[Wikimedia-l] Events Calendar

[Pierre-Yves Beaudouin]

Hello,

I'm not sure that you were informed about this script that could interest
other organizations and events creator.

Last year, 0x010C coded a calendar in lua [1][2] for Wikimédia France.

Features: ical, filter by tag and location, 3 display mode (but map doesn't
seem to work), interface in different languages.


[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:Events_calendar
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events_calendar/about

Pyb
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about problem identified with a recent CentralNotice banner

[Strainu]

Thank you for letting us know early on. I would also want to see a post-mortem 
on this and I hope the steps taken to mitigate the risk will be consistent with 
the ones taken on the recent fa.wiki criptocurrency case.

Strainu

În 17 martie 2018 03:57:28 EET, Gregory Varnum  a scris:
>On 14 March and 15 March 2018, a CentralNotice banner appeared to some
>logged-out users viewing English Wikipedia pages. The banner contained
>JavaScript hosted by Facebook, which allowed Facebook to collect
>traffic data from those who visited a page with a banner. The banner
>was prepared by the Wikimedia Foundation. The Foundation turned the
>banner off as soon as we learned how the script was running, and its
>potential scope. We have also removed all references to the code in
>question from CentralNotice on Meta-Wiki.
>
>The code utilized in this banner was based on an unused prototype
>created by an outside vendor. Because the prototype was never enabled,
>the vendor’s prototype code was not subjected to our standard quality
>assurance process. However, we made the mistake of reusing the code for
>a different purpose, and implementing it based on recommendations in
>documentation from Twitter and Facebook to improve the appearance of
>shared links. At the time, our understanding was that the platforms
>would only receive traffic data if the user clicked on the link.
>Although this was true for Twitter, the Facebook code operated
>differently.
>
>We discovered the problematic link configurations during our ongoing
>monitoring of live banners. The recommended code enhanced not only the
>appearance of links, it also enhanced Facebook's ability to collect
>information on people visiting non-Facebook sites. As soon as we
>realized these banners were sharing information without even having to
>click the link, we disabled them and began an investigation. Staff in
>multiple departments are collaboratively reviewing the incident as well
>as procedural and technical improvements to prevent future incidents.
>
>While this sort of tracking is commonplace today across most of the
>internet, it is not consistent with our policies. We are disappointed
>that this type of hidden data collection is routinely recommended by
>major platforms, without clearer disclosure.
>
>These practices are why we all must regularly take routine steps to
>maintain a secure computer and account. As the Wikimedia Foundation
>continues to explore ways we can do that within Wikimedia's platform,
>we encourage you to consider tools which block unwanted third-party
>scripts like the one provided by Facebook.
>
>We apologize for sending this late on a Friday (San Francisco time).
>However, we wanted to provide this information as quickly as possible.
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[Wikimedia-l] GLAMWiki Conference 2018: Content submissions are now open!

[Shani Evenstein]

[[Sorry for x-posting]]

Dear all,

I'm happy to report that the content submission process
 for the
GLAMWiki Conference 2018 is now open! Submissions will be accepted *till
April 30th*, so feel free to start drafting your proposals.

Please note that submissions for scholarships
 will open
tomorrow via a different process and the actual registration will take
place later on in June. We'll notify you every step of the way. :)

Looking forward to reading your submissions,
Shani (on behalf of the organizing team and the program committee).
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

[Frans Grijzenhout]

Hi Leila, thank you for sharing the results of this important survey. Must
have been a tremendous job and we are very happy to have this information
about our readers now available. We will certainly discuss this with the
Dutch WP community. During this discussion we will of course also focus on
the difference between WP-NL and some other languages (another valuable
aspect of this research).
Thanks again, Frans

*Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair
+31 6 5333 9499
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http://www.wikimedia.nl/

2018-03-15 17:45 GMT+01:00 Leila Zia :

