[Wikimedia-l] An Open Letter to Maryana Iskander

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.opensourceforu.com/2022/01/an-open-letter-to-maryana-iskander/

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Blocking users for Palestinian flag

[Frederick Noronha]

This is problematic at very many levels:
* Are we policing intent or actual wrongdoing -- i.e. bias in actual edits?
* Is there something wrong in me aspiring for some political entity (which
doesn't exist currently) or does it become wrong only when my bias actually
shows in my editing?
* If the former case, isn't this some form of Thought Policing?
* Should we also not ban all forms of affiliations to religion,
nationality, gender (her/his/its) or race and skin colour, as these also
reflect some or the other bias?
* Someone said slavery is against human rights. Well, I don't think this
was always the situation, and that was precisely my point. Human standards
keep changing It was a perfectly fine business at one point of time, as
was selling opium to China.
* Well, nobody would object to "Free Tibet", because that is seen as a
politically correct cause in today's unipolar world. If the Chinese were at
the helm of a unipolar world, I'm sure we would all be thinking
differently. Especially me!
Let's keep some space for diversity, please. As some person said, let a
thousand flowers bloom! FN
PS: Above all, those who want to whisper into our ears as to what's wrong
with this user or  his/her actions, can't we have this discussion under the
glare of public scrutiny and accountability?

On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 16:57, Peter Southwood 
wrote:

> The problem is which political opinions would be acceptable on a user
> page, and who gets to decide this. We are expected to edit neutrally, so
> expressing a political opinion on a user page could be  considered a
> declaration of partisanship which could extend to editing behaviour.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> *From:* Frederick Noronha [mailto:fredericknoro...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 30 June 2021 00:57
> *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: Blocking users for Palestinian flag
>
>
>
> Just seeking clarity:
>
> Is there anything wrong with expressing a political opinion on a userpage?
>
> A lot of our badges, flags, icons might have some or the other political
> history behind them, just that these are seen as more "normal" by today's
> standards. At one time, slavery too was considered quite legal.
>

On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 18:56, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Friendly reminder: Slavery is against human rights.
> --
> *From:* Yaroslav Blanter 
> *Sent:* Friday, July 2, 2021 2:22 PM
> *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List 
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: Blocking users for Palestinian flag
>
> I do not know. Whoever puts a userbox "I support slavery" on their user
> page on the English Wikipedia invites a fast block does not matter what
> their edits in the articles are.
>
> I do not think there is a universal answer to this question.
>
> Yaroslav
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 1:31 PM Satdeep Gill  wrote:
>
> But was there something in the editing. People should be free to say FREE
> TIBET in their user pages, for instance but can be really reasonable
> editors.
>
> In a way, we are also unbiased and neutral point of view is something we
> all look upto but can never trully achieve.
>
> Best
> Satdeep
>
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, 4:57 PM Peter Southwood 
> wrote:
>
> The problem is which political opinions would be acceptable on a user
> page, and who gets to decide this. We are expected to edit neutrally, so
> expressing a political opinion on a user page could be  considered a
> declaration of partisanship which could extend to editing behaviour.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> *From:* Frederick Noronha [mailto:fredericknoro...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 30 June 2021 00:57
> *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: Blocking users for Palestinian flag
>
>
>
> Just seeking clarity:
>
> Is there anything wrong with expressing a political opinion on a userpage?
>
> A lot of our badges, flags, icons might have some or the other political
> history behind them, just that these are seen as more "normal" by today's
> standards. At one time, slavery too was considered quite legal.
>
> Can't this be discussed in the public domain?
>
> FN
>
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 at 03:34, Gereon Kalkuhl  wrote:
>
> Dear 4nn1|2,
>
> Thank you for informing us about the incident. But to be clear: You write
> that it's about a Palestinian flag. Yet actually it's about a flag with a
> statement: free Palestine. There's a difference. And a member of the
> Persian Wikipedia removed the deletion request on Commons and kept the file
> on the same day. I'm not judging anything here, but please be more precise
> in your accusations.
>
> Thank you,
> Gereon
>
> Am 29.06.20

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Blocking users for Palestinian flag

[Frederick Noronha]

Just seeking clarity:
Is there anything wrong with expressing a political opinion on a userpage?
A lot of our badges, flags, icons might have some or the other political
history behind them, just that these are seen as more "normal" by today's
standards. At one time, slavery too was considered quite legal.
Can't this be discussed in the public domain?
FN

