Greetings,
The Affiliations Committee is pleased to announce the recognition [1] of
the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group - a user group for "MediaWiki developers,
admins, users, consultants, and hosting providers who cooperate in order to
improve the software and advocate the needs of MediaWiki users outside the
Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and its projects."
This group shows great promise and potential for helping organize folks who
are interested in making MediaWiki even better and give a voice to the many
non-WMF users of the software.
So, now we have them joining the family of affiliates. Please, let's give
them a warm welcome!
More info about the group:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholder%27s_Group
Congratulations!
-greg aka varnent
Vice-Chair, Affiliations Committee
1:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/MediaWik…
Hello,
A reminder that Language Engineering's monthly office hour will be
happening later today at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please see below
for the original announcement, local time, and agenda.
Thank you.
Runa
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: November 12, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141112T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Content Translation project updates and plans
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me before the event)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:05 AM
Subject: [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on November 12, 2014
(Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing
List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next monthly IRC office hour of the Wikimedia Language Engineering team
will be on Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office.
We will be taking questions and also discussing about the availability of
the new version of the Content Translation tool[1][2] and upcoming plans.
Please see below for event details and local time
Thank you.
Runa
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
[2]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/03/announcing-the-second-version-of-the-c…
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: November 12, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141112T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Content Translation project updates and plans
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me before the event)
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
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Wikimedia Foundation
Hi folks,
At the Zurich Hackathon, I met with a couple of folks from WM-CH who
were interested in talking about ways that chapters can get involved
in engineering/product development, similar to WM-DE's work on
Wikidata.
My recommendation to them was to consider working on GLAM-related
tooling. This includes helping improve some of the reporting tools
currently running in Labs (primarily developed by the illustrious and
wonderful Magnus Manske in his spare time), but also meeting other
requirements identified by the GLAM community [1] and potentially
helping with the development of more complex MediaWiki-integrated
tools like the GLAMWiki-Toolset.
There's work that only WMF is well positioned to do (like feeding all
media view data into Hadoop and providing generalized reports and
APIs), but a lot of work in the aforementioned categories could be
done by any chapter and could easily be scaled up from 1 to 2 to 3
FTEs and beyond as warranted. That's because a lot of the tools are
separate from MediaWiki, so code review and integration requirements
are lower, and it's easier for technically proficient folks to help.
In short, I think this could provide a nice on-ramp for a chapter or
chapters to support the work of volunteers in the cultural sector with
appropriate technology. This availability of appropriate technology is
clearly increasingly a distinguishing factor for Wikimedia relative to
more commercial offerings in its appeal to the cultural sector.
At the same time, WMF itself doesn't currently prioritize work with
the cultural sector very highly, which I think is appropriate given
all the other problems we have to solve. So if this kind of work has
to compete for attention with much more basic improvements to say the
uploading pipeline or the editing tools, it's going to lose. Therefore
I think having a "cultural tooling" team or teams in the larger
movement would be appropriate.
I've not heard back from WM-CH yet on this, but I also don't think
it's an exclusive suggestion, so wanted to put the idea in people's
heads in case other organizations in the movement want to help with
it. I do want WMF to solve the larger infrastructure problems, but the
more specialized tooling is likely _not_ going to be high on our
agenda anytime soon.
Thanks,
Erik
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Report_on_requirements_…
--
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Dear all,
This last weekend, Wikimedia Venezuela (WMVE) held its annual general
meeting at Caracas, Venezuela. During our meeting, the members held the
elections for seats in the Board, to be vacated by five (5) Board members
through a period of 3 years.
The results of the Board Seats election are:
*(Terms to begin on February 1, 2015)*
1. *Oscar Costero - President* *(reelected)*
2. *Tomás Guardia - Vicepresident*
3. *Ybsen Lucero - Treasurer **(reelected)*
4. *Kevin D Landaeta - **Secretary*
5. *Jenner Fuentes - **Spokesperson*
We are excited to have three new members in the Board, and we look forward
to working with them in the coming months. At the same time, we would like
to extend our thanks to our outgoing board members, *Carlos M Colina,
Samuel Cirilo *and* Fhaidel Dominguez*, for their service to the Board and
to Wikimedia Venezuela.
Cheers,
--
Oscar Costero
(+58) 0412-9161792
Presidente | Wikimedia Venezuela
J-40129321-2
http://wikimedia.org.ve | @wikimedia_ve <http://twitter.com/wikimedia_ve>
There might be people at Wikimedia network interested in this job position.
:) Please, share.
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From: Beatrice Martini <beatrice.martini(a)okfn.org>
Date: 2014-11-11 12:21 GMT+00:00
Subject: [OKFN-Local-Coord] Seeking new Executive Director at Open
Knowledge. Closing date for applications: December 8, 2014.
To:
Dear Open Knowledge Community,
Today we are delighted to put out our formal announcement for a new *Executive
Director*!
Read all about it here
<http://blog.okfn.org/2014/11/11/seeking-new-executive-director-at-open-know…>
.
The *closing date for applications is 9am (GMT) on Monday, 8th December
2014*.
Please do share this with your networks and especially anyone in particular
you think would be interested.
Thank you!
Best,
Beatrice
--
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<https://twitter.com/beatricemartini>
Open Knowledge <http://okfn.org/>
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>
> PS: Stakeholder's or Stakeholders?
>
Stakeholders or Stakeholders' would be correct.
Stakeholder's implies there is one stakeholder only - presumably not the
intention.
The difference only matters to pedants with very good English, but worth
getting right.
Chris
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Nurunnaby Hasive <nh(a)nhasive.com> wrote:
>
> > Welcome & Congratulations!
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Gregory Varnum <
gregory.varnum(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > The Affiliations Committee is pleased to announce the recognition [1]
of
> > > the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group - a user group for "MediaWiki
> > developers,
> > > admins, users, consultants, and hosting providers who cooperate in
order
> > to
> > > improve the software and advocate the needs of MediaWiki users outside
> > the
> > > Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and its projects."
> > >
> > > This group shows great promise and potential for helping organize
folks
> > who
> > > are interested in making MediaWiki even better and give a voice to the
> > many
> > > non-WMF users of the software.
> > >
> > > So, now we have them joining the family of affiliates. Please, let's
give
> > > them a warm welcome!
> > >
> > > More info about the group:
> > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Stakeholder%27s_Group
> > >
> > > Congratulations!
> > > -greg aka varnent
> > > Vice-Chair, Affiliations Committee
> > >
> > > 1:
> > >
> > >
> >
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/MediaWik…
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> > *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive*
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>
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