[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to apply to Outreachy and Google Summer of Code program with Wikimedia!

[Srishti Sethi]

*(feel free to forward the message as is to your friends, family members &
colleagues)*
Hello folks,

We would like to invite you to apply to the Outreachy and Google Summer of
Code program with the Wikimedia Foundation (a non-profit organization
behind Wikipedia)!

*About the Outreachy program*
Wikimedia will be mentoring ~7 projects in the Outreachy program in the May
to August 2020 round. The initial applications are due February 25th at 4
pm UTC.

Apply today: https://www.outreachy.org/apply/

Outreachy offers three-month internships to work remotely in Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS) projects with experienced mentors. The internships
may include programming, user experience, documentation, illustration and
graphic design, or data science.

Outreachy internships run twice a year – from May to August and December to
March. Interns are paid a stipend of $5,500 USD for the three months of
work. They also have a $500 USD stipend to travel to conferences and
events. Interns often find employment after their internship with Outreachy
sponsors or in jobs that use the skills they learned during their
internship.

Outreachy is open to both students and non-students. Outreachy expressly
invites the following people to apply:
* Women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people.
* Anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or discrimination
in the technology industry in their country or residence is invited to
apply.
* Residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are
Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native American/American Indian,
Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.

*About the Google Summer of Code program*
Wikimedia is planning to mentor 8-10 projects in 2020’s Google Summer of
Code (GSoC) program. Beginning February 20th, pending Wikimedia’s
acceptance as a mentoring organization, applicants can begin discussing
ideas with the mentors!

The student application will be due on March 31st 18:00 UTC:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

Google Summer of Code now in its 16th year, is Google's summer program for
university students who want to get involved in open source software. Over
15,960 students from 109 countries have already participated. Google Summer
of Code is a unique program that pairs students with mentors who introduce
them to the open-source community and provide guidance while they work on
real-world open-source projects during their summer break from university.

Projects cover a wide range of fields including: Cloud, Operating Systems,
Graphics, Medicine, Programming Languages, Robotics, Science, Security and
many more. It's a highly competitive program (and this year is expected to
be even bigger than last year), so don't wait until the last minute to
prepare!

*About the Wikimedia Foundation*
The Wikimedia Foundation  is the
nonprofit organization that hosts and operates Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia
free knowledge projects
. Our vision
is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all
knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute
something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to
access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia
projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing
Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make
Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and
free knowledge to thrive.

*Resources*
* Browse through the participants’ guides, to learn more about the
application process steps:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Participants
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Participants
* All the projects will be showcased here:
https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2020

We hope you will help us spread the word about Wikimedia’s participation in
these programs: https://twitter.com/mediawiki/status/1224790357361098752
(by retweeting the post in the link or by sharing this email)

Looking forward to your participation!

Cheers,
Srishti & Pavithra (Wikimedia organization administrators for GSoC &
Outreachy)

*Srishti Sethi*
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fresh data on the gender gap in content

[Asaf Bartov]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 6:14 PM Robert Fernandez 
wrote:

> How do you get negative one biographies?
>
> 149 Mongolian 2 -1 -50.00
> 148 Punjabi 2 -1
>

The lines you quote were from the "diff" section, i.e. there were two
articles about men more than the previous period, and one less about
women.  (This can mean an article about a woman was deleted, or it could
mean three articles about women were created but four were deleted, etc.)

   A.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fresh data on the gender gap in content

[Robert Fernandez]

How do you get negative one biographies?

149 Mongolian 2 -1 -50.00
148 Punjabi 2 -1

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:15 PM Florence Devouard 
wrote:

> Hello Asaf
>
> Just making sure that you knew about WHGI :
> http://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html
>
> Do you know if there are differences in analysis between the two analysis ?
>
> I checked a few figures and it fits pretty well.
>
> Flo
>
>
> Le 16/06/16 à 21:14, Asaf Bartov a écrit :
> > Hullo everyone.
> >
> > I was asked by a volunteer for help getting stats on the gender gap in
> > content on a certain Wikipedia, and came up with simple Wikidata Query
> > Service[1] queries that pulled the total number of articles on a given
> > Wikipedia about men and about women, to calculate *the proportion of
> > articles about women out of all articles about humans*.
> >
> > Then I was curious about how that wiki compared to other wikis, so I ran
> > the queries on a bunch of languages, and gathered the results into a
> table,
> > here:
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap
> >
> > (please see the *caveat* there.)
> >
> > I don't have time to fully write-up everything I find interesting in
> those
> > results, but I will quickly point out the following:
> >
> > 1. The Nepali statistic is simply astonishing! There must be a story
> > there.  I'm keen on learning more about this, if anyone can shed light.
> >
> > 2. Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
> > articles about women among all biographies.
> >
> > 3. among the top 10 largest wikis, Japanese is the least imbalanced.
> Good
> > job, Japanese Wikipedians!  I wonder if you have a good sense of what
> > drives this relatively better balance. (my instinctive guess is pop
> culture
> > coverage.)
> >
> > 4. among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
> >
> > 5. I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
> > eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
> >
> > 6. Your efforts, particularly on small-to-medium wikis, can really make a
> > dent in these numbers!  For example, it seems I am personally
> > responsible[2] for almost 1% of the coverage of women on Hebrew
> Wikipedia!
> > :)
> >
> > 7. I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities.  Perhaps
> > you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
> >
> > 8. I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request.  Or
> you
> > can do it yourself, too. :)
> >
> >A.
> >
> > [1] https://query.wikidata.org/
> > [2] Yay #100wikidays :) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays
> >
>
>
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fresh data on the gender gap in content

[Magnus Manske via Wikimedia-l]

I also had a tweet, about gender ratio in Wikidata, grouped by external
property:
https://twitter.com/MagnusManske/status/1224703188693069827

On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 9:25 AM Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> Hello, everyone.
>
> Back in June 2016, on this thread, I had published some data on the
> *content
> gender gap* in Wikipedia biographies (i.e. how many articles are about men
> versus how many are about women). I intended to keep generating snapshots
> of these stats, to track progress against the gap, but then realized the
> excellent WHGI project[1] is already collecting and preserving snapshots of
> the data, so I did not do so myself.
>
> However, being curious about the numbers for a particular community, I
> realized WHGI does not provide an easy way to compare snapshots across
> time.  The data is all there[2], but a convenient visualization and
> comparison tool between two arbitrary snapshots is not available yet.  So
> while I did not build such a tool myself, I did update my little page with
> fresh numbers, *plus a comparison to the June 2016 *numbers.
>
> You may find the data interesting:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap#Data_as_of_February_2020
> (note that the table is sortable by clicking the column heads)
>
> While it is difficult to ascribe the change to specific programs, overall
> there can be little doubt that the increased attention to the content
> gender gap, alongside specific programs and groups such as Women in Red,
> Art+Feminism, WikiMujeres, WikiDonne, and even certain runs of
> #100wikidays, have all contributed to narrowing the gap on most Wikipedias.
>
> Special congratulations to the Punjabi, Malayalam, and Odia Wikipedias,
> which have all narrowed the gap by more than 10 points!  Of the larger
> wikis, great progress was made by the Vietnamese and Armenian Wikipedias.
>
> As before, I'll note:
>
> 1. Your efforts, particularly on small-to-medium wikis, can really make a
> dent in these numbers!
>
> 2. I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities.  Perhaps
> you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
>
> Cheers,
>
>A.
>
> [1] https://whgi.wmflabs.org/gender-by-language.html
> [2] https://whgi.wmflabs.org/snapshot_data/
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 10:14 PM Asaf Bartov 
> wrote:
>
> > Hullo everyone.
> >
> > I was asked by a volunteer for help getting stats on the gender gap in
> > content on a certain Wikipedia, and came up with simple Wikidata Query
> > Service[1] queries that pulled the total number of articles on a given
> > Wikipedia about men and about women, to calculate *the proportion of
> > articles about women out of all articles about humans*.
> >
> > Then I was curious about how that wiki compared to other wikis, so I ran
> > the queries on a bunch of languages, and gathered the results into a
> table,
> > here:
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap
> >
> > (please see the *caveat* there.)
> >
> > I don't have time to fully write-up everything I find interesting in
> those
> > results, but I will quickly point out the following:
> >
> > 1. The Nepali statistic is simply astonishing! There must be a story
> > there.  I'm keen on learning more about this, if anyone can shed light.
> >
> > 2. Evidently, ~13%-17% seems like a robust average of the proportion of
> > articles about women among all biographies.
> >
> > 3. among the top 10 largest wikis, Japanese is the least imbalanced.
> Good
> > job, Japanese Wikipedians!  I wonder if you have a good sense of what
> > drives this relatively better balance. (my instinctive guess is pop
> culture
> > coverage.)
> >
> > 4. among the top 10 largest wikis, Russian is the most imbalanced.
> >
> > 5. I intend to re-generate these stats every two months or so, to
> > eventually have some sense of trends and changes.
> >
> > 6. Your efforts, particularly on small-to-medium wikis, can really make a
> > dent in these numbers!  For example, it seems I am personally
> > responsible[2] for almost 1% of the coverage of women on Hebrew
> Wikipedia!
> > :)
> >
> > 7. I encourage you to share these numbers with your communities.  Perhaps
> > you'd like to overtake the wiki just above yours? :)
> >
> > 8. I'm happy to add additional languages to the table, by request.  Or
> you
> > can do it yourself, too. :)
> >
> >A.
> >
> > [1] https://query.wikidata.org/
> > [2] Yay #100wikidays :) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/100wikidays
> > --
> > Asaf Bartov
> > Wikimedia Foundation 
> >
> > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
> > https://donate.wikimedia.org
> >
>
>
> --
> Asaf Bartov
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
> https://donate.wikimedia.org
>