Greetings all!
Our UG have published an annual report on 2021 here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North-West_Russia_Wiki-Historians_User_Grou… . It is originally published in Russian and translated to English, so, I hope it’ll be understandable for most of subscribers of this list. I know, that most of people here aren’t interested in activity in a part of Russia, but anyway, I hope that maybe someone will find something interesting for them.
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Nikolay Bulykin (User:Красный)
Dear All,
Wiki Loves Folklore is back this year on Wikimedia commons to be held from
1st of February till the 28th of February 2022. We need your support in
participation and translation of project pages to share a word in your
native language.
Concurrently with the photo contest we will be having a writing competition
called Feminism and Folklore. It will be held from 1st of February till the
31st of March 2022. We would like various Wikimedia communities to take
part in it.
Feel free to organise both the contest locally
We look forward for your immense participation in both the projects.
Warm regards,
Tiven Gonsalves (User:Tiven2240)
Coordinator WLF & FNF
*https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2022
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2022/Organize
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2022/Transla…
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feminism_and_Folklore_2022
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feminism_and_Folklore_2022/Project_Page
Hi, fellow Wikimedians,
QW2022 (Queering Wikipedia) is a global conference focused on LGBTQ+
communities and our representation on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia
projects in all languages.
If you are a Wikimedian and LGBTQ+ or a committed ally, please help
shape the proposal by providing feedback on what the priorities should
be, and how the event should run. You can give anonymous feedback
through the survey link below, or by copying the questions and
emailing in your responses in plain text.
Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLhbygKmWiyd8aemem2TcaOZ2UmL0y9YI…
Survey questions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QW2022/Survey
To read the proposal, add your support, ask questions or even
volunteer to join in and help make the event a success, see:
* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QW2022/Proposal
* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QW2022/Volunteer
Visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/LGBT to find out more about the
Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group and the different ways of talking with
fellow LGBTQ+ volunteers.
Different words and acronyms are used for communities within the
rainbow of sexualities and gender identities/expressions (e.g.
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, non-binary,
two-spirit, third gender, LGBT+, LGBTQ+, LGBTQQ2IA*, QUILTBAG, SOGI).
"Queer" is used by us to represent all members of these communities
and work toward solidarity for those affected by related
discrimination.
Thank you and happy holidays!
QW2022 proposal team
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Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT
Dear Wikimedians,
This year, the 9th edition of Wiki Loves Earth — the biggest international
photo contest devoted to nature heritage — was held. The competition aims
at raising public awareness about protected areas and creating the biggest
database of free photos of them. We are happy to announce the *international
winners of WLE 2021*!
The contest lasted between May 1 — August 31, with different countries
having different submission windows and united 34 countries and
territories. Among those, United Arab Emirates and Wales joined the
competition for the first time. We received over 64,000 freely licensed
photos of natural monuments from over 4300 people.
This year, the international winners represent *two categories* —
landscapes (including individual trees if it’s a nature monument) and
macro/close-up (animals, plants, fungi). The international jury team
<http://wikilovesearth.org/jury/> had a challenging task — to select up to
20 international winners out of 390 winning photos
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2021/Winners> on
the local level. Meet the winners by category in our blog post
<https://wikilovesearth.org/meet-wiki-loves-earth-2021-international-winners/>
. The jury report can be found at the links: high resolution
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wle-jury-report-2021-hires.pdf>, low
resolution
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wle-jury-report-2021-lores.pdf>.
Thanks a lot to each participant that uploaded photos, local organizers
that worked hard to make their contests happen, as well as local and
international jury members for their contribution and dedication to the
competition and evaluation. Stay tuned and follow our news, further — more!
Best regards,
Anastasiia Petrova
Project Manager for International Wiki Loves Earth 2021
Hello everyone,
I am pleased to announce the Steward Elections 2022 [1]. We are now taking
nominations from eligible candidates. Interested candidates can check their
eligibility and the procedure to submit the nomination on the guidelines
page [2]. We are open to candidate submissions until January 30, 2022,
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 7, and will finish on
February 26, 2022.
Please remember, the voting has not yet begun and will not until February
7, 2022, 14:00 (UTC). We will remind 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_2022
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2022/Guidelines
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Confirm/2022
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, January
19, at 9:30 AM PST/17:30 UTC. The theme is: Beyond English Wikipedia.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRaCa-v8nfQ
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
The Showcase will feature the following talks:
Comparing Language Communities - Characterizing Collaboration in the
English, French and Spanish Language Editions of WikipediaBy *Taryn Bipat
<https://tarynbipat.me/> (Microsoft, formerly University of Washington)*Is
Wikipedia a standardized platform with a common model of collaboration or
is it a set of 312 active language editions with distinct collaborative
models? In the last 20 years, researchers have extensively analyzed the
complexities of group work that enable the creation of quality articles in
the English Wikipedia, but most of our intellectual assumptions about
collaborative practices on Wikipedia remain solely based on an Anglocentric
perspective. This research extends the current Anglocentric body of
literature in human-computer interaction (HCI) and computer-supported
cooperative work (CSCW) through three studies that mutually help build an
understanding of collaboration models in the English (EN), French (FR), and
Spanish (ES) editions of Wikipedia. In the first study, I replicated a
model by Viégas et al. (2007) based on editors' behaviors in the English
Wikipedia. This model was used as a lens to examine collaborative activity
in EN, FR, and ES. In the second study, I leveraged a collaboration model
by Kriplean et al. (2007) that suggested editors used “power plays” – how
groups of editors claim control over article content through the discourse
of Wikipedia policy – in their talk page debates to justify their edits
made on articles. In the third study, I interviewed editors from each
language edition to build a typology of collaborative behavior and further
understand the editor's perceptions of power and authority on Wikipedia.
Understanding Wikipedia Practices Through Hindi, Urdu, and English Takes on
an Evolving Regional ConflictBy *Jacob Thebault-Spieker
<https://jacob.thebault-spieker.com/> (Information School, University of
Wisconsin – Madison)*Wikipedia is the product of thousands of editors
working collaboratively to provide free and up-to-date encyclopedic
information to the project’s users. This article asks to what degree
Wikipedia articles in three languages — Hindi, Urdu, and English — achieve
Wikipedia’s mission of making neutrally-presented, reliable information on
a polarizing, controversial topic available to people around the globe. We
chose the topic of the recent revocation of Article 370 of the Constitution
of India, which, along with other recent events in and concerning the
region of Jammu and Kashmir, has drawn attention to related articles on
Wikipedia. This work focuses on the English Wikipedia, being the preeminent
language edition of the project, as well as the Hindi and Urdu editions.
Hindi and Urdu are the two standardized varieties of Hindustani, a lingua
franca of Jammu and Kashmir. We analyzed page view and revision data for
three Wikipedia articles to gauge popularity of the pages in our corpus,
and responsiveness of editors to breaking news events and problematic
edits. Additionally, we interviewed editors from all three language
editions to learn about differences in editing processes and motivations,
and we compared the text of the articles across languages as they appeared
shortly after the revocation of Article 370. Across languages, we saw
discrepancies in article tone, organization, and the information presented,
as well as differences in how editors collaborate and communicate with one
another. Nevertheless, in Hindi and Urdu, as well as English, editors
predominantly try to adhere to the principle of neutral point of view
(NPOV), and for the most part, the editors quash attempts by other editors
to push political agendas.Best regards,
Emily
--
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
My post was sharded to just the wikidata list, copying the others :)
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 12:59 PM Patricio Lorente <
patricio.lorente(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you, SJ. I fully agree with your recommendations.
>
> El jue, 13 ene 2022 a las 14:55, Samuel Klein (<meta.sj(a)gmail.com>)
> escribió:
>
>> Kay, bless your heart.
>> Galder, Gereon, Xavi: I would be *particularly* interested in research
>> in other languages, since it's harder for me to run across that in my
>> regular feeds. (that may also be true for some of the reviewers :) but
>> they're also lang and time limited)
>>
>> Recommendation that might conceivably be implemented for this cycle:
>> -- Update "can submit" to "encouraged to submit" in any languages
>> -- If in a language other than {core langs} <-- which may be only
>> English this year, ask submitters to recommend a reviewer who can share a
>> review of the work in English
>> -- To Andy's point, confirm the license of the research is one that is
>> open (so that it can be independently translated)
>> -- Have a two stage award: the first stage, based on a quick review for
>> significance and interest, identifies finalists which are, if not already
>> in one of the {core langs}, translated into one of them. (at least in
>> abstract + summary; we facilitate this translation by supporting /
>> sponsoring community translation; it's a universal benefit for researchers
>> around the world)
>> -- Second stage is as currently imagined: review of finalist papers in
>> {core langs}.
