Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group

[Sean]

Good luck! All the best from the Netherlands ;P

Have a goow weekend, Sian N.H.


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On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 2:50 AM Kirill Lokshin 
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] the Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
> The group aims to aid and encourage people to collect, develop and
> disseminate freely licensed educational content with a focus on
> Slovene-speaking areas, to encourage public and private galleries,
> libraries, archives and museums in Slovenia to make their holdings more
> broadly and freely available, and to collaborate with these institutions in
> an effort to preserve Slovenian heritage.
>
> 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_Wikipedians_of_Slovenia_User_Group
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedians_of_Slovenia_User_Group
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[Wikimedia-l] Dutch Mailing list

[Sean]

Hi to everyone. I recently started working and adding to Wikimedia.

Is there a good manual/guide to start with? and I hope you dont mind me
asking so: but do language specific groups exist also? Suppose in Dutch or
more local to West Europe.

Much obliged

Thanks, Sian N.H.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: Wikimedia's new Chief of Community Engagement

[Max Binder]

Nice work, Maggie. That was a heck of a fill-in.

Welcome, Valerie! :-D

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 1:19 PM camelia boban 
wrote:

> Congratulations both and welcome Valerie. Wish you a wonderful work with
> the Wikimedians community.
>
> Camelia,
> on behalf of WikiDonne UG and AffCom
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 8:32 PM Philippe Beaudette  wrote:
>
> > Sounds like an amazing fit for the Wmf. Congrats to you all, and
> Maggie...
> > Take a break now. Good job.
> >
> > Philippe
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 10:36 AM Maggie Dennis  wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, all.
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 1:32 PM Katherine Maher 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > > Just over a month ago, we let you know that we had the reached the
> > final
> > > > stages of our search for a new Chief of Community Engagement.[1]
> > Today, I
> > > > am thrilled to let you know that we have appointed Valerie D’Costa to
> > the
> > > > role.
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > > I just wanted to follow up myself on Katherine’s note to voice my
> > > enthusiastic and excited congratulations to Valerie on joining us and
> > also
> > > to congratulate *us* on being joined by Valerie. Being part of the
> search
> > > panel looking for our next Chief of Community Engagement was an
> > interesting
> > > and illuminating experience; so many people with so many new...and
> > > different...approaches. I was absolutely electrified when I completed
> my
> > > first interview with Valerie, whose considerate and experienced
> approach
> > to
> > > community resonated with me immediately and deeply. I cannot wait for
> the
> > > opportunity to work with her in her new role. To those of you who
> haven’t
> > > yet: you’ll see what I mean when you meet her. :)
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Maggie
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Maggie Dennis
> > > Chief of Community Engagement (for just a little while longer!)
> > > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

[Scott MacLeod]

Thanks, Ariel, Denny, and Wikimedians,

Re your observations, I wonder, conceptually, if the end-to-end Translation
approach of Google Translate would render what you suggest, Ariel (e.g.
someone could translate an article from a language Wikipedia and this would
produce a single translation i.e. "one article for all
audiences"), whereas developing, conceptually, a different translator
approach - i.e. from Language A to Language B - conceptually, and perhaps
building such a hypothetical translator from Wikidata's Lexicographical
project, could yield  "information depending on their role in the
communities of the speakers of a
given language" (leaving aside the Wikimedia's ContentTranslation project
at this stage).

And I wonder  re 1), Denny and Ariel, beyond cultural contexts /
differences / borders, and your Portugal and Brazil example, whether one
might add in a country approach as well. Re 2 & 3) I wonder what role
interpretation plays in writing a NPOV article in any given language, and
vis-a-vis Abstract Wikipedia too, and how these NPOV interpretations offer
benefits in their great diversity (in terms of Wikipedia's goal: "to build
a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of
all knowledge"), and the benefits of "displaying the local articles
whenever available" for inter-lingual knowledge-generation.

Thanks for the very thoughtful questions and responses.

