[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Telugu Wikimedians User Group

[Jan Ainali]

The link to the resolution is broken, but it also is not listed on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions and I
cannot find it in
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Affiliations_committee_resolutions_approved_in_2024

Is there a resolution yet?

Den tors 4 apr. 2024 kl 19:12 skrev Affiliations Committee <
aff...@wikimedia.org>:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] Telugu Wikimedians User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group
> aims to to grow and promote Telugu language in Wikimedia Projects including
> supporting Telugu Wikimedia communities in India.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Jeffrey Keefer
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition
>  of Telugu Wikimedians User Group
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Telugu_Wikimedians_User_Group
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

[Jan Ainali]

Den tis 30 jan. 2024 kl 02:37 skrev effe iets anders <
effeietsand...@gmail.com>:

> I can see one solution to that (albeit farfetched): an analogue to a super
> rigorous referencing approach. I am imagining it's possible to verify in an
> automated way that an edited video is exclusively constructed out of a list
> of cited materials. So if we would be able to build a database of freely
> licensed raw materials that can be sourced from (HUGE if, I know!)
>

It sounds like you are describing Videowiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VideoWiki (where the database is Commons).

While valuable, I think that original content is needed, be it homemade
animations, or videos from events or places recorded by the user and never
published anywhere else.

/Jan
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development annual report 2023

[Jan Ainali]

Hello everyone,

The 2023 annual report for the user group Wikimedians for Sustainable
Development has been published:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Reports/2023

Best regards
Jan Ainali
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

[Jan Ainali]

Den fre 26 jan. 2024 kl 04:10 skrev Samuel Klein :

>
> Brion wrote:
> > 1) Overturn the requirement to avoid handling h.264 files on Wikimedia
> servers or accept them from users or serve them to users. Allow importing
> h.264 uploads and creating h.264 transcodes for playback compatibility.
>
> Yes, this is essential.  Can be via a separate videowiki in the short term
> (or NCcommons) if the WM Commons community is united in opposition.
>

I disagree. Using non-open tools in our workflows is a poison that should
be resisted by any means possible.

Instead, we should create an app (or integrate in the Commons app), the
possibility to record video natively in a free and open format.
Yes, it would be a big task, but it would show that we mean what we say
when we talk about the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free
knowledge and would be of great benefit not only to our movement, but to
the society in general.

/Jan
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: 23 March: Invitation to Open Community Call on ChatGPT, generative AI, and Wikimedia

[Jan Ainali]

Den lör 1 apr. 2023 kl 10:21 skrev Lauren Worden :

> How would you characterize the harm of hosting BLOOM until a
> comparable FOSS model is available?


There are a few risks that could be harmful, although I don't think they
are neither certain nor very direct.
But, if we do give up our principle of only using and allowing open source
(that we held for over 20 years) here are a few of these risks.
The first I come to think of is that we alienate the volunteers that hold
these ideals high (remember the mp4 vote on Commons in 2014).
Second, we dilute the concept of "open" by implying that these usage
restricting licenses are just as good as FOSS licenses.
Third, we are not being a good role model for the rest of the open movement.

With these risks in mind, I would much rather we wait for a FOSS model, not
rushing on a hype train, even if it is not as powerful.

/Jan
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: 23 March: Invitation to Open Community Call on ChatGPT, generative AI, and Wikimedia

[Jan Ainali]

Den tors 30 mars 2023 kl 02:33 skrev Lauren Worden :

>
> Is the BLOOM RAIL license [
> https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigscience/license ] proprietary?
>

Yes. The common definition is that if it is not open source, it is
proprietary. But you don't need to take my word for it.


> So I expect the BLOOM license would therefor qualify for an exception
> as described in
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech:Cloud_Services_Terms_of_use


Point 3 in the "What uses of Cloud Services do we not like?":

*"Proprietary software*: Do not use or install any software unless the
software is licensed under an Open Source license
."

The Wikimedia Cloud terms of use even narrows it down to only Open Source
Initiative approved licenses. So if not even CC0 licenses are allowed on
Wikimedia Cloud (that license is only approved by the FSF, not by the OSI),
for sure, the RAIL license is not allowed.

/Jan
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: 23 March: Invitation to Open Community Call on ChatGPT, generative AI, and Wikimedia

[Jan Ainali]

Hi Alek, nice to see you here!

On the contrary, I think it is important to, as early as possible, deter
all these attempts to weaken the concept of "open" and that we as a
movement need to take a hard stance against them.
These proprietary licenses do not fit the spirit of sharing all knowledge
and letting anyone do whatever they want with it.
It's not that they are using licenses that currently are not approved by
the leaders of the open source movement, it's that these licenses are
fundamentally, and deliberately, constructed so that they will never be
approved by these bodies.

But yes, we will probably soon see FOSS licensed LLMs, and from these, we
can choose which ones we might want to help develop.
Let's just wait for that day, rather than make a hasty and morally dubious
bet on models available as of today.

Jan Ainali



Den ons 29 mars 2023 kl 21:50 skrev Alek Tarkowski :

> Hi,
>
> (I’m Alek from Open Future Foundation, I largely lurk here, so I want to
> say “Hi everyone!” first).
>
> Jan, you’re right that the RAIL license does not meet any FOSS
> definitions. But its authors, in their white paper, position this license
> not just as “responsible” but also “open”. And project like RAIL or BLOOM,
> connected with the HuggingFace company, aim to define a standard that fits
> the idea of responsible sharing. Looking in more detail, the behavioural
> use limitations in RAIL are ones that could probably be endorsed by
> Wikimedia, based on its Code of Conduct and other community norms.
>
> My point is that it would be good to explore to what extent “openish” AI
> stacks can be a good fit for Wikimedia.
> I follow the conversation around open/responsible AI licensing and
> understand the need to not “dilute" FOSS licensing. But also appreciate
> that AI researchers are actively setting a standard that they think is
> right for AI. I think that their work should not be dismissed just because
> it’s not using one of the canonical open licenses.
>
> BY the way, there will probably be, anytime soon, an LLM that is available
> under a “traditional” FOSS license. But for me that’s even more so a reason
> to consider different options, and be able to make an informed decision.
>
> Best,
> Alek
> --
> Director of Strategy, Open Future | openfuture.eu | +48 889 660 444
> At Open Future, we tackle the Paradox of Open: paradox.openfuture.eu/
>
> On 28 Mar 2023, at 20:30, Jan Ainali  wrote:
>
> Den tis 28 mars 2023 kl 12:08 skrev Lauren Worden <
> laurenworde...@gmail.com>:
>
>> First, the Foundation should host a fork of BLOOM [
>> https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom ], which if I remember correctly
>> was described by the Foundation's Machine Learning Director Chris Albon as
>> the only LLM at the scale of GPT-3 adhering to the movement's FOSS
>> criteria.
>>
>
> No, BLOOM is not FOSS by any means.
> It fails freedom 0 of the four freedoms from the Free Software
> Foundation[1], and it is not recognized as an open source license by the
> Open Source Institute (and will not be as it fails requirement 6 of the
> open source definition[2]).
> So that model, any other using the RAIL license, is a dead end.
>
> /Jan
>
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> [2] https://opensource.org/osd/
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: 23 March: Invitation to Open Community Call on ChatGPT, generative AI, and Wikimedia

[Jan Ainali]

Den tis 28 mars 2023 kl 12:08 skrev Lauren Worden :

> First, the Foundation should host a fork of BLOOM [
> https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloom ], which if I remember correctly
> was described by the Foundation's Machine Learning Director Chris Albon as
> the only LLM at the scale of GPT-3 adhering to the movement's FOSS
> criteria.
>

No, BLOOM is not FOSS by any means.
It fails freedom 0 of the four freedoms from the Free Software
Foundation[1], and it is not recognized as an open source license by the
Open Source Institute (and will not be as it fails requirement 6 of the
open source definition[2]).
So that model, any other using the RAIL license, is a dead end.

/Jan

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
[2] https://opensource.org/osd/
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[Wikimedia-l] January 2023 Newsletter - Wikimedians for Sustainable Development

[Jan Ainali]

This is our twentythird newsletter, covering January 2023. This issue has
news related to SDGs 3, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16.

== Meetings ==

Upcoming: 19 February - User group meeting (SDG all) [10]
Past: 15 January - User group meeting (SDG all) [11]

== Activities ==

Ongoing: Wiki Loves Plants (SDG 14) [18]
Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13) [27]
Upcoming: The 2023 Bug of the Year Edit-a-thon (SDG 14) [20]
Past: Lexeme challenge Urology (SDG 3) [1]
Past: Swedish Wikipedia weekly challenge - Frogs versus lizards (SDG 14)
[13]
Past: Three hundred episodes of Critter of the Week (SDG 14) [14]
Past: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (SDG 3) [21]
Past: Women in Climate Change 2022 (SDG 5 & 13) [26]

== News ==

The stories behind the Wiki Loves Earth 2022 photos from Türkiye (SDG 14)
[5]
Announcing our funding support from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Institute (PCORI) (SDG 3) [8]
Jumping for science: how Wikipedia assignments inspire STEM students (SDG
14) [9]
Birds of NYC Photo Contest Winners announced! (SDG 14) [12]
Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government (SDG 16) [23]
Wiki Loves Earth 2022 presents the winners of the special nomination “Human
rights and environment”! (SDG 10 & 14) [25]
Equity, diversity & inclusion in affiliate governance (SDG 5 & 10) [28]

== Resources ==

Building a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake (SDG 3) [24]

== Videos ==

Editor uses Wikidata to find new uses for existing drugs and speed up
approval process for new treatments (SDG 3) [6]
WikiForHumanRights Information Session (SDG 10) [19]

== Featured content ==

English Wikipedia: List of birds of Tuvalu (SDG 14) [15]
English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Laos (SDG 11) [16]
English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Bangladesh (SDG 11) [17]

== New Wikidata properties ==

NIP (SDG 16) [2]
NSR doctor ID (SDG 3) [3]
UniProt disease ID (SDG 3) [4]
Strazha ID (SDG 16) [7]
United States House of Representatives ID (SDG 16) [22]

== Links ==

[1] https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=74
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11429
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11402
[4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11430
[5]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/01/05/the-stories-behind-the-wiki-loves-earth-2022-photos-from-turkiye/
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HW6YxXRL18
[7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11446
[8]
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/01/05/announcing-our-funding-support-from-the-patient-centered-outcomes-research-institute-pcori/
[9]
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/01/04/jumping-for-science-how-wikipedia-assignments-inspire-stem-students/
[10]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
[11]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20230115
[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Birds_of_NYC_Photo_Contest/Winners
[13]
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Veckans_tävling/Grodor_versus_ödlor
[14]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/December_2022/Contents/New_Zealand_report#Three_hundred_episodes_of_Critter_of_the_Week
[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Tuvalu
[16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Laos
[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Bangladesh
[18] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Plants
[19]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiForHumanRights_Information_Session_2023.webm
[20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Dunedin_5
[21] https://zenodo.org/record/7521891#.Y9p6MdLMKw4
[22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11500
[23]
https://anchor.fm/civichackerpodcast/episodes/Using-Wikidata-to-Connect-Constituents-With-Their-Government-e1or922
[24]
https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/01/26/building-life-sciences-knowledge-graph-data-lake.html
[25]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/01/23/wiki-loves-earth-2022-presents-the-winners-of-the-special-nomination-human-rights-and-environment/
[26] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change_2022
[27]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/365_climate_edits
[28]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/01/19/equity-diversity-inclusion-in-affiliate-governance/

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December 2022 Newsletter

[Jan Ainali]

This is our twentysecond newsletter, covering December 2022. This issue has
news related to SDGs 3, 5, 13, 15 and 16.

*Meetings*

   - January 15: Online user group meeting (SDG all) [14]

*Activities*

   - Wiki Loves Plants (SDG 15) [3]
   - 365 climate edits (SDG 13) [9]
   - Women in Climate Change 2022 (SDG 5 & 13) [13]

*News*

   - Museology, Myosotis, and metadata oh my! Sharing sustainably in
   Wikipedia (SDG 15) [1]

*Resources*

   - New Book: Open Mapping Towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDG all)
   [8]

*Videos*

   - Margaret Donald - Wikidata, OpenRefine & Biota (SDG 15) [11]

*Featured content*

   - English Wikipedia:
  - List of alismatid families (SDG 15) [12]

*New Wikidata properties*

   - has biological vector (SDG 15) [2]
   - Bureau of Meteorology location ID (SDG 13) [4]
   - CIViC gene ID (SDG 3) [5]
   - Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate ID (SDG 16) [6]
   - Tanzania Parliament member ID (SDG 16) [7]
   - Lygaeoidea Species File ID (SDG 15) [10]

*Links*
[1]
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2022/11/28/museology-myosotis-and-metadata-oh-my-sharing-sustainably-in-wikipedia/
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11231
[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Plants
[4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11272
[5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11277
[6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11281
[7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11282
[8] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-05182-1
[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/365_climate_edits
[10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11311
[11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t66i3ztg-1E=1717s
[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alismatid_families
[13] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change_2022
[14]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Most visited articles in 2022

[Jan Ainali]

We're doing it manually! (I think most edits of the edits come from about
five users who get up early in the morning.)

If anyone has a bot ready, we would gladly get help running it.

Best,
Jan Ainali


Den ons 7 dec. 2022 kl 18:28 skrev Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder...@hotmail.com>:

> Are you doing it by hand, or do you use a bot?
> --
> *From:* Jan Ainali 
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 7, 2022 6:20 PM
> *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List 
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: Most visited articles in 2022
>
> On Swedish Wikipedia we collect it on one page:
> https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mest_visade_artiklar_2022
>
> Doing it per language is much easier than per country, as the data is
> publicly available.
>
> Best,
> Jan Ainali
>
>
> Den ons 7 dec. 2022 kl 16:36 skrev Romaine Wiki :
>
> Every year it reaches the headlines of the news: the top 10 or top 100 of
> most visited Google searches of the past year in my country. This I have
> seen in some other countries too.
>
> People are interested and with making this data public, something positive
> is said about Google (besides all the negatieve news about them during the
> rest of the year).
>
> This is something simple Wikimedia could do too: sharing this kind of data
> (*by country*) with the world. It would bring Wikipedia closer to the
> public, more positive awareness.
> Or otherwise making this data available to the local chapters so they can
> bring positive news about Wikipedia.
>
>
> Romaine
>
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Most visited articles in 2022

[Jan Ainali]

On Swedish Wikipedia we collect it on one page:
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mest_visade_artiklar_2022

Doing it per language is much easier than per country, as the data is
publicly available.

Best,
Jan Ainali


Den ons 7 dec. 2022 kl 16:36 skrev Romaine Wiki :

> Every year it reaches the headlines of the news: the top 10 or top 100 of
> most visited Google searches of the past year in my country. This I have
> seen in some other countries too.
>
> People are interested and with making this data public, something positive
> is said about Google (besides all the negatieve news about them during the
> rest of the year).
>
> This is something simple Wikimedia could do too: sharing this kind of data
> (*by country*) with the world. It would bring Wikipedia closer to the
> public, more positive awareness.
> Or otherwise making this data available to the local chapters so they can
> bring positive news about Wikipedia.
>
>
> Romaine
>
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - November 2022 Newsletter

[Jan Ainali]

This is our twentyfirst newsletter, covering November 2022. This issue has
news related to SDGs 3, 5, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17.

*Activities*

   - Current: Women in Climate Change editathon in various languages (1
   December 2022 - 31 January 2023) (SDG 5 & 13) [17]
   - Past: Wikipedia and sustainability, how to increase knowledge on
   climate change? (SDG all) [1]
   - Past: Wikidata editathon in Swedish during COP 27 (SDG 13) [2]

*News*

   - Wikimedia Nederland signed the Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental
   Sustainability Covenant (SDG all) [3]
   - WikiProject Govdirectory was featured as Digital Public Goods (SDG 16)
   [11]
   - The theme for Wiki Loves Africa 2023 has been revealed: Climate and
   weather (SDG 13) [16]

*Resources*

   - Let's Connect learning report - pilot phase 2022 (SDG 17) [15]

*Research*

   - Recommendations for use of annotations and persistent identifiers in
   taxonomy and biodiversity publishing [SDG 15) [7]
   - A longitudinal analysis of gender diversity in Wikipedia articles (SDG
   5) [13]

*Videos*

   - 10 Anos de Wikidata: Wikidata for Open Access to Cultural Heritage,
   por Susanna Ånäs (AvoinGLAM) (SDG 11) [14]

*New WikiProjects*

   - Myosotis Pilot (SDG 15) [12]

*New Wikidata properties*

   - Bank of information on the historical and cultural heritage of the
   Republic of Belarus (SDG 11) [4]
   - Louisiana Plant ID (SDG 15) [5]
   - DrugCentral ID (SDG 3) [8]
   - Probes And Drugs ID (SDG 3) [9]

*New Wikidata query examples*

   - Map of water bodies in France (SDG 14) [6]
   - Gender balances of winners of literary awards (SDG 5) [10]

*Links*

   - [1] https://www.wikimedia.nl/session_wikiconnl22/
   - [2]
   
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Sweden/Swedish_Riksdag_documents/Kopplingssprint_COP_27
   - [3]
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Affiliates_Environmental_Sustainability_Covenant
   - [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11184
   - [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11189
   - [6] https://w.wiki/5wCp
   - [7] https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e97374
   - [8] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11198
   - [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11199
   - [10] https://w.wiki/5$BR
   - [11]
   
https://mailchi.mp/c3e4c371c62a/announcing-new-dpga-members-and-strengthening-dpi-12387620
   - [12]
   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Museum_of_New_Zealand_Te_Papa_Tongarewa/What_We%27ve_Done/Myosotis_Pilot
   - [13] https://observablehq.com/@pac02/wednesday-index
   - [14] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgh5_oD1yec
   - [15]
   
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Let%27s_Connect_learning_report_-_pilot_phase_2022.pdf
   - [16] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023
   - [17] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change_2022


Sent on behalf of the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development,
Jan Ainali
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing the six candidates for the 2022 Board of Trustees election

[Jan Ainali]

I think that what was requested was which affiliates that voted, not which
individuals.

But we should note, that the list of users who represented the affiliations
and voted is already public here:
https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/list/1350

/Jan Ainali

Den tors 21 juli 2022 kl 06:14 skrev Jackie Koerner :

> Hi Alice and Adamw,
>
> Thanks for this question. This has been a question those of us on the team
> supporting the election asked ourselves: do we publish the participants
> publicly, or no?
>
> Movement Strategy and Governance is made up of facilitators from around
> the world. We all have a broad experience with cultures and community
> experiences. Several facilitators said some affiliates from their regions
> decided not to participate to avoid the risk of being labeled and accused
> of engaging with a foreign organization. The aim is to protect those
> organizations and individuals who did participate from extra attention that
> might have real and lasting effects for them.
>
> For the reason above, making the list of participants more obvious is not
> something that we wish to do so we can protect the people in our
> communities who are vulnerable to just how political participating in free
> knowledge still is in much of the world.
>
> If any organization needs to have documentation of their participation, we
> can gladly supply that on an individual basis.
>
> Best,
>
> Jackie
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 6:46 AM Adam Wight 
> wrote:
>
>> +1 to this question, and whether we can make the list of voting
>> affiliates public in the same way that we publicize the voting rolls for
>> individuals participating in Community [S]elections.  The results page [1]
>> shows that 112 affiliate organizations each cast one vote.
>>
>> Regards,
>> [[meta:User:Adamw]]
>>
>> [1]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Results/Affiliate_organization_voting
>> On 7/19/22 21:11, Alice Wiegand wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jackie,
>> Thanks for sharing the result. Where can we find information about how
>> many chapters/thematic organizations and usergroups have casted their votes?
>>
>> Alice.
>>
>> Am 19.07.2022 um 19:32 schrieb Jackie Koerner :
>>
>> *You can find this message translated into additional languages on
>> Meta-wiki.
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Announcement/Announcing_the_six_candidates_for_the_2022_Board_of_Trustees_election>*
>>  Please help translate to your language
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate=page-Wikimedia+Foundation+elections%2F2022%2FAnnouncement%2FAnnouncing+the+six+candidates+for+the+2022+Board+of+Trustees+election==page=>
>> Hi everyone,
>> The Affiliate voting process has concluded. Representatives from each
>> Affiliate organization learned about the candidates by reading candidates’
>> statements, reviewing candidates’ answers to questions, and considering the
>> candidates’ ratings provided by the Analysis Committee. The selected 2022
>> Board of Trustees candidates are:
>>
>>- Tobechukwu Precious Friday (Tochiprecious
>><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tochiprecious>)
>>- Farah Jack Mustaklem (Fjmustak
>><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fjmustak>)
>>- Shani Evenstein Sigalov (Esh77
>><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Esh77>)
>>- Kunal Mehta (Legoktm <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm>)
>>- Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom
>><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aegis_Maelstrom>)
>>- Mike Peel (Mike Peel
>><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mike_Peel>)
>>
>> You may see more information about the Results
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Results>
>>  and Statistics
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Stats>
>>  of
>> this Board election.
>> Please take a moment to appreciate the Affiliate Representatives and
>> Analysis Committee members for taking part in this process and helping to
>> grow the Board of Trustees in capacity and diversity. These hours of
>> volunteer work connect us across understanding and perspective. Thank you
>> for your participation.
>> Thank you to the community members who put themselves forward as
>> candidates for the Board of Trustees. Considering joining the Board of
>> Trustees is no small decision. The time and dedication candidates have
>> sho

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Collection / Special:Book usage

[Jan Ainali]

Even with all output options broken it is still a decent user interface for
creating and organizing collections of articles.

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022, 09:29 Strainu  wrote:

> The correct question is: does it still do anything of value?
>
> Here is what I see on rowiki: Due to severe issues with our existing
> system, the Book Creator will no longer support saving a book as a PDF.
>
> There is also a link to PediaPress which doesn't seem to work and I can't
> choose any output format.
>
> Regards,
>  Strainu
>
> Pe sâmbătă, 16 aprilie 2022, Amir E. Aharoni 
> a scris:
> > Hi,
> > As far as I can see, the Collection extension, which provides the
> Special:Book page, is deployed on nearly all Wikimedia wikis.
> >
> > Is there data that shows how often do people actually use it?
> > --
> > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
> > http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> > ‪“We're living in pieces,
> > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
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[Wikimedia-l] Annual activity report for Wikimedians for Sustainable Development

[Jan Ainali]

Dear all,

Our activity report for 2021 can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Reports/2021

Jan Ainali, on behalf of Wikimedians for Sustainabel Development
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Member management system

[Jan Ainali]

Not a precise answer, but this is a good page to look at for questions like
these: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FLOSS-Exchange

Best regards,
Jan Ainali

Den tors 16 dec. 2021 kl 11:39 skrev Heather Knox via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>:

> Kia ora koutou (greetings to everyone),
> The Aotearoa New Zealand User Group is working on creating an incorporated
> society and applying to become a chapter. We are looking for an open source
> member management system which would enable us to store member details,
> record membership payments, record membership history (e.g. periods of
> memberships, type of membership), export lists of names and contact details
> and create email lists or send emails to groups of members.
> Is any affiliate using a member management system which they would
> recommend we investigate? Many thanks,
> Heather (for the Aotearoa NZ User Group)
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are now open!

[Jan Ainali]

Thanks for your reply Kaarel,

I just wanted to note that UI of SecurePoll caused problem in the board
election too, and that the same excuse was used then "in a short time once".
Obviously this is a piece of infrastructure that we need in the movement
and that any team doing one election should not need to fix the software
for it.

Hence, a specific project, unrelated to any election, should be tasked to
solve this by the Wikimedia Foundation. And it should start soon to avoid
us finding ourselves in the same problem when the next election is being
called.

Thanks,
Jan Ainali


Den mån 18 okt. 2021 kl 13:02 skrev Kaarel Vaidla :

> Thank you everyone for taking the time to vote on the elections, for
> engaging with the tools that have been created to facilitate the voting,
> and for taking the time to provide the feedback. Running these elections
> with 70 candidates is a pilot and it is a great opportunity to learn
> together and with your support and input. We are gathering the lessons
> learned, so there can be improvements for the next time.
>
> I am responding to some of the points made in the thread:
>
>- The *user interface* and, as a result, the user experience for
>voting on the SecurePoll for 70 candidates with a Single Transferable
>Voting method is indeed sub-optimal. Unfortunately, we could not figure out
>how to make it more user friendly in a short time once it became clear that
>there would be 70 candidates. It would need essential changes on how the
>voting would happen. There are some suggestions for improvements in this
>thread (no dropbox, but clickable or drag & drop candidate chips; choosing
>a different voting method or creating 7-member districts). It would be
>great to receive further perspectives on this!
>
>
>- Thank you, Lodewijk, for sharing *practical guidance* on how to make
>the most of the current user interface. Typing the first letter of the
>candidate name to find the right one in the dropdown box with 70 names is
>probably the best way to do it. A huge thank you to everyone who is taking
>the time to cast their vote!
>
>
>- Ensuring the supporting materials to help people to make informed
>decisions has been a complex matter. The candidate statements
>
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates#Candidates>
>add up to 55 pages of text, which is difficult to navigate. It seemed like
>a *compass tool* could be of help here, but it comes with its own
>complications:
>   - There was a 10-day window to submit the statements and a 5-day
>   upvoting period. We did our best to communicate it widely on mailing 
> lists
>   (e.g. here
>   
> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/7HVBI6M55MNVBKHNEDBEIUPSWFGJIBIE/>
>   and here
>   
> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/FAJ57JAR3VP75V23OKX6MEBYUHWIAYUY/>)
>   as well as social media groups, yet as there is so.much going on, not
>   everyone noticed it in the timely manner.
>   - We are no longer collecting or upvoting statements. We hope that
>   19 that were selected are at least to some extent helpful in informing 
> the
>   voting. We are happy to receive the feedback regarding the statement
>   collection and upvoting, so it would be possible to improve the process 
> in
>   the future.
>   - Election compass has its own user interface and experience
>   challenges. We have opted for all the candidates being selected as 
> default
>   for comparison, as it provides a good comparison across the pool - this
>   helps to have a good overview of the positions of all the candidates.
>   However, this makes navigating their rationale statements more 
> difficult,
>   as it involves a lot of scrolling. Also, if one is interested in 
> comparing
>   2 candidates, there is a lot of deselecting that needs to happen. It 
> seemed
>   that selecting candidates manually would bring more personal bias into 
> use
>   of the tool, so we have chosen the select all approach as default. 
> Overall,
>   it is the number of candidates that is creating the bulk of the 
> navigation
>   and comparison issues and we are open to feedback on how to improve 
> this in
>   the future.
>   - The length of the statements made by the candidates in the
>   compass tool was capped to prevent us from creating another wall of 
> text.
>   While it helps to better understand the position of the candidate, it 
> would
>   create a further barrier for voter engagement, if th

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Appropriate promotion OR Appropriate canvassing protocol/policy

[Jan Ainali]

Den ons 30 juni 2021 kl 13:49 skrev টিটো দত্ত Tito Dutta <
trulyt...@gmail.com>:

>
> I believe, any process where "vote count" is the "only" way to decide the
> winners, appropriate canvassing policy should be a behavioral guideline.
>
>
On the contrary, I believe that in actual votes, in contrast to our regular
consensus seeking processes onwiki, campaigning should be
explicitly encouraged. That being said, behavioral guidelines could still
apply on certain channels, but getting votes by talking about your platform
and what you want to achieve if you win should not be disallowed in general.

Jan Ainali
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

[Jan Ainali]

Limesurvey [1] is a very active project and I would be surprised if a
security error wouldn't have been fixed in many years. Especially if it was
reported as a security incident back to the community. Which should be the
procedure when such things are discovered, is not only good practice in
open source, it's being a good netizen in general.

My point here isn't to put blame for things in the past, but to make sure
that we as a community make sure that the ecosystem of open source tools we
need in all the affiliates is healthy. This is an investment of time for
sure, but instead we don't have to pay by giving up privacy (sometimes we
might also save money in license fees, but this we shouldn't count on).

Doing this investment would Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement
and Provide for Safety and Inclusion, very much inline with our new
strategy recommendations.

[1] https://www.limesurvey.org/

Med vänliga hälsningar
Jan Ainali


Den mån 15 feb. 2021 kl 08:52 skrev Asaf Bartov :

> That tool was Limesurvey.
>
>A.
>
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, 08:59 Philippe Beaudette 
> wrote:
>
>> I would also like to add a bit of historical context.  Many years ago,
>> when I worked at the WMF, we were using a FLOSS survey tool (I don't recall
>> which).  We were fairly dependent on it, when one day someone discovered
>> that it was vulnerable to sql injection attacks and Tim Starling (I
>> believe) rightly killed it on our servers. Shortly after that, we moved
>> toward using a non-free tool that was safer and more robust.  I dont recall
>> that the two events were connected, but I would be surprised if they
>> weren't.
>>
>> Tim did the right thing then, even though it meant that we were moved off
>> a FLOSS solution.  Sometimes "Free" just isn't equal, or better.  Sometimes
>> it's an actual honest-to-god security risk and there are reasons why
>> WMF's staff aren't using a free alternative to a proprietary tool.  Did
>> anyone ask?
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 12:13 AM Risker  wrote:
>>
>>> To clarify to anyone who doesn't want to read the actual proposal, which
>>> Fae did not repeat here:
>>>
>>> *Proposal*
>>>
>>> It is proposed that on Wikimedia Commons that there must be no promotion
>>> of surveys or questionnaires which rely on third party sites and closed
>>> source tools, such as Google Forms. This should be interpreted as a ban
>>> against engaging volunteers by mass messaging, use of banners or posts on
>>> noticeboards.
>>> *Recommended consequential action*
>>>
>>> Banners and posts which go against this proposal may be removed by
>>> anyone.
>>>
>>> Posting account(s) may be blocked or have group rights removed at the
>>> discretion of administrators, such as all rights that enable mass
>>> messaging. In a persistent case, blocks and rights removal may apply to all
>>> accounts of the person responsible. A rationale of doing their job as
>>> part of being a WMF employee is not considered an exemption.
>>>
>>>
>>> Nowthis applies to everyone who posts about a survey at Wikimedia
>>> Commons, as this proposal is strictly related to Commons. It is not a
>>> global proposal.  However, it would apply to researchers, to WMF staff, to
>>> anyone who uses closed-sourced tools.  There is no suggestion at all about
>>> suitable alternative tools.  In fact, there is a severe dearth of quality
>>> open source tools.  Researchers may be bound by their facilities to use
>>> certain types of tools.
>>>
>>> Surveys and questionnaires are always voluntary. There's some
>>> responsibility on the part of the user to read the privacy statements and
>>> use of information statements that are normally mandatory for any
>>> legitimate surveys.  More than once I've started to participate in a survey
>>> and decided it was asking questions I didn't want to answer, and just never
>>> saved them.
>>>
>>>
>>> I think it would also be helpful if someone from WMF Technical could
>>> take the time to discuss with the broader community what arrangements have
>>> been made in their contract with Google to ensure that the information on
>>> those documents (of whatever nature) are not in fact accessible to Google
>>> for their data gathering or any other purposes.  There is, of course, a
>>> certain irony that three of the four people who have commented on this
>>> thread so far all have Gmail email addresses.
>>>
>>>
>>> Riske

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - December Newsletter

[Jan Ainali]

This is our thirteenth newsletter, covering December 2020. This issue has
news related to SDGs 2, 4, 11, 13 and 15.

*Meetings*

   - Online user group meeting January 3 (SDG all) [1]
   - Online user group meeting January 17 (SDG all) [1]

*Activities*

   - Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [2]
   - Past: December Women in Climate Change editathon (SDG 13) [3]

*News*

   - Corona vaccine progress (SDG 3) [8]
   - A challenging but successful year for Wikimedia in education (SDG 4)
   [9]

*Videos*

   - Wikidata for Bat Collectors (SDG 15) [5]
   - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #25 - climate change
   (SDG 13) [10]
   - Wikipedia and Women in the Climate Change Movement (SDG 13) [11]
   - Facing the climate crisis: Towards an environmentally sustainable
   Wikimedia Movement (Wikimedia Movement Strategy global conversations
   lightning talk) (SDG 13) [16]
   - An update from the Sustainability Initiative (WikiCon North America
   2020 lightning talk) (SDG 13) [17]

*New WikiProjects*

   - Wikidata:WikiProject Agriculture (SDG 2) [4]
   - Wikidata:WikiProject Media Representation (SDG 5) [6]

*Featured content*

   - Scorpion (SDG 15) [12]
   - List of plant genus names (A–C) (SDG 15) [13]
   - List of plant genus names (D–K) (SDG 15) [14]
   - List of plant genus names (L–P) (SDG 15) [15]

*New Wikidata properties*

   - Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager project ID (SDG 11) [7]

*Links*

   - [1]
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
   - [2]
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
   - [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change
   - [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Agriculture
   - [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYvoXKBSGA8
   - [6]
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Media_Representation
   - [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8973
   - [8]
   https://github.com/salgo60/CoronaVaccinationCheck/blob/main/README.md
   - [9]
   
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/18/a-challenging-but-successful-year-for-wikimedia-in-education/
   - [10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmzEk8uYSf4
   - [11] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwY02vBCgnI
   - [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion
   - [13]
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_(A%E2%80%93C)
   - [14]
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_(D%E2%80%93K)
   - [15]
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plant_genus_names_(L%E2%80%93P)
   - [16]
   
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5_December_Global_Conversations_lightning_talks_-_Facing_the_climate_crisis.webm
   - [16]
   
https://mit.zoom.us/rec/play/zG7xM6nYDn5JRFh2wxWFiNLwonxCQlyAiJpmRN-PBZoWQr52hh-Kxfgk7kNLoPUrf_BlGEKEqDOnXUM.r18YQCGp6r-VIe6y
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] online meetings

[Jan Ainali]

Hello Gnangarra,

I really like your sentiment and appreciate your effort to keep the
community healthy. However, we should acknowledge that with the ongoing
pandemic, not everyone is able to visit their families. Over the years a
lot of friendships have been formed in our community as well. Being able
to collaborate with them might be a very nice feeling for many.

So as a compromise, I suggest not to enforce a complete stop for online
meetings, but rather just pause the kind of meetings where important
decisions are being taken. Friendly meetups, chatting cafés or co-editing
sessions might be just what is needed for many to stay in a positive state
of mind. As long as they don't *require* people to join because their voice
would not be heard on some matter I believe online meetings are just fine.

Warm regards
Jan Ainali

Den mån 16 nov. 2020 kl 04:11 skrev Gnangarra :

> Kaya
>
> Over the last 9 months the movement has really taken to the use of "zoom"
> style technology to hold and host events, I dont doubt they have been
> really productive in addressing the many needs of the community.
>
> One thing I have noticed is just how many of these notices are coming
> through now with some meetings taking place not once but multiple times to
> ensure everyone has access to them in their best time period.
>
> I know as volunteers we are able to pick and choose what we do, I also
> know we are placing a lot of pressure on affiliates to be upto date on all
> these events.  I raise a concern that perhaps we as a community are
> starting to over do these meetings and stretch volunteer resources to point
> of breaking or being overwhelmed.  I know that as WP20 approaches these
> meetings are going to accelerate and put greater demands on our limited
> resources.
>
> I propose that the community has a quiet period from the 14 December to
> 5th January where we dont hold general meetings, webinars, cafes, and
> strategy discussions to give people time to refresh and focus on family.
> Obviously some small group focused community meetings will be necessary as
> part of WP20 and other preparations so I'm not suggesting ruling out all
> meetings just asking that we remember that there is life outside of the
> movement we should be allowing people time to focus on as well.
>
> --
> Gnangarra
>
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> *Sharing knowledge brings people together*
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> August
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>
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - September Newsletter

[Jan Ainali]

This is our tenth newsletter, covering September 2020. This issue has news
related to SDGs 3, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13 and 15.

*Meetings*

   - Online meeting October 4 (SDG all) [1]
   - Online meeting October 18 (SDG all) [1]

*Activities*

   - Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' (SDG 13) [17]
   - Ongoing: Survey on gender equality on Wikipedia (SDG 5) [12] [13]
   - Ongoing: The 'Gender equality 2020' editing week (SDG 5) [15]
   - Ongoing: Wiki Loves Fashion 2020 (SDG 5) [16]
   - Past: Climate Justice Editathon (SDG 10 & 13) [3]
   - Past: Wikimedia Foundation hosts Sustainability Community Roundtable
   Discussion about carbon credits (SDG 13) [8]
   - Past: Wiki loves SDGs - Global Goals Week online edit-a-thon on SDG
   topics (SDG all) [9] [10] [11]
   - Past: WikiGap Skopje 2020 online edit-a-thon (SDG 5) [14]
   - Past and ongoing: Wiki Loves Monuments (SDG 11) [22]

*News*

   - Humaniki: Wikimedia Diversity Data Tools (SDG 5) [2]
   - How can I get data on all the dams in the world? Use Wikidata (SDG 6)
   [4]

*Research*

   - Using logical constraints to validate information in collaborative
   knowledge graphs: a study of COVID-19 on Wikidata (SDG 3) [6]
   - Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: a
   study of Wikidata (SDG 3) [21]

*Videos*

   - Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing #21 - WikiDojo on the
   Global Climate Strike (SDG 13) [18]

*Featured content*

   - Zebra (SDG 15) [23]
   - Tropical Storm Vicente (SDG 11) [24]

*New Wikidata properties*

   - National Park Service place ID (SDG 15) [19]
   - Symptom Ontology ID (SDG 3) [20]

*New Wikidata query examples*

   - Map of organisations/companies developing/manufacturing a vaccine in
   trials (SDG 3) [5]
   - Top World Heritage sites by number of paintings depicting them (SDG
   11) [7]

*Links*

   - [1]
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
   - [2]
   
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/09/15/humaniki-wikimedia-diversity-data-tools/
   - [3]
   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Climate_change/Justice#September_18th_%E2%80%93_Climate_justice_Edit-a-thon
   - [4] https://addshore.com/2020/09/wikidata-dams/
   - [5]
   
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19/Queries#Map_of_organisations/companies_developing/manufacturing_a_vaccine_in_trials
   - [6] https://zenodo.org/record/4008359
   - [7]
   
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings/Top_World_Heritage_sites_by_number_of_paintings_depicting_them
   - [8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81pIvZZTpKU
   - [9]
   
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online_edit-a-thon_SDGs_September_2020#Promotion_of_female_editors
   - [10]
   
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editat%C3%B3n_en_l%C3%ADnea_SDG_septiembre_2020
   - [11] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Цели_за_одржлив_развој
   - [12]
   
https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Анкета_за_испитување_на_родовата_еднаквост_на_Википедија
   - [13]
   
http://wikimedia.rs/anketa-za-ispitivanje-rodne-ravnopravnosti-na-vikipediji/?fbclid=IwAR1Wppdq6tPNus40I9kq_QLZR489T9GBGoBDbDEXe324uZSz_t-qUB-NIdQ
   - [14] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:WikiGap_Skopje_2020
   - [15] https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Википедија:Родов_јаз_2020
   - [16] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Fashion/2020
   - [17]
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
   - [18] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2sujkCwHE0
   - [19] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8649
   - [20] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8656
   - [21] https://zenodo.org/record/4033382
   - [22] https://wikilovesmonuments.org
   - [23] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra
   - [24] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Vicente_(2018)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Foundation and affiliates disclosing salaries on job ads & the effect of this on workplace equity

[Jan Ainali]

This is a very interesting topic and I am intrigued by how the Humanitarian
OpenStreetMap Team has their salary models transparent on their website:
https://www.hotosm.org/salaries
Perhaps there is something to copy from that as well?

/Jan Ainali


Den fre 11 sep. 2020 kl 11:44 skrev Chris Keating <
chriskeatingw...@gmail.com>:

> Good morning everyone!
>
> There's a campaign(1) for nonprofits to disclose the salaries, or at least
> salary ranges, on job ads.
>
> An increasing body of evidence(2) shows that practices like not disclosing
> expected pay, and requiring applicants to disclose their current salary, is
> harmful to equity in the workplace.
>
> Not disclosing salaries affects pay levels within the organisation -
> because white men are usually relatively confident in negotiating their
> salaries upwards, so tend to end up with a better deal.
>
> It can also affect the diversity of candidates who apply. Candidates who
> have stronger networks within the industry they're moving into (again, more
> commonly white men with privileged social and educational backgrounds) also
> have clear expectations because they are 'in the know' about industry
> norms, while people who don't, find the lack of salary information a
> barrier to application. (After all, why take the time and effort to apply
> for a job when you have no idea how the likely pay compares to your current
> employment?)
>
> I know practices vary within the movement - I believe the WMF never
> mentions salaries on ads, and I don't know whether the range is disclosed
> to applicants or not - some chapters I know do advertise a salary. However,
> I'd urge all entities within the movement that hire staff to disclose the
> expected salary ranges for posts they are advertising, as part of their
> commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
>
> Thanks for reading,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> (1): https://showthesalary.com/
> (2): e.g. at https://showthesalary.com/resources/
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - August Newsletter

[Jan Ainali]

e-meet_27_augusti
   - [24]
   https://www.facebook.com/groups/WikidataCommunity/permalink/2744955582456268/
   - [25] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDxz652CgwY
   - [26] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8556
   - [27] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8543
   - [28] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8545
   - [29] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8540
   - [30] https://w.wiki/a5X
   - [31] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8521
   - [32] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan
   - [33] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_bat
   - [34] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Willa
   - [35]
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Lithuania


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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - July Newsletter

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://thespinoff.co.nz/media/16-07-2020/how-volunteers-created-wikipedias-world-beating-covid-19-coverage/
   - [31] https://www.coviwd.org/
   - [32] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8476
   - [33] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8477
   - [34] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8485
   - [35] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8468
   - [36] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8469

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Language Showcase, July 2020

[Jan Ainali]

Has this also been announced anywhere on-wiki?

Best,
Jan Ainali


Den sön 19 juli 2020 kl 14:34 skrev Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il>:

> Hello,
>
> This is an announcement about a new installment of the Language Showcase, a
> series of presentations about various aspects of language diversity and its
> connection to Wikimedia Projects.
>
> This next installment will deal with the translatewiki website, the
> Translate extension in general, the latest technical updates in both of
> them, and some upcoming projects.
>
> This session is going to be broadcast over Zoom, and a recording will be
> published for later viewing.
>
> Please read below for the event details, including local time, joining
> links and do let us know if you have any questions.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Amir
>
> == Details ==
>
> # Event: Language Showcase #6
>
> # When: July 22, 2020 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200722T1300 )
>
> # Where:
>
> Join Zoom Meeting
> https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/99585961221
>
> Meeting ID: 995 8596 1221
>
> # Agenda:
>
> The translatewiki website, the Translate extension in general, the latest
> technical updates in both of them, and some upcoming projects.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid API?

[Jan Ainali]

Let me just flip the perspective. The tech giants are leveraging their
resources to serve the knowledge we create to even more users. In a way,
they are partly furthering our mission. So rather than solely using our
resources as a cost, it could instead be viewed upon as a multiplier. Now
this is just a hypothesis that I have no facts to back up, but it would be
nice if this project had this factor as a part of the analysis, if only to
prove it wrong.

To boil it down: are we sharing the knowledge to fewer or more people due
to the tech giants?
If it is fewer, they should just be stopped rather than asked to pay.
If it is more, there is an argument for allowing it to incur costs, this is
after all our mission. Of course, if the cost is cannibalizing our capacity
to serve knowledge to others then some more complex evaluation needs to be
done. As far as I am aware no such analysis has been published. If I am
mistaken, a link would be appreciated.

Jan Ainali

Den tors 9 juli 2020 kl 20:06 skrev Benjamin Ikuta :

>
>
> I agree, the lack of transparency is quite concerning, as is the use of
> AWS.
>
> I sure hope we're not going to be producing closed source code!
>
>
>
> On Jul 9, 2020, at 10:19 AM, Amir Sarabadani  wrote:
>
> > Thanks Joseph for the links. It's more clear now.
> >
> > I think I need to clarify something: I'm not against asking the big corps
> > to pay. If they are using a significant amount of our computational
> > resources (=donors money) to make even more money, they should pay. And
> > thank you for improving the movement's financial security. I don't oppose
> > the general idea.
> >
> > That being said, what worries me are the details:
> > * WMF is creating a company (LLC) and contracts that company, this means
> > less transparency. This is the first time I think in the history of the
> > foundation AFAIK that WMF is creating a company for legal reasons (I'm
> > sorry if I missed anything).
> > * That company is contracting another company for engineering work (even
> > less transparency). We have lots of engineering resources at WMF.
> > * As the result, for the first time, code produced by donors money is
> > closed source and inaccessible to public (or at least I couldn't find the
> > code linked anywhere)
> > * I find it ethically wrong to use AWS, even if you can't host it in WMF
> > for legal reasons, why not another cloud provider.
> > * There wasn't a period for giving feedback for example about the choice
> of
> > cloud provider or anything, suddenly it came out ready. The rumors about
> it
> > have been going around for months.
> > * This has not been communicated properly to the community, I find this
> > lack of communication and transparency concerning and insulting.
> >
> > Hope what I'm saying here makes sense.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 7:02 PM Todd Allen  wrote:
> >
> >> I tend to agree with this. I'm one of the first to criticize WMF when
> they
> >> deserve it (I wish they didn't as often!), but I see nothing wrong with
> >> consumers of huge amounts of data being asked to chip in to cover the
> costs
> >> of providing it. That is, of course, provided that there is never any
> fee
> >> for use of the API for users of data in regular amounts, but every plan
> >> I've seen thus far accommodates that.
> >>
> >> Todd
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 7:15 AM Ad Huikeshoven 
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Great news: the WMF is going to charge the tech giants for using the
> API
> >>> millions of times each day. Nothing in the free licenses we use
> obligate
> >> us
> >>> (that is we in our movement) to provide an API for free as in beer. It
> is
> >>> part of KAAS: Knowledge As A Service, part of the strategic direction
> >>> chosen in 2017.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your understanding,
> >>>
> >>> Ad Huikeshoven
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 8:33 PM Amir Sarabadani 
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>> Today I stumbled upon this public phabricator ticket [1] created by
> >>> someone
> >>>> from WMF starting with:
> >>>> "My team is creating bi-weekly HTML Dumps for all of the wikis, except
> >>> for
> >>>> wikidata as part of the paid API project."
> >>>>
> >>>> I have so many questions:
> >>>> - What is the "paid API" project? Are we planning to make money out of
> >

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - June Newsletter

[Jan Ainali]

This is our seventh newsletter, covering June 2020. This issue has news
related to SDGs 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 16 and 17..

*Meetings*

   - Upcoming: 5 July, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online
   meeting (SDG 17) [12]
   - Upcoming: 18 July, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online
   meeting (SDG 17) [12]
   - Past: 7 June, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development online meeting
   (SDG 17) [13]

*News*

   - Webinar: COVID-19 and human rights: How to share the facts on
   Wikipedia (SDG 3) [1]
   - Vad menas egentligen med öppenhet? (Swedish) (SDG 4) [2]
   - How Wikipedia Has Responded to the George Floyd Protests (SDG 10) [3]
   - 50 000 kvinnor på svenskspråkiga Wikipedia! (Swedish) (SDG 5) [4]

*Videos*

   - COVID & health topics on Wikidata (SDG 3) [9]

*New Wikidata properties*

   - curriculum topics (SDG 4) [5]
   - ISCO-08 occupation code (SDG 8) [6]
   - FEMA number (SDG 2) [7]
   - Democracy Index (SDG 16) [10]

*New Wikidata query examples*

   - Species of birds (SDG 15) [8]
   - Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (SDG 3) [11]

*Links*

   - [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kktZtDFhRho
   - [2] https://wikimedia.se/2020/06/08/vad-menas-egentligen-med-oppenhet/
   - [3]
   
https://thewikipedian.net/2020/06/25/how-wikipedia-has-respondedto-the-george-floyd-protests/
   - [4]
   https://wikimedia.se/2020/06/26/50-000-kvinnor-pa-svensksprakiga-wikipedia/
   - [5] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8263
   - [6] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8283
   - [7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8266
   - [8] https://w.wiki/TAt
   - [9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwQ93BlDGAM
   - [10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8328
   - [11] https://egonw.github.io/SARS-CoV-2-Queries/
   - [12]
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
   - [13]
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20200607


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Feature from Community Tech: Enhanced Password Reset

[Jan Ainali]

I am a bit confused Ilana. Could you help me understand the difference from
the February announcement?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Community_Tech/Password_Reset_Update=19846904=19705484

Med vänliga hälsningar
Jan Ainali

Den tis 12 maj 2020 kl 00:01 skrev Ilana Fried :

> Hello everyone,
>
>
> The Community Tech team[1] has released a new feature: Enhanced Password
> Reset[2]. We developed this feature in response to the #3 wish[3] from the
> 2019
> Community Wishlist Survey[4]. With this feature, you can prevent password
> reset emails from being sent unless both your username and email address
> are provided on Special:PasswordReset. This is an optional feature,
> available in the “Email options” section of Preferences. If you enable the
> feature, you can reduce harassment through unsolicited password reset
> emails. For more information, you can visit the Help:Password Reset page[5]
> and the project page[6].
>
>
> Thank you,
>
>
> Ilana Fried
>
> Product Manager, Community Tech
>
>
> [1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech
> [2].
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Reset_password#I%E2%80%99m_getting_password_reset_emails_that_I_didn%E2%80%99t_request._How_do_I_prevent_this_from_happening
> ?
> [3].
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Anti-harassment/Add_an_option_to_require_email_address_and_username_to_reset_password
> [4].
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Results
> [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Reset_password
> [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Password_Reset_Update
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - April Newsletter

[Jan Ainali]

This is our fifth newsletter, covering April 2020. This issue has news
related to SDGs 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15.

*News*

   - GLAM Newsletter Special report on COVID-19 (SDG 3) [1]
   - Wikidata and the bibliography of life in the time of coronavirus (SDG
   3) [7]
   - Video: Wikidata Lab XXII - Wikiprojeto COVID-19 (SDG 3) [20]
   - How Wikipedia is Covering the Coronavirus Pandemic (SDG 3) [21]
   - Open data and COVID-19: Wikipedia as an informational resource during
   the pandemic (SDG 3) [23]
   - Using CC Licenses and Tools to Share and Preserve Cultural Heritage in
   the Face of Climate Change (SDG 11) [25]
   - Video: Mapping against COVID-19 (SDG 3) [26]
   - Student-created immunology content on Wikipedia receiving a lot of
   attention this month (SDG 3) [34]
   - How Wikipedia shows disability matters (SDG 10) [35]

*Tools*

   - COVID-19 dashboard (SDG 3) [2]
   - COVID-19 dashboard for Tunisia (SDG 3) [22]

*In the news*

   - Why Wikipedia Is Immune to Coronavirus (SDG 3) [3]

*Research*

   - Why and how medical schools, peer-reviewed journals, and research
   funders should promote Wikipedia editing (SDG 3) [4]
   - A protocol for adding knowledge to Wikidata, a case report (SDG 3) [5]
   - Multilingual enrichment of disease biomedical ontologies (SDG 3) [6]

*New Wikidata properties*

   - FHF establishment ID (SDG 3) [8]
   - FHF hospital group ID (SDG 3) [9]
   - Spanish National Catalog of Hospitals ID (SDG 3) [10]
   - Forest Stewardship Council Certificate Code (SDG 9) [24]
   - Forest Stewardship Council License Code (SDG 9) [27]
   - Psocodea Species File ID (SDG 15) [28]
   - Swedish Glaciers ID (SDG 13) [29]

*New Wikidata query examples*

   - Infectious diseases and their number of cases (SDG 3) [11]
   - The longest river that feeds into another river (SDG 6 & 14) [30]
   - Longest rivers that do not feed into a sea or ocean (SDG 6 & 14) [31]
   - Recently published works on COVID-19 (SDG 3) [32]
   - Welsh hospitals, health centres, doctors surgeries and temporary
   Covid19 hospitals (SDG 3) [33]

*New Wikidata schema examples*

   - pandemic (E184) (SDG 3) [12]
   - hospital (E187) (SDG 3) [13]
   - 2020 coronavirus pandemic local outbreaks (E188) (SDG 3) [14]
   - clinical trial (E189) (SDG 3) [15]
   - Lockdown (E190) (SDG 3) [16]
   - lockdown part of the 2019-2020 coronavirus disease pandemic (E191)
   (SDG 3) [17]
   - virus taxon (E192) (SDG 3) [18]
   - contact tracing app (E195) (SDG 3) [19]

*Links*

   - [1]
   
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2020/Contents/Special_story
   - [2] https://sites.google.com/view/covid19-dashboard/
   - [3]
   
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-why-wikipedia-is-immune-to-coronavirus-1.8751147
   - [4]
   
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03075079.2020.1749796?journalCode=cshe20
   - [5] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.05.026336v1
   - [6] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.03181.pdf
   - [7]
   https://iphylo.blogspot.com/2020/04/wikidata-and-bibliography-of-life-in.html
   - [8] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8077
   - [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8078
   - [10] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8082
   - [11] https://w.wiki/Mo2
   - [12] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E184
   - [13] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E187
   - [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E188
   - [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E189
   - [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E190
   - [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E191
   - [18] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E192
   - [19] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E195
   - [20] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX3eLxpEuwc
   - [21]
   
https://thewikipedian.net/2020/04/15/how-wikipedia-is-covering-the-coronavirus-pandemic/
   - [22]
   
http://www.fss.rnu.tn/fra/s3465/pages/819/DataEngineeringSemantics-Identification-de-la-structure-de-recherche
   - [23]
   
https://medium.com/@diegosaeztrumper/open-data-and-covid-19-wikipedia-as-an-informational-resource-during-the-pandemic-dcca6a23e826
   - [24] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8118
   - [25]
   
https://creativecommons.org/2020/04/26/cc-licenses-tools-share-and-preserve-cultural-heritage-in-the-face-of-climate-change/
   - [26] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbKfPamNyUs
   - [27] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8128
   - [28] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8145
   - [29] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8133
   - [30] https://w.wiki/P9n
   - [31] https://w.wiki/P9p
   - [32] https://w.wiki/Ng8
   - [33] https://w.wiki/Ncf
   - [34]
   
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/04/28/student-created-immunology-content-on-wikipedia-receiving-a-lot-of-attention-this-month/
   - [35]
   https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/04/27/how-wikipedia-shows-disability-matters/

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - March Newsletter

[Jan Ainali]

This is our fourth newsletter, covering March 2020. This issue has news
related to SDGs 1, 3, 4, 11 and 17.

*Becoming a User Group*

   - Wikimedians for Sustainable Development are recognized as a Wikimedia
   user Group [5]

*In the news*

   - Wikipedia is flooded with information — but it has a blind spot (SDG
   11) [1]

*New WikiProjects*

   - Wikidata:WikiProject COVID-19 (SDG 3) [9]
   - (Arabic) ويكيبيديا:مشروع ويكي طب/فريق عمل كوفيد-19 (SDG 3) [10]
   - (Czech) Wikipedie:WikiProjekt SARS-CoV-2 (SDG 3) [11]
   - (English) Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19 (SDG 3) [12]

*Academic studies*

   - Uneven Coverage of Natural Disasters in Wikipedia: the Case of Floods
   (SDG 11) [2]

*Events*

   - The COVID-19 pandemic halts all in-person events funded through the
   Wikimedia Foundation (SDG 3) [6]
  - Which lead to a renewed interest in remote events (SDG 17) [8]

*Information from the Wikimedia Foundation*

   - COVID-19 (SDG 3) [20]

*The Sustainable Development Goals*

   - The United Nations adopt changes to the Sustainable Development Goal
   Indicators (SDG-all) [7]

*New Wikidata properties*

   - GreatSchools ID (SDG 4) [4]
   - food energy (SDG 1) [14]
   - number of recoveries (SDG 3) [15]
   - number of clinical tests (SDG 3) [16]

*New Wikidata example queries*

   - Updated chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the
   outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, as reported by the World Health Organisation (SDG
   3) [3]
   - World map of hospitals (SDG 3) [13]
   - Notable people with COVID-19 by number of sitelinks (SDG 3) [17]


   - COVID-19 case statistics for India (SDG 3):
  - State-level map [18]
  - State-level line graph [19]

*Links*

   - [1]
   
https://grist.org/justice/wikipedia-is-flooded-with-information-but-it-has-a-blind-spot/
   - [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08810.pdf
   - [3] https://w.wiki/J8S
   - [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7948
   - [5]
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development
   - [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/COVID-19_Notice
   - [7]
   
http://sdg.iisd.org/news/un-statistical-commission-adopts-36-changes-to-sdg-indicators/
   - [8]
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation
   - [9] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19
   - [10]
   
https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B9_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A_%D8%B7%D8%A8/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82_%D8%B9%D9%85%D9%84_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF-19
   - [11] https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:WikiProjekt_SARS-CoV-2
   - [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19
   - [13] https://w.wiki/JnC
   - [14] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7971
   - [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8010
   - [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P8011
   - [17] https://w.wiki/KqP
   - [18] https://w.wiki/KzH
   - [19] https://w.wiki/KtX
   - [20] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February Newsletter

[Jan Ainali]

This is our third newsletter, covering February 2020. This issue has news
related to SDGs 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 13, 14, 15 and 17.

*Meetings*
* We had our third online coordination meeting, minutes are available. (SDG
17) [1]

*Content*
* Wikimedia Australia works on bushfire related content. (SDG 13) [7]
* Creative Commons have published a new book: "Creative Commons for
Educators and Librarians". (SDG 4) [10]
* The Sustainable Development Goals template that was used on the Wikimania
wiki has been copied to meta [12] and also adapted to an inline version.
[13] They should be easy to copy to other wikis as well. (SDG all)
* There are now user boxes available on some projects. (SDG 17) [16]
* The WHO Electronic Essential Medicines List (eEML) has been released
under a Creative Commons Attribution license. (SDG 3) [20]

*In the news*
* On Wikipedia, a fight is raging over coronavirus disinformation (SDG 3)
[11]
* Does Biodiversity Informatics  Wikidata? (SDG 14 & 15) [18]
* Coronavirus in Wikipedia by language — visualized (SDG 3) [23]

*Highlighting*
* Wikimedia Sverige has started a section on their website dedicated to the
Sustainable Development Goals. (SDG all) [14]

*Upcoming events*
* 2-6 March - Open Education Week. (SDG 4) [21]
* 6 March - We are giving a keynote at Open Belgium. (SDG 17) [2]
* 8 March - Several Wikigap events are being planned. (SDG 5) [3]
* 11 March - Climate Justice Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, New York City, USA (SDG
10 & 13) [19]
* [CANCELLED] - Wikimedia Summit 2020 cancelled due to global health risks
(SDG 3) [22]

*New properties on Wikidata*
* AnimalBase ID (SDG 14 & 15) [15]
* Open Food Facts label (SDG 2) [17]

*New Wikidata query examples*
* Number of cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus reported per country (SDG
3) [4]
* Map of medical facilities in Kalimpong district, India, color-coded by
type (SDG 3) [5]
* Books related to LGBTI+ topics (SDG 5) [6]
* Timeline of same-sex marriage legalization in various countries (SDG 5)
[8]
* Chart of the number of infections and deaths caused since the outbreak of
the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, as reported by the World Health Organisation
(SDG 3) [9]

*Links*
* [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_202000209
* [2]
https://2020.openbelgium.be/session/sharing-knowledge-about-sustainable-development-goals
* [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap/2020/Events
* [4] https://w.wiki/GTg
* [5] https://w.wiki/GZw
* [6] https://w.wiki/GZt
* [7]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/January_2020/Contents/Australia_report
* [8] https://w.wiki/GwV
* [9] https://w.wiki/Gk4
* [10]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Creative_Commons_for_Educators_and_Librarians.pdf
* [11] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-coronavirus
* [12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:SDG
* [13] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:SDG_inline
* [14] https://wikimedia.se/globala-malen/
* [15] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7905
* [16] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q85965217
* [17] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7927
* [18] https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/wikidata/
* [19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Climate_Justice_Wikipedia_Edit-a-thon
* [20] https://list.essentialmeds.org/licencing
* [21] https://www.openeducationweek.org/
* [22]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2020-February/094381.html
* [23]
https://towardsdatascience.com/coronavirus-interest-inwikipedia-by-language-1b3e6562040d

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Snøhetta and Wikimedia

[Jan Ainali]

If you want an overview of the brand project I recently made an interview
with Zack McCune at WMF about it.

You can find it on Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP_74_-_right_on_brand.mp3

or, if you prefer regular podcast players, here:
http://wikipediapodden.se/episode-74-right-on-brand/

/ Jan Ainali

Den sön 2 feb. 2020 kl 16:04 skrev Gerard Meijssen <
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>:

> Hoi,
> I totally agree that it is about community.. There are some 200 Wikipedia
> communities, there is Commons, Wikisource and the community I am most
> involved in Wikidata. What ties it together is the organisation of it all.
> THAT is Wikimedia for me, both the org and the movement.
> Thanks,
>   GerardM
>
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 12:12, Frans Grijzenhout  wrote:
>
> > Thanks Pine, +1, in particular for this sentence, which goes beyond the
> > legal status of the brand name:  "I think that the Wikipedia brand is,
> in a
> > way, the brand of the community. WMF is the steward of the brand, and
> > should not use the brand in ways which the community has not authorized
> by
> > consensus."
> > Frans
> > *Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair
> > +31 6 5333 9499
> > --
> > *Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland*
> > Mariaplaats 3  -  3511 LH Utrecht
> > Kamer van Koophandel 17189036
> > http://www.wikimedia.nl/
> >
> >
> > Op zo 2 feb. 2020 om 01:31 schreef Pine W :
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have waited to return to this thread until I could clear enough
> > > space in my mind to try to address it thoroughly. Apologies for the
> > > delay. I will try to address multiple topics in one email.
> > >
> > > I think that the Wikipedia brand is, in a way, the brand of the
> > > community. WMF is the steward of the brand, and should not use the
> > > brand in ways which the community has not authorized by consensus.
> > >
> > > There was a previous mailing discussion on Wikimedia-l in September
> > > 2019. I would have expected an update after that discussion if WMF was
> > > considering moving ahead with rebranding itself. An email announcing
> > > that the matter was being reviewed by the Board, and/or that WMF was
> > > starting an RfC, would have been fine. Community consultations or an
> > > RfC could have taken place at that time without using outside
> > > contractor.
> > >
> > > I don't appreciate being surprised. Given that the focus of this
> > > effort in WMF is inside of its Communications Department, I think that
> > > staff should be especially proactive in communicating what they are
> > > doing with regards to major initiatives, and prior to engaging in a
> > > contracting process with donors' funds.
> > >
> > > Staff appear not to have addressed, at least in public on English
> > > Wikipedia, the sockpuppeting allegations with regards to Snøhetta. [1]
> > > [2].
> > >
> > > Also worth noting is the RfC, which was previously mentioned in this
> > > thread:
> > >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Should_the_Foundation_call_itself_Wikipedia
> > > .
> > > The current count as of the time of my writing this email is 26
> > > support and 292 oppose.
> > >
> > > This series of events should have been handled differently. Nobody is
> > > perfect, but there are problems here that appear to be more
> > > significant than a simple one time failure to communicate on an issue
> > > of moderate importance.
> > >
> > > One oversight that I made in my earlier email, and which I will
> > > correct with an apology for not stating this earlier (I too can be
> > > wrong), is that problems in this series of events could include
> > > decisions that were made by the WMF Board. However, without access to
> > > WMF's internal communications, it is impossible to know how this
> > > series of events happened.
> > >
> > > I am not advocating adding stress to people who do good work, or
> > > people who have so much work that they can't realistically handle
> > > everything that they're told to do. It is possible that staff are
> > > simply overworked. However, while I don't enjoy writing about this
> > > topic, sometimes changing personnel is for the best. This happens in
> > > government organizations and companies, and I imagine happens on
> > > occasion in WMF, although often in private. Also, in WMF and in
> > > affiliate boards, someti

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January Newsletter

[Jan Ainali]

This is our second newsletter and the first covering 2020; January.

=== Meetings ===
* We had our second online coordination meeting, minutes are available.[2]

=== Social media ===
* We started a Facebook group, Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
Collaboration Group.[1]

=== Upcoming events ===
* 9 February - our third Online Coordination meeting.[3]
* 6 March - We are giving a keynote at Open Belgium.[4]
* 8 March - Several Wikigap events are being planned.[5]

=== Links ===
* [1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikisusdev/
* [2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20200112
* [3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
* [4] https://2020.openbelgium.be/
* [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap/2020/Events

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development first newsletter

[Jan Ainali]

Hello,

Welcome to the first of the newsletters from Wikimedians for Sustainable
Development, covering December 2019. Each month we will collect and
distribute activities and news related to sustainable development from all
around the movement. If you have anything to share, please add it to our
newsletter page. [9]

=== Meetings ===
* We had our first meeting online and there are some minutes [7]
* Editathon on Spanish Wikipedia [8]

=== Statements ===
* Wikimedia Foundation releases a Sustainability Impact Statement [1]

=== Recent blogposts ===
* Joy Agyepong believes in open knowledge for a sustainable future [2]
* Lukas Mezger – the Wikimedia Sustainability Initiative [3]
* Towards a more sustainable Wikimedia Movement [4]

=== Video ===
* Future Climate for Africa released a video from the climate change themed
editathon held previously this year. [5]

=== New properties on Wikidata ===
* World Flora Online ID [6]
* ScienceOpen publication ID [10]
* ScienceOpen author ID [11]

=== Links ===
* [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_Sustainability_Impact_Statement_2019.pdf
* [2]
https://wikimedia.se/2019/12/05/joy-agyepong-oppen-kunskap-for-en-hallbar-framtid/#english
* [3]
https://wikimedia.se/2019/12/03/lukas-mezger-wikimedia-sustainability-initiative/#english
* [4]
https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/11/27/towards-a-more-sustainable-wikimedia-movement/
* [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10i-HP1JNBE
* [6]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/World_Flora_Online_ID
* [7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20191215
* [8]
https://www.climatica.lamarea.com/wikipedia-con-perspectiva-climatica-faltan-activistas-y-sobre-todo-mujeres/
* [9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Newsletter
* [10]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ScienceOpen_publication_ID
* [11]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ScienceOpen_author_ID

On behalf of the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development,
Jan Ainali
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Co sprawia, że jesteś szczęśliwy w tym tygodniu? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 22 December 2019)

[Jan Ainali]

Thanks for your email once again Pine,

I am happy that I managed to pull through with an entire season of
Wikipediapodden. As a reminder, all of the ones in English can be found
through this Petscan: https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=14599911

or if you prefer through the English tag on our webpage:
http://wikipediapodden.se/tag/english/

Merry Christmas
Jan Ainali



Den tis 24 dec. 2019 kl 08:19 skrev Pine W :

> For those who celebrate these occasions, I wish you a merry Christmas and a
> happy new year.
>
> I am happy to learn about holidays from diverse origins, and I would
> welcome people sharing information about holidays that they celebrate.
>
> Wikimedia Commons hosts several audio recordings of Christmas carols that
> have Polish or German associations. Here are a few selections. Any
> corrections to English translations would be appreciated.
> ** "El desembre congelat II"* / "December Frozen II"; organ solo
> performance by User:Metzner
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:El_desembre_congelat_II.ogg>
>
> * "O Tannenbaum" / "O Christmas Tree", sung in German and English. The
> lyrics to the modern version of the carol were written in 1824, and the
> history of the lyrics can be traced to a 16th century folk song.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Army_Band_-_O_Tannenbaum.ogg> [1]
>
> * "Wśród nocnej ciszy"/ "The Silence of the Night"; produced in association
> with Wikimedia Polska (the Wikimedia Poland chapter). The original authors
> of the lyrics and tune are unknown; the carol was first published in the
> year 1853.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:W%C5%9Br%C3%B3d_nocnej_ciszy.ogg> [2]
>
>
> What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any
> language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
>
>
>
> Additional translations of the subject line of this email would be
> appreciated on Meta
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations>.
>
> Best wishes,
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Tannenbaum
> [2] https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wśród nocnej ciszy
> <https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C5%9Br%C3%B3d_nocnej_ciszy>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] ഈ ആഴ്ച താങ്കളെ സന്തോഷിപ്പിച്ച വാർത്ത എന്താണ്? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 27 October 2019)

[Jan Ainali]

I am happy this week for how it was possible to attend Wikidatacon
remotely. Most importantly, there were great livestreams from three
parallel sessions. The videos from those were made available for watching
again in a very short time (never longer than an hour, usually within
minutes). There was a telegram group for the conference you could join, and
notes for the sessions were taken in etherpads. The hashtag on twitter was
really active which made it easier to find the highlights. A volunteer
setup a Discord channel so a number of us participating remotely could
voice chat in the breaks of the sessions as well.

