[Wikimedia-l] Help us review the third round of Research Fund proposals

[Kinneret Gordon]

Hello everyone, In October, we announced this year's call for proposals to
the Wikimedia Research Fund [1]. Our submission deadline was December 15.
We are now in the exciting phase of reviewing submissions and making
recommendations for which proposals to advance to Stage II [2] and we
welcome your input. The review process consists of technical reviews
conducted by researchers, along with open community feedback, before
advancing to the next stages. The community feedback process will take
place on Meta-Wiki where you can read the proposals under consideration and
leave comments using our feedback form linked from every proposal page [3].
The proposals have been categorized by project and regional focus in order
to ease the review process [4]. The deadline for providing feedback is *January
30, 2024 (23:59 AoE)*. If you have any questions, please contact us at
research_fund(a)wikimedia.org. Thank you for your time. Kinneret, on behalf
of the Research Fund Organizing Committee [5]

[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/SLFAWPKCJI3QCAYW43O6QEVGK7SJAMBQ/

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund/Wikimedia_Research_Fund#

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_Wikimedia_Research_Fund_applications_in_FY_2023-24

[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund/Wikimedia_Research_Fund#Review_submissions

[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund/Wikimedia_Research_Fund#Organizing_Committee

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[Wikimedia-l] Help us review the second round of Research Fund proposals

[Emily Lescak]

Hello,

In September, we announced [1] our second call for proposals to the
Wikimedia Research Fund [2]. Our submission deadline was December 16. We
are now in the exciting phase of reviewing submissions and making
recommendations for which proposals to advance to Stage II [3] and we
welcome your input.

We are using a two-phase review process consisting of a technical review
conducted by researchers and an open community process on Meta-Wiki [4]
before advancing to the next stages. On Meta-Wiki, you can read the
proposals under consideration and leave comments using our feedback form
linked from every proposal page.

We will review feedback provided by January 27th (23:59 AoE). If you have
any questions, please contact us at research_f...@wikimedia.org.

Thank you for your time.

Emily, on behalf of the Research Fund Organizing Committee [5]

[1]

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AIEGBXGQVGMQSCCQ6KOICGBTFHVQ4HSC/

[2]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund/Wikimedia_Research_Fund


[3]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund/Wikimedia_Research_Fund#How_we_fund


[4]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund/Wikimedia_Research_Fund#Review_submissions


[5]

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund/Wikimedia_Research_Fund#Organizing_Committee



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[Wikimedia-l] Help us review the first round of Research Fund proposals

[Emily Lescak]

Hello,

In November, we announced [1] our first call for proposals to the Wikimedia
Research Fund [2]. Our submission deadline was January 3rd. We are now in
the exciting phase of reviewing submissions and making recommendations for
which proposals to advance to Stage II [3] and we welcome your input.

We are using a two-phase review process consisting of a technical review
conducted by researchers and an open community process on Meta [4] before
advancing to the next stages. On Meta, you can read the 33 proposals under
consideration from more than 20 countries and leave comments using our
feedback form linked from every proposal page.

The deadline for feedback is February 7th (23:59 AoE). If you have any
questions, please contact us at research_f...@wikimedia.org.

Thank you for your time.

Emily, on behalf of the Research Fund Organizing Committee [5]

[1]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/11/03/launch-of-the-wikimedia-research-fund/

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund#Wikimedia_Research_Fund


[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund


[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Proposed_Wikimedia_Research_Fund_applications_in_FY_2021-22


[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund#Organizing_Committee



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[Wikimedia-l] Help us organize for #WikiForHumanRights!

[Alex Stinson]

Hello all,

We are excited for #WikiForHumanRights -- at the office hours and
afterwards community groups throughout the movement have already connected
with us about organizing. This year we are going to focus on the "right to
a healthy environment" and we need your help!

What can you do?

If you like to organize an event, we have created a list of ideas at:
https://w.wiki/33kh. You can also learn more about kinds of activities from
our last office hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_QEE60hcFk  Keep in
mind that we are support rapid grants to help you go further by means of
financial support rapid grants will be available through April 15 -- please
apply any time during that window through the application process.


If you are organizing an event, please add it to the table at:
https://w.wiki/35gK

We will also have a content-writing challenge with prizes from April 15 -
May 15 you can learn more about the challenge and sign up for the challenge
at:  https://w.wiki/35gE

We also have developed a draft list of articles to be created or enriched
with UN Human Rights: https://w.wiki/33ki . We hope these inspire you to
think about what your community could do to fill the gaps on your wikis
about the right to  healthy environment: this could include topics related
to human rights, climate or environmental justice, communities impacted by
environmental health issues, or similar.


We encourage working on Wikipedia and on sister projects: Commons,
Wikidata, Wiktionary ... etc.

If you have a question, you can send us an email (Alex Stinson:
astin...@wikimedia.org, Michel Bakni: mbakni-...@wikimedia.org), or you can
attend the support and mentoring meeting we are organizing on Zoom on at 14:00
(GMT)  18 March 2021. [1]



Alex Stinson and Michel Bakni

Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns Team


[1]
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/95654457998?pwd=ajQ5V3pabExuUnU2VmdvT2RKMURKdz09


-- Forwarded message -
From: Alex Stinson 
Date: Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:53 AM
Subject: WikiForHumanRights at Campaign Team Office Hours and upcoming
WMSusDev meeting
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


Dear Community,

As we announced during December,[1] this year’s WikiForHumanRights campaign
will be arriving for Earth Day this year: April 15-May 15. The theme is
“Right to a Healthy Environment” -- connecting the 20th Birthday “Human”
theme with the global conversations about COVID-19, environmental crisis,
like climate change, and human rights.You can learn more about the theme at
our under-development home page. [2]

The campaign will have two parts: a challenge, like the WikiGap Challenge,
and decentralized digital and in-person events (where COVID-19 risk
assessments allow).

We need your help organizing the decentralized events -- and will be
supporting development of activities through mentoring and rapid grants.



Do you want to be part of organizing?  The Campaigns Team at the Wikimedia
Foundation invites you to:

   -

   the upcoming Wikimedians for Sustainable Development meeting on 21
   February at 11:00am UTC [3]
   -

   Our next virtual office hour on 25 February 2021 at 3:00pm UTC via
   zoom.[4]



If you are interested, but can’t attend the meeting: you can also join the
Wikimedians for Sustainable Development communication channels for general
updates [5] or the WikiForHumanRights telegram channel, where we will share
more updates for organizers [6].



Please forward this information to movement organizers who you think will
be interested.


Looking forward to talking with you soon!



Alex Stinson



[1]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/10/wikiforhumanrights-2021-help-share-human-rights-knowledge-on-wikipedia-and-beyond/


[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights

[3 ]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting


[4] See
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Campaigns_Team#Office_Hour_4:_WikiForHumanRights_2021
or https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/97336292017

[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development#Communication_channels


[6] https://t.me/joinchat/Ifp3xRo2fEIk_ecpZLdTEg
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[Wikimedia-l] Help smaller wiki communities grow their technical capacity!

[Srishti Sethi]

Hello all,

Small Wiki Toolkits (SWT) is an initiative to support small wiki
communities by sharing and developing technical skills needed to support,
maintain, and grow a language wiki. You can learn more about it here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits

As a next step for this initiative, we would like to share with you some
ideas on how you can be a part of this:

   - Contribute to a Starter kit 
   by proposing or helping develop and write recommendations for technical
   topics in simple English.
   - Develop toolkits using the recommendations
   
   on the SWT page. You can see existing toolkits in the
   Category:Small_wiki_toolkits
    on
   Wikimedia Commons.
   - Learn technical topics using the resources
    on the
   SWT page and apply the skills gained to provide technical support to a
   small wiki community.
   - Translate resources such as the SWT page itself and tutorials on
   technical topics linked from it.
   - Provide technical support
   

   on the support desk on mediawiki.org, mailing lists, etc.
   - Organize a technical workshop or a session to help a small wiki
   community.

If you want to help with any of the above or there is anything else you
would like to share around building local capacity in a small wiki,
please start
a discussion on the talk page
 and/or add your
name to the list of interested members
.

Cheers,
The Small Wiki Toolkits Initiative

*Srishti Sethi*
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Help us Communicate #WikiForHumanRights

[Alex Stinson]

Hi everyone,

Today, since it's International Human Rights day we’re starting some public
promotion of the #WikiForHumanRights campaign, and we would appreciate your
help in spreading the word!

On social media this week, we’re highlighting community edit-a-thons and
events, facts about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and asking
everyone to reflect on the role of human rights in their own lives. We’ll
be promoting the campaign throughout December and January,  so there are
plenty of opportunities to get involved.

If you are interested in sharing the campaign’s messages on social media,
please retweet and share from @Wikipedia and @Wikimedia on Twitter,
Facebook, and Instagram. You can also find draft messages, hashtags, and
campaign gifs in the “communicate and share the campaign!” section of the
campaign page on Meta.[1]

If your local community isn’t yet engaged in the campaign, you can learn
how to organize and get involved online on the Organize page on Meta. [2]

Thanks!

Alex

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share

[2]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize


On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 2:36 PM Alex Stinson  wrote:

> Hello all, and apologies for crossposting!
>
> I hope you are doing well!
>
> As you may have noticed when we announced the partnership in August [1]:
> the Wikimedia Foundation is working with the UN Human Rights to help expand
> the availability of knowledge about human rights online.
>
> As one of our first collaborations, we are going to be running a campaign
> from November 15 - January 30 to add and improve knowledge about human
> rights on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The initial focus of the
> campaign will be on improving articles about topics related to the UN
> Declaration of Human Rights and youth standing up for human rights.  More
> information about the campaign is also available here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
>
>
> We would like to invite you to get involved in the campaign in one of
> several ways:
>
> Help us build the list!
>
>-
>
>We need your help identifying more topics related to youth involved in
>human rights that don’t have articles on Wikipedia or could use further
>improvement. We would like to represent many different languages and
>geographies in the campaign. To propose topics for the list, see
>instructions at:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/List#Adding_a_topic_to_the_Youth_Lists
>
>
>
> Organize an online or offline event!
>
> We need your help finding community leaders from throughout the Wikimedia
> to:
>
>-
>
>Host an online campaign on your language Wikipedia! To learn more
>about hosting a local topical campaign see the kit here:
>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Campaign
>-
>
>Hold an in person editathon with local human rights organizations or
>partners! To learn more, check out the kit here:
>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Editathon
>
>
> Promote the campaign starting Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day!
>
> Help us amplify your efforts around the campaign and publicize it to wide
> audiences. We’ll be sharing a communications toolkit (including graphics)
> soon with suggestions on reaching out to folks about the campaign.
>
>-
>
>   Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public
>   can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading
>   the word.
>   -
>
>   Promote the campaign on social media: We’ll be using
>   #WikiForHumanRights to promote the campaign on social media, when we
>   increase the communication to the public on 10 December
>
>
> If you want to help in other ways, let us know on the discuss space
> #human-rights tag
> 
> or by emailing Alex Stinson  educac...@wikimedia.org.ar>
>
> If you are interested, let us know by indicating your interest to organize
> in the Organize sections linked above!
>
> Note: We are still updating the communications assets for the campaign! To
> watch for those materials, add
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share to your meta
> watchlist.
>
> Have questions?
>
> If you have questions, we are going to be hosting an office hour next
> Tuesday
> ,
> or you can ask questions on the discuss space #human-rights tag
> 
> .
>
> Looking forward to your engagement with the campaign!
>
> Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation
>
> Luisina Ferrante, Wikimedia Argentina
>
>
> [1]
> 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help need

[WМ RepublikaSrpska]

Hello James!
I just tried to upload photo. Everything is fine. Thank you very much!

Best regards,
Bojana


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пет, 10. авг 2018. у 23:58 James Forrester  је
написао/ла:

> On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 11:31 WМ RepublikaSrpska <
> wmrepublikasrp...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > In Republic of Srpska there is a photo-competition Trace of Soul 2018
> > 
> (WLE+WLM)
> > in
> > progress. Yesterday and today we receive a few e-mails from competitors -
> > they complained that they have a problem with photo upload. We have
> tested,
> > and in third step, after release rights a page got "freezed". Does anyone
> > know what is the problem? We really need help. Thanks!
> >
>
> I'm sorry that you and those competitors ran into this issue. I've just
> pushed out a fix for this as an emergency patch, which seems from my
> testing to make everything work. Thanks for highlighting the bug (recorded
> on Phabricator  for the
> curious), and our apologies again.
>
> James
> --
>
> James D. Forrester
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help need

[James Forrester]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 11:31 WМ RepublikaSrpska 
wrote:

> In Republic of Srpska there is a photo-competition Trace of Soul 2018
>  (WLE+WLM)
> in
> progress. Yesterday and today we receive a few e-mails from competitors -
> they complained that they have a problem with photo upload. We have tested,
> and in third step, after release rights a page got "freezed". Does anyone
> know what is the problem? We really need help. Thanks!
>

I'm sorry that you and those competitors ran into this issue. I've just
pushed out a fix for this as an emergency patch, which seems from my
testing to make everything work. Thanks for highlighting the bug (recorded
on Phabricator  for the
curious), and our apologies again.

James
-- 

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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester at wikimedia.org
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@jdforrester

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help need

[Toby Negrin]

Hi Bojana - a quick note that we have received this message and are looking
into the issue. We’ll follow up directly to your email address.

-Toby

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:31 WМ RepublikaSrpska <
wmrepublikasrp...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> In Republic of Srpska there is a photo-competition Trace of Soul 2018
>  (WLE+WLM)
> in
> progress. Yesterday and today we receive a few e-mails from competitors -
> they complained that they have a problem with photo upload. We have tested,
> and in third step, after release rights a page got "freezed". Does anyone
> know what is the problem? We really need help. Thanks!
>
> Bojana Podgorica
>
>
> *Замислите свет у коме свака особа на планети има слободан приступ
> целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.*
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[Wikimedia-l] Help need

[WМ RepublikaSrpska]

Hello All,

In Republic of Srpska there is a photo-competition Trace of Soul 2018
 (WLE+WLM) in
progress. Yesterday and today we receive a few e-mails from competitors -
they complained that they have a problem with photo upload. We have tested,
and in third step, after release rights a page got "freezed". Does anyone
know what is the problem? We really need help. Thanks!

Bojana Podgorica


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[Wikimedia-l] Help us build Toolhub

[James Hare]

Hello everyone, sorry for cross-posting.

What does your participation on the Wikimedia projects look like? Do you
edit articles? Upload files? Patrol vandalism? Translate articles?
Translate interface messages? Do you organize people, online or offline? Do
you train new editors, or new trainers? Do you write code?

There are many different ways to contribute to Wikimedia – more than you
would expect just from reading Wikipedia articles. With many kinds of
contributions there are many tools you can use, most of which have been
developed by our volunteer community. But do you know how to find these
tools?

Since January the Wikimedia Cloud Services team at the Wikimedia Foundation
has been meeting with contributors, organizers, and tool developers to
learn more about the role tools play in our communities' work. We have also
been researching existing methods for organizing lists of tools – at least
14 of them, including popular tool catalogs like Hay's Tool Directory.[0]
With this research, we hope to figure out how best to put the right tools
in front of the right people.

For this, we need your help. We have a page on Meta summarizing our current
work,[1] as well as a proposed data model for describing tools.[2] Consider
what work you currently do, whether you contribute content, code,
organizing support, what have you – and ask: if there was a tool you needed
to complete a certain task, would you know where to look? How would you
look for it? Please look over [1] and [2] and let us know what you think.
Feedback is welcome in any language. If you would like to get in touch
privately, you are also welcome to email me at jh...@wikimedia.org.


Best regards,
James Hare

[0] https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/directory/
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/Data_model


James Hare
Associate Product Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
https://wikimediafoundation.org
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[Wikimedia-l] Help requested for finding certain subjects in your local Wikipedia

[Romaine Wiki]

Hi all,

In the Dutch part of Belgium there exists a performing arts database, and
they are donating parts of it to Wikidata. Over the past century they have
collected the theatre venues and festivals where a Flemish theatre group
had its première. For many locations I already found an article in
Wikipedia or an item in Wikidata, for some not yet. For those of which no
article nor item could be found, I need your help!

Please help me identify which venues and festivals from your country listed
on this page have in your Wikipedia already an article?
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Romaine/Kunstenpunt_venues
You can edit the page!

The countries of what I have at least one or more locations are:

Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belarus
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Congo-Kinshasa
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Iceland
Iran
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Morocco
Netherlands
Norway
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Switzerland
Taiwan
Turkey
UK
USA
Vietnam

Thanks!
Romaine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi all,

On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 14:28:47 +
geni  wrote:

> On 22 February 2017 at 12:06, Enock Seth Nyamador  wrote:
> > Am good now :). Thanks all.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > - Enock
> >  
> 
> this is one of the reasons I keep a secondary browser for wikipedia
> stuff only. I'd recommend seamonkey
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey or Vivaldi
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)

One can also use a different "profile" of firefox/etc. which supports running
several browsers with different profiles simultaneously, all in the same user
and the same session. See:

* https://duckduckgo.com/?q=firefox+profiles=web

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

[geni]

On 22 February 2017 at 12:06, Enock Seth Nyamador  wrote:
> Am good now :). Thanks all.
>
> Best,
>
> - Enock
>

this is one of the reasons I keep a secondary browser for wikipedia
stuff only. I'd recommend seamonkey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey or Vivaldi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Am good now :). Thanks all.

Best,

- Enock

2017-02-21 19:29 GMT+00:00 Thibaut P. :

> Hello,
>
> There's a bug affecting recent versions of Firefox, the fix is described
> here: .
>
> Regards,
> Thibaut
>
> On 21.02.2017 20:16, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:
> > Hello Wikimedians,
> >
> > Saw the message in this image [1] one week ago but didn't take it
> serious.
> > Now it seems to be real. I can't Save. The screenshot [1] show messages
> > from frwp and enwp when I tried to save my changes.
> >
> > Yes, I've tried logging in and out several times.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > 1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99n1pG7IHtJdy1VeFZXX19HYTQ/view
> >
> > - Enock
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

[Thibaut P .]

Hello,

There's a bug affecting recent versions of Firefox, the fix is described 
here: .

Regards,
Thibaut

On 21.02.2017 20:16, Enock Seth Nyamador wrote:
> Hello Wikimedians,
>
> Saw the message in this image [1] one week ago but didn't take it serious.
> Now it seems to be real. I can't Save. The screenshot [1] show messages
> from frwp and enwp when I tried to save my changes.
>
> Yes, I've tried logging in and out several times.
>
> Best,
>
> 1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99n1pG7IHtJdy1VeFZXX19HYTQ/view
>
> - Enock
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

[Chico Venancio]

I have experienced this as well. For the problem went away when I restarted
the browser and logged out then logged in again. I'm not sure if this is a
local browser issue or if the session data got messed up server-side, but
getting a new session was the only way to solve it for me.

Chico Venancio

2017-02-21 16:16 GMT-03:00 Enock Seth Nyamador :

> Hello Wikimedians,
>
> Saw the message in this image [1] one week ago but didn't take it serious.
> Now it seems to be real. I can't Save. The screenshot [1] show messages
> from frwp and enwp when I tried to save my changes.
>
> Yes, I've tried logging in and out several times.
>
> Best,
>
> 1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99n1pG7IHtJdy1VeFZXX19HYTQ/view
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

[Amir E. Aharoni]

This happened lately to a lot of Wikipedians, including myself. See
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151770 for the technical details.

Briefly, if you delete all your cookies and log back in to Wikipedia, then
this should work. (Deleting your cookies will cause you to get logged out
of all your websites where you have accountes, so be sure that you remember
all your passwords or get ready to processing a lot of password reminder
emails :)


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2017-02-21 21:16 GMT+02:00 Enock Seth Nyamador :

> Hello Wikimedians,
>
> Saw the message in this image [1] one week ago but didn't take it serious.
> Now it seems to be real. I can't Save. The screenshot [1] show messages
> from frwp and enwp when I tried to save my changes.
>
> Yes, I've tried logging in and out several times.
>
> Best,
>
> 1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99n1pG7IHtJdy1VeFZXX19HYTQ/view
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Help! Can't save on any Wikipedia

[Enock Seth Nyamador]

Hello Wikimedians,

Saw the message in this image [1] one week ago but didn't take it serious.
Now it seems to be real. I can't Save. The screenshot [1] show messages
from frwp and enwp when I tried to save my changes.

Yes, I've tried logging in and out several times.

Best,

1. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99n1pG7IHtJdy1VeFZXX19HYTQ/view

- Enock
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] help, how much money goes to volunteers?

[rupert THURNER]

hi fae,

i do not think the level of detail you describe below will be of any
help, it might cause only work without benefit. IMO it would be
sufficient if every organization tells open how much money goes to
volunteers. for a starter, how much was IEG in 2015 ?

rupert

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Fæ  wrote:
> I cannot answer your question, but I am unsure if numbers would mean
> much unless large changes (like more than 20%) are indicated. Here's
> why -
>
> The key problem with working out how much of a volunteer fund goes to
> volunteers, is that reports rarely separate out the money that is
> nominally spent on 'volunteer projects' from the money that directly
> funds a volunteer activity.
>
> Based on past discussions and the experience of real cases, this means that:
>
> 1. Employees or contractors of the WMF or affiliated organizations may
> use volunteer budgets for expenses, travel or scholarships if they
> want to identify themselves as a volunteer in that context. For
> example, many people funded as Wikimedians in Residence may have no
> travel funding and will rely on a volunteer grant, or chapters may not
> provide funds for employees to travel and contribute to events not
> directly within their scope of employment.
>
> 2. A grant for a volunteer project may require reporting of outcomes
> and specific evidence of some expenses, but there is a cost of
> administering the grant before it gets granted, there are costs of
> proposing the grant that may or may not be funded from other grants,
> and there are costs of administration of the money and reporting on
> it, while the project runs. In cases where this can be analysed, the
> overhead costs are in the order of 20% to 50%. In some cases, the
> end-to-end costs of administering a grant from the WMF, to a local
> organization, and then to a specific project means that less than half
> of the money going to a volunteer project was actually used by
> volunteers to deliver a planned outcome.
>
> It's a problem, and unclear reporting of administrative overheads
> really does not help. Changes over the last couple of years to the way
> the WMF and chapters work, means that overhead costs invariably move
> from a central overhead charge, to being absorbed into project
> budgets, making the end-to-end overhead/admin costs almost impossible
> to deduce, unless detailed project time accounting and individual
> expenses are made public (which is never going to happen). The end
> result is that we cannot judge whether reports of reduced
> administration costs, are due to a smart accounting change, or the
> result of hard won meaningful improvements.
>
> Fae
>
> On 14 April 2016 at 10:48, rupert THURNER  wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> on the question how much money will go to volunteers next year,
>> katherine stated that the 2016 grants budget is 5.8 mio, out of 63 mio
>> [1]. my guess was that between 1 and 2 mio would go to volunteers.
>>
>> i have a little difficulty to calculate the number. i saw the 2016 fdc
>> numbers [2], 5.5 mio. WMDE writes that the annual fundraising gives 84
>> mio usd (i.e. 75 mio eur) [3]. on the grants page i do not see numbers
>> [4]. the german community budget page does not list numbers. [5]. WMDE
>> writes that it pays 6 mio a year to WMF [6]. at the same time it gets
>> 1.3 mio via FDC from WMF [7]. there is some indication about money to
>> volunteers in the FDC split up from WMDE [8].
>>
>> my guess was that 0.5 mio usd are support for wikimania travel
>> including funds to make wikimania cheaper in genaral, and 0.5-1.5 mio
>> via various community projects (e.g. the one of WMDE), individual
>> engagement grants to volunteers, summing up to <2 mio usd a year
>> beeing paid to cover volunteers expenses.
>>
>> can somebody please chime in here with better guesses, or real
>> numbers, maybe directly at [1]?
>>
>> [1] 
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/draft#money_distribution_to_volunteers
>> [2] 
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_2016-17_FDC_budget_recommendation
>> [3] https://wikimedia.de/wiki/Factsheet#Daten.2C_Zahlen.2C_Fakten
>> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start
>> [5] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community-Budget
>> [6] 
>> https://www.wikimedia.de/w/images.homepage/a/ad/Wmde_jb_2014_engl_web_RZ.pdf
>> [7] 
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_round_1
>> [8] 
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Wikimedia_Deutschland_e.V./Proposal_form
>>
>> best
>> rupert
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] help, how much money goes to volunteers?

[Fæ]

I cannot answer your question, but I am unsure if numbers would mean
much unless large changes (like more than 20%) are indicated. Here's
why -

The key problem with working out how much of a volunteer fund goes to
volunteers, is that reports rarely separate out the money that is
nominally spent on 'volunteer projects' from the money that directly
funds a volunteer activity.

Based on past discussions and the experience of real cases, this means that:

1. Employees or contractors of the WMF or affiliated organizations may
use volunteer budgets for expenses, travel or scholarships if they
want to identify themselves as a volunteer in that context. For
example, many people funded as Wikimedians in Residence may have no
travel funding and will rely on a volunteer grant, or chapters may not
provide funds for employees to travel and contribute to events not
directly within their scope of employment.

2. A grant for a volunteer project may require reporting of outcomes
and specific evidence of some expenses, but there is a cost of
administering the grant before it gets granted, there are costs of
proposing the grant that may or may not be funded from other grants,
and there are costs of administration of the money and reporting on
it, while the project runs. In cases where this can be analysed, the
overhead costs are in the order of 20% to 50%. In some cases, the
end-to-end costs of administering a grant from the WMF, to a local
organization, and then to a specific project means that less than half
of the money going to a volunteer project was actually used by
volunteers to deliver a planned outcome.

It's a problem, and unclear reporting of administrative overheads
really does not help. Changes over the last couple of years to the way
the WMF and chapters work, means that overhead costs invariably move
from a central overhead charge, to being absorbed into project
budgets, making the end-to-end overhead/admin costs almost impossible
to deduce, unless detailed project time accounting and individual
expenses are made public (which is never going to happen). The end
result is that we cannot judge whether reports of reduced
administration costs, are due to a smart accounting change, or the
result of hard won meaningful improvements.

Fae

On 14 April 2016 at 10:48, rupert THURNER  wrote:
> hi,
>
> on the question how much money will go to volunteers next year,
> katherine stated that the 2016 grants budget is 5.8 mio, out of 63 mio
> [1]. my guess was that between 1 and 2 mio would go to volunteers.
>
> i have a little difficulty to calculate the number. i saw the 2016 fdc
> numbers [2], 5.5 mio. WMDE writes that the annual fundraising gives 84
> mio usd (i.e. 75 mio eur) [3]. on the grants page i do not see numbers
> [4]. the german community budget page does not list numbers. [5]. WMDE
> writes that it pays 6 mio a year to WMF [6]. at the same time it gets
> 1.3 mio via FDC from WMF [7]. there is some indication about money to
> volunteers in the FDC split up from WMDE [8].
>
> my guess was that 0.5 mio usd are support for wikimania travel
> including funds to make wikimania cheaper in genaral, and 0.5-1.5 mio
> via various community projects (e.g. the one of WMDE), individual
> engagement grants to volunteers, summing up to <2 mio usd a year
> beeing paid to cover volunteers expenses.
>
> can somebody please chime in here with better guesses, or real
> numbers, maybe directly at [1]?
>
> [1] 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/draft#money_distribution_to_volunteers
> [2] 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_2016-17_FDC_budget_recommendation
> [3] https://wikimedia.de/wiki/Factsheet#Daten.2C_Zahlen.2C_Fakten
> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start
> [5] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community-Budget
> [6] 
> https://www.wikimedia.de/w/images.homepage/a/ad/Wmde_jb_2014_engl_web_RZ.pdf
> [7] 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_round_1
> [8] 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Wikimedia_Deutschland_e.V./Proposal_form
>
> best
> rupert
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] help, how much money goes to volunteers?

[Gordon Joly]

On 14/04/16 10:48, rupert THURNER wrote:
> can somebody please chime in here with better guesses, or real
> numbers, maybe directly at [1]?

On the other hand, has anybody considered the value of the total
volunteer effort towards the development of Wikipedia, Commons and
related projects? That is editing, software development, administration,
taking photographs etc.

In the UK, I believe that volunteer time is costed at about 15 US
dollars per hour (equivalent to 11 pounds?).

Answers on a postcard.

Gordo



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[Wikimedia-l] help, how much money goes to volunteers?

[rupert THURNER]

hi,

on the question how much money will go to volunteers next year,
katherine stated that the 2016 grants budget is 5.8 mio, out of 63 mio
[1]. my guess was that between 1 and 2 mio would go to volunteers.

i have a little difficulty to calculate the number. i saw the 2016 fdc
numbers [2], 5.5 mio. WMDE writes that the annual fundraising gives 84
mio usd (i.e. 75 mio eur) [3]. on the grants page i do not see numbers
[4]. the german community budget page does not list numbers. [5]. WMDE
writes that it pays 6 mio a year to WMF [6]. at the same time it gets
1.3 mio via FDC from WMF [7]. there is some indication about money to
volunteers in the FDC split up from WMDE [8].

my guess was that 0.5 mio usd are support for wikimania travel
including funds to make wikimania cheaper in genaral, and 0.5-1.5 mio
via various community projects (e.g. the one of WMDE), individual
engagement grants to volunteers, summing up to <2 mio usd a year
beeing paid to cover volunteers expenses.

can somebody please chime in here with better guesses, or real
numbers, maybe directly at [1]?

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/draft#money_distribution_to_volunteers
[2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_2016-17_FDC_budget_recommendation
[3] https://wikimedia.de/wiki/Factsheet#Daten.2C_Zahlen.2C_Fakten
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start
[5] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community-Budget
[6] https://www.wikimedia.de/w/images.homepage/a/ad/Wmde_jb_2014_engl_web_RZ.pdf
[7] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_round_1
[8] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Wikimedia_Deutschland_e.V./Proposal_form

best
rupert

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help a Wikipedia & Commons volunteer raise funds for a new computer.

[Mardetanha]

He deserves all help that we give to him, thanks for sharing this


Mardetanha

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska <
natalia.szaf...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> You probably know Jacek Halicki[1]. And even if you don't - you probably
> have seen his pictures. Jacek has contributed about 9000 photographs to
> Wikimedia Commons (many of them are Quality, Featured or Good Images). It
> was not easy for him - Jacek has a severe mobility impairment and is unable
> to walk on his own. He moves around on a special tricycle. Imagine how hard
> it is for a photographer, especially if he specializes in photographing
> narrow streets of small towns.
> Jacek has done a lot for Wikimedia projects. And now he needs our help. His
> computer has been stolen from him, and without it he can't share his works
> with Wikimedia projects. He has started a campaign[2] to raise funds for a
> new computer. Please support him in any way you can. By contributing or
> just sharing the story with your friends or through social media. Thank
> you!
>
> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jacek_Halicki
> [2]
>
> https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-jacek-halicki-buy-a-new-computer--2#/story
>
>
> Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska
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[Wikimedia-l] Help a Wikipedia & Commons volunteer raise funds for a new computer.

[Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska]

Hi all

You probably know Jacek Halicki[1]. And even if you don't - you probably
have seen his pictures. Jacek has contributed about 9000 photographs to
Wikimedia Commons (many of them are Quality, Featured or Good Images). It
was not easy for him - Jacek has a severe mobility impairment and is unable
to walk on his own. He moves around on a special tricycle. Imagine how hard
it is for a photographer, especially if he specializes in photographing
narrow streets of small towns.
Jacek has done a lot for Wikimedia projects. And now he needs our help. His
computer has been stolen from him, and without it he can't share his works
with Wikimedia projects. He has started a campaign[2] to raise funds for a
new computer. Please support him in any way you can. By contributing or
just sharing the story with your friends or through social media. Thank
you!

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jacek_Halicki
[2]
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-jacek-halicki-buy-a-new-computer--2#/story


Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska
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[Wikimedia-l] Help us keep #1lib1ref energized through January 23!

[Alex Stinson]

Hi Wikimedians!

The Wikipedia Library is really excited about the #1lib1ref campaign taking
off -- we seem to have found a concept that will excite the global
libraries community to talk more with us, about our common mission: helping
the world get access to reliable knowledge.

Please explore the hashtag on Twitter and other social media: we have
several dozen websites, library organizations, and individuals blog and
reflect on their experience. For example:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%231Lib1Ref . I have included a preview of
some of our tracking below for a sense of our scale.

Please use the campaign to promote the exciting GLAM, research, and
Wikimedia community projects you think librarians would be interested in.

We still need your help:

   -

   Keep sharing and emphasizing the hashtag #1lib1ref. Try to pair your
   posts with #Wikipedia15 when you can.
   -

   Help translate the main page of the campaign  into more languages:
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref
   -

  Note: We use some of the headers and sentences in this page, to
  generate multilingual social media posts.
  -

   The campaign technically starts on Friday, but we need to continuously
   remind the global libraries community that they a) can start adding
   references now, and b) should continue adding references all next week. Oh,
   and its not just librarians who are adding references for the campaign --
   that's just our target audience :)
   -

   Publish blogposts talking about Wikmedia’s opportunities with libraries.
   Here are a small sample blog posts that might help inspire your work:
   -

  From our Italian Colleagues :
  http://librarianscape.com/2016/01/09/wikipedia-un-posto-per-bibliotecari/
  -

  From DLF: https://www.diglib.org/archives/11060/
  -

  From our Catalan colleagues:
  
http://blogcrai.ub.edu/2016/01/13/el-crai-de-la-universitat-de-barcelona-sadhereix-a-la-campanya-1lib1ref/
  -

   Reach out to the librarians using the hashtag: some of them are even
   hosting lunch gatherings, or small editing events that engage library
   staffs. These librarians are potential leaders for local events and
   GLAM-Wiki activities.


If successful, we hope to run a similar campaign next year, with more
direction and leadership from a volunteer committee (this year we decided
to move quick, and test the concept alongside #Wikipedia15 ).  If you are
interested in helping organize, let us know at
wikipedialibr...@wikimedia.org .


Give feedback on the campaign and resources that would be helpful for next
years campaign on the talk page on meta :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref

Thank you so much for those who have already stepped up to lead on social
media and translating the meta page!

Alex Stinson

Project Manager

The Wikipedia Library


What impact are we seeing?

We are tracking several different elements of this campaign:

   -

   Usage of the hashtag in social media -- over 600 tweets have used the
   hashtag since January 4. We are also tracking the hashtag on facebook and
   linkedin -- both of which are major networks for librarians.
   -

   Our facebook event is beginning to spread -
   https://www.facebook.com/events/975178119187954/ -- please invite more
   people from your library networks
   -

   Page views - we are seeing between 400-600 pageviews, with nearly 7000
   views in the last month on the English Version of the campaign page, and
   Italian, French and Spanish are seeing 40-60 views a day. Moreover,
   Catalans page, which is on ca.wikipedia, has seen over 2000 visits in the
   last month:
   http://stats.grok.se/ca/latest/Viquiprojecte:Bibliowikis/1Lib1Ref
   -

   We are beginning to see hashtag used on English Wikipedia’s edit
   summaries http://tools.wmflabs.org/hashtags/search/1lib1ref . Based on
   other social media discussions, we think this represents <60% of the
   activity so far.
   -

  We are working with Stephen LaPorte to help the tool support top 20
  language Wikipedias, and Wikipedias like Romanian where we know community
  members are sharing the campaign. Let us know if you don’t think your
  language will be in that group.
  -

  A new phabricator item has been -- it would be incredibly useful for
  other kinds of campaigns: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123529 .
  Please leave feedback and use cases.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help decide Future IdeaLab Campaigns!

[Pine W]

Hi Jethro,

Two questions:

(1) How are the results looking from the Gender Gap campaign in IdeaLab?

(2) If WMF does this again, will the campaign be designed and resourced in
a way that doesn't disrupt the other grants process flows? I have painful
memories of what happened in the PEG process last time. I hope that, with
the addition of interns or other HR shuffles, the other grants process
flows can continue normally.

Thanks!

Pine

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Chris Schilling 
wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I invite you to help decide what topics should be considered for future
> IdeaLab campaigns, which generate novel proposals for improving and
> addressing community needs on the Wikimedia projects to which you
> contribute:
>
> 
>
> You can offer feedback and your own campaign topics through a survey
> conducted through AllOurIdeas <
> http://www.allourideas.org/idealab_campaigns>
> in addition to participating on the IdeaLab talk page.
>
> I’m looking forward to seeing your feedback and exploring potential
> directions we can take IdeaLab campaigns for next year!
>
> With thanks,
>
> Jethro
>
> --
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help decide Future IdeaLab Campaigns!

[Siko Bouterse]

Hi Pine,
Some quick answers to your questions:

1. The initial results of the Inspire Campaign themselves were largely very
good (see:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/28/what-we-learned-from-the-inspire-campaign/).
As for the projects funded as a result of the campaign, though, they're
still running and so we expect to have analysis of their impact completed
towards the end of this fiscal year (by June 2016), after all grantees have
reported back.
2. Yes. See Jethro's FAQ # 2 for the fuller answer:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Future_IdeaLab_Campaigns#FAQ

Cheers,
Siko


On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Pine W  wrote:

> Hi Jethro,
>
> Two questions:
>
> (1) How are the results looking from the Gender Gap campaign in IdeaLab?
>
> (2) If WMF does this again, will the campaign be designed and resourced in
> a way that doesn't disrupt the other grants process flows? I have painful
> memories of what happened in the PEG process last time. I hope that, with
> the addition of interns or other HR shuffles, the other grants process
> flows can continue normally.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pine
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Chris Schilling 
> wrote:
>
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I invite you to help decide what topics should be considered for future
> > IdeaLab campaigns, which generate novel proposals for improving and
> > addressing community needs on the Wikimedia projects to which you
> > contribute:
> >
> >  >
> >
> > You can offer feedback and your own campaign topics through a survey
> > conducted through AllOurIdeas <
> > http://www.allourideas.org/idealab_campaigns>
> > in addition to participating on the IdeaLab talk page.
> >
> > I’m looking forward to seeing your feedback and exploring potential
> > directions we can take IdeaLab campaigns for next year!
> >
> > With thanks,
> >
> > Jethro
> >
> > --
> > Chris "Jethro" Schilling
> > I JethroBT (WMF) 
> > Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation
> > 
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[Wikimedia-l] Help decide Future IdeaLab Campaigns!

[Chris Schilling]

Hey everyone,

I invite you to help decide what topics should be considered for future
IdeaLab campaigns, which generate novel proposals for improving and
addressing community needs on the Wikimedia projects to which you
contribute:



You can offer feedback and your own campaign topics through a survey
conducted through AllOurIdeas 
in addition to participating on the IdeaLab talk page.

I’m looking forward to seeing your feedback and exploring potential
directions we can take IdeaLab campaigns for next year!

With thanks,

Jethro

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I JethroBT (WMF) 
Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help on Yoruba Wikipedia Project

[reachout2isaac]

Dear all, 

I don't know if it is appropriate to discuss this here but I believe I can get 
a useful advice here. The Nigerian language Wikipedia projects (Yoruba, Hausa, 
Igbo) need urgent attention. English language is the official language in 
Nigeria but the Yoruba language constitutes one of the major languages in 
Nigeria. The other two languages are Igbo and Hausa.
Today, Yorubas along with the Igbos are the most educated ethnic groups in 
Africa but in spite of this potentials, there are poor readership level and 
contributions to the Yoruba Wikipedia projects. In fact, several existing and 
prospective Wikipedia editors as well as scholars and student who can 
contribute significantly to the project are not even aware of the existence of 
the Yoruba Wikipedia. Speaking in March 2012, in Lagos State, southwestern 
Nigeria, Jimmy Wales said:  Wikipedia has seven active editors working in 
Yoruba language 
("[http://m.voanews.com/a/wikipedia-co-founder-adding-more-african-languages-144875665/180406.html),
 an extremely low number, less than 0.0001% of active editors on the English 
Wikipedia. In fact, the seven active editors have reduce to 1 or 2. The truth 
is, I can't point to any active editors contributing in that project.
The Wikimedia User Group Nigeria under the leadership of Olaniyan Olusola will 
need every supports at the disposal of the WMF to preserve the Project. We are 
currently planning to organize a conference entitled "WikiYoruba 2016" that 
will involve Yoruba Language scholars and student who can contribute to the 
project.
I'm a native speaker of Yoruba language with good written skills in Yoruba 
language. I'm an experienced Wikipedian who has created over 500 articles on 
the English Wikipedia and I intend to use my experience to improve the Yoruba 
Wikipedia Project. You may also want to see 
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikicology/100_articles_contribution_to_Yoruba_Language_Wikipedia)
The Content translation tool is currently unsupported by Yoruba Language. Had 
it been its working, I would have translate hundreds of English Wikipedia 
contents.

Please we need the help and all forms of support to improve the project.

Cheers,

Olatunde Isaac (User:Wikicology)
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN

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   3. Re: Paris (Mardetanha)
   4. Re: Q1 Fundraising Update (Anna Stillwell)
   5. Re: Paris (Christophe Henner)
   6. Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism (Fæ)


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Solidarity from India for this tragic incident. Good to know that
Wikipedians in and from Paris are all safe.

Bodhisattwa
On 14 November 2015 at 12:28, Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska
 wrote:

> User Paterm, Polish wikipedian living in Paris is also well.

As is John Cummings, a UK citizen currently working as Wikimedian in
Residence at UNESCO in Paris.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help on Yoruba Wikipedia Project

[Amir E. Aharoni]

> The Content translation tool is currently unsupported by Yoruba Language.
Had it been its working, I would have translate hundreds of English
Wikipedia contents.

Actually, it is supported in Yoruba, and in all the languages in which
there is a Wikipedia.

It doesn't yet have support for machine translation to Yoruba, but that is
also true for most languages, including some major ones like German,
Polish, Japanese and Turkish. Despite this, thousands of articles were
translated to these languages using ContentTranslation.

ContentTranslation is not a machine translation tool, but a tool for
comfortable creation of articles as translation. It provides:
* A comfortable interface which shows the source article and a column for
typing the translation, side by side.
* Automatic adaptation of links.
* Automatic adaptation of categories.
* One-click adaptation of images (you don't have to type [[File: and to
search for the image file name).
* One-click adaptation of footnotes (you don't have to type  and
format the footnote).
* Basic adaptation of formatting.

Using ContentTranslation and translating important articles from Wikipedias
in other languages such as English and French is one of the easiest way to
get the Yoruba Wikipedia growing.

Please reach out to me personally and I'll be happy to help you to do this
efficiently.

Thanks!

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2015-11-15 20:00 GMT+02:00 :

> Dear all,
>
> I don't know if it is appropriate to discuss this here but I believe I can
> get a useful advice here. The Nigerian language Wikipedia projects (Yoruba,
> Hausa, Igbo) need urgent attention. English language is the official
> language in Nigeria but the Yoruba language constitutes one of the major
> languages in Nigeria. The other two languages are Igbo and Hausa.
> Today, Yorubas along with the Igbos are the most educated ethnic groups in
> Africa but in spite of this potentials, there are poor readership level and
> contributions to the Yoruba Wikipedia projects. In fact, several existing
> and prospective Wikipedia editors as well as scholars and student who can
> contribute significantly to the project are not even aware of the existence
> of the Yoruba Wikipedia. Speaking in March 2012, in Lagos State,
> southwestern Nigeria, Jimmy Wales said:  Wikipedia has seven active editors
> working in Yoruba language ("[
> http://m.voanews.com/a/wikipedia-co-founder-adding-more-african-languages-144875665/180406.html),
> an extremely low number, less than 0.0001% of active editors on the English
> Wikipedia. In fact, the seven active editors have reduce to 1 or 2. The
> truth is, I can't point to any active editors contributing in that project.
> The Wikimedia User Group Nigeria under the leadership of Olaniyan Olusola
> will need every supports at the disposal of the WMF to preserve the
> Project. We are currently planning to organize a conference entitled
> "WikiYoruba 2016" that will involve Yoruba Language scholars and student
> who can contribute to the project.
> I'm a native speaker of Yoruba language with good written skills in Yoruba
> language. I'm an experienced Wikipedian who has created over 500 articles
> on the English Wikipedia and I intend to use my experience to improve the
> Yoruba Wikipedia Project. You may also want to see (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikicology/100_articles_contribution_to_Yoruba_Language_Wikipedia
> )
>
>
> Please we need the help and all forms of support to improve the project.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Olatunde Isaac (User:Wikicology)
> Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
>
> -Original Message-
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>3. Re: Paris (Mardetanha)
>4. Re: Q1 Fundraising Update (Anna Stillwell)
>5. Re: Paris (Christophe Henner)
>6. Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism (Fæ)
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Help

[reachout2isaac]

Hello Wikimedian Colleagues,

I tried to send a mail to affiliates-own...@lists.wikimedia.org but all to no 
avail. It seems the e-mail address is currently not working. Any help?

Olatunde Isaac. 
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   3. Recognition of Wikimedians of Uzbekistan Community
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   4. Please upload Wikiconference USA presentations to Commons (Pine W)
   5. Recognition of Wikimedia Digitization User Group
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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:13:22 +0200
From: "Erik Zachte" 
To: "'Wikimedia Mailing List'" 
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update
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I also feel disheartened about this yearly controversy, which seems to go 
nowhere.
I also am scared by even considering 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising#/media/File:Sept2015BannerEx.png

In my opinion this very ambitious budget (maybe too ambitious if such extreme 
doomsday measures are needed to reach our goals),
may well be putting our reputation at risk, and perhaps even alienate part of 
our community.
"Trust arrives on foot but leaves on horseback"

So who should we address to bring about change, and set more modest goals?
I belief fundraising is doing as they're told, the best they can.
The Wikimedia Foundation gets a lot of flak in these discussions.
But isn't WMF operating within limits set by the Board of Trustees?
Lila can propose a budget, but the Board is ultimately responsible, needs to 
approve that budget, and can amend it.

Erik Zachte 

(disclaimer: I'm speaking in my role as volunteer, not as contractor for WMF)  


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+1

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On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Leila Zia  wrote:

> I saw that banner and I want to do all I can to help you not use it 
> even if it performs 20% better. I put my story in p.s. so it's easier 
> to skip for whoever chooses to skip. This is a true story. :-\
>

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Pete Forsyth  wrote:

> I agree, that banner does not reflect the values of this movement. 
> Pure and simple; it's not a grey area, and not worth my time to 
> discuss for the 97th time.
>
> Personally, I long ago gave up participating in these discussions, for 
> the most part -- because the same valid points get made over and over 
> again, and the same *AWFUL* errors are made year after year in the 
> fund-raising campaign.
>
> Leila's post here is heartening, and I'm glad that somebody has the 
> energy to articulate the concerns so well. I, myself, do not; I have 
> simply lost faith in the integrity of the Wikimedia Foundation's 
> fund-raising operation. I am, honestly, ashamed to tell people that I 
> used to work in the fund-raising department there (though I believe 
> the work we did was valuable).
>
> I recently heard from a high-ranking executive at a software company. 
> She told me that she had given money to the Wikimedia Foundation, and 
> then looked into the WMF's budget, and the messages in the campaign 
> she had responded to. The word she used to describe her feeling was 
> "mortified."
> She had considered asking for her money back, but had decided against it.
>
> Fortunately, she 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help

[Gregory Varnum]

We are getting emails at it. Try: affiliates-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org - there 
was an extra p in the address you posted.

-greg

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> On Oct 15, 2015, at 5:46 PM, reachout2is...@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Hello Wikimedian Colleagues,
> 
> I tried to send a mail to affiliates-own...@lists.wikimedia.org but all to no 
> avail. It seems the e-mail address is currently not working. Any help?
> 
> Olatunde Isaac. 
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
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>   1. Re: Q1 Fundraising Update (Erik Zachte)
>   2. Recognition of Iraqi Wikimedians (Carlos M. Colina)
>   3. Recognition of Wikimedians of Uzbekistan Community
>  (Carlos M. Colina)
>   4. Please upload Wikiconference USA presentations toCommons (Pine W)
>   5. Recognition of Wikimedia Digitization User Group
>  (Carlos M. Colina)
>   6. Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list
>  (Carlos M. Colina)
>   7. Re: Introducing the Wikimedia Affiliates mailing list (Pine W)
> 
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 15:13:22 +0200
> From: "Erik Zachte" 
> To: "'Wikimedia Mailing List'" 
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update
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> 
> I also feel disheartened about this yearly controversy, which seems to go 
> nowhere.
> I also am scared by even considering 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising#/media/File:Sept2015BannerEx.png
> 
> In my opinion this very ambitious budget (maybe too ambitious if such extreme 
> doomsday measures are needed to reach our goals),
> may well be putting our reputation at risk, and perhaps even alienate part of 
> our community.
> "Trust arrives on foot but leaves on horseback"
> 
> So who should we address to bring about change, and set more modest goals?
> I belief fundraising is doing as they're told, the best they can.
> The Wikimedia Foundation gets a lot of flak in these discussions.
> But isn't WMF operating within limits set by the Board of Trustees?
> Lila can propose a budget, but the Board is ultimately responsible, needs to 
> approve that budget, and can amend it.
> 
> Erik Zachte 
> 
> (disclaimer: I'm speaking in my role as volunteer, not as contractor for WMF) 
>  
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf 
> Of Peter Southwood
> Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2015 12:38
> To: 'Wikimedia Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update
> 
> +1
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf 
> Of Andreas Kolbe
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 October 2015 7:01 PM
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Leila Zia  wrote:
>> 
>> I saw that banner and I want to do all I can to help you not use it 
>> even if it performs 20% better. I put my story in p.s. so it's easier 
>> to skip for whoever chooses to skip. This is a true story. :-\
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Pete Forsyth  wrote:
>> 
>> I agree, that banner does not reflect the values of this movement. 
>> Pure and simple; it's not a grey area, and not worth my time to 
>> discuss for the 97th time.
>> 
>> Personally, I long ago gave up participating in these discussions, for 
>> the most part -- because the same valid points get made over and over 
>> again, and the same *AWFUL* errors are made year after year in the 
>> fund-raising campaign.
>> 
>> Leila's post here is heartening, and I'm glad that somebody has the 
>> energy to articulate the concerns so well. I, myself, do not; I have 
>> simply lost faith in the integrity of the Wikimedia Foundation's 
>> fund-raising operation. I am, honestly, ashamed to tell people that I 
>> used to work in the fund-raising 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

[Keegan Peterzell]

I gave Gnangarra a potential contact off-list.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Jane Darnell  wrote:

> Arkansas is considered one of the "fly-over" states. Good luck locating a
> Wikipedian somewhere around there, not to mention a Wikimedian.
>
>
​Jane, this is so off-base it's bordering offensive to those that live in
"fly-over" states. You don't need a massive city to have Wikimedians and I
have no idea where you're coming from.

It took me approximately 12 seconds to find someone in
[[Category:Wikipedians in Arkansas]] who is active, has been around awhile,
and whose userpage indicates they are in the same city. A city that has a
metro population of three-quarters of a million, at that.

(If you don't have userinfo.js [0] in your global .js, I highly recommend
it)

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PleaseStand/userinfo.js

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

[Raymond Leonard]

Maybe someone with the Mass Messenger privilege can compile a Arkansas user
list & use the Mass Messenger service to post to their talk pages.

Yours,
Peaceray

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Keegan Peterzell 
wrote:

> I gave Gnangarra a potential contact off-list.
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Jane Darnell  wrote:
>
> > Arkansas is considered one of the "fly-over" states. Good luck locating a
> > Wikipedian somewhere around there, not to mention a Wikimedian.
> >
> >
> ​Jane, this is so off-base it's bordering offensive to those that live in
> "fly-over" states. You don't need a massive city to have Wikimedians and I
> have no idea where you're coming from.
>
> It took me approximately 12 seconds to find someone in
> [[Category:Wikipedians in Arkansas]] who is active, has been around awhile,
> and whose userpage indicates they are in the same city. A city that has a
> metro population of three-quarters of a million, at that.
>
> (If you don't have userinfo.js [0] in your global .js, I highly recommend
> it)
>
> 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PleaseStand/userinfo.js
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

[John Mark Vandenberg]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Keegan Peterzell  wrote:
> (If you don't have userinfo.js [0] in your global .js, I highly recommend
> it)
>
> 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PleaseStand/userinfo.js

IMO this should be a standard gadget available for all wikis.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

[Craig Franklin]

This is not an especially helpful response.

Regards,,
Craig

On 14 October 2015 at 20:37, Jane Darnell  wrote:

> Arkansas is considered one of the "fly-over" states. Good luck locating a
> Wikipedian somewhere around there, not to mention a Wikimedian.
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Gnangarra  wrote:
>
> > G'day
> >
> > I have been contacted by an active Wikiproject Spam editor for help
> > (because I've recently been working with an editor here in Perth in a
> > similar situation),  to talk to a user who appears to be linked to the
> > Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The user is just adding links to EOA in the
> > external links section of related articles, another user has asked for
> the
> > links not to be blacklisted as its a good source.
> >
> > In these case the Australian chapter reaches out such editors as a
> personal
> > discussion over a coffee here works very effectively in turning this type
> > of contact into potential programmatic activities.  Being just couple
> miles
> > too far way I was looking for someone closer who would be willing to
> > followup with this on a local level.  As I said in my offer of help I'm
> > happy to support and advise them that goes for who ever takes up the
> reigns
> > but the important part of developing this is impractical from here.
> >
> >
> > on WP discussion
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cals.eoa#Help_offer
> > ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gnangarra#UOA
> >
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Encyclopedia_of_Arkansas
> > ​
> >
> > already checked meta there isnt any chapters close by, nearest user group
> > is in North Carolina with a smaller area of interest, and the only
> > experienced editors(10,000+ edits) listed on the en Wikiproject Arkansas
> > havent been active in the last 6 months
> >
> > --
> > ​Gnangarra
> >
> > President Wikimedia Australia
> > WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

[John Mark Vandenberg]

I randomly clicked user pages in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Arkansas and
found many 5,000+ currently editing Wikipedians, and one 40,000+
editor.

Sounds like hitting user_talk pages might be a better approach to
finding suitable Wikipedians.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Craig Franklin
 wrote:
> This is not an especially helpful response.
>
> Regards,,
> Craig
>
> On 14 October 2015 at 20:37, Jane Darnell  wrote:
>
>> Arkansas is considered one of the "fly-over" states. Good luck locating a
>> Wikipedian somewhere around there, not to mention a Wikimedian.
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Gnangarra  wrote:
>>
>> > G'day
>> >
>> > I have been contacted by an active Wikiproject Spam editor for help
>> > (because I've recently been working with an editor here in Perth in a
>> > similar situation),  to talk to a user who appears to be linked to the
>> > Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The user is just adding links to EOA in the
>> > external links section of related articles, another user has asked for
>> the
>> > links not to be blacklisted as its a good source.
>> >
>> > In these case the Australian chapter reaches out such editors as a
>> personal
>> > discussion over a coffee here works very effectively in turning this type
>> > of contact into potential programmatic activities.  Being just couple
>> miles
>> > too far way I was looking for someone closer who would be willing to
>> > followup with this on a local level.  As I said in my offer of help I'm
>> > happy to support and advise them that goes for who ever takes up the
>> reigns
>> > but the important part of developing this is impractical from here.
>> >
>> >
>> > on WP discussion
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cals.eoa#Help_offer
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gnangarra#UOA
>> >
>> >
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Encyclopedia_of_Arkansas
>> >
>> >
>> > already checked meta there isnt any chapters close by, nearest user group
>> > is in North Carolina with a smaller area of interest, and the only
>> > experienced editors(10,000+ edits) listed on the en Wikiproject Arkansas
>> > havent been active in the last 6 months
>> >
>> > --
>> > Gnangarra
>> >
>> > President Wikimedia Australia
>> > WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

[Jane Darnell]

Arkansas is considered one of the "fly-over" states. Good luck locating a
Wikipedian somewhere around there, not to mention a Wikimedian.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Gnangarra  wrote:

> G'day
>
> I have been contacted by an active Wikiproject Spam editor for help
> (because I've recently been working with an editor here in Perth in a
> similar situation),  to talk to a user who appears to be linked to the
> Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The user is just adding links to EOA in the
> external links section of related articles, another user has asked for the
> links not to be blacklisted as its a good source.
>
> In these case the Australian chapter reaches out such editors as a personal
> discussion over a coffee here works very effectively in turning this type
> of contact into potential programmatic activities.  Being just couple miles
> too far way I was looking for someone closer who would be willing to
> followup with this on a local level.  As I said in my offer of help I'm
> happy to support and advise them that goes for who ever takes up the reigns
> but the important part of developing this is impractical from here.
>
>
> on WP discussion
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cals.eoa#Help_offer
> ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gnangarra#UOA
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Encyclopedia_of_Arkansas
> ​
>
> already checked meta there isnt any chapters close by, nearest user group
> is in North Carolina with a smaller area of interest, and the only
> experienced editors(10,000+ edits) listed on the en Wikiproject Arkansas
> havent been active in the last 6 months
>
> --
> ​Gnangarra
>
> President Wikimedia Australia
> WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

[Gnangarra]

Thanks John missed that option I have gone looked through those, again the
only high edit counts arent currently active still looking for someone who
can help theres no point spamming people nor asking people have very little
experience

On 14 October 2015 at 19:13, John Mark Vandenberg  wrote:

> I randomly clicked user pages in
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Arkansas and
> found many 5,000+ currently editing Wikipedians, and one 40,000+
> editor.
>
> Sounds like hitting user_talk pages might be a better approach to
> finding suitable Wikipedians.
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Craig Franklin
>  wrote:
> > This is not an especially helpful response.
> >
> > Regards,,
> > Craig
> >
> > On 14 October 2015 at 20:37, Jane Darnell  wrote:
> >
> >> Arkansas is considered one of the "fly-over" states. Good luck locating
> a
> >> Wikipedian somewhere around there, not to mention a Wikimedian.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Gnangarra  wrote:
> >>
> >> > G'day
> >> >
> >> > I have been contacted by an active Wikiproject Spam editor for help
> >> > (because I've recently been working with an editor here in Perth in a
> >> > similar situation),  to talk to a user who appears to be linked to the
> >> > Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The user is just adding links to EOA in the
> >> > external links section of related articles, another user has asked for
> >> the
> >> > links not to be blacklisted as its a good source.
> >> >
> >> > In these case the Australian chapter reaches out such editors as a
> >> personal
> >> > discussion over a coffee here works very effectively in turning this
> type
> >> > of contact into potential programmatic activities.  Being just couple
> >> miles
> >> > too far way I was looking for someone closer who would be willing to
> >> > followup with this on a local level.  As I said in my offer of help
> I'm
> >> > happy to support and advise them that goes for who ever takes up the
> >> reigns
> >> > but the important part of developing this is impractical from here.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > on WP discussion
> >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cals.eoa#Help_offer
> >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gnangarra#UOA
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Encyclopedia_of_Arkansas
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > already checked meta there isnt any chapters close by, nearest user
> group
> >> > is in North Carolina with a smaller area of interest, and the only
> >> > experienced editors(10,000+ edits) listed on the en Wikiproject
> Arkansas
> >> > havent been active in the last 6 months
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Gnangarra
> >> >
> >> > President Wikimedia Australia
> >> > WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

[Chris Keating]

Have forwarded on to the GLAM outreach mailing list as there seems to be a
public library service behind this.

(I would observe that edit count and ability to do outreach don't
necessarily correlate that well - someone with a few hundred edits can be a
great contact point for a cultural institution and someone with tends of
thousands can be a poor one... :) )

Chris

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Gnangarra  wrote:

> Thanks John missed that option I have gone looked through those, again the
> only high edit counts arent currently active still looking for someone who
> can help theres no point spamming people nor asking people have very little
> experience
>
> On 14 October 2015 at 19:13, John Mark Vandenberg 
> wrote:
>
> > I randomly clicked user pages in
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Arkansas and
> > found many 5,000+ currently editing Wikipedians, and one 40,000+
> > editor.
> >
> > Sounds like hitting user_talk pages might be a better approach to
> > finding suitable Wikipedians.
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Craig Franklin
> >  wrote:
> > > This is not an especially helpful response.
> > >
> > > Regards,,
> > > Craig
> > >
> > > On 14 October 2015 at 20:37, Jane Darnell  wrote:
> > >
> > >> Arkansas is considered one of the "fly-over" states. Good luck
> locating
> > a
> > >> Wikipedian somewhere around there, not to mention a Wikimedian.
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Gnangarra 
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > G'day
> > >> >
> > >> > I have been contacted by an active Wikiproject Spam editor for help
> > >> > (because I've recently been working with an editor here in Perth in
> a
> > >> > similar situation),  to talk to a user who appears to be linked to
> the
> > >> > Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The user is just adding links to EOA in
> the
> > >> > external links section of related articles, another user has asked
> for
> > >> the
> > >> > links not to be blacklisted as its a good source.
> > >> >
> > >> > In these case the Australian chapter reaches out such editors as a
> > >> personal
> > >> > discussion over a coffee here works very effectively in turning this
> > type
> > >> > of contact into potential programmatic activities.  Being just
> couple
> > >> miles
> > >> > too far way I was looking for someone closer who would be willing to
> > >> > followup with this on a local level.  As I said in my offer of help
> > I'm
> > >> > happy to support and advise them that goes for who ever takes up the
> > >> reigns
> > >> > but the important part of developing this is impractical from here.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > on WP discussion
> > >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cals.eoa#Help_offer
> > >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gnangarra#UOA
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >>
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Encyclopedia_of_Arkansas
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > already checked meta there isnt any chapters close by, nearest user
> > group
> > >> > is in North Carolina with a smaller area of interest, and the only
> > >> > experienced editors(10,000+ edits) listed on the en Wikiproject
> > Arkansas
> > >> > havent been active in the last 6 months
> > >> >
> > >> > --
> > >> > Gnangarra
> > >> >
> > >> > President Wikimedia Australia
> > >> > WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

[Gnangarra]

Thanks Chris for forwarding that along, yeah I agree edit count isnt an
ideal indicator yet its one measure that can be used from half a world away
to indicate experience and given the user I'm trying to help has ruffled
community feathers knowledge of and being known by the community is
important aspect that a high edit count user can add

On 14 October 2015 at 19:50, Chris Keating 
wrote:

> Have forwarded on to the GLAM outreach mailing list as there seems to be a
> public library service behind this.
>
> (I would observe that edit count and ability to do outreach don't
> necessarily correlate that well - someone with a few hundred edits can be a
> great contact point for a cultural institution and someone with tends of
> thousands can be a poor one... :) )
>
> Chris
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Gnangarra  wrote:
>
> > Thanks John missed that option I have gone looked through those, again
> the
> > only high edit counts arent currently active still looking for someone
> who
> > can help theres no point spamming people nor asking people have very
> little
> > experience
> >
> > On 14 October 2015 at 19:13, John Mark Vandenberg 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I randomly clicked user pages in
> > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedians_in_Arkansas and
> > > found many 5,000+ currently editing Wikipedians, and one 40,000+
> > > editor.
> > >
> > > Sounds like hitting user_talk pages might be a better approach to
> > > finding suitable Wikipedians.
> > >
> > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Craig Franklin
> > >  wrote:
> > > > This is not an especially helpful response.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,,
> > > > Craig
> > > >
> > > > On 14 October 2015 at 20:37, Jane Darnell  wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Arkansas is considered one of the "fly-over" states. Good luck
> > locating
> > > a
> > > >> Wikipedian somewhere around there, not to mention a Wikimedian.
> > > >>
> > > >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:38 AM, Gnangarra 
> > wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> > G'day
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I have been contacted by an active Wikiproject Spam editor for
> help
> > > >> > (because I've recently been working with an editor here in Perth
> in
> > a
> > > >> > similar situation),  to talk to a user who appears to be linked to
> > the
> > > >> > Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The user is just adding links to EOA in
> > the
> > > >> > external links section of related articles, another user has asked
> > for
> > > >> the
> > > >> > links not to be blacklisted as its a good source.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > In these case the Australian chapter reaches out such editors as a
> > > >> personal
> > > >> > discussion over a coffee here works very effectively in turning
> this
> > > type
> > > >> > of contact into potential programmatic activities.  Being just
> > couple
> > > >> miles
> > > >> > too far way I was looking for someone closer who would be willing
> to
> > > >> > followup with this on a local level.  As I said in my offer of
> help
> > > I'm
> > > >> > happy to support and advise them that goes for who ever takes up
> the
> > > >> reigns
> > > >> > but the important part of developing this is impractical from
> here.
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > on WP discussion
> > > >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cals.eoa#Help_offer
> > > >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gnangarra#UOA
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >>
> > >
> >
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Encyclopedia_of_Arkansas
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > already checked meta there isnt any chapters close by, nearest
> user
> > > group
> > > >> > is in North Carolina with a smaller area of interest, and the only
> > > >> > experienced editors(10,000+ edits) listed on the en Wikiproject
> > > Arkansas
> > > >> > havent been active in the last 6 months
> > > >> >
> > > >> > --
> > > >> > Gnangarra
> > > >> >
> > > >> > President Wikimedia Australia
> > > >> > WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
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[Wikimedia-l] help needed - Arkansas

[Gnangarra]

G'day

I have been contacted by an active Wikiproject Spam editor for help
(because I've recently been working with an editor here in Perth in a
similar situation),  to talk to a user who appears to be linked to the
Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The user is just adding links to EOA in the
external links section of related articles, another user has asked for the
links not to be blacklisted as its a good source.

In these case the Australian chapter reaches out such editors as a personal
discussion over a coffee here works very effectively in turning this type
of contact into potential programmatic activities.  Being just couple miles
too far way I was looking for someone closer who would be willing to
followup with this on a local level.  As I said in my offer of help I'm
happy to support and advise them that goes for who ever takes up the reigns
but the important part of developing this is impractical from here.


on WP discussion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Cals.eoa#Help_offer
​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gnangarra#UOA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Spam#Encyclopedia_of_Arkansas
​

already checked meta there isnt any chapters close by, nearest user group
is in North Carolina with a smaller area of interest, and the only
experienced editors(10,000+ edits) listed on the en Wikiproject Arkansas
havent been active in the last 6 months

-- 
​Gnangarra

President Wikimedia Australia
WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra
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[Wikimedia-l] Help needed with reading strategy process

[Moushira Elamrawy]

Greetings,

The reading team has been having a series of meetings as part of the
ongoing strategy process,.  We documented and clarified as much details as
possible, here
, in
order to empower everyone to become part of the process, while following
the same methodology.

For example, instead of saying "*The overall page views numbers are
declining and thats a problem that we need to solve*"  by applying our
process, the suggested statement is questioned to whether this is a problem
in itself or it is a result of another problem?  If we picked one possible
reason, what are our choices to solve the problem, and what possibilities
does each choice entail? What are the concerns with each possibility and
what are the tests that we need to run to justify our concerns?

Sounds complicated? :-)
Not really.  The key is to ask the right questions and always remain
focused on the initial problem.

In our own exercise, we identified one problem that manifests itself across
different indicators is our core system's lack of optimization for emerging
platforms, experiences, and communities.

The team can not do this alone.  We need more people to join our exercise,
please check the documentation
,  make
yourself familiar with the process, and think of suggesting choices
,
generating possibilities
,
and designing tests
.
Questions and comments are welcome on the talk page.

Lets get this done, together!

Happy weekend,
M
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[Wikimedia-l] Help launch the Inspire Grants Campaign in March 2015

[Siko Bouterse]

Hi all,

During March we will be running an Inspire Campaign to proactively source
and support new projects aimed at addressing Wikimedia’s gender gap:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign

Our goals are two-fold:

1. Experiment with running scalable themed campaigns in IdeaLab to incubate
more initiatives aimed at having a focused collective impact.

2. Proactively support community initiatives aimed at increasing gender
diversity in contributors to, and content of, Wikimedia projects.

Why are we piloting with a gender gap theme? A variety of initiatives are
needed to increase diversity and reduce systemic bias on Wikimedia
projects, but so far these haven’t emerged organically at scale. Without
taking time to focus together on increasing gender diversity in our content
and contributors, this trend is likely to continue. WMF’s Individual
Engagement Grants and Project and Event Grants could support such
initiatives, and we're interested to learn how specifically inviting
proposals in this area can have an impact.

March is WikiWomen’s History Month, and it’s a great time to focus extra
attention and energy together on addressing the gender gap.

We need your help! We’re looking for volunteers to join our team in the
following roles:

1. Community organizers:  Spread the the word about the campaign to your
local communities, maintain a friendly space in IdeaLab, facilitate
development of ideas and project teams. (March)

2. Translators: Translate campaign content and gender gap resources into
your language. This is a global campaign, so all languages are welcome.
Some languages we’d particularly like to be able to support include:
Spanish, Arabic, Malayalam, Telugu, and Ukrainian. (February and March)

3. Funding committee: Facilitate development of ideas to grant proposals,
support idea-creators to improve proposals, greenlight projects for funding
via either Individual Engagement Grants or Project  Event Grants. (March
and April)

If you’re interested in any of the above roles, please signup under
“Participants” on the planning page or email Siko or Alex by February 10th.


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire_Grants_%E2%80%93_Gender_gap_campaign#Get_involved

Warm regards,
The Inspire Team

-- 
Siko Bouterse
Head of Individual Grants
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

sboute...@wikimedia.org

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*Donate https://donate.wikimedia.org or click the edit button today,
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help needed to complete and expand the Wikimedia glossary

[geni]

On 20 November 2012 18:55, Guillaume Paumier gpaum...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 Hi,

 The use of jargon, acronyms and other abbreviations throughout the
 Wikimedia movement is a major source of communication issues, and
 barriers to comprehension and involvement.

 The recent thread on this list about What is Product? is an example
 of this, as are initialisms that have long been known to be a barrier
 for Wikipedia newcomers.

 A way to bridge people and communities with different vocabularies is
 to write and maintain a glossary that explains jargon in plain English
 terms. We've been lacking a good and up-to-date glossary for Wikimedia
 stuff (Foundation, chapter, movement, technology, etc.).

 Therefore, I've started to clean up and expand the outdated Glossary
 on meta, but it's a lot of work, and I don't have all the answers
 myself either. I'll continue to work on it, but I'd love to get some
 help on this and to make it a collaborative effort.

 If you have a few minutes to spare, please consider helping your
 (current and future) fellow Wikimedians by writing a few definitions
 if there are terms that you can explain in plain English. Additions of
 new terms are much welcome as well:


Been done:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiSpeak


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geni

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[Wikimedia-l] Help needed to complete and expand the Wikimedia glossary

[Guillaume Paumier]

Hi,

The use of jargon, acronyms and other abbreviations throughout the
Wikimedia movement is a major source of communication issues, and
barriers to comprehension and involvement.

The recent thread on this list about What is Product? is an example
of this, as are initialisms that have long been known to be a barrier
for Wikipedia newcomers.

A way to bridge people and communities with different vocabularies is
to write and maintain a glossary that explains jargon in plain English
terms. We've been lacking a good and up-to-date glossary for Wikimedia
stuff (Foundation, chapter, movement, technology, etc.).

Therefore, I've started to clean up and expand the outdated Glossary
on meta, but it's a lot of work, and I don't have all the answers
myself either. I'll continue to work on it, but I'd love to get some
help on this and to make it a collaborative effort.

If you have a few minutes to spare, please consider helping your
(current and future) fellow Wikimedians by writing a few definitions
if there are terms that you can explain in plain English. Additions of
new terms are much welcome as well:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Glossary

Some caveats:
* As part of my work, I'm mostly interested in a glossary from a
technical perspective, so the list currently has a technical bias. I'm
hoping that by sending this message to a wider audience, people from
the whole movement will contribute to the glossary and balance it out.
* Also, I've started to clean up the glossary, but it still contains
dated terms and definitions from a few years ago (like the FundCom),
so boldly edit/remove obsolete content.

Thank you,

-- 
Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
https://donate.wikimedia.org

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Help decide about more than $10 million of movement funds in the coming year

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Only ten millions? This sounds wrong.

Nemo

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