Hi all -
I'll be hosting an editathon at Hoyt Hall, one of the all-women houses
of the Berkeley Student Cooperative on April 6th from about 3-6pm. We
have a Facebook event up for it currently:
https://www.facebook.com/events/551220101577033/554851644547212/?notif_t=pl…
and I'll be getting up all of the other normal editathon
infrastructure within the next few days.
I had initially expected it to be a fairly small event of maybe 15-20
people, but it's looking like it's going to be significantly more
sizable than that. The Facebook event currently has sixty something
RSVP's, and we have not yet advertised the event through most of the
channels that we're going to be advertising it through - it could
easily end up being a 80-90 person thing. Most of these people will
never have edited Wikipedia before, and many of them are going to be
quite excited about it.
If you are an experienced bay area Wikipedian willing to come out to
the event and help newbies, please drop me a line off list. It would
be greatly appreciated :)
Thanks,
Kevin Gorman
A bit more cross-posting.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 27 March 2013 22:00
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcement *please read*
To: Wikimedia Announce Mailing List <WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
Hello Wikimedia community members,
This is not an easy e-mail to write, and it’s been a very hard
decision to make. But I’m writing to tell you that I’m planning to
leave my position as the Executive Director of the Wikimedia
Foundation.
My departure isn’t imminent -- the Board and I anticipate it’ll take
at least six months to recruit my successor, and I’ll be fully engaged
as Executive Director all through the recruitment process and until we
have a new person in place. We’re expecting that’ll take about six
months or so, and so this note is not goodbye -- not yet.
Making the decision to leave hasn’t been easy, but it comes down to two
things.
First, the movement and the Wikimedia Foundation are in a strong place
now. When I joined, the Foundation was tiny and not yet able to
reliably support the projects. Today it's healthy, thriving, and a
competent partner to the global network of Wikimedia volunteers. If
that wasn’t the case, I wouldn’t feel okay to leave. In that sense, my
leaving is a vote of confidence in our Board and executive team and
staff --- I know they will ably steer the Foundation through the years
ahead, and I’m confident the Board will appoint a strong successor to
me.
And I feel that although we’re in good shape, with a promising future,
the same isn’t true for the internet itself. (This is thing number
two.) Increasingly, I’m finding myself uncomfortable about how the
internet’s developing, who’s influencing its development, and who is
not. Last year we at Wikimedia raised an alarm about SOPA/PIPA, and
now CISPA is back. Wikipedia has experienced censorship at the hands
of industry groups and governments, and we’re --increasingly, I
think-- seeing important decisions made by unaccountable
non-transparent corporate players, a shift from the open web to mobile
walled gardens, and a shift from the production-based internet to one
that’s consumption-based. There are many organizations and individuals
advocating for the public interest online -- what’s good for ordinary
people -- but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they
are. I want that to change. And that’s what I want to do next.
I’ve always aimed to make the biggest contribution I can to the
general public good. Today, this is pulling me towards a new and
different role, one very much aligned with Wikimedia values and
informed by my experiences here, and with the purpose of amplifying
the voices of people advocating for the free and open internet. I
don’t know exactly what this will look like -- I might write a book,
or start a non-profit, or work in partnership with something that
already exists. Either way, I feel strongly that this is what I need
to do.
I feel an increasing sense of urgency around this. That said, I also
feel a strong sense of responsibility (and love!) for the Wikimedia
movement, and so I’ve agreed with the Board that I’ll stay on as
Executive Director until we have my successor in place. That’ll take
some time -- likely, at least six months.
Until then, nothing changes. The Wikimedia Foundation has lots of work
to do, and you can expect me to focus fully on it until we have a new
Executive Director in place.
I have many people to thank, but I’m not going to do it now --
there’ll be time for that later. For now, I’ll just say I love working
with you all, I’m proud of everything the Wikimedia movement is
accomplishing, and I’m looking forward to our next six months
together.
Jan-Bart’s going to write a note in a couple of minutes with
information about the transition process. We’ll be hosting office
hours this weekend as well, so anybody with questions can ask them
here or turn up to talk with us on IRC.
Thanks,
Sue
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Hi all,
if anyone is interested in getting more involved with GLAM (gallery,
library, archive, museum outreach) projects, Wikimedia D.C. and the
National Archives is hosting a GLAM Boot Camp in April:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Boot_Camp
This is meant for experienced Wikipedians who haven't done much GLAM
work and would like to. Sign up on the wiki page if you're interested
in attending!
