Hoi,
Fabrice, I very much love the two stories described in the vision. It
describes not only a functionality that is technical, it also describes how
our community may interact. That is great.
What I missed are the consequences of the planned integration of Commons
with Wikidata. I blogged about it [1] and I suggest three more stories that
could be told because they are enabled by this integration. What I do not
fully understand is how the community aspects will integrate in an
environment that will be more multi lingual and multi cultural as a
consequence.
I have confidence that the three stories that I suggest will be realised by
2016. Not only that, I am pretty sure that as a consequence the amount of
traffic that our servers will have to handle will grow enormously to the
extend that I am convinced that our current capacity will not be able to
cope. Then again, they are the luxury problems that make us appreciate how
much room we still have for growth.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1]
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2014/01/wikimedia-multimedia-featuresvis…
On 10 January 2014 01:39, Fabrice Florin <fflorin(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Happy new year, everyone!
>
> Many thanks to all of you who contributed to our multimedia programs last
> year! Now that we have a new multimedia team at WMF, we look forward to
> making some good progress together this year.
>
> To kick off the new year, here is a proposed multimedia vision for 2016,
> which was prepared by our multimedia and design teams, with guidance from
> community members:
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/09/multimedia-vision-2016/
>
> This possible scenario is intended for discussion purposes, to help us
> visualize how we could improve our user experience over the next three
> years. We hope that it will spark useful community feedback on some of the
> goals we are considering.
>
> After you’ve viewed the video, we would be grateful if you could let us
> know what you think in this discussion:
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_…
>
> We are looking for feedback from all users who benefit from Commons, even
> if their work takes place on other sites. This vision explores ways to
> integrate Wikimedia Commons more closely with Wikipedia and other MediaWiki
> projects, to help users contribute more easily to our free media repository
> -- wherever they are.
>
> In coming weeks, we will start more focused discussions on some key
> features outlined in this presentation. If you would like to join those
> conversations and keep up with our work, we invite you to subscribe to our
> multimedia mailing list:
>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
>
> We look forward to more great collaborations in the new year!
>
> All the best,
>
>
> Fabrice
> on behalf of the Multimedia team
>
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>
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Dear Wikimedians,
Here is the monthly report of Wikimedia Argentina for December 2013.
You can read the full report (in Spanish and English) here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Argentina/Reportes/2013-12
Also, the full reports of past months are available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Argentina/Reportes
1. New publication: «¿Cómo educar con Wikipedia?»
2. Virtual training for teachers
3. Content digitization
=== New publication: «¿Cómo educar con Wikipedia?» ===
With a clear objective of widening the resources aimed at teachers, to use
Wikipedia in the classroom, Wikimedia Argentina has translated the document
«Case studies: How professors are teaching with Wikipedia», originally
produced by Wikimedia Foundation. The document goes through successful
cases and different exercises that have given good results to teachers of
different levels, especially in tertiary education. These cases are proof
of how versatile Wikipedia is as an education tool.
With this brochure, we hope to increase the references available for
teachers interested to work with Wikipedia. «¿Cómo educar con Wikipedia?»
joins our collection of documents, formed by «Wikipedia en el aula»,
«Manual de bolsillo del Wikipedista» and the compliation of articles
«Bicentenario de la Revolución de Mayo».
The document is available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Programa_de_Educaci%C3%B3n_Wikipedia_-…
=== Virtual training for teachers ===
The Centre of Innovation in Technology and Pedagogics, in the department of
Innovation and Academic Quality of Universidad de Buenos Aires, organized a
massive virtual course focused on training teachers in new technologies,
and learning new teachers' practices related with those. The course
«Escenarios con tecnología: entre lo real y lo posible» began at the end of
November and lasted till mid-December. Close to 2.500 Spanish-speaking
teachers all over the world (counting amongst these, professionals from
Albania and China), of which 200 took part of all the practical exercises
suggested during the course.
The last week of November the course was dedicated to collaborative
learning contexts, with an important emphasis on Wikipedia. We presented a
video with Patricio Lorente and held a videoconference amongst Wikipedians
and participants of the course. We opened a special forum so the people
involved could revise articles on Wikipedia, suggest changes and talk with
Wikipedia collaborators. The Wikipedia volunteers acted as tutors, teaching
diverse aspects of Wikipedia, guiding through different editing stages and
motivating the participants of the course to join the community. Through
this real-editing experience, many people who had never edited the free
encyclopedia before were able to do it for the first time, and other
participants who did not edit actively were able anyway to know more about
the encyclopedia.
After two weeks experience, 49 topics were created in the forum, which
received 325 messages. New articles were created, like «Resignificar» and
«Vito Campanella», while other articles were substantially improved, like
«Wikinomía» or «Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas (UNMSM)», aside from a
dozen other articles with minor changes.
=== Content digitization ===
All throughout the year, several institutions received a do-it-yourself
scanner to digitize books. This has allowed different organizations to
share their books on Wikimedia Commons. The library and documentary center
«Feminaria», part of the Tierra Violeta Cultural Center, uploaded 43 books
of its collection to Wikimedia repositories. This works greatly cover the
feminist ideology books published in our country during the XX century.
This collection has works by María Saez de Vernet, Rafael Barreda, Paulette
Pax, Alfonsina Storni, and many others, and also has documents like «Civil
rights of women», by Eduardo Padró and the International Feminine Congress
transcripts, amongst others.
Some months ago, the Library of the School of Humanities and Educational
Sciences of the National University of La Plata shared part of its archive
on Wikimedia Commons. Thanks to the home-made scanner they received as a
loan, they were able to upload 42 books to Wikimedia Commons. These cover
very varied topics, such as agricultural sciences, rural history studies,
books about Julio Cortázar, Borges and many other publications.
With this program, we not only promote the aperture of publications for
their free spreading, but we also promote wiki culture within local
institutions. The aim of bringing together these successful cases is, as
well, to make an open call for volunteers that wish to collaborate in any
of these projects. In some cases, the process of translating these scans to
text has been started on Wikisource, but there are still many documents to
transcribe. During 2014, these scanners will be moved to new institutions,
thus we can bring the process of digitization further, and continue to
promote Argentina's written heritage.
---------------------------
Kind regards,
*Osmar Valdebenito G.*
Director Ejecutivo
A. C. Wikimedia Argentina
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Happy new year, everyone!
Many thanks to all of you who contributed to our multimedia programs last year! Now that we have a new multimedia team at WMF, we look forward to making some good progress together this year.
To kick off the new year, here is a proposed multimedia vision for 2016, which was prepared by our multimedia and design teams, with guidance from community members:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/09/multimedia-vision-2016/
This possible scenario is intended for discussion purposes, to help us visualize how we could improve our user experience over the next three years. We hope that it will spark useful community feedback on some of the goals we are considering.
After you’ve viewed the video, we would be grateful if you could share your feedback in this discussion:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Multimedia_Features/Vision_…
We are looking from feedback from all users who benefit from Commons, even if their work takes place on other sites. This vision explores ways to integrate Wikimedia Commons more closely with Wikipedia and other MediaWiki projects, to help users contribute more easily to our free media repository -- wherever they are.
In coming weeks, we will start more focused discussions on some key features outlined in this presentation. If you would like to join those conversations and stay informed on our work, we invite you to subscribe to our multimedia mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/multimedia
We look forward to more great collaborations in the new year!
All the best,
Fabrice
on behalf of the Multimedia team
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Product Manager, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia
Hello,
I would like to speak on this list about the basic income.
For a TL;DR about the concept, the idea of an (unconditionnal) basic
income is to give each citizen of a country a sum of money in order to
fullfill their basic needs: lodging, eat, be healthy. To give an idea of
the amount, one hears often 800-1000 € in France and I heard 2500 CHF in
Switzerland. If people want to earn more, their work income will be in
addition of this basic income. You can read more on the Wikipedia articles
([1] and other languages). Be aware, this idea is as strange as Wikipedia
when one discovers it.
As a Wikipmedian, I dream of such a basic income: it would empower the
people to edit the Wikimedia projects by giving them libre time (libre as
free speech). I don’t think Wikimedia itself should support this to avoid
being involved in politics, but probably many Wikipmedians could be
interested in this idea.
For the European citizens, there is currently an official call (an ECI
[2]) to support this idea at the European level, see [3] ; this call ends
in one week (yes, the 200,000 signatures is a bit far of the million
signatures needed). In Switzerland, a popular legislative initiative
collected more than the 100,000 needed signatures in September 2013, and
this will lead to a nationwide referendum about the basic income there.
Any thoughts about that?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Citizens'_Initiative
[3] http://sign.basicincome2013.eu/
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Hi, all-
The Foundation's legal team is happy to announce that the first draft
of the new data retention guidelines are now available for your
translation, review, and feedback. This draft is the result of a
collaboration between many teams within the Foundation, including
Analytics, Operations, Platform, Product, and Legal.
The guidelines are here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_retention_guidelines
The talk page is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Data_retention_guidelines
As with the other privacy documents, this draft is just that: a draft.
We want to hear from you about how we can make it better. We plan to
hold the community consultation period for this draft open until 14
February 2014.
Once the consultation period is over, the document will continue to be
updated to reflect current retention practices.
Thanks-
Luis & Michelle
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Hi.
Can anyone explain the relationship between Wikimedia and oDesk?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/oDesk
As I understand it, the Wikimedia Foundation uses oDesk with contractors
to track their hours. (Right?)
But it also appears to be a job board of some kind. It seems like a hybrid
of LinkedIn and Craigslist, though I haven't looked carefully and I'm
still lightly poking around. It seems like the kind of place where you can
post Wikipedia paid editing services. If this is part of oDesk, does
anyone know roughly how many people offer or buy these services?
Regarding paid editing, Jimmy reiterated his stance on his talk page
saying "I very very strongly condemn such editing, and this is no
exception" and expressing his "usual principled objections to such
things in the strongest possible terms."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/589723131
I think the underlying issue deserves a discussion, apart from particular
examples.
MZMcBride
Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
January 9, 2014 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). Please note that on this
occasion we are holding this meeting on the second Thursday of January, but
we will resume holding the meetings on the first Thursday of each month
thereafter.
The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and
the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream.
The current structure of the meeting is:
* Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also
specialized reports and analytic
* Review of financials
* Welcoming recent hires
* Brief presentations on recent projects, with a focus on highest priority
initiatives
* Update and Q&A with the Executive Director, if available
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further
information about how to participate.
We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Praveena
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