Yes meeting was scheduled during our last board meeting.
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
As of July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation
My emails; however, do not represent the official position of the WMF
Hello,
This is the monthly report from the Wikimedia Performance team.
## Our progress ##
* Availability. We've done a major overhaul of the ObjectCache interfaces. Many
factory methods were deprecated or removed, reducing it to just four simple
entry points. New docs at
https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classObjectCache.html#d…
We've written a new IExpiringStore interface for convenient TTL constants,
e.g. $cache::TTL_WEEK. See
https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/interfaceIExpiringStore…
We've migrated most use of wfGetMainCache() to WANObjectCache. Work
continued on the librarization of BagOStuff, Memcached, and other object
cache classes.
* Performance testing infrastructure. We've created dedicated dashboards
for portals:
https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/webpagetest-portals
And for mobile:
https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/mobile-webpagetest
We now test one page using real 3G connections (from San Francisco and
Bangalore) and test other pages using the following physical devices:
iPhone 6, iPad mini 2 and Moto G.
* Media stack. We've extended Thumbor with 12 small plugins to meet our
needs and match our existing thumbnailing feature set. This includes
support for all the file formats in use on Commons. The Thumbor Vagrant
stack is now very close to having all the moving parts needed in
production, with basic Vagrant roles for Varnish and Swift having been
written to that end. Our objective is to finish the work on VM by the
holidays and have it ready to be showcased and discussed collectively at
the developer summit in a breakout session.
* ResourceLoader. We've written a new mw.requestIdleCallback API for
scheduling deferred tasks. We've removed usage of the msg_resource_links
DB table. We now use message config from the module registry directly.
We've migrated MessageBlobStore msg_resource DB table to an object cache
(to be deployed in January 2016): https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113092
## How are we doing? ##
Client-side performance has remained stable over the past month. Save Timing
has also remained stable, around the 1s median mark.
The job queue's health improved greatly after adding a new server to the
pool, with the job queue size dropping drastically and the 99th percentile
job processing time going from one day to one hour:
* https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/job-queue-health
There was a small scare about a sudden increase of the SpeedIndex value
across the board:
https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/webpagetest
But it was entirely explained by the fundraising banner, which doesn't
appear immediately on pageload. SpeedIndex measures the time it takes for
the above-the-fold area to "settle" visually. The banner appears late and
pushes the content down, which delays the time when visual changes stop
happening for the above-the-fold area.
Until next time,
Aaron, Gilles, Peter, Timo, and Ori.
Thanks. Let's keep an eye on the Wikimedia-l thread and Meta Wiki page to
see if there are any comments over the next few days.
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Zhou Zhou <zzhou(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The agenda for the next Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting is
> now available on Meta Wiki:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Board_meetings/2015-12-09
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zhou
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Hi everybody,
Last October, Siko committed to a community consultation on the future of Wikimania scheduled for November.[1] However, November came and went, and nothing has happened since then.
As a matter of course, I have to ask whether the WMF is still committed to holding a community consultation on Wikimania, and if so, when. In addition, we’d like to know what the WMF and the Wikimania Committee have been doing since what happened last October that could allay all our fears over what’s happening with the future of the community’s conference.
On behalf of the Wikimania Manila team,
Josh
[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-October/079310.html
JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
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Facebook/Twitter: akiestar | Wikimedia: Sky Harbor
http://about.me/josh.lim <http://about.me/josh.lim>
Hey everyone,
I invite you to help decide what topics should be considered for future
IdeaLab campaigns, which generate novel proposals for improving and
addressing community needs on the Wikimedia projects to which you
contribute:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Future_IdeaLab_Campaigns>
You can offer feedback and your own campaign topics through a survey
conducted through AllOurIdeas <http://www.allourideas.org/idealab_campaigns>
in addition to participating on the IdeaLab talk page.
I’m looking forward to seeing your feedback and exploring potential
directions we can take IdeaLab campaigns for next year!
With thanks,
Jethro
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Chris "Jethro" Schilling
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<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
Congratulations to the new board!
On 12/6/15, James Hare <james.hare(a)wikidc.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> Following our annual board election and our first-ever round of board
> appointments, I am happy to announce that Wikimedia DC has a new Board of
> Directors, comprising:
>
> * Kirill Lokshin, President
> * Emily Temple-Wood, Vice President
> * James Hare, Secretary
> * Walter Gómez Segura, Treasurer
> * Rob Fernandez
> * Peter Meyer
> * John Sadowski
> * Diane Shaw
> * Rebecca Williams
>
> Congratulations to all our new directors, and especially to Kirill and
> Walter on becoming President and Treasurer!
>
> Today we also enacted our annual plan for Fiscal Year 2015–16, available
> here: <https://wikimediadc.org/wiki/Annual_plan_(2015%E2%80%932016)>. We
> look forward to another year of outreach!
>
>
> —
> James Hare
> Secretary, Wikimedia DC
> https://wikimediadc.org
> @wikimediadc
>
>
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Regards,
Tanweer Morshed
Hoi,
In an article of the Washington Post some Wikipedians have expressed their
opion about the fundraising of the WMF. I found it because a self professed
Wikipedia expert was one of the people who was interviewed and he found it
so important that he blogged about it as well.
In my opinion, Mr Kohs did not cost us much as this. Here a person who is
posturing as a Wikipedian, someone who is in on the policy side of things
stabs our fundraising effort in the back.
When the WMF were flush with money, there are many things it would have
done to have a bigger impact. As it received more money from its donors in
the past, more has been done and the effects have been encouraging. One of
the best bits of news for me was that Wikipedia in Bangla is now the
biggest resource in that language. It is in meeting someone in an Indian
restaurant, get to talk and hear him say that Wikipedia for local stuff is
excellent in Kannada (no typo there).
When we were ready, we would not have only 732 articles on people from
Syria. It may be our enemy but we do not know the people. Many wars are
happening and it is ok because we do not know them. This is sociology 123
and it is only one area where Wikipedia fails to deliver. With it its NPOV
is absent.
We are not done, there is a shit load of work in front of us and money will
help make it possible to get it done. Slowly but surely English is no
longer 50% of what we do. It is a reason to rejoice, it is a reason to
redouble our efforts and we can use money for that.
Other WMF projects do not get funding, no pundits that declare that they
are Wiki**** experts and make a career out of it.
In my opinion what I have seen is shameful. This is an opinion, it is my
opinion.
The opinion that WMF can do with less is exactly that. I might agree if it
was factually right, it is not. Not by a long shot.
Thanks,
GerardM
+1 Marc. Both of us were volunteers for years before starting work at the
WMF, and I'm sure we both have opinions that don't line up with the WMF's
overall vision. Quoting Marc's personal thoughts as representative of the
organization as a whole is not helpful for anyone involved.
@Richard and the moderators, I'm rather not start a new thread to respond
here. Please allow responses to the currently ongoing threads and reject
any *new* (no subject) threads. Thanks.
--Ed
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Ed Erhart <the.ed17(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 Marc. Both of us were volunteers for years before starting work at the
> WMF, and I'm sure we both have opinions that don't line up with the WMF's
> overall vision. Quoting Marc's personal thoughts as representative of the
> organization as a whole is not helpful for anyone involved.
>
> --Ed
>
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc(a)uberbox.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 15-12-04 04:14 AM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
>> > Funny how the first response from a WMF employee was that they thought
>> > using stock images was OK.
>>
>> Please don't put words into my mouth that weren't there. I said that I
>> didn't find it /concerning/, not that it was "OK".
>>
>> My point in that email was that commons makes it ungodly hard to find
>> what you want, not commenting on whether or not the use of stock
>> photography is desirable.
>>
>> Also, I don't work with fundraising and am not involved with the banners
>> in any way. Even if I /had/ expressed the opinion that it was Ok to use
>> stock photography, it'd just be that - my personal opinion.
>>
>> -- Marc
>>
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