[Wikimedia-l] Awareness of Wikipedia and its usage patterns in Israel
Several months ago, Wikimedia Israel conducted a survey on attitudes of the Israeli public towards Wikipedia. 751 respondents, which provides arepresentative sample of the population of Israel, responded to the questionnaire.We paid particular attention to the fact that the sample included a representation of young people and the Arabic-speaking population in Israel. According to the findings, 84 percent of the respondents said they rely on the online encyclopedia for information, and 60% said they visit the Wikipediawebsite at least once a week. Almost three-quarters (74%) said the information found in Wikipedia articles provides all that they need, and they don’t seekadditional resources. The survey also showed gaps in relation to Wikipedia between the Arab and Jewish populations in Israel. While around 60% of the population uses Wikipedia once a week or more. Within the Arabic-speaking population, the percentage of daily usage is larger than that of the Hebrew-speaking population (27.9% versus 21.6%). In addition, 54% of the Arab-speaking respondents were interested in editing Wikipedia compared to only 33% in the Jewish population. 41% of the Arab-speaking population said that they search Wikipedia for articles in scientific fields, compared to 36.2% among the Hebrew speakers. Only 8% of respondents had ever edited a Wikipedia article, even though 20% encountered information they deemed to be in need of amending. For the results, please see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Awareness_of_Wikipedia_and_its_usage_patterns Michal Lester Executive Director Wikimedia Israel http://www.wikimedia.org.il/ 972-50-8996046 ; 972-77-751-6032 *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. **That's our commitment.* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Awareness of Wikipedia and its usage patterns in Israel
Hi Michal, On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 10:01:19 +0200 Michal Lester mles...@wikimedia.org.il wrote: Several months ago, Wikimedia Israel conducted a survey on attitudes of the Israeli public towards Wikipedia. 751 respondents, which provides arepresentative sample of the population of Israel, responded to the questionnaire.We paid particular attention to the fact that the sample included a representation of young people and the Arabic-speaking population in Israel. thanks for sharing! These results are interesting. Happy Chanukah / Christmas / etc. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://is.gd/htwEXQ - Integrating GNU Guile into GNU coreutils I invented the term Object‐Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay (Attributed) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Gendergap-l] Another Admin falls +1
Fwd: [Gendergap-l] Another Admin falls +1 From: Russavia russ..@gma.. Date: 2014-12-24 17:25 Juhi Your email has really got to them. http://wikimediagendergap.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/gendergap-i-another-admin-falls-1-4/ Phillipe Beaudette is also on the hook now for ignoring all the child protection policy violating links on Commons publicly posted by WP:LTA/IAC all over Wikipedia and on his talk pages which he redacted. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ASecretdiff=639316675oldid=638687357 == Please contact the Arbitration Committee == There is something we require you to explain. Please check your e-mail inbox and respond to the message sent to you by the committee before editing again. Thank you. For the Arbitration Committee, [[User:AGK|'''AGK''']] [[User talk:AGK#top|[]]] 10:25, 23 December 2014 (UTC) Russ. On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Juhi Mukherji wrote: Russ Sorry for the delay, was out on assignment doing a followup to the Uber radio-cab rape case as some new developments took place. So i'll just bang this off fast to update u all, and correct it later. On 12/10/14, Kevin Gorman wrote: Hi all - Sorry for the slow moderation lately, I've been quite ill and we're down to two mods again. Please ignore this string of messages. Russia Aviation is most likely related to a group that has had realworld consequences for ENWP editors, has no good intentions, and is the reason why this list is currently on moderation for new members. Best, Kevin Gorman -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Our final email
May someone give a digest report on this issue. They are odd and persistent. Eternal September has come into India or something else? On Dec 23, 2014 9:56 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 December 2014 at 08:43, Golf Today li...@golf.indiatodaylive.com wrote: Attention : LILA TETRIKOV trolling crap removed Thread hijacking is plain rude. As for Joe Jobbing Wikimedians, it is a despicable and malicious form of cyberbullying. Can't someone come up with a way of slapping these prawns down for good? Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Gendergap-l] Another Admin falls +1
Please ignore. This is yet more malicious and disruptive Job Jobbing of Russavia, and for all I know of shlomif too. Russavia remains unsubscribed from this list for the time being. Fae On 24 December 2014 at 12:47, Russavia r...@gma.main-hosting.eu shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Fwd: [Gendergap-l] Another Admin falls +1 From: Russavia russ..@gma.. Date: 2014-12-24 17:25 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Indian asshats now spoofing my email
I have resubbed to this list for this single email and will be unsubbing as soon as this email is sent. Please be aware that this Indian group are now spoofing my email address as this shows http://pastebin.com/ZWW1G9aC They thought by spoofing my email they could get the email throughtoo bad I unsubbed some weeks ago with the sickening Commons is broken nonsense. If anyone else is receiving emails from anyone pertaining to be me, check with me personally and I will confirm if it is me. Thanks and happy holidays all. Russavia ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Gendergap-l] Another Admin falls +1
