[Wikimedia-l] Training series for event organizers: Incorporate faciliation into your events

[Rachel Farrand]

Hello!

The WMF Community Events team are proposing a short training series *for
Wikimedia community event organizers* (volunteers and affiliate staff)
where we will bring in *an expert facilitator and event producer both with
international event experience to discuss the importance of incorporating
quality facilitation into your events and how to do it.* This will likely
be a two part series of 75 - 90 minute sessions where *each session will
include training, active facilitation practice and modeling, and some
discussion around how this fits specifically into the Wikimedia context and
how this can help strengthen your community building efforts with diverse,
multi-modal facilitation best practices*.

Depending on the interests of the participants we will focus more heavily
on in person or remote events - but both event types will be covered.

Please read more about this training series and express interest here *before
April 2: *
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events_Team_Portal/FacilitationSeries

Questions welcome on the talk page!

-- 
Rachel Farrand
Senior Program Officer
Community Events Team
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Share special moments from your Wikipedia 20 celebration!

[Lena Traer]

Hi everyone,

We have started a Wikipedia 20 Scrapbook on meta wiki [1]. This is a space
where we all can document the celebration events we held or are planning to
hold to celebrate Wikipedia 20.


You can add any photos you have of your event, share a moment, a link to
the event page, screenshots of your virtual event, a photo of your cake or
anything else you want to post in the scrapbook to document your
celebration.

There is a link in the header with instructions on how to add a new section
for your event. You can also find sample image galleries on the page.

We look forward to seeing all the wonderful images and memories from the
celebrations around the world!

We also wanted to remind you that Rapid Grants are available to support
your Wikipedia 20 planned events. For events taking place in May, please
submit your grant application by 15 April, and for events taking place
through the end of July 2021, please submit your application no later than
15 June 2021. You can find more information on Rapid Grants for Wikipedia
20 and the application form on meta.[2]

Best,

Lena and the Wikipedia 20 team

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Scrapbook
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Grants

Lena Traer (she/her)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Test Mailman3 in production

[Alphos OGame]

Now *that* is fantastic news indeed. I'll be sure to read up on that.
The dinosaur's dead, long live the new, uh, dinosaur ! ;-)

Roger / Alphos


> Le 25 mars 2021 à 17:39, Amir Sarabadani  a écrit :
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 12:07 PM Alphos OGame  > wrote:
> Hello Amir, hello all,
> 
> Fantastic news !
> 
> Quick side question : whatever will happen to the passwords that we kept on 
> post-it notes sticked to our monitors for lack of frequent use or good enough 
> cognitive skills ?
> Joke aside, will there be a site-wide password purge once v3 is deployed, or 
> shall we keep on using our old passwords, with the currently plaintext 
> passwords stored in files simply hashed and stored in the new database ?
> 
> You shouldn't reuse those passwords from the old mailman as they are stored 
> in plain text but the good thing (and a rather important thing) about 
> mailman3 is that you can make a central account for all mailing lists and 
> then use that instead. So there won't be a need to store twenty different 
> passwords for each mailing list you are a member of (or admin/moderator). 
> Hope just one more password would be okay ;)
> 
> Best
> 
> Whatever the case, fantastic news :-)
> 
> Roger / Alphos
> 
> 
>> Le 25 mars 2021 à 08:58, Amir Sarabadani > > a écrit :
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> tl;dr: https://lists-next.wikimedia.org  
>> is running mailman3. Please help us test the software before we upgrade the 
>> real mailing list server.
>> 
>> Kunal and I have been working on deploying the new mailman (version 3) to 
>> replace mailman2 serving https://lists.wikimedia.org 
>>  and powering all of our mailing lists.
>> 
>> Mailman2 is a dinosaur that should have gone extinct years ago. Pretty old 
>> user interface (especially for admins and moderators), storing passwords in 
>> plain text, lack of any database (everything is file on disk), pretty old 
>> code, lack of ability to search in archives or send email from web 
>> interface, running on EOL python (python2), encoding issues with non-Latin 
>> languages, hard to redact archives, and the list goes on and on.
>> 
>> The new version has been developed/puppetized/tested in the Cloud and is now 
>> ready for proper testing! Give it a try: https://lists-next.wikimedia.org 
>> . We have created some mailing lists you 
>> can join and can test. If you want to test the experience as a list 
>> administrator/moderator, we can give those permissions out as well.
>> 
>> WARNING: All data on the lists-next server will be deleted after the test 
>> period is over.
>> 
>> We will also need help updating documentation on wikis and elsewhere.
>> 
>> If you find any bugs/issues (yay!), please file a ticket in the 
>> “Wikimedia-Mailing-lists” Phabricator project and we’ll check it out.
>> 
>> In the coming days/weeks will also import some public mailing lists from the 
>> old version to the new version to check archive size, search index size, and 
>> other aspects. There are other TODOs left as well like monitoring, logging, 
>> anti-abuse, etc.
>> 
>> Slowly and after testing (hopefully soon), we expect to deploy this on 
>> lists.wikimedia.org  and mailing lists one by 
>> one or in batches can be upgraded to the 21st century.
>> 
>> The overall task tracking this project is T52864 
>>  and a big thank you people who 
>> are helping this move forward.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Kunal and Amir
>> 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Test Mailman3 in production

[Amir Sarabadani]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 12:07 PM Alphos OGame 
wrote:

> Hello Amir, hello all,
>
> Fantastic news !
>
> Quick side question : whatever will happen to the passwords that we kept
> on post-it notes sticked to our monitors for lack of frequent use or good
> enough cognitive skills ?
> Joke aside, will there be a site-wide password purge once v3 is deployed,
> or shall we keep on using our old passwords, with the currently plaintext
> passwords stored in files simply hashed and stored in the new database ?
>

You shouldn't reuse those passwords from the old mailman as they are stored
in plain text but the good thing (and a rather important thing) about
mailman3 is that you can make a central account for all mailing lists and
then use that instead. So there won't be a need to store twenty different
passwords for each mailing list you are a member of (or admin/moderator).
Hope just one more password would be okay ;)

Best

>
> Whatever the case, fantastic news :-)
>
> Roger / Alphos
>
>
> Le 25 mars 2021 à 08:58, Amir Sarabadani  a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> tl;dr: https://lists-next.wikimedia.org is running mailman3. Please help
> us test the software before we upgrade the real mailing list server.
>
> Kunal and I have been working on deploying the new mailman (version 3) to
> replace mailman2 serving https://lists.wikimedia.org and powering all of
> our mailing lists.
>
> Mailman2 is a dinosaur that should have gone extinct years ago. Pretty old
> user interface (especially for admins and moderators), storing passwords in
> plain text, lack of any database (everything is file on disk), pretty old
> code, lack of ability to search in archives or send email from web
> interface, running on EOL python (python2), encoding issues with non-Latin
> languages, hard to redact archives, and the list goes on and on.
>
> The new version has been developed/puppetized/tested in the Cloud and is
> now ready for proper testing! Give it a try:
> https://lists-next.wikimedia.org. We have created some mailing lists you
> can join and can test. If you want to test the experience as a list
> administrator/moderator, we can give those permissions out as well.
>
> WARNING: All data on the lists-next server will be deleted after the test
> period is over.
>
> We will also need help updating documentation on wikis and elsewhere.
>
> If you find any bugs/issues (yay!), please file a ticket in the
> “Wikimedia-Mailing-lists” Phabricator project and we’ll check it out.
>
> In the coming days/weeks will also import some public mailing lists from
> the old version to the new version to check archive size, search index
> size, and other aspects. There are other TODOs left as well like
> monitoring, logging, anti-abuse, etc.
>
> Slowly and after testing (hopefully soon), we expect to deploy this on
> lists.wikimedia.org and mailing lists one by one or in batches can be
> upgraded to the 21st century.
>
> The overall task tracking this project is T52864
>  and a big thank you people who
> are helping this move forward.
>
> Regards,
> Kunal and Amir
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Test Mailman3 in production

[Luis Villa]

Seemingly small but nevertheless terrific news.

