Re: [Wikimedia-l] Publication of WMF Affiliate agreements

2019-01-24 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno mer, 23/01/2019 alle 11.37 -0500, Lane Rasberry ha scritto:
> [...] Likely entities to answer this could be the WMF board, because
> they recently granted voting rights to user groups

Actually there is no change in the board selection process so far: the
change is on the agenda of a board meeting next week [1]. The agenda
does not specify whether a specific amendment will be voted or it will
be only a discussion, nor whether the December proposal [2] has been
updated based on the comments received.
(It is good to see, by the way, that four trustees - Natalia,
María, Christophe and Dariusz - took part in the discussion on Meta)

Laurentius

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_board_agenda_2019-01
[2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/December_2018_-_Affiliate-selected_trustees,_term_limits,_and_diversity

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Rapid Grants Closure May 14 - June 30, 2018

2018-05-14 Thread Laurentius 
On mar, 2018-05-01 at 15:51 -0700, Woubzena Jifar wrote:
> 2. Regarding having a minimum of $500 for the rapid grants program,
> this is something we’re experimenting with while we’re aligning to
> the new strategic direction. Our preliminary data is showing that
> this change will improve our ability to support communities, allowing
> for more impactful grants with less overhead for a more effective use
> of our shared resources.
> We also need to make reductions in the time spent processing grants
> this year in order to make space for the considerable research and
> discussions needed to implement the new strategy, and we need to
> consider whether the impact of very small grants warrants their
> administrative expense.

I'm interested in better understanding this decision and its impact.

1. How many grants are actually impacted by this decision? In
particular, in the last year:
 * How many grants below 500 $ have been approved?
 * Of the total 265.000 $ of rapid grants, how much went into grants
   below 500 $?

My rough estimate, by looking at the list on Meta, is that
approximately 20% of rapid grants are below 500 $ (but I don't know the
total), which I expect is around 10.000-20.000 $ per year.

2. From your experience, how do you value the quality of the requests
for grants below 500 $? Do they have proportionally the same impact of
the larger (rapid) grants, less, or more?
In other words: this decision is led by the thought that impact is
roughly proportial with the size of the grant, but the administrative
cost for the WMF is more or less the same, so it's better to prioritize
for larger grants? or that the small grants are actually comparatively
worse (less impactful, or less likely to be approved anyway)? or what
else?

3. Roughly, how much is the administrative overhead for each grant?

4. You mentioned preliminary data about this change. Is there any
additional data that you can share?

Lorenzo


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-03 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno mar, 03/05/2016 alle 19.09 +0700, John Mark Vandenberg ha
scritto:
> This is a bit odd.  I vaguely remember that in previous years that
> some chapters held discussions with their members online, and publicly
> published the chapter decision before it was recorded on chapters
> wiki.  Is that no longer possible?

This is still possible, of course!
Any chapter can choose its internal processes: whether to have a
discussion in their board, in the members' mailing list, or in the
general assembly, or whether to publicly publish their vote or not.

Laurentius



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] election for 2 seats on WMF board of trustees ends May 7...

2016-05-03 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno mar, 03/05/2016 alle 08.05 -0400, Lane Rasberry ha scritto:
> Or - I could be wrong. Should the list of voting chapters be reported?
> What is the correct interpretation of closed voting in this case?

At the end of 2015, before starting the election process, there has been
some discussion about this on Meta.
The result was in favour of publishing, after the end of the election,
the list of affiliates who voted.
The idea of publishing a partial list during the voting process was not
proposed; personally I think it's fine and it makes sense, but I'd like
to hear a few opinions about this from the involved affiliates.

Lorenzo



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliate-selected Board seats voting started

2016-05-02 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno dom, 01/05/2016 alle 22.24 -0400, Benjamin Lees ha scritto:
> This is still going on, right?

Yes. The voting closes on Saturday.

Lorenzo


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[Wikimedia-l] Affiliate-selected Board seats voting started

2016-03-24 Thread Laurentius 
Dear all,
voting for the affiliate-selected board seats is starting today, and
will end on May 8 (results will be announced shortly after that).

Ten people nominated - which is more than in any previous round - and
all nominations got an endorsement. Therefore, we have ten candidates
running:
* Christophe Henner (schiste)
* Jan Ainali (Ainali)
* Kunal Mehta (Legoktm)
* Leigh Thelmadatter (Thelmadatter)
* Lodewijk Gelauff (Effeietsanders)
* Maarten Deneckere (MADe)
* Nataliia Tymkiv (antanana)
* Osmar Valdebenito (B1mbo)
* Siska Doviana (Siska.Doviana)
* Susanna Mkrtchyan (SusikMkr)

For the nomination statements, see:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominations

While only chapters and thematic organizations are eligible to vote,
anyone is encouraged to ask questions, either to all the candidates:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Questions
or to specific candidates in the talk page of their nomination.

