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From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:17 AM
Subject: Promote GSoC, Outreachy, and Wikimedia Hackathon in France
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
This is a call to all Wikimedia tech contributors with contacts in France.
We need your help reaching out to new developers!
We have the Wikimedia Hackathon in Lyon (23-25 May), which is a good excuse
to focus our developer outreach efforts in France already now. Google
Summer of Code and Outreachy (was FOSS Outreach Program for Women) are
around the corner. Can we coordinate an action between you, your contacts,
Wikimedia France, WMF Engineering Community team... ?
Please subscribe and participate in these tasks:
Promote GSoC, FOSS OPW, and Wikimedia Hackathon in France
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88274
Engage with established technical communities at the Wikimedia Hackathon
2015
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76325
PS: for similar calls focusing on Russia, China, Japan, and your preferred
country, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T925
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
I wrote an open letter to Lila because I saw Philippe Beaudette saying he was taking advice from English Wikipedia Arbcom on the matter of offsite harassment. The problem is that is that Arbcom has an history of harassing. So it should not be giving any advice on the matter of stopping it.
To make this case, I used the examples of FT2's "Anvil Email" threatening an editor's family and AGK's filing a trumped-up complaint to an editor's employer, and then on a similar theme I pointed to Wikimedia Foundation steward JurgenNL and administrator TBloemink's real-life stalking of MoiraMoira (they laughed about her on IRC and then took a train trip to visit her house).
I won't copy-paste the whole thing here, but if you're interested you'll find it here: http://timsongfan.livejournal.com/1971.html. Feedback is welcome. I think the WMF's policy of according IP and other sensitive user data via checkuser and UTRS and so forth to anonymous administrators is creating real risks to Wikipedia editors, and that is the case I make in the open letter.
Trillium Corsage
Hello, everyone.
I'm writing with information about the Ombudsman Commission (OC), the small
group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the
privacy policy, and in particular concerning the use of CheckUser tools, on
any Wikimedia project for the Board of Trustees.
I apologize for the length of the announcement. :)
The application period for new commissioners for 2015 recently closed. The
Wikimedia Foundation is extremely grateful to the many experienced and
insightful volunteers who offered to assist with this work.
As with last year, this year’s OC will consist of seven members, with a
two-member advisory team who will guide the new commission and also, if
necessary, fill in in the event that the OC is unable to act due to
incapacity or recusal. Last year’s advisors rose to full membership when
two members found themselves unable to complete their terms due to
competing time demands.
I am pleased to announce the composition of the 2015 OC.
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User:Avraham, who primarily edits English Wikipedia, where he is a
CheckUser, oversighter, admin and bureaucrat. He also serves on Commons as
an admin and oversighter and is a steward. He joined the OC in 2014.
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User:Gnom, Lukas Mezger, who primarily edits German Wikipedia. Lukas, a
licensed attorney, has previously served Wikimedia as a legal intern for
the Wikimedia Foundation. In 2014, he was elected to the Board of Wikimedia
Deutschland, where he serves as co-Vice Chair. Gnom joined the OC in 2014.
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User:Polimerek, Tomasz Ganisz, who primarily edits Polish Wikipedia
(where he is an admin and former arbitrator), Polish Wikibooks and
Wikimedia Commons. He also serves the Wikimedia movement as the president
of Wikimedia Poland and on the Grant Advisory Committee. He is a former
CheckUser. Polimerek joined the OC in 2014.
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User:Alhen, Erlan Vega, who primarily edits Spanish projects. He is a
bureaucrat and administrator on the Spanish Wikipedia and Spanish
Wikibooks, and is also an administrator on Commons. A prior member of the
Spanish ArbCom, before it was dismantled, he is a checkuser on the Spanish
Wikipedia.
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User:Barras, who is primarily active on the Simple English Wikipedia and
Meta. He’s a steward, an oversighter on Simple English and Meta, and also a
CheckUser on Simple and Meta.
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User:PhilKnight, who primarily edits the English Wikipedia. A former
member of its arbitration committee and currently serving on its mediation
committee, he is also a checkuser, oversighter and administrator there.
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User:Rubin16, who primarily edits the Russian Wikipedia, where he is a
bureaucrat and administrator. He is formerly a member of their Arbitration
Committee. He is an administrator on Wikimedia Commons and is a Central
Notice and translation admin on Meta. (He is also a translation admin on
Commons.) He is a member of Wikimedia Russia, responsible for press
contacts and financial reporting. He also serves on the IEG and Grant
Advisory Committees.
The 2015 OC’s advisors are:
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User:Huji, who primarily edits Farsi Wikipedia, where he is an
administrator, bureaucrat and former CheckUser. He has also contributed
substantially to Simple Wikipedia, English Wikipedia and Meta and is a
Wikimedia developer. Huji joined the OC in 2013.
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User:Thogo primarily edits the German Wikipedia, where he is an
administrator and former arbitrator, and has also focused on Meta. He is a
former steward and has served as an administrator on several other
projects. He joined the OC in 2011.
Their willingness to remain, to bring their familiarity with processes and
their experience to the new arrivals, is greatly appreciated!
Please join me in thanking the following volunteers, who have given
substantially of their time to serve the commission:
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User:Levg, who primarily edits Russian Wikipedia, where he is an
administrator, oversighter and bureaucrat and where he has twice served as
an arbitrator. He joined the OC in 2013.
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User:Sir48 primarily edits the Danish Wikipedia, where he has previously
served as a CheckUser. He also has focused on Meta and Commons, especially
in translation. He joined the OC in 2011. Last year, he agreed to stay on
in advisory capacity, and we are so grateful that he was willing to step
back into full service mid-year when several members were forced to depart.
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User:M7, Mario Benvenuti, who primarily edits Italian Wikipedia, where
he is also known as M/. Mario is also an admin and bureaucrat on Meta and a
steward. He is a former CheckUser. (Resigned in June due to time
conflicts.)
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User:Stryn, who primarily edits the Finnish Wikipedia and Wikidata,
serving as an admin on both and formerly serving as an oversighter on
Wikidata. (Resigned in July due to time conflicts.)
I'd also like to say a hearty thank you to those returning and those coming
aboard for the first time, as well as to all those applied. Again, it was
an extremely able group of volunteers, and while this mix of users may best
serve the need for this year, I hope that those who applied will consider
applying again for future commissions.
Regards,
Maggie
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Maggie Dennis
Senior Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Anders,
Sounds like an interesting test, but what were the home ranges of the six bird species? If they are not native to China or Japan but native to Catalonia and the Basque Country then it is a little more understandable that they are in some Wikipedias and not others. I can appreciate that ultimately all bird species might merit an article in every version of Wikipedia, but clearly we have a long way to go in many languages and it would not be unreasonable to start with birds that are likely to be seen by people who speak that language. Atomic elements, planets and parts of the human body might be more culturally neutral topics for a benchmark.
Regards
Jonathan Cardy
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> As a test of our status of the different language versions of Wikipedia,
> I have done a small survey of that status of Birds. There exist just
> over 10000 species, very well documented and there are people interested
> of birds all over the world, so it should be be possible for all
> versions to have complete set of articles for all bird species.
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> I used a small sample of just 6 species and gave article a mark between
> 1-5, where 1 is substandard, 2 extremely elementary, 3 OK, 4 good, 5
> complete
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> Versions which seems to have all species
> *en 4 of 6 botgenerated and stubmarked given mark 2,5 by me. The other
> two were created manually and were given mark 4,5 and 5 by me
> *nl 4 or 5 of 6 bot, given 2,5 the sixth given 4
> *sv 5 of 6 bot, given 2,5 , the sixth given 3
> *vietnamese all bot given 2
> *bg all bot given 2
> *basque all bot given 2
> versions with 5 out of 6 species
> *es all manully created, given 2-5
> *fr all manually created, given 2,5-4
> versions with 3-4 out of 6
> *fi 3 manually created, given 2-2,5
> *pt 4 where of two bot, bot given 2,5, the manual given 1,5 and 4
> *farsi 3 all bot, given 2
> *catalan 3 all bot, given 2
> of the rest can be mentioned
> *punjabi & croatia who had 1 botgenerated, given 1-1,5
> *esperanto botgeneted the only one not direct from source but from otehr
> language version
> *germany who had only one specie manually created but that given 5 from me
> ( 1-2 manually created also was found from it, pl, hungary, russia,
> serbocroatia, africaans and malay)
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> It is also worth mentioning that a little over 50% have pictures in
> Commons, used by all, but one bird had only a picture locally uploaded
> on Malay and Finnish Wikipedia
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> I also wonder why Japanse and Chinese wre all missing out, are they not
> fond of birds or are their interwiki not working?
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> it gives me a total of 11 verions who have used bots to generate (and
> Cebuano and Winary which I did not include). Is not a combination of
> botgenerted ones manually checked and complemented a preferred option
> besides the one who will be extensively written all manually
>
> Anders
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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
As a test of our status of the different language versions of Wikipedia,
I have done a small survey of that status of Birds. There exist just
over 10000 species, very well documented and there are people interested
of birds all over the world, so it should be be possible for all
versions to have complete set of articles for all bird species.
I used a small sample of just 6 species and gave article a mark between
1-5, where 1 is substandard, 2 extremely elementary, 3 OK, 4 good, 5
complete
Versions which seems to have all species
*en 4 of 6 botgenerated and stubmarked given mark 2,5 by me. The other
two were created manually and were given mark 4,5 and 5 by me
*nl 4 or 5 of 6 bot, given 2,5 the sixth given 4
*sv 5 of 6 bot, given 2,5 , the sixth given 3
*vietnamese all bot given 2
*bg all bot given 2
*basque all bot given 2
versions with 5 out of 6 species
*es all manully created, given 2-5
*fr all manually created, given 2,5-4
versions with 3-4 out of 6
*fi 3 manually created, given 2-2,5
*pt 4 where of two bot, bot given 2,5, the manual given 1,5 and 4
*farsi 3 all bot, given 2
*catalan 3 all bot, given 2
of the rest can be mentioned
*punjabi & croatia who had 1 botgenerated, given 1-1,5
*esperanto botgeneted the only one not direct from source but from otehr
language version
*germany who had only one specie manually created but that given 5 from me
( 1-2 manually created also was found from it, pl, hungary, russia,
serbocroatia, africaans and malay)
It is also worth mentioning that a little over 50% have pictures in
Commons, used by all, but one bird had only a picture locally uploaded
on Malay and Finnish Wikipedia
I also wonder why Japanse and Chinese wre all missing out, are they not
fond of birds or are their interwiki not working?
it gives me a total of 11 verions who have used bots to generate (and
Cebuano and Winary which I did not include). Is not a combination of
botgenerted ones manually checked and complemented a preferred option
besides the one who will be extensively written all manually
Anders