Hello colleagues,
I would like to ask for your advice about one issue with the "What's making you happy this week?" emails.
I was hoping that people would frequently comment in the email threads and/or on the talk pages of WMYHTW publications in *The Signpost* to share what is making them happy, in the Wikiverse or elsewhere. However, comments are somewhat rare.
I am concerned that some people may feel too intimidated to comment.
I understand that communicating in public requires courage, but I believe that people who try to be respectful will have their comments received well by the community if they comment in these threads. Perfection is not a requirement for WMYHTW.
Also, I think that public communication becomes easier with practice, and these threads would be good places for people who want to become more experienced with public communication on Wikimedia-l to practice.
Is there something else that you think could be done to facilitate participation in WMYHTW? I would appreciate your advice and input.
Thank you,
Hi Pine,
Personally, the reason I don't answer to WMYHTW? is that - to be honest - I actually find it too long and visually unappealing (too many links, looks very technical) so I read the first few lines, then I skip and go to the next email. I really like the idea though, and when I have time, I click a few links, but indeed it doesn't prompts me to answer because, well... it looks more like a newsletter than an actual call for conversation.
Maybe this would have more success with a shorter format, maybe including images directly inside text. You could also try cross-posting it to Wikimedia Space, where engagement is less intimidating because it looks more like social media (you can "like", comment, etc). It makes me think about this post https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/what-was-your-first-commons-contribution/2021, which triggered quite a few answers.
Hope this helps! Best, Diane
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 9:36 AM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hello colleagues,
I would like to ask for your advice about one issue with the "What's making you happy this week?" emails.
I was hoping that people would frequently comment in the email threads and/or on the talk pages of WMYHTW publications in *The Signpost* to share what is making them happy, in the Wikiverse or elsewhere. However, comments are somewhat rare.
I am concerned that some people may feel too intimidated to comment.
I understand that communicating in public requires courage, but I believe that people who try to be respectful will have their comments received well by the community if they comment in these threads. Perfection is not a requirement for WMYHTW.
Also, I think that public communication becomes easier with practice, and these threads would be good places for people who want to become more experienced with public communication on Wikimedia-l to practice.
Is there something else that you think could be done to facilitate participation in WMYHTW? I would appreciate your advice and input.
Thank you,
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I have similar thoughts.
I find the "What makes you happy" emails generally nice and useful and occasionally I reply. But the opening emails are often too long, and have too many sections and links, which make it hard to read.
The title "What makes you happy" implies something that is unique for every week, so it should have fewer repetitive sections.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
בתאריך יום ב׳, 25 בנוב׳ 2019 ב-10:33 מאת Diane Ranville < dranville-ctr@wikimedia.org>:
Hi Pine,
Personally, the reason I don't answer to WMYHTW? is that - to be honest - I actually find it too long and visually unappealing (too many links, looks very technical) so I read the first few lines, then I skip and go to the next email. I really like the idea though, and when I have time, I click a few links, but indeed it doesn't prompts me to answer because, well... it looks more like a newsletter than an actual call for conversation.
Maybe this would have more success with a shorter format, maybe including images directly inside text. You could also try cross-posting it to Wikimedia Space, where engagement is less intimidating because it looks more like social media (you can "like", comment, etc). It makes me think about this post < https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/what-was-your-first-commons-contribution...
,
which triggered quite a few answers.
Hope this helps! Best, Diane
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 9:36 AM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hello colleagues,
I would like to ask for your advice about one issue with the "What's
making
you happy this week?" emails.
I was hoping that people would frequently comment in the email threads and/or on the talk pages of WMYHTW publications in *The Signpost* to
share
what is making them happy, in the Wikiverse or elsewhere. However,
comments
are somewhat rare.
I am concerned that some people may feel too intimidated to comment.
I understand that communicating in public requires courage, but I believe that people who try to be respectful will have their comments received
well
by the community if they comment in these threads. Perfection is not a requirement for WMYHTW.
Also, I think that public communication becomes easier with practice, and these threads would be good places for people who want to become more experienced with public communication on Wikimedia-l to practice.
Is there something else that you think could be done to facilitate participation in WMYHTW? I would appreciate your advice and input.
Thank you,
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I posted once a reply which was reasonably concise and had just one point - and it generated very little response. My conclusion was that people here are mainly not interested in what is going on on the projects contentwise. I will not do it again.
Yaroslav
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:16 AM Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
I have similar thoughts.
I find the "What makes you happy" emails generally nice and useful and occasionally I reply. But the opening emails are often too long, and have too many sections and links, which make it hard to read.
The title "What makes you happy" implies something that is unique for every week, so it should have fewer repetitive sections.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
בתאריך יום ב׳, 25 בנוב׳ 2019 ב-10:33 מאת Diane Ranville < dranville-ctr@wikimedia.org>:
Hi Pine,
Personally, the reason I don't answer to WMYHTW? is that - to be honest
- I
actually find it too long and visually unappealing (too many links, looks very technical) so I read the first few lines, then I skip and go to the next email. I really like the idea though, and when I have time, I click
a
few links, but indeed it doesn't prompts me to answer because, well... it looks more like a newsletter than an actual call for conversation.
Maybe this would have more success with a shorter format, maybe including images directly inside text. You could also try cross-posting it to Wikimedia Space, where engagement is less intimidating because it looks more like social media (you can "like", comment, etc). It makes me think about this post <
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/what-was-your-first-commons-contribution...
,
which triggered quite a few answers.
Hope this helps! Best, Diane
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 9:36 AM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hello colleagues,
I would like to ask for your advice about one issue with the "What's
making
you happy this week?" emails.
I was hoping that people would frequently comment in the email threads and/or on the talk pages of WMYHTW publications in *The Signpost* to
share
what is making them happy, in the Wikiverse or elsewhere. However,
comments
are somewhat rare.
I am concerned that some people may feel too intimidated to comment.
I understand that communicating in public requires courage, but I
believe
that people who try to be respectful will have their comments received
well
by the community if they comment in these threads. Perfection is not a requirement for WMYHTW.
Also, I think that public communication becomes easier with practice,
and
these threads would be good places for people who want to become more experienced with public communication on Wikimedia-l to practice.
Is there something else that you think could be done to facilitate participation in WMYHTW? I would appreciate your advice and input.
Thank you,
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Hoi Pine,
What makes me happy is that scientists are now adding information for their young academy. There are many young scientists organised nationally and internationally and typically they are a member for a set number of years. What makes me really happy is that these orgs are now getting involved; the coverage improves, they are increasincly registered at ORCiD with open/public information.
When scientists take a shine to their Scholia, including their co-authors, papers, doctoral advisor we gain a better understanding about contemporary science. These young academies cover any subject and it prevents a bias in our coverage of science. [1] Thanks, GerardM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GlobalYoungAcademyTeam
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 09:36, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hello colleagues,
I would like to ask for your advice about one issue with the "What's making you happy this week?" emails.
I was hoping that people would frequently comment in the email threads and/or on the talk pages of WMYHTW publications in *The Signpost* to share what is making them happy, in the Wikiverse or elsewhere. However, comments are somewhat rare.
I am concerned that some people may feel too intimidated to comment.
I understand that communicating in public requires courage, but I believe that people who try to be respectful will have their comments received well by the community if they comment in these threads. Perfection is not a requirement for WMYHTW.
Also, I think that public communication becomes easier with practice, and these threads would be good places for people who want to become more experienced with public communication on Wikimedia-l to practice.
Is there something else that you think could be done to facilitate participation in WMYHTW? I would appreciate your advice and input.
Thank you,
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I was thinking earlier about replying to this email. Since other folks have chimed in along similar lines, here's my version of 'make it shorter'.
I don't really need or want a full review of all the good stuff in the past week, or even all the good stuff that you in particular noticed. Rather, just one cool item would be great, along with why it made you smile or chortle or go 'Wow!'. That gives folks something short to look at and hopefully also smile about, and it leaves room in the conversation for others to contribute similar short pieces.
Example: for the Tech Conference, you could have said something like, "While you can find all the summaries of activities and discussions here [link], I really liked X [link'. Or even 'it was hard to choose just one thing because there was so much awesome discussion at the conference, but this really caught my eye [link].' And then an explanation of why that thing was interesting, cool, fun, really grabbed you.
Hope this helps!
Ariel
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 10:36 AM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hello colleagues,
I would like to ask for your advice about one issue with the "What's making you happy this week?" emails.
I was hoping that people would frequently comment in the email threads and/or on the talk pages of WMYHTW publications in *The Signpost* to share what is making them happy, in the Wikiverse or elsewhere. However, comments are somewhat rare.
I am concerned that some people may feel too intimidated to comment.
I understand that communicating in public requires courage, but I believe that people who try to be respectful will have their comments received well by the community if they comment in these threads. Perfection is not a requirement for WMYHTW.
Also, I think that public communication becomes easier with practice, and these threads would be good places for people who want to become more experienced with public communication on Wikimedia-l to practice.
