Re: [Wikimedia-l] New beta feature: Syntax Highlighting!

[Ryan Kaldari]

Bad news, we have to temporarily roll-back syntax highlighting to fix a
page load issue (T172458). We should have it back on soon. Sorry for
anti-climactic news!
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kevin Gorman has passed away

[Ryan Kaldari]

I was friends with Kevin and talked to him often over email. He was a
tireless advocate of addressing the gender gap on Wikipedia and making the
projects less toxic. Besides his significant volunteer work on-wiki, he was
also a moderator of the gendergap mailing list (a difficult and thankless
job). He was always an advocate for those whose voices were not being heard
or those who were afraid to speak up due to fear of being attacked. He ran
for English Wikipedia ArbCom last year, and addressed some of these issues
in his candidate statement: "Our encyclopedia aims to encompass the sum of
all human knowledge - a lofty goal that we cannot possibly accomplish
unless we take steps to ensure that, to borrow from a recent public
comment, we’re sending no demographic into a cultural buzzsaw."

Kevin was one of the countless unsung heroes of our movement, and his
passing is a tragic loss. I hope we can pay tribute to his memory by
continuing to work towards addressing the gender gap and eliminating
harassment on our projects.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] Freedom of panorama today approved by Belgian parliament

[Ryan Kaldari]

Congratulations! I can't wait to see next year's Wiki Loves Monuments
calendar from Belgium!

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> Fantastic news!  Kudos to Dimi and everyone else who worked hard to
> promote this. :)
>
>A.
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Romaine Wiki 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Great news!
>>
>> Freedom of panorama has been voted today in the Belgian parliament.
>> A mayority voted in favour of freedom of panorama, including commercial
>> use.
>>
>> Soon images of artworks and modern buildings in Belgium can be restored
>> on Commons.
>>
>> But first the law needs to be published in the Staatsblad, and ten days
>> later it will be official, but that is just a formality. (Will keep you
>> updated on that.)
>>
>>
>> Article in the news in Dutch:
>> http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/politiek/1.2685852
>>
>>
>> In the past weeks, as well as since the campaign in Europe last year, we
>> from Wikimedia Belgium have worked hard on this subject and communicated
>> with the members of the parliament informing what this subject means for
>> Wikipedia.
>>
>> With the founding of Wikimedia Belgium in 2014, this subject was a
>> priority for us.
>>
>> Thanks all for the support!
>>
>> Let's get this implemented elsewhere too!
>>
>> Greetings from Belgium,
>> Romaine
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Community Tech: November report

[Ryan Kaldari]

Also, we should mention that most of the work for Gadgets 2.0 was
originally done by Timo and Kunal and they have been a huge help getting us
up to speed on it. We should have a demo up on Labs soon for people to play
with.

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Danny Horn  wrote:

> Hi everyone, here's what the Community Tech team's been up to lately.
>
> * Community Wishlist Survey: we've been running this survey to identify
> the most important features and fixes to work on in 2016; you might have
> heard about it because we've been spamming mailing lists and village pumps.
> If you haven't checked it out yet -- the voting phase ends on Monday,
> please come and vote for the proposals you want to support! There are a lot
> of proposals, and many of them are awesome.
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey
>
> * Gadgets 2.0: A new Gadget Manager has been in the works for a long time,
> to replace Mediawiki:Gadgets-definition as the interface for managing
> gadgets on a wiki. Community Tech is helping to complete the feature -- in
> November, we created new Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and
> content models, and we're currently working on the Gadget Manager itself.
> For more info: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadgets_2.0 and
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T31272.
>
> * GadgetUsage: We made some improvements to the Special:GadgetUsage
> report, filtering out removed gadgets and adding a recently active users
> count. You can see the improved report at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:GadgetUsage, and it'll roll out to
> more projects next week.
>
> * Citation bot: We've been working on getting Citation bot into shape;
> check out https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108412 for more.
>
> In December, we've got more work coming up on Gadget Manager, Citation bot
> and storing WikiProject article assessment metadata. Plus come and vote in
> the Wishlist Survey so that we have interesting things to work on in
> January. Thank you and good night.
>
> DannyH (WMF)
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>
>
>
> (cross-posted to Wikimedia-l, Wikitech-l and WMF staff lists, sorry for
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Analytics] On toxic communities

[Ryan Kaldari]

I was skeptical of even reading this article, but it actually seems pretty
insightful. It also seems more relevant to Wikipedia than I was expecting:
"The answer had to be community-wide reform of cultural norms. We had to
change how people thought about online society and change their
expectations of what was acceptable How do you introduce structure and
governance into a society that didn’t have one before?"

It has some interesting ideas about using science to change the social
dynamics of online communities and leveraging the work of academics who
want to work on these problems. Some of the techniques they used remind me
of Aaron's revision scoring. I wonder if there's any chance we could talk
with them or some of their researchers.


On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Denny Vrandečić 
wrote:

> Very interesting read (via Brandon Harris):
>
>
> http://recode.net/2015/07/07/doing-something-about-the-impossible-problem-of-abuse-in-online-games/
>
> "the vast majority of negative behavior ... did not originate from the
> persistently negative online citizens; in fact, 87 percent of online
> toxicity came from the neutral and positive citizens just having a bad day
> here or there."
>
> "... incidences of homophobia, sexism and racism ... have fallen to a
> combined 2 percent of all games. Verbal abuse has dropped by more than 40
> percent, and 91.6 percent of negative players change their act and never
> commit another offense after just one reported penalty."
>
> I have plenty of ideas how to apply this to Wikipedia, but I am sure Dario
> and his team as well :) - and some opportunity for the communities to use
> such results.
>
> Cheers,
> Denny
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] TPP - copyright

[Ryan Kaldari]

I don't see anything in the TPP requiring retroactive application of
copyright terms. We'll have to wait and see how the various countries
choose to apply the new terms. Applying terms retroactively is uncommon,
but possible. We also have no idea when these countries are actually going
to apply the new terms. It took the UK 100 years to apply the terms of the
Berne Convention after signing it. If a country proposes a retroactive
copyright extension as part of their compliance legislation, it is still
possible to fight the retroactive provision (regardless of what BoingBoing
says). In other words, it's way too early to start talking about deleting
files from Commons. Even the URAA took 18 years from the time it was passed
until Commons had to actually deal with it (due to the *Golan v. Holder*
decision).

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Gnangarra  wrote:

> We have a new problem to face in the coming months assuming countries
> ratify the Trans Pacific Partnership
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership
>
> The text of the agreement has been released in the last 24 hours, early
> commentary is indicating that copyright changes will occur restoring
> copyright to some works that are currently PD.
> http://boingboing.net/2015/11/06/how-tpp-will-clobber-canadas.html
>
> According reports this will affect media sourced in Canada where copyright
> will be extended from 50-70 years meaning that image sin this period may
> need to be deleted both on commons and on en:wp, Australian sourced images
> face a similar issue as will other countries.
>
> Rather than a piece meal commons copyright battle, and a duplicate one on
> en:wp being lead by  unqualified wikilawyers resulting in project
> discrepancies. I'm calling on the community to take  more holistic approach
> and request that the WMF ask for its legal eagles to give an edict we can
> take or communities to explain what will happen in each jurisdiction as the
> TPP is ratified.
>
> This will also give us guidance as to how Affiliates can approach and
> support activities locally  to ensure material that is already freely
> available remains so.
>
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Announcing Danny Horn's move to Community Tech

[Ryan Kaldari]

Howdy (my apologies for cross-posting),

I'm pleased to announce that the Community Tech team has a new Product
Manager – Danny Horn, who will be moving from the Collaboration team to
join this new initiative. The Community Tech team is focused on building
improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia
editors.[1] Danny will be working with the team to develop the upcoming
Community Wishlist Survey, which will help the team define and prioritize
future projects.[2] We're excited to have someone with Danny's product
management experience as well as extensive wiki community experience
working with this team.

