Wikimedia-l July 2014

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Third Wikimedia CH Call for Projects
by Charles Andrès 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

Dear all, Last Tuesday Wikimedia CH launched its third annual call for project. The goal of this annual call for projects is to base our annual plan for the year 2015 on community ideas and needs. Based on your inputs, we will prepare the next round of APG application (1), with as much as possible of community inputs all along the process. The APG (aka FDC) is the process within the Wikimedia Movement to apply for annual plan funding. Wikimedia CH is a specific chapter, with its 4 languages, the chapter is naturally oriented to multilingual projects, in Switzerland, but not only, and that’s why we are seeking for the largest community consultation possible. Wikimedia CH motto is "Closer to the Wikimedians, closer to the Wikimedia Projects", and that means that half of our budget is aim to directly support the wikimedians in their day to day wkimedia life. Therefore our financial needs are actually the reflection of the wikimedians needs. In order to define these needs efficiently, we want to reach out as much as possible to you Wikimedians. That's why we slightly adapted and improved our annual call for projects: ==Ideas== First of all, we introduce the "submit an idea" concept. We learned that most of the Wikimedians are not looking for big projects, most of us only need small support in order to realize what they like to do in their favorite wikimedia project. By collecting these ideas, we want to evaluate what is needed for our Community Support program. When submitting an idea you will not engage yourself in anything, it will help us to know what you may need in 2015 and we will prepare our budget accordingly. During the summer, Wikimedians can test an idea and see if it can became a project. We do not want to reinvent the wheel, so for those who are comfortable in English, please visit the Idealab. Wikimedia CH community liaisons will actively follow those pages, and in coordination with the WMF staff, guide you to the creation of a project that can join the Wikimedia CH FDC proposal. If you prefer to submit an idea or project in your own language, you can participate in the idea proposal process in your Wikimedia Project in your mother tongue (German, Italian, French, Rumantsch, Alemannisch, Arpitan, etc…) Eventually Wikimedia CH will act, through its Community Support process, as a complement to the WMF grants programs, TPS, IEG and GAC (2) ==Projects== For Wikimedians willing to set up bigger projects, we keep our traditional project submission process, but this year we will host it on our Members Wiki AND on Meta (3). ==Scope== Wikimedia CH global strategy is aligned with the global WMF strategy, but we will adopt some focus point. Wikimedia CH aims to support Wikimedians, being member of the chapter or not, being in Switzerland or not. ==Measuring Impact== Like all activities funds with movements money, that’s why we care about measuring and evaluating the impact of our activities on the Wikimedia projects. We actively work with the FDC staff and the Program Evaluation and Design team to set up good evaluation and reporting tools that make the life of Wikimedians easier. This Call for Projects is ongoing in July & August. Do not hesitate to contact me for any questions. Sincerely, Charles (1) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikim… (2) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start (3) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/Call_for_projects_2015 ___________________________________________________________ I use this email for mailing list only. Charles ANDRES, Chief Science Officer "Wikimedia CH" – Association for the advancement of free knowledge – www.wikimedia.ch Skype: charles.andres.wmch IRC://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-ch

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Israel received the Roaring Lion Award for the Hebrew Wikipedia 10th anniversary PR
by Gerard Meijssen 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

Hoi, Congratulations.. Many awards are known at Wikidata and, the "Roaring Lion Award" is now one of them. Given that the Israeli chapter received this award, the item for the chapter has been updated with this fact. Also added were its creation date and the fact that it is a chapter. It turns out that many chapters are not known on Wikidata.. Have a look [1] if your chapter is known and maybe you want to create an item for your chapter.. Thanks, GerardM [1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=15924535 On 3 July 2014 17:55, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel <itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il> wrote: > Hey, > > I'm very excited to share that last night, we received the award at an > event presence with of hundreds of guests (Picture of the award: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roaring_Lion_2014_award_to_Wikimedi… > ) > > The Roaring Lion competition is an award for excellence within Israel's > communications and public relations industry awarded by the Israel Public > Relations Associations. The campaign was chosen among many, judged by a > committee of public relations executives, academics and public figures. > > Last July the Hebrew Wikipedia celebrated her 10th anniversary. The > celebrations were followed by massive press coverage - TV radio, internet > and print. You can give a look on some of them in our Press Book: > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iobJg3Vpp0bDdKaDExNmU2VEU/edit?usp=shari… > > The strategy was to show the volunteers – the people behind the projects, > so each cover presented another volunteer. To show the power of Wikipedia > we collected a lot of numbers such the most viewed articles of the last 5 > years, numbers of edits, words and many others – which leads to many items > covering the history of HEWP. > > But besides arranging massive coverage for the celebrations we were > looking for a special way to celebrate – to do something that has never > been done before. The result was a unique collaboration with TV Channel 2, > the most viewed channel in Israel! For an entire week, five of the most > senior Channel 2 reporters, who learned to edit Wikipedia by our > volunteers, wrote or extended an article on Hebrew Wikipedia. Then, each > recorded a one minute video, explaining why they have decided to write on > this specific topic. Every day, just before the evening news broadcast, the > video was broadcasted and while the anchor presented the project, he > explained "we wanted to celebrate Wikipedia’s 10th anniversary and show > that everyone can write an article on Wikipedia. Happy Birthday Wikipedia!” > > Due the success of the project Channel 2 decided to broadcast it all over > again on the week after. According to the ratings records 2.033 million > people (cumulatively) watched the project. On the celebrations month pages > views on Hebrew Wikipedia showed increase of 12% (compare to 1% > internationally) and increase of 12% in new articles (compare to 14% > internationally decrease). > > You can watch them the videos (translated to English) on our Youtube > Channel: > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuQcXKjU3rwJ-TOL8lyru7oHvoufnWtED > > I wish to thank all the volunteers who take part making this happen, to > the Wikimedia Israel team, and to Gidoen Amichay who supported and helped > lead the Channel 2 cooperation. > > > > *Regards,Itzik Edri* > Chairperson and Spokesperson, Wikimedia Israel > +972-(0)-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia > community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l > >

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How many volunteers (not editors) does the movement have????
by Richard Ames 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

Is there a listing of the volunteer positions which work for the Wikimedia Foundation? I can think of several areas people volunteer in: system operators, software development, public relations, correspondence management (OTRS), list moderation, event management, conflict resolution (Arbcom), Funds Distribution (FDC), Affiliations Committee, etc. How many are there? Regards, Richard.

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24 TB for User:Dispenser on Tool Labs please
by James Salsman 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

Can someone please explain to me why the Foundation can't give User:Dispenser 24 TB on Tool Labs? To me this just shouts "some of our people are not yet in the top quintile of their fields." Seriously. If you don't want to have to wait for REST transactions, it seems like a completely reasonable amount of cache to me. I have yet to read a comment about the magnitude with any indication that people have any idea what kind of caching is needed across Cartesian products of even a five dimensional reduction of category tree proximity. On a related note, why does WP:BACKLOG still not have conflicts of interest back on it? Was all of that Terms of Service amendment only for show? Can the Foundation please hire an information theoretician familiar with the hyperbolic space embedding of splay trees? Best regards, James Salsman

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The Internet's Own Boy: Aaron Swartz
by Jake Orlowitz 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

The Aaron Swartz Documentary was released this weekend. I don't know what quite to say except that you should watch it, and it's free (cause it's CC-licensed). Watch on youtube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHNNHsycaCY> Watch on internet archive: < https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz> Purchase from Takepart.com: <http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy> I don't know what the family or filmmaker would want in contributions, but I know two organizations that would benefit from donations, now as much as ever: DemandProgress: <http://www.demandprogress.org/> Electronic Frontier Foundation: <http://www.eff.org> Hope you're all well, Jake (Ocaasi)

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red cross
by rupert THURNER 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

hi, did anybody of you already have contact with the red cross or the icrc? concerning wikipedia, offline, commons, maps, wikinews? would there be any topic interesting for a cooperation? rupert

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] Evacuation
by David Gerard 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Thank you, Magnus! (add wikimedia-l to cc) - d. On 3 July 2014 21:47, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > An attempt to alleviate the tensions caused by file deletions on Commons: > > http://magnusmanske.de/wordpress/?p=218 > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list > Commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l >

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [cultural-partners] Chapters and GLAM tooling
by Ilario Valdelli 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

In my opinion your are putting on the table an important question, dear Barbara. The question is how approaching the GLAM tools. In every software there is a need, after there is a development, and after there is an acceptance because who asked to have a tool may say that the "functionalities" don't match the requirements. The tool can be fantastic, multitasking, multifunctional, portable, efficient, and so on BUT cannot do some basic functions required by a GLAM project. The main problem, for instance, is that it's hard to use, not friendly, it requires a long training... The problem is to have technicians designing softwares for technicians or implementing softwares for technicians. I think that it's fundamental that the requests and the acceptance MUST be done by GLAM operators and that the tools must implement ONLY what is required, nothing else. I remember that some months ago there was a discussion here about the tools required by GLAM projects... there were several emails and the request was for the GLAMwiki tooolkit. After some months it would be happy to know who is using it, which projects are having benefits from it and how quantify the relation costs/benefits. I think that the GLAM-coordinators must take their right position in this process and must organize a "task force" to collect requirements and to submit these requirements to the community of developers and to evaluate the final results asking for corrections or re-engineering. If the GLAM coordinators will not be bold, the risk is to have terabytes of unusable software or tools. This role is fundamental for a correct approach to this problem. regards On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Barbara Fischer < barbara.fischer(a)wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hi Liam and Eric, > > collaborating with GLAMs in Germany I can only stress how important > technical support is to help GLAM to integrate their content to Wikimedia > projects. Actually it is a trias of consultancy, technical support and > seduce them with projects like coding da Vinci : the culture hackathon > <http://codingdavinci.de/>. We are planning to enhance this support by > more intense collaboration with EUROPEANA through the GLAM Wiki Tool kit - > hopefully with Liam -, by launching a "Lizenzhinweisgenerator > <https://github.com/wmde/Lizenzverweisgenerator>" helping users in an > easy way to quote and reuse legally correct the data files on Commons, and > thus ensuring GLAMs that "their" content will be widely spread but thread > to them. And triggering the discussion on license issues on all legal > levels. We would really appreciate it, if there would something like an > international "task force" making sure as one point that the different > tools are accessible in the different languages in different chapters and > adapting them to national law where it is required. > > As far as I can see time is right to harvest - let`s provide the service > and tools to make it as easy and convenient as possible. > > The meet up of GLAM-coordinators at the Wikimania would be a good starting > point. Lilli Illiev > <http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lilli_Iliev_(WMDE)>and Katja > Ullrich > <http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Katja_Ullrich_(WMDE)> will > attend the Wikimania to meet as many of You as possible and share the > knowledge. > > Best regards > > Barbara Fischer > Kuratorin für Kulturpartnerschaften > Jeweils persönlich von Montag bis Donnerstag für Sie erreichbar > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | NEU: Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin > Tel. (030) 219 158 26-(0)44 > > http://wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > > > -- Ilario Valdelli Wikimedia CH Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Association pour l’avancement des connaissances libre Associazione per il sostegno alla conoscenza libera Switzerland - 8008 Zürich Wikipedia: Ilario <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ilario> Facebook: Ilario Valdelli <https://www.facebook.com/ivaldelli> Twitter: Ilario Valdelli <https://twitter.com/ilariovaldelli> Linkedin: Ilario Valdelli <http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6724469> Tel: +41764821371 http://www.wikimedia.ch

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Interference in workshop for professors
by Leigh Thelmadatter 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

I am, at this moment, trying to give a workshop on Wikipedia to professors and they are having their own user pages being speedily deleted by Tarawa1943 and Taichi We have sent polite messages to them and bibliotecarios (admins) but the deletions continue. Suggestions????

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First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product
by Erik Moeller 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

Hi all, We've got the first DRAFT (sorry for shouting, but can't hurt to emphasize :)) of the annual goals for the engineering/product department up on mediawiki.org. We're now mid-point in the process, and will finalize through June. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals Note that at this point in the process, teams have flagged inter-dependencies, but they've not necessarily been taken into account across the board, i.e. team A may say "We depend on X from team B" and team B may not have sufficiently accounted for X in its goals. :P Identifying common themes, shared dependencies, and counteracting silo tendencies is the main focus of the coming weeks. We may also add whole new sections for cross-functional efforts not currently reflected (e.g. UX standardization). Site performance will likely get its own section as well. My own focus will be on fleshing out the overall narrative, aligning around organization-wide objectives, and helping to manage scope. As far as quantitative targets are concerned, we will aim to set them where we have solid baselines and some prior experience to work with (a good example is Wikipedia Zero, where we now have lots of data to build targets from). Otherwise, though, our goal should be to _obtain_ metrics that we want to track and build targets from. This, in itself, is a goal that needs to be reflected, including expectations e.g. from Analytics. Like last year, these goals won't be set in stone. At least on a quarterly basis, we'll update them to reflect what we're learning. Some areas (e.g. scary new features like Flow) are more likely to be significantly revised than others. With this in mind: Please leave any comments/questions on the talk page (not here). Collectively we're smarter than on our own, so we do appreciate honest feedback: - What are our blind spots? Obvious, really high priority things we're not paying sufficient attention to? - Where are we taking on too much? Which projects/goals make no sense to you and require a stronger rationale, if they're to be undertaken at all? - Which projects are a Big Deal from a community perspective, or from an architecture perspective, and need to be carefully coordinated? These are all conversations we'll have in coming weeks, but public feedback is very helpful and may trigger conversations that otherwise wouldn't happen. Please also help to carry this conversation into the wikis in coming weeks. Again, this won't be the only opportunity to influence, and I'll be thinking more about how the quarterly review process can also account for community feedback. Warmly, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation

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