Re: [Wikimedia-l] Google Summer of Code 2018: Call for projects and mentors

[Srishti Sethi]

Hello all,

We are approaching towards the beginning of the student application period
in two weeks time. If you have a project in mind that you would have the
time and interest to mentor, please create a task on Wikimedia Phabricator
and add a Google-Summer-of-Code-2018
 tag to it in the
next few days or so.

Check out the existing ideas for projects and program timeline here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2018.

More information for mentors:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Mentors.

Let me know if you've questions!

Cheers,
Srishti

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Srishti Sethi 
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Wikimedia has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer
> of Code 2018!
>
> We already have recruited six project ideas and mentors, but we are
> looking for a minimum of *14-15 ideas* more, as Google Summer of Code is
> a neat platform to bring new developers :) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki
> /Google_Summer_of_Code/2018
>
> If you are interested in mentoring a project, but not sure what the roles
> and responsibilities of a mentor are like, take a look at our guide:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Mentors. Feel free
> to propose your own idea, or help by mentoring one of the below listed,
> curated from the possible-tech-projects workboard:
>
>1. Tools for volunteers to make it easier to improve the Wikispeech
>lexicon https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161310
>2. Notification your file was used https://phabricator.wikimedia.
>org/T77154
>3. Notify users about deletion tags being added to pages they created
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123866
>
>4. Implement HTML e-mail support in MediaWiki
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T15303
>
>5. Implement Internet Archive BookReader in Commons & Wikisource
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154100
>
>6. Create tool to generate, track and show metrics for Tech News
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91335
>
>7. Merge proofread text back into Djvu files
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59807
>
>8. Allow having an on-wiki ToDo list per user
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48103
>
>9. Allow contributors to update their own details in tech metrics
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60585
>
>10. Convert WikiLove from jQuery UI to OOUI
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89815
>
>11. Add VisualEditor support to the Quiz extension
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148972
>
>12. Pywikibot: Implement support for flagged revisions
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57081
>
>
> Sidenote: These are only ideas, and we do not encourage students to pick
> them unless we have recruited at least two mentors for a project.
>
> We are also participating in Outreachy Round 16 and funding up to two
> projects: https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/. Help us
> spread the word about Wikimedia's participation in these programs :)
>
> Cheers,
> Srishti
>
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> Developer Advocate
> Technical Collaboration team
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF)
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Fake news ‘vaccine’: online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propaganda tactics

[James Salsman]

Here is a good example of instructional software to solve a systemic
communication issue:

https://www.getbadnews.com/

Ref.: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180220093555.htm

How can we sustain progress towards resolution of the issues?

Also, does the date by which Titan is likely to be colonized correlate
with the extent to which progress has been achieved? This is not the
first time I have asked this question here, and I hope the answer is
as clear to everyone else as it is to me: it correlates inversely.

I wonder if the Foundation could afford to have David Attenborough
narrate the interaction between Cambridge Analytica and Cambridge
University. They would if they'd start investing in unskimmable
endowment funds. Make donors' money work hard, with a screening for
sustainability.

Bring back the regular email to donors suggesting other organizations
worthy of their money, and tell them how to avoid being skimmed by
high frequency traders, too, please.

Best regards,
Jim

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 18 February 2018)

[James Salsman]

I am happy about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpmRWCE7F_I=30m30s

Aaron Halfaker describes optimized ways to refine backlog presentation.

But I am unhappy that his first slides are missing and I hope he will
post the whole deck.

Also I would love to see the Turkish Wikipedia in InterPlanetary File
System, or at least its dumps.


