Wikimedia-l September 2014

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Surveys
by Rand McRanderson 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

Hi everyone, I was just curious, I did not see the survey results for the 2012 survey, and it seems there has not been any general editor surveys since then (with the exception of the more narrowly focused Global South User Survey), I was wondering if there was any reason for this lack of surveys and for the lack of 2012 survey results (perhaps some long policy discussion lost in the bowels of the mailing list) Rand McRanderson

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Brasil] Jessie's IDEO adventure
by Jessie Wild 20 Sep '14

20 Sep '14

Thanks so much to everyone! It has been such an honor to join this movement, and the things we have experimented with and done have been exciting and fruitful. I know we spend a lot of time talking about our problems welcoming in newbies, but I felt so supported by so many of you from my first day four years ago when I was brand new. Thank you for your openness, your innovative ideas, your challenges to my thinking, and your partnership in building things together. One point of clarification: I'll actually be working with IDEO.org <http://ideo.org/>, which is a spin-off of IDEO (and yes, Jane, that is the Wikipedia article for IDEO) It is a separate organization focused on partnering with people in need to design paths out of poverty. I'm very humbled for this opportunity, and look forward to sharing learning! I'm pasting some info below with the announcement. Obviously, stay in touch. I will be around :) We’ve had an action-packed spring at IDEO.org with lots of travel, a decision on our next class of Global Fellows, and a very exciting project from the archive heading to market. Here’s what we’ve been up to this spring and summer.WELCOME 2015 GLOBAL FELLOWSAfter reviewing 656 applications—all of which inspired and excited us—we’ve chosen the 2015 class of Global Fellows! They hail from Malawi, Ireland, Indiana, and the UK. They are doctors, inventors, entrepreneurs, and global connectors, all with a dedication to elevating the poor through design. Let us introduce William Kamkwamba, Rebecca Hope, Jessie Wild, and John Collery! We can’t wait to see what change they'll make, what good they’ll do. *Copyright © 2014 IDEO.org, All rights reserved.* On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Everton Zanella Alvarenga <tom(a)okfn.org.br> wrote: > Congratulations, Jessie! > > It is super cool that you will bring your talent to other places! It was a > pleasure to know and work with you! Thanks for everything you did for the > Wikimedia movement and that you taught me whilst I had the opportunity to > work together! You rock! > > P. S. We need create a page about IDEO in Portuguese, then I'll keep > supporting you to learn our language. :P (could be a start!) > > Abraços! > > Tom > > 2014-09-18 14:30 GMT-03:00 Anasuya Sengupta <asengupta(a)wikimedia.org>: > > Dear friends and colleagues, >> >> Many of who have already heard from Jessie in multiple ways, but for those >> who haven't: Jessie Wild, who currently heads the Learning and Evaluation >> team in the Grantmaking department at WMF, is leaving for a year's >> fellowship with Ideo.[1] Her last day at the Foundation is tomorrow. >> >> >> We are going to miss her. Jessie has been an extraordinary and integral >> part of WMF for the last four years, and demonstrated her initiative, >> insight and leadership in each of the positions she’s ably held here. For >> many of you, you may remember Jessie's first role was part of the >> consultant team working on the 5 year strategy. Most recently and >> importantly, she’s led the Learning and Evaluation team in the past year >> to >> do some significant baseline research and impact analyses of our grants >> and >> programs across the movement. This is work that lays the foundation for a >> great deal of our strategic vision and direction going forward. Thank you >> so much, Jessie, for all your strategic leadership, but even more: thank >> you for who you are, and the heart you’ve always brought to your team, WMF >> and the communities we support. >> >> We are hoping that Jessie will rejoin us when she’s completed this >> brilliant opportunity at IDEO (she’s one of four chosen from over 450 >> applicants!). However, the work we are doing with all of you on impact and >> strategic outcomes for the movement is urgent and will need to be ramped >> up >> even further over this year. We will be opening up this position to lead >> the L&E team soon, and keep you posted on it. >> >> Jessie, thank you again for all your manifold contributions. >> >> Warmly, >> >> Anasuya >> >> [1] http://www.ideo.org/fellows >> >> -- >> >> >> *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* >> >> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in >> the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! >> Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/GuidelinesWikimedia-l@lists.w…> >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > -- > Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) > Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre > http://br.okfn.org > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaBR-l mailing list > WikimediaBR-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediabr-l > > -- *Jessie Wild SnellerGrantmaking Learning & Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>

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Jessie's IDEO adventure
by Anasuya Sengupta 19 Sep '14

19 Sep '14

Dear friends and colleagues, Many of who have already heard from Jessie in multiple ways, but for those who haven't: Jessie Wild, who currently heads the Learning and Evaluation team in the Grantmaking department at WMF, is leaving for a year's fellowship with Ideo.[1] Her last day at the Foundation is tomorrow. We are going to miss her. Jessie has been an extraordinary and integral part of WMF for the last four years, and demonstrated her initiative, insight and leadership in each of the positions she’s ably held here. For many of you, you may remember Jessie's first role was part of the consultant team working on the 5 year strategy. Most recently and importantly, she’s led the Learning and Evaluation team in the past year to do some significant baseline research and impact analyses of our grants and programs across the movement. This is work that lays the foundation for a great deal of our strategic vision and direction going forward. Thank you so much, Jessie, for all your strategic leadership, but even more: thank you for who you are, and the heart you’ve always brought to your team, WMF and the communities we support. We are hoping that Jessie will rejoin us when she’s completed this brilliant opportunity at IDEO (she’s one of four chosen from over 450 applicants!). However, the work we are doing with all of you on impact and strategic outcomes for the movement is urgent and will need to be ramped up even further over this year. We will be opening up this position to lead the L&E team soon, and keep you posted on it. Jessie, thank you again for all your manifold contributions. Warmly, Anasuya [1] http://www.ideo.org/fellows -- *Anasuya SenguptaSenior Director of GrantmakingWikimedia Foundation* Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>

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Slideshow functionality for Wikipedia
by Russavia 19 Sep '14

19 Sep '14

Hi all, After working on an article on English Wikipedia, I came to realise that it might be useful if we had a slideshow feature for media for use in articles. I was informed that Hebrew Wikipedia has a fantastic slideshow template that can be used in articles.[1] The slideshow is created with this template.[2] The design is very sleek and it would no doubt be a fantastic addition to all Wikipedias. I've left a message for the person responsible for this template on he.wp asking if they can help create it for English Wikipedia, but I have been informed that they are basically semi-retired/on extended wikibreak. Would anyone out there like to take this on board and get it created for English Wikipedia at the earliest convenience. It can be tested live on the article I am working on at the moment if need be.[3] Cheers Russavia [1] https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%94:%D7%9E%D7%A6%D7%92%D… : [2] https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%AA%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA:%D7%9E%D7%A6%D… [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobrolet_(low-cost_airline)

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Upcoming help sessions for drafting Individual Engagement Grant proposals
by Siko Bouterse 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

Hi all, As we announced earlier this month[1], September is the month to apply for an Individual Engagement Grant[2]. The deadline to submit a proposal is September 30. To help you turn your ideas and projects into successful proposals, we’re hosting a few IdeaLab Proposal Clinics in Hangouts and IRC this month.[3] The first one took place on September 16. Newcomers had a chance to talk to current and past grantees, as well as WMF Grantmaking staff, to workshop ideas and strengthen their proposals. If you have an idea you would like to submit, but feel unsure about how to draft or finalize your proposal, join a session! There are three events left before the deadline: * IRC office hours in #wikimedia-office - Sept 23, 1600 UTC (Tuesday) * Hangout - Sept 25, 1700 UTC (Thursday) [4] * Hangout - Sept 28, 1700 UTC (Sunday) [5] Join us next week to discuss your ideas, and bring any questions you have about IEG! Cheers, Siko [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-September/074239.html [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events#Upcoming_events [4]IdeaLab Clinic II. Join via Hangout: https://plus.google.com/events/cvk8hivoih04ifc6pp3sl0se6s8?hl [5] IdeaLab Clinic III. Join via Hangout: https://plus.google.com/events/c82527nlv8jhkv17j963gs9gp6s?hl -- Siko Bouterse Head of Individual Grants Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!*

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Lsjbot+Bot Acadeny
by Anders Wennersten 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

Lsjbot has now completed its run of generating articles for all species, with 310 000 on plants, making the total number generated above 1 300 000 (source used: Catalogue of Life). With Naskobot, having earlier generated some 85 000 articles on Swedish lakes and French communes etc., the total botgenerated articles on svwp are now 1,4 M The botgenerating efforts have received overwhelmingly positive feedback from the svwp community, with comments like: *for editors it has become more stimulating writing new articles on related subjects. When we write of a place in Sweden we know that all mentioned lakes have articles, making the article better and more correct (no lakes mentioned are spelled incorrectly any longer). Also photo safaris are more fun when all lakes, even very small ones, are relevant to take photos of and include in articles *experts are more attracted participating when they are guided to the stub from Google. Also we get feedback it is much easier to enter information on Wikipedia when the base skeleton is there already (taxobox, category, links in wikidata, picture, base sourceref). We see an increasing number of University classes in biology given he assignment to write (expand) articles on (not so known) species We are also gladdened by the hard numbers. Reader accesses show a healthy increase even from our already high number. And a trend of a slight decrease of editors has now turned into an increase. We can not say for certain why and it could be temporary but we believe the botgenerated articles has a part of this positive development. Encouraged by this, we will now start what we call Bot Academy. A dozen of our experienced editors will, with the support from WMSE, learn more of running bots. First by sessions on basics, common knowledge stuff, in order for us to be able to use bot as a complement in our editing efforts. And after that we will have sessions for advanced use, taking in the learning from Lsjbot and Naskobot, in order to see if also we can find areas where we from excellent sources can generate articles. For 2015 we are contemplating the following botgenerating efforts *lsj (sverker) will support other versions interested to run Lsjbot. He is now in discussion with Farsi and Arabic wp, where there are some interesting technical challenges related to the different alphabeticscript *we will scan best practices of bot generation on other versions (it, nl, id, vt, serbocroatia, farsi, ru etc) (it seems we have nothing to learn of this from the biggest seven...) *lsj will look into using the database used by Swedish libraries, with info of authors and books. Would it be feasible to generate articles on authors? *for myself I am continuing my initiative with the aim of fully integrate 100000 article of Swedish geographic entities with wikidata, in order to by the end to generate, if wanted, up to 100000 articles related to Swedish geography on 200 other versions. There is a lot needed of quality improvement of the articles first and also the Wikidata must get better before this can work, but perhaps it will be possible to get this going for a subset of articles in 2015 even if the full set will take some years longer before being ready to deploy Anders for examples, press "slumpartikel" (random artiicle) on https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Huvudsida

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VisualEditor office hours for September and October
by Erica Litrenta 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

Hi all, this is just a reminder that the next VE office hour is on Thursday 18 September at 1600 UTC [1]. I'll post a reminder to this list a few hours before as well. I'd also like to announce that in October the office hour will be held on Saturday 18th at 1800 UTC [2]. As usual you can find logs and other information at Meta. [3] Hope to see you there, Elitre (WMF) [1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&d… [2] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&d… [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 10, Issue 36 -- 17 September 2014
by Wikipedia Signpost 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

In the media: Turkish Twitter outrage, medical translation, audience metrics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-09-17/In_the… Traffic report: Tolstoy leads a varied pack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-09-17/Traffi… News and notes: Wikipedia's traffic statistics are off by nearly one-third http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-09-17/News_a… WikiProject report: A trip up north to Scotland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-09-17/WikiPr… Featured content: Which is not like the others? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-09-17/Featur… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-09-17 https://www.facebook.com/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost _______________________________________________ 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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Will Flow eliminate wikitext sandbox practice?
by James Salsman 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

In the recent discussion of editor engagement effectiveness on wiki-research-l, the question of Flow's affect on talk page wikitext practice arose. I would like to know whether anyone shares my concern that eliminating wikitext talk pages will remove what has, for the past few terabytes of edits, served the same purpose as the "sandbox" pages which we encourage new editors to practice with.

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Wikipedia Blogs
by Wil Sinclair 17 Sep '14

17 Sep '14

Legoktm just reminded me of something I've been meaning to ask for a while. I like to keep up-to-date with blogs that feature discussions about Wikipedia. What I've found so far I've kept track of by following with my own blog. If you care enough to google it, keep in mind that I'm the guy who isn't a Christian AM radio station. Even after I did some of my own google jockeying, I missed David's and no doubt others. Does anyone know of a list of blogs covering Wikimedia issues that is kept relatively current either onwiki or elsewhere? I suspect others might find it useful, so if such a thing doesn't exist yet I'll create it myself. Hit me up at wllm(a)wllm.com if you'd prefer to discuss offlist. Since no one 's told me I can't promote other people's blogs yet, here's a link to David's: http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/. He's a great blogger with a unique, entertaining voice. Almost required reading for the Wikipedianz4Life crowd. Deuces. ,Wil

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