[Wikimedia-l] Re: Fwd: FW: Professor Jing Wang (1950–2021)

2021-07-30 Thread Samuel Klein 
Ah alas !! She was an intensely kind and thoughtful person.  We were lucky
to have her input back in the day, particularly on working with communities
in China.  She came to Wikimania Gdańsk, and our boisterous WikiX event at
MIT the following year during the Mystery Hunt (where I recall Cunctator
turned up as well :)

SJ

On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 2:52 AM phoebe ayers  wrote:

> Hi folks,
> I am forwarding this note from MIT to share the sad news of Professor Jing
> Wang's death, because in addition to being a distinguished scholar, she was
> also at one time a member of the Wikimedia advisory board (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Board). She was also generally a
> supporter of open culture. Condolences to those who knew her.
>
> -- Phoebe
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* L. Rafael Reif 
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 29, 2021 11:09 AM
> *To:* Phoebe Ayers 
> *Subject:* Professor Jing Wang (1950–2021)
>
>
>
> Sharing the news of Professor Jing Wang’s passing
>
> View online version
> 
>
>
>
> [image: Letterhead for MIT President L. Rafael Reif]
>
>
>
> To the members of the MIT community,
>
> With great sadness, I share the news that Jing Wang, S.C. Fang Professor
> of Chinese Languages & Culture and professor of Chinese media and cultural
> studies, died on Sunday following a sudden health emergency.
>
> Professor Wang’s interests ranged from the classical literature of
> premodern China – the subject of her first book, the award-winning *The
> Story of Stone* – to groundbreaking work on contemporary Chinese culture,
> including the role of advertising and the nuanced ways that activists use
> social media to inspire societal change.
>
> After earning a bachelor’s degree in foreign languages and literatures
> from National Taiwan University, Jing completed her education in the US,
> earning her PhD in comparative literature from the University of
> Massachusetts, Amherst.
>
> She spent 16 years on the faculty at Duke, rising to chair the Department
> of Asian and African Languages and Literature and to direct the Center for
> East Asian Cultural and Institutional Studies. In 1996, she published her
> second solo volume, *High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and
> Ideology in Deng's China*.
>
> In 2001, Jing arrived at MIT, beginning with an appointment in Foreign
> Languages and Literatures (now Global Languages), a group she would head
> from 2005 to 2008. Intense and inspiring, Jing earned the Levitan Award for
> Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching honor in MIT’s School of
> Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (SHASS), and was a relentless advocate
> for women in academia.
>
> As she developed her ideas for two more provocative books – *Brand New
> China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture* (2008) and * The Other
> Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web* (2019) –
> she found an additional intellectual home in Comparative Media
> Studies/Writing (CMS/W). Since 2019, CMS/W was her primary appointment. She
> also went out of her way to serve the Institute, including providing
> guidance to MIT on working in China and, this summer, joining the advisory
> committee to identify a new dean for SHASS.
>
> You can read more about her life and work
> 
> on MIT News.
>
> Passionate about using knowledge to improve people’s lives, Jing founded
> the MIT New Media Action Lab
> ,
> to help non-profits and communities in developing countries explore the
> potential of new media, and launched NGO 2.0
> ,
> an ambitious effort based in Beijing and Shenzhen to promote the use of
> information communication technology to help activists achieve their social
> goals. On the advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation since 2010, she
> also chaired the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons
> 
> for China.
>
> Having lost her daughter, Candy
> ,
>

[Wikimedia-l] Programs & Events Dashboard 2021 user survey

2021-07-30 Thread Sage Ross 
If you've used — or are interesting in using — Programs & Events
Dashboard to organize and track metrics for editathons, education
programs, editing contests, wikidata projects, and other events,
please consider taking our user survey:
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/surveys/3

Wiki Education's annual plan
(https://wikiedu.org/blog/2021/06/30/announcing-our-2021-22-annual-plan/)
calls for significantly increasing our support for and development of
Programs & Events Dashboard over the next year, and this survey will
help prioritize that work and develop a roadmap. The survey has up to
14 questions, most of which are optional. (You can preview the survey
on-wiki: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard/2021_survey)

We'll also be sharing the survey data with WMF's new Campaigns team,
and coordinating with them to improve the tool ecosystem for
supporting program organizers across the movement.

Thanks!



Sage Ross
User:Sage (Wiki Ed) / User:Ragesoss
Wiki Education
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Fwd: FW: Professor Jing Wang (1950–2021)

2021-07-30 Thread Camelia Boban 
Sincere condolences to the family and people who knew her.

