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Sujet : Brand Project to pause until March 2021 - Sharing survey report
Date : Tue, 6 Oct 2020 18:34:47 +0200
De : Samir Elsharbaty <selsharbaty(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear Affiliate Liaisons,
We hope you and your communities are safe and well. We are writing today
to share some big updates.
1. The Brand Project will pause until March 2021.
On 24 of September Zack McCune and Heather Walls attended the Board
meeting and recommended that the Brand Project pauses until March 2021.
As referenced in the community open letter, many Wikimedia movement
activities, events and key collaborations have been put on hold or
restructured due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and we believe this should
also include the Brand Project. The Board resolved to pause the project
and stated this publicly
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/Sept…>on
30 September.
2. The project’s process will evolve with guidance from a new ad-hoc
Board committee
During the pause, a small ad-hoc Board committee will be formed to
liaise with staff, and develop a process of collaboration and
decision-making appropriate for the Movement’s brand. This committee
will include Trustees James Heilman, Raju Narisetti, and Shani Evenstein
Sigalov. There is also the intention to include a small number of
community representatives from affiliates, open letter signatories,
emerging communities, and Foundation staff to be designated by the
Executive Director. We’ll update you with more details on the committee
soon.
3. The naming survey report
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…>is
now available
Thank you to everyone who provided feedback. Here is the executive summary:
*
Affiliates in Asia and Africa agree the most that a Wikipedia-based
naming system "will help their affiliate" compared to European and
North American affiliates who mostly disagree.
*
“Network”, “Organization”, “Trust”, and “Wiki” terms were ranked low
and should be removed from future naming considerations. “Movement”
term was productively associated with humans, progression, the
future, and social justice and should be further refined.
*
No single naming system showed sufficient scoring to be recommended,
and a second round of revision is advised (as per original project
plan) once the pause has been completed.
To learn more about what naming elements should be removed, refined and
recombined please view the full report
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brand_Project_Naming_Survey_Feedback_R…>.
Thank you for all your participation in the Brand Project so far, we
hope you enjoy the pause and we look forward to collaborating with you
again next year.
Samir and the Brand Project Team
Samir Elsharbaty (he/him)
Brand Associate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi
The ZIM format relies on third party compression algorithms to provide
the best user experience. This means, high compression level, quick
decompression, high portability, etc. Overtime the ZIM has used gzip,
bzip2 and since almost 10 years the lzma2 version of the xz library.
Time to time new modern compression algorithms are created and we use to
evaluate them to see if this would bring a significant improvement for
our users. Usually it would not be worth the effort of switching, but
this has been different in the case of Zstandard (zstd).
The key advantage is that zstd offers a higher decompression speed for a
similar (to lzma) compression ratio. That means articles are displayed
even quicker than before and the energy consumption is a lot less. You
can read the whole discussion at
https://github.com/openzim/libzim/issues/84.
The decision of switching from lzma to xz has been made earlier this
year and actually most of our Kiwix ports have been able to read zstd
based ZIM files since more than a quarter. We are approaching now the
end of the transition stage for Kiwix readers and therefore we will soon
(during October) start to publish ZIM files using the new compression zstd.
For 99% of the users this move will be totally transparent and they
should only notice the reading/searching speed-up. For the 1% left a few
things have to be considered:
* If you can not read a new ZIM file, please update to the latest
version of your (Kiwix) reader (this is always a good advice).
* For all non Kiwix readers, but still libzim based, these readers
should be re-compiled/re-released with the latest libzim.
* For users relying on ZIM files but not on the libzim/Kiwix software
stack, the software needs to be fixed.
We don't plan so far to discontinued the support of lzma compression
algorithm even if we discouraged to use it as zstd is simply always
better. Older ZIM files are still perfectly readable, and this won't
change in the next couple of years.
Regards
Emmanuel
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Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more
* Web: https://kiwix.org/
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* Wiki: https://wiki.kiwix.org/
Hi everyone,
(Apologies for cross-posting.)
As part of the upcoming celebrations surrounding Wikipedia's 20th
birthday[1], the Wikimedia Foundation is publishing a short optional
survey[2] that will help us understand the needs of people who would like
to host a birthday event. The survey is expected to take three to five
minutes to fill in and will remain open until 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 30
September 2020.
Before taking the survey, please review the privacy statement policy[3].
We would also like to announce that the Foundation will be supporting
Wikipedia 20 anniversary celebration events through multiple grant programs:
* Rapid Grants[4] to support celebration events up to 2000 USD.
* Additional funding for Conference & Events grantees (e.g. for a regional
or thematic conference) who wish to incorporate a celebration event to an
existing conference.
* Conference & Event Grants[5] to support celebration events for more than
2000 USD.*
*Round one applications for conference & event grants [5] is now open until
28 September 2020.
On behalf of the Wikipedia 20 team, Samir Elsharbaty
[1] Wikipedia 20 meta page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20
[2] Survey link: https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4GyxYcdRSSM5M8J
[3] Privacy statement:
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20_Community_Feedback_Surve…
[4] Rapid grants page on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid
[5] Conference grants page on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference
Samir Elsharbaty (he/him)
Brand Associate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
hi folks - new here...
Anyone experienced or interested in running self hosted apps (Wikis & co)
offline on Raspberry Pi for open-air outdoor education/ collaborations?
What else would you have on the device? Etherpad? Jitsi install?
