Wikimedia-l April 2015

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Wikimedia Armenia
by Anders Wennersten 04 Apr '15

04 Apr '15

The review of the proposals for the six applicants for FDC round 2 is now open [1]. I have just reviewed a few of them and are utterly impressed by the proposal from WIkimedia Armenia [2]. And the promotional video they attach [3] is the best promotional video I have ever seen from the movement, Enjoy it and remember (again) the strength of our vision and mission! Anders [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2014-2015_round2/Wikim… [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_in_Ayb_High_School.ogv

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Regarding knowledge
by Anthony Cole 04 Apr '15

04 Apr '15

Among my friends and acquaintances, everybody distrusts Wikipedia and everybody uses it. — Freeman Dyson, "How We Know" <http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/mar/10/how-we-know/> *The New York Review of Books*, 10 March 2011. (Discussing recent UK survey results.) We're trusted slightly more than the BBC. Now, that's a little scary, and probably inappropriate. ... *We* all know it's flawed. *We* all know we don't do as good a job as we wish we could do ... People trusted *Encyclopedia Britannica* - I think it was, like - 20 points ahead of us. — Jimmy Wales, "State of the Wiki" <http://new.livestream.com/wikimania/sunday2014> Wikimania speech, 10 August 2014. The Wikimedia Foundation vision: Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. But "knowledge" of something implies confidence in its accuracy. While Wikipedia is untrustworthy, it is purveying something other than knowledge. This is a problem for the foundation, since it is failing to realise its vision - and for humankind, who deserves an encyclopaedia it can trust. It is also a critical, existential vulnerability for Wikipedia. Google is factoring trustworthiness into its ranking algorithm. It has already stopped using Wikipedia's medical articles in its "knowledge graph". Rightly. Soon we'll see Wikipedia's medical content (rightly) demoted from (often) the top search result to 5th or 10th - or oblivion (rightly) on page two. The recently released State of the Wikimedia Foundation 2015 Call to Action [3] lists a set of objectives. One of the items under the heading "*Focus on knowledge & community"* is "Improve our measures of community health and content quality, and fund effective community and content initiatives. The quality parameter that most needs measuring and improving is reliability/trustworthiness - if we take the survival of Wikipedia as an important goal. Will the Foundation be *funding any staff positions* whose purpose is to measure the quality of the encyclopedia and nurture strategic initiatives specifically aimed at making Wikipedia an encyclopedia people can trust? Five years ago the Wikimedia Movement Strategic Plan [4] resolved to measure and measurably improve the quality of our offering, and no resources were allocated and it did not happen. 1. Hal Hodson 28 February 2015 "Google wants to rank websites based on facts not links" <http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530102.600-google-wants-to-rank-web…> *New Scientist* 2. Hal Hodson 20 August 2014 "Google's fact-checking bots build vast knowledge bank" <http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329832.700-googles-factchecking-bot…> *New Scientist* 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/State_of_the_Wikimedia_Found… 4. https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summa… Anthony Cole <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthonyhcole>

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Announcement: WMF to file suit against the NSA
by Michelle Paulson 04 Apr '15

04 Apr '15

Hi All, I’m writing to let you know that today the Wikimedia Foundation[1] is filing suit against the National Security Agency <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency>, the Department of Justice <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice>, and the U.S. Attorney General <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General>[2] in order to challenge certain mass surveillance practices carried out by the U.S. government. We believe these practices are impinging the freedom to learn, inquire, and explore on Wikimedia sites. Since the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures, we’ve heard concerns from the community about privacy on Wikipedia. This lawsuit is a step towards addressing the community's justified concerns. We believe that the surveillance methods being employed by the NSA under the authority of the FISA Amendments Act <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act_of_1978…> negatively impact our users' ability and willingness to participate in our projects. Today, we fight back. An op-ed <http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/stop-spying-on-wikipedia-users.ht…> by Lila and Jimmy about the lawsuit, and Wikimedia's stance on government surveillance, appeared in The New York Times this morning. Additionally, we just published a blog post <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/> with more information about the suit. (The post will also up on Meta for translation). Best, Michelle Paulson Senior Legal Counsel Wikimedia Foundation mpaulson(a)wikimedia.org [1] We are being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union> (ACLU). Other plaintiffs include The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers <http://www.nacdl.org/>, Human Rights Watch <http://www.hrw.org/>, Amnesty International USA <http://www.amnestyusa.org/>, Pen American Center <https://www.pen.org/>, Global Fund for Women <http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/>, The Nation Magazine <http://www.thenation.com/>, The Rutherford Institute <https://www.rutherford.org/>, and Washington Office on Latin America <http://www.wola.org/>. [2] Other named defendants include: Michael Rogers <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Rogers>, in his official capacity as Director of the National Security Agency <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_the_National_Security_Agency> and Chief of the Central Security Service; Office of the Director of National Intelligence <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence>; James Clapper <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Clapper>, in his official capacity as Director of National Intelligence; and Eric Holder <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Holder>, in his official capacity as Attorney General <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General> of the United States. *NOTICE: This message may be confidential or legally privileged. If you have received it by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. As an attorney for the Wikimedia Foundation and for legal/ethical reasons, I cannot give legal advice to, or serve as a lawyer for, community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity. For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>.*

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Copy and Paste Detection Bot
by James Heilman 04 Apr '15

04 Apr '15

1) Yes the source code is available. User:Eran has posted it here https://github.com/valhallasw/plagiabot 2) This bot ONLY works on new edits within a couple of hours of them occurring. This reducing the number of false positives. It DOES NOT look at old edits. 3) This requires human follow up and common sense. One needs to make sure that a) the source is not PD/CCBYSA b) that it is not wiki text that has been moved around c) that the authors of both are not the same, etc 4) True positive rate is around 50% which is from my perspective good / useful. This bot has flagged a lot of copyright issues would have been missed otherwise. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 11, Issue 13 -- 01 April 2015
by Wikipedia Signpost 04 Apr '15

04 Apr '15

In focus: WMF's latest strategy document shows successes, vagueness, and the need for better data http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-01/In_foc… In the media: Wiki-PR duo bulldoze a piñata store; Wifione arbitration case; French parliamentary plagiarism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-01/In_the… Traffic report: All over the place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-01/Traffi… Featured content: Stop Press. ''Marie Celeste'' Mystery Solved. Crew Found Hiding In Wardrobe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-01/Featur… Single page view http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Single/2015-04-01 PDF version http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-04-01 https://www.facebook.com/wikisignpost / https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- Wikipedia Signpost Staff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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Copy and Paste Detection Bot
by James Heilman 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

The new and improved version of the copy and detection bot that we at [[WP: MED]] have been using for nearly a year [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EranBot/Copyright here] is nearly ready to be expanded to other topic areas. It can be found here [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EranBot/Copyright/rc]. If you install the common.js code it will give you buttons to click to indicate follow up of concerns. Additionally one can sort the edits in question by WikiProject. We are working to set up auto-archiving such that once concerns are dealt with they will be removed from the main list. We also want to have automatic compilation of data such as the frequency of true positives and false positives generated by the bot. A blacklist of sites that are know mirrors of Wikipedia is here [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EranBot/Copyright/Blacklist]. As this list is improved / expanded the accuracy of the bot will improve. Many thanks to [[User:ערן]] for his amazing work. The bot also has the potential to work in other languages. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine www.opentextbookofmedicine.com

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[Wikimedia Announcements] New Wikimedia Foundation report on activities in 2014
by Katherine Maher 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

