Re: [Wikimedia-l] Was macht dich diese Woche glücklich? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 13 October 2019)

2019-10-15 Thread Pine W 
Thank you for starting the thread, Lucas. I was glad to read that technical
work is going well.

I am hoping to get an Amharic translation from a human translator for the
subject line of my next WMYHTW email. I made some requests for the
translation a few days ago. When I looked earlier today there was no
Amharic translation, so I might need to use an automated translation or to
choose a different language. Given that the thread has already started for
this week, I'll wait until next week to email my next round of substantive
contributions with the hope that someone will create an Amharic translation
by the end of this week.

Thanks again for starting the thread.

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] FY1819 Fundraising Report

2019-10-15 Thread Chuck Roslof 
Hi folks,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts about how this information could be useful
for local affiliates and communities. We'll discuss internally to see if we
might be able to share more information in the future in order to achieve
those benefits in ways that don't raise legal concerns or create excessive
overhead for our fundraising team. We're entering into the busiest time of
the year for online fundraising, though, so it'll be at least a few months
before we are able to address the question internally.

 - Chuck

==
Charles M. Roslof
Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
Pronouns: they /he


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reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community
members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more
on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer
.


On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 2:27 AM Philip Kopetzky 
wrote:

> Thanks Chuck for digging out that old email, it does explain why this isn't
> done for every country.
> Chris and Sandra have a point though, because this can't be a legal issue
> for most European countries for example. In return, the local organisations
> and communities would benefit from an added layer of feedback based on
> their work.
>
> Furthermore, how and how much we fundraise will be one of the important
> talking points when implementing the recommendations, especially to set a
> benchmark to evaluate if involving local organisations in the fundraising
> process actually works or not.
>
> Best,
> Philip
>
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 09:38, Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia Nederland <
> rient...@wikimedia.nl> wrote:
>
> > I agree with Chris.
> > Furthermore: Wikimedia Nederland, like all chapters, puts a lot of effort
> > in raising awareness of and support for the Wikimedia projects.  I would
> > really like to know if these efforts 'pay off'.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sandra Rientjes
> > Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland
> >
> > tel.(+31) (0)30 3200238 (ma, di, do)
> > mob. (+31) (0)6  31786379 (wo, vrij)
> >
> > www.wikimedia.nl
> >
> >
> > Mariaplaats 3
> > 3511 LH  Utrecht
> >
> >
> > Op do 3 okt. 2019 om 09:13 schreef Chris Keating <
> > chriskeatingw...@gmail.com
> > >:
> >
> > > Hi Chuck,
> > >
> > > The reasons the question keeps getting asked is because it was never
> > really
> > > answered in the first place.
> > >
> > > The only good reason I can think of for not publishing country-level
> data
> > > is that there are some countries where that could create risks to the
> WMF
> > > or individuals because they're places where giving donations to a US
> > > nonprofit is either illegal or politically risky.
> > >
> > > However that doesn't apply to most countries, so why not publish the
> data
> > > for most of the world?
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:34 AM Chuck Roslof 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Philip,
> > > >
> > > > We do not publish country-level fundraising numbers. My colleague
> > Stephen
> > > > discussed why on this list a few years back, so rather than
> > paraphrasing
> > > > his previous email I'll just provide a link to it:
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-November/085576.html
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Chuck
> > > >
> > > > ==
> > > > Charles M. Roslof
> > > > Legal Counsel
> > > > Wikimedia Foundation
> > > > Pronouns: they /he
> > > > 
> > > >
> > > > NOTICE: This message might have confidential or legally privileged
> > > > information in it. If you have received this message by accident,
> > please
> > > > delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the
> > > > Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical reasons I cannot give legal
> > > advice
> > > > to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff
> > > > members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means,
> please
> > > see
> > > > our legal disclaimer
> > > > .
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 6:05 AM Philip Kopetzky <
> > > philip.kopet...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Patricia,
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks for the report! Is it possible to get a country-by-country
> > > > breakdown
> > > > > of the donations as well?
> > > > >
> > > > > Kind regards,
> > > > > Philip
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 01:25, Patricia Pena 
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I’m excited to share with you our FY1819 Fundraising Report
> > > > > > .
> This
> > > > > report
> > > > > > is an opportunity to provide insight into our revenue model and
> the
> > > > > > strategy that goes into creating an impactful fundraising
> >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] October 16, 2019 at 9:30 AM PDT, 16:30 UTC

