Re: [Wikimedia-l] Writing weeks started about German-speaking Community

[Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l]

Hi Riomaine Thank you! Do you think you could put the working list on metal and 
have sections in the different languages? It would make it easier. That’s what 
we did with the Wikialpen forum where three languages were involved.

Kind regards, 

Nattes à chat


> Le 10 déc. 2018 à 06:53, Romaine Wiki  a écrit :
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> From Monday 10 December to Friday 21 December we (community/Wikimedia
> Belgium) organise the writing weeks about the German-speaking Community of
> Belgium.
> 
> The German-speaking Community is one of the three communities in Belgium,
> located near the border with Germany and comprises nine municipalities:
> Amel, Büllingen, Burg-Reuland, Bütgenbach, Eupen, Kelmis, Lontzen, Raeren
> and Sankt Vith. The area stretches from the 3-country point near Vaals
> (Netherlands) in the north to the 3-country point near Ouren and Luxembourg
> in the south.
> 
> This area is unfortunately only very limited described on Wikipedia. That
> is why we invite you to write on Wikipedia about this area and help to fill
> this gap bit by bit.
> 
> Please add the articles you write or translate to the project page. In this
> way we know what has been done and it can stimulate other writers to write
> and translate.
> 
> Project page:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_week/German-speaking_Community_of_Belgium
> 
> 
> If you would like to stay informed about future writing weeks, please add
> yourself to the mass message list and receive a message when a new writing
> week starts:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/WritingWeek
> 
> For those who are in the area, on Saturday 15 December we also organise and
> edit-a-thon in Eupen, the capital of this area.
> 
> Greetings from Belgium!
> 
> Romaine
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[Wikimedia-l] Writing weeks started about German-speaking Community

[Romaine Wiki]

Hi everyone,

From Monday 10 December to Friday 21 December we (community/Wikimedia
Belgium) organise the writing weeks about the German-speaking Community of
Belgium.

The German-speaking Community is one of the three communities in Belgium,
located near the border with Germany and comprises nine municipalities:
Amel, Büllingen, Burg-Reuland, Bütgenbach, Eupen, Kelmis, Lontzen, Raeren
and Sankt Vith. The area stretches from the 3-country point near Vaals
(Netherlands) in the north to the 3-country point near Ouren and Luxembourg
in the south.

This area is unfortunately only very limited described on Wikipedia. That
is why we invite you to write on Wikipedia about this area and help to fill
this gap bit by bit.

Please add the articles you write or translate to the project page. In this
way we know what has been done and it can stimulate other writers to write
and translate.

Project page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Writing_week/German-speaking_Community_of_Belgium


If you would like to stay informed about future writing weeks, please add
yourself to the mass message list and receive a message when a new writing
week starts:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/WritingWeek

For those who are in the area, on Saturday 15 December we also organise and
edit-a-thon in Eupen, the capital of this area.

Greetings from Belgium!

Romaine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile fundraising ads

[James Salsman]

For those of you who have not seen the mobile fundraising banner this
year, and thus are uncertain of what all the fuss is about, here is an
example:

https://i.imgur.com/wL4Y5dl.png

The fundraising message literally takes 4.5 screens that have to be
scrolled through to get to the article. I don't think its accurately
reflected with how desktop browsers render the example given by the
Fundraising team at
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA?banner=B1819_0701_mlWW_mob_p1_lg_template&force=1&country=US
which is only a little over one screenful before the article text on
typical landscape-shaped desktop browser rendering.

In years past, it seemed like the fundraising team was more
forthcoming about their choices and the reasons for making them. Has
anyone inside or outside of the Foundation seen any explanation of why
so much text, with such odd formatting, is necessary on mobile this
year?

On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 8:44 AM Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
> I love the focus on mobile and smaller format interfaces, quite generally;
> it's increasingly how I use the projects too!
>
> A)  This banner-text-series is clearly impactful, gave me a bit of a jump
> scare, and got me to read it to find out why. I'm still not sure how I feel
> about it.
> ~ Visual effect: Messages that flow smoothly in and out of the reading
> experience are even nicer.
> ~ Message: Is there an estimate of the total impact on all readers, as well
> as total effective fundraising?  If there is a very effective
> compact/delightful banner, and an even more effective large/ambivalent
> one, is there some internal calculus about the overal impact of running the
> former for longer vs. the latter for a short period?
> I'd like to think the best possible messages inspire and delight and
> draw on positive emotions while raising funds, including for those who
> don't donate, even if they do not yield the most donations per view.
>
> B)  The tracking of whether I've donated, when choosing to show or not show
> me banners, is definitely lacking.  Part of this is that we have taken an
> overly-paranoid approach to gathering and anonymizing user data.  It is
> entirely possible to cluster users for the purposes of
> not-continuing-to-show-banners (maintain a dictionary of
> user-fingerprint-hashes-already-seen, check to see if the current user is
> in there, don't show banners if they are) without being able to see what
> pages a given user is viewing.
>
> I wrote more about this here:
> https://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2018/07/25/anonymizing-data-on-the-users-of-wikipedia/
>  Please consider doing this; it is really hurting the user-experience of
> the wiki projects (not only in this instance -- in so many other basic
> instances of usage stats + testing over time!), for no benefit to anyone.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposed changes to the Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws

[Frans Grijzenhout]

Hi all,

I want to express my concerns regarding this proposal to amend the WMF
bylaws at this moment.

It is a clear attempt to change the structure of our movement, and it seems
to be a logic step after the endorsement of the Movement Direction
(“Structure follows strategy”). However this proposal interferes with our
common commitment to the second step of the Movement Strategy.

After the endorsement of the Movement Direction 9 working groups have been
installed. Their basic assignment is: “[...] map the present situation of
their respective Thematic Areas, including the obstacles and opportunities,
as well as changes needed for the movement to advance in our Strategic
Direction. They will identify possible strategies for making these changes
and develop concrete recommendations for the movement on how to *ratify and
implement* [italics mine] them.

This wording is in accordance with the email of Maria Sefidari of July 19,
2018 in which she expressed the commitment of the Board of Trustees to this
process. I quote from her email: “Now our task as a movement is to apply
the Strategic Direction to our own work. We need to answer questions that
define our path forward: What kind of *structures* [again, the italics are
mine] are ideal for achieving our strategic direction?”

Issuing a proposal to change the bylaws clearly trespasses the work of all
those involved in the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Process. I urge the
Board of Trustees to postpone a decision about this matter and I suggest to
hand over the recommendations of the Affcom to the appropriate working
groups.

Finally: Of course I do not want the Board of Trustees to act passively
during the Movement Strategy Process. But this proposal is only a part of
the bigger problem that we have to solve: the organization of the
affiliates (chapters, user groups, new forms of affiliation) and the whole
decision making process that goes with this, and as such it concerns the
very heart of the international community. It needs a more careful
consideration than the one-time consultation that has now been started.
Let's not undermine this process, let's stick to the process that we have
committed ourselves to.

Frans Grijzenhout (chair WMNL, moderator Affiliate Chairpersons meetings)

*Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair
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Op zo 9 dec. 2018 om 00:13 schreef Pine W :

> I think that the proposals are worth considering, although my wish list for
> reforming the WMF Board has other priorities at this time (especially
> regarding transparency, and the changing of the Founder's seat to a
> community-selected seat). I think that these proposals should wait until
> after the Strategy process is further along.
>
> I note the concerns that people have expressed about both proposals, both
> here and on the talk page. I encourage the Board and staff to avoid
> becoming locked into defending the proposals and pushing them through in
> their current forms.
>
> However, I think that the Board should be encouraged to make proposals to
> the community like this, and I thank the Board for making these proposals
> open for public discussion.
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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