Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Recommendations and community conversations launching next week

[Pine W]

Hi Nicole and Kaarel,

Thank you for sharing your comments.

A few points:

* I realize that a lot of time and money has been spent in the strategy
process to this point. I hope that there will be consensus on at least some
of the recommendations.

* Hopefully the discussions in the next few weeks will be informative. Even
if some recommendations are not adopted, that is *not* necessarily a
failure, and I hope that the strategy organizers and volunteers will not be
discouraged if only a minority of recommendations are adopted.
Recommendations which are not adopted may become fruitful seeds for future
conversations.

* At this stage in the strategy process, changes are not prescribed
. The community and WMF are free
to adopt or decline them without lengthy discussions and speculation about
what impacts recommendations would have if adopted. Volunteers are not
obligated to spend their time engaging with this process, or to their time
justifying their decisions to the organizers of the strategy process.
However, there is likely to be discussion about the strategy
recommendations, and hopefully those discussions will provide a sense of
areas where there may be grounds for a formal consensus later this year.

* I believe that the formal process for adopting strategy recommendations
by the community could take one or both of these forms. (My impression,
which may be incorrect, is that you intend for this adoption process to
take place after the "community conversations" in the next few months.)
1. A global request for comment on Meta, with each recommendation set for
an individual !vote so that individual recommendations may be accepted or
not.
2. Local requests for comment, according to what participants on each wiki
decide. This may be practical for some recommendations more than others.

I hope that these comments are helpful.

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

[Pine W]

There are ways that Wikimedia rebranding consultations could be done
collaboratively, politely, and with careful stewardship of donor's money.
This is not one of them.

I think that it's time for some people in WMF to move on. Without having
access to WMF internal discussions, I don't know exactly who I would
remove, but I've had enough of poor coordination, questionable financial
decisions, and discourtesy, and I hope that the donors and the Board have
too. These problems are not isolated to the rebranding effort, but I think
that this is as good a place as any to start replacing employees who aren't
working out.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

[Andy Mabbett]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 23:04, John Erling Blad  wrote:
>
> This is out in several newspapers now.
>
> "Snøhetta shall create new visual profile for Wikipedia-owner"

This edit made 10 January 2020, is relevant:

  
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project=19696096=19684544

Indeed, Snøhetta was added to that page on 18 December 2019.


User:SnøhettaAS was blocked on en.Wikipedia  on 4 October 2019, after
just three edits - two to [[Snøhetta (company)]] and one to their talk
page. No paid editing declaration had been made. The subsequent
history of that article is also worth reviewing.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

[K. Peachey]

Domain Registered on: 2020-01-02
Linked Wiki page is still getting edits:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project=history

On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 at 09:36, Pine W  wrote:
>
> Umm.
>
> Looking at https://brandingwikipedia.org/, I wonder if this refers to WMF's
> ill-fated effort to rebrand Wikimedia as Wikipedia that I hope has been
> abandoned. I hope that WMF did not, without consulting the community or
> even having the courtesy to notify us, decide to launch another rebranding
> effort
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 11:27 PM John Erling Blad  wrote:
>
> > Note that "Dagens næringsliv" printed the story Thursday, so they must
> > have had information about it before WMF left the meeting with
> > Snøhetta. This is no longer a breaking story.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 12:04 AM John Erling Blad 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > This is out in several newspapers now.
> > >
> > > "Snøhetta shall create new visual profile for Wikipedia-owner" [1]
> > >
> > > A quick Google Translate dump
> > >
> > > The mission is the largest in the field of graphic design ever, writes
> > > Dagens Næringsliv.
> > >
> > > - For me personally, this is very big, but you see it in a larger
> > > perspective - Norway, Norwegian design and graphic design - then this
> > > is one of the largest international customers who have come to Norway
> > > and chosen a Norwegian design agency. So it's very big, says strategic
> > > advisor Sanda Zahirovic in the design department in Snøhetta to the
> > > newspaper.
> > >
> > > Eight companies were in the competition for the assignment. Creative
> > > director Heather Walls at Wikimedia will not go out with Dagens
> > > Næringsliv with what other companies were talking about, but says that
> > > Snøhetta was the obvious choice.
> > >
> > > Snow hood founder and partner Kjetil Trædal Thorsen cannot say how
> > > much the contract is worth, but emphasizes that the work is devoting a
> > > good deal of resources during the project period, which is half a
> > > year.
> > >
> > > [1]
> > https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/mRd1pp/snoehetta-skal-skape-en-ny-visuell-profil-for-wikipedia-eier
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

[Pine W]

Umm.

Looking at https://brandingwikipedia.org/, I wonder if this refers to WMF's
ill-fated effort to rebrand Wikimedia as Wikipedia that I hope has been
abandoned. I hope that WMF did not, without consulting the community or
even having the courtesy to notify us, decide to launch another rebranding
effort

Pine
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 11:27 PM John Erling Blad  wrote:

> Note that "Dagens næringsliv" printed the story Thursday, so they must
> have had information about it before WMF left the meeting with
> Snøhetta. This is no longer a breaking story.
>
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 12:04 AM John Erling Blad 
> wrote:
> >
> > This is out in several newspapers now.
> >
> > "Snøhetta shall create new visual profile for Wikipedia-owner" [1]
> >
> > A quick Google Translate dump
> >
> > The mission is the largest in the field of graphic design ever, writes
> > Dagens Næringsliv.
> >
> > - For me personally, this is very big, but you see it in a larger
> > perspective - Norway, Norwegian design and graphic design - then this
> > is one of the largest international customers who have come to Norway
> > and chosen a Norwegian design agency. So it's very big, says strategic
> > advisor Sanda Zahirovic in the design department in Snøhetta to the
> > newspaper.
> >
> > Eight companies were in the competition for the assignment. Creative
> > director Heather Walls at Wikimedia will not go out with Dagens
> > Næringsliv with what other companies were talking about, but says that
> > Snøhetta was the obvious choice.
> >
> > Snow hood founder and partner Kjetil Trædal Thorsen cannot say how
> > much the contract is worth, but emphasizes that the work is devoting a
> > good deal of resources during the project period, which is half a
> > year.
> >
> > [1]
> https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/mRd1pp/snoehetta-skal-skape-en-ny-visuell-profil-for-wikipedia-eier
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

[John Erling Blad]

Note that "Dagens næringsliv" printed the story Thursday, so they must
have had information about it before WMF left the meeting with
Snøhetta. This is no longer a breaking story.

On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 12:04 AM John Erling Blad  wrote:
>
> This is out in several newspapers now.
>
> "Snøhetta shall create new visual profile for Wikipedia-owner" [1]
>
> A quick Google Translate dump
>
> The mission is the largest in the field of graphic design ever, writes
> Dagens Næringsliv.
>
> - For me personally, this is very big, but you see it in a larger
> perspective - Norway, Norwegian design and graphic design - then this
> is one of the largest international customers who have come to Norway
> and chosen a Norwegian design agency. So it's very big, says strategic
> advisor Sanda Zahirovic in the design department in Snøhetta to the
> newspaper.
>
> Eight companies were in the competition for the assignment. Creative
> director Heather Walls at Wikimedia will not go out with Dagens
> Næringsliv with what other companies were talking about, but says that
> Snøhetta was the obvious choice.
>
> Snow hood founder and partner Kjetil Trædal Thorsen cannot say how
> much the contract is worth, but emphasizes that the work is devoting a
> good deal of resources during the project period, which is half a
> year.
>
> [1] 
> https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/mRd1pp/snoehetta-skal-skape-en-ny-visuell-profil-for-wikipedia-eier

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[Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

[John Erling Blad]

This is out in several newspapers now.

"Snøhetta shall create new visual profile for Wikipedia-owner" [1]

A quick Google Translate dump

The mission is the largest in the field of graphic design ever, writes
Dagens Næringsliv.

- For me personally, this is very big, but you see it in a larger
perspective - Norway, Norwegian design and graphic design - then this
is one of the largest international customers who have come to Norway
and chosen a Norwegian design agency. So it's very big, says strategic
advisor Sanda Zahirovic in the design department in Snøhetta to the
newspaper.

Eight companies were in the competition for the assignment. Creative
director Heather Walls at Wikimedia will not go out with Dagens
Næringsliv with what other companies were talking about, but says that
Snøhetta was the obvious choice.

Snow hood founder and partner Kjetil Trædal Thorsen cannot say how
much the contract is worth, but emphasizes that the work is devoting a
good deal of resources during the project period, which is half a
year.

[1] 
https://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/mRd1pp/snoehetta-skal-skape-en-ny-visuell-profil-for-wikipedia-eier

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Office hours for WMF/Research starting in January 2020

[Leila Zia]

A friendly reminder that the first joint Analytics and Research office
hours will take place on 2020-01-22 at 17.00-18.00 (UTC). Bring your
Wikimedia related research and data questions to us during these
office hours. More at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours


Best,
Leila

--
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Head of Research
Wikimedia Foundation

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 9:59 AM Martin Gerlach  wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We, the Research team at Wikimedia Foundation, have received some requests
> over the past months for making ourselves more available to answer some of
> the research questions that you as Wikimedia volunteers, affiliates' staff,
> and researchers face in your projects and initiatives. Starting January
> 2020, we will experiment with monthly office hours organized jointly by our
> team and the Analytics team where you can join us and direct your questions
> to us. We will revisit this experiment in June 2020 to assess whether to
> continue it or not.
>
> The scope
>
> We encourage you to attend the office hour if you have research related
> questions. These can be questions about our teams, our projects, or more
> importantly questions about your projects or ideas that we can support you
> with during the office hours. You can also ask us questions about how to
> use a specific dataset available to you, to answer a question you have, or
> some other question. Note that the purpose of the office hours is to answer
> your questions during the dedicated time of the office hour. Questions that
> may require many hours of back-and-forth between our team and you are not
> suited for this forum. For these bigger questions, however, we are happy to
> brainstorm with you in the office hour and point you to some good
> directions to explore further on your own (and maybe come back in the next
> office hour and ask more questions).
>
> Time and Location
>
> We meet on the 4th Wednesday of every month 17.00-18.00 (UTC) in
> #wikimedia-research IRC channel on freenode [1].
>
> The first meeting will be on January 22.
>
> Up-to-date information on mediawiki [2]
>
> Archiving
>
> If you miss the office hour, you can read the logs of it at [3].
>
> The future announcements about these office hours will only go to the
> following lists so please make sure you're subscribed to them if you like
> to receive a ping:
>
> * wiki-research-l mailing list [4]
>
> * analytics mailing list [5]
>
> * wikidata mailing list [6]
>
> * the Research category in Space [7]
>
> on behalf of Research and Analytics at WMF,
>
> Martin
>
> [1] irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-research
>
> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
>
> [3] https://wm-bot.wmflabs.org/logs/%23wikimedia-research/
>
> [4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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> [5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
>
> [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
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> [7] https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/tags/research
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome back, Turkey

[Andy Mabbett]

On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 01:13, Amanda Keton  wrote:

> Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and our
> efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from
> over.

Do we have a central log of these blocks; and steps taken to overcome them?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome back, Turkey

[Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l]

Great news and welcome back indeed,
Natacha / Nattes à chat

> Le 16 janv. 2020 à 19:25, Rupika Sharma  a écrit :
> 
> Thank for sharing the wonderful news Amanda! Welcome back Turkey!!
> 
> Warmly,
> Rupika
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:51 PM Amanda Keton  wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia
>> Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveling back from a busy week of
>> community meetings in Chile, I wanted to share the exciting news that
>> today, we have started to receive reports that the block of Wikipedia in
>> Turkey is being lifted, data which is also indicated by our internal
>> traffic reports. After more than two and a half years, access to Wikipedia
>> has been restored in Turkey - and on a timely occasion, as we celebrate
>> Wikipedia’s 19th birthday today!
>> 
>> Please join me in welcoming back our friends and colleagues from Turkey.
>> While many have remained active during the block, restoring access to
>> Wikipedia will allow thousands more to return in the days and weeks ahead.
>> It is our shared responsibility and honor to help make them feel welcome
>> again and make sure they know how much we missed them. I am confident that
>> our community will successfully welcome them back with open arms. I know we
>> have community members around the world who have been eagerly looking
>> forward to the block being lifted and brainstorming activities to
>> celebrate, and I welcome them to share their ideas as we move forward.
>> 
>> Our case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is also still
>> pending, and remains important even in light of the unblock as a way to
>> continue advocating for strong protections for free expression online. We
>> will continue to post updates about the next steps in our case before the
>> ECHR on the Wikimedia Foundation website. We have also published a
>> statement to reflect that access has now been restored in Turkey. [1]
>> 
>> Thank you all for your efforts, kind words, and encouraging thoughts as we
>> worked to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey. I want to thank our
>> Turkish community, in particular, for their patience, resolution, and
>> continued participation in the movement during the more than two and a half
>> years Wikipedia was inaccessible. This was a prolonged global effort, on
>> behalf of free knowledge everywhere.
>> 
>> Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and our
>> efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from
>> over. That said, I hope all of you will celebrate this momentous
>> accomplishment for free knowledge today and join me in welcoming back the
>> people of Turkey to our projects, movement, and community.
>> 
>> With gratitude,
>> 
>> Amanda
>> 
>> [1]
>> 
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restored-in-turkey-after-more-than-two-and-a-half-years/
>> --
>> 
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>> 
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>> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome back, Turkey

[Eduardo Testart]

Knowledge as a human right

El jue., 16 de ene. de 2020 17:52, RhinosF1 -  escribió:

> Happy Brithday Wikimedia!
>
> What a great gift to celebrate!
>
> Welcome back Turkey and here’s to another 19 years of free knowledge
> available in every corner of the world.
>
> RhinosF1
> Volunteer
>
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 19:49, Rajeeb Dutta  wrote:
>
> > Thanks Amanda for sharing this wonderful news, looking forward to
> > collaborate and work with Turkish Community.
> > All my best wishes.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Rajeeb.
> > (U:Marajozkee)
> >
> > On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 01:12, John Erling Blad  wrote:
> >
> > > Seems like the site is throttled or even redirected to a taerpit.
> > > Anyone inside Turkey that can run a trace?
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 7:21 PM Amanda Keton 
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > > My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia
> > > > Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveling back from a busy
> week
> > > of
> > > > community meetings in Chile, I wanted to share the exciting news that
> > > > today, we have started to receive reports that the block of Wikipedia
> > in
> > > > Turkey is being lifted, data which is also indicated by our internal
> > > > traffic reports. After more than two and a half years, access to
> > > Wikipedia
> > > > has been restored in Turkey - and on a timely occasion, as we
> celebrate
> > > > Wikipedia’s 19th birthday today!
> > > >
> > > > Please join me in welcoming back our friends and colleagues from
> > Turkey.
> > > > While many have remained active during the block, restoring access to
> > > > Wikipedia will allow thousands more to return in the days and weeks
> > > ahead.
> > > > It is our shared responsibility and honor to help make them feel
> > welcome
> > > > again and make sure they know how much we missed them. I am confident
> > > that
> > > > our community will successfully welcome them back with open arms. I
> > know
> > > we
> > > > have community members around the world who have been eagerly looking
> > > > forward to the block being lifted and brainstorming activities to
> > > > celebrate, and I welcome them to share their ideas as we move
> forward.
> > > >
> > > > Our case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is also still
> > > > pending, and remains important even in light of the unblock as a way
> to
> > > > continue advocating for strong protections for free expression
> online.
> > We
> > > > will continue to post updates about the next steps in our case before
> > the
> > > > ECHR on the Wikimedia Foundation website. We have also published a
> > > > statement to reflect that access has now been restored in Turkey. [1]
> > > >
> > > > Thank you all for your efforts, kind words, and encouraging thoughts
> as
> > > we
> > > > worked to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey. I want to thank our
> > > > Turkish community, in particular, for their patience, resolution, and
> > > > continued participation in the movement during the more than two and
> a
> > > half
> > > > years Wikipedia was inaccessible. This was a prolonged global effort,
> > on
> > > > behalf of free knowledge everywhere.
> > > >
> > > > Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place,
> and
> > > our
> > > > efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far
> from
> > > > over. That said, I hope all of you will celebrate this momentous
> > > > accomplishment for free knowledge today and join me in welcoming back
> > the
> > > > people of Turkey to our projects, movement, and community.
> > > >
> > > > With gratitude,
> > > >
> > > > Amanda
> > > >
> > > > [1]
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restored-in-turkey-after-more-than-two-and-a-half-years/
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > Amanda Keton (she/her)
> > > >
> > > > General Counsel
> > > >
> > > > Wikimedia Foundation 
> > > > *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If
> you
> > > > have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about
> > the
> > > > mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and
> > > ethical
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Eduwiki] You're invited: Wikipedia & Education User Group Open Meeting, Jan 28 at 18:00 UTC

[Oby Ezeilo]

Thanks for the notice , will bear that in mind

On Thu, 16 Jan 2020, 6:48 pm Suyash Dwivedi,  wrote:

> Thanks for the invitation I will try to attend
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 02:17 Olushola Olaniyan 
> wrote:
>
> > Thank you for this information and the shared link, I will be so glad to
> > attend the meeting.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Olaniyan Olushola
> > CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd
> > President, Wikimedia Nigeria
> > Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia Foundation)
> > Co-director Wiki Women Radio
> > www.wikimedia.org.ng
> > sh...@wikimedia.org.ng
> > olaniyanshol...@gmail.com
> > +2348167352512
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 23:28 LiAnna Davis  wrote:
> >
> >> Happy New Year! The Wikipedia & Education User Group invites you to
> >> attend our next Open Meeting via Zoom on *Tuesday, January 28, from
> >> 18:00 UTC to 19:30 UTC*.
> >>
> >> As usual for our Open Meetings, we will provide updates from the
> >> Wikipedia & Education board, then leave most of the time for our guest
> >> speakers. This month, we're thrilled to have featured speakers from
> Israel
> >> and Ghana join us to speak about Wikidata in education and
> >> outside-the-classroom social impact from Wikimedia projects.
> >>
> >> *Shani Evenstein Sigalov* is one of the leading innovators in the
> >> Wikimedia & Education movement globally. In addition to her work as a
> >> researcher and free knowledge advocate, Shani has taught groundbreaking
> >> courses on Wikipedia and Wikidata, and she'll be presenting in this
> meeting
> >> on her Wikidata work. A founding board member of the Wikipedia &
> Education
> >> User Group, Shani resigned to take on even greater responsibility as a
> >> Wikimedia Foundation Trustee. We're particularly excited to welcome her
> >> back as a guest speaker!
> >>
> >> *Andrews Lartey*, Project Manager for Growing Open and Eco-friendly
> >> Skills for the Youth (GOES), will speak about how Wikimedia Projects
> can be
> >> used outside the classroom to create social impact (Industry 4.0 skills
> >> acquisition, circular economy and zero hunger). Andrews Lartey will
> present
> >> on how GOES, through community school farms is creating social impact in
> >> Ghana, the global effect and how various institutions and individuals
> can
> >> support the project.
> >>
> >> The meeting will be hosted via this link on January 28:
> >> https://zoom.us/j/580872511
> >>
> >>
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