Is there something else that you think could be done to facilitate participation in WMYHTW? I would appreciate your advice and input.
Thank you,
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Hi Pine, I look at it like I look at the Signpost. I find much of it interesting, and usually read it through from end to end. I click on links when they look interesting and I have the time. I am happy to see it exists, but in most cases I do not feel the need to add any comments, because it is cool in itself and usually does not appear to need comment. It is nice to know I can comment, but I generally don’t comment just for the sake of making a noise, but to make some point or find something out that was not clear. Things that make people happy are often uncontroversial and need no clarification, and there is already enough congratulatory noise on this list regarding user groups and new appointments etc Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W Sent: 25 November 2019 10:08 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Brief request for advice about "What's making you happy this week?"
Hello colleagues,
I would like to ask for your advice about one issue with the "What's making you happy this week?" emails.
I was hoping that people would frequently comment in the email threads and/or on the talk pages of WMYHTW publications in *The Signpost* to share what is making them happy, in the Wikiverse or elsewhere. However, comments are somewhat rare.
I am concerned that some people may feel too intimidated to comment.
I understand that communicating in public requires courage, but I believe that people who try to be respectful will have their comments received well by the community if they comment in these threads. Perfection is not a requirement for WMYHTW.
Also, I think that public communication becomes easier with practice, and these threads would be good places for people who want to become more experienced with public communication on Wikimedia-l to practice.
Is there something else that you think could be done to facilitate participation in WMYHTW? I would appreciate your advice and input.
Thank you,
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Hi,
to be honest, the question doesn't appeal to me. Around Wikimedia, I'm interested in things that *interest me* and help me in my work, but *happiness* doesn't work for me as a term, it's a too American for me ;)
Cheers Cornelius
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 09:36, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hello colleagues,
I would like to ask for your advice about one issue with the "What's making you happy this week?" emails.
I was hoping that people would frequently comment in the email threads and/or on the talk pages of WMYHTW publications in *The Signpost* to share what is making them happy, in the Wikiverse or elsewhere. However, comments are somewhat rare.
I am concerned that some people may feel too intimidated to comment.
I understand that communicating in public requires courage, but I believe that people who try to be respectful will have their comments received well by the community if they comment in these threads. Perfection is not a requirement for WMYHTW.
Also, I think that public communication becomes easier with practice, and these threads would be good places for people who want to become more experienced with public communication on Wikimedia-l to practice.
Is there something else that you think could be done to facilitate participation in WMYHTW? I would appreciate your advice and input.
Thank you,
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Seconding Cornelius here, I almost reached to the point a making a dedicated filter to archive these emails because that they contain long emails that are full of great things but doesn't interest me or make me happy (there are ways to make me happy, for example technical improvements or LGBT+-related stuff which I barely see in these emails thus these emails sometimes make me slightly sad that these emails don't contain things I like, making me feel outcast or too nerd)
I assume everyone has different interests that make them happy which might be under or overrepresented due to the sender's unconcious bias and perspective. I don't know sending such emails of limited number of good news cherry-picked by mostly one person all the time to hundreds of wikimedians across the globe with very wide range of interests would be a good idea.
My 2c
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 14:39 Cornelius Kibelka < cornelius.kibelka@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hi,
to be honest, the question doesn't appeal to me. Around Wikimedia, I'm interested in things that *interest me* and help me in my work, but *happiness* doesn't work for me as a term, it's a too American for me ;)
Cheers Cornelius
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 09:36, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hello colleagues,
I would like to ask for your advice about one issue with the "What's
making
you happy this week?" emails.
I was hoping that people would frequently comment in the email threads and/or on the talk pages of WMYHTW publications in *The Signpost* to
share
what is making them happy, in the Wikiverse or elsewhere. However,
comments
are somewhat rare.
I am concerned that some people may feel too intimidated to comment.
I understand that communicating in public requires courage, but I believe that people who try to be respectful will have their comments received
well
by the community if they comment in these threads. Perfection is not a requirement for WMYHTW.
Also, I think that public communication becomes easier with practice, and these threads would be good places for people who want to become more experienced with public communication on Wikimedia-l to practice.
Is there something else that you think could be done to facilitate participation in WMYHTW? I would appreciate your advice and input.
Thank you,
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I don't know sending such emails of limited number of good news cherry-picked by mostly one person all the time to hundreds of wikimedians across the globe with very wide range of interests would be a good idea.
Leading inevitably to the question -- what postings to this list would be good ideas?
Henry
On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 23:16 Henry Wood henry.wood.1869@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know sending such emails of limited number of good news cherry-picked by mostly one person all the time to hundreds of wikimedians across the globe with very wide range of interests would be a good idea.
Leading inevitably to the question -- what postings to this list would be good ideas?
Well, I get lots of unrelated emails from wikimedia-l and don't mind them while I don't like receiving uninteresting emails on regular basis from the same person again and again. Even worse, emails that pretend to be interesting to me (I would feel happier if I hear a good news, as a human being) but they end up being completely uninteresting (because I just have different interests).
Hope that answers your question.
Henry
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Hello,
Thanks to everyone for the feedback.
One point of some agreement among commenters is that they would prefer WMYHTW emails to be shorter. Those would be faster for me to write, but some problems with having a shorter list of subjects each week are that it could more easily lead to criticism about the content being unrepresentative of Wikiverse activities and too reflective of one person's preferences.
I had hoped that having a variety of people participate in these threads would add diversity to the content, but participation from others has been rare.
I will need more time to process this feedback and think about what to do. I don't think that any one option will satisfy everyone. One possibility is that I will stop sending these emails to Wikimedia-l, but will continue to write the version that appears in *The Signpost*. Another possibility is that I could write the shorter version for a few weeks and see what people think about it, but I worry about this option creating new problems, so at the moment I a leaning toward the previous option.
If anyone has additional feedback to share then please let me know.
Thank you,
" having a shorter list of subjects could lead to criticism about the content being [...] too reflective of one person's preferences" => well, as Amir said, the content is *already* reflective of just one person's preferences. Also, as Cornelius said, the idea of "what makes you happy" implies a very subjective feeling.
So it will always be just *your* view of what makes you happy, your bias. But: making your email shorter (even going down to just 1 item per week) would make room for others to share *their *views, creating a balance. I hope you try the short version on this list (as I barely have time to go through the Signpost!).
Best,
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 12:53 AM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Thanks to everyone for the feedback.
One point of some agreement among commenters is that they would prefer WMYHTW emails to be shorter. Those would be faster for me to write, but some problems with having a shorter list of subjects each week are that it could more easily lead to criticism about the content being unrepresentative of Wikiverse activities and too reflective of one person's preferences.
I had hoped that having a variety of people participate in these threads would add diversity to the content, but participation from others has been rare.
I will need more time to process this feedback and think about what to do. I don't think that any one option will satisfy everyone. One possibility is that I will stop sending these emails to Wikimedia-l, but will continue to write the version that appears in *The Signpost*. Another possibility is that I could write the shorter version for a few weeks and see what people think about it, but I worry about this option creating new problems, so at the moment I a leaning toward the previous option.
If anyone has additional feedback to share then please let me know.
Thank you,
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Hi Diane,
Thanks for the comments. I started to write a longer reply before deciding that, given the general message that I'm hearing of (paraphrasing), "this is fine but a shorter form would be better if you want people to participate", I'll skip writing a longer explanation of how I'm thinking. Thanks for taking the time to write.
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 9:44 AM Diane Ranville dranville-ctr@wikimedia.org wrote:
" having a shorter list of subjects could lead to criticism about the content being [...] too reflective of one person's preferences" => well, as Amir said, the content is *already* reflective of just one person's preferences. Also, as Cornelius said, the idea of "what makes you happy" implies a very subjective feeling.
So it will always be just *your* view of what makes you happy, your bias. But: making your email shorter (even going down to just 1 item per week) would make room for others to share *their *views, creating a balance. I hope you try the short version on this list (as I barely have time to go through the Signpost!).
Best,
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 12:53 AM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Thanks to everyone for the feedback.
One point of some agreement among commenters is that they would prefer WMYHTW emails to be shorter. Those would be faster for me to write, but some problems with having a shorter list of subjects each week are that
it
could more easily lead to criticism about the content being unrepresentative of Wikiverse activities and too reflective of one
person's
preferences.
I had hoped that having a variety of people participate in these threads would add diversity to the content, but participation from others has
been
rare.
I will need more time to process this feedback and think about what to
do.
I don't think that any one option will satisfy everyone. One possibility
is
that I will stop sending these emails to Wikimedia-l, but will continue
to
write the version that appears in *The Signpost*. Another possibility is that I could write the shorter version for a few weeks and see what
people
think about it, but I worry about this option creating new problems, so
at
the moment I a leaning toward the previous option.
If anyone has additional feedback to share then please let me know.
Thank you,
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