Wikimedia-l June 2016

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[ANNOUNCEMENT] StrepHit 1.0 Beta Release
by Marco Fossati 15 Jun '16

15 Jun '16

[Feel free to blame me if you read this more than once] To whom it may interest, Full of delight, I would like to announce the first beta release of *StrepHit*: https://github.com/Wikidata/StrepHit TL;DR: StrepHit is an intelligent reading agent that understands text and translates it into *referenced* Wikidata statements. It is a IEG project funded by the Wikimedia Foundation. Key features: -Web spiders to harvest a collection of documents (corpus) from reliable sources -automatic corpus analysis to understand the most meaningful verbs -sentences and semi-structured data extraction -train a machine learning classifier via crowdsourcing -*supervised and rule-based fact extraction from text* -Natural Language Processing utilities -parallel processing You can find all the details here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Va… https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/StrepHit:_Wikidata_Statements_Va… If you like it, star it on GitHub! Best, Marco

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Four public policy and related proposals (was Fwd: Librarian of Congress and Copyright Royalty Board Petitions)
by James Salsman 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

Both of the two messages below got encouraging responses off-list, but I doubt they will get Foundation support without wider discussion, and they certainly both transcend mere Foundation public policy advocacy concerns. Please share your thoughts! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 Subject: Librarian of Congress and Copyright Royalty Board Petitions To: Publicpolicy Group for Wikimedia <publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org');>> How do people feel about petitioning the Librarian of Congress for a general copyright exemption for API header files and documentation in light of the recent Oracle vs. Google Android Java verdict? Has the Foundation already petitioned or supported a petition for a general copyright exemption of taxpayer-funded research? I think it is very clear we should certainly do both if we haven't already. Even better, how about petitioning the three federal judges comprising the Copyright Royalty Board to institute a sliding scale for audio royalty distributions so that the market supports the 1970s era pre-mass consumer copying levels of artist demand? The CRB can return both wages for songwriters and musicians as a percentage of GDP and royalty distribution incidence in terms of new, small, developing, and established (e.g. top-40) artists to pre-mass piracy levels by issuing a sliding scale royalty schedule, which controls what YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, Apple, etc., pay when people legally stream music. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Friday, June 3, 2016 Subject: prices of pharmaceuticals in Wikipedia articles To: Publicpolicy Group for Wikimedia <publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org> An interesting public policy aspect has been brought to my attention concerning pharmaceutical prices. Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Price_of_… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salbutamol#Cost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Doc_James/Price

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] 72 hours with Rodin editathon in Mexico City
by Hasive N. Chowdhury 13 Jun '16

13 Jun '16

Great to know Ivan. All the best for Wikimedia Mexico. Hasive WMBD On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Ivan Martínez <galaver(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > This June, Wikimedia Mexico will run the editathon* 72 hours with Rodin* > a huge journey from June 9 to 12 at Museo Soumaya[1]. This time we're > trying to break our previous record (60 continuous hours), this time we're > trying to achieve an even greater marathon: more than 70 continuous hours > editing Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikisource. We are > celebrating the arrival to the museum of one of Auguste Rodin's > masterpieces: ''The Gates of Hell'', so, we will have a celebration about > art and free knowledge which will include talks, theater pieces, guided > tours, workshops and fun time activities as karaoke nights. You saw it at > Wikimania, Wikimedia Mexico volunteers love fun also :) The museum will be > open also to public during that 72 hours. > > The editathon will focus on Auguste Rodin works and the Museo Soumaya > collections, but beyond that we have higher goals like completing the full > list of museums in Mexico and at least 50 biographies on importan women in > art and feminism as part of our permanent and transversal Gender Gap > Reduction Strategy. In this list (in Spanish)[2] you can find more about > the event and the list of articles. As in other editathons at Museo > Soumaya[3], we are inviting all Wikimedia chapters and affiliates to join > this effort and support us translating articles to more languages. As you > can see in the list, this time we are doing a detailed logistic which > involves pairing Wikimedia Mexico volunteers with museum staff (researchers > and/or curators), aiming to increase experience of the museum’s staff on > Wikipedia. > > *72 hours with Rodin* will pursuit to set a new record and it’s an event > prepared since January, escalating in intensity since two months ago with > the coordination by Andrés Cruz y Corro (User:Andycyca), head of volunteers > in Wikimania 2015. As a matter of fact, 60% of the Wikimania 2015 Yellow > Army will be present on the event. > > We will love to have support from Wikimedia community in the translation > of the articles produced in the editathon to more languages of the globe. > Please don’t hesitate if you want to join the editathon! > > Best, > > Iván Martínez > President > Wikimedia Mexico > > [1] > https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Museo_Soumaya/Editat%C3%B3n_72_H… > [2] > https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiproyecto:Museo_Soumaya/Editat%C3%B3n_72_H… > [3] > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/05/50-hours-of-art-the-museo-soumaya-edi… > > > // Mis comunicaciones respecto a Wikipedia/Wikimedia pueden tener una > moratoria en su atención debido a que es un voluntariado. > // Ayuda a proteger a Wikipedia, dona ahora: https://donate.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury (Hasive) **:: **নুরুন্নবী চৌধুরী (হাছিব)* User: Hasive <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hasive> | GSM/WhatsApp/Viber: +8801712754752 Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia <http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hasive> Member | GAC Committee, Wikimedia Foundation <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Grant_Advisory_Committee> Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/People> Board Member | Wikimedia Bangladesh <http://www.wikimedia.org.bd> fb.com/Hasive <http://fb.com/NCHasive> | @nhasive <http://www.twitter.com/nhasive> | Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com

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Harassment and blaming the victim
by Pax Ahimsa Gethen 11 Jun '16

11 Jun '16

Hi all, I'm Pax aka Funcrunch [1]. I've been a Wikipedian since 2008, but this is my first post to this mailing list. (I've been reading list messages on the archives page occasionally for the last several months.) I'm writing because of a concern I have about the community's attitude toward harassment on Wikipedia. I got a Wikinotice about this month's Inspire Campaign, which specifically asks: "What ideas do you have that can help prevent and generally address cases of harassment?" [2] As a victim of several of the harassing behaviors mentioned as examples - " name calling, threats, discrimination, stalking, and impersonation" - I was encouraged to see that this problem was (hopefully) being taken seriously by the Foundation, and submitted a proposal. Looking at the other proposals submitted, I soon noticed that the most popular "ideas" on the list included complaints of "political correctness" and suggesting we shouldn't be so sensitive [3], and that we should just get some sleep and exercise and reconsider why we're so offended. [4] (That first "idea" has since been recategorized by a WMF staffer to remove it from the current campaign.) It really bothers me that a campaign specifically designed to combat harassment - which is a very serious and real problem for people of marginalized identities like myself [5]- is being co-opted by people saying things like " Harassment doesn't cause actual damage," " The existence of harassment is an opportunity to improve ourselves further through self-discipline," and " Harassment on Wikimedia has been exaggerated." I suggest that people who honestly believe this, but are willing to accept that they might be wrong, read a recent essay about online harassment by Anil Dash: "The Immortal Myths About Online Abuse." [6] I'm not "looking to be offended," and I'm not trying to "censor" people who simply disagree with me. I'm trying to help build an encyclopedia, without being harassed by block-evading stalkers hurling hate speech my way. The existing tools and policies are *not* sufficient to deal with this. That's (what I thought was) the point of this Inspire campaign, not complaining about censorship and " crybullying." I've posted a much shorter version of this concern on the Inspire Campaign talk page [7], so feel free to weigh in there instead of here on the list if that's more appropriate. Thank you for reading. - Pax, aka Funcrunch [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Funcrunch [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Stop_%22Political_Correctnes…! [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Don't_feed_the_trolls [5] Queer, trans, and black, in my case. [6] https://medium.com/humane-tech/the-immortal-myths-about-online-abuse-a156e3… [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IdeaLab/Inspire/Meta#Blaming_th… -- Pax Ahimsa Gethen | pax(a)funcrunch.org | http://funcrunch.org

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Picture of the Year 2015 Results
by Fæ 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

I'm surprised one of my UK Ministry of Defence uploads is on the list. Nice reward to start the weekend. Fae On 10 Jun 2016 17:29, "Steinsplitter Wiki" <steinsplitter(a)wikipedia.de> wrote: Dear Wikimedians, The tenth Picture of the Year competition (2015) has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: In both rounds, people voted for their favorite media files. In Round 1, there were 1322 candidate images.In the second round, people voted for the 56 finalists (the R1 top 30 overall and top 2 in each category). We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful media files and sharing them as freely licensed content: 658 people voted for the winner, File:Pluto-01 Stern 03 Pluto Color TXT.jpg ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-01_Stern_03_Pluto_Color_TXT.j… ) In second place, 617 people voted for File:Nasir-al molk -1.jpg ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nasir-al_molk_-1.jpg) In third place, 582 people voted for File:Heavens Above Her.jpg ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heavens_Above_Her.jpg) See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2015/Results to view the top images » We also sincerely thank to all voters for participating. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work. Thanks, Steinsplitter on behalf of the Picture of the Year committee _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Picture of the Year 2015 Results
by Steinsplitter Wiki 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

Dear Wikimedians, The tenth Picture of the Year competition (2015) has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: In both rounds, people voted for their favorite media files. In Round 1, there were 1322 candidate images.In the second round, people voted for the 56 finalists (the R1 top 30 overall and top 2 in each category). We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful media files and sharing them as freely licensed content: 658 people voted for the winner, File:Pluto-01 Stern 03 Pluto Color TXT.jpg (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pluto-01_Stern_03_Pluto_Color_TXT.j…) In second place, 617 people voted for File:Nasir-al molk -1.jpg (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nasir-al_molk_-1.jpg) In third place, 582 people voted for File:Heavens Above Her.jpg (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heavens_Above_Her.jpg) See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2015/Results to view the top images » We also sincerely thank to all voters for participating. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work. Thanks, Steinsplitter on behalf of the Picture of the Year committee