On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 at 03:34, Gereon Kalkuhl  wrote:

> Dear 4nn1|2,
>
> Thank you for informing us about the incident. But to be clear: You write
> that it's about a Palestinian flag. Yet actually it's about a flag with a
> statement: free Palestine. There's a difference. And a member of the
> Persian Wikipedia removed the deletion request on Commons and kept the file
> on the same day. I'm not judging anything here, but please be more precise
> in your accusations.
>
> Thank you,
> Gereon
>
> Am 29.06.2021 um 20:34 schrieb Amir Sarabadani:
>
> If anyone is interested to know about this incident. Send me a private
> message and I can explain better.
>
> Best
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 8:17 PM 4nn1l2 <4nn1l2.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Wikimedians,
>>
>> Persian Wikipedia has reached a new level in their arbitrary and
>> nonesense adminship. They have blocked me for placing a Palestinian flag on
>> my userpage (of course they have already removed it from my userpage and
>> you need to see a previous revision of my userpage).
>>
>>
>> https://fa.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1:4nn1l2=32191672
>>
>> Another user has nominated the file for deletion on Commons!
>>
>> I am admin on Commons myself and I'm fed up with how fawiki is managed.
>> They block users for the most friviolous reasons.
>>
>> What does this mean?
>>
>> Yours faithfully,
>> User:4nn1l2
>>
>>
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedians of Goa User Group....

[Frederick Noronha]

Dear all: Our annual report is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedians_of_Goa_User_Group#2020_updates
It's our first year as an affiliate, and liking it.

2020 updates[edit

]

Despite the pandemic, the year has been marked by quite a bit of activity
and some new welcome initiatives too. 2020 also marks the first year since
the Wikipedians of Goa User Group was approved, in mid-2019. We have seen
growth of the Wikipedia visibility in Goa and growth of Goa's visibility on
the Wikipedia. We hope that this trend can be sustained and see further
growth. Some initiatives from the last year or so:

   - The Discoverer
, Isidore
   Dantas
   

   , Konknni Mogi
   

and
   other volunteers have been working assiduously on the Konkani Wiktionary
   project, which aims at building an open and sharable Konkani dictionary in
   cyberspace. A Wiktionary workshop and meet-ups were held at St. Xavier's
   College, Mapusa in May and December 2019. Since they had been meeting their
   monthly targets in the incubator to keep the project current, the Language
   Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation approved the project on 27 March
   2020. The Konkani Wiktionary moved to its newly-created site
    on 21 May 2020. The Wiktionary has
   over 2300 entries as of November 2020. Congratulations!
   - SerTanmay
   

   , YourTara
   
,
   Julius and team have launched and started the *Wikipedia Weekends*
initiative
   on WhatsApp. This is a small group (currently about 14 members) of
   coordinators, planners and active networkers who plan and undertake
   activities of interest to wider groups and individuals in Goa.
   - On October 17, 2020, the *Wikipedia Weekends* organised an hour-long
   Google Meet event focussing on Wikimedia Commons and the hows, whys of
   sharing content there. Some 26 interested members participated and stayed
   with the event through much of it. We are hoping this will result in more
   relevant photographs being shared on and from Goa
   .
   - On October 18, 2020 (Sunday), another *Wikipedia Weekend* event was
   held online, focusing on editing the Wikipedia. Over two dozen enthusiastic
   participants took part.
   - Fredericknoronha
   's contribution
   was acknowledged with his selection as the Wikipedia Editor of the Week
   recognition on March 29, 2020.
   - To build wider relevance about Goa on the Wikipedia, and greater
   interest in Goa for the Wikipedia two initiatives were built offering
   ambitious overviews related to the world of w:music
    and w:animal rights
    respectively. These are: List
   of bands in Goa 
and Animal welfare and rights in Goa
    It is
   thought that these issues would not only highlight issues important to the
   region of Goa, but also promote more Wikipedia-awareness in Goa itself.
   - To promote the relevance of the Wikipedia at the grassroots in Goa, a
   collaborative project is being undertaken to build and promote Wikipedia
   pages for every village in Goa
   . This will mean
   creating (or improving) for some 340+ villages here. Fredericknoronha has
   undertaken to take responsibility for the villages of the sub-district (
   *taluka*) of w:Bardez , and
   currently about seven out of 43 villages are remaining to be created.
   - 
   
   President Joe Biden by AngFerrao
   WGUG has been encouraging photo enthusiasts, artists and other creative
   persons to share photos and other material via the Wikimedia Commons.
   Alongside is a digital artwork by AngFerrao, a Goan artist, caricaturist
   and cartoonist, who shared her sketch of newly-elected w:President Joe
   Biden .
   - Goan expat artist Dom Martin has also donated a
   
   
   Sita Valles by Dom Martin
   copyright-free sketch on Sita Valles, a locally little-known Goan figure
   until an entry from the Portuguese 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annoying ads

[Frederick Noronha]

It's 0415 IST on the West Coast of India, and am just writing to say that I
always read the hands-folded symbol as a "namaste":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaste
It's a kind of a respectful, non-contact greeting, and here we wouldn't
take it as religious, more cultural if anything.
For other non-contact forms of greetings during Covid times, depending on
one's traditions, one could also choose *salaam* or *aadaab *too. In a
multi-cultural, multi-religious region (like South Asia), the more the
merrier. There are more too:
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/not-just-namaste-here-are-some-other-greetings-from-around-the-world-that-are-coronavirus-proof-2535697.html

But I don't think computer programmers worldwide are so clued in to subtle
nuances on culture and society.
In any case, as George Bernard Shaw says: The will to believe creates its
own evidence.
--Fredericknoronha

On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 04:11, Joseph Seddon  wrote:

> Hey WSC!
>
> We have used variations on this line for at the last 7 years and the
> counter-intuitive approach approach has been debated by marketing
> professionals for much of the last decade.
>
> What you describe is known as social proof and despite it being considered
> a core tenet in marketing it doesn't work for our fundraising. We have
> tested and tested and tested every year.
>
> Chris Keating has written his thoughts [1] about why he thinks it doesn't
> work; was recently explored as part of academic study done in partnership
> with WMDE; [2] and I have some of noted some of my thoughts on twitter
> which I'll include here:
>
> The altruistic motives of any donor would often be based on a person's
> personal experience with a cause or services of a non-profit. The
> relationship between benefactor and beneficiary is intertwined.
>
> For Wikipedia, those two groups are one and the same. Every donor is a
> direct benefactor. Degree of separation between benefactor and beneficiary
> is zero. Their personal experience is that of being a beneficiary,
> receiving direct and instant benefit.
>
> Personal benefit outweighs the social guilt felt for not supporting
> something that is conceptually more distant from them. Social guilt is no
> longer the driver. It's not that social proof doesn't work, its just that
> for Wikipedia personal context works better.
>
> [1]
> https://medium.com/@chriskfundraising/why-doesnt-social-proof-work-for-wikipedia-fundraising-65d55a047911
> [2]
> https://hertieschool-f4e6.kxcdn.com/fileadmin/5_WhoWeAre/1_People_directory/Faculty_downloads/Traxler/Publications/LT-Wiki-CondCoop.pdf
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 10:21 PM WereSpielChequers <
> werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree that praying emojis look like a certain type of religious
>> practice, a hand gesture that implies certain religions and not others.
>>
>> I assume the fundraising team would have the good sense not to describe
>> their campaign as a crusade or a jihad. Even if they had carefully targeted
>> that emoji to cultures where it was close to common currency, I think it
>> was inappropriate.
>>
>> But I'm also concerned at the 98% look away bit. Presumably this was
>> tested and at least in the short term it raised more funds. The problem may
>> be longer term, it looked to me the sort of counterproductive message that
>> normalises not giving rather than normalising giving.
>>
>> We need to remember the long term impact of our messaging on the people
>> who are less inclined to give as well as the short term impact on
>> donations. To me that 98% pitch looked like as much of a mistake as the £5
>> coffee ad that fed the overpaid and wasteful meme.
>>
>> I've seen some marketing from other organisations in the last few months
>> that has been more along the lines of "We know that money is tighter than
>> usual for a lot of the people who usually support us, and if you are one of
>> them we get that you can't give us money this year. But if you find
>>  useful, and you are one of those people who is financially OK in
>> these troubled times, then please make a donation". Most people can
>> identify with one or other of those groups, and I suspect neither would
>> think the worse of us for pitching to them in those terms.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> WSC
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 14:24, 
>> wrote:
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wiki World Heritage User Group

