[Wikimedia-l] Re: Osama and Ziyad

[The Cunctator]

Frankly, that's implausible.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 3:37 PM DerHexer via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

> I do think that posting any kind of response to these questions *on a
> public mailing list* would do more harm than good. Thank you.
>
> Best,
> DerHexer
> *Wikimedia Steward*
>
> Am Montag, 25. September 2023 um 21:20:21 MESZ hat Andreas Kolbe <
> jayen...@gmail.com> Folgendes geschrieben:
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> As there was a recent press mention of Osama and Ziyad[1] (see "In the
> Media" in the current Signpost issue) – does the WMF's Human Rights Team
> (cc'ed) have any update on their situation?
>
> Has anyone else heard any news? If I recall correctly, Osama had married
> not long before being jailed in 2020 – has anyone been in touch with his
> wife?
>
> Is there anything the community can do?
>
> Andreas
>
> [1]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_imprisoned_for_editing_Wikipedia
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Osama and Ziyad

[DerHexer via Wikimedia-l]

 I do think that posting any kind of response to these questions on a public 
mailing list would do more harm than good. Thank you.

Best,DerHexerWikimedia Steward
Am Montag, 25. September 2023 um 21:20:21 MESZ hat Andreas Kolbe 
 Folgendes geschrieben:  
 
 Dear all,
As there was a recent press mention of Osama and Ziyad[1] (see "In the Media" 
in the current Signpost issue) – does the WMF's Human Rights Team (cc'ed) have 
any update on their situation? 
Has anyone else heard any news? If I recall correctly, Osama had married not 
long before being jailed in 2020 – has anyone been in touch with his wife?
Is there anything the community can do?
Andreas

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[Wikimedia-l] Osama and Ziyad

[Andreas Kolbe]

Dear all,

As there was a recent press mention of Osama and Ziyad[1] (see "In the
Media" in the current Signpost issue) – does the WMF's Human Rights Team
(cc'ed) have any update on their situation?

Has anyone else heard any news? If I recall correctly, Osama had married
not long before being jailed in 2020 – has anyone been in touch with his
wife?

Is there anything the community can do?

Andreas

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_imprisoned_for_editing_Wikipedia
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee

[Keegan Peterzell]

Greetings,

I am following up to say thank you to everyone who participated in the
community comment period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating
Committee (U4C) Charter. Finalizing the U4C Charter is the next step in the
UCoC process and we would not have gotten to this point in the process
without such great community participation.

The next step in this process is now for the Building Committee to consider
and reflect on the comments and conversations from the comment period. U4C
Building Committee members will discuss and prepare the Charter for
ratification. More information and a detailed timeline about next steps is
on the U4CBC project page on Meta-wiki.

Best,
Keegan Peterzell
on behalf of the U4C Building Committee

-- 
Keegan Peterzell (he/him)
Lead Committee Support Specialist
Committee Support
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Exciting News: Announcing the locations of Wikimania 2025 and 2026

[Samuel Klein]

What wonderful news -- thank you for setting locations so far out.

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On Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 10:51 AM Iolanda Pensa  wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> Wikimania 2023  – whether we participated virtually or in Singapore – was
> a reminder of the power of diversity and collaboration, and so many future
> possibilities when Wikimedians come together. For the Wikimania Steering
> Committee, it was great to experience the new regional collaboration model
> of organizing Wikimania and to see the benefits of overlapping organizers
> learning from each other, as with the 2023 ESEAP
>  [1] and the 2024 CEE
>  teams [2]. In this
> spirit, it brings us much excitement to announce the organizers of
> Wikimania in 2025 and 2026.
>
> Wikimania 2025 will be hosted by a collaboration of volunteers and
> affiliates in East Africa (EARTH
> )
> [3], with extended support from the Wiki Indaba Steering Committee (WISCom
> ) [4] and
> other Wikimedians from across the continent. Hosting Wikimania will be
> beneficial for energizing new and active communities in the region and will
> foster content growth and enhance contributions across the continent. This
> will mark the 20th Wikimania – a significant milestone as only the second
> to be held in Sub-Saharan Africa and the first in East Africa. The exact
> city will be selected in the coming months based on careful assessments of
> political and social developments and discussions with Wikimedia groups and
> local experts.
>
> Wikimania 2026 will be organized by a collaboration of French-speaking
> Wikimedia groups and hosted in Paris – a first for Wikimédia France and the
> WikiFranca  communities
> [5]. This special Wikimania will celebrate the 25th anniversary of multiple
> Wikipedia editions including Basque, Catalan, Dutch, French, German,
> Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, and Spanish, as well as English and more. We
> will have a novel opportunity to celebrate this incredible milestone
> together as a global community in Paris.
>
> Get involved, learn more – Wikimania is co-created with Wikimedians from
> around the world and there is something to do for everyone. Wikimania 2024
>  [6] will take place
> in Poland – preparations are already under way and a call for volunteers
> will be launched soon. So please contribute however you can. We will also
> continue to expand hybrid and virtual participation and greater on-demand
> content. Stay tuned.
>
> Selecting locations this far in advance means better choice of venues,
> more time for visa processes, less pressure for organizers, and greater
> learning and partnership opportunities. If you have any questions or
> comments, are interested in hosting a future Wikimania, or want to join the
> Wikimania Steering Committee, please reach out to us on wiki
>  [7] or at
> wikima...@wikimedia.org. For more information, visit Diff
> 
> [8].
>
> The Wikimania Steering Committee is pleased to make this announcement in
> partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, the East Africa Regional and
> Thematic Hub (EARTH), the Wiki Indaba Steering Committee (WISCom),
> WikiFranca, and Wikimédia France.
>
> On behalf of the Wikimania Steering Committee,
>
> Iolanda
>
>
> [1] The ESEAP hub, hosts of Wikimania 2023 –
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Hub
>
> [2] The CEE hub, hosts of Wikimania 2024 –
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Hub
>
> [3] The East Africa Regional and Thematic Hub (EARTH) –
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EA_Regional_and_Thematic_Hub_(EARTH)
>
> [4] The Wiki Indaba Steering Committee –
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Indaba_Steering_Committee
>
> [5] WikiFranca – https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiFranca/en
>
> [6] Wikimania 2024, watch this page –
> https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Wikimania
>
> [7] The Wikimania Steering Committee of volunteers –
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee
>
> [8] This announcement and more on Diff, the Wikimedia Blog –
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/09/24/announcing-the-locations-of-wikimania-2025-and-2026/
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikianswers Proposal

[Adam Sobieski]

Wikimedia,


Hello. After receiving and listening to the feedback from our previous 
discussion, I have revised the Wikianswers proposal: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikianswers . I would like to also call your 
attention to its technical discussion section: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikianswers#Technical_discussion . A current 
version of this section is available below.

Per the feedback, the revised proposal includes, in addition to an option for a 
sister project at a new domain, e.g., https://en.wikianswers.org , an option 
for integration into the search systems of Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Commons. 
With respect to this latter option, AI systems' (LLMs') responses to end-users' 
questions would still be URL-addressed, human-editable content, e.g.: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/qa/2b106ea8-4d1b-441f-9dc8-4555aae9 .

Thank you for checking out the revised proposal and for any feedback.

Technical discussion
Overview
Relevant artificial intelligence topics include retrieval-augmented generation, 
retrieval-augmented generation with guardrails, and agent-based approaches.
As presently considered, those parts of the question-and-answer data which 
could be human-editable include: (1) the template of the prompts, (2) the task, 
(3) the retrieved context data, (4) the questions, and (5) the answers.
The template is the overall structure of the prompts to the LLM. It includes 
some natural language and slots where the other parts will be placed. This 
should be locked so as to be editable only by administrators. Editing this 
would invalidate every cached and unlocked answer, meaning that every unlocked 
answer would be updated, refreshed, or regenerated.
The task is an instruction, e.g., "You are a helpful system which will answer 
the user's question using the following information". This should be locked so 
as to be editable only by administrators. Editing this would invalidate every 
dependent cached and unlocked answer, meaning that every unlocked answer would 
be updated, refreshed, or regenerated.
The retrieved context data are chunks or excerpts, e.g., of Wikipedia articles, 
which enhance the answering of a particular question. Users could edit them, 
resulting in the cascading invalidations of dependent cached and unlocked 
answers. With respect to user experiences, editors might click on these 
displayed chunks or excerpts of content to navigate to them as they occurred in 
source pages and edit them there, these updates to the underlying pages 
resulting in updates to the chunks and dependent unlocked answers.
The questions would be unusual to edit, except in the cases of typographical 
errors.
The answers, abstractly, result from processing the other ingredients. These 
could be edited by humans but, as shown above, they could be subsequently 
revised by the system per cascading updates, refreshes, or regenerations. In 
some cases, editors might want to edit an answer and then to lock it from 
subsequent revisions by the system.
In conclusion, as presently considered, users would ordinarily tend to want to 
edit the retrieved chunks of content drawn from Wikipedia pages, these chunks 
augmenting the prompts to the LLMs, the cascading of these page revisions 
updating dependent unlocked answers automatically.
Database schemas
Wikianswers database schemas would include one or more tables with vector 
columns for embedding vectors. A project goal, then, would be to efficiently 
combine into a database schema the existing concepts of revision tables, page 
tables, and text tables with the newer concepts of embedding vectors and vector 
databases. Relevant tools include pgvector, a database extension which provides 
open-source vector-similarity search to PostgreSQL.
URL-addressability
Instead of requiring a new domain, e.g., https://en.wikianswers.org/ , 
Wikianswers features could be integrated into the search systems of Wikipedia, 
Wikidata, and Commons. In this case, human-editable responses could still be 
URL-addressable, e.g.: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/qa/2b106ea8-4d1b-441f-9dc8-4555aae9 .
Datetime encoding
Some questions have impermanent answers and others are volatile, meaning that 
their answers could vary each time that the question was asked. In these 
regards, date and time data could be encoded into URLs in a human-readable 
manner, e.g., 
https://en.wikipedia.org/qa/2023/09/21/21/29/00/2b106ea8-4d1b-441f-9dc8-4555aae9
 . Some questions and answers might involve different granularities of time. 
For example, a natural-language question "Which teams are in the Super Bowl?" 
might have a number of URLs, one for each year, e.g., 
https://en.wikipedia.org/qa/2022/40a7338d-fe75-4897-aee6-ec87141020a6 and 
https://en.wikipedia.org/qa/2021/40a7338d-fe75-4897-aee6-ec87141020a6 .
User experience
In the approach where Wikianswers features are integrated into Wikipedia, 
Wikidata, and Commons search, user experiences could utilize the existing text 
search boxes atop pages.