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The Mekong Delta is sinking fast, but it can still be saved
By Daniel T Cross on January 14, 2022
Climate Change Sea level rise
The Mekong Delta in Vietnam is a scenic region home to about 17 million people, but this economically vital area of the Southeast Asian nation is sinking fast. A primary reason: large swathes of land there have been poldered for agriculture and aquaculture.
In fact, say scientists, by the middle of the century much of the delta will have sunk below sea level unless the trend is reversed.
Two scientists from the Wageningen University & Research and Utrecht University in the Netherlands have reached this conclusion after examining how the delta will develop over the next three decades. They did so through computer modeling that accounted for variables such as land subsidence, rises in sea level and sediment shortages.
Already the delta is only around a meter above sea level on average, they report, but large areas in it are sinking as a result of groundwater extraction, the depletion of river sediments and rising sea levels.
“We saw that the delta will likely sink very fast compared to sea level,” notes Frances Dunn, a researcher at Utrecht University and one of the authors of a new study. “For the future of the people who live and earn their living there, these high rates of relative sea-level rise are worrying.”
The changes are mainly driven by manmade causes whose impacts are having increasingly noticeable effects, the scientists say.
“The delta sinks as a natural process, but in recent years land subsidence has been drastically accelerated by humans due to unsustainable groundwater extraction,” explains Philip Minderhoud, an assistant professor at Wageningen University & Research who was the paper’s other author.
“This combination of land subsidence and sea-level rise is what we call ‘relative sea-level rise,’ and this is what people in the delta experience,” he adds.
One way of mitigating the process could involve artificially accumulating sediment at certain locations in the delta so as to raise it, the experts say.
“For example, we looked at what would happen if you focused on sedimentation around the city of Can Tho. Even then, you can only protect one side of the city with sediment because there is a river on the other side of the city, and the rest of the delta sinks more because it won’t receive any river sediment,” Dunn explains.
And there is worse news for locals in the area, which is that “there is simply too little sediment available to compensate for how fast the delta sinks relative to sea level,” in the words of Minderhoud.
That is why a workable strategy would be to supplement fluvial sendiment with measures to retain organic material from the cultivation of rice and other crops while ensuring that further land subsidence ceases. This could gain precious time for the delta to adapt in the face of rising sea levels driven by climate change.
“[W]ith current rates of subsidence and sediment starvation, fluvial sediments alone can only preserve elevation locally, even under optimistic assumptions, and organic sedimentation could potentially assume a larger role,” the scientists observe in their paper.
“While sedimentation strategies alone have limited effectiveness in the present context, combined with enhanced organic matter retention and interventions reducing anthropogenic-accelerated subsidence, they can considerably delay future relative sea-level rise, buying the delta crucial time to adapt.”
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Global unique visitors for November:
484.5 million (-0.79% compared with October; +2.06% compared with the previous year)
(comScore data for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release December data later in January)
20.2 billion (-0.8% compared with November; +23.5% compared with the previous year)
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(Database data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects. Note: We recently refined this metric to take into account Wikimedia Commons and activity across several projects.)
Report Card (integrating various statistical data and trends about WMF projects) for November 2012:
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(Financial information is only available for November 2012 at the time of this report.)
All financial information presented is for the Month-To-Date and Year-To-Date November 30, 2012.
Revenue for the month of November is $11.26MM vs plan of $10.29MM, approximately $964K or 9% over plan.
Year-to-date revenue is $16.61MM vs plan of $15.50MM, approximately $1.11MM or 7% over plan.
Expenses for the month of November is $2.83MM vs plan of $3.12MM, approximately $290K or 9% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses and capital expenses partially offset by higher legal expenses, bank fees, outside contract services, and operating grants.
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Cash position is $28.06MM as of November 30, 2012.
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“The Impact Of Wikipedia” (video produced for the fundraiser, with subtitles in various languages)
Record donations in shortest ever fundraiser
The fundraising team reached their end-of-year goal of US $25 million early this year, making 2012 the shortest fundraiser to date. We also had a record-breaking total number of contributions: 1.484 million donations since July 1. The campaign ended with a “Thank You” banner that introduced readers to a diverse group of editors through written messages and video interviews. About half a million people watched a four-minute video introduction to Wikipedia editors and we saw an increase in account creation.
First round of the new funds dissemination process ends
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees approved the recommendations of the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), allocating $8.43 million to 11 Wikimedia organizations. This marked the successful conclusion of the first round of the new FDC process. This change in how money is distributed within the Wikimedia movement was described by Trustees Jan-Bart de Vreede and Patricio Lorente as “a significant devolution of power to the global volunteer community of Wikimedians”. The committee was formed earlier in 2012 and consists of seven volunteers from seven different countries, who have editing experience on several Wikimedia projects, and have founded or have been Board members of five Wikimedia chapters.
A detailed report of the Tech Department’s activities for December 2012 can be found at:
Major news in December include:
The launch of an alpha, opt-in version of the VisualEditor to the English Wikipedia, a project more complex than it appears;
A research study on the use of the Article Feedback feature;
New metrics for the MediaWiki community;
The start of the Outreach Program for Women;
Continued work to improve the workflow and interface for translators.
In December, the VisualEditor team enabled on the English Wikipedia an alpha version of the VisualEditor (see also general “Highlights” section). The VisualEditor team focused on ensuring that it worked properly, on providing a dedicated tool to report problems with editing, and on addressing the reports and ideas from editors after deployment.
This successful release was also a major milestone for Parsoid (the parsing program that translates plain wikitext into HTML annotated for easy editing, and vice-versa). Parsoid needs to handle the full range of arbitrary and complex existing wiki content, including templates, tables and extensions; it did so very well, as witnessed by the lack of mistakes introduced by Parsoid in the wikitext. This was in large part due to the team’s efforts on automated conversion testing and the completion of a strategy to only convert the parts of the page what were edited (“selective serialization”).
This month, the Editor engagement team (E2) continued to develop new features of the Notifications project (called “Echo”), and enabled a first experimental release on mediawiki.org. They worked on feature requirements, the user experience and developed interface and behind-the-scenes components. More features will be developed in January that are planned to be enabled on the English Wikipedia in early 2013. Help is welcome to test these features to provide feedback and find bugs. (see also: Presentation slides from the metrics meeting for December)
Dario Taraborelli explaining results about the AFTv5 tool and new user registrations at the metrics meeting for December
A research study on the use of the Article Feedback (AFT) tool on the English Wikipedia confirmed that many readers use this quality assessment feature, and a sizable number of them go on to register and become editors. Based on that research and other suggestions, new features were started to reduce the editor workload through better filters and simpler moderation tools. The activation of Article Feedback on all articles of the English Wikipedia is planned for March 2013. Some wikis like the German Wikipedia have started to evaluate this tool as well, while others like the French Wikipedia are discussing it.
No significant development activity happened on Page Curation (an interface for experienced contributors to review and improve newly created pages) following its release on the English Wikipedia, but its localization and adaptation for possible use on other wikis and in other languages is currently under consideration.
In December, the Editor engagement experiments team (E3) launched a new test aimed at Onboarding new Wikipedians; it offers an optimized task list immediately after sign up, inviting those without an idea of how to get started to choose an article and try their hand at editing. Development continued on the new account creation experience and a Guided Tours feature that which will be launched in January 2013.
To support these and future experiments, the EventLogging tool underwent heavy development, including the launch of a dedicated space on meta-wiki for defining the data collected in a public, collaborative manner. Development of a user metrics interface for programs also begun in order to standardize user metrics, and provide infrastructure and access to them.
Last, the E3 team collaborated with the Fundraising team to reach out to donors and readers as part of the annual fundraising campaign, via email and a “Thank You” banner which ran at the end of the year.
The Mobile development and design team worked on finalizing contributory and other experimental editor-focused features on the Beta site (uploads, editing, and watchlist functionality) in order to clear the way for mobile uploads by March 2013. They also worked to improve the reader and potential editor experience by introducing features geared toward educating and engaging users, such as a human-readable last-modified indicator for articles and watchlists, and thumbnail images to illustrate the watchlist view. Because of the huge interest generated in the Beta testing site, an Alpha site was created to house very early work on contributory features without disrupting the reading experience of the 100,000+ Beta users.
Work continued on GeoData, a tool to store and retrieve GPS coordinates in Wikimedia databases, and it was deployed to all Wikipedia and Wikivoyage sites; it is expected to become officially operational shortly. This tool is a cornerstone of the discovery feature for the mobile site, allowing users to read about places around them.
Orange Congo joined the list of mobile carriers who enable free mobile access to Wikipedia via the Wikipedia Zero program. The Wikipedia Zero team resolved operational issues and continued to work on more partnerships. Two other initiatives to bring Wikipedia to mobile devices, the Wikipedia S40 J2ME app and the USSD service, are now ready to launch pending contractual negotiations with carriers.
Last, the Mobile quality assurance team started to work on an upcoming community testing event for Mobile features, and support for the MobileFrontend extension in the Beta cluster testing environment.
Community metrics are now generated every month to provide insights into the activity and health of the MediaWiki contributor community.
Six interns joined the technical community as part of the Outreach Program for Women. They will work full-time between January and March 2013 on projects ranging from coding to documentation to bug triage.
The Language engineering team continued to improve the workflow and interface for translators; this is done as part of an initiative to improve the user experience of the Translate extension, a tool used to translate software as well as content of wiki pages.
