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From: Amgine <amgine(a)wikimedians.ca>
To: rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com>
Cc: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Dale Lemieux <dale.lemieux(a)gmail.com>, yuvipanda(a)gmail.com, Shealen Clare <
shealen.clare(a)gmail.com>, Tony Cheng <hy.cheng(a)utoronto.ca>,
mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wiktionary-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:17:50 -0700
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wiktionary App, beta release (Android v1.0.1b)
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 19:28 +0200, rupert THURNER wrote:
> While I really appreciate that wiktionary is covered so prominently I
> am a little confused as well. What is, from a technical standpoint,
> different in this app compared to the wikipedia app?
>
> rupert
The Wiktionary mobile app accesses the Wiktionary project. It is
developing contexts for that project, such as the dialectic audio
pronunciation files, WOTD, and (probably in a future release) a rich
interface to the translation data embedded in Wiktionary articles.
At the same time, it is removing some of the Wikipedia context, like the
extensive geographic code. In the process the project is helping to lay
a foundation for a Mediawiki app framework that is not specific to any
of the Wikimedia Foundation projects.
But the UCOSP is primarily about putting students in an opensource
production scenario, giving them real world tasks in an apprenticeship
model and helping them develop skills to work in a geographically
dispersed team. In other words, training potential WMF developers.
Amgine
This is about what happens when someone does the *bloody simple and
obvious* with all the data that Facebook, FourSquare, etc. live of
getting people to give out:
http://www.cultofmac.com/157641/this-creepy-app-isnt-just-stalking-women-wi…
Spread that link to the non-geeks you know.
(FourSquare have responded with an act of security theatre, killing
that app and ignoring that their entire business model relies on
people making themselves stalkable.)
This is another example of why Wikimedia's privacy policy is not just
the right thing to do, but a serious public image advantage for us.
- d.
Dear members of the community,
After having discussed the final aspects of this today I would like to
announce the following three resolutions
1) Board of Trustees Voting Transparency:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Tra…
1) Fundraising 2012:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Fundraising_2012
2) Funds Dissemination Committee:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee
For those of you who are currently in Berlin, we will have a 2 hour
window tomorrow to discuss this together, we invite you to send
questions for this session to Harel Cain (<harel.cain(a)gmail.com
<mailto:harel.cain@gmail.com>>) He will be moderating tomorrow's session
which will be similar to the Q&A session we had in Paris.
We are currently working on a Question and Answer document which we will
publish as soon as possible.
Although the decision has now been made, we have a large number of
challenges ahead of us and I hope that we as a movement will come
together to make the Funds Dissemination Committee a success by working
with us to come up with answers tot the questions that we still have and
helping to make it work!
--
Ting Chen
Member of the Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
E-Mail: tchen(a)wikimedia.org
Hi all,
Wikimedia Germany is sending out a press release about Wikidata today. The
press release sums up the information that has been published on Meta since
last Wikimania, where it was first presented and discussions started, and
refined since then, including information about the donation that is making
Wikidata possible.
<http://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Pressemitteilungen/PM_3_12_Wikidata_EN>
More information about Wikidata is on its Meta page:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata>
We are very excited about the Wikidata development team starting on Monday.
This also means, that in the future we will be communicating about Wikidata
much more, as the development is finally starting. Yay!
I want to take this opportunity to thank the donors of Wikidata, the Allen
Institute of Artificial Intelligence ai2, the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation, and Google for the generous support, that enables us to work on
the Wikidata project for the next year.
Exciting times are waiting for us, Cheers all,
Denny
--
Project director Wikidata
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Eisenacher Straße 2 | 10777 Berlin
Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:03:55 +0200
> From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Foundation-l] resolution on voting transparency
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> During the Board of Trustees meeting today we passed a resolution on
> Trustee voting transparency:
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Tra…
>
> asking that in future resolutions we publish the names of trustees
> with their votes for each resolution.
>
> best,
> Phoebe
>
>
> --
> * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers
> <at> gmail.com *
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>
>
> ------------------------------
>
That's a very welcome move, and I hope it helps build bridges back to the
community. From time to time we will have very divisive issues to discuss,
and in such situations it is much easier for the "losing" side in the
community if they can see that their voice was heard on the board, as
opposed to the board appearing to make a monolithic decision. In the
current arrangements it can sometimes seem that the community is divided
and the board is on one side of that divide. It will be much healthier for
the movement if the board takes a majority decision in scenarios where the
community is divided.
Sometimes it may even be worthwhile to record why the board minority
dissented.
Regards
WereSpielChequers
During the Board of Trustees meeting today we passed a resolution on
Trustee voting transparency:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Tra…
asking that in future resolutions we publish the names of trustees
with their votes for each resolution.
best,
Phoebe
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<at> gmail.com *
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From: Hisham <hisham(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:54 AM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March
29th @ 9pm IST (Outreach & Communication) (#wikimedia-office)
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi Folks
Reminder about the IRC later today (9pm IST on March 29th.) Join in using
this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.
As I had indicated earlier, what we will do going forward is to publish an
opening statement - which is below. We'd like to have a rich discussion
around these topics for 45 minutes and then throw it open for 15 minutes
for any other topics that anyone wants to discuss.
There have been more than 22 outreach sesssions (English + some Indic
languages) across India over the past 2 1/2 months. We have been working
on constantly every component of outreach.
* Pre-session work - building supporting material (documents,
presentations, handouts etc), evaluating different ways of conducting an
effective outreach, using different ways to reach out to organisations with
the proposal to conduct a session etc.
* Session work - adopting different techniques of doing outreach, how do
we get participants more involved during the session, how to filter out the
folks so that we do the editing session only with the genuinely interested
participants, how to balance between practical and theoretical aspects of
training, how much information to give out in one session etc.
* Post-session work - how do we provide editing support to the
participants, how do we collect their contact information, how do we keep
in touch with them on regular basis, how do we invite them to join other
Wiki projects, how do we track their edit count - soon after the session,
after 1 and 3 months of conducting the session etc.
We'd like to discuss these. In the IRC, the following will be covered:
* Indic Outreach: How can we do more outreach session in Indic langauges in
particular? / Can regional communities work to translate supporting
material? / How do we provide more support to different language
communities to conduct these sessions?
* More Outreach: If we are doing 7 outreach session in one month right now
is there a way of us doing 10 every month? / Can we find more community
members who will be willing to conduct these session? / For community
members who are interested to conduct outreach sessions but think they lack
confidence - is there a way we can help them?
* Better Outreach: Can we find some volunteers who will be willing to
"adopt" these newbies and give them support? .
*I'd strongly encourage all those folks who have been actively involved in
conducting these sessions over the past 2 months to join this IRC. It will
be great if you could share your first hand experience with the wider
community on what worked, what didn't, what we could have done better etc.
I especially do want to ask Indic Wikimedians to join because we
desperately need more outreach sessions in Indic languages.*
We will also briefly address the early stages of the communications work -
which are the storytelling and Wikipatrika support that was announced
yesterday. Given it's early days on communications, I'd prefer this IRC
stay largely focussed on outreach since there is so much to work through
there.
See you all there!
Apologies for sending this note this morning and not last night as I had
promised.
*hisham*
p.s. There is a (tiny) possibility that I might be slightly late but you'll
all be in Nitika's safe hands. I shall try and my level best to be on time.
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Abstract:
Wikipedia has become one of the ten most visited sites on the Web, and
the worlds leading source of Web reference information. Its rapid
success has inspired hundreds of scholars from various disciplines to
study its content, communication and community dynamics from various
perspectives. This article presents a protocol for conducting a
systematic mapping (a broad-based literature review) of scholarly
research on Wikipedia. The purpose of this review is to analyze
particular trends in research and offer the basic groundwork for future
studies. We identify what research has been conducted; what research
questions have been asked, and which have been answered and which remain
unanswered; and what theories and methodologies have been employed to
study Wikipedia. This protocol follows the systematic literature review
methodology to conduct a systematic mapping study. The review process is
work in progress, and has thus far identified over 2,000 studies.
This working paper is a rough first draft combining three different
working papers by the authors. In its current form, it mainly serves as a
placeholder to provide a source for attribution for the website, which
presents the papers analyzed in the systematic part of this review.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 71
Keywords: Wikipedia, systematic literature review, open content, open
knowledge, free cultural works, open source
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Fred