[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours April 5, 2022

[Emily Lescak]

Hi all,


Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours this Tuesday, 2022-04-05. Find your local time here
.

To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set
agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad
[3]. You are welcome to add questions / items to the etherpad in advance,
or when you arrive at the session. Even if you are unable to attend the
session, you can leave a question that we can address asynchronously. If
you do not have a specific agenda item, you are welcome to hang out and
enjoy the conversation. More detailed information (e.g., about how to
attend) can be found here [4].

Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves available to answer
research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors,
organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and
initiatives. Here are some example cases we hope to be able to support you
with:

   -

   You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
   should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
   know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
   For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
   in my wiki?
   -

   You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
   contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
   improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
   harder to find an answer for during an office hour. However, discussing
   them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
   work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
   -

   You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
   does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
   if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
   institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
   more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
   Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
   of you interested more closely in this space.
   -

   You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].


To improve the impact and accessibility of our sessions, we invite you to
share your feedback in a brief optional survey [6]. We estimate that it
will take about 5-10 minutes to complete. We welcome your input even if you
have not attended Office Hours. If you prefer to not respond via Google
form, you can provide your feedback via email. We will accept responses
until April 15, 2022.


Hope to see many of you,
Emily on behalf of the WMF Research Team

[1] https://research.wikimedia.org

[2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours

[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours

[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours

[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html

[6] https://forms.gle/Y5zJ7gunk4RvqvJX8

-- 
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Campaigns Product Team Office Hour - March 31, 2022

[Imelda Brazal]

Hello Wikimedians!

The *Campaigns Product Team *will be hosting the next office hour  to share
exciting updates on the Registration Tool

 and new proposed namespaces for events. We will also be sharing community
updates on the usability tests and design highlights of the latest mobile
and desktop wireframes.

Join us and share your thoughts on these developments!

Date:  *March 31, 2022*
Time:  15:00 UTC
Zoom: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/82046580320

You may also watch Campaigns Office Hour: Introducing the Campaigns Product
Team  to learn more about the
Team and the previous wireframes.

Feel free to send us a message if you want  to receive a  reminder for this
meeting.

Thank you.

Best,

Imelda

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*Imelda Brazal*
Senior Content Campaign Fellow
Campaign Product Team, Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Call for participation of Wikipedians for "Ask a Wikipedian" Session

[Tiziano Piccardi]

Hello everyone! [Sorry for the crossposting]

We are currently organizing a workshop with the title “Wiki-M3L: Wikipedia
and Multi-Modal & Multi-Lingual Research” at ICLR [1], in which we bring
together researchers working on topics around Wikipedia, with a focus on
multilingual projects as well as multi-modality (e.g., text and images). In
this workshop, we want to foster collaboration between researchers and the
Wikimedia community, so we allocated a session for researchers to exchange
with Wikimedians. Therefore we are looking for participants interested in
joining us at ICLR for the workshop and would like to exchange ideas and
answer some questions of researchers working on Wikipedia. The workshop
will happen virtually on the 29th of April 2022, and the session will take
around 30 minutes from 14:15 CET. Please reach out to us if you are
interested in participating!

Cheers,
Lucie and Tiziano

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki-M3L
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[Wikimedia-l] Next Conversation with the Trustees 21 April

[Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight]

Hello everyone,

I’m writing as Acting Chair of the Community Affairs Committee to invite
you to our next Conversation with the Trustees, which will take place on 21
April at 10:00 UTC . This is a
chance for you to speak directly with members of the Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees about our work guiding the Wikimedia Foundation’s
activities.

We welcome you to join us on Zoom. Request the Zoom link by emailing
ask...@wikimedia.org, or stream live on YouTube
 instead. You can also email
ask...@wikimedia.org to submit questions ahead of time or request language
interpretation for the call.

Agenda items include the Foundation’s Annual Plan and how the community can
participate in shaping it. More agenda items will be added on the event
Meta page

closer to the date.

Hope to see you there!

Rosie

*Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight *(she/her)

Acting Chair, Community Affairs Committee

Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation 



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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Apply to join the Leadership Development Working Group!

