[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 13, Issue 5 – 23 June 2017

[Wikipedia Signpost]

News and notes: Departments reorganized at Wikimedia Foundation, and a
month without new RfAs (so far)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-06-23/News_and_notes

In the media: Kalanick's nipples; Episode #138 of Drama on the Hill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-06-23/In_the_media

Op-ed: Facto Post: a fresh take
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-06-23/Op-ed

Featured content: Will there ever be a break? The slew of featured content
continues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-06-23/Featured_content

Traffic report: Wonder Woman beats Batman, The Mummy, Darth Vader and the
Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-06-23/Traffic_report

Recent research: Utopian bubbles: Can Wikipedians create value outside of
the capitalist system?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-06-23/Recent_research

Technology report: Improved search, and WMF data scientist tells all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-06-23/Technology_report


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] June 23: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#19)

[Pine W]

Hi Katherine,

Thanks for the update.

My impression is that the strategy process is time intensive for the staff
and the consultants involved, and I am concerned that extending the
timeline like this will result in significant extra costs on top of what
was already understood to be an expensive process, and my impression from
your email is that the benefit from this extension will primarily go to the
relatively small number of users, staff, and other stakeholders who are
deeply involved in some affiliates.

How much is this timeline extension projected to cost, and from what source
are the funds being drawn?

Could you elaborate on the benefits of this timetable change for people who
are not involved with affiliates?

I am mindful of the many things that would be good to do in the Wikiverse
that aren't being done due to financial and HR constraints, and I am
concerned that this extension of the timeline will cost a lot of money (it
wouldn't surprise me if the number was five or six figures) that could
instead have been used for any number of other good projects.

Could you also discuss what measures are being taken to control costs in
the strategy process?

Thank you,

Pine


On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Katherine Maher 
wrote:

> Hi y'all!
>
> *Summary: Cycle 2 has concluded, and we are sharing a revised plan for
> Cycle 3 based on your feedback.*
>
> Thank you to everyone that participated in Cycle 2![1] A quick overview of
> participation:
> - More than 50 Wikimedia groups, including:
> -- Art+Feminism User Group
> -- WikiDonne's User Group
> -- Wikimedia Ghana User Group
> -- Wikimedia Poland
> - More than 1,000 individual participants
> - Nearly 2,300 statements
>
> In addition to the weekly summaries already available on Meta-Wiki,[2] we
> will also be posting a final report in the coming weeks.
>
> Over the past few weeks I’ve heard from many of you with feedback,
> concerns, and excitement regarding the movement strategy. Thank you, truly,
> to everyone that has reached out to share your thoughts. They have been so
> helpful in understanding your perspectives and needs.
>
> Some things I’ve heard:
>
> - Curiosity around how the findings from the different tracks will come
> together
> - Request from affiliates for more time to engage more deeply in these
> topics
> - Passionate and divergent ideas from non-editors who support our vision
> - A desire to get as many endorsements from around the movement on the
> strategic direction as possible
>
> I asked the strategy team for help in responding to this feedback, so we
> could improve the process based on what you were telling us. After
> discussions with the team and community advisors, we have decided to move
> to a more flexible schedule, and change the timeline. This will provide
> more time for discussions in your own communities. We also hope you will
> use the time to deeply consider the research emerging from the New Voices
> track,[3] and incorporate it into the way you are thinking about our future.
>
> Here is the new proposed timeline:
>
> -  July: Complete Cycle 3. Integrate insights from New Voices. Draft the
> strategic direction.
> -  August: Share the strategic direction. Wikimania! Finalize the
> direction.
> -  September: Sign on! Confirm support from around the movement.
>
> As July approaches, we will share more information about opportunities to
> participate in drafting the strategic direction[4] and engage with New
> Voices content.[3]
>
> Thank you for your patience as we worked through these improvements, and
> again, thank you for the feedback!
>
> *On a related note*
>
> As you have hopefully noticed, Wikimania is a part of the strategy process
> and it is coming up soon! (I’m so excited!) A draft program schedule has
> been posted[5]. The schedule includes five keynote sessions from great
> speakers such as Esra'a Al Shafei [6] and Evan Prodromou,[7] more than 100
> community-submitted talks, and two days of hackathon and pre-conference
> activities. Early bird pricing for registration ends on July 10 and the
> deadline for booking accommodations in the hotel is June 30, so if you have
> not done so already - please register today![8]
>
> Bene habeas (Latin translation: “May it be well for you”)
> Katherine
>
> PS. A version of this message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.[9]
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> movement/2017/Cycle_2
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> movement/2017/Sources
> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> movement/2017/Cycle_2/Reach
> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> movement/2017/Participate
> [5] https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme
> [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esra%27a_Al-Shafei
> [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Prodromou
> [8] https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration
> [9] 

[Wikimedia-l] June 23: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#19)

[Katherine Maher]

Hi y'all!

