What is May 17th?
The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia was
created in 2004 to draw the attention to the violence and discrimination
experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex people and all
other people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities or
expressions, and sex characteristics. The date of May 17th was specifically
chosen to commemorate the World Health Organization’s decision in 1990 to
declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder. https://may17.org
One year ago in 2020 we started QueeringW in hope #1 Queering Wikipedia
conference would be happening with a year of delay...now we hope it is in
2022!
Meanwhile we are "Together, we Resist, Support, and Heal"
<https://twitter.com/may17org>
Happy #May17 #IDAHOT #IDAHOTBITQ
for those who celebrate and would support
https://www.instagram.com/QueeringW
@may17org <https://twitter.com/may17org> #IDAHOT
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/IDAHOT?src=hashtag_click> #IDAHOT2021
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/IDAHOT2021?src=hashtag_click>
https://twitter.com/QueeringW
Dear all,
Over the last few months, a small team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been
working on a project that has been discussed by many people in our movement
for many years: building ‘enterprise grade’ services for the high-volume
commercial reusers of Wikimedia content. I am pleased to say that in a
remarkably short amount of time (considering the complexity of the issues:
technical, strategic, legal, and financial) we now have something worthy of
showing to the community, and we are asking for your feedback. Allow me to
introduce you to the Wikimedia Enterprise API project – formerly codenamed
“okapi”.
While the general idea for Wikimedia Enterprise predates the current
movement strategy process, its recommendations identify an enterprise API
as one possible solution to both “Increase the sustainability of our
movement” and “Improve User Experience.”[0] That is, to simultaneously
create a new revenue stream to protect Wikimedia’s sustainability, and
improve the quality and quantity of Wikimedia content available to our many
readers who do not visit our websites directly (including more consistent
attribution). Moreover, it does so in a way that is true to our movement’s
culture: with open source software, financial transparency, non-exclusive
contracts or content, no restrictions on existing services, and free access
for Wikimedia volunteers who need it.
The team believes we are on target to achieve those goals and so we have
written a lot of documentation to get your feedback about our progress and
where it could be further improved before the actual product is ‘launched’
in the next few months. We have been helped in this process over the last
several months by approximately 100 individual volunteers (from many
corners of the wikiverse) and representatives of affiliate organisations
who have reviewed our plans and provided invaluable direction, pointing out
weaknesses and opportunities, or areas lacking clarity and documentation in
our drafts. Thank you to everyone who has shared your time and expertise to
help prepare this new initiative.
A essay describing the “why?” and the “how?” of this project is now on
Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/Essay
Also now published on Meta are an extensive FAQ, operating principles, and
technical documentation on MediaWiki.org. You can read these at [1] [2] and
[3] respectively. Much of this documentation is already available in
French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
The Wikimedia Enterprise team is particularly interested in your feedback
on how we have designed the checks and balances to this project - to ensure
it is as successful as possible at achieving those two goals described
above while staying true to the movement’s values and culture. For example:
Is everything covered appropriately in the “Principles” list? Is the
technical documentation on MediaWiki.org clear? Are the explanations in the
“FAQ” about free-access for community, or project’s legal structure, or the
financial transparency (etc.) sufficiently detailed?
Meet the team and Ask Us Anything:
The central place to provide written feedback about the project in general
is on the talkpage of the documentation on Meta at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Enterprise
On this Friday (March 19) we will be hosting two “Office hours”
conversations where anyone can come and give feedback or ask questions:
-
13:00 UTC via Zoom at https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/95580273732
-
22:00 UTC via Zoom at https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/92565175760 (note:
this is Saturday in Asia/Oceania)
Other “office hours” meetings can be arranged on-request on a technical
platform of your choosing; and we will organise more calls in the future.
We will also be attending the next SWAN meetings (on March 21)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network, and
also the next of the Wikimedia Clinics
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Clinics
Moreover, we would be very happy to accept any invitation to attend an
existing group call that would like to discuss this topic (e.g. an
affiliate’s members’ meeting).
On behalf of the Wikimedia Enterprise team,
Peace, Love & Metadata
-- Liam Wyatt [Wittylama], Wikimedia Enterprise project community liaison.
[0]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/FAQ
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise/Principles
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise
*Liam Wyatt [Wittylama]*
WikiCite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite> Program Manager & Wikimedia
Enterprise <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Okapi> Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
This paper (first reference) is the result of a class project I was part of
almost two years ago for CSCI 5417 Information Retrieval Systems. It builds
on a class project I did in CSCI 5832 Natural Language Processing and which
I presented at Wikimania '07. The project was very late as we didn't send
the final paper in until the day before new years. This technical report was
never really announced that I recall so I thought it would be interesting to
look briefly at the results. The goal of this paper was to break articles
down into surface features and latent features and then use those to study
the rating system being used, predict article quality and rank results in a
search engine. We used the [[random forests]] classifier which allowed us to
analyze the contribution of each feature to performance by looking directly
at the weights that were assigned. While the surface analysis was performed
on the whole english wikipedia, the latent analysis was performed on the
simple english wikipedia (it is more expensive to compute). = Surface
features = * Readability measures are the single best predictor of quality
that I have found, as defined by the Wikipedia Editorial Team (WET). The
[[Automated Readability Index]], [[Gunning Fog Index]] and [[Flesch-Kincaid
Grade Level]] were the strongest predictors, followed by length of article
html, number of paragraphs, [[Flesh Reading Ease]], [[Smog Grading]], number
of internal links, [[Laesbarhedsindex Readability Formula]], number of words
and number of references. Weakly predictive were number of to be's, number
of sentences, [[Coleman-Liau Index]], number of templates, PageRank, number
of external links, number of relative links. Not predictive (overall - see
the end of section 2 for the per-rating score breakdown): Number of h2 or
h3's, number of conjunctions, number of images*, average word length, number
of h4's, number of prepositions, number of pronouns, number of interlanguage
links, average syllables per word, number of nominalizations, article age
(based on page id), proportion of questions, average sentence length. :*
Number of images was actually by far the single strongest predictor of any
class, but only for Featured articles. Because it was so good at picking out
featured articles and somewhat good at picking out A and G articles the
classifier was confused in so many cases that the overall contribution of
this feature to classification performance is zero. :* Number of external
links is strongly predictive of Featured articles. :* The B class is highly
distinctive. It has a strong "signature," with high predictive value
assigned to many features. The Featured class is also very distinctive. F, B
and S (Stop/Stub) contain the most information.
:* A is the least distinct class, not being very different from F or G. =
Latent features = The algorithm used for latent analysis, which is an
analysis of the occurence of words in every document with respect to the
link structure of the encyclopedia ("concepts"), is [[Latent Dirichlet
Allocation]]. This part of the analysis was done by CS PhD student Praful
Mangalath. An example of what can be done with the result of this analysis
is that you provide a word (a search query) such as "hippie". You can then
look at the weight of every article for the word hippie. You can pick the
article with the largest weight, and then look at its link network. You can
pick out the articles that this article links to and/or which link to this
article that are also weighted strongly for the word hippie, while also
contributing maximally to this articles "hippieness". We tried this query in
our system (LDA), Google (site:en.wikipedia.org hippie), and the Simple
English Wikipedia's Lucene search engine. The breakdown of articles occuring
in the top ten search results for this word for those engines is: * LDA
only: [[Acid rock]], [[Aldeburgh Festival]], [[Anne Murray]], [[Carl
Radle]], [[Harry Nilsson]], [[Jack Kerouac]], [[Phil Spector]], [[Plastic
Ono Band]], [[Rock and Roll]], [[Salvador Allende]], [[Smothers brothers]],
[[Stanley Kubrick]]. * Google only: [[Glam Rock]], [[South Park]]. * Simple
only: [[African Americans]], [[Charles Manson]], [[Counterculture]], [[Drug
use]], [[Flower Power]], [[Nuclear weapons]], [[Phish]], [[Sexual
liberation]], [[Summer of Love]] * LDA & Google & Simple: [[Hippie]],
[[Human Be-in]], [[Students for a democratic society]], [[Woodstock
festival]] * LDA & Google: [[Psychedelic Pop]] * Google & Simple: [[Lysergic
acid diethylamide]], [[Summer of Love]] ( See the paper for the articles
produced for the keywords philosophy and economics ) = Discussion /
Conclusion = * The results of the latent analysis are totally up to your
perception. But what is interesting is that the LDA features predict the WET
ratings of quality just as well as the surface level features. Both feature
sets (surface and latent) both pull out all almost of the information that
the rating system bears. * The rating system devised by the WET is not
distinctive. You can best tell the difference between, grouped together,
Featured, A and Good articles vs B articles. Featured, A and Good articles
are also quite distinctive (Figure 1). Note that in this study we didn't
look at Start's and Stubs, but in earlier paper we did. :* This is
interesting when compared to this recent entry on the YouTube blog. "Five
Stars Dominate Ratings"
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/09/five-stars-dominate-ratings.html…
I think a sane, well researched (with actual subjects) rating system
is
well within the purview of the Usability Initiative. Helping people find and
create good content is what Wikipedia is all about. Having a solid rating
system allows you to reorganized the user interface, the Wikipedia
namespace, and the main namespace around good content and bad content as
needed. If you don't have a solid, information bearing rating system you
don't know what good content really is (really bad content is easy to spot).
:* My Wikimania talk was all about gathering data from people about articles
and using that to train machines to automatically pick out good content. You
ask people questions along dimensions that make sense to people, and give
the machine access to other surface features (such as a statistical measure
of readability, or length) and latent features (such as can be derived from
document word occurence and encyclopedia link structure). I referenced page
262 of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance to give an example of the
kind of qualitative features I would ask people. It really depends on what
features end up bearing information, to be tested in "the lab". Each word is
an example dimension of quality: We have "*unity, vividness, authority,
economy, sensitivity, clarity, emphasis, flow, suspense, brilliance,
precision, proportion, depth and so on.*" You then use surface and latent
features to predict these values for all articles. You can also say, when a
person rates this article as high on the x scale, they also mean that it has
has this much of these surface and these latent features.
= References =
- DeHoust, C., Mangalath, P., Mingus., B. (2008). *Improving search in
Wikipedia through quality and concept discovery*. Technical Report.
PDF<http://grey.colorado.edu/mediawiki/sites/mingus/images/6/68/DeHoustMangalat…>
- Rassbach, L., Mingus., B, Blackford, T. (2007). *Exploring the
feasibility of automatically rating online article quality*. Technical
Report. PDF<http://grey.colorado.edu/mediawiki/sites/mingus/images/d/d3/RassbachPincock…>
Hoi,
I have asked and received permission to forward to you all this most
excellent bit of news.
The linguist list, is a most excellent resource for people interested in the
field of linguistics. As I mentioned some time ago they have had a funding
drive and in that funding drive they asked for a certain amount of money in
a given amount of days and they would then have a project on Wikipedia to
learn what needs doing to get better coverage for the field of linguistics.
What you will read in this mail that the total community of linguists are
asked to cooperate. I am really thrilled as it will also get us more
linguists interested in what we do. My hope is that a fraction will be
interested in the languages that they care for and help it become more
relevant. As a member of the "language prevention committee", I love to get
more knowledgeable people involved in our smaller projects. If it means that
we get more requests for more projects we will really feel embarrassed with
all the new projects we will have to approve because of the quality of the
Incubator content and the quality of the linguistic arguments why we should
approve yet another language :)
NB Is this not a really clever way of raising money; give us this much in
this time frame and we will then do this as a bonus...
Thanks,
GerardM
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Subject: Wikipedia Volunteers
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:49:35
From: Hannah Morales < hannah(a)linguistlist.org >
Subject: Wikipedia Volunteers
Dear subscribers,
As you may recall, one of our Fund Drive 2007 campaigns was called the
"Wikipedia Update Vote." We asked our viewers to consider earmarking their
donations to organize an update project on linguistics entries in the
English-language Wikipedia. You can find more background information on this
at:
http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2007/wikipedia/index.cfm.
The speed with which we met our goal, thanks to the interest and generosity
of
our readers, was a sure sign that the linguistics community was enthusiastic
about the idea. Now that summer is upon us, and some of you may have a bit
more
leisure time, we are hoping that you will be able to help us get started on
the
Wikipedia project. The LINGUIST List's role in this project is a purely
organizational one. We will:
*Help, with your input, to identify major gaps in the Wikipedia materials or
pages that need improvement;
*Compile a list of linguistics pages that Wikipedia editors have identified
as
"in need of attention from an expert on the subject" or " does not cite any
references or sources," etc;
*Send out periodical calls for volunteer contributors on specific topics or
articles;
*Provide simple instructions on how to upload your entries into Wikipedia;
*Keep track of our project Wikipedians;
*Keep track of revisions and new entries;
*Work with Wikimedia Foundation to publicize the linguistics community's
efforts.
We hope you are as enthusiastic about this effort as we are. Just to help us
all
get started looking at Wikipedia more critically, and to easily identify an
area
needing improvement, we suggest that you take a look at the List of
Linguists
page at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_linguists. M
Many people are not listed there; others need to have more facts and
information
added. If you would like to participate in this exciting update effort,
please
respond by sending an email to LINGUIST Editor Hannah Morales at
hannah(a)linguistlist.org, suggesting what your role might be or which
linguistics
entries you feel should be updated or added. Some linguists who saw our
campaign
on the Internet have already written us with specific suggestions, which we
will
share with you soon.
This update project will take major time and effort on all our parts. The
end
result will be a much richer internet resource of information on the breadth
and
depth of the field of linguistics. Our efforts should also stimulate
prospective
students to consider studying linguistics and to educate a wider public on
what
we do. Please consider participating.
Sincerely,
Hannah Morales
Editor, Wikipedia Update Project
Linguistic Field(s): Not Applicable
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Dear friends and colleagues
Please permit me to publicise an academic conference that we're holding at
Hong Kong Baptist University on 15-17 December 2021.
The conference will be an ideal forum in which to discuss research
methodologies, issues of collaborativity, theoretical frameworks that have
proven valuable for the study of Wikipedia translation, the use of
Wikipedia in the translation classroom and by translation professionals,
and the nature of Wikipedia translation and how it differs not only from
other more traditional types of translation but also from other newly
emerging types. While the conference's main focus is interlingual
translation within the online encyclopaedia, we are also interested
in research into the multilingual Wikipedia that makes no explicit
reference to translation issues.
The conference will be online, face-to-face or mixed mode, depending on
prevailing circumstances. Please see the conference website at
https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/ for full details and the Call for
Papers.
I hope to see some of you there!
Mark
Professor Mark Shuttleworth 夏致遠
Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies
Hong Kong Baptist University
Phone: +852 3411 6641
http://www.tran.hkbu.edu.hkhttps://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/
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Hello, all. :)
I hope and trust that everyone is keeping well during these times!
I’m Maggie Dennis, Vice President of the Community Resilience &
Sustainability group of Wikimedia Foundation, within the Legal department.
I wanted to announce with pleasure that Maria Sefidari has agreed to
consult with the Foundation on Movement Strategy and the ongoing Board
evolution for the upcoming year. Many of us know María from her role as the
chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, from which she
provided invaluable leadership in governance, oversight, and fundraising.
Others may know her from her volunteer work as User:Raystorm
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Raystorm>, in which she has a broad
range of experience.
María, based in Spain, commenced her assignment with the Foundation this
week. We intend to tap into her expertise and knowledge of the Foundation
to support a successful implementation of the Movement’s Strategy and to
tap into new opportunities. (With her Board work, she will be supporting
Quim Gil’s team with the Board election and helping Margo Lee in improving
onboarding, documentation practices, and training.) María will report to me
as part of our Community Resilience & Sustainability group. I’m excited
that she accepted our offer for a more hands-on assignment, particularly
given how important all of the work she’ll be supporting is. :) With more
than 15 years of Wikimedia experience, her contributions in the next phase
will be a tremendous benefit to me and my team as we continue settling into
our own work on Movement Strategy.
Those of you who are involved with Movement Strategy are used to seeing her
at related meetings and still will. :) I anticipate María will be joining
one or more of the Movement Strategy global conversations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Updates/June_15,_2021>
this weekend. Advertisement alert: maybe you can, too? Here’s more detail
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Updates/June_15,_2021>!
I myself will be attending at least one of those sessions and look forward
to seeing some of you there.
Warm regards,
Maggie
--
Maggie Dennis
She/her/hers
Vice President, Community Resilience & Sustainability
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Hello everyone,
Wikimedia is participating in the winter edition of this year's Outreachy <
https://www.outreachy.org/> [1] (December 2021–February 2022)! The deadline
to submit projects on the Outreachy website is *September 30th, 2021*.
If you would like to share an idea for a project that you would like to
mentor or you are not familiar with the program and want to learn anything
more about it, feel free to reply to this email or leave a note on <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289893> [2].
*About the Outreachy program*:
Outreachy offers three-month internships to work remotely in Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS), coding and non-coding projects with experienced
mentors. These internships run twice a year–from May to August and December
to March. Interns are paid a stipend of USD 5,500 for the three months of
work. They also have a USD 500 stipend to travel to conferences and events.
Interns often find employment after their internship with Outreachy
sponsors or jobs that use the skills they learned during their internship.
This program is open to both students and non-students. Outreachy expressly
invites the following people to apply:
- Women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people.
- Anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or
discrimination in the technology industry in their country of residence.
- Residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are
Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American/American Indian,
Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.
See a blog post highlighting experiences and outcomes of interns who
participated in a previous round of Outreachy with Wikimedia <
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/06/02/outreachy-round-21-experiences-an…>
[3]
Some tips for mentors for proposing projects:
- Follow this task description template when you propose a project in
Phabricator: <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/> [4].
Add #Outreachy (Round 23) tag to it.
- Remember, the project should require an experienced developer ~15 days
to complete and a newcomer ~3 months.
- Each project should have at least two mentors, and one of them should
hold a technical background.
- When it comes to picking a project, you could propose one that is:
- Relevant for your language community or brings impact to the
Wikimedia ecosystem in the future.
- Welcoming and newcomer-friendly and has a moderate learning curve.
