> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 18:06:48 +0100
> From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] [Announcement] James Forrester
> joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst
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> James, you're emigrating? I never thought I'd see that...
>
> Congratulations, traitor!
>
> On 17 May 2012 17:52, Howie Fung <hfung(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > Everyone,
> >
> > It?s my pleasure to announce that James Forrester is joining our San
> > Francisco office as a Technical Product Analyst, supporting the Visual
> > Editor team. James started his work as a remote contractor yesterday
> > and will be joining us in San Francisco later this year as a staff
> > member.
> >
> > James will help prioritize the short term and long term work log on
> > the Visual Editor, conduct user research, and incorporate community
> > feedback into the development process.
> >
> > As many of you know, James is a long-time Wikimedian. He started
> > contributing to English Wikipedia in October 2002, and was a founding
> > member of their Arbitration Committee. He was also the movement?s
> > volunteer Chief Research Officer, helping shepherd the predecessor of
> > what is today the Research Committee, has for years been the
> > ?gopher-in-chief? at the Wikimania community conferences, and helped
> > found Wikimedia UK in 2005.
> >
> > James joins us following a successful career in the UK government,
> > where he implemented key open access and open government initiatives.
> > Most recently, he was the acting Head of data.gov.uk, and then the
> > Digital Engagement Policy Lead in the Government Digital Service, both
> > at the Cabinet Office. James holds a Masters of Engineering in
> > Computer Science from the University of Warwick.
> >
> > Beyond technology, James has strong interests in international
> > politics, physics, communications, economics, law, the constitutional
> > history of Britain, and education.
> >
> > Please join me in welcoming James!
> >
> > Howie
> >
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> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 10:14:05 -0700
> From: Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)frontier.com>
> To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] [Announcement] James Forrester
> joins WMF as Technical Product Analyst
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> On 5/17/2012 10:06 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > James, you're emigrating? I never thought I'd see that...
> >
> > Congratulations, traitor!
> Just wait until he starts speaking like an uhmurricun, I mean American.
>
> --Michael Snow
>
> End of Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 98, Issue 37
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>
I was wondering why his hair was getting longer. Congratulations to our
newest surfer dude!
WSC
It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the
Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang.
Tanvir Rahman is a Wikimedian who serves the movement locally and
globally, both on- and off-wiki. Tanvir has been an active editor of
Bengali Wikipedia since 2009, he holds administrator rights on
multiple projects and he was elected a steward in 2011. He also
volunteers on the Small Wiki Monitoring Team, the Countervandalism
Network, as an OTRS agent, and is a translator for translatewiki.
Tanvir helped found Wikimedia Bangladesh and organizes local outreach
activities to raise awareness for Wikimedia and bring new editors to
the projects.
In his fellowship project, Tanvir will be experimenting with on-wiki
strategies to encourage and grow the editing community on small
language versions of Wikipedia, with specific focus on the Bengali
Wikipedia. Smaller projects have different needs and challenges than
the large language communities and may require different approaches to
engage with editors. By focusing on a community like Bengali
Wikipedia, which has about 50 active editors per month and sees 10 new
editors per month, Tanvir hopes to learn more about the basic editing
infrastructure needed to encourage new editors in new or small-scale
projects.
Steven Zhang is a Wikipedian with a passion for resolving on-wiki
disputes and helping others do the same. He has been contributing to
the English Wikipedia since 2008 and has been particularly active in
dispute resolution forums, including the Wikipedia Mediation Cabal.
Steven is studying a Certificate IV in Mediation at Open Colleges, and
over the past year he has made it his mission as a volunteer to
recruit more editors to join dispute resolution efforts. In 2011, he
helped create the dispute resolution notice board, an entry point for
mediating disputes on the English Wikipedia. Steven has noted that
there aren’t enough active participants to resolve all of the disputes
that arise on Wikipedia each day, and he believes that dispute
resolution processes could be streamlined to make them more accessible
and efficient to all editors who need them.
For his fellowship project, Steven will be analyzing community
feedback and dispute resolution activity in order to build a deeper
understanding of what is effective and what needs improvement in the
current systems. He will also be developing a guide for new editors
who want to get involved in resolving on-wiki disputes.
Steven and Tanvir will be documenting their work on-wiki and on the
Foundation blog. You can learn more about their projects and how to
get involved by visiting:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Fellows
Welcome, Tanvir and Steven!
--
Siko Bouterse
Head of Community Fellowships
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org
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Hi everyone,
On May 17th at 16:00 UTC, Kul Wadhwa (Head of Mobile and Business
Development) and Amit Kapoor (Senior Manager, Mobile Partnerships) will be
in #wikimedia-office to talk about Wikipedia Zero,[1] as well as the other
initiatives underway on the mobile team.
As usual, details and time conversion links are on Meta.[2] We have
scheduled this at a time that we hope works for Wikimedians from Africa and
Asia, since it was Abbasjnr's idea to have a mobile office hours. (Thanks
Abbas!)
1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
--
Steven Walling
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
They are XML dumps. Why did you say they are semi-useless?
I'm not sure if all the MediaWiki revision table parameters are available
in the XML dumps, but most of them are.
2012/5/17 Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 8:01 AM, emijrp <emijrp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > We at WikiTeam are uploading wiki dumps to Internet Archive, and recently
> > some official mirrors of Wikimedia dumps (articles + images) are being
> > created around the globe (currently in 3 different locations).
>
> Are these actual database dumps, or are they those semi-useless XML dumps?
>
--
Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada. E-mail: emijrp AT gmail DOT com
Pre-doctoral student at the University of Cádiz (Spain)
Projects: AVBOT <http://code.google.com/p/avbot/> |
StatMediaWiki<http://statmediawiki.forja.rediris.es>
| WikiEvidens <http://code.google.com/p/wikievidens/> |
WikiPapers<http://wikipapers.referata.com>
| WikiTeam <http://code.google.com/p/wikiteam/>
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/emijrp/
There's a nice interview with Ward Cunningham (father of the wiki)
this week in Dr. Dobb's [a programming journal]. The interview covers
programming, techniques for working well, wikis and Wikipedia:
http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/240000393
On wikis (p.2):
"I think that the thing I did right there was respect the people who
would come that I didn't even know, who had no right to deserve my
respect because I know nothing about them. But I would say, "Come on
in and I'll trust you to contribute in good faith and to make your
words a gift to this community." And we did. It was magical."
There's also a note that Ward is this year's recipient of the "Dr.
Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award", which is an exclusive award
given to just a handful of elite programmers (past recipients:
http://www.drdobbs.com/232500316). The award comes with a $1000 prize,
which Ward donated to the Wikimedia Foundation. Thanks, Ward, and many
congratulations!
-- phoebe
--
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<at> gmail.com *
Hello, everyone.
Due to the work load and some attrition, we are looking to expand the Grant
Advisory Committee[1] (GAC) soon. If you are interested in joining the
advisory body reviewing and making recommendations about the WMF's grants
program, please take a look and see if you'd like to express interest.
Details about the selection process will be posted in the coming few days.
Cheers,
Asaf
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grant_Advisory_Committee
--
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
Hallo Tilman,
Am 13.04.2012 um 13:01 schrieb wikimedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org:
>
> please find below the WMF report for March 2012, in plain text.
Thanks for publishing the new report.
> Since a few months, we have been publishing a separate "Highlights"
> summary. Please consider helping non-English-language communities to
> stay updated, by providing a translation:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_March_2012
> Many thanks to those who translated last month's "Highlights" into
> Danish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch and
> (partially) Arabic.
We have discussed this on the German Chapter's list recently. Most of those taking part in the discussion opined the Wikimedia Foundation provide translations of its documents into the most important languages. We touched upon the subject as WCA announced it will publish its reports in several languages. Translations should not be left to the community. It is not up to the community to get news from the Foundation, but it is rather up to the Foundation to get its message across to the community. Please note that only a minority of Wikipedians are able to understand your documents published in English. I would be quite grateful if we please could change this.
Regards,
Jürgen.
>
> I am happy to announce that effective today, Stephen LaPorte is joining
> the Foundation as legal counsel in the Legal and Community Advocacy team!
> Stephen has been interning with us for a semester, and we're thrilled that
> he's staying onboard. We went through a very competitive interview process
> and he was by far the best candidate for the role. One of the criteria for
> this role was that the candidate be a Wikimedian, and Stephen fits that
> neatly. *As a volunteer, he enjoys de-orphaning articles and cleaning up
> dead-end pages on the English Wikipedia. He also proofreads on the English
> Wikisource. He started contributing to Wikipedia in 2008 after working on
> [[w:Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve]] for a class project.*
>
> You'll have the chance to meet him at the Berlin Hack-a-thon, or at
> Wikimania this summer. *A little bit of background on Stephen: he
> studied English and Latin at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and law at
> the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He is interested
> in copyright, privacy, and trademark law. During law school, he worked on
> the Hastings Communication and Entertainment Law Journal.*
>
> Stephen will be helping out with contracts, content/community
> questions/issues, trademark approvals & licensing, trademark enforcement,
> and other general matters that come up for lawyers. Stephen will report to
> me.
>
> This was an extremely competitive process, and we're very lucky to have
> him join us.
>
Kind Regards,
Kelly
--
Kelly Kay
Deputy General Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
<http://walk.avonfoundation.org/site/TR?px=6370274&pg=personal&fr_id=2173&s_…>
<http://walk.avonfoundation.org/site/TR?px=6370274&pg=personal&fr_id=2173&s_…>
Fight For the Future, along with some of the other orgs that helped
coordinate SOPA protests, are working to coordinate alerts about
future threats to internet freedom. They hope to provide brief
pointers about what's at stake to everyone interested, once major
problems are identified.
Right now their work seem to focus on issues affecting the Internet in
the US; and it's not clear to me yet who define what threatens 'net
freedom. But in principle this is an important thing for the Internet
to have, covering every jurisdiction.
Has anyone been working on projects like this around the world? This
seems like something wikimedians could support in a less in-your-face
way than by blacking out wikipedia language projects, once problematic
issues become crises. At the very least, by offering a place to
summarize neutral information about the issues [and tackling the
related style and context issues; which we already do], and by helping
to make the conversation a global one.
SJ
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