Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Café online meeting for November 2019

2019-11-20 Thread Lane Rasberry 
Hello,

Wikimedia Café meets tomorrow 21 November 2019 at 1 PM Eastern / 5 PM UTC
(13:00 Eastern / 17:00 UTC)
join zoom video --> https://virginia.zoom.us/my/wikilgbt

See the agenda, joining information, and notes from previous meetings below.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Caf%C3%A9

The topic for discussion in this meeting is the recent WMF/AffCom
de-recognition of Wikimedia India as a chapter. Future meetings can have
any topic of community interest. A goal of these meetings is to produce
media records of conversation for hot topics in the wiki world.

Thanks to Wikipedian Pine for ongoing experiments like this one in
promoting community conversation. If any wiki community member wishes to
play host at this or future online meetups, Pine is good for emailing
notices, I support with note-taking, and participation is welcome for
anyone who can bring in any small group to discuss any wiki topic. Take any
role you like, including friendly observer.

Rules for all meetings - friendly space, follow code of conduct, be nice
and positive and avoid negativity.

thanks -

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 5:23 PM Pine W  wrote:

>  Hello colleagues,
>
> For this month's Wikimedia Café online video meeting we will continue last
> month's discussion regarding Wikimedia activities and organizations in
> India. Additional topics may be added to the agenda.
>
> Please see the page on Meta
>  for more
> information,
> and watch the page for any updates particularly to the schedule or the
> agenda. Signing up for the meeting is optional, but is helpful to the
> organizers so that we can estimate how many people will attend. Signing up
> for the meeting also informs us who we should notify individually if there
> are significant changes, such as to the schedule for the meeting.
>
> The meeting style will emphasize discussion rather than presentation.
> People are welcome to participate as listeners only if they prefer.
>
> If there are any problems with connecting to the meeting or if you have any
> questions or comments then please write on the Meta talk page.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] November 20, 2019 at 9:30 AM PST, 17:30 UTC

2019-11-20 Thread Janna Layton 
If you have not already done so, please send us your feedback on the
Research Showcase with this survey:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecgn8cMu5IfTYRgn93bfOiJVEIL09RRf_WV0dVr6ZnJ8UU_w/viewform

The Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes.

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 3:01 PM Janna Layton  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Reminder that the Research Showcase will be this Wednesday. Details below.
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:22 PM Janna Layton 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, November
>> 20, 2019, at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC. We’ll have a presentation from Martin
>> Potthast of Leipzig University on text reuse in Wikipedia and other
>> presentation from the Wikimedia Foundation’s Isaac Johnson on the
>> demographics and interests of Wikipedia’s readers.
>>
>> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIko_V1k09s
>>
>> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
>> You can also watch our past research showcases here:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
>>
>> This month's presentations:
>>
>> Wikipedia Text Reuse: Within and Without
>>
>> By Martin Potthast, Leipzig University
>>
>> We study text reuse related to Wikipedia at scale by compiling the first
>> corpus of text reuse cases within Wikipedia as well as without (i.e., reuse
>> of Wikipedia text in a  sample of the Common Crawl). To discover reuse
>> beyond verbatim copy and paste, we employ state-of-the-art text reuse
>> detection technology, scaling it for the first time to process the entire
>> Wikipedia as part of a distributed retrieval pipeline. We further report on
>> a pilot analysis of the 100 million reuse cases inside, and the 1.6 million
>> reuse cases outside Wikipedia that we discovered. Text reuse inside
>> Wikipedia gives rise to new tasks such as article template induction,
>> fixing quality flaws, or complementing Wikipedia’s ontology. Text reuse
>> outside Wikipedia yields a tangible metric for the emerging field of
>> quantifying Wikipedia’s influence on the web. To foster future research
>> into these tasks, and for reproducibility’s sake, the Wikipedia text reuse
>> corpus and the retrieval pipeline are made freely available. Paper
>> , Demo
>> 
>>
>>
>> Characterizing Wikipedia Reader Demographics and Interests
>>
>> By Isaac Johnson, Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> Building on two past surveys on the motivation and needs of Wikipedia
>> readers (Why We Read Wikipedia
>> ;
>> Why the World Reads Wikipedia
>> ),
>> we examine the relationship between Wikipedia reader demographics and their
>> interests and needs. Specifically, we run surveys in thirteen different
>> languages that ask readers three questions about their motivation for
>> reading Wikipedia (motivation, needs, and familiarity) and five questions
>> about their demographics (age, gender, education, locale, and native
>> language). We link these survey results with the respondents' reading
>> sessions -- i.e. sequence of Wikipedia page views -- to gain a more
>> fine-grained understanding of how a reader's context relates to their
>> activity on Wikipedia. We find that readers have a diversity of backgrounds
>> but that the high-level needs of readers do not correlate strongly with
>> individual demographics. We also find, however, that there are
>> relationships between demographics and specific topic interests that are
>> consistent across many cultures and languages. This work provides insights
>> into the reach of various Wikipedia language editions and the relationship
>> between content or contributor gaps and reader gaps. See the meta page
>> 
>> for more details.
>>
>> --
>> Janna Layton (she, her)
>> Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology
>> Wikimedia Foundation 
>>
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Techstorm 2019: live on YouTube

2019-11-20 Thread Ciell Wikipedia 
Hi everyone,

Last year the gender gap working group of Wikimedia Netherlands organized
the Women Tech Storm (May 2018) and the first Wiki Techstorm (October
2018). The Techstorm is a very diverse conference, open and inviting to
everyone. Our main aim is increasing diversity within the broader Wikimedia
movement, as well as decreasing the gender gap by emphasising on the
participation of women and non-binairy people to the event.
The Techstorm offers workshops and guidance for people with beginning or
intermediate experience in coding and/or Wikimedia skills, and has a high
mentor-student ratio.

This Friday and Saturday the 22nd and 23rd of November, we come together in
Amsterdam for the Wiki Techstorm 2019. For this years event, we approached
our cultural partners, and have added an extra layer. By working together
with our friends from GLAM institutions all over the Netherlands, we have
collected media and data that will be shared through Wikimedia Commons and
Wikidata this upcoming weekend. This means our participants get hands on
experience on how to process specific tasks, and the institutions get a
better idea of what can be done with their input (collections), what they
can ask of us, and how to get the best results. There will be 11 workshops,
on various fields of developments within Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.
We also invited a few of our expert developers from the Netherlands, to
help us develop and renew apps and tools.

Curious about the event? Or would you like to know the basics of Wikidata
or Commons, al the newest on structured data, how to create a map using
Wikidata, or how to scrape a website?
Please join us through our live streams on the Wikimedia Nederland YouTube
channel. Go to our live stream overview
 on Mediawiki
for the link per session.

More information about this years event can be found on Mediawiki
, an extensive report about our
2018 activities

is also available.

Vriendelijke groet,
Ciell
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[Wikimedia-l] Books & Bytes – Issue 36, September – October 2019

2019-11-20 Thread UY Scuti 
*Books & Bytes – Issue 36, September – October 2019*
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   - #1Lib1Ref January 2020
 - #1Lib1Ref 2019 stories and learnings


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