Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Wednesday, January 16 at 11:30 AM PST, 19:30 UTC

[Janna Layton]

Hello all,

Just a reminder about our Research Showcase this Wednesday, and an update
that we now have a 2nd presenter:

Geography and knowledge. Reviving an old relationship with Wiki
AtlasBy *Anastasios
Noulas, New York University*Wiki Atlas  is an
interactive cartography tool. The tool renders Wikipedia content in a
3-dimensional, web-based cartographic environment. The map acts as a medium
that enables the discovery and exploration of articles in a manner that
explicitly associates geography and information. At its current prototype
form, a Wikipedia article is represented on the map as a 3D element whose
height property is proportional to the number of views the article has on
the website. This property enables the discovery of relevant content, in a
manner that reflects the significance of the target element by means of
collective attention by the site’s audience.

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:49 AM Janna Layton  wrote:

> Hello, everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase, *Understanding participation in Wikipedia*,
> will be live-streamed next Wednesday, January 16, at 11:30 AM PST/19:30
> UTC. This presentation is about new editors.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc51jE_KNTc
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
> can also watch our past research showcases here:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
>
> This month's presentation:
>
> *Understanding participation in Wikipedia: Studies on the relationship
> between new editors’ motivations and activity*
>
> By Martina Balestra, New York University
>
> Peer production communities like Wikipedia often struggle to retain
> contributors beyond their initial engagement. Theory suggests this may be
> related to their levels of motivation, though prior studies either center
> on contributors’ activity or use cross-sectional survey methods, and
> overlook accompanied changes in motivation. In this talk, I will present a
> series of studies aimed at filling this gap. We begin by looking at how
> Wikipedia editors’ early motivations influence the activities that they
> come to engage in, and how these motivations change over the first three
> months of participation in Wikipedia. We then look at the relationship
> between editing activity and intrinsic motivation specifically over time.
> We find that new editors’ early motivations are predictive of their future
> activity, but that these motivations tend to change with time. Moreover,
> newcomers’ intrinsic motivation is reinforced by the amount of activity
> they engage in over time: editors who had a high level of intrinsic
> motivation entered a virtuous cycle where the more they edited the more
> motivated they became, whereas those who initially had low intrinsic
> motivation entered a vicious cycle. Our findings shed new light on the
> importance of early experiences and reveal that the relationship between
> motivation and activity is more complex than previously understood.
>
> --
> Janna Layton
> Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hiding versions because of copyright violation

[Risker]

Hi Lodewijk -

I don't think you're mis-translating; I think that there's just a different
understanding of the terms between projects.  Most other projects didn't
get saddled with the extensions that used the actual term "hiding" that
English Wikipedia had, so wouldn't have had a reason to use the more
precise terminology that is used there.

It appears that when you are speaking of "hiding", you are referring to
revision-deletion.  From that perspective, revision-deletion or page
deletion is used on English Wikipedia for almost all copyright violations.
The enwiki policy is here:  <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Revision_deletion#Criteria_for_redaction>


Risker/Anne

On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 13:20, effe iets anders 
wrote:

> Thanks for those questions.
>
> Just as clarification, I'm talking about hiding revisions with the effect
> that the revisions are greyed out in the history, but that admins can still
> see their content. But I realize that oversight policies (the effect of
> oversight is stronger) may be more prominent, and that perhaps the
> ecosystem of different options should be considered in such a question :) .
>
> Thanks Anne for clarifying terminology - I am mostly aware with the
> terminology we use in Dutch, so may mistranslate some things.
>
> Lodewijk
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:13 AM Risker  wrote:
>
>> I think one of the issues here is that we are not all using the same
>> terminology.
>>
>> "Hiding", on English Wikipedia, is generally reserved for some weird
>> extensions that had to have special features built in because
>> revision-deletion, deletion, and suppression did not work with them.  I
>> think all of those extensions are now disabled on English Wikipedia.
>>
>> "Revision-deletion" (which has the effect of removing a revision from the
>> view of the reading public and users who are not administrators or
>> equivalent) or complete page deletion is used for most copyright violations
>> on English Wikipedia.  Copyright violations should not be publicly
>> available, since it does not meet even the most basic requirements of edits
>> to the project; I have a hard time seeing why any project would leave them
>> in the page history, since that is the equivalent of leaving them in the
>> project.
>>
>> "Suppression" is an even higher-level form of revision-deletion that
>> removes the revision from the view of everyone except oversighters.  It
>> replaced the old "oversight" extension in 2009, and it is my understanding
>> that all of the revisions that were historically removed using the
>> oversight tool have now been returned to page history and suppressed.
>> (There are some exceptions.) Suppression is used on English Wikipedia for
>> most personal information, which can include anything listed in the WMF
>> privacy policy.
>>
>> There are variations in the use of the deletion/suppression tools: for
>> example, since 2009 we have been able to either "delete" or "suppress"
>> usernames and edit summaries that are highly inappropriate. The ability to
>> "suppress" usernames is sometimes used when someone edits while logged out,
>> not realizing their IP address will appear in the history.
>>
>> I suspect that English Wikipedia has lower thresholds for both
>> revision-deletion and suppression because it has historically been the
>> project that is most abused, sometimes in ways that I'd be hesitant to
>> publicly describe.
>>
>>
>> Risker/Anne
>> (English Wikipedia oversighter)
>>
>> On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 12:29, effe iets anders 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This is one of these things that seems particularly hard to find, so I'd
>>> like to pick your collective brains on this:
>>>
>>> What are the various policies across our little universe on using the
>>> 'hide
>>> version' functionality to hide historical versions of articles? I would
>>> especially appreciate it if you could elaborate a bit on how it's used in
>>> practice with regards to privacy violations (what is the threshold of
>>> private information that would justify hiding versions) and copyright
>>> violations (when do you actually hide the versions, rather than just
>>> remove
>>> it from the current version and leave it in the history).
>>>
>>> Are there any global policies on this? I think not, but always better to
>>> double check :).
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Lodewijk
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hiding versions because of copyright violation

[Vi to]

At it.wiki:
*copyvios are hidden as soon as they're caught. Also precautionary hiding
is frequently used
*gross insults in summaries and revs are hidden in a discretionary way
*phone numbers and mild leaks are hidden
*profanities are always hidden.

Suppression is very rarely used, also because abusefilter log details are
private, thus reducing the need for suppressing abuselog details which can
only be suppressed.

AFAIK that's the wider revdelete usage across major wikis and likely the
most strict usage of suppression.

Vito

Il giorno lun 14 gen 2019 alle ore 19:20 effe iets anders <
effeietsand...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Thanks for those questions.
>
> Just as clarification, I'm talking about hiding revisions with the effect
> that the revisions are greyed out in the history, but that admins can still
> see their content. But I realize that oversight policies (the effect of
> oversight is stronger) may be more prominent, and that perhaps the
> ecosystem of different options should be considered in such a question :) .
>
> Thanks Anne for clarifying terminology - I am mostly aware with the
> terminology we use in Dutch, so may mistranslate some things.
>
> Lodewijk
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:13 AM Risker  wrote:
>
> > I think one of the issues here is that we are not all using the same
> > terminology.
> >
> > "Hiding", on English Wikipedia, is generally reserved for some weird
> > extensions that had to have special features built in because
> > revision-deletion, deletion, and suppression did not work with them.  I
> > think all of those extensions are now disabled on English Wikipedia.
> >
> > "Revision-deletion" (which has the effect of removing a revision from the
> > view of the reading public and users who are not administrators or
> > equivalent) or complete page deletion is used for most copyright
> violations
> > on English Wikipedia.  Copyright violations should not be publicly
> > available, since it does not meet even the most basic requirements of
> edits
> > to the project; I have a hard time seeing why any project would leave
> them
> > in the page history, since that is the equivalent of leaving them in the
> > project.
> >
> > "Suppression" is an even higher-level form of revision-deletion that
> > removes the revision from the view of everyone except oversighters.  It
> > replaced the old "oversight" extension in 2009, and it is my
> understanding
> > that all of the revisions that were historically removed using the
> > oversight tool have now been returned to page history and suppressed.
> > (There are some exceptions.) Suppression is used on English Wikipedia for
> > most personal information, which can include anything listed in the WMF
> > privacy policy.
> >
> > There are variations in the use of the deletion/suppression tools: for
> > example, since 2009 we have been able to either "delete" or "suppress"
> > usernames and edit summaries that are highly inappropriate. The ability
> to
> > "suppress" usernames is sometimes used when someone edits while logged
> out,
> > not realizing their IP address will appear in the history.
> >
> > I suspect that English Wikipedia has lower thresholds for both
> > revision-deletion and suppression because it has historically been the
> > project that is most abused, sometimes in ways that I'd be hesitant to
> > publicly describe.
> >
> >
> > Risker/Anne
> > (English Wikipedia oversighter)
> >
> > On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 12:29, effe iets anders  >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> This is one of these things that seems particularly hard to find, so I'd
> >> like to pick your collective brains on this:
> >>
> >> What are the various policies across our little universe on using the
> >> 'hide
> >> version' functionality to hide historical versions of articles? I would
> >> especially appreciate it if you could elaborate a bit on how it's used
> in
> >> practice with regards to privacy violations (what is the threshold of
> >> private information that would justify hiding versions) and copyright
> >> violations (when do you actually hide the versions, rather than just
> >> remove
> >> it from the current version and leave it in the history).
> >>
> >> Are there any global policies on this? I think not, but always better to
> >> double check :).
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Lodewijk
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hiding versions because of copyright violation

