Wikimedia-l May 2014

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Can't we simplify merge proposals?
by Rui Correia 08 May '14

08 May '14

Can't we create a way that will simplify merge propsals into a simple 1-minute procedure? A template with: Merger [Quercitrin] into [Quercitin], Motivation [bla bla bla] that would automatically display the merge notice on all revelant pages? Best regards, Rui -- _________________________ Rui Correia Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Work Consultant Bridge to Angola - Angola Liaison Consultant Mobile Number in South Africa +27 74 425 4186 Número de Telemóvel na África do Sul +27 74 425 4186 _______________

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Metrics - accuracy of Wikipedia articles
by edward 08 May '14

08 May '14

phoebe ayers Wed May 7 23:22:07 UTC 2014 >>And those peer review systems have lots and lots of problems as well as upsides. Nothing is perfect. The peer review system is definitely flawed. One flaw, actually, is that it is hard to find good reviewers. Once it took a year and a half. This is an economic problem. There is a strong incentive to publish, because of the status and recognition it brings. There is no comparable reward for review work. I enjoy it, because it exercises my critical powers. But there is little other form of reward. E

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Metrics - accuracy of Wikipedia articles
by edward 08 May '14

08 May '14

The study that Erik refers to here http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-May/071565.html was seriously flawed. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/language-blog/bal-dont-trust-wikipedia-on-…

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Amical Wikimedia Report, April 2014
by David Parreño Mont - Comunicació 08 May '14