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[x-post] WMF Language team office hour and online meeting on June 15th, 2016 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

[x-posted announcement] Hello, The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is scheduled for next Wednesday, June 15th, 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 (on the event page <https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cd1bfs8111cbd4lmegqthma65c8>) if you would like to join in the Hangout. The IRC channel #wikimedia-office and the Q&A channel for the youtube broadcast will be open for interactions during the session. Our last online round-table session was held in March 2016. You can watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FrowkpBEnQ I would also like to mention that our team is currently inviting feedback for Content Translation via a community consultation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Community_Consultation_J…> which will conclude on June 22nd, 2016. We will make a note of any related feedback received during this session and review it along with the other comments received on-wiki. Please read below for the event details, including local time and do let us know if you have any questions. Thank you Runa == Details == # Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session # When: June 15, 2016 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20160615T1300) # Where: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cd1bfs8111cbd4lmegqthma65c8 and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) # Agenda: - Updates from the Language team and Q & A. - Content Translation community consultation: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Community_Consultation_J… -- Language Engineering Manager Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: Looking for a great person to do the community communication around Wikidata
by Lydia Pintscher 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

Hey everyone :) I am looking for support with community communications around Wikidata and would love to have applications from people already involved in the Wikimedia movement. Cheers Lydia ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Lydia Pintscher <Lydia.Pintscher(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:50 AM Subject: Looking for a great person to do the community communication around Wikidata To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hey everyone :) Over the past 4 years - since the beginning of the development - I have been doing the community communications around Wikidata. The main objectives being that there is good communication between the editors, the development team and everyone else around Wikidata and that the project is a healthy and welcoming place. Since then Wikidata has grown massively and I have also taken on the product management for Wikidata. Both tasks are getting too big to be handled by one person while still giving editors and the development team the attention they deserve. Because of this I am now looking to hire someone who takes over the community communications part. I hope we can find an enthusiastic and knowledgeable person who can support you all. The job add is here: https://wikimedia.de/wiki/Project_Manager_(m/f)_Community_Communication_Wik… If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me. If you know someone who would be a good fit please do reach out to them and encourage them to apply. Cheers Lydia PS: Don't worry. I'll still be around and available to you all but focusing more on the product management. Wikidata and you all are still very precious to me. -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product 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. -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Product 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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Documentation & Evaluation of the Wikimedia Conference 2016 published
by Cornelius Kibelka 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

tl:dr; The documentation of the Wikimedia Conference 2016 is published on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Documentation and Follow-Up. The feedback evaluation of the conference is published on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Feedback_evaluati… ---------- Dear Wikimedia friends, In April, Wikimedia Deutschland hosted the Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin.[1] y job as the Program and Engagement Coordinator is – besides creating the program – to make this conference more sustainable and secure continuous participation of everyone involved.[2] My primary assignment is to support the participants and speakers. But it’s more than that: My task is to ensure and monitor that essential conference topics are constantly being worked on and further developed. The first step for your further engagement is the documentation of the sessions. I’m happy to announce that I just have published it on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Documentation and Follow-Up Based on the notes of the volunteer notetakers, I have summarised the conversations and discussions of most of the sessions. Many sessions have a “How to move forward” box where you can see the next steps agreed upon at the conference and contact persons to reach out to. The documentation is not only a valuable resource for participants, but should also provide those who did not attend with insights and inspiration. During the pre-conference Thursday of Wikimania 2016, Nicole and I will host a “WMCON Follow-Up Day” where will work further on the main topics of the Wikimedia Conference. I’ll publish more details about this day in the upcoming days. Additionally, our Evaluation team has published the WMCON evaluation based on the post-survey we asked participants to fill out.[3] Thanks to all participants who have rated the Wikimedia Conference extraordinary well: 67% of the participants said the conference was ‘excellent’, 32% rated it as ‘good’. Wow! You can find further details and opinions in the evaluation report.[3] An overall report of the Wikimedia Conference including the Program and Engagement Coordination as well as lessons learned will be published by the end of July. If you have any remarks, comments or feedback, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me. Best regards from Berlin, Cornelius [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference/Program_and_Engagement… [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Feedback_evaluati… -- Cornelius Kibelka Program and Engagement Coordinator (PEC) for the Wikimedia Conference Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207

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WMF and affiliate finance practices; further questions about WMF finances
by Pine W 09 Jun '16

09 Jun '16

Hi folks, I'm working on an essay about good finance practices for WMF and Wikimedia affiliates. I'm also working on some further questions regarding WMF finances. I imagine that the essay and the collection of questions will be ready in 1 to 3 weeks. In the meantime, if people would like to provide comments or questions anonymously, I'm happy to consider including them in my future posts. I am doing this entirely in my personal capacity and no one is obligated to get involved; I just thought that people might like to know about work that's happening off-list and that there are opportunities to be involved anonymously. Regards, Pine

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