Wikimedia-l April 2018

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Rapid Grants Closure May 14 - June 30, 2018
by Woubzena Jifar 15 May '18

15 May '18

Hello all! Hope this email finds you well. We are sending this message to select community mailing lists and all previous recipients of a Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grant. We have an announcement regarding the closure of the Rapid Grants [1] program between May 14 - June 30, 2018. This year we've received a lot of interest in the program and this quarter we've almost doubled the amount of grants offered to the community compared to last year's quarter. You can look at our spending analysis <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis> [2] for reference. Unfortunately, this means we've expended our funds for this fiscal year. The last date we will be receiving an application for a rapid grant before the closure will be *Friday, May 11, 2018*. We encourage *Wiki Loves Earth* participants to apply for a Rapid Grant by May 11, 2018 to receive support for their project. The grant program will be open again to receive grant requests starting *July 1, 2018*. At this point we will be implementing the following changes: 1. There will be a minimum of *$500 USD* for grant requests 2. Applications will only be accepted between the *1st - 15th of each month*. This is to help with our current workflow and to allow us to be more responsive to your requests. If you have any questions, please email us at rapidgrants(a)wikimedia.org. Best regards, Woubzena [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/Grants_spending_analysis Woubzena Jifar Program Officer Rapid Grants Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home> User: WJifar (WMF)

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Odisha Government's Social media accounts are now under CC-BY 4.0
by Sailesh Patnaik 12 May '18

12 May '18

Hello Everyone, I am glad to share a recent collaboration of Odia Wikipedia community with the Government of Odisha. After releasing the content of 2017 Asian Athletics Championships ( https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/07/28/digest-asia-athletics-championships/ ) another initiative by the Government of Odisha to bridge the dearth of Information about Odisha on Wikipedia by releasing its social media accounts under CC-BY 4.0. Earlier this week, the community members met the Government officials regarding this, and after understanding the value of Open Content, it took only 24hrs to release the social media channels under CC-BY 4.0 license. As a pilot project, 8 social media accounts from Government of Odisha are under CC-BY 4.0,Now, the content is free for everyone to use, share, and build upon their work. https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/09/18/odisha-social-media-free-license/ The community is also planning to take the collaboration further and relicense some of the websites under CC-BY 4.0. -- ----------- *Sailesh Patnaik* "*ଶୈଳେଶ ପଟ୍ଟନାୟକ "* Community Advocate, Access To Knowledge Program Centre for Internet and Society Phone: +91-7537097770 *LinkedIn* : https://www.linkedin.com/in/sailesh-patnaik-551a10b4 *Twitter*: @saileshpat

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New Wikimedia Italia board and activities
by Lorenzo Losa 12 May '18

12 May '18

Dear all, on April 7th, Wikimedia Italia held its general assembly, where a new board has been elected. It is composed as follows: * Lorenzo Losa, President * Valerio Perticone, Vice-president * Carlo Benini, Secretary * Saverio G. Malatesta, Treasurer * Maurizio Napolitano I wish to thank Federico Leva, Giuseppe Profiti and Paola Liliana Buttiglione, who ended their term, for their invaluable work in the board. The general assembly drew a very good participation, with 89 voting members (the most participated general assembly in the last ten years!), and unanimously approved the 2017 annual report (currently in Italian only; an English version is planned). <https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Relazione_sulle_attivit%C3%A0_2017> A few highlights from the 2017 report: * Two new WIRs have started working at the Ministry of Culture (ICAR and ICBSA). Some portals of the central archives administration have already adopted the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license as well as the public domain charter! For more links see: <https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence> * We got more than 3.000 researchers to archive their articles in green open access (in just two months!): < https://blog.okfn.org/2017/10/26/how-wikimedia-helped-authors-make-over-300… > * OpenStreetMap activities are strengthening, reaching more than double the people we expected. >From the structural point of view, since July 2017, after almost a year of intense discussions with members and staff, we have started implementing changes while going towards a reduced workload for the board. We have mutually agreed to part ways with our former ED. Since then, three new employees have started working with us: Giovanna Ranci, for the education program; Marta Arosio, for GLAM partnerships; Teresa Scorza, for administration and bookkeeping. Looking forward, the 2018 budget and annual plan, written by 37 members and employees together, is increasing the support for Wikimedia volunteers (financially and otherwise), while reducing expenses for salaries and administrative services. <https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Piano_annuale_2018> Best regards, Lorenzo

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Was macht dich diese Woche glücklich? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 15 April 2018)
by Pine W 09 May '18

09 May '18

*Conference* The 2018 Wikimedia Conference <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018> starts this week in Germany. The core conference will occur from the 20th through the 22nd. *WMF Research Showcase* On Wednesday, the WMF Research Showcase <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#April_2018> will include presentations on two subjects that I think will interest a number of Wikipedians: 1. "The Critical Relationship of Volunteer Created Wikipedia Content to Large-Scale Online Communities" 2. "The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System, a Closer Look" *Photography* As often happens, Wikimedia Commons contributors have selected some great pictures of the day for this month <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Potd/2018-04>. Here are a few examples: 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lynx_lynx_-_05.jpg 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mezquita_de_Agha_Bozorg,_Kashan,_Ir… 3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soyuz_TMA-13_Edit.jpg 4. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rho_Ophiucus_Widefield.jpg 5. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indosylvirana_urbis-Kadavoor-2017-0… 6. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castillo_de_Zafra,_Campillo_de_Due%… 7 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cirrus_front_over_Austnesfjorden,_A… 8 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fr%C3%BChlingsallee_Tulpenbl%C3%BCt… What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any language Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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GLAMWiki Conference 2018: Extension of Content Submission Deadline Till May 7th.
by Shani Evenstein 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

Dear all, *Deadline extension* The program committee is looking to create a diverse GLAM conference that truly serves the global community. To achieve this goal, we would like to accept submissions not only from established GLAM projects and communities, but also from emerging communities / developing countries / groups just starting out their GLAM endeavors. Looking at the submissions so far <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM_TLV_2018_open_submissions>, we have decided to extend the content submission <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMTLV2018/Program> deadline *till next Monday, May 7th, at midnight *(wherever you are in the world). We are hoping this extension will encourage more submission from developing countries, emerging community and allow for a more diverse program. *Tips* In the past week I've been asked repeatedly if I have tips for good submissions. The best tip I can offer is -- no matter if your GLAM partnership / project is well established or you are just starting out, make sure your submissions offers an added value beyond "this is what we did in our project", i.e. focus on what you leaned and how it could be of use by others in the GLAM community. GLAM on, Shani. On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com> wrote: > [[Sorry for x-posting]] > > Dear all, > > I'm happy to report that the content submission process > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMTLV2018/Program/Submit> for the > GLAMWiki Conference 2018 is now open! Submissions will be accepted *till > April 30th*, so feel free to start drafting your proposals. > > Please note that submissions for scholarships > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_TLV_2018/Scholarships> will open > tomorrow via a different process and the actual registration will take > place later on in June. We'll notify you every step of the way. :) > > Looking forward to reading your submissions, > Shani (on behalf of the organizing team and the program committee). >

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Τι σας κάνει ευτυχισμένη αυτήν την εβδομάδα? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 22 April 2018)
by Pine W 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

