Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cosa ti rende felice questa settimana? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 25 March 2018)

[Lukas Mezger]

I am extremely happy that the draft annual plan of the Wikimedia Foundation
proposes an environmental sustainability programme!

Mi rende felicissimo che la bozza del piano annuale della fondazione
Wikimedia propone un programma di sostenibilità ambientale!

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/Annual_Plans/FY2019/TEC7:_Environmental_Sustainability

Kind regards,
Un saluto,

Lukas (User:Gnom)


2018-03-26 1:43 GMT+02:00 Pine W :

> What's making me happy this week is that I discovered by accident that if I
> copy a normal URL for a Wikimedia page, such as
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur, into the New WikiText Editor
>  (which I like to
> call
> "NEWT") or VisualEditor  on a
> page in the same site, then the URL will be automatically changed into a
> wikilink, like [[Dinosaur]].
>
> Also, I like these posts from the WMF Blog:
>
> 1. "Vittoria in Italia: Wikimedia Foundation vince la causa contro l’ex
> Ministro della Difesa"
>
> * Italian version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/it/
> 2018/03/20/vittoria-italia/
> * English version:
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/20/lawsuit-victory-italy/
>
> 2. "Luc Héripret on the Orange Foundation’s Digital Schools project"
>
> * English version:
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/20/offline-access-digital-schools/
>
> What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any
> language.
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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[Wikimedia-l] CCE search & job description

[Julie Brown]

Hi all,

We are pleased to announce the launch of the recruiting process for the
Chief of Community Engagement, alongside our partner search firm, Perrett
Laver .

As part of the process, we wanted to share the finalized job
description (attached).
A big thank you to CE, Comms & C-levels for their collaboration, support
and guidance in creating it.

We also wanted to out put a call, if you have any nominations or
recommendations, we'd love to hear from you.

Have a wonderful weekend - thanks all!

Julie

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikimedia Foundation's FY18-19 Annual Plan is on Meta-wiki

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
There is much in the 2018/19 plan that I like. What I like is that it aims
to align all Wikimedia efforts into one coherent plan.

There are a few things where a different approach can be considered.
Michael Peel made a good suggestion and complementary to this I would
increase the fund raising effort away from the United States. People who I
do not characterise as trolls tell me that it is justified to spend so much
money in the USA because it is where the money has been raised. In addition
to this proper fund raising raises visibility profoundly; Wikimedia is a
project that deserves (y)our money, (y)our effort!

As it is, too much money is spend on English Wikipedia related activities
(including software). The best way to point this out, is comparing it with
our traffic; less than 50% of our traffic is English Wikipedia.

While I applaud the use of artificial intelligence, it has one huge
problem. It is what the data is uses is based on. Arguably this works well
for the subjects we already cover well. But what about the subjects we do
not properly cover, the subjects that matter more outside our comfort zone.
Subjects like the Ottoman Empire, pre Raj India..

We also miss opportunities when we remain as inward looking as we have
been. We have done well is libraries and librarians (particularly in
English). The question is what is our aim? Is it our own good; citations
for articles so that we become more robust or is our intention to have our
audience, our readers read more (an objective we share with librarians).
Read more books for instance. Once the links hidden in Freebase pointers to
OpenLibrary becomes available, the OL folks will disambiguate its
identifiers and provide us with their latest links. As a consequence we can
easily open up books available for reading.. There are many high quality
citations in there, there is no cost and, it is legally ok.

So yes, we are doing well. It is just that we could be more effective.
Thanks,
   GerardM





[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?=12560



On 29 March 2018 at 22:42, Katherine Maher  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm delighted to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation's Annual Plan for
> FY18-19 is now on Meta[1].
>
> This year, we have organized our efforts around three goals that focus on
> making critical improvements to our systems and structures to ensure that
> we’re better positioned for our coming work against the strategic
> direction[2]. The Foundation’s goals for this year should not only move us
> closer to knowledge equity and service, but will prepare us to execute
> against the 3- to 5-year strategic plan which we intend to develop this
> year in order to guide the Foundation’s work into the future.
>
> As you’ll see, we’ve made some changes to the structure of this year’s
> annual plan. This year’s plan is organized around three goals for the
> Foundation’s work in the year to come. By restructuring the Annual Plan, we
> have written a plan for the whole Foundation,  rather than an aggregation
> of plans from all of our departments and teams. In this sense, we’re
> seeking to become a better-integrated institution, rather than a collection
> of teams and departments with disparate goals.
>
> We’ve also reduced the overall length of the published Annual Plan. We
> wanted to make sure that the focus and goals of our work don’t get lost in
> the details. Of course, we know that many community members enjoy reading
> the particulars of our planned work, so you can still access the details of
> departmental programs through links to their descriptions on Meta or
> MediaWiki.org. These links will provide interested readers with detailed
> departmental programs, which describe the specific and detailed program
> goals, impact and outcomes. This change does not sacrifice the depth and
> rigor of our planning process, but rather, it is meant to keep the Annual
> Plan lean and focused while allowing interested readers to dive deep into
> the details.
>
> Finally, we’ve expanded the planning framework we instituted last year for
> cross-departmental programs to all of our programs across the Foundation.
> This allows us to clearly link a program’s resources to outcomes and
> measures. As such, we’ve presented the Annual Plan budget in terms of our
> investments in the three defined goals rather than in terms of our internal
> organizational structure.
>
> Thank you all for your support over the past year. I'm really looking
> forward to your feedback on this year's proposed plan during the open
> comment period -- a reminder it runs through May 15th.
>
> Thanks!
> Katherine
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
> Annual_Plan/2018-2019/Draft
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017
>
> --
> Katherine Maher
>
> Executive Director
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600
> San Francisco, CA 94104
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikimedia Foundation's FY18-19 Annual Plan is on Meta-wiki

[Caroline Becker]

Hi and thank you for your input,

Please note that the WMF budget supports diversity in two ways :
_software and technical support, the most basic exemple being Mediawiki
which exists in a huge variety of languages
_grants to non-US projects, such a rapid grants and project grants.

Also, there is a lot of people left out of structures of power within the
US.


Le ven. 30 mars 2018 à 04:05, Michael Peel  a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> This seems to be an increase of $15 million USD in the WMF’s budget, with
> a $0.2 USD million increase in the international Wikimedia budget (through
> grants to chapters and other affiliates).
>
> That goes against the movement direction of "As a social movement, we will
> focus our efforts on the knowledge and communities that have been left out
> by structures of power and privilege”. Why aren’t we increasing our
> spending in the global south (through local affiliates) at the same rate
> that we are increasing it in the US?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> > On 29 Mar 2018, at 17:42, Katherine Maher  wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm delighted to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation's Annual Plan for
> > FY18-19 is now on Meta[1].
> >
> > This year, we have organized our efforts around three goals that focus on
> > making critical improvements to our systems and structures to ensure that
> > we’re better positioned for our coming work against the strategic
> > direction[2]. The Foundation’s goals for this year should not only move
> us
> > closer to knowledge equity and service, but will prepare us to execute
> > against the 3- to 5-year strategic plan which we intend to develop this
> > year in order to guide the Foundation’s work into the future.
> >
> > As you’ll see, we’ve made some changes to the structure of this year’s
> > annual plan. This year’s plan is organized around three goals for the
> > Foundation’s work in the year to come. By restructuring the Annual Plan,
> we
> > have written a plan for the whole Foundation,  rather than an aggregation
> > of plans from all of our departments and teams. In this sense, we’re
> > seeking to become a better-integrated institution, rather than a
> collection
> > of teams and departments with disparate goals.
> >
> > We’ve also reduced the overall length of the published Annual Plan. We
> > wanted to make sure that the focus and goals of our work don’t get lost
> in
> > the details. Of course, we know that many community members enjoy reading
> > the particulars of our planned work, so you can still access the details
> of
> > departmental programs through links to their descriptions on Meta or
> > MediaWiki.org. These links will provide interested readers with detailed
> > departmental programs, which describe the specific and detailed program
> > goals, impact and outcomes. This change does not sacrifice the depth and
> > rigor of our planning process, but rather, it is meant to keep the Annual
> > Plan lean and focused while allowing interested readers to dive deep into
> > the details.
> >
> > Finally, we’ve expanded the planning framework we instituted last year
> for
> > cross-departmental programs to all of our programs across the Foundation.
> > This allows us to clearly link a program’s resources to outcomes and
> > measures. As such, we’ve presented the Annual Plan budget in terms of our
> > investments in the three defined goals rather than in terms of our
> internal
> > organizational structure.
> >
> > Thank you all for your support over the past year. I'm really looking
> > forward to your feedback on this year's proposed plan during the open
> > comment period -- a reminder it runs through May 15th.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Katherine
> >
> > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
> > Annual_Plan/2018-2019/Draft
> > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017
> >
> > --
> > Katherine Maher
> >
> > Executive Director
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> >
> > 1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600
> > San Francisco, CA 94104
> >
> > +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 <(415)%20839-6885>
> > +1 (415) 712 4873 <(415)%20712-4873>
> > kma...@wikimedia.org
> > https://annual.wikimedia.org
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