[Wikimedia-l] Central and Eastern European Spring 2017

[Nikola Kalchev]

Dear Wikipedians of the world,

this year the article writing contest CEE Spring takes place for the third
time. It is a contest in which Wikipedians write about topics like the
culture, history, notable people, geography, etc., of the region of Central
and Eastern Europe. We are aiming to close the content gap about the region
on as many Wikipedias as possible and this year we are opening it for local
contests outside of the region. On most Wikipedias we, Wikipedians, write
about our own region and topics of worldwide significance. On most
Wikipedias there would be an article about your own history and the history
of the Roman Empire, but there would not be an article about the Kingdom of
Livonia, there would be an article about Luciano Pavarotti, but not about
Solomiya Krushelnytska, an article about Lord Byron, but not about Hristo
Botev.

You can help us close this knowledge gap by joining CEE Spring and
organising a local contest on your own Wikipedia. It starts on March 21st
and ends on May 31st. The local organisers from the CEE region will prepare
topics on their parts of the world and put them at [1], so that the
participants from your community can find inspiration easily. You can
follow our blog [2] and our Facebook page [3] where we share the stories of
the created articles and interesting topics. If you wish to organise a
contest on your wiki please add your wiki and name at [4].

And if someone creates something exceptional there might be a pleasant
surprise for them one day.

Best regards,

Nikola / User:Lord Bumbury

On behalf of the International Organising Team

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2017/Article_Lists

[2] http://ceespring.eu

[3] https://www.facebook.com/WCEESpring/

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2017/Participants
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[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to participate at Wiki Loves Earth 2017

[Nikola Kalchev]

Dear Wikimedia colleagues,

After four wonderful editions of Wiki Loves Earth resulting in over 300,000
new photos on Commons, we are happy to invite you to the 5th edition of
Wiki Loves Earth international photo contest –
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017

As a reminder, Wiki Loves Earth is focused on natural heritage (protected
natural areas of all possible types) in different countries. Like Wiki
Loves Monuments, the contest is organised in a federative way – meaning
that it depends only on YOU and your affiliate/group if the contest will
take place in your country.

Last year we had 26 participating countries organising local contests. In
addition, owing to partnership with UNESCO we had a special nomination for
photos of biosphere reserves all over the world, getting photos from 27
other countries, such as Argentina, Canada, Indonesia, Italy, South Africa
and many others. This shows that photographers around the world have a
great enthusiasm about Wiki Loves Earth – so we hope to see many of you
organising a local contest in your country this year!

In order to join please add your country on the contest page:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017

You can learn more on how to organise a contest in your country (it’s not
that difficult!) here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017/Organise

If you want to participate or are interested but not sure, we would like to
hear your say:

   -

   Please tell us what kind of assistance you would like to get from the
   international team! Just email us at wle-t...@wikimedia.org.ua to tell
   what you need to start in your country
   -

   To avoid eternal dissatisfaction with jury tools, we have set up a page
   with an action plan:
   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2017/Jury_tools.
   Please share your thoughts about it on the talk page!
   -

   Finally, you can subscribe to our mailing lists at
   https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesearth (
   wikilovesea...@lists.wikimedia.org) to get our updates.


We hope to see many new participants in Wiki Loves Earth this year and we
are happy to help you if you have any questions.

Best regards,

Nikola / User:Lord Bumbury

On behalf of the Wiki Loves Earth international team
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Victoria Coleman, WMF Chief Technology Officer

[Nikola Kalchev]

I am very impressed. A great career until now, good universities, published
books. Victoria, I wish you plenty of success! Welcome!
Nikola / User:Лорд Бъмбъри
Wikimedians of Bulgaria

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 5:07 AM, Nurunnaby Hasive 
wrote:

