[Wikitech-l] Mentor a data science and engineering project in Outreachy Round 21–call for projects now open!

[Srishti Sethi]

Hello everyone,

Wikimedia is participating in the winter edition of this year's Outreachy <
https://www.outreachy.org/> [1] (December 2020–February 2021) and plans to
mentor ~6 interns! The deadline to submit projects on the Outreachy website
is September 24th, 2020.

This round will be a bit different for Wikimedia–we are considering keeping
the focus of projects on data science and engineering. We hope that with a
particular theme, interns will have more opportunities to interact with and
support each other, and in turn, they will have a more fulfilling
experience! For example, a project could be to analyze publicly available
Wikimedia datasets to create valuable tools that can help perform vital
tasks or generate insights that help make data-informed decisions. A
project's nature could be coding or non-coding (documentation, design,
research, outreach, translation, etc.). Though we plan to prefer the
projects related to the theme, we still encourage you to reach out if you
have other ideas.

If you would like to share an idea for a project that you would like to
mentor or you are not familiar with the program and want to learn anything
more about it, feel free to reply to this email or leave a note on <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258524> [2].

About the Outreachy program:
Outreachy offers three-month internships to work remotely in Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS), coding and non-coding projects with experienced
mentors. These internships run twice a year–from May to August and December
to March. Interns are paid a stipend of USD 5,500 for the three months of
work. They also have a USD 500 stipend to travel to conferences and events.
Interns often find employment after their internship with Outreachy
sponsors or jobs that use the skills they learned during their internship.
This program is open to both students and non-students. Outreachy expressly
invites the following people to apply:

   - Women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people.
   - Anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or
   discrimination in the technology industry in their country of residence.
   - Residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are
   Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American/American Indian,
   Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.

See a blog post highlighting one of our intern's experience participating
in Outreachy program with Wikimedia <
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/08/26/lalithas-story-an-outreachy-intern-shares-her-experience/>
[3]

Some tips for mentors for proposing projects:

   - Follow this task description template when you propose a project in
   Phabricator: <
   https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/> [4].
   Add #Outreachy (Round 21) tag to it.
   - Remember, the project should require an experienced developer ~15 days
   to complete and a newcomer ~3 months.
   - Each project should have at least two mentors, and one of them should
   hold a technical background.
   - When it comes to picking a project, you could propose one that is:
  - Relevant for your language community or brings impact to the
  Wikimedia ecosystem in the future.
  - Welcoming and newcomer-friendly and has a moderate learning curve.
  - A new idea you are passionate about, there are no deadlines
  attached to it; you always wanted to see it happen but couldn't
due to lack
  of resources help!
  - About developing a standalone tool (possibly hosted on Wikimedia
  Toolforge), with fewer dependencies on Wikimedia's core
infrastructure, it
  doesn't necessarily require a specific programming language.
   - See roles and responsibilities of an Outreachy mentor <
   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors> [5].

We look forward to your participation!

Cheers,

Wikimedia organization admins for Outreachy
(Pavithra, Gopa, and Srishti)


[1] https://www.outreachy.org/

[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258524

[3]
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2020/08/26/lalithas-story-an-outreachy-intern-shares-her-experience/

[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/

[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors


*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikitech-l] Fwd: Public API for Wikimedia map tiles to be discontinued in 45 days

[Erica Litrenta]

[crosspost from Maps-l]

Today the Wikimedia Foundation is announcing the deprecation of the public
API for Wikimedia map tiles. Around mid October the Foundation will end
support for the Wikimedia Maps Service API [1]. This change affects people
using Wikimedia maps on their own website or app. Maps on the Wikimedia
sites, in Wikimedia-hosted tools and gadgets, and on maps.wikimedia.org
won't be affected.

This decision was made based on recent outage incidents, primarily due to
spikes in third party usage, along with an analysis showing that more than
a third of maps provided are to non-Wikimedia services (including many to
for-profit organizations).

After the most recent incident [2], the service was limited so that only
cached maps tiles would be available. While this protected the servers, it
made the service unpredictable and highlighted the unsustainability of our
tile service. So, we have made the decision to discontinue the maps APIs
for non-Wikimedia users.

This change will allow our teams working on Maps to focus on the
sustainability of the maps used within Wikimedia projects.

You can follow the implementation of this change on Phabricator [3].

Best,

Erica Litrenta

[1] https://maps.wikimedia.org/osm-intl/

[2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200204-maps

[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261424

-- 
Erica Litrenta
Manager, Community Relations Specialists
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF)
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Re: [Wikitech-l] Help with Mailman spam filter

[Kaartic Sivaraam]

On 27-08-2020 13:58, Léa Lacroix wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I hope that this is the right list to ask about Mailman's admin options, if
> not, let me know where I should ask :)
> 
> I'm looking for someone to help me with the config of a mailing-list, to
> reactivate the semi-automated spam filter.
> 
> I'm one of the admins on the Wikidata mailing-list. A while ago, to prevent
> my newsletter to be considered as spam because it included too many links,
> I changed something in the config of the mailing-list, I don't remember
> exactly what,  but it was about not filtering spam for the admins anymore,
> and sending each single spam email (or emails from non-registered users) to
> the ML owners. Since then we end up with tons of emails in our mailboxes
> everyday. I tried to reactivate this "pre-filter" feature, but I can't
> remember where it is and how to do it right.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue about how to fix this? Thanks in advance :)
> 

I'm not a pro when it comes to mailman. So, I couldn't give explicit
answers. Anyways, I found the following articles which might possibly
help you:

* Mailman Administrators FAQ
  https://blink.ucsd.edu/technology/email/services/lists/admin/faq.html
  (In particular, the "List moderation and spam" section)

* Mailman: List Configuration Options
  https://blink.ucsd.edu/technology/email/services/lists/admin/config.html

* HOWTO Deal With Spam as a Mailman List Owner
  https://dltj.org/article/mailman-spam-howto/

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Sivaraam

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Re: [Wikitech-l] Help with Mailman spam filter

[Bryan Davis]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 2:45 AM Léa Lacroix  wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I hope that this is the right list to ask about Mailman's admin options, if
> not, let me know where I should ask :)
>
> I'm looking for someone to help me with the config of a mailing-list, to
> reactivate the semi-automated spam filter.
>
> I'm one of the admins on the Wikidata mailing-list. A while ago, to prevent
> my newsletter to be considered as spam because it included too many links,
> I changed something in the config of the mailing-list, I don't remember
> exactly what,  but it was about not filtering spam for the admins anymore,
> and sending each single spam email (or emails from non-registered users) to
> the ML owners. Since then we end up with tons of emails in our mailboxes
> everyday. I tried to reactivate this "pre-filter" feature, but I can't
> remember where it is and how to do it right.
>
> Does anyone have a clue about how to fix this? Thanks in advance :)

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/listadmins may be a
better list for questions about configuring a mailman list.

Bryan
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Bryan Davis  Technical Engagement  Wikimedia Foundation
Principal Software Engineer   Boise, ID USA
[[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]]  irc: bd808

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[Wikitech-l] Help with Mailman spam filter

[Léa Lacroix]

Hello all,

I hope that this is the right list to ask about Mailman's admin options, if
not, let me know where I should ask :)

I'm looking for someone to help me with the config of a mailing-list, to
reactivate the semi-automated spam filter.

I'm one of the admins on the Wikidata mailing-list. A while ago, to prevent
my newsletter to be considered as spam because it included too many links,
I changed something in the config of the mailing-list, I don't remember
exactly what,  but it was about not filtering spam for the admins anymore,
and sending each single spam email (or emails from non-registered users) to
the ML owners. Since then we end up with tons of emails in our mailboxes
everyday. I tried to reactivate this "pre-filter" feature, but I can't
remember where it is and how to do it right.

Does anyone have a clue about how to fix this? Thanks in advance :)
-- 
Léa Lacroix
Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata

Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de

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