[Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
At Wikidata we often find issues with data imported from a Wikipedia. Lists
have been produced with these issues on the Wikipedia involved and arguably
they do present issues with the quality of Wikipedia or Wikidata for that
matter. So far hardly anything resulted from such outreach.

When Wikipedia is a black box, not communicating about with the outside
world, at some stage the situation becomes toxic. At this moment there are
already those at Wikidata that argue not to bother about Wikipedia quality
because in their view, Wikipedians do not care about its own quality.

Arguably known issues with quality are the easiest to solve.

There are many ways to approach this subject. It is indeed a quality issue
both for Wikidata and Wikipedia. It can be seen as a research issue; how to
deal with quality and how do such mechanisms function if at all.

I blogged about it..
Thanks,
 GerardM

http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.nl/2015/11/what-kind-of-box-is-wikipedia.html
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] A personal note.

[Wil Sinclair]

No, I'm right here. Standing up for what I believe in, just like I stand up
for the principles I value everywhere, including IRC, on-wiki, and off-. It
seems y'all know where to find my opinion. So, if you're interested, go
look. If you're not, then feel free to just put me down here, as per the
ush.

Thanks for bringing me up, MZMcBride; should get a lot more people to look
at those IRC logs I was hoping to bring to everyone's attention.

Best!
,Wil

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:28 PM, MZMcBride  wrote:

> Wil Sinclair wrote:
> >With all due respect, no more of my time will be spent on this forum
> >whatsoever.
> >
> >I'm not at all comfortable with the direction that this thread has
> >taken. If my asking earnest questions makes anyone feel "unsafe" and
> >leads to requests to block me (yes, both things were
> >mentioned/requested and can be found in the archives of this thread),
> >then all the advice people have been offering me here is spot-on: I
> >*can* find much more productive things to do with my time.
>
> If anyone's wondering what happened to Wil, lately he's been trolling a
> few Wikipedia-related IRC channels on freenode. Such productivity. :-/
>
> MZMcBride
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] A personal note.

[MZMcBride]

Wil Sinclair wrote:
>With all due respect, no more of my time will be spent on this forum
>whatsoever.
>
>I'm not at all comfortable with the direction that this thread has
>taken. If my asking earnest questions makes anyone feel "unsafe" and
>leads to requests to block me (yes, both things were
>mentioned/requested and can be found in the archives of this thread),
>then all the advice people have been offering me here is spot-on: I
>*can* find much more productive things to do with my time.

If anyone's wondering what happened to Wil, lately he's been trolling a
few Wikipedia-related IRC channels on freenode. Such productivity. :-/

MZMcBride



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[Wikimedia-l] Community Wishlist Survey - proposals phase ending soon

[Danny Horn]

Hi everyone,

There's just a few more days to add proposals on the Community Tech team's
Wishlist Survey. We're looking for the most important features and fixes
that our team can work on to help the core contributors on Wikimedia
projects.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey

We've got about 140 proposals so far, which is clearly not enough, because
there's a very good chance that we don't have yours yet. You can submit
your proposal on the survey page, and you can discuss and endorse other
people's proposals too.

The proposal phase ends on Monday, and then we'll open voting on the
proposals a week later, on November 30th.

Thanks for checking it out; I'm looking forward to seeing your ideas.

Danny

Product Manager
WMF Community Tech
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] On toxic communities

[Aaron Halfaker]

I've started a thread on our "Revision scoring as a service" talk page
regarding labeled conversation datasets & modeling work we could do.

See
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Revision_scoring_as_a_service#Thread_on_Toxic_communities_from_wikimedia-l

On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Risker  wrote:

> I am going to quote Joseph Reagle, who responded to a similarly titled
> threat on Wiki-en-L:
>
>
> date:13 November 2015 at 13:48
>
> It's been great that Riot games has had someone like Lin (an experimental
> psychologist) to think about issues of community and abuse. And I
> appreciate that Lin has been previously been so forthcoming about their
> experiences and findings.
>
> But the much trumpeted League of Legends Tribunal has been down "for
> maintenance" for months, even before this article was published, with much
> discussion by the community of how it was broken. On this, Riot and Lin
> have said nothing.
>
> Copying Joseph in case he wants to respond to some of the discussions here.
>
>
> Risker/Anne
>
> On 15 November 2015 at 10:36, Pharos  wrote:
>
> > The figure quoted is quite interesting, but do we have a comparable
> metric
> > for the Wikimedia projects? :
> >
> > "... incidences of homophobia, sexism and racism ... have fallen to a
> > combined
> > 2 percent of all games"
> >
> > 2% sounds "low", but do we indeed know if this is better or worse than
> us?
> > Would our comparable metric be the % of bigoted comments per article, per
> > talk page discussion, per time that an editor spends at the project?  I
> > would think that encountering bigoted comments on 1 in 50 discussions
> would
> > still be pretty significant.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Pharos
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Ziko van Dijk 
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Just yesterday I had a long talk with a researcher about how to define
> > > and detect trolls on Wikipedia. E.g., whether "unintentional trolling"
> > > should be included or not.
> > >
> > > In my opinion, it is not possible to detect by machine trollism,
> > > unkindness, harassment, mobbing etc., maybe with the exception of
> > > swear words. A lot of turntaking, deviation from the topic and other
> > > phenomena can be experienced by the participants as positive or as
> > > negative. You might need to ask them, and even then they might not be
> > > aware of a problem that works through in subtlety. Also, third persons
> > > not involved in the conversation can be effected negatively (look at
> > > ... page X... and you know why you don't like to contribute there).
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Ziko
> > >
> > >
> > > 2015-11-15 17:40 GMT+01:00 Katherine Casey <
> fluffernutter.w...@gmail.com
> > >:
> > > > I'd be happy to offer my admin/oversighter experience and knowledge
> to
> > > help
> > > > you develop the labeling and such, Aaron! I just commented on
> Andreas's
> > > > proposal on the Community Wishlist, but to summarize here: I see a
> lot
> > of
> > > > potential pitfalls in trying to handle/generalize this with machine
> > > > learning, but I also see a lot of potential value, and I think it's
> > > > something we should be investigating.
> > > >
> > > > -Fluffernutter
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Aaron Halfaker <
> > > ahalfa...@wikimedia.org>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > The League of Legends team collaborated with outside scientists to
> > > >> > analyse their dataset. I would love to see the Wikimedia
> Foundation
> > > >> engage
> > > >> > in a similar research project.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Oh!  We are!  :) When we have time. :\ One of the projects that I'd
> > > like to
> > > >> see done, but I've struggled to find the time for is a common talk
> > page
> > > >> parser[1] that could produce a dataset of talk page interactions.
> I'd
> > > like
> > > >> this dataset to be easy to join to editor outcome measures.  E.g.
> > there
> > > >> might be "aggressive" talk that we don't know is problematic until
> we
> > > see
> > > >> the kind of effect that it has on other conversation participants.
> > > >>
> > > >> Anyway, I want some powerful utilities and datasets out there to
> help
> > > >> academics look into this problem more easily.  For revscoring, I'd
> > like
> > > to
> > > >> be able to take a set of talk page diffs, have them classified in
> Wiki
> > > >> labels[2] as "aggressive" and the build a model for ORES[3] to be
> used
> > > >> however people see fit.  You could then use ORES to do offline
> > analysis
> > > of
> > > >> discussions for research.  You could use ORES to interrupt the a
> user
> > > >> before saving a change.  I'm sure there are other clever ideas that
> > > people
> > > >> have for what to do with such a model that I'm happy to enable it
> via
> > > the
> > > >> service.  The hard part is getting a good dataset labeled.
> > > >>
> > > >> If someone wants to invest some time and energy into this, I'm happy
> > to
> > > >> work with you.  We'll need m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Conference 2016: Program Design Process and next steps

[Chris Keating]

Thanks Nicole! Very glad to see a further increase in the level of focus of
the Wikimedia Conference and in the streamlining of the planning process

Chris

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Nicole Ebber 
wrote:

> Dear Wikimedia friends,
>
> Following Christian’s invitation, I will now provide you with
> information regarding program and next steps of the Wikimedia
> Conference. A more detailed version of this email can be found on
> Meta. Please use the talk pages for your questions and comments.[1]
>
> == One core theme: Movement Impact ==
> Wikimedia Conference 2016 will focus on the core theme of “Movement
> Impact”. All sessions and contributions will have to add to this
> theme. Throughout the conference, we will work together on the
> following core questions:
>
> How do we define common impact of the movement? What does impact mean
> on a global and on a local level?
> How do we measure impact? How can impact measurement help us to
> prioritize our actions?
> What programs have proven to be successful in terms of generating
> impact? How can they be replicated and how do we scale them up?
> How do other nonprofit organizations define and measure impact? What
> can we learn from them?
>
> Cornelius (Program and Engagement Coordinator, PEC) and I will work
> with the Program Advisors, the Thematic Ambassadors, the facilitators
> as well as the participants to create the conference program.
>
> == How to select the delegates ==
> WMCON is all about participation. To make the conference a success it
> will be essential for the invited affiliates to deliberately select
> their delegates. Participants should come to Berlin to learn and to
> share, but also to bring the information and learnings back home. We
> are seeking delegates who will be actively engaged before, during and
> after the conference and can represent their affiliates. Ideal
> delegates are those who are involved in the decision making processes
> in the organization, evaluation specialists, or program leaders.
>
> == Eligibility criteria and number of delegates ==
> To be eligible to attend WMCON16, affiliates must have shown signs of
> recent activity and be up-to-date on their reporting[2] by January 1.
> Moreover, affiliates need to have been officially recognized by the
> Wikimedia Foundation before December 1, 2015. An eligibility criteria
> overview will be published next week. Chapters and Thematic
> Organizations can send two delegates, or up to four, if they have paid
> staff; User Groups can send one delegate.
>
> == How to prepare for the registration ==
> Registration opens December 1 and closes on January 15. Please note
> that this is a sharp deadline. In the months between the registration
> and WMCON, the PEC will work with the registered participants on
> elaborating the program of the Wikimedia Conference. Because we want
> to build the program to fit participant needs and experiences, we
> would like to learn a little more about your interests in advance. We
> have published an overview of questions[3] that we will use in the
> registration form. Please make yourself familiar with these questions
> already, as they can also help you to select the delegates.
>
> == What’s next ==
> We will open the registration on December 1 and send out further
> information on logistical matters such as travel and accommodation
> booking. Daniela Gentner will be the main contact for all questions
> regarding the logistics, you can reach out to her via
> wm...@wikimedia.de.
>
> I am looking forward to welcoming many of you in Berlin in April next year.
>
> Nicole
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Program_Design_Process
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports
> [3]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016/Program_Design_Process#Prepare_for_the_registration
>
> --
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> Referentin Internationale Beziehungen
> Adviser to the ED, International Relations
>
> Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
> Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de
>
> Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
> Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Language Engineering office hour and online meeting on 25 November 2015 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC

[Runa Bhattacharjee]

[x-posted announcement]

Hello,

The next office hour of the Wikimedia Language Engineering team is
scheduled for next Wednesday, November 25th 2015 at 13:00 UTC. Similar to
our recent office hours, this is also going to be an online discussion over
Hangout/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the limitation
of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of slots are available. Hence, do
please let us know (on the event page) if you would like to participate on
the Hangout. The IRC channel #wikimedia-office and the Q&A channel for the
youtube broadcast will be open for interactions during the session.

