Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wmfall] Wikimedia Foundation executive transition update

[Rachel diCerbo]

This is excellent news! Thank you to the C-levels and Board for making this
decision. Katherine, thank you for stepping up during this time. Looking
forward to improving trust and transparency!

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Anna Stillwell 
wrote:

> Katherine,
>
> You have my *full* support. So excited to build trust, a good vibe, and
> over achieve. :)
>
> Warmly,
> /a
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:05 PM, James Heilman  wrote:
>
>> A very positive move. Thank you Katherine for agreeing to step up and take
>> on this role. You have my full confidence :-)
>>
>> James
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Pharos 
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Congratulations, Katherine!
>> >
>> > She is an excellent choice to navigate us through for this difficult
>> time.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Pharos
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Patricio Lorente <
>> > patricio.lore...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hello all,
>> > >
>> > > I’m happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation leadership team
>> has
>> > > proposed an interim Executive Director, and the Board has given our
>> full
>> > > support. Starting on March 14th, current Chief Communications Officer
>> > > Katherine Maher (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Katherine_(WMF)
>> )
>> > > will
>> > > step into the role of interim Executive Director. We thank the
>> C-levels
>> > for
>> > > their careful consideration in this process, and Katherine for
>> stepping
>> > up
>> > > during this period of transition.
>> > >
>> > > In choosing an interim ED, the C-levels started by identifying
>> immediate
>> > > priorities for the coming months, including building trust, improving
>> > > communications, and filling key leadership positions. They felt, and
>> we
>> > > agree, that Katherine is the right person to lead the organization
>> while
>> > it
>> > > addresses these and other important issues. Additionally, this will
>> allow
>> > > the rest of the executive team to focus on critical organizational
>> > > functions, including community and engineering management,
>> fundraising,
>> > and
>> > > strengthening our human resources function. You can read more about
>> our
>> > > process and thinking here:
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/March_2016_-_Leadership_Team_transition_planning
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Katherine has been with the Foundation as Chief Communications Officer
>> > for
>> > > about two years now. During that time, she has developed a versatile
>> and
>> > > effective team that serves the needs of the organization and movement,
>> > > collaborating closely with other departments and the community. She
>> has
>> > > thoughtfully introduced new capacities and led her team through
>> > > transitions, and played a critical role in shepherding the strategy
>> > process
>> > > and the annual plan, in collaboration with other C-levels. She is
>> known
>> > for
>> > > listening to and empowering the people that she works with.
>> > >
>> > > For those who don’t know Katherine, she’s been a longtime advocate for
>> > > global open communities, culture, and technology. She previously led
>> > > advocacy for the international digital rights organization Access Now,
>> > > where she worked on freedom of expression, access to information, and
>> > > privacy. She has supported the efforts of citizens and governments
>> around
>> > > the world to deepen transparency and participation in her roles at the
>> > > World Bank, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs,
>> and
>> > > UNICEF (where her team built wikis for youth participation in major
>> > global
>> > > issues). She is a member of the advisory board of the Open Technology
>> > Fund.
>> > >
>> > > With interim leadership in place, our next step as the Board is to
>> move
>> > > quickly to plan and implement the search for a permanent Executive
>> > > Director. We will be working together over the coming weeks to clarify
>> > > roles and responsibilities in this search, and identify the best way
>> for
>> > > community and staff to participate.  We want this process to be
>> inclusive
>> > > and incorporate many voices. We look forward to sharing an update on
>> our
>> > > progress toward the end of next week.
>> > >
>> > > As interim Executive Director, Katherine will report to the Board.
>> Geoff
>> > > Brigham will continue serving as Board Secretary, and Jaime
>> Villagomez as
>> > > Board Treasurer, reporting to the Board in those capacities. As of
>> March
>> > > 14, Katherine's reports include the C-team: Geoff Brigham, Jaime
>> > > Villagomez, Maggie Dennis, Lisa Gruwell, Joady Lohr, and Wes Moran.
>> The
>> > > Communications team will continue to report to Katherine for the time
>> > > being, with support from the leadership of Juliet Barbara and Heather
>> > > Walls.
>> > >
>> > > Thank you,
>> > >
>> > >  

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Old maps of Jerusalem released

[Rachel diCerbo]

What a treasure! Thank you to Wikimedia Israel for your work in this.

