[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: For Review & Comment: 2024 WMF Board of Trustees selection rules package

2023-10-16 Thread pavan santhosh 
FYI

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వీరినుండి: Katie Chan 
Date: 17 అక్టో, 2023, మంగళ 03:22
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] For Review & Comment: 2024 WMF Board of Trustees
selection rules package
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Hi all,

Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

selection rules package from now until *29 October 2023*. The selection
rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee

and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection.

The rules package includes campaign rules
,
voter eligibility criteria
,
and the voting method, platform, and timeline
.
In previous Board selections, the voter eligibility criteria and the voting
method were adjusted to fit expressed community needs. The Candidate
Guidelines were originally developed during the 2022 election and have been
revised.

The Wikimedia Foundation staff are supporting a community comment period
for the rules package so the Elections Committee can receive comments and
concerns well in advance of the Board selection process. Completing this
comment period now will allow time for the Elections Committee to adapt the
rules package as appropriate.

Please visit the Meta-wiki talk page

to provide your comments now and invite people you know to do so as well.
Your comments will help the Elections Committee provide a smoother, better
Board selection process.

Regards,

KTC
Chair of the Elections Committee

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[Wikimedia-l] For Review & Comment: 2024 WMF Board of Trustees selection rules package

2023-10-16 Thread Katie Chan 

Hi all,

Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 
 
selection rules package from now until *29 October 2023*. The selection 
rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee 
 
and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection.


The rules package includes campaign rules 
, 
voter eligibility criteria 
, 
and the voting method, platform, and timeline 
. 
In previous Board selections, the voter eligibility criteria and the 
voting method were adjusted to fit expressed community needs. The 
Candidate Guidelines were originally developed during the 2022 election 
and have been revised.


The Wikimedia Foundation staff are supporting a community comment period 
for the rules package so the Elections Committee can receive comments 
and concerns well in advance of the Board selection process. Completing 
this comment period now will allow time for the Elections Committee to 
adapt the rules package as appropriate.


Please visit the Meta-wiki talk page 
 
to provide your comments now and invite people you know to do so as 
well. Your comments will help the Elections Committee provide a 
smoother, better Board selection process.


Regards,

KTC
Chair of the Elections Committee

--
Katie Chan
Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author 
and do not necessarily represent the view of any organisation the author is 
associated with or employed by.


Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine
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[Wikimedia-l] First edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter

2023-10-16 Thread Srishti Sethi 
Hello everyone,

We are thrilled to introduce the first edition of the Language &
Internationalization newsletter, available at this link: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter/2023/October>
[1].

This newsletter is compiled by the Wikimedia Language team. It provides
updates from July–September quarter on new feature development,
improvements in various language-related technical projects and support
efforts, details about community meetings, and contributions ideas to get
involved in projects.

To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page. If
you have any feedback or ideas for topics to feature in the newsletter,
please share them on the discussion page, accessible here: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter>
[2].

Cheers,
Srishti

[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter/2023/October

[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Language_engineering/Newsletter
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] October 18 at 16:30 UTC

2023-10-16 Thread Kinneret Gordon 
Hi all,

The next Research Showcase, focused on *Data Privacy*, will be
live-streamed on Wednesday, October 18, at 9:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC. Find
your local time here .

YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntgRsMaDlsw. As usual, you
can join the conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes
live.

This month's presentations:
Wikipedia Reader Navigation: When Synthetic Data Is EnoughBy *Akhil Arora,
EPFL*Every day millions of people read Wikipedia. When navigating the vast
space of available topics using hyperlinks, readers describe trajectories
on the article network. Understanding these navigation patterns is crucial
to better serve readers’ needs and address structural biases and knowledge
gaps. However, systematic studies of navigation on Wikipedia are hindered
by a lack of publicly available data due to the commitment to protect
readers' privacy by not storing or sharing potentially sensitive data. In
this paper, we ask: How well can Wikipedia readers' navigation be
approximated by using publicly available resources, most notably the
Wikipedia clickstream data ? We
systematically quantify the differences between real navigation sequences
and synthetic sequences generated from the clickstream data, in 6 analyses
across 8 Wikipedia language versions. Overall, we find that the differences
between real and synthetic sequences are statistically significant, but
with small effect sizes, often well below 10%. This constitutes
quantitative evidence for the utility of the Wikipedia clickstream data as
a public resource: clickstream data can closely capture reader navigation
on Wikipedia and provides a sufficient approximation for most practical
downstream applications relying on reader data. More broadly, this study
provides an example for how clickstream-like data can generally enable
research on user navigation on online platforms while protecting users’
privacy.
How to tell the world about data you cannot show them: Differential privacy
at the Wikimedia FoundationBy *Hal Triedman, Wikimedia Foundation*The
Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), by virtue of its centrality on the internet,
collects lots of data about platform activities. Some of that data is made
public (e.g. global daily pageviews); other data types are not shared (or
are pseudonymized prior to sharing), largely due to privacy concerns.
Differential privacy is a statistical definition of privacy that has gained
prominence in academia, but is still an emerging technology in industry. In
this talk, I share the story of how we put differential privacy into
production at the WMF, through looking at the case study of geolocated
daily pageview counts.
You can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase

Best,
Kinneret
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Kinneret Gordon

Lead Research Community Officer

Wikimedia Foundation 


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Lead Research Community Officer

Wikimedia Foundation 
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