Hello Wikimedians around the world
In these difficult times many of us miss the chance to connect in person
with other Wikimedians. We miss the events and meetings where we could
learn from and about each other. So we thought to use this time to learn
from each other more about the great people that make up our communities.
We would like to give some of them a bit of a spotlight in our virtual
spaces like our blogs and social media in the absence of physical
connection points.
Do you know a community member who has accomplished something new or
inspiring in the last year? Someone who you think the rest of the community
should know about? If so, please take a few minutes and nominate them in
the survey below.
Let us know about their inspiring work, whatever form it took, online or
offline. This can include but is not limited to adding important content
directly to one of our projects, encouraging and supporting others in
adding content, teaching the public about Wikipedia or other Wikimedia
projects, building partnerships, or organizing events and helping your
local community thrive. We are also curious to learn about the different
ways people enrich our movement!
Use the following link to take the survey.
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https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0plqKWa1o1ztZ1b?target=ML-l
<https://wikimedia-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1_JszED7z9mHJlC_…>
Thank you in advance for helping us highlight more wonderful people and
accomplishments from all over the world!
Your privacy is important to us and is governed by the linked privacy
statement. In this survey, we will request your contact information and
that of the individual you are nominating. Please be sure that the person
you are nominating understands you are providing us with their information.
We will use this information to get in touch with nominees, should they
meet our selection criteria. We will retain this contact information
indefinitely unless you or the person you nominate request its deletion or
update it in a subsequent survey; please see the privacy statement
<https://wikimedia-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1_JszED7z9mHJlC_…>
for details.
Kind regards,
Chris Koerner (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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Hello colleagues,
I am pausing "What's making you happy this week?" emails; however,
other people are welcome to start threads. More detailed information
follows.
I hope to resume publishing emails but I do not know when this will
happen. I might send emails on alternating weeks. Also, I am
considering changing the subject line from "What's making you happy
this week?" to "For what are you grateful this week?"
Clovermoss is currently away.
The pause is due to three reasons: a shortage of available time for
volunteering; a preponderance of bad news; and concerns regarding
governance issues in the Wikiverse that are difficult to resolve and
push aside other tasks on which I would like to spend my Wikimedia
time.
As I mentioned above, while I am not starting these threads,other
people are welcome to do so.
I would appreciate comments regarding the possible subject line change
to from "What's making you happy this week?" to "For what are you
grateful this week?". You can email me on list or off list, or put
comments on my Meta user talk page at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pine.
Thanks,
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Hoi,
Hay Kranen created a proof of concept where Commons is searched for
pictures that (per standard) use a "depicts" statement.. The search is
limited to existing labels in Wikidata and to the search has as its result
whatever is available in commons..
Use for instance "appelmoes" and you get six results [1], [2].
At this time you can get a "detail" screen and it provides standard
functions available. The functionality can be prettified. Essential is that
everything will be internationalised / localised. The other thing is that
I hope is that functionality like this becomes standard Commons
functionality...
On a more philosophical note, we are a WIKI, it follows that we will work
to make more and more pictures searchable in this way and that we get more
and more labels in all of our languages. It is however NOT necessary that
from the start it needs to be perfect. Please do not let perfection be the
enemy of the good. Improvements is what we should aim for and perfection is
what we aspire to.
Thanks,
GerardM
Oh and again Hay, thank you so much.
[1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/hay/sdsearch/#q=haswbstatement:P180=Q618345
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Appelmoes.png
Dear fellows,
Some time ago, Joseph Reagle wrote that an encyclopedia must be
progressive. In my personal view, something "progressive" sounds to me
intuitively more sympathetic than something "conservative". But of course,
these are only two words loaden with meaning, and reality is always more
complex.
It seems to me that many Wikipedians or Wikimedians think of themselves as
being progressive and modern. Our wikis are a tribute to science and
enlightenment. Spontaneity and a laissez-faire-attitude are held in high
regard; "productive chaos" and "anarchy" are typical for wikis.
When I had a closer look at our values and ideas, I got the impression that
the opposite is true. Many attitudes and ideals sound to me more like
bureaucracy and traditionalism:
* being thorough, with regard to content and writing about it
* community spirit
* treating everyone equally without regard of the person (the highest ideal
of the Prussian civil servant)
* individual initiative
* reliability
What do you think? Is this just my personal or national background, or has
Wikipedia been build up on a different basis than we usually tell ourselves
and others?
Kind regards
Ziko
Hello colleagues,
== Announcements for this month ==
The next Wikimedia Café meetup will occur on 30 May 2020 at 9:30 AM
Pacific / 11:30 AM Eastern / 4:30 PM UTC / 10 PM IST.
This month's meetup will focus on the recently announced 2030 strategy
recommendations. See
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme….
The organizers of the Café have not finalized the format for this
month, but this is likely to be a two hour meetup with time for
discussions regarding each of the strategy recommendations.
The Café has been well attended during the past few months. There have
been multiple requests for an alternate meetup time for the Café. This
subject is being discussed on the Café talk page, and is also on the
agenda for May's meetup. One possibility under consideration is
offering an additional Café meetup on a different day of the week and
a different time of day. Please feel free to join the discussion on
the talk page if you cannot attend the Café in its current time slot
and would like to comment regarding this issue.
== General information about the Café ==
More information regarding the agenda and links to strategy documents
are available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Café.
As usual, the meeting style for the Café will emphasize discussion
rather than presentation. People are welcome to participate as
listeners only if they prefer.
Please see the page on Meta for more information about the Café.
Please watch the page for any updates, particularly to the schedule or
the agenda. Signing up for the meeting is optional, but is helpful to
the organizers so that we can estimate how many people will attend.
Signing up for the meeting also informs us who we should notify
individually if there are significant changes.
If there are any problems with connecting to the meeting or if you
have any questions or comments, then please write on the Meta talk
page or send me an email.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Dear friends,
Greetings,
We are excited to inform you that WikiGap Nigeria Online contest ends today
27 May 2020, 23:59 (WAT).
Submissions were received in the following languages ( in no particular
order) :
1.Yoruba
2.Hausa,
3. Igbo
4.English
5. Deutsch
6. French
7. Italiano
8. Tieng Viet
9. Suomi
10. Davvisámegiella
11.Bahasa Indonesia,
12. Nederlands
13. Malayalam
14. Aftabuzzaman,
15. Punjabi
Due to the influx of many international languages, the organizing team has
decided to seek the help of the global community members especially editors
speaking and writing any of the languages to serve on the panel of Jury. We
hope volunteers can spend between 3-4hrs over one week on the task.
If you are interested in joining the team of Jury, kindly send your User
name to info(a)wikimedia.org.ng on or before 30 May 2020.
NB: Contest participants are not expected to apply as a member of Jury.
Warm regards.
*Olaniyan Ishola Olushola*
*CEO. Data Access Systems LtdChairman Local Organizing Committee
(WikiIndaba2019)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2019/Team>Co-Producer,
Wikipedia
Campaign in Nigeria
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=AUBPd3PTas0> ( Winner of
the Best NGO in Africa ( African Excellence Award 2018)
<https://af-pr.excellence-awards.com/winnerlist/best-of-2018/>) Dublin,
Republic of Ireland. Co-Producer , Wiki Women Radio
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Committee ( Wikimedia Foundation)*
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* One on One with Olushola Olaniyan ( TV Plus Africa)
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Hello everyone,
Today, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees unanimously passed a
resolution and published a statement[1] regarding the urgent need to make
our movement more safe and inclusive by addressing harassment and
incivility on Wikimedia projects. The statement builds on prior statements
from 2016 and 2019,[2][3] affirms the forthcoming introduction of a
universal code of conduct, and directs the Wikimedia Foundation to rapidly
and substantively address these challenges in complement with existing
community processes.
This includes developing sustainable practices and tools that eliminate
harassment, toxicity, and incivility, promote inclusivity, cultivate
respectful discourse, reduce harms to participants, protect the projects
from disinformation and bad actors, and promote trust in our projects.
Over the past nearly twenty years, the movement has taken a number of
unique and sometimes extraordinary steps to create an environment unlike
anything else online: a place to share knowledge, to learn, and to
collaborate together. In order for the movement to continue to thrive and
make progress to our mission, it is essential to build a culture that is
welcoming and inclusive.
Research has consistently shown that members of our communities have been
subject to hostility and toxic behavior in Wikimedia spaces.[4][5] The
Wikimedia 2030 movement strategy recommendations have also identified the
safety of our Wikimedia spaces as a core issue to address if we are to
reach the 2030 goals, with concrete recommendations which include a
universal code of conduct, pathways for users to privately report
incidents, and a baseline of community responsibilities.[6]
While the movement has made progress in addressing harassment and toxic
behavior, we recognize there is still much more to do. The Board’s
resolution and statement today is a step toward establishing clear,
consistent guidelines around acceptable behavior on our projects, and
guiding the Wikimedia Foundation in supporting the movement’s ability to
ensure a healthy environment for those who participate in our projects.
* Developing and introducing, in close consultation with volunteer
contributor communities, a universal code of conduct that will be a binding
minimum set of standards across all Wikimedia projects;
* Taking actions to ban, sanction, or otherwise limit the access of
Wikimedia movement participants who do not comply with these policies and
the Terms of Use;
* Working with community functionaries to create and refine a retroactive
review process for cases brought by involved parties, excluding those cases
which pose legal or other severe risks; and
* Significantly increasing support for and collaboration with community
functionaries primarily enforcing such compliance in a way that prioritizes
the personal safety of these functionaries.
Together, we have made our movement what it is today. In this same way, we
must all be responsible for building the positive community culture of the
future, and accountable for stopping harassment and toxic behavior on our
sites.
We have also made this statement available on Meta-Wiki for translation and
wider distribution.[1]
On behalf of the Board,
María, Board Chair
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/May_…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/Nove…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/Arch…'s_ban_of_Fram
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Harassment_survey_2015
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights/2018_Report#Experience_o…
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
== Statement on Healthy Community Culture, Inclusivity, and Safe Spaces ==
Harassment, toxic behavior, and incivility in the Wikimedia movement are
contrary to our shared values and detrimental to our vision and mission.
They negatively impact our ability to collect, share, and disseminate free
knowledge, harm the immediate well-being of individual Wikimedians, and
threaten the long-term health and success of the Wikimedia projects. The
Board does not believe we have made enough progress toward creating
welcoming, inclusive, harassment-free spaces in which people can contribute
productively and debate constructively.
In recognition of the urgency of these issues, the Board is directing the
Wikimedia Foundation to directly improve the situation in collaboration
with our communities. This should include developing sustainable practices
and tools that eliminate harassment, toxicity, and incivility, promote
inclusivity, cultivate respectful discourse, reduce harms to participants,
protect the projects from disinformation and bad actors, and promote trust
in our projects.
Specifically, the Foundation shall:
* Develop and introduce a universal code of conduct (UCoC) that will be a
binding minimum set of standards across all Wikimedia projects.
** The first phase, covering policies for in-person and virtual events,
technical spaces, and all Wikimedia projects and wikis, and developed in
collaboration with the international Wikimedia communities, will be
presented to the Board for ratification by August 30, 2020.
** The second phase, outlining clear enforcement pathways, and refined with
broad input from the Wikimedia communities, will be presented to the Board
for ratification by the end of 2020;
* Take actions to ban, sanction, or otherwise limit the access of Wikimedia
movement participants who do not comply with these policies and the Terms
of Use;
* Work with community functionaries to create and refine a retroactive
review process for cases brought by involved parties, excluding those cases
which pose legal or other severe risks; and
* Significantly increase support for and collaboration with community
functionaries primarily enforcing such compliance in a way that prioritizes
the personal safety of these functionaries.
Until such directives are implemented, the Board instructs the Foundation
to adopt and implement policies for reducing harassment and toxicity on our
projects and minimizing legal risks for the movement, in collaboration with
communities whenever practicable. Until these two phases of the UCoC are
complete and operational an interim review process involving community
functionaries will be in effect. In this interim period, the Product
Committee of the Board of Trustees will also advise the Trust & Safety team.
To that end, the Board further directs the Foundation, in collaboration
with the communities, to make additional investments in Trust & Safety
capacity, including but not limited to: development of tools needed to
assist our volunteers and staff, research to support data-informed
decisions, development of clear metrics to measure success, development of
training tools and materials (including building communities’ capacities
around harassment awareness and conflict resolution), and consultations
with international experts on harassment, community health and children’s
rights, as well as additional hiring.
The above efforts will be undertaken in coordination and collaboration with
appropriate partners from across the movement, seek to increase effective
community governance of conduct and behavioral standards, and reduce the
long-term need of the Foundation to act. It is the shared goal of the Board
and Foundation that these efforts advance a sustainable Wikimedia movement
and support, rather than substitute, effective models of community
governance.
We urge every member of the Wikimedia communities to collaborate in a way
that models the Wikimedia values of openness and inclusivity, step forward
to do their part to create a safe and welcoming culture for all, stop
hostile and toxic behavior, support people who have been targeted by such
behavior, assist good-faith people learning to contribute, and help set
clear expectations for all contributors.
--
María Sefidari Huici
Chair of the Board
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
I normally don't send out emails like this when we upgrade etherpad,
but 1.8.4 (which we just upgraded to), has brought in a UI change (one
that was introduced in 1.8.3) which, in my opinion, warrants a heads
up so that people aren't caught off guard. Etherpad-lite now has had a
new skin and that's what you will experience while using it. There's
also a number of other changes, you can have a quick look at
https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/blob/develop/CHANGELOG.md if
you are interested.
Regards,
--
Alexandros Kosiaris
Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello,
This is an announcement about a new installment of the Language Showcase, a
series of presentations about various aspects of language diversity and its
connection to Wikimedia Projects.
This new installment will deal with the latest design research about the
upcoming section translation feature for Content Translation.
This session is going to be broadcast over Zoom, and a recording will be
published for later viewing. You can also participate in the conversation
on IRC or with us on the Zoom meeting.
Please read below for the event details, including local time, joining
links and do let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you!
Amir
== Details ==
# Event: Language Showcase #5
# When: May 27, 2020 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200527T1300 )
# Where:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/97081030000
Meeting ID: 970 8103 0000
IRC - #wikimedia-office (on Freenode)
# Agenda:
The latest design research about the upcoming section translation feature
for Content Translation.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
