[Wikimedia-l] Farewell <3
Dear friends, During the past three years, I have been privileged to be a part of this movement and this organization. I have been honored to be your colleague and to work with you in service of the sum of all knowledge. In particular, I wish to note particular projects that have inspired me very much. - Working with Philippe Beautdette, Maggie Dennis, James Alexander, and Jan Eisfeldt to keep our community safe from threats of harm. [1] - Working with Patrick Earley, Nick Wilson, Erica Litrenta, Sherry Snyder, Oliver Keyes, and James Forester on the rollout of VisualEditor. [2] - Working with Yana Welinder and Heather Walls to design a user-friendly trademark policy. [3] [4] - Working with Siko Bouterse to support Individual Engagement Grants and movement diversity. [5] [6] - Working with Jake Orlowitz to promote the Wikipedia Library and the Wikipedia Adventure. [7] [8] - Working with Jaime Anstee, Edward Galvez, Amanda Bittaker to encourage evaluation and learning. [9] - Working with Asaf Bartov to encourage regional cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe. [10] - Working with Floor Koudijs. Tighe Flanagan, Kacie Harold, Samir Elsharbaty, Rodney Dunican, Sage Ross, Jami Mathewson, and LiAnna Davis on the Wikipedia Education Program. [11] The Wikipedia Education Program is especially near and dear to my heart. It is a means of educating readers, recruiting contributors, and creating quality content. Since 2014, the number of education initiatives around the world has increased by 36%. [12] [13] And 25% of all education programs are in one of the regions that I directly supported. [14] I am so proud of what they have accomplished. And I am enthusiastic about what great things they have yet to achieve. I want to thank and compliment my current manager, Floor Koudijs. She is a competent, considerate, conscientious leader, and her diplomacy skills are unsurpassed. I am confident that the education team and the education program will continue to excel under her leadership. They are in the best hands. I want to thank and compliment my hiring manager, Maggie Dennis. She had faith that, although I wasn’t an active community member, I could be taught to be a good community advocate. I am so proud that I proved her right. She taught me how to work in accordance with and to have the utmost respect for the wiki way. [15] Wikipedia is a miracle, a monument to altruism. It is vital to the internet ecosystem, and it is vital to the education system. I hope that more young people especially will find their way to it and help out. And when they do, I hope that they are met with wise mentorship from veteran community members, just as I was. I intend to remain a Wikipedian even after I am no longer a WMF staff member. And, with that promise, I’ll see you on the wikis. [16] All the best, Anna Koval, M.Ed. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Threats_of_harm [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_policy [4] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/10/29/designing-a-user-friendly-trademark-policy/ [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library [8] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Adventure [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation [10] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Central_and_Eastern_Europe [11] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education [12] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Education/Countries&oldid=70367 [13] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Countries [14] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ACEE_2015_State_of_the_CEE_Movement_Presentation.pdf&page=28 [15] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_wiki_way [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Msannakoval -- Anna Koval, M.Ed. Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x 6729 Skype: annakoval.wiki ako...@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
<3 Thank you, Viswa, for posting this tribute and sharing this eulogy. My heartfelt condolences to his wife Jagadamma, to his family, and to his wiki community. May his repose be blessed. May his memory be eternal. [1] Anna [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Eternal_%28chant%29 -- Anna Koval, M.Ed. Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6729 ako...@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 9:07 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) wrote: > Dear Wikimedians all over the world, > > One of our stalwarts at ml Wikimedia community, Wikiuser:BabuG > <https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug> ( > https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Babug) expired yesterday night. > > Despite having paralyzed due to a severe stroke and severely affected by > several subsequent health problems, he was guided to Wikipedia by his son, > Dr. Ajay, another prominent Malayalam Wikipedian, as a possible remedy to > escape perpetual loneliness. > > His real world name was G. Balachandran.He was born on 14th October 1938 in > a small village off North Parur, Ernakulam District, Kerala, the > Southernmost state of India.He joined the Armed Forces Engineering College > and then continued to serve the Indian Armed forces for long many years. > > He started contributing to Wikimedia, particularly to Malayalam Wikipedia, > in the year 2008. > > His initial contributions to Malayalam Wikipedia were based upon a > pulp-converted digital Encyclopedia, released by the Government through > GFDL licence then. He continued to create even more full-featured articles > on his own, later. By 2014 October 18 - the day he edited last in > Wikipedia- he had 1935 full-blown articles initiated and expanded by > himself in ml.wikipedia.org. Besides, he also contributed more than 350 > images to Wikimedia commons and a handsome amount of contributions to > Wikisource, Wikidata and Wiktionary. > > He always attributed his renewed energy and life's aspirations to the > Wikimedia mission, for having returned to a meaningful life after a 20-year > long and frustrating solitude while constrained to an immobile chair. Ever > since 2008, he stood up and started walking and moving around. His was an > extreme example for us in Malayalam WP to showcase how Wikipedia can change > lives. > > In almost all our Wikipedia Outreach sessions, we utilized this great > example to motivate and excite the newcomers to WP. > > Tory Read mentioned about BabuG thus, in a document > <http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/india-chronicles.pdf>, a review > on the state of Indian Wikimedia Communities, in 2011: > > G. Balachandran, a septuagenarian who lives outside of Ernakulum in Kerala > > state, said that working on Malayalam Wikipedia helped him recover after > a > > stroke left him paralyzed. “He’s much sharper now,” said his wife > Jagadamma > > K. “He’s made a lot of new friends, and that’s been good for his health.” > > > For us in Malayalam Wikipedia, today is a black day, for having lost a > great beacon on our voyage to ultimate openness and freedom in knowledge > and wisdom. > > > Yet, we feel, BabuG has made his life stamped immortal for ever and has > shown us the pathway we should follow in continuing our humble > contributions to the ultimate cause of mankind. > > > -ViswaPrabha > (On behalf of Malayalam Wikimedia Community) > http://ml.wikipedia.org > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Extension
Dear Pine, Thanks for your question. I think that the idea of merging Outreach into Meta would probably benefit from some discussion among the users of both wikis, to see if such a change would work for them. :) For instance, the Meta community would need to be comfortable with folding in functionaries from Outreach -- just as Outreach functionaries would need to be comfortable with Meta functionaries operating in Outreach space -- unless there is some technical way to restrict administrators to only those projects for which they were chosen. Obviously, either way, if such a merger happened, we would need to maintain many redirects, since printed documents <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Brochures> refer to specific pages within Outreach -- and we would have to make sure to maintain those redirects if pages on Meta were moved. I don't know all of the history behind why Outreach and Meta are separate, since it predates my work in the movement. What matters to me, personally, is best coordination of the work, wherever that happens. Your thoughts on this are welcome over at the Outreach wiki village pump. Kind regards, Anna -- Anna Koval, M.Ed. Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6729 ako...@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Pine W wrote: > Hi Anna, > > In the long run I think it would be beneficial to move at least some of the > content of Outreach into LPL where it would be easier to search. > > Perhaps you can enlighten me about the purpose of keeping Outreach separate > from Meta. I think the idea is that Outreach is easier to navigate for > outsiders than Meta is. However we could redirect outreach.wikimedia.org > to > a namespace on Meta that is similar to the Grants namespace with a > restricted search option. Particularly after the recent LPL upgrades, I > think it would be good to consider fully merging Outreach into Meta. What > do you think? > > Pine > On Feb 4, 2015 6:35 AM, "Anna Koval" wrote: > > > Dear Nemo, > > > > There is, of course, other documentation on mediawiki already. > > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Education_Program > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program > > > > However, having additional how-to type pages in the help namespace is a > > great idea. I didn't realize that there were not already any help pages > on > > mediawiki about the education program extension. Thank you for pointing > > that out. We can plan to add some. > > > > It is my understanding that Meta and Outreach wikis actually are > > appropriate places to share information about the this extension in these > > contexts. > > > > On Meta wiki, that page is part of the Learning Pattern Library, and as > > such, it explains a "problem" that the extension "solves". > > > > On Outreach wiki, that page provides information for education program > > volunteers who might be wish to more learn about it in order to work with > > their communities to enable it on their projects. > > > > It is true that much of the information, on Outreach, in particular, is > > somewhat technical in nature, and somewhat duplicative of information > that > > is available on mediawiki.org, but that is that something I am working > on > > updating and improving. I welcome your input on that process; we could > > discuss it on the talk page. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Anna > > > > -- > > > > Anna Koval, M.Ed. > > Manager, Wikipedia Education Program > > Wikimedia Foundation > > +1.415.839.6885 x6729 > > ako...@wikimedia.org > > education.wikimedia.org > > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) < > nemow...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Samir Elsharbaty, 04/02/2015 03:08: > > > > > >> It seems that the > > >> extension already covers most of what was suggested here: > > >> > > >> - A teacher or wiki-mentor could make a shared watchlist of their > > >>> student's draft pages. > > >>> - An editathon organiser could create a shared watchlist of all the > > >>> articles within the scope of the event. > > >>> - A wikiproject could create several shared watchlists to group > related > > >>> articles for members to more easily monitor. > > >>> - probably many other use-cases that might emerge... > > >>> > > >> > > > Ah, does it. My understanding is that this has been considered feature > > > bloat
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Education Extension
Dear Nemo, There is, of course, other documentation on mediawiki already. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Education_Program https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Education_Program However, having additional how-to type pages in the help namespace is a great idea. I didn't realize that there were not already any help pages on mediawiki about the education program extension. Thank you for pointing that out. We can plan to add some. It is my understanding that Meta and Outreach wikis actually are appropriate places to share information about the this extension in these contexts. On Meta wiki, that page is part of the Learning Pattern Library, and as such, it explains a "problem" that the extension "solves". On Outreach wiki, that page provides information for education program volunteers who might be wish to more learn about it in order to work with their communities to enable it on their projects. It is true that much of the information, on Outreach, in particular, is somewhat technical in nature, and somewhat duplicative of information that is available on mediawiki.org, but that is that something I am working on updating and improving. I welcome your input on that process; we could discuss it on the talk page. Kind regards, Anna -- Anna Koval, M.Ed. Manager, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +1.415.839.6885 x6729 ako...@wikimedia.org education.wikimedia.org On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > Samir Elsharbaty, 04/02/2015 03:08: > >> It seems that the >> extension already covers most of what was suggested here: >> >> - A teacher or wiki-mentor could make a shared watchlist of their >>> student's draft pages. >>> - An editathon organiser could create a shared watchlist of all the >>> articles within the scope of the event. >>> - A wikiproject could create several shared watchlists to group related >>> articles for members to more easily monitor. >>> - probably many other use-cases that might emerge... >>> >> > Ah, does it. My understanding is that this has been considered feature > bloat, to be removed in a rewrite of the extension. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editor_campaigns > > If it works for you, however, it can hopefully scale. I suggest that you > comment on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Gather to suggest they > split the shared watchlist feature out of the Education extension > > >> If this is the case why shall we have a new extension with the same >> features? >> >> Please have a look at this page which covers the features and use of the >> Ed >> extension: >> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Extension >> >> Also this learning pattern would help understanding how it works: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/ >> Using_the_education_extension >> > > These are not appropriate places for documentation of a MediaWiki > extension. Please move to the Help namespace of mediawiki.org. > > Nemo > > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Forgery and Wikiality
Thanks for sharing this. Food for thought, indeed.
You can read the entire article in your public library's periodicals
database. :)
Here's a link to the full-text from SFPL (barcode and pin required):
http://go.galegroup.com.ezproxy.sfpl.org/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA340806608&v=2.1&u=sfpl_main&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&digest=45a80726b3d1d7542ea48bb3d72e8486&rssr=rss#.Uip3v8_PKv8.email
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*Anna Koval*
Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation
415-839-6885 x 6729
ako...@wikimedia.org
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Matthew Roth wrote:
> mea culpa, given that the article is behind a paywall, I shouldn't share
> it.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Matthew Roth wrote:
>
> > I have the pdf of the article if anyone wants it. Email me offlist and
> > I'll send it to you.
> >
> > Matthew
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Newyorkbrad
> wrote:
> >
> >> (cross-posted from
> >>
> >>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Newyorkbrad/Newyorkbradblog#Forgery_and_Wikiality
> >> )
> >>
> >> FORGERY AND WIKIALITY
> >>
> >> We've all read about people manipulating their, or their friends' (or
> >> worse
> >> their enemies') biographies on Wikipedia. We also all heard about people
> >> molding Wikipedia to fit the world as they wish it were, rather than the
> >> world as it is—what Stephen
> >> Colbert<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert>,
> >> in exaggerated form, calls "Wikipediality."
> >>
> >> Alex Wilkinson <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Wilkinson> reported
> an
> >> interesting example of this phenomenon in his article "The Giveaway" in
> >> last week's *New Yorker <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Yorker>*. (A
> >> link to the *New Yorker* article is
> >> here<
> >> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/26/130826fa_fact_wilkinson>—
> >> full text for
> >> *New Yorker* subscribers, the first two paragraphs for others. I
> recommend
> >> it.)
> >>
> >> The article is about a 58-year-old man named Mark Landis. Mr. Landis
> lives
> >> in Laurel, Mississippi <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel,_Mississippi
> >> >.
> >> For a time during his childhood, he attended St. Mary's Town and Country
> >> School <
> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Town_and_Country_School>in
> >> London <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London>.
> >>
> >> According to the article, dozens of times over past 25 years, Mr. Landis
> >> has walked into a museum and donated what he described as a valuable but
> >> previously unknown artwork. He describes the pieces as the work of a
> >> reknowned artist, though not one of the very best known artists (Paul
> >> Signac<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Signac>,
> >> Stanislas Lépine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislas_L%C3%A9pine>,
> >> Hans
> >> von Aachen <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Aachen>, Alfred
> Jacob
> >> Miller <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Jacob_Miller> are
> examples).
> >> And every time, it turns out that Mr. Landis created the artwork
> himself,
> >> and used classic art forgers' techniques to make the piece appear older
> >> than it was.
> >>
> >> This sort of art forgery raises well-known questions ("is this work of
> art
> >> the less meaningful or beautiful because it was created by Shlabotnik
> >> rather than Renoir?"). But certainly the museum world sees quite a
> >> difference between the work of a great or near-great artist and even the
> >> most faithful re-creation or simulation of one, and does not appreciate
> >> his
> >> contributions. Since Landis never requested or accepted any payment for
> >> his
> >> donations, and apparently never even took a tax deduction for them, he
> >> hasn't been charged with any crimes. Wilkinson discusses Landis's
> >> motivations, but he workings of his mind remain unclear. What is clear
> is
> >> that Landis wants very much to be thought of as an art dealer, and as a
> >> philanthropist.
> >>
> >> The relevance to Wikipedia? We have an article about this individual,
> Mark
> >> A. Landis <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_A._Landis>, which details
> >> his
> >> history of art forgeries—but Wilkinson's *New Yorker* articl
Re: [Wikimedia-l] NSA
Whoops! :) That wasn't meant to be a reply-to-all. Sorry, everyone. Rookie mistake... :] On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Anna Koval wrote: > very helpful, james. thanks so much for clue-ing me in. definitely want > to know more of the backstory on the chapters sometime. ttyt :) > > > On Wednesday, July 31, 2013, Tim Starling wrote: > >> On 01/08/13 14:15, Anthony wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Ryan Lane wrote: >> > >> >> I would be fired and jailed before I knowingly let that occur. If this >> was >> >> the case I'd very surely not be working for Wikimedia Foundation. >> >> >> > >> > Key word there being "knowingly". >> >> I don't know why the NSA would sneak around in our data centres >> mirroring our ethernet ports if they already have almost all of our >> access logs by capturing unencrypted traffic as it passes through >> XKeyscore nodes. >> >> I think you should save the conspiracy theories until after we switch >> anons to HTTPS, that's when they will have an incentive. >> >> -- Tim Starling >> >> >> ___ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > *Anna Koval* > Community Advocate > Wikimedia Foundation > 415-839-6885 x 6729 > ako...@wikimedia.org > > -- *Anna Koval* Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation 415-839-6885 x 6729 ako...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] NSA
very helpful, james. thanks so much for clue-ing me in. definitely want to know more of the backstory on the chapters sometime. ttyt :) On Wednesday, July 31, 2013, Tim Starling wrote: > On 01/08/13 14:15, Anthony wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Ryan Lane > > > > wrote: > > > >> I would be fired and jailed before I knowingly let that occur. If this > was > >> the case I'd very surely not be working for Wikimedia Foundation. > >> > > > > Key word there being "knowingly". > > I don't know why the NSA would sneak around in our data centres > mirroring our ethernet ports if they already have almost all of our > access logs by capturing unencrypted traffic as it passes through > XKeyscore nodes. > > I think you should save the conspiracy theories until after we switch > anons to HTTPS, that's when they will have an incentive. > > -- Tim Starling > > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > ?subject=unsubscribe> -- *Anna Koval* Community Advocate Wikimedia Foundation 415-839-6885 x 6729 ako...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
