[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list maintenance window - 2015-05-19 17:00 - 19:00 UTC
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Rob Halsell rhals...@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, May 14, 2015 at 12:42 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] Mailing list maintenance window - 2015-05-19 17:00 - 19:00 UTC To: wikitech-l wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org Please note that we will be working on a few open tasks for mailing list server maintenance, next Tuesday, May 19th from 17:00 to 19:00 UTC. During this time, all mailing list traffic, as well as online archives, may become unavailable. Once the window has ended, all mail routing should resume normally, and any messages sent during the window will then be delivered accordingly. All associated tasks and changes are linked from https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99098. This mail has (initially) been send to all list administrators, and wikitech-l. Please feel free to forward to any other lists or parties that would need to know about this maintenance window. -- Rob Halsell Operations Engineer Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. E-Mail: rhals...@wikimedia.org Office: 415.839.6885 x6620 Fax: 415.882.0495 ___ Wikitech-l mailing list wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: 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
[Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia store banners
Hello everyone, As you may already know, the Wikipedia store has been relaunched with new merchandise and designs. This May, we will be running a short campaign spreading the word about the store to those who have not had an opportunity to check it out. We are scheduled to run 2 sets of pre-test (2 hours each) in May and then run a longer campaign at the end of May, beginning of June. This will result in the display of a small banner at the top of English Wikipedia pages just as a casual reminder that we’ve got 10% off at the Wikipedia store with the code NEWSTORE. While the promotion will only be displayed for anonymous users in the US and Canada, all international and logged-in users are welcome to order through the store and reap the benefits of the discount. After we work out the kinks in this campaign, we’ll investigate the possibility of similar international campaigns in the future. The banner is set to show up to each user only two times. And remember, if you get tired of seeing the notification, just click the “X” on the banner and it will disappear. As always, the proceeds from our online store go toward community engagement and our https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMerchandise_giveawayssa=Dsntz=1usg=AFQjCNGaJO8BJ-l2IxdP_UerA0HOdfTUGAVolunteer Giveaway Program https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMerchandise_giveawayssa=Dsntz=1usg=AFQjCNGaJO8BJ-l2IxdP_UerA0HOdfTUGA, helping us to recognize fabulous editors and contributors who have played an instrumental role in making Wikipedia and its sister projects what they are today. If you have any questions about the online store or would like to provide feedback, feel free to email us at merchand...@wikimedia.org. Thank you, Victoria Shchepakina the Wikimedia Online Fundraising Team -- Victoria Shchepakina Fundraising Associate Wikimedia Foundation office +1 (415) 839 6885 vshchepak...@wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: 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
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • First ever WikiArabia conference gathers Wikipedians in Tunisia to connect and share experiences http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/14/first-wikiarabia-conference/ • Children in Mali can now read Wikipedia offline, thanks to Malebooks e-readers http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/14/e-readers-in-mali/ • Wikimania and the differences between online and offline cultures http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/12/wikimania-online-and-offline/ • Fundraising made in Germany: lessons learned by Wikimedia Deutschland http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/08/fundraising-made-in-germany/ • Wikimedia Highlights, April 2015 http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/05/13/wikimedia-highlights-april-2015/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Enjoy, Fabrice ___ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) ___ 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, guidelines at: 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
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Nederland report on March and April
The Wikimedia Nederland chapter report on March and April is available on meta: *https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201503 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Nederland/201503* It is also included in this message as plain text. COMMUNITY AND PARTICIPATION *Mediatraining Seven volunteers took part in a one-day training organized by WMNL on working with the media. They learned about framing messages, dealing with tricky questions and practiced being interviewed on camera. We were particularly happy that two volunteers from our sister chapter Wikimedia Belgie could join us. CONTENT *Education program The first trainee from ITV - College for translators and interpreters started work in April. At the request of the Wikipedia-community she will translate Wikipedia articles from German into Dutch. A second trainee will start soon, translating articles from the Russian Wikipedia. *World War II WMNL partner NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, has integrated cooperating with and contributing to the Wikimedia projects in their regular workprogramme for 2015. They are starting on a programme World War II on Wikipedia, which will aim to release content of monographs and reference works for the Wikimedia projects, and stimulate its use via editathons and online activities. A programme start-up meeting was held on April 24. A second meeting was held on April 29 to locate contents in the NIOD archives that are suitable for release on Wikimedia projects, and that are within the scope of World War II. The NIOD expects this program to run until November 2015 and to include an editathon. The results will be evaluated at that time, and any follow-up for 2016 will be based on the evaluation outcome. *Project Nature De Vlinderstichting (Butterfly Foundation) released its information on dragonflies and damsels under a Creative Commons license. It is being used to improve content on these species on Wikipedia. This proJect is a test for other content and data donations concerning bigger species groups. The national museum for natural history Naturalis appointed Hans Muller as Wikipedian in Residence. He will work for Naturalis for six months, cooperating closely with the WMNL Project Nature group. *Gendergap The Netherlands actively participated in the worldwide Art+Feminism campaign on 7 and 8 March. We held three edit-a-thons (one at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, one at Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, one at Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam). On the Dutch Wikipedia, 53 articles on women were added. There were also many Wikidata items added in the case of new articles not previously existing in any other language. On March 8 there was an editathon at the editorial offices of Dutch feminist magazine Opzij. The aim there was to write articles about the 1001 historically important women listed in the Vrouwenlexikon (Lexicon of Women) by Els Kloek. *GLAM-WIKI 2015 On 10, 11, + 12 April 145 participants from 32 countries came to The Hague for GLAMWIKI 2015 conference. The National Library and the National Archives provided the venue for this event. Aim: to exchange ideas and experiences, give and get inspiration and send out the message that cooperation between GLAMs and Wikimedia is important. The atmosphere was lively and creative: already during the conference new ideas were born. *Wikipedia in the Museum: Wikipedia-touch screen information for museums WMNL developed an app that makes it easy for museums to provide extra information for their visitors. Via a tablet, visitors can access a number of pre-selected relevant Wikipedia articles - in different languages. The app is designed to present the Wikipedia articles in an attractive way, with a lot of attention for images. The app is integrated in a column which clearly indicated that this information comes from Wikipedia. Two of these columns are now being tried out in the Catharijne Convent Museum for religious art and the Textile Museum in Tilburg. The code will of course be made available for the Wikimedia community, and other interested parties. *Writing event following content donation Museum Catharijne Convent March 12 we organised a writing event around the content donation of 2500 images of religious art by the Museum Catharijne Convent. *Writing events Textile Museum Hay Kranen gave a workshop on (editing) Wikipedia at the Textile Museum in Tilburg on 2 April. Around a dozen employees of the museum and other GLAM institutions located in Tilburg were present. Apart from a general introduction to the various Wikimedia projects, there was room for actual editing. The Wikipedia in the Museum app (see above) was tested as well. *Startup meetings In April 2015, WMNL has held several meetings to prepare new GLAM projects. -On 23 April, a meeting was held at the collection department of Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, to discuss possible collaboration