-- Phoebe
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support Wikimedia: http://donate.wikimedia.org
Wow! This is wonderful. Martin Walker and the Chemistry WikiProject,
call your offices :)
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 6:26 PM, Dominic McDevitt-Parks
<dominic.mcdevitt-parks(a)wikimediadc.org> wrote:
> I am excited to announce that the Chemical Heritage Foundation[1]—a
> non-profit repository in Philadelphia, USA with collections relating to the
> history and heritage of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related
> sciences and technologies—is seeking an experienced Wikipedian to serve as
> their Wikipedian in Residence[2]. The Wikipedian in Residence will work as a
> community coordinator and strengthen the relationship between CHF and the
> Wikipedian community through a range of activities, similar to past
> GLAM-Wiki[3] residencies. This is a full-time, temporary position with a
> small stipend with an immediate opening.
>
> The Wikipedian in Residence's potential activities includes organizing
> on-site events for the local Wikipedian community, adding digital content
> from CHF's holdings to Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource, encouraging
> increased content or quality of Wikipedia articles using CHF resources,
> teaching Wikipedia skills to the CHF staff or researcher community, and
> documenting their experiences in blogs, social media, or elsewhere.
>
> To learn more or apply, please visit
> <http://www.chemheritage.org/about/careers/wikipedian-in-residence.aspx>.
> Questions relating to the position can be sent to Jeffery Guin, Manager of
> Emerging Media, at <jguin(a)chemheritage.org>, or to me if they are general
> queries about Wikipedians in Residence or GLAM-Wiki. Please forward this
> message to other lists or or contacts you think would be interested. Thanks!
>
> [1] See http://www.chemheritage.org/
> [2] To learn more about Wikipedians in Residence, please visit
> <http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence>.
> [3] If you are interested in learning more about Wikipedia's work with
> cultural instituions generally, see
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/US>.
>
> --
> Dominic McDevitt-Parks
> Cultural Partnerships Coordinator, Wikimedia District of Columbia
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Do you care about Wikipedia Search and are you able to write plain
English? Here is an interesting activity where you can help:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Browser_testing/Search_features
After 4 months at the WMF I have seen many demos about browser test
automation. Tomorrow will be the day when I will finally attempt to
write a feature description in plain English, just like e.g.
Feature: Search
Scenario: Search suggestions
Given I am at random page
When I search for: main
Then a list of suggested pages should appear
And Main Page should be the first result
If I can, you can - for the good of your beloved piece of software.
Please join us at 10am PST at #wikimedia-dev IRC and have your first
feature description written an hour later. If you are busy at that time
no problem, you can do it later and we can also help you.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
Message to MediaWiki technical users and anybody willing to learn about
Bugzilla and bug triaging while helping the Wikimedia mission.
This is from 7am to 1pm PST but help is welcome before/after that as
well. Don't worry, there are bug reports for every body. ;)
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Next bugday: Mar 07, 15:00-21:00UTC on General
MediaWiki bugs
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:36:40 +0100
From: Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everybody,
Please join us on the next Wikimedia Bugday:
Thursday, March 07th, 15:00-21:00 UTC [1]
in #wikimedia-dev on Freenode IRC [2]
We are going to take a look at a subset [3] of MediaWiki bug reports
filed under "General/Unknown", trying to reproduce some plus provide
feedback. Currently these are about 90 tickets (see [4] for a list).
Everyone is welcome to join, and no technical knowledge needed! It's a
nice and easy way to get involved in the community or to give something
back.
Join IRC, say hello and that you're here for the bugday, and have fun.
This information and more can be found here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20130307
For more information on Triaging in general, check out
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage
We look forward to seeing you!
andre
[1] Timezone converter: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
[2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat
[3] with priority and severity set to normal or higher
[4]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?priority=Immediate&priority=High…
--
Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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Lua meets Wikipedia
http://www.meetup.com/Wikipedia-Engineering-Meetup/events/106078042/
Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Wikimedia Foundation
149 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA
Yes this is another of technical meetups but in fact power editors and
anybody aware of {{templates}} might be interested as well. If only to
know what is coming and the (still untapped) potential.
--
Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil