaintext link: <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Feedback_requests/Ontology
>

-- 
Keegan Peterzell
Technical Collaboration Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategy Report Released: Wikimedia 2030: Wikimedia’s role in shaping the future of the information commons

[Leinonen Teemu]

On 15 Feb 2018, at 19.36, Adam Wight 
> wrote:
Punk rock!  These consultants seem to actually understand what we’re about, and 
the report is a great collaboration all around.  The heavy use of actual 
Wikimedians’ quotes lets us tell our own story.  The recommendations on page 31 
look right to me personally, and are “actionable”.

The recommendations are very good. Lately, however,

I have been thinking that maybe we in the Wikimedia movement should take even 
greater role in the attempt to protect free access to knowledge? I am not sure 
if this is clear in our current 2030 strategy.

For instance, we could invest in and increase the visibility of some other 
successful Wikimedia projects, than the Wikipedia (and Wikidata).

Wiktionary is one of these. It is not very well known although widely used, 
especially as a source for other services. This is simply because we do not 
have a easy to use UI to the service. Webxicon.org [1] is 
and example of a third party service using the Wiktionary data. No doubt, it is 
more user friendly than our own Wiktionary [2]. Designing new UI and promoting 
Wiktionary would also emphasise our global nature and respect of different 
cultures and languages.

Another field were we could play a bigger role is the Open Educational 
Resources (OER). Wikipedia is the world largest OER repository but there is 
also a need for free and open digital school materials (previously known as 
textbooks) in all the languages of the world. We have Wikibooks and Wikiversity 
to develop these, but again, because of their poor usability they have not 
become THE places to create learning materials in large scale. Services to 
create and share free and open educational materials, that are replacing 
textbooks, could be one area to improved our products.

I am afraid that in the future there is more work to do in the field of free 
and open knowledge, than what we are able to imagine today. Therefore, I think 
we should rather expand than to focus on a single encyclopaedia — in practice 
to have more (great) products.

- Teemu

[1] http://webxicon.org
[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, February 21, 2018 [External]

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

Quick correction.

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, February
21, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) *19:30 (UTC).*

Kindly,

Sarah R.

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:38 AM, Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, February
> 21, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpmRWCE7F_I
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here
> .
>
> This month's presentation:
>
> *Visual enrichment of collaborative knowledge bases*
>
> By Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation
>
> Images allow us to explain, enrich and complement knowledge without
> language barriers [1]. They can help illustrate the content of an item in a
> language-agnostic way to external data consumers. Images can be extremely
> helpful in multilingual collaborative knowledge bases such as Wikidata.
>
> However, a large proportion of Wikidata items lack images. More than 3.6M
> Wikidata items are about humans (Q5), but only 17% of them have an image
> associated with them. Only 2.2M of 40 Million Wikidata items have an image.
> A wider presence of images in such a rich, cross-lingual repository could
> enable a more complete representation of human knowledge.
>
> In this talk, we will discuss challenges and opportunities faced when
> using machine learning and computer vision tools for the visual enrichment
> of collaborative knowledge bases. We will share research to help Wikidata
> contributors make Wikidata more “visual” by recommending high-quality
> Commons images to Wikidata items. We will show the first results on
> free-licence image quality scoring and recommendation and discuss future
> work in this direction.
>
> [1] Van Hook, Steven R. "Modes and models for transcending cultural
> differences in international classrooms." Journal of Research in
> International Education 10.1 (2011): 5-27. http://journals.sagepub.com/
> doi/abs/10.1177/1475240910395788
>
> *Backlogs—backlogs everywhere: Using machine classification to clean up
> the new page backlog*
>
> By Aaron Halfaker, Wikimedia Foundation
>
> If there's one insight that I've had about the functioning of Wikipedia
> and other wiki-based online communities, it's that eventually self-directed
> work breaks down and some form of organization becomes important for task
> routing.  In Wikipedia specifically, the notion of "backlogs" has become
> dominant.  There's backlogs of articles to create, articles to clean up,
> articles to assess, new editor contributions to review, manual of style
> rules to apply, etc.  To a community of people working on a backlog, the
> state of that backlog has deep effects on their emotional well being.  A
> backlog that only grows is frustrating and exhausting.
>
> Backlogs aren't inevitable though and there are many shapes that backlogs
> can take.  In my presentation, I'll tell a story about where English
> Wikipedia editors defined a process and set of roles that formed a backlog
> around new page creations.  I'll make the argument that this formalization
> of quality control practices has created a choke point and that
> alternatives exist. Finally I'll present a vision for such an alternative
> using models that we have developed for ORES, the open machine prediction
> service my team maintains.
>
> --
> Sarah R. Rodlund
> Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>
>


-- 
Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation | Hic
sunt leones
srodl...@wikimedia.org


*“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, February 21, 2018 [External]

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, February
21, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpmRWCE7F_I

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
.

This month's presentation:

*Visual enrichment of collaborative knowledge bases*

By Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation

Images allow us to explain, enrich and complement knowledge without
language barriers [1]. They can help illustrate the content of an item in a
language-agnostic way to external data consumers. Images can be extremely
helpful in multilingual collaborative knowledge bases such as Wikidata.

However, a large proportion of Wikidata items lack images. More than 3.6M
Wikidata items are about humans (Q5), but only 17% of them have an image
associated with them. Only 2.2M of 40 Million Wikidata items have an image.
A wider presence of images in such a rich, cross-lingual repository could
enable a more complete representation of human knowledge.

In this talk, we will discuss challenges and opportunities faced when using
machine learning and computer vision tools for the visual enrichment of
collaborative knowledge bases. We will share research to help Wikidata
contributors make Wikidata more “visual” by recommending high-quality
Commons images to Wikidata items. We will show the first results on
free-licence image quality scoring and recommendation and discuss future
work in this direction.

[1] Van Hook, Steven R. "Modes and models for transcending cultural
differences in international classrooms." Journal of Research in
International Education 10.1 (2011): 5-27.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1475240910395788

*Backlogs—backlogs everywhere: Using machine classification to clean up the
new page backlog*

By Aaron Halfaker, Wikimedia Foundation

If there's one insight that I've had about the functioning of Wikipedia and
other wiki-based online communities, it's that eventually self-directed
work breaks down and some form of organization becomes important for task
routing.  In Wikipedia specifically, the notion of "backlogs" has become
dominant.  There's backlogs of articles to create, articles to clean up,
articles to assess, new editor contributions to review, manual of style
rules to apply, etc.  To a community of people working on a backlog, the
state of that backlog has deep effects on their emotional well being.  A
backlog that only grows is frustrating and exhausting.

Backlogs aren't inevitable though and there are many shapes that backlogs
can take.  In my presentation, I'll tell a story about where English
Wikipedia editors defined a process and set of roles that formed a backlog
around new page creations.  I'll make the argument that this formalization
of quality control practices has created a choke point and that
alternatives exist. Finally I'll present a vision for such an alternative
using models that we have developed for ORES, the open machine prediction
service my team maintains.

-- 
Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
srodl...@wikimedia.org
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategy Report Released: Wikimedia 2030: Wikimedia’s role in shaping the future of the information commons

[Adam Wight]

Punk rock!  These consultants seem to actually understand what we’re about, and 
the report is a great collaboration all around.  The heavy use of actual 
Wikimedians’ quotes lets us tell our own story.  The recommendations on page 31 
look right to me personally, and are “actionable”.

Thanks for sharing <3

-Adam
[[mw:User:Adamw]]

> On Feb 12, 2018, at 8:20 PM, Caitlin Virtue  wrote:
> 
> (Apologies for the formatting issues in the previous email.)
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> On Thursday, we released an extensive research report [1] about Wikimedia’s
> role in shaping the future of the information commons. The report was
> created as part of the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process, as the Foundation
> engaged research teams to examine awareness and usage of Wikimedia projects
> and evolving information consumption habits. The consulting teams conducted
> desk research and spoke both with people familiar with and involved in the
> Wikimedia movement and expert observers who could inform the strategy
> process but who are not directly involved today. In one-on-one interviews,
> experts in geographic areas where the projects are most heavily used were
> asked to think about future trends in their fields and how the trends might
> apply to the Wikimedia movement’s strategy. This particular research
> focused on six broad topics that seemed most likely to further or frustrate
> the vision for growth that the Foundation embraces.
> 
> In this report, the Foundation’s staff and its consulting teams present
> top-level insights from this global process. Perspectives from interviewees
> around the world are also provided with context about their region and area
> of expertise. The report draws from six comprehensive research briefs,[2]
> published on Wikimedia’s strategy website, which address these topics:
> 
> - Demographics: Who is in the world in 2030? The report outlines global
> population trends, which project the highest population growth in places
> where Wikimedia has significant room to expand.
> 
> - Emerging platforms: How will people around the world be using
> communications technologies to find, create, and share information? The
> report considers future technologies, from the imminent to the speculative,
> and examines what range of new hardware, software, and content production
> capabilities might mean for content creation and user access.
> 
> - Misinformation: How will people find trustworthy sources of knowledge
> and information? The report explores how content creators and technologists
> can ensure that knowledge is trustworthy and also identifies threats to
> these efforts.
> 
> - Literacy: How will the world learn in the future? The report forecasts
> that technology will transform learning and educational settings as well as
> expand the requirements for literacy beyond text and images.
> 
> - Open knowledge: How will we share culture, ideas, and information? The
> report documents the global trend toward opening collections and archives
> to the public and making them freely available online, and explores ways
> the Wikimedia movement might partner with people and organizations to
> accelerate this sharing.
> 
> - Expect the unexpected: How can we know what the world will look like in
> 2030 — and what the Wikimedia movement’s role will be in it?
> 
> The report proposes that a study of trends can never be truly predictive
> and introduces alternative visionary tools such as scenario planning and
> speculative social science fiction.
> 
> The consulting team published an additional research brief on the future of
> the digital commons,[3] examining the political and commercial forces that
> could lead to the contraction or expansion of the open web. Looking at the
> constellation of issues most important to the Wikimedia community, this
> brief identifies access, censorship, privacy, copyright, and intermediary
> liability as active battlefronts.
> 
> The fate of the digital commons is the single subject that rises above and
> intersects with each of the other areas of research. The commons of the
> future will shape the environment that ultimately fosters or blocks all of
> the Wikimedia projects’ work. Thus, this report weaves research findings
> about the future of the commons throughout.
> 
> Specifically, the report highlights growing concerns across civil society
> about the quality of and access to open knowledge online, as well as
> compounding threats to the Wikimedia movement and its open knowledge
> allies. Between now and 2030, open knowledge advocates face headwinds that
> include censorship by governments and corporations, internet shutdowns,
> surveillance of users, information monopolies, and troubling developments
> such as the arrests of scholars and journalists operating in closed
> societies.
> 
> The Wikimedia movement is positioned to work toward potential solutions to
> these threats. Despite the trend toward a “darkening globe,” some leaders
> 

[Wikimedia-l] Wikisource IRC 2018

[Ananth Subray]

Dear All,

Firstly I would like to thank you for the continuous support and
contribution to the Wikimedia movement.


Wikisource is originally called Project Sourceberg as a play on words
for Project Gutenberg . Wikisource began in
November 2003, as a collection of supporting texts for articles in
Wikipedia. Grew rapidly, reaching a total of 20,000 text units in various
languages by May 18, 2005. For updated page/ digitised content you go here


In August and September of 2005, Wikisource moved to separate subdomains
for different languages. From that time Indic community members are
actively taking part to increase the content in your language Wikisource.


But Indic community members have not got any chance to meet each other and
share best practices of their community. Keeping this in mind we are
planning to have an IRC[1] on 25th February 2018 (@8:00 PM) for the Indic
community. Please suggest Agenda for the IRC in Google Doc

[3]

[1]. https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cis-a2k
[2]. https://tools.wmflabs.org/phetools/statistics.php?diff=0
[3]. https://docs.google.com/document/d/11T9qUpNfx6wY06mVQ8X
qXox26PP34eEPyswz8qP_xwU/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks and Regards,


*ANANTH SUBRAY P V(ಅನಂತ್)*

Programme Associate

Access to Knowledge program

The Centre for Internet & Society

+91-9739811664
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategy Report Released: Wikimedia 2030: Wikimedia’s role in shaping the future of the information commons

[mathieu stumpf guntz]

Hi Caitlin,

Thank you for this email, and thank to everybody implicated for the 
creation of this report.


