Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
group aims to promote the use of Wikipedia and its sister projects by the
residents of Botswana, effectively engaging people to help contribute
online content and promoting the use of the free online resources of the
Wikimedia Foundation to enhance the life of every individual.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Botswana
Hi all,
I'm an Outreachy <https://www.outreachy.org/alums/> intern and as a part of
the internship, I'm working on a project - WikiCV
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiCV>.
Through this project we (my mentors - Gergő Tisza and Stephen LaPorte and
I) want to create a contribution summarizing tool which (unlike the
existing ones that focus on statistics and are hard to interpret for
someone not familiar with Wikipedia editing) highlights contributions in an
easy-to-understand manner.
I'm writing this to gather inputs from prospective users of this tool, that
is all the Wikipedia editors!
Basically I want to understand what all things would you like to see in a
tool like this? Or what all would you write in your Wikipedia CV?
You can give in your inputs through mail (I'd be more than happy to get one
:)) or fill out this form <https://goo.gl/forms/slmOreey5iVPWzFx1>. My work
is largely dependent on your inputs, so please pour in your comments/views.
Your help will be quite appreciated!
Eagerly waiting for your inputs :)
Thanks,
Megha Sharma
Hi all,
We’re glad to briefly present to the community the two new members elected
on December 2 to Wikimédia France Board of Trustees by our General
Assembly.
— Pierre-Selim, 35, is a Product Manager and Data Scientist. Long-time
wikimedian, he enjoys contributing with his pictures to Wikimedia Commons.
He has already served on the board of Wikimédia France previously, in 2013
and from 2015 to Spring 2017. His term runs until October 2019.
— Hélène Masson, aka Edhral, is a 41-year-old Business Analyst. She has
been a Wikimedian since 2006 and strives to explain how Wikipedia works to
all her relations. Her term runs until October 2019.
Three other members of the Board, who had been elected in September for
this very short period, have been successfully reelected too.
— Kvardek du, 22, has been contributing to Wikimedia projects for 7 years
and organizes events like Art+Feminism editathons in Paris. Their PhD
research focuses on operational management in transportation. Their term
runs until October 2019.
— Lucas Lévêque, 29, a librarian and a passionate wiktionarist, arrived in
the association in 2014. He co-founded Lingua Libre and he registers
regional languages for the Wiktionary. His term runs until October 2019.
— Florence Raymond, 37, is an assistant curator, at the initiative of
Wikimuseum Project since 2016. She works for a better place of common goods
(photos and contents) in cultural structures. Her term runs until October
2017.
We are now 10 members at the board, but there's work for all :)
Nadine Le Lirzin
*Board member*
*Wikimédia France*
Wikimedia Suomi, the national Wikimedia Chapter of Finland, is happy to
announce the board for 2018. Continuing members are Minna Turtiainen, Teemu
Perhiö and Tero Toivanen. New members selected are Hanna Mäki and Jaakko
Pirinen. Heikki Kastemaa was selected as the president of the chapter.
Best regards,
Tia Kangaspunta
Coordinator
Wikimedia Suomi (WMFI)
Dear Wikimedians,
Thanks to those of you who have already registered for the Wikimedia
Conference 2018 – we are already very excited to host the conference
from April 20 to April 22, 2018 in Berlin!
== Registration information ==
You have not registered for the conference yet? Your affiliation is
eligible [1] to attend the conference and you have been selected to
represent your affiliation in Berlin? Then please be kindly reminded
to register until Monday, January 15, 2018. To register for the
conference, please find the link to the registration form below. [2]
== Holiday break of the organizing team ==
In view of the upcoming holidays, we would like to inform you that the
WMCON18 organizing team will be out of the office from December 22,
2017 until January 3, 2018.
If you need assistance or have any questions, we recommend you to
contact us before December 22. Otherwise, we will respond to your
emails as soon as possible upon our return.
== Visa information ==
We strongly advise all those of you who need a visa to register until
Monday, December 18, 2017.
We will do our best to send the documents (letter of invitation,
foreign travel health insurance, copy of registration of association
of WMDE) by December 22, 2017, which are needed for the visa
application process, to everyone, who registers until Monday, December
18, 2017. Should you register after this date, we will prepare and
send the documents to you beginning of January.
Further information on the visa process and assistance can be found on Meta. [3]
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards,
Daniela & Michelle on behalf of the organizing team
Wikimedia Deutschland
wmcon(a)wikimedia.de
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Eligibility_Crite…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Registration_Info…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Visa_Process_and_…
Hello from Analytics Team!
We are happy to announce the Alpha release of Wikistats 2. Wikistats has
been redesigned for architectural simplicity, faster data processing, and a
more dynamic and interactive user experience. First goal is to match the
numbers of the current system, and to provide the most important reports,
as decided by the Wikistats community (see survey) [1]. Over time, we will
continue to migrate reports and add new ones that you find useful. We can
also analyze the data in new and interesting ways, and look forward to
hearing your feedback and suggestions. [2]
You can go directly to Spanish Wikipedia
https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/es.wikipedia.org
or browse all projects
https://stats.wikimedia.org/v2/#/all-projects
The new site comes with a whole new set of APIs, similar to our existing
Pageview API but with edit data. You can start using them today, they are
documented here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/AQS/Wikistats
FAQ:
Why is this an alpha?
There are features that we feel a full-fledged product should have that are
still missing, such as localization. The data-processing pipeline for the
new Wikistats has been rebuilt from scratch (it uses distributed-computing
tools such as Hadoop) and we want to see how it is used before calling it
final. Also while we aim to update data monthly, it will happen a few days
after the month rolls because of the amount of data to move and compute.
How about comparing data between two wikis?
You can do it with two tabs but we are aware this UI might not solve all
use cases for the most advanced Wikistats users. We aim to tackle those in
the future.
How do I file bugs?
Use the handy link in the footer: https://phabricator.wikimedia.
org/maniphest/task/edit/?title=Wikistats%20Bug&projectPHIDs=Analytics-
Wikistats,Analytics
How do I comment on design?
The consultation on design already happened but we are still watching the
talk page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistats_2.0_Design_
Project/RequestforFeedback/Round2
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Wikistats/
DumpReports/Future_per_report
[2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Analytics/Systems/Wikistats
Hi everyone,
The Community Tech team is happy to announce the top 10 wishes from the 2017
Community Wishlist Survey!
More than 1,100 people participated in the survey this year -- proposing,
discussing and voting on 214 ideas. There was a two-week period in November
to submit and discuss proposals, followed by two weeks of support voting.
The top 10 proposals with the most support votes now become Community
Tech's backlog of projects to evaluate and address.
And here's the new top 10:
#1. Maps improvements (154 support votes)
#2. Ping users from the edit summary (127)
#3. Programs and events dashboard (111)
#4. Blame tool (110)
#5. Infobox wizard (106)
#6. Article Alerts for more languages (102)
#7. Auto-save edits (96)
#7. Thanks notification for log entries (tie, 96)
#9. SVG translation (94)
#10. Commons deletion notification bot (91)
You can see the whole list here, with links to proposals, project pages and
Phabricator tickets:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results
So what happens next?
In 2018, the Community Tech team is responsible for investigating and
addressing the top 10 wishes. If there's a wish in the top 10 that we can't
work on, because it's unfeasible or because another group is working on it,
then we'll explain why we can't.
To get updates on our progress:
There are project pages for each of the top 10 wishes, which you can put on
your watchlist. We'll update them as the project progresses. (At time of
writing, these are just skeletons; actual information on each project is
still to come.) Feel free to post questions and suggestions on the project
talk pages: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Community_Tech_-
_Current_projects
If you're familiar with the Phabricator ticketing system, the main Phab
task for each wish is noted on the Results page. You can also subscribe to
those tickets for updates.
We also publish several status reports through the year, to keep people
updated. You can watch the main Community Tech page for updates:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech
There are more questions and answers on the Wishlist Survey FAQ:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey/FAQ
Thanks to everybody who proposed, discussed, debated and voted on ideas in
this year's Wishlist Survey!