Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia Cymru

[Philip Kopetzky]

Hi Kirill!

It would be really helpful to outline these kind of decisions with
arguments/deliberations that AffCom decided to follow, considering that
this sets a precedence in the worldwide community. For example, UG Wales
states that they "cooperate with and represent Wikimedia UK in Wales" -
does this mean that we are now accepting UGs within chapters? Is this UG
supposed to be able to apply for grants, despite its overlap with WMUK?

Best,
Philip



On 11 March 2018 at 15:44, Shlomi Fish  wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Mar 2018 10:32:34 -0400
> Kirill Lokshin  wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> > Grŵp Defnyddwyr Cymuned Wicimedia Cymru (Wikimedia Community User Group
> > Wales) [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to promote the
> > Wikimedia movement in Wales and support the development of Wikimedia
> > projects and content in the Welsh language.
> >
> > Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> >
>
> congratulations!
>
> > Regards,
> > Kirill Lokshin
> > Chair, Affiliations Committee
> >
> > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Wales
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Notification about problem identified with a recent CentralNotice banner

[Gregory Varnum]

Thank you to folks that responded for your comments and questions.

There are staff from multiple departments within the Wikimedia Foundation 
reviewing both this incident and possible improvements to prevent similar 
incidents in the future. Since security discussions can sometimes reveal 
vulnerabilities that some observers may seek to exploit, those conversations 
are happening in private spaces for now (including a private Phabricator 
ticket). We are discussing how to best share additional findings and possible 
improvements.

We appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding.

-greg


> On Mar 17, 2018, at 10:55 AM, Strainu  wrote:
> 
> Thank you for letting us know early on. I would also want to see a 
> post-mortem on this and I hope the steps taken to mitigate the risk will be 
> consistent with the ones taken on the recent fa.wiki criptocurrency case.
> 
> Strainu
> 
> În 17 martie 2018 03:57:28 EET, Gregory Varnum  a 
> scris:
>> On 14 March and 15 March 2018, a CentralNotice banner appeared to some
>> logged-out users viewing English Wikipedia pages. The banner contained
>> JavaScript hosted by Facebook, which allowed Facebook to collect
>> traffic data from those who visited a page with a banner. The banner
>> was prepared by the Wikimedia Foundation. The Foundation turned the
>> banner off as soon as we learned how the script was running, and its
>> potential scope. We have also removed all references to the code in
>> question from CentralNotice on Meta-Wiki.
>> 
>> The code utilized in this banner was based on an unused prototype
>> created by an outside vendor. Because the prototype was never enabled,
>> the vendor’s prototype code was not subjected to our standard quality
>> assurance process. However, we made the mistake of reusing the code for
>> a different purpose, and implementing it based on recommendations in
>> documentation from Twitter and Facebook to improve the appearance of
>> shared links. At the time, our understanding was that the platforms
>> would only receive traffic data if the user clicked on the link.
>> Although this was true for Twitter, the Facebook code operated
>> differently.
>> 
>> We discovered the problematic link configurations during our ongoing
>> monitoring of live banners. The recommended code enhanced not only the
>> appearance of links, it also enhanced Facebook's ability to collect
>> information on people visiting non-Facebook sites. As soon as we
>> realized these banners were sharing information without even having to
>> click the link, we disabled them and began an investigation. Staff in
>> multiple departments are collaboratively reviewing the incident as well
>> as procedural and technical improvements to prevent future incidents.
>> 
>> While this sort of tracking is commonplace today across most of the
>> internet, it is not consistent with our policies. We are disappointed
>> that this type of hidden data collection is routinely recommended by
>> major platforms, without clearer disclosure.
>> 
>> These practices are why we all must regularly take routine steps to
>> maintain a secure computer and account. As the Wikimedia Foundation
>> continues to explore ways we can do that within Wikimedia's platform,
>> we encourage you to consider tools which block unwanted third-party
>> scripts like the one provided by Facebook.
>> 
>> We apologize for sending this late on a Friday (San Francisco time).
>> However, we wanted to provide this information as quickly as possible.
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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase March 21, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT | 18:30 UTC)

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, March 21,
2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACevHs0sMMw

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
.


Over the past years, the Research team at Wikimedia Foundation and some of
our formal collaborators have been focused on doing research and building
technologies that can help editors across Wikimedia languages find tasks
for contributions. While the early effort was heavily focused on article
recommendation for creation (horizontal expansion), in 2016 we started a
new direction of research with a focus on vertical expansion of Wikipedia
articles. The two talks in the March 2018 Research Showcase will share some
of what we have learned from this research. More specifically, we will talk
about Wikipedia category network as a great signal for creating
templates/structures for Wikipedia articles as well as ongoing research to
learn what content (sections) are missing from Wikipedia across its many
languages. The two corresponding abstracts with more details are below.
Join us! :)


Using Wikipedia categories for research: opportunities, challenges, and
solutionsBy *Tiziano Piccardi, EPFL*The category network in Wikipedia is
used by editors as a way to label articles and organize them in a
hierarchical structure. This manually created and curated network of 1.6
million nodes in English Wikipedia generated by arranging the categories in
a child-parent relation (i.e., Scientists-People, Cities-Human Settlement)
allows researchers to infer valuable relations between concepts. A clean
structure in this format would be a valuable resource for a variety of
tools and application including automatic reasoning tools. Unfortunately,
Wikipedia category network contains some "noise" since in many cases the
association as subcategory does not define an is-a relation (Scientists
is-a People vs. Billionaires‎ is-a Wealth). Inspired to develop a model for
recommending sections to be added to the already existing Wikipedia
articles, we developed a method to clean this network and to keep only the
categories that have a high chance to be associated with their children by
an is-a relation. The strategy is based on the concept of "pure"
categories, and the algorithm uses the types of the attached articles to
determine how homogenous the category is. The approach does not rely on any
linguistic feature and therefore is suitable for all Wikipedia languages.
In this talk, we will discuss the high-level overview of the algorithm and
some of the possible applications for the generated network beyond article
section recommendations.


Beyond Automatic Translation: Aligning Wikipedia sections across multiple
languagesBy *Diego Saez-Trumper*Sections are the building blocks of
Wikipedia articles. For editors, they can be used as an entry point for
creating and expanding articles. For readers, they enhance readability of
Wikipedia content. In this talk, we present an ongoing research to align
article sections across Wikipedia languages. We show how the available
technology for automatic translations are not good enough for translating
section titles. We then show a complementary approach for section
alignment, using Wikidata and cross-lingual word embeddings. We will
present some of the use-cases of a methodology for aligning sections across
languages, including improved section recommendation, especially in medium
to smaller size languages where the language itself may not contain enough
signal about the structure of the articles and signals can be inferred from
other larger Wikipedia languages.

Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
srodl...@wikimedia.org
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