Being put together by Eliezer Yudkowsky of LessWrong. Content is
cc-by-sa 3.0, don't know about the software.
https://arbital.com/p/arbital_ambitions/
Rather than the "encyclopedia" approach, it tries to be more
pedagogical, teaching the reader at their level.
Analysis from a sometime Yudkowsky critic on Tumblr:
http://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/140995096534/a-year-ago-i-remember-be…
(there's a pile more comments linked from the notes on that post,
mostly from quasi-fans; I have an acerbic comment in there, but you
should look at the site yourself first.)
No idea if this will go anywhere, but might be of interest; new
approaches generally are. They started in December, first publicised
it a week ago and have been scaling up. First day it collapsed due to
load from a Facebook post announcement ... so maybe hold off before
announcing it everywhere :-)
- d.
Hello, everyone.
(this is an announcement in my capacity as a volunteer.)
Inspired by a lightning talk at the recent CEE Meeting[1] by our colleague
Lars Aronsson, I made a little command-line tool to automate batch
recording of pronunciations of words by native speakers, for uploading to
Commons and integration into Wiktionary etc. It is called *pronuncify*, is
written in Ruby and uses the sox(1) tool, and should work on any modern
Linux (and possibly OS X) machine. It is available here[2], with
instructions.
I was then asked about a Windows version, and agreed to attempt one. This
version is called *pronuncify.net <http://pronuncify.net>*, and is a .NET
gooey GUI version of the same tool, with slightly different functions. It
is available here[3], with instructions.
Both tools require word-list files in plaintext, with one word (or phrase)
per line. Both tools name the files according to the standard established
in [[commons:Category:Pronunciation]], and convert them to Ogg Vorbis for
you, so they are ready to upload.
In the future, I may add OAuth-based direct uploading to Commons. If you
run into difficulties, please file issues on GitHub, for the appropriate
tool. Feedback is welcome.
A.
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2015/Programme/Lightn…
[2] https://github.com/abartov/pronuncify
[3] https://github.com/abartov/Pronuncify.net
--
Asaf Bartov
Seconding Lodewijk here. I can already count at least 5 phrases or
statements that David Emrany has said which made me cringe and wonder why
hasn't this been blocked/moderated already?
Hostile, accusatory, and vulgar behavior degrades this entire forum (beyond
its already damaged capacity for inclusion of multiple voices).
Please do something.
Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi)
Hi everyone,
The important part of this email is this link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_repor…
This is the second Community Wishlist Survey status report. In November and
December, active contributors to Wikimedia projects proposed, discussed and
voted on the features and fixes that they most want to see. The Wikimedia
Foundation Community Tech team has been tasked with working on
these. Additionally, Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team has been
working on wishes from the German-speaking community. There's overlap
between the two wishlists, and the teams are collaborating on various
wishes, so this report includes progress made by both teams as well as
great work being done by volunteer developers and other WMF staff.
So far, we (in the broad sense) have added support for:
*) Migrating dead external links to archives (but there's more work to be
done!)
*) Pageview stats
*) Global notifications
*) A category watchlist
We're currently working on:
*) Improving the plagiarism detection bot
*) Improving the diff compare screen
*) Numerical sorting in categories
*) The possibility to add an expiry date to watchlist items
*) A revision slider to help editors navigate through diff pages
For more information on these projects as well as upcoming tasks, see the
full status report on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_repor…
We're looking forward to talking and working with you as we go along.
Thanks,
//Johan Jönsson
User:Johan (WMF)
--
Question 1: Would anyone care if we kill the "loginCTA" campaign, which
tracks when people use the link at the bottom of Special:UserLogin to get
to the account creation page?
Question 2: Would anyone care if we remove the extension entirely from
Wikimedia wikis? Wikiapiary seems to show only one user outside of
Wikimedia.
Background: The extension needs a rewrite for AuthManager, and in
particular the "loginCTA" campaign will be a bit of a pain to keep working.
If someone is making use of the extension that's fine, but if not we may as
well not continue to spend development resources on it.
--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
I am pleased to announce the launch of the third Inspire Campaign for
IdeaLab, focused on addressing harassment of Wikimedia project contributors:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>
Harassment diminishes the experience of contributing and participation for
a substantial number of individuals, even those who simply witness it.
Current methods of dealing with harassment are considered unacceptable as
they often do not lead to productive outcomes.[1]
During the month-long campaign, you are invited to submit & review ideas on
how to better address harassment. Consider joining a team to help make an
idea happen. Ideas can be submitted in any language, and focus on
research, building tools or software, outreach efforts, or something
completely new. Grants are available from the Wikimedia Foundation to fund
projects that are eligible for financial support.[2] Ideas focused on
changes to community policies and guidelines are also welcome. Google
Hangout sessions are also scheduled in June if you’d like to discuss your
idea or have questions about WMF grants.[3]
Questions about the campaign can be directed at the Inspire talk page.[4]
An FAQ page about the campaign is also available.[5]
If you want to help make your projects safer for everyone to participate
in, I encourage you to participate in this Inspire Campaign. I believe we
can work together to address this difficult and important issue.
With thanks,
Chris "Jethro" Schilling
I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
[1] <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harassment_Survey_2015_-_Results_Re…
>
[2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start>
[3] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events>
[4] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/Inspire>
[5] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire/FAQ>
Dear Wikimedia colleagues,
The deadline for submitting a Letter of Intent for 2016-2017 Round 1 of the
FDC process is 1 July.
*Who should submit a letter of intent?*
Organizations that plan to apply for funding in Round 1 of the FDC process
should submit their Letters of Intent by 1 July. Proposal forms for Round 1
will be due by 1 October 2016 and most Round 1 grants will begin 1 January
2017. If you think you will apply for funding in this round, it's a good
idea to submit a letter of intent.
*How to submit a letter of intent.*
Organizations may submit their Letters of Intent by creating a proposal hub
page here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG. Please complete this
step of creating a proposal hub page, from which you can access a button to
create your letter of intent, rather than copy-pasting a letter of intent
template from previous years.
*Why submit a letter of intent for the FDC process?*
You must complete this step to submit a proposal in the next round, for
funding during the 2017 calendar year, so that your organization will be
evaluated for eligibility to submit a proposal. If you're not sure whether
or not you want to apply, it's a good idea to contact FDC staff at <
fdcsupport(a)wikimedia.org> right away, so you can be sure and understand
your status before the Letter of Intent deadline. In the letter of intent,
you will write the amount of funding you expect to apply for, but you can
change this at any time before your proposal form is submitted on 1 October.
Learn more at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Information:
*Letters of Intent due: 1 July 2016
*Eligibility confirmed: 15 September 2016
*Proposal forms due: 1 October 2016
*Community review: 1 October - 30 October 2016
*FDC recommendation: by 30 November 2016
*Board decision: by 1 January 2017
*Grants begin: 1 January 2017 - 1 February 2017
Best regards from FDC staff!
--
Winifred Olliff
Senior Program Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Hoi,
For a bit of background form 990 is probably something everybody knows
about as it is financial and important and that is why we mention this..
For all of you who do not know, we have a FAQ where you may find what is
relevant about all this.
Thanks,
GerardM
PS sorry Greg for pulling your leg. :)
On 18 May 2016 at 20:55, Gregory Varnum <gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Sent on behalf of Wikimedia Foundation's Finance Team:
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation Form 990 for FY 2014 - 2015 has been posted on the
> Wikimedia Foundation Wiki's Financial Reports page:
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports
>
> A list of answers to frequently asked questions about this form has also
> been posted on the same page.
>
> Please contact Jaime Villagomez or Tony Le with any questions:
> jvillagomez(a)wikimedia.org or tle(a)wikimedia.org
>
> Thank you,
> Finance Team
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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Dear fellow Wikimedians,
As you may know Christophe Henner, the Chair of Wikimédia France, has
resigned from the board, as he is moving on to his next challenge at the
Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation. We won't even try to
summarise in a few sentences everything Christophe has brought to Wikimédia
France in his 10 years stint as a board member ; let us just deeply thank
him for his service!
Our board of trustees had a meeting last week-end, during which we elected
new officers of the board, following the resignation of Christophe.
* Samuel Le Goff is our new Vice-chair,
Samuel is 42 years old and lives in Paris. He works as a journalist, former
parliamentary assistant for many years. He has been in the board since late
2014. He helps volunteers to deal with French governmental and public
organization relationships, public consultations, and to expose Wikimedia
positions in public debates. He will be in charge of internal organization
and governance too.
* Emeric Vallespi is our new Chair,
Emeric is 29 years old and lives in Montpellier (south of France). He works
as a Branch director in a bank. He has been at the board since late 2012,
serving as Vice-chair since 2014. He's involved in internal organization,
governance and international affairs and is interested in internal control,
finance and strategy topics.
Pierre-Selim Huard, our Secretary, will be in charge of the international
affairs too. Other current officers are continuing in their functions.
Our board is now structured as follow:
* Emeric Vallespi, Chair
* Samuel Le Goff, Vice-chair
* Guillaume Goursat, Treasurer
* Sébastien Beyou, Deputy treasurer
* Pierre-Selim Huard, Secretary
* Jean-Frédéric Berthelot, Deputy secretary
* Edouard Hue, Board member
* Benoît Prieur, Board member
* Florian Pepellin, Board member
Cheers,
--
Jean-Frédéric Berthelot
Secrétaire-adjoint | Wikimédia France
jean-frederic.berthelot(a)wikimedia.fr
Awesome — thanks for the update and the work!
On May 27, 2016 21:20, "Katherine Maher" <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm pleased to share that the Wikimedia Foundation has now posted a
> revised version of our FY2016-2017 Annual Plan. [1] This revised version
> has been updated based on feedback from community and affiliates, and in
> response to FDC recommendations [2]. For convenience, we've summarized the
> changes as an appendix, [3] and of course, you can also view the diff page
> for detailed review. [4]
>
> The Foundation's responses to the FDC's comments are available on a
> general and program-by-program basis on the FDC talk page. [5]
>
> I'd like to express my sincere thanks to everyone who provided feedback on
> the WMF's Annual Plan throughout this process, and to Foundation staff for
> their efforts responding to comments and updating the plan accordingly.
>
> Have a great weekend,
>
> Katherine
>
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/…
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_ro…
> [3]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/…
> [4]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Pl…
> [5]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-20…
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>> The Foundation is pleased to announce that our Annual Plan is now on
>> Meta.[1] This year's plan focuses on improving support for--and
>> consultation with--community, responding effectively to changing user
>> needs, and addressing strategic challenges facing our movement. We're
>> investing in areas that we believe the Foundation is uniquely positioned to
>> address, including readership and reach, volunteer retention and
>> engagement, and support for knowledge creation.
>>
>> Thank you to everyone who contributed earlier this year to the strategy
>> consultations, which helped guide our thinking.
>>
>> We look forward to your feedback!
>>
>> Warmly,
>>
>> Katherine
>>
>>
>> [1]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/…
>>
>> --
>> Katherine Maher
>>
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> 149 New Montgomery Street
>> San Francisco, CA 94105
>>
>> +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635
>> +1 (415) 712 4873
>> kmaher(a)wikimedia.org
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Katherine Maher
>
> Wikimedia Foundation
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> San Francisco, CA 94105
>
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> +1 (415) 712 4873
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>
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