[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund

2022-09-26 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, Please raise awareness about the Wikimedia Research Fund if you know researchers who are interested to conduct research on the Wikimedia projects and can benefit from financial support. More details in the email below. Best, Leila -- Forwarded message - From: Leila Zia

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-12 Thread Leila Zia
e read it, that's why I'm confused. > ____ > From: Leila Zia > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 9:40 PM > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Cc: wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org > ; Discussion list for the Wikidata > project. > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-10 Thread Leila Zia
ons we can consider doing. :) On my end: I have a todo to come back to you all. Best, Leila > Cheers, > > Galder > > > From: Leila Zia > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 8:04 PM > To: wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org > Cc: Wikimedia Maili

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wiki-research-l] Re: The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-10 Thread Leila Zia
e to do. Thanks, Leila On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 5:42 AM Andy Mabbett wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 at 19:48, Leila Zia wrote: > > > =Eligibility criteria= > > > * The publication must be available in English. > > I echo others' concerns about this. > > I&#x

[Wikimedia-l] The Wikimedia Foundation Research Award of the Year - Call for Nominations

2022-01-07 Thread Leila Zia
contact us at wmf-ray-2...@easychair.org or here. Best, Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington) Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation) ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mai

[Wikimedia-l] Apply for or raise awareness about the Wikimedia Research Fund

2021-12-01 Thread Leila Zia
, meta [2], here, or in one of our upcoming office hours [3]! :) Best, the Research Fund committee chairs Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington) Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation) [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Technology_Fund#Wikimedia_Resear

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikidata] Re: Re: Toolhub 1.0 is launched! Discover software tools used at Wikimedia

2021-10-15 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Bodhisattwa, See below. On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 1:41 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal wrote: > > Also, is there any way to add info on existing tools? I learned from Bryan yesterday that this is possible via toolsadmin (Bryan helped with one of our tools yesterday via https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects

2021-02-17 Thread Leila Zia
imedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Guiding_Principles#Freedom_and_open_source [2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.00474.pdf [3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10403 -- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 12:30 PM Gregory Varnum wrote: > > Hello, > > Thank you for discu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Final report on the Techstorm 2019

2021-02-08 Thread Leila Zia
o the impact of the work. Thank you for keeping up and organizing this event. If there is something I can do to support you, please reach out. Best, Leila [1] https://wikiworkshop.org/ -- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 7:56 AM Ciell Wikipedia wrote: &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [feedback requested] Taxonomy of knowledge gaps

2020-09-29 Thread Leila Zia
you don't mind if we continue the conversation with Sam on the meta page now that the content is in both places. I see you've started asking questions from SJ there. Thanks all! Leila Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 11:18 AM Peter Southwood wrote

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [feedback requested] Taxonomy of knowledge gaps

2020-09-25 Thread Leila Zia
too. This answer is complete. I'm sending it your way just so you know we will think more, your thoughts are welcome, and we will add this to the final taxonomy documentation. Thanks, Leila On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 1:46 PM Leila Zia wrote: > > Hi SJ, > > Please see below. > &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [feedback requested] Taxonomy of knowledge gaps

2020-09-17 Thread Leila Zia
n Gerlach, Research Scientist, WMF Isaac Johnson, Research Scientist, WMF Miriam Redi, Senior Research Scientist, WMF Leila Zia, Head of Research, WMF On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 3:47 PM Leila Zia wrote: > > Hi all, > > I hope this email finds you well. > > I'm reaching out to let

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [feedback requested] Taxonomy of knowledge gaps

2020-09-15 Thread Leila Zia
own. > > 🌍🌏🌎🌑 > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 6:48 PM Leila Zia wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I hope this email finds you well. > > > > I'm reaching out to let you know that the Research team [1] at the > > Wikimedia Foundation has been

[Wikimedia-l] [feedback requested] Taxonomy of knowledge gaps

2020-09-10 Thread Leila Zia
what you read is not clear to you. We're here to engage and answer your questions, and ultimately learn about your perspective. Thank you! Leila, on behalf of Martin Gerlach, Research Scientist, WMF Isaac Johnson, Research Scientist, WMF Miriam Redi, Senior Research Scientist, WMF Leila Zi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Analytics] Upcoming WMF/Research-Team Office hours on September 1st, 2020

2020-09-01 Thread Leila Zia
A friendly reminder that we will kick off this meeting in a couple of minutes. Join us if you want to talk about research. :) On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 10:13 AM Martin Gerlach wrote: > > Hi all, > > Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly > Office hours on 2020-09-

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paid API?

2020-07-23 Thread Leila Zia
can't think about one project or one team only. They need to take into account the portfolio of projects and needs the WMF has and figure out where to invest. You and I may or may not agree with their decisions, however, I'd caution us from assuming that this is the kind of problem that we can

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Netha wins 2020 RedHat Women in Open Source Award!

2020-04-29 Thread Leila Zia
Netha, this is an excellent news. Congratulations! :) On Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 11:39 Camelia Boban wrote: > Congratulations Netha, we are so proud of you ❤️. > > Camelia > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 6:48 PM Isaac Olatunde > wrote: > > > Congratulations to Netha. This ward is inspiring. > > > > Regard

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Recommendations and community conversations launching next week

2020-01-18 Thread Leila Zia
[writing at my personal capacity.] Hi Pine, On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 8:20 PM Pine W wrote: > > * I realize that a lot of time and money has been spent in the strategy > process to this point. I hope that there will be consensus on at least some > of the recommendations. True consensus based deci

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Office hours for WMF/Research&Analytics starting in January 2020

2020-01-17 Thread Leila Zia
, Leila -- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 9:59 AM Martin Gerlach wrote: > > Hi all, > > We, the Research team at Wikimedia Foundation, have received some requests > over the past months for making ourselves more available to answer some of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Welcome back, Turkey

2020-01-16 Thread Leila Zia
nk you for all the work you did during this time. :) Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 10:25 AM Rupika Sharma wrote: > > Thank for sharing the wonderful news Amanda! Welcome back Turkey!! > > Warmly, > Rupika > > On Thu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Research Showcase - Feedback time

2019-11-15 Thread Leila Zia
s/d/e/1FAIpQLSecgn8cMu5IfTYRgn93bfOiJVEIL09RRf_WV0dVr6ZnJ8UU_w/viewform Thanks to those of you who have participated so far. Thanks, Leila On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 12:46 PM Leila Zia wrote: > > Hi all, > > Wikimedia Research Showcase [1] is almost six years old and we're > using the birthday opportunity to step back and reflect

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Research Showcase - Feedback time

2019-11-08 Thread Leila Zia
king as we move forward. Please submit your responses by 2019-11-22. Sincerely, Jonathan Morgan and Leila Zia Research, Wikimedia Foundation [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase [2] If you want to participate but not through Google Forms, ping me off-list and I'll send yo

[Wikimedia-l] Where are the editors of your projects?

2019-11-08 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, The Analytics team at the Wikimedia Foundation [0] has recently started releasing monthly data that gives you some information about the count of active editors [1] per country contributing to the different Wikipedia language editions. You can review the full announcement [2] and play with

Re: [Wikimedia-l] "The Foundation does not care so much of the French-speaking contributors"

2019-09-16 Thread Leila Zia
een addressed by the above. I don't know. I'm just explaining one of the reasons this may have happened, and providing a suggestion to address this specific reason. Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Principal Research Scientist, Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Join us tomorrow for the FINAL Wikimedia Monthly Activities Meeting

2019-08-29 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Pine, On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:47 PM Pine W wrote: > From what I have seen, I think that Wikimedia Space may be good for some > use cases, but it's not a substitute for Meta and for many existing public > communications channels. One use case for Space that does make sense to me > is that p

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: Draft recommendations are here!

2019-08-14 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Paulo, On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 6:38 PM Paulo Santos Perneta wrote: > > If they don't have legal resources, then it is pointless to use NC ND for > the content, as they will not be suing anyone that ignores the license and > commercializes it anyway. In practice, this can happen. Two points to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Research + Chapters, User Groups, Affiliates at Wikimania

2019-08-08 Thread Leila Zia
etups/Research_chapters_affiliates_usergroups_meetup and I will update the room information once I have it secured. :) I am behind on finalizing the agenda based on your responses to the survey. You will see the finalized one by August 12. Thanks, Leila On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 6:07 PM Leila Zia wrote: > > Hi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing our newest thematic organisation, Wikimedia Medicine

2019-08-01 Thread Leila Zia
[with my volunteer hat on.] I am really excited to hear about this news. Thanks for sharing it with us, and congratulations to all of you involved. :) Leila On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 11:27 AM Toni Hermoso Pulido wrote: > As a member and current Chairperson of the first thematic organization, > b

