As much as I complain about the fundraising team's continued neglect
of the as yet unmeasured potential of the majority of the
volunteer-submitted banner messaging ideas, I thought it would be nice
to show the results of their latest experiment:
http://i.imgur.com/gDBvNSt.png
Note that the experiment is apparently being continued. Details are
promised soon at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2013
The most recent answer to my question about why the remainder of the
volunteer banner idea submissions haven't been tested was because the
best banners were performing so much better than all the others. But
what does that say, statistically? It means that the variance of the
population of possible ideas is large enough that there is reason to
believe that testing the rest of them would result in further very
large improvements. I've been told several times, going back years,
that yes, the Fundraising team was working on the ability to do
multivariate testing (which would simply involve showing several
hundred different text messages in the existing banner framework, and
keeping track of the relative performance of each.)
Now that we are displaying thousands of banners per day in this
ongoing experiment, does anyone know whether there are still plans to
do multivariate testing of the volunteer banner message submissions?
After Erik's email about supporting open source machine translation [1],
I've been researching options and having talks with several machine
translation researchers about what would be the best way to integrate MT
into Wikipedia. Unfortunately I couldn't find a single solution that, on
its own, would fulfill all requirements (specially being open source). On
the plus side, there is a set of technologies that if integrated, they
could provide a positive and reliable experience. It would be a hard way to
get there, and even so, it might be worth exploring.
This is the preliminary draft:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_Machine_Translation_for_Wikip…
It is a shame that the talk about "Supporting translation of Wikipedia
content" [2] has not been accepted for WM13.
Hopefully there will be enough interest to discuss this topic there anyways.
Micru
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/65605
[2]
https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Supporting_translation…
"As with other inventions that produced an inferior product at a much
lower price, from the printing press to the steam-driven loom to
Wikipedia, what happens now is largely in the hands of the people
experimenting with the new tools, rather than defending themselves from
them."
http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/07/08/moocs-and-economic-reali…
Fred
Hello, all.
I'm delighted to announce that round one voting is now open for the 2013
Wikivoyage logo selection process. Voting is open to all editors who have
contributed on any project prior to 31 May 2013.
Please visit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Logo_selection_procedure for
the general rules and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage/Logo_2013 for
a few specific notes, such as about weighted voting. When you are ready to
vote, please follow the link in the header to "show proposals and vote".
You may vote for up to three images - you will indicate your preference by
the order in which you vote. Your first vote will be ranked as your first
choice, etc.
There are some very impressive logo ideas there. I hope you will all join
in to help narrow down the field in the first round to a few finalists.
Thanks to everyone who submitted logos and who helped discuss and refine
those, and a special thank you to Rainer (
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rillke) for pulling it together so
beautifully thus far.
Maggie
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Maggie Dennis
Senior Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Cześć wszystkim.
Abstrahując od zapytania Oddera na liście dyskusyjnej wikipedia-l (mam nadzieję, że ta rozmowa, tak jak uwaga czytelników i sympatyków trafią i na tę listę :) ) chciałbym podbić temat tegorocznej edycji konkursu.
Myślę, że więcej publicznej informacji na temat bieżącego statusu i uwagi Stowarzyszenia by się tu przydało. :) Zdjęcia będzie można wysyłać od 1 września, niemniej warto będzie informować ludzi wcześniej (niech fotografują w trakcie wakacji!), musimy się więc już sprężać w promocji.
Z tego co słyszałem, w tym roku liczba wejść na stronę wikizabytków jest nieporównywalnie mniejsza niż w niższym (mógłby ktoś potwierdzić?), co może mieć związek m.in. z brakiem sitenotice. Czy mógłbym prosić naszych koordynatorów o krótką informację jak im idzie i w czym można by im pomóc? :)
Pozdrawiam serdecznie znad walizy,
michał "aegis maelstrom" buczyński
P.S. Przepraszam za przejściowo niższą aktywność, przygotowania do najpoważniejszej mojej prezentacji jak dotychczas i podróży zżerają masę czasu.
FYI, forwarding.
And, if you are attending (or interested in) Wikimania, and are not yet a
member of the Wikimania-l list (
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l), I highly
encourage you to join (at least for the weeks before the conference) -- it
is where news and announcements about Wikimania are being shared. It's also
a good place to announce & coordinate excursions, sightseeing, conference
events, etc.
best,
Phoebe
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From: Deryck Chan <deryckchan(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:07 PM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Registration closes on 31 July
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello Wikimaniacs,
I hope you're excited about coming to Hong Kong! Online registration for
Wikimania 2013 is scheduled to close on the evening of 31 July so that we
can prepare everyone's badges on time. If you haven't yet registered,
please go to https://registration.wikimedia.hk/ to complete your
registration and payment now!
Deryck
Global engagement coordinator, Wikimania 2013
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Hi everyone, here is a reminder about tomorrow. I hope ya'll can join us!
We'll also be doing a Google Hangout next week, so don't fret if you can't
join us tomorrow. We'll also be at Wikimania and can't wait to meet
attendees to talk PE&D!
[pardon cross-posting]
The Program Evaluation & Design team[1] will be hosting our first office
hours on IRC on July 26 at 16:00 UTC.
Event Details:
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Date: July 26, 2013 (Friday)
Time: 1600-1700 UTC, 9:00-10:00 AM PDT
IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net
Participants: Frank Schulenburg (Senior Director of Programs), Dr. Jaime
Anstee (Program Evaluation Specialist), Sarah Stierch (Community
Coordinator) and YOU!
Agenda:
1. A chance for community members to learn about *why* program evaluation &
design is an important and powerful tool.
2. An opportunity for community members to understand why WMF is engaging
in PE&D.
3. General Q&A about program evaluation & design
4. A chance to get virtually get to know the PE&D team (Sarah, Jaime and
Frank)[2]
If you're interested in how to evaluate the impact of programs such as
on-wiki contests, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Takes, WikiExpeditions,
Wikipedia Education Program, content donations, edit-a-thons, workshops,
and the like - you might have interest in what PE&D is hoping to do in
supporting the amazing work you do.
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs:Index
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Evaluation_and_Design/FAQ#Who_is_on_…
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*Sarah Stierch*
*Museumist, open culture advocate, and Wikimedian*
*www.sarahstierch.com*
