Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to a "Wikimedia Café" casual online meetup

[Pine W]

Hi,

Taking into consideration the input from the Doodle poll, I'm scheduling
this meetup for March 29th at 8:15 AM Pacific / 3:!5 PM UTC.

Reminder: the focus of this meetup will be communications in the Wikiverse.

See you there,

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )


On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 3:38 AM Pine W  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For the next Wikimedia Café online meetup we will focus on the subject of
> communications in the Wikiverse. What about communications is working well,
> what is not working well, and what should be done to improve
> communications? This will be a casual discussion but formal proposals may
> emerge from it, and at the meetup people are welcome to discuss their ideas
> for formal proposals. Participants are also welcome to suggest topics for
> discussion other than communications, but the plan is to spend the majority
> of the time on the subject of communications.
>
> The Café meetup will be in late March, on a time to be chosen via Doodle
> poll: https://doodle.com/poll/t3w8nkt9vy5mm3r5. I am skipping February
> due to some existing commitments. When you visit the Doodle poll you should
> be able to change the timezone that you see for the calendar. Please be
> sure to select the correct timezone for you before you vote.
>
> I will host the meeting using the free version of Zoom. Zoom limits the
> length of meetings using the free version to 40 minutes.
>
> The Zoom online meeting link will be the same link that we have used for
> previous Wikimedia Café meetups; see below.
>
> If you would like to attend then please vote in the Doodle poll.
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:15 PM Pine W  wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Based on comments that I received on Wikimedia-l, I would like to invite
>> people to a casual online meetup one hour before the monthly WMF Metrics
>> and Activities Meeting.
>>
>> There will be no set agenda. You can come with questions or ideas that
>> you would like to discuss. Please be willing to listen to questions and
>> ideas from other Wikimedians.
>>
>> I will host the meeting with the Zoom software. You can join with
>> software or by using your phone. If you join by phone then your phone
>> number will be visible to other participants.
>>
>> The primary language of the meeting will be English, but if people would
>> like to communicate in diverse languages then that is okay too. We can
>> facilitate translation by text chat. Many Wikimedians, myself included, are
>> multilingual in varying degrees, so we might try to have live
>> interpretation also.
>>
>> Here is information about how to connect:
>>
>> Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/136978210
>>
>> Or iPhone one-tap :
>> Argentina: +543415122188,,136978210#
>> Or Telephone:
>> Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current
>> location):
>> Argentina: +54 341 512 2188
>> Australia: +61 (0) 2 8015 2088  or +61 (0) 8 7150 1149
>> Canada: +1 647 558 0588
>> Hong Kong, China: +852 5808 6088
>> France: +33 (0) 1 8288 0188  or +33 (0) 7 5678 4048
>> Germany: +49 (0) 30 3080 6188  or +49 (0) 30 5679 5800
>> Israel: +972 (0) 3 978 6688
>> Italy: +39 069 480 6488
>> Japan: +81 (0) 3 4578 1488  or +81 524 564 439
>> Mexico: +52 229 910 0061  or +52 554 161 4288
>> Spain: +34 84 368 5025  or +34 91 198 0188
>> Sweden: +46 (0) 7 6692 0434  or +46 (0) 8 4468 2488
>> Russia: +7 495 283 9788
>> United Kingdom: +44 (0) 20 3051 2874  or +44 (0) 20 3695 0088
>> US: +1 408 638 0986  or +1 646 558 8665
>> Meeting ID: 136 978 210
>> International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/ekaPibJIy
>>
>> The first "Wikimedia Café" meetup will be on 30 August 2018, at 17:00 UTC
>> / 10:00 Pacific.
>>
>> Let me emphasize that the environment won't be like this
>> ,
>> so please don't feel intimated if you are nervous about public speaking.
>> (If a conversation feels to me like it is becoming uncivil or intimidating,
>> then I will ask the debaters to quiet themselves or to move to somewhere
>> else.) The meeting will generally have an environment that is more like
>> this
>>  or
>> this
>> .
>> I anticipate that few people will come, which is okay. I hope that if you
>> come then you will enjoy the environment and conversation.
>>
>> Until next time,
>> Pine
>> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] International Mother Language Day 2019 data-thon

[Bodhisattwa Mandal]

Hi all,

The International Mother Language Day 2019 data-thon

has started today. Everyone is welcome to join.

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] February 20 at 11:30 AM PST, 19:30 UTC

[Janna Layton]

The Research Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes! Info below:

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:20 AM Janna Layton  wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase, “The_Tower_of_Babel.jpg” and “A Warm Welcome,
> Not a Cold Start,” will be live-streamed next Wednesday, February 20, 2019,
> at 11:30 AM PST/19:30 UTC. The first presentation is about how images are
> used across language editions, and the second is about new editors.
>
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jpJIFXwlEg
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
> can also watch our past research showcases here:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
>
> This month's presentations:
>
> The_Tower_of_Babel.jpg: Diversity of Visual Encyclopedic Knowledge Across
> Wikipedia Language Editions
>
>
> By Shiqing He (presenting, University of Michigan), Brent Hecht
> (presenting, Northwestern University), Allen Yilun Lin (Northwestern
> University), Eytan Adar (University of Michigan), ICWSM'18.
>
>
> Across all Wikipedia language editions, millions of images augment text in
> critical ways. This visual encyclopedic knowledge is an important form of
> wikiwork for editors, a critical part of reader experience, an emerging
> resource for machine learning, and a lens into cultural differences.
> However, Wikipedia research--and cross-language edition Wikipedia research
> in particular--has thus far been limited to text. In this paper, we assess
> the diversity of visual encyclopedic knowledge across 25 language editions
> and compare our findings to those reported for textual content. Unlike
> text, translation in images is largely unnecessary. Additionally, the
> Wikimedia Foundation, through the Wikipedia Commons, has taken steps to
> simplify cross-language image sharing. While we may expect that these
> factors would reduce image diversity, we find that cross-language image
> diversity rivals, and often exceeds, that found in text. We find that
> diversity varies between language pairs and content types, but that many
> images are unique to different language editions. Our findings have
> implications for readers (in what imagery they see), for editors (in
> deciding what images to use), for researchers (who study cultural
> variations), and for machine learning developers (who use Wikipedia for
> training models).
>
>
> A Warm Welcome, Not a Cold Start: Eliciting New Editors' Interests via
> Questionnaires
>
>
> By Ramtin Yazdanian (presenting, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)
>
> Every day, thousands of users sign up as new Wikipedia contributors. Once
> joined, these users have to decide which articles to contribute to, which
> users to reach out to and learn from or collaborate with, etc. Any such
> task is a hard and potentially frustrating one given the sheer size of
> Wikipedia. Supporting newcomers in their first steps by recommending
> articles they would enjoy editing or editors they would enjoy collaborating
> with is thus a promising route toward converting them into long-term
> contributors. Standard recommender systems, however, rely on users'
> histories of previous interactions with the platform. As such, these
> systems cannot make high-quality recommendations to newcomers without any
> previous interactions -- the so-called cold-start problem. Our aim is to
> address the cold-start problem on Wikipedia by developing a method for
> automatically building short questionnaires that, when completed by a newly
> registered Wikipedia user, can be used for a variety of purposes, including
> article recommendations that can help new editors get started. Our
> questionnaires are constructed based on the text of Wikipedia articles as
> well as the history of contributions by the already onboarded Wikipedia
> editors. We have assessed the quality of our questionnaire-based
> recommendations in an offline evaluation using historical data, as well as
> an online evaluation with hundreds of real Wikipedia newcomers, concluding
> that our method provides cohesive, human-readable questions that perform
> well against several baselines. By addressing the cold-start problem, this
> work can help with the sustainable growth and maintenance of Wikipedia's
> diverse editor community.
>
>
> --
> Janna Layton (she, her)
> Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>


-- 
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Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changed plus next steps

[effe iets anders]

As for process.. While I appreciate that this time, the change was at least
announced before the vote, and that some board members at least engaged in
some conversation - I have yet to see how this was taken into consideration
by the board as a whole. It feels like the board already made up its mind.

What is surprising me most, is that it took a month for this announcement
to be made - especially considering a time sensitive process being impacted
by this decision. Or did I miss a more timely announcement elsewhere?

Best,
Lodewijk

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 3:19 AM Santiago Navarro <
santiagonava...@wikimedia.es> wrote:

> In fact, I did not participate in the discussion page on meta about
> that, because I guessed that my opinion would not be taken in account,
> neither discussed, and now it seems that, sadly, I was right in that
> thought.
>
> El 2019-02-19 17:25, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel escribió:
> > Antanana and the board,
> >
> > I find it sad and disappointing that after such a long conversation on
> > the
> > talk page, there wasn't any comment on the talk page or in this
> > statement
> > about the problem of double voting by many UG's members. Did the board
> > even
> > discuss that or we just wasted our time giving feedback on it?
> >
> > Ensuring equality in voting is the basis for every democracy and is
> > trampled here completely without any comment from the board about how
> > to
> > ensure it.
> >
> >
> > *Itzik Edri*
> > Chairperson
> > it...@wikimedia.org.il
> > +972-54-5878078
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:18 PM Nataliia Tymkiv 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hello all!
> >>
> >> The Wikimedia Foundation Board has unanimously approved the changes to
> >> the
> >> Bylaws [1] during the last Board meeting on January 30, 2019. This
> >> will be
> >> covered in the minutes, and the resolution will be published in short
> >> order.
> >>
> >> This change allows the participation of User Groups [2] in the
> >> Affiliate-selected Board seats (ASBS) 2019 process [3].  The
> >> discussion
> >> about this process should start as soon as possible in order to have
> >> these
> >> two seats selected by Wikimania. This is why we are sending this
> >> letter
> >> now, before the resolution is published.
> >>
> >> There are now over 100 recognized User Groups, covering over 50
> >> countries,
> >> several languages and topics, many of whom represent new and emergent
> >> communities within the Wikimedia movement. The Board believes that the
> >> added perspectives of the User Groups, combined with the voices of
> >> Chapters
> >> and Thematic Organizations, will lead to a richer collection of
> >> guidance
> >> for our movement. The conversation about how User Groups may
> >> participate in
> >> this process has been on for years, it is not a new topic [4].
> >>
> >> Once the facilitators of the Selection process are appointed by the
> >> affiliates, they should work with María Sefidari, who has been chosen
> >> by
> >> the Board as the Board liaison for the ASBS process.
> >>
> >> Given the potential complexity of organizing a process that now will
> >> include over a hundred user groups, the Wikimedia Foundation is
> >> offering
> >> its support to set up infrastructure and help with communications if
> >> requested by the affiliates.
> >>
> >> A page for translation can be found at:
> >>
> >>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Wikimedia_Foundation_Bylaws_changed_plus_next_steps
> >>
> >> On behalf of the Board
> >>
> >> antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
> >>
> >> Chair of the Board Governance Committee
> >>
> >> [1]
> >>
> >>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/December_2018_-_Affiliate-selected_trustees,_term_limits,_and_diversity
> >>
> >>
> >> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups
> >>
> >>
> >> [3]
> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019
> >>
> >>
> >> [4]
> >>
> >>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/January_2014_-_Amendment_for_Trustees_selected_by_Chapters_and_Thematic_Organizations
> >>
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> >> hours/days, as I usually can work more as a volunteer during weekend.
> >> You
> >> should not feel obligated to answer it during your days off. Thank you
> >> in
> >> advance!*
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[Wikimedia-l] Impact study WMFr 2018

