Hello again,
I know a number of people already responded on meetup.com to say they
were coming, but here's a reminder.
There's a lunch meetup today at 1pm. The restaurant is Buca di Beppo on
Howard St. If you haven't already, please RSVP so I can adjust the
reservation if our group grows (or shrinks):
http://www.meetup.com/Wikipedia-Engineering-Meetup/events/100864662/
I'm looking forward to it. See you there!
-Mike
Forwarding just in case. This workshop is organized at the WMF offices
in SF.
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Subject: [Analytics] Announcement: EventLogging workshop - 3/7
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:58:38 -0800
From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody
who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics.
<analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia Engineering <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
"wmfresearch(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wmfresearch(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "A
mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an
interest in Wikipedia and analytics." <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
CC: E3 team discussion list <e3-team(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
We're organizing a half-day workshop for engineers, analysts, PMs and
other parties interested in learning how to use EventLogging.
*EventLogging* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EventLogging> [1] is a
MediaWiki extension developed by the E3 team that allows the collection
of data on how users interact with our site. It's been largely adopted
in Product/Mobile/Feature engineering to run A/B tests and to evaluate
experimental features but can be used more generally to identify
usability problems and to collect data to inform feature design.
Whether you are already planning to use EventLogging for an existing
project or you are just curious to learn how it works, the session will
cover a typical workflow:
1) turning an idea into a data model
2) instrumenting MediaWiki to log events
3) accessing and QA'ing log data
4) performing simple log data analysis
The *workshop*
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EventLogging/Workshop> [2] will be
hosted at the Wikimedia Foundation (Collab space, 6th floor) on *March 7
*between *1.30pm-5pm*. The whole E3 engineer line-up will be in the
office to provide hands-on demos and tutorials. If you are interested in
attending, please sign up
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EventLogging/Workshop#Participants> on
the workshop page. The session will be recorded but we're not currently
planning to stream it.
Dario
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EventLogging
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EventLogging/Workshop
Hi, just a heads up about the next Wikimedia Engineering Meetup:
Wikimedia & wikiHow mobile updates
http://www.meetup.com/Wikipedia-Engineering-Meetup/events/100444752/
As you can see, this is our first experiment inviting speakers out of
the Wikimedia using the common MediaWiki link. Looking forward to seeing
how it goes.
Since there is plenty of time before & after the talks, this could also
be a good chance to chat with some pizza and drinks about the MediaWiki
Group San Francisco. Maiki & others, can you make it?
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Be happy to do it again this year for a few hours. Had a blast
last time.
Jon Harvey
One must still have chaos in oneself, to give birth to a dancing
star.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche in "Thus Spake Zarathustra"
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Hi all,
This email list is full of knowledgeable, helpful Wikipedians/Wikimedians. Would you like to join the volunteer team that responds to incoming email requests about Wikipedia articles, etc.? For instance, the subjects of articles reporting factual errors or defamation, or submitting photos of themselves. It's important and rewarding work. If this sounds interesting, see below!
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Casey Brown <lists(a)caseybrown.org>
> Date: February 2, 2013 11:00:52 AM PST
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikipedia mailing list <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Call for OTRS volunteers
> Reply-To: Wikipedia mailing list <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> The Wikimedia OTRS team[1] is receiving an increasing number of
> emails, with almost 55,000 general information and permissions tickets
> responded to in 2012 alone.[2] We are greatly in need of more
> volunteers to catch up and help prevent continued backlog. OTRS
> volunteers have the benefit of choosing how much time they'd like to
> commit and share a wide variety of tools to help when responding to
> inquires. Your private information would not be exposed to the public;
> replies are issued from a shared Wikimedia email address.
>
> We are looking especially for people who are strong in any or all of
> the following areas:
>
> * Familiar with processes on any Wikimedia project and able to answer
> routine questions about them (some common responses include reference
> desk referrals; explanations of deletion processes or how to edit. The
> kind of thing you might run into at the Teahouse or Help desks);
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> * Familiar with acceptable licenses for images and text and willing to
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> We look forward to seeing your applications on Meta-Wiki. If you have
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> For the OTRS admins,
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> [4]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OTRS/Volunteering
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Hi all,
a handful of German Wikipedia editors from the Bay Area are going to
meet this Saturday, February 2, from 9am until about 12am in the WMF
offices at 149 New Montgomery Street in SF, to join a kind of
multi-city edit-a-thon held on the German Wikipedia on that day:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Musketiere
(Basically, that event was recently conceived as a collaborative
effort to help other editors in all kinds of wiki tasks, with only two
rules: 1) No work on one's "own" articles 2) Relax and be nice ;) ,
and those who initiated it named it somewhat whimsically after the
Three Musketeers - "all for one, one for all".)
It's envisaged to be a small group in SF (we have four and a half
confirmed participants so far, plus other German Wikipedians living in
the US joining remotely per Google Hangout), but anyone editing the
German Wikipedia - or interested in doing do - is welcome to come by.
Email me offlist for details.
Regards, HaeB (Tilman)
