Hi Houcemeddine, On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 5:50 AM, abdelwaheb turki <turkiabdelwa...@hotmail.fr> wrote: > Dear Ms., > I thank you for your answer. As a Programme Committee member of WikiIndaba > 2018 and as the author of WikiResearch in Africa: Situation and Challenges > also presented in the Research Showcase of WikiIndaba 2018, I was honoured to > receive your report.
Thanks for your presentation and following up. > I really greet the efforts of Wikimedia Foundation to raise WikiResearch in > Africa and would like to contribute in this context. We can discuss about > that if you want to. Concerning the role of Wikimedia Foundation concerning > and as I already said after your presentation, I think that the matter is the > lack of connection between LangCom and African language regulatory > institutions. Another matter can be the difficulty of reaching LangCom. In > fact, messages from communities to LangCom mailing list take days to be > processed by moderators and then published. There is also a problem of > contacting LangCom using Phabricator and Meta. Absolutely, such matters > should be fixed. [LangCom refers to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee, for those who like me had to pause a bit and think what it is. :)] I don't have much more to add at the moment on this front. One thing on my todo list is to educate myself more about this space and work within our team in the coming year(s) to see where we can make a difference. Best, Leila > Yours Sincerely, > Houcemeddine Turki > ________________________________ > De : Wiki-research-l <wiki-research-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org> de la part > de wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > <wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org> > Envoyé : vendredi 23 mars 2018 13:00 > À : wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Objet : Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 151, Issue 11 > > Send Wiki-research-l mailing list submissions to > wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wiki-research-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wiki-research-l-ow...@lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wiki-research-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial] (Leila Zia) > 2. Re: trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial] (Gerard Meijssen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:41:46 -0700 > From: Leila Zia <le...@wikimedia.org> > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial] > Message-ID: > <cak0oe2ufs6q33y6thygua4p3r6mejnxzybraonxsimuew7o...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi all, > > Here is the report of the one session I attended in Wiki Indaba over the > past weekend: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)/Trip_reports#Wiki_Indaba_2018 > > Best, > Leila > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 08:13:31 +0100 > From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] trip report: Wiki Indaba 2018 [partial] > Message-ID: > <CAO53wxVaE3DPkbbQfeUo1XH1HJETzAzJrzXt=tn_smtcvlj...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hoi, > I have read your comments on the WIki Indaba. Sad to hear that you could > not make it. > > As a movement it is not our task to serve the "2000" languages that you > mention. It is our task to serve the languages that we support in our > existing Wikipedias. The difference is significant. When people aim to help > themselves, their culture, their language by investing their efforts in a > Wikipedia, we have a process that recognises this and that leads to the > start of a Wikipedia. Thanks to the Incubator, translatewiki.net we provide > a native interface in all our languages. There are strong arguments why we > should invest more in other languages like the top 25 languages minus > English and in the other languages. The easiest argument is that English is > less than 50% of our traffic. > > Where you talk about subjects that people are likely to read, there are > many predictive models possible. The big issue in current approaches is > that they start with what we know from projects particularly the English > Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia is biased and consequently many subjects > that may be of a higher relevance in other languages or cultures will not > be suggested when English Wikipedia and its traffic is the yard stone to > measure by. Often there is more and better information in other Wikipedias. > Arguably thanks to Wikidata it becomes easier to find a more composite view > of the subjects people may be interested in. > > Anyway, thank you for reporting on your virtual presence; you made a > difference in this way. > Thanks, > GerardM > > > On 23 March 2018 at 00:41, Leila Zia <le...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Here is the report of the one session I attended in Wiki Indaba over the >> past weekend: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)/Trip_ >> reports#Wiki_Indaba_2018 >> >> Best, >> Leila >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Wiki-research-l Digest, Vol 151, Issue 11 > ************************************************ > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
