Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

[MZMcBride]

Hi.

Re: https://tools.wmflabs.org/otrsreports/annual/2014

phoebe ayers wrote:
>p.s. The report layout/webpage is lovely! could it be used for other
>reports?

I'm curious about this as well. I see that source code is mentioned at
, but I didn't see a
link off-hand. If a code repository exists somewhere that people could
contribute to, it might be nice to add a link in the footer. Just poking
around the HTML page source, the report seems to be built using at least
jQuery, Bootstrap, and xtable. Very neat, I'd be interested to learn more.

I also left a note on the wiki talk page about preserving this report. I'm
pretty concerned that these micro-sites won't last nearly as long as the
wikis, which is probably fine and to be expected, but I want to make sure
we don't lose important historical data.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:OTRS/Reports/2014#Preserving_history

MZMcBride



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[MZMcBride]

Fæ wrote:
>Re: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks
>
>I am glad the tables are useful, hopefully stimulating more positive
>use of the thanks notifier by contributors.
>
>The reports are updating *slowly*, currently at April 2014... This is
>in part because of the WMFlabs outage yesterday, though in general any
>report of the "logging" table is going to be slow (it is the largest
>table on the wiki database). The first run-through will take several
>days as it is going back through all of 2014. Once it is only
>reporting on the previous month, I suspect it will finish monthly
>updates within the first first day.

Hi.

Hmm, I'm not sure how you're measuring largest, but I imagine on most
wikis there are more rows in the revision table than there are in the
logging table. For example, on the English Wikipedia, there are
approximately 598,859,006 rows in the revision table and 62,731,285 rows
in the logging table. I suspect on most wikis, revision, text, and maybe
archive would typically be larger than logging, except in weird cases
such as loginwiki[_p]. And then of course there are the *links tables. But
it depends on whether you're comparing size on disk or number of rows.

You probably want to use logging_userindex instead of logging. The former
is typically significantly faster due to the way we use table views.

I have a bit of experience with database reports. Off-hand I'd say it
should be possible to query all of this information in under an hour. With
the index on logging[_userindex].log_action, even a large table such as
logging shouldn't be too awful to query for this information. If you have
queries that are taking a very long time, we should probably investigate.

MZMcBride



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

[Erik Moeller]

Patrik and everyone else involved in this -- this is pretty amazing work.
Thanks for everything you do, and thank you for documenting it so clearly.
-- 
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VP of Product & Strategy, Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] User Group Brazil Activities Report

[Rodrigo Padula]

Good! You just confirmed my point of view!!

Probably the cost / benefit of the Brazilian Catalyst Program was not the
best one, but the program ended fulfilling its catalytic role of the
Brazilian community, supporting the creation of networking, partnerships
and activities.

Best regards

Rodrigo Padula

2015-02-26 0:02 GMT-03:00 Lucas Teles :

> Nobody ever said that the Catalyst was a total failure. It had indeed good
> points. The thing is that I am not the only one with the opinion that the
> results were clearly not good enough for what was expected from all money
> invested and it is quite not fair to compare them with a volunteer effort
> with obviously less resources.
>
> Catalyst was cited 3 times in all report, and its members were always kind
> and helpful on relating with User Group. Sometimes they were just the
> contact and other times they were crucial for the work, but there were also
> other moments in which they had absolutely nothing to do with what was done
> by User Group members.
>
> It actually just doesn't serve as a good measure, nor comparison to
> evaluate Catalyst Program.
>
> Regards.
>
> 2015-02-25 23:31 GMT-03:00 Rodrigo Padula :
>
> > Interestingly to see on the report that even under so much criticism,
> > the Brazilian Catalyst Program, coordinated by Oona Castro through a
> > partnership between the Wikimedia Foundation and Ação Educativa was
> > crucial in creating and supporting great part of the activities listed
> > by the user group, since its foundation.
> >
> > Best regards and congratulations to all the people involved.
> >
> > Rodrigo Padula
> >
> > 2015-02-25 21:19 GMT-03:00 Vinicius Siqueira  >:
> > > The Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil just published its
> descriptive
> > > report regarding to the activities developed since January 2014.
> > >
> > > This report summarizes the activities developed as part of the effort
> to
> > > consolidate the Group in Brazil and to empower the Wikimedia projects
> in
> > > the country.
> > >
> > > Link:
> > >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Brasil/Report/2014
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Vinicius Siqueira
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] User Group Brazil Activities Report

[Lucas Teles]

Nobody ever said that the Catalyst was a total failure. It had indeed good
points. The thing is that I am not the only one with the opinion that the
results were clearly not good enough for what was expected from all money
invested and it is quite not fair to compare them with a volunteer effort
with obviously less resources.

Catalyst was cited 3 times in all report, and its members were always kind
and helpful on relating with User Group. Sometimes they were just the
contact and other times they were crucial for the work, but there were also
other moments in which they had absolutely nothing to do with what was done
by User Group members.

It actually just doesn't serve as a good measure, nor comparison to
evaluate Catalyst Program.

Regards.

2015-02-25 23:31 GMT-03:00 Rodrigo Padula :

> Interestingly to see on the report that even under so much criticism,
> the Brazilian Catalyst Program, coordinated by Oona Castro through a
> partnership between the Wikimedia Foundation and Ação Educativa was
> crucial in creating and supporting great part of the activities listed
> by the user group, since its foundation.
>
> Best regards and congratulations to all the people involved.
>
> Rodrigo Padula
>
> 2015-02-25 21:19 GMT-03:00 Vinicius Siqueira :
> > The Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil just published its descriptive
> > report regarding to the activities developed since January 2014.
> >
> > This report summarizes the activities developed as part of the effort to
> > consolidate the Group in Brazil and to empower the Wikimedia projects in
> > the country.
> >
> > Link:
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Brasil/Report/2014
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Vinicius Siqueira
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] User Group Brazil Activities Report

[Rodrigo Padula]

Interestingly to see on the report that even under so much criticism,
the Brazilian Catalyst Program, coordinated by Oona Castro through a
partnership between the Wikimedia Foundation and Ação Educativa was
crucial in creating and supporting great part of the activities listed
by the user group, since its foundation.

Best regards and congratulations to all the people involved.

Rodrigo Padula

2015-02-25 21:19 GMT-03:00 Vinicius Siqueira :
> The Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil just published its descriptive
> report regarding to the activities developed since January 2014.
>
> This report summarizes the activities developed as part of the effort to
> consolidate the Group in Brazil and to empower the Wikimedia projects in
> the country.
>
> Link:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Brasil/Report/2014
>
> Sincerely,
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[Wikimedia-l] User Group Brazil Activities Report

[Vinicius Siqueira]

The Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil just published its descriptive
report regarding to the activities developed since January 2014.

This report summarizes the activities developed as part of the effort to
consolidate the Group in Brazil and to empower the Wikimedia projects in
the country.

Link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Brasil/Report/2014

Sincerely,
Vinicius Siqueira
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

[phoebe ayers]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Asaf Bartov  wrote:
> Thank you for this fascinating report, and this is another opportunity to
> thank all OTRS agents across the movement, for their tireless and
> largely-unsung work.  I, for one, make it a point to mention and advocate
> for OTRS.

+1! The OTRS volunteers are heroes.

-- phoebe

p.s. The report layout/webpage is lovely! could it be used for other reports?


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

[Asaf Bartov]

Thank you for this fascinating report, and this is another opportunity to
thank all OTRS agents across the movement, for their tireless and
largely-unsung work.  I, for one, make it a point to mention and advocate
for OTRS.

I am curious in my volunteer capacity about the prominence of the
commons-permissions-he queue among other permission queues and relative to
the size of the Hebrew Wikipedia.  Does anyone have a good theory to
explain it?

   A.

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 7:48 AM, pajz  wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> it is my pleasure to announce the release of the 2014 annual report on
> Wikimedia's OTRS and specifically the Volunteer Response Team's
> activities. Please find it at
>
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/otrsreports/annual/2014
>
> If you have any questions or comments, please leave them at
> .
>
> About OTRS/the Volunteer Response Team: The Volunteer Response Team is
> the group of volunteers that handles email traffic related to the
> Wikimedia projects, from general inquiries to file permission emails.
> The software they use is called OTRS, and our installation of OTRS is
> also used by several other users within our movement, including
> chapters, WMF staff, oversighters, Wikimania organizers etc. For more
> information, see .
>
> On behalf of the OTRS administrators,
> Patrik (User:Pajz)
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Train the Trainer Program-India

[Vishnu]

Dear Wikimedians,

The Wikimedia TTT-2015, a four day residential training workshop to 
groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia volunteer community, 
will begin tomorrow. This is curated and run by CIS-A2K [1] with the 
help of Wikimedia volunteers. About 30 Wikimedians from across 12 Indian 
languages and from various part of the country will be taking part in 
this workshop in Bangalore. This time we also have some Wikimedians from 
Nepal joining the program.


This is the second such event held in India, the first one was in 2013.

For more details see the event page here [2].

Best,
Vishnu

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge
[2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2015 



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

[Marc A. Pelletier]

On 15-02-25 11:15 AM, Edward Saperia wrote:

I'm not sure you've understood correctly. In my proposed system, people
propose projects and these projects are advertised on the centralnotice
banners.


Ah, I indeed hadn't.  My understanding was that you wanted to substitute 
for the grants process(es) but that the actual source of funding would 
remain the WMF coffers.


In which case I need to reclassify your idea from "intriguing" to 
"horrifying" in my opinion.  Not because I find anything fundamentally 
objectionable to crowdfunding (I do not, and have indeed thrown money at 
a number of cool crowdfunded projects in the past) but because - as 
FloNight noted - this is an invitation to formalize and cement systemic 
bias to an insane degree.  "All the knowlegde" - not "all the knowledge 
someone is willing and able to afford".


Beyond which is the simple reality that many things you'll find no 
shortage of agreement that they need to be done are, fundamentally, 
unsexy and unimpressive.  You would be hard-pressed to make a workable 
"marketing campaign" for them, and quickly find that the boring stuff 
gets underfunded no matter how important.


I still think there is something to the idea of trying to work in more 
"crowdsourcing" to the project financing processes - being able to 
create a lightweight and attractive way of getting a vast number of 
community members to weigh in on the relative desirability of ways to 
spend money towards the projects /is/ a laudable objective.


-- Marc


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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog

[Fabrice Florin]

Greetings!

Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog:

• Join the Wikimedia strategy consultation
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/23/strategy-consultation/

• Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/24/black-history-month-edit-a-thons/

• Wiki Loves Africa photo contest announces winning pictures
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/23/wiki-loves-africa-photo-contest/

• Wikimedia Foundation supports Twitter’s fight for transparency
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/19/wikimedia-foundation-twitter-transparency/

• Survey: What do Pakistani readers think of Wikipedia?
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/20/pakistani-readers-survey/

• Report finds the Wikimedia Foundation to be the largest known Participatory 
Grantmaking Fund.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/19/wmf-largest-participatory-grantmaking/

• Wikimedia Highlights, January 2015
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/17/wikimedia-highlights-january-2015/

Next month, we will feature stories about women and closing the gender gap, in 
honor of International Women's Day on March 8. If you have good stories to 
share on this topic, please submit a draft on the Wikimedia Blog project hub:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Blog

Best regards,


Fabrice


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 10th anniversary celebration of Bengali Wikipedia

[Luis Villa]

This is terrific news- congrats!

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Katy Love  wrote:

> Congratulations to you and the Bengali community on the 10 year
> anniversary!
>
> Katy
>
> On Feb 25, 2015, at 7:52 AM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally
>  wrote:
>
> > Wow! Fantastic news.
> > All the best to Bengali Wikipedians.
> >
> >
> > -RK
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Hasive, Nurunnaby <
> nhas...@wikimedia.org.bd
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> We're happy to share with you that Bengali Wikipedia has completed it's
> 10
> >> year journey a few months back. To celebrate this historic milestone We
> the
> >> poeple from Bengali Wikimedia Community and Wikimedia Bangladesh is
> going
> >> to arrange a Gala event on February 26, 2015 at Radisson Blu Water
> Garden
> >> Hotel in Dhaka. The event is supported by Grameenphone (It is a joint
> >> venture between Telenor and Grameen Telecom Corporation), is the leading
> >> telecommunications service provider in Bangladesh.
> >>
> >> We are so happy that *Jimmy Wales* is going to join with us as a chief
> >> guest. We are excited to have him with us and hope to share the program
> >> details with you soon. BTW, This visit is the first visit of Jimbo in
> >> Bangladesh.
> >>
> >> Note: This event is a part of the series program, we'll arrange another
> two
> >> days conference probably the last week of March.
> >>
> >> Cheers.
> >>
> >> --
> >> *Hasive *
> >> Global User: Hasive 
> >> ​
> >> Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia <
> >> http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hasive>
> >> Member | GAC Committee, Wikimedia Foundation
> >> 
> >> Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation
> >> 
> >> Director | Wikimedia Bangladesh Operations Committee
> >> 
> >> ​
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New template "URL to diff"

[Ricordisamoa]

Il 25/02/2015 10:49, Andy Mabbett ha scritto:

On 25 February 2015 at 07:27, Ricordisamoa  wrote:


I'd rather suggest a global JavaScript gadget to replace those URLs with
plain Special:Diff links, since the {{diff}} template does not work in
every
wiki.

Great; let me know when you've got that working.


That's it:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ricordisamoa/DiffAutoLinker.js

So? Have you ever tried it?

No. Is it a global gadget, yet?


We don't have actual global gadgets yet, but this code will work on Meta:

importScript( 'User:Ricordisamoa/DiffAutoLinker.js' );
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

[Edward Saperia]

Well, you could create a guideline that said "In the interest of
innovation, we should try and fund a diversity of projects" and then with
the community hash out what dimensions you care about for diversity in this
context, and how far from equality you are happy to go without artificial
interference, and then what interference should happen if you go outside
that boundary.

Let's say we've decided that we care about a diversity in where project
leads come from. Then you'd create a way to record from where successful
projects are from, and if there is a lack of diversity then this will be
obvious - like how it works with rotating Wikimania around different
continents: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania/past

I actually imagine that while this list would rarely be empty, the
individual items on it would be burned through very fast; it'd be like the
front page of Reddit. Most projects would be looking for small amounts of
money, so they'd either get fully funded in hours, or are shown to have a
low conversion rate and get kicked back down the queue - unless we're
holding them there because we think funding them is critical.

Also presumably we'd have an empirically derived "cut-off" conversion rate;
if after x thousand views, fewer than 0.???% of viewers donate on a
proposed project then it gets removed from the queue. If there are no
projects in the queue then we don't show any banners at all. So if people
are complaining that we show too many banners, they can instead try and
quantify how much by arguing to raise this cut-off rate by a certain amount.

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On 25 February 2015 at 16:24, Sydney Poore  wrote:

> In your scheme, items would not get moved up to be considered if they are
> not popular enough, right?  From my experience working on wikimedia global
> committees, it would be likely that the volume of requests would be much
> larger than the capacity of the wikimedia movement to evaluate them. People
> join the movement primarily to create content with a smaller part being
> willing to do administrative website work. And an even smaller group being
> willing to do work around evaluation. Reader come to read content.
>
> So well populated parts of the movement would have a huge advantage over
> less populated areas.
> Right now a small user group has a fair chance of getting funds to do a
> project that might be over shadowed by larger groups that had a constant
> flow of requests coming in.
>
> How do you propose that we make sure that funds are give out in a way that
> supports more diversity not less?
>
> Sydney
>
>
> Sydney Poore
> User:FloNight
> Wikipedian in Residence
> at Cochrane Collaboration
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Edward Saperia 
> wrote:
>
> > Of course you're very correct that there are many projects sitting around
> > asking for scrutiny - the difference here is the (potential of) funding
> > would be default yes instead of default no, with the discussion just
> around
> > the priority. I expect that would attract a lot more attention very
> quickly
> > indeed.
> >
> > *Edward Saperia*
> > email  • facebook <
> http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia>
> > •
> >  twitter  • 07796955572
> > 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG
> >
> > On 25 February 2015 at 15:38, Sydney Poore 
> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm pretty concerned that the systematic biases in the wikimedia
> movement
> > > would be continued if there was no organized effort to do a
> comprehensive
> > > review of all proposals to see where we are lacking diversity. I'm in
> > favor
> > > of having more focused funding calls like the Inspire Gender Gap
> > campaign.
> > >
> > > A large part of the work of the community grant committees..IEG, PEG,
> > > FDC...is evaluating the feasibility of the projects, the impact of
> work,
> > > and giving feedback. This work needs the assistance of paid staff to
> make
> > > sure all the information needed to make decision is available. Then
> > > volunteers to look at the information and give a recommendation. I'm
> not
> > > clear on how the work flow you suggest would get the important aspects
> of
> > > the work accomplished.
> > >
> > > I'm not opposed to a group outside of WMF taking over this type of
> work.
> > > But there was a huge vacuum in the movement around Learning and
> > Evaluation
> > > until recently.  The WMF began doing this work for lack of anyone else
> > > doing it well. At this point, I can't see an independent organization
> > being
> > > feasible.
> > >
> > > Instead of small Project and Event Grants, micro grants, or travel
> > grants,
> > > many organizations are asking for unrestricted funds to pay for staff,
> > > offices, equipment, specialized staff for software development. They
> want
> > > to have funds to make long term plans with GLAM partner organizatio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 10th anniversary celebration of Bengali Wikipedia

[Katy Love]

Congratulations to you and the Bengali community on the 10 year anniversary!

Katy

On Feb 25, 2015, at 7:52 AM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally
 wrote:

> Wow! Fantastic news.
> All the best to Bengali Wikipedians.
>
>
> -RK
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Hasive, Nurunnaby > wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> We're happy to share with you that Bengali Wikipedia has completed it's 10
>> year journey a few months back. To celebrate this historic milestone We the
>> poeple from Bengali Wikimedia Community and Wikimedia Bangladesh is going
>> to arrange a Gala event on February 26, 2015 at Radisson Blu Water Garden
>> Hotel in Dhaka. The event is supported by Grameenphone (It is a joint
>> venture between Telenor and Grameen Telecom Corporation), is the leading
>> telecommunications service provider in Bangladesh.
>>
>> We are so happy that *Jimmy Wales* is going to join with us as a chief
>> guest. We are excited to have him with us and hope to share the program
>> details with you soon. BTW, This visit is the first visit of Jimbo in
>> Bangladesh.
>>
>> Note: This event is a part of the series program, we'll arrange another two
>> days conference probably the last week of March.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> --
>> *Hasive *
>> Global User: Hasive 
>> ​
>> Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia <
>> http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hasive>
>> Member | GAC Committee, Wikimedia Foundation
>> 
>> Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation
>> 
>> Director | Wikimedia Bangladesh Operations Committee
>> 
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>> nhasive
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

[Sydney Poore]

In your scheme, items would not get moved up to be considered if they are
not popular enough, right?  From my experience working on wikimedia global
committees, it would be likely that the volume of requests would be much
larger than the capacity of the wikimedia movement to evaluate them. People
join the movement primarily to create content with a smaller part being
willing to do administrative website work. And an even smaller group being
willing to do work around evaluation. Reader come to read content.

So well populated parts of the movement would have a huge advantage over
less populated areas.
Right now a small user group has a fair chance of getting funds to do a
project that might be over shadowed by larger groups that had a constant
flow of requests coming in.

How do you propose that we make sure that funds are give out in a way that
supports more diversity not less?

Sydney


Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Wikipedian in Residence
at Cochrane Collaboration

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Edward Saperia 
wrote:

> Of course you're very correct that there are many projects sitting around
> asking for scrutiny - the difference here is the (potential of) funding
> would be default yes instead of default no, with the discussion just around
> the priority. I expect that would attract a lot more attention very quickly
> indeed.
>
> *Edward Saperia*
> email  • facebook 
> •
>  twitter  • 07796955572
> 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG
>
> On 25 February 2015 at 15:38, Sydney Poore  wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty concerned that the systematic biases in the wikimedia movement
> > would be continued if there was no organized effort to do a comprehensive
> > review of all proposals to see where we are lacking diversity. I'm in
> favor
> > of having more focused funding calls like the Inspire Gender Gap
> campaign.
> >
> > A large part of the work of the community grant committees..IEG, PEG,
> > FDC...is evaluating the feasibility of the projects, the impact of work,
> > and giving feedback. This work needs the assistance of paid staff to make
> > sure all the information needed to make decision is available. Then
> > volunteers to look at the information and give a recommendation. I'm not
> > clear on how the work flow you suggest would get the important aspects of
> > the work accomplished.
> >
> > I'm not opposed to a group outside of WMF taking over this type of work.
> > But there was a huge vacuum in the movement around Learning and
> Evaluation
> > until recently.  The WMF began doing this work for lack of anyone else
> > doing it well. At this point, I can't see an independent organization
> being
> > feasible.
> >
> > Instead of small Project and Event Grants, micro grants, or travel
> grants,
> > many organizations are asking for unrestricted funds to pay for staff,
> > offices, equipment, specialized staff for software development. They want
> > to have funds to make long term plans with GLAM partner organizations.
> The
> > evaluation of these large grant requests is extremely time consuming. Our
> > current method of asking a group of volunteers to be available to this
> type
> > of work a set period of time, and having it also open for other community
> > comment seems to the best approach to make sure every project get a fair
> > look.
> >
> > Today there are dozens of ideas for projects on meta waiting for people
> to
> > comment and offer assistance of some type. I'm in favor of doing more to
> > encourage members of the wikimedia movement to come to meta and join in
> > working on them.
> >
> > IdeaLab.  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Ideas
> >
> > Sydney Poore
> > User:FloNight
> >
> > Wikipedian in Residence
> > at Cochrane Collaboration
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Edward Saperia 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > This reminds me of a slightly heretical idea I had a while ago while
> > > thinking about crowdfunding and WMF fundraising...
> > >
> > > Currently the WMF raises money via site banners, and spends these on
> > > programmes and disburses them via grants, which go to all kinds of
> > projects
> > > - education, outreach, development, Wikimedians in Residence, etc etc.
> > > Despite the relative openness of the WMF as an organisation, this is
> > still
> > > a very centralised, top down method of handling (the disbursement of)
> > these
> > > funds. If we're truly going down the "everything open, everything
> > community
> > > driven" route, the more consistent approach would be something like the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > The community submit funding proposals for projects they want to do, of
> > any
> > > kind. Each has a campaign page with a description of the project (much
> > like
> > > a kickstarter page, with project milestones, background, team etc), a
> > > monetary target they're trying to raise, and a banner design. These
> > > projects compete for advertising time on the site banner via a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

[Edward Saperia]

I'm not sure you've understood correctly. In my proposed system, people
propose projects and these projects are advertised on the centralnotice
banners. When clicked on, readers are taken to the individual project pages
and donate to them directly, rather than donating into a central pot.


> (a) people put forth their own money, and therefore assume the element of
> risk themselves.
>

Not sure what you mean here? Readers will donate their own money to
individual projects.


> (b) people who participate in crowdfunding do so with highly variable
> amounts - from a few dollars to several thousands - according to how much
> interest they have, and that's an important dynamic of the funding process.
>

Nothing stopping donors donating different amounts directly to projects.

(c) many (most?) of the people who contribute to campaigns of this nature
> do so for the perks, or contribute /more/ to the funding because of the
> perks.
>

Well, Wikipedia is successfully crowdfunded at the moment without perks.
This just breaks it down into individual projects instead of crowdfunding
the entire entity in one go. Intuition would suggest that we'd raise more
money this way rather than less, because of the variety of campaigns, and
the effectiveness of a community at evolving campaign designs over time.

Of course, there's nothing stopping projects from offering perks either.
Wikipedia swag perhaps? All the fulfilment logistics are already there via
the official shop.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 10th anniversary celebration of Bengali Wikipedia

[RadhaKrishna Arvapally]

Wow! Fantastic news.
All the best to Bengali Wikipedians.


-RK


On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Hasive, Nurunnaby  wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> We're happy to share with you that Bengali Wikipedia has completed it's 10
> year journey a few months back. To celebrate this historic milestone We the
> poeple from Bengali Wikimedia Community and Wikimedia Bangladesh is going
> to arrange a Gala event on February 26, 2015 at Radisson Blu Water Garden
> Hotel in Dhaka. The event is supported by Grameenphone (It is a joint
> venture between Telenor and Grameen Telecom Corporation), is the leading
> telecommunications service provider in Bangladesh.
>
> We are so happy that *Jimmy Wales* is going to join with us as a chief
> guest. We are excited to have him with us and hope to share the program
> details with you soon. BTW, This visit is the first visit of Jimbo in
> Bangladesh.
>
> Note: This event is a part of the series program, we'll arrange another two
> days conference probably the last week of March.
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
> *Hasive *
> Global User: Hasive 
> ​
> Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia <
> http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Hasive>
> Member | GAC Committee, Wikimedia Foundation
> 
> Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation
> 
> Director | Wikimedia Bangladesh Operations Committee
> 
> ​
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> nhasive
> | www.nhasive.com
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

[Edward Saperia]

Of course you're very correct that there are many projects sitting around
asking for scrutiny - the difference here is the (potential of) funding
would be default yes instead of default no, with the discussion just around
the priority. I expect that would attract a lot more attention very quickly
indeed.

*Edward Saperia*
email  • facebook  •
 twitter  • 07796955572
133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG

On 25 February 2015 at 15:38, Sydney Poore  wrote:

> I'm pretty concerned that the systematic biases in the wikimedia movement
> would be continued if there was no organized effort to do a comprehensive
> review of all proposals to see where we are lacking diversity. I'm in favor
> of having more focused funding calls like the Inspire Gender Gap campaign.
>
> A large part of the work of the community grant committees..IEG, PEG,
> FDC...is evaluating the feasibility of the projects, the impact of work,
> and giving feedback. This work needs the assistance of paid staff to make
> sure all the information needed to make decision is available. Then
> volunteers to look at the information and give a recommendation. I'm not
> clear on how the work flow you suggest would get the important aspects of
> the work accomplished.
>
> I'm not opposed to a group outside of WMF taking over this type of work.
> But there was a huge vacuum in the movement around Learning and Evaluation
> until recently.  The WMF began doing this work for lack of anyone else
> doing it well. At this point, I can't see an independent organization being
> feasible.
>
> Instead of small Project and Event Grants, micro grants, or travel grants,
> many organizations are asking for unrestricted funds to pay for staff,
> offices, equipment, specialized staff for software development. They want
> to have funds to make long term plans with GLAM partner organizations. The
> evaluation of these large grant requests is extremely time consuming. Our
> current method of asking a group of volunteers to be available to this type
> of work a set period of time, and having it also open for other community
> comment seems to the best approach to make sure every project get a fair
> look.
>
> Today there are dozens of ideas for projects on meta waiting for people to
> comment and offer assistance of some type. I'm in favor of doing more to
> encourage members of the wikimedia movement to come to meta and join in
> working on them.
>
> IdeaLab.  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Ideas
>
> Sydney Poore
> User:FloNight
>
> Wikipedian in Residence
> at Cochrane Collaboration
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Edward Saperia 
> wrote:
>
> > This reminds me of a slightly heretical idea I had a while ago while
> > thinking about crowdfunding and WMF fundraising...
> >
> > Currently the WMF raises money via site banners, and spends these on
> > programmes and disburses them via grants, which go to all kinds of
> projects
> > - education, outreach, development, Wikimedians in Residence, etc etc.
> > Despite the relative openness of the WMF as an organisation, this is
> still
> > a very centralised, top down method of handling (the disbursement of)
> these
> > funds. If we're truly going down the "everything open, everything
> community
> > driven" route, the more consistent approach would be something like the
> > following:
> >
> > The community submit funding proposals for projects they want to do, of
> any
> > kind. Each has a campaign page with a description of the project (much
> like
> > a kickstarter page, with project milestones, background, team etc), a
> > monetary target they're trying to raise, and a banner design. These
> > projects compete for advertising time on the site banner via a community
> > curated queue; When they're at the top of this queue, they're displayed
> on
> > the banners, which lead to their project pages; if they hit their
> > fundraising target, they're taken down; if they have a low conversion
> rate
> > (% of views that lead to donations), they're demoted down the queue and,
> if
> > persistently low, rejected entirely.
> >
> > The criteria for prioritisation of projects in the queue and the vetting
> of
> > project quality is done organically by the community, who would create
> and
> > evolve guidelines and policies. The actual handling of the queue could be
> > done algorithmically via an openly editable algorithm, or even done
> > manually like with e.g. WP:ITN - you'd just need a widget that tells you
> > how much a given project has raised so far and what the conversion rate
> is.
> > If the community is concerned about people being shown too many banners,
> we
> > dial down the number of people being shown banners, or raise the bar in
> > terms of acceptable conversion rates.
> >
> > If a project raises money and is ultimately considered a failure, then
> > hopefully the community will learn from this and provide more support /
> be
> > more care

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia OTRS Annual Report

[pajz]

Hi everyone,

it is my pleasure to announce the release of the 2014 annual report on
Wikimedia's OTRS and specifically the Volunteer Response Team's
activities. Please find it at

https://tools.wmflabs.org/otrsreports/annual/2014

If you have any questions or comments, please leave them at
.

About OTRS/the Volunteer Response Team: The Volunteer Response Team is
the group of volunteers that handles email traffic related to the
Wikimedia projects, from general inquiries to file permission emails.
The software they use is called OTRS, and our installation of OTRS is
also used by several other users within our movement, including
chapters, WMF staff, oversighters, Wikimania organizers etc. For more
information, see .

On behalf of the OTRS administrators,
Patrik (User:Pajz)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

[Sydney Poore]

I'm pretty concerned that the systematic biases in the wikimedia movement
would be continued if there was no organized effort to do a comprehensive
review of all proposals to see where we are lacking diversity. I'm in favor
of having more focused funding calls like the Inspire Gender Gap campaign.

A large part of the work of the community grant committees..IEG, PEG,
FDC...is evaluating the feasibility of the projects, the impact of work,
and giving feedback. This work needs the assistance of paid staff to make
sure all the information needed to make decision is available. Then
volunteers to look at the information and give a recommendation. I'm not
clear on how the work flow you suggest would get the important aspects of
the work accomplished.

I'm not opposed to a group outside of WMF taking over this type of work.
But there was a huge vacuum in the movement around Learning and Evaluation
until recently.  The WMF began doing this work for lack of anyone else
doing it well. At this point, I can't see an independent organization being
feasible.

Instead of small Project and Event Grants, micro grants, or travel grants,
many organizations are asking for unrestricted funds to pay for staff,
offices, equipment, specialized staff for software development. They want
to have funds to make long term plans with GLAM partner organizations. The
evaluation of these large grant requests is extremely time consuming. Our
current method of asking a group of volunteers to be available to this type
of work a set period of time, and having it also open for other community
comment seems to the best approach to make sure every project get a fair
look.

Today there are dozens of ideas for projects on meta waiting for people to
comment and offer assistance of some type. I'm in favor of doing more to
encourage members of the wikimedia movement to come to meta and join in
working on them.

IdeaLab.  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Ideas

Sydney Poore
User:FloNight

Wikipedian in Residence
at Cochrane Collaboration

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Edward Saperia  wrote:

> This reminds me of a slightly heretical idea I had a while ago while
> thinking about crowdfunding and WMF fundraising...
>
> Currently the WMF raises money via site banners, and spends these on
> programmes and disburses them via grants, which go to all kinds of projects
> - education, outreach, development, Wikimedians in Residence, etc etc.
> Despite the relative openness of the WMF as an organisation, this is still
> a very centralised, top down method of handling (the disbursement of) these
> funds. If we're truly going down the "everything open, everything community
> driven" route, the more consistent approach would be something like the
> following:
>
> The community submit funding proposals for projects they want to do, of any
> kind. Each has a campaign page with a description of the project (much like
> a kickstarter page, with project milestones, background, team etc), a
> monetary target they're trying to raise, and a banner design. These
> projects compete for advertising time on the site banner via a community
> curated queue; When they're at the top of this queue, they're displayed on
> the banners, which lead to their project pages; if they hit their
> fundraising target, they're taken down; if they have a low conversion rate
> (% of views that lead to donations), they're demoted down the queue and, if
> persistently low, rejected entirely.
>
> The criteria for prioritisation of projects in the queue and the vetting of
> project quality is done organically by the community, who would create and
> evolve guidelines and policies. The actual handling of the queue could be
> done algorithmically via an openly editable algorithm, or even done
> manually like with e.g. WP:ITN - you'd just need a widget that tells you
> how much a given project has raised so far and what the conversion rate is.
> If the community is concerned about people being shown too many banners, we
> dial down the number of people being shown banners, or raise the bar in
> terms of acceptable conversion rates.
>
> If a project raises money and is ultimately considered a failure, then
> hopefully the community will learn from this and provide more support / be
> more careful with that kind of project in the future. However, one hopes
> that this will also allow for bolder project ideas to get off the ground,
> and also allow for a much larger amount of small funding to go to many
> small projects, as there is no centralised grants body that has to process
> them all.
>
> In order to pay for its own programmes, then, the WMF itself would have to
> submit projects into this queue. Nobody would have to go to any centralised
> body for money - all funds would be raised and disbursed via this one
> channel. Operationally I suppose the WMF would provide the infrastructure
> to actually receive and send out the money.
>
> You could even start getting clever with e.g. show

[Wikimedia-l] 10th anniversary celebration of Bengali Wikipedia

[Hasive, Nurunnaby]

Dear All,

We're happy to share with you that Bengali Wikipedia has completed it's 10
year journey a few months back. To celebrate this historic milestone We the
poeple from Bengali Wikimedia Community and Wikimedia Bangladesh is going
to arrange a Gala event on February 26, 2015 at Radisson Blu Water Garden
Hotel in Dhaka. The event is supported by Grameenphone (It is a joint
venture between Telenor and Grameen Telecom Corporation), is the leading
telecommunications service provider in Bangladesh.

We are so happy that *Jimmy Wales* is going to join with us as a chief
guest. We are excited to have him with us and hope to share the program
details with you soon. BTW, This visit is the first visit of Jimbo in
Bangladesh.

Note: This event is a part of the series program, we'll arrange another two
days conference probably the last week of March.

Cheers.

-- 
*Hasive *
Global User: Hasive 
​
Administrator | Bengali Wikipedia 
Member | GAC Committee, Wikimedia Foundation

Member | IEG Committee, Wikimedia Foundation

Director | Wikimedia Bangladesh Operations Committee

​
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

[Marc A. Pelletier]

On 15-02-25 09:37 AM, Edward Saperia wrote:

if they hit their
fundraising target  [...]


Your idea is provocative, and intriguing, but I think that - at least in 
this form - it is doomed to fail because it actually steps around what 
makes kickstarter-like crowdfunding work.


(a) people put forth their own money, and therefore assume the element 
of risk themselves.


(b) people who participate in crowdfunding do so with highly variable 
amounts - from a few dollars to several thousands - according to how 
much interest they have, and that's an important dynamic of the funding 
process.


(c) many (most?) of the people who contribute to campaigns of this 
nature do so for the perks, or contribute /more/ to the funding because 
of the perks.


Nevertheless, the idea of having the communities themselves "fund" some 
of the projects is intriguing.  I'm just unconvinced the crowdsourcing 
model is the one to gun for.


-- Marc




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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2015 call for submissions is close to end!

[Ivan Martínez]

// Sorry for crosspost //

Dear all,

The deadline for make a proposal for Wikimania 2015 is very near: February
28 at 23:59 UTC. Currently we received many nice proposals but you have
less than three days to submit yet!

=> http://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions

Please share this reminder into your contacts and social networks.

Best,

-- 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediameta-l] An alternative model for grant funding

[Edward Saperia]

This reminds me of a slightly heretical idea I had a while ago while
thinking about crowdfunding and WMF fundraising...

Currently the WMF raises money via site banners, and spends these on
programmes and disburses them via grants, which go to all kinds of projects
- education, outreach, development, Wikimedians in Residence, etc etc.
Despite the relative openness of the WMF as an organisation, this is still
a very centralised, top down method of handling (the disbursement of) these
funds. If we're truly going down the "everything open, everything community
driven" route, the more consistent approach would be something like the
following:

The community submit funding proposals for projects they want to do, of any
kind. Each has a campaign page with a description of the project (much like
a kickstarter page, with project milestones, background, team etc), a
monetary target they're trying to raise, and a banner design. These
projects compete for advertising time on the site banner via a community
curated queue; When they're at the top of this queue, they're displayed on
the banners, which lead to their project pages; if they hit their
fundraising target, they're taken down; if they have a low conversion rate
(% of views that lead to donations), they're demoted down the queue and, if
persistently low, rejected entirely.

The criteria for prioritisation of projects in the queue and the vetting of
project quality is done organically by the community, who would create and
evolve guidelines and policies. The actual handling of the queue could be
done algorithmically via an openly editable algorithm, or even done
manually like with e.g. WP:ITN - you'd just need a widget that tells you
how much a given project has raised so far and what the conversion rate is.
If the community is concerned about people being shown too many banners, we
dial down the number of people being shown banners, or raise the bar in
terms of acceptable conversion rates.

If a project raises money and is ultimately considered a failure, then
hopefully the community will learn from this and provide more support / be
more careful with that kind of project in the future. However, one hopes
that this will also allow for bolder project ideas to get off the ground,
and also allow for a much larger amount of small funding to go to many
small projects, as there is no centralised grants body that has to process
them all.

In order to pay for its own programmes, then, the WMF itself would have to
submit projects into this queue. Nobody would have to go to any centralised
body for money - all funds would be raised and disbursed via this one
channel. Operationally I suppose the WMF would provide the infrastructure
to actually receive and send out the money.

You could even start getting clever with e.g. showing different campaigns
to readers from different geographical regions, or particular campaigns to
readers looking at articles from particular wikipedia categories, and I
imagine that kind of thing would start to evolve on its own.

It really struck me that the discussions around the centralnotice
fundraising banners fell into a classic pattern; one centralised team doing
their best, but being overwhelmed by feedback from a large community. This
model puts all this attention to good use.

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On 24 February 2015 at 18:54, Sage Ross 
wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Austin Hair  wrote:
>
> > With more and more Wikimedians engaging in crowdfunding, I suppose we
> > can talk about whether the mailing list for Wikimedia movement
> > organization is the place to advertise in this way. For my part, I
> > don't think a simple (i.e., without any additional context) "please
> > check out this Indiegogo" is any different from "hey, check out my
> > blog," so when the last one came through the queue I rejected it
> > without much thought. It certainly wasn't done with any prejudice.
> >
>
> For my part, I always like to see crowdfunding pitches from
> Wikimedians. There haven't been *that* many of them (maybe 8 or 10?),
> and so far they've all (that I've seen) come from prolific
> contributors.
>
> These crowdfunding pitches generally take a lot more effort to put
> together than a blog post does, and they are also easy and satisfying
> to act on. If I can take 3 minutes and a few dollars to simultaneously
> say thanks to a great contributor and help them make even better
> contributions, I'm grateful for that opportunity.
>
> -Sage
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[Fæ]

Re:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks

I am glad the tables are useful, hopefully stimulating more positive
use of the thanks notifier by contributors.

The reports are updating *slowly*, currently at April 2014... This is
in part because of the WMFlabs outage yesterday, though in general any
report of the "logging" table is going to be slow (it is the largest
table on the wiki database). The first run-through will take several
days as it is going back through all of 2014. Once it is only
reporting on the previous month, I suspect it will finish monthly
updates within the first first day.

OPT-OUT
There was an interesting debate about the report for the German
Wikipedia,[1] with some users feeling it was intrusive or may
introduce "competitive" use of thanks that could be negative. I
suspect that many users of the thanks notifier may have been under the
impression that the logs were not visible or public. I did not expect
this to be contentious, so I am pleased that the extra cautious
approach of only adding projects on request, means that I had time to
add a global opt-out as a courtesy for individual users that contact
me. I have decided to not report on the German Wikipedia thanks log
unless there is a consensus from that community that they want to have
it. :-)

Links:
1. 
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Kurier#Danke-Bot_listet_Top_Ten

Cheers,
Fae

On 25 February 2015 at 13:30, Rodrigo Padula  wrote:
> Excellent!!
>
> Great initiative, congratulations!
>
> Thank you for answering my request for inclusion of pt.wikipedia!
>
> Best regards
>
> Rodrigo Padula
>
> 2015-02-23 12:57 GMT-03:00, Fæ :
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks
>>
>> I have now set up a monthly report of the top 10 "thankers" /
>> "thankees" with an index to the different project reports on the above
>> link. These have been generated retrospectively for 2014 and I will
>> shortly set this up on WMF labs to run at the beginning of each month
>> to add last month's results.*
>>
>> Rather than running this automatically for several hundred projects, I
>> am happy to add projects on request (so long as the thanks extension
>> is being regularly used by more than 10 people!). Just drop a note on
>> my meta talk page to request the addition. I have haphazardly picked 6
>> of the busiest projects to get started on, mainly as a multi-language
>> test, not because I favour one language Wikipedia over another. :-)
>>
>> Time for someone to create a "thank you barnstar of super thanks" ?
>>
>> This is one of many ad-hoc reports run as Faebot, but if it becomes
>> especially useful or critical to outreach projects I'll consider
>> moving a stable version to a special bot account or similar.
>>
>> * - At the time of writing, the tables for 2014 are being generated.
>> This may take the rest of the day to complete! If your project has
>> recently been added, the reports might have to wait for the next
>> monthly run depending on how much free wiki-time I have.
>>
>> Fae
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[Rodrigo Padula]

Excellent!!

Great initiative, congratulations!

Thank you for answering my request for inclusion of pt.wikipedia!

Best regards

Rodrigo Padula

2015-02-23 12:57 GMT-03:00, Fæ :
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks
>
> I have now set up a monthly report of the top 10 "thankers" /
> "thankees" with an index to the different project reports on the above
> link. These have been generated retrospectively for 2014 and I will
> shortly set this up on WMF labs to run at the beginning of each month
> to add last month's results.*
>
> Rather than running this automatically for several hundred projects, I
> am happy to add projects on request (so long as the thanks extension
> is being regularly used by more than 10 people!). Just drop a note on
> my meta talk page to request the addition. I have haphazardly picked 6
> of the busiest projects to get started on, mainly as a multi-language
> test, not because I favour one language Wikipedia over another. :-)
>
> Time for someone to create a "thank you barnstar of super thanks" ?
>
> This is one of many ad-hoc reports run as Faebot, but if it becomes
> especially useful or critical to outreach projects I'll consider
> moving a stable version to a special bot account or similar.
>
> * - At the time of writing, the tables for 2014 are being generated.
> This may take the rest of the day to complete! If your project has
> recently been added, the reports might have to wait for the next
> monthly run depending on how much free wiki-time I have.
>
> Fae
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New template "URL to diff"

[Andy Mabbett]

On 25 February 2015 at 07:27, Ricordisamoa  wrote:

 I'd rather suggest a global JavaScript gadget to replace those URLs with
 plain Special:Diff links, since the {{diff}} template does not work in
 every
 wiki.
>>>
>>> Great; let me know when you've got that working.
>>>
>> That's it:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ricordisamoa/DiffAutoLinker.js
>
> So? Have you ever tried it?

