[Wikimedia-l] Call for nominations! Steward elections 2018

[Stryn]

Hello everyone,

I am pleased to announce the 2018 Steward elections [1]. We are now taking
nominations from eligible candidates. Interested candidates can check their
eligibility, and the procedure to submit the nomination on the guidelines
page [2]. We are open to candidate submissions till January 28, 2018, 23:59
(UTC). Questions to the candidates can be submitted until February 8, 2018,
13:59 (UTC). Guidelines about questioning can also be found on our
guidelines page [2].

Please remember, the voting has not yet begun and will be not until
February 8, 2018, 14:00 (UTC). We will poke you once again when the voting
starts.

As always, the confirmation of existing stewards [3] will take place at the
same time as the election, beginning on February 8 and finishing on
February 28, 2018.

If you have any queries related to the election, you can ask us on the talk
page [4]. Alternatively, you are free to poke us in the IRC channel
#wikimedia-stewards-elections.

Please feel free to forward this e-mail to any list if you think it will be
useful. :-)

Regards,
Stryn

(On behalf of the Election Committee.)

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2018
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2018/Guidelines
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Confirm/2018
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stewards/Elections_2018


*Stryn*

*Suomenkielisen Wikipedian ylläpitäjä & osoitepaljastaja / Admin and
checkuser on the Finnish Wikipedia*

*Wikidatan ylläpitäjä / Admin on Wikidata*

*Meta-Wikin ylläpitäjä / Admin on Meta-Wiki*
*Ylivalvoja / Steward*
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[Wikimedia-l] Does Wikipedia Belong in Education? Read the Wikipedia Education Program Survey Report!

[Nichole Saad]

The Education team is happy to announce the release of the report, “Does
Wikipedia Belong in Education?,”

a survey report on the Wikipedia Education Program
.

In September and October 2017, we surveyed stakeholders in the Wikipedia
Education Program to get their perception of the program as a
whole—including where we were succeeding, and where we could do with some
improvement.  More than 200 people completed it in 10 different languages.
In addition to the survey, the Education team conducted interviews with
Wikimedia affiliates that helped to qualify the survey data. We wanted to
find out what people think we are doing, what they think we should do,
whether they value Wikimedia projects being used in education, and what
they think of our current communications materials and resources.

The full report can be found on Wikimedia Commons
.
A Wiki version on our Outreach Portal  is
forthcoming.

Happy reading!

-- 
*Nichole Saad*
WMF | Education Program Manager
ns...@wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)

*Want to talk about the Wikipedia Education Program?*
Schedule a meeting: https://calendly.com/nsaad-1
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research Showcase Wednesday, January 17, 2018

[Dario Taraborelli]

Hey all,

a reminder that the livestream of our monthly research showcase starts in
45 minutes (11.30 PT)

   - Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-1uzYYneUo
   - IRC: #wikimedia-research
   - Abstracts:
   https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase#January_2018

