Thanks to Pine for pointing out that some emails to WikimediaAnnounce-l
were not going through to Wikimedia-l; I think this is such a post. I
originally sent this on 24 October, and the only thing in the list archive
is a reply from SarahSV, thanking us for the work [2] (much appreciated, by
the way).
So, here is what I sent in case someone missed it. If you've seen it
already, you can disregard. Thanks in advance.
Greetings,
> Wikimedians, please review something we are working on for the Wikimedia
> Foundation, the Technical Collaboration Guideline [0].
> The Technical Collaboration Guideline (TCG) is a set of best practice
> recommendations, for planning and communicating product and project
> information to Wikimedia communities, in order to work better, together.
> The TCG allows Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Product teams and Wikimedia
> communities to work together in a systematic way in the product development
> and deployment cycle. It is hoped that the TCG is useful enough to be
> utilized in planning and communications regarding any project, from anyone.
> The TCG is intended to be flexible as plans and products change in
> development; it is a guide whose contents will help build collaborative
> relationships.
> The initial draft of the TCG was written after discussions in small groups
> with members of the Community Liaisons and Product Management teams, to
> identify successes and failures in communication, and what we can do to
> encourage collaboration with the communities. Over the next month, I am
> seeking review and feedback from Wikimedia community members. All feedback
> that is left will be read; if there is a case for immediate action, it will
> be made. All feedback will be taken into consideration when editing the
> next draft of the TCG. Please keep in mind that the TCG is intended to be
> lightweight information and instruction and will not be completely
> comprehensive. The TCG and the conversations about it are in English, but
> comments from all languages are welcome.
> Over the next few days, this invitation for review will be distributed
> across the wikis.
> Also, within the coming weeks, I'll be announcing a review on behalf of
> the WMF's Design team. They have been working diligently over the past few
> months to identify and define the purpose of design within the WMF, and
> they are looking forward to sharing this statement of purpose with the
> broader Wikimedia movement for comment. If you're interested, please be on
> the lookout for this review announcement.
> I look forward to reading your comments on the wiki [1].
0. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration_Guideline
1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_Collaboration_Guideline
2.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-October/085298.html
--
Keegan Peterzell
Technical Collaboration Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
Christophe writes "suggesting a Board member should resign and at the same
time saying the process was properly followed, is not ok". I am not sure
exactly what he means to convey by this, but I am not aware that anyone
posting to this thread has said anything that can be described in this
way.
In the unlikely event that he thinks this is what I myself was saying, I
suggest he read my comment again (at least one other contributor has had no
difficulty in understanding it). The point of it was that the process of
managing Kelly's conflict of interest will deprive the Board of a source of
advice which is undesirable when the Board already has two vacancies and no
clearly expressed plans to fill them. It appears that he disagrees, which
is, of course, OK.
If Christophe believes that any postings in this thread have expressed
criticisms or concerns in a manner which he regards as improper, he should
say clearly what he objects to and why he objects to it. Merely issuing
general instructions to the generality of list members to treat the Board
in general with greater respect is likely to prove counter-productive.
"Rogol"
Just an FYI that this is a problem again. I filed
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149381 last week. If you send something
to WikimediaAnnounce-l with the intention of it being forwarded to
Wikimedia-l, you may want to add Wikimedia-l explicitly to your To: field
until this is fixed.
Pine
Congratuations to Kelly Battles on her new job at Quora. I believe I'm
correct in saying that this is a company whose business is to make a profit
by pursuing its "mission is to share and grow the world’s knowledge".
Surely that means that in general the more and better the Wikimedia
projects pursue their mission, the more they will undercut Quora's
business? In particular, would not the Knowledge Engine, at least as
originally conceived, be very much in direct competition with Quora's
question-and-answer model? It seems to me that Kelly's duty to her new
employer is likely to come very clearly into conflict with her duty to the
Foundation, and while it is posible that this can be managed, will it not
seriously diminish her ability to work with the Board on the strategic
thinking they are just about to start? I hestiate to suggest that Kelly's
best course of action is to step down from the Board but I do believe it
needs serious consideration by herself and her fellow Trustees -- it is not
clear whether it is better for the Board to have another vacancy, or a
Trustee who is unable to engage in the strategy-setting which is so bady
needed. Indeed, with two vacancies already, and no clear indication of
when or how they will be filled, I suggest that the Board is in a rather
awkward position now.
"Rogol"
Wikimedia Conference 2017 in Berlin
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017
Date: March 31–April 2, 2017
Registration: November 18–January 8, 2016
Dear Wikimedians,
It is my pleasure to invite Wikimedia Affiliates, the WMF Board of Trustees
and staff, the Affiliations Committee, and the Funds Dissemination
Committee to join us in Berlin for the Wikimedia Conference 2017. The
conference is hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland and will take place from March
31 to April 2, 2017. WMCON17 is made possible by the financial support of
WMF and we are working closely together to make this event a success.
As in 2016, the Wikimedia Conference will have three programmatic tracks
that are closely intertwined:
WMCON will be one of the platforms where conversations on Movement
Strategy will
happen. In Berlin, we want to work on developing a strategic vision for the
future of our movement and use the opportunity to shape our identity,
collaboration and responsibilities together.
The Movement Partnerships track will address questions around building
sustainable partnerships. We will work on ways of developing partnerships
with content and funding partners as well as like-minded organizations.
Capacity Building & Learning will again focus on practical support and
sharing of experiences among Wikimedia organizations and groups.
You are invited to join us for three days of working, thinking, and
learning. Bringing all movement organizations and groups together will give
us the opportunity to incorporate diverse perspectives and experiences into
the program.
In the coming days, you will hear more about the program design process
from the curator of the Wikimedia Conference, Nicole Ebber, and the Program
and Engagement Coordinator, Cornelius Kibelka. Together with Wenke Storn
and Daniela Genter from our event team they will keep you updated about all
things program and logistics in the coming weeks and months.
On behalf of Wikimedia Deutschland, I am looking forward to welcoming you
in Berlin in March.
Kind regards,
Christian Rickerts
Geschäftsführender Vorstand / Executive Director
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hi all,
My name is Sam and I'm part of the online fundraising team. I'm writing to
let you know that we just published our 2015 - 2016 Fundraising Report, and
would love for you to check it out.
Link here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_Fundraising_Report
I've been a happy and small part of the fundraising team for almost two
years. And I think I speak for everyone when I say *thank you* for the time
and energy you put into making the Wikimedia projects the vibrant,
priceless resources that they are for millions of people around the planet.
It's a joy to help share your work with the world.
Let us know what you think and what we can clarify.
Regards,
Sam
Larry Sanger's attempted crowdsourced Wikinews, Infobitt, is dead -
the name infobitt.net no longer resolves (though the domain is still
registered).
It died sometime after June 23, the date of the last screenshot on the
Wayback Machine; tweets concerning it suggest it was up until August
or September. The last top news story was "New York Post interviews
Frank Fiorina, a husband of soon to be First Women President - Carly
Fiorina". http://web.archive.org/web/20160623233441/http://infobitt.com/
- d.
Excellent news. Welcome Victoria !
Florence
Le 02/11/2016 à 19:49, Samantha Lien a écrit :
> This press release is available online here:
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_we…
> <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_Foundation_we…>
>
> And also as a post on the Wikimedia blog here:
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/02/victoria-coleman-chief-technology-off…
> <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/11/02/victoria-coleman-chief-technology-off…>
>
>
> Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Victoria Coleman as Chief Technology Officer
>
>
> Victoria brings more than 20 years of experience leading development and
> strategy for complex technologies at scale
>
> San Francisco, California November 2, 2016 – The Wikimedia Foundation is
> pleased to announce Victoria Coleman as our new Chief Technology
> Officer. As the Foundation's senior technology executive, Victoria will
> be responsible for setting the vision and strategy for technology and
> operations behind the Wikimedia projects, in cooperation with the global
> communities of volunteer contributors, users, and researchers. Her first
> day is 7 November 2016.
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization behind
> Wikipedia, one of the world’s largest and most popular web properties.
> The organization also operates 11 other Wikimedia projects
> <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en#What_free_knowledge_projects_do…>,
> including MediaWiki, the open-source wiki software that powers Wikimedia
> projects and many other online collaborations. Together, the Wikimedia
> sites are visited by hundreds of millions of people each month from
> every corner of the globe.
>
> The Chief Technology Officer oversees the organization’s Technology
> department <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology> and
> technical roadmap, and is responsible for the evolution, development,
> and delivery of our core platforms and architecture. In this role,
> Victoria will work closely with the Wikimedia Foundation’s technology
> teams to ensure an accessible and performant technology infrastructure
> and anticipate scale and capability challenges for the Wikimedia projects.
>
> “Victoria brings the right combination of deep technical knowledge,
> operational expertise, and the steady hand that is needed in this unique
> role, ” said Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia
> Foundation. “Her experience leading development for a wide array of
> technology platforms at scale, as well as her love for education and
> passion for our mission, make her an excellent addition to our
> leadership team.”
>
> Victoria has more than 20 years of experience in consumer and enterprise
> technology. She is a strong leader with expertise in strategy and
> development in software engineering, mobile platforms, connected
> devices, cyber security, and web services, and has been a longtime
> advocate for innovation in education and the public sector.
>
> “Over the past 15 years, Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects have
> radically changed how people access knowledge,” Victoria said. “But the
> vast majority of people today still don’t use or have access to these
> resources. As we look ahead, we’ll consider how we can grow and evolve
> our technologies to support the Wikimedia vision: a world where every
> person has access to all knowledge. I look forward to collaborating with
> the existing team at the Foundation and the Wikimedia communities in
> this important work.”
>
> Most recently, Victoria served as Senior Vice President and Chief
> Technology Officer for the Connected Home Division of Technicolor, where
> she was responsible for innovation strategy, product management,
> technology roadmaps, and technical due diligence for acquisitions and
> partnerships. Previously, as Senior Vice President of Research and
> Development at Harman, she led the core technology platforms of the
> Infotainment Division including systems and software, media, tuner,
> navigation, connectivity, and advanced driver assist systems.
>
> As Vice President Engineering at Yahoo! Inc., where she led Yahoo!
> membership, web presentation technologies such as the Yahoo! User
> Interface Library, mobile web services, notification services, backend
> SDKs including accounts and messaging, mobile application testing, and
> the Yahoo! Developer Network. Before joining Yahoo!, Victoria served as
> Vice President, Emerging Technologies at Nokia, Vice President, Software
> Engineering of Hewlett-Packard’s webOS global business unit, and Vice
> President of Samsung's Advanced Institute of Technology. She has also
> held director roles at Intel and SRI International, in security
> technology and system design, respectively.
>
> Before joining SRI International, Victoria was a Reader in Computer
> Science for two years at Queen Mary and Westfield College and a Lecturer
> in Computer Science at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College for six
> years, both at the University of London. She designed the software
> engineering and theoretical strands of the Royal Holloway undergraduate
> computer science program. She also created the Masters program on
> Dependable Computer System, and taught undergraduate and graduate
> classes in information security, operating systems, software
> engineering, and dependable distributed systems.
>
> Victoria has also been selected to participate on numerous advisory
> councils in higher education and the public sector. She serves on the
> advisory Board of the Santa Clara University Department of Computer
> Engineering. She is also a Senior Advisor to the Director of the
> University of California Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology
> Research in the Interest of Society. She serves as a volunteer advisor
> on the United States Department of Defense’s Defense Science Board and
> is a member of Lockheed Martin’s Technology Advisory Group. She is also
> an advisor to the Automotive Security Review Board, a nonprofit
> consortium aiming to make connected cars more cyber secure.
>
> Victoria has deep familiarity with open source software development,
> having witnessed the ascendancy of the Unix movement first as a student
> and subsequently as an instructor. She passionately believes in the
> power of open source and has been actively involved in the development
> of LiMo (renamed Tizen), the first truly open, hardware independent,
> Linux-based mobile operating system. Having used Webkit as the basis of
> the application runtime of webOS, she is also very familiar with
> leveraging open source for building products.
>
> Victoria received her B.Sc and M.Sc in Electronic Computer Systems and
> Computer Aided Logic Design respectively from the University of Salford,
> UK and her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Manchester,
> UK. She holds four patents and is the author of more than 60 articles
> and books. Born in Greece, she has worked with teams around the world,
> including in Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Finland, Germany, India,
> Israel, Korea, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
>
>
>
> About the Wikimedia Foundation
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that supports
> and operates Wikipedia and its sister projects. Wikipedia serves roughly
> half a billion people each month. Every month roughly 80,000 people edit
> Wikipedia and its sister projects, collectively creating, improving, and
> maintaining its nearly 40 million articles across hundreds of languages
> -- this all makes Wikipedia one of the most popular web properties in
> the world. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation
> is a 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and
> grants.
>
>
> About Wikipedia
>
> Wikipedia is the world’s free knowledge resource. It is a collaborative
> creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people from
> around the globe since it was created in 2001: anyone can edit it, at
> any time. Wikipedia is offered in hundreds of languages containing a
> total of nearly 40 million articles. Wikimedia and its sister projects
> are the largest collection of free knowledge in human history.
>
>
> Wikimedia Foundation Press Contact
>
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> (415) 839-6885 <tel:%28415%29%20839-6885>
> press(a)wikimedia.org
> <mailto:press@wikimedia.org>
>
>
> --
> *Samantha Lien*
> Communications Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
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> San Francisco, CA 94105
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