Congratulations Wikimedia Ukraine on these milestones.
500,000 articles, 10 years as a language wiki, and 5 years
as an organization are great reasons to celebrate.
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> Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 21:13:16 +0200
> From: Richard Ames <richard(a)ames.id.au>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ukraine's anniversary
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> Тема: Wikimedia Ukraine's anniversary
> Від кого: Levon Azizian <levonazizian(a)bigmir.net>
> Кому: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Копія: Правління Вікімедіа Україна <board(a)wikimedia.in.ua>
> Відправлено: 31.05.2014 18:40,
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> Today, our organization celebrates anniversary - 5 years from the date
> of creation.
>
> Exactly 5 years ago, on May 31, 2009, in Kyiv was held the constituent
> meeting, which approved the bylaws and elected its first Board of the new
> organization, known as Wikimedia Ukraine.
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> Our community has gone through a long and difficult path. Birthday of
> Wikimedia Ukraine for our community is the third remarkable date this
> year. On January 30 was the 10th anniversary of the establishment of
> Ukrainian Wikipedia and on May 12 Ukrainian Wikipedia has crossed the
> threshold of 500 000 articles.
>
> We want to thank to Wikimedia Foundation Inc. for their help, to our
> neighboring communities for fruitful cooperation with us and of course
> to our community for their contributions!
>
> Regards, Levon Azizian
> Deputy chair
> Wikimedia Ukraine
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Rui Correia wrote:
>...
> tell me whether we are bleeding new or old members.
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Trends_Study/Resultshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_lifecycle
and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_classes
agree: we lose experienced editors at about the same rate we always
have, but what plummeted after 2007 is the rate at which we attract
new editors. That's why there was so much enthusiasm for the Visual
Editor, but it was misplaced because being able to figure out wikitext
is an excellent attribute in new editors (analogously, being able to
figure out that wikitext has ambiguities equivalent to the halting
problem would have been an excellent attribute in VE architects....)
None of the other technical solutions (Huggle, Wikilove, two click
thanking, etc.) have made a dent in the numbers, so it is time to
consider this the social problem that it is, and not just some
technical problem that can be coded around with a fancy new feature,
fewer bots, or addressed with nicer template warnings. Since the
typical editing tasks continue to transition from creating new
articles to maintaining the accuracy of old articles, that is even
more reason to want to attract highly educated editors who will be
able to overcome technical learning curves and social hurdles with
their own minds, not a Mediawiki extension.
Consider the supply and demand of both editors and their leisure time
by educational attainment:
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/cognitive-surplus-visualized/
There is no shortage of new editors to attract. But how much free time
do those potential new editors have? For the typical highly educated
potential male editor, or the potential female editor of any
educational attainment level in the vast majority of the
English-speaking world, things have been getting a lot worse:
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/Screen%20Shot%202013-0…http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/business/Screen%20Shot%202013-0…
(from http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/06/how-did-work-life-balan…
in case those URLs expire)
These are all pertinent to whether strategic priorities should include
direct action to improve the extent of leisure time among highly
educated people in the developed world. Do that, and there will be
plenty of new Mediawiki and Wikidata extensions to choose from as
potential symbiotic solutions to both editor recruitment and the
transition from creation to maintenance. If I had more free time, I
would do this one:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Develop_systems_for_accuracy_re…
That is on topic, because if we had that feature, maintaining accuracy
would be a lot easier in that it would take less volunteer time. But I
don't think for a minute that any of the external strategic priorities
I've listed would do less if they came to fruition.
Best regards,
James Salsman
Dear members of the Wikimedia community,
I’d like to share a few upcoming milestones with you.
The deadline for the Letter of Intent for the next round of proposals in
2014-2015 Round 1 is June 1, 2014. The Letter of Intent[1] is the first
step required for eligible Wikimedia organizations[2] to submit an annual
plan grant proposal to the FDC. The Letter of Intent is a simple letter
that indicates interest in applying for funds in the upcoming round. It is
non-binding, but is a required first step. The one exception to this
deadline will be for any current applicants in the current 2013-2014 Round
2 cycle: if any current applicants choose to submit a proposal in Round 1
as a result of the decision in the current round, they will have an
extension through July 8 to declare this intent.
In July 2014, four new members of the Wikimedia community will be appointed
to the Funds Dissemination Committee by the WMF Board of Trustees. In 2013,
two members were elected by the community to join the inaugural seven
members, bringing the total to nine members. This year, four current
members will be replaced by four new members who will be appointed by the
WMF. These four newly appointed members will join current members Cristian
Consonni (CristianCantoro), Dariusz Jemielniak (Pundit), Ali Haidar Khan
(Tonmoy), Delphine Menard (notafish), and Sydney Poore (FloNight). We will
be sending out more information shortly about how and where you can express
interest in joining the committee. You can read more about the committee’s
roles, requirements, and expectations on Meta[3] . In 2015, five new
members of the FDC will be elected by the community.
Finally, the Funds Dissemination Advisory Group[4] will be meeting at the
end of May to review the first two years of the FDC process. As per the FDC
framework,[5] they will be advising WMF’s Executive Director on whether to
proceed with this grantmaking program and what improvements to make to the
process.
As always, if you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me and
my colleagues at FDCsupport(a)wikimedia.org.
Warmly,
Anasuya
[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_portal/Sample_letter_of_intent
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_portal/Eligibility_criteria
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee
[4]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/FDC…
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/Fr…
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