Hello friends
So, the Brand Team is moving on and has announced a short list of
proposals to rename Wikimedia Foundation, UG and such to remove the word
"Wikimedia"
Yesterday, the Team presented the results of their thinking during a
live youtube session.
It is one hour long, but the presentation itself is less than 30
minutes. Then followed by questions.
To know more about the three propositions, the page to go to :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…
The Brand team also launched yesterday a new survey to measure our
support to this new branding scheme.
We are invited to participate to this survey in two capacities
1. as individuals
2. as affiliate
And quite naturally, we can also react, discuss etc in the above
mentionned talk page, on mailing lists, telegram etc.
Taking the survey as individual is your own decision. Deadline June 30th
However, answering as an affiliate is a slighly more complicated thing
to do.
So I reported that in a wiki page, where we can collect feedback from
you and try to answer in the name of the group, if relevant.
Roughly... if there is a general agreement... it will be easy to respond
in the name of the offline UG
If there is no clear agreement... we'll have to reflect on what to do
But the first step in any cases is to actually record your thoughts on
the matter.
Steps for you...
1) if you are not aware of the topic, and arguments behind the
proposition ---->
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…
2) if you would like to read some feedback from the community, check
this :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Should_the_Foundation_…
3) to read the proposals :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…
4) to watch the youtube session :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3zlBGHHHiY
5) to take the survey as an individual :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…
6) to reflect with the group: here by email or there :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Mouvement_Brand_Project
Thanks
Anthere
Hello,
I am new to the mailing list. I used to work on sotoki.
My question is somewhat related to my failed attempt to store
stackoverflow dumps inside wiredtiger. Eventually, I figured that
wiredtiger could not keep up with the write load and that it is a pain
point at least with wiredtiger (but also with sqlite lsm extension).
The workaround is to have as much as RAM as the data (which is in my
opinion not acceptable), and fine-tune eviction triggers et al.
My questions are about libzim, zimwriterfs and how full-text search is
implemented:
1) Why zimwriterfs or libzim succeed at putting together all the html
dumps of wikipedia? Is it because they're a lot of RAM? Or is it a
particular algorithm?
2) Follow up question, how the full-text search is put together? Is
the index written document by document then packed into the zim file?
I am working on my free time on a search engine [1], my goal is to
have my own search engine that I can use locally. That is why, I was
thinking about kiwix, because kiwix via .zim files provide readily
available dumps of many useful resources. The last question is:
3) how can I read the content of .zim from C code? Are there C
bindings of libzim?
Thanks!
[0] It does not work anymore but the code is at
https://github.com/amirouche/babelia
Hello everyone,
I hope all of you are safe. I am forwarding this email from Ryan from
wikimedia-l, about the next steps of the implementation process of the
Strategy. The team is looking for a set of diverse people to prepare the
virtual transition discussions.
The placeholder page on meta : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/2030
There is an office meeting with the Movement Strategy core team on
Thursday. June 11 @ 08:00 UTC (Google Meet
<http://meet.google.com/rva-yqaq-zdk>) [7] to share any comments and ask
questions.
I think that if you are interested in joining this group, attending the
office meeting or getting in touch with a regional group might be a good
idea.
Florence
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Sujet : [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: transition to implementation
begins
Date : Tue, 9 Jun 2020 17:27:30 -0400
De : Ryan Merkley <rmerkley(a)wikimedia.org>
Répondre à : Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Pour : Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
It’s my pleasure to be writing to you about the Movement Strategy. We
have come together over the past 3 years to develop our Strategic
Direction [1] and then the recommendations [2] to guide our
collaborations and future. So many of you contributed to the process —
some for only a part, and others throughout the entire process. With the
recommendations complete, our focus now shifts to implementing the
recommendations in a collaborative, open, and transparent way.
Transition
To make the transition from the publication of the recommendations to
their implementation, we need to do some planning. It’s a 10-year
strategy, with dozens of initiatives, dependencies, and connected goals,
to be delivered in a more distributed, deliberative, and open
collaborative model than ever before. We’ll need to work together to
define how we prioritize, sequence, resource, and support each initiative.
So much of our work is done online, but a lot of strategic work also
happens in person. We can’t do that now, and so we’ve had to adapt to
engage broadly, and in inclusive ways. To create this plan,
movement-wide virtual events will kick off in September. We will use the
Movement Strategy principles [3] as a guiding framework to ensure the
planning will be inclusive and empowering for our diverse range of
communities, without leaving anyone behind.
As a result of the pandemic, we lost the chance to work together
in-person on the transition to implementation at the Wikimedia Summit in
Berlin [4]. Yet we gained an opportunity to include a higher number and
a more diverse profile of participants. Engaging with online
contributors, technical developer communities, and smaller user groups
throughout the process will be a key priority.
Successful virtual engagements with a high number of diverse
participants are difficult to do well. Therefore, a Design Group will
collaborate to prepare for the virtual transition discussions. This
group will consist of community members reflecting different parts and
perspectives of the movement, including representatives of regional
collaboratives (CEE, ESEAP, Indaba, Iberocoop, North America, South
Asia, WikiArabia, WikiFranca), the EDs and chairpersons groups, and WMF
staff.
Anyone who is interested can contribute. Regular summaries of the
preparation work and design discussions will be published on meta so
that anyone interested will be able to share insights and help improve
the process, even if not part of the Design Group itself.
Participation
I look forward to: Working with many of you at the virtual transition
events.
Ways to participate and the schedule of events will be determined by the
Design Group. The current plan is to start the virtual transition
discussions with the movement in September.
The virtual events is where major discussions will take place on
sequencing, prioritizing, and resourcing the recommendations across the
movement.
Seeing those of you interested participate in the open review of the
transition preparations.
The task will be to review the work of the Design Group and share your
perspective, enriching the thinking to improve the events.
Open review will happen in parallel to the work of the Design Group from
the end of June to the end of July / beginning of August.
Having nominations from different movement groups and collaboratives
(mentioned above) for the Design Group.
The task will be to design as a group how the transition process of
online events will be set up.
Want to know more?
We have put together a placeholder meta page [5] and will keep updating
it as more information becomes available.
Join office hours with the Movement Strategy core team on Wednesday.
June 10 @ 17:00 UTC (Google Meet <http://meet.google.com/uun-pzmb-kti>)
[6] or Thursday. June 11 @ 08:00 UTC (Google Meet
<http://meet.google.com/rva-yqaq-zdk>) [7] to share any comments and ask
questions.
Our email channel is always open: strategy2030(a)wikimedia.org
<mailto:strategy2030@wikimedia.org>.
Best,
Ryan Merkley
Chief of Staff, Wikimedia Foundation
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017>
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…>
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…>
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Report
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Report>
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/2030
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/2030>
[6] https://meet.google.com/uun-pzmb-kti
<https://meet.google.com/uun-pzmb-kti>[7]
https://meet.google.com/rva-yqaq-zdk <https://meet.google.com/rva-yqaq-zdk>
_____________________________
Ryan Merkley (he/him)
Chief of Staff, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
rmerkley(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:rmerkley@wikimedia.org>
@ryanmerkley <https://twitter.com/ryanmerkley>
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WMF Brand Project team will be holding the LIVE Unified Concept
presentation Thursday 16 April from 1500 to 1600 UTC.
You can join live on Youtube using this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS72O6Si94Q
Join Snøhetta and the Brand Project team to review, celebrate, and
conclude the first phase of the 2030 Movement Brand Project; with a
unified “concept”. Listen in as Snøhetta explains how they used movement
members' ideas, feedback and conceptual models to arrive at a final,
unified concept. This unified concept will be the foundation for the
upcoming work around the naming conventions, visual decisions, and the
overall design system. This session will also be recorded and made
available for viewing after. Please note: A concept is not a visible
part of brand and design projects, but a guiding idea or spirit,
summarized in one word. This is not a presentation of a proposal for a
naming convention or design.
The topic is currently discussed on wikimedia-l
And a few additional links....
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project
*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Should_the_Foundation_…
Florence
Dear all,
It’s with regret that we have to inform you that due to the global health
situation (COVID-19), the physical meeting of the Wikimedia Summit 2020 and
related side events in Berlin have been cancelled.
Since we currently look into hosting the Summit in a series of virtual
meetings, starting at the dates of the Summit, please keep the dates
blocked in your calendar.
We are aware that this announcement will cause many questions (not only in
relation to the Summit). Please be patient, more information will follow
from our teams in the next few days.
Best regards,
Abraham Taherivand, Executive Director Wikimedia Deutschland
Katherine Maher, Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation
Somewhere I read that wikifundi is working towards synchronizing with
the online wikipedias. Is this something for the near future or very far
out??? That would be REALLY exciting!
Also, can wikifundi be used for a wikipedia / wiktionary in a newly
setup language - or only for the few languages currently available for
download???
Thanks,
Manfred
WMF is inviting members of our group to fill out a survey[1] -- to help
with strategic planning. If you have a moment, please fill it out, if only
briefly..
Link to survey:
[1] https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6z2rDBS5Iom0NKt
🌍🌏🌎🌑
Hey all,
We got a bunch of prizes this year but the one award that really matters is the one that was officially confirmed this morning: the Mozilla Foundation has selected Kiwix to build ZIMit, a universal scraper to turn online content to the offline-compatible ZIM format.
The plan at this stage is to start work early next year and have the project completed by end of 2020. Ultimately we hope that everyone will be able to create their own zim files to distribute in offline environments :-)
Cheers,
Stephane
Hi everyone,
I see that Wikimedia Deutschland is running an advent calendar on knowledge equity (ie access to knowledge for, you know, people without access).[1]
They have a couple of stories lined up already on famously sidelined places like Norway and Taiwan. I'd expect most of the 20+ others to be written up already, yet to my knowlege they haven't reached out to Kiwix so we could point them to people doing deployments in Africa, India, South America, US & European prisons und so weiter.
By the look of it they seem very much focused on people building knowledge rather than distributing it, and I can see a couple of good reasons for that. But I'm still half hoping that they did, in fact, reach out to someone else on this list and that offline access will be mentioned somehow. Can anyone confirm they spoke with our German friends?
Cheers,
Stephane
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Calendar [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Calendar]