Each year the Wikipedia Library team, in collaboration with GLAM folks
(Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) all around the world, asks a
simple favor: Give Wikipedia the gift of a citation for its birthday.
Website:
http://1lib1ref.org
This year Wikipedia turns 17 and it's our third annual #1Lib1Ref campaign.
The 20-day campaign is now in its second week... What's happened so far?
Across the languages we are tracking, editors have added 2097 citations in
21+ languages.
5 languages have made over 100 edits: English, French, Hebrew, Serbian and
Catalan.
View contributions by language:
https://twitter.com/WikiLibrary/status/955590632545726464
On social media #1Lib1Ref is a hype-machine. 37 countries have made 2260
Twitter posts reaching 4.4 million potential readers 8.1 million times.
We invited librarians (and library-lovers) around the world to participate. Our
Wikimedia Blog post, written by #1Lib1Ref originator and GLAM Strategist
Alex Stinson, set the tone and made the case:
Read blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/01/16/1lib1ref-2018/
The blog included a visual 'explainer' video created by Wikipedia Library
team member Felix Nartey, narrated by famous U.S. Librarian Jessamyn West.
Watch Video:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1Lib1Ref_MySimpleShow_Explainer_Vid…
We promoted the Story of #1lib1ref on social media using an 8-part
TweetStorm:
Read Tweetstorm:
https://twitter.com/WikiLibrary/status/955507752410869760
Also we redesigned a simple new graphic and logo for the campaign:
View Graphic:
https://twitter.com/WikiLibrary/status/955507757880295424/photo/1
Each year #1Lib1Ref grows and brings in more people from libraries, and
more people who believe that Wikipedia and librarians share a mission which
benefits from collaboration. It's an exciting part of our work and we're
very thankful to everyone who adds to its impact and success!
Join in. Make an edit. Teach someone how to add a citation. Share something
nice about the campaign this week in your social media circles. Help share
free knowledge. #1Lib1Ref. Pass it on...
Best,
Jake Orlowitz
Head of The Wikipedia Library
jorlowitz(a)wikimedia.org
@JakeOrlowitz
@WikiLibrary
wikipedialibrary.org
We are seeing a steady decrease of page views to our projects
(Wikipedia). Nov-Dec-Jan it is decreasing in a rate of 5-10%
(year-year), and for big languages like Japanese, Spanish close to 10%,
or some months even more [1]
Is there any insights of why this is so? Could it be that Google take
over accesses with their ever better way of showing results direct (but
then also with showing extracts of Wikipedia articles) . Or that our
interface on mobiles is inferior so we miss accesses from mobiles (now
being 54% of total). Or horror of horror that users look for facts on
all new sites with fake news instead of Wikipedia?
Anders
[1] https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
Hi all,
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has approved and published
minutes from its meeting on November 17–19, 2017:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes_Approval_November_17-19,_2017
Best,
Charles M. Roslof
Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
croslof(a)wikimedia.org
(415) 839-6885
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Hello everyone,
The currently-scheduled January metrics and activities meeting is scheduled
to occur during the Wikimedia Foundation's annual meeting for staff and
contractors (known as All Hands). Given this, we have a need to reschedule,
and decided to use that change to experiment.
So, I am very excited to share that the January metrics and activities
meeting will be hosted by Wikimedia Deutschland on February 1 from 16:00 to
17:00 UTC (8:00-9:00 PT).
Please stay tuned for more details from Wikimedia Deutschland in the days
to come! I hope that you will turn out and support our friends in Germany
in this experiment as part of our ongoing efforts to make the monthly
metrics and activities meetings representative of our global movement.
Best,
Greg and Sam
--
Gregory Varnum
Communications Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/>
gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org
Hello,
The Wikimedia Community of Republic of Srpska annual report is now
available in English. This time, we made two types of reports - *an
interactive* <https://sway.com/gz4RvO6pLfakEvrp> and *standard one*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups/Reports/Wikimedians_o…>.
Please refer to both versions. In standard we have uploaded more data and
links.
Best regards,
Bojana Podgorica
*Замислите свет у коме свака особа на планети има слободан приступ
целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.*
Greetings!
As mentioned in the Annual Plan and past Metrics and activities meeting
updates, this year the Wikimedia Foundation has been actively working to
refresh the organization’s website (wikimediafoundation.org).[1] It has
been a long time coming, as the current version was created more than 13
years ago. We are incredibly excited about this new opportunity to help us
speak more clearly and easily to donors, new partners, future employees,
members of the media, and the public.
The Communications department has been working since June 2017 with Mule
Design, who specialize in helping nonprofit organizations utilize online
channels to educate the world about their work. We are still a few months
away from a new website, but wanted to share the research we have been
using to inform our decision making and an update on our overall progress.
The current Foundation website—which contains more than 4,500 content pages
and 19,000 pages overall—has remained largely untouched in scope and
overall design since its initial launch as a wiki in 2004. We have grown a
tremendous amount during that time, but this particular communication
channel has not been revised to match those changes and support our
objectives. Many of us have discussed for years about how we not only could
do better, but needed to do better.
Mule began by speaking with people across the movement to determine the
needs of our site. This work, known as Discovery, involved interviews with
dozens of staff, volunteers, donors, and movement partners. It was one of
the largest Discovery processes we have ever undertaken for a
communications project. Those initial findings and recommendations were
used to make decisions around the design, content scope, platform, and
target audiences. We are posting Mule's summary of the Discovery process on
Meta-Wiki if you are interested in reviewing it more in-depth.[2]
So what will this new website be? We hope something that helps each of you
in clearly conveying both our work and the mission of the Wikimedia
Foundation. This is not just a rearrangement of the existing wiki, it’s an
entirely new site with new intentions and content. Specifically:
* Audience-centered design meant to improve navigation for people
unfamiliar with Wikimedia or the Wikimedia Foundation
* Expressive content (photos, type, and articles) that clearly communicate
our mission and impact
* Multilingual switching to allowing reading and navigation across many
languages
The new site will be built on WordPress—a free and open-source content
management system that many in the movement have been using with great
success. We will be archiving pages which are no longer active and have
caused confusion. We will also be moving some content to more collaborative
places like Meta-Wiki. We will continue to rely on MediaWiki to support
on-wiki documentation and collaboration.
With our technical, content, and design scopes finalized—we are beginning
to build the new site. We have reached out to department leaders within the
Foundation to help identify who we will be working with on the site’s
content strategy and creation. Up next:
* We will be developing a content strategy through this and next month
* We will proceed to content creation later next month followed by
translation
* We are working towards a formal site launch before the end of the fiscal
year (June - July 2018)
Thank you to the dozens of staff, volunteers, supporters, and partners from
around that world that have already been involved in this process, and to
the dozens more who will be involved in the months to come!
-greg
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_website/2017-2018_upda…
[2]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_website_-_20…
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Gregory Varnum
Communications Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org/>
gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org
How much would it cost to replace the servers and switches with open
source hardware?
Stephen, when do you expect to have the FEC requirements of organized
advocates for US political candidates researched?
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From: Stephen LaPorte <slaporte(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 2:23 AM
Subject: [Publicpolicy] Update on FISA 702 reauthorization
To: Publicpolicy Group for Wikimedia <Publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello All,
Earlier this month, the Wikimedia Foundation, along with a coalition
of 43 civil liberties, civil rights, and transparency organizations,
signed a letter urging Congress to reform Section 702 of the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act, the law that allegedly authorizes the
mass surveillance challenged in our lawsuit, Wikimedia Foundation v.
National Security Agency. In the letter, we urged Congress to oppose a
straightforward reauthorization of the law and to support meaningful
reforms.
On January 11th, the U.S. House of Representatives quashed the
opportunity for those reforms by voting to reauthorize Section 702
with minimal changes. The bill then went to the U.S. Senate for
further consideration. Despite opposition in the Senate from both
major political parties, on January 16th, a filibuster to block the
bill narrowly failed. Yesterday, the bill cleared the Senate, and it
was signed into law today.
Although we are deeply disappointed in this result, the Wikimedia
Foundation will continue to fight for user privacy, including in
Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA. We will keep you updated on further
developments.
Best,
Stephen
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Legal Director
Wikimedia Foundation
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What's making me happy this week -- I will reword this to say, "what's
making me grateful this week" -- is the summary from Andre Klapper about
results from Google Code-in 2017.
I say "grateful" rather than "happy" because, although I'm grateful for the
contributions of these developers and the people who mentored them, I am
mindful that many of us, like some of these developers, have sacrificed
some measure of success in school, time for sleep or other healthy
activities, and/or opportunities for paid work, because for we decided that
Wikimedia was a higher priority. One of my hopes is that people will
contribute to Wikimedia in a way that is sustainable and healthy for
themselves personally, and that may mean that people should prioritize (for
example) school and sleep before they work on Wikimedia projects.
I am, nonetheless, grateful for the good outcomes of this campaign,
including the comments from students who said that overall they enjoyed
their participation. I hope that future rounds we can help them to get
enough sleep and succeed in school while participating in Google Code-in. :)
What's making you happy or grateful this week?
Pine <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine>
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From: Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 11:45 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Google Code-in 2017: Students' summaries
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
After seven weeks, Google Code-in 2017 ended.
Wikimedia has seen 760 completed tasks (last year: 453). 300 students
(last year: 192) finished at least one task (out of 686 who worked on
Wikimedia tasks). Supported by 51 active mentors (last year: 46).
Thanks everybody who took part - students, mentors, admins, everyone
who helped sort out issues and answer questions, Google.
Numerous contributors have blogged about their experience. Reading
these posts is a good use of time to get reminded why free and open
source software communities can be a beautiful:
https://www.codebucket.de/blog/contest/2018/01/17/
google-code-in-2017-and-the-future.html
https://medium.com/@Albert221/the-end-of-gci2017-or-maybe-not-d82758d359b1https://struggling-math-tech.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-
experiences-with-google-code-in.html
https://blog.phandev.net/posts/gci17http://gciexpreincewithwikimedia.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-gci-
exprience-with-wikimedia.html
https://omkarfarmax.blogspot.com/2018/01/google-code-in-
best-thing-ever-happened.html
https://googlegcitaskanurag.blogspot.com/2018/01/my-gci-
experience-with-google-and.html
https://www.arefly.com/google-code-in-2017-wikimedia/
For the complete list, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2017#Wrap-up_blog_posts
Thanks,
andre
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Dear all,
On the Dutch Wikipedia it has become a tradition to award each year the
most valued contributions of users and projects and give them extra
appreciation in the form of a prize. The prize is inspired on the similar
one of the German language Wikipedia.
Today during the new year's event of Wikimedia Nederland in Utrecht, the
yearly WikiUilen have been awarded to the most valued contributions to the
Dutch Wikipedia in 2017.
In six categories, the community nominated and voted which projects were
especially valued. All valuable contributions are welcome on Wikipedia, but
today the most valued ones received their prize.
See for the result here:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiUilen/2017
View the photos here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiUilen_ceremony_2017,_20_Jan…
For the organising committee WikiUilen Academie,
Romaine
Hi all,
We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2018 which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.
Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation.
Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful.
To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit: https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships
To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on:https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply
It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ ( https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before submitting an application.
If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships(a)wikimedia.org or leave a message at: https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships.
Please help us spread the word and translate pages!
Best regards,
David Richfield and Martin Rulsch
for the Scholarship Committee
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarship_committee