08 May '14

Dear fellows, The following message is just to keep you informed about the activities developed in April by Amical Wikimedia. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/April_2014 Kind regards, David Parreño Mont User:Davidpar Communications, Amical Wikimedia ---- *Source:* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/April_2014 GLAM-WIKI10 hours edit-a-thon for 100 design students During April we did the central activity of the project where we are mixing GLAM and EDU with the Design Museum of Barcelona. Around 400 students in 25 classrooms of 13 design schools are improving Wikipedia Articles. On April 25 we did a 10 hours long design editathon (organized in groups from 10 to 20 people) at the Documentation Center of the Museum. Click here[2] to see more pics. It was the opening day of the documentation center so students could behave as beta testers. One of the good points was doing it graduatelly with small groups so we could help them personally and also that they could take the books back home (15 days free-rent), so Wikipedia articles are being improved since then. We also did a backstage pass to the warehouse of the documentation center and a general guided tour to the building. Outreach - April 3rd- Conference: *Projectes voluntaris i col·laboratius de traducció* (Volunteer driven translation projects) at Col·legi de Doctors i Llicenciats (url): 25 attendees - Kippelboy - 28th January to 14th April — Il·lustraciència Award[3] from Associació Catalana de Comunicació Científica (Catalan Asociation of Science Comunication) give to the participants the option to accept Wikimedia Commons upload of their artworks. Post in the blog 12th february[4]. Results: 211 artworks liberated[5] (upload soon) - April 10th - Public presentation of Wikiproject Barcelona's popular culture[6] (done in collaboration with Town council) - April 25th - 10 hours design editathon at the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona. (100 attendees) Projects - 1st April - Joan Brossa Foundation releases wikiquote material[7] of the artist and help us referencing existing one. - 28th April - "Colita: la reivindicació de la mirada"[8] conference press pass for a Wikimedia Commons contributor. Judesba - Ongoing project: Wikiproject Public Libraries - Ongoing project: Wikiproject Miró - Ongoing project: Víctor Balaguer Museum project - Ongoing project: Music Museum in Barcelona - Ongoing project: Museu Morera in Lleida - Ongoing project: CCCB, Contemporary cultural center in Barcelona - Some other smaller GLAMWIki projects Meetings - April 3rd - Scientific Committee meeting for organizing "Libraries and heritage conference" at Ateneu Barcelonès in Nov 20. Kippelboy - April 4th - GLAMwiki projects planning meeting with Museu Blau-Natural History Museum in Barcelona. Vàngelis Villar - April 22d - GLAMwiki projects planning meeting with National Archaeology Museum in Tarragona- Kippelboy & Lluis_tgn - April 22d - GLAMwiki projects planning meeting with local *Hemerotèque*in Tarragona- Kippelboy & Lluis_tgn - April 22d - GLAMwiki follow up meeting with Victor Balaguer Museum- Kippelboy - April 28th - Meeting with Lavinia Productora to talk about a project proposal- Kippelboy - April 29th - Follow up Meeting with Head of Catalan Public Libraries Network- Kippelboy - April 30th - Introduction GLAMWIKI Meeting with Sitges Museums Director- Kippelboy Education1s Wikipedian in Residence in a EU University. User Jey is the brand new Wikipedian in Residence of the Open University of Catalonia[9]. Project has been designed in phases. On this phase 1 his main goals will be mapping the already published Open Materials in the universty (CC-BY-SA docs, Opencoursewares,...), specially focusing on Audiovisual materials (videos). Also mapping the teachers who are already doing Wikipedia-related projects and trying to scale this opportunities to the rest of the proffessors. The first phase of the residency will last from April to July 2014. Outreach - April 8th - Wikipedia Editing course at La Bisbal d'Empordà Highschool - Anskar - April 24th - Kick of meeting for the First ever Wikipedian in Residence in an European University[10] (UOC) - Kippelboy Jey - April 28th - Wikipedia presentation to 35 teachers of the Barceloneta high-school, organized by Barceloneta library - Kippelboy - April 28th - Wikipedia presentation to 80 schoolars (9 & 10 y.o.) of la Garriga (els Pinetons school) - Amadalvarez - April 29th - Amical's representation at the awards ceremony of the websalpuntcat award (Teenage Catalan language websites contest) - Kippelboy - wikiArS - April 1th to 30th. Exhibition wikiArS: contribució de les escoles d'art i disseny a Viquipèdia[11] (*wikiArS: contributions from art & design schools to Wikipedia*) in the Badalona central Library Can Casacuberta. - April 25th. Talk Imatges per a la Viquipèdia: l'aportació de les escoles d'art i disseny[12] (*Images for Wikipedia: the art & design schools contribution*) in the Badalona central Library Can Casacuberta. - April 29th. Exhibition of the illustration of hipotetic Augustus sculpture by Cristina Toro next to marble toe discovered in Tarragona roman temple. During the talk Una estàtua d'August a Tarraco?[13] by Professor Joaquín Ruíz de Arbulo at Nacional Arqueological Museum of Tarragona. Projects - Ongoing project: Wikiproject Design Museum in Barcelona (1st year: 400 students) - Ongoing project: WikiArS - Ongoing project: GRACMON wikiproject (2nd year: around 75 students) - Ongoing project: ESMUC wikiproject (1st year: around 40/50 students) - Ongoing project: Viquiclàssics Wikiproject (1st year: around 50 students) Meetings - April 8th - Wikipedian in Residence at Open University of Catalonia planning meeting- Kippelboy - April 8th - Design edit-a-thon planning meeting- Kippelboy - April 8th - Wikipedia introduction meeting with Dr in Maths didactics from UPC (Joan Gómez)- Kippelboy - wikiArS - April 10th - Meeting at Nacional Arqueological Museum of Tarragona with Museum curators and four students from School of Art that are in intership with Amical. See the assignments here[14]. Lluis_tgn, Dvdgmz - April 28th - Meeting at Llotja, supervision of 10 students in internship, with teachers Alicia Gallego and Elvira Dominguez. Dvdgmz - April 29th - Meeting with I.Labastida from UB. Exploring options of participation in wikiArS. Dvdgmz Other Catalan Cultural Challenge On april 15ht ended the first edition of multilingual Catalan Cultural Challenge[15] on Wikipedia: *792 articles* created or expanded by *50*volunteers in *92 languages*. It was a public writing competition around Catalan culture. The goal of this first edition was to improve and translate this list of 50 notable people into as many languages as possible. Winners got great Prizes and Barnstars. It run from 00:01 16 March until 23:59 15 April 2014 (CET UTC+01:00). The contest was simple in structure, based on a KISS point system: You get points while improving articles, with the goal for each participant to gain as many points as possible. Our primary mission and goal (Amical) is for the sum of all human knowledge to be available in Catalan and for all knowledge about Catalan culture to also be available in every language. This project has been just one of our first international steps. Outreach - April 10th - Wikipedia workshop at Sabadell Astronomical Group. Leptictidium Davidpar - April 10-13th - Attendance to Wikimedia Conference 2013 in Berlin: Kippelboy Arnaugir Micru and F3RaN Meetings - April 10th - Wikiwomen project planing meeting with Barcelona Towncouncil Gender gap deputy and programme managers.- Kippelboy Organization Amical is awarded with National Culture Prize The National Council for Arts and Culture (CoNCA) decided to award one of its ten annual prizes to Amical Wikimedia in recognition for its work of promoting Catalan language and culture and the free knowledge. The award ceremony will be celebrated on June 2nd with the presence of the Catalan president, Artur Mas. The prize is supplied with 15,000 euro. Other - April 16th — Monthly meeting via IRC chat[16] of the Catalan Wikimedia community. - The Jury formed by Arnaugir, KRLS, Quimgil and MuRe decides to grant all 7 candidates which asked for receiving a scolarship to attend Wikimania 2014 in London. The initial expected amount was €350 (for each one of the 10 available scolparships), but since fewer have been granted, the amount has increased to €500. The grantees are the following users: - Coentor, from València (Valencian Country) - Lluis tgn, from Tarragona (Catalonia) - ESM, from Mollerussa (Lleida, Catalonia) - F3RaN, based in Berlin - dvdgmz, from Premià de Mar (Barcelona, Catalonia) - barcelona, from Barcelona (Catalonia) - Davidpar, from Palafrugell (Girona, Catalonia) - Renewed our presence in the Census of entities for the promotion of the language[17] of the Catalan Government ("Cens d'entitats de foment de la llengua"), which exempts donations for Amical from paying some taxes - Finished Amical's first quarterly FDC report[18]. - Amical joins the Statement of Intent[19] proposed by the Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU. Media - April 19th: La nació de Tlön[20], Màrius Serra. La Vanguardia - *Wikiars: joves creadores i coneixement lliure*. Judit Montenegro. Weekly newspaper *La Directa* number 359. - WLE coverage: Europa Press, Generalitat de Catalunya - Coverage of WiR at the Open University of Catalonia : La Vanguardia, Barcelona TV, UOC - National Prize for Culture coverage: La Vanguardia, Cultura 21, El Confidencial, VilaWeb, Europa Press, El País, El Periódico, El Punt Avui, 324.cat, Ara, Llengua catalana, Ara, *Ara* editorial. - April 14th: Una editorial alemanya vol llançar la Viquipèdia en paper[21], Ara - "Dia Internacional de la Dona", *Revista de Palafrugell*, 246, p. 17, on WikiWomen Edit-a-thon [1] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Museu_del_Disseny/Viquimarat%C3… [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Editathon,_Museu_del_Disseny_de… [3] http://illustraciencia.cat/en/informacio/ [4] http://www.wikimedia.cat/2014/02/12/il%C2%B7lustraciencia-convida-als-parti… [5] http://illustraciencia.blogspot.com.es/search/label/wikimedia [6] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Cultura_popular_de_Barcelona [7] https://ca.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joan_Brossa [8] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Colita:_la_reivindicaci%C3%B3_d… [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_University_of_Catalonia [10] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:UOC [11] http://badabiblios.cat/exposicio-wikiars-contribucio-de-les-escoles-dart-i-… [12] http://badabiblios.cat/xerrada-imatges-per-a-la-viquipedia-laportancio-de-l… [13] http://www.wikimedia.cat/events/66/conferencia-una-estatua-daugust-a-tarrac… [14] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiArS_assignments_with_EADT [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Catalan_culture_challenge [16] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquip%C3%A8dia:Reunions_per_xat [17] http://www20.gencat.cat/portal/site/Llengcat/menuitem.b318de7236aed0e7a129d… |18] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round1/Amica… [19] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EU_policy/Statement_of_Intent [20] http://www.hoteldilluns.blogspot.com.es/2014/04/la-nacio-de-tlon.html [21] http://www.ara.cat/media/editorial-alemanya-llancar-Viquipedia-paper_0_1120…

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Timothy Sandole and (apparently) $53, 690 of WMF funding
by ENWP Pine 07 May '14

07 May '14

I agree with the general idea of some of the questions being raised a few emails above this, but can we please keep the Sandole discussion to a single thread if possible? I'll restate the issue by Russavia in a different way, and I would like to direct this question to WMF instead of the chapters. Will the Foundation prohibit chapters and other thematic organizations from the "creation of paid roles that have article writing as a core focus, regardless of who is initiating or managing the process" as a condition of receiving WMF funding and using the WMF trademarks? I think carefully managed article writing can be done successfully by chapters and other organizations, for example if a Wikimedia DC wanted to sponsor a Wikipedian in Residence at the National Institutes of Health to improve articles about cancer. The responsibility for training and supervision could rest with the chapter and the host organization, and the edits could be tagged for community review. Pete posted some good ideas for WiRs in general in the Signpost last week: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-04-23/Op-ed. The situation with Belfer had a lot of problems, but I don't think it should completely stop us from having Wikimedia-sponsored WiRs add content. That would be a bridge too far. Regards, Pine

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WikiConference USA - almost here!
by Pharos 06 May '14

06 May '14

I am very pleased to announce that WikiConference USA is less than 30 days away! Over the last few months, Wikimedia NYC and Wikimedia DC have been collecting curated submissions on a diversity of wiki and free/open knowledge-related topics (with tracks on Community, Tech, Outreach, GLAM, Education), and recruited some excellent keynote speakers who can speak to their personal activism and leadership in these domains. But this is a "Wiki" conference, and what it thrives on most is your participation, your differing areas of experience and expertise, to enliven and enrich all of the sessions we have planned together. And, exciting too, there still will be numerous opportunities for "unconference" sessions led by participants on the fly, and we encourage you to bring the ideas from your domain for these sessions as well. Here are the details for the conference: Dates: Friday, May 30, 2014 - Sunday, June 1, 2014 Location: New York Law School (185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013) Website: http://wikiconferenceusa.org Email: wikicon(a)wikimedianyc.org Registration: http://wikiconusa.eventbrite.org/ And our distinguished and dynamic roster of keynote speakers: *Phoebe Ayers - Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees *Sumana Harihareswara - Wikimedia Foundation Engineering Community Team; Advisor, Ada Initiative *Christie Koehler - Community Building Education Lead, Mozilla Corporation *DC Vito, Executive Director - The LAMP/MediaBreaker For more information, please review our official press release below! We hope you will join us and help us spread the word! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCon_USA_2014_Press_Release_v1.p… Thanks, Richard Knipel (User:Pharos) Wikimedia NYC

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Wikipedia and Universities
by Andy Mabbett 06 May '14

06 May '14

Jimmy Wales was recently asked, on Twitter: How do you collaborate with Universities? <https://mobile.twitter.com/AarhusUni/status/460706953795502080> to which he replied: Right now mostly through our GLAM programs (galleries, libraries, museums). <https://mobile.twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/460711968698281984> While it's nice go see GLAM recognised (the "A" stands for "Archives", BTW), that's a bit of a slap to our colleagues who work on education projects. -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Wikimedia Mexico. Report of Activities of April 2014
by Carmen Alcázar 06 May '14

06 May '14

Dear community: Below you will find the report of activities of the month of April 2014 done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with us if you require extra information about this activities or only to make some suggestions. The report is also available on Spanish and English in our wiki: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Abril_2014/ (Spanish) https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Abril_2014/en (English) Kindly regards on behalf our chapter. Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito) WMMX Secretary. ==Migrahack Mexico City== Wikimedia Mexico was part of the initiative of running a migrahack in Mexico City and supported the organization. The point of the event was to gather together journalists, academics, students, NGOs and programmers to collect and put order to disperse data about migration in Mexico and to do some data mining to obtain new knowledge on that topics, and generate statistics. Wikimedia Mexico, trough our volunteer and Board member Alan Lazalde gave some talks to show the importance of free knowledge and open access to data in order to create new knowledge based on that. The results of the Migrahack are in the web page ot the Institute for Justice and Journalism. ==Aldea Digital 2014== For the second year in a row, Aldea Digital was held at Mexico City, a digital inclusion event at the main square of Mexico City, with a very high attendance. A strategy covering the full 17 days of the event was planned, but a few days before the event its organizers made changes to its program and thus only required Wikimedia Mexico's presence during only one day of talks and a keynote by Iván Martínez. On April 11, the Wikimedia Mexico team gave a full day of introductory 20 minutes talks of Wikipedia. According to organizers stats, about 1,300 people attended to our program of talks given by volunteers Omar Sandoval (10 talks), Christian Cariño (5 talks), Andrés Cruz y Corro (5 talks), Adrián Cerón (5 talks), Rodolfo Galicia (5 talks), Anny Garcia and Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs (5 talks). This event required a high effort on our part, but was a very grateful experience for our chapter. In order to avoid the fatigue of talking for several hours in a row, our volunteers took turns giving the talks, reducing the overall tiredness and encouraging everyone to become a better speaker for future Wikimedia Mexico events. On April 21, Iván Martínez gave the keynote "Freedom in the Free Encyclopedia. The Foundations of Wikipedia's Freedom". The talk, with a duration of an hour and a half, was attended by 131 participants and was presented as one of the main contents of the event by Aldea Digital's organizing staff. In the same stage Steve Wozniak, Moshe Hogeg (Mobli creator), Walter Bender (MIT researcher) and Yin Lou (Coursera) gave a keynote each. - // Photo: Andres Crúz y Corro during a talk in Aldea Digital: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andres_Cruz_en_Aldea_Digital.jpg ==Children's Day at Biblioteca Vasconcelos== The Biblioteca Vasconcelos (Vasconcelos Library), venue for the next Wikimania 2015, held an event organized on occasion of Children's Day, celebrated annually in Mexico on April 30. The Library gave us the option to read stories to children. However, when the Wikimedia Mexico community realized the public was expected to be aged 3 to 10 years, we decided to innovate and make an original story based on the core values of Wikipedia: free knowledge, sharing, curiosity and freedom. Our volunteer Andrés Cruz y Corro, also a NaNoWriMo participant, wrote a story called "An adventure called knowledge". This story was told on April 27 and was very well received by the children as a way to convey the values behind Wikipedia in a fun and different way. We encourage other Wikimedia colleagues to use this story as a way to reach out to younger children and instill the seed of free knowledge. A translated copy of the story to English will be available in a few days. // Watch the gallery in Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Children%27s_Day_at_Biblioteca_… ==Journal== - April 1 *Second day of the Wikipedia workshop by Nohemí Chilpa at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Iztapalapa (UAM-I) as part of CEUAMI's Semana de Talleres del Capitulo de las Ciencias de la Computacion de la UAM-Iztapalapa (Worhshop Week at the Computer Sciences Chapter of UAM) *Meeting of Wikipedistas en Puebla with SocialTic. - April 3 * Q & A session by Christian Cariño with Prof. Adriana Álvarez' class under WMMX's Education Program at National Autonomous University of Mexico's (UNAM) Philosophy and Letters Faculty within the Historical Analysis Seminar. // Read the full report: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes_abril_2014_Seminario_FFyL_de_la_UNAM - April 8 * WMMX's Participation at Universidad Tecnológica Emiliano Zapata's Technology Fest 2014 event in Morelos State: Omar Sansi imparted a Wikipedia workshop and Christian gave a talk about the encyclopedia. // Read the full report: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Abril_2014/UTEZ - April 11 *Participation in Aldea Digital. A total of 30 Wikipedia workshops, each for 30 people during 20 minutes, offered by Wikimedia México's (Omar Sansi/Omar_sansi, Christian Cariño/User:Christian Cariño, Andrés Cruz/User:Andycyca, Adrián Cerón, Rodolfo Galicia, Anny García and Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs/User:Correogsk) The event was organized by Telmex and Mexico City's Government. -April 11 to 13 *Participation of Ivan Martínez, Carmen Alcázar and Salvador Alcántar in the Wikimedia Conference 2014, Berlin, Germany. // Read the full report: https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Abril_2014/Wikimedia_Conference_2014 // Photo: Representatives of the Wikimedia Iberocoop chapters at the end of the meeting within the Wikimedia Conference 2014: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON2014_-_Foto_final_reuni%C3%B3n… -April 16 *Meeting of José Flores with Alejandro Alonso for the implementation of WMMX's Education Program at Instituto Nacional de Ecología, Xalapa, Veracruz. -April 19 *Meeting of Wikipedistas en Puebla for define the Annual Plan to share photos in Wikimedia Commons from Fototeca Lorenzo Becerril, Puebla. -April 20 *Master keynote by Iván Martínez in the main stage of Aldea Digital 2014. Zócalo, Ciudad de México. -April 21 *Meeting of Jorge Luis Esquivel Zubiri with the Foreign Affairs office of Gobierno del Distrito Federal for Wikimania 2015. *Wikipedistas en Puebla meeting. Planning for "Puebla 100" project. -April 22 *Q & A session by ProtoplasmaKid with Prof. Adriana Álvarez' class under WMMX's Education Program at National Autonomous University of Mexico's (UNAM) Faculty of Philosophy and Literature within the Historical Analysis Seminar. - April 21 to 24 *Meetings for Wikimania 2015 with Hoteliers Association of Mexico City and Majory of the City staff. -April 24 * Iván Martínez was interviewed by Leopoldo Gómez Ramírez in the program "So Close, So Far: A Voice of Mexico in the United States of North America", a bilingual radio program (Spanish and English) transmitted by 91.1FM of Amherst, radio station from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. * Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs, in substitution of Iván Martínez, gave the talk "How to collaborate in Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects?" within FLISoL Aragón 2014 (Department of Physics-Mathematics and Engineering, FES Aragón, UNAM). -April 25 *Participation of Christian Cariño in FLISoL Acatlán, with the talk "Wikipedia México" *Participation of Iván Martínez in FLISoL of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana campus Azcapotzalco with the talk "Lo libre en Wikipedia". Mexico City, Mexico, -April 26 *Wikipedia Monthly workshop at TelmexHub, offered mainly by Andrés Cruz y Corro (second level) and Carmen Alcázar (beginners), with additional contributions by Iván Martínez, Omar Sansi and Gustavo Sandoval Kingwergs. -April 27 *Children's Day activity at Biblioteca Vasconcelos with the story "An adventure called Knowledge" written by Andrés Cruz y Corro and read by Wikimedia Mexico's volunteers Iván Martínez (4) Carmen Alcázar (2) and Omar Sandoval (1)

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general strategic goals
by James Salsman 06 May '14

06 May '14

Regarding https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2014-01-31#Strategy_discussion "The Board discussed how they will develop the process for the next strategic plan. The Board would like the strategic planning process to involve input from the community, but the exact process should be flexible. Sue advised that the Board should design the process with the next Executive Director. The Board reflected on the process for designing the previous strategic plan, and questions, such as movement roles, which should be addressed in the next plan. The Board agreed that the next strategic plan need not be a five-year plan in the model of the previous strategic plan, but agreed to settle on the plan's form with the next Executive Director." 1. Does anyone contend that the general strategic goals created when the volunteer corps was apparently growing exponentially are no longer appropriate? 2. Is it appropriate to augment current strategic goals which would allow including more content with goals designed to result in more volunteer time for existing and potential volunteers? 3. Do the proposed policy additions listed at http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/advocacy_advisors/2014-February/000395… cover a sufficient extent of such potential goals for additional volunteer time? 4. Is the fact that I proposed such a list the reason that I am now unable to post to the advocacy_advisors list? If not, what is that reason? 5. Is there a more appropriate way to involve the community in making decisions about the Foundation's general strategic goals than offering pairwise comparisons between random selections from a combined list to active community members to produce a ranking for the ED and Board to work from? 6. When creating such a ranking, should the preferences of volunteers with many contributions be weighted more than those with fewer contributions? Can this question be resolved by producing both unweighted and weighted rankings for the ED and Board to discuss? Sincerely, James Salsman

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Howdy from Wil
by Wil Sinclair 05 May '14

05 May '14

I'm Wil Sinclair, Lila Tretikov's significant other. I've always wanted a good excuse to get involved in the Wikipedia project and the Wikipedia community. Lila's appointment would be about as good as it gets. :) I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone and understanding more about what makes the community and the Foundation tick. Feel free to contact me directly at wllm(at)wllm(dot)com anytime about anything. Best. ,Wil

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