> Hi all,
> The Interactive Team in Discovery is in the process of putting its work on
> pause. The team's aim during this period is to get its work to a stable and
> maintainable state.
> Currently, work on new features is on hold. It is not yet known what the
> timeline is for this transition to a paused state, or whether there will be
> further deployments of features that have already been completed. I will
> update this list when there is more information.
> Thanks,
> Dan
> --
> Dan Garry
> Lead Product Manager, Discovery
> Wikimedia Foundation
So it seems all work on Maps, Graphs and other interactive features is
going to be halted pretty soon. I was directed at this notification after a
Maps ticket mentioned:
With the team winding down
To which I asked:
> Why is the team winding down ?
To which Dan Garry responded:
> There were expectations that were set regarding things such as team goals,
> working collaboratively with stakeholders, and advance notice to
> communities, that were repeatedly not met by the team.
And he pointed me to this discovery mailing list announcement, which well
isn't really an explanation as much as a statement on the effect that
'winding down' will have.
My interpretation of the information up to here was: "we are dissolving
this team because it didn't perform and by posting to discovery mailing
list we did the minimal effort required to notify people, but lets hope
nobody notices what the notification really means"
At the same time Dan's words are a rather hefty review on the performance
of a team, which I'm not used to seeing from WMF. Refreshing, but unusual.
This annoys me and I answer:
> 1: I'd expect this to be announced on wikimedia-l, if we start a team we
> always seem more than anxious to do so.
> 2: I'd like some details. I thought we had left behind all the "let's try
> and hide this and hope no one notices it"-shit in 2016.
> 3: Thank you team ! You did some great work, and it was more productive
> and groundbreaking than many other teams have been able to do in 5 years.
A bit hyperbolic on all fronts, I admit.
To which Dan responds with:
> I am not the person who made this decision. I do not know all of the
> reasons it was made. The person who made the decision is on vacation for
> the next few weeks. I am trying my best to communicate as much as I can in
> her absence, which is why I made a public announcement of all that I know
> now rather than waiting weeks for my manager to return. I am afraid that
> some patience is required until Katie gets back from vacation.
So now Dan doesn't know enough to be able to discuss this, even though he
gave a rather destructive team review earlier.
1: This is exactly the kind of communication that 'the community' keeps
complaining about. Reactive instead of proactive. Evasive instead of
transparent. Now volunteers need to spend time to figure out what is
happening here ? This has cost me over 3 hours today. I would have liked to
have spent that time differently.
2: It shouldn't matter that Katie is on holidays, I'd assume/hope someone
takes over her duties while she is away (Likely Dan himself and/or Wes
Moran). Providing information on topics like this shouldn't have to wait
until someone returns from a (likely well deserved) holiday.
3: Why do I have to write this email ? It's really not that hard: Make a
decision, explain it.
DJ
I don't respond to Wikimedia-l discussion very often, but I think this
debate comes up often enough that it's worth it for me to explain and
elaborate on my own positions.
(1) I understand WP:NPOV to be a rule/guideline about content,
particularly Wikipedia content. I do not believe it is a rule about
Wikimedia processes, or about the Wikimedia movement's mission.
(2) As I put it many times many years ago in the years before and
after the SOPA/PIPA blackout, there are few POVs *less* neutral than
the commitment to give all the information in the world to everyone
for free. We are not a neutral enterprise, and we never have been.
(3) There is a vision that some members of the community have that WMF
employees (or contractors, or Trustees, or representatives) ought
never speak out and offer an opinion about political issues.
Ironically, some people in our movement would not want a WMF to have a
public opinion about, say, what "extreme vetting" means unless that
opinion itself were "extremely vetted."
(4) I think those who hold the view I summarize as (3) above are
making a mistake. It seems to me that the reason the community and the
Trustees have slowly crafted an evolving process that, when it works
well, results in strong, capable individuals who can speak effectively
both as representatives of our movement and as leaders of it, is that
we all know we can't hold a plebiscite for everything.
(5) We now know more than eve, thanks to events this year and last
year, that the larger, global, shared world of democratic values is
fragile, and that it's better to respond rapidly to rapidly emerging
issues (such as the treatment of Wikimedians of all backgrounds who
want or need to cross borders to participate in our shared, great
work) than it is to wait until our response is untimely, irrelevant,
or even impossible. The mode that seems to work most effectively for
us is to have strong, effective leaders and employees and
representatives who have earned our trust, and who for that reason can
be trusted to respond on our behalf as rapidly and effectively as
necessary to rapidly emerging issues. Without, shall we say, "extreme
vetting."
