[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Mexico. Report of Activities December 2014 and January 2015

[Carmen Alcázar]

Dear community:

Below you will find the report of activities of December 2014 and January
2015 done by the volunteers of Wikimedia Mexico. Please don't hesitate to
get in touch with us if you require extra information about this activities
or only to make some suggestions.

The report is also available on Spanish and English in our wiki:

https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Diciembre_2014
​​
(December/Spanish)
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Diciembre_2014/en (December/English)
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Enero_2015 (January/Spanish)
https://mx.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informes/Enero_2015/en (January/English)

Greetings from the Wikimedia Mexico community.

On behalf
​of ​
our chapter.
Carmen Alcázar (User:Wotancito)
WMMX Secretary.


==Journal December==
December 1
*Transmission of Möebius radio show: "From Hospital de la Castañeda to Pink
Floyd.

December 3
*Meeting with Archivo Tomás Montero A.C. towards a possible donation of
pictures as part of the Tlatelolco Cultural Centre.
*Backstage tour on the Fonoteca Nacional (National audio archive)

December 8
*Transmission of Möebius radio show: "From Jack Thomas Andraka to Cake"


==Journal
​January
==
January 5
​*​
Transmission of Möebius radio show: "From Tres Tenores to Brazilian Girls"

January 10
​*​
Wikimedia Mexico Board meeting at Puebla.

January 12
​*​
Transmission of Möebius radio show: "From Ñusta to Michael Jackson"

January 15
​*​
Presentation of GLAM projects with Circuito Cultural Norte Chapultepec:
Museo de la Basílica de Guadalupe, Museo Casa Carranza, Museo de la Biblia,
Mapoteca Orozco y Berra, Museo Indígena, Museo de los Ferrocarrileros,
Museo Tecnológico de la CFE, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Museo de
Antropología e Historia, Museo Casa de la Bola, Museo del Chocolate and
Museo Soumaya.
Following meeting with Cineteca Nacional for February 14th editathon.
Planning meeting about Wikipedia gender gap project with NGO partners:
Impetú, Social TIC, Mujeres Construyendo, Luchadoras TV and La Sandía
Digital.

January 20
​*​
Presentation of the GLAM projects to the Instituto Carlos Slim de la Salud
staff.

January 21
​*"Creative Commons como alternativa autoral" talk by Iván Martínez in the
Seminario Permanente de Investigación-Producción en Arte y Diseño de la
Facultad de Arte y Diseño de la UNAM, session: “El problema de la
apropiación, el plagio y los derechos de autor en las artes visuales, el
diseño y la comunicación visual”. Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco.

January 24
​*​
Monthly Wikipedia editing workshop, by Christian Cariño.

January 26
​*​
Transmission of Möebius radio show: "From JLo to Madonna"
​*​
Meeting with Luz María Silva, teacher from ITAM, about Wikipedia Education
Program

January 27
​*​
Meeting with Instituto de la Juventud de la Ciudad de México (Mexico City
Youth Institute) for their participation in the Wikimania 2015 Volunteer
Program.
​*​
Transmission of "Editatona" program in LuchadorasTV, RompevientoTV internet
television channel.
​ (http://rompevientotv.mediafire.com/?5nt81iuedc5d420)


January 31
*First ''Editatona'' editathon from
​ ​
Gender Gap project. Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir, Mexico City.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Weird statistics

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Anders Wennersten, 18/02/2015 05:57:

The number of access from fixed devices in [1] show a hefty decrease on
a yearly basis accelerating from September. (total -16%, for sv -35%) I
wonder if there is an error in the measurements?


No error.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2014_Readership_Update,_WMF_Metrics_Meeting,_December.pdf

Nemo

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[Wikimedia-l] [Reminder] [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on 18 February 2015 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC

[Runa Bhattacharjee]

Hello,

A quick reminder about Language Engineering team's monthly IRC office hour
thats happening later today at 1300 UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please see
below for the original announcement, local time, and agenda. We will post
logs on metawiki[1] after the event.

Thanks
Runa

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Office_hour_logs

-- Forwarded message --
From: Runa Bhattacharjee 
Date: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:47 PM
Subject: [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on 18 February 2015
(Wednesday) at 1300 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation ,
Wikimedia Mailing List , Wikimedia
developers , "Wikimedia & GLAM
collaboration [Public]" 


[X-posted announcement]

Hello,

The next monthly IRC office hour of the WMF Language Engineering team will
be on February 18, 2015 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC on #wikimedia-office.
Please note that for this instance the session has been set to a much
earlier hour.

We will be taking questions and discussing about our ongoing projects,
particularly the recent activation of Content Translation as a beta feature
on several Wikipedias[1]. We’d love to hear comments, suggestions and any
feedback that will help us make this tool better.

Please see below to check local time and event details. Logs from our
earlier office hours are available at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Language_Engineering

Thanks
Runa

[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/

Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==
# Date: February 18, 2015 (Wednesday)

# Time: 1300 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150218T1300)

# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office

# Agenda:
1. Ongoing projects - Content Translation beta feature
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)

-- 
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation




-- 
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Weird statistics

[Anders Wennersten]

The number of access from fixed devices in [1] show a hefty decrease on 
a yearly basis accelerating from September. (total -16%, for sv -35%) I 
wonder if there is an error in the measurements?