Zack Exley thinking under a large set of testing data during the 2012 Wikimedia Fundraiser. The team did more than 100 live A-B tests in December.
Katie Horn explaining banner statistics during the monthly metrics meeting (slides
see general “Highlights” section
Major Gifts and Foundations
Received a $500,000 gift from M. Chastain, a $500,000 gift from A. Sosnik, a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, and a $100,000 gift from an anonymous donor.
We reached our $25,000,000 end-of-year goal early this year. See the Fundraiser Statistics page for a view comparing this year to previous years
This was the shortest fundraiser to date. We showed everyone banners only for the first 9 days and then experimented with a new feature: hiding banners. We started showing banners only to users who hadn’t seen them before, and only for a limited number of views (usually 1 or 2). This lowered the visibilty of the banners while still allowing us to reach our goal. This method of displaying banners will impact our fundraising testing strategy in the future. More information can be found in the Press Release: “The Wikimedia Foundation raises $25 million in record time during 2012 Wikipedia fundraiser“
Banners were only shown to the following five English-speaking countries through December 31: US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand in addition to fundraising chapters. This was a response to a very successful start and worldwide testing which indicated we could improve our global translations. The team will be working to improve translations to re-launch the global fundraiser in all remaining countries in the Spring of 2013.
Through more than 100 live A-B tests, we discovered many new, more-effective banner messages. We started the campaign on November 17 [1] and took all fundraising-related banners down on December 31 [2].
The results of past fundraising tests are available on “We Need a Breakthrough” and a synopsis of December testing highlights will be included in the upcoming Fundraising 2012 report, which is in the process of being written.
Customer Service worked with 10 agents to answer emails in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Russian, French, Chinese, as well as using community-translated messaging for inquiries in German and Polish. We responded to over 20,000 emails from October to December (peak-time) and worked closely with the Tech team to identify, triage, and respond to donor issues. We also worked cross-departmentally on a broad range of issues (Legal, Ops).
We closed the campaign December 27 – 31 with a “Thank You banner” that introduced our readers to a diverse group of editors through written messages and video interviews. About 500,000 people watched a four-minute video introduction to Wikipedia editors and we saw an increase in account creation. ‘The Impact of Wikipedia’ video series can be found here. You can see the 51 featured editors here
The campaign received some positive coverage this year in the media, for example on Techcrunch and The Next Web.
Commons Uploader Ken Thomas
Wikipedian Ravan Jaafar Altaie
The Impact of Wikipedia: Ravan Jaafar Altaie
The WMF Board of Trustees approves FDC funds allocations for 2012–2013 Round 1.
The Grantmaking team and the FDC welcomes Katy Love, who joined WMF as the Senior Program Officer for the FDC on 28 December, 2012.
Wikipedia Zero officially launches in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Preparation for the launch of the Individual Engagement Grants program in January 2013 is underway.
Free Wikipedia Zero Page Requests
Global South Active Editors (5+ edits in main namespace)
The WMF Board of Trustees approves funds allocations for 2012-2013 Round 1 (see general “Highlights” section)
Hiring of the Senior Program Officer for the FDC completed; Katy Love joins from 28 December. Welcome, Katy! Read the job description.
FDC Staff publishes reporting requirements and forms for 2012-2013: FDC portal/Reporting requirements.
WMF Staff publishes eligibility status for each affiliate organization for 2012-2013 Round 2: FDC portal/Eligibility status/Current round
FDC Grant Agreement finalized, and 2012-2013 Round 1 grantees are contacted to begin Round 1 disbursements.
WMF prepares to initiate the Flow Funding pilot project, which will begin in the New Year. Read more about it on the FF portal.
2 grants approved and 8 reports accepted in December 2012
Grants approved in December 2012
Nkansah Rexford Nyarko’s Wikimedia outreach in Ghana: Grants:PWM GH/Wikimedia outreach in Ghana.
Funds support the launch of “‘Wikimedia Outreach in Ghana’ campaign which will be our first mass project. Our main goal, in line with that of the Foundation’s, is to train Ghanaians to collect, refine and contribute Ghana- related content for free use on some selected wiki projects — Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikimedia Commons and Wikibooks (Cookbook).”
Malayalam Wikipedia 10th Birthday Celebrations approved: Grants:Malayalam Wikipedia/10th Birthday Celebrations.
“These events are conducted as a series of celebrations of the tenth anniversary and birthday of Malayalam Wikipedia. Existing Wikipedia editors, aspiring Wikipedia users, subject matter experts and media representatives will be participating in these events. Apart from introducing a lot of common public to the concept of Wikipedia (both as readers and editors), it also rejuvenates the spirits and passion of the existing user base.”
Reports accepted in December 2012
No requests approved or reports accepted in December 2012.
WMF begins community discussions and lays plans for new pilot program focused on making grants to individuals to complete projects, which will be launched in January. Read more about it here.
Dispute Resolution Project: Results from a new survey of existing English Wikipedia dispute resolution volunteers, aimed at understanding their motivations and experiences in order to identify ways to retain and recruit more volunteers, have been released: wikipedia:Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution_volunteer_survey.
Small-Wiki Editor Engagement Project: Results from the Bangla Wikipedia help pilot have been released, demonstrating that the number of active new Bangla editors doubled during the pilot period:
WikiWomen’s Collaborative: We’ve launched a survey to gather feedback on the project from participants, and results will be available in January. The project has a new portal and is focusing on growing its base of volunteers to sustain it post-fellowship.
Committee selected to run the 2013 Wikimania Scholarships selection process. Committee members are:
Deryck Chan (WM HK)
Simon Shek (WM HK)
The application process is expected to start in mid-January.
Began drafting framework for evaluation and learning for the Grantmaking and Programs team.
2013 plan for Brazil Catalyst Program published for community comment.
Acquired a quote for video production for tutorial and institutional materials
WikiMeeting in Recife held in December.
Finalized hiring selection process for Brazil Data analyst consultant with a task for finalists.
Ongoing development of courses that were selected but affected by a national strike:
Finalized 6 courses of the Education Program: 4 with good articles and contributions (about 80% of the content has already moved to or developed in the main domain of the Portuguese Wikipedia), and 2 under review. More than 60 articles have been produced.
Maths (various articles in the main domain)
Professor Ruy de Queiroz
Development of restructure of Wikiprojects
Meeting with Ministry of Health to reach out to “school-hospitals”, which have research groups that develop projects and may engage with the project to improve Wikipedia articles on Medicine.
Meeting with professor Ruy de Queiroz, who was already using Wikipedia as an educational tool
Brazilian professor featured on the Wikimedia blog:
Free Access to Wikipedia has officially launched in the Democratic Republic of Congo (via Orange).
Mobile improved our usage reporting for more accurate analytics. In many developing countries, Opera Mini is the most widely used browser by users on mobile devices. For example, Opera Mini is the primary way Telenor’s customers access Wikipedia Zero. We previously had no data on aggregate Opera usage on Wikipedia mobile, but now that will be included in our mobile analytics (starting in 2013).
U.S. student profiled on Wikimedia blog
Washington University senior Kevin Li’s work on Wikipedia was featured on the Wikimedia Foundation’s blog. Kevin, a student in Joan Strassmann’s Behavioral Ecology course, contributed an article on worker policing to the English Wikipedia. Kevin started the article, and it has now achieved Good Article status. Read more about Kevin’s experiences.
Education Program kicks off in Sweden
A Wikipedia wall at a teachers’ conference in Sweden.
Sophie Österberg, the education manager for Wikimedia Sverige, has written a detailed update on the kick-off of the Wikipedia Education Program in Sweden. She and the rest of the team in Sweden have been meeting with instructors and institutions to determine the best ways of working Wikipedia into the curriculum in Sweden. Wikimedia Sverige has also produced T-shirts and brochures for the program, and they’re excited about the results so far: many instructors have expressed interest in being part of the program, and they’ve started to build relationships. Learn more about the Swedish education program’s activities.
Brazilian professor’s work featured on blog
Yuri L. R. Leite
Professor Yuri Leite of the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo in Vitória, Brazil, has been using Wikipedia in his courses since 2009, when he taught a class on the Charles Darwin book “The Origin of Species” and had his students update the article on the book on the Portuguese Wikipedia as he went along. Now, his students have contributed to improving the information on evolution available on the Portuguese Wikipedia for several terms, and Yuri looks forward to continuing to grow the available articles. Read more about his motivations for doing the project.
Trophy Case highlights excellent student work
Professors and Ambassadors who worked with students in the United States and Canada program in 2012 have added a series of links to the new Trophy Case, which highlights the best student work. The Trophy Case includes categories for articles that were featured on the English Wikipedia’s main page in the Did You Know section, those that have achieved Good Article status, high quality new articles, significantly expanded existing articles, and non-textual contributions. See the Trophy Case, and add other student work you see to it.
Worldwide resources page created on outreach wiki
Studenti píší Wikipedii is a brochure developed by Wikimedia Czech Republic for their education program, one of the brochures featured on the new page.
A centralized repository of information for participants in the Wikipedia Education Program worldwide has been created on the outreach wiki’s education portal. Broken down into information by target audience, such as instructors and students, the page contains links to brochures, handouts, and videos available in multiple languages. Handouts created specifically for Wikipedia Education Program participants in any language are welcome. See the page.
In December on the celebratory front, HR hosted an annual holiday party and organized a group excursion to watch “The Hobbit” movie. We kicked off a Remote Employee Experience Task Force to improve the experience of people who work remotely. We also hosted open enrollment for staff to change their health plan benefits.
