[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF March 2016 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, April 28, 18:00 UTC

[Praveena Maharaj]

Dear all,

The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
April 28, 2016, at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will be broadcast as
a live YouTube stream.

Meeting agenda:

* Welcomes
* Community update
* Transition update
* Review of WMF top-level metrics
* Research presentation
* Product demo
* Questions/discussions

Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further
information about the meeting and how to participate.

We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.

Thank you,
Praveena

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Praveena Maharaj
Executive Assistant to the VP of Product
Wikimedia Foundation \\ www.wikimediafoundation.org
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia to the Moon: Call for participation

[Anna Stillwell]

:).

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:34 AM, Michael Jahn 
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I’m thrilled to share with you something very unusual:
>
>
> This is a call for participation to all Wikipedians all over the world.
> Today, we set up a global community discussion about taking Wikipedia to
> the Moon – yes, in the literal sense. It is a special birthday gift in the
> year of Wikipedia’s 15th anniversary. Please find all the details on
> Meta-Wiki [1],
> where
> you can also contribute immediately and on-wiki. The following is a
> nutshell of the project, containing some additional information regarding
> communications:
>
> At Wikimedia Deutschland’s we’ve been contacted by Berlin-based Google
> Lunar XPRIZE competitor “Part-Time Scientists”, who are among the few
> remaining teams preparing to send their own lunar vehicles to the Moon by
> 2017. They’ve asked us for support, because they love Wikipedia and would
> like to include it in their Moon rover’s scientific payload as a gift.
> According to the rules of the Lunar challenge, their rover must make it
> safely to the Moon surface, drive 500 meters and transmit images to earth.
> However, the Part-Time Scientists, whose motto is “Hell yeah, it’s rocket
> science!”, thought it would be even cooler to also preserve the sum of all
> knowledge on the Moon. So that’s why they’ve offered Wikimedia Deutschland
> 20GB of disc space on a ceramic-made medium, provided that we handle the
> selection of Wikipedia content. That, however, is something we feel we
> cannot do on our own/alone:
>
> After 15 years of free knowledge, approaching 40 million articles in almost
> 300 languages, it wouldn’t be easy for anyone to take the responsibility
> and decide on a selection of the work of tens of thousands of volunteers.
> We believe that any preparation of Wikipedia content for such a symbolic
> purpose ought to be community-driven, and necessarily even on a global
> level: This is bigger than single language communities or single groups or
> organizations within our vast movement. So we’ve decided to be bold and
> make every step of the process open for anyone who wants to contribute. It
> is up to the international community of editors how to move forward. Again,
> please find more information on Meta-Wiki (and all the links)[1].
>
> Today we are kicking off the initial discussion of possible scenarios. It
> will be open until June 3. In order to match payload deadlines we need to
> prepare our data long before the actual launch date. Our goal is to finish
> the Wikipedia anniversary year with a successful Moon project on
> International Volunteers Day, December 5.
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland’s spokesperson Jan Apel will be handling press
> inquiries and media planning with the Part-Time Scientists here in Germany.
> We’ve been in contact with the WMF Communications team (thanks guys for
> your support!) and hereby extend a warm invitation to communications people
> all over the movement to join in[2]. It would be great to coordinate
> internationally, serving as many language communities as possible.
> Beginning at Wikimedia Conference, we’ll reach out and coordinate in
> person, but you can sign up right away on Meta-Wiki and become part of the
> Moon team yourselves.
>
> Let’s take Wikipedia to the Moon together!
> Michael
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon
> [2]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon/About#Press_contacts.2Flocal_ambassadors
>
>
> --
> Michael Jahn
> Leiter Kommunikation & Partnerschaften
> Head of Communications & Partnerships
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> Tel. (030) 219 158 260
>
> http://wikimedia.de 
>
> Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der
> Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
> Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
> der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
> Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia to the Moon: Call for participation

[Michael Jahn]

Dear all,

I’m thrilled to share with you something very unusual:


This is a call for participation to all Wikipedians all over the world.
Today, we set up a global community discussion about taking Wikipedia to
the Moon – yes, in the literal sense. It is a special birthday gift in the
year of Wikipedia’s 15th anniversary. Please find all the details on
Meta-Wiki [1], where
you can also contribute immediately and on-wiki. The following is a
nutshell of the project, containing some additional information regarding
communications:

At Wikimedia Deutschland’s we’ve been contacted by Berlin-based Google
Lunar XPRIZE competitor “Part-Time Scientists”, who are among the few
remaining teams preparing to send their own lunar vehicles to the Moon by
2017. They’ve asked us for support, because they love Wikipedia and would
like to include it in their Moon rover’s scientific payload as a gift.
According to the rules of the Lunar challenge, their rover must make it
safely to the Moon surface, drive 500 meters and transmit images to earth.
However, the Part-Time Scientists, whose motto is “Hell yeah, it’s rocket
science!”, thought it would be even cooler to also preserve the sum of all
knowledge on the Moon. So that’s why they’ve offered Wikimedia Deutschland
20GB of disc space on a ceramic-made medium, provided that we handle the
selection of Wikipedia content. That, however, is something we feel we
cannot do on our own/alone:

After 15 years of free knowledge, approaching 40 million articles in almost
300 languages, it wouldn’t be easy for anyone to take the responsibility
and decide on a selection of the work of tens of thousands of volunteers.
We believe that any preparation of Wikipedia content for such a symbolic
purpose ought to be community-driven, and necessarily even on a global
level: This is bigger than single language communities or single groups or
organizations within our vast movement. So we’ve decided to be bold and
make every step of the process open for anyone who wants to contribute. It
is up to the international community of editors how to move forward. Again,
please find more information on Meta-Wiki (and all the links)[1].

Today we are kicking off the initial discussion of possible scenarios. It
will be open until June 3. In order to match payload deadlines we need to
prepare our data long before the actual launch date. Our goal is to finish
the Wikipedia anniversary year with a successful Moon project on
International Volunteers Day, December 5.

Wikimedia Deutschland’s spokesperson Jan Apel will be handling press
inquiries and media planning with the Part-Time Scientists here in Germany.
We’ve been in contact with the WMF Communications team (thanks guys for
your support!) and hereby extend a warm invitation to communications people
all over the movement to join in[2]. It would be great to coordinate
internationally, serving as many language communities as possible.
Beginning at Wikimedia Conference, we’ll reach out and coordinate in
person, but you can sign up right away on Meta-Wiki and become part of the
Moon team yourselves.

Let’s take Wikipedia to the Moon together!
Michael

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon/About#Press_contacts.2Flocal_ambassadors


-- 
Michael Jahn
Leiter Kommunikation & Partnerschaften
Head of Communications & Partnerships

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260

http://wikimedia.de 

Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch freien Zugang zu der
Gesamtheit des Wissens der Menschheit hat. Helfen Sie uns dabei!

Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Africa / Gender gaps (was Re: Gender gap on "classical" encyclopedias)

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
I would very much like an open conversation about Lsjbot and the
ArticlePlaceHolder. In my opinion the use of approaches like bots and
article place holders are a taboo subject for many. This taboo is the
result of strong and loud opinions particularly in big Wikipedias like
German and English.

The result is that much information is not available in many languages.
This is what Lsjbot and potentially ArticlePlaceHolder remedy.

I am strongly in favour on having readable information on any subject in
any language. Having it is well possible as Lsjbot proves. It just needs
sufficient TLC. When we are truly interested in serving our public, we
would know what they are looking for and particularly what they are looking
for that is missing. At this stage we are clueless. When our search
strategy has a way of linking negative results to a workflow where labels
in a language are added to Wikidata it would help. It would be a boon when
new items can easily be created as a result particularly when they aid in
disambiguation. To do that we have to think in terms of what is Wikidata
good for and not have as its primary answer "it is to support Wikipedia"
because that is awful.

PS does anyone know how Mr  Leng Ouch
 name is written in
Cambodian? He is the recipient of a major award and he should fit in lists
of the award..

Thanks,
  GerardM



On 21 April 2016 at 08:45, Anders Wennersten 
wrote:

>
> Den 2016-04-21 kl. 08:21, skrev Gerard Meijssen:
>
>> Hoi,
>>
>> Anders, have you looked into the ArticlePlaceholder? Could it serve you
>> well instead of adding articles using the bot?
>> Thanks,
>>GerardM
>>
> I do not know, as  I am not directly involved. What I do know is that
> Sverker, Lsjbot creator is one of the most clever persons I ever met, and
> that he knows well of Wikidata and that all expertise on Wikidata on svwp
> has been involved in the design
>
> I would suggest you ask Sverker directly (and offlist) I think you clever
> guys on Wikidata can learn a lot from his insights
>
> Anders
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 21 April 2016 at 07:48, Anders Wennersten 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Our traditional way of creating article is based on the interests of the
>>> contributors. This produces skewed total result, and this becomes more
>>> evident on a smaller version like svwp, then on bigger. We have long come
>>> to the conclusion that we will never be able to fill categories like
>>> towns
>>> in Mali and basketballplayer in Brazil, where we have had something like
>>> less then 10% of entries then the same categories on enwp (or frwp)
>>>
>>> Wikidata can be of help evening out, but on svwp we have (also since
>>> long)
>>> said we must work and have a more systematic and deliberate approach to
>>> fill out "empty spaces"
>>>
>>> We therefore love Lsjbot which now generates several million good and
>>> comprehensive articles on geographical entities all over the world from
>>> the
>>> most complete database that exists, and where areas like Africa is
>>> getting
>>> exactly the same attention like a Nordic country. It is completely
>>> unrealistic to think that the few contributors on svwp would ever create
>>> the now existing  25 article on entities on Canada or 16500 entries
>>> in
>>> Antartica. But the bias in the source means Djibuti only gets 4000 and
>>> Camerun 9000 but it is none the less a huge improvement.
>>>
>>> For articles on woman/men project are being run by wmse and it now exist
>>> a
>>> group of dedicated contributors generating articles on women. I am all
>>> fascinated of sources being used, specially to get entries of women from
>>> middle of 19-th century. All famous ballet dancers in Copenhagen in 1850.
>>> All women who had local fame in Finland around 1860, including local
>>> healers etc. They have now created many thousands articles and getting
>>> the
>>> rate of articles up to 20% of total (25% of the number for men)
>>>
>>> So I believe skewness is becoming an important issue and that we need to
>>> adress oit even if it means to let go the "holy rule" only manual created
>>> article are "real" articles, it is the need of our readers who should
>>> have
>>> priority.
>>>
>>> Anders
>>>
>>> [1] list of article generated by country this far:
>>> https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Robotskapade_geografiartiklar
>>> [2] latest article generated just now a river in Fiji
>>>
>>> https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbau_Creek_%28vattendrag,_lat_-16,50,_long_179,08%29
>>>
>>>
>>> Den 2016-04-20 kl. 23:30, skrev Florence Devouard:
>>>
>>> Hello

 Sorry for highjacking your thread, but reading your message, I wanted to
 share with you a small page I made a few days ago, to quantify the
 double
 gap Gender/Africa.

 http://www.wikiloveswomen.org/about-the-project/mind-the-gap/

 If anyone has additional links or studies that could be useful to
 further
 illustrate that double gap... I am inte