Danny’s role on the Collaboration team will be filled by a new Product
Manager which the Foundation is hiring for now. There’s an open job posting
on the WMF job board.[3]

Looking forward to working with Danny to build some awesome tools for the
community!

1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team
2.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team/Community_Wishlist_Survey
3. https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/104264?t=k7xsjm

Ryan Kaldari
Engineering Manager, Community Tech
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Gendergap-I] Re: Fundraising banners (again)

[Ryan Kaldari]

Why would you need an "IT team" to track the A/B testing? 100% of the code
for the banners and banner delivery is publicly accessible and there is a
detailed automatically-generated log of all changes to fundraising banners
and campaigns (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNoticeLogs).
If you want anybody to believe your asinine conspiracy theories, you're
going to need to point to some code to prove it.

Kaldari

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Site Admin <1924@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear David
>
> This is yet another example of how Wikipedia is seriously broken
>
> Here is a screenshot of a deliberate full screen advt being thrust on
> the global south.
> http://i.imgur.com/2J0FgAP.jpg
>
> Our IT team has extensively engaged in tracking the A-B testing WMF is
> doing.
> Here are some raw findings
>
> 1. WMF seems able to access Google's data base API to target logged-in
> Google
> users for their ads text content and initial banner size.
>
> 2. Males get larger banners then females.
>
> 3. Persons in UK and India get a large percentage of full screen ads.
> Something to do with
>
> 4. Multiple viewed pages get these advts. In other words they don't
> stop / give up after you've clicked the "X" and said "no".
>
> 5. Logged in Wikipedian declared females {we had a tiny sample
> size on this} got advts no larger than 25% screen size.
>
> 6. The more "males" refuse these advts by clicking the "X",
> the larger the advt size on your next visit. In one case, an
> especially persistent "no" sayer, the banner width was 8x his
> actual screen width.
>
> HRA1924
>
> On 12/5/14, David Gerard  wrote:
> > Just used a not-logged-in browser for once. Literally the whole page
> > was the ad. It was startlingly obnoxious. I'm sure you can get
> > startling click-through rates with an ad that appears to completely
> > replace the thing you actually went to the page for.
> >
> > - d
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Reasonator use in Wikipedias

[Ryan Kaldari]

Can you explain how such a {{Reasonator}} template would actually work. You
say that it would be a stand-in until the article was actually written, but
how would it know when the article is actually written? Is there a way to
access the target article's state via Lua?

From a community perspective, linking to external sites from body content
is normally frowned upon (on en.wiki at least), even if the link is to a
sister project. There are two main reasons for this:
1. It discourages the creation of new articles via redlinks
2. It can be confusing for readers to be sent to other sites while surfing
Wikipedia content. (This is one of reasons why the WMF Multimedia team has
been developing the Media Viewer.)

My suggestion would be to leave the redlinks intact, but to provide a
pop-up when hovering over the redlinks (similar to Navigation pop-ups (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups)). This
pop-up could provide a small set of core data (via an ajax request) and
also a link to the full Reasonator page. I would probably implement this as
a gadget first and do a few design iterations based on user-feedback before
proposing it as something for readers.

Ryan Kaldari


On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Magnus Manske  wrote:

> On a technical note, Reasonator is pure JavaScript, so should be easily
> portable, even to a Wikipedia:Reasonator.js page (or several pages, with
> support JS).
>
> git here:
> https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/reasonator
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Ryan Lane  wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Gerard Meijssen
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hoi,
> > >
> > > At this moment Wikipedia "red links" provide no information whatsoever.
> > > This is not cool.
> > >
> > > In Wikidata we often have labels for the missing (=red link) articles.
> We
> > > can and do provide information from Wikidata in a reasonable way that
> is
> > > informative in the "Reasonator". We also provide additional search
> > > information on many Wikipedias.
> > >
> > > In the Reasonator we have now implemented "red lines" [1]. They
> indicate
> > > when a label does not exist in the primary language that is in use.
> > >
> > > What we are considering is creating a template {{Reasonator}} that will
> > > present information based on what is available in Wikidata. Such a
> > template
> > > would be a stand in until an article is actually written. What we would
> > > provide is information that is presented in the same way as we provide
> it
> > > as this moment in time [2]
> > >
> > > This may open up a box of worms; Reasonator is NOT using any caching.
> > There
> > > may be lots of other reasons why you might think this proposal is evil.
> > All
> > > the evil that is technical has some merit but, you have to consider
> that
> > > the other side of the equation is that we are not "sharing in the sum
> of
> > > all knowledge" even when we have much of the missing requested
> > information
> > > available to us.
> > >
> > > One saving (technical) grace, Reasonator loads round about as quickly
> as
> > > WIkidata does.
> > >
> > > As this is advance warning, I hope that you can help with the issues
> that
> > > will come about. I hope that you will consider the impact this will
> have
> > on
> > > our traffic and measure to what extend it grows our data.
> > >
> > > The Reasonator pages will not show up prettily on mobile phones .. so
> > does
> > > Wikidata by the way. It does not consider Wikipedia zero. There may be
> > more
> > > issues that may require attention. But again, it beats not serving the
> > > information that we have to those that are requesting it.
> > >
> >
> > I have a strong feeling you're going to bring labs to its knees.
> >
> > Sending editors to labs is one thing, but you're proposing sending
> readers
> > to labs, to a service that isn't cached.
> >
> > If reasonator is something we want to support for something like this,
> > maybe we should consider turning it into a production service?
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanking anonymous users

[Ryan Kaldari]

These are two reason we don't have Thanks for anonymous editors:
1. Anonymous editors don't get notifications
2. Multiple editors often share the same IP address
Problem #2 isn't as prominent as it use to be, but there are still many
large companies and schools that connect to the internet through a single
IP. I imagine that once IPv6 is widely in use, this problem will go away
and we'll be able to turn on all notifications (including Thanks) for
anonymous editors.

Ryan Kaldari
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [cultural-partners] When was the first...? Your input is needed

[Ryan Kaldari]

The first Wiki photo competition (that I'm aware of) was Wikipedia Takes
Manhattan in Spring 2008.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Manhattan/Spring_2008

Ryan Kaldari


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Sarah Stierch wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I know we have some "wiki historians," on our mailing lists... I'm
> crowdsourcing information from the community about when the first:
>
> -GLAM content donation(s) happened
> -online editing contest(s) (i.e. WikiCup, Iberocoop women contest, type of
> events) happened
> -photo competition(s) (i.e. Wiki Takes, Wiki Loves) happened
>
> Now, some of us have different stories than others, and that is OK. I'd
> love to hear what you think was "the first," in the Wikimedia community.
>
> Your participation is important, as I'll be using this...oral history of
> sorts - to write brief histories of these three programs for our upcoming
> Data Collection Survey Report* that the Program Evaluation & Design team is
> writing. And hopefully these histories will benefit others in the movement.
>
> Participate here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Parlor/Questions
>
> I won't be tracking or documenting responses on this mailing list, so
> please share your responses and knowledge on meta. Thank you! Forward as
> necessary!!
>
> -Sarah
>
> *name may change
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[Wikimedia-l] banner loading optimization

[Ryan Kaldari]

In preparation for this year's fundraiser, I've put a good deal of 
effort into optimizing the speed of CentralNotice banner loading. Under 
ideal conditions (fast connection, no servers acting up, not many JS 
gadgets to compete with), it should take less than a second. Hopefully, 
this will reduce the "banner bump" problem and cause fewer misplaced 
clicks. For all the gory details see:

http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/CentralNotice/Optimizing_banner_loading#2012_update

These optimizations went into place last week and are now live on all 
wikis. If you have any comments or questions, please email me personally 
(I don't read wikimedia-l very often).


Cheers,
Ryan Kaldari

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[Wikimedia-l] crazy deletionists!

[Ryan Kaldari]

First they deleted Michelle Obama's arms,[1] now they want to get rid of 
Justin Bieber on Twitter.[2] What is the world coming to!


[1] 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Michelle_Obama%27s_arms
[2] 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Justin_Bieber_on_Twitter


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