I started https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_wiki_page
This is a very simple concept which, however, I find is often neglected.
Some extension developers are conscious about what they do, but there is
a lot of needless self-inflicted pain that we could do without.
Nemo
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
A reminder that the online office hour hosted by the Wikimedia Language
team is scheduled for later today at 1400 UTC. You can join the hangout or
watch the session from:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cbn4a2gubl4m6au3jv0gllh5t0k
Please note, due to the limitation of Google Hangouts there are few seats
available. So do let us know on the event page, if you would like to
participate on the hangout. We will also be on the IRC channel
#wikimedia-office to take questions. Please see below for the event
details, local time and original announcement.
Thanks
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session
# When: March 2nd, 2016 (Wednesday) at 14:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20160302T1400)
# Where: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cbn4a2gubl4m6au3jv0gllh5t0k and
on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode)
# Agenda: Content Translation updates and Q & A
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 6:12 PM
Subject: WMF Language team office hour and online meeting on March 2nd 2016
(Wednesday) at 1400 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing
List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration
[Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next online office hour session of the Wikimedia Language team is
scheduled for next Wednesday, March 2nd 2016 at 14:00 UTC. This session is
going to be an online discussion over Google Hangouts/Youtube with a
simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the limitation of Google Hangouts,
only a limited number of participation slots are available. Hence, do
please let us know (on the event page
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cbn4a2gubl4m6au3jv0gllh5t0k>) if you
would like to join in the Hangout. The IRC channel #wikimedia-office and
the Q&A channel for the youtube broadcast will be open for interactions
during the session.
Our last online round-table session was held in November 2015. You can
watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYWZ6C4N93Y
Please read below for the event details, including local time and do let us
know if you have any questions.
Thank you
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Language team's office hour session
# When: March 2nd, 2016 (Wednesday) at 14:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20160302T1400)
# Where: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cbn4a2gubl4m6au3jv0gllh5t0k and
on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode)
# Agenda: Content Translation updates and Q & A
--
Language Engineering Manager
Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
--
Language Engineering Manager
Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
(Cross-posting)
For Wikimedia folks who are interested in possible collaborations with OSM,
now seems like a good time to start thinking about possible presentations.
Staff from the Wikimedia Foundation, and/or Wikimedia volunteers from
around the US outside of the Seattle area, may want to start thinking about
travel plans.
For Wikimedia volunteers outside of Cascadia Wikimedians territory, you
might consider applying for WMF Travel and Participation Support grants [1].
If you're inside of Cascadia Wikimedians territory and would like to attend
the conference, we may have funds in our budget that can support your
attendance. Contact me off-list for details.
Regards,
Pine
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Clifford Snow <clifford(a)snowandsnow.us>
Date: Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 5:18 PM
Subject: [opensource-107] Seattle to host the 2016 OpenStreetMap State of
the Map US Conference
To: opensource-107-announce(a)meetup.com
I am excited to announce that Seattle was chosen to host the OpenStreetMap
2016 State of the Map US Conference. The conference will take place July
23-25 on SeattleU's campus. We chose SeattleU for their low cost, proximity
to Seattle and access to public transit. The food trucks near by didn't
hurt either.
We are looking for help! Let us know if you want to help. Request for
presentation proposals should be coming fairly soon. Start thinking about
what you want to present or teach.
The formal announcement can be found at:
https://openstreetmap.us/2016/02/sotmus-2016/
Clifford
See discussion at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Seems_to_be_a_lot…
.
Matt
On 02/23/2016 09:37 PM, reguyla(a)gmail.com wrote:
> I notice you mention in a lot of places that people should contact an
> administrator. What if the person they are complaining about is an
> admin? Because I have seen admins violate several of these rules of
> conduct and it's rare for anything to be donecabout it.
>
>
> Reguyla
>
>
> Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE device
>
>
> ------ Original message------
>
> *From: *Matthew Flaschen
>
> *Date: *Tue, Feb 23, 2016 8:45 PM
>
> *To: *Wikitech List;Engineering List;Design List;Wiki Research
> List;Analytics Public List;hackathonorganizers(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> <mailto:;hackathonorganizers@lists.wikimedia.org>;
>
> *Subject:*[Analytics] Please provide feedback on suggested improvements
> to the Code of Conduct
>
>
> Thanks to everyone who’s helped work on the Code of Conduct sofar.Pe <http://far.Pe>ople have brought up issues they feel were missed when working on "Unacceptable behavior" (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Unacceptable_behavior ) and "Report a problem" (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Report_a_problem ). Consultants have also suggested changes in these samesections.Th <http://sections.Th>ese are important sections, so please take a look at the proposed changes (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Suggested_changes). I apologize that this feedback arrived later than planned, but I think this will create a better document.If you prefer to give your opinion privately, feedback via e-mail is welcome at conduct-discussion(a)wikimedia.org.Thanks <mailto: conduct-discussion(a)wikimedia.org.Thanks>,Matt Flaschen_______________________________________________Analytics mailing listAnalytics(a)lists.wikimedia.orghtt <mai
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>
Hi folks,
An ArchCom RFC triage (per
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125865>) was penciled in for this
past RFC meeting (<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E144>), but I was
out for jury duty and wasn't able to make the push for this or
facilitate it if we stuck with my hasty plan. I'm done now, and would
be happy to accommodate assuming everyone is available and up for
helping out with a triage for this coming meeting on Wednesday
2016-03-02 (<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E146>)
The point of the triage would be to try to ensure that more RFCs have
assigned shepherds on ArchCom. That, in turn, would hopefully make it
more likely for an RFC to make it through the process more quickly.
Instead of having to ask all of ArchCom status about a particular RFC,
there would be a single ArchCom owner to check in with.
Any RFC that doesn't have a shepherd is not likely to move through the
process. There are always going to be several RFCs that don't have
shepherds. Just submitting an RFC doesn't guarantee that an ArchCom
member will think your RFC is important. Life is hard that way. Make
your case!
Note also: shepherd != slave. Even when an RFC has a shepherd,
there's no guarantee that the RFC is a high priority for the shepherd.
Certainly, the shepherd's credibility as a worthy ArchCom member is
potentially damaged by foot dragging, but don't bank on being able to
dump blame on the shepherd if your RFC isn't going fast enough for
your taste.
Thoughts?
Rob
Forwarding the campaign announcement, and ideas from Aaron Halfaker.
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Aaron Halfaker" <ahalfaker(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Feb 29, 2016 16:00
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Inspire Campaign on content curation &
review launches today!
To: "Chris Jethro Schilling" <cschilling(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: "Staff All" <wmfall(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
"Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
I just finished submitting two ideas that I'd like to advise.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Automated_good-faith_newcome…
Build and deploy a machine learning model for flagging newcomers who are
editing in good-faith. This has the potential to mitigate some of the
secondary, demotivational effects when good-faith newcomers' work passes
through curation/review processes.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Fast_and_slow_new_article_re…
Concerns about the introduction of spam into Wikipedia has lead Wikipedians
towards implementing high speed new article review/curation processes. The
speed at which editors tag articles for deletion via these processes is
great for dealing with spam, but it might also be faster that good-faith
new article creators can build their articles. We could build a machine
learning classifier that is tuned to detect spammy article drafts. This
would allow the new pages queue to be split into a high-speed spammy
article review, and a low-speed article review that allows creators time to
make a better first draft.
I'll submit some more when I can. :)
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Chris "Jethro" Schilling <
cschilling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am pleased to announce the launch of the second Inspire Campaign for
> IdeaLab.[1] The theme of this campaign is focused on improving tasks
> related to content curation & review in our projects:
>
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>
>
> Reviewing and organizing tasks are fundamental to all WIkimedia projects,
> and these efforts maintain and directly improve the quality of our
projects
> in addition to increasing the visibility of their content. We invite
> everyone to participate by sharing your ideas and proposals on how to
> enhance these efforts. Constructive feedback and collaboration on ideas is
> encouraged - your skills and advice can elevate a project into action. The
> campaign runs until 29 March.
>
> All proposals are welcome - research projects, technical solutions,
> community organizing and outreach, or something completely new! Grants are
> available from the Wikimedia Foundation for projects developed during this
> campaign that need financial support.[2] Google Hangout sessions are
> available in March if you'd like to have a conversation about your
ideas.[3]
>
> Join the Inspire Campaign and let’s work together to improve review and
> curation tasks so that we can make our content more meaningful and
> accessible.
>
> With thanks,
>
> Jethro
>
> [1] You can learn more about the results of the first Inspire Campaign
> here: <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Spring_2015_Inspire_campaign>
> [2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start>
> [3] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Events> (Note: If
> another time would work better for you, feel free to e-mail me or ping me
> on-wiki).
>
> ---
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> I JethroBT (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:I_JethroBT_(WMF)>
> Community Organizer, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi Community Metrics team,
This is your automatic monthly Phabricator statistics mail.
Accounts created in (2016-02): 309
Active users (any activity) in (2016-02): 946
Task authors in (2016-02): 521
Users who have closed tasks in (2016-02): 275
Projects which had at least one task moved from one column to another on
their workboard in (2016-02): 213
Tasks created in (2016-02): 3058
Tasks closed in (2016-02): 2820
Open and stalled tasks in total: 28667
Median age in days of open tasks by priority:
Unbreak now: 17
Needs Triage: 151
High: 215
Normal: 375
Low: 719
Lowest: 525
(How long tasks have been open, not how long they have had that priority)
TODO: Numbers which refer to closed tasks might not be correct, as
described in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T1003 .
Yours sincerely,
Fab Rick Aytor
(via community_metrics.sh on iridium at Tue Mar 1 00:00:09 UTC 2016)