How to grow our technical community? This is a main topic at the upcoming
Wikimedia Developer Summit (San Francisco, January 11-13, 2017).
There is a call for participation open until the end of this month (October
31). Your proposals for discussions related to this main topic are welcome!
There are some ideas about possible topics at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit/2017/How_to_grow_…
If you are interested in contributing to the discussions about How to grow
our technical community, please join us at the Summit (the deadline to
request travel sponsorship is next Monday, October 24).
PLEASE ENCOURAGE OTHER PEOPLE to submit a proposal and/or join the Summit.
This email will likely arrive to the core of the Wikimedia technical
community, but the chances to arrive to the periphery and beyond are a lot
smaller. We need your help! We want to discuss how to grow our technical
community including the perspectives of those who haven't joined us yet.
--
Quim Gil
Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Ellie Young refers to a strategic review of Wikimania. It would be
valuable to know how the community at large, and especially the 99% of
content contributors or the 99.9999% of readers (all figures estimated) who
do not currently go to such events, will be involved. Will there be any
engagement at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania for the 99%?
Banners for the 99.9999%?
Hi everyone,
The WMF Community Tech team is starting to wrap up our work on this year's
Community Wishlist projects, as we prepare for the new Community Wishlist
Survey starting in November.
We've got a new Status report to share, with an update on the work that's
been done this year on the Community Wishlist:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_repor…
Here's a quick overview for the top 10 --
COMPLETED WORK on 5 wishes:
* Wish #1: Migrate dead external links to archives, with volunteer dev
Cyberpower678 -- currently on English Wikipedia, other languages coming
* Wish #2: Improved diff comparisons, by WMF developer MaxSem, live on all
wikis
* Wish #5: Numerical sorting in categories, currently on English, Swedish
and Macedonian Wikipedias, more languages coming soon
* Wish #7: Pageview stats tool, live on all wikis
* Wish #9: Improve the plagiarism detection bot, with volunteer dev Eran --
currently on English Wikipedia, other languages coming
CURRENTLY WORKING on 1 wish:
* Wish #4: Cross-wiki watchlist, currently in progress
OTHER TEAMS ARE WORKING on 2 wishes:
* Wish #3: Central repository for gadgets, templates and Lua modules,
foundational work is underway by Legoktm
* Wish #6: Allow categories in Commons in all languages, related work is
underway by the Wikidata team
DECLINED 2 wishes:
* Wish #8: Global cross-wiki talk page
* Wish #10: Add a user watchlist
There's lots of information on the top 10, plus the work being done by
WMDE's Technical Wishes team and the Technical Collaboration team, on the
Status report page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_repor…
And we hope that everyone will come and participate in the 2nd annual
Community Wishlist Survey, starting November 7th!
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey
See you soon,
-- Danny
DannyH (WMF)
Senior Product Manager
WMF Community Tech Team
What : Africa general stub elimination contest launched on the English
Wikipedia.
Thousands of stubs are listed for your interest...
Though a general content improvement contest, this contest is also being
run in partnership with WikiProject Wiki Loves Women and WikiProject
Women in Red to de-stub and create start-class articles about women.
Contest is about all african countries. Prizes are by countries. That
means... lot's of prizes...
Prizes have been offered by Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedia UK and
Dthomsen.
If you are not a destuber oriented person, we also provide a list of
selected articles that we would love to see get to GA status. Join in to
help them get there !
When : Oct 15 - Nov 27.
Langages : Entries in all languages, especially French, are welcome
Where :
Main page : https://en.wikipedia.org/…/Wikipedia…/The_Africa_Destubathon
Help needed: we also need a few judges... Dr. Blofeld, the main
instigator, needs help to triage and judge entries.
Please relay :)
Anthere
Dear friends,
On behalf of Wikimedia Israel, I'm pleased to announce a new partnership
and expansion of our Education initiative - WikiCampus.
WikiCampus it is a new initiative by Wikimedia Israel and the
Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya (IDC) [1]. As part of the
collaboration, during the upcoming academic year, dozens of courses (and a
total of hundreds of students) will take part in the Wikipedia assignment
program.
Until now, we ran many Wikipedia assignment collaborations directly with
teachers in universities and colleges in Israel. For the first time, this
pilot will be lead directly by the Rector’s office, and teachers will be
encouraged to integrate article writing assignments into academic writing
assignments.
In 2015, some 150 articles were written or expanded by students (not
counting programs with high schools). In the first half of 2016, students
added 583 articles to Hebrew Wikipedia - more than a 300% increase (!) and
we hope to see another major increase in the upcoming year thanks to
WikiCampus.
This is the first time that an academic institution is embracing this
program with great motivation and enthusiasm. We hope that this
collaboration will be a model for other chapters and academic institutions
to adopt.
Many thanks to Prof. Karine Nahon [2], WMIL's board member and an associate
professor in the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the
IDC for her help with initiating this collaboration!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinary_Center_Herzliya
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karine_Nahon
*Regards,Itzik Edri*
Chairperson, Wikimedia Israel
+972-54-5878078 | http://www.wikimedia.org.il
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment!
*Apologies if you receive this as a cross-posting. I am re-sending this one
last time as there is an October 11 deadline for review, and the grant has
been updated a bit. **Thanks in advance.*
Hi Wikipedians,
I have written a *Wikimedia Grant Proposal: "Twitterpedian-in-Residence"* and
would be grateful for review, feedback, advice, and endorsement, if the
proposal seems positive.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/BrillLyle/
Twitterpedian-in-Residence
*Background*
In the last few months I have seen, been referred to, or tagged by friends
(who know about my Wikipedia obsession) on quite a few social media posts
written by people who are very unhappy with their Wikipedia entries. People
don't know how to fix their pages. And there doesn't appear to be an easy
answer or approach to talk with a human about the problem. Often, they try
to fix the problem themselves, which only exacerbates the problem. And they
hate their picture, etc. It goes on and on.
After the last few experiences where I have done significant amounts of
editing, it occurred to me that a more formalized answer might be a good
beta test solution to this problem.
I am a strong believer in the Wikipedian-in-Residence programs and GLAM
initiatives, so I envision this proposal within that type of framework.
Thanks so much in advance,
- Erika
*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*
thank you very much, it's about time this happens! It might be an idea to
detail the exact license differences a little bit more prominent?
Rupert
On Oct 5, 2016 22:13, "Stephen LaPorte" <slaporte(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello all,
Today we opened a discussion asking for community input
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0> on a
proposed change to the Wikimedia Terms of Use to upgrade to Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/>. The new license is
easier to read and more internationally friendly, so we hope it will ensure
that people can easily and freely share or remix Wikimedia content. The
amendment to our Terms of Use is currently available in German, French,
Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and we welcome further translations and
discussion in any language.
For your review, you may find the proposed amendment and background
information here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_
Commons_4.0/Legal_note
Please join the discussion on the talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik
i/Talk:Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and comments.
Best,
Stephen
--
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Senior Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
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Uh, I leave the details to someone who knows better :) - it is a while
since I checked, and it might indeed be underspecified right now.
To the best of my knowledge, there is only one widely used coordinate
system for each Mars and Titan. I might be wrong. But in the worst case we
would need to specify the default system for either.
I am not saying that the whole thing is not a problem - I am just saying
that the data model, as spec'ed and implemented, has a space for solving
it. It is obvious that without support in the UI the whole thing is
slightly moot anyway.
On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 2:23 PM Jan Macura <macurajan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2016-10-07 20:34 GMT+02:00 Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)gmail.com>:
>
> Wikidata allows to set a coordinate system - it is called a globe or
> coordinate system - on every coordinate. This would be the natural place to
> specify whether it is WGS84 or GDA94 or another system. Most of them are
> Q2, which, as per data model, is indeed WGS84
>
>
> Hi Denny,
>
> can you be more specific about this? So when there is no explicit value in
> the *globe* parametre of GlobeCoordinate, then it is treated as Q2 (this
> corelates with the dumps and every RDF serialization)? It would imply
> geographic coordinates (not the same as WGS84!!). Or is it considered to be
> specifically WGS84, which is Q11902211?
> And how you tell the coordinate system for other celestial bodies like
> Q111 (Mars) or Q2565 (Titan)?
>
> Thanks a lot
> Jan
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