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New project: stage on FakeNews and new Journalism
by Àlex Hinojo 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hi all, I would like to introduce you a new project: In collaboration with FABER humanities residency, Amical Wikimedia is co-organizing a* onsite* stage. We do an opencall to journalists, data scientists, sociologists and humanists to meet during some days in a quite village and make a state of the question on the fake news and new journalism. We would like to invite residents to work on new directions that journalism is taking. We want to outline, to describe and to explain the changes that have happened in this area, to investigate why it is valid, to call it into question and to see how we are affected by new forms of transmission and reproduction of information. Further info in this onepager https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Y7QEmAClNcRk0tWjJNZnhJMk0 Apply here http://faberresidency.com/%e2%80%8b1-may-15-may-projects-related-to-new-jou… FYI: The related costs of the project are asumed by FABER and local govs, Amical collaborates in the project conceptualization and developement, but we don't support it financially. Actually, this is a spin-off project of a residency done during January 2017. https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquiprojecte:Faber_2017/en I'm happy to giver further details of the project offlist if needed. Best, -- Àlex Hinojo

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Wikimedia Foundation Board Recruitment Kick-Off: Changes to the Timeline
by Nataliia Tymkiv 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Dear all, I have updates about the board recruiting process. As you may recall, March 6 was the original deadline for accepting submissions [1], but we need more time to develop more solid candidates. Our original deadlines were extremely ambitious, thus we decided to extend the deadline by two months. Here is an outline of the updated timeline: - Application and referral submission period (January 23 - May 6) - Application and referral review, proactive candidate recruitment, and interviews (January - June 5) - Initial application review and screenings (January - May) - Board Governance Committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Commi…> (BGC) discussions with candidates (January - May) - BGC meets and makes short list (May) - Second-round interviews (May - June 5) - Background check conducted by BGC and Wikimedia Foundation staff - Criminal and financial background check conducted by outside firm - Thorough review of online and public coverage of candidates - Executive Director and BGC meet to determine recommendations and provide recommendations to the full Board (June) - Board vote to confirm candidate (July) - Announcement of new candidates (mid-July) We decided to run this search ourselves, rather than going with a recruiting firm. If we need additional help, we’ll assess in one month and potentially discuss whether we need to look for external firms to support our recruitment efforts. As a reminder, applicants may apply online at: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Work_with_us#Wikimedia_Careers. We also accept applications and referrals by email at board-nominations(a)lists.wikimedia.org. The recruitment materials can be found at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=55283092 [2]. I shall update the Meta page shortly [3]. Please forward this information to people who are potentially interested in serving the Wikimedia movement on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Commi… (as of Jan 23) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Gov…> [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2017_Board_Recruiting_Candidate_Pac… [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Commi… Best regards, antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv *NOTICE: You may have received this message outside of your normal working hours/days, as I usually can work more as a volunteer during weekend. You should not feel obligated to answer it during your days off. Thank you in advance!* On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Nataliia Tymkiv <ntymkiv(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > We would like to announce that we are officially beginning recruitment for > two open appointed positions on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. > This email will outline the process and timeline for the recruitment. > > The Board initially began discussions on recruitment in May-June 2016 [1]. > After a pause, the Board Governance Committee (BGC) has renewed recruitment > for its vacant appointed seats and would love to share an update with you > today. > > With support from Anna Stillwell (from the Talent & Culture department) > and Michelle Paulson (our interim General Counsel), the BGC developed four > candidate profiles for the vacant and soon-to-be-vacant seats and gave its > recommendations to the Board in December 2016. > > During its December meeting, the Board decided that it hopes to find the > following types of experience and expertise: > > > 1. > > Growing a global movement: apply > <https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/567318?gh_src=3vh7tx1#.WIZGvrYr…> > [2] > 2. > > Engaging new communities: apply > <https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/567342?gh_src=b1ftgs1#.WIZL_Fyz…> > [3] > 3. > > Social sector governance: apply > <https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/567375?gh_src=5gwopi1#.WIZMoFyz…> > [4] > > > After that Anna, Michelle, and the Communications team integrated Board > feedback and developed recruitment materials, which include background > information about the Wikimedia movement and Foundation as well as the > profiles describing the types of candidates we are looking for. These > recruitment materials can be found at: https://commons.wikimedia.org/ > ?curid=55283092 [5]. > > The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees currently has two vacant > appointed seats. We also have a vacant community-selected seat, but this > seat will be filled through the community selection process. The Election > Committee, who runs the election process for community-selected seats, will > provide further information about the process and timeline at a later date. > We hope to have all three candidates join the Board no later than Wikimania > in August. > > We will begin accepting applications and referrals for these positions > today and will close the submission period on Monday, 06 March 2017 at > 17:00 PST. A more detailed timeline of the full recruitment process is > available on Meta here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/?curid=10176203 [6]. > > Applicants may apply online at: https://wikimediafoundation. > org/wiki/Work_with_us#Wikimedia_Careers. We also accept applications and > referrals by email at board-nominations(a)lists.wikimedia.org. > > Over the next six weeks, we invite you all to tell us about people who are > potentially interested in serving the Wikimedia community on the Wikimedia > Foundation Board of Trustees. And we look forward to hearing from you. > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_ > Board_Governance_Committee/2016_competence_matrix > > [2] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/567318?gh_src= > 3vh7tx1#.WIZMiFyzlP1 > > [3] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/567342?gh_src= > b1ftgs1#.WIZL_FyzlP1 > > [4] https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/567375?gh_src= > 5gwopi1#.WIZMoFyzlP1 > > [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2017_Board_ > Recruiting_Candidate_Packet.pdf > > [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_ > Board_Governance_Committee/Board_Recruitment > > Best regards, > antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv > > *NOTICE: You may have received this message outside of your normal working > hours/days, as I usually can work more as a volunteer during weekend. You > should not feel obligated to answer it during your days off. Thank you in > advance!* > >

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WMF Language team office hour and online meeting on March 22, 2017 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

[x-posted announcement] Hello, The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is scheduled for Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017 at 13:00 UTC. In this session we would like to initiate a conversation about compact language links[1 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Compact_Language…>] - a feature that was recently introduced on many wikis to improve cross wiki navigation using the interlanguage lists. We would also like to present about some of the changes that we have observed[2 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Compact_Language…>] after compact links were enabled on these wikis. 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 in advance if you would like to join in the Hangout. The IRC channel will be open for interactions during the session. Our last online round-table session was held in December 2016. You can watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXgMZ7myEA4 Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube session links and do let us know if you have any questions. Thank you Runa [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Compact_Language… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Compact_Language… == Details == # Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session # When: March 22, 2017 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170322T1300) # Where: and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DWXTRl5ZEk # Agenda: Updates from the Language team and Q & A. Discussion about Compact Language Links <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Compact_Language…> -- Language Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation

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Status of the Code of Conduct for technical spaces
by Quim Gil 20 Mar '17

20 Mar '17

Hi, let me share a status update about the Code of Conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces, especially targeted to people not familiar with this CoC and/or Wikimedia technical spaces. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct The CoC drafting phase was completed yesterday [0], 18 months after a kick-off session at the Wikimania 2015 Hackathon. Since then, 142 unique editors have contributed to the Talk page through 147 sections, 21 voting rounds abut sections of the CoC announced through the main technical communication channels, and a total of 2,718 edits.[1] That Talk page has 88 watchers, about 20 editors have participated regularly in discussions, and about half of them heavily.[2] To put these numbers in context, MediaWiki.org counts 1,420 active editors, and Phabricator 829. The next step is to create the first Code of Conduct Committee, a process defined in the CoC itself.[3] A subset of the Technical Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation [4] (which I am part of) is preparing an announcement about the search of candidates, inviting everyone to volunteer themselves or send us recommendations. We are tracking the progress of this task in Phabricator [5] and we will communicate major updates in the CoC Talk page and other technical venues as needed. I hope this clarifies the current situation. If you have questions or suggestions, please share them here or in the CoC Talk page. [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#Removing_.27draft.27_st… [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct#Drafting_phase_data [2] http://vs.aka-online.de/cgi-bin/wppagehiststat.pl?lang=www.mediawiki&page=T… [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee#Selection_of_new_m… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration/Community_health [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159923 -- Quim Gil Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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Termodynamics and social capital
by John Erling Blad 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Has anyone tried to use termodynamics on social capital within Wikipedia? Over investment in social capital and negative specific heat might create unstable systems, that is people will leave the community. There is a book on the topic; A Dynamic Balance: Social Capital and Sustainable Community Development

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Launch of translation drive #16WikiWomen
by Florence Devouard 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

In the run up to International Women’s Day on the 8th March, Wiki Loves Women is launching the on-Wikipedia translation drive #16WikiWomen. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon The idea is for Wikipedians to take 16 days to make translate the Wikipedia biographies on 16 notable African women, into at least 16 languages (African or international languages). The articles to be translated will be the biographies of African women. The list of language can be, but is not limited to: * International languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, German * African languages: Akan, Afrikaans, Igbo, Hausa, Wolof, Tswana, Zulu, Xhosa, Shona, Swahili, Yoruba, Sudanese, Amharic, Tsonga, Ewe, Sesotho, Chichewa The list of the 16 women biographies that will be translated are: * Malouma, a Mauritanian singer, songwriter and politician * Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a South African politician. The best initial version was in French * Cri-Zelda Brits, a South African cricketer * Anna Tibaijuka, a Tanzanian politician and former under-secretary-general of the United Nations * Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian women’s rights activist * Flora Nwapa, a Nigerian author who writes predominantly in Igbo * Samia Yusuf Omar, Sprinter from Somalia * Maggie Laubser, a South African painter * Fatima Massaquoi, a pioneering educator from Liberia * Frances Ames, a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist * Asmaa Mahfouz, a Egyptian activist. The best version is currently in Arabic * Yaa Asantewaa, the legendary former Queen Mother of Ghana * Fatou Bensouda, a Gambian lawyer * Martha Karua, a Kenyan politician * Chinwendu Ihezuo, a Nigerian professional footballer * Nassima Saifi, a Paralympian athlete from Algeria Please jump in ! And help relay this message accross communities ! If you wish to participate, please feel free to add your name and any comments here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon/participa… Results will be tracked on this page : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/16_African_Women_Translate-a-thon/tracking

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Picture of the Year | 2016 | voting open
by Steinsplitter Wiki 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

Dear Wikimedians, We are happy to announce that the 2016 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, historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps created with the most modern technology, 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. To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2016 page on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2016 Round 1 will end 30 March 2017, 23:59:59. Thanks, POTY 2016 committee Note: Users must vote with an account meeting following requirements: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2016/Rules

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Should the Endowment invest in REITs?
by James Salsman 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

Joseph Seddon wrote: > > You can find out more about the Endowment here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment I'm very glad to see the asset allocation strategy published, but I have questions: 1. Does the Foundation intend to benchmark Endowment performance against the mutual funds marketed by the largest five funds by capitalization to institutions for the purposes of meeting endowment investment requirements? 2. Should the Foundation be investing in real estate investment trusts? Is it ethical for the Foundation to be competing with people and companies for the ownership of real estate or other fixed assets? "When upper class earners gain income, they are far more likely to save or invest in fixed assets or real estate, which does not increase aggregate demand." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Economics#Tax_cut_claim_in_Fiscal_policy…

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update
by Pine W 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Sharing some good news, both about the progress of ORES and (my primary inspiration for sharing this email) significant improvements in article quality thanks to WikiProject Women scientists. The latter has been designated as the Keilana Effect. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 2:14 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] The Revision Scoring weekly update To: Application of Artificial Intelligence and other advanced computing strategies to Wikimedia Projects <ai(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: wikitech-l <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hey folks! I should really stop calling this a weekly update because it's getting a bit silly at this point. :) But if it were a weekly update, it would cover the weeks of 42 - 46. *Highlights:* - 3 new models: Finnish Wikipedia (reverted) and Estonian Wikipedia (damaging & goodfaith) - We estimated and agreed on funding for ORES servers in the next year with Operations - We published a paper about vandalism detection in Wikidata and a blog post about the massive effect of some initiatives on coverage of Women Scientists in Wikipedia. *New development:* - We added recall-based threshold metrics to the new draftquality model which should help tool devs know what which new page creations to highlight for review[1] - We added optional notices for ORES pages which will help us visually distinguish our experimental install in WMFlabs from the Prod install ( ores.wikimedia.org)[2] - We added basic language support for Finish (Thanks 4shadoww)[3] and deployed a 'reverted' model[4] - We lead a discussion in Wikidata about "item quality" that resulted in a Wikipedia 1.0 like scale for Wikidata quality[5,6] and designed a Wikilabels form to capture the gist of it[7] - We enabled the ORES Review Tool on Czech Wikipedia[8] - We configured ChangeProp to use our new minified JSON output to save bandwidth[9] - We extended the Estonian language assets (Thanks Cumbril)[10] and deployed the 'damaging' and 'goodfaith' models[11,12] - We enabled a testing model for 'goodfaith' on the Beta Cluster to make it easier for the Collaboration team to run tests with their new filter interface[13] - We created a new "precache" endpoint that will allow us to de-duplicate configuration with ChangeProp and handle all routing in ORES locally[14] *Resourcing:* - We completed a 2 year estimate of ORES resource needs and discussed funding (capital expendature) for ORES in the coming fiscal year[15]. This will allow us to continue to grow ORES both in number of models and in scoring capacity. *Communications:* - Amir improved the KDD paper based on review feedback[16] and got it published[17] - We published a blob post about our measurements of WikiProject Women Scientists[18,19] -- "The Keilana Effect" - Thanks to Cumbril's work, the Estonian labeling campaing was finished[20] *Deployments:* - In early February, we deployed a new set of translations to Wikilabels (specifcally targeting Romanian Wikipedia)[21] - In mid-February, we deployed some fixes to ORES documentation and response formatting[22] - In mid-March, we deployed 3 new scoring models and ORES notices[23] *Maintenance and robustness:* - We fixed a serious issue in the "mwoauth" library that Wikilabels depends on[24] - We reduced the number of revisions per request that we could receive via api.php[25] - We investigated a scap issue that broke ORES deployment[26] - We fixed a minor issue with JSON minification behavior[27] and hard-coding of the location of ORES in the documentation[28] - We improved performance of ORES filters on MediaWiki[29] - We improved the language describing ORES behavior on Special:Contributions[30] - We added a notice to the Wikipages that Dexbot maintains about its behavior[31] - We added notices to ores.wmflabs.org about it's experimental nature[32] - We fixed some issues with testing Finnish language assets[33] - We fixed some styling issues that resulted from an upgrade of OOJS UI[34] 1. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157454 -- Add recall based thresholds to draftquality model 2. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150962 -- Add an optional notice to ORES main and ui pages 3. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158587 -- Add language support for Finnish 4. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160228 -- Train/test reverted model for fiwiki 5. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157489 -- [Discuss] item quality in Wikidata 6. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Item_quality 7. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155828 -- Design item_quality form for Wikidata 8. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151611 -- Enable ORES Review Tool on Czech Wikipedia 9. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157693 -- Use minified JSON format in ChangeProp 10. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160193 -- Extend estonian language assets from Wiki page 11. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159608 -- Train/test damaging/goodfaith models for etwiki 12. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130280 -- Deploy edit quality models for etwiki 13. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160467 -- Enable 'goodfaith' on testwiki on Beta Cluster 14. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148714 -- Create generalized "precache" endpoint for ORES 15. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157222 -- Estimate ORES capex for FY2017-18 16. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148443 -- Improve the KDD paper based on the review 17. https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03861 18. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160078 -- Blog post about wp10 measurements of Women Scientists 19. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/07/the-keilana-effect/ 20. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T129702 -- Complete etwiki edit quality campaign 21. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157580 -- Deploy Romanian translations for Wiki labels 22. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157842 -- Prod deployment of ORES 23. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160279 -- Deploy ores in prod (Mid-March) 24. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157858 -- mwoauth is broken 25. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157983 -- Reduce the number of revisions that can be requested in one batch 26. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157623 -- Investigate failed ORES deployment 27. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157721 -- Investigate default JSON minification behavior in production 28. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157723 -- ORES swagger is hard-coded for wmflabs 29. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152585 -- rcshow=oresreview is slow 30. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158862 -- Fix message in Special:Contributions 31. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158899 -- Add notice about Dexbot overwriting manual changes to our tracking table. 32. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159055 -- Add a notice to ores-wmflabs-deploy about "experimental" nature 33. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160192 -- Fix testing issues in finnish language assets 34. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160258 -- Fix minor styling issues with OOJS-UI in wikilabels Sincerely, Aaron from the Scoring Platform team _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Amical Wikimedia 2017 Brand New Board
by Àlex Hinojo 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Hi, After two weeks of open elections, I'm glad to announce you the brand *new board of Amical Wikimedia*, with 8 members, of which 5 are new. - Laia Benito Pericas - Chair - Lluís Madurell Alemany - Secretary - Xavier Dengra Grau - Treasurer - Josep Nogué - Member (former treasurer) - Carles Paredes - Member (former secretary) - David Parreño Mont - Member - Esther Bonet Solé - Member - Pau Colominas - Member Arnau Duran, our former president, was not running for a new term, and both the board and the community are grateful for his service these years. On meta you can see their usernames correspondance: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia#Board Sincerely, Àlex Hinojo Amical Wikimedia ED -- Àlex Hinojo

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