Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-10-18 Thread Isaac Johnson
A few updates from the last few months:

* The surveys successfully ran for one week. We were able to gather 63,000
responses across the 13 languages. I presented preliminary results about
this at Wikimania in August and have now added the high-level results to
Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Demographics_and_Wikipedia_use_cases#June_2019_Results

* More data will be added to the results there as we can validate it.
Specifically, I am hoping to publish country-specific results where we have
sufficient responses as well as data regarding the cross-tabulation of
various questions from the survey and aspects of reader sessions.

* We are currently running a longer survey with lower sampling rates to
test if we are able to reach less-frequent readers of Wikipedia and whether
this changes any of our results. When we have analyzed this information, we
will update the results to indicate whether anything changes.

Best,
Isaac

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:17 AM Leila Zia  wrote:

> An update on this thread:
>
> * We have launched the survey on 2019-06-26 in 15 languages and we
> intend to stop the surveys 7 days after launch time. The current flow
> of responses is as expected.
>
> * The participating languages are: ar, de, en (sampling from all
> countries), en (sampling from countries in Africa), es, fa, fr
> (sampling from all countries), fr (sampling from countries in Africa),
> he, hu, no, ro, ru, uk, zh. (A big thank you to the volunteers in
> these language communities who worked with us to make the translations
> and announcements on village pumps happen.)
>
> * Please watch
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Demographics_and_Wikipedia_use_cases
> if you're interested to receive updates about the research as we go
> through the analysis. (Please expect, roughly, a monthly update
> frequency. If we can do more frequently, we will.)
>
> * If you want the survey to run in your language community, there is a
> chance that we run the same survey in a few weeks time in a few of
> more languages. You can express your interest by adding a line item as
> the last row of the table in
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Demographics_and_Wikipedia_use_cases#Interested_languages
> . Priority is given to languages who have signed up prior to this
> announcement. We can't guarantee that we can run these extra surveys.
>
> And one logistical announcement: As some of you know, Isaac Johnson
> from the Research team is working heavily on this stage of the
> research (demographics+motivation/needs). As a result, some or all of
> the future announcements about this stage of the research may come
> from him instead of me. :)
>
> Best,
> Leila
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:07 PM David Goodman  wrote:
> >
> > Peter, all of these would be useful .  The most useful of all would be a
> > list of those that have been deleted as drafts that were not improved
> for 6
> > months--I havre a partial list, but there is no easy way of screening
> it. A
> > spreadsheet with links to the deleted versions and to the google scholar
> > and worldcat records would be an enormous help--I became an admin 12
> years
> > ago specifically to rescue deleted articles, but there is no systematic
> way
> > of finding them.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 1:33 AM Peter Southwood <
> > peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> >
> > > David,
> > > Would your work be influenced by an analysis of the academic
> biographies
> > > which are most searched for that are not on Wikipedia yet? (assuming
> that
> > > such an targeted analysis was available)
> > > Cheers,
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > PS. An analysis that included a check of whether the topic was likely
> to
> > > be notable and a listing of possible sources would also save a lot of
> > > wasted effort. Also a check against articles that have been deleted for
> > > good reasons, and articles in other languages with a reasonable
> accessible
> > > reference list.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> > > Behalf Of David Goodman
> > > Sent: 12 March 2019 07:15
> > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?
> > >
> > > "with popular topics cannibalizing resources."
> > >
> > > What resources can be cannibalized?   The limiting resource in WP is
> > > interested people writing, improving, and validating  articles.  People
> > > choose their own topics.  This is different from an organization where
> > > staff can be directed to work on what the management think is
> important.
> > >
> > > I, for example, almost totally avoid most aspects of what is popular
> > > culture--I am neither competent nor interested. ) The topics I work on
> are
> > > those that interest me, mainly academic biographies. I'm sure most
> 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming Amanda Keton to the Wikimedia Foundation

2019-10-18 Thread Lukas Mezger
Welcome, Amanda –  I hope you're having a great start!
Regards,

Lukas (2011 WMF legal fellow)

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Am Fr., 4. Okt. 2019 um 00:49 Uhr schrieb Samuel Klein :