[Gnangarra]

>
> You miss the point we do this as volunteers: a stipend isn't necessary.
> It's a just nice way to say thankyou for your time, offering it up may help
> some people who would make great mentors being able to dedicate extra
> time.  If you're doing it just for the stipend then it should be
> questionable as to whether you're the right person to mentor volunteers to
> become future leaders of the community. Every role whether it is outreach
> to a group, leading an affiliate, being on a community committee, or even
> organising a Wikimania requires dedicating time sometimes even at 2 or 3am,
> taking responsibility it's all voluntary the most you'll get is a few kind
> words.


Just to clarify with my last statement and prior responses I'm talking
about US/CA, EU, AU type countries where altruistic endeavours as
volunteers are something we have the privilege of being able to do with
limited impact on our daily lives or standard of living.  Any measure of a
good stipend/gift should be to ensure that it helps where it has the most
valuable impact. Another example of the dangers of english translations
where we all speak one language but we use it differently.


On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 at 07:56, Gnangarra  wrote:

> You miss the point we do this as volunteers: a stipend isn't necessary.
> It's a just nice way to say thankyou for your time, offering it up may help
> some people who would make great mentors being able to dedicate extra
> time.  If you're doing it just for the stipend then it should be
> questionable as to whether you're the right person to mentor volunteers to
> become future leaders of the community. Every role whether it is outreach
> to a group, leading an affiliate, being on a community committee, or even
> organising a Wikimania requires dedicating time sometimes even at 2 or 3am,
> taking responsibility it's all voluntary the most you'll get is a few kind
> words.
>
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 at 01:21, Lane Chance  wrote:
>
>> In what way would it be bad to "publish [the analysis] to inform
>> future projects"?
>>
>> Neither was it stated or implied in my email that stipends were to
>> "cover every cost", just to put $5/hour in context that it may be
>> enough to pay for a take-away, but it's not enough to cover anything
>> significant like childcare costs, which happens to be an explicitly
>> stated reason for paying a stipend on the meta page.
>>
>> The question about whether variations, like claiming extra expenses
>> for childcare, is possible is a good one. By paying a fixed or nominal
>> stipend, at first glance it appears that expenses beyond this will not
>> be accepted by the WMF, which bakes in an obvious bias against
>> participation from some minority groups with reasonable additional
>> needs.
>>
>> Lane
>>
>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 13:01, Gnangarra  wrote:
>> >
>> > stipends aren't meant to cover every cost for the volunteer, its an
>> acknowledgement that as volunteers we do incur costs we can always choose
>> not to contribute. $200 a month yeah thats nice when your in the US, EU or
>> AU for other less well off countries it does make a difference for them.
>> It'd be unfair to offer a stipend to be varied between countries because
>> it'd encourage and entrench bias, and inequity across the movement.
>> >
>> > On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 at 19:44, Lane Chance  wrote:
>> >>
>> >> It's worth highlighting the stipend (presumably intended for otherwise
>> >> unpaid volunteers who are not full-time employees of the WMF). It's
>> >> $200 for "each 2 months" and covers costs of "childcare, internet,
>> >> transportation and other costs that make volunteering possible".
>> >>
>> >> The commitment is to give *5 hours a week* for a 1 year period, so
>> >> $100/month is approximately $5 an hour in costs. A rock bottom rate
>> >> for a babysitter in the USA would be $10/hour. If you need to travel
>> >> to a quiet workspace, like a friendly and entirely free library or
>> >> Uni, to do the work or find a cubical to join a Zoom meeting, then the
>> >> cost of transport is likely to again going to start at $10 and if you
>> >> need to buy a take-away to replace time preparing an evening meal
>> >> that's going to be $20 for something basic. Some countries in Europe
>> >> have government-supported childcare, but even these may not be free
>> >> but subsidized.
>> >>
>> >> It would be interesting to see more analysis of how volunteer stipends
>> >> are normalised if these are becoming more common in WMF grants and
>> >> project funding, and how they are intended to vary based on the
>> >> standard cost of living in different countries, additional real-life
>> >> receipted costs or what other circumstances will justify increasing
>> >> the non-receipted stipend. If this has been done behind the scenes by
>> >> the WMF, it would be useful to publish it to inform future projects.
>> >>
>> >> Lane
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 at 21:09, Cassie Casares 
>> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > (Read this message in