[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Nederland report January and February

2015-03-17 Thread Sandra Rientjes Wikimedia Nederland 
The Wikimedia Nederland chapter report on January and February is available
on meta:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201501

It is also included in this message as plain text.



Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland

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mob. (+31) (0)6  31786379

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==Community and Participation==

Erasmus Prize awarded to Wikipedia community

On 15 January (the 14th birthday of Wikipedia) the Erasmus Prize Foundation
announced during a seminar in Amsterdam that Wikipedia will receive the
Erasmus Prize 2015. The prize is awarded annually to a person or
institution that has made an exceptional contribution to culture, society
or social science. Wikipedia was chosen because the Internet encyclopedia
provides worldwide access to knowledge in open and democratic way. The
award goes specifically to the international Wikipedia community, the
volunteers behind Wikipedia. Wikimedia Nederland hopes that this
prestigious award will open doors for new partnerships and encourage more
people to become involved.  We are planning a program of activities
throughout the year.

New Years Reception

Saturday, January 17th the Institute for Vision and Sound  hosted Wikimedia
Nederland's annual New Year's reception. The meeting was attended by more
than 80 members, donors, Wikipedians and other interested parties. The day
was opened by Jan Müller (Managing Director of Vision and Sound). The
guests could explore the Sound and Vision Experience or join a tour of the
building

 Video on Wikipedia 

After our New Years reception at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and
Vision, we received a number of questions about the use of video on
Wikipedia. We built a small project page on our local chapter Wiki with a
few instructional videos on how to upload and use video. The community
reacted with enthusiasm and created a new help page out of this
projectpage. Some volunteers became more actively involved with trying to
find open video content online to use on Wikipedia.


==Content==

= Education program - call for translation requests =

The education program has started with a pilot project on translations.
Interns from ITV (a school for interpreters and translators) can translate
selected articles from French, German, Spanish, Italian, English and
Russian to Dutch. These interns will translated articles requested by the
community. In January, a  call for translation requests was posted and got
a very positive response from the community. The first intern will start in
April and will translate articles from German into Dutch.

= World War II =

A number of meetings took place with archives that have collections related
to WWII. We expect to see some media donations over the next few months. We
are also working with our partner NIOD (the national institute for war,
conflict and genocide research) to prepare an editathon on the role of
women during the Second World War.  Work is also continuing on a
Verzetskranten project about the underground press during World War II.
This is a cooperation between NIOD, the National Library and Wikimedia
Nederland. The aim is to improve the number and quality of articles about
illegal newspapers on Wikipedia, and then use these to provide extra
content to the National Library's database holding the digitized version of
the actual newspapers.

= Project Nature =

The Museum for Natural History Naturalis has started the search for a
Wikipedian in Residence. The volunteers involved in project nature are
starting work on processing a content donation by De Vlinderstichting
(Butterfly Foundation). Information on and images of the dragonfly species
of the Netherlands was released under a Creative Commons licence.

= Gendergap =

Preparations have begun for the Gendergap project. Plan is to have a
projectplan written in April. We are exploring possibilities and we are
talking to possible partners for our gendergap project. At the same time,
we are preparing activities for the international Women's day in March.  We
were approached by the feminist magazine Opzij, who want to increase the
number of articles about women on Dutch Wikipedia.  We are cooperating with
them in an editathon at their offices on March 9.  We hope this will be the
start of longer cooperation.

= GLAM-WIKI 2015 =

GLAM-WIKI 2015 is organized by WMNL and will take place in The Hague on
April 10 -12.  The venue will be the National Library and National
Archive.  The programme committee and the WMNL office are busy preparing
this event. A call for proposals was published, the scholarship request
form made available, ticket sales have started.s. The programme committ

[Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-17 Thread Mathias Damour 

Hi,

They were quite a few expressed thoughts on the 2015 Strategy - 
Community consultation that raised in a way or another the idea of a 
"Wikipedia for children". I've made some excerpt of them on the 
following page :

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids/Excerpt_from_the_2015_Strategy/Community_consultation

It actually does exist and are thriving in some languages (especially in 
Dutch and French, and we actually worked for a while on [[m:Wikikids]]), 
however they seem to be also some rampant objections. The WMF may not be 
the most suited organization to host and promote such wikis, is it?


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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Astirmays
https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Astirmays

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2015 Strategy/Community consultation on the "Wikipedia for children" idea

2015-03-17 Thread Samuel Klein 
Thanks for summarizing this, Mathias.  I love the work that has been done
so far on Wikikids, and think WMF should think about creative ways to make
such projects successful.  Gathering knowledge for all audiences requires
simpler language than most wikipedias have; and building a culture of
contribution works best when there are ways for young people to contribute
and collaborate.

I don't know if it will work as a WM-hosted project, under the current
system. This depends on whether we become more flexible in creating new and
independent communities.  But we should consider all of the ways to realize
our mission, including through partners whose tools & policies &
contributor networks look very different.

Sam


On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 8:56 PM, Mathias Damour 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> They were quite a few expressed thoughts on the 2015 Strategy - Community
> consultation that raised in a way or another the idea of a "Wikipedia for
> children". I've made some excerpt of them on the following page :
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids/Excerpt_from_
> the_2015_Strategy/Community_consultation
>
> It actually does exist and are thriving in some languages (especially in
> Dutch and French, and we actually worked for a while on [[m:Wikikids]]),
> however they seem to be also some rampant objections. The WMF may not be
> the most suited organization to host and promote such wikis, is it?
>
> --
> Mathias Damour
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Astirmays
> https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Astirmays
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

2015-03-17 Thread John Mark Vandenberg 
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Keegan Peterzell
 wrote:
> ...
> All accounts that will be affected by this will be contacted on their talk
> page within the next couple of days.[4] All local wikis also have a
> publicly listed database of users who will be renamed, available at
> Special:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed.[4]

The message includes instructions to rename an account, but what
happens if a user unifies all accounts having the same name now, after
this announcement.  I've heard someone say that their account is still
listed on 'Special:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed' after they unified their
accounts.  Will their newly SUL'ed accounts be messed up in the April
SUL finalisation?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

2015-03-17 Thread Dan Garry 
On 17 March 2015 at 21:54, John Mark Vandenberg  wrote:
>
> The message includes instructions to rename an account, but what
> happens if a user unifies all accounts having the same name now, after
> this announcement.  I've heard someone say that their account is still
> listed on 'Special:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed' after they unified their
> accounts.  Will their newly SUL'ed accounts be messed up in the April
> SUL finalisation?
>

As far as I know, that list is only updated periodically.

Either way, when the SUL finalisation begins, if you own a global account
then you'll get to keep it irrespective of whether you still appear on that
list or not.

Dan

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

2015-03-17 Thread Legoktm 
On 03/17/2015 09:54 PM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Keegan Peterzell
>  wrote:
>> ...
>> All accounts that will be affected by this will be contacted on their talk
>> page within the next couple of days.[4] All local wikis also have a
>> publicly listed database of users who will be renamed, available at
>> Special:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed.[4]
> 
> The message includes instructions to rename an account, but what
> happens if a user unifies all accounts having the same name now, after
> this announcement.  I've heard someone say that their account is still
> listed on 'Special:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed' after they unified their
> accounts.  Will their newly SUL'ed accounts be messed up in the April
> SUL finalisation?
> 

If you are connected to an SUL account, you will not be renamed. I filed
 for automatically updating
the special page once this happens.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

2015-03-17 Thread John Mark Vandenberg 
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Legoktm  wrote:
> On 03/17/2015 09:54 PM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Keegan Peterzell
>>  wrote:
>>> ...
>>> All accounts that will be affected by this will be contacted on their talk
>>> page within the next couple of days.[4] All local wikis also have a
>>> publicly listed database of users who will be renamed, available at
>>> Special:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed.[4]
>>
>> The message includes instructions to rename an account, but what
>> happens if a user unifies all accounts having the same name now, after
>> this announcement.  I've heard someone say that their account is still
>> listed on 'Special:UsersWhoWillBeRenamed' after they unified their
>> accounts.  Will their newly SUL'ed accounts be messed up in the April
>> SUL finalisation?
>>
>
> If you are connected to an SUL account, you will not be renamed. I filed
>  for automatically updating
> the special page once this happens.

Much appreciated.

Can the global message be updated to mention that SUL'ing accounts is
an appropriate action to take?

I've already received 160 user talk enotif's from this message system
delivery, and from quickly scanning those emails I recognise many
usernames, so there seems to be many cases of un-SUL'd yet long
standing accounts of irregularly active people.

Also, lots of unanswered queries appearing quickly on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Keegan_%28WMF%29 , which is
the talk page linked in the global message that was sent out.  It
would be good to have extra hands assisting answering those queries
accurately so users dont make the wrong choice about the identity.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

2015-03-17 Thread Keegan Peterzell 
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:39 AM, John Mark Vandenberg 
wrote:

>
>
> Also, lots of unanswered queries appearing quickly on
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Keegan_%28WMF%29 , which is
> the talk page linked in the global message that was sent out.  It
> would be good to have extra hands assisting answering those queries
> accurately so users dont make the wrong choice about the identity.
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
>
>
Thank you for noticing, John :) I'm (as I expected) swamped with emails
about this and I'm catching up on that backlog...only five from cleared out
of about 200 :D I sent out an email a while ago to the global renamers and
stewards for help there if possible. Most of the accounts need to just log
in again to unify their accounts, or by logging in to post to meta their
accounts were already renamed. I know the page is there, I'm around, I'm
just working on the communications that no one else can crowdsource first.

I appreciate everyone in the movement, particularly right now. I'm
receiving some incredibly deep emails from people who never use their
accounts about how much they appreciate the resources the community
provides. Thank you all :)


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

2015-03-17 Thread Pine W 
Hi Keegan,

Just a thought: you could invite WMFers to have SUL finalization parties
during a few lunch hours. Invite people out of their silos to work with you
and interact with the community to answer account-owner FAQs, translate the
Q&A, and interact with WMF's "customers". While this is a little different
from face-time, I still think that some of the 1:1 interaction would be
nice for everybody while helping move the SUL process along.

Thanks for working on SUL.

Pine
On Mar 17, 2015 10:44 PM, "Keegan Peterzell" 
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:39 AM, John Mark Vandenberg 
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Also, lots of unanswered queries appearing quickly on
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Keegan_%28WMF%29 , which is
> > the talk page linked in the global message that was sent out.  It
> > would be good to have extra hands assisting answering those queries
> > accurately so users dont make the wrong choice about the identity.
> >
> > --
> > John Vandenberg
> >
> >
> Thank you for noticing, John :) I'm (as I expected) swamped with emails
> about this and I'm catching up on that backlog...only five from cleared out
> of about 200 :D I sent out an email a while ago to the global renamers and
> stewards for help there if possible. Most of the accounts need to just log
> in again to unify their accounts, or by logging in to post to meta their
> accounts were already renamed. I know the page is there, I'm around, I'm
> just working on the communications that no one else can crowdsource first.
>
> I appreciate everyone in the movement, particularly right now. I'm
> receiving some incredibly deep emails from people who never use their
> accounts about how much they appreciate the resources the community
> provides. Thank you all :)
>
>
> --
> Keegan Peterzell
> Community Liaison, Product
> Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] SUL finalization update (no, for real this time)

2015-03-17 Thread Keegan Peterzell 
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 1:00 AM, Pine W  wrote:

> Hi Keegan,
>
> Just a thought: you could invite WMFers to have SUL finalization parties
> during a few lunch hours. Invite people out of their silos to work with you
> and interact with the community to answer account-owner FAQs, translate the
> Q&A, and interact with WMF's "customers". While this is a little different
> from face-time, I still think that some of the 1:1 interaction would be
> nice for everybody while helping move the SUL process along.
>
> Thanks for working on SUL.
>
> Pine


Not a bad idea at all. I'll look into it, the prime time is this week and
next, the expected response curve will likely drop sharply. Thanks, Pine :)

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