(6) Sometimes those whom the Trustees and/or the community have chosen
are not up to the job we ask of them, and it is our strength that we
reserve the right to make our unhappiness known, through channels
ranging from this mailing list to Trustee elections to "voting with
our feet." Because our mission, the Wikimedia mission, is
fundamentally a human process it will be imperfect, and its
imperfections will make us unhappy sometimes. But we are adults, and
we live with those imperfections and take some joy at times in
recognizing them and trying to do better.
(7) Given all these considerations, I am proud to be part of the
Wikimedia movement, proud to be a part of the same community as all of
you, even when the community is sometimes contentious. I hope that in
the long run we agree now -- right now -- is a time when we should
stand behind anyone in our community, from the Trustees and Katherine
on down to every last one of us, who stands up and speaks out for
humane values and humane judgments, because, it seems to me, the
Wikimedia movement is meant to be a humane, outward-looking,
courageous movement that acknowledges self-doubt but also remains
committed to enabling us all to raise our individual and collective
voices in defense of values grounded in generosity, love, and
tolerance.
Thanks for listening.
--Mike Godwin
WMF General Counsel 2007-2010
REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes.
*Update/change to Movement update:* Please note we are changing the
Movement update section of the meeting to include the main highlight of
each community story, activity, or project mentioned. We are sharing
metrics and more details for each story in the appendix of the metrics
presentation deck (which will be uploaded on the meta page after the
meeting) and below in the body of this email.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Lena Traer <ltraer(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take
> place on Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC
> channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will be
> broadcast as a live YouTube stream.
>
> The theme of the March meeting is: “Wikimedia for the world” –
> understanding how we can better serve and include people around the world
> in the Wikimedia movement.
>
> Meeting agenda:
>
> * Welcomes, theme introduction
> * Movement update
> * Wiki Women's History on social media
> * Wiki Indaba update
> * Movement strategy update
> * Questions and discussion
> * Wikilove
>
> Please review
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
> metrics_and_activities_meetings
> for further information about the meeting and how to participate.
>
> We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
>
> Thank you,
> Lena
>
*March 23, 2017 metrics meeting -- Movement update Appendix*
Wiki Loves Africa 2016
*Multimedia contest to capture the rich African heritage through dance,
music and movement.
*3rd issue of the contest in a row.
*10 participating countries, almost 8,000 media uploaded through the
campaign.
*International winners are still to be announced.
*More: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016
Intercultur
*An editing challenge with focus on Spain’s 8 spoken languages: Aragonese,
Asturian, Basque, Catalan, Extremaduran, Galician, Occitan and Spanish.
*22 participants, 278 articles edited
*More information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Intercultur
The women you have never met
*A global writing contest with a focus on women’s biographies.
*March 4 - April 9, 2017
*18 participating countries so far, from 7 different regions in the world.
You can join as organizer, too!
*More information:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Women_You_Have_Never_Met
> Lena Traer
> Project Assistant // Communications // Advancement
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
Borrowing an idea from Wikipedia Weekly, I think it would be nice to have a
thread about the good things that are happening around the Wikimedia
universe. If people enjoy this then it can be started (by anyone) on a
weekly basis.
My comment for this week: I enjoyed reading a post from the Wikimedia blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/21/why-i-elements/: "Why I periodically
write about the elements on Wikipedia", by Mikhail Boldyrev.
Pine
Hi, everybody.
If anybody is going to be in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 29 at 6 p.m.
I wanted to alert you that we will be having an installment of the Bay Area
WikiSalon series at Noisebridge makerspace/hackerspace (temporary change of
venue).
Details and to RSVP (suggested):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bay_Area_WikiSalon,_March_2017
There will be guided tours of Noisebridge too.
Hope to see you there!
Wayne Calhoon (AKA Checkingfax) - co-coordinator
925-899-4051
(branching this into a new thread as it gets quite off topic)
Pine: Why do you think the solution lies with the Wikimedia Foundation?
Lodewijk
2017-03-18 22:52 GMT+01:00 Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>:
> My point is more or less the same one that you're making. Communications
> (too much and too little) and information overload are both challenges. I
> don't think there's going to be a silver bullet solution, but I hope that
> WMF will invest effort into addressing this set of problems during the next
> Annual Plan. Some of this is WMF-specific, but some of it also relates to
> how we've organized ourselves in the community through organic growth and
> over time we've developed so many channels that one wonders if we would
> benefit from some consolidation and pruning.
>
> Pine
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You mean, "how to deal with people who complain they weren't consulted
> > then turn around and complain they were excessively consulted"? At
> > this point, the appropriate thing would be to put forward a plausible
> > solution rather than complain they did the thing you claimed they
> > hadn't sufficiently done.
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 18 March 2017 at 20:39, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Chris,
> > >
> > > That last paragraph assumes that people (1) know where to look and (2)
> > have
> > > hours to spend watching countless channels for announcements. On the
> > other
> > > hand, there's also a problem of burying people in so many
> announcements,
> > > surveys, and consultations that people start to tune it all out. This
> is
> > > part of a larger set of communications and "information overload"
> > problems
> > > that I'm hoping that WMF will address, particularly during its next
> > Annual
> > > Plan.
> > >
> > > Pine
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Dear All,
Inspired by BBC's 100 Women Editathon, The Odia Wikipedia community is
organising an "100 Women Editathon" [1]in collaboration with the Sambad
newspaper. Sambad is one of the largest circulated newspaper in Odisha and
its Eastern Media ltd. is also a popular media house. The event is going to
be organised in Sambad Bhavan on 18th and 19th March 2017. [2]
The theme of this event is to write articles on women achievers of Odisha.
The Sambad is interested in organising regular events in bridging the
gender gap in content and will also provide images of Women from its
archive.
1. https://or.wikipedia.org/s/13hj
2.
http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/women2019s-history-month-sambad-collaborates…
Media mentions:
1.
http://sambad.in/news/state/sambad-wikipedia-to-host-first-ever-100-women-e…
2.
http://odishasuntimes.com/2017/03/15/sambad-wikipedia-to-host-100-women-edi…
Thanks and Regards
Sailesh
--
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*Sailesh Patnaik* "*ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ*"
Programme Associate, Access To Knowledge
Centre for Internet and Society
Phone: +91-7537097770
*LinkedIn* : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sailesh-patnaik-551a10b4
*Twitter* : @saileshpat
"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality"
Dear Wikimedians,
The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce a small new program called
the Hardware Donation Program. In a word, it is a program designed to
donate depreciated (but fully working) hardware from the WMF office to
community members who would put it to good use.
The program, including instructions on how to apply, is described on Meta,
here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_donation_program
Please read the information carefully. I especially encourage you to pay
attention to the program's design considerations, which determine most of
the decisions we'll be making.
We currently have approximately 20 laptops ready to be donated.
Applications are welcome.
The upcoming Wikimedia Conference in Berlin (in about two weeks) would be
an excellent opportunity to deliver some of those laptops in person to
approved applications, so if you think you might be interested, I'd
encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Please also help spread the word about this program, by forwarding this
e-mail to other Wikimedia lists you're on, and posting the link to the
program page on village pumps and *community* (not public) social media
channels or other communication forms you use.
Special thanks to User:Anntinomy from Wikimedia Ukraine, who had the idea
of asking about possible donation of older machines from WMF, and inspired
this program.
Mini-FAQ:
Q: Why are you doing this?
A: WMF's Office IT determines a lifetime for work machines, and regularly
replaces older machines. This creates a stock of older, working machines,
that are available for donation. We can donate them locally to San
Francisco charities, but figure that if we can find low-cost ways to
deliver them to our own community members, that's so much better.
Q: Am I eligible?
A: Read the fine program documentation.
Q: If I'm eligible, am I guaranteed a donated laptop?
A: no.
Q: Once these 20 laptops are donated, will there be others?
A: yes, eventually.
Q: How can you ensure people would use the machines for Wikimedia purposes?
A: We can't. We'll be making a good-effort assessment of the likelihood of
Wikimedia use, and make a decision to donate (or not) the equipment. Once
donated, the equipment no longer belongs to WMF. We encourage, but can't
enforce, reporting on impact achieved using the equipment.
Q: I need a few laptops for my event in two weeks! Can I get them through
this program?
A: No. Read the fine program documentation.
Q: I'm really happy about this!
A: So are we! :)
Q: I'm really angry about this!
A: So it goes.
Q: I have more questions!
A: Hit 'Reply'. :)
Cheers,
Asaf
Hi all!
After months of planning, we are underway: we officially launched some big
discussions last week! If you missed the many messages sent out with this
news, read on for more details.
(Apologies for sending this out a few days late - we were very busy with
annual planning meetings last week.)
*Featured requests*
With the start of Phase 1 discussions for Tracks A & B, there are two
things we want to bring additional attention to:
- Join the Phase 1 discussion! What do we want to build or achieve
together over the next 15 years?
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10212156
- We want to reach as many people in as many places as possible - and to
do that we need your help. Sign up via this Google Form to coordinate a
Phase 1 discussion with your group or community.
- https://goo.gl/c394KI
*All Tracks*
- A new San Francisco-based williamsworks team member, Sara Johnson,[1]
has joined the firm to help support their work on the movement strategy
process.
*Track A (Organized groups) and Track B (Individual contributors)*
- Tracks A and B officially launched on March 14 with the opening of
Phase 1 discussions.[2]
- Launch emails for Tracks A and B have been sent out to individuals and
Wikimedia mailing lists. We will be sending out via MassMessage as well
once translated.[3]
- Nicole held first call with the Track A Advisory Group on Monday.
Recruiting efforts for this group are continuing.
- So far, 41 people have signed up to help facilitate discussions and
two training calls have been conducted this week. We encourage more people
to please sign up as well.[4]
- The Core Team and Track Leads are continuing to work with Wikimedia
Deutschland in preparation for movement strategy track at Wikimedia
Conference coming up later this month in Berlin.[5]
- Strategy Language Coordinators (Track B) have been translating the
content and copying the discussion pages for the Phase 1 discussions, in
order to adapt them for their local language projects.
- The Track Leads are investigating ways to make the user journeys
through the process clearer in order to help guide participants through all
the content as the information grows over the course of conversations.
- CentralNotice banner will begin by end of this week for logged in
users. The language reads“Wikimedia 2030: Participate in the conversation
about the future of the Wikimedia movement and its projects.” This is being
translated in the 19 supported languages, and we hope for volunteers to
assist with as many other languages as possible.
- The survey form method of collecting individual input during Phase 1
is now posted online.[7]
- Based on the Track A Advisory Group’s recommendations, Suzie, Jaime,
and Nicole are working to simplify the materials and user experience.
- Guillaume, Nick Wilson, Jan Eissfeldt, and Karen Brown are posting
additional support materials to the portal on Meta-Wiki and are working
with the strategy language coordinators to translate the following:
- Discussion page on Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10212156
- A list of all the current discussions to help people choose which
discussion to participate in:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10152617
- Discussion Coordinator’s guide to help people organize discussions,
developed with Nicole: https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10219273
- Discussion guides to help people facilitate different types of
discussions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10211355
- Method for posting and displaying summary pages of discussions,
including templates to support implementation:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10210053
- A revised process map, designed by the Foundation's Communications
department: https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10152619
- On-wiki index of people who have signed up to facilitate
discussions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10211586
- The Core Team continued working on the strategy briefing,[8] and for
example included a graphic of the greater Wikimedia ecosystem.[9] Ed and
Shannon focused on producing the presentation deck to be presented at
Berlin Conference and in the upcoming Wikimedia Foundation Board meeting.
They are working with the Foundation's Communications department to help
craft a clear narrative and presentation materials.
- The Core team is preparing for organized group discussions with
Wikimedia Foundation staff and Board.
*Track C (Partners and readers in higher awareness regions) and Track D
(Partners and readers in lower awareness regions)*
- Track C participant outreach continues, and Track D outreach began
this week!
- A contact relationship management (CRM) system has been set up to help
facilitate coordination of outreach to Track C & D contacts.
- Desk research/interview proposal with Lutman & Associates is in
approval cycles. Foundational research collected from this proposal will be
posted on-wiki.[11]
- A contract for online survey research is still being negotiated.
- The Track Leads have begun interviewing project assistant
candidates.[12]
- A dinner is being coordinated with Wikimedia Deutschland for Track C
participants while the facilitators are already in Berlin later this month
for Wikimedia Conference.
- The Core Team discussed with Nicole and Juliet participation and
outreach to potential Track C & D participants at the upcoming Creative
Commons Summit. The group is waiting to hear back from Creative Commons
about a potential session on Wikimedia Strategy.
- Track Leads and Core Team continued outreach to our network for
recommendations on experts to consult.
- Adele worked with Karen Brown and Jake Orlowitz on posting the process
page for Track D on Meta-Wiki.[13]
- Adele is working on posting a version of the contact list to Meta-Wiki
with a form to collect suggestions from local communities.
- Adele’s team is securing interviews with various experts and partners
in Mexico, Nigeria, and India starting this week. Suzie is finalizing the
interview guide by Monday.
*Next steps*
- Finalize and post all remaining materials to the strategy movement
portal on Meta-Wiki, including strategic direction definitions and examples
to help facilitate discussion.
- Continue building out list of experts and developing expert interview
guide for Tracks C & D.
- Continue to simplify the user experience and materials to make it
easier to participate in the discussions and to volunteer as a Discussion
Coordinator.
As always, thanks for reading through!
Cheers,
Katherine
PS. A version of this message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.[14]
[1] http://williamsworks.com/team/sara-johnson/
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Cycle_1
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Updates/Cy…
[4]
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyzOcB9FmgWWrenoe…
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Program_Design_Pr…
[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour
[7]
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFicSjHz0HVlUrzt9…
[8]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Process/Br…
[9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Strategy_Graphic.pdf
[11]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Sources/Mi…
[12] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/622379
[13]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_D/Pr…
[14]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Updates/20…
--
Katherine Maher
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
+1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635
+1 (415) 712 4873
kmaher(a)wikimedia.org
In practice what we (Wikimedians) see from WMF communications programmes is
widely spread announcements and sometimes an anonymous survey, again widely
spread. This is literally not 'communication', it is 'broadcasting'.
For communication to be meaningful, your message must not only be sent to
the right stakeholders, but it is essential for the communication to be
two-way. This is why I find it especially frustrating to see generic posts
from the WMF sent by bots with no named person being the contact point. At
least with most emails sent to email lists, these are from a named person
and community members can respond to it, often with later replies from a
WMF employee.
Fae
On 20 Mar 2017 09:51, "Peter Southwood" <peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net>
wrote:
Might it be useful to analyse the community before trying to get
communication out of them? Then efforts can be directed to be more
representative of the various parts. OK, I understand that to analyse them
it needs some communication. But that is a specific and directed
communication. Work out what might be useful to know and ask everyone. Put
a survey link on talk page for logged in users, and a banner for IP users.
We get this anyway for fundraising. Before going full scale, test the
survey on a small group, to find out what is wrong with it, fix the worst
problems, and be sure to allow comments and feedback.
Cheers,
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On
Behalf Of Lodewijk
Sent: Monday, 20 March 2017 11:04 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Communicating plans and consultations
Hi Pine,
it's always easier of course to tell other people what they have to change,
which is why I'm asking the opposite question too :) What can we change, on
our end, to make communications easier for the WMF, for community members
that want to reach out, for chapters and other affiliates. All these are
having a hard time to get useful input from the community.
There seem very few generally accepted approaches to that:
- using some mailing list, or some kind of forum that serves a part of the
community you think would be most relevant (such as this mailing list, the
wikitech mailing list etc).
- Going all out and doing a full scale consultation/RfC with banners and
everything. Gives you lots of comments.
- Doing a broad and translated approach through village pumps etc - gives
you a broad reach over languages, but within those languages still reaches
a specific part of the community.
Those methods are typically either very expensive, or not very effective.
And I'm only talking about getting input here, not even about 'informing'
everyone.
So what can we, as a community, change to facilitate better exchange of
ideas, experiences and provide input?
Best
Lodewijk
PS: I apologize to the people who read this kind of email for the n'th
time, it's not the first time I talk about this, I guess :)
2017-03-20 7:40 GMT+01:00 Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>:
> Attempting to summon Chris Schilling over here from the other thread. (:
>
> I think that some kind of analysis about optimal use of consultations
> and surveys would be beneficial, and I'd welcome seeing something like
> that in the next Annual Plan. Perhaps there might even be a
> consultation or survey about consultations or surveys, which I know
> sounds ironic but may be helpful in figuring out how much is too much
> or too little, timing, locations, etc.
>
> Information management is a big deal. We have watchlists, email,
> social media channels, Echo, and lots of other tools, but even so --
> or perhaps because -- there are so many channels, it's easy to drown.
> I imagine that holds true for both staff and community members, and
> I'd welcome some initiatives to improve the situation. Perhaps someone
> will have some ideas that they can submit to IdeaLab.
>
> Pine
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