[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Indonesia Digitization Effort

2016-09-01 Thread Biyanto Rebin 
Hello all,

We want to share our effort in digitization in this and last year.
Our recent effort is doing collaboration with Horison magazine, a prominent
literature magazine since 1960. They're enthusiast to share their magazine
via Wikimedia Commons and licencing under CC-BY-SA 4.0, since this year on
50th anniversary, their magazine will only publicized online via
horison-online.com.

If you have any questions, please contact Rachmat Wahidi, project leader
for this project, via rachmat.wah...@wikimedia.or.id.

Happy reading

Wikimedia Indonesia are collaborating with institutions to enrich
Indonesian books in Commons


Source:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Syukuran_hasil_kerja_sama_Proyek_Digitalisasi_Wikimedia_Indonesia_dengan_Museum_Dewantara_Kirti_Griya_13.jpg,
CC-BY-SA 4.0

Wikimedia Indonesia, in collaboration with the Dewantara Kirti Griya
Museum, ran a six-month GLAM project

which digitized Javanese-language printed books from the museum's
collections.

Between May and November 2015, this project digitized more than 100 books.
More than half of these are now in the public domain in their source
country (Indonesia) and/or in the United States and have thus been uploaded
to Wikimedia Commons

or (for books still in copyright in Indonesia) the English Wikipedia
.
Those books still under copyright in both Indonesia and the United States
have been uploaded to a closed-access website until such time as they are
in the Public Domain.

[image: Serat_Kaweritan p. 1.jpg]

Source:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serat_Kaweritan.pdf, page 1, public
domain


The digitization effort has not only benefited the museum, but also the
general populace. It has been of special benefit to academics and
researchers who are interested in Javanese-language books and print
culture. It has also had the effect of convincing the Office of Libraries
and Archives, Yogyakarta, to continue digitization efforts, albeit without
allowing open access to the results.

[image: Book_collections_at_Museum_Dewantara_Kirti_Griya.jpg]

Source:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Book_collections_at_Museum_Dewantara_Kirti_Griya.jpg,
CC-BY-SA 4.0

"This project received a warm reception among academics and students with
on Indonesia. For instance, Mohammad Rokib of the State University of
Surabaya wrote " I'll share this to sanskrit students and colleagues in my
uni," and the Indonesian Studies program at Leiden University shared the
initial project announcement, noting that "digitized old Javanese print
books (pre-independence, many from the 1910s and 20s) from the Taman Siswa
Museum in Yogyakarta" were now online and available for use.".

Another similar project is the collaboration with Horison magazine, a
notable magazine published in Indonesia which intended to focus on poetry
and literature. In March 2016, Wikimedia Indonesia was invited by Horison
staffs asking the possibility to digitize their magazine collections.
Wikimedia Indonesia undertook their demands to scan the magazine from July
1966 edition.

[image: Horison_07_1966.jpg]

Source:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horison_07_1966.pdf, CC-BY-SA 4.0

This digitization lasts for approximately six months since February 2016.
Scanned magazines from July 1966 to December 1990 editions are now
available in Wikimedia Commons
 for free
under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Letters of
permissions from representative author are being sent to OTRS team to be
reviewed.


In addition, this year, Wikimedia Indonesia intends to continue its
digitization program, focusing on the more than 600 Dutch-language letters
written by Ki Hadjar Dewantara - the founder of Taman Siswa and widely
considered the father of modern education in Indonesia. This is meant to
further develop the collaboration and relationship between the Dewantara
Kirti Griya Museum and Wikimedia Indonesia.


-- 

Biyanto Rebin | Ketua Umum (*Chair*) 2016-2018
Wikimedia Indonesia
Nomor Ponsel: +62 8989 037379
Surel: biyanto.re...@wikimedia.or.id


Dukung upaya kami membebaskan pengetahuan:
http://wikimedia.or.id/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia:Donasi
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Marketing jobs at the Wikimedia Foundation

2016-09-01 Thread Heather Walls 
Hi Gerard and all,

This is a great topic, and one we think about often as the Communications
team. In the past 2 years in fact, the Communications team has
intentionally grown to better support Wikimedia project awareness
and usage, including through new hires and approaches.

We generally use words like audience development, outreach, and awareness
rather than "marketing," but it's a similar (and some may argue the same)
idea. Of course, we're not a traditional organization or movement, so we
need to adapt based on the fact that we're not "selling" anything. Instead,
we're driven by our mission and commitment to Wikimedia values and
communities. In short, the objective is to systematically grow audiences
for Wikimedia in a mission-aligned way, using research, media (digital or
otherwise), campaigns, and messaging.

We've hired people with specific experience in marketing and
communications, including in audience growth, social media, branding, and
awareness. You can learn more about our team here: https://meta.wikimedia.
org/wiki/Communications. For more on our team's work, see this year's
Annual Plan: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
Annual_Plan/2016-2017/revised#Communications. This area of [insert industry
term of your choice here] is relatively new for the Foundation and we still
have plenty of room to grow. But we're optimistic that in collaboration
with the community we can help grow future Wikimedia audiences.

Finally, we're interested in continuing to partner with community members
and affiliates. We often collaborate with affiliates on campaigns (for
example, around Wikipedia 15 ), conduct
trainings at events, and have recently further developed the Communications
resource center: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/
Communications/Resource_center

In short, we are completely with you, and if you have ideas and questions
about raising project awareness and usage, we'd love to talk.

Yours,
*The Wikimedia Foundation Communications Department*



On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 5:32 AM, Gerard Meijssen 
wrote:

> Hoi,
> I have followed what the WMF does for years and if proper marketing was
> done, it would be known what the effect is of the information you refer to
> and there would be an idea on how and why this information is available and
> what we can achieve with it. Consider, when I write 10 new articles, what
> articles are read often and why. Are specific topics more read than others?
> What effect is there when we write even more on a topic? Are there tipping
> points where the coverage of a subject starts to get more readers and
> editors?
>
> Marketing is not only about having data, there is plenty of that. It is
> about what you do with it. Without a plan, a purpose accumulating data is
> an academic excercise; it is its own goal and it brings us little that is
> actionable. Marketing begins when you define what you aim to achieve and
> ask yourself questions like
>
>- What can I do to share the presentations given at Wikimania (or any
>other WMF conference) ?
>   - or how do we get more mileage out of Wikimania
>   - What can we do to identify the women that are notable and do not
>have an article in a Wikipedia?
>- can we write articles that will actually be read about women?
>   - What can we do to bring more references to Wikidata from Wikipedia?
>   - our friends at DBpedia sit on a ton of quality data, how do we
>   incorporate it as Wikipedians do not trust Wikidata without
> references?
>
> For these three questions there are actionable ways of providing a better
> solution, the question is do we care to bring us to the next level. Do we
> dare?
>
> Thanks,
>   GerardM
>
> On 1 September 2016 at 14:08, Nikola Kalchev 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > when you write "we do not inform them how many reads were done for new
> > articles" you don't include all wikis, I hope. In the history section of
> > the articles on Bulgarian Wikipedia [0] there is a link to a pageviews
> > analysis [1] where everyone can see how often the article was read in the
> > last up to 90 days.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Nikola / User:Lord Bumbury
> >
> > [0]
> > https://bg.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%9B%D0%B5%
> > D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%
> > B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8_2016=history,
> > look for the word "посещенията".
> > [1]
> > https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=bg.
> > wikipedia.org=all-access=user=
> > latest-20=%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%
> > BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B8%
> > D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8_2016
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
> > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hoi,
> > > Yes. It is indeed another area where we could do a lot better. We do
> not
> > > show how effective the work is that people do. We do not inform

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile site is now lazy loading images

2016-09-01 Thread Jane Darnell 
Yes I am talking about the wait, not the data limit. Sometimes people just
want the lead paragraph text and don't want to wait for images in the rest
of the article. We have lots of very long articles on English Wikipedia,
sometimes dotted with images as well. Wikipedians who work on them tend to
have very fast, high quality connections and never stop to think whether
their beautiful long article is making some reader wait who has a slow
connection.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Isarra Yos  wrote:

> On a slow desktop connection, lazy-loading is generally the opposite of
> what you want - unlike mobile, there's usually no data limit, it just takes
> awhile getting the data. A common pattern is thus to start a large page
> loading and then do something else, or just wait for it to finish then.
> It's like buffering video, so that way you have it all there when you
> actually go to it, and when it finishes, it's done. Lazy loading prevents
> such an uninterrupted experience by forcing the user to instead sit through
> every slow-loading image/section, with no way to avoid it.
>
> For mobile, though, where you need to worry about running out of data but
> generally have much faster speeds, lazy loading makes a lot more sense.
> It's great that we have it here!
>
> -I
>
> On 26/08/16 16:47, Jane Darnell wrote:
>
>> Interesting to see the drop in bytes sent to the Japan article and this
>> makes me think we should "fold up" article sections on desktop too for
>> very
>> long articles, such as the Japan article. The benefits for mobile are
>> obvious, but this may be beneficial for slow desktop connections as well.
>>
>> -- Forwarded message --
>> From: Jon Robson 
>> Date: Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:20 PM
>> Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile site is now lazy loading images
>> To: mobile-l , Wikimedia developers <
>> wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>
>>
>>
>> FYI after much experimentation, research and testing the mobile site has
>> been lazy loading images [1] since Thursday 18th August. This means if you
>> do not see an image you will not download it. We have taken care to ensure
>> users without JavaScript can still view images and that most users will
>> barely notice the difference.
>>
>> We are currently crunching the data this change has made and we plan to
>> write a blog post to reporting the results.
>>
>> In our experiments on Japanese Wikipedia we saw a drop in image bytes per
>> page view by 54% On the Japanese Japan article bytes shipped to users
>> dropped from 1.443 MB to 142 kB.
>>
>> This is pretty huge since bytes equate to money [3] and we expect this to
>> be significant on wikis where mobile data is more expensive. In a nutshell
>> Wikipedia mobile is cheaper.
>>
>> As I said blog post to follow once we have more information, but please
>> report any bugs you are seeing with the implementation (we have already
>> found a few thanks to our community of editors).
>>
>> ~Jon
>>
>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/
>> Performance/Lazy_loading_images
>> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Lazy_loading_
>> of_images_on_Japanese_Wikipedia
>> [3] https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/
>>
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile site is now lazy loading images

