Wikimedia-l January 2015

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Invitation to WMF January 2015 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, February 5, 19:00 UTC
by Praveena Maharaj 05 Feb '15

05 Feb '15

Dear all, The next WMF metrics and activities will take place on Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 7:00 PM UTC (11 AM PST). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream. Each month at the metrics meeting, we will: * Welcome recent hires * Present reports/updates that are focused on a key theme or topic. The theme for February’s meeting is: Global South * Engage in questions/discussions Please review https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further information about how to participate. We'll post the video recording publicly after the meeting. Thank you, Praveena -- Praveena Maharaj Executive Assistant to the VP of Product & Strategy and the VP of Engineering Wikimedia Foundation \\ www.wikimediafoundation.org

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Its not goodbye, but au revoir
by Pavel Richter 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Dear Friends of Free Knowledge, today is my last day at the office as the former Executive Director of Wikimedia Deutschland. For 2012 days, I had the great opportunity and the tremendous pleasure to work for one of the greatest causes I can think of: Free Knowledge for everybody. What Wikimedia does is nothing short of changing the world, one edit at a time. I reflect a little about this in this blog post: http://blog.pavelrichter.de/2012-days-later/ Thank you all for the best time I had in my (professional) life. Of course, while I leave my job, I will not leave the Wikimedia movement. Looking forward to this! Cheers, Pavel

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GLAM-WIKI 2015 conference, April 9-12 2015, The Netherlands
by Sebastiaan ter Burg 30 Jan '15

30 Jan '15

Hello everyone, We are happy to inform you that GLAM-WIKI 2015 takes place from 9 to 12 April 2015 at the National Archive and National Library of The Netherlands in The Hague, The Netherlands. The *call for proposals* and *applications for travel scholarships* are *now open*. Details at https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015. Call for proposals: https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015/Proposals Scholarships: https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM-WIKI_2015/Scholarship Best, Mylee Joseph, *Australia* Sarah Stierch, *USA* Stephan Bartholmei, *Germany* Isla Haddow, *South Africa* Venus Liu, *Hong Kong* Sandra Fauconnier, *The Netherlands* Sebastiaan ter Burg, *The Netherlands* -- Sebastiaan ter Burg *Projectleader Cultural Cooperation* *Wikimedia Nederland* ________________________________ tel.: +31 30 32 00 238 gsm: +31 6 480 88 615 e-mail: terburg(a)wikimedia.nl wiki: Ter-burg <https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Ter-burg> ________________________________ www: www.wikimedia.nl wiki: nl.wikimedia.org ________________________________ *Post*: * Visit:* Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3 3500 AD Utrecht Utrecht ________________________________

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 4 – 28 January 2015
by Wikipedia Signpost 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

>From the editor: An editorial board that includes you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-01-28/From_t… Special report: Traffic in the fog—2014's most popular articles include death, Facebook, and Ebola http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-01-28/Specia… In focus: Thirteen editors sanctioned in mammoth GamerGate arbitration case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-01-28/In_foc… Forum: Evaluating the Arbitration Committee's handling of GamerGate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-01-28/Forum In the media: A murderous week for Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-01-28/In_the… Featured content: Like Jack Kerouac's On The Road, this week's issue was written on amphetamines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-01-28/Featur… Traffic report: A sea of faces http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-01-28/Traffi… Recent research: Bot writes about theatre plays; "Renaissance editors" create better content http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-01-28/Recent… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-01-28 http://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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The Signpost – Volume 11, Issue 4 – 28 January 2015
by Wikipedia Signpost 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

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[Wikimedia France] WikiCheese crowdfunding - Let's photograph 'em all
by Christophe Henner 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

