Hey Trey
Thanks for the in depth discussion. So if the terms people are using that
result in "zero search results" are typically gibberish why do we care if
30% of our searches result in "zero search results"? A big deal was made
about this a while ago.
If one was just to look at those search terms that more than 100 IPs
searched for would that not remove the concerns about anonymity? One could
also limit the length of the searches displaced to 50 characters. And just
provide the first 100 with an initial human review to make sure we are not
miss anything.
James
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Trey Jones <tjones(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Pine, thanks for the forward. Regulars on the Discovery list may know me,
> but James probably does not. I've manually reviewed tens of thousands of
> generally poorly performing queries (fewer than 3 results) and skimmed
> hundreds of thousands more from many of the top 20 Wikipedias—and to a
> lesser extent other projects—over the year I've been at the WMF and in
> Discovery. You can see my list of write ups here
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes>.
>
> So I want to say that this is an awesome idea—which is why many people
> have thought of it. It was apparently one of the first ideas the Discovery
> department had when they formed (see Dan's notes linked below). It was also
> one of the first ideas I had when I joined Discovery a few months later.
>
> Dan Garry's notes on T8373
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T8373#1856036> and the following
> discussion pretty much quash the idea of automated extraction and
> publication from a privacy perspective. People not only divulge their own
> personal information, they also divulge other people's personal
> information. One example: some guy outside the U.S. was methodically
> searching long lists of real addresses in Las Vegas. I will second Dan's
> comments in the T8373 discussion; all kinds of personal data end up in
> search queries. A dump of search queries *was* provided in September 2012
> <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/09/19/what-are-readers-looking-for-wikipedi…>,
> but had to be withdrawn over privacy concerns.
>
> Another concern for auto-published data: never underestimate the power of
> random groups of bored people on the internet. 4chan decided to arrange
> Time Magazine poll results
> <https://techcrunch.com/2009/04/27/time-magazine-throws-up-its-hands-as-it-g…> so
> the first letter spelled out a weird message. It would be easy for 4chan,
> Reddit, and other communities to get any message they want on that list if
> they happened to notice that it existed. See also Boaty McBoatface
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Sir_David_Attenborough#Name> and Mountain
> Dew "Diabeetus"
> <https://storify.com/cbccommunity/hitler-did-nothing-wrong-wins-crowdsourced…>
> (which is not at all the worst thing on *that* list). We don't want to
> have to try to defend against that.
>
> In my experience, the quality of what's actually there isn't that great.
> One of my first tasks when I joined Discovery was to look at daily lists of
> top 100 zero-results queries that had been gathered automatically. I was
> excited by this same idea. The top 100 zero-results query list was a
> wasteland. (Minimal notes on some of what I found are here
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Survey_of_Zero-Resul…>.)
> We could make it better by focusing on human-ish searchers, using basic
> bot-exclusion techniques
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/TextCat_Optimization…>,
> ignoring duplicates from the same IP, and such, but I don't think it would
> help. And while Wikipedia is not for children, there could be an annoying
> amount of explicit adult material on the list, too. We would probably find
> some interesting spellings of Facebook and WhatsApp, though.
>
> If we're really excited about this, I could imagine using better
> techniques to pull zero-results queries and see if anything good is in
> there, but we'd have to commit to some sort of review before we publish it.
> For example, Discernatron <https://discernatron.wmflabs.org/> data, after
> consulting with legal, is reviewed independently by two people, who then
> have to reconcile any discrepancies, before being made public. So I think
> we'd need an ongoing commitment to have at least two people under NDA who
> would review any list before publication. 500-600 queries takes a couple
> hours per person (we’ve done that for the Discernatron), so the top 100
> would probably be less than an hour. I'd even be willing to help with the
> review (as I am for Discernatron) if we found there was something useful in
> there—but I'm not terribly hopeful. We'd also need more people to
> efficiently and effectively review queries for other languages if we wanted
> to extend this beyond English Wikipedia.
>
> Finally, if this is important enough and the task gets prioritized, I'd be
> willing to dive back in and go through the process once and pull out the
> top zero-results queries, this time with basic bot exclusion and IP
> deduplication—which we didn't do early on because we didn't realize what a
> mess the data was. We could process a week or a month of data and
> categorize the top 100 to 500 results in terms of personal info, junk,
> porn, and whatever other categories we want or that bubble up from the
> data, and perhaps publish the non-personal-info part of the list as an
> example, either to persuade ourselves that this is worth pursuing, or as a
> clearer counter to future calls to do so.
> —Trey
>
> Trey Jones
> Software Engineer, Discovery
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Forwarding
>>
>> Pine
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "James Heilman" <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
>> Date: Jul 15, 2016 06:33
>> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Improving search (sort of)
>> To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Cc:
>>
>> A while ago I requested a list of the "most frequently searched for terms
>> for which no Wikipedia articles are returned". This would allow the
>> community to than create redirect or new pages as appropriate and help
>> address the "zero results rate" of about 30%.
>>
>> While we are still waiting for this data I have recently come across a
>> list
>> of the most frequently clicked on redlinks on En WP produced by Andrew
>> West
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:West.andrew.g/Popular_redlinks Many of
>> these can be reasonably addressed with a redirect as the issue is often
>> capitals.
>>
>> Do anyone know where things are at with respect to producing the list of
>> most search for terms that return nothing?
>>
>> --
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A while ago I requested a list of the "most frequently searched for terms
for which no Wikipedia articles are returned". This would allow the
community to than create redirect or new pages as appropriate and help
address the "zero results rate" of about 30%.
While we are still waiting for this data I have recently come across a list
of the most frequently clicked on redlinks on En WP produced by Andrew West
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:West.andrew.g/Popular_redlinks Many of
these can be reasonably addressed with a redirect as the issue is often
capitals.
Do anyone know where things are at with respect to producing the list of
most search for terms that return nothing?
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine
www.opentextbookofmedicine.com
Dear Wikimedians,
We are pleased to announce initial eligibility of applicants submitting a
Letter of Intent for 2016-2017 Round 1 of the Annual Plan Grants / FDC
process. Only applicants confirmed as eligible by 15 September 2016 may
submit proposals to the Funds Dissemination Committee by the 1 October 2016
proposal deadline. We have published the initial eligibility checklist
here, so that applicants may review eligibility before it is confirmed on
15 September 2016:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Eligibility/2016-2017_round1.
Of the eleven organizations submitting a Letter of Intent, all are already
considered eligible provided they continue to meet eligibility requirements
throughout the duration of the FDC process. During the next two months, FDC
staff will work with all potential applicants to make sure eligibility
requirements are maintained.
Please expect another update once eligibility is finally confirmed on 15
September 2016, leading up to the 1 October 2016 proposal deadline.
Proposal forms will be available by 1 October 2016.
Here is a breakdown of upcoming milestones for 2016-2017 Round 1, which you
may also find here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Calendar.
* Eligibility confirmed: 15 September 2016
* Proposals due: by 1 October 2016
* Community review: 1 October 2016 - 31 October 2016
* Staff assessments published: by 8 November 2016
* FDC deliberations: middle of November 2016
* FDC recommendation published: by 1 December 2016
* Board decision: by 1 January 2017
* Start of new grant terms: 1 January 2017 (for most grantees)
We welcome your questions or comments about the Annual Plan Grants / FDC
process at any time: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Comments.
Feel free also to reach out to us over email at FDCsupport(a)wikimedia.org.
We would be happy to speak with any organization about specific questions
they may have about eligibility.
Best regards from FDC staff!
--
Delphine Ménard
Program Officer, Annual Plan Grants
Wikimedia Foundation
Congratulations Geoff. I've had the good fortune to work with you, and know
that YouTube is getting a good one. Best of luck.
Sphilbrick
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> From: Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com>
> To: reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com, Wikimedia Mailing List
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> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] With my thanks to everyone ...
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> Congrats on the new role Geoff, and thank you so much for your leadership
> over the last half-decade. You have been a huge asset to the movement, and
> will be sorely missed.
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 3:29 PM Olatunde Isaac <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your impeccable service, Geoff. Wishing you all the best in
> > your future endeavors.
> >
> > Isaac
> > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
> > Sender: "Wikimedia-l" <wikimedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org>Date:
> Wed,
> > 13 Jul 2016 14:32:29
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> > Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] With my thanks to everyone ...
> >
> > Thank you for your service, Geoff. I hope that we will still see you
> > around. Good luck with the new gig. :)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Pine
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Geoff Brigham <gbrigham(a)wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Over the past five years, I’ve been honored to serve as the General
> > Counsel
> > > and Secretary of the Wikimedia Foundation. This job has been amazing,
> and
> > > I’m grateful to everyone who has made it so rewarding. It's now time
> for
> > my
> > > next step, so, in the coming days, I will be leaving the Foundation to
> > > pursue a new career opportunity.
> > >
> > > I depart with such love for the mission, the Foundation, the Wikimedia
> > > communities, and my colleagues at work. I thank my past and present
> > bosses
> > > as well as the Board for their support and guidance. I stand in awe of
> > the
> > > volunteer writers, editors, and photographers who contribute every day
> to
> > > the Wikimedia projects. And I will hold special to my heart my past and
> > > current teams, including legal and community advocacy. :) You have
> > taught,
> > > given, and enriched me so much.
> > >
> > > After my departure, Michelle Paulson will serve as interim head of
> Legal,
> > > and, subject to Board approval, Stephen LaPorte will serve as interim
> > > Secretary to the Board. I can happily report that they have the
> > experience
> > > and expertise to ensure a smooth and professional transition.
> > >
> > > The future of the Foundation under Katherine's leadership is exciting.
> > > Having had the pleasure of working for her, I know Katherine will take
> > the
> > > Foundation to its next level in promoting and defending the outstanding
> > > mission and values of the Wikimedia movement. Although I'm delighted
> > about
> > > my next opportunity, I will miss this new chapter in the Foundation's
> > > story.
> > >
> > > My last day at the Foundation will be July 18th. After that, I will
> take
> > a
> > > month off to recharge my batteries, and then I start my new gig at
> > YouTube
> > > in the Bay Area. There, I will serve as Director of YouTube Trust &
> > Safety,
> > > managing global teams for policy, legal, and anti-abuse operations. As
> > with
> > > Wikimedia, I look forward to learning from those teams and tackling
> > > together a new set of exciting, novel challenges.
> > >
> > > For those who want to stay in touch, please do! My personal email is:
> > > geoffrey.r.brigham(a)gmail.com.
> > >
> > > With respect, admiration, and gratitude,
> > >
> > > Geoff
> > > _______________________________________________
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> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 22:58:13 +0000
> From: Patricio Lorente <patricio.lorente(a)gmail.com>
> To: reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com, Wikimedia Mailing List
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> Dear Geoff:
>
> It has been a pleasure and an honor to work with you during my term in the
> Board. Is not only that I enjoyed your advice and support, but also that I
> learned so much from your leadership. I wish you best of luck in your next
> adventure. And I hope we will meet again to share a beer and talk about
> past times :)
>
>
> Patricio
>
> El mié., 13 de jul. de 2016 a la(s) 19:29, Olatunde Isaac <
> reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com> escribió:
>
> > Thanks for your impeccable service, Geoff. Wishing you all the best in
> > your future endeavors.
> >
> > Isaac
> > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld from Glo Mobile.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
> > Sender: "Wikimedia-l" <wikimedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org>Date:
> Wed,
> > 13 Jul 2016 14:32:29
> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List<wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Reply-To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] With my thanks to everyone ...
> >
> > Thank you for your service, Geoff. I hope that we will still see you
> > around. Good luck with the new gig. :)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Pine
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Geoff Brigham <gbrigham(a)wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Over the past five years, I’ve been honored to serve as the General
> > Counsel
> > > and Secretary of the Wikimedia Foundation. This job has been amazing,
> and
> > > I’m grateful to everyone who has made it so rewarding. It's now time
> for
> > my
> > > next step, so, in the coming days, I will be leaving the Foundation to
> > > pursue a new career opportunity.
> > >
> > > I depart with such love for the mission, the Foundation, the Wikimedia
> > > communities, and my colleagues at work. I thank my past and present
> > bosses
> > > as well as the Board for their support and guidance. I stand in awe of
> > the
> > > volunteer writers, editors, and photographers who contribute every day
> to
> > > the Wikimedia projects. And I will hold special to my heart my past and
> > > current teams, including legal and community advocacy. :) You have
> > taught,
> > > given, and enriched me so much.
> > >
> > > After my departure, Michelle Paulson will serve as interim head of
> Legal,
> > > and, subject to Board approval, Stephen LaPorte will serve as interim
> > > Secretary to the Board. I can happily report that they have the
> > experience
> > > and expertise to ensure a smooth and professional transition.
> > >
> > > The future of the Foundation under Katherine's leadership is exciting.
> > > Having had the pleasure of working for her, I know Katherine will take
> > the
> > > Foundation to its next level in promoting and defending the outstanding
> > > mission and values of the Wikimedia movement. Although I'm delighted
> > about
> > > my next opportunity, I will miss this new chapter in the Foundation's
> > > story.
> > >
> > > My last day at the Foundation will be July 18th. After that, I will
> take
> > a
> > > month off to recharge my batteries, and then I start my new gig at
> > YouTube
> > > in the Bay Area. There, I will serve as Director of YouTube Trust &
> > Safety,
> > > managing global teams for policy, legal, and anti-abuse operations. As
> > with
> > > Wikimedia, I look forward to learning from those teams and tackling
> > > together a new set of exciting, novel challenges.
> > >
> > > For those who want to stay in touch, please do! My personal email is:
> > > geoffrey.r.brigham(a)gmail.com.
> > >
> > > With respect, admiration, and gratitude,
> > >
> > > Geoff
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at:
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 01:00:16 +0200
> From: Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)gmail.com>
> To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] With my thanks to everyone ...
> Message-ID: <nm6h60$d80$1(a)ger.gmane.org>
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>
> I vividly remember the day we met, in Paris, before you joined the WMF.
> I am really glad you decided to join the aventure for so many years. You
> will be missed.
>
> Florence
>
> Le 13/07/16 à 23:25, Geoff Brigham a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Over the past five years, I’ve been honored to serve as the General
> Counsel
> > and Secretary of the Wikimedia Foundation. This job has been amazing, and
> > I’m grateful to everyone who has made it so rewarding. It's now time for
> my
> > next step, so, in the coming days, I will be leaving the Foundation to
> > pursue a new career opportunity.
> >
> > I depart with such love for the mission, the Foundation, the Wikimedia
> > communities, and my colleagues at work. I thank my past and present
> bosses
> > as well as the Board for their support and guidance. I stand in awe of
> the
> > volunteer writers, editors, and photographers who contribute every day to
> > the Wikimedia projects. And I will hold special to my heart my past and
> > current teams, including legal and community advocacy. :) You have
> taught,
> > given, and enriched me so much.
> >
> > After my departure, Michelle Paulson will serve as interim head of Legal,
> > and, subject to Board approval, Stephen LaPorte will serve as interim
> > Secretary to the Board. I can happily report that they have the
> experience
> > and expertise to ensure a smooth and professional transition.
> >
> > The future of the Foundation under Katherine's leadership is exciting.