*Summary: Cycle 2 has concluded, and we are sharing a revised plan for
Cycle 3 based on your feedback.*

Thank you to everyone that participated in Cycle 2![1] A quick overview of
participation:
- More than 50 Wikimedia groups, including:
-- Art+Feminism User Group
-- WikiDonne's User Group
-- Wikimedia Ghana User Group
-- Wikimedia Poland
- More than 1,000 individual participants
- Nearly 2,300 statements

In addition to the weekly summaries already available on Meta-Wiki,[2] we
will also be posting a final report in the coming weeks.

Over the past few weeks I’ve heard from many of you with feedback,
concerns, and excitement regarding the movement strategy. Thank you, truly,
to everyone that has reached out to share your thoughts. They have been so
helpful in understanding your perspectives and needs.

Some things I’ve heard:

- Curiosity around how the findings from the different tracks will come
together
- Request from affiliates for more time to engage more deeply in these
topics
- Passionate and divergent ideas from non-editors who support our vision
- A desire to get as many endorsements from around the movement on the
strategic direction as possible

I asked the strategy team for help in responding to this feedback, so we
could improve the process based on what you were telling us. After
discussions with the team and community advisors, we have decided to move
to a more flexible schedule, and change the timeline. This will provide
more time for discussions in your own communities. We also hope you will
use the time to deeply consider the research emerging from the New Voices
track,[3] and incorporate it into the way you are thinking about our future.

Here is the new proposed timeline:

-  July: Complete Cycle 3. Integrate insights from New Voices. Draft the
strategic direction.
-  August: Share the strategic direction. Wikimania! Finalize the direction.
-  September: Sign on! Confirm support from around the movement.

As July approaches, we will share more information about opportunities to
participate in drafting the strategic direction[4] and engage with New
Voices content.[3]

Thank you for your patience as we worked through these improvements, and
again, thank you for the feedback!

*On a related note*

As you have hopefully noticed, Wikimania is a part of the strategy process
and it is coming up soon! (I’m so excited!) A draft program schedule has
been posted[5]. The schedule includes five keynote sessions from great
speakers such as Esra'a Al Shafei [6] and Evan Prodromou,[7] more than 100
community-submitted talks, and two days of hackathon and pre-conference
activities. Early bird pricing for registration ends on July 10 and the
deadline for booking accommodations in the hotel is June 30, so if you have
not done so already - please register today![8]

Bene habeas (Latin translation: “May it be well for you”)
Katherine

PS. A version of this message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.[9]

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Cycle_2
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Sources
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Cycle_2/Reach
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Participate
[5] https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esra%27a_Al-Shafei
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Prodromou
[8] https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration
[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Updates/23_June_2017_-_Update_19_on_Wikimedia_movement_strategy_process

-- 
Katherine Maher

Wikimedia Foundation
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San Francisco, CA 94105

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 18 June 2017)

[quiddity]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 9:36 AM, quiddity  wrote:
>

[and now with functional links...]
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/776155051164484447/28E97E8E84B87B493DFC030BB7EC24941153555E/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/776155051161527940/37B6D43A1ED2AA3B1BBD4FAC03A8715E8C005510/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/776155947779316008/25065E3A5E124FAD31C6AC715691B27A95C807F7/

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 18 June 2017)

[quiddity]

Making me happy for the last few weeks:
The whimsical computer game/sandbox-toy ''Everything'',[1] which I think is
a cross between the video ''Powers of Ten'',[2] and the game ''Katamari
Damacy''.[3] It's a whimsical walking simulator, in which you change
size-scales (photon to galaxy), collect and transform between hundreds of
entity types, and listen to occasional speech excerpts from Alan Watts and
a pleasant long instrumental soundtrack.

Relevance: It has an "autoplay" mode, which essentially transforms it into
a wonderful screensaver. That autoplay mode includes a "documentary-mode"
feature, which adds text descriptions. Many of those descriptions come from
(English & Simple) Wikipedia! See screenshots:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/77615505116448444
7/28E97E8E84B87B493DFC030BB7EC24941153555E/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/77615505116152794
0/37B6D43A1ED2AA3B1BBD4FAC03A8715E8C005510/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/77615594777931600
8/25065E3A5E124FAD31C6AC715691B27A95C807F7/

1. http://www.everything-game.com/ (Linux/Mac/Win/PS4, available on
GOG/Itch/Steam/Humble)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Ten_(film) 
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katamari_Damacy
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource type of site for sheet music at kickstarter

[Bodhisattwa Mandal]

Hi,

Can Hindusthani musical notation or Swaralipi be included in Extension
score or may be in a new extension? In Bengali Wikisource, we have around
30 books containing these notations but we don't have a way to figure them
out.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58087

Regards,
On Jun 23, 2017 3:01 PM, "Yann Forget"  wrote:

