Hi everyone,
This is our last reminder for you to complete the Wikimedia Communities &
Contributors survey.
* To those of you who have taken the survey - thank you so much! We really
appreciate your responses. *
*This survey is closing in less than three days on Sunday 22 April 2018.*
*If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of
MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please complete the survey. The opinions you
share will affect the work of the Wikimedia Foundation. *
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Discourse, or other platforms for volunteer developers, please don't take
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Edward Galvez
Evaluation Strategist, Surveys
Learning & Evaluation
Community Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello! If you are a designer or are interested in design and you have
time to provide some feedback, please refer to this link:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192612
Russian Wikipedia is set to have its main page design updated for the
first time in 8 years. Given that the page receives up to 800,000 visits
per day and acts as an entry point to the project, it is important to
have it designed to the best of our abilities.
I am looking for any potential feedback on topics of adherence to the
style guide, mobile and desktop layouts and page accessibility. I can’t
promise that your feedback would be acted upon because of our community
decision-making process, but I would be very grateful to hear and
potentially act upon the feedback you can provide.
The link above is relevant for any potential replies up to May 20th,
2018. Thank you in advance to everyone who decides to give their feedback.
Oleg / stjn
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From: Sébastien Santoro <dereckson(a)espace-win.org>
Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 1:59 PM
Subject: Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces - Code of Conduct
Committee - Candidates
To: techconduct-extended(a)wikimedia.org, Wikimedia developers <
wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, MediaWiki announcements and site admin
list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all,
The Code of Conduct Committee has published the list of candidates for
the next 6 months term:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee/Candidates/2018-I
If nominated, these candidates will be trusted to enforce the code of
conduct for Wikimedia
technical spaces. You can read it at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct.
Any feedback or concern about a candidate can be submitted in private
to techconduct(a)wikimedia.org
for the next two weeks, until Tuesday 2018-04-24.
If there is any need to change the candidates slate following the
community feedback,
the committee will submit a new list, and a new two weeks period will
take place.
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For the Code of Conduct Committee,
Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson
https://www.dereckson.be/
Hi everyone,
This is a friendly reminder about the Wikimedia Communities and
Contributors Survey.
*We have only heard from 50 Wikimedia volunteer developers. The survey will
close Sunday 22 April 2018.*
If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of
MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please complete the survey. The opinions you
share will affect the work of the Wikimedia Foundation.
*Follow this link to take the survey:* https://wikimedia.qualtrics.
com/jfe/form/SV_5ABs6WwrDHzAeLr?aud=DEV
If you have already seen a similar message on Phabricator, Mediawiki.org,
Discourse, or other platforms for volunteer developers, please don't take
the survey twice.
It is available in various languages and will take between 20 and 40
minutes to complete.
You can find more information about this survey on the project page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/About_CE_> and
see how your feedback helps the Wikimedia Foundation support contributors
like you. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and governed by this
privacy statement
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights_2018_Sur…>.
Please visit our frequently asked questions page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/Frequently_as…>
to find more information about this survey.
Feel free to email me directly with any questions you may have.
Thank you!
Edward Galvez from the Community Engagement department
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for your feedback in a survey. We want
to know how well we are supporting your work on and off wiki, and how we
can change or improve things in the future. The opinions you share will
affect the current and future work of the Wikimedia Foundation.
If you are volunteer developer, and have contributed code to any pieces of
MediaWiki, gadgets, or tools, please complete the survey. It is available
in various languages and will take between 20 and 40 minutes to complete.
*Follow this link to the Survey:*
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5ABs6WwrDHzAeLr?aud=DEV
If you have already seen a similar message on Phabricator, Mediawiki.org,
Discourse, or other platforms for volunteer developers, please don't take
the survey twice.
You can find more information about this survey on the project page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/About_CE_>
and see how your feedback helps the Wikimedia Foundation support
contributors like you. This survey is hosted by a third-party service and
governed by this privacy statement
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Please visit our frequently asked questions page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_Insights/Frequently_as…>
to find more information about this survey.
Feel free to email me directly with any questions you may have.
Thank you!
Edward Galvez
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Edward Galvez
Evaluation Strategist, Surveys
Learning & Evaluation
Community Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
This is an interesting development related to a piece
<http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/11/the-binge-breaker/50112…>
shared by Josh almost a year ago about Google's former "design ethicist",
Tristan Harris. Tristan has been waging a war against engineering products
that vie for user attention at the expense of their users' wellbeing. He
raises interesting questions about addiction and the morals of trying to
increase time spent (even on a project like Wikipedia).
Now it seems to be getting traction. They have raised tens of millions of
$s for PSAs about tech addiction and are developing guidelines for
engineers and designers. I'm curious to see them when they're done.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/technology/early-faceb
ook-google-employees-fight-tech.html?referer=
At the Dev Summit, Birgit Müller and I will run a session on Growing the
MediaWiki Technical Community. If you're attending, we hope you will
consider joining us.
Everyone (attending the Dev Summit or not) is welcome and encouraged to
participate at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183318 (please comment
there, rather than by email).
We are discussing the following questions:
* What would allow you to develop and plan your software more efficiently?
* What would make software development more fun for you?
* What other Open Source communities do we share interests with?
* How can we change our processes to take technical debt more seriously?
"Develop" means any kind of work on a software system, including design,
documentation, etc.
Our topics are:
* Better processes and project management practices, integrating all
developers and allowing them to work more efficiently
* Building partnerships with other Open Source communities on shared
interests (e.g. translation, audio, video)
* Reducing technical debt
Matt Flaschen
Hey all,
Suzzane LaBarre, an editor at Fast Company, wrote an update to Dieter
Rams "Ten principles for good design". Personally I enjoyed this one
item Kottke (where I found this) highlights.
"Good design is slow. For the past 20 years, tech has embraced a “move
fast and break things” mantra. That was fine when software had a
relatively small impact on the world. But today, it shapes nearly
every aspect of our lives, from what we read to whom we date to how we
spend money-and it’s largely optimized to benefit corporations, not
users. The stakes have changed, the methods haven’t."
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the 'new' principles and how it
might apply to Wikimedia-related efforts.
https://kottke.org/18/01/ten-new-principles-for-good-design
Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
Are you are interested in mentoring or co-mentoring a small team of UX
design students around researching and designing product solutions related
to our FY17-18 Annual Plan?
If so, *please let me know by 11/27*. I am happy to help write up a
(brief!) project proposal and share mentoring responsibilities as needed if
the proposal is accepted. Wikimedia has a (gratis) corporate affiliate
partnership <https://www.hcde.washington.edu/cap/members> with this
university program.
Click here <https://www.hcde.washington.edu/cap/past-capstone-projects> to
see examples of the kinds of projects that these students have completed in
the past. Happy to field any questions you might have.
Best,
Jonathan
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From: Mark Zachry <zachry(a)uw.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:10 AM
Subject: HCDE Capstone Projects -- Proposing Projects by November 28
To: Jonathan Morgan <jmorgan(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi Jonathan,
I wanted to let you know that I am now soliciting proposals for
undergraduate capstone projects. If you are interested, please consider
submitting a proposal via the link below by November 28. I know that you
pitched a potential capstone project in the past that was not selected, but
I thought you might want to try again.
Here is the link to submit a capstone project idea:
https://www.hcde.washington.edu/cap/propose-capstone/submit
If you do submit a project idea, I will contact you again in early December
to invite you to a class session in the winter quarter to meet students and
present your idea in person. I will be scheduling this session of the
capstone planning class January 19, 10:30-12:30. At that time, you will be
invited to give a ~8 minute presentation to the students. (Please note that
these presentations to the students are optional. Also, regardless of
whether you offer a presentation, students will have access to the text you
submit at the link above and to any other materials you want me to share
with them.)
I am excited about the prospect of working with you in the winter and
spring quarters on a capstone project. If you have any questions about the
proposal submission process or capstone in general, please let me know.
Regards,
Mark
P.S. If you are interested, you can see that results of past capstone
projects at the link here: https://www.hcde.washington.ed
u/cap/past-capstone-projects
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Mark Zachry
Human Centered Design & Engineering
College of Engineering
408 Sieg Hall / Campus Box 352315
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
(206) 616.7936 / office
(206) 543.8853 / fax
zachry(a)u.washington.edu
http://www.hcde.washington.edu/zachry
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Jonathan T. Morgan
Senior Design Researcher
Wikimedia Foundation
User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>