And while one the the data tables for access from mobile devices [2] 
shows a steady progress, the other [3] show quite different magnitudes 
(for sv 50% less acceses and increase of +22% instead of +58)


Is there an explanation to these anomalies?

Anders


[1]
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm
[2]
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyMobile.htm
[3]
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/TablesPageViewsMonthlySquidsMobile.htm

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action

[Garfield Byrd]

Pine,

The Wikimedia Foundation Mid Year Financial Statements will be available by
the end of March 2015.

Regards,

Garfield

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:55 PM, Pine W  wrote:

> Just following up on this: when will the mid-year WMF financials be
> published with Annual Plan alignment/divergance info? This info is relevant
> for 2015-2016 planning, and to some extent, the strategy update.
>
> Thanks. (:
>
> Pine
> On Oct 9, 2014 12:18 PM, "Pine W"  wrote:
>
> > Thank you Lila.
> >
> > Pine
> > On Oct 9, 2014 11:50 AM, "Lila Tretikov"  wrote:
> >
> >> We are planning to do a review of alignment/divergence with the plan mid
> >> year. That would be the right time for this discussion as we will have a
> >> good overview/gap analysis at that time.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Pine W  wrote:
> >>
> >> > Thanks for the detailed comments, Erik.
> >> >
> >> > As someone who spent several volunteer hours reviewing the current
> >> Annual
> >> > Plan, I would appreciate getting an understanding of how the change of
> >> > emphasis to quarterly reviews affects budgets, hiring plans, and
> >> > fundraising goals. Is that something that you can address or should I
> >> ask
> >> > Garfield?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Pine
> >> > On Oct 9, 2014 4:44 AM, "Erik Moeller"  wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Pine W 
> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > I'm sure a Board member, Lila, or Erik will correct me if I am
> >> > mistaken,
> >> > > > but my understanding is that there is internal agreement at Board
> >> level
> >> > > > that the Product side of the org needs some systemic changes, that
> >> Lila
> >> > > was
> >> > > > chosen with the goal of making those changes, and that some
> changes
> >> are
> >> > > > already happening.
> >> > >
> >> > > There's agreement at all levels that we want to continue down the
> path
> >> > > set by Sue back in 2012 [1] for WMF to truly understand itself as a
> >> > > technology and grantmaking organization. That path led to where we
> are
> >> > > today:
> >> > >
> >> > > 1) As part of the ED transition, Sue recommended (and the Board
> >> > > accepted the recommendation) to seek an ED with a strong
> >> > > technology/product background, and we hired Lila Tretikov as Sue's
> >> > > successor who matches those requirements.
> >> > >
> >> > > 2) In November 2012, I recommended that we prepare for building out
> >> > > new functions for UX and Analytics, and prepare for dedicated
> >> > > leadership for Engineering and Product. Sue accepted this
> >> > > recommendation. I hired Directors for UX and Analytics in 2013,
> >> > > followed by Community Engagement in 2014, and finally we hired a VP
> >> > > Engineering last week to complete the process.
> >> > >
> >> > > 3) To better account for the need to learn quickly and adjust course
> >> > > as appropriate, we introduced quarterly reviews in December 2012 [3]
> >> > > and increasingly reduced the specificity of Annual Plan level
> >> > > commitments while increasing the focus on metrics and accountability
> >> > > in the reviews.
> >> > >
> >> > > 4) On the technology and product front, many improvements to process
> >> > > and support infrastructure have been implemented in the last couple
> of
> >> > > years, including but not limited to:
> >> > >
> >> > > - Development of MediaWiki Vagrant as a standardized dev
> environment,
> >> > > to reduce failure cases due to developer environment inconsistencies
> >> > > - Improvements to continuous integration infrastructure for PHP unit
> >> > > tests and QUnit JavaScript unit tests, and increased focus (but not
> >> > > nearly enough yet) on automated tests, especially for newly
> developed
> >> > > features
> >> > > - Introduction and continued improvement of BetaLabs as a staging
> >> > > environment for all commits, increased use of automated end-to-end
> >> > > browser tests and QA testing by humans to catch bugs and regressions
> >> > > prior to production rollouts
> >> > > - Introduction and use of various tools for measuring the impact of
> >> > > features, including EventLogging as a standard instrumentation
> >> > > framework for measuring feature usage, dashboards for visualizing
> >> > > usage, WikiMetrics for analyzing editor cohort behavior, Editor
> >> > > Engagement Vital Signs for understanding system-wide user behavior,
> >> > > analysis of pageview data using Hadoop (just rolled out), etc.
> >> > > - Highly specialized automated testing frameworks for specific
> >> > > projects, e.g. Parsoid round-trip testing and visual diffing (!) to
> >> > > detect dirty diffs or output problems
> >> > > - Introduction of design research as a discipline in the UX team
> >> > > (through hiring of Abbey Ripstra as User Research Lead)  and
> >> > > incorporation of user studies in a much more systematic way across
> >> > > products
> >> > > - Community liaisons dedicated to key products, responding to user
> >> > > feedback and helping Product Managers understan