Dear Community Member,
We are pleased to invite you to the first-ever Ghana Histo-Cita-thon on
Friday 27th November 2020, at the SSNIT Guest House. The evenT will
be happening from 9am to 2pm.
The Ghana Histo-Cita-Thon is a Wikicite event aimed at educating and
exposing members within the Wikimedia Movement to the benefits of using
books, journals, and newspapers in creating and improving Wikipedia
articles and Wikidata items.
The workshop will be followed by a month-long online contest that is
specifically focused on personalities and events that have significantly
contributed to the Ghanaian Independence story.
All participants attending the event will be given a certificate of
participation.
Kindly make your reservation by signing up here to join in person. [1] or
here to join virtually. [2]
Visit the link [3] below to learn more.
Regards,
Stephen Dakyi,
Project Lead, Ghana Histo Cita-thon
[1]- forms.gle/7dFbbdHa9xfCHpH38
[2]- forms.gle/8BUn6P7NvVA4VdMg6
[3]- meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ghana_Histo_Cita-thon
Hello,
The proposals phase of the Wikimedia Foundation Community Wishlist Survey
2021 has started. You can submit wishes in various categories, like
Wikidata <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Wikidata>
The survey is open until November 30th and the evaluation phase will take
place between 23 November and 7 December.
Cheers,
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From: Szymon Grabarczuk <sgrabarczuk-ctr(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 7:58 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] 2021 Community Wishlist Survey
To:
The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey[1] is now open!
This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community
Tech[2] team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to
submit proposals until the deadline on 30 November, or comment on other
proposals to help make them better. The communities will vote on the
proposals between 8 December and 21 December.
The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia
editors. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate
them for you.
Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!
P.S. If the pages are not fully translated into your language, visit a
dedicated page[3], be bold, and add the translations!
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Surve…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Translation_…
Kind regards,
Szymon Grabarczuk (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Hello all,
Here’s some news from the review we’re currently running about our *support
process*. Our goal is to understand how the current processes to report
bugs and feature requests work for you, and how we could improve them. You
can read more about the project on this page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team/Process…>
.
Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback or answered our survey. We
collected 23 anonymous answers on the survey, and 5 people gave feedback on
the talk page or on the social media channels. The majority of the survey
respondents (87%) already reported a bug report or a feature request, the
most used platform being Phabricator (42%), followed by WD:Contact the
development team
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team>
and WD:Project
chat <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat>.
Asked to think of an example report or feature request that they made in
the last 2 years that generally represents their overall opinion of
interacting with the Wikidata development team, people mentioned a long
delay of response, issues taking too long to be fixed, problems with
tagging the report on Phabricator or difficulty to get in touch with people
who could solve the issue. Overall, the *lack of response or delay in the
response* seems to be the main pain points encountered by the respondents.
People were asked to rate on a scale of 1 to 5 how satisfied they are with
the current process, and the results are pretty polarized: one third of the
respondents declared being very satisfied, one third declared being not
satisfied at all. Some respondents mentioned that they couldn’t get an
answer before pinging people several times. Some people declared that they
had a positive experience and the issue they reported was solved quickly.
Respondents were asked about improvements they thought could be made to the
existing bug report/feature request process. The *main suggestions* revolve
around:
- Having a better/clearer overview of the open bugs and already reported
issues
- Improving the way tasks are triaged and monitored, as well as the
creation of Phabricator tickets
- Being able to suggest and vote for the most important features and
bugs to fix
- The possibility of communicating in other languages than English
On the positive side, some respondents declared that the existing process
works well for them, and a few people mentioned Phabricator being
functional as a bug tracking system. People highlighted the importance of
an on-wiki channel to report problems.
Respondents who never made a feature request or report a bug before in the
last two years had varied reasons for not doing so. 50% said that they
expected someone else to do it, 16% said they did not know how to report a
problem, while the rest of the respondents said that they didn’t encounter
the need.
Thanks again to people who took some time to answer the survey. Our next
steps are to work on some concrete suggestions to improve the process, and
to come back to you so we can discuss how to implement them.
If you have any questions or more suggestions, feel free to add them on this
talk page
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wrap_up_of_the_feedback…>.
Cheers,
Léa & Mohammed
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Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement Coordinator
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hello,
MozFest is a unique hybrid: part art, tech and society convening, part
maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global
movements fighting for a more humane digital world.
That’s why I’m excited to invite you
<https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>and your community
to participate in the first-ever virtual MozFest!
Submit A Session Idea for MozFest This Year
<https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>
I am on the openness space and we're particularly looking forward for open
science projects. We’re excited to use the programming that we’ve honed
over a decade of festivals – participant-led sessions, immersive art
exhibits, space for spontaneous conversations, inspiring Dialogues &
Debates – to address current and global crises.
Through our Call for Session Proposals (where you're invited to propose an
interactive workshop to host at the festival), we’ll seek solutions
together, through the lens of trustworthy artificial intelligence.
Anyone can submit a session – you don’t need any particular expertise, just
a great project or idea and the desire to collaborate and learn from
festival participants. Since it’s online this year, we’re especially eager
to see session proposals from those that haven’t been able to attend in
year’s past due to travel restrictions.
If you or someone you know is interested in leading a session at MozFest
this year, you can submit your session idea here
<https://www.mozillafestival.org/get-involved/proposals/>! The
deadline is *November
23.*
Best regards,
Ahmed Medien
Hi everyone,
We regularly get feedback that Wikidata (and Wikibase in general) needs an
API that’s easier to understand and use in order to get more people to
build tools that use data from Wikidata and other Wikibase instances. The
existing action API has several problems. The biggest ones are that it’s
not a widely used standard, not versioned and that it is not very well
suited for Wikibase’ structured data (as opposed to MediaWiki’s usual
wikitext). Over the last weeks we’ve looked at ways to improve the
situation and have come up with a draft for a REST API for Wikibase. We’d
love to have your feedback on it.
*What we want to achieve with it:*
- Provide a more industry-standard and versioned way to access and
manipulate data in Wikibase. This will make it easier for programmers to
get started building tools with and around Wikidata and other Wikibase
instances.
- Provide an API that is more tailored to the Wikibase data model to,
for example, make it possible to get exactly the part of an Entity you need
instead of the whole entity.
- Solve a number of issues in the current API that are easier to solve
with REST.
*A few things to keep in mind:*
- This is only touching the Wikibase-specific API modules, not any of
the others that MediaWiki provides.
- We’ve started with the specification around Items and Properties. Once
we are sure the direction is good, we will look at other parts of the data
model and content like Lexemes and MediaInfo.
- For existing users of the action API: Nothing changes for you for now.
If the feedback is positive, and we go ahead, it’ll take us some time to
actually implement the proposed changes. It’d be very important for us to
hear your feedback now to ensure that the new API meets your needs in the
future.
If you are building tools around and on top of Wikidata/Wikibase, please
have a look at the draft and give us your feedback. You can find all the
information at Wikidata:REST API
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:REST_API>. Please leave your
feedback on the talk page there, so we have it all in one place.
Thank you!
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Mohammed Sadat
*Community Communications Manager for Wikidata/Wikibase*
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours on Tuesday, 2020-11-03 at 17:00-18:00 PM UTC (9am PT/6pm CET).
To participate, join the video-call via this Wikimedia-meet link [2]. There
is no set agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the
etherpad [3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise
you are welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g.
about how to attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to
answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia
volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in
your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to
support you in:
-
You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
in my wiki?
-
You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
-
You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
of you interested more closely in this space.
-
You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Martin (WMF Research Team)
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html
[2] https://meet.wmcloud.org/ResearchOfficeHours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
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Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation