Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for participation: World War II… 75 Years After

2020-07-08 Thread Gnangarra 
Kaya

Wonderful idea, just a reminder that each community considering
participating in this should do so within the boundaries and conditions of
all local restrictions due to covid.

Take care of yourself



On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 23:10, WМ RepublikaSrpska 
wrote:

> World War II… 75 Years After
>
> Soon, will be 75 years since the end of the deadliest episodes in human
> history. Over 60 countries took part in the 6-years long  military
> conflict. World War II took over 50.000.000 lives, and more 35.000.000 was
> wounded. Many of them lost their lives after the war. Hundreds of battles
> were fought on dozens of fronts. Thousands of buildings were demolished and
> hundreds of new ones built. Despite that, life was renewed and continued
> after this catastrophe of global proportions. New ideas, new movements, -
> new history were born.
>
> Events from the past have largely defined our present and left us the
> obligation to document and preserve them for the future.
>
> So, we invite you to use the month of September for marking the 75th
> anniversary of the end of the Second World War with a series of
> Edit-a-Thones and competitions dedicated to this topic.
>
> Also, actions and cooperation with GLAM institutions, that are treasures of
> information and materials, are welcome. Please note that if you fund such
> actions with WMF grants, you must follow the instructions about COVID-19
> pandemic.
>
> All informations about project you can find on Meta
> (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World
> War II… 75 Years After
> ).
>
> Looking forward to work with all of you!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Bojana Podgorica, Wikimedia Community of Republika Srpska
>
> *„**Замислите свијет у коме **свака особа на планети има **слободан приступ
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid API?

2020-07-08 Thread Joseph Seddon 
Hey all,

Apologies for the delay. Two overview pages covering the technical and
business side of the project:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKAPI
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OKAPI

Regards
Seddon

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:29 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:

> A well-provisioned bulk api has been missing for some time.  Thanks for
> working on this.  And clearing up the recommended way for WP content to
> appear and be linked in third-party searches and infoboxes is important --
> the sort of thing that an internal policy (and way to subscribe to feeds)
> can help.
>
> I do hope we can host this on WM or openstack infrastructure, and do it in
> a way that expands and improves the solid existing frameworks for HTML
> dumps :)
>
> S
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 8:43 AM Chris Keating 
> wrote:
>
> > It's interesting that of all the strategy recommendations, two are so far
> > being implemented. One is the Universal Code of Conduct, which has at
> least
> > had plenty of discussion and publicity, that even precedes the strategy
> > process. The other is this, which hasn't been particularly prominent
> > before, but the WMF seems to have a team working on it just a couple of
> > weeks after the final recommendations were published.
> >
> > So while doing this is one of the strategy recommendations, it doesn't
> seem
> > that is is now happening *because of* the strategy recommendations
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:46 AM Gergő Tisza  wrote:
> >
> > > You can find some more discussion at
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Iteration_3/Promote_Sustainability_and_Resilience#Freemium
> > >
> > > As I mentioned there, the premise of the recommendation is that the
> > > movement needs new revenue sources; in part because the 2030 strategy
> is
> > > ambitious and requires a significant increase in resources, in part
> > because
> > > our current lack of diversity (about 40% of the movement's budget is
> from
> > > donations through website banners, and another 40% from past banners
> via
> > > email campaigns and such) is a strategic risk because those donations
> can
> > > be disrupted by various social or technical trends. For example, large
> > tech
> > > companies which are the starting point of people's internet experience
> > > (such as Facebook or Google) clearly have aspirations to become the end
> > > point as well - they try to ingest and display to their users directly
> as
> > > much online content as they can. Today, that's not a whole lot of
> content
> > > (you might see fragments of Wikipedia infoboxes in Google's "knowledge
> > > panel", for example, but nothing resembling an encyclopedia article).
> Ten
> > > years from now, that might be different, and so we need to consider how
> > we
> > > would sustain ourselves in such a world - in terms of revenue, and also
> > in
> > > terms of people (how would new editors join the project, if most people
> > > interacted with our content not via our website, but interfaces
> provided
> > by
> > > big tech companies where there is no edit button?).
> > >
> > > The new API project aims to do that, both in the sense of making it
> > > possible to have more equitable arrangements with bulk reusers of our
> > > content (who make lots of money with it), and by making it easier to
> > reuse
> > > content in ways that align with our movement's values (currently, if
> you
> > > reuse Wikipedia content in your own website or application, and want to
> > > provide your users with information about the licensing or provenance
> of
> > > that content, or allow them to contribute, the tools we provide for
> that
> > > are third rate at best). As the recommendation mentions, erecting
> > > unintentional barriers to small-scale or non-commercial reusers was
> very
> > > much a concern, and I'm sure much care will be taken during
> > implementation
> > > to avoid it.
> > >
> > > Wrt transparency, I agree this was communicated less clearly than
> ideal,
> > > but from the Wikimedia Foundation's point of view, it can be hard to
> know
> > > when to consult the community and to what extent (churning out so much
> > > information that few volunteers can keep up with it can be a problem
> too;
> > > arguably early phases of the strategy process suffered from it). This
> is
> > a
> > > problem that has received considerable attention within the WMF
> recently
> > > (unrelated to API plans) so there's at the very least an effort to make
> > the
> > > process of sharing plans and gathering feedback more predictable.
> > > Also, the pandemic has been a huge disruption for the WMF. Normally, by
> > > this point, the community would have been consulted on the draft annual
> > > plan, which is where new initiatives tend to be announced; but that has
> > > been delayed significantly due to so many staff members' lives being
> > > upheaved. Movement events where such plans are usually