> And the French Wikisource too. ;)
>
> Yann
>
>
> 2017-06-23 10:26 GMT+02:00 Andrea Zanni :
>
> > The English Wikisource already has the Lilypond extension to host Sheet
> > music:
> > https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:
> > PagesWithProp/score=500
> >
> > AFAIK, though, Lilypond notation is not easy and I'm not sure how
> > widespread is the use of transcribing music notation in Wikisource
> > communities.
> >
> > Aubrey
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Tim Starling 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 23/06/17 12:48, Romaine Wiki wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I came across the following Kickstarter project about sheet music.
> The
> > > > project aims for making public domain sheet musuc available and
> keeping
> > > > them open. The project is a sort of Wikisource, but then for sheet
> > music,
> > > > and I think as Wikimedia movement we should support this somehow.
> > >
> > > Seems like a duplicate of Mutopia, except funded via Kickstarter. You
> > > give them money on Kickstarter and they download the score from IMSLP
> > > and transcribe it for you. This doesn't appear to be a business model
> > > that would benefit from our help.
> > >
> > > -- Tim Starling
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource type of site for sheet music at kickstarter

[Yann Forget]

And the French Wikisource too. ;)

Yann


2017-06-23 10:26 GMT+02:00 Andrea Zanni :

> The English Wikisource already has the Lilypond extension to host Sheet
> music:
> https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:
> PagesWithProp/score=500
>
> AFAIK, though, Lilypond notation is not easy and I'm not sure how
> widespread is the use of transcribing music notation in Wikisource
> communities.
>
> Aubrey
>
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Tim Starling 
> wrote:
>
> > On 23/06/17 12:48, Romaine Wiki wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I came across the following Kickstarter project about sheet music. The
> > > project aims for making public domain sheet musuc available and keeping
> > > them open. The project is a sort of Wikisource, but then for sheet
> music,
> > > and I think as Wikimedia movement we should support this somehow.
> >
> > Seems like a duplicate of Mutopia, except funded via Kickstarter. You
> > give them money on Kickstarter and they download the score from IMSLP
> > and transcribe it for you. This doesn't appear to be a business model
> > that would benefit from our help.
> >
> > -- Tim Starling
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource type of site for sheet music at kickstarter

[Trizek]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Andrea Zanni 
wrote:

> The English Wikisource already has the Lilypond extension to host Sheet
> music:
> https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:
> PagesWithProp/score=500


It is Extension:Score 
(using Lilypond), and it is on all Wikisources (like in German
,
French

or
even Breton
).
:)

>
>
> AFAIK, though, Lilypond notation is not easy and I'm not sure how
> widespread is the use of transcribing music notation in Wikisource
> communities.
>
> Aubrey
>
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Tim Starling 
> wrote:
>
> > On 23/06/17 12:48, Romaine Wiki wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I came across the following Kickstarter project about sheet music. The
> > > project aims for making public domain sheet musuc available and keeping
> > > them open. The project is a sort of Wikisource, but then for sheet
> music,
> > > and I think as Wikimedia movement we should support this somehow.
> >
> > Seems like a duplicate of Mutopia, except funded via Kickstarter. You
> > give them money on Kickstarter and they download the score from IMSLP
> > and transcribe it for you. This doesn't appear to be a business model
> > that would benefit from our help.
> >
> > -- Tim Starling
> >
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikisource type of site for sheet music at kickstarter

[Andrea Zanni]

The English Wikisource already has the Lilypond extension to host Sheet
music:
https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special:PagesWithProp/score=500

AFAIK, though, Lilypond notation is not easy and I'm not sure how
widespread is the use of transcribing music notation in Wikisource
communities.

Aubrey

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Tim Starling 
wrote:

> On 23/06/17 12:48, Romaine Wiki wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I came across the following Kickstarter project about sheet music. The
> > project aims for making public domain sheet musuc available and keeping
> > them open. The project is a sort of Wikisource, but then for sheet music,
> > and I think as Wikimedia movement we should support this somehow.
>
> Seems like a duplicate of Mutopia, except funded via Kickstarter. You
> give them money on Kickstarter and they download the score from IMSLP
> and transcribe it for you. This doesn't appear to be a business model
> that would benefit from our help.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] WMF Language team office hour and online meeting on June 27, 2017 (Tuesday) at 1300 UTC

[Runa Bhattacharjee]

[x-posted announcement]

Hello,

The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is
scheduled for Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 at 13:00 UTC. This will be an open
session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects.

This session is going to be an online discussion over Google
Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the
limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots
are available. Hence, do please let us know in advance if you would like to
join in the Hangout. The IRC channel will be open for interactions during
the session.

Our last online round-table session was held in March 2017. You can watch
the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DWXTRl5ZEk

Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
session links and do let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you
Runa

== Details ==

# Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session

# When: June 27, 2017 (Tuesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170627T1300)

# Where: IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Euhu4Q7HF4

# Agenda:
Updates from the Language team and Q & A.

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