[Wikimedia-l] Seeking your feedback on future Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meetings

[Gregory Varnum]

Greetings!

At last month's metrics and activities meeting, the Wikimedia Foundation
Communications department gave an update on the logistics of the actual
meeting itself and put out a call for your feedback.[1] The department has
been working over the past year to help determine what the next evolution
of the meeting should be, and have taken steps to expand the meeting for an
audience beyond just people within the Foundation.

Thank you to everyone that has already emailed us with feedback! We will
continue to collect feedback over the coming months, and we have also
posted a Meta-Wiki page to collect feedback if you would prefer to post it
on-wiki.[2]

Based on the feedback we have already received, we have added some
additional pages on Meta-Wiki to help with communications around the
meeting:
1. A page that outlines the basic process the Communications department
follows in planning the meeting.[3]
2. A page for you to request or suggest future meeting topics.[4]

The most common question I receive about this meeting is from people
interested in presenting, or with a suggestion for a highlight to mention.
So, I want to point out that the new future meetings page is now our
preferred location for making those suggestions and requests.[4] Keeping
them in that central on-wiki location will help us with tracking requests
and long-term planning.

Again, we appreciate all of the feedback, and hope that you will join us
for future meetings (or check out past recordings) as we continue to
experiment and make adjustments.

-greg


[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities_meetings/2018-02

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities_meetings/Request_for_comments_-_2018

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities_meetings/Process

[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities_meetings/Future_meetings

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Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Conference 2015-2017: 3 Year Report

[Cornelius Kibelka]

Dear all,

We are excited to share a report on our main learnings from the last three
years of organizing the Wikimedia Conference. From 2015 to 2017 we have
focused on improving the conference from year to year, each time learning
from the experiences and feedback from the preceding years.

The report reflects on our learnings regarding logistics, program design,
and the general purpose of the conference. The conclusion of the report
leads to some central questions  that we together need to create clarity
around to make the most of the Wikimedia Conference in the future: Who is
the target audience of the Wikimedia Conference? How can we strengthen
capacity building within the Movement and build stronger links between all
Wikimedia events? How can the Wikimedia Conference continue to be a useful
space for conversations about the future direction of the Wikimedia
Movement?

You can find the report here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference/2015%E2%80%932017_Report


Also, we have a layouted version as a pdf

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Conference_2015_to_2017_Report.pdf


We look forward to seeing many of you at this year’s WMCON, where the
future concept and scope of the conference also will be part of the program.

Warm regards,

Cornelius, Nicole and Daniela


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Cornelius Kibelka
Program and Engagement Coordinator (PEC)
for the Wikimedia Conference

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de

Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Unblocking 79 IPs blocked as open proxies 12 years ago (T189840)

[Brad Jorsch (Anomie)]

Forwarding, since I screwed up trying to send it to this list the first
time.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Brad Jorsch (Anomie) 
Date: Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 2:50 PM
Subject: Unblocking 79 IPs blocked as open proxies 12 years ago (T189840)
To: Wikimedia developers , MediaWiki
announcements and site admin list 


In 2005–2006 a sysadmin blocked 79 IP addresses on all wikis as being
automatically-detected open proxies, without recording them in the block
log or attributing the block to any user account. These incomplete records
are now causing errors when MediaWiki tries to access them in various
places, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189840.

Since these are all over 12 years old, it seems reasonably likely that many
of these are no longer open proxies. Rather than trying to fix the
incomplete records, I'm just going to remove them.

Any existing blocks of these IPs that are not causing errors will not be
removed. At first glance this seems relevant mainly to enwiki, where only 5
of the IPs have incomplete records. 21 are currently blocked there with
complete records (19 since 2005 or earlier), and the other 53 are not
currently blocked there.

The list of IPs is at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P6876 in case
anyone wants to review them for potential reblocking.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase March 21, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT | 18:30 UTC)

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

Just a reminder -- this is beginning in a half hour. Hope to see you there!

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:54 PM, Sarah R  wrote:

> 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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