Links would be welcome, especially if with documentation of possible issues
:-)
Best Z
Hi all,
just letting you know that the Foundation is now hosting a Mattermost chat
server, which already has a "wiki-offline" channel. See
https://chat.wmcloud.org/signup_email
Cheers,
--
Michael Graaf, M.Phil (UCT)
Researcher, Editor &
Community Informatics Practitioner
Mob +27795487242
WhatsApp +27647754342
ORCID 0000-0002-1951-5739
60,000 public domain books can fit on a flashdrive
There are still parts of the world where access to the global internet
is limited. Rural parts of world from Alaska to Africa to Asia have
bandwidth to that is unevenly distributed. Governments regularly cut off
website and apps access to their residents, with education often a
collateral damage.
There is and will always be a need for offline access to online resources.
Project Gutenberg <https://gutenberg.org/> is a 48 year old organization
whose mission is to make public domain works available for free on the
internet. For the past two years, the Free Ebook Foundation has been
working with Project Gutenberg to improve their website and
ebook-building infrastructure. Kiwix has been developing content modules
for some time now to facilitate their distribution effort. It was only a
matter of time for these two orgs to meet and plan mischief together.
Together with a team of computer-science seniors from Steven Institute
of Technology <https://www.stevens.edu/>, and building on our
development work with Project Gutenberg, the Free Ebook Foundation
undertook to improve the usability and currency of Kiwix-developed
Gutenberg content modules. The students added bookshelf functionality to
the modules, and helped to streamline the process of module creation.
These enhanced content modules are available today on the Kiwix website
– a list is available <https://ebookfoundation.org/openzim.html> on the
Free Ebook Foundation website, along with links to a demo site and the
software used to create the content modules.
USB flash drives that can store 128GB of data are can be found for as
low as $20 on most online stores – that’s more than enough storage for
all 60,000+ books.
About the Free Ebook Foundation
The Free Ebook Foundation <https://ebookfoundation.org> is a 501(c)3 New
Jersey non-profit corporation. The Free Ebook Foundation envisions a
world where ebooks will be funded, distributed and maintained for the
benefit of all, by coordinating the efforts and resources of many.
About Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg <http://www.gutenberg.org/> was the first provider of
free electronic books. Its mission is to encourage the creation and
distribution of eBooks. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently
proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education.
About Kiwix
Kiwix is an offline reader for online content like Wikipedia, Project
Gutenberg, or TED Talks. It makes knowledge available to people with no
or limited internet access. The software as well as the content is free
to use for anyone. Kiwix is a non-profit organisation and is based in
Switzerland. Our software is open-source available for free. The work we
do is partially provided by volunteers, partially funded by individual
donations, and grants from foundations.
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Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more
* Web: https://kiwix.org/
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* Wiki: https://wiki.kiwix.org/
Transfered from Mervat
She is inviting you to answer this survey, to help the Trust and Safety
team to create a safter environment for all on our projects with the
design of a global set of conduct rules. Please weight in
Florence
==Message to Members==
Hello;
My name is Mervat, and I am helping the Trust and Safety team to reach
out to affiliates in order to discuss the Universal Code of Conduct.
There has been talks about the need for a global set of conduct rules in
different communities over time, and finally, Wikimedia Foundation Board
announced a Community Culture Statement, enacting new standards to
address harassment and promote inclusivity across projects.
Since the universal code of conduct that will be a binding minimum set
of standards across all Wikimedia projects, will apply to all of us,
staff and volunteers alike, all around the globe, and will impact our
work as groups, individuals and projects, it’s of great importance that
we all participate in expressing our opinions and thoughts about UCoC,
its nature, what we think it should cover or include and what it
shouldn’t include; how it may develop, drawback or help our groups.
This is the time to talk about it. As you are a valuable contributor to
the Wikimedia movement, your voice counts. Before starting to draft the
code of conduct, we would like to hear from you; We invite you to devote
some minutes to take this survey; your answers will help us create a
safer environment for all on Wikimedia:
(English):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd36dNdU3C5shXEkKp9itJOhuCTx9hZE5A…
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd36dNdU3C5shXEkKp9itJOhuCTx9hZE5A…>
It’s possible that you are a member of more than one affiliate; hence
you may receive this survey more than once, and you may have
participated previously in the discussions or filled out a previous
survey during the first round of consultations about UCoC which targeted
wikipedia/wikimedia communities. We apologize for this; it is really
difficult to identify if a wikimedianbelongs to multiple groups that
work to spread free knowledge.
Looking forward to your thoughts and opinions and hoping that you can
respond within the next 2 weeks. If you have any questions about the
surveys or difficulties accessing the link, please contact me by email
(msalman-ctr(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:msalman-ctr@wikimedia.org>)
Results will be considered during the drafting process for the UCoC
Thank you for your participation
Mervat Salman
Trust & Safety (Policy) Facilitator
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."
Hi
In 3 hours I will make a Wikimedia Tech Talk to present our toolchain to
publish offline content:
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Enjoying Wikipedia offline wherever, whenever is easy with Kiwix. But
behind the scenes, a bunch of tools are needed to make it work. From
article selection to dump publishing through scraping, optimisation and
packaging: here is a quick overview of how we do it.
====
Join at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rFWaPSP3AM
Regards
Emmanuel
--
Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more
* Web: https://kiwix.org/
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* Wiki: https://wiki.kiwix.org/
Hello everyone
This is this time of the year where... report is back !
Please take a few minutes to summarize the last few months
* Achievements
* Challenges
* Next steps
* Anything you think relevant...
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Reports/June_2020
Thanks in advance
Flo