Could we put a version on meta and make it translatable? Or am I alone 
to think it would make sense?


Cheers

Le 13/02/2018 à 02:20, Caitlin Virtue a écrit :

(Apologies for the formatting issues in the previous email.)

Hi Everyone,

On Thursday, we released an extensive research report [1] about Wikimedia’s
role in shaping the future of the information commons. The report was
created as part of the Wikimedia 2030 strategy process, as the Foundation
engaged research teams to examine awareness and usage of Wikimedia projects
and evolving information consumption habits. The consulting teams conducted
desk research and spoke both with people familiar with and involved in the
Wikimedia movement and expert observers who could inform the strategy
process but who are not directly involved today. In one-on-one interviews,
experts in geographic areas where the projects are most heavily used were
asked to think about future trends in their fields and how the trends might
apply to the Wikimedia movement’s strategy. This particular research
focused on six broad topics that seemed most likely to further or frustrate
the vision for growth that the Foundation embraces.

In this report, the Foundation’s staff and its consulting teams present
top-level insights from this global process. Perspectives from interviewees
around the world are also provided with context about their region and area
of expertise. The report draws from six comprehensive research briefs,[2]
published on Wikimedia’s strategy website, which address these topics:

  - Demographics: Who is in the world in 2030? The report outlines global
population trends, which project the highest population growth in places
where Wikimedia has significant room to expand.

  - Emerging platforms: How will people around the world be using
communications technologies to find, create, and share information? The
report considers future technologies, from the imminent to the speculative,
and examines what range of new hardware, software, and content production
capabilities might mean for content creation and user access.

  - Misinformation: How will people find trustworthy sources of knowledge
and information? The report explores how content creators and technologists
can ensure that knowledge is trustworthy and also identifies threats to
these efforts.

  - Literacy: How will the world learn in the future? The report forecasts
that technology will transform learning and educational settings as well as
expand the requirements for literacy beyond text and images.

  - Open knowledge: How will we share culture, ideas, and information? The
report documents the global trend toward opening collections and archives
to the public and making them freely available online, and explores ways
the Wikimedia movement might partner with people and organizations to
accelerate this sharing.

  - Expect the unexpected: How can we know what the world will look like in
2030 — and what the Wikimedia movement’s role will be in it?

The report proposes that a study of trends can never be truly predictive
and introduces alternative visionary tools such as scenario planning and
speculative social science fiction.

The consulting team published an additional research brief on the future of
the digital commons,[3] examining the political and commercial forces that
could lead to the contraction or expansion of the open web. Looking at the
constellation of issues most important to the Wikimedia community, this
brief identifies access, censorship, privacy, copyright, and intermediary
liability as active battlefronts.

The fate of the digital commons is the single subject that rises above and
intersects with each of the other areas of research. The commons of the
future will shape the environment that ultimately fosters or blocks all of
the Wikimedia projects’ work. Thus, this report weaves research findings
about the future of the commons throughout.

Specifically, the report highlights growing concerns across civil society
about the quality of and access to open knowledge online, as well as
compounding threats to the Wikimedia movement and its open knowledge
allies. Between now and 2030, open knowledge advocates face headwinds that
include censorship by governments and corporations, internet shutdowns,
surveillance of users, information monopolies, and troubling developments
such as the arrests of scholars and journalists operating in closed
societies.

The Wikimedia movement is positioned to work toward potential solutions to
these threats. Despite the trend toward a “darkening globe,” some leaders
see the Wikimedia movement as among the brightest hopes and most inspiring
exemplars of the global digital commons.

The Wikimedia movement has immediate internal challenges to address,
including adapting to an increasingly mobile internet, recruiting a new
generation of volunteers, and