Dear fellow Wikimedians,
In the coming weeks, we will host community conversations[1] around the
Movement Strategy Process[2]. To follow up on Nicole’s earlier email[3], we
invite you to join in to gain a deeper look at the work done by the nine
working groups and to bring the perspective of your community or group to
the discussion.
After months of work and diverse discussions, the nine working groups of
the Movement Strategy Process have each published a scoping document for
their thematic area. These documents outline a set of key questions about
how our Movement needs to change going forward.
Now, the Movement Strategy Process will shift gears and focus on bringing
in input from communities and organized groups that will help answer these
questions. To get the ball rolling, we are hosting community conversations
across eight languages and in various formats and stages from now until the
end of May, when we will begin formulating our draft recommendations. The
scoping documents will soon also be published in several additional
languages so that volunteers from these language communities can review and
discuss under their own initiative. We invite you to take part and offer
insight and context from your community at this stage of broad inquiry.
There are a number of ways you can get involved:
-
Join global conversations online: Share your thoughts directly on wiki.
The scoping documents are available on the Meta page[4] and several
language wikis. Details on how you can take part will be published on your
community’s preferred channels.
-
Initiate community discussions: Reach out to your communities on their
frequently used channels (village pump, social media, messenger apps) to
discuss the scoping documents’ relevance and impact. You can then feed the
key items back to the language wikis or Meta.
-
Take part in our forthcoming survey: 3 community-specific questions per
Working Group/thematic area will be distributed in survey format. You can
have your say by entering your answers directly into the form, which will
be shared publicly in mid-April.
We‘d be delighted for you to take part. This is an opportunity for each
member of our community to help shape the bold ideas for how our Movement
could look in 2030. The more voices that join in, the better!
We look forward to chatting with you.
Best wishes,
Kelsi Stine-Rowe
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/2019_Co…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20
[3]
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedi…
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-March/092023.html>
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Partici…
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Kelsi Stine-Rowe
Community Relations Specialist, Movement Strategy
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."
Dear fellow Wikimedians,
In 2017, we set ourselves an ambitious goal of becoming the essential
infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and now we need a
path for how we get there. In the spirit of what got us started – we
will work together to find our path.
We now have a fundamental tool in place to help us get there: scoping
documents have been finalized and are now live on Meta[1]. These will
help us dive deeper into our movement’s structures than ever before
and discover exciting opportunities for our future.
The scoping documents have been created by the nine working groups of
the Movement Strategy Process. I would like to thank them
wholeheartedly for their enormous effort and dedication to making this
first step happen.[2]
These documents are a focused reflection of the discussions about our
future that have been happening for some time. The working groups have
captured these and boiled them down into a set of questions that will
guide their work going forward. These are the essential questions of
our movement. Now, we have the chance – and the mandate – to answer
them together.
Identifying how we need to adapt our structures and maximizing our
movement’s potential lie at the heart of these questions. We encourage
you to read the scoping documents about the topics you care about and
bring your ideas for possible solutions in to the the global
conversation about our future. The documents have been translated into
eight languages already, and we are working on translating more of our
meta content into more languages over the next couple of weeks.
I would also like to introduce a new addition to the core team, our
Community Relations Specialist Kelsi Stine-Rowe. Kelsi will be working
with members of Wikimedia communities and organized groups to
facilitate community conversations on the scoping documents.
Join in! Here’s how can you get involved:
* Sign up as a Strategy Liaison for your organized group and ensure
that your group’s perspectives are heard.[3]
* Take part in our community conversations happening until mid-April
on Meta, via survey, and within several communities.[4]
Kelsi will also be in touch later today with more concrete information
about joining the community conversations.
We look forward to hearing your voices and your perspectives.
Best wishes,
Nicole
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Partici…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/…
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/2019_Co…
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Nicole Ebber
Adviser International Relations
Program Manager Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der
Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns
dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de
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.
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase, “Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base
from the Edit History” and “TableNet: An Approach for Determining
Fine-grained Relations for Wikipedia Tables” will be live-streamed
this Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 11:30 AM PST/18:30 UTC (Please note
the change in time in UTC due to daylight saving changes in the U.S.).
The first presentation is about using edit history to automatically
correct constraint violations in Wikidata, and the second is about
interlinking Wikipedia tables.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p62PMhkVNM
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
You can also watch our past research showcases at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase .
This month's presentations:
Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Basefrom the Edit History
By Thomas Pellissier Tanon (Télécom ParisTech), Camille Bourgaux (DI
ENS, CNRS, ENS, PSL Univ. & Inria), Fabian Suchanek (Télécom
ParisTech), WWW'19.
The curation of Wikidata (and other knowledge bases) is crucial to
keep the data consistent, to fight vandalism and to correct good faith
mistakes. However, manual curation of the data is costly. In this
work, we propose to take advantage of the edit history of the
knowledge base in order to learn how to correct constraint violations
automatically. Our method is based on rule mining, and uses the edits
that solved violations in the past to infer how to solve similar
violations in the present. For example, our system is able to learn
that the value of the [[d:Property:P21|sex or gender]] property
[[d:Q467|woman]] should be replaced by [[d:Q6581072|female]]. We
provide [https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-game/distributed/#game=43
a Wikidata game] that suggests our corrections to the users in order
to improve Wikidata. Both the evaluation of our method on past
corrections, and the Wikidata game statistics show significant
improvements over baselines.
TableNet: An Approach for Determining Fine-grained Relations for
Wikipedia Tables
By Besnik Fetahu
Wikipedia tables represent an important resource, where information is
organized w.r.t table schemas consisting of columns. In turn each
column, may contain instance values that point to other Wikipedia
articles or primitive values (e.g. numbers, strings etc.). In this
work, we focus on the problem of interlinking Wikipedia tables for two
types of table relations: equivalent and subPartOf. Through such
relations, we can further harness semantically related information by
accessing related tables or facts therein. Determining the relation
type of a table pair is not trivial, as it is dependent on the
schemas, the values therein, and the semantic overlap of the cell
values in the corresponding tables. We propose TableNet, an approach
that constructs a knowledge graph of interlinked tables with subPartOf
and equivalent relations. TableNet consists of two main steps: (i) for
any source table we provide an efficient algorithm to find all
candidate related tables with high coverage, and (ii) a neural based
approach, which takes into account the table schemas, and the
corresponding table data, we determine with high accuracy the table
relation for a table pair. We perform an extensive experimental
evaluation on the entire Wikipedia with more than 3.2 million tables.
We show that with more than 88% we retain relevant candidate tables
pairs for alignment. Consequentially, with an accuracy of 90% we are
able to align tables with subPartOf or equivalent relations.
Comparisons with existing competitors show that TableNet has superior
performance in terms of coverage and alignment accuracy.
Best,
Leila
Hi Avery,
You might be interested in my final report from the previous grant, which
is at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_vid…
.
I was not planning to publish the referencing videos to YouTube, but I
think that's a good idea. Do you have any suggestions about how to make the
videos be easy for people to find if they search for Wikipedia help with
referencing on Youtube? If so, I would be appreciative if you'd add those
comments to the project talk page at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation…
.
Accessibility and translation are very much in my mind as I'm working on
the current script. An issue to keep in mind is that the various language
editions of Wikipedia have variations in policies and workflows, so
translation alone may be insufficient to adapt a video or tutorial from one
language edition of Wikipedia to another language edition of Wikipedia.
I like the interactive nature of the Wiki Ed tutorial. WMF's Growth Team is
developing in-context help, which I think is also a good method for
teaching. My guess is that the optimal ways to teach how to edit Wikipedia
will be a combination of methods including video, interactive tutorials
possibly with quizzes and certifications, in-context help, and
individualized help. As an example of how the methods could be blended, I
think that in-context help could offer video tutorials of varying lengths
to cover certain subjects.
Thanks for the comments.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 10:24 PM Avery Jensen <averydjensen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> @Bekriah, that is very exciting. From time to time we have native Arabic
> speakers attend our events and have wondered how we could offer them
> instruction in Arabic. We would appreciate any further information you have
> on pending projects (or by email if it's not public or of general interest
> to this list).
>
> @Pine, it has been suggested to me that your original project might have
> been slowed because of the complexity of not only the instruction itself,
> but also knowledge about how to make an instructional video. There is
> supposed to be an online course on making instructional videos, but it has
> not been released yet. In the context of Wikipedia, the process is even
> more of a challenge because the YouTube format cannot be easily imported to
> Commons. It would also be an advantage to have transcripts available for
> those with hearing disabilities or who do not speak the language. There
> have been captioning and translation projects but they depend on
> transcripts.
>
> If anyone has not seen the self paced tutorials in the WikiEd training
> library, here is the first one, a basic overview.
> https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/wikipedia-essentials This
> type of tutorial has the advantage of being self paced and geared to visual
> learners (which is maybe 80% of an average class). Anyone who doesn't
> speak the language can easily use a translation tool to get a basic idea of
> the content.
>
>
Hello!
Wikimedia Ukraine had its General Assembly on February 16, 2019 and we have
elected new Board and Audit Committee [1]. We have been working on changes
in our organisation for quite a while now with the help of Wikimedia
Foundation grantmaking staff:
1) for a while we have had our General Assembly (GA) at the end of the
calendar and financial year, which was an issue for us, as we (according to
the Bylaws) can have a 100% new Board elected by the membership, and that
means, that we need to finish all our financial transactions before the GA
in case a new Board Chair and Secretary are elected (they are the ones who
have the access to the bank account), so last year we have decided to have
a GA at the end of a year (December) and the next one in February, to
switch to a cycle starting February-February, rather than
December-December. This is now done.
2) we have finally started working on a Board handbook [2], documenting our
processes as we go, trying to get it all in a system. This document is a
direct outcome from the Affiliate Chairpersons meeting in Prague [3] [4],
and we are very grateful that Tim Moritz and Frans Grijzenhout continue
dedicating their time to sharing knowledge in the Movement.
3) we had our first Strategy session on February 15 (before the GA) and are
planning to have a two-day strategy session in June.
4) we are planning to have our first ever training on teambuilding and
onboarding for Board members, Audit Committee members and staff on March
24-25, 2019. Onboarding and capacity building are our priorities as of now.
This complements community-wide trainings we've had this past year during
our national Wikiconference and the CEE Meeting, which we hosted this year
in Lviv [5].
That said, the new Board consists of:
* [[User:Ilya]], Illia Korniiko. I have been Chair since December 2015.
Re-elected.
* [[User:JTs]], Yulianna Tsaruk. She is First Deputy Chair and Secretary of
the Board. Re-elected.
* [[User:NickK]], Mykola Kozlenko. He is Deputy Chair and Treasurer since
2016. Re-elected.
* [[User:Наталія Ластовець]], Nataliia Lastovets. She is responsible for
our program "Content Enrichment" [6], which includes editing challenges and
contests, photography contests and GLAM. She has joined our organisation in
July 2018. She was also a member of the Audit Committee for two months. It
is her first term serving on the Board.
* [[User:IgorTurzh]], Igor Turzhanskyy. He is responsible for our program
"Increasing Participation", which includes Wikipedia in Education. He is a
long-term Wikipedian but he has joined our organisation only in November
2018. It is his first term serving on the Board.
* [[User:Friend]], Pavlo Sokhan. He is responsible for our program
"Community Support and Development", which includes community events,
trainings for volunteers, scholarships and microgrants. Re-elected.
* [[User:Олександр Гаврик]], Oleksandr Havryk. He is responsible for our
program "Awareness for Wikimedia and Free Knowledge", which is concentrated
on media publicity and promotion activities and free panorama advocacy. He
has joined our organisation only in October 2018. It is his first term
serving on the Board.
I want to thank the three Board members who stepped down: Yuri Bulka /
[[User:Юрій Булка]], Olha Nesterenko / [[User:Нестеренко Оля]] and Andrii
Hrytsenko / [[User:Андрій Гриценко]]. Being a board member means taking
upon oneself more boring responsibilities, so their work and dedication is much
appreciated.
Our new Audit Committee:
* [[User:Venzz]], Viacheslav Mamon
* [[User:Tohaomg]], Anton Obozhyn
* [[User:Anntinomy]], Anna Khrobolova. She was our project manager for a
few years, but she has decided to stay with us in her volunteer role.
Anatolii Honcharov / [[User:Ahonc]] and Serhii Petrov / [[User:Kharkivian]]
have stepped down from the Audit committee and we are grateful for their
work while there.
[1] Керівні органи: https://ua.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=313 (in
Ukrainian)
[2] Посібник для членів Правління:
https://ua.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6085 (in Ukrainian)
[3] Affiliate Chairpersons meeting November 24 - 25, 2018:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_Chairpersons_meeting_November_24_…
[4] Affiliate Chairpersons meeting (Prague 2018):
https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_Chairpersons_meeting_(Prague_2018)
(in Ukrainian)
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2018/Schedule
[6] Wikimedia Ukraine has 4 programs, and we have decided that every Board
member (except for Chair, Secretary and Treasurer) will be responsible for
one of them:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple/Applications/Wikimedia_Ukrain…
Best regards,
Illia Korniiko
Chair of the Board of Wikimedia Ukraine
ua.wikimedia.org
Уявіть світ, у якому кожна людина на планеті має вільний доступ до усіх
знань людства. Це те, що ми й робимо! / Imagine a world in which every
single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human
knowledge. That's what we're doing!
Hi All,
To follow up on Janeen's email on the Foundation's Medium-Term Planning,
we'd like to let you know you can find information about the process on our
meta page[1]. We will be posting more information there in the coming
weeks.
If you have any questions or comments about our planning, please post them
on this talk page and we will get back to you there.
Thank you,
James Baldwin
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/Medium-ter…
--
*James Baldwin *(pronouns - he/him)
Finance Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Anyone noticed the terse tech notice in november?
"When you edit with the visual editor you can use the "Automatic"
citation tab. This helps you generate citations. You will now be able
to write plain text citations or the title of a journal article or a
book in this tab. This will search the Crossref and WorldCat databases
and add the top result." [1]
This is absolutely great and should have been posted in big friendly
letters as a site notice!
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198567
Hello all,
Wikimedia Norge had our general assembly this Saturday in Tromsø – probably
the northernmost general assembly ever out of all Wikimedia organizations?
For the board elections, we have a staggered system where one half of the
board is elected one year, and the other half the next year. The board
therefore consists of the following (re)elected members:
* Andrea Hegdahl Tiltnes (User:AndreaHT, vice chair, formerly normal member)
* Hilde Blix (User:Hildeblix, deputy member)
As well as the following members who were elected last year for the
2018–2020 term:
* Hogne Neteland (User:Hogne, chair)
* Sigrun Espe (User:Sigrunespe)
* Tore Sætre (User:Toresetre)
* Trond Trosterud (User:Trondtr)
The board is therefore equal parts men and women!
Thank you very much to the newly elected board members, as well as the
outgoing board members Harald Groven (User:H@r@ld) and Guro Faller
(User:Fiolen).
--
*Jon Harald Søby*
Prosjektleder / Prosjektleiar / Prošeaktajođiheaddji / Project Manager
Wikimedia Norge / Wikimedia Noreg / Wikimedia Norga
+47 977 67 510
jhsoby(a)wikimedia.no
Greta hi again,
We agree that the discussion is not productive, but we did not initiate
it. On the other hand, we invite everyone involved in this issue to
remember the reasons we got involved in what we do in the first place.
In our case we want to promote open knowledge in the way we think it is
productive and in the best capacity that we have.
Again, in the case of our two user groups it is clear that the situation
for SQ Wikipedia has clearly improved (more interaction with
institutions, more events and activities) and this is what we all should
keep out of this.
Last but not least, it seems that you have a strong belief that we do
not want to collaborate with your UG. We would like to clearly state
that we are open to collaborations not only with WoALUG, but with any
other entity that shares the same goal and values with our user group.
We also have planned to officially contact your UG in the next weeks and
have a productive meeting on how to avoid any issues in the future and
why not, collaborate in fields that are considered of common interest.
We hope you answer positively and we find common ground.
Best regards,
Sidorela