Wikimedia-l December 2015

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Community Wishlist Survey: Top 10 wishes!
by James Heilman 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

Deadlinks are one of the most common ways of spamming Wikipedia. Paid editors replace deadlinks with links to the spam site which now contains the contain as it way copied from waybackmachine. Linking to waybackmachine is thus superior. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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Unreliable sources? Pay-to-publish science journals and too-trusting popular news outlets
by Pine W 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

Food for thought for those interested in the quality and reliability of references: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/28/410313446/why-a-journalist-s… Pine

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Fundraiser] Defence of the personality rights of Daniele Ganser
by Lodewijk 24 Dec '15

24 Dec '15

Hi Paul, Please refrain from posting to so many lists at once. That is considered inpolite and annoying. >From your email, I seem to miss the actual question you try to ask, and the point you're trying to make. You seem to refer to some kind of 'movie' we should all see, because it explains a legal proceeding? But all that without explaining what it is actually all about. And then you seem to expect an answer. I hope you're not too disappointed that nobody will actually answer your unasked questions. Kind regards, Lodewijk On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:34 PM, Paul Müller <paul.mueller07(a)posteo.de> wrote: > Hello Friends, hello mrs. tretikov, > > unfortunately, I was reported the causa of DANIELE GANSER vs. Wikipedia > German. > > So, I feel obliged to inform you about the strange behavior of special > admins `Phi and copilot`in > the german wikipedia. For ensurance the reputation of wikipedia, it will > be necessary > to defend the personality rights of Daniele Ganser. > > Please check the problem and clear the keeping of the internal rules of > wikipedia. > > For further information, please see this video: > Die dunkle Seite der Wikipedia, Ein Film von Markus Fiedler und > Frank-Michael Spee > (The dark Site of Wikipedia) > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHfiCX_YdgA > > by the now 300.000 clicks! > > I will trust in Your Seriosity and will look forward to your answer. > > Yours Sincerely > Paul Müller > > _______________________________________________ > Fundraiser mailing list > Fundraiser(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/fundraiser >

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¡Wikimedia Argentina community's documentary film, coming on January!
by Anna Torres 24 Dec '15

24 Dec '15

Dear all, On behalf of Wikimedia Argentina we are pleased to announce the new documentary film based on our community and that will be launch on January 15th, for Wikipedia 15th anniversary. As a preview you can find the trailer in the following link <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYjdk7za0Vg>, subtitles available in english. Hope you all like it! Happy Christmas and Happy New Year. -- Anna Torres Adell Directora Ejecutiva *A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
by Marco Fossati 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

[Begging pardon if you read this multiple times] Hi everyone, I would like to announce with great pleasure the StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar. Of course, you are all invited to attend. The event will be held in a special day: Wikipedia's birthday! Below you can find the details. Schedule: 15 January 2016, 11:00 am, Luigi Stringa Conference Room Location: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Via Sommarive 18, Povo, Trento, Italy - http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/28933739 Abstract: We kick-off StrepHit, a project funded by the Wikimedia Foundation through the Individual Engagement Grants program. StrepHit is a Natural Language Processing pipeline that understands human language, extracts facts from text and produces Wikidata statements with reference URLs. It will enhance the data quality of Wikidata by suggesting references to validate statements, and will help Wikidata become the gold-standard hub of the Open Data landscape. Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Va… Speaker's bio: Marco Fossati is a researcher with a double background in Natural Languages and Information Technologies. He works at the Data and Knowledge Management (DKM) research unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy. He is member of the DBpedia Association board of trustees, founder and representative of its Italian chapter. He has interdisciplinary skills both in linguistics and in programming. His research focuses on bridging the gap between Natural Language Processing techniques and Large Scale Structured Knowledge Bases in order to drive the Web of Data towards its full potential. See you in Trento and long live Wikipedia! Cheers, Marco

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Mid-December Fundraiser Update
by Megan Hernandez 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hi everyone, The fundraising team is wrapping up the second week of the December campaign and we’d like to share an update with you--where we are, what we’ve changed, and what you can do to get involved. WHERE WE ARE: We’ve passed the halfway mark to the $25 million campaign goal. So far, we’ve raised roughly $18 million (a preliminary total that is quickly changing and has not been reconciled with official totals from the finance department). Banners are running on desktop and mobile devices. We are also sending emails to past donors asking if they would give again this year. We’re monitoring the trends daily and look forward to sharing a post-campaign analysis with you. We will post an update on when we will be able to end the campaign when we have a clearer picture. WHAT WE’VE CHANGED: Over the past several months, staff members and volunteers have provided both critical and generative feedback and new fundraising banner ideas. Their help has been very valuable. Many of these new messages have been tried in pre-campaign tests and in the last two weeks. Thank you to everyone who has shared their time and ideas! A few message highlights: - We are no longer using the line "keep Wikipedia online and ad-free." It has been changed to “keep our work going another year.” - New text in the current banner: “We believe that knowledge is a foundation. It is a foundation for human potential, for freedom, for opportunity. We believe everyone should have access to knowledge—for free, without restriction, without limitation.” - "We survive on donations" has been changed to "We're sustained by donations" - "Please help us end the fundraiser and get back to improving Wikipedia" has been changed to "Please help us end the fundraiser and improve Wikipedia." - We have removed the persistent reminder from large banners. The reminder is still included in the small banners, which is consistent with the same style banners from the 2013 and 2014 campaigns. - The coffee cup image has been removed from banners We have also run some initial tests with new messaging that show encouraging results. We're still working on more messages and sorting out how we'll incorporate new ideas into the overall banner, but here are some sentences we’re testing: - “Wikipedia has become nothing short of a global public library.” - “We don’t run ads. We respect your privacy. We don’t sell your data.” - “Wikipedia exists to verify, protect, and share the combined knowledge of humanity.” - "There is nothing else on the internet like Wikipedia. We are a global information hub with 15 billion page views a month, written by a community of volunteers with a passion for knowledge." - "The information in Wikipedia is constantly growing, but we need your help to keep up with rapidly changing technology. Wikipedia is like a library or public park created by a passionate community." - "Wikipedia changes every second of every day. We just hit 5 million English articles, but we need to continually grow to serve our readers." - "Please become a volunteer or a donor to help end us the fundraiser and improve Wikipedia. Thank you." With just a couple weeks left to go in 2015, the team is working hard to make improvements. We’d love your help. HOW TO GET INVOLVED: - To file a bug report or technical issue, please create a phabricator ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?template=118862> or email problemsdonating(a)wikimedia.org - To get up-to-date on the the latest reader survey, read the full report on commons <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Wikimedia_Reader_Survey…> - To read the latest news from the team, see the fundraising meta page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising> - To suggest another banner idea, visit the test ideas meta page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2015-16_Fundraising_ideas> - To learn more about the fundraising program and last year’s campaign, see the 2014-15 fundraising report <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2014-2015_Fundraising_Report> Thank you to everyone for your support and to the fundraising team for working so collaboratively and such long hours throughout this campaign. And thank you to all those that have given thus far. Megan -- Megan Hernandez Director of Online Fundraising Wikimedia Foundation

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Potential Christmas gift for a Commons contributor who uses Pentax
by Pine W 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hi Commoners, I have an excess "Tamron AF 28-75mm f/2.8 SP XR Di LD Aspherical (IF)" lens for Pentax. If you are a regular contributor to Wikimedia Commons, I might be willing to give this to you as your Christmas / New Year's present. Please email me off-list if you would like the lens, with: 1. Evidence that you already use a Pentax camera to contribute to Commons, 2. Evidence that you have a history of providing good-quality images, and 3. An explanation of how your contributions to Commons would improve if you receive this lens Merry Christmas, Pine

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Old maps of Jerusalem released
by Michal Lester 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

I am thrilled to share with you that The National Library of Israel had > released a collection of 200 high-resolution unique maps[1] of Jerusalem > in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel. This collection of ancient maps, > spanning from 1486 to 1947, contains a variety of styles and languages. The > maps released were celbrarted by a Mapathon in the National Library of > Israel, a writinig contest in NOWP (initiated by Wikimedia Norway)[2] and > a post in the Wikimaps community blog[3]. > The maps are beautiful! Take a peak. > Happy holidays for those of you who celebrate at this time of the year! > > ________________________ > [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Laor_collection > [2] > https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ukens_konkurranse/Ukens_konkurranse… > [3] http://wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/ > > *Regards,* > > > *Michal Lester,* > > *Executive DirectorWikimedia Israel* > *http://www.wikimedia.org.il <http://www.wikimedia.org.il/> * > *972-50-8996046 ; 972-77-751-6032 * > > >

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Train-a-Wikipedian: Update
by Tito Dutta 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

A month or so ago, I informed you about CIS-A2K's initiative https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian Thanks to everyone who shared their suggestions and feedback. This month we have further improved the portal and started the training. It is now divided it into 3 parts- 1. *Editors* to become more editors; 2. *Potential admin candidates* to become admins 3. *Admins* to become more skilled and powerful 4 editors have joined this program so far: 1. User:Bodhisattwa (Bengali Wikipedia admin) 2. User:Sayant Mahato (Sanskrit Wikipedia editor, potential admin, Sa WP RFA going on) 3. User:Jim Carter (English Wikipedia editor, Arbitration Committee clerk, wants to become an En WP admin) 4. User:Jnanaranjan sahu (Odia Wikipedia editor, wants to better ) We know about Wikipedia Education Program's courses and Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user, but Indian Wikipedias' environment are different than the English Wikipedia, so we don't want to directly follow English Wikipedia training process right now. Please share your suggestions/feedback to improve this training program. :)

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Board approval of the FDC recommendation
by Denny Vrandecic 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

The financial funding in the FDC recommendation was approved by the Board of Trustees on December 9, 2015. The resolution is available here: < https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_approval_of_FDC_recom… > As usual the Board is extremely grateful for the work done by the FDC volunteers in reaching their recommendations. The thoughtful and detailed discussion renews our enthusiasm for the process in which the community has strong input into the funding levels of different affiliates. As noted above we have approved the committee's financial funding recommendations, and asked the Executive Director to proceed within her authority and discretion. At the same time the Board has two additional comments which it would like to make. With regards to the request for more community input in strategic and annual planning of the Wikimedia Foundation, the Board and the Executive Director agree that this is an important priority. Some steps have already been taken and some are likely to still be worked out in partnership with the FDC. With regard to the funding of the WMDE restricted grant, we feel that the FDC has several legitimate points. The Board approves the total recommended allocation for WMDE, but does not approve the additional requirements recommended by the FDC, as conditional to installments deployment. In particular, the Board does not approve the conditions to be applied as conditional to the second part of the financing. The Board believes that approving such conditions would risk applying similar restrictions to entities that request [unrestricted] annual grants in the future, and does not believe that such restrictions are necessary, as evaluation of past results should take place when the entity applies for their next annual plan grant. However, the Board suggests that entities follow the FDC's guidance regarding providing information. Denny Vrandečić, for the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation

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