Summary: Please tell me how you and your groups communicate at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019
The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a global consultation about
communication.[1] The goal is to improve tools for communication for all
contributors, regardless of their experience level, their computer skills,
or their devices. I want you, your teachers, and your students to be
represented in this consultation. I need you to talk to your communities
and user groups about what they do and what they need.
*You can help by hosting a discussion with your group.* Here's what to do:
- First, please sign up your group on wiki.[2]
- Next, choose a place to collect information from other people in your
group. It could be an e-mail thread, a page on wiki, a discussion on
Facebook – whatever is natural and normal for your group. You do not need
to make people vote or have a decision-making discussion. It's just for
collecting information.
- Then ask people what they think about their communication. The team
particularly wants to hear stories and other information about how people
communicate with each other on and off wiki. All information is valuable.
People might not be sure what to say, so please consider asking these five
questions (it might help people get started):
1. When you want to discuss a topic with your community, what tools work
for you, and what problems block you?
2. What about talk pages works for newcomers, and what blocks them?
3. What do others struggle with in your community about talk pages?
4. What do you wish you could do on talk pages, but can't due to the
technical limitations?
5. What are the important aspects of a "wiki discussion"?
- Finally, please go to the Talk pages consultation 2019 page on
MediaWiki.org[3] and report what you learned from your group. Please
include links if the discussion is available to the public.
*You can also help build the list of the many different ways people talk to
each other. *Not all groups active on wikis or around wikis use the same
way to discuss things: it can happen on wiki, on social networks, through
external tools... Please tell us how your group communicates.[4]
You can read more about the overall consultation process on
MediaWiki.org.[1] If you have questions or ideas, you can leave feedback
about the consultation process in the language you prefer.[3]
*Thank you!* I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Participant_gro…
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Talk_pages_consultation_2019
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Tools_in_use
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Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing)
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
The Community Tech team has made great enough progress on the first new reports planned for the Event Metrics tool that I’ve published a Help page, “Definition of metrics,” detailing all of the metrics these two reports will include [1].
As this page makes clear, the new reports provide many numbers that weren’t available in the predecessor to Event Metrics, Grant Metrics. In particular, so-called “impact" metrics—like “Views to pages created” or “Avg. daily views to files uploaded”—will now let event organizers and their partners gauge the size of the audiences their contributions garner.
The metrics definitions spell out how each metric is calculated and exactly what it does and doesn’t include. I know organizers will be interested in these specifics, so I hope you’ll take a few minutes to look these definitions over and offer your thoughts. What are you excited to see? What is unclear or doesn’t seem right? I’ve set up a section on the project talk page for your comments [2]. We’re listening!
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Metrics/Definitions_of_metrics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Metrics/Definitions_of_metrics>
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Event_Metrics#Comments_… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Event_Metrics#Comments_…>
Joe Matazzoni
Product Manager, Community Tech
Wikimedia Foundation, San Francisco
Hey everyone,
We have education office hours today (19th February) at 12:30 PM (UTC).
Join us today by clicking on this link: https://meet.google.com/mvr-rcnk-jad
or you can still add to the Calendar and get the reminder for the call.
- Office Hours (2): February 19, 12:30 UTC (
http://bit.ly/EducationOfficeHours19th )
Looking forward to seeing you all in the call.
Best!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Hi everybody,
thank you so much for sharing. Very intersting to read!
Can you tell me where I can find out more about the way there?
It would be very interesting for the GLAM-work to know about what happend
before and what brought the change?
And thank you Shani and Cabel for the wrap-ups.
Best from Berlin,
Elly
Elly Köpf
Projektmanagerin
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit
teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
https://spenden.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Am Do., 24. Jan. 2019 um 13:09 Uhr schrieb Vincenza Ferrara <
vincenza.ferrara(a)uniroma1.it>:
> Greetings
> Thanks you for sharing
>
> sincereley
> Vincenza
>
> Dott.ssa Vincenza Ferrara
> Laboratorio Arte e Medical Humanities
> Facoltà Farmacia e Medicina
> Università "La Sapienza"
> 0649918298
>
>
>
> On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 12:47, Jagadish Aryal <jaryal(a)soscbaha.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Cable,
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Wow! it's really a good news. Thank you for sharing.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jagadish
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:00 PM Cable Green <cable(a)creativecommons.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings Open Education Friends:
>>>
>>> Good news!
