Wikimedia-l February 2023

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A new Signpost issue is out
by Andreas Kolbe 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

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22 Feb '23

Hi everyone, I’m emailing to let you know that the Terms of Use comment period has opened! You can read more about it on Meta at the page about the ToU update <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_department/2023_…>. We’ve also released a blog discussing the changes, which you can find here <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/21/were-revising-the-wikimedia-foundatio…> . The comment period will be open until April 24. We will also be having office hours for discussion on March 2, at 17:00 UTC to 18:30 UTC and April 4, at 17:00 UTC to 18:30 UTC. You can read more about them here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Legal_department/2023_…>. We look forward to hearing from you! Best, Jacob -- Jacob Rogers Associate General Counsel Wikimedia Foundation Pronouns: He/him NOTICE: This message might have confidential or legally privileged information in it. If you have received this message by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal/ethical reasons I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.

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New update in Wikimedia Foundation v. National Security Agency
by James Buatti 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Hello everyone, We invite you to take a look at our Diff post <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/08/26/wikimedia-foundation-aclu-and-knight-…> about a recent update in our lawsuit against the U.S. National Security Agency <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency>, the agency responsible for a number of mass surveillance practices that first came to light in 2013 <https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2013/07/18/wikimedia-foundation-letter…>. As we describe in the post, we first filed <https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/stop-spying-on-wikipedia-users.h…> this case in 2015 to protect the privacy and free expression rights of Wikimedia users worldwide. In the coming months, we will share more about this case, its implications, and how you can get involved. Best, Jim Buatti on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Affairs and Global Advocacy Teams -- James Buatti (he/him) Senior Manager, Legal Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> NOTICE: This message might have confidential or legally privileged information in it. If you have received this message by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. For legal reasons, I may only serve as an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.

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Invitation to episode 21 of WikiAfrica Hour
by Ceslause Ogbonnaya 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Dear all, I wish to invite you to episode 21 of WIkiAfrica Hour, title *Commons: Inside out, *where we shall be discussing Wikimedia Commons user experience and many other interesting details, including how Wikimedia Commons could be improved in order to fit into what the Wikimedia Foundation wants to achieve through the 2030 Movement Strategy. Guests include: 1. Wilson Oluoha <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:OtuNwachinemere> - Community facilitator, Wiki Loves Africa 2023 2. Ziko Van Dijk <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ziko> - Wiki expert, Netherlands/Germany 3. Fiona Romeo <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:FRomeo_(WMF)> - Member, 2022 Image Description Week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image_Description_Week> Working group Date: 24th February 2023 Time: 4pm UTC Details: http://w.wiki/5dft <https://t.co/c9ZueUzjTW> Regards, Ceslause Ogbonnaya *Host, WIkiAfrica Hour*

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Re: My project was stolen by a user from Rwanda - User:Nkunda102
by Ndahiro Derrick Alter 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

Thanks Abel for bringing our community ‘s attention to this issue though ( I don’t think using all these avenues before reaching to the user who did that was really necessary but I understand the context ) I just had a phone call with user:Nkunda102 , he is newbie with no skills of editing the metapage, he regrets his actions and will write a formal apology to the original author and the team receiving grants . Best regards On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 at 13:10 Abel MBULA <bam6192(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Forward as received > > FYI dear community member > > Abel Lifaefi Mbula > Free Software Dev > Free Culture Enthousiast > > Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send > OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/ > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: patience kavira <patiencekavira(a)gmail.com> > Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 at 13:07 > Subject: Fwd: My project was stolen by a user from Rwanda - User:Nkunda102 > To: Abel MBULA (via Google Drive) <bam6192(a)gmail.com> > > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > De : patience kavira <patiencekavira(a)gmail.com> > Date: sam. 18 févr. 2023 à 12:55 > Subject: My project was stolen by a user from Rwanda - User:Nkunda102 > To: fdevouard(a)anthere.org <fdevouard(a)anthere.org>, > donatien.kanga(a)gmail.com <donatien.kanga(a)gmail.com>, > emmanuelleg22(a)gmail.com <emmanuelleg22(a)gmail.com>, isla(a)wikiinafrica.org < > isla(a)wikiinafrica.org> > Cc: <wikifranca(a)lists.wikimedia.fr>, < > african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > > > Dear Florence, > > It is with great regret that I am writing to report suspicious behavior by > a user from Rwanda. > > As part of the African Environment project that you are conducting in > partnership with Wikimedia CI, I have submitted a funding request since > February 14th [1]. > > However, as I was checking this morning to see if you have already decided > on my project, I was surprised to see that the project has been slightly > modified, and I am no longer the project owner. It is now the user > Nkunda102 who has taken over the project. I did not want to simply undo his > modifications, at the risk that he might come back again. I want to bring > the situation to your level so that you know what to do, but at the same > time, I would like to alert the whole community so that such behavior > cannot happen again, because it tarnishes the image of Africa, as well as > of Wikipedia. > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Environment/Microfunding/Let%E2%80%9… > > > Kind regards, > > Patience Kavira > Environmental specialist > University of Kisangani > > > -- derrick

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Chat GPT
by Victoria Coleman 18 Feb '23

18 Feb '23

Hi everyone. I have seen some of the reactions to the narratives generated by Chat GPT. There is an obvious question (to me at least) as to whether a Wikipedia chat bot would be a legitimate UI for some users. To that end, I would have hoped that it would have been developed by the WMF but the Foundation has historically massively underinvested in AI. That said, and assuming that GPT Open source licensing is compatible with the movement norms, should the WMF include that UI in the product? My other question is around the corpus that Open AI is using to train the bot. It is creating very fluid narratives that are massively false in many cases. Are they training on Wikipedia? Something else? And to my earlier question, if GPT were to be trained on Wikipedia exclusively would that help abate the false narratives? This is a significant matter for the community and seeing us step to it would be very encouraging. Best regards, Victoria Coleman

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Results of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Vote
by Shani Evenstein 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

Hello Everyone, *Today the results of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines vote were tallied*. We are pleased to report the results show that the Enforcement Guidelines are strongly supported by the community, with *76% of participants voting in support *of the Enforcement Guidelines. A report with a summary and analysis of comments submitted in the voting process is being prepared by the staff members supporting the Universal Code of Conduct work and will be available soon. Below is a message created by the staff members supporting the Universal Code of Conduct work, which has translations available on Meta-wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Revised_enforceme…> . The recent community-wide vote on the Universal Code of Conduct revised Enforcement Guidelines <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…> has been tallied and scrutinized. Thank you to everyone who participated. After 3097 voters from 146 Wikimedia communities voted, the results are 76% in support of the Enforcement Guidelines, and 24% in opposition. Statistics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…> for the vote are available. A more detailed summary of comments submitted during the vote will be published soon. From here, the results and comments collected during this vote will be submitted to the Board of Trustees for their review. The current expectation is that the Board of Trustees review process will complete in March 2023. We will update you when their review process is completed. I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who participated in this process. This list includes the people who voted in 2022 and those voters who provided comments so we could strengthen and clarify the Enforcement Guidelines into the version the community supports. I especially want to thank the Drafting Committee, who took the time to reconvene and review community feedback from the 2022 Enforcement Guideline vote and continue to engage with the community and feedback throughout 2022. Finally, thank you to the people who voted and shared feedback during this voting period. We look forward to reviewing the report of the feedback and discussing next steps with the rest of the Board. Shani, on behalf of the CAC. Shani Evenstein Sigalov <https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/> Vice Chair, Board of Trustees Chair, Community Affairs Committee Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Fwd: Women's History Month Conversation
by Masana Mulaudzi 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

Hi everyone Sending across a reminder for the Women's History Month Office Hour *happening today at 4pm UTC. * Please visit this link for log in information: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Women_History_Month_Conversation More details below. To respond to the gender gap and create opportunities to strengthen the gender diverse content on Wikipedia, the Gender Organizing community in the Wikimedia Movement hosts an annual campaign <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women> during International Women’s Month. This campaign is an important opportunity for the Wikimedia movement to engage with the work of different communities highlighting the gender gap in each Wikimedia project. We invite you to a conversation hour! For this reason (and many more), we are excited to invite you to a Campaigns Programs Office Hour on Gender Organizing as a Wikimedians. Here, I hope to listen to your experiences of gender organizing across the WikiProjects and share some exciting tools that we’ve developed to support your work! Join this conversation hour to: - Share what your community is doing in campaign organizing on the Gender Gap during International Women’s Day and beyond. - Learn about this year’s volunteer-led Central Notice banner and central calendar and how you can give feedback on the pages. - Learn how the new event registration tool <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xb6-ZElpN4&ab_channel=WikimediaFoundation>can help improve your registration experience for newcomers joining events. Please join the Office Hour to connect and share. International Women’s Day Office Hour 16 February 2023 1600 UTC Register here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Women_History_Month_Conversation> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Masana Mulaudzi <mmulaudzi(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 4:02 PM Subject: Women's History Month Conversation To: <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi Wikimedia Organizers, My name is Masana Mulaudzi and I recently joined the Wikimedia Foundation as the new Senior Manager for the Campaigns Programs team. Before joining the Wikimedia Foundation I worked extensively in the gender justice movement across Africa, and in solidarity with feminists around the world in economic and social justice campaigning. I am really humbled to be joining the Movement and to learn and act in solidarity with gender organizers in this vibrant community. To respond to the gender gap and create opportunities to strengthen the gender diverse content on Wikipedia, the Gender Organizing community in the Wikimedia Movement hosts an annual campaign <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women> during International Women’s Month. This campaign is an important opportunity for the Wikimedia movement to engage with the work of different communities highlighting the gender gap in each Wikimedia project. We invite you to a conversation hour! For this reason (and many more), we are excited to invite you to a Campaigns Programs Office Hour on Gender Organizing as a Wikimedians. Here, I hope to listen to your experiences of gender organizing across the WikiProjects and share some exciting tools that we’ve developed to support your work! Join this conversation hour to: - Share what your community is doing in campaign organizing on the Gender Gap during International Women’s Day and beyond. - Learn about this year’s volunteer-led Central Notice banner and central calendar and how you can give feedback on the pages. - Learn how the new event registration tool <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xb6-ZElpN4&ab_channel=WikimediaFoundation>can help improve your registration experience for newcomers joining events. Please join the Office Hour to connect and share. International Women’s Day Office Hour 16 February 2023 1600 UTC Register here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Women_History_Month_Conversation> *Masana Mulaudzi (She/Her)* Senior Manager, Campaigns Programs Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Information about Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 satellite events
by Srishti Sethi 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Hello everyone, If you are interested in organizing or joining a hackathon event, but cannot attend the in-person Hackathon event in May in Athens, Greece, this email is for you! We encourage communities, user groups or chapters to organize satellite events connected to the in-person Hackathon. These events are to be organized autonomously and share the hackathon's purpose: bringing the global technical community together to connect, hack, run technical discussions, and explore new ideas. You can work with your wiki community to organize these events before, during, or after the main event to onboard newcomers to the technical aspects of the Wikimedia movement, hosting watch parties or meetups in your region to offer an alternative to people who cannot join the in-person event in Athens. To obtain help with organizing an event, you can apply for funds via the *Rapid Grants* maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation. The deadline to apply for funding is *March 20*. When preparing for your event, you can reach out to the Hackathon organizing team for support with resources, designing the program, and guidance on getting involved in the global event. Learn more about the satellite events, funding process, and a checklist for organizing on the wiki page: < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Satellite_events> [1] Cheers, Srishti On behalf of the Hackathon organizing team [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023/Satellite_events *Srishti Sethi* Senior Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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[Wikimedia Research Showcase] February 15 at 9:30AM PT, 17:30 UTC
by Emily Lescak 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

Hello everyone, The next Research Showcase will be livestreamed next Wednesday, February 15 at 9:30AM PT / 17:30 UTC. The theme is The Free Knowledge Ecosystem. YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VJmR-3lTac We welcome you to join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You can also watch our past research showcases: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase This month's presentations: The evolution of humanitarian mapping in OpenStreetMap (OSM) and how it affects map completeness and inequalities in OSMBy *Benjamin Herfort, Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology*Mapping efforts of communities in OpenStreetMap (OSM) over the previous decade have created a unique global geographic database, which is accessible to all with no licensing costs. The collaborative maps of OSM have been used to support humanitarian efforts around the world as well as to fill important data gaps for implementing major development frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Besides the well-examined Global North - Global South bias in OSM, the OSM data as of 2023 shows a much more spatially diverse spread pattern than previously considered, which was shaped by regional, socio-economic and demographic factors across several scales. Humanitarian mapping efforts of the previous decade have already made OSM more inclusive, contributing to diversify and expand the spatial footprint of the areas mapped. However, methods to quantify and account for the remaining biases in OSM’s coverage are needed so that researchers and practitioners will be able to draw the right conclusions, e .g. about progress towards the SDGs in cities. Dataset reuseː Toward translating principles to practiceBy *Laura Koesten, University of Vienna*The web provides access to millions of datasets. These data can have additional impact when used beyond the context for which they were originally created. But using a dataset beyond the context in which it originated remains challenging. Simply making data available does not mean it will be or can be easily used by others. At the same time, we have little empirical insight into what makes a dataset reusable and which of the existing guidelines and frameworks have an impact.In this talk, I will discuss our research on what makes data reusable in practice. This is informed by a synthesis of literature on the topic, our studies on how people evaluate and make sense of data, and a case study on datasets on GitHub. In the case study, we describe a corpus of more than 1.4 million data files from over 65,000 repositories. Building on reuse features from the literature, we use GitHub’s engagement metrics as proxies for dataset reuse and devise an initial model, using deep neural networks, to predict a dataset’s reusability. This demonstrates the practical gap between principles and actionable insights that might allow data publishers and tool designers to implement functionalities that facilitate reuse. We hope you can join us! Warm regards, Emily -- Emily Lescak (she / her) Senior Research Community Officer The Wikimedia Foundation

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