[Wikimedia-l] Universal Design (for learning)

[Juan de Vojníkov]

Hello folks,



I am looking for someone/institution which is applying a Universal Design,
by the means of removing all barriers for people with disabilities. Could
you give me any contacts, case studies or links?



Thank you very much!


Juandev
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] APPLY: 2015 Kofi Annan Fellowship for Full-Time MBA for Developing Countries

[Juan de Vojníkov]

Thank you for, this information
Dne 8. 8. 2015 10:49 napsal uživatel "Everton Zanella Alvarenga" <
t...@okfn.org.br>:

> I believe some local Wikimedia leaderships.
>
> ---
>
> Kofi Annan Fellowship support is currently open to eligible applications.
> This Fellowship provides the opportunity for talented and motivated
> students from developing countries, who do not belong to a privileged class
> and lack sufficient financial means, to study management at the European
> School of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin and graduate with a
> prestigious MBA or MSc from the most international business school in
> Germany.
>
> ESMT’s one-year Full-Time MBA is a management acceleration programme aimed
> at early to mid-career professionals with at least three years of
> professional experience.
>
> *WORTH*
>
>- €58,000 and covers full tuition fees and course materials in addition
>to a living stipend of €1,000 per month for the duration of the MBA
> program.
>- The fellowship also covers one round-trip plane ticket to Berlin from
>the Fellow’s home
>- Fellowships can be awarded only after a candidate has been admitted to
>the ESMT MBA program
>
> *ELIGIBILITY*
>
>- MBA applicants should have a bachelor’s degree of any kind, a minimum
>of three years of professional experience, GMAT, and proficient English
>skills.
>- All applicants should have a willingness to contribute to building the
>economy and society of their home country with entrepreneurial impetus.
>- Applicants must be residents of one  of the UN-listed LDCs, LLDCs, or
>of Palestine. Other countries will be considered by the Kofi Annan
> Business
>Schools Foundation upon request.
>
> DEADLINE: September 30, 2015
>
> To apply and for more information visit here
> 
>
>
> Source:
>
> http://youthhubafrica.org/apply-2015-kofi-annan-fellowship-for-full-time-mba-for-developing-countries/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Media handling is difficult

[Juan de Vojníkov]

> but in general people do not, and when we enabled uploads on
> the mobile desktop we got a lot of very low-value photos, almost all of
> which were deleted (and the users understandably didn't stay around). The
> old tickets at
> https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/mobile/cards/920 and
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53559 for example have some off-handed
> comments about this being the "Selfie Apocalypse".
>
>
Thats interesting. I thought most of Commons users are skilled Wikimedians
and that would not happened. So it surprise me, that the crap came. But on
the other side you have skilled contributors, who would be happy for easier
and faster ways of upload and metadata edit.


>  We don't just want to trap people into making a one-off upload
> contribution –
> we want to encourage people to join the community and stay, taking several
> photos, not just one. :-)


Thats what our programmes focuses. We got some contributors form WLM, who
now contributes under other programes. When students contribute, its never
a single contribution, they have to come with a bunch and/or collection of
pictures related a topic, which could be described in Wikpedia.


> I've got some ideas about how we can gently coax
> people into understanding this without scaring them away, but I'm sure
> others have better plans.
>

Well, dont be shy and let us know.

>
>
> 2) newbies are lost, when they click on "Upload image" and they are
> > transferred from Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons
> >
> > 3) Wikimedia Commons is in English - foreign language for our
> participants
>
>
>
> 5) Wikimedia Commons environment is still pretty "techy"
>
>
> > 6) Insert metadata, takes a long time:
> >
> > e.g.: you have an image of a cathedral in Des Moines, IW. 3 or 4 times
> you
> > have to insert same information: a) to file name (*Des Moines,
> > cathedral.jpg*), b) to file description (*en:** Cathedral in Des Moines,
> > Iowa, USA*/*es:* *La catedral de XY en Des Moines, Iowa, EEUU*) and c) to
> > the category (*category:Des Moines* or *Churches in Des Moines*,
> > *category:Cathedrals
> > in Iowa*).
>
>
> ​[Answering these three together.]
>
> ​
> ​Yup, that's why our main work in Multimedia right now is making it
> possible to upload a media file from whichever wiki you're on
> ​, and do so whilst you're editing. We're looking to make adding the
> information as simple and painless as possible, without letting people
> upload files without enough information for the community to triage and
> ensure are as high quality as possible.
>
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91717
> ​
> ​
> ​
> ​
>
> ​is the overall work, and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40030 will be
> the integration into VisualEditor (we'll do it for users writing in
> wikitext as well, of course)​.
>
>
> Thats nice to hear and it is deffinitely a great work. Unfortunatelly old
editors does not like new features - both of your groups Multimedia and VE
needs kind of specialist to promote your great work!



>
>
> > 4) biggest language barrier are categories, which are in English only, we
> > need to insert name of the category in our mother tongue
> >
>
> ​That is true. The long-term hope in this area is using Wikibase (the
> software behind Wikidata) to add proper structured data to Commons. This
> would mean that we could replace categories named in a single language with
> 'tags' named in all languages, which would make it both easier to
> contribute to Commons and better to find existing media already on Commons
> for the majority of our readers and editors who do not speak English.
>
> You can see some thoughts on this at:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Commons_Wikidata_roadmap
>
>
Well, it would be better to have it faster.


>
>


Juandev
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Media handling is difficult

[Juan de Vojníkov]

Well,

I think the answer for the question for what Commons stands for should be
repeated. Some say images you upload there, should find a use in Wikipedia.
But is that a truth? Other time you hear, images should be usefull for
educational purposes. On the main page, I can just see a statement "a
database of 27,041,767
 freely usable

media files" which does not explain what kind of media and if there are any
limitations.

Sometimes people uploads theri collection and someone tends to delete it of
being out of scope. Other times we uploads thousands of archive pictures
from GLAM, where the majority of these imagase does not have inmediate use
in WMF projects.


Juan

2015-08-01 13:36 GMT+02:00 Fæ :

> With regard to uploads from mobiles, there have been several positive
> discussions on the Commons village pump when mobile applications
> encouraged uploads.[1]
>
> It is still the case that the significant majority of images uploaded
> from mobile platforms have to be deleted as either out of scope (like
> bad blurry selfies) or obvious copyright violations. We even have some
> bot-categorization of deletions quietly going on to keep a running
> track of it, and several past experiments to find ways of managing
> copyvios automatically, shortly after they appear in recent
> uploads.[2]
>
> As tablets with good cameras and more sophisticated mobiles are used
> to do more stuff on Wikimedia projects, the trend is improving, but
> the design challenge remains that mobile apps to which make upload
> easier need to also encourage upload 'qualification' to reduce the
> burden on volunteer administrators to do endless housekeeping, and
> mobile users need coaching/coaxing to consider copyright and
> educational value before launching their selfies and lolcats on
> Commons. :-)
>
> Links:
> 1. Sample past VP discussion:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2013/04#Mobile_Web_Uploads_turned_off_in_stable
> ,
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Archive/2013/04#Proposed_.27rule_of_thumb.27_for_deletion_of_mobile-appweb_sourced_images
> 2.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MobileUpload-related_deletion_requests
>
> Fae
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Media handling is difficult

[Juan de Vojníkov]

*Jan Ainali:* thx for the link, we will have a look on that.

*Bahodir Mansurov:* that sounds great. Most of the people here use Android.
We will deffinitely test it.

*Andrew Lih:* I havent catched the point. The presentation was about
usability and how to run it. For image uploads we can run it just once or
maybe 3 times (different target groups). I hope we dont have to run it in
all countries and all languages to get some needs and be able to request
developers to make changes into software?!

If I understood well this team does not performed enough tests yet, so
thats why they talk in general about Usability Testing?

Or maybe I miss something, you are talking about licenses. I dont
understand how licenses are related to this issue? *I am just guessing:*
Foundation is afraid to use easy mobile app for upload, because people will
massively break license? Is that a point? Did Commons colapsed with Instant
Commons? Did we got some images, when Instant Commons was enabled in MW
distribution?

Juandev

2015-07-31 22:35 GMT+02:00 Pierre-Selim :

> 2015-07-31 19:54 GMT+02:00 Andrew Lih :
>
> > FYI, for those interested in uploading to Commons, there was an
> interesting
> > presentation at Wikimania about usability testing this.
> >
> > https://archive.org/details/videoeditserver-96
> >
> > The short answer to your very valid question -- licenses and copyright
> are
> > complicated legal issues when it comes to media. That creeps over into
> > usability in ways that are probably going to be very hard to solve.
> >
>
> I guess it adds complexity for sure, however it doesn't explains why we
> still can't do
> a proper image rotation or crop without hacking around JS or bots (which
> makes things
> complicated when the volunteer maintainer has enough of fixing is code due
> to change
> mediawiki).
>
>
>
> >
> > -Andrew
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Juan de Vojníkov <
> > juandevojni...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to ask, if the ease of media handling (images, photographs
> > on
> > > Wikimedia Commons) is a priority for Wikimedia Foundation? If not,
> could
> > it
> > > be a priority? Recently we have seen a big step done for editors =
> > > VisualEditor. Contributors have no longer study "wikicode" to be able
> to
> > > contribute. That removes one of the technological barriers and it looks
> > its
> > > a priority for WMF.
> > >
> > > While part of contributing to Wikipedia is still contributing by
> images.
> > I
> > > am from Wikimedia Czech republic. We run many projects based on media
> > > harvest or organizing *low barrier media harvest activities* to bring
> new
> > > users to Wikipedia.
> > >
> > >
> > > As our newbies are not technologically skilled and not native English
> > > speakers, there is a big technology block to contribute to Wikipedia
> with
> > > ease:
> > >
> > > 1) there is no app for mobile phones and tablets for image upload
> > >
> > > 2) newbies are lost, when they click on "Upload image" and they are
> > > transferred from Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons
> > >
> > > 3) Wikimedia Commons is in English - foreign language for our
> > participants
> > >
> > > 4) biggest language barrier are categories, which are in English only,
> we
> > > need to insert name of the category in our mother tongue
> > >
> > > 5) Wikimedia Commons environment is still pretty "techy"
> > >
> > > 6) Insert metadata, takes a long time:
> > >
> > > e.g.: you have an image of a cathedral in Des Moines, IW. 3 or 4 times
> > you
> > > have to insert same information: a) to file name (*Des Moines,
> > > cathedral.jpg*), b) to file description (*en:** Cathedral in Des
> Moines,
> > > Iowa, USA*/*es:* *La catedral de XY en Des Moines, Iowa, EEUU*) and c)
> to
> > > the category (*category:Des Moines* or *Churches in Des Moines*,
> > > *category:Cathedrals
> > > in Iowa*).
> > >
> > > Its 2015, there are many social projects around us. You can handle
> images
> > > much easier on these projects than on mother of all social projects -
> > > Wikipedia. Big step was done with using images allready present in
> > Commons.
> > > Could we do something for those, who contributes with their media to
> > > Wikipedia? Could we do it in one or two years?
> > >
> > > Thank you very much for your co

[Wikimedia-l] Media handling is difficult

[Juan de Vojníkov]

Hi,

I would like to ask, if the ease of media handling (images, photographs on
Wikimedia Commons) is a priority for Wikimedia Foundation? If not, could it
be a priority? Recently we have seen a big step done for editors =
VisualEditor. Contributors have no longer study "wikicode" to be able to
contribute. That removes one of the technological barriers and it looks its
a priority for WMF.

While part of contributing to Wikipedia is still contributing by images. I
am from Wikimedia Czech republic. We run many projects based on media
harvest or organizing *low barrier media harvest activities* to bring new
users to Wikipedia.


As our newbies are not technologically skilled and not native English
speakers, there is a big technology block to contribute to Wikipedia with
ease:

1) there is no app for mobile phones and tablets for image upload

2) newbies are lost, when they click on "Upload image" and they are
transferred from Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons

3) Wikimedia Commons is in English - foreign language for our participants

4) biggest language barrier are categories, which are in English only, we
need to insert name of the category in our mother tongue

5) Wikimedia Commons environment is still pretty "techy"

6) Insert metadata, takes a long time:

e.g.: you have an image of a cathedral in Des Moines, IW. 3 or 4 times you
have to insert same information: a) to file name (*Des Moines,
cathedral.jpg*), b) to file description (*en:** Cathedral in Des Moines,
Iowa, USA*/*es:* *La catedral de XY en Des Moines, Iowa, EEUU*) and c) to
the category (*category:Des Moines* or *Churches in Des Moines*,
*category:Cathedrals
in Iowa*).

Its 2015, there are many social projects around us. You can handle images
much easier on these projects than on mother of all social projects -
Wikipedia. Big step was done with using images allready present in Commons.
Could we do something for those, who contributes with their media to
Wikipedia? Could we do it in one or two years?

Thank you very much for your concern!

Regards,

Juandev
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