[Wikimedia-l] Re: Celebrating 15 years of Wikimedia Ukraine
Happy birthday, Wikimedia Ukraine, and thank you for your work. Vänliga hälsningar, //Johan Jönsson -- Den fre 31 maj 2024 kl 10:39 skrev Anton Protsiuk < anton.prots...@wikimedia.org.ua>: > Hi all, > > Today Wikimedia Ukraine, the nonprofit organization that supports > Wikipedia and free knowledge in Ukraine, turns 15. > > We are really grateful to everyone in the Wikimedia movement who've > supported us and participated in our projects over the years – whether by > lending a hand at the onset of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, by > writing about Ukraine on Wikipedia within Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy > Month or CEE Spring, by sharing your experience with us and learning from > ours, and in countless other ways. > > To mark the anniversary, we prepared a brief Diff post listing ten of > Wikimedia Ukraine's achievements over the past years & four perspectives > about what WMUA means to our volunteers: > https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/31/celebrating-15-years-of-wikimedia-ukraine/ > > > We would love to hear your stories about Wikimedia Ukraine and its > projects if you have them. Share your memories on social media with the > hashtag #WMUA15 and tag us in your posts – https://x.com/wikimedia_ua; > https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.Ukraina/; > https://www.instagram.com/wikimedia_ukraine/. > > Hope to see everyone at Wikimania 2030 in Kyiv ;) > > Best Regards > Anton Protsiuk > Programs Coordinator at Wikimedia Ukraine > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/WQ6DZAND5Y6DZYFVIFMFBNU64HRABKIO/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/7HSWDBC6BWOW4YRNGCDBMPBJE25KGN2W/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mopping with the tap open
I really think we have a good opportunity to influence this behaviour by using tools and UX, but as an aside, as Lodewijk and Galder have pointed out, in addition to the technical challenges, it's also up to us as Wikipedia editors how we handle what's lacking in articles written by newcomers. If we delete the article, we typically tell them why, but there's a huge difference between moving an article to a user space and politely explaining what's missing and deleting a text and making the explanation sound more like a justification for our actions than as a helpful guide to writing an encyclopedic article. As a patroller, I'd be happy for people to just indicate sources in any way – if that means they write out the title within brackets, fine, that's a quick and easy fix and then we can thank them for their contribution and explain how to do it the next time. But I also think we need to recognize that as we've raised the bar for what's acceptable in the encyclopedia (as most language versions do once they've accumulated the most necessary encyclopedic content), it's not just become more difficult to write one's first article, but also for patrollers to help newcomers. The time investment necessary to help fix a stub without sources to what's considered acceptable standard has grown considerably, and thus the same level of desire to help a newcomer will lead to deletion more often in 2024 than in 2006. Best, //Johan Jönsson -- Den lör 9 mars 2024 kl 16:15 skrev Natacha Rault : > Hi, indeed it is great news to know this new tool is being tested. > What I have noticed is that new editors (speaking from workshop > experience) find it harder to find the source button since it is no long > written but equivalent to quotation mark => ? . To add a ref if they don?t > know where to do it from they need to virtually try clicking every button. > A lot of them also use external links by mistake (the buttons are so close > to one other it?s easy to make a mistake). > Kind regards, > Nattes > > Envoy? de mon iPhone > > Le 9 mars 2024 ? 03:25, effe iets anders a > ?crit : > > ? > Thanks Benoit, > This sounds like a good step in the right direction. We'll need to try out > several of these approaches, but also improve our own documentation on > nl.wikipedia. My impression is that it is currently far too hard to add a > reference, to expect that this is done by most new contributors. > > Do we know more about: > * How many new contributors know they should add a reference, e.g. when > writing a new article > * If they know that they should add a reference, how many know how to > recognize a good reference from a poor one > * How many new contributors, if they know that they should add a > reference, can figure out how to actually make this happen (assuming they > know the url already) > * Assuming that they can find the reference button, and know their URL, in > how many cases does the auto-convert feature work? (we could test this by > taking a random sample of reference URLs, and entering them in the > reference insertion tool) > > These are not just technical problems - some of them are more about > awareness (we can focus for example a little less on copyright, and more on > other quality aspects) or good documentation (how to recognize a good > source?). I also suspect that these numbers might vary quite a bit across > communities/countries. > > In my personal experience, it is hard to add references to articles even > if all the 'social' steps work smoothly (they often dont!). Maybe my sample > is biased, but it feels like I get much more often an error in nlwiki when > I try to convert a url to a citation, than in enwiki. Does anyone know if > this is indeed the case? Is anyone tracking statistics on this? > > Best, > Lodewijk > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 4:03?PM wrote: > >> Hello >> >> Some wikis have added the requirement to add citations at the edit >> summary step. But it is clearly too late in the process, as users just want >> to publish. Some users will add citations as a second step, but it might be >> too late, as the edit has a great chance of being reverted meanwhile. >> >> You might be interested in the Editing team's current project, Edit check >> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_check>. >> >> This project aims to provide in-context help by checking on the edit. The >> first iteration is "Reference Check": if a user adds a paragraph with zero >> source, they are encouraged to add one. We are currently testing it at 22 >> Wikipedias, to verify if the prompt to add citations is not blocking users. >> >> You can test it at your wiki using an URL pa
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad maintenance 2024-02-26 09:00 - 10:00 UTC
Forwarding to wikimedia-l. Best, *Johan Jönsson*Manager, Product Ambassadors Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> -- Forwarded message - From: Jelto Wodstrcil Date: Fri, Feb 23, 2024 at 12:51 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Etherpad maintenance 2024-02-26 09:00 - 10:00 UTC Hi all, we have to do *maintenance* on etherpad.wikimedia.org next *Monday, 2024-02-26** 09:00 UTC*. The maintenance involves the switch of the underlying hardware and a version upgrade. So the estimated downtime is around *60 minutes*. If you are working on a document currently please make a backup outside of Etherpad and do not use Etherpad during the maintenance window. I'll let you know when the maintenance is finished. You can find more information in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316421. Greetings jelto ___ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/MQBYNNSTESMMOZGCQRX4GTPW5NJWHFZW/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Learning & Documentation: Organizing Wikimania 2023
Thank you for these posts, Butch and everyone else involved! Best, //Johan Jönsson User:Julle -- Den fre 22 dec. 2023 kl 11:34 skrev Butch Bustria : > Fellow Wikimedians, > > We are now close to the end of 2023 and we celebrate it with the final > blogs (Learning & Documentation) > > First is the 1600 day journey of our preparation for Wikimania 2023 > > > https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/13/organizing-wikimania-2023-where-it-started/ > > The second focused on the theme, goal and program design of Wikimania 2023 > > > https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/18/organizing-wikimania-2023-program-design/ > > The final part is the result and outcomes of Wikimania 2023 and the legacy > it left > > > https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/22/organizing-wikimania-2023-results-and-outcomes/ > > For all video archives and presentation files of Wikimania 2023, go to > https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program > > Thank you for making 2023 a hallmark year for the ESEAP region. > > We wish the Wikimedians of Central and Eastern Europe the best of luck in > hosting the 19th Wikimania in Katowice, Poland. > > > > Kind regards, > > *Butch Bustria* > Wikimania 2023 > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/3CTEYUJZKYLAEQNX6SVTPLTO3NEASG4Z/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/TRJX22B5XMXSN76RDNX5LNKU3BA5D6NB/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: AI attribution, Wikipedia in social media and Ikusgela – Future Audiences video call 19 October
The recording and notes from the call are now available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences#Monthly_conversations Best, *Johan Jönsson*Manager, Product Ambassadors Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 2:47 AM Johan Jönsson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > The Future Audiences team is a small initiative at the Wikimedia > Foundation to do experiments to find strategies to make sure readers and > editors keep finding their way to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis. > Anyone is welcome to talk to us on the talk page, but we also have monthly > video calls. > > The next one is on October 19, 14:00 UTC (Thursday next week in most time > zones). You can reply to me personally or send an email to > futureaudien...@wikimedia.org if you want to participate, and we'll send > you a link to the call in advance, once it's been set up. > > You can read more here: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_Audiences#The_next_monthly_Future_Audiences_video_call:_October_19,_14:00_UTC > > There are a few topics on the agenda: > > * AI and attribution. A presentation on how we hope AI tools can better > attribute content from Wikipedia, so that readers know where it is coming > from. > > * Presentation of a small experiment to encourage video creators on TikTok > to tell their audience when they are using Wikipedia to get information for > their videos. For the first time, we're seeing how young people both use > and trust Wikipedia less than older age groups, and they are increasingly > using social media to find information. We want them to be aware when > Wikipedia has been instrumental in bringing them the information they > receive. > > * And also, a presentation from Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga from the Basque > community about their Ikusgela project of pedagogical videos on social > media platforms: > https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/05/27/basque-wikimedians-create-ikusgela-a-platform-for-free-education-videos/ > > If you can't participate, or don't want to take part of video calls, we > put notes and recordings from all calls here: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences#Monthly_conversations > > To read more about Future Audiences and this work, please see the Meta > page: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences > > The research about how younger audiences perceive Wikipedia is available > here: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Research/Brand_Health_Tracker > > > (This was sent to the list earlier, but seems to have been caught by a > filter and the moderators can't find it in the queue – I hope it doesn't > turn up twice.) > > Best, > > > *Johan Jönsson*Manager, Product Ambassadors > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> > ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/KDBUTJHTLGLE5IDR76GZQOAS7FWYDKLG/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania sessions now on Commons
Hi everyone, The videos from the Wikimania sessions are now available on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2023_conference_video_recordings_by_day Huge thanks to everyone who helped make them available – there were many videos to split, prepare and upload, a lot of work to be done. Best, *Johan Jönsson*Manager, Product Ambassadors Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/SMN5DN3DJHWGV4UTNXTJTCJ6MCVJUM2J/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] AI attribution, Wikipedia in social media and Ikusgela – Future Audiences video call 19 October
Hey everyone, The Future Audiences team is a small initiative at the Wikimedia Foundation to do experiments to find strategies to make sure readers and editors keep finding their way to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis. Anyone is welcome to talk to us on the talk page, but we also have monthly video calls. The next one is on October 19, 14:00 UTC (Thursday next week in most time zones). You can reply to me personally or send an email to futureaudien...@wikimedia.org if you want to participate, and we'll send you a link to the call in advance, once it's been set up. You can read more here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_Audiences#The_next_monthly_Future_Audiences_video_call:_October_19,_14:00_UTC There are a few topics on the agenda: * AI and attribution. A presentation on how we hope AI tools can better attribute content from Wikipedia, so that readers know where it is coming from. * Presentation of a small experiment to encourage video creators on TikTok to tell their audience when they are using Wikipedia to get information for their videos. For the first time, we're seeing how young people both use and trust Wikipedia less than older age groups, and they are increasingly using social media to find information. We want them to be aware when Wikipedia has been instrumental in bringing them the information they receive. * And also, a presentation from Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga from the Basque community about their Ikusgela project of pedagogical videos on social media platforms: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/05/27/basque-wikimedians-create-ikusgela-a-platform-for-free-education-videos/ If you can't participate, or don't want to take part of video calls, we put notes and recordings from all calls here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences#Monthly_conversations To read more about Future Audiences and this work, please see the Meta page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences The research about how younger audiences perceive Wikipedia is available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Research/Brand_Health_Tracker (This was sent to the list earlier, but seems to have been caught by a filter and the moderators can't find it in the queue – I hope it doesn't turn up twice.) Best, *Johan Jönsson*Manager, Product Ambassadors Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/GPAWAISPLCXDW5CRFJDEYIYHJW4ZJXWW/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Tool to find articles to create or improve in non-English Wikipedias
Den mån 18 sep. 2023 kl 19:06 skrev Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder...@hotmail.com>: > We are in the same point, Alex. From time to time, someone develops a tool > to make something with similar goals. But this tools are dispersed. How > could the Product Team think in a way to gather and join all if this useful > tools so we can find them onsite? > Toolhub has a "lists" function: https://toolhub.wikimedia.org/published-lists Maybe that's the best way to keep track of similar tools, or tools for similar situations? Best, //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/CELYAZYATWS25OJVD5I7YHBJLFYCUVR7/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: The last paper encyclopedia: World Book is still in print
It was pointed out elsewhere that the Italian *Enciclopedia Italiana* ( *Treccani*) is available in print with the last appendix published in 2020, and that the national encyclopedia of Azerbaijan (*Azərbaycan Milli Ensiklopediyası*) is not only published in print but still in the middle of being written, so the article's claim that this is the last paper encyclopedia might not be entirely accurate. //Johan Jönsson -- Den mån 3 juli 2023 kl 11:55 skrev David Gerard : > It's sort of nice to know we didn't take out the entire sector: > > > https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/06/rejoice-its-2023-and-you-can-still-buy-a-22-volume-paper-encyclopedia/ > > World Book still does a physical edition, selling a few thousand of > each edition of their paper encyclopedia set for $1,199. The market is > mostly schools and libraries. > > > - d. > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/O6HBR3EJGN4ZAPIAABBSZB527PSMN4WR/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/NRREOSH3CVZQAS2AQKFHW3YSGQCQAY3F/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: ChatGPT as a reliable source
As has been pointed out above, we have the hallucination issues, because AIs/LLMs deal in language and how probable a phrase seems to be, rather than in facts. Beyond the hallucination issues, we have the fact that their answers can't be accessed by other editors. Beyond the fact that their answers aren't published sources, even in a scenario where they reliably could present information, they would relay what had been found elsewhere. But is this so different from what we're used to? If I want to use information from a Wikipedia article elsewhere in the encyclopedia, I don't cite said article; I go to the sources. If I can't figure out where the information is coming from, I don't use it. If you can see where the information is coming from (not possible specifically in the normal ChatGPT experience at this time, as this requires that the tool is used to retrieve information from a specific place rather than find probable phrases), read that and cite it, if it's a reliable source. If you can't see where the information is coming from, it can't be used. //Johan Jönsson -- Den ons 17 maj 2023 kl 12:52 skrev The Cunctator : > Again at no point should even an improved version be considered a source; > at best it would be a research or editing tool. > > On Wed, May 17, 2023, 4:40 AM Lane Chance wrote: > >> Keep in mind how fast these tools change. ChatGPT, Bard and >> competitors understand well the issues with lack of sources, and Bard >> does sometimes put a suitable source in a footnote, even if it >> (somewhat disappointingly) just links to wikipedia. There's likely to >> be a variation soon that does a decent job of providing references, >> and at that point the role of these tools moves beyond being an >> amusement to a far more credible research tool. >> >> So, these long discussions about impact on open knowledge are quite >> likely to have to run again in 2024... >> >> On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 09:24, Kiril Simeonovski >> wrote: >> > >> > Thank you everyone for your input. >> > >> > Your considerations are very similar to mine, and they give a clear >> direction towards what the guidelines regarding the use of ChatGPT should >> point to. >> > >> > Best regards, >> > Kiril >> > >> > On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 10:11, Ilario valdelli >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Define "reliable source". >> >> >> >> A source is reliable if can be consulted by other people than the >> editor >> >> to check the content. >> >> >> >> Is this possible with ChatGPT? No, becaue if you address the same >> >> question to CHatGPT, you will have a different answer. >> >> >> >> In this case how the people verificaying the information can check that >> >> the editor did not invent the result? >> >> >> >> Kind regards >> >> >> >> On 17/05/2023 09:08, Kiril Simeonovski wrote: >> >> > Dear Wikimedians, >> >> > >> >> > Two days ago, a participant in one of our edit-a-thons consulted >> >> > ChatGPT when writing an article on the Macedonian Wikipedia that did >> >> > not exist on any other language edition. ChatGPT provided some >> output, >> >> > but the problem was how to cite it. >> >> > >> >> > The community on the Macedonian Wikipedia has not yet had a >> discussion >> >> > on this matter and we do not have any guidelines. So, my main >> >> > questions are the following: >> >> > >> >> > * Can ChatGPT be used as a reliable source and, if yes, how would the >> >> > citation look like? >> >> > >> >> > * Are there any ongoing community discussions on introducing >> guidelines? >> >> > >> >> > My personal opinion is that ChatGPT should be avoided as a reliable >> >> > source, and only the original source where the algorithm gets the >> >> > information from should be used. >> >> > >> >> > Best regards, >> >> > Kiril >> >> > >> >> > ___ >> >> > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, >> guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> >> > Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/WMGIBNPN5JNJGU
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Deror Lin passed away
Itzik, these are sad news indeed. Deror did so much for the movement, for so long – in different places, in different ways. Thank you for letting us know. Best, //Johan Jönsson -- Den lör 6 maj 2023 kl 12:59 skrev itzik Edri : > Dear friends, > > I'm sorry to update that our friend and colleague Deror Lin > (user:Deror_Avi) passed away this morning. > > Deror was a truly Wikimedian in blood who poured his heart and soul into > the movement in many ways, even in his final days. He joined Wikipedia in > 2004 and was one of the founders of Wikimedia Israel. For over 16 years, he > served as an active board member. > > He was the driving force behind Wikimania 2011 in Haifa and a key member > of the Wikimania committee ever since. He led countless programs and > projects, both locally and internationally, including conferences, WLM > competitions, educational programs, photo and editing contests, and many > others. > > More than that, he wrote over 8,600 articles on HEWP (comprising more than > 2% of it!), making him the number one article writer in HEWP, alongside > more than 37,000 contributions to Commons. > > For his huge contribution and love for the movement, he was honored last > year as the Wikipedia Laureate of 2022. > > Deror, you were not just a colleague but a true friend. We worked together > on many projects, events, and initiatives over the years. No matter the > situation, you always had a smile and shining eyes with your love for > Wikipedia. > > *On behalf of Wikimedia Israel, I extend our deepest condolences to > Deror's family and friends. You will always be remembered, Deror.* > *ברוך דיין האמת. Baruch dayan ha-emet* > > > Itzik. > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/WUMCWUVMGMHWYPA7KZQEG6F7QBBWIMNH/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/C37GELAFZUTQCNEZQT2SOPJAKFQL3KTT/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] In memory of Holger Ellgaard
Holger Ellgaard – User:Holger.Ellgaard – has died. Holger was one of the most prolific article writers on Swedish Wikipedia, having written thousands of articles, with a couple of hundred thousand edits on Swedish Wikipedia and another hundred thousand edits on Commons, where he had uploaded more than fifty thousand photographs since coming to the Wikimedia movement in the spring of 2007. As we know, an edit count says very little in itself – myself, I have a large number of minor fixes and few excellent articles. Holger, on the other hand, wrote a large number of featured and good articles, the kind of texts the community wanted to highlight as its best and put on the main page for everyone to see. Having spent his professional life as an architect and with a passion for photography, he wrote about buildings and city planning, architecture and infrastructure. His articles were long, well sourced and full of illustrations, usually his own photos. He liked to visit a place before writing about it, photographing it and making sure he had the pictures he wanted. Many of his best articles were more ambitious in scope. He wrote about Swedish kitchen standard and the redevelopment of central Stockholm from the 1950s to the 1970s. He wrote about any conceivable aspect of Stockholm as a city: public toilets in Stockholm, traffic signals in Stockholm, emergency housing in Stockholm, illuminated signs in Stockholm, railroad tunnels in Stockholm and about so many other things. When Wikimedia Sweden started giving out an annual award to someone who had contributed to free knowledge, Holger was the inaugural recipient. He felt like an obvious choice. Not only because of the amount of work he had put into writing his articles, but also his willingness to help anyone writing within his area of expertise. He was a great public educator. And now he isn’t, and we’re less for his absence. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/MFVJD3DRK6JHYSKYLQTRWDDE5DHMQG5T/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Talk pages in the iOS Wikipedia app
Hi everyone, Communication with app users was mentioned in a conversation on this list just a couple of days ago. The team behind the Wikipedia app for iOS are working on the talk pages in the app. If you want to help them with that work, you can take this survey: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9GBcHczQGLbQWTY The survey is available in English, German, Hebrew and Chinese. Regards, //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/6DNMHAQW5R25TEDE6MMS2QTS2F5AHUPY/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking
Den lör 30 apr. 2022 kl 09:37 skrev effe iets anders < effeietsand...@gmail.com>: > Hi Danny, > > this is great thinking. There's one more angle that I'd like to offer, but > it would come with plenty of risks and downsides, so I'm not sure if it is > actually viable (I guess it falls in the 'mitigate harm' category). But > just to put it out there: > > One of the main reasons that we block open proxies, is because of > sockpuppets and block evaders. What if we would somehow expose to admins > which edits are made by open proxy? That way they can consider the entire > picture (including a history of good faith edits) before blocking their > edits. Down the road, that flag could become more nuanced (open proxy vs > shared connection) but obviously it would have to remain pretty broad > categories. There are plenty of downsides (WMF would need to keep a > database of open proxies for one, but it would also share a small piece of > private information about the user - we could warn them about that as they > are saving their edit). > > If we are afraid primarily for rapid open proxy edits, we could use a > tactic that is used by some social media tech companies in other settings: > slow them down when using an identified open proxy. If we build in a 30s > throttle or even wait time before the edit can be saved, or a 5 minute > delay before the edit can become visible, that would take the fun out of it > possibly. Obvious downside is that this is still annoying as hell for good > faith users, but at least they can now request exceptions on-wiki. > > This family of methods risks a two class community, but I'm not sure if > that is worse than the current situation. I'm not sure what would be the > 'right' path either. > Relevant in this context: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/IP_Info_feature //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/5XPPHES22ACB3G2OWGQEYOIUWH72OXFN/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open proxies and IP blocking
Den fre 22 apr. 2022 kl 14:43 skrev Florence Devouard : > I have read all the comments and discussed privately with a few people. > > There are some elements of answers that are purely in the hands of > stewards, they have to discuss and find common grounds, in particular to > implementing blocks, so that they limit damage on good people, whilst > preserving the projects from vandals. > We talk a lot about the process of unblocking, or IP block exceptions, which is relevant and I don't want to derail from it, but I think we need to remember that a lot of people will try to make one edit and if it doesn't work – because they're blocked for reasons they can't understand – they will never come back again. They are not invested in the wiki they tried to edit, they are not going to wait or spend time and effort fixing the issue. If we block a significant amount of internet users in a specific area, some languages will have real obstacles to attracting new editors. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/BVPQS4RDAUJFXNCNLQ73EQTHOHK2C6OT/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Testing the iOS app
Hello, On behalf of the team behind the iOS Wikipedia app: Over the past quarter the iOS team has been working hard on new features to support notifications in the app and we would love to hear your feedback and insights. If you have an iPhone or iPad running iOS 13 or later and edit in more than one language we’d love to hear from you. The study will take place over two weeks between January and February, 2022. The survey results (diary entries) collected throughout this study will be used by the developers to make improvements to the Wikipedia iOS app <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS>. Throughout the course of the study you will be asked to use a beta build of the Wikipedia app, which includes echo-style notifications. You will need to allow the Wikipedia app to send ‘push’ notifications to your device. Every two days (for a total of six entries) you will be asked via email to fill out a ‘Diary entry’ survey, regardless of if you have used the Wikipedia app over the past two days. This short survey will ask you to answer a few questions about your use of the notifications within the app and also includes space for general comments and thoughts. At the end of the study you will be asked to fill out one final ten-minute exit survey, which will focus on your overall experience with the Wikipedia app notifications and any general thoughts or feedback you might have. Surveys throughout this study will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:IOS_Notifications_Diary_Study_Privacy_Statement> . We are able to offer $75 to selected study participants who successfully complete the full study (a total of six diary entries across two weeks and completion of the onboarding and exit survey). This is because we’re asking for a not insignificant participation in the software development process whether it suits the participant or not at the time; in that way, this is more like work than the editing which can be picked up or not depending on what happens elsewhere in life. It can only be offered to those who fully complete the study. If you are interested in participating please email Carolyn Li-Madeo ( cma...@wikimedia.org). Thank you for your help and feedback. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/4W34KJYV53KV2XXZU5YBAX4Q5MUGE5IH/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Suggestion] Feedback/Request for Comments: On Closing the Loop on a Consultation
Hey Tito, Just wanted to say that we (the Community Relations Specialists at the Foundation, who often ask for feedback around the technical development of the wikis) appreciated this reminder. Thank you. //Johan Jönsson -- On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 12:02 AM Tito Dutta wrote: > Hello, > > Problem statement: Various movement processes, programs, often request > feedback, suggestions or comments. In the process, they get feedback and > questions through different channels such as mailing lists, office hours, > talk pages etc. Now, sometimes it remains unclear what happens next. > Sometimes it remains unclear if a requested feedback is taken/incorporated > or not (and why?). And sometimes feedback and questions remain just > unanswered. > Possible solution: "Feedback was requested" and "Feedback is received" — > now this loop needs to be closed. Closing the loop in a consultation > process is important. (narration below) > > A technology policy analyst spoke at Wikimedia Summit 2019. I'll quote a > part from the video[1]. He told— > "The core of responsive regulation is community consultation processes. > However, closing the loop on the consultation process is critical, > otherwise participants feel that they have wasted time providing feedback. > For example, the Indian telecom regulator first issues a consultation > paper. Then solicits the first round of feedback, then solicits a second > round of counter comments, then they hold round tables, and, finally, they > issue the recommendation or the regulation. But when they do that, they > make sure they close the loop. They provide reasoned explanations for why > suggestions were rejected... ..." > > When any important major Wikimedia process comes forward and asks for > feedback or suggestions, there might be different results such as > feedback/suggestion accepted, partially accepted, rejected, not actionable, > kept on hold etc. However, closing the loop in this process is important, > example: "we received "this" feedback and this feedback was not > incorporated or was not actionable "because ___"..." > > How can it help? > "Closure of a feedback loop" can: > a) help to understand how a feedback/suggestion was taken/noted, and what > were the observations? > b) show respect to the people and their feedback, and most possibly > encourage people to share feedback and ask questions in the next > consultation process > c) eliminate duplication. If a particular feedback is taken to a > conclusion, several other people don't need to suggest the same thing in > future. > > I am posting this as an individual, and over-all this is a process-related > suggestion/feedback. > If the major Wikimedia processes or programs soliciting feedback or > questions consider this, I think that will be very helpful. > Regards, > User:Titodutta > ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/W3P3KEV235M5I5LI6XJAERCRY7AH22JM/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Paid editing in Bulgarian Wikipedia?
Hi Rafi, How to handle paid editing has been a contentious issue for a long time, as the topic stretches from Wikipedian in Residence programs to the undoubtedly unwanted edits from companies or individuals hiring PR firms to paint themselves in a better light than is called for. The section on paid editing in the Terms of Use, which is in force on all wikis which haven't explicitly adopted a different policy, says it has to be disclosed but doesn't disallow it. This would allow for paid editing which is in line with our policies on neutrality and so on. https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use/en#4._Refraining_from_Certain_Activities But each individual wiki community can then set their own policies and guidelines here, or norms and interpretations even if they haven't. Commons, for example, doesn't require a disclosure, as it has different problems to handle than the Wikipedias have. //Johan Jönsson -- Den lör 11 dec. 2021 kl 22:35 skrev Mrb Rafi : > Hello all! > > Does that mean not all paid editings are bad? I'm less knowledgeable on > this topic. I thought paid editing are completely forbidden. > > Regards, > Rafi > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 12:19 AM Dggenwp wrote: > >> T >> >> On Dec 10, 2021, at 11:53 AM, James Heilman wrote: >> >> >> I personally am more concerned about paid conflict of interest editing >> and much less concerned about paid non conflict of interest work. This >> appears on superficial overview to be the latter. Will be interested to see >> how this experiment turns out. >> >> James >> >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 9:47 AM Mrb Rafi wrote: >> >>> Hello all! >>> >>> I became confused watching this [1] job post on Upwork with the title >>> "Create 20 pages in the Bulgarian Wikipedia". The client offered 30 USD for >>> this task. >>> The job post says: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *This is a small experimental project. The goal is to check if people >>>> on Upwork.com can help grow the Bulgarian Wikipedia in a quality way. I >>>> also wish to *not* cannibalize edits that would have happened anyway. The >>>> created content will be in the public domain. It's a gift to all >>>> Bulgarians. We follow all the values, guidelines and rules valid on the >>>> Bulgarian WIkipedia: https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/ >>>> <https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/>Уикипедия:Поведение . This includes >>>> following the specific wiki syntax and the usual expectations of all pages, >>>> especially good sources and categorization of the page. Some experience >>>> editing Wikipedia is desired, but not required. Since these are supposed to >>>> be net new edits, I will prefer people who have fewer than 100 Wikipedia >>>> edits so far. Due to this social benefit, the proposed price is far below >>>> market price. As Bulgarians say, the payment is symbolic. For this >>>> experiment, I've selected 20 articles that exist in the English Wikipedia, >>>> but don't yet exist in the Bulgarian Wikipedia. That gives you the option >>>> to use Wikipedia's translation tool, which may make your work much faster >>>> and more pleasant: Please note that the translation tool has some specifics >>>> that take time to get used to, e.g., adding references, representing other >>>> alphabets -- I can help with such issues. The list of proposed articles is >>>> here: https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/ >>>> <https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/>Потребител:Cryout/Чрез_ЪпУърк I hope you >>>> will enjoy this variety of content. Still, the list is negotiable and we >>>> can swap articles in and out per your preference. * >>>> >>> >>> Is it going in the right way? I'm a Lil' bit confused. >>> Besides this, you'll get tons of paid editing job posts on Upwork, >>> freelancer and other freelance networks. At first, I used to report these >>> posts but there are so many of them that it's not possible for me to find >>> all of them and report them. >>> >>> [1] https://www.upwork.com/jobs/~01371a50692d0540d0 >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Rafi >>> >>> ___ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >>> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guide
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia are officially online !
Nice! Welcome! Ini ku kela rmengo kari seediq, but I'm very happy to see it as a new Wikipedia. //Johan Jönsson -- Den tors 22 apr. 2021 kl 11:38 skrev Joyce Chen : > *Dear All, * > > *Wikimedia Taiwan has a great news to share with all of you! * > > > > > > > > *We are so happy to announced that the two of Taiwan's indigenous > languages, the Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia are officially online! > In 2015, the Taiwan Ministry of Education launched the Indigenous languages > Wikipedia project. Sakizaya Wikipedia was the first language release their > Wikipedia in 2019. On April 15, 2021, Hitay-Payan and Lituk Teymu, who are > another two languages Wikipedia project convener were happy to announce > that Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia were online.Since November 22, > 2019, the release day of Sakizaya Wikipedia, there have been 1,840 clauses > added. The Wikimedia Taiwan and the Center for aboriginal studies of NCCU > joined the Sakizaya Wikipedia workshop hosted by Sakizaya language > organization on March 11-12, 2021 at the Hualien City. During the workshop, > we taught Sakizaya people how to migrate Chinese modules into Sakizaya, and > they translated all of them into Sakizaya. There are 50 pictures from > Wikimedia Commons was enhanced by Sakizaya and over 100 Wikidata item and > properties were translated into Sakizaya. Moreover, the Sakizaya hashtag > "szy" for other Wikipedia sister projects was ready as well. * > > > > > > *Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia were released on March 16, 2021, > including the previous Sakizaya language, these are the 3 languages which > first included in Wikipedia, there are in total 16 indigenous languages > recognized as aboriginal by the Council of Indigenous People, Taiwan. The > new Wikimedia language hashtag for Atayal (tay) and Seediq (trv) not only > expanded the usability within Wikipedia but also between other Wiki > projects, such as Wikimedia Common and Wikidata. We are happy to preserve, > promote and reuse Taiwan's indigenous languages through the release of the > Wikimedia project, this is an milestone for all of us. We hope to assist > all Indigenous continue finding ways to preserve their legacy and bring > their languages and culture to the world. Check out our meta-wiki page: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/IncuWPTA > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/IncuWPTA>* > > *sincerely,* > *Joyce* > > -- > *陳禹先 **Yuhsien Chen, Joyce (she/her/hers)* > *社團法人台灣維基媒體協會 Wikimedia Taiwan* > Email: yuhsien.c...@wikimedia.tw > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > 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> > ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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] Wikimedia España has been recognized as a charity in Spain
Den ons 24 feb. 2021 kl 12:14 skrev Santiago Navarro < santiagonava...@wikimedia.es>: > Hello. I have the pleasure to inform that last Friday, 19th February > 2021, Wikimedia España was recognized as a charity (entidad de utilidad > pública) in Spain by the Ministry of the Interior and it was published > at the Boletín Oficial del Estado (Official State Gazette). This is a > recognition of the hard work the association has been doing last 10 > years in Spain. To be recognized, it has been a long process, and we > were waiting for an answer for this application since the end of 2019. I > want to say thanks to all people who worked to achieve that. > > Here you have a short entry in our website about that: > > https://www.wikimedia.es/2021/02/19/wikimedia-espana-declarada-entidad-de-utilidad-publica/ > Here the text of the Boletín Oficial del Estado: > https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2021-2626 > > -- > Santiago Navarro Sanz > Presidente > Wikimedia España > www.wikimedia.es > Congratulations! And well done. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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] Bengali Wikipedia is now 100K+ articles strong
Congratulations, and well done! //Johan Jönsson -- Den lör 26 dec. 2020 kl 14:49 skrev Shabab Mustafa : > Dear Friends, > > The year 2020 is full of woes and wonders. Just before the ending of 2020, > Bengali Wikipedia[1][2] has passed a significant milestone of passing 100K > articles. > > Bengali, an Indo-Aryan language and lingua-franca of the Bengal region of > South Asia, is the fifth most-spoken native language and the seventh > most-spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world.[3] The > Bengali Wikipedia Project launched on 27 January 2004 with very few > editors. On 25 December 2020, after 16 years of the initial launch, it now > has passed the milestone of 100k+ articles.[4] > > As most of the contributors of Bengali Wikipedia are young and this year's > long lockdowns and campus shutdowns of educational institutes, Wikipedians > had managed to utilized their extra free times by contributing to the > Bengali Wikipedia and it has enjoyed growth at an almost double rate than > the previous year with an organized approach of topic-based consecutive > edit-a-thons. > > Here is a quick overview of the milestones achieved - > > 27 January 2004: Launch of Bengali Wikipedia > September 2006: 10K articles > 28 June 2009: 20K articles > 13 May 2014: 30K articles > 04 January 2016: 40K articles > 30 April 2017: 50K articles > 08 August 2018: 60K articles > 16 July 2019: 70K articles > 23 January 2020: 80K articles > 22 June 2020: 90K articles > 25 December 2020: 100K articles > > I welcome you to congratulate the Bengali Wikipedia community for their > achievement and wishing them all the best for future progress and > prosperity. > > Ref: > > [1] https://bn.wikipedia.org > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_Wikipedia > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_language > [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#100_000+_articles > > Regards, > --- > Shabab Mustafa > T. @tarunno > S. shabab.mustafa > W. https://shabab.me > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > 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> > ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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] Our need of OA research – materials?
Hi Jackie! Thank you for asking – I should have started with that. My current vision for the end product is for a short report, aimed for decision-makers in the Swedish university world. Too many of them simply don't understand what the public would *do* with access to research, and consider it an intra-academic ideological question with few practical implications. Since Wikipedia depends on access to good sources and we're an important interface between research and the general public, we could be a good specific example of why open access matters. Part of this would preferably be specific to Sweden and Swedish Wikipedia, for local impact, but it'd be very helpful if we could have more existing material to build on – basically do a rewrite instead of reinventing the wheel, and see if there's research on Wikipedia and OA we should incorporate. If they have Wikipedia-specific material about OA, it would be very helpful, but the angle I'm looking for here is less to present arguments by researchers who approve of OA – the target audience will have met those before – unless those arguments come in the form of information about how Wikipedia uses open access research. (: //Johan Jönsson (in his volunteer capacity) -- Den tis 24 nov. 2020 kl 18:10 skrev Jackie Koerner : > Hi Johan! > > What does your end result look like? > > I know several researchers who study Wikipedia and are passionate about > OA. Would items they have written be what you are seeking? Or an interview > with them for something you are writing? If you let me know what you hope > for your end result to look like, I can better provide you with context and > contacts. :) > > I hope you are well. > > Best, > > Jackie K. > > > On Nov 24, 2020, at 10:31 AM, Johan Jönsson > wrote: > > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > What are our best resources to point to our need for open access > research? I'm looking for explanations, testimonials, collections of > research on how OA is used on Wikipedia (e.g. Teplitskiy, Lu, Duede: > “Amplifying the impact of open access: Wikipedia and the diffusion of > science”) and so on – anything to not have to reinvent the wheel. Have you > put together anything explaining this from a Wikimedia perspective? > > > > (The Wikipedia Library has "why we need access to research", which is > useful, but not exactly the same thing.) > > > > //Johan Jönsson > > (in his volunteer capacity) > > -- > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > 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> > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > 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> > ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
[Wikimedia-l] Our need of OA research – materials?
Hi folks, What are our best resources to point to our need for open access research? I'm looking for explanations, testimonials, collections of research on how OA is used on Wikipedia (e.g. Teplitskiy, Lu, Duede: “Amplifying the impact of open access: Wikipedia and the diffusion of science”) and so on – anything to not have to reinvent the wheel. Have you put together anything explaining this from a Wikimedia perspective? (The Wikipedia Library has "why we need access to research", which is useful, but not exactly the same thing.) //Johan Jönsson (in his volunteer capacity) -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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] [Wikitech-l] Community Tech: New Format for 2020 Wishlist Survey
Den lör 5 okt. 2019 kl 22:46 skrev Chris Keating : > the wishlist only reflects > the needs and perceptions of highly active contributors [at present I think > it only accepts submissions in English ,which is another obstacle, but that > could be addressed]. The wishlist has explicitly accepted wishes in any language. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time
Den fre 26 apr. 2019 kl 15:36 skrev Peter Southwood < peter.southw...@telkomsa.net>: > You appear to have 66 sysops on sv:? ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Wikipedia), how well to you think > this system would scale up for an order or two of magnitude more? I think it would scale well for almost all our wikis, but that there is a handful where I'd assume the size would become an issue. Partly because of the number of reelections, partly because I think part of our success is that if I'm a fairly active editor that cares about our candidates for adminship on Swedish Wikipedia, I've probably encountered most of the active admins up for reelection a couple of times over the last year and have already had the chance to see them use the tools. Generally, most admins are unanimously or almost unanimously reelected; we tend to support unless we have reason not to. That's not to say it couldn't work for the larger wikis with some adaptions (I simply don't have an opinion either way), but I'm not confidently going to tell English Wikipedia this is the solution to the RfA problem. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time
Yes, we – Swedish Wikipedia – have had similar experiences with annual reelections (since 2006) helping us both to keep the bar at a reasonable level and to have a de-sysoping process that doesn't cause of strife and rifts in the community. Works well for us. //Johan Jönsson -- Den fre 26 apr. 2019 kl 00:41 skrev Asaf Bartov : > This is not India-specific, and may be of interest to other communities > struggling with such a question. > >A. > > -- Forwarded message - > From: Ravishankar > Date: Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 3:05 PM > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time > To: wikimediaindia-l > > > Hi, > > Tamil Wikipedia elects 10 sysops at a time after a gap of almost 5 years. > > After 2013, we hit a policy deadlock where we couldn't agree on how to > elect a new sysop, what are the qualities of an ideal sysop, etc., > > Even after repeated attempts, we could not solve this as the fear of being > not able to easily desysop someone made us look for higher and higher bars > for a perfect admin. > > So, how did we solve? > > Recently, MediaWiki allows someone to get sysop access for limited periods > of time like 1 month, 3 months, etc., This is how Stewards grants adminship > in many small wikis. > > We felt when there is the possibility of granting adminships for trial > periods and renew them thereafter, we don't need to keep the bar for > adminship very high. > > We also proposed to start a Wiki Admin School where others can mentor the > new admins. > > So, after a month long discussion and community consensus, we conducted our > sysop elections and elected 10 sysops at a time. > > Right now, we have 42 sysops with one of the highest sysops per users > ration among all global Wikis. > > We plan to elect 6 new sysops every quarter and are discussing a similar > policy for bureaucrat election. > > We strongly believe having a diverse pool of sysops makes them feel > empowered to serve the Wikimedia movement for a long period of time. > > If you are interested in knowing more, take a look at the policy here > <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/7gmi> and the discussion in the related talk > page. > > Thanks, > > Ravi > ___ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > -- > Asaf Bartov > Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > https://donate.wikimedia.org > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > 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> ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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] The annual Community Wishlist Survey now open for proposals
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:35 PM Johan Jönsson wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > The Community Wishlist Survey is now open, and you can post proposals > for projects that you would like the Wikimedia Foundation's Community > Tech team to work on: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019 > > The Community Tech team builds features and makes changes that active > Wikimedia contributors want, and the Wishlist Survey sets the team's > agenda for the next year. > > The Wishlist Survey starts with a two-week proposal period, when > contributors from all Wikimedia projects are invited to post, discuss > and improve proposals. After that, there's a two-week voting period, > when everyone can post support-votes on the proposals. > > You can post technical proposals until 11 November. > > You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November. > > The Community Tech team is responsible for addressing the top ten > wishes on the list. If they, after investigating it, find that > something isn't feasible, they need to explain why to the community. > The Wishlist can also be used by volunteer developers and other teams, > who want to find projects to work on that the community really wants. Just a reminder that the voting process is open and that you can support proposals here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019 //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
[Wikimedia-l] The annual Community Wishlist Survey now open for proposals
Hey everyone, The Community Wishlist Survey is now open, and you can post proposals for projects that you would like the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Tech team to work on: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019 The Community Tech team builds features and makes changes that active Wikimedia contributors want, and the Wishlist Survey sets the team's agenda for the next year. The Wishlist Survey starts with a two-week proposal period, when contributors from all Wikimedia projects are invited to post, discuss and improve proposals. After that, there's a two-week voting period, when everyone can post support-votes on the proposals. You can post technical proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November. The Community Tech team is responsible for addressing the top ten wishes on the list. If they, after investigating it, find that something isn't feasible, they need to explain why to the community. The Wishlist can also be used by volunteer developers and other teams, who want to find projects to work on that the community really wants. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
[Wikimedia-l] Server switch 2018: No editing for a short while on October 10
Hi, We are be testing our secondary data centre. This will make sure that the wikis can stay online even after a disaster. On October 10, from a bit after 14:00 UTC and for up to an hour (but probably not that long), you won't be able to edit the wikis. This has been repeatedly mentioned in Tech News, posted on Village Pumps etc, but please help spread this in your communities, especially with regards to editathons etc. You'll find more information here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2018 //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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] fallout from 2018 Wikimedian of the Year announcement
Farkhad, It's fantastic to see what you're doing with this. Thank you. //Johan Jönsson -- On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 2:09 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < f...@yandex.com> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Since yesterday all subdomains hosted @ http://tatarstan.ru/ (including > websites of the http://president.tatarstan.ru/, the Cabinet > http://prav.tatarstan.ru/, ministries/departments, state-owned > organizations, municipalities and Representative offices of the Republic > around Russia and abroad) moved to Creative Commons Attribution. The only > exceptions are those of the First (ex-) President & the Parliament, that > already had their own unique type free licenses (in Russian, non-standard). > > Russian Wikinews requested me to draft an article & my counterparty at the > Regional Ministry of InfoComm has gladly approved. I will probably need to > find time for that today. That was the easy part. Some context: Russian > President, Executive Branch of the Federal Government, both Chambers of the > Federal Parliament, etc. are using Creative Commons Attribution for a while > now, thanks to Senior Volunteers efforts of Wikimedia Russia members. I > just communicated the benefits of this to the Regional (Republic of > Tatarstan) Deputy Prime-Minister https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ > Roman_Shaykhutdinov, head of the regional infocomm department & he > championed it far and wide within his area of responsibility. > > I started engaging high-school & university students into helping the > Infocomm ministry people to learn what is Wikimedia like & how it works - > Deputy Prime-Minister is interested in anything that can benefit Education, > Heritage Outreach, etc. development in the region & help in making culture > of the Republic better known globally & promote Tatar language use online > (Wikidata, GLAM, etc.). Another minister I met is excited with examples of > Greek school children https://outreach.wikimedia. > org/wiki/Education/News/July_2017/A_class_of_26_8-year-old_ > Wikipedia_article_creators & youth in Italy http://www.rivistabricks.it/ > wp-content/uploads/2017/12/BRICKS_4_2017.pdf & other places develop > critical thinking and develop immunity to mass & social media stories > painting the world black & white as they please (stories from any outlets, > including the BBC or New York Times, have to be taken with a pinch of salt > - there's no unbiased human). In parallel, we are starting a cooperation > with private Cambridge International school in Kazan > http://school.balacity.ru/ (the founders & the director know me, invited > me for cooperation, key contact person was part of the meeting, I provided > necessary initial links). I know that our youth is now inspired to organize > a User Group, report on their Spring & Summer efforts at Wikimedia > Conference Russia this September & take their existing Selet WikiSchool > project even higher. https://outreach.wikimedia. > org/wiki/Education/News/May_2018/Selet_WikiSchool , more stories coming. > > Last night WMF Partnerships agreed to support me in organizing a > videoconference type seminar with best practices in Education/GLAM/Heritage > promotion/Wikidata/etc. to explain locals about how great is the Wikimedia > movement (something mainly unheard of in Russia, even though Wikipedia is > actually used). I would love to have you, my dear international colleagues, > to find time to connect and give a video talk on some Use Case > implementation during the upcoming public seminar, organized in conjunction > with Tatarstan InfoComm ministry (whenever we get the dates they will be > able to gather local crowd in the IT-Park in downtown Kazan). I will take > care of the simultaneous interpretation — all the necessary equipment is > there, so I'll try to find the funding & qualified people. > > In parallel I'll continue working on organizing a short in-person version > at WMF Headquarters for the President of the Republic, if and when we can > fit it into his schedule (Tatarstan Deputy Prime-Minister - Regional > Minister for InfoComm wanted this to take place during one of the annual > regional government delegation visits to California). President Minnikhanov > is a co-chair of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, as well > as Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group, so I think we can use > Jimmy's well-timed pass to score well: spreading Wikimedia movement > popularity throughout Russia and the Islamic world even further, helping in > unblocking Turkey in the process. > > "Imagine the world in which every human is a Wikimedian. That's my > commitment!" > > regards, > farhad > > -- > Farkha
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing launch of Santali Language Wikipedia
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 4:48 PM, Ali Haidar Khan wrote: > Dear All, > > We are very pleased to announce the launch of Santali Language Wikipedia ( > https://sat.wikipedia.org). Lovely to see. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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] New Stewards elected
2018-02-28 22:14 GMT+01:00 Mardetanha : > Hey Wikimedia community > after a long election we finally have couple new stewards elected > > >1. علاء <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A1> > ( >talk <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:%D8%B9%D9%84% > D8%A7%D8%A1> > · contribs ><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/% > D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A1> >) >2. Green Giant <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Green_Giant> (talk ><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Green_Giant> · contribs ><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Green_Giant>) >3. Rxy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rxy> (talk ><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rxy> · contribs ><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Rxy>) >4. -revi <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:-revi> (talk ><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:-revi> · contribs ><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/-revi>) >5. There'sNoTime <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:There%27sNoTime> > ( >talk <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:There%27sNoTime> · >contribs ><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/There%27sNoTime > >) > > > please join me in welcoming them for the new position and congratulating > them for gaining communities trust. Welcome, new stewards. And thank you. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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] You can now vote in the Community Wishlist Survey
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 7:01 AM, Johan Jönsson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > The voting phase of the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now started. Read > the proposals and support the ones you want to support to make the wikis > better: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey As a last reminder – if you wanted to check this out but haven't, you can vote for another 12 hours. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
[Wikimedia-l] You can now vote in the Community Wishlist Survey
Hey everyone, The voting phase of the 2017 Community Wishlist Survey has now started. Read the proposals and support the ones you want to support to make the wikis better: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey Click on the categories to find the proposals. The voting will close on December 10. That's the important part of this email. Feel free to follow the link above and starting voting right now. The longer version: The Community Wishlist Survey decides what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team will work on over the next year. The team is responsible for addressing the top 10 wishes on the list, as well as some wishes from smaller groups and projects that are doing important work, but don't have the numbers to get their proposal into the top 10. The Wishlist is also used by volunteer developers and other teams, who want to find projects to work on that the community really wants. Come help set the agenda. If you want to see what the team has done in 2017, see the status report from last month: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_report_1 What you can do now: *) Vote. This is the most important thing. *) Spread the word. We really want people to find this, of course, and we'll work on finding the best balance between spreading the news to everyone and not being annoying, but please do help to spread the information in your local community – Village Pump equivalents, IRC channels, social media groups and so on. *) Help translating the pages. We want the process to be as available as possible for everyone. It's not every available if it's only in English. *) If you want to get short updates through the notification system, you can sign up for the Community Tech Newsletter: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:The_Community_Tech_Newsletter //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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] [Wikitech-l] 2017 Community Wishlist Survey starts today!
Hey everyone, Just a quick reminder that if you want to post a proposal, you probably want to do it over the weekend: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey Make sure the Community Tech team works on the most worthwhile thing they could be working on. (: Click on the individual categories to post a proposal. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia: The Text Adventure
http://kevan.org/wikitext/ Nice concept. //Johan Jönsson -- http://wikipediabloggen.se ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
[Wikimedia-l] Wikimediapriset 2017
A couple of weeks ago, Wikimedia Sweden organised the Wikipedia Day, which will hopefully become an annual event. Some programme items, some socialising, and the presentation of a new award, Wikimediapriset, to be given to someone who's been furthering open knowledge. I don't think anyone's mentioned it on this list, and in the spirit of sharing good things, we should talk about Holger. The receiver was Holger Ellgaard, User.Holger.Ellgaard, for his vast amount of Wikipedia articles related to Stockholm. A retired architect and nowadays – it seems – full-time Wikipedian, Holger mainly writes about buildings, neighbourhoods and city planning. His articles (a couple of thousand in total) are generally well sourced, easy to read and understand, and well illustrated. Some Wikipedia articles have a large number of illustrations because the photographer wanted somewhere to put their pictures; Holger's articles are heavily illustrated because it adds to the understanding of the subject at hand. He wants to visit the places he's to write about, to get a feeling for them as well as to get the images. Some of my favourites: City planning in Stockholm https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadsplanering_i_Stockholm Public toilets in Stockholm: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offentliga_toaletter_i_Stockholm Street lighting in Stockholm: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatubelysning_i_Stockholm Public bomb shelters in Stockholm: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allmänna_skyddsrum_i_Stockholm The Swedish standard kitchen: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svensk_köksstandard Skokloster Castle: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoklosters_slott In addition to creating good articles, Holger is polite and willing to help other editors when they're writing within his field of expertise. We, and everyone who can read Swedish, are lucky this is what he decided to spend his time on. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
[Wikimedia-l] Danish Wikipedia turns 15
It's Danish Wikipedia's turn to turn 15. (: In those 15 years, the Danish community and passers-by have together created a bit over 223000 articles. They had a small meet-up in Copenhagen to celebrate a few hours ago, and some of the attention from the Danish media is collected here: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Presse_2017 //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] [Wikimedia Announcements] Positions open for strategy coordinator contractors.
(Note: Replying from my personal email, so User:Julle speaking rather than User:Johan (WMF). I'm not working on this and not intimately familiar with the plans for the strategy consultation; these are not comments from the WMF, which as far as I know has no position on the subject of Scandinavian languages.) 2017-01-31 15:38 GMT+01:00 John Erling Blad : > Swedes have trouble speaking with both Norwegians and Danes, Danes have > lesser trouble with Swedish and even less with Norwegian, Norwegians have > virtually no problems wiith Swedish and Danish. People from Island and the > Faroe icelands usually speaks Danish, they learn it in school, and as > Norwegian and Danish is pretty close they usually understands Norwegians > without any problem. It is somewhat strange how much trouble Swedes have in > understanding the other Scandinavian languages, given that they are so > closely related. > As far as I know, there's no major difference between Swedish and Danish understanding of the neighbouring languages. When looking at Denmark, Sweden and Norway and how well adolescents understand their neighbours, Delsing & Lundin (2005) found two things that really stand out: On average Norwegians understand Danish and Swedish significantly better than Danes or Swedes understand the other Scandinavian languages – especially the Danish understanding of their neighbours had dropped since Øivind Maurud looked at the same thing in the 1970s – and both Danes and Swedes found Norwegian the easiest foreign Scandinavian language to understand. (They mainly performed OKish when it came to understanding written text; understanding of the spoken languages are more difficult – the Norwegians struggled with spoken Danish, too. Here's Norwegian national TV making fun of how difficult the other Scandinavians generally find Danish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-mOy8VUEBk) (Reference: Delsing, Lars-Olof & Lundin, Katarina. "Håller språket ihop Norden? : en forskningsrapport om ungdomars förståelse av danska, svenska och norska" (2005): https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/files/5905032/625654.pdf) //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia Foundation receives $500, 000 from the Craig Newmark Foundation and craigslist Charitable Fund to support a healthy and inclusive
On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:47 AM, Todd Allen wrote: > These are all very nice sentiments. But they're phrased in very vague ways. > > Is there anywhere we can see the actual concrete plan for the use of these > funds? > > Todd Hi Todd, You can take a look at the grant proposal (also linked to from https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative) here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Wikimedia_Foundation_grant_proposal_-_Anti-Harassment_Tools_For_Wikimedia_Projects_-_2017.pdf Pages 6–14 should be relevant. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] Congratulation, Hebrew Wikipedia
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel < it...@wikimedia.org.il> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm happy to share with you that this morning the 200,000th article has > been written on the Hebrew Wikipedia - The Southern Pudu (there is not > article about him in English!): > https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%93%D7%95_%D7% > 93%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99 > > Yesterday we released to the press a list of the top 20 most viewed > articles on HEWP during the last year. Most of the news outlets in Israel > published the list, but alongside the list, we added also some statistics: > An average of 45 articles are written on by 760 active editors and 150 very > active editors. The number of very active editors increased by 20% compare > to last year [1] - while number globally increased only by 0.11% [2] and 0% > on ENWP [3] . > Nice work, everyone on Hebrew Wikipedia, both article-wise now and for the future, getting more people active. (: //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] Voting's open on 2016 Community Wishlist Survey
If you want to see what happened to the wishes from last year's
survey, the status column here could be helpful:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
We'll get the word out on the wikis on the coming days, but if you
want to post on your local Village Pump to spread the word, that's
much appreciated.
//Johan Jönsson
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On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 7:59 PM, Danny Horn wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The voting has started on the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey, and all
> Wikimedia contributors are invited to come and vote on the projects that
> WMF's Community Tech team will work on next year:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey
>
> There are 267 proposals this year, on a wide range of subjects that I'm
> pretty sure you have an opinion about.
>
> You've got two weeks to vote, from now through December 12th. You can vote
> for as many proposals as you like, by adding a {{support}} tag under the
> proposals that you think are worthwhile.
>
> Once the voting's over, we'll have a ranked list of projects for the
> Community Tech team to work on, as well as other developers and volunteers
> who want to build features and make changes that the core contributors
> really want.
>
> This is an opportunity for you to help set the agenda for a WMF product
> team, so I hope everybody comes and participates!