2016-09-01 Thread Isarra Yos 
On a slow desktop connection, lazy-loading is generally the opposite of 
what you want - unlike mobile, there's usually no data limit, it just 
takes awhile getting the data. A common pattern is thus to start a large 
page loading and then do something else, or just wait for it to finish 
then. It's like buffering video, so that way you have it all there when 
you actually go to it, and when it finishes, it's done. Lazy loading 
prevents such an uninterrupted experience by forcing the user to instead 
sit through every slow-loading image/section, with no way to avoid it.


For mobile, though, where you need to worry about running out of data 
but generally have much faster speeds, lazy loading makes a lot more 
sense. It's great that we have it here!


-I

On 26/08/16 16:47, Jane Darnell wrote:

Interesting to see the drop in bytes sent to the Japan article and this
makes me think we should "fold up" article sections on desktop too for very
long articles, such as the Japan article. The benefits for mobile are
obvious, but this may be beneficial for slow desktop connections as well.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Jon Robson 
Date: Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 5:20 PM
Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile site is now lazy loading images
To: mobile-l , Wikimedia developers <
wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>


FYI after much experimentation, research and testing the mobile site has
been lazy loading images [1] since Thursday 18th August. This means if you
do not see an image you will not download it. We have taken care to ensure
users without JavaScript can still view images and that most users will
barely notice the difference.

We are currently crunching the data this change has made and we plan to
write a blog post to reporting the results.

In our experiments on Japanese Wikipedia we saw a drop in image bytes per
page view by 54% On the Japanese Japan article bytes shipped to users
dropped from 1.443 MB to 142 kB.

This is pretty huge since bytes equate to money [3] and we expect this to
be significant on wikis where mobile data is more expensive. In a nutshell
Wikipedia mobile is cheaper.

As I said blog post to follow once we have more information, but please
report any bugs you are seeing with the implementation (we have already
found a few thanks to our community of editors).

~Jon

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/
Performance/Lazy_loading_images
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Lazy_loading_
of_images_on_Japanese_Wikipedia
[3] https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/



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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Education Newsletter: September 2016

2016-09-01 Thread The Wikimedia Education Newsletter Team 
Hello all,

We've just published the 3rd quarterly Education Newsletter. This
newsletter contains as many as 15 stories of various education programs
around the globe. Hope you enjoy reading about the great work our program
leaders are doing!

On behalf of the Education Newsletter team,
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Marketing jobs at the Wikimedia Foundation

2016-09-01 Thread Gerard Meijssen 
Hoi,
I have followed what the WMF does for years and if proper marketing was
done, it would be known what the effect is of the information you refer to
and there would be an idea on how and why this information is available and
what we can achieve with it. Consider, when I write 10 new articles, what
articles are read often and why. Are specific topics more read than others?
What effect is there when we write even more on a topic? Are there tipping
points where the coverage of a subject starts to get more readers and
editors?

Marketing is not only about having data, there is plenty of that. It is
about what you do with it. Without a plan, a purpose accumulating data is
an academic excercise; it is its own goal and it brings us little that is
actionable. Marketing begins when you define what you aim to achieve and
ask yourself questions like

   - What can I do to share the presentations given at Wikimania (or any
   other WMF conference) ?
  - or how do we get more mileage out of Wikimania
  - What can we do to identify the women that are notable and do not
   have an article in a Wikipedia?
   - can we write articles that will actually be read about women?
  - What can we do to bring more references to Wikidata from Wikipedia?
  - our friends at DBpedia sit on a ton of quality data, how do we
  incorporate it as Wikipedians do not trust Wikidata without references?

For these three questions there are actionable ways of providing a better
solution, the question is do we care to bring us to the next level. Do we
dare?

Thanks,
  GerardM

On 1 September 2016 at 14:08, Nikola Kalchev 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> when you write "we do not inform them how many reads were done for new
> articles" you don't include all wikis, I hope. In the history section of
> the articles on Bulgarian Wikipedia [0] there is a link to a pageviews
> analysis [1] where everyone can see how often the article was read in the
> last up to 90 days.
>
> Best regards,
> Nikola / User:Lord Bumbury
>
> [0]
> https://bg.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%9B%D0%B5%
> D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%
> B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8_2016=history,
> look for the word "посещенията".
> [1]
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=bg.
> wikipedia.org=all-access=user=
> latest-20=%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%
> BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B8%
> D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8_2016
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Gerard Meijssen <
> gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hoi,
> > Yes. It is indeed another area where we could do a lot better. We do not
> > show how effective the work is that people do. We do not inform them how
> > many reads were done for new articles. All things that are really easy to
> > do when we think of it. But we do not.
> >
> > So yes we need marketing to get new people and we need marketing to keep
> > the people that appear. That is also something that is of what marketing
> > people do; how to get and keep a market.
> > Thanks,
> >  GerardM
> >
> > On 28 August 2016 at 17:19, David Goodman  wrote:
> >
> > > Marketing can  get someone to buy a product once; the problem is to get
> > > them to buy another, and that depends on the quality of the product. It
> > is
> > > much easier to get new first time editors than to give them the
> > > encouragement and satisfaction to keep them going.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
> > > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hoi,
> > > > At the research mailing list two relevant activities were mentioned
> > that
> > > do
> > > > not adequately take place.
> > > >
> > > > * *Gamified interfaces for microcontributions à la Wikidata game*
> > > > ** **Ubiquitous outreach, supported by dedicated technology*
> > > >
> > > > The notion exists that it is possible to do all kind of technological
> > > > things to make things stand out more but the big problem is imho not
> > > > technological. It is not content, it is the awareness that marketing
> is
> > > > more than selling things.
> > > >
> > > > A respected Wikimedian made the bold statement that "Wikipedia could
> > > > absolutely have 100x the number of editors it has now".I would argue
> > that
> > > > this is correct
> > > >
> > > > My question is not could marketing methods make a difference but what
> > > > objectives do we have that will benefit from a marketing approach.
> What
> > > > does it take to be more pro-active towards our objectives?
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >GerardM
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Marketing jobs at the Wikimedia Foundation

2016-09-01 Thread Nikola Kalchev 
Hi,

when you write "we do not inform them how many reads were done for new
articles" you don't include all wikis, I hope. In the history section of
the articles on Bulgarian Wikipedia [0] there is a link to a pageviews
analysis [1] where everyone can see how often the article was read in the
last up to 90 days.

Best regards,
Nikola / User:Lord Bumbury

[0]
https://bg.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8_2016=history,
look for the word "посещенията".
[1]
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=bg.wikipedia.org=all-access=user=latest-20=%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8_2016

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Gerard Meijssen 
wrote:

> Hoi,
> Yes. It is indeed another area where we could do a lot better. We do not
> show how effective the work is that people do. We do not inform them how
> many reads were done for new articles. All things that are really easy to
> do when we think of it. But we do not.
>
> So yes we need marketing to get new people and we need marketing to keep
> the people that appear. That is also something that is of what marketing
> people do; how to get and keep a market.
> Thanks,
>  GerardM
>
> On 28 August 2016 at 17:19, David Goodman  wrote:
>
> > Marketing can  get someone to buy a product once; the problem is to get
> > them to buy another, and that depends on the quality of the product. It
> is
> > much easier to get new first time editors than to give them the
> > encouragement and satisfaction to keep them going.
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
> > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hoi,
> > > At the research mailing list two relevant activities were mentioned
> that
> > do
> > > not adequately take place.
> > >
> > > * *Gamified interfaces for microcontributions à la Wikidata game*
> > > ** **Ubiquitous outreach, supported by dedicated technology*
> > >
> > > The notion exists that it is possible to do all kind of technological
> > > things to make things stand out more but the big problem is imho not
> > > technological. It is not content, it is the awareness that marketing is
> > > more than selling things.
> > >
> > > A respected Wikimedian made the bold statement that "Wikipedia could
> > > absolutely have 100x the number of editors it has now".I would argue
> that
> > > this is correct
> > >
> > > My question is not could marketing methods make a difference but what
> > > objectives do we have that will benefit from a marketing approach. What
> > > does it take to be more pro-active towards our objectives?
> > > Thanks,
> > >GerardM
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