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikitech-l] CI and Code Review

2020-07-08 Thread Maarten Dammers 
Of interest to the wider community. I really hope this is not part of a 
larger pattern of the WMF ignoring community.


Maarten

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Subject:Re: [Wikitech-l] CI and Code Review
Date:   Wed, 8 Jul 2020 22:40:38 +0200
From:   Maarten Dammers 
Reply-To: 	For developers discussing technical aspects and organization 
of Wikimedia projects 

To: wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org



Hi Greg,

On 06-07-2020 19:39, Greg Grossmeier wrote:

First, apologies for not announcing this last week. A short work week
coupled with a new fiscal year delayed this until today.

tl;dr: Wikimedia will be moving to a self-hosted (in our datacenter(s))
GitLab Community Edition (CE) installation for both code review and
continuous integration (CI).


tl;dr: WMF decides to do a major change without any community 
consultation. Community members are upset.

More at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vpbt50rwxgb2r6qn

Maarten


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[Wikimedia-l] Board update on Branding: Briefing postponement

2020-07-08 Thread Nataliia Tymkiv 
 Hello! Just a quick update: the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was
notified by staff on the night of July 7th that the briefing of July 8th
needs to be rescheduled because of the illness of one of the key staff
members. We are looking for a new date before the August board meeting, and
we shall share an updated timeline in a few days.

Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
Vice Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

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[Wikimedia-l] Call for participation: World War II… 75 Years After

2020-07-08 Thread WМ RepublikaSrpska 
World War II… 75 Years After

Soon, will be 75 years since the end of the deadliest episodes in human
history. Over 60 countries took part in the 6-years long  military
conflict. World War II took over 50.000.000 lives, and more 35.000.000 was
wounded. Many of them lost their lives after the war. Hundreds of battles
were fought on dozens of fronts. Thousands of buildings were demolished and
hundreds of new ones built. Despite that, life was renewed and continued
after this catastrophe of global proportions. New ideas, new movements, -
new history were born.

Events from the past have largely defined our present and left us the
obligation to document and preserve them for the future.

So, we invite you to use the month of September for marking the 75th
anniversary of the end of the Second World War with a series of
Edit-a-Thones and competitions dedicated to this topic.

Also, actions and cooperation with GLAM institutions, that are treasures of
information and materials, are welcome. Please note that if you fund such
actions with WMF grants, you must follow the instructions about COVID-19
pandemic.

All informations about project you can find on Meta
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World
War II… 75 Years After
).

Looking forward to work with all of you!

Best regards,

Bojana Podgorica, Wikimedia Community of Republika Srpska

*„**Замислите свијет у коме **свака особа на планети има **слободан приступ
цјелокупном људском знању.* *То је *
*оно на чему ми радимо.“*
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[Wikimedia-l] Call for participation: World War II… 75 Years After

2020-07-08 Thread WМ RepublikaSrpska 
World War II… 75 Years After


Soon, will be 75 years since the end of the deadliest episodes in human
history. Over 60 countries took part in the 6-years long  military
conflict. Word War II took over 50.000.000 lives, and more 35.000.000 was
wounded. Many of them lost their lives after the war. Hundreds of battles
were fought on dozens of fronts. Thousands of buildings were demolished and
hundreds of new ones built. Despite that, life was renewed and continued
after this catastrophe of global proportions. New ideas, new movements, -
new history were born.


Events from the past have largely defined our present and left us the
obligation to document and preserve them for the future.


So, we invite you to use the month of September for marking the 75th
anniversary of the end of the Second World War with a series of
Edit-a-Thones and competitions dedicated to this topic.


Also, actions and cooperation with GLAM institutions, that are treasures of
information and materials, are welcome. Please note that if you fund such
actions with WMF grants, you must follow the instructions about COVID-19
pandemic.


All information about project you can find on Meta
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World
War II… 75 Years After
).


Looking forward to work with all of you!


Best regards,

Bojana Podgorica, Wikimedia Community of Republika Srpska




*„**Замислите свијет у коме **свака особа на планети има **слободан приступ
цјелокупном људском знању.* *То је *
*оно на чему ми радимо.“*
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