[Wikimedia-l] Re: Invitation for Wikimedia Research Office hours September 07, 2021

Just a quick reminder that Wikimedia Research Office Hours will be happening later today in a bit more than 6 hours (16:00 UTC/9am PT/6pm CEST). To participate, join the video-call via this link: https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours More information here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wik

[Wikimedia-l] Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

*Translations can be found on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/2021-09-07/2021_Election_Results * Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2021 Board

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

Hello, Thanks for the announcement. I was expecting/hopeful to see a little more diverse result (continent/region etc,) Anyway, thanks to the organising team for your work. My good wishes to all the newly selected board members of Wikimedia Foundation. Congratulations!! ইতি, টিটো দত্ত (মাতৃভাষা থা

[Wikimedia-l] Paid editing dashboard and metrics?

Jan Böhmermann published an amazing expose on political WP editing in Germany; it gets good around 15 minutes in . In the video he exposed the workings of a paid editing farm run (by Olaf Kosinsk

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

Thank you to the team who did so much work to make this election happen. I think it was really important to trial the STV system with a large community participation to see whether it would yield a more diverse outcome. I too am disappointed (but not surprised) that STV had almost no effect at al

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

> > I too am disappointed (but not surprised) that STV had almost no effect at > all on the outcome of this election > This may be true, but if it's true, it was only true very narrowly. The margin between the 4th and 5th placed candidates was 12.27 votes in a situation where 1,188 were needed to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

Congratulations to Rosie, Victoria, Dariusz and Lorenzo! This system offers a helpful way of seeing whether there is a natural break in the election results. In this case there was a growing gap between 5th and 6th place results as the process resolved. Looking at the gap between (1 + 4), (4 + 5)

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

Hi, "(Is it still an option for the Board to do this and appoint Eliane, Mike, Pascale and Ivan and then skip next year's planned election?)" Unfortunately, that's not how STV works. Given a different number of seats to be filled would had produced a different quota, which would have resulted in

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

Hi all, congrats to the elected Board members. It’s great to see people stepping up and taking responsibility, especially in times where leadership is needed. Jackie, may I ask for some elaboration on the subject of this thread? You say „most contended … election“ and I wonder what that means. I

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

Hi Alice, Thanks for asking! The way we are intending "contended" is that it was the election everyone was waiting for. :) It was "pushed for" by the community for more than a year and now we gladly announce: it happened and here are the results! Best, Jackie On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 4:29 PM Alic

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

Thanks, Jackie! That is indeed different from what I understood and I’m glad about the change :-) Alice. > Am 07.09.2021 um 23:42 schrieb Jackie Koerner : > > Hi Alice, > > Thanks for asking! The way we are intending "contended" is that it was the > election everyone was waiting for. :) It

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Paid editing dashboard and metrics?

Aha -- I was pointed to en:wp's List of paid editing companies . (thanks!) This is a great resource and deserves to be better linked. The page is semi-active - 4 additions in the last month, including the Olaf case. I've cle

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Paid editing dashboard and metrics?

Given that it’s completely trivial to make new pseudonymous accounts how would you propose even remotely accurate data collection to measure paid editing? If we are worried about the impact of paid editors on the integrity of content, we are much better served investing even more in efforts to dra

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

Congratulations to the 4 winners. I saw that the STV system unveiled how the 4th and 5th positions (appears to be from a G7 country and a non G7 country) had switched. I am interested to know from which sector/s or Wikimedia project brought the switch of those two positions (starting from the 8th

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Paid editing dashboard and metrics?

Hi SJ, Just passing along a link shared @Waltercolor during another discussion about paid editing, https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Mois_anti-pub I completely agree that we need more ways to identify and reverse undisclosed paid editing. For a moment, the WMF's Scoring Platform team

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Results for the most contended Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election

A very good set of candidates and a good work done organizing the election. Elaine, also a very strong candidate was, with a small margin, just outside. Could she be made a official "reserve" candidate? In the election 2015 Danny resigned very soon after election, and the election committee t