> > Having had the pleasure of working for her, I know Katherine will take
> the
> > Foundation to its next level in promoting and defending the outstanding
> > mission and values of the Wikimedia movement. Although I'm delighted
> about
> > my next opportunity, I will miss this new chapter in the Foundation's
> > story.
> >
> > My last day at the Foundation will be July 18th. After that, I will take
> a
> > month off to recharge my batteries, and then I start my new gig at
> YouTube
> > in the Bay Area. There, I will serve as Director of YouTube Trust &
> Safety,
> > managing global teams for policy, legal, and anti-abuse operations. As
> with
> > Wikimedia, I look forward to learning from those teams and tackling
> > together a new set of exciting, novel challenges.
> >
> > For those who want to stay in touch, please do! My personal email is:
> > geoffrey.r.brigham(a)gmail.com.
> >
> > With respect, admiration, and gratitude,
> >
> > Geoff
> > _______________________________________________
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>
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 22:39:57 -0700
> From: Erik Moeller <eloquence(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: geoffrey.r.brigham(a)gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] With my thanks to everyone ...
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>
> Geoff --
>
> Many thanks for all you've done for the movement! You helped take the
> WMF to a new level of professionalism, built a fantastic team, and led
> it during some of the most pivotal moments in the organization's
> history. During our years of working together, I deeply admired your
> dedication to continuously making things better, providing mentorship
> to your team and across the org, and deftly navigating the complexity
> of the wiki world.
>
> Above all, you embodied the organization's mission and values every
> day, whether it was about free speech, transparency and inclusiveness,
> free culture, the threat of global surveillance, or any other issue.
>
> YouTube is lucky to bring you on board, and WMF is lucky you've built
> such a great team to take things from here. Congrats and best of luck!
> :)
>
> Warmly,
> Erik
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:08:27 -0700
> From: Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)frontier.com>
> To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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> On 7/13/2016 3:04 PM, Kat Walsh wrote:
> > Geoff,
> >
> > Your insight and
> > guidance, your legal experience, your leadership, and your dedication
> > to the people and the principles of the movement have all been
> > invaluable. And your commitment to building the organization and the
> > people in it means you leave the legal department in good hands;
> > congratulations to Michelle and Stephen on their new roles.
> Kat and I are used to echoing each other, so I'll reiterate the above in
> particular. I think this transition illustrates one of the hallmarks of
> successful leadership, in preparing others to fill his responsibilities
> capably in his absence. As a person Geoff is irreplaceable, and like
> others I owe him a lot personally. But in his role in the organization,
> he does have to be replaced, and I am glad we have such good
> replacements on hand. Fortunately, there is no need to replace Geoff the
> person, because he will still be himself. That should serve him equally
> well in his new position, and he has my best wishes for all his future
> endeavors.
>
> --Michael Snow
>
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> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 08:27:11 +0200
> From: Ting Chen <wing.philopp(a)gmx.de>
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> Hello Geoff,
>
> among many other things said already I think the most profound impact
> you made on the whole movement was the reformation of the trademark
> licensing policy and the introduction of legal assistance program. Both
> immensely important for the community Also your contribution and legal
> backup by introducing the current associate model, so that it can be
> opened more broadly to the community, cannot be under estimated. Hope we
> can stay in touch.
>
> Greetings
>
> Ting
>
>
> Am 13.07.2016 um 23:25 schrieb Geoff Brigham:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Over the past five years, I’ve been honored to serve as the General
> Counsel
> > and Secretary of the Wikimedia Foundation. This job has been amazing, and
> > I’m grateful to everyone who has made it so rewarding. It's now time for
> my
> > next step, so, in the coming days, I will be leaving the Foundation to
> > pursue a new career opportunity.
> >
> > I depart with such love for the mission, the Foundation, the Wikimedia
> > communities, and my colleagues at work. I thank my past and present
> bosses
> > as well as the Board for their support and guidance. I stand in awe of
> the
> > volunteer writers, editors, and photographers who contribute every day to
> > the Wikimedia projects. And I will hold special to my heart my past and
> > current teams, including legal and community advocacy. :) You have
> taught,
> > given, and enriched me so much.
> >
> > After my departure, Michelle Paulson will serve as interim head of Legal,
> > and, subject to Board approval, Stephen LaPorte will serve as interim
> > Secretary to the Board. I can happily report that they have the
> experience
> > and expertise to ensure a smooth and professional transition.
> >
> > The future of the Foundation under Katherine's leadership is exciting.
> > Having had the pleasure of working for her, I know Katherine will take
> the
> > Foundation to its next level in promoting and defending the outstanding
> > mission and values of the Wikimedia movement. Although I'm delighted
> about
> > my next opportunity, I will miss this new chapter in the Foundation's
> > story.
> >
> > My last day at the Foundation will be July 18th. After that, I will take
> a
> > month off to recharge my batteries, and then I start my new gig at
> YouTube
> > in the Bay Area. There, I will serve as Director of YouTube Trust &
> Safety,
> > managing global teams for policy, legal, and anti-abuse operations. As
> with
> > Wikimedia, I look forward to learning from those teams and tackling
> > together a new set of exciting, novel challenges.
> >
> > For those who want to stay in touch, please do! My personal email is:
> > geoffrey.r.brigham(a)gmail.com.
> >
> > With respect, admiration, and gratitude,
> >
> > Geoff
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All,
TL;DR: The Editing Department is working to make the content editing
software better. The big work areas are improving the visual editor and
editing wikitext. We will bring in a wikitext mode inside the visual editor
for simpler, faster switching. We will experiment with prompts to give
users ideas for what they might want to make as they edit. We will do other
things as well. Your feedback is welcome.
I thought it would be helpful to send an update about editing software.
It's been over a year since my last, and things change (and it's easy to
lose track). We set out some higher-level objectives for Editing in the
Wikimedia Foundation's annual plan for the coming financial year.[0] This
gives a little more detail on that, with particular emphasis on the team
working on content editing tools directly. There's also a brief, more
feature-focussed roadmap available on MediaWiki.org if you are
interested.[1]
Status
In Editing, we're continuing to work on our commission from the 2010
community strategy[2] to create a rich visual editor which makes it
possible to edit all our content, and participate in our workflows, without
knowing or having to learn wikitext. This is a work in progress; as with
all our improvements to the software, we will never be "done", and
hopefully you notice improvements over time. Each week, new features,
improvements, and bug fixes are released, often led, altered or supported
by our volunteer developers and community pioneers; my thanks to you all.
We are now roughly five years into this visual editor work, and have made
good progress on a credible content editor for many users' workflows,
helping editors spend more time on what they're editing instead of how.
First and foremost, not having to think about the vagaries of wikitext and
instead focus on the content of their writing is something that many new
and experienced volunteers alike have mentioned they appreciate. The
automatic citations tool makes adding new references to websites or DOIs
much more quickly and thoroughly, improving the quality of the content. The
visual media searching tool makes it simple to find and add more of the
great images and other media on Commons and add to a page. Visual table
editing helps make changes to tables, like moving columns or parts of
tables around, much more easily than in wikitext, saving time of our
volunteers to focus on their work making the wikis better.
The visual editor supports many (but not yet all) of our content languages,
and thanks to community support and engagement the editor is available by
default on over 235 Wikipedias (and for opt-in use on the remaining 55),
including almost all of our largest Wikipedias. It is on by default for
logged-out users and new accounts on 233 of these, and on for new accounts
(but not yet for logged-out users) on two, English and Spanish. As of this
week, this now includes representatives from each of the "CJK" language
group, with four different Chinese script languages (Classical, Cantonese
and Wu, as well as Min Nan), Korean and Japanese. We're currently working
our way through each of the remaining communities asking them if it's OK to
switch; the next groups will be the thirteen Arabic script Wikipedias and
the twenty-three Indic Wikipedias. You can see specific details at the
rollout grid if you're interested.[3]
We have recently been working with the non-Wikipedia sister projects. As
you might imagine, each project has different needs, workflows and
concerns, and it's important to us that we ensure the tools we provide are
tweaked as appropriate to support, not undermine, those requirements to the
extent justifiable by demand. Per community request, the visual editor is
already available to all users on several different sister projects, but we
think there is more to do for some before we encourage this more widely.
Recently, we have been working with the communities on the Wikivoyages,
which are quite similar to the Wikipedias in needs from the visual editor;
our thanks to the patience and assistance from the Wikivoyagers. We're also
working with User:tpt and other volunteers who create and maintain the
software used by Wikisources to adapt the visual editor to work with those
features; our thanks to them, and to Wikisourcerers more widely.
Core and maintenance work
Despite this progress, there are still several areas in which the core
functionality of the editing software needs extensions, improvements and
fixes. In many places within the visual editor software we have to work
around browsers' bugs, missing features and idiosyncrasies, and nowhere is
that more problematic than the critical areas of typing, cursoring, and
related language support. There continue to be irritating, occasionally
serious bugs related to these, for which we continue to partner with
browser vendors and experts around the Web to try to develop workarounds
and improvements.
Another important area related to language support is coming up with a
solution for the nine languages in the Wikimedia family which use content
language variants, biggest amongst them Chinese, which poses some very
large challenges as it is fundamentally incompatible with a visual editing
method. If you're interested in discussing how this might work we would
love to discuss with you what possible options you think would work out,
even more so if you wish to work on support for this.
The performance of the software is not yet as good as we would wish, in
terms of speed, network use, and load on users' browsers. This is a
usability issue for all users, but is especially critical for users of
lower-powered devices (like older machines) and more powerful but
limited-resource ones (like most mobile phones and tablets), where in some
cases it can be not merely awkward to use, which is disrespectful of
volunteers' time, but prohibitive, excluding community members from
volunteering their time. We have several strategies lined up to tackle this
basket of issues, from editing only small parts of a document at once –
sometimes called "sentence-level editing" – to loading smaller bits of the
editor at first and then larger, less-used bits as needed whilst retaining
a consistent interface without changes in interface which can be confusing
and distracting. More widely, working to let the software include as many
possible volunteers in the community if they wish to join also covers
accessibility in all its forms, making sure editors who have learning
impairments or physical disabilities are supported as much as possible.
Many of our communities have put in significant effort over the past
fifteen years to come up with specialised workflows on their wikis.
Sometimes these efforts have involved complicated extensions and gadgets,
like the use of the "inputbox" button to start a new article based on a
template, as used on several wikis. Others provide additional tools inside
the wikitext editor, like the English Wikipedia's tool to automatically
created references based on a link, some of which we provide inside the
visual editor now, but many of which are not yet there, and which we at the
Foundation can never scale to provide the individual attention for each of
our hundreds of wikis. For the visual editor to be successful, pleasant and
as un-confusing as possible, it is vital that we help communities provide
gadgets as appropriate, and duplicate or extend the integration with the
various other editors. We look forward to helping you help others.
A big technical change we're hoping to achieve this year, as we set out
directly in the annual plan,[0] is to re-engineer how MediaWiki supports
content. We want to allow multiple "parts" of content, of different parts,
to be stored as revisions of pages. This is a much-needed feature already,
most obvious with file pages – each file's upload history is shown separate
from its description page, and videos' subtitles are stored in a different
namespace rather than shown on the page. This also is an issue in other
areas, making workflows more complicated, like the common documentation
sub-page of templates rather than having a combined template and
documentation page needing two edits to improve a template and document how
it now works. With Wikimedia Deutschland's work on moving Commons' file
meta-data into a proper structure linked to Wikidata, addressing this need
is now acute. We look forward to driving forward the technical discussion
and implementation of multi-part content revisions in the back-end,[4] and
we have some hopes with how it can be used to do new things which we
discuss below.
Finally with regards to core work, our intent right from the beginning of
our work on the visual editor has been to operate as the core 'platform'
for all kinds of editing in MediaWiki, and not just to be another single
editor. Depending on how you count them, there are currently six pieces of
editor software beyond the visual editor installed on most of our wikis,
which gives us six different interfaces by which to confuse users, six
different sets of bugs to track down, and six different places where
features can interact in unexpected ways and which need to be tested.[5]
Our goal is to gradually reduce the number of pieces of software with
equivalents based on the single platform. This has already been done for
example in Flow, where it uses the visual editor for rich content editing
rather than re-inventing its down, and we are planning to work with our
colleagues in the Language Engineering team to do the same for the Content
Translation tool. We are experimenting with providing a more modern
wikitext editor which can provide a consistent experience between the
visual and wikitext editors, and between desktop and mobile; there's a
video of our work to date on this, still incomplete, which some of you may
have seen.[6] Naturally, any new wikitext editor would have to be not just
change for its own sake but better for users to be worth switching, so
we're cautious about how quickly we would introduce this; certainly, a beta
feature test of the initial version for the intrepid will be necessary
before we make any plans as to wider availability.
Feature work
As well as our core work, it is important to us that we also spend some of
our time to explore ways in which new features can improve the experience
of the site for users, helping them improve quality, breadth and depth of
content more effectively and efficiently. Not all of the ideas below are
ones on which we're actively working right now, but we should have some
progress this coming year on at least most of them.
An idea I'm quite excited about in terms of possibilities is providing a
system in the visual and wikitext editors that can prompt users as they
edit. The range of different kinds of edit, from copy editing and improving
references to a full up re-working of whole sets of pages, means that
newbies can get lost in knowing where to start. There are lots of different
kinds of improvements that we could provide, from simple static ones like
"this article isn't illustrated yet" to very complex and specific ones like
"this article's main wikiproject is about the USA, so wants you to write in
American English". This work is aimed at reducing the burden on experienced
users when they review new editors' changes, letting each wiki configure
hints appropriate to that community. We also intend for these experiments
to improve the "on-boarding" experience for new users, helping them learn
what is wanted and valued by their wiki's community, and what makes for
more constructive edits.
Once we have multi-part content streams (which I mentioned above as core
work), there are several possible feature areas we think are worth
considering.
A big one is that we think that there's a lot of potential in storing edits
in HTML DOM as well as in wikitext. Firstly, this should allow us to help
MediaWiki understand changes in edits more like the way that humans do.
This would allow us to provide neat features like visual diffs and animated
histories of pages. Showing clearly who wrote which parts of an article, or
what parts of the article have been changed most recently, is not a new
idea but hasn't been practical to implement at scale. It would be
fascinating to see if this tool could assist in deepening the richness of
understanding for readers of the staleness or volatility of articles in
practice.
More importantly, it should allow much better automatic handling of edit
conflict situations, and so reduce the occurrence of edit conflicts that
need manual correction. Theoretically, it could let us remove edit
conflicts entirely, though this would mean making some decisions about how
edits work which we may decide are worse long-term than having manual
resolution of edit conflicts; we're not planning to make a decision on that
until we know more.
Storing pages in DOM could also allow smart partial document saving,
splitting up your bigger edits into different chunks, each of which you can
save as you go. Making smaller, simpler edits. This could also let us
reduce edit conflicts by prompting people to save bits as they edit, and
pushing those new versions "live" into the editor of others also editing at
the same time.
The final thing I'll mention that DOM edits could do is allow DOM-based
annotations to pages. With this, citations could be 'applied' to bits of
the article showing which statements are (and aren't) backed up with a
reference. Discussions could refer to a specific image, sentence or word
choice to let editors have deeper, faster conversations, and understand
when they're editing a potentially divisive section. Illustrations like
diagrams and maps could highlight an area.
Another thing we're keen to explore with content streams is improving how
page meta-data is edited, centralising the data about a page's name,
protection level, whether it should show a table of contents, what pages
redirect to it, and so on. Each of these examples is currently edited in a
different place and with a different tool. We think it could help a lot to
provide these controls together, editing a new "part" of the page alongside
the wikitext block. Note that we're not planning on removing the existing
mechanisms, which each work well enough – this would be an additional tool,
at least at first.
A final item worth mentioning, because it comes up a lot as a
technical/editor wishlist item from some editors and developers alike, is
real-time collaborative editing. I wrote some details a couple of years ago
about how this, especially the "full-throttle" collaboration system (like
Etherpad or Google Docs, where there can be multiple users at the same time
each with their own cursor) is a huge problem, not just a technical one but
critically a social one.[7] Despite this, I do hear quite often from people
about how this would be very helpful, for mentoring new users and those
doing something with which they're unfamiliar, and for content editing
collaborating, like for edit-a-thons, breaking news articles where lots of
changes are wanted at the same time, and themed collaborations of the day
or similar. I'm keeping an open mind as to whether we will ever do this,
but it's not something we're worrying about right now.
Summary
As you can see if you have made it this far, there's a lot of different
things we're working on in the department. I'm hopeful that the
improvements we make have already made, and will continue to make, the
editing lives of those reading this a bit easier.
I'm thankful for all the support we get from across the communities, be it
in the form of clear suggestions, complaints and proposals, technical
advice and volunteering, or anything else. If you're technical, and a
current or prospective volunteer developer interested in working on some of
these areas, we would love to help you.
I'll be at Wikimania this year. As always, I'll be happy to talk about
anything in this update — or missing from it — in person there, online on
Phabricator or IRC, on-wiki, or wherever else. Your thoughts and responses
are what guide us, and what makes it worth doing. Hope this was interesting!
Links
[0] —
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/…
[1] — https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Roadmap
[2] —
https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summa…
which has been gradually developed into
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Feature_map for possible Product work.
[3] — https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Rollouts
[4] — https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595
[5] — The plain wikitext editor (with the dark blue buttons toolbar),
WikiEditor (with the light blue/grey toolbar), CodeEditor (with the syntax
highlighting, based on WikiEditor), Flow's discussion editor, and
LiquidThreads's editor (mostly not seen now).
[6] — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgd2ZHOZGBE
[7] —
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2014-September/003807…
J.
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James D. Forrester
Lead Product Manager, Editing
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforrester(a)wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
Hello,
WMF's Community Resources Team invites you to *join the Project Grants
committee* to help us review proposals submitted during our current open
call <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>. Funds are available
to support individuals, groups and organizations to
implement new experiments and proven ideas, whether focused on building a
new tool or gadget, organizing a better process onwiki, researching
an important issue, coordinating an editathon series or providing other
support for community-building.
Diverse skill sets are needed for this review, so all are welcome. This
round, we're particularly seeking people with expertise in addressing
harassment to review proposals coming from the recent Inspire Campaign <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>.
If you'd like to get involved in the Committee, *please add yourself as a
candidate by Friday, 15 July 2016* <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Quarterly/Committee/Candidat…>.
You can learn more about the committee on our Orientation page <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Quarterly/Committee/Orientat…
>.
Hope to see you there!
Warm regards,
Marti
*Marti JohnsonProgram Officer*
*Individual Grants*
*Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>*
+1 415-839-6885
Skype: Mjohnson_WMF
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share
<http://youtu.be/ci0Pihl2zXY> in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it
a reality!
Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>
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Date: Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:34 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Want to join a grants committee?
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello!
The Community Resources team is now recruiting committee members to support
the launch of two new grants programs [1].
The Project Grants Committee will review and advise on projects that
promote new experiments and sustain ideas that work.
- Program launches July 1, 2016 with an open call for new grant
proposals.
- Up to USD 100,000 for projects up to 12 months. Submissions accepted
quarterly.
- Interested in joining? Learn more here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Quarterly/Committee/Orientat…
- Submit your candidacy by July 15, 2016 to participate in the first
round.
The Conference Support Committee will review and advise on large
conferences and events.
- Program launches July 1, 2016.
- Submissions accepted monthly.
- Interested in joining? Learn more here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Committee/Orientation
- Submit your candidacy by June 1, 2016 to participate in the launch.
Why should you serve on a grants committee?
-
Make a big difference by supporting applicants and grantees that are
doing projects to improve content and increase participation across the
Wikimedia movement.
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Build yours skills and experience by participating in our innovative
participatory grantmaking programs.
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Interact with volunteers from all over the world.
Do you know somebody who you think would be perfect for this role?
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We love referrals and want to build diverse committees! Please
encourage them to join.
Cheers,
Alex
[1] You can read more about the launch of WMF’s redesigned grant programs
here:
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Dear Wikimedia colleagues,
We have three spaces open on the Simple Annual Plan Grants Committee, and
we are searching for qualified community members to fill these seats.
The Simple Annual Plan Grants Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple/Committee> is a group of
volunteers who make recommendations about Simple Annual Plan Grants
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple>. These are annual plan
grants available to groups and organizations that need funding for their
annual plans, but aren't a part of the FDC process. These grants may be up
to 100,000 US dollars for twelve months, and include programs and operating
expenses.
What do committee members do?
In addition to reviewing new applications, committee members also support
applicants and grantees throughout the application and the life of each
grant. Serving on the committee requires a significant time commitment
during the month of November, when we accept several applications at once,
and for applications throughout the year. This committee does not meet in
person, so decision making happens online. This is a small committee, and
so each member's participation is important for making the process work!
Requirements (from membership criteria
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple/Committee#committee-criteria>
):
- Sufficient *facility with English*, for reviewing and discussing grant
proposals in English.
- Experience with the Wikimedia movement, including experience
contributing to *at least one Wikimedia project*.
- Experience with *Wikimedia programs*, in addition to contributions to
the online projects.
- Committee members must *understand and value diversity*, including
cultural, linguistic, and gender differences.
- Commitment to the Friendly Space Expectations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Friendly_space_expectations>,
and to *engaging in supportive dialogue* with applicants and grantees.
- Consistent record of *constructive engagement in community discussions*,
and an orientation toward collaborative problem solving.
- Committee members must be volunteers who are not paid by the Wikimedia
Foundation or any Wikimedia organization. No WMF or chapter staff may join
the committee while they are serving in paid roles.
Nominees with these qualifications will be given preference (from membership
criteria
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple/Committee#committee-criteria>
):
- Experience in a *leadership role* with a volunteer-focused
organization.
- *Relevant expertise*, such as organizational development,
institutional partnerships, or volunteer management.
- *Experience reviewing annual plan grant proposals*, or significant
experience reviewing other types of grant proposals.
- A demonstrated commitment to sharing skills and experience, and *helping
others *in the Wikimedia movement grow.
Increasing geographic, gender, or age *diversity*, or experience with
different Wikimedia projects not yet represented.
Please nominate yourself here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple/Committee/Candidates>, or
spread the word to people you know who may be interested in joining. We
need your help to recruit qualified candidates!
Let me know if you have any questions or ideas.
Thank you!
Winifred
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Winifred Olliff
Senior Program Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear Wikimedians,
On June 18, 2016, Wikimedia Philippines held new elections for our Board of Trustees, serving a two-year term from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2018. They are:
* Relly Bautista (previously served from 2010 to 2013)
* Romnick “Nick" Coros (new)
* Josh Lim
* Reyton “Boj" Ordonio (new)
* Vera Villocido (new)
At this point, please allow me to introduce our new Board members.
Nick Coros is from Tayabas City, Quezon, some 130 km south of Manila. He is a software developer for an independent international vendor, and has been a Wikipedian since 2008, where he is an administrator on the Tagalog Wikipedia. He was also a Top 50 finalist in the Philippine contest for Wiki Loves Monuments 2012.
Boj Ordonio is from Baguio City, but is currently resident in Metro Manila. A biologist by training, he is studying to earn his Master of Arts in Education at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He has been a Wikipedian since 2011 and has helped execute some of our events, and is also one of a handful of Spanish-speaking Wikipedians in the Philippines.
Vera Villocido is a teacher by profession, but she has over twenty years of experience in education, social development, local governance and consultancy, working with a number of international organizations and local NGOs. Resident in Alburquerque, Bohol, she is also one of our most prolific non-Manila based editors, having been a Wikipedian since 2006. From 2014 to 2016, she also served as the Internal Auditor of Wikimedia Philippines.
Leaving the WMPH Board of Trustees are Johnny Alegre (User:Buszmail), Jenna delos Reyes-Butac (User:Waiting for serendipity), Marco San Andres (User:Chitetskoy) and Paolo Barazon (User:Titopao). We thank them for their service to the organization, the community and the movement at large, and we wish them all the best in their future endeavors.
During the Board election, elections were also held for the vacant position of Internal Auditor. Joseph Ballesteros (User:Jojit fb), who previously served on the Board and was WMPH President from 2011 to 2012, won the election.
In addition to holding elections for the Board of Trustees, the new Board held elections for officer positions in the organization the following week. Officers serve for a term of one year. Our new slate of officers is as follows:
* Chair of the Board: John Paul Antes (User:Markadan)
* Vice Chair: Romnick Coros (User:Nickrds09)
* President: Josh Lim (User:Sky Harbor; re-elected)
* Vice President: Emmanuel Ramirez (User:Sunkissedguy; re-elected)
* Secretary: Reyton Ordonio (User:Bojaleatorio)
* Treasurer: Eugene Alvin Villar (User:Seav)
Please join me in welcoming the new WMPH officers and trustees. We all look forward to working with our colleagues in the Wikimedia movement. :)
(P.S.: Please make sure to CC the other e-mail addresses here, as I don’t think our new Board members are subscribed to this list.)
On behalf of the Board of Trustees of Wikimedia Philippines,
Josh Lim
President, Wikimedia Philippines
JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
jamesjoshualim(a)yahoo.com <mailto:jamesjoshualim@yahoo.com> | +63 (977) 831-7582
Facebook/Twitter: akiestar | Wikimedia: Sky Harbor
http://about.me/josh.lim <http://about.me/josh.lim>