[Rémy Gerbet]

Hello,

In 2018, Wikimedia France has experienced a significant restructuring phase
with a new turnover with a new Board and a new organization of the salaried
team following the unfortunate events that occurred in 2017.

In this context, Wikimedia France has requested the expertise of an agency
specialized in impact study to review our indicators and to better value
the impact of our activities. This agency, called Agence phare, worked with
many associative actors and seemed to quickly understand the issues
specific to our movement.. n the spirit of sharing dear to our movement, I
am sending you today the final report

prepared by this agency which we had translated into English.

Maybe, it will interest some of you.

I am at your disposal if you have any questions.

Best,


*Gerbet Rémy*

*Coordinateur opérationnel/Operational coordinator **07 84 37 91 04*
*---**-*

*WIKIMEDIA FRANCE*Association pour le libre partage de la connaissance
*www.wikimedia.fr  *
*40 rue de clery, **75002 Paris*



*[image: File:Campagne 2018 Faites un don.jpg]
*
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Bylaws changed plus next steps

[Santiago Navarro]

In fact, I did not participate in the discussion page on meta about 
that, because I guessed that my opinion would not be taken in account, 
neither discussed, and now it seems that, sadly, I was right in that 
thought.


El 2019-02-19 17:25, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel escribió:

Antanana and the board,

I find it sad and disappointing that after such a long conversation on 
the
talk page, there wasn't any comment on the talk page or in this 
statement
about the problem of double voting by many UG's members. Did the board 
even

discuss that or we just wasted our time giving feedback on it?

Ensuring equality in voting is the basis for every democracy and is
trampled here completely without any comment from the board about how 
to

ensure it.


*Itzik Edri*
Chairperson
it...@wikimedia.org.il
+972-54-5878078




On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:18 PM Nataliia Tymkiv 
wrote:


Hello all!

The Wikimedia Foundation Board has unanimously approved the changes to 
the
Bylaws [1] during the last Board meeting on January 30, 2019. This 
will be

covered in the minutes, and the resolution will be published in short
order.

This change allows the participation of User Groups [2] in the
Affiliate-selected Board seats (ASBS) 2019 process [3].  The 
discussion
about this process should start as soon as possible in order to have 
these
two seats selected by Wikimania. This is why we are sending this 
letter

now, before the resolution is published.

There are now over 100 recognized User Groups, covering over 50 
countries,

several languages and topics, many of whom represent new and emergent
communities within the Wikimedia movement. The Board believes that the
added perspectives of the User Groups, combined with the voices of 
Chapters
and Thematic Organizations, will lead to a richer collection of 
guidance
for our movement. The conversation about how User Groups may 
participate in

this process has been on for years, it is not a new topic [4].

Once the facilitators of the Selection process are appointed by the
affiliates, they should work with María Sefidari, who has been chosen 
by

the Board as the Board liaison for the ASBS process.

Given the potential complexity of organizing a process that now will
include over a hundred user groups, the Wikimedia Foundation is 
offering

its support to set up infrastructure and help with communications if
requested by the affiliates.

A page for translation can be found at:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Wikimedia_Foundation_Bylaws_changed_plus_next_steps

On behalf of the Board

antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv

Chair of the Board Governance Committee

[1]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/December_2018_-_Affiliate-selected_trustees,_term_limits,_and_diversity


[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups


[3] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019



[4]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/January_2014_-_Amendment_for_Trustees_selected_by_Chapters_and_Thematic_Organizations

*NOTICE: You may have received this message outside of your normal 
working
hours/days, as I usually can work more as a volunteer during weekend. 
You
should not feel obligated to answer it during your days off. Thank you 
in

advance!*
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