Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Tool from Community Tech: Who Wrote That?

[Todd Allen]

I've just tested it out for Chrome. The load time is slightly on the long
side, but overall, this is an excellent tool that I think will be very
helpful indeed. Really well done!

Todd

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 1:52 PM Ilana Fried  wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
>
> I’m very excited to share a new tool created by the Community Tech team:
> Who Wrote That[1],
> available as a
> <
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/who-wrote-that-beta/ekkbnedhfelfaidbpaedaecjiokkionn
> >Chrome[2]
> and Firefox[3] browser extension. We developed this tool in response to the
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2017/Search/Blame_tool
> >#4
> wish[4] from the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey[5]. With Who Wrote That?
> (WWT), you can find authorship information directly on Wikipedia articles.
> When you hover over content, the tool highlights all content by the same
> author. When you click on content, the tool identifies the author of the
> revision, along with revision details.
>
>
> We would love your feedback[6]! You can download the
> <
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/who-wrote-that-beta/ekkbnedhfelfaidbpaedaecjiokkionn
> >Chrome[2]
> and Firefox[3] extension, and documentation on the tool is available on the
> MediaWiki WWT page[1]. The data and analysis in WWT come from the WhoColor
> API[7], developed by WikiWho[8], and the MediaWiki API.
>
>
> We hope that you all enjoy using the tool!
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Ilana Fried
>
> Product Manager, Community Tech
>
>
> [1]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WWT
>
> [2].
>
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/who-wrote-that/ekkbnedhfelfaidbpaedaecjiokkionn
>
> [3]. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/whowrotethat/
>
> [4].
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2017/Search/Blame_tool
>
> [5]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2017
>
> [6].
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Who_Wrote_That_tool
>
> [7]. https://api.wikiwho.net/en/whocolor/v1.0.0-beta/
>
> [8]. https://www.wikiwho.net/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation elections committee: Call for volunteers

[Joe Sutherland]

Hi everyone, just to follow up on this - thank you to everyone who
expressed interest in this role.

The Board Governance Committee has agreed to (re)appoint the following
members of the elections committee:

   - User:AbhiSuryawanshi
   
   - User:Carlojoseph14 
   - User:HakanIST 
   - User:KTC 
   - User:Mardetanha 
   - User:Masssly 
   - User:Matanya 
   - User:ProtoplasmaKid
   
   - User:Ruslik0 

Members and advisors serve terms of two years and are appointed by the
Board Governance Committee, in consultation with sitting members of the
Committee and their advisors.

The committee will also be supported by Board liaison, Esra'a Al Shafei,
and a number of Wikimedia Foundation staff advisors, namely:

   - Stephen LaPorte, Wikimedia Foundation Legal
   - Charles Roslof, Wikimedia Foundation Legal
   - Joe Sutherland, Wikimedia Foundation Trust and Safety
   - Greg Varnum, Wikimedia Foundation Communications

I look forward to working with the new and reappointed committee members,
and again thank all applicants for their interest.

best regards,
Joe

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On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 14:36, Joe Sutherland 
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> First of all, many thanks to everyone who has expressed interest in
> joining the Elections Committee. I really appreciate your willingness to
> contribute to a successful election and addressing some of the broader
> questions that have been identified. I'll get in touch with those who have
> emailed me shortly.
>
> As a reminder, please let me know by January 19 if you are interested in
> participating in the Elections Committee.
>
> And thank you for your questions and feedback. I’ll respond inline to the
> questions I believe are still pending an answer.
>
> On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 22:31, Peter Southwood <
> peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
>> Joe, What would "experience with advanced wikitext markup" mean in this
>> context?
>> Also "responsiveness to email outreach"?
>
>
> In this context, we are ideally looking for someone who is comfortable
> with things like translation tags, nested templates, and other "advanced"
> markup provided by MediaWiki. One of the tasks the committee has
> historically been involved with has been to set up and organise the pages
> for the election on Meta-Wiki, and this can get pretty complicated (as
> evidenced by the source code
> !).
> This is a nice-to-have rather than a must-have, since it's only one of the
> ways the committee supports these elections - but it's still very useful.
>
> As for responsiveness, the timelines for these elections have historically
> been tight, and so we really would like committee members who are able to
> respond to emails in a timely way so we can make committee decisions
> quickly.
>
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 at 10:14, Chris Keating 
> wrote:
>
>> - I can't find any evidence of the Elections Committee having met since
>> the
>> conclusion of the 2017 elections - am I missing something? (The 'Minutes'
>> page seems to only refer to 2015 meetings, which is almost 5 years ago, so
>> hopefully this is a case of the meeting minutes being somewhere else on
>> Meta)
>>
>
> You are justifiably not finding minutes, as the Elections Committee has
> only met intermittently since the last election and maintained some of
> their discussions over email outside of meetings (to the best of my
> knowledge!). I am not able to offer extensive insights on the historical
> practice around the Elections Committee, but I can revisit the process for
> publishing minutes with the new committee. Supporting the committee was not
> in my purview until this cycle. I will however echo the disappointment
> about not having had the opportunity of meeting more frequently and share
> more updates with the community. I look forward to working more closely
> with the new committee once they are appointed.
>
>
>> - Also, part of the mandate of the Elections Committee was meant to have
>> been to do a review of the method of election to the Board of Trustees. I
>> haven't heard anything about this happening. Has either the Board or the
>> Elections Committee done anything about this?
>>
>
> The Elections Committee has had some initial conversation, and I expect
> this topic will be at the top of the Election Committee's agenda once they
> begin.
>
>
>> - Your email says we're looking for 2-3 new members. Does that imply 

[Wikimedia-l] New Tool from Community Tech: Who Wrote That?

[Ilana Fried]

Hello everyone,


I’m very excited to share a new tool created by the Community Tech team:
Who Wrote That[1],
available as a
Chrome[2]
and Firefox[3] browser extension. We developed this tool in response to the
#4
wish[4] from the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey[5]. With Who Wrote That?
(WWT), you can find authorship information directly on Wikipedia articles.
When you hover over content, the tool highlights all content by the same
author. When you click on content, the tool identifies the author of the
revision, along with revision details.


We would love your feedback[6]! You can download the
Chrome[2]
and Firefox[3] extension, and documentation on the tool is available on the
MediaWiki WWT page[1]. The data and analysis in WWT come from the WhoColor
API[7], developed by WikiWho[8], and the MediaWiki API.


We hope that you all enjoy using the tool!


Thank you,


Ilana Fried

Product Manager, Community Tech


[1]. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WWT

[2].
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/who-wrote-that/ekkbnedhfelfaidbpaedaecjiokkionn

[3]. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/whowrotethat/

[4].
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2017/Search/Blame_tool

[5]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2017

[6]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Who_Wrote_That_tool

[7]. https://api.wikiwho.net/en/whocolor/v1.0.0-beta/

[8]. https://www.wikiwho.net/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Café - Saturday 25 Jan 2020 4:30 PM UTC...

[Samuel Klein]

Aha, very nice -- thanks for the invite Lane :)
We need a wiki audio+transcription server toolchain named Harmony...

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 5:12 PM Lane Rasberry  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am writing to invite anyone to join the next online meeting of Wikimedia
> Café on Saturday 25 Jan 2020 4:30 PM UTC. Details for joining are at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Café
> > (video room open at that time) https://virginia.zoom.us/my/wikilgbt
>
> The agenda for this month includes discussing Wikipedia holidays, Wikipedia
> video tutorials, and the Wikimedia Strategic recommendations.
>
> Wikimedia Café is a modest, one-hour, monthly online meeting which for the
> past few months has had fewer than 10 attendees. At these meetings anyone
> can propose to discuss any topic of broad Wikimedia community interest, as
> if we all were able to meet in person over coffee. The meetings themselves
> are an experiment in small group Wikimedia community conversation with
> video chat, phone access options, and online shared notetaking.
>
> Anyone interested in joining may.
> Anyone interested in reading notes of past meetings can find them on the
> meta page.
> If there is anyone who wants to get their ideas published in the wiki
> world, consider looking at how this Café works, because voice chat with
> notetaking could be a way to organize your own wiki community.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Café - Saturday 25 Jan 2020 4:30 PM UTC...

[Nicole Ebber]

Hi Lane,

Thanks for adding movement strategy recommendations to your agenda, we
appreciate the initiative! A few of us will join the meeting and will
be happy to contribute to the conversation and answer your
participants' questions if needed.

Best wishes,
Nicole

On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 at 23:13, Lane Rasberry  wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am writing to invite anyone to join the next online meeting of Wikimedia
> Café on Saturday 25 Jan 2020 4:30 PM UTC. Details for joining are at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Café
> > (video room open at that time) https://virginia.zoom.us/my/wikilgbt
>
> The agenda for this month includes discussing Wikipedia holidays, Wikipedia
> video tutorials, and the Wikimedia Strategic recommendations.
>
> Wikimedia Café is a modest, one-hour, monthly online meeting which for the
> past few months has had fewer than 10 attendees. At these meetings anyone
> can propose to discuss any topic of broad Wikimedia community interest, as
> if we all were able to meet in person over coffee. The meetings themselves
> are an experiment in small group Wikimedia community conversation with
> video chat, phone access options, and online shared notetaking.
>
> Anyone interested in joining may.
> Anyone interested in reading notes of past meetings can find them on the
> meta page.
> If there is anyone who wants to get their ideas published in the wiki
> world, consider looking at how this Café works, because voice chat with
> notetaking could be a way to organize your own wiki community.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Lane Rasberry
> user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia
> 206.801.0814
> l...@bluerasberry.com
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova 2019 report

[Strainu]

Hello everyone,

Wikimedians of Romania and Moldova has just published its report for
2019. You can find it at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Romania_and_Moldova_User_Group/2019

Feedback here or in the talk page is welcome.

Strainu

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey: Wikimedia Diversity Conference 2020

[Marc Miquel]

Hi Gerard,

Yes, diversity is a lens you can apply to every area (content, people,
governance, etc.). I don't think it is more used for people than for
content (actually, I do research cultural diversity in content).

The question you posed on how the lack of diversity in content affects the
needs of the readers is an interesting one. It is quite in line with the
Strategic recommendation Prioritize Topics for Impact, which proposes to
study which topics have a more positive impact on society.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Prioritize_Topics_for_Impact

Best,
Marc Miquel

El dj., 23 de gen. 2020, 20:08, Gerard Meijssen 
va escriure:

> Hoi,
> The issue then is that diversity is seen as an issue with our collaborators
> and not so much as an issue of the needs of our audience.
>
> Having said that, has there every been done a study on how and where the
> lack of our diversity in our content exists and how it affects our
> audience?
> Thanks,
>GerardM
>
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 at 17:55, Marc Miquel  wrote:
>
> > Hi Gerard,
> >
> > I agree it is a good practice to try to find a definition. In my
> > understanding, diversity is the range of differences in a series of
> things,
> > people, cultural traits, etc. So, diversity applied to Wikimedia, it can
> be
> > understood as to how well the different profiles in society are engaged
> in
> > contributing to our projects, how the different governance structures
> allow
> > different profiles to access positions in decision-making, how the
> > communities capture all the different available knowledge in certain
> > geographical contexts, etc.
> >
> > Thanks for asking.
> > Best,
> > Marc
> > ᐧ
> >
> > Missatge de Gerard Meijssen  del dia dc., 22
> de
> > gen. 2020 a les 8:01:
> >
> > > Hoi,
> > > Ah yes, I can read.
> > >
> > > In my mind when conferences are held on a particular subject and it is
> > not
> > > clear what the subject is, "how can there be a solution or progress. It
> > > will be whatever people think it is and results will not be results,
> they
> > > are what happens anyway. Not knowing what your subject is is not SMART.
> > >
> > > So, again what is meant by diversity"?
> > >
> > > On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 23:24, Nick Wilson (Quiddity) <
> > > nwil...@wikimedia.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Gerard, you can read about the previous events (which include answers
> > > about
> > > > scope), at
> > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:43 AM Gerard Meijssen <
> > > > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I am not interested when I do no have a clue about the scope
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Op ma 20 jan. 2020 15:09 schreef Ilario Valdelli <
> valde...@gmail.com
> > >:
> > > > >
> > > > > > That can be an output of the conference. Is not it?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020, 13:57 Gerard Meijssen, <
> > > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com
> > > > >
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hoi,
> > > > > > > How do you define diversity?
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > >  GerardM
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 13:44, Jon Harald Søby <
> > jhs...@wikimedia.no
> > > >
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Hi all, and apologies if you receive this email several times
> > – I
> > > > > will
> > > > > > be
> > > > > > > > posting it to multiple mailing lists.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Wikimedia Norge would like to organize a regional Wikimedia
> > > > Diversity
> > > > > > > > Conference in 2020 for Europe, with the hope of many other
> > > regional
> > > > > > > > conferences on the same topic being held in the near future.
> > The
> > > > > > > Wikimedia
> > > > > > > > Diversity Conference 2020 will provide a meeting place for
> > > > > discussing,
> > > > > > > > debating and generating recipes for change concerning
> diversity
> > > in
> > > > > the
> > > > > > > > Wikimedia movement.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > We will be sharing more updates regarding a possible
> conference
> > > > later
> > > > > > in
> > > > > > > > 2020. For now, we are working on drafting a grant proposal to
> > the
> > > > > > > Wikimedia
> > > > > > > > Foundation to support the conference. As part of the drafting
> > the
> > > > > > > proposal,
> > > > > > > > a Community Engagement Survey is crucial to understand what
> > > > community
> > > > > > > > members are expecting out of such conference. In that regard,
> > > > > Wikimedia
> > > > > > > > Norge invite all those who are interested in the topic of
> > > diversity
> > > > > to
> > > > > > > take
> > > > > > > > part in the survey.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Please take the survey here
> > > > > > > > <
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdEaXc2AIaaFgKiQUWCDdnJKLd26KA8_DDQsyAqemXsH-wRyw/viewform
> > > > > > > > >
> >