No. Is it a global gadget, yet?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Hackathon travel sponsorship

[Pine W]

Quim,

Thanks for bringing this up. The subject of non-developers attending
hackathons came up in at least one recent off-list conversation. I think it
would be interesting to have a sampling of experienced Wikimedians present
who may not be developers but who are expert end-users of MediaWiki. They
might provide some valuable suggestions to those who are conceptualizing or
testing design changes or new features. I thinking of the supposedly
extensive research that was done on MediaViewer, and then the later
discoveries that the early research was unrepresentative of the actual
population of end users, resulting in much drama and considerable doubt
about the wisdom of spending millions of dollars on MediaViewer in the
first place. So I very much appreciate the Foundation's willingness to send
people to hackathons who are not developers, but who represent important
parts of the ecosystem in which development happens.

(:

Pine

Pine

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our past, in which we must delve The well of our future,The clear water we
must leave untainted for those who come after us,The fertile earth, in
which truth may grow in bright places, tended by many hands,And the broad
fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not
know.*

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On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Quim Gil  wrote:

> A forward for technical and tech-curious people not subscribed to
> wikitech-l. If you have or want to join a hackathon plan for Lyon (May
> 23-25), we want to know. Important note: Wikimedia Hackathons are not only
> for developers, as good software development requires many other profiles,
> including insightful users.
>
> Chapter people and other organized wikimedians, your help funding volunteer
> travel is welcome. Every year we are pooling more funds from more orgs,
> opening our hackathons to more volunteers from more places and areas of
> interest. Please send one volunteer or more to Lyon. More information and
> feedback at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88523
>
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Quim Gil 
> Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:02 AM
> Subject: Wikimedia Hackathon travel sponsorship
> To: Wikimedia developers 
>
>
> Hi, we are hoping to open registration to the Wikimedia Hackathon in Lyon
> next week. Those of you relying on travel sponsorship can start preparing
> your requests already now:
>
> # Familiarize yourself with the goals of the hackathon:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#The_Wikimedia_Hackathon_model
>
> # Join or propose a demo-able project in Phabricator:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-hackathon-2015/
>
> # Find a hackathon buddy in the Wikimedia communities or related projects
> out there: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015/Buddies
>
> Here you have a draft form to get an idea of what questions you will be
> asked: http://goo.gl/forms/MPzx8q7BBz (not a real form; data submitted
> will
> be ignored and deleted)
>
> Your feedback about the process is welcome, especially in the related
> Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88406
>
> --
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Hackathon travel sponsorship

[Quim Gil]

A forward for technical and tech-curious people not subscribed to
wikitech-l. If you have or want to join a hackathon plan for Lyon (May
23-25), we want to know. Important note: Wikimedia Hackathons are not only
for developers, as good software development requires many other profiles,
including insightful users.

Chapter people and other organized wikimedians, your help funding volunteer
travel is welcome. Every year we are pooling more funds from more orgs,
opening our hackathons to more volunteers from more places and areas of
interest. Please send one volunteer or more to Lyon. More information and
feedback at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88523


-- Forwarded message --
From: Quim Gil 
Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 9:02 AM
Subject: Wikimedia Hackathon travel sponsorship
To: Wikimedia developers 


Hi, we are hoping to open registration to the Wikimedia Hackathon in Lyon
next week. Those of you relying on travel sponsorship can start preparing
your requests already now:

# Familiarize yourself with the goals of the hackathon:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons#The_Wikimedia_Hackathon_model

# Join or propose a demo-able project in Phabricator:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-hackathon-2015/

# Find a hackathon buddy in the Wikimedia communities or related projects
out there: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lyon_Hackathon_2015/Buddies

Here you have a draft form to get an idea of what questions you will be
asked: http://goo.gl/forms/MPzx8q7BBz (not a real form; data submitted will
be ignored and deleted)

Your feedback about the process is welcome, especially in the related
Phabricator task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88406

-- 
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Engineering Community Manager @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Who are the nicest people on our projects ?

[rupert THURNER]

Hi, an outcome of the old milgram experiments suggests that not always nice
people do oppress others less:

http://m.mic.com/articles/92479/psychologists-have-uncovered-a-troubling-feature-of-people-who-seem-nice-all-the-time

Rupert
On Feb 25, 2015 8:31 AM, "Ricordisamoa" 
wrote:

> Thanks Fæ, those reports are very interesting from my perspective.
> However, even though the number of thanks received may be more reliable
> than the usual edit count, none of them could ever measure the invaluable
> impact of our contributors :-)
>
> Il 23/02/2015 16:57, Fæ ha scritto:
>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Faebot/thanks
>>
>> I have now set up a monthly report of the top 10 "thankers" /
>> "thankees" with an index to the different project reports on the above
>> link. These have been generated retrospectively for 2014 and I will
>> shortly set this up on WMF labs to run at the beginning of each month
>> to add last month's results.*
>>
>> Rather than running this automatically for several hundred projects, I
>> am happy to add projects on request (so long as the thanks extension
>> is being regularly used by more than 10 people!). Just drop a note on
>> my meta talk page to request the addition. I have haphazardly picked 6
>> of the busiest projects to get started on, mainly as a multi-language
>> test, not because I favour one language Wikipedia over another. :-)
>>
>> Time for someone to create a "thank you barnstar of super thanks" ?
>>
>> This is one of many ad-hoc reports run as Faebot, but if it becomes
>> especially useful or critical to outreach projects I'll consider
>> moving a stable version to a special bot account or similar.
>>
>> * - At the time of writing, the tables for 2014 are being generated.
>> This may take the rest of the day to complete! If your project has
>> recently been added, the reports might have to wait for the next
>> monthly run depending on how much free wiki-time I have.
>>
>> Fae
>>
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