On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Austin Hair <adh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> These are fantastic. Great work.
>
> Austin
>
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Jaime Anstee <jans...@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> > So cool! Thanks for sharing, Michal.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Jaime Anstee, Ph.D
> > Senior Strategist
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> > +1.415.839.6885 ext 6869
> > www.wikimediafoundation.org
> >
> > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
> > *https://donate.wikimedia.org <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>*
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Michal Lester <mles...@wikimedia.org.il
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I am thrilled to share with you that The National Library of Israel had
> >> > released a collection of 200 high-resolution unique maps[1] of
> Jerusalem
> >> > in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel. This collection of ancient
> maps,
> >> > spanning from 1486 to 1947, contains a variety of styles and
> languages.
> >> The
> >> > maps released were celbrarted by a Mapathon in the National Library of
> >> > Israel, a writinig contest in NOWP (initiated by Wikimedia Norway)[2]
> and
> >> > a post in the Wikimaps community blog[3].
> >> > The maps are beautiful! Take a peak.
> >> > Happy holidays for those of you who celebrate at this time of the
> year!
> >> >
> >> > 
> >> > [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Laor_collection
> >> > [2]
> >> >
> >>
> https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ukens_konkurranse/Ukens_konkurranse_2015-52
> >> > [3] http://wikimaps.wikimedia.fi/
> >> >
> >> > *Regards,*
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > *Michal Lester,*
> >> >
> >> > *Executive DirectorWikimedia Israel*
> >> > *http://www.wikimedia.org.il <http://www.wikimedia.org.il/>  *
> >> > *972-50-8996046 ; 972-77-751-6032  *
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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[Wikimedia-l] WMF Discovery Dept Office Hour, Thursday, 17 December 2015, 19:00UTC

[Rachel diCerbo]

Hello everyone,

There will be an IRC office hour with members of the Discovery Department
on Thursday, 17 December, at 19:00 UTC. This is an opportunity to talk with
Tomasz Finc and other staff members in Discovery. You can read more about
their work here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery

Additional information, including your time zone, is listed on the here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours

We hope to see you there :)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikitech-l] Product Department Office Hour with Wes Moran, Thursday, 10 December

[Rachel diCerbo]

That's a good idea, Sam, thank you :) This is a renewed initiative in
holding more conversations between communities and product teams that have
a slightly different focus than requesting specific feedback, so we didn't
manage to post to multiple VPs (one notice did go to en.wp's yesterday) ,
but it's a good idea for next time. I want to set up more office hours,
round-table conversations, and other points of conversation in the next few
months, so there will be more opportunities for outreach.

I have a section up at the CL meta Discussion page [1] with some questions
about good place to post for this kind of conversation. It's a bit
different than calls to action around specific product requests and
feedback, so new ways of thinking about it are encouraged.

Cheers,
r
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Engagement_%28Product%29#Outreach:_conversations_between_product_teams_and_communities



On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Sam Klein <sjkl...@hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:

> Thanks Rachel, this sounds interesting & seems of broad interest!  Perhaps
> worth announcing on some of the larger WP's too?
>
> I've always thought some of these weekly meetings would make interesting
> banners for only logged-in users; set at a low % or # of total impressions
> to match the amount of participation you'd like to see.  Depends on which
> body of users you want to reach.
>
> Warmly,
> SJ
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Rachel diCerbo <rdic...@wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I wanted to send a reminder that office hours with Wes Moran will be in
> 24
> > hours. You can participate by joining the #wikimedia-office channel on
> > freenode. The general topic is around product development, so if you have
> > questions around process or individual products, please drop by!
> >
> > Information at meta is here:
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
> > Timezone information is here:
> >
> >
> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20=00=0=10=12=2015
> >
> > Talk with you tomorrow,
> > rachel
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Rachel diCerbo <rdic...@wikimedia.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > The WMF has scheduled an office hour with Wes Moran, VP of Product, for
> > > Thursday 10 December, at 20:00 UTC. We can use the time as an informal
> > meet
> > > and greet, or ask questions about product process, strategy, and
> > planning.
> > > You can participate in #wikimedia-office on Freenode, and logs will be
> > > posted afterwards.
> > >
> > > You can find the relevant information, including your timezone, here:
> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
> > >
> > > Hope to see you there :)
> > > rachel
> > >
> > >
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Product Department Office Hour with Wes Moran, Thursday, 10 December

[Rachel diCerbo]

Hello,

I wanted to send a reminder that office hours with Wes Moran will be in 24
hours. You can participate by joining the #wikimedia-office channel on
freenode. The general topic is around product development, so if you have
questions around process or individual products, please drop by!

Information at meta is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
Timezone information is here:
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20=00=0=10=12=2015

Talk with you tomorrow,
rachel






On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Rachel diCerbo <rdic...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> The WMF has scheduled an office hour with Wes Moran, VP of Product, for
> Thursday 10 December, at 20:00 UTC. We can use the time as an informal meet
> and greet, or ask questions about product process, strategy, and planning.
> You can participate in #wikimedia-office on Freenode, and logs will be
> posted afterwards.
>
> You can find the relevant information, including your timezone, here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours
>
> Hope to see you there :)
> rachel
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Product Department Office Hour with Wes Moran, Thursday, 10 December

[Rachel diCerbo]

Hi there,

The WMF has scheduled an office hour with Wes Moran, VP of Product, for
Thursday 10 December, at 20:00 UTC. We can use the time as an informal meet
and greet, or ask questions about product process, strategy, and planning.
You can participate in #wikimedia-office on Freenode, and logs will be
posted afterwards.

You can find the relevant information, including your timezone, here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours

Hope to see you there :)
rachel


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Interesting - and helpful - blog post

[Rachel diCerbo]

Bookmarked for reading later this evening. Thank you for posting this,
Richard :)

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Joseph Fox <josephfoxw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hera is an awesome person. So happy to see her doing well!
>
> Joe
>
> On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 at 22:56 Richard Symonds <
> richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I thought it would be helpful to share with you all this blog post from a
> > key volunteer at Wikimania 2014, who has gone on to launch a domestic
> > violence charity on a shoestring budget.
> >
> > It explains how she went about it, what their workflows are, how they
> > attract and keep volunteers, how they use open licensing to make a real
> > difference in a non-open-movement group. I've already got some great new
> > ideas from it, and it has ideas that could help all of us, from the WMF
> to
> > WMIE.
> >
> > Key reading, I think, for those who have even a small group of Wikimedia
> > volunteers and no budget!
> >
> > It's at
> >
> >
> https://medium.com/@hera/running-a-fluid-and-democratic-volunteer-run-organisation-3538e12c699e
> >
> >
> > Richard Symonds
> > Wikimedia UK
> > 0207 065 0992
> >
> > Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
> > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
> > Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A
> 4LT.
> > United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
> > movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
> > operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
> >
> > *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
> > over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
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[Wikimedia-l] Follow-up on Community Liaisons' roundtable at Wikimania 2015

[Rachel diCerbo]

Greetings, and apologies for cross posting:

The community liaisons at the Wikimedia Foundation held a roundtable
discussion at Wikimania [1] in order to gather feedback around
participation in product development. The notes are now up.[2] We welcome
input from everyone, whether you were unable to join us at Wikimania, or
whether you did attend and want to further engage in conversation.

Some major themes from this session were that places to give feedback are
confusing and unclear, there is little to no understanding of
product/engineering prioritization, and there were requests to involve and
include communities more.

The goal of this roundtable was not to get a wishlist of products and
features, but to identify  problems and successes around product
development so that the WMF and communities can collaborate in better ways.
This is an ongoing conversation, and we invite your participation here [3].

Thank you so much,

Rachel


[1]
https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Do_you_feel_heard%3F_A_Community_Liaisons_Roundtable

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product)/Wikimania_2015

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Engagement_%28Product%29/Wikimania_2015

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Engineering Community

[Rachel diCerbo]

Hi all,

Regarding criteria, there is a list of objectives for VisualEditor to
achieve for this quarter in Phabricator [0], so all tasks which do not
allow reaching those objectives should be nominated as blockers, as
explained on Mediawiki [1].

In these Triage meetings, we are seeking the attention of interested
developers and technical users with the purpose of reviewing and
collaborating on completing those tasks. If this doesn’t describe you, your
feedback about VisualEditor product is welcomed on feedback on pages in
your language [2].

Tech News is intended to inform interested users about engineering projects
and written to minimize jargon. We encourage you to subscribe if you are
not [3]. The Editing Team also publishes a periodic VisualEditor newsletter
for more in-depth information about VE [4].  Both newsletters are available
in several languages.

The Triage meetings are being held at different times to accommodate as
many interested contributors as possible; the second is scheduled for Wednesday
18 February at 4pm UTC [5] (reminders will follow in the next few days).
Results of the current status of these bugs are listed in Phabricator [6],
and results of the meetings will be posted at the portal soon [5].

If you just want to spend time with the team to chat about the product and
the process, we’ll have VisualEditor office hours again soon. [7]

Community Engagement is continuously considering effective ways of
interacting with you around product development and would love your
suggestions. What kinds of communications from WMF would you like to see?

Thank you, and have a good weekend,

rachel


[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1015/

[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal#How_to_join_the_triage_meetings

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Feedback

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter

[5] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal

[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/sprint/board/1015/

[7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hours



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community engagement - Product Survey

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On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote:

 This!

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_(Product)/Product_Surveys

 Thank you to the WMF Community Engagement team for trialling this new way
 of prioritising improvements to tools - by asking the community for some
 structured feedback.
 As the page says:

 The *Product Roadmap survey* intends to offer a lightweight,
 data-informed way for communities across the entire Wikimedia movement to
 contribute ideas the Wikimedia Foundation's (WMF) product roadmap.
 The question we are currently wanting to answer is: If the communities
 were to collectively decide on a gadget or tool which could be expanded
 into an extension for use across all Wikimedia-supported projects, what
 would it be?


 I saw this today as a Watchlist notification.
 The survey has just over 20 ideas which the user is asked to rank in a
 series of paired comparisons. A simple, easy, and intuitive way to get some
 genuine feedback from the editing community about the improvements that we
 believe would be of most use to us. [it would be nice if there were more
 options to compare in this survey]

 As the FAQ section explains - this is an experimental process and not a
 promise that the 'winner' will be built - and that's perfectly fair. One
 reason I particularly like this is that I think that if the WMF would
 regularly invest in building tools that were prioritised by the so-called
 power users, that would help ease the tension that can occur when the WMF
 builds tools that focus on the needs of new editors (but which also change
 the existing-editors' workflows).

 The Page Curation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Curation system
 was a step in that direction - a genuine effort to make the work of
 new-page-patrollers easier, in recognition that tools for power-users
 help decrease their stress levels which indirectly helps to decrease the
 likelihood of good-faith newbies being unintentionally bitten. From what
 I can see, the product survey idea is a more formalised approach in that
 same general direction. So, thank you. I hope this pilot project is a
 success.

 -Liam


Thank you for your feedback, Liam! Very appreciated. Keep in mind that
anyone can submit an idea as well as the ones that are already entered (we
pre-loaded the survey, but there are certainly gadgets and tools in
existence which communities may want to see improved which we have not yet
entered). We're beginning to go through feedback that has been submitted
and are also still getting the es.wp survey off the ground. We also welcome
feedback about what works and what might not work on the discussion page
(for example, some of the character limitations allowing for feedback is
restrictive, so that is something we already know :)

cheers,
-rachel

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Nobel Peace Prize announcement and editathon

[Rachel diCerbo]

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jon Harald Søby jhs...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi, all!

 The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, and in
 cooperation with Wikimedia Norge, the Nobel Peace Center
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Center has invited Wikipedians
 from the Norwegian Wikipedia community to an editathon to improve the
 article about the winner(s?) as soon as possible. We'll be sitting
 practically in the next room from where the announcement is made, updating
 relevant articles as fast as we can.

 For this to be a global event, I'd like to invite anyone who's interested
 to join us in the IRC channel #wikipedia-nobel
 irc://freenode/#wikipedia-nobel, where we'll be talking and coordinating.
 We'll also try to livetweet the event using the hashtag #wikinobel
 https://twitter.com/hashtag/wikinobel, probably mainly from the account
 @WikimediaNorge https://twitter.com/WikimediaNorge.

 The press conference will be start around 10:30 Norwegian time, which is
 *08:30
 UTC*, like I said on *Friday, 10th of October*. Please join us, and help
 spread this invitation to your community.

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Hi Jon, thank you so much for your efforts in having Malala and Kailash
Satyarthi's pages updated. I was over the moon to see the announcements
this morning and really proud of the Norwegian Wikipedia community for
updating the pages today! I for one would love to hear about everyone's
experience being there.

(I'd also love to hear anyone's experiences about edit conflicts while
updating the pages).

I'm not sure when you were notified of the invitation, but do know that the
Foundation wants to find ways of supporting community activities like this,
so if there are any ideas on how to do that please say so.

Cheers,
Rachel

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] First Wikipedia Article has been Formally Peer Reviewed and Published

[Rachel diCerbo]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:24 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Article published by the journal Open Medicine
 http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/viewFile/562/564

 Will soon be pubmed indexed. Editorial regarding the efforts are here
 http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/view/652/565

 Hope these sorts of efforts will improve the reputation of Wikipedia and
 the number of contributors. I guess we will see.


This is wonderful news; happy to hear it :)

-rachel


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Call to Action

[Rachel diCerbo]

Hear, hear! Thank you for this intention, Damon. I'm in!

-rachel

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Damon Sicore dsic...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 wikimedia-l,

 On arrival I was asked to describe a few leadership principles and
 practices I live out.  In my response I included a statement about courage,
 honesty, and integrity [1]. These principles are not effective without
 applying them.  To succeed, one must transfer these leadership principles,
 to a vast number of people, enabling them to be more successful.

 I’ve found the best method to teach others is to demonstrate [3].

 Effective leaders demonstrate correct behavior and they demonstrate
 leadership by acting with courage, honesty, and integrity.  This is what I
 expect from myself and from those around me who share our mission.   Here’s
 a quote from Ernesto 'Che’ Guevara, a person who's ability to lead is
 unquestionable:

 'One of the great educational techniques is example.  Therefore, the chiefs
 must constantly offer the example of a pure and devoted life.  Promotion of
 the soldier should be based on valor, capacity, and a spirit of sacrifice;
 whoever does not have these qualities in high degree ought not to have
 responsible assignments, since he will cause unfortunate accidents at any
 moment.'  —Che Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare (1960) p. 90 [4].

 We are not soldiers, but we are revolutionaries.  And as revolutionaries
 supporting the Wikimedia mission we must consistently demonstrate the
 behaviors that maximize our ability to build the software required to
 fulfill our mission.  This is important because our users and contributors
 are watching us as leaders.  They are watching our demonstration.  And if
 we are to support them we must treat them with respect.   If we don't, they
 will leave.

 Che's policy when asking for help from their community was to always be
 courteous, considerate, and just.  He emphasized that food, supplies, and
 help from the community should be exchanged for fair compensation.
 Always.  He continues:

 'The conduct of the guerrilla fighter will be subject to judgment whenever
 he approaches a house to ask for something.  The inhabitants will draw
 favorable or unfavorable conclusions about the guerrilla band according to
 the manner in which any service or food or other necessity is solicited and
 the methods used to get what is wanted.  The explanation by the chief
 should be detailed about these problems,  emphasizing their importance;  he
 should also teach by example.'

 Call to action:  Let's renew our commitment to treat everyone with respect
 and dignity.  Let's lead by example by choosing our words carefully with
 only positive intentions.  Open source requires a healthy community, and
 respectful interactions are a sign of a healthy community.   I pledge to
 treat everyone with respect and use respectful and inclusive language.
 Please join me.

 While I'm normally on IRC all the time, this last week has been special as
 I'm migrating machines and devices.  Beginning this week I will have a
 client on 24-7; however, I will be online for a dedicated IRC Office Hour
 on Oct 9, 1-2pm PDT.   I would love to hear your thoughts here or in IRC.


 All my best,

 Damon
 VPE, Wikimedia Foundation

 [1]
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/2014-10
 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactic_%28method%29
 [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonstration_%28teaching%29
 [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_Warfare_%28book%29
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lsjbot+Bot Acadeny

[Rachel diCerbo]

This is wonderful news, Anders. It made me really happy to read this.
Thanks to everyone who worked to make this happen!

rachel

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Anders Wennersten m...@anderswennersten.se
 wrote:

 Lsjbot has now completed its run of generating articles for all species,
 with 310 000 on plants, making the total number generated above 1 300 000
 (source used: Catalogue of Life).  With Naskobot, having earlier generated
 some 85 000 articles on Swedish lakes and French communes etc., the total
 botgenerated articles on svwp are now 1,4 M

 The botgenerating efforts have received overwhelmingly positive feedback
 from the svwp  community, with comments like:
 *for editors it has become more stimulating writing new articles on
 related subjects. When we write of a place in Sweden we know that all
 mentioned lakes have articles, making the article better and more correct
 (no lakes mentioned are spelled incorrectly any longer). Also photo safaris
 are more fun when all lakes, even very small ones, are relevant to take
 photos of and include in articles
 *experts are more attracted participating  when they are guided to the
 stub from Google. Also we get feedback it is much easier to enter
 information on Wikipedia when the base skeleton is there already (taxobox,
 category, links in wikidata, picture, base sourceref). We see an increasing
 number of University classes in biology given he assignment to write
 (expand) articles on (not so known) species

 We are also gladdened by the hard numbers. Reader accesses show a healthy
 increase even from our already high number. And a trend of a slight
 decrease of editors has now turned into an increase.  We can not say for
 certain why and it could be temporary but we believe the botgenerated
 articles has a part of this positive development.

 Encouraged by this, we will now start what we call Bot Academy. A dozen of
 our experienced editors will, with the support from WMSE, learn more of
 running bots. First by sessions on basics, common knowledge stuff, in order
 for us to be able to use bot as a complement in our editing efforts. And
 after that we will have sessions for advanced use, taking in the learning
 from Lsjbot and Naskobot, in order to  see if also we can find areas where
 we from excellent sources can generate articles.

 For 2015 we are contemplating the following botgenerating efforts
 *lsj (sverker) will support other versions interested to run Lsjbot. He is
 now in discussion with Farsi and Arabic wp, where there are some
 interesting technical challenges related to the different alphabeticscript
 *we will scan best practices of bot generation on other versions (it, nl,
 id, vt, serbocroatia, farsi, ru etc) (it seems we have nothing to learn of
 this from the biggest seven...)
 *lsj will look into using the database used by Swedish libraries, with
 info of authors and books. Would it be feasible to generate articles on
 authors?
 *for myself I am continuing my initiative with the aim of fully integrate
 10 article of Swedish geographic entities with wikidata, in order to
 by the end to generate, if wanted,  up to 10 articles related to
 Swedish geography on 200 other versions. There is a lot needed of quality
 improvement of the articles first and also the Wikidata must get better
 before this can work, but perhaps it will be possible to get this going for
 a subset of articles in 2015 even if the full set will take some years
 longer before being ready to deploy

 Anders
 for examples, press slumpartikel (random artiicle) on
 https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Huvudsida

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[Wikimedia-l] VisualEditor Office Hours for August and September

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Hi there,

We've scheduled the August and September IRC office hours to discuss
VisualEditor, to be held on Thursday 14 August at 900 UTC and on Thursday
18 September at 1600  UTC, and we hope you'll join us. Please see
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours for time conversions and
more information.

The logs will be posted on meta after the office hour. You'll find them
along with logs for older office hours on the topic, at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:VisualEditor_office_hours_logs

Thank you for participating in this product development process. By the
way, hello: I haven't spoken much just yet, but as the new Director of
Community Engagement in Product I'm looking forward to getting to know you
and others within this community.

Cheers,
Rachel

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