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From: "Erik Zachte" <ezachte(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 26 Nov 2014 18:06
Subject: [Analytics] RFC for media file request counts, please chime in
To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Development
and Operations Engineers" <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Analytics
Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." <
analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners
coordination - closed list" <cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>
Cc:
Since 2008 Wikimedia collects pageview counts for most pages on nearly all
wikis. A longstanding request of stakeholders (editors, researchers, GLAM
advocates) has been to publish similar counts for media files: images,
sounds, videos. A major obstacle to effectuate this was the existing
traffic data collecting software. Webstatscollector simply couldn't be
scaled up further without incurring huge costs. In 2014 WMF engineers
rolled out a new Hadoop based infrastructure, which makes it possible to
collect raw request counts for media files. So a few months after releasing
extended pageview counts (with mobile/zero added), the time has come to
produce similar data dumps for media files.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Media_file_request_coun…
Please comment onwiki.
Thanks
Erik Zachte
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Hello, all! :)
I am Vassia / User:Spiritia from the Bulgarian Wikipedia, and some of you
have probably heard of our WMF-funded project with Sofia Zoo
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Sofia_Zoo_and_Bulgarian_Wikipedi…>
to place QRcodes and contents from Wikimedia on the information boards of
all exhibited animals.
After Wikimania-London, where I met Roger Bamkin and we spoke about QRpedia
and the possibilities for statistics of its usage, I tried to contact him
recently, but got no response. (Roger, hope you're well!) Anyway, I guess
someone else may also be of help.
My colleagues from the Sofia Zoo are very interested to have some (or any!)
statistics about the performance of our zoo-located QR codes.
There is a particular occasion for this request. There will be a European
zoo conference in March 2015, and they would like to report their
experience with Wikimedia, but back it up with some hard data.
The articles covered with QRpedia codes along this project are listed here:
http://bit.ly/1r3eKwl
Please, anyone who is able and willing to help, contact me and tell me what
other information may be needed to complete the research (or instruct us
how to do it by ourselves?)
Thank you very much in advance!
Vassia / Spiritia
Hello. I'm glad to announce the results of Wiki Loves Monuments Spain 2014. We have received 23,595 pictures from 525 participants. This is out 4th year and we arrived to 100,000 pictures.
You can see the ten finalist that will participate in the international contest and the winners of two special prizes (best picture of Paradores, our partner, and the best picture of St. James's Way in Aragon, by Asociación de Amigos del Camino de Santiago de Jaca). You can also enjoy the best 103 pictures. There was also a prize for the participant who uploaded pictures of more different monuments. He was Enfo, with 691 monuments, and he was the winner also last year.
All of them are on Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2014_in_Spa…
We wrote a blog post:
http://blog.wikimedia.es/2014/11/ganadores-de-wiki-loves-monuments.html
and we are sharing this in social networks. You can spread the word if you want. Tomorrow we will send our press release.
Santiago NavarroWikimedia España
Hi!
This reminds me of ugly practices of proprietary software companies
giving free software to students so that they are able to learn the
tools and then later on have to pay. So we will be making links to
paywalled journals and we will be able to do it for free, but then our
readers will have to pay to read them? So Wikipedia will provide free
advertisements for paywalled content? Nicely done, nicely done.
This is not open access. This direct opposite to open access. We
should not be proud of this.
(Please don't take this as an attack on anybody personally and I think
The Wikipedia Library Team is doing a great job, but I really feel
this is a bad deal. And it was sent to the open access mailing list.
Which this is not.)
Mitar
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:
>
> NEW
> *DeGruyter: 1000 accounts for English and German-language research, sign up
> on one of two language Wikipedias:
> English signup <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter>
> German signup <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter>
> *Fold3: 100 accounts for American history and military archives
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fold3>
> *Scotland's People: 100 accounts for Scottish Genealogy database
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ScotlandsPeople>
>
> EXPANDED
> *British Newspaper Archive: 100+ new accounts for British Newspapers
> archives
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BNA>
>
> OPEN
> *Highbeam: 100+ accounts for newspapers and magazines
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam>
> *Questia: 100+ accounts for various aggregated journals and social science
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questia>
> *JSTOR: 100+ accounts for journal archives
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR>
>
> Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and
> 1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups. Signups
> for now are mostly on English Wikipedia, UNLESS you have started a local
> Wikipedia Library branch like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and German. To
> get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or
> ocaasi(a)wikimedia.org
>
> Thanks!
>
> The Wikipedia Library Team
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>
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Hi all,
Cross posting on purpose, no excuses ;-)
Tomorrow, tuesday November 4 at 19.00 CET, is the time for the GLAMout
global November.
Key topics are:
* Bring culture to Wikipedia by Ari Häyrinen, WMFI
* OpenGLAM Benchmark Survey - Last Call for national teams to participate!
by Beat Esterman
Link to the Google Hangout will be posted on the coordination page,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout/2014/November, here
and in some other channels before it starts.
Anyone interested in hosting the December GLAMout global can contact me, or
sign up at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/GLAMout/2014/December.
Best regards,
/axel
====================================
Axel Pettersson
Projektledare GLAM/Outreach
Wikimedia Sverige
+46 (0)733 96 55 65
axel.pettersson(a)wikimedia.se
Twitter: @Haxpett <https://twitter.com/#%21/haxpett>
Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
Läs mer på *wikimedia.se/sv/blimedlem <http://wikimedia.se/sv/blimedlem>*
Hello!
As you already know, next Saturday 8th November 2014, Wikimedia Spain will run an edit-a-thon at Fundación Picasso in Málaga, but the same day we will run another one. This one will be the first edit-a-thon for Galipedia (Wikipedia in Galician). The event is organized by Santiago de Composteral University, Galipedia community and Wikimedia Spain, because the 5th Science in Galician Day. The act will be at Biblioteca Intercentros (Library of Santiago University) in Lugo.
More information in Galipedia: https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Primeiro_editat%C3%B3n_do_D%C3%ADa_… (Galician)
and in WMES blog (in Galician and Spanish):
http://blog.wikimedia.es/2014/11/primeiro-editaton-do-dia-da-ciencia-en.html
Santiago NavarroWikimedia España
Hello! I want to share with you that next 8th November 2014 Wikimedia Spain will run a new edit-a-thon. This one is in collaboration with Fundación Picasso-Museo Casa Natal, in Málaga, the city where the artist was born.
In the context of the celebration of his 133rd anniversary, the Fundación Picasso wanted to do an edit-a-thon. 3rd November 2014 a wikipedian (user Morancio) will give a talk about Wikipedia at the museum.
We hope this could be the first of many activities with this museum, and in this city.
The coordination page on Spanish Wikipedia is https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editat%C3%B3n_Casa_Natal…
Thank you.
Santiago NavarroWikimedia España