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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María Cruz
Communications and Outreach Project Manager, Community Engagement
This is early warning of some planned server operations, as an outage can
cause a severe disruption on a short workshop:
In April 2016, the Technology Operations team at the WMF did some work on
the servers that run Wikipedia and the other wikis. This resulted in all
editing being stopped at all wikis for about half an hour on two different
days.
A similar project is currently expected sometime in April 2017. I do not
have specific dates or times yet. However, I expect the first editing
disruption to happen during the first half of April and the second to be
about two weeks afterwards.
They are hoping that the editing outages will be shorter this time (perhaps
15 to 30 minutes). The time of day is undecided; however, it will almost
certainly be when most of the Ops staff is online (afternoon in Europe and
Africa/morning in the Americas).
Last year, the official schedule was kept at
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Switch_Datacenter and the same page may
be used again. *If you are scheduling short workshops during April, then
please consider checking that schedule* or checking with me before you
finalize your plans. If you need to reach me, then I am currently
subscribed to the GLAM mailing list, and you can always leave a note on my
talk page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Whatamidoing_(WMF)
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Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing)
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
*Nutshell: The big, blue button will soon say "Publish page" instead of
"Save page", because when you click it, the contents get published on the
internet.*
I apologize for cross-posting this to the GLAM and Education lists:
A long-requested change to the "Save" button may finally happen towards the
end of March. This is a button that anyone leading a workshop about
editing is going to talk about, so I wanted to make sure that you didn't
get surprised by this change.
Last year, the WMF looked into an old request to clarify the language on
the "Save" button, which confuses some new contributors. The main problem
is that it is unclear whether "Save" means "save a private copy" (as it
does on most websites these days) or "irrevocably post this to the
internet". This confusion apparently explains a few unwanted behaviors,
such as editors who save the page ("just to be safe") before previewing
their changes.
There are some other reasons behind to do this: It creates some
inconsistency in the interface, as some things (e.g., Special:Preferences)
get saved but kept private, while other things (e.g., normal wiki pages)
get saved and immediately published. It is also difficult to translate the
label into some languages, as the word has multiple possible translations
in some languages.
The plan, therefore, is to change "Save" to "Publish". Instead of the big
blue[1] button saying "Save page" (for a new page) or "Save changes" (when
you edit an existing page), the button will instead say "Publish page" or
"Publish changes".
The upside to this small change is that new contributors will understand
that all of their edits go to the public immediately.[2] The downside is
that all of the documentation and help pages is going to be out of date.
This plan was announced on the wikis last August, and is tentatively
scheduled for sometime in March. I hope that this extra note will keep you
from getting surprised in front of a group and give you enough time to
update any handouts that you might be using in the future.
Relevant links:
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131132 – main task (best place to
figure out if this gets postponed again)
- Special:Translations&message=Publishpage
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&namespace=8&me…>
(translation
status)
- Special:Translations&message=Publishchanges
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translations&namespace=8&me…>
(translation
status)
[1] The color of this button in all of the older wikitext editors will be
changing this week. It's going to be big and blue.
[2] This is true even when the wiki is using FlaggedRevisions or
PendingChanges, because the un-accepted changes can be seen by the general
public from the history page or from &oldid URLs, regardless of whether the
revision has been accepted.
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Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing)
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation
Forwarding a WiR job posting. Quoting from the grants page: "The
overarching goal of the project is to enhance the bioscientific coverage in
Wikidata so it becomes a visible and used resource both for Wikipedians and
in general scientific research and discourse." The WiR position includes
work with the Cambridge University Library.
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Thomas Arrow <tom(a)contentmine.org>
Date: Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 2:00 AM
Subject: [Wikidata] WikiFactMine Project is Advertising for a Wikimedian in
Residence
To: wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi,
ContentMine is currently looking to hire a Wikimedian in Residence for
the WikiFactMine Project (see:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ContentMine/WikiFactMine).
It's a six month long position and we're looking for someone who could
spend around half their time in Cambridge, UK. We expect it to have
quite a lot of Wikidata related work.
