[Wikimedia-l] Change in WMAU Committee

2019-08-29 Thread Robert Myers 
Hi all,

On Sunday 25 August 2019, Wikimedia Australia held its Annual General
Meeting (AGM).

Two long term Committee members, Gideon Digby and Tom Hograth, have taken a
step back from WMAU as Committee members but will be still involved within
the movement.

Current WMAU Committee as of 25 August 2019

Office-bearers

   - Pru Mitchell - President
   - Alex Lum - Vice-President
   - Robert Myers - Secretary
   - Steven Crossin - Treasurer

Ordinary Committee Members

   - Caddie Brain
   - Matthew Moore
   - Jacinta Sutton
   - Sam Wilson

Regards,
Robert

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Join us tomorrow for the FINAL Wikimedia Monthly Activities Meeting

2019-08-29 Thread Leila Zia 
Hi Pine,

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:47 PM Pine W  wrote:

> From what I have seen, I think that Wikimedia Space may be good for some
> use cases, but it's not a substitute for Meta and for many existing public
> communications channels. One use case for Space that does make sense to me
> is that people might want to use it for private group communications.
> However, the platform is under WMF's control, community governance appears
> to be nearly nonexistent, public interest appears to be low at this time,
> and I think that Space fragments discussions onto yet another platform.

I'm not sure if you've already watched the Metrics Meeting today. If
you have not, you may find these helpful:

* Elena's response to a few questions about the governance of Space,
who/what-purpose it's being designed for, how we should evaluate its
success, ...: https://youtu.be/nhoJb6rwkfc?t=3487

* In IRC, whatami shared a link to the Talk pages project:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project

Best,
Leila

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase are published

2019-08-29 Thread Lydia Pintscher 
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 2:06 PM João Alexandre Peschanski
 wrote:
> Dear Franziska!
>
> Welcome to the list! And thanks a lot for your contributions to Wikimedia
> and for the documents you have shared. I will read them with vivid interest!
>
> I am not sure if this is considered --and sorry if it is!-- but it'd be
> wonderful to have in-depth discussions on the vision and strategy papers
> during WikidataCon.

Hey João :)

Yes we will have opportunity to talk about them at WikidataCon. We're
still working out the best way.


Cheers
Lydia

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [foundation-optional] Join us tomorrow for the FINAL Wikimedia Monthly Activities Meeting

2019-08-29 Thread Sasha Redkina 
This meeting will be starting in 20 minutes. Please join us!


On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 11:02 AM Gregory Varnum 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> You are invited to our the Wikimedia monthly activities meeting, taking
> place tomorrow (August 29) starting at 18:00 UTC (11:00 Pacific Daylight
> Time). Please note this will be the last Wikimedia monthly activities
> meeting planned by the Wikimedia Foundation Communications department.
> After speaking with our colleagues and reviewing engagement metrics from
> the past few years, we concluded that there are other efforts in place that
> are better suited to achieve the goals of this meeting.
>
> You can join tomorrow’s final meeting via YouTube:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhoJb6rwkfc
>
> And also in IRC: #wikimedia-office
>
> The agenda will include:
> - Wikimedia movement strategy update
> - Wikipedia’s role in Teenagers lives
> - Wikimedia Space
>
> More information on Meta-Wiki:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_monthly_activities_meetings
>
> When this meeting first began, it provided insights into data that was
> otherwise unavailable or hard to access. Thanks to the amazing efforts of
> staff and volunteers, those metrics are now available and updated regularly
> online. The purpose of the meeting thus shifted to focus on sharing
> progress updates and information from across the movement. We have realized
> however that this approach limits our ability to connect across languages
> and provide the level of detail necessary to create impact.  In addition,
> interest in the meeting has remained steady, but is has not grown, and
> there has been a decrease of interest in presenting.
>
> Fortunately, we have new methods of outreach that allow us to connect with
> wider audiences.. The new Wikimedia Foundation website
> , discussed at last month's meeting,
> has a greater ability to communicate across languages and is already
> helping us reach more people. We are discussing ways to further expand this
> support. The new Wikimedia Space project 
> that will be discussed at this month's meeting provides a central,
> real-time space to have discussions and share information on activities
> across the movement.
>
> We appreciate all of the feedback people have provided over the years, and
> will continue to reflect on any additional input you may have. I also want
> to personally thank the dozens of people that presented over the years and
> the evolving core team that worked every month to put the meeting on. They
> often made it look easy, and I know that is not always the case.
>
> Thank you, and I will have more on this topic during tomorrow's meeting.
>
> -greg
>
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>
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>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Vision and strategy papers for Wikidata and Wikibase are published

2019-08-29 Thread João Alexandre Peschanski 
Dear Franziska!

Welcome to the list! And thanks a lot for your contributions to Wikimedia
and for the documents you have shared. I will read them with vivid interest!

I am not sure if this is considered --and sorry if it is!-- but it'd be
wonderful to have in-depth discussions on the vision and strategy papers
during WikidataCon.

Cheers!

João

Em qua, 28 de ago de 2019 às 13:44, Franziska Heine <
franziska.he...@wikimedia.de> escreveu:

> Dear all,
>
>
> More than 7 years ago we started the development of Wikidata. We started
> out with the main goal of building a central data store for Wikipedia.
> Very quickly we expanded to also covering the other Wikimedia projects.
> Then came the interest from people outside Wikimedia to use Wikidata’s
> data to build their own apps, websites, visualisations and more. And
> last year we witnessed a significant interest in Wikibase, the software
> behind Wikidata.
>
>
> This means our structured data work has expanded very significantly from
> what we started out with. At the same time, over these past few years,
> both WMDE [1] and the WMF [2] have spent significant time and invested
> in supporting the movement strategy work and aligning our organizational
> plans with the movement strategy.
>
>
> Given all this interest, and this moment of opportunity and positive
> change, we felt it was time to sit together and get clarity on the next
> steps for our structured data work. It is important that we know what we
> want to achieve in the next few years, what our long-term hopes are for
> Wikidata and Wikibase, how these align with organisational and movement
> strategy, and what support and resources are required for their success.
>
>
> The result of these conversations include one product vision paper and
> three product strategy papers that we are publishing today:
>
>
>   *
>
> Vision: This paper gives a high-level overview of where we’d like to
> see Wikidata and Wikibase evolve and grow, based on the work of the
> past 7 years and many conversations with community members, movement
> partners, and other stakeholders.
>
>   *
>
> Wikidata for Wikimedia projects: This paper dives deeper into how we
> see Wikidata developing in the context of the Wikimedia projects and
> how it can better support the projects.
>
>   *
>
> Wikidata as a platform: This paper explores the value of Wikidata as
> a source of data for others outside Wikimedia to build upon.
>
>   *
>
> Wikibase Ecosystem: This paper goes deeper into the idea of the
> Wikibase Ecosystem, a network of Wikibase instances which could
> share data and other capacities.
>
>
> We are now inviting you to read the vision and strategy papers and give
> us your feedback. We are collecting this feedback until the end of
> October and will then integrate it as appropriate into a second
> iteration of the papers.
>
>
> The papers are published at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Strategy/2019. Please leave
> your feedback and questions on the associated talk page.
>
> We are looking forward to reading your input.
>
>
> Since this is my first mail to this list, a short introduction about
> myself: I joined Wikimedia Deutschland 2 years ago as the Head of
> Software & Development. I have been working with the Product, UX,
> Engineering and Community Communication people in my department to move
> this amazing project forward.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Franziska
>
> Head of Software & Development, Wikimedia Deutschland
>
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Planning_2019/enand
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Zukunftsprozess/EN
>
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction
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