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 4:08 AM Alphos OGame  wrote:

> Hello Amir, hello all,
>
> Fantastic news !
>
> Quick side question : whatever will happen to the passwords that we kept
> on post-it notes sticked to our monitors for lack of frequent use or good
> enough cognitive skills ?
> Joke aside, will there be a site-wide password purge once v3 is deployed,
> or shall we keep on using our old passwords, with the currently plaintext
> passwords stored in files simply hashed and stored in the new database ?
>
> Whatever the case, fantastic news :-)
>
> Roger / Alphos
>
>
> Le 25 mars 2021 à 08:58, Amir Sarabadani  a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> tl;dr: https://lists-next.wikimedia.org is running mailman3. Please help
> us test the software before we upgrade the real mailing list server.
>
> Kunal and I have been working on deploying the new mailman (version 3) to
> replace mailman2 serving https://lists.wikimedia.org and powering all of
> our mailing lists.
>
> Mailman2 is a dinosaur that should have gone extinct years ago. Pretty old
> user interface (especially for admins and moderators), storing passwords in
> plain text, lack of any database (everything is file on disk), pretty old
> code, lack of ability to search in archives or send email from web
> interface, running on EOL python (python2), encoding issues with non-Latin
> languages, hard to redact archives, and the list goes on and on.
>
> The new version has been developed/puppetized/tested in the Cloud and is
> now ready for proper testing! Give it a try:
> https://lists-next.wikimedia.org. We have created some mailing lists you
> can join and can test. If you want to test the experience as a list
> administrator/moderator, we can give those permissions out as well.
>
> WARNING: All data on the lists-next server will be deleted after the test
> period is over.
>
> We will also need help updating documentation on wikis and elsewhere.
>
> If you find any bugs/issues (yay!), please file a ticket in the
> “Wikimedia-Mailing-lists” Phabricator project and we’ll check it out.
>
> In the coming days/weeks will also import some public mailing lists from
> the old version to the new version to check archive size, search index
> size, and other aspects. There are other TODOs left as well like
> monitoring, logging, anti-abuse, etc.
>
> Slowly and after testing (hopefully soon), we expect to deploy this on
> lists.wikimedia.org and mailing lists one by one or in batches can be
> upgraded to the 21st century.
>
> The overall task tracking this project is T52864
>  and a big thank you people who
> are helping this move forward.
>
> Regards,
> Kunal and Amir
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Test Mailman3 in production

[Alphos OGame]

Hello Amir, hello all,

Fantastic news !

Quick side question : whatever will happen to the passwords that we kept on 
post-it notes sticked to our monitors for lack of frequent use or good enough 
cognitive skills ?
Joke aside, will there be a site-wide password purge once v3 is deployed, or 
shall we keep on using our old passwords, with the currently plaintext 
passwords stored in files simply hashed and stored in the new database ?

Whatever the case, fantastic news :-)

Roger / Alphos


> Le 25 mars 2021 à 08:58, Amir Sarabadani  a écrit :
> 
> Hello,
> 
> tl;dr: https://lists-next.wikimedia.org  
> is running mailman3. Please help us test the software before we upgrade the 
> real mailing list server.
> 
> Kunal and I have been working on deploying the new mailman (version 3) to 
> replace mailman2 serving https://lists.wikimedia.org 
>  and powering all of our mailing lists.
> 
> Mailman2 is a dinosaur that should have gone extinct years ago. Pretty old 
> user interface (especially for admins and moderators), storing passwords in 
> plain text, lack of any database (everything is file on disk), pretty old 
> code, lack of ability to search in archives or send email from web interface, 
> running on EOL python (python2), encoding issues with non-Latin languages, 
> hard to redact archives, and the list goes on and on.
> 
> The new version has been developed/puppetized/tested in the Cloud and is now 
> ready for proper testing! Give it a try: https://lists-next.wikimedia.org 
> . We have created some mailing lists you 
> can join and can test. If you want to test the experience as a list 
> administrator/moderator, we can give those permissions out as well.
> 
> WARNING: All data on the lists-next server will be deleted after the test 
> period is over.
> 
> We will also need help updating documentation on wikis and elsewhere.
> 
> If you find any bugs/issues (yay!), please file a ticket in the 
> “Wikimedia-Mailing-lists” Phabricator project and we’ll check it out.
> 
> In the coming days/weeks will also import some public mailing lists from the 
> old version to the new version to check archive size, search index size, and 
> other aspects. There are other TODOs left as well like monitoring, logging, 
> anti-abuse, etc.
> 
> Slowly and after testing (hopefully soon), we expect to deploy this on 
> lists.wikimedia.org  and mailing lists one by 
> one or in batches can be upgraded to the 21st century.
> 
> The overall task tracking this project is T52864 
>  and a big thank you people who are 
> helping this move forward.
> 
> Regards,
> Kunal and Amir
> 
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[Wikimedia-l] Test Mailman3 in production

[Amir Sarabadani]

Hello,

tl;dr: https://lists-next.wikimedia.org is running mailman3. Please help us
test the software before we upgrade the real mailing list server.

Kunal and I have been working on deploying the new mailman (version 3) to
replace mailman2 serving https://lists.wikimedia.org and powering all of
our mailing lists.

Mailman2 is a dinosaur that should have gone extinct years ago. Pretty old
user interface (especially for admins and moderators), storing passwords in
plain text, lack of any database (everything is file on disk), pretty old
code, lack of ability to search in archives or send email from web
interface, running on EOL python (python2), encoding issues with non-Latin
languages, hard to redact archives, and the list goes on and on.

The new version has been developed/puppetized/tested in the Cloud and is
now ready for proper testing! Give it a try:
https://lists-next.wikimedia.org. We have created some mailing lists you
can join and can test. If you want to test the experience as a list
administrator/moderator, we can give those permissions out as well.

WARNING: All data on the lists-next server will be deleted after the test
period is over.

We will also need help updating documentation on wikis and elsewhere.

If you find any bugs/issues (yay!), please file a ticket in the
“Wikimedia-Mailing-lists” Phabricator project and we’ll check it out.

In the coming days/weeks will also import some public mailing lists from
the old version to the new version to check archive size, search index
size, and other aspects. There are other TODOs left as well like
monitoring, logging, anti-abuse, etc.

Slowly and after testing (hopefully soon), we expect to deploy this on
lists.wikimedia.org and mailing lists one by one or in batches can be
upgraded to the 21st century.

The overall task tracking this project is T52864
 and a big thank you people who
are helping this move forward.

Regards,

Kunal and Amir
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Evaluating ideal use of prizes or rewards for campaigns

[Felix Nartey]

Dear All,

A reminder about the campaign's office hour happening today! We have
invited experienced campaign organizers to share their views on the topic,
and we are hoping to discuss more broadly your approach or strategy for
developing prizes for contests or campaigns.

Join us today:

   -

   At 3:00pm UTC
   -

   Via Zoom - https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/95921708595
   

   -

   Topic: Evaluating ideal use of prizes or rewards for campaigns


Looking forward to the discussions!

Warm regards,

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:49 PM Felix Nartey  wrote:

> Dear Community,
>
>
> (apologies for cross-posting!)
>
> Prizes or awards are key to volunteer organisations such as Wikimedia.
> It's one way of providing motivation or encouraging continuous
> participation. Even so, it's often very hard to decide on what could be an
> ideal prize for a campaign. We have been hearing lots of questions from
> organizers about appropriate criteria, types and amounts as prizes for a
> campaign. The Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns Team invites you to our next
> virtual office hour on 25th March at 3:00pm UTC via zoom[1] to discuss this
> topic with organizers experienced at using prizes as part of
> competitions.[2]
>
>
>
> The Campaigns Office hour is an opportunity to learn about how others have
> organized content campaigns, new or emerging tools and tactics, and ask
> questions about how campaigns have been implemented by other organizers.
>
> The goal of this office hour will be to evaluate organizer concerns and
> challenges, with a particular focus on helping photography campaigns and
> content writing campaigns in creating consistent prize philosophies within
> the Wikimedia Movement. Our recent office hour explained the 2021
> WikiForHumanRights Campaign dubbed “Right to a Healthy Environment” (watch
> video).[3] We talked about decentralized activities around the theme and
> how to access mentoring and rapid grants.
>
>
>
> Join us for the next office hour:
>
>-
>
>25th March at 3:00pm UTC
>-
>
>Via Zoom - https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/95921708595
>
> 
>-
>
>Topic: Evaluating ideal use of prizes or rewards for campaigns
>
> Looking forward to learning, discussing and sharing with you!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Felix Nartey
> [1] - https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/95921708595
> 
> [2] -
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Campaigns_Team#Office_Hour_5:_Evaluating_ideal_use_of_prizes_or_rewards_for_campaigns
> [3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_QEE60hcFk
> --
>
> Felix Nartey
>
> Senior Program Officer, Campaigns
>
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
>
>

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