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Dear Fae, On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 13:27:31 + Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote: Please ignore. This is yet more malicious and disruptive Job Jobbing of Russavia, and for all I know of shlomif too. Just for the record, I did not send the email quoted below («Another Admin Falls +1») today (24-December). This seems like something that Russavia, or whoever sent the email, is misattributing to me. So please don't accuse me of malicious and disruptive Job Jobbing. Just to clear something up, Fæ wasn't accusing you, but rather suggesting that perhaps you were another unfortunate casualty. I'm investigating other possibilities of putting this to an end, but in the meantime, if anyone on this list finds their messages held for moderation, please don't assume that you're suspected of anything. And if you see more such messages on the list, for everyone's sake, just leave them be—don't take the bait. Austin ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Awareness of Wikipedia and its usage patterns in Israel
Thanks for sharing the information. Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Michal, On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 10:01:19 +0200 Michal Lester mles...@wikimedia.org.il wrote: Several months ago, Wikimedia Israel conducted a survey on attitudes of the Israeli public towards Wikipedia. 751 respondents, which provides arepresentative sample of the population of Israel, responded to the questionnaire.We paid particular attention to the fact that the sample included a representation of young people and the Arabic-speaking population in Israel. thanks for sharing! These results are interesting. Happy Chanukah / Christmas / etc. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://is.gd/htwEXQ - Integrating GNU Guile into GNU coreutils I invented the term Object‐Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay (Attributed) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Awareness of Wikipedia and its usage patterns in Israel
Hi Michal Thanks for the survey you conducted and sharing the info. But could you find the reason why Arab-speaking people use Wikipedia more than the Hebrew-speaking people? Regards, Tanweer On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Sydney Poore sydney.po...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for sharing the information. Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 3:25 AM, Shlomi Fish shlo...@shlomifish.org wrote: Hi Michal, On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 10:01:19 +0200 Michal Lester mles...@wikimedia.org.il wrote: Several months ago, Wikimedia Israel conducted a survey on attitudes of the Israeli public towards Wikipedia. 751 respondents, which provides arepresentative sample of the population of Israel, responded to the questionnaire.We paid particular attention to the fact that the sample included a representation of young people and the Arabic-speaking population in Israel. thanks for sharing! These results are interesting. Happy Chanukah / Christmas / etc. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://is.gd/htwEXQ - Integrating GNU Guile into GNU coreutils I invented the term Object‐Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. — Alan Kay (Attributed) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Regards - Tanweer Morshed ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Winners Announced in World's Largest Photo Contest: Wiki Loves Monuments
Is there a blog post on https://blog.wikimedia.org/ about this? Will it be? *--* *Vira Motorko* manager, Wikimedia Ukraine https://ua.wikimedia.org/ +380667740499 Are you saving your documents in free formats? ;) Help save natural resources – please think twice before printing this e-mail or any attachments. 2014-12-23 0:33 GMT+02:00 Itzik - Wikimedia Israel it...@wikimedia.org.il: This press release is also available online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Winners_Announced_in_World%E2%80%99s_Largest_Photo_Contest:_Wiki_Loves_Monuments Winners Announced in World’s Largest Photo Contest: Wiki Loves Monuments *International jury selects top 10 photos from more than 321,000 worldwide. Over the four past years, more than 1.1 million images have been submitted to the contest.* The international jury for Wiki Loves Monuments 2014 http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/ announced today the 10 winning photographs from the world’s largest photo contest, which ran from September 1 - 30 this year. More than 9,000 photographers uploaded over 321,000 freely-licensed photographs of historic buildings, monuments and cultural heritage sites in 41 countries to Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page for use on Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. This year, the grand-prize winning photograph is an image of the Holy Mountains Monastery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Mountains_Lavra, a complex of architectural monuments of national significance in Sviatohirsk, Ukraine, taken by Konstantin Brizhnichenko https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Brizhnichenko. The first written mention of the monastery was in 1526. In 1624, the monastery was officially recognized as the Sviatohirsk Uspensky Monastery. Before World War I, the monastery was inhabited by approximately 600 monks. During the 1930s, it was destroyed by the Soviets, along with other numerous religious sites throughout the Soviet Union. Today, the monastery community consists of more than 100 people, a number that increases each year. (Photo link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svjatogorsk,_Lavra_3.jpg) The winner will receive flight and accommodations in Mexico to attend Wikimania, the international conference of the Wikimedia movement, to be held in July 2015 in Mexico City. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Wiki Loves Monuments is the world’s largest public photo competition. In it, people are asked to take pictures of monuments from participating countries and to upload them to Wikimedia Commons, enabling the photos to be used to illustrate Wikipedia in articles about these monuments and other subjects. “With over one million free images of heritage sites across the world, Wiki Loves Monuments is one of the world’s most important history projects today,” says Deror Lin, the international coordinator of the competition. “Year after year, volunteers document hundreds of thousands of heritage sites across the world and upload the images to the internet under a free license for the benefit of the current andnext generations. These people display the splendor of creativity and culture in their countries.” The competition is organized in 41 participating countries, each focusing on their national monuments and with their own national prizes. This year, every participating country submitted 10 nominations to the international jury who chose the winning pictures for the competition. A number of countries participated in the competition for the first time, including: Albania, Kosovo, Iraq, Ireland, Lebanon, Macedonia, Pakistan and the Palestinian Authority. The contest was first organized in 2010 in the Netherlands and resulted in more than 12,500 pictures of Dutch monuments. Over the past four years more than 1.1 million images have been submitted to the contest. *2014 Wiki Loves Monuments Winners:* - 1st Place - the Holy Mountains Monastery, Sviatohirsk, Ukraine by Konstantin Brizhnichenko - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Svjatogorsk,_Lavra_3.jpg - 2nd Place - Gare du Nord in Paris, France, by MrsEllacott (his image ranked 7thin the French national competition) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gare_du_Nord_December_2013.jpg - 3rd Place - Jøvik and Great Cormorants near Ullsfjorden, Troms, Tromsø, Norway by Siri Uldal (7th place in Norway’s national competition) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jøvik_handelssted_04.jpg - 4th Place - Alte Sennalpe Batzen (literally: Old Dairy Mountain Pasture Batzen) at Bregenzer Forest in Schröcken, Vorarlberg, Austria by Böhringer Friedrich (9th Place in the Austrian national competition) - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alte_Batzenalpe_2014_Interior_06.jpg - 5th Place - Montfort Castle at Sunrise, Israel, by Eran Feldman (1st Place in the Israeli national competition) -
[Wikimedia-l] Twas the night before Christmas on Wikimedia
* Twas the night before Christmas on Wikimedia * (Variation on A Visit from St. Nicholas, written in the year 1823 by Clement Clarke Moore) 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the wikis, Not a creature was stirring, not even a bot; The stockings were hung by the talk pages with care, In hopes that Jimbo soon would be there; The students were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of barnstars danc'd in their heads; And Mama in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap — When out at the village pump there arose such a clatter, James Alexander sprang from bed to see what was the matter. Away to the wiki I flew like a flash, Opened a window, and logged in, in a dash. What to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and bold, I knew in a moment it must be Jimbo. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of barnstars — and Jimbo too: And then in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The prancing and pawing of each little hoof. As I drew in my head, and was turning around, Down the chimney Jimbo came with a bound: He was dress'd all in fur, from his head to his foot, And his clothes were all tarnish'd with ashes and soot; A bundle of barnstars was flung on his back, And he look'd like a peddler just opening his pack. And I laugh'd when I saw him in spite of myself; A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And fill'd all the stockings; then turn'd with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprung to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew, like the down of a thistle: But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight — Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night. Merry Christmas, Wikimedians. (: Pine *This is an Encyclopedia* https://www.wikipedia.org/ *One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know.* *—Catherine Munro* ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 50 -- 24 December 2014
From the editor: Looking for new editors-in-chief http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-12-24/From_the_editor In the media: Wales on GamerGate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-12-24/In_the_media Featured content: Still quoting ''Iolanthe'', apparently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-12-24/Featured_content WikiProject report: Microsoft does ''The Signpost'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-12-24/WikiProject_report Traffic report: North Korea is not pleased http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-12-24/Traffic_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-12-24 https://www.facebook.com/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Awareness of Wikipedia and its usage patterns in Israel
Perhaps they need education on the inherent biases. http://wikipediocracy.com/2014/12/24/wikipedia-all-murdered-israeli-children-are-murdered-by-arabs/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
