[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 14, Issue 9 – 30 August 2018

[Wikipedia Signpost]

>From the editor: Today's young adults don't know a world without Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/From_the_editor

Interview: 2018 Wikimedian of the Year, Farkhad Fatkullin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/Interview

News and notes: Flying high; low practice from Wikipedia 'cleansing'
agency; where do our donations go? RfA sees a new trend
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/News_and_notes

In the media: Quicksilver AI writes articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/In_the_media

Discussion report: Drafting an interface administrator policy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/Discussion_report

Featured content: Featured content selected by the community
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/Featured_content

Special report: Wikimania 2018
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/Special_report

Traffic report: Aretha dies – getting just 2,000 short of 5 million hits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/Traffic_report

Technology report: Technical enhancements and a request to prioritize
upcoming work
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/Technology_report

Gallery: Leapfrog, historic Thai cave, and a rhythmic beat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/Gallery

Recent research: Wehrmacht on Wikipedia, neural networks writing biographies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/Recent_research

Humour: *Signpost* editor censors herself
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/Humour

Essay: Principle of Some Astonishment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/Essay

>From the archives: Playing with Wikipedia words
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2018-08-30/From_the_archives


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] fallout from 2018 Wikimedian of the Year announcement

[effe iets anders]

Thanks for picking this challenge up with such enthusiasm!

Lodewijk

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 6:58 AM Alex Stinson  wrote:

> Thank you Farhard for sharing out the progress that you have been making as
> a benefit of the Wikipedian of the Year! I look forward to continuing to
> support these conversations, and hope that this kind of impact can repeat!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Johan Jönsson 
> wrote:
>
> > Farkhad,
> >
> > It's fantastic to see what you're doing with this. Thank you.
> >
> > //Johan Jönsson
> > --
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin <
> > f...@yandex.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Dear colleagues,
> > >
> > > Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @ http://tatarstan.ru/
> (including
> > > websites of the http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet
> > > http://prav.tatarstan.ru/, ministries/departments, state-owned
> > > organizations, municipalities and Representative offices of the
> Republic
> > > around Russia and abroad) moved to Creative Commons Attribution. The
> only
> > > exceptions are those of the First (ex-) President & the Parliament,
> that
> > > already had their own unique type free licenses (in Russian,
> > non-standard).
> > >
> > > Russian Wikinews requested me to draft an article & my counterparty at
> > the
> > > Regional Ministry of InfoComm has gladly approved. I will probably need
> > to
> > > find time for that today. That was the easy part. Some context: Russian
> > > President, Executive Branch of the Federal Government, both Chambers of
> > the
> > > Federal Parliament, etc. are using Creative Commons Attribution for a
> > while
> > > now, thanks to Senior Volunteers efforts of Wikimedia Russia members. I
> > > just communicated the benefits of this to the Regional (Republic of
> > > Tatarstan) Deputy Prime-Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> > > Roman_Shaykhutdinov, head of the regional infocomm department & he
> > > championed it far and wide within his area of responsibility.
> > >
> > > I started engaging high-school & university students into helping the
> > > Infocomm ministry people to learn what is Wikimedia like & how it
> works -
> > > Deputy Prime-Minister is interested in anything that can benefit
> > Education,
> > > Heritage Outreach, etc. development in the region & help in making
> > culture
> > > of the Republic better known globally & promote Tatar language use
> online
> > > (Wikidata, GLAM, etc.). Another minister I met is excited with examples
> > of
> > > Greek school children https://outreach.wikimedia.
> > > org/wiki/Education/News/July_2017/A_class_of_26_8-year-old_
> > > Wikipedia_article_creators & youth in Italy
> http://www.rivistabricks.it/
> > > wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BRICKS_4_2017.pdf & other places develop
> > > critical thinking and develop immunity to mass & social media stories
> > > painting the world black & white as they please (stories from any
> > outlets,
> > > including the BBC or New York Times, have to be taken with a pinch of
> > salt
> > > - there's no unbiased human). In parallel, we are starting a
> cooperation
> > > with private Cambridge International school in Kazan
> > > http://school.balacity.ru/ (the founders & the director know me,
> invited
> > > me for cooperation, key contact person was part of the meeting, I
> > provided
> > > necessary initial links). I know that our youth is now inspired to
> > organize
> > > a User Group, report on their Spring & Summer efforts at Wikimedia
> > > Conference Russia this September & take their existing Selet WikiSchool
> > > project even higher. https://outreach.wikimedia.
> > > org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool , more stories
> coming.
> > >
> > > Last night WMF Partnerships agreed to support me in organizing a
> > > videoconference type seminar with best practices in
> > Education/GLAM/Heritage
> > > promotion/Wikidata/etc. to explain locals about how great is the
> > Wikimedia
> > > movement (something mainly unheard of in Russia, even though Wikipedia
> is
> > > actually used). I would love to have you, my dear international
> > colleagues,
> > > to find time to connect and give a video talk on some Use Case
> > > implementation during the upcoming public seminar, organized in
> > conjunction
> > > with Tatarstan InfoComm ministry (whenever we get the dates they will
> be
> > > able to gather local crowd in the IT-Park in downtown Kazan). I will
> take
> > > care of the simultaneous interpretation — all the necessary equipment
> is
> > > there, so I'll try to find the funding & qualified people.
> > >
> > > In parallel I'll continue working on organizing a short in-person
> version
> > > at WMF Headquarters for the President of the Republic, if and when we
> can
> > > fit it into his schedule (Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Regional
> > > Minister for InfoComm wanted this to take place during one of the
> annual
> > > regional government delegation visits to California). 

