(apologies for double posting if indeed it was double posting)
Dear Wikimedia friends,
For the 10th time since the Funds Dissemination Committee was created,
the Annual
Plan Grants FDC process needs your eyes, brains and analytic skills.
Since 1 April, 4 organizations have posted their proposal for review by the
FDC...and you. These consist of annual plans and budgets, with a detail of
what programs and activities those organizations are planning for the
coming 12 months.
This opens the time for community review, a month long process in which we need
as many people as possible giving their feedback on the proposals, asking
questions or clarifications and analyzing the initiatives that our movement
affiliates and partners have developped for the year to come.
In May, the FDC will meet to make recommendations to Wikimedia Foundation's
Board of Trustees on how to allocate movement funds to these affiliates in
order to achieve the most impact. Your input and participation will be
valuable as they make these recommendations.
You can find the proposals linked from the Community review portal here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2016-2017_round_2
The organizations whose proposals, plans and budgets are available for your
review include: The Center for Internet and Society, Wikimedia Armenia,
Wikimedia France, Wikimedia Norge.
The Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan will be posted on 7 April for your
review, we will make a separate announcement then.
You can leave your feedback on the proposals discussion page.
Visit the annual plan grant portal [*] for more information about the program,
the FDC, or upcoming milestones. You can reach the FDC support staff at
FDCsupport(a)wikimedia.org. More information about past APG rounds,
recommendations,
reports from organizations can be found on the proposals page: https://meta.
wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals
*More about community review*:
The APG proposal submission date is followed by a 30-day open comment period,
when anyone is invited to provide input on and ask questions about a
specific proposal on its discussion page.
Applicants are also expected to respond to input and questions during
this period,
although they are not able to change the proposal form itself after the
submission date.
The FDC will review the discussion pages during their deliberations in May
as one of many inputs to the decision-making process. While anyone may
comment on proposals after the open comment period closes on 30 April, the
FDC may not be able to take comments made after this period into
consideration when reaching its decisions.
*How to review*:
Please visit the community review page to view the proposals being considered
and follow the instructions. While the proposals are only available in
English, your comments can be in any language.
*Why your feedback matters*:
We hope this open comment period will add to an in-depth and robust review of
each proposal, and help keep our grantmaking transparent and collaborative.
The FDC highly values feedback and insights from the Wikimedia community in
making its funding recommendations.
Thank you for the time you’ll take to review these proposals,
Best,
Delphine
[*] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals
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Delphine Ménard
Program Officer
Wikimedia Foundation
User:Delphine_(WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Delphine_(WMF)>
tl;dr: Search continues to expand functionality by displaying more
information on the search results page
Ever started searching for something on Wikipedia and wondered—*really*, is
that all that there is? Does it feel like you’re somehow playing hide and
seek with all the knowledge that’s out there? And...wouldn’t it be great to
see articles or categories that are similar to your search query and maybe
some related images or links to other languages in which to read that
article? Or, maybe you just want to read and contribute to projects other
than Wikipedia but need a jump start with a few short summaries from sister
projects.
The Discovery Search team has been testing out some really cool new
features that will enable some fun and fascinating clicking—down the rabbit
hole of Wikipedia.[1] But first, let’s recap what we’ve been doing recently.
We've been doing tons of work creating, updating, and finessing the search
back end to enhance search queries. There have been many complex things
that have happened, things like: adding ascii-folding and stemming,
detecting when a visitor might be typing in a language that is different
than the Wikipedia that they are on, switching from tf-idf to BM25,
dropping trailing question marks, and updating to ElasticSearch version 5.
[2][3][4][5][6][7] Whew!
We have much more planned in the coming months—machine learning with
‘learning to rank’, investigating and deploying new language analyzers,
and, after exhaustive analysis, removing quotes within queries by
default.[8][9][10][11] We’ll also be working closely with the new
Structured Data team in their brand new work on Commons.[12][13]
We also want to improve the part that our readers and editors interface
with: the search results page! We started brainstorming during the late
summer of 2016 on what we could do to make search results better—to easily
find interesting, relevant content and to create a more intuitive viewing
experience.[14] We designed and refined numerous ideas on how to improve
the search results page and received lots of good feedback from the
community.[15]
Empowered by the feedback, we began testing starting with a display of
results from the Wikimedia sister projects next to the regular search
results.[16] The idea for this test was to enable discovery into other
projects—projects that our visitors might not have known about—by
displaying interesting results in small snippets. The sidebar display of
the sister projects borrows from a similar feature in use on the Italian,
Catalan and French Wikipedias. We've run two A/B tests on the sister
project search results with detailed analysis and, after a bit of final
touches to the code, we will release the new functionality into production
on all Wikipedias near the end of April 2017.
Our next A/B test will be to add additional information and related results
for each search query. This will be in the form of an ‘explore similar’
link that, when someone interacts with the link, an expanded display will
appear with related pages, categories and links to the article in other
languages—all of which might lead to further knowledge discovery.[17] We
know that not every search query will return exactly what folks were
looking for, but we feel that adding links to similar, but related
information would be helpful and, possibly, super interesting!
We also plan on doing a few more A/B tests in the coming year:
* Test a new display that will show the pronunciation of a word with its
definition and part of speech—all from existing data in Wiktionary.
Initially this will be in English only.
* Test placing a small image (from the article) next to each search result
that is displayed on the page.
* Test an additional future using a new auto completion metadata display in
the search box that is located on the top right of most pages in Wikipedia,
similar to what happens on the Wikipedia.org portal.[18]
For the more technical minded, there is a way to test out these new
features in your own browser. To display the sister project search results,
it will require a bit of URL manipulation; but for the explore similar and
Wiktionary widget, you can modify your common.js file to test an early
version of the features. Detailed information is available on
MediaWiki.org.[19]
Once the testing, analysis and feedback cycle is done for each new feature,
we’d like to slowly implement them into production on all Wikipedias
throughout the rest of the year. We’re really hoping that these
enhancements to how search works will further the usefulness of search and
make our readers and editors more productive.
Cheers from the Discovery Search team!
[1] https://xkcd.com/214/
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/R
e-Ordering_Stemming_and_Ascii-Folding_on_English_Wikipedia
[3] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/27/wikipedia-language-search/
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi_BM25
[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Drop
ping_Final_Question_Marks_in_the_Top_10_Wikipedias
[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154501
[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_to_rank
[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154511
[10] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:From_
Zero_to_Hero_-_Anticipating_Zero_Results_From_Query_
Features,_Ignoring_Content.pdf
[11] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/
Notes/Quotes_and_Questions
[12] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data
[13] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/09/sloan-foundation-structured-data/
[14] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements
[15] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Cross-wiki_
Search_Result_Improvements
[16] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_
Result_Improvements/Testing#A.2FB_test:_Add_cross-wiki_
search_results_in_a_right_hand_sidebar
[17] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_
Result_Improvements/Testing#A.2FB_test:_Add_.27explore_similar.27_pages_and_
categories_for_search_results
[18] https://www.wikipedia.org/
[19] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_
Result_Improvements/self-guided_testing
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deb tankersley
irc: debt
Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation
Please accept our apologies for cross-posting this message.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board Elections Committee, I am
pleased to announce that self-nominations are now being accepted for the
2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections.[1]
The Board of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is
ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia
Foundation,[2] so we value wide input into its selection. More information
about this role can be found at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_o…>.
Please read the letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates
here: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_o…
>.
The candidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April
20 (23:59 UTC) and occurring on Meta-Wiki at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_o…
>
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to
April 20. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_o…
>
Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections
Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to
beginning on April 21.
The goal of this process is to fill the three community-selected seats on
the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be
used by the Board itself to select its new members.
The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are
inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of
the last.
* April 7 (00:00 UTC) – April 20 (23:59 UTC): Board nominations
* April 7 – April 20: Board candidates questions submission period
* April 21 – April 30: Board candidates answer questions
* May 1 – May 14: Board voting period
* May 15–19: Board vote checking
* May 20: Board result announcement goal
In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections
for the following roles:
* Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
** There are five positions being filled. More information about this
election can be found at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Funds_D…
>.
* Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
** One position is being filled. More information about this election can
be found at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Funds_D…
>.
Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held
before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the
Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as
candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board
elections are announced.
More information on this year's elections can be found at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017>.
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's
village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the
talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list,
<board-elections AT wikimedia.org>.
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Board Election Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
PS. An on-wiki version of this message is available for translation at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Updates…
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_o…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees
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*Joe Sutherland*
Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation
Please accept our apologies for cross-posting this message.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board Elections Committee, I am pleased to announce that self-nominations are now being accepted for the 2017 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections.[1]
The Board of Trustees (Board) is the decision-making body that is ultimately responsible for the long-term sustainability of the Wikimedia Foundation,[2] so we value wide input into its selection. More information about this role can be found at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_o…>. Please read the letter from the Board of Trustees calling for candidates here: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_o…>.
The candidacy submission phase will last from April 7 (00:00 UTC) to April 20 (23:59 UTC) and occurring on Meta-Wiki at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_o…>
We will also be accepting questions to ask the candidates from April 7 to April 20. You can submit your questions on Meta-Wiki at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_o…>
Once the questions submission period has ended on April 20, the Elections Committee will then collate the questions for the candidates to respond to beginning on April 21.
The goal of this process is to fill the three community-selected seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. The election results will be used by the Board itself to select its new members.
The full schedule for the Board elections is as follows. All dates are inclusive, that is, from the beginning of the first day (UTC) to the end of the last.
* April 7 (00:00 UTC) - April 20 (23:59 UTC): Board nominations
* April 7 - April 20: Board candidates questions submission period
* April 21 - April 30: Board candidates answer questions
* May 1 - May 14: Board voting period
* May 15-19: Board vote checking
* May 20: Board result announcement goal
In addition to the Board elections, we will also soon be holding elections for the following roles:
* Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
** There are five positions being filled. More information about this election can be found at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Funds_D…>.
* Funds Dissemination Committee Ombudsperson (Ombuds)
** One position is being filled. More information about this election can be found at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Funds_D…>.
Please note that this year the Board of Trustees elections will be held before the FDC and Ombuds elections. Candidates who are not elected to the Board are explicitly permitted and encouraged to submit themselves as candidates to the FDC or Ombuds positions after the results of the Board elections are announced.
More information on this year's elections can be found at <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017>.
Please feel free to post a note about the election on your project's village pump. Any questions related to the election can be posted on the talk page on Meta, or sent to the election committee's mailing list, <board-elections AT wikimedia.org>.
On behalf of the Election Committee,
Katie Chan, Chair, Board Election Committee
Joe Sutherland, Community Advocate, Wikimedia Foundation
PS. An on-wiki version of this message is available for translation at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Updates…
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2017/Board_o…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees
--
Joe Sutherland
Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hello Nicole & everyone,
Even if it looks like a formality for an organization like WMDE, congratulations to all your team! It's still hard work to comply and get that.
Best,
--
Emeric Vallespi
Chairman
Twitter @evallespi
WIKIMEDIA FRANCE
Association pour le libre partage de la connaissance
www.wikimedia.fr
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> On 5 Apr 2017, at 20:24, Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> We would like to let you know that WMDE has just received the audit of
> our financial statement for the fiscal year 2016, which led to no
> reservations from the auditing company.
>
> You can find the English version on Commons [1] as well as linked on
> the reports page on Meta [2].
>
> Best,
> Nicole
>
> [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_DE_Audited_Financial_Stat…
>
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports
>
>
>
>
> --
> Nicole Ebber
> Adviser International Relations
> Movement Strategy Track Lead: Organized Groups
>
> 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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Hi everyone,
I'm very pleased to announce that the Affiliations Committee has appointed
three new advisors for the coming year: Anasuya Sengupta, Patricio Lorente,
and Ting Chen. As non-voting advisors, Anasuya, Patricio, and Ting will
lend their unique experience and insight to the committee as we support the
ongoing movement strategy process and the continuing evolution of the
Wikimedia affiliate ecosystem.
Please join me in welcoming Anasuya, Patricio, and Ting to their new roles!
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee
Hi everybody,
Yesterday the chairs of the various affiliates held their meeting and I am
very pleased to inform all of you that the chairs that were present at this
meeting all supported the following statement:
"The Wikimedia chairs, meeting in Berlin on 1 April 2017 support the
Wikimedia strategy process and we will encourage our respectieve
organizations to contribute."
We kindly request the chairs that could not attend the meeting to also
motivate their respective organizations to contribute to the process.
Kind regards, Frans Grijzenhout
--
*Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair
+31 6 5333 9499 - http://www.wikimedia.nl/
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*Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland*
*Postadres*: *Bezoekadres:*
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*Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair
+31 6 5333 9499 - http://www.wikimedia.nl/
--
*Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland*
*Postadres*: *Bezoekadres:*
Postbus 167 Mariaplaats 3
3500 AD Utrecht 3511 LH Utrecht
Kamer van Koophandel 17189036
Being put together by Eliezer Yudkowsky of LessWrong. Content is
cc-by-sa 3.0, don't know about the software.
https://arbital.com/p/arbital_ambitions/
Rather than the "encyclopedia" approach, it tries to be more
pedagogical, teaching the reader at their level.
Analysis from a sometime Yudkowsky critic on Tumblr:
http://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/140995096534/a-year-ago-i-remember-be…
(there's a pile more comments linked from the notes on that post,
mostly from quasi-fans; I have an acerbic comment in there, but you
should look at the site yourself first.)
No idea if this will go anywhere, but might be of interest; new
approaches generally are. They started in December, first publicised
it a week ago and have been scaling up. First day it collapsed due to
load from a Facebook post announcement ... so maybe hold off before
announcing it everywhere :-)
- d.
