Greetings!
At last month's metrics and activities meeting, the Wikimedia Foundation
Communications department gave an update on the logistics of the actual
meeting itself and put out a call for your feedback.[1] The department has
been working over the past year to help determine what the next evolution
of the meeting should be, and have taken steps to expand the meeting for an
audience beyond just people within the Foundation.
Thank you to everyone that has already emailed us with feedback! We will
continue to collect feedback over the coming months, and we have also
posted a Meta-Wiki page to collect feedback if you would prefer to post it
on-wiki.[2]
Based on the feedback we have already received, we have added some
additional pages on Meta-Wiki to help with communications around the
meeting:
1. A page that outlines the basic process the Communications department
follows in planning the meeting.[3]
2. A page for you to request or suggest future meeting topics.[4]
The most common question I receive about this meeting is from people
interested in presenting, or with a suggestion for a highlight to mention.
So, I want to point out that the new future meetings page is now our
preferred location for making those suggestions and requests.[4] Keeping
them in that central on-wiki location will help us with tracking requests
and long-term planning.
Again, we appreciate all of the feedback, and hope that you will join us
for future meetings (or check out past recordings) as we continue to
experiment and make adjustments.
-greg
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities…
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Gregory Varnum
Communications Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
gvarnum(a)wikimedia.org
Pronouns: He/His/Him
Hi all,
We are pleased to announce the launch of the recruiting process for the
Chief of Community Engagement, alongside our partner search firm, Perrett
Laver <http://www.perrettlaver.com/>.
As part of the process, we wanted to share the finalized job
description (attached).
A big thank you to CE, Comms & C-levels for their collaboration, support
and guidance in creating it.
We also wanted to out put a call, if you have any nominations or
recommendations, we'd love to hear from you.
Have a wonderful weekend - thanks all!
Julie
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Hey All
We are having a discussion about the future of video summaries of diseases.
This pertains to a collaboration with the Khan Academy / Osmosis and as the
videos are used across multiple languages and video has been one of the top
requested items am posting a link to this RfC here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#RfC:_Shou…
?
Best
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
Hello all,
It's coming close to time for annual appointments of community members to
serve on the Code of Conduct (CoC) committee. The Code of Conduct Committee
is a team of five trusted individuals plus five auxiliary members with
diverse affiliations responsible for general enforcement of the Code of
conduct for Wikimedia technical spaces. Committee members are in charge of
processing complaints, discussing with the parties affected, agreeing on
resolutions, and following up on their enforcement. For more on their
duties and roles, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Committee
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission>
This is a call for community members interested in volunteering for
appointment to this committee. Volunteers serving in this role should be
experienced Wikimedians or have had experience serving in a similar
position before.
The current committee is doing the selection and will research and discuss
candidates. Six weeks before the beginning of the next Committee term,
meaning 8th of April 2018, they will publish their candidate slate (a list
of candidates) on-wiki. The community can provide feedback on these
candidates, via private email to the group choosing the next Committee. The
feedback period will be two weeks. The current Committee will then either
finalize the slate, or update the candidate slate in response to concerns
raised. If the candidate slate changes, there will be another two week
feedback period covering the newly proposed members. After the selections
are finalized, there will be a training period, after which the new
Committee is appointed. The current Committee continues to serve until the
feedback, selection, and training process is complete.
If you are interested in serving on this committee or like to nominate a
candidate, please write an email to techconductcandidates AT wikimedia.org
with details of your experience on the projects, your thoughts on the code
of conduct and the committee and what you hope to bring to the role and
whether you have a preference in being auxiliary or constant member of the
committee. The committee consists of five members plus five auxiliary
members and they will serve for six months; all applications are
appreciated and will be carefully considered. The deadline for applications
is end of day on 5th of April, 2018.
Please feel free to pass this invitation along to any users who you think
may be qualified and interested.
Best,
Amir on behalf of the CoC committee
Hello everyone,
The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take
place on Thursday, March 29, 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.[1]
During the March 2018 meeting, we will hear more about the Wikimedia world
beyond Wikipedia.
Meeting agenda:
* Welcome and introduction to theme
* Movement update
* Wikivoyage: 5 years with Wikimedia
* Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons update
* Visual Editor update
* Questions and discussion
* Wikilove
Please review the meeting's Meta-Wiki page for further information about
the meeting and how to participate:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities…
We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Lena
[1] https://youtu.be/_Q3I2NabB3U
Lena Traer
Project Coordinator // Communications // Advancement
Wikimedia Foundation
I'm sure by now most everyone has heard of YouTube's new plan to link
questionable videos to YouTube articles:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/24/are-corporations-that-use-wikipedia-givin…
which was probably a reaction to the recent coverage of the issues
with their recommendation engine, that was changed around 2015 to
maximize viewer time instead of legitimately predict interests:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.…
This morning someone showed me how stark this problem is; please have
a look at this:
https://i.imgur.com/od86eeD.jpg
I'd recommend that we reach out to Google and suggest that changing
their recommendation engine back would be a whole lot better than
linking to Wikipedia articles (which they should also do.)
Hello,
Due to unavoidable reasons, we have had to move this online session to next
week, on 28th March 2018. The time will be same i.e. 1300 UTC. I will send
a reminder ahead of the session. Meanwhile, please see the original
announcement below for other details.
Thanks, and apologies for this last minute change.
regards
Runa
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Runa Bhattacharjee <
rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> [x-posted announcement]
>
> Hello,
>
> Wikimedia Foundation’s Language team would like to invite you for an
> online office hour session scheduled for Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at
> 13:00 UTC. This will be an open session to talk about our work, and in
> particular the changes to interlanguage links, which were recently
> rolled-out on the English Wikipedia.
>
> The new option shows a list of up to 9 languages instead of a long list
> that can have more than 200 items, and a panel with all the links that can
> be looked up in any language using a search box. The purpose of this
> feature is to make articles in all languages easier to find. We recently
> published a blog post about this feature and the thoughts behind the
> development:
>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/08/compact-language-links-launch.
>
> 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.
>
> 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 Foundation Language office hour session
>
> # When: March 21st, 2018 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180321T1300)
>
> # Where: and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmZcL6zVcTA
>
>
> # Agenda:
> Discussion about Compact Language Links, and Q & A.
>
>
> --
> Engineering Manager, Language (Contributors)
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
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Engineering Manager, Language (Contributors)
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear all,
We are excited to share a report on our main learnings from the last three
years of organizing the Wikimedia Conference. From 2015 to 2017 we have
focused on improving the conference from year to year, each time learning
from the experiences and feedback from the preceding years.
The report reflects on our learnings regarding logistics, program design,
and the general purpose of the conference. The conclusion of the report
leads to some central questions that we together need to create clarity
around to make the most of the Wikimedia Conference in the future: Who is
the target audience of the Wikimedia Conference? How can we strengthen
capacity building within the Movement and build stronger links between all
Wikimedia events? How can the Wikimedia Conference continue to be a useful
space for conversations about the future direction of the Wikimedia
Movement?
You can find the report here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference/2015%E2%80%932017_Repo…
Also, we have a layouted version as a pdf
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Conference_2015_to_2017_R…
We look forward to seeing many of you at this year’s WMCON, where the
future concept and scope of the conference also will be part of the program.
Warm regards,
Cornelius, Nicole and Daniela
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Program and Engagement Coordinator (PEC)
for the Wikimedia Conference
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Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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Hi Zubin and welcome.
The discussions about declining editor levels started to go quiet in mid
2015 after we noticed that numbers had started to rally at the end of 2014.
Here is the signpost article that covered part of this in 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-08-26/In_fo…
That focussed on the very active, but the raw edit count shows the same
pattern on English wikipedia, a decline from 2007 to 2014, then a rally and
the last couple of years being broadly stable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Time_Between_Edits
"Wikipedia in terminal decline" was an interesting story for journalists
and others, "maturing organisation is broadly stable on several measures"
sounds just a tad boring.
As for your concern about bureaucracy and philosophical rants. Many of the
policies are complex, and there are even examples of things that contradict
each other. But it is a very very complex system, and some of the
complexity comes from hard won compromises between people with very
different views. A commercial organisation could have done some things more
simply, but a volunteer organisation can't simply tell people to do what
they are paid to do. I suspect that many reforms are possible and may even
be necessary, but it really helps when you are changing something to
understand the different perspectives that lead to that compromise.
WereSpielChequers
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> From: Zubin JAIN <jain16276(a)gapps.uwcsea.edu.sg>
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> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Time to simplify the Bureaucracy ?
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> Hello,
> As a rare newcomer to the Wikimedia project, I've been thinking of some of
> the factors that seem to discourage me from contributing and one of the
> primary ones seem to be the fact that the way the administration is
> organized and rules enforced is often vague and unclear. The definition and
> the method of collection of the vague idea of "Consensus" aren't easily
> found and take a lot of digging to get out.
>
> A lot of the guideline is often mixed with philosophical rants that often
> seem to contradict each other and has grown in size to the point that it's
> unreasonable for any newcomer to have read through it all. The project
> designed to work on consensus and community often seems unresponsive and
> automated as anarchic communication structure impedes effective
> communication by forcing users to learn an obscure markup language just to
> communicate.
>
> I'm wondering if there have been any whitepapers on addressing these
> problems especialy the ones about bureaucracy, reading through the news I
> remember a lot of hay being made about a decline in Wikipedia editor from a
> few years back but that seems ot have faded. Is there any hard data on the
> future trajectory of the project?
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Zubin Jain
>
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