[I am crossposting this announcement to two mailing lists, feel free to
pick up the topic on either of them.]
Dear All,
I am--yet again!--delighted to announce that Wikimedia Polska, the
Polish chapter of the WMF, is organising a travelling exhibition of the
winning POTY contest pictures. 16 images chosen by Wikimedians from all
over the world in the annual POTY contests from 2006 onwards are going
to be shown at exhibitions in various places around Poland.
As some of you may recall, the exhibition premièred during the 10th
anniversary of the Polish Wikipedia conference, having been visited by a
few hundred visitors in just two weeks; some images from the pubic
viewing of the exhibition are available on Wikimedia Commons at
<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Picture_of_the_Year_exhibition_-…>.
Our first stop is Przystanek Książka (a Polish wordplay for "Book
Break"), a media library of the Public Library of the district of Ochota
in Warsaw. The exhibition starts on Monday, November 28, and will remain
until the end of the year. 16 pictures, the best of the best of the
Wikimedia movement, will be shown in an exhibition open for the public,
with descriptions available in Polish, English and German.
For those of you currently living in Warsaw or going to visit the
capital in the upcoming weeks: the library is located at 42 Grójecka
Street, just two tram stops (and 8 minutes) away from the Warsaw Central
railway station (tram lines "9" and "25"), and is open on working days
from 10 AM until 7 PM (2 PM-7 PM on Wednesdays).
We are still looking for more organisations and institutions willing to
hold the exhibition--if there's anyone from the neighbouring (European)
countries willing to get involved or just looking for some information,
feel free to approach me at <tomasz.kozlowski @ wikimedia.pl>.
We hope to have a great event, and even if you can't visit the
exhibition, please keep your fingers crossed that it goes well, and
spread the news!
PS For those going to take a peek at the exhibition _in real life_,
there's also a Facebook event:
<https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100219446762276>.
Regards,
--
Tomasz Kozłowski | [[user:odder]]
https://plus.google.com/u/0/118383351194421484817/posts/foj5A1fURGt
About a business moving from Google Maps on its site to doing their
own from the available free content.
"$200,000 to $300,000 a year is, at the very least, the same as hiring
a very good engineer for a year (and paying all the taxes and benefits
and costs and still having a lot of money left). It was enough money
to finally push us into doing our own maps."
Somewhat relevant in that free content really is quite good and
important stuff. (Also, I've long thought OSM as something that would
have fit Wikimedia's portfolio wonderfully.) I remember a Dorkbot
presentation in 2004 on OSM - a friend who was working for Multimap
pooh-poohed the idea that OSM could ever achieve a usable-quality map.
I had been involved in Wikipedia for a few months at that time and
considered this obviously wrong ...
- d.
Hi everyone,
a Swiss journalist asked me about the articles (from EN WP) most viewed
and most edited in 2011. I am not sure if these lists are already
available somewhere (if yes, let me know; if not, I'd be glad to make
them available), but I since I already had a local copy of all the page
view statistics, I "simply" read all the files ("simply", but it still
took over hundred hour of processing time). Getting the number of edits
(by parsing the latest database dump) was faster (still 20-30 hours).
The top pages in both cases are shown below; there are two puzzling
entries that were already present in previous stats (see e.g.
http://stats.grok.se/en/), and I was wondering if the fact that they are
among the most viewed page on Wikipedia had already been discussed (I
haven't found anything).
So, why would "404 error" and "File:Hardy_boys_cover_09.jpg" be ranked
so high ? "404 error" is constant through the year (it may be a link
from a 404 page on a web server, but I'd be still surprised that it is
clicked so often), but the other is viewed in bursts (see e.g.
http://stats.grok.se/en/201012/File:Hardy_boys_cover_09.jpg). Any idea ?
"Search" is also somewhat surprising.
Cheers,
Frédéric
Top viewed pages (only the article namespace, excluding the main page)
404_error 132676913
Facebook 42787711
Wiki 35568336
Deaths_in_2011 25662870
Google 23998921
Steve_Jobs 21111493
Search 20474010
United_States 18370040
Glee_(TV_series) 17492341
Justin_Bieber 16873558
Lady_Gaga 16603577
Sex 15698781
Wikipedia 14934576
File:Hardy_boys_cover_09.jpg 14640359
YouTube 14418365
Mark_Zuckerberg 14028765
Eminem 13820415
How_I_Met_Your_Mother 13458433
Amy_Winehouse 13131963
Adele_(singer) 12979662
The_Big_Bang_Theory 12542108
Selena_Gomez 12476268
Kim_Kardashian 12317436
Top edited pages:
16283 Deaths in 2011
9437 2011 Libyan civil war
6926 2011 Egyptian revolution
5822 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
5749 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
5491 Arab Spring
5236 Occupy Wall Street
4664 American Idol (season 10)
4627 Death of Osama bin Laden
4535 List of 1000 Ways to Die episodes
4371 The Undertaker
4187 2011 Atlantic hurricane season
4004 Miss Universe 2011
3993 2011 England riots
3874 Anders Behring Breivik
3829 Muammar Gaddafi
3656 Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 13)
3582 2011 in film
3568 Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 12)
Hey guys,
Just keeping you in the loop; we're going to be testing another change to
the Article Feedback Tool on starting tomorrow, January 10. So far, we've
done a bit of small-scale experimentation with the actual design of the
tool, as announced on the blog,[1] the village pump, and on various
mailing lists. This has all been on a tiny fraction of articles (~22k total
articles, about 0.6% of the English Wikipedia), and a lot of really useful
data has been gathered without bothering the vast majority of editors or
readers. Ideally, that's what we'd aim for with all tests :).
Even with Wikipedia readership reaching half a billion users per month, the
feedback form its current position (at the end of the article) doesn’t see
a whole lot of activity [2]. In this test, we’ll be experimenting with a
more prominent way to access to tool. When a user loads the page with the
test version of the Article Feedback Tool, they will see an “Improve this
article” link docked on the bottom right hand corner of the page (please
see [3] for a mockup). Since this link is docked, it will stay with the
reader while they’re reading the article. The introduction of this link
will undoubtedly increase the amount of feedback. We need to, however,
understand how it affects the quality of the feedback. We genuinely don't
know what the impact will be, which is why we're doing these tests :). As
with the last tests, it'll be on a very small subset of articles and
probably won't be noticed by most people.
If you do encounter it, and it does bug you, you can turn it off just by
going into Preferences > Appearance > Don't show me the article feedback
widget on pages. If you've already ticked this option, the new link
shouldn't appear at all; please do let me know if it does. We are working
on a way to disable it "in-line" as well so you can simply dismiss the link
without going to preferences.
We’ll also be doing some preliminary analysis on whether such a prominent
link cannibalizes editing behavior. The team is very aware that the new
link may compete with the edit tab and section edit links. Since the test
version of the tool is deployed on a limited number of articles, we will
only get a rough read on how much, if any, cannibalization takes place.
Per our research plan, we’ll continue to monitor the tradeoff between
giving feedback and editing.[4]
If any of you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me or
drop a note on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5
Thanks!
[1]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/20/a-new-way-to-contribute-to-wikipedia/
[2] Overall activity for current version (AFT4) :
http://toolserver.org/~dartar/aft/; Activity for United States, one of the
most frequently rated articles:
http://toolserver.org/~dartar/aft2/?p=United_States
[3]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AFT5-Feedback-Link-Option-D-12-28.png
[4]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_feedback/Data_and_metrics
--
Oliver Keyes
Community Liaison, Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation
Given the conversations about Bosnia and SOPA, I felt this was worth mentioning.
There are a number of stories online about the government limiting Internet access within Iran:
http://mashable.com/2012/01/06/iran-intranet-tests/http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57354267-83/iran-squeezes-web-surfers-prep…http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577142713916386248.h…
Please note that I'm not volunteering to help with any actions (sorry) and not (yet) necessarily advocating for or against action. However, I felt it was worth mentioning topic given recent discussions and the obvious conflict this presents for Wikimedia's interest in accessing any parts of Iran.
I also have it from a reliable source that their government is indeed planning on a total Internet shut off in two weeks. I'm not comfortable sharing more on a public listserv, but if you have a logical reason for needing to know, email me off-list and I'll share more. :)
Based on how I learned this, I suspect bloggers and others will be reporting on this soon (if they aren't already). Feel free to consider it wild speculation until then (and even after that if you'd like - I don't mind either way), but I'm confident in the source and that their government is preparing for these actions. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail before it gets out of hand.
In the interest of getting discussion going, I'll refrain from sharing my own personal take on what's likely to happen. :)
-greg aka varnent
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Gregory Varnum
Lead, Aequalitas Project
Lead Administrator, WikiQueer
Founding Principal, VarnEnt
@GregVarnum
fb.com/GregVarnum
Hey guys and girls
As usual, the AFT5 team will be holding an office hours session this week;
Friday the 13th, despite the unfortunate associations, at 19:00 UTC in
#wikimedia-office. This'll be the first chance for everyone (including me!)
to take a look at a working, useable wireframe for the feedback page and to
provide feedback (hah) on it. Hope to see you all there :).
--
Oliver Keyes
Community Liaison, Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello all,
I’m really happy to announce that Fabrice Florin is joining the
Wikimedia Foundation as Product Manager for New Editor Engagement.
In this position, Fabrice will take the lead in articulating and
refining, in partnership with the community and the engineering team,
the requirements for some of our most important features: those which
will help us increase the engagement and retention of new contributors
to Wikimedia projects.
Fabrice has already been supporting us as a contractor on the Article
Feedback V5 project, and I’m really pleased that he’s joining us
full-time, starting next week.
Six years ago, Fabrice founded NewsTrust, a non-profit organization
dedicated to to helping people find quality journalism. As its
Executive Director, Fabrice built the organization and the product
from scratch, with a small team. NewsTrust is a fascinating community
in its own right, and Fabrice and I first met when we discussed what
lessons could be learned for Wikimedia’s own forays into
rating/assessment tools.
Before that, Fabrice had a long carreer in the tech and media
industry. He was VP of Online Entertainment at Macromedia, CEO of
Zenda, Executive Producer at Apple, and President of Videowest. Read
more in his online bio: http://bit.ly/fab-bio
Fabrice is perhaps the first WMF staffer with an IMDB entry. He
directed the 1984 documentary “Hackers” which featured early tech
luminaries like Bill Atkinson, Lee Felsenstein, Richard Stallman and
Steve Wozniak.
Please join me in giving him a big welcome to the Wikimedia movement. :-)
Erik
--
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi,
Someone asked me today about the 10th Anniversary video that we made to
Wikimania in Haifa...
And I just realized that we didn't share him with the people who didn't
came to Wikimania, so about six months after:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISIRS3Qj8NM
If someone want the video as a file for screening, I can send him..
We going to show it again on our editors conference that we are hosting on
Friday to celebrate the 11th Anniversary :)
Itzik
WMIL
Hi everyone,
This is just a note that on Thursday the 12th, at 22:30 UTC, WMF Executive
Director Sue Gardner will be in #wikimedia-office to answer your questions.
We haven't set a topic as yet, so feel free to come prepared with what is
of interest to you right now. As usual, time conversion links and other
documentation is on Meta.[1]
Talk to you then!
--
Steven Walling
Community Organizer at Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
