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

2016-05-13 Thread Gregory Varnum
One additional follow-up on the video-based session.

The notes are on Meta-Wiki:  
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director/May_2016_office_hours/Video-based_session_notes

Additionally, the video recording has been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. We 
edited out the unrelated parts mentioned earlier, and attempted to improve the 
audio. Thank you to Brendan in WMF Office IT for his help with this.  
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Interim_Executive_Director_May_2016_Video_Office_Hours.webm

As Katherine said, thank you to everyone that participated, and we look forward 
to talking with folks at the IRC session later this month.

-greg

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gvar...@wikimedia.org 
> On May 12, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Katherine Maher  wrote:
> 
> 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 

[Wikimedia-l] WMF Blog post about Wikimedia Conference 2016

2016-05-13 Thread Pine W
From the WMF Blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/13/wikimedia-conference/

I anticipate that there will be more reports, blogs and op-eds in the weeks
ahead.

Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

2016-05-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
If by old notifications you mean notifications from other wikis from a
long time ago, you can dismiss those by clicking the X next to each
notification on the right-hand side. Once dismissed they shouldn't
come back. There's currently a bug with this though:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121930#2292278

We're also working through some bugs to do with notifications
sometimes not being displayed, and an issue with non-SUL wikis that's
causing notification counts to be wrong. I apologize for the
disruption. The task tracking all the fallout issues from yesterday's
deployment is https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135239 .

On May 13, 2016 11:39, "Fæ"  wrote:
>
> They don't. It's a bug.
>
> Fae
> On 13 May 2016 19:26, "Peter Southwood" 
> wrote:
>
> > When do the old notifications go away?
> > Cheers,
> > P
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> > Behalf Of Roan Kattouw
> > Sent: Friday, 13 May 2016 8:04 PM
> > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now
> > available on all wikis
> >
> > Update: this has now graduated out of beta, and was enabled by default on
> > all wikis yesterday. If you don't want to see notifications from other
> > wikis on any given wiki, you can turn it off in your preferences (it's in
> > the "Notifications" tab).
> >
> > For more information and some background, see the blog post we published
> > yesterday: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/12/cross-wiki-notifications/
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Roan Kattouw 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > In late 2015 and early 2016, the Collaboration team worked on building
> > > a cross-wiki notification feature: listing notifications from other
> > > wikis in the notification panel. We made this feature available on a
> > > small set of wikis [1] initially, and about six hours ago we made it
> > > available on all wikis as a beta feature.
> > >
> > > You can enable cross-wiki notifications by clicking the "Beta" link
> > > [2] in the top right corner (or top left in RTL languages) and
> > > enabling the "Enhanced notifications" setting. The notification panels
> > > (accessible through the bell and speech bubble icons in the top
> > > right/left corner) will now display an additional item telling you
> > > which other wikis you have unread notifications on, and you can click
> > > this item to expand it and see those notifications [3]. For more
> > > information, see the documentation on mediawiki.org [4], with mostly
> > > complete translations in 13 languages at the time of this writing.
> > >
> > > Because we don't have cross-wiki preferences, enabling the beta
> > > feature on one wiki doesn't automatically enable it on any other wiki.
> > > However, you only have to enable the beta feature to see cross-wiki
> > > notifications on a wiki, not to get them from that wiki. For example,
> > > if you only enable the beta feature on the French Wikipedia, you will
> > > see notifications from the French Wikisource, the Spanish Wikipedia
> > > and the Upper Sorbian Wiktionary even if you haven't enabled the beta
> > > feature on those wikis. In fact, if you've had an account for a while,
> > > you are likely to see some very old notifications from wikis you
> > > haven't visited in years; Magnus Manske tweeted a screenshot of this
> > yesterday [5].
> > >
> > > Please try this out and let us know what you think! There's a talk
> > > page on mediawiki.org [6] where you can leave feedback. If you find a
> > > bug, please report it on Phabricator [7] or on the feedback page.
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot to the Collaboration team [8] as well as community
> > > liaisons Nick Wilson (Quiddity) and Benoît Evellin (Trizek) for their
> > > work on this over the past few months.
> > >
> > > --Roan Kattouw (User:Catrope)
> > >
> > > [1] All French wikis, all Hebrew wikis, Commons, Wikidata and
> > > mediawiki.org [2] Or go to [[Special:Preferences]] and click the "Beta
> > > features" tab [3]
> > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notification_panel_with_cross-
> > > wiki_notification.png [4]
> > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki
> > > [5] https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/707712047065210882
> > > [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Notifications
> > > [7]
> > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projectP
> > > HIDs=Notifications [8]
> > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Collaboration
> > >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

2016-05-13 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 7:54 PM Alice Backer  wrote:

> We have a Kreyòl language translatathon in the works. Focus is unclear at
> this point and will depend a lot on our Haitian Creolist partners and their
> needs.
>

If there is anything we can help with from the Wikidata side please let me
know.


Cheers

Lydia
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

2016-05-13 Thread
They don't. It's a bug.

Fae
On 13 May 2016 19:26, "Peter Southwood" 
wrote:

> When do the old notifications go away?
> Cheers,
> P
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> Behalf Of Roan Kattouw
> Sent: Friday, 13 May 2016 8:04 PM
> To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now
> available on all wikis
>
> Update: this has now graduated out of beta, and was enabled by default on
> all wikis yesterday. If you don't want to see notifications from other
> wikis on any given wiki, you can turn it off in your preferences (it's in
> the "Notifications" tab).
>
> For more information and some background, see the blog post we published
> yesterday: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/12/cross-wiki-notifications/
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Roan Kattouw 
> wrote:
>
> > In late 2015 and early 2016, the Collaboration team worked on building
> > a cross-wiki notification feature: listing notifications from other
> > wikis in the notification panel. We made this feature available on a
> > small set of wikis [1] initially, and about six hours ago we made it
> > available on all wikis as a beta feature.
> >
> > You can enable cross-wiki notifications by clicking the "Beta" link
> > [2] in the top right corner (or top left in RTL languages) and
> > enabling the "Enhanced notifications" setting. The notification panels
> > (accessible through the bell and speech bubble icons in the top
> > right/left corner) will now display an additional item telling you
> > which other wikis you have unread notifications on, and you can click
> > this item to expand it and see those notifications [3]. For more
> > information, see the documentation on mediawiki.org [4], with mostly
> > complete translations in 13 languages at the time of this writing.
> >
> > Because we don't have cross-wiki preferences, enabling the beta
> > feature on one wiki doesn't automatically enable it on any other wiki.
> > However, you only have to enable the beta feature to see cross-wiki
> > notifications on a wiki, not to get them from that wiki. For example,
> > if you only enable the beta feature on the French Wikipedia, you will
> > see notifications from the French Wikisource, the Spanish Wikipedia
> > and the Upper Sorbian Wiktionary even if you haven't enabled the beta
> > feature on those wikis. In fact, if you've had an account for a while,
> > you are likely to see some very old notifications from wikis you
> > haven't visited in years; Magnus Manske tweeted a screenshot of this
> yesterday [5].
> >
> > Please try this out and let us know what you think! There's a talk
> > page on mediawiki.org [6] where you can leave feedback. If you find a
> > bug, please report it on Phabricator [7] or on the feedback page.
> >
> > Thanks a lot to the Collaboration team [8] as well as community
> > liaisons Nick Wilson (Quiddity) and Benoît Evellin (Trizek) for their
> > work on this over the past few months.
> >
> > --Roan Kattouw (User:Catrope)
> >
> > [1] All French wikis, all Hebrew wikis, Commons, Wikidata and
> > mediawiki.org [2] Or go to [[Special:Preferences]] and click the "Beta
> > features" tab [3]
> > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notification_panel_with_cross-
> > wiki_notification.png [4]
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki
> > [5] https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/707712047065210882
> > [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Notifications
> > [7]
> > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projectP
> > HIDs=Notifications [8]
> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Collaboration
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

2016-05-13 Thread Peter Southwood
When do the old notifications go away?
Cheers,
P

-Original Message-
From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of 
Roan Kattouw
Sent: Friday, 13 May 2016 8:04 PM
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available 
on all wikis

Update: this has now graduated out of beta, and was enabled by default on all 
wikis yesterday. If you don't want to see notifications from other wikis on any 
given wiki, you can turn it off in your preferences (it's in the 
"Notifications" tab).

For more information and some background, see the blog post we published
yesterday: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/12/cross-wiki-notifications/

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Roan Kattouw 
wrote:

> In late 2015 and early 2016, the Collaboration team worked on building 
> a cross-wiki notification feature: listing notifications from other 
> wikis in the notification panel. We made this feature available on a 
> small set of wikis [1] initially, and about six hours ago we made it 
> available on all wikis as a beta feature.
>
> You can enable cross-wiki notifications by clicking the "Beta" link 
> [2] in the top right corner (or top left in RTL languages) and 
> enabling the "Enhanced notifications" setting. The notification panels 
> (accessible through the bell and speech bubble icons in the top 
> right/left corner) will now display an additional item telling you 
> which other wikis you have unread notifications on, and you can click 
> this item to expand it and see those notifications [3]. For more 
> information, see the documentation on mediawiki.org [4], with mostly 
> complete translations in 13 languages at the time of this writing.
>
> Because we don't have cross-wiki preferences, enabling the beta 
> feature on one wiki doesn't automatically enable it on any other wiki. 
> However, you only have to enable the beta feature to see cross-wiki 
> notifications on a wiki, not to get them from that wiki. For example, 
> if you only enable the beta feature on the French Wikipedia, you will 
> see notifications from the French Wikisource, the Spanish Wikipedia 
> and the Upper Sorbian Wiktionary even if you haven't enabled the beta 
> feature on those wikis. In fact, if you've had an account for a while, 
> you are likely to see some very old notifications from wikis you 
> haven't visited in years; Magnus Manske tweeted a screenshot of this 
> yesterday [5].
>
> Please try this out and let us know what you think! There's a talk 
> page on mediawiki.org [6] where you can leave feedback. If you find a 
> bug, please report it on Phabricator [7] or on the feedback page.
>
> Thanks a lot to the Collaboration team [8] as well as community 
> liaisons Nick Wilson (Quiddity) and Benoît Evellin (Trizek) for their 
> work on this over the past few months.
>
> --Roan Kattouw (User:Catrope)
>
> [1] All French wikis, all Hebrew wikis, Commons, Wikidata and 
> mediawiki.org [2] Or go to [[Special:Preferences]] and click the "Beta 
> features" tab [3] 
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notification_panel_with_cross-
> wiki_notification.png [4] 
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki
> [5] https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/707712047065210882
> [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Notifications
> [7]
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projectP
> HIDs=Notifications [8] 
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Collaboration
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

2016-05-13 Thread Roan Kattouw
Update: this has now graduated out of beta, and was enabled by default on
all wikis yesterday. If you don't want to see notifications from other
wikis on any given wiki, you can turn it off in your preferences (it's in
the "Notifications" tab).

For more information and some background, see the blog post we published
yesterday: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/12/cross-wiki-notifications/

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:03 PM, Roan Kattouw 
wrote:

> In late 2015 and early 2016, the Collaboration team worked on building a
> cross-wiki notification feature: listing notifications from other wikis in
> the notification panel. We made this feature available on a small set of
> wikis [1] initially, and about six hours ago we made it available on all
> wikis as a beta feature.
>
> You can enable cross-wiki notifications by clicking the "Beta" link [2] in
> the top right corner (or top left in RTL languages) and enabling the
> "Enhanced notifications" setting. The notification panels (accessible
> through the bell and speech bubble icons in the top right/left corner) will
> now display an additional item telling you which other wikis you have
> unread notifications on, and you can click this item to expand it and see
> those notifications [3]. For more information, see the documentation on
> mediawiki.org [4], with mostly complete translations in 13 languages at
> the time of this writing.
>
> Because we don't have cross-wiki preferences, enabling the beta feature on
> one wiki doesn't automatically enable it on any other wiki. However, you
> only have to enable the beta feature to see cross-wiki notifications on a
> wiki, not to get them from that wiki. For example, if you only enable the
> beta feature on the French Wikipedia, you will see notifications from the
> French Wikisource, the Spanish Wikipedia and the Upper Sorbian Wiktionary
> even if you haven't enabled the beta feature on those wikis. In fact, if
> you've had an account for a while, you are likely to see some very old
> notifications from wikis you haven't visited in years; Magnus Manske
> tweeted a screenshot of this yesterday [5].
>
> Please try this out and let us know what you think! There's a talk page on
> mediawiki.org [6] where you can leave feedback. If you find a bug, please
> report it on Phabricator [7] or on the feedback page.
>
> Thanks a lot to the Collaboration team [8] as well as community liaisons
> Nick Wilson (Quiddity) and Benoît Evellin (Trizek) for their work on this
> over the past few months.
>
> --Roan Kattouw (User:Catrope)
>
> [1] All French wikis, all Hebrew wikis, Commons, Wikidata and
> mediawiki.org
> [2] Or go to [[Special:Preferences]] and click the "Beta features" tab
> [3]
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notification_panel_with_cross-wiki_notification.png
> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki
> [5] https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/707712047065210882
> [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Notifications
> [7]
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projectPHIDs=Notifications
> [8] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Collaboration
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

2016-05-13 Thread Alice Backer
We have a Kreyòl language translatathon in the works. Focus is unclear at
this point and will depend a lot on our Haitian Creolist partners and their
needs.



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On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Brill Lyle  wrote:

> This is a tool that will be really useful to the AfroCROWD initiative that
> Alice Backer leads (cc'd, as well as Pharos) -- especially for the Haitian
> Creole community.
>
> I'm hoping AfroCROWD and WM NYC can support an intensive translatathon
> focusing on Wikidata, and really take advantage of this great resource.
>
> Wonderful work!
>
> - Erika
>
>
> *Erika Herzog*
> Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle* 
> Secretary, Wikimedia NYC
> 
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Lydia Pintscher <
> lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> Lydia
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>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

2016-05-13 Thread Brill Lyle
This is a tool that will be really useful to the AfroCROWD initiative that
Alice Backer leads (cc'd, as well as Pharos) -- especially for the Haitian
Creole community.

I'm hoping AfroCROWD and WM NYC can support an intensive translatathon
focusing on Wikidata, and really take advantage of this great resource.

Wonderful work!

- Erika


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


On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Lydia Pintscher <
lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote:

> 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
> Lydia
> --
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> Product Manager for Wikidata
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
> Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
> 10963 Berlin
> www.wikimedia.de
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] ArticlePlaceholder now live on first 4 Wikipedias

2016-05-13 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:35 PM Lydia Pintscher <
lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote:

> 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.
>

Ok search integration should be fixed now.


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

2016-05-13 Thread Brill Lyle
Personally I'm not a huge fan of the visual editor -- but during the
presentation it was sort of awesome how quickly the notes shifted into Wiki
Markup

Anything that onboards folks into using more Wiki Markup, I'm a fan of that.

But good to know this for going forward.

- Erika


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


On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Kevin Smith  wrote:

> 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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