2019-10-15 Thread Janna Layton 
Hi all,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, October
16, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC. We’ll have two timely presentations from
Fabrício Benevenuto and Francesca Spezzano about disinformation and how to
counter it.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ35weAVlIU

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 presentations:

Elections Without Fake: Deploying Real Systems to Counter Misinformation
Campaigns

By Fabrício Benevenuto, Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal
de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

The political debate and electoral dispute in the online space during the
2018 Brazilian elections were marked by an information war. In order to
mitigate the misinformation problem, we created the project Elections
Without Fake  and developed a
few technological solutions able to reduce the abuse of misinformation
campaigns in the online space. Particularly, we created a system to monitor
public groups in WhatsApp and a system to monitor ads in Facebook. Our
systems showed to be fundamental for fact-checking and investigative
journalism, and are currently being used by over 150 journalists with
editorial lines and various fact-checking agencies.


Protecting Wikipedia from Disinformation: Detecting Malicious Editors and
Pages to Protect

By Francesca Spezzano, Computer Science Department, Boise State University

Wikipedia is based on the idea that anyone can make edits in order to
create reliable and crowd-sourced content. Yet with the cover of internet
anonymity, some users make changes to the online encyclopedia that do not
align with Wikipedia’s intended uses. In this talk, we present different
forms of disinformation on Wikipedia including vandalism and spam and
introduce to the mechanism that Wikipedia implements to protects its
integrity such as blocking malicious editors and page protection. Next, we
provide an overview of effective algorithms based on the user editing
behavior we have developed to detect malicious editors and pages to protect
across multiple languages.


On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 2:57 PM Janna Layton  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, October
> 16, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ35weAVlIU
>
> 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 presentations:
>
> Elections Without Fake: Deploying Real Systems to Counter Misinformation
> Campaigns
>
> By Fabrício Benevenuto, Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal
> de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
>
> The political debate and electoral dispute in the online space during the
> 2018 Brazilian elections were marked by an information war. In order to
> mitigate the misinformation problem, we created the project Elections
> Without Fake  and developed a
> few technological solutions able to reduce the abuse of misinformation
> campaigns in the online space. Particularly, we created a system to monitor
> public groups in WhatsApp and a system to monitor ads in Facebook. Our
> systems showed to be fundamental for fact-checking and investigative
> journalism, and are currently being used by over 150 journalists with
> editorial lines and various fact-checking agencies.
>
> More info on second talk by Francesca Spezzano to come
>
>
> --
> Janna Layton (she, her)
> Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>


-- 
Janna Layton (she, her)
Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Was macht dich diese Woche glücklich? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 13 October 2019)

2019-10-15 Thread Lucas Werkmeister 
Hello,

this week’s email is coming from a new sender, since Pine always says
we’re also allowed to start the thread :)

I am thankful that the software migration from HHVM to PHP7 in
production is mostly completed. Many people participated in this work,
but some especially prominent (Phabricator) names seem to be
Jdforrester-WMF, Krinkle, jijiki, Joe, and Reedy – apologies to the
people that I inevitably missed. This migration also unlocks many code
style improvements that were previously blocked on HHVM compatibility
requirements, and Daimona has been very active here, modernizing code
and configuration across lots of source code repositories: thank you!

The Commons Picture of the Day for 15 October 2019

was taken in Germany. The English description is "Gracht castle in
Erftstadt, Rhein-Erft-Kreis (Germany)"; there are no other descriptions
or captions yet. The photo was taken by User:A.Savin
.

Additional translations of the subject line of this email would be
appreciated on Meta
.

What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any
language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
Lucas
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister )

PS: Did you know? In Germany, the week starts on Monday, not Sunday! I
kept the email subject aligned to Sunday, though, in case referring to
the “week of 14 October” would confuse anybody :)

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