Cheers, Scott

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 5:25 PM Denny Vrandečić  wrote:

> Hi Ariel,
>
> thanks for the very thoughtful question. I got asked this question every
> time I present it, and during the Blue Sky presentation this question - or
> a variation of it - was asked three times. It really is on top of people's
> mind!
>
> My answer is half inconsistent, I am afraid, because I have by now come up
> with three ways to answer this question, and they contradict each other. So
> I am glad to hear more thoughts on it.
>
> Here are the three answers:
>
> 1) I think that language is a pretty bad delimiter to keep points of view
> apart. Yes, sure, it allows the Japanese Wikipedia to offer a different
> description of World War 2 than the Korean Wikipedia has, but I am not sure
> that is entirely a good thing. We don't have two Wikipedias for Portugal
> and Brazil, they have to agree and what they say, but we have Wikipedias in
> Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Serbocroatian... and I am not sure that the
> outcome of this decision is fully positive. So, my main point is, if we
> really want to capture cultural differences, let's align the borders of the
> editions of Wikipedia along these cultures. But aligning the cultural
> borders solely along language borders is badly imperfect.
>
> 2) But in general, I think that accepting that different Wikipedias should
> have different contents are incompatible with our NPOV policy. Now we could
> have a lengthy discussion whether NPOV is a good policy or not. But in
> general, I'd really prefer to have all points of views being presented with
> their due weight in all languages, instead of using languages to represent
> a point of view only in one language, and have a different point of view in
> another language. I would love to be able to read both the Japanese and the
> Korean point of view on contentious issues between these two countries - as
> I can in Serbian and Croatian, because I can read both languages just fine
> - but I think it is rather problematic that language barriers dictate the
> point of view I have access to. In fact, in many cases, we can see in the
> English speaking Wikipedia how the very same editors from the say Croatian
> and Serbian Wikipedia come to a more balanced result in the English
> Wikipedia, which they wouldn't accept in their 'home' Wikipedias. Funny,
> isn't it?
>
> 3) More importantly, and entirely disagreeing with #1 and #2, is that the
> Abstract Wikipedia never suggests to replace the current language editions,
> but to fill up the gaps in any given language edition. So, if the Croatian
> Wikipedia really wants to go into details on Croatian folk songs and
> Croatian food items, they should be totally able to do so without having to
> feel bad that they might be missing basic information about South American
> countries and Australian Aboriginal cultures. In fact, what I hope is that
> each language edition can choose to display the renderings from the
> Abstract Wikipedia for most articles, and then they can concentrate on
> creating in-depth articles on the topics they really care about - local
> cities, cultures, traditions. I remember in the beginning when working on
> the Croatian Wikipedia - it feels weird to work on the article about a
> local dish if you're still missing articles on all chemical elements. How
> can I write an article about the town my mom lives in (pop. 148) if there
> is no article yet about the country of Mexico? The abstract Wikipedia has
> the ability to lessen that pressure and allow the local communities to
> fo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMSUMMIT19 - 3 days left to register

[Sean]

Did I miss the link to register?

Much obliged

Thanks, Sian N.H.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: Wikimedia's new Chief of Community Engagement

[Isaac Olatunde]

Congratulations to Valerie and of course many thanks to Maggie for all the
good work.

Regards,

Isaac

On Dec 11, 2018 8:32 PM, "Philippe Beaudette"  wrote:

> Sounds like an amazing fit for the Wmf. Congrats to you all, and Maggie...
> Take a break now. Good job.
>
> Philippe
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018, 10:36 AM Maggie Dennis 
> > Hello, all.
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 1:32 PM Katherine Maher 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > Just over a month ago, we let you know that we had the reached the
> final
> > > stages of our search for a new Chief of Community Engagement.[1]
> Today, I
> > > am thrilled to let you know that we have appointed Valerie D’Costa to
> the
> > > role.
> >
> > 
> >
> > I just wanted to follow up myself on Katherine’s note to voice my
> > enthusiastic and excited congratulations to Valerie on joining us and
> also
> > to congratulate *us* on being joined by Valerie. Being part of the search
> > panel looking for our next Chief of Community Engagement was an
> interesting
> > and illuminating experience; so many people with so many new...and
> > different...approaches. I was absolutely electrified when I completed my
> > first interview with Valerie, whose considerate and experienced approach
> to
> > community resonated with me immediately and deeply. I cannot wait for the
> > opportunity to work with her in her new role. To those of you who haven’t
> > yet: you’ll see what I mean when you meet her. :)
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Maggie
> >
> >
> > --
> > Maggie Dennis
> > Chief of Community Engagement (for just a little while longer!)
> > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement: Wikimedia's new Chief of Community Engagement

[Kate Zimmerman]

Welcome, Valerie! I'm thrilled you're joining us and looking forward to
working with & learning from you!

Warm regards,
Kate

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On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:32 AM Katherine Maher 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Just over a month ago, we let you know that we had the reached the final
> stages of our search for a new Chief of Community Engagement.[1] Today, I
> am thrilled to let you know that we have appointed Valerie D’Costa to the
> role. Born and raised a citizen of Singapore, Valerie speaks fluent Malay
> and Indonesian, in addition to English. She will join the Foundation
> starting January 22, 2019, working remotely from Washington, DC.
>
> Valerie joins us after a decade at the World Bank Group, where she was
> charged with leading international initiatives to support communities of
> entrepreneurs in emerging markets around the world. Most recently, she led
> the Bank’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Program, where she helped female
> entrepreneurs and women-led businesses in developing countries grow and
> gain access to new market opportunities. Previously, she was the program
> director of infoDev, a Bank program that supported innovation hubs and
> technology incubators for entrepreneurs in developing countries. Prior to
> the World Bank, Valerie spent 15 years working with the government of
> Singapore on issues of international information and communications
> technology (ICT) policy and trade.
>
> Valerie has worked her whole career in the intersection between technology
> and improving people's lives around the world. She brings a deep
> understanding of the importance of local ownership, collaboration and
> communication, and program sustainability. She emphasizes the importance of
> collaboration with local communities in designing programs and approaches,
> believing that local voices represent the best understanding of their own
> needs.
>
> We were looking for someone with a global perspective, international
> experience, fluency in technology, and a deep empathy for community. We
> wanted a diplomat: Valerie has struck the fine balance between being an
> advocate for the people and communicating their needs to governments and
> partners. We hoped for an ambassador: Valerie brings with her years of
> experience in creating meaningful conversations with communities around the
> world on behalf of those who have been traditionally excluded from
> development planning. We found a dedicated leader who is keen to work in
> service to our community and who understands the uniquely global,
> multicultural nature of collaboration in our movement. Valerie knows that
> we can not attempt achieve our 2030 strategic direction unless we bring
> everyone along, and so she will be charged with building on our approach to
> community engagement, and ensuring that we meet our aspirations for our
> community growth, health, diversity, values, and program outcomes.
>
> This means that Maggie Dennis, our current Chief of Community Engagement,
> will now transition to her role as Vice President of Support & Services,
> having set a (reluctant) personal best and Foundation record as the
> longest-serving CCE! I truly love working with Maggie and am so glad she is
> staying close by in such a critical position. After nearly three years (!)
> of collaboration and cooperation, I’d like to once again express my deep
> appreciation for Maggie’s understanding, friendship, support and dedication
> as she patiently curated this essential role in our movement.
>
> I am truly excited as we embark on this new journey. We are deeply
> fortunate to now have two community leaders who are purpose-driven and
> inspirational on a number of levels. Please join me in congratulating both
> of these phenomenal women!
>
> Katherine
>
> [1]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-October/091259.html
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

[Info WorldUniversity]

Hi Ariel, Denny, and Wikimedians,

I sent this at noon today, but it didn't go through to this email address,
so am re-sending now from here.

Suggestions about how these email lists might work differently?

Best, Scott



Scott MacLeod 
12:01 PM (5 hours ago)
to Wikimedia
Thanks, Ariel, Denny, and Wikimedians,

Re your observations, I wonder, conceptually, if the end-to-end Translation
approach of Google Translate would render what you suggest, Ariel (e.g.
someone could translate an article from a language Wikipedia and this would
produce a single translation i.e. "one article for all
audiences"), whereas developing, conceptually, a different translator
approach - i.e. from Language A to Language B - conceptually, and perhaps
building such a hypothetical translator from Wikidata's Lexicographical
project, could yield  "information depending on their role in the
communities of the speakers of a
given language" (leaving aside the Wikimedia's ContentTranslation project
at this stage).

And I wonder  re 1), Denny and Ariel, beyond cultural contexts /
differences / borders, and your Portugal and Brazil example, whether one
might add in a country approach as well. Re 2 & 3) I wonder what role
interpretation plays in writing a NPOV article in any given language, and
vis-a-vis Abstract Wikipedia too, and how these NPOV interpretations offer
benefits in their great diversity (in terms of Wikipedia's goal: "to build
a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of
all knowledge"), and the benefits of "displaying the local articles
whenever available" for inter-lingual knowledge-generation.

Thanks for the very thoughtful questions and responses.