Dario


On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 9:45 AM, Lani Goto  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed this Wednesday, January
> 17, 2018 at 11:30 AM (PST) 19:30 UTC.
>
> YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-1uzYYneUo
>
> As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. And,
> you can watch our past research showcases here.
>
> This month's presentation:
>
> *What motivates experts to contribute to public information goods? A field
> experiment at Wikipedia*
> By Yan Chen, University of Michigan
> Wikipedia is among the most important information sources for the general
> public. Motivating domain experts to contribute to Wikipedia can improve
> the accuracy and completeness of its content. In a field experiment, we
> examine the incentives which might motivate scholars to contribute their
> expertise to Wikipedia. We vary the mentioning of likely citation, public
> acknowledgement and the number of views an article receives. We find that
> experts are significantly more interested in contributing when citation
> benefit is mentioned. Furthermore, cosine similarity between a Wikipedia
> article and the expert's paper abstract is the most significant factor
> leading to more and higher-quality contributions, indicating that better
> matching is a crucial factor in motivating contributions to public
> information goods. Other factors correlated with contribution include
> social distance and researcher reputation.
>
> *Wikihounding on Wikipedia*
> By Caroline Sinders, WMF
> Wikihounding (a form of digital stalking on Wikipedia) is incredibly
> qualitative and quantitive. What makes wikihounding different then
> mentoring? It's the context of the action or the intention. However, all
> interactions inside of a digital space has a quantitive aspect to it, every
> comment, revert, etc is a data point. By analyzing data points
> comparatively inside of wikihounding cases and reading some of the cases,
> we can create a baseline for what are the actual overlapping similarities
> inside of wikihounding to study what makes up wikihounding. Wikihounding
> currently has a fairly loose definition. Wikihounding, as defined by the
> Harassment policy on en:wp, is: “the singling out of one or more editors,
> joining discussions on multiple pages or topics they may edit or multiple
> debates where they contribute, to repeatedly confront or inhibit their
> work. This is with an apparent aim of creating irritation, annoyance or
> distress to the other editor. Wikihounding usually involves following the
> target from place to place on Wikipedia.” This definition doesn't outline
> parameters around cases such as frequency of interaction, duration, or
> minimum reverts, nor is there a lot known about what a standard or
> canonical case of wikihounding looks like. What is the average wikihounding
> case? This talk will cover the approaches myself and members of the
> research team: Diego Saez-Trumper, Aaron Halfaker and Jonathan Morgan are
> taking on starting this research project.
>
> --
> Lani Goto
> Project Assistant, Engineering Admin
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*Dario Taraborelli  *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's map capacities! (Announcing the CCM)

[Tomasz Ganicz]

Interesting idea - but is it possible to make the table a bit more
user-friendly?

First of all is too long in horizontal axis - even in large resolution I
see only 1/2 of it on my screen, and due to its structure - it is not
possible to edit it in visual editor...



2018-01-15 22:59 GMT+01:00 Asaf Bartov :

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> *How many Wikimedia communities have embraced advanced Wikidata use? How
> many have active social media accounts, and are there geographic or
> cultural patterns to which groups have and have not? Which groups have a
> written, current strategy? What are the most common gaps in capacity in
> Latin America? or in Eastern Europe? What kind of investment in capacity
> building would be likely to bring the most value?*
>
> To answer these questions and more, we invite all of you to participate in
> the new *Community Capacity Map (CCM)*: a *self-assessment exercise* for
> communities, groups (whether formally recognized user groups or not),
> thematic organizations, and chapters, to *map capacities* across the
> movement, with a view to identifying *existing gaps* as well as
> *opportunities
> for capacity-building*.
>
> The CCM is here on Meta:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map
>
> The context for this work, as well as "likely-asked questions, with
> answers" ("LAQ"?), are explained here, including an answer to "*why should
> I take the time to read all this?*" --
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/About
> (and also pasted at the bottom of this e-mail, for your convenience.)
>
> The self-assessment is to be done based on the detailed *Guidelines*
> provided
> here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/Guidelines
>
> I am looking forward to learning more about your groups' and orgs'
> capacities and gaps, and to do my best to play matchmaker between those
> needs and our available resources and opportunities.  While I encourage you
> to begin contributing straightaway, *there is no deadline *-- this is
> envisioned to be a long-term, ongoing, and tracked-over-time tool -- so
> contribute if and when your group is able to make the time.
>
> (don't forget to scroll down to the LAQ!)
>
> Warmly,
>
> Asaf Bartov
> Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
>
> ==
> Likely-asked questions, with answers
> this exists with working links and [modest] formatting here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Map/
> About#Likely-asked_questions,_with_answers
>
> Why do this at all?  The Community Resources team is doing this to attempt
> a more *comprehensive* view of capacities and gaps across the movement, to
> enhance our existing, anecdotal and ad-hoc, impressions of only some of the
> communities and affiliates. See the goal statement above. Why now?  The CCM
> experiment is an implementation of one of the recommendations made at the
> conclusion of the Community Capacity Development pilot year
>  Development/Overall_pilot_year_evaluation#Conclusions_
> and_recommended_next_steps>
> . Why should I spend the time to read through it or go through the
> self-assessment?  There are a couple of reasons you may want to put in the
> time: First, by self-assessing your group/organization's capacities and
> gaps, you are giving WMF and other potential investors in community
> capacity a chance to provide your group/org with resources and
> opportunities to *build up* those capacities. Secondly, self-assessing
> according to the Guidelines page
>  may be
> in itself a worthwhile exercise and discussion-starter for your group/org,
> pointing at potential areas for proactive work by *your org/group itself*,
> for example in your next annual plan. Finally, self-assessing (at least
> some) capacities today would enable you to review and re-assess in six
> months, or two years, and see how your group/org has developed (or not) in
> each of these aspects. So does WMF expect all groups and organizations to
> do this?  No. This is an opportunity and a tool. Like all other tools, you
> are free to use it or not, and we certainly understand that it would take
> time and that you may have more pressing priorities in your group/org. We
> *hope* as many groups, organizations, and communities eventually take the
> time to self-assess, at least on some capacities, but it is not mandatory,
> and there would be no penalty for not participating. Would we have to
> provide self-assessments for *all* of the capacities?  No. Feel free to
> self-assess on as many or as few capacities as you are able to, interested
> in, or find relevant. You can also add assessments gradually, as your
> group/org finds time to discuss and agree on assessments. Should I assess
> capacities in the context of my wiki community, my user-group/chapter, or
> 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Let's map capacities! (Announcing the CCM)

[Pine W]

Interesting. The patterns that appear from this exercise could be
informative. I took a brief look at the tool and I think that it could be a
valuable opportunity for reflection by affiliates, particularly the more
complex ones and the ones that foresee themselves growing in complexity in
the near future.

I suggest that WMF participate in this reflection as well.

I would be interested to know any suggested methods for Wikimedia entities
which are not legal entities, such as English Wikipedia, to conduct this
self-assessment.

I have one suggestion regarding the tool itself. I think that in addition
to a column for financial controls, there should be a column for financial
transparency. My personal view is that donors should know, to the maximum
extent which is realistic, where every penny of their money has been spent
or is budgeted to be spent. I believe that this expectation is common for
numerous government organizations in the United States such as public
school districts. Topics for consideration under the topic of financial
transparency include:

1. Are all contracts and contract modifications and extensions published in
their entirety in advance of being signed, and is the public given
reasonable notice and opportunity to comment regarding the proposed
contracts, and are the amounts actually expended under those contracts made
public on a regular basis (such as quarterly or annually)?

2. Are all budgeted and actual labor expenses made public, including
amounts and terms for salaries, benefits, deferred compensation, severance
packages, meals, travel, and lodging, for every employee (that is, not only
at an abstract level but for each individual employee and for each type of
expense)?

3. For organizations with employees, does the organization produce a
detailed and comprehensive budget that is drafted months in advance of the
need to approve it, and is the public given multiple weeks to comment on
the complete proposed budget before it is finalized?

4. Are the amounts and individually identifiable subjects of budgeted and
actual legal expenses made public, such as attorney fees and settlement
costs for employment disputes?

Again, my belief is that donors should know exactly how their money has
been spent or is budgeted to be spent. Many government agencies adhere to
this standard in the U.S. and I think that every Wikimedia organization
should do the same, being mindful that they are custodians of money which
was donated to support stated Wikimedia goal(s) and mission(s).

Thanks for this initiative. I think that the tool and an overview of
affiliates' reflections could be valuable to discuss at the Wikimedia
Conference.

Pine 

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[Wikimedia-l] Why Wait? Wikipedia and Google Accidentally Declare Putin the Winner of March 2018 Presidential Elections

[Frederick Noronha]

Are we're seeing an increasing political manipulation of Wikipedia?

https://globalvoices.org/2018/01/16/why-wait-wikipedia-and-
google-accidentally-declare-putin-the-winner-of-march-
2018-presidential-elections/

Frederick
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