Hi all,
*Summary: The report from cycle 1 discussion is online[1]. The start of
cycle 2 is delayed until next week.*
Thank you for your contributions! We have been hard at work reading,
sorting, and summarizing more than 1,800 community member statements, from
more than 100 community discussions from across five continents. Each of
these statements was a response to the question: "What do we want to build
or achieve together over the next 15 years?"
You can find the full report on the major themes, and more details about
them, in a summarized report on Meta-Wiki.[1]
Some common themes emerged from these conversations:
* Reliable, neutral, high-quality content
* Community health & support
* Internal & external collaboration
* Improved and new features
* Users, editors, & contributors
* Outreach, awareness, & promotion
* Innovation and adaptation
* Funding, staffing, and other organizational needs
* Support for emerging communities
* Advancing Wikipedia in education
* Movement values
* Sustainability & growth
Each of these themes is described in more detail within the body of the
report,[1] and the full data spreadsheet from this analysis will be posted
soon.
The movement strategy team has been working to group these themes together,
so that we have a smaller number of concepts to consider in the next cycle.
Because this work is important, we want to make sure the grouping and
analysis are comprehensive and thoughtful. In order to make sure we can get
it right, we’re delaying the start of cycle 2 discussions until next week.
As you probably know, the Turkish authorities blocked Wikipedia in Turkey
this week.[2] We’ve been working around the clock to understand the
circumstances and respond appropriately, including appealing in Turkish
court. We’re grateful to everyone who has reached out to offer us your
thoughts and perspective. Government limitations on free knowledge are just
one of the critical issues that have come up during the movement strategy
process. As we confront these challenges in real time, it has been a
reminder for me how important our work is, and how it has very real
implications for people around the globe. Again, thank you.
Kendine iyi bak (Turkish translation: “Take care of yourself”),
Katherine
PS. A version of this message is available for translation on Meta-Wiki.[3]
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Cycle_1/Re…
[2]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/04/30/turkish-authorities-block-wikipedia/
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Updates/5_…
--
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Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
+1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635
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kmaher(a)wikimedia.org
I was happy to see the final WMF list of GSoC 2017 and Outreachy Round 14
projects.
What's making you happy this week?
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Hello,
Please join me in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google
Summer of Code 2017 and Outreachy Round 14!
Google Summer of Code 2017
1.
Alexander Jones, Texas, United States, Implement Thanks support in
Pywikibot <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161426> - John Mark
Vandenberg
2.
Amrit Sreekumar, Kerela, India, Improvements to ProofreadPage Extension
and Wikisource <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161111> - Yann
Forget, Tpt
3.
Feroz Ahmad, New Delhi, India, Add a "hierarchy" type to the Cargo
extension <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161609> - Yaron Koren,
Nischayn22
4.
Harjot Singh Bhatia, New Delhi, India, Adding Data storage feature and
upgrading Quiz extension <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160257> -
Marielle Volz, Sam Reed
5.
Harsh Shah, India, Build a similar to @NYPLEmoji bot for Commons images
- Dereckson, Ariel
6.
Keerthana S, India, Automatic editing suggestions and feedbacks for
articles in Wiki Ed Dashboard <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160840>
- Sage Ross, Jonathan Morgan
7.
Sejal Khatri, India, Provide enhanced usability for Wikimedia Programs &
Events Dashboard managed by Wiki Education foundation <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161929> - Sage Ross, Jonathan Morgan
8.
Siddhartha Sarkar, India, Single Image Batch Upload <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161670> - Basvb
Outreachy Round 14
1.
Ela Opper, Tel Aviv, Israel, "Remind me of this article in X days"
MediaWiki notification <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161823> -
Matthew Flaschen and Moriel Schottlender
2.
Medha Bansal, New Delhi, India, WikiEduDashboard: Allow Programs &
Events Dashboard to make automatic edits on connected wikis <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161568>- Jonathan Morgan, Sage Ross
3.
Sonali Gupta, Rajasthan, India, Document process for creating new Zotero
translator and getting it live in production <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161191> - Marielle Volz
We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on
this thread, share with us where they are coming from and give a brief
overview of the project they will be working on.
We’re so proud of the contributions they have made so far to our community,
and we look forward to having a wonderful time working with them over the
summer! Also, a huge shout-out to the project mentors for their enthusiasm
and commitment!
Thank you to Sumit and Anna for coordinating this round along with me!
Best,
Srishti
--
Srishti Sethi
Developer Advocate
Technical Collaboration team
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF) <javascript:void(0)>
Hi all!
Upon request User:Matanya (from the Election Committee) will be hosting a
discussion with the Candidates currently running for the community spots on
the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees[1]. The conversation will take
place at 17:00 UTC (10:00 Pacific) on Sunday May 7th and we currently
expect up to 8 of the 9 Candidates to be able to attend and all candidates
attending will get equal time. If you'd like to watch you can do so on
Youtube[2] and a back channel will be set up for conversation on the
#wikimedia-office IRC channel on Freenode. We will also send a reminder
email to this list shortly before the event.
I hope to see you all there!
1.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_o…
2. The event will be live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AhwrJ9qcgc
once it starts.
For the Election Committee,
James Alexander
Advisor
*James Alexander*
Manager, Trust & Safety
Wikimedia Foundation
I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group>.
Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings for
indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited experience, I
concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I bought
my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive to me
as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop", the
manual was written for someone who already had good technical knowledge of
how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia has
some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have
helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer. After a
few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more knowledgeable
people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a
variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers group
will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider ways
to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in
situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable
open-source contributions are very high.
What's making you happy this week?
Pine
An English Wikipedia gender neutral policy, similar to the one
developed for Commons, is now under "lively" discussion in a Requests
for Comment started this afternoon. You can read the proposed policy
and join in by adding your viewpoint at:
Shortcut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/RFC_GNL
Full link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/RfC_to_adopt_a…
Some of the comments may be upsetting for some readers. I've actually
been a bit surprised. If it's too much drama for you, go focus on
something more fun.
Thanks,
Fae
Wikimedia LGBT+ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT+
On 5 April 2017 at 11:44, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Defaulting_to_gende…
>
> Hi,
>
> One of the outcomes from my weekend at the Wikimedia Conference in
> Berlin, was that the various discussions over /feeling/ more welcoming
> in our language presumptions for non-male contributors made me think
> about taking some practical steps on my home project. Commons is lucky
> that having a standard policy language of English makes it easier to
> use neutral gender in policy statements. I'm taking that further by
> proposing that we stick to a neutral gender for all our policies and
> help pages. In practice this means that policies avoid using "he or
> she" and stick to "they" or avoid using a pronoun at all. I'm hoping
> that the outcome will feel like a much more natural space for people
> like me that prefer to stay gender neutral, possibly give a slightly
> safer feeling to the project by the very act of making the effort, as
> well as avoiding an over-emphasis on binary gender when it's pretty
> easy to simply avoid it.
>
> Comments are welcome on the specific proposal, or you may have ideas
> for other local projects to do something similar. I'm aware that this
> is much more difficult to make progress on in languages such as German
> or Spanish that have a presumption of male/female gender within their
> vocabulary, so any cases of on-project initiatives in non-English
> would be especially interesting. Solving these challenges is an
> opportunity to make our projects a leader on gender neutrality...
--
faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
Do these Hubs have anything to do with writing in languages other than
English?
בתאריך 4 במאי 2017 17:55, "Isaac Olatunde" <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com> כתב:
Greetings,
What made me happy this week was the establishment of Wikimedia Hub in two
academic institutions in Nigeria, University of Ibadan and Nigeria
Institute of Journalism. I want to thank members of my community (Wikimedia
User Group Nigeria) who made this happened.
Regards,
Isaac
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/02/digest-women-in-red/
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:28 AM, James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Marielle there are a lot of great medical images in that textbook, Fae is
> there an ability to upload the images to commons by bot?
>
> James
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:06 AM, Marielle Volz <marielle.volz(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > What made me happy this week was the discovery of some good scientific
> > imagery that was openly licensed!
> >
> > The USDA has created a bunch of identification sites for species of
> > agricultural interest and released the images into the public domain.
> > I was looking for images of a particular mite and discovered the Bee
> > Mite site has released most of their images and all of their text to
> > the PD [1]. (I have uploaded to commons although done a bit of a hack
> > job on it). There are other sites which would also be a candidate for
> > batch upload, which are listed here: http://idtools.org/identify.php
> > (anyone interested in molluscs?)
> >
> > I have also discovered this Clinical Skills textbook licensed under CC
> > by 4 attribution.[2] I am in the process of adding some high quality
> > medical diagrams to articles on wiki. This same website hosts a bunch
> > of other open text books which may be a similarly good source of
> > content: https://opentextbc.ca/
> >
> > [1] http://idtools.org/id/mites/beemites/
> > [2] https://opentextbc.ca/clinicalskills/
> >
> > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Kalliope Tsouroupidou
> > <ktsouroupidou(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > > +1 on this.
> > > News of the newly recognised User Group put a smile on my face :)
> > >
> > > K.
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I'm happy to see the development of the Commons Photographers User
> Group
> > >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_Photographers_User_Group>.
> > >>
> > >> Personal background story (feel free to skip reading this):
> > >>
> > >> The first DSLR I touched was easy to use with the automatic settings
> for
> > >> indoor photography in good lighting. Based on this limited
> experience, I
> > >> concluded that photography with a DSLR was easy. Some time later I
> > bought
> > >> my own first DSLR, and quickly got lost. The menus were not intuitive
> > to me
> > >> as a DSLR newbie, there were new terms like "aperture" and "f-stop",
> the
> > >> manual was written for someone who already had good technical
> knowledge
> > of
> > >> how cameras work, and my lens wouldn't focus like I wanted. Wikipedia
> > has
> > >> some helpful articles about photography concepts, but what would have
> > >> helped me a lot is spending time with an experienced photographer.
> > After a
> > >> few years of trial and error, and asking questions of more
> knowledgeable
> > >> people, I'm happy with my skill level as a photography hobbyist in a
> > >> variety of situations. I hope that the new user Commons Photographers
> > group
> > >> will facilitate knowledge exchange, improve camaraderie, and consider
> > ways
> > >> to improve access to equipment -- especially for photographers in
> > >> situations where resources are scarce and potential for valuable
> > >> open-source contributions are very high.
> > >>
> > >> What's making you happy this week?
> > >>
> > >> Pine
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
>
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Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
the Wikivoyage Association [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group plans
to support Wikivoyage in various ways, including fundraising, promotion,
and technical development.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikivoyage_Association
2017-05-02 18:20 GMT+03:00 John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com>:
> Brute force solution; turn the ContentTranslation off. Really stupid
> solution.
... Then I guess you don't mind that I'm changing the thread name :)
> The next solution; turn the Yandex engine off. That would solve a
> part of the problem. Kind of lousy solution though.
>
> What about adding a language model that warns when the language constructs
> gets to weird? It is like a "test" for the translation. The CT is used for
> creating a translation, but the language model is used for verifying if the
> translation is good enough. If it does not validate against the language
> model it should simply not be published to the main name space. It will
> still be possible to create a draft, but then the user is completely aware
> that the translation isn't good enough.
>
> Such a language model should be available as a test for any article, as it
> can be used as a quality measure for the article. It is really a quantity
> measure for the well-spokenness of the article, but that isn't quite so
> intuitive.
>
So, I'll allow myself to guess that you are talking about one particular
language, probably Norwegian.
Several technical facts:
1. In the past there were several cases in which translators to different
languages who reported common translation mistakes to me. I passed them on
to Yandex developers, with whom I communicate quite regularly. They
acknowledged receiving all of them. I am aware of at least one such common
mistake that was fixed; possibly there were more. If you can give me a list
of such mistakes for Norwegian, I'll be very happy to pass them on. I
absolutely cannot promise that they will be fixed upstream, but it's
possible.
2. In Norwegian, Apertium is used for translating between the two varieties
of Norwegian itself (Bokmål and Nynorsk), and from other Scandinavian
languages. That's probably why it works so well—they are similar in
grammar, vocabulary, and narrative style (I'll pass it on to Apertium
developers—I'm sure they'll be happy to hear it). Unfortunately, machine
translation from English is not available in Apertium. Apertium works best
with very similar languages, and English has two characteristics, which are
unfortunate when combined: it is both the most popular source for
translation into almost all other languages (including Norwegian), and it
is not _very_ similar to any other languages (except maybe Scots). Machine
translation from English into Norwegian is only possible with Yandex at the
moment. More engines may be added in the future, but at the moment that's
all we have. That's why disabling Yandex completely would indeed be a lousy
solution: A lot of people say that without machine translation integration
Content Translation is useless. Not all users think like that, but many do.
3. We can define a numerical threshold of acceptable percentage of machine
translation post-editing. Currently it's 75%. It's a tad embarrassing, but
it's hard-coded at the moment, but it can be very easily be made into a
variable per language. If the translator tries to publish a page in which
less than that is modified, a warning will be shown.
4. I'm not sure what do you mean by "language model". If it's any kind of a
linguistic engine, then it's definitely not within the resources that the
Language team itself can currently dedicate. However, if somebody who knows
Norwegian and some programming will write a script that analyzes common bad
constructs in a Wikipedia dump, this will be very useful. This would
basically be an upgraded version of suggestion #1 above. (In my spare time
as a volunteer I'm doing something comparable for Hebrew, although not for
translation, but for improving how MediaWiki link trails work.)