Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Wednesday September 19, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The second abstract was cut short in the first email. Here is the full
version:

Deliberation and resolution on WikipediaA case study of requests for
commentsBy *Amy Zhang, Jane Im*Resolving disputes in a timely manner is
crucial for any online production group. We present an analysis of Requests
for Comments (RfCs), one of the main vehicles on Wikipedia for formally
resolving a policy or content dispute. We collected an exhaustive dataset
of 7,316 RfCs on English Wikipedia over the course of 7 years and conducted
a qualitative and quantitative analysis into what issues affect the RfC
process. Our analysis was informed by 10 interviews with frequent RfC
closers. We found that a major issue affecting the RfC process is the
prevalence of RfCs that could have benefited from formal closure but that
linger indefinitely without one, with factors including participants'
interest and expertise impacting the likelihood of resolution. From these
findings, we developed a model that predicts whether an RfC will go stale
with 75.3% accuracy, a level that is approached as early as one week after
dispute initiation.

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 1:43 PM Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday,
> September 19 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY8vZ6wES9o
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here.
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Upcoming_Showcase>
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> This month's presentations is:
>
> The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States
> during the 2016 Zika epidemicBy *Michele Tizzoni, André Panisson, Daniela
> Paolotti, Ciro Cattuto*In recent years, many studies have drawn attention
> to the important role of collective awareness and human behaviour during
> epidemic outbreaks. A number of modelling efforts have investigated the
> interaction between the disease transmission dynamics and human behaviour
> change mediated by news coverage and by information spreading in the
> population. Yet, given the scarcity of data on public awareness during an
> epidemic, few studies have relied on empirical data. Here, we use
> fine-grained, geo-referenced data from three online sources - Wikipedia,
> the GDELT Project and the Internet Archive - to quantify population-scale
> information seeking about the 2016 Zika virus epidemic in the U.S.,
> explicitly linking such behavioural signal to epidemiological data.
> Geo-localized Wikipedia pageview data reveal that visiting patterns of
> Zika-related pages in Wikipedia were highly synchronized across the United
> States and largely explained by exposure to national television broadcast.
> Contrary to the assumption of some theoretical models, news volume and
> Wikipedia visiting patterns were not significantly correlated with the
> magnitude or the extent of the epidemic. Attention to Zika, in terms of
> Zika-related Wikipedia pageviews, was high at the beginning of the
> outbreak, when public health agencies raised an international alert and
> triggered media coverage, but subsequently exhibited an activity profile
> that suggests nonlinear dependencies and memory effects in the relationship
> between information seeking, media pressure, and disease dynamics. This
> calls for a new and more general modelling framework to describe the
> interaction between media exposure, public awareness, and disease dynamics
> during epidemic outbreaks.
>
>
> Deliberation and resolution on WikipediaA case study of requests for
> commentsBy *Amy Zhang, Jane Im*Resolving disputes in a timely manner is
> crucial for any online production group. We present an analysis of Requests
> for Comments (RfCs), one of the main vehicles on Wikipedia for formally
> resolving a policy or content dispute. We collected an exhaustive dataset
> of 7,316 RfCs on English Wikipedia over the course of 7 years and conducted
> a qualitative and quantitative analysis into what issues affect the RfC
> process. Our analysis was informed by 10 interviews with frequent RfC
> closers. We found that a major issue affecting the RfC process is the
> prevalence of RfCs that could have benefited from formal closure but that
> linger indefinitely without one, with factors including participants'
> interest and expertise impacting the likelihood of resolution. From these
> findings, we developed a model that predicts whether
>
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> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>
>
>
>
>

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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Wednesday September 19, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday,
September 19 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY8vZ6wES9o

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Upcoming_Showcase>

Hope to see you there!

This month's presentations is:

The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States
during the 2016 Zika epidemicBy *Michele Tizzoni, André Panisson, Daniela
Paolotti, Ciro Cattuto*In recent years, many studies have drawn attention
to the important role of collective awareness and human behaviour during
epidemic outbreaks. A number of modelling efforts have investigated the
interaction between the disease transmission dynamics and human behaviour
change mediated by news coverage and by information spreading in the
population. Yet, given the scarcity of data on public awareness during an
epidemic, few studies have relied on empirical data. Here, we use
fine-grained, geo-referenced data from three online sources - Wikipedia,
the GDELT Project and the Internet Archive - to quantify population-scale
information seeking about the 2016 Zika virus epidemic in the U.S.,
explicitly linking such behavioural signal to epidemiological data.
Geo-localized Wikipedia pageview data reveal that visiting patterns of
Zika-related pages in Wikipedia were highly synchronized across the United
States and largely explained by exposure to national television broadcast.
Contrary to the assumption of some theoretical models, news volume and
Wikipedia visiting patterns were not significantly correlated with the
magnitude or the extent of the epidemic. Attention to Zika, in terms of
Zika-related Wikipedia pageviews, was high at the beginning of the
outbreak, when public health agencies raised an international alert and
triggered media coverage, but subsequently exhibited an activity profile
that suggests nonlinear dependencies and memory effects in the relationship
between information seeking, media pressure, and disease dynamics. This
calls for a new and more general modelling framework to describe the
interaction between media exposure, public awareness, and disease dynamics
during epidemic outbreaks.


Deliberation and resolution on WikipediaA case study of requests for
commentsBy *Amy Zhang, Jane Im*Resolving disputes in a timely manner is
crucial for any online production group. We present an analysis of Requests
for Comments (RfCs), one of the main vehicles on Wikipedia for formally
resolving a policy or content dispute. We collected an exhaustive dataset
of 7,316 RfCs on English Wikipedia over the course of 7 years and conducted
a qualitative and quantitative analysis into what issues affect the RfC
process. Our analysis was informed by 10 interviews with frequent RfC
closers. We found that a major issue affecting the RfC process is the
prevalence of RfCs that could have benefited from formal closure but that
linger indefinitely without one, with factors including participants'
interest and expertise impacting the likelihood of resolution. From these
findings, we developed a model that predicts whether

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Research Showcase August 13 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC

[Sarah R]

Hi All,

Just a reminder this is happening at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC *TODAY.*

Many kindnesses,

Sarah R.

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 3:46 PM Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday,
> August 13 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPMS4YGDMk
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here.
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Upcoming_Showcase>
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> This month's presentations is:
>
> *Quicksilver: Training an ML system to generate draft Wikipedia articles
> and Wikidata entries simultaneously*
>
> John Bohannon and Vedant Dharnidharka, Primer
>
> The automatic generation and updating of Wikipedia articles is usually
> approached as a multi-document summarization task: Given a set of source
> documents containing information about an entity, summarize the entity.
> Purely sequence-to-sequence neural models can pull that off, but getting
> enough data to train them is a challenge. Wikipedia articles and their
> reference documents can be used for training, as was recently done
> <https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.10198> by a team at Google AI. But how do you
> find new source documents for new entities? And besides having humans read
> all of the source documents, how do you fact-check the output? What is
> needed is a self-updating knowledge base that learns jointly with a
> summarization model, keeping track of data provenance. Lucky for us, the
> world’s most comprehensive public encyclopedia is tightly coupled with
> Wikidata, the world’s most comprehensive public knowledge base. We have
> built a system called Quicksilver uses them both.
>
>
>

-- 
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Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodl...@wikimedia.org


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Research Showcase August 13 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC

[Sarah R]

 Hi All,

In my haste, I put the wrong weekday on this email. The showcase will be on
Monday this month, not Wednesday.

Kindly,


On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 3:46 PM Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday,
> August 13 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPMS4YGDMk
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here.
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Upcoming_Showcase>
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> This month's presentations is:
>
> *Quicksilver: Training an ML system to generate draft Wikipedia articles
> and Wikidata entries simultaneously*
>
> John Bohannon and Vedant Dharnidharka, Primer
>
> The automatic generation and updating of Wikipedia articles is usually
> approached as a multi-document summarization task: Given a set of source
> documents containing information about an entity, summarize the entity.
> Purely sequence-to-sequence neural models can pull that off, but getting
> enough data to train them is a challenge. Wikipedia articles and their
> reference documents can be used for training, as was recently done
> <https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.10198> by a team at Google AI. But how do you
> find new source documents for new entities? And besides having humans read
> all of the source documents, how do you fact-check the output? What is
> needed is a self-updating knowledge base that learns jointly with a
> summarization model, keeping track of data provenance. Lucky for us, the
> world’s most comprehensive public encyclopedia is tightly coupled with
> Wikidata, the world’s most comprehensive public knowledge base. We have
> built a system called Quicksilver uses them both.
>
>
>

-- 
Sarah R. Rodlund
Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy>
srodl...@wikimedia.org


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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Research Showcase August 13 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday,
August 13 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGPMS4YGDMk

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here.


Hope to see you there!

This month's presentations is:

*Quicksilver: Training an ML system to generate draft Wikipedia articles
and Wikidata entries simultaneously*

John Bohannon and Vedant Dharnidharka, Primer

The automatic generation and updating of Wikipedia articles is usually
approached as a multi-document summarization task: Given a set of source
documents containing information about an entity, summarize the entity.
Purely sequence-to-sequence neural models can pull that off, but getting
enough data to train them is a challenge. Wikipedia articles and their
reference documents can be used for training, as was recently done
 by a team at Google AI. But how do you
find new source documents for new entities? And besides having humans read
all of the source documents, how do you fact-check the output? What is
needed is a self-updating knowledge base that learns jointly with a
summarization model, keeping track of data provenance. Lucky for us, the
world’s most comprehensive public encyclopedia is tightly coupled with
Wikidata, the world’s most comprehensive public knowledge base. We have
built a system called Quicksilver uses them both.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Research Showcase July 11, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT| 18:30 UTC)

[Sarah R]

Hi Folks,

Just a reminder this is happening today!

Hope to see you there!

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 10:30 AM Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday,
> July 11, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK7AvNKq0sg
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here.
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Upcoming_Showcase>
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> This month's presentations:
>
> Mind the (Language) Gap: Neural Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia
> Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholdersBy *Lucie-Aimée Kaffee*While
> Wikipedia exists in 287 languages, its content is unevenly distributed
> among them. It is therefore of the utmost social and cultural interests to
> address languages for which native speakers have only access to an
> impoverished Wikipedia. In this work, we investigate the generation of
> summaries for Wikipedia articles in underserved languages, given structured
> data as an input.
> In order to address the information bias towards widely spoken languages,
> we focus on an important support for such summaries: ArticlePlaceholders,
> which are dynamically generated content pages in underserved Wikipedia
> versions. They enable native speakers to access existing information in
> Wikidata, a structured Knowledge Base (KB). Our system provides a
> generative neural network architecture, which processes the triples of the
> KB as they are dynamically provided by the ArticlePlaceholder, and generate
> a comprehensible textual summary. This data-driven approach is tested with
> the goal of understanding how well it matches the communities' needs on two
> underserved languages on the Web: Arabic, a language with a big community
> with disproportionate access to knowledge online, and Esperanto.
> With the help of the Arabic and Esperanto Wikipedians, we conduct an
> extended evaluation which exhibits not only the quality of the generated
> text but also the applicability of our end-system to any underserved
> Wikipedia version. Token-level change tracking: data, tools and insights
> By *Fabian Flöck*This talk first gives an overview of the WikiWho
> infrastructure, which provides tracking of changes to single tokens
> (~words) in articles of different Wikipedia language versions. It exposes
> APIs for accessing this data in near-real time, and is complemented by a
> published static dataset. Several insights are presented regarding
> provenance, partial reverts, token-level conflict and other metrics that
> only become available with such data. Lastly, the talk will cover several
> tools and scripts that are already using the API and will discuss their
> application scenarios, such as investigation of authorship, conflicted
> content and editor productivity.
>


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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Research Showcase July 11, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT| 18:30 UTC)

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, July
11, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK7AvNKq0sg

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here.


Hope to see you there!

This month's presentations:

Mind the (Language) Gap: Neural Generation of Multilingual Wikipedia
Summaries from Wikidata for ArticlePlaceholdersBy *Lucie-Aimée Kaffee*While
Wikipedia exists in 287 languages, its content is unevenly distributed
among them. It is therefore of the utmost social and cultural interests to
address languages for which native speakers have only access to an
impoverished Wikipedia. In this work, we investigate the generation of
summaries for Wikipedia articles in underserved languages, given structured
data as an input.
In order to address the information bias towards widely spoken languages,
we focus on an important support for such summaries: ArticlePlaceholders,
which are dynamically generated content pages in underserved Wikipedia
versions. They enable native speakers to access existing information in
Wikidata, a structured Knowledge Base (KB). Our system provides a
generative neural network architecture, which processes the triples of the
KB as they are dynamically provided by the ArticlePlaceholder, and generate
a comprehensible textual summary. This data-driven approach is tested with
the goal of understanding how well it matches the communities' needs on two
underserved languages on the Web: Arabic, a language with a big community
with disproportionate access to knowledge online, and Esperanto.
With the help of the Arabic and Esperanto Wikipedians, we conduct an
extended evaluation which exhibits not only the quality of the generated
text but also the applicability of our end-system to any underserved
Wikipedia version. Token-level change tracking: data, tools and
insightsBy *Fabian
Flöck*This talk first gives an overview of the WikiWho infrastructure,
which provides tracking of changes to single tokens (~words) in articles of
different Wikipedia language versions. It exposes APIs for accessing this
data in near-real time, and is complemented by a published static dataset.
Several insights are presented regarding provenance, partial reverts,
token-level conflict and other metrics that only become available with such
data. Lastly, the talk will cover several tools and scripts that are
already using the API and will discuss their application scenarios, such as
investigation of authorship, conflicted content and editor productivity.
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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase May 8, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT| 18:30 UTC)

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Tuesday, May 8,
2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT), 18:30 (UTC). (Please note this meeting is on
Tuesday this month).

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7cHxlGgEt4

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Upcoming_Showcase>

Case studies in the appropriation of ORESBy *Aaron Halfaker*ORES is an
open, transparent, and auditable machine prediction platform for
Wikipedians to help them do their work. It's currently used in 33 different
Wikimedia projects to measure the quality of content, detect vandalism,
recommend changes to articles, and to identify good faith newcomers. The
primary way that Wikipedians use ORES' predictions is through the tools
developed by volunteers. These javascript gadgets, MediaWiki extensions,
and web-based tools make up a complex ecosystem of Wikipedian processes --
encoded into software. In this presentation, Aaron will walk through a
three key tools that Wikipedians have developed that make use of ORES, and
he'll discuss how these novel process support technologies and the
discussions around them have prompted Wikipedians to reflect on their work
processes.


Exploring Wikimedia Donation PatternsBy *Gary Hsieh*Every year, Wikimedia
Foundation relies on fundraising campaigns to help maintain the services it
provides to millions of people worldwide. However, despite a large number
of individuals who donate through these campaigns, these donors represent
only a small percentage of Wikimedia users. In this work, we seek to
advance our understanding of donors and their donation behaviors. Our
findings offer insights to improve fundraising campaigns and to limit the
burden of these campaigns on Wikipedia visitors.

Kindly,

Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase April 18, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT| 18:30 UTC)

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

Just a reminder that the Research Showcase will begin in a half hour!

Kindly,

Sarah R.



On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 7:30 PM, Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> A quick correction.* "*The Critical Relationship of Volunteer Created
> Wikipedia Content to Large-Scale Online Communities" will be presented by 
> *Nicholas
> Vincent.*
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Sarah R.
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Sarah R  wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, April
>> 18, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.
>>
>> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1pa-pr6xis
>>
>> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
>> And, you can watch our past research showcases here.
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Upcoming_Showcase>
>>
>> The Critical Relationship of Volunteer Created Wikipedia Content to
>> Large-Scale Online CommunitiesBy *Nate TeBlunthuis*The extensive
>> Wikipedia literature has largely considered Wikipedia in isolation, outside
>> of the context of its broader Internet ecosystem. Very recent research has
>> demonstrated the significance of this limitation, identifying critical
>> relationships between Google and Wikipedia that are highly relevant to many
>> areas of Wikipedia-based research and practice. In this talk, I will
>> present a study which extends this recent research beyond search engines to
>> examine Wikipedia’s relationships with large-scale online communities,
>> Stack Overflow and Reddit in particular. I will discuss evidence of
>> consequential, albeit unidirectional relationships. Wikipedia provides
>> substantial value to both communities, with Wikipedia content increasing
>> visitation, engagement, and revenue, but we find little evidence that these
>> websites contribute to Wikipedia in return. Overall, these findings
>> highlight important connections between Wikipedia and its broader ecosystem
>> that should be considered by researchers studying Wikipedia. Overall, this
>> talk will emphasize the key role that volunteer-created Wikipedia content
>> plays in improving other websites, even contributing to revenue generation.
>>
>>
>> The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System, a Closer LookBy *Nate
>> TeBlunthuis*Do patterns of growth and stabilization found in large peer
>> production systems such as Wikipedia occur in other communities? This study
>> assesses the generalizability of Halfaker etal.’s influential 2013 paper on
>> “The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System.” We replicate its
>> tests of several theories related to newcomer retention and norm
>> entrenchment using a dataset of hundreds of active peer production wikis
>> from Wikia. We reproduce the subset of the findings from Halfaker and
>> colleagues that we are able to test, comparing both the estimated signs and
>> magnitudes of our models. Our results support the external validity of
>> Halfaker et al.’s claims that quality control systems may limit the growth
>> of peer production communities by deterring new contributors and that norms
>> tend to become entrenched over time.
>>
>> Kindest regards,
>>
>> Sarah R. Rodlund
>> Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation |
>> Hic sunt leones
>> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>>
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase April 18, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT| 18:30 UTC)

[Sarah R]

Hi All,

A quick correction.* "*The Critical Relationship of Volunteer Created
Wikipedia Content to Large-Scale Online Communities" will be presented
by *Nicholas
Vincent.*

Kind regards,

Sarah R.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 6:47 PM, Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, April
> 18, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1pa-pr6xis
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here.
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Upcoming_Showcase>
>
> The Critical Relationship of Volunteer Created Wikipedia Content to
> Large-Scale Online CommunitiesBy *Nate TeBlunthuis*The extensive
> Wikipedia literature has largely considered Wikipedia in isolation, outside
> of the context of its broader Internet ecosystem. Very recent research has
> demonstrated the significance of this limitation, identifying critical
> relationships between Google and Wikipedia that are highly relevant to many
> areas of Wikipedia-based research and practice. In this talk, I will
> present a study which extends this recent research beyond search engines to
> examine Wikipedia’s relationships with large-scale online communities,
> Stack Overflow and Reddit in particular. I will discuss evidence of
> consequential, albeit unidirectional relationships. Wikipedia provides
> substantial value to both communities, with Wikipedia content increasing
> visitation, engagement, and revenue, but we find little evidence that these
> websites contribute to Wikipedia in return. Overall, these findings
> highlight important connections between Wikipedia and its broader ecosystem
> that should be considered by researchers studying Wikipedia. Overall, this
> talk will emphasize the key role that volunteer-created Wikipedia content
> plays in improving other websites, even contributing to revenue generation.
>
>
> The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System, a Closer LookBy *Nate
> TeBlunthuis*Do patterns of growth and stabilization found in large peer
> production systems such as Wikipedia occur in other communities? This study
> assesses the generalizability of Halfaker etal.’s influential 2013 paper on
> “The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System.” We replicate its
> tests of several theories related to newcomer retention and norm
> entrenchment using a dataset of hundreds of active peer production wikis
> from Wikia. We reproduce the subset of the findings from Halfaker and
> colleagues that we are able to test, comparing both the estimated signs and
> magnitudes of our models. Our results support the external validity of
> Halfaker et al.’s claims that quality control systems may limit the growth
> of peer production communities by deterring new contributors and that norms
> tend to become entrenched over time.
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Sarah R. Rodlund
> Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation |
> Hic sunt leones
> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>
>


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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase April 18, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT| 18:30 UTC)

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, April 18,
2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1pa-pr6xis

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Upcoming_Showcase>

The Critical Relationship of Volunteer Created Wikipedia Content to
Large-Scale Online CommunitiesBy *Nate TeBlunthuis*The extensive Wikipedia
literature has largely considered Wikipedia in isolation, outside of the
context of its broader Internet ecosystem. Very recent research has
demonstrated the significance of this limitation, identifying critical
relationships between Google and Wikipedia that are highly relevant to many
areas of Wikipedia-based research and practice. In this talk, I will
present a study which extends this recent research beyond search engines to
examine Wikipedia’s relationships with large-scale online communities,
Stack Overflow and Reddit in particular. I will discuss evidence of
consequential, albeit unidirectional relationships. Wikipedia provides
substantial value to both communities, with Wikipedia content increasing
visitation, engagement, and revenue, but we find little evidence that these
websites contribute to Wikipedia in return. Overall, these findings
highlight important connections between Wikipedia and its broader ecosystem
that should be considered by researchers studying Wikipedia. Overall, this
talk will emphasize the key role that volunteer-created Wikipedia content
plays in improving other websites, even contributing to revenue generation.


The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System, a Closer LookBy *Nate
TeBlunthuis*Do patterns of growth and stabilization found in large peer
production systems such as Wikipedia occur in other communities? This study
assesses the generalizability of Halfaker etal.’s influential 2013 paper on
“The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System.” We replicate its
tests of several theories related to newcomer retention and norm
entrenchment using a dataset of hundreds of active peer production wikis
from Wikia. We reproduce the subset of the findings from Halfaker and
colleagues that we are able to test, comparing both the estimated signs and
magnitudes of our models. Our results support the external validity of
Halfaker et al.’s claims that quality control systems may limit the growth
of peer production communities by deterring new contributors and that norms
tend to become entrenched over time.

Kindest regards,

Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation | Hic
sunt leones
srodl...@wikimedia.org
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase March 21, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT | 18:30 UTC)

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

Just a reminder -- this is beginning in a half hour. Hope to see you there!

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 1:54 PM, Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, March 21,
> 2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACevHs0sMMw
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#March_2018>.
>
>
> Over the past years, the Research team at Wikimedia Foundation and some of
> our formal collaborators have been focused on doing research and building
> technologies that can help editors across Wikimedia languages find tasks
> for contributions. While the early effort was heavily focused on article
> recommendation for creation (horizontal expansion), in 2016 we started a
> new direction of research with a focus on vertical expansion of Wikipedia
> articles. The two talks in the March 2018 Research Showcase will share some
> of what we have learned from this research. More specifically, we will talk
> about Wikipedia category network as a great signal for creating
> templates/structures for Wikipedia articles as well as ongoing research to
> learn what content (sections) are missing from Wikipedia across its many
> languages. The two corresponding abstracts with more details are below.
> Join us! :)
>
>
> Using Wikipedia categories for research: opportunities, challenges, and
> solutionsBy *Tiziano Piccardi, EPFL*The category network in Wikipedia is
> used by editors as a way to label articles and organize them in a
> hierarchical structure. This manually created and curated network of 1.6
> million nodes in English Wikipedia generated by arranging the categories in
> a child-parent relation (i.e., Scientists-People, Cities-Human Settlement)
> allows researchers to infer valuable relations between concepts. A clean
> structure in this format would be a valuable resource for a variety of
> tools and application including automatic reasoning tools. Unfortunately,
> Wikipedia category network contains some "noise" since in many cases the
> association as subcategory does not define an is-a relation (Scientists
> is-a People vs. Billionaires‎ is-a Wealth). Inspired to develop a model for
> recommending sections to be added to the already existing Wikipedia
> articles, we developed a method to clean this network and to keep only the
> categories that have a high chance to be associated with their children by
> an is-a relation. The strategy is based on the concept of "pure"
> categories, and the algorithm uses the types of the attached articles to
> determine how homogenous the category is. The approach does not rely on any
> linguistic feature and therefore is suitable for all Wikipedia languages.
> In this talk, we will discuss the high-level overview of the algorithm and
> some of the possible applications for the generated network beyond article
> section recommendations.
>
>
> Beyond Automatic Translation: Aligning Wikipedia sections across multiple
> languagesBy *Diego Saez-Trumper*Sections are the building blocks of
> Wikipedia articles. For editors, they can be used as an entry point for
> creating and expanding articles. For readers, they enhance readability of
> Wikipedia content. In this talk, we present an ongoing research to align
> article sections across Wikipedia languages. We show how the available
> technology for automatic translations are not good enough for translating
> section titles. We then show a complementary approach for section
> alignment, using Wikidata and cross-lingual word embeddings. We will
> present some of the use-cases of a methodology for aligning sections across
> languages, including improved section recommendation, especially in medium
> to smaller size languages where the language itself may not contain enough
> signal about the structure of the articles and signals can be inferred from
> other larger Wikipedia languages.
>
> Sarah R. Rodlund
> Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>
>
>
>


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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase March 21, 2018 (11:30 AM PDT | 18:30 UTC)

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, March 21,
2018 at 11:30 AM (PDT) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACevHs0sMMw

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#March_2018>.


Over the past years, the Research team at Wikimedia Foundation and some of
our formal collaborators have been focused on doing research and building
technologies that can help editors across Wikimedia languages find tasks
for contributions. While the early effort was heavily focused on article
recommendation for creation (horizontal expansion), in 2016 we started a
new direction of research with a focus on vertical expansion of Wikipedia
articles. The two talks in the March 2018 Research Showcase will share some
of what we have learned from this research. More specifically, we will talk
about Wikipedia category network as a great signal for creating
templates/structures for Wikipedia articles as well as ongoing research to
learn what content (sections) are missing from Wikipedia across its many
languages. The two corresponding abstracts with more details are below.
Join us! :)


Using Wikipedia categories for research: opportunities, challenges, and
solutionsBy *Tiziano Piccardi, EPFL*The category network in Wikipedia is
used by editors as a way to label articles and organize them in a
hierarchical structure. This manually created and curated network of 1.6
million nodes in English Wikipedia generated by arranging the categories in
a child-parent relation (i.e., Scientists-People, Cities-Human Settlement)
allows researchers to infer valuable relations between concepts. A clean
structure in this format would be a valuable resource for a variety of
tools and application including automatic reasoning tools. Unfortunately,
Wikipedia category network contains some "noise" since in many cases the
association as subcategory does not define an is-a relation (Scientists
is-a People vs. Billionaires‎ is-a Wealth). Inspired to develop a model for
recommending sections to be added to the already existing Wikipedia
articles, we developed a method to clean this network and to keep only the
categories that have a high chance to be associated with their children by
an is-a relation. The strategy is based on the concept of "pure"
categories, and the algorithm uses the types of the attached articles to
determine how homogenous the category is. The approach does not rely on any
linguistic feature and therefore is suitable for all Wikipedia languages.
In this talk, we will discuss the high-level overview of the algorithm and
some of the possible applications for the generated network beyond article
section recommendations.


Beyond Automatic Translation: Aligning Wikipedia sections across multiple
languagesBy *Diego Saez-Trumper*Sections are the building blocks of
Wikipedia articles. For editors, they can be used as an entry point for
creating and expanding articles. For readers, they enhance readability of
Wikipedia content. In this talk, we present an ongoing research to align
article sections across Wikipedia languages. We show how the available
technology for automatic translations are not good enough for translating
section titles. We then show a complementary approach for section
alignment, using Wikidata and cross-lingual word embeddings. We will
present some of the use-cases of a methodology for aligning sections across
languages, including improved section recommendation, especially in medium
to smaller size languages where the language itself may not contain enough
signal about the structure of the articles and signals can be inferred from
other larger Wikipedia languages.

Sarah R. Rodlund
Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
srodl...@wikimedia.org
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, February 21, 2018 [External]

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone!

Just a reminder that this month's research showcase will happen today at
11:30 AM (PST) 19:30 (UTC)!

Hope to see you there!

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:58 AM, Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> Quick correction.
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, February
> 21, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) *19:30 (UTC).*
>
> Kindly,
>
> Sarah R.
>
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:38 AM, Sarah R  wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, February
>> 21, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
>>
>> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpmRWCE7F_I
>>
>> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
>> And, you can watch our past research showcases here
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase>.
>>
>> This month's presentation:
>>
>> *Visual enrichment of collaborative knowledge bases*
>>
>> By Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> Images allow us to explain, enrich and complement knowledge without
>> language barriers [1]. They can help illustrate the content of an item in a
>> language-agnostic way to external data consumers. Images can be extremely
>> helpful in multilingual collaborative knowledge bases such as Wikidata.
>>
>> However, a large proportion of Wikidata items lack images. More than 3.6M
>> Wikidata items are about humans (Q5), but only 17% of them have an image
>> associated with them. Only 2.2M of 40 Million Wikidata items have an image.
>> A wider presence of images in such a rich, cross-lingual repository could
>> enable a more complete representation of human knowledge.
>>
>> In this talk, we will discuss challenges and opportunities faced when
>> using machine learning and computer vision tools for the visual enrichment
>> of collaborative knowledge bases. We will share research to help Wikidata
>> contributors make Wikidata more “visual” by recommending high-quality
>> Commons images to Wikidata items. We will show the first results on
>> free-licence image quality scoring and recommendation and discuss future
>> work in this direction.
>>
>> [1] Van Hook, Steven R. "Modes and models for transcending cultural
>> differences in international classrooms." Journal of Research in
>> International Education 10.1 (2011): 5-27. http://journals.sagepub.com/do
>> i/abs/10.1177/1475240910395788
>>
>> *Backlogs—backlogs everywhere: Using machine classification to clean up
>> the new page backlog*
>>
>> By Aaron Halfaker, Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> If there's one insight that I've had about the functioning of Wikipedia
>> and other wiki-based online communities, it's that eventually self-directed
>> work breaks down and some form of organization becomes important for task
>> routing.  In Wikipedia specifically, the notion of "backlogs" has become
>> dominant.  There's backlogs of articles to create, articles to clean up,
>> articles to assess, new editor contributions to review, manual of style
>> rules to apply, etc.  To a community of people working on a backlog, the
>> state of that backlog has deep effects on their emotional well being.  A
>> backlog that only grows is frustrating and exhausting.
>>
>> Backlogs aren't inevitable though and there are many shapes that backlogs
>> can take.  In my presentation, I'll tell a story about where English
>> Wikipedia editors defined a process and set of roles that formed a backlog
>> around new page creations.  I'll make the argument that this formalization
>> of quality control practices has created a choke point and that
>> alternatives exist. Finally I'll present a vision for such an alternative
>> using models that we have developed for ORES, the open machine prediction
>> service my team maintains.
>>
>> --
>> Sarah R. Rodlund
>> Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
>> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Sarah R. Rodlund
> Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation |
> Hic sunt leones
> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>
>
> *“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
> matter.”  ~ Martin Luther King Jr
> <https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23924.Martin_Luther_King_Jr_>*
>



-- 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, February 21, 2018 [External]

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

Quick correction.

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, February
21, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) *19:30 (UTC).*

Kindly,

Sarah R.

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:38 AM, Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, February
> 21, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpmRWCE7F_I
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase>.
>
> This month's presentation:
>
> *Visual enrichment of collaborative knowledge bases*
>
> By Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation
>
> Images allow us to explain, enrich and complement knowledge without
> language barriers [1]. They can help illustrate the content of an item in a
> language-agnostic way to external data consumers. Images can be extremely
> helpful in multilingual collaborative knowledge bases such as Wikidata.
>
> However, a large proportion of Wikidata items lack images. More than 3.6M
> Wikidata items are about humans (Q5), but only 17% of them have an image
> associated with them. Only 2.2M of 40 Million Wikidata items have an image.
> A wider presence of images in such a rich, cross-lingual repository could
> enable a more complete representation of human knowledge.
>
> In this talk, we will discuss challenges and opportunities faced when
> using machine learning and computer vision tools for the visual enrichment
> of collaborative knowledge bases. We will share research to help Wikidata
> contributors make Wikidata more “visual” by recommending high-quality
> Commons images to Wikidata items. We will show the first results on
> free-licence image quality scoring and recommendation and discuss future
> work in this direction.
>
> [1] Van Hook, Steven R. "Modes and models for transcending cultural
> differences in international classrooms." Journal of Research in
> International Education 10.1 (2011): 5-27. http://journals.sagepub.com/
> doi/abs/10.1177/1475240910395788
>
> *Backlogs—backlogs everywhere: Using machine classification to clean up
> the new page backlog*
>
> By Aaron Halfaker, Wikimedia Foundation
>
> If there's one insight that I've had about the functioning of Wikipedia
> and other wiki-based online communities, it's that eventually self-directed
> work breaks down and some form of organization becomes important for task
> routing.  In Wikipedia specifically, the notion of "backlogs" has become
> dominant.  There's backlogs of articles to create, articles to clean up,
> articles to assess, new editor contributions to review, manual of style
> rules to apply, etc.  To a community of people working on a backlog, the
> state of that backlog has deep effects on their emotional well being.  A
> backlog that only grows is frustrating and exhausting.
>
> Backlogs aren't inevitable though and there are many shapes that backlogs
> can take.  In my presentation, I'll tell a story about where English
> Wikipedia editors defined a process and set of roles that formed a backlog
> around new page creations.  I'll make the argument that this formalization
> of quality control practices has created a choke point and that
> alternatives exist. Finally I'll present a vision for such an alternative
> using models that we have developed for ORES, the open machine prediction
> service my team maintains.
>
> --
> Sarah R. Rodlund
> Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>
>


-- 
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Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation | Hic
sunt leones
srodl...@wikimedia.org


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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, February 21, 2018 [External]

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, February
21, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpmRWCE7F_I

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase>.

This month's presentation:

*Visual enrichment of collaborative knowledge bases*

By Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation

Images allow us to explain, enrich and complement knowledge without
language barriers [1]. They can help illustrate the content of an item in a
language-agnostic way to external data consumers. Images can be extremely
helpful in multilingual collaborative knowledge bases such as Wikidata.

However, a large proportion of Wikidata items lack images. More than 3.6M
Wikidata items are about humans (Q5), but only 17% of them have an image
associated with them. Only 2.2M of 40 Million Wikidata items have an image.
A wider presence of images in such a rich, cross-lingual repository could
enable a more complete representation of human knowledge.

In this talk, we will discuss challenges and opportunities faced when using
machine learning and computer vision tools for the visual enrichment of
collaborative knowledge bases. We will share research to help Wikidata
contributors make Wikidata more “visual” by recommending high-quality
Commons images to Wikidata items. We will show the first results on
free-licence image quality scoring and recommendation and discuss future
work in this direction.

[1] Van Hook, Steven R. "Modes and models for transcending cultural
differences in international classrooms." Journal of Research in
International Education 10.1 (2011): 5-27.
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1475240910395788

*Backlogs—backlogs everywhere: Using machine classification to clean up the
new page backlog*

By Aaron Halfaker, Wikimedia Foundation

If there's one insight that I've had about the functioning of Wikipedia and
other wiki-based online communities, it's that eventually self-directed
work breaks down and some form of organization becomes important for task
routing.  In Wikipedia specifically, the notion of "backlogs" has become
dominant.  There's backlogs of articles to create, articles to clean up,
articles to assess, new editor contributions to review, manual of style
rules to apply, etc.  To a community of people working on a backlog, the
state of that backlog has deep effects on their emotional well being.  A
backlog that only grows is frustrating and exhausting.

Backlogs aren't inevitable though and there are many shapes that backlogs
can take.  In my presentation, I'll tell a story about where English
Wikipedia editors defined a process and set of roles that formed a backlog
around new page creations.  I'll make the argument that this formalization
of quality control practices has created a choke point and that
alternatives exist. Finally I'll present a vision for such an alternative
using models that we have developed for ORES, the open machine prediction
service my team maintains.

-- 
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Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
srodl...@wikimedia.org
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

Just a reminder that this will start at 11:30 AM (Pacific), 18:30 UTC.

Kindly,

Sarah R.

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, November
> 15, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMENRAkeHnQ
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#November_2017>
> .
>
> This month's presentation:
>
> Conversation Corpora, Emotional Robots, and Battles with BiasBy *Lucas
> Dixon (Google/Jigsaw)*I'll talk about interesting experimental setups for
> doing large-scale analysis of conversations in Wikipedia, and what it even
> means to grapple with the concept of conversation when one is talking about
> revisions on talk pages. I'll also describe challenges with having good
> conversations at scale, some of the dreams one might have for AI in the
> space, and I'll dig into measuring unintended bias in machine learning and
> what one can do to make ML more inclusive. This talk will cover work from
> the WikiDetox <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Detox> project as
> well as ongoing research on the nature and impact of harassment in
> Wikipedia discussion spaces
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Study_of_harassment_and_its_impact> 
> –
> part of a collaboration between Jigsaw, Cornell University, and the
> Wikimedia Foundation. The ML model training code, datasets, and the
> supporting tooling developed as part of this project are openly available.
>
>
> Many kind regards,
>
> Sarah R. Rodlund
> Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>
>
>
>


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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, November
15, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMENRAkeHnQ

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#November_2017>.

This month's presentation:

Conversation Corpora, Emotional Robots, and Battles with BiasBy *Lucas
Dixon (Google/Jigsaw)*I'll talk about interesting experimental setups for
doing large-scale analysis of conversations in Wikipedia, and what it even
means to grapple with the concept of conversation when one is talking about
revisions on talk pages. I'll also describe challenges with having good
conversations at scale, some of the dreams one might have for AI in the
space, and I'll dig into measuring unintended bias in machine learning and
what one can do to make ML more inclusive. This talk will cover work from
the WikiDetox <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Detox> project as
well as ongoing research on the nature and impact of harassment in
Wikipedia discussion spaces
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Study_of_harassment_and_its_impact> –
part of a collaboration between Jigsaw, Cornell University, and the
Wikimedia Foundation. The ML model training code, datasets, and the
supporting tooling developed as part of this project are openly available.


Many kind regards,

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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, September
20, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR5JwqyVGSk

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#September_2017>.

This month's presentation:

A Glimpse into BabelAn Analysis of Multilinguality in WikidataBy *Lucie-Aimée
Kaffee*Multilinguality is an important topic for knowledge bases,
especially Wikidata, that was build to serve the multilingual requirements
of an international community. Its labels are the way for humans to
interact with the data. In this talk, we explore the state of languages in
Wikidata as of now, especially in regard to its ontology, and the
relationship to Wikipedia. Furthermore, we set the multilinguality of
Wikidata in the context of the real world by comparing it to the
distribution of native speakers. We find an existing language
maldistribution, which is less urgent in the ontology, and promising
results for future improvements. An outlook on how users interact with
languages on Wikidata will be given.


Science is Shaped by WikipediaEvidence from a Randomized Control TrialBy *Neil
C. Thompson and Douglas Hanley*As the largest encyclopedia in the world, it
is not surprising that Wikipedia reflects the state of scientific
knowledge. However, Wikipedia is also one of the most accessed websites in
the world, including by scientists, which suggests that it also has the
potential to shape science. This paper shows that it does. Incorporating
ideas into a Wikipedia article leads to those ideas being used more in the
scientific literature. This paper documents this in two ways:
correlationally across thousands of articles in Wikipedia and causally
through a randomized experiment where we added new scientific content to
Wikipedia. We find that fully a third of the correlational relationship is
causal, implying that Wikipedia has a strong shaping effect on science. Our
findings speak not only to the influence of Wikipedia, but more broadly to
the influence of repositories of scientific knowledge. The results suggest
that increased provision of information in accessible repositories is a
very cost-effective way to advance science. We also find that such gains
are equity-improving, disproportionately benefitting those without
traditional access to scientific information.


Many kind regards,

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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, August 23,
2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa0Ztv2iF4w

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#August_2017>.

This month's presentation:

Sneha Narayan (Northwestern University)

*The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial for
New Users*

Integrating new users into a community with complex norms presents a
challenge for peer production projects like Wikipedia. We present The
Wikipedia Adventure (TWA): an interactive tutorial that offers a structured
and gamified introduction to Wikipedia. In addition to describing the
design of the system, we present two empirical evaluations. First, we
report on a survey of users, who responded very positively to the tutorial.
Second, we report results from a large-scale invitation-based field
experiment that tests whether using TWA increased newcomers' subsequent
contributions to Wikipedia. We find no effect of either using the tutorial
or of being invited to do so over a period of 180 days. We conclude that
TWA produces a positive socialization experience for those who choose to
use it, but that it does not alter patterns of newcomer activity. We
reflect on the implications of these mixed results for the evaluation of
similar social computing systems.

Andrew Su (Scripps Research Institute)

*The Gene Wiki: Using Wikipedia and Wikidata to organize biomedical
knowledge*

The Gene Wiki project began in 2007 with the goal of creating a
collaboratively-written, community-reviewed, and continuously-updated
review article for every human gene within Wikipedia.  In 2013, shortly
after the creation of the Wikidata project, the project expanded to include
the organization and integration of structured biomedical data.  This talk
will focus on our current and future work, including efforts to encourage
contributions from biomedical domain experts, to build custom applications
that use Wikidata as the back-end knowledge base, and to promote
CC0-licensing among biomedical knowledge resources.  Comments, feedback and
contributions are welcome at https://github.com/SuLab/genewikicentral and
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/WD:MB.

Kindly,

Sarah R. Rodlund
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

[Sarah R]

Just a reminder, the July 2017 Research Showcase will begin in one hour.

Hope to see you there!

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, July 26,
> 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC1jgK8C8aQ
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#July_2017>.
>
> This month's presentation:
>
> Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer
> Production CommunityBy *Andrew Hall*In addition to encyclopedia articles
> and software, peer production communities produce *structured data*,
> e.g., Wikidata and OpenStreetMap’s metadata. Structured data from peer
> production communities has become increasingly important due to its use by
> computational applications, such as CartoCSS, MapBox, and Wikipedia
> infoboxes. However, this structured data is usable by applications only if
> it follows *standards.* We did an interview study focused on
> OpenStreetMap’s knowledge production processes to investigate how – and how
> successfully – this community creates and applies its data standards. Our
> study revealed a fundamental tension between the need to produce structured
> data in a standardized way and OpenStreetMap’s tradition of contributor
> freedom. We extracted six themes that manifested this tension and three
> overarching concepts, *correctness, community,* and *code,* which help
> make sense of and synthesize the themes. We also offer suggestions for
> improving OpenStreetMap’s knowledge production processes, including new
> data models, sociotechnical tools, and community practices.
>
>
> Kindly,
>
> Sarah R. Rodlund
> Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>
>


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“*In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what
I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what
you ought to be until I am what I ought to be...This is the inter-related
structure of reality.”**― Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham
Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
<http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/197294>*
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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, July 26,
2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC1jgK8C8aQ

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#July_2017>.

This month's presentation:

Freedom versus Standardization: Structured Data Generation in a Peer
Production CommunityBy *Andrew Hall*In addition to encyclopedia articles
and software, peer production communities produce *structured data*, e.g.,
Wikidata and OpenStreetMap’s metadata. Structured data from peer production
communities has become increasingly important due to its use by
computational applications, such as CartoCSS, MapBox, and Wikipedia
infoboxes. However, this structured data is usable by applications only if
it follows *standards.* We did an interview study focused on
OpenStreetMap’s knowledge production processes to investigate how – and how
successfully – this community creates and applies its data standards. Our
study revealed a fundamental tension between the need to produce structured
data in a standardized way and OpenStreetMap’s tradition of contributor
freedom. We extracted six themes that manifested this tension and three
overarching concepts, *correctness, community,* and *code,* which help make
sense of and synthesize the themes. We also offer suggestions for improving
OpenStreetMap’s knowledge production processes, including new data models,
sociotechnical tools, and community practices.


Kindly,

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday June 21, 2017

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

Just a reminder, this will begin at 11:30 AM PST Today!

Kind regards,

Sarah R.

On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 3:47 PM, Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, June 21,
> 2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jpKRwPT-Q
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#June_2017>.
>
> This month's presentations:
>
> Title: Problematizing and Addressing the Article-as-Concept Assumption in
> Wikipedia
>
> By *Allen Yilun Lin*
>
> Abstract: Wikipedia-based studies and systems frequently assume that each
> article describes a separate concept. However, in this paper, we show that
> this article-as-concept assumption is problematic due to editors’ tendency
> to split articles into parent articles and sub-articles when articles get
> too long for readers (e.g. “United States” and “American literature” in the
> English Wikipedia). In this paper, we present evidence that this issue can
> have significant impacts on Wikipedia-based studies and systems and
> introduce the subarticle matching problem. The goal of the sub-article
> matching problem is to automatically connect sub-articles to parent
> articles to help Wikipedia-based studies and systems retrieve complete
> information about a concept. We then describe the first system to address
> the sub-article matching problem. We show that, using a diverse feature set
> and standard machine learning techniques, our system can achieve good
> performance on most of our ground truth datasets, significantly
> outperforming baseline approaches.
>
>
> Title: Understanding Wikidata Queries
>
>
> By *Markus Kroetzsch*
>
> Abstract: Wikimedia provides a public service that lets anyone answer
> complex questions over the sum of all knowledge stored in Wikidata. These
> questions are expressed in the query language SPARQL and range from the
> most simple fact retrievals ("What is the birthday of Douglas Adams?") to
> complex analytical queries ("Average lifespan of people by occupation").
> The talk presents ongoing efforts to analyse the server logs of the
> millions of queries that are answered each month. It is an important but
> difficult challenge to draw meaningful conclusions from this dataset. One
> might hope to learn relevant information about the usage of the service and
> Wikidata in general, but at the same time one has to be careful not to be
> misled by the data. Indeed, the dataset turned out to be highly
> heterogeneous and unpredictable, with strongly varying usage patterns that
> make it difficult to draw conclusions about "normal" usage. The talk will
> give a status report, present preliminary results, and discuss possible
> next steps.
>
> --
> Sarah R. Rodlund
> Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>
>
>


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srodl...@wikimedia.org

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inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what
I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what
you ought to be until I am what I ought to be...This is the inter-related
structure of reality.”**― Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham
Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
<http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/197294>*
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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday June 21, 2017

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, June 21,
2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jpKRwPT-Q

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#June_2017>.

This month's presentations:

Title: Problematizing and Addressing the Article-as-Concept Assumption in
Wikipedia

By *Allen Yilun Lin*

Abstract: Wikipedia-based studies and systems frequently assume that each
article describes a separate concept. However, in this paper, we show that
this article-as-concept assumption is problematic due to editors’ tendency
to split articles into parent articles and sub-articles when articles get
too long for readers (e.g. “United States” and “American literature” in the
English Wikipedia). In this paper, we present evidence that this issue can
have significant impacts on Wikipedia-based studies and systems and
introduce the subarticle matching problem. The goal of the sub-article
matching problem is to automatically connect sub-articles to parent
articles to help Wikipedia-based studies and systems retrieve complete
information about a concept. We then describe the first system to address
the sub-article matching problem. We show that, using a diverse feature set
and standard machine learning techniques, our system can achieve good
performance on most of our ground truth datasets, significantly
outperforming baseline approaches.


Title: Understanding Wikidata Queries


By *Markus Kroetzsch*

Abstract: Wikimedia provides a public service that lets anyone answer
complex questions over the sum of all knowledge stored in Wikidata. These
questions are expressed in the query language SPARQL and range from the
most simple fact retrievals ("What is the birthday of Douglas Adams?") to
complex analytical queries ("Average lifespan of people by occupation").
The talk presents ongoing efforts to analyse the server logs of the
millions of queries that are answered each month. It is an important but
difficult challenge to draw meaningful conclusions from this dataset. One
might hope to learn relevant information about the usage of the service and
Wikidata in general, but at the same time one has to be careful not to be
misled by the data. Indeed, the dataset turned out to be highly
heterogeneous and unpredictable, with strongly varying usage patterns that
make it difficult to draw conclusions about "normal" usage. The talk will
give a status report, present preliminary results, and discuss possible
next steps.

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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase April 19, 2017

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, April 19,
2017 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Prf0Vb-k1I

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
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This month's presentations:

Using WikiBrain to visualize Wikipedia's neighborhoodsBy *Dr. Shilad Sen
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Shilad>*While Wikipedia serves as the
world's most widely reference for humans, it also represents the most
widely use body of knowledge for algorithms that must reason about the
world. I will provide an overview of WikiBrain, a software project that
serves as a platform for Wikipedia-based algorithms. I will also demo a
brand new system built on WikiBrain that visualizes any dataset as a
topographic map whose neighborhoods correspond to related Wikipedia
articles. I hope to get feedback about which directions for these tools are
most useful to the Wikipedia research community.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] February 15, 2017 Research Showcase

[Sarah R]

Just a reminder this will be taking place in one hour!


On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this February 15, 2017 at
> 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6smzMppb-I
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#February_2017>
> .
>
> This month's presentations:
>
> Wikipedia and the Urban-Rural DivideBy *Isaac Johnson*Wikipedia articles
> about places, OpenStreetMap features, and other forms of peer-produced
> content have become critical sources of geographic knowledge for humans and
> intelligent technologies. We explore the effectiveness of the peer
> production model across the rural/urban divide, a divide that has been
> shown to be an important factor in many online social systems. We find that
> in Wikipedia (as well as OpenStreetMap), peer-produced content about rural
> areas is of systematically lower quality, less likely to have been produced
> by contributors who focus on the local area, and more likely to have been
> generated by automated software agents (i.e. “bots”). We continue to
> explore and codify the systemic challenges inherent to characterizing rural
> phenomena through peer production as well as discuss potential solutions.
>
>
> Wikipedia Navigation VectorsBy *Ellery Wulczyn
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ewulczyn_(WMF)>*In this project, we
> learned embeddings for Wikipedia articles and Wikidata
> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page> items by applying
> Word2vec <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec> models to a corpus of
> reading sessions. Although Word2vec models were developed to learn word
> embeddings from a corpus of sentences, they can be applied to any kind of
> sequential data. The learned embeddings have the property that items with
> similar neighbors in the training corpus have similar representations (as
> measured by the cosine similarity
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity>, for example).
> Consequently, applying Wor2vec to reading sessions results in article
> embeddings, where articles that tend to be read in close succession have
> similar representations. Since people usually generate sequences of
> semantically related articles while reading, these embeddings also capture
> semantic similarity between articles.
>
> --
> Sarah R. Rodlund
> Senior Project Coordinator-Product & Technology, Wikimedia Foundation
> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>



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[Wikimedia-l] February 15, 2017 Research Showcase

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this February 15, 2017 at
11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6smzMppb-I

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#February_2017>.

This month's presentations:

Wikipedia and the Urban-Rural DivideBy *Isaac Johnson*Wikipedia articles
about places, OpenStreetMap features, and other forms of peer-produced
content have become critical sources of geographic knowledge for humans and
intelligent technologies. We explore the effectiveness of the peer
production model across the rural/urban divide, a divide that has been
shown to be an important factor in many online social systems. We find that
in Wikipedia (as well as OpenStreetMap), peer-produced content about rural
areas is of systematically lower quality, less likely to have been produced
by contributors who focus on the local area, and more likely to have been
generated by automated software agents (i.e. “bots”). We continue to
explore and codify the systemic challenges inherent to characterizing rural
phenomena through peer production as well as discuss potential solutions.


Wikipedia Navigation VectorsBy *Ellery Wulczyn
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Ewulczyn_(WMF)>*In this project, we
learned embeddings for Wikipedia articles and Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page> items by applying
Word2vec <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec> models to a corpus of
reading sessions. Although Word2vec models were developed to learn word
embeddings from a corpus of sentences, they can be applied to any kind of
sequential data. The learned embeddings have the property that items with
similar neighbors in the training corpus have similar representations (as
measured by the cosine similarity
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity>, for example).
Consequently, applying Wor2vec to reading sessions results in article
embeddings, where articles that tend to be read in close succession have
similar representations. Since people usually generate sequences of
semantically related articles while reading, these embeddings also capture
semantic similarity between articles.

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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase, December 21, 2016

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday,
December 21, 2016 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 (UTC).

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmrlu5qTgyA

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#December_2016>.

The December 2016 Research Showcase includes:

English Wikipedia Quality Dynamics and the Case of WikiProject Women
ScientistsBy *Aaron Halfaker
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF)>*With every productive
edit, Wikipedia is steadily progressing towards higher and higher quality.
In order to track quality improvements, Wikipedians have developed an
article quality assessment rating scale that ranges from "Stub" at the
bottom to "Featured Articles" at the top. While this quality scale has the
promise of giving us insights into the dynamics of quality improvements in
Wikipedia, it is hard to use due to the sporadic nature of manual
re-assessments. By developing a highly accurate prediction model (based on
work by Warncke-Wang et al.), we've developed a method to assess an
articles quality at any point in history. Using this model, we explore
general trends in quality in Wikipedia and compare these trends to those of
an interesting cross-section: Articles tagged by WikiProject Women
Scientists. Results suggest that articles about women scientists were lower
quality than the rest of the wiki until mid-2013, after which a dramatic
shift occurred towards higher quality. This shift may correlate with (and
even be caused by) this WikiProjects initiatives.


Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration. A Study of
Tor Users and WikipediansBy *Andrea Forte*In a recent qualitative study to
be published at CSCW 2017, collaborators Rachel Greenstadt, Naz Andalibi,
and I examined privacy practices and concerns among contributors to open
collaboration projects. We collected interview data from people who use the
anonymity network Tor who also contribute to online projects and from
Wikipedia editors who are concerned about their privacy to better
understand how privacy concerns impact participation in open collaboration
projects. We found that risks perceived by contributors to open
collaboration projects include threats of surveillance, violence,
harassment, opportunity loss, reputation loss, and fear for loved ones. We
explain participants’ operational and technical strategies for mitigating
these risks and how these strategies affect their contributions. Finally,
we discuss chilling effects associated with privacy loss, the need for open
collaboration projects to go beyond attracting and educating participants
to consider their privacy, and some of the social and technical approaches
that could be explored to mitigate risk at a project or community level.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase, September 21, 2016

[Sarah R]

Just a reminder, the Research Showcase will begin in one hour.

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Sarah R  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday,
> September 21, 2016 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 (UTC).
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTDkVeqjw80
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
> And, you can watch our past research showcases here
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#September_2016>
> .
>
> This month's showcase includes.
>
>
> Finding News Citations for WikipediaBy *Besnik Fetahu
> <http://www.l3s.de/~fetahu/> (Leibniz University of Hannover)*An
> important editing policy in Wikipedia is to provide citations for added
> statements in Wikipedia pages, where statements can be arbitrary pieces of
> text, ranging from a sentence to a paragraph. In many cases citations are
> either outdated or missing altogether. In this work we address the problem
> of finding and updating news citations for statements in entity pages. We
> propose a two- stage supervised approach for this problem. In the first
> step, we construct a classifier to find out whether statements need a news
> citation or other kinds of citations (web, book, journal, etc.). In the
> second step, we develop a news citation algorithm for Wikipedia statements,
> which recommends appropriate citations from a given news collection. Apart
> from IR techniques that use the statement to query the news collection, we
> also formalize three properties of an appropriate citation, namely: (i) the
> citation should entail the Wikipedia statement, (ii) the statement should
> be central to the citation, and (iii) the citation should be from an
> authoritative source. We perform an extensive evaluation of both steps,
> using 20 million articles from a real-world news collection. Our results
> are quite promising, and show that we can perform this task with high
> precision and at scale.
>
>
> Designing and Building Online Discussion SystemsBy *Amy X. Zhang
> <http://people.csail.mit.edu/axz/> (MIT)*Today, conversations are
> everywhere on the Internet and come in many different forms. However, there
> are still many problems with discussion interfaces today. In my talk, I
> will first give an overview of some of the problems with discussion
> systems, including difficulty dealing with large scales, which exacerbates
> additional problems with navigating deep threads containing lots of
> back-and-forth and getting an overall summary of a discussion. Other
> problems include dealing with moderation and harassment in discussion
> systems and gaining control over filtering, customization, and means of
> access. Then I will focus on a few projects I am working on in this space
> now. The first is Wikum, a system I developed to allow users to
> collaboratively generate a wiki-like summary from threaded discussion. The
> second, which I have just begun, is exploring the design space of
> presentation and navigation of threaded discussion. I will next discuss
> Murmur, a mailing list hybrid system we have built to implement and test
> ideas around filtering, customization, and flexibility of access, as well
> as combating harassment. Finally, I'll wrap up with what I am working on at
> Google Research this summer: developing a taxonomy to describe online forum
> discussion and using this information to extract meaningful content useful
> for search, summarization of discussions, and characterization of
> communities.
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> Sarah R. Rodlund
> Senior Project Coordinator-Engineering, Wikimedia Foundation
> srodl...@wikimedia.org
>



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[Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase, September 21, 2016

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, September
21, 2016 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 (UTC).

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTDkVeqjw80

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#September_2016>.

This month's showcase includes.


Finding News Citations for WikipediaBy *Besnik Fetahu
<http://www.l3s.de/~fetahu/> (Leibniz University of Hannover)*An important
editing policy in Wikipedia is to provide citations for added statements in
Wikipedia pages, where statements can be arbitrary pieces of text, ranging
from a sentence to a paragraph. In many cases citations are either outdated
or missing altogether. In this work we address the problem of finding and
updating news citations for statements in entity pages. We propose a two-
stage supervised approach for this problem. In the first step, we construct
a classifier to find out whether statements need a news citation or other
kinds of citations (web, book, journal, etc.). In the second step, we
develop a news citation algorithm for Wikipedia statements, which
recommends appropriate citations from a given news collection. Apart from
IR techniques that use the statement to query the news collection, we also
formalize three properties of an appropriate citation, namely: (i) the
citation should entail the Wikipedia statement, (ii) the statement should
be central to the citation, and (iii) the citation should be from an
authoritative source. We perform an extensive evaluation of both steps,
using 20 million articles from a real-world news collection. Our results
are quite promising, and show that we can perform this task with high
precision and at scale.


Designing and Building Online Discussion SystemsBy *Amy X. Zhang
<http://people.csail.mit.edu/axz/> (MIT)*Today, conversations are
everywhere on the Internet and come in many different forms. However, there
are still many problems with discussion interfaces today. In my talk, I
will first give an overview of some of the problems with discussion
systems, including difficulty dealing with large scales, which exacerbates
additional problems with navigating deep threads containing lots of
back-and-forth and getting an overall summary of a discussion. Other
problems include dealing with moderation and harassment in discussion
systems and gaining control over filtering, customization, and means of
access. Then I will focus on a few projects I am working on in this space
now. The first is Wikum, a system I developed to allow users to
collaboratively generate a wiki-like summary from threaded discussion. The
second, which I have just begun, is exploring the design space of
presentation and navigation of threaded discussion. I will next discuss
Murmur, a mailing list hybrid system we have built to implement and test
ideas around filtering, customization, and flexibility of access, as well
as combating harassment. Finally, I'll wrap up with what I am working on at
Google Research this summer: developing a taxonomy to describe online forum
discussion and using this information to extract meaningful content useful
for search, summarization of discussions, and characterization of
communities.

Hope to see you there!

Sarah R. Rodlund
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[Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Research Showcase - August 17, 2016

[Sarah R]

Hi Everyone,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, Aug 17,
2016 at 11:30 AM (PST) 18:30 (UTC).

YouTube stream: http://youtu.be/rsFmqYxtt9w

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
you can watch our past research showcases here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#Archive>.

This month's showcase includes.

Computational Fact Checking from Knowledge NetworksBy *Giovanni Luca
Ciampaglia <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Junkie.dolphin>*Traditional
fact checking by expert journalists cannot keep up with the enormous volume
of information that is now generated online. Fact checking is often a
tedious and repetitive task and even simple automation opportunities may
result in significant improvements to human fact checkers. In this talk I
will describe how we are trying to approximate the complexities of human
fact checking by exploring a knowledge graph under a properly defined
proximity measure. Framed as a network traversal problem, this approach is
feasible with efficient computational techniques. We evaluate this approach
by examining tens of thousands of claims related to history, entertainment,
geography, and biographical information using the public knowledge graph
extracted from Wikipedia by the DBPedia project, showing that the method
does indeed assign higher confidence to true statements than to false ones.
One advantage of this approach is that, together with a numerical
evaluation, it also provides a sequence of statements that can be easily
inspected by a human fact checker.


Deploying and maintaining AI in a socio-technical system. Lessons
learnedBy *Aaron
Halfaker <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF)>*We should
exercise great caution when deploying AI into our social spaces. The
algorithms that make counter-vandalism in Wikipedia orders of magnitude
more efficient also have the potential to perpetuate biases and silence
whole classes of contributors. This presentation will describe the system
efficiency characteristics that make AI so attractive for supporting
quality control activities in Wikipedia. Then, Aaron will tell two stories
of how the algorithms brought new, problematic biases to quality control
processes in Wikipedia and how the Revision Scoring team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/R:Revision_scoring_as_a_service> learned
about and addressed these issues in ORES
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ORES>, a production-level AI service for
Wikimedia Wikis. He'll also make an overdue call to action toward
leveraging human-review of AIs biases in the practice of AI development.

We look forward to seeing you!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Video: "Wikipedia, an introduction - Erasmus Prize 2015"

[Sarah (SV)]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:21 AM, Pine W  wrote:

> Beautiful video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p8wFdnPfVw
>
> Pine
>


This is a wonderful video. Thank you so much to everyone involved in making
it.

Sarah
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The tragedy of Commons

[Sarah]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 8:48 AM, Austin Hair  wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 5:26 PM, George William Herbert
>  wrote:
> > Conflating and comingling our educational role with open content
> advocacy was always risky and is proving impossible.  Without devaluing
> open content, we need to separately support fair use for educational
> purposes, and stop letting cross-project advocacy games screw with our
> educational mission.
>
> This is the most intelligent thing I've seen said on this list in a while.
>

​I agree. The fair-use situation on the English Wikipedia is so absurd that
I've had to use only an external link for a close-up shot of Madeleine
McCann's distinctive right eye​, which must be one of the most-reproduced
photographs ever. I also had to go through very, very long discussions to
persuade people that it was okay to post Scotland Yard e-fits of men they
wanted to trace in connection with the disappearance.

And, as always, Holocaust images are still routinely challenged.

Sarah
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[Wikimedia-l] [New program evaluation released!] On-wiki writing contests

[Sarah Stierch]

[pardon the cross-posting]

Happy New Year everyone!

The Program Evaluation and Design team at the Wikimedia Foundation has a
new evaluation to share with you.

*We have released the latest program evaluation about on-wiki writing
contests.*

As we have asked previously, we would love your thoughts and comments on
this report. Preferably, on the talk page of the evaluation page. *On-wiki
writing contests have shown that they do meet their priority goals* *of
quality content improvement* and *editor retention*, but more research
needs to be done, and more data collected (like all of the evaluations we
have produced so far).

*We hope you'll find time to share and review this report, we are excited
about it: *

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/On-wiki_writing_contests

Also, I'll be contacting many of you about *survey collection*. If you have
produced surveys at anytime in the past, or have a survey you would like to
share with us, we want it! *We need to collect surveys so we can develop
high demand surveying tools* that so many of you have asked us about.[1]

Thanks everyone, and happy new year,

Sarah


[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Parlor/Questions#Have_you_created_or_collected_surveys_for_your_program_implementations.3F


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[Wikimedia-l] New evaluation report on meta - WORKSHOPS

[Sarah Stierch]

[pardon the cross-posting]

Hi everyone! (Important areas bolded for people who are TL;DR types[1])

As you may remember, the Program Evaluation and Design team here at WMF has
been doing evaluation of programmatic activities in the movement - with
your help! THANK YOU!

*We have released our next reporting page about our current focus programs
on meta about WORKSHOPS. *We appreciate everyone's participation so far,
and we've made improvements to the edit-a-thon page based on your feedback,
including bolding highlights for those of you who seeking a high level view
of our ongoing reporting.

*A third page is now on meta, and ready for improvement and commenting.
 It's the WORKSHOPS page*, which provides information about:

   - Program basics and history
   - Response rates and limitations
   - Reported data evaluation
   - Priority goals as chosen by program leaders
   - How much budget and time goes into planning workshops
   - What participation is like at workshops
   - Recruitment, retention, and replication details.
   - Next steps (tool building, requests, support, etc)

*Feel free to improve and make edits on the talk page. And of course, if
you are a program leader/chapter that implements workshops and your data
isn't represented, please contact me to submit your data*.

*You can visit this new page here:*

*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/Editing_workshops
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Library/Editing_workshops>*

We hope you find this report inspiring and helpful.

*Our next report we'll post will be about GLAM content donations*. I'll
send another email out about that soon.

Happy evaluating, and be sure to visit us on Facebook[2]

-Sarah

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TL;DR
[2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/programevaluation/

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Preparing a proofreading contest for Wikisource's 10th aniversary

[Sarah Stierch]

Super cool.

I know a lot of GLAM folks in the US who would be excited about this. And
I'm a fan of more love for WS that's for sure!

-Sar


On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Vishnu T  wrote:

> Dear Micru,
>
> Wonderful initiative! From India the Malayalam Wikisource community might
> be keen to take part in this. They have also recently released an offline
> CD (volume 2) of the Malayalam Wikisource.
>
> Taking the liberty to copy the Malayalam list on this for them to take lead
> on this.
>
> CIS (not from the A2K Grant) will be glad to sponsor two prizes (one e-book
> reader and one portable pen-scanner), if the ML community take lead on
> this.
>
> Cheers,
> Vishnu
>
>
>
> On 7 November 2013 05:28, David Cuenca  wrote:
>
> > On the Wikisource mailing list we are discussing about a contest to
> > celebrate Wikisource's 10th aniversary.
> >
> > The contest would be from Nov 24th till Dec 1st. During that time the
> > participants would proofread a selection of books and they would get
> points
> > per page. The one with the most points would win an ebook reader.
> >
> > So far WM-IT and Amical Wikimedia have comited each the prize for their
> > respective contests on the Italian and Catalan Wikisource. WM-AU and
> WM-DC
> > are considering to sponsor the English edition.
> >
> > If you would like to help us to organize more language editions or find
> > more sponsors, get in touch.
> >
> > If you would like to participate, stay tuned! :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Micru
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikimania Committee Formed

[Sarah Stierch]

Orsolya was Deputy Program Chair for WM 2012.

And James was the lead for WLM 2012.

So it's correct no matter what :)

-Sarah


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:54 PM, MZMcBride  wrote:

> Ellie Young wrote:
> > • Orsolya Virág Gyenes (representing WM 2012)
> > • James Hare
>
> I think your label may be switched here?
>
> MZMcBride
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] When was the first edit-a-thon(s)?

[Sarah Stierch]

We've been discussing it on meta, where I'd prefer to maintain the
conversation, but, I should have stated:

"The first edit-a-thon or event that involved people in a room together
editing Wikipedia in some type of "organized" fashion"

-Sarah


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Steven Walling wrote:

> On Wednesday, October 16, 2013, Sarah Stierch wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've asked a question on the new Program Evaluation & Design portal about
> > when people think the first edit-a-thons took place. (Or the very first,
> if
> > we know!)
> >
> > It would be great to have your input on meta:
> >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Parlor/Questions
> >
> > Thank you and please spread the word!
> >
> > Sarah
>
>
> Sarah,
>
> Do you mean the first Wikimedia editathon, or the first editathon period?
>
> Editathons predate Wikipedia by years, and are about as old as the wiki
> itself. The old school name for them is "barn raisings".
>
>  http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/BarnRaising
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] When was the first edit-a-thon(s)?

[Sarah Stierch]

Hi everyone,

I've asked a question on the new Program Evaluation & Design portal about
when people think the first edit-a-thons took place. (Or the very first, if
we know!)

It would be great to have your input on meta:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Evaluation_portal/Parlor/Questions

Thank you and please spread the word!

Sarah

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference 2014 location decision

[Sarah Stierch]

Congratulations - Berlin is one amazing city. Some great bids were placed,
too.

Looking forward to it!

-Sarah


On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Ivan Martínez  wrote:

> Thanks to all the team involved in the bidding and decision. We will have a
> very nice conference in Berlin.
>
> Regards.
> El oct 12, 2013 8:31 a.m., "Bence Damokos"  escribió:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Following considerable deliberation it is with great pleasure that we
> > announce that the Location Committee has selected Berlin as the location
> > for the 2014 Wikimedia Conference.
> >
> > We received a total of four bids from Germany, India, Italy and Sweden.
> In
> > selecting the Berlin location we have taken into consideration the
> > experience and capacity of the team; the travel time and cost for
> > attendees; the cost of hosting the conference; and the facilities and
> room
> > configuration of the proposed venues.
> >
> > Throughout our deliberations we kept an open mind towards having the
> > conference in a new location/country, and we have appreciated the compact
> > solutions offered by having all participants close to each other or
> staying
> > at the same lodging; however, we felt that the Berlin bid provides – by a
> > small margin – the best combination of price, distance and experience
> this
> > year.
> >
> > We thank all the organisations that have entered a bid for their time and
> > effort and we hope that even if they were not selected this year, they
> can
> > make use of the experience when they organise other meetings that will
> > further the Wikimedia mission.
> >
> > In closing, we would like to thank all Wikimedia organisations for
> placing
> > their trust in this process and committee, which was an interesting
> > experience for all of us. In the hope that the Wikimedia organisations
> keep
> > the hosting choice an open process, we would like to propose a number of
> > potential process improvements[1], and we would invite all the bidders
> and
> > other interested parties to provide their own feedback.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Asaf Bartov, Bence Damokos, Arnau Duran, Itzik Edri, Mike Peel, Osmar
> > Valdebenito, Ilario Valdelli
> > Wikimedia Conference 2014 Location Committee
> >
> > [1]
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[Wikimedia-l] YouTube Videos about Wikimedia-L

[Sarah Stierch]

Someone send me a link to this, articles being generated about Wikipedia
articles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIafRDt88NQ

based on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_outdoor_artworks_at_the_Indianapolis_Museum_of_Art

Quite funny.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Some of Wikipedia's most important tools are broken

[Sarah Stierch]

Yeah..I've noticed that with a lot of tools, whether on the toolserver or
on labs. The tool I use monthly is:

http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/treeviews/

I ping Magnus all the time and he does his best to fix any issues and now i
just feel like a broken record each month. It is stifling my reports as a
Wikipedian in Residence to UNESCO and the Library of Congress :(

It's really tough to function without it, and so many other tools anymore.

-Sarah


On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:24 AM, James Heilman  wrote:

> Some of the key tool's which I use on a daily basis (and their workarounds)
> no longer work.
>
> The tool I use the most of any is the autofill for PMID and ISBN's. The one
> in the edit box has not worked for some time and the backup
> http://diberri.crabdance.com/cgi-bin/templatefiller/index.cgi? stopped
> working today. The second backup still works a bit thankfully
> https://toolserver.org/~holek/cite-gen/index.php
>
> Another great tool is the dashboard. Its toolserver account has expired.
> http://wikidashboard.appspot.com/enwiki/wiki/Obesity I find this strange
> that if a users account has expired all the tools stop working. This would
> be like if I stopped editing Wikipedia for a couple of months than all my
> contributions would be deleted.
>
> So the question is should the WMF be helping keep some of these tools up
> and running? Many of us long term editors have come to heavily rely on
> them.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMMX August 2013 report

[Sarah Stierch]

Thank you for translating into English. I really appreciate it and I am
sure I am not the only one.

-Sarah

(who needs to work on her Spanish)


On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Salvador A
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> Dear members of Wikimedia community:
>
> On behalf of Wikimedia Mexico's board and volunteers is my pleasure to make
> public our first monthly report of activities in english. This one include
> the activities done during the past month of August:
>
> https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Agosto_2013/en
>
> We hope accomplish with this duty punctually from now on and better each
> time, thus we hope your commentaries and feedback.
>
> We have also, an incomplete cronology in spanish of past activites. We hope
> in brief we will have it translated to english.
>
> https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Actividades_realizadas
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal - Training for Wikimedia movement boards

[Sarah Stierch]

I agree! Great idea and thanks for sharing it.

I'm going to take a look at the meta page, and see if there is an
opportunity for some WMF support - I know Program and Evaluation could be a
great support for this potentially, and organizational structures from the
Learning and Evaluation side. (I'd look at it from my volunteer side, but,
I don't have a chapter role to call my own,) The timing is good and the
opportunity to help build capacity and professionalization is great!

Thanks Chris and all involved, (and Sophielet's see how there is
potential for cross-WMF-team-awesomeness!!)

Sarah


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Sophie Österberg
wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Thank you for sharing this. I find this to be of great importance and a
> crucial step for our movement. I would be very happy to lead a session on
> programmes, and specifically Education Programmes, with its aims, current
> status and future.
>
> *Be Bold!
> Sophie Österberg
> sosterb...@wikimedia.org*
>
>
> *Every single contribution to Wikipedia is a
> gift of free knowledge to humanity. *
>
>
>
>
> 2013/8/13 Chris Keating 
>
> > At Wikimania there was (not for the first time) discussion that not much
> > support and advice there is available to Chapter board members. On Sunday
> > afternoon a small group of us (myself, Markus Glaser, Michał Buczyński,
> > Claudia Garad) met to work out how we could actually provide some
> training
> > to help improve this situation.
> >
> > I am pleased to say we have a definite proposal for a 2-day workshop to
> be
> > organised in the early part of 2014:
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Boards_training_workshop_proposal
> >
> > This is open to all Chapter (or indeed Thematic Organisation) boards, but
> > is particularly focused on board members in those organisations that
> have,
> > or will soon have, staff. And while this is being organised by "chapter
> > people", we hope to engage with Foundation, FDC and Affcom wherever this
> > will be relevant.
> >
> > If you are on a Wikimedia movement Board and are interested in attending,
> > please sign up on the Meta page!
> > Also, if you are reading the page and feel you could lead a session,
> please
> > also sign up on Meta!
> >
> > If there is enough interest, we will define the programme more closely
> and
> > work out exactly where and when.
> >
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[Wikimedia-l] Reminder: Program Evaluation & Design Office Hours on Friday - 16:00

[Sarah Stierch]

Hi everyone, here is a reminder about tomorrow. I hope ya'll can join us!

We'll also be doing a Google Hangout next week, so don't fret if you can't
join us tomorrow. We'll also be at Wikimania and can't wait to meet
attendees to talk PE&D!

[pardon cross-posting]

The Program Evaluation & Design team[1] will be hosting our first office
hours on IRC on July 26 at 16:00 UTC.

Event Details:
==

Date: July 26, 2013 (Friday)
Time: 1600-1700 UTC, 9:00-10:00 AM PDT
IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net

Participants: Frank Schulenburg (Senior Director of Programs), Dr. Jaime
Anstee (Program Evaluation Specialist), Sarah Stierch (Community
Coordinator) and YOU!

Agenda:

1. A chance for community members to learn about *why* program evaluation &
design is an important and powerful tool.
2. An opportunity for community members to understand why WMF is engaging
in PE&D.
3. General Q&A about program evaluation & design
4. A chance to get virtually get to know the PE&D team (Sarah, Jaime and
Frank)[2]

If you're interested in how to evaluate the impact of programs such as
on-wiki contests, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Takes, WikiExpeditions,
Wikipedia Education Program, content donations, edit-a-thons, workshops,
and the like - you might have interest in what PE&D is hoping to do in
supporting the amazing work you do.

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Index
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation_and_Design/FAQ#Who_is_on_the_Program_Evaluation_.26_Design_team_at_the_Wikimedia_Foundation.3F

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thanks for all the fish!

[Sarah Stierch]

Milos -

What an emotional and touching letter. I know it's a hard decision to not
only leave the movement, but to know who you want to let know and who you
want to not let know about leaving - and I am glad you made the decision to
share your honest and emotional declaration with us.

As someone supportive of Indigenous languages having their own wiki spaces
for their own survival and development, I really do hope that more work
will proceed regarding languages and the work you have done. There have
been groups forming, including the work Wikimedia Canada has done, about
Indigenous and rare languages. Heck, one of the projects I have been
working on has had numerous articles written in Nahuatl,[1] something that
blows my mind. So things are happening, and thank you for your passion and
work regarding that.

Also, I'm happy to know the gamification project is proceeding and WM DC is
helping to lead that. I agree that it's important to see this happen, and
it's shown successful in the Teahouse with badges. Thank you also for your
work on that and I do hope your Wikimedia legacy will be preserved in the
successful development of that project.

I understand about being able to write a book about how Wikimedia has
changed my life. I look forward to seeing where your life leads next, and I
hope you won't stop contributing to Wikipedia as an editor, at least :)

Thank you for everything you have, and continue to do,

Sarah

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahuatl

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Milos Rancic  wrote:

> I am leaving the movement. I thought to leave it quietly, with just a
> bit more than a few words to stewards and Wikimedia Serbia, but after
> the first question why I am leaving, I realized that I actually owe to
> many of you the explanation for leaving the movement after almost 10
> years.
>
> If you want to skip the story of my motivation, continue with
> "Unfinished projects" section.
>
> == On my motivation ==
>
> In short, I am struggling with the motivation to work inside of the
> movement for almost two years. My participation in Haifa was the
> culmination of my Wikimedia engagement and everything after it was
> going down and down.
>
> I was struggling hard. I didn't want to leave the movement because I
> was feeling responsible for a number of issues. As time went, as I
> wasn't taking any new responsibility, the level of "feeling
> responsible" was lowering and lowering. My last really big
> responsibility was to push the creation of Wikimedia Serbia Office
> last fall. After that I felt that there is no need for me inside of
> the movement.
>
> But I wanted to stay, I wanted it hardly! For at least two years I was
> struggling with my steward activity and although I know that I am
> important to other stewards, I have problem to make one fucking
> steward action for months. And that wasn't about my free time. I have
> it enough. That was about my motivation.
>
> I was trying to find a way to motivate myself to participate in the
> movement. Alone or in cooperation with other Wikimedians, I started
> some not yet published projects. I thought that I could raise my
> motivation if I leave issues related to the chapters and I left
> Chapters committee. But it didn't help.
>
> I was on Amsterdam Hackathon and talking with Erik about one more
> important Wikimedia issue: thousands of languages which are waiting
> for their editions of Wikimedia projects. He was encouraging; for the
> first time I got clearly positive response. But it wasn't enough.
> Instead of enthusiastically working on the project, I just didn't have
> enough motivation to do anything.
>
> I thought that becoming a Board member could raise my motivation. At
> the beginning, I was actually very enthusiastic. But last two weeks I
> spent much more time in being worried about the possibility to be
> elected than about thinking about how to be elected.
>
> For a number of times I was thinking to quit, but this time I had
> appropriate personal trigger and finally got courage to admit myself
> that there is nothing which would change my motivation.
>
> == Wikimedia impact on me ==
>
> I've just realized that if I am writing this kind of email, I should
> say something about Wikimedia impact on me.
>
> When I first edited Wikipedia I was less than a month older than 30.
> This November I will be 40. The whole decade of my life was under the
> strong influence of Wikimedia movement. I spent intellectually
> formative years inside of Wikimedia and it changed me a lot, probably
> not comparable to anything else.
>
> And I could write a book about how Wikipedia and Wikimedia influenced me.
>
> == Unfinished projects ==
>
> This is important. I

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Recognition of Amical Wikimedia

[Sarah Stierch]

Yay!! I am so pleased to here this. The work happening in Catalonia is so
wonderful!!! Welcome and congratulations!

-Sarah


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Samuel Klein  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The WMF Board has recognized Amical Wikimedia as the first Wikimedia
> Thematic Organization.  Please join me in celebrating their work and
> success!
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Resolutions/Recognition_of_Amical_Wikimedia
>
> This group was founded in 2008 as Associació Amical Viquipèdia,
> focused on Catalan language and culture. You may know them from the
> regular reports they have published to this list and to Meta for
> years.  They have organized dozens of successful cultural projects,
> including public events, research, GLAM initiatives, and content
> liberation.
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia#Activities
>
> After first applying to become a chapter four years ago, Amical
> members later helped the Movement Roles working group develop new
> models for affiliation, and were the first to apply to be a thematic
> organization. Gomà and Arnaugir, the founder and current chair of
> Amical, attended the Milan conference and shared their projects and
> their future plans.  An in-person meeting there helped to resolve the
> remaining bureaucratic steps in the process of becoming a thematic
> organization.
>
> Thank you to everyone from AffCom and Amical who have been involved
> throughout this process, particularly Bence and Bishakha for their
> guidance since the first movement roles discussions, and Gomà and
> María for their facilitation.
>
> Regards,
> Sam, on behalf of the Board
>
>
> == About Thematic Organizations ==
> Thematic Organizations are one of the new affiliation models created
> last year, to recognize organizations that have consistently done
> interesting work with partners and in outreach, both online and
> offline.  They are meant to be well-established and persistent
> organizations, focused on a common theme.
>
> The review and approval process for Thematic Organizations is similar
> to that for chapters.  A list of groups considering becoming thematic
> orgs can be found on Meta.
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Thematic_organizations
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/Thematic_Organizations
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Approval of Wikimedians of Nepal user group

[Sarah Stierch]

Huzzah!

So happy to have Nepal on board! (Does base camp have wifi? I'm thinking 
editathon ;-) ) 

Sarah 

Sent from my iPhone

On May 30, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Balázs Viczián  
wrote:

> Congrats from WMHU too!
> 
> Balázs
> 2013.05.30. 20:58, "Salvador A"  ezt írta:
> 
>> Congratulations! Welcome to Wikimedia affilliates family. Count with
>> Wikimedia Mexico as colaborator and with me as friend.
>> 
>> Well done!
>> El may 30, 2013 1:54 p.m., "Dennis Tobar" 
>> escribió:
>> 
>>> Yay!, Congrats to Wikimedians from Nepal!
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Arnau Duran 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Congratulations guys! wish you all the success!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> *Arnau Duran Ferrero
>>>> *arnaudu...@gmail.com | www.arnauduran.net
>>>> Telèfon personal: (+34) 696475418
>>>> [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/arnauduran> [image:
>>>> Twitter]<http://www.twitter.com/arnauduran> [image:
>>>> LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnauduran> [image: Google
>>>> Plus]<https://plus.google.com/111957640098898266818>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 2013/5/30 Nurunnaby Chowdhury 
>>>> 
>>>>> Congratulations Nepal team!
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Ivan Martínez 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Welcome to board, friends.
>>>>>> I know it has not been easy for Ganesh and to the Nepal team.
>>>>>> Congrats!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 2013/5/30 Tonmoy Khan 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Congratulations to Nepali Wikimedians!!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Ali Haidar Khan (Tonmoy)
>>>>>>> Wikimedia Bangladesh
>>>>>>> On May 30, 2013 11:12 PM, "Deryck Chan" >> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Congratulations Ganesh and the Nepal team! Are there plans to
>>> move
>>>> on
>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>> transition to an incorporated Wikimedia chapter?
>>>>>>>> Deryck
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 30 May 2013 17:32, Bence Damokos 
>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I am happy to inform you that the Affiliations Committee has
>>>>> approved
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> recognition of a Wikimedia User Group today:  Wikimedians of
>>>> Nepal.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Please join me in welcoming this new group into the fold of
>>>>> Wikimedia
>>>>>>>>> entities, and let's celebrate their success and hard work as
>>>>>> Wikipedia
>>>>>>>>> turns eleven in Nepal!
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> == Wikimedians of Nepal ==
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Wikimedians of Nepal <
>>>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nepal
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> is a
>>>>>>>>> group of enthusiastic Nepali Wikimedians working towards
>>>> developing
>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> promoting Wikimedia projects in Nepal. They've been actively
>>>>> working
>>>>>> to
>>>>>>>>> help expand the community, launch projects in more languages
>> of
>>>>> Nepal
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>>> promote and support the existing ones.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> The group is working towards chapterhood, and have a good
>>> chance
>>>> of
>>>>>>>>> attaining that status this year. Granting them user group
>>>>> recognition
>>>>>>>>> allows the movement to express its appreciation for their
>> hard
>>>> work
>>>>>>> even
>>>>>>>>> while they are working on the bureaucratic aspects of meeting
>>> the
>>>>>>>>> requirements of chapterhood. The tim

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Simple English hits 100k this week

[Sarah Stierch]

No clue. I generally "translate" my articles in English to it and go about my 
business. We'd have to ask around. 

Sarah

Sent from my iPhone

On May 30, 2013, at 2:49 AM, Daniel Mietchen  
wrote:

> Hi Sarah,
> 
> that sounds like an important milestone!
> Do we have any feedback as to how Simple is actually used by "children
> and adults learning how to speak English"?
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Sarah Stierch  
> wrote:
>> And...urm...I wrote the article that hit 100k. That's not the point, but,
>> just felt the need to preface...
>> 
>> http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Announcements#May_29.2C_2013
>> 
>> Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning how
>> to speak English.
>> 
>> :)
>> 
>> #justsayin
>> 
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[Wikimedia-l] Simple English hits 100k this week

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And...urm...I wrote the article that hit 100k. That's not the point, 
but, just felt the need to preface...


http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Announcements#May_29.2C_2013

Simple English is a Wikipedia that is for children and adults learning 
how to speak English.


:)

#justsayin

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[Wikimedia-l] Two days left to apply: Program Evaluation & Design Workshop in Budapest, June 22-23

[Sarah Stierch]

[pardon the cross-post]

Hello everyone,

*This is a reminder that there are 2 days left to apply to attend the first
Program Evaluation & Design Workshop, which will take place in Budapest,
June 22-23. Applications close at 12 AM PST May 17.*

Please review this recent blog announcing the event:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/05/09/program-evaluation-workshop-budapest/

*Wikimedia community members, chapter staff/volunteers, solitary volunteers
- anyone who is a program leader is encouraged to apply. Please note, we
have only 20 slots available and limited funding to support attendees. If
you do apply, you must email me at sa...@wikimedia.org if you are
requesting funding before/after you apply. *

We will be filming our workshop, so don't fret if you cannot attend this
first one, or aren't accepted to attend this time.

*You can get a better taste for the event through our evolving Meta Event
page: *

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation_and_Design/June_2013_Workshop

Thank you Wikimedia Magyarország for your support and assistance.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Please send this to the list, thanks: Subject: Program Evaluation and Design Workshop - Apply to attend! - June 22-23, Budapest

[Sarah Stierch]

And that should be 2013 :P  (Because I *know* someone here will point that
out <3 )

Sorry about that :)

-Sarah


On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:10 PM, J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov <
alexandrdmitriroma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Forwarding per request.
> Alex
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Sarah Stierch 
> Date: 2013/5/8
> Subject: Please send this to the list, thanks: Subject: Program Evaluation
> and Design Workshop - Apply to attend! - June 22-23, Budapest
> To: wikimedia-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> [please pardon this crossposting]
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> I am pleased to announce the first Program Evaluation and Design Workshop!
>
>- *When*: 22–23 June 2012
>- *Where*: Budapest, Hungary
>
> The application process is now open. We have only 20 slots available for
> this workshop and the application deadline ends on May 17th. This two-day
> event will be followed by a pre-conference workshop at Wikimania 2013.
> Ideally, applicants would commit to attending both events.
>
> *Why are we offering this workshop?* Over the next couple of years, the
> Wikimedia Foundation will be building capacity among program leaders around
> evaluation and program design. A better understanding of how to increase
> impact through better planning, execution and evaluation of programs &
> activities will help us to move a step closer to achieving our mission of
> offering a free, high quality encyclopedia to our readers around the world.
>
> *What will take place at this and the following workshops?* Our long-term
> goals are:
>
>1. Participants gain a basic shared understanding of program evaluation
>2. Participants will work collaboratively to map and prioritize
>measurable outcomes, beginning with a focus on the most common program &
>activities
>3. Participants will gain increased fluency in common language of
>evaluation (i.e. goals versus objectives, inputs & outputs versus
> outcomes
>& impact)
>4. Participants will learn and practice how to extract and report data
>using the UserMetrics API
>5. Participants will commit to working as a community of evaluation
>leaders who will implement evaluation strategies in their programmatic
>activities and report back at the pre-conference workshop at Wikimania
> 2013
>6. …and participants will have a lot of fun and enjoy networking with
>other program leaders!
>
> We will publish a detailed agenda for the event in Budapest soon on meta.
>
> *Which programs & activities are we going to focus on?* During the workshop
> in Budapest, we will only have a limited amount of time. Therefore, we will
> be focusing on the some of the more common programs & activities:
>
>- *Wikipedia editing workshops* where participants learn how to or
>actively edit (i.e. edit-a-thon, wikiparty, hands-on Wikipedia workshop)
>- *Content donations* through partnerships with GLAMs & related
>organizations
>- *Wiki Takes/Expeditions* where volunteers participate in day/weekend
>events to photograph site specific content
>- *Wiki Loves Monuments* which takes place in September
>- *Education program/classroom editing* where volunteers support
>educators who have students editing Wikipedia in the classroom
>- *Writing competitions* which generally take place online in the form
>of contests, WikiCup, and challenges – often engaging experienced
> editors
>to improve content.
>
>  *Who should apply?* Community members who play an *active role* in
> planning and executing programs & activities as described above in the
> Wikimedia community. Your experience and knowledge will make this workshop
> a success!
>
> *What about the costs for travel and accommodation?* Hotels, flights and
> other transportation costs will be on your chapter; the Wikimedia
> Foundation will provide the venue, handouts, breakfasts and light lunches,
> and a dinner for all participants on Saturday. If you're not affiliated
> with a chapter and cannot afford to attend the event, please send me a
> private email – we have a small amount of money set aside for those cases.
>
> Applications are open until May 17. You can apply via this Google
> Form<
> https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/11yCoOls5ae8FqAXIdp9Tua76ilVQGUNKWMVSktCQBRU/viewform
> >
> .
>
> Thanks for your interest, and I look forward to a great group of
> participants!
> -Sarah
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2014: London

[Sarah Stierch]

Congratulations to the London team, and great work on all parties for
proposals. It's quite a task, and one that is at times just as emotional
and intensive in actually planning Wikimania.

I look forward to lending a hand with London, and I really look forward to
partying at the Tate Modern ;) (Can we get Kraftwerk to play the
party...?[1])


Sarah
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaLVvju6WZ8


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:10 AM, James Forrester wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> On behalf of the Wikimania 2014 selection Jury, after review and
> evaluation of the two final bids, we have awarded the conference to
> London. Congratulations to the London team, and to the Arusha team who
> also put forward a solid effort.
>
> We were concerned this year to see that both bidding teams put forward
> proposals which were costly and complicated, in contrast to the
> Wikimania tradition. The Jury briefly considered re-opening the bid
> for other teams, and asked both bids to present a simpler core budget
> and lower-cost options for attendees.
>
> The London team took our comments to heart and decreased their core
> budget to 20% of their initial proposal, and have committed to finding
> ways to reduce the cost for community attendees.
>
> We encourage future bidding teams to not give up their dreams, to keep
> aiming for the stars, but at the same time, to not forget the spirit
> of Wikimedia: a volunteer movement that makes creative use of limited
> resources. We look forward to the proposed Wikimania Committee setting
> out clearer guidelines on these principles.
>
> The process to bid for hosting Wikimania requires a substantial time
> investment, and we thank both candidate teams for their submissions
> and hard work.
>
> Yours,
>
> James Forrester
> Moderator, Wikimania 2014 Jury
> For the Wikimania 2014 Jury
> --
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> [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] movement partners

[Sarah Stierch]

On 4/29/13 1:03 PM, phoebe ayers wrote:

Hi all,

Here is a question that came up during today's US GLAM consortium meeting:
what's the current status of the 'movement partners' affiliation?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/Movement_Partners

Is recognition of movement partners something that AffComm will be taking
on in future, or will it rest with WMF/Chapters for now? Not sure what the
latest discussions have been.

thanks!
Phoebe



That's a great question, and one the Open Knowledge Foundation was 
scratching its head about a few months back! I'd love to see this open 
up again, especially for OpenGLAM and GLAM-Wiki programs and initiatives.

-Sarah

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Resignation announcement, and a parting remark to everyone

[Sarah Stierch]

On 4/29/13 12:59 PM, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote:

P. S. again, internal-l discussions that should be public. Damn.


Agreed, I am not on Internal either...

Jan-Bart


Yes, there is a good number of people (including me) who are not on that 
list anymore. I'm really unclear, at this point in the movement, as to 
why it needs to remain closed. Critical conversations take place here, 
there, and else where - so it's kind of null anymore...(IMHO!)


-Sarah

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why not everyone have the right to vote in the Board & FDC elections?

[Sarah Stierch]

I think it's a good idea Sue. Wikipedians are different than Wikimedians,
etc.. There are many people on boards of chapters and involved in the
community that might not "edit" on wiki spaces, making them perhaps unable
to vote. And there are a lot of people involved in the community that
aren't editors or active on wiki, but, are strong voices involved in
helping to shape the movement into what it is.

I also think, culturally, it's critical that we consider moving away from
assuming people with high edit counts are more "important" than those
without. (bytes versus edit counts)

Regarding staff members who vote - I have a feeling most staff members who
do not contribute to the projects outside of their work obligations
probably won't vote. Just a guess (based on what I gather around the office
- just because you work for Wikimedia doesn't mean you contribute to our
projects outside of work hours).


-Sarah


On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Sue Gardner  wrote:

> Interesting thread, Itzik --- to be honest, I had forgotten that staff had
> been granted the right to vote regardless of edit count. I wouldn't be
> surprised if the only staff members who do vote are those who would qualify
> under the edit count requirement anyway.
>
> Seems to me that rather than creating new exemptions from the edit count
> requirement, we might be better off to lower the number of edits required
> so that anybody who's demonstrated interest in the projects would qualify.
> If edits on meta, mediawiki, outreach, etc., qualify, and we were to lower
> the edit count requirement, then I think that would be inclusive of
> most/all contributors. Would something like that make sense?
>
> Thanks,
> Sue
> On Apr 28, 2013 1:26 PM, "Andrew Gray"  wrote:
>
> > On 28 April 2013 06:15, rupert THURNER  wrote:
> > > also agree to simplify the rules. what i'd really love would be to
> > > better standardize and with it simplify "volunteer community", for all
> > > elections and votes. and at least my wish would be that people who
> > > donate their time by sending code patches to software considered
> > > essential to run the site are included.
> >
> > The first elections (in 2004) had a simple "three months in the
> > community" rule. After that, we added edit count restrictions. The
> > first election with any "complicated" rules - allowing people in
> > without passing the edit count limits - was 2008, when WMF staff,
> > ex-Board members, *and* "Wikimedia server administrators with shell
> > access" were added. In 2011, this got extended to people who "have
> > commit access and have made at least one commit between 15 May 2010
> > and 15 May 2011."
> >
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/en
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2011/en
> >
> > So we've already got those in :-)
> >
> > I'm ambivalent about whether it's appropriate to have staff members
> > (those who don't independently qualify as "community members") voting
> > or not, but I think in principle Itzik has a very good point - either
> > *both* WMF and Chapter staff should be able to vote, or *neither*
> > should. I can't see any reason that it's right for a staffer in San
> > Francisco to participate in the election, but it isn't right for one
> > in Berlin!
> >
> > (It may be too late to change anything for this time around, of
> > course, but it would be great if we could ensure consistency in future
> > elections)
> >
> > - Andrew.
> >
> >
> > > On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Asaf Bartov 
> > wrote:
> > >> Also agree with Nathan.  Those chapter board members who are not
> active
> > on
> > >> the projects already have a far greater relative weight in selecting
> the
> > >> chapter-selected board seats.
> > >>
> > >>A.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <
> > nemow...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Nathan, 27/04/2013 21:34:
> > >>>
> > >>>  I would go the other way, and limit the participants in the election
> > >>>> for the community seat to people who are members of the volunteer
> > >>>> community. Presumably that would include most members of most
> > >>>> organizational boards, but only include those staff and other paid
> > >>>> workers who also participate as volunteers.
> > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Tweet this page" from some or all sites???

[Sarah Stierch]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:00 PM, James Alexander
wrote:

> I tend to think that they can be incredibly useful and reader friendly.
> I've always found it a bit disappointing we don't have it as they are
> probably the bigger reader request I've ever seen. That said I know that
> enWiki has had multiple discussions about it ending in failure. The issues
> mostly seem to stem from the "we're not MySpace" crowd which I think misses
> the point that we both "are" a social network and that we're an educational
> site (and should encourage sharing that information) but .
>
>
I agree. Readers ask a lot about it, and so do new editors. I think it's so
lame. Then again, people said the same about the Teahouse (NOTFACEBOOK). I
wonder if we did a test for it what people would think.

Talk abou reach - we'd be getting more people to read articles and content,
which means potentially more people editing.

But, I'm also a regular Twitter user and I see boosts in viewership for
anything I post on my Twitter and Facebook. So sick of anti-social media
Wikipedia. People love to deny we are a social network, when most of us
involved in the community know that isn't true. A lot of my friends and so
forth come from the Wikipedia world. If that isn't social media, then I
don't know what is.



>
> The only thing to keep in mind is that we occasionally need creativity.
> The "default" way that most sites tell you to share is often


CREATIVITY? NOOO!!!! We're writing an encyclopediawe're not being
creative!!! (sarcasm)  (Again...see the Teahouse :) )
-Sar
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Armenia

[Sarah Stierch]

Congratulations! :)

-Sarah

On 3/27/13 1:56 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:

Excellent news.  Congrats to WMAM!

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Bence Damokos  wrote:

Dear all,

I am happy to announce that the the WMF Board of Trustees have resolved to
recognize Wikimedia Armenia as the newest Wikimedia chapter:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Armenia

This group has  already put a lot of effort into promoting Wikipedia and
the other projects in Armenia on their road to recognition and I am really
looking forward to hearing of their future endeavours.

Please give a warm welcome to Wikimedia Armenia!

Best regards,
Bence
(Affiliations Committee)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator

[Sarah Stierch]

Awesome!

Ellie is great and will serve as a great coordinator. I look forward to working 
with her on the planning Commitee!

Sarah

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 27, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Siko Bouterse  wrote:

> Pardon the cross-posting from WMF staff list - I expect this role will be
> of interest to many here too.  Welcome, Ellie!
> 
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Siko Bouterse 
> Date: Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:22 AM
> Subject: Introducing Ellie Young as Conference Coordinator
> To: Staff All 
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Please join me in welcoming Ellie Young, who is taking on the role of
> Conference Coordinator as an annual contract with WMF.[1]
> 
> As you may know, WMF's support for Wikimania in recent years has been
> spread across a variety of staff members who have other core
> responsibilities.  With this new contract, we're creating a single point of
> contact to act as liaison between WMF and the Wikimania organizing team, to
> ensure that we're able to provide the host team with focused support where
> help from WMF is needed.
> 
> Ellie brings with her a lot of experience in event planning for open
> culture communities.  She worked as Executive Director of USENIX
> Association for over 20 years, where she and her team supported several
> international conferences hosted by volunteers each year.[2]  She also
> currently serves on The Ada Initiative's Board of Advisors and has been an
> activist for the democratization of educational materials most of her life.
> 
> Fun things we’ve learned about Ellie:  Both sets of her grandparents helped
> build the Panama Canal, and each generation since has had a pilot or two
> doing transits of the ships. She has been to every country in Latin America
> and the Caribbean except Brasil. You can often catch her hiking in the SF
> East Bay Hills with her adorable mini-poodle, Jack.
> 
> As Conference Coordinator, Ellie will be facilitating and supporting the
> work of the Wikimania host team and making sure there is good continuity
> and knowledge-transfer as the conference moves to new hosts year-over-year.
> She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and will be sometimes working
> from the SF office (sitting on the 3rd floor near HR). Ellie would like to
> hear from you on all things Wikimania, so please do stop by or email her
> anytime!
> 
> Huge thanks to all staff and volunteers who helped us craft this role and
> interview candidates.
> 
> Welcome, Ellie!
> 
> [1] http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=o1k2Wfw3&c=qSa9VfwQ
> [2] https://www.usenix.org
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> 
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> sum of all knowledge.
> Donate or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!
> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero wins!

[Sarah Stierch]

Congratulations!

Viva le revolution!!

-Sarah

On 3/12/13 6:28 PM, Kul Wadhwa wrote:

Hey all,

Wikipedia Zero just won the Activism Award @ SXSW!

A big thanks to all of you for keeping knowledge free for EVERYONE!



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] fiction: WMF policy of paying less than market

[Sarah Stierch]

The funny thing about all of this is that it seems to be non-employees who are 
"very" concerned about these things and no employees are actually whistle 
blowing or commenting.

I think that says something about how truly non-problematic this is. And I'm 
sure if employees did have some problems, this mailing list and the 
participants would probably be the last place they'd take it.

Sarah

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 7, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Katie Chan  wrote:

> No one is force to, or have a right to work for the WMF. Like any other 
> organisation, for-profit or otherwise, an organisation determines what it can 
> affords and wants to pay for a position. Similarly, a potential employee gets 
> to decides whether the proposed compensation is acceptable to them based on 
> their experience, what the job would be, and their personal circumstance. So, 
> what's the problem?
> 
> KTC
> 
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> associated with or employed by.
> 
> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation's non-disclosure agreement

[Sarah Stierch]

Just a quick note - while I was a fellow, I don't remember signing a 
NDA. I think people who did surveys had to (researchers, staff members, 
whatever) depending on the type of information they'd be gathering from 
people. Or, of course, the type of database you'd be given access too 
(i.e. it makes sense that maybe someone from analytics or grantmaking 
 would have to sign an NDA versus someone from 
the education program).


Most organizations don't walk around releasing their NDA's. In fact, I 
don't know a single organization that would engage people to do so. And 
even though WMF is WMF, I don't think it's bad for it to hold onto some 
professional practices like that. It's common practice, in the States, 
for non and for profits to do. I always thought it was funny that NDA's 
existed at WMF just because of the openness, but, at the same time, it's 
industry standard and doesn't phase me. People should be glad WMF has one.


-Sarah

On 3/5/13 11:34 PM, K. Peachey wrote:

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:11 PM, MZMcBride  wrote:

...

As far as I know the relevant issue is that anyone who has access to
private personal information of users needs to sign an agreement that
they will not share that information.

This definition doesn't seem to include CheckUsers, oversighters, OTRS
volunteers and OTRS administrators, wiki administrators, and many others,
so I'm not sure it's accurate.

(OTRS Wise) That may be a historical thing and queue dependant, I know
the gentlemen from OTRS (Martin?) had to sign one before he could
start work on updating the foundation's install

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Earth hour in English Wikipedia

[Sarah Stierch]

This is very cool. It might be a good idea, if you haven't already, to 
ping folks on the talk pages of the following English WikiProject:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Environment

Hope that helps a bit, that's often what I do when digging up support or 
help for a project - and even pinging the most active members directly 
on their talk pages. Might also be worth to leave a comment on the WWF 
Wikipedia talk page.


-Sarah



On 3/5/13 10:59 AM, Ivan Martínez wrote:

In Wikimedia Mexico we are working with the World Wildlife Fund to
improvemexican
biodiversity contents. They asked me to seek contact with a chapter /
editor who
wants to work their contents on the upcoming "Earth Hour" in the English
Wikipedia.

If someone wants to work on this theme, I can contact with WWF staff.

Regards!




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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Knowledge Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation

[Sarah Stierch]

On 3/4/13 2:54 AM, Mathieu Stumpf wrote:

Le 2013-03-01 14:42, Sarah Stierch a écrit :

Just an FYI. virtually no one at OKF but...like...me, and a couple of
our 30 some staff members actually use the wiki (and it's really only
for some HR documents). So, it'll most likely be left untouched or
unmaintained, by anyone. I just mention this because at our recent
staff summit we did a survey and everyone agreed that the wiki isn't
the primary spot where we work.

We're actually even considering making the wiki internal because it's
not fruitful for anyone outside of the internal community. So..don't
expect much to happen with that wiki space.

-Sarah


How do you know it will never be fruitful? Do you have any security 
concern on letting information public? If no, why wasting ressources 
making your workflow closed?




Hi there. I can't speak on behalf of the OKF staff as a whole. There 
isn't a security concern, just not many people use it, and if we have 
something that isn't being used, it might not make much sense to hold 
onto it as an "asset" per se. (IMHO) Sure, we could let it sit there and 
rot, but, that's not really of interest to the organization, perhaps. 
The only people who are generally using it is a small group of staff and 
volunteers. Most of our staff members and community members are not 
wiki-users, therefore it also might not be the most comfortable space 
for them to be productive and work.


If no one is really using the space for workflow, then there really 
isn't much loss associated with it. Don't get me wrong - I'm a 
Wikipedian and I use the wiki.


But, this isn't really the conversation to be having this. If people are 
concerned I suppose they can stop by the OKF mailing list and voice some 
concern about it. Or...the wiki! Heh!


-Sarah


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open Knowledge Foundation and Wikimedia Foundation

[Sarah Stierch]

On 3/1/13 8:37 AM, Fae wrote:

On 1 March 2013 12:08, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
 wrote:

http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Knowledge_Foundation_and_Wikimedia_Foundation
Tom

Good idea Tom. As it's a wiki, I have taken the initiative to move the
page to <http://wiki.okfn.org/Open_Knowledge_Foundation_and_Wikimedia>,
as based on the page introduction it appears to be intended to cover
projects wider than partnerships directly with the Wikimedia
Foundation. There are many other groups like the Wikimedia Chapters
and the evolving Wikimedia thematic organizations, that act
independently but are part of the Wikimedia community, and run all
sorts of interesting open knowledge content projects, as well as
lobbying for legal and government policy change to enable access to
open knowledge.

Cheers,
Fae


Just an FYI. virtually no one at OKF but...like...me, and a couple of 
our 30 some staff members actually use the wiki (and it's really only 
for some HR documents). So, it'll most likely be left untouched or 
unmaintained, by anyone. I just mention this because at our recent staff 
summit we did a survey and everyone agreed that the wiki isn't the 
primary spot where we work.


We're actually even considering making the wiki internal because it's 
not fruitful for anyone outside of the internal community. So..don't 
expect much to happen with that wiki space.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New proposal for a wiki Project!

[Sarah Stierch]

I think the talk page for the proposal would be a brilliant place to
discuss concerns and suggestions.

Just sayin' :)

-Sarah


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:

> Hoi,
> The one thing I am really interested in learning is how information about
> and content in a specific languages will be handled.
>
> Information about is likely to be in another language, consequently WHAT
> language. Content could be in something like Wikisource / Wikibooks.
> Thanks,
>   Gerard
>
>
> On 18 February 2013 22:57, geni  wrote:
>
> > On 18 February 2013 16:33, Kevin Behrens 
> wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I have started a proposal for a new wiki project: WikiLang (
> > meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiLang). It is about endangered languages and
> > >language documentation/decipherment. It is a very important step in
> order
> > to save our linguistic diversity which is ongoing faster than >the
> > extinction of animals.
> >
> > Why? Most of the languages in question have so little information
> > stored in them that even if we assume a total loss of that information
> > (which is unlikely) that downside will be massively outweighed by the
> > upside of easier communication between people.
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiWomen's History Month

[Sarah Stierch]

Hi Yaroslav,

I'm pretty limited on my volunteer time right now due to my work, but, 
you can find a to-do list that is being build out (at least for English 
Wikipedia) here:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month/To-do_list

Thanks for spreading the word and being bold!

-Sarah

On 2/15/13 12:24 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:

On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:18:52 -0800, Sarah Stierch wrote:
[Pardon the cross-posts - and the English message]  - Please forward 
as well!


Hi everyone,

March is Women's History Month, and this will be the second year for
WikiWomen's History Month, an *international* collaborative event that
takes place offline at edit-a-thons and online through project
focuses. Events and projects focus on improving women's history
coverage on any language project. We have a page on English Wikipedia,
like last year, to gather all of the events:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month

So far we have events in South America, Europe and the United States.

I hope you'll consider throwing an event in your town, village, or
city - or do a women's history focus for your WikiProject - large or
small!

Sarah


Hi Sarah,

this is interesting, but are you also organizing a drive? I am not 
really interested in hosting an event, or even participating in one, 
but I can consider creating a couple of articles myself. Is there a 
page to collect new / considerable expanded articles? One could also 
think about using them for DYK.


Cheers
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[Wikimedia-l] WikiWomen's History Month

[Sarah Stierch]

[Pardon the cross-posts - and the English message]  - Please forward as 
well!


Hi everyone,

March is Women's History Month, and this will be the second year for 
WikiWomen's History Month, an *international* collaborative event that 
takes place offline at edit-a-thons and online through project focuses. 
Events and projects focus on improving women's history coverage on any 
language project. We have a page on English Wikipedia, like last year, 
to gather all of the events:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month

So far we have events in South America, Europe and the United States.

I hope you'll consider throwing an event in your town, village, or city 
- or do a women's history focus for your WikiProject - large or small!


Sarah

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] IEGrants Committee

[Sarah Stierch]

Congrats everyone - I'm happy to see a nice diverse group of people from 
around the world participating in this!


-Sarah

On 2/13/13 12:14 PM, Siko Bouterse wrote:

Hi all,
I'm happy to announce selection of the first members of the Individual
Engagement Grants Committee, who will be serving through February
2014.  This committee will review proposals for IEGrants and make
recommendations for funding to WMF.

Committee members:

Ansumang
Bobrayner
Doc James
Gryllida
Harold Hidalgo
Ilario
Isaac Kosgei
MikyM
Netha Hussain
Ocaasi
Pine
Raystorm
Steven Zhang
Thehelpfulone
Tomo suzuki
Wittylama
WWB
Whym

More information about the committee:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee

Introductions from committee members:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab#idealab-introducing

Congratulations to the new members, and many thanks to everyone who
participated!


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Voice Intro Project"

[Sarah Stierch]

Yeah, it'd be cool to have a tool that allows the subject to record and
then make their file an ogg, or record it to ogg in a super fast way.

it's a small, but time consuming thing to record yourself, upload it (or
whatever) to your computer, and then figure out how to make it into an open
license.

-Sarah




On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:

> Andy Mabbett, 08/02/2013 14:57:
>
>> I'd like to ask your support the project I started:
>>
>> <http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/**open-licensed-format-**
>> recordings-voices-wikipedia-**wikimedia-commons/<http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/open-licensed-format-recordings-voices-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons/>
>> >
>>
>> asking the subjects of Wikipedia articles to record a 10-second sample
>> of their speaking voice, for use on those articles.
>>
>> An example script is "Hello, my name is [name]. I was born in [place]
>> and I have been [job or position] since [year]".
>>
>> So far, the participants:
>>
>> 
>> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/**wiki/Category:Voice_intro_**project<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voice_intro_project>
>> >
>>
>> include Sue Black, Cory Doctorow, Bill Thompson and Dave Winer; and
>> we've just had our first recording in French - but we need many more.
>>
>> Do you know anyone who has an article about them? Do you know of tools
>> that would simplify the process of making ogg files, open licensing
>> them, and uploading them to Commons? How can we include more speakers
>> of other languages?
>>
>
> I think we really need such a tool, for instance it's a shame that
> Wiktionary doesn't have pronounciation recordings on most of its entries.
> Of course it's better if the speaker is authoritative (like the subject in
> person for a biography or a professional for Wiktionary), but tools would
> help everyone.
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] "Voice Intro Project"

[Sarah Stierch]

Andy - have you thought about putting a project page on Wikipedia and not
just hosting it on your blog ?

It might bring more traffic.

I saw your Tweet about doing this, I just..well..haven't sat down and done
it yet. And I hate my recorded voice. O_o

-Sarah


On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote:

> I'd like to ask your support the project I started:
>
><
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk/open-licensed-format-recordings-voices-wikipedia-wikimedia-commons/
> >
>
> asking the subjects of Wikipedia articles to record a 10-second sample
> of their speaking voice, for use on those articles.
>
> An example script is "Hello, my name is [name]. I was born in [place]
> and I have been [job or position] since [year]".
>
> So far, the participants:
>
><http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Voice_intro_project>
>
> include Sue Black, Cory Doctorow, Bill Thompson and Dave Winer; and
> we've just had our first recording in French - but we need many more.
>
> Do you know anyone who has an article about them? Do you know of tools
> that would simplify the process of making ogg files, open licensing
> them, and uploading them to Commons? How can we include more speakers
> of other languages?
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strange, surprising, bold and unnecessary - reply to the WMF board statement

[Sarah]

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 7:59 PM, Theo10011  wrote:

> BTW that entire "rag tag group of amateurs doing something amazing",
> doesn't hold very true indefinitely  We were doing something amazing when
> we started, but we're really not amateurs anymore. The editing community is
> still isolated from some of the recent spending and support but it has only
> been increasing and increasing for the last decade. Look at the recent
> budgets, look at the spending, the chapter spending, the programs, the
> infrastructure- while its not as close to a typical top 10 nternet
> property, it's not exactly a rag tag bunch of amateurs either.
>
> The more people are paid, the more editors we lose (or the fewer we
attract), in part because they wonder why they're writing for free for an
organization that pays people to do other things.

So I agree with Doc James that it would be great if the focus on payment
could be reversed a little. Or else spread some money around the editing
community in ways that won't cause COI problems.

But as things stand, we ought to assume that the growth of the paid
bureaucracy and the shrinking of the volunteer editor community might be
connected.

Sarah
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome: Siko Bouterse and Katy Love join the Grantmaking team at WMF

[Sarah Stierch]

Yes, this is great. Especially as one of the last fellow's - Siko has 
been a key component in supporting me professionally, as I move into a 
new "career," in open culture and communities, and to help me learn new 
skills in this field that I surely didn't expect to be working in when I 
was attending school to curate museum exhibitions :)  Without Siko's 
determination, drive, and encouragement I'd be still crying in the 
corner after Wikimania from the stress and frustration at trying to 
"close" a gender gap that I often feel is an impossible task.


What Siko has done for myself, and others in the program, has been 
extremely beneficial, and it broke my heart knowing that Siko's role at 
WMF was questionable because of the end of the fellowships. To see this 
new project created so quickly (I mean seriously!! Really really 
quickly!) and so beautifully, makes me really happy. And to know that 
others, around the world, will be able to execute projects that make an 
impact on the mission of the movement, is really great - and still get 
the guidance that Siko can provide.


I'll stop being so sappy :)

-Sarah


On 1/16/13 3:18 PM, Sydney Poore wrote:

Glad to hear that you both are moving into these new roles. :-)

Sydney Poore
User:FloNight

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Nicole Ebber wrote:


Congratulations, looking forward to working with you!

Cheers,
Nicole

On 16 January 2013 18:28, Patricia Pena  wrote:

Great news! Congrats Siko and Katy!

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Fabrice Florin 
On Jan 15, 2013, at 9:52 PM,

wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote:

Congrats, Siko and Katy!

So glad to hear you'll be spearheading these important initiatives.

Siko, I'm thrilled that we'll keep working together in your new role.

Katy, welcome aboard! Look forward to meeting with you next week ...

Onward!


Fabrice


Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:51:31 -0800
From: Anasuya Sengupta 
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome: Siko Bouterse and Katy Love join the
   Grantmaking team at WMF
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Dear all,

As you know, we recently re-named the Global Development department at

the

Wikimedia Foundation, as the Grantmaking and Programs department. The
Grantmaking team is committed to supporting our community and meeting

our

shared goals at the different levels of contribution - whether

individuals,

groups or organisations -  and we will be working with you over the

next

few months to deepen our strategies for doing so, and for evaluating

our

impact.

In the meantime, however, I am delighted to announce some changes to

the

Grantmaking team that reflect this commitment. Siko Bouterse [1]

needs no

introduction to most of you, having worked at WMF since 2011, most

recently

coordinating the Fellowships program. Siko is coming on to the

Grantmaking

team as Head of Individual Engagement Grants, a program that will

support

individual or small team projects for online impact. This is to be

launched

later today... watch out for Siko's announcement and details of the
program, coming soon to a wiki near you. Siko will also shortly be

taking

on the responsibility for the Participation Support Program (which WMF

and

WMDE fund together), and supporting the documentation and analysis of

our

project-based grants. We are really pleased to have Siko's experience

and

insights on our team.

Katy Love is new to the team, the organisation and the movement, but I

have

no doubt that her experience and insights, as well, will help us be

more

effective. Katy has just joined us as the Senior Program Officer for

the

Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) [2] with a passion for strategic

and

impactful grantmaking, participatory collaborative work, and

transparent

decision-making. Her background spans philanthropic activities and NGO
programs, systems, and operations. She spent the last four years at

CARE

International with the Emergency Capacity Building Project, a

collaboration

between six of the largest NGOs, aimed at improving humanitarian

response.

Please join me in welcoming them to our team!

Warmly,
Anasuya

[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Sbouterse
[2] http://hire.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?j=owwHWfwp&c=qSa9VfwQ

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead

[Sarah Stierch]

Beautifully written, Erik. Really touching. Thank you everyone for 
getting this blog up in such a timely manner.


-Sarah

On 1/12/13 10:45 PM, Tilman Bayer wrote:

The blog post it out now:

https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/





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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Aaron Swartz is dead

[Sarah Stierch]

Official statement from the family:

http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/40373383323/official-statement-from-the-family-and-partner-of

I hope someone will perhaps write a blog post for the Wikimedia blog 
about his impact on the Wikimedia and free knowledge movement. This 
could be a community project.


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Blog

-Sarah


On 1/12/13 2:58 PM, James Salsman wrote:

Aaron explained how he originally measured Wikipedia contributions:
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/whowriteswikipedia/swartz2006 -- which is
only linked through the bibliography he kept up on the topic
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/whowriteswikipedia/ which is linked at the
end of the main essay. Less than a month ago we tweeted back and forth
about weighting those statistics by pageviews.

His best work might be his summary of Galbraith's _Predator State_:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/predatorstate

"when we were fellows together at the Harvard Center for Ethics, I
think we annoyed everyone else with our repeated insistence that
reducing economic inequality was somehow always the appropriate
solution to each of the many social ills the group identified" --
http://crookedtimber.org/2012/06/18/guest-review-by-aaron-swartz-chris-hayes-the-twilight-of-the-elites/

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Chapter reports WMNL

[Sarah Stierch]

I agree with Thomas, I have to admit :)

Having a brief "in summary" of what links comprise of is common practice and 
would be fabulous!

Every second counts in this world of mass stimulation and information. :) 

Sarah

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 6, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Thomas Dalton  wrote:

> On Jan 6, 2013 11:06 PM, "Ziko van Dijk"  wrote:
>> 
>> I don't see a reason for this tone, and I think that everyone who is
>> interested in the reports will easily find them.
> 
> The problem is, it's hard to know if you are interested in the report
> without having any idea what it contains. A short summary, or at least a
> list of contents, helps you decide whether to click on the link or not. (If
> the report is already a fairly short summary, just include the whole thing.)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] compromise?

[Sarah Stierch]

Sorry to top post - but, I'm just replying to the thread in general.

One of my biggest frustrations with this thread is that it seems to 
focus on technical staff.


The Wikimedia Foundation is a non profit. There is an entire department 
of people who do programming in grants/education/and dare I say 
"outreach" (or whatever). Then there are the HR people, etc.


While I am wrapping up the last month of my fellowship, and I am not a 
Wikimedia staff member, I do have my master's in museum studies, with a 
focus on the management of said organizations. The reason I state that? 
Is because WMF is competitive in regards to what it offers employees in 
my realm - as a non-profit person (I will most likely work in non 
profits for the rest of my life unless I own my own business, and that 
could even be nonprofit). So don't forget - I'm not the only person with 
a degree that would take me into a world of nonprofitness - Google isn't 
even on my radar as someone who is bidding for me, nor am I looking at 
them for work.


Let's just say, when I went to school, I knew I'd be working "for a 
mission," and which in the US, many folks go into computer science with 
the understanding they'll be making a nice amount of money out of 
school. From my understanding, most technical folks don't go into the 
field to start using their talents for non profits, it's often a "second 
life," after working in the for profit world.


Hell, what I made as a fellow is as competitive to what first year's 
make working at museums. And I feel I've gotten more dare I say.."perks" 
or "benefits," working as a fellow at WMF then I would working at pretty 
much any museum in my area of work (curatorial). (minus benefits like 
health insurance which contractors/fellows don't get)


So for me, and a number of us who work in the nonprofit arena (not the 
"tech person who could be stolen by big tech company" arena) - WMF *is* 
competitive.


-Sarah




On 1/4/13 10:17 AM, Quim Gil wrote:

On 01/03/2013 09:12 AM, Michael Snow wrote:

the Wikimedia Foundation
provides benefits that meet or exceed those of just about any employer
it might be "competing" with.


fwiw until recently I was working in the so-called Silicon Valley for 
a Scandinavian big tech corp with Scandinavian standards for HR 
practices and health care coverage. The coverage I get at the WMF for 
my family and myself is no different (including my fully covered 
"domestic partner" aka not-married mother of my children).


My salary has been significantly reduced with the change, indeed. But 
it is definitely more than enough to have a regular middle class life 
in the Bay Area. And then again we would be comparing the salary I had 
in such company after 5 years of (hopefully good) work, not the one I 
had at the beginning. I'm hoping to get some salary increase if/when I 
can proof good results of my work but I'm not even aiming to reach the 
same level I got in a for-profit tech corp in Silicon Valley. That 
would feel wrong, being most of the WMF based on individual donations 
and being the WMF active in so many countries where so much can be 
done with the difference between such corporate salary and the one 
I've got now.


PS: speaking entirely for myself although I wouldn't be surprised if 
this sentiment is shared among other WMF employees.





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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board vote on narrowing focus

[Sarah Stierch]

On 11/2/12 8:15 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:

Samuel Klein, 02/11/2012 16:01:
* Institutional support for the GLAM related activities in the US 
(until

the US Federation is fully functional, if ever)



I agree there is room for a global GLAM support for regions that 
don't have

local [chapter] organization.  Why do you feel this is a special problem
for the US, compared to other archive-rich parts of the world - given 
the

two regional chapters and numerous present and past Wikipedians in
residence?


The problem is always the same, i.e. that the WMF acts as WM-USA while 
a chapter is missing, rather than being truly global.
Random (unfair?) recent example: WLM-USA uses the allegedly global 
"Wikimedia blog" 
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/31/wiki-loves-monuments-us-top-ten-photos-announced/> 
unlike all the other national editions.


There is a US blog: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.us/

I'm not sure why it was posted on the WMF blog. I'm sure if other 
countries submitted their top ten's they'd be posted to the WMF blog.


Remember: anyone in the movement - around the world - can write a blog 
for the WMF blog, in any language they want. So do it!



-Sarah

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board vote on narrowing focus

[Sarah Stierch]

e scale impact in the 
US which we still need to make.


Things have started to move a bit though - organizations like the Open 
Knowledge Foundation have taken notice that we need better organization 
regarding OpenGLAM in the US. It just takes time, and we've wasted a lot 
of it already.


And no, I'm not starting a chapter anytime soon. Someone else can do 
that. :)


-Sarah


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Consortium

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Jamaican editathon

[Sarah Stierch]

I forwarded this to the cultural partners list.

I'm sure there are cultural institutions with Jamaican heritage content 
- including British Library and Museum.


-Sarah

On 10/29/12 9:21 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote:

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Richard Symonds <
richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:


We've had an email from a gentleman at an educational institution in
Jamaica, who'd like to run an editathon. He's contacted Wikimedia UK as a
starting point, presumably because of the shared history: but we can't do a
great deal more than send him some booklets, etc, by post. He's simply too
far away! Are there any individuals or chapters (or the WMF) based nearby
who could help?


We have nothing going on in Jamaica, but I'm happy to be put in touch with
him and see what we can do.

Asaf



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation and Saudi Telecom (STC) partner to provide access to Wikipedia free of mobile data charges in the Middle East

[Sarah]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Kul Wadhwa  wrote:

> Hi Sarah,
>
> This is not a stupid question...actually my wife asked me the same thing :)
>
> To implement a zero-rated version of Wikipedia we engage and work directly
> with an operator on multiple levels. Besides spending time with their
> business/marketing and/or corporate social responsibility staff to take on
> this program (because it does cost them time and resources) we work with on
> the technical side to adapt, customize and debug a light-weight version of
> Wikipedia (i.e., Wikipedia Zero) that their customers can access on their
> network. ... [snip]


Thanks, Kul, that was very helpful.

Sarah
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation and Saudi Telecom (STC) partner to provide access to Wikipedia free of mobile data charges in the Middle East

[Sarah]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Theo10011  wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Sarah  wrote:
>
> > Apologies if this is a stupid question, but I don't understand the
> > need for a partnership between the Wikipedia Foundation and the Saudi
> > Telecom Company (STC). ... [snip]
>
> Hi Sarah
>
> The partnership is part of a larger initiative[1] - the page provides a
> list of countries and carriers where this partnership exists, it includes,
> Orange, in  Kenya, Niger, Uganda, Ivory Coast, Telenor in Monte Negro, dtac
> in Thailand and now STC is KSA. ... [snip]
>
> Regards
> Theo
>
> [1]
>
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mobile_partnerships#Where_is_Wikipedia_free_to_access.3F
>

Many thanks, Theo.

Sarah
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation and Saudi Telecom (STC) partner to provide access to Wikipedia free of mobile data charges in the Middle East

[Sarah]

Apologies if this is a stupid question, but I don't understand the
need for a partnership between the Wikipedia Foundation and the Saudi
Telecom Company (STC).

If STC wants not to charge its customers for accessing Wikipedia, in
what way does it need the help of the Foundation to achieve that?

Sarah

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] CNET News: "Corruption in Wikiland? Paid PR scandal erupts at Wikipedia"

[Sarah]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Fred Bauder

> http://untrikiwiki.com/ Max Klein's wiki editing business
>
> His blog response:
>
>
> http://untrikiwiki.com/explanation-to-allegations-of-misuse-of-position-and-paid-editing/
>
> Fred
>
> I don't know anything about this case, but it does seem that paid advocacy
is increasing, and although the community seems opposed to it as a whole,
that message isn't getting through to individual editors. It's becoming
very discouraging to have to deal with it, or to edit alongside it.

Sarah
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[Wikimedia-l] Open Knowledge Fest this upcoming week

[Sarah Stierch]

Hi everyone,

I'll be in Helsinki, Finland this upcoming week for Open Knowledge Fest, 
where I'm co-planning the gender and diversity sessions and also 
participating in some other aspects of the conference. I know this is 
super last minute, but, if any Finnish Wikipedians (or Wikipedians 
living in Helsinki) want to get a drink or are going to the conference, 
ping me off list. Feel free to forward this message to anyone you know.


-Sarah

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia redefined -- typography and UX and such

[Sarah Stierch]

On 8/8/12 6:07 PM, Victor Grigas wrote:

Labas!


The designers should post mock-ups of their work here if they are serious
about making a change:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:2012_main_page_redesign_proposal



And that is after we pay them lots of money to do the redesign for "us" ;)

-Sarah




On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Ziko van Dijk wrote:


Perfectly sound remarks, Amir.
I would be a little bit more lenient about their grades. The problems
linked to this proposal are smaller than the achievements.
One could consider the "W" an abbreviation of "Wikimedia", or take
"WM". WM Commons, WM Source, WM News, WM Wikipedia. If in your
language it is a VM or something else, in "local" characters no
problem, use them.
The letter type could be a better one, indeed.
"History": It's amazing how little those terms are unified among the
Wikipedia language versions. A big renaming after 10 years of organic
growth would be great.
Kind regards
Ziko




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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Policy and Political Affiliations Guideline

[Sarah Stierch]

Hi -

Actually, it looks like there are a few places where people can share 
their thoughts, etc. about SOPA/Blackoutness:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout

and other things related but not:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project-wide_protests
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advocacy_agendas
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Advocacy_Agenda (which it 
looks like you can get involved in!)


I'm sure there are other things too. Risker said it best - let's stick 
on topic instead of going off on tangents. Perhaps even having a place 
to discuss WMF Policy and Political Affiliations Guidelines is ideal. Oh 
wait, there is ;)


http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Affiliations_Guideline

As you just shared! Again, this is more inclusive and it can bring your 
concerns to a broader audience who might not be on this mailing list. Ciao!


-Sarah


On 8/3/12 1:17 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote:

Sarah,

Well, for one I was not aware that there was a "reflection" about the
blackout posted on Meta. A link would be appreciated. Thanks.

Secondly, four or five months ago I would not have been aware of various
events on the timeline that preceded the blackout.

Third, this is an ongoing situation, as the subject of this very thread is
the proposed policy defining when and how further action like that could be
taken.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_and_Community_Advocacy/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Affiliations_Guideline

Regards,


On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Sarah Stierch wrote:


How come these concerns weren't brought up months ago when the
"reflection" about the blackout was posted to meta?

It seems that right now Andreas, you are the main opponent of something
that already happened and no one can change.

I'd just post your concerns to meta and stop this talking in circles and
finger pointing. It's tiring, reads like some conspiracy theory and seems
to be losing any traction of game changing that it could.

I appreciate hearing your thoughts, as many of us do, I just think they
are best preserved on wiki where the majority of participants in the
blackout hangout (most aren't active on mailing lists) and can participate
in this analysis with you.

Sarah



Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Andreas Kolbe  wrote:


On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Todd Allen  wrote:


We do everything in our power to prevent
the problem, but it would be absolutely cost prohibitive to do it 100%
with the difference being that fine grained, and this law gives you
the right to shut us down if we can't hit 100%. We think on balance
what we do is good even if something bad occasionally slips through,
so we can't support that law. And indeed, since this strikes at the
core of what we do and could shut us down entirely, we must do
everything in our power to fight the law, including energizing those
who use our services to speak up against it."



That wasn't the situation though, was it? Just quoting Tim here:

---o0o---

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121092.html


* Geoff Brigham opined otherwise, IIRC.*

Yes, on the basis that "Wikipedia arguably falls under the definition
of an 'Internet search engine'".

<

http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/13/how-sopa-will-hurt-the-free-web-and-wikipedia/


The definition was:

"The term ‘Internet search engine’ means a service made available via
the Internet that searches, crawls, categorizes, or indexes
information or Web sites available elsewhere on the Internet and on
the basis of a user query or selection that consists of terms,
concepts, categories, questions, or other data returns to the user a
means, such as a hyperlinked list of Uniform Resource Locators, of
locating, viewing, or downloading such information or data available
on the Internet relating to such query or selection."

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr3261/text

It's hard to see how Wikipedia could fall under this definition, but
even if it did, what would be the consequences?

"A provider of an Internet search engine shall take technically
feasible and reasonable measures, as expeditiously as possible, but in
any case within 5 days after being served with a copy of the order, or
within such time as the court may order, designed to prevent the
foreign infringing site that is subject to the order, or a portion of
such site specified in the order, from being served as a direct
hypertext link."

Geoff argued that we would have to manually review millions of links
in order to comply with such a court order. But the definition of an
"internet site" that would be specified under such a court order is:

"[T]he collection of digital assets, including links, indexes, or
pointers to 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Policy and Political Affiliations Guideline

[Sarah Stierch]

How come these concerns weren't brought up months ago when the "reflection" 
about the blackout was posted to meta?

It seems that right now Andreas, you are the main opponent of something that 
already happened and no one can change.

I'd just post your concerns to meta and stop this talking in circles and finger 
pointing. It's tiring, reads like some conspiracy theory and seems to be losing 
any traction of game changing that it could.

I appreciate hearing your thoughts, as many of us do, I just think they are 
best preserved on wiki where the majority of participants in the blackout 
hangout (most aren't active on mailing lists) and can participate in this 
analysis with you. 

Sarah



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On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Andreas Kolbe  wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Todd Allen  wrote:
> 
>> We do everything in our power to prevent
>> the problem, but it would be absolutely cost prohibitive to do it 100%
>> with the difference being that fine grained, and this law gives you
>> the right to shut us down if we can't hit 100%. We think on balance
>> what we do is good even if something bad occasionally slips through,
>> so we can't support that law. And indeed, since this strikes at the
>> core of what we do and could shut us down entirely, we must do
>> everything in our power to fight the law, including energizing those
>> who use our services to speak up against it."
> 
> 
> 
> That wasn't the situation though, was it? Just quoting Tim here:
> 
> ---o0o---
> 
> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121092.html
> 
>> * Geoff Brigham opined otherwise, IIRC.*
> Yes, on the basis that "Wikipedia arguably falls under the definition
> of an 'Internet search engine'".
> 
> <http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/13/how-sopa-will-hurt-the-free-web-and-wikipedia/>
> 
> The definition was:
> 
> "The term ‘Internet search engine’ means a service made available via
> the Internet that searches, crawls, categorizes, or indexes
> information or Web sites available elsewhere on the Internet and on
> the basis of a user query or selection that consists of terms,
> concepts, categories, questions, or other data returns to the user a
> means, such as a hyperlinked list of Uniform Resource Locators, of
> locating, viewing, or downloading such information or data available
> on the Internet relating to such query or selection."
> 
> http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr3261/text
> 
> It's hard to see how Wikipedia could fall under this definition, but
> even if it did, what would be the consequences?
> 
> "A provider of an Internet search engine shall take technically
> feasible and reasonable measures, as expeditiously as possible, but in
> any case within 5 days after being served with a copy of the order, or
> within such time as the court may order, designed to prevent the
> foreign infringing site that is subject to the order, or a portion of
> such site specified in the order, from being served as a direct
> hypertext link."
> 
> Geoff argued that we would have to manually review millions of links
> in order to comply with such a court order. But the definition of an
> "internet site" that would be specified under such a court order is:
> 
> "[T]he collection of digital assets, including links, indexes, or
> pointers to digital assets, accessible through the Internet that are
> addressed relative to a common domain name or, if there is no domain
> name, a common Internet Protocol address."
> 
> We already index external links by domain name or IP address for easy
> searching, and we have the ability to prevent further such links from
> being submitted, for the purposes of spam control. The compliance cost
> would be no worse than a typical [[WP:RSPAM]] report.
> 
> Maybe SOPA was a "serious threat to freedom of expression on the
> Internet", and worth fighting against, but it wasn't a threat to
> Wikipedia's existence.
> 
> ---o0o---
> 
> So we were talking about Wikipedia – if indeed Wikipedia could legally
> be considered a "search engine", which seems a stretch – being given
> five (5) days to convert any direct hyperlinks they were specifically
> advised of by court order into just alphanumeric, non-clickable links.
> No?
> 
> So all the talk about "If Wikipedia had had just one infringing link
> on it, they could have shut us down entirely" looks like a bunch of
> scaremongering nonsense you bought.
> 
> Now, who *does* operate a search engine, and would have incurred some
> extra costs here?
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing the Fellowship News

[Sarah Stierch]

As a former Wikipedian in Residence and a current fellow - I don't feel they 
are the same thing. At least in the United States! (Especially where the title 
"fellowship" has a scholarly prestige behind it in a way residence don't)

I have been both a paid and unpaid resident, and they have both had the same 
equal level of importance in my eyes!  I also was a masters student earning 
college credit for the unpaid internship, so I suppose I was "paid" and if you 
knew the level of pay I was funded for my other residency - its peanuts 
compared to what other paid residence receive (and I am grateful for it, don't 
think I am not).

For those interested in GLAM Wikipedian in residence there is the This Month in 
GLAM newsletter, which I'm unable to access this second.

Also, the fellowship application process is dramatically different then the 
residency process. But, that is based on my role in applying to both, and 
consulting on multiple residency positions! 

Wikipedians in residence are also "not" associated with the Wikimedia 
foundation - they are funded by entirely different entities and not managed by 
anyone at the Wikimedia Foundation. I never has a wikimedia email until I 
became a fellow! 

I also have completely different goals as a fellow versus my goals as a 
Wikipedian in residence (two times). Exploring ways to close the gender gap 
versus working for the specific mission of a cultural institution to share 
their contents with a broader audience are pretty different and the same could 
be said about other fellows/residence.

Just my two cents as the only fellow thus far to also be a Wikipedian in 
residence! :-)

Sarah

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On Jul 9, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Hubert  wrote:

> I can´t see really a difference between Wikipedian in residence and
> WMF-Fellowships. Except the financial source: WMF-founded vs.
> Chapter-founded.
> 
> The goals are the almost the same.
> 
> What happens with Wikipedian in residence which will not get any
> salaries? Will this be a third class? Are they maybe unofficial?
> 
> h.
> 
> Am 09.07.2012 13:43, schrieb Maggie Dennis:
>> I haven't spoken to Siko about this at all (first I'm hearing about it),
>> but I imagine, Richard, that it will focus on the work being done on
>> fellowships by WMF Fellows.
>> 
>> Lodewijk, I think it would be great to have a newsletter about the cool
>> things people are doing around the Wiki World. :) If somebody chooses to
>> put something like that together, surely having material to incorporate
>> about Fellows would be useful? The content is freely licensed and can be
>> reused (and modified) like other material on the projects under the same
>> terms.
>> 
>> Maggie
>> 
>> On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Lodewijk wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> while it is great that you do this responsibly, I am indeed also wondering
>>> how we can make this a worth while read. Because while it is a nice
>>> program, there are many other people around Wiki World doing similarly cool
>>> things (no offence) - as are "real" staff members. By splitting this off in
>>> a seperate news section (as we have been splitting off a lot) I'm afraid
>>> you might be putting the news actually on a bigger distance than you would
>>> otherwise.
>>> 
>>> Lodewijk
>>> 
>>> 2012/7/6 Richard Symonds 
>>> 
>>>> Thanks Siko!
>>>> 
>>>> Could you explain what exactly this covers? Teahouse, translations, small
>>>> Wikis and dispute resolution is a very wide net - and presumably it will
>>>> change according to which fellows are 'employed' at the time it's
>>> written.
>>>> Is there an overarching theme?
>>>> 
>>>> Richard Symonds, Wikimedia UK
>>>> On Jul 6, 2012 11:54 PM, "Siko Bouterse" 
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> I am pleased to announce that the first monthly edition of the
>>> Fellowship
>>>>> News is now available on Meta-Wiki!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Come learn what the Wikimedia Fellows have been working on in June:
>>>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fellowship_News
>>>>> 
>>>>> Projects covered in this edition include:
>>>>> *Dispute Resolution
>>>>> *Gender Gap
>>>>> *Help Pages Redesign
>>>>> *Small Wiki Editor Engagement
>>>>> *Teahouse
>>>>> *Translations
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Siko Bouterse
>>>>&

[Wikimedia-l] Join in from afar for the Smithsonian Institution Edit-a-Thon!

[Sarah Stierch]

(Pardon the crosspost)

Hi everyone!

Our second Smithsonian edit-a-thon is going to start in about an hour (1 
PM EST) and we'll be utilizing an Etherpad compliments of Wikimedia DC


http://notes.wikimediadc.org/p/SIEdit2

Feel free to join in! We'll also be utilizing the #glamwiki hashtag.

Our goal is to improve content about Smithsonian people and places and 
we've love your help - translations, lending a hand, writing something 
yourself, whatever!


See you there :)

-Sarah
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Study: Nobody cares about your copyright

[Sarah Stierch]

On 5/21/12 9:31 AM, geni wrote:

On 21 May 2012 13:09, David Gerard  wrote:

 From Rick Falkvinge, an English-language writeup of a Swedish study:

http://falkvinge.net/2012/05/21/study-despite-tougher-copyright-monopoly-laws-sharing-remains-pervasive/
http://svt.se/nyheter/fortsatt-fildelning-trots-skarpt-lag (Swedish news report)

61% of 15-25-year-olds in Sweden fileshare personally, and heavy
sharers have gone up. Furthermore - industry copyright education
campaigns create resentment, defiance and disrespect for the law in
general.

So, is the time ripe yet for us to start pushing for a 14-year term,
or do we wait a bit? I suggest we start contemplating it, however.


The most pirated bit of content at the moment appears to be game of
thrones so I'm not sure what 14 years has to do with anything.



Thanks for sharing this David. It's as if hating copyright has become 
the new punk rock. I remember when the music industry created adverts in 
the 1980s that were anti-pirating in regards to cassette tapes. Without 
mix tapes I probably wouldn't know most of the music I love today. Then 
came mix CDs, then came Soulseek...


Oi!

-Sarah



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Selection of winning bid for Wikimania 2013: Hong Kong

[Sarah Stierch]

And congratulations to our sisters of Hong Kong too :)

Seriously - congratulations and I hope to be there!

-Sarah

On 5/3/12 1:06 PM, Ivan Martínez wrote:

Congratulations to our brothers of Hong Kong. Hope to have a nice Wikimania
2013!

There's other *amigos* who want to have to all in their country in a
Wikimania 2016 XD

2012/5/3 Jeromy-Yu Chan (Jerry~Yuyu)


Halo Everyone

Thank you for your congratulations, we honored that we are awarded to host
the 9th global Wikimedia Conference.
our team will work as best as we can, to facilitate such conference, and
meet your expectations.

and we are lOOking forward to seeing you here in Hong Kong, and hope you
will enjoy the conference!

on behalf of Local Team, Wikimania 2013

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Only IP editing allowed on Wikipedia

[Sarah]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:33 AM, WereSpielChequers
 wrote:
> Hi can anyone point me to a write up of the the test plan for this
> morning's experiment on Wikipedia? Having been logged off about ten times
> I've worked out that you get logged out the first two times you change page.
>
> It will be interesting to see how many editors revert to IP editing.
>
> WSC

I haven't been logged out, but very few of my edits are saving first
time -- I keep getting the "session expired" message, even when I've
only been on the page for a minute or so.  And editing has been
painfully slow.

Lots of discussion about it at the PUMP --
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&oldid=489919998#Loss_of_session_data_and_slowness_issues

It seems to have started for some people on April 10th. I've been
noticing the slow speed for a couple of days, and since yesterday the
difficulty saving.

Sarah

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Sandra Rientjes director of Wikimedia Nederland

[Sarah Stierch]

Great news! Welcome Sandra!

And +1 to more women's leadership!

Sarah

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On Apr 24, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Ziko van Dijk  wrote:

> Dear friends of free knowledge,
> 
> As of May 1, Wikimedia Nederland is going to have a director: Sandra
> Rientjes. After a lengthy selection process the Board was able to
> choose between two candidates, preselected by the professionalization
> committee.
> 
> The Board felt that Sandra Rientjes presented an excellent mix of
> friendliness, determination and skills. Originally she trained as a
> sociologist and she has working experience in the non-profit sector,
> including the national NGO Nature and Environment. In her spare time,
> she is a volunteer neighborhood mediator. Although she has no
> experience working on Wikipedia, we feel she will fit in especially
> well with our organization.
> 
> The employment contract was signed on April 21. Initially, Sandra
> Rientjes will be shown the ropes by Marjon Bakker and others. Frans
> Grijzenhout and I will be her contacts in the Board. Please welcome
> her in our big Wikimedia family.
> 
> Ziko van Dijk
> president WMNL
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Editor retention implies social features

[Sarah Stierch]

On 4/17/12 12:07 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
Consider, for example, that Zynga and Facebook have successfully 
managed to get millions of people to log in at all hours of the night 
to milk virtualcows and harvest virtual beans (or whatever it is that 
people actually do in Farmville). Could we do something similar to 
drive particpation, particularly in editing areas that don't require 
long-duration sessions (e.g. adding or verifying citations, 
categorizing articles, etc.)? Even a few percent of Farmville's user 
base would be an order-of-magnitude increase of our own editor base; 
and if the price for that is letting these editors display 
Citationville badges on their user pages and send each other silly 
messages, is it not worth it? 


Gamification is a huge aspect of crowdsourcing these days. It isn't 
enough to just "share free knowledge," anymore (and for many people who 
currently contribute, it is, but..). People want some type of validation 
that goes beyond the mission, whether it's a "prize," an award, etc.


We've seen how valuable awarding people Barnstars are in English 
Wikipedia. It helps with user retention - when it's genuine and awarded 
to people for the right reasons (yes, I've seen malicious barnstar 
awards in my day), it has a powerful impact on keeping that editor 
around.  I also think it's valuable when people see that other /people/ 
edit Wikipedia. While I'm against becoming a social network in the 
traditional sense ("traditional" meaning Facebook, Myspace, oh, remember 
Friendster?), I think there is a lot of value in encouraging people to 
bring their personalities to Wikipedia by way of their user page, etc. 
In this world we live in today, people want to share a picture of 
themselves and so forth. Saying "That is what a user page is for," isn't 
enough, and we've struggled to make an easy to use userpage that 
encourages new editors to share images of themselves. Wikipedia has 
served as a social network for me - whether people like to hear that or 
not. I have friends I care for a lot around the world that I spend time 
with online and offline. I think it'd be really valuable to express that 
to the world and it could be used to encourage participation.  (We do it 
for donations..what about for attracting editors?)


Through Wikipedia, not only have I gotten to share knowledge with the 
world for free, but, I have also gotten to know an amazing group of 
people that have inspired me.


-Sarah


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] teaching people how to edit Wikipedia

[Sarah Stierch]

There is also a ton of case studies and best practices developed by the 
GLAM WIKI volunteers:


http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Get_started is a good place to 
look for some inspiration and speaking points.


And Lori and the crew worked hard on the GLAM Bookshelf at the last 
GLAMcamp.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US/Bookshelf

While these might seem GLAM oriented, many of them overflow into basics 
of editing and so forth.


-Sarah

On 4/12/12 6:08 PM, Chris Keating wrote:

Have a quick question for some work I'm doing on Wikipedia literacy:

What resources are folks using to teach others how to edit Wikipedia? At
Wikipedia Academies etc?



Have a look at the Outreach Bookshelf:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf

"Welcome to Wikipedia" is well-used by Wikimedia UK.

(And if anyone else has outreach materials, please do add them to the
Bookshelf)

Chris
Wikimedia UK
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Travel Guide

[Sarah Stierch]

I've been somewhat following this conversation - and this is totally 
trivial, but, I love WikiTravel, use it whenever I do travel, and 
actually, it was the first wiki I wrote content for (I used to only do 
gnomish things on Wikipedia).[1]


I still, to this very day, remember the first time I was given a 
compliment for my work on WikiTravel, by the co-founder, and that was 
before they had adverts. It's one of the examples I frequently use about 
how important praise on-wiki is. (It helped me stick around!)


I'd frankly be all about WikiTravel, and would really be interested in 
seeing it be a part of the Wikimedia community, especially so I can 
contribute to it ad free ;) . I know it'd open us up to a whole new can 
of COI worms, I think it'd make for a really valuable resource and give 
paid services and Frommer's/Lonely Planets a run for their "money."


-Sarah

[1] http://wikitravel.org/en/User:Missvain



On 4/10/12 1:27 PM, James Heilman wrote:

Yes WikiTravel has some poorly sourced pages that ramble on. However so
does Wikipedia. The solution is to increase the size of the community and
quality will increase with time. We did not always have
strike referencing guidelines. To get this project to grow we need to get
it based in an environment where it can grow.

The Spanish Wikipedia, if I remember correctly, threatened to split off in
2004 due to Wikipedia having no solid non profit foundation. Those are WT
have the same concerns. They do not want all their volunteers efforts going
to the bottom line of a for profit (Internet Brands). And would anyone
blame them. If we within the Wikimedia Movement want to see this content
improved we should welcome them into the WMF. We have 20 editors supporting
this proposal as of April 10th, 2012.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Travel_Guide




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