[Wikimedia-l] Шта вас чини срећним ове недеље?/What’s Making You Happy This Week? (Week of 26 Jan 2020)

[Clover moss]

From Clovermoss and Pine, writing together for this week:
Thanks to User:Dungodung  for
the Serbian translation of What's making you happy this week?

English Wikipedia passed the 6 million article milestone. Determining the
exact 6 millionth article is challenging. A community discussion

narrowed the list to a few likely possibilities. There is no tool that
currently exists that can determine which article is the 6 millionth. One
difficulty in determining the winner is that articles are moved and deleted
while others are being created.

On the 18:59 timestamp on 23 February 2020, 15 articles were submitted:
Auto-trolling , Castle Folds
, Mysore Sand Sculpture Museum
, Egon Hartmann
, Kalashree Seashell Museum
, Giovanni Ricci
(mathematician)
, Enno Dirksen
, Giovanni Prodi
, David Notkin
, A. Nico Habermann Award
, Videniškiai
, Lidia Kulikovski
, Maria Elise Turner Lauder
, Andrei Bolocan
, and Raymonde Verlinden
.


The community decided to celebrate the article for  Maria Elise Turner
Lauder , who was a
Canadian philanthropist and writer. The article was created by
User:Rosiestep .

Rosiestep is well known in the community. She joined Wikipedia in 2007 and
was elected an administrator in 2009. She is an co-organizer for WikiConference
North America 
and WikiProject Women in Red
, and is
a member of the Affiliations Committee
. On her user page,
she shares that her academic degrees include a Bachelor of Science
 and a Master of
Business Administration
. She can
communicate in English, Spanish, French, and Serbian.

Maria Elise Turner Lauder (1833-1922), was a Canadian teacher, linguist,
and author. She wrote under the pen name Toofie Lauder, and was also known
as Maria Elise Turner de Touffe Lauder. Lauder spoke several languages
fluently, including Greek and Latin. Lauder was a linguist and she taught
at Whitby Ladies' College
. She was a
prominent member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
.Lauder
travelled extensively and formed friendships with many notable individuals.
She received the honour of a private audience with Queen Margherita
. Lauder and her son were
also presented to the papal court of Pope Leo XIII
. Her travelling experiences
inspired the authorship of three books: My First Visit to England (1865), In
Europe (1877), and Legends and Tales of the Harz Mountains (1881). Lauder
also published other works during her lifetime, including songs and verse.
Her other works include Evergreen Leaves: Being Notes From My Travel Book
(1884), and At Last (1894).

Related images

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   Maria Elise Turner Lauder
   

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   The Wikipedia logo with the banner celebrating 6 million articles
   
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   The logo 
of WikiProject
   Women in Red 
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   User:Rosiestep


   


Remembering a public servant

Jim Lehrer, seen in 2011

Quote from Jim
Lehrer , who was a United States
Marine Corps 
veteran, an author, a longtime news anchor
 of PBS NewsHour

[Wikimedia-l] [Annual Report] Wikimedia UG Georgia annual Activity/Financial Report

[Mehman Ibragimov]

Dear Wikimedians/Wikipedians and All!

I want to share with you the annual Financial [1] and Activity [2] report of 
Wikimedia UG Georgia.[3]

The reports provide detailed reports on all the Wikimedia UG Georgia projects 
that we implemented during the past 2019 year.

[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Georgia/Reports/Financial/2019
[2]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Georgia/Reports/2019
[3]https://ge.wikimedia.org/wiki/ვიკიმედია:ჩვენ_შესახებ/en

Kindly,
Mehman Ibragimov
Chairman
Wikimedia UG Georgia
www.wikimedia.ge
www.ge.wikimedia.org
meh...@wikimedia.ge
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Tool from Community Tech: Who Wrote That?

[James Salsman]

WikiWho can do all of that, but it takes considerable effort to build
its databases from the dumps.

It would be great if the Foundation could support more of the
mediawiki-specific tools they build on top of. There is a lot of
expertise in The WMF for building tools across all the languages, and
an official Foundation app depending on a third-party tool which only
supports five languages is going to get some pushback down the road.
If the Foundation supported it, it would be less work to fold it in to
a Mediawiki extension properly, so it doesn't require a
browser-specific extension to run, too. It should really be part of
the API.

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 3:51 PM James Heilman  wrote:
>
> Would also be nice if it worked on references, external links / urls, and
> policy pages. Not sure what would be required to add that capability?
>
> James
>
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 12:07 AM  wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:05 AM Diane Ranville <
> > dranville-...@wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > This is great. But it looks like it's only available on EN:WP?
> > >
> >
> > As the extension provides just a way to display the data provided by the
> > WikiWho service [1], which supports just five sites (enwiki, dewiki,
> > euwiki, trwiki, eswiki), this extension supports only those sites as well.
> > Pity.
> >
> > -- [[ cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec ]]
> >
> > [1]: https://api.wikiwho.net/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-project promotion of Nordicism and white supremacist racial myths

[Pine W]

I hope that Wikiverse projects don't accidentally or intentionally promote
unscientific theories, including those regarding race. I would like to
think that we know better.

However, there is a history in our world of people experiencing prejudice
or being persecuted for race. This is a sad element of history and an
ongoing problem in the world. Regrettably, it would be surprising if there
were not some problems with these issues in the Wikiverse.

There has been at least one arbitration case on English Wikipedia regarding
issues of race, and there have been issues raised on Meta and on this
mailing list regarding what sound like well-founded allegations of bias (in
more than one form) on a few smaller wikis. I think that one of these cases
resulted in at least one local administrator being demoted. I don't have
time now to look into the current and historical details of these cases,
but I know that they've happened.

I don't know what next steps to recommend, but I think that it's important
to acknowledge the issues. I think that the scientific mindset that many
Wikimedians have is helpful in limiting bias. In a regrettable circumstance
where one or more of our colleagues show signs of racial prejudice, that is
an issue that I hope would be addressed, whether through informal
conversations (a person may have said something that came across as having
a meaning that was different than what they intended), or more formally by
local communities or if necessary on Meta. I hope that these incidents are
rare, but they do happen.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cross-project promotion of Nordicism and white supremacist racial myths

[Fæ]

Update on the progress of how to handle "racial" and race theory
categories, tags and content cross-project:
* On Commons the village pump proposal[1] to ensure categories,
descriptions and filenames should be correct for the media content but
should not promote these debunked theories was passed, making it
easier to avoid having to prove a consensus before getting on with
fixing problems.
* On Wikidata the discussion petered out[2] but there seems a general
view that adding debunked human race entries to a parent like
"superseded scientific theory" could be done. However, there is no
agreed action to do something. This means that an entry like "Negroid"
(https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q338460) which disturbingly has been
attached to the Commons gallery "Black People" which includes many
notable black people like Kofi Annan, and the Commons category of the
same name[7] will continue to be subtly misused, and continue to be
applied in this way because blocking its misapplication is hard to do
within the current Wikidata project structure.
* On non-English Wikipedias there has been no change, and any change
is resisted. In the Italian Razza (categorizzazione umana) article[9]
is written to assert that the use of racial terms is a matter lacking
consensus or a matter where popularity votes are reposted as
encyclopaedic, and the recently renamed problematic "races" collage of
modern photographs of living people is still being used to illustrate
human racial types even while saying these are discredited and the
image having been removed twice because it is actively racist.

In general, there is no programme for fixing offensive use of
descriptions on Commons like "A scientific demonstration from 1868
that the Negro is as distinct from the Caucasian as the Chimpanzee",
which is a quote, but is presented without any qualification that
indicates to readers or reusers that this is not in 'Wikimedia's
voice' or is clearly debunked offensive "racial science". The further
one looks, the more we seem to require a systematic project to
identify cross-project misuse or bad framing of archaic racial
theories or terms and to set out a cross-project policy for ensuring
corrective and preventative actions are adopted even while we
correctly present the historical facts and evidence.

Though folks seem reluctant to adopt cross-wiki policies, in practice
I do not see this getting done and sticking without it, along with a
(funded?) project to pursue and analyse corrective action.

Thanks,
Fae

Links
1-6. previous message
7. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Black_people
8. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Races_and_skulls.png
9. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razza_(categorizzazione_umana)


On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 at 12:44, Fæ  wrote:
>
> This week the creation of racial categories like "Nordic race A" was 
> discussed on Commons. On digging further there is a fundamental problem with 
> the way modern portraits of living people are being misused to "illustrate" 
> these 1930s race myths. Rather than using available real archive material 
> from the 1930s, a user created collage of modern portraits being used to 
> illustrate these pseudo-scientific racial classes on Wikidata as well as 
> Wikipedia in German, Hebrew, Italian, Ukrainian, and the Tamil wiktionary.
>
> It is certain that if portraits of WMF board members were misused and 
> labelled "Nordic race" or "Negroid race", then WMF legal would be swept into 
> action in line with the terms of the website. However, as the modern portrait 
> photographs illustrating offensive 1930s racist terminology are not us 
> personally, apparently, we can wikilawyer this to one side rather than taking 
> action.
>
> The rationale on Wikimedia Commons will default to the faux anti-censorship 
> trope of "if there is one Wikipedia that uses it, we cannot delete it" even 
> though the use of modern photographs to illustrate racist theories of 
> Nordicism or Nazism are clearly anti-educational and so out of scope. 
> Consequently, this appears to need a cross-project consensus to not use our 
> Wikimedia websites to promote race hate or white supremacy, possibly with the 
> authority of WMF Legal to take action behind it.
>
> Feedback and pragmatic suggestions on how to move this forward would be 
> welcome.
>
> Links:
> 1. Commons VP discussion 
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Correctly_representing,_but_not_promoting,_%22racial_theories%22_used_in_Nordicism_and_Nazism
> 2. Wikidata discussion 
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Correctly_representing_archaic_or_debunked_%22racial%22_term_entries
> 3. 
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_races_according_to_Coon_(collage).jpg
> 4. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasse
> 5. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razza_(categorizzazione_umana) (where an 
> attempt to remove the problematic image has been reverted)
> 6. 
>