*"To be, or not to be"* A phrase from Shakespeare's *Hamlet <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet> *is "To be, or not to be, that is the question"*.* Chris Koerner from WMF Discovery published some interesting information about the verb "to be", and how on-wiki search deals with it, in this issue <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/discovery/2018-April/001652.html> of the *Discovery Weekly Update*: "The English verb "to be" is kind of weird—the infinitive "be" and participles "being, been" start with "b-", while the preterite forms "was, were" start with "w-", and the present forms "am, is, are" start with vowels. The conjugations originally come from three or four different verbs! Why "three or four"? Wiktionary disagrees with itself a bit, listing four on the etymology of "is" [5] and three on the etymology of "be". [6] The conflation goes back at least to Proto-Germanic, [7] so German is similarly weird. [8] Dutch has a greatly simplified paradigm, but still shows some trace of the multiple sources. [9] Other languages, including ASL, Arabic, Bengali, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian at least partly avoid this mess by having a zero copula. [10] For search on-wiki, we deal with this problem in part with stemming [11] and stop words. [12] "[5] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/is#Etymology_1 [6] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/be#Etymology [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language [8] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sein#Conjugation [9] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zijn#Inflection [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words" *Legal case ends well for Greek Wikipedia administrator*From the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/18/greece-legal-case-ended/ *Photos from the 2018 Wikimedia Conference in Germany* Some photos of the 2018 Wikimedia Conference are available on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Conference_2018>. Here are a few: * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ Conference_2018,_Group_photo.jpg * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ Conference_2018_by_ZUFAr_01.jpg * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_Sweets_Table_1.jpg * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_by_Rehman_-_Posters_(2).jpg * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Conference_2018_%E2%80%93… What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any language. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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Six months left before Wikidata's sixth birthday
by Léa Lacroix 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

Hello all, *(sorry for crost-list posting)* Every year since Wikidata went live, on October 29th, 2012, the Wikidata community celebrates its anniversary all around the world. Local groups organize meetups, workshops, share cake and greetings, to celebrate the work of the editors building up the knowledge base and its ecosystem of tools. Last year, for the 5th birthday, the WikidataCon <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2017/Documentation>, first international conference dedicated to Wikidata was organized in Berlin. Waiting for its return in 2019, the local events continue! We encourage the community to meet up, the chapters and user groups to organize events in order to build a Wikidata group in their area. Even if you're just starting editing, or you've never been organizing an event before, you can be part of the Wikidata's sixth birthday! The events will take place around October 29th, 2018 (it doesn't have to be on this exact day). You can find a lot of information on this page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Sixth_Birthday You will find the list of events that will take place around the world, ideas of formats, ways to get funded, and documentation about organizing events. We're excited to see many small or big Wikidata events happening everywhere! If you have any question or need help, feel free to contact me. Cheers, -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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The fact-checked encyclopedia
by Anthony Cole 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

I just googled “wikipedia” and the first result was a Google ad linking to wikipedia.org.[1] It calls Wikipedia the fact-checked encyclopedia. We used to call it the encyclopedia anyone can edit. The latter seems more honest than this new formulation which to me implies a degree of reliability and oversight I'm not sure we can ethically assert. I missed the discussion about this new self-description. Did it happen on meta? Is anyone else uncomfortabe with this? -- Anthony Cole

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Apa yang membuat Anda bahagia minggu ini? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 29 April 2018)
by Pine W 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

*Plans for lexicographical data on Wikidata* The first version of lexicographical data on Wikidata is planned <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Lexicographical_d…> for the end of May 2018. "Lexicographical data can be reused on the Wikimedia projects, and can provide support for Wiktionary." *From the WMF Blog*: * "After hitting 300,000 translations, what’s next for our content translation tool? <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/23/content-translation-whats-next/>" * "How a new data center in Singapore is helping people access Wikipedia around the globe <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/24/new-data-center-singapore/>" *Regional Wikimedia conference for the E* *ast, Southeast Asia, and Pacific* ESEAP Conference 2018 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2018> is the first Wikimedia regional conference for the communities in that area. This year's conference will be in Indonesia, starting on 5 May 2018. People from Australia, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam plan to attend. *Gone fishing* Common kingfishers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_kingfisher> (*Alcedo atthis*) in Slovakia are featured in this <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_kingfisher_(Alcedo_atthis)_i…> Media of the Day on Commons. The videographer used a 35mm sensor camcorder with a 150-600mm lens and a 2x teleconverter. What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any language. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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How do you translate "Wiki Loves Love" into your language?
by Romaine Wiki 28 Apr '18

28 Apr '18

Hi all! A group of users started with the organisation of the photo contest Wiki Loves Love. See for info at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Love What we like to know from you: how do you translate "Wiki Loves Love" into your language? Please add it to: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52286144 Thanks! Romaine

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