Wikimedia-l March 2012

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Re: [Foundation-l] Wiktionary App, beta release (Android v1.0.1b)
by J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

Forwarding on to foundation-l from non subscriber per request. ---------- Message transféré ---------- 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

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[Foundation-l] Why our privacy policy is a big public win
by David Gerard 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

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.

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[Foundation-l] Board Resolutions from March 30th 2012
by Ting Chen 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

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

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[Foundation-l] Press release about Wikidata
by Denny Vrandečić 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

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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Re: [Foundation-l] resolution on voting transparency
by WereSpielChequers 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

> Message: 2 > 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 > Message-ID: > <CAAi3vqFXi9tPrkD9LUQPT6uqpe+d6MNhiOMv027SDX+QeykZ=Q(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > 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 * > > > > ------------------------------ > 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

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[Foundation-l] resolution on voting transparency
by phoebe ayers 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

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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[Foundation-l] Fwd: India Program-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 29th @ 9pm IST (Outreach & Communication) (#wikimedia-office)
by Anirudh Bhati 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Posting to foundation-l. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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. _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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[Foundation-l] Wiktionary App, beta release (Android v1.0.1b)
by Patrick Hayes 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

Hi everyone! The first beta release of the Wiktionary mobile app for Android has been released! You can download the .apk file here (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4187555/WiktionaryActivity-v101b.apk) and load it onto your device. Please use it and report any bugs to the Wiktionary App bug list: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&list_id=99… Any other feedback can be left on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/WiktionaryMobileAndroidFeedb… Feedback can be given in #wikimedia-mobile, or the less active #wiktionary-mobile. Looking forward to seeing everyone's feedback! Thanks, Patrick Hayes http://patrickhay.es

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[Foundation-l] The Peoples Encyclopedia Under the Gaze of the Sages: A Sys tematic Review of Scholarly Research on Wikipedia
by Fred Bauder 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

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 Working Paper Series Free download http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2021326 Fred

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[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 13 -- 26 March 2012
by Wikipedia Signpost 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

News and notes: Controversial content saga continues, while the Foundation tries to engage editors with merchandising and restructuring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-26/News_a… WikiProject report: WikiProject Rock Music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-26/WikiPr… Featured content: Malfunctioning sharks, toothcombs and a famous mother: featured content for the week http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-26/Featur… Arbitration report: Race and intelligence review at evidence, article titles closed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-26/Arbitr… Recent research: Predicting admin elections; studying flagged revision debates; classifying editor interactions; and collecting the Wikipedia literature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-26/Recent… Education report: Universities unite for GLAM; and High Schools get their due. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-26/Educat… Technology report: A busy week: Git switchover, mobile site upgraded, and still time for three security releases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-26/Techno… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-03-26 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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