Matt Flaschen, Software Engineer, Features (Engineering)
Katy Love, Senior Program Officer, FDC (Grantmaking and Progams)
Ion Vazquez (Human Resources)
Director of User Experience
Software Engineer – Multimedia
December Total Plan: 167
December Filled: 2, Month Attrition: 3
YTD Filled: 32, YTD Attrition: 16
1 Position canceled for FY
Remaining open positions to fiscal year end
45 (8 of which are on hold)
Real-time feed for HR updates
We have been focusing on our insurance renewals for 2013. Our goals for this insurance renewal are:
Improved Media and Privacy Liability coverage
Improved travel coverage, with no country exclusions and a change to an new travel assistance provider.
We closed the space improvement project for the third floor enginnering space and are beginning planning for space improvement projects on the sixth floor for our next fiscal year.
We have hired a Systems and Network specialist to work on Office IT projects, on a temporary basis, while we are searching for a full time person for this role.
Legal, Community Advocacy, and Communications
LCA Report, December 2012
In December 2012, the Legal and Community Advocacy team presented a draft of the first conflict of interest guidelines to Meta for community comment and feedback. LCA also finalized standardized grant agreements for the FDC organizations and continued to provide guidance regarding Thematic Organizations.
No Response : 1
We obtained the following domains over the last month: wikiartpedia.org, wikinews.info, wikimanialondon.org, wikiartpedia.biz, wikiartpedia.co, wikiartpedia.info, wikiartpedia.me, wikiartpedia.mobi, wikiartpedia.net, wikimania.net, wikipedia.bg, wiwkipedia.org
Rubina Kwon transitioned from being a legal intern to a contract attorney.
Billy Kelly and Karina Pulec’s legal internships ended.
Ava Miller, Megumi Yukie, and Missy Black are coming on board as legal interns for the spring.
A draft of guidelines on potential conflicts of interest was posted on Meta for public comment. Details of the guidelines were also set out in a blog post.
A California superior court overruled Internet Brands’ demurrer. Details of the ruling were set out in a blog post.
GC Geoff Brigham shared some views on the naming of thematic organizations.
Grant agreement templates for FDC organizations were finalized.
LCA continued to work with Creative Commons to ensure that the interests of the Wikimedia community and WMF were represented during the drafting of Creative Commons v.4 licenses.
LCA provided support and guidance for internships for women in software in conjunction with GNOME Foundation, Wikimania scholarships, and the FDC process.
The team has also been working on securing more expansive insurance protection for potential issues that may arise in relation to the defense of community-generated content.
Communications Report, December 2012
In December the communications team formally launched the 2011-12 WMF Annual Report, as a print product and in a wiki/PDF version. Further work on translations and production of localized editions will continue through January. In December we also announced the winners of the 2012 Wiki Loves Monuments global contest and issued a release celebrating the conclusion of our recent successful online fundraiser.
Communications also supported WMF ED Sue Gardner during a series of media interviews and panel discussions in New York, focusing on the fundraiser, Wikipedia Zero, and diversifying and growing our community of contributors.
The Wikimedia Foundation raises $25 million in record time during 2012 Wikipedia fundraiser (27 December)
Winners Announced in World’s Largest Photo Contest, Wiki Loves Monuments (3 December)
Major Storylines through December
WMF’s fundraiser breaks a record (December 27)
The Foundation’s most successful fundraiser ever got strong coverage in late December around the announcement that marked the shift from fundraising to a highly-visible ‘thank you’ campaign. This year’s coverage also included unexpected news of a $70K donation from US based ‘Cards against humanity’ which offered a video appreciation of Wikipedia.
Wikipedia edits its fundraising strategy (Bloomberg News)
Wikimedia Raised $25M So Far in Annual Wikipedia Fundraiser (All Things Digital)
Cards against humanity gives $70000 to Wikipedia (Web Pro News)
Are people who edit Wikipedia better people? (NY Magazine)
End of year lists grab on to Wikipedia (December 27-30)
Annual end-of-year media coverage on 2012 lists included a popular list of most-viewed articles in Wikipedia, based on results from a toolserver app by Johan Gunnarsson. The list generated a lot of speculation about how certain articles rose above others, including the curious inclusion of the German article for ‘Sackgasse’ (cul de sac) topping the German Wikipedia list.
The Most Popular Pages on Wikipedia in 2012: Facebook, One Direction and … Cul De Sacs? (All Things D)
Wikipedia’s most-viewed articles in 2012 were… (CNET)
Wikipedia’s hits of the year (Guardian)
The Hindu | Indians win in Wiki mega photo contest (December 6)
The Daily Nation (Kenya) | Wikipedia records high web traffic from Kenya (December 10)
Fifty-four blog posts through December, including bilingual posts in German, Spanish, Czech, and Portuguese. https://diff.wikimedia.org/2012/12/
The impact of Wikipedia
Ravan Jaafar Altaie (December 20)
(Through December the Foundation featured 12 video interviews highlighting the contributions of volunteers from around the world. The whole series can be viewed at https://diff.wikimedia.org/tag/the-impact-of-wikipedia/)
New research and next steps (December 20)
15 million free media files on Wikimedia Commons (December 10)
Wiki Loves Monuments (through December)
(Numerous posts through December profiled the incredible selections from last year’s Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest, some of the most amazing freely licensed photographs on the Internet) https://diff.wikimedia.org/c/community/wiki-loves-monuments/
Media Contact, December 2012
Wikipedia Signpost, December 2012
For lots of detailed coverage and news summaries, see the community-edited newsletter “Wikipedia Signpost” for December 2012:
Volume 8, Issue 49, 3 December 2012
Volume 8, Issue 50, 10 December 2012
Volume 8, Issue 51, 17 December 2012
Volume 8, Issue 52, 24 December 2012
Volume 8, Issue 53, 31 December 2012
Visitors and guests to the WMF office in December 2012:
Craig Minassian (Minassian Media)
Jove Oliver (Minassian Media)
Eric Harris (Minassian Media)
Kat Walsh (Chair of the Board of Trustees)
Valerie Aurora (The Ada Initiative)
Gray Lincoln (Fuze Box)
Doron Weber (Knight Foundation)
Luis Villa (Greenberg Traurig)
Dr. Eric Widera (UCSF)
Richard Ortic (Gemini Model Art)
Rodney Dunican (Rod Ventures)
Saal Pean (Creative Commons)
Chad Spencer (DemiCreative, fundraising)
Dan Spencer (DemiCreative, fundraising)
Desirina Boscovich (Desirina Communications, fundraising)
Ben Thompson (Microsoft, engineering)
Lindsay Bayne (Microsoft, engineering)
Daniel Phifer (Social Imprints)
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Video of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting covering the month of June (July 3, 2014)
3.1 Revamped Wikipedia app for Android, and new optimized view for tablet users
3.2 Media viewer released on all wikis
3.3 First impact assessment of FDC grants (APG)
3.4 Term of Use amended with transparency requirements for paid editing
5.1 Major Gifts and Foundations
6.1 Annual Plan Grants (Funds Dissemination Committee)
6.2 Project and Event Grants
6.2.1 Grants funded in June 2014
6.2.2 Reports accepted in June 2014
6.3 Travel and Participation Support
6.5.3 Grants Operations and tools
9 Legal and Community Advocacy
10.2 Major Storylines through June 2014
Global unique visitors for May:
469 million (+0.7% compared with April; -10.2% compared with the previous year)
(comScore data for all Wikimedia Foundation projects, not including mobile devices; comScore will release June data later in July)
20.217 billion (-0.2% compared with May; -4.4% compared with the previous year)
(Server log data, all Wikimedia Foundation content projects including mobile access, but excluding Wikidata and the Wikipedia main portal page.)
(Database data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects.)
Report Card (integrating various statistical data and trends about WMF projects):
Wikimedia Foundation YTD Revenue and Expenses vs Plan as of May 31, 2014
Wikimedia Foundation YTD Expenses by Functions as of May 31, 2014
(Financial information is only available through May 2014 at the time of this report.)
All financial information presented is for the Month-To-Date and Year-To-Date May 31, 2014.
Revenue for the month of May is $0.78MM versus plan of $1.67MM, approximately $0.89MM or 54% under plan.
Year-to-date revenue is $49.97MM versus plan of $48.40MM, approximately $1.57MM or 3% over plan.
Expenses for the month of May is $3.71MM versus plan of $4.49MM, approximately $0.78MM or 17% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, and FDC grants partially offset by higher legal fees, outside contract services, and travel expenses related to community convening events.
Year-to-date expenses is $37.22MM versus plan of $45.55MM, approximately $8.33MM or 18% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, payment processing fees, staff development expenses, grants and travel expenses partially offset by higher legal fees and outside contract services.
Cash and Investments – $53.13MM as of May 31, 2014.
Main Page of the English Wikipedia on the new Android app.
Revamped Wikipedia app for Android, and new optimized view for tablet users
The new Android Wikipedia app was released in June and is now available in the Google Play store. Core features of the app include the ability to save pages for offline reading, a record of your reading history, and the ability to edit either as a logged in user or anonymously. The app is the first mobile platform that allows anonymous editing.
Also, since June 17, users on tablets are now redirected to the new tablet-optimized mobile site; they were previously being sent to the desktop version of all Wikimedia projects. Early data suggests that this change had a positive impact on new user signup and new editor activation numbers.
Media viewer released on all wikis
In June, the multimedia team released Media Viewer v0.2 on all Wikimedia wikis, with over 20 million image views per day on those sites that are tracked. Global feedback was generally positive and helped surface a range of issues, many of which were addressed quickly. Based on this feedback, a number of new features were developed by the team: view images in full resolution, view images in different sizes, show more image information, edit image file pages, as well as easy disable tools for anonymous users and editors.
First impact assessment of FDC grants (APG)
The results of the first impact assessment for Annual Plan Grants (FDC grants) to Wikimedia organiations were published. Based on the reports of the 9 organizations funded in Round 1 of 2012-2013, the report found that organizations had strength in content-related projects, which benefitted from full time staff and consistent partnership:
Content development results: 12K articles improved, 168K images on Commons, and 86K other media on Commons
Participation improvements (new editors; active editors; retained editors) were not recorded by most organizations. But over 9000 people were touched by the programs associated with the activties of the organizations, and Wikidata (a new Wikimedia project developed by Wikimedia Deutschland) saw 3000 new active editors.
Term of Use amended with transparency requirements for paid editing
The Wikimedia Foundation published a new amendment to the Terms of Use to address disclosure of paid editing.
A detailed report of the Tech Department’s activities for June 2014 can be found at:
Major news in June include:
the release of the new Wikipedia for Android app, preceded by its beta version;
the decision to move away from Bugzilla in favor of Phabricator;
A new tablet view for Wikimedia sites.
Presentation slides about VisualEditor from the Editing team‘s quarterly review
Presentation slides from the Parsoid team’s quarterly review
In June, the VisualEditor team continued to improve this visual tool to edit wiki pages. They provided a way to see the context of links and other items when you edit to make this easier, worked on the performance and stability of the editor so that users could more swiftly and reliably make changes to articles, and made some improvements to features focused on increasing their simplicity and understandability. The editor now shows with a highlight where dragging-and-dropping content will put it, and works for any content, not just for images. The citation and reference tools had some minor adjustments to guide the user on how they operate, based on feedback and user testing. A lot of fixes to issues with windows opening and closing, and especially the link editing tool, were made, alongside the save dialog, categories, the language editing tool, table styling, template display and highlights on selected items. The mobile version of VisualEditor, currently available for alpha testers, moved towards release, fixing a number of bugs and improving performance. Work to support languages made some significant gains, and work to support Internet Explorer continued. The new visual interface for writing TemplateData (structured template documentation) was enabled on the Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedias.
Work also continued on Parsoid, the parsing system that works behind the scenes of VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated HTML, and vice versa. The team continued with ongoing bug fixes and bi-weekly deployments; they notably worked on improving the parsing support for some table-handling edge cases, handling nowiki tags, and making the parsing faster. They also began work on supporting language converter markup.
The Parsoid team added CSS styling to the HTML code to bring Parsoid’s HTML closer to what is produced by the PHP parser (used in MediaWiki). They continued to tweak the CSS based on rendering differences they found, and started work on generating visual diffs between screenshots of content rendered with the two methods. This initial proof-of-concept will serve as the basis of larger scale automated testing and identification of rendering diffs. Last, the LintTrap project (for the detection of broken wikitext) saw good progress and a demo application was made available.
Presentation slides on Flow from the metrics meeting for June
S Page presenting about Flow
In June, the Flow team finished an architectural rewrite for the interface, to make it easier to update it in the future. The new feature in the latest release is the ability to sort topics on a Flow board. There are now two options for the order that topics appear on the board: you can see the most recently created threads at the top (the default), or the most recently updated threads. This new sorting option makes it easier to find the active conversations on the board.
We’ve also made a few changes to make Flow discussions easier to read, including a font size now consistent with other pages, dropdown menus now easier to read, and the use of the new button style and the WikiGlyphs webfont.
The Growth team completed analysis of its first round of A/B testing of signup invitations for anonymous editors on English, French, German, and Italian Wikipedias. Based on these results, the team prepared a second version to be A/B tested. Additionally, the team released a major refactor of the GuidedTour extension, as well as design enhancements like animations, a new way of drawing guider elements, updated button styles, and more. The team also launched GuidedTours on three new Wikipedias: Arabic, Norwegian, and Bengali.
Presentation slides about the Android app launch
Dan Garry presenting about the Android app launch
The Mobile Apps team released the new Android Wikipedia app and it is now available to be downloaded through the Google Play store on Android devices. Core features of the app include the ability to save pages for offline reading, a record of your browsing history, and the ability to edit either as a logged in user or anonymously. The app is the first mobile platform that allows anonymous editing. The app also supports Wikipedia Zero for participating mobile carriers. Additional work done this month includes the start of implementing night mode for the Android app (by popular demand), creating an onboarding experience which is to be refined and deployed in July, and numerous improvements to the edit workflow.
New appearance of the tablet-optimized mobile site.
Early data indicates that the new view on tablets is well accepted among readers – few are switching back to the old view
The Mobile web team finished work on styling the mobile site to provide a better experience for tablet users. As of June 17, users on tablets are now redirected to the new tablet-optimized mobile; they were previously being sent to the desktop version of all Wikimedia projects. Early data suggests that this change had a positive impact on new user signup and new editor activation numbers. The team also continued work on VisualEditor features (the linking and citation dialogs) in preparation for releasing the option to edit via VisualEditor to tablet users in the next three months.
During the last month, the Wikipedia Zero team activated the new code for Wikipedia Zero, by replacing replaces one monolithic piece of software by multiple smaller tools. The JsonConfig extension, which allows a wiki-driven configuration system with data validation, received significant enhancements to make it more general for other use cases.
Additionally, the team enabled lower-quality thumbnails for a live in-house Wikipedia Zero operator configuration, and finished a basic version of Wikipedia Zero for the Android and iOS Wikipedia apps. The team also supported the Wikipedia apps development by improving the network connection management in Android and iOS, and with the Find in page feature for Android.
Wikipedia Zero was launched with Airtel in Bangladesh; this is the third Zero partner in Bangladesh, and the 34th launched partner overall. The team participated in the Wiki Indaba conference, the first event of its kind to be held in Africa. The event, organized by Wikimedia South Africa, brought together community members from Tunisia, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Malawi and South Africa. The attendees shared experiences and challenges to work in the region and formulated strategies to support and strengthen the movement’s efforts across the continent. The team also met with local operators in South Africa, and operators and handset manufacturers in India.
The Fundraising Tech team welcomed Elliott Eggleston as software engineer.
Recognized by GuideStar as the #2 most efficient nonprofit fundraising effort in the US.
Overall we generated $50.5 million in the past fiscal year.
Video message recorded by legacy donor Jim Pacha
Major Gifts and Foundations
Major Gifts hit their individual group goals.
Major Gifts fundraising events were held in New York City and London.
A significant legacy gift was received from Jim Pacha.
Moved to a year-round continuous-campaign model for banner A/B testing.
Launched first experiments with mobile fundraising.
This was our first year where we sent out emails to donors in multiple languages.
For Next Fiscal Year:
Continue to localize to reach more donors worldwide
Expand our mobile fundraising reach
Improve infrastructure and analysis
Fine tune continuous-campaign model
In 2013-14, we funded over 200 grants to over 66 countries.
2013-14 Funding by location
8 new grants were funded in June 2014, and 22 reports were reviewed.
The first impact analysis for the Annual Plan Grants program (FDC process) has been completed. The first round of funding (Round 1 2012-2013) of ~$4M resulted in lots of new content on Wikimedia projects (12K articles improved; 168K images on Commons; 86K other media on Commons).
The FDC’s recommendations for 2013-2014 Round 2 were approved by the WMF Board of Trustees on 30 June 2014.
Annual Plan Grants (Funds Dissemination Committee)
3 new grants were funded and 12 progress reports were reviewed in June 2014.
The FDC’s recommendation for 2013-2014 Round 2 was approved by the WMF Board of Trustees on 30 June 2014. Three grants were approved, to Wikimedia Norge, Wikimédia France and the Centre for Internet and Society. Grant terms begin 1 July 2014.
The WMF Board of Trustees is seeking four new members to join the FDC. Those interested in serving have submitted nominations on Meta, and the WMF Board of Trustees will announce the shortlist of candidates in July.
FDC staff reviewed Q1 and Q3 progress reports that were submitted at the end of April this month: we can already see that organizations have increased their activity in the new year. Highlights include an impressive increase in program activity across all grantees as well as more targeted approaches to programs. Grantees have already achieved a lot. 792 articles in 92 languages created through Amical’s Culture Challenge, 6,589 uploaded files already supported by Wikimedia Österreich in Q1, 592 new articles created through Wikimedia Norge’s Women’s Day editing workshop, Wikimedia Argentina’s exploration with working with high school students on Wikivoyage, and an exciting partnership between Wikimedia Nederland and the Dutch National Parks. Amical Wikimedia and Wikimédia France are established in new office spaces, and we have welcomed a number of new employees to our Wikimedia community. We hope this will enable increased program activity and results in future quarters. Here are some visual highlights from the Q1 and Q3 reports we reviewed:
A beautiful image captured in February using equipment borrowed from Wikimedia CH.
EduWiki Learning Day hosted by Wikimedia Serbia, a new Annual Plan grantee.
Wikimedia Israel celebrates the 13th Birthday of Wikipedia at a Tel Aviv Meetup.
Wikimédia France discovers sports photography is motivating for its volunteers.
Project and Event Grants
Volunteer training, Philippine Cultural Heritage Mapping Conference
4 new requests were funded and 10 reports were accepted in June 2014.
The Grant Advisory Committee is going through a revamp of its process – stay tuned for improved resources and pages!
Grants funded in June 2014
Producer Prize for Arabic Wikipedia: To support an annual contest awarding the best contributions to Arabic Wikipedia.
New York GLAM-Wiki Community Fellow: To support an increase in scope for ongoing GLAM-wiki outreach managed by the Metropolitan New York Library Council’s Community Fellow.
Wiki Loves Monuments Pakistan 2014: To support the new Pakistani User Group with organizing Wiki Loves Monuments Pakistan 2014.
Wiki Loves Monuments South Africa 2014: To support Wikimedia South Africa with organizing Wiki Loves Monuments South Africa 2014.
Reports accepted in June 2014
Iberoconf 2013: WM Mexico hosted a successful Iberoconf summit, resulting in increased project coordination and knowledge sharing between the 10 chapters.
Wikimedia Estonia Programs 2013: WM Estonia held over 10 photo and writing competitions in 2013, in addition to successful education, digitization, illustration, and photo expedition projects. Check out the diversity of their programs!
Wikimedia Ukraine Kolessa Recordings Digitization: Listen to over 60 newly-digitized, early 20th-century Kozbar recordings!
Wikimedia Ukraine Programs 2013: Check out over 4,000 photos from 11 expeditions supported by WM Ukraine, including a 32-day trek in the Carpathian Mountains.
Wikimedia Ukraine Wikimedians to the Games: A team of dedicated volunteers increased coverage of Sochi 2014 paralympians and continue to create content in this under-represented field.
Small Language Translation Tool (“Minority Translate”): A new, easy translation tool being piloted in the Voro and Estonian Wikipedias.
Wikimedia Mexico Start-up: The organizational foundations were laid for a successful WM Mexico — evidenced by their Wikimania 2015 bid win!
Wikimedia Philippines Operations 2013: WM Philippines stabilized operations, recruited 36 new members, and broadened their membership base beyond Manila.
Wikimedia Philippines Cultural Heritage Mapping Project Interim Report: 19 volunteers passed an intense training and certification period and will be headed out across the Philippines to document heritage sites. Follow their progress on the Philippines Heritage Map.
Wikimedia Finland Wikimaps Interim Report: Provide your feedback and ideas for the Wikimaps project here! More project information on their comprehensive blog.
Travel and Participation Support
1 new request was funded, and there were no reports submitted for review in June 2014.
Request funded for Farish C.V.’s participation at the Google I/O 2014 and Google Developers Community Summit 2014, where his talk and demos on “Developing with Wiki” discussed the many opportunities and resources available for developers on Wikipedia and future scopes for Wikipedia from a developer’s perspective.
Build is underway on-wiki for the TPS program pages redesign! This first TPS improvement sprint aims to increase usability of this program for more contributors, with a revamped launch in early August.
9 IEGrantee projects began work this month (with the remaining three 2014 round 1 selected projects aiming to start in July and August). Visit the project pages on Meta for milestones and updates over the coming months!
User-experience surveys are underway for the latest round of IEG proposers and reviewers. We’ll use the findings to improve the experience for future rounds.
IdeaLab revamp: We launched version 1 of AddMe, a Javascript Gadget making it easier to endorse and join projects in IdeaLab and other grantmaking entry points. We began developing the Form Wizard, a gadget for easily creating new project and proposal pages. Both gadgets will be implemented on several grantmaking projects on meta-wiki during the coming month, in preparation for live testing at Wikimania in August.
The Wikipedia Library’s Arabic book grants pilot: Promotions began on Arabic Wikipedia in June. 5 requests have been received so far, and nine books have been purchased. The team is exploring workarounds for issues with shipping and availability of books for editors in a few key countries, as not all requests have been successfully processed so far.
We closed out the fiscal year in June by solidifying the tools supporting the Grantmaking team (see tools section below). We are now sitting on the first year of reporting information from our new grantmaking systems (IEG, PEG, and APG) and are ready to collect and synthesize! We have done this for both the first round of IEG grantees and APG grantees, and we are in the process of reviewing the ~35 grant reports submitted through the Project & Event grants program to create a consolidated picture of the progress against our strategic goals via our movement partners funded through grantmaking.
Strategically, we are continuing to see two trends underscored:
1) Grantees are having a tough time measuring outcomes; continued standards, education, and tools for self-evaluation are needed for funded activities.
2) Global South continues to see increases in readership and all editor metrics (1+, 5+, 100+); we should continue to focus our efforts on these priority areas both financially but more importantly with supporting research (e.g., understanding editing motivations and populations).
Presentation used to onboard new Executive Director to the grantmaking work and strategy
For APG, we performed the first impact assessment based on the reports of the 9 organizations funded in Round 1 2012-2013. We found that organizations had strength in content-related projects, which benefitted from full time staff and consistent partnership.
Content developed by organizations: 12K articles improved, 168K images on Commons, and 86K other media on Commons
Participation improvements (new editors; active editors; retained editors) were not recorded by most organizations, but we saw over 9000 people touched by the programs associated with the activities of the organizations, and 3000 new active editors on Wikidata (a new Wikimedia project developed by Wikimedia Deutschland)
For PEG, we performed an exploratory analysis of highly active editors on en.wiki and fr.wiki who are working in priority geographies in Africa.
For IEG, we started preparing for a survey that targets all Meta-wiki users who commented on or endorsed an IEG 2014 round 1 proposal in order to understand their motivation of participating in the IEG review process; sent post-review survey to all participants.
For Grantmaking in general, we updated the public reporting of overall grantmaking on Meta, including some core statistics around the grants program.
For Grantmaking overall, we pulled together a summary of our history and strategic focus areas to help onboard new the new executive director.
Metrics brainstorming session at the Wikimedia Conference 2014
Evaluation portal migration to Grants namespace completed and now searchable.
Development of the evaluation portal redesign plan and mock-ups continued.
Posted two new blog posts on “A Collaborative Definition of Impact: Building Metrics Together” and Asking the right questions: Resources for your survey strategies
Hosted Virtual Meet-ups on Survey Tools and Strategies 13 (8 GLEE) attendees live, 29 views as of 7/1/2014 and Annual Plan Grants: Results of Year 1 25 (7 GLEE) attendees live, 64 views as of 7/1/2014
Prepared for upcoming in-person meet-up sessions surrounding Wikimania 2014.
Posting to social media: 101 posts to Twitter (97 followers, 2272 views, 21 link visits; 14 retweets); 11 Facebook posts (150 members, 471 views, 36 likes, 8 comments); Google+ events for June (39 followers, 6 new followers, 64 profile views, 15 +1’s 64 comments, 1 shares)
Grants Operations and tools
Created two new graphs in the internal geo-data dashboard to visualize aggregated editorship data based on location in the global south and global north . See: http://tools.wmflabs.org/grantmaking/geo-data-prototype.html
Started experimenting with Dedoose a QDA (Qualitative data Analysis) tool in order to explore the possibilities of using it to analyze grants and program reports in a qualitative manner.
Implemented a few new features on Fluxx such as signals, and automated grant agreements, as well as updating programs budgets for the FY 2014-15.
IdeaLab revamp is underway! See IEG section above.
Fixed a few technical issues by the launch of the micro-grants pilot on the Arabic Wikipedia.
What to look forward to in July:
First ever evaluation newsletter
Editor survey development for target languages
Worked with Analytics and UX departments on the development of a research internship program
Rod Dunican, Director of the Wikipedia Education Program, announced his departure from the Wikimedia Foundation. His last day was June 30, 2014.
Floor Koudijs was appointed the interim Senior Program Manager of the Wikipedia Education Program.
Sage Ross has transitioned from the Wikimedia Foundation to the Wiki Education Foundation. He had been the Wikipedia Education Program’s Online Communications contractor.
The Wikipedia in Education Project in Uruguay (Proyecto Wikipedia en la Educación)
The Wikipedia Education Program team continues to conduct outreach with global program leaders, having spoken with 37 education initiatives around the world.
Wikipedia Education Program Manager Tighe Flanagan hosted a metrics hangout for a group of education program leaders, discussing the reasons for tracking numbers and walking through the basics of using the Wikimetrics tool for tracking cohorts of users.
The Wikipedia Education Program convened a call with the Education Cooperative to review the work of the action groups (communications, mentoring, resources and recognition) and to start finalizing plans for a Wikimania 2014 panel.
The spring semester ended in Egypt and Jordan, and local volunteers decided to keep the student editing period open through the end of the summer break to allow more time for contributions, especially during the month of Ramadan.
The Wikipedia Club at Princess Nora University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, expressed interest in formally being part of the local Wikipedia Education Program. This student run club focuses on translating articles into Arabic and added 30 new articles between March and April this year.
The June 2014 edition of the This Month in Education newsletter was the biggest to date, featuring 21 articles from 13 programs from around the world.
Additional improvements to the monthly community-led newsletter, This Month In Education, including Signpost-style article teasers, featured on the main page of the newsletter and in a new highlights edition and a new way to submit articles, called the Bullet points page, where community members who may struggle with English skills or writing skills, can provide basic information about their news and newsletter volunteers will write a brief article for them, resulted in another significant increase in page views.
Anna Koval posted an update on recent improvements to the education portal on Outreach wiki.
Work this month was focused on conducting an executive retreat with our new Executive Director and team, and also supporting the entire organization in the process of our annual reviews. We have also completed hiring for our recruiting team, and onboarded both our Benefits and Wellness Coordinator and our Recruiting Coordinator.
Conversions (Contractor to Requisition)
June Total Plan: 196 (full req#, with stage-gating and out of plan)
June Filled: 5, Month Attrition: 3,
FYTD Filled: 63, FYTD Attrition: 30
Remaining Open positions to fiscal year end
18 → reflects 4 total out of plan req#s 193-196 (for finance)
With the approval of the updated investment policy at the last Board of Trustees meeting, WMF will be sending out an RFP (Request for Proposal) for Investment Advisory Services.
Successful site visit to Mexico City to review the proposed venues for Wikimania 2015.
Start of upgrades to the 6th floor space, which will include improvements to HVAC, the addition of “phone” rooms and new paint.
Receipt of final Wikimania 2013 report from the Hong Kong team and chapter.
Approval of the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan by the Board of Trustees. The approved plan will be published by July 7, 2014.
Legal and Community Advocacy
June was a transition month for LCA, with the team refocusing its energies on traditional workflows and new projects after wrapping up work on the new Privacy Policy and Access to Non-Public Information Policy. We anticipate being able to report on these new projects in more detail in the coming months.
The Legal team was involved in publishing a new amendment to the Terms of Use to address disclosure of paid editing. The Legal team worked extensively with the community to answer questions and help individual communities (like Commons and MediaWiki) prepare new alternative policies in light of the amendment, like the one on Commons.
To protect our trademark portfolio, we worked with outside counsel to obtain withdrawals of third party attempts to register trademarks for a puzzle globe clone logo with the word Milipedia (in Spain), Vidipedia (in Germany), Willipedia (in Germany), Winipedia (in France), and Wikymedia (in the UK).
The CA team transitioned responsibility for the Community Liaison (Product) team to Rachel di Cerbo, Director of Community Engagement (Product). CA will now refocus its energies on traditional workflows and building out training methods for OTRS agents.
Approval not needed : 3
wikimedia.community, wikimediacommons.community, wikimediacommons.uk, wikimediauk.uk, wikinews.community, wikiversity.community, wiktionary.community
There were no comings and goings this month for LCA.
Yana did a panel presentation on the new generic top level domains (such as .wiki) being rolled out by ICANN at the Stanford E-Commerce Conference.
The legal team revised the forthcoming WMF staff handbook and worked on making it user-friendly using techniques previously applied to the Wikimedia Trademark Policy.
The biggest Communications stories in June were about paid editing on Wikipedia. WMF announced an amendment to its Terms of Use in the middle of the month, generating significant media coverage about the relationship between Wikipedia and paid editing. This came one week after a pledge by leading US public relations to respect Wikimedia’s terms of use generated numerous press hits. The EU’s right to be forgotten ruling remains in the news, with speculation about what it means for Wikipedia. Wikipedia Zero launched in Rwanda, generating local press. The Product team launched its new Android App, generating coverage in the tech press. Throughout the month, the Communications team worked to finalize its Q1 goals, supported the rollout of the Terms of Use and the Android App, and on preparations for Wikimania.
The communications team supported the launch of the Android app in June.
Major Storylines through June 2014
Right to be Forgotten – Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says Google EU ruling “won’t work.”
In The Capital (02 June, 2014) [1]
BBC News (01 June, 2014) [2]
Wikipedia Zero and MTN
“MTN gives its customers free access to Wikipedia via Wikipedia Zero”
Inya Rwanda (03 June, 2014) [3]
All Africa (03 June, 2014) [4]
Wikipedia in schools – Israel
Public schools in Israel to integrate Wikipedia into curriculum
Isreal Hayom (10 June, 2014) [5]
Israel National News (10 June, 2014) [6]
JNS (10 June, 2014) [7]
PR firms and Wikipedia
PR firms vow to abide by Wikipedia’s rules
Business Insider (11 June, 2014) [8]
Wall Street Journal (10 June, 2014) [9]
Advertising Age (10 June, 2014) [10]
Harvard Business Review (10 June, 2014) [11]
PR Week (10 June, 2014) [12]
TIME (10 June, 2014) [13]
New Terms of Use
Wikimedia announces changes to terms of use, adds requirement for disclosure of paid contributions
Slate (17 June, 2014) [14]
The Next Web (17 June, 2014) [15]
The Washington Post (17 June, 2014) [16]
Aljazeera America (16 June, 2014) [17]
AD Week (16 June, 2014) [18]
Info Docket (16 June, 2014) [19]
Wall Street Journal (16 June, 2014) [20]
US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) & Wikimedia
“US National Archives to upload all holdings to Wikimedia Commons”
Gigjets (30 June, 2014) [21]
Tech Crunch (30 June, 2014) [22]
”Women and Wikipedia: Science and engineering’s forgotten labour”
Open democracy (23 May, 2014) [23]
”Fighting censorship in Uzbekistan, one entry at a time”
Radio free Europe, Radio Liberty (17 May, 2014) [24]
See also the June press clippings
Blog.wikimedia.org published 28 posts in June 2014. Five posts were multilingual, with translations in Swedish, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Romanian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Arabic and Algerian Arabic.
Some highlights from the blog include:
Wikimedia Bangladesh completes its local registration after a five-year journey (June 27, 2014).
New and improved Wikipedia app for Android (June 25, 2014).
Wikipedian Ram Joshi has contributed over 6,000 edits to Wikipedia only using his feature phone from his remote village in Nepal (June 24, 2014).
Change to the terms of use (June 16, 2014).
Blog post from Board of Trustee member Bishakha Datta (June 13, 2014).
Media contact through June 2014: wmf:Press room/Media Contact#June 2014
For detailed coverage and news summaries, see the community-edited newsletter “Wikipedia Signpost” for June 2014:
Volume 10, Issue 21, 04 June 2014
Volume 10, Issue 22, 11 June 2014
Volume 10, Issue 23, 18 June 2014
Volume 10, Issue 24, 25 June 2014
We helped the Administration team to make some decisions for the 6th floor reconstruction. Started talking with various teams about swag for Wikimania and the Allhands meeting. We also worked on adding page creation to a new Meta gadget with the IEG team.
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Video of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting covering the month of February (March 7, 2013)
Global unique visitors for January:
488.5 million (+3.37% compared with December; +1.31% compared with the previous year)
(comScore data for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release February data later in March)
21.8 billion (-2.1% compared with January; +20.2% compared with the previous year)
(Server log data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects including mobile access)
(Database data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects.
Report Card (integrating various statistical data and trends about WMF projects) for January 2013:
Wikimedia Foundation YTD Revenue and Expenses vs Plan as of January 31, 2013
Wikimedia Foundation YTD Expenses by Functions as of January 31, 2013
(Financial information is only available for January 2013 at the time of this report.)
All financial information presented is for the Month-To-Date and Year-To-Date January 31, 2013.
Revenue for the month of January is $2.84MM vs plan of $276K, approximately $2.56MM or 927% over plan.
Year-to-date revenue is $33.76MM vs plan of $30.19MM, approximately $3.57MM or 12% over plan.
Expenses for the month of January is $2.26MM vs plan of $4.13MM, approximately $1.87 or 45% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, timing of FDC grants disbursement, and travel expenses partially offset by higher legal expenses and outside contract services.
Year-to-date expenses is $17.72MM vs plan of $21.90MM, approximately $4.18MM or 19% under plan, primarily due to personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, timing of FDC grants disbursement and travel expenses partially offset by higher legal expenses and bank fees.
Cash position is $41.47MM as of January 31, 2013.
Legal victory for Wikivoyage and free knowledge
The Wikimedia Foundation’s legal team announced a settlement in the legal proceedings between the Foundation and Internet Brands, relating to issues stemming from the creation of Wikivoyage, our community’s newest free knowledge project.
Last year, Internet Brands (owners of a for-profit wiki-based travel project) sued two Wikimedians involved in supporting the travel wiki project. The Foundation supported the legal defense of the volunteers and the court ultimately dismissed Internet Brands’ lawsuit.
The Foundation also went on the offensive and filed its own separate lawsuit against Internet Brands seeking a declaration from the court that Internet Brands had no proper basis to block the travel wiki project. That suit was resolved in an out of court settlement on February 14, 2013. In that settlement, Internet Brands released the Foundation and Wikivoyage e.V. (the German non-profit organization who worked hard to make the travel project a success) from all claims related in any manner to the creation and operation of the travel wiki project. In return, the Foundation agreed to dismiss its suit.
Screenshot of the new mobile watchlist
Facilitating contributions to Wikipedia on mobile devices is an important goal for the Foundation’s mobile team. As one of the first results of these efforts, mobile Wikipedia users are now able to log into their account, and to view and modify their watchlist. On the mobile version, the star symbol for the watchlist is shown to all users, to encourage them to log in or create an account. Experienced contributors can use the watchlist as usual: To track changes to the selected pages and fix problems if necessary. But to make the watchlist more newbie-friendly, the mobile version also offers a full view of all selected pages, which can function as a reading list.
Language Engineering team attends open source conferences in India
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Engineering team participated in two conferences in Pune, India: GNUnify 2013, a major open source conference, and the Second Open Source Language Summit, co-organized by the Foundation with Red Hat. The team aims to make Wikipedia a website that can be used by anyone on the planet in their own language. India’s many different languages make it a natural location for the team to see the effect of their work. At the Language Summit, the engineers from the Wikimedia Foundation collaborated with attendees from Red Hat, KDE, Google and other groups. The work areas included the following:
Input methods (enabling typing in a certain language), bringing the number of supported languages to 140.
Translation tools, including a demonstration of the new design and features for the translation editor in MediaWiki’s Translate extension
The “Language Coverage Matrix”, a detailed overview of language support in different projects and platforms (with 285 languages currently supported by Wikimedia, and more than 100 in the Fedora Linux distribution)
A detailed report of the Tech Department’s activities for February 2013 can be found at:
Major news in February include:
The Wikipedia Zero project got a Knight News Challenge grant.
Additional input methods were made available for jQuery.IME.
The Translate extension introduced a new iteration of the Translation Editor.
The Wikimedia mobile web team launched the ability to view or add pages to watchlist — all from mobile devices (see also general “Highlights” section)
Echo is A new notification system for Wikipedia.
The Technical Operations team found ways to stop problems in their tracks.
Wikipedia Mobile hit 3 billion monthly page views.
VisualEditor is on schedule to become the default editor for Wikimedia users by July 2013. The alpha version of the VisualEditor on the English Wikipedia and mediawiki.org was updated twice, adding support for Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 9 and above), improving the support for multiple languages, preparing the backend for upcoming features and fixing several issues reported by the community. Software engineer and Commons contributor Ed Sanders joined the team to work on the VisuaEditor data infrastructure.
In the backend, Parsoid is going through intense activity focusing on performance improvements. New contributor volunteer contributor C. Scott Ananian improved its performance by switching the DOM library from JSDom to Domino. He also improved image handling and contributed numerous other patches. The team wrote a blog post explaining the technical challenges.
User notifications in the new “Echo” system
Brandon Harris presenting the “Flow” project (slides)
The Notifications project (codenamed Echo) is preparing its beta release to English Wikipedia by the end of March. This new set of features, already enabled at mediawiki.org, was summarized for the Wikimedia community through a blog post. New features are being developed: bundling notifications, dismissing types of notifications and defining user preferences.
Article Feedback v5 (AFT5) is now feature complete, and a new release is being prepared for interested Wikimedia projects. English Wikipedia will use it as an optional feature, while French and German Wikipedia projects are planning to enable it for all articles. The new features include simpler moderation tools, better filters, new feedback link, auto-archive and discuss on talk page. We posted a usability study report about the effectiveness of the new moderation tools.
The Editor Engagement Experiments team continued testing Guided tours as part of the onboarding new Wikipedians experiences currently enabled on English Wikipedia. GuidedTour extension was enabled on Wikimedia Commons and six Wikipedias (including French, German, and Dutch). See also the slides from the monthly Metrics and Activities meeting. The GettingStarted extension is being enhanced to include a wider variety of task types offered to new editors.
Mobile web uploads functionality went out of beta and is now enabled in all Wikimedia projects. All registered users have now the ability to upload and add images to articles lacking them. We also explored two new upload workflows: adding a call to action to articles that appear in the Nearby and Watchlist view, and allowing users to quickly see articles near them that may need an image. Lastly, we began collaborating with the Fundraising team to enable CentralNotice on the mobile web, giving us the ability to deliver targeted banners to mobile users.
The new Commons app beta for Android and iOS got a first wave of users ([mw:Mobile QA/Commons uploads/Setup installation instructions) and feedback, leading to many updates during the month. The Android app is in Google Play. iOS users need to go through a process for testers until the app is stable and available at the Apple App Store.
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“What’s a Love Dart?” video for Valentine’s Day
Major Gifts and Foundations
Received a $250,000 anonymous gift
Received a $50,000 gift from Graham Weston
The fundraising team began testing in February in various languages and countries that were not included in the year-end 2012 campaign. Nearly $2 million USD was raised from this testing in the month of February. For additional details, please see the Fundraising 2013 page on Meta
The fundraising tech team implemented new local payment methods for various countries that were not included in the year-end 2012 campaign.
Produced “What’s a Love Dart?“, a short video interview with Wikipedian Susan Hewitt about the article ‘Love Dart’, that she helped to write. The video was emailed to 150,000 U.S.-only donors on Valentine’s Day. It was designed to educate viewers that they can write Wikipedia articles. The video received many positive responses. One example: “I found the video to be quite engaging, and the people in it utterly delightful. Quite truthfully, I haven’t a clue how Wikipedia “works.” I’ve known it was non-profit and largely volunteer… And, I donated because I’ve felt guilty not donating based on how much I use it as a resource. But, I’m fully ignorant of how articles get into Wiki and the degree of collaboration that it takes to refine them. So, these videos that give me glimpses into the people and the process are fascinating…”
Individual Engagement Grants committee forms and request for round 1 proposals closes. Decisions for the first round will be announced by the end of March.
FDC staff confirms eligibility and prepares for 2012-2013 Round 2 proposal deadline on 1 March.
Siko Bouterse takes the lead on the Participation Support Program (previously run by Asaf Bartov).
Global South Active Editors (5+ edits in main namespace)
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
Katy Love presenting about the FDC round 2 (slides)
WMF announces eligibility for 2012-2013 Round 2 of funding.
FDC staff prepares for 2012-2013 Round 2 proposal deadline on 1 March.
Proposal form and hubpage templates are updated for the second round; policy documents and Frequently Asked Questions page are updated to reflect current policy and relevant dates.
WMF Grants approved in February 2013
Wikimedia Espana’s Conferences and meeting for tenth anniversary of the Galipedia: Grants:WM ES/Conferences and meeting for tenth anniversary of the Galipedia
Wikimedia Italia’s Wikimedia Conference 2013: Grants:WM IT/Wikimedia Conference 2013
WMF Grant Reports accepted in February 2013
Grants:WM SE/Annual Program Plan 2012/Report
Grants:Consumer Reports/Wikipedian in Residence/Report
Grants:WM NO/christmas seminar and wlm ceremony/Report
Grants:WM CA/In person meeting/Report
Participation Support requests approved in February 2013
Participation:Raystorm/2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships La Molina
Siko Bouterse presenting on Individual Engagement Grants (slides)
Over 50 project ideas and proposal drafts have been submitted for Individual Engagement Grants and 22 complete proposals were confirmed eligible for round 1 review which began on February 15th.
An IEGrants committee has been formed. 18 community members from 12 countries, with experience in 14 different Wikimedia projects were selected to review and recommend grant proposals for WMF funding in this round.
The first round of grantees will be announced at the end of March.
The fellowships program has ended but some projects live on. The Wikipedia Teahouse celebrated its first birthday and increasing growth with metrics demonstrating impact and cupcake badges.
A research on possible partners for the Wikimedia Foundation Brazil Catalyst Program has been carried out since October. This is part of the narrowing focus strategy and implies the Brazil Catalyst program is to shift into the grantmaking model.
Ação Educativa and Coletivo Digital were considered the most likely institutions for the Wikimedia Foundation to set up an institutional partnerhsip and host the development of the Catalyst project in Brazil. Anasuya Sengupta, consultants from Brazil and two community volunteers visited those institutions during her trip to Brazil. The meetings were good and clarifying. The results can be checked here:
Meeting with Ação Educativa
Meeting with Coletivo Digital
Next steps include: developing a medium term strategy with partners and community and Skype meetings to make final decisions and define terms and governance of this partnership.
Arriving: Hiring and onboarding of Henrique Andrade and Jonas Xavier
Leaving: Everton announced he’ll be leaving WMF for Open Knowledge Foundation soon. We’re working on the transition (he’ll be working part time for WMF until May or June) and on the opening of the job position. More in March.
Data analysis: Comparison year-over-year from 2009 to 2012. The Portuguese Wikipedia is still seeing a decrease in editors, active editors and edits, but the descrease in 2012 was lower than in 2011. We may be reverting the decrease trend (except for very active editors), little by little, but it’s hard to say yet. One more year is key to analyze it.
Staff & Community work
Henrique’s and Jonas’ onboarding: access to data, tools, Toolserver, guidance on the use of them, how tos, introducing to people, sharing plans, targets etc. Both worked on a draft execution detailed plan to be published and discussed by the community.
IRC with community: agenda covered Toolserver-Wikimedia Labs transition, methodologies to work on measures in Wikipedia, data portal (ideas, objectives, structure and target), demand for data on editors and edits per regions.
Creation of survey forms to be sent to every participant of offline activities developed by us and by the community.
FGV SP (Getulio Vargas Foundation): group of professors developing a methodology in collaboration aiming at the second semester of 2013. Professors plan to have class assignment activities as well as a group of students who will be working throughout the semester on Wikipedia.
UGF – Gama Filho University: partnership with the coordination of translation courses post graduation. Great part of their students are in their e-learning/distance learning program. Professors in the course are expected to assign students with translations of Wikipedia articles in English and Spanish into Portuguese. Oona and Everton have recorded a video interview in the University with Sanchez (the coordinator), to invite students to participate in the program and engage in Wikipedia activities. Activities will start in April.
UFBA – Federal University of Bahia: Presentation to professors and to the university publisher: potential involvement in the Education program and potential partnership on Wikibooks, Wikisources and Commons through open educational resources.
Everton contacted professors who will continue the program in their courses: Iara (Faculdades Integradas Rio Branco), Rafael (UFRGS), Yury (UFES), Rubens (UNESP), Maria Paula (UNESP), Sanchez + 4 professors (UGF), Regina (USP), and to be finalized during this semester: Edivaldo (UFRJ), Juliana (UNIRIO), Viktor (UFF), Ricardo (UFPR), Leni (UFES)
Bot: Jonathan has finalized the bot to invite new contributors to edit the Medicin Wikiproject and Everton submitted the request for approval by the Portuguese community. Jonas has worked on final developments customizing categories and criteria for trigger.
Community and High School
Making bridges between and engaging in conversation with 2 high school teachers who looked for WMF and community volunteers who are developing a project to be deployed in high schools.
Digitalia 2013 (Jan/Feb): Digital Culture debate and Wikipedia editing workshop with 20 new editors. Usuário:Eduardofeld led the workshop and has adopted 10 new users. Oona and Everton organized, promoted and led the activities on the mission of Wikimedia projects. Oona was also one of the speakers in the opening session (pictures).
Wiki meetup in Bahia: participation of 3 editors from Bahia and one editor from Natal, who adopted 10 new users from the Workshop to mentor them.
2 Wiki meetups in São Paulo: Feb 02 (fully community driven), and Feb 23 (on the occasion of Anasuya’s visit).
Slides from the quarterly review meeting for Wikipedia Zero
Launched Wikipedia Zero in a new country — Botswana — with Orange.
We’ve started testing with Vimpelcom for an upcoming launch in March.
Made Improvement to the partner dashboard which tracks Wikipedia Zero usage
Kul Wadhwa & Amit Kapoor traveled to Barcelona, Spain to attend Mobile World Congress to meet with many current and potential partners. The trip also involved attending talks on mobile usage in developing countries and investigating potential pilots for Wikipedia’s USSD/SMS (text) service.
Kul also wrote a blog post that was jointly posted on our funder’s site — the Knight Foundation — that explains our mobile strategy and how we will use their grant to accelerate our mobile programs: “Getting Wikipedia to the people who need it most“
The Wikipedia Zero team held its quarterly review meeting. Minutes are available.
Slides from Sage Ross’ presentation about the Education Program MediaWiki extension
Fall 2012 data showed students in WMF-run programs contributed 12.1 million bytes to Wikipedia, putting us on track for our goal of 25 million bytes in 2012-13.
More than 350 students in the U.S. and Canada program have completed the online student training, at en:WP:STUDENT, so far. That means half of the students who have created user accounts and signed up on course pages thus far have completed an online training about how to edit Wikipedia.
So far, 60 courses are using the Education Program Extension on the English Wikipedia.
Planning is underway to kick off a pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program in Jordan.
U.S. professor shares student experiences
“New Media and Development Communications,” Columbia University, Fall 2012
Anne Nelson, a professor from Columbia University participating in the Wikipedia Education Program United States, contributed a post to the Wikimedia Foundation blog last week on her experiences with the program. Many of her students are English as a second language learners, and she asked those students to contribute to Wikipedia in both their native languages and English, leading to a unique multilingual learning experience for both Anne and her students. Read more of her reflections on the project.
Spanish Wikipedia’s art coverage grows thanks to professor
Lila Pagola, a professor at the National University of Villa María in Argentina, started teaching with Wikipedia back in 2007. The lack of good information on the Spanish Wikipedia on topics related to art, her specialty, spurred her to work with her students to add articles on Latin American photography to Wikipedia, and she’s been hard at work using Wikipedia in her classroom ever since. Read about her project in Argentina.
Swedish program shares learnings
Sophie Österberg, the education program leader in Sweden, contributed a long post for the Wikimedia Foundation blog talking about her experiences so far as she has been having workshops with professors and launching the Wikipedia Education Program in Sweden, Wikipedia i utbildning. Sophie’s post explains some of the mistakes she has made, and what she has learned from them. Her post encourages people worldwide to share learnings so we can ensure we are not repeating mistakes in different geographic regions. Read her post.
Egyptian student becomes active Wikipedia editor
Walaa Abdel Manaem, a master’s student in Spanish at Cairo University, learned how to edit Wikipedia through the Cairo Pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program — and shortly after she started translating articles from the Spanish Wikipedia to the Arabic Wikipedia, Walaa was hooked. Less than one year later, Walaa has more than 8,500 edits on the Arabic Wikipedia. She’s created 68 articles, and is steadily climbing the list of the 100 most active editors on the Arabic Wikipedia. She’s also assisting the education program as a Campus Ambassador at Cairo University. Read more about Walaa’s experiences.
Students in Greece add photos to Commons
Mina Theofilatou, an instructor at Argostoli Evening High School in Kefalonia, Greece, wrote a post for the Wikimedia Foundation blog explaining her project to add photographs to Wikimedia Commons, the free image repository project. Mina and her students have embarked on two projects: one to catalog edible species on the island of Kefalonia, and one to photograph every village on the island. Learn more about Mina’s project by reading the blog post.
Teaching assistant works to improve Arabic Wikipedia
Doaa Seif, a teaching assistant at Ain Shams University’s faculty of Al-Alsun, is an active Wikipedia Ambassador in the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt. Doaa was featured on the Wikimedia Foundation’s blog in a post explaining her desire to improve the availability of information on the Arabic Wikipedia. The two courses that Doaa is a teaching assistant for both participated in the Egypt program last term, and she’s also organized workshops teaching students how to edit. Read the profile on Doaa.
Program leaders invited to workshop in Milan
Wikimedia chapter members and other volunteer leaders who are already running education programs in countries around the world are invited to attend the first Education Program Leaders Workshop, aimed at building a global community to share learnings and help each other overcome challenges. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Wikimedia Chapters Meeting in Milan, Italy, on April 18. If you are a program leader, you’re encouraged to check out this page for more information.
Annie Lin, who’s been with the Wikipedia Education Program since its beginning in 2010, left the Wikimedia Foundation on February 22 to pursue other opportunities. The entire Wikipedia Education Program team will miss her tremendously. Annie is sad to leave, and she says she is very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with so many brilliant, inspiring educators and volunteers.
Facilitated G&P annual planning process and helped formalize goals and success metrics
Experimented with servicing analytics requests using a 1 week sprint methodology
Built bot to automate various steps in the Individual Engagement Grants program [2]
Built bot to automate certain tasks around the Brazil Education Program
Built tool for analysis of category graphs [3]
Built tool for analysis of cumulative user contributions to a page by converting page history into Git repository [4]
Investigated sources of error in our geolocation technology, MaxMind (mw:MaxMind_Evaluation)
Participated in Analytics Reboot Workshop led by ThoughtWorks consultant in preparation for WMF Analytics reorganization
Primary HR activities for the month include:
modeling staffing projections in preparation for the WMF annual planning process
conducting the second segment of a three-part series in the WMF pilot leadership development program for directors and managers
co-hosted an event with the Op-Ed Project in mutual support of the aim to shift the gender gap in media
commissioned a study on Wikimedia Foundation salaries with Radford as follow-up to the board-sponsored executive salary study conducted last year
Chief Culture and Talent Officer Gayle Karen Young was profiled on the Wikimedia blog (“Gayle Karen Young: Supporting Wikimedia’s dynamic culture“)
Henrique Andrade, Data Analyst & Experiments (Grantmaking and Programs)
Greg Grossmeier, Release Manager (Engineering)
Ed Sanders, Software Engineer, Visual Editor (Engineering)
Luis Villa, Deputy General Counsel (Legal and Community Advocacy)
Amy Vossbrinck, Executive Assistant to the Chief Finance & Administration Officer (Administration)
Jonas Xavier (Grantmaking & Programs)
Rebecca Neumann (Legal and Community Advocacy)
Program Evaluation Community Coordinator
Senior Program Manager – Mobile
Software Engineer – Multimedia User Interfaces
Software Engineer – Parser
February Total Plan: 173
February Filled: 5, Month Attrition: 1
YTD Filled: 41, YTD Attrition: 18
1 Position canceled for FY
Remaining Open positions to fiscal year end
38 (10 of which are on hold)
Real-time feed for HR updates
We have begun active work on the Annual Plan, including setting a baseline for annual expenditures.
The first financial review site visit occurred with Wikimedia Argentina. Our thanks to Osmar – Executive Director of Wikmedia Argentina for hosting a successful site visit. A full report of the site visit will be submitted to the FDC. The financial review portion of the site visit showed that WMAR has good internal controls and is managing it financial matters well.
Legal, Community Advocacy, and Communications Department
LCA Report, February 2013
Request withdrawn : 3
Approval not needed : 2
Luis Villa, Deputy General Counsel, has joined the Legal Department. :)
We announced a settlement in the legal proceedings between the Wikimedia Foundation and Internet Brands relating to issues stemming from the creation of Wikivoyage (see general “Highlights” section).
The Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia UK announced the release of the final report and recommendations regarding the governance of the Wikimedia UK chapter. The report was completed by Compass Partnership, consultants in non-profit management based in the UK. The report was commissioned jointly by the Foundation and Wikimedia UK in October 2012 following important Wikimedia community discussions about potential conflicts of interest arising from a series of wiki outreach projects.
After critical and extremely helpful community input and changes, we proposed to the Board new guidelines on the disclosure of conflicts of interests when requesting movement resources.
We are drafting a template user group agreement (with appreciated comments from members of AffCom) to serve our partnership with independent groups of Wikimedian volunteers.
We finalized the template for the organizational grant agreement for use by the WMF Grants Program.
Communications Report, February 2013
February was a relatively quiet month for the Foundation and projects from a media relations perspective. Major media outlets were focused on the news of the successful conclusion of the Internet Brands lawsuit as well as a measured increase in coverage and requests related to Wikipedia Zero.
No major press announcements in February.
Major Storylines through February
Richard Fidler interviewing Sue Gardner
‘’WMