[Wikimedia-l] Video Wiki

[James Heilman]

Hey All

We have a new project called Video Wiki
 which
allows:

   1. The easy creation of videos from scripts from Wikipedia and images /
   short video segments from Commons
   2. Scripts can have inline references and the text of the script with
   references end up in the captions of the video with references. These
   captions can be turned on and off
   3. At the end of the video it automatically adds
  1.  the license for the text (CC BY SA license)
  2. attribution of those who have edited the scripts
  3. all the metadata for the references supporting the scripts
   4. The final video version on Commons lists the files that the video is
   derived from
   5. Attribution for the images is automatically added at the bottom of
   each image


Have started a discussion here on Wikipedia and would appreciate peoples
thoughts. Will be drafting a formal RfC about the use of such videos
eventually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Video_Wiki


-- 
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentor organization in GSoC 2019!

[James Heilman]

We have a lot of amazing potential projects that just missed the selection
criteria for the community wish list in 2019

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Results

Would some of these quality as projects?

James

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 2:11 PM Srishti Sethi  wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentor organization in the Google Summer
> of Code 2019 with 207 open source projects
> 
> :)
> And, application period for Outreachy Round 18 started last week.
>
> We have listed a few ideas for projects for both programs on MediaWiki and
> we are looking for more. Unlike Google Summer of Code, Outreachy is open to
> non-students and non-coders and projects could be around documentation,
> design, translation research, outreach, etc. View current list of ideas:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_18
>
> Both these programs have a similar timeline for the summer round. Accepted
> candidates will work with mentors from May to August 2019. If you are
> interested in mentoring a project, create a task on Phabricator and tag it
> with #outreach-programs-projects and #Google-Summer-of-Code (2019) or
> #Outreachy (Round 18). You can also choose to mentor for projects already
> on outreach-programs-projects
> 
> workboard. Remember, every project must have two mentors.
>
> Some helpful resources for you:
> * Learn more about the roles and responsibilities of a mentor:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Mentors
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
>
> * View full program timeline:
> https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
> https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/
>
> Looking forward to your participation! :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Srishti, Derick and Pratyush (Wikimedia org admins)
>
>
> *Srishti Sethi*
> Developer Advocate
> Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Video tutorial regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor

[Pine W]

Thanks very much for the information regarding these videos in Swedish,
Basque, and Spanish. I'm impressed by the quality of the recent videos in
Basque and Spanish that I watched, to the extent that I understand them. In
the past two to three years have I also learned about recently produced
instructional videos through publications such as affiliates' reports and *This
Month in Education* .

To the extent that I understand the video in Spanish that Dennis linked
,
I think that it is very good, so I'm now thinking that I will suggest to
WMF that I not create a Spanish version of the video that I am producing,
but in the future if there is interest in having instructional videos in
Spanish regarding different subjects that are not already covered by
existing videos then I may propose creating Spanish versions of videos that
I plan for English Wikipedia, Commons, or other projects.

As far as I know, there is no easily accessible catalog of what Wikimedia
instructional videos exist. Finding some instructional videos is possible
using the Commons category tree and by searching for file names on Commons,
but not all videos are easy to find using those methods, and several
instructional videos that I found on Commons are outdated. I boldly created
a page here

for cataloging Wikimedia instructional videos, and I would like to invite
people to expand that list, especially for videos which contain current
information and have good production quality. Hopefully having a common
catalog will help those of us who produce videos to get ideas from watching
others' videos, and to consider whether to translate or reuse portions of
existing videos. If someone thinks that they have a better idea for
cataloging existing Wikimedia instructional videos, or if there is a
catalog that already exists, please reply to this thread or contact me off
list.

Regarding documenting my process, I am placing notes

on Meta that are in addition to the grant proposal, the talk page for the
grant proposal, and the scripts.

Thanks again for sharing information.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentor organization in GSoC 2019!

[Srishti Sethi]

Hello everyone,

Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentor organization in the Google Summer
of Code 2019 with 207 open source projects
 :)
And, application period for Outreachy Round 18 started last week.

We have listed a few ideas for projects for both programs on MediaWiki and
we are looking for more. Unlike Google Summer of Code, Outreachy is open to
non-students and non-coders and projects could be around documentation,
design, translation research, outreach, etc. View current list of ideas:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2019

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_18

Both these programs have a similar timeline for the summer round. Accepted
candidates will work with mentors from May to August 2019. If you are
interested in mentoring a project, create a task on Phabricator and tag it
with #outreach-programs-projects and #Google-Summer-of-Code (2019) or
#Outreachy (Round 18). You can also choose to mentor for projects already
on outreach-programs-projects

workboard. Remember, every project must have two mentors.

Some helpful resources for you:
* Learn more about the roles and responsibilities of a mentor:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Mentors
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors

* View full program timeline:
https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/

Looking forward to your participation! :)

Cheers,

Srishti, Derick and Pratyush (Wikimedia org admins)


*Srishti Sethi*
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Albania

[Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin]

Dear colleagues,

Cooperation with external entities is best organized through either national 
chapters or thematic organizations, which should be predominantly 
self-supporting, thus quasi-independent from WMF.  I support Kiril's advice 
that WoALUG should be evolving towards a Wikimedia thematic organization, 
whilst our WCUGA colleagues in Albania should consider evolving towards a 
national chapter (thus stepping out of WoALUG's way in anything that has to do 
with ethnic language and culture matters). 

At the same time, emails below don't seem to provide good enough reasons to 
force transformation of a recognized UG into a national chapter or thematic 
organization before they are ready to make that leap, even if having these 
structures is very important for the ongoing sustainability of the movement. I 
am happy to see that our Thai colleagues seem to have reached this stage 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters#Chapters_in_discussion_phase 

UGs are a wonderful tool for greater engagement of volunteers, supporting their 
desire to take greater steps, so the trend for approving new UGs is probably 
there for good (every city, sub-region or sub-topic being eligible). Keeping 
the door open is important, just like the chance to fail and get de-recognized. 
May I remind you that harmony within the community of Wikimedia volunteers is 
more important than the destiny of whatever Wikimedia affiliate, whose main 
function is a shell that brings together and gives some recognized identity to 
local volunteers' that run own projects. 

regards,
farhad

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skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan


25.02.2019, 17:09, "Kiril Simeonovski" :
> Hi Greta,
>
> Thank you for the explanation.
>
> This reminds me a lot to what happened in Macedonia, albeit with different
> names of the recognised user groups. The artificially created problem by
> the Aff Com has eventually ended up in two user groups being eligible for
> WMF grants (another contentious decision), then a raising concern that the
> WMF can not extend funds to two user groups in a small country serving
> community with a small number of speakers and finally a substantial
> reduction of the annual grants approved for 2019 and threat that no grants
> will be extended for 2020 if the conflict does not get resolved. My kind
> advice for you is to start thinking about external funding for the next
> budget year (though it is not an easy task in our region) because this is
> something that the WMF might do for Albania as well.
>
> I also strongly agree with Paulo that we need to start thinking about
> preventing this from happening in the future. The problem is not only that
> people do not care about the consequences from their decisions in a
> volunteer community but that they just bagger off after complicating things
> and simply leave the issue to be solved by the volunteers who did not want
> it to happen. I was thinking about introducing a complaint process on Meta
> where people from the communities can directly complain about similar
> instances of problems created by the WMF, the Aff Com, the grantmaking
> committees or any other decision-making party. Frankly speaking, my
> impression is that the movement migrates from decisions about big things
> made through community-based discussions to a centralised decision-making
> process made entirely within the WMF or the committees that do not seem to
> serve all communities equally.
>
> Best,
> Kiril
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 2:17 PM Paulo Santos Perneta <
> paulospern...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Greta,
>>
>>  Thank you very much for your clarifications and insight into this question.
>>
>>  This is very similar with what happened in Brazil, when the 2013
>>  chapter-like UG (Grupo de Usuários Wikimedia no Brasil) and its clone UG
>>  (Wiki Educação Brasil) approved by AffCom in 2015 ended up competing for
>>  the same activities and partnerships.
>>
>>  Hopefully this time AffCom will not have the reckless approach they had
>>  with Brazil, extinguishing both groups to try to solve a problem they
>>  created themselves, and our wikimedian friends from Albania and Albanian
>>  Language will be spared the destruction of their community.
>>
>>  I believe that we, as the broad community, really should do something to
>>  prevent this kind of thing which is mining and destroying parts of the
>>  Wikimedia Movement. It is not possible that we have to stay here quietly
>>  seeing AffCom dealing with all those cases in such an incompetent and
>>  reckless way. If it's obviously not working, why keep it that way?
>>
>>  Best,
>>  Paulo
>>
>>  Greta Doçi  escreveu no dia segunda, 25/02/2019 à(s)
>>  12:34:
>>
>>  > Dear everyone,
>>  >
>>  > First, we want to thank everyone who contributed in this discussion.
>>  >
>>  > We want to start with the first conflict, which is the name. If you read
>>  > carefully Affcon's 

[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to the February 2019 Wikimedia Monthly Activities Meeting: Thursday, February 28, 19:00 UTC

[Sasha Redkina]

Hello everyone,

The next Wikimedia Monthly Activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
February 28th, 2018 at 19:00  UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on https://webchat.freenode.net, and the meeting will be
broadcast as a live YouTube stream.[
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It66BmW1Bxo] We’ll post the video recording
publicly after the meeting.


Facilitator: Sasha Redkina, Front Office Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation

   - Welcome and introduction to agenda - 2 minutes
   - Movement update - 3 minutes
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   - Wikimedia 2030 status update and opportunities to participate - 20
   minutes
   - Questions and discussion - 10 minutes
   - Wikilove - 5 minutes


Please review the meeting's Meta-Wiki page for further information about
the meeting and how to participate:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_monthly_activities_meetings

The March 2019 monthly activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
March 28, starting at 18:00 UTC (11:00 Pacific Daylight Time). To sign up
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Agreement Reached Between Wikimedia Israel and Israeli Archives

[balaji]

Wonderful news. Feeling happy to see the differences are settled amicably
by both parties.

Regards,
J.Balaji

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019, 9:48 PM Michal Lester  Hello all,
>
> I'm happy to share with you that last Monday, nearly four months after
> Wikimedia Israel’s extraction of nearly 28-thousand public-domain
> photographs  from archives
> affiliated with the State of Israel and the Zionist movement, an agreement
> was finally reached to reconcile the differences between the parties and to
> assure future cooperation.
>
> The archives from which the photographs had been extracted last November
> questioned the legitimacy of Wikimedia Israel’s move and demanded an
> apology for the misuse of their websites. They agreed, on the other hand,
> to enhance access to public-domain material stored in their archives and to
> further cooperation with Wikimedia Israel.
>
> Following the agreement, Wikimedia Israel released a statement saying it
> “regrets the situation that has resulted from lack of communication between
> the archives and Wikimedia Israel”. The statement further says that
> “different world-views and organizational cultures harmed the dialogue and
> distorted the understanding of the intentions of the archives and of
> Wikimedia Israel”. The statement ends by saying that “this is not how the
> affairs should have been conducted, and we wish to apologize to anyone who
> sees themselves offended by the move”.
>
> The agreement calls for better access to public material, while maintaining
> better sensitivity, and “respecting the rights of those who deposited the
> material and the Israeli law”. In addition, Wikimedia Israel offered its
> help in the effort to digitalize the material and make it more accessible.
> This should serve not only Israelis, but also people throughout the Middle
> East, who could find interest in historical photographs taken decades ago
> in neighboring countries and territories.
>
> I hope that in the near future this agreement will lead to a better
> collaboration and releasing of materials.
>
> Michal
>
>
>
> *Michal Lester,*
>
> *Executive DirectorWikimedia Israel*
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[Wikimedia-l] Agreement Reached Between Wikimedia Israel and Israeli Archives

[Michal Lester]

Hello all,

I'm happy to share with you that last Monday, nearly four months after
Wikimedia Israel’s extraction of nearly 28-thousand public-domain
photographs  from archives
affiliated with the State of Israel and the Zionist movement, an agreement
was finally reached to reconcile the differences between the parties and to
assure future cooperation.

The archives from which the photographs had been extracted last November
questioned the legitimacy of Wikimedia Israel’s move and demanded an
apology for the misuse of their websites. They agreed, on the other hand,
to enhance access to public-domain material stored in their archives and to
further cooperation with Wikimedia Israel.

Following the agreement, Wikimedia Israel released a statement saying it
“regrets the situation that has resulted from lack of communication between
the archives and Wikimedia Israel”. The statement further says that
“different world-views and organizational cultures harmed the dialogue and
distorted the understanding of the intentions of the archives and of
Wikimedia Israel”. The statement ends by saying that “this is not how the
affairs should have been conducted, and we wish to apologize to anyone who
sees themselves offended by the move”.

The agreement calls for better access to public material, while maintaining
better sensitivity, and “respecting the rights of those who deposited the
material and the Israeli law”. In addition, Wikimedia Israel offered its
help in the effort to digitalize the material and make it more accessible.
This should serve not only Israelis, but also people throughout the Middle
East, who could find interest in historical photographs taken decades ago
in neighboring countries and territories.

I hope that in the near future this agreement will lead to a better
collaboration and releasing of materials.

Michal



*Michal Lester,*

*Executive DirectorWikimedia Israel*
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Video tutorial regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor

[Dennis Tobar]

Hi Pine:

Past year, Wikimedia Chile has created a tutorial to add references using
VisualEditor.

This material will be used this year for Wikipedia en la Universidad
(Wikipedia at University), our local program for university teachers and
students.

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutoriales_WMCL_-_Agregar_referencias.webm

Anyway, new material in Spanish is welcome and you could ask us about the
"Spanish translation" due difference between some South America countries
and Spain.

Kindly

El mar., 26 de feb. de 2019 00:50, Pine W  escribió:

>  Hello colleagues,
>
> *Overview*
>
> A video tutorial for creating references on Wikipedia with VisualEditor is
> in development for English Wikipedia and possibly also for Spanish
> Wikipedia. Publication is likely to happen in March 2019. If this tutorial
> is well received then additional tutorials may follow.
>
> If you would like to receive notifications regarding the availability of
> draft or finished tutorial products, or to learn additional information,
> then please continue reading below.
>
> *How can I request notifications for when drafts or finished products are
> ready for review?*
>
> If you would like to receive a notice when a draft or finished product is
> ready for public review then I invite you to go to the the project talk
> page and follow the link to the newsletter subscription page [1]. During
> the development of this single tutorial the newsletters are likely to be
> short. I am likely to send approximately 3 to 6 notifications to
> subscribers between now and the end of this mini-project.
>
> (The reason that I am not including a link to the newsletter's subscription
> page directly in this email is that I may change the name of the newsletter
> in the future, and I prefer to minimize any potential confusion and the
> number of redirect pages, so I think that including a link from this email
> to the talk page is preferable because the location of the talk page is
> likely to remain stable.)
>
> *Background information*
>
> Some of you may remember the project that was originally named LearnWiki
> [2]. For various painful reasons that project was not completed within the
> original schedule and budget. However, I continue to believe that video
> tutorials Wikimedia projects could be very useful for new contributors, and
> also for helpers who could use the videos to demonstrate concepts to new
> contributors. I think of this project as being a pilot iteration for
> "LearnWiki version 2.0", or maybe "LearnWiki 2.0 beta 1",  with a major
> change between this effort and the original LearnWiki project being how the
> project is executed. The goal for this tutorial remains aligned with the
> original vision for LearnWiki. I believe that I know more about project
> management than I did when I attempted LearnWiki version 1.0.
>
> WMF approved a rapid grant for me to develop a single tutorial module [3]
> regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor. This tutorial is
> in development, I and I plan to publish the finalized script and video in
> March 2019. Depending on the amount of remaining funds after development of
> the English version of this tutorial and on whether WMF agrees, in addition
> to an English version of the tutorial I may also produce a Spanish version
> within the budget of the current rapid grant. Additional translations or
> derivative versions would be welcome from anyone who would like to create
> them.
>
> If this first tutorial is well received then I may request funding for
> additional tutorials.
>
> Within the next few days I plan to publish the first complete draft of the
> script for the referencing tutorial. I will place a link to that draft on
> the project talk page [1], and I am likely to create links from the same
> talk page to further drafts and additional tutorial products. If you would
> like to receive project updates then please watch the talk page and/or
> subscribe to the newsletter.
>
> I welcome any comments or questions that you have, either on a mailing list
> or on the project talk page [1].
>
> Yours in service,
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
>
> [1]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation_of_educational_video_and_website_series
>
> [2]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia
>
> [3]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation_of_educational_video_and_website_series
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Education] Video tutorial regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor

[Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga]

We have also some videotutorials in Basque: 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_tutorial_videos_in_Basque

From: Education  on behalf of Lennart 
Guldbrandsson 
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 9:53 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List; Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public]; Wikimedia 
Education
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] Video tutorial regarding creating Wikipedia 
references with VisualEditor

Hello,

This is really good. I've been thinking about doing tutorials too, but so far I 
haven't started. Sara Mörtsell did a few videos in Swedish some time ago (for 
instance 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ALektion_3_-_l%C3%A4gg_till_k%C3%A4lla_och_referenslista.webm)
 but they need to be updated.

When you do these, please try to document the process as well, to make it 
easier for others to replicate it. Thanks.


Best wishes,


Lennart Guldbrandsson



@aliasHannibal - på Twitter

Från: Education  för Pine W 

Skickat: den 26 februari 2019 04:48
Till: Wikimedia Mailing List; Wikimedia Education; Wikimedia & GLAM 
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Ämne: [Wikimedia Education] Video tutorial regarding creating Wikipedia 
references with VisualEditor

Hello colleagues,

*Overview*

A video tutorial for creating references on Wikipedia with VisualEditor is
in development for English Wikipedia and possibly also for Spanish
Wikipedia. Publication is likely to happen in March 2019. If this tutorial
is well received then additional tutorials may follow.

If you would like to receive notifications regarding the availability of
draft or finished tutorial products, or to learn additional information,
then please continue reading below.

*How can I request notifications for when drafts or finished products are
ready for review?*

If you would like to receive a notice when a draft or finished product is
ready for public review then I invite you to go to the the project talk
page and follow the link to the newsletter subscription page [1]. During
the development of this single tutorial the newsletters are likely to be
short. I am likely to send approximately 3 to 6 notifications to
subscribers between now and the end of this mini-project.

(The reason that I am not including a link to the newsletter's subscription
page directly in this email is that I may change the name of the newsletter
in the future, and I prefer to minimize any potential confusion and the
number of redirect pages, so I think that including a link from this email
to the talk page is preferable because the location of the talk page is
likely to remain stable.)

*Background information*

Some of you may remember the project that was originally named LearnWiki
[2]. For various painful reasons that project was not completed within the
original schedule and budget. However, I continue to believe that video
tutorials Wikimedia projects could be very useful for new contributors, and
also for helpers who could use the videos to demonstrate concepts to new
contributors. I think of this project as being a pilot iteration for
"LearnWiki version 2.0", or maybe "LearnWiki 2.0 beta 1",  with a major
change between this effort and the original LearnWiki project being how the
project is executed. The goal for this tutorial remains aligned with the
original vision for LearnWiki. I believe that I know more about project
management than I did when I attempted LearnWiki version 1.0.

WMF approved a rapid grant for me to develop a single tutorial module [3]
regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor. This tutorial is
in development, I and I plan to publish the finalized script and video in
March 2019. Depending on the amount of remaining funds after development of
the English version of this tutorial and on whether WMF agrees, in addition
to an English version of the tutorial I may also produce a Spanish version
within the budget of the current rapid grant. Additional translations or
derivative versions would be welcome from anyone who would like to create
them.

If this first tutorial is well received then I may request funding for
additional tutorials.

Within the next few days I plan to publish the first complete draft of the
script for the referencing tutorial. I will place a link to that draft on
the project talk page [1], and I am likely to create links from the same
talk page to further drafts and additional tutorial products. If you would
like to receive project updates then please watch the talk page and/or
subscribe to the newsletter.

I welcome any comments or questions that you have, either on a mailing list
or on the project talk page [1].

Yours in service,

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


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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation_of_educational_video_and_website_series

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