Dear Wikimedians,
{{Nutshell|WMF Community Engagement Team is allocating staff time and
funding to deliberate capacity-development projects with interested
communities in six capacity areas: community governance; conflict
management; on-wiki technical skills; new contributor engagement and
growth; partnerships; communications}}
==Details==
This is a new way of partnering with WMF: through two way conversations
(rather than top-down planning), WMF will work with specific emerging
communities to explore obstacles for community growth and explore and pilot
solutions together.
The first phase of this work consisted of a series of in-depth interviews
with individuals from 16 specific emerging communities to gather
information about existing and missing capacities. Reviewing those
interviews in aggregate, we came up with six capacities it seems useful to
work together on.
We prepared a page per such capacity, detailing challenges and possible
approaches to build that capacity. We welcome your feedback! Contributions
to those pages can be done in the following ways:
* Sign up on the sidebar of each capacity subpage if you want to implement
certain practices described,
* Provide more links to resources,
* Expand the Potential Solutions section with new ideas.
These pages, including your contributions, will serve as the basis for
specific conversations with specific communities to develop plans or
projects to build capacity.
During this initial pilot period, we intend to pursue projects in two or
three capacities at most, which will be chosen according to community
interest, scale of community, and scale of readership. We expect some of
the specific actions we take in these projects would create resources
[re-]usable by other communities as well.
==Join the Conversation==
We invite you all to read through the capacity pages, and specifically, to
see if the challenges described resonate with you and your community. If
they do, have an on-wiki discussion about it with your community, and if
there's general interest, sign up on the capacity pages and we'll have a
conversation about what might be some possible next steps.
Find the six capacity pages on Meta, here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development
Looking forward to fruitful engagement,
Asaf Bartov
Sati Houston
Community Engagement department
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Danny Horn wrote:
>To better address the needs of our core contributors, we're now focusing
>our strategy on the curation, collaboration, and admin processes that
>take place on a variety of pages. Many of these processes use complex
>workarounds -- templates, categories, transclusions, and lots of
>instructions -- that turn blank wikitext talk pages into structured
>workflows. There are gadgets and user scripts on the larger wikis to help
>with some of these workflows, but these tools aren't standardized or
>universally available.
I absolutely agree that existing wiki workflows need love. I think anyone
who has looked at various wiki request for deletion processes, for
example, easily sees and understands the need for a better system.
What I'm struggling with here is that Flow seems to have failed to
deliver. It hasn't met its goals of covering even basic talk pages and it
sounds as though further development work on Flow will now be suspended.
>From my perspective, after over two years of development, we've basically
accomplished creating pages such as "Topic:P0q3m7vwysdezd2m" (I wish I
were kidding, that's an actual page title) on development wikis such as
mediawiki.org. This is a pretty bleak outcome, in my opinion.
Given the failure in addressing basic talk pages, why would anyone trust
the Collaboration team to work on and improve more complex workflows? I
don't see a track record of success or, alternately, a good explanation
for why the previous work has failed and what will be better next time.
MZMcBride
Sorry for the crosspost.
Thanks,
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From: Ivan Martínez <galaver(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2015-09-04 22:38 GMT-05:00
Subject: Wikimania 15 videos
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone, the featured speakers videos are up now, both on Commons and
Youtube. We have two versions of each speaker, the original audio and the
simultaneous translation English or Spanish according to the case.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2015_presentation_videoshttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxdLXCagb6RAiK9w2y0DsDUzWF7dgj7j-
Our volunteers will work in the next months in the closed caption of each
talk. Will be very nice if we can have many translations many languages as
possible.
We have pending only the publication of the Wikimania 15 documentary, that
will be premiered soon at National Film Archive of Mexico (Cineteca
Nacional) and TV UNAM, public digital TV with national reach, and then
shared by all our channels. Stay tuned!
Thanks again for the great moments we lived in Mexico City.
Cheers,
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Hi all,
The Wikimedia Foundation would like your feedback about how we can
reimagine grants to better support people and ideas in the Wikimedia
movement.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants
We’ve been discussing the idea with the grants committees and are now
running a survey and collecting feedback on Meta-wiki. Office hours will
also be held in Hangouts and IRC starting at the end of August.
Please share your feedback on the idea here, and help make it better:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants
You can learn more about this consultation, including dates for office
hours, here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Reimagining_WMF_grants/Consul…
Feedback is welcome in any language.
Warm regards,
Siko and the Community Resources team
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Hi Asaf,
Thank you for sharing these news! I think building capacities is key for
our movement and the way this initiative is presented seems to me very
relevant and useful.
I am wondering to what extent / how this articulates :
- with the programme and work done at Wikimedia Conference this year, where
most of these topics where covered
- with the follow-up day of WMCON at Wikimania in Mexico where some
sessions where dedicated to these topics
- with the work done by several subcommunities (such as the Volunteer
Support Network, for instance, who - I guess - is dealing with most of
these issues)
Do you plan to map and embark the several existing initiatives around these
topics across our movement, to build on what's already existing, and how?
Do you plan to have one contact point per topic at WMF to make co-creation
and cooperation as efficient as possible?
What is the actual target group of the initiative? Only "Emerging
Communities" or also already "emerged" communities?
It seems to me that there are parallel actions aiming at the same goal
here, and it would be great to see them dialogue, converge or even merge
rather than dissipating our efforts on such important matters. What do you
think ?
Thanks a lot for your answers,
Have a great week,
Anne-Laure
*Anne-Laure Prévost*
CONSEILLÈRE SPÉCIALE PARTENARIATS ET RELATIONS INSTITUTIONNELLES /
SPECIAL ADVISOR PARTNERSHIPS & INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
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Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:40:25 -0700
From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] New WMF initiative: Community Capacity
Development
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Dear Wikimedians,
{{Nutshell|WMF Community Engagement Team is allocating staff time and
funding to deliberate capacity-development projects with interested
communities in six capacity areas: community governance; conflict
management; on-wiki technical skills; new contributor engagement and
growth; partnerships; communications}}
==Details==
This is a new way of partnering with WMF: through two way conversations
(rather than top-down planning), WMF will work with specific emerging
communities to explore obstacles for community growth and explore and pilot
solutions together.
The first phase of this work consisted of a series of in-depth interviews
with individuals from 16 specific emerging communities to gather
information about existing and missing capacities. Reviewing those
interviews in aggregate, we came up with six capacities it seems useful to
work together on.
We prepared a page per such capacity, detailing challenges and possible
approaches to build that capacity. We welcome your feedback! Contributions
to those pages can be done in the following ways:
* Sign up on the sidebar of each capacity subpage if you want to implement
certain practices described,
* Provide more links to resources,
* Expand the Potential Solutions section with new ideas.
These pages, including your contributions, will serve as the basis for
specific conversations with specific communities to develop plans or
projects to build capacity.
During this initial pilot period, we intend to pursue projects in two or
three capacities at most, which will be chosen according to community
interest, scale of community, and scale of readership. We expect some of
the specific actions we take in these projects would create resources
[re-]usable by other communities as well.
==Join the Conversation==
We invite you all to read through the capacity pages, and specifically, to
see if the challenges described resonate with you and your community. If
they do, have an on-wiki discussion about it with your community, and if
there's general interest, sign up on the capacity pages and we'll have a
conversation about what might be some possible next steps.
Find the six capacity pages on Meta, here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development
Looking forward to fruitful engagement,
Asaf Bartov
Sati Houston
Community Engagement department
--
Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
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sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
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Glad to hear it.
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From: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
Date: 09/01/2015 10:31 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Wikipedia rocked by 'rogue editors' blackmail scam targeting small businesses and celebrities"
We have a number of discussions ongoing with respect to what measures we
should take to address the issue of promotional paid editing generally and
to prevent this from happening again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Wikip…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Doc_James/Paid_editing
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My emails; however, do not represent the official position of the WMF
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Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on
Thursday, September 3, 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.
At next month's meeting, we will:
* Welcome recent hires
* Present a community update
* Review WMF top-level metrics
* Share research findings
* Showcase recent work
* Engage in questions/discussions
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further
information about the meeting and how to participate.
We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Praveena
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It has been a year (and a day) since the gerrit 153302 [1] has been merged
and deployed to the dewiki.
Just a friendly reminder that you don't forget WMF's inappropriate action.
[1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153302
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Yes some interesting comment by Trillium. Where the articles mainly
promotional? Yes very. A number of them were copied and pasted from press
releases by the companies in question.
Were a number of the editors from the developing world? Also yes. This is
because they are willing to work for less and Orangemody was hiring from
sites like Elance.
I guess the fundamental question is, is Wikipedia a workspace to provide
employment for those in the developing world who are willing to do PR piece
work for some unknown PR firm? Or is Wikipedia an encyclopedia.
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As of July 2015 I am a board member of the Wikimedia Foundation
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