Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Update on Wikimania '18

[Gheorghe Zugravu]

On 29.05.2018 20:33, praveenp wrote:
> I haven't seen any attempt to share the knowledge and wisdom acquired
> from Wikimania to community through mailing list or wiki. Users
> including me generally feel that community is being mocked on.

Hi to all,
without being too original here, and following praveenp comments - would
be good to encourage recipients of WMF scholarship to organize some type
of Wikimania follow-up activities back in their groups or chapters.

I do believe that most of them are doing it anyway without any
requirements from WMF, but if majority would  do it - we could have
something as a ”permanent Wikimania” unfolding globally for a couple of
months after the official Wikimania.

regards,
/gheorghe



> Hi,
>
> As I have said last year, this is not a complaint that I didn't get
> selected. This is not personal. This is about same persons receiving
> Wikimania scholarship year after year repeatedly. I am just using
> familiar user names from a familiar community, who got many repeated
> scholarships.
>
> Even after I argued that none of these 'permanent scholarship
> receivers' sharing anything to community, I haven't seen any attempt
> to share the knowledge and wisdom acquired from Wikimania to community
> through mailing list or wiki. Users including me generally feel that
> community is being mocked on.
>
> I tried to keep myself away from local discussion about this, but
> injustice is so clear. And nobody is ready to discuss it openly, most
> probably because of the 'incompetency shaming' in almost all replies.
>
> ~user:Praveenp
>
>
> On Tuesday 29 May 2018 11:19 PM, Lodewijk wrote:
> Given the context of the previous email you sent, I am assuming this
> is more a complaint that you didn't get selected than that the other
> two got selected. 
>
> Similarly to the previous time you tried to have this discussion - I
> feel uncomfortable to make this about individuals. 
>
> Is there a way to give rejected applicants more feedback on which
> factors play a main role, so that they can learn from it, especially
> if there is something they could improve in their application. I would
> add two sidenotes here though: it should only be provided on request
> (no need to rub people's noses into something unnecessarily) and it
> seems only viable at a level that can be easily extracted from the
> process (high level). 
>
> Perhaps someone who knows the scholarship committee's work intimately
> could comment. 
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:21 AM, praveenp  > wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Congratulation to all the selection committee who break the
> tradition[1] of selecting  one of the Malayalam communities two
> permanent Wikimania attendees, by selecting both of them.
>
> Congratulation to User:Netha Hussain & User:viswaprabha also.
>
> [1] "Granting Scholarship to same persons every year" thread,
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2017-May/008026.html
> 
>
> ~User:Praveenp
>
>
> On Tuesday 15 May 2018 11:19 PM, Ellie Young wrote:
> *
>
> All,
>
>
> Here's an update on various activities pertaining to the
> upcomingWikimania '18  which is being held July 18-22 in Cape Town,
> South Africa.
>
> WMF Scholarship Program:  135 people were offered and subsequently
> accepteda full or partial scholarship to attend.  The awardees are
> listed by usernames and the list is posted
> here:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholarsSubmissions:
>  The program committee has just finished its review anddeliberations. 
> Rejections and acceptance emails  have gone out in the past week.
>
> 95% of the accepted submissions are listed at:
>
>
> https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program
> 
>
>
> Plenaries and other sessions will be listed soon and a scheduled
> program  in June.
>
> Registration and accommodation information is now up for everyone
> at:https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registrationhttps://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/AccommodationIf
> you are a scholarship or other WMF funded attendee (staff,
> contractor,board, etc), please wait until you hear from the WMF with
> your registrationand accommodation instructions.If you have any
> questions about the conference, please emailwikimania-info at
> wikimedia.orgPlease
> spread the wordOn behalf of the Wikimania '18 Organizing Team
>
> Ellie YoungEvents Manager, Wikimedia
> Foundation​
>
> *




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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Advertizing Wikimania (youtube) livestreams on centralnotice

[Gheorghe Zugravu]

Hi to all,

adding my 5c to this discussion - the video has a bit more than 3500
views (3642 to be precise at the time i checked). I found the number of
views a bit contrary to the number of potential visualizations of
English WP sites.

all the best,
/gheorghe


On 18.08.2017 19:41, Joseph Seddon wrote:
> Hey Lodewijk,
>
> Thanks for the e-mail on this. I'll get back to you after the weekend with
> an expansive and complete response but wanted to acknowledge your e-mail
> and agree that there is plenty to learn from, plenty that needs discussion
> as a community and that we need to find out what our readers are interested
> in receiving.
>
> Seddon
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Lodewijk 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Wikimania is well over, and now that everyone is slowly getting home, I'd
>> like to touch on a hallway discussion that was going on during Wikimania.
>> This was regarding the centralnotice banners advertizing a livestream of
>> Katherine's and Christophe's presentation of the draft direction for the
>> 2030 strategy.



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] UTC in politics, editors threaten, or how rev history made the news

[Gheorghe Zugravu]

Hi,
a big thank you to Yuri for flagging this case of manipulation of public
opinion.

Reading through the links provided - i can say WP edit time was mostly
discussed among ”pro-state” media. One journalist even went as far as
insinuating  that assassination was planned in the ”west” and that WP
was used to provide for media coverage (sic!)

I think that RU:WP should ask for apologies from the newspapers.

regards,
/gheorghe

On 03/02/2015 03:55 PM, Habib M'henni wrote:
 Hello,

 FYI we had the same issue two years ago in Tunisia when a Tunisian
 politician was shot and an IP made the edit in UTC. See our response
 in (in French)
 http://www.wikimedia.tn/nouvelle-polemique-sur-wikipedia-en-tunisie/

 Finally the Radio station who relayed this scoop wrote an apologize
 text.

 Habib,
 from Wikimedia TN User Group
 Le 02/03/2015 14:37, Yuri Astrakhan a écrit :

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