http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/408 <pre>From the editor: New editor-in-chief http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-21/From_the_editor News and notes: Two new Wikimedia fellows to boost strategies for tackling major issues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-21/News_and_notes WikiProject report: Trouble in a Galaxy Far, Far Away.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-21/WikiProject_report Featured content: Lemurbaby moves it with Madagascar: Featured content for the week http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-21/Featured_content Arbitration report: No open arbitration cases pending http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-21/Arbitration_report Technology report: On the indestructibility of Wikimedia content http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-21/Technology_report Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wik</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2012-05-22T02:01:52 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/407 <pre>Hi everyone, I am pleased to announce that Tilman Bayer has officially joined the Wikimedia Foundation's Global Development team as Senior Operations Analyst focused on movement communications starting this week. He has just relocated to SF after receiving his work visa. As most of you will be aware, Tilman has been working in the communications team focusing on movement communications since last July, as a remote contractor based in Germany. He has been instrumental in the enhancement to our monthly reporting, continued improvement to our blogging and the development of our last annual report among other things. Tilman and Dario Taraborelli co-founded and continues to edit the monthly Wikimedia research newsletter. In particular, I'd like to highlight his work to get our reports translated, so that they are more accessible for the whole community. In his new role as a staff member, Tilman will continue to work closely with the communications team in support of the whole foundation team, e.g. working on </pre> Barry Newstead (WMF 2012-05-18T23:10:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/406 <pre>The following translation are now available for the April 2012 "Wikimedia Highlights", which combine some of the most relevant information from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for April with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement. Help is welcome in spreading the translated versions among the project communities for these languages, where this has not already been done. Many thanks to all translators! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2012/ar مقتطفات من تقرير مؤسسة ويكيميديا و اتقرير لقسم التقني في ويكيميديا لشهر أبريل 2012، ومختارات من أحداث هامة من حركة ويكيميديا https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2012/ja 2012年4月のウィキメディア財団報告書及びウィキメディア技報の抄録ほかウィキメディア運動の重要行事について https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim</pre> Tilman Bayer 2012-05-17T20:15:45 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/402 <pre>It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang. Tanvir Rahman is a Wikimedian who serves the movement locally and globally, both on- and off-wiki. Tanvir has been an active editor of Bengali Wikipedia since 2009, he holds administrator rights on multiple projects and he was elected a steward in 2011. He also volunteers on the Small Wiki Monitoring Team, the Countervandalism Network, as an OTRS agent, and is a translator for translatewiki. Tanvir helped found Wikimedia Bangladesh and organizes local outreach activities to raise awareness for Wikimedia and bring new editors to the projects. In his fellowship project, Tanvir will be experimenting with on-wiki strategies to encourage and grow the editing community on small language versions of Wikipedia, with specific focus on the Bengali Wikipedia. Smaller projects have different needs and challenges than the large language communities and may require different approaches to enga</pre> Siko Bouterse 2012-05-17T15:32:15 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/401 <pre>Special report: Wikimedia and the "seismic shift" towards open-access research publication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-14/Special_report News and notes: Finance debate drags on as editor survey finds Wikipedia too bureaucratic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-14/News_and_notes WikiProject report: Welcome to Wikipedia with a cup of tea and all your questions answered - at the Teahouse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-14/WikiProject_report Featured content: Featured content is red hot this week http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-14/Featured_content Arbitration report: R&amp;I Review closed, Rich Farmbrough near closure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-14/Arbitration_report Technology report: Cross-wiki watchlist controversy; and is "go file a bug" really a useful response? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-14/Tec</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2012-05-14T21:59:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/400 <pre>Hello, Here the reports for the national Wikimedia organization of the Netherlands, March and April, together. See the links at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports#Wikimedia_Nederland The most important event is the hiring of the first director of our organization, Sandra Rientjes. Her work started on May, 1st. Kind regards Ziko van Dijk president This is the chapter report for Wikimedia Nederland for March 2012. Cultural heritage Wiki Loves Monuments - NL is starting off again. Volunteers are being recruited, and a meeting was organized with the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. Conferences etc. On March 24th a general assembly took place. Three of the seven board members were reelected, four people joined the board. Ziko and Paul participated in the Chapters Meeting in Berlin on 30 March - 1 April. Ziko also attended the Movement Roles meeting on 29 March and was involved in the preparing of a charter for the Wikimedia Chapters Association. Press and outreach</pre> Ziko van Dijk 2012-05-12T22:18:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/399 <pre>Hi all, please find below the WMF report for April 2012, in plain text. As always, the editable and formatted version is on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Report,_April_2012 and the reports are posted on the Wikimedia blog, too: https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/corporate/wmf-monthly-reports/ As usual, we are also publishing a separate "Highlights" summary. Please consider helping non-English-language communities to stay updated, by providing a translation: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_April_2012 Many thanks to those who translated last month's "Highlights" into Arabic, Danish, French, Italian, Macedonian, Dutch, Russian and (partially) Japanese. While still focussing on WMF activities, the "Highlights" include a small selection of the most noteworthy events from the whole movement. Suggestions for the upcoming May issue are welcome at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Highlights (until June 7). Many thanks to those who suggested items for the</pre> Tilman Bayer 2012-05-09T05:59:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/398 <pre>I have the great pleasure to announce that Wikimedia Sverige is hiring an Event manager for the Europeana Awareness project. The project, which is one of the biggest in the chapters history, is founded by the EU and is depending on competent people to carry it through. John Andersson, who is a long time Wikipedian (User:Jopparn) and is studying for a Master of Science in European Studies, will work full time from June 11 to 2013-12-31. John has good experience of the community and its policies and with his internship at the European parliament he also has a useful insight in the EU structure. </pre> Jan Ainali 2012-05-08T20:25:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/397 <pre>Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Communicator: Phil Gomes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-07/Paid_editing News and notes: Hong Kong to host Wikimania 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-07/News_and_notes In the news: What does Wikipedia call an expert; and untruths in biographies ... again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-07/In_the_news WikiProject report: Say What?: WikiProject Languages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-07/WikiProject_report Featured content: This week at featured content: How much wood would a Wood Duck chuck if a Wood Duck could chuck wood? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-07/Featured_content Arbitration report: Proposed decision in Rich Farmbrough, two open cases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-05-07/Arbitration_report Technology report: Search gets faster, GSoC gets more detai</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2012-05-07T23:47:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/395 <pre>I am very happy to announce that Wikimedia Sverige has hired a Project manager for GLAM and outreach projects. These are a huge part of our program plan for the year and the role is essential for us to make all the fantastic stuff we hav planned come true. Axel Pettersson (User:Haxpett), who has been the press contact for the Swedish Wikipedia and also on the board of Wikimedia Sverige will work full time from Monday. Axel, who has studied computer science and leaves the role as a project manager for radio networks, has for some time already been doing volunteer work in the GLAM sector for the chapter. Please join me in extending a warm welcome to him! </pre> Jan Ainali 2012-05-03T10:33:32 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/394 <pre>Dear all, Wikimedia Deutschland's monthly report for April 2012 comes to you with greetings from Germany's most important web conference. There is no en.wp article about the "re:publica" (yet), so I'll link you to the German article[1]. The re:publica 2012 takes place in Berlin, May 2-4. 270 speakers from more than 30 countries will address an audience of 4,000 bloggers, politicians and media people. Wikimedia Deutschland is taking our core goals to this years re:publica. In a dozen sessions at our own event booth we tell people about free knowledge, free licenses, why Wikipedia needs more (female) editors, and many more topics from participation to usability and quality. Among other things, Wikidata is of course one of the most prolific subjects regarding media coverage. A Wikimedia recap of the event will certainly be part our next monthly report. For now rest assured that the April report[2][3] holds its own ;-) Go to Meta and learn about why we're posting a Wikipedian in Residence job description and </pre> Michael Jahn 2012-05-02T20:57:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/393 <pre>*This Month in GLAM* is a monthly newsletter documenting recent happenings within the GLAM project, such as content donations, residencies, events and more. GLAM is an acronym of *G*alleries, *L*ibraries, *A*rchvies and *M*useums. You can find more information on the project at glamwiki.org. *This Month in GLAM – Issue IV, Volume II – April 2012* ------------------------------ USA report: Wikimedia presence at American Association of Museums; Oregon Historical County Records mass upload; brief news http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2012/Contents/USA_report UK report: MonmouthpediA project; first QRpedia railway station http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2012/Contents/UK_report Spain report: Augmented Reality; emerging artists internship; workshop for museum professionals http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/April_2012/Contents/Spain_report France report: Release of content and outreach http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Apri</pre> The 'This Month in GLAM' team 2012-05-02T19:17:50 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/392 <pre>Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Consultant: Pete Forsyth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/Paid_editing News and notes: Showdown as featured article writer openly solicits commercial opportunities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/News_and_notes Recent research: Barnstars work; Wiktionary assessed; cleanup tags counted; finding expert admins; discussion peaks; Wikipedia citations in academic publications; and more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/Recent_research Discussion report: 'ReferenceTooltips' by default http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/Discussion_report WikiProject report: The Cartographers of WikiProject Maps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/WikiProject_report Featured content: Featured content spreads its wings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/Featured_content Arbitration repo</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2012-05-02T02:27:48 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/391 <pre>Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Consultant: Pete Forsyth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/Paid_editing News and notes: Showdown as featured article writer openly solicits commercial opportunities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/News_and_notes Recent research: Barnstars work; Wiktionary assessed; cleanup tags counted; finding expert admins; discussion peaks; Wikipedia citations in academic publications; and more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/Recent_research Discussion report: 'ReferenceTooltips' by default http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/Discussion_report WikiProject report: The Cartographers of WikiProject Maps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/WikiProject_report Featured content: Featured content spreads its wings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-30/Featured_content Arbitration repo</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2012-05-01T03:52:28 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/390 <pre>It is my great pleasure to announce a new program being launched in the Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Development department and a new member of the team: Haitham Shamma has been engaged as program consultant for the Editor Growth and Contribution Program.  Pending approval of the U.S. immigration visa process, we intend to bring Haitham to San Francisco, full-time, as Contribution Research Manager in the coming months. Haitham is joining the Wikimedia Foundation in order to support new editor growth on small-to-medium sized Wikimedia projects, and the Editor Growth and Contribution Program is a new program being launched at WMF to focus on the on-wiki needs of these projects.  Haitham will be partnering with the community to design, test, and implement online programs to attract and retain more editors in these language communities. The program aims to increase the number of active editors on Wikimedia projects by working with the community to understand the online needs of each project, and taking a d</pre> Siko Bouterse 2012-04-24T18:04:29 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/389 <pre>Investigative report: Spin doctors spin Jimmy's "bright line" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-23/Investigative_report News and notes: Help-space revamp, WikiTravel RfC, and Justin Knapp scores a million edits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-23/News_and_notes WikiProject report: Skeptics and Believers: WikiProject ''The X-Files'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-23/WikiProject_report Featured content: A mirror (or seventeen) on this week's featured content http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-23/Featured_content Arbitration report: Evidence submissions ends in Rich Farmbrough case, vote on proposed decision in R&amp;I Review http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-23/Arbitration_report Technology report: Wikimedia Labs: soon to be at the cutting edge of MediaWiki development? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-23/Technology_</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2012-04-24T10:21:35 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/388 <pre>Dear all, please find Wikimedia Deutschland's monthly report for March 2012 on Meta[1]. If you don't check it out, you may never get to know why political parties in one of Germany's federal states just can't avoid to answer WMDE's questions these days or which kinds of German newspapers covered Wikipedia workshops lately. And well, there's Wikidata and much more interesting things you wouldn't want to miss! [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_Deutschland/March_2012 By the way, I linked this month's report both here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports and here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports Supposedly, all chapter reports should be found in both places, but they're not. Do we need both chapter subpages? Best Michael </pre> Michael Jahn 2012-04-20T20:01:43 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/387 <pre>The Swedish National Heritage Board is now seeking one Wikipedian in Residence and one Wikipedian developer in Residence. The positions are paid and this is a continuation of the cooperation between Wikmedia Sverige and the Swedish National Heritage Board. More information (in Swedish) is available here: http://www.raa.se/cms/extern/aktuellt/nyheter/nyheter_2012/april/wikipedianer_hos_raa.html http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/view/pressrelease/wikipedianer-flyttar-in-hos-riksantikvarieaembetet-751768 </pre> Jan Ainali 2012-04-19T07:21:26 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/386 <pre>The following translation are now available for the March 2012 "Wikimedia Highlights", which combine some of the most relevant information from the Wikimedia Foundation Report and the Wikimedia engineering report for March 2012 with a selection of other important events from the Wikimedia movement. Help is welcome in spreading the translated versions among the project communities for these languages, where this has not already been done. Many thanks to all translators! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_March_2012/ar مقتطفات من تقرير مؤسسة ويكيميديا و اتقرير لقسم التقني في ويكيميديا لشهر مارس 2012، ومختارات من أحداث هامة من حركة ويكيميديا https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Highlights,_March_2012/fr Éclairages sur le rapport de la Fondation Wikimédia et le rapport d’ingénierie Wikimédia pour mars 2012, avec une sélection d’autres événements importants du mouvement Wikimédi</pre> Tilman Bayer 2012-04-18T23:56:04 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/385 <pre>The Escola de la Llotja &lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escola_de_la_Llotja&gt;is an art and design school located in Barcelona, where several important painters as Picasso &lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso&gt; studied. Llotja and Amical Viquipèdia&lt;http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Associaci%C3%B3_Amical_Viquip%C3%A8dia&gt;started a pioneering partnership in which 6 illustration &lt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illustration&gt; students are doing their final degree internship at Amical, creating images that are being incorporated under free licenses to Wikimedia Commons&lt;http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A0gina_principal&gt;to illustrate some Wikipedia articles. It is an opportunity for them to work in a real context, public and very visible, while contributing to a public good that is being built collaboratively and is useful for many people. The project aims to be a global precedent for involving other art and design schools with Wikimedia related projects · More than thirty articles are already illustrated in </pre> David Parreño Mont 2012-04-18T17:57:24 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce/384 <pre>Arbitration analysis: Inside the Arbitration Committee Mailing List http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-16/Arbitration_analysis Paid editing: Does Wikipedia Pay? The Facilitator: Silver seren http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-16/Paid_editing News and notes: French language outreach, WikiTravel debate, and HighBeam reloaded http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-16/News_and_notes Discussion report: The future of pending changes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-16/Discussion_report WikiProject report: The Butterflies and Moths of WikiProject Lepidoptera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-16/WikiProject_report Featured content: A few good sports: association football, rugby league, and the Olympics vie for medals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-16/Featured_content Arbitration report: Evidence submissions begin in Rich Far</pre> Wikipedia Signpost 2012-04-16T21:34:35 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.wikimedia.community.announce