On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Pine W  wrote:
> What's making me happy this week is Isarra's persistence in working on the
> Timeless skin. Timeless is based on Winter. [0] [1]
>
> For anyone who would like to try Timeless, it's available in Preferences
> under Appearance / Skin.
>
> What's making you happy this week?
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
> [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Timeless
> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Winter
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategy Report Released: Wikimedia 2030: Wikimedia’s role in shaping the future of the information commons

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Nina Simon wrote a blog post [1] that I think has a lot of merit for what
we could do to gain relevance. Nina is big in the GLAM world and the museum
she works for has an approach that will have a big effect when we consider
it carefully and implement it in the best way we can.
Thanks,
  GerardM

[1]
http://museumtwo.blogspot.nl/2018/02/are-participant-demographics-most.html

On 19 February 2018 at 01:26, Pine W  wrote:

> Caitlin, thanks for sharing this.
>
> My general thoughts are below. These are not directed at Caitlin or anyone
> else in particular.
>
> I think that the document does a generally good job of outlining trends and
> asking questions. I think that I agree with about 95% of what's in the
> document. I agree especially strongly that there should be more emphasis on
> improving the user experience for those who wish to contribute content
> using mobile devices.
>
> My most significant concern is with the question that the document asks
> staff: "How will the Wikimedia Foundation assert and balance leadership of
> the Wikimedia movement with its role fostering a robust volunteer culture?"
> WMF's role is that of a public service organization, not a central
> management agency, and "assert(ing)" leadership is the opposite of what WMF
> should do. Wikimedia's culture is collective rather than monarchical. Staff
> and Board members should be trained to understand that their role is to
> serve the public interest, and not to manage or supervise the community.
>
> Leadership of individual projects, initiatives, and teams happens in many
> ways inside and outside of WMF, and leadership skills are important.
> However, I believe that leadership of the entire movement is not and should
> not be WMF's role. WMF can be the facilitator, but should not be the
> manager. In the recent past we had a vivid demonstration of what happens
> when there are governance problems in WMF.
>
> I think that good questions would be:
>
> 1. How can WMF better align its internal priorities with those of the
> community? There has been progress on this during the past few years, and I
> would like to see continued progress.
>
> 2. How can WMF evolve such that if WMF became dysfunctional or inoperable,
> the remaining organizations and people in the Wikimedia ecosystem could
> continue to thrive?
>
> I also would like to see questions about the governance and financial
> transparency of the Wikimedia Foundation, for example by asking questions
> such as "Should WMF decentralize some of its current functions?", "Should
> WMF become a membership organization?", and "Should WMF increase its
> financial transparency?"
>
> After reading the document, I'm left wondering how to make progress on some
> of the issues that the document outlines. We've known about some of these
> issues for years, and in a number of cases WMF has funded efforts to
> address them, but in multiple cases we have had limited success.
>
> Even when we have agreement about the nature of challenges and that we'd
> like to address them, we don't necessarily know how to address them
> effectively. I think that the document does a good job of asking us
> questions that we should explore, and probably will continue to explore for
> many years.
>
> We need considerably more human resources than we have now on many fronts,
> including more contributors in diverse languages, contributors with the
> skills and tools improve the visual experience of Wikimedia content, and
> contributors who can protect the sites from interference from people who
> harm the integrity of the information on Wikimedia sites. I am not sure how
> we make that happen, or that it will happen. I fear that it will only
> happen after AI takes over a considerable number of jobs that humans do
> today, so that there is a significant increase of global unemployment and
> under-employment of people who have the skills and the will to contribute
> to Wikimedia. I hope that I'm wrong.
>
> I realize that this email sounds a bit pessimistic. I think that there are
> numerous significant challenges for us. I am hoping for the best. In the
> short term we are doing okay, and we continue to numerous incremental
> successes. In the long term, I am worried.
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] User:Bhadani has passed

[Ravishankar Ayyakkannu]

I am sad to know this news about User:Bhadani's demise.

I knew him as a very wise person with an open mind.

That he chose to write his autobiography as a Wikipedian shows how much he
valued the movement.

My heartfelt condolences to his family.

