Wikimedia-l January 2012

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[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Poland to start a travelling POTY pictures exhibition in Warsaw (an announcement)
by Tomasz Kozłowski 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

[I am crossposting this announcement to two mailing lists, feel free to pick up the topic on either of them.] Dear All, I am--yet again!--delighted to announce that Wikimedia Polska, the Polish chapter of the WMF, is organising a travelling exhibition of the winning POTY contest pictures. 16 images chosen by Wikimedians from all over the world in the annual POTY contests from 2006 onwards are going to be shown at exhibitions in various places around Poland. As some of you may recall, the exhibition premièred during the 10th anniversary of the Polish Wikipedia conference, having been visited by a few hundred visitors in just two weeks; some images from the pubic viewing of the exhibition are available on Wikimedia Commons at <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Picture_of_the_Year_exhibition_-…>. Our first stop is Przystanek Książka (a Polish wordplay for "Book Break"), a media library of the Public Library of the district of Ochota in Warsaw. The exhibition starts on Monday, November 28, and will remain until the end of the year. 16 pictures, the best of the best of the Wikimedia movement, will be shown in an exhibition open for the public, with descriptions available in Polish, English and German. For those of you currently living in Warsaw or going to visit the capital in the upcoming weeks: the library is located at 42 Grójecka Street, just two tram stops (and 8 minutes) away from the Warsaw Central railway station (tram lines "9" and "25"), and is open on working days from 10 AM until 7 PM (2 PM-7 PM on Wednesdays). We are still looking for more organisations and institutions willing to hold the exhibition--if there's anyone from the neighbouring (European) countries willing to get involved or just looking for some information, feel free to approach me at <tomasz.kozlowski @ wikimedia.pl>. We hope to have a great event, and even if you can't visit the exhibition, please keep your fingers crossed that it goes well, and spread the news! PS For those going to take a peek at the exhibition _in real life_, there's also a Facebook event: <https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100219446762276>. Regards, -- Tomasz Kozłowski | [[user:odder]]

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[Foundation-l] semi-OT: Goodbye Google Maps, hello OSM
by David Gerard 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

https://plus.google.com/u/0/118383351194421484817/posts/foj5A1fURGt About a business moving from Google Maps on its site to doing their own from the available free content. "$200,000 to $300,000 a year is, at the very least, the same as hiring a very good engineer for a year (and paying all the taxes and benefits and costs and still having a lot of money left). It was enough money to finally push us into doing our own maps." Somewhat relevant in that free content really is quite good and important stuff. (Also, I've long thought OSM as something that would have fit Wikimedia's portfolio wonderfully.) I remember a Dorkbot presentation in 2004 on OSM - a friend who was working for Multimap pooh-poohed the idea that OSM could ever achieve a usable-quality map. I had been involved in Wikipedia for a few months at that time and considered this obviously wrong ... - d.

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[Foundation-l] Questions about most viewed articles in 2011
by Frédéric Schütz 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

Hi everyone, a Swiss journalist asked me about the articles (from EN WP) most viewed and most edited in 2011. I am not sure if these lists are already available somewhere (if yes, let me know; if not, I'd be glad to make them available), but I since I already had a local copy of all the page view statistics, I "simply" read all the files ("simply", but it still took over hundred hour of processing time). Getting the number of edits (by parsing the latest database dump) was faster (still 20-30 hours). The top pages in both cases are shown below; there are two puzzling entries that were already present in previous stats (see e.g. http://stats.grok.se/en/), and I was wondering if the fact that they are among the most viewed page on Wikipedia had already been discussed (I haven't found anything). So, why would "404 error" and "File:Hardy_boys_cover_09.jpg" be ranked so high ? "404 error" is constant through the year (it may be a link from a 404 page on a web server, but I'd be still surprised that it is clicked so often), but the other is viewed in bursts (see e.g. http://stats.grok.se/en/201012/File:Hardy_boys_cover_09.jpg). Any idea ? "Search" is also somewhat surprising. Cheers, Frédéric Top viewed pages (only the article namespace, excluding the main page) 404_error 132676913 Facebook 42787711 Wiki 35568336 Deaths_in_2011 25662870 Google 23998921 Steve_Jobs 21111493 Search 20474010 United_States 18370040 Glee_(TV_series) 17492341 Justin_Bieber 16873558 Lady_Gaga 16603577 Sex 15698781 Wikipedia 14934576 File:Hardy_boys_cover_09.jpg 14640359 YouTube 14418365 Mark_Zuckerberg 14028765 Eminem 13820415 How_I_Met_Your_Mother 13458433 Amy_Winehouse 13131963 Adele_(singer) 12979662 The_Big_Bang_Theory 12542108 Selena_Gomez 12476268 Kim_Kardashian 12317436 Top edited pages: 16283 Deaths in 2011 9437 2011 Libyan civil war 6926 2011 Egyptian revolution 5822 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami 5749 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster 5491 Arab Spring 5236 Occupy Wall Street 4664 American Idol (season 10) 4627 Death of Osama bin Laden 4535 List of 1000 Ways to Die episodes 4371 The Undertaker 4187 2011 Atlantic hurricane season 4004 Miss Universe 2011 3993 2011 England riots 3874 Anders Behring Breivik 3829 Muammar Gaddafi 3656 Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 13) 3582 2011 in film 3568 Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 12)

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[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool, version 5 - additional testing deployments
by Oliver Keyes 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

Hey guys, Just keeping you in the loop; we're going to be testing another change to the Article Feedback Tool on starting tomorrow, January 10. So far, we've done a bit of small-scale experimentation with the actual design of the tool, as announced on the blog,[1] the village pump, and on various mailing lists. This has all been on a tiny fraction of articles (~22k total articles, about 0.6% of the English Wikipedia), and a lot of really useful data has been gathered without bothering the vast majority of editors or readers. Ideally, that's what we'd aim for with all tests :). Even with Wikipedia readership reaching half a billion users per month, the feedback form its current position (at the end of the article) doesn’t see a whole lot of activity [2]. In this test, we’ll be experimenting with a more prominent way to access to tool. When a user loads the page with the test version of the Article Feedback Tool, they will see an “Improve this article” link docked on the bottom right hand corner of the page (please see [3] for a mockup). Since this link is docked, it will stay with the reader while they’re reading the article. The introduction of this link will undoubtedly increase the amount of feedback. We need to, however, understand how it affects the quality of the feedback. We genuinely don't know what the impact will be, which is why we're doing these tests :). As with the last tests, it'll be on a very small subset of articles and probably won't be noticed by most people. If you do encounter it, and it does bug you, you can turn it off just by going into Preferences > Appearance > Don't show me the article feedback widget on pages. If you've already ticked this option, the new link shouldn't appear at all; please do let me know if it does. We are working on a way to disable it "in-line" as well so you can simply dismiss the link without going to preferences. We’ll also be doing some preliminary analysis on whether such a prominent link cannibalizes editing behavior. The team is very aware that the new link may compete with the edit tab and section edit links. Since the test version of the tool is deployed on a limited number of articles, we will only get a rough read on how much, if any, cannibalization takes place. Per our research plan, we’ll continue to monitor the tradeoff between giving feedback and editing.[4] If any of you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me or drop a note on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5 Thanks! [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/20/a-new-way-to-contribute-to-wikipedia/ [2] Overall activity for current version (AFT4) : http://toolserver.org/~dartar/aft/; Activity for United States, one of the most frequently rated articles: http://toolserver.org/~dartar/aft2/?p=United_States [3] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AFT5-Feedback-Link-Option-D-12-28.png [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_feedback/Data_and_metrics -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation

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[Foundation-l] Iran plans to turn off Internet
by Gregory Varnum 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

Given the conversations about Bosnia and SOPA, I felt this was worth mentioning. There are a number of stories online about the government limiting Internet access within Iran: http://mashable.com/2012/01/06/iran-intranet-tests/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57354267-83/iran-squeezes-web-surfers-prep… http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577142713916386248.h… Please note that I'm not volunteering to help with any actions (sorry) and not (yet) necessarily advocating for or against action. However, I felt it was worth mentioning topic given recent discussions and the obvious conflict this presents for Wikimedia's interest in accessing any parts of Iran. I also have it from a reliable source that their government is indeed planning on a total Internet shut off in two weeks. I'm not comfortable sharing more on a public listserv, but if you have a logical reason for needing to know, email me off-list and I'll share more. :) Based on how I learned this, I suspect bloggers and others will be reporting on this soon (if they aren't already). Feel free to consider it wild speculation until then (and even after that if you'd like - I don't mind either way), but I'm confident in the source and that their government is preparing for these actions. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail before it gets out of hand. In the interest of getting discussion going, I'll refrain from sharing my own personal take on what's likely to happen. :) -greg aka varnent ------- Gregory Varnum Lead, Aequalitas Project Lead Administrator, WikiQueer Founding Principal, VarnEnt @GregVarnum fb.com/GregVarnum

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[Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool office hours - Friday 13th, 19:00 UTC, #wikimedia-office
by Oliver Keyes 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

Hey guys and girls As usual, the AFT5 team will be holding an office hours session this week; Friday the 13th, despite the unfortunate associations, at 19:00 UTC in #wikimedia-office. This'll be the first chance for everyone (including me!) to take a look at a working, useable wireframe for the feedback page and to provide feedback (hah) on it. Hope to see you all there :). -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation

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[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement: Fabrice Florin joins Wikimedia
by Erik Moeller 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

Hello all, I’m really happy to announce that Fabrice Florin is joining the Wikimedia Foundation as Product Manager for New Editor Engagement. In this position, Fabrice will take the lead in articulating and refining, in partnership with the community and the engineering team, the requirements for some of our most important features: those which will help us increase the engagement and retention of new contributors to Wikimedia projects. Fabrice has already been supporting us as a contractor on the Article Feedback V5 project, and I’m really pleased that he’s joining us full-time, starting next week. Six years ago, Fabrice founded NewsTrust, a non-profit organization dedicated to to helping people find quality journalism. As its Executive Director, Fabrice built the organization and the product from scratch, with a small team. NewsTrust is a fascinating community in its own right, and Fabrice and I first met when we discussed what lessons could be learned for Wikimedia’s own forays into rating/assessment tools. Before that, Fabrice had a long carreer in the tech and media industry. He was VP of Online Entertainment at Macromedia, CEO of Zenda, Executive Producer at Apple, and President of Videowest. Read more in his online bio: http://bit.ly/fab-bio Fabrice is perhaps the first WMF staffer with an IMDB entry. He directed the 1984 documentary “Hackers” which featured early tech luminaries like Bill Atkinson, Lee Felsenstein, Richard Stallman and Steve Wozniak. Please join me in giving him a big welcome to the Wikimedia movement. :-) Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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[Foundation-l] Wikimania 2011: Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Promo
by Itzik Edri 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Hi, Someone asked me today about the 10th Anniversary video that we made to Wikimania in Haifa... And I just realized that we didn't share him with the people who didn't came to Wikimania, so about six months after: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISIRS3Qj8NM If someone want the video as a file for screening, I can send him.. We going to show it again on our editors conference that we are hosting on Friday to celebrate the 11th Anniversary :) Itzik WMIL

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[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 02 -- 09 January 2012
by Wikipedia Signpost 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Technological roadmap: 2011's technological achievements in review, and what 2012 may hold http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-09/Techno… News and notes: Fundraiser 2011 ends with a bang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-09/News_a… In the news: Wikipedia ends annual fundraising drive; Monmouthpedia launches http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-09/In_the… WikiProject report: From Traditional to Experimental: WikiProject Jazz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-09/WikiPr… Featured content: Contentious FAC debate: a week in review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-09/Featur… Arbitration report: Four open cases, proposed decision in Betacommand 3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-09/Arbitr… Technology report: December in more detail; and why the MediaWiki codebase was "slushed" this week http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-09/Techno… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-09 http://identi.ca/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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[Foundation-l] IRC office hours this week with Sue Gardner
by Steven Walling 09 Jan '12

09 Jan '12

Hi everyone, This is just a note that on Thursday the 12th, at 22:30 UTC, WMF Executive Director Sue Gardner will be in #wikimedia-office to answer your questions. We haven't set a topic as yet, so feel free to come prepared with what is of interest to you right now. As usual, time conversion links and other documentation is on Meta.[1] Talk to you then! -- Steven Walling Community Organizer at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours

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