@ Yana. You write "But we hope to make them all freely licensed eventually
and have already done so for newer logos (e.g. the new Wikivoyage logo)."
But commons does not reflect this
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Please advise?
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
Dear community
I am very pleased to be able to announce that the board of Wikimedia UK has formally adopted a five year strategy for the charity: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Overview_of_strategy
The strategy sets out not only our mission ('to help people and organisations create and preserve Open Knowledge, and to help provide easy access for all’) but also the way in which we aim to achieve that in practice.
To ensure that our day-to-day activities are closely focussed on attainment of our mission, we have committed to record and publish a wide range of measured outcomes which will indicate, on an ongoing basis, how we are performing against a range of strategic goals. These measured outcomes will build up over time into a comprehensive picture of the practical impact the charity has been able to make.
In preparing the strategy we consulted widely with own Wikimedia UK community, the Wikimedia community at large, other chapters, the Wikimedia Foundation, and interested individuals. The draft strategy documents were open for public consultation during the month of February, and feedback received was taken into account along with staff and board contributions. We have replied to the community feedback on-wiki: https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Strategy_consultation
We are confident that as the end result of this process we have a robust strategy that will serve us well in the years to come. It will enable us to maintain and track challenging but achievable targets while retaining operational flexibility to focus our day-to-day efforts on whichever individual activities and initiatives will best help us achieve practical impact.
We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the process, and we look forward to continuing to work with the community with renewed focus and vigour.
Best regards
Michael
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Michael Maggs
Chair, Wikimedia UK
Hallo,
A big red notice at the top of strategy.wikimedia.org says: "This wiki has
been closed per community discussion."
I understand what it means: that that wiki site finished serving its
purpose and became read-only. That is fine. However, some pages on it are
still useful for reference, for example the famous
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Trends_Study .
A lot of people who will see that big red message may misunderstand it.
Even though it's not Wikipedia, some people may think that "wiki" refers to
Wikipedia and think that the community decided to close Wikipedia. A
surprising number of people that I met think that the word "wiki" doesn't
mean "a site that anybody can edit", but "a Wikipedia *article*", so they
may see the Editor Trends study and think that the community decided that
it's not relevant any longer. There can be me many more misunderstandings
of this kind.
Can anybody please change that notice?
* It shouldn't be so big and red. In fact, it can be enough to say that the
wiki is read-only when somebody will try to edit it.
* It shouldn't say "wiki", but "site". Of course, all people in the world
should learn what a "wiki" is, but they haven't yet.
* It shouldn't say "closed", but "read-only" or "archived".
Thanks to whoever can perform it.
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
TLDR:transform the thank you campaign after the fundraising in a "Thank you campaign: became an editor"
Following a really nice discussion of the swiss mailing list, I had a look in the statistics here: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt5.htm
First, as unfortunately expected I notice the decrease between january 2013 and 2014, but in the second time I've been surprised by the increase in january 2014 comparing to december 2013.
I first thought the large press coverage of the "decline of Wikipedia" had an effect to motivate new editors, but when looking to these charts http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/new_editors
I notice that every winter we have these increase of editors , most probably due to the fundraising campaign.
But unfortunately, like for Wiki Loves Monuments effect, this increase of new editors during a month is not enough to invert the tendency http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors
It has been discussed several time in the past, but I guess we should do it again, how can we turned the fundraising campaign in a massive outreach campaign?
I have two leads, the easy one and the complex one :-)
The easy one would be to add to the thank you message an invitation to join/meet/take information about users-group, thematic organisation or chapters. This move may help to improve the retention by a face to face approach.
The complex one would be to develop a system to invite people to contribute in specific article.
The main point would be to transform the thank you campaign in a "Thank you campaign: became an editor"
The idea is to display a banner inviting the reader to edit wikipedia. the concept is the following:
identify the categories of the page currently displayed
select three articles in these categories with a template “expand” or similar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Empty_sectionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Expand_sectionhttp://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Section_vide_ou_incompl%C3%A8te
displayed a message like:
You can also help Wikipedia by expanding an article, here are three articles that need your help, if you want to know how you can help, click on the topic you like :
article from category one
article from category two
article from category three (or random category)
after the reader click on the article, send him to the section to expand:
in edit mode, with a banner explaining the basics of editing or
with visual editor displaying a banner explaining this mode
after publication of the article, a thank you banner, explaining how to register, with a link to the create an account page
I start a page on meta to see if this idea can be discuss/expand/improved/deployed https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/outreach_fundraising_campaign
Thanks for your comment or your help, you can also took my idea , change it totally and turn it in something doable! :-D
Charles
Hi all!
At the moment, the Individual Engagement grant committee has an open call
for volunteers :) We're looking for interested individuals who can put in
some time each round (we have two rounds a year) to brainstorm with
potential grantees, and help evaluate proposals for funding.
The call for volunteers closes March 9, so if you're interested please do
consider adding your name!
More detail can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee. We'd love to have you
on board :)
Regards,
Steven Zhang
[x-posted]
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the monthly IRC
office hour on March 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC/ 1000 PDT on
#wikimedia-office.
In this edition, we will be talking about our ongoing projects, like the
Content Translation tool[1]. Also, we would like to extend this invitation
specially to the students who are looking forward to participate in Google
Summer of Code (GSoC) 2014 and Outreach Program for Women (OPW) - Round 8,
for the Language Engineering projects[2] under Wikimedia. We will be happy
to answer your questions about our work and projects. Please see below for
the event details and check for local time at your location.
Questions can also be sent to me before the event. See you all at the IRC
office hour!
Thanks
Runa
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Intern…
Event Details:
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# Date: March 12, 2014
# Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140312T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net
Agenda:
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1. Ongoing Projects - Content Translation tool
2. GSoC and OPW - open house for Language Engineering projects
3. Q & A
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation