Hello,
A quick reminder about Wikimedia Language Engineering team's IRC office
hour later today at 1430 UTC[1] on #wikimedia-office. Please see below for
the original announcement, local time, and agenda. We will post logs on
metawiki[2] after the event.
Thanks
Runa
[1] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150505T1430
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Office_hour_logs
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From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 7:29 PM
Subject: [x-post] Next Language Engineering IRC Office Hour is on 5th May
2015 (Tuesday) at 1430 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing
List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration
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[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next IRC office hour of the Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia
Foundation will be on May 5, 2015 (Tuesday) at 1430 UTC on
#wikimedia-office. We missed a few of our regular monthly office hours, but
from May onwards we will be back on schedule.
There has been significant progress around Content Translation[1] and it is
now available as a beta feature on several Wikipedias[2]. 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. Questions can also
be sent to me ahead of the event.
Thanks
Runa
[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/08/the-new-content-translation-tool/
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Languages#Available_lang…
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
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# Date: May 5, 2015 (Tuesday)
# Time: 1430 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150505T1430 )
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
Following up on the announcement about a new structure in the Community
Engagement team,[1] I'm happy to say we've now got a new program officer to
support WMF's Individual Engagement Grants program. Please see below for
more details. This month, Marti Johnson will be taking over for both the
IEG and TPS programs.[2] Grantees and committee members will be introduced
to Marti soon, as her onboarding to both programs begins :) Meanwhile, I
trust you will help make her feel welcome.
Warmly,
Siko
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-February/076864.html
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mjohnson_(WMF)
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From: Siko Bouterse <sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:08 PM
Subject: Announcing Marti Johnson as Program Officer for Individual Grants
To: Staff All <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
I'm excited to announce that we've got a new Program Officer for Individual
Grants. Please join me in congratulating Marti Johnson as she transitions
to this role!
Marti joined WMF as Project Coordinator in the Grantmaking and Programs
(later turned Community Engagement) department in September 2014. She
quickly demonstrated that she’s a strategic thinker who brings deep respect
for communities, a facility for organizing systems that foster creativity
and collaboration, and the warmth and generosity needed to support
individuals to do their best work.
In her new role, Marti will be responsible for the Individual Engagement
Grants and Travel and Participation Support programs. She reports directly
to me.
I’m delighted to have Marti move into the Community Resources team to put
her talents to work, particularly for supporting our Individual Engagement
Grantees and taking IEG to the next level over the coming year. Among other
things, Marti will be working on creating more robust mentorship systems
and a broader network to support grantees, while continuing to offer direct
support herself to the IEG grantees, proposers, and committee.
We’ve begun a transition period in which Marti is working to hand-off her
role in supporting Luis and the Community Engagement team while beginning
to assume her new responsibilities in Community Resources. Marti has
already taken on responsibility for Travel and Participation Support, this
week she will be onboarding our new crop of Inspire grantees in IEG, and
over the course of May I’ll be handing all day-to-day operations for IEG to
her as well. More information will be coming from Lynette later this month
about the backfill for Marti’s former Project Coordinator position. Many
thanks to Lynette for bringing Marti to WMF and supporting her move to this
new role :)
Here’s a bit more about Marti, for those of you who haven’t yet had a
chance to get to know her:
Inspired by a senior paper on agrarian community in American literature,
Marti took her first job after college coordinating Community Supported
Agriculture on an urban organic farm. A year of service as an AmeriCorps
volunteer led to a decade managing collaboratively driven resource
conservation projects on California farmlands. She gained extensive
experience with grants management, including proposal and report writing,
grantmaking, contract oversight and coordination of budgets ranging from
hundreds to millions of dollars. Marti specialized in facilitating
community-based processes and played a lead role in coordinating a
private-public alliance which was awarded California’s highest honor for
environmental and economic leadership. She gained a reputation for
building meaningful collaboration--and among other tools, she relied
heavily on wikis she built with MediaWiki software to do it. After moving
to San Francisco, Marti was very excited to join WMF and offer skills in
community coordination, collaborative strategy-building and grants
management in the context of Wikimedia projects. In her free time, Marti
likes to backpack, write and take long walks in Golden Gate Park. She has
recently been working toward a goal to read through the complete works of
Shakespeare (about 75% complete!) and welcomes read-aloud collaborators.