Hi all, Today the Wikimedia Foundation published a report on its activities in calendar year 2014. This State of the Wikimedia Foundation <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:State_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation.p…> report provides a snapshot view of the Foundation’s major initiatives and considerations during that period. It also offers a baseline assessment of key efforts made by internal Foundation departments, with an emphasis on data-based results, project impact, challenges, and how our work supports our mission. Last December, the Wikimedia Foundation entered into the beginning of a strategy planning exercise. As we progressed, we found people had differing familiarities with the work, needs, and concerns of other departments -- the proverbial Blind Men and an Elephant.[1] In response, we began pulling together information as a baseline reference so we would better understand each others’ work. This report is the outcome of that research.[2] Although the information in the report was originally gathered in response to an internal Foundation need, we planned to make it public as a report from the very beginning. It is intended to be relatively candid, sharing insight into where teams feel they have strengths and where they feel there are development areas. The report also offers the first look at the Foundation’s internal Call to Action for 2015 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/State_of_the_Wikimedia_Found…>. The Call to Action is a set of actions for the 2015 calendar year to focus the staff of the Foundation on our core functions. These include improving the processes by which we do our work, building stronger community relationships, and exploring new ways to expand free knowledge. Terry, our new COO <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/20/wmf-welcomes-coo/>, will manage its implementation over the coming year. Finally, a note: the report is a standalone product designed to aide the strategy development process, and does not substitute for the Quarterly Reports, Annual Report, or Annual Plan process. It is scoped only against the Foundation’s existing workflows in 2014, and not against the work of the Wikimedia movement overall. We have not committed to making it an annual exercise. The full State of the Wikimedia Foundation report is available as a wiki here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/State_of_the_Wikimedia_Found…> and as a PDF on Wikimedia Commons here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:State_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation.p…> . You can also find more information in our blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/02/new-wikimedia-foundation-report/. We hope you find it interesting, and welcome your feedback. Thanks, Katherine [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant [2] Thanks to everyone at the Foundation who contributed so much great information to their various teams sections. And a special thanks to Juliet Barbara and Heather Walls who wrote and produced the whole thing! -- Katherine Maher Chief Communications Officer Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 +1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6635 +1 (415) 712 4873 kmaher(a)wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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[Wikimedia Announcements] This week on the Wikimedia Blog
by Fabrice Florin 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Hi folks, Here are some of the stories featured this week on the Wikimedia Blog: • Share a fact with friends on the Wikipedia Android app https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/02/share-a-fact-with-friends-on-android-… • New Wikimedia Foundation report on activities in 2014 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/02/new-wikimedia-foundation-report/ • 15 women who made a difference http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/31/15-women-who-made-a-difference/ • Wikimedia Research Newsletter, March 2015 http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/29/research-newsletter-march-2015/ • Discovering a community through cryptology: Elonka Dunin http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/27/community-through-cryptology-elonka-du… • Wikimedia Foundation welcomes Kourosh Karimkhany as VP of Strategic Partnerships http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/27/wmf-welcomes-vp-partnerships/ More stories on the Wikimedia Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/ Best regards, Fabrice _______________________________ Fabrice Florin Movement Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fabrice_Florin_(WMF)> _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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Not all pixels are created equals: introducing brand new Wikimedia France's metrics
by Pierre-Selim 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Dear movement fellows, Impact is crucial for our movement, and although metrics will always be imperfect, we must strive to reinvent ourselves and always come up with new innovative ways of measuring what we bring to the Wikimedia projects, to free knowledge, and to human society. Measuring impact regarding collections of media holds its own challenges and although we have been focusing on this for a while now, much work still lies ahead. We were inspired by the “bytes added” metric, one of the pinnacles of written content expansion measurement, which goes beyond mere edit count. The same reasoning holds true for media:a puny upload count cannot come close to the real awesomeness. This is why, as we appreciate that size matters, Wikimedia France quality commitee is proud to introduce its brand new set of metrics: the pixel count and the quality pixel count − since quality is of firstmost importance. You may query the Pixel count metric for your FDC reports as part of our wm-metrics webapp [1] Furthermore, an implementation of these new metrics will also ship with our new new (teasing!) product [2] As of April 1st 2015 Wikimedia France has supported the upload on Wikimedia Commons of: - 1 229 694 933 639 pixels [3] - among those pixels, 22 407 932 851 are quality pixels (18,223512%) [4] This is only the beginning: next step is the measurement of cute pixels, encyclopedic pixels and amazing pixels. Confident in the relevance of these new indicators, we would be delighted and honored to see the Pixel count integrated in the Global Metrics. As always we welcome feedback, hugs and pull requests. Sincerely, For the quality committee of Wikimedia France Caroline, Jean-Fred, Pierre-Selim and Petit Tigre [1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/wm-metrics/fdc [2] https://github.com/Commonists/MediaCollectionDB/commit/4c2ab42f83e894c9dd31… [3] http://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/2882 [4] http://quarry.wmflabs.org/query/2886 -- Pierre-Selim

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Kourosh Karimkhany, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
by Kourosh Karimkhany 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Tanweer Morshed <wiki.tanweer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Welcome to Kourosh! Wikimedians around the world have already been creating > partnerships under various programs including GLAMs and with universities, > institutions etc. This is rational from the sense that this new department > (Strategic Partnerships) would address all these issues along with further > ways for improvement. Looking forward to Kourosh and his team's endeavors, > hope they bring meaningful and impact-driven partnerships for Wikimedia > movement. :) > > Tanweer > Executive member > Wikimedia Bangladesh Thank you for the warm welcome messages. I am sincerely thrilled to work for the Wikimedia Foundation. As an immigrant from Iran and a former journalist, I deeply appreciate free speech and the free culture movement, and will vigorously defend them in this position. I'll seek partnerships that spread the world's knowledge more widely without comprising our values. Always happy to take community feedback. Kourosh

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