I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :)
What's happening over in your part of the project?
Phoebe
Ps Fabrice sent the blog roundup while I was writing this! Those are all cool things. Would love to learn about more as well.
Phoebe On Jun 4, 2015 2:41 PM, "phoebe ayers" phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :)
What's happening over in your part of the project?
Phoebe
FWIW, Community Engagement will be doing something similar (mix of positive-serious with positive-fun) in metrics meeting every month. You can see the first iteration during last month's metrics meeting: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2015-05
Luis
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:44 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Ps Fabrice sent the blog roundup while I was writing this! Those are all cool things. Would love to learn about more as well.
Phoebe On Jun 4, 2015 2:41 PM, "phoebe ayers" phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :)
What's happening over in your part of the project?
Phoebe
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"What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?"
That the WMF is one of the charities in this week's Humble Bundle (along with MSF and charity:water) -- and it's actually a pretty good bundle.
Dan Rosenthal
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
FWIW, Community Engagement will be doing something similar (mix of positive-serious with positive-fun) in metrics meeting every month. You can see the first iteration during last month's metrics meeting: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2015-05
Luis
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:44 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Ps Fabrice sent the blog roundup while I was writing this! Those are all cool things. Would love to learn about more as well.
Phoebe On Jun 4, 2015 2:41 PM, "phoebe ayers" phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per
Milos'
observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about
an
edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are
infiltrating
library conferences :)
What's happening over in your part of the project?
Phoebe
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On Jun 4, 2015 11:21 PM, "Dan Rosenthal" swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
l That the WMF is one of the charities in this week's Humble Bundle (along with MSF and charity:water)
That's a wonderful charity trio to be part of! Thanks for sharing. (Phoebe, great idea :)
I discovered there is a remaining of stock of 20K Wikireaders that were half-built, and the owner is trying to arrange for the factory to finish them and transfer them to the WMF.
Sam
Huh, I didn't have intention to make anyone depressive. It's been call to action and you've just made one :)
Before I give one very nice report from languages list, I want to make one point...
It is very easy to change the culture. It's easier than to make a good software and definitely much easier than to create the biggest encyclopedia in human history.
Everything what we need is to change collective attitude from "we can't" to "we can". And whenever a fellow Wikimedian start thinking negatively, we should remind him or her that it's a wrong way of thinking. Yes, we can revive our spirit from the first half of the last decade and we can do that just if think it's possible. And it is possible, trust me :)
...
Languages list suddenly revived. And during one day we've learned for three separate initiatives for building Wikipedia articles in a number of Latin American native languages. That reminded me that there are a lot of people in the wild willing to work on Wikipedia content, even in many languages which don't have its edition of Wikipedia yet. And we should start searching for them collectively. On Jun 4, 2015 23:41, "phoebe ayers" phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :)
What's happening over in your part of the project?
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
Huh, I didn't have intention to make anyone depressive.
You didn't! I was thinking of other unrelated things. :)
Languages list suddenly revived. And during one day we've learned for three separate initiatives for building Wikipedia articles in a number of Latin American native languages. That reminded me that there are a lot of people in the wild willing to work on Wikipedia content, even in many languages which don't have its edition of Wikipedia yet. And we should start searching for them collectively.
Very cool! Which languages?
Phoebe
On Jun 5, 2015 03:01, "phoebe ayers" phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:58 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
Huh, I didn't have intention to make anyone depressive.
You didn't! I was thinking of other unrelated things. :)
Glad to hear that :) I mean, at least I am not the cause...
Languages list suddenly revived. And during one day we've learned for
three
separate initiatives for building Wikipedia articles in a number of
Latin
American native languages. That reminded me that there are a lot of
people
in the wild willing to work on Wikipedia content, even in many languages which don't have its edition of Wikipedia yet. And we should start searching for them collectively.
Very cool! Which languages?
Global Voices folk are going to Bogota and one Wayuu speaker will join them. We have incubator project.
Similarly, French Wikimedian Sylvain Mailler is working on Kichwa Incubator and he has access to native speakers, as his wife is Kichwa (from Ecuador).
Canadian doctor and Wikipedia activist James Heilman is working on medical articles in Guarani, Haitan Creole, K'iche', and Quechua. Except Ki'che', we have projects in all other languages.
Translation companies are donating those translations, which opens interesting area, that we didn't explore yet.
I am AWFULLY biased about this, but I'll be shameless anyway; please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion.
I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in Pretoria yesterday. As far as I know, it was the first one ever that focused on using the recently enabled ContentTranslation beta feature. It was six hours long and had nine participants, only two of whom had any editing experience. It produced *fourteen* complete articles in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaans and French. Except the latter two, the Wikipedias in these languages are barely active.
I conducted dozens of editing workshops, and this one was, by far, the most productive ever by the amount of content created, considering the time and the participants' experience. Time will tell how well can it be replicated and improved upon and how many participants will stick, but I'm optimistic.
I'll write a more detailed post later today. בתאריך 5 ביוני 2015 00:41, "phoebe ayers" phoebe.wiki@gmail.com כתב:
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :)
What's happening over in your part of the project?
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Hoi, Jura1 created a list using the latest software by Magnus of people who died in Brazil this year. Magnus added functionality to the template so that it is really easy to add images that are missing. This list makes use of Wikidata and it gets updated by a bot. It may live on any Wikipedia. Thanks, GerardM
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_Brazil
On 5 June 2015 at 07:55, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
I am AWFULLY biased about this, but I'll be shameless anyway; please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion.
I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in Pretoria yesterday. As far as I know, it was the first one ever that focused on using the recently enabled ContentTranslation beta feature. It was six hours long and had nine participants, only two of whom had any editing experience. It produced *fourteen* complete articles in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaans and French. Except the latter two, the Wikipedias in these languages are barely active.
I conducted dozens of editing workshops, and this one was, by far, the most productive ever by the amount of content created, considering the time and the participants' experience. Time will tell how well can it be replicated and improved upon and how many participants will stick, but I'm optimistic.
I'll write a more detailed post later today. בתאריך 5 ביוני 2015 00:41, "phoebe ayers" phoebe.wiki@gmail.com כתב:
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :)
What's happening over in your part of the project?
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That we had the highest-ever votes in a Wikimedia Foundation board election - and participation from many more wikis.
Cheers Bishakha On 5 Jun 2015 13:01, "Gerard Meijssen" gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, Jura1 created a list using the latest software by Magnus of people who died in Brazil this year. Magnus added functionality to the template so that it is really easy to add images that are missing. This list makes use of Wikidata and it gets updated by a bot. It may live on any Wikipedia. Thanks, GerardM
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jura1/Recent_deaths_in_Brazil
On 5 June 2015 at 07:55, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
I am AWFULLY biased about this, but I'll be shameless anyway; please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion.
I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in Pretoria yesterday. As far as I know, it was the first one ever that focused on using the recently enabled ContentTranslation beta feature. It was six hours long and had nine participants, only two of whom had any editing experience. It produced *fourteen* complete articles in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaans and French. Except the latter two, the Wikipedias in these languages are barely active.
I conducted dozens of editing workshops, and this one was, by far, the
most
productive ever by the amount of content created, considering the time
and
the participants' experience. Time will tell how well can it be
replicated
and improved upon and how many participants will stick, but I'm
optimistic.
I'll write a more detailed post later today. בתאריך 5 ביוני 2015 00:41, "phoebe ayers" phoebe.wiki@gmail.com כתב:
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per
Milos'
observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about
an
edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are
infiltrating
library conferences :)
What's happening over in your part of the project?
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
please slap me if I overstep the self-promotion.
No no, please go on. This is one of the best wiki tools in a while.
I did a Wikipedia editing workshop in the University of South Africa in
Pretoria yesterday.
Next time: video? !
Quim writes:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96378 (33 hackathon events) Experiment with video.js was basically a one-person-three-day [TheDJ
special]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100106
Very neat. Does this work with popcorn?
I felt that this year's elections went remarkably smoothly. I believe that we have the Elections Committee and its tireless leader Varnet, project manager James Alexander, and the SecurePoll devs to thank. There were a few technical issues but overall I feel that everyone did a very fine job.
Pine
At least 33 hackathon projects were developed and showcased in 3 days, all crowd-documented at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96378 before the end of the event. Unseen in Wikimedia as far as I'm aware, and we'll try again in Wikimania
For instance, Experiment with video.js was basically a one-person-three-day effort (but not just any person, TheDJ no less), and it was demoed with a functional and funny sneak preview. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100106
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:41 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
Six months ago, the average time it took to save a page was 6.1 seconds. It's now 1.4 seconds. The performance team is in the process figuring out our goals for the next quarter and we think we can get to sub-second page saves by September.
Hoi, Ori I am seriously impressed !! WOW Thanks, GerardM
On 8 June 2015 at 07:55, Ori Livneh ori@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:41 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
Six months ago, the average time it took to save a page was 6.1 seconds. It's now 1.4 seconds. The performance team is in the process figuring out our goals for the next quarter and we think we can get to sub-second page saves by September. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
As of writing, Danish Wikipedia is now 32 articles from reaching 200,000. It's midnight in Denmark now, so it will at some point tomorrow, CET.
//Johan Jönsson --
2015-06-04 14:41 GMT-07:00 phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com:
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :)
What's happening over in your part of the project?
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Dear Johan, Our greetings to you! [1]
And Ukrainian Wikipedia now has one more article because of Danish Wikipedia :)) [2] (and because of 100wikidays challenge, of course [3])
[1] https://wikimediaukraine.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/wikipedia-danskoiu-siahnul... [2] https://uk.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1957629 [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays
Best regards, antanana ED of Wikimedia Ukraine
2015-06-11 1:11 GMT+03:00 Johan Jönsson brevlistor@gmail.com:
As of writing, Danish Wikipedia is now 32 articles from reaching 200,000. It's midnight in Denmark now, so it will at some point tomorrow, CET.
//Johan Jönsson
2015-06-04 14:41 GMT-07:00 phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com:
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
My contribution: the SF Wikimedia list just had an announcement about an edit-a-thon (organized by Jake Orlowitz at the wmf office) that is happening during the American Libraries Conference, which is in SF this year. 30,000 librarians attend ALA! I'm super pleased we are infiltrating library conferences :)
What's happening over in your part of the project?
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Belatedly (this thread is awesome!)
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Johan Jönsson brevlistor@gmail.com wrote:
As of writing, Danish Wikipedia is now 32 articles from reaching 200,000. It's midnight in Denmark now, so it will at some point tomorrow, CET.
Congratulations Danish Wikipedia and Wikipedians!
I note from Meta (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_News) that Bulgarian Wikipedia also reached 200K this month. :)
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 12:35 PM, attolippip attolippip@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, Liam, you are right :)
We award the "best newbie of the month" on Ukrainian Wikipedia and award him/her with a can of condensed milk via post [1] (we also award with a can of condensed milk the "best contributor of the month", and want to do it is a few smaller wikiprojects as well (Wikiquote, f.ex.))
That is *delightful*.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Andrea Zanni zanni.andrea84@gmail.com wrote:
TL;DR: the Italian Wikisource has been indexed by a digital library platform used by over 4500 libraries in Italy [1]. This means that over 3500 texts (proofread and/or validated) can be read by library patrons. Many libraries will add them to the catalog too (!).
This is SO COOL. And wow, cataloging!!
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
Thanks to Wikidata and Module:Wikidata [1], it is now possible [2] to include a basic infobox in an article using a single line, rather than the usual lengthy piece of wikicode (which new users could find off-putting). For a live example, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole_Telescope
Mindblowing. (And possibly EVEN more mysterious for new editors -- not sure if that's good, though getting rid of a giant chunk of wikitext certainly is).
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:33 PM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
MZMcBride wrote: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Print_Wikipedia
I have also been following the project's automated twitter feed, which lists volumes as they're uploaded: https://twitter.com/PrintWikipedia
Please, keep posting delightful projects!
Phoebe
phoebe ayers wrote:
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
Hi.
This story about an art exhibit opening in New York on Thursday is pretty neat. A Wikipedian has been working for years to create a print version of Wikipedia, described as "half utilitarian data visualization project, half absurdist poetic gesture." Hopefully we'll have photos of the project on Wikimedia Commons soon.
Related reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes.
MZMcBride
Nice! I love that someone has finally settled the size-in-volumes debate in a somewhat... direct... fashion.
Incidentally, the largest print serial I'm aware of is the 'Serial Set' of American official papers; it currently runs to around 14,000 volumes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congressional_Serial_Set
So we're half-way there.
If we take the reasonable guess that enwiki is about the same text volume as all other Wikipedias put together, then we're probably just about to overtake them...
Andrew.
On 17 June 2015 at 14:06, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
phoebe ayers wrote:
I need a break from thinking about things going wrong. And so per Milos' observation that discussion here is falling off, I thought I'd start an open discussion thread about things going right.
What's a cool thing you just discovered or are involved in that is happening in the Wikimedia world?
Hi.
This story about an art exhibit opening in New York on Thursday is pretty neat. A Wikipedian has been working for years to create a print version of Wikipedia, described as "half utilitarian data visualization project, half absurdist poetic gesture." Hopefully we'll have photos of the project on Wikimedia Commons soon.
Related reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes.
MZMcBride
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
If we take the reasonable guess that enwiki is about the same text volume as all other Wikipedias put together, then we're probably just about to overtake them...
This hasn't been true for some time :-) Closer to 1:5 I think. It would be nice to see the full suite of wikistats (from Erik's old stats.wm) recalculated once a year.
MZMcBride wrote:
This story about an art exhibit opening in New York on Thursday is pretty neat. A Wikipedian has been working for years to create a print version of Wikipedia, described as "half utilitarian data visualization project, half absurdist poetic gesture." Hopefully we'll have photos of the project on Wikimedia Commons soon.
Victor Grigas delivered! :D
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Print_Wikipedia
Someone also reminded me that xkcd's "What If?" covered a variant of this topic in "Updating a Printed Wikipedia" https://what-if.xkcd.com/59/.
MZMcBride
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