Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities will take place on Thursday, February
5, 2015 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office on
irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream.
Each month at the metrics meeting, we will:
* Welcome recent hires
* Present reports/updates that are focused on a key theme or topic. The
theme for February’s meeting is: Global South
* Engage in questions/discussions
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further
information about how to participate.
We'll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Praveena
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Praveena Maharaj
Executive Assistant to the VP of Product & Strategy and the VP of
Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation \\ www.wikimediafoundation.org
Dear Friends of Free Knowledge,
today is my last day at the office as the former Executive Director of
Wikimedia Deutschland.
For 2012 days, I had the great opportunity and the tremendous pleasure to
work for one of the greatest causes I can think of: Free Knowledge for
everybody. What Wikimedia does is nothing short of changing the world, one
edit at a time.
I reflect a little about this in this blog post:
http://blog.pavelrichter.de/2012-days-later/
Thank you all for the best time I had in my (professional) life. Of course,
while I leave my job, I will not leave the Wikimedia movement. Looking
forward to this!
Cheers,
Pavel
Hello everyone,
We are happy to inform you that GLAM-WIKI 2015 takes place from 9 to 12
April 2015 at the National Archive and National Library of The Netherlands
in The Hague, The Netherlands.
The *call for proposals* and *applications for travel scholarships* are *now
open*. Details at https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015.
Call for proposals: https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015/Proposals
Scholarships: https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015/Scholarship
Best,
Mylee Joseph, *Australia*
Sarah Stierch, *USA*
Stephan Bartholmei, *Germany*
Isla Haddow, *South Africa*
Venus Liu, *Hong Kong*
Sandra Fauconnier, *The Netherlands*
Sebastiaan ter Burg, *The Netherlands*
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Sebastiaan ter Burg
*Projectleader Cultural Cooperation*
*Wikimedia Nederland*
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tel.: +31 30 32 00 238
gsm: +31 6 480 88 615
e-mail: terburg(a)wikimedia.nl
wiki: Ter-burg <https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Ter-burg>
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www: www.wikimedia.nl
wiki: nl.wikimedia.org
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*Post*: * Visit:*
Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3
3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht
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Good news everyone,
Cheese articles are gonna get improved!
As french, it was dreadful for us to see so few illustrations of cheese on
Wikipedia. This is about to change.
A group of french Wikimedians, lead by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, designed a
project to photograph many cheeses, up to 200 for the moment.
This project is perticular as we aim to have it found through a french
crowdfunding platform, KissKissBankBank.
Of course Wikimedia France could have funded it itself, but we wanted to
use the project as a way to get the larger audience aware of their ability
to contribute and to give a fun image of contributing.
The project in few words iss follow :
* 10 cheeses per session
* During the session the cheeses are photographed and their articles
improved
* During the sessions experimented wikimedian would train new editors
* At every session every participant would enjoy eating good cheese too
If you want to read more, or even contribute, about the project you can go
on KissKissBankBank : http://www.kisskissbankbank.com/fr/projects/wikicheese
If you have any questions, please feel free to shoot them on or off list.
All the best,
--
Christophe
Dear Wikimedians,
Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, which focuses on the U.S. states of Oregon
and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia, had our first
two board meetings this month. Our initial board members are:
Another Believer
Brianhe
Mako
Peaceray
Pine
Ragesoss
The following appointments have been made:
President: Peaceray
Vice President: Mako
Secretary: Another Believer
Treasurer: Brianhe
Executive Director: Pine
Thanks to everyone for their efforts at organizing the Cascadia Wikimedians
User Group, with a special shout out to Pine!
Yours,
Peaceray
President of Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
Another Believer
Secretary of Cascadia Wikimedians User Group
Dear everyone!
I’m happy to share with you the Annual Report from the Wikimedia Foundation
for 2014 -- Knowledge is a foundation <https://annual.wikimedia.org>.[1] We
published last Wednesday, but I'm just catching up enough to send the
email. (Pardon me.)
This year, we are telling the story of Wikimedia in the context of free
knowledge, and releasing it as web version (wiki, too!) so that we can
share that story with even more people.
Knowledge is a foundation. It is a foundation for human potential, a
foundation for freedom, a foundation for opportunity. Our mutual project,
Wikipedia, is part of the global support structure for free knowledge.
Most importantly, people are the foundation of Wikipedia. We are inspired
by thousands of contributors who support the projects, and are excited to
share a little bit about Dr. Netha Hussain, Jacek Halicki, Dumisani
Ndubane, Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz, Ihor Kostenko, Dorothy Howard, Ram Prasad
Joshi, and Jake Orlowitz.
Thank you for the myriad of contributions you make, from coding to writing,
editing to programs, and uploads to donations.
We've written a blog post about the process we went through this year, and
how we settled on the concept of 'knowledge as a foundation.'[2]
You can participate in the wiki version of the report here, and soon help
with translations [3]
Thank you very very much,
Heather & the Wikimedia Foundation Communications team
1. https://annual.wikimedia.org
2. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/21/annual-report/
3.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Annual_Report/2013-2014
--
Heather Walls
Communications Design Manager I Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street I San Francisco, CA 94105
heather(a)wikimedia.org
Hi,
It is well-known that the size of a Wikipedia in a given language is not
proportional to the number of people who speak that language. By "size" I
mean the article count and the active editor count.
This begs the question: Is it proportional to anything else?
I can think of a bunch of possible things (to most items you can add "...
in the countries where this language is spoken"):
* Penetration of Internet access
* Quality of education
* Number of people who know other major languages, such as English, French,
Russian, Spanish, etc.
* Number of people who *don't* know other major languages
* Gross domestic product
* Human Development Index
* The level of usage of this language in the education system (in some
countries schools function in foreign languages)
* Amount of published literature in that language
* Level of censorship and press freedom
* [[Language planning]] policies (think Catalonia, Ukraine, Quebec, Israel)
It is quite possible that the size of a Wikipedia is proportional not to
one of these things, but to a combination of them. It is also possible that
it is not proportional to any of the above, or to anything at all.
Did anybody ever try to research this?
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore