Hello,
I am new to the mailing list and more generaly on wikipedia as contributor
and as student in wikiversity.
I did not know about WikiJournals as part of Wikiversity. My only remark
will be that the wikiveristy
PhD program is in poor shape. I was lost in the various tools I had to use
and broken links.
Most if not all conversation are old-ish and doesn't say the PhD program is
active or working
at all. (French wikiveristy is in much better shape).
I am certain that the implementation of wikijournal as sister project will
have more impact for WikiJournal.
My point is with a better english wikiversity, both could have more impact.
I think, forking wikijournals outside wikiverity will have a bad impact on
wikiversity.
Also, is it possible to write a publication in the journal without prior
PhD?
Can publication in the wikijournal help obtain the wikiveristy PhD?
Thanks!
Amirouche ~ amz3
Dear all,
I would like to announce that the call for submissions for the Wikimedia
CEE Meeting 2019, which will take place in Belgrade from 11-13 October, has
been extended until 10 August. If you have some learning in mind that you
think should be shared with the CEE communities, this is a very good
opportunity to do so and do not hesitate to take this chance.
For detailed information, please see:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2019/Submissions
Best regards,
Kiril
Hello everyone,
The next Wikimedia Monthly Activities meeting will take place tomorrow,
Thursday, June 27th, 2019 at 18:00 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=xRjrbl1J1FA
We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Agenda
Facilitator: TBA
- Welcome and introduction to agenda - 2 minutes
- Movement update - 3 minutes
- Wikis for children - 10 minutes
- Wikimedia 2030 movement strategy update - 15 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
Thank you!
RhinosF1,
All talks are recorded and archived on YouTube, so the link below should
still work. Let me know if there's a problem with the archiving and I'll
see what I can do. I'm also working on getting all slides linked to from
the Showcase page on me.org, whenever possible!
It was a great series of talks this week. Hope you enjoy it! -J
On Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 19:04 RhinosF1 Wikipedia <rhinosf1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> For those that couldn't make it, Is there are summary of what was said?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> RhinosF1
>
> On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 18:58, Janna Layton <jlayton(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Just a reminder that this event will be happening in about half an hour!
>> Here's the Youtube link again:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiUfpmeJG7E
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 9:14 AM Janna Layton <jlayton(a)wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Time correction:
>>>
>>> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, June
>>> 26, at *11:30 AM PDT/18:30 UTC*.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 4:11 PM Janna Layton <jlayton(a)wikimedia.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, June
>>>> 26, at 11:30 AM PST/19:30 UTC. We will have three presentations this
>>>> showcase, all relating to Wikipedia blocks.
>>>>
>>>> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiUfpmeJG7E
>>>>
>>>> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research.
>>>> You can also watch our past research showcases here:
>>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
>>>>
>>>> This month's presentations:
>>>>
>>>> Trajectories of Blocked Community Members: Redemption, Recidivism and
>>>> Departure
>>>>
>>>> By Jonathan Chang, Cornell University
>>>>
>>>> Community norm violations can impair constructive communication and
>>>> collaboration online. As a defense mechanism, community moderators often
>>>> address such transgressions by temporarily blocking the perpetrator. Such
>>>> actions, however, come with the cost of potentially alienating community
>>>> members. Given this tradeoff, it is essential to understand to what extent,
>>>> and in which situations, this common moderation practice is effective in
>>>> reinforcing community rules. In this work, we introduce a computational
>>>> framework for studying the future behavior of blocked users on Wikipedia.
>>>> After their block expires, they can take several distinct paths: they can
>>>> reform and adhere to the rules, but they can also recidivate, or
>>>> straight-out abandon the community. We reveal that these trajectories are
>>>> tied to factors rooted both in the characteristics of the blocked
>>>> individual and in whether they perceived the block to be fair and
>>>> justified. Based on these insights, we formulate a series of prediction
>>>> tasks aiming to determine which of these paths a user is likely to take
>>>> after being blocked for their first offense, and demonstrate the
>>>> feasibility of these new tasks. Overall, this work builds towards a more
>>>> nuanced approach to moderation by highlighting the tradeoffs that are in
>>>> play.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Automatic Detection of Online Abuse in Wikipedia
>>>>
>>>> By Lane Rasberry, University of Virginia
>>>>
>>>> Researchers analyzed all English Wikipedia blocks prior to 2018 using
>>>> machine learning. With insights gained, the researchers examined all
>>>> English Wikipedia users who are not blocked against the identified
>>>> characteristics of blocked users. The results were a ranked set of
>>>> predictions of users who are not blocked, but who have a history of conduct
>>>> similar to that of blocked users. This research and process models a system
>>>> for the use of computing to aid human moderators in identifying conduct on
>>>> English Wikipedia which merits a block.
>>>>
>>>> Project page:
>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia/Automatic_Detection_…
>>>>
>>>> Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIhdb4-hKBo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> First Insights from Partial Blocks in Wikimedia Wikis
>>>>
>>>> By Morten Warncke-Wang, Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>
>>>> The Anti-Harassment Tools team at the Wikimedia Foundation released the
>>>> partial block feature in early 2019. Where previously blocks on Wikimedia
>>>> wikis were sitewide (users were blocked from editing an entire wiki),
>>>> partial blocks makes it possible to block users from editing specific pages
>>>> and/or namespaces. The Italian Wikipedia was the first wiki to start using
>>>> this feature, and it has since been rolled out to other wikis as well. In
>>>> this presentation, we will look at how this feature has been used in the
>>>> first few months since release.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Janna Layton (she, her)
>>>> Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
>>>> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Janna Layton (she, her)
>>> Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
>>> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Janna Layton (she, her)
>> Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
>> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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These "What's making you happy this week?" threads often mention a
smorgasbord of subjects. The English Wiktionary Word of the day
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Word_of_the_day/Archive/2019/June>
for June 22 was "smorgasbord". Wiktionary's definitions of that word are:
"1. A Swedish-style buffet comprising a variety of cold sandwiches and
other dishes; (by extension) any buffet with a wide selection of dishes.
"2. (figuratively) An abundant and diverse collection of things."
On a related point, Commons has a smorgasbord of featured images of food
and drink
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/Food_and_drink>
.
Also on Commons, I enjoy this
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linden_trees_and_the_sky_in_Planina…>
recent Picture of the day. The caption for the image is, "Linden trees and
the sky with clouds in Planina, Postojna, Slovenia". When I look at this
photo, I imagine myself laying on the ground and looking up at the sky.
While this incident <https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/31/on-call/> was
not in the Wikiverse, as someone who has spent time in server rooms I can
sympathize with the engineer who was sent to do a chore when almost everything
that can go wrong, did go wrong
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law>. Perhaps other Wikimedians
will appreciate the story too, especially those who support Wikimedia
technical products or services.
I am grateful for some recent civil and collegial discussions among
Wikipedia/Wikimedia administrators regarding certain problems that we are
collectively interested in addressing, such as vandalism and spambots.
Also, I am grateful to people who do maintenance or administrative tasks
with little expectation for rewards or thanks. My experience with these
people is that frequently they have humble attitudes, are idealistic, and
are interested in public service.
The Wikimania Steering Committee recently recommended
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2019-June/008779.html>
that Wikimania 2020 take place in Bangkok, Thailand. This Wikimania will be
supported by multiple Wikimedia affiliates in the East, Southeast Asia, and
Pacific region <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Hub>.
What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any
language.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Hi Quim,
I have tried it out and created a calendar entry for the London meetup.
A few comments.
It isn't in the Single User Login (SUL). If I was there I wouldn't be
getting notifications from Wikimedia wikis, and if someone pinged me or
edited something I was interested in I wouldn't get pinged if I was on
another wiki.
It isn't in MediaWiki, the interface is unfamiliar and different. That
probably counts as an advantage for a small proportion of geeky types who
tend to be over-represented in software departments. But for most people it
is a disadvantage, I suspect for non English speakers the barrier is
greater, one of the reasons why I am comfortable doing the occasional edit
in many non English Wikipedias is that the look and feel of the site is
very familiar even if I don't speak the language.
At a time when the WMF and the volunteer community seem to be drifting ever
further apart, it seems perverse to replicate a whole bunch of stuff that
belongs on the meta and outreach wikis and put it somewhere outside SUL.
The wisdom of crowds is vulnerable to subdivision of those crowds. Any
crowd ceases to be a crowd after a certain amount of subdivision. With the
community now broadly stable, a more sensible strategy would be to
consolidate some things together such as outreach, meta, phabricator and
various chapter wikis, not to further divide.
At a time when at least one chapter has realised that having its own wiki
outside of SUL is a de facto barrier between them and the community that
they aspire to serve, Creating non wiki rivals to meta and outreach looks
to me as big a mistake as the WMF decision to communicate with the
community through blogs rather than the Signpost and to hive off the
interface with IT to phabricator..
There is never enough IT resource to do all the things that the community
thinks it needs. But WMF projects like this just feed the perception that
there is always budget for WMF initiatives, rarely if ever for community
ones. I'm sure the effort that went into this could have been used to
change mediawiki to reduce edit conflicts or to give the Georgian Wikipedia
an interface that allows those with Latin keyboards to type in Georgian.
Apologies if that comes across as negative, I'm sure the intention is
sensible, just that the direction of travel is illadvised.
~~~~
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Re: Introducing Wikimedia Space: A space for movement news
> and conversations (Quim Gil)
>
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:46:27 +0200
> From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Wikimedia Space: A space for
> movement news and conversations
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>
> Hi, thank you for your feedback about Wikimedia Space.
>
> So far, there have been many comments focusing on _who_ has released _what_
> and _how_. Let me tell you _why_ we are proposing Wikimedia Space. People
> agreeing on _why_ can agree on the rest way easier.
>
> Wikimedia Space is all about Wikimedia growth. If you are supporting
> newcomers or you are contributing to the growth of the Wikimedia movement
> in other ways, we are very interested in your opinions, your suggestions,
> your needs. And we are especially interested in hearing from you if you are
> a promoter of movement diversity and/or part of any kind of group
> underrepresented in Wikimedia.
>
> Why Wikimedia Space, in more detail:
>
> >From the Wikimedia movement strategic direction -
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20
>
> * Knowledge equity
>
>
> >From the Wikimedia Foundation medium-term plan -
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019
>
> * Grow participation globally, focusing on emerging markets
> * Thriving movement
> * Support to newcomers
> * Strong, diverse, and innovative communities that represent the World
> * Strong and empowered movement leaders and affiliates
> * Safe, secure spaces and equitable, efficient processes for all
> participants
>
> I hope this explains our _why_. About some of the points mentioned...
>
> Wikimedia Space is a proposal to the movement in the form of a prototype
> https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/what-do-mean-here-by-prototype/188/4.
> We believe it will generate interest, feedback, criticism and contributions
> in a number of ways that a text-only proposal in (say) Meta Wiki wouldn't
> achieve.
>
> For instance, while we discuss here in a black & white and text-only
> environment, more than 60 colorful users have signed up already and
> Wikimedia Space and are getting their own impressions about it.
> https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/u .
>
> Or for instance, several event organizers just signed up and added their
> event to the Wikimedia Space map, which, if you ask me, after just one day
> already looks fresh, beautiful and interesting:
> https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/c/events/l/map
>
> We are happy to discuss possibilities for connection / integration /
> migration between Wikimedia Space and existing community channels. As a
> matter of fact, wikimedia-l could potentially benefit from the features
> offered by Wikimedia Space (a conversation started in this list by
> volunteers years ago):
>
> https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/integrating-mailing-lists-to-wikimedia-…
>
> Wikimedia Space doesn't prevent improvements in Meta or other places. If
> anything, we believe it will become an incentive for improvements in all
> community channels willing to keep up. In our opinion, potential
> improvements in Meta shouldn't prevent the release of Wikimedia Space. What
> you see today is the result of about three weeks of part time work by four
> people. Now consider how much time would it take to discuss, agree,
> resource and implement an equivalent feature set in MediaWiki, and (just as
> important) equivalent social expectations and norms in the Meta community.
>
> We are just starting to promote Wikimedia Space. Yesterday we did an
> initial announcement to get a first wave of users, see how the prototype
> would take hold, and gauge the initial response. We plan to continue
> promoting Wikimedia Space in more channels. In fact, you can help. If there
> is a channel missing, please point to its URL, or (even better) feel free
> to forward the announcement yourself.
>
> If you have found an actionable problem, we welcome bug reports and feature
> requests: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/space/
>
> We encourage you to give Wikimedia Space a try. Even if today someone
> remains unconvinced, signing up won't hurt them. Then give it a week, and
> let us know. We really mean it! Prototypes always contribute to better
> discussions.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Quim Gil
> Senior Manager of Community Relations @ Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
Hello everyone,
Today, the Wikimedia Foundation's Community Engagement department is
launching Wikimedia Space *[1]*, a platform for movement *[2]* organizers,
affiliates, contributors, partners, and the Foundation to share news,
questions, and conversations.
Learning from others has been the bedrock for development and growth in our
movement. With this platform, we want to promote these sorts of enriching
exchanges by welcoming people from every background to build strong and
diverse communities, breaking down the barriers for entry to our movement,
and focusing our efforts on facilitating collaboration, including from
communities that are new to our movement.
Wikimedia Space is a single place for collaboration, comprising Blog *[1]*
and Discuss *[3]* hubs. The Blog section provides a movement-wide platform
for project updates, recent events, and shared learnings. We have designed
editorial guidelines that allow everyone to share their news with others.
Wikimedia Space also allows anybody to add an event, which can be
discovered in a calendar *[4]* or a map *[5] *of the movement. We want this
new space to be safe and welcoming, especially for newcomers, and this is
why it is governed by a code of conduct *[6]*, and relies on active
community moderation.
Wikimedia Space is currently a prototype, built on WordPress *[7]* and
Discourse *[8]*. While at present it only operates in English, it will
evolve to include multiple languages in the near future. This project is
only possible with your participation. Spread the news and join Wikimedia
Space *[9]*!
Read more about the features you’ll find on our blog post. We have also
published posts on how to make this space yours, so it can best serve your
needs. You can find all the documentation for this project on its page on
Meta.
See you at Wikimedia Space!
*María Cruz * \\ Communications and Outreach Manager, Community Engagement
\\ Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
mcruz(a)wikimedia.org | Twitter: @marianarra_
<https://twitter.com/marianarra_>
[1] https://space.wmflabs.org
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement
[3] https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/
[4] https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/c/events/l/calendar
[5] https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/c/events/l/map
[6] https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/guidelines
[7] https://wordpress.org/
[8] https://discourse.org/
[9] https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/how-to-join-wikimedia-space/113
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, June 26,
at 11:30 AM PST/19:30 UTC. We will have three presentations this showcase,
all relating to Wikipedia blocks.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiUfpmeJG7E
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
This month's presentations:
Trajectories of Blocked Community Members: Redemption, Recidivism and
Departure
By Jonathan Chang, Cornell University
Community norm violations can impair constructive communication and
collaboration online. As a defense mechanism, community moderators often
address such transgressions by temporarily blocking the perpetrator. Such
actions, however, come with the cost of potentially alienating community
members. Given this tradeoff, it is essential to understand to what extent,
and in which situations, this common moderation practice is effective in
reinforcing community rules. In this work, we introduce a computational
framework for studying the future behavior of blocked users on Wikipedia.
After their block expires, they can take several distinct paths: they can
reform and adhere to the rules, but they can also recidivate, or
straight-out abandon the community. We reveal that these trajectories are
tied to factors rooted both in the characteristics of the blocked
individual and in whether they perceived the block to be fair and
justified. Based on these insights, we formulate a series of prediction
tasks aiming to determine which of these paths a user is likely to take
after being blocked for their first offense, and demonstrate the
feasibility of these new tasks. Overall, this work builds towards a more
nuanced approach to moderation by highlighting the tradeoffs that are in
play.
Automatic Detection of Online Abuse in Wikipedia
By Lane Rasberry, University of Virginia
Researchers analyzed all English Wikipedia blocks prior to 2018 using
machine learning. With insights gained, the researchers examined all
English Wikipedia users who are not blocked against the identified
characteristics of blocked users. The results were a ranked set of
predictions of users who are not blocked, but who have a history of conduct
similar to that of blocked users. This research and process models a system
for the use of computing to aid human moderators in identifying conduct on
English Wikipedia which merits a block.
Project page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/University_of_Virginia/Automatic_Detection_…
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIhdb4-hKBo
First Insights from Partial Blocks in Wikimedia Wikis
By Morten Warncke-Wang, Wikimedia Foundation
The Anti-Harassment Tools team at the Wikimedia Foundation released the
partial block feature in early 2019. Where previously blocks on Wikimedia
wikis were sitewide (users were blocked from editing an entire wiki),
partial blocks makes it possible to block users from editing specific pages
and/or namespaces. The Italian Wikipedia was the first wiki to start using
this feature, and it has since been rolled out to other wikis as well. In
this presentation, we will look at how this feature has been used in the
first few months since release.
--
Janna Layton (she, her)
Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
