Hello guys,
I'm struggling to find any kind of discussion/research about wikinews and
the relation with free journalism (free as defined here:
http://freedomdefined.org/Definition).
Did you know any kind of paper, article about it? Or even articles about
free journalism (free mean freeeee, providing sources, the result is under
a free license...)
Thanks for the attention
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Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton
rodrigo.argenton(a)gmail.com
+55 11 979 718 884
Dear all,
Apologies for the late invitation! The next WMF metrics and activities
meeting will take place on Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM
PDT). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and
the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream.
Each month at the metrics meeting, we will:
* Welcome recent hires
* Present reports/updates that are focused on a key theme or topic. For
May, we will do a Strategy & Operations update.
* Engage in questions/discussions
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings for
further information about how to participate.
We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Praveena
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Praveena Maharaj
Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation \\ www.wikimediafoundation.org
Hi all,
In the past months the Wikimedia Foundation has been writing an evaluation
about Wiki Loves Monuments. [1]
At such it is fine that WMF is writing an evaluation, however they fail in
actual understanding Wiki Loves Monuments, and that is shown in the
evaluation report.
As a result on the Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list a discussion grows
about the various problems the evaluation has.
As the Learning and Evaluation team at the Wikimedia Foundation already had
released the first Programs Reports for Wiki Loves Monuments, we are now
put as fait accompli with this evaluation report.
Therefore I am writing here so that the rest of the worldwide Wikimedia
community is informed that this is not going right.
Wiki Loves Monuments is not just a bunch of uploads done in September, the
report is too simplified without actual understanding how the community is
doing this project.
Romaine
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Evaluation_reports/2015/W…
I organized a contest Wiki Loves Monuments wiki and loves earth in algeria
and coordinate on the rest of each arabic country who has organised the
contest
I had a lot of fun to organize during 2013 2014 till 2015 now
In algeria ;with astonishment ;many do not know what that meant wikipedia;
those who knew wikipedia ;they were discovered commons and more....
he was able to me; to establish relationships that are allowed me to create
WMUG Algeriait; is a great chalenge for me
all these offline activities help to enhance the experience and conaissance
of wikimedia projects
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia of knowledge; and yet it is a great unknown
Wiki loves what is good; May it must be renewed
I suggest only one thing:
a single contest each year with a commission that reflects, and proposes
the theme of the year
it is more focus; if the Commission believes that this year we need to
photograph flowers or rare plants or animals in commons then this will be
the case
International Commitee or Commission or the way you want and the weak link
was missing the comunity
wikimedia must help to the elaboration of this infrastructure without
influencing it
best
--
*Mohammed Bachounda*
Leader Wikimedia Algérie UG
Hi,
We would like to invite you to participate in our contest the Menu
Challenge [1] starting 8 May! There we would need your help with adding
translations, photos and/or audio recordings to Wikidata about ingredients
and dishes that will be served on the food fair Taste Stockholm. We will
use your work to show the endless possibilities with open data and
crowdsourcing to all the fair's thousands of visitors. So please join us
today! Let's get some #tastydata!
[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Menu_Challenge
*Best regards,Jan Ainali*
CEO, Wikimedia Sverige <http://wikimedia.se>
0729 - 67 29 48
*Tänk dig en värld där varje människa har fri tillgång till mänsklighetens
samlade kunskap. Det är det vi gör.*
Bli medlem. <http://blimedlem.wikimedia.se>
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Starting today, editors can use *<graph>* tag to include complex graphs and
maps inside articles.
*Demo:* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo
*Vega's demo:* http://trifacta.github.io/vega/editor/?spec=scatter_matrix
*Extension info:* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph
*Vega's docs:* https://github.com/trifacta/vega/wiki
*Bug reports:* https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ - project tag #graph
Graph tag support template parameter expansion. There is also a Graphoid
service to convert graphs into images. Currently, Graphoid is used in case
the browser does not support modern JavaScript, but I plan to use it for
all anonymous users - downloading large JS code needed to render graphs is
significantly slower than showing an image.
Potential future growth (developers needed!):
* Documentation and better tutorials
* Visualize as you type - show changes in graph while editing its code
* Visual Editor's plugin
* Animation <https://github.com/trifacta/vega/wiki/Interaction-Scenarios>
Project history: Exactly one year ago, Dan Andreescu (milimetric) and Jon
Robson demoed Vega visualization grammar <https://trifacta.github.io/vega/>
usage in MediaWiki. The project stayed dormant for almost half a year,
until Zero team decided it was a good solution to do on-wiki graphs. The
project was rewritten, and gained many new features, such as template
parameters. Yet, doing graphs just for Zero portal seemed silly. Wider
audience meant that we now had to support older browsers, thus Graphoid
service was born.
This project could not have happened without the help from Dan Andreescu,
Brion Vibber, Timo Tijhof, Chris Steipp, Max Semenik, Marko Obrovac,
Alexandros Kosiaris, Jon Robson, Gabriel Wicke, and others who have helped
me develop, test, instrument, and deploy Graph extension and Graphoid
service. I also would like to thank the Vega team for making this amazing
library.
--Yurik