Cheers, Scott

On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 5:25 PM Denny Vrandečić  wrote:

> Hi Ariel,
>
> thanks for the very thoughtful question. I got asked this question every
> time I present it, and during the Blue Sky presentation this question - or
> a variation of it - was asked three times. It really is on top of people's
> mind!
>
> My answer is half inconsistent, I am afraid, because I have by now come up
> with three ways to answer this question, and they contradict each other. So
> I am glad to hear more thoughts on it.
>
> Here are the three answers:
>
> 1) I think that language is a pretty bad delimiter to keep points of view
> apart. Yes, sure, it allows the Japanese Wikipedia to offer a different
> description of World War 2 than the Korean Wikipedia has, but I am not sure
> that is entirely a good thing. We don't have two Wikipedias for Portugal
> and Brazil, they have to agree and what they say, but we have Wikipedias in
> Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Serbocroatian... and I am not sure that the
> outcome of this decision is fully positive. So, my main point is, if we
> really want to capture cultural differences, let's align the borders of the
> editions of Wikipedia along these cultures. But aligning the cultural
> borders solely along language borders is badly imperfect.
>
> 2) But in general, I think that accepting that different Wikipedias should
> have different contents are incompatible with our NPOV policy. Now we could
> have a lengthy discussion whether NPOV is a good policy or not. But in
> general, I'd really prefer to have all points of views being presented with
> their due weight in all languages, instead of using languages to represent
> a point of view only in one language, and have a different point of view in
> another language. I would love to be able to read both the Japanese and the
> Korean point of view on contentious issues between these two countries - as
> I can in Serbian and Croatian, because I can read both languages just fine
> - but I think it is rather problematic that language barriers dictate the
> point of view I have access to. In fact, in many cases, we can see in the
> English speaking Wikipedia how the very same editors from the say Croatian
> and Serbian Wikipedia come to a more balanced result in the English
> Wikipedia, which they wouldn't accept in their 'home' Wikipedias. Funny,
> isn't it?
>
> 3) More importantly, and entirely disagreeing with #1 and #2, is that the
> Abstract Wikipedia never suggests to replace the current language editions,
> but to fill up the gaps in any given language edition. So, if the Croatian
> Wikipedia really wants to go into details on Croatian folk songs and
> Croatian food items, they should be totally able to do so without having to
> feel bad that they might be missing basic information about South American
> countries and Australian Aboriginal cultures. In fact, what I hope is that
> each language edition can choose to display the renderings from the
> Abstract Wikipedia for most articles, and then they can concentrate on
> creating in-depth articles on the topics they really care about - local
> cities, cultures, traditions. I remember in the beginning when working on
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> local dish if you're still mi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group

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Il giorno sab 15 dic 2018 alle ore 10:59 Shlomi Fish 
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> On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 20:49:45 -0500
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> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> > [1] the Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
> > The group aims to aid and encourage people to collect, develop and
> > disseminate freely licensed educational content with a focus on
> > Slovene-speaking areas, to encourage public and private galleries,
> > libraries, archives and museums in Slovenia to make their holdings more
> > broadly and freely available, and to collaborate with these institutions
> in
> > an effort to preserve Slovenian heritage.
> >
> > Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> >
>
> congratulations and good luck!
>
> > Regards,
> > Kirill Lokshin
> > Chair, Affiliations Committee
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikipedians_of_Slovenia_User_Group
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 20:49:45 -0500
Kirill Lokshin  wrote:

> Hi everyone!
> 
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] the Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
> The group aims to aid and encourage people to collect, develop and
> disseminate freely licensed educational content with a focus on
> Slovene-speaking areas, to encourage public and private galleries,
> libraries, archives and museums in Slovenia to make their holdings more
> broadly and freely available, and to collaborate with these institutions in
> an effort to preserve Slovenian heritage.
> 
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> 

congratulations and good luck!

> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
> 
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikipedians_of_Slovenia_User_Group
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of the Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group

[KuboF Hromoslav]

Hey, Slovene colleagues, best wishes from Slovakia!
Let's Wikimedia movement never know how to distinguish our countries!
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Dňa so, 15. dec 2018 2:50 Kirill Lokshin 
napísal(a):

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] the Wikipedians of Slovenia User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
> The group aims to aid and encourage people to collect, develop and
> disseminate freely licensed educational content with a focus on
> Slovene-speaking areas, to encourage public and private galleries,
> libraries, archives and museums in Slovenia to make their holdings more
> broadly and freely available, and to collaborate with these institutions in
> an effort to preserve Slovenian heritage.
>
> 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_Wikipedians_of_Slovenia_User_Group
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedians_of_Slovenia_User_Group
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