[Wikimedia-l] Reflecting on my listening tour

[Selena Deckelmann]

Hi everyone,

I joined the Wikimedia Foundation on August 1 of last year in a newly
created role as the Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO). (For the
first few weeks, some of the staff called me C3PO as they got used to the
new title :) The role was created to bring both the Product and Technology
departments back under a single accountable leader for the first time since
about 2015. Like Maryana
,
I decided to spend the first few months of my time at Wikimedia listening
and learning. Although I come from the open source technology field, and
have worked with volunteers and communities in prior jobs, it felt
important to start here with curiosity and openness about what’s working
well and what needs to change.

Since then, I have met one on one and in small groups with more than 360
people, who spoke with me from 38 different countries. I also attended 22
large and small convenings and events which included about 3,150 people.
This includes members of the Foundation’s product and technology teams,
other Foundation staff, editors, functionaries, affiliates, movement
organizers and open internet partners. I tried to approach every
conversation with curiosity, openness, and eagerness, letting go of any
preconceptions I may have had (intentionally embracing beginner’s mind
) about the Foundation, the
Wikimedia projects, and communities worldwide that contribute to creating
and sharing free knowledge. I can confirm that I quickly found myself awash
in details, experiencing a firehose of information from all sides! My
husband and two young children have also learned a lot more about this
movement in the last six months than you might expect.

To provide myself with some structure, I asked everyone the same kind of
questions about: (1) the impact our product and technology organizations
have had on the movement and/or the world in the last five years, and what
people were most proud of; (2) the current vision and strategy and if they
will take us where we need to go; and (3) the most promising opportunities
that people see in our work, and what is needed to realize that potential.

I want to thank everyone who took the time to share with me, and I’ve
included some direct, anonymized quotes in this letter from the
conversations I had. And I want to confirm that the listening continues — I
will create more spaces in the year ahead for dedicated conversations about
some of the important topics I have highlighted below. I will also be
posting this letter to Meta.

Pulling in the same direction: More visible and shared metrics

On a page of the first notebook I had for my onboarding, I quoted a person
who said they just wanted "meaningful common goals." This was a theme
repeated over and over — a clear desire from everyone to do work together
that was linked by common purpose, and with all the volunteers that have
created all Wikimedia projects. I got to hear so many different voices, and
I heard the details from every side — what’s working, what hasn’t been
working for a long time — some of the problems we face are over ten years
old. People shared what’s missing, what’s extra, who’s fighting to be heard
and who’s feeling lost at sea.

"I think there are lots of promising opportunities to incentivise people to
pay off technical debt and make our existing stack more sustainable. Right
now there are no incentives for engineers in this regard."

"Are we really having impact?"

How can we unite behind meaningful common goals? And which metrics matter
the most? We have so much data, but we really need lodestar
 (or some refer to this as north
star) metrics across the whole Foundation, a system for reviewing and
reflecting on what we learn from them, and then a way to connect those
metrics with the day to day work everyone is doing.

To get at that, we’re doing two main things — one is deepening our
understanding of volunteer activities and the health of the volunteer
communities. This will be through working closely with volunteers using
existing processes and sharing what we’re learning, as well as qualitative
and quantitative research workstreams, including reviewing existing
research of volunteer activities and typical work profiles. The other is
working to establish a set of Foundation-wide lodestar metrics. Shared
metrics help everyone understand how we’re measuring success across the
Foundation, and we’re sharing these publicly as part of our Annual Plan.
Over time, we plan to bring our measures of success for important
initiatives to communities for conversations and debate to help everyone
align what success might look like. Shared metrics and data will empower us
to make more effective and better decisions, along with collaboration with
those who are working on changes and those who may be directly affected by
them.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

[Anusha A]

Hi All:

Following on from my last message in this thread, we are aiming to provide
a more solid update on talks about Mastodon in the next few weeks. This has
been an ongoing discussion among several Foundation teams and was also a
topic of conversation in our meeting with ComCom [1] in February.

The Foundation Communications department sees social media platforms as
places that should have many Wikimedia accounts with a view to goals and
audiences. They are huge tools for outreach, organizing, and communicating
values. There are currently many volunteer- and affiliate-led social media
accounts working alongside Foundation-guided accounts, providing us all
with a networked ability to share and localize content to advance specific
goals with different audiences. We believe in this wide, collaborative
model. Thank you.

Anusha

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_committee

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 11:51 AM Luis Villa  wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 12:29 AM Kunal Mehta  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 4/7/23 18:17, Dan Szymborski wrote:
>> > It doesn't make sense to even talk about actually getting
>> > involved without discussing *which* of the multitude of Mastodon
>> > instances to "join,"  There's a lot of legwork to be
>> > done first, as opposed to the simpler task of signing up for, say, an
>> > alternative of similar construction, like Spoutible.
>>
>> To be clear, this discussion started in December, which has been more
>> than enough time for our friends and allies at Mozilla, Creative
>> Commons, Internet Archive, OpenStreetMap and plenty more to set up their
>> Mastodon presences. There's no excuse for the WMF to not have figured
>> out which server to sign up on
>>
>
> With no offense to any of those groups (almost all of whom I have some
> past or present affiliation with), WMF has a professional Twitter presence
> with more followers than all of those organizations combined, and with
> substantial donor mindshare and revenue attached to that presence (almost
> certainly more than all of those orgs combined, though harder to know for
> certain). The much better comparison is the large media organizations — who
> are also all struggling with this challenge.
>
> [As just one example of the challenge, NPR was (incorrectly) rumored to
> have showed up on press.coop last night and... the server has been down
> or inaccessibly slow pretty much since then. And it wasn't even true!]
>
> I do think that WMF should have a presence on federated media, and I hope
> they're working with Wordpress (who power diff) to implement it. But
> Wordpress is still labeling their ActivityPub plugin as beta, so no
> surprise that they aren't rolling it out yet to their biggest
> customers—like WMF.
>
> There's a case to be made that WMF should not act like a guardian of a
> global brand—as Depths of Wikipedia has been reminding us all of late, many
> people love Wikipedia's weird, rough edges, so the standard global brand
> toolkit may not be a good fit for us. But any discussion of "move fast,
> maybe break the brand" has to start from that — what is the brand? what is
> the risk of playing fast and loose with it? what are the "right" kids of
> risk to take with it? It'd be irresponsible to plunge ahead before having
> that discussion.
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Research Showcase April 19 at 16:30 UTC

[Emily Lescak]

Hi all,

The next Research Showcase, with the theme of Images on Wikipedia, will be
live-streamed Wednesday, April 19, at 16:30 UTC. Find your local time here
.

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW0waU-QArU

You can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research or on the
YouTube chat.

This month's presentations:
A large scale study of reader interactions with images on WikipediaBy *Daniele
Rama, University of Turin*Wikipedia is the largest source of free
encyclopedic knowledge and one of the most visited sites on the Web. To
increase reader understanding of the article, Wikipedia editors add images
within the text of the article’s body. However, despite their widespread
usage on web platforms and the huge volume of visual content on Wikipedia,
little is known about the importance of images in the context of free
knowledge environments. To bridge this gap, we collect data about English
Wikipedia reader interactions with images during one month and perform the
first large-scale analysis of how interactions with images happen on
Wikipedia. First, we quantify the overall engagement with images, finding
that one in 29 pageviews results in a click on at least one image, one
order of magnitude higher than interactions with other types of article
content. Second, we study what factors associate with image engagement and
observe that clicks on images occur more often in shorter articles and
articles about visual arts or transports and biographies of less well-known
people. Third, we look at interactions with Wikipedia article previews and
find that images help support reader information need when navigating
through the site, especially for more popular pages. The findings in this
study deepen our understanding of the role of images for free knowledge and
provide a guide for Wikipedia editors and web user communities to enrich
the world’s largest source of encyclopedic knowledge.

