Re: [Wikimedia-l] April could be our Wikimedia month of kindness

[Gnangarra]

time to also look back through your photo collections maybe re-edit or add
those images you always meant to but never quite got around to it

On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 05:45, Mike Peel  wrote:

> More generally, is it a good time to encourage more people to start
> editing the projects? Presumably people have a lot more free time at the
> moment if they are off work / not spending time on commutes / not
> socialising / etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> > On 12 Mar 2020, at 14:51:53, Samuel Klein  wrote:
> >
> > What a great idea!  Thakn you for sharing.  We could also strongly
> > encourage shutting down most bitey aspects of tools and scripts.
> >
> > This can be a nice sanity check to see if we discover, as wikihow did,
> that
> > talking to people by hand rather than via cold template increases
> > participation significantly over time.  ///S
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:40 AM Fæ  wrote:
> >
> >> Wikimedia Commons is proposing that April becomes a Month of Kindness.
> >>
> >>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Votes,_month_of_kindness
> >>
> >> The pandemic is affecting everyone and is likely to be very stressful
> >> for many. This proposal aims to remind everyone throughout April to
> >> make extra efforts to be kinder in their interactions, making our
> >> Wikimedia project a kinder and more supportive space as our default.
> >>
> >> Do any other projects fancy joining this initiative?
> >>
> >> Fae
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Practical implications of Coronavirus

[Lucas Werkmeister]

For what it’s worth, Wikimedia Germany is in full work-from-home mode
starting next Monday, and a lot of many employees have already gradually
started working from home over the past days (apart from those who work
remotely anyways, of course). Announcement (in German):
https://blog.wikimedia.de/2020/03/12/information-anlaesslich-covid-19-geschaeftsstelle-stellt-auf-remote-arbeit-um/

Best wishes,
Lucas

On 12.03.20 19:33, James Heilman wrote:
> Agree 100% with Risker. Now is not the time to be taking risk. I would be
> much happier if a year from now we looked back and said we overreacted than
> if we looked back to realize we did not react enough.
> 
> James
> 
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 8:27 AM Rebecca O'Neill 
> wrote:
> 
>> The Irish government have closed all schools, childcare facilities,
>> colleges, universities and other public institutions until 29 March. The
>> current advice is not to have any gatherings of 100 people, but everyone I
>> had planned events with for the next month has decided to cancel/postpone
>> even at a much smaller scale.
>>
>> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 10:55, Dariusz Jemielniak 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Risker,
>>>
>>> Many thanks for sharing - I know you're a professional in the field. This
>>> is pretty much what we're doing as the WMF, and the affiliates surely can
>>> follow suit.
>>>
>>> All universities I'm currently affiliated with (Harvard, MIT, Kozminski)
>>> cancelled all classes and move to virtual meetings only, too.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> DJ "pundit"
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 00:54 Risker  wrote:
>>>
 Regardless of what platforms people might want to use for virtual
>>> meetings,
 it is my personal opinion that all movement organizations, groups
>> (formal
 and informal) and the WMF itself immediately stop meeting in person.
>> For
 the movement entities that have offices, work-from-home should be the
 standard (as it has been for the WMF for almost a week).  Edit-a-thons
>>> and
 similar meet-ups should be cancelled for the foreseeable future.  The
>>> broad
 movement has spent a lot of time talking about the safety and security
>> of
 its communities, and this level of social distancing at this time is
 probably the best way to demonstrate that we really mean what we say.
 #CancelEverything is not just a cute hashtag - it's really serious, and
>>> our
 movement can be leaders in showing how it is done.

 I'm speaking from my own experience (having worked in a hospital with
>>> SARS
 patients and having participated in the development of pandemic plans
>> for
 hospitals), so perhaps my perspective is different from other people's.
>>> But
 given there's very little downside to this proposal, there's no reason
>>> not
 to take these steps, at least for a few months while the world has a
>>> better
 sense of how this will all play out.

 Risker/Anne
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[Wikimedia-l] Vad gläder dig den här veckan? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 8 March 2020)

[Clover moss]

There is a lot that is making me happy this week. I'm happy that I'm back
to contributing to "On The Bright Side" and the "What's Making You Happy
This Week?" threads again because it's something I look forward to. It's
nice to think and reflect upon the positivity across the Wikimedia
movement. I'm also thankful to Pine for helping me send this email in plain
text formatting.

This week, I read an interesting article from Wired entitled "Wikipedia Is
The Last Best Place On The Internet". A link to the article can be found
here: [1]. I really enjoyed reading this, and I agree that Wikipedia really
has come a long way since 2007. The extent of Wikipedia's influence has
grown considerably and has had such an impact on the world today that I
really couldn't even imagine what the world would be like without it.

I am looking forward to the start of the Wikigap Challenge [2], which is
taking place on March 8, 2020. This challenge is receiving help from the UN
Human Rights Office [3] which is incredible and not something that happens
everyday. However, it seems like there's always something interesting going
on when I check Wikimedia-l, and that's thanks to the dedicated efforts of
countless editors.

Here's a photo of the launch of Wikigap 2020 in Naga City,
Philippines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WikiGap_PH_2020_launch.jpg.
The photo is by User:Filipinayzd. [4]

What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language.
You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.

Additional translations of the subject line of this email would be
appreciated on Meta at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations. Thanks
to User:Julle [5] and User:Vesihiisi [6] for the Swedish translation.

[1]
https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-internet/
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikigap_Challenge
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_United_Nations_High_Commissioner_for_Human_Rights
[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Filipinayzd
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Julle
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vesihiisi

Clovermoss (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss) and
Pine (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine)
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] April could be our Wikimedia month of kindness

[Mike Peel]

More generally, is it a good time to encourage more people to start editing the 
projects? Presumably people have a lot more free time at the moment if they are 
off work / not spending time on commutes / not socialising / etc.

Thanks,
Mike

> On 12 Mar 2020, at 14:51:53, Samuel Klein  wrote:
> 
> What a great idea!  Thakn you for sharing.  We could also strongly
> encourage shutting down most bitey aspects of tools and scripts.
> 
> This can be a nice sanity check to see if we discover, as wikihow did, that
> talking to people by hand rather than via cold template increases
> participation significantly over time.  ///S
> 
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:40 AM Fæ  wrote:
> 
>> Wikimedia Commons is proposing that April becomes a Month of Kindness.
>> 
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Votes,_month_of_kindness
>> 
>> The pandemic is affecting everyone and is likely to be very stressful
>> for many. This proposal aims to remind everyone throughout April to
>> make extra efforts to be kinder in their interactions, making our
>> Wikimedia project a kinder and more supportive space as our default.
>> 
>> Do any other projects fancy joining this initiative?
>> 
>> Fae
>> --
>> fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
>> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] World Health Organization licences & COVID-19

[Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l]

 Besides CC for content, I was guidelines to get some guideline for 
communication. That is something agencies can do.
In general we are here posting or twitting or creating article or advocating 
for media files to be uploaded, or sharing public data on social media when 
they are under acceptable licenses... some communities think about informative 
sitenotices, I even saw Wikipedia logos with masks suggested for the situation. 

I am collecting these situations while I discover them and I wonder, is it 
possible to discuss them with WHO and now if they are good or bad, just get a 
third-party feedback? We are often improvising in good faith. 

Otherwise, we will simply ask at the national level, I guess.
It's not that I cannot for example ask an Italian doctor for, let's say, a 
useful image right now, I just would like to avoid doing that because they have 
more important battles to fight. 

A.M.


Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 20:56:02 CET, Jorge Vargas 
 ha scritto:  
 
 Hi all, 
Jorge Vargas, WMF's Sr. Manager for Regional Partnerships here. Wanted to 
quickly chime in to mention that as several folks on this list know, WMF has 
been more proactive in the past year or so to build bridges with UN agencies to 
see how they can better support our movement and have a more 
coordinated/holistic approach, in addition, and in collaboration with all the 
amazing local and regional efforts already taking place and being led by 
affiliates worldwide. 
One immediate result (and thanks to work supported by John Cummings and 
Wikimedia Argentina) we have been working closely with UN Human Rights [1] to 
support ongoing and future efforts to distribute and create content related to 
human rights (#WikiForHumanRights, with more info on this post [2] and meta 
[3]), and now their support to gender-related initiatives like the 
WIkiGapChallenge [4]). All of this to say that part of that agreement was 
starting to navigate how to get more UN-copyrighted content on a free license 
(starting with content from UN Human Rights, but broadening the scope to other 
agencies). 
Part of this work has been understanding the complexity to navigate 
decision-making within the UN system for things like copyright ownership and 
licensing of content. From our understanding so far, even if a UN agency (like 
UN Human Rights or UNICEF) wants to free up content, a decision needs to happen 
from the UN Publications Office in NY (an exception to this are decentralized 
agencies, like UNESCO, who can make that call themselves). We have been 
lobbying with UN Publications Office to better understand where they stand, but 
as mentioned, when they do use a free license, they include an NC clause by 
default. 
I want to take this opportunity to rally ongoing efforts, approaches, etc being 
done by folks reading this. Ping me here or off-thread if you'd like to share 
more of what you've done so far (I'll follow up with you James! Thanks for 
already taking the lead in contacting WHO before). Ideally, mapping what 
stakeholders are on the table right now and what past conversations have 
happened will help us make progress in getting traction as we and the movement 
at large continue the conversation. 
Feel free to reach out anytime if you have any comments or questions. 
Thanks!Jorge
[1] 
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/16/wikimedia-and-un-human-rights-partner-to-expand-wikipedias-knowledge/[2]
 
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/12/10/wikimedia-foundation-and-un-human-rights-launch-wikiforhumanrights-campaign/[3]
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights[4] 
https://standup4humanrights.org/en/2020/highlights_04.html
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:44 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l 
 wrote:

 Well, we did our share. For both medical and social aspects, we were there. 

I was hoping at least to get some guidelines for our affiliates' social media...

Alessandro
    Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 19:35:56 CET, Damon Sicore  ha 
scritto:  

 Not to mention a lost opportunity for the world.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 1:30 PM James Heilman  wrote:

I have been asking WHO to release COVID19 content (specially videos) under
open licenses since since Feb 2020.

I have spoke with Aleksandra Kuzmanovic who has been involved in their
collaboration with Facebook and Twitter etc.

They say maybe. But despite a bunch of follow up emails have not seemed too
keen. It is really a lost opportunity for both of us :-(

James

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:47 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

>  Some of us sent an email when it was (only apparently) less serious but
> we got no reply, as far as I know. It was sent by the UG of Washington DC
> and I contacted WMCH doing that, because they might reach their central
> office quickly in Geneva if necessary.
> Changing some licenses was one of the things I hoped to discuss, but in
> general we knew it was already serious and we were trying to 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] World Health Organization licences & COVID-19

[Jorge Vargas]

Hi all,

Jorge Vargas, WMF's Sr. Manager for Regional Partnerships here. Wanted to
quickly chime in to mention that as several folks on this list know, WMF
has been more proactive in the past year or so to build bridges with UN
agencies to see how they can better support our movement and have a more
coordinated/holistic approach, in addition, and in collaboration with all
the amazing local and regional efforts already taking place and being led
by affiliates worldwide.

One immediate result (and thanks to work supported by John Cummings and
Wikimedia Argentina) we have been working closely with UN Human Rights [1]
to support ongoing and future efforts to distribute and create content
related to human rights (#WikiForHumanRights, with more info on this post
[2] and meta [3]), and now their support to gender-related initiatives like
the WIkiGapChallenge [4]). All of this to say that part of that agreement
was starting to navigate how to get more UN-copyrighted content on a free
license (starting with content from UN Human Rights, but broadening the
scope to other agencies).

Part of this work has been understanding the complexity to navigate
decision-making within the UN system for things like copyright ownership
and licensing of content. From our understanding so far, even if a UN
agency (like UN Human Rights or UNICEF) wants to free up content, a
decision needs to happen from the UN Publications Office in NY (an
exception to this are decentralized agencies, like UNESCO, who can make
that call themselves). We have been lobbying with UN Publications Office to
better understand where they stand, but as mentioned, when they do use a
free license, they include an NC clause by default.

I want to take this opportunity to rally ongoing efforts, approaches, etc
being done by folks reading this. Ping me here or off-thread if you'd like
to share more of what you've done so far (I'll follow up with you James!
Thanks for already taking the lead in contacting WHO before). Ideally,
mapping what stakeholders are on the table right now and what past
conversations have happened will help us make progress in getting traction
as we and the movement at large continue the conversation.

Feel free to reach out anytime if you have any comments or questions.

Thanks!
Jorge

[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/16/wikimedia-and-un-human-rights-partner-to-expand-wikipedias-knowledge/
[2]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/12/10/wikimedia-foundation-and-un-human-rights-launch-wikiforhumanrights-campaign/
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
[4] https://standup4humanrights.org/en/2020/highlights_04.html

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:44 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

>  Well, we did our share. For both medical and social aspects, we were
> there.
>
> I was hoping at least to get some guidelines for our affiliates' social
> media...
>
> Alessandro
> Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 19:35:56 CET, Damon Sicore 
> ha scritto:
>
>  Not to mention a lost opportunity for the world.
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 1:30 PM James Heilman  wrote:
>
> I have been asking WHO to release COVID19 content (specially videos) under
> open licenses since since Feb 2020.
>
> I have spoke with Aleksandra Kuzmanovic who has been involved in their
> collaboration with Facebook and Twitter etc.
>
> They say maybe. But despite a bunch of follow up emails have not seemed too
> keen. It is really a lost opportunity for both of us :-(
>
> James
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:47 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <
> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> >  Some of us sent an email when it was (only apparently) less serious but
> > we got no reply, as far as I know. It was sent by the UG of Washington DC
> > and I contacted WMCH doing that, because they might reach their central
> > office quickly in Geneva if necessary.
> > Changing some licenses was one of the things I hoped to discuss, but in
> > general we knew it was already serious and we were trying to gain some
> time.
> >
> > In the end, WHO changed their attitude only after the last week-end,
> > probably because people started finally to be worried in the USA, but the
> > pandemia should have been declared weeks ago or at least last week, IMHO,
> > when also the data of another "not small" country, that is Spain, started
> > to be quite out of control (if Italy was already not enough after China,
> > Iran and South Korea).
> >
> > They seem to have taken more slowly than necessary. Let's hope they
> > finally reach out.
> >
> > Regards.
> > Alessandro
> >
> > Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 16:29:34 CET, Andy Mabbett <
> > a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> ha scritto:
> >
> >  WHO have a great video on COVID-19 ("Coronavius"):
> >
> >   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1APwq1df6Mw
> >
> > Now would be a good time for the WMF, local chapters, other
> > affiliates, and individual, to publicly call on them to open licence
> > 

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] March 18, 2020: Topic Modeling

[Janna Layton]

Hi all,

The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, March 18, at
9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC. We’ll have a presentation on topic modeling by
Jordan Boyd-Graber. A question-and-answer session will follow.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiD9QTHNVVM

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 presentation:

Big Data Analysis with Topic Models: Evaluation, Interaction, and
Multilingual Extensions

By: Jordan Boyd-Graber, University of Maryland

A common information need is to understand large, unstructured datasets:
millions of e-mails during e-discovery, a decade worth of science
correspondence, or a day's tweets. In the last decade, topic models have
become a common tool for navigating such datasets even across languages.
This talk investigates the foundational research that allows successful
tools for these data exploration tasks: how to know when you have an
effective model of the dataset; how to correct bad models; how to measure
topic model effectiveness; and how to detect framing and spin using these
techniques. After introducing topic models, I argue why traditional
measures of topic model quality---borrowed from machine learning---are
inconsistent with how topic models are actually used. In response, I
describe interactive topic modeling, a technique that enables users to
impart their insights and preferences to models in a principled,
interactive way. I will then address measuring topic model effectiveness in
real-world tasks.

Overview of topic models:
https://mimno.infosci.cornell.edu/papers/2017_fntir_tm_applications.pdf

Topic model evaluation: http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/nips2009-rtl.pdf

Interactive topic modeling:
http://umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2014_mlj_itm.pdf
Topic Models for Categorization:
http://users.umiacs.umd.edu/~jbg//docs/2016_acl_doclabel.pdf

-- 
Janna Layton (she, her)
Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] World Health Organization licences & COVID-19

[Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l]

 Well, we did our share. For both medical and social aspects, we were there. 

I was hoping at least to get some guidelines for our affiliates' social media...

Alessandro
Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 19:35:56 CET, Damon Sicore  ha 
scritto:  
 
 Not to mention a lost opportunity for the world.
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 1:30 PM James Heilman  wrote:

I have been asking WHO to release COVID19 content (specially videos) under
open licenses since since Feb 2020.

I have spoke with Aleksandra Kuzmanovic who has been involved in their
collaboration with Facebook and Twitter etc.

They say maybe. But despite a bunch of follow up emails have not seemed too
keen. It is really a lost opportunity for both of us :-(

James

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:47 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

>  Some of us sent an email when it was (only apparently) less serious but
> we got no reply, as far as I know. It was sent by the UG of Washington DC
> and I contacted WMCH doing that, because they might reach their central
> office quickly in Geneva if necessary.
> Changing some licenses was one of the things I hoped to discuss, but in
> general we knew it was already serious and we were trying to gain some time.
>
> In the end, WHO changed their attitude only after the last week-end,
> probably because people started finally to be worried in the USA, but the
> pandemia should have been declared weeks ago or at least last week, IMHO,
> when also the data of another "not small" country, that is Spain, started
> to be quite out of control (if Italy was already not enough after China,
> Iran and South Korea).
>
> They seem to have taken more slowly than necessary. Let's hope they
> finally reach out.
>
> Regards.
> Alessandro
>
>     Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 16:29:34 CET, Andy Mabbett <
> a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> ha scritto:
>
>  WHO have a great video on COVID-19 ("Coronavius"):
>
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1APwq1df6Mw
>
> Now would be a good time for the WMF, local chapters, other
> affiliates, and individual, to publicly call on them to open licence
> such material, as I have done, here:
>
>   https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/1238124060145483777
>
> [much of their published material is under NC restrictions -
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Practical implications of Coronavirus

[James Heilman]

Agree 100% with Risker. Now is not the time to be taking risk. I would be
much happier if a year from now we looked back and said we overreacted than
if we looked back to realize we did not react enough.

James

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 8:27 AM Rebecca O'Neill 
wrote:

> The Irish government have closed all schools, childcare facilities,
> colleges, universities and other public institutions until 29 March. The
> current advice is not to have any gatherings of 100 people, but everyone I
> had planned events with for the next month has decided to cancel/postpone
> even at a much smaller scale.
>
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 10:55, Dariusz Jemielniak 
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Risker,
> >
> > Many thanks for sharing - I know you're a professional in the field. This
> > is pretty much what we're doing as the WMF, and the affiliates surely can
> > follow suit.
> >
> > All universities I'm currently affiliated with (Harvard, MIT, Kozminski)
> > cancelled all classes and move to virtual meetings only, too.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > DJ "pundit"
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 00:54 Risker  wrote:
> >
> > > Regardless of what platforms people might want to use for virtual
> > meetings,
> > > it is my personal opinion that all movement organizations, groups
> (formal
> > > and informal) and the WMF itself immediately stop meeting in person.
> For
> > > the movement entities that have offices, work-from-home should be the
> > > standard (as it has been for the WMF for almost a week).  Edit-a-thons
> > and
> > > similar meet-ups should be cancelled for the foreseeable future.  The
> > broad
> > > movement has spent a lot of time talking about the safety and security
> of
> > > its communities, and this level of social distancing at this time is
> > > probably the best way to demonstrate that we really mean what we say.
> > > #CancelEverything is not just a cute hashtag - it's really serious, and
> > our
> > > movement can be leaders in showing how it is done.
> > >
> > > I'm speaking from my own experience (having worked in a hospital with
> > SARS
> > > patients and having participated in the development of pandemic plans
> for
> > > hospitals), so perhaps my perspective is different from other people's.
> > But
> > > given there's very little downside to this proposal, there's no reason
> > not
> > > to take these steps, at least for a few months while the world has a
> > better
> > > sense of how this will all play out.
> > >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] World Health Organization licences & COVID-19

[James Heilman]

I have been asking WHO to release COVID19 content (specially videos) under
open licenses since since Feb 2020.

