Hello Wikipedians:
There is a class of impoverished high schoolers in South Africa who started
a campaign on Facebook for free access to Wikipedia on their cellphones so
that they can do their homework. I just shot a film about the class
(currently editing) and published a blog post on the WMF blog about it:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/06/19/movement-for-free-access-to-wikipedia-…
I'm looking for Wikipedians who might want to be involved with this
campaign. Please contact me off list.
Thank you!
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It'd be great to see wikimedians there. Tom
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Date: 2013/5/7
Subject: [okfn-discuss] OKCon 2013 Call for Proposals – out now!
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Hi!
We are glad and excited to give you the news: the *OKCon Call for Proposals
is launched today*!
Read all about it on the OKCon website<http://okcon.org/call-for-proposals/>
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Submit your proposals and share the news – we are looking forward to your
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Beatrice
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Hi all,
a friend of mine is moderating a debate about Wikipedia for diplomat,
professor Marília Maciel, and I think it is of interested of some
wikimedians. Please, see more infomation bellow
http://www.diplomacy.edu/calendar/webinar-wikipedia-diplomats
Diplo Foundation has cood courses on Internet Governance that may be of
interest of those participating of some recent threads I've seen here.
Share also with your local community.
Regards,
Tom
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I request to removed from the lists of people interested in receiving information from Wikimedia.
UNsubscribe my account Immediately.
My E-Mail Address: dwimki(a)yahoo.com
I will EXPECT to receive a confirmation that my Wikimedia Account is PERMANENTLY CLOSED.
Mary K. Isaacs
Yesterday sv:wp reached 1 M articles. The one who did the passing was a
bot generated article of a butterfly
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erysichton_elaborata.
The bot behind this article is Lsjbot who creates articles from the
database Catalogue of Life
http://www.catalogueoflife.org/services/res/2011AC_26July.zip which
(complemented by other databases) which holds data of around 1.5 million
species. The bot genrates about 5000 new articles per day and has
generated just under 400 000 of the sv:wps million and continues...
The guy who runs he bot is a member of the Swedish chapters board
http://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kandidater_2013/Sverker_Johansson and is in
his civil life a University teacher. In this capacity he is also a guest
lecturer at the university of the Phillipines where he stayed the last
couple of months (and the bot was on hold). He is there active in
Cebuano-Wikipedia http://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unang_Panid and
supporting their local community, and he is now running his bot on their
wikipedia as well as on the Warai-Warai Wikipedia
http://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syahan_nga_Pakli. So perhaps at the end of
the year these two language versions will also pass the 1 million mark!
Anders
PS out other major botgenerating effort of all lakes in Sweden is also
making very nice progress, done 25% of all DS
Am 17.06.2013 16:01, schrieb Jan Ainali:
> 2013/6/17 Ilario Valdelli <valdelli(a)gmail.com>
>
>> One of the strategic goal of the plan of wikimedia movement is the quality.
>>
> That is true. However, the strategic plan does not go into detail on how to
> measure it. Is it an article that only has claims backed by sources? If so,
> the bot-generated articles are very high-quality. Is it a featured article?
> Then I guess that reaching the goal of 25% will be pretty tough.
>
> Actually, the most reasonable way to reach that goal, having 12,5 million
> quality articles in two years, is to use some sort of automation.
>
> /Jan Ainali
i don´t want to repeat all those arguments already quoted (lennard
already mentioned achim raschkas criticism, which i fully agree with),
since what happend, already happend, and will unstoppably happen in the
future. but i would say first of all the strategic goal is not to
contribute hundreds of mistakes a day. just to take the 1 millionth
article Erysichton elaborata: after an advice on the talk page a HUMAN
added, that the species is probably synonymized with Erysichton palmyra.
so far, so good. but even this correction is not enough. in 2010 the
genus erysichton was redefined and a new genus, jameela was described.
both taxa now desrcibed as in sv.wikipedia are invalid.
so just concerning this tiny tiny group of articles, there is already a
bunch of mistakes, the bot copied out of outdated databases. wouldn´t be
a big deal, if somebody mentioned that the articles sticked to the old
view. but that´s something a bot can´t handle. so how reliable is the
rest of the articles?
a bot can be a convenient helper for authors, who know, how to handle
it, as it seems has happened with the creation of the articles about
swedish lakes (i´m no expert with that though). but it is a desastrous
tool for our whole movement, if you create hundreds of thousands (!)
articles, without the slightest idea, how to handle the contradictions,
that will appear doubtlessly?
it´s a sad thing, that you mention quality and this action in one
centence...
truly utterly disappointed encyclopedic greetings,
kurt
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Hello all,
it’s my great pleasure to announce that as of today, Toby Negrin is
joining the Wikimedia Foundation as the new Director of Analytics.
Toby will be responsible for leading the analytics team, which is
responsible for enabling data-driven decisions in the Wikimedia
Foundation and the broader Wikimedia community.
As of today, the team consists of: Diederik van Liere, Dario
Taraborelli, Andrew Otto, Evan Rosen, Dan Andreescu, Stefan Petrea
(contractor), Erik Zachte (part-time), and Aaron Halfaker
(contractor). Newly integrated into the team are Dario, Evan and
Aaron.
Toby joins us from DeNA (formerly ngmoco), a $2B Japanese mobile
gaming company where he was Director of Analytics in the US from 2011
to 2013. He enabled data-informed decision making throughout the
company, established an Insights team and scaled the Analytics team to
21 members. He managed a 300+ node Hadoop platform, multiple data
driven applications and led the effort to open source Mobilize, a
script deployment and dataviz framework developed in-house at DeNA.
Prior to DeNA, Toby was Director of Product Management for Cloud
Platforms and Hadoop at Yahoo! from 2008-2011. Leading 10 PMs at peak,
through this group Toby was responsible for interfacing between the
hundreds of internal users of analytics, storage and other cloud
services and the developers/maintainers of said infrastructure. There
aren’t many jobs that could prepare you for Wikimedia’s complex
network of analytics stakeholders, but this surely is one of them.
Toby has worked as a software engineer for many years and holds a BS
Equivalent in Computer Science from California State University, an
MBA from NIMBAS Graduate School of Management in Utrecht, and a BA in
Visual Culture and History from University of California, Santa Cruz.
After growing up in the Bay Area, Toby’s lived recently in Stockholm
and Amsterdam so he’s using his spare time to explore California’s
wilderness on two feet and two wheels with his family. His two
daughters keep him pretty busy!
Toby is looking forward to making the shift to a mission-driven
non-profit organization. When I asked him what he’d be doing if not
Wikimedia, he expressed an interest in urban planning, green cities,
and public transport. In an alternative universe, San Francisco is
becoming a greener city with a more reliable public transport system.
In this one, we get awesome Wikimedia analytics instead. There are
always tradeoffs. ;-)
Toby’s incredibly excited about working with the team to tackle
Wikimedia’s analytics challenges and the increasing hunger for data
across the organization and the movement. Please join me in welcoming
him on board. :-)
All best,
Erik
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Hello,
In the WCA telephone conference we talked about the Journal. We were
discussing on useful content: what happened in your chapter, what events,
what contacts with national authorities, did you decide to become a FDC
chapter... a lot of things to report about. And we report anyway, in our
chapter reports, so why not putting the highlights in a short contribution
for the Journal?
Kind regards
Ziko
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Journal
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