Wikimedia-l February 2015

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Love on the wikis
by Fabrice Florin 15 Feb '15

15 Feb '15

Hi folks, Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we’ve published two new stories on the Wikimedia Blog, for your enjoyment: Love on the wikis Here are our favorite articles and images about love, collectively hand-picked by community members. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/13/love-on-the-wikis/ A WikiLove story How two Wikipedians fell in love while volunteering in Israel, thanks to a shared passion for knowledge. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/13/wikilove-story/ Many thanks to everyone who contributed to our community-curated love collection! All your fine suggestions broadened our perspectives about love. Together, we found some really well-written, factual and nuanced articles, as well as many humorous, dramatic or beautiful images, which gave us a better understanding about love and why it matters. What do you think about this curation experiment? Did you learn anything new? Should we do it again? If so, what themes should we focus on next? Please chime in the comments of the first story above, with your ideas and suggestions. We hope that collaborations like these can help us discover new ways to share useful information, combining the wikis, our blog and social media. Thanks again for sharing the love — and Happy Valentine's Day to all Wikimedians! Fabrice _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Engineering Community
by James Salsman 15 Feb '15

15 Feb '15

Rachel diCerbo wrote: >... > Community Engagement is continuously considering effective ways of > interacting with you around product development and would love your > suggestions. What kinds of communications from WMF would you like to see? Please volunteer to co-mentor my GSoC proposal: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_review There is absolutely no way I can possibly do this without a co-mentor from the WMF or WEF. It's not a hard task, and one of the major benefits I just learned yesterday is a robust implementation of per-word text attribution, which amazingly still hasn't been available to the wider community in a way that handles reverted blanking and text moves since WikiTrust went offline. Maribel Acosta, Fabian Floeck, and Andriy Rodchenko did a suitable replacement algorithm in 2013, but it hasn't been folded back into the Wikimedia Utilities distribution. Please, WMF engineering staff, remember 2.5 years ago when I was literally the only one publicly arguing that you should be paid market rate for tech workers instead of lower nonprofit worker salaries? I took so much public abuse and scorn for that for over a year until it happened. Please consider giving back by co-mentoring the accuracy review GSoC proposal. It shouldn't take more than a few hours per week over the summer. Best regards, James Salsman

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Belated notification of change of board of directory in Wikimedia Hong Kong
by Wong Rover 15 Feb '15

15 Feb '15

Dear All, The Board of Directory in WMHK is as follows starting from 1st September 2015. President : Rover WONG Chief Executive Officer : Tango CHAN Secretary : Vincent TSUI Treasurer : Raymond HUI Director : Pak Yiu YICK Director : Victor LI Sorry for the late notice. Rover WONG President, Wikimedia Hong Kong

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Experiences with community living?
by David Cuenca 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hei ;) These last months I have been visiting and living in several intentional communities to learn and understand what works for me and what doesn't. If done right, it is a great environment to have a simple life full of joy and happiness. I was wondering if anyone else in the WM movement is interested or has experience with tech/open knowledge communities? There is something like that in SF [1], but it seems to be more for profit and not volunteer-run, which for me is a must. Oh, btw, happy st valentine's. Love for all! Micru [1] http://bit-post.com/20mission-co-living-space-for-tech-talents/

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Engineering Community
by Damon Sicore 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Dear Wikimedians, We are changing our engineering processes to improve how we engage with you -- our valued contributors and editors -- around software development. We are beginning with the collaborative buildout and deployment of VisualEditor. We are moving community engagement processes and product decisions into earlier stages of development, and making them iterative. In a perfect world this process would start prior to feature development, but in this case VisualEditor is already in-flight, so your participation now is critical. With your participation, we can work together to ensure this new process works. In this new process, we commit to: • Collectively identify success criteria for each target audience, from new editors (simple feature set) to expert editors (complex feature set). • Ensure success criteria represents the quantified and qualified goals. The feature will only be shipped when the success criteria is met. • Enable the feature for only portions of specific audiences that would best benefit (a process known as “incremental roll-out”) at a time. • Triage and prioritize all bugs and feature requests on a weekly basis to ensure they are addressed in a timely fashion. Publicly post responses, assessment, and target implementations. This will replace the RFP process and ensure we are tracking on all requested features efficiently. How you can engage: • Report bugs or enhancement requests in Phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/visualeditor/ • Join any of the weekly triage meetings to nominate a release blocker. Please see the instructions at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal • Participate in development. You can find the team on IRC in the #mediawiki-visualeditor channel on irc.freenode.net. We are excited to get this long-standing feature to the level of quality and success we all want and need. It is a collective effort. You are not only a stakeholder, but an active contributor in this work. We want to all to be proud of the outcome. Please participate now. All my best, Damon — Damon Sicore VP of Engineering Wikimedia Foundation dsicore(a)wikimedia.org

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Crossroads of five journeys
by Milos Rancic 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

This story is at once a personal one, but its products could affect our whole movement. Thus I feel a duty to share it with you. (Disclaimer: I am under the influence of sljivovica [1], which means that my English syntax could betray me. Also, keep in mind that one of the comments which I got after the first AfroCrowd [2] session was that it's hard to follow me, as my narration makes people sleepy. Besides that comment, I actually helped on that occasion my fellow friend Milica to fell asleep. And I see that as one of my contributions to the better world: If my narration helps people to fell asleep, then it's at least more natural medication than sleeping pills. So, brace yourselves! If you really want to read my whole email -- which I warmly suggest :D --, it's good idea to read it in bed, immediately before you want to sleep.) * * * Back to 1985, as 12 years old boy, I got my first computer. It was Schneider [3] branded version of Amstrad CPC 664 [4]. Although I was fascinated by computers earlier, that was the real beginning of my geekness. I still remember my first programs in Locomotive Basic. But, during my high school years, I decided that I definitely don't want to study anything which requires mathematics. So, I wanted to study world literature, but was enough successful just to enter the course of Serbian language and literature. Almost immediately after I started my studies, I realized that I am much more interested in grammar than literature and my divergence from my initial idea became wider as time was passing. It actually culminated with starting studies in theoretical physics. However, I realized then that there are "studies" and *studies*. Theoretical physics obviously belongs to the real ones. So, I abandoned it and went back to my linguistics "studies"... But the difference between "science" and *science* made quite a big influence on me. During my first and the only year of studying theoretical physics, I realized that all social sciences are on the level of pre-Newton physics. And linguistics is probably the best of the social sciences. So, I wanted to fix that. I started to be interested in all the fields which intended to make linguistics more scientific. (All my interests were so diverse, that I could write another long story for each of them, so I'll avoid all of them except the most relevant one.) At the end I settled with formal/computational linguistics. And I got full support of my linguistics professors. The reason why I got such support has become much more clear to me during the next decade: Basically, I was the only student interested in that. I went to the Computational Center of the Faculty for Electrical Engineering in 1995 and the new phase of my life began. Thanks to that institution and people around it, instead of working on formal linguistics issues, I became more and more interested in system administration. Speaking from today's perspective, system administration is my profession, while linguistics is my hobby. In 1999 the third of my journeys began. While reading documentation, at the time when I could have been easily become a collateral damage of the bombs of the sole superpower, I was bizarrely but genuinely interested in the fact that GNU GPL can't be realistically implemented into the jurisdiction of my country as it wasn't localized. Thus I sent an email to licenses(a)gnu.org and one person responded to me. Just years later I realized who is RMS. Between 1999 and 2003 I was a bit depressed because I knew that free software is not possible without free knowledge. Then I found Wikipedia and my fourth journey started. (I am still aware that free knowledge is not possible without free and just society and that free and just society is not possible without free love. But I didn't come yet to the position to work on that more systematically.) With one year of absence, I am a member of the Language committee since 2008. During the first years of my duty I deeply believed that there are people who care about the global language diversity in general and systematic way. And I was quite disappointed to realize that nobody actually cares about them in that way. So, for a long time I was thinking that the duty of Wikimedia movement is to take that responsibility. Back to the present... The project [5] of starting cooperation with Matica srpska [6] has been formally approved by WMF. And that's the crossroads of my five journeys: computers, Serbian language, free software, Wikipedia and one more. The last one is the most important one. I see this project not just as a local initiative, but as the beginning of one initiative which only Wikimedia movement could achieve. Yes, it's about the idea that every language which has Wikipedia has a chance to survive. And this project will make the foundations for making that idea reality. To be able to tackle that issue, we have to have the software and the movement willing to work on it. And I am sure that we'll get both during the duration of the project. That doesn't mean that it will be successful just thanks to the work of the core team of this project. It requires wide participation of all of you, all of us. So, please, join us! You have this thread and my email and there is no valid excuse to wait. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slivovitz [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/AfroCrowd [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schneider_Rundfunkwerke_AG [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC#CPC664 [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Interglider.ORG/Wiktionary_Meets… [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matica_srpska

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Show Wikimedia some love: Let's Talk Diversity
by Maria Cruz 14 Feb '15

14 Feb '15

Hi all, (Pardon the cross-posting) Starting today, we want to show Wikimedia some love in a very special way: talking about diversity! [1] Diversity in Wikimedia projects is key to achieve our shared vision: that anyone can contribute in the sum of all knowledge. We know many efforts have been made to bridge many gaps. Have you: * preserved your cultural or national history through photo contests and editing events? * worked to enrich a particular language or cultural group on Wikimedia? * studied diversity issues in online communities? _What have you learned when trying to encourage diversity on Wikimedia?_ The Learning and Evaluation team invites all community members to share what they know about bringing diversity on Wikimedia projects. This initiative seeks to create a body of knowledge around diversity outcomes for events, projects and programs, in a way to give support to Grantmaking’s Inspire Campaign (coming up the first week of March). If you worked to make Wikimedia projects more diverse, in content or community, what has worked for you? what has not worked? Share what you know with the world! There are multiple ways to engage: 1. Share a problem 2. Share a solution 3. Endorse problems and solutions to vote them up in importance 4. Writing a Learning Pattern (that addresses any of the problems/solutions shared) We will be awarding our brand new L&E Barnstars[2] to contributors during this special campaign =) Visit the campaign page [1] to contribute and discuss, and if you are twitter user, use #ILoveDiversity to promote the campaign for others to participate. Happy editing! *María Cruz * \\ Community Coordinator, PE&D Team \\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | : @marianarra_ <https://twitter.com/marianarra_> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Project/Diversity_… [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Learning_and_Evaluation_barnsta…

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[x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on 18 February 2015 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 13 Feb '15

13 Feb '15

[X-posted announcement] Hello, The next monthly IRC office hour of the WMF Language Engineering team will be on February 18, 2015 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please note that for this instance the session has been set to a much earlier hour. We will be taking questions and discussing about our ongoing projects, particularly the recent activation of Content Translation as a beta feature on several Wikipedias[1]. We’d love to hear comments, suggestions and any feedback that will help us make this tool better. Please see below to check local time and event details. Logs from our earlier office hours are available at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Language_Engineering Thanks Runa [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/ Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: February 18, 2015 (Wednesday) # Time: 1300 UTC (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150218T1300) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Ongoing projects - Content Translation beta feature 2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event) -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 11, Issue 6 -- 11 February 2015
by Wikipedia Signpost 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

From the editors: We want to know what you think! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-11/From_t… News and notes: One editor faces likely ban for work on Wikipedia; another awarded $1 million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-11/News_a… In the media: Is Wikipedia eating itself? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-11/In_the… Traffic report: Bowled over http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-11/Traffi… WikiProject report: Brand new WikiProjects profiled http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-11/WikiPr… Featured content: A grizzly bear, Operation Mascot, ''Freedom Planet'' & Liberty Island, cosmic dust clouds, a cricket five-wicket list, more fine art, & a terrible, terrible opera... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-11/Featur… Gallery: Feel the love http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-11/Gallery Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single/2015-02-11 PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-02-11 https://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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What are your favorite articles and images about love?
by Fabrice Florin 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Hi folks, Can you help us pick great articles and images about love for Valentine’s Day? We’ve received a lot of great community suggestions since this campaign started last week -- and are particularly grateful to Pine, Nemo, Fae, Geni and other community members for their generous contributions. :) We now invite you to add your +1’s for suggestions you think are the most insightful: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Love_on_the_wikis Simply sign your name next to your favorite suggestions, for sharing with a wide audience on Friday. And we could still use a few more articles, quotes, sounds and videos, if you have any last-minute suggestions. We welcome your contributions until the end of today, at midnight PST. Tomorrow, we will prepare a blog post with our top picks, based on community and team feedback — and publish it on the Wikimedia Blog and on social media, on Friday -- just in time for Valentine’s day. As a result of this experiment, we may find new ways to curate and share information on specific themes, combining the wikis, our blog and social media. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this community-created love collection! Regards as ever, Fabrice _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)

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