[Wikimedia-l] Research + Chapters, User Groups, Affiliates at Wikimania

2019-07-30 Thread Leila Zia
od outcome of the meet-up for you if you choose to attend it? Question 4. If you have specific times and days that you cannot attend the meet-up, please indicate them below. Question 5. Anything else you'd like to share with us and we should take into account when planning for this

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-06-28 Thread Leila Zia
An update on this thread: * We have launched the survey on 2019-06-26 in 15 languages and we intend to stop the surveys 7 days after launch time. The current flow of responses is as expected. * The participating languages are: ar, de, en (sampling from all countries), en (sampling from countries

[Wikimedia-l] Copyright workflows - research (Was: Re: Foundation management of volunteers)

2019-06-17 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Benjamin, My name is Leila and I'm in the Research team in Wikimedia Foundation. Please see below. On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 12:59 AM Benjamin Lees wrote: > > The community has been working on copyright violation issues for a long > time.[2] There are probably ways the WMF could support improv

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] March 20 at 11:30 AM PST, 18:30 UTC

2019-03-18 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, The next Research Showcase, “Learning How to Correct a Knowledge Base from the Edit History” and “TableNet: An Approach for Determining Fine-grained Relations for Wikipedia Tables” will be live-streamed this Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at 11:30 AM PST/18:30 UTC (Please note the change in ti

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-12 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Gerard, On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 2:26 PM Gerard Meijssen wrote: > but really > why can we not have the data that allows us to seek out what people are > actually looking for and do not find.. Please open a Phabricator task for this request at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org . Please add Rese

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-12 Thread Leila Zia
tion from that country based on external databases available. If not, we can try to correct for the differences, or at least be aware of the caveats. Best, Leila [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:QuickSurveys > Kind regards > > > On 06/03/2019 22:12, Leila Zia wrote: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-11 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, This is a very interesting discussion. I'm going to fork this thread in the next 2 hours (unless one of you do this in the meantime) for us to continue the conversation around using search as a signal for improving Wikipedia in there. It would be best, for current and future readability, t

[Wikimedia-l] How diverse are your readers?

2019-03-06 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, As I mentioned in an earlier thread [1], we will be running reader surveys across a number of Wikipedia languages to learn about the reader needs and motivations in these languages as well as some of their demographic information (and perhaps the correlations between demographics and user

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Analytics] Farewell, Erik!

2019-02-06 Thread Leila Zia
Erik, It's been an incredible honor to work with you as a colleague and a volunteer. Thank you for the stats and all the conversations about categories, topics, languages, ..., but even more so for showing me the path and the purpose, time after time. I will dearly miss you in Wikimedia Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2019-02-06 Thread Leila Zia
7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Demographics_and_Wikipedia_use_cases On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 5:43 PM Leila Zia wrote: > > Hi all, > > Update time. > > Thank you all for your patience and support as we went through the > different stages of the analysis for this study.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

2018-11-15 Thread Leila Zia
d to (continue to) include images as we create the abstractions, but also because one can potentially think of images as representations that are already abstract. Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist, Lead Wikimedia Foundation On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 10:13 AM Dariusz Jemielniak wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal regarding norms for meeting/deadline announcements

2018-10-23 Thread Leila Zia
ces and conversations. I would love to learn how we can change this and if one or more of you are up for helping prepare a survey to run on the list to learn more, please let me know. (This will be with my volunteer hat on. and I want to clarify that this needs to be coordinated with the list moder

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2018-09-10 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, Update time. Thank you all for your patience and support as we went through the different stages of the analysis for this study. We have now concluded the study based on the survey of the 14 Wikipedia languages [1]. Here is what will happen next: * We are doing some relatively major docu

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to the Wikimedia Foundation May 2018 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, May 31, 18:00 UTC

2018-05-25 Thread Leila Zia
bE Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist, Lead Wikimedia Foundation >> On May 24, 2018, at 6:15 PM, Lena Traer wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take >> place on Thursday, May 31, 2018

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2018-03-18 Thread Leila Zia
n Koophandel 17189036 > http://www.wikimedia.nl/ > > 2018-03-15 17:45 GMT+01:00 Leila Zia : > > > Hi all, > > > > We are ready to share the result of the first part of the study for > > the 14 languages that participated in the survey with you. To recap: > > t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2018-03-15 Thread Leila Zia
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > ‪“We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ > > 2017-06-21 9:57 GMT+03:00 Leila Zia : > >> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Amir E. Aharoni >> wrote: >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] RFC on wikimedia-l posting limits

2018-02-18 Thread Leila Zia
[writing at personal capacity.] On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 2:55 PM, Joseph Seddon wrote: > The question is, does it need a successor? > Whether mailing list is a good option for the kind of discussions we have in wikimedia-l is not clear to me, however, the list is serving some purposes and we nee

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

2017-12-02 Thread Leila Zia
> > First, thank you for your clear analyze and suggestions. > > I won't respond extensively on list about this thread anymore for now. > > So to your reply, I will just make a single point more clear, and take the > rest in consideration off list. > > Le 01/12/2017 à 22:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikidata] An answer to Lydia Pintscher regarding its considerations on Wikidata and CC-0

2017-12-01 Thread Leila Zia
[I'm writing in my personal capacity.] Hi Mathieu, On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 2:45 AM, mathieu stumpf guntz < psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote: > > > Le 01/12/2017 à 09:34, Markus Kroetzsch a écrit : > > Dear Mathieu, > > You are in an impossible position. Either you want to be an objective > re

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014–16 audit of the WMF communications strategy

2017-07-06 Thread Leila Zia
Leila > "Rogol" > > On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Leila Zia wrote: > > > Hi Andreas, > > > > On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 3:59 AM, Andreas Kolbe > wrote: > > > > > I found some of the audit's recommendations troubling, and have > >

Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2014–16 audit of the WMF communications strategy

2017-07-06 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Andreas, On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 3:59 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > I found some of the audit's recommendations troubling, and have summarised > my concerns on the related talk page on Meta.[3] > ​I would love to find some time to go over the audit (67 pages) and your comments/thoughts and share

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-06-20 Thread Leila Zia
ous: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Reader_Behaviour/Robustness_across_languages#Participating_languages Best, Leila > > בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia" כתב: > > > Hi all, > > > > ==Background== > > In November 2016, I presented the result of

[Wikimedia-l] Videos of sessions at Vienna Hackathon and WikiCite

2017-05-24 Thread Leila Zia
happened there. Sharing the links here in case some of you are interested to watch them as well. Thanks, Andrew! :) Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite_2017

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-25 Thread Leila Zia
anks to all the volunteers who stepped up to make it happen in their languages, our collaborators in EPFL, GESIS, and Stanford, and the Reading team. :) Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Leila Zia wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-22 Thread Leila Zia
On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 6:06 AM, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > Is there anything that interested volunteers can start translating now? :) For some languages, I can confirm in the next 12 hours if we can run the surveys in, in which case I'll ping the point of contact (which is at the moment, the pers

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-21 Thread Leila Zia
Or did I miss the instructions in the first email? :) >> >> בתאריך 21 באפר׳ 2017 19:46,‏ "Leila Zia" כתב: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > ==Background== >> > In November 2016, I presented the result of a joint research that >> > help

[Wikimedia-l] Why We Read Wikipedia in your language

2017-04-21 Thread Leila Zia
small to be able to guarantee that on our own for many languages.) Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality assurance of articles

2017-04-17 Thread Leila Zia
> > > > On 17 April 2017 at 18:40, Leila Zia wrote: > > > Hoi Gerard, > > > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Gerard Meijssen < > > gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > When you analyse articles and fin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality assurance of articles

2017-04-17 Thread Leila Zia
, Leila > Thanks, > Gerard > > On 17 April 2017 at 02:04, Leila Zia wrote: > > > Hi John, > > > > This may be of interest to you: > > > > We are working on building recommendation systems than can help editors > > identify how to expand alre

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality assurance of articles

2017-04-17 Thread Leila Zia
commendations work, too. I hope this helps. Best, Leila > > Den man. 17. apr. 2017, 02.04 skrev Leila Zia : > > > Hi John, > > > > This may be of interest to you: > > > > We are working on building recommendation systems than can help editors > > id

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality assurance of articles

2017-04-16 Thread Leila Zia
, infobox information, etc. This is research in its early days, if you'd like to follow up with it please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Expanding_Wikipedia_stubs_across_languages Best, Leila Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 2:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Using non-free elements vs our values (Apple Maps vs Wikipedia iOS app)

2017-03-21 Thread Leila Zia
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Dan Garry wrote: > > Sadly, as is typical with this mailing list, we've now delved into a world > of hypotheticals, idealisms, and misrepresentations. It would not be a > productive use of time (and, indeed, donor money) for me to participate > further in this th

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Status of the Code of Conduct for technical spaces

2017-03-19 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, This thread is diverging more and more away from its original subject. Please open a new thread if you're interested in discussing items not directly related to Quim's email re CoC. This can help the audience of this list with discovery of relevant content and discussions later on. Thanks

Re: [Wikimedia-l] March 2: Update on Wikimedia movement strategy process (#9)

2017-03-07 Thread Leila Zia
or in the corresponding meta pages. Let's try to keep this thread focused on the items that are relevant to the original email and refrain from branching to other topics. This, among other things, can help the audience of this list with discoverability of relevant content and discussions later on. Thank

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More politics: "WMF Annual Report"

2017-03-02 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Gerard, On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Facts, sources do not take sides. When Wikipedia has to write articles > differently to accomodate alternative facts we have a serious problem. > It's not as clear cut as you say it here. :) A couple of things to share:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

2017-02-26 Thread Leila Zia
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > Leila Zia wrote: > > > […] > > > On a separate note to those of you who contribute to technical spaces and > > are not happy about how some aspects have gone: > > > Matthew and a few other people ha

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

2017-02-25 Thread Leila Zia
all of us who contribute in technical spaces, we should remember: We may not agree with every step they take, but we all owe it to them to help them on this path. What they are doing is a good thing and that's something that sometimes gets lost in these lengthy conversations. Best, Leila

[Wikimedia-l] Research on ways to reduce minority/gender gap in Wikipedia

2017-01-25 Thread Leila Zia
volunteer projects respond to interventions with the aim of reducing gender gap, for example. So, if your project is not Wikipedia, you're still welcome to get in touch with me. [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Voice_and_exit_in_a_voluntary_work_environment -- Leila Zia Senior Res

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Research Showcase, November 16, 2016

2016-11-16 Thread Leila Zia
Hi all, A reminder that this is happening in 2 hours from now. Best, Leila On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Leila Zia wrote: > [Apologies for cross-posting] > > Hi everyone, > > Almost a year ago, we [1] embarked on a research project to understand who > Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] storing IP addresses and their geolocations?

2016-11-10 Thread Leila Zia
​Hi James,​ On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 9:23 AM, James Salsman wrote: > > I repeat my request that the IP and proxy information be anonymized > with a secure cryptographic has before being stored to nonvolatile > media, When you're ready to suggest a change, can you suggest this on that same threa

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Research Showcase, November 16, 2016

2016-11-09 Thread Leila Zia
as I have other > duties in the evening. > Kind regards > Ziko > > 2016-11-09 23:29 GMT+01:00 Leila Zia : > > > [Apologies for cross-posting] > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Almost a year ago, we [1] embarked on a research project to understand > who >

[Wikimedia-l] Upcoming Research Showcase, November 16, 2016

2016-11-09 Thread Leila Zia
27;t make it, please feel free to watch the video later and get in touch with us with questions/comments. :) Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation ​[1] WMF Research and researchers from three academic institutions: EPFL, GESIS, and Stanford University, in colla

Re: [Wikimedia-l] DEITYBOUNCE and reader logs (was Re: Introducing Victoria Coleman, WMF Chief Technology Officer)

2016-11-07 Thread Leila Zia
this if you have specifics and share the link here. I've talked to Research (my team), Security, and Analytics, and we are not aware of any reader logs being shipped out of the WMF servers.​ ​Best, Leila​ -- ​​Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation ​

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: A conversation?

2016-03-10 Thread Leila Zia
on that you cannot improve things between the two of you, but you will have extra information that you will feel burdened to share with others. I hope you think about what you did here, and you decide to take a different course of action in the future. Best, Leila -- ​​Leila Zia Research Scientist

Re: [Wikimedia-l] I am going to San Francisco

2016-02-29 Thread Leila Zia
I discussed with both James and Jimmy the choice of the word "unanimous". I'm satisfied with their responses. The BoT had a straw poll to make a decision about the leadership in November and the result of that poll may or may not have been unanimous (I'm fine with it being a straw poll at that poin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Anybody alive?

2016-02-24 Thread Leila Zia
I'm still free and alive. :) On Feb 24, 2016 9:40 AM, "Milos Rancic" wrote: > 8 (eight) hours have passed without any email. Am I the last > Wikimedian not abducted by aliens? > > -- > Milos > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://m

Re: [Wikimedia-l] An Open Letter to Wikimedia Foundation BoT

2016-02-18 Thread Leila Zia
ou: I assume good faith in what you say and please reach out if I can be of help. Ido, Ori, thank you for your emails. They help us be stronger, and move in the right direction. Leila Leila Zia Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Can we see the Knight grant application and grant offer?

2016-02-15 Thread Leila Zia
ned Siko. Only by hearing all sides of the story you can get close to a true understanding of the problem. (I acknowledge that this will be a very time consuming approach for everyone involved, but if you want to know the truth, there is no other way.) ​ Leila -- Leila Zia Research Scientist

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Elsevier?

2016-02-15 Thread Leila Zia
is ecosystem, such as the OA movement. Leila -- ​​Leila Zia Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation ​ > > Aubrey > > > > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:16 AM, David Goodman wrote: > > > We have the purpose of providing free access to information, informatio

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Something fun to share - Jimmy jokes about his "stare" fundraising photo

2015-12-01 Thread Leila Zia
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Gregory Varnum wrote: > Greetings, > > I have chatted with a number of folks over the years about ways to help > promote the annual fundraising appeal - but in ways that did not feel so > serious that it was out of our character to post on social media. > > Good ne

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

2015-11-24 Thread Leila Zia
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:37 PM, Gnangarra wrote: > > > 5.People need to able to trust all data in WikiData, otherwise they just > > wont use it because as Wikidata expands the same PR firms, interest > groups > > which have seen so many o

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quality issues

2015-11-23 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Andreas, On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 1:15 PM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > Moreover, I was somewhat surprised to learn the other day that, apparently, > over 80 percent of Wikidata statements are either unreferenced or only > referenced to a Wikipedia: > > > https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=D

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Superprotect is gone

2015-11-05 Thread Leila Zia
great news, indeed! Thanks to everyone involved during the different stages of this process for making this happen. :-) Leila On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > \o/ > >A. > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Dan Garry wrote: > > > On 5 November 2015 at 10:14, Laurentius

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Next step in the development

2015-10-29 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Risker, On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Risker wrote: > We do not expect anyone to add information to any other > project when they create content on the project of their choice. I'm thinking the Insert Media option in VE: there, we are giving the editor the option to upload Media to the a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Good news for Wikimedians in San Francisco!

2015-10-26 Thread Leila Zia
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 4:09 PM, James Alexander wrote: > This is spectacular news Romaine! Thank you for finding it! > +1. Roan Kattouw, our official supplier, can finally have a relief. ;-) Before that, we need a true Dutch person to approve Stroopie's originality though. Leila > > BCCing t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Princess of Asturias prize streaming now

2015-10-23 Thread Leila Zia
congratulations, everyone, for the amazing work you've done for bringing Wikipedia where it is today! It's amazing to take a moment and look back on all what's achieved! :-) On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Jane Darnell wrote: > Wow thanks for the link - but wait, bagpipes? > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

2015-10-10 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Lodewijk, On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Lodewijk wrote: > > I'm a little confused though, so I hope you (or someone else) can clarify > something for me: what does a campaign look like these days? Because I'm > seeing banners all year round (I live in the Netherlands, maybe that makes > a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

2015-10-10 Thread Leila Zia
e work we did was > > > valuable). > > > > > > I recently heard from a high-ranking executive at a software company. > She > > > told me that she had given money to the Wikimedia Foundation, and then > > > looked into the WMF's budget, and the mess

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Q1 Fundraising Update

2015-10-09 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Megan, Thank you for the update and all the hard work the team has done during Q1. My comments below. On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Megan Hernandez wrote: > The team has used this first quarter to test a wide variety of brand new > banners. From images, to banners highlighting photos from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia websites is not accessible almost everywhere in Iran

2015-09-30 Thread Leila Zia
Hi Amir, On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Amir Ladsgroup wrote: > It had started with Wikimedia Commons and then upload.wikimedia.org (so no > images) and now Persian Wikinews What error do you get when you try to upload a picture? If you share couple of screen-shots, those can help, too. Re