[Wikimedia-l] Re: U4C Charter vote upcoming for January 16

2024-01-19 Thread Patrick Earley 
Voting is now open for the U4C charter, you can visit the voter information
page on Meta

to access the poll.

Best,
Patrick

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 7:27 AM Patrick Earley 
wrote:

> The vote has been delayed until January 19th due to technical issues, we
> thank you for your patience.
>
> Patrick
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 9:14 AM Patrick Earley 
> wrote:
>
>> Apologies, a correction, second paragraph: *Earlier this year *--> Early
>> last year! (2023)
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 8:34 AM Patrick Earley 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I am writing to you today with an update on the *Universal Code of
>>> Conduct Coordinating Committee (or U4C) Charter
>>> *
>>> development process. I know some of you might already be aware of it, but
>>> I’ll just summarize here briefly for anyone who may need an update about
>>> this part of the UCoC development.
>>>
>>> Earlier this year, the *Building Committee
>>> *
>>> for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter started 
>>> drafting
>>> the Charter
>>> .
>>> The initial version was shared for community comment a couple of months
>>> ago. After closing the community comment period, the Building Committee met
>>> again to finalize some of the details before a community ratification vote.
>>> This ratification was initially planned for late November.
>>>
>>> The Building Committee continued their conversations into December so
>>> that they could present a more comprehensive Charter for community
>>> ratification. The ratification vote is now scheduled to open next week, on
>>> January 16.  We will provide more information about how to vote as it
>>> opens.
>>>
>>> Thank you for following this process, and, on behalf of the Building
>>> Committee, thanks to all Wikimedians who have provided comments and
>>> direction for this document. We look forward to seeing the results.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Patrick
>>> On behalf of the folks working on the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter
>>>
>>> Patrick Earley
>>> Lead Trust & Safety Policy Manager
>>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>> pear...@wikimedia.org
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Patrick Earley
>> Lead Trust & Safety Policy Manager
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> pear...@wikimedia.org
>>
>>
>
> --
> Patrick Earley
> Lead Trust & Safety Policy Manager
> Wikimedia Foundation
> pear...@wikimedia.org
>
>

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Patrick Earley
Lead Trust & Safety Policy Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Osama and Ziyad

2024-01-19 Thread Farah Jack Mustaklem 
Dear Wikimedia community,
Today marks our friend Osama's thirtieth birthday, which, instead of
celebrating with his loved ones, he is spending in jail serving a 32 year
sentence.
Osama was an asset to the Wikimedia community and he is dearly missed.
Today, several civil society organizations have come together to wish him a
happy birthday and call for his and Ziyad's release.

https://dco-tn.org/f/birthday-in-jail-saudi-wikipedian-osama-khalid-remains-unjustly
Happy birthday Osama!
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Google not indexing Wikisource for last few years now.

2024-01-19 Thread Michael Snow 
I realize SEO has its own jargon, but to those not immersed in the field 
it is completely tautological to say a page is not indexed because "the 
indexing process determines that the page is unlikely to be requested in 
search." In an open-ended search, you aren't necessarily requesting a 
specific page, you're only asking the search engine to point you to 
pages that will hopefully be relevant to your query. It would be more 
honest and straightforward for Google to say that "based on our 
knowledge of what people search for, your page would appear so rarely 
among the highest-ranked results that we're not going to bother 
including it in our index."


--Michael Snow

On 1/19/2024 4:55 AM, npe...@wikimedia.org wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am Nicholas Perry, Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships at WMF. Following 
up on Jorge's previous email to add a summary of Google's recent response to 
this issue, which was originally shared by Suman on this Phabricator ticket: 
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325607.


The web is really large and the search index can simply not include every single page. A 
page that otherwise has no problems may not be indexed for a myriad of complex reasons, 
for instance if the indexing process determines that the page is unlikely to be requested 
in search. This is in line with the Search Central documentation that states: 
"Google doesn't guarantee that it will crawl, index, or serve your page, even if 
your page follows the Google Search Essentials."


Google also shared a document containing resource links, which can be found in 
the Phabricator ticket. They also encouraged people to submit any questions and 
attend their SEO Office Hours 
(https://developers.google.com/search/help/office-hours), with the caveat that 
Google might not be able to answer all questions in a given instance.

Best,

Nicholas

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Google not indexing Wikisource for last few years now.

2024-01-19 Thread nperry 
Hi everyone, 

I am Nicholas Perry, Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships at WMF. Following 
up on Jorge's previous email to add a summary of Google's recent response to 
this issue, which was originally shared by Suman on this Phabricator ticket: 
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T325607.


The web is really large and the search index can simply not include every 
single page. A page that otherwise has no problems may not be indexed for a 
myriad of complex reasons, for instance if the indexing process determines that 
the page is unlikely to be requested in search. This is in line with the Search 
Central documentation that states: "Google doesn't guarantee that it will 
crawl, index, or serve your page, even if your page follows the Google Search 
Essentials."


Google also shared a document containing resource links, which can be found in 
the Phabricator ticket. They also encouraged people to submit any questions and 
attend their SEO Office Hours 
(https://developers.google.com/search/help/office-hours), with the caveat that 
Google might not be able to answer all questions in a given instance.

Best,

Nicholas
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