[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 15, Issue 3 – 31 March 2019

[Wikipedia Signpost]

>From the editors: Getting serious about humor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/From_the_editors

News and notes: Blackouts fail to stop EU Copyright Directive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/News_and_notes

In the media: Women's history month
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In_the_media

Discussion report: Portal debates continue, Prespa agreement aftermath, WMF
seeks a rebranding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/Discussion_report

Featured content: Out of this world
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/Featured_content

Arbitration report: The Tides of March at ARBCOM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/Arbitration_report

Traffic report: Exultations and tribulations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/Traffic_report

Technology report: New section suggestions and sitewide styles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/Technology_report

News from the WMF: The WMF's take on the new EU Copyright Directive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/News_from_the_WMF

Recent research: Barnstar-like awards increase new editor retention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/Recent_research

>From the archives: Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion
discussion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/From_the_archives

Humour: The Epistolary of Arthur 37
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/Humour

Op-Ed: Pro and Con: Has gun violence been improperly excluded from gun
articles?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/Op-Ed

In focus: The Wikipedia SourceWatch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/In_focus

Special report: Wiki Loves (50 Years of) Pride
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/Special_report

Community view: Wikipedia's response to the New Zealand mosque shootings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-03-31/Community_view


Single-page view
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Billboards Initiative | WACN

[Rupika Sharma]

Fantastic! Looking forward to it!

Best Regards,
Rupika Sharma
Wikilover90

On Mon, 1 Apr, 2019, 8:10 PM Tulsi Bhagat  *Hello everyone,*
>
> *Greetings from Nepal.*
>
> I've recent updates about WACN.[1] I want to share with you all.
>
> *The Billboards Initiative*[2] is officially started now. The project date
> is April 01 to June 01, 2019. A rough timeline of “The Billboards
> Initiative” can be found on the project page. Let me tell you about the
> project;
>
> WACN Part - 1: The Billboards Initiative will be engaging new readers to
> Maithili & Nepali Wikipedia through both offline and online platforms.
> Offline platform includes display of billboards around two different cities
> whereas online platform cover sharing the project via social media sites to
> raise Wikipedia awareness among Maithili and Nepali Communities. This
> project is focusing to promote two different languages of Wikipedia
> simultaneously in two different cities of Nepal.
>
> We will select the main places of two different cities, i.e. Janakpur and
> Biratnagar and install billboards (static/digital) there to raise Wikipedia
> awareness among the Maithili & Nepali Communities. In the meantime, we will
> also be sharing and spreading the project via social media sites such as
> Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
>
>
> For more information, please follow the below links. Thank you for reading.
> Having a good weekend. :-)
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WACN
>
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WACN/Activities/The_Billboards_Initiative
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Tulsi
>
> [image: File:Wikimedia-logo.png]
>
> Tulsi Bhagat (Open-source enthusiast)
>
> Coordinator, WACN
>
> User:Tulsi Bhagat 
>
> Maithili Wikimedians
> 
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[Wikimedia-l] The Billboards Initiative | WACN

[Tulsi Bhagat]

*Hello everyone,*

*Greetings from Nepal.*

I've recent updates about WACN.[1] I want to share with you all.

*The Billboards Initiative*[2] is officially started now. The project date
is April 01 to June 01, 2019. A rough timeline of “The Billboards
Initiative” can be found on the project page. Let me tell you about the
project;

WACN Part - 1: The Billboards Initiative will be engaging new readers to
Maithili & Nepali Wikipedia through both offline and online platforms.
Offline platform includes display of billboards around two different cities
whereas online platform cover sharing the project via social media sites to
raise Wikipedia awareness among Maithili and Nepali Communities. This
project is focusing to promote two different languages of Wikipedia
simultaneously in two different cities of Nepal.

We will select the main places of two different cities, i.e. Janakpur and
Biratnagar and install billboards (static/digital) there to raise Wikipedia
awareness among the Maithili & Nepali Communities. In the meantime, we will
also be sharing and spreading the project via social media sites such as
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.


For more information, please follow the below links. Thank you for reading.
Having a good weekend. :-)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WACN

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WACN/Activities/The_Billboards_Initiative

Kind regards,

Tulsi

[image: File:Wikimedia-logo.png]

Tulsi Bhagat (Open-source enthusiast)

Coordinator, WACN

User:Tulsi Bhagat 

Maithili Wikimedians

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[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Love Winners

[Rupika Sharma]

Hello Everyone,


The most awaited results are here! Wiki Loves Love is back with our
winners! With over 7121 images in the month of February, we received over
24 videos!

First Prize is won by User:Виктория Злых

from Russia. His photograph showcases an authentic Russian wedding ceremony.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wedding_2VB.jpg

Second Prize goes to  Rio Ubatay

from Philippines. His image depicts the famous Kinabayo Festival
celebrations of Philippines.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kinabayo_Festival_Showdown.jpg

Third Prize is won by Mikhail Kapychka

from Belarus. His image depicts a Belarussy style wedding.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_end_of_the_wedding.jpg

Consolation winners:


https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PSK_02.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sindur.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:My_queen_and_me.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_Wedding_Ceremony_(591).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AG1_8451.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HOLY_CELEBRATION.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morning_Namaste.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20120122_Vietnam_SB_2006.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bright-celebration-crowd-431722.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JD_18_Wiki_Loves_Love_2019.jpg


Video winner


https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Color_Festival.ogv

Community prize for Images and Video:

User: Benipal Hardarshan

A big thanks to our Jury Members: Poco a poco
, Steinsplitter
, Fæ
, Natuur12
, and Fitindia
 for their assistance in
selecting our winning photos and video.

