Wikimedia-l December 2015

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Congratulations to the first four organizations to receive Simple Annual Plan Grants!
by ido ivri 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

...And thank you Winifred, for working tirelessly to facilitate this process, and overcome the difficulties of having to coordinate 8 different timezones, as well as improving the S-APG process on-the-fly. Remarkable! I look forward to participating in the next cycle ;) Happy holidays, -- -Ido "There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't."

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Obsessed with secrecy?
by Adam Wight 30 Dec '15

30 Dec '15

There is a lot of room for improving the WMF's transparency and accountability to the broader community. Please help identify our shortcomings by contributing to this page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Transparency_Gap -Adam

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Call for Board nominees
by Boryana Dineva 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

Hello everyone, As you may have heard, I joined the Wikimedia Foundation last Monday as the VP of Human Resources. I am so excited to be here and help to the best of my abilities. One of the projects that I am currently focusing on is adding two members to our board of trustees. I wanted to reach out to you and ask you to nominate candidates that you think should be considered. I am attaching a role description that will provide more insight into what the ideal candidates for these two board slots would be. If someone you know comes to mind, please send the name of the candidate including some information regarding why you think they would be great. Also let me know if you know that person is interested in the position and can afford the time commitment the role will require or if it’s someone you think may be great but are unsure if they are interested or would have time to commit. Please email nominations to board-nominations(a)lists.wikimedia.org by next Wednesday, Sept 30th. I understand that this is a short notice and not much time to nominate, but we need to find someone that can start in Nov and we need to contact, screen, interview, etc before then. Thank you in advance for your nominations and have a wonderful weekend! Warmest regards, Boryana

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board (Olatunde Isaac)
by olatunde isaac 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