[Wikimedia-l] Vad gör dig lycklig den här veckan? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 26 August 2018)

[Pine W]

Wikimedia Sverige recived a $65,500 grant from the Swedish National Library
in support of the Library Data project:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2018-August/012351.html

WMDE has multiple open staff positions in software development, design,
fundraising, and legal services:
https://wikimedia-deutschland.softgarden.io/de/vacancies

Stanford University Libraries and the Linked Data for Production project (
http://www.ld4p.org) are hiring a Wikimedian in Residence:
https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/wikimedian-in-residence-3711

The WMF Readers team published a roadmap review. There is a lot of
information in here that will be of interest to veteran contributors
regarding WMF plans. I was especially glad to see that improvements are
planned for mobile web that should benefit contributors.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Readers_Roadmap_Review_-_2018-08-27.pdf

Outreachy round 17 is in the pipeline:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-August/090742.html

The WMF education team is hosting office hours this week, and plans to host
"at least 2 office hours per month":
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/education/2018-August/002061.html

WMDE's Techncal Wishes team has made significant improvements to wikitext
diff views:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2018-August/090726.html

Two new user groups were approved by the Affiliations Committee. The groups
are Wikimedians for Offline Wikis and Wikimedians of Tamazight.

WMF's Community Tech is seeking comments regarding tools for program and
event organizers:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Tools_for_program_and_event_organizers

What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language.

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's sourcing

[Robert Fernandez]

Interesting metrics and ideas here, but nobody's going to take your
research particularly seriously if you choose to post it in an open
sewer.  I'd suggest a Medium or Wordpress blog.

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:44 AM sashi  wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I thought I would ask if any of the junior or senior researchers here on
> this mailing list have conducted previous inquiries into Wikipedia's
> sourcing.
>
> I am currently working on a project of determining what proportion of
> Wikipedia is sourced to newspapers, the military, the Church, social
> media, etc.
>
> The data I've compiled this month, along with a brief write-up, have
> been posted to Wikipediocracy:
>
> http://wikipediocracy.com/2018/08/26/wikipedia-sources-methods/
>
> I imagine I'm reinventing the wheel... such studies have been done
> before, by the WMF, with power tools (bots), right?
>
> Thanks for any corrections / suggestions,
>
>sashi
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's sourcing

[Adam Wight]

Hi, you might be interested in "Getting to the Source":

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2491064
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Heather_Ford/publication/262291510_Getting_to_the_source_where_does_Wikipedia_get_its_information_from/links/56cfed9508aeb52500c9b44a/Getting-to-the-source-where-does-Wikipedia-get-its-information-from.pdf

That work was done 5 years ago, so it's worth checking for followup
research.  Citations might be a good place to start:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=809641647115845540_sdt=2005=0,5=en

-Adam
[[mw:User:Adamw]]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:43 PM Pine W  wrote:

> Hi Sashi,
>
> I think that there is a research project regarding Wikipedia sources in the
> WMF Annual Plan for this fiscal year. I believe that the Head of the
> Wikipedia Library, Jake Orlowitz, is involved. I suggest that you reach out
> to him at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ocaasi_(WMF).
>
> Also, I recommend that you subscribe to the Research-l mailing list at
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l. You could
> try
> asking your question there, especially if you don't hear back from Jake.
>
> Good luck with your research,
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 3:44 PM sashi  wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I thought I would ask if any of the junior or senior researchers here on
> > this mailing list have conducted previous inquiries into Wikipedia's
> > sourcing.
> >
> > I am currently working on a project of determining what proportion of
> > Wikipedia is sourced to newspapers, the military, the Church, social
> > media, etc.
> >
> > The data I've compiled this month, along with a brief write-up, have
> > been posted to Wikipediocracy:
> >
> > http://wikipediocracy.com/2018/08/26/wikipedia-sources-methods/
> >
> > I imagine I'm reinventing the wheel... such studies have been done
> > before, by the WMF, with power tools (bots), right?
> >
> > Thanks for any corrections / suggestions,
> >
> >sashi
> >
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia's sourcing

[Pine W]

Hi Sashi,

I think that there is a research project regarding Wikipedia sources in the
WMF Annual Plan for this fiscal year. I believe that the Head of the
Wikipedia Library, Jake Orlowitz, is involved. I suggest that you reach out
to him at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ocaasi_(WMF).

Also, I recommend that you subscribe to the Research-l mailing list at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l. You could try
asking your question there, especially if you don't hear back from Jake.

Good luck with your research,

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 3:44 PM sashi  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I thought I would ask if any of the junior or senior researchers here on
> this mailing list have conducted previous inquiries into Wikipedia's
> sourcing.
>
> I am currently working on a project of determining what proportion of
> Wikipedia is sourced to newspapers, the military, the Church, social
> media, etc.
>
> The data I've compiled this month, along with a brief write-up, have
> been posted to Wikipediocracy:
>
> http://wikipediocracy.com/2018/08/26/wikipedia-sources-methods/
>
> I imagine I'm reinventing the wheel... such studies have been done
> before, by the WMF, with power tools (bots), right?
>
> Thanks for any corrections / suggestions,
>
>sashi
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Wikimedia Sverige receives $65k+ in funding for our Library Data project

[Wikimedia Argentina]

Thanks John!

Giselle Bordoy
Responsable de Comunicación y Cultura
Communications and Cultural Manager
*A. C. Wikimedia Argentina*

2018-08-29 16:23 GMT-03:00 John Andersson :

> Hi Giselle,
>
> You can read more about the project in English here:
> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_
> inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_på_Wikidata_2018/Background
>
> Best,
>
> John
>
>
> Den mån 27 aug. 2018 18:24Wikimedia Argentina <
> comunicac...@wikimedia.org.ar>
> skrev:
>
> > Congrats! Open data is the present and future of cultural projects :)
> > I would love to read more about the project. This is the only link in
> > english that I found [1]
> > Have you got something else John?
> >
> >
> > Best,
> > Giselle
> >
> > [1]
> > http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/
> pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-
> fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
> >
> > Giselle Bordoy
> > Responsable de Comunicación y Cultura
> > Communications and Cultural Manager
> > *A. C. Wikimedia Argentina*
> >
> > 2018-08-27 11:08 GMT-03:00 Alex Stinson :
> >
> >> Congratulations John! Library data is such a powerful first step for
> >> engaging partners, and we definitely need more case studies on this!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Alex
> >>
> >> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 9:48 AM, John Andersson <
> >> john.anders...@wikimedia.se> wrote:
> >>
> >>> *Hi everybody and sorry for crossposting,Wikimedia Sverige is proud to
> be
> >>> the recipient of $65,500 in support from the Swedish National Library
> for
> >>> our project Library Data.We will work in collaboration with the Swedish
> >>> National Library to include a number of datasets onto Wikidata, such as
> >>> data about authors, libraries and different special databases of
> >>> bibliographies[1]. This is a pilot project where we aim to discuss with
> >>> the
> >>> community what to include and what to exclude. Based on the discussions
> >>> and
> >>> the requests from the community we will design a continuation of this
> >>> project (if this first part is deemed successful continuous funding is
> >>> possible for 3-4 more years).We started investigating a possible long
> >>> term
> >>> partnership with the National Library in 2017 when Wikimedia Sverige
> >>> delivered inputs to the new National Strategy for the Library Sector on
> >>> how
> >>> Sweden's libraries can work with Wikimedia for mutual benefits.[2] The
> >>> National Library has just made history as the world's first national
> >>> library to fully transition to Linked Open Data (BIBFRAME 2.0),[3] so
> the
> >>> timing could not have been better; we are now in position to examine
> how
> >>> this move can benefit Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects.Please
> >>> contact
> >>> the project manager André Costa (andre.co...@wikimedia.se
> >>> ) or the developer Alicia Fagerving
> >>> (alicia.fagerv...@wikimedia.se ) if you
> >>> have
> >>> any questions. As always, you can find the full application on our wiki
> >>> (in
> >>> Swedish):
> >>>
> >>> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_
> inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_på_Wikidata_2018/Ansökan
> >>> <
> >>> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_
> inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_p%C3%A5_Wikidata_2018/Ans%C3%B6kan
> >>> >[1]
> >>> https://libris.kb.se/deldatabas.jsp  deldatabas.jsp
> >>> >
> >>> [2]
> >>>
> >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sverige_-_
> Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf
> >>> <
> >>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sverige_-_
> Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf
> >>> >
> >>> (in Swedish)[3]
> >>>
> >>> http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/
> pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-
> fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
> >>> <
> >>> http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/
> pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-
> fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
> >>> >
> >>> *
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>>
> >>> John
> >>> - - - -
> >>> John Andersson
> >>> Executive Director
> >>> Wikimedia Sverige
> >>>
> >>> Phone: +46(0)73-3965189
> >>> Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se 
> >>> Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Alex Stinson
> >> GLAM-Wiki Strategist
> >> Wikimedia Foundation
> >> Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
> >>
> >> Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and
> other
> >> Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
> >> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
> 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Wikimedia Sverige receives $65k+ in funding for our Library Data project

[John Andersson]

Hi Giselle,

You can read more about the project in English here:
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_på_Wikidata_2018/Background

Best,

John


Den mån 27 aug. 2018 18:24Wikimedia Argentina 
skrev:

> Congrats! Open data is the present and future of cultural projects :)
> I would love to read more about the project. This is the only link in
> english that I found [1]
> Have you got something else John?
>
>
> Best,
> Giselle
>
> [1]
> http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
>
> Giselle Bordoy
> Responsable de Comunicación y Cultura
> Communications and Cultural Manager
> *A. C. Wikimedia Argentina*
>
> 2018-08-27 11:08 GMT-03:00 Alex Stinson :
>
>> Congratulations John! Library data is such a powerful first step for
>> engaging partners, and we definitely need more case studies on this!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 9:48 AM, John Andersson <
>> john.anders...@wikimedia.se> wrote:
>>
>>> *Hi everybody and sorry for crossposting,Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be
>>> the recipient of $65,500 in support from the Swedish National Library for
>>> our project Library Data.We will work in collaboration with the Swedish
>>> National Library to include a number of datasets onto Wikidata, such as
>>> data about authors, libraries and different special databases of
>>> bibliographies[1]. This is a pilot project where we aim to discuss with
>>> the
>>> community what to include and what to exclude. Based on the discussions
>>> and
>>> the requests from the community we will design a continuation of this
>>> project (if this first part is deemed successful continuous funding is
>>> possible for 3-4 more years).We started investigating a possible long
>>> term
>>> partnership with the National Library in 2017 when Wikimedia Sverige
>>> delivered inputs to the new National Strategy for the Library Sector on
>>> how
>>> Sweden's libraries can work with Wikimedia for mutual benefits.[2] The
>>> National Library has just made history as the world's first national
>>> library to fully transition to Linked Open Data (BIBFRAME 2.0),[3] so the
>>> timing could not have been better; we are now in position to examine how
>>> this move can benefit Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects.Please
>>> contact
>>> the project manager André Costa (andre.co...@wikimedia.se
>>> ) or the developer Alicia Fagerving
>>> (alicia.fagerv...@wikimedia.se ) if you
>>> have
>>> any questions. As always, you can find the full application on our wiki
>>> (in
>>> Swedish):
>>>
>>> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_på_Wikidata_2018/Ansökan
>>> <
>>> https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_p%C3%A5_Wikidata_2018/Ans%C3%B6kan
>>> >[1]
>>> https://libris.kb.se/deldatabas.jsp >> >
>>> [2]
>>>
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sverige_-_Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf
>>> <
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sverige_-_Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf
>>> >
>>> (in Swedish)[3]
>>>
>>> http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
>>> <
>>> http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to-fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975
>>> >
>>> *
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians of Colorado User Group annual report 2017