Congratulations and welcome to Community Resources, Marti!
Warm regards,
Siko
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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sum of all knowledge. *
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and help us make it a reality!*
Thanks Fabian. I'm forwarding this thread to Wikimedia-l, because I think
that this tool will be of interest to many Wikipedians.
Pine
*This is an Encyclopedia* <https://www.wikipedia.org/>
*One gateway to the wide garden of knowledge, where lies The deep rock of
our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*
*—Catherine Munro*
On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Flöck, Fabian <Fabian.Floeck(a)gesis.org>
wrote:
> hi all,
>
> to announce it here as well, just FYI: we made a little userscript
> (whoCOLOR) available that you can use with tamper-/greasemonkey in order to
> show original authors of text in any (english so far) wikipedia article.
> still far from perfect, but it works and it's already kind of useful I
> would say. you can download the prototype version here for trying out
> yourself: http://f-squared.org/whovisual/
>
> code under MIT should be up on github in the next few days.
> any volunteers/collaborators/re-users for this are welcome of course. i
> have some ideas for further extension listed on the website and aaron also
> suggested making it into a gadget, which is another great idea.
>
> cheers,
> fabian
>
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> Computational Social Science department @GESIS
> Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8, 50667 Cologne, Germany
> Tel: + 49 (0) 221-47694-208
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Hi all --
I wanted to give you an update on the Community Tech team. We've posted job
descriptions for open positions on our jobs page that we'd like to bring
your attention to:
Community Tech Developer
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/62666?t=m5pcy0#.VUgfhjvF_FI>
Community Tech Engineering Manager
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/62669?t=d51bks#.VUgfhjvF_FI>
Please encourage qualified folks to apply!
I want to say that I'm really excited to be working with Luis to help build
this team. I'm very appreciative that Lila and the other execs have
identified this gap in our community support and have made resources
available to address it.
-Toby
Hi!
The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:
* MIT Press Journals — scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and
social sciences (200 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:MIT>
*Loeb Classical Library — Harvard University Press versions of Classical
Greek and Latin literature with commentary and annotation (25 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:Loeb>
*RIPM — music periodicals published between 1760 and 1966 (20 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:RIPM>
*Sage Stats — social science data for geographies within the United States
(10 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:SAGE _Stats>
*HeinOnline — an extensive legal research database, including 2000
law-related journals as well as international legal history materials (25
accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:HeinOnline>
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on: <
http://enwp.org/WP:TWL/Journals>
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references
across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>
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Hi!
The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:
* MIT Press Journals — scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and
social sciences (200 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:MIT>
*Loeb Classical Library — Harvard University Press versions of Classical
Greek and Latin literature with commentary and annotation (25 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:Loeb>
*RIPM — music periodicals published between 1760 and 1966 (20 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:RIPM>
*Sage Stats — social science data for geographies within the United States
(10 accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:SAGE _Stats>
*HeinOnline — an extensive legal research database, including 2000
law-related journals as well as international legal history materials (25
accounts)
<http://enwp.org/WP:HeinOnline>
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on: <
http://enwp.org/WP:TWL/Journals>
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references
across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>
Today the Wikidata Visualization Challenge starts, a competition aimed to
make it easier to understand the value of Wikidata, what is in there,
and/or how it is being created.
The challenge ends June 1 and there are some nice prizes available.
Checkout http://wvc.se for more details.
*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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Hi all,
Today is the World Press Freedom Day [1]. Does anyone know any resent review looking the freedom of press in the world that is including Wikipedia in the study?
For instance, I would like to read about the state of Wikipedia and Wikipedians in the Russian Wikipedia. How is the community? What sources are used in the Russian Wikipedia? Are there any public discussion about possible censorship? Are there any threats? etc.
Best regards,
- Teemu
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Day
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