Re: [Wikimedia-l] REMINDER: Invitation to upcoming office hours with WMF interim Executive Director

[Kevin Smith]

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Brill Lyle  wrote:

>
> 2. Session notes were done live in Wiki Markup format on the etherpad which
> resulted in a truly great cooperative effort to list detailed minutes. It
> allowed a super quick publish to Wiki which was ideal.
>

For those who aren't aware, it's now possible to bring etherpad native
formatting (e.g. bold, bullet lists) into a wiki page. You just have to use
etherpad's "Export to HTML" feature, and then paste that result into Visual
Editor.

If the formatting is heavy on headings, wiki format is probably better.
Otherwise, native formatting tends to be easier to deal with during the
meeting itself (e.g. indenting nested bullet lists, WYSIWYG bold, etc.).

It's great that we now have both options. Thanks VE team!

Kevin
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] REMINDER: Invitation to upcoming office hours with WMF interim Executive Director

[Katherine Maher]

Hi there,

Thanks for the feedback, and a few thoughts:

1. This is the first time we've done a video office hours and we have some
things to learn about how to produce them effectively. I'm sorry the audio
on the YouTube recording wasn't great - we can make that a priority in the
future. I know I also tend to speak quickly, which can be difficult for
people who do not speak English natively, for example. This is something I
will keep working on. We might make other tweaks to the format - for
example, we might do a smaller room next time, or closer to the webcam.

2. Time stamps would definitely make it easier to skip around in the video.
Perhaps we can work something similar out for the future. Solid suggestion.

3. Noted on licensing. We can see what the options are there.

4. BrillLyle, rest easy! We have an excellent tean here at the WMF,
including people in both formal and informal leadership roles, from
individual contributors to executive team members. Some of them are well
known to community, others are strong internally in the Foundation. I hope
community members will increasingly see these leaders engaging publicly,
through greater participation at events and conferences, in metrics
meetings, and on-wiki and elsewhere. On the current executive team alone, I
believe we have more than 25 years combined experience at the WMF, which I
expect compares favorably to past teams. I am very grateful to know many
colleagues well through our work together over the past two years, and have
great confidence in their skills and judgement.

Yesterday was an experiment, and we'll do another, more traditional IRC
office hours next week following the May metrics meeting. It should be
different in style and speed; I'm looking forward to it. A reminder of the
details:

*IRC session*
This session follows the May monthly metrics meeting
. Like
other office hours, it will be held in #Wikimedia-office
connect
 on
irc.freednode.org .
Thursday, 26 May 2016 - 19:00

-20:00 UTC

|
12:00-13:00 PDT

Cheers,
Katherine


On Thursday, May 12, 2016, Brill Lyle  wrote:

> 1. The sound quality was fine from what I saw and heard. I was on a desktop
> computer using the Blue Jeans thing (which had the YouTube video playing)
> and IRC chat -- and etherpad
>
> 2. Session notes were done live in Wiki Markup format on the etherpad which
> resulted in a truly great cooperative effort to list detailed minutes. It
> allowed a super quick publish to Wiki which was ideal. I was really happy
> to see that and hope it can be a model going forward. I would suggest
> having a "template" of information pre-filled out to facilitate the notes
> going forward.
>
> Having a timekeeper would probably necessitate having one person designated
> to put time-stamps on main points. I think if there's consensus then
> cooperatively this could be done? It seems like babysteps here -- having
> transparent, detailed notes that are quickly turned around -- might be the
> priority over the time-stamps but this is a logical and reasonable request,
> I agree.
>
> 3. Agree on licensing default for published videos. Ideally the video
> should be embedded on the Minutes page as a supporting resource.
>
> An additional comment:
>
> I'm new to both Wiki-l and learning more about the governance of WMF. I was
> very happy with this meeting and the efforts made by Katherine to be
> transparent and up front. However, I think this is a lot of pressure and
> from my new perspective it is seeming to come down on one competent person.
> I think this is a tough and somewhat problematic strategic position for any
> one person to be in, and for any institution to rely upon. I hope that
> there are more people who can take leadership roles at WMF who would share
> this load. Assuming the consensus is for this approach to governance.
>
> - Erika
>
>
> *Erika Herzog*
> Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle* 
> Secretary, Wikimedia NYC
> 
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Fæ  wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the link. Handful of quick points:
> >
> > 1. The sound quality is poor, to a level where I find it quite hard to
> > work out what is being said half the time especially as the speech is
> > quite rapid. It would be worth investing in a bit of better audio kit
> > for these videoed discussions. If the video is being captured
> > remotely, better results might be possible by having a local capture,
> > at least of the audio.
> >
> > 2. It would be great to have a tiny index as a text note on youtube at
> > the time of publication so that, say, on an hour+ long meeting like
> > this 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] March 2016 minutes of the Board of Trustees