Our last online round-table session was held in September 2015. You can
watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5l7fNeMQg

Please read below for the event details and do let us know if you have any
questions.

Thank you
Runa

== Details ==

# Event: Wikimedia Language Engineering office hour session

# When: November 25th, 2015 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20151125T1300)

# Where: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cprj7uhtiercilrilp2gfpca8dg and
on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode)

# Agenda: Content Translation updates and Q & A

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Outreach and QA Coordinator
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference: Join us in Berlin in April 2016

[Christian Rickerts]

Wikimedia Conference 2016 in Berlin

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016

Date: April 21-24, 2016

Registration: December 1–January 15, 2016


Dear Wikimedians,

It is my pleasure to invite Wikimedia affiliates, the WMF Board of Trustees
and staff, the Affiliations Committee, and the Funds Dissemination
Committee to join us in Berlin for the Wikimedia Conference 2016, hosted by
Wikimedia Deutschland, from April 21-24, 2016. WMDE and WMF staff are
working together closely to make this event fun, inspiring, and productive.
WMCON16 is made possible by the financial support of WMF.

You are invited to join us for three days of working, thinking, and
learning. Bringing all movement organizations together will give us the
opportunity to incorporate diverse perspectives and experiences into the
program.

For the first time, the Wikimedia Conference will focus on one core
theme: “Movement
Impact”. Our movement is striving for the biggest possible impact on Free
Knowledge, seeking to create impactful programs, processes, and support
structures aligned with our shared mission. At the same time, “impact” is a
term that we struggle with, and for which we lack a common definition. In
Berlin, we would like to unlock the potential for better collaboration,
learning, and development in our movement – and more impact of our
movement. The thematic strands and outcomes of our 2015 conference will
feed into the new program.

You will hear more about the program design process from the curator of the
Wikimedia Conference, Nicole Ebber, and the Program and Engagement
Coordinator, Cornelius Kibelka, in the coming days. Together with Wenke
Storn and Daniela Genter from our event management team they will keep you
updated about all things program and logistics in the coming weeks and
months.

On behalf of Wikimedia Deutschland, I am looking forward to welcoming you
in Berlin in April.

Kind regards,

Christian Rickerts


[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2016

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Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania Scholarship committee and ambassadors

[Martin Rulsch]

Hi,

I was informed that my last mail was poorly formatted. I hope that this
time it looks better.

Cheers,
Martin




Dear Wikimaniacs,

Thank you very much for all the many applications for the Scholarship
committee for Wikimania 2016. We are happy to present the following
committee members:

* David Richfield (South Africa, languages: en, af, de-3, nl-2)
* Dsvyas (India, languages: gu, en-4, hi-3)
* Eugene Alvin Villar (Philippines, languages: tl, en)
* GastelEtzwane (Switzerland, languages: fr, en, de-2)
* Mel 23 (Argentina, languages: es, en-4)
* Mardetanha (Iran, languages: fa, az, en-3, tr-2)
* Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (USA, languages: en)
* Ruslik0 (Russia, languages: ru, en-3)
* Venus Lui (Hong Kong, languages: zh, zh-yue, en)
* Federico Leva (Italy, languages: it, en-3, “Scholarships working group
chair”)
* Martin Rulsch (Germany, languages: de, en-3, es-2, “Scholarships working
group deputy chair”)

Assisted by:
* one Wikimania 2017 non-voting observer tbd
* Ellie Young (WMF Conference Coordinator)
* Sati Houston (WMF Staff)

Additionally, around a dozen users offered their help with preparations of
the scholarship applications, required translations, and communications as
Scholarship ambassadors. We invite more people to volunteer. Please contact
us on domande.wikima...@wikimedia.it when you are interested in this
function. We appreciate your help!

Find more information on
https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarship_committee .

Thanks,
Federico Leva and Martin Rulsch
Wikimania 2016 team, scholarships subteam
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