[effe iets anders]

Thanks for those questions.

Just as clarification, I'm talking about hiding revisions with the effect
that the revisions are greyed out in the history, but that admins can still
see their content. But I realize that oversight policies (the effect of
oversight is stronger) may be more prominent, and that perhaps the
ecosystem of different options should be considered in such a question :) .

Thanks Anne for clarifying terminology - I am mostly aware with the
terminology we use in Dutch, so may mistranslate some things.

Lodewijk

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:13 AM Risker  wrote:

> I think one of the issues here is that we are not all using the same
> terminology.
>
> "Hiding", on English Wikipedia, is generally reserved for some weird
> extensions that had to have special features built in because
> revision-deletion, deletion, and suppression did not work with them.  I
> think all of those extensions are now disabled on English Wikipedia.
>
> "Revision-deletion" (which has the effect of removing a revision from the
> view of the reading public and users who are not administrators or
> equivalent) or complete page deletion is used for most copyright violations
> on English Wikipedia.  Copyright violations should not be publicly
> available, since it does not meet even the most basic requirements of edits
> to the project; I have a hard time seeing why any project would leave them
> in the page history, since that is the equivalent of leaving them in the
> project.
>
> "Suppression" is an even higher-level form of revision-deletion that
> removes the revision from the view of everyone except oversighters.  It
> replaced the old "oversight" extension in 2009, and it is my understanding
> that all of the revisions that were historically removed using the
> oversight tool have now been returned to page history and suppressed.
> (There are some exceptions.) Suppression is used on English Wikipedia for
> most personal information, which can include anything listed in the WMF
> privacy policy.
>
> There are variations in the use of the deletion/suppression tools: for
> example, since 2009 we have been able to either "delete" or "suppress"
> usernames and edit summaries that are highly inappropriate. The ability to
> "suppress" usernames is sometimes used when someone edits while logged out,
> not realizing their IP address will appear in the history.
>
> I suspect that English Wikipedia has lower thresholds for both
> revision-deletion and suppression because it has historically been the
> project that is most abused, sometimes in ways that I'd be hesitant to
> publicly describe.
>
>
> Risker/Anne
> (English Wikipedia oversighter)
>
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 12:29, effe iets anders 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is one of these things that seems particularly hard to find, so I'd
>> like to pick your collective brains on this:
>>
>> What are the various policies across our little universe on using the
>> 'hide
>> version' functionality to hide historical versions of articles? I would
>> especially appreciate it if you could elaborate a bit on how it's used in
>> practice with regards to privacy violations (what is the threshold of
>> private information that would justify hiding versions) and copyright
>> violations (when do you actually hide the versions, rather than just
>> remove
>> it from the current version and leave it in the history).
>>
>> Are there any global policies on this? I think not, but always better to
>> double check :).
>>
>> Best,
>> Lodewijk
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hiding versions because of copyright violation

[Risker]

I think one of the issues here is that we are not all using the same
terminology.

"Hiding", on English Wikipedia, is generally reserved for some weird
extensions that had to have special features built in because
revision-deletion, deletion, and suppression did not work with them.  I
think all of those extensions are now disabled on English Wikipedia.

"Revision-deletion" (which has the effect of removing a revision from the
view of the reading public and users who are not administrators or
equivalent) or complete page deletion is used for most copyright violations
on English Wikipedia.  Copyright violations should not be publicly
available, since it does not meet even the most basic requirements of edits
to the project; I have a hard time seeing why any project would leave them
in the page history, since that is the equivalent of leaving them in the
project.

"Suppression" is an even higher-level form of revision-deletion that
removes the revision from the view of everyone except oversighters.  It
replaced the old "oversight" extension in 2009, and it is my understanding
that all of the revisions that were historically removed using the
oversight tool have now been returned to page history and suppressed.
(There are some exceptions.) Suppression is used on English Wikipedia for
most personal information, which can include anything listed in the WMF
privacy policy.

There are variations in the use of the deletion/suppression tools: for
example, since 2009 we have been able to either "delete" or "suppress"
usernames and edit summaries that are highly inappropriate. The ability to
"suppress" usernames is sometimes used when someone edits while logged out,
not realizing their IP address will appear in the history.

I suspect that English Wikipedia has lower thresholds for both
revision-deletion and suppression because it has historically been the
project that is most abused, sometimes in ways that I'd be hesitant to
publicly describe.


Risker/Anne
(English Wikipedia oversighter)

On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 12:29, effe iets anders 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is one of these things that seems particularly hard to find, so I'd
> like to pick your collective brains on this:
>
> What are the various policies across our little universe on using the 'hide
> version' functionality to hide historical versions of articles? I would
> especially appreciate it if you could elaborate a bit on how it's used in
> practice with regards to privacy violations (what is the threshold of
> private information that would justify hiding versions) and copyright
> violations (when do you actually hide the versions, rather than just remove
> it from the current version and leave it in the history).
>
> Are there any global policies on this? I think not, but always better to
> double check :).
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hiding versions because of copyright violation

[Marielle Volz]

Are you talking about deleting revisions? There is a global policy on this,
found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight_policy

There are local rules as well, compiled here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight_policy/Local_policies

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Revision_deletion

Cheers,
Marielle

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 5:44 PM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

>  privacy violations is not standard at all. For example some wikis hide
> personal details that people put on purpose, while other ones see no point
> since it's their will to show them.
>
> Also, even if it is not strictly related to private information, blocking
> deceased users is not standardized among platforms.
>
> Il lunedì 14 gennaio 2019, 18:29:36 CET, effe iets anders <
> effeietsand...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>  Hi all,
>
> This is one of these things that seems particularly hard to find, so I'd
> like to pick your collective brains on this:
>
> What are the various policies across our little universe on using the 'hide
> version' functionality to hide historical versions of articles? I would
> especially appreciate it if you could elaborate a bit on how it's used in
> practice with regards to privacy violations (what is the threshold of
> private information that would justify hiding versions) and copyright
> violations (when do you actually hide the versions, rather than just remove
> it from the current version and leave it in the history).
>
> Are there any global policies on this? I think not, but always better to
> double check :).
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Hiding versions because of copyright violation

[Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l]

 privacy violations is not standard at all. For example some wikis hide 
personal details that people put on purpose, while other ones see no point 
since it's their will to show them. 

Also, even if it is not strictly related to private information, blocking 
deceased users is not standardized among platforms.

Il lunedì 14 gennaio 2019, 18:29:36 CET, effe iets anders 
 ha scritto:  
 
 Hi all,

This is one of these things that seems particularly hard to find, so I'd
like to pick your collective brains on this:

What are the various policies across our little universe on using the 'hide
version' functionality to hide historical versions of articles? I would
especially appreciate it if you could elaborate a bit on how it's used in
practice with regards to privacy violations (what is the threshold of
private information that would justify hiding versions) and copyright
violations (when do you actually hide the versions, rather than just remove
it from the current version and leave it in the history).

Are there any global policies on this? I think not, but always better to
double check :).

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

[camelia boban]

Wow Farkhad, ideally we will be with you.

