Hoi,
When the information in Wikidata is to be useful, there have to be labels
for the items that are on display in Wikidata. In the Reasonator, the tool
that visualises the information from Wikidata, we always show you a label
in a language. It is possible to set your babel information to ensure fall
back for the best personal result.
What is really new and exciting is that you can now add the missing labels
from within the Reasonator. When you hover over the label that is "red
labelled", you will see an option to add a label. Click on it, add the
missing label, hit enter and you are done.
It now takes just ten seconds to add a label.
When you consider how often items are used, you will appreciate that 10
seconds may affect hundreds of thousands of items where that specific item
is used. As a consequence we now have the perfect setting where people can
make a big difference for their language. It will particularly make a
dramatic difference for the language where there are few articles in
Wikipedias. Even the English Wikipedia will benefit a lot; already there
are 500.000 more items in Wikidata than articles in the English Wikipedia..
Thanks to the Wikidata Search option we have found that we are better able
to share in the sum of the knowledge we have available. As more labels are
added, the quantity of the information will grow. As it is likely that
people will mostly work on the items they consider to be relevant, it is
almost certain that the effect will be great.
FYI at this time the number of page views of the Reasonator increases by
100% a month. I wonder how long this will be this way :)
Thanks,
GerardM
PS and NB It is really staggering how much functionality Magnus can come up
with in so little time.
Passing along for your information. This release is posted on the WMF wiki at
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Frank_Schulenburg_named…
An accompanying Q&A can also be found here:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/QA_Frank_Schulenburg_announcement_Febr…
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Frank Schulenburg named executive director of new Wiki Education Foundation
(San Francisco, California) 12 February 2014 -- The Wiki Education
Foundation, a new nonprofit organization that supports the Wikipedia
Education Program in the United States and Canada, has named Frank
Schulenburg as its inaugural executive director. Schulenburg, formerly
senior director of programs at the Wikimedia Foundation, will begin
his new role February 18, 2014.
"I look forward to leading the Wiki Education Foundation," said
Schulenburg. "We are off to a great start, and will build on the
strong success of the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia Education
Program to further engage educators, researchers and students to
provide more high-quality content for Wikipedia's readers."
Started by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2010, the Wikipedia Education
Program encourages students to contribute content to Wikipedia
articles on course-related subjects as part of classroom assignments
developed by their faculty and instructors. Over the past four years,
more than 6,000 students in the United States and Canada have
contributed content to Wikipedia as part of the Wikipedia Education
Program, adding the equivalent of 36,600 printed pages of content to
Wikipedia and significantly increasing the amount of high-quality
content that Wikipedia offers its half-billion readers.
In response to that success and to give the program more focused and
specialized support, in 2012 the Wikimedia Foundation began a process
to spin off the United States and Canada work into its own,
independent nonprofit organization. The resulting Wiki Education
Foundation was created in late 2013, and Schulenburg will be its first
executive director. The Wiki Education Foundation will continue to
support the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and
Canada, and will develop additional programs to promote academic
research and teaching that engage with Wikipedia.
"I am delighted that Frank has agreed to lead the Wiki Education
Foundation as executive director," said Dr. Diana Strassmann, Carolyn
and Fred McManis Distinguished Professor in the Practice at Rice
University and chair of the board of the Wiki Education Foundation,
who began using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in her classes in 2007.
"Under Frank's leadership, the Wiki Education Foundation will continue
to expand engagement among educators, students, and Wikipedia, and
will continue to diversify the community of Wikipedians, while
improving the quality and depth of Wikipedia."
"Frank is the perfect person to lead the Wiki Education Foundation,"
said Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner. "Frank's a
very experienced Wikipedia contributor with a long track record of
inventing and leading successful programs that make Wikipedia better
and more useful for its readers. I am sorry we will lose him from the
Wikimedia Foundation, but I look forward to seeing the Wiki Education
Foundation thrive and succeed under his leadership."
A longtime Wikipedian and an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation
since 2008, Schulenburg has focused on broadening participation and
developing the public understanding of Wikipedia, especially among
subject matter experts. He has spoken globally about efforts to
increase the relevance of Wikipedia in academia. In 2006, he founded
Wikipedia Academy, an event aimed at cultivating dialogue between
Wikipedia contributors and academics. In 2009, he initiated the
Bookshelf Project, which created the first educational materials for
new Wikipedia contributors. In 2010 he designed and implemented the
Wikipedia Education Program. From 2012 on he was a member of the
executive management team of the Wikimedia Foundation, overseeing the
Wikipedia Education Program, Wikipedia Zero, and a new initiative to
evaluate the impact of programmatic activities across countries.
Schulenburg has been involved with Wikipedia since 2005, both as an
author and as a photographer.
The Wiki Education Foundation board conducted an extensive search for
an executive director before selecting Schulenburg. The board includes
educators from a variety of backgrounds, Wikipedia volunteers, and
other key stakeholders. The Wiki Education Foundation is currently
supporting university instructors in the United States and Canada.
Interested instructors are encouraged to send an email to
contact(a)wikiedfoundation.org.
About the Wiki Education Foundation
The Wiki Education Foundation supports innovative uses of Wikipedia
and related projects in communities of teaching, learning, and inquiry
in the United States and Canada. The Foundation aims to improve the
breadth, scope, and quality of Wikimedia content; enhance student
information fluency; and increase the number and diversity of
contributors to the free knowledge movement by engaging educators,
researchers, and students. The Wiki Education Foundation has applied
for 501(c)(3) charity status.
About the Wikipedia Education Program
http://education.wikimedia.org
The Wikipedia Education Program means the end of throwaway assignments
and the beginning of real-world impact for students. The premise is
simple: Instructors assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia
as part of their coursework. The Wikipedia Education Program is a
global initiative, with activities in more than 60 countries. The
Wikimedia Foundation launched the Wikipedia Education Program in 2011
after a successful pilot. It supports the program with brochures,
online trainings, a MediaWiki extension enabling educators to track
student work, and other resources.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
http://wikimediafoundation.orghttp://blog.wikimedia.org
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
receive more than 490 million unique visitors per month, making them
the fifth-most popular web property worldwide (comScore, December
2013). Available in 287 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 30
million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of
roughly 80,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the
Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded
primarily through donations and grants.
Contact for press inquiries
Frank Schulenburg, Wiki Education Foundation
+1 (415) 517 0453
frank(a)wikiedfoundation.org
Communications, Wikimedia Foundation
+1 415-839-6885 ext 6633
communications(a)wikimedia.org
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Dear Wikimedians,
we would like to refer to our call for registration for the Wikimedia
Conference from January 23, 2014. As we thoroughly hope that a lot of
Wikimedians will come to Berlin to actively participate in the
conference, please be kindly reminded to register until Monday,
February 17, 2014. You have one week left!
Please find the link to the registration here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014/Registration
All registered participants can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014/Participants
Today we have 17 chapters/affiliations who are represented at the
conference. To the remaining, please register within the next seven
days. We would also love to see you at the conference.
We are happy to announce that members of the WMF board, WMF staff,
Affiliations Committee and the FDC have already registered.
Please do not hesitate to reach out to us any time via
wmcon(a)wikimedia.de should you have any questions or comments.
Best regards and see you soon in Berlin,
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unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
Hi LiAnna, who wrote the FAQ for the press release? I have some concerns.
Thanks,
Pine
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 13:19:42 -0800
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> Date: Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:16 PM
> Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] (press release) Frank Schulenburg named
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>
> Passing along for your information. This release is posted on the WMF wiki
> at
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Frank_Schulenburg_named…
>
> An accompanying Q&A can also be found here:
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/QA_Frank_Schulenburg_announcement_Febr…
>
> ---
>
> Frank Schulenburg named executive director of new Wiki Education Foundation
>
> (San Francisco, California) 12 February 2014 -- The Wiki Education
> Foundation, a new nonprofit organization that supports the Wikipedia
> Education Program in the United States and Canada, has named Frank
> Schulenburg as its inaugural executive director. Schulenburg, formerly
> senior director of programs at the Wikimedia Foundation, will begin
> his new role February 18, 2014.
>
> "I look forward to leading the Wiki Education Foundation," said
> Schulenburg. "We are off to a great start, and will build on the
> strong success of the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia Education
> Program to further engage educators, researchers and students to
> provide more high-quality content for Wikipedia's readers."
>
> Started by the Wikimedia Foundation in 2010, the Wikipedia Education
> Program encourages students to contribute content to Wikipedia
> articles on course-related subjects as part of classroom assignments
> developed by their faculty and instructors. Over the past four years,
> more than 6,000 students in the United States and Canada have
> contributed content to Wikipedia as part of the Wikipedia Education
> Program, adding the equivalent of 36,600 printed pages of content to
> Wikipedia and significantly increasing the amount of high-quality
> content that Wikipedia offers its half-billion readers.
