Wikimedia-l March 2013

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)
by WereSpielChequers 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

We shouldn't criticise people for coming up with programs such as IEP and AFT, but we should look at how long it took to stop them after serious opposition arose and major flaws were pointed out. As a movement we need to get much better at switching our efforts from blind alleys to things that we can get consensus for. WSC Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:19:41 +0100 > From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: ENWP Pine <deyntestiss(a)hotmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation) > Message-ID: <514B250D.8040301(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > ENWP Pine, 21/03/2013 05:48: > > I'd also suggest that people read the report about > > projects that encountered significant problems at > > WMF, particularly the IEP, > > I suppose the past tense here means that > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IEP/Welcome> should be tagged > {{historical}} rather than {{draft}}? > > > and a more recent example > > is the mixed reception to AFT5. I hope that program > > managers at WMF learn both good practices and what > > to avoid. I also hope that WMF ties program metrics > > to evaluations for the responsible supervisors when > > considering whether to continue or renew > > employment contracts, as well as when > > considering promotions. > > Nemo > > >

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hour inside out (program evaluation)
by ENWP Pine 23 Mar '13

23 Mar '13

I agree that the general ideas about IEP and AFT5 were worth considering, but I get the impression that there were preventable shortcomings in their designs and planning, and it bothers me a lot that I think I see *similar* flaws in the two programs. I get the impression that lessons from the IEP's catastrophic failure were not absorbed by the AFT5 planners and designers. I would need to do a "deep dive" comparison of IEP and AFT5 before I'm sure of the commonalities in planning and design problems, but I sure hope that someone at WMF is looking at this and shares the lessons widely. Pine

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Wikimedia Hungary expanding
by Balázs Viczián 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hi everyone, Wikimedia Hungary had rented its first office (33sqm or 350sq feet, good for meetings up to 20~25ppl) and hired its first full time (administrative) employee, so I'm happy to tell you, if you'll ever happen to be in or around Budapest, feel free to drop by in our office<https://maps.google.com/maps?q=1075+Budapest,+Mad%C3%A1ch+Imre+t%C3%A9r+4.&…> :) (just don't forget to tell, if you're coming at out of office hours :P) cheers :) *Balazs Viczian* Executive Vice President *Wikimédia Magyarország* Tel: +36 70 633 6372 Mail: balazs.viczian(a)wikimedia.hu Web: www.wikimedia.hu Blog: Magyar Wikipédia Magazin<http://huwiki.blogspot.hu> Facebook: Magyar Wikipédia <https://www.facebook.com/hu.wikipedia>

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How do you make a cross wiki message?
by Mathieu Stumpf 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Hello, I would like to promote the current brain storm effort on wiktionnaries future[1] with a cross wiki message, but I don't know how to proceed. I think it's very important to have a cross chapter implication on this topic, not only because more people will lead to more bright ideas, but also and mainly for community management reasons. As you know, each chapter have it's specificities, and it's important to take account of them, because they are a part of their respective community sustain. Now the idea behind the current brainstorm is that we would gain in normalization and storing cross-chapter information. I don't doubt people participating on the meta page are well aware of this, but all wiktionnaries regular contributors should become aware of it. So we can avoid a situation where some contributors discover that a new way to organize will compel on all chapters, and that this way of doing things doesn't match some of their specificities. So, of course I could go manually accross all chapters, but probably there's a more efficient way to do it, isn't it? [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary_future -- Association Culture-Libre http://www.culture-libre.org/

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 11 -- 18 March 2013
by Wikipedia Signpost 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

News and notes: Resigning arbitrator slams Committee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-03-18/News_a… Interview: Meeting in the middle: Wikipedia and libraries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-03-18/Interv… Featured content: Wikipedia stays warm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-03-18/Featur… WikiProject report: Making music with WikiProject Composers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-03-18/WikiPr… Arbitration report: Another arbitrator resigns; Richard case closes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-03-18/Arbitr… Technology report: Visual Editor "on schedule" for July rollout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-03-18/Techno… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-03-18 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 Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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Tomorrow: Office hour inside out (program evaluation)
by Frank Schulenburg 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hi folks, Tomorrow at 17:00 UTC, I will be holding an office hour about program evaluation on #wikimedia-office. The target audience for this office hour will be chapter representatives and volunteers who are currently running (or planning to run) programs and programmatic activities. You'll find some background information about why program evaluation might be worth talking about in my most recent blog post on the Foundation's blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/01/lets-start-talking-about-program-eval… As we all know, most office hours follow a certain rule: there's one poor staffer who is getting grilled by the people on the IRC channel – people ask a variety of questions and the staff person tries to answer every question in a limited amount of time. It's a lot of fun (I guess, at least for the people who're asking the questions) and it has been a good way of direct communication between WMF employees and the community. Now, this office hour will be different. Not that I don't enjoy being grilled for one hour :-) I've done IRC office hours several times before and I always enjoyed answering questions. The reason for this office hour to be different is that I want to _listen to you in the first place_. I would like to learn more about * _your_ thoughts about why evaluation might be important * _your_ experiences with making evaluation a part of program design * _your_ hopes and fears when it comes to increasingly evaluating programs and programmatic activities in the future * _your_ ideas and feedback on evaluation practices Ideally, we would have some people in the room tomorrow who have done some kind evaluation in the past or who are planning to embark on evaluation work in the near future. With that said – if you have no idea about what program evaluation is and you'd like to learn more about it, you're invited as well! Or maybe you're just curious to see if this "office hour inside out" is going to play out well ;-) I'm looking forward to meeting you tomorrow at 17:00 UTC, Frank

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WMF Grants Program Retrospective 2009-2012 published
by Asaf Bartov 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Dear friends and colleagues, Another component of the Wikimedia Foundation's increased focus on grantmaking is now ready for discussion: it is a retrospective report on the history, evolution, and processes of the Wikimedia Grants Program (the Foundation's first, and until fairly recently only, grants program). We were interested in an independent report by someone with a good understanding of wikis and our shared values, and chose a local Wikipedian named Kevin Gorman (User:Kevin Gorman), active on English Wikipedia, who has volunteered in the Wikipedia Education Program and also had an (unpaid) internship at the Foundation office in San Francisco for a few months in 2011. Kevin was paid our standard contractor wage for his work on this. Kevin has posted the report here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Retrospective_2009-2012 I'd like to thank Kevin for his work. I invite anyone interested to read the report and discuss it on its talk page. We believe your inputs will help us improve our current and future processes, especially as we deepen and widen our grantmaking programs and strategies. We look forward to a productive discussion. Please _do_ share this message and link with your respective communities and lists; please _don't_ discuss this on the lists, but on the talk page, so that Kevin can respond to questions, and so that I and others at WMF can provide input as well. Cheers, Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org

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Fwd: [Toolserver-l] [TS logo] Fwd: Free as in Wikimedia Foundation
by Samuel Klein 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

[Forwarding from the the toolserver-l branch of this thread] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Daniel Schwen <lists(a)schwen.de> Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:35 AM Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] [TS logo] Fwd: Free as in Wikimedia Foundation To: Wikimedia Toolserver <toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> What a nonsense issue. This superfluous discussion is fueled by two fallacies, the confusion of copyright and trademarking and an unhealthy paranoia toward the foundation. Protection of logos associated with the wikimedia community is a good thing. The foundation is an asset to the community! They can offer legal support in cases of abuse of wikimedia related symbology. It is absurd to create a spectre of a community-suing evil foundation while at the same tie ignoring the very real threat of dilution and abuse of wikimedia symbols and resulting damage of wikimedia community reputation by spam, phishing, link farming etc. sites. Sorry, but this is alarmist hippie crap and typical "netizen-outrage". ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org> Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:32 PM Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] [TS logo] Fwd: Free as in Wikimedia Foundation On 03/19/2013 11:35 AM, Daniel Schwen wrote: > Sorry, but this is alarmist hippie crap and typical "netizen-outrage". I'm not sure I'd have put it in such strong words, but I agree that this is very much overblown and misguided. It's important that any marks not be misused for "evil" purposes, and Trademark is the method to prevent it. That the foundation is willing to step up and handle the legalities is a /good/ thing. Making sure nobody can use a mark for bad reasons *means* having to okay proposed uses. If you want something "everyone can use without asking for any reason", you'll get something everyone *will* use for reasons you wish they wouldn't -- and then have no way to stop them. -- Coren / Marc _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mid-Year Financial Statements
by ENWP Pine 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Thomas, I agree with you that it would make sense to have a more thoroughly defined reserve policy, but I also caution against micromanaging the reserve. I believe that I said in my previous email directed to Erik that I'm wondering what the downside is of having some underspend for payroll due to hiring that happens later than planned. Unless the underspend is significant enough that it should impact the targets used by the Annual Fundraiser in a significant way, believe that the underspend isn't much of a concern. The issue that worries me about delayed hiring is the possibility of delays or disruptions to program schedules. Pine

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Mid-Year Financial Statements
by Garfield Byrd 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Hello: The mid-year financial statements of the Wikimedia Foundation are available at the Wikimedia Foundation - Financial Reports page.<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports> This report is for the period from July 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012. Please contact me with any questions. Regards, Garfield Byrd -- Garfield Byrd Chief of Finance and Administration Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext 6787 415.882.0495 (fax) www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org*

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