[Wikimedia-l] 2021 Affiliates data survey | What we learned about our affiliates
Good day friends The 2021 affiliates data survey report [1] is out! This is the third report on affiliates and trends around, governance, demographics, governance, and general awareness around resources and other support available to affiliates. This year we went a step further and answered a question we kept hearing, which is: "Do affiliated editors show higher editing activities across wikis compared to unaffiliated editors?" What the data told us is both interesting and inspiring. The report is available to read on meta, and you can also download a pdf copy. Link: [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Data_and_Insights_Team/Our_Reports/2021_Affiliates_data_survey_report We trust that you will enjoy reading this report, as much as we enjoyed researching and compiling it! Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us Yours in service Dumisani Ndubane Governance Committee Strategist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/FHJXC2NUUZC2XQGGFEWJ5FP3RKPBNVLN/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] WikiJournal activity and financial report
Hello Wikimedia participants, The activity and financial report for WikiJournal has now been submitted for January 1 - June 30, 2021: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Affiliates_Data_Portal/Reports Best regards, On behalf of Mikael Haeggstroem Dumisani Ndubane Governance Committee Strategist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/LDQQEN45BMJBLWXB54FZTIM74OQVQCFM/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Affiliate reporting during COVID-19
Hello there, In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Wikimedia Foundation is aware of the enormous difficulties and pressures this has on individuals as well as affiliate organizations in general. The committee recognizes the impact this may have on affiliates being able to submit their required annual activity and/or financial reports on time. Should your organization be unable to meet its reporting deadline, please reach out to us in order to propose a revised timeline for your report. We recognize also that, for legal entities local legal requirements may still require your organization to meet reporting deadlines, in that case, please attend to your local requirements and reach out if there is any adjustment to the expectation for your submission to the reports portal on meta. When you are ready to submit your report on meta, you will be able to share your report via our new Affiliates data portal [1]. We understand the Foundation’s Community Resources team is also working to develop guidance around reporting and the impact of COVID-19 on the event and reporting timelines. We will work to also align with these guidelines as they become available. Links: [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Affiliates_Data_Portal If you have any questions or need any further guidance, please don’t hesitate to reach out. Kindest regards *Wikimedia Foundation* Dumisani Ndubane Manavpreet Kaur Jaime Anstee ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal
Hello Pine Thank you for your response. We appreciate the stewardship that the community has on meta, and this is not in dispute. In this case because we are working with a system that aims to collect Affiliates data in a structured form, as well as make it accessible to the community via query tools, it became necessary to protect the Lua modules and tables that hold this data. The forms themselves are protected by. default and accessible to administrators only. The individual Affiliates remain in control of the data that they will submit via these forms. As the data grows, it is possible that we may move that to another wiki, should current security concerns on the data validity and integrity increase. However, we strongly felt that the forms should be developed on meta in order to avoid disrupting established reporting norms by Wikimedia Affiliates. Be assured that we will continue to be sensitive to community stewardship as we improve the system. Best regards Dumisani Ndubane Monitoring & Evaluation Strategist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:16 PM Pine W wrote: > Hello Dumisani , > > I would like to remind you of the questions in this thread, although I > understand that there may be some delays in getting responses due to > the issues with Covid-19. > > I have not looked into the new portal and I don't have an opinion > about it, but I hope that affiliates will find it to be an > improvement. > > I have one point that I would like to make. Protection of a page is an > administrative action, and I do not believe that any WMF staff should > make content administrative actions on Meta unless under exceptional > circumstances such as a legal mandate. If WMF wants a page on Meta to > be protected, then WMF should make a request to a community > administrator for page protection, which the administrator may > independently decide whether to grant. If WMF wants more control over > content, then a more appropriate venue for affiliate reports would be > one of the WMF wikis instead of a (mostly) community wiki. I feel that > it is important that WMF staff not encroach on the jurisdiction of the > community such as by making administrative actions, however small, > that can and should be done instead by community administrators. > > Thanks, > > Pine > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
[Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal
TL;DR: Launch of Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal We are launching a new form-based annual reporting system for Wikimedia affiliates [1], as well as a basic Affiliates data query system. We would love your feedback. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hello, Affiliate Leaders & Community Members, Tired of the affiliate reports [2] wiki table of death? SO are we! The Learning & Evaluation team is pleased to announce the launch of the Wikimedia Affiliates Data (WAD) Portal [1]. This portal will serve three purposes as follows: 1. It introduces a new Object-Oriented User Interface (OOUI) [3] form-based report submission interface for annual activity and financial reports. This replaces the wiki mark-up based submission via the [[Reports]] page on meta. 2. It introduces the ability for Organizations to update their information using OOUI forms on the fly. 3. It introduces a new simple data query form that allows anyone logged-in to their public wiki accounts to run a query and view results on available Affiliates data. The query tool will be improved in the coming financial year, as we work to code data in Affiliate reports into structured data, to allow for richer analysis. The [[Reports]] page on meta will continue to be visible on meta until the end of June 2020, after which it will be protected and archived. All organizations that are due to submit annual reports at the end of March are encouraged to use the new report submission forms. If you do use the new forms, please share any feedback you have about this new process on the Portal’s talk page We will hold training seminars for those who wish to be onboarded to the submission forms and the Query system during the months of March and April 2020 (Dates will be communicated soon). We have taken time to pre-populate the system with basic information about each recognized Wikimedia affiliate, however, should you find any incorrect or outdated information about your group, please use the organization information page[4] to provide updated information. We trust that you will enjoy the new portal and that you will find it useful. Should you have any problems or encounter bugs in the new forms, please use the Portal talk page [5] to log these, or to simply ask questions. We will collect similar questions to create an FAQ page in due time. Kindest regards *Dumisani Ndubane* - Lead Designer *Derick Alangi* - Software Developer - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *Learning & Evaluation team* Wikimedia Foundation *Links:* [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Affiliates_Data_Portal [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOUI [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Affiliates_Data_Portal/Organizations_Information [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Affiliates_Data_Portal ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you and farewell
I am truly shattered to hear this I hope that we as an organization will learn from your departure, how we have failed you and how we can stop failing other Satis that will walk through our org door. Am taking time to process this and it hurts right now. Its hurts really bad. At the very least, I hope we can stay friends and that you will continue to find ways to share your wisdom in how we can better learn from the work we do and the support we give to the hundreds of dedicated volunteers who make this mission even worthwhile. Hugs Dumisani Ndubane Monitoring & Evaluation Strategist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:32 PM Sati Houston wrote: > Hi All, > > After almost 5 years at WMF, I’ve decided to move on from the Foundation. > My last day will be June 4th. > > These last few years have been an unexpected journey. When Anasuya Senguta > and Jessie Wild recruited me in 2014, I didn't know what awaited me. I > didn't know that I could learn so much about epistemology, power, > resilience, and community in such a short period of time. I couldn't know > how indelibly I would change - in my perspectives, my approaches, and my > beliefs. > > But I have learned *so much*. From the countless conversations I've had and > observed. From working with hundreds of staff and volunteers to understand > different community needs > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development>[1], > build new > tools <https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/>[2], reflect > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Strategy/Wikimedia_Foundation_grantmaking_review/Intro > >[3] > on > current programs, understand the breadth and depth of our gaps > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_equity_report_2018>[4], understand > our longer-term impact <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Impact>[5], > and find the path forward. > > And because we are Wikimedia, it's unsurprising that I leave having learned > the limits of my own knowledge, the power of collective discourse > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemaking>[6], and the weight of my own > power and privilege in seeing systemic, cultural change happen. > > This journey honestly wasn’t an easy ride. I laughed and cried, triumphed > and despaired, argued and made up; I felt supported and isolated, powerful > and powerless. I saw the tremendous beauty that Wikimedia creates and the > long road still to come. > > But despite the rough ride, when I think back on my time here I will always > treasure the kaleidoscope of small moments that brought me joy: grammar > advice from Asaf, introducing Felix to Korean food, learning that many of > you are artists or musicians or poets, learning wikitext (yes, I actually > enjoyed that), dancing until my feet hurt, learning to love karaoke, > impromptu lunches and dinners, and many *many* walks and virtual coffee > chats. > > So thank you all for sharing your wisdom, humor, and time with me. Thank > you Wikimedia for being a place that I could grow and learn. I will still > be around on the interwebs (and in San Francisco if you ever are in town), > and look forward to watching how you grow. > > For now, I leave you with this quote: > > "In a complex, technological world, most of us are experts at something. > More importantly, being a true expert means having a healthy dose of > humility. If you have really studied something and really gone deep into > how it works, then you should come away knowing how much you don't know. > *In > a sense, that is the real definition of an expert — knowing the limits of > one's own knowledge.*" - Adam Frank, National Public Radio [7] > > With much love, > Sati > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development > [2] https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/ > [3] > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Strategy/Wikimedia_Foundation_grantmaking_review/Intro > [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_equity_report_2018 > [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Impact > [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemaking > [7] > > https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/04/07/522992390/why-expertise-matters > > -- > > Sati Houston > Senior Strategist, Grants > Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=u
