Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on
Thursday, August 6, 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 a community update
* Review WMF top-level metrics
* Present reports/updates
For August, we'll present a quarterly report overview & review
VisualEditor AB test and usability results
* Engage in questions/discussions
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further
information about how to participate.
We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Praveena
--
Praveena Maharaj
Executive Assistant
Wikimedia Foundation \\ www.wikimediafoundation.org
Hi,
I would like to ask, if the ease of media handling (images, photographs on
Wikimedia Commons) is a priority for Wikimedia Foundation? If not, could it
be a priority? Recently we have seen a big step done for editors =
VisualEditor. Contributors have no longer study "wikicode" to be able to
contribute. That removes one of the technological barriers and it looks its
a priority for WMF.
While part of contributing to Wikipedia is still contributing by images. I
am from Wikimedia Czech republic. We run many projects based on media
harvest or organizing *low barrier media harvest activities* to bring new
users to Wikipedia.
As our newbies are not technologically skilled and not native English
speakers, there is a big technology block to contribute to Wikipedia with
ease:
1) there is no app for mobile phones and tablets for image upload
2) newbies are lost, when they click on "Upload image" and they are
transferred from Wikipedia to Wikimedia Commons
3) Wikimedia Commons is in English - foreign language for our participants
4) biggest language barrier are categories, which are in English only, we
need to insert name of the category in our mother tongue
5) Wikimedia Commons environment is still pretty "techy"
6) Insert metadata, takes a long time:
e.g.: you have an image of a cathedral in Des Moines, IW. 3 or 4 times you
have to insert same information: a) to file name (*Des Moines,
cathedral.jpg*), b) to file description (*en:** Cathedral in Des Moines,
Iowa, USA*/*es:* *La catedral de XY en Des Moines, Iowa, EEUU*) and c) to
the category (*category:Des Moines* or *Churches in Des Moines*,
*category:Cathedrals
in Iowa*).
Its 2015, there are many social projects around us. You can handle images
much easier on these projects than on mother of all social projects -
Wikipedia. Big step was done with using images allready present in Commons.
Could we do something for those, who contributes with their media to
Wikipedia? Could we do it in one or two years?
Thank you very much for your concern!
Regards,
Juandev
Dear Wikimedia friends and partners,
We have just published our FDC progress report for the first half of
2015. It’s a quite lengthy document, so I would like to highlight some
shared learning for the Free Knowledge movement that we present in
this report.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikim…
We have published several learning patterns and material, for example
on participation in post-conference surveys, crowd-funding campaign,
recording audio samples, relationships with donors, and sharing
information with the movement:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round1/Wikim…
The grant report for the Wikimedia Conference 2015 includes a lot of
lessons learnt that can also be applied to other movement events:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/WM_DE/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/…https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Feedback_evaluati…
The committee that was tasked with the transition of our Executive
Director reported on their process and provides advice for similar
processes in other organisations, no matter if big or small:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Transition_Team/Execu…
Our annual compass 2016 provides WMDE with vision and direction for
the upcoming planning process and lists new volunteers, software
development and public policy as the three priorities for our work in
2016:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/PP16/Kompass/en
If you have questions or feedback, please do not hesitate to reach out
to us. You can either engage via the respective talk pages or directly
with the contact persons involved. If you are not sure whom to best
reach out to, get in touch with me and I will connect you.
Nicole
--
Nicole Ebber
Vorstandsreferentin Internationale Beziehungen
Adviser to the ED, International Relations
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
If Harald Bischoff has defrauded Commons reusers by requiring stricter
attribution than the community requires, does the Foundation have standing
in Germany to require him to return the money to his victims in proportion
to the extent that their attribution was improper?
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:37:19 -0400, Jan Ainali <jan.ainali(a)wikimedia.se>
wrote:
> Some thoughts inline.
>
> 2015-07-31 15:48 GMT+02:00 Juan de Vojníkov <juandevojnikov(a)gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 1) there is no app for mobile phones and tablets for image upload
>>
>
> Well, there is one [1] (but not supported by WMF and only for iOS so
> far).
There is one for android too [1].
[1] https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.wikimedia.commons
Hi all,
please find the Wikimedia Foundation's report for the fourth quarter
of the past fiscal year at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Quarterly_Repo…
.
Quoting below the foreword by Terry:
We are pleased to bring you the Wikimedia Foundation’s Quarterly
Report for Q4 of the 2014/15 fiscal year. This is the third report
since we switched from a monthly cycle, to align with our quarterly
goal setting process. We are continuing to optimize the report’s
format and the organization’s quarterly review process that the report
is based on, to bring you better information at a lower overhead for
the teams that take out time from their work to tell you how they have
been doing. Participation in the review process is good and growing.
This issue includes some new pieces of information, e.g. the
approximate size of each team (in FTE, on average during this
quarter), and for each objective, the number of team members who were
involved with a significant amount of their time. The overall metrics
scorecard now contains new, more reliable uptime numbers for both
readers and contributors.
As before, we are including an overview slide summarizing successes
and misses across all teams. In a mature 90 day goal setting process,
the “sweet spot” is for about 75% of goals to be a success.
Organizations that are meeting 100% of their goals are not typically
setting aggressive goals.
Terry Gilbey, Chief Operating Officer
--
Tilman Bayer
Senior Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation
IRC (Freenode): HaeB
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Hello,
I just read this article by our friend Guillaume Paumier
https://guillaumepaumier.com/2015/07/29/autistic-wikipedian/
and this other recommended by him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:High-functioning_autism_and_Asperge…
I strongly recommend both for all.
I believe it's very important for us to translate these pages, even if
Wikimedia Foundation had to pay for the translations and find other who can
share their stories, even as anonymous.
I also think it can be a good idea to involve more scientists and doctors
to improve this wiki article about high functioning autism and Asperger
editors. We can use our network from the Wikipedia Education program for
that. This is just a suggestion.
Thanks for your article, Guillaume.
Tom
Open Knowledge Brazil
>... The license requires only that the credit "be implemented in
> any reasonable manner". [Also note that the _text_ of our projects,
> while also licensed under CC-BY-SA, is licensed in way that
> explicitly states that a sufficient attribution is "[t]hrough hyperlink
> (where possible) or URL to the page or pages that you are re-using....
If it's easy to find the correct image attribution with an image
search, use on the web without explicit textual attribution is
reasonably properly attributed, for values of reasonableness which
involve the actual ease with which the source may be found by someone
exercising a minimal amount of diligence.
Alternatively, printed use with something like "photo by Joe Smith"
would be far less reasonable even though it purports to name the
credited party. My only motivation here is that of the reputation of
the projects.
The German legal system is fascinating to me. I wish we had 3rd party
standing in the US. Then we would probably get as much sustainable and
power-to-gas energy as Germany has. They are way ahead of everyone
there.
On Jul 28, 2015 9:37 AM, "WereSpielChequers" <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> It isn't clear to me at present whether he is:
>
> 1 insisting on his undisputed licence rights
> 2 strictly enforcing licence rights which we acknowledge on at least one
Wikimedia project and don't ourselves breach as a movement
> 3 enforcing licence rights which we acknowledge on at least one Wikimedia
project but breach on another.
Could you please give an example for the three, to make easier for people
not so acquainted with nuances of the English language?
Rupert