>
> In response to that success and to give the program more focused and
> specialized support, in 2012 the Wikimedia Foundation began a process
> to spin off the United States and Canada work into its own,
> independent nonprofit organization. The resulting Wiki Education
> Foundation was created in late 2013, and Schulenburg will be its first
> executive director. The Wiki Education Foundation will continue to
> support the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and
> Canada, and will develop additional programs to promote academic
> research and teaching that engage with Wikipedia.
>
> "I am delighted that Frank has agreed to lead the Wiki Education
> Foundation as executive director," said Dr. Diana Strassmann, Carolyn
> and Fred McManis Distinguished Professor in the Practice at Rice
> University and chair of the board of the Wiki Education Foundation,
> who began using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in her classes in 2007.
> "Under Frank's leadership, the Wiki Education Foundation will continue
> to expand engagement among educators, students, and Wikipedia, and
> will continue to diversify the community of Wikipedians, while
> improving the quality and depth of Wikipedia."
>
> "Frank is the perfect person to lead the Wiki Education Foundation,"
> said Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner. "Frank's a
> very experienced Wikipedia contributor with a long track record of
> inventing and leading successful programs that make Wikipedia better
> and more useful for its readers. I am sorry we will lose him from the
> Wikimedia Foundation, but I look forward to seeing the Wiki Education
> Foundation thrive and succeed under his leadership."
>
> A longtime Wikipedian and an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation
> since 2008, Schulenburg has focused on broadening participation and
> developing the public understanding of Wikipedia, especially among
> subject matter experts. He has spoken globally about efforts to
> increase the relevance of Wikipedia in academia. In 2006, he founded
> Wikipedia Academy, an event aimed at cultivating dialogue between
> Wikipedia contributors and academics. In 2009, he initiated the
> Bookshelf Project, which created the first educational materials for
> new Wikipedia contributors. In 2010 he designed and implemented the
> Wikipedia Education Program. From 2012 on he was a member of the
> executive management team of the Wikimedia Foundation, overseeing the
> Wikipedia Education Program, Wikipedia Zero, and a new initiative to
> evaluate the impact of programmatic activities across countries.
> Schulenburg has been involved with Wikipedia since 2005, both as an
> author and as a photographer.
>
> The Wiki Education Foundation board conducted an extensive search for
> an executive director before selecting Schulenburg. The board includes
> educators from a variety of backgrounds, Wikipedia volunteers, and
> other key stakeholders. The Wiki Education Foundation is currently
> supporting university instructors in the United States and Canada.
> Interested instructors are encouraged to send an email to
> contact(a)wikiedfoundation.org.
>
>
> About the Wiki Education Foundation
>
> The Wiki Education Foundation supports innovative uses of Wikipedia
> and related projects in communities of teaching, learning, and inquiry
> in the United States and Canada. The Foundation aims to improve the
> breadth, scope, and quality of Wikimedia content; enhance student
> information fluency; and increase the number and diversity of
> contributors to the free knowledge movement by engaging educators,
> researchers, and students. The Wiki Education Foundation has applied
> for 501(c)(3) charity status.
>
> About the Wikipedia Education Program
>
> http://education.wikimedia.org
>
> The Wikipedia Education Program means the end of throwaway assignments
> and the beginning of real-world impact for students. The premise is
> simple: Instructors assign their students to contribute to Wikipedia
> as part of their coursework. The Wikipedia Education Program is a
> global initiative, with activities in more than 60 countries. The
> Wikimedia Foundation launched the Wikipedia Education Program in 2011
> after a successful pilot. It supports the program with brochures,
> online trainings, a MediaWiki extension enabling educators to track
> student work, and other resources.
>
> About the Wikimedia Foundation
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org
> http://blog.wikimedia.org
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates
> Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix,
> Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation
> receive more than 490 million unique visitors per month, making them
> the fifth-most popular web property worldwide (comScore, December
> 2013). Available in 287 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 30
> million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of
> roughly 80,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the
> Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded
> primarily through donations and grants.
>
>
> Contact for press inquiries
>
> Frank Schulenburg, Wiki Education Foundation
>
> +1 (415) 517 0453
> frank(a)wikiedfoundation.org
>
> Communications, Wikimedia Foundation
>
> +1 415-839-6885 ext 6633
> communications(a)wikimedia.org
>
Certainly, in the last 2 years and before, a handful of Wikimedia
volunteer groups have been quite as active and organized as those
currently being classified as User Groups - only the option of being
recognized as User Groups did not exist for them at the time of their
founding.
And it is a good thing that this category exists now, but is seems
wrong to penalize Wikimedia volunteer groups that *do* have a track
record of effective programmatic experience, just because they were
started before the User Group category was in existence.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:33 AM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to draw your attention to two Wikimedia Board of Trustees decisions
> that were recently published, regarding funds allocated to the FDC/Annual
> plan grant process and Board approval of chapter/thematic organization
> status. In a nutshell, the Board decided to allocate approximately the same
> amount of funding to the FDC for the next two years. The Board also decided
> that new organizations should first form as a user group and have two years
> of programmatic experience before being approved as a legally incorporated
> entity (either a chapter or thematic organization).
>
> The decisions are published in the meeting minutes here:
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2013-11-24#Movement_roles
>
> There is also a FAQ on Meta:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_FAQ
>
> You will notice these decisions are published in the minutes for the
> November meeting. We originally took these decisions at that meeting;
> however as the FAQ explains it took us some time to talk to community
> groups, clarify our wording and write the FAQ.
>
> Hopefully the FAQ will answer many of your questions about these decisions;
> however, if there are other questions please do ask them, here or on the
> meta talk page. Thank you!
>
> for the Board,
> Phoebe
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Le 12 févr. 2014 00:10, "Nathan" <nawrich(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> For me in these debates about funding, which often present the staff on
one
> side pushing to reduce the relative power and centrality of chapters on
one
> side and chapter representatives pushing the opposite way on the other
> side, there is always a little mystery about the role and interests of the
> people commenting.
>
> While some posters point out that they speak in a personal capacity, few
> offer a disclosure about their personal interests in the funding debate...
> but I would find it both enlightening and interesting if those expressing
> opinions about budgets would disclose whether they receive a salary or
> other financial benefit (including travel, conference fees, etc.) from the
> WMF.
>
> I would like to know, without further research, if someone arguing that
> chapters should get more money is dependent on a salary drawn from that
> pool of money. Since the list archives form a public record and not all
> list subscribers know everyone else, it would be very helpful if posters
> considered including this kind of a disclosure in posts where it may be
> meaningful.
Well, it's actually pretty straightforward. For members of the Board of
Trustees, FDC and AffCom, as well as Board members of all Chapters. All of
us are volunteers. We do not get any salary from Chapters or Foundation. In
short, we do the work we do here for free.
In our capacity as "members", and in order to allow us to fulfill our
duties towards the organisations/committees that we are part of and thus
towards the Wikimedia movement, we do get some or all of our travel
expenses and/or attendance fees for Wikimedia conferences reimbursed out of
"movement funds" (chapters or foundation budgets) insofar as our presence
in an official capacity is deemed useful.
Hope this clarifies the strange notion you seem to be putting forward of
anyone of those of us *speaking in a personal capacity* having any kind of
financial benefit.
Best,
Delphine
(Speaking in her capacity as Delphine, you know, the not-a-fish)
Hi,
For quite some time now, WMIL & the National Library are holding "Wikipedia
workshops" which encourage volunteers to get to know Wikipedia, acquire
basic editing skills, and try expanding or writing new articles based on
the Library collections. The goal of this is both to expand the number of
active editors, and to use better resources available from the Library.
This time, we got the press interested, and the result is a very nice
article on a national channel.
The article is available in the following link, and starts at minute 29:05:
http://www.i24news.tv/en/tv/replay/evening-news#/evening-news/3179531785001
Enjoy!
Ido, WMIL board AKA [NLIGuy]
Hello,
A quick reminder that the IRC office hour for Language Engineering is
happening later today at 1700 UTC on Freenode #wikimedia-office. More
details at the end of the mail.
See you there!
Thanks
Runa
Event Details:
==========
# Date: February 12, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 0900-1000 PDT (Check for local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140212T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net
Agenda:
======
1. Universal Language Selector (ULS) update and developments
2. Q & A
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:49 PM
Subject: Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on February 12, 2014
(Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[x-posted]
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the monthly IRC
office hour on February 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC/ 0900 PDT on
#wikimedia-office.
This time we would be talking about the recent changes made to the
Universal Language Selector (ULS) - the MediaWiki extension that provides
unified language configuration[1] - and the impact on the Wikimedia wikis.
We look forward to addressing any questions you may have about this. Please
see below for the event details.
Questions can also be sent to me before the event. See you all at the IRC
office hour!
Thanks
Runa
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector
Event Details:
==========
# Date: February 12, 2014
# Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 0900-1000 PDT (
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140212T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net
Agenda:
======
1. Universal Language Selector (ULS) update and developments
2. Q & A
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation