Hi, as some of you may know, the Wikipedia gender indicator [1] tells us how many articles are biographies about women x language/country/culture.
In order to compare these numbers...Does anyone knows if there is an existing comparison with gender balance in classical encyclopedias? (Britannica, Larousse...) or, if not, could someone prepare a WD query about it?
I think it could be a good argument for us to use: e.g "at cawiki 12% of bios are about women, compared to 5% in GEC, Our most famous encyclopedia".
We could compare it also for temathic encyclopedias or other databases existing in projects like Mix and match.
Can someone help? thanks in advance
[1]http://wigi.wmflabs.org/
Àlex Hinojo
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Amical Wikimedia Programme manager
Dear all,
After launching our documentary film about our community and editors,
Wikimedia Argentina is now launching an ad to reach new public and position
the organization in he mass media.
Hope you all like it! You can find it here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spot_%22Soy_Wikipedista%22_WMAR.webm>
.
Hugs!
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Hi all,
Finding the next Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director is a clear
priority for the Board. To address this challenge, the Board has created a
steering group tasked with crafting the actual job description, planning
and conducting the search, and finding ways to include community
perspectives. This steering group will be regularly consulting with the
Board throughout the search process.
Please see the ED transition team page on meta [1] to find more information
about the steering group, and get the latest updates. We have also included
three questions on the participation page to help us start forming a better
understanding of the community’s various opinions and expectations.
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Executive_Director_Tra…
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TLDR:
What: IRC chat with members of Wikimedia Foundation legal
Topic: Freedom of panorama
When: Tuesday, April 19 at 11:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time / 18:00 UTC
Reminder: We can’t do legal advice.
Hi all,
We'd like to remind you of the return of Legal Team IRC office hours,
starting today, April 19 at 11:00 AM PDT / 18:00 UTC! We’re planning to
host these once every 3 months or so going forward.
IRC office hours provide an opportunity for members of the Wikimedia
communities to chat directly with members of the Wikimedia Foundation legal
team on topics of interest including public policy, legal issues facing the
Wikimedia movement, and what you can do to get involved. Please keep in
mind that under California law we can’t give out legal advice, so rather
than giving out legal advice, we will talk about the Wikimedia Foundation’s
stance on issues.
For this format, we’ll begin at 11:00 by doing a brief introduction and
then start taking questions from everyone that’s present. We’ll aim to have
a few people on at the same time to be able to respond faster and to
discuss different aspects of the issues.
For our first office hour, we’re planning to discuss the freedom of
panorama (FoP). With the recent decision in Sweden
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/04/strike-against-freedom-panorama/>,
holding that Wikimedia Sweden's website/database was in violation of
Swedish copyright law for making available on the internet photographs of
artwork permanently situated in public areas, FoP has become more pressing
than ever. We believe that the ability for members of the public to
photograph public monuments and landscapes is a fundamental part of free
expression. We plan to raise this issue to the European Commission this
summer, and need your help to let them know that it’s important. This first
one of a series of IRC office hours will be a great opportunity to exchange
thoughts about it.
If you have questions that you would like to discuss during the office hour,
you can add them on Meta Wiki here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal_Team_IRC_Office_Hours>.
Hi All,
We've pushed back the dates a bit for launching the new grants programs.
Please see the updated dates below:
16 May: Launch Rapid Grants
*30 June:* Last day to apply for a grant under the current Project & Event
Grants program
1 July: Open call for Project Grants and launch of Conference Support
Program
2 August: Round 1 Project Grant applications due
More details can be found on the Implementation page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Imple…
Cheers,
Alex
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Alex Wang <awang(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> In August, we asked for community feedback on a proposal to change the
>
> structure of WMF grant programs.
>
> Next steps for implementing changes based on the consultation are now
> available:
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Imple…
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Outco…>
>
> Important dates to note:
>
> 1 May: Rapid Grants launch; submission forms available for new Project
> Grants program
>
> 30 May: Last day to apply for a grant under the current Project & Event
> Grants program
>
> 1 July: Project Grants and Conference Support launch
>
> Come read about the timeline and next steps for implementing changes based
> on your feedback. Your questions and comments are welcome on the
> discussion page.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex
>
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> Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
> +1 415-839-6885
> Skype: alexvwang
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Well this is most unfortunate as we have a workshop with new contributors on the 19t!
I wish I could have been informed much much earlier...
Nattes à chat
Envoyé de mon iPhone
> Le 15 avr. 2016 à 20:32, Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder <ssnyder(a)wikimedia.org> a écrit :
>
> This is a reminder about next week's major data center migration:
>
> There will be NO EDITING for about 30 minutes on both Tuesday, 19 April, beginning at 14:00 UTC and Thursday, 21 April, beginning at 14:00 UTC.
>
> This will affect ALL of the wikis in all languages and all projects. You will be able to read the wikis and to log in, but you will not be able to edit. Read https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2016 for more information.
>
> Please share this information with editors and other contributors you know.
>
> Thank you.
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This article is interesting in light of discussions about Wikimedia
readership, audience, and fundraising, so I'm passing along the link for
anyone else who might be interested.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/business/media-websites-battle-falteringa…
Sounds like Wikimedia has a lot of company in struggling with traffic and
audience. It might be interesting for WMF to have some dialogue with
content-producing organizations about this subject.
Pine
> You're suggesting that counsel spend their time writing to
> agencies ... when we know almost nothing about them.
Again, if there is another way to find out, I'd like to learn it.
>> Therefore I think it would be worth writing a letter asking that the
>> BOLT, SMISC, and CSFV be returned to open source to the extent
>> possible. This is the sort of thing that I imagine would take a few
>> hours at most by the people working on the NSA lawsuit asking for a
>> Mandatory Declassification Review per
>> http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/523030m.pdf
>...
> Since you've identified the people responsible and how to
> contact them, if you care about this so much, you do it....
My most recent FOIAR to DARPA was simply ignored, and
when I followed up on it, the same personnel with whom I had
great success corresponding with previously just stopped
communicating, saying they were too busy. Maybe I triggered
a declassification review for something that was legitimately
secret. In any case, I doubt I would have anywhere near
the Foundation's chance of success at this. I am sure that
the Foundation would be taken seriously and that the likely
benefits outweigh the staff time it would take to ask. Even
if the copyright status is unhelpful, finding that out may
encourage Congress to allow taxpayers access to the fruits
of their labor in the future.
Re https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/publicpolicy/2016-April/001335.html
Should the Foundation mount a campaign to rescue BOLT from whomever
took it down from the DARPA site?
"The Broad Operational Language Translation (BOLT) program is aimed at
enabling communication with non-English-speaking populations and
identifying important information in foreign-language sources by: 1)
allowing English-speakers to understand foreign-language sources of
all genres, including chat, messaging and informal conversation; 2)
providing English-speakers the ability to quickly identify targeted
information in foreign-language sources using natural-language
queries; and 3) enabling multi-turn communication in text and speech
with non-English speakers. If successful, BOLT would deliver all
capabilities free from domain or genre limitations."
Program Manager: Dr. Boyan Onyshkevych
Contact: boyan.onyshkevych(a)darpa.mil
Here is another one that we need to rescue:
"The general goal of the Social Media in Strategic Communication
(SMISC) program is to develop a new science of social networks built
on an emerging technology base. Through the program, DARPA seeks to
develop tools to support the efforts of human operators to counter
misinformation or deception campaigns with truthful information."
Program Manager: Dr. Rand Waltzman
Contact: rand.waltzman(a)darpa.mil
Are there any reasons that trying to do this might be a bad idea?
Forwarding a blog post about concept tagging with Wikidata. (:
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lydia Pintscher <Lydia.Pintscher(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 3:03 AM
Subject: [Wikidata] Using Wikidata for tagging at Yle
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey everyone :)
One of the major use cases we have for Wikidata (next to providing general
purpose data about the world and acting as a hub that connects many
different databases) is concept tagging. So far not much has happened in
that space it seems compared to the other two. Just recently I came across
a tweet talking about the use of Wikidata for exactly that at the Finnish
Broadcasting Company and I asked for some more details. Micke has now
written down what they're doing and how they did it in a blog post:
http://wikimedia.fi/2016/04/15/yle-3-wikidata/ Great use of Wikidata's
concepts and stable IDs.
Cheers
Lydia
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