[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 16, Issue 6 – 28 June 2020

2020-07-07 Thread Wikipedia Signpost 
News and notes: Progress at Wikipedia Library and Wikijournal of Medicine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/News_and_notes

Community view: Community open letter on renaming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/Community_view

Gallery: After the killing of George Floyd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/Gallery

In the media: Part collaboration and part combat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/In_the_media

Discussion report: Community reacts to WMF rebranding proposals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/Discussion_report

Featured content: Sports are returning, with a rainbow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/Featured_content

Arbitration report: Anti-harassment RfC and a checkuser revocation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/Arbitration_report

Traffic report: The pandemic, alleged murder, a massacre, and other deaths
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/Traffic_report

News from the WMF: We stand for racial justice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/News_from_the_WMF

Recent research: Wikipedia and COVID-19; automated Wikipedia-based
fact-checking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/Recent_research

Interview: What is wrong with rebranding to "Wikipedia Foundation"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/Interview

Humour: Cherchez une femme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/Humour

Opinion: Trying to find COI or paid editors? Just read the news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/Opinion

On the bright side: For what are you grateful this month?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/On_the_bright_side

In focus: Edit Loud, Edit Proud: LGBTIQ+ Wikimedians and Global Information
Activism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/In_focus

WikiProject report: WikiProject Black Lives Matter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2020-06-28/WikiProject_report


Single-page view
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single


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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Annual Report and elections for Wikimedia Portugal

2020-07-07 Thread GoEthe.wiki 
Dear all,

Last Sunday, Wikimedia Portugal held an online only General Assembly where
we approved last year's activity and financial report (in Portuguese:
https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Relat%C3%B3rios/Anual/2019; English
translation will follow). We usually have a physical location where
participants meet, and others can join through video-conference, but due to
restrictions of public gatherings issued by the health authorities and the
health risks involved we held a fully online General Assembly.

We also held our biennial election, which elects our governing bodies:
Board of directors, General Assembly Table and Audit Commision. The only
change from the previous composition is that Miguel Correia
(user:Miguelmcorreia) was elected as secretary of the General Assembly
Table. Miguel is a librarian previously at the National Library of
Portugal, and more recently at the NOVA Business School library, and has
been a Wikimedian since 2013, and has recently been involved, together with
Catarina Reis, in getting bibliographic information from NOVA researchers
into Wikidata (https://scholia.toolforge.org/organization/Q1979891). He is
also the main organizer of our upcoming WikiData Days Conference to be held
in Lisbon in 2021 (https://wikidatadays.wikimedia.pt/).

Our newly elected governing bodies are listed here: (
https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/%C3%93rg%C3%A3os_sociais)

Best regards,

Gonçalo Themudo

*Presid**ente*
*Wikimedia Portugal*
*Email: *go ncalo.them...@wikimedia.pt

*Website: *http://pt.wikimedia.org 
*Imagine um mundo onde cada ser humano pode partilhar livremente a soma de
todo o conhecimento, na sua própria língua.*
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Elena Sanz passed away last night

2020-07-07 Thread Alphos OGame 
Hello,

We learned with great sadness of the sudden passing of Elena Sanz yesterday.
We may not all have met her, but we know how much she meant to the movement, 
and we know how much the movement meant to her.
Please pass our sincerest condolences to her loved ones.

For the Board of Wikimédia France
Roger Gotlib / Alphos


> Le 6 juil. 2020 à 20:19, Robert Myers  a écrit 
> :
> 
> I’m in shock! Have meet her at the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin and at 
> Wikimania. She was a fantastic person but also very passionate. 
> 
> The community has lost a great role model. My condolences to her family, 
> colleagues and friends. 
> 
> --
> Robert Myers
> Secretary - Wikimedia Australia
> M: +61 400 670 288
> robert.my...@wikimedia.org.au
> http://www.wikimedia.org.au
> 
>> On 7 Jul 2020, at 1:56 am, Santiago Navarro  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello. I have bad news, the kind of news we never want to have. Our friend 
>> and colleage Elena Sanz (user ElsaBornFree) passed away last night.
>> 
>> Elena Sanz was a strong, intelligent and brilliant woman. She joined 
>> Wikimedia movement in 2014 and after two years she because secretary of 
>> Wikimedia España, possition she had till now.
>> 
>> Many of you met her in many conferences and events, such as Wikimedia 
>> Conferences, Wikimanias or Iberoconfs, but also meeting for advocacy in the 
>> EU, the Wikipedia+education conference in Donostia, next to her home town. A 
>> very active person, this has been a huge shock for all of us.
>> 
>> If you want to leave your condolences, you can write in a page created for 
>> that on Spanish Wikipedia.[1] We wrote also a blog post dedicated to her 
>> memory.[2]
>> 
>> As a president of Wikimedia España and a friend of her, I want to express 
>> our condolences on behalf of Wikimedia España to his family and friends. We 
>> will always remember her.
>> 
>> [1] 
>> https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedistas_fallecidos/ElsaBornFree
>> [2] https://www.wikimedia.es/2020/07/06/hasta-siempre-elena/
>> 
>> -- 
>> Santiago Navarro Sanz
>> Presidente
>> Wikimedia España
>> www.wikimedia.es
>> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Local partnerships and funding sources towards multilingual Wiki-Smart Humanity

2020-07-07 Thread Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin 
Dear colleagues in general and Yaroslav in particular,

Thank you for critical reading of the long background info that I provided and 
finding time to reply.

- I would be grateful for links or explanation (in writing or over a call) of 
whatever went wrong with Wikimedian-in-Residence effort at Gibraltar, as I 
would like to avoid repeating earlier disastrous experiences. 
- Once we see the public tender details, I intend to make a more specific 
announcement at Village pumps of projects that will receive "content offerings" 
from Tatarstan at this stage.
- I understand that respective language Wikimedia communities have the right to 
reject or ignore "whatever content" at will, and nobody can blame them.
- I wouldn't compare Tatarstan and its regional entities' ambitions with those 
of sovereign Ukraine, but both are indeed environments where anything that 
lives off the public (taxpayer) money can be called government-controlled, 
especially GLAMs, Education, regional and municipal Tourism offices or 
whatever. That said, I would only welcome Ukraine's or any other country's 
regional or municipal authorities funding content creation - as this is very 
much in line with Wiki-Smart Humanity ([[m:WISH]],  https://w.wiki/QGD ).

I expressed interest and took steps to join Wikimedians in Residence Exchange 
Network in May, hope to be able to join the July 8 call at 4pm UTC 
https://w.wiki/WHw.
regards,
farhad

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skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417


07.07.2020, 08:32, "Yaroslav Blanter" :
> Thank you.
>
> This actually worries me a lot. If I read it correctly, we will get a kind
> of Wiki-Resident, but not with a cultural and educational institution but
> with the local government of one of the most populous and influential
> subjects of the Russian Federation. I do not think we previously had a
> similar situation. In a distant past, we had a user who was hired by the
> tourist office (not the government) of Gibraltar, and this is usually
> regarded as a complete disaster. We also usually have serious opposition to
> the intervention of governments to the editing of Wikipedia, the last
> example was in May when the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry was running an
> editing contest. I think at the very least the projects must be informed,
> and I would not be surprised if for example the community of the English
> Wikipedia strongly opposes the initiative.
>
> Best
> Yaroslav
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 12:06 AM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin <
> f...@yandex.com> wrote:
>
>>  Dear colleagues,
>>
>>  This is
>>
>>  1 to introduce a reworked concept for Wiki-Smart Humanity ([[m:WISH]],
>>  https://w.wiki/QGD ) project page
>>
>>  2 to update you on the groundwork in Tatarstan and around Russia for
>>  growing local and regional public support for Wikimedia community projects,
>>  as well as discussions about funding Outreach and other local activities
>>  (since my previous report back in early April https://w.wiki/MFm )
>>
>>  3 to inform you of the upcoming pilot regional procurement tender
>>  initiated by one of our partners as the easiest way for them to incentivize
>>  multilingual article creation and improvement regarding important regional
>>  phenomena of Tatarstan.
>>
>>  Below you will find detailed description of for each point above. Comments
>>  would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>  regards,
>>  farhad
>>
>>  P.S. I am in an uncharted territory, so very grateful to all Russia and
>>  international colleagues that help me with listening, advice and ideas.
>>  Tatar is a non-dominant language community, though in a much better shape
>>  than many others around the world - this opens my eyes to the reality that
>>  long-term preservation of currently living human languages (over 7000) and
>>  their inherent riches of cultural knowledge would require significantly
>>  more effort, funding and attention than needed to have enWP, ruWP, trWP and
>>  all others in official state languages of UN member countries (about 50) to
>>  describe everything that's currently missing. We are talking about amounts
>>  that no fundraising will ever bring - something that can only be achieved
>>  by staying true to the powerful Wikimedia Vision and aspiring to win the
>>  hearts of our existing and potential volunteers for them to be ready and
>>  willing to help us with something much more precious than money.
>>  --
>>  Farhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 /
>>  skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan / Wikidata:Q34036417
>>
>>  1) [[m:WISH]] (https://w.wiki/QGD) is community-supported (myself so far)
>>  undertaking to collect and chart initiatives that bring us closer to
>>  Wikimedia vision:
>>  - various initiatives that help making all forms, types and categories of
>>  knowledge equally well described in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects,
>>  - as well as those that help make

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-07 Thread Tomasz Ganicz 
pon., 6 lip 2020 o 19:52 Jonatan Svensson Glad 
napisał(a):

> Some quick non-answer (better knows as !answers):
>
> 1. what are OTRS' rules and policies?
> I’m unable to answer this due to the Confidentiality Agreement all OTRS
> agents sign.  Any and all
> information on the OTRS wiki is private. OTRS wiki is used as a private
> workspace restricted to Wikimedia Foundation staff, chapter
> representatives, and Volunteer Response Team members, and is is strictly
> confidential.
>
>
Well, please do not create conspiracy theories... Actually, as far as I
understand my role as an OTRS volunteer - there are no any special rules
for OTRS except some technical, civility aspects and confidentiality of
mailing with individuals - as OTRS volunteers generally should simply
follow local wiki policies when answering questions, and in case of
permission cases - general copyright policies of Commons and local wikis.
WIth copyright policies on Commons - there is a problem of its complexity -
and there are cases when there is no easy answer. Anyway - copyright
related decisions of OTRS volunteers on Commons are screened from time to
time by Commons admins having access to OTRS.

Regarding privacy issues - OTRS volunteers can be reported to the Ombudsman
Commission and during my serving in this Commision there were cases related
to OTRS.


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http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/
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