Hey all!
I wanted to send a quick reminder that our English language fundraiser is
officially launching tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday 28th November, at 16.00
UTC) with some final systems tests running between now and then.
---Banners and Ideas---
You can see the all of our current most effective fundraising banners on
our Fundraising Ideas page where you can also contribute any specific ideas
or stories we should tell via social media, banners, emails etc:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2017-18_Fundraising_ideas
---Blog Posts---
We've recently published two blog posts about our fundraising work. The
first covers how we try to limit the disruption to our readers during
campaigns. The second is a recent tranche of research conducted into what
our readers think about our fundraising. Take a look!
Banner limiting:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/03/fundraising-banner-limit/
Donor research:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/11/17/fundraising-donor-learnings/
---Reporting Issues---
If you see any technical issues with the banners or payments systems please
do report it on phabricator:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?template=118862
If you see a donor on a talk page, OTRS, or social media with questions
about donating or having difficulties in the donation process, please refer
them to: donate{{at}}wikimedia.org
Here is also the ever present fundraising IRC channel to raise urgent
technical issues: #wikimedia-fundraising
http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=%23wikimedia-fundraising&uio=d4
<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-fundraising&uio=d4>
---Next Updates---
There will be a further launch announcement on the Wikimedia blog tomorrow
and I will give a brief update at the end of the week with our progress and
hopefully some interesting initial lessons learnt. A more substantial
update will follow later in the week.
Finally, I’d like to thank the community here in advance for your help and
patience over the coming weeks. From here on out, wish us luck!
Many Thanks
--
Seddon
Community & Audience Engagement Associate
Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation
Hey everyone,
The Community Wishlist Survey is now open, and you can post proposals
for projects that you would like the Wikimedia Foundation's Community
Tech team to work on:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019
The Community Tech team builds features and makes changes that active
Wikimedia contributors want, and the Wishlist Survey sets the team's
agenda for the next year.
The Wishlist Survey starts with a two-week proposal period, when
contributors from all Wikimedia projects are invited to post, discuss
and improve proposals. After that, there's a two-week voting period,
when everyone can post support-votes on the proposals.
You can post technical proposals until 11 November.
You can vote on proposals from 16 November to 30 November.
The Community Tech team is responsible for addressing the top ten
wishes on the list. If they, after investigating it, find that
something isn't feasible, they need to explain why to the community.
The Wishlist can also be used by volunteer developers and other teams,
who want to find projects to work on that the community really wants.
//Johan Jönsson
--
Hi all,
On Wikipedia and in our movement we are aware of the gendergap that exists
and all kinds of activities are organised to make the gap smaller. I think
this is great as no single gap should exist in collecting all the knowledge
in the world, as well as our movement should be diverse as the world's
population is diverse.
The statistics are clear on this matter, this is something to take care of.
However, a part of the approach is causing problems, because general
statistics should not be applied on individuals as that reduces humans to
numbers only.
The reason why I bring this up is because I recently received an e-mail
from a user in the Wikimedia movement who has (temporarily?) stopped
contributing as she is not happy with a specific aspect of the atmosphere
in Wikimedia.
She does not speak out at loud, but I think we must be aware as movement of
the silent cry, therefore this e-mail to bring awareness (but with respect
for the privacy of this individual).
What has happened?
She was invited to participate in a Wikimedia activity, because:
1. she is a woman
2. she is from a minority
3. she is from an area in the world with much less editors (compared to
Europe/US)
and perhaps also because her colour of her skin is a bit different then
mine (Caucasian).
At the same time she has the impression that the work she does on the
Wikimedia wiki('s) is not valued, nor taken into account.
She does not want to be invited because she is a woman, nor because she is
from a minority, nor ....... etc. This is offensive.
She only wants to be invited because of the work she contributes on
Wikipedia/etc.
Besides the many good initiatives and intentions, this kind of approaches
to our contributors is demotivating them, please be aware of this. I
believe demotivation/frustration is the largest problem we face as movement.
I heard from people that the problem described is called tokenism
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenism>.
I believe the only way to close the gaps related to gender, minorities,
etc, is to create an atmosphere in what everyone is appreciated for what
she/he is doing, completely unrelated to the gender someone appears to
have, the ethnicity, race, area of the world, etc etc etc etc.
Thank you!
Romaine
Hello,
I thought I would ask if any of the junior or senior researchers here on
this mailing list have conducted previous inquiries into Wikipedia's
sourcing.
I am currently working on a project of determining what proportion of
Wikipedia is sourced to newspapers, the military, the Church, social
media, etc.
The data I've compiled this month, along with a brief write-up, have
been posted to Wikipediocracy:
http://wikipediocracy.com/2018/08/26/wikipedia-sources-methods/
I imagine I'm reinventing the wheel... such studies have been done
before, by the WMF, with power tools (bots), right?
Thanks for any corrections / suggestions,
sashi
Hello everyone,
The next Wikimedia Monthly Activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
October 25th, 2018 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is
#wikimedia-office on https://webchat.freenode.net, and the meeting will be
broadcast as a live YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J86J8N1gExk. We’ll post the video recording
publicly after the meeting.
During the October 2018 meeting, we will have an update on the movement,
Wikimedia 2030 status update, a presentation on values, principles and
methods, and more.
Meeting agenda:
Welcome and introduction to agenda - 2 minutes
Movement update - 3 minutes
Values, Principles, and Methods, oh my! - 10 minutes
Wikimedia 2030 status update and opportunities to participate - 20 minutes
To be announced - 5-10 minutes
Questions and discussion - 10 minutes
Wikilove - 5 minutes
Please review the meeting's Meta-Wiki page for further information about
the meeting and how to participate:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_monthly_activities_meetings
The November 2018 and December 2018 monthly activities meetings will be
combined and will take place on Thursday, December 6th, starting at 19:00
UTC (11:00 Pacific Daylight Time). If you would like to sign up to
participate, please visit:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_monthly_activities_meetings/Sign_…
Thank you,
--
Gregory Varnum
Communications Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org
Pronouns: He/His/Him
Hi everyone,
The open call for the Wikimedia Foundation Project Grants program will
begin on November 1, when we begin public review of new proposals. The
final deadline is November 30th for all submissions. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project>. Importantly, this will be
the only open call for Project Grants in the current fiscal year, which
ends on June 30th 2019.
We are also seeking additional volunteer candidates to expand the Project
Grants Committee. More information is provided at the end of this email.
Project Grant funds are available to support individuals, groups and
organizations to implement new experiments and proven ideas, whether
focused on building a new tool or gadget, organizing a better process on
your wiki, researching an important issue, coordinating an editathon series
or providing other support for community building.
We offer the following resources to help you plan your project and complete
a grant proposal:
* Tutorials for writing a strong application: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Tutorial>
* General planning page for Project Grants: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Plan>
* Program guidelines and criteria: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Learn>
Program officers are also available to offer individualized proposal
support upon request. Contact us at projectgrants(a)wikimedia.org if you
would like feedback or more information.
We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and
make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into
motion, and submit your proposal by November 30th! <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Apply>
Volunteering for the Project Grants Committee
We are also seeking candidates to participate in the Project Grants
Committee, the volunteer decision-making body that reviews all Project
Grant proposals and decides which projects to fund. Committee members have
diverse backgrounds with skill sets like:
* On-wiki editing and experience
* Experience leading, coordinating, or managing projects with an intended
on-wiki or online impact.
* Background in handling externally provided money and working within
budgets, preferably in a non-profit context.
* Any grants you've applied for or worked in grant programs (in the
Wikimedia, academic, or wider non-profit world).
* Expertise in areas like knowledge equity or knowledge as a service, that
will help us move toward our movement strategic direction
* Software or research expertise
If you are interested in serving as a committee member, you cand find more
information and submit your candidacy here by November 15th: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Committee/Candidates>
Please feel free to get in touch with questions about getting started with
your grant application, or about serving on the Project Grants Committee.
Contact us at projectgrants(a)wikimedia.org.
Take care,
Chris
Chris "Jethro" Schilling
I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
He/His/Their
Program Officer, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>
The Foundation has been accepting BitCoin donations. Unfortunately,
BitCoin is very wasteful in terms of electricity, and is therefore a
dirty cryptocurrency.
I recommend that the Foundation immediately cease accepting BitCoin,
and require donors who wish to donate in cryptocurrency to convert to
FoldingCoin instead. Please see: FoldingCoin (FLDC)
http://foldingcoin.net/ whitepaper:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4MV9AwGLTRFqD-kjC4uN0AX59kHOpO1OWsabnx…
This conversion will place the Foundation at the forefront of
cryptocurrency technology, and stop it from contributing to extremely
dirty waste. As other cryptocurrencies based on proofs of useful work
instead of useless work emerge, the Foundation should consider those.
FoldingCoin is based on proofs of useful prediction of protein
folding, which is useful for computer-aided antibody design, and used
in turn for cancer therapies and many other applied and research
medical fields.
I also invite anyone in the community interested in co-authoring my
forthcoming derivative whitepaper on proofs of useful intelligibility
remediation work to contact me off-list, please. I am also willing to
help with proofs of useful encyclopedia article improvement, but I am
not certain if ORES is yet robust enough to support such proof in a
secure fashion.
Best regards,
Jim Salsman
Hi everyone,
Wikipeda & Education User Group [1] was formally approved recently and
we have started with our work! We want to help facilitate, support, and
advocate for educational work in the Wikimedia community and if you want
to support us in that, please join our user group by filling in a simple
form. [2]
We from the group's board are still in the process of setting things up
for the user group, but we want as many people as possible joining us,
especially people that believe that Wikimedia belongs in education,
because there's a lot of education things to do in our movement.
Also, don't let the user group's name fool you: we support all Wikimedia
projects and all Wikimedians and Wikimedia friends are welcome! :)
Cheers,
Filip Maljković
Wikipedia & Education User Group Membership Admin
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group
[2] https://goo.gl/forms/lPURTqy3wAOtM0B13
Hello everyone!
I`m glad to inform you, on behalf of the Wikimedia Community of the
Republic of Srpska, that our competition Trace of Soul 2018 (WLE+WLM) has
been completed successfully.
It have been collected over 2160 photographs of nature and cultural
heritage of Republic of Srpska. This year`s winning photos you may view here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Trace_of_Soul_2018/Winners> or
here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Trace_of_Soul_2018_winners>.
Also I want to share a part of atmosphere from the opening of the
exhibition of the winning photos - you can view in this link
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Trace_of_Soul_2018_-_Prize-givi…>
.
More information about project realization will be available in our
half-annual report.
Best,
Bojana Podgorica
*Замислите свет у коме свака особа на планети има слободан приступ
целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.*