Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing a new Wikimedia project: Abstract Wikipedia

[Daniel Mietchen via Wikimedia-l]

Good to see such an abstract proposal to reach this point on the way
towards becoming a very real Wikimedia project!
d.


On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 1:05 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Excited to see even how this mind-blowing idea comes to live!
>
> Congratulations
>
> Galder
> 
> From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of
> Isaac Olatunde 
> Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 7:01 PM
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing a new
> Wikimedia project: Abstract Wikipedia
>
> Wow! This is a great news.
>
> Thanks for sharing Katherine.
>
> With best wishes
>
> Isaac.
>
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2020, 17:39 Denny Vrandečić,  wrote:
>
> > Katherine, thank you for the warm welcome and your kind words!
> >
> > I am very happy to be given the opportunity to start this new project,
> and
> > deeply honored by the trust and confidence of the Board and the
> Foundation.
> >
> > Thanks to the many who have listened to me talking about this project in
> > the last few years, read my papers and plans, commented on them,
> > scrutinized them, and offered encouragement, criticism, and advice.
> Thanks
> > to everyone who expressed their support and raised their concerns on the
> > proposal page on Meta [1]. It is thanks to you that the Board was
> confident
> > enough to make this decision.
> >
> > There is a lot of work in front of us, and I will continue to rely on
> your
> > guidance and collective wisdom. We will need to foster a new community.
> > Just as with Wikidata, I hope that some of you will become active in the
> > new community, and I also want to make sure that we will be welcoming to
> > new contributors. We want to extend and grow the Wikimedia movement not
> > only with new functionalities, but also with new people.
> >
> > Settling in this new position will take quite a bit of my attention in
> the
> > next few weeks, so please forgive me if I may be slow with answering your
> > questions between now and then. One of the first things we’ll do is to
> set
> > up new communication channels. We will continue discussing the project
> and
> > planning on Meta [2] for now and also welcome you to the new, dedicated
> > mailing list [3].
> >
> > One of our first tasks together will be to find a name for the project. A
> > first set of proposals have already been made [4], and I invite you all
> to
> > come up with more ideas. We will start that off in July or August. Did I
> > mention that you can join us on Meta [2] to discuss proposals for names,
> > the project itself, and much more?
> >
> > Again, thank you all! I am super excited about figuring this thing out
> with
> > you, and am looking forward to coming back to Wikimedia full-time.
> >
> > Stay safe,
> > Denny
> >
> > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Abstract_Wikipedia
> > [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Abstract_Wikipedia
> > [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/abstract-wikipedia
> > [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Name
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 9:24 AM Brion Vibber 
> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm extremely excited about this project!
> > >
> > > Not only will this be directly useful on its own (and a fascinating
> > project
> > > in its own right!), but it will help our volunteer editors to ramp up
> > good
> > > base material to work with on the "prose" Wikipedias we already know
> and
> > > love.
> > >
> > > The idea is really to make the structured data we've all been putting
> > into
> > > Wikidata available in a human-readable form at a big scale, that's
> still
> > > able to be shaped and made into something real and readable by human
> > > editors. By moving around where in the chain the data gets expressed as
> > > human language, we hope to make something that's just as editable but
> > much
> > > more maintainable in the future and across multiple languages.
> > >
> > > -- brion
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 9:04 AM Katherine Maher 
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > (A translatable version of this announcement can be found on Meta
> [1])
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia [1], a new project
> that
> > > has
> > > > been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
> > Trustees.
> > > > Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline
> encyclopedic
> > > > content in a multilingual fashion, allowing more contributors and
> more
> > > > readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an approach
> > that
> > > > aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects,
> increase
> > > the
> > > > sustainability of our movement through expanding access to
> > participation,
> > > > improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and
> innovate
> > in
> > > > free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to
> > > > create something new.
> > > >
> > > > This 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [wikicite-discuss] Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation, staying on the wikis

[Daniel Mietchen via Wikimedia-l]

Hi Dario and Leila,
it's been a pleasure collaborating with you in the past, and I hope
this will continue despite the changes in your roles.
Best,
Daniel

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:13 PM Yaroslav Blanter  wrote:
>
> Dario, thanks for your effort. It was a pleasure working with you, and I am
> also happy that you will stay around as a volunteer. My congratulations to
> Leila. Whereas at this point I am rather skeptical and sometimes vocal
> about WMF in general, I have a tremendous respect for both of you.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 11:05 PM Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
> > Dario -- what news!  And how close that seems to your recent pushing of us
> > all.
> > How lucky the projects have been to have you building a research
> > constellation, for these many years.
> >
> > Leila, congrats + warm wishes in your new role.
> >
> > With wikilove and taxonometrics,
> > SJ
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 4:56 PM Dario Taraborelli <
> > dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hey all,
> > >
> > > I've got some personal news to share.
> > >
> > > After 8 years with Wikimedia, I have decided to leave the Foundation to
> > > take up a new role focused on open science. This has been a difficult
> > > decision but an opportunity arose and I am excited to be moving on to an
> > > area that’s been so close to my heart for years.
> > >
> > > Serving the movement as part of the Research team at WMF has been, and
> > > will definitely be, the most important gig in my life. I leave a team of
> > > ridiculously talented and fun people that I can’t possibly imagine not
> > > spending all of my days with, as well many collaborators and friends in
> > the
> > > community who have I worked alongside. I am proud and thankful to have
> > been
> > > part of this journey with you all. With my departure, Leila Zia is taking
> > > the lead of Research at WMF, and you all couldn't be in better hands.
> > >
> > > In March, I’ll be joining CZI Science—a philanthropy based in the Bay
> > > Area—to help build their portfolio of open science programs and
> > technology.
> > > I'll continue to be an ally on the same fights in my new role.
> > >
> > > Other than that, I look forward to returning to full volunteer mode. I
> > > started editing English Wikipedia in 2004, working on bloody chapters in
> > > the history of London ;
> > hypothetical
> > > astronomy ; unsung heroes
> > > among women in science ; and
> > > of course natural
> > > , technical
> > >  and
> > political
> > > disasters
> > > <
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections
> > >.
> > > I’ve also developed an embarrassing addiction to Wikidata, and you’ll
> > > continue seeing me around hacking those instances of Q16521
> > >  for a little while.
> > >
> > > I hope our paths cross once again in the future.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Dario
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > *Dario Taraborelli  *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation
> > > research.wikimedia.org • nitens.org • @readermeter
> > > 
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