Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Please welcome Lila Tretikov, the Wikimedia Foundation's new ED
On Thu, 1 May 2014 20:15:04 +0200 Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevre...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear fellow community members, On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees I am delighted to announce that the new Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation will be Lila Tretikov. Lila is a widely respected Bay Area technology leader, most recently with SugarCRM. Welcome, Lila! And good luck. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ The Case for File Swapping - http://shlom.in/file-swap He says “One and one and one is three”. Got to be good‐looking ’cause he’s so hard to see. — The Beatles, “Come Together” Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you!
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've been warned that joining the Wikimedia movement is a bit like drinking from a firehose, and so I'd consider myself, right now, to be excited, curious, optimistic, and just a tiny little bit daunted. Actually it is more like this :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316AzLYfAzw Thanks for joining, and welcome. I wish you a great experience as ED. Cheers, Micru ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you!
Lila, What Pine said, and David, I was thinking of responding to the same quote, but your response says it so much better than I could! Thanks for posting the link and I can't agree with you more (at times on Wikipedia I act like one of the football players, but of course most of the time I am like the little boy watching in confusion and amazement - and -knock on wood- I have yet to find myself on the gurney) Jane 2014-05-02 9:56 GMT+02:00, David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com: On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've been warned that joining the Wikimedia movement is a bit like drinking from a firehose, and so I'd consider myself, right now, to be excited, curious, optimistic, and just a tiny little bit daunted. Actually it is more like this :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316AzLYfAzw Thanks for joining, and welcome. I wish you a great experience as ED. Cheers, Micru ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you!
2014-05-02 4:56 GMT-03:00 David Cuenca dacu...@gmail.com: On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've been warned that joining the Wikimedia movement is a bit like drinking from a firehose, and so I'd consider myself, right now, to be excited, curious, optimistic, and just a tiny little bit daunted. Actually it is more like this :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316AzLYfAzw This video should be at WMF job positions page! Welcome, Lila! I wish you lots of patience. An old message I sent here I recommend: https://www.mail-archive.com/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg05071.html Warm regards from Brazil. Do vstrechi, Tom -- Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre http://br.okfn.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF April 2014 Metrics Activities Meeting: Thursday, May 1, 18:00 UTC
Thanks a lot, Victor! Now I want Google to add a mimosas extension to Hangouts :) Marc On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Photos of the meeting available here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Vgrigasilshowall=1 On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Praveena Maharaj pmaha...@wikimedia.org wrote: REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Praveena Maharaj pmaha...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Dear all, The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 6 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream. The current structure of the meeting is: * Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also specialized reports and analytic * Review of financials * Welcoming recent hires * Brief presentations on recent projects, with a focus on highest priority initiatives * Update and QA with the Executive Director, if available Please review https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further information about how to participate. We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting. Thank you, Praveena -- Praveena Maharaj Executive Assistant to the VP of Engineering Product Development www.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF April 2014 Metrics Activities Meeting: Thursday, May 1, 18:00 UTC
Whats with what looks like a reasonable mixing desk in: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Monthly_Metrics_Meeting_May_1,_2014-8198.jpg On 1 May 2014 22:59, Caitlin Cogdill ccogd...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks, Victor, these are awesome! This one is my favorite :) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Monthly_Metrics_Meeting_May_1,_2014-8270.jpg On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org wrote: Photos of the meeting available here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ListFiles/Vgrigasilshowall=1 On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Praveena Maharaj pmaha...@wikimedia.org wrote: REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes. On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Praveena Maharaj pmaha...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Dear all, The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 6 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream. The current structure of the meeting is: * Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also specialized reports and analytic * Review of financials * Welcoming recent hires * Brief presentations on recent projects, with a focus on highest priority initiatives * Update and QA with the Executive Director, if available Please review https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further information about how to participate. We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting. Thank you, Praveena -- Praveena Maharaj Executive Assistant to the VP of Engineering Product Development www.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Caitlin Cogdill Fundraiser Program Associate Wikimedia Foundation Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org https://donate.wikimedia.org/* https://shop.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe -- geni ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] PRESS RELEASE: Wikimedia Foundation names Lila Tretikov as its new Executive Director
(This press release is also posted on the WMF wiki at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/WMF_announces_new_ED_Lila_Tretikov) Wikimedia Foundation names Lila Tretikov as its new Executive Director (San Francisco, CA) May 1, 2014 -- The Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation today announced the appointment of the Foundation's new Executive Director, Lila Tretikov. The Executive Director is the chief executive officer for the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that operates Wikipedia, and is responsible for setting strategy and managing operations. It is a central position in a complex global volunteer-driven movement, which is building the largest collection of shared knowledge in human history, used by over a half-billion people around the world. Lila Tretikov is a respected leader in open source technology. She is known for her intellectual curiosity, highly collaborative style, and deep passion for her work. She served most recently as Chief Product Officer at SugarCRM in Cupertino, California. As growing numbers of people around the world rely on Wikipedia and our sister projects for free information, our movement will be strengthened by the leadership of Lila Tretikov, said Wikimedia Foundation Board Chair Jan-Bart de Vreede. She is an exceptional leader with a passion for knowledge, a deep technical and product background, and highly collaborative approach. We are all very excited to have brought her on-board. When I got the news, I thought, 'This is big in every way: A big website -- the fifth most popular in the world. A big community -- 80,000 active Wikimedians from around the globe. And a big mission -- nothing less than making the sum of all human knowledge freely available to all,' said Lila Tretikov. When I thought about why I wanted to take on a challenge this big, the answer was clear: Becoming a Wikimedian is an opportunity to be part of something bigger than ourselves. Lila spent most of her childhood in the Soviet Union. In 1994, she came to the United States to study computer science and art, combining two very different disciplines to build exceptional products for the emerging tech industry. Prior to her work at SugarCRM, Lila worked on open source projects at Sun Microsystems and designed software to provide free visualization of the newly mapped Human Genome as part of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory research. She studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University and the University of California, Berkeley. Running the Wikimedia Foundation is a unique role that requires an unusual mix of skills and capabilities, and I think Lila has exactly what we need, said Sue Gardner, the Wikimedia Foundation's outgoing Executive Director. The Wikimedia Foundation needs a leader who is open and flexible and consultative, but who also knows when to stand firm and be brave, particularly against efforts to censor Wikipedia or intimidate Wikipedians. I believe Lila will be flexible where possible, but firm when necessary. Lila's appointment is effective June 1, 2014, at which time Sue Gardner will become a special advisor to the Wikimedia Foundation. On behalf of the Wikimedia movement, I would like to sincerely thank our outgoing Executive Director, Sue Gardner, said de Vreede. Over the past seven years Sue's leadership has built the Wikimedia Foundation from a tiny non-profit into a highly-effective, purposeful, well-funded and well-managed organization. I look forward to Sue's ongoing counsel and support in the months and years ahead. Official biography of Lila Tretikov found at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Lila Tretikov High resolution images can be found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lila_Tretikov About the Wikimedia Foundation http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 495 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property worldwide (comScore, March 2014). Available in 287 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 30 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of roughly 80,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. Contact for press inquiries: Communications, Wikimedia Foundation +1 415-839-6885 ext 6633 jwa...@wikimedia.org (To be unsubscribed from this press release distribution list, please reply with 'UNSUBSCRIBE' in the subject line) ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l:
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Mobile Operator IP Drift Tracking and Remediation
Federico asked if sampling might make sense here. I think it will work, so I've updated the patchset. From a patchset comment I provided: It's possible we may have situations where operators have not lots of users on them accessing Wiki(m|p)edia properties, so we do run some risk of actually missing IPs, even if exit IPs are concentrators of typically large sets of users. That said, let's try a 2% sample ratio; and if we find out it's insufficient, then we'll sample more, if it's oversampling, then we can adjust the other way, too. New patchset arriving shortly. (I've since submitted the updated code for review.) -Adam On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: After examining this, it looks like EventLogging is more suited to the logging task than debug logging and the trappings of needing to alter debug logging in the core MediaWiki software. EventLogging logs at the resolution of a second (instead of a day), but has inbuilt support for record removal after 90 days. Please do let us know in case of further questions. Here's the logging schema for those with an interest: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:MobileOperatorCode Here's the relevant server code: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130991/ -Adam On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: Great idea! Anyone on the list know if there's a way to make the debug log facilities do the MMDD timestamp instead of the longer one? If not, I suppose we could work to update the core MediaWiki code. [1] -Adam 1. For those with PHP skills or equivalent, I'm referring to https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore.git/a26687e81532def3faba64612ce79b701a13949e/includes%2FGlobalFunctions.php#L1042. Scroll to the bottom of the function definition to see the datetimestamp approach. On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.ukwrote: Hi Adam, One thought: you don't really need the date/time data at any detailed resolution, do you? If what you're wanting it for is to track major changes (last month it all switched to this IP) and to purge old data (delete anything older than 10 March), you could simply log day rather than datetime. enwiki / 127.0.0.1 / 123.45 / 2014-04-16:1245.45 enwiki / 127.0.0.1 / 123.45 / 2014-04-16 - the latter gives you the data you need while making it a lot harder to do any kind of close user-identification. Andrew. On 16 Apr 2014 19:17, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: Inline. Thanks for starting this thread. Sorry if I've overlooked this, but who/what will have access to this data? Only members of the mobile team? Local project CheckUsers? Wikimedia Foundation-approved researchers? Wikimedia shell users? AbuseFilter filters? It's a good question. The thought is to put it in the customary wfDebugLog location (with, for example, filename mccmnc.log) on fluorine. It just occurred to me that the wiki name (e.g., enwiki), but not the full URL, gets logged additionally as part of the wfDebugLog call; to make the implicit explicit, wfDebugLog adds a datetime stamp as well, and that's useful for purging old records. I'll forward this email to mobile-l and wikitech-l to underscore this. And this may be a silly question, but is there a reasonable means of approximating how identifying these two data points alone are? That is, Using a mobile country code and exit IP address, is it possible to identify a particular editor or reader? Or perhaps rephrased, is this data considered anonymized? Not a silly question. My approximation is these tuples (datetime, now that it hit me - XYwiki, exit IP, and MCC-MNC) alone, although not perfectly anonymized, are low identifying (that is, indirect inferences on the data in isolation are unlikely, but technically possible, through examination of short tail outliers in a cluster analysis where such readers/editors exist in the short tail outliers sets), in contrast to regular web access logs (where direct inferences are easy). Thanks. I'll forward this along now. -Adam ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wiki Education Foundation Monthly Report, March 2014
The Wiki Education Foundation's monthly report for March 2014 is now available on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Education_Foundation_-_Monthly_Report_2014-03.pdf And a wiki version is on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation/Monthly_Reports/2014-03 The March report contains: * Information on the $1.39 million grant the Wiki Education Foundation received from the Stanton Foundation. * An update on student progress this term. * Information about the Wiki Education Foundation's participation in the Education Cooperative kick-off meeting. I welcome any suggestions for what would make this report more useful in the future. LiAnna -- LiAnna Davis Head of Communications and External Relations Wiki Education Foundation ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
[Wikimedia-l] Call for Volunteers: Audit Committee
The Wikimedia Foundation's Audit Committee is looking for community volunteers for 2014-2015. More info in blog post at: http://wp.me/p2ojoi-qK ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, a https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
