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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] New board of Wikimedia Hungary
by Katy Love 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Congratulations to all the elected Board members! :) Thanks for sharing these results. Cheers, Katy On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Samat <samat78(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > On November 27, 2016 Wikimedia Hungary held a general meeting, which > elected the board of the chapter for the next two year. > > The new boards is: > * president: Péter Gervai (User:grin, re-elected) > * executive vice-president: Tamás Mészöly (User:Samat, re-elected but new > role) > * financial vice-president: Balázs Viczian (User:Vince, new) > * board member: Orsolya Gyenes (User:OrsolyaVirág, re-elected) > * board member: Anna Krizsán (User:nyiffi, new member). > > Gábor Bihary (User:Peyerk) and Mónika Balogh (User:RepliCarter) resigned > from the board. > > Best regards, > Samat > > _______________________________________________ > Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately > directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia > community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list > WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l > >

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Voting on 2016 Community Wishlist Survey ends Monday
by Danny Horn 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Hi everyone, There's just a few more days to vote on the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey, to help determine what WMF's Community Tech team will be working on next year: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey Everyone is invited to show your support for the features and changes that you want to see. The top 10 proposals with the most support votes will be Community Tech's to-do list for the year, and the wishes below the top 10 will be offered to other staff and volunteer developers as highly-valued projects. Voting ends on Monday at 23:59 UTC, so please come by and check it out while there's still time to vote! Danny Horn Senior Product Manager, Community Tech

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Are inline donor banners something we view as acceptable?
by geni 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Screenshot of what I mean: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inline_donor_bannerbass.png Inline ads are generally considered to be something that gets into scummy advertising territory (for example even adblock plus's rather questionable Acceptable Ad policy doesn't accept them). On a related note the FAQ appears to be out of date: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en Unless we are still in the 2015-2016 fiscal year. -- geni

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Wikimedia Deutschland: Abraham Taherivand appointed Interim Executive Director
by Tim Moritz Hector 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

Dear Wikimedians, Earlier this week I informed you that Christian Rickerts might become the Undersecretary of State for the new Berlin ministry of economy, energy and enterprises. This has been confirmed today and Christian has stepped down from his WMDE role. I am very pleased to announce that the WMDE Supervisory Board appointed Abraham Taherivand as Interim Executive Director as of 8 December 2016. Abraham has joined WMDE in March 2012 and is the Head of our Software Development department. He has been on the transition team during the last ED search, has headed our works council and has been appointed deputy of the Executive Director recently. In his multiple roles, Abraham’s decisions have always been made in the sense of the Wikimedia Deutschland as a whole. With immediate effect, he has the full rights and duties of the Executive Director and will also continue to lead the Software Development Department. This solution allows us as a board to approach the next steps with the necessary calmness and deliberate thought. On 28-29 January 2017, we will meet for our regular board retreat and discuss all questions regarding the permanent filling of the ED position. Christian, once again a big thank you for your work with us. Congratulations and a good start in politics. I would like to thank you, Abraham, for your agreement to take on this crucial task and look forward to the further, close cooperation with you! I will keep you posted on future updates in the transition process. For the Supervisory Board Tim Moritz Hector Chair -- Tim Moritz Hector Chair of the Board Wikimedia Deutschland

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Wikimedia Store - Important Update
by Joseph Seddon 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

As the year end approaches, here's a few important updates about the Wikipedia Store: Change in management: The Wikipedia Store project has moved under Michael Beattie [1] and his team of amazingly experienced donor support agents. Sandra Hust [2] will be the primary contact for internal orders, questions and operations, while Michael Beattie will be responsible for the management of the project itself. I [3] will remain responsible for the Volunteer Giveaway Program. We hope this team will bring a much needed stability for this project and allow us to streamline processes to match the new fiscal year's budget. Fulfillment partner: We will be migrating to a new fulfillment partner in January. That means that the store will be closed through January for inventory counting, shipping merchandise and setting up of new vendor. If you think you or your organisation will need merchandise during January, February and March (for Wikipedia 16 anniversary, editathons or just to be given to volunteers), please plan to order them before December 31st. (please note: deliveries may be delayed due to year end traffic). After that date, the store (internal and external channels) will be closed and unable to fulfill any orders until we have completed the transition to the new vendor. Let us know if you have any questions! Cheers, -- Seddon *Advancement Associate (Community Engagement)* *Wikimedia Foundation* [1] mbeattie {at} wikimedia.org [2] shust {at} wikimedia.org [3] jseddon {at} wikimedia.org

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WMDE-update: Christian Rickerts might become Undersecretary of State
by Tim Moritz Hector 07 Dec '16

07 Dec '16

Dear Wikimedians, On Saturday, the Green Party has resolved the coalition agreement for the future Berlin government and nominated their future government officials. The new designated Minister of economics, Ramona Pop, asked Christian to become her Undersecretary of State for the new Berlin ministry of economy, energy and enterprises. Now things are going to happen quite quickly: The future senate is scheduled to be constituted on December 8th. Right after that, Christian would take on the new responsibility. The Supervisory Board of Wikimedia Deutschland and Christian agree that this is a great opportunity that he should accept. I also see this as a huge compliment to our work at Wikimedia Deutschland. We are aware that this opportunity brings a lot of change for our organisation for the near future as well. Christian and I are currently working on the next steps together with our staff and community. We will provide you with regular updates regarding the transition process. Thank you very much and kind regards Tim Moritz Hector -- Tim Moritz Hector Chair of the Board Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.