I find the remover of James very disappointing. He was elected by the community and his remover should follow a due process and be transparent to the community who elected him. Olatunde Isaac (User:Wikicology) Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN -----Original Message----- From: wikimedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org Sender: "Wikimedia-l" <wikimedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org>Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:40:01 To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Reply-To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 141, Issue 97 Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimedia-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Announcement about changes to the Board (rupert THURNER) 2. Re: Announcement about changes to the Board (Steinsplitter Wiki) 3. Re: Call for Board nominees (Pine W) 4. Re: Quality issues (Jane Darnell) 5. Re: Quality issues (Jane Darnell) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:51:14 +0100 From: rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board Message-ID: <CAJs9aZ8RcYJc47N8qYoSzr7xqzXB6T-WktqVKNQ=hbGv_uu18g(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:00 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote: > issue here. This is hardly unusual. Regarding the removal itself, at least > in the United States, it's fairly common for members of a body to be able > to remove/expel one of their own. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of > Trustees bylaws explicitly allow for removal of a member, with or without > cause. Unlike in older Board resolutions, there's a clear public > accounting of how each of the Board members voted (as opposed to simple > numeric totals). James posted that he will work with Patricio to provide like others on this thread i think the WMF bylaws are broken in this respect. not legally broken, but morally. i'd love to vote for a trustee, and i'd love to reverse my decision in case a sufficient party is not happy. if in this case james does not want to have a public discussion he is free to resign. if the board thinks it cannot work with james anymore, and is able to remove him without him beeing ok with it, without public discussion, then i do not find it transparent. best, rupert ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:56:43 +0100 From: Steinsplitter Wiki <steinsplitter-wiki(a)live.com> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board Message-ID: <DUB124-W19BF467A877C981D098121E6FC0(a)phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The removal is not transparent at all. Apart from that James was community elected. A democracy words different. Very disappointing. > From: rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com > Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 16:51:14 +0100 > To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcement about changes to the Board > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:00 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote: > > issue here. This is hardly unusual. Regarding the removal itself, at least > > in the United States, it's fairly common for members of a body to be able > > to remove/expel one of their own. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of > > Trustees bylaws explicitly allow for removal of a member, with or without > > cause. Unlike in older Board resolutions, there's a clear public > > accounting of how each of the Board members voted (as opposed to simple > > numeric totals). James posted that he will work with Patricio to provide > > like others on this thread i think the WMF bylaws are broken in this > respect. not legally broken, but morally. i'd love to vote for a > trustee, and i'd love to reverse my decision in case a sufficient > party is not happy. if in this case james does not want to have a > public discussion he is free to resign. if the board thinks it cannot > work with james anymore, and is able to remove him without him beeing > ok with it, without public discussion, then i do not find it > transparent. > > best, > rupert > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:08:09 -0800 From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Boryana Dineva <boryana(a)wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Board nominees Message-ID: <CAF=dyJiadguRYSWufH97PoLnhxmAQKdBPNPFrzW2V6YbT+sADg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi Board folks and Boryana, Separate from the discussions about Doc James, can we get an update on the appointment of new members? Thanks, Pine On Sep 25, 2015 5:04 PM, "Boryana Dineva" <boryana(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As you may have heard, I joined the Wikimedia Foundation last Monday as the > VP of Human Resources. I am so excited to be here and help to the best of > my abilities. > > One of the projects that I am currently focusing on is adding two members > to our board of trustees. I wanted to reach out to you and ask you to > nominate candidates that you think should be considered. > > I am attaching a role description that will provide more insight into what > the ideal candidates for these two board slots would be. If someone you > know comes to mind, please send the name of the candidate including some > information regarding why you think they would be great. Also let me know > if you know that person is interested in the position and can afford the > time commitment the role will require or if it’s someone you think may be > great but are unsure if they are interested or would have time to commit. > > Please email nominations to board-nominations(a)lists.wikimedia.org by next > Wednesday, Sept 30th. I understand that this is a short notice and not much > time to nominate, but we need to find someone that can start in Nov and we > need to contact, screen, interview, etc before then. > > Thank you in advance for your nominations and have a wonderful weekend! > > Warmest regards, > Boryana > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:33:47 +0100 From: Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues Message-ID: <CAFVcA-ER+ZdtLHnU+YO+5_PrOfM8FCSpteau62S7J9D6n08DeQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Interesting link, thanks Gerard! I was referring to a citation for this quote however: "and a > significant > > selection of the information unsourced WikiDatas data lacks the quality, > > integrity we all expect of ourselves when we add content to any of the > > projects." On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > http://www.amnesty.nl/sites/default/files/public/ainl_guidelines_use_of_for… > > On 29 December 2015 at 13:30, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > citation needed > > > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > This is when sources truly become vital. But do > > > > remember, the POV of the USA and many of its sources are as suspect > as > > > > those from Kazakhstan. > > > > > > > > > And that is why regardless of the fact a citation is so important, > > > > > > because the person receiving the information must able to make their > own > > > assessment of the sources reliability with a CC0 license and a > > significant > > > selection of the information unsourced WikiDatas data lacks the > quality, > > > integrity we all expect of ourselves when we add content to any of the > > > projects. > > > > > > On 29 December 2015 at 20:15, Gerard Meijssen < > gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hoi, > > > > So you have determined that people can be manipulated. Good, then > what? > > > > > > > > If this is the tack that you take you will be grounded because there > is > > > no > > > > plan. It is a negative attitude that only stifles. Quality is not > only > > in > > > > sources, sources can be and are manipulations in their own right. > Many > > > > important subjects are woefully underrepresented. The argument has it > > > that > > > > it is because of a lack of sources.. > > > > > > > > Sources are relevant but we only are interested in particular > subjects. > > > We > > > > do not need to look at Kazakhstan to find fault. Amnest (reliable > > source) > > > > indicates that all USA police forces are not in compliance with > > > > international agreements on the use of force. NOW WHAT ?? > > > > > > > > When quality is the subject, it is important to decide how we > > effectively > > > > improve quality. VIAF provided Wikidata with a list of issues they > > found. > > > > Tom checked it out and our quality is better as a result. It means > that > > > > more information is linked for people who visit a library. When > awards > > > are > > > > known, adding known recipients in Wikidata based on info from > multiple > > > > Wikipedias improves the quality and in this way many incorrect links > > are > > > > exposed. > > > > > > > > When quality of our projects is the subject, decide how we can do a > > > better > > > > job. When Facebook invites companies to manipulate people, it is why > > > > Facebook information is suspect. At most it is a reminder that > > > manipulation > > > > is an important issue. It does not mean that people cannot add data > on > > > > their hobby horse. > > > > > > > > Quality is important but quality is more than sources. When sources > are > > > > used as an argument that is detrimental to the quality of Wikidata, > > then > > > in > > > > my opinion we have forgotten why Wikipedia was possible in the first > > > place. > > > > It was not because of sources, it was because of the web of > information > > > we > > > > created, a web that is of a NPOV. > > > > > > > > Wikidata does not have a NPOV. It represents facts found in many > > places. > > > As > > > > the information becomes more extended, it becomes possible to find > > > > manipulations, errors. This is when sources truly become vital. But > do > > > > remember, the POV of the USA and many of its sources are as suspect > as > > > > those from Kazakhstan. > > > > Thanks, > > > > GerardM > > > > > > > > On 29 December 2015 at 11:44, Lilburne <lilburne(a)tygers-of-wrath.net > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 28/12/2015 18:00, Jane Darnell wrote: > > > > > > > > > >> All I said is that the wiki way works, that's all. You can't hide > it > > > > when > > > > >> someone tries to take over a project, and that is the reason we > > > > shouldn't > > > > >> try to anticipate that with convoluted strategies. "Assume Good > > Faith" > > > > >> will > > > > >> always win out over any strange misguided takeover strategy, which > > is > > > > why > > > > >> governments that intend to do such things choose nowadays to just > > > block > > > > >> wikimedia altogether. It is not our wake-up call to take, but that > > of > > > > the > > > > >> Kazakh people. > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > Facebook showed the other year that it could manipulate people by > > what > > > it > > > > > showed them in their feeds. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10932534/Facebook-conducted-… > > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28051930 > > > > > > > > > > They didn't do this for fun, they did it to show their clients > > > > > (advertisers, governments) that they could manipulate millions of > > > people. > > > > > You only need a small push in one direction or another to > influence a > > > > large > > > > > population. Doesn't matter if the push is to buy a particular soap, > > > vote > > > > > one way or another, or how you see a particular minority, or issue. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.networkworld.com/article/2450825/big-data-business-intelligence/… > > > > > > > > > > Do it to a naively trusted source and you have a triple word score > > > > > jackpot^H^H^Hboot. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > > > Unsubscribe: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org > ?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > GN. > > > President Wikimedia Australia > > > WMAU: http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/User:Gnangarra > > > Photo Gallery: http://gnangarra.redbubble.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:39:58 +0100 From: Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues Message-ID: <CAFVcA-F3-G-4n6994=W9Ou_LxwgnR4cOCsuhs7RiLFWYJPQPdQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 ...and you seem to think one can live by an encyclopedia. I can assure you, Wikipedia is a lot of things, but it is not a way of life. To answer your fear which I read between the lines of what you are saying, in order to create a Wikipedia project you need a basic list of 10,000 articles. The list as I am sure you are aware, is a pretty boring and strangely ordered grouping of fairly dry, non-political subjects. I believe there are very few articles on there that are worth firebombing someone over. [[Michael Jackson]] is on the list, among other notable Americans. Granted, you could get past the 10,000 article startup requirement somehow and then start creating lots of POV articles, but once you do this you will soon be discovered. There is just no way to hide it. On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Lilburne <lilburne(a)tygers-of-wrath.net> > wrote: > > > On 28/12/2015 18:00, Jane Darnell wrote: > > > >> All I said is that the wiki way works, that's all. You can't hide it > when > >> someone tries to take over a project, and that is the reason we > shouldn't > >> try to anticipate that with convoluted strategies. "Assume Good Faith" > >> will > >> always win out over any strange misguided takeover strategy, which is > why > >> governments that intend to do such things choose nowadays to just block > >> wikimedia altogether. It is not our wake-up call to take, but that of > the > >> Kazakh people. > >> > >> > > Facebook showed the other year that it could manipulate people by what it > > showed them in their feeds. > > > > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/10932534/Facebook-conducted-… > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28051930 > > > > They didn't do this for fun, they did it to show their clients > > (advertisers, governments) that they could manipulate millions of people. > > You only need a small push in one direction or another to influence a > large > > population. Doesn't matter if the push is to buy a particular soap, vote > > one way or another, or how you see a particular minority, or issue. > > > > > http://www.networkworld.com/article/2450825/big-data-business-intelligence/… > > > > Do it to a naively trusted source and you have a triple word score > > jackpot^H^H^Hboot. > > > > I thought Epstein's and Robertson's paper, "The search engine manipulation > effect (SEME) and its possible impact on the outcomes of elections", was > very interesting as well: > > > http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-could-rig-the-201… > > http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/E4512.abstract > > > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 7:43 PM, Jane Darnell <jane023(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Well the chances of me being firebombed while on vacation in the states > are > > probably higher than me being firebombed for editing Wikipedia, but that > > still doesn't mean we need to worry about changing the wiki model. I > guess > > I have lost the thread of your point entirely now. > > > > To be honest, I don't think you had ever gotten hold of it in the first > place. To me, you seem to live in a very sheltered and naive world. > > If we have reports of Wikipedians being tortured in Azerbaijan (and there > seems to have been some truth to these reports, as the sysop named in them > was globally blocked by the WMF a short while later[1]), you should be able > to understand that it is not quite as easy to live the wiki way there as it > is in your country, and that some of the assumptions you have formed based > on your own experiences of the wiki model may not hold in other locales. > > [1] > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Irada&diff=12421543&oldid… > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ------------------------------ End of Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 141, Issue 97 ********************************************

