Dear wikimedians,
On behalf the Affiliations Committee and as a result of the call of
candidates made on past September [1] is my pleasure to announce you that 5
new voting members have been appointed to join us for the next two years
and to serve to Wikimedia affiliates. [2] The new members are:
* Manuel Schneider
* Ganesh Paudel
* Emily Temple-Wood
* Ting Chen
* Anirudh Singh Bhati
Congratulations to them and thanks to all the volunteers that sent us their
applications.
Currently the AffCom is composed as follows:
Carlos Colina, Josh Lim, Salvador Alcántar, Tanvir Rahman, Greg Varnum,
with terms scheduled to expire at the end of 2014; Galileo Vidoni, Kirill
Lokshin with terms scheduled to expire at the end of 2015; Manuel
Schneider, Ganesh Paudel, Emily Temple-Wood, Ting Chen and Anirudh Singh
Bhati, with terms scheduled to expire at the end of 2016, and serve as full
voting members.
About AffCom members:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Members
Best regards!
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/MassMessages/Call_fo…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Committee/Resolutions/Membership_%…
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*Salvador Alcántar*
*AffCom Treasurer*
*@salvador_alc*
On Wed Oct 29 2014 at 10:56:42 Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)google.com> wrote:
> There’s a small tool on WMF labs that you can use to verify the links (it
> displays the articles side by side from a language pair you select, and
> then you can confirm or contradict the merge):
>
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/yichengtry
>
This is really fun, and so useful too. Thank you so much, Denny, Jiang
Bian, Si Li, and Yicheng Huang – "Denny and the Googlers" is a new band
name if ever there was one.
Dear all,
As you know, over the last few months I’ve been learning about the work of
the organizations we fund through the many grantmaking programs here at
WMF. I’ve been particularly focusing on the impact evaluations that have
been done on WMF grants with the first round of Impact Reports. [1] I
expect I will learn more from you all in the coming months, and I will be
creating opportunities to do so.
The Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) Advisory Group met this past May to
review the first years of the FDC’s grantmaking through the Annual Plan
Grants program. I want to thank them for their thoughtful recommendations. [2]
With the Board of Trustees, I’ve carefully reviewed the Advisory Group
recommendations, in order to understand our successes and our challenges.
I would like to outline my current view of our capabilities and our
opportunities, and I am now publishing my response to these recommendations
on Meta. [3] Please post questions and comments on the Talk page of that
document. [4]
I would like to offer some time for any feedback or questions you may have
on my response. To that end, I’ll be holding a virtual meeting on Monday
Nov 3 at 17:00 UTC, and I invite you to watch the streaming video and join
the conversation. [5] You can ask questions via IRC on #wikimedia-office
directly or message FDC support staff, Katy Love (klove(a)wikimedia.org or on
IRC at Katy.Love) with questions or comments; she will voice them in the
Hangout.
I look forward to speaking with you soon.
Lila Tretikov
Executive Director, WMF
The Second International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computer
Engineering and their Applications (EECEA2015)
University of Perpetual Help System Dalta, Las Piñas - Manila,
Philippines
February 12-14, 2015
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/eecea2015/
All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library.
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The conference aims to enable researchers build connections between
different digital applications. The EECEA2015 welcomes submissions on
any topic in the field of electrical, electronics, computer engineering
and any related topics. The event will be held over three days, with
presentations delivered by researchers from the international community,
including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art
lectures.
RESEARCH TOPICS ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
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- Mixed Signal Circuits
- Mobile Robotics
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- Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits
- VLSI Testing and Design for Testability
* Electrical Engineering
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- Analog Circuits and Digital Circuits
- Battery Management System
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- Power Electronics
- Remote control and techniques of GPS
- Robotics and Atomization Engineering
- Signal Processing
- Smart Grid
- Techniques of Laser and Applications Of Electro-optics
* Computer Engineering
- Algorithms
- Automated Software Engineering
- Computer-aided Design
- Computer Architecture
- Computer Modeling
- Computer Security
- Database and Data Mining
- Data Encryption
- Digital Signal and Image Processing
- Expert Systems
- Information Systems
- Mobile Computing
- Multimedia Applications
- Mobile Wireless Networks
- Wireless Communication
Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. All
papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees.
Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be considered.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
- Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. Full
paper must be submitted (Abstracts are not acceptable).
- Submitted paper should not exceed 15 pages, including illustrations.
All papers must be without page numbers.
- Papers should be submitted electronically as pdf format without
author(s) name.
- Paper submission link:
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/eecea2015/openconf/openconf.php
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission Dates: Open from now until January 12, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: 2-3 weeks from the date of submission
Camera Ready Submission: January 30, 2015
Registration Deadline: January 30, 2015
Conference Dates: February 12-14, 2015
Forwarding to Research and Analytics for discussion.
Pine
On Oct 30, 2014 8:13 PM, "MZMcBride" <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Splitting this out from the GLAMs/Chapters thread, I continue to regularly
> wonder whether we need stricter guidelines and guidance in the area of
> experimenting on Wikimedians.
>
> Erik mentioned trying to further implement A/B testing in software
> development, but to me that quickly raises consent and trust issues. My
> view is that Wikimedians should be treated as colleagues, not customers.
>
> Of course the stark reality is that A/B testing on users (typically
> readers, not editors) during the annual Wikimedia Foundation fundraiser
> has been a major component of the Wikimedia Foundation's growth.
>
> Worth repeating, from <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Experiments>:
>
> ---
> Current practices in Web analytics reflect their commercial origins. For
> better or worse, the greatest motor behind the use of Web analytics has
> been the profit interests of online retailers and social networks, for
> whom the user is a commodity. These profit interests have profoundly
> shaped the discourse of Web analytics, setting both the tenor and the tone
> of debate (consider the values implicit in "funnels," a term of art).
>
> A thoughtless application of Web analytics to Wikimedia wikis would import
> a moral outlook that is incompatible with (and, indeed, rightfully
> offensive to) its community. It also wouldn't work well, because neither
> Wikimedia wikis nor their editing communities are for sale. It is
> therefore crucial that technical efforts be accompanied by a process of
> reflection, the goal of which should be to articulate criteria for Web
> analytics that express and promote the broader ambitions of the Wikimedia
> movement and the moral commitments that underlie it.
> ---
>
> I think this about sums it up better than I ever could.
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
>
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