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you!
On May 12, 2016 2:52 PM, "Stephen LaPorte"  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The Board of Trustees has published minutes from the Board meeting on
> March 21, 2016. You can find the Board's minutes on the Foundation Wiki:
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2016-03
>
> Best,
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] REMINDER: Invitation to upcoming office hours with WMF interim Executive Director

[Tim Landscheidt]

Brill Lyle  wrote:

> 1. The sound quality was fine from what I saw and heard. I was on a desktop
> computer using the Blue Jeans thing (which had the YouTube video playing)
> and IRC chat -- and etherpad

> […]

I listened in on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XazXyL-Ybjo
pointed to by Joseph Seddon (NB not a video of
https://www.youtube.com/user/WikimediaFoundation), and the
sound quality isn't "fine" for me.  For benchmarking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCt1BwWE2gA is a broadcast
from another celestial body.

On YouTube there are videos of non-professionals explaining
how to comb one's hair or peel a potato that have far better
sound quality, and they neither have to convey complex con-
cepts that require the viewer to listen closely nor the
eight-digit resources to buy expensive equipment, but a
headset or a lapel microphone seems to make quite a differ-
ence.

Tim


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliate Selected Board Seats - Result

[Biyanto Rebin]

Congratulations for all candidates!

Thank you to our Election Facilitators team: Chris Keating, Lorenzo Losa,
Lane Rasberry!

Good luck for Christophe and Nataliia

regards,

2016-05-11 23:06 GMT+07:00 Biplab Anand :

> Congratulations Christophe and Nataliia!
>
> Regards
> Biplab Anand
> Maithili Wikimedians
> On 11 May 2016 16:18, "Alice Wiegand"  wrote:
>
> > Congratulations also from the Board, Nataliia and Christoph!
> > Thanks to the facilitators and all candidates for your commitment and for
> > sharing your thoughts about your new role with all of us in answering the
> > questions from the community.
> > We are looking forward to welcoming you at our Board meeting at
> Wikimania!
> >
> > Alice.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Chris Keating <
> chriskeatingw...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Dear Wikimedians,
> > >
> > > We are writing to let you know the result of the election for the 2
> > > Affiliate Selected Board Seats on the Wikimedia Foundation board.
> > >
> > > The successful candidates were *Christophe Henner* and *Nataliia
> Tymkiv.*
> > >
> > > A total of 40 chapters and thorgs voted - all except for the Macedonia
> > and
> > > Macau chapters - which is a record.
> > >
> > > The number of first preferences received by each candidate was as
> > follows:
> > >
> > > Christophe Henner (9.00);
> > > Siska Doviana (6.75);
> > > Jan Ainali (5.50);
> > > Osmar Valdebenito (5.50);
> > > Nataliia Tymkiv (4.75);
> > > Susanna Mkrtchyan (3.25);
> > > Lodewijk Gelauff (2.50);
> > > Maarten Deneckere (1.50);
> > > Kunal Mehta(1.25);
> > > Leigh Thelmadatter (0.00)
> > >
> > > As you know the election was conducted under the Single Transferable
> > Vote,
> > > which meant that votes were redistributed between candidates to come up
> > > with the final result. In the 9th round of voting the final place,
> after
> > > Christophe was elected, was between Nataliia (16.09) and Siska (9.91).
> We
> > > will be putting the full count narrative on the Chapters Wiki so that
> > > others can verify it if they wish.
> > >
> > > We would like to congratulate Christophe and Nataliia and thank
> everyone
> > > who stood. It is the closest ASBS result for some time, and all
> > candidates
> > > brought very valuable perspectives to the work of the WMF.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Chris Keating, Lorenzo Losa, Lane Rasberry
> > > Election Facilitators
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

[Jon Robson]

Since you brought up this example the BBC news site used to have a
mobile and desktop site... just like we did.

Eventually, they got their mobile site to a good state, removed the
desktop site and used the mobile site:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31966686

It's worth pointing out we are a smaller amount of volunteers with a
far more complex ecosystem (extensions) so it's likely to take us much
longer.

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Jon Robson  wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:07 PM, James Forrester
>  wrote:
>> On 11 May 2016 at 12:50, Michael Peel  wrote:
>>>
>>> Isn't it time to start moving to responsive mediawiki templates
>>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_web_design), rather than having a
>>> separate mobile interface/URL?
>>>
>>>
>>> For a practical example, see the BBC News website
>>> (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news), which is the same website on all devices, it
>>> just rescales the content/navigation/layout to suit the device. (Try
>>> resizing your web browser on your computer to the size of a mobile web
>>> browser to see what I mean.)
>>
>>
> Since you brought up this example the BBC news site used to have a
> mobile and desktop site... just like we did.
>
> Eventually, they got their mobile site to a good state, removed the
> desktop site and used the mobile site:
> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31966686
>
> It's worth pointing out we are a smaller amount of volunteers with a
> far more complex ecosystem (extensions) so it's likely to take us much
> longer.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

[Richard Symonds]

Fantastic work!

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On 12 May 2016 at 06:45, Biyanto Rebin 
wrote:

> Yeay,
>
> Goodluck for Wikidata Team. Looking forward for Indonesian regional
> language version :)
>
> Regards,
>
> 2016-05-12 2:48 GMT+07:00 Lydia Pintscher :
>
> > Hi everyone :)
> >
> > Last year Lucie started working on the ArticlePlaceholder (
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder) in order to
> > fullfill Wikidata's promise of supporting especially the smaller
> > Wikipedias. Today we have rolled it out on the first 4 Wikipedias:
> > Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan and Odia. When someone searches
> for a
> > topic where no local article exists but Wikidata has data we will show an
> > ArticlePlaceholder with this information and encourage the reader to
> create
> > an article. I hope this will help these Wikipedias by offering their
> > readers more content and by turning more of them into active editors.
> >
> > In order for the feature to work well we need labels for items and
> > properties in these languages on Wikidata. A lot exist already but if you
> > want to help out you can find items and properties that need labels in
> > these languages at https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator and
> > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties.
> >
> > What we rolled out today as usual is a first version. Based on the
> feedback
> > from those 4 Wikipedias we will expand and improve it. One of the next
> > things we will do is add the option to translate an article from another
> > language if it exists using the Content Translation tool and fix known
> > bugs. Things we know are still broken or need work:
> > * language fallbacks in the properties are not working so you will see a
> > lot of P1234 and so on until a label is added on Wikidata in that
> language
> > * long identifiers break out of the identifier box on the right side and
> > don't look good
> > * right now you only get an ArticlePlaceholder in the search results when
> > Wikidata has at least 3 links to other Wikimedia projects and 3
> statements.
> > We might need to tweak this number still based on feedback from the first
> > Wikipedias. We limit this in order to not encourage readers to create an
> > article that will be deleted right after they created it because it isn't
> > notable.
> >
> > Here are some example pages:
> > * Odia:
> >
> >
> https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:AboutTopic?entityid=Q131074
> > * Napolitan:
> >
> https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A0le:AboutTopic?entityid=Q2613697
> > * Esperanto:
> > https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciala%C4%B5o:AboutTopic?entityid=Q12345
> > * Haitian Creole:
> > https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espesyal:AboutTopic?entityid=Q12345
> >
> > I'm really excited about making true on one of Wikidata's biggest
> promises.
> >
> > Cheers
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

[Adam Baso]

Inline.

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:28 AM, MZMcBride  wrote:

> Steven Walling wrote:
> >It's really great to see Wikipedia highlighted as a source for news and
> >current events. It's rare that people fully recognize the degree to which
> >the "encyclopedia" is actually very good at trending news information.
> >That said, the report paints a rosy picture that, strategically speaking,
> >may not be cause for celebration.
>
> Does the Knight Foundation disclose somewhere in this report that it's a
> donor to the Wikimedia Foundation?
>

I didn't see it in there. Looks like this was commissioned work.


>
> Comparing Wikipedia to sites like BuzzFeed and CNN seems to be a pretty
> classic case of comparing apples to oranges.
>

It seems like it's contextualized in
https://medium.com/mobile-first-news-how-people-use-smartphones-to/mobile-america-how-different-audiences-tap-mobile-news-1c72525210d7
as follows:

"The information and reference site Wikipedia is linked to news behavior
and is a critical pathway to the news and information ecosystem."

"Information and reference sites are linked to news behavior and often
drive traffic to news content. Wikipedia figures prominently in mobile
content access."



> >Neglecting to show people the value of the apps will help grow mobile web
> >traffic in the short term, but in the long run may leave us entirely
> >dependent on search (i.e. Google) or simply not growing readers, despite
> >millions of people still coming online via mobile.
>
> Can you elaborate on the value of the apps? HTTP is a free and open
> standard with very wide support. iOS is closed and proprietary. Maybe you
> can explain how investing resources into the latter aligns with
> Wikimedia's values?


The web and the apps are both ways to provide access to the openly licensed
content. We should and do invest in both on the grounds of reaching users
through popular channels.

I think Steven was talking about something different in terms of strategic
risk of disintermediation, though. I don't see the future as dystopian.
Rather I see a more utopian future requiring continued improvement in
dialogue with communities and nurturing of partnerships.


>
> Personally, I say hasten the day that we abolish the horrible "m." from
> our URLs and MobileFrontend from our servers.
>

I don't think it's something we're planning to do soon, but I agree it
would be nice to consolidate domain names.

I don't think we're at the place where we can yet deliver on converging the
full tech stack (and this was the feedback we basically received at the dev
summit), although I think we should keep iterating on this discussion over
the coming quarters. There are good things in MediaWiki Core and
desktop-oriented extensions and there are good things in MobileFrontend,
and I'm interested to see how we can port some things over if not
consolidate some pieces.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Florida Librarians of Wikipedia

[attolippip]

Welcome! And congratulations :)

P.S. Are all members of the UG already subscribed to this list?
The page says that the talk page [1] is the best place to contact the group.
Maybe we need to post welcomes there, as Lane did :)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Florida_Librarians_of_Wikipedia

Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
Wikimedia Ukraine

2016-05-12 14:52 GMT+03:00 Carlos M. Colina :

> Dear all,
>
> It is my pleasure, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, to announce
> the recognition of a new WIkimedia User Group: Florida Librarians of
> Wikipedia [1]
>
> As their name implies, they are librarians, and they want to focus on
> training other librarians on how to contribute to the different Wikimedia
> projects, especially Wikipedia. Apart from that, they have already
> organized some edit-a-thons and they're looking forward to organize more,
> as well as meetups of Wikimedians (librarians an non-librarians).
>
> Welcome to the family!
>
> 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Florida_Librarians_of_Wikipedia
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:38 PM Jo  wrote:

> Hi Lucie,
>
> Thank you for implementing this. I have some more suggestions.
>
> When I go to this article:
>
> https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciala%C4%B5o:AboutTopic?entityid=Q22393235
>
> I can't go back the Wikidata entry.
> I also can't jump to this article from the Wikidata entry on wikidata.org.
> And I'm not made aware of these placeholder articles in 4 extra languages
> on the Swedish and Cebuano Wikipedias.
>

Thanks. That is useful feedback. We'll take that into account.


> This also doesn't work:
> https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabanga_insulo
>
> But that would have been very surprising if it had. Still, how does one
> 'land' on these placeholder articles?
>

Right now you get there via Special:AboutTopic. Lucie is currently working
on fixing the search bug and then you will get there via search again.
Should be done in the next hours.


> The only way I found was by adding the q-number after this url:
> https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciala%C4%B5o:AboutTopic?entityid=
>
> But that's not very straightforward/intuitive.
>

Agreed ;-)


Cheers
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Florida Librarians of Wikipedia

[Brill Lyle]

Congratulations to this new user group!

Hope it's okay -- I added a link to this meta page to the Wikipedia:Meetup
namespace:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup#Projects_.26_initiatives

Please reach out if any of us local Wikipedia chapters can be of
assistance. To the best of our resources, I think I can speak for Wikimedia
NYC and say we are happy to provide remote assistance and more importantly
guidance on helpful resources and event page content.

Also: There are a LOT of librarians in the Wikipedia:Meetup community who
are happy to assist. And hopefully reduce the need to re-invent the wheel
for much of the mechanical parts of editathons.

WM NYC and myself, inspired by the work of Dorothy Howard, have been having
an active discussion about Wikipedia editathons in a box, as well as
metrics in a box. To my mind it's basically event pages on the Wikipedia
meetup space (to onboard people to Wikipedia vs. Meta), with consistent
infoboxes, information, and resources. We also use a tabbed header for many
of the initiatives, as it seems to help a lot.

Congrats again! And Welcome!

