Dear Wikimedians,
Three months ago, we welcomed many of you in Berlin to work, discuss and
get inspired at the Wikimedia Conference 2017. We have now published our
extensive and colorful grant report for this event, and you can read it on
Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Report
In the meantime, the documentation of all sessions is complete. Check it
out on Meta as well:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2017/Documentation
While preparing the report, we have also written three learning patterns to
capture and share our experiences with other movement event organizers.
1) “Timing, Communication, Preparation: How to support your event
participants in the best way to get a Schengen Visa”
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Timing,_Communication,_Pr…
2) “Briefing calls with speakers: A simple way to improve conference
sessions”
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/Briefing_calls_with_speak…
3) “The Buddy Project: Let’s make your conference more newbie friendly!”
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Learning_patterns/The_Buddy_Project:_Let%E2…!
And if you think, “wow, that’s a lot!”: David Saroyan, Visiting Wikimedian
at Wikimedia Deutschland from January until April, wrote a blog post about
his experience in the Wikimedia blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/06/30/why-i-visiting-wikimedian/
We would like to thank all participants, partners, affiliates and experts
who have contributed to making this such a great event, and the Wikimedia
Foundation for their generous support.
Thank you,
Happy reading,
Cornelius, Nicole, Daniela and Wenke
(the WMCON team)
PS: Stay tuned for our upcoming announcement of the Wikimedia Conference
2018 dates.
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Cornelius Kibelka
Program and Engagement Coordinator (PEC)
for the Wikimedia Conference
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
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Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
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Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207
REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes.
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Lena Traer <ltraer(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take
> place on Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC
> channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will be
> broadcast as a live YouTube stream.[1]
>
> During the June metrics meeting, we'll hear from community members and
> staff on their experiences with the movement strategy process so far. We’ll
> hear more about research findings related to the process, community-led
> strategy events and conversations, and next steps for how you can engage in
> the movement strategy process moving forward.
>
> Meeting agenda:
>
> * Welcomes, theme introduction
> * Movement update
> * Community conversations around movement strategy
> * New Voices research findings from movement strategy
> * Strategy next steps
> * Questions and discussion
> * Wikilove
>
> Please review
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
> metrics_and_activities_meetings
> for further information about the meeting and how to participate.
>
> We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
>
> Thank you,
> Lena
>
> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6nIP4VFIi8
>
> Lena Traer
> Project Assistant // Communications // Advancement
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
Hello everyone,
The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take
place on Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC
channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net, and the meeting will be
broadcast as a live YouTube stream.[1]
During the June metrics meeting, we'll hear from community members and
staff on their experiences with the movement strategy process so far. We’ll
hear more about research findings related to the process, community-led
strategy events and conversations, and next steps for how you can engage in
the movement strategy process moving forward.
Meeting agenda:
* Welcomes, theme introduction
* Movement update
* Community conversations around movement strategy
* New Voices research findings from movement strategy
* Strategy next steps
* Questions and discussion
* Wikilove
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities…
for further information about the meeting and how to participate.
We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Lena
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6nIP4VFIi8
Lena Traer
Project Assistant // Communications // Advancement
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi all,
The agenda for the next Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting on
June 16, 2017 is now available on Meta Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_board_agenda_2017-06
Best,
Stephen
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Stephen LaPorte
Senior Legal Counsel
Wikimedia Foundation
*NOTICE: As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation, for legal and ethical
reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community
members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more
on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.*
Hi everybody,
You may have seen the recent communication [1
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/June_2017_changes>]
about the product and tech tune-up which went live the week of June 5th,
2017. In that communication, we promised an update on the future of
Discovery projects and we will talk about those in this email.
The Discovery team structure has now changed, but the new teams will still
work together to complete the goals as listed in the draft annual plan.[2]
A summary of their anticipated work, as we finalize these changes, is
below. We plan on doing a check-in at the end of the calendar year to see
how our goals are progressing with the new smaller and separated team
structure.
Here is a list of the various projects under the Discovery umbrella, along
with the goals that they will be working on:
Search Backend
Improve search capabilities:
-
Implement ‘learning to rank’ [3] and other advanced machine learning
methodologies
-
Improve support for languages using new analyzers
-
Maintain and expand power user search functionality
Search Frontend
Improve user interface of the search results page with new functionality:
-
Implement explore similar [4]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testin…>
-
Update the completion suggester box [5]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch/CompletionSuggester>
-
Investigate the usage of a Wiktionary widget for English Wikipedia [6]
Wikidata Query Service
Expand and scale:
-
Improve ability to support power features on-wiki for readers
-
Improve full text search functionality
-
Implement SPARQL federation support
Portal
Create and implement automated language statistics and translation updates
for Wikipedia.org
Analysis
Provide in-depth analytics support:
-
Perform experimental design, data collection, and data analysis
-
Perform ad-hoc analyses of Discovery-domain data
-
Maintain and augment the Discovery Dashboards,[7] which allow the teams
to track their KPIs and other metrics
Maps
Map support:
-
Implement new map style
-
Increase frequency of OSM data replication
-
As needed, assist with individual language Wikipedia’s implementation of
mapframe [8] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_embedded_maps>
Note: There is a possibility that we can do more with maps in the coming
year; we are currently evaluating strategic, partnership, and resourcing
options.
Structured Data on Commons
Extend structured data search on Commons, as part of the structured data
grant [9] via:
-
Research and implement advanced search capabilities
-
Implement new elements, filters, relationships
Graphs and Tabular Data on Commons
We will be re-evaluating this functionality against other Commons
initiatives such as the structured data grant. As with maps, we will
provide updates when we know more.
We are still working out all the details with the new team structure and
there might be some turbulence; let us know if there are any concerns and
we will do our best to answer them.
Best regards,
Deborah Tankersley, Product Manager, Discovery
Erika Bjune, Engineering Manager, Search Platform
Jon Katz, Reading Product Lead
Toby Negrin, Interim Vice President of Product
Victoria Coleman, Chief Technology Officer
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/June_2017_changes
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2017-2018/…
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_to_rank
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testin…
[5]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch/CompletionSuggester
[6]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Cross-wiki_Search_Result_Improvements/Testin…
[7] https://discovery.wmflabs.org/
[8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps/how_to:_embedded_maps
[9] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data