Re: [Wikimedia-l] User:Bhadani has passed
He will be sorely missed. Condolences to his community members and family. *Dumisani Ndubane* Monitoring & Evaluation Strategist Wikimedia Foundation ✆ | +27 74 587 8616 ✉ | dndub...@wikimedia.org <dndub...@wikimedia.org> https://donate.wikimedia.org/ *"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge."* On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 11:43 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@shlomifish.org> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 07:56:01 +0600 > "Md. Ibrahim Husain" <mera...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Our fellow Wikipedian Gangadhar Bhadani has passed away 8th February > 2018. > > He was one of the active Indian Wikipedians on English passionately > > contributing since 2005. > > May his soul rest in peace. > > > > sorry to hear that. > > > Mohammad Ibrahim Husain Meraj > > Member, Wikimedia Bangladesh > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: > > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > -- > - > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > List of Networking Clients - http://shlom.in/net-clients > > If the miller travelled to the market with Emma, they would have each rided > their own donkey. Problem solved. > — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Emma-Watson/ > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Update on Wikimedia vs. NSA
Thanks for the update This is a good stand to take, seeing that our vision and mission demands it of us. *Dumisani Ndubane* Monitoring & Evaluation Strategist Wikimedia Foundation ✆ | +27 74 587 8616 ✉ | dndub...@wikimedia.org <dndub...@wikimedia.org> https://donate.wikimedia.org/ *"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge."* On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:54 PM, Nadine Le Lirzin <nlelir...@wikimedia.fr> wrote: > Thank you, Katherine. At once for such a precise update and for going > ahead. > Also many thanks to all who dedicate time and work to this case. > > Nadine Le Lirzin > Wikimédia France > > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 at 01:42, Philippe Beaudette <phili...@beaudette.me> > wrote: > > > Great update, thank you. > > > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Katherine Maher <kma...@wikimedia.org> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I’d like to share an update and next steps in our lawsuit against the > > U.S. > > > National Security Agency (NSA), Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA.[1] As > you’ll > > > recall, in March 2015, the Wikimedia Foundation joined eight other > > > plaintiffs in filing a suit in United States Federal District Court > > against > > > the NSA[2] and the Department of Justice,[3] among others. We have been > > > represented pro bono[4] by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)[5] > > and > > > the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.[6] The law > > > firm Cooley LLP[7] has also been serving as pro bono co-counsel for the > > > Foundation. > > > > > > Since we’re coming on the three-year anniversary, I wanted to offer a > > > reminder of why we filed this suit. Our challenge supports the > > foundational > > > values of our movement: the right to freedom of expression and access > to > > > information. Free knowledge requires freedom of inquiry, particularly > in > > > the case of challenging and unpopular truths. Each day people around > the > > > world engage with difficult and controversial subjects on Wikipedia and > > > other Wikimedia projects. Pervasive mass surveillance brings the threat > > of > > > reprisal, creates a chilling effect, and undermines the freedoms upon > > which > > > our projects and communities are founded. In bringing this suit, we > > joined > > > a tradition of knowledge stewards who have fought to preserve the > > integrity > > > of intellectual inquiry. > > > > > > Our lawsuit challenges dragnet surveillance by the NSA, specifically > the > > > large-scale seizing and searching of Internet communications frequently > > > referred to as “Upstream” surveillance.[8] The U.S. government is > tapping > > > directly into the internet’s “backbone”[9]—the network of high-capacity > > > cables, switches, and routers that carry domestic and international > > > communications—and seizing and searching virtually all text-based > > internet > > > communications flowing into and out of the United States. It’s this > > > backbone that connects the global Wikimedia community to our projects. > > > These communications are being seized and searched without any > > requirement > > > that there be suspicion, for example, that the communications have a > > > connection to terrorism or national security threats. > > > > > > Last May, we reached an important milestone: a Federal Court of > > Appeals[10] > > > in the United States ruled[11] that the Foundation alone had plausibly > > > alleged “standing”[12] to proceed with our claims that Upstream mass > > > surveillance seizes and searches of the online communications of > > Wikimedia > > > users, contributors and Foundation staff in violation of the U.S. > > > Constitution and other laws. The Court of Appeals’ ruling means that we > > are > > > the sole remaining plaintiff among the nine original co-plaintiffs. > There > > > is still a long road ahead, but this intermediate victory makes this > case > > > one of the most important vehicles for challenging the legality of this > > > particular NSA surveillance practice. > > > > > > As a result of our win in the appellate court, we are now proceeding to > > the > > > next stage of the case: discovery.[13] In the U.S. court system, > parties > > > use the discovery stage to exchange evidence and ask each other > questions > > > about their
