We are pleased to announce the Top 10 best photos Wiki Loves Monuments
Algeria who will compete for the international competition the largest
photo competition in the world
Congratulations to the winners and thank you all for your best photos,
which as you know will help build articles contained in the global internet.
Open source, open data, open knoledge, free accessible to all
thank you again to all participants
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_Alg…
Best
Mohammed Bachounda
leader WikiDZ Algeria
Congratulations, Kelly and Rosie, and to the Board of Wikimedia DC! Very
cool. :)
Katy
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Kirill Lokshin <
kirill.lokshin(a)wikimediadc.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm very pleased to announce that Kelly Doyle and Rosie
> Stephenson-Goodknight have joined the Wikimedia DC Board of Directors.
>
> I'm sure that most of you already know Kelly and Rosie; for anyone who
> doesn't, Kelly currently serves as the Wikipedian in Residence for Gender
> Equity at West Virginia University Libraries, while Rosie is a co-founder
> of WikiProject Women in Red and the WikiWomen's User Group, among many
> other projects.
>
> Please join me in congratulating them on their new roles!
>
> Cheers,
> Kirill
>
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Dear Rosie, dear Kelly,
Bravo for this new function, it is certainly good news for anyone dedicated to the gender gap!
Good luck in these new responsibilities to both of you,
Nattes à chat / Natacha
> Le 30 oct. 2016 à 21:27, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin(a)wikimediadc.org> a écrit :
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm very pleased to announce that Kelly Doyle and Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight have joined the Wikimedia DC Board of Directors.
>
> I'm sure that most of you already know Kelly and Rosie; for anyone who doesn't, Kelly currently serves as the Wikipedian in Residence for Gender Equity at West Virginia University Libraries, while Rosie is a co-founder of WikiProject Women in Red and the WikiWomen's User Group, among many other projects.
>
> Please join me in congratulating them on their new roles!
>
> Cheers,
> Kirill
>
> --
> Kirill Lokshin
> President
> Wikimedia District of Columbia
> kirill.lokshin(a)wikimediadc.org
> https://wikimediadc.org
>
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Hi, how about a wikipedia about objects?
Instead of generic articles of , for example, "Ballpoint pen" or "Bic
cristal" it would be "Ballpoint pen Bic cristal 2014"
Doing these for millions of objects would allow people to have an open,
free, universal and central place to refer specific objects.
*Some possible applications:*
- Creating neutral and standard lists:
Nowadays if anyone create, for example, a tutorial for building
something (DIY projects, receipts, ...) they have to link all items to a
comercial or no-neutral web which could change its url in the future or
redirect it to adds or whatever.
Lists could be created in external webpages linking wikimedia objects
webpage or/and could be created as category pages in Wikipedia. For
example, currently, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_of_the_Year
article lists cars which won COTY award but not links to the specific car
(AUDI A3 Hatchback 2012 - Present) but generic serie (Audi A3).
The good thing at this point it's that to start creating object
lists only item name is necessary, no infoboxes or description needed.
- Universal repository for inventories:
Lot of business fill their inventories again and again with same data
("cardboard box 50x30x15", "step by step nema motor 17", ... ) they should
be able to import this data from a open website with their corresponding
info like GTIN , SKU , Barcode... and more in the future weight, size,
...
- Encourage Recycling and Reutilitation:
Imagine if we use wikidata properties (
https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:List_of_properties/Generic) like
"has part" and "part of" , people will find other uses for objects, or
discover were to find
- Social activism and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Companies have info and metrics about their costumers (habits, location,
...) why not costumers have info about companies products, who manufacture
what?, what products have a good carbon footprint
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_footprint>?, what products have
been retired from some problem?, what are Fair Trade?. This also can moved
companies do better.
*Very rough roadmap*:
1. At the very begining, using wikidata infrestructure, objects would
only have common info like "name", " image", "related links"
(datasheets?), GTIN.
First use cases could be doing lists or grouping objects by categories.
2. Step by step new fields could be added like "manufacturer" , "tags",
...
3. A separated website could be created. wikiobject.org isn't availiabe
so url could be something like objects.wikpedia.org
4. In a long-term in order to explote all the possibilities of this
project more complex fields and relations would have to be managed, like
for example "fridges with energy class A+++ and width less than 80 cm",
which could be easy if all always were similar but nothing further from
reality
A friend of mine and me tried to build a demo version in an home-made
apache cassandra cluster four years ago, but we don't have enough resources
and knowledge for that.
*Funding*
In my humble opinion, problem with wikipedia funding It's that most part of
its users don't see culture as a need (sorry for that, I am a sporadic
donor). In Wikiobject case I think it could rather be different.
If part of companies business lies on this project, companies will be very
inclined to donate to improve performace, usability, etc.. maybe similar to
what happens in Linux.
Where came this need from? Data needed for some software to run, product
vissibility, costumer requests, etc ... , no advertisement needed, It could
be a need and standart.
I trully believe that world need something like this, and the correct
people to do it, to warranty openness and independence, are you.
thanks for your time and attention,
grettings
Greetings!
The Wikimedia Foundation Communications department has been working on the
development of the Communications resource center (started thanks to
Wikimedia Deutschland as the Movement communications skills library). The
goal of this center is to help share resources related to movement
communications with interested volunteers across the movement. We
appreciate the feedback that people have shared with us since its launch.
We are excited to share that we have completed improvements based on your
feedback, and included content from many of the trainings done by the
Communications department into the resource center.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Resource_center
In a few months, we will be more formally introducing the center, but
wanted to do a round of feedback with those of you who are interested. In
addition to hearing your overall feedback, we would be interested in
hearing more about if this type of approach is helpful, what resources you
would like added, and how we can make it more usable.
Please feel free to post your feedback here, emailing it to me (
gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org) or posting it on the center's talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Communications/Resource_center
Also, a reminder that you are invited to contribute resources to the center
as well. It is a wiki - be bold! :)
Finally, for some additional context, the Communications resource center
will be integrated into a broader organization-wide resource center which
the Learning and Evaluation team is currently developing.
Thank you!
-greg
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Gregory Varnum
Communications Strategist (Contractor)
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/>
gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org
Hello Wikimedia-l,
The Wikimedia Foundation, in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland, is
currently exploring an opportunity to potentially secure additional
resources to expedite development work on Structured Data for Commons [1].
In light of this, we would like feedback on a 3 year plan that potentially
accelerates software development for both Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata if
these resources should become available. We would like to invite you to
participate in a conversation about the plan [2] and look forward to your
comments and thoughts.
--
Joseph Seddon & Alex Stinson
*Advancement Associate & **GLAM-Wiki Strategist*
*Wikimedia Foundation*
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Overview
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Keegan Peterzell <kpeterzell(a)wikimedia.org
> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> Wikimedians, please review something we are working on for the Wikimedia
> Foundation, the Technical Collaboration Guideline [0].
>
>
>
Keegan, thank you for this, to you and everyone who has worked on it. It's
a very welcome development.
Sarah
(cross-posting to Wikimania-l and Wikimedia-l)
Hi,
As earlier discussions on this topic received relatively little response from the community, I'm sending this email to let you know about the new topic posted at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Babel#Wikimania_wikis, with regards to having a single unified Wikimania wiki.
I have copied the original post below for ease of reading. Please post your comments on the meta page.
**********
Hi. I was looking at Special:SiteMatrix<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix> and couldn't help noticing the whopping 14 separate wikis (and growing) for all the different Wikimanias, including a separate wiki for a "Wikimania team". Is there any current plans of a more sustainable or streamlined approach to running these wikis?
I am aware that this has been discussed a few times before, but no significant effort was put into it. Wikimania project domain<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_project_domain> is the most significant discussion which I could find, but participation was quite low on that, with no(?) WMF staff comments.
>From what I understand from the above linked discussion, some key points against a unified Wikimania wiki was that:
1. We will not be able to preserve old Wikimania wikis as a "time capsule"
2. Older Wikimania organizers may face new organizers "steamrolling" over their pages
3. Organizers will not have complete control over the site as old admins might interrupt for whatever reasons. (or vice versa)
My though for these points was:
1. Why not have each Wikimania project branch their pages as wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016/Main page, or alternatively, have separate namespaces for each project (i.e. 2016:, 2017:, etc). We could then protect all pages under a project (i.e. 2016/ or 2016:) once a project is over.
2. This could be avoided by protection, as stated above.
3. Make it much less complicated. Once the project is over, all previous admin rights will be revoked, and the new organizers will get the rights. New admins can be advise to not modify previous project namespaces, or if better, if we can block previous projects' namespaces from editing? Furthermore, there could be a bot logging all changes made to old project namespaces, for transparency.
Is there any other views on this? Did I miss something obvious? Looking forward to your comments. Cheers, Rehman.
**********
Thanks and regards,
User:Rehman<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>
Apparently on the orders of the french government orange added us to
their blocked terrorist sites list. This did apparently have the fun
effect of DOS the government page people were redirected to, Source
(among others):
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