Hello all,
The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making> invites you to
complete a survey about Wikimedia's technical decision-making processes.
While there will be more ways to participate, this is the first and most
important step in our data collection. It aims to gather information about
your experience, thoughts, and needs regarding the process of making
technical decisions across the Wikimedia technical spaces.
This survey will be used for gathering information about the process and
the needs around technical decision-making that touches our production
systems.
You can find the survey link here:
https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/885471?lang=en
Who should take this survey?
People who do technical work that relies on software maintained by the
Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) or affiliates. If you contribute code to
MediaWiki or extensions used by Wikimedia, or you maintain gadgets or tools
that rely on WMF infrastructure, this survey is for you.
What is the deadline?
*August 7th, 2023 *
What will the Retrospective team do with the information?
The retrospective team will synthesize the collected data and publish an
anonymized analysis that will help leadership make decisions about the
future of the process.
We will collect anonymized information that we will analyze in two main
ways:
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Sentiments based on demographic information: these will tell us whether
there are different needs and desires from different groups of people.
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General needs and perceptions about decision-making in our technical
spaces: This will help us understand what kind of decisions happen in
the spaces, who is involved, and how to adjust our processes accordingly.
Is the survey the only way to participate?
The survey is the most important way for us to gather information because
it helps us gather input in a structured manner. But it will not be the
only way you can share your thoughts with us - we will have more
information soon about upcoming listening sessions where you can talk with
us live. In the meantime, you are always welcome to leave feedback on the
talk page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_decision_making/Technical_Dec…
Where can I see more information?
There are several places where you can find more information about the
Technical Decision-Making Process Retrospective:
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The original announcement about the retrospective from Tajh Taylor:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…
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The Technical Decision-Making Process general information page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making
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The Technical Decision-Making Process Retrospective on MediaWiki:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making/Technical_Decision…
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Phabricator ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333235
How to contact the retrospective core team:
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Write to the core team mailing list: tdf-retro-2023(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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The Technical Decision-Making Process Retrospective on MediaWiki talk
page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_decision_making/Technical_Dec…
Thank you,
Moriel, on behalf of the TDMP Retro Core Group
Core group:
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Moriel Schottlender (chair)
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Daniel Kinzler
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Chris Danis
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Kosta Harlan
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Temilola Adeleye
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Moriel Schottlender (she/her <https://pronoun.is/she>)
Principal Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Hey Everyone,
We hope this message finds you in great spirits and excitement for the
upcoming Hackathon! 🚀
Time is ticking, and we don't want you to miss out on this incredible
opportunity to be part of a collaborative and innovative event.
To-Do:
1. *Register: *Secure your spot by completing the registration form [Hackathon
Registration Link <https://pretix.eu/wikimedia/wmhackathon2024/>]. Remember
the registration portal will remain accessible until we hit our venue's
capacity, which is approximately set at 220 participants.
2. *Scholarship Application:*We are committed to nurturing a diverse and
inclusive community. As part of this commitment, we offer scholarships that
cover travel and accommodation expenses for a selected group of technical
contributors.
[To apply: Scholarship Application Link
<https://pretix.eu/wikimedia/wmhackathon2024/>]. Remember, the deadline for
scholarship applications is *January 5th, 2024*.
If you have any questions or need assistance, our team is here to help.
Feel free to reach out to hackathon(a)wikimedia.org for support.
Best regards,
--
*Onyinyechi Onifade *
Technical Community Program Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Re: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
The change from "office hours" to "individual consultation"
has bothered me from the beginning, and I've finally reached
the level of sadness that prompts a message here...
Individual consultation can be great for the individuals
involved. However, it leaves the rest of the community out
in the cold, without possibility of benefit of knowing what
is being discussed, learning by lurking, etc.
So far as I've been able to discover, there are no minutes
or logs of such consultations, so there's not even a chance
to learn after-the-fact nor even to have a sense of what's
being talked about.
This makes me sad.
Of course, the Tuesday Noon ET time slot doesn't work well
for me anyway (it conflicts with the weekly call of the W3C
Credentials Community Group), but perhaps a new time slot
might be selected if Office Hours resume.
The web page says "We will evaluate the success of this
approach in mid-2023". It's now late-2023, but I see no
sign of that evaluation, so perhaps I haven't missed my
chance to make my voice heard.
Thanks for your consideration,
Ted
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Senior Support & Evangelism // mailto:tthibodeau@openlinksw.com
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Universal Data Access, Integration, and Management Technology Providers
Hey, hey, everyone!
Back in July, my colleague @Giovanna Fontenelle <gfontenelle(a)wikimedia.org> and
I held a *Future of Wikidata + Libraries Workshop* at the LD4 Conference
and had a great time learning with the amazing pool of ~200 participants.
To honor the lessons we learned from them in our workshop, we have prepared
a six-blog post series with *librarians' **favorite **Wikidata **projects
and tools, *but also the *challenges *they face and the *future *they
envision.
Here's the first
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/13/ld42023-part-i-the-future-of-wikidata…>of
six posts, and we're happy to hear your feedback [image: :heart:]
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*Silvia Gutiérrez* (she/her)
Senior Program Officer, Libraries
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the
Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the
Community Wishlist Survey: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey>. The inaugural
community edition will take place from *March 15th to 17th, 2024*. You can
learn more and sign up here: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WishathonMarch2024>.
Since May 2022, the Community Tech team has organized five Wishathons <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Wishathon> internal to
Foundation staff to bring greater technical capacity to address open wishes
and promote collaboration on wishes within the product & technology teams.
Since the inception of the Wishathon, Foundation staff have helped
Community Tech complete work on 10 wishes that were otherwise stalling or
incomplete. This next edition of the Wishathon extends to Wikimedia
contributors as a next step in these efforts.
If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer,
or product lead, you are welcome to join the event! If you wish to take
part in the Wishathon, you can register for the event on this wiki page: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WishathonMarch2024>. Organizers will
send a message to your talk page with more details about the event in
January 2024 and post updates on this page.
Read the full announcement: <
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/11/introducing-wishathon-for-wikimedias-…>
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the Wishathon organizing committee
(Harumi, TheresNoTime, Karolin, Mary, Sheila, Srishti)
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello all,
The Data Modelling Days
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023> took
place last week, with an estimation of 80 participants throughout the three
days of the online event. May discussions related to modelling and
organizing data on Wikidata happened, together with presentations, raising
issues, new ideas and suggestions on topics as diverse as living heritage,
gender, EntitySchemas, conflations and duplications, Autofix, references,
modelling data on a brand new Wikibase instance, and semantic web.
*Most sessions are available as video recordings*, you can find them in
this playlist
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLduaHBu_3ejM49Nb4_k652X9XmmvhuJjE>,
as well as *linked from the program
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Data_Modelling_Days_2023#Sess…>*.
You will also find the collaborative notes, archived on wiki pages, and the
slides if any. You can also find the slides directly in the related Commons
category
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Data_Modelling_Days_2023_presen…>
.
We hope that some discussions and issues raised during the event will be
shared with the broad Wikidata community, for example through WikiProjects.
Don't hesitate to start discussions here and there, using the presentations
from the event as a support to start the discussions.
Many thanks to all of you who participated and contributed to the event!
If you have any questions or suggestions related to Wikidata data modelling
or missing technical features, feel free to contact Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Lydia_Pintscher_(WMDE)> and Arian
Bozorg (WMDE) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Arian_Bozorg_(WMDE)>. If
you have any feedback about the event or suggestions for future events,
feel free to reach out to me.
Best,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Hello all!
The Search Platform Team usually holds an open meeting on the first
Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to
Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query
Service (WCQS), etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PDT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CEST
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi
Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927
Have fun and see you soon!
Guillaume
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*Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him)
Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>