Dear offline community,
We've been remiss in keeping the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team page (WP1) up to date on the English Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team
This is not too surprising, because most of the work nowadays is done in Github or at Kiwix, and WP1 is much more automated. But this rather small group is still the one that coordinates all the collation of assessment data on the English Wikipedia, and writing the new bot over the last couple of years has involved writing 15,000 lines of new code (by people much smarter than me).
There is now a vote to delete or make the main WP1 page "historical":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Wikipedia_1…
Please feel free to share your opinions there.
Thanks,
[[User:Walkerma]]
Prof. Martin A. Walker
Chair, Dept. of Chemistry
SUNY Potsdam
Potsdam, NY 13676 USA
+1 315 2672271
walkerma(a)potsdam.edu
ORCID: 0000-0001-9202-0356
Hi,
After announcing the libzim7 release a few days ago, we are proud to
release the version 1.0.0 of Python-libzim. Python-libzim is our Python
binding for the libzim and the version 1.0.0 supports fully the libzim7.
Here is the complete changelog:
* [breaking] Uses new libzim 7-based API for both reader and writer
* No more namespaces
* Defaulting to zstd compression
* Python 3.9 support
* Uses libzim's own test ZIM files to test reader
* Code-coverage now includes Cython code as well
* macOS releases are signed and notarized
* Early-failure on invalid destination ZIM path
The Python-libzim is a pretty recent software library which has been
launched in 2020 and allows easily any (Linux/macOS) Python developer to
read and write ZIM files. You can easily install it with "pip", more
details at: https://pypi.org/project/libzim/
Almost all our openZIM scrapers (but not the Mediawiki one) are written
in Python and many of them rely already on the Python-libzim. If you are
a Python expert or beginner, your help is welcome to improve it... or
relying scrapers. Here is where to start:
https://github.com/openzim/python-libzim.
Happy coding!
Kelson
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Hmmmm
Dear friends
Sj and I have received this information from Mervat, related to the
voting of selectors for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee
affiliate selectors group. This is an important step in the selection of
Drafting Charter Committee Members. As a result of the elections, 15
committee members will be elected and tasked with writing the Mouvement
Charter, which will in particular establish the roles and
responsibilites of the future Global Council for mouvement governance.
At this stage, I must say that despite the title of this email, it looks
generally as a rather complicated process to me
We were also offered that visual to better understand what's going on
here...
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Wikimedia_Movement_Char…
Step 1 is "ok". We were listed in the "Thematic Group" of voters. Which
seems perfectly suitable. There are 8 geographical regions and 1
thematic group. The next step is currently being discussed amongst
Affiliates representants. The formely approved process is that all
Affiliates should meet according to their "region/thematic" and agree to
vote on a Selector. The Selector will in turn cast the vote. The current
proposition is to "shunt" the Selector here, and have Affiliates vote
within their group, and let the vote decide of the people selected by
the group. I will follow up on that ... ermmm... very administrative
issue... and will have a talk with Sj to make sure we cast the Affiliate
vote (be it directly, or through a Selector).
This being said, I wanted to share with you the complete list of
candidates and invite you to have a look. If you have private comments
about the candidates (big opposition or big support), please write to Sj
and I privately about it
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candida…
Florence
-------- Message transféré --------
Sujet : Clear steps for setting up Movement Charter Drafting Committee
selection group
Date : Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:52:11 +0300
De : Mervat Salman <msalman-ctr(a)wikimedia.org>
Pour : meta.sj(a)gmail.com, Florence Devouard <anthere(a)anthere.org>
Dear Wikimedians for Offline Wikis representatives,
I am following up on the long email we sent to you last week regarding
the setup process of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee affiliate
selectors group. We are following up with a quick step-by-step summary
to make the request more clear:
*
Step 1 - We are using a regional approach. Verify that your
affiliate appears in the right region in the list
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Affiliates_by_Region>.
If yes, no action needed. If not, please correct it.
*
Step 2 - All affiliates in the region will nominate 1 selector for
the whole region. Arrange an online meeting, social media
conversation or wiki page to decide the process for your region.
*
Step 3 - Run the process of selecting the selector.
*
Step 4 - Notify the Movement Strategy and Governance team of the
outcome, so we can set up and convene the group of selectors.
*
These steps should be completed by October 10, 2021.
*
Movement Strategy and Governance team is readily available to
support or facilitate any regional discussions at any of the
described steps.
The Movement Strategy and Governance team will be available to answer
any questions or specifications you may have regarding this.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
*
*
*Mervat Salman (She/Her)*
Movement Strategy and Governance Facilitator
wikimediafoundation.org <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi,
this is with a great joy that I can announce to you:
We have finally released the major version 7.0.0 of the libzim.
This is one of the biggest libzim releases we have ever made:
* Almost one year of effort
* ~100 tickets https://github.com/openzim/libzim/milestone/2?closed=1
* Code coverage increased from 50% to 85%
* 15K lines of code changed
This new release brings:
* A strongly rewritten new API: search engine, suggestions, creator, ...
* Most notable change is that now namespaces are "hidden" by the API
* Ability to add hints to articles
* New index with only the user visible/front articles
* Backward and forward compatibility is secured
* Other bug fixes and improvements, check
https://github.com/openzim/libzim/blob/master/ChangeLog
The ZIM file format specification has itself only changed a little, see:
https://wiki.openzim.org/w/index.php?title=ZIM_file_format&type=revision&di…
A cascade of new releases will be done in the next weeks to bring all
the benefits of this latest libzim in both openZIM scrapers and Kiwix
readers.
I use the opportunity of this release to send a particular "Thank you!"
to the Wikimedia Foundation which has been supporting us for many years
now. This hard work on a low level library like the libzim would not
have been possible without its support.
For the Kiwix team
Kelson
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