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Chapters Dialogue
by Nicole Ebber 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Dear fellow Wikimedians, Wikimedia Deutschland would like to initiate – together with interested parties – a project called Chapters Dialogue. This project aims at a structured assessment of chapters needs combined with a stakeholder survey of other parties involved. The Chapters Dialogue is designed to help facilitate and support the chapters in thinking about what they want to do. In addition to this, we do not only want to talk to the chapters, but also consult with their key stakeholders and partners (Wikimedia Foundation, the Affiliations committee and the project communities) to ask for their opinion, their expectations and hopes. Those parties should be involved into the process from the start. I have recently created a Meta page and look forward to your comments, ideas, questions and feedback: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_Dialogue Please note that his is still a draft! I am collecting feedback and ideas at the moment. I also look forward to discussing the project in Milan next week and would like to kick things off after the conference. Thanks in advance for your input, besr regards from Berlin Nicole -- Nicole Ebber International Affairs Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Tel. +49 30 219158 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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Distributed Proofreaders hits 25, 000 books scanned and proofread
by David Gerard 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

This is pretty awesome. http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=53404 - d.

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[Language Engineering] Reminder: Office hour on 10th April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT
by Runa Bhattacharjee 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

* Hello, * * * * This is a reminder that the Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office hour today, i.e. 10th of April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT on #wikimedia-office (Freenode). The agenda can be found in the section below. * * * * Thanks * * Runa * * * * Agenda: * * 1. Introductions 2. Translate UX - Deployment and other news 3. Language Mavens - an outreach initiative with the Wikimedia language communities 4. MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle (MLEB) Release 5. Q/A - We shall be taking questions during the session. Questions can also be sent to runa at wikimedia dot org <runa(a)wikimedia.org> before the event and can be addressed during the office-hour. * ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:07 PM Subject: [Language Engineering] Office hour on 10th April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT To: mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Mailing List < wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org * Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team [1] invites everyone to join the team’s monthly office hour on April 10, 2013. We have some exciting updates about our ongoing projects, some of which have also been shared in our recent blog posts[2]. During this session we would like to walk through some of them. The team would also like to introduce a new outreach program which was mentioned in the last office hour held on 13th March 2013 [3]. Event details and the general agenda is mentioned below. See you all at the IRC office hour! regards Runa Event Details: ========== Date: 2013-04-10 (Wednesday) Time: 1700 UTC, 1000 PDT IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net Agenda: 1. Introductions 2. Translate UX - Deployment and other news 3. Language Mavens - an outreach initiative with the Wikimedia language communities 4. MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle (MLEB) Release 5. Q/A - We shall be taking questions during the session. Questions can also be sent to runa at wikimedia dot org <runa(a)wikimedia.org> before the event and can be addressed during the office-hour. [1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Language_Engineering_team [2] http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/features/internationalization-and-lo… [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-03-13 * -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 14 -- 08 April 2013
by Wikipedia Signpost 10 Apr '13

10 Apr '13

Wikizine: Introducing ''Wikizine'': WMF scales back feature after outcry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-08/Wikizi… News and notes: French intelligence agents threaten Wikimedia volunteer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-08/News_a… Featured content: Wikipedia loves poetry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-08/Featur… WikiProject report: Earthshattering WikiProject Earthquakes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-08/WikiPr… Arbitration report: Subject experts needed for ''Argentine History'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-08/Arbitr… Technology report: Testing week for developers and their deployments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-08/Techno… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-08 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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[wca] Milan meeting: draft agenda
by Markus Glaser 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Dear WCA enthusiasts, the Milan conference is coming closer. I have set up a page for our meeting on meta where you can find all the details and a draft agenda: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Meetings/2013… I propose to have three sessions: * Action teams: state and further tasks * Council meeting: organisational stuff, committees, charter * Open discussion: the near future of the WCA, tasks and near term goals Both timetable and agenda are not finalized yet. Please add your items to the list. Any input is very welcome! The meeting will be generally open to anyone interested. Best, Markus -- Markus Glaser WCA Council Member (WMDE) Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

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the Open Book & Wikimedia - join us in May?
by Sumana Harihareswara 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

On 04/09/2013 03:21 PM, wikimedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > From: Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke AT gmail.com> > Date: 2013/4/8 > Subject: The Open Book now available online for free and in print > To: openbook <openbook(a)okfestival.org> > Cc: Antti Halonen <antti.halonen AT finnish-institute.org.uk> > > > Hello, > > Thanks for your interest in the Open Book! We are happy to announce that > after a lot of work and passion, this long-awaited publication is now > available both online (for free!) and in print. > > THE CONTEXT // From makerspaces to data wrangling schools to archives, the > digital is being remixed by the open – and it is changing society as we > know it. The Open Book <http://theopenbook.org.uk> is an ambitious project > to explore these emergent understandings, put together by The Finnish > Institute in London as a part of the critical Reaktio series < > http://bit.ly/ZvrLn8> with the help of the Open Knowledge Foundation < > http://okfn.org> and a global team of contributors and mentors. > > THE BOOK // Inspired by the world’s first Open Knowledge Festival < > http://okfestival.org> this fall in Helsinki, The Open Book explores the > social and technological manifestations of this movement for the first > time, featuring over 25 in-depth thought pieces written by pioneers of > openness around the world from London to São Paulo - many of whom were > suggested by you! Also included is “The Evolution of Open Knowledge” < > http://bit.ly/YGwj7N>, the world’s first crowdsourced timeline of openness > from 1425 to the current day which we asked you to contribute to < > http://bit.ly/122EuLV> earlier this year. > > THE CONCLUSIONS // Due to the divisive nature of such an experimental > publication, we do not attempt to present any single argument on what > ‘open’ is. Instead, we hope The Open Book will serve as a platform for > discussion and a launching pad for new ideas about the future of a global > open knowledge movement in a time of rapid technological progress. > > THE LAUNCH // As many of you already know, The Open Book was officially > launched at FutureEverything in Manchester last month: < > http://bit.ly/146xxwf> Many thanks to everyone who came and showed their > support - it was a great event! Here's a summary by Antti Halonen, Head of > Society at the Finnish Institute: <http://bit.ly/ZvqHjj> > > GET YOUR COPY // Web: The Open Book is now available online for free as a > PDF (CC-BY-SA license) at <http://theopenbook.org.uk>. Print: You can also > grab a beautiful print copy at-cost via Amazon: <http://amzn.to/ZcZ2xn>. > Please share with colleagues and friends! > > THE END // Lastly, and most importantly, we'd like to thank each of you > from the bottom of our hearts for being involved - your ideas, advice and > support have made this project possible, and your work continues to inspire > us! We look forward to your discussions and feedback! > > For questions about the publication, you can email us at > openbook(a)okfestival.org - and do take a moment to continue the debate on > Twitter using the hashtag #TheOpenBook. > > With much love, > > The entire Open Book Editorial Team > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > hi, i'm: @kat_braybrooke <http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke> | find me at: > kaibray.com > currently hacking popular culture at: mozilla <http://webmaker.org> > otherwise, i'm into: open design <http://design.okfn.org/> | the open > book<http://theopenbook.org.uk/> > -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ms. Braybrooke, Please consider joining us in Amsterdam in May for the Wikimedia yearly hackathon. Travel assistance is available if you register by 20 April. We'll be working on MediaWiki, extensions, the API, the new Lua templates, and a lot more, and it would be a good opportunity for you to share your thoughts and work with people on Wikimedia and the Open Book. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013 Best wishes! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: The Open Book now available online for free and in print
by Everton Zanella Alvarenga 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hi all, for those in the Wikimedia movement interested on open knowledge more broadly, please, see bellow. I added on Wikimedia Commons a direct link to the PDF here<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TheOpenBook_issuu_FINAL.pdf> . Tom ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kat Braybrooke <kat.braybrooke AT gmail.com> Date: 2013/4/8 Subject: The Open Book now available online for free and in print To: openbook <openbook(a)okfestival.org> Cc: Antti Halonen <antti.halonen AT finnish-institute.org.uk> Hello, Thanks for your interest in the Open Book! We are happy to announce that after a lot of work and passion, this long-awaited publication is now available both online (for free!) and in print. THE CONTEXT // From makerspaces to data wrangling schools to archives, the digital is being remixed by the open – and it is changing society as we know it. The Open Book <http://theopenbook.org.uk> is an ambitious project to explore these emergent understandings, put together by The Finnish Institute in London as a part of the critical Reaktio series < http://bit.ly/ZvrLn8> with the help of the Open Knowledge Foundation < http://okfn.org> and a global team of contributors and mentors. THE BOOK // Inspired by the world’s first Open Knowledge Festival < http://okfestival.org> this fall in Helsinki, The Open Book explores the social and technological manifestations of this movement for the first time, featuring over 25 in-depth thought pieces written by pioneers of openness around the world from London to São Paulo - many of whom were suggested by you! Also included is “The Evolution of Open Knowledge” < http://bit.ly/YGwj7N>, the world’s first crowdsourced timeline of openness from 1425 to the current day which we asked you to contribute to < http://bit.ly/122EuLV> earlier this year. THE CONCLUSIONS // Due to the divisive nature of such an experimental publication, we do not attempt to present any single argument on what ‘open’ is. Instead, we hope The Open Book will serve as a platform for discussion and a launching pad for new ideas about the future of a global open knowledge movement in a time of rapid technological progress. THE LAUNCH // As many of you already know, The Open Book was officially launched at FutureEverything in Manchester last month: < http://bit.ly/146xxwf> Many thanks to everyone who came and showed their support - it was a great event! Here's a summary by Antti Halonen, Head of Society at the Finnish Institute: <http://bit.ly/ZvqHjj> GET YOUR COPY // Web: The Open Book is now available online for free as a PDF (CC-BY-SA license) at <http://theopenbook.org.uk>. Print: You can also grab a beautiful print copy at-cost via Amazon: <http://amzn.to/ZcZ2xn>. Please share with colleagues and friends! THE END // Lastly, and most importantly, we'd like to thank each of you from the bottom of our hearts for being involved - your ideas, advice and support have made this project possible, and your work continues to inspire us! We look forward to your discussions and feedback! For questions about the publication, you can email us at openbook(a)okfestival.org - and do take a moment to continue the debate on Twitter using the hashtag #TheOpenBook. With much love, The entire Open Book Editorial Team -------------------------------------------------------------------- hi, i'm: @kat_braybrooke <http://twitter.com/kat_braybrooke> | find me at: kaibray.com currently hacking popular culture at: mozilla <http://webmaker.org> otherwise, i'm into: open design <http://design.okfn.org/> | the open book<http://theopenbook.org.uk/> -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) OKFN Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org

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[Wikimedia Announcements] This Month in GLAM: March 2013
by The 'This Month in GLAM' team 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchives and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org. See you with GLAM-WIKI in London! http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2013 *This Month in GLAM – Issue III, Volume III – March 2013* ------------------------------ Australia and New Zealand report: The Sydney Wikipedian-in-Residence story (Part I): where, why, what http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Aust… Finland report: Preparing and Planning http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Finl… France report: Case study in museum newsletter; Akan; Sèvres; Quai Branly http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Fran… Germany report: Caesar and the provinces http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Germ… Israel report: Wrapping up a 6-months pilot project at the Haifa University Academic Library http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Isra… Italy report: Libraries! http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Ital… Mexico report: GLAM Activities in Mexico http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Mexi… Netherlands report: Wiki loves Monuments and Sound; Hackathon 2013; Hebrew and Jiddish words http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Neth… Spain report: GLAM Activities in Spain http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Spai… Sweden report: Fashion edit-a-thon; cooperating with the Working life museums http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Swed… Switzerland report: Small museums http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Swit… Taiwan report: GLAM Activities in Taiwan http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Taiw… UK report: Workshops: scientists and photographs http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/UK_r… USA report: Chemical Heritage Foundation resident sought; editathons in D.C. and New York http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/USA_… Open Access report: Topic Pages; Open Access on Wikispecies http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Open… Calendar: April's GLAM events http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/March_2013/Contents/Even… -- The *This Month in GLAM* team http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter _______________________________________________ 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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[Wikimedia Announcements] WMF engineering report for March
by Sumana Harihareswara 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities (including upcoming events, new hires, and open positions) in March 2013 is now available. Thanks to Guillaume Paumier and Tilman Bayer and the engineers who helped me put this together. I'm sorry for delaying and sending out this announcement a few days after the blog posting. Wiki version: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/March Blog version: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/04/04/engineering-march-2013-report/ We're also providing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/March/summ… For this particular announcement email, I'd like to experiment with giving you the summary instead of the full report -- please see below for the HTML text of that summary. I think that might be a better fit for this particular audience. Let me know what you think. As always, feedback is appreciated about the usefulness of the report and its summary, and on how to improve them. -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation *This content is prepared for inclusion in the March 2013 Wikimedia Foundation report<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_March_2013>. It is a shorter and simpler version of the full (and English-only) Wikimedia engineering report for March 2013<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/March>that does not assume specialized technical knowledge. * VisualEditor <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor> *(Accessible introduction to what the Visual Editor is<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/07/inventing-as-we-go-building-a-visual-…> )* In March, part of the team worked on infrastructure for the major new features that they'll be adding in the coming months. We aim for VisualEditor to be the default way all users edit our sites by July 2013, so it needs to let everyone edit the majority of content without needing to use the usual "wikitext" editor. This will mean adding support for references, (at least) basic templates, categories and images, each of which is a very large piece of work. This month the team primarily worked on draft designs and initial code to ensure users can edit categories and templates. The Visual Editor team undertook its first ever "Quarterly Review<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_r…>", whose slides<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor-Parsoid_-_2012-13_Q3_quart…>detail these designs, the work done to date and expectations for the near future. The alpha version of VisualEditor on mediawiki.org and the English Wikipedia was updated twice, adding better input and selection support, fixing a number of bugs, and restructuring the back-end so that the new features will be simpler to create. The Parsoid <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid> team (who are creating the parsing program <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing> that translates plain wikitext into HTML annotated for easy editing, and *vice-versa*) continued writing specifications, fixing bugs, and improving how Parsoid deals with different human languages, newlines and whitespace, and transclusion. And late in March, C. Scott Ananian joined us as a contractor. Welcome! Editor engagement <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_editor_engagement> In March, the editor engagement features team worked on three projects: Notifications <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_%28Notifications%29>, Article Feedback <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5> and Flow <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow>. For Notifications <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_%28Notifications%29>(formerly called 'Echo'), we developed a range of new features, including: the 'thanks<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#Thank_you_notifica…>' and 'user rights<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#User_rights>' notifications, as well as HTML email notifications<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Feature_requirements#HTML_email_digests>. We also started to collect our first metrics<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Metrics>and prepared a socialization plan for our upcoming release on the English Wikipedia later this month. You are welcome to test our work-in-progress here on MediaWiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo/Testing>. For Article Feedback<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5>, we deployed a new version of the tool on the and, for evaluation by their communities. Final features include 'discuss on talk page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Feature_Requireme…>' and 'auto-archive<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Feature_Requireme…>'. The tool was temporarily turned off on the English Wikipedia, where we expect to re-deploy it on an opt-in basis as soon as practical, as described on this talk page<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_…> . Design work continued on Flow <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow>, the upcoming user-to-user discussion system. We continued creating a 'Portal' that will engage discussion about Flow at three locations (mediawiki.org<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FlowPortal>, meta, and the English Wikipedia), and performing research<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal/Research> . The Editor Engagement Experiments<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Editor_Engagement_Experiments>team largely placed other projects – such as guided tours <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Guided_tours>, EventLogging<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EventLogging>, and others – on hold to focus on two key initiatives: the "Getting Started<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted>" process for onboarding new Wikipedians<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians>, and on making the redesign of account creation and login<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience>a permanent, internationalized part of MediaWiki core. For the Getting Started project, the team launched a new version on English Wikipedia, which included a new landing page with additional types of tasks suggested for brand new editors to try. The list of tasks is now generated by a basic recommender system<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians/Recommender_system>built by Ori Livneh, which gathers, filters, and delivered a fresh list of tasks automatically for every editor. This new backend paves the way for releasing the "getting started" feature on other projects, after we've completed data analysis and testing to understand which kinds of tasks are ideal for first time editors. Additionally, Matt Flaschen collaborated with the Editor Engagement Features team to build notifications<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo>to welcome new editors and invite them to contribute via the Getting Started. For the account creation and login work, S Page, Munaf Assaf, and the rest of the team rebuilt our design to work with MediaWiki core, and solicited reviews from outside the team. We currently plan to launch both interface redesigns on an opt-in basis in April, to have editors test the localization and other functional aspects of the forms via a URL parameter, before we enable them as default. Mobile <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Mobile_engineering> We have a stable version of the mobile-optimized website, which everyone on a smartphone uses by default, and we have a beta version that logged-in Wikimedia users can opt to use to see features we're still building. When functionality is polished enough, we promote it from the beta site to the stable site. In March, we added the ability to easily upload<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/11/putting-commons-contributions-in-your…>a lead image<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/28/add-an-image-to-this-article-uploads-…>to articles that lack one in the stable version of the mobile site. We also helped users by giving them a temporary fix to an issue we discovered that made logging in hard or impossible for some users of newer mobile web browsers; that problem had prevented a number of users from being able to upload photos via the mobile site. We are now well on our way to reach our goal of 1000 unique uploaders/month by the end of June 2013. Check out the mobile app dashboard <http://mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/> to see mobile contributions via the website and via apps. Also: we've added thumbnails of lead images from articles in the mobile watchlist view, as well as a "last modified" timestamp on articles in the stable version of the mobile site. We are currently focusing on some performance enhancements for the mobile site. In April we will graduate the "uploads dashboard" feature from beta to stable, will further refine our photo upload features, and will let beta site users see and use a feature to identify articles on subjects near your current location. The Mobile team that makes dedicated Wikimedia mobile apps have created an initial version of the Commons photo uploader app for Android; it is available for download in Google Play. The iOS version is still in beta, but should be available in the Apple app store next month. In March, Wikipedia Zero (explanation<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mobile_partnerships>) added new telecom partners (such as Axiata Group Berhad<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/19/axiata-wikipedia-zero-partnership/>), fixed some technical problems, and helped teach new staff how we do things. We also won an SXSW Interactive "Activism" award for Wikipedia Zero<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/13/wikipedia-zero-wins-2013-sxsw-interac…> . Max Semenik, Arthur Richards and Faidon Liambotis held an OpenStreetMaps mini-hackathon at Open Source Days 2013 in Copenhagen<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Events/Wikimedia_Mapping_Event_2013>. During the event, they agreed on an implementation strategy for a future WMF mapping cluster. The cluster would serve OSM "tiles" and thus help integrate OSM functionality better into Wikimedia sites, and help with our mobile apps which already make use of OSM data. Other useful engineering news - Lua scripting<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/11/lua-templates-faster-more-flexible-pa…>has launched on all WMF wikis, making templates faster and making pages more flexible. You can read that post to understand what to do on your wiki to take advantage of this, and you can also read about the implications for Wikimedia's future<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/14/what-lua-scripting-means-wikimedia-op…> . - We redesigned the Translate interface<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/25/redesigning-the-translation-experienc…>and made other progress<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/12/new-release-of-the-mediawiki-language…>on translation and language-related tools. - We have fresh, friendly instructions on reporting a technical problem<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/18/how-to-create-a-good-first-bug-report/>and invite you to help prioritize problems to fix<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/19/help-wikimedia-squash-software-bugs/> . - Our designers are collaborating with the Noun Project<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/13/the-noun-project-and-the-wikimedia-fo…>towards creating an "Encyclopedia Collection" of free icons. - Our Operations group (the systems administrators who keep our servers running) has started a twice-monthly meeting with other engineering teams, to keep communication flowing about requirements and possible upcoming problems or server needs. - The User Metrics API <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_Metrics>launched; it's a service that allows researchers to perform cohort analysis <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohort_study> on various data sets, making it easier to measure the effects of programs and platform experiments among discrete sets of users. The Analytics group<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics>, which works on software to make statistics about Wikimedia available, is currently working on improving the web-based user interface, to make it available for use outside of Wikimedia Foundation staff in the coming months. _______________________________________________ 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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Re: [Wikimedia-l] French intelligency agency forces removal of a Wikipedia article
by Romaine Wiki 08 Apr '13

08 Apr '13

An intelligence agency that apparently hasn't done enough intelligence to know that doing such action would cause the opposite and also clearly do not know how Wikipedia works. Did I had to high expectations or were their criteria of quality too low? On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 12:31:29, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote: > I can't see what would be sensitive in the article.. I think that the existence of the article is considered too sensitive for them, not realizing that all information is already elsewhere on the internet. On Fri, 5 Apr 2013 22:09:51, "Peter Southwood" <peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net> wrote: > Well that's one way of drawing attention to the site... We should thank them for making Wikipedia get in the spotlights. Free publicity. As the intelligence agencies are enough encyclopaedic to have in our encyclopaedias, maybe we should think of setting up a project like Wiki Loves intelligence agencies. ;-) Compared to Wiki Loves Monuments are the heritage agencies loved by the Wikipedians and the heritage agencies like the Wikipedias, while with Wiki Loves intelligence agencies is probably only a one-way loving. Romaine

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