Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] USA elections in real time - as viewed by Wikipedia users

[Tomasz Finc]

This is going to be a fun one to watch over the next many months.
Thank for the link Yuri

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Yuri Astrakhan
 wrote:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/US_Politics_Real_Time
>
> Thanks Dario Taraborelli for the idea.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] @WikipediaZero Twitter account

[Tomasz Finc]

It's up to Carolynnes team to figure out if they want to use it or not.

--tomasz

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Dan Garry  wrote:
> I could be mistaken, but I think Tomasz is the owner. CCing him.
>
> Dan
>
>
> On 13 August 2014 11:19, Andy Mabbett  wrote:
>>
>> Who owns the @WikipediaZero Twitter account? It's only ever had one
>> post, and that seems a missed opportunity.
>>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you Mobile team

[Tomasz Finc]

And for those wondering who all is on the mobile team you can find them here

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_web/Team

Congrats to the team for their success.

--tomasz


On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 3:47 AM, Àlex Hinojo  wrote:
> +1
>
> I've been doing wiki workshops for Amical during last couple of years and
> since 6 months ago or so I ONLY train newbies with the visual editor. My
> role on the workshop now is reduced to explain how extra features are done.
>
> So kudos to the mobile team. And I know is not perfect. Is just wiki ;)
>
>
>
>
> 2014-07-11 10:16 GMT+02:00 Pierre-Selim :
>
>> 2014-07-11 10:06 GMT+02:00 Pine W :
>>
>> > While we're talking about technology issues on WIkimedia-l, I'd like to
>> say
>> > that now that I've worked my way over a few speedbumps with mobile
>> editing
>> > I'm happy with the direction that mobile editing is going, so thank you
>> > Mobile team.
>> >
>>
>> +1
>>
>> I also want to add, that I'm happy with the Visual Editor. It's not
>> perfect, but for basic editing it works just fine. I've had very nice
>> feedback from new user during training on how Visual Editor works.
>>
>>
>> >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Video Documentary about Wikimania

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thank you for this Victor

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Victor Grigas  wrote:
> Hello Wikimedians,
>
> Last year, I went to Wikimania to create a documentary about the convention
> itself, to educate the public about what Wikimania is and simulate the
> feeling of what it's like to be there.
>
> Here is the short documentary:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2013_in_Hong_Kong.webm
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq8ZgIeYmow
> https://vimeo.com/101369412
>
> Here is a version without burned-in English-language subtitles (I'll be
> adding open captions to this one soon):
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimania_2013_in_Hong_Kong_%28no_subtitles%29.webm
>
> Blog post here:
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/22/look-back-wikimania-2013/
>
> My thanks to everyone who let me interview them on camera last year.
>
> I'll be at Wikimania in London this year looking more stories from
> Wikimedians - I hope to see you there :)
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcome Rachel diCerbo, Director of Community Engagement

[Tomasz Finc]

Welcome Rachel. Glad to have you here.

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Erik Moeller  wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> It’s my great pleasure to tell you that Rachel diCerbo is joining us
> as Director of Community Engagement (Product), starting today. In this
> role, Rachel will manage the community liaison team (Keegan Peterzell,
> Sherry Snyder, Nick Wilson, and Erica Litrenta) and ensure that our
> technical projects receive community engagement support throughout
> their development.
>
> Rachel discovered her love for collaborative communities with
> Couchsurfing. When she joined the community in 2005, Couchsurfing was
> a small non-profit, with essential functions being filled by
> volunteers. This included responding to safety issues: staying at
> someone else’s home or hosting a stranger carries risks, some obvious,
> some less so. Rachel founded and led the community’s all-volunteer
> safety team. She was also a member of the non-profit’s Board of
> Directors from 2007-2011.
>
> After volunteering for two years, she joined the organization
> full-time as Head of Trust & Safety in 2008. She was responsible for
> enacting policies related to incident reporting, profile removal, and
> other safety issues, and handled any high level legal issues and
> communications related to Couchsurfing member safety. She implemented
> training, documentation, and case review processes for her team.
>
> As part of her role, she also directly interfaced with Couchsurfing’s
> engineering team and helped scope functionality related to safety &
> moderation. The work on the safety team also equipped her well for
> working across culture and languages, as issues would often arise
> around differing cultural sensitivities. She’s travelled to 38
> countries and lived on 5 continents.
>
> Prior to Couchsurfing, Rachel pursued a passion for theater while
> temping in various roles for various companies. Her additional
> interests include digital rights, women’s rights and safety worldwide,
> and scuba diving. In her spare time, she seeks to perfect her pulled
> pork recipe, sews, and reads all the things.
>
> Rachel is new to the community, and due to the nature of her role,
> she’ll be spending some time just learning how to edit and how things
> work in our weird & wonderful world. She’s planning a face-to-face
> meeting with her team the week of June 9th and will be attending
> WikiConference USA later this week.
>
> Please join me in welcoming Rachel to the Wikimedia Foundation and to
> the community.
>
> Warmly,
>
> Erik
>
> PS: Big thanks to everyone who’s been part of the search process, to
> the liaison team for doing awesome work in an emerging structure, and
> to Philippe, Maggie and Howie for all their work in bootstrapping the
> team, and for supporting Rachel as she steps into the role. :-)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Howdy from Wil

[Tomasz Finc]

Welcome Wil. Glad to have you here.

--tomasz

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Wil Sinclair  wrote:
> I'm Wil Sinclair, Lila Tretikov's significant other.
>
> I've always wanted a good excuse to get involved in the Wikipedia
> project and the Wikipedia community. Lila's appointment would be about
> as good as it gets. :)
>
> I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone and understanding more
> about what makes the community and the Foundation tick. Feel free to contact
> me directly at wllm(at)wllm(dot)com anytime about anything.
>
> Best.
> ,Wil
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Indonesia and Humanitarian Open Street Map receive ALL VOICES GRANT

[Tomasz Finc]

Congrats! Eager to see what great things are built.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Isabella Apriyana
 wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We are happy to inform you that Wikimedia Indonesia and Humanitarian
> OpenStreetMap Team (HOT OSM) just received the news that our proposal
> submitted to "Making All Voices Count" grant program was accepted. We
> got £ 31,000
> worth of grant to work on growing open content in Kalimantan, Indonesia.
>
> The proposal was submitted last year and co-written by Wikimedia
> (Siska Doviana, Ivonne Kristiani, John Vandenberg) and HOT OSM (Kate
> Chapman and Yantisa Akhadi). We are so excited because this is our first
> big collaboration project together and out of 500 proposals worldwide
> (well, seven countries) only 28 received funding, and we are one of them. We
> also realized that we just became internationally competitive in grant
> seeking. Thank you to them, and back to work for us!
>
> Official page from Making All Voices Count:
>
> http://www.makingallvoicescount.org/project/open-content-in-kalimantan-wikipedia-openstreetmap-for-transparency/
>
>
> Cheers,
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraiser Update

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thanks for the update Megan and congrats on getting this far

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Megan Hernandez
 wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've just posted a new update on meta.  Please take a look and leave any
> questions or comments on the talk page:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013
>
> On Monday, we started limiting the number of banners we are displaying to
> readers.  If you continue to see banners more than just one more time (on
> the same device), please let us
> know.
>
> Donations are still coming in and settling in our accounts, so donation
> totals are preliminary and will be adjusting in the next few weeks.  So far
> this fiscal year, we've raised (very roughly) $27 million from nearly 2
> million small dollar donors.  We will raise the remaining $13 million now
> through the end of the fiscal year in June 2014.  The team is planning to
> put English banners up again at a higher level around December 31 for a
> final year-end push.  All of the multilingual campaigns will run in 2014.
>
> We will post a full report of the fundraiser along with test reports from
> hundreds of A/B banner tests in 2014 once we get through reconciliation and
> analysis.
>
> Thank you very much to everyone involved in the fundraiser this year.  It's
> still not over quite yet, but we've had a very successful and exciting
> couple of weeks.
>
> Megan
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] First Wikimedia-related contributor Kickstarter?

[Tomasz Finc]

Very cool. As a big fan of video games, kick starter, and commons this is a
nice set of worlds colliding. Big props to Evan-Amos for the work he's
already done.

I'd love to get notifications when new images are contributed by him.
Currently I can go to Special:ListFiles to see what he's uploaded but that
requires an action from me.

Does anyone know if I can have echo notify me when a new upload by a
particular users occurs? Effectively I'd like to a notification and/or
stream of users I've followed on Commons so that I can then take those
images and use them on articles. If not maybe it'll be a fun side project
for me.

--tomasz

[1]  - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Evan-Amos


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Nathan  wrote:

> A post is live on Gizmodo today about a Commons contributor (Evan-Amos) who
> takes high quality photos of video game systems and hardware.[1] Towards
> the end it mentions that Evan started a Kickstarter to fund his efforts to
> buy and photograph more systems as part of an online museum.[2]
>
> Anyone know if this is the first Wikimedia-related Kickstarter campaign, or
> has it happened before? What do people think about someone raising ~$13k to
> contribute photos to Commons? How does that fit in the debate about paid
> editing? To me it has a very different feel than, say, Wiki-PR. But...
>
> [1]
>
> http://gizmodo.com/how-i-became-gamings-most-popular-and-anonymous-photog-1456749754
> [2]
>
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1699256938/the-vanamo-online-game-museum
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Grassroots campaign for Wikipedia Zero collaboration page

[Tomasz Finc]

Nice job Victor. I can't wait to see where this goes.

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Victor Grigas  wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Yesterday I posted a note on
> Meta
> about
> getting Wikipedians organized to collaborate in the grassroots effort for
> free access to Wikipedia on cellphones - the effort started by high
> schoolers in a slum in South Africa.
>
> (blog post from last week:)
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/19/movement-for-free-access-to-wikipedia-south-africa/
>
> User:Oarabile Mudongo created this page to organize the effort for anyone
> who wants to get involved:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Unlock_The_Secrets_Of_Wikipedia_Zero
> This is the page to start collaborating.
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

[Tomasz Finc]

Looping Dan Foy in who's managing the Zero backlog.

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 8:01 AM, MZMcBride  wrote:
> K. Peachey wrote:
>>Can you please file this in bugzilla ?
>
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48856
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia mobile application development

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On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:37 PM, MZMcBride  wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've been having difficulty wrapping my head around Wikimedia's (relatively)
> recent efforts in mobile application development. I understand that reaching
> users on mobile platforms is important to the Wikimedia Foundation and I've
> read  and related
> pages.

Great to see these pages getting used

>
> Mobile seems to have two branches these days: (1) the mobile versions of the
> sites; and more recently (2) specific mobile applications. Branch 1 is
> fairly understandable. What I'm having difficulty understanding is branch 2.

While mobile has two branches, I wouldn't slice it that way. The way
that we look at it is either

* Smart phone development - editing, image uploads, mobile web, apps,
mobile frontend, etc
* Alternate access methods - S40 (J2ME), SMS/USSD, & Zero

> The idea behind free and open content is that the content can be taken and
> reused and redistributed by others without issue. That's part of the great
> beauty of Wikimedia wikis. With a vibrant app market for both Androids and
> iPhones, why is Wikimedia getting involved in mobile application
> development? Isn't this something best left to third parties (which, as I
> understand it, have already filled the "Wikipedia app" niche with a variety
> of options for both platforms) or interested volunteers?

No, its really not and we've heard from countless people that it
wasn't working. There are a number of reasons that my team was asked
to do mobile apps and i'll list some of them below

* Whenever we talk with carriers about partnering with us they want to
see a suite of products they can provide on our behalf. These can
range from a basic bookmarks on the mobile web, sms access, to a
listing our app within their own markets. Any one thing missing ends
the conversation pretty quickly. I suggest reading the original blog
post from January http://bit.ly/IFoti4 to gain more insite. Kul &
Amit can elaborate more on this.

* Were constantly getting asked about why "insert new Wikipedia app
name" in "new app store" has ads, is not free, and in general doesn't
provide a polished experience. Users are confused why the foundation
would provide so many bad offerings in each of the apps stores because
they associate most apps in the market with something that the
foundation has done. I've had users approach me and ask why the
foundation puts ads inside their apps and even after explaining that
we have no affiliation they insist that its a poor reflection of our
projects. No matter how we look at it ... were being judged on behalf
of any app that is showing people data from Wikipedia. Rather then
having to explain why there are so many bad ones we decided to provide
a better solution then the rest to raise awareness that you a) dont
have to see ads b) don't have to pay for basic features like saving
pages and c) have control in the future direction of the project.

* It's a great way to eat our own dog food. Apps should always be
decoupled and with the next release of both of our apps we'll have
learned a ton about how our API's are deficient. By better
understanding these use cases we've extended functionality for such
things as loading articles into small chunks and our mobile web
projects will soon be receiving the same benefits. Re-using code like
this is key to making both our projects better and third party apps
faster.

* People use them. No matter if your a fan of apps or not they've
replaced the function of bookmarks for most mobile users. They provide
a faster and easier way of accessing content and our stats are
starting to show it. In just under a month of metrics we've already
seen 20+ million page views from the official android app and growth
is continuing.

* Code re-use. Whenever companies build native apps they have to
create separate code bases. We chose not to do that. Through the use
of PhoneGap were re-using more and more code with each release. It
work bi-directionally and allows us move quickly without a significant
investment on either end.

* Community outreach. We've run three hackathons that focused on
mobile and nothing was as popular as working for Android. The barrier
to entry for working on the mobile projects has been dropped
significantly and now its one of the easiest Wikimedia projects to
join. Since their decoupled and work with standard web tech ... its
been really easy to get volunteers engaged and involved.

I could go on but i'll end here for now.

--tomasz

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