Hi,
After reading an interesting related discussion on GenderGap, I have
queried the top 10 users of the thanks feature last month, on both the
English Wikipedia and Commons. Snapshot image attached and report link
below.
Perhaps someone might think of a suitable barnstar and award these
folks for "being nice"? :-)
Link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:F%C3%A6/sandbox&oldid=1…
P.S. This is a long query to run, taking 20 to 30 minutes due to the
nature of the logging tables. However if someone wanted to make a
monthly summary on-wiki somewhere, part of an active "be nice"
campaign, I would be happy to set up an automated monthly report (if
someone discovers this is already reported somewhere, that's cool we
can use that).
Fae
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Hi all -
For the first time in it's history, the Wikimedia Foundation has directly
removed a trustee. It worries me significantly to see this happen because
although I don't have the precise details about what triggered his removal,
besides for all his medical work, work on creating a copyvio bot, etc, I
know that James was a strong voice against harrassment on the projects. I
know that he enjoys just a colossal amount of trust in general, and have
his word that this isn't over anything like an allegation of financial
malfeasance, so even without knowing further details about what triggered
his removal, just the fact that it happened alone is potentially of
significant concern to this list.
Best,
KG
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From: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:43 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Board of Trustees
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On Dec 28th 2015 I was removed from the board of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Many thanks to all those who gave me their support during the last
election. I have worked in the last six month to honor the trust placed in
me by advocating for our values, communities, and projects.
Sincerely
James Heilman
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The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
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Hi there - Whenever you have 5-10 mins to spare, could you please see the
page linked below? It should explain itself, since it's designed for
newbies and returnees (like me). If it doesn't, would you mind fixing it,or
letting us know your suggestions on the Talk page? - Thanks and Mabuhay! -
Leo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bia…
Thank you Anne. I responded to you and Sarah here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:LeoRomero#3D2DO
*in Community, to end this shameful Gender Gap immediately,*
i remain, truly yours,
Leo
Today's Topics:
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> 1. Cooperation Index & Table at the Gender Gap project page on
> Wikipedia en (Leo Romero)
> 2. Re: Cooperation Index & Table at the Gender Gap project page
> on Wikipedia en (Risker)
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> Hi there - Whenever you have 5-10 mins to spare, could you please see the
> page linked below? It should explain itself, since it's designed for
> newbies and returnees (like me). If it doesn't, would you mind fixing it,or
> letting us know your suggestions on the Talk page? - Thanks and Mabuhay! -
> Leo
>
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bia…
>
I think this might interest some members on this list:
https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-pie-is-rotten-re-evaluating-tech-fe…
It would be interesting to hear responses to the article.
One of my personal hopes is that technologies and tech organizations
promote meritocracy and enhance well-being of their employees and society.
One harsh alternative is that they create crushing technological
bureaucracies and consolidate opportunities inside of a relatively small
number of people and organizations, while those less fortunate are left out
in the cold.
Pine
forwarding to this list
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From: Bob Kosovsky <bobkosovsky(a)nypl.org>
Date: Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:00 PM
Subject: [libraries] Why GLAM Wiki:
To: Wikimedia & Libraries <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Nice post on ACRL's blog about one person's change in perspective by
participation in the Art+Feminism edit-a-thon:
http://acrlog.org/2015/12/15/why-glam-wiki-wikipedia-and-galleries-librarie…
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Interesting to compare male vs female data on Wikidata:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/wd-analyst/index.php?p=P21&q=Q6581097%7CQ6581072
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From: Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:48 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] Wikidata Analyst, a tool to comprehensively analyze
quality of Wikidata
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey,
There has been several discussion regarding quality of information in
Wikidata. I wanted to work on quality of wikidata but we don't have any
source of good information to see where we are ahead and where we are
behind. So I thought the best thing I can do is to make something to show
people how exactly sourced our data is with details. So here we have
*http://tools.wmflabs.org/wd-analyst/index.php
<http://tools.wmflabs.org/wd-analyst/index.php>*
You can give only a property (let's say P31) and it gives you the four most
used values + analyze of sources and quality in overall (check this out
<http://tools.wmflabs.org/wd-analyst/index.php?p=P31>)
and then you can see about ~33% of them are sources which 29.1% of them
are based on Wikipedia.
You can give a property and multiple values you want. Let's say you want to
compare P27:Q183 (Country of citizenship: Germany) and P27:Q30 (US)
Check this out
<http://tools.wmflabs.org/wd-analyst/index.php?p=P27&q=Q30%7CQ183>. And you
can see US biographies are more abundant (300K over 200K) but German
biographies are more descriptive (3.8 description per item over 3.2
description over item)
One important note: Compare P31:Q5 (a trivial statement) 46% of them are
not sourced at all and 49% of them are based on Wikipedia **but* *get this
statistics for population properties (P1082
<http://tools.wmflabs.org/wd-analyst/index.php?p=P1082>) It's not a trivial
statement and we need to be careful about them. It turns out there are
slightly more than one reference per statement and only 4% of them are
based on Wikipedia. So we can relax and enjoy these highly-sourced data.
Requests:
- Please tell me whether do you want this tool at all
- Please suggest more ways to analyze and catch unsourced materials
Future plan (if you agree to keep using this tool):
- Support more datatypes (e.g. date of birth based on year, coordinates)
- Sitelink-based and reference-based analysis (to check how much of
articles of, let's say, Chinese Wikipedia are unsourced)
- Free-style analysis: There is a database for this tool that can be
used for way more applications. You can get the most unsourced statements
of P31 and then you can go to fix them. I'm trying to build a playground
for this kind of tasks)
I hope you like this and rock on!
<http://tools.wmflabs.org/wd-analyst/index.php?p=P136&q=Q11399>
Best
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Hey folks,
I'm sure many of you received a message from me on meta about this, but
I've recently initiated a consultation to help decide on topics for IdeaLab
campaigns for the future. As was the case with the Inspire campaign, these
campaigns can generate novel proposals, discussions, events, and tools to
address gaps and problems in the Wikimedia projects we contribute to:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Future_IdeaLab_Campaigns>
You can offer feedback on submitted ideas and add your own campaign topics
on the gender gap or otherwise through a survey conducted through
AllOurIdeas <http://www.allourideas.org/idealab_campaigns> in addition to
participating on the IdeaLab talk page.
I’m looking forward to seeing your feedback and exploring potential
directions we can take IdeaLab campaigns starting next year.
Take care,
Jethro
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I thought it would be worth giving a head's up on this attempt to stop
me from openly complaining on Wikimedia Commons when abusive anti-LGBT
language or inappropriate turning of discussion into LGBT related
trolling occurs:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators'_noticeboard/User_problems#Proposed_topic_ban_for_User:F.C3.A6
I am one of the most well known openly gay contributors to Commons,
possibly the most well known on that project. This requested topic ban
is from someone who has been pestering me for a few years, recently
culminating with calling me a "raging gay". It'll be interesting to
see if the WMF policies against harassment can make any difference to
the censorship of LGBT contributors that are being griefed in this
way. It's a sad day when LGBT contributors are not given any process
to make open complaints that can be discussed by the wider community.
Fae
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