Re: [Wikimedia-l] Qu'est-ce qui te rend heureuse cette semaine? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 14 October 2018)

[Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l]

Great story from Yann, thanks for sharing.

Nattes à chat



> Le 14 oct. 2018 à 23:23, Pine W  a écrit :
> 
> Recently I spent some time on Commons, and I came across two things that I
> especially appreciated.
> 
> The first is a story on Yann's user page
> . While I think that
> experience with participating on public Wikimedia projects is an important
> qualification for many roles in the Wikimedia universe, this story reminds
> the reader to place edit count into a wider perspective.
> 
> ---
> 
> 
> *A novice was once curious about the nature of the Edit Count. He
> approached the Zen master and asked, "Zen master, what is the nature of the
> Edit Count?""The Edit Count is as a road," replied the Zen master. "You
> must travel the road to reach your destination, and some may travel longer
> roads than others. But do not judge the person at your door by the length
> of the road he has travelled to reach you."*
> 
> 
> *And the novice was Enlightened.*
> 
> *---*
> 
> The second thing that I especially liked on Commons is this photo
> 
> that was taken in Laos by Basile Morin. As you can guess, I generally like
> trees.
> 
> On a different subject, Markus Kroetzsch wrote
> 
> to the Wikidata list that he is "happy to report that we" (Stanislav
> Malyshev, Markus Krötzsch, Larry González, Julius Gonsior, and Adrian
> Bielefeldt) "have just won the Best Paper Award of the In-Use track of this
> year's International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), for our description of
> the SPARQL/RDF technology use on Wikidata. I keep telling people here that
> the general awesomeness of Wikidata is the work of many, and in particular
> of this great community of editors."
> 
> In older news, some time ago I was told about this video on Commons
>  by Trey
> Jones that provides an introduction to full-text search. I thought that
> presentation was very interesting.
> 
> What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any
> language.
> 
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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[Wikimedia-l] Qu'est-ce qui te rend heureuse cette semaine? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 14 October 2018)

[Pine W]

Recently I spent some time on Commons, and I came across two things that I
especially appreciated.

The first is a story on Yann's user page
. While I think that
experience with participating on public Wikimedia projects is an important
qualification for many roles in the Wikimedia universe, this story reminds
the reader to place edit count into a wider perspective.

---


*A novice was once curious about the nature of the Edit Count. He
approached the Zen master and asked, "Zen master, what is the nature of the
Edit Count?""The Edit Count is as a road," replied the Zen master. "You
must travel the road to reach your destination, and some may travel longer
roads than others. But do not judge the person at your door by the length
of the road he has travelled to reach you."*


*And the novice was Enlightened.*

*---*

The second thing that I especially liked on Commons is this photo

that was taken in Laos by Basile Morin. As you can guess, I generally like
trees.

On a different subject, Markus Kroetzsch wrote

to the Wikidata list that he is "happy to report that we" (Stanislav
Malyshev, Markus Krötzsch, Larry González, Julius Gonsior, and Adrian
Bielefeldt) "have just won the Best Paper Award of the In-Use track of this
year's International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), for our description of
the SPARQL/RDF technology use on Wikidata. I keep telling people here that
the general awesomeness of Wikidata is the work of many, and in particular
of this great community of editors."

In older news, some time ago I was told about this video on Commons
 by Trey
Jones that provides an introduction to full-text search. I thought that
presentation was very interesting.

What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any
language.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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[Wikimedia-l] Affcom's lack of response in Brazil's next steps

[Chico Venancio]

With another misleading public statement from Maor regarding the Brazilian
situation I would like to publicly ask Affcom to clarify what was
inaccurate in my report.

It would also be a good idea to have responses on the page Affcom created
over 2 months ago asking for questions and has abandoned without responses.
[1]

Chico Venancio
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Affiliations_Committee/Brazil_Next_Steps


Em dom, 14 de out de 2018 11:44, Maor Malul  escreveu:

> *Hello,*
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> * As AffCom, we appreciate the interest in the situation with Wikimedia
> Portugal that you have expressed on this thread. Our current focus is on
> working to understand and resolve the conflicts and issues related to
> Wikimedia Portugal, as well as attend to our other duties. However, we did
> want to send a message to this list to clarify some points. First, we would
> like to caution readers of this list against making conclusions regarding
> this particular situation based solely on the information that has been
> shared here. This thread does not present a complete and accurate picture
> of the situation in Portugal (or the situation in Brazil, for that matter).
> Though not comprehensive, we would like to provide a brief summary of the
> situation, based on the information AffCom has received. As has mostly been
> outlined previously in this thread, after WMPT’s years of inactivity,
> recently, multiple individuals have become involved trying to create
> activity and revitalize the chapter. However, those individuals have
> conflicted with each other. Things escalated quickly, with various
> accusations and threats being made. Earlier this year, AffCom was informed
> of the conflict by the parties and began communicating with the individuals
> involved. Despite AffCom's efforts to de-escalate the situation, certain
> individual actions have kept intensifying it. As the conflict was
> preventing the chapter from being able to engage in productive activity,
> AffCom took the step of suspension, with clear requirements for the chapter
> to meet to lift the suspension and avoid de-recognition. One of the larger
> issues that WMPT has had to address is the lack of clear leadership of the
> chapter following its two previous general assemblies. As detailed in the
> suspension notice, there were issues reported to AffCom related to both IX
> General Assembly (held on December 14, 2017) as well as X General Assembly
> (held on April 15, 2018). In both cases, the best information available to
> AffCom suggests that the meetings did not comply with the relevant portions
> of the Chapter's bylaws and may not have complied with applicable local
> laws. Wikimedia organizations are expected to fulfill all of their legal
> and organizational governance requirements. These issues prompted the
> requirement that WMPT convene a new assembly and elections process (held on
> September 1, 2018), with the goal of holding an assembly which clearly
> follows the relevant procedural requirements. Along with convening the
> assembly, WMPT has currently met the requirements based on the timeline set
> in the suspension notice from AffCom in July. They submitted their required
> materials on time, and now AffCom is reviewing them. However, AffCom has
> also received other information relating to the chapter's compliance with
> particular governance requirements. AffCom is currently evaluating this
> information along with the materials submitted by the chapter. AffCom will
> be in touch with the chapter regarding any additional information we need.
> We want to emphasize that Wikimedia Portugal is not being held to a
> different or higher standard compared to other chapters, but is being held
> to the standard expectations for chapter status. While we understand that
> monitoring of compliance with those expectations may have been less
> consistent in the past, we have been working in recent years to ensure that
> all chapters are meeting the same basic standards. When a chapter is not in
> compliance, there are several reminders and opportunities for correction in
> advance of suspension. We suspend a chapter only if it does not
> self-correct in response to the repeated reminders and/or warnings.  Once a
> chapter is suspended, we strive to provide a reasonable window for
> remediation. Wikimedia Portugal has been on the committee’s radar due to
> its years of minimal activity. As further conflict issues have surfaced,
> concerns over the group’s capacity have grown. The committee however has no
> wish to “kill” the community, but to ensure they are able to operate in a
> way that upholds Wikimedia movement values and expectations for affiliate
> organizations. A community cannot work effectively if its members are
> spending all their energy on an internal conflict. Significant internal
> conflict can also reflect poorly on the movement as a whole. We have
> responded to this thread because we felt we should weigh in. However, 

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Gender Diversity Visibility Community User Group

[Kirill Lokshin]

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] the Gender Diversity Visibility Community User Group [2] as a Wikimedia
User Group. The group aims to promote, expand, and facilitate the gender
diversity visibility work being done by all language Wikipedias, Commons
and Wikidata, directing the research and development for the project's
unique needs by managing delivery of materials and technology, planning,
and organizing systems to support their production of content.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Gender_Diversity_Visibility_Community_User_Group
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_Diversity_Visibility_Community_User_Group
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[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikipedia Asian Month User Group

[Kirill Lokshin]

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] the Wikipedia Asian Month User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
group aims to support Asian-language Wikipedia communities around the
world, to increase cooperation among Wikimedia communities and affiliates
in Asia, and to enrich Asia-rrelated culture and content on Wikimedia
projects.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikipedia_Asian_Month_User_Group
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Asian_Month_User_Group
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[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong

[Kirill Lokshin]

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Wikimedia Community User Group Hong Kong [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
The group aims to raise awareness of free culture and the Wikimedia
movement among Hong Kong citizens, and to support Hong Kong Wikimedian
communities in English, Chinese, Cantonese and other Wikimedia projects.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Hong_Kong
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Hong_Kong
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