Dear all,
I don't know if it is appropriate to discuss this here but I believe I can get a useful advice here. The Nigerian language Wikipedia projects (Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo) need urgent attention. English language is the official language in Nigeria but the Yoruba language constitutes one of the major languages in Nigeria. The other two languages are Igbo and Hausa. Today, Yorubas along with the Igbos are the most educated ethnic groups in Africa but in spite of this potentials, there are poor readership level and contributions to the Yoruba Wikipedia projects. In fact, several existing and prospective Wikipedia editors as well as scholars and student who can contribute significantly to the project are not even aware of the existence of the Yoruba Wikipedia. Speaking in March 2012, in Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria, Jimmy Wales said: Wikipedia has seven active editors working in Yoruba language ("[http://m.voanews.com/a/wikipedia-co-founder-adding-more-african-languages-14...), an extremely low number, less than 0.0001% of active editors on the English Wikipedia. In fact, the seven active editors have reduce to 1 or 2. The truth is, I can't point to any active editors contributing in that project. The Wikimedia User Group Nigeria under the leadership of Olaniyan Olusola will need every supports at the disposal of the WMF to preserve the Project. We are currently planning to organize a conference entitled "WikiYoruba 2016" that will involve Yoruba Language scholars and student who can contribute to the project. I'm a native speaker of Yoruba language with good written skills in Yoruba language. I'm an experienced Wikipedian who has created over 500 articles on the English Wikipedia and I intend to use my experience to improve the Yoruba Wikipedia Project. You may also want to see (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikicology/100_articles_contribut...) The Content translation tool is currently unsupported by Yoruba Language. Had it been its working, I would have translate hundreds of English Wikipedia contents.
Please we need the help and all forms of support to improve the project.
Cheers,
Olatunde Isaac (User:Wikicology) Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
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Message: 1 Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 07:57:30 +0530 From: Bodhisattwa Mandal bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris Message-ID: CAHyrfgYaQNs63Qe2Qsx-y4fLF1TYEcJJrvVgv0g19UYUfpKa-A@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Solidarity from India for this tragic incident. Good to know that Wikipedians in and from Paris are all safe.
Bodhisattwa On 14 November 2015 at 12:28, Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska natalia.szafran@gmail.com wrote:
User Paterm, Polish wikipedian living in Paris is also well.
As is John Cummings, a UK citizen currently working as Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO in Paris.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Message: 2 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:04:03 -0800 From: Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update Message-ID: CAF=dyJgm8ZmE49w8WpdCCiL3L7oSBq9ghoaivce--DVUSdm6qA@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
By the way, was there any follow up at WMF to Risker's suggestion from awhile ago that its budget get a peer review from a similarly situated organization?
I've taken a peek at the discussions in the current round of FDC proposals. I have some concerns about WMF staff critiquing the budgets of affiliates while WMF's own budget practices are in need of improvement. I would like to see WMF make efforts to improve that will be reflected in the new WMF Annual Plan cycle. I am hoping that the WMF Board takes an interest in these matters, particularly in light of concerns about fundraising targets and top-line budget growth.
Thanks,
Pine
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Message: 3 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:09:58 +0330 From: Mardetanha mardetanha.wiki@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris Message-ID: CAN6NyNoYrR6c1=8-gWjBHMi1PHj40Lviug5nU=1mgEf3Q2A7yA@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
my heart goes out to the families of those who have been killed and I am really hopeful All wikimedians are safe, stay safe
Mardetanha
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Sydney Poore sydney.poore@gmail.com wrote:
Alex, thanks for sharing this information. My thoughts are with Wikimedians and their family and friends.
Take care, Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Alex Cella acella@wikimedia.org wrote:
All the staff is safe, I'm in touch with them.
Thnaks for asking.
--
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
May WMFR coordinate efforts to inform us if all Wikimedians from Paris
are
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Message: 4 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 22:49:11 -0800 From: Anna Stillwell astillwell@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update Message-ID: CAAzfLLEQE2ULLMvAJ7E6oiMbrci+59x2JyTE48AdDjds4F2=ng@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Andreas,
Thank you for this positive feedback. I can't comment on future banner messages because I don't have the requisite knowledge.
Here's where we are right now... I've seen Megan and the fundraising team really apply themselves on this concern. They've interviewed many people and they are starting to collaborate with some of the people who have not liked our banners.
I have no promises. None. I am just filling you in on the process. We're also headed into the busiest times of our year and we are a small team so we may not be able to update you in a timely fashion.
/a
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
I see that the fundraising banners currently running in Germany[1][2] no longer speak of "keeping Wikipedia online and ad-free", but instead encourage people to "give something back to Wikipedia" if they find it useful.
That is a much, much better wording. Thank you. I trust the English banners that will run in December will follow the same approach.
Note however that the German FAQ[3] that is linked from the German Donate Now page[4] is several years out of date. It refers to 2013/2014 as the current financial year, and directs readers to the 2011/2012 annual report (!!!).
The English FAQ[5] has much less content than the German one (I'm told all the outdated content has been commented out) and now lacks any specifics that would give donors an idea of what the Foundation is doing with their money.
In all languages, the link to the FAQ on the Donate Now page is in such small print as to be barely legible. Please update the FAQs in all languages as a matter of urgency, and change the font size of the links to something more reasonable.
In general I would like to see the Foundation communicate more clearly, transparently and proactively about where the money goes, and what the user benefits are. Reports like the one last year on improving access speed[6] are useful.
Andreas
[1]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Spendenbanner-de-s5mini-151112_Kopie.jpg [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fehlerhafte_Spendenkampagne.png [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/de [4]
https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:FundraiserLandingPage... [5] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/en [6]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/29/how-we-made-editing-wikipedia-twice-as-...
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I was happy to see increasing net assets and increasing revenue. The fundraising messages that WMF sends should to reflect the facts about
where
the money will go and about the current financial status of WMF.
I've been told by someone whose history with the Wikimedia community is longer than mine that many years ago, the chapters used to be in stronger financial positions than WMF was. Eventually this flipped. As recently
as a
few years ago were consistent questions about the effectiveness and integrity of the chapters. In more recent history, the chapters seem to
be
doing well in terms of effectiveness and integrity, and now the bulk of
the
revenue is going to WMF where there are more questions about
effectiveness
and integrity. I'm particularly troubled by the lack of responses from
WMF
to a number of questions that I repeatedly asked about the 2015-2016
Annual
Plan, and I'd really like to see some work done on increasing financial transparency in WMF as well as enhancing the integrity of the online fundraising messages.
Pine
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com
wrote:
On October 30, the Wikimedia Foundation posted its audited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2015.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/0/0b/Audit_Report_-_FY_14-...
The figures contained in these statements have a bearing on the present discussion. Some highlights:
Net assets at end of year: $77.8 million (up $24.3 million from $53.5 million)
Current assets include: $35.2 million in cash and cash equivalents $29.0 million in short-term investments.
Total support and revenue: $75.8 million (up $23.3 million from $52.5 million)
Total expenses: $52.6 million (up $6.7 million from $45.9 million)
Internet hosting costs: just under $2 million (down $0.5 million from $2.5 million) _______________________________________________ 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
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The Content translation tool is currently unsupported by Yoruba Language.
Had it been its working, I would have translate hundreds of English Wikipedia contents.
Actually, it is supported in Yoruba, and in all the languages in which there is a Wikipedia.
It doesn't yet have support for machine translation to Yoruba, but that is also true for most languages, including some major ones like German, Polish, Japanese and Turkish. Despite this, thousands of articles were translated to these languages using ContentTranslation.
ContentTranslation is not a machine translation tool, but a tool for comfortable creation of articles as translation. It provides: * A comfortable interface which shows the source article and a column for typing the translation, side by side. * Automatic adaptation of links. * Automatic adaptation of categories. * One-click adaptation of images (you don't have to type [[File: and to search for the image file name). * One-click adaptation of footnotes (you don't have to type <ref> and format the footnote). * Basic adaptation of formatting.
Using ContentTranslation and translating important articles from Wikipedias in other languages such as English and French is one of the easiest way to get the Yoruba Wikipedia growing.
Please reach out to me personally and I'll be happy to help you to do this efficiently.
Thanks!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2015-11-15 20:00 GMT+02:00 reachout2isaac@gmail.com:
Dear all,
I don't know if it is appropriate to discuss this here but I believe I can get a useful advice here. The Nigerian language Wikipedia projects (Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo) need urgent attention. English language is the official language in Nigeria but the Yoruba language constitutes one of the major languages in Nigeria. The other two languages are Igbo and Hausa. Today, Yorubas along with the Igbos are the most educated ethnic groups in Africa but in spite of this potentials, there are poor readership level and contributions to the Yoruba Wikipedia projects. In fact, several existing and prospective Wikipedia editors as well as scholars and student who can contribute significantly to the project are not even aware of the existence of the Yoruba Wikipedia. Speaking in March 2012, in Lagos State, southwestern Nigeria, Jimmy Wales said: Wikipedia has seven active editors working in Yoruba language ("[ http://m.voanews.com/a/wikipedia-co-founder-adding-more-african-languages-14...), an extremely low number, less than 0.0001% of active editors on the English Wikipedia. In fact, the seven active editors have reduce to 1 or 2. The truth is, I can't point to any active editors contributing in that project. The Wikimedia User Group Nigeria under the leadership of Olaniyan Olusola will need every supports at the disposal of the WMF to preserve the Project. We are currently planning to organize a conference entitled "WikiYoruba 2016" that will involve Yoruba Language scholars and student who can contribute to the project. I'm a native speaker of Yoruba language with good written skills in Yoruba language. I'm an experienced Wikipedian who has created over 500 articles on the English Wikipedia and I intend to use my experience to improve the Yoruba Wikipedia Project. You may also want to see ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikicology/100_articles_contribut... )
Please we need the help and all forms of support to improve the project.
Cheers,
Olatunde Isaac (User:Wikicology) Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
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- Re: Paris (Bodhisattwa Mandal)
- Re: Q1 Fundraising Update (Pine W)
- Re: Paris (Mardetanha)
- Re: Q1 Fundraising Update (Anna Stillwell)
- Re: Paris (Christophe Henner)
- Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism (Fæ)
Message: 1 Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 07:57:30 +0530 From: Bodhisattwa Mandal bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris Message-ID: < CAHyrfgYaQNs63Qe2Qsx-y4fLF1TYEcJJrvVgv0g19UYUfpKa-A@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Solidarity from India for this tragic incident. Good to know that Wikipedians in and from Paris are all safe.
Bodhisattwa On 14 November 2015 at 12:28, Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska natalia.szafran@gmail.com wrote:
User Paterm, Polish wikipedian living in Paris is also well.
As is John Cummings, a UK citizen currently working as Wikimedian in Residence at UNESCO in Paris.
-- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Message: 2 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 19:04:03 -0800 From: Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update Message-ID: <CAF= dyJgm8ZmE49w8WpdCCiL3L7oSBq9ghoaivce--DVUSdm6qA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
By the way, was there any follow up at WMF to Risker's suggestion from awhile ago that its budget get a peer review from a similarly situated organization?
I've taken a peek at the discussions in the current round of FDC proposals. I have some concerns about WMF staff critiquing the budgets of affiliates while WMF's own budget practices are in need of improvement. I would like to see WMF make efforts to improve that will be reflected in the new WMF Annual Plan cycle. I am hoping that the WMF Board takes an interest in these matters, particularly in light of concerns about fundraising targets and top-line budget growth.
Thanks,
Pine
Message: 3 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:09:58 +0330 From: Mardetanha mardetanha.wiki@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris Message-ID: <CAN6NyNoYrR6c1=8-gWjBHMi1PHj40Lviug5nU= 1mgEf3Q2A7yA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
my heart goes out to the families of those who have been killed and I am really hopeful All wikimedians are safe, stay safe
Mardetanha
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Sydney Poore sydney.poore@gmail.com wrote:
Alex, thanks for sharing this information. My thoughts are with
Wikimedians
and their family and friends.
Take care, Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Alex Cella acella@wikimedia.org
wrote:
All the staff is safe, I'm in touch with them.
Thnaks for asking.
--
*Alex Cella* Finance Fellow acella@wikimedia.org LinkedIn http://fr.linkedin.com/in/alexcella
Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA., 94105 www.wikimediafoundation.org
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com
wrote:
May WMFR coordinate efforts to inform us if all Wikimedians from
Paris
are
live and well? _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:
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Andreas,
Thank you for this positive feedback. I can't comment on future banner messages because I don't have the requisite knowledge.
Here's where we are right now... I've seen Megan and the fundraising team really apply themselves on this concern. They've interviewed many people and they are starting to collaborate with some of the people who have not liked our banners.
I have no promises. None. I am just filling you in on the process. We're also headed into the busiest times of our year and we are a small team so we may not be able to update you in a timely fashion.
/a
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
I see that the fundraising banners currently running in Germany[1][2] no longer speak of "keeping Wikipedia online and ad-free", but instead encourage people to "give something back to Wikipedia" if they find it useful.
That is a much, much better wording. Thank you. I trust the English
banners
that will run in December will follow the same approach.
Note however that the German FAQ[3] that is linked from the German Donate Now page[4] is several years out of date. It refers to 2013/2014 as the current financial year, and directs readers to the 2011/2012 annual
report
(!!!).
The English FAQ[5] has much less content than the German one (I'm told
all
the outdated content has been commented out) and now lacks any specifics that would give donors an idea of what the Foundation is doing with their money.
In all languages, the link to the FAQ on the Donate Now page is in such small print as to be barely legible. Please update the FAQs in all languages as a matter of urgency, and change the font size of the links
to
something more reasonable.
In general I would like to see the Foundation communicate more clearly, transparently and proactively about where the money goes, and what the
user
benefits are. Reports like the one last year on improving access speed[6] are useful.
Andreas
[1]
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Spendenbanner-de-s5mini-151112_Kopie.jpg
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fehlerhafte_Spendenkampagne.png [3] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/FAQ/de [4]
https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:FundraiserLandingPage...
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/29/how-we-made-editing-wikipedia-twice-as-...
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I was happy to see increasing net assets and increasing revenue. The fundraising messages that WMF sends should to reflect the facts about
where
the money will go and about the current financial status of WMF.
I've been told by someone whose history with the Wikimedia community is longer than mine that many years ago, the chapters used to be in
stronger
financial positions than WMF was. Eventually this flipped. As recently
as a
few years ago were consistent questions about the effectiveness and integrity of the chapters. In more recent history, the chapters seem to
be
doing well in terms of effectiveness and integrity, and now the bulk of
the
revenue is going to WMF where there are more questions about
effectiveness
and integrity. I'm particularly troubled by the lack of responses from
WMF
to a number of questions that I repeatedly asked about the 2015-2016
Annual
Plan, and I'd really like to see some work done on increasing financial transparency in WMF as well as enhancing the integrity of the online fundraising messages.
Pine
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com
wrote:
On October 30, the Wikimedia Foundation posted its audited financial statements for the year ended June 30, 2015.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/0/0b/Audit_Report_-_FY_14-...
The figures contained in these statements have a bearing on the
present
discussion. Some highlights:
Net assets at end of year: $77.8 million (up $24.3 million from $53.5 million)
Current assets include: $35.2 million in cash and cash equivalents $29.0 million in short-term investments.
Total support and revenue: $75.8 million (up $23.3 million from $52.5 million)
Total expenses: $52.6 million (up $6.7 million from $45.9 million)
Internet hosting costs: just under $2 million (down $0.5 million from $2.5 million) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe:
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Message: 5 Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 10:13:51 +0100 From: Christophe Henner christophe.henner@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris Message-ID: < CAFaJbjdAFoAqw4Y3b8Q9y6xSpuZoeLpUAfrPrw9PCqOALnJmEA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Hi everyone,
Thhank you all for your kind words. We've had confirmation from almost every wikimedians living in Paris that they're safe. The one we're waiting from are the one we don't have a way to reach them.
At the same time, keep some thoughts for all the people in the Middle-East that suffer and die on a daily basis at the hand of the same people. To the people trying to flee from them.
And more than that, to all the people that die around the world because of intolerance, misunderstanding and hatred.
Thank you all again.
Take care,
-- Christophe
On 14 November 2015 at 06:39, Mardetanha mardetanha.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
my heart goes out to the families of those who have been killed and I am really hopeful All wikimedians are safe, stay safe
Mardetanha
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Sydney Poore sydney.poore@gmail.com wrote:
Alex, thanks for sharing this information. My thoughts are with
Wikimedians
and their family and friends.
Take care, Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Alex Cella acella@wikimedia.org
wrote:
All the staff is safe, I'm in touch with them.
Thnaks for asking.
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com
wrote:
May WMFR coordinate efforts to inform us if all Wikimedians from
Paris
are
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Message: 6 Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 11:12:00 +0000 From: Fæ faewik@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Parisian culture and libertarianism Message-ID: < CAH7nnD3HUY2G4YfYMx8CJZ1Pu3cBkKK5i1D+XmxME2Ow336qTw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
As an international community we have an opportunity to respond in a positive and healing way to the attacks in Paris as well as sharing our feelings of shock and sympathy.
Perhaps by planning open knowledge events to celebrate Parisian and GLAM-related Islamic culture, which we could announce in a few weeks time?
Thoughts?
Thanks, Fae -- faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
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