Hi all,
As we have stated in our annual plan [1], “currently, community members
must search many pages and places to stay informed about Foundation
activities and resources.” We have worked in the past two quarters to
create a single point of entry. We call it the Wikimedia Resource Center,
and its alpha version is now live on Meta Wikimedia:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Resource_Center
As the movement expands to include more affiliates and more programmatic
activities every year, newer Wikimedians are faced with lack of experience
in the movement and its various channels for requesting support. In order
to expand Wikimedia communities’ efforts, we want to provide easy access to
resources that support their very important work. The [[m:Wikimedia
Resource Center]] is a hub designed in response to this issue: it is
intended to evolve into a single point of entry for Wikimedians all over
the world to the variety of resources and types of staff support they may
need to develop new initiatives or also expand existing ones.
This version of the Resource Center is only the beginning. For phase two of
the project, we will enable volunteer Wikimedians to add resources
developed by other individuals or organizations to the Wikimedia Resource
Center, and in phase three, the Wikimedia Resource Center will include
features to better connect Wikimedians to other Wikimedians that can
support them.
We want to hear what you think about this prototype and our plans for it!
If you have comments about the Wikimedia Resource Center, you can submit
your feedback publicly, on the Talk Page, or privately, via a survey hosted
by a third party, that shouldn’t take you more than 4 minutes to complete.
A feedback button is on the top right corner on every page of the hub.
Looking forward to more collaborations!
Best,
María
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/…
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Communications and Outreach Project Manager, Community Engagement
"A Call to Men UK has 55 coaches working in schools, youth justice
departments and youth centres across Worcestershire. The organisation has
one principal aim, explains development manager Michael Conroy: to spark a
'cultural shift in the way boys relate to girls', and through this to
prevent violence against women and girls.... 'As a culture it’s time that
we gave our young men permission to be complex, sensitive and happy human
beings who transmit positivity and respect to others'.” [1]
They have a program "for young men from 11-19", which if you think about
it, is pretty much the demographic of Wikimedia's admins and functionaries.
[2]
This is all the more interesting right now because of the recent Newmark
Foundation grant to combat harassment, which it seems is to be used for
developing more forceful blocking tools for admins and functionaries "with
the participation and support of the volunteers who will be using the
tools". If anyone has not seen the Susan J Fowler / Uber piece on
harassment that has started going viral in the last 24 hours, it is
here. "...they
didn't do anything because the manager who threatened me was a 'high
performer.'" [3] Sound familiar? This happened in a company with HR
oversight; Wikimedia admins and functionaries have no oversight at all.
[1]
https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2017/feb/20/teaching-boys-a…
[2] http://acalltomenuk.org.uk/
[3]
https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-…
Hi all,
Just wondered if anyone here knew any good sources about the prevalence /
impact of sexism in traditional media?
I'm particularly thinking of adding to this article, where all I can find
on a quick Google is things on HuffPost and Jezebel which aren't
particularly great to use on-wiki, so I'm wondering if there is more out
there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail#Sexism_accusations
Thanks in advance!
Chris
This is very encouraging to see. It is so frustrating to try to have a
conversation about harassment with WMF employees and realize that so many
of them have no frame of reference for Title IX, sexual harassment
training, or other HR fixtures for onboarding new employees that have been
standard in other organizations for decades. In 2007, Wikimedia had fewer
than 10 employees, but now that Wikipedia is a teenager, this is really
needed. Thank you.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/14/non-discrimination-policy-updates/
This may be of interest to some members of this list.
Risker/Anne
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From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 17 March 2017 at 01:06
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Hardware donation program
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce a small new program called
the Hardware Donation Program. In a word, it is a program designed to
donate depreciated (but fully working) hardware from the WMF office to
community members who would put it to good use.
The program, including instructions on how to apply, is described on Meta,
here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_donation_program
Please read the information carefully. I especially encourage you to pay
attention to the program's design considerations, which determine most of
the decisions we'll be making.
We currently have approximately 20 laptops ready to be donated.
Applications are welcome.
The upcoming Wikimedia Conference in Berlin (in about two weeks) would be
an excellent opportunity to deliver some of those laptops in person to
approved applications, so if you think you might be interested, I'd
encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Please also help spread the word about this program, by forwarding this
e-mail to other Wikimedia lists you're on, and posting the link to the
program page on village pumps and *community* (not public) social media
channels or other communication forms you use.
Special thanks to User:Anntinomy from Wikimedia Ukraine, who had the idea
of asking about possible donation of older machines from WMF, and inspired
this program.
Mini-FAQ:
Q: Why are you doing this?
A: WMF's Office IT determines a lifetime for work machines, and regularly
replaces older machines. This creates a stock of older, working machines,
that are available for donation. We can donate them locally to San
Francisco charities, but figure that if we can find low-cost ways to
deliver them to our own community members, that's so much better.
Q: Am I eligible?
A: Read the fine program documentation.
Q: If I'm eligible, am I guaranteed a donated laptop?
A: no.
Q: Once these 20 laptops are donated, will there be others?
A: yes, eventually.
Q: How can you ensure people would use the machines for Wikimedia purposes?
A: We can't. We'll be making a good-effort assessment of the likelihood of
Wikimedia use, and make a decision to donate (or not) the equipment. Once
donated, the equipment no longer belongs to WMF. We encourage, but can't
enforce, reporting on impact achieved using the equipment.
Q: I need a few laptops for my event in two weeks! Can I get them through
this program?
A: No. Read the fine program documentation.
Q: I'm really happy about this!
A: So are we! :)
Q: I'm really angry about this!
A: So it goes.
Q: I have more questions!
A: Hit 'Reply'. :)
Cheers,
Asaf
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Sharing some good news, both about the progress of ORES and (my primary
inspiration for sharing this email) significant improvements in article
quality thanks to WikiProject Women scientists. The latter has been
designated as the Keilana Effect.
Pine
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From: Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update
To: Application of Artificial Intelligence and other advanced computing
strategies to Wikimedia Projects <ai(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: wikitech-l <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey folks!
I should really stop calling this a weekly update because it's getting a
bit silly at this point. :) But if it were a weekly update, it would
cover the weeks of 42 - 46.
*Highlights:*
- 3 new models: Finnish Wikipedia (reverted) and Estonian Wikipedia
(damaging & goodfaith)
- We estimated and agreed on funding for ORES servers in the next year
with Operations
- We published a paper about vandalism detection in Wikidata and a blog
post about the massive effect of some initiatives on coverage of Women
Scientists in Wikipedia.
*New development:*
- We added recall-based threshold metrics to the new draftquality model
which should help tool devs know what which new page creations to
highlight
for review[1]
- We added optional notices for ORES pages which will help us visually
distinguish our experimental install in WMFlabs from the Prod install (
ores.wikimedia.org)[2]
- We added basic language support for Finish (Thanks 4shadoww)[3] and
deployed a 'reverted' model[4]
- We lead a discussion in Wikidata about "item quality" that resulted in
a Wikipedia 1.0 like scale for Wikidata quality[5,6] and designed a
Wikilabels form to capture the gist of it[7]
- We enabled the ORES Review Tool on Czech Wikipedia[8]
- We configured ChangeProp to use our new minified JSON output to save
bandwidth[9]
- We extended the Estonian language assets (Thanks Cumbril)[10] and
deployed the 'damaging' and 'goodfaith' models[11,12]
- We enabled a testing model for 'goodfaith' on the Beta Cluster to make
it easier for the Collaboration team to run tests with their new filter
interface[13]
- We created a new "precache" endpoint that will allow us to
de-duplicate configuration with ChangeProp and handle all routing in ORES
locally[14]
*Resourcing:*
- We completed a 2 year estimate of ORES resource needs and discussed
funding (capital expendature) for ORES in the coming fiscal year[15].
This
will allow us to continue to grow ORES both in number of models and in
scoring capacity.
*Communications:*
- Amir improved the KDD paper based on review feedback[16] and got it
published[17]
- We published a blob post about our measurements of WikiProject Women
Scientists[18,19] -- "The Keilana Effect"
- Thanks to Cumbril's work, the Estonian labeling campaing was
finished[20]
*Deployments:*
- In early February, we deployed a new set of translations to Wikilabels
(specifcally targeting Romanian Wikipedia)[21]
- In mid-February, we deployed some fixes to ORES documentation and
response formatting[22]
- In mid-March, we deployed 3 new scoring models and ORES notices[23]
*Maintenance and robustness:*
- We fixed a serious issue in the "mwoauth" library that Wikilabels
depends on[24]
- We reduced the number of revisions per request that we could receive
via api.php[25]
- We investigated a scap issue that broke ORES deployment[26]
- We fixed a minor issue with JSON minification behavior[27] and
hard-coding of the location of ORES in the documentation[28]
- We improved performance of ORES filters on MediaWiki[29]
- We improved the language describing ORES behavior on
Special:Contributions[30]
- We added a notice to the Wikipages that Dexbot maintains about its
behavior[31]
- We added notices to ores.wmflabs.org about it's experimental nature[32]
- We fixed some issues with testing Finnish language assets[33]
- We fixed some styling issues that resulted from an upgrade of OOJS
UI[34]
1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157454 -- Add recall based thresholds
to draftquality model
2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150962 -- Add an optional notice to
ORES main and ui pages
3. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158587 -- Add language support for
Finnish
4. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160228 -- Train/test reverted model
for fiwiki
5. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157489 -- [Discuss] item quality in
Wikidata
6. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Item_quality
7. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155828 -- Design item_quality form
for Wikidata
8. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151611 -- Enable ORES Review Tool on
Czech Wikipedia
9. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157693 -- Use minified JSON format in
ChangeProp
10. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160193 -- Extend estonian language
assets from Wiki page
11. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159608 -- Train/test
damaging/goodfaith models for etwiki
12. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130280 -- Deploy edit quality models
for etwiki
13. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160467 -- Enable 'goodfaith' on
testwiki on Beta Cluster
14. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148714 -- Create generalized
"precache" endpoint for ORES
15. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157222 -- Estimate ORES capex for
FY2017-18
16. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148443 -- Improve the KDD paper
based on the review
17. https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03861
18. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160078 -- Blog post about wp10
measurements of Women Scientists
19. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/
20. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129702 -- Complete etwiki edit
quality campaign
21. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157580 -- Deploy Romanian
translations for Wiki labels
22. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157842 -- Prod deployment of ORES
23. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160279 -- Deploy ores in prod
(Mid-March)
24. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157858 -- mwoauth is broken
25. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157983 -- Reduce the number of
revisions that can be requested in one batch
26. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157623 -- Investigate failed ORES
deployment
27. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157721 -- Investigate default JSON
minification behavior in production
28. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157723 -- ORES swagger is hard-coded
for wmflabs
29. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152585 -- rcshow=oresreview is slow
30. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158862 -- Fix message in
Special:Contributions
31. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158899 -- Add notice about Dexbot
overwriting manual changes to our tracking table.
32. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159055 -- Add a notice to
ores-wmflabs-deploy about "experimental" nature
33. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160192 -- Fix testing issues in
finnish language assets
34. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160258 -- Fix minor styling issues
with OOJS-UI in wikilabels
Sincerely,
Aaron from the Scoring Platform team
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Dear Wikimedians,
If you are a representative of an Affiliate, committee, or other
organized group in the Wikimedia Movement, please read this email
carefully and forward it to your peers.
I am writing you today in my role as the Movement Strategy Lead for
organized groups (Track A), and would like to encourage you to
actively participate in Wikimedia’s movement strategy process.
Together with you, we would like to find answers to the question “What
do we want to build or achieve together over the next 15 years?”
https://2030.wikimedia.org is the universal start page to the strategy
portal on Meta.
== This is our time! ==
This is the time many of us have been waiting for for years. I would
love to see each and every one of you make your voice heard and take
the chance to shape the future of our movement together.
== Timeline and process ==
The timeline up to Wikimania 2017 is organized in 3 consecutive
discussion cycles that are designed to explore, cluster and sharpen
the strategic direction and define 3-5 focus areas for the movement.
After Wikimania, we will discuss the movement structure, roles, as
well as 3-5-year goals and starting in 2018, organizations will
incorporate the findings into their strategic and annual planning.
Today, we are kicking off cycle 1 which is running until 15 April.
Organized groups will find all relevant information on the Meta page
for Track A.[1]
== Get involved! ==
Last week I reached out to all Chairs and EDs of Affiliates as well as
to active members of other organized groups and committees. While I
have heard from many, I would like to remind everyone to appoint a
discussion coordinator for your group that will act as the linker to
the strategy process.[2][3][4]
As an organized Group, you can invite all your stakeholders to join
your conversation: Board and staff members, members, external partners
and allies as well as members of your communities. Track A is closely
connected to Track B (Individual Contributors)[5], as many organized
Groups have close bonds with their local or thematic communities. We
encourage Track A and Track B coordinators to sync on their plans.
Your conversations can happen on- and offline. To host a conversation,
please read the discussion guide[6] that provides material to prepare,
conduct and document each conversation in each format. Before you and
your peers enter the conversation, please make yourself familiar with
the briefing[7] which provides a high-level overview of what we know
about the future and about our movement today.
I also look forward to seeing many of you at the Wikimedia Conference
in Berlin where we will discuss our future, generate thematic
statements, identify keywords and create thematic clusters of our
ideas. The rough outline of the program will be adjusted in the coming
days.[8]
Let’s make this happen! Please reach out to me with any question or
feedback you might have.
Sincerely,
Nicole
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Strategy/Wikimedia_movem…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Toolkit/Di…
[3] Sign-up to become a Discussion Coordinator here:
https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.de/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyzOcB9FmgWWrenoe0…
[4] Overview of organized groups’ discussions
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Outreach/L…
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Track_B
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Toolkit/Di…
[7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Process/Br…
[8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017
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Adviser International Relations
Movement Strategy Track Lead: Organized Groups
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.
Spam/scam, with a forged from email address field.
Apology to anyone who received the original email(s).
KTC
On 15/03/2017 09:55, Andrea Zanni wrote:
> mmm, scam?
>
> Aubrey
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