Camelia

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Il giorno ven 30 lug 2021 alle ore 08:52 phoebe ayers 
ha scritto:

> Hi folks,
> I am forwarding this note from MIT to share the sad news of Professor Jing
> Wang's death, because in addition to being a distinguished scholar, she was
> also at one time a member of the Wikimedia advisory board (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Board). She was also generally a
> supporter of open culture. Condolences to those who knew her.
>
> -- Phoebe
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* L. Rafael Reif 
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 29, 2021 11:09 AM
> *To:* Phoebe Ayers 
> *Subject:* Professor Jing Wang (1950–2021)
>
>
>
> Sharing the news of Professor Jing Wang’s passing
>
> View online version
> 
>
>
>
> [image: Letterhead for MIT President L. Rafael Reif]
>
>
>
> To the members of the MIT community,
>
> With great sadness, I share the news that Jing Wang, S.C. Fang Professor
> of Chinese Languages & Culture and professor of Chinese media and cultural
> studies, died on Sunday following a sudden health emergency.
>
> Professor Wang’s interests ranged from the classical literature of
> premodern China – the subject of her first book, the award-winning *The
> Story of Stone* – to groundbreaking work on contemporary Chinese culture,
> including the role of advertising and the nuanced ways that activists use
> social media to inspire societal change.
>
> After earning a bachelor’s degree in foreign languages and literatures
> from National Taiwan University, Jing completed her education in the US,
> earning her PhD in comparative literature from the University of
> Massachusetts, Amherst.
>
> She spent 16 years on the faculty at Duke, rising to chair the Department
> of Asian and African Languages and Literature and to direct the Center for
> East Asian Cultural and Institutional Studies. In 1996, she published her
> second solo volume, *High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and
> Ideology in Deng's China*.
>
> In 2001, Jing arrived at MIT, beginning with an appointment in Foreign
> Languages and Literatures (now Global Languages), a group she would head
> from 2005 to 2008. Intense and inspiring, Jing earned the Levitan Award for
> Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching honor in MIT’s School of
> Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (SHASS), and was a relentless advocate
> for women in academia.
>
> As she developed her ideas for two more provocative books – *Brand New
> China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture* (2008) and * The Other
> Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web* (2019) –
> she found an additional intellectual home in Comparative Media
> Studies/Writing (CMS/W). Since 2019, CMS/W was her primary appointment. She
> also went out of her way to serve the Institute, including providing
> guidance to MIT on working in China and, this summer, joining the advisory
> committee to identify a new dean for SHASS.
>
> You can read more about her life and work
> 
> on MIT News.
>
> Passionate about using knowledge to improve people’s lives, Jing founded
> the MIT New Media Action Lab
> ,
> to help non-profits and communities in developing countries explore the
> potential of new media, and launched NGO 2.0
> ,
> an ambitious effort based in Beijing and Shenzhen to promote the use of
> information communication technology to help activists achieve their social
> goals. On the advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation since 2010, she
> also chaired the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons
> 
>

[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Community Village

2021-07-30 Thread Gnangarra 
Hi

I'd like to  invite All Affiliates to sign up to

host their own table in Building 1, there are 140 tables available please
consider sharing with a neighbor or region.

As an example in Nigeria there are 5 Affiliates, they could have a table
called Nigerian Affiliates with every community collaborating to share the
space.  It also could reflect a common association like Australia and New
Zealand, who have always supported each other.

Every table is fitted with a Miro whiteboard where links, videos, notes and
a host of awesome gadgets will enable you to reach your community.  The
Whiteboard is your digital staff member, you dont require anyone to be
stationed there during the event.  We'll put out more information about
using the whiteboards soon but for now you can view its capabilities at Miro


The Community Village will be in Building 1, which is also where all the
plenary sessions will be hosted.  Each table will be named to  reflect the
community.   For meetups put a notice on the white board with details of
when and where in the unconference space.

See you all at Wikimania


   - Community village:
   https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Community_Village#Table_Sign_Up
   - unconference table bookings:
   https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference
   - miro: https://miro.com/ 


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*acknowledging our Past, Present, and Future*
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13–17 August, 2021
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[Wikimedia-l] Invitation for Wikimedia Research Office hours August 03, 2021

2021-07-30 Thread Martin Gerlach 
Hi all,

Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours this Tuesday, 2021-08-03, at 16:00-17:00 UTC (9am PT/6pm
CEST).

To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set
agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad
[3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise you are
welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g. about how to
attend) can be found here [4].

Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to
answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia
volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in
your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to
support you in:

   -

   You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
   should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
   know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
   For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
   in my wiki?
   -

   You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
   contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
   improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
   harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing
   them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
   work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
   -

   You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
   does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
   if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
   institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
   more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
   Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
   of you interested more closely in this space.
   -

   You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].


Hope to see many of you,
Martin on behalf of the WMF Research Team

[1] https://research.wikimedia.org

[2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours

[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours

[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours

[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html


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