[Isarra Yos]

Hey all,

The Wikimedians of Colorado User group has published our annual report 
for 2017, so please check it out here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/Annual_Report_2017

Thanks!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to a "Wikimedia Café" casual online meetup

[Pine W]

Hi folks,

I would like to remind you about this invitation for tomorrow.

I anticipate that there will be few people who attend, and that's okay.

Currently, I am using the free version of Zoom which allows 40 minutes for
meetings, so I will be on Zoom starting at 17:00 UTC for 40 minutes. There
will be a 20 minute break between the end of the Café meetup and the start
of the WMF activities meeting.

If you are concerned about privacy but would like to attend, it's fine to
attend with voice only. The Zoom software allows people to disable their
video.

Example subjects that might come up for discussion include:

* Affiliate activities
* Growth strategies
* Finance
* Community health
* Legal issues
* Structured data on Commons
* "Between the Brackets" podcasts
* Quality and quantity of information on Wikipedia
* Design

There's no pressure to attend if you're not interested or have something
else that is important to do during the Café time tomorrow. This is a
social invitation.

Until next time,

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:15 PM Pine W  wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Based on comments that I received on Wikimedia-l, I would like to invite
> people to a casual online meetup one hour before the monthly WMF Metrics
> and Activities Meeting.
>
> There will be no set agenda. You can come with questions or ideas that you
> would like to discuss. Please be willing to listen to questions and ideas
> from other Wikimedians.
>
> I will host the meeting with the Zoom software. You can join with software
> or by using your phone. If you join by phone then your phone number will be
> visible to other participants.
>
> The primary language of the meeting will be English, but if people would
> like to communicate in diverse languages then that is okay too. We can
> facilitate translation by text chat. Many Wikimedians, myself included, are
> multilingual in varying degrees, so we might try to have live
> interpretation also.
>
> Here is information about how to connect:
>
> Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/136978210
>
> Or iPhone one-tap :
> Argentina: +543415122188,,136978210#
> Or Telephone:
> Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current
> location):
> Argentina: +54 341 512 2188
> Australia: +61 (0) 2 8015 2088  or +61 (0) 8 7150 1149
> Canada: +1 647 558 0588
> Hong Kong, China: +852 5808 6088
> France: +33 (0) 1 8288 0188  or +33 (0) 7 5678 4048
> Germany: +49 (0) 30 3080 6188  or +49 (0) 30 5679 5800
> Israel: +972 (0) 3 978 6688
> Italy: +39 069 480 6488
> Japan: +81 (0) 3 4578 1488  or +81 524 564 439
> Mexico: +52 229 910 0061  or +52 554 161 4288
> Spain: +34 84 368 5025  or +34 91 198 0188
> Sweden: +46 (0) 7 6692 0434  or +46 (0) 8 4468 2488
> Russia: +7 495 283 9788
> United Kingdom: +44 (0) 20 3051 2874  or +44 (0) 20 3695 0088
> US: +1 408 638 0986  or +1 646 558 8665
> Meeting ID: 136 978 210
> International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/ekaPibJIy
>
> The first "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on 30 August 2018, at 17:00 UTC
> / 10:00 Pacific.
>
> Let me emphasize that the environment won't be like this
> ,
> so please don't feel intimated if you are nervous about public speaking.
> (If a conversation feels to me like it is becoming uncivil or intimidating,
> then I will ask the debaters to quiet themselves or to move to somewhere
> else.) The meeting will generally have an environment that is more like
> this 
> or this
> .
> I anticipate that few people will come, which is okay. I hope that if you
> come then you will enjoy the environment and conversation.
>
> Until next time,
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] fallout from 2018 Wikimedian of the Year announcement

[Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin]

Dear colleagues,

Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @ http://tatarstan.ru/ (including 
websites of the http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet 
http://prav.tatarstan.ru/, ministries/departments, state-owned organizations, 
municipalities and Representative offices of the Republic around Russia and 
abroad) moved to Creative Commons Attribution. The only exceptions are those of 
the First (ex-) President & the Parliament, that already had their own unique 
type free licenses (in Russian, non-standard).

Russian Wikinews requested me to draft an article & my counterparty at the 
Regional Ministry of InfoComm has gladly approved. I will probably need to find 
time for that today. That was the easy part. Some context: Russian President, 
Executive Branch of the Federal Government, both Chambers of the Federal 
Parliament, etc. are using Creative Commons Attribution for a while now, thanks 
to Senior Volunteers efforts of Wikimedia Russia members. I just communicated 
the benefits of this to the Regional (Republic of Tatarstan) Deputy 
Prime-Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov, head of the 
regional infocomm department & he championed it far and wide within his area of 
responsibility.

I started engaging high-school & university students into helping the Infocomm 
ministry people to learn what is Wikimedia like & how it works - Deputy 
Prime-Minister is interested in anything that can benefit Education, Heritage 
Outreach, etc. development in the region &  help in making culture of the 
Republic better known globally & promote Tatar language use online (Wikidata, 
GLAM, etc.). Another minister I met is excited with examples of Greek school 
children 
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/July_2017/A_class_of_26_8-year-old_Wikipedia_article_creators
 & youth in Italy 
http://www.rivistabricks.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BRICKS_4_2017.pdf & 
other places develop critical thinking and develop immunity to mass & social 
media stories painting the world black & white as they please (stories from any 
outlets, including the BBC or New York Times, have to be taken with a pinch of 
salt - there's no unbiased human). In parallel, we are starting a cooperation 
with private Cambridge International school in Kazan http://school.balacity.ru/ 
(the founders & the director know me, invited me for cooperation, key contact 
person was part of the meeting, I provided necessary initial links). I know 
that our youth is now inspired to organize a User Group, report on their Spring 
& Summer efforts at Wikimedia Conference Russia this September & take their 
existing Selet WikiSchool project even higher. 
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool , 
more stories coming.

Last night WMF Partnerships agreed to support me in organizing a 
videoconference type seminar with best practices in Education/GLAM/Heritage 
promotion/Wikidata/etc. to explain locals about how great is the Wikimedia 
movement (something mainly unheard of in Russia, even though Wikipedia is 
actually used). I would love to have you, my dear international colleagues, to 
find time to connect and give a video talk on some Use Case implementation 
during the upcoming public seminar, organized in conjunction with Tatarstan 
InfoComm ministry (whenever we get the dates they will be able to gather local 
crowd in the IT-Park in downtown Kazan). I will take care of the simultaneous 
interpretation — all the necessary equipment is there, so I'll try to find the 
funding & qualified people.

In parallel I'll continue working on organizing a short in-person version at 
WMF Headquarters for the President of the Republic, if and when we can fit it 
into his schedule (Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Regional Minister for 
InfoComm wanted this to take place during one of the annual regional government 
delegation visits to California). President Minnikhanov is a co-chair of the 
Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, as well as Russia-Islamic World 
Strategic Vision Group, so I think we can use Jimmy's well-timed pass to score 
well: spreading Wikimedia movement popularity throughout Russia and the Islamic 
world even further, helping in unblocking Turkey in the process.

"Imagine the world in which every human is a Wikimedian. That's my commitment!"

regards,
farhad

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Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / 
skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan


09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" :
> Hi Farhad,
>
> Thank you for your generosity with your time as you respond to the requests
> and new opportunities.
>
> I like Andy's suggestions. Wikimedia Armenia crossed my mind also as
> potentially a good organization to contact for ideas, because I have the
> impression that they have a good (but not excessively close) relationship
> with their national government, and because they have a very successful
> Wikipedia Education Program.
>
> Although there seem to be many 

[Wikimedia-l] Updates for failed logins and OurMine

[John Bennett]

Hello,

The Security team will be putting together a brief summary of events
for both of these incidents and plan on sharing an overview by Sept
7th.  

Thanks
John Bennett

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