If you're interested or know someone who might be then the advert can
be seen at: http://contentmine.org/jobs
Cheers,
Tom
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Hi All,
I just wanted to send a reminder for the new GLAM-Strategist role at the
Wikimedia Foundation. Especially if you have experience with the GLAM-Wiki
community, this would be a good fit: https://boards.
greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/584916
We are particularly looking for folks that can help us develop partnership
models and community capacity within our existing community around Wikidata
and Structured Data on Commons.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
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Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org
For Wikicite, which is taking a serious look at the structured Citation
Data in Wikimedia projects.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 6:44 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] Applications open now: WikiCite 2017 • Vienna, May
23-25, 2017
To: wikicite-discuss <wikicite-discuss(a)wikimedia.org>, "Discussion list for
the Wikidata project." <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing
List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
I am happy to announce that applications to attend WikiCite ‘17 officially open
today <https://goo.gl/forms/Kb9Wl6Xfw2EmFqEr2>.
About the event
WikiCite 2017 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017> is a 3-day
conference, summit and hack day to be hosted in Vienna, Austria, on May
23-25, 2017. It expands on efforts started last year at WikiCite 2016
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Report> to design a central
bibliographic repository, as well as tools and strategies to improve
information quality and verifiability in Wikimedia projects.
Our goal is to bring together Wikimedia contributors, data modelers,
information and library science experts, software engineers, designers and
academic researchers who have experience working with Wikipedia's citations
and bibliographic data.
WikiCite 2017 will be a venue to:
-
Day 1. (Conference) – present progress on existing work and initiatives
for citations and bibliographic data across Wikimedia projects
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Day 2. (Summit) – discuss technical, social, outreach and policy
directions
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Day 3. (Hack) – get together to build, based on new ideas and
applications
More information on the event can be found here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017>:
How to apply
Participation for this year's event is limited to 100 individuals. In order
to be considered for participation, please fill out the following form
<https://goo.gl/forms/Kb9Wl6Xfw2EmFqEr2> and provide us with some
information about yourself, your interests, and expected contribution.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT THE FINAL REGISTRATION FORM. Your application will
be reviewed and the organizing committee will extend an invitation by March
10, 2017. This application form is to determine the best mix of attendees.
Not everyone who applies will receive an invitation, but there will be a
waitlist.
Important dates
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February 9, 2017: applications open
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February 27, 2017: applications close, waitlist opens
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March 10, 2017: all final notifications of acceptance are issued,
waitlist processing begins
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March 31, 2017: attendee list is finalized
Travel support
Like last year, limited funding to cover travel costs of prospective
participants will be available. Requests for travel support should be
submitted via the application form <https://goo.gl/forms/Kb9Wl6Xfw2EmFqEr2>.
We will confirm by March 10, if we can provide you with travel support.
Contact
For any question, you can contact the organizing committee via:
wikicite(a)wikimedia.org
We look forward to seeing you in Vienna!
The WikiCite 2017 organizing committee
Dario Taraborelli
Jonathan Dugan
Lydia Pintscher
Daniel Mietchen
Cameron Neylon
*Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter
<http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org
Hi all,
I wanted to point you towards several job openings at the Wikimedia
Foundation.
First, related to the Sloan grant:
*Another GLAM-Wiki strategist focus on structured data, GLAM-Wiki
experience is a huge bonus for this role:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/584916
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/584916?gh_src=3clhx61#.WJpnpYgr…>
*Program Manager -- whose main responsibilities will include coordinating
efforts among various participants and stakeholders in the project and
reporting to Sloan about our progress:
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/584922
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/584922?gh_src=dgao5e1#.WJouEIgr…>
Both of these would be well suite for someone with experience in working
with GLAMs on tech projects, especially within the Wikimedia Community.
Secondly, the Programs team, which includes the Education Program, The
Wikipedia Library and GLAM-Wiki is looking for a Lead Manager. The job
description is at https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/553572
We would greatly appreciate any recommendations, applications from
community members who think they are a good fit for the roles, or sharing
the applications with your network:
Cheers,
Alex
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Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
http://glamwiki.org