Wikimedia-l March 2016

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Wikiwand
by Anders Wennersten 03 Apr '16

03 Apr '16

What is WMFs position on Wikiwand [1]? is it a complement or a commercial run interface that is better that we can offer? Anders [1] http://www.wikiwand.com/about

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Wikimedia CEE Spring 2016
by Nikola Kalchev 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

Dear Wikipedians from all over the world, for 10 days now the arguably largest article writing contest has been taking place in Central and Eastern Europe - Wikimedia CEE Spring [1]. For 72 days Wikipedians from 29 communities [2] will be writing about the culture, history, important persons and much more about the region on their Wikipedias. The contest aims at closing content gaps about countries, regions [3] and languages [4] from the region. Each community created a list of at least 100 articles [5] which it would like to see written in all languages and all other communities are doing so with fervour! Communities as large communities as the Russian, Ukrainian and Polish ones, and as small as the Sakhan, Estonian and Macedonian ones, have joined. Highly motivated local organisers and guys with magical technical skills have emerged from all the communities and have made organising the contest an easy task. At the moment of writing the Ukrainians are leading the pack when it comes to the highest amoung of created and significantly expanded articles [6] and most articles have been written from Hungary's lists [7]. Participants are gladly sharing their articles with their friends via a Facebook page [8]. Over 1000 articles from the lists and over 1400 in total have been created or significantly expanded during the first 10 days [6][7]. Some communities have special prizes aiming at closing the content gender gap, too. Most countries have put notable women in their wished topics. The project is funded by an international grant [9] which covers expenses for books and other source materials for writing articles on Wikipedia and its sister projects of up to 400 Euro per community. Spread the word and write some articles about CEE! Nikola Kalchev / User:Лорд Бъмбъри / Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group On behalf of the international organising team [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016 [2] We started with 21, but more and more are joining! [3] CEE politics is complicated [4] We claim the Esperanto language for ourselves [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016/Article_Lists [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BaseBot/CEES/MMXVI/Wikis (not all Wikipedias included) [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016/Structure/Statist… [8] https://www.facebook.com/WCEESpring/ [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_CEE/CEE_Spring

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Commons search display results
by David Cuenca Tudela 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

I was looking for some lichen images on Commons and I was wondering how can I show a grid of images. I tried several options but nothing, I think that there was some hack to make the search results look more like Google images, or maybe I am wrong? Is this part of the Discovery team work? Thanks and regards Micru

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Fwd: Invitation to WMF February 2016 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, March 31, 18:00 UTC
by Praveena Maharaj 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Praveena Maharaj <pmaharaj(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:30 AM Subject: Invitation to WMF February 2016 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, March 31, 18:00 UTC To: wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Dear all, The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, March 31, 2016, 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. Meeting agenda: * Welcomes * Community update * Strategy & Annual Plan update * Strategic Partnership update * Research presentation * Review of WMF top-level metrics * Product demo * 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 -- Praveena Maharaj Executive Assistant to the VP of Product Wikimedia Foundation \\ www.wikimediafoundation.org

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiwand
by WereSpielChequers 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

I don't know about the WMF's position re Wikiwand, but I see Wikiwand as a more reader friendly way to view Wikipedia. We have far more readers than editors so in some sense this is a good thing. I can understand a reader being more interested in seeing the table of contents in the left hand margin than a bunch of links to "recent changes" and even "what links here". But the more you hide the various functions that are of interest to editors the more difficult it becomes to recruit editors from amongst our readership, and in the long run without new editors we can't maintain the site. Despite many attempts we don't yet have a viable alternative way of recruiting new editors other than the edit buttons on our sites, so any attempt to make the editing features less obvious is a threat to our future The problem is that most designers don't like clutter, and to a non editor many of the bits of the interface that are most useful to editors are clutter. I'm not sure what the solution is to this. One possibility would be a more gradualised interface, one that always shows you one or more editing options than you have used, and ideally different ones or in different form so you notice them. I seem to remember some successful tests a while back that simply modified the edit button to make it more prominent or even just different. In theory simply changing the edit button to so that for a month IPs see it as "fix this" or "correct an error" should stop people mentally blanking the edit button out as part of the furniture. We also have a problem that some of our metrics value visits to Wikimedia sites above viewing Wikimedia content on mirrors such as WikiWand. We've had a similar problem in the GLAM program trying to convince museums etc that such a view is illogical and if your mission is to make content available to all humanity you should value hits to your content on mirrors equally to hits to that same content on your own website. Hopefully it is just a historic problem that will recede as it becomes easier to get metrics that include mirrors, but it is a barrier that prevents some GLAMS from sharing media onto Wikimedia Commons and hugely ironic that we have the problem ourselves in our own metrics. Jonathan / WereSpielChequers > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 08:39:46 +0200 > From: Anders Wennersten <mail(a)anderswennersten.se> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikiwand > Message-ID: <56FCC632.2090406(a)anderswennersten.se> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > What is WMFs position on Wikiwand [1]? > > is it a complement or a commercial run interface that is better that we > can offer? > > Anders > > [1] http://www.wikiwand.com/about > >

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Flyover Country app will make your flights more interesting
by Andy Mabbett 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Interesting looking app; works offline to display info on what's below an aircraft, including Wikipedia article titles: http://www.gadgette.com/2016/03/23/this-app-will-make-your-flights-much-mor… -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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Picture of the Year | 2015 | voting open
by Steinsplitter Wiki 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Dear Wikimedians, We are happy to announce that the 2015 Picture of the Year competition is now open. Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors. For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year. Users must vote with an account meeting following requirements: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2015/Rules To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2015 page on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2015 Round 1 will end 10 April 2016. Thanks, POTY 2015 committee

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Patrolling photographs of living people
by Fæ 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BLP_overwrites A flag waive for this handy cross-project report highlighting when 'newbies' have overwritten a photograph of a living person or someone recently deceased. Technical problems caused the report to be offline for several months, it is back though running slightly less frequently. The live report gives a convenient way of spotting potential image vandalism such as "revenge porn" attacks, which are not currently highlighted using standard anti-vandalism or article patrol tools on Wikipedia or Commons. Future improvements under discussion for general watchlists may give us more local options. The report is targeted at Commons hosted images used by the English Wikipedia, but if non-English projects have experienced this type of vandalism and would like a similar tool, please feel free to approach me on Commons and I'll take a look at the possibility. Thanks, Fae On 12 March 2015 at 18:50, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote: ... > A quick reminder about this report which helps vandalism patrollers > for the English Wikipedia spot when images used in Wikipedia > biographies are being overwritten by "newbie" accounts. I recommend > more admins add the report to their watch-list. It is not too much of > a pest, as in a day it tends to change between 4 to 10 times with > normally only 1 or 2 new images being added. ... > The most active Commons patrollers I have noticed taking action on > reported images being Denniss and Mattbuck; so hats off to them for > lots of useful admin work. :-) ... -- faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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Research findings on “New Readers” in Mexico
by Anne Gomez 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Hello all, Please join us tomorrow during the Metrics meeting as we share findings from a recent user research trip to Mexico. Background on this research project can be found on MediaWiki, where we are documenting timelines, methodologies, and interview responses from 15 participants and a number of experts[1]. This research is part of a joint project from the Reading, Strategic Partnerships, Design Research, and Communications teams at the Wikimedia Foundation. We're collaborating to better understand and then better serve potential Wikimedia readers in countries where access to the internet is quickly growing. We’re calling this group “New Readers,” to focus on high population countries with rapidly increasing internet access rates, but relatively low Wikimedia readership. We hope to understand and reach these “new readers” coming online. The first 3 priority countries are Mexico, Nigeria, and India—3 countries with massive populations, rising access to the Internet, and regional influence. We know that many of you may remember previous Wikimedia movement research on these regions, and have considerable expertise and connections in these countries. If so, please share with us by emailing newreaders(a)wikimedia.org! Our project work will be collectively documented and linked from Meta-Wiki [2] where you can keep up with the research progress and findings. If you have questions, feel free to ask them during Metrics tomorrow (when we’ll explain more on methodology, objectives, subject criteria, and research output), on the project talk page or on this thread. Thanks, Anne Gomez, Abbey Ripstra, Zack McCune, Adele Vrana, Dan Foy, Jorge Vargas, Smriti Gupta, Jack Rabah, Joe Sutherland, Toby Negrin [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Mexico_Readers_Research [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers -- *Anne Gomez* // Reading Product Manager, New Readers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers> https://wikimediafoundation.org/ *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate <http://donate.wikimedia.org>. *

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"flyover country" app w/ georeferenced articles
by phoebe ayers 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

Another use for georeferenced Wikipedia articles: this app lets you load up a flight path in the United States between two airports, and get Wikipedia articles about points of interest as well as geological and fossil data along that path, and then view it offline as you fly over. Also available for driving and hiking speeds. http://fc.umn.edu/ -- phoebe -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com *

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