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A.
Hello everyone,
The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take
place on Thursday, July 27, 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.[1]
During the July metrics meeting, we'll hear from staff and outside speakers
about how Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement are perceived and understood
by the world. We’ll hear about research findings and interviews with
community members and staff related to Wikipedia users and the Wikimedia
brand.
Meeting agenda:
* Welcomes, theme introduction
* Movement update
* Why people read Wikipedia, and why they don’t
* WikimediaFoundation.org discovery findings
* Questions and discussion
* Wikilove
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities…
for further information about the meeting and how to participate.
We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Lena
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG6fBk78VRQ
Lena Traer
Project Assistant // Communications // Advancement
Wikimedia Foundation
This sounds like a great project. Forwarding.
Pine
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Leila Zia <leila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> With the start of the new fiscal year in Wikimedia Foundation on July
> 1, the Research team has officially started the work on Program 12:
> Growing contributor diversity. [1] Here are a few
> announcements/pointers about this program and the research and work
> that will be going to it:
>
> * We aim to keep the research documentation for this project on the
> corresponding research page on meta. [2]
> * Research tasks are hard to break down and track in task-tracking
> systems. This being said, any task that we can break down and track
> will be documented under the corresponding Epic task on Phabricator.
> [3]
> * The goals for this Program for July-September 2017 (Quarter 1) are
> captured on MediaWiki. [4] (The Phabricator epic will be updated with
> corresponding tasks as we start working on them.)
> * Our three formal collaborators (cc-ed) will contribute to this
> program: Jérôme Hergueux from ETH, Paul Seabright from TSE, and Bob
> West from EPFL. We are thankful to these people who have agreed to
> spend their time and expertise on this project in the coming year, and
> to those of you who have already worked with us as we were shaping the
> proposal for this project and are planning to continue your
> contributions to this program. :)
> * I act as the point of contact for this research in Wikimedia
> Foundation. Please feel free to reach out to me (directly, if it
> cannot be shared publicly) if you have comments/questions about the
> project in the coming year.
>
> Best,
> Leila
>
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
> Annual_Plan/2017-2018/Final/Programs/Technology#Program_
> 12:_Grow_contributor_diversity
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_
> in_a_voluntary_work_environment
> [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166083
> [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology/
> Goals/2017-18_Q1#Research
>
> --
> Leila Zia
> Senior Research Scientist
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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Today some of the Seattle-area Wikimedians met for our annual Wiknic
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiknic> picnic. This year we met
at Gas Works Park <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_Works_Park>, which has
an interesting history. Today, besides the industrial structures, the site
features grassy areas and a hill with beautiful views of the surrounding
areas. While we Wikimedians were there, other people were flying kites,
throwing a Frisbee, reenacting Medieval combat
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_reenactment> with armor and various
prop weapons, and enjoying the views.
I took several photos at the park, and I'm hoping that at least one of them
will become a featured picture on Commons and/or English Wikipedia.
What's making you happy this week?
Pine
Hello everyone,
Today the Odia Wikipedia community organized the Asian Athletics
Championships Editathon[1] in collaboration with the Sports and Youth
Services Department of the Government of Odisha. During the editathon, more
than 15 articles were created or improved in both English and Odia
Wikipedia.
As a result of the editathon, the official website of the 2017
Asian Athletics Championships is now licensed under Creative Commons
4.0.[2] Now, Wikipedians can use the content and images of the event in
different language Wikipedias.
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Asian_Athletics_Championships_2017_…
[2] odisha2017.games
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