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[Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Deutschland: Annual Report 2016
by Nicole Ebber 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

Hi all, We have recently published our Annual Report 2016. If you would like to learn more about examples of Wikimedia Deutschland's projects and programmes from last year, you might want to read about one or more of the following: * our new editors campaign, * our successes with Wikidata, * our Technical Wishes project, * our achievements in the political and legal field, * our work for Open Education & Open Science * our growth in membership numbers * our regionalisation efforts * our work for the international movement Inspired by the WMF's recent Annual Reports, we have – for the first time – created a visually appealing, responsive online version that also works pretty well on mobile. https://2016.wikimedia.de/en If you rather prefer to print it, please be patient: We will publish the oldschool PDF version and link it on the meta [[Reports]] page next week. Happy reading, Nicole -- 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. _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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What's making you happy this week? (Week of 4 June 2017)
by Pine W 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

I enjoy seeing this photo that was selected as the Commons Picture of the Day to mark World Environment Day on 5 June: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Polar_bear_(Ursus)_maritimus_female… I went to the photographer's talk page on Commons to learn more about him. He says that he is a resident of Germany, has a Ph.D. in biology, and enjoys photographing the Arctic. The photo was taken in Svalbard, which has a nice page on Wikivoyage here <https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Svalbard>. On that page I learned that "Svalbard's visitors come mostly to experience Arctic nature at its rawest and most powerful. The islands have untouched glaciers and craggy mountains, but also polar bears, caribou, a peculiar short legged reindeer, polar foxes, whales, seals and walruses. Svalbard is renowned for its variety of birds, including Arctic Terns, Arctic Fulmar and Puffins. Whales can be spotted off the coastlines particularly during late summer. Humpback whales, Orcas, Beluga whales, and Narwhals all frequent the ocean waters near Svalbard." What's making you happy this week? Pine

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki-research-l] Video demos of upcoming changes to edit review / RC patrol
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Hi Kerry, The short answer is yes! the Collaboration Team is working now to extend the new user interface so that it includes all the existing features on the Recent Changes page, Watchlist and a few related pages—along with some new tools users are requesting. We’re doing user testing right now of this extended functionality (which includes things like Namespace filters, Tag filters, User filters and, possibly, a Category filter). When we have it all working the way it should, we plan to bring the new UI and tools to Watchlist. This should happen in the next few months. However, it is also already possible to add a "On [my] watchlist" filter or highlight, to the results on the recent changes page. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&hidecategori… or https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&hidecatego… Further details are in the main documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements and pages linked in the side-navbox. Feedback appreciated at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_fo… Cheers, On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I only watched the first video but I can see it is useful addition to > managing a large number of recent changes. Is there any plan to offer a > similar service with watchlists? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wiki-research-l [mailto:wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] > On Behalf Of Pine W > Sent: Monday, 29 May 2017 7:42 AM > To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia Mailing List < > Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; Wiki Research-l <wiki-research-l@lists. > wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Video demos of upcoming changes to edit review > / RC patrol > > I'd like to highlight two videos (some people may have already seen these) > that demo upcoming changes to edit review / RC patrol that take advantage > of ORES. I feel that that the changes look promising, and I hope that RC > patrollers, Teahouse hosts, newbie adopters, and others will find that the > changes make their work easier. I also hope for improved retention of > good-faith contributors. > > 0. A succinct overview by Joe Matazzoni (WMF): > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ANew- > feature_demo%E2%80%94smart_Recent_Changes_filtering_with_ORES.webm > > 1. A more extensive overview, also by Joe, including valuable context, > from the WMF Metrics Meeting for May 2017: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAGwQdLyFb4 between 15:00 and 28:15. > > Pine > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Nick Wilson (Quiddity) Community Liaison, WMF

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The editing contest "Translating Ibero-America" is back! Come and join us :)
by Anna Torres 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Dear all, On behalf of Iberocoop, we would like to invite you to participate to our anual translating contest regarding the Ibero-American culture. The contest aims to improve the presence of our culture far beyond our borders as a way to improve the diverse and quality content in other Wikipedias. You can find the contest page here <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Translating_Ibero-America_2017>. Please spread the word! We hope to seeing you participating :) Hugs! -- Anna Torres Adell Directora Ejecutiva *A.C. Wikimedia Argentina*

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Join my Reddit AMA about Wikipedia and ethical, transparent AI
by Aaron Halfaker 02 Jun '17

02 Jun '17

Hey everybody, TL;DR: I wanted to let you know about an upcoming experimental Reddit AMA ("ask me anything") chat we have planned. It will focus on artificial intelligence on Wikipedia and how we're working to counteract vandalism while also making life better for newcomers. We plan to hold this chat on June 1st at 21:00 UTC/14:00 PST in the /r/iAMA subreddit[1]. I'd love to answer any questions you have about these topics questions, and I'll send a follow-up email to this thread shortly before the AMA begins. ---- For those who don't know who I am, I create artificial intelligences[2] that support the volunteers who edit Wikipedia[3]. I've been fascinated by the ways that crowds of volunteers build massive, high quality information resources like Wikipedia for over ten years. For more background, I research and then design technologies that make it easier to spot vandalism in Wikipedia—which helps support the hundreds of thousands of editors who make productive contributions. I also think a lot about the dynamics between communities and new users—and ways to make communities inviting and welcoming to both long-time community members and newcomers who may not be aware of community norms. For a quick sampling of my work, check out my most impactful research paper about Wikipedia[3], some recent coverage of my work from *Wired*[4], or check out the master list of my projects on my WMF staff user page[5], the documentation for the technology team I run[9], or the home page for Wikimedia Research[8]. This AMA, which I'm doing with with the Foundation's Communications department, is somewhat of an experiment. The intended audience for this chat is people who might not currently be a part of our community but have questions about the way we work—as well as potential research collaborators who might want to work with our data or tools. Many may be familiar with Wikipedia but not the work we do as a community behind the scenes. I'll be talking about the work I'm doing with the ethics of AI and how we think about artificial intelligence on Wikipedia, and ways we’re working to counteract vandalism on the world’s largest crowdsourced source of knowledge—like the ORES extension[6], which you may have seen highlighting possibly problematic edits on your watchlist and in RecentChanges. I’d love for you to join this chat and ask questions. If you do not or prefer not to use Reddit, we will also be taking questions on ORES' MediaWiki talk page[7] and posting answers to both threads. 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/ 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence 2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES 3. http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/halfa… 4. https://www.wired.com/2015/12/wikipedia-is-using-ai-to-expand-the-ranks-of-… 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Halfak_(WMF) 6. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ORES 7. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:ORES 8. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research 9. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Scoring_Platform_team -Aaron Principal Research Scientist @ WMF User:EpochFail / User:Halfak (WMF)

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What's making you happy this week? (Week of 28 May 2017)
by Pine W 01 Jun '17

01 Jun '17

I'm perceiving an increase in the number of mentions of Wikidata in ways that make me think that Wikidata may eventually become an equal of Wikipedia in terms of impact on the Internet in general, and perhaps even surpass Wikipedia. Also, I'm looking forward to the improvements for RC patrol. What's making you happy this week? Pine

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