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Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!
by Danny Horn 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

Hi everyone, I'm happy to announce that the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey has concluded, and we're able to announce the top 10 wishes! 634 people participated in the survey, where they proposed, discussed and voted on 107 ideas. There was a two-week period in November to submit and endorse proposals, followed by two weeks of voting. The top 10 proposals with the most support votes now become the Community Tech team's backlog of projects to evaluate and address. And here's the top 10: #1. Migrate dead links to the Wayback Machine (111 support votes) #2. Improved diff compare screen (104) #3. Central global repository for templates, gadgets and Lua modules (87) #4. Cross-wiki watchlist (84) #4. Numerical sorting in categories (84) #6. Allow categories in Commons in all languages (78) #7. Pageview Stats tool (70) #8. Global cross-wiki user talk page (66) #9. Improve the "copy and paste detection" bot (63) #10. Add a user watchlist (62) You can see the whole list here, with links to all the proposals and Phabricator tickets: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results So what happens now? Over the next couple weeks, Community Tech will do a preliminary assessment on the top 10, and start figuring out what's involved. We need to have a clear definition of the problem and proposed solution, and begin to understand the technical, design and community challenges for each one. Some wishes in the top 10 seem relatively straightforward, and we'll be able to dig in and start working on them in the new year. Some wishes are going to need a lot of investigation and discussion with other developers, product teams, designers and community members. There may be some that are just too big or too hard to do at all. Our analysis will look at the following factors: * SUPPORT: Overall support for the proposal, including the discussions on the survey page. This will take the neutral and oppose votes into account. Some of these ideas also have a rich history of discussions on-wiki and in bug tickets. For some wishes, we'll need more community discussion to help define the problem and agree on proposed solutions. * FEASIBILITY: How much work is involved, including existing blockers and dependencies. * IMPACT: Evaluating how many projects and contributors will benefit, whether it's a long-lasting solution or a temporary fix, and the improvement in contributors' overall productivity and happiness. * RISK: Potential drawbacks, conflicts with other developers' work, and negative effects on any group of contributors. Our plan for 2016 is to complete as many of the top 10 wishes as we can. For the wishes in the top 10 that we can't complete, we're responsible for investigating them fully and reporting back on the analysis. So there's going to be a series of checkpoints through the year, where we'll present the current status of the top 10 wishes. The first will be at the Wikimedia Developer Summit in the first week of January. We're planning to talk about the preliminary assessment there, and then share it more widely. If you're eager to follow the whole process as we go along, we'll be documenting and keeping notes in two places: On Meta: 2015 Community Wishlist Survey/Top 10: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Top_10 On Phabricator: Community Wishlist Survey board: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/community-wishlist-survey/ Finally: What about the other 97 proposals? There were a lot of good and important proposals that didn't happen to get quite as many support votes, and I'm sure everybody has at least one that they were rooting for. Again, the whole list is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results We're going to talk with the other Wikimedia product teams, to see if they can take on some of the ideas the the community has expressed interest in. We're also going to work with the Developer Relations team to see if some of these could be taken on by volunteer developers. It's also possible that Community Tech could take on a small-scale, well-defined proposal below the top 10, if it doesn't interfere with our commitments to the top 10 wishes. So there's lots of work to be done, and hooray, we have a whole year to do it. If this process turns out to be a success, then we plan to do another survey at the end of 2016, to give more people a chance to participate, and bring more great ideas. For everybody who proposed, endorsed, discussed, debated and voted in the survey, as well as everyone who said nice things to us recently: thank you very much for coming out and supporting live feature development. We're excited about the work ahead of us. We'd also like to thank Wikimedia Deutschland's Technischer Communitybedarf team -- they came up with this whole survey process, and they've been working successfully on lots of community wishes since their first survey in 2013. You can watch this page for further Community Tech announcements: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/News Thanks! Danny Horn Product Manager, WMF Community Tech

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Wikimania 2017 to be held in Montréal in Canada
by James Forrester 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

All, I am delighted to announce on behalf of the Wikimania Committee that Wikimania, the annual Wikimedia community conference, will be held in Montréal, Canada in 8–13 August 2017. 2017 will be the 375th anniversary of the founding of Montréal as a city, which will make it a great time for a cultural event to take place. Despite being our twelfth Wikimania, Montréal will be our first in a Francophone location, and the Montréal team is working with French-speaking community members worldwide to make Montréal a success. WikiFranca and Wikimedia Canada will be supporting the local team led by Marc-André Pelletier (User:Coren). A press release/announcement from them will be forthcoming. You can contact the team via e-mail at team{at}wikimania.ca. For 2017, we decided to investigate and vet a revised earlier proposal for Montréal to host while the selection process itself is being reviewed. Selecting and confirming the venue with more lead time ensures cost savings in hotel prices and contract terms; affords us favourable dates and rates; and allows participation and overlap with current and future teams. Please join us in congratulating the team, and working to support them in holding an excellent conference. Yours, James D. Forrester Chair, Wikimania Committee

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AWB & Ubuntu: Can really someone help?
by Tito Dutta 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

In last 2 years I have contacted every help section from AWB talk page, Ubuntu help forum etc. Trying this medium as well: Can someone tell me how to use AWB on Ubuntu?

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Announcement about changes to the Board
by James Heilman 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

As Patricio stated the "Board has a responsibility to ... ensure that the Board functions with *mutual confidence*" My fellow trustees need no reason beyond lack of trust in me to justify my removal. No reason beyond that is needed per our board by laws. There was not any COI or legal impropriety on my part. I have done what I believe is in the best interest of our movement. I hope Patricio and I can work together to provide greater explanation in the coming days. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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WMF Board of Trustees
by James Heilman 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

On Dec 28th 2015 I was removed from the board of the Wikimedia Foundation. Many thanks to all those who gave me their support during the last election. I have worked in the last six month to honor the trust placed in me by advocating for our values, communities, and projects. Sincerely James Heilman -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!
by James Heilman 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

Hey Trillium Am a little distracted. Will dug up some difs for you soon. Please email me directly to remind me. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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