- A new idea you are passionate about, there are no deadlines
attached to it; you always wanted to see it happen but couldn't
due to lack
of resources help!
- About developing a standalone tool (possibly hosted on Wikimedia
Toolforge), with fewer dependencies on Wikimedia's core
infrastructure, it
doesn't necessarily require a specific programming language.
See roles and responsibilities of an Outreachy mentor <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors> [5].
We look forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Srishti
(On behalf of the organization team)
[1] https://www.outreachy.org/
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289893
[3]
https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2021/06/02/outreachy-round-21-experiences-an…
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Someone with the entirely authoritative email address "
hillbillyholiday(a)gmail.com" writes (apparently under the impression that I
don't know who Andreas is) the following:
'I am appalled by your sneering condescension of Andreas.'
This is an unusual misreading of a fairly straightforward, even though
ironic, text. A careful reader will have noted that did not dispute
Andreas's research or recitation of any facts. What I did dispute is his
characterization of motives, which is ungrounded in any of those facts.
In a subsequent message, Hillbillyholiday says somethingsomethingsomething
about me being a nazi, haha.
In the land where I grew up, soi-disant "hillbillies"--whether on holiday
or not--knew their Bible verses. So perhaps Hillbilly will understand why
the verse that comes to mind in reference to his attempt at a riposte is
Job 38:4.
Mike
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> I would like to announce the Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Online_Meeting_2021>, which
> is scheduled to take place from 5-7 November and will be a virtual event
> for a second consecutive year.
>
> This year's conference will be labelled with the slogan "Meet for a Better
> Future!" and its programme will be mostly filled with session proposals
> received through a call for submissions, while there will also be a handful
> of sessions that will feature keynote speakers or will be formatted as
> plenary discussions on important topics from the Wikimedia movement. *You
> can submit your session proposal
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Online_Meeting_2021/Submissio…
> >
> until
> the extended deadline of 30 September 2021.*
>
> Considering that the event will take place in an online environment and
> there are no significant barriers for participation, we would like to
> encourage participation and session proposals by people from outside the
> region of Central and Eastern Europe.
>
> In case you have any questions regarding the conference, please do not
> hesitate to contact the Organising Committee members
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Online_Meeting_2021/Developme…
> >.
> You can also read the official blog post
> <
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/07/20/announcing-the-wikimedia-cee-online-m…
> >
> announcing the event in order to get more information about it.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kiril Simeonovski
>
Hi Everyone,
On behalf of the Wikimania Steering Committee, 2021 Wikimania Core
Organizing Team and the Movement Communications team at the Wikimedia
Foundation, we would like to thank the participants of Wikimania 2021!
We would like to know your feedback on the recent event and your
suggestions for improvement.
Please take some time to fill out the Wikimania 2021 post-event survey. The
survey is at https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cAbKYmpaHAXQwOG
The survey will take between 10-15 minutes. It is available in Arabic,
Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish using the drop down
menu in the upper right corner.
You can also view the privacy policy for this survey available at
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2021_Survey_Privacy_Stateme…
If you would like to share feedback but do not wish to take the qualtrics
survey, you may send an email to movementcomms(a)wikimedia.org.
The survey will remain open until September 5.
See you on our next interaction or on Wikimania 2022!
Kind Regards,
Butch Bustria
In behalf of the Wikimania Steering Committee, and 2021 Wikimania Core
Organizing Team
Dear Wikimedians,
we have published the Wikimedia Poland 2020 grant report on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Simple/Applications/Wikimedia_Poland…
*Highlights and ideas to take to your orgs and communities:*
- on-line trainings and meetings grew our audience and helped us engage
long-time community members who have never attended live events
- inviting Wikimedia Foundation product & development staff to talk to
the community during an on-line event can greatly sped up consensus
building on enabling new features
- we can scale each employee's efforts through connecting them with a
group of volunteers (and vice versa, but more on that in our 2021 report)
- podcasts can be a good vector to reach potential partners and inspire
them to come to us
- as more partners want to work with us to make culture open and
accessible, we need a robust process to maintain high efficiency
If you have any questions, feel free to ask on this list or reach out to me
privately.
--
Z poważaniem · Kind regards
Łukasz Garczewski
Dyrektor ds. operacyjnych · Chief Operating Officer
tel: +48 601 827 937
e-mail: lukasz.garczewski(a)wikimedia.pl
Wesprzyj wolną wiedzę! <https://wikimedia.pl/darowizny/>
ul. Narutowicza 40/1, 90-135 Łódź, Polska
KRS 0000244732
NIP 728-25-97-388
wikimedia.pl
Informacje na temat przetwarzania znajdują się w Polityce Prywatności
<https://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polityka_prywatno%C5%9Bci>. Kontakt:
rodo(a)wikimedia.pl
Dear Wikimedians,
Last year, the Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation launched a pilot
teacher training program that helped teachers use Wikipedia in their
classrooms. Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/education/reading-wikipedia-in-the…>
provided a professional development opportunity to over 500 teachers in
Bolivia, Morocco, and the Philippines with a localized curriculum and
resources aligned with UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy framework.
Throughout this 9-week program, teachers developed vital media and
information literacy skills for the 21st century, including understanding
how information is produced, accessing and evaluating content online, and
identifying biases and knowledge gaps. All through the power of Wikipedia
<https://www.k12digest.com/changing-the-narrative-the-power-of-wikipedia-to-…>!
You can read more details about the pilot program and its impact in our
final report
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reading_Wikipedia_Final_Report.pdf>
[1].
Now, we are opening up the opportunity to more Wikimedians, mission-aligned
organizations, and individuals to participate in a Training of Trainers
(ToT). By the end of the ToT, participants will be certified to lead
training for Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom. They will be able to adapt
& implement the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program in their local
contexts to help teachers use Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool. Participants
who successfully complete the ToT will also have access to a pool of
funding that can support their local activities. You can learn more about
the ToT timeline and curriculum on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Reading_Wikipedia_in_the_Classroo…>
.
We think you or members of your community would be a great fit! We invite
you to attend an information session on Thursday, July 29 at 13:00 UTC via
Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/95280050770>. The team will share more
detailed information, answer questions, and announce the open call for
applications. If you have any questions ahead of this event, please don’t
hesitate to reach out to the team at education(a)wikimedia.org
We look forward to seeing you at the information session!
