Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, January 20,
at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC. In this month’s showcase, Aaron Shaw will
present ongoing research illustrating the values and challenges of
macro-level organizational analysis of peer production and social computing
systems. Specifically, he will give an overview on different studies
showing convergent trends of formalization in large Wikipedias; divergent
editor engagement in small Wikipedias; and commensal patterns of ecological
interdependence across communities.
Youtube stream: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Wcc-TeaEY>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujd8S82YfmA
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
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase>*Speaker*:
Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University)
*Title*: The importance of thinking big. Convergence, divergence, and
interdependence among wikis and peer production communities
*Abstract*: Designing and governing collaborative, peer production
communities can benefit from large-scale, macro-level thinking that focuses
on communities as the units of analysis. For example, understanding how and
why seemingly comparable communities may follow convergent, divergent,
and/or interdependent patterns of behavior can inform more parsimonious
theoretical and empirical insights as well as more effective strategic
action. This talk gives a sneak peak at research-in-progress by members of
the Community Data Science Collective <http://communitydata.science/> to
illustrate these points. In particular, I focus on studies of (1)
convergent trends of formalization in several large Wikipedias; (2)
divergent editor engagement among three small Wikipedias; and (3) commensal
patterns of ecological interdependence across communities. Together, the
studies underscore the value and challenges of macro-level organizational
analysis of peer production and social computing systems.
--
Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello all,
The *last date to submit* session proposals for Wikimedia Wikimeet India
2021, the upcoming online wiki-event which is to be conducted from 19 – 21
February 2021 during the occasion of International Mother Language Day is
just after 6 days i.e. on *24th January 2021*.
If you are interested to present, run a workshop or organize a panel
discussion, you can check this link and submit a session proposal.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Submissions
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
On behalf of WMWM India 2021
Dear all,
Over the course of November 2020, the committee of Wikimedia Community
Ireland held 4 meetings dedicated to the development of the group's first 3
year strategic plan. It was formally adopted by the committee on 11 January
2021, and can be found on Commons here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Ireland_Strateg…>
.
We are very excited by many of the elements of the new plan, and would love
to hear from anyone interested in working with us to achieve the goals set
out.
Hope everyone is enjoying Wikipedia's big day!
(Next January Vicipéid, the Irish language Wikipedia turns 18, so watch
this space!)
Kind Regards,
Rebecca O'Neill
on behalf of Wikimedia Community Ireland
--
PhD in Digital Media
Project Coordinator Wikimedia Community Ireland <http://wikimedia.ie>
Vice Chair of Women in Technology and Science <https://witsireland.com/>
Secretary of the National Committee for Commemorative Plaques in Science
and Technology
She/Her
Hello everyone,
I am pleased to announce the Steward Elections 2021 [1]. We are now taking
nominations from eligible candidates. Interested candidates can check their
eligibility and procedure to submit the nomination on the guidelines page
[2]. We are open to candidate submissions till January 31, 2021, 23:59
(UTC).
As always, the confirmation of existing stewards [3] will take place at the
same time as the election, which begins on February 5, and will finish on
February 26, 2021.
Please remember, the voting has not yet begun and will not until February
5, 2021, 14:00 (UTC). We will poke you once again when the voting starts.
If you have any questions regarding the elections, feel free to contact me
or any other member of the Election Committee. You can also ask any
question in the #wikimedia-stewards-elections-chat IRC channel, or watch
updates in #wikimedia-stewards-elections.
Best regards,
Martin Urbanec
(On behalf of the Election Committee)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2021
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2021/Guidelines
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Confirm/2021
Hello everyone,
Applications for the WikiLearn: Online learning pilot
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/WikiLearn> are
officially closed. Applicants will receive acceptance emails by January 18,
2021 with onboarding information. The launch date for the Online learning
pilot is February 1, 2021. For those who were not able to apply or were not
selected this time for an online learning pilot, you will still be able to
access all curriculum outlines and knowledge after the pilot has been
completed.
If you have previously applied, please submit or resubmit an email address
due to an error on the application to comdevteam(a)wikimedia.org or complete
this quick form.
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLqWM6YHAu4ihGCTAnarD-QPkJsKJjgda…>
Best,
The Community Development Team
Cassie Casares
Project Coordinator
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org
Greetings,
We write to thank you for your immense contribution so far to our event
titled *"Wikipedia 20th celebration the way I & my family feels"
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…>*
To give more time to participate we have decided to extend the contest for
four additional weeks and continue the celebration.
So the new date is now 14th February 2021.
To know about already submitted creative work, kindly visit here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_20th_birthday>
For more information, kindly have a look at the event page: '*"Wikipedia
20th celebration the way I & my family feels
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…>"*
Let's all be creative and celebrate Wikipedia20 birthday, *"the way I and
my family feels"*.