> Fantastic news.  Welcome, Amanda.  :)  SJ
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:07 PM Katherine Maher 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I know I’ve sent several announcements to this list in recent months
> > regarding new members of the Wikimedia Foundation’s executive team.
> Today,
> > I’m excited to send the last in this series, and officially welcome
> Amanda
> > Keton as General Counsel to the Wikimedia Foundation. Amanda will be
> > starting on October 7, based in San Diego.
> >
> > Amanda has dedicated her career to many of the same values we share as a
> > movement. She joins us from the San Francisco-based Tides Foundation,
> where
> > she served as General Counsel. Tides is a U.S.-based public foundation
> that
> > distributes donor-advised grants and investments with the mission of
> > building a world of shared prosperity and social justice. Tides was a
> > partner for us in 2016 as we established our endowment, which remains
> > hosted at Tides. Amanda also served as Head of Tides Foundation and
> People
> > Operations and the CEO of Tides Advocacy,  the policy affiliate in the
> > Tides family of organizations.
> >
> > Before her work at Tides, Amanda worked for Ernst & Young providing
> > nonprofit organizations with consulting, advisory, and compliance
> > services.  She currently serves on the Network for Good board and has
> > previously served on a number of other boards dedicated to equity and
> > justice.
> >
> > In Amanda's words, "My work in nonprofits and the values I developed as a
> > social justice advocate make me especially excited to contribute to
> > Wikimedia in its next phase of growth. I want to be part of ensuring that
> > everyone finds a sense of belonging in the free knowledge movement, and
> > together we serve and defend it exceptionally well. After living in the
> Bay
> > Area for 11 years, my family and I recently moved to San Diego to be
> closer
> > to family, as we welcomed our son in August. I am always on a quest to
> find
> > the perfect playground, a new author to binge read, or a fresh recipe to
> > try."
> >
> > Wikimedia always has been unique in the centrality of legal work as a
> > strategic aspect of our movement. From the first days of the Foundation,
> > our legal team has helped defend the Wikimedia communities and the
> > integrity of free knowledge. They work closely with the community to
> > advocate on behalf of open licensing, freedom of expression, net
> > neutrality, privacy, and other critical enabling elements of our mission.
> >
> > I expect the importance of our legal and policy work to continue as we
> > work toward 2030. Today we see expanding government censorship and
> > increased infringements on access to knowledge around the globe. We see
> > threats to community members on the ground, and threats to the integrity
> of
> > information online. Our ability to engage proactively on these issues,
> > through strategic counsel, policy and advocacy, and impactful litigation
> > will continue to grow in importance to the Wikimedia mission. I’m excited
> > for Amanda to lead the Foundation’s accomplished Legal department as we
> go
> > forward.
> >
> > I also want to take a moment to personally thank and acknowledge Tony
> > Sebro for his excellent work serving as interim General Counsel and
> > Secretary to the Board of Trustees while we searched to fill the position
> > permanently. Tony was a deft and thoughtful partner in addressing issues
> > ranging from copyright policy to malicious DDOS attacks to board
> > governance, and a valued voice on the Foundation’s leadership team.
> Amanda
> > will continue to work closely with Tony as he resumes the position of
> > Deputy General Counsel.
> >
> > Please join me in welcoming Amanda to the Foundation!
> >
> > Katherine
> >
> > --
> >
> > Katherine Maher (she/her)
> >
> > Executive Director
> >
> > Wikimedia Foundation 
> >
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[Wikimedia-l] Membership now open for Movement communications group (MoveCom)

2019-10-18 Thread Gregory Varnum
Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation Communications department has completed the
transition of the old Communications committee to the Movement
communications group. The members of the original group were invited to
rejoin, and more than half have done so. We are now ready to open
membership up to new members from across the movement.

The Wikimedia movement communications group is an opportunity for members
of the Wikimedia community to discuss topics related to movement
communications. Topics of discussion can be raised by any member of the
group, including those from the Wikimedia Foundation Communications
department. Conversations in the group may range from brainstorming
opportunities to advance the movement to chatting about a problem faced by
a specific community to coordinating communications efforts on major events.

The Movement communications group is open to anyone in the Wikimedia
community working on communications for Wikimedia activities or communities.

For more information or to join, visit the group's Meta-Wiki page:
https://w.wiki/7x7

The signup form is available on Meta-Wiki:  https://w.wiki/7x6

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thank you!
-greg

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Gregory Varnum (pronouns - he/his/him)

Communications Strategist

Wikimedia Foundation 
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