[Wikimedia-l] Swag program for technical contributors

[Srishti Sethi]

Hello everyone,

We want to let you know about a new swag program for technical contributors
that the Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Engagement <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Engagement> [1] team has
developed in collaboration with the Fundraising Operations <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising> [2] team. This program will
reward technical contributors for their active participation in outreach
programs, events, and software projects by giving swag.

This is a small token of appreciation for the countless efforts of our
technical contributors!

In the first year of its operation, the swag program considers 85
individuals with significant contributions as developers, mentors, and
organizers in 2021 for each of the following areas.

   - Google Summer of Code & Outreachy
   - Small wiki toolkits
   - Gerrit code contributions
   - Wikimedia & Wikimania Hackathon

To learn more about each of these areas and the overall program, visit <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_tech_swag_program> [3]. If you
have any feedback or questions, or have suggestions around which areas to
cover, please share on the talk page.

Best,
Srishti

On behalf of Technical Engagement team

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technical_Engagement

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

[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_tech_swag_program

*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: UCoC Phase 2 Ratification Results Announcement

[Samuel Klein]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 1:25 AM Željko Blaće  wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 6:34 AM effe iets anders 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> (sidenote: the fact that this announcement is being made by a WMF staff
>> member probably means that this process is less community driven than I
>> thought. )
>> For a fundamental document like this, I'm surprised to see that there is
>> 40+% opposition. Is there a good understanding of what in the UCoC is
>> causing so much opposition?
>>
>
That's a good question.  I'd like to see a summary of feedback and open
issues.  [NTS: we need an 'Issues' tab alongside Talk pages]
Some common points made in Meta discussions that remain unaddressed:

Oveararching:
* No sufficient mechanism for revision / self-correction   [*and no
'partial support' option, as Z. said. leaving a 'no' as the only way to
push for other revisions*]

Basic concerns:
⁑ Mandatory? training
⁑ Mandatory? pledge‽
⁑ No right to be heard
⁑ Easy to troll + game

Broader concerns:
⁂ Long / confusing text, hard to translate, harder to apply evenly
⁂ Could override rather than support local community governance
⁂ Feels WMF-driven rather than community-driven ...
⁂  ... could become time-eating bureaucracy regardless of benefit


The construction of vote procedure did not allow for partial support (one I
> would also prefer myself) but only binary + comment.
> This is suboptimal for lengthy documents and elaborate (but suboptimal)
> processes.
>
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