   - Paperː
   
https://epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-00312-8


Visual gender biases in Wikipediaː A systematic evaluation across the ten
most spoken languagesBy *Pablo Beytia, Catholic University of Chile*The
existing research suggests a significant gender gap in Wikipedia
biographical articles, with a minimal representation of women and gender
asymmetries in the textual content. However, the visual aspects of this gap
(e.g., image volume and quality) have received little attention. This study
examined asymmetries between women's and men's biographies, exploring
written and visual content across the ten most widely spoken languages. The
cross-lingual analysis reveals that (1) the most salient male biases appear
when editors select which personalities should have a Wikipedia page, (2)
the trends in written and visual content are dissimilar, (3) male
biographies tend to have more images across languages, and (4) female
biographies have better visual quality on average. The open database of
this study provides eight indicators of gender asymmetries in ten
occupational domains and ten languages. That information allows for a
granular view of gender biases, as well as exploring more macroscopic
phenomena, such as the similarity between Wikipedia versions according to
their gender bias structures.

   - Papersː

Beytía, P., Agarwal, P., Redi, M., & Singh, V. K. (2022). Visual Gender
Biases in Wikipedia: A Systematic Evaluation across the Ten Most Spoken
Languages. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and
Social Media, 16(1), 43-54. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v16i1.19271
https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/19271Beytía, P. & Wagner,
C. (2022). Visibility layers: a framework for systematizing the gender gap
in Wikipedia content. Internet Policy Review, 11(1).
https://doi.org/10.14763/2022.1.1621
https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/visibility-layers-framework-systematising-gender-gap-wikipedia-content
You can watch our past Research Showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase

Hope you can join us!

Warm regards,
Emily

-- 
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

[Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga]

I would like to add not random data. Internet Archive, with 3 times less followers, outperforms Wikipedia on engagements, tweets per day and many other things. Basically, outperforms Wikipedia on everything, except number of followers. You can read the report here: https://www.rivaliq.com/free-social-media-analytics/report/#reports-twitter-gB04dB8AE2ccThe Social Media team says, explicitly, that they don't search for more followers, but that they don't want to have more engagement. Hopefully, the Mastodon handle will perform way better.2023(e)ko api. 13(a) 18:53 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga ):Sorry, but @firefox has 4 times more followers than @wikipedia. @mozilla has 3 times more than @wikimedia. 2023(e)ko api. 13(a) 17:50 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Luis Villa ):On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 12:29 AM Kunal Mehta  wrote:Hi,

On 4/7/23 18:17, Dan Szymborski wrote:
> It doesn't make sense to even talk about actually getting 
> involved without discussing *which* of the multitude of Mastodon 
> instances to "join,"  There's a lot of legwork to be
> done first, as opposed to the simpler task of signing up for, say, an 
> alternative of similar construction, like Spoutible.

To be clear, this discussion started in December, which has been more 
than enough time for our friends and allies at Mozilla, Creative 
Commons, Internet Archive, OpenStreetMap and plenty more to set up their 
Mastodon presences. There's no excuse for the WMF to not have figured 
out which server to sign up onWith no offense to any of those groups (almost all of whom I have some past or present affiliation with), WMF has a professional Twitter presence with more followers than all of those organizations combined, and with substantial donor mindshare and revenue attached to that presence (almost certainly more than all of those orgs combined, though harder to know for certain). The much better comparison is the large media organizations — who are also all struggling with this challenge.[As just one example of the challenge, NPR was (incorrectly) rumored to have showed up on press.coop last night and... the server has been down or inaccessibly slow pretty much since then. And it wasn't even true!]I do think that WMF should have a presence on federated media, and I hope they're working with Wordpress (who power diff) to implement it. But Wordpress is still labeling their ActivityPub plugin as beta, so no surprise that they aren't rolling it out yet to their biggest customers—like WMF.There's a case to be made that WMF should not act like a guardian of a global brand—as Depths of Wikipedia has been reminding us all of late, many people love Wikipedia's weird, rough edges, so the standard global brand toolkit may not be a good fit for us. But any discussion of "move fast, maybe break the brand" has to start from that — what is the brand? what is the risk of playing fast and loose with it? what are the "right" kids of risk to take with it? It'd be irresponsible to plunge ahead before having that discussion.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

[Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga]

Sorry, but @firefox has 4 times more followers than @wikipedia. @mozilla has 3 times more than @wikimedia. 2023(e)ko api. 13(a) 17:50 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Luis Villa ):On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 12:29 AM Kunal Mehta  wrote:Hi,

On 4/7/23 18:17, Dan Szymborski wrote:
> It doesn't make sense to even talk about actually getting 
> involved without discussing *which* of the multitude of Mastodon 
> instances to "join,"  There's a lot of legwork to be
> done first, as opposed to the simpler task of signing up for, say, an 
> alternative of similar construction, like Spoutible.

To be clear, this discussion started in December, which has been more 
than enough time for our friends and allies at Mozilla, Creative 
Commons, Internet Archive, OpenStreetMap and plenty more to set up their 
Mastodon presences. There's no excuse for the WMF to not have figured 
out which server to sign up onWith no offense to any of those groups (almost all of whom I have some past or present affiliation with), WMF has a professional Twitter presence with more followers than all of those organizations combined, and with substantial donor mindshare and revenue attached to that presence (almost certainly more than all of those orgs combined, though harder to know for certain). The much better comparison is the large media organizations — who are also all struggling with this challenge.[As just one example of the challenge, NPR was (incorrectly) rumored to have showed up on press.coop last night and... the server has been down or inaccessibly slow pretty much since then. And it wasn't even true!]I do think that WMF should have a presence on federated media, and I hope they're working with Wordpress (who power diff) to implement it. But Wordpress is still labeling their ActivityPub plugin as beta, so no surprise that they aren't rolling it out yet to their biggest customers—like WMF.There's a case to be made that WMF should not act like a guardian of a global brand—as Depths of Wikipedia has been reminding us all of late, many people love Wikipedia's weird, rough edges, so the standard global brand toolkit may not be a good fit for us. But any discussion of "move fast, maybe break the brand" has to start from that — what is the brand? what is the risk of playing fast and loose with it? what are the "right" kids of risk to take with it? It'd be irresponsible to plunge ahead before having that discussion.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

[Luis Villa]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 12:29 AM Kunal Mehta  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 4/7/23 18:17, Dan Szymborski wrote:
> > It doesn't make sense to even talk about actually getting
> > involved without discussing *which* of the multitude of Mastodon
> > instances to "join,"  There's a lot of legwork to be
> > done first, as opposed to the simpler task of signing up for, say, an
> > alternative of similar construction, like Spoutible.
>
> To be clear, this discussion started in December, which has been more
> than enough time for our friends and allies at Mozilla, Creative
> Commons, Internet Archive, OpenStreetMap and plenty more to set up their
> Mastodon presences. There's no excuse for the WMF to not have figured
> out which server to sign up on
>

With no offense to any of those groups (almost all of whom I have some past
or present affiliation with), WMF has a professional Twitter presence with
more followers than all of those organizations combined, and with
substantial donor mindshare and revenue attached to that presence (almost
certainly more than all of those orgs combined, though harder to know for
certain). The much better comparison is the large media organizations — who
are also all struggling with this challenge.

[As just one example of the challenge, NPR was (incorrectly) rumored to
have showed up on press.coop last night and... the server has been down or
inaccessibly slow pretty much since then. And it wasn't even true!]

I do think that WMF should have a presence on federated media, and I hope
they're working with Wordpress (who power diff) to implement it. But
Wordpress is still labeling their ActivityPub plugin as beta, so no
surprise that they aren't rolling it out yet to their biggest
customers—like WMF.

There's a case to be made that WMF should not act like a guardian of a
global brand—as Depths of Wikipedia has been reminding us all of late, many
people love Wikipedia's weird, rough edges, so the standard global brand
toolkit may not be a good fit for us. But any discussion of "move fast,
maybe break the brand" has to start from that — what is the brand? what is
the risk of playing fast and loose with it? what are the "right" kids of
risk to take with it? It'd be irresponsible to plunge ahead before having
that discussion.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: May 12⋮14⋮17 >> Queering Wikipedia 2023 Conference

[Victoria Doronina]

Hello Zeljko,

I see that this is the second call for proposals. Are you interested in the
Board representation on the conference?  For example, a Q and A session?

Best

VIctoria

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 10:01 PM Željko Blaće  wrote:

> In the countdown to the last 30 days to QW2023
> we will be publishing updates on our
> event plans, program, participants,
> information and inspiration
> to join us.
> Also
> please consider
> to spread the word
> follow our socials/federate
> https://wikis.world/@QueeringW
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QW2023/Volunteer
>
> Z. Blace - for QW2023 organizing team
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

[Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga]

Thanks for this move, Kunal. I have started following it. In the coming days I'll try to write some ideas that could be followed both by the Mastodon account and the Twitter account, if there is a day that the last one wants to be a good representant of the free knowledge ecosysten and the Wikimedia community.Best,Galder2023(e)ko api. 13(a) 09:11 erabiltzaileak hau idatzi du (Kunal Mehta ):Hi,

On 4/7/23 18:17, Dan Szymborski wrote:
> It doesn't make sense to even talk about actually getting 
> involved without discussing *which* of the multitude of Mastodon 
> instances to "join,"  There's a lot of legwork to be
> done first, as opposed to the simpler task of signing up for, say, an 
> alternative of similar construction, like Spoutible.

To be clear, this discussion started in December, which has been more 
than enough time for our friends and allies at Mozilla, Creative 
Commons, Internet Archive, OpenStreetMap and plenty more to set up their 
Mastodon presences. There's no excuse for the WMF to not have figured 
out which server to sign up on (and I don't think that was ever the 
issue anyways).

In any case, I'm primarily writing this email to let people know that we 
have started a community-run Wikipedia Mastodon account, which you all 
are invited to follow at , and more 
importantly contribute to, details of which are available at 
. I hope that collectively 
we'll be able to address the issues that have been raised on this list 
in the past regarding community involvement and participation in social 
media.

We're also celebrating the six month anniversary of Wikis World ("a 
Mastodon server for wiki enthusiasts") today. If you haven't already, 
now is a great time to sign up - instructions at 
.

-- Kunal / Legoktm
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

[Kunal Mehta]

Hi,

On 4/7/23 18:17, Dan Szymborski wrote:
It doesn't make sense to even talk about actually getting 
involved without discussing *which* of the multitude of Mastodon 
instances to "join,"  There's a lot of legwork to be
done first, as opposed to the simpler task of signing up for, say, an 
alternative of similar construction, like Spoutible.


To be clear, this discussion started in December, which has been more 
than enough time for our friends and allies at Mozilla, Creative 
Commons, Internet Archive, OpenStreetMap and plenty more to set up their 
Mastodon presences. There's no excuse for the WMF to not have figured 
out which server to sign up on (and I don't think that was ever the 
issue anyways).


In any case, I'm primarily writing this email to let people know that we 
have started a community-run Wikipedia Mastodon account, which you all 
are invited to follow at , and more 
importantly contribute to, details of which are available at 
. I hope that collectively 
we'll be able to address the issues that have been raised on this list 
in the past regarding community involvement and participation in social 
media.


We're also celebrating the six month anniversary of Wikis World ("a 
Mastodon server for wiki enthusiasts") today. If you haven't already, 
now is a great time to sign up - instructions at 
.


-- Kunal / Legoktm
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