>>>
>>> Creative Commons worked with the Cleveland Museum of Art to dedicate
>>> 30,000 high resolution images into the public domain using CC0.
>>>
>>> - Site: http://www.clevelandart.org/open-access
>>> - Article:
>>> https://www.cleveland.com/expo/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/01/fe82a74cbf1054…
>>> - Blog: https://creativecommons.org/2019/01/23/cleveland-museum/
>>> - Tweets:
>>> - https://twitter.com/creativecommons/status/1088079123963088896
>>> - https://twitter.com/ClevelandArt/status/1088081616059228161
>>>
>>> Enjoy,
>>>
>>> Cable
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Cable Green, PhD
>>> Director of Open Education
>>> Creative Commons
>>>
>>> - Join: CC Open Education Platform
>>> <https://creativecommons.org/2017/09/05/invitation-join-cc-open-education-pl…>
>>> - Tw: @cgreen <http://twitter.com/cgreen>
>>> - CC Global Network: get involved today
>>> <https://network.creativecommons.org/get-involved/>
>>>
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Hi everyone,
We have education office hours today (15th February) at 15:30 PM (UTC),
almost 3 hrs 30 minutes later. So join us today by clicking on this link:
https://meet.google.com/mvr-rcnk-jad
or you can still add to the Calendar and get the reminder for the call.
- Office Hours (1): February 15, 15:30 UTC (
http://bit.ly/EducationOfficeHours15Feb )
- Office Hours (2): February 19, 12:30 UTC (
http://bit.ly/EducationOfficeHours19th )
Looking forward to seeing you all in the call.
Best!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor
Forwarding an announcement to other lists that may be interested in this
development.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Michal Lester <mlester(a)wikimedia.org.il>
Date: Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 9:40 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Developing instructional material for Wikidata Query
Service
To: <Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
One recurring phenomenon we encounter when we present Wikidata to various
audiences, is the enthusiasm with they react to the Wikidata Query Service,
and the possibilities it offers for extracting specific information from
the vast network of linked and structured data contained in Wikidata. This
enthusiasm is not surprising, as the query feature of Wikidata is quite
unique within the landscape of information services available today.
The Wikidata Query Service is powered by SPARQL – a semantic query language
for databases. Unfortunately, for users who are new to Wikimedia platforms,
there is currently little instructional material on how to learn SPARQL for
use in Wikidata. At Wikimedia Israel we believe that a user-friendly
tutorial to Queries/SPARQL will attract new users to engage with Wikidata
and help build a community around the project.
In recent years, Wikimedia Israel has developed online instructional
materials, such as the Wikipedia courseware and the guide for creating
encyclopedic content. We plan to use our experience in this field, and in
collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland, we intend to develop a website
with a step-by-step tutorial to learn how to use the Wikidata Query
Service. The instructional material will be available in three languages
(Hebrew, Arabic and English) but it will be possible to add the same
instructions in other languages. We are quite confident that having a
tutorial that explains and teaches the Query Service will help expand
Wikidata to new audiences worldwide.
*Best regards,*
*Michal Lester,*
*Executive DirectorWikimedia Israel*
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I invited Lisa Lewin and Esther Wojcicki to this event earlier today,
and I think you might enjoy it too, if you can make it:
Much Ado About MOOCs: What's Next in the Evolution of Open Online Courses
Tuesday, February 12, 6:30pm PT
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP
405 Howard St
San Francisco, CA 94105
Register:
https://go.edsurge.com/Much-Ado-About-MOOCs-Whats-Next-in-the-Evolution-of-…
Best regards,
Jim
Dear all,
We're back with the Office hours for the month of February. Like previous
months, this month also we are having two office hours. You can add the
office hours to your Google calendar by clicking on the links below (Thanks
to John).
- Office Hours (1): February 15, 15:30 UTC (
http://bit.ly/EducationOfficeHours15Feb )
- Office Hours (2): February 15, 12:30 UTC (
http://bit.ly/EducationOfficeHours19Feb )
Again, you can add the Office hours to your own calendar by clicking on the
bit.ly links in the bracket above.
Looking forward to seeing you all in the coming office hour. In case, you
have missed the previous meetings,
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/January_15…
and
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/January_23…
and for any other queries, feel free to reach out to me.
Best!
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*Sailesh Patnaik*
Communications and Wikimedia Outreach Contractor