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Lila's keynote speech at Wikimania 2014
by Pine W 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

Hi all, I would like to encourage those of us who may have missed Lila's keynote speech at Wikimania to listen to it. [1] In her speech, Lila takes a long view of Wikimedia's history and future. She talks about incremental and disruptive changes that are happening socially and technologically such as the shift toward mobile and wearable computing, and the use of technology in the developing world. She also talks about modes of contribution, and changes inside the Wikimedia projects that would encourage more people to participate actively. Thanks very much, Lila. I look forward to seeing how the trends and opportunities that you describe are addressed in our new strategic plan. Pine [1] http://new.livestream.com/wikimania/saturday2014

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Invitation: Research Hackathon on August 6 and 7
by Pine W 30 Jul '14

30 Jul '14

The Wikimedia Research Hackathon on August 6 and 7 takes place parallel to the general Wikimania Hackathon in London. Wikimania Hackathon information is available at https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon Research Hackathon information is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Labs2/Hackathons/August_6-7th,_2014 >From the Research Hackathon info page: this "is an opportunity for anyone interested in research on wikis, Wikipedia, and other open collaborations to meet, share ideas, and work together. It's being organized by researchers in academia and the Wikimedia Foundation, but we want anyone interested in research to participate. Whether or not you consider yourself a researcher, or would ever want to be one, come with questions, answers, data, code, crazy ideas... or just your insatiable curiosity." Local participation will occur at Wikimania London and in Philadelphia, PA, US. Remote participation is possible and will include researchers and community members globally. Please see the Research Hackathon information page for scheduling and sign-up details. Further questions may be directed to Aaron Halfaker (ahalfaker(a)wikimedia.org) or Leila Zia (leila(a)wikimedia.org).* Pine *A $1 fine will be imposed by Oliver Keyes on anyone who misspells Leila's name or misdirects emails to the WMF Executive Director.

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Results and what's next for anonymous editor acquisition project
by Steven Walling 11 Jul '14

11 Jul '14

Hi everyone, Back in May I announced that we were starting a new project to try and ask more anonymous editors to join the community and register accounts.[1] Since then, we've finished up our first A/B test on English, German, French, and Italian Wikipedias. Yesterday we also launched our second A/B test, this time just in English.[2] As a refresher, the first time we tested two different workflows. In the first, called "pre-edit", we prompted people to sign up right after they clicked edit. In the second, called "post-edit", we told people about the advantages of signing up after they completed an edit as an IP. To summarize the test results: - The post-edit version was seen by much fewer people, and only gained us a incremental number of newly-registered Wikipedians. The plus side is that, because it didn't interrupt people, it caused no negative impact on the volume of edits by IPs. The few editors we gained were more likely to reach 5+ edits than users in a control group too. - The pre-edit version was much more interesting. It caused a very large increase in new registrations: +200% in English and German, +300% in French and Italian. These users who registered were also significantly more likely to complete a first edit. Unfortunately, this version also decreased the total volume of edits by IPs by ~25%. We have several theories about why this was, and the A/B test we just launched is an iteration on this pre-edit design to rule out some of those theories. You can check out our full research report so far at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Anonymous_editor_acquisition/Signu… . 1. Original announcement https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/16/anonymous-editor-acquisition/ 2. Specification https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anonymous_editor_acquisition/Signup_invites_… -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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Standup status
by Jon Robson 10 Jul '14

10 Jul '14

Due to an issue with a smoke detector beeping me awake at 3,4,5 and 6am I had to unexpectedly go into landlords office. running late now likely to miss standup . Mostly did code review yesterday and began moderated states design. Gonna pair up with May today and get that and hopefully make a few additional design tweaks!

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting comment system for Wikipedia
by Quim Gil 21 Jun '14

21 Jun '14

Interesting use of comments related to paragraphs in wiki pages -- functional in MediaWiki and deployed in a top site. I didn't know about this, it looks very interesting. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Markus Glaser* <markus.glaser(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Friday, June 20, 2014 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting comment system for Wikipedia To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi Micru, Basically the comments are associated to each paragraph, and a little > number appears next to it. When clicking it, it displays the comments. > There's already a similar implementation for MediaWiki. It's basically a modification of Extension:Comments and it allows to associate comments with sections. You can see it live at WebPlatform.org [1]. Best, Markus [1] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Main_Page _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Upcoming changes to GuidedTour extension
by Matthew Flaschen 10 Jun '14

10 Jun '14

On 06/02/2014 08:16 PM, Steven Walling wrote: > GuidedTour's backend has also undergone a major refactor, which is close > to being merged. This is described in full at the commit, which is just > waiting on us to update logging: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/116228/ As Steven noted, you should not have to change your code using the old API immediately. However, we hope you will see a benefit to the new API, in flexibility, new features, and readability. We are polishing the API and finishing final testing. The documentation for the upcoming API is available at http://growthdoc.wmflabs.org/NonLinearGuidedTourPreview/ (this URL is temporary), so if you think something could be clarified or tweaked, please let us know. The basic idea of the new API is that you start by constructing a TourBuilder. From that, you construct StepBuilder objects by calling firstStep (for the entry point) (http://growthdoc.wmflabs.org/NonLinearGuidedTourPreview/#!/api/mw.guidedTou…) or step (http://growthdoc.wmflabs.org/NonLinearGuidedTourPreview/#!/api/mw.guidedTou…) for other steps. Steps (http://growthdoc.wmflabs.org/NonLinearGuidedTourPreview/#!/api/mw.guidedTou…) can listen for events, which can then trigger a transition to another step, hide the tour, or end it. This is controlled by .transition() (http://growthdoc.wmflabs.org/NonLinearGuidedTourPreview/#!/api/mw.guidedTou…). .next() sets the next step, which can also be dynamic. The details are covered by the API documentation; I just wanted to give a broad overview. The old API is deprecated, and will not be maintained permanently (we will keep you updated on any plans to remove it). Matt Flaschen

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migrating Flow tests to WMF Jenkins
by Chris McMahon 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

Hello Flow folk, Just a quick note to say that now that Zeljko is back from parental leave, we are proceeding to dismantle the Cloudbees Jenkins jobs that run browser tests (including for Flow)[1] in favor of jobs on WMF Jenkins. [2] The tests for Flow on beta labs running in headless Firefox under xvfb are reliably green as of today[3] and we'll be working to keep them that way. In the near future you can expect to see WMF Jenkins jobs with Flow tests running in Chrome and also Flow tests running on our dedicated WMF SauceLabs account (with which we have 10 simultaneous test VMs, 5X as much as we had on Cloudbees). O Brave New World and all that, -Chris [1] https://wmf.ci.cloudbees.com/job/Flow-en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org-linux-f… [2] https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/BrowserTests/ [3] https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/BrowserTests/job/browsertests-Flo…

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Re: [EE] Rethink of observability (Mingli Yuan)
by ENWP Pine 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

This is an interesting topic about RecentChanges and its many uses and variants. I'm copying Analytics, EE and Research lists because I hope that some of our colleagues from these lists will hop over to Wikimedia-l to participate in this discussion. [a] In particular I would call my colleagues' attention to this section of Mingli's email: "Content is only one aspect to observe, people are another: * Who are the experts on some topics? * Who are my buddies on some articles? * Who did help me to improve an article originally I wrote? In all, we may reshape our technical infrastructure in this direction for new spaces of participation. And finally, one open question for the system designer: * Towards better content and community, what is the most important things we want our user to observe?" I'll just note here some observability work on user contributions that has been done or is in progress. 1. User Analysis Tool [b], similar to the legacy tool by User:X!. Be sure to look at the "Future plans" tab. 2. Listen to Wikipedia [c] visualization tool of recent changes, mostly for aesthetics but there may be ways to adapt some of the ideas or code used here for other interesting purposes. 2. Snuggle [d] which is a tool that helps to identify good-faith and bad-faith new editors. 4. Finding a Collaborator [e] is a current research project, also see [f] a visualization example. As part of this work the researchers seem to have formulated a way of quantifying an editor's impact, although I haven't seen the formula yet. As you probably know the quality of edits and editors is a topic that gets discussed repeatedly. 5. WikiStats [g] which provides high-level statistics about Wikimedia projects. 6. WikiMetrics [h] cohort analysis, has a lot of potential for expanding its tool set. 7. For code and related technical contributions see [i]. 8. There are a variety of tools next to users' requests at English Wikipedia's Requests for Permissions page [j] such as WikiChecker [k] and automated edits logs [l]. This is a good discussion and I would be happy to have an office hour meeting for live chat. Pine [a] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-June/072507.html [b] https://tools.wmflabs.org/supercount/index.php [c] http://listen.hatnote.com/ [d] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Snuggle [e] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator [f] https://depts.washington.edu/reflex/ [g] https://stats.wikimedia.org [h] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimetrics [i] http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/ [j] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_permissions [k] http://en.wikichecker.com/user/?t=Jimbo%20Wales [l] https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/autoedits/index.php?user=Jimbo%20Wales&lan…

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Updates to Guided Tours
by Steven Walling 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Hi everyone, For those interested, we've made a number of small design updates to the guided tours interface. We're also close to merging a major backend refactoring to support more sophisticated tour behavior, like waiting to suggest that the user click Save until after they type in VisualEditor. For the sake of not cross-posting, I'll link you to the full list of changes I posted to your technical outreach mailing list: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000717.… Thanks, -- Steven Walling, Product Manager https://wikimediafoundation.org/

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FW: [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Round 1 2014 Individual Engagement Grantees
by ENWP Pine 02 Jun '14

02 Jun '14

Forwarding for the benefit of those not on other lists. Individual Engagement Grants have been announced for topics relevant to mobile tech, research, and editor engagement. Congrats to grantees and I hope we see them on these lists. Consider applying in the next round, and visit IdeaLab to propose and discuss ideas! [1] IdeaLab is for everyone, even if you are not personally requesting funding such as if you have an idea and hope that someone else executes it. For more detail about grants funded see [2] Pine (IEGCom member) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Idealab [2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/30/new-grantees-fresh-perspectives-resea… Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 11:50:49 -0430 From: hahc21(a)gmail.com To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Round 1 2014 Individual Engagement Grantees Today we're announcing the latest round of Individual Engagement Grantees. These grants from the Wikimedia Foundation support individuals and small teams of Wikimedians to experiment with new ideas aimed at having online impact.[1] This round, the IEG committee recommended and WMF approved 12 projects led by 16 grantees with countless volunteer participants from around the world. For the first time, Individual Engagement Grants are funding mobile app development, Wikipedia research, and projects aimed at improving Wikivoyage and Wiktionary. Introducing Wikimedia's round 1 2014 Individual Engagement Grantees: Making Telugu Content Accessible, led by Santhosh, funded at 104,000 Rupees.[2] Medicine Translation Community Organizing, led by CFCF, funded at $10,000.[3]Open Access Reader, led by Edward Saperia, funded at $6550.[4] Optimizing Wikimedia Category Systems, led by Paul J. Weiss, funded at $9750.[5] Promoting Wikivoyage, led by Tammy Bennert, funded at $600.[6] Pronunciation Recording, led by Rilke with participation from Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV and Infovarius, funded at ?1450.[7]Reimagining Wikipedia Mentorship, led by I JethroBT, Soni, and Gabrielm199, funded at $22,600.[8] Senior Citizens Write Wikipedia, led by Vojtěch Veselý with participation from Vojtěch Dostál, Václav Šulc, and Jan Sokol, funded at 160,000 CZK.[9] Tools for Armenian Wikisource and Beyond, led by Xelgen with participation from HrantKhachatrian and Mahnerak, funded at $7600.[10] The Wikiquiz, led by Addis Wang, Mys 721x, and Ericmetro, funded at $1070.[11] WikiTrack, led by Hari Prasad Nadig, funded at $2500.[12]Women and Wikipedia, led by Amanda Menking, funded at $8075.[13] You can read more about them all on the WMF blog.[14] To everyone who contributed to this round of grants with proposals, ideas, feedback and suggestions: thank you! The next call for proposals opens on 1 September - we look forward to seeing more of your ideas and engagement again soon. Sincerely, Harold HidalgoIndividual Engagement Grants Committee 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Making_telugu_content_accessible 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Medicine_Translation_Project_Com… 4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Open_Access_Reader 5. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Optimizing_Wikimedia_Category_Sy… 6. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Promoting_Wikivoyage 7. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Pronunciation_Recording_(Finish_… 8. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Reimagining_Wikipedia_Mentorship 9. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Senior_Citizens_Write_Wikipedia 10. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Tools_for_Armenian_Wikisource_an… 11. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikiquiz 12. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WikiTrack 13. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Women_and_Wikipedia 14. http://blog.wikimedia.org/tag/individual-engagement-grants/ _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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