Dr. Heilman wrote:
>... we need someone who has excellent communication and people skills.
> Technical skills can be hired for at other levels of the organization while
> people skill cannot typically be taught.
>
> Katherine, our current interim ED, appears to have these qualities. If
> she is [interested] in taking on the position long term I would hope
> her candidacy is given serious consideration by the board.
I agree with this completely. The Foundation could save so much money
and time if the Board would simply appoint Katherine and bypass the
planned search in recognition of Katherine's observed performance
working at the WMF which no external candidate can possibly match,
please?
Can we at least get confirmation that her performance working at the
Foundation will be appropriately weighted in her favor if we do have
another lengthy, expensive, third-party search?
Best regards,
Jim Salsman
Hi everyone,
The important part of this email is this link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_repor…
This is the second Community Wishlist Survey status report. In November and
December, active contributors to Wikimedia projects proposed, discussed and
voted on the features and fixes that they most want to see. The Wikimedia
Foundation Community Tech team has been tasked with working on
these. Additionally, Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team has been
working on wishes from the German-speaking community. There's overlap
between the two wishlists, and the teams are collaborating on various
wishes, so this report includes progress made by both teams as well as
great work being done by volunteer developers and other WMF staff.
So far, we (in the broad sense) have added support for:
*) Migrating dead external links to archives (but there's more work to be
done!)
*) Pageview stats
*) Global notifications
*) A category watchlist
We're currently working on:
*) Improving the plagiarism detection bot
*) Improving the diff compare screen
*) Numerical sorting in categories
*) The possibility to add an expiry date to watchlist items
*) A revision slider to help editors navigate through diff pages
For more information on these projects as well as upcoming tasks, see the
full status report on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_repor…
We're looking forward to talking and working with you as we go along.
Thanks,
//Johan Jönsson
User:Johan (WMF)
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Dear all,
It is a pleasure to announce the recognition of a new WIkimedia User
Group: Wikiversity Journal User Group [1].
Their area of focus is the peer review of different works that have
undergone the Wikiversity Peer Review process [2], especially for the
Wikiversity Journal of Medicine and the Second Journal of Science and
therefore, building upon knowledge and enriching content.
Let's say "welcome" to our colleagues :-)
1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiversity_Journal_User_Group
2: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Peer_review
--
"*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua
junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
Carlos M. Colina
Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 |
www.wikimedia.org.ve <http://wikimedia.org.ve>
Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
Phone: +972-52-4869915
Twitter: @maor_x
Hey all,
Wikimedia Deutschland and the Wikimedia Foundation hosted the WikiCite
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016> event in Berlin last week,
bringing together a large group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016#Participant_list> of
Wikidatans, Wikipedians, librarians, developers and researchers from all
over the world.
The event built a lot of momentum around the definition of data models,
workflows and technology needed to better represent source and citation
data from Wikimedia projects, Wikidata in particular.
While we're still drafting a human-readable report
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Report>, I thought I'd share
a preview of the notes from the various workgroups, to give you a sense of
what we worked on and to let everyone join the discussion:
Main workgroups
Modeling bibliographic source metadata
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_1>
Discuss and draft data models to represent different types of sources as
Wikidata items
Reference extraction and metadata lookup tools
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_2>
Design or improve tools to extract identifiers and bibliographic data from
Wikipedia citation templates, look up and retrieve metadata
Representing citations and citation events
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_3>
Discuss how to express the citation of a source in a Wikimedia artifact
(such as a Wikipedia article, a Wikidata statements etc.) and review
alternative ways to represent them
(Semi-)automated ways to add references to Wikidata statements
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_4>
Improve tools for semi-automated statement and reference creation
(StrepHit, ContentMine)
Use cases for source-related queries
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_5>
Identify use cases for SPARQL queries involving source metadata. Obtain a
small open licensed bibliographic and citation graph dataset to build a
proof-of-concept of the querying and visualization potential of source
metadata in Wikidata.
Additional workgroups
Wikidata as the central hub on license information on databases
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_6>
Add license information to Wikidata to make Wikidata the central hub on
license information on databases
Using citations and bibliographic source metadata
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_7>
Merge groups working on citation structure and source metadata models and
integrate their recommendations
Citoid-Wikidata integration
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016/Group_8>
Extend Citoid to write source metadata into Wikidata
We're opening up the wikicite-discuss(a)wikimedia.org mailing list to anyone
interested in interacting with the participants in the event (we encouraged
them to use the official wikidata list for anything of interest to the
broader community). Phabricator also has a dedicated tag
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikicite/> for related initiatives.
The event was generously funded
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2016#Funding> by the Alfred P.
Sloan Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Crossref.
We'll be exploring the feasibility of a follow-up event in the next 6-12
months to continue the work we started in Berlin and bring in more people
than we could host due to funding/capacity.
Best,
Dario
on behalf of the organizers