Chris Keating
Lorenzo Losa
Lane Rasberry
- election facilitators



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Candidates - Affiliate Selected members of the WMF Board

2016-02-19 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno ven, 19/02/2016 alle 10.18 -0500, Lane Rasberry ha scritto:
>1. So far as I know no one has contacted chapters directly. I would
> like
>for every chapter to take responsibility for contacting a few
> others and
>confirming that they are engaged in the election. It would be
> difficult to
>centrally manage communication with everyone. Do you know anyone at
> any
>chapter that you could ask to have their chapter discuss the
> election with
>a few others?

In addition to what Lane wrote: chapters (and Amical) have been
contacted using the chapters' mailing list, and all chapters board
members should be subscribed to that. Still, some chapters may not be on
the list, or they subscriptions may not be up-to-date, therefore we're
doing a manual check on the list of subscribers.

> Anne -
> 
>1. Yes there are three white males on the election committee. [...]

I think Anne was referring to the results of 2015 elections (with
Dariusz, James and Danny elected), not to the election facilitators.
The positive note here is that at the last two ASBS rounds both elected
trustees were not North American/European white males!

Laurentius



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia recognized as OpenStreetMap chapter

2016-02-02 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno ven, 29/01/2016 alle 00.21 +0100, Lodewijk ha scritto:
> Congratulations Lorenzo, congratulations Wikimedia Italia. It was
> indeed a long process, and I recall that this question came up - was
> it more than five years ago?

I don't even remember when we first talked about his, but it might go as
back as in 2009, when the first OSMit (the Italian "State of the map" -
the national OpenStreetMap conference) was held (with the support of
Wikimedia Italia).

Lorenzo



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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italia recognized as OpenStreetMap chapter

2016-01-28 Thread Laurentius 
Dear all,
after a long process, today Wikimedia Italia has been officially
recognized as the Italian OpenStreetMap chapter!

OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project that shares the same value as
the Wikimedia movement. It's not based on a wiki software and it's not
in the Wikimedia family, but from many points of views, it's the project
that is more similar to the Wikimedia ones; indeed, many wikipedians are
mappers also, and viceversa.

Similarly to Wikimedia, there is an OpenStreetMap Foundation (based in
the UK) and there are national OpenStreetMap chapters. In Italy, the
OpenStreetMap community has been talking for years about the creation of
a chapter. Most people felt that it was important, but also that
founding yet another association was pointless. Associations are not
built only on projects, but also, and mainly, on common values and on a
common vision: Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap share both, and it's just
natural to work together.

Wikimedia Italy officially started the process of becoming an
OpenStreetMap chapter in 2013 [1]. The association has supported
OpenStreetMap even before that (e.g., supporting the Italian
OpenStreetMap conference), and in the last two years, thanks also to the
work of many OpenStreetMap users that became members (and among them,
Simone Cortesi, OpenStreetMap volunteer since the beginning and WMI's
vicepresident), we have increased our efforts (as described also in
WMI's annual plan [2]). The recognition process has been quite long, but
today we've signed the chapters agreement, and now Italy is the second
country (after Iceland) to have an official OpenStreetMap chapter! (but
there are actually other unofficial chapters besides these two)

Lorenzo

[1]https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-July/127304.html
[2]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/Wikimedia_Italia/Proposal_form#OpenStreetMap



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board

2016-01-02 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno sab, 02/01/2016 alle 09.31 +0900, James Heilman ha scritto:
> Dear all
> 
> I have been accused of three things:
> [...]

Does the board agree that these three are the things contested to James?
 * Giving staff unrealistic expectations regarding potential board
   decisions;
 * Releasing private board information;
 * Publishing the statement about his removal on Wikimedia-l.
(the last one clearly cannot have had a role in his removal, so this
leaves the first two)

Laurentius



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect is gone

2015-11-05 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno gio, 05/11/2015 alle 18.35 +0100, Quim Gil ha scritto:
> Superprotect [1] was introduced by the Wikimedia Foundation to resolve
> a
> product development disagreement. We have not used it for resolving a
> dispute since. Consequently, today we are removing Superprotect from
> Wikimedia servers.

This is great news!

Just to understand, is it still present in MediaWiki but not active on
Wikimedia sites or it not in the MediaWiki code anymore?

Laurentius



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list

2015-11-03 Thread Laurentius 
At the end, is that mailing list currently active?
If it is, are you asking affiliates to join, or are affiliates expected
to contact you?

Laurentius

Il giorno ven, 16/10/2015 alle 00.04 +0300, Carlos M. Colina ha scritto:
> Dear all,
> 
> On behalf of the Affiliations Committe, I am pleased to introduce the 
> launch of the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list, which is basically a 
> place for all the affiliates (chapters, thematic organizations, user 
> groups) to discuss issues related to affiliates, make announcements to 
> other affiliates, and collaborate on activities and community-wide 
> events. The idea is to help facilitate the dialogue affiliates across 
> our movement, plus collaborative discussions like community-wide 
> activities, joint edit-a-thons, regional conferences, blog/report posts, 
> or other communications from affiliates.
> 
> Each Wikimedia movement affiliate is allocated three spots on the 
> mailing list. All affiliates may contact the Affiliations Committee to 
> request additional spots if needed.
> 
> Please find a bit more information on Meta: 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates/Affiliates_mailing_list
>  
> and do not hesitate contacting us if you have further questions.
> 
> Regards,
> Carlos




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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

2015-08-24 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno lun, 24/08/2015 alle 13.08 +0200, Jane Darnell ha scritto:
> What I meant to say is that though the impact
> of no banner might be great, it is not so great as it would be for
> those
> countries who can attract newbies to the competition. The Italian
> situation
> is so complicated that I don't think their proportion of "casual
> uploaders/experienced uploaders" is the same as for other countries,
> ergo,
> the banner would be less of an issue, though still an issue.

In any country you have a list of monuments and you can submit a picture
of one of those monuments. In Italy it's exactly the same.
The problem lies in building the list of monuments! But for the users,
it is not more difficult than in any other country.

What we do is asking to the organizations that have the rights on the
monuments to provide an authorization for uploading the pictures on
Commons during the contest. The participants to the contest do not have
any specific work to do related to this.

Laurentius



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

2015-08-21 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno gio, 20/08/2015 alle 01.26 -0400, Risker ha scritto:
>  [...] perhaps a big bright button on the sidebar that says "Upload
> images for Wiki Loves Monuments here!" may be technically feasible.

This might be a way to mitigate the problem, although I'm not sure
whether it's technically feasible.

Il giorno gio, 20/08/2015 alle 07.41 +0200, Ricordisamoa ha scritto:
> Any reasons the WLM 'banner' can't become a Main Page panel like the 
> ones on Commons?

This could be another one.

Il giorno mar, 18/08/2015 alle 23.39 +0200, Ilario Valdelli ha scritto:
> Yes it can be possible without touching the fundraising's banner.
> 
> The banner can be put in the Mediawiki:sitenotice in each project and 
> can cohabitate with the fundraising's banner.
> 
> The real problem is that a small banner can have only a limited
> effect.

And this one too (although I'm not a fan of this).

None of these will solve the problem, but I think they are worth of
consideration for it.wikipedia's community.

Lorenzo



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Chapters] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

2015-08-21 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno mer, 19/08/2015 alle 11.39 +0200, Claudia Garád ha scritto:
> The worst part was to explain our long-standing and important partner 
> the Federal Monuments Office that we can't have the banner time at 
> cruical dates in September (especially the days leading up to our
> events 
> around the national monuments day in Austria), at a time when all the 
> information material with dates etc. was already printed and
> distributed.

Yes, this will be an issue for WMI too. And WLM Italy has a lot of
partners.

Laurentius



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising

2015-08-19 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno mar, 18/08/2015 alle 20.42 +0200, Romaine Wiki ha scritto:
> [...]
> This is really sad for Italy. Extra sad because of the difficult
> copyright
> situation in Italy, what requires the local team already to do much
> much
> much more work than in most other countries, just to have a normal
> contest.
> The Italian team does a great job this year.

Since probably most people in wikimedia-l are not aware of this, I'll
add some background on the Italian situation an Wiki loves monuments,
and why it's actually extra sad for Italy in particular.

Wiki loves monuments is a big global project (one of the most successful
ever), but in Italy it's a bit peculiar.
The basic issue is that in Italy not only we don't have freedom of
panorama, but there is actually a law that prohibits to take pictures of
monuments, unless you get a specific authorization (and of course there
is no list of Italian monuments and no simple way to know who is
responsible for a specific monument).
Since we are not people easy to stop, four years ago we decided to start
asking for authorizations: we wrote to thousands of municipalities and
other institutions.
But every cloud has a silver lining, and we turned this problem into an
occasion to build relationships. For this year's edition, we secured
authorizations from 200 municipalities and 100 other institutions (so
far); and with part of them we are organizing events (~40) during
September.
This is a huge work: apart from the many volunteers involved, we have a
full time employee for WLM (Cristian Cenci) but actually also the rest
of our staff is dedicating a lot of time to this (summing up, 1,5-2 FTEs
as a yearly average). In particular, the budget of WLM in Italy is
probably higher than in any other country (not because we waste money,
but because of higher stakes).
Clearly having specific authorizations is not the ideal solution, so we
are actually advocating for a change in the law. Apart from taking part
in the European effort on copyright (the FKAGEU), we are are trying to
make the Italian politicians understand the issue (among other things,
we have recently had an event in the Italian parliament).

In short, this means that WLM in Italy is planned long ahead, we have
hundreds of institutional partner, and it is central to our strategy.

Lorenzo



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Does openly declaring your gender change the probability of having an upload overwritten?

2015-08-14 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno ven, 14/08/2015 alle 01.20 +0100, Fæ ha scritto:
> I'd appreciate any views on whether there is any statistical meaning
> to be
> pulled from these figures, apart from showing that men probably
> outnumber
> women contributors by ten times on Commons.

To have a real answer you should do a statistical test - after
addressing the considerations written by Tomasz.
However, my rough guess is that the answer is no: if you sum up the rows
and the columns, the proportions of declared male/female/none among
reverters and reverted are similar. I've put the numbers on the Commons
page [1].

Laurentius

[1]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Does_openly_declaring_your_gender_change_the_probability_of_having_an_upload_overwritten.3F


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect's first birthday

2015-08-11 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno mer, 12/08/2015 alle 01.11 +0900, Hong, Yongmin ha scritto:
> It has been a year (and a day) since the gerrit 153302 [1] has been
> merged
> and deployed to the dewiki.

And it's high time it got removed.

Laurentius



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Calling all Chapters re Wikimania Scholarships!

2015-01-27 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno lun, 26/01/2015 alle 16.53 -0800, Ellie Young ha scritto:
> I am attempting to do outreach to all the Wikimeida chapters  to
> assess which ones might be offering scholarships to Wikimania 2015
> being held in July in Mexico City.   The WMF Scholarship program's
> call for applications has been recently posted and the deadline for
> receiving applications is February 16.   The Scholarship Committee
> will be doing its review and making its recommendations to WMF from
> mid-February through mid-March.
> 
> If a chapter would like to be sent applications from  those submitted
> to the WMF Scholarships Program, please get in touch with me prior to
> February 16. It would also be helpful for planning purposes for me
> to know if a chapter will be offering scholarships directly (not
> making use of the applications to the WMF program).

Wikimedia Italia plans to offer scholarships directly, like in the past
years.
The call for applications are likely to come in 1-2 months from now
(usually scholarship are discussed together with the annual budget,
which is going to be approved in March).

Laurentius


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Become a Digital object identifier (DOI) registarnt

2014-12-31 Thread Laurentius 
Il giorno mer, 31/12/2014 alle 09.25 +0100, Federico Leva (Nemo) ha
scritto:
> Andy Mabbett, 30/12/2014 22:53:
> > Where 's the best on-wiki (Meta?) place to propose this?
> 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/RfC looks ok *if* you have enough 
> information already. For instance, AFAIK DOI has a non-negligible cost 
> and Internet Archive uses ARK instead for this reason.
> Information on the financial cost would certainly inform the discussion 
> significantly, e.g. to decide whether it's worth it at all or whether to 
> use curid instead, in your example https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=31445754

It looks quite expensive indeed:
http://www.medra.org/en/terms.htm

Laurentius


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising banner and chapter members

2014-06-23 Thread Laurentius 
Hi,

On mer, 2014-06-18 at 11:29 +0200, rupert THURNER wrote:
> Wmde had big success coupling the fundraising banner with a "how ti
> contribute" message (active, passive chapter members, community projects
> ...).

could you point us to more information about this?
(how was the banner, how it was shown, what was the result)

Laurentius


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Karthik Nadar appointed as WCA Council member for Wikimedia India

2013-03-04 Thread Laurentius 
In data lunedì 4 marzo 2013 15:28:00, Markus Glaser ha scritto:
> Great news! Welcome to the WCA, Wikimedia India and Karthik :)

Good news indeed. Welcome, Wikimedia India and Karthik!

Laurentius

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