Wikimedia-l October 2010

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[Foundation-l] Mike Godwin leaving the Wikimedia Foundation
by MZMcBride 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

Sue Gardner wrote: > Is Mike leaving the Wikimedia Foundation because he did something egregious? > > Not at all. The Wikimedia Foundation believes Mike has always acted in > what he believes to be the Wikimedia Foundation's best interests. This is an odd answer. MZMcBride

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[Foundation-l] Another machine-assisted translation tool
by David Gerard 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

This time from Microsoft Research: http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/10/18/wikibhasha/ Has anyone used this one? How is it? Did Google ever commit to releasing the translation pairs? If so, we should certainly ask Microsoft for the same. - d.

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[Foundation-l] Movement roles update and meeting on 21 October
by Austin Hair 19 Oct '10

19 Oct '10

At its meeting on 9 October, the Movement Roles working group presented an update on its current work and an outline for the coming year. Thanks to everybody who participated in the preparation of the proposal. The Board approved the direction of the group, and encouraged all interested parties, particularly chapters and other stakeholders as outlined in the proposal, to engage in the process. You can find the proposal on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_project/Proposal After working mainly on the framing of the process over the past weeks, we're now starting with the real work. For example, over the next few months we will be reaching out to hear from a broad range of Wikimedians. For anybody who wants to engage in the process or just wants to learn more about the movement roles project we will have an open meeting next Thursday. The agenda will be to update you on progress to date, lay out the process going forward, and to find out how you might be able to help us. Please join us at 1500 UTC on Thursday, 21 October on IRC in the #wikimedia-roles channel. If you do not have an IRC client, you can join using a web browser: go to http://webchat.freenode.net/, type in the nickname of your choice, and choose #wikimedia-roles as the channel. If you're interested in participating in the process and can't make it to the open meeting, you can send an e-mail to adhair(a)gmail.com, or comment on-wiki—see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_project. We are particularly interested to hear your answers to the list of questions we plan to ask Wikimedians, which you can see at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_project/Questionnaire On behalf of the working group, Austin Hair

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[Foundation-l] Chapters and more
by Joan Goma 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

I would like to raise your attention on a topic related to movement roles. It seems that activities of movement roles working group has not raised high interest at meta probably because it is a one year term job. One week ago I wrote a list of comments and proposals at talk page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_roles_working_group Those proposals are addressed to improve the Chapters, the Chapters committee and relationship between chapters and projects. They are mainly focused in giving transparency to the activities of Chapters and Chapters Committee, and giving voice to the projects in important decisions related to chapters. I think there are issues that should be solved without waiting for one year until movement roles working group has his job done. In particular chapters like the Catalan one that according to the interpretation the ChapCom gives to the Board resolutions they don’t recommend its approval.

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[Foundation-l] Page views
by Erik Zachte 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

For those of you who want to follow this closely: The following two charts show daily page views as counted by our squid log post-processing server. Same data, with different time scales, one of 13, one for 34 months. <http://infodisiac.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/wikipediapageviewsper day-13-months1.png> http://infodisiac.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/wikipediapageviewsperd ay-13-months1.png http://infodisiac.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/wikipediapageviewsperd ay-34-months2.png As you can see there's been an instantaneous *reported* dramatic page view increase on 9/27-9/28. Mind you we have no idea yet whether these are actual extra messages received or some internal artifact. Incidentally the earlier server congestion on locke from mid November to mid July also shows clearly. It may be useful to generate this chart with regular intervals. Erik Zachte

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[Foundation-l] Page views
by Erik Zachte 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Oops, again with shortened urls, and text only format For those of you who want to follow this closely: The following two charts show daily page views as counted by our squid log post-processing server. Same data, with different time scales, one of 13, one for 34 months. http://tinyurl.com/2w9pcub http://tinyurl.com/3ytachh As you can see there's been an instantaneous *reported* dramatic page view increase on 9/27-9/28. Mind you we have no idea yet whether these are actual extra messages received or some internal artifact. Incidentally the earlier server congestion on locke from mid November to mid July also shows clearly. It may be useful to generate this chart with regular intervals. Erik Zachte

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[Foundation-l] The Signpost – Volume 6 Issue 42 – 18 October 2010
by Wikipedia Signpost 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

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[Foundation-l] RecentChangesCamp 2011: Boston and Canberra, Australia
by Laura Hale 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hi! We've set the date for RecentChangesCamp Canberra. It will be held from January 28 to January 30. More details are available at http://recentchangescamp.org/wiki/Canberra . We're working on setting the venue and date for Boston and are looking at March. Recent Changes Camp was born from the intersection of wiki and Open Space. Since 2006, participants from all over North America and the globe have gathered together for a common purpose: discussing the past, present, and future of the technology and collaborative method that is wiki. RCC is a chance for everyone in the wiki community, something we like to call Wiki Ohana, to meet and have a fun, productive conversation about our passion for wikis of all stripes. Going far beyond technology, we're interested in wiki culture and other networks/groups/etc. that share many of the values implicit in it — from cultural creatives, to public participation and free culture advocates. If you use a wiki or you value open collaboration, Recent Changes Camp is created for you. RCC is about openness and inclusion, collaboration and community, creativity and flow. This unconference/BarCamp has been held at least once every year since 2006 (and twice in 2007). Unlike a conventional conference, where everything's pre-planned and structured, RecentChangesCamp is a gathering where we decide for ourselves what we're going to get out of it by offering sessions each morning on whatever we want (and of course ad hoc sessions can form at any time). There's no agenda until we make it up! Now, that might sound a bit chaotic if you've never been to this type of gathering, but be prepared to be surprised at how much people can learn and create when they collaborate spontaneously. We're hoping that by announcing it this early, you'll have enough time to plan to attend. We'd really love to see you there. The Canberra version will be the first full three day RecentChangesCamp held outside of the USA and Canada. Any support you can provide would be very much appreciated. Sincerely, Laura Hale -- twitter: purplepopple blog: ozziesport.com

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[Foundation-l] Page views
by Joan Goma 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Is there any explanation for the extraordinary jump in page views this month? http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm

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[Foundation-l] Four new language editions of Wikimedia projects
by Jesse (Pathoschild) 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Hello, Four new language editions of Wikimedia projects have been approved and created: the Banjar Wikipedia at <http://bjn.wikipedia.org>, the Hill Mari/Мары йӹлмӹ Wikipedia at <http://mrj.wikipedia.org>, the Komi-Permyak/Перем Коми Wikipedia at <http://koi.wikipedia.org>, and the Persian/فارسی Wikinews at <http://fa.wikinews.org>. The Gagauz/gagauzça Wikipedia has also been approved and is only awaiting final details (logo, namespace translation, etc) before creation. (As usual, this is a personal message and not an official language committee announcement.) -- Yours cordially, Jesse (Pathoschild)

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