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WikidataCon in Berlin, October 28-29
by Léa Lacroix 06 Dec '16

06 Dec '16

Hello all, I'm glad to announce that for Wikidata's 5th birthday, we will organize a great event, built by and for the Wikidata community. The WikidataCon will take place on October 28th-29th, 2017, in Berlin. I don't have a lot of details for now, everything will be built with the volunteers, and the main information will be published here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017 If you have any question or suggestion, feel free to talk to me :) Bests, -- Léa Lacroix Community Communication Manager for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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Seddon Fundraising Question of the Day #2
by Joseph Seddon 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

We got some great responses from last friday's question and definitely some that we are going to test in our banner copy. So I will keep this format going for as long as people feel engaged. *Today's short answer question:* *Why is it important that everyone in the world have access to knowledge?* Answers on the following digital piece of paper: https://goo.gl/forms/WfzqYJreEbYV9MPI2 Many Thanks -- Seddon *Advancement Associate (Community Engagement)* *Wikimedia Foundation* *NB: If this appears to be something that is going to last I will look at a better open source solution for the form capture. *

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Fundraising Update - Big English Fundraiser
by Joseph Seddon 02 Dec '16

02 Dec '16

Hello! We are coming up to that time of year again with the launch of our English fundraiser. Our E-mail campaign is already underway and in a little under three weeks time, the banner campaign will launch in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland on Giving Tuesday [1], November 29, 2016. We will continue to try and limit the disruption from these banners. Our current expectation is to run our banners for all traffic for the first two weeks. Following that we will some combination of either reducing the amount of traffic being shown banners or the number of times a banner is shown to each user. There will then be one last final push before the end of December. It is my hope to update you after both of these stages with our progress. It is certainly no secret that it is a very important period for fundraising as our December activities are responsible for raising around 45% of all movement funds. As we reported in last years fundraising report [2] and at the September metrics meeting [3] we continue to adapt to the shift in our readership from desktop to mobile. Over the last two years, our e-mail efforts have played an increasingly major role in our fundraising to counter this shift and will certainly be the case over the next two months. As always it’s critical for my team to have both broader staff and community input in our fundraising efforts. This year we have been working closely with the Reading product team along with members from both the Reading and Editing design teams to improve our fundraising flow, in particular, trying to keep closer to the new standardised Wikimedia UI guidelines [4]. In addition to this, over the last five months we ran a number of staff and community feedback sessions and we have been very grateful to everyone who took part in those. They proved very successful in providing both a constructive critical eye for existing banner and email appeals as well being a source for a plethora of new ideas. The plan is that we will run more of these in conjunction with some of our major campaigns throughout the year. This will start with a series of sessions focusing on the English Campaign and would like to invite you all to a number of session being run over the next two weeks: * Thursday 17th November @ 1300 UTC * Thursday 17th November @ 1900 UTC * Monday 21st November @ 0100 UTC Please do sign up and find out more information [5]. Participation will be via IRC, Youtube live & via Google Hangout for ease of participation. As always if you have ideas and are not able to participate in these sessions you can leave feedback on our Fundraising Ideas page where you can see links to our current fundraising banners and current appeal text [5]. Over the last year: use of Phabricator [6] for bug reporting; event and related content specific banners; improving the ease with which to dismiss banners; numerous improvements to the language used; and country specific images all came about from suggestions made on that page. So please do keep the ideas coming and I would like to thank you all in advance both for your input into the campaigns but more importantly the awesome work in building one of the largest sources of freely accessible knowledge in human history. I look forward to working with you all in the coming weeks. Many Thanks -- Seddon *Advancement Associate (Community Engagement)* *Wikimedia Foundation* [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giving_Tuesday [2] 2015-2016 WMF Fundraising Report: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/2015-2016_Fundraising_Report [3] September 2016 Metrics Meeting Presentation: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/September_2016_Monthly_… [4] Wikimedia Design Guide Color palettes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M82 Collection of widgets: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/M101 Demo widgets in OOjs UI: https://doc.wikimedia.org/oojs-ui/master/demos/#widgets-mediawiki-ltr [5] To sign up for a feedback session - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/Community_Feedback_Series_2#Ses… [6] To suggest new banners ideas visit the test ideas meta page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2016-17_Fundraising_ideas [7] To file a bug report or technical issue, please create a phabricator Ticket - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?template=118862

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Call for Volunteers for Wikimania '17 Scholarship Committee
by Ellie Young 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimania '17 conference organizers, we are now seeking volunteers to serve on the Scholarship Review Committee for Wikimania 2017 <https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania>. Wikimania scholarships are a special type of Travel and Participation Support <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Grants:TPS> offering, administered by the WMF in partnership with the Wikimania host team, with the purpose of bringing active Wikimedians from around the world to attend Wikimania. The scholarship review committee is an important and diverse group of volunteers who help promote the program and review/select applicants. We encourage people from all Wikimedia wikis to apply, so that the committee can handle applications in many different languages. The main duties of the committee members are: * Assist the WMF in determining the requirements and criteria for scholarship applicants ( WMF will provide eligibility filtering as well as materials and tools to the Scholarship Committee members . The Committee will only review applicants after initial eligibility has been assessed by WMF .) * Assure that there is due consideration and a speedy response time to all scholarship applications. * Must be fluent in written English (or c an name local community member(s) to help them with English translations. * Good communication skills. * Passion, knowledge, and participation in the Wikimedia movement. * Discretion and ability to handle confidential applicant information, and objectively assess candidates. * Evaluation of eligible applicants and delivering ranked list of potential recipients to WMF (March '17) * Evaluate the scholarship process afterward and provide feedback * Prior attendance at previous Wikimania conferences and /or strong knowledge of the cross-project Wikimedia community are a plus! * Participation in periodic online meetings with committee and WMF staff (You will be working remotely using review system, email, skype, and IRC. ) Estimated amount of time: 30 hrs (mostly in March '17) If you're interested in serving please send email to eyoung(a)wikimedia.org The deadline to apply is December 8. Projected Timeline for Committee activity: Mid-December: Preparations and on-boarding of Scholarship committee Jan-mid-February: Promotion of program and submission of applications End Feb to mid-March: Review, Evaluation, and Selection of recipients. Please don't hesitate to contact me directly if you have any questions about the program or what is involved. Thanks, Ellie Ellie Young Events Manager Wikimedia Foundation <eyoung(a)wikimedia.org>

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WMF Language team office hour and online meeting on December 7, 2016 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

[x-posted announcement] Hello, The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is scheduled for next Wednesday, December 7th, 2016 at 13:00 UTC. This session is going to be an online discussion over Google Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots are available. Hence, do please let us know if you would like to join in the Hangout. During the session, we will be taking questions from viewers only on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office. The channel will be open for interactions during the session. Our last online round-table session was held in September 21, 2016. You can watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXgMZ7myEA4 Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube session links and do let us know if you have any questions. Thank you Runa == Details == # Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session # When: December 7, 2016 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20161207T1300) # Where: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2PgVNSmohE and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) # Agenda: Updates from the Language team and Q & A. -- Language Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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WMDE update after the General Assembly
by Tim Moritz Hector 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Dear fellow Wikimedians, Over the weekend, Wikimedia Deutschland held its General Assembly and elections for the supervisory board as well as for the auditors. The newly elected board consists of seven members: * Tim Moritz Hector (Chair, re-elected) * Sebastian Moleski (Treasurer, re-elected) * Sabria David (re-elected) * Kurt Jansson (re-elected) * Lukas Mezger (re-elected) * Harald Krichel (re-elected) * Johanna Niesyto The board has met for its first meeting on Sunday and elected Sabria David and Kurt Jansson as Deputy Chair. Johanna is new to the board, so please join me in welcoming her to the board of WMDE. I would also like to thank our former board members Nikolas Becker, Jürgen Friedrich and Catrin Schoneville wholeheartedly for the great work and their commitment to Wikimedia Deutschland in the past years. Lena Stammler and Daniel Baur (re-elected) are our two recently-elected auditors, and I am extending my congratulations to them. At the GA, the board furthermore presented the final report on the WMDE-Governance-Review and how we handled the recommendations of the report. Moreover, the members approved the annual plan for 2017. The board will meet in January to discuss the goals for our term in the next two years and I am very much looking forward to working together with this team. Best regards, Tim Moritz Hector -- Tim Moritz Hector Chair of the Board Wikimedia Deutschland e. V.

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NPOV and reader privacy questions
by James Salsman 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

Here are questions pertaining to policies. I am glad to have the opportunity to step back and consider these over the long term: 1. When interpreting the neutrality mandate with regards to candidates, but policy implies support of specific candidates or candidate-associated action, how are we supposed to report that? 2. What is the standard for determining whether reasons to keep logs (i.e., ops, research, and possibly unknown other needs) when compared to the possible implications of reader privacy requirements? 3. If staff suggests there is no time to research reasons to keep logs, let alone comparison to the likely implications of reader privacy violations, how are we supposed to report that? 4. What happened to the Chief Privacy Officer position? 5. Does ops need records of articles, or just lists of accessing IP-associated accesses? 6. Is there a "hash/rotating salt/pepper" technique which will fulfill research needs? 7. Does including the log proxy information with the IP address prevent cryptographic hash guess reversals? 8. To what extent are ALA's Privacy standards pertinent: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill/interpretations/privacy http://www.ala.org/advocacy/library-privacy-guidelines- data-exchange-between-networked-devices-and-services http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacyconfidentiality https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450006 I am not advocating eliminating IP address retention from editors' edits (please see Brion Vibber's earlier proposal on this list this month.) Best regards, Jim

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