Best,

- Erika



*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle* 
Secretary, Wikimedia NYC


On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Carlos M. Colina 
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> It is my pleasure, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, to announce
> the recognition of a new WIkimedia User Group: Florida Librarians of
> Wikipedia [1]
>
> As their name implies, they are librarians, and they want to focus on
> training other librarians on how to contribute to the different Wikimedia
> projects, especially Wikipedia. Apart from that, they have already
> organized some edit-a-thons and they're looking forward to organize more,
> as well as meetups of Wikimedians (librarians an non-librarians).
>
> Welcome to the family!
>
> 1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Florida_Librarians_of_Wikipedia
> --
> "*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua
> junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
> Carlos M. Colina
> Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 | www.wikimedia.org.ve
> 
> Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
> Phone: +972-52-4869915
> Twitter: @maor_x
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] REMINDER: Invitation to upcoming office hours with WMF interim Executive Director

[Brill Lyle]

1. The sound quality was fine from what I saw and heard. I was on a desktop
computer using the Blue Jeans thing (which had the YouTube video playing)
and IRC chat -- and etherpad

2. Session notes were done live in Wiki Markup format on the etherpad which
resulted in a truly great cooperative effort to list detailed minutes. It
allowed a super quick publish to Wiki which was ideal. I was really happy
to see that and hope it can be a model going forward. I would suggest
having a "template" of information pre-filled out to facilitate the notes
going forward.

Having a timekeeper would probably necessitate having one person designated
to put time-stamps on main points. I think if there's consensus then
cooperatively this could be done? It seems like babysteps here -- having
transparent, detailed notes that are quickly turned around -- might be the
priority over the time-stamps but this is a logical and reasonable request,
I agree.

3. Agree on licensing default for published videos. Ideally the video
should be embedded on the Minutes page as a supporting resource.

An additional comment:

I'm new to both Wiki-l and learning more about the governance of WMF. I was
very happy with this meeting and the efforts made by Katherine to be
transparent and up front. However, I think this is a lot of pressure and
from my new perspective it is seeming to come down on one competent person.
I think this is a tough and somewhat problematic strategic position for any
one person to be in, and for any institution to rely upon. I hope that
there are more people who can take leadership roles at WMF who would share
this load. Assuming the consensus is for this approach to governance.

- Erika


*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle* 
Secretary, Wikimedia NYC


On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Fæ  wrote:

> Thanks for the link. Handful of quick points:
>
> 1. The sound quality is poor, to a level where I find it quite hard to
> work out what is being said half the time especially as the speech is
> quite rapid. It would be worth investing in a bit of better audio kit
> for these videoed discussions. If the video is being captured
> remotely, better results might be possible by having a local capture,
> at least of the audio.
>
> 2. It would be great to have a tiny index as a text note on youtube at
> the time of publication so that, say, on an hour+ long meeting like
> this it would be possible to skip around the video to when new
> questions are addressed. Though the session notes are useful
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director/May_2016_office_hours/Video-based_session_notes
> >,
> there is no relationship to timing.
>
> 3. The video has been published on a standard youtube license. Can
> those that manage these videos apply a free license that would be
> allowed on Wikimedia Commons as a default please?
>
> As a side note, there was quite a few minutes of in-crowd banter at
> the start, an awkward drop-out mid-way for a couple of minutes and
> another award minute or two at the end where the meeting was being
> accidentally recorded to youtube after it ended. It might be good to
> edit these out of the published version considering it is a public
> record.
>
> Thanks,
> Fae
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

[Quim Gil]

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Lydia Pintscher <
lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote:

> Last year Lucie started working on the ArticlePlaceholder (
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder) in order to
> fullfill Wikidata's promise of supporting especially the smaller
> Wikipedias. Today we have rolled it out on the first 4 Wikipedias:
> Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan and Odia.
>

This is a success story in so many ways! Congratulations Lucie, Wikidata
team, Wikimedia Deutschland.

-- 
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] REMINDER: Invitation to upcoming office hours with WMF interim Executive Director

[Fæ]

Thanks for the link. Handful of quick points:

1. The sound quality is poor, to a level where I find it quite hard to
work out what is being said half the time especially as the speech is
quite rapid. It would be worth investing in a bit of better audio kit
for these videoed discussions. If the video is being captured
remotely, better results might be possible by having a local capture,
at least of the audio.

2. It would be great to have a tiny index as a text note on youtube at
the time of publication so that, say, on an hour+ long meeting like
this it would be possible to skip around the video to when new
questions are addressed. Though the session notes are useful
,
there is no relationship to timing.

3. The video has been published on a standard youtube license. Can
those that manage these videos apply a free license that would be
allowed on Wikimedia Commons as a default please?

As a side note, there was quite a few minutes of in-crowd banter at
the start, an awkward drop-out mid-way for a couple of minutes and
another award minute or two at the end where the meeting was being
accidentally recorded to youtube after it ended. It might be good to
edit these out of the published version considering it is a public
record.

Thanks,
Fae

On 12 May 2016 at 01:12, Joseph Seddon  wrote:
> A reminder that this is currently happening now:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XazXyL-Ybjo - WMF Executive Director Office
> Hours
>
> Regards
>
> Seddon
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 6:22 PM, Gregory Varnum 
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> A quick reminder that the first office hours with Wikimedia Foundation’s
>> interim Executive Director, Katherine Maher, is coming up in the next day
>> (roughly).
>>
>> Apologies for confusion on the time, here is the time for the first
>> session, being held via video:
>> Thursday, 12 May 2016 - 00:00-01:00 UTC | Wednesday, 11 May 2016 -
>> 17:00-18:00 PDT
>>
>> You are invited to ask questions and offer suggestions to Katherine on
>> this Meta-Wiki page (which also has additional information on the office
>> hours):
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director/May_2016_office_hours
>>
>> You can join us and ask questions during the session via Blue Jeans:
>> https://bluejeans.com/198076339
>>
>> The session will also be available for streaming on YouTube:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XazXyL-Ybjo
>>
>> We look forward to talking with folks soon!
>> -greg
>>
>> Translation notice - This original message is available for translation on
>> Meta-Wiki:
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director/May_2016_office_hours/Announcement
>>
>> ---
>> Gregory Varnum
>> Communications Strategist (Contractor)
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> gvar...@wikimedia.org
>>
>> > On May 4, 2016, at 8:47 PM, Katherine Maher 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > **Summary: I am delighted to invite you to join me for two upcoming
>> office
>> > hours, where I’ll answer community questions and share updates on the
>> > Foundation’s work.**
>> >
>> > It’s been a busy few weeks around the Wikimedia Foundation offices. We
>> > shared our 2016-2017 annual plan, finished our quarterly reviews, and
>> > attended Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin with the Wikimedia
>> affiliates.
>> > [1]
>> >
>> > In Berlin, I had the chance to do one of my favorite things: sit with
>> > Wikimedians, listen, debate, and plan for the future. Of course, Berlin
>> is
>> > just one gathering, and there are thousands of other perspectives out
>> > there. I want to hear more of these perspectives, and so I’m looking
>> > forward to hosting two office hours over the coming weeks.
>> >
>> > We plan to hold a traditional office hours on IRC, and will also
>> experiment
>> > with a video Q We hope these different formats will make it easier for
>> > more people to participate using their preferred communications channels.
>> > We’ve chosen two different time zones, with the goal of reaching as many
>> > people as possible. They are as follows:
>> >
>> > *Video session*
>> > *This session will be recorded, and the video will be posted on
>> > Commons/Meta. Due to video conferencing limitations, we encourage advance
>> > questions.*
>> > Wednesday, 11 May 2016
>> > 00:00-1:00 UTC | 17:00-18:00 PDT [2]
>> >
>> > *IRC session*
>> > *This session follows the May monthly metrics meeting.[4] Like other
>> office
>> > hours, it will be held in #Wikimedia-office on Freenode.*
>> > Thursday, 26 May 2016
>> > 19:00-20:00 UTC | 12:00-13:00 PDT [3]
>> >
>> > We’re also collecting questions in advance for those who can’t make
>> either
>> > of those sessions. We’ve created a page on Meta where you can leave
>> > questions or comments, check the details on the location of each session:
>> >
>> 

[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Florida Librarians of Wikipedia

[Carlos M. Colina]

Dear all,

It is my pleasure, on behalf of the Affiliations Committee, to announce 
the recognition of a new WIkimedia User Group: Florida Librarians of 
Wikipedia [1]


As their name implies, they are librarians, and they want to focus on 
training other librarians on how to contribute to the different 
Wikimedia projects, especially Wikipedia. Apart from that, they have 
already organized some edit-a-thons and they're looking forward to 
organize more, as well as meetups of Wikimedians (librarians an 
non-librarians).


Welcome to the family!

1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Florida_Librarians_of_Wikipedia
--
"*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua 
junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."

Carlos M. Colina
Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 | 
www.wikimedia.org.ve 

Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
Phone: +972-52-4869915
Twitter: @maor_x
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