Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours on 2021-01-04 at 17:00-18:00 PM UTC (9am PT/6pm CET)!
To participate, join the video-call via this Wikimedia-meet link [2]. There
is no set agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the
etherpad [3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise
you are welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g.
about how to attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to
answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia
volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in
your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to
support you in:
- You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
in my wiki?
- You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
- You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
of you interested more closely in this space.
- You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Miriam on behalf of the WMF Research Team
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html
[2] https://meet.wmcloud.org/ResearchOfficeHours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
Hello,
Following Chris' example, I have been bold and created a short
proposal for a Global Council.
You can find it on this page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ziko/Global_Council_proposal
Of course, you are very welcome to comment on the talk page, and you
are very welcome to correct my poor English. :-)
Kind regards - and happy new year,
Ziko
Greetings,
Hope this email finds you well. A very Happy New Year 2021. As you all know
this year we are going to celebrate Wikipedia's 20th birthday on 15th
January 2021, to start the celebration, I like to invite all of you to
participate in the event titled "Wikipedia 20th celebration the way I & my
family feels
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…>
"
The event will be conducted from 1st January 2021 till 14th February 2021
in two segments, details on the event page.
Please have a look at the event page:
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)