P.s. Special shout out to Natacha from Wikimedia France who also organized
a parallel article writing contest for Wiki Loves Love from 10th February
to 31st March! We got 1000 + articles in over 20 languages :)

Thank you Sumita Roy Dutta
, Kawayashu
 and Camelia
 Boban for being part
of this beautiful journey and organizing different Wikipedia projects with
Wiki Loves Love in your home countries!

Lastly, thanks to our sponsoring partners Wikimedia France, Wikimedia
Deutschland, and CIS-A2K for their support of Wiki Loves Love.

Team Wiki Loves Love wishes you a wonderful year ahead! See you next
February!

Best Regards,
Rupika Sharma
Co-ordinator, Wiki Loves Love

Member, Ombudsman Commission

Strategy Liaison, WMF 

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Love_2019

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Love_2019

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Love_2019/Project_Page
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [strategy process] Fwd: I decided to leave the working group

[Philip Kopetzky]

Hi Itzik,

I'm sorry you feel this way and would hope you would still feel inclined to
provide a critical point of view on the process. I agree with you that
we're bad at changing processes that are evidently broken, but don't you
think that we are exactly changing this fact by moving on from an affiliate
system that has been broken for at least 3-4 years now and are finally
prioritising measures that will support our communities in becoming
healthier and more fun to work in?

Best,
Philip

On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 19:09, Kiril Simeonovski 
wrote:

> Hi Anders,
>
> There is an expression in Macedonian that says „Секое вештачко нешто се
> распаѓа на природен начин.“ (Every artificial creation breaks down
> naturally.). This is exactly what is going to happen with this strategy.
>
> Best regards,
> Kiril
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 7:05 PM Anders Wennersten <
> m...@anderswennersten.se>
> wrote:
>
> > There is a Swedish expression "har man tagit fan i båten får man ro
> > honom i land" (If you have taken the devil into your boat you must row
> > him ashore"
> >
> > Independent if this process has been bad or not, I see it is as just
> > some six month left of it. And it is important to do the best of it. It
> > would be a bad move to stop it at thois point in time, and would also be
> > too late to correct the process if it has been flawed.
> >
> > Anders
> >
> >
> > Den 2019-03-27 kl. 14:05, skrev Itzik - Wikimedia Israel:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Two weeks ago I sent this email to my strategy working group (resource
> > > allocation). I didn't plan to send a public email, just to share with
> the
> > > rest of the group my reason to leave and just to disappear.
> > > I receive feedbacks with many of the group members and also requesting
> > > permissions to transfer it with others outside of the group, which
> leads
> > to
> > > more conversations that I had around it.
> > >
> > > Last week we had our weekly phone call, during which we discussed our
> > > feelings and opinions about the process so far. From our long
> > conversation
> > > and the conversations with the others, I learned that many of these
> > > feelings exist among the other members, as well some ideas on how to
> make
> > > it easier and less demanding and at the same time publishing the
> > > conclusions sooner.
> > > Yesterday, following a good conversation with one of the WMF's board
> > > members about it, I was asked to share these thoughts with the
> movement's
> > > list, so that it may also involve the community's feedback as well.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *Itzik Edri*
> > > Chairperson (volunteer)
> > > it...@wikimedia.org.il
> > > +972-54-5878078
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -- Forwarded message -
> > > From: Itzik - Wikimedia Israel 
> > > Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 2:08 PM
> > > Subject: I decided to leave the working group
> > > To: 
> > >
> > > Dear friends,
> > >
> > > For a long time I have been considering leaving the working group but
> > each
> > > time I decided to give it another chance. Yesterday, after long
> > > consideration, I decided to write this email.
> > >
> > > I must be honest - I was skeptical from the first moment about this
> > > process. The huge amount of money which the board allocated to this
> > process
> > > together with the complicated and (very) long process planned for it -
> > make
> > > me doubt the ability to really have a real outcome in a reasonable
> time.
> > > For the past two years, it seems to me like the strategy took over
> almost
> > > every movement event and activity. I feel bad for investing millions of
> > > dollars from our donations and uncounted hours of volunteer time into
> > this
> > > process.
> > >
> > > I also felt hypocritical in the way the foundation acts - while
> > "freezing"
> > > grant programs (such as APG) and holding affiliates from increasing
> their
> > > programs and budgets, "because of the strategy process" while
> > > simultaneously approving itself to increase its budget and staff year
> > after
> > > year by tens of percentage.
> > >
> > > Despite my distrust of the chances of this process and the criticism I
> > felt
> > > for it, I instructed my organization to give it the full support we
> been
> > > asked, as all our movement did. Later on, I decided to join this
> working
> > > group as I felt we almost reached the final step of the process and I
> > > wanted to help shape the recommendations. I was totally wrong.
> > >
> > > In the first months of the workgroups, I felt it was completely wasted
> of
> > > time. I saw how wonderful volunteers tried to lead the process within
> > each
> > > group (thank you Daria!) - but it wasn't their job, nor none of us. I
> > felt
> > > like I was returning to university, and every few weeks I received
> > > instructions and homework from the lecturer, with assignments to the
> > > following week - and in between, that we need to lead it and solve
> things
> > > by ourselves. It took the core team a 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Spam on the Wikimedia India blog (and therefore on en.planet)

[Jérémie Roquet]

Le lun. 1 avr. 2019 à 01:18, Asaf Bartov  a écrit :
> It's been reported to the Wikimedia India board.  They are looking into it.

Thank you Asaf!

-- 
Jérémie

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