>
>
> Danny Horn
> WMF Product Manager
> Community Tech
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[Wikimedia-l] If your wiki wants numerical sorting in categories
Hi everyone, In the Community Wishlist survey[1] that the WMF Community Tech team[2] did last year, the #5 wish was numerical sorting in categories[3] (e.g. let 99 come before 101). This is now working and has been rolled out to Swedish and English Wikipedia. If your wiki wants it, the Community Tech team is happy to help, of course. Re-sorting the categories is done using a script, which can take a day or so to complete, depending on the size of the wiki. During the time that the script is running, sorting in some categories will be unreliable.This issue goes away when the script is done. If you’d like numerical sorting on your wiki: 1) Please start a community discussion – RfC, vote, or however your wiki normally decides these things – to make sure there’s support for it. 2) Once you’re sure it has support, post on User:DannyH (WMF)’s talk page on Meta to with a link to the discussion: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DannyH_(WMF) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Numerical_sorting_in_categories Regards, //Johan Jönsson, User:Johan (WMF) -- ___ 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] How to communicate compassionately with non-native English speakers
2016-07-07 11:05 GMT+02:00 Jane Darnell : > I agree! But what what does an icy stomach mean - to be strong? > In Swedish, to have ice in your stomach (ha is i magen) means to act slowly and deliberately, not rushing ahead without thinking everything through. And yes, keeping the idioms of your native language out of your English is one of the more challenging communication aspects for non-native speakers, something we always have to be aware of. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] Status update about editing software, June 2016
r word > choice to let editors have deeper, faster conversations, and understand > when they're editing a potentially divisive section. Illustrations like > diagrams and maps could highlight an area. > > Another thing we're keen to explore with content streams is improving how > page meta-data is edited, centralising the data about a page's name, > protection level, whether it should show a table of contents, what pages > redirect to it, and so on. Each of these examples is currently edited in a > different place and with a different tool. We think it could help a lot to > provide these controls together, editing a new "part" of the page alongside > the wikitext block. Note that we're not planning on removing the existing > mechanisms, which each work well enough – this would be an additional tool, > at least at first. > > A final item worth mentioning, because it comes up a lot as a > technical/editor wishlist item from some editors and developers alike, is > real-time collaborative editing. I wrote some details a couple of years ago > about how this, especially the "full-throttle" collaboration system (like > Etherpad or Google Docs, where there can be multiple users at the same time > each with their own cursor) is a huge problem, not just a technical one but > critically a social one.[7] Despite this, I do hear quite often from people > about how this would be very helpful, for mentoring new users and those > doing something with which they're unfamiliar, and for content editing > collaborating, like for edit-a-thons, breaking news articles where lots of > changes are wanted at the same time, and themed collaborations of the day > or similar. I'm keeping an open mind as to whether we will ever do this, > but it's not something we're worrying about right now. > > Summary > > As you can see if you have made it this far, there's a lot of different > things we're working on in the department. I'm hopeful that the > improvements we make have already made, and will continue to make, the > editing lives of those reading this a bit easier. > > I'm thankful for all the support we get from across the communities, be it > in the form of clear suggestions, complaints and proposals, technical > advice and volunteering, or anything else. If you're technical, and a > current or prospective volunteer developer interested in working on some of > these areas, we would love to help you. > > I'll be at Wikimania this year. As always, I'll be happy to talk about > anything in this update — or missing from it — in person there, online on > Phabricator or IRC, on-wiki, or wherever else. Your thoughts and responses > are what guide us, and what makes it worth doing. Hope this was interesting! > > Links > > [0] — > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/revised#Program_4:_Maintain_and_improve_content_creation_and_editing_tools > > > [1] — https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Roadmap > > [2] — > https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summary > which has been gradually developed into > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Feature_map for possible Product work. > > [3] — https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Rollouts > > [4] — https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595 > > [5] — The plain wikitext editor (with the dark blue buttons toolbar), > WikiEditor (with the light blue/grey toolbar), CodeEditor (with the syntax > highlighting, based on WikiEditor), Flow's discussion editor, and > LiquidThreads's editor (mostly not seen now). > > [6] — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgd2ZHOZGBE > > [7] — > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2014-September/003807.html This is very long, but in case anyone feels they'd like the information available in their language, there's a translatable version here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Roadmap/Update_2016-06-23 //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] WMF Board of Trustees appointments and officer positions
Thank you both, Patricio and Alice. //Johan Jönsson -- Den 23 juni 2016 6:02 em skrev "Patricio Lorente" < patricio.lore...@gmail.com>: Hello everyone, I am happy to share that as of today, Christophe Henner and Nataliia Tymkiv have formally joined the Board of Trustees as affiliate Board-selected members. They both bring deep expertise in the Wikimedia community, and in their respective fields. I’m confident they will serve as excellent contributors, rooted in the values of our movement. You can learn more about them in an announcement we made in May: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/24/affiliate-selected-board-trustees-election/ Today the Board also voted to appoint Christophe Henner as Chair, and María Sefidari as Vice Chair. Both Christophe and María have a long history of involvement in the Wikimedia community, and have held leadership roles at Wikimedia France and Wikimedia Spain, respectively. More about Christophe, María, and Natallia is below. I hope you will join me in congratulating them on their new positions and wish them success in their terms ahead. I would like to thank my friend Alice for working with me in her role as Vice Chair, and many thanks to you all for your support during my time as Chair. Patricio Lorente About Christophe Henner Christophe Henner is the former Chair of Wikimedia France and current deputy CEO of Webedia <http://www.webedia.com>'s gaming division, the international digital media group headquartered in France. He has deep and varied experience across the marketing sector, including leadership roles at at Webedia and L'Odyssée Interactive. Christophe has been an active member of the Wikimedia community for more than 12 years. In 2007, he joined the Board of Wikimedia France <http://www.wikimedia.fr/> and has remained an active Board member in various positions for the past ten years. He has served as both Chair and Vice Chair of the Board of Wikimedia France. During his time on the Board, Christophe helped lead Wikimedia France through a significant period of growth. This included leading the development of the chapter’s brand, and supporting the development of a clear organizational strategy and vision for the chapter. About Maria Sefidari Maria is a professor in the Digital Communications, Culture and Citizenship Master's degree program <http://cccd.es/wp/> of Rey Juan Carlos University <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Juan_Carlos_University> at the MediaLab-Prado <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/es:MediaLab-Prado>. María graduated with a Psychology degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complutense_University_of_Madrid>, and later a Master's degree in Management and Tourism at the Business faculty of the same university. María started contributing to the Wikimedia projects in 2006, and has since served in many different roles across the Wikimedia movement. She was a founding member of Wikimedia España <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Espa%C3%B1a> and Wikimujeres Grupo de Usuarias <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimujeres>, and also created Spanish Wikipedia's LGBT Wikiproject <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/es:Wikiproyecto:LGBT>. She has served on several Wikimedia governance committees, including the Affiliations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee> and Individual Engagement Grants <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG> committees. In her time on the Affiliations committee, María served as the first Treasurer of the committee, effectively overseeing and monitoring disbursement of the committee's budget. Maria served a prior term on the Wikimedia Foundation board from 2013 to 2015. About Nataliia Tymkiv Nataliia currently serves as Financial Director of the Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law, a Ukrainian media policy and human rights nonprofit. Nataliia has a Masters degree in Public Administration and a Specialist degree in Records Management and Information Activities. She has in-depth experience in executive leadership and financial management. Prior to her current role as Financial Director, Nataliia worked at a manufacturing firm and later, in finance at a construction company. Prior to her current role as Financial Director, Nataliia worked at a manufacturing firm and later, in finance at a construction company. On the Wikimedia projects, she’s been an active contributor since 2011, and shortly after became an administrator of Ukrainian Wikipedia <https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Головна_сторінка>. She has also been a member of the Wikimedia Ukraine <https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/> community for nearly four years, and has served as the chapter’s Board Treasurer, Vice Chair, and volunteer Executive Director. -- ___ Wmfall mailing list wmf...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia
[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey: Status report #2
Hi everyone, The important part of this email is this link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_report_2 This is the second Community Wishlist Survey status report. In November and December, active contributors to Wikimedia projects proposed, discussed and voted on the features and fixes that they most want to see. The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team has been tasked with working on these. Additionally, Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team has been working on wishes from the German-speaking community. There's overlap between the two wishlists, and the teams are collaborating on various wishes, so this report includes progress made by both teams as well as great work being done by volunteer developers and other WMF staff. So far, we (in the broad sense) have added support for: *) Migrating dead external links to archives (but there's more work to be done!) *) Pageview stats *) Global notifications *) A category watchlist We're currently working on: *) Improving the plagiarism detection bot *) Improving the diff compare screen *) Numerical sorting in categories *) The possibility to add an expiry date to watchlist items *) A revision slider to help editors navigate through diff pages For more information on these projects as well as upcoming tasks, see the full status report on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_report_2 We're looking forward to talking and working with you as we go along. Thanks, //Johan Jönsson User:Johan (WMF) -- ___ 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] Community Tech survey on watchlist use
Base: > How could one participate in the survey? I've just scrolled through past > issues of Tech News and did not find any mention of the survey, nor I > remember it mentioned in any other place. Was there some way to find about it > besides from this list? Which readers are clearly not the most Wikimedia > movement representative selection. Agreed – though it was mentioned in a few other places, it was never meant to be a huge survey, and we're careful not to base too much of the development on it. The point was to get some first feedback to start working, and then gather more once we had something substantial to show. Rather than gather a lot of information and then build something, we hope to work with the community all the way through the process, so to speak. Fæ: > It is reasonable to presume watchlists are important for all active > Wikimedians on all projects, having a self-selected 'user sample > space' of 87, seems small. I know the survey was mentioned on this > email list and posted on some noticeboards, but it would have made > sense to hold open the survey, and send around a couple more notices, > until a few hundred people took part.[1] A clarification: the cross-wiki watchlist is not supposed to replace the existing watchlist. We're building it so that users who like it and are active on several wikis can use it instead, but only if they choose to. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] Community Tech survey on watchlist use
On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Danny Horn wrote: > Hi everyone, > > WMF's Community Tech team is starting to work on a Cross-wiki watchlist, > one of the top 10 wishes in the Community Wishlist Survey that we conducted > at the end of last year. [1] > > We're running a survey on how people use their watchlists, to help inform > our work. Hi everyone, A couple of months ago, the Community Tech team ran a survey to gather information on how Wikimedians use their watchlists. You can see the results here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist#Survey_results If you're interested, there are also some very early and rough wireframes available on the project page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Cross-wiki_watchlist#Current_work.2C_for_discussion //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] What New Thing is WMF Doing w. Cookies, & Why is Legal Involved?
On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > Adam, > > Thank you for providing an informative and accessible answer to Trillium's > relevant questions. It's truly heartening to see the organization improving > in its ability to communicate its intentions, etc. I hope that when broad > consensus among staff is reached (as you express in footnote [1]), it will > become an increasingly high priority to clearly communicate that in public > fora. It really helps when we can understand what others are trying to do, > and how it aligns with our own ambitions. > > Good stuff. I think this discussion got off to a rough start, but you have > gotten it back on track, and maybe to resolution. One of the problems here is that much of the information about how the Wikimedia sites collect information is so spread out, because different parts of the WMF have different solutions for different problems (e.g. Analytics or Fundraising). The mentioned https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Cookie_statement is a good way to collect all information about cookies, but I've found myself looking for good ways to make small updates (e.g. "we were thinking about doing this thing and were going to ask the communities before we started working on it, but then we started working on something else instead, but here's the thing that didn't happen"), so there's less risk things don't get communicated just because there's no big announcement of new changes to make. I hope <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132405> to find a better solution whenever I get a couple of days when I have nothing that needs my immediate attention, so that there's a good, natural way to make them. For anyone who wants to keep track of what's happening with how the WMF looks at traffic over the last few months, a few links: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComScore/Announcement https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:ComScore/Announcement https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2016-March/005094.html http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/30/unique-devices-dataset/ (I also try to include changes in how we measure traffic in Tech News <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News>, from which most of the stuff above have been linked.) //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright suit
2016-04-06 18:05 GMT+02:00 Castelo Branco : >> The decision specifically and repeatedly states that the commercial >> aspect is irrelevant, as such a database "typically has a not >> insignificant commercial value" – whether the images in this >> particular case are or can be used commercially or not. See paragraphs >> 21 and 23. >> >> //Johan Jönsson >> -- >> > > Note that "not insignificant" = significant. The decision points exactly > that the commercial aspect is relevant, and the artists should have > participation on it. > "The court finds that the artists are entitled to that value"[1], this is > what the decision says, at least according to The Guardian. I couldn't > understand the original decision, even if i have had access to it. > What is found in these paragraphs you've mentioned? In these paragraphs (and I think I meant 20 and 23, though 21 is also relevant – sorry) you find the courts argument that the commercial or lack of commercial aspect is irrelevant and that the scale is what matters. The decision is rather explicit on this point (e.g. "Huruvida förfogandet sker i kommersiellt syfte saknar betydelse"). The quote you refer to is regarding the fact that we're talking about a commercial scale: It's not about the specific ability to reuse content from this database, but the court argues that at a certain size, there's an inherent potential commercial value that the artists are entitled to. This argument is not made in the context of free licenses or others being able to reuse the content, but refers to the scope of offentligkonst.se. Now, I'm not a lawyer, so there's always a chance I could be mistaken, but I have read both the article you refer to and the decision and while there's nothing wrong with the former, as a newspaper article, it's still a shorter article about ten pages of legal text regarding a fairly intricate piece of copyright law. I would strongly advise against doing legal interpretation without having access to the decision in question, or a good translation thereof, because there are definitely aspects the newspaper article doesn't touch. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] Wikimedia Sweden loses copyright suit
2016-04-06 0:57 GMT+02:00 Lilburne : > You still haven't got it right. What you can't do is publish a database of > images for commercial use. > > If I were to go to Sweden take photos of every publicly placed work of art > and put them on a website > there wouldn't be an issue. If I were to put them on a website and announce > that they could be used > by commercial enterprises for any purpose then I would have a problem. > > Its the creation of a database of images for commercial reuse that is the > problem. > The decision specifically and repeatedly states that the commercial aspect is irrelevant, as such a database "typically has a not insignificant commercial value" – whether the images in this particular case are or can be used commercially or not. See paragraphs 21 and 23. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] [Wmfall] Wikimedia Foundation executive transition update
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:55 AM, Patricio Lorente wrote: > Hello all, > > I’m happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation leadership team has > proposed an interim Executive Director, and the Board has given our full > support. Starting on March 14th, current Chief Communications Officer > Katherine Maher (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Katherine_(WMF)) will > step into the role of interim Executive Director. We thank the C-levels for > their careful consideration in this process, and Katherine for stepping up > during this period of transition. Excellent choice. And thank you for accepting, Katherine. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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>
[Wikimedia-l] Dead links/Wayback Machine bots?
HI everyone, I've asked the same question in other places last week, but this might have a better/different reach: Do you know of bots that handle dead links, especially if they in some way move them to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine? I'm aware of bots on the English, German, French, Spanish and Italian Wikipedias. If you know of any others, I'd be grateful if you'd let me know. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] Proposal for New Project - Wikilore
2016-01-18 16:37 GMT+01:00 Tanweer Morshed : > Yeah, I do think the same as well. Wikisource is a good option for that. It could be that the Wikisources I'm familiar with are the exceptions, but they tend to be very vary of material that has never been published, and this seems to very much be about writing down what's passed down orally. I also imagine the need to do this would be greater the smaller the language, or at least the less likely it is someone else would write them down, which probably would correlate with fewer persons who are potential Wikimedians. Wouldn't that require the creation of a fair number of Wikisources that would probably never have a decent chance of getting a community? //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] Wikisonnets!
2016-01-16 23:36 GMT+01:00 Asaf Bartov : > So, in one of the last 15th birthday celebrations around the world, we just > watched a lightning talk from New York City, where a young hacker[1] was > demonstrating her Wiki-sonnets engine: > > http://wikison.net/ > I was very active in my student nation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_in_Swedish_universities) when I was at university, so I found the last lines of the sonnet served when I chose the article of my alma mater, Uppsala University, slightly worrying – but very Wikipedian. The residential campus in Nyack, and implementing a strategic plan in these apartments and the general lack of research institutes in Pakistan. The motto of the school is "The pursuit of scientific work and was therefore an independent "royal institute" in the Civilian Conservation Corps. A copy of the interview can still declare her abdication in the great connection with civilian life, a skill became a part of Chattanooga State. The status as a student union will be nominated for deletion still. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] Monetizing Wikimedia APIs
2016-01-16 20:40 GMT+01:00 Pierre-Selim : > Isn't that the point of using free licence (not NC, nor ND) ? I guess we do > so > to allow people/company/the world to reuse our content the way they want. > > If we have problem attracting people to our plateform, then the problem is > not > about our API, it's about attractiveness and maybe we should focus on our > products. > > I might be wrong, but what I understand when I read this discussion or the > board > minutes, is that we want to increase traffic because it's our best known way > to raise money (correlation with the endowement ?). This looks like a wrong > reason to not respect our values. One of my main worries is that our content being reused somewhere else means that we're losing our ability to engage new contributors, which in the long runt could threaten the projects, at the same time as no one else is stepping up to do our job because the traffic is still going to our content – just not to us. There's a tradeoff between readability and editability, especially on the small screen. Anyone not concerned with editing will have a head start when it comes to presenting the information in a less cluttered way, which makes it easier to read and the experience more enjoyable. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] What's cool?
As of writing, Danish Wikipedia is now 32 articles from reaching 200,000. It's midnight in Denmark now, so it will at some point tomorrow, CET. //Johan Jönsson -- 2015-06-04 14:41 GMT-07:00 phoebe ayers : > I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' > observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an > open discussion thread about things going right. > > What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is > happening in the Wikimedia world? > > My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an > edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is > happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this > year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating > library conferences :) > > What's happening over in your part of the project? > > Phoebe > ___ > 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] Results of 2015 WMF Board elections
Congratulations, Dariusz, James and Denny! And thanks, of course, to María, Phoebe and SJ for the time they've served on behalf of the community, as well as to all the other candidates, who were prepared to serve, and to the elections committee. //Johan Jönsson -- 2015-06-06 1:14 GMT+02:00 Gregory Varnum : > Greetings, > > The certified results of the 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees > election are now available on Meta-Wiki: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Results > > Congratulations to Dariusz Jemielniak (User:pundit), James Heilman > (User:Doc James), and Denny Vrandečić (User:Denny), for receiving the most > community support. They will join the Wikimedia Foundation as Trustees, > after they are appointed by the Board at their July meeting at Wikimania. > > These results have been certified by the committee, the Wikimedia > Foundation's legal department, and the Board of Trustees. > > There were 5512 votes cast, with 5167 of those being valid. The 345-vote > difference comes from recast ballots, where eligible voters recast ballots > to change their votes, and struck votes, of which there were 4. > > Additional information is available on the Wikimedia Blog: > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/05/board-election-results > > More statistics on the elections, a post mortem from the committee, and a > blog post on the process behind the elections will be published in the > coming days. In the meantime, we would appreciate your input—what went well > for you in this election? What could we do better next time? These > reports are crucial to helping future elections be even more successful, > and we hope that you will offer your feedback and ideas: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_2015/Post_mortem > > The committee thanks everyone that participated in this year’s election for > helping make it one of the most diverse and representative in the > movement’s history. > > Sincerely, > – 2015 Wikimedia Foundation Elections Committee > Adrian, Anders Wennersten, Daniel, Gregory Varnum, Katie Chan, Mardetanha, > Ruslan, Savh, and Trijnstel > ___ > 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] While Election committee counts the votes...
2015-05-31 22:57 GMT+02:00 Milos Rancic : > ... it would be good to talk a bit about the state of our community > and movement. > > Initially, I was quite positively surprised by the fact that this will > be the best WMF Board elections ever in the terms of turnout of > voters. It will beat 2007 elections and it will be likely 2.5 times > better than previous one. > > I would really like to know what's so different than in 2013. Also, if > this is the sign of the community health, how come that we are now > better than we were at the peak of our movement? > There's a fair chance the difference says far more about the amount of effort spent getting the word out about the election, than about how much the movement cares about it compared to previous elections. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] A transition and a new chapter.
Thank you, Erik, for the time and effort you've spent on the Wikimedia projects (and will continue spending, I hope, in some capacity). Best of luck in your future endeavours. //Johan Jönsson -- 2015-04-13 20:12 GMT+02:00 Erik Moeller : > Hi all -- > > As Lila noted, since January 2008 I've worn many hats at the Wikimedia > Foundation, and in the six years before that I was a Wikipedian, > MediaWiki developer, and member of the WMF board of trustees. I became > involved in Wikipedia when I was 22 years old. :) The Wikimedia > movement has accomplished amazing things, but I believe it's time now > for me to do something different and new. > > It's been a long and incredible journey, and one I am privileged to > have helped to shape. When I joined the Foundation in December 2007 we > were a staff of a dozen people, with barely enough funds to keep the > lights on. Since then, we've tackled challenges of a complexity and > scale faced by few other organisations. In doing so, we’ve been > generously supported by people all over the world who are grateful for > the gift of free knowledge. > > I’m proud of and happy with what we've achieved. Reaching people on > mobile. Pioneering new approaches working with universities. > Painstakingly building a visual editing experience on top of wikitext. > :) I’m glad we’ve taken a stand when it matters (SOPA blackout, NSA > lawsuit) and that we don’t shy away from complex issues such as > community health and diversity. > > I’m excited that Wikidata is growing in leaps and bounds with the help > of Wikimedia Germany, and that more and more powerful tools and > services are being built on the basis of Wikimedia APIs and data. I’ve > always believed that Wikimedia chapter and affiliate organizations are > key to the success of the movement, and I hope they are going to truly > thrive in years to come. > > But it's time. As the leadership team begins to coalesce under Lila, I > want to open up space for the organization to learn and explore anew > -- and I’d like to rediscover for myself what it means to tackle > challenges outside of my areas of comfort and familiarity. > > I’m very interested in the technical challenges of federated > collaboration, and am looking forward to getting my hands dirty in > that domain. I also want to explore how to make patterns of ethics, > policy, and self-governance more accessible and re-usable for > communities. In short, I’m itching to immerse myself in new problem > spaces and new ideas. > > Lila, Damon, Terry, myself and others in the org have been discussing > how to organize product going forward to set the org up for success in > the years to come, and we’ll have an update on that very soon. This is > a very natural point for me to pursue something new. > > What Wikimedia does in the world is wonderful & important. I’m sure I > will continue to cross paths with many of you in future as I continue > to move in free culture circles, and I very much look forward to it. > > I’ll continue to be @ WMF full-time through April, and will make > myself available as necessary afterwards, for when the org needs human > institutional memory that surpasses digital archives. I wish you all > success and joy :-) > > Love, > > Erik > -- > Erik Möller > VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation > > ___ > 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] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA
2015-03-10 8:53 GMT+01:00 Michelle Paulson : > Hi All, > > I’m writing to let you know that today the Wikimedia Foundation[1] is > filing suit against the National Security Agency > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency>, the Department > of > Justice <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice > >, > and the U.S. Attorney General > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General>[2] in order > to challenge certain mass surveillance practices carried out by the U.S. > government. We believe these practices are impinging the freedom to learn, > inquire, and explore on Wikimedia sites. > > Since the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures, we’ve heard concerns from the > community about privacy on Wikipedia. This lawsuit is a step towards > addressing the community's justified concerns. We believe that the > surveillance methods being employed by the NSA under the authority of the > FISA > Amendments Act > < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act_of_1978_Amendments_Act_of_2008 > > > negatively impact our users' ability and willingness to participate in our > projects. Today, we fight back. > > An op-ed > < > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/stop-spying-on-wikipedia-users.html?_r=0 > > > by Lila and Jimmy about the lawsuit, and Wikimedia's stance on government > surveillance, appeared in The New York Times this morning. Additionally, we > just published a blog post > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/> with more > information about the suit. (The post will also up on Meta for > translation). > Curious question, by the way: how controversial would you expect this move to be domestically? From e.g. a Swedish perspective, the NSA is an intelligence agency of a foreign power and the other mentioned organizations are either largely uncontroversial and seen in a positive light (Amnesty, PEN, HRW) or unknown, but will it affect how the WMF is seen in the US? //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA
2015-03-10 13:26 GMT+01:00 Comet styles : > for an organization taking on the NSA for "spying"..why are we using > https? doesn't that show that we are already scared of them and > running with our tail between our legs? > (For non-technical readers: the HTTP protocol is the normal way to send around information on the web. HTTPS is the secure way of sending said information, adding encryption among other things, to avoid eavesdropping.) HTTP traffic can easily be tracked by people sharing the same network, by your Internet service provider and so on. If one cares about privacy, HTTPS is always important. It's worth noting that the NSA is not the only government agency in the world. I'd be even more worried about a number of countries where there would be little chance to fight the intruding party in the courtroom. Side note: you could probably track most HTTPS traffic to Wikipedia as well, even if you're not the NSA. Normally you would see that the user has accessed Wikipedia, but not which article. A way around that would be to let a spider (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler) track the byte size of Wikipedia articles, which should be individual enough as soon as images are involved and compare it to the size of the page the user just accessed. If two articles happen to be of exactly the same size, compare with incoming and outgoing wiki links and see if the user accessed any page linking to or linked from one the articles to determine which one. But it would at least take some sort of effort, and wouldn't be perfect. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] Veteran Malayalam Wikipedian BabuG signed off...
2015-03-05 16:07 GMT+01:00 ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) : > 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 > What a beautiful euology, Viswa. Thank you for sharing this with us, and condolences for the loss of the Malayalam Wikipedia community. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] Damon Sicore joins WMF as Vice President of Engineering
Welcome Damon. Nice to have you with us. //Johan Jönsson -- http://wikipediabloggen.se måndag 29 september 2014 skrev Lila Tretikov : > Dear all, > > We are excited to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation now has a Vice > President of Engineering. Damon Sicore will be filling this vital role. > Please join us in welcoming him to the team. > > The VPE role will be crucial to further developing and maintaining the > technology that supports the very core of the Wikimedia movement, and > ensuring the development, scale, and stability of the MediaWiki > architecture. > > > Damon joins us as part of planned growth of our product and engineering > teams, first announced in November 2012. As we have grown, we need > dedicated focus on product and engineering as separate departments, to > ensure development of best practices like performance engineering, > continuous delivery, A/B testing, software re-architecture, UI/UX work, and > user research. Erik Moeller, who filled the role of VP for both product and > engineering since 2011, led in the creation of this new role and was > essential to the search process. From today onward, Erik will focus on his > role as VP of Product and Strategy and Deputy Director of the WMF, while > Damon will take over leadership of the Engineering team; both will report > to me as part of the c-level team. > > Damon has a unique track record of managing large platform rollouts using > distributed teams like ours, while understanding the essential role of > community contributions and working in a transparent, open source > environment. These skills and experiences will be invaluable in his work > here at the Foundation. It’s unusual to find someone who understands us so > well, and so I want to thank the many people from across the organization, > especially in the engineering, product, and human resources teams, who have > been involved in making this search successful. > > We are very happy to have Damon on board. His proven track record of > managing large platform rollouts using distributed teams like ours, while > understanding the essential role of community contributions and working in > a transparent, open source environment, is unique and invaluable as part of > our movement. > > We’ll be sending around a copy of the press release shortly. You’ll also be > be able to meet Damon, and ask him questions, this Thursday at our monthly > Metrics Meeting > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings>. > Please join us there! > > Please join me in welcoming Damon. > > Lila > ___ > 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] How many volunteers (not editors) does the movement have????
2014-06-22 13:59 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) : > Wikimedia volunteers are self-organised, why would there be a list? > Because we love making lists. That being said, Richard list wiki-specific positions like "ArbCom", which I suppose would mean that "volunteers for the Wikimedia Foundation" should be understood in a broad sense, and if so, the answer is definitely no. Even when some lists exists, like the e.g. the press room list Benjamin linked, they're in no way complete. For example, the press contact for Wikimedia Sweden (which, of course, is technically not a volunteer position for Wikimedia Foundation, since the chapters are independent and sometimes do stuff that's not related to the Wikimedia movement) is listed, but Swedish-language Wikipedia has a volunteer press contact of its own, who isn't. //Johan Jönsson -- http://wikipediabloggen.se ___ 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] Thank you!
fredagen den 2:e maj 2014 skrev Lila Tretikov : > Hi everyone, > > > I want to thank you all for the best wishes you've expressed since the > announcement. I am very excited to be joining you as the new Executive > Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. > > > Let me tell you why I'm joining. > > > Like everyone, I've been a Wikipedia reader for years. I use it to get > background on events in the news, to look up quick facts and satisfy my > curiosity, and to better understand the world around me, every day. My > nine year old son, like many children around him, has grown up with > Wikipedia as his native resource for knowledge. It is incredible. > > > But I also realize that as an educated person living in a rich part of the > world, I have access to a wide range of information resources. That's not > true for everyone. For people who are less economically fortunate, or who > live in parts of the world where access to information is heavily > constrained, Wikipedia is even more critical. It is an utterly unique > resource that opens possibilities for more equitable and open world. > > > That's why I want to work for the Wikimedia Foundation: to help grow the > availability of free, unbiased information for everyone around the world, > in their own language, unimpeded by censorship or other forms of > interference. It's a colossal mission and I am glad and humbled to be > playing a leadership role in helping to achieve it. > > > I’m excited to bring my passion for building products that people love and > growing innovative, high-performing organizations to the Foundation. In > getting oriented I’ve done lots and lots of reading, and had some wonderful > conversations with Board members, Sue, and the C-level team. I met a lot of > staff today at the Metrics Meeting, and I'm hoping to meet them all before > the end of this month. I've been warned that joining the Wikimedia movement > is a bit like drinking from a firehose, and so I'd consider myself, right > now, to be excited, curious, optimistic, and just a tiny little bit > daunted. > > > Thank you again for personally welcoming me to your incredible world. I > have been lucky to have had great opportunities to join with amazing people > on big quests. This is the largest quest and I am thrilled to be on it with > all of you. I want to extend my gratitude to Sue for the incredible work > she has done and all the time she has committed to help bring me on-board. > To all of you for your warm welcome. And my deepest thanks to the Wikimedia > Foundation Board of Trustees for giving me this extraordinary opportunity. > > > Welcome! Hope you'll enjoy the ride. //Johan Jönsson -- http://www.wikipediabloggen.se ___ 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] Fuck the community, who cares
2014-04-07 11:46 GMT+02:00 Ziko van Dijk : > Hello, > I think that a single quote by a unnamed "female Wikimedian", said in > public or in private, is a very small basis for any substantiate > criticism... > Hear, hear. The senitment would be extremely problematic if widespread, of course. But we don't need a great debate based on one (out-of-context) quote from one anonymous person. //Johan Jönsson -- http://wikipediabloggen.se ___ 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] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?
2013/10/22 David Richfield > Thanks all! > > Surprising as it might seem for a company our size, we don't have any > consultants polishing our Wikipedia pages. > > I'm not in communications at all: I'm in R&D, but our Corporate > Communications team really does want to act in good faith, which is > why they started talking to me: they're trying to understand the rules > before doing anything, and I want to help them connect with the right > people in the projects, and help them figure out how they're allowed > to contribute responsibly and openly. > Which is appreciated. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ 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] Rules of engagement for companies in Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish?
2013/10/21 David Richfield > Hi all, > For Swedish Wikipedia, as I understand our consensus and relevant texts (WP:IK, WP:Användarkonto, WP:Att skriva om näringsliv, företag och varumärken): When I'm not editing Wikimedia projects, I work for Mondelez > International, and our Social Media team has contacted me for advice > on responsible engagement with Wikipedia. I know that different > language projects have different rules on whether company > representatives should: > > * Edit pages directly or only ever edit talk pages > Talk pages only, please. * Edit under their own names or under company names > Their own names (or pseudonyms). We discourage company names as user names. //Johan Jönsson -- http://vetsaga.se ___ 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] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with support of bots)
2013/6/16 Ilario Valdelli > I think that Anders is saying that the result of Wikimedia Swedish is due > to a work of bots and to a work of people. > > It means that this result is contrary to the WMF strategy which would have > more people and more contributors. > > The next millions of articles will be reached by Polish Wikipedia but also > by cebuan Wikipedia and by Warai-Warai Wikipedia. > > May be it's the time to have only bots to write in Wikipedia? I hope that > in future the number of articles will be counted considering at least a > small content ad not only a template in a page, because the use like this > will discourage the communities of editors. > I would say our experience is that it doesn't affect the number of human editors at all in any way. A couple of people run bots that create very short articles about taxons or other stuff that, to be honest, probably wouldn't have been created otherwise. These articles have very few readers. Why on Earth would this discourage us? Our main problem is that browsing Swedish Wikipedia using the "random article" button isn't as fun as it used to be. That's probably fixable. //Johan Jönsson -- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is there an agreement between GoldenMap and the Wikipedia for the use of Wikipedia content?
2012/8/3 Rui Correia : > Dear All > > I came across a site called Golden Map, which has an encyclopaedic > collection of articles that are the same as in the Wikipedia, but I don't > see anywhere any information expalining what the association/ permission > is. Is there an agreement in place for this? It could also be pointed out that neither WMF nor consensus on any particular Wikipedia version can grant anyone permission to use content from Wikipedia without proper attribution. We who write agree to make our texts available under certain terms, but we still retain copyright. And some text, if it has been made available under CC-BY-SA somewhere else and later incorporated into Wikipedia, might not even be written by Wikipedians. If it's not properly licensed and attributed, you'd have had to ask every single (major) contributor to agree privately. //Johan Jönsson -- http://johanjonsson.net/wikipedia ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Study: Nobody cares about your copyright
2012/5/22 Bjoern Hoehrmann : > You don't say who "we" are, but in case some people think the Wikimedia > Foundation should position itself on "copyright" matters much beyond > which licenses it is using and why, and which problems Wikipedia might > be facing due to various aspects of "copyright", the likely result is, > "This made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as > a bad move" especially if it comes as specific as the suggestion above. Yes. Very much so. //Johan Jönsson -- http://johanjonsson.net/wikipedia ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Study: Nobody cares about your copyright
2012/5/21 David Gerard : > From Rick Falkvinge, an English-language writeup of a Swedish study: > > http://falkvinge.net/2012/05/21/study-despite-tougher-copyright-monopoly-laws-sharing-remains-pervasive/ > http://svt.se/nyheter/fortsatt-fildelning-trots-skarpt-lag (Swedish news > report) > > 61% of 15-25-year-olds in Sweden fileshare personally, and heavy > sharers have gone up. Furthermore - industry copyright education > campaigns create resentment, defiance and disrespect for the law in > general. > > So, is the time ripe yet for us to start pushing for a 14-year term, > or do we wait a bit? I suggest we start contemplating it, however. I find it unlikely you would find broad support for a 14-year term even among the users of Swedish-language Wikipedia. //Johan Jönsson -- http://johanjonsson.ne/wikipedia ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Breivik: My Biggest Influence Was Wikipedia
2012/4/18 Hans A. Rosbach : > You can find the live reporting in the Norwegian newspaper VG here: > https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/22-juli/rettssaken/artikkel.php?artid=10065284 So basically, he's interested in history and the history of religion, among other subjects. He claims to have spent 15.000 hours reading about them, gathering information from a multitude of sources, among them Wikipedia. Hardly something that truly merits "Wikipedia made me do it" headlines. //Johan Jönsson -- http://johanjonsson.net/wikipedia ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
