Hi everyone,
The open call for the Wikimedia Foundation Project Grants program begins
today, January 21, when we begin public review of new proposals. The final
deadline is February 20th for all submissions. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>. Importantly, this will be
the only open call for Project Grants in the current fiscal year, which
ends on June 30th 2020.
Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups and
organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, whether
focused on building a new tool or gadget, organizing a better process on
your wiki, researching an important issue, coordinating an editathon series
or providing other support for community building.
We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete
a grant proposal:
Weekly proposals clinics via Hangouts during the Open Call
Join us for real-time discussions with Program Officers and select thematic
experts and get live feedback about your Project Grants proposal. We’ll
answer questions and help you make your proposal better.
Dates, times and themes:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project#Upcoming_events>
* Wednesday, January 22, 1500-1550 UTC: General proposal clinic
* Friday, January 24, 1900-1950 UTC: Software-themed proposal clinic
* Friday, January 24, 2100-2150 UTC: General proposal clinic
* Monday, February 3, 1700-1750 UTC: General proposal clinic
* Tuesday, February 4, 2100-2150 UTC: GLAM-themed proposal clinic
* Thursday, February 6, 2200-2250 UTC: Education-themed proposal clinic
* Monday, February 10, 1700-1750 UTC: Software-themed proposal clinic
* Monday, February 17, 1830-1920 UTC General proposal clinic
* Tuesday, February 11, 1600-1650 UTC: Education-themed proposal clinic
* Tuesday, February 18, 1600-1650 UTC: Education-themed proposal clinic
* Wednesday, February 19, 1500-1550 UTC: Software-themed proposal clinic
* Wednesday, February 19, 2000-2050 UTC: GLAM-themed proposal clinic
We also offer these support pages to help you build your proposal:
* Video tutorials for writing a strong application:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Tutorial>
* General planning page for Project Grants: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Plan>
* Program guidelines and criteria:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Learn>
Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal
support upon request. Contact us at projectgrants(a)wikimedia.org if you
would like feedback or more information.
We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and
make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into
motion, and submit your proposal by February 20, 2020! <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Apply>
Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with
your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee.
Contact us at projectgrants(a)wikimedia.org.
Warm regards,
Marti Johnson and Chris Schilling
Program Officers for Project Grants
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Hello everyone,
TLDR; Wikimedia will soon be applying as a mentoring organization to Google Summer of Code<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code> 2020 and Outreachy<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy> Round 20. The application submission deadline for GSoC is February 5th, and Outreachy is February 18th. We are currently working on a list of interesting project ideas to include in the application. If you have some ideas for coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, outreach, research) projects, share them here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241019.
Timeline
As a mentor, you will be engaging potential candidates in the application period – for GSoC between February 20th–March 16th and for Outreachy between March 3rd–April 7th. During this time, you will help candidates make small contributions to your project and answer any project related queries. You will be working more closely with the accepted candidates during the coding period between May-August.
Project ideas
We have started compiling a list of projects, that you can take a look at here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2020,
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_20
If you don’t have an idea in mind and would like to pick one from an existing list, check out these projects: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/
Through GSoC, you can mentor only coding but with Outreachy also non-coding projects (including design, translation, outreach, etc.). Last year, documentation improvements to over 100 pages related to the MediaWiki Action API on MediaWiki.org happened via three GSoC + Outreachy projects.
Some tips for proposing projects
* Follow this task description template when you propose a project in Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/. Add #Google- Summer-of-Code (2020) or #Outreachy (Round 20) tag to it.
*
Remember, the project should require an experienced developer ~15 days to complete and a newcomer ~3 months.
*
Each project should have at least 2 mentors, and one of them should hold a technical background.
*
When it comes to picking a project, you could propose one that is:
* Relevant for your language community or brings impact to the Wikimedia ecosystem in the future.
*
Welcoming and newcomer-friendly and has a moderate learning curve.
*
A new idea you are passionate about, there are no deadlines attached to it; you always wanted to see it happen but couldn't due to lack of resources help!
*
About developing a standalone tool (possibly hosted on Wikimedia Toolforge), with fewer dependencies on Wikimedia's core infrastructure, and doesn't necessarily require a specific programming language, etc.
To learn more about the roles and responsibilities of a mentor, visit our resources on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Mentors.
Cheers,
Pavithra & Srishti
Forwarding from a PC as simple text:
18.01.2020, 23:48, "Фархад Фаткуллин / Farhad Fatkullin" <frhd(a)yandex.com>:
> As one of the participants at Oslo workshops (two groups of Wikimedia movement participants took part in on-site hands-on exercises on Jan.14-15 & 15-16), I would say both statements are correct.
>
> At this stage Snøhetta is facilitating Wikimedians' brainstorming using their Ideawork approach.
>
> There should also be one online leg on/around February 4 (presumably open to everyone) & two more groups will be engaging in in-person hands-on exercise in late mid-February in India.
>
> On top of the theoretical input about affiliate initiatives that are important to the movement, some international cases around dealing with intolerance & principles of Snøhetta's work around large projects, Snøhetta & WMF Communications staff was guiding the work of respective participant groups. Each group was broken into teams that had representatives of both assigned, asking questions to facilitate the process. There was filming & photographing of the process, collecting materials that are being generated. All teams are international — I met affiliate members from Israel, Argentina, Turkey, Benin, South Africa, Georgia, Switzerland, Austria, Norway, France, Canada, etc. myself being from Tatarstan of the Russian Federation.
>
> Commons category for Oslo photoes & videos https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Oslo_workshop_-_Movement_brand_…
> I will add my smartphone pics there as well — kept Russian folks informed via Telegram chat.
>
> India workshops will bring together other people, thus different ideas to enrich understanding of whatever ideas will define the next stages of the work.
>
> regards,
> farhad
>
> --
> Sent from Yandex.Mail for mobile
>
> 21:56, January 18, 2020, John Erling Blad <jeblad(a)gmail.com>:
>> … and people immediately went ballistic. Calm down and discuss the topic!
>>
>> The news reporting seems to be that Snøhetta has been awarded a full
>> design project, while the page at Meta says it should act as some form
>> of facilitator. It could be interesting to know what is correct, as
>> these two descriptions are pretty disparate.
>>
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Hi all,
We, the Research team at Wikimedia Foundation, have received some requests
over the past months for making ourselves more available to answer some of
the research questions that you as Wikimedia volunteers, affiliates' staff,
and researchers face in your projects and initiatives. Starting January
2020, we will experiment with monthly office hours organized jointly by our
team and the Analytics team where you can join us and direct your questions
to us. We will revisit this experiment in June 2020 to assess whether to
continue it or not.
The scope
We encourage you to attend the office hour if you have research related
questions. These can be questions about our teams, our projects, or more
importantly questions about your projects or ideas that we can support you
with during the office hours. You can also ask us questions about how to
use a specific dataset available to you, to answer a question you have, or
some other question. Note that the purpose of the office hours is to answer
your questions during the dedicated time of the office hour. Questions that
may require many hours of back-and-forth between our team and you are not
suited for this forum. For these bigger questions, however, we are happy to
brainstorm with you in the office hour and point you to some good
directions to explore further on your own (and maybe come back in the next
office hour and ask more questions).
Time and Location
We meet on the 4th Wednesday of every month 17.00-18.00 (UTC) in
#wikimedia-research IRC channel on freenode [1].
The first meeting will be on January 22.
Up-to-date information on mediawiki [2]
Archiving
If you miss the office hour, you can read the logs of it at [3].
The future announcements about these office hours will only go to the
following lists so please make sure you're subscribed to them if you like
to receive a ping:
* wiki-research-l mailing list [4]
* analytics mailing list [5]
* wikidata mailing list [6]
* the Research category in Space [7]
on behalf of Research and Analytics at WMF,
Martin
[1] irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-research
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[3] https://wm-bot.wmflabs.org/logs/%23wikimedia-research/
[4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
[5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
[6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
[7] https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/tags/research
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Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone,
My name is Amanda Keton, the new General Counsel at the Wikimedia
Foundation. While Katherine is inflight traveling back from a busy week of
community meetings in Chile, I wanted to share the exciting news that
today, we have started to receive reports that the block of Wikipedia in
Turkey is being lifted, data which is also indicated by our internal
traffic reports. After more than two and a half years, access to Wikipedia
has been restored in Turkey - and on a timely occasion, as we celebrate
Wikipedia’s 19th birthday today!
Please join me in welcoming back our friends and colleagues from Turkey.
While many have remained active during the block, restoring access to
Wikipedia will allow thousands more to return in the days and weeks ahead.
It is our shared responsibility and honor to help make them feel welcome
again and make sure they know how much we missed them. I am confident that
our community will successfully welcome them back with open arms. I know we
have community members around the world who have been eagerly looking
forward to the block being lifted and brainstorming activities to
celebrate, and I welcome them to share their ideas as we move forward.
Our case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is also still
pending, and remains important even in light of the unblock as a way to
continue advocating for strong protections for free expression online. We
will continue to post updates about the next steps in our case before the
ECHR on the Wikimedia Foundation website. We have also published a
statement to reflect that access has now been restored in Turkey. [1]
Thank you all for your efforts, kind words, and encouraging thoughts as we
worked to restore access to Wikipedia in Turkey. I want to thank our
Turkish community, in particular, for their patience, resolution, and
continued participation in the movement during the more than two and a half
years Wikipedia was inaccessible. This was a prolonged global effort, on
behalf of free knowledge everywhere.
Of course, there are other blocks around the world still in place, and our
efforts in addressing this type of censorship of knowledge is far from
over. That said, I hope all of you will celebrate this momentous
accomplishment for free knowledge today and join me in welcoming back the
people of Turkey to our projects, movement, and community.
With gratitude,
Amanda
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/01/16/access-to-wikipedia-restore…
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Amanda Keton (she/her)
General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community
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Hello,
On 14 January 2020, staff at the Wikimedia Foundation discovered that a data file exported from the Wikimedia Phabricator installation, our engineering task and ticket tracking system, had been made publicly available. The file was leaked accidentally; there was no intrusion. We have no evidence that it was ever viewed or accessed. The Foundation's Security team immediately began investigating the incident and removing the related files. The data dump included limited non-public information such as private tickets, login access tokens, and the second factor of the two-factor authentication keys for Phabricator accounts. Passwords and full login information for Phabricator were not affected -- that information is stored in another, unaffected system.
The Security team has investigated and assesses that there is no known impact from this incident. However, out of an abundance of caution, we are resetting all Two-Factor Authentication keys for Phabricator and invalidating the exposed login access tokens. Additionally, we continue to encourage people to engage in online security best practices, such as keeping your software updated and resetting your passwords regularly.
The Foundation will continue to investigate this incident and take steps to prevent it from occurring again in the future. In the meantime, Phabricator is online and functioning normally. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused and will provide updates if we learn of any further impact.
Respectfully,
David Sharpe
Senior Information Security Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello Everyone!
Happy Birthday to us all with good tidings for this year.
As today marks Wikipedia celebration, find out how our community ended the
year 2019 in our newsletter
<https://mailchi.mp/736f04c983d9/june-newsletter-1305139>and activities
upcoming in this month.
Please subscribe to keep updated!
Have a great day!
Cheers! Long Live Wikipedia!
Joy
On Behalf of Open Foundation West Africa
Hello all,
The Wikimedia Foundation Anti-Harassment Tools team has put out some ideas
on a project page on Meta about tools we can build to help improve
vandalism detection and mitigation on Wikimedia projects. We want your help
with brainstorming on these ideas. What are some costs, benefits and risks
we might be overlooking? How can we improve upon these ideas? What sounds
exciting, what sounds sub-optimal? We want to hear all your thoughts.
Please leave comments on the talk page.
Or if you would like to give feedback privately by email, you can contact
me or Niharika (niharika[image: (_AT_)]wikimedia.org.)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_M…
Regards,
Sydney
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Sydney Poore (she/her)
Strategist, socio-technical
Wikimedia Foundation
Trust and Safety team;
Anti-harassment tools team
