Hello everyone,
Google Summer of Code 2019 and Outreachy Round 18 are over! See a complete
list of 15 projects interns worked on this past summer:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Past_projects#2019,
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Past_projects#Round_18
If you find a project relevant to your area of interest, you can explore
more via the resources mentioned in the links above. Help test the tools or
features and share your feedback or any information on bugs you encountered
in a comment on the corresponding Phabricator task.
Next up is Outreachy Round 19! Wikimedia is participating in the winter
edition!
If you are interested in mentoring a coding or non-coding (documentation,
design, research, outreach, translation, etc.) project, and you are not
familiar with the program, reach out to me (via email ssethi(a)wikimedia.org)
to learn more about the next steps.
If you are already familiar with the program and want to share your idea
for a project that you would like to mentor, share in a comment on this
Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232048.
The *deadline to submit* projects on the Outreachy website is *September
24th, 2019*.
Some relevant links:
* A recent blog post highlighting one of our intern's and mentor's
experience participating in Outreachy program with Wikimedia:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/06/25/wikimedia-and-outreachy-tec…
* Outreachy website: https://www.outreachy.org/.
* Roles and responsibilities of an Outreachy mentor:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
Looking forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear fellow Wikimedians,
They’re here! [1] We are delighted to announce the first round of
draft recommendations for structural change within our movement have
been published. The recommendations have been developed by the nine
Wikimedia 2030 working groups and are a key tool to help us build the
future of our movement.
Working group members have been working tirelessly for a year to
research the movement, analyze community input shared via community
conversations, and gain insight into external trends. A huge thank you
to each and every member for helping us reach this key milestone.
The draft recommendations are a first look at ways we can adapt our
movement’s structures to help us advance in our strategic direction.
They are the starting point for conversations about what kind of
future we want to create together.
The recommendations are not final. In order to get them to that stage,
your input is needed! We would like to hear from you all what these
changes would mean for you in your local or thematic context, what do
you like about them, and where you potentially see any red flags. And
of course, always critically question whether these recommendations
support the strategic direction.
There are a few ways to do this:
* Read through the recommendations online and provide your input
directly on Meta. [2]
* If you will be at Wikimania, join us in the Wikimedia 2030 space. [3]
* Attend a Strategy Salon hosted by an affiliate where you live. [4]
* Reach out to a Strategy Liaison in your language to share feedback,
or lead a conversation of your own. [5]
Over the next month, working groups will take the input they receive
into the recommendations, alongside external advice and research, and
use it to refine and finalize them. Share your views, and help shape
what Wikimedia will look like in 2030 and beyond.
If you have any questions or feedback, please feel free to get in touch.
Best wishes,
Nicole
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[3] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Wikimedia_2030
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/2019_Co…
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/…
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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.
*Summary* - We want your help with a voluntary, OPT-IN design process for
movement branding. Please join the in-depth discussion group, or watch for
updates on Meta-Wiki.
Hello all,
After 4 months of community consultation, spanning dozens of affiliates,
several mailing lists, community conferences, and Meta-Wiki, I am pleased
to share a summary of feedback on the proposed 2030 movement brand strategy
[1].
>From more than 319 comments, representing 150 individual contributors and
63 affiliates, we assessed 6 major themes in feedback:
1.
Reducing confusion
2.
Protecting reputation
3.
Supporting sister projects
4.
Addressing (legal, governmental) risks
5.
Supporting movement growth
6.
The process of change
Please visit our feedback summary page to learn more [2]. You will see
examples of comments within each section, along with a rough indication of
how many of the comments that we received were related to each theme.
The comments sometimes contradict one another, showing that across our wide
movement’s experience, different points of view are common (and a sign of
health!). To visualize these tensions, we have created “polarity maps”
which are used to help visualize how different arguments coexist in tension
with each other.
Ultimately, the comments provided from you all are very thoughtful and
useful guidance on what is needed to make our movement’s branding
successful. One can read the 6 themes above as “criteria” for assessing
branding systems.
== Thanks ==
I would like to thank the organizers of Iberoconf, Wikipedia Education
Summit, and the Wikimedia Summit for inviting us to hold discussions during
their sessions. I would also like to thank my colleagues Elena Lappen,
Samir Elsharbaty, and Blanca Flores who conducted extensive parts of this
consultation. To the hundreds of people, and dozens of affiliates
commenting, thank you for reviewing the proposal and offering your
perspectives and insights.
== Next steps and staying involved ==
There is considerable support for the brand proposal and general appetite
to improve our movement’s branding system. Further, we believe that
critical feedback on the proposal offers direct guidance for precisely what
branding must do to be successful for our movement. We have shared these
insights and our proposed continuance with the Board of Trustees, who
approved continuing these efforts.
Acting on community insights, we will be collaborating on formal brand
naming, visual identity, and brand system design that will use “Wikipedia”
as the central reference point. The resulting system will be OPT-IN for
affiliates.
This design process will be guided by a “brand network” – a group of
volunteers who would like to continue advising on brand during this
consultation. Dozens of people have already volunteered, and we invite you
to join the group. We will use a group on Wikimedia Space to host this
discussion and the group will be closed to allow candid discussions and
room for iterations. EVERYONE IS INVITED TO JOIN [3]. If you do not want to
commit to the in-depth, longer term discussions that will be happening
within the brand network group, we will still be tracking comments left on
the project’s Meta-Wiki page [4]. Furthermore, all important ideas and
updates originating from the brand network discussion will be shared
publicly to mailing lists and Meta-Wiki.
The development of this proposed identity system will take approximately 6
months. As stated, regular updates will be shared to mailing lists,
Wikimedia Space, and Meta-Wiki [4]. Please engage us where you are most
comfortable! Once complete, community groups will have the power to decide
if/when they opt in to using the new system.
Yours,
Zack
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/02/26/leading-with-wikipedia-a-br…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_resear…
[3] https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/g/brand-network and click the gray
"Request" button. When your request is approved, you will be able to see
and access the brand network discussion category on the Discuss Space main
page.
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_resear…
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Zack McCune (he/him)
Director of Brand
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello folks,
I am happy to introduce you to the first version of WikiContrib
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikicontrib/>. WikiContrib is a developer
metrics tool which can be used to view a developer’s contributions on
Phabricator and Gerrit. This tool was initially designed keeping a
Wikimedia Hackathon scholarship committee in mind and with the hope that
the tool will make it easier for them to decide on a candidate’s
application. All community members can also use the tool to learn more
about the contributions of fellow Wikimedians or discover their own!
I developed the WikiContrib tool as part of my Google Summer of Code
project with guidance and support from my mentors Suchakra Sharma
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/Tuxology/> and Srishti Sethi
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/p/srishakatux/>.
Here are some relevant links:
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Tool is hosted on Toolforge https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikicontrib/
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Source code is available on GitHub
https://github.com/wikimedia/WikiContrib/
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Link to my Phabricator proposal https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T220254
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Learn how to use the tool
https://wikicontrib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Usage.html
Try the tool, and if you encounter any bugs or have any feature requests,
please file them in the GitHub repository! For anything else, you can
comment on the Phabricator proposal.
Looking forward to your response!
Thanks,
Rammanoj potla
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