Hello all,
The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making> invites you to
complete a survey about Wikimedia's technical decision-making processes.
While there will be more ways to participate, this is the first and most
important step in our data collection. It aims to gather information about
your experience, thoughts, and needs regarding the process of making
technical decisions across the Wikimedia technical spaces.
This survey will be used for gathering information about the process and
the needs around technical decision-making that touches our production
systems.
You can find the survey link here:
https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/885471?lang=en
Who should take this survey?
People who do technical work that relies on software maintained by the
Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) or affiliates. If you contribute code to
MediaWiki or extensions used by Wikimedia, or you maintain gadgets or tools
that rely on WMF infrastructure, this survey is for you.
What is the deadline?
*August 7th, 2023 *
What will the Retrospective team do with the information?
The retrospective team will synthesize the collected data and publish an
anonymized analysis that will help leadership make decisions about the
future of the process.
We will collect anonymized information that we will analyze in two main
ways:
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Sentiments based on demographic information: these will tell us whether
there are different needs and desires from different groups of people.
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General needs and perceptions about decision-making in our technical
spaces: This will help us understand what kind of decisions happen in
the spaces, who is involved, and how to adjust our processes accordingly.
Is the survey the only way to participate?
The survey is the most important way for us to gather information because
it helps us gather input in a structured manner. But it will not be the
only way you can share your thoughts with us - we will have more
information soon about upcoming listening sessions where you can talk with
us live. In the meantime, you are always welcome to leave feedback on the
talk page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_decision_making/Technical_Dec…
Where can I see more information?
There are several places where you can find more information about the
Technical Decision-Making Process Retrospective:
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The original announcement about the retrospective from Tajh Taylor:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…
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The Technical Decision-Making Process general information page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making
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The Technical Decision-Making Process Retrospective on MediaWiki:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_decision_making/Technical_Decision…
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Phabricator ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333235
How to contact the retrospective core team:
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Write to the core team mailing list: tdf-retro-2023(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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The Technical Decision-Making Process Retrospective on MediaWiki talk
page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Technical_decision_making/Technical_Dec…
Thank you,
Moriel, on behalf of the TDMP Retro Core Group
Core group:
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Moriel Schottlender (chair)
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Daniel Kinzler
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Chris Danis
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Kosta Harlan
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Temilola Adeleye
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Moriel Schottlender (she/her <https://pronoun.is/she>)
Principal Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Re: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
The change from "office hours" to "individual consultation"
has bothered me from the beginning, and I've finally reached
the level of sadness that prompts a message here...
Individual consultation can be great for the individuals
involved. However, it leaves the rest of the community out
in the cold, without possibility of benefit of knowing what
is being discussed, learning by lurking, etc.
So far as I've been able to discover, there are no minutes
or logs of such consultations, so there's not even a chance
to learn after-the-fact nor even to have a sense of what's
being talked about.
This makes me sad.
Of course, the Tuesday Noon ET time slot doesn't work well
for me anyway (it conflicts with the weekly call of the W3C
Credentials Community Group), but perhaps a new time slot
might be selected if Office Hours resume.
The web page says "We will evaluate the success of this
approach in mid-2023". It's now late-2023, but I see no
sign of that evaluation, so perhaps I haven't missed my
chance to make my voice heard.
Thanks for your consideration,
Ted
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Universal Data Access, Integration, and Management Technology Providers
Hi everyone,
As you're likely aware, the Wikimedia Foundation's Machine Learning and
Research teams have been working on migrating from ORES to Lift Wing — a
new open-source machine learning infrastructure. This shift brings a host
of new capabilities and simplifies the process of retraining models over
time. (For more details, see the previous announcement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…>
)
Lift Wing has already been trained using a dataset comprising reverted and
patrolled edits. However, it would be extremely helpful to have additional
new training data to help the model get even better at detecting
problematic edits on Wikidata. Therefore, we need your help.
How You Can Contribute
The Research team built a tool to make your involvement easy and effective.
This tool allows you to label new training data quickly and efficiently.
You can find the tool here: Annotation Tool.
