This Board was fomed in 2007 to advise the Wikimedia Foundation, and was
required to be renewed annually. No resolution was made to do so in 2015,
so by the beginning of 2016 it had lapsed. This status is reflected at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Board but the corresponding page
at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board is seriously out of
date (it was written when the board was still in existence). Just about a
year ago, Dariusz assured me that "it is one of the BGC's priorities to
revise and re-ignite the Advisory Board" and indeed the BGC minutes for
April published a couple of days ago at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Commi…
show that the BGC took a paper (not made public) from Dariusz on the
subject and agreed to "submit a formal proposal to the Board". No Board
resoultion on the subject has yet been published.
Rather confusingly, shortly after the BGC meeting, Florence wrote a page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Sources/WM…
recording the Advisory Board's opinions on matters arising in the current
movement strategy process. So it would seem that within a fortnight of the
BGC meeting, an entity called the Advisory Board was already in existence
again.
What is the status of the Avisory Board? Has it been reconstiuted, and if
so, when, and who are its new members? If it has not been reconstituted,
what is the status of Florence's record? If and when the Advisory Board is
reconstituted, will input from the Community for potential members be
welcome, and if so how will it be gathered? Once the Board is in operation
again, is it expected that it will interact with the Community, and if so,
what will the mechanism be for that interaction.
"Rogol"
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
This is a reminder that the Wikimedia Language team's office hour is
happening later today (details at the end).
Please note, our agenda has been updated and today we will have a guest
speaker from the Tamil Wikipedia - Ravishankar A
<https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D…>,
who will talk about a campaign
<https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95…>
(page
written in Tamil) that is currently underway to create new articles of high
quality using Content Translation. The Tamil community also has a help page
and a video
<https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%89%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF:%E0%AE%8…>
(page
written in Tamil) to help new users learn the tool.
Do let me know if you would like to join in the discussion via our hangout.
You can also ask questions over IRC (check the details below) or over email.
Thanks
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session
# When: June 27, 2017 (Tuesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170627T1300)
# Where: IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Euhu4Q7HF4
# Agenda:
- Ravishankar A from Tamil Wikipedia talks about a state-wide
translation campaign using Content Translation.
- Updates from the Language team and Q & A.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:58 PM
Subject: WMF Language team office hour and online meeting on June 27, 2017
(Tuesday) at 1300 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia & GLAM
collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is
scheduled for Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 at 13:00 UTC. This will be an open
session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects.
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 March 2017. You can watch
the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DWXTRl5ZEk
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
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session
# When: June 27, 2017 (Tuesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170627T1300)
# Where: IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=8Euhu4Q7HF4
# Agenda:
Updates from the Language team and Q & A.
--
Language Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
--
Language Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
Reminder! Register today for Wikimania and for the conference hotel, if you
plan to stay there. The early registration deadline is July 10 and the
deadline for booking accommodation in the conference hotel (where the
sessions will be located) is June 30th: next week!
details:
https://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accommodationhttps://wikimania2017.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration
best,
Phoebe
--
* I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at>
gmail.com *
Please join for the following talk:
*Tech Talk**:* A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners
[including non-techies!]
*Presenter:* Asaf Bartov
*Date:* February 09, 2017
*Time: *19:00 UTC
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+A+Ge…>
Link to live YouTube stream <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrAx3AmUvA>
*IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office
*Summary: *This talk will introduce you to the Wikimedia Movement's latest
major wiki project: Wikidata. We will cover what Wikidata is, how to
contribute, how to embed Wikidata into articles on other wikis, tools like
the Wikidata Game, and how to query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples).
Someone who has a quadcopter created a serene 4K video of Lac de Salanfe in
Valais, Switzerland. The video is now linked from the Wikidata entry page
for the reservoir (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q680375) and Wikipedia
pages in English <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_de_Salanfe>, French
<https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_de_Salanfe>, and Russian
<https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D0%B4%D0%B5-%D0%A1%D0%B0%…>
.
If you watch the video, I recommend watching it in full screen mode.
What's making you happy this week?
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Oleksiy Muzalyev <oleksiy.muzalyev(a)bluewin.ch>
Date: Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 6:15 AM
Subject: [OSM-talk] experimental video of the lake Lac de Salanfe for the
OSM & Wikidata
To: Talk Openstreetmap <talk(a)openstreetmap.org>
Good afternoon,
I filmed a short, 8:25, 4K video [1] of the lake Lac de Salanfe [2] last
weekend for its Wikidata page [3].
For the first time I used a 3D flying while filming an aerial footage. It
starts at 6:33. The difference with usual aerial filming is that a quad
moves not just on a flat plane in the air with a constant altitude, but in
three dimensions.
The idea is to fly following a relief of an geographical area and by this
creating its three-dimensional representation for including it as a part of
a video.
This lake is located at an elevation of 1925 m, so the air is a bit
rarefied. The quad which I used weighs less than 500 grams. It has got a
modular design. I plan to upgrade some of its components, especially
switching to the digital ESCs, so that the aerial footage would be
smoother. This time it was just an experiment.
It is possible to view the same video on Youtube [4] too.
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lac-de-Salanfe.webm
[2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/157401https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_de_Salanfe
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q680375
[4] https://youtu.be/yYgFr3QajlE
With best regards,
Oleksiy
Hi all,
I came across the following Kickstarter project about sheet music. The
project aims for making public domain sheet musuc available and keeping
them open. The project is a sort of Wikisource, but then for sheet music,
and I think as Wikimedia movement we should support this somehow.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openscore/openscore-join-the-sheet-mus…
Seeing this project I realise that with Wikimedia platforms we provide all
kinds of knowledge, but sheet music is too limited possible in Wikimedia
yet.
Romaine
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is
scheduled for Tuesday, June 27th, 2017 at 13:00 UTC. This will be an open
session to talk about Wikimedia Language projects.
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 March 2017. You can watch
the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DWXTRl5ZEk
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
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session
# When: June 27, 2017 (Tuesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20170627T1300)
# Where: IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Euhu4Q7HF4
# Agenda:
Updates from the Language team and Q & A.
--
Language Engineering Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello everyone,
The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take
place on Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC
channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will be
broadcast as a live YouTube stream.[1]
During the June metrics meeting, we'll hear from community members and
staff on their experiences with the movement strategy process so far. We’ll
hear more about research findings related to the process, community-led
strategy events and conversations, and next steps for how you can engage in
the movement strategy process moving forward.
Meeting agenda:
* Welcomes, theme introduction
* Movement update
* Community conversations around movement strategy
* New Voices research findings from movement strategy
* Strategy next steps
* Questions and discussion
* Wikilove
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities…
for further information about the meeting and how to participate.
We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Lena
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6nIP4VFIi8
Lena Traer
Project Assistant // Communications // Advancement
Wikimedia Foundation