> Welcome Victoria.
>
> -Hasive
> WMBD
> @nhasive
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 2:36 AM, Bobby Shabangu 
> wrote:
>
> > Impressive resume,
> >
> > Welcome Victoria.
> >
> > On 03 Nov 2016 11:44 AM,  wrote:
> >
> > ‎Wow!!!
> >
> > This is a great news. Welcome Victoria on board.
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Olushola
> >
> > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
> >   Original Message
> > From: Tim Moritz Hector
> > Sent: Thursday, 3 November 2016 08:25
> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> > Reply To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> > Cc: Victoria Coleman
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Victoria Coleman, WMF Chief
> > Technology Officer
> >
> > A warm welcome to Wikimedia also from Germany, Victoria! I'm happy to see
> > you joining the movement and wish you a good start at the Wikimedia
> > Foundation.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Tim Moritz Hector
> >
> > Chair of the Board
> > Wikimedia Deutschland
> >
> > Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | D-10963 Berlin
> > http://www.wikimedia.de
> >
> > 2016-11-02 22:50 GMT+01:00 Damon Sicore :
> >
> > >
> > > Victoria,
> > >
> > > This is great news! I believe your talent, knowledge, and insight will
> > > boost and elevate the WMF community, and I know your positive
> personality
> > > will be warmly welcomed.
> > >
> > > Yours faithfully,
> > > Damon Sicore
> > > https://damon.sicore.com 
> > > 6E98 FBFB D192 D325 B85D D4FF FD2A 20ED DC1D 3975
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Nov 2, 2016, at 11:22 AM, Katherine Maher 
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > > I’m excited today to introduce the Wikimedia Foundation's new Chief
> > > > Technology Officer, Victoria Coleman. Victoria’s first day is
> November
> > 7,
> > > > and she will be based in the Foundation's office in San Francisco.
> > > >
> > > > Victoria comes to us with more than 20 years of experience in
> consumer
> > > and
> > > > enterprise technology. And as you’ll learn quickly when you start
> > getting
> > > > to know her, she is deeply passionate about the importance of
> > education,
> > > > and how the Wikimedia mission advances education and equity around
> the
> > > > world.
> > > >
> > > > When we started looking for a CTO for the Foundation, projects, and
> > > > communities, we knew we were looking for a unique person - someone
> with
> > > the
> > > > experience to lead confidently, and the confidence to embrace open
> > > > collaboration in leadership. We were looking for someone with a track
> > > > record of success leading strategy and execution for technology
> > platforms
> > > > at scale, someone will be an effective mentor and leader for our
> > > Technology
> > > > department, and a strong partner to Product teams. We needed someone
> > who
> > > > would thrive in our culture and be an inclusive collaborator with
> staff
> > > and
> > > > community. We agreed that Victoria met these requirements and then
> > some.
> > > >
> > > > Victoria has deep experience across consumer and enterprise
> technology
> > > > fields and is a longtime advocate for innovation in education and the
> > > > public sector. She has seen and done many things in her career, from
> > > > mobility platforms to connected devices to cyber security to web
> > services
> > > > at scale. She brings operational excellence in strategic long-term
> > > > planning, execution, delivery, and running large distributed teams.
> > > >
> > > > Most recently, Victoria served as Senior Vice President and Chief
> > > > Technology Officer for the Connected Home Division of Technicolor,
> > where
> > > > she was responsible for innovation strategy, product management,
> > > technology
> > > > roadmaps, and technical due diligence for acquisitions and
> > partnerships.
> > > > Previously, as Senior Vice President of Research and Development at
> > > Harman,
> > > > she led the core technology platforms of the Infotainment Division
> > > > including systems and software, media, tuner, navigation,
> connectivity,
> > > and
> > > > advanced driver assist systems. Before this, she served as Vice
> > > President,
> > > > Emerging Technologies at Nokia, Vice President, Software Engineering
> of
> > > > Hewlett-Packard’s webOS global business unit, and Vice President of
> > > > Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology.
> > > >
> > > > Victoria also has deep familiarity with open source software
> > development,
> > > > having witnessed the rise of the Unix movement first as a student and
> > > later
> > > > as an instructor. She has been actively involved in the development
> of
> > > the
> > > > Linux-based LiMo (renamed 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Marketing jobs at the Wikimedia Foundation

[Nikola Kalchev]

Hi,

when you write "we do not inform them how many reads were done for new
articles" you don't include all wikis, I hope. In the history section of
the articles on Bulgarian Wikipedia [0] there is a link to a pageviews
analysis [1] where everyone can see how often the article was read in the
last up to 90 days.

Best regards,
Nikola / User:Lord Bumbury

[0]
https://bg.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8_2016=history,
look for the word "посещенията".
[1]
https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=bg.wikipedia.org=all-access=user=latest-20=%D0%9B%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8_2016

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Gerard Meijssen 
wrote:

> Hoi,
> Yes. It is indeed another area where we could do a lot better. We do not
> show how effective the work is that people do. We do not inform them how
> many reads were done for new articles. All things that are really easy to
> do when we think of it. But we do not.
>
> So yes we need marketing to get new people and we need marketing to keep
> the people that appear. That is also something that is of what marketing
> people do; how to get and keep a market.
> Thanks,
>  GerardM
>
> On 28 August 2016 at 17:19, David Goodman  wrote:
>
> > Marketing can  get someone to buy a product once; the problem is to get
> > them to buy another, and that depends on the quality of the product. It
> is
> > much easier to get new first time editors than to give them the
> > encouragement and satisfaction to keep them going.
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
> > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hoi,
> > > At the research mailing list two relevant activities were mentioned
> that
> > do
> > > not adequately take place.
> > >
> > > * *Gamified interfaces for microcontributions à la Wikidata game*
> > > ** **Ubiquitous outreach, supported by dedicated technology*
> > >
> > > The notion exists that it is possible to do all kind of technological
> > > things to make things stand out more but the big problem is imho not
> > > technological. It is not content, it is the awareness that marketing is
> > > more than selling things.
> > >
> > > A respected Wikimedian made the bold statement that "Wikipedia could
> > > absolutely have 100x the number of editors it has now".I would argue
> that
> > > this is correct
> > >
> > > My question is not could marketing methods make a difference but what
> > > objectives do we have that will benefit from a marketing approach. What
> > > does it take to be more pro-active towards our objectives?
> > > Thanks,
> > >GerardM
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Goodman
> >
> > DGG at the enWP
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DGG
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Chapters] [Affiliates] Changes to current chapter and thematic organisation criteria

[Nikola Kalchev]

First of all, thanks to the AffCom for defining the criteria. I am
positively surprised and impressed that they managed to do it since
Wikimania when I was told in a private chat that I could forget about
having my user group recognised as a chapter this year. Thank you all, who
made this possible in such a short time!

I've taken the pains of reading the whole discussion and it seems that
there are two main points of discussion:
- quantitative vs qualitative criteria and
- the possibility to transform chapters in user groups and disband user
groups.

I strongly oppose to only quantitative criteria. Some have to be in place
and I expect the AffCom to define meaningful quantitative criteria for the
recognition of user groups and chapters, but I expect that a group of
serious and experienced community members has the right to overwrite the
quantitative criteria if considered needed. This way the communities will
know what to aim at, but if the standard aims are not suitable for the
cultural and/or political context of the place where they act, exceptions
must be allowed.

Organisation should be transformable and the criteria should hold for
everyone. There already is a process of deciding who is allowed to send
representatives to the Wikimedia Conference and something similar should be
set up for the upgrading and downgrading of organisations.

This said, I would gladly see user groups and chapters getting as similar
rights and responsibilities as possible. I do not understand why a rather
inactive chapter can send 2 to 4 delegates to the Wikimedia Conference,
have a vote for affiliate-elected WMF seats and be allowed to sign the
trademark agreement, while a very active user group can send 1 delegate,
cannot decide on the future of the WMF BoT and has to go through a tedious
process every time they wish to use the Wikimedia logo and name. This way
aspiring user groups are being deprived of possibilities to develop and by
doing that to enable the creation of more free content even faster. Imagine
a chapter with five active Wikimedians and a user group with ten. These
exist.

Best regards,
Nikola / User:Lord Bumbury
Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Ilario Valdelli  wrote:

> Hi,
> I appreciate the effort, it's interesting but there should more flexibility
> in my opinion.
>
> All is relative. Probably in Estonia, to do an outdoor activity, people
> must wait more time than buying a loaf of bread in Venezuela. Depending on
> the variable everyone has more difficulties than another, but it's
> different to divide the world into good and bad.
>
> Some criteria should be meet, I agree, but the flexibility and more a
> matrix of criteria makes sense.
>
> The biggest problem in a general concept of rules is to introduce global
> rules that can kill the diversity.
>
> They will help to have standardized and well defined entities and easy to
> monitor, but also similar and undifferentiated entities.
>
> To measure a maturity of a model the best would be to introduce a
> combination of variables and not only three. It would be good to have,
> let's say, three different parameters for each areas to have at least 9
> different standards as a combination.
>
> I think that a more flexible criteria can be a valid support.
>
> Kind regards
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Carlos M. Colina 
> wrote:
>
> > Hello Pine,
> >
> > El 19/08/2016 a las 06:28 p.m., Pine W escribió:
> >
> > Hi Carlos,
> >
> > In general, I like the new criteria.
> >
> > I would like to suggest making the criteria entirely quantitative, so
> that
> > there is minimal subjectivity about whether or not affiliates are meeting
> > these standards and therefore there is likely to be less controversy
> about
> > the status of affiliates.
> >
> >
> > The problem of  making the criteria entirely quantitative is that the
> > context where affiliates operate is not the same across the world. We
> > cannot apply a rigid, based in fixed numbers criteria because the
> situation
> > of Estonia or The Netherlands, to give an example, is not the same of
> > Venezuela, where people need to queue for hours just to buy a loaf of
> > bread, if they happen to be lucky enough to find a bakery operating, or
> > where scheduled 4-hour daily blackouts are the norm across the country
> > except for the capital.
> >
> > If all affiliates operated in the same conditions, that would be another
> > story.
> >
> > --
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts right now

[Nikola Kalchev]

As a patroller on my homewiki I can say that 15 of the 50 most active
editors according to stats.wikimedia.org would be capable of answering the
questions in one of the ten languages. Those are the people who translate
articles from the ten languages of the survey (13 from English, 2 from
Russian). Ask a few more patrollers from other communities, multiply by the
number of very active editors on those wikis and divide by the number of
asked patrollers :). It is not impossible to get a rough estimate.

Best regards,
User:Lord Bumbury / Nikola Kalchev
Wikimedians of Bulgaria, a Wikimedia CEE Spring international organiser

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak <dar...@alk.edu.pl>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Nikola Kalchev <nikola.kalc...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dariusz, thank you for your clarification. I understand that translations
>> take time.
>>
>> Would you please elaborate on the assumption that the most important
>> principle of the ED search committee was speed and not, e.g. participation
>> of a larger part of the community? What would the bad effects of a 2 months
>> longer search on the WMF be?
>>
>
> The assumption is that any organization under an interim leader is
> basically frozen. An interim leader is unlikely to make any change. Also,
> one of the gripes of the past was a long (way over a year) process of ED
> searching. The ED search team wants to avoid repeating this.
>
>
>
>
>>
>> I fear that user groups will be underrepresented again (another notable
>> example is the number of representatives at the WMCON with chapters having
>> up to four participants and user groups exactly one). There are 59 user
>> groups and (as well as I could count) only 10 of them will be able to
>> participate at the survey in their own language. Why was the opinion of 49
>> user groups considered less worth that a delay of two months?
>>
>
> I think the main assumption may have been that there will be decreasing
> differences - that is, the differences between the views expressed in the
> 10 major languages will not be big in general. Of course, we will see
> whether there are significant differences within these 10.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru>
>  wrote:
>
>> Whereas I fully understand and partially share the sentiment, may I
>> please repeat the question I asked on this list in relation to a similar
>> topic some time ago. Could we estimate a number of active community members
>> (whom we would reasonably expect to participate in the survey) who do not
>> speak any of the languages to which the survey was translated, to the point
>> that their ability to fill in the survey would depend on the others? If
>> this is a considerable number, or if it is less significant but
>> considerably compromises on the representation, which languages do these
>> community members speak?
>>
>>
> Yaroslav's question is a good one - I don't know from the top of my head
> how to estimate this easily. However, let me repeat: we are asking general
> questions, and the results are not binding. It is not an issue of
> representation. I doubt if there will be huge cultural differences to the
> extent that the questionnaire would bring different results if 10 more
> languages were added, mainly because I think that wiki-world is quite
> hermetic and has a culture of its own.
>
>
> cheers,
>
> dj
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts right now

[Nikola Kalchev]

Dariusz, thank you for your clarification. I understand that translations
take time.

Would you please elaborate on the assumption that the most important
principle of the ED search committee was speed and not, e.g. participation
of a larger part of the community? What would the bad effects of a 2 months
longer search on the WMF be?

I fear that user groups will be underrepresented again (another notable
example is the number of representatives at the WMCON with chapters having
up to four participants and user groups exactly one). There are 59 user
groups and (as well as I could count) only 10 of them will be able to
participate at the survey in their own language. Why was the opinion of 49
user groups considered less worth that a delay of two months?

Best regards,
User:Lord Bumbury / Nikola Kalchev
Wikimedians of Bulgaria, a Wikimedia CEE Spring International organiser

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak <dar...@alk.edu.pl>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 1:08 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Board search folks,
> > Can you comment in response to the email from Lord Bumbury?
> >
> >
> it is difficult for me to respond, as I agree in principle. I think we
> should have more than just 9 most dominant languages, and as the bottom
> line we should allow for additional translations to be made.
>
> However, the most important principle that the ED search committee assumed
> was speed. For quite a while we have been considering if we can afford
> several weeks for the survey (with translations, before and after, adding
> about a month to our search, over just 1 language version). We decided that
> we definitely need input from the communities other than just the English
> one, but we made a hard choice to go just for the ones we could have had
> speedily translated.
>
> This is highly suboptimal, and I understand Nikola's disappointment. From
> my point of view, this is something we need to improve in the future -
> perhaps by finding a large, multilanguge translation agency (especially
> since the quality of raw output varied and we had to make serious proof
> reading with the help of ad hoc volunteers), and also making translating
> into some 20-30 languages a default in important cases. This time we wanted
> to go with a quick general survey, hoping that the choices we're asking
> about will not differ radically between languages (since our culture is
> very specific). We will know from the results if this intuition was more or
> less right (that is, if there will be significant differences between the
> languages we went with).
>
> best,
>
> dj
>
>
>
>
> > On Jun 1, 2016 14:21, "Nikola Kalchev" <nikola.kalc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > about the ED search survey [0] I, as a member of an emerging community,
> > the
> > > Bulgarian one [1], disagree that anyone wants "to invite also emerging
> > > communities". Translating the survey into "the 9 major languages of our
> > > projects" is not enough. Letting emerging communities participate, and
> in
> > > my region [2] there are quite a few active ones, who collaborate on
> some
> > of
> > > the largest projects in the wikiverse like Wikimedia CEE Spring [3] and
> > > Wiki Loves Earth [4]. We might not have large communities, but together
> > we
> > > build a very large and strong one and we work hard for bringing free
> > > knowledge to the world. Depriving those of our members, who do not know
> > > those "9 major languages" of the right to participate in the discussion
> > > about the future of our global movement, does not make me feel that the
> > > wished change in direction transparency transparency is on track; this
> > > rather makes me feel as in a large corporation where a small group of
> > > people decide about the future of the organisation and pretend to
> engage
> > > the masses by populistic pseudo-measures.
> > >
> > > The only two languages of the 30 countries of Central and Eastern
> Europe
> > > among those in the survey are Polish and Russian. 838 active
> Ukrainianian
> > > editors, 658 active Turks, 638 active Czechs, 419 active Serbs, 418
> > active
> > > Hungarians and 5501 active editors from the region in total will not be
> > > able to answer in their own language (reference: Wikimedia CEE Spring
> > > 2016/Goals <
> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016/Goals>).
> > > I plead that the money that we donate be used for translating the
> > questions
> > > at 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts right now

[Nikola Kalchev]

Hello,

about the ED search survey [0] I, as a member of an emerging community, the
Bulgarian one [1], disagree that anyone wants "to invite also emerging
communities". Translating the survey into "the 9 major languages of our
projects" is not enough. Letting emerging communities participate, and in
my region [2] there are quite a few active ones, who collaborate on some of
the largest projects in the wikiverse like Wikimedia CEE Spring [3] and
Wiki Loves Earth [4]. We might not have large communities, but together we
build a very large and strong one and we work hard for bringing free
knowledge to the world. Depriving those of our members, who do not know
those "9 major languages" of the right to participate in the discussion
about the future of our global movement, does not make me feel that the
wished change in direction transparency transparency is on track; this
rather makes me feel as in a large corporation where a small group of
people decide about the future of the organisation and pretend to engage
the masses by populistic pseudo-measures.

The only two languages of the 30 countries of Central and Eastern Europe
among those in the survey are Polish and Russian. 838 active Ukrainianian
editors, 658 active Turks, 638 active Czechs, 419 active Serbs, 418 active
Hungarians and 5501 active editors from the region in total will not be
able to answer in their own language (reference: Wikimedia CEE Spring
2016/Goals <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016/Goals>).
I plead that the money that we donate be used for translating the questions
at least in the languages with more than 200 active editors, or at least
that volunteers are allowed to translate the questions. Furthermore I
request that in order to get more input the survey runs for a month instead
of a week. Important decisions should not be taken in a hurry.

Best regards,
User:Lord Bumbury / Nikola Kalchev
Wikimedians of Bulgaria, a Wikimedia CEE Spring International organiser

[0]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director_Transition_Team/2016/Updates/CW20_update
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Bulgaria
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Central_and_Eastern_Europe
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Earth

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Luis Sanabria <lsanab...@ieee.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 12:29 AM, Alice Wiegand <awieg...@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
>
> > Our survey is currently open in the top 10 wiki languages. A sample of
> > editors from various languages have been invited to participate and we
> are
> > also sending an invitations to anyone here and through our networks.
> Please
> > participate in the survey and help us to shape the new ED’s profile.
> >
> >
> >
> I read here [1] that the survey will be open for 1 week.
>
> Does that mean it will be open until June 8 (inclusive)?
>
> Saludos,
> Luis Sanabria
>
> [1]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director_Transition_Team/2016/Updates/CW20_update
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) - Hopefully the first of Many

[Nikola Kalchev]

Peter,

3) yes, it takes most people only 1 minute to make a payment by credit card
or paypal.

Best regards,
User:Lord Bumbury / Nikola
Wikimedians of Bulgaria

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Peter Southwood <
peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:

> Comments:
> 1) Too much black background - looks ominous and unfriendly
> 2) Like you said - that not particularly representative cup of coffee
> 3) Does it really take most people only 1 minute to make a payment? For me
> it usually takes several. Is this a local US thing?
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On
> Behalf Of Michael Peel
> Sent: Monday, 09 May 2016 8:33 PM
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising Testing Update (Friday 6th May) -
> Hopefully the first of Many
>
>
> > On 9 May 2016, at 18:36, Béria Lima  wrote:
> >
> > My 2 cents :D
> >
> > 1. I can't see the banner (not using the link posted or going by
> > CentralNotice) Could someone who can see it take a print please? :D
>
> Here's a screenshot as it appears on my computer:
> http://www.mikepeel.net/temp/wmf_fundraiser_got.pdf
>
> The part of it that sounds odd to me is that it still includes the
> statement "If everyone reading this right now gave $3, our fundraiser would
> be done within an hour." - is that still true for more
> narrowly-focused/seen banners, and for year-round fundraising? Plus, the
> expensive cup of coffee's still mentioned. ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia CEE Spring 2016

[Nikola Kalchev]

Dear Wikipedians from all over the world,

for 10 days now the arguably largest article writing contest has been
taking place in Central and Eastern Europe - Wikimedia CEE Spring [1]. For
72 days Wikipedians from 29 communities [2] will be writing about the
culture, history, important persons and much more about the region on their
Wikipedias. The contest aims at closing content gaps about countries,
regions [3] and languages [4] from the region. Each community created a
list of at least 100 articles [5] which it would like to see written in all
languages and all other communities are doing so with fervour! Communities
as large communities as the Russian, Ukrainian and Polish ones, and as
small as the Sakhan, Estonian and Macedonian ones, have joined. Highly
motivated local organisers and guys with magical technical skills have
emerged from all the communities and have made organising the contest an
easy task.

At the moment of writing the Ukrainians are leading the pack when it comes
to the highest amoung of created and significantly expanded articles [6]
and most articles have been written from Hungary's lists [7]. Participants
are gladly sharing their articles with their friends via a Facebook page
[8]. Over 1000 articles from the lists and over 1400 in total have been
created or significantly expanded during the first 10 days [6][7].

Some communities have special prizes aiming at closing the content gender
gap, too. Most countries have put notable women in their wished topics. The
project is funded by an international grant [9] which covers expenses for
books and other source materials for writing articles on Wikipedia and its
sister projects of up to 400 Euro per community.

Spread the word and write some articles about CEE!

Nikola Kalchev / User:Лорд Бъмбъри / Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group
On behalf of the international organising team

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016
[2] We started with 21, but more and more are joining!
[3] CEE politics is complicated
[4] We claim the Esperanto language for ourselves
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016/Article_Lists
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BaseBot/CEES/MMXVI/Wikis (not all
Wikipedias included)
[7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016/Structure/Statistics
[8] https://www.facebook.com/WCEESpring/
[9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_CEE/CEE_Spring
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-wiki notifications beta feature now available on all wikis

[Nikola Kalchev]

Thank you very much, Catrope!

This is indeed very helpful for people who are mostly active on one wiki,
but want to check meta and commons every now and then, too.

One dream is fulfilled. The, next, to be able to have wikidata items in the
watchlist of my home wiki (=bgwiki) is in line.

Best regards,
Nikola / User:Лорд Бъмбъри

On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Carlos Mora 
wrote:

> I actived this new beta feature and I find messages on wikis since one
> year or more. xD
>
> Is a wonderful feature, good work!
>
> 2016-03-11 18:50 GMT-04:30 Pete Forsyth :
> > I've enjoyed finding some messages I never knew were there, such as a
> > welcome message from two years ago on Basque Wikipedia, and a substantive
> > reply I had missed on Wikinews for 4 months. It's refreshing for a new
> > feature to make me immediately feel more connected to other volunteers.
> > Well done!
> > -Pete
> > [[User:Peteforsyth]]
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Sydney Poore 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Awesome news!!! I really appreciate this new feature.
> >>
> >> Sydney
> >>
> >> Sydney Poore
> >> User:FloNight
> >> Wikipedian in Residence
> >> at Cochrane Collaboration
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:07 AM, Roan Kattouw 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > In late 2015 and early 2016, the Collaboration team worked on
> building a
> >> > cross-wiki notification feature: listing notifications from other
> wikis
> >> in
> >> > the notification panel. We made this feature available on a small set
> of
> >> > wikis [1] initially, and about six hours ago we made it available on
> all
> >> > wikis as a beta feature.
> >> >
> >> > You can enable cross-wiki notifications by clicking the "Beta" link
> [2]
> >> in
> >> > the top right corner (or top left in RTL languages) and enabling the
> >> > "Enhanced notifications" setting. The notification panels (accessible
> >> > through the bell and speech bubble icons in the top right/left corner)
> >> will
> >> > now display an additional item telling you which other wikis you have
> >> > unread notifications on, and you can click this item to expand it and
> see
> >> > those notifications [3]. For more information, see the documentation
> on
> >> > mediawiki.org [4], with mostly complete translations in 13 languages
> at
> >> > the
> >> > time of this writing.
> >> >
> >> > Because we don't have cross-wiki preferences, enabling the beta
> feature
> >> on
> >> > one wiki doesn't automatically enable it on any other wiki. However,
> you
> >> > only have to enable the beta feature to see cross-wiki notifications
> on a
> >> > wiki, not to get them from that wiki. For example, if you only enable
> the
> >> > beta feature on the French Wikipedia, you will see notifications from
> the
> >> > French Wikisource, the Spanish Wikipedia and the Upper Sorbian
> Wiktionary
> >> > even if you haven't enabled the beta feature on those wikis. In fact,
> if
> >> > you've had an account for a while, you are likely to see some very old
> >> > notifications from wikis you haven't visited in years; Magnus Manske
> >> > tweeted a screenshot of this yesterday [5].
> >> >
> >> > Please try this out and let us know what you think! There's a talk
> page
> >> on
> >> > mediawiki.org [6] where you can leave feedback. If you find a bug,
> >> please
> >> > report it on Phabricator [7] or on the feedback page.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks a lot to the Collaboration team [8] as well as community
> liaisons
> >> > Nick Wilson (Quiddity) and Benoît Evellin (Trizek) for their work on
> this
> >> > over the past few months.
> >> >
> >> > --Roan Kattouw (User:Catrope)
> >> >
> >> > [1] All French wikis, all Hebrew wikis, Commons, Wikidata and
> >> > mediawiki.org
> >> > [2] Or go to [[Special:Preferences]] and click the "Beta features" tab
> >> > [3]
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Notification_panel_with_cross-wiki_notification.png
> >> > [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki
> >> > [5] https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/707712047065210882
> >> > [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Notifications
> >> > [7]
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projectPHIDs=Notifications
> >> > [8] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff#Collaboration
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Access and Participation in the ASBS

[Nikola Kalchev]

The voters do not have to know English. The board members of a national
organisation do things for which they might or might not need knowledge of
foreign languages. As antanana pointed out, five of seven board members of
Wikimedia Ukraine know English. The situation is similar in other chapters.
Obviously those who know English take care of international projects, but
the others must have the possibility to read about all the candidates,
because they are also representatives of their community. I am quite sure
that each affiliate will be able to find a person to translate the resumes
from English into their own language, but I am also quite sure that not
everybody would like to do it in the volunteer time.

Лорд Бъмбъри / Nikola Kalchev

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On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 10:56 AM, John Mark Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru>
> wrote:
> > On 2016-03-06 09:26, Gnangarra wrote:
> >>
> >> You would think though that someone who wanted to represent all of the
> >> affiliates would endeavor to have their statement translated into as
> many
> >> languages as possible to ensure their message got heard by the most
> amount
> >> of people, even if they did it themselves using one of the many
> >> translation
> >> programs available.
> >>
> >> The affiliates if they are transparent will be asking for input from
> their
> >> members as to who they should be supporting, I'd consider it as
> important
> >> but also a courtesy to all communities
> >>
> >
> > Do we have a list of languages into which the statements REALLY need to
> be
> > translated? I would say, with all due respect, that translating it to
> > Swedish and Dutch is rather a waste of time, whereas translating for
> example
> > to Spanish and Italian might indeed help.
>
> We could use the same list of languages as the process for the
> community elected/selected seats?
>
> This is also being discussed at
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016#Messy_list
>
> --
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Facebook as a discussion mediam (was: Post mortems)

[Nikola Kalchev]

For my part I can say that I've moved some discussions to Facebook, because
there the communication flow is faster. In a group chat there are no edit
conflicts and, since Wikipedians tend to write fast, the conversation goes
almost with the speed of talking.

Another usage of Facebook is for communication in a hidden group. We use a
hidden group for discussing our social media posts and blog posts which we
do not want to discuss publicly, in order to not spoil the surprise in
them.

For some documents like grant proposals or reports I, among others, have
tended to use Google Docs as a platform for the creation of a draft of a
certain document, which was then discussed by a core team before it went
public on meta or elsewhere.

So, the two reasons for moving discussions out of the wikiverse are *faster
communication* and the *possibility to discuss stuff in a private
environment*. I would be really glad if there were a good chat function in
the wikiverse or if we started using namespaces, which are already part of
MediaWiki, but are not being used as a place for private discussions, at
least in my environment.

Best regards,
Nikola (User:Лорд Бъмбъри)
Wikimedians of Bulgaria

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 1:35 AM, Pete Forsyth  wrote:

> I think the discussion about post-mortems is vitally important, so I'm
> adding a new subject line for the discussion about the venue. I was one of
> the people involved in the discussion of post-mortems, and I'll add my
> comments to the original thread (and summarize what others have said) in a
> moment.
> -Pete
> [[User:Peteforsyth]]
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Risker  wrote:
>
> > I can agree with what you're saying, Craig.  I can also understand what
> > Brandon is saying - that some people prefer that interface.
> >
> > Unlike many Facebook pages, though, this one is not public and cannot be
> > viewed by anyone who does not have a FB account.  It's the one venue that
> > many interested parties cannot even read, let alone participate in,
> unless
> > they're willing to give up some fairly significant privacy.  I am
> > disappointed, but I do not hold it against anyone for preferring to
> discuss
> > issues in a venue not associated with Wikimedia.
> >
> > Risker/Anne
> >
> > On 21 February 2016 at 19:01, Craig Franklin 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > People will have discussions at a location that is personally
> convenient
> > > for them.  Unless you're going to reprogram human nature, I don't see
> > that
> > > there's anything to be done about the resulting balkanisation of the
> > > discussion.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Craig
> > >
> > > On 22 February 2016 at 09:54, Thyge  wrote:
> > >
> > > > I really wonder why wikimedia discussions have migrated to FB. Are we
> > > > applying for a grant?
> > > >
> > > > Thyge
> > > >
> > > > 2016-02-22 0:51 GMT+01:00 Newyorkbrad :
> > > >
> > > > > I too am one of those people who is not to be found on Facebook.  I
> > > > > only have room in my life for one online timesink ... and I already
> > > > > have Wikipedia :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Newyorkbrad
> > > > >
> > > > > On 2/21/16, Risker  wrote:
> > > > > > As has already been explained on this list, many people do not
> have
> > > > > access
> > > > > > to Facebook.  If this is something germane and useful to a lot of
> > > > people
> > > > > on
> > > > > > this list, perhaps it would be appropriate to ask Jonathan to
> post
> > it
> > > > > here.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Risker/Anne
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 21 February 2016 at 18:34, Anthony Cole 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >> For those not following, I recommend the discussion in response
> to
> > > > > >> Jonathan
> > > > > >> Cardy's comment here:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/permalink/960989863948845/
> > > > > >>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Facebook marketing inside pt.wikipedia

[Nikola Kalchev]

Hello Tomasz and everyone else

according to https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaBG.htm the
number of active editors has raised by 19% in January, but it might as well
be because there were Christmas holidays in December. I do not believe we
have enough data to make a good quantitative analysis.

Something else we organised was a weekly "wikigame" – we asked a question
on social media and Wikipedia every day and the person who answered the
most questions correctly got a book for up to 15 Euro (the price of a
pretty good paperback edition of books, which can be used as sources). That
lead to a few new editors and a few new articles. I believe social media
have a potential and we will see that during CEE Spring. The themes were
Olympic games, football, art, history of Bulgaria and geography.

Best regards,
Nikola


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:47 PM, John Mark Vandenberg 
wrote:

> Indonesian Wikipedia has used site notice to link to their Facebook
> group, Twitter, and Instagram for years.
>
> Their facebook page has 97,236 likes.  https://www.facebook.com/id.wiki
> posts often get 100 likes
>
> compare with Wikimedia Commons page, with 2,793 likes, and posts
> usually attract < 10 likes.
> https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.Commons/
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Joseph Seddon 
> wrote:
> > Hey Rodrigo,
> >
> > I don't know of any example where Site Notice has been used in the past
> to
> > point people to facebook.
> >
> > Although the intentions behind what is being proposed are good ones, I
> > think there are probably issues that surround neutrality and with the
> very
> > different privacy policy of facebook.
> >
> > Based on those things alone it is not something I would recommend. I
> would
> > be happy to follow up with you further off list if you would like to
> > discuss this further.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > --
> > Seddon
> >
> > *Advancement Associate (Community Engagement)*
> > *Wikimedia Foundation*
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Rodrigo Padula <
> > rodrigopad...@wikimedia.org.br> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello fellows!
> >>
> >> Since the end of the last year some contributors from pt.wikipedia are
> >> discussing regarding the idea of including the promotion of our Facebook
> >> Page on site Notice [1]
> >>
> >> That proposal was started by Teles, a Brazilian steward. He received a
> lot
> >> of local support.
> >>
> >> The general idea is to bring more people from Facebook to access
> Wikipedia
> >> through our Facebook page, but what we are doing is redirecting users
> from
> >> pt.wikipedia to Facebook and including a free Facebook ads on
> pt.wikipedia.
> >>
> >> I would like to know if it is ok for the Wikimedia Movement and if this
> >> kind of Facebook promotional campaign was proposed and published in
> other
> >> wikipedias/wikimedia projects.
> >>
> >> [1]
> >>
> https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/propostas/Inserir_p%C3%A1gina_da_Wikip%C3%A9dia_em_portugu%C3%AAs_do_Facebook_no_sitenotice_%2825nov2015%29
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >>
> >> Rodrigo Padula
> >> Coordenador de Projetos
> >> Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa
> >> http://www.wikimedia.org.br
> >> +55 21 99326-0558
> >>
> >>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Facebook marketing inside pt.wikipedia

[Nikola Kalchev]

Hello Rodrigo,

on Bulgarian Wikipedia we put a text asking readers to like our Facebook
page, our Twitter and Google+ accounts, as well to visit our blog [1]. The
Facebook likes went up from 1923 to 5381 in a month, 126 people followed us
on Twitter (virtually nobody did it before that), 123 people followed us on
Google+ and the reader numbers on our blog went significantly up (I don't
have the data right now). Nobody in the community objected to this and we
would probably do it again some day. We decided to remove it after a month,
because we saw that the number of new likes declined over time.

Best regards,
Nikola (User:Лорд Бъмбъри
)
Wikimedians of Bulgaria

[1]
https://bg.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8:Sitenotice=7097975
(it says "Like the page of Wikipedia in Bulgarian on Facebook
. You can also follow us on Twitter
 and Google+
 as well as visit our
blog ").

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On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Rodrigo Padula <
rodrigopad...@wikimedia.org.br> wrote:

> Hello fellows!
>
> Since the end of the last year some contributors from pt.wikipedia are
> discussing regarding the idea of including the promotion of our Facebook
> Page on site Notice [1]
>
> That proposal was started by Teles, a Brazilian steward. He received a lot
> of local support.
>
> The general idea is to bring more people from Facebook to access Wikipedia
> through our Facebook page, but what we are doing is redirecting users from
> pt.wikipedia to Facebook and including a free Facebook ads on pt.wikipedia.
>
> I would like to know if it is ok for the Wikimedia Movement and if this
> kind of Facebook promotional campaign was proposed and published in other
> wikipedias/wikimedia projects.
>
> [1]
> https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/propostas/Inserir_p%C3%A1gina_da_Wikip%C3%A9dia_em_portugu%C3%AAs_do_Facebook_no_sitenotice_%2825nov2015%29
>
> Best regards
>
> Rodrigo Padula
> Coordenador de Projetos
> Grupo Wikimedia Brasileiro de Educação e Pesquisa
> http://www.wikimedia.org.br
> +55 21 99326-0558
>
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