Ravi


On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 5:55 PM, Sydney Poore 
wrote:

> Very sorry to learn of his passing. He will be missed.
>
> Sydney
>
> Sydney Poore
> User:FloNight
> Co-founder Kentucky Wikimedians,
> Co-founder WikiWomen User Group,
> Co-founder WikiConference North America
> Board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 8:56 PM, Md. Ibrahim Husain 
> wrote:
>
> > Our fellow Wikipedian Gangadhar Bhadani has passed away 8th February
> 2018.
> > He was one of the active Indian Wikipedians on English passionately
> > contributing since 2005.
> > May his soul rest in peace.
> >
> > Mohammad Ibrahim Husain Meraj
> > Member, Wikimedia Bangladesh
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[Wikimedia-l] wikiclass

[Masoud Abdoli]

 It is about an online video chat platform or social media that allows
people to make their own profile and they can make a video chat with anyone
else for educational purpose. First, people have to make a profile about
their abilities and upload their resume and choosing a price for a chat
with other people and other users can do the payments with a payment
service and start a video chat. It can be one-way or two-way and private or
public video chat and it’s suitable for freelancers. It may also have a
10-minute trial mode for the beginner or a preview for advanced users.

People can rate themselves, they can run classes on this platform and
somehow if they want to provide vital counseling like medical counseling
they have to approve first. In fact, there is two kind of users, first,
people who present materials, second, people who pay for these educational
materials.

One of the problems of searching on the internet to find an answer to your
question is sometimes it takes a lot of time to find the answer. I think
this online video chat might be the answer. it will design into several
categories how people easily access to right ones.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiclass
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[Wikimedia-l] Starting School Activity: Possible Support and Tips

[Zubin JAIN]

Hi,
I'm trying to start a new school activity at my high school geared towards
contributing to Wikimedia projects and was wondering what support is
available?
Sincerely,
Zubin Jain
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [libraries] Wikimedia and Libraries User Group Steering Committee Election

[Samat]

Congratulations, and good luck! :)

Best,
Samat / Tamás


On 16 February 2018 at 20:24, UY Scuti  wrote:

> If you are interested and are eagerly awaiting the results of this
> election, the wait is over, the results are out! Head to
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Library_User_
> Group/Steering_committee_election_2018 to find out the winners. And don't
> forget to wish them good luck!
>
> Thanks,
> Aaron
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group

[Jean-Philippe Béland]

I had proposed to create a project called WikiLang to teach languages on a
Wikimedia platform, but it didn't attract enough attention so I moved the
content to the Wikiversity and that's what you see there with the Atikamekw
language.

JP


On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:26 AM mathieu stumpf guntz <
psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote:

> This is a great news, thank you Kirill, and all member of this group for
> their work of unvaluable importance regarding language diversity.
>
> Are they any plane to collect traditional tales and songs in addition to
> Lingua Libre sessions?
>
> By the way, I see we have Atikamekw
>  courses on
> Wikiversity, altough it seems more like a stub. I think it would be
> interesting to have an evaluation matrix of languages courses we have in
> Wikimedia projects, and it might be a good idea to coordinate efforts
> around language courses. Actually I think it could be an interesting
> path to both attract new contributors and provide people opportunity to
> have meaningful practical use of what they learn, if each lesson could
> be matched with some text to translate extracted from some of our Wiki
> projects. What is your opinion about that?
>
> Cheers
>
> Le 13/02/2018 à 16:45, Kirill Lokshin a écrit :
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> > the Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group [1] as
> a
> > Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to support the creation and
> > development of Wikimedia projects and other language-related free
> knowledge
> > initiatives in the indigenous languages of North America.
> >
> > Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kirill Lokshin
> > Chair, Affiliations Committee
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_North_American_Indigenous_Languages_User_Group
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, February 21, 2018 [External]

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone!

Just a reminder that this month's research showcase will happen today at
11:30 AM (PST) 19:30 (UTC)!

Hope to see you there!

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Quick correction.
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, February
> 21, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) *19:30 (UTC).*
>
> Kindly,
>
> Sarah R.
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:38 AM, Sarah R  wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, February
>> 21, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
>>
>> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpmRWCE7F_I
>>
>> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
>> And, you can watch our past research showcases here
>> .
>>
>> This month's presentation:
>>
>> *Visual enrichment of collaborative knowledge bases*
>>
>> By Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> Images allow us to explain, enrich and complement knowledge without
>> language barriers [1]. They can help illustrate the content of an item in a
>> language-agnostic way to external data consumers. Images can be extremely
>> helpful in multilingual collaborative knowledge bases such as Wikidata.
>>
>> However, a large proportion of Wikidata items lack images. More than 3.6M
>> Wikidata items are about humans (Q5), but only 17% of them have an image
>> associated with them. Only 2.2M of 40 Million Wikidata items have an image.
>> A wider presence of images in such a rich, cross-lingual repository could
>> enable a more complete representation of human knowledge.
>>
>> In this talk, we will discuss challenges and opportunities faced when
>> using machine learning and computer vision tools for the visual enrichment
>> of collaborative knowledge bases. We will share research to help Wikidata
>> contributors make Wikidata more “visual” by recommending high-quality
>> Commons images to Wikidata items. We will show the first results on
>> free-licence image quality scoring and recommendation and discuss future
>> work in this direction.
>>
>> [1] Van Hook, Steven R. "Modes and models for transcending cultural
>> differences in international classrooms." Journal of Research in
>> International Education 10.1 (2011): 5-27. http://journals.sagepub.com/do
>> i/abs/10.1177/1475240910395788
>>
>> *Backlogs—backlogs everywhere: Using machine classification to clean up
>> the new page backlog*
>>
>> By Aaron Halfaker, Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> If there's one insight that I've had about the functioning of Wikipedia
>> and other wiki-based online communities, it's that eventually self-directed
>> work breaks down and some form of organization becomes important for task
>> routing.  In Wikipedia specifically, the notion of "backlogs" has become
>> dominant.  There's backlogs of articles to create, articles to clean up,
>> articles to assess, new editor contributions to review, manual of style
>> rules to apply, etc.  To a community of people working on a backlog, the
>> state of that backlog has deep effects on their emotional well being.  A
>> backlog that only grows is frustrating and exhausting.
>>
>> Backlogs aren't inevitable though and there are many shapes that backlogs
>> can take.  In my presentation, I'll tell a story about where English
>> Wikipedia editors defined a process and set of roles that formed a backlog
>> around new page creations.  I'll make the argument that this formalization
>> of quality control practices has created a choke point and that
>> alternatives exist. Finally I'll present a vision for such an alternative
>> using models that we have developed for ORES, the open machine prediction
>> service my team maintains.
>>
>> --
>> Sarah R. Rodlund
>> Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
>> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>>
>>
>
>
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> Hic sunt leones
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>
> *“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
> matter.”  ~ Martin Luther King Jr
> *
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group

[Jean-Philippe Béland]

 I forgot to include the link to the WikiLang portal on the Wikiversity:
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Wikilang

JP


On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 1:58 PM Jean-Philippe Béland 
wrote:

> I had proposed to create a project called WikiLang to teach languages on a
> Wikimedia platform, but it didn't attract enough attention so I moved the
> content to the Wikiversity and that's what you see there with the Atikamekw
> language.
>
> JP
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:26 AM mathieu stumpf guntz <
> psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote:
>
>> This is a great news, thank you Kirill, and all member of this group for
>> their work of unvaluable importance regarding language diversity.
>>
>> Are they any plane to collect traditional tales and songs in addition to
>> Lingua Libre sessions?
>>
>> By the way, I see we have Atikamekw
>>  courses on
>> Wikiversity, altough it seems more like a stub. I think it would be
>> interesting to have an evaluation matrix of languages courses we have in
>> Wikimedia projects, and it might be a good idea to coordinate efforts
>> around language courses. Actually I think it could be an interesting
>> path to both attract new contributors and provide people opportunity to
>> have meaningful practical use of what they learn, if each lesson could
>> be matched with some text to translate extracted from some of our Wiki
>> projects. What is your opinion about that?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Le 13/02/2018 à 16:45, Kirill Lokshin a écrit :
>> > Hi everyone!
>> >
>> > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
>> recognized
>> > the Wikimedians of North American Indigenous Languages User Group [1]
>> as a
>> > Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to support the creation and
>> > development of Wikimedia projects and other language-related free
>> knowledge
>> > initiatives in the indigenous languages of North America.
>> >
>> > Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Kirill Lokshin
>> > Chair, Affiliations Committee
>> >
>> > [1]
>> >
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_North_American_Indigenous_Languages_User_Group
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