Thanks to everyone who made it possible.

Jan Ainali
http://ainali.com


Den sön 27 okt. 2019 kl 08:03 skrev Pine W :

> Halloween fun
>
> * Image 1
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anime_North_2019_C_IMG_0404.jpg>:
> A walking plant was seen at the Anime North
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_North> 2019 convention. 31 October is
> Halloween <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween>, and the primary
> author
> of this publication <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pine> generally
> likes plants.
>
> * Image 2
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mission_impossible_cast_1970.JPG
> >:
> Cast members of the television show Mission: Impossible for the production
> season that started in 1970. A Halloween-ish music video that features
> Lindsey
> Sterling <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey_Sterling> and The Piano
> Guys
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Piano_Guys> playing the theme music
> from
> the show is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p0BqUcQ7i0. I like the
> video with the exception of the ending.
>
> Donation of 2000 medical images
>
> User:Netha Hussain <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain>
> announced
> <
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-medicine/2019-October/000404.html
> >
> that Dr. Yale Rosen, a pathologist <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathology>,
> agreed to donate his entire collection of approximately 2000 pathology
> images to Wikimedia Commons
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons>.
>
> New affiliate recognition from the Affiliations Committee
>
> Community Wikimedia User Group Haïti
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wikimedia_User_Group_Ha%C3%AFti
> >
>
> Project milestone for Italian Wiktionary
>
> Italian Wiktionary <https://it.wiktionary.org> has passed 500,000 entries.
> Also, see this page on stats.wikimedia.org
> <
> https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/it.wiktionary.org/content/pages-to-date/normal%7Cline%7C2-year%7Cpage_type~content%7Cmonthly
> >
> which shows a significant increase in Italian Wiktionary content pages
> during the year 2019.
>
> English Wiktionary Word of the Day for October 14
>
> "Woozle effect <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Woozle_effect>: The
> phenomenon whereby frequent citation of earlier publications leads to a
> mistaken public belief in something for which there is no evidence, giving
> rise to an urban myth." Regarding the etymology for this term, Wiktionary
> says in part: "A reference to the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh_(book)> by English author
> A.
> A. Milne <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Milne> (1882–1956), in which
> the characters Winnie-the-Pooh
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh> and Piglet
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piglet> follow their own tracks in the
> snow,
> believing them to be the tracks of the imaginary "Woozle"."
>
> Survival and adventure in Watership Down
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down>
>
> As described in the English Wikipedia article for the book Watership Down
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down>, it "is a survival
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_fiction> and adventure novel
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_novel> by English author Richard
> Adams <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Adams>, published by Rex
> Collings Ltd <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Collings_Ltd> of London in
> 1972. Set in southern England, around Hampshire
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampshire>, the story features a small
> group
> of rabbits. Although they live in their natural wild environment, with
> burrows <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrow>, they are anthropomorphised
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism>, possessing their own
> culture <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture>, language
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapine_language>, pro

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [LGBT] Best practices for awarding scholarships

[Jan Ainali]

Besides any other aspects, most scholarship recipients are probably not
notable. When I suggested to create items for all of the Wikimania sessions
I perceived it as concensus (in the Wikidata telegram group) that they were
not notable. So unless they already are notable (and already should have an
item) getting the scholarship will not make them notable.

/Jan Ainali
(skickat på språng så ursäkta min fåordighet)

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, 22:39 Lane Rasberry  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have wished that eventually when people apply for scholarships or even
> when they attend wiki events they create profiles for themselves in
> Wikidata so that we could generate visualizations of the demographics of
> participants.
>
> I do not think the wiki movement is quite ready for this, but if we
> actually want to track and report demographics, doing so in Wikidata is
> probably the way most natural for the wiki community.
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 9:27 AM Fæ  wrote:
>
> > Plans for a Wikimedia LGBT+ conference and workshops in 2020 are
> > moving forward. We would very much like to learn and borrow successful
> > experiences from other conferences. This conference is expected to be
> > relatively modest in size, around 50 attendees, and is to be hosted in
> > Linz, Austria.
> >
> > We are planning on opening up applications for scholarships very soon,
> > to allow several months for early booking of travel tickets and visa
> > applications where needed. Naturally this means we have to create a
> > process for assessing applications to a hopefully short and
> > non-subjective checklist (we are all volunteers after all!).
> >
> > Can anyone recommend documented good practices for assessing
> > applications for travel grants and expenses for similar sized events?
> > Some issues we have discussed that need to be addressed before
> > finalizing our policies are:
> > * Creating a fair assessment process that balances the diversity of
> > attendees against other metrics like on-project experience, for
> > example ensuring that we have a healthy gender balance and a wide
> > geographic representation
> > * Whether it may be better to prefer the simplicity of assessing for
> > full scholarships, or whether partial payments are a good way of
> > ensuring wider access
> > * How to draw up rules for travel and partial scholarships for folks
> > planning on making this part of a holiday, as often happens for those
> > travelling long distances
> > * When to recommend that specific Wikimedia Affiliates should provide
> > grants and expenses, which may have additional requirements for
> > applications and reporting
> > * How to build in incentives for greener travel options, even where
> > this may not be the cheapest option
> >
> > You can read the conference proposal at
> >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Kawayashu/Queering_Wikipedia
> > and everyone is welcome to provide suggestions and feedback on the
> > discussion page there, if on-wiki editing works better for you than
> > email. :-)
> >
> > Thanks
> > Fae
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation joins the global climate strike

[Jan Ainali]

Have thousands of volunteers really been involved assembling
https://wikimediafoundation.org?

/Jan Ainali


On Sat, Sep 21, 2019, 02:45 Dennis During  wrote:

> I am profoundly disappointed that WMF employees don't value the mission.
> Instead they seem to simply follow fashion and force users and volunteers
> to follow their fashionable methods of advocacy.  They use their monopoly
> power to deny free access to the world's knowledge that many thousands of
> volunteers have diligently assembled. This time it is to show solidarity
> with environmental advocates. What will it be next time?
>
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019, 15:35 Pine W  wrote:
>
> > I have a few comments.
> >
> > While I appreciate the sentiment, I wouldn't have put the
> > wikimediafoundation.org domain "on strike", just as I wouldn't have put
> a
> > government agency's website "on strike". I think that some discussion of
> > climate change would be fine, but I think that WMF's action here is
> > somewhat strange.
> >
> > I think that asking about the climate impact of staff travel is fine.
> > However, I would also include questions about travel for Wikimedia events
> > more broadly. I believe that the WMF Board has indicated support for
> trying
> > to reduce the Wikiverse's contributions to climate change. As has been
> > mentioned in this thread, WMF released a report yesterday
> > <
> >
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-September/093519.html
> > >
> > on the subject of sustainability. While I have not read it, I think that
> > measuring and attempting to reduce reduce negative environmental impacts
> > from Wikimedia activities is good, including negative environmental
> impacts
> > from travel. However, I also think that there are some benefits to morale
> > and communications from in person meetings, so I would be reluctant to
> > eliminate travel and conferences entirely.
> >
> > I think that it's fine to ask whether WMF senior management is practicing
> > what they preach. However, Fae, I feel that your tone in this thread is
> > excessively harsh on this point. I think that you could ask very similar
> > questions with a tone that is calmer.
> >
> > On the subject of environmental sustainability, my main concern at this
> > time is the banner on the WMF website which I feel is somewhat weird and
> is
> > inconsistent with WMF's goal of being "essential infrastructure". Do we
> > want "essential infrastructure" to go on strike, particularly when that
> > infrastructure is supposed to be for an organization that provides public
> > service and supports the community in publishing reliable scientific
> > information? I think not. However, I think that the banner is regrettably
> > consistent with the series of surprising decisions from WMF in the past
> few
> > months. That is, to me, the most concerning element in all of this. If
> WMF
> > wants to be a public service infrastructure provider then I think that it
> > should act like one.
> >
> > Pine
> > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki loves SDGs

[Jan Ainali]

I heard a great quote the other month, a rif on some older quote: "There is
no free knowledge on a dead planet."

Besides that, there is plenty of core activities whose stories can be told
in the framework of the SDGs, because there is by nature a lot of alignment
between them. And when they are, they will be even more powerful, getting
more people onboard and further our mission beyond current plans. So it is
a false dichotomy putting the core mission against the SDGs when they
probably will be synergistic instead.

Jan Ainali



Den tors 19 sep. 2019 kl 20:36 skrev Henry Wood :

> Ad,
>
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 20:27, Ad Huikeshoven  wrote:
> >
> > tl;dr Wikipedia can engage millions, billions of people to achieve the
> > Sustainable Development Goals by 2030
>
>
> That's nice, but the mission of the Foundation is to help everyone
> share in the sum of all knowledge, and people who have donated to the
> Fundation have done so to further that mission, not some other
> mission, however worthy.  If members of the Community wish to support
> the SDG, there are plenty of ways in which they can do so.  Diverting
> resources from the mission of the Foundation weakens its core mission
> and, I'll be blunt, is a fraud on the donors.
>
> Henry
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Wikimedia Space: A space for movement news and conversations

[Jan Ainali]

Den tis 25 juni 2019 kl 23:19 skrev Yair Rand :

> (Closed-source software, unless I'm mistaken?)
> -- Yair Rand
>

Both Wordpress and Discourse are open source as far as I can see. Which one
are you referring to?

/Jan



>
> ‫בתאריך יום ג׳, 25 ביוני 2019 ב-14:56 מאת ‪Pine W‬‏ <‪wiki.p...@gmail.com
> ‬‏>:‬
>
> > Hi Maria,
> >
> > Thanks for this update.
> >
> > I hope that you can answer a question. I may be mistaken, but my
> impression
> > is that the purposes that are outlined for Wikimedia Space are within the
> > intended scopes of the Meta and Outreach wikis, as well as Wikimedia-l. I
> > think that the community would be willing to consider design improvements
> > and additional features for Meta and Outreach, such as calendar and map
> > tools that are easy to use. Design improvements and additional features
> > might also be welcome by third parties who use MediaWiki software and
> could
> > eventually have the option to implement the changes on their own sites.
> Can
> > you explain the decision to launch a new site instead of proposing design
> > improvements and additional features for Meta and Outreach?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Pine
> > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…

[Jan Ainali]

In Swedish Wikipedia we have Monthly tasks (mostly called monthly because
in that interval barnstars are given for completed tasks), where editors
gives small tasks for other editors to complete. Very similar to your
bounties, but not often spell checking.

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:M%C3%A5nadens_uppdrag


Jan Ainali
http://ainali.com


Den fre 25 jan. 2019 kl 16:17 skrev Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder...@hotmail.com>:

> In the Basque wikipedia we are doing monthly contests on different topics,
> and some of them are focused on quality (i.e. adding references and
> images). There are some prices every month, usually books or thing related
> to technology. And people usually like to participate for the fun, and for
> the prize.
> 
> From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of
> Benjamin Lees 
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2019 5:14 AM
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Bounties…
>
> It's interesting that you chose spellchecking as your example.  On the
> English Wikipedia, I tend to see that as an activity that some people
> actually do find fun (or relaxing).  Plus, spelling errors (or perceived
> spelling errors[1]) are something that unregistered users really like
> fixing.  But maybe that varies significantly across language editions.
>
> In any event, spelling errors are probably the case where eventualism is
> most appropriate.  It is rare that someone will be misinformed because of
> spelling mistakes, and they serve a useful signaling function in making it
> clear that a given piece of content has probably not undergone peer
> review.  And rather than driving people away, they tend to draw them
> in—Cunningham's law[2] never fails.
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ENGVAR
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 6:55 PM John Erling Blad  wrote:
>
> > Both in Wikipedia and other parts of the Wikimedia-universe there are
> > a lot of jobs that should be done, but are not so popular. Because
> > they are not done, people get tired and backs away from whatever they
> > are doing.
> >
> > I could give several examples, but lets say spellchecking. It is not
> > fun doing spellchecking, even if you are spellchecking something
> > written by a professor. Instead of doing spellchecking you do
> > something else, like poking around in some code, or write about
> > Pokemon. While you do so the professor gets a bit annoyed over the not
> > so perfect article, and starts to wonder what happen to the crowd in
> > crowdsourcing.
> >
> > Somewhere along the way the it became so bad to talk about anything
> > except the pure wikipedian sitting on top of his pillar with a book
> > and a computer, writing articles in solitude, that we completely
> > missed the opportunities to get a much larger momentum.
> >
> > The Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has over a half a million articles.
> > About 10 % lack sources. Nearly all of them has spelling errors. It is
> > nothing unusual about this.
> >
> > Could we use bounties to get some momentum?
> >
> > John Erling Blad
> > /jeblad
> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal regarding norms for meeting/deadline announcements

[Jan Ainali]

I do agree with Rehman, that would help a lot.

Jan Ainali


Den tis 16 okt. 2018 kl 04:19 skrev Rehman Abubakr <
rehman.wikime...@live.com>:

> Hello Pine,
>
>
> Since we're on the topic of mailing list norms, may I also suggest that we
> please do not copy the entire mailing list for any one-to-one well wishes
> as well?
>
>
> Example: "Congrats" messages to various topics like project completed, new
> affiliate, edit count, or whatsoever. Certain times, more than half of my
> mailbox are simply a pile-up of one-to-one congratulatory messages that
> really doesn't concern 99% of the readers. Maybe those can be sent
> direct/off-list?
>
>
> Sorry to somewhat change the topic. But I feel this needs to be said
> somewhere, and it might as well be here. :)
>
>
>
> Yours truly,
>
> User:Rehman
>
>
> 
> From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of
> Pine W 
> Sent: 16 October 2018 02:19
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List; wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal regarding norms for meeting/deadline
> announcements
>
> Hi Wikimedia-l and Wikitech-l,
>
> Keeping in mind the large numbers of subscribers on some Wikimedia email
> lists, the endless valuable uses for the time of knowledgeable volunteer
> Wikimedians, the significant financial costs for the time of many of the
> staff and contractors on these mailing lists, and how packed calendars can
> be, I propose that we implement a few social norms/guidelines for
> Wikimedia-l and Wikitech-l in particular.
>
> 1. When planning to have a one-time public meeting, announce it at least 14
> days in advance to give everyone who might like to participate that much
> lead time to clear space on their calendars. Rarely is a one-time public
> meeting so urgent that it cannot wait 14 days from the day that it is
> announced.
>
> 2. Send a maximum of one reminder email regarding a one-time public
> meeting, and also send a maximum of one reminder email regarding events
> with deadlines such as Wikimania scholarship submissions or conference
> presentation proposals. More than one reminder about a meeting or deadline
> is excessive.
>
> 3. If extending a deadline, send only an announcement of the extension with
> no additional reminder.
>
> 4. Send only one email to announce a recurring weekly meeting, with no
> additional reminders. Meetings which recur less often, such as biweekly or
> monthly, may continue to be announced with one additional reminder.
>
> At this time these are proposals only. Comments are welcome. If the
> comments become extensive then I may request that we move the conversation
> to Meta.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Social media cards for sharing from the Wikipedia app

[Jan Ainali]

Well, the alt attribute is usually set in an img tag in HTML. So if you are
sharing to any place that does not render HTML (like Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram etc) this is not of much help even if the app would try to set
it..

But for these places, there should be an option for easily getting the text
from the image also added in the actual status update.

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Den tors 26 juli 2018 kl 12:37 skrev Andy Mabbett :

> On 25 July 2018 at 14:14, John Lubbock 
> wrote:
>
> > Just wanted to make you all aware of a useful new feature of the
> Wikipedia
> > mobile app. You can share text from any Wikipedia page as a nice image
>
> Unless there is also a mechanism for including the text /as text/,
> usually by using the "alt" attribute (sometimes erroneously referred
> to as "alt text", I hope people won't do this.
>
> Images of text are inaccessible to people with visual impairment (who
> use software to read text out loud); or with no image display in their
> user agent (such as the free access to Facebook provided by many
> mobile telephone providers, like those some of us used at Wikimania
> last week).
>
> --
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia

[Jan Ainali]

Well, I guess Occam has it that a local Kmart store thought it was good to
use a keyword that put them in the top of a fairiy common search result.
Sneaky.

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2018-04-26 6:43 GMT+02:00 Gnangarra <gnanga...@gmail.com>:

> >
> > ​No​
> >> thing to do with Wikimedia Australia, we have made no such request.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> G
> ​angarra
> .
> Noongarpedia: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nys/Main_Page
> WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
> Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com
> Out now: A.Gaynor, P. Newman and P. Jennings (eds.), *Never Again:
> Reflections on Environmental Responsibility after Roe 8*, UWAP, 2017.
> Order
> here
> <https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/never-again-
> reflections-on-environmental-responsibility-after-roe-8>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Presenting Community Engagement Insights 2016-17 Report: Tuesday, Oct 10, 1600 UTC

[Jan Ainali]

2017-10-09 22:44 GMT+02:00 Todd Allen :

> ...and regardless is certainly not a free (as in speech at least) content
> platform. I'd rather question the choice there.
>

It is possible to, and WMF usually do, mark content on Youtube with a CC BY
license. The link provided in the start of the thread show this.

/Jan



>
> On Oct 9, 2017 1:09 PM, "Maria Cruz"  wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > As a reminder of this event, and a follow up, please note the
> presentation
> > tomorrow is at 9 am PST (1600 UTC), not 10 am, as it says in the email
> > body.
> >
> > Hope to see many of you there!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > María
> >
> > On Oct 4, 2017 15:42, "Maria Cruz"  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > In 2016, the Wikimedia Foundation initiated a new project, called
> > > Community Engagement Insights, under which we designed a Wikimedia
> > > Contributors and Communities survey, that aims to improve the alignment
> > > between the Wikimedia Foundation and the communities it serves.
> > >
> > > In this project, Foundation staff designed hundreds of questions that
> > were
> > > organized into a single, comprehensive, online survey. The Foundation
> > sent
> > > the survey to many different types of Wikimedians, including editors,
> > > affiliates, program leaders, and technical contributors.
> > >
> > > After completing the basic analysis, we now want to share some of what
> we
> > > learned and what's next. On Tuesday, October 10, at 10 am PST, we will
> > hold
> > > a public meeting, where we will present some of the data we found and
> how
> > > different teams might use it, offer guidance on how to navigate the
> > report,
> > > and open the space for questions. Join in the conversation! You can
> watch
> > > the livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoXpL-OUdNU , and
> > > ask question via IRC on #wikimedia-office.
> > >
> > >
> > > We look forward to seeing many of you you at the presentation!
> > >
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > >
> > > *María Cruz * \\  Communications and outreach manager, L Team \\
> > Wikimedia
> > > Foundation, Inc.
> > > mc...@wikimedia.org  |  Twitter:  @marianarra_
> > > 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Changes to Product and Technology departments at the Foundation

[Jan Ainali]

2017-06-07 23:12 GMT+02:00 Toby Negrin :

>
> The team working on maps, the search experience, and the project entry
> portals (such as Wikipedia.org) will join the Readers team. This
> realignment will allow us to build more integrated experiences and
> knowledge-sharing for the end user.
>
Does maps going to readers mean that there will be less focus on editors
tools for adding maps to articles and more focus on the readers possibility
to interact with the maps? If so, what is actually in the pipeline for maps?

/Jan
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia - 3D Logo for printing

[Jan Ainali]

2015-10-29 22:15 GMT+01:00 Guillaume Paumier :

> Hello Rodrigo,
>
> On 29 October 2015 at 13:12, Rodrigo Padula
>  wrote:
> >
> > Where can I find the source files of the 3d logo printed for the WMF
> offices?
> >
> > I'm planning a photo exhibition here in Brasil for WLE and WLM and I
> would like to have that logo printed for our exhibition room.
>
> There is more information about the 3D logo at
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Visual_identity_guidelines#toc-3dmodel
> , and what is and isn't allowed.
>

That page is suggesting some sort of non-derivative variant (saying that
you should not  3d-print it in colour (also strangely specifying the metal
to silver, excluding more common 3d-printing metals such as aluminium or
stee, all the while there are pins in the Wikimedia Store that, judged by
the price, probably not are silver)). I thought the logo was under a CC
BY-SA license.

It is also strange that it does not allow printing it in, for instance a
blue plastic, to later paint white with black letters. Is there any special
meaning behind that or is it just vague wording? I.e. is it supposed to
target steps in the manufacturing process rather than the end result?


> The file itself is at
>
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_puzzle_globe_3D_render.zip
> , in "Autodesk Maya" format.
>

That file description page is unclear on the license. Could someone fix
that?

/Jan
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[Wikimedia-l] I'll be moving on

[Jan Ainali]

All,

For the last three years I have been the Executive Director for Wikimedia
Sverige. Before that I have been Chairman, Treasurer and Secretary of the
board (at different times) and have been involved since the founding of the
chapter in 2007. It is perhaps even an understatement to say that the
chapter has been a big part of my life. I have had the opportunity to be
part of a fantastic journey from starting the first chapter’s activities to
today, with stable strategic activities, seven people in the office, and a
diversified board. It has been an awesome time in my life and I have met
and worked with some truly wonderful persons along the way, and I am
thankful to all of you that have made it so inspiring. But now, as my
contract is about to come to an end, I feel that it is time for me to move
on to new endeavours. I am confident that the chapter is already in good
hands, with a professional board and an office with experienced staff
members and functional processes, but I’ll be around until at least the
beginning of January to make it a smooth transition.

I will obviously always be a wikimedian at heart and probably pick up on my
editing again and I will also stay subscribed to most mailing lists. If not
earlier, I’ll see you in Esino Lario.

Best regards,

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Does this article exist in your language?

[Jan Ainali]

It is also missing in se, rom and yi (all official minority languages in
Sweden ).

Norwegian is two languages, however, Norway is not a part of EU and have no
parlamentarians to change the vote.

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(skickat på språng så ursäkta min fåordighet)
On Jun 29, 2015 3:53 AM, Ricordisamoa ricordisa...@openmailbox.org
wrote:

 Il 29/06/2015 03:25, Romaine Wiki ha scritto:

 Hello all,

 Great news! In the mean while on 3 different Wikipedias an article has
 been
 written about Freedom of Panorama: Croatian, Lithuanian and Esperanto.

 The European languages without an article are now:
 * Icelandic
 * Norwegian
 * Danish
 * Belarusian
 * Romanian
 * Albanian
 * Turkish
 * Maltese
 * Welsh


 Not counting Ligurian, Sicilian, Lombard, Neapolitan, Venetian, etc.


 Who knows anyone who speaks one of these languages? Please ash him/her!

 Thank you!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's cool?

[Jan Ainali]

Perhaps a bit early of the roundup of the Wikidata Menu Challenge, but I
think it is cool so I'll share it already. Some stats (thanks to André
Costa for collecting it) on the 300 items in the challenge:

Month of the challenge (and a few days afterwards) (2015-05-08 -
2015-06-08):
{
users: 183,
bytes_added: 1832120,
edits: 9057
}

To be compared with the month before the challenge: (2015-04-04 -
2015-05-01)
{
users: 132,
bytes_added: 71879,
edits: 493
}


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2015-06-10 22:15 GMT+02:00 Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org:

 This is really cool indeed and I am told (by the little birdie) that there
 is more we can do. Thank you, team! Awesome!!!

 On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org
 wrote:

  On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote:
  [re: experiments using video.js to improve UI of TimedMediaHandler]
 
   And we will need brion’s ogv.js https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/
  work
   to support browsers without OGV/WebM support.
  
 
  A couple updates on that front:
 
  1) It looks like it should be easy to integrate ogv.js into video.js as a
  player tech.
 
  2) I have an early version of WebM decoding in JavaScript
  https://brionv.com/log/2015/06/07/im-in-ur-javascript-decoding-ur-webm/
 
  working! It's much slower than Ogg but has higher video quality when
  there's CPU available for it, as on a fast desktop/laptop that's running
  Safari or IE without WebM drivers natively installed.
 
  3) I've also found a combination of free-but-crappy codec options that
  works in iOS natively: AVI with Motion-JPEG video and uncompressed audio
  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101716! To keep the bitrate sane
  we'll
  have to turn quality down, but 5fps and scratchy audio is often better
 than
  nothing. This will work at times when ogv.js can't be used, such as the
  embedded web browsers in iPhone apps that haven't updated to Apple's
 latest
  embedding APIs.
 
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The launch of Wikidata Menu Challenge

[Jan Ainali]

Hi,

We would like to invite you to participate in our contest the Menu
Challenge [1] starting 8 May! There we would need your help with adding
translations, photos and/or audio recordings to Wikidata about ingredients
and dishes that will be served on the food fair Taste Stockholm. We will
use your work to show the endless possibilities with open data and
crowdsourcing to all the fair's thousands of visitors. So please join us
today! Let's get some #tastydata!

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Menu_Challenge


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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikidata Visualization Challenge

[Jan Ainali]

Today the Wikidata Visualization Challenge starts, a competition aimed to
make it easier to understand the value of Wikidata, what is in there,
and/or how it is being created.

The challenge ends June 1 and there are some nice prizes available.

Checkout http://wvc.se for more details.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaau-l] Wiki Towns

[Jan Ainali]

There is a longer list available on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QRpedia


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2015-05-01 2:56 GMT+02:00 d...@bisharat.net:

 Thank you and thanks to others whe also replied.

 This info is helpful. One thing I was wondering is why only 5 WikiTowns
 worldwide (based on the number of categories on en.wikipedia.org*). Aside
 from the first in Wales and the two in Australia, there's one in South
 Africa and one for Gibraltar.

 Curious to know by what measure the concept is popular. (That sounds like
 a challenge but not meant to be.)

 I can see that the work involved and expenses for the plates/signs might
 discourage potential projects.

 I'm considering proposing a WikiTown project in my current town - Falls
 Church, Virginia, US - which seems to me (based on a probably inadequate
 understanding of what's involved) to be an ideal size for roll-out and
 maintenance of all elements.

 I've hesitated to make preliminary contacts in local govt and civic groups
 until I am more convinced on the sustainability of the overall Wiki Towns
 effort and feel better able to answer inevitable questions. I think the
 first mention of the idea is likely to get positive reaction, esp. if
 framed in terms that relate to current planning efforts, but that could be
 the end of it without a plan, a good cost-benefit presentation, and a few
 activists to carry it forth.

 Is there a best practices guide? Any reason why there's no general or
 project page on WP about Wiki Towns where such info might be collected?
 (And to where this discussion might move?)

 All ideas and any info appreciated.

 Don Osborn


 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiTowns

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 Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 06:06:20
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 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Towns

 G'Day

 Yes Australia has two ongoing Wikitown projects

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiTown/Toodyaypedia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiTown/Freopedia
-

 I'm created both projects and are responsible for their on going activity,
 the projects activity spikes depending on the availability of funding for
 each set of new plates. I was also fortunate enough to see the talk in
 Washington in 2012.   WikiTowns have a wide appeal and are very popular the
 issue is that they require significant time to build which gets complicated
 when you rely on volunteers.

 I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has, and provide assistance

 Gnangarra

 Vice President Wikimedia Australia
 WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Towns

[Jan Ainali]

What list are you referring to?


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2015-04-30 21:58 GMT+02:00 d...@bisharat.net:

 What is the status of the Wiki Towns effort? I first heard of it at
 Wikimania 2012, but looking at the list of actual projects, it appears to
 have had limited appeal. Noting also that in a couple of cases there were
 controversies.

 I tracked down a Wikitown email list, but no reply to an inquiry there.

 TIA for any info,

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Helping Nepal Through Collaborative Mapping

[Jan Ainali]

And in the Stockholm Area:

HOT Mapping for Nepal
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:HOT_2015/Jordb%C3%A4vning_i_Nepal
Today, 17.00-21.00 CEST



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2015-04-29 0:48 GMT+02:00 Raymond Leonard raymond.f.leonard...@gmail.com:

 For those of us in the Seattle area:

 HOT Mapping for Nepal
 http://www.meetup.com/MaptimeSEA/events/222141886/
 Thursday, April 30, 2015, 6:00 PM

 Yours,
 Peaceray


 On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  Great article about how you can use pitch in with the Humanitarian
  OpenStreetMaps Team (HOT) to aid Nepal rescue and recovery:
 
 
 
 http://www.fastcoexist.com/3045527/one-way-you-can-help-nepal-right-now-all-you-need-is-a-computer-and-a-little-time
 
  I'm going to check it out.
 
  Jake (Ocaasi)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikimedia Foundation report on activities in 2014

[Jan Ainali]

Risker: For your convenience:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ainali/sandbox



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2015-04-02 22:22 GMT+02:00 Risker risker...@gmail.com:

 On 2 April 2015 at 15:31, Katherine Maher kma...@wikimedia.org wrote:

  Hi all,
 
  Today the Wikimedia Foundation published a report on its activities in
  calendar year 2014.
 
  This State of the Wikimedia Foundation
  
 
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:State_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation.pdf
  
  report
  provides a snapshot view of the Foundation’s major initiatives and
  considerations during that period. It also offers a baseline assessment
 of
  key efforts made by internal Foundation departments, with an emphasis on
  data-based results, project impact, challenges, and how our work supports
  our mission.
 
  Last December, the Wikimedia Foundation entered into the beginning of a
  strategy planning exercise. As we progressed, we found people had
 differing
  familiarities with the work, needs, and concerns of other departments --
  the proverbial Blind Men and an Elephant.[1] In response, we began
 pulling
  together information as a baseline reference so we would better
 understand
  each others’ work. This report is the outcome of that research.[2]
 
  Although the information in the report was originally gathered in
 response
  to an internal Foundation need, we planned to make it public as a report
  from the very beginning. It is intended to be relatively candid, sharing
  insight into where teams feel they have strengths and where they feel
 there
  are development areas.
 
  The report also offers the first look at the Foundation’s internal Call
 to
  Action for 2015
  
 
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/State_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation#2015_Call_to_Action
  .
  The Call to Action is a set of actions for the 2015 calendar year to
 focus
  the staff of the Foundation on our core functions. These include
 improving
  the processes by which we do our work, building stronger community
  relationships, and exploring new ways to expand free knowledge. Terry,
 our
  new COO https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/20/wmf-welcomes-coo/, will
  manage its implementation over the coming year.
 
  Finally, a note: the report is a standalone product designed to aide the
  strategy development process, and does not substitute for the Quarterly
  Reports, Annual Report, or Annual Plan process. It is scoped only against
  the Foundation’s existing workflows in 2014, and not against the work of
  the Wikimedia movement overall. We have not committed to making it an
  annual exercise.
 
  The full State of the Wikimedia Foundation report is available as a wiki
  here
  
 
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/State_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation
  
  and as a PDF on Wikimedia Commons here
  
 
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:State_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation.pdf
  
  .  You can also find more information in our blog post:
  https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/02/new-wikimedia-foundation-report/.
 
 
  We hope you find it interesting, and welcome your feedback.
 
  Thanks,
 
  Katherine
 
  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
  [2] Thanks to everyone at the Foundation who contributed so much great
  information to their various teams sections. And a special thanks to
 Juliet
  Barbara and Heather Walls who wrote and produced the whole thing!
 
 
  --
  Katherine Maher
  Chief Communications Officer
  Wikimedia Foundation
  149 New Montgomery Street
  San Francisco, CA 94105
 
  +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635
  +1 (415) 712 4873
  kma...@wikimedia.org
 
 

 Thank you very much for telling us about this, Katherine.  I am unable to
 read the file on Commons (the print is far too faint, and also quite
 small), and I really don't want to download it.  Is there an alternative?
 I am looking forward to reading this.

 Risker/Anne
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

[Jan Ainali]

Lodewijk: there is this interactive org chart, but I do not know how
official it is: http://orgcharts.wmflabs.org/#5085aa408fedf26b6801/


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2015-03-28 0:22 GMT+01:00 Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org:

 Welcome Kourosh.

 In Wikimedian spirit, i would like to take the opportunity to ask the silly
 question: is the structure of what all titles in Wikimedia mean, described
 somewhere? Because to be honest, I'm getting all confused about who ranks
 what in the structure of directors, vice presidents, chiefs, heads,
 managers and seniors. I was, silly me, always under the impression that a
 Vice President was basically just below the ED - on the C-level.

 I was looking for this info to be perhaps linked from the staff 
 contractors page on wmfwiki, but i don't seem to be able to find it. Could
 someone enlighten, and perhaps add it somewhere if not there yet? I recall
 having asked this question also a few years back and that a list was made,
 but I can't find it any longer...

 Thanks!

 On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Cristian Consonni 
 kikkocrist...@gmail.com
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  Welcome, Kourosh!
 
  Cristian
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 360º panorama/photosphere in Wikimedia Commons

[Jan Ainali]

It certainly seem possible to upload 360 panoramics:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:360_panoramics

Just use the regular upload wizard at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard

Or are you using some special file format, and if so, which?


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2015-03-06 20:11 GMT+01:00 Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com:

 Hi,
 I am interested to know if there is a way to store the 360º panorama
 (photosphere) photos in  Wikimedia Commons. If it is possible to upload,
 please send me the doc link. If there is no way to upload such images, can
 you please let me know, is there any plan for this or not?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Placebook Wiki Project Proposal

[Jan Ainali]

If anyone is curious on how such a platform could look like, the Swedish
National Heritage Board is running one.
Even if it is in Swedish I guess you can get a feel for it here:
http://www.platsr.se/


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2014-12-11 1:11 GMT+01:00 Joe Aeberhard joe_...@yahoo.co.uk:

 Thanks for your feedback Wil and glad that you like the idea.
 This is the link to a page giving some more detail on this proposal -
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/PlaceBook_Wiki
 Initially I was thinking that a new platform would be the way to go with
 this, as I had thought that the type of content being posted could be
 likely to contain more multimedia resources than the standard wiki postings
 and so was thinking about the volume of data that might need to be stored
 and how this could be linked in as flexible a way as possible - perhaps
 using a Graph database. I was also thinking that a new platform could allow
 us to tailor an API specifically for this using the GPS co-ordinates as the
 primary means of indexing information and that this could open up the data
 to being used in unexpected ways by other developers.

 However, that was before I had found out about the WikiData project, which
 as you suggested, could at first glance looks like it could be a good fit
 for adaptation for use with this proposal. I've not had a chance to study
 its data schemas in any depth to research its suitability in detail though,
 but am hoping to find time to do so soon, so any pointers about the best
 place to start would be gratefully received.

 The co-ordinates link you mentioned seems to give you geographical
 information about the location via a Geohack page, which is not without
 interest. However, it does not seem to be providing a gateway onto a richer
 set of resources about that specific location - so we don't seem to be able
 to access more narrative content with images and footage of significant
 events that may have occurred there or stories of those who have lived in
 this place.
 I like your thoughts about dataset mappings to jumpstart this and was
 thinking that the way to do this would be to team up with local historical
 societies to begin with to get them to take ownership of their local areas
 and begin to upload images and data with their commentaries and narratives.
 With an organisation like the Wiki Foundations backing this, it would lend
 a lot of credibility to the project and I'm sure this would be met with
 enthusiasm by professionals and amateurs alike, particularly if it was seen
 as a way of promoting local heritage.

 For instance, English Heritage already has a system of assigning blue
 plaques to houses of special interest in the UK and so I imagine it would
 be relatively easy to persuade them to link these into this kind platform,
 along with images of the people in question and more detail of what they
 did at the specific residence that was of such importance. Ideally I would
 hope that ordinary people accessing this information would start to realise
 that they could upload personal narrative and recollections to the same
 system, so in effect affording them an opportunity to create their own
 blue plaque and in so doing create a folk history of the locations in
 which they live.

 I think there is a real human need to try to leave a mark and record
 something of themselves within the landscape - you just need to look back
 at cave paintings to see that this is an ancient urge within us. This is
 one of the reasons I'm confident that a system similar to the one I've
 proposed is fairly inevitable, as it's ultimately motivated by human need
 but facilitated by current technology, rather than vice versa. My initial
 thoughts were that this natural desire could allow us to charge a small fee
 based on the number of megabytes posted, which could be used to guarantee
 the data storage for a certain number of years (or decades), as well as
 funding the project more widely and helping to finance the cataloguing of
 other items that could be of more general historical importance.
 Further thoughts anyone may have on this gratefully received.


  On Wednesday, 10 December 2014, 22:45, Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com
 wrote:


  I'd like to know more about the proposal; is there a page on Meta that
 describes it in more detail?

 Specifically, I'd like to know:

 * You mention platform. Are you proposing a new top-level wiki
 project that would require critical mass to succeed?
 * Wouldn't this be a good fit for additions to the existing data
 schemas in Wikidata? Even if you have specific geo-oriented
 functionality in mind, it seems the current way to do this would be to
 build out tool on WMF Labs.
 * Is there a free dataset mapping events/people/places

Re: [Wikimedia-l] MoodBar usage

[Jan Ainali]

Wikimedia Sverige is monitoring feedback, but we do not get much feedback
there.

Thus we would not really miss it if you feel the need to remove it.


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2014-12-09 17:10 GMT+01:00 Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il:

 Hi,

 If I recall correctly, the development of the MoodBar extension was
 declared as discontinued, but I see that it is still being used by some
 wikis. If I'm reading the configuration[1] correctly, it's enable on the
 following projects:
 * French Wikisource ( http://fr.wikisource.org/ )
 * Incubator ( http://incubator.wikimedia.org/ )
 * Dutch Wikipedia ( http://nl.wikipedia.org/ )
 * Wikimedia Sweden ( http://se.wikimedia.org/ )

 It's also enabled on https://test.wikipedia.org/ ; I'm not sure that it
 should be there if it's not used on most projects, but I also don't know
 whether https://test.wikipedia.org/ is even used much now that most
 testing
 is done in the Beta Labs (as far as I know).

 If anybody in the above projects thinks that the MoodBar is useful then it
 should probably stay enabled, and maybe even revived and installed on other
 projects.

 But if the feedback left by new users through this tool is not actually
 read and handled, then it should probably be disabled.

 [1] Search
 http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php
 for
 moodbar.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why is bank transfer no longer possible?

[Jan Ainali]

2014-11-30 19:40 GMT+01:00 Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com:

 On 11/30/2014 10:19 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:

 Michael Snow, 30/11/2014 01:03:

 One avenue for fraud that's facilitated by posting account numbers is
 small payment fraud, usually involving stolen credit cards.
 [.]


 So what all this message have to do with IBAN?

 As the rest of the message discussed, the fraudsters can use the IBAN to
 make a donation in order to test that stolen card information belongs to
 a real credit card.


Is IBAN more vulnerable to this than just the possibility to being able to
donate from a credit card at all?

/Jan
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!

[Jan Ainali]

2014-11-06 4:09 GMT+01:00 Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com:

 I do whatever I can to support OA, to tweet about open access button
 efforts, to promote WikiProject Resource Exchange, to support the OA
 signalling project, to engage with initiatives like the Open Access reader,
 and to discuss the broader mission of sharing knowledge with reference
 experts and journals.  The tides are changing and I see it daily as I speak
 with librarians and journal publishers.


It would be nice if the Wikipedia Library encouraged, or perhaps even
required, that everytime a citation is added from a source behind a
paywall, the Open Access button should be used to report it.

/Jan
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Vandalism on photographs of living people

[Jan Ainali]

Very nice.

If this bug is fixed, the problem would be solved for all images, not just
BLPs: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63518

Perhaps ths indicates that the importance for that bug should be raised?


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2014-10-18 6:04 GMT+02:00 Pierre-Selim pierre-se...@huard.info:

 Well kudos, it's always nice to see people taking such problem seriously
 and not trolling about it.

 2014-10-18 5:02 GMT+02:00 Keegan Peterzell keegan.w...@gmail.com:

  On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Fæ fae...@gmail.com wrote:
 
   I would not want to claim the credit. :-)
  
   This was done the wiki-way, as an interesting tangent from discussion
 at
  
  
 
 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Better_watchlisting
   .
   The final SQL is mostly Bawolff's experience, and I happen to be
 playing
   around with SQL to support the Wellcome Images upload project I'm
  spending
   most of my volunteer time on, thanks to some prompting to get more
 value
   from the wiki database from Steinsplitter. When communities use wikis
 to
   work together, it sure speeds up this sort of response compared to
  working
   it all out by yourself.
  
   Fae
   ​
  
 
  ​Well then kudos to Bawolff, Steinsplitter, and yourself, Fæ. It's always
  heartening to see proactive initiatives. We should discuss them more
 often,
  probably.​
 
 
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

[Jan Ainali]

You are right Tom, WMSE made several such videos, I guess the one you are
thinking of is this one:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nobel_BrianSchmidt_2011-12-08.ogv

Will the winners be present at the announcement?


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2014-10-09 0:26 GMT+02:00 Everton Zanella Alvarenga 
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 Hi Jon,

 that is a great initiative. I've already spread the word among Wikimedia
 Brasil and Open Knowledge Brasil.

 I'd like to suggest that you try to make a short video for the winner
 asking about Wikipedia and its importance. I think Wikimedia Sweden has
 made a cool short interview with some Nobel prize (I think chemestry) and
 it was really good. This can be even used to outreach at universities to
 bring more people to catalyse efforts to involve more schools on Wikimedia
 projects.

 If you can do it, please, let us know.

 Cheers,

 Tom

 2014-10-08 18:07 GMT-03:00 Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com:

  Hi, all!
 
  The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, and in
  cooperation with Wikimedia Norge, the Nobel Peace Center
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Center has invited
 Wikipedians
  from the Norwegian Wikipedia community to an editathon to improve the
  article about the winner(s?) as soon as possible. We'll be sitting
  practically in the next room from where the announcement is made,
 updating
  relevant articles as fast as we can.
 
  For this to be a global event, I'd like to invite anyone who's interested
  to join us in the IRC channel #wikipedia-nobel
  irc://freenode/#wikipedia-nobel, where we'll be talking and
 coordinating.
  We'll also try to livetweet the event using the hashtag #wikinobel
  https://twitter.com/hashtag/wikinobel, probably mainly from the
 account
  @WikimediaNorge https://twitter.com/WikimediaNorge.
 
  The press conference will be start around 10:30 Norwegian time, which is
  *08:30
  UTC*, like I said on *Friday, 10th of October*. Please join us, and help
  spread this invitation to your community.
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

[Jan Ainali]

Today there was the announcement for the Nobel prize in literature. Quit
interesting is that the Swedish Radio, Swedish Television and the Norwegian
NRK are updating articles related to this. Not perfect, but with a
obviously good ambition!

https://twitter.com/5thEstateWiki/status/520171448636551168
https://twitter.com/5thEstateWiki/status/520169175776784384
https://twitter.com/5thEstateWiki/status/520167492078297088
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2014-10-09 13:42 GMT+02:00 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com:

 This is an excellent event idea, congratulations to Wikimedia Norway for
 organising it.
 It is also a brilliant example of how Chapters and other groups around the
 world can take responsability for topics that have particular
 local relevance to them, and take a leadership role in the worldwide
 movement in the process. In this case (an announcement of global interest,
 but made in a particular building in a particular city) it also highlights
 wikimedia as not just a virtual community, but a physical one, and that the
 two work in tandem.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Blogs

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In the sidebar on Meta you have this nice collection:
https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/

Read more about it here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet_Wikimedia


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2014-09-17 23:22 GMT+02:00 Wil Sinclair w...@wllm.com:

 Legoktm just reminded me of something I've been meaning to ask for a
 while. I like to keep up-to-date with blogs that feature discussions
 about Wikipedia. What I've found so far I've kept track of by
 following with my own blog. If you care enough to google it, keep in
 mind that I'm the guy who isn't a Christian AM radio station. Even
 after I did some of my own google jockeying, I missed David's and no
 doubt others.

 Does anyone know of a list of blogs covering Wikimedia issues that is
 kept relatively current either onwiki or elsewhere? I suspect others
 might find it useful, so if such a thing doesn't exist yet I'll create
 it myself.

 Hit me up at w...@wllm.com if you'd prefer to discuss offlist.

 Since no one 's told me I can't promote other people's blogs yet,
 here's a link to David's: http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/. He's a
 great blogger with a unique, entertaining voice. Almost required
 reading for the Wikipedianz4Life crowd.

 Deuces.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Will Flow eliminate wikitext sandbox practice?

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2014-09-15 23:54 GMT+02:00 James Salsman jsals...@gmail.com:

 In the recent discussion of editor engagement effectiveness on
 wiki-research-l, the question of Flow's affect on talk page wikitext
 practice arose. I would like to know whether anyone shares my concern that
 eliminating wikitext talk pages will remove what has, for the past few
 terabytes of edits, served the same purpose as the sandbox pages which we
 encourage new editors to practice with.


Is that just enwp? On svwp we do not encourage people to use the talk pages
as sandboxes. Instead we have a default-on gadget with a link to
[[Special:MyPage/Sandbox]].

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Låna konfrum fre 11

[Jan Ainali]

Hej!

Det går alldeles utmärkt, ni är varmt välkomna!


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 Jag kommer träffa Hangsna IRL på fredag 11.00

 Kan vi använda kontorets konfrum?

 träffen blir väl cirka en timme
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Asking Google to output Wikipedia citation format in Scholar

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Google Scholar seem to do very well on the Citoid tests:
http://zotero-translator-tests.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/testTranslators.html#date=2014-07-30browser=cversion=4.0.SOURCE.9219100

Just make sure to get that thing running and we will have a more robust
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2014-08-03 21:44 GMT+02:00 Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org:

 On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
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  On 3 August 2014 19:01, Luis Villa lvi...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 
   I suspect that Google would be reluctant to add
   a Wikimedia citation format
 
  Trove, the Australian National Library's newspaper archive, are happy to
  do so.


 Presumably those materials are all in English, unlike Scholar (and
 Wikipedia!)


because there is no one Wikimedia citation format.
   (Happy to be corrected on that if I'm wrong, though.)
 
  There isn't, hence I suggested the most suitable for scholarly
  citations in English.


 Both Google and Wikimedia claim to be global, multi-lingual solutions. So
 both we and Google should be aiming higher.

 But of course take my perspective with a grain of salt - I've always found
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 projects, so I may be putting words in Google's mouth.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Underwater photos and videos / WMRS Microgrants 2014

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I see that the video is marked CC BY-NC-ND. Will all other videos also be
under that license?


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2014-07-18 19:46 GMT+02:00 Milos Rancic mill...@gmail.com:

 Thanks for support. Here is one unlocked teaser [1]. We'll be getting
 a lot of videos like that one is, but split into the parts describing
 particular species. We'll actually get materials used in this video, as
 well.

 [1] http://vimeo.com/83936598

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  On 15.07.2014 06:42, Milos Rancic wrote:
 
  For the last month or so I want to share with you the initial success
  of the Microgrants 2014 project of Wikimedia Serbia. However, there
  are a number of stories and it was too much to me to write about all
  of them at once. So, I am splitting it, which means that you can
  expect more stories during the next days.
 
  Inside of this email, first a bit about the project Microgrants, then
  about the particular project.
 
  * * *
 
 
  Hi Milos,
 
  the project sounds really cool.
 
  Cheers
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

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2014-06-26 12:22 GMT+02:00 Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk:

 On 26 June 2014 03:18, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote:
  On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk
 
  wrote:
 
 Thank you. I didn't see the options (buttons) for pre-selected
 summaries, nor the Other option.

 On further experimentation, they are hidden above the top of the
 screen, and I need to scroll up to see them.

 I'm using the native browser on an Android 2.3.5 device.


Then you are not using the app that this thread is talking about?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Commons tagging and/versus categorization

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2014-05-20 8:41 GMT+02:00 Chad Horohoe choro...@wikimedia.org:

 The search engine (new, as well as old) supports category intersection. So
 actually, searching intersections of categories is very easy.


Our definitiions of very easy are not intersecting :)

It is possible yes, but to qualify for very easy I would suggest a GUI for
modifying a search and a hotcat like functionality for selecting
interescting categories. Such addition to Special:Search would be awesome.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Uganda

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Unfortunatly they will go back to Sweden on Sunday (that part of the
project was only one month). However, our local project manager is still
left, and he has a IEG grant [1] from WMF to setup a Wikipedia Center in
Mbazzi which will continue during the year. They too should probably get in
touch with each other.

[1]
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2014-02-10 Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com:

 Great !

 I forward the information to Erina.
 Indeed, I saw that these two guys were key points fostering an increase of
 edits on the Luganda version. Erina should only be back in Uganda in a
 month, but sharing of information by email could be nice as well. How long
 are your ambassadors staying in Uganda ?

 Flo


 On 09/02/14 09:50, Jan Ainali wrote:

 That is great news Florence!

 We have two Wikipedia ambassadors in Uganda right now (they actually had a
 workshop at the Makerere University yesterday). I will ask them to contact
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  Hello everyone

 I am very happy to announce that we just hired our Wikipedian in
 Community
 for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Uganda. Her name is Erina Mukuta
 Muhame.


 Born in 1988 in Jinga, Uganda, Erina Mukuta spent her first childhood
 years in a small village called kilembe and later moved to Kampala. Erina
 is married with Brian Muhame. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in
 Surveying from Makerere University. She has since worked with a number of
 organizations including Ministry of Land Use and Housing and Uganda
 Wildlife Authority as a Land Surveyor and a GIS Analyst respectively.

 She will join the Wikimedia community under the user name Erinamukuta.

 It would be great if some of you could welcome Erina on her talk page
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Erinamukuta

 --

 Cyriac and Erina will now head to Cap Town for a month, to receive some
 training and start planning their activity in Ivory Coast and Uganda.

 They will actually join two other people, from Ethiopia and Malawi who
 will also be trained and will work within the Share Your Knowledge
 framework.

 More info about Kumusha here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kumusha Takes Wiki: announcing new WiC in Uganda

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That is great news Florence!

We have two Wikipedia ambassadors in Uganda right now (they actually had a
workshop at the Makerere University yesterday). I will ask them to contact
Erina, it might be valuable if they could share their experiences face to
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2014-02-09 9:40 GMT+01:00 Florence Devouard anthe...@yahoo.com:

 Hello everyone

 I am very happy to announce that we just hired our Wikipedian in Community
 for our Kumusha Takes Wiki project in Uganda. Her name is Erina Mukuta
 Muhame.


 Born in 1988 in Jinga, Uganda, Erina Mukuta spent her first childhood
 years in a small village called kilembe and later moved to Kampala. Erina
 is married with Brian Muhame. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in
 Surveying from Makerere University. She has since worked with a number of
 organizations including Ministry of Land Use and Housing and Uganda
 Wildlife Authority as a Land Surveyor and a GIS Analyst respectively.

 She will join the Wikimedia community under the user name Erinamukuta.

 It would be great if some of you could welcome Erina on her talk page
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Erinamukuta

 --

 Cyriac and Erina will now head to Cap Town for a month, to receive some
 training and start planning their activity in Ivory Coast and Uganda.

 They will actually join two other people, from Ethiopia and Malawi who
 will also be trained and will work within the Share Your Knowledge
 framework.

 More info about Kumusha here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] How lovely live communication works worldwide

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We just did. Too many were not able to log in.


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2013/12/3 David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com

 Maybe try this one?
 http://videoconf.wikimedia.ch/

 Cheers,
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  Somehow, I don't know how we get that happen, almost every time we use
  live communication to communicate about projects to enrich and improve
 the
  Wikimedia projects, something goes wrong in the communication. Besides
 the
  usual problems of connecting to the internet, a lot of software issues
  occur, then we have a microphone of someone that doesn't work in only one
  software programme, while it works in others, or we don't get sound out
 of
  the programme, programmes that need an account but refuse you to sign up.
  From Google Hangout, Skype to Mumble, all have issues.
 
  I think it would be lovely to have a piece of software maybe hosted by
 WMF
  that works for everyone to enable everyone to participate. Currently
 users
  are excluded because of insufficient software and it takes too much time
 to
  get everything working. The key of the Wikimedia projects is that
 everyone
  can participate, besides when it comes to live communication.
 
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] First Wikimedia-related contributor Kickstarter?

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2013/11/1 Nathan nawr...@gmail.com

 Anyone know if this is the first Wikimedia-related Kickstarter campaign, or
 has it happened before?


Well, not on Kickstarter but on Indiegogo this Wikimedia related campaign
happened before:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-distribute-wikireaders-and-provide-an-opportunity-for-kids-to-learn/x/3197615

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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Chapters report Wikimedia Sverige September 2013

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The Chapters report for Wikimedia Sverige has now been published on our
wiki:
https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_reports/2013-09

*HIGHLIGHTS:*

   - The Gothenburg Book fair, which featured a community driven project
   taking pictures and making interviews conducted by 11 volunteers, as well
   as presentations on Wikipedia in Education and Copyright.
   - The final delivery of the brochure Free public information to each of
   the Members of Parliament.
   - The chapter and Wikipedia were mentioned five times in the
   Governmental budget proposition for 2014.
   - Our board member Ylva Pettersson was awarded second prize in The
   Innovative Teacher Award for her and her students' work with creating
   articles, videos, music and photos for Wikipedia in a project on local
   history.

*GROWTH:*

   - Editors involved in chapter activities: 26
   - Media uploaded helped by chapter resources:
555http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=querylist=categorymemberscmtitle=Category:Media_created_by_technology_pool_of_Wikimedia_Sverigecmlimit=500cmsort=timestampcmstart=2013090100cmend=20130930235959
   - Media viewed:
1,824,524http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama.php?group=Media+created+by+technology+pool+of+Wikimedia+Sverigedate=201309
   - Persons engaged in workshops and seminars: 118
   - Persons reached in presentations: 425
   - Number of events held (edit-a-thons, workshops, seminars,
   presentations, other): 18
   - New chapter members: 5
   - Facebook page likes: +20 (756 in total)


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Education] How to force to enable Visual Editor

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From Charles original questions I guess that he would be satisified with
something like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLoginenablevisualeditor=1


which should enable the Visual Editor for users signing up through that
link. If it is possible or not to do that I have no idea.

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2013/10/15 Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net

 Hear hear.

 I know this is a battle that the Foundation's engineers can't possibly win,
 given the circumstances which VE was moved from opt-out to opt-in on enwiki
 (see

 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)diff=prevoldid=574251354
 ,
 for those who aren't aware).  Turn it on, turn it off; either way someone
 gets upset.

 From a pure technical standpoint, is it possible to put a checkbox on the
 new user page or something so that new users can turn it on without having
 to delve deep into the untamed wilderness that is the user preferences
 page?

 Cheers,
 Craig


 On 15 October 2013 21:54, Richard Nevell richard.nev...@wikimedia.org.uk
 wrote:

  I firmly agree with that, taking a detour to preferences when training
 new
  editors isn't my preferred method.
 
  Richard
 
 
  On 15 October 2013 12:47, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote:
 
   Hello,
  
   I think that for beginners things must be as simple and clear as
   possible. Make them manipulate the preferences at the beginning of the
   session is already complicated and a waste of time. Don't forget that
   beginners already have to learn so many things quickly, so the more
   you can reduce, the better.
   Actually I'd prefer to have a model wiki that looks like Wikipedia but
   is best suited to use in trainings.
  
   Kind regards
   Ziko
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
 
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   voorzitter / president Wikimedia Nederland
  
   Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
   Postbus 167
   3500 AD Utrecht
   http://wikimedia.nl
  
  
 
 
  
  
   2013/10/15 Charles Andrès charles.andres.w...@gmail.com:
Thanks, but in FR.Wikipedia.org you only have the opt-out option
   (disable visual editor) :-(
   
Charles
   
   
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Le 15 oct. 2013 à 10:10, Enock Seth Nyamador kwadzo...@gmail.com a
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Hello Charles,
   
I don't think there is a way to for this in the registration
 process.
   
To enable or disable Visual Editor. Login
   
1. Go to --- Preferences -- Click Editing tab.
2. At the bottom of Editing page, Check or uncheck the box beside
   Enable VisualEditor (only in the main and user namespaces)
   
   
OR
   
Follow this link
  
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing
Then repeat step 2 above.
   
Hope it helps.
   
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Dear all,
   
In our new education program with youngs in scholar difficulties, we
   have the problem that only half of the new accounts have the visual
  editor
   activated, it's quite annoying to have two teach two way of editing.
   
Is there a trick to force the activation of Visual Editor for a
   specific user?
   
Thanks
   
Charles
   
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Chapters report June 2013 Wikimedia Sverige

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The chapters report for June 2013 has been published on our
wikihttp://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_reports/2013-06
.

*HIGHLIGHTS:*

   - Joint board meeting between Wikimedia Sverige and Wikmedia Norge where
   experiences were shared and future cooperations discussed.
   - Accreditation to the Royal wedding.
   - Several edit-a-thons in the Europeana Awareness project.

*GROWTH:*

   - Editors involved in chapter activities: 70+
   - Media uploaded: 884 files
   - Persons engaged in workshops and seminars: 12
   - New chapter members: 5

Swedish Wikipedia passed 1,000,000 articles 14 June which sparked a global
community wide discussion on bot-generated articles.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass (was: Visual Editor)

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2013/7/29 Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org


 Because if it's the latter, I'm really worried about the health of a
 community that would actively bemoan greater democratization of a
 project whose entire /raison d'etre/ was the democratization of knowledge.


I have not read the vision statement as it is the production of knowledge
that need be availible to every human being, but the consumption. To let a
lot of people edit is mere a very useful tool to provide readers with the
sum of all human knowledge rather than a reason for itself. If there are
other tools more effective, we ought to investigate them (or make the
vision clearer).




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Re: [Wikimedia-l] On the gentrification of Wikipedia, by Superbass (was: Visual Editor)

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2013/7/29 Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com

 On 7/29/2013 1:50 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:

 On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ain...@wikimedia.se
 wrote:

 I have not read the vision statement as it is the production of knowledge
 that need be availible to every human being, but the consumption.

 Actually, having co-drafted the Vision Statement (it was drafted at
 the October 2006 Board retreat in Frankfurt and then finalized after
 community discussion), I can assure you that that was not the intent.
 I recall that Florence and I talked about that specific aspect a fair
 bit. We proposed the language share in over given free access to
 in order to emphasize that it's not a one-directional process (some
 treasure trove of knowledge that you are given access to), but a
 process we are creating an opportunity to participate in. It could be
 made clearer, but that was the intent.

 In any case, I'm not sure why we'd conclude that making the production of
 knowledge more widely available is somehow harmful to the cause of making
 the consumption of knowledge available to everyone. Because the success of
 Wikipedia has been built on rather the opposite of that. In that context
 which comes first, production or consumption, is sort of a
 chicken-or-the-egg question about the origin of network effects.

 --Michael Snow


Firstly, the clarification from Erik is very valuable. Perhaps I am the
only one making that interpretation from the wording in the vision
statement, but if what Erik say is the intention is correct (and I have no
reason to think otherwise) it could perhaps be stressed further to let
everyone in the movement be aware of the importance.

Michael, I would not say we should conclude that it is harmful, rather I
would say (or at least, before Eriks clarification) that we would need to
justify why democratization of production as an end would be more
important than giving free access to the sum of all human knowledge. As a
thought experiment, what if the question is not chicken-or-the-egg, but
rather-natural-born-chicken versus science-improved-production-of-hens? Is
the nutrition gained for the consuming population less worth than the
employment of farmers?
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 3rd Global Congress on IP OpenAir Conference on Innovation IP in Africa

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The email adress wikimediasouthafr...@gmail.com is listed on their chapter
page on meta, I would start with that one.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa

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2013/7/21 Oona Castro ocas...@wikimedia.org

 Hi Lodewijk,
 I haven't.. I actually don't remember of knowing anyone from South Africa
 here. But, yes, I think that would be awesome to have someone from there,
 as I suggested in the email - I just don't know to whom I should send it
 to. Would you suggest anyone in particular?

 Oona



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  Lodewijk





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The chapters report for Wikimedia Sverige May 2013 is now available on:

http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_reports/2013-05

*HIGHLIGHTS:*

   - The Wiki Loves Public Art competition, a sister to Wiki Loves
   Monuments, where conducted for the first time. Over 9,000 images on more
   than 2,000 objects from over 200 participants of which more than 100 were
   new users.
   - Press accreditation at the Eurovision song contest that resulted in
   lots of images and videos of the artists.


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] UN subscribe me from Wikimedia---IMMEDIATELY

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2013/6/18 Benjamin Chen bencmqw...@gmail.com

 Many consider a unsubscription link that requires more than two clicks
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with supportof bots)

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2013/6/17 Ilario Valdelli valde...@gmail.com


 One of the strategic goal of the plan of wikimedia movement is the quality.


That is true. However, the strategic plan does not go into detail on how to
measure it. Is it an article that only has claims backed by sources? If so,
the bot-generated articles are very high-quality. Is it a featured article?
Then I guess that reaching the goal of 25% will be pretty tough.

Actually, the most reasonable way to reach that goal, having 12,5 million
quality articles in two years, is to use some sort of automation.

/Jan Ainali


 Il giorno 17/giu/2013 14:28, Peter Southwood 
 peter.southw...@telkomsa.net
 ha scritto:

  I agree that the 100th article is much better than no article on the
  subject, and I too joined the project with no previous training
  - Original Message - From: Balázs Viczián 
  balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.hu
  To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org
 wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
  
  Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 2:05 PM
  Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Swedish Wikipedia reach 1 million (with
  supportof bots)
 
 
   I am totally supportive of the idea to create articles in this way if
 they
  are more than a simple infobox with 5-6 stats in it. The bot generated
  form
  [1] of the millionth Swedish article is where these bot generated
 articles
  can start from; a useful stub. If we take seriously this collect the
 sum
  of all knowledge bla bla, then absolutely ok to generate such articles,
  moreover it should be done wherever, whenever possible (like with the
  Swedish lakes).
 
  Having zillions of articles will generate a lot of new editors from the
  simple fact that more people will have chance (and larger chance) to
 bump
  into wiki articles while browsing the internet. Or in an easier form:
  Wikipedia will reach more people by cover more and more topics in a more
  an
  more detailed form.
 
  The first problem, you mention is who will maintain them. Well, probably
  those who join through this massive expansion; who are already
 interested
  in butterflies and actively learning about them on the net. Or those who
  find their favourite fishing lake on Wiki and add some pictures and a
 bit
  more detailed info about them.
 
  The other problem what you're describing is that all of these future new
  editors will be unqualified (ni your wording idiots) while all the
  chapters are heavily working on creating qualified editors through
 their
  various education programs.
 
  My question is: is this really a problem? How many of you joined
 Wikipedia
  after being educated how to edit and stuff and how many of you joined
 by
  bumping into articles so many times that you've eventually started
  editing them? How many of you started as idiots?
 
  I did.
 
  Balázs
 
  [1]
  http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/**index.php?title=Erysichton_**
  elaborataoldid=21735451
 http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erysichton_elaborataoldid=21735451
 
 
 
 
  2013/6/17 Hubertl hubert.la...@gmx.at
 
   Payin´ peanuts, gettin´ monkeys
 
  Servin´ facts, gettin´ idiots.
 
  An unmanageable, not maintainable mass of articles is the best way to
  breed idiots. Because facts do not create knowledge.
 
  If that is our goal, then automatically created Wikipedias ar the best
  way
  to solve one of our biggest problems, namely the permanent loss of
  authors.
 
  Maybe it is completely sufficient if you know that somewhere facts are
  stored in a most possible stupid form.
 
  I started more than fifty years ago learning about facts, facts without
  understanding. But nine years ago I startet to learn something about
  knowledge, understanding and correlations.
 
  Why do not you need people like me? If we have bots now?
 
  Do we want to make ourselves more important with impressive numbers?
 
  Hubertl!
 
  The german language Wikipedia has no single article that was generated
 by
  a bot. I'm proud of it. If this would take place in de:WP, many people
  will
  leave this project. With certainty.
 
  Anyway, that does not matter, a bot is probably much better for
 monkeys!
 
  Am 16.06.2013 14:51, schrieb Nurunnaby Chowdhury:
 
   Congratulations swedish wikipedians
 
 
  *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive*
  Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Network Foundation
  (OKFN)http://www.okfn.org
  Auto-confirmed, Reviewer  Roll backer Editor | Bangla
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Chapter report for Wikimedia Sverige April 2013

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The Chapter report for Wikimedia Sverige April 2013 kan now be found on our
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The world's most efficient charity?

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Well, It might be a little hard to penetrate and realise what is what in
this huge page, but we do have our accounting public here:

https://donera.wikimedia.se/en/wmse/audit/public/3

If you have any specific questions, please direct them to me or
User:Prolineserver, our treasurer and Master of CiviCRM.

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2013/5/7 Fae fae...@gmail.com

 Interesting case of a low percentage of common sense.

 At the moment, I believe that none of our chapters publish figures or
 estimates for the ratio between admin, fundraising and admin work, even
 if we publish detailed annual reports. Personally, I don't feel we are
 in a strong position to be amused by inadequate reporting by other
 organizations when we are not clear on this ourselves.

 It would be a great improvement to transparency if I could say, even
 roughly, whether
 my own chapter were spending 90%, 80% or 70% of our donated funds and
 grants on planned charitable outcomes, rather than having no figures, and
 having to defend the position of not knowing and finding
 reasons why we would never try to calculate it from the figures
 sitting in our reports. If it turns out that less than 70% of the
 money was being spent on the outcomes defined in our shared mission,
 this might encourage us to look rather carefully at exactly where the
 rest was going, don't you think?

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