I have spoke with Aleksandra Kuzmanovic who has been involved in their
collaboration with Facebook and Twitter etc.

They say maybe. But despite a bunch of follow up emails have not seemed too
keen. It is really a lost opportunity for both of us :-(

James

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:47 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

>  Some of us sent an email when it was (only apparently) less serious but
> we got no reply, as far as I know. It was sent by the UG of Washington DC
> and I contacted WMCH doing that, because they might reach their central
> office quickly in Geneva if necessary.
> Changing some licenses was one of the things I hoped to discuss, but in
> general we knew it was already serious and we were trying to gain some time.
>
> In the end, WHO changed their attitude only after the last week-end,
> probably because people started finally to be worried in the USA, but the
> pandemia should have been declared weeks ago or at least last week, IMHO,
> when also the data of another "not small" country, that is Spain, started
> to be quite out of control (if Italy was already not enough after China,
> Iran and South Korea).
>
> They seem to have taken more slowly than necessary. Let's hope they
> finally reach out.
>
> Regards.
> Alessandro
>
> Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 16:29:34 CET, Andy Mabbett <
> a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> ha scritto:
>
>  WHO have a great video on COVID-19 ("Coronavius"):
>
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1APwq1df6Mw
>
> Now would be a good time for the WMF, local chapters, other
> affiliates, and individual, to publicly call on them to open licence
> such material, as I have done, here:
>
>   https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/1238124060145483777
>
> [much of their published material is under NC restrictions -
> https://www.who.int/publishing/copyright/en/ ]
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[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group

[Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight]

Hi everyone!



I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
The group aims to promote Wikimedia projects to people living in,
interested in or connected to Myanmar and also its relations/connections to
the neighboring countries and around the world.



Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!



Regards,

Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight

Chair, Affiliations Committee



[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Myanmar_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group

[2]  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group



Regards,

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] World Health Organization licences & COVID-19

[Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l]

 Some of us sent an email when it was (only apparently) less serious but we got 
no reply, as far as I know. It was sent by the UG of Washington DC and I 
contacted WMCH doing that, because they might reach their central office 
quickly in Geneva if necessary.
Changing some licenses was one of the things I hoped to discuss, but in general 
we knew it was already serious and we were trying to gain some time.

In the end, WHO changed their attitude only after the last week-end, probably 
because people started finally to be worried in the USA, but the pandemia 
should have been declared weeks ago or at least last week, IMHO, when also the 
data of another "not small" country, that is Spain, started to be quite out of 
control (if Italy was already not enough after China, Iran and South Korea). 

They seem to have taken more slowly than necessary. Let's hope they finally 
reach out.

Regards.
Alessandro

Il giovedì 12 marzo 2020, 16:29:34 CET, Andy Mabbett 
 ha scritto:  
 
 WHO have a great video on COVID-19 ("Coronavius"):

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1APwq1df6Mw

Now would be a good time for the WMF, local chapters, other
affiliates, and individual, to publicly call on them to open licence
such material, as I have done, here:

  https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/1238124060145483777

[much of their published material is under NC restrictions -
https://www.who.int/publishing/copyright/en/ ]

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[Wikimedia-l] World Health Organization licences & COVID-19

[Andy Mabbett]

WHO have a great video on COVID-19 ("Coronavius"):

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1APwq1df6Mw

Now would be a good time for the WMF, local chapters, other
affiliates, and individual, to publicly call on them to open licence
such material, as I have done, here:

   https://twitter.com/pigsonthewing/status/1238124060145483777

[much of their published material is under NC restrictions -
https://www.who.int/publishing/copyright/en/ ]

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] April could be our Wikimedia month of kindness

[Samuel Klein]

What a great idea!  Thakn you for sharing.  We could also strongly
encourage shutting down most bitey aspects of tools and scripts.

This can be a nice sanity check to see if we discover, as wikihow did, that
talking to people by hand rather than via cold template increases
participation significantly over time.  ///S

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 10:40 AM Fæ  wrote:

> Wikimedia Commons is proposing that April becomes a Month of Kindness.
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Votes,_month_of_kindness
>
> The pandemic is affecting everyone and is likely to be very stressful
> for many. This proposal aims to remind everyone throughout April to
> make extra efforts to be kinder in their interactions, making our
> Wikimedia project a kinder and more supportive space as our default.
>
> Do any other projects fancy joining this initiative?
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[Wikimedia-l] April could be our Wikimedia month of kindness

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Wikimedia Commons is proposing that April becomes a Month of Kindness.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Votes,_month_of_kindness

The pandemic is affecting everyone and is likely to be very stressful
for many. This proposal aims to remind everyone throughout April to
make extra efforts to be kinder in their interactions, making our
Wikimedia project a kinder and more supportive space as our default.

Do any other projects fancy joining this initiative?

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Practical implications of Coronavirus

[Rebecca O'Neill]

The Irish government have closed all schools, childcare facilities,
colleges, universities and other public institutions until 29 March. The
current advice is not to have any gatherings of 100 people, but everyone I
had planned events with for the next month has decided to cancel/postpone
even at a much smaller scale.

On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 at 10:55, Dariusz Jemielniak  wrote:

> Dear Risker,
>
> Many thanks for sharing - I know you're a professional in the field. This
> is pretty much what we're doing as the WMF, and the affiliates surely can
> follow suit.
>
> All universities I'm currently affiliated with (Harvard, MIT, Kozminski)
> cancelled all classes and move to virtual meetings only, too.
>
> Best,
>
> DJ "pundit"
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 00:54 Risker  wrote:
>
> > Regardless of what platforms people might want to use for virtual
> meetings,
> > it is my personal opinion that all movement organizations, groups (formal
> > and informal) and the WMF itself immediately stop meeting in person. For
> > the movement entities that have offices, work-from-home should be the
> > standard (as it has been for the WMF for almost a week).  Edit-a-thons
> and
> > similar meet-ups should be cancelled for the foreseeable future.  The
> broad
> > movement has spent a lot of time talking about the safety and security of
> > its communities, and this level of social distancing at this time is
> > probably the best way to demonstrate that we really mean what we say.
> > #CancelEverything is not just a cute hashtag - it's really serious, and
> our
> > movement can be leaders in showing how it is done.
> >
> > I'm speaking from my own experience (having worked in a hospital with
> SARS
> > patients and having participated in the development of pandemic plans for
> > hospitals), so perhaps my perspective is different from other people's.
> But
> > given there's very little downside to this proposal, there's no reason
> not
> > to take these steps, at least for a few months while the world has a
> better
> > sense of how this will all play out.
> >
> > Risker/Anne
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 192, Issue 17

[Lucy Crompton-Reid]

Wikimedia UK is not currently cancelling all in person events and meetings
and hasn't instituted a work from home policy, however the senior
management team and board are monitoring the situation carefully,
communicating with staff and partners regularly, and following advice from
the government and associated bodies such as Public Health England. We are
expecting a further announcement from our Prime Minister this evening so
the situation may change rather rapidly.

Best wishes
Lucy



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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:58:23 -0400
> From: Risker 
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Practical implications of Coronavirus
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>
> Regardless of what platforms people might want to use for virtual meetings,
> it is my personal opinion that all movement organizations, groups (formal
> and informal) and the WMF itself immediately stop meeting in person. For
> the movement entities that have offices, work-from-home should be the
> standard (as it has been for the WMF for almost a week).  Edit-a-thons and
> similar meet-ups should be cancelled for the foreseeable future.  The broad
> movement has spent a lot of time talking about the safety and security of
> its communities, and this level of social distancing at this time is
> probably the best way to demonstrate that we really mean what we say.
> #CancelEverything is not just a cute hashtag - it's really serious, and our
> movement can be leaders in showing how it is done.
>
> I'm speaking from my own experience (having worked in a hospital with SARS
> patients and having participated in the development of pandemic plans for
> hospitals), so perhaps my perspective is different from other people's. But
> given there's very little downside to this proposal, there's no reason not
> to take these steps, at least for a few months while the world has a better
> sense of how this will all play out.
>
> Risker/Anne
>
>
> --
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:31:54 -0700
> From: effe iets anders 
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia branding
> Message-ID:
> <
> cacf6betsgms_zwm9yfmmxuk86ogmeuewwjumjvbeft20qdm...@mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
> It looks like this list was skipped in providing an update in asking for
> feedback (or I missed something - in which case, my apologies). I'm just a
> random passer by who was wondering why this wasn't shared yet.
>
> The Wikimedia branding process seems to have moved to yet another phase on
> March 1 (I think?), allowing for a feedback phase to define one more
> 'concept' besides the 23 that have been defined (again: I think. The
> communication is a bit confusing to me, sorry). Deadline is March 17 (5-6
> days from now).
>
> The process should be explained here:
> https://brandingwikipedia.org/concepts/ (scroll down, the concepts are
> actually on that page below the text. Yes, those blocks.)
>
> It turns out that at the very bottom in the footer, there's a link to a
> wikipage where you should be able to engage:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project
>
> on that meta page however, they seem to rather recommend to engage on
> Facebook (a closed group
> ) or on Wikimedia
> Space (!sic).
>
> Anyhow, at a first glance those concepts look fine, but that'd be true for
> many sets of 23 buzzwords :). I don't have enough insights into the
> consequences of these choices, or how they got together, but hopefully the
> communications team can share that at some point better than me.
> Other people here may have more informed opinions than me.
>
> -- Lodewijk
>
>
> --
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 06:54:51 -0400
> From: Dariusz Jemielniak 
> 

[Wikimedia-l] Joint Statement of the ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team and Wikimania Steering Committee on COVID-19

[Roman Bustria Jr.]

Dear Wikimedians,

I would like to share to you a statement:


*Joint Statement of the * *ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team * *and Wikimania
Steering Committee * *on COVID-19*

12 March 2020



The ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee and the
Wikimedia Foundation acknowledge the current COVID-19 threat
 and
are taking this situation seriously.

A joint decision on the fate of Wikimania 2020 based on a careful risk
assessment will be forthcoming and we ask for your patience.

Thank you.





Kind regards,


Butch Bustria

Head of the Communications Committee

ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Practical implications of Coronavirus

[Dariusz Jemielniak]

Dear Risker,

Many thanks for sharing - I know you're a professional in the field. This
is pretty much what we're doing as the WMF, and the affiliates surely can
follow suit.

All universities I'm currently affiliated with (Harvard, MIT, Kozminski)
cancelled all classes and move to virtual meetings only, too.

Best,

DJ "pundit"

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 00:54 Risker  wrote:

> Regardless of what platforms people might want to use for virtual meetings,
> it is my personal opinion that all movement organizations, groups (formal
> and informal) and the WMF itself immediately stop meeting in person. For
> the movement entities that have offices, work-from-home should be the
> standard (as it has been for the WMF for almost a week).  Edit-a-thons and
> similar meet-ups should be cancelled for the foreseeable future.  The broad
> movement has spent a lot of time talking about the safety and security of
> its communities, and this level of social distancing at this time is
> probably the best way to demonstrate that we really mean what we say.
> #CancelEverything is not just a cute hashtag - it's really serious, and our
> movement can be leaders in showing how it is done.
>
> I'm speaking from my own experience (having worked in a hospital with SARS
> patients and having participated in the development of pandemic plans for
> hospitals), so perhaps my perspective is different from other people's. But
> given there's very little downside to this proposal, there's no reason not
> to take these steps, at least for a few months while the world has a better
> sense of how this will all play out.
>
> Risker/Anne
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