Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours this Tuesday, 2022-04-05. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1649199600>.
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 are welcome to add questions / items to the etherpad in advance,
or when you arrive at the session. Even if you are unable to attend the
session, you can leave a question that we can address asynchronously. If
you do not have a specific agenda item, you are welcome to hang out and
enjoy the conversation. More detailed information (e.g., about how to
attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves available to answer
research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors,
organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and
initiatives. Here are some example cases we hope to be able to support you
with:
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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?
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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.
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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.
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You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
To improve the impact and accessibility of our sessions, we invite you to
share your feedback in a brief optional survey [6]. We estimate that it
will take about 5-10 minutes to complete. We welcome your input even if you
have not attended Office Hours. If you prefer to not respond via Google
form, you can provide your feedback via email. We will accept responses
until April 15, 2022.
Hope to see many of you,
Emily 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
[6] https://forms.gle/Y5zJ7gunk4RvqvJX8
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Hello Wikimedians!
The *Campaigns Product Team *will be hosting the next office hour to share
exciting updates on the Registration Tool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Registrat…>
and new proposed namespaces for events. We will also be sharing community
updates on the usability tests and design highlights of the latest mobile
and desktop wireframes.
Join us and share your thoughts on these developments!
Date: *March 31, 2022*
Time: 15:00 UTC
Zoom: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/82046580320
You may also watch Campaigns Office Hour: Introducing the Campaigns Product
Team <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jT8fRUWjfI> to learn more about the
Team and the previous wireframes.
Feel free to send us a message if you want to receive a reminder for this
meeting.
Thank you.
Best,
Imelda
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*Imelda Brazal*
Senior Content Campaign Fellow
Campaign Product Team, Wikimedia Foundation
ibrazal-ctr(a)wikimedia.org
Hello everyone! [Sorry for the crossposting]
We are currently organizing a workshop with the title “Wiki-M3L: Wikipedia
and Multi-Modal & Multi-Lingual Research” at ICLR [1], in which we bring
together researchers working on topics around Wikipedia, with a focus on
multilingual projects as well as multi-modality (e.g., text and images). In
this workshop, we want to foster collaboration between researchers and the
Wikimedia community, so we allocated a session for researchers to exchange
with Wikimedians. Therefore we are looking for participants interested in
joining us at ICLR for the workshop and would like to exchange ideas and
answer some questions of researchers working on Wikipedia. The workshop
will happen virtually on the 29th of April 2022, and the session will take
around 30 minutes from 14:15 CET. Please reach out to us if you are
interested in participating!
Cheers,
Lucie and Tiziano
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki-M3L
Dear community members,
We are going into the last days of Wikimania 2022 survey but we still want to hear from you.
This is a reminder for you to please give us your event suggestions by March 31.
Read more via https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/17/save-the-date-and-help-us-create-wiki…
Wikimania 2022 is coming August 11-14!
Looking forward to your survey completion.
Thank you.
Kayode
Hello everyone!
Your friendly neighborhood Hackathon committee is thrilled to announce the
2022 Global Wikimedia Hackathon! We invite you to join us for three days of
collaborating, interactive sessions, and social fun from May 20-May 22. The
Hackathon will be held online and there will be grants available to support
local in-person meetups around the world. You can find more information
about this on our MediaWiki.org page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022>, which will
continue to grow over the next few weeks. For more details, read below.
Who: The Hackathon is for anyone who contributes (or wants to contribute
to) to Wikimedia’s technical areas - as code creators, maintainers,
translators, designers, technical writers and other technical roles. You
can come with a project in mind, join an existing project, or create
something new with others. The choice is yours! Newcomers are welcome.
We will send out more information on how to schedule a session in the
program soon. You can also add yourself to the participants list
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Participants>, and
mention if you would like to help with tasks such as facilitation or
welcoming newcomers. There will be scholarship stipends available- please
stay tuned for more information.
What: A Wikimedia Hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons> is
a space for the technical community to come together and work together on
technical projects, learn from each other, and make new friends.
When: May 20-May 22. The schedule will be announced shortly. We are trying
to plan events so that people in all time zones can participate
comfortably. There will be core hours several times a day when most events
will occur, and online social and hacking spaces open 24 hours a day
throughout the three days.
Where: The Hackathon will primarily be held online. However, very soon we
will share an application for local affiliates to apply for grants to host
in-person local meetups. Meetups can be anything from social gatherings
with food, to a party for watching the opening or closing ceremony, to a
pre-event workshop, to renting a venue where people can participate
together in the online event. Grants can range from 500-5000 USD. Stay
tuned for more information!
How (can you help)?:
1.
We are seeking another committee member! The commitment is around 3
hours per week. If you are interested, please contact hlepp(a)wikimedia.org
2.
We have an ideas page.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022>What are
you interested in? What would you like to see or do in this year’s
hackathon? Please share your ideas with everyone! This is a community
Hackathon and we will work together to put on a great event.
3.
Do you have any accessibility or translation requests? Please contact
hlepp(a)wikimedia.org
Cheers,
Your Hackathon Committee
Andre <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AKlapper_(WMF)>
Haley <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:HLepp_(WMF)>
Jay <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345>
Lucas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister>
Marios <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Magioladitis>
Neslihan <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Flanoz>
Selene
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:SYang_(WMF)&action=edit&re…>
Are there any projects in the vein of Geograph <https://geograph.co.uk/>,
OSM, Yelp, or Wikipedia for people remembering and preserving images and
information about cities, city blocks, buildings? Particularly for cities
that are damaged by disaster or war, this seems like a valuable thing to do
at the granularity of "the unit that individuals photograph, remember,
share with one another".
It would be good to have a freely-licensed structural history of a city in
this fashion, block by block. And something that refugees from a crisis
could do to preserve areas they frequented.
SJ
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@metasj w:user:sj
Hi everyone,
As many of you will recall, in 2019 we filed a petition with the European
Court of Human Rights
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/05/23/wikimedia-foundation-petiti…>
to lift the nearly three-year block of Wikipedia in Turkey. While the block
was lifted in 2020 following a ruling
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/12/26/turkish-constitutional-cour…>
from the Turkish Constitutional Court, our case proceeded in order to
evaluate whether the Turkish law used to issue the block violated free
expression rights. Our objective was to utilize the case to further our
efforts to protect the Wikimedia projects and free knowledge more broadly
from censorship going forward.
Today, the European Court of Human Rights announced
<https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#%7B%22itemid%22:[%22003-7293454-9940966%22]%…>
that it is dismissing the case, while still recognizing the importance of
our concerns at the time of our filing. It cited three reasons for this
dismissal: 1) the block was lifted in 2020; 2) the block was deemed a human
rights violation by the Turkish Constitutional Court in its December 2019
ruling
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/12/26/turkish-constitutional-cour…>;
and 3) the Court believes the Turkish Constitutional Court capable of
effectively
addressing future problems related to violations of free expression online.
Additionally, the Court provided guidance that the over two years taken by
the Turkish Constitutional Court to address the violation may in the future
be seen as an excessive delay for governments to take action in cases of
website blocking.
Because our primary goal when we filed the case was to restore access to
Wikipedia in Turkey, we understand the Court’s decision and still see this
outcome as a win. The Court acknowledged a human rights violation in our
case, and affirmed that restoring access was an important step in
addressing the violation.
However, we also recognize that this ruling comes at a time when access to
knowledge continues to be under threat around the world, including in
Russia where authorities recently demanded the removal of content on
Wikipedia
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/03/03/wikimedia-foundation-stands…>
related to the Russian government’s invasion of Ukraine. We will continue
to work with you all to defend the right of everyone to freely access and
participate in knowledge, today and into the future.
Read more about the decision in our statement
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/03/24/european-court-of-human-rig…>
and help amplify the message using our social media resources on Diff
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/24/european-court-of-human-rights-dismis…>
.
Best,
Leighanna Mixter
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Leighanna Mixter (she/her)
Senior Legal Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
San Francisco, California, USA (UTC -7)
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