--the Education Team
[1]The program report
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reading_Wikipedia_Final_Report.pdf>
shows us how teachers’ attitudes towards Wikipedia changed as they moved
through the curriculum, responded to practical assignments and reflection
questions, and participated in synchronous sessions led by local
coordinators of the program. For example, one of the participating teachers
from Bolivia said that at first he “thought that Wikipedia was a platform
like Google, but now I value all the volunteer work done by the community
behind it”. The program model also supported members of the local Wikimedia
affiliates to improve their capacity to organize and lead education
initiatives. Currently, the Wikimedians of Bolivia
<https://twitter.com/wikimedia_bo/status/1415057167804162049> user group is
launching the second edition of the program! The resources
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Reading_Wikipedia_in_the_classr…>
created for the program are available on Wikimedia Commons in English,
Spanish, Arabic, and Tagalog, and they are free for anybody to use, adapt
and share.
--
Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Andreas Kolbe writes:
> It's worth noting that Yumiko's article (now also on fastcompany.com)
> quotes the WMF as saying it "does *not often* get involved in issues
> related to the creation and maintenance of content on the site."
>
> That "not often" actually indicates a little publicised but significant
> departure from past practice when the WMF would disclaim all responsibility
> for content ....
>
WMF did not "disclaim all responsibility for content." Instead, WMF
disclaimed primary responsibility for content, and still does. When WMF was
understaffed, as it typically was during Wikipedia's first decade, we made
a point of steering certain complaints and legal demands to the editor
community as a default choice. The policy reasons for this choice were
straightforward. But WMF directly intervened on a number of occasions,
typically as required by law.
Mike Godwin
Under the title "*Openness <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openness>*", "
انفتاح <https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%AD>"
the Algerian Wikimedians User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Algeria> has the honor to
organize the first remote conference of its kind directed at the
Wikimedians community, in which it invites Arab user groups in the Arab
region and all users of the Arabic Wikipedia encyclopedia to participate in
it by submitting talks under this title. The conference will be from 15 to
17 October 2021
We believe in the importance of the Wikimedia community, especially the
Arab community, in the perspective of openness towards global free
knowledge content, to offer this information in Arabic through Wikipedia
and its sister projects to every human being in this universe.
The Wikimedia Algeria user group is organizing the Wiki Arabia Algeria 2021
conference, which will be virtual for the first time in the Arab world from
15 to 17 October 2021 under the title "Openness".
We are honored to invite you to participate and enrich this conference,
which is an opportunity to share your topics and experiences with the Arab
region.
*We suggest to you four main points that need cessions during the
conference*:
- How can we achieve this openness?
- How do we increase the quantity and quality of content in the Arabic
Wikipedia and its sister projects?
- What are the strategies that should be adopted to publish outstanding
content in the Arabic Wikipedia and its sister projects?
- How do we maintain the pace of enriching good and new content in the
Arabic Wikipedia and its sister projects?
In order to present your important conference, you can fill in the
intervention form via the following link :
https://www.wikiarabia2021.com/en_GB/event/propose-2/track_proposal
As a reminder, the *deadline *for submission of interventions is *September
15, 2021 at 23:59 UTC*
If you have any questions or inquiries, please email us at
*program(a)wikiarabia2021.com
<program(a)wikiarabia2021.com>*.
You can visit the conference website via this link :
https://www.wikiarabia2021.com/en_GB/event/propose-2/page/lmqdm-wyky-rbyw-2…
We invite you to visit the rest of the Meta pages
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiArabia/2021>, Facebook
<https://web.facebook.com/wikiarabia2021>, Twitter
<https://twitter.com/Wikiarabia2021>or Instagram
<https://www.instagram.com/wiki.arabia/>
All appreciation and respect
*Mohammed Bachounda*
On behalf of the organizational team of WikiArabia Algeria.
* Mohammed Bachounda <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bachounda>*
Leader Wikimedia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Algeria>Algeria
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Algeria> UG
WikiArabia 2021 Algiers
<https://www.wikiarabia2021.com/en_GB/event/propose-2/page/lmqdm-wyky-rbyw-2…>
[image: Thumbnail for version as of 13:48, 19 April 2020]
Dear Wikimedians,
The pseudonymous list subscriber "hillbillyholiday" is on moderation.
This is an opportunity to re-iterate that the Universal Code of Conduct[1]
applies to all Wikimedia spaces, including mailing lists hosted on the
Wikimedia servers, like this one. Asserting, even indirectly ("anyone")
that one's interlocutor is a Nazi, violates the UCoC, and will not be
tolerated.
Long-time subscribers know we tolerate a lot of criticism of projects,
plans, and opinions on this list -- even *unfounded* criticism -- provided
it is *civil* and compliant with behavior expectations.
Please refrain from further violations of the UCoC, but by all means
continue to disagree with each other and to express criticism.
Asaf Bartov, list admin (volunteer role)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct
--
Asaf Bartov <asaf.bartov(a)gmail.com>
Wiki Indaba 2021 is less than three months away and we are calling upon you
to lend your skills, passion and experience by joining our team of
volunteers who will work with the core organizing team of members of the
Wikimedia community user group Uganda .
We have identified and defined roles that we believe can make our plan for
this conference a reality. Planning such an event is an opportunity to work
with other Wikimedians. Your support will help us make the first virtual
Wiki Indaba a memorable conference.
Please through the required roles here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2021/Call_for_volunte…
And send in your application through this form by 7th September 2021
https://framaforms.org/wiki-indaba-2021-call-for-volunteers-1630157958
Kind regards,
Geoffrey Kateregga
Wiki Indaba 2021 Communications Lead
Dear all,
I would like to announce the Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Online_Meeting_2021>, which
is scheduled to take place from 5-7 November and will be a virtual event
for a second consecutive year.
This year's conference will be labelled with the slogan "Meet for a Better
Future!" and its programme will be mostly filled with session proposals
received through a call for submissions, while there will also be a handful
of sessions that will feature keynote speakers or will be formatted as
plenary discussions on important topics from the Wikimedia movement. *You
can submit your session proposal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Online_Meeting_2021/Submissio…>
until
the extended deadline of 30 September 2021.*
Considering that the event will take place in an online environment and
there are no significant barriers for participation, we would like to
encourage participation and session proposals by people from outside the
region of Central and Eastern Europe.
In case you have any questions regarding the conference, please do not
hesitate to contact the Organising Committee members
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Online_Meeting_2021/Developme…>.
You can also read the official blog post
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/07/20/announcing-the-wikimedia-cee-online-m…>
announcing the event in order to get more information about it.
Best regards,
Kiril Simeonovski
...considering recent discussions on Wikimania and here, this is maybe a
useful opinion piece from https://
UNDARK.org/2021/08/12/wikipedia-has-a-language-problem-heres-how-to-fix-it/
It is packed with good insights and while I do not agree with all this, the
final sentence feels kind of brilliant: ... to achieve its stated mission
to “help everyone share in the sum of all knowledge,” they might first need
to create the sum of all Wikipedias.
Best Z. Blace
(In French below)
Dear Wikimedia community,
As some of you may have noticed from my interventions during the global
conversations, I am not a fan of elections. Like my compatriot David Van
Reybrouck
(https://www.polemia.com/contre-les-elections-de-david-van-reybrouck), I
am an advocate of direct democracy and consensus, and when this is not
possible, I am in favor of drawing lots for candidates with short and
non-repeatable mandates.
So, you may wonder why I have proposed myself as a candidate for the
current elections of new board members of the Wikimedia Foundation?
The answer is that it is for me a nice way to discover how these
elections work, but also and above all, it seemed to me to be a nice
opportunity to raise within our community some questions that worry me a
lot.
Unfortunately, I see that my candidacy has an opposite effect than the
one I hoped for. I had indeed wanted to launch a debate about the
Wikimedia Enterprise project in the form of a call for comments. But
this one seems to be compromised because of my lack of understanding of
the project, but also because of my candidacy to the board. See :
-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Wikimedia_Enterprise
-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Wikimedia_Enterpr…
-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Requests_for_deletion#Requests_for_com…
My approach may be clumsy and certainly original, but it starts from a
good background. I want to help our movement to make good decisions at
the beginning of discussions that I think are important.
I am therefore sending you this message in order to receive opinions and
advice regarding this situation. I wonder indeed if it would not be
useful that I withdraw my candidacy to the board of directors to be able
to continue the debates that I would like to launch more serenely? It is
just an idea, because I am afraid that it would complicate the voting
process, which has already been postponed once. I thank you already for
the help you could give to this situation.
Sincerely,
Lionel Scheepmans
_Chère communauté Wikimédia,_
_Comme certains d'entre vous l'auront peut-être remarqué lors de mes
interventions durant les conversations mondiales, je ne suis pas un
adepte des élections. Comme mon compatriote David Van Reybrouck
(https://www.polemia.com/contre-les-elections-de-david-van-reybrouck),
je suis un partisan de la démocratie directe et du consensus et quand
cela n'est pas possible, je suis favorable au tirage au sort des
candidats avec mandats de courtes durées et non reproductibles._
_Vous vous demandez alors certainement pourquoi dans ce cas, je me suis
proposé candidat pour les actuelles élections des nouveaux membres du
conseil d'administration de la fondation Wikimedia ?_
_La réponse est que c'est pour moi une belle façon de découvrir le
fonctionnement de ces élections, mais aussi et surtout, cela me semblait
être une belle occasion pour soulever au sein de notre communauté des
questions qui m'inquiètent beaucoup._
_Malheureusement, je constate que ma candidature a un effet inverse à ce
celui espéré. J'avais en effet envie de lancer un débat concernant le
projet Wikimedia Enterprise sous forme d'appel à commentaires. Mais
celui-ci semble compromis en raison de mon manque de compréhension du
projet, mais aussi en raison de ma candidature au conseil
d'administration. Voir :_
_-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Wikimedia_Enterprise_
_-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Wikimedia_Enterpr…
_-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Requests_for_deletion#Requests_for_com…
_Ma démarche est peut-être maladroite et certainement originale, mais
elle part d'un bon fond. Celui d'aider notre mouvement à prendre de
bonnes décisions au départ de discussions qui me semble importante._
_Je vous adresse donc ce message dans le but de recevoir des avis et
conseil par rapport à cette situation. Je me demande effectivement s'il
ne serait pas utile que je retire ma candidature au conseil
d'administration pour pouvoir poursuivre les débats que je voudrais
lancer plus sereinement ? C'est juste une idée, car j'ai peur que cela
complique le déroulement du scrutin qui déjà fut reporté une fois. Je
vous remercie déjà pour l'aide que vous pourriez apporter à cette
situation._
_Bien cordialement,_
Lionel Scheepmans
Dear Wikimedians,
Wiki Indaba is the official regional conference of the Wikimedia Foundation
for Africans both within and in the diaspora with interest in African
continent in addition to other open knowledge activators who are aligned
with the open information sharing mission.Topics of presentation and
dialogue include Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, other wikis,
open-source software, free knowledge, free content and how these projects
affect the African continent.
The 2020 edition of the conference was supposed to be held in Kampala,
Uganda but was postponed and will instead be held as a virtual event hosted
by the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda from 5th - 7th November 2021
Whether you are a community member of one of the Wikimedia projects (such
as Wikipedia, Wikidata or others), or a fellow open content creator or
consumer, the Local Organising Committee (LOC) in Uganda welcomes your
participation in this survey to identify themes and topics that would not
only be inclusive but also be of interest to you and your community.
Please give us your feedback by filling this survey http://shorturl.at/ltPR7
not later than 12th August 2021
Kind regards,
Geoffrey Kateregga
Communications Lead,
Virtual Wiki Indaba 2021
Dear everyone,
We are happy to share that Houcemeddine Turki, Wojciech Pędzich, Linar
Khalitov and Mardetanha are new members who have been appointed to the
Affiliations Committee.
Here are Houcemeddine Turki, Wojciech Pędzich, Linar Khalitov and Mohsen in
their own words:
1.
Houcemeddine Turki:
I am Houcemeddine Turki. I speak Tunisian Arabic as a native language.
However, I am keen on other varieties of Arabic including Modern Standard
Arabic, Algerian Arabic, Libyan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic and North Levantine
Arabic. I speak French and English as an upper-intermediate user (CEFR B2)
and Italian as an elementary user (CEFR A2) and I am a beginner in German
and Maltese (CEFR A1). So, I consider myself as a polyglot. In my real
life, I am a medical student and a research assistant in Biomedical Data
Science, Computational Linguistics, Library and Information Science and
Semantic Web at University of Sfax, Tunisia. As a Wikimedia volunteer, I
have been a Wikipedian between 2009 and 2019 before shifting all my
interest to Wikidata. I am mainly interested in developing tools and
efficient methods to ameliorate reference support and data quality of
Wikimedia projects and in ameliorating the coverage of regional and
scholarly topics in Wikipedia and in sister projects.
1.
Wojciech Pędzich:
I feel I can enrich the AffCom with my experience as Wikimedia Polska's
functionary and the functionary of the Wikimedia projects. I have a
background in English and in organisational management, with my M. Sc. on
content creation limitations on Wikipedia; I have also made a failed
attempt at a Ph. D. in leadership in open collaboration projects. I am also
a translator, including of Wikimedia and open collaboration-related books.
1.
Linar Khalitov:
I am a long-term Wikimedian mainly active in Russian Wikipedia and
Commons. I started contributing in 2007, and during that time, I have been
in different roles: sysop and bureaucrat in ru.wiki, OTRS member, sysop on
Commons (still keep the status), ombudsman, member of IEG and PEG (still
hold position), Wikimedia RU member (still there). I am also an active bot
owner with more than 1 mln edits on the bot account.
I am based in Kazan, Russia, have a financial degree and have practically
finished my EMBA in London Business School (graduation in July 2021). I
know English, Russian and Tatar languages (though my English is better
despite being a Tatar native). I have a full-time executive job in Russia.
Still, I am sure that I will be available enough as my MBA finishes, and my
grant committee participation will be over soon, too, due to the relaunch
of the grant approach by WMF.
I believe in the mission of Wikimedia movement and have always tried to
help and participate in promoting knowledge. I am sure that there is much
work to do as even in my region (European part of Russia) most people still
don't understand how Wikimedia projects operate, what benefits they provide
and how others can contribute. I think that chapters are the way of
promoting Wikimedia values around the globe and want to dedicate my
experience and knowledge in helping chapters to build sustainable models.
1.
Mardetanha:
Having joined wikimedia in 2005, I have been more serious about
contributing in 2007. Since then, I have been full time Wikimedian,
actively involved in many projects and in different languages, and been an
administrator for many, including Meta and Commons. After graduating, I
worked in a different field, but I have a background in engineering.
Currently, I'm living in Zanjan, Iran. Farsi and Azerbaijani are my native
languages. Additionally, I know English well, have extensive knowledge of
Turkish, and I am familiar with many Iranian language. My belief has always
been that affiliates are the heart of our movement, so the stronger the
affiliates, the greater the movement overall, In light of this, I feel
compelled to join AffCom and strengthen the movement.
Please join me in welcoming the newly-appointed members of AffCom.
*Kindly,---*
*Mehman Ibragimov*
*Vice-Chair*
*Affiliations Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>*
Hello all,
The West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians> has reserved a
table at the Community Village of Wikimania 2021.
If you have already registered for Wikimania, you can find us in the
following link -
https://live.remo.co/e/wikimania-2021/
We will be at *Building 1, Floor 4, Table 19* for the next 4 days for you
all to interact. Some of our activities and projects will also be displayed
through the *Whiteboard *there.
See you all there!
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)
Hi Everyone,
We wish to remind everyone that Wikimania 2021 registration closes 23:59
UTC today, Thursday, August 12.
The registration link is
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wikimania-2021-tickets-161884957265
For further information, you can also visit our event wiki at Wikimania.org.
Wikimania Telegram channel is also online at https://t.me/WikimaniaChat
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
In behalf of the Wikimania Steering Committee and Organizing Committee
Dear Community Members,
Wikimania 2021 is around the corner, kickstarting with Hackathon this
Friday, August 13, and we just can’t wait. We would like to share some
reminders and important updates with you.
Registration
We are nearing 2500 registrants already! That’s bigger than any in-person
Wikimania. We want to ensure everyone’s safety and as such, will be closing
registration on Thursday, August 12 @ 23:59 UTC. If you haven’t done so
already, please register now
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Registration>. Registering will
allow you to receive updates from the organizers, immerse in the virtual
platform, and most importantly, interact with other participants and host
sessions.
Attendee Information
And speaking of registering, we hope to share participant information on
Monday, including links to Remo
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/08/03/virtual-wikimania-2021-finding-your-w…>,
our virtual platform space, and other important information to prepare you
for Wikimania 2021.
Volunteers
We are still looking for volunteers
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Volunteer> for various roles. If
you are interested, sign up to help. There are different roles and your
help is greatly appreciated.
Digital Resources
As with every Wikimania, and even more so a virtual one, we have
awesome digital
assets <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Resources> to share with
you so you can use and share on yourself. Want to print a t-shirt for you
and your friends? Need social media posts or cool backgrounds, we got you
covered.
Hackathon
We will be kickstarting Wikimania 2021 with an all-day Hackathon
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon>! Please make sure to
register your session on the Hackathon schedule and join us for a day full
of collaborative work around the clock and around the world!
Community Village + Unconference
After the Hackathon, we have 4 full days of programming starting at
different times each day. As with every Wikimania, we will also have a
Community
Village <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Community_Village>.
There are 140 tables available where you can share information for people
to see, and you don’t even have to be there. Finally, we will also be
hosting an Unconference space where any attendee can host a session and
gather with up to 20 other attendees. Reserve your Unconference space now
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference>.
Best Wishes,
Winnie Kabintie (User:Ms_Kabintie
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ms_Kabintie>), on behalf of the
Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team.
Hello all,
We invite you all to sign up for Toolhub's Quality Signal sessions!
Toolhub <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub> [1] is a
community-authored catalog of Wikimedia tools. On Toolhub, you will be able
to discover new tools in the Wikimedia ecosystem, promote their use in your
wiki community, and help improve them by contributing data. Toolhub's first
release is planned around Wikimania 2021.
The Toolhub team is currently working on identifying quality indicators
through conversations with tool users and developers. As a tool user, how
do you know which tool is reliable, useful, and safe to use? As a tool
maintainer, what makes it attractive to you to contribute to an existing
tool? What information are you looking for to decide whether to join a tool
project? We hope that these sessions will help gather quality indicators
for tools and provide valuable insight toward developing new features to
convey the quality.
Want to organize a quality signal session in your community in August/early
September? Please get in touch on the talk page or sign-up for an already
planned session by adding your name below it: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/The_Quality_Signal_Sessions> [2].
Your feedback, thoughts, ideas would be valuable!
If you are attending Wikimania, we are running a few introductions and a
feedback session as part of the unconference. Learn more here: <
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference/Toolhub> [3].
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the Toolhub team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolhub/The_Quality_Signal_Sessions
[3] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference/Toolhub
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello all,
This email is a reminder to start proposing projects and sessions for this
year’s Wikimania hackathon, taking place on August 13th (the first day of
Wikimania). You may have already seen the announcement email last week with
all the details.
This year’s hackathon will take place in a 24 hrs format covering all time
zones. You can start proposing a session or a project by following the
guidelines here: <
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon#Propose_a_project_or_a_…>
[1].
We also encourage folks to reuse the video of a previously recorded session
(in lecture format) to organize a watch party-style session. And, you can
pause during or after for questions and discussions. That way, you have to
do less prep, and one can watch your session at any time during the event.
There isn't a specific focus area proposed this time, so your session or
project needn't fit under a theme. Anything that involves MediaWiki
development or covers a technical area in the Wikimedia ecosystem. Plus, we
welcome sessions that would be helpful to newcomers–new to the event, our
technical spaces, or projects.
If you have any questions, feel free to use the related talk page to
contact the organizing team or join the community conversation on Telegram:
<https://t.me/wikimaniachat> [2].
We look forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Srishti
On behalf of the Wikimania Hackathon organizing team
[1]
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Hackathon#Propose_a_project_or_a_…
[2] https://t.me/wikimaniachat
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Community Members,
As promised, we have published a series of posts on Diff with key information
for event participants <https://diff.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimania-2021/>.
There you will find information about navigating your way around the
virtual space Remo and the program, technical solutions, measures to make
the experience more welcoming and inclusive, accessing the amazing content
during (and after) the events … and so much more. Make sure to read them.
Office Hours
In case you have any questions, this week and next week, we will be
hosting office
hours - Wed. Aug 4 (3pm UTC), Fri. Aug. 6 (5pm UTC), Mon. Aug. 9 (10am
UTC), Tues. Aug. 10 (8am UTC), Wed. Aug. 11 (3pm UTC). For more
information, visit https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Organizers
Best Wishes,
Winnie Kabintie (User:Ms_Kabintie
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ms_Kabintie>), on behalf of the
Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team.
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours this Tuesday, 2021-08-03, at 16:00-17:00 UTC (9am PT/6pm
CEST).
To participate, join the video-call via this 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,
Martin on behalf of the WMF Research Team
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org
[2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours
[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
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Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear Community Members,
We are excited to share the program
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Program> for this year’s
Wikimania with you! This was a huge effort as we received an unexpectedly
high number of submissions and as much as possible, we wanted to include
all of them. We created two whole new tracks just for this — in addition to
the original two, the plenary, and the Unconference and on-demand tracks.
We thank you all for your patience and understanding as we bring virtual
Wikimania live.
The program table is a work in progress and over the next few days, we will
edit and build it out with more information.
We will share a series of blog posts tomorrow on Diff
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimania-2021/>with event specifics and
technical solutions for this first-ever virtual edition of Wikimania. All
registered participants will also receive specific guidance by email in the
next few days.
Upcoming Office Hours and Remo Practice Days
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Organizers>: Starting Tuesday,
August 3 at 10 AM UTC, we would also like to invite you to join us at our
upcoming Office Hours and practice days to walk through our event platform
Remo and answer any question you may have around the platform and how to
use it. 5 other opportunities are available to hop on Remo and ask us any
questions. Please check for a time and day that works for you.
Best Wishes,
Winnie Kabintie (User:Ms_Kabintie
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ms_Kabintie>), on behalf of the
Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team.
Hello everyone. I have just noticed the registration on eventbrite has been closed. Would it be reopened at a later time? If not, how should we help latecomers to participate in the event?
Best Regards,
Temp3600
Dear fellow Wikimedians,
Movement Strategy announces the Call for Candidates for the Movement
Charter Drafting Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Draftin…>.
The Call opens August 2, 2021 and closes September 1, 2021.
The Committee is expected to represent diversity in the Movement
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Draftin…>.
Diversity includes gender, language, geography, and experience. This
comprises participation in projects, affiliates, and the Wikimedia
Foundation.
English fluency is not required to become a member. If needed, translation
and interpretation support is provided. Members will receive an allowance
to offset participation costs. It is US$100 every two months.
We are looking for people who have some of the following skills
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Draftin…>
:
- Know how to write collaboratively. (demonstrated experience is a plus)
- Are ready to find compromises.
- Focus on inclusion and diversity.
- Have knowledge of community consultations.
- Have intercultural communication experience.
- Have governance or organization experience in non-profits or
communities.
- Have experience negotiating with different parties.
The Committee is expected to start with 15 people. If there are 20 or more
candidates, a mixed election and selection process will happen. If there
are 19 or fewer candidates, then the process of selection without election
takes place.
Will you help move Wikimedia forward in this important role? As August 2
has arrived to the most "eastern" time zones (e.g. the Line Islands
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Islands>), you can already *submit your
candidacy here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candida…>*
.
Please contact strategy2030[image: (_AT_)]wikimedia.org with questions.
Wishing you all a wonderful month of August!
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Kaarel Vaidla (he/him)
Movement Strategy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/2030>
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>