Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
March 31, 2016, 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.
Meeting agenda:
* Welcomes
* Community update
* Strategy & Annual Plan update
* Strategic Partnership update
* Research presentation
* Review of WMF top-level metrics
* Product demo
* Questions/discussions
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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,
Praveena
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Praveena Maharaj
Executive Assistant to the VP of Product
Wikimedia Foundation \\ www.wikimediafoundation.org
Please find a summary of last month’s highlights from the Wikimedia blog at
the following link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_February_2016
Contents:
• Recording romanticism and filling Wikimedia Commons with 19th century
music
• What’s TPP? The problematic partnership
• #BlackLifeMatters edit-a-thon bolsters Wikipedia’s coverage of black
history
• In brief
Translations for February 2016 are greatly appreciated
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Andrew Sherman
Digital Communications Intern | Wikimedia Foundation
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*WMF:* ASherman (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ASherman_(WMF)>
andrewsherman.work
Hi all,
The Board has published the minutes and resolutions from the Board of
Trustees meetings in December and January 2016. You can find the Board's
minutes on the Foundation Wiki:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings
Best,
Stephen
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Lodewijk, thanks for the feedback! I'll reply on Meta ...
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Lodewijk <lodewijk(a)effeietsanders.org>
wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> 'workshop' shouts to me that it is a real life, real time event that people
> can register for, and attend (in person or remotely). The page seems to
> suggest however (at a quick glance) that it is rather an online discussion
> forum. Maybe good to clarify that immediately at the top of the page, given
> the potentially confusing title that it has.
>
> Another thing I would find helpful (maybe a bit too obvious for you) is
> clearly stating expectations and goals at the top. What are you trying to
> accomplish? (options that come to mind is reducing harassment, or helping
> people to deal with (accept? fight? hide?) harrassment. I expect the
> first).
>
> Finally, a thing that was also mentioned by Liz at the page (and maybe by
> others), is that in a multilingual community like ours, it is really tough
> to discuss sensitive issues like this without a very clear understanding of
> what we're talking about. People probably have very different expectations
> of what you mean with 'harrassment'. My first thought with the word was
> basically sexual or physical harrassment, with real life or near-real life
> aspects. At Wikimania I got a better understanding that apparently others
> were using a much wider definition of the word.
>
> Hopefully will clarifications like the above on the page reduce the
> threshold to participate, especially for those that are not native speakers
> (and who have more trouble to read through the whole page to get an
> understanding).
>
> Best,
> Lodewijk
> (also posted this on the talkpage)
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 3:27 AM, Patrick Earley <pearley(a)wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > With a lot of discussion on multiple issues going on, I know it can be
> > hard to find time or "bandwidth" for an problem with no easy solutions.
> > But some of the community has started to work on some approaches to the
> > problem of harassment at the workshop on Meta. [1]
> >
> > It's an issue that isn't going away on its own, and we've started
> > gathering some possible ways forward. We'd love to see you there.
> >
> > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Harassment_workshop
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > --
> > Patrick Earley
> > Senior Community Advocate
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> > pearley(a)wikimedia.org
> > (1) 415 975 1874
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Hello all,
With a lot of discussion on multiple issues going on, I know it can be hard
to find time or "bandwidth" for an problem with no easy solutions. But
some of the community has started to work on some approaches to the problem
of harassment at the workshop on Meta. [1]
It's an issue that isn't going away on its own, and we've started gathering
some possible ways forward. We'd love to see you there.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Harassment_workshop
Best regards,
--
Patrick Earley
Senior Community Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation
pearley(a)wikimedia.org
(1) 415 975 1874