>>
>> <3. SJ
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:27 PM KAY WOODING via Wikidata <
>> wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I SPEAK ENGLISH THABKS I APPRECIATE IT JESUS LOVES YIU I LOVE YOU GOD
>>> BLESS YOU HAVE A BLESSED DAY
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 09:55:21 PM EST, Leila Zia <
>>> lzia(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We gave the option of accepting nominations in more languages some
>>> more thought. I want to be very honest: I don't have a good solution
>>> to accommodate more languages in this cycle. We considered the option
>>> of allowing/encouraging nominations in other languages, and not doing
>>> the broader search we do in English in those languages. However, even
>>> this option is not really guaranteed to work because we consider
>>> "scholarly publications" which can be papers of a few pages or books
>>> that can be hundreds of pages. We cannot guarantee that we can
>>> translate the scholarly publication (independent of its length)
>>> in-time for the review.
>>>
>>> Given the above, my suggestion to you is that if you know of a
>>> scholarly publication that is in another language than English and you
>>> think we should consider it, still nominate it. We will consider it,
>>> even if I can't guarantee that we review it.
>>>
>>> I'm sorry that I am not able to offer a better solution for this
>>> cycle. We will continue thinking about this point for the future
>>> cycles.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Leila
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 12:46 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
>>> <galder158(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Hi Leila,
>>> > I have read it, that's why I'm confused.
>>> > ________________________________
>>> > From: Leila Zia <lzia(a)wikimedia.org>
>>> > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 9:40 PM
>>> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>>> > Cc: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <
>>> wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>; Discussion list for the Wikidata
>>> project. <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>>> > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia
>>> Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations
>>> >
>>> > Hi Galder,
>>> >
>>> > Please see below.
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 12:26 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
>>> > <galder158(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks, Leila, for answering the question raised.
>>> >
>>> > Anytime.
>>> >
>>> > > I'm a bit confused with this, I supposed that the Wikimedia
>>> Foundation Research Award was an initiative from the Research team of the
>>> WMF (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research), but I read in
>>> your answer that "WikiResearch is primarily in English and about research
>>> published in English". I understand that the main working language of the
>>> WMF is English, as this mailing list is, but I would assume that an Award
>>> promoted by the WMF should be multilingual.
>>> >
>>> > Sorry. Let me clarify. What I was referring to when I used
>>> > WikiResearch in my email was the WikiResearch twitter account:
>>> > https://twitter.com/WikiResearch . I did not intend to refer to the
>>> > WMF Research team or Wikimedia Research community. And to repeat: this
>>> > is one source we use to find research done on the Wikimedia projects.
>>> > There are other sources as I mentioned in my response.
>>> >
>>> > > Me, as a Basque Wikimedians User Group member, I promote Wikimedia
>>> activities in Basque language, because that is our goal. But the WMF is not
>>> the English Wikimedians User Group, as far as I understand. Our designated
>>> lingua franca may be English, but the WMF can't exclude research that is
>>> not made in this language from an Award. I would understand if the
>>> (non-existing) English Wikimedians User Group created the "EWUG Research in
>>> English Award of the Year", but is not the case.
>>> >
>>> > I understand and acknowledge your point about inclusion. I hope some
>>> > of the points I shared about our existing process in my other email
>>> > can help you find possible solutions we can consider doing. :) On my
>>> > end: I have a todo to come back to you all.
>>> >
>>> > Best,
>>> > Leila
>>> >
>>> > > Cheers,
>>> > >
>>> > > Galder
>>> > >
>>> > > ________________________________
>>> > > From: Leila Zia <lzia(a)wikimedia.org>
>>> > > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 8:04 PM
>>> > > To: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <
>>> wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>>> > > Cc: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>;
>>> Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>>> > > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia
>>> Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations
>>> > >
>>> > > Hi all, Thank you for your feedback. I take your comments as a sign
>>> of
>>> > > genuine care and I'm happy to engage and learn with you how we can do
>>> > > better. (Note: I'm responding to all lists, though some of the
>>> > > feedback has been sent only to wikimedia-l.)
>>> > >
>>> > > * Galder, Gereon, Xavier, Gnangarra, and Andy: thank you for your
>>> feedback.
>>> > >
>>> > > * Andy, I'll respond to your comment first. We do not require the
>>> work
>>> > > to be published under a free license for us to consider it for the
>>> > > award. However, if the work is shortlisted, we reach out to the
>>> > > authors, tell them that it's shortlisted, and it can be considered
>>> for
>>> > > the award if the work is at least made publicly available. At that
>>> > > point, we also encourage the authors to publish under a free license
>>> > > and share with them a few ways they may be able to (even if the work
>>> > > is published somewhere already with restrictions). The issue of
>>> > > licenses is on top of our mind and we actively look for ways to push
>>> > > for more Wikimedia research work to be published under free licenses.
>>> > >
>>> > > * I am going to share with you some of my thoughts, and a possible
>>> > > improvement we can make in the process.
>>> > >
>>> > > ** Let's try to keep things simple to be able to improve things
>>> > > together. This is not a case of "WMF did x". The idea of the award
>>> was
>>> > > created in the Research team, and both last year and this year, we've
>>> > > been grateful to have the support of researchers outside of WMF for
>>> > > it. (Aaron Shaw (Northwestern University), and Benjamin Mako Hill (U.
>>> > > of Washington)). I take full responsibility for the execution of the
>>> > > award and I can take your feedback and see where we can improve the
>>> > > process. :)
>>> > >
>>> > > ** In order to be able to improve the process, I should share more
>>> > > details about how we do the search for the publications first. We
>>> have
>>> > > multiple sources for searching for research published in a given
>>> year:
>>> > > 1. The nomination process we shared on this thread.
>>> > > 2. Research publications shared in WikiResearch twitter account.
>>> > > 3. External research search engines and repositories for different
>>> > > fields: we use scholar.google.com, dblp.org and more.
>>> > >
>>> > > To give you a sense of the distribution of scholarly publications we
>>> > > identified last year from each of the above sources: 11 nominations
>>> > > and 170+ research publications through the twitter account and
>>> > > external searches. The award chairs (2 people; this year it is going
>>> > > to be Mako and I) reviewed all identified publications. We discussed
>>> > > every publication at varying depth depending on the result of our
>>> > > initial reviews.
>>> > >
>>> > > ** Knowing the process, there are at least a few ways I think the
>>> > > process must be improved. I'm sure now that you see more you can
>>> > > critique even more. :) I proactively share with you some of them
>>> here:
>>> > > ::* I need to have an easychair account to nominate. That can/must
>>> > > change (but to what? we want these nominations to be private, and we
>>> > > need a way to be able to process them efficiently because we're only
>>> 2
>>> > > people. We are considering openreview.net for the future years
>>> because
>>> > > they're open source; but they still have other limitations. For this
>>> > > year, easychair it is.).
>>> > > ::* We need more people on the committee: both for workload sharing,
>>> > > and also including more perspectives. (This is /a lot/ to ask of
>>> > > researchers. I'm grateful that Mako and Aaron have supported us in
>>> the
>>> > > past.)
>>> > > ::* We need other non-English sources to source community research.
>>> > > (WikiResearch is primarily in English and about research published in
>>> > > English.)
>>> > > ::* The shared language of reviewers is assumed to be English. If we
>>> > > are going to at scale consider other languages, then we need a way
>>> > > that this group of people can converse on academic topics with one
>>> > > another without having to share a language.
>>> > >
>>> > > ** I also understand the reality of the resources available to me and
>>> > > our team. I understand the importance of working on multiple fronts
>>> > > with regards to the research community (Wikimedia Research Funds,
>>> Wiki
>>> > > Workshop, global research competitions, research showcases, monthly
>>> > > office hours, talks and presentations, formal collaborations, and
>>> > > more). I believe in the importance of motivation (and we have seen a
>>> > > very good momentum around the award idea from last year's run). We
>>> > > need to do many things, with very limited resources; Our values and
>>> > > ideals are important and we have to attempt to hold them all as we
>>> > > make decisions. In practice, sometimes we can't meet all the
>>> ambitions
>>> > > we have. We need to make trade-offs. What is important is to be
>>> aware,
>>> > > to listen, to try to improve, and to be honest.
>>> > >
>>> > > I will leave you with the above and I commit to talk with Mako to
>>> > > consider ways to open up the process for more languages to be
>>> included
>>> > > (in 2021 or in 2022+; I can't promise changes for the 2021 process.).
>>> > > One of us will write back here with what we decide to do.
>>> > >
>>> > > Thanks,
>>> > > Leila
>>> > >
>>> > > On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 5:42 AM Andy Mabbett <
>>> andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
>>> > > >
>>> > > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 19:48, Leila Zia <lzia(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>> > > >
>>> > > > > =Eligibility criteria=
>>> > > >
>>> > > > > * The publication must be available in English.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I echo others' concerns about this.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I'm equally concerned that, while WMF regard being in English as
>>> > > > essential for one of their awards, they do not regard the use of an
>>> > > > open licence as a requirement.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > --
>>> > > > Andy Mabbett
>>> > > > @pigsonthewing
>>> > > > https://pigsonthewing.org.uk
>>> > > > _______________________________________________
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>>
>>
>> --
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