<https://annotool.toolforge.org/> It will show you an edit and ask you if
you would keep or revert the edit. You can skip any you are not sure about.
By participating in this process, you're helping enhance the accuracy of
the bad edits detection system on Wikidata, making it more robust and
reliable.
If you encounter any issues or want to provide general feedback, feel free
to leave us a note on this ticket phab:T341820
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341820>.
Cheers,
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Mohammed S. Abdulai
*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 577 116 2466
https://wikimedia.de
Grab a spot in my calendar for a chat: calendly.com/masssly.
A lot is happening around Wikidata - Keep up to date!
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates> Current news and
exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our
newsletter (in German): Subscribe now <https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>
.
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision!
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Dr. Christian Humborg
Hello all!
The Search Platform Team usually holds an open meeting on the first
Wednesday of each month. Come talk to us about anything related to
Wikimedia search, Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), Wikimedia Commons Query
Service (WCQS), etc.!
Feel free to add your items to the Etherpad Agenda for the next meeting.
Details for our next meeting:
Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Time: 15:00-16:00 UTC / 08:00 PT / 11:00 EDT / 17:00 CET
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Search_Platform_Office_Hours
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/vgj-bbeb-uyi
Join by phone: https://tel.meet/vgj-bbeb-uyi?pin=8118110806927
Have fun and see you soon!
Guillaume
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*Guillaume Lederrey* (he/him)
Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi,
between 5:30 and 7:10 UTC on 2023/09/27 the WDQS servers running in the
eqiad datacenter have returned results with more than 10 minutes of lag.
This caused bots using MW maxlag [0] to stop functioning properly during
that time.
The incident started after a failure of the mirroring system between two of
our kafka clusters [1], such incident should not have impacted WDQS but it
uncovered improper sandboxing of the WDQS updater test setup [2].
Sorry for the inconvenience.
--
David Causse
Software Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
0: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Maxlag_parameter
1:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2023-09-27_Kafka-jumbo_mirror…
2: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347515
Hello all,
On behalf of the WikidataCon 2023 organizing team, I’m happy to share that
we released the program of the conference dedicated to the Wikidata
community. Co-organized by Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikimedia Taiwan, it
will take place on October 28-29 with a hybrid format. In this email, you
will find more information about the format, the program and registration
for the conference.
Format
While most of the world will attend the sessions and discussions online,
people living in Taiwan and the neighbouring countries can decide to join
the onsite part of the event taking place in Taipei. Online participants
will be able to join the conference, follow the sessions and interact with
other participants on the platform GatherTown. Onsite participants will be
hosted at the National Taipei University. You will find more information
about the onsite
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023/Attend_in_Taipei>
and online aspects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023/Attend_online> of
the conference onwiki.
Part of the program (Day 1 and Day 2) will be delivered from the onsite
event in Taipei, on their day time. The other part of the program (Day 1.5
and Day 2.5) will be produced online, at times that will be more friendly
to participants located on the European, African and American continents.
In any case, the contents of the conference will be available online during
or after the conference.
Program
Together with volunteers involved in the program committees, we elaborated
an ambitious program that will run across time zones. Connected to our
theme “Collaboration across boundaries”, the sessions will cover a huge
range of topics (data quality, data reuse, Wikidata and the Wikimedia
Projects, open data initiatives). In particular, we want to highlight the
Wikidata and open data projects and initiatives in the ESEAP region.You can
find the first version of the schedule here
<https://pretalx.com/wikidatacon2023/schedule/>. You can switch time zones,
languages, and mark sessions as favourites. Some changes may still happen
in the upcoming weeks.
English and Mandarin are the official languages of the event. The sessions
will be available in these two languages, either via captions or
interpretation. If you are interested in helping us translate contents
(program, wikipages, sessions) please get in touch!
Registration
You can already sign up to the event by registering here on the Pretix
platform <https://pretix.eu/wikidatatw/Wikidatacon2023/>. The registration
form includes both online participation and onsite participation in Taiwan.
Registration will be open until the start of the event. Some useful
information will be sent in the upcoming weeks to people who registered,
including the link to the event platform for online participants. Please
note that registration is free of charge, but no scholarship to attend the
online or onsite event will be provided.
Questions ? Feel free to contact the organizing team by writing on this
talk page or at contact(a)wikidatacon.org.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the WikidataCon 2023!
—
電子郵件/維基
主題：2023 年維基數據大會：第一版活動議程上線！
逐家好，
很高興我代表2023年維基數據大會組織團隊，發佈本次 Wikidatacon 2023
的第一版議程。這是由德國維基媒體協會和台灣維基媒體協會共同主辦，會議將於 10 月 28 日至 29
日以混合形式舉行。在此電子郵件中，你會看到更多有關會議形式，專案以及註冊的資訊。
舉辦刑事
儘管世界上大多數人將參與網上會議以及線上討論，但居住在台灣和鄰近國家的人，可以決定參加在台北舉行的活動的實體活動。在線參與者可加入會議，關注會議並在Gather
Town 平台上，與其他線上參與者互動。實體參與者將在國立臺北大學舉行。你可以在 wikidata page上找到有關會議現場和在線方面的更多資訊。
部份議程（第 1 天和第 2 天）將在白天的臺北現場活動進行。議程的另一部份（第 1.5 天和第 2.5
天）將在線上呈現，該時段更適合對位於歐洲，非洲和美洲大陸的參與者將。會議內容將在會議期間或在這之後，以線上提供。
活動議程
我們與參與專案的委員會的義工一起制定一項具有企圖心的計劃，該計劃將跨時區運行。與我們的主題“：鏈結資料 Koh（再）發現：Wikidata
的跨領域匯流＂”相關，會議將涵蓋廣泛的主題（資料品質，資料重用，維基數據和維基媒體專案，開放資料倡議）。
重點是：我們想強調ESEAP地區的維基數據和開放資料項目和倡議。你可以在此處找到活動議程表的第一個版本。未來數周仍可能發生一些變化。
英語和中文是活動的官方語言。會議將以這兩種語言提供，無論是字幕還是口譯。如果你有意願幫助我們翻譯內容（活動議程，維基頁面，討論頁），請聯絡我們！
報名
你已經可以透過在 Pretix
平台上報名該活動。報名表包含線上參與者，和臺灣現場參與者。報名將開放到活動日開始。相關有用的資訊將在未來幾周內寄送給已完成報名者，包括線上參與者的活動平台連結。請注意，報名是免費的，但不提供參加線上或現場活動參與的獎助金。
有問題？請隨時透過在此討論頁或 contact(a)wikidatacon.org 上寫信與組織團隊聯絡。
我們期待在2023年維基數據大會上與你見面！
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Hello all,
On behalf of the WikidataCon 2023 organizing team, I’m happy to share some
exciting news about the WikidataCon 2023. The conference dedicated to the
Wikidata community and co-organized by Wikimedia Deutschland and Wikimedia
Taiwan will take place on October 28-29 with a hybrid format. In this
email, you will find more information about the format and registration for
the conference.
Format
While most of the world will attend the sessions and discussions online,
people living in Taiwan and the neighbouring countries can decide to join
the onsite part of the event taking place in Taipei. Online participants
will be able to join the conference, follow the sessions and interact with
other participants on the platform GatherTown. Onsite participants will be
hosted at the National Taipei University. You will find more information
about the onsite
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023/Attend_in_Taipei>
and online aspects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2023/Attend_online> of
the conference onwiki.
The first version of the program will be released on October 2nd - stay
tuned!
Registration
You can now sign up to the event by registering here on the Pretix platform
<https://pretix.eu/wikidatatw/Wikidatacon2023/>. The registration form
includes both online participation and onsite participation in Taiwan.
Registration will be open until the start of the event. Some useful
information will be sent in the upcoming weeks to people who registered,
including the link to the event platform for online participants. Please
note that registration is free of charge, but no scholarship to attend the
online or onsite event will be provided.
Questions ? Feel free to contact the organizing team by writing on this
talk page or at contact(a)wikidatacon.org.
We are looking forward to seeing you at the WikidataCon 2023!
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement & Events Consultant
Contractor for Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.