[Frederick Noronha]

That's good news.
We have one in close proximity [1], so looking forward to sharing synergies
in case this could help.
Images should be easy. Likewise, such thematic groups could be an entry
point to involve more potential Wikipedians with an interest in such
issues. Could also push us too to do better.
On the other hand, any chances of getting groups that look at heritage
issues beyond the official definition and more representative of our
diverse world? Okay, this is going offtopic :-) FN
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churches_and_convents_of_Goa


On Sun, 25 Oct 2020 at 02:41, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight <
rosiestep.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] Wiki World Heritage User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group
> aims to ensuring the full coverage of World Heritage sites on Wikimedia
> projects and catalyzing dynamic synergies around World Heritage.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wiki_World_Heritage_User_Group
>
> [2]  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_World_Heritage_User_Group
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

[Frederick Noronha]

Is it possible to convince more international non-profits and government
organisations (especially taxpayer-funded research organisations) that it
would be in their interest as well to share the findings under some
Creative Commons licenses? FN

SEE:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/health/wikipedia-who-coronavirus-health.html

On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 20:14, Samuel Klein  wrote:

> *fantastic*.  Thanks all for this, and thanks Jorge for the update.
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:32 AM Jorge Vargas 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Following up on my earlier thread about this, we are excited to announce
>> a new collaboration between the Wikimedia Foundation and the World Health
>> Organization (WHO). The collaboration will initially focus on releasing WHO
>> content such as public-health related infographics, videos, and other
>> COVID-19 resources under a free license (CC BY SA 3.0) to be shared on
>> Wikimedia Commons. We are hopeful that these resources will be useful for
>> volunteers writing about COVID-19 across language wikis and further expand
>> access to knowledge about the pandemic to people around the world.
>>
>> You  can read more about the collaboration announcement in the press
>> release we published earlier today [1], and see the first batch of content
>> uploads from WHO on Wikimedia Commons [2]. If you want to help share the
>> collaboration news on social media, please retweet the Foundation’s account
>> [3] or share your own post using this toolkit [4].
>>
>> I want to give a major thank you and shout out to the volunteers
>> (including Doc James, Dr. Netha Hussain, John Cummings, and many others)
>> who have been moving these conversations with WHO forward for years, as
>> well as to the many Wikimedians providing accurate and relevant coverage of
>> COVID-19 on the projects that this collaboration hopes to support. We are
>> so excited to finally reach this milestone with WHO.
>>
>> In the coming months, Alex Stinson, from our Community Programs team,
>> will be working with volunteers to continue sharing details of the WHO
>> content available on Commons and collaborating with volunteers to
>> understand how WHO resources might help address information needs and gaps
>> about COVID-19 on the projects. We need your help identifying the most
>> useful content. Please join us on the project page on Commons to request
>> WHO materials, and ask questions or give feedback on the project [5].
>>
>> We are excited to celebrate this important achievement in making more
>> knowledge about COVID-19 freely available to everyone in such a critical
>> time in the world. Thank you to all who made this possible!
>>
>> Feel free to reach out on this thread or to Alex and I directly in case
>> you have further questions about this collaboration.
>>
>> Jorge Vargas
>> Sr. Manager, Regional Partnerships
>>
>> [1]
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/10/22/world-health-organization-and-wikimedia-foundation-expand-access/
>>
>> [2]
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_Health_Organization_COVID-19_Disinformation_Infographics
>>
>> [3] https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1319263874303037442
>>
>> [4]
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCc0uXewzL5CUD2JPQYSYIDs3B63KxdLjprSBsn4kvA/edit?usp=sharing
>>
>> [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:World_Health_Organization
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:41 AM Zana Strkovska <777.z...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The same video translated on Macedonian language is on national
>>> television
>>> in my country several days already.
>>> Regards,
>>> Zana
>>>
>>> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, 19:30 James Heilman,  wrote:
>>>
>>> > I have been asking WHO to release COVID19 content (specially videos)
>>> under
>>> > open licenses since since Feb 2020.
>>> >
>>> > I have spoke with Aleksandra Kuzmanovic who has been involved in their
>>> > collaboration with Facebook and Twitter etc.
>>> >
>>> > They say maybe. But despite a bunch of follow up emails have not
>>> seemed too
>>> > keen. It is really a lost opportunity for both of us :-(
>>> >
>>> > James
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:47 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <
>>> > wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >  Some of us sent an email when it was (only apparently) less serious
>>> but
>>> > > we got no reply, as far as I know. It was sent by the UG of
>>> Washington DC
>>> > > and I contacted WMCH doing that, because they might reach their
>>> central
>>> > > office quickly in Geneva if necessary.
>>> > > Changing some licenses was one of the things I hoped to discuss, but
>>> in
>>> > > general we knew it was already serious and we were trying to gain
>>> some
>>> > time.
>>> > >
>>> > > In the end, WHO changed their attitude only after the last week-end,
>>> > > probably because people started finally to be worried in the USA,
>>> but the
>>> > > pandemia should have been declared weeks ago or at least last week,
>>> IMHO,
>>> > > when also the data of 

[Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikipedians of Goa User Group

[Frederick Noronha]

Dear all,

Thanks very much indeed for your kind words and warm welcome to the
Wikipedians of Goa User Group.

Our real work starts now! We hope we can live up to the confidence placed
in us, and fulfil our commitments to be an effective user group.

Since we are more geography-focussed (and also looking at Goa's connections
with the rest of India and the outside world), we look forward to working
with all possible groups and individuals on any project that intersects
with Goa. Paulo, we would love to do a lot more in the world of lusophony.
We need your help and involvement too!

Regards and good wishes,

Frederick.

On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 03:37, Paulo Santos Perneta 
wrote:

> Splendid news, congratulations Wikipedians of Goa!! :D
>
> Frederick: It was really great and a privilege meeting you at CC Global
> Summit. We at WMPT are very much looking forward to partner with you in
> Wikimedia projects, specially those related to lusophony!
>
> Best,
>
> Paulo
>
>
>
>
> Kirill Lokshin  escreveu no dia quarta,
> 31/07/2019 à(s) 16:41:
>
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> > [1] the Wikipedians of Goa User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
> > group aims to build content related to Goa in all possible languages, to
> > conduct Wikipedia-related training in Goa, and to help build and sustain
> > the Konkani Wikipedia.
> >
> > Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kirill Lokshin
> > Chair, Affiliations Committee
> >
> > [1]
> >
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> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is the death of Wikipedia imminent?

[Frederick Noronha]

> However, as a general guideline, it is not so
> much incorrect to state that all important things in Wikipedia have been
> already written. Indeed, if someone looks for information in Wikipedia -
> or, more precisely, uses search engines and gets Wikipedia as the first
hit
>  they are likely to find what they need with more than 99% chance.

Yaroslav, Which world are you talking about? North America and Europe?

When it comes to Asia (which I'm part of) and Africa, possibly Latin
America too, we haven't even written down 1% of the diversity of these
places. Leave aside getting it up onto the Wikipedia!

Of course, I agree with the suggestion for new approaches (if I read you
right). This is particularly true in a part of the world where much of the
discussion is still in the oral domain, is often not in print; when it's in
print, it is not digitised. Even when digitised, chances are that it's in a
non-English language, which is very hard to find very search engines. (No
wonder that some of the prominent people from our regions are continually
getting dismissed as non-notable, which I see as another form of 'systemic
bias').

Give it a thought, please.

Frederick Noronha
Goa

On Sun, 30 Dec 2018 at 03:05, Yaroslav Blanter  wrote:

> I have written a long text today (posted in my FB) which the readers of
> this mailing list might find interesting. I copy it below. I understand
> that it is very easy to critisize me for side issues, but if you want to
> comment/reply I would appreciate if you address the main issue. The target
> audience I was thinking about was general (not necessarily
> Wikimedia-oriented), and for the readers from this mailing list the first
> several paragraphs can sound trivial (or even trivial and wrong). I
> apologize in advance.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Kerala User Group

[Frederick Noronha]

Congrats, guys! We are just 800 kms north of you, and are trying to build a
Goa Wikipedia Group (focussing on local content in all languages, including
and specially Konkani http://gom.wikipedia.org )

I'd be grateful if anyone could point me to the URL which lays down the
procedure for forming and getting recognition for a user group.

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Do join our GWG by WhatsApping me on the above no.