Camelia

On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 5:10 PM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin <
f...@yandex.com wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> This is a heads-up on the fact that on Jan.29 I will be speaking in Tatar
> (with simultaneous interpretation of my words into Russian) at the Republic
> of Tatarstan Ministry for ICT closing conference for 2018 in front of the
> President of the Republic, Russia's Federal minister for ICT, members of
> Tatarstan government, industry & the press, possibly some participants from
> nearby regional ministries.
>
> I will have some 7-10 min to present on
> https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region , rough English translation
> for the base page completed today.
>
> It will be a basic intro level talk accompanied by slides about some
> things that can be appropriately mentioned without overburdening the public
> hearing about Wiki-community activities for the first time in their lives.
> I will email you draft text around the end of the week (once I am
> comfortable with it), with some ideas on the slides I will play along my
> speech and a list of recommended follow-on measures.
>
> Expected outcome: Presidential instruction to the Tatarstan government to
> for a cross-departmental working group to study what ICT ministry led
> Wikimedia working group (since August 2018) has came up with & look into
> possible way of integrating this into Tatarstan social life (I was offered
> to formulate it myself today).
>
> Other related Wikimedia Russia news:
>
> * On or around Feb.8, we are to have first follow-on introduction of
> Wikipedia Education Program to wider professors & students' body of Kazan
> Federal University Institute for International Relations, with director of
> which we had a productive meeting on Dec.21, following the events described
> in
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia_report
>
>
> * On Feb.28-March 1 we are invited to field speakers for
> http://eduforumkazan.ru/ (attended by Russia's Federal Minister for
> Education and her team)
>
> regards,
> farhad
>
>
> --
> Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
> skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan
>
>
> 05.11.2018, 17:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin"  >:
> > Dear colleagues,
> >
> > Below is my October activities report & description of upcoming events
> >
> > 1) On Oct.13-14 at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 we presented
> some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF grants).
> See details at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_report
> >
> > 2) On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy head of
> Tatarstan Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy
> http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792_id=49064
> who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia
> movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional
> authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the
> Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of
> mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer
> Shaimiev
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html,
> but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating
> into English today @
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
> >
> > 3) On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki at
> https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Умный_регион (currently in Russian only),
> using also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html
> ).
> >
> > 4) In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation of the
> project and our domestic experience
> https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the large meeting
> called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to the
> Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer Shaimiev
> http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of
> > * First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration (
> http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32_id=84096
> ),
> > * a large body of regional ministers
> > ** Tatar community affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm
> > ** Education and science http://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm
> > ** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm
> > ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm
> > ** Youth affairs
> http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi
> > * head of regional media holding
> http://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm
> > * head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia
> http://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/
> > * head of the House of Friendship of Nations of 

[Wikimedia-l] Hiding versions because of copyright violation

[effe iets anders]

Hi all,

This is one of these things that seems particularly hard to find, so I'd
like to pick your collective brains on this:

What are the various policies across our little universe on using the 'hide
version' functionality to hide historical versions of articles? I would
especially appreciate it if you could elaborate a bit on how it's used in
practice with regards to privacy violations (what is the threshold of
private information that would justify hiding versions) and copyright
violations (when do you actually hide the versions, rather than just remove
it from the current version and leave it in the history).

Are there any global policies on this? I think not, but always better to
double check :).

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

[Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin]

Dear colleagues,

This is a heads-up on the fact that on Jan.29 I will be speaking in Tatar (with 
simultaneous interpretation of my words into Russian) at the Republic of 
Tatarstan Ministry for ICT closing conference for 2018 in front of the 
President of the Republic, Russia's Federal minister for ICT, members of 
Tatarstan government, industry & the press, possibly some participants from 
nearby regional ministries.

I will have some 7-10 min to present on 
https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Smart_region , rough English translation for the 
base page completed today.

It will be a basic intro level talk accompanied by slides about some  things 
that can be appropriately mentioned without overburdening the public hearing 
about Wiki-community activities for the first time in their lives. I will email 
you draft text around the end of the week (once I am comfortable with it), with 
some ideas on the slides I will play along my speech and a list of recommended 
follow-on measures.

Expected outcome: Presidential instruction to the Tatarstan government to for a 
cross-departmental working group to study what ICT ministry led Wikimedia 
working group (since August 2018) has came up with & look into possible way of 
integrating this into Tatarstan social life (I was offered to formulate it 
myself today).

Other related Wikimedia Russia news:

* On or around Feb.8, we are to have first follow-on introduction of Wikipedia 
Education Program to wider professors & students' body of Kazan Federal 
University Institute for International Relations, with director of which we had 
a productive meeting on Dec.21, following the events described in 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/December_2018/Contents/Russia_report


* On Feb.28-March 1 we are invited to field speakers for 
http://eduforumkazan.ru/ (attended by Russia's Federal Minister for Education 
and her team)

regards,
farhad


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skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan


05.11.2018, 17:22, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin" :
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Below is my October activities report & description of upcoming events
>
> 1) On Oct.13-14 at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018 
> we presented some of the things we are doing in Russia (FYI: without any WMF 
> grants). See details at 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/October_2018/Contents/Russia_report
>
> 2) On Oct.20 I had a two hour long meeting with the Deputy head of Tatarstan 
> Presidential Adiministration responsible for internal policy 
> http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=19792_id=49064
>  who officially invited me to engage Wikimedia Russia and other Wikimedia 
> movement volunteers to develop "Smart wiki-region" roadmap for regional 
> authorities throughout the Russian Federation to start learning about the 
> Wikimedia movement and understanding how partnering therewith could be of 
> mutual interests. This was a follow up of the Oct.1 meeting with Mintimer 
> Shaimiev 
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091151.html, 
> but mainly around my last year's musings I finally finished translating into 
> English today @ 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Frhdkazan/Wiki4RegionalDevt
>
> 3) On Oct.23 We have started growing the project on WMRU-wiki at 
> https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Умный_регион (currently in Russian only), using 
> also eponymous thread at [wikimedia-ru] mailing list (last message 
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-ru/2018-November/004914.html 
> ).
>
> 4) In mid-November we are expecting to have a presentation of the project and 
> our domestic experience https://ru.wikimedia.org/wiki/Selet_WikiSchool at the 
> large meeting called on by the ex-President of Tatarstan, State Councillor to 
> the Republic, UNESCO Special envoy for Intercultural Dialogue Mintimer 
> Shaimiev http://shaimiev.tatarstan.ru/eng - with invitation of
> * First Deputy Head of the Tatarstan Presidential Administration 
> (http://president.tatarstan.ru/eng/apparat/structure?person_id=32_id=84096),
> * a large body of regional ministers
> ** Tatar community affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/eng/pravit/3.htm
> ** Education and science http://mon.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm
> ** ICT http://mic.tatarstan.ru/eng/minister.htm
> ** Culture http://mincult.tatarstan.ru/eng/rukov/minister.htm
> ** Youth affairs http://prav.tatarstan.ru/rus/pravit/ministr-min-molodezhi
> * head of regional media holding http://tatmedia.tatarstan.ru/eng/director.htm
> * head of the Institute of Tatar encyclopedia 
> http://antat.ru/ru/ite/staff/5679/
> * head of the House of Friendship of Nations of Tatarstan 
> http://addnt.ru/house/management/director/
>
> 5) Tomorrow morning I will be meeting with the Vice-Primier - Minister for 
> the ICT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Shaykhutdinov for preliminary 
> discussions, then my 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [foundation-optional] A difficult goodbye

[Info WorldUniversity]

Thank you for your contributions to Wikimedia and the Wikimedia movement,
Victoria,

Regards, Scott
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Scott_WorldUnivAndSch



On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:31 PM Traci Sigmon  wrote:

> That sounds like an incredible opportunity, Victoria. It was great working
> with you here and hope to cross paths again!
>
> Traci
>
>
> Traci Sigmon (she/her)
> Senior Recruiter
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> Join Us: WorkWithUs
> Connect with me on LinkedIn
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge.  That's our commitment and you can help continue to
> make it a reality:  https://donate.wikimedia.org/
>
>
>
> > On Jan 10, 2019, at 6:29 PM, Victoria Coleman 
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I have some difficult news to share.
> >
> > A few months ago and completely out of the blue, an opportunity came up
> for me to exercise the full spectrum of my skills as the CEO of an early
> stage mission oriented startup. It has been a mighty struggle between my
> commitment to my team, the Foundation and  the movement and this
> opportunity to bring all my skills to bear and build something from the
> ground up to do good in the world. I will not lie to you - it has not been
> easy. But ultimately I decided that I have to give it a go and I accepted
> the offer. I plan on starting there on Feb 4th so my last day at the
> Foundation will be Feb 1st.
> >
> > These past two years have been amongst the most enjoyable in my
> professional career. I’ve enjoyed getting to know the movement and what
> fuels it and I’ve been incredibly privileged to work with a Tech team like
> no other. We have together strengthened the technical infrastructure of the
> movement and while much work remains to be done we have a much stronger
> team in place to take the mission to the next level. And I have personally
> made friendships that will last a lifetime.
> >
> > The organization I will be moving to is Atlas AI, a public benefit
> corporation supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. I will be leading an
> exceptional team of AI and earth system science experts striving for
> improvements in human well being through data driven insights. Our focus
> areas are drawn from the UN’s sustainable development goals of no poverty
> and zero hunger with emphasis on Sub Saharan Africa.
> >
> > I leave behind a Technology department that I am certain is well on the
> way to achieving our vision to create the infrastructure for the free
> knowledge movement. I am also pleased that during my tenure, we have built
> leaders who are equipped to take on this challenge.
> >
> > Erika Bjune will be serving as interim CTO. Erika joined us a little
> over two years ago and she has distinguished  herself as one of the finest
> people leaders I have ever worked with. Both she and Katherine will have my
> ongoing support — I will stay on in a consulting role to Erika on
> organizational matters and for the mid term planning work we have ahead of
> us in the remainder of the fiscal year.  I know that I am leaving the Tech
> team in good hands until a permanent CTO is hired.
> >
> > I want to close this difficult message with my heartfelt thanks to all
> of you for letting me be part of this incredible movement. Being a
> Wikimedian is a great privilege. I wanted you to know that I’m not walking
> away from something; I am walking towards  something that is very
> important to me and the world. I will miss you all. Deeply. Truly. And a
> lot!
> >
> >
> > Victoria
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] A difficult goodbye

[Florence Devouard]

Thank you for your work Victoria and all my best wishes of success for 
Atlas AI.


Florence

Le 11/01/2019 à 01:29, Victoria Coleman a écrit :

Dear all,

I have some difficult news to share.

A few months ago and completely out of the blue, an opportunity came up for me 
to exercise the full spectrum of my skills as the CEO of an early stage mission 
oriented startup. It has been a mighty struggle between my commitment to my 
team, the Foundation and  the movement and this opportunity to bring all my 
skills to bear and build something from the ground up to do good in the world. 
I will not lie to you - it has not been easy. But ultimately I decided that I 
have to give it a go and I accepted the offer. I plan on starting there on Feb 
4th so my last day at the Foundation will be Feb 1st.

These past two years have been amongst the most enjoyable in my professional 
career. I’ve enjoyed getting to know the movement and what fuels it and I’ve 
been incredibly privileged to work with a Tech team like no other. We have 
together strengthened the technical infrastructure of the movement and while 
much work remains to be done we have a much stronger team in place to take the 
mission to the next level. And I have personally made friendships that will 
last a lifetime.

The organization I will be moving to is Atlas AI, a public benefit corporation 
supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. I will be leading an exceptional team 
of AI and earth system science experts striving for improvements in human well 
being through data driven insights. Our focus areas are drawn from the UN’s 
sustainable development goals of no poverty and zero hunger with emphasis on 
Sub Saharan Africa.

I leave behind a Technology department that I am certain is well on the way to 
achieving our vision to create the infrastructure for the free knowledge 
movement. I am also pleased that during my tenure, we have built leaders who 
are equipped to take on this challenge.

Erika Bjune will be serving as interim CTO. Erika joined us a little over two 
years ago and she has distinguished  herself as one of the finest people 
leaders I have ever worked with. Both she and Katherine will have my ongoing 
support — I will stay on in a consulting role to Erika on organizational 
matters and for the mid term planning work we have ahead of us in the remainder 
of the fiscal year.  I know that I am leaving the Tech team in good hands until 
a permanent CTO is hired.

I want to close this difficult message with my heartfelt thanks to all of you 
for letting me be part of this incredible movement. Being a Wikimedian is a 
great privilege. I wanted you to know that I’m not walking away from something; 
I am walking towards  something that is very  important to me and the world. I 
will miss you all. Deeply. Truly. And a lot!


Victoria

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