> Hi all,
>
> We are ready to share the result of the first part of the study for
> the 14 languages that participated in the survey with you. To recap:
> the goal of the first part of the study was to compute the prevalence
> of the use-cases of Wikipedia across the 14 languages, basically,
> generating plots similar to Figure 2 in our earlier research [0] for
> these languages. What took most of our time was the debiasing step we
> had to take for every language and triple-checking the results to make
> sure we didn't make a mistake. You can read more about this first part
> at the blog post we just published [1] and on meta [2].
>
> What's left? A lot! :) We took one big step to make sense of the data,
> but there is a lot left. We have now entered the second phase of the
> study during which we will try to do a deeper analysis to characterize
> readers by survey response type across as many languages as we can.
> The higher the number of survey responses from a language, the higher
> the chances for us to be able to get good results in this phase. We
> expect to be able to do this deeper analysis in around 5 languages,
> maybe more. We will let you know once we know more about this part.
>
> This is a good opportunity for me to thank many of you who have made
> this research possible. Many colleagues at Wikimedia Foundation
> stepped up and helped us in every step of the way, thanks to all of
> you. I specifically want to call out the work that the points of
> contacts and volunteers put to help us run the survey in your
> languages [3] and to our formal collaborators Bob West (EPFL,
> User:Cervisiarius) and Florian Lemmerich (RWTH Aachen University,
> User:Flemmerich) who have been working in this area of research, truly
> tirelessly. Florian had a lot of sleepless nights to prepare these
> results.
>
> If you have questions or comments, you know where to find us: IRC
> channel #wikimedia-research on freenode (look for leila or lzia), the
> discussion page where we document things, etc. Your role is key now.
> Please look at the results in your languages, ponder on them, and tell
> us if you see interesting patterns that we have missed and we should
> consider digging deeper in and making sense of. And, please enjoy
> using this data for your language. We stand behind these results [4].
>
> Best,
> Leila
>
> [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.05379.pdf
> [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/15/why-the-world-reads-wikipedia/
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_
> Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages
> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_
> Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages#
> Participating_languages
> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_
> Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages#Results
>
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:28 AM, Amir E. Aharoni
>  wrote:
> > OK, I did it :)
> >
> > I don't write in the Russian Wikipedia as much as I do in Hebrew and
> > English, but it should be OK.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
> > http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> > ‪“We're living in pieces,
> > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
> >
> > 2017-06-21 9:57 GMT+03:00 Leila Zia :
> >
> >> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
> >>  wrote:
> >> >
> >> > If I want this done for Hebrew and Russian, do I just reply to this
> >> thread?
> >>
> >>
> >> [Amir, you are aware of this but I'm hoping by saying it here we can
> >> change the outcome.]
> >>
> >> At the moment, all text is translated to Russian but we don't have any
> >> volunteer as a point of contact for Russian Wikipedia. The PoC is
> >> needed to communicate the notifications from us to the ruwiki
> >> community and also transfer anything we should know from that
> >> community back to us. I have made having a PoC a (soft?) requirement
> >> for running the survey in a language. If you are from ruwiki and you'd
> >> like to be the PoC, please ping me immediately (I expect up to 3 hours
> >> of your time to be spent in the next 2 months).
> >>
> >> If we don't find a PoC in the next 12 hours or so, we will need to
> >> make a call whether to run in ruwiki or not. I'd love 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource IRC 2018

[mathieu stumpf guntz]

Hello Ananth,

I'm sorry I missed this meeting. Is there a log of this conversation or 
some minutes somewhere? I found nothing related in 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/IRC


Cheers



Le 15/02/2018 à 16:49, Ananth Subray a écrit :

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

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about problem identified with a recent CentralNotice banner

[James Salsman]

https://disconnect.me works well for this with both AdBlock (which can
do the same thing by itself with its advanced options) and AdBlock
Plus (which can't, and is a completely different product.)



On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 1:24 AM, Liam Wyatt  wrote:
> How insidious!
> “we encourage you to consider tools which block unwanted third-party
> scripts like the one provided by Facebook.”
> - where can I go to learn more about that specifically?
>
> Thank you Greg, for having the unenviable task of being the bearer of bad
> news, and to all those involved in this; you had with the talent to
> identify and remove this code, and the principles to tell us about it.
>
>
>
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 at 04:22, Michael Peel  wrote:
>
>> Hi Gregory,
>>
>> Thank you and the WMF for sharing this information so quickly after the
>> event. It’s regrettable that this happened, but openness is the best way
>> forward here. The WMF is being exceptional both with spotting this kind of
>> issue so quickly and being publicly open about the fact that it happened.
>>
>> Is there a phabricator ticket that is tracking this issue and/or a wiki
>> page that documents the issue and the steps that will be taken to avoid it
>> happening again in the future?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>>
>> > On 16 Mar 2018, at 22:57, Gregory Varnum  wrote:
>> >
>> > On 14 March and 15 March 2018, a CentralNotice banner appeared to some
>> logged-out users viewing English Wikipedia pages. The banner contained
>> JavaScript hosted by Facebook, which allowed Facebook to collect traffic
>> data from those who visited a page with a banner. The banner was prepared
>> by the Wikimedia Foundation. The Foundation turned the banner off as soon
>> as we learned how the script was running, and its potential scope. We have
>> also removed all references to the code in question from CentralNotice on
>> Meta-Wiki.
>> >
>> > The code utilized in this banner was based on an unused prototype
>> created by an outside vendor. Because the prototype was never enabled, the
>> vendor’s prototype code was not subjected to our standard quality assurance
>> process. However, we made the mistake of reusing the code for a different
>> purpose, and implementing it based on recommendations in documentation from
>> Twitter and Facebook to improve the appearance of shared links. At the
>> time, our understanding was that the platforms would only receive traffic
>> data if the user clicked on the link. Although this was true for Twitter,
>> the Facebook code operated differently.
>> >
>> > We discovered the problematic link configurations during our ongoing
>> monitoring of live banners. The recommended code enhanced not only the
>> appearance of links, it also enhanced Facebook's ability to collect
>> information on people visiting non-Facebook sites. As soon as we realized
>> these banners were sharing information without even having to click the
>> link, we disabled them and began an investigation. Staff in multiple
>> departments are collaboratively reviewing the incident as well as
>> procedural and technical improvements to prevent future incidents.
>> >
>> > While this sort of tracking is commonplace today across most of the
>> internet, it is not consistent with our policies. We are disappointed that
>> this type of hidden data collection is routinely recommended by major
>> platforms, without clearer disclosure.
>> >
>> > These practices are why we all must regularly take routine steps to
>> maintain a secure computer and account. As the Wikimedia Foundation
>> continues to explore ways we can do that within Wikimedia's platform, we
>> encourage you to consider tools which block unwanted third-party scripts
>> like the one provided by Facebook.
>> >
>> > We apologize for sending this late on a Friday (San Francisco time).
>> However, we wanted to provide this information as quickly as possible.
>> > ___
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