On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 16:09, Nabin K. Sapkota 
wrote:

> Congratulations!!!
>
> Nabin,
> Wikimedians of Nepal
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:10 PM Shlomi Fish 
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 15:41:09 -0400
> > Kirill Lokshin  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone!
> > >
> > > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
> recognized
> > > [1] the Wikimedians of Kerala User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
> > The
> > > group will be working on various Wikimedia projects related to the
> > > Malayalam language.
> > >
> > > Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> > >
> >
> > congratulations!
> >
> > > Regards,
> > > Kirill Lokshin
> > > Chair, Affiliations Committee
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Kerala_User_Group
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[Wikimedia-l] An invite from the Goa Wikipedia Group

[Frederick Noronha]

https://bit.ly/2pE3POJ
Do come if possible...
Saturday, Oct 13, 2018. Panjim.

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[Wikimedia-l] Please help to build the Konkani wikipedia: Thanks to Isidore Dantas in Pune for this page... (translated from English)

[Frederick Noronha]

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Borea Jezuchi Bazilika, Darvonttea savn dekhavo


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प्रारूप:Infobox Historic building



Altar

Basilica of Bom Jesus vo Borea Jezuchi Bazilika (Purtugezint : Basílica do
Bom Jesus) Bharot achea Goeant urta
ani ti ek UNESCO [1] Jagotik
Daizachem Stholl

zavn
asa.   Bazilikent, St. Fransis Xavier
acheo
omor ovxex asat. Igorjechem stholl Adlea Goeant asa, ji Purtugezanchea
rajeant, adim Goenchi rajdhani zavn asli.[1]
'Bom
Jesus' [utra pormonnem, 'Borea (vo Povitr) Jezu] hem nanv Ecce
Homo Purtugez vosahotant vaporpant ailam. Hi Jezuit Igorz, Bharot
achi poili lhan basilica , ani ti ek
Bharot ant baroque
bandavollxastrachem boreantlem borem udahoronn zavn asa.


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Contents

   - 1Itihas
   

   - 2Gallery
   

   - 3Henvui polloi
   

   - 4Sondorb (References)
   

   - 5External links
   


Itihas[edit source

]


St. Francis Xavierscheo reliko
[2]



Igorjecho sozoilolo darvontto.

Igorjecho bandavollicho vavr 1594 vorsa suru zalo. Mai 1605 vorsa
Igorjechem somorponn korpant ailem jem Arsebisp Dom Padri. Aleixo de
Menezes hannem kelem. Hi jagotik iadostik Kristi itihasant ek mhotvachi
ghoddnuk zavn asa,.Tantunt St. Francis Xavier
 hachi kudd
asa, zo ek Loyolacho St. Inas

hacho
lagxilo ixtt aslo zannem Society of Jesus

 (Jezuit
)
sthapli. Francis Xavier jen’na to Chin

bhuimkhonddak
viaj martalo,to Sancian zunvear somplo (Dezembr 3, 1552). Francis Xavier
hachi kudd poilim Purtugez Malacca vhorpant aili ani don vorsam uprant
Goeant bottintlean patthovpant aili, Ti nikipiloli tea vellar asli toxich
taji asli oxem sangpant ieta.[3]

Santacheo
vosti pollovnk ozun bhonvddekaranchi (zantunt Kristi toxench on-Kristi
aspavtat) sonvsar bhorcho chodd korun dor dha vorsamni (nimannem 2014 vorsa
korpant ailam) bhovxik 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Portuguese Wikipedia has reached 1 Million articles created

[Frederick Noronha]

Congratulations from Goa!

I've used some of your information to create English language articles,
especially on topics where our pasts intersect.

The Translate tool helps one to do a lot (though my knowledge of Pt itself
is highly limited... even if there are 2000 words from Pt adopted by the
Konkani language... unfortunately, Konkani doesn't have its own Translate
tool as yet, though a wikipedia in its preliminary stages had been set up
http://gom.wikipedia.org ). Here is one of my attempts at translating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_book_in_Brazil

All the best,

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On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 at 23:27, Lucas Teles  wrote:

> Hello, folks!
>
> I am pleased to report that Portuguese Wikipedia reached 1 Million articles
> created yesterday. [1]
>
> Community voted for a commemorative logo and set a sitenotice banner with a
> statement mentioning the milestone. [2]
>
> Thanks to the volunteers and supporters!
>
> Links:
> [1] https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Estat%C3%ADsticas
>
> [2]
> https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Um_milh%C3%A3o_de_artigos
>
> Teles
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> Wikimedia Commons.
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Appropriation of the Wikimedia Blog by the WMF

[Frederick Noronha]

Dear David,

I'm really sorry to hear this, and feel your pain.

Having been through this in the past, I know (a bit) of how it feels.

I just disagree with your analysis of seeing money as a mere tool. It can
empower us, it can destroy us. Whoever said money is the root of all evil,
knew what s/he was talking about. It can disrupt the best of movements and
also make us selfish.

I hope I'm wrong here.

Fredericknoronha
In Goa, India.
+91-9822122436.

PS: Regardless of whether it's related or not, I'd like to make a general
observation: burnout over volunteer work can be a real (if unaddressed)
concern for many of us. Why do so many end up feeling so under-appreciated
and taken-for-granted? Are there some tools to cope with this?

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From: David Cuenca Tudela 
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 at 03:56
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Appropriation of the Wikimedia Blog by the WMF
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


Since Ed Erhart didn't honor my request of posting in this mailing lists to
discuss the plans to appropriate the Wikimedia Blog for the Wikimedia
Foundation [1] (although I would have preferred that he had done it himself
as he is the visible face behind this change, and therefore the burden of
proof is on him to prove to the community that this is the right change), I
am posting to this list with the hope that it can be discussed with people
for whom these things matter.

The Wikimedia Blog [2] has the title "News from Wikipedia and the Wikimedia
movement", and in case you don't know it it is run by the WMF [3]. This
blog has been operating under the existing URL for many years, and I
believe there was a general satisfaction with the way is run, the quality
of the stories, the amount, etc. However, as I mentioned in the Phabricator
ticket [1] I find the idea of moving the blog to the Wikimedia Foundation
site not adequate and not in the spirit of the Wikimedia movement.

I do not find the intention to move the blog to the WMF site to be in the
spirit of the Wikimedia movement because our movement is a diverse field
that is based on the idea of "commons" [4], and I feel that the Wikimedia
Blog is one of those commons. As I see it now the blog sits in the middle
of the community, and although it is run by the WMF, it can be seen as a
shared space between the WMF, the affiliates, and the community. By moving
the blog to the WMF site, the blog would lose its status as a commons and
it would become "the blog of the WMF". I think that if the WMF wants a
blog, they can create a new one, but they should leave the existing blog as
it is, as a shared space.

Intentions like this makes me think that in the WMF there is not enough
"wisdom", that strange quality that I am trying to make important in our
movement without much success [5]. This lack of wisdom is not only present
in the WMF, also in our movement I percieve, if not lack of wisdom, at
least lack of empathy [6]. It saddens me and it makes me stressed.

Issues like this one about the blog make me think that the movement needs
dedicated people that cultivate wisdom and encyclopedic knowledge about the
movement (I might have the former, but not the later), and that we put the
qualities of those people to the service of our community. I feel like a
little kid who wants to play a nice game with his friends, and then he sees
a big bulldozer coming to destroy his playing field. If it is not clear for
you, the "bulldozer" is how I see the "corporate WMF" coming to destroy the
soul of what I love most.

Tracking these kind of "behind the scenes" events takes me too much time. I
feel that I have reached more than the maximum of my capacity as a
"volunteer" (ha, what a joke of a word), and that I would risk losing my
current job if I am caught again participating in the Wikimedia projects
during my work hours, which I do without restrain. Not only that, it also
takes most of my waking time, specially because the movement has grown so
big that I feel overwhelmed in my capacity as metapedian [7]. I also feel
that it has started affecting my mental health. I do not know if I am the
only one, but as it is right now contributing to the Wikimedia projects is
*very* stressful, and since it is my main activity, I don't have time to
wind down, and since I do it as a "volunteer", I do not have free time to
recover. I also fear that if I would not do it myself nobody else would do
it, and if nobody would take their individual responsibility seriously,
then nobody would care for the good things in this world, and if nobody
would take care of the good things in this world, then we better start
saying goodbye to it RIGHT NOW, because the world is a fucking mess and
nobody is standing up to say the things as they are, or as they should be.

I spent 14 years of my life in the Wikimedia projects with various degrees
of involvement, working for free, and receiving compensation [8], and I
must say that the quality of my work has been exactly the same, my

[Wikimedia-l] P. Sainath's comments on the Wikipedia

[Frederick Noronha]

In the course of a 2015 talk at Yale, the prominent Indian journalist P.
Sainath says (comparing his People's Archive): "We are not the Wikipedia.
Just because anyone can contribute does not mean we will accept everything.
A lot of democratic decisions are democratically taken by me. Yeah, this is
not the Wikipedia. I did not work for 35 years in journalist to put up any
crap... with my name going on the credit."

This comes up at around minute 49. Please listen. We might need to clarify
this misunderstanding that the Wikipedia accepts "anything".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj-K7hpsdKw



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lower page views

[Frederick Noronha]

A lot of arbitrary deletions (and Western-centric approaches) seem to have
disincentives some volunteers. At least I can speak for myself.

My conjecture is that if even I feel the Wikipedia, thanks to its many
successes, is increasingly unable to reflect the diversity of our world,
why should readers not feel likewise. And these are your growth areas.

Frederick Noronha
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On 24 Jan 2018 8:43 am, "Isaac Olatunde" <reachout2is...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps our readers aren't getting their topics of interest on Wikipedia,
> partly because Wikipedia is becoming nothing more than a biographical
> encyclopedia.
>
> Regards,
>
> Isaac.
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:54 PM, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Our data is only comparable between May 2015 and Dec 2017 so:
> >
> > Nov/Dec/Jan 15/16 total 15.7, 14.6, 16.2
> >
> > Nov/Dec/Jan 16/17 total 16.4, 15.5, 17.0
> >
> > Nov/Dec/Jan 17/18 total 15.3, 14.3, 16.4 (last number an estimate)
> >
> > So went up from 15/16 to 16/17 and now come down in 17/18 to about were
> it
> > was in 15/16. We are definitely not seeing growth in pageviews though
> which
> > is concerning.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:10 AM, Wojciech Pędzich <wpedz...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > In order to have at least a partial answer we would need to know how
> the
> > > pageviews relate to actual database traffic I assume? That would
> explain
> > > Google and I do not know whether there are any other services worldwide
> > > that use the datastram without actually displaying pages.
> > >
> > > Wojciech
> > >
> > > 2018-01-23 11:55 GMT+01:00 Anders Wennersten <m...@anderswennersten.se
> >:
> > >
> > > > We are seeing a steady decrease of page views to our projects
> > > (Wikipedia).
> > > > Nov-Dec-Jan it is decreasing in a rate of 5-10% (year-year), and for
> > big
> > > > languages like Japanese,  Spanish close to 10%, or some months even
> > more
> > > > [1]
> > > >
> > > > Is there any insights of why this is so? Could it be that Google take
> > > over
> > > > accesses with their ever better way of showing results direct  (but
> > then
> > > > also with showing extracts of Wikipedia articles) . Or that our
> > interface
> > > > on mobiles is inferior so we miss accesses from mobiles (now being
> 54%
> > of
> > > > total). Or horror of horror that users look for facts on all new
> sites
> > > with
> > > > fake news instead of Wikipedia?
> > > >
> > > > Anders
> > > >
> > > > [1] https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined
> .htm
> > > >
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[Wikimedia-l] Why Wait? Wikipedia and Google Accidentally Declare Putin the Winner of March 2018 Presidential Elections

[Frederick Noronha]

Are we're seeing an increasing political manipulation of Wikipedia?

https://globalvoices.org/2018/01/16/why-wait-wikipedia-and-
google-accidentally-declare-putin-the-winner-of-march-
2018-presidential-elections/

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Anyone else want the job of wikimediaau-l list admin?

[Frederick Noronha]

I could volunteer.
Does location matter?

Frederick


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On 16 Jan 2018 7:40 pm, "David Gerard"  wrote:

> At present it's literally only me as wikimediaau-l list admin. This is less
> than ideal, i.e. I can't guarantee any sort of consistent service.
>
> It fell to me when everyone actually in Australia quit after some spurious
> legal threats. So that's the threat model ...
>
> Anyone want to volunteer as backup?
>
> The workload is absolutely minimal, i.e. I just let through a large message
> and that's the first thing I had to do in months if not years. But it'd be
> a good idea to have more than one person.
>
> [cc'ing wikimedia-l to cast a wider net]
>
>
> - d.
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