Good news everyone, Cheese articles are gonna get improved! As french, it was dreadful for us to see so few illustrations of cheese on Wikipedia. This is about to change. A group of french Wikimedians, lead by Pierre-Yves Beaudouin, designed a project to photograph many cheeses, up to 200 for the moment. This project is perticular as we aim to have it found through a french crowdfunding platform, KissKissBankBank. Of course Wikimedia France could have funded it itself, but we wanted to use the project as a way to get the larger audience aware of their ability to contribute and to give a fun image of contributing. The project in few words iss follow : * 10 cheeses per session * During the session the cheeses are photographed and their articles improved * During the sessions experimented wikimedian would train new editors * At every session every participant would enjoy eating good cheese too If you want to read more, or even contribute, about the project you can go on KissKissBankBank : http://www.kisskissbankbank.com/fr/projects/wikicheese If you have any questions, please feel free to shoot them on or off list. All the best, -- Christophe

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Announcement: Cascadia Wikimedians User Group board and officers
by Raymond Leonard 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

Dear Wikimedians, Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, which focuses on the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia, had our first two board meetings this month. Our initial board members are: Another Believer Brianhe Mako Peaceray Pine Ragesoss The following appointments have been made: President: Peaceray Vice President: Mako Secretary: Another Believer Treasurer: Brianhe Executive Director: Pine Thanks to everyone for their efforts at organizing the Cascadia Wikimedians User Group, with a special shout out to Pine! Yours, Peaceray President of Cascadia Wikimedians User Group Another Believer Secretary of Cascadia Wikimedians User Group

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Annual Report from the Wikimedia Foundation
by Heather Walls 29 Jan '15

29 Jan '15

Dear everyone! I’m happy to share with you the Annual Report from the Wikimedia Foundation for 2014 -- Knowledge is a foundation <https://annual.wikimedia.org>.[1] We published last Wednesday, but I'm just catching up enough to send the email. (Pardon me.) This year, we are telling the story of Wikimedia in the context of free knowledge, and releasing it as web version (wiki, too!) so that we can share that story with even more people. Knowledge is a foundation. It is a foundation for human potential, a foundation for freedom, a foundation for opportunity. Our mutual project, Wikipedia, is part of the global support structure for free knowledge. Most importantly, people are the foundation of Wikipedia. We are inspired by thousands of contributors who support the projects, and are excited to share a little bit about Dr. Netha Hussain, Jacek Halicki, Dumisani Ndubane, Dr. Adrianne Wadewitz, Ihor Kostenko, Dorothy Howard, Ram Prasad Joshi, and Jake Orlowitz. Thank you for the myriad of contributions you make, from coding to writing, editing to programs, and uploads to donations. We've written a blog post about the process we went through this year, and how we settled on the concept of 'knowledge as a foundation.'[2] You can participate in the wiki version of the report here, and soon help with translations [3] Thank you very very much, Heather & the Wikimedia Foundation Communications team 1. https://annual.wikimedia.org 2. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/21/annual-report/ 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Annual_Report/2013-2014 -- Heather Walls Communications Design Manager I Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street I San Francisco, CA 94105 heather(a)wikimedia.org

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Wikimedia engineering report, November 2014
by Guillaume Paumier 28 Jan '15

28 Jan '15

Hi, The report covering Wikimedia engineering activities in November 2014 is now available: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/November -- Guillaume Paumier

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proportion of wiki size to what?
by Amir E. Aharoni 27 Jan '15

27 Jan '15

Hi, It is well-known that the size of a Wikipedia in a given language is not proportional to the number of people who speak that language. By "size" I mean the article count and the active editor count. This begs the question: Is it proportional to anything else? I can think of a bunch of possible things (to most items you can add "... in the countries where this language is spoken"): * Penetration of Internet access * Quality of education * Number of people who know other major languages, such as English, French, Russian, Spanish, etc. * Number of people who *don't* know other major languages * Gross domestic product * Human Development Index * The level of usage of this language in the education system (in some countries schools function in foreign languages) * Amount of published literature in that language * Level of censorship and press freedom * [[Language planning]] policies (think Catalonia, Ukraine, Quebec, Israel) It is quite possible that the size of a Wikipedia is proportional not to one of these things, but to a combination of them. It is also possible that it is not proportional to any of the above, or to anything at all. Did anybody ever try to research this? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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