If you are interested to contribute please participate. Do feel free to
share the news and ask others to participate.
Namaste,
Rajeeb.
(U:Marajozkee)
Hello everyone!
The Wikimedia Foundation Community Events Team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20Foundation%20Events%20team>
will continue holding monthly office hours for any community members who
are interested. This is a place where movement event organizers can join
and share ideas and lessons with each other for upcoming and past events.
The Wikimedia Foundation Events team will be there as well to join in the
discussions, answer questions you might have for us and to facilitate.
This iteration of the office hours will take place on Thursday January 14
at 13:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1610629253> and will last for
an hour. Find the *link to join on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20Foundation%20Events%20team/Offi…>.
*
*This months topics:*
-
Andrew Lih will be joining us to a review of how the recent virtual
WikiConference North America
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_North_America/2020> went
from an organizing perspective.
-
The WMF events team will be presenting our new meta Events Portal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events_Team_Portal>
-
Time for any questions or discussion points from attendees
*This months supported languages are: *
- *English, Hebrew, Dutch, Spanish, Punjabi, and Hindi.* We will maybe
support *Japanese* this is to be confirmed on the meta page within the
next few days.
We will *continue to change the time of the meeting each month* in order to
be inclusive of more timezones. We will also continue to adjust these
office hours as we go based on community feedback and are very open to
changing the scope of these office hours over time or incorporating
community theme requests, presentation requests or requests for outside
speakers.
You can find more information about upcoming office hours and add your
comments and questions here and on the talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team/OfficeHours
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20Foundation%20Events%20team/Offi…>
We hope to see you there! Please pass this invitation to anyone in your
communities who might like to join monthly international event organization
discussions.
--
Rachel Farrand
Senior Program Officer
Community Events Team
Wikimedia Foundation
To commemorate Wikipedia's birthday, we will once again be adding citations
to improve the reliability of the platform. This year's 1Lib1Ref campaign
however is very different as Wikipedia turns 20; we are celebrating the
humans that make Wikipedia possible, highlighting their contributions and
commitment to the platform. In view of this we are asking every human out
there to join us in the celebration by gifting Wikipedia a citation to make
it more reliable, starting from the 15th Jan to 5th Feb 2021!
We are adding a new layer of contribution to celebrate the humans that
contribute to the success of the platform as part of the Wikipedia20
celebrations. Join the #1Lib1Ref Human Challenge by contributing citations
to improve the quality of articles around human rights on Wikipedia and
with top contributors receiving swags from the Wikimedia Store.[1]
How can I contribute?
Add a citation
1.
Let the tool suggest a citation needed statements for you, or use the
search menu at the bottom to choose a category (Wikipedia's version of a
tag) of an article that you have a special expertise in (for example,
British novels or Provinces of Afghanistan ).
2.
Go to the article, find the statement
3.
Click edit in the section header
4.
Add the source following the source guidelines
5.
Remove the "Citation needed" template (highlight and backspace in Visual
Editor, or remove the template which adds that tag (it looks like
{{citation needed}} ))
6.
Add the hashtag #1lib1ref to your edit summary
7.
Save the page.
Visit the participate page to learn more.[2]
Communicate
-
Share a post from our communicate and share page.[3]
-
We will be sharing a post on diff on Friday, as part of the Wikipedia
birthday communication, keep an eye out for that.
Help organize?
If you are from the CEE don’t miss out on the 1Lib1Ref CEE regional
competition, contact Gorana Gomirac WMRS (gorana.gomirac(a)vikimedija.org )
and Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska WMPL (natalia.szafran(a)wikimedia.pl ) for
more information.[4] You can also find an activity around you as some
countries and institutions such as Canada, Israel, France, Spain, AfLIA,
etc. are organizing their own activities.[5]
If you are organizing, add your event to the 1lib1ref Event Dashboard or
your virtual event to digital events list to enable people across the world
participate in your activity.[6][7]
It is not too late to schedule an event -- the campaign runs through
February 5th and in past years organizers have run #1lib1ref events year
round or scheduled activities for #1lib1ref May during the January
campaign.
Remember to add #1Lib1Ref in the edit summary of your contribution to help
us track your activity!
Happy 20th Birthday!
Felix Nartey
[1] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate#…
!
[2] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate
[3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Share
[4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/1Lib1RefCEE_campaign
[5] -
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_january_2021/overv…
[6] -
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_january_2021/overv…
[7] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Virtual_Coff…
--
Felix Nartey
Community and Partnerships Coordinator, Campaigns
*Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>*