Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

[Samuel Klein]

Dear reporters,

I really like the streamlined layout, the background video and the
non-linear presentation online.  Lovely work; you are wonderful.


> If the photo remains, I recommend changing this caption to use either
> "travel ban" or "entry ban"; both phrases are used in the Wikipedia
> article.
>

Yes.

The one starkly political message in the Report is the choice of a protest
photo from the US for the story about travel.  On the nose, but reasonably
on topic (with a corrected caption).

In general, I like the spirit and content of this report.  A lead-in to the
facts putting them in context would be nice; the implied context is "Facts
Matter!"  However I feel this claim and the report could be even more
powerful if it were presented with another half-step of remove.  The most
unparalleled success of Wikipedia is not that it summarizes topics like
"scientific consensus on global warming" — that, one can find elsewhere.
It is that you can find thorough coverage of *all* aspects of such
important and difficult topics: fledgling + disputed theories, major
controversies and factions, and both begrudgingly + enthusiastically
accepted conclusions.

My one concern: The highlighted fact about travel is wrong.  As far as I
can tell it's closer to 1 in 20 people. "International tourism arrivals"
passed 1.2B this year, but the average tourist "arrives in another country"
3+ times per year.[1][2]  If the publishers find a way to retract this mote
of misinfo, I will be duly awed :)

Wikilove,
SJ

[1]
http://www2.unwto.org/press-release/2017-01-17/sustained-growth-international-tourism-despite-challenges
http://stats.areppim.com/glossaire/ita_def.htm
https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/global/visa-everywhere/documents/visa-global-travel-and-tourism-study-infographic.pdf


[2] A quick round of community review (say, of any reputed facts!) and even
citations might not hurt, for statements of fact that are going out to a
large audience.  You have access to plentiful world-class fact checkers,
you don't have to limit yourself to those in the office.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

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t; > > >> as someone who lives in a country so liberal that it makes
> > > > >> Californians look like they're still back in the early 1960s.
> Maybe
> > it
> > > > >> takes an outsider to see this.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> If you're going to try to play the "facts" game, you have to have
> > your
> > > > >> facts bang on - and you have to admit that there is more than one
> > side
> > > > >> to the story. This "report" reads as though the authors chose
> their
> > > > >> favourite advocacy positions and then twisted and turned and did
> > some
> > > > >> more contortions to make it look as though it had something to do
> > with
> > > > >> the Wikimedia family of projects. (Seriously. Refugees and global
> > > > >> warming don't have anything to do with the WMF.) It is so biased
> > that
> > > > >> most of those "fact" pages would have to be massively rewritten in
> > > > >> order to meet the neutrality expectations of just about every
> > > > >> Wikipedia regardless of the language.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> And that is my biggest concern. It is not neutral by any stretch
> of
> > > > >> the imagination. And if the WMF can't write neutrally about these
> > > > >> topics in its annual report, there is no reason for the average
> > reader
> > > > >> to think that Wikipedia and other projects will be written
> > neutrally,
> > > > >> fairly, based on references, and including the significant other
> > > > >> opinions.  This document is a weapon that can be used against
> > > > >> Wikimedia projects by any tinpot dictator or other suppressive
> > > > >> government because it "proves" that WMF projects are biased.  It
> > gives
> > > > >> ammunition to the very movements that create "alternative facts" -
> > it
> > > > >> sure doesn't help when the WMF is coming up with a few of its own.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> That does a huge disservice to the hundreds of thousands of
> editors
> > > > >> who have worked for years to create accurate, neutral,
> > well-referenced
> > > > >> educational material and information.  It doesn't do any good to
> > those
> > > > >> editors contributing from countries where participation in an
> > > > >> international web-based information project is already viewed
> with a
> > > > >> jaundiced eye. And for those editors who don't adhere to the
> > political
> > > > >> advocacy positions being put forward in this "annual report", or
> > > > >> simply believe that the WMF should not be producing political
> > advocacy
> > > > >> documents, it may well cause them to reflect whether or not they
> > want
> > > > to keep contributing.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I really hope that Craig is wrong, that this can be pulled back
> and
> > > > >> edited properly, preferably by a bunch of actual Wikipedia editors
> > who
> > > > >> know how to write neutrally on controversial topics. I've
> > volunteered
> > > > >> in the Wikimedia movement for more than a decade at least in part
> > > > >> because it was not a political advocacy organization, so I find
> this
> > > > >> annual report to be very disturbing.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Risker/Anne
> > > > >>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Status of the Code of Conduct for technical spaces

[Samuel Klein]

Quim, Thank you for the update.

This code of conduct isn't half-bad.   //SJ

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 7:31 AM, Quim Gil  wrote:

> Hi, let me share a status update about the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia
> technical spaces, especially targeted to people not familiar with this CoC
> and/or Wikimedia technical spaces.
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct
>
> The CoC drafting phase was completed yesterday [0], 18 months after a
> kick-off session at the Wikimania 2015 Hackathon. Since then, 142 unique
> editors have contributed to the Talk page through 147 sections, 21 voting
> rounds abut sections of the CoC announced through the main technical
> communication channels, and a total of 2,718 edits.[1] That Talk page has
> 88 watchers, about 20 editors have participated regularly in discussions,
> and about half of them heavily.[2] To put these numbers in context,
> MediaWiki.org counts 1,420 active editors, and Phabricator 829.
>
> The next step is to create the first Code of Conduct Committee, a process
> defined in the CoC itself.[3] A subset of the Technical Collaboration team
> at the Wikimedia Foundation [4] (which I am part of) is preparing an
> announcement about the search of candidates, inviting everyone to volunteer
> themselves or send us recommendations. We are tracking the progress of this
> task in Phabricator [5] and we will communicate major updates in the CoC
> Talk page and other technical venues as needed.
>
> I hope this clarifies the current situation. If you have questions or
> suggestions, please share them here or in the CoC Talk page.
>
>
> [0]
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#
> Removing_.27draft.27_status
> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#
> Drafting_phase_data
> [2]
> http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl?lang=
> www.mediawiki&page=Talk%3ACode+of+Conduct
> [3]
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee#Selection_of_new_
> members
> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/
> Community_health
> [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159923
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Status of the Code of Conduct for technical spaces

[Samuel Klein]

Dear Pine,

I see your concern, but it seems exaggerated.

There was an early suggestion of a final RfC on the complete draft. That
changed, as stated and debated last April: there would be a code of
conduct, no two ways about it.  The subject for consensus was only what it
said, topic by topic.  There are pros and cons to that change, but that's a
valid way to do things, especially with such a gradual & public review of
the text.  A year-old process change, even if awkward, is not grounds for
reverting brion's close (!) or forum-shopping the conversation.

The current code is as clean and thorough as any I've seen, a model for
other communities, thanks to discussion in drafting. Even the bits left on
the cutting room floor were well done.  It seems reasonable to try it, see
how it works, revise it.  Hats off to those working on this, and thanks
Quim for continuing to share updates here for us wikizens not subscribed to
the technical lists.

Warmly,
Sam
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Using non-free elements vs our values (Apple Maps vs Wikipedia iOS app)

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>
> At the creation level, we want to provide the editing community with
> freely-licensed tools for participation and collaboration. Our community
> should also have the freedom to fork thanks to freely available dumps.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation supports legal challenge to new travel-related executive order

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you Michelle, and to the team, for doing this and keeping us
abreast.  Sam

On Mar 15, 2017 20:48, "Michelle Paulson"  wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I’m writing with a brief update; this afternoon, Judge Derrick K. Watson
> granted the temporary restraining order [1], blocking the executive order
> from enforcement nationwide. We are pleased with this result, and look
> forward to the next stages of the case, when the court will examine the
> order and its effects more thoroughly. We have updated the Foundation blog
> to reflect the hearing’s outcome [2].
>
> Best,
>
> Michelle Paulson
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13780#Hawaii
> [2]
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/15/amicus-brief-us-travel-restrictions/
>
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> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Michelle Paulson 
> wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Yesterday, the Wikimedia Foundation joined more than 50 other
> > organizations, including Electronic Arts, Pinterest, and Zendesk, in
> > signing an amicus brief[1] that was filed in State of Hawaii v. Trump,[2]
> > a challenge to the new immigration-related executive order issued in the
> > United States.[3] This order was issued following legal challenges to a
> > previous executive order that instituted restrictions on immigration and
> > travel based upon national origin.[4]
> >
> > The amicus brief was filed in support of an application for a temporary
> > restraining order,[5] which would prevent the executive order from going
> > into effect until legal challenges to its substance can be heard by a
> > court. It details how the order’s provisions would harm the operations of
> > the signatories, including the Wikimedia Foundation. As an organization
> > that collaborates across borders daily, with staff, contractors, and
> > members of the Wikimedia communities, these restrictions will hamper the
> > Foundation’s ability to work effectively in pursuit of our mission to
> make
> > free knowledge globally available.
> >
> > The Wikimedia Foundation continuously monitors events around the world
> > that may impact the Foundation’s ability to support the projects and
> > communities. When that capacity is threatened, as in the case of these
> > travel restrictions, we will take action to protect the future of the
> > projects, our mission, and our team's ability to serve both. This is not
> > about political ideology, it is about preservation. More about today’s
> > filing is available on the Wikimedia blog.[6]
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Michelle Paulson
> >
> > [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Tech_Amici_
> > Curiae_Brief,_Hawaii_v._Trump,_3.14.17.pdf
> >
> > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13780#Hawaii
> >
> > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13780
> >
> > [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13769
> >
> > [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injunction
> >
> > [6] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/15/amicus-brief-us-
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Discovery search efforts and upcoming releases

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> > >> Search_Result_Improvements
> > >> [16] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_
> > >> Result_Improvements/Testing#A.2FB_test:_Add_cross-wiki_
> > >> search_results_in_a_right_hand_sidebar
> > >> [17] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_
> > >> Result_Improvements/Testing#A.2FB_test:_Add_.27explore_simil
> > >> ar.27_pages_and_
> > >> categories_for_search_results
> > >> [18] https://www.wikipedia.org/
> > >> [19] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_
> > >> Result_Improvements/self-guided_testing
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2017 versus movement strategy

[Samuel Klein]

Yaroslav: thanks for these thoughts.  Could you link to the RU Voyage
document?  How was it different from what a facilitator expected?

Let's see if we can all make a better central discussion space, and make
brainstorming by individual-contributors more satisfying & w/fast feedback
loops from one another.  I think individuals, smaller/newer projects, and
interested non-Wikimedians have a natural advantage in imagining new
possibilities, so their brainstorming deserves every attention.

A related question: will the result of this process be a strategy for the
movement?  How will large groups within the movement (the WMF, the largest
WP communities, the largest affiliates) connect this with their own
existing strategies?  Let's make this much clearer than it was in 2010!

Wiki♥, SJ


On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Yaroslav Blanter  wrote:

> Hi Tomasz,
>
> may be the Polish Wikipedia is an exception, I do not know. I have the
> strategy discussions on the English Wikipedia, Wikidata, Meta, and Russian
> Wikivoyage on my watchlists, and I posted on all of them. On the first
> three I do not see any discussion happening (and on Wikidata, Szymon even
> posted on my talk page asking my opinion on how the discussion could be
> facilitated - and unfortunately I did not had much to answer), just users
> come and post their opinions (which often are not even related to
> strategy). On the Russian Wikivoyage, all of our active partipants produced
> a document, to be told by the facilitator that this is not what WMF wants
> to see. None of us has been to the Wikimedia Conference, and, in fact, we
> do have issues with Wikimedia.ru for years, so I do not expect this
> document to go anywhere. May be I am wrong, but, again, I participated in
> the last time strategy discussion, and I had a feeling that we are being
> listened to. Now I do not have this feeling anymore, quite the opposite.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
> On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Tomasz Ganicz  wrote:
>
> > 2017-04-08 12:44 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav Blanter :
> >
> > > Thanks Jane. No, 15 April 15 is the Easter, I will be hopefully
> > travelling.
> > > May be we will have another opportunity.
> > >
> > > However, I still believe that Track 2 has been so far essentially a
> > > failure.
> > >
> > >
> > Why? On at least several languages and projects on-wiki discussions are
> > quite active. On Polish Wikipedia 31 people participated till now, and 3
> of
> > them were also participating in the discussions in Berlin. We would never
> > heard those 29 if the track B wouldn't been set up. It is true that it is
> > hard to persuade people from small projects to join discussion, mainly
> > because they are usually focused on their own little corners of wikimedia
> > world, and simply have no any opinion about the future of the movement
> as a
> > whole, but that is OK, at least they got opportunity to participate in
> the
> > process.
> >
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

[Samuel Klein]

Fae.

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Fæ  wrote:
>
> because the new company "will compete for staff, stories and
> donations".[1] Will you be resigning from the WMF board of trustees
>

I hope not.  I hardly see a conflict of loyalties; to the extent there is
an overlap of focus, the output of WikiTribune will be available to both WN
and WP, the only current sister projects covering news.


> considering the unique nature of your permanent unelected seat
>

Not permanent, only exempt from term limits. It requires regular
appointment, else sits empty.


> In fact apart from denying the possibility that this was an issue with
> your
>
statement "",

you refused properly to engage further...


Someone refusing to engage further in being badgered?  Never. :-)

I'm not sure what you're missing here.  Ties to Wikia carry COI; this has
come up in public discussions about the Board since the very first slate of
Trustees & is not in question. There's a formal annual COI process for
Trustees, which mandates declaring potential conflicts, and recusing as
appropriate from related decisions.  Those declarations haven't been made
public for anyone (Allowing me to keep the extent of my investment in
Newpedia private.)  In Jimbo's case, conflicts are pretty well hashed out
in public as well.

SJ

P.S.  Nice launch and a most elegant design, Wikitribunnies!
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia, right, but on the blockchain

[Samuel Klein]

Right.  "Let's take all of the bad takes on how Wikipedia, incentives, and
decentralized production work, pile them onto a raft made of Ether and
magnesium, and float into the future!"


On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 7:06 PM, David Gerard  wrote:

> Advertising-funded Wikipedia that micropays participants from
> advertising revenue, on the Ethereum blockchain! The important bit is
> to give them startup money.
>
> "Lunyr: Decentralized Wikipedia on the blockchain"
> https://medium.com/@cryptojudgement/lunyr-decentralized-wikipedia-on-
> the-blockchain-4072606d5fc5
>
> I have a number of thoughts on this, all negative:
> https://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2017/04/25/wikipedia-
> right-but-on-the-blockchain/
>
> Jimbo wasn't impressed either:
> https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/856060215577464833
>
>
> - d.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikitribune!

[Samuel Klein]

To the initial thread:

Jimbo, Thanks for sharing this, and good luck with the project. Do you see
WikiTribune collaborating with De Correspondent and other
reader-collaborative news efforts? How are you thinking about the topic
selection, and work in various languages? Are you focusing more on
investigating the unknown, or clarifying messy current events where
'reliable sources' are dominated by rumor and propaganda?

SJ

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Jimmy Wales 
wrote:

>
> Today I announced a new initiative, outside of my Wikimedia activities,
> to combat fake news. It is important to me that I share directly with
> all of you information about this new initiative early on.
>
> The new project  will use a wiki-style setup and experiment with
> bringing together professional journalists and community contributors to
> produce fact-checked, global news stories.  At launch, we'll be using a
> hacked version of wordpress and we'll be evaluating whether that's the
> right tool moving forward.  Wordpress has a lot to
> commend it (free software, mature platform, used by lots of newsrooms,
> active developer ecosystem) but also has some philosophy that's quite
> "top down" in a way.
> (Not many people would think in a wiki way when setting up a newsroom!)
>
> This new initiative, Wikitribune, will be a learning experience - my
> vision is one that I've had a hard time explaining... except to
> Wikimedians who tend to immediately
> get it.
>
> While I am launching this project independent from Wikipedia and the
> Wikimedia Foundation, it is my plan that this new project will work
> alongside Wikimedia in the free knowledge movement. For example, I hope
> that the numerous Wikinews/Wikinoticias/Wikinotizie/etc. communities can
> collaborate with the  Wikitribune community in way that allows both to
> learn and benefit from each other. Additionally, Wikitribune will
> utilize the same Creative Commons license (CC-BY) as other free content
> projects in
> the news space - so they can take the stories written by our
> professional journalists and communities and make use of them.
>
> You can find out more information about Wikitribune at:
> https://www.wikitribune.com
>
> Thank you for your time and I'm happy to answer questions!  (But I'm
> quite swamped with everything at the moment so please forgive me if I
> answer in bursts!)
>
> --Jimbo
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] General Counsel: Welcome Eileen Hershenov

[Samuel Klein]

Welcome Eileen, I wish you every success.
And tremendous love and thanks to Michelle, for all of your help and
inspiration.-Sam

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Tomasz Ganicz  wrote:

> 2017-04-26 15:33 GMT+02:00 Katherine Maher :
>
> > Michelle
>
>
> Michelle was one of my personally favourite employees of WMF with which I
> had occasion to meet face to face - so I wish her great continuation of her
> carrier somewhere else and be missing her.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Join us for a conversation with Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustee candidates

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks ElecComm, this is great to hear.   SJ

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:07 PM, James Alexander 
wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Upon request User:Matanya (from the Election Committee) will be hosting a
> discussion with the Candidates currently running for the community spots on
> the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees[1]. The conversation will take
> place at 17:00 UTC (10:00 Pacific) on Sunday May 7th and we currently
> expect up to 8 of the 9 Candidates to be able to attend and all candidates
> attending will get equal time. If you'd like to watch you can do so on
> Youtube[2] and a back channel will be set up for conversation on the
> #wikimedia-office IRC channel on Freenode. We will also send a reminder
> email to this list shortly before the event.
>
> I hope to see you all there!
>
>
> 1.
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
> elections/2017/Board_of_Trustees
> 2. The event will be live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AhwrJ9qcgc
> once it starts.
>
> For the Election Committee,
> James Alexander
> Advisor
>
>
> *James Alexander*
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Code of Conduct Committee for Wikimedia technical spaces constituted!

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you.

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Quim Gil  wrote:

> Hi, as promised, here is the last update about the constitution of the Code
> of Conduct Committee for Wikimedia technical spaces, happening today.
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Quim Gil 
> Date: Sat, May 20, 2017 at 10:35 AM
> Subject: Code of Conduct Committee for Wikimedia technical spaces
> constituted!
> To: Wikimedia developers , MediaWiki
> announcements and site admin list ,
> Development and Operations Engineers ,
> Wikimedia Labs , "A mailing list for the
> Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and
> analytics." , Research into Wikimedia
> content and communities , "A list for
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> pywiki...@lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> The Code of Conduct Committee
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee_members>
> bootstrapping
> process has been completed. Some intermediate updates were posted in
> phab:T159923 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159923>. Starting today,
> the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces is enforced by the new
> Committe formed by Amir Sarabadani (Ladsgroup
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ladsgroup>), Lucie-Aimée Kaffee (
> Frimelle <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Frimelle>), Nuria Ruiz (
> Nurieta <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Nurieta>), Sébastien Santoro
> (
> Dereckson <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dereckson>), and Tony
> Thomas
> (01tonythomas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas>).
> Congratulations to them, to the additional five auxiliary members
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/
> Committee_members#Auxiliary>
>  (Απεργός, Léna, Florianschmidtwelzow, Huji, Matanya), and to everybody
> else who contributed to this process!
>
> Source: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#
> Process_completed.2C_CoC_Commitee_constituted
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] June 2017 agenda of the Board of Trustees

[Samuel Klein]

This is great; thank you, Stephen.  It is good to see additional transfers
to the endowment on the agenda.

Regards, SJ

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Stephen LaPorte 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> The agenda for the next Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting on
> June 16, 2017 is now available on Meta Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.o
> rg/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_board_agenda_2017-06
>
> Best,
> Stephen
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikipedia Library User Group

[Samuel Klein]

Awesome.

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:26 AM, Tito Dutta  wrote:

> Congratulations on getting the recognition. :)  I wish you all the best.
>
> On 29 June 2017 at 17:53, Kirill Lokshin  wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> >  the Wikipedia Library User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.  The
> > group aims
> > to combine and multiply collaboration with libraries and librarians, from
> > edit-a-thons hosted at libraries to the Wiki Loves Libraries outreach
> > campaign and the broader institutional and publisher outreach of the
> > Wikipedia Library, and to serve as a forum open to all Wikimedia
> community
> > members and any librarians interested in working with Wikipedia.
> >
> > Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kirill Lokshin
> > Chair, Affiliations Committee
> >
> > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Library_User_Group
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Conference 2017: Report and more learning material published

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you for compiling this!  SJ

On Jun 30, 2017 6:29 PM, "Cornelius Kibelka" 
wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
>
>
> Three months ago, we welcomed many of you in Berlin to work, discuss and
> get inspired at the Wikimedia Conference 2017. We have now published our
> extensive and colorful grant report for this event, and you can read it on
> Meta:
>
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Report
>
>
>
> In the meantime, the documentation of all sessions is complete. Check it
> out on Meta as well:
>
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Documentation
>
>
>
> While preparing the report, we have also written three learning patterns
> to capture and share our experiences with other movement event organizers.
>
>
>
> 1) “Timing, Communication, Preparation: How to support your event
> participants in the best way to get a Schengen Visa”
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Timing,
> _Communication,_Preparation:_How_to_support_your_event_
> participants_in_the_best_way_to_get_a_Schengen_Visa
>
>
>
> 2) “Briefing calls with speakers: A simple way to improve conference
> sessions”
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/
> Briefing_calls_with_speakers:_A_simple_way_to_improve_conference_sessions
>
>
>
> 3) “The Buddy Project: Let’s make your conference more newbie friendly!”
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/The_
> Buddy_Project:_Let%E2%80%99s_make_your_conference_more_newbie_friendly!
>
>
>
> And if you think, “wow, that’s a lot!”: David Saroyan, Visiting Wikimedian
> at Wikimedia Deutschland from January until April, wrote a blog post about
> his experience in the Wikimedia blog:
>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/30/why-i-visiting-wikimedian/
>
>
>
> We would like to thank all participants, partners, affiliates and experts
> who have contributed to making this such a great event, and the Wikimedia
> Foundation for their generous support.
>
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Happy reading,
>
>
>
> Cornelius, Nicole, Daniela and Wenke
> (the WMCON team)
>
>
> PS: Stay tuned for our upcoming announcement of the Wikimedia Conference
> 2018 dates.
>
>
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>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimédia France - informations sur la situation actuelle

[Samuel Klein]

es des différentes parties n’aient pas été
> recueillis, et que nous avons demandé quelle procédure officielle de
> la fondation encadrait cette enquête, nous avons appris que celle-ci
> avait finalement été abandonnée. Ces procédures dysfonctionnelles
> montrent bien, pour nous, la volonté d’alimenter une polémique visant
> à affaiblir notre association, mais sans fondement réel.
>
>
>
> En outre, nous tenons à dire que Caroline Becker n’est pas une «
> lanceuse d’alerte ». Elle n’a révélé aucun péril pour l’association et
> n’a pas essayé de régler le problème dont elle avait connaissance
> durant le week-end stratégie. Au contraire, elle a tenu des propos
> diffamants contre Nathalie, au lieu de respecter un processus normal,
> transparent et encadré. Elle n’a pas non plus averti le reste du CA
> des risques encourus du fait de cette enquête.
>
> Pierre-Selim a confirmé par écrit qu’il n’avait pas connaissance du
> témoignage de sa compagne ni de l’enquête, et a reconnu que Caroline
> ne pouvait rester au CA, eu égard à ses agissements.
>
> Il a finalement démissionné, sa position en tant que conjoint de
> Caroline étant trop difficile à gérer, ce que nous respectons.
>
> Ce que nous n’acceptons pas, ce sont ses propos publics et ceux
> d’autres personnes qui déforment la réalité pour faire de Caroline une
> victime du CA.
>
> De plus, Pierre-Sélim a utilisé, après sa démission, son accès
> “exécutif” aux données de l’association, alors qu’il n’en avait plus
> le droit. Il s’est servi de ces données pour signaler à des membres
> que plusieurs personnes avaient été désabonnées de la liste
> discussions, ce qui n’a pas manqué de provoquer une nouvelle vague
> d’accusations de censure et d’autoritarisme.
>
> Or, si le CA l’a fait, c’est en responsabilité. Constatant les
> débordements sur la liste malgré la modération a priori, il a décidé
> en premier lieu d’en retirer les membres non à jour de leur
> cotisation, comme il aurait été en droit de le faire depuis longtemps.
> Sans doute aurions-nous dû communiquer simplement et directement sur
> ce fait, mais ce n’est pas chose facile quand nous sommes pris de
> court par des tentatives de nuire venant de membres avec lesquels nous
> travaillions encore de bonne foi très récemment au sein du CA !
>
> Instrumentalisation par d’autres acteurs
>
> Enfin, nous vous faisons part de notre indignation concernant le fait
> que certaines attaques très virulentes au sujet du CA et de la
> direction émanent de personnes qui, loin de poursuivre les idéaux
> qu’elles affichent, tentent de masquer leurs motivations réelles et
> leurs conflits d’intérêts (paid editing, formation rémunérée déguisée
> en bénévolat; tentative de récupérer les demandes de formations
> arrivant à l’association via OTRS pour les facturer pour son activité
> personnelle, etc). Il est clair que ces personnes cherchent à
> désavouer le CA et la direction dans l’espoir de pouvoir continuer ou
> de reprendre ces pratiques douteuses.
>
> 5. La possible création d’un fonds de dotation
>
>
>
> La réflexion en cours au CA sur la part conséquente que représente le
> lobbying dans l'activité de l’association (et ce pour des champs plus
> larges que l'objet même de Wikimédia France) a abouti à étudier la
> pertinence d’un fonds de dotation qui concernerait l’ensemble des
> parties prenantes œuvrant pour la connaissance libre.
>
> En effet, bien que le fait de mener des actions de lobbying bénéficie
> d’un large consensus chez nos adhérents et dans la communauté, il
> implique beaucoup de ressources qui bénéficient plus largement qu’à la
> communauté des contributeurs.
>
> Des bénévoles et des salariés ont donc mené, au sujet d’un éventuel
> fonds de dotation, différentes consultations d’experts mais aussi de
> potentiels financeurs, qui n’ont par ailleurs rien de confidentiel.
>
> Il n'en demeure pas moins que si le choix de créer un fonds de
> dotation avec des partenaires était fait, le CA devrait statuer sur la
> création d'une telle structure, en informer l'AG, et en fonction de la
> structuration, faire voter l'AG. Dans le contexte de diversification
> des fonds et alors que l'association est en passe d’être reconnue
> d’utilité publique (RUP), ce fonds pourrait être une idée à creuser
> pour le financement de WMFr puisqu’il pourrait faire appel aux
> fondations d'entreprise.
>
>
>
> Pourtant, cette étude non confidentielle menée par les salariés a été
> présentée de façon très ambiguë par Florence Devouard sur la liste
> discussions, ce qui a éveillé des suspicions chez les autres
> adhérents. Un deuxième mail de Florence, rejeté par les modérateurs
> mais publié sur une liste de discussion parallèle, évoque même « une
> suspicion d'usage des biens de l'association, de la (bonne) réputation
> de l'association, à des fins personnelles indirectes ».
>
> Nous condamnons fermement ce qui là encore est une tentative de mettre
> le CA en difficulté par des allégations infondées. Nous réaffirmons
> également que si des adhérents possèdent des preuves de malversations,
> ils sont tout à fait à même de les transmettre aux autorités
> compétentes ; le reste n’est que on-dit et intimidation.
>
> 
>
> Wikimédia France
> 40 rue de Cléry
> 75002 Paris
> France
> www.wikimedia.fr
>
>
> Je ne souhaite plus être contacté par Wikimédia France
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimédia France - informations sur la situation actuelle

[Samuel Klein]

océdure officielle de
>> la fondation encadrait cette enquête, nous avons appris que celle-ci
>> avait finalement été abandonnée. Ces procédures dysfonctionnelles
>> montrent bien, pour nous, la volonté d’alimenter une polémique visant
>> à affaiblir notre association, mais sans fondement réel.
>>
>>
>>
>> En outre, nous tenons à dire que Caroline Becker n’est pas une «
>> lanceuse d’alerte ». Elle n’a révélé aucun péril pour l’association et
>> n’a pas essayé de régler le problème dont elle avait connaissance
>> durant le week-end stratégie. Au contraire, elle a tenu des propos
>> diffamants contre Nathalie, au lieu de respecter un processus normal,
>> transparent et encadré. Elle n’a pas non plus averti le reste du CA
>> des risques encourus du fait de cette enquête.
>>
>> Pierre-Selim a confirmé par écrit qu’il n’avait pas connaissance du
>> témoignage de sa compagne ni de l’enquête, et a reconnu que Caroline
>> ne pouvait rester au CA, eu égard à ses agissements.
>>
>> Il a finalement démissionné, sa position en tant que conjoint de
>> Caroline étant trop difficile à gérer, ce que nous respectons.
>>
>> Ce que nous n’acceptons pas, ce sont ses propos publics et ceux
>> d’autres personnes qui déforment la réalité pour faire de Caroline une
>> victime du CA.
>>
>> De plus, Pierre-Sélim a utilisé, après sa démission, son accès
>> “exécutif” aux données de l’association, alors qu’il n’en avait plus
>> le droit. Il s’est servi de ces données pour signaler à des membres
>> que plusieurs personnes avaient été désabonnées de la liste
>> discussions, ce qui n’a pas manqué de provoquer une nouvelle vague
>> d’accusations de censure et d’autoritarisme.
>>
>> Or, si le CA l’a fait, c’est en responsabilité. Constatant les
>> débordements sur la liste malgré la modération a priori, il a décidé
>> en premier lieu d’en retirer les membres non à jour de leur
>> cotisation, comme il aurait été en droit de le faire depuis longtemps.
>> Sans doute aurions-nous dû communiquer simplement et directement sur
>> ce fait, mais ce n’est pas chose facile quand nous sommes pris de
>> court par des tentatives de nuire venant de membres avec lesquels nous
>> travaillions encore de bonne foi très récemment au sein du CA !
>>
>> Instrumentalisation par d’autres acteurs
>>
>> Enfin, nous vous faisons part de notre indignation concernant le fait
>> que certaines attaques très virulentes au sujet du CA et de la
>> direction émanent de personnes qui, loin de poursuivre les idéaux
>> qu’elles affichent, tentent de masquer leurs motivations réelles et
>> leurs conflits d’intérêts (paid editing, formation rémunérée déguisée
>> en bénévolat; tentative de récupérer les demandes de formations
>> arrivant à l’association via OTRS pour les facturer pour son activité
>> personnelle, etc). Il est clair que ces personnes cherchent à
>> désavouer le CA et la direction dans l’espoir de pouvoir continuer ou
>> de reprendre ces pratiques douteuses.
>>
>> 5. La possible création d’un fonds de dotation
>>
>>
>>
>> La réflexion en cours au CA sur la part conséquente que représente le
>> lobbying dans l'activité de l’association (et ce pour des champs plus
>> larges que l'objet même de Wikimédia France) a abouti à étudier la
>> pertinence d’un fonds de dotation qui concernerait l’ensemble des
>> parties prenantes œuvrant pour la connaissance libre.
>>
>> En effet, bien que le fait de mener des actions de lobbying bénéficie
>> d’un large consensus chez nos adhérents et dans la communauté, il
>> implique beaucoup de ressources qui bénéficient plus largement qu’à la
>> communauté des contributeurs.
>>
>> Des bénévoles et des salariés ont donc mené, au sujet d’un éventuel
>> fonds de dotation, différentes consultations d’experts mais aussi de
>> potentiels financeurs, qui n’ont par ailleurs rien de confidentiel.
>>
>> Il n'en demeure pas moins que si le choix de créer un fonds de
>> dotation avec des partenaires était fait, le CA devrait statuer sur la
>> création d'une telle structure, en informer l'AG, et en fonction de la
>> structuration, faire voter l'AG. Dans le contexte de diversification
>> des fonds et alors que l'association est en passe d’être reconnue
>> d’utilité publique (RUP), ce fonds pourrait être une idée à creuser
>> pour le financement de WMFr puisqu’il pourrait faire appel aux
>> fondations d'entreprise.
>>
>>
>>
>> Pourtant, cette étude non confidentielle menée par les salariés a été
>> présentée de façon très ambiguë par Florence Devouard sur la liste
>> discussions, ce qui a éveillé des suspicions chez les autres
>> adhérents. Un deuxième mail de Florence, rejeté par les modérateurs
>> mais publié sur une liste de discussion parallèle, évoque même « une
>> suspicion d'usage des biens de l'association, de la (bonne) réputation
>> de l'association, à des fins personnelles indirectes ».
>>
>> Nous condamnons fermement ce qui là encore est une tentative de mettre
>> le CA en difficulté par des allégations infondées. Nous réaffirmons
>> également que si des adhérents possèdent des preuves de malversations,
>> ils sont tout à fait à même de les transmettre aux autorités
>> compétentes ; le reste n’est que on-dit et intimidation.
>>
>> 
>>
>> Wikimédia France
>> 40 rue de Cléry
>> 75002 Paris
>> France
>> www.wikimedia.fr
>>
>>
>> Je ne souhaite plus être contacté par Wikimédia France
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimédia France

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you kindly Édouard for sharing this update on all fronts.  I am so
terribly sorry to hear about the passing of Louise Merzeau.

Warm thoughts and regards. SJ

On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Édouard Hue 
wrote:

> Dear Wikimedia community,
>
> Here are the latest news from Wikimedia France.
>
> First of all, we are devastated by the passing of our estimate trustee Mrs.
> Louise Merzeau on July 15th. Louise had been appointed by the Board in
> February with the ambition to learn and profit from her deep knowledge of
> and academic research on the commons. Sadly, the current problems of
> Wikimedia France did not give her the opportunity to get seriously involved
> with the movement before she passed away.
>
> This sad news reached us a few days after the resignation of Mr. Guillaume
> Goursat, treasurer, from the Board.
>
> The Board has appointed a new treasurer, Mr. Florian Pépellin, who already
> had a mandate from the Board for banking and financial matters. The
> executive team (chair, vice-chair and secretary) remains otherwise
> unchanged.
>
> The Board has also acknowledged the demand for a general assembly expressed
> by more than 25% of our members. This assembly will take place on September
> 9th and will be the opportunity for members to elect six new Board members
> to fill the vacant seats, and discuss current issues. The regular General
> Assembly where the certified and audited accounts are presented and voted
> will be held in October as usual. Six Board seats will also be renewed
> then.
>
> Wikimédia France will receive a site visit from the Wikimedia Foundation on
> the 25th and 26th of July.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Édouard, on behalf of the board of Wikimédia France
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] RFC on wikimedia-l posting limits

[Samuel Klein]

Thoughtful, practical, good. Thank you.

On Aug 22, 2017 9:03 PM, "John Mark Vandenberg"  wrote:

Hi list members,

The list admins (hereafter 'we', being Austin, Asaf, Shani and I, your
humble narrator) regularly receive complaints about the frequent
posters on this list, as well as about the unpleasant atmosphere some
posters (some of them frequent) create.

It is natural that frequent posters will say specific things that more
frequently annoy other list members, but often the complaints are due
to the volume of messages rather than the content of the messages.

We are floating some suggestions aimed specifically at reducing the
volume, hopefully motivating frequent posters to self-moderate more,
but these proposed limits are actually intending to increasing the
quality of the discourse without heavy subjective moderation.

The first proposal impacts all posters to this list, and the last
three proposals are aimed at providing a more clear framework within
which criticism and whistle-blowing are permitted, but that critics
are prevented from drowning out other discussions. The bandwidth that
will be given to critics should be established in advance, reducing
need to use subjective moderation of the content when a limit to the
volume will often achieve the same result.
--

Proposal #1: Monthly 'soft quota' reduced from 30 to 15

The existing soft quota of 30 posts per person has practically never
been exceeded in the past year, and yet many list subscribers still
clearly feel that a few individuals overwhelm the list. This suggests
the current quota is too high.

A review of the stats at
https://stats.wikimedia.org/mail-lists/wikimedia-l.html show very few
people go over 15 in a month, and quite often the reason for people
exceeding 15 per month is because they are replying to other list
members who have already exceeded 15 per month, and sometimes they are
repeatedly directly or indirectly asking the person to stop repeating
themselves to allow some space for other list members also have their
opinion heard.
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Proposal #2: Posts by globally banned people not permitted

As WMF-banned people are already banned from mailing lists, this
proposal is to apply the same ‘global’ approach to any people who have
been globally banned by the community according to the
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_bans policy.

This proposal does not prevent proxying, or canvassing, or “meat
puppetry” as defined by English Wikipedia policy.  The list admins
would prefer that globally banned people communicate their grievances
via established members of our community who can guide them, rather
than the list admins initially guiding these globally banned people on
how to revise their posts so they are suitable for this audience, and
then required to block them when they do not follow advice.  The role
of list moderators is clearer and simpler if we are only patrolling
the boundaries and not repeatedly personally engaged with helping
globally banned users.
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Proposal #3: Identity of an account locked / blocked / banned by two
Wikimedia communities limited to five (5) posts per month

This proposal is intended to strike a balance between openness and
quality of discourse.

Banned people occasionally use the wikimedia-l mailing list as a
substitute of the meta Request for comment system, and banned people
also occasionally provide constructive criticisms and thought
provoking views.  This proposal hopes to allow that to continue.

However people who have been banned on a few projects also use this
list as their “last stand”, having already exhausted the community
patience on the wikis.  Sometimes the last stand is brief, but
occasionally a banned person is able to maintain sufficient decorum
that they are not moderated or banned from the list, and mailing list
readers need to suffer month after month of the banned person
dominating the mailing lists with time that they would previously have
spent editing on the wikis.
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Proposal #4: Undisclosed alternative identities limited to five (5)
posts per month

Posting using fake identities allows people to shield their real life
*and* their Wikimedia editing 'account' from the repercussions of
their actions. This provision to allow fake identities on wikimedia-l
is necessary for whistle-blowing, and this mailing list has been used
for that purpose at important junctures in the history of the
Wikimedia movement.

However it is more frequently abused, especially by some ‘critics’ who
have used incessant hyperbole and snark and baiting to generally cause
stress to many readers. Sometimes this is also accompanied with many
list posts on various unrelated threads as the ‘critic’ believes their
criticism is so important that all other discussions about Wikimedia
should be diverted until their problem has been resolved to their
satisfaction, which is unlikely anyway.

Note this explicitly does not include anyone posting using their real
world identity, whether or not they have a Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia France short update

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you to Florence for the update and links.  Thanks also for the public
WMF report; and to the many members helping with the transformation.  //SJ

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Florence Devouard 
wrote:

> I thought the electoral commission would forward the results but over 24h
> hours after the GA closed... apparently not.
>
>
> So very brief summary:
>
>
> Saturday, Wikimedia France held a full day General Assembly.
>
>
> The agenda was here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik
> i/Wikimédia_France/Assemblée_générale/septembre_2017
>
> Results of votes are available there : https://upload.wikimedia.org/w
> ikipedia/commons/0/04/WMFR_AG_2017-09-09.pdf
>
>
> Key points
> * Emeric (chairman until end of June) resigned the day prior to the
> General Assembly
> * the remaining board (5 people) was constituted of Samuel (Chair),
> Marie-Alice (Vice Chair), FloFlo (treasurer), Edouard and Florence Raymond
> (not me...)
> * Raymond, who was an appointed board member, was confirmed by the General
> Assembly
> * the General Assembly voted by 73% the "lack of trust" in the previous
> board
> * however, the General Assembly voted to retain the remainer of the
> previous board despite the distrust, in order to allow transfer of
> information and to support the new board during the audit.
> * Floflo and Edouard will finish their term in 6 weeks (may resign
> earlier). Samuel and Marie-Alice indicated they would resign at the
> earliest convenience, only staying to help the transition and the audit
>
> * 6 new people were elected on the board. 4 for slightly more than a year,
> 2 for a duration of 6 weeks. All of those are experienced members,
> including former board members and former president (I suppose
> presentations will follow next week)
> * the chapter mailing list is reopened
> * the members whose new memberships or renewal had been rejected will be
> invited to re-apply
> * the prior vote passed in July to expell members will be cancelled
> * the GA also voted to support the adoption of a non-discrimination
> policy, for a complete revamping of the conflict of interest committee, and
> for a financial audit to be done.
>
> Sides notes
>
> Next General Assembly will take place around 20th of October and will be
> the opportunity to elect new board members to fill the remaining seats.
> Except for the appointed board member, it is likely the board will be
> entirely renewed in the next few weeks (compared to this last summer one).
>
> Also, WMF published two documents to guide the next few months
>
>
> WMFr site visit report - septembre 2017
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMFr_site_visit_report_-_septembre_2017
>
> Grant expectations for Wikimedia France - 2017-2018
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_expectations_for_Wikim
> edia_France_-_2017-2018
>
> I wish the best to the new board. They have a lot of work to do to rebuild
> the complete mess left by the previous management. Please, help them as
> much as you can.
>
> Florence
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Encyclopedic Writing Guide

[Samuel Klein]

How I needed this last week :) Are you looking for translations? Have any
in progress?

On Sep 25, 2017 12:14 PM, "Michal Lester"  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I’m excited to share with you our new interactive tool *teaching
> encyclopedic writing*[1]. Encyclopedic writing differs from other kinds of
> writing, such as academic, journalistic, or creative writing. In order to
> learn how to contribute substantial content to Wikipedia, it is not enough
> to learn the technicalities of using Wikipedia's interface, as taught by
> the interactive educational software[2]. The Encyclopedic Writing Guide was
> born of a need to instruct participants in our Educational projects, as
> well as the general public, on the principles of encyclopedic writing, and
> specifically those of Wikipedia. The guide is aimed at teaching the rules
> and "best practices" that apply at various stages of contributing content
> to Wikipedia: from choosing a topic for an article, to finding sources, to
> structuring the article, and finally, the required writing style. The guide
> thus teaches how to asses the encyclopedic importance of a topic, how to
> find independent and reliable sources on that topic, how to structure the
> information according to Wikipedia's article format, and how to produce
> neutral and succinct writing.
>
> The guide is built as a website. Users are invited to choose between two
> tracks: a track for expanding existing articles and a track for writing new
> ones. In both tracks, each of the four stages is presented on a different
> page, where the related information, tips, examples and practical tools are
> concentrated. The information is presented in a basic concise form, and the
> users are invited to open links and pop-ups to obtain more information and
> practical examples.
>
> Editing Wikipedia is not just a technical skill. While learning how to use
> Wikipedia's interface is necessary, it is not sufficient in order to learn
> how to contribute substantial content to the platform. The Encyclopedic
> Writing Guide is the first tool of its kind teaching how to create
> encyclopedic content.
>
> Best,
>
> *Michal Lester,*
>
>
>
> *Executive DirectorWikimedia Israel*
> [1] https://guide.wikimedia.org.il/
> [2] http://www.wikimedia.org.il/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%94/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Encyclopedic Writing Guide

[Samuel Klein]

A crosspost to wp-l would be fine.
The guide is of wide interest, not only to wikipedians, but to anyone
assessing reliable sources, writing neutrally and concisely and for a
general audience.

W💜, SJ

On Sep 26, 2017 9:35 AM, "Jean-Philippe Béland" 
wrote:

So what is Wikipedia-l
 for? It is
describe "for issues specific to Wikipedia (and not sister projects such as
Wiktionary) but affecting editions of Wikipedia in more than one language".
Exactly what you are talking about "content about Wikipedia,
*particularly* when not specific to any one language"...

JP


On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> On Sep 25, 2017 18:57, "Jean-Philippe Béland" 
> wrote:
>
> This should have been posted to the Wikipedia mailing list since it
doesn't
> have anything to do with the other projects or the movement in general.
>
>
> Um, no. This list is a general list, and content about Wikipedia,
> *particularly* when not specific to any one language, is welcome here.
>
> There is no active Wikipedia-only alternative to this list that would
reach
> this international audience.
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mailing lists (was Encyclopedic Writing Guide)

[Samuel Klein]

in the same way that say, Wikiversity languishing while Wikidata flourishes
should tell us something about the optimum number of projects we can
support.


Did we figure out this is zero-sum? Because there are some peach projects
I'd like to replace Wikiquote & Wookiepedia with.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you for this detailed update.

On Oct 5, 2017 5:24 PM, "Nataliia Tymkiv"  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Board recruiting has been demanding. We launched our first truly global
> search. It was far more work than we expected. But I am glad to say that we
> have significantly expanded our talent network and are engaged in
> conversation with four, uniquely talented finalists.
>
> We have missed some deadlines given our focus on movement strategy and the
> “all fronts” nature of the search for talent at the executive and board
> level.
>
> Now, I am able to present you with the new timeline and process, as we
> decide among final candidates. We hope they will be able to join the Board
> for our November meeting (the original plan was to have them join the Board
> for Wikimania 2017).
>
> Below is the last published timeline with comments and explanations at each
> stage.
>
> 1) Application and referral submission period (January 23 - August)
>
> We asked applicants to apply online:
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us#Wikimedia_Careers. We
> accepted applications and referrals by email at
> board-nominati...@lists.wikimedia.org.
>
> The overview: We decided to start from our own networks and expand outward.
> We reached far and wide, proactively, looking in Africa, Latin America,
> Asia. In the course of our work, Katherine met a non-profit executive
> recruiter. She volunteered to look for us. She delivered many very strong
> and exciting candidates from multiple continents, one finalist. Slowly, our
> networks then also produced three, very strong finalists as well.
>
> Initially we planned for this stage to be over by March 6 [1], but the
> timeline was ambitious  It took us longer to find the right fit. We decided
> the right fit is worth the wait. So we extended the deadline to May 6 [2].
>
> It took us longer. The process required more networking.
>
> At the end of May, Katherine was introduced to a non-profit recruiter. They
> volunteered to look for us and they sourced a pool of very promising
> additional candidates - 23 people with very diverse backgrounds - for the
> BGC to evaluate on June 3.
>
> We accepted referrals until August 10. For the record: we should always be
> constantly looking for potential candidates, so it would not take so much
> time for us in the future.
>
> 2) Application and referral review, proactive candidate recruitment, and
> interviews (January - ongoing)
>
> 2a) Initial application review and screenings (January - August)
>
> This stage was entirely conducted by Wikimedia Foundation staff. By
> mid-April Katherine Maher and Anna Stillwell had spoken to 21 people,
> either potential candidates themselves or people who could recommend
> candidates. We also considered some of our former Trustees. They did not
> have capacity, and required travel time seemed to be an issue.
>
> We identified 4 candidates for the Growing a Global Movement and 4
> candidates for Engaging New Communities, and 2 candidates for Social Sector
> Governance.
>
> One of the tangible results for this stage was structuring an emerging
> talent network and gathering a pool of potential candidates, that we can
> reach out to in  future searches.
>
> 2b) Board Governance Committee
>  Board_Governance_Committee>
> (BGC) discussions with candidates
>
> The BGC (as a whole group) did not meet with the candidates. Instead,
> people spoke one on one.
>
> 2c) BGC meets and makes short list (May - June)
>
> We all agreed to reach out to candidates consecutively.We did not want to
> reach out to all of the potential candidates at once, because we do not
> want to incentivize unhealthy competition. If we are talking to someone, we
> are interested. We are not interested in playing people against each other.
>
>
> The BGC prioritized the list, Katherine reached out to them in that order
> to understand if they are interested, and take it from there. If they are
> not interested in working with us, or they do not fit, we shall move to the
> next candidate in the relevant pool.
>
> It turned out to require a lot more time than we planned for this stage: we
> had to wait some time before we could assess genuine commitment and
> interest in the position, so we could schedule further calls. And moving to
> the next candidate seemed justified only after enough time passed between
> our letters of offering this position and the response. This is not
> uncommon.
>
> 2d) Second-round interviews (May - August)
>
> This stage was not conducted as a group interview. Rather, we  organised
> one on one meetings for all voting members of the BGC with the finalists.
>
> The meetings with a candidate from Engaging New Communities took place from
> the end of May till the beginning of August, given the vacation / travel
> times for some of us.
>
> We are still scheduling interviews for our top candidate for Growing a
> Global Movement profile.
>
> After the meeti

Re: [Wikimedia-l] The other side of the crisis at WMFR

[Samuel Klein]

On Oct 19, 2017 7:41 PM, "Richard Farmbrough" 
wrote:

I think it very clear that these allegations were the last gasp of an
ancient regime,


Legal threats are surely the universal language of bad faith.  And I have
complete trust in Pierre-Selim and Caroline.

Thanks Katherine, for sharing details of what has been happening.

Sam.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] September 28: Strategy update - Final draft of movement direction and endorsement process (#25)

[Samuel Klein]

>
> (Oddly enough, I am more likely to read a Wikipedia article
> from beginning to end if I'm looking something up on the Kindle, while I'm
> reading a book.)
>

There's definitely some appetite for [WP-branded and -supported!] reading
and research devices tuned for this sort of work: hyperlinked referencing,
bookmarking, reading, annotating, and compiling into an overview of one's
thoughts while working through an original document [book, article,
encyclopedia article].


> I think it would be more interesting to spin off the existing
> > "Wikipedia Library" into its own international organization (or home
> > it with an existing one), tasked with giving free knowledge
> > contributors (including potentially to other free knowledge projects
> > like OSM) access to proprietary resources


Warmly agreed.  Related essential services: curating and organizing
proprietary resources, and transmogrifying them into reusable elements [cf.
ContentMine/FactMine].
A few narrow areas of this are covered by commercial services, but most are
not.

Sam.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Berkman Klein Center: Will Wikipedia exist in, 20 years?

[Samuel Klein]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Cristian Consonni 
wrote:

> If you look at the video on Youtube[1], it says that its license is
>
indeed CC-BY (and indeed CC-BY 3.0 Unported, more info on this page[2])
>
> So, I think that this can be uploaded also on Commons without issue.
>

Yes!  Thanks Asaf for the upload.

Katherine's talk was a welcome update & provocation.  A few notes from the
afternoon discussion w/Berkman fellows that followed:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14QYg3iNWFIvWXkWALLxbYzuDS3Tj9faltJKwoHuhW1o/edit#

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of WMF Chief Product Officer

[Samuel Klein]

Fantastic.

On Oct 27, 2017 3:09 PM, "Katherine Maher"  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I’m happy to let you know that the Foundation has concluded our search for
> a Chief Product Officer (CPO). Our own Toby Negrin will transition from
> acting as interim lead of the Audiences department to this permanent and
> updated role. Please join me in congratulating Toby!
>
> Toby was unanimously recommended by our CPO search panel, following an
> executive search process very similar to those used for recent executive
> appointments in Legal and Talent & Culture. We kicked off the process by
> developing a job description based on feedback from staff, particularly
> from the Audiences department. This job description attracted hundreds of
> applicants after being posted in August 2017. A pool of approximately 30
> candidates was reviewed by the primary hiring panel, made up of
> stakeholders from Audiences and Technology. We conducted additional
> interviews with six candidates, and two external finalists were interviewed
> by the full panel and myself.
>
> Since joining the Foundation in 2013, Toby has demonstrated leadership
> focussed on outcomes, collaboration with the Wikimedia community, and
> respect for Wikimedia values. He led an expansion of our analytics efforts,
> built a new team focused on Readers, and championed the development of
> intuitive mobile interfaces and mobile applications. Toby played a critical
> role in the creation of the Community Tech team, and supporting the
> creation of the New Readers program. He has a deep interest in partnership
> with the communities, an instinct for assembling and cultivating teams, and
> a record of supporting staff as they develop and explore new skills and
> roles.
>
> Leading our product development efforts takes more than a commitment to the
> Wikimedia mission. As the world around us changes, we too must evaluate how
> we best make progress toward our mission. Changes in demographics,
> language, connectivity, interfaces, and more will have a profound and
> transformative effect on our projects and how we seek to achieve our
> vision. To respond effectively, we will need to develop a vision and plan
> for how the Wikimedia projects will evolve, growing users, expanding
> services, and improving retention and participation. And perhaps more
> importantly, we will need to develop a culture of excellence, service, and
> sustainability across the organization, so that we can retain and attract a
> diverse crow of exceptional colleagues.  I’m excited to see how Toby and
> the department will continue to take on these challenges and opportunities.
>
> Toby brings nearly 20 years of experience if integrating data, research,
> and design to produce effective and popular products. Prior to joining the
> Foundation, he led analytics efforts at DeNA, a mobile social games
> company. At DeNA, he partnered with colleagues in Japan and China to build
> global dashboards used to track gaming performance around the world. He
> also held roles at Yahoo! related to cloud platforms, anti-abuse efforts,
> and content moderation. Toby grew up in Los Angeles and the UK before
> landing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and worked in software development
> at startups in Sweden and The Netherlands. Toby graduated from the NIMBAS
> Graduate School of Management and University of California - Santa Cruz. He
> was a board member and treasurer of the Golden Gate Philharmonic youth
> orchestra. In his free time, he enjoys spending time winemaking and grape
> growing, running, hiking Bay Area trails, and playing tennis.
>
> I want to offer my sincere thanks to the CPO hiring committee for your work
> on this process: Jon Katz, Nirzar Pangarkar, Adam Baso, Grace Gellerman,
> Anne Gomez, James Forrester, Victoria Coleman, and Ryan Kaldari. A special
> thank you to Liz Verlade, Joady Lohr, and Anna Stillwell for their amazing
> work coordinating the process. Finally, thank you to Eileen Hershenov,
> Maggie Dennis, Megan Hernandez, Pau Giner, Danny Horn, Runa Bhattacharjee,
> and Christophe Henner for their input throughout the process.
>
> Again, and especially for those at WikidataCon this week, please join me in
> congratulating Toby on this appointment!
>
> Cheers,
> Katherine
>
> --
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>
> *We moved! **Our new address:*
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] A fundraising banner we'd like to try in a short test

[Samuel Klein]

Sam, Thanks for the heads up!  Is there any measure of the negative impact
of a banner (in distraction, self-reported annoyance, abandoned sessions),
separate from its fundraising impact?  I imagine some very noticeable
banners will have high positives as well as negatives; then the question
would be what tradeoffs to make.

On side banners: have there been recent experiments with a thin side banner
in the l.h.s. column?

===
For this test (happen to be on a Win machine today):  Win/IE has render
troubles; covers some of the r.h.s. of the page. Win/Chrome doesn't show it
at all for me; even when turning off all extensions.  The corner 'x' is
hard to see.  text in some boxes is cut off ('Other').   It's not clear how
'Other' works.
Generally: looks busy.  Recurring issues:  Loading after the rest of the
page can be confusing on slow connections.  Underlined text in the quote
that isn't a hyperlink is confusing (and could link to appropriate detail).

Warmly, SJ


On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Samuel Patton 
wrote:

> Hi all, it's Sam from the online fundraising team. I wanted to give you a
> heads up about a desktop banner we'd like to test before the official
> launch of our 'Big English' fundraising banner campaign on Tuesday,
> November 28.
>
> TL;DR: A short test of a new banner concept will help us decide if it's
> worth iteration and improvement.
>
> Here's a link to the banner:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple?banner=dsk_p1_lg_
> right10&country=US&force=1
>
> This banner would run against our current best desktop large banner; here's
> that link:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple?banner=B1718_1101_en6C_
> dsk_p1_lg_template&force=1&country=US
>
> Undoubtedly, it's an unusual format; that's why we felt it appropriate to
> give you a heads up :) We haven't tried a vertical 'banner on the side' in
> recent memory, and it'll be useful to see exactly how this type of content
> performs.
>
> This test would run for 1 to 2 hours, and then we'd evaluate results to see
> if it's worth spending any more time on the concept. For now, we're simply
> hiding the banner all together below 920px, as at smaller viewports it
> begins to interfere with site navigation elements.
>
> If you have thoughts on this design, please share them here. There will be
> more opportunities for you to weigh in if this banner variant looks
> promising enough to keep testing.
>
> Regards and sincere thanks for all you do.
>
> Sam
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The other side of the crisis at WMFR

[Samuel Klein]

On Nov 23, 2017 2:55 PM, "Emeric Vallespi" 
wrote:



the Wikimedia community protect itself and its members by harassing and
defaming people who question


I cannot imagine why anyone would attempt to defame you, when they cannot
hope to surpass the eloquence and thoroughness of your own writing.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Experimental onion service for all Wikimedia projects set up by Alec Muffett

[Samuel Klein]

Seconded -- this is an excellent use of Orbot. Worth testing that
experience to see if it could be a comfortable default.

On Nov 24, 2017 3:36 AM, "Dariusz Jemielniak"  wrote:

> Excellent! Still, as I argued before, I believe that a solution we could
> use is defaulting to Tor channeling in our mobile app. Facebook offers it
> as an option in partnership with Orbot - I believe we should do the same,
> but default to it (so that people cannot be held responsible for making a
> choice). For unlogged Wikipedia reading this solution is practically
> transparent for users.
>
> I've recently contacted the WMF with Orbot people and hope that at least we
> can evaluate this approach as a possibility.
>
> best,
>
> Dariusz Jemielniak "pundit"
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 2:11 AM, Cristian Consonni 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Some months ago, the idea of setting up an onion service for Wikimedia
> > projects was discussed on this list[1] and as a proposal in IdeaLab on
> > Meta[2].
> >
> > Today, Alec Muffett announced on Twitter[3] that he created «as an
> > experiment» a series of read-only mirrors of all the Wikimedia projects.
> > He will be running them for some time.
> >
> > The service is reachable with a Tor-enabled browser at the following
> > address:
> > https://www.qgssno7jk2xcr2sj.onion/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > If you want to try out the service, first visit the addresses listed in
> > this page and add exceptions for the SSL certificates:
> > https://gist.github.com/alecmuffett/3da587fde6aef90ba3e49e8858fafdae
> >
> > (this is one of the limits of having a non-official service)
> >
> > Alec Muffett is the author of the Enterprise Onion Toolkit (EOTK)[4], a
> > FLOSS project which "does for Onions what LetsEncrypt does for SSL",
> > that is providing a simple way to transform websites in Onion services
> > (which are accessible only and contained within the Tor network). Alec
> > used EOTK for creating this demo. He was also behind the onion service
> > for Facebook[5].
> >
> > IMO this service, even with its current limitations, is quite awesome
> > and I am very happy to see it. It is exactly the kind of proof of
> > concept that I wanted to create with my proposal. So now there's that.
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> > Cristian
> >
> > [1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-
> > June/087708.html
> > [2]:
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/A_Tor_
> > Onion_Service_for_Wikipedia
> > [3]:https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/933739816038076419
> > [4]: https://github.com/alecmuffett/eotk
> > [5]:
> > https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/
> > 10/facebook-offers-hidden-service-to-tor-users/
> >
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> Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
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>
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> Harvard University
> *Ostatnie artykuły:*
>
>- Dariusz Jemielniak, Maciej Wilamowski (2017)  Cultural Diversity of
>Quality of Information on Wikipedias
>
> *Journal
>of the Association for Information Science and Technology* 68:  10.
> 2460–2470.
>- Dariusz Jemielniak (2016)  Wikimedia Movement Governance: The Limits
>of A-Hierarchical Organization
>
> *Journal
>of Organizational Change Management *29:  3.  361-378.
>- Dariusz Jemielniak, Eduard Aibar (2016)  Bridging the Gap Between
>Wikipedia and Academia
> *Journal of the
>Association for Information Science and Technology* 67:  7.  1773-1776.
>- Dariusz Jemielniak (2016)  Breaking the Glass Ceiling on Wikipedia
> *Feminist
>Review *113:  1.  103-108.
>- Tadeusz Chełkowski, Peter Gloor, Dariusz Jemielniak (2016)
> Inequalities
>in Open Source Software Development: Analysis of Contributor’s Commits
> in
>Apache Software Foundation Projects
> 1371%2Fjournal.pone.0152976.PDF>
>, *PLoS ONE* 11:  4.  e0152976.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment: Updates

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you all for the thoughtful search & updates.

On Nov 29, 2017 7:14 PM, "Nataliia Tymkiv"  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> The Board Governance Committee (BGC) has been working on finalizing another
> potential candidate [1]. The results of the process were successful and the
> Board has unanimously appointed the candidate the BGC has recommended. The
> announcement is planned for December 1, 2017, so in two days the Wikimedia
> Foundation Board will be finally complete (ten members).
>
> But the Board recruitment is actually not over: we have two appointed Board
> members, whose terms expire next Wikimania - Kelly Battles and Alice
> Wiegand - so we are going to start working on filling those seats. The
> ideal timeline is to have potential candidates join us in time for
> Wikimania 2018.
>
> The Board Governance Committee and I personally are thankful to those
> people who were highly involved in the Board recruitment process: Anna
> Stillwell, Michelle Paulson and Michelle Muñoz, our Legal and
> Communications teams, and of course Katherine Maher. And many, many more.
>
> [1]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2017-October/088797.html
>
> Best regards,
> antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Appointment of Esra’a Al Shafei to Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

[Samuel Klein]

Changing the World in
> 2015."
>
> She has won the "Most Courageous Media" Prize from Free Press Unlimited,
> and the Monaco Media Prize, which acknowledges innovative uses of media for
> the betterment of humanity.
>
> Esra'a is a senior TED Fellow, an Echoing Green fellow, and a Director’s
> Fellow at the MIT Media Lab. She received a Shuttleworth Foundation
> Fellowship in 2012 for her work on CrowdVoice.org. She lives in the Middle
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Leadership of Wikimedia Foundation's Communications department

[Samuel Klein]

gt; travel team for getting Kui to San Francisco, and of course, Liz Verlade
> > for ensuring it all come together.
> >
> > Again, please join me in congratulating Heather and welcoming Kui!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Katherine
> >
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> >
> > Executive Director
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> >
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> >
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> > https://annual.wikimedia.org
> >
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> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to the Wikimedia Foundation January 2018 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, February 1, 16:00 UTC (WMDE edition)

[Samuel Klein]

Now this is a subject line worthy of the Wikipedia Week Week, one that at
times might have seemed far off.  Chapeau!

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WWN_sample

On Jan 26, 2018 12:09 PM, "Nicole Ebber"  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We are excited to host the January metrics and activities meeting next week
> and invite you all to join! It will take place on Thursday, February 1,
> 2018 at 4:00 PM UTC (8:00 AM PST) in our office in Berlin. You can join in
> person, tune in via a live YouTube stream[1] or via the IRC channel
> #wikimedia-office on https://webchat.freenode.net.
>
> During the January metrics meeting, we'll hear from different presenters
> about past, present and future endeavours, each with a specific
> movement-relevant angle. We will not only present successes but strive to
> also talk about things that did not go so well – and what we learned from
> these setbacks.
>
> Meeting agenda draft (subject to change):
> * Introduction and welcomes
> * Coding da Vinci
> * WMF topic (tba)
> * Wikidata/Wikibase (tbd)
> * Guest speaker (tba)
> * To wiki or not to wiki
> * WMCON sneak preview
> * Wikilove
> * Questions and discussion
>
> Please review the meeting's Meta-Wiki page for further information about
> the meeting and how to participate:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
> metrics_and_activities_meetings
>
> We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
>
> All the best,
> Nicole
>
> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFzqTxTfq2Y
>
>
> On 24 January 2018 at 02:09, Gregory Varnum  wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > The currently-scheduled January metrics and activities meeting is
> scheduled
> > to occur during the Wikimedia Foundation's annual meeting for staff and
> > contractors (known as All Hands). Given this, we have a need to
> reschedule,
> > and decided to use that change to experiment.
> >
> > So, I am very excited to share that the January metrics and activities
> > meeting will be hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland on February 1 from 16:00
> to
> > 17:00 UTC (8:00-9:00 PT).
> >
> > Please stay tuned for more details from Wikimedia Deutschland in the days
> > to come! I hope that you will turn out and support our friends in Germany
> > in this experiment as part of our ongoing efforts to make the monthly
> > metrics and activities meetings representative of our global movement.
> >
> > Best,
> > Greg and Sam
> > --
> > Gregory Varnum
> > Communications Strategist
> > Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Copyright enforcement?

[Samuel Klein]

Editors used to do plenty by hand, if you recall. The on-wiki list of
mirrors and forks had compliance info, and individuals would reach out and
ask for license changes or takedowns.

Since having a legal team I don't know how these have happened, or which
individuals have made such claims & requests.

On Jan 29, 2018 10:19 AM, "The Cunctator"  wrote:

> Related, has there ever been any copyright enforcement for Wikipedia, or is
> its copyleft a joke and it's functionally purely public domain?
>
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 7:42 AM, Renée Bagslint 
> wrote:
>
> > Does the Foundation have any standing to enforce the copyright, since
> that
> > belongs to the individual contributors?
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 12:12 AM, James Salsman 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Attribution is often considered impractical, but providing the source
> > > date along with e.g. the article name can be used to derive the
> > > attribution, so it should be required. It's not just a good idea to
> > > require this information from content re-users like Amazon, Apple, and
> > > Google, but doing so will help encourage those who find issues to
> > > edit.
> > >
> > > If the Foundation doesn't make attribution or at least article date a
> > > requirement, then they are actively opposing editor recruitment.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 7:34 PM, The Cunctator 
> > > wrote:
> > > > The copyright requirement isn't attribution; it's attribution and
> > > copyleft
> > > > retention for derived works.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 12:28 AM, James Heilman 
> > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> It search result only contains a snippet (and thus is fair use).
> Plus
> > > >> Google provide attribution in a lot of their results.
> > > >>
> > > >> J
> > > >>
> > > >> On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 1:03 PM, geni  wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > On 5 June 2017 at 18:32, The Cunctator 
> wrote:
> > > >> > > Both Google and Graphiq are using pretty much the entire
> Wikipedia
> > > >> corpus
> > > >> > > for their results.
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > However due to the way their output is structured it falls under
> > "you
> > > >> > can't copyright facts".
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the 2018 Ombuds Commission members

[Samuel Klein]

king primarily across Spanish language projects. He is a global sysop
> > and global rollbacker, an administrator on Commons, as well as having
> been
> > an OTRS volunteer for ~4 years. In the past he has served as an
> > administrator and bureaucrat on Spanish Wikivoyage. He joined the OC in
> > 2016.
> >
> > *Rubin16*
> > Rubin16 (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rubin16>) primarily edits
> > the Russian Wikipedia, where he is a bureaucrat and administrator. He is
> > formerly a member of their Arbitration Committee. He is an administrator
> on
> > Wikimedia Commons and is a Central Notice and translation admin on Meta.
> > (He is also a translation admin on Commons.) He is a member of Wikimedia
> > Russia. He joined the OC in 2015.
> >
> > *Polimerek*
> > Polimerek (<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek>) primarily
> > edits Polish Wikipedia (where he is an admin and former arbitrator),
> Polish
> > Wikibooks and Wikimedia Commons. He also serves the Wikimedia movement as
> > the president of Wikimedia Poland and on the Grant Advisory Committee. He
> > is a former CheckUser. Polimerek joined the OC in 2014.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > I'd also like to offer a huge “thank you” to those returning and those
> > coming aboard for the first time, as well as to all those applied. The
> > applications we received this year showed us an extremely able group of
> > volunteers across a diverse array of languages and projects, and while
> this
> > appointed mix of users may best serve the need for this year, I hope that
> > those who applied and were not appointed will consider applying again in
> > future years.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Karen Brown
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 6:29 PM, Karen Brown 
> wrote:
> >
> > > *Hello all,*
> > >
> > [...]
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikimedia Enterprise API project

[Samuel Klein]

0/Recommendations
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/FAQ
>
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/Principles
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> [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise
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> *Liam Wyatt [Wittylama]*
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> Wikimedia
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> Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Report of grants given out by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2019−2020

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks for calling this out and working on this aspect, Kassia!

A critical bottleneck for supporting emerging communities is a plan for
comprehensive regional microgrant programs, run through affiliate groups.
We should set these up where they don't exist so as to cover the world.

S

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 1:58 PM Kassia Echavarri-Queen <
kechavarriqu...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> The report created by my colleagues in the Advancement Team is useful for
> providing aggregated data on the distribution of grants since 2016 and has
> helped the Community Resources team understand where we stand today in
> terms of equity. The current grants have seen an increase in access from
> emerging Wikimedia communities. However, the distribution of funds to those
> communities is still lagging far behind. With the relaunch of the Grants
> strategy
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021/Proposed_programs>
> we will work towards overcoming this challenge and shape an equitable
> future for the distribution of grants resources across the movement.
>
> The information from this report has been analyzed and already
> incorporated into the current grants strategy relaunch process. In the
> newly proposed grants strategy a priority is to substantially increase
> funding in emerging communities also taking into account the need for peer
> learning and knowledge sharing. The feedback period is still open, please
> help the grants relaunch process by letting us know how to adapt and
> improve the strategy.
>
> The new grants strategy is aligned with the strategic direction of the
> movement and is founded on the principles
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Movement_Strategy_Principles#Subsidiarity_&_Self-Management>
> of Subsidiarity & Self management, Equity & Empowerment, Collaboration &
> Cooperation, and People Centeredness, as well as efficient data and
> iterative practices. This has grounded our approach in the values
> identified by the movement.
>
> We are grateful to all the community members who have already helped to
> enrich this strategy relaunch. Please come to the grants meta page to
> engage, learn more about the proposed changes, and to provide your
> feedback.The month of feedback on the new grants strategy proposal will
> come to a close Monday April 5th, 2021.
>
> All the best,
> Kassia Echavarri-Queen
>
> On Behalf of the CR team
>
>
> [1] Grants Relaunch Meta Page
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021
> [2] Movement Strategy principles -
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Movement_Strategy_Principles#Subsidiarity_&_Self-Management
>
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:25 AM Guillaume Paumier 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I wanted to share the link to a report covering grants given out by the
>> Wikimedia Foundation during the 2019−2020 fiscal year. This was inspired by
>> the Fundraising reports that fundraising teams have prepared for many
>> years. The intent is to publish similar yearly reports for grantmaking
>> going forward.
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grantmaking/Reports/2019-2020
>>
>> Questions and comments are welcome, preferably on the talk page.
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Logo of MediaWiki has changed

[Samuel Klein]

I love this.  It looks great on the site.  Thanks Serhio and all :)

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 7:28 PM Amir Sarabadani  wrote:

> Hello,
> After more than one year of design, discussion, vote, iteration, and
> months of legal work, I’m happy to announce that the logo of MediaWiki has
> been officially changed. This applies to both the software and logo of
> https://mediawiki.org.
>
> The old logo of MediaWiki was adopted slightly more than fifteen years
> ago. This logo was featuring the nice concept of a sunflower representing
> diversity, constant growth and also wilderness.
>
> However, with years, the logo became outdated and we realized that it had
> several problems, including but not limited to:
>
>- It was a bitmap picture so it’s unusable in large sizes
>- Its high details (“too realistic”) made it unusable in small sizes
>- Its fixed and realistic style made it hard to have variations or
>adaptations
>
> Most, virtually all, software products use a simpler and more abstract
> form following basic logo design guidelines and best-practices to avoid
> above (and more) issues. For example, docker, kubernetes, Ubuntu, Vue.js,
> React, Apache Kafka and many more.
>
> You can find the discussion of changing the logo in
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Proposal_for_changing_logo_of_MediaWiki,_2020
> . As you can see on this page, a lot of interesting practical and
> theoretical exchanges happened, leading to the final vote and decision.
>
> The new logo represents a collection of projects built on our engine: each
> petal is one of the many wikis that we support, and the lack of an explicit
> core shows that we are part of these projects, as well as and they are part
> of MediaWiki. The new logo also reflects the fact that evolution never
> stops, and like the petals of a flower, the development of each project,
> the growth of each community built on our engine allows everyone else to
> grow.
>
> The designer of the new logo is [[User:Serhio Magpie]]. With the nice
> abstraction baked-in, you can use it in large or small sizes or you can
> adapt it for different usecases (there’s one already for mediawiki on
> docker: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274678). There is a logo
> guideline for MediaWiki now:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:MediaWiki_logo_guidelines
>
> We already deployed changes to mediawiki.org and landed related patches
> on master, meaning from 1.36 release onwards, it’ll come with the new logo.
> You can follow the work of rolling it out in
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268230.
>
> I humbly ask Wikimedians to update their wikis, for example usages on the
> main pages, Wikipedia articles, templates, and more. You can use the logos
> in this category on Commons. The files are already protected against upload
> vandalism.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_logo_(2020)
>
> A big thank you to all who helped this project to finish. From designers,
> community members, people who voted and discussed it intensively for
> months, Wikimedia Legal for doing all the necessary work for transferring
> the rights, clearing it and filing it for trademark. And many many more
> people.
>
> Best
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] COVID-19 second wave and protection of our most valuable movement asset

[Samuel Klein]

Something like this could definitely make a real difference, GN -- either
enhancing and focusing pages on WP, or standing up a COVID-19 dedicated
site that could draw from other projects.

At the same time we could also set aside funds to ensure that
communityresources is well staffed at this time.
A federated approach like this
<https://losaltoscf.org/lacf-2020-nonprofit-relief-fund/> to explicitly
support regional partners, in coordination with other regional sponsors,
could work. (Candid has a catalog
<https://candid.org/explore-issues/coronavirus/funds> of similar efforts).

SJ


On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:04 AM Gnangarra  wrote:

> Our best skill is collecting, collating, and sharing knowledge, we have
> connections deep into communities and countries across the globe.
>
> In a small way we have networks and we could get limited support medically
> to a handful of volunteers, in some ways that will have made feel as if we
> have done some to help then we can go back to our meetings, our events, our
> adding a few more articles.
>
> Perhaps its time we took our big stick and put the right knowledge where
> it can be found quickly, turn over the main pages to Wikimed get more
> useful support information about reducing transmission risks. We can use
> our resources to get knowledge about how bad it is to wider audiences,
> importantly link our volunteers into other organisations and help this
> knowledge with support to wherever ground zero is.  We can put our skill
> sets to translations and knowledge distribution so everyone can learn.
>
>
> On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 02:38, Chris Keating 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>> Personally I feel, insuring individuals against COVID-19 or helping
>>> people to get vaccines or sending other supports can be better handled
>>> locally by local affiliates (or local committees as proposed by Tito,
>>> whichevers seems fit) instead of a central organization like WMF. Local
>>> affiliates have better information about the vulnerable section of the
>>> community, government orders concerning the available vaccines, local
>>> market value of insurance premiums, vaccines, disinfectants etc. Sometimes
>>> they even have the money and/or the intention to extend this kind of
>>> support too, all they need is just a permission from the donor i.e. WMF
>>> Grants team.
>>>
>>
>> The more I think about this, the more I come to think that we should at
>> least attempt it.
>>
>> It might be unusual for a nonprofit to provide this kind of support to
>> its volunteers, but this is a truly exceptional situation. And while the
>> entire world is struggling with Covid, the nature of the struggle is deeply
>> different in most wealthy countries compared to what India is going through
>> now. And India will probably not be the last nation to see its healthcare
>> system not just threatened but entirely overwhelmed.
>>
>> Of course the WMF is not going to be able to start airlifting
>> Wikimedia-branded vaccines or oxygen supplies, but there must be some form
>> practical help that can be given to support Wikimedia volunteers.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Chris
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] COVID-19 second wave and protection of our most valuable movement asset

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks Biyanto, wonderful to see.  Have any other groups done something
similar?  S

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 4:53 AM Biyanto Rebin 
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I just want to share that Wikimedia Indonesia has started the initiative
> since last year. We have disbursed a healthy package - we call it, wellness
> package - to our active community members. They are indeed very valuable
> and most of them are vulnerable. Vaccine is another story, since our
> country still prioritizes the most needed first.
>
> Read more of the story in here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2019-2020_round_2/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Progress_report_form
>
> Best,
>
> Pada tanggal Kam, 29 Apr 2021 pukul 14.08 Rajeeb 
> menulis:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Hope my mail finds you all in the best of health and spirits. I like to
>> thank Tito and Bodhi for coming up with this initiative and starting the
>> conversation. Now, WMF has permitted CIS-A2K to allot funds to reimburse
>> vaccines, send COVID protection kits and provide counselling for Wikimedia
>> volunteers in India.
>> A noble initiative for humanity has begun and I am sure the days are not
>> too far where we all will be healthy and happy with our families, relatives
>> and friends.
>>
>> Last but not the least, I am always there for my Wiki Community, for
>> anything and everything, anyone wants to speak with me, please feel free to
>> contact me.
>>
>> Wishing everyone and their families a healthy and happy life.
>>
>> Namaste,
>>
>> Rajeeb.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 20:55, Samuel Klein  wrote:
>>
>>> Something like this could definitely make a real difference, GN --
>>> either enhancing and focusing pages on WP, or standing up a COVID-19
>>> dedicated site that could draw from other projects.
>>>
>>> At the same time we could also set aside funds to ensure that
>>> communityresources is well staffed at this time.
>>> A federated approach like this
>>> <https://losaltoscf.org/lacf-2020-nonprofit-relief-fund/> to explicitly
>>> support regional partners, in coordination with other regional sponsors,
>>> could work. (Candid has a catalog
>>> <https://candid.org/explore-issues/coronavirus/funds> of similar
>>> efforts).
>>>
>>> SJ
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:04 AM Gnangarra  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Our best skill is collecting, collating, and sharing knowledge, we have
>>>> connections deep into communities and countries across the globe.
>>>>
>>>> In a small way we have networks and we could get limited support
>>>> medically to a handful of volunteers, in some ways that will have made feel
>>>> as if we have done some to help then we can go back to our meetings, our
>>>> events, our adding a few more articles.
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps its time we took our big stick and put the right knowledge
>>>> where it can be found quickly, turn over the main pages to Wikimed get more
>>>> useful support information about reducing transmission risks. We can use
>>>> our resources to get knowledge about how bad it is to wider audiences,
>>>> importantly link our volunteers into other organisations and help this
>>>> knowledge with support to wherever ground zero is.  We can put our skill
>>>> sets to translations and knowledge distribution so everyone can learn.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 02:38, Chris Keating 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Personally I feel, insuring individuals against COVID-19 or helping
>>>>>> people to get vaccines or sending other supports can be better handled
>>>>>> locally by local affiliates (or local committees as proposed by Tito,
>>>>>> whichevers seems fit) instead of a central organization like WMF. Local
>>>>>> affiliates have better information about the vulnerable section of the
>>>>>> community, government orders concerning the available vaccines, local
>>>>>> market value of insurance premiums, vaccines, disinfectants etc. 
>>>>>> Sometimes
>>>>>> they even have the money and/or the intention to extend this kind of
>>>>>> support too, all they need is just a permission from the donor i.e. WMF
>>>>>> Grants team

[Wikimedia-l] Flourishing of the Endowment

[Samuel Klein]

(Retitling this thread, which is now focused on the endowment)

As a meta note, it is a true delight that our primary concerns surrounding
the endowment, 5 years in, are that it is flourishing well beyond
expectations*.  An extremely warm *thank you* to everyone who has made that
possible, it sets an anxious part of my mind at ease :)

Andreas writes:

> So according to the financial statements for the last five years, the WMF
>>> had a revenue surplus of over $100 million over that time period (measured
>>> as increase in net assets, from $77.8 million to $180.3 million). But over
>>> the same period, the Foundation also accumulated $100 million in Tides
>>> Foundation funds (i.e. the Endowment, reported[6] to have passed $90
>>> million in early February, and the $8.7 million in Tides Advocacy).
>>>
>>> This means that the Foundation has actually had a revenue surplus of
>>> more than $200 million over the past five years, averaging over $40 million
>>> per annum.
>>>
>>
That's not usually what revenue surplus means!

A key reason for a strong endowment, and the primary one that many of us
have wanted one, is as a source of long-term support (specifically: for
critical operations) that is managed independently, and can not be simply
used as a cash reserve.

As explained on Meta, it is inaccurate to think of the endowment as "an
investment that the WMF is the beneficiary of". The endowment is there to
support the Projects, rain or shine.

To quote from my initial proposal
 (*NB: past proposals
may not reflect current or future endowment goals; among other things I
don't know that we've ever tried to narrowly define and optimize core
services ;*) :

"The endowment should be large enough to sustainably support the basic
operation of the Projects (see iii. below), able to grow with inflation
while supporting any needed central server farms and technical support with
its interest, and of a size that we can raise."

2. Would it be possible to provide, say, monthly updates for the Endowment
> on Meta?
>

Once a year is standard and would suffice here, I should think.

3. Could a mention of the Endowment, and the fact that the posted expenses
> include $5 million paid to the endowment, be added to the FAQ?
>
> (The FAQ refers to the most recent audited accounts, and thus is still a
> live document. For Awards and grants, which includes the $5 million paid to
> the endowment, the FAQ summary is: "We increased our awards and grants as
> we continue our commitment to support our Affiliates, Organized Groups, and
> Community Members."
>

I agree with clarifying the 'Awards and grants' category.  I try to keep
track of the % of total global donations that are redistributed as awards
and APG or other grants (*current guess: 9%
?*),
and must remember to subtract the endowment transfer each year.  It would
be excellent if that were called out as its own line item.

Wikilove,
SJ.

* I remain of the opinion that the endowment should be doing even better,
as a hedge against the growth in complexity and maintenance cost of our
toolchains and services -- that we should implement a policy assigning a
minimum % of all windfall gifts or donations over the expected target to
the endowment.  But it may make sense to revisit that in earnest once the
Endowment org & what it supports are more crisply defined.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: COVID-19 second wave and protection of our most valuable movement asset

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you for this.  How is it coming?  SJ

On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 11:38 AM Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Today, we have opened up the Google Form for Indian volunteers to fill up.
> Here is the link -
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYcjEeuT7vUxP3NJg7KfIiZaude9IXLyCagsDarTx11J4ymA/viewform
>
> There are still some logistical constraints to be fully operational, but
> we are trying to figure those out as soon as we can. Hopefully, all will be
> set by next week.
>
> Regards,
> Bodhisattwa
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021, 21:54 Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
>> Thanks Biyanto, wonderful to see.  Have any other groups done something
>> similar?  S
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 4:53 AM Biyanto Rebin <
>> biyanto.re...@wikimedia.or.id> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I just want to share that Wikimedia Indonesia has started the initiative
>>> since last year. We have disbursed a healthy package - we call it, wellness
>>> package - to our active community members. They are indeed very valuable
>>> and most of them are vulnerable. Vaccine is another story, since our
>>> country still prioritizes the most needed first.
>>>
>>> Read more of the story in here:
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2019-2020_round_2/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Progress_report_form
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Pada tanggal Kam, 29 Apr 2021 pukul 14.08 Rajeeb 
>>> menulis:
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Hope my mail finds you all in the best of health and spirits. I like to
>>>> thank Tito and Bodhi for coming up with this initiative and starting the
>>>> conversation. Now, WMF has permitted CIS-A2K to allot funds to reimburse
>>>> vaccines, send COVID protection kits and provide counselling for Wikimedia
>>>> volunteers in India.
>>>> A noble initiative for humanity has begun and I am sure the days
>>>> are not too far where we all will be healthy and happy with our families,
>>>> relatives and friends.
>>>>
>>>> Last but not the least, I am always there for my Wiki Community, for
>>>> anything and everything, anyone wants to speak with me, please feel free to
>>>> contact me.
>>>>
>>>> Wishing everyone and their families a healthy and happy life.
>>>>
>>>> Namaste,
>>>>
>>>> Rajeeb.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 20:55, Samuel Klein  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Something like this could definitely make a real difference, GN --
>>>>> either enhancing and focusing pages on WP, or standing up a COVID-19
>>>>> dedicated site that could draw from other projects.
>>>>>
>>>>> At the same time we could also set aside funds to ensure that
>>>>> communityresources is well staffed at this time.
>>>>> A federated approach like this
>>>>> <https://losaltoscf.org/lacf-2020-nonprofit-relief-fund/> to
>>>>> explicitly support regional partners, in coordination with other regional
>>>>> sponsors, could work. (Candid has a catalog
>>>>> <https://candid.org/explore-issues/coronavirus/funds> of similar
>>>>> efforts).
>>>>>
>>>>> SJ
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:04 AM Gnangarra  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Our best skill is collecting, collating, and sharing knowledge, we
>>>>>> have connections deep into communities and countries across the globe.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In a small way we have networks and we could get limited support
>>>>>> medically to a handful of volunteers, in some ways that will have made 
>>>>>> feel
>>>>>> as if we have done some to help then we can go back to our meetings, our
>>>>>> events, our adding a few more articles.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Perhaps its time we took our big stick and put the right knowledge
>>>>>> where it can be found quickly, turn over the main pages to Wikimed get 
>>>>>> more
>>>>>> useful support information about reducing transmission risks. We can use
>>>>>> our resources to get knowledge about 

[Wikimedia-l] Movement funding questions

[Samuel Klein]

Dear list,

Risker posed an excellent question in the AffCom thread about *review and
development of movement funding*, which could use its own dedicated
thread.  Riffing on the theme, here are a dozen questions for anyone who
knows part of the answer -- particularly those who helped develop the 2019
recommendations on resource allocation

,
the 2020 approach to hubs and participatory resource allocation
,
and the grants strategy relaunch

.

We can move this discussion to meta 
if the thread becomes unwieldy.  (:

*1. Current state of movement funding*

 1a. Roughly what % of global fundraising is currently allocated to
affiliates, or other entities + projects not run by the WMF?  (*my poor
guess *)

 1b. Roughly how much regional fundraising goes directly to major
affiliates?

 1c. Which affiliates with annual plan grants have been growing over time,
and how is the expansion of existing budgets approved?

 1d. Which affiliates have gotten their first APG in the past five years,
and how has that developed over time?

*2. Current review process*

 2a. How is funding by WMF of movement affiliates (general operations, and
large specific projects) currently determined?  Does the Board engage with
this?

 2b. Is the funding of affiliate work linked to goals of increasing equity
across the world, and supporting underrepresented communities? If so, how /
how is this visualized?

 2c. What other mechanisms for focusing and allocating resources are good
examples to replicate?

 2d. What other bilateral projects (such as joint projects, and grant  or
microgrant programs), run by large affiliates and hubs other than the WMF,
currently exist?  Which seem like examples to replicate?

*3. Desired futures!*

 3a. What movement bodies are expected to play any role in recommendations
about funding (extending, withdrawing, denying funding) to new and existing
affiliates, now that the FDC is inactive?

 3b. Is there a possibility of the FDC returning? How do past FDC members
have about this? What was found to be good and bad about the FDC process?

 3c.  What elements of this is the global council expected to take up in
its first year? What elements are hubs expected to take up, now and in the
future?

 3d. What roles do we envision each of {WMF, hubs, affiliates, community
members} to play in reviewing movement budgets/plans and the volume and
focus of future funding [re]allocation?
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement funding questions

[Samuel Klein]

:)   Dimi, do you know of reports on subsets of this, for groups and
projects in Europe?   I discovered to my delight a beautiful summary of WMF
grants made up to 2020
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grantmaking/Reports/2019-2020> -- thanks
Guillaume! -- which partly answers the first question. But this does not
include donations + external grant funding that directly supports
affiliates.

One other point -- It was noted that 3a and 3d seem similar.  I updated
these Qs on meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:MSIG> to be
clearer.  I meant:

 *3a*:  What groups do we envision making individual funding
recommendations?  [timing, who decides, what constraints]
 *3d*:  How do we envision reviewing how things are going?   [peer feedback
on budgets and plans, reflection on the overall balance of funding across
the movement.]

These inform one another, but are distinct.   And the first is more than
just updating current processes: major gaps to fill include funding for
projects under $500, and multi-year funding for infrastructure and projects
-- among the most common requests.

SJ


On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 6:52 AM Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
dimitar.parvanov.dimit...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Samuel,
>
> Thanks for structuring these questions regarding funding and fundraising.
> I just wanted to pitch in a +1.
>
> It would be very useful to have answers to some of these for our public
> facing work. Such questions pop up naturally in conversations and the more
> granular we can be in our answers the better the reaction we get.
>
> Cheers,
> Dimi
>
> На пн, 17.05.2021 г. в 21:13 ч. Samuel Klein  написа:
>
>> Dear list,
>>
>> Risker posed an excellent question in the AffCom thread about *review
>> and development of movement funding*, which could use its own dedicated
>> thread.  Riffing on the theme, here are a dozen questions for anyone who
>> knows part of the answer -- particularly those who helped develop the 2019
>> recommendations on resource allocation
>> <http://Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_Groups/Resource_Allocation#Recommendations>
>>  ,
>> the 2020 approach to hubs and participatory resource allocation
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Ensure_Equity_in_Decision-making#Participatory_resource_allocation>,
>> and the grants strategy relaunch
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_Strategy_Relaunch_2020-2021>
>> .
>>
>> We can move this discussion to meta
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MSIG> if the thread becomes unwieldy.
>> (:
>>
>> *1. Current state of movement funding*
>>
>>  1a. Roughly what % of global fundraising is currently allocated to
>> affiliates, or other entities + projects not run by the WMF?  (*my poor
>> guess*)
>>
>>  1b. Roughly how much regional fundraising goes directly to major
>> affiliates?
>>
>>  1c. Which affiliates with annual plan grants have been growing over
>> time, and how is the expansion of existing budgets approved?
>>
>>  1d. Which affiliates have gotten their first APG in the past five years,
>> and how has that developed over time?
>>
>> *2. Current review process*
>>
>>  2a. How is funding by WMF of movement affiliates (general operations,
>> and large specific projects) currently determined?  Does the Board engage
>> with this?
>>
>>  2b. Is the funding of affiliate work linked to goals of increasing
>> equity across the world, and supporting underrepresented communities?
>> If so, how / how is this visualized?
>>
>>  2c. What other mechanisms for focusing and allocating resources are good
>> examples to replicate?
>>
>>  2d. What other bilateral projects (such as joint projects, and grant  or
>> microgrant programs), run by large affiliates and hubs other than the WMF,
>> currently exist?  Which seem like examples to replicate?
>>
>> *3. Desired futures!*
>>
>>  3a. What movement bodies are expected to play any role in
>> recommendations about funding (extending, withdrawing, denying funding) to
>> new and existing affiliates, now that the FDC is inactive?
>>
>>  3b. Is there a possibility of the FDC returning? How do past FDC members
>> have about this? What was found to be good and bad about the FDC process?
>>
>>  3c.  What elements of this is the global council expected to take up in
>> its first year? What elements are hubs expected to take up, now and in the
>> future?
>>
>>  3d. What roles do we envision each of {WMF, hubs, affiliates, community
>> members} to play in reviewing mov

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement funding questions

[Samuel Klein]

Adam: well put.

We may want to translate '*Service and equity*', from recent strategy
discussions, more widely: into a range of contexts as well as languages.

🌍🌏🌎🌑

On Thu., May 20, 2021, 3:19 a.m. Adam Wight, 
wrote:

> In case there really is a question about whether we should be working
> towards greater equity, please see the Wikimedia Foundation's vision
> statement [1],
>
>  > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
> the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment
>
> and in more detail [2],
>
>  > ... our goal is to impact the largest-possible number of readers and
> contributors, and to eliminate barriers that could preclude people from
> accessing or contributing to our projects ...
>
> Since sj's point is in the context of Wikimedia, "goals of increasing
> equity across the world, and supporting underrepresented communities"
> should be understood as "goals of increasing equity [to read and
> contribute to Wikimedia projects] across the world, and supporting
> underrepresented [Wikimedia] communities".  Please correct me if I've
> misunderstood these affiliate review suggestions.
>
> Regards,
> [[mw:User:Adamw]]
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vision
> [2]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Guiding_Principles#Serving_every_human_being
>
> On 5/20/21 7:34 AM, Alexander N Krassotkin wrote:
> > Dear Samuel,
> >
> >   Just a note...
> >
> > "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
> > people around the world to collect and develop educational content
> > under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it
> > effectively and globally".
> > https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/mission/
> >
> >   But not "increasing equity across the world".
> >
> >   You can create separate funds for this and other good purposes.
> >
> > sasha.
> >
> > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:05 PM Julia Brungs 
> wrote:
> >> Dear SJ,
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for your questions here and on meta. We are working
> on answering them and will post the answers on meta (don't worry I will
> reply to this thread again when the answers are live so people can go and
> find them).
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >> Julia
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 7:32 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:
> >>> :)   Dimi, do you know of reports on subsets of this, for groups and
> projects in Europe?   I discovered to my delight a beautiful summary of WMF
> grants made up to 2020 -- thanks Guillaume! -- which partly answers the
> first question. But this does not include donations + external grant
> funding that directly supports affiliates.
> >>>
> >>> One other point -- It was noted that 3a and 3d seem similar.  I
> updated these Qs on meta to be clearer.  I meant:
> >>>
> >>>   3a:  What groups do we envision making individual funding
> recommendations?  [timing, who decides, what constraints]
> >>>   3d:  How do we envision reviewing how things are going?   [peer
> feedback on budgets and plans, reflection on the overall balance of funding
> across the movement.]
> >>>
> >>> These inform one another, but are distinct.   And the first is more
> than just updating current processes: major gaps to fill include funding
> for projects under $500, and multi-year funding for infrastructure and
> projects -- among the most common requests.
> >>>
> >>> SJ
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 6:52 AM Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <
> dimitar.parvanov.dimit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hi Samuel,
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for structuring these questions regarding funding and
> fundraising. I just wanted to pitch in a +1.
> >>>>
> >>>> It would be very useful to have answers to some of these for our
> public facing work. Such questions pop up naturally in conversations and
> the more granular we can be in our answers the better the reaction we get.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers,
> >>>> Dimi
> >>>>
> >>>> На пн, 17.05.2021 г. в 21:13 ч. Samuel Klein 
> написа:
> >>>>> Dear list,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Risker posed an excellent question in the AffCom thread about review
> and development of movement funding, which could use its own dedicated
> thread.  Riffing on the theme, here are a dozen questions for an

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing an academic conference on Wikipedia translation

[Samuel Klein]

This looks lovely, thank you for organizing it Mark.
You can submit a rapid grant request
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid> for support for
online participation.

This seems like something of interest to developers of Translate
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate> + Content Translation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation> + translatewiki
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translatewiki.net>, the current WMF language
& translation team <https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/>,
and the people working on Lexicographical data
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data> in
Wikidata :)  You might want to explicitly invite some of those networks.

SJ

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 1:48 AM Mark SHUTTLEWORTH 
wrote:

> Dear friends and colleagues
>
> Further to my message at the end of last month and the queries that one or
> two of you made, I'd like to notify you of the following:
>
> 1. the conference will now be 100% online
> 2. the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to 30th June
> 2021
>
> Full updated details and Call for Papers can be found on the conference
> website at https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/.
>
> Best regards
>
> Mark Shuttleworth
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 12:13, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear friends and colleagues
>>
>> Please permit me to publicise an academic conference that we're holding
>> at Hong Kong Baptist University on 15-17 December 2021.
>>
>> The conference will be an ideal forum in which to discuss research
>> methodologies, issues of collaborativity, theoretical frameworks that have
>> proven valuable for the study of Wikipedia translation, the use of
>> Wikipedia in the translation classroom and by translation professionals,
>> and the nature of Wikipedia translation and how it differs not only from
>> other more traditional types of translation but also from other newly
>> emerging types. While the conference's main focus is interlingual
>> translation within the online encyclopaedia, we are also interested
>> in research into the multilingual Wikipedia that makes no explicit
>> reference to translation issues.
>>
>> The conference will be online, face-to-face or mixed mode, depending on
>> prevailing circumstances. Please see the conference website at
>> https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/ for full details and the Call for
>> Papers.
>>
>> I hope to see some of you there!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Professor Mark Shuttleworth 夏致遠
>> Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies
>> Hong Kong Baptist University
>> Phone: +852 3411 6641
>> http://www.tran.hkbu.edu.hk
>> https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Thank you. And keep up the good work!

[Samuel Klein]

Dear Abraham, it is wonderful to have you in the movement; thank you as
ever for all of your inspiration and support, and the work you have done +
enabled in others.

> Wikimedia is one of the strongest and last-standing proponents of the
free and open internet,

Just so. Let us make sure it continues to be a support and model for future
proponents as well.

And to Christian, wishing you congratulations and success.--SJ

On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 1:03 PM Abraham Taherivand <
abraham.taheriv...@wikimedia.de> wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
>
> As you know, today is my last day as the Executive Director of Wikimedia
> Deutschland.
>
>
> What an incredible journey it has been. When I started in 2012, I couldn’t
> have even dreamed of all the things I would experience, what I would do,
> whom I would meet, where I would go, and what I would learn. And then it
> all turned out to be even more intense, more magical, and more fulfilling
> than I had thought or could have imagined in my boldest dreams.
>
>
> In 2012, when Pavel Richter brought me into the organisation to build up
> the Wikidata team and to bootstrap the project together with Denny
> Vrandečić, I already had a slight notion that something huge that was about
> to emerge; “Wikidata, the next big thing” still echoes in my ears today.
> The vision of this free and open knowledge base excited and inspired me
> from day one. It was an honour for me to establish the initial Wikidata
> team and later to build the software development department at Wikimedia
> Deutschland. I could really follow my passion to bring people together,
> empowering them, promoting their strengths and challenging them to be
> innovative, to try new things off the beaten track.
>
>
> Then in 2016, a whole new phase began when I was appointed as Executive
> Director. Over these four and a half years, Wikimedia Deutschland has grown
> considerably: our staff has doubled to 150 and we now have over 85,000
> members. Together with a large and successful community, we work as a
> strong and respected partner together with educational and cultural
> institutions, politics, media and digital civil society to liberate
> knowledge. Alongside these audience groups in Germany, the Wikimedia
> Movement - you! - has always been one of the most exciting and relevant
> stakeholders. I am therefore particularly pleased that we and our members
> unanimously decided in 2017 to support the 2030 Strategic Direction and its
> implementation, that we were able to play a strong role in the development
> of the recommendations, and that we are now continuing to pursue the
> implementation with all our might.
>
>
> I have had the great privilege of getting to know and learning from many
> of you personally. The vast array of experience that Wikimedians bring to
> the Movement, the rich ideas, and the people at the heart of it all are
> truly extraordinary. In each Wikimedian I’ve met, I’ve felt the passion for
> the overarching theme of our common vision. The spark in your eyes when you
> start speaking about your favourite topics, be it the encyclopedia,
> technology, governance, photos, food, commas, fondue, karaoke – it’s
> impressive and a memory that I am glad will remain with me forever. What
> each of you bring to this Movement is inspiring and truly special - and
> that’s what makes this movement more than the sum of its parts.
>
>
> It never gets boring in the wikiverse. There is always something new
> coming along, be it in movement strategy, in our programs, or in how we
> work together and grow our reach. At times, it can take awhile to get
> things done. But that is often because we want to make sure everyone has a
> say and has the opportunity to shape how we do things. It is a testament to
> the respect Wikimedians have for each other and each other’s perspectives.
> Wikimedians are very thoughtful: we take care of each other and treat each
> other's needs and opinions as one of the highest goods.
>
>
> Wikimedia is one of the strongest and last-standing proponents of the free
> and open internet, one that continues to work toward making digital society
> better for the sake of humanity.
>
>
> Don’t give up this fight, don’t lose hope, be bold, unite – the world
> needs you!
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Abraham
>
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: June WMF Board meeting update

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you -- good to see these updates shared to the list.
I also appreciate that the mid-year recalibration
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_Priorities_Mid-year_Recalibration_FY20-21>
was
shared as a public resolution.

Warmly, SJ

On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 1:55 PM María Sefidari 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On June 1st and 2nd, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees had our
> regular meeting for Quarter 4 (April – June) of the Foundation’s fiscal
> year. We will have more details about what transpired at the meeting once
> the minutes have been prepared and approved, but we wanted to quickly
> release this brief update on some key topics and decisions:
>
>- We have unanimously approved the Call for Candidates for the 2021
>selection process for Community-and Affiliate selected Trustees. There is a
>revised timeline that accommodates the implementation of single
>transferable vote in the SecurePoll extension, as follows:
>
>
>- June 9 - 29:  Call for candidates
>- June 30 - July 2:  Announcement of confirmed candidates
>- July 7 - August 3: Candidates campaign and answer questions
>- August 4 - 17: Voting
>- August 18 - 24: Vote counting and processing
>- August 25:  Announcement of vote results
>- August 25 - 31: Foundation vetting of selected candidates
>- September: Board appoints selected candidates
>
> More information on the process will follow over the next few
> weeks.
>
>- We have unanimously approved a committee evolution plan to maintain
>and improve the Board’s effectiveness, to be implemented in stages.
>- We have unanimously approved the donation of $5 million in FY
>2020-21 to the Wikimedia Endowment.
>- We have reviewed the proposed Annual Plan for the Foundation for
>2021/22, and unanimously authorised the Audit Committee to approve minor
>adjustments to the 2021-22 fiscal year budget in response to Board input
>during the June meeting. More information on the Annual Plan will follow
>once the Audit Committee has met.
>- We also unanimously approved the minutes from the previous Board
>meeting, to be published on Foundation-Wiki.
>
> On behalf of the Board,
>
> María
>
> --
>
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>
> Chair of the Board
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sharing more details about the Equity Fund

[Samuel Klein]

Lisa + all -- Excellent to see this take shape.  It pairs well with a
vintage CSB

...

Thank you for putting out a call for potential projects to support.  I'll
think more on it before filling out the form
; some categories that come to mind
that can't happen on-wiki projects today:
 * Reliable secondary sources that write prolifically about
under-documented people and projects
 * Reliable interlocutors that record and index oral and other histories,
and under-documented languages (cf Rosetta and PanLex)
* Making representative subsets of essential collections available
digitally (ex.
)
+ under a free license. (ex.

)

Sam.

PS - some thoughts on your comments, Geni:

Geni writes:
> 3 [internet access] isn't really viable at our kind of funding levels and
has significant enviromental concerns.

Efforts to get libraries online, in regions whose lit + historical + public
records are underrepresented on the searchable web, is quite impactful as
part of digitization + mirroring efforts.  Many regional groups work in
collab w existing infrastructure-efforts providing the bandwidth [such as
Giga ]

> 4 [digital literacy]  Again not really viable at our funding levels

Not my experience; especially as knowledge propagates like a taper flame.

> (also english language lessions would have more impact).

I imagine this is not meant to be limited to the english-speaking world and
projects.

> 5 [non-traditional records of knowledge] runs into the issue that the
community has not historicaly proven accepting of attempts to lower RS and
notability standards for non western areas.

This comment seems a bit off-topic.  These grants as described are not
constrained by what is accepted by current wiki projects; archiving and
indexing non-traditional records allows them to be cited and allows the
archives to become recognized as reliable sources; only a few
project-language-editions to my knowledge have been prickly about engaging
with oral histories, and such records exist in every culture and part of
the world.



🌍🌏🌎🌑

On Wed., Jun. 9, 2021, 1:15 p.m. Lisa Gruwell, 
wrote:

>
> This is a $4.5 million USD fund to address racial inequities that impact
> the work of free knowledge. It was created to provide focused grants to
> organizations that are advancing knowledge equity, one of two key pillars
> of our 2030 strategic direction of becoming the essential infrastructure of
> free knowledge. Specifically, the fund is meant to support organizations
> working to address the racial injustices and barriers that prevent
> participation in free knowledge.
>
>
> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Fund
>
> [5] https://forms.gle/gzqRH7yMFEGgZb4e6
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

[Samuel Klein]

Jan-Bart: Spot on.  It is always uplifting to see one of your measured
notes come over the wire.

Jan-Bart de Vreede  writes:

> The Foundation is supposed to be an example of good Governance for our
> entire movement. We (as a movement) have come a long way in the past 20
> years (and that is important: as our organisation and budget grows, so do
> our responsibilities and the critical questions we get from the world)
>
> It is NOT good governance to have a current board member suddenly resign
> and then create a situation where that person receives compensation for a
> position that seems to have been created specifically for that board member
> (or at least was not publicly posted?).
>

The impact of this increases as the movement grows, and clear communication
is at a premium. How can we use this moment to model the norms we want for
the future?  Any *particular* moment can feel like a special exception when
you are close to it, but the WMF's actions set a standard, translated
across time and context, more instantly and effectively than words.


> It is a good practice to create a 12 month waiting period before board
> members of non-profits can become a staff member/paid contractor/consultant.
>

A few people mentioned that their own orgs or committees have norms or
policies around this (Chris, Philip, Tito); could you describe specifics
that are in place now around the movement?

SJ.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming María Sefidari as a Foundation consultant. :)

[Samuel Klein]

¹ OK, the existence of the Good Governance Kodex, and its Good Governance
Gremium <https://mitglieder.wikimedia.at/Good_Governance_Kodex>, may be the
best thing I learned all day.  Thank you, WMAT!

Some precedents:
~ As Florence noted, in 2007, Erik made a similar transition.  (A bit
contentious; there was a long internal-l thread).
~ In 2013, Ting stepped down from the Board to apply to the ED search; and
addressed concerns at the time. (Discussion on this list
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=7f4d33b442&view=lg&permmsgid=msg-f%3A1433039687338740686>
)

Since then we've thought more intently about this sort of transition across
the movement, and shared many excellent learning patterns
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Governance_Codex>,¹ but
I haven't seen a resulting global rule of thumb honoring that work. This
feels like a good moment to develop such a lightweight overview.  E.g.,
"orgs over size X should review this list of [[common patterns]], and
consider implementing a version of each [links to global + regional
WM-wide examples]".

SJ
--
topnoting >> topposting
*the community that norms together, warms together*, &c.

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 4:18 PM Philip Kopetzky 
wrote:

> Hi SJ!
>
> The 12 month waiting/cooldown period is something that was implemented in
> the Good Governance Kodex of Wikimedia Austria in 2014, see
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_%C3%96sterreich/Good_Governance_Kodex,
> with an independent committee consisting of a staff, board and community
> representative deciding cases that do not fulfill the 12 months waiting
> period.
>
> Best,
> Philip
>
> On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 at 16:28, Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
>> Jan-Bart: Spot on.  It is always uplifting to see one of your measured
>> notes come over the wire.
>>
>> Jan-Bart de Vreede  writes:
>>
>>> The Foundation is supposed to be an example of good Governance for our
>>> entire movement. We (as a movement) have come a long way in the past 20
>>> years (and that is important: as our organisation and budget grows, so do
>>> our responsibilities and the critical questions we get from the world)
>>>
>>> It is NOT good governance to have a current board member suddenly resign
>>> and then create a situation where that person receives compensation for a
>>> position that seems to have been created specifically for that board member
>>> (or at least was not publicly posted?).
>>>
>>
>> The impact of this increases as the movement grows, and clear
>> communication is at a premium. How can we use this moment to model the
>> norms we want for the future?  Any *particular* moment can feel like a
>> special exception when you are close to it, but the WMF's actions set a
>> standard, translated across time and context, more instantly and
>> effectively than words.
>>
>>
>>> It is a good practice to create a 12 month waiting period before board
>>> members of non-profits can become a staff member/paid contractor/consultant.
>>>
>>
>> A few people mentioned that their own orgs or committees have norms or
>> policies around this (Chris, Philip, Tito); could you describe specifics
>> that are in place now around the movement?
>>
>> SJ.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Fwd: FW: Professor Jing Wang (1950–2021)

[Samuel Klein]

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> for China.
>
> Having lost her daughter, Candy
> <http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AMwAAKqL8X0AAcrqnbA83MsAGqoAJUNBAAiQzwBhAsSMSUNopTskT0CMncxamYYExAAIIWc/5/YywrXXH3sLfXXVKFpK5TLA/aHR0cDovL2NhbmR5d2VpLm9yZy8>,
> tragically two decades ago, Jing was keenly attuned to the struggles of
> others. Warm, caring and generous, she was a gifted cook who made sure that
> students from far away had a welcoming place to go for Thanksgiving.
>
> May we honor her memory by making room at our own tables – and by reaching
> out now to the many friends, colleagues and students grappling with her
> loss.
>
> With sympathy,
>
> L. Rafael Reif
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikipedia issues in UNDARK.org #Opinion article to check...

[Samuel Klein]

We do need, among other things, the sum of all Wikipedias.  :)
A shared commons, wikidata, global templates, abstract WP! are all ways to
get there.  The suggestions in this article are not...

In particular, as long as reliability and verifiability and research norms
are siloed by language -- with the barrier of translation making it much
more difficult to parse and evaluate claims made in a mutually
incomprehensible language -- articles about a topic T in language X will
depend on reliable secondary sources in that language about T.

But we can move towards making this more possible, with
- better on-wiki / inline translation options [G! Translate is a step in
that direction, but only one]
- better options for multilingual review and consensus [some languages and
Meta have tried some versions of this in the past, so far w/o great
success]
- better translation-linkage tracking between articles: indicating which
parts of article in one language are synched/branched from parts of the
same article in another language.  [there is research + practical
literature on approaches to this in other media]
- (many more...)



On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 12:18 AM Željko Blaće  wrote:

> ...considering recent discussions on Wikimania and here, this is maybe a
> useful opinion piece from  https://
>  UNDARK.org/2021/08/12/wikipedia-has-a-language-problem-heres-how-to-fix-it/
>
> It is packed with good insights and while I do not agree with all this,
> the final sentence feels kind of brilliant: ... to achieve its stated
> mission to “help everyone share in the sum of all knowledge,” they might
> first need to create the sum of all Wikipedias.
>
> Best Z. Blace
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Voting closes for the 2021 Board of Trustees election with a record participation

[Samuel Klein]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 3:26 PM Jackie Koerner 
wrote:

> Diversity was an important goal with these elections. Messages about the
> Board election were translated into 61 languages. This outreach worked
> well. There were 70 communities with eligible voters voting in this
> election for the first time. With your help, next year’s Board of Trustees
> election will be even better.
>

Thank you Jackie + all involved.

This is impressive.  I'd love to see more of an analysis of those
communities + participants.

What do we know about the distribution of community activity among voters,
across communities?
(I would imagine activity was higher on Wikidata because of how edits are
counted)
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[Wikimedia-l] Paid editing dashboard and metrics?

[Samuel Klein]

Jan Böhmermann 
published an amazing expose on political WP editing in Germany; it gets
good around 15 minutes in
. In the video he
exposed the workings of a paid editing farm run (by Olaf Kosinsky (Wikidata
; CheckUser discussion

; archived PR-services site
), an
excellent long-time editor with over 3 million edits.

*We need to distinguish paid editing from general COI editing*.  Paid
editing is COI editing by professionals, who have strong external
incentives to persist, no leeway in the outcome they are aiming
for, experience in doing this in dozens of cases, and may have colleagues
who can drop in as 'uninvolved' editors to forge consensus or social
proof.[1]

This is one of our great recurring challenges, siphoning off both our
reputation and our community.  There are many things we can do about paid
editing, starting with maintaining *paid-editing metrics and a dashboard*
of known and estimated paid editing.  We can estimate its prevalence by the
availabiity of services online[2]; and look for patterns of such editing on
wiki.  Even with large error margins, this would be a step above simply
waiting for outbreaks to be discovered and reacting to the visible bits of
the iceberg.

What sort of metrics like this do we have already?  Who is working on such
things?
Since the above video came out, de:wp started a table of WP editing services
.
It currently includes an initial dozen examples, with no estimate of
activity (the 1 account known to be associated with each is in most cases
blocked; but most have active websites soliciting work) This would be
useful in all languages.

SJ

 [1] as Melmann wrote

recently:
"*in my experience, **all the most difficult edits are WP:PAID
**. Most non-paid COI comes
from a place of desire to make things better, and often can be relatively
easily guided towards a better place... [or] it is relatively easy to use
existing enforcement mechanisms to to correct and ultimately control their
behaviours. PR professionals, on the other hand, are subtle and sometimes
downright deceptive, and it takes lots of effort to check their edits when
most of the time you lack context and expertise and you really have to
research in depth to see their edits for what they really are. I think that
one of the fundamental mistakes of the current policy is lumping paid
editors with general COI editing as paid editors are fundamentally playing
on a different level in terms of PR expertise and incentives*"

[2] Just searching for this online led to ads from dozens of services.  The
first 10 below seem to be clones of the same service (perhaps run by the
same farm)
 Elite Wiki Writers
 Wiki Curators
 Wiki Genies
 Wikipedia Legends
 Wiki Page Writing
 Wiki Page Creator
 WikiProfs
 Wiki Specialist LLC
 Wiki Writers Workshop
 Wikipedia Publisher
 Wikipedia Services
 360 Ghostwriting
 Contentfly
 Otter PR
 Premium Content Writing
 ReputationX
 Upwork
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

[Samuel Klein]

Congratulations to Rosie, Victoria, Dariusz and Lorenzo!

This system offers a helpful way of seeing whether there is a natural break
in the election results.
In this case there was a growing gap between 5th and 6th place results as
the process resolved.

Looking at the gap between (1 + 4), (4 + 5), and (5 + 6) as the # of
remaining candidates dropped:

# left   | 1st-4th | 4th-5th | 5th-6th |
19   |  185 |27 |  141 |
 9|  131 |25 |  223 |
 6|   97  |50 |  313 |
 5|  146 |19 |–   |



On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 3:40 PM Chris Keating 
wrote:

> I too am disappointed (but not surprised) that STV had almost no effect at
>> all on the outcome of this election
>>
>
> This may be true, but if it's true, it was only true very narrowly. The
> margin between the 4th and 5th placed candidates was 12.27 votes in a
> situation where 1,188 were needed to win.
>
> Had that gone very marginally differently, we'd all be talking about how
> amazing it was that a black African woman had been elected to the Board for
> the first time in history.
>
> We can observe a few other things about how it worked out:
> - by and large votes did not seem to transfer between Global South
> candidates - when one Global south candidate was knocked out their votes
> did not usually go to other Global South candidates
> - most votes ending up counting; of 6,800 or so initially there were 6,000
> counted in the final round, that is a fairly low dropout rate
> - also, if all 8 Board seats had been elected at the same time rather than
> in 2 batches in 2 years, we'd have 2 Global South candidates in the final 8
> and probably be pretty pleased with the results. (Is it still an option for
> the Board to do this and appoint Eliane, Mike, Pascale and Ivan and then
> skip next year's planned election?)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Paid editing dashboard and metrics?

[Samuel Klein]

Aha -- I was pointed to en:wp's List of paid editing companies
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_paid_editing_companies>.
(thanks!)  This is a great resource and deserves to be better linked.   The
page is semi-active - 4 additions in the last month, including the Olaf
case. I've cleaned it up a bit and linked it to the German page. This
really needs some automated scripting and tracking, at the scale of ORES...

Is there any routine analysis / stats compiled of edits associated with
these orgs, or of their activity online?

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 2:19 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:

> Jan Böhmermann <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_B%C3%B6hmermann>
> published an amazing expose on political WP editing in Germany; it gets
> good around 15 minutes in
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNsTaKwyAzI&t=900s>. In the video he
> exposed the workings of a paid editing farm run (by Olaf Kosinsky (
> Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30108329>; CheckUser discussion
> <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Umgang_mit_bezahltem_Schreiben/Verdachtsf%C3%A4lle/Olaf_Kosinsky>
> ; archived PR-services site
> <https://web.archive.org/web/20210416110100/https://kosinsky.eu/>), an
> excellent long-time editor with over 3 million edits.
>
> *We need to distinguish paid editing from general COI editing*.  Paid
> editing is COI editing by professionals, who have strong external
> incentives to persist, no leeway in the outcome they are aiming
> for, experience in doing this in dozens of cases, and may have colleagues
> who can drop in as 'uninvolved' editors to forge consensus or social
> proof.[1]
>
> This is one of our great recurring challenges, siphoning off both our
> reputation and our community.  There are many things we can do about paid
> editing, starting with maintaining *paid-editing metrics and a dashboard*
> of known and estimated paid editing.  We can estimate its prevalence by the
> availabiity of services online[2]; and look for patterns of such editing on
> wiki.  Even with large error margins, this would be a step above simply
> waiting for outbreaks to be discovered and reacting to the visible bits of
> the iceberg.
>
> What sort of metrics like this do we have already?  Who is working on such
> things?
> Since the above video came out, de:wp started a table of WP editing
> services
> <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Umgang_mit_bezahltem_Schreiben/F%C3%A4lle#Wikipedia-Web-Agenturen_auf_dem_Markt>.
> It currently includes an initial dozen examples, with no estimate of
> activity (the 1 account known to be associated with each is in most cases
> blocked; but most have active websites soliciting work) This would be
> useful in all languages.
>
> SJ
>
>  [1] as Melmann wrote
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_167#Limiting_the_scope_of_COI_edit_requests>
>  recently:
> "*in my experience, **all the most difficult edits are WP:PAID
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PAID>**. Most non-paid COI comes
> from a place of desire to make things better, and often can be relatively
> easily guided towards a better place... [or] it is relatively easy to use
> existing enforcement mechanisms to to correct and ultimately control their
> behaviours. PR professionals, on the other hand, are subtle and sometimes
> downright deceptive, and it takes lots of effort to check their edits when
> most of the time you lack context and expertise and you really have to
> research in depth to see their edits for what they really are. I think that
> one of the fundamental mistakes of the current policy is lumping paid
> editors with general COI editing as paid editors are fundamentally playing
> on a different level in terms of PR expertise and incentives*"
>
> [2] Just searching for this online led to ads from dozens of services.
> The first 10 below seem to be clones of the same service (perhaps run by
> the same farm)
>  Elite Wiki Writers
>  Wiki Curators
>  Wiki Genies
>  Wikipedia Legends
>  Wiki Page Writing
>  Wiki Page Creator
>  WikiProfs
>  Wiki Specialist LLC
>  Wiki Writers Workshop
>  Wikipedia Publisher
>  Wikipedia Services
>  360 Ghostwriting
>  Contentfly
>  Otter PR
>  Premium Content Writing
>  ReputationX
>  Upwork
>
>
>

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Paid editing dashboard and metrics?

[Samuel Klein]

Hi Steven :)  Good points.  I agree with Adam that this is a major energy
and enthusiasm drain for eitors.

As to how we could start with data collection:

* Monitor the market.
  a) Work with groups that are in the market and completely transparent
about their work to maintain a sense of rates and volume
  b) Search general contracting sites, general search engines, and specific
reputation brokers for new options; maintain a catalog
  c) Spot-check and commission work. As with Böhmermann
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_B%C3%B6hmermann>'s show - he spent under
500 Euros and identified two networks of UPE.

 * Build better tools for tracking and countering undisclosed paid editing
  a)  Tracking: automated scoring, as with ORES
  b)  Countering: As you say: tools to help people coordinate work, making
it more fun and collaborative to take on UPE. Especially for often-targeted
categories -- politicians + companies..
  b)  Both: Focus on tools for detecting large farms over time, and
cleaning up the mess left by a farm.

You're right about community size being a defense.  But only for a time --
the growing demand for this actively subverts community members. Olaf was
one!  So we also need to think of ways to reduce and divert that demand
into constructive channels.

SJ

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 11:11 PM Steven Walling 
wrote:

> Given that it’s completely trivial to make new pseudonymous accounts how
> would you propose even remotely accurate data collection to measure paid
> editing?
>
> If we are worried about the impact of paid editors on the integrity of
> content, we are much better served investing even more in efforts to
> dramatically strengthen our volunteer community’s ability to defend the
> projects. That means better software to help each editor do more, making it
> fun, easy and welcoming for new contributors, and fighting the attrition in
> admins and other functionaries. If our volunteer community was larger and
> healthier, the threat of paid interference would be less scary.
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 7:20 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
>> Aha -- I was pointed to en:wp's List of paid editing companies
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_paid_editing_companies>.
>> (thanks!)  This is a great resource and deserves to be better linked.   The
>> page is semi-active - 4 additions in the last month, including the Olaf
>> case. I've cleaned it up a bit and linked it to the German page. This
>> really needs some automated scripting and tracking, at the scale of ORES...
>>
>> Is there any routine analysis / stats compiled of edits associated with
>> these orgs, or of their activity online?
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 2:19 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:
>>
>>> Jan Böhmermann <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_B%C3%B6hmermann>
>>> published an amazing expose on political WP editing in Germany; it gets
>>> good around 15 minutes in
>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNsTaKwyAzI&t=900s>. In the video he
>>> exposed the workings of a paid editing farm run (by Olaf Kosinsky (
>>> Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30108329>; CheckUser discussion
>>> <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Umgang_mit_bezahltem_Schreiben/Verdachtsf%C3%A4lle/Olaf_Kosinsky>
>>> ; archived PR-services site
>>> <https://web.archive.org/web/20210416110100/https://kosinsky.eu/>), an
>>> excellent long-time editor with over 3 million edits.
>>>
>>> *We need to distinguish paid editing from general COI editing*.  Paid
>>> editing is COI editing by professionals, who have strong external
>>> incentives to persist, no leeway in the outcome they are aiming
>>> for, experience in doing this in dozens of cases, and may have colleagues
>>> who can drop in as 'uninvolved' editors to forge consensus or social
>>> proof.[1]
>>>
>>> This is one of our great recurring challenges, siphoning off both our
>>> reputation and our community.  There are many things we can do about paid
>>> editing, starting with maintaining *paid-editing metrics and a
>>> dashboard* of known and estimated paid editing.  We can estimate its
>>> prevalence by the availabiity of services online[2]; and look for patterns
>>> of such editing on wiki.  Even with large error margins, this would be a
>>> step above simply waiting for outbreaks to be discovered and reacting to
>>> the visible bits of the iceberg.
>>>
>>> What sort of metrics like this do we have already?  Who is working on
>>> such things?
>>> Since the above video came out, de:wp started a table of WP editing
>>> ser

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Paid editing dashboard and metrics?

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you Mario!  I'll ask further there. S

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 4:29 PM Mario Gómez  wrote:

> You might want to discuss this topic at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikiproject:Antispam
>
> This page is watched by many people working against UPE in various
> projects. Many are familiar with large-scale UPE operations. Some of us
> already work with tools for automated and semi-automated detection. So it
> might be more fruitful to discuss it with contributors experienced in that
> area.
>
> Best,
>
> Mario
>
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 7:22 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
>> Hi Steven :)  Good points.  I agree with Adam that this is a major energy
>> and enthusiasm drain for eitors.
>>
>> As to how we could start with data collection:
>>
>> * Monitor the market.
>>   a) Work with groups that are in the market and completely transparent
>> about their work to maintain a sense of rates and volume
>>   b) Search general contracting sites, general search engines, and
>> specific reputation brokers for new options; maintain a catalog
>>   c) Spot-check and commission work. As with Böhmermann
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_B%C3%B6hmermann>'s show - he spent
>> under 500 Euros and identified two networks of UPE.
>>
>>  * Build better tools for tracking and countering undisclosed paid editing
>>   a)  Tracking: automated scoring, as with ORES
>>   b)  Countering: As you say: tools to help people coordinate work,
>> making it more fun and collaborative to take on UPE. Especially for
>> often-targeted categories -- politicians + companies..
>>   b)  Both: Focus on tools for detecting large farms over time, and
>> cleaning up the mess left by a farm.
>>
>> You're right about community size being a defense.  But only for a time
>> -- the growing demand for this actively subverts community members. Olaf
>> was one!  So we also need to think of ways to reduce and divert that demand
>> into constructive channels.
>>
>> SJ
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 11:11 PM Steven Walling 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Given that it’s completely trivial to make new pseudonymous accounts how
>>> would you propose even remotely accurate data collection to measure paid
>>> editing?
>>>
>>> If we are worried about the impact of paid editors on the integrity of
>>> content, we are much better served investing even more in efforts to
>>> dramatically strengthen our volunteer community’s ability to defend the
>>> projects. That means better software to help each editor do more, making it
>>> fun, easy and welcoming for new contributors, and fighting the attrition in
>>> admins and other functionaries. If our volunteer community was larger and
>>> healthier, the threat of paid interference would be less scary.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 7:20 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Aha -- I was pointed to en:wp's List of paid editing companies
>>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_paid_editing_companies>.
>>>> (thanks!)  This is a great resource and deserves to be better linked.   The
>>>> page is semi-active - 4 additions in the last month, including the Olaf
>>>> case. I've cleaned it up a bit and linked it to the German page. This
>>>> really needs some automated scripting and tracking, at the scale of ORES...
>>>>
>>>> Is there any routine analysis / stats compiled of edits associated with
>>>> these orgs, or of their activity online?
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 2:19 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Jan Böhmermann <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_B%C3%B6hmermann>
>>>>> published an amazing expose on political WP editing in Germany; it gets
>>>>> good around 15 minutes in
>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNsTaKwyAzI&t=900s>. In the video he
>>>>> exposed the workings of a paid editing farm run (by Olaf Kosinsky (
>>>>> Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30108329>; CheckUser
>>>>> discussion
>>>>> <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Umgang_mit_bezahltem_Schreiben/Verdachtsf%C3%A4lle/Olaf_Kosinsky>
>>>>> ; archived PR-services site
>>>>> <https://web.archive.org/web/20210416110100/https://kosinsky.eu/>),
>>>>> an excellent long-time editor with over 3 million edits.
>>>>>
>>>>> *We need to distinguish paid editing from general COI edit

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the first round of grants from the Equity Fund

[Samuel Klein]

Broadly agreeing with Gergő — our central challenge in this arena is that
the Foundation's total investment in things outside of staffing its own
growing org has historically been quite small — even though we recognize
that WP itself needed well under $1M to take off, and that we need a wide
range of innovative ideas - and recognition for the most creative community
efforts - to have a chance of repeating that in other arenas. The amount we
invest in new outside projects and regional affiliates was modest a decade
ago, and since then has grown more slowly the internal budget.

So I was glad to see these funds earmarked last year, and the results seem
healthy; at the same time the Foundation seems to be increasing
community-overseen grantmaking, which is essential. The two are not
mutually exclusive.

S.

🌍🌏🌎🌑

On Sat., Sep. 11, 2021, 3:14 p.m. Gergő Tisza,  wrote:

> One can argue about whether it was a good idea to give 15% of the
> Foundation's annual grant budget to largely-unrelated charities as a snap
> reaction to a wave of US political protests. But assuming it was - this
> happened in the middle of the pandemic, with the WMF operating on extremely
> restricted resources (with many staff working half-time, see [1]), and was
> trying to react to an unexpected event quickly, so I doubt it could have
> been done in a significantly more transparent or participatory manner. And
> the community was also stretched pretty thin, there were constant
> complaints of being consulted about too many things at the same time, with
> the movement strategy discussions, board election discussions, code of
> conduct discussions, branding discussions etc. going on, while people's
> personal lives were in disarray due to the lockdowns and other
> virus-related disruptions; some consultations had to be delayed, even the
> board elections had to be delayed. So I doubt the community would have had
> the capacity to practice oversight, had it been invited to.
>
> That's not to say those we shouldn't ask for more transparency and
> participation *going forward*, as those circumstances are now largely
> behind us (at least in the Global North; not sure about community capacity
> in the countries which would be the most logical beneficiaries of an equity
> fund). But we should acknowledge the severe constraints the WMF was under a
> year ago.
>
> (disclaimer: I work at the WMF, in a non-grantmaking-related position. All
> of the above is my personal opinion as a long-time community member.)
>
> [1]:
> https://medium.com/freely-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/wikimedia-coronavirus-response-people-first-8bd99ea6214b
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 10:21 PM Yair Rand  wrote:
>
>> I haven't yet had time to look over the grantee organizations, and the
>> general issue of funding non-Wikimedia efforts has been fairly well-covered
>> by statements from all four recently-elected trustees, so I'm just going to
>> take a moment to bring up some points about the specific process used here:
>> * This was not participatory. Neither the community nor any
>> community-elected group were invited to look these over even to give
>> advance feedback, much less make a decision.
>> * This was not transparent. Even after the fact, no notes were given on
>> what the WMF used to judge the options; no metrics, no pros-and-cons
>> analysis of each, no general review. Nor was a list of rejected applicants
>> made public, as far as I can see.
>> * COI concerns: Given the lack of any mentioned standards about this (I
>> haven't seen anything resembling the FDC's COI rules, and the WMF's general
>> COI policy seems quite lacking for something like this), and given the
>> problematic history this Fund in particular has in this area, I must ask:
>> Did any staff, trustees, or committee members involved in this process have
>> any personal associations to any of the grantee organizations, and if so,
>> were they (/would they have been) required to recuse themselves from the
>> relevant decisions?
>> * The Committee appears to have committed to sharing "terms of each grant
>> and updates on their progress" on Meta, per the FAQ. I don't see any links
>> to the grant terms. Should we still expect these things?
>>
>> (A few excerpts from answers given by the recently elected, at the Q&A on
>> the topic of funding non-Wikimedia efforts in general:
>> "I don’t think WF has any money to spare for any other causes
>> irrespective of their worth. There’s an NGO or 100 for any cause, and WF
>> cause is exclusively Wikimedia movement support." - Victoria
>> "At this time, I'd be reluctant to start funding projects entirely
>> unrelated to Wikimedia projects." - Pundit
>> "The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to support and empower the
>> communities of the Wikimedia projects and the projects themselves. Among
>> the many worthy goals that one can set, we choose to pursue this one. [...]
>> The Wikimedia Foundation looks relatively big and well-resourced (in terms
>> of

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO

[Samuel Klein]

Hello Maryana!  This is superb news.

Brad 'OG' Patrick  wrote:

> Congratulations and welcome to the best job in the world!
>

You're not wrong :)

Access to knowledge seems to becoming more unequal these days in new ways,
with the volume of convincing un-knowledge increasing much faster than the
modest pace of the real thing.  So our work is not getting easier.  But
humor, joy, and a commitment to empowering one another across the varied
texture of our planet, is as good a foundation for it as any I know.  Thank
you Maryana, for sharing your thoughts and wishes.

Sending a warm welcome,
Sam.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Endowment reaches initial $100 million goal and welcomes new board members

[Samuel Klein]

Wonderful news, and an amazing set of board members. Thanks to the team for
making the endowment a steady and growing pillar of support, and tending to
its governance too with care :)

🌍🌏🌎🌑

On Wed., Sep. 22, 2021, 10:58 a.m. Lisa Gruwell, 
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Today I am very happy to announce the Wikimedia Endowment [1] has reached
> its initial $100 million goal. The Endowment was started in 2016 as a 
> permanent
> fund to support the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity [2].
>
> My deep gratitude goes out to our generous donors, the Endowment board,
> Foundation staff, and volunteers who made this possible. I am grateful to
> the future-focused community members who began considering the idea of an
> endowment years ago, to those who participated in community conversations
> on Meta [3] to help us think through initial decisions regarding its
> launch, and to all contributors whose work creating Wikimedia content has
> brought free knowledge to the world.
>
> As part of this milestone, the Wikimedia Endowment Board has also welcomed
> three new members: Phoebe Ayers, Patricio Lorente, and Doron Weber,
> bringing in important expertise of the Wikimedia movement and priorities as
> well as in nonprofit management.
>
> You can read more about this milestone, what it means for the movement,
> and what comes next for the Endowment on Diff [4] and the Endowment Meta
> page [5]. We invite you to share any questions or feedback on the Endowment
> talk page [6].
>
> Thank you to everyone who has made this incredible achievement possible.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lisa
>
> [1] https://wikimediaendowment.org/
>
> [2] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/mission/
> 
>
> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Endowment_Essay
>
> [4]
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/22/the-wikimedia-endowment-reaches-100-million-milestone-and-welcomes-three-new-members-to-its-board-more-on-what-these-developments-mean-for-the-projects-and-movement/
> 
>
> [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment
> 
> [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Endowment
>
> --
>
> Lisa Seitz Gruwell
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software tools used at Wikimedia

[Samuel Klein]

your work.
>>
>> Feedback, bug reports, ideas and questions are more than welcome on the talk
>> page of the project <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toolhub>, or
>> in Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/3224/>.
>> Bryan (tech lead) & Seve (our new Product Manager) will be there to chat
>> with interested folks and help with any questions. We are looking
>> forward to evolving this project step-by-step and jointly with everyone!
>>
>> Birgit – on behalf of Technical Engagement & our Toolhub project team
>>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: 100$ million dollars and still obsolete

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks Galder for the provocative thread and Jonathan for your reflections
(in this thread and in issues elsewhere, past and present).

Galder -- I'm thinking about how to refactor your observations to make them
less personal, more general, easier to work with.
This issue and these patterns are not specific to {design | the foundation
| a developer/user feedback loop}, but the example you raise makes it
tangible.  Design is often an area that amplifies them - there's a reason
that *barn-raising* and *shed-painting* are analogies for very
different human tendencies...

You might call this class of interactions *feedback tropes* – like fiction
tropes , there are thousands of
common ones, not just a handful. They are mostly not "excuses" [other than
what you numbered 5.x].  Many tropes which you mention but did not number
("don't change anything", "better than nothing [don't take forever]", "this
doesn't even scratch the surface [so why bother]", "what have you done for
us lately", "you are bad at this") are part of their own cycle.

Naming more of these tropes might help defuse tension and avoid spiralling
– most tropes have known and relatively straightforward resolutions.

I can also see how these two cycles can amplify one another, though it
doesn't need to be that way.  For instance, in the thoughtfully
detailed Phab tickets you linked, where both you and others participating
feel fed up for different reasons.

SJ
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: 100$ million dollars and still obsolete

[Samuel Klein]

Luis writes:
> For what it is worth, I think the current mobile app is pretty good and I
regularly finding pleasant surprises

Yea, the mobile app is sweet, editing and all.

Responding to two specific earlier comments:

1. *Galder* - "It is 2021 and we still can't edit by mobile phone."

-->  Safe to say this is not true :)  But you could say that about your
later comment on the ability to "*write simultaneously ... upload videos
...** autosave*", each of which are common in online collaborative spaces,
and which we do need to make standard for our wikis.  But the bottlenecks
aren't primarily design, but rather coordinated vision and focus -- or at
least unblocking and supporting one another as we design and implement
prototypes.  We need new social norms and clear community use cases
for simultaneous
editing  (resolving
attribution and revision history for multiparty edits), video uploading
 (how to note
the original upload if we only save a transcode), and drafts
 (rallying support behind a
specific client-side use case to realize).

2.* Jonathan* -
   "[In my new sw company] we have the autonomy to make the changes in the
first place, see what happens, and then build from there..."
   "WMF product teams work in an environment where [...] one set of end
users (editors) has a great deal of both *soft* and *hard* power to block
changes, even when those changes are intended for--and indeed, primarily
affect--a different set of end users (readers)."

--> These comments highlight a common misframing, about autonomy and
curation of the reading experience, worth addressing.  (Likely deserves its
own thread!)

Much of the friction and tension in our movement stems from different
understandings of autonomy; and the impedance mismatch

of a step function between the norms (of communication, delegation, and
planning) of a) broad community wikiocracies and b) narrow staff
hierarchies. Our community has thousands of designers; the staff has
scores, who may feel constrained to work on only their particular projects.
There is abundant talent.

Most active editors and curators are not "end users" of the site, any more
than developers are -- they are involved before the end, up and down the
design and implementation stack, building bridges, interfaces,
translations.  They are project stewards, schedulers, templaters,
designers, and maintainers.  So when interface designers deploying a new
language-selector design are talking with layout designers maintaining
article flair like geo-coordinates

and article status indicators
, they should
feel they are on the same team: improving the site skin together.

This is a solved problem in some corners, but the solutions are not evenly
distributed.  Within Wikimedia, and within the WMF, there are groups and
projects of all sizes that have developed without this sort of contention.
But we spend most of our time and energy talking about the ones that fail
to do so.  [*The article always ends on the wrong version
; confusion is always
due to the other person* :-]   Let's learn from the successes, and not fall
into stereotyping any parts of our nexus.

Wishing all a beautiful week's end,
SJ
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

[Samuel Klein]

l bias into 
>> use
>>   of the tool, so we have chosen the select all approach as default. 
>> Overall,
>>   it is the number of candidates that is creating the bulk of the 
>> navigation
>>   and comparison issues and we are open to feedback on how to improve 
>> this in
>>   the future.
>>   - The length of the statements made by the candidates in the
>>   compass tool was capped to prevent us from creating another wall of 
>> text.
>>   While it helps to better understand the position of the candidate, it 
>> would
>>   create a further barrier for voter engagement, if the expression is not
>>   clear and concise. I believe that the word limits will be an essential 
>> part
>>   of the future elections and candidate statements, because it reduces 
>> the
>>   access barrier for voters and also facilitates translations to a wider
>>   range of languages, which makes the information even more accessible. 
>> What
>>   can be discussed is the exact limit size and also what information is 
>> the
>>   most helpful to collect from candidates.
>>   - The tool that we used is Open Election Compass
>>   <https://open-election-compass.com/>. We did not do a full code
>>   review for this, but we did not experience any anomalies in weighing 
>> of the
>>   votes during testing. If there are people who are interested in doing 
>> the
>>   code review, here is the link to the tool in GitHub
>>   <https://github.com/open-election-compass/client>.
>>- We are truly grateful to the community members who have stepped in
>>and tried to make the information regarding the candidates more easily
>>digestible. This goes a long way in supporting informed voting in this
>>process! Thank you Dušan Kreheľ and Andrew Lih for your proactive and
>>constructive approach!
>>
>> I apologize for the length of the response - I have tried to break it up
>> so the single points are more clear. I am available to respond to any
>> further questions and specifications, as well as happy to receive any
>> further feedback.
>>
>> Wishing everyone a great week ahead!
>> Kaarel
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 10:44 AM Mario Gómez 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 3:57 AM effe iets anders <
>>> effeietsand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a horribly problematic election. Not only does it take hours to
>>>> go through the candidates if you actually want to rank them, but you would
>>>> also need to be willing to spend about a lot of time to enter them into the
>>>> broken voting interface (which works great for up to 5 candidates - not for
>>>> 70).
>>>>
>>>
>>> I filled about 14 candidates and it was not extremely bad, but for
>>> anyone looking to rank more candidates, I guess it might have been
>>> daunting. I agree that the dropdowns are a very inconvenient UI for this
>>> kind of votation. I can imagine something more efficient like having chips
>>> for every candidate (no dropdown), and then sequentially click on them to
>>> add them to the ballot in order, then maybe supporting drag and drop to
>>> re-order. Changing the order of candidates once the ballot is prepared is
>>> particularly cumbersome.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Mario
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

[Samuel Klein]

Risker writes:
> To the best of my knowledge, the Elections Committee has had no
involvement in the MCDC election,
> and there's no indication at all that the Board asked them to assist or
to manage the election.
> I would really like to see a couple of stewards acting as scrutineers for
this election, simply because they are
> really experienced at identifying the kinds of problems that turn up on
elections like this

I do hope there are scrutineers of that sort.  Can someone involved w/ the
process advise on how that is happening?

I'd like to see us have an explicit standing group that keeps up with all
of these large-scale selection processes, shares best practices from a
range of variations implemented on different projects, and can discuss them
publicly in a number of languages. Running polls + votes is broadly useful,
so we should expand the pool of people fluent in their implementation.

It is good to have staff support and complement this work, but it would be
a loss five times over (in cost, delay, warmth, capacity, communal
knowledge) to remove this work from active community maintenance and
oversight.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 4:28 AM Chris Keating 
wrote:

>
> Agreed.  Is this something that the Election Committee
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee>,
>> as a standing committee not tied to a single election, can help with?   SJ
>>
>>
> I would like the answer to this to be 'yes', but the Elections Committee
> doesn't seem to do anything except supervise the community elections to the
> Board (which are, in effect, now run by WMF staff). They did not, for
> instance, appear to be particularly involved in the work that led to the
> changes to the Board election structure. They do not publish any
> information about what they are doing, and they don't appear to be
> particularly responsive to inquiries even when there is a Board election
> on. Making the elections committee a 'standing' committee does not appear
> to have resulted in anything changing, and suggests this committee is not
> the right group to take any further changes forward.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Manavpreet Kaur's role in AffCom's issues

[Samuel Klein]

Michal,

Don't be absurd.
*Do not use this list for personal attacks*.

You seem to be forum-shopping an ethical disagreement

with
others at WMSVK, and now extending that to attacking anyone who has
interacted with you about it.

Manavpreet is a saint and an excellent communicator, who we are fortunate
to have in our movement. She no doubt responded to your concerns with
kindness -- unlike those who steered clear. For you to attack *her*
character as a result is ridiculous. When you come to your senses you owe
her an apology.

We must all take care of ourselves in mentally trying times.
Find ways to cope that do not involve lashing out.

SJ

(PS - Since this subject line is itself unkind targeting -- if anyone wants
to comment further on-list, please use the previous thread, "*Investigation
of possible AffCom*...")
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Meet the new Movement Charter Drafting Committee members

[Samuel Klein]

Thank you Kaarel, and kudos to the committee; may the work get off to a
solid start.

Bodhisattwa Mandal  writes:

> Coming from South Asia and looking at ESEAP, I am not at all excited
> considering the geographical representation of the committee as per
> Wikimedia regions[1], excluding WMF appointed candidates who will represent
> WMF instead of the regions itself
>

Hi Bodhisattwa,

I don't believe the idea is for anyone to explicitly represent their
geography, affiliations, or organizations -- rather to draft a meaningful
and empowering starting point for us all.

Of course broad geographic and project backgrounds, and good language
diversity (within the drafting group and through available tools to support
work with others) are important for this work.  But please don't exclude
any participant from that, based on the experimental mix of selection
processes.  We are all wikimedians.  Runa and Jorge for instance have been
advancing the global movement towards free knowledge, culture and tools for
a very long time.  And having a translation expert actively involved should
help amplify different voices :).

SJ.

PS - There are still many, many systemic gaps and biases in our communities
and our knowledge.  The focus on elevating and connecting regional hubs may
help address this, and I dearly hope to see thriving hubs in Asia. But I
wouldn't say the next billion participants, editors, and learners will come
from any one region; rather from underserved communities everywhere in the
world! (And by stats like readership
,
communities in Africa are still the least reached, including proportional
to connectivity.)
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Small gratitude to our fellow wikimedians

[Samuel Klein]

I'd like us to consider a more serious set of obits, after the fashion of
the astronomers <https://baas.aas.org/obituaries>.

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 6:25 PM Gnangarra  wrote:

> In some ways we do https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:In_Memoriam
>
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 04:46, Camelia Boban 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody.
>>
>> Today, on the social media channels, we received the news about another
>> wikimedian who is passed away: Steve Suleeman (User:Stephensuleeman from
>> idwiki). As others in the recent or distant past: Spasimir Pilev
>> (User:Спасимир Пилев from bgwiki), Pier Luigi Rocco (User:Moroboshi from
>> itwiki), Elena Sanz Queiruga (User:ElsaBornFree from
>> eswiki), User:SlimVirgin from enwiki, Krzysztof Machocki
>> (User:Halibutt from plwiki).
>>
>> For these losses, I think we - as a community, through the Wikimedia
>> Foundation - need to set up a fund to build a commemorative plaque to
>> remember all the wikimedians we have lost.
>>
>> I would suggest it to be a thought from the community, extended also to
>> all other major events of a wikimedian's life (marriage, birth of a child).
>> We know a wikimedian often sacrifices the free time, dedicating a large
>> part of their own real life to our projects and the movement. Would be a
>> recognition from the community for the work done and a memory for the
>> families, a "small gratitude to our fellow wikimedians" as someone said.
>>
>> I know that some affiliates are already doing this (eq. Wikimedia
>> Indonesia), would be a lovely idea to do it in a centralized way at the
>> level of the whole movement.
>>
>> What do you think?
>> Camelia
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Auction at Christie's

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks for the post; I appreciate finding out from an internal list before
social media / the news.

Adam, agreed this list isn't a good place for general discussion about it,
bit a heads-up seems fine (and a longer thread on wiki appropriate)

🌍🌏🌎🌑


>> *I’ll be around for the next 8 hours or so to answer any questions but to
>> keep it all centralized, let’s keep it on my English wikipedia talk page,
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jimbo_Wales
>> 
>> 
>> *
>>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Approval of Human Rights Policy

[Samuel Klein]

Hi Richard, thanks.  Keen to see what the team is planning.

- Are there any notes from the session earlier today?
- Can you post the policy to Meta, and link it to the [[m:Human Rights
Team]]?
- You might seed its discussion page with the current FAQ; people may have
other questions.  This would be a better place to gather + respond
to movement-internal questions, even if a clean static version remains on
the foundation-wiki
- The FAQ currently says the policy will be translated (by whom? through
the translation dashboard?) and posted on the Governance Wiki.  Not
everyone realizes that foundation.wikimedia.org was renamed to that so it's
a bit confusing -- you might just link to the page where translations will
be added.

My primary question: Most of the language of the policy is about freedom
*from* threats, rather than freedom *to* (create, share, learn,
self-govern, protect one's own rights, &c). The free knowledge policy agenda
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019/Global_advocacy>
is
linked to, but that more often focuses on freedoms *to*.   I'd like to hear
how you are thinking about this.

For instance, we could focus all available energy and resources staffing a
defense league to protect those who are under threat; or focus on training,
empowering, and unblocking active community groups; or on providing them
with new avenues for educating individuals and networks so they have the
skills and resources to do all of the above.

James + Bodhisattwa:

The stated scope does include starting at home, w/ the rights of community
members, staff, and users of the projects; as well as those who might not
be able to engage in any of those ways.  I encourage you to share ideas you
have on how to build a stronger movement, supporting contributors and
identifying approaches to and successes in unionization (or other workplace
practice) for staffed parts of it.  Perhaps here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Human_rights>?

On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 10:26 AM Richard Gaines 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Advocacy team is excited to announce the
> approval of the Human Rights Policy
> <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Policy#Frequently_Asked_Questions>
> by the Board of Trustees on 8 December 2021. Please read our blog post
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: December 14 Conversation hour about organizing for #WikiForHumanRights 2022

[Samuel Klein]

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>>
>> [3] https://www.unep.org/interactive/making-peace-nature/
>>
>> [4] https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509
>>
>> [5]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
>>
>> [6] https://t.me/joinchat/k_W9SVMG5K44YjJh
>>
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>> Twitter: @sadads
>>
>> Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
>> Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors
>> through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns
>>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: December 14 Conversation hour about organizing for #WikiForHumanRights 2022

[Samuel Klein]

What's the latest estimate, for different parts of the movement?
Who has the best model report card for this?

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 2:25 PM Philip Kopetzky 
wrote:

> Maybe we should also fill the knowledge gap on how Wikimedia's footprint
> could be reduced, if that isn't too complex ;-)
>
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 17:14, Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
>> Thanks for organizing this again.  'Getting more complex' is right...
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 8:00 AM Alex Stinson 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Reminder that the conversation hour for #WikiForHumanRights starts in 2
>>> hours at 1500 UTC. If you are interested in organizing for this next year,
>>> we hope to see you there,
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Alex Stinson
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 2:39 PM Alex Stinson 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> *TL:DR --* Join us for a Conversation hour December 14 at 1500 UTC to
>>>> learn how to organize for WikiForHumanRights 2022.
>>>>
>>>> Hello Everyone!
>>>>
>>>> #WikiForHumanRights: Right to a Healthy Environment  2022 [1]is back!
>>>> From April 15  through to June 14 2022 we encourage local affiliates,
>>>> individuals or organizations interested in the campaign to organize
>>>> activities around the intersecting themes of human rights and the
>>>> environment.
>>>>
>>>> If you are interested in organizing your community for the campaign,
>>>> please join us for a conversation hour on December 14 at 1500 UTC [4]
>>>> (more details below) to learn how you can participate.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why the Right to a Healthy Environment?
>>>>
>>>> This October, the Right to a Healthy Environment was formally
>>>> recognized [1] by the United Nations Human Rights Council. According to
>>>> Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
>>>>
>>>> "A safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is the foundation
>>>> of human life. But today, because of human action – and inhuman inaction –
>>>> the triple planetary crises of climate change, pollution, and nature loss
>>>> is directly and severely impacting a broad range of rights, including the
>>>> rights to adequate food, water, education, housing, health, development,
>>>> and even life itself."[2]
>>>>
>>>> The environmental crisis is getting more complex. Humanity needs to
>>>> make thousands of big and small decisions to address it. As the UN
>>>> Environmental Program described it, we need to make “Peace with Nature”[3]
>>>> and protect the human rights of the most vulnerable.
>>>>
>>>> Wikipedia and other platforms need to fill the knowledge gaps at the
>>>> intersection of sustainability and human rights in every context and
>>>> language.  The world needs access to reliable information about the link
>>>> between environmental sustainability and human rights.
>>>>
>>>> What can you do? Help us organize!
>>>>
>>>> We need your help! The campaign will officially launch on April 15 (one
>>>> week before Earth Day), but we need your help now to begin preparing this
>>>> global call to action.
>>>>
>>>> Last year we had 24 community-led editathons, workshops, webinars, and
>>>> writing contests, with contributions to over 2000 articles in more than 40
>>>> languages. To match (and hopefully exceed) these impacts, we need your help
>>>> to organize your local communities!
>>>>
>>>> Activities related to human rights and sustainability are good topics
>>>> for local communities to both a) identify new partners, b) recruit
>>>> enthusiastic participants and c) fill key topics for impact in their own
>>>> language or context.
>>>>
>>>> Join the Conversation to learn more!
>>>>
>>>> Join us for 1.5 hours of conversation Tuesday the 14th December 2021
>>>> 15:00 UTC on Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509> [4], to
>>>> learn more about:
>>>>
>>>>-
>>>>
>>>>How you can participate in this campaign and organize local events
>>>>in your community or region.
>>>>-
>>>>
>>>>Which topics this ca

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Fwd: Meta, WikiMedia, and the Hewlett Foundation partner with Africa No Filter

[Samuel Klein]

knowledge and the number of
>>>>> African knowledge producers. It will also translate the knowledge into
>>>>> multiple African languages.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Meta and Wikimedia Foundation projects will offer funding,
>>>>> mentorship, and capacity building. They will be launched through grant
>>>>> callouts on Africa No Filter’s usual platforms.
>>>>>
>>>>> Moky Makura, Executive Director at Africa No Filter, says: "We are
>>>>> incredibly honoured that Africa No Filter has been identified as a trusted
>>>>> partner and custodian of these projects. Each partnership supports the
>>>>> creation of content that is more representative of what is happening 
>>>>> across
>>>>> the continent, which fuels our mission. New partnerships and funding allow
>>>>> us to increase our reach and impact and ultimately bring awareness of the
>>>>> importance of which story Africans are telling. It means we can do more –
>>>>> it’s an exciting time for Africa No Filter. "
>>>>>
>>>>> Media enquiries: ler...@africanofilter.org
>>>>>
>>>>>  *About Africa No Filter  *
>>>>>
>>>>> Africa No Filter is a donor collaborative shifting stereotypical and
>>>>> harmful narratives within and about Africa through research, grant-making,
>>>>> community building and advocacy by supporting storytellers, investing in
>>>>> media platforms, and driving disruption campaigns. It is funded by Ford
>>>>> Foundation, Bloomberg, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Luminate, Open Society
>>>>> Foundations, Comic Relief, the Hilton Foundation, the British Council and
>>>>> Hewlett Foundation.
>>>>> *About the Wikimedia Foundation*
>>>>>
>>>>> The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates
>>>>> Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a
>>>>> world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all
>>>>> knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute
>>>>> something to our shared knowledge and that everyone should be able to
>>>>> access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia 
>>>>> projects,
>>>>> build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing 
>>>>> Wikimedia
>>>>> content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia
>>>>> possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free
>>>>> knowledge to thrive.
>>>>>
>>>>> *About Meta*
>>>>>
>>>>> Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities,
>>>>> and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way
>>>>> people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further
>>>>> empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens
>>>>> toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help
>>>>> build the next evolution in social technology.
>>>>>
>>>>> *About Hewlett Foundation*
>>>>>
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>>>>> institutions to promote a better world. For more than 50 years, the
>>>>> Foundation has e supported efforts to advance education for all, preserve
>>>>> the environment, support vibrant performing arts, strengthen Bay Area
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Community Wishlist Survey 2022 is coming. Help us and prepare

[Samuel Klein]

Szymon: neat, thanks.  How do past suggestions carry over?

We should definitely make more use of community-curated priority lists
(annotated with how separable / hard they are; where they sit on the 'new
solution <--> pay off tech debt' spectrum).  And see if we can support a
broader range of technical hubs + community groups tackling some of them.

Core challenges like Commons stability + capacity deserve their own thread!
I believe the wishlist is traditionally for something else.

NBB: An interesting idea (below).  It would be good for us to develop
patterns w/ more shared creative leeway for experimenting with a collective
call to action around major initiatives.  Mozilla has some approaches to
this. Including bounties, grants, outreach campaigns to recruit new
contributors, awards for essential tools, workshops to train people in
related toolchains so they can help move the space forward.

S.

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 6:52 AM  wrote:

> This is a proposal that would need to be included in next year's funding
> plan. It also would involve an obligation for the other teams within the
> Foundation.
>
> **Part 1: Funding redistribution and Big Ticket team**
> I propose that we stand-up a 2nd community wishlist team... to handle the
> "Big Ticket" items, beyond the capacities of the current team.
> **Part 2: blocked item obligations**
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[Wikimedia-l] Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

[Samuel Klein]

Separate thread.  I'm not sure which list is appropriate.
*... but not all the way to sentience
.*

The annual community wishlist survey (implemented by a small team, possibly
in isolation?) may not be the mechanism for prioritizing large changes, but
the latter also deserves a community-curated priority queue.  To complement
the staff-maintained priorities in phab ~

For core challenges (like Commons stability and capacity), I'd be surprised
if the bottleneck were people or budget.  We do need a shared understanding
of what issues are most important and most urgent, and how to solve them.
For instance, a way to turn Amir's recent email about the problem (and
related phab tickets) into a family of persistent, implementable specs and
proposals and their articulated obstacles.

An issue tracker like phab is good for tracking the progress and
dependencies of agreed-upon tasks, but weak for discussing what is
important, what we know about it, how to address it. And weak for
discussing ecosystem-design issues that are important and need persistent
updating but don't have a simple checklist of steps.

So where is the best current place to discuss scaling Commons, and all that
entails?  Some examples from recent discussions (most from the wm-l thread
below):
- *Uploads*: Support for large file uploads / Keeping bulk upload tools
online
- *Video*: Debugging + rolling out the videojs
 player
- *Formats*: Adding support for CML
 and dozens of other
 common high-demand file formats
- *Thumbs*: Updating thumbor 
and librsvg 
- *Search*: WCQS still  down
, noauth option
 wanted for tools
- *General*: Finish implementing redesign
 of the image table

SJ

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 6:26 AM Amir Sarabadani  wrote:

> I'm not debating your note. It is very valid that we lack proper support
> for multimedia stack. I myself wrote a detailed rant on how broken it is
> [1] but three notes:
>  - Fixing something like this takes time, you need to assign the budget
> for it (which means it has to be done during the annual planning) and if
> gets approved, you need to start it with the fiscal year (meaning July
> 2022) and then hire (meaning, write JD, do recruitment, interview lots of
> people, get them hired) which can take from several months to years. Once
> they are hired, you need to onboard them and let them learn about our
> technical infrastructure which takes at least two good months. Software
> engineering is not magic, it takes time, blood and sweat. [2]
>  - Making another team focus on multimedia requires changes in planning,
> budget, OKR, etc. etc. Are we sure moving the focus of teams is a good
> idea? Most teams are already focusing on vital parts of wikimedia and
> changing the focus will turn this into a whack-a-mole game where we fix
> multimedia but now we have critical issues in security or performance.
>  - Voting Wishlist survey is a good band-aid in the meantime. To at least
> address the worst parts for now.
>
> I don't understand your point tbh, either you think it's a good idea to
> make requests for improvements in multimedia in the wishlist survey or you
> think it's not. If you think it's not, then it's offtopic to this thread.
>
> [1]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/WMPZHMXSLQJ6GONAVTFLDFFMPNJDVORS/
> [2] There is a classic book in this topic called "The Mythical Man-month"
>
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:41 AM Gnangarra  wrote:
>
>> we have to vote for regular maintenance and support for
>> essential functions like uploading files which is the core mission of
>> Wikimedia Commons
>>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

[Samuel Klein]

I appreciate all of the comments; still unsure where to more persistently
host the conversation, but for now I posted this still-arbitrary list on
Commons .  (adding
other items mentioned in this thread)  SJ


- *File formats*: Support high-demand formats – e.g. CSV, CML
, + hundreds of other
 open tickets
- *Uploads*:  Improve bulk, large, and video uploads.
   + *Bulk conversion* for video uploads (videoconverter /
video2commons are broken)
   + *Upload Wizard* upgrades (timeouts
, batch renaming, batch imports
)
- *Downloads*:  Fix multi-download (Imker
 is
broken)
   + Make public dumps  (stale
since 2013)
- *Video playback*:  Debug + roll out the videojs
 player
- *Search*:  Bring CQS back up .
Implement a noauth option  for
tools
- *General*: Move to a blazegraph alternative (for wqcs)
   + *Images*: Update thumbor 
 and librsvg   ||  redesign
 the image table
*- Curation*: Simpler content assessment workflow, like en:wp's
 (QI/VP doesn't
scale)
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Is (Wikipedian-in-residence, a proposal) to update?

[Samuel Klein]

ZB -- Just seeing this excellent idea.  Yes, it is a good time to revisit
and envision what might be possible if this were a much broader and more
universal practice, with a wide range of templates.

I would suggest combining it with a global scholarship program for younger
students -- a multilingual internationally known wikimedia scholarship
program, with matching funds and support via regional partners, would
elevate the principles, the focus on improving public knowledge, and the
practice of self-organization and learning-by-participating that makes us
tick.

SJ

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 1:28 AM Željko Blaće  wrote:

> Before this last 21st day in the 21st year of 21st century
> is globally over, I try to re-initiate re-thinking
> on this 15 years old proposal for a Wikipedian-in-residence
>
> http://original-research.blogspot.com/2006/12/wikipedian-in-residence-proposal.html
> but also articles in (only) 27 language Wikipedias,
>
> Meta, Outreach wiki and elsewhere
> for updating the notion of WIR and roles it performs in Wikimedia,
> an ecosystem of diverse entities, dynamics and relations.
>
> As Wikimedians with wider perspective than a single wiki project, often
> more than a single language and for sure more than single community, gear
> up to discuss and act on 2030 strategy, that includes new initiatives, new
> formations of decentering resources, new content, forms and methods of
> working, with new priorities, conditions, tools, services and what
> not…there is also a value in reflecting and reimagining what is already
> established but often overlooked practice.
>
> Some of the WIR practitioners have been self-reflecting on and off
> publicly https://wikistrategies.net/5-things-wikipedian-in-residence/ and
> engaging with communities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc9YgFm2eso
> there was also network establishment.
> 3 years ago WREN UG (Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network User Group)
> was recognized with the aim to protect the common elements of the role and
> for creating a peer support network of new and experienced WIRs for
> collaboration and to encourage a global professional environment which
> inspires institutions to appoint persons to engage with Wikimedia.
>
> In recent times Wikipedian-in-Residence, is more often
> Wikimedian-in-Residence, in rapid growth of Commons and Wikidata (but also
> in 2021 first one in Wiktionary) and sometimes Wikimedian-at-Large, in more
> generalized practice of strategy or direction setting work.
> Additionally in time of pandemic when doing physical events is challenging
> and many of the (potential) partner organizations are closing down or
> limiting public events to bare essential, short and transient it is more
> important than ever that individuals (rather than cohorts of editathon
> enthusiasts) keep revisiting institutions and work with them in a most
> flexible mode and scale.
>
> Finally to start both re-visioning and maybe even re-positioning WIRs in
> Wikimedia we should think of what this network of ‘free agents’ can bring
> towards 2030, beyond what WMF, affiliates, UGs, HUBs, WikiProjects and
> other organizational forms can. Also think how much more useful this
> initial inspiration of artists, writers and researchers in residence could
> be if these creative and critical roles in the art and cultural sector get
> embraced and encouraged more often and more intentionally.
>
> Z. Blace
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

[Samuel Klein]

ooks/collaborative-society> (2020, MIT Press,
> z A. Przegalińską), Thick Big Data
> <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/thick-big-data-9780198839705?cc=gb&lang=en>
>  (2020,
> Oxford University Press), Common Knowledge?
> <https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24010> (2014, Stanford University
> Press)
> *Ostatnie artykuły:*
>
>- Jędrzej Chrzanowski, Julia Sołek, Dariusz Jemielniak, Wojciech
>Fendler (2021) Assessing Public Interest Based on Wikipedia’s Most
>Visited Medical Articles During the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak
><https://www.jmir.org/2021/4/e26331/>, *Journal of Medical Internet
>Research*, 23(4)::e26331
>- Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak, Dariusz Jemielniak, Wojciech Pędzich
>(2021) Intercessory Rote Prayer, Life Longevity and the Mortality of
>Roman Catholic Bishops: An Exploratory Study
><https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10943-021-01214-9>,  *Journal
>of Religion and Health*, doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01214-9
>-   Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak, Dariusz Jemielniak, Maciej Wilamowski
>(2021)  Psychology and Wikipedia: Measuring Psychology Journals’
>Impact by Wikipedia Citations
>
> <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Psychology-and-Wikipedia-measuring-psychology-journals-impact-by-Wikipedia-citations.pdf>
>,  *Social Science Computer Review, *doi.org/10.1177/0894439321993836
>- Agata Stasik, Dariusz Jemielniak (2021) Public involvement in risk
>governance in the internet era: impact of new rules of building trust and
>credibility
>
> <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Public-involvement-in-risk-governance-in-the-internet-era-impact-of-new-rules-of-building-trust-and-credibility.pdf>,
>Journal of Risk Research, doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2020.1864008
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

[Samuel Klein]

My post was sharded to just the wikidata list, copying the others :)

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 12:59 PM Patricio Lorente <
patricio.lore...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, SJ. I fully agree with your recommendations.
>
> El jue, 13 ene 2022 a las 14:55, Samuel Klein ()
> escribió:
>
>> Kay, bless your heart.
>> Galder, Gereon, Xavi: I would be *particularly* interested in research
>> in other languages, since it's harder for me to run across that in my
>> regular feeds. (that may also be true for some of the reviewers :) but
>> they're also lang and time limited)
>>
>> Recommendation that might conceivably be implemented for this cycle:
>>  -- Update "can submit" to "encouraged to submit" in any languages
>>  -- If in a language other than {core langs} <-- which may be only
>> English this year, ask submitters to recommend a reviewer who can share a
>> review of the work in English
>>  -- To Andy's point, confirm the license of the research is one that is
>> open (so that it can be independently translated)
>>  -- Have a two stage award: the first stage, based on a quick review for
>> significance and interest, identifies finalists which are, if not already
>> in one of the {core langs}, translated into one of them. (at least in
>> abstract + summary; we facilitate this translation by supporting /
>> sponsoring community translation; it's a universal benefit for researchers
>> around the world)
>>  -- Second stage is as currently imagined: review of finalist papers in
>> {core langs}.
>>
>> <3.  SJ
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:27 PM KAY WOODING via Wikidata <
>> wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>>  I SPEAK ENGLISH  THABKS I APPRECIATE IT  JESUS LOVES YIU I LOVE YOU GOD
>>> BLESS YOU  HAVE A BLESSED DAY
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 09:55:21 PM EST, Leila Zia <
>>> l...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We gave the option of accepting nominations in more languages some
>>> more thought. I want to be very honest: I don't have a good solution
>>> to accommodate more languages in this cycle. We considered the option
>>> of allowing/encouraging nominations in other languages, and not doing
>>> the broader search we do in English in those languages. However, even
>>> this option is not really guaranteed to work because we consider
>>> "scholarly publications" which can be papers of a few pages or books
>>> that can be hundreds of pages. We cannot guarantee that we can
>>> translate the scholarly publication (independent of its length)
>>> in-time for the review.
>>>
>>> Given the above, my suggestion to you is that if you know of a
>>> scholarly publication that is in another language than English and you
>>> think we should consider it, still nominate it. We will consider it,
>>> even if I can't guarantee that we review it.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry that I am not able to offer a better solution for this
>>> cycle. We will continue thinking about this point for the future
>>> cycles.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Leila
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 12:46 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
>>>  wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi Leila,
>>> > I have read it, that's why I'm confused.
>>> > 
>>> > From: Leila Zia 
>>> > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 9:40 PM
>>> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
>>> > Cc: wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org <
>>> wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org>; Discussion list for the Wikidata
>>> project. 
>>> > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia
>>> Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations
>>> >
>>> > Hi Galder,
>>> >
>>> > Please see below.
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 12:26 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
>>> >  wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks, Leila, for answering the question raised.
>>> >
>>> > Anytime.
>>> >
>>> > > I'm a bit confused with this, I supposed that the Wikimedia
>>> Foundation Research Award was an initiative from the Research team of the
>>> WMF (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research), but I read in
>>> your answer that "WikiResearch is primarily in English and about researc

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Re: Re: Uplifting the multimedia stack (was: Community Wishlist Survery)

[Samuel Klein]

I asked on th talk page, but posting here as well:
 -- what's the intended interaction b/t proposals from past years and the
current list? Do people need to find and repost older proposals they want
to see included? Is there a mechanism for refactoring sets of related
proposals?

🌍🌏🌎🌑

On Sat., Jan. 22, 2022, 8:08 a.m. Szymon Grabarczuk, <
sgrabarc...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello, I'd like to refer to the original subject of the discussion -
> tomorrow is the last day for submitting proposals for the Community
> Wishlist Survey 2022.
>
> Apart from that, everyone is welcome to translate, promote, and discuss
> proposals:
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/01/10/what-improvements-in-wikimedia-platforms-would-you-like-to-see-help-the-wikimedia-foundation-to-grant-the-communities-wishes/
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Szymon Grabarczuk (he/him)
>
> Community Relations Specialist
>
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 2:43 PM Strainu  wrote:
>
>> În mar., 11 ian. 2022 la 08:01, Kunal Mehta  a scris:
>> >
>> > So I think the status quo can be changed by just about anyone who is
>> > motivated to do so, not by trying to convince the WMF to change its
>> > prioritization, but just by doing the work. We should be empowering
>> > those people rather than continuing to further entrench a WMF technical
>> > monopoly.
>> >
>>
>> Counterexample:
>>
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org/message/G2QTRJFAUKLE45SFTFUHOOTOBR6G3DP3/
>> (this was the situation that I quoted in my first email on this thread
>> as the WMF refusing to even do reviews).
>>
>> Maybe it's just the multimedia part that it's in this desperate
>> situation, but I can totally see volunteer developers getting
>> discouraged quickly if their patches are outright ignored.
>>
>> Strainu
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: General Maintenance at Commons

[Samuel Klein]

Are those file-management tickets not related to commons?
There does seem to be noone managing file-format related tasks in the
absence of a multimedia team

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 10:26 PM K. Peachey  wrote:

> I will note that a majority of those tasks only have a commons tag due to
> herald rule that adds it ro any task with file-management.
>
> And may not be actual issues
>
> Afaik no one managing that workboard (the site tags are generally managed
> by members of the relevant communities)
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

[Samuel Klein]

This is the best.  Thank you for persisting it making it not just useful
but fantastic. :)

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 12:10 PM Sam Walton  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We've just published a blog post summarising the new features and
> functionality available to active Wikipedia editors in The Wikipedia
> Library:
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/01/19/the-wikipedia-library-accessing-free-reliable-sources-is-now-easier-than-ever/
>
> The Wikipedia Library is a tool providing active Wikipedia editors with
> free access to otherwise-paywalled resources, including journals, books,
> newspapers, magazines, and databases. Over the past 5-10 years the library
> has built up a large collection of content from a wide range of publishers.
>
> In the past couple of years we've been finalising the centralised
> Wikipedia Library tool used for accessing all this content:
> https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/. I'm really pleased to announce
> that we've finished work on some long-requested and planned features which
> make it really simple to use!
>
> The library now has:
>
>- Proxy-based authentication for direct access of resources without a
>secondary login
>- A centralised search feature for browsing multiple collections from
>one place
>- An on-wiki notification to let editors know about the library when
>they have crossed the eligibility threshold (rolling out in stages
>throughout January)
>
> As the project I first joined the Wikimedia Foundation to work on years
> ago I'm personally thrilled that we've finally been able to deploy all
> these features!
>
> If you're eligible to use the library (500+ edits, 6+ months editing) you
> can jump in and start using the library straight away. We're now working on
> expanding and diversifying the content available in the library, so let us
> know on the suggestions page if there are collections you want us to make
> available: https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/suggest/
>
> If the tool isn't currently localised into your language, you can
> translate it on TranslateWiki:
> https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Wikipedia_Library_Card_Platform
>
> We're planning to host some Office Hours, which will be a chance to get a
> walkthrough of how to use the library, as well as discuss your research
> needs and requests for new collections with the team. Look out for more on
> that in the coming weeks.
>
> --
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> Product Manager, The Wikipedia Library
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Community Wishlist Survey 2022 is coming. Help us and prepare

[Samuel Klein]

 wishes
>>>>>> into
>>>>>> > their team's roadmap, or they will at least consider
>>>>>> community
>>>>>> >     requests as they plan upcoming work. We always check to see
>>>>>> if
>>>>>> > other teams are already working on solutions related to
>>>>>> what is
>>>>>> > asked inside of the Wishlist. We plan to do more and are
>>>>>> > energized that the conversation is already beginning to
>>>>>> happen
>>>>>> > in this thread.
>>>>>> >   *
>>>>>> > Why is the Community Tech team so small? Why can't more people
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> > hired, or why can't a second Community Tech team be formed?
>>>>>> >   o
>>>>>> > As a team, we deeply believe in our work, and we hope to
>>>>>> keep
>>>>>> > growing. We know how important it is to work directly with
>>>>>> > community members and fulfill community requests. If you
>>>>>> want
>>>>>> > our team to grow, one of the best ways you can champion us
>>>>>> is to
>>>>>> > participate in the wishlist. As participation rates grow
>>>>>> (and
>>>>>> > they have!), the more effectively we can advocate for our
>>>>>> team
>>>>>> > and its resources.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > P.S. We are still welcoming help to promote the survey and to
>>>>>> translate
>>>>>> > the updated documentation. Thanks for reading.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Best,
>>>>>> > Natalia Rodriguez
>>>>>> > Senior Product Manager, Community Tech
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Media coverage in Germany: Enterprise / Advocacy

[Samuel Klein]

erstood it all fully, but guessing in Germany
>> 'collecting societies' do not have monopolies (unlike in many other
>> countries).
>>
>>
>>> It's also about reach
>>>
>>> Wikimedia has always urged rights compliance and at the same time called
>>> for the modernization of copyright where it no longer functions reasonably
>>> in a digital age. On the other hand, it was the large advertising platforms
>>> such as YouTube whose rise and growth would hardly have been conceivable
>>> without disregard for legal standards. Precisely because Wikimedia respects
>>> copyright, it relies on free licenses that make it possible for everyone to
>>> use and edit content permanently and in a legally secure manner.
>>>
>>> Furthermore, Wikimedia welcomes all considerations for a non-commercial,
>>> European media platform as a basis for the exchange of publicly funded
>>> content. Instead, public broadcasters in EU member states mostly limit
>>> themselves to short-term collaborations, limited also by national
>>> exploitation licenses, while at the same time uploading content to globally
>>> available commercial platforms such as Youtube.
>>>
>>
>> I am sorry to say but if 'Wikimedia welcomes all considerations...' this
>> will never or not likely happen anytime soon. Wikimedia and EU based
>> affiliates can not be a bystander (especially considering the visibility
>> and experience of 20 years), but need to commit to work on this issue with
>> others and bridge those short term (EU funded projects of collaborations).
>>
>>> The example of Terra X from ZDF shows that there are distribution
>>> alternatives, such as the Wikimedia platform Commons. The Terra X clips
>>> posted there alone currently achieve more than two million views per month.
>>> To put it in perspective, that's two million views more than if they were
>>> to appear only in the media libraries of the public broadcasters for a year.
>>>
>>> Making Terra X clips available benefits the quality of Wikipedia, no
>>> question. But it primarily benefits the viewers - and it's good for Terra
>>> X's sustainable reach. Reaching many people is the mission of public
>>> broadcasters. Not to mention, Wikipedia articles committed to a neutral
>>> point of view are certainly a more suitable environment for public service
>>> information content than YouTube and other commercial platforms.
>>>
>>> The collaboration between ZDF and Wikipedia on the Terra-X broadcast
>>> comes from a volunteer group. This group, "Wiki Loves Broadcast," points
>>> out in its response to
>>> <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Loves_Broadcast/Statement_zum_FAZ-Beitrag_vom_18.01.2022>
>>> David Bernet's post that it is solely up to the volunteer community to
>>> incorporate content like ZDF's clips into Wikipedia. Neither Wikimedia
>>> Deutschland nor the Wikimedia Foundation can influence this.
>>>
>>
>> WMF and WM DE should not influence the project direction directly but
>> give support to these initiatives if it did not before.
>> Thank you for sharing this info.
>>
>>
>>> Knowledge that belongs to everyone
>>>
>>> Wikimedia is financially independent. Wikimedia is financed by donations
>>> and membership fees from the millions of people who use Wikipedia and other
>>> wiki projects. In concrete terms, Wikimedia Deutschland is backed by just
>>> under 100,000 association members. In total, more than 500,000 people
>>> supported Wikimedia Deutschland financially last year. In 2021, there was
>>> actually money from platforms. While the figure in 2020 was 0%, in 2021 it
>>> accounted for about 0.2% of revenue. I do not see any threat to
>>> independence in this order of magnitude.
>>>
>>
>> Hm...
>>
>>> Internationally, too, millions of small donations ensure precisely this
>>> independence. For the coming year - as in previous years - we expect
>>> payments from companies and donations of more than $1,000 to account for
>>> less than 20% of the Wikimedia Foundation's total income.
>>>
>>
>> It would be great to actually not claim just financial independence
>> (valid only for WMF), but also interdependencies of participatory work of
>> supportersvolunteers, contractors and staff with partners in the greater
>> ecosystem of Wikimedia.
>>
>>> Two things are certain: Wikimedia cannot sell content at all, because
>>> Wikimedia does not own any content, unlike any creative person. No profit
>>> flows from Wikimedia to individuals, but all income is used solely for the
>>> non-profit projects. Personally, I'm glad that among the world's major
>>> internet platforms there is at least one that is not concerned with profit.
>>>
>>
>> True. Good point to insert 21 years of continuity in this direction for
>> both CreativeCommons and Wikipedia ;-)
>>
>>
>> As for the comments of Andreas...
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 9:39 PM Andreas Kolbe  wrote:
>>
>>> I'd rather like to see you lobby to have programs permanently available
>>> on ARD's/ZDF's (German broadcasters') own media repository sites, where
>>> they can easily be linked to. The concentration of public media access in
>>> the hands of just a small number of US-based Big Tech companies that hoover
>>> up everything – which is the practical result of the strategy you advocate
>>> – is politically and economically unhealthy.
>>>
>>
>> This is a really excellent point and worth investigating in and beyond WM
>> DE only with partners at least in the EU where such regulations and
>> commitments could be supported by the EU.
>>
>>
>>
>>> As for nobody at Wikimedia profiting off the free content created by
>>> volunteers, that is relative. WMF salary costs currently average over
>>> $200,000 per employee. In most parts of the world, that would be considered
>>> wealthy. A minor issue in the grand scheme of things, certainly, but still
>>> relevant to us here at least.
>>>
>>
>> Rather then just discussing payroll of Wikimedia (in separate thread) I
>> think it is useful to discuss what is the spectrum of options and what are
>> the bottlenecks for the compensations to both diversify and distribute with
>> equity in mind as well as for WMF to be acting with bigger commitment as
>> supporter of all Wikimedia entities, participants and partnerships, than
>> just easy and obvious ones.
>>
>> Best
>> Z. Blace
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Form 990 clarification request (for the attention of WMF accounts staff)

[Samuel Klein]

Andreas,

Are you ... sealioning WMF staff?  Please don't.  🎢

You've been posting a lot
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/>
lately,
when that happens one can forget to be kind.  I do find you're taking an
overly jaundiced view.

Fewer, shorter messages keep the list more usable by others. You don't need
to respond to everyone.  Rants and nitpicks are better suited to channels
*without* *mass **push-*notifications, like the wiki.  There's an FAQ
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRS_tax_related_information/2019_Wikimedia_Foundation_Form_990_Frequently_Asked_Questions>
on
Meta for every 990, as you know
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:IRS_tax_related_information/2019_Wikimedia_Foundation_Form_990_Frequently_Asked_Questions>,
for Qs like this.

And you should stop calling out individual staff, period.  Including for
salary analyses. That is the least informative (for reasons Christophe laid
out) and most disruptive use of the public information which we are all
glad to have access to.

Warmly, SJ
(ramping back my own posting for a while!)


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> Dear WMF accounts staff,
>
> Could you kindly clarify whether the "Salaries, other compensation,
> employee benefits" figure in Part I, line 15 of the Form 990 relates solely
> to the 291 employees indicated in Part I, line 5, or whether it also
> includes salaries, compensation and benefits for the 82 contractors listed
> in Part V, line 1a of the Form 990.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Andreas
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda

[Samuel Klein]

Hurrah!  Welcome to Derrick, Clementine and all, I hope to see the rw: wiki
grow fro strength to strength.   SJ

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 3:44 AM Camelia Boban 
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] *Wikimedia Community User Group* *Rwanda *[2] as a Wikimedia User
> Group. The group aims to improve articles on Wikimedia Foundation project
> websites and promote free and open access to knowledge locally in
> Kinyarwanda & English. They also invest in projects that sensitize and
> train different communities in Rwanda about Wikipedia with much emphasis on
> Kinyarwanda Wikipedia*.*
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Rwanda
>
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Rwanda
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> *Camelia Boban*
> *Chair*
>
> *Affiliation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>*
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Книжковий Арсенал 2022: потрібні волонтери

[Samuel Klein]

Sounds wonderful, thank you for sharing this cool event w/ the list.

I would love to see more public events, and more languages, represented in
the list traffic :)

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:12 AM attolippip  wrote:

> Усім привіт!
>
> 25—29 травня пройде XI міжнародний фестиваль «Книжковий Арсенал» у Києві.
> Плануємо мати стенд з презентацією ГО «Вікімедіа Україна» на фестивалі, і
> потрібні волонтери, які будуть у ці дні (або один чи кілька днів) чергувати
> на стенді.
>
> Волонтери отримають футболки, у яких потрібно буде в ці дні там бути. А
> також інші сувеніри із символікою проєктів Фонду Вікімедіа та «Вікімедіа
> Україна». Серед можливих завдань, окрім чергувати на стенді та розказувати
> й представляти проєкти, може бути також фотографування значущих людей для
> Вікіпедії та відвідини заходів на фестивалі для фотографування (звісно,
> чергуючись із іншими волонтерами). За потреби можна буде покрити витрати на
> дорогу та проживання (або розмістити у когось із вікіпедистів у Києві).
>
> Попередньо планували зосередитися на поширенні матеріалів та інформації
> про «свободу панорами», фотоконкурси, освітню програму, і, звісно, про
> залучення до проєктів Фонду Вікімедіа. Але конкретніше це почне
> викрастилізовуватися вже ближче до заходу. Вітаються й ідеї з оформлення
> стенду чи продумування активностей. До 17 лютого ще маємо вирішити чи
> будемо й якісь заходи у програмі організовувати, тож якщо у Вас є якісь
> думки й щодо цього, пишіть.
>
> Якщо Ви могли б долучитися, заповніть, будь ласка, цю коротку форму, щоб
> зібрати необхідну інформацію: посилання на форму для зголошення
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUnadiJMYIGow9nUDDXMmxOIT8ctypqdrSqq6R_ltoG1KVUg/viewform>
>
> З повагою / Best regards,
> antanana
> Wiki Loves Monuments Ukraine
> Wiki Loves Earth International team
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month: We are back in 2022!

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks for sharing -- a nice idea and gorgeous page; nice to see the *wikigap
challenge* model proliferating.

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 6:00 PM Valentin Nefedov 
wrote:

> Hello, dear Wikipedians!Wikimedia Ukraine, in cooperation with the
> Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Ukrainian Institute, has
> launched the second edition of writing challenge Ukraine's Cultural
> Diplomacy Month <http://ucdm.wikimedia.org.ua>, which lasts from 17
> February to 17 March 2022. The campaign is dedicated to famous Ukrainian
> artists of cinema, music, literature, architecture, design and cultural
> phenomena of Ukraine that made a contribution to world culture. The most
> active contesters will receive prizes.
>
> We invite you to take part and help us improve the coverage of Ukrainian
> culture on Wikipedia in any language!
>
> Sincerely,
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

[Samuel Klein]

A great question!  Dear renvoy, antanana and others in Ukraine, please stay
safe.
Not only, what is WMF doing, but what an we all do to help?

Here's a potential Ru block in the works, and a request for better VPN
support for editors in the region.
https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1498735210342633473
https://twitter.com/runasand/status/1498742191719694345

//S

On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 8:26 AM Andy Mabbett 
wrote:

> How do US, Geman/EU (for Wikidata) and other sanctions affect our
> movement and its projects?
>
> How is WMF supporting Wikimedians in Ukraine? And - where sanctions
> allow - supporting Wikimedians in Russia, who are trying to
> disseminate facts and fight censorship and propaganda?
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Our World in Data (OWID)

[Samuel Klein]

Fantastic.  I would include OWID in the Sources attribution line in the
embeds.
Do they already have a start at translation?  A strings file associated w/
each map?

On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 4:52 PM James Heilman  wrote:

> We at Wiki Project Med are working to get Our World in Data (OWID) working
> within a mediawiki environment.
>
> 1) We have created a mirror of their website on WMF servers
> <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/grapher/interventions-ntds-sdgs>. Hopefully
> this has allowed us to address security and privacy concerns.
>
> 2) We have created an extension
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OurWorldInDataMirror> that
> allows the use of this content within a mediawiki install
>
> 3) We have made a bunch of changes to formatting, such as removing the
> logo, to make it compliant with WP practice and style. You can see an
> example on MDWiki in the infobox here
> <https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Neglected_tropical_diseases>.
>
> My question to the movement is are their communities interested in using
> this technology? There are about 4,000 of these graphs
> <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/charts>. We of course will also need to
> develop a framework for translation.
>
> Best
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Our World in Data (OWID)

[Samuel Klein]

Good to know, would love to help with this on wiki... Easy to do it in a
way they can backport when they have time.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 10:58 AM James Heilman  wrote:

> Hey SJ
>
> Yes working to add OWID both to the sources tab.
>
> With respect to translation, am in discussion with OWID and they have no
> capacity to add this infrastructure for a couple of years. We will need to
> build something ourselves if we want it sooner. Am looking for volunteers
> who are interested :-) Or funding to help hire someone to work on this.
>
> James
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 8:41 AM Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
>> Fantastic.  I would include OWID in the Sources attribution line in the
>> embeds.
>> Do they already have a start at translation?  A strings file associated
>> w/ each map?
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 4:52 PM James Heilman  wrote:
>>
>>> We at Wiki Project Med are working to get Our World in Data (OWID)
>>> working within a mediawiki environment.
>>>
>>> 1) We have created a mirror of their website on WMF servers
>>> <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/grapher/interventions-ntds-sdgs>. Hopefully
>>> this has allowed us to address security and privacy concerns.
>>>
>>> 2) We have created an extension
>>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OurWorldInDataMirror> that
>>> allows the use of this content within a mediawiki install
>>>
>>> 3) We have made a bunch of changes to formatting, such as removing the
>>> logo, to make it compliant with WP practice and style. You can see an
>>> example on MDWiki in the infobox here
>>> <https://mdwiki.org/wiki/Neglected_tropical_diseases>.
>>>
>>> My question to the movement is are their communities interested in using
>>> this technology? There are about 4,000 of these graphs
>>> <https://owidm.wmcloud.org/charts>. We of course will also need to
>>> develop a framework for translation.
>>>
>>> Best
>>> --
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>>> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing the 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon

[Samuel Klein]

Wow, fantastic -- I love this model for online facilitation + local
gatherings.  Any sort of available/recommended hackathon event-kit?

On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 12:03 AM Risker  wrote:

> (re-sending on behalf of Haley Lepp)
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> Your friendly neighborhood Hackathon committee is thrilled to announce the
> 2022 Global Wikimedia Hackathon! We invite you to join us for three days of
> collaborating, interactive sessions, and social fun from May 20-May 22.
> The Hackathon will be held online and there will be grants available to
> support local in-person meetups around the world. You can find more
> information about this on our MediaWiki.org page
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022>, which will
> continue to grow over the next few weeks. For more details, read below.
>
> Who: The Hackathon is for anyone who contributes (or wants to contribute
> to) to Wikimedia’s technical areas - as code creators, maintainers,
> translators, designers, technical writers and other technical roles. You
> can come with a project in mind, join an existing project, or create
> something new with others. The choice is yours! Newcomers are welcome.
>
> We will send out more information on how to schedule a session in the
> program soon. You can also add yourself to the participants list
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Participants>,
> and mention if you would like to help with tasks such as facilitation or
> welcoming newcomers. There will be scholarship stipends available- please
> stay tuned for more information.
>
> What: A Wikimedia Hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons> is
> a space for the technical community to come together and work together on
> technical projects, learn from each other, and make new friends.
>
> When: May 20-May 22. The schedule will be announced shortly. We are
> trying to plan events so that people in all time zones can participate
> comfortably. There will be core hours several times a day when most events
> will occur, and online social and hacking spaces open 24 hours a day
> throughout the three days.
>
> Where: The Hackathon will primarily be held online. However, very soon we
> will share an application for local affiliates to apply for grants to host
> in-person local meetups. Meetups can be anything from social gatherings
> with food, to a party for watching the opening or closing ceremony, to a
> pre-event workshop, to renting a venue where people can participate
> together in the online event. Grants can range from 500-5000 USD. Stay
> tuned for more information!
>
> How (can you help)?:
>
>1.
>
>We are seeking another committee member! The commitment is around 3
>hours per week. If you are interested, please contact
>hl...@wikimedia.org
>2.
>
>We have an ideas page.
><https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022>What are
>you interested in? What would you like to see or do in this year’s
>hackathon? Please share your ideas with everyone! This is a community
>Hackathon and we will work together to put on a great event.
>3.
>
>Do you have any accessibility or translation requests? Please contact
>hl...@wikimedia.org
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Your Hackathon Committee
>
> Andre <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AKlapper_(WMF)>
>
> Haley <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:HLepp_(WMF)>
>
> Jay <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345>
>
> Lucas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister>
>
> Marios <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Magioladitis>
>
> Neslihan <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Flanoz>
>
> Selene
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:SYang_(WMF)&action=edit&redlink=1>
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