Hi all,
Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Boa…>
selection rules package from now until *29 October 2023*. The selection
rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Elections_Committee>
and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection.
The rules package includes campaign rules
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>,
voter eligibility criteria
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>,
and the voting method, platform, and timeline
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>.
In previous Board selections, the voter eligibility criteria and the
voting method were adjusted to fit expressed community needs. The
Candidate Guidelines were originally developed during the 2022 election
and have been revised.
The Wikimedia Foundation staff are supporting a community comment period
for the rules package so the Elections Committee can receive comments
and concerns well in advance of the Board selection process. Completing
this comment period now will allow time for the Elections Committee to
adapt the rules package as appropriate.
Please visit the Meta-wiki talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2024>
to provide your comments now and invite people you know to do so as
well. Your comments will help the Elections Committee provide a
smoother, better Board selection process.
Regards,
KTC
Chair of the Elections Committee
--
Katie Chan
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Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine
Greetings,
I am thrilled to invite you to the tenth edition of the DCW Conversation
Hour, happening tomorrow, 24 October 2023, at 15:00 UTC.
The conversation hour aims to explore the role of digital audio in today’s
world, and how it can serve as the printing press for oral culture. The
conversation features Marcel Heyne, an internet entrepreneur and co-founder
of the Audiopedia Foundation.
More information on the conversation hour can be accessed from event page
<https://hour.dcwwiki.org/event/dcw-conversation-hour-october-2023/> on our
DCW Conversation Hour website. In case you have any questions, please let
me know. I can be easily reached at aafi(a)dcwwiki.org
Yours truly
Aafi
Hello all,
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees believes that Wikimedia
affiliates are a key and integral part of the Wikimedia movement, and
affiliates’ success is vital to the Wikimedia movement’s success. To that
end, it is crucial to develop a clear vision regarding the affiliates,
making it possible to assess whether the Foundation’s investment in,
collaboration with, and policy towards affiliates is promoting the right
goals. The Board will be embarking on building a Wikimedia Foundation
Affiliates Strategy in collaboration with the Affiliations Committee (AffCom),
the affiliates, and the broader communities. This strategy will help guide
the Foundation’s immediate work in supporting affiliates for the next few
years.
In order to ensure that there is continuity and institutional memory during
this process, there will be a delay of the elections for AffCom until after
the strategy is complete, and the terms of the current AffCom members will
be prolonged (in a separate resolution) to December 31, 2023. While the
strategy is under development, AffCom will continue its current
responsibilities, in addition to collaborating on the Wikimedia Foundation
Affiliates Strategy.
Once the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy is ready, there would be
clarity on what is expected from the Wikimedia Foundation for supporting
affiliates, and what is expected from affiliates.
As the weeks progress in the new calendar year, a plan of the process will
be released, including opportunities for communities and affiliates to
engage. You can find some FAQs below to assist further understanding of the
Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy.
Best regards,
Nat & Shani
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Liaisons to the Affiliations
Committee
== FAQs ==
1. What are Wikimedia movement affiliates? What is AffCom?
Wikimedia movement affiliates are "independent and formally recognised"
groups of people intended to organise and engage in activities to support
and contribute to the Wikimedia movement [1]. Currently there are three
active models for affiliates: chapters, thematic organisations, and user
groups. The Affiliations Committee (AffCom) advises and makes
recommendations regarding the recognition and existence of Wikimedia
movement affiliates.
2. How is the work with affiliates at the Wikimedia Foundation organised
now?
As of now, processes are fragmented across different teams at the Wikimedia
Foundation, and some decision making regarding affiliates is happening at
different levels. A unified and consistent process is beneficial to all
parties, hence the start of the work on the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates
Strategy.
3. What is the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy? Is this an update
of some existing document or something brand new?
Until now there has not been any unified vision regarding how the work
around affiliates should happen, as there was no affiliate-specific
strategy developed before. The Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy is
to be a blueprint that will guide the Foundation’s immediate work with
affiliates. This strategy will be in place to inform and guide the
Wikimedia Foundation budget and support to affiliates, until some kind of
Movement-wide Affiliates Strategy is developed.
4. Why do we need a Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy?
The Affiliates are a key part of the Wikimedia movement as mentioned in the
Wikimedia Foundation mission, and their success is integral to the success
of the whole Wikimedia Movement. As the affiliate ecosystem has grown in
size and complexity, it is increasingly important to review existing
approaches and ensure that the focus is on the right areas. The Wikimedia
Foundation Affiliates Strategy will help to strengthen and advance the work
of the affiliates.The Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy will take
into account Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy recommendations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Recommendations>.
The Strategy will direct Foundation attention to the needs of affiliates
and focus resources on those needs towards impact by affiliates.
5. Does the decision of developing the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates
Strategy change the role of AffCom?
There are no immediate changes in the role of AffCom, which is continuing
doing its job. However, the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy will
direct the future work of the Wikimedia Foundation in support of the
affiliates, which could result in revising the role and scope of AffCom.
6. Why are the AffCom Elections delayed?
Traditionally, AffCom had elections at least once every year to select (not
elect) and appoint members who will serve in AffCom for a period of two
years. This year AffCom elections will not be held. Instead, the elections
will be delayed as AffCom is a key input for the Board in developing the
Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy, and adding the burden of
selecting and on-boarding new members will encumber the committee and make
it difficult for it to discharge its regular duties as well as collaborate
on the strategy. If the number of voting members falls below five (per
the AffCom
Charter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee_Charter>),
elections will nonetheless be held.
7. Will the Movement Charter also have an "Affiliates Strategy" and/or
define affiliate roles?
While it is reasonable to expect that the Movement Charter will have
prescriptions on affiliates and their recognition, and some of these
responsibilities might shift to the Global Council once it is formed, it is
currently unknown how this will unfold, and it will bear consequences only
in years to come. Accordingly, this work is worth doing now so that the
available resources are having the impact needed and are best serving the
current Wikimedia movement and the affiliate ecosystem in the interim.
8. Is AffCom being asked to propose a Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates
Strategy?
No, AffCom is not expected to propose a Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates
Strategy. AffCom has been invited by the Board to collaborate and give an
expert opinion. While the Affiliations Committee is an advising committee
to the Board, the Board is responsible for this strategy and will lead the
community and affiliate conversations around it.
9. What is the timeline for this project?
The target is to have a draft of the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates
Strategy for the Board’s approval at Wikimania 2023 (August 2023).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Affiliates
Hi wikimedians,
I think there are quite a lot of ways to be informed on what happens on the
Wikimedia movement and on the projects. What I can think of :
* various mailing lists, like this one,
* the Diff blog,
* On wiki messages, which includes :
** on wiki publications like The Signpost, or the Wikidata Weekly News, or
… (which in turns can be seen on maling lists, and/or personal messages
with on-wiki subscription list, reading it on project chat …
** Message relayed by bots on project chats
This works, but … it’s easy to miss some informations or to get duplicated
informations. There is also a various of situations regarding the
translation, or not, of the messages. Over times all those ways tends to
pile-up and it gets not so easy to track, so it’s not easy to know if there
is something you are interested in but you don’t know it exists, It’s not
easy to discover. And the wiki world is getting larger.
Maybe it’s time to think of a system where you could track all your
subscription on wiki, with an index of the various available publications ?
And with metadata for publications, so you can select topics you’re
interested in and list or notify the different publications ?
Hello everyone,
We are delighted to share the fantastic news of our interns'
accomplishments during GSoC 2023 and Outreachy Round 26, under the guidance
of their mentors. Please join us in congratulating these remarkable
individuals for their unwavering commitment and hard work:
*GSoC’ Interns*:
1. Ahmed Amine Hassou (Morocco)
Project: Wiki Education Dashboard - Refactoring and upgrading React
Mentors: Sage Ross, Will Kent
2. Chenhao Liu (United States of America)
Project: Wiki Farm Support for Canasta
Mentors: Yaron Koren, Jeffrey Wang
3. Nikhil Mahajan (India)
Project: End-to-end test coverage for Abstract Wikipedia's Wikifunctions
Mentors: Stef Dunlap, James Forrester, Cory Massaro, Denny Vrandečić
4. Zexi Gong (China)
Project: Wikidocumentaries to import images from the web to Structured Data
on Commons
Mentors: TuukkaH, Susannaanas
5. Shashwat Khanna (India)
Project: Improve Programs & Events Dashboard UX for Article Scoped Programs
Mentor: Sage Ross
6. Saurabh Jamadagni (India)
Project: Adding a menu to Scribe-iOS application and expanding keyboard
languages
Mentor: Andrew McAllister
7. Ritika Pahwa (India)
Project: Commons Android app - Make upload more reliable
Mentors: Nicolas Raoul, Kaartic Sivaraam
8. Punith Nayak (India)
Project: Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool - New features
Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta
9. Varun Shrivastava (India)
Project: Improve the functionality of VideoCutTool - Code Quality/Code
Health
Mentors: Gopa Vasanth, Sohom Datta
Additionally, we have the following *Outreachy interns*:
1. Abhishek Bhardwaj (India)
Project: Research imbalances in translation between languages on Wikipedia
Mentors: Adam Wight, Simulo, Kavitha A
2. Nathaly Toledo (Venezuela)
Project: Research imbalances in translation between languages on Wikipedia
Mentors: Adam Wight, Simulo, Kavitha A
3. Sulagna Saha (Bangladesh)
Project: Write a Ruby gem for analyzing Wikidata edits
Mentors: Sage Ross, Will Kent
These diligent interns have made significant contributions to our
community, and we encourage you to explore their reports and blogs to learn
more about their exceptional work. You can find additional information
about these projects on the following pages:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2023
- https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_26
Furthermore, we are thrilled to inform you that Srishti Sethi and I (Gopa)
recently attended the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit held at Google
Headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. We represented the outstanding work
of our nine GSoC 2023 interns on Wikimedia projects and had the privilege
of learning from peers in various open-source software fields, including
arts, education, music, robotics, and more. This event, conducted in an
unconference, participant-driven style, provided a platform for attendees
to discuss the challenges of running open-source projects and share
valuable tips and advice for mentoring interns. It's worth noting that
Wikimedia has been an active participant in Google Summer of Code since
2006.
Once again, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to all our interns,
mentors, and everyone who supported them throughout this journey. We
eagerly anticipate their continued contributions to Wikimedia projects.
Cheers,
Wikimedia Organization Administrators (Srishti Sethi, Soham Datta, Sheila
and Gopa)
--
Regards,
Gopa Vasanth <https://gopavasanth.github.io/>
Twitter <https://twitter.com/gopavasanth1999> | LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/gopa-vasanth/> | GitHub
<https://github.com/gopavasanth> | Gerrit
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/gopavasanth>
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
Hey everyone,
The Future Audiences team is a small initiative at the Wikimedia Foundation
to do experiments to find strategies to make sure readers and editors keep
finding their way to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis. Anyone is
welcome to talk to us on the talk page, but we also have monthly video
calls.
The next one is on October 19, 14:00 UTC (Thursday next week in most time
zones). You can reply to me personally or send an email to
futureaudiences(a)wikimedia.org if you want to participate, and we'll send
you a link to the call in advance, once it's been set up.
You can read more here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_Audiences#The_next_monthly_Futu…
There are a few topics on the agenda:
* AI and attribution. A presentation on how we hope AI tools can better
attribute content from Wikipedia, so that readers know where it is coming
from.
* Presentation of a small experiment to encourage video creators on TikTok
to tell their audience when they are using Wikipedia to get information for
their videos. For the first time, we're seeing how young people both use
and trust Wikipedia less than older age groups, and they are increasingly
using social media to find information. We want them to be aware when
Wikipedia has been instrumental in bringing them the information they
receive.
* And also, a presentation from Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga from the Basque
community about their Ikusgela project of pedagogical videos on social
media platforms:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/05/27/basque-wikimedians-create-ikusgela-a-…
If you can't participate, or don't want to take part of video calls, we put
notes and recordings from all calls here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences#Monthly_conversations
To read more about Future Audiences and this work, please see the Meta page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Future_Audiences
The research about how younger audiences perceive Wikipedia is available
here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Research/Brand_Health_Tracker
(This was sent to the list earlier, but seems to have been caught by a
filter and the moderators can't find it in the queue – I hope it doesn't
turn up twice.)
Best,
*Johan Jönsson*Manager, Product Ambassadors
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Congratulations Yumiko and the entire Japanese community!
Best,
Biyanto
On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 at 13:12, Hana da S. Yumiko <shibatahanayumiko(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> My dear friends, Jeffrey, João, Joris, Derrick, Yael, Aliyu, Butch,
>
> On behalf of Wikimedians of Japan User Group, I'd like to express my
> sincere gratitude for your kind welcome! In other words, we're jumping over
> the moon!
> We're just a newborn baby which has been facing millions of problems.
> The team Community Growth is one of the what we rely on, though the
> highest barrier is English, especially the communication via ears and
> mouth.
> Furthermore, we have numerous directions to pursue.
> One is that we're having a survey "When did you start editing?" "How long
> have you edited?" and so on from the 27th of this month to the 6th of
> November. The outcome will be on Diff, maybe in December, in English also.
> Movement Strategy, ESEAP Hub, such internationalization is critical steps.
>
> Allow me to say my personal ambition. Immigrants have increased
> constantly, many from Brazil (João!) and the Philippines(Butch!).
> I work in schools to support international children and always recommend
> them to use Wikipedia pages of their language besides learning Japanese.
> Parents are too busy to let children understand higher content in their
> language. I'd like to find better ways by Wikimedia for young immigrants.
>
> With boundless gratitude,
> Yumiko, on behalf of Wikimedians of Japan User Group
>
>
> 2023年10月19日(木) 10:14 Butch Bustria <bustrias(a)gmail.com>:
>
>> To the Members of WJUG,
>>
>> Congratulations for setting up the group and we grad to welcome you again
>> in ESEAP with open arms.
>>
>> Its been 15 years in the waiting.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Butch
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 4:22 AM Shaba 50 <aliyuy921(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Congratulations to the new Wikimedians of Japan Usergroup!
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Aliyu Shaba.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023, 8:46 PM Yael Weissburg <rweissburg(a)wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Congratulations to our friends and colleagues in Japan!
>>>>
>>>> *Yael Weissburg* (she/her)
>>>> VP, Community Growth
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>>>> M: (+1) 415.513.6643
>>>> I work from San Francisco. My time zone is UTC -7/-8.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2023 at 12:29 PM Ndahiro Derrick Alter <
>>>> ndahiroderric(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh this is so exciting,
>>>>>
>>>>> おめでとう and all the best to the Wikimedians of Japan. Greetings from Wikimedia User Group Rwanda
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Derrick Ndahiro
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 at 20:37 Joris Darlington Quarshie <
>>>>> billionairegenerations16(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Congratulations members of Wikimedians of Japan Usergroup.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from Joris Darlington Quarshie
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 18 Oct 2023, at 3:52 PM, João Alexandre Peschanski <
>>>>>> joalpe(a)wmnobrasil.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear members of the Wikimedians of Japan User Group,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Welcome, on behalf of Wiki Movimento Brasil! This is exciting! I hope
>>>>>> we will find ways of working together in the near future!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> João
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Em qua., 18 de out. de 2023 às 12:42, Affiliations Committee <
>>>>>> affcom(a)wikimedia.org> escreveu:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi everyone!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
>>>>>>> recognized [1] Wikimedians of Japan User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User
>>>>>>> Group. The group aims to establish a national organization to promote
>>>>>>> Wikimedia projects and support Wikimedians in Japan.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> Jeffrey Keefer
>>>>>>> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [1]
>>>>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
>>>>>>> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Japan_User_Group
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [image: Logo comemorativo do Grupo de Usuários Wiki Movimento Brasil]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> João Alexandre Peschanski | Usuário:JPeschanski (WMB)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Diretor Executivo | Wiki Movimento Brasil
>>>>>>
>>>>>> wmnobrasil.org
>>>>>>
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Hi all,
The next Research Showcase, focused on *Data Privacy*, will be
live-streamed on Wednesday, October 18, at 9:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC. Find
your local time here <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1697646641>.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntgRsMaDlsw. As usual, you
can join the conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes
live.
This month's presentations:
Wikipedia Reader Navigation: When Synthetic Data Is EnoughBy *Akhil Arora,
EPFL*Every day millions of people read Wikipedia. When navigating the vast
space of available topics using hyperlinks, readers describe trajectories
on the article network. Understanding these navigation patterns is crucial
to better serve readers’ needs and address structural biases and knowledge
gaps. However, systematic studies of navigation on Wikipedia are hindered
by a lack of publicly available data due to the commitment to protect
readers' privacy by not storing or sharing potentially sensitive data. In
this paper, we ask: How well can Wikipedia readers' navigation be
approximated by using publicly available resources, most notably the
Wikipedia clickstream data <https://wikinav.toolforge.org/>? We
systematically quantify the differences between real navigation sequences
and synthetic sequences generated from the clickstream data, in 6 analyses
across 8 Wikipedia language versions. Overall, we find that the differences
between real and synthetic sequences are statistically significant, but
with small effect sizes, often well below 10%. This constitutes
quantitative evidence for the utility of the Wikipedia clickstream data as
a public resource: clickstream data can closely capture reader navigation
on Wikipedia and provides a sufficient approximation for most practical
downstream applications relying on reader data. More broadly, this study
provides an example for how clickstream-like data can generally enable
research on user navigation on online platforms while protecting users’
privacy.
How to tell the world about data you cannot show them: Differential privacy
at the Wikimedia FoundationBy *Hal Triedman, Wikimedia Foundation*The
Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), by virtue of its centrality on the internet,
collects lots of data about platform activities. Some of that data is made
public (e.g. global daily pageviews); other data types are not shared (or
are pseudonymized prior to sharing), largely due to privacy concerns.
Differential privacy is a statistical definition of privacy that has gained
prominence in academia, but is still an emerging technology in industry. In
this talk, I share the story of how we put differential privacy into
production at the WMF, through looking at the case study of geolocated
daily pageview counts.
You can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
Best,
Kinneret
--
Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
--
Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>