[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wiki Loves Pride--Extended to July 31!

2019-07-12 Thread Pharos 
Wanted to share this with the global list, the Wiki Loves Pride campaign
for LGBT content has now been extended to July 31!

You can participate in the three pillars/sub-contests here, see below for
more details:

art.wikilovespride.org
health.wikilovespride.org
photo.wikilovespride.org

And let us know if you could use assistance adapting anything to your
language Wikipedia.

Thanks,
Pharos

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From: Wexelbaum, Rachel S. 
Date: Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 5:48 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-US-MN] Wiki Loves Pride--Extended to July 31!
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Hello All,

*All Wiki Loves Pride campaigns and contests will run until July 31st!  *Here
is how you can get involved--

***Art Contest with the Metropolitan Museum of Art***
art.wikilovespride.org


We've created a custom tool to help new artwork article pages by LGBT
artists:
lgbt.mbabel.org


As well a tools to find artworks not yet translated into your language:
translate.lgbt.mbabel.org


***Health Contest***
health.wikilovespride.org


***Photography Contest***
photo.wikilovespride.org


Please contact User:Pharos on wiki or at pharosofalexand...@gmail.com for
more information about the contests or campaigns.

Please contact User:RachelWex on wiki or rswexelb...@stcloudstate.edu, or
DM to @wikilgbt if you would like to promote your Wiki Loves Pride
editathons, events, or give shoutouts to those who edit loud and proud.

Happy editing and photo shooting!

Rachel and Richard


Rachel Wexelbaum, MLIS
Associate Professor
Collection Management Librarian
St Cloud State University
720 4th Avenue South
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[Wikimedia-l] Announcing winners: Wiki Loves Africa 2019

2019-07-12 Thread Isla Haddow-Flood 
Dear Wikimedians

Wiki In Africa is pleased to announce the winners for Wiki Loves Africa
2019. The theme this year was PLAY! and the winners are ...

   1. 1st place prize goes to the photo, Playing in the Nuba Mountains by Marco
   Gualazzini
   

taken
   in South Sudan.
   2. 2nd Prize goes to Peekaboo by Summer Kamal
   
taken
   in Egypt.
   3. 3rd prize goes to My Skills (Teenagers in the street) by Mohamed
   Hozyen Ahmed (also from Egypt).
   4. The prize for Women in Sport goes to Girls Wrestling by Yvonne Youmbi
   from Cameroon.
   5. The prize for capturing a traditional form of play goes to Horses at
   Fantasia by Sofiane Mohammed Amri in Algeria.

You can view the winning images on Commons here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019/Winners

You can view the full range of images submitted here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2019

Congratulations to all the prize winner! The organisers would like to
thank Erina
Muhame for managing the jury process and the jurors for their amazing
work!! Thanks also to all the Wikimedians (usergroups and volunteers)
across Africa who hosted events that both explained and encouraged
contribution.

Warmest regards
Isla and Florence
(Usernames: Islahaddow and Anthere)

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[Wikimedia-l] Books & Bytes – Issue 34, May – June 2019

2019-07-12 Thread UY Scuti 
*Books & Bytes – Issue 34, May – June 2019*
Highlights:

   - Partnership updates
-  #1Lib1Ref
- Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
- Global branches update
- Bytes in brief

*F*rench* version of Books & Bytes is now available on meta!*
Read the full newsletter at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/May-June_2019

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] July 17, 2019 at 11:30 AM PDT, 18:30 UTC

2019-07-12 Thread Peter Southwood 
I particularly agree with the finding about weaponisation of policy, and note 
that is often associated with a wall of shortcuts referring to policies without 
clarification of exactly how the policies were contravened. This is poor 
communication practice, and is lazy when it is not an outright attempt at 
intimidation.
Cheers,
Peter 

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Janna Layton
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PDT, 18:30 UTC

Hi all,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, July 17,
at 11:30 AM PDT/18:30 UTC.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9vvwV5KfW4

As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase

This month's presentations:

Characterizing Incivility on Wikipedia

Elizabeth Whittaker, University of Michigan School of Information

In a society whose citizens have a variety of viewpoints, there is a
question of how citizens can govern themselves in ways that allow these
viewpoints to co-exist. Online deliberation has been posited as a problem
solving mechanism in this context, and civility can be thought of as a
mechanism that facilitates this deliberation. Civility can thus be thought
of as a method of interaction that encourages collaboration, while
incivility disrupts collaboration. However, it is important to note that
the nature of online civility is shaped by its history and the technical
architecture scaffolding it. Civility as a concept has been used both to
promote equal deliberation and to exclude the marginalized from
deliberation, so we should be careful to ensure that our conceptualizations
of incivility reflect what we intend them to in order to avoid
unintentionally reinforcing inequality.

To this end, we examined Wikipedia editors’ perceptions of interactions
that disrupt collaboration through 15 semi-structured interviews. Wikipedia
is a highly deliberative platform, as editors need to reach consensus about
what will appear on the article page, a process that often involves
deliberation to coordinate, and any disruption to this process should be
apparent. We found that incivility on Wikipedia typically occurs in one of
three ways: through weaponization of Wikipedia’s policies, weaponization of
Wikipedia’s technical features, and through more typical vitriolic content.
These methods of incivility were gendered, and had the practical effect of
discouraging women from editing. We implicate this pattern as one of the
underlying causes of Wikipedia’s gender gap.

Hidden Gems in the Wikipedia Discussions: The Wikipedians’ Rationales

Lu Xiao, Syracuse University School of Information Studies

I will present a series of completed and ongoing studies that are aimed at
understanding the role of the Wikipedians’ rationales in Wikipedia
discussions. We define a rationale as one’s justification of her viewpoint
and suggestions. Our studies demonstrate the potential of leveraging the
Wikipedians’ rationales in discussions as resources for future
decision-making and as resources for eliciting knowledge about the
community’s norms, practices and policies. Viewed as rich digital traces in
these environments, we consider them to be beneficial for the community
members, such as helping newcomers familiarize themselves on the commonly
accepted justificatory reasoning styles. We call for more research
attention to the discussion content from this rationale study perspective.

-- 
Janna Layton (she, her)
Administrative Assistant - Audiences & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] An updated design for the Wikimedia Foundation website

2019-07-12 Thread Gregory Varnum 
Hello Andy,

Thank you for raising this concern! We take accessibility very seriously and 
have worked specifically to improve accessibility with this designversion of 
website to the past version.

We performed two audits to compare and improve accessibility:


1. Google Lighthouse 

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/

a. Lighthouse checks if all ui components have aria-* attributes and all 
interactive elements have correct labelling for Screenreaders. 
b. Lighthouse also checks color contrast ratios for all elements on website and 
flags the ones that do not pass WCAG guidelines
c. It also checks for proper navigation methods throughout ordered and 
unordered lists

The new website scored 94/100 on Lighthouse Audit. It passed 18 tests and 
failed 2. 

There are 3 more fixes we need to do which we are planning to submit to bring 
that score to 100/100. Those involve modification to 3rd party extensions that 
are used on WordPress and thus taking a bit of time to get around. 


2. aXe 

https://www.deque.com/axe/

aXe is a testing tool to perform similar audit but can catch some other kinds 
of accessibility issues like page landmarks. 

The previous design had 146 accessibility issues with aXe audit and we brought 
that number down to 43 issues, most of which are WCAG contrast issues which are 
contextual because of line colors or ornamentation that is not essential to 
websites function. However, we are working to improve things to bring it down 
to 0. There are some known easy fixes for this too which we are working to 
deploy.


3. The new Firefox version released this week also has some interesting 
accessibility tests 

We plan to run those as well, it was just released on July 9th.


That was just the audits we performed, but you bring up a good point about 
autoscrolling element. We should definitely include the mechanism to pause/play 
the sliding mural so we pass that test. We will take this into our workboard 
and work towards fixing this.

Accessibility for us is a never ending effort and we always find ways to 
improve it wherever possible. We will keep track of these issues and fix them 
on priority.

- greg and Design team



> On Jul 10, 2019, at 1:59 AM, Andy Mabbett  wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 at 02:31, Gregory Varnum  wrote:
> 
>> Today, we are  thrilled to share an updated visual design style on the
>> Wikimedia Foundation website (wikimediafoundation.org)!
> 
> Thank you. This is a vast improvement on the previous design.
> 
> However, I'm troubled that there is a scrolling background image, and
> I cannot find a way to stop it moving. This is in breach of this WCAG
> 2 web accessibility guideline:
> 
>   https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/time-limits-pause.html
> 
> and, if that guideline is breached right on the home page, then I am
> concerned that insufficnt thought has been given to accessibility in
> general.
> 
> What kind of accessibility audit was undertaken on the new design?
> 
> -- 
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
> http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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