I share the time concerns that Pine and Todd addressed. But my larger
concern is about the purpose of this next community conversation. You say
that the core team will summarize the community input, and then the
community will have a week to "suggest changes to the posted summary so
that it accurately reflects their viewpoints". So it seems that while
WMF wants to know how the community feels about the upcoming strategy
document, it is not giving the community any say, at this point in the
process, of the content of that document. So then why bother having another
community conversation at this juncture? Why take up so much community time
to develop responses to a document that will a priori not change based on
those responses? That seems to be a textbook case of how to get
dissatisfaction and disillusionment. Although I would prefer for the
community to still have a say in things, if the sense is that the document
really is done, maybe it should just be sent to the BOD now, saving 8 or
more weeks of time. If the community conversation does go ahead, I think
it is very important to make it very clear what will be and won't be done
with the responses, allowing community members to make informed decisions
about how much time and effort to devote to the conversation. It took a
couple of read-throughs for me to realize that there will be a response
summary and suggestions to that document, but no further round of revision.
Thanks,
Paul
At 2020-01-13 11:46 p, you wrote:
I would tend to agree. This process has been ongoing for many months now,
and the community raised substantial concerns about the initial proposals.
Whether deliberate or not, allowing only a week for discussion of the final
product seems an attempt to ram it through. Surely longer than a week can
be allowed for discussion of such a critical item. Todd On Mon, Jan 13,
2020 at 11:25 PM Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nicole, > > After
reading this email, and taking into consideration a discussion that >
happened during the January online meeting of United States Wikimedians, I
> feel that the timeline here is aggressive and likely to result in
problems. > In particular, giving the core team one week to review feedback
and giving > the community one week to review the core team's summary seem
risky at > best, even if everyone is communicating in English. When taking
into > account the need for translations,my guess is that one week is an >
impossibly short timeframe for quality work in these phases of the strategy
> process. > > I suggesting adding at least one more week to the timeframe
for the core > team to review feedback including translations of comments,
and at least > three more weeks for conversations with the community
regarding the core > team's summary. > > I am concerned that this process
may be heading toward a rushed and chaotic > finish. > > Pine > (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) >
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Dear all,
We are pleased from Wikimedia Morocco User Group to announce you that we
have completed our report of activities for the year 2019
<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Wikimedia_Morocco._2019…>,
with a special highlight to the WikiArabia 2019 conference
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiArabia_2019> that was held in
Marrakesh.
We have also succeeded to finalize our first bylaws writing. They were
voted unanimously by the members during our first meeting of the year (10
January). They are available on Meta (in Arabic)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MA_User_Group/Policies>. These
are small steps towards more professionalization and we hope that they can
be helpful for our fellow groups as well.
Thank you for your attention, and have a good day wherever you are!
Best regards,
--
-----------------------------------------------------
*Anass SEDRATI*
*Wikimedia Morocco Projects Coordinator*
I have just seen this:
https://savedotorg.org/
"The .org domain is about to be sold to a private equity firm.
"Join the coalition of nonprofits opposed to this blatant
disregard of the public interest."
WMF are among the signatories.
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Hello colleagues,
I'm Clovermoss, and I'm sending out the email thread this week.
* From Clovermoss *
I have smiled several times this week, and I'm thankful for that. I'm
thankful for the start of another year and another decade. I have observed
and participated in a lot of WikiLove between editors wishing each other a
happy new year. I'm excited for what 2020 will bring, as I'm anticipating
some important milestones being reached this year in my life.
I saw an interesting thread on the mailing list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2020-January/094066.html>
about
an astronaut editing Wikipedia from the ISS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISS>, and I'm thankful that my curiousity
about Earth and beyond has been piqued. I was one of those kids who used to
dream about being an astronaut. I still think of that career path as
fascinating, although not one I am likely to take myself. I admire people
who follow their dreams, whatever those dreams happen to be.
* From Pine *
"Email from the Analytics mailing list: "Introducing statistics for media
files
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2019-December/006739.html>
".
Hi everybody,
Just in time for the holidays, we're announcing the addition of Media
Requests to our metrics catalog. Over the last few months we've been
working on a dataset offering request numbers for every single image,
audio, video and document in the Wiki universe, since 2015.
This means we have 3 new metrics available in the Analytics Query Service:
* Media requests per referrer: e.g. how many images, audio, videos... have
been accessed from English Wikipedia in the last month? '''73 billion for
November.'''
* Media requests per file: e.g. how many hits did [[Christmas
tree#/media/File:Yggdrasil.jpg|this cool painting]] get in November? The
answer is 483,791 hits.
* Top files by media requests: e.g. what was the most popular video
yesterday, December 22nd? Fred Rogers testifying before the Senate
Subcommittee on Communications. Fun! You can check out the top 1000 media
files for any month or day, for any media type.
Media requests is, in terms of absolute numbers, a huge dataset, so the per
file and top metrics are still being loaded with data all the way to 2015.
We expect this loading to finish in mid January.
You can read more about this in Wikitech. As usual if you have any
questions about the dataset or the new metrics please send them our way
here on the list or via Phabricator.
Happy holidays!
Francisco + the A team
''Francisco Dans (él, he, 彼)''
Software Engineer, Analytics Team
Wikimedia Foundation
Clovermoss (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss)
Hi all,
I have some good news to share with you all -- after nearly three years of
Wikipedia being blocked in Turkey, the Turkish Constitutional Court has
ruled that this is unconstitutional. We hope that access will be restored
soon in light of this ruling, and will keep you updated as we hear further
developments.
Please join me in congratulating the Wikimedia community in Turkey, the
millions of Wikipedia readers in Turkey, and all of those struggling under
censorship around the world, on this critical affirmation of the
fundamental right to knowledge.
Imposed in April of 2017, the block has prevented the 80+ million people in
Turkey from accessing and participating in all language versions of
Wikipedia. It also prevented members of our community in Turkey from freely
engaging with the projects and impaired our movement’s global effort to
represent the sum of all knowledge.
As many of you might recall, we had filed an urgent application to the
European Court of Human Rights in April 2019. Our petition on the legality
of the access ban is currently before the ECHR and we are evaluating our
next steps based on this latest ruling.
A team from within and outside the Wikimedia Foundation has been working
diligently since the block was instituted to restore full access in Turkey.
Throughout this process, we have been guided by our Wikimedia values and a
belief that Wikipedia must be accessible in its entirety; with no
censorship of any kind to be tolerated. We worked closely with Wikimedia
community members in Turkey to understand and act in a way that reflected
their needs, wishes, and local context. We also benefited greatly from
conversations with experts around the world.
We will be posting more information on the Foundation website soon. In the
meantime, I wanted to offer my sincere appreciation and admiration to the
members of our community in Turkey -- you have shown great integrity,
courage, and dedication. Your unwavering commitment to the Wikimedia
projects, despite the obstacles placed in front of you, is an inspiration
to us all.
Thank you to every Wikimedia community member around the world who showed
support for the Turkish community. Your commitment to our sense of
community and the strength of our global movement is an inspiration.
Finally, I would also like to thank the many Foundation staff and others
involved over the past months for your exceptional diligence,
professionalism, and tact in handling a delicate situation.
While this is a favorable ruling for our case in Turkey, it remains to be
seen whether the Turkish government will indeed restore access in Turkey.
And serious threats to free knowledge remain around the world. Today's
ruling is a reminder of the work we still left to do.
But at this moment, let us celebrate this important recognition that the
right to information is fundamental to every human, with happy anticipation
of the return of Turkey to our global community of editors, readers, and
knowledge seekers.
Katherine
--
Katherine Maher (she/her)
Executive Director
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Is superexponential fundraising really in the minority? Why do we always
treat December like "don't ask for as much as they would give if you were
to ask as much as you said you were going to.
Best regards,
Jim
Dear colleagues,
The English Wikipedia community received news that User:Brianboulton
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brianboulton> passed. Quoting
User:Schrocat <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SchroCat>: "I have just
received an email from Brian's daughter to say that he died peacefully on 9
December, following a long illness. Requiescat in pace. 106 FAs, 2 FLs,
gawd knows how many source and prose reviews at FA, and countless numbers
of editors helped, encouraged and improved over the years. A good friend to
all who met him, and this place is a little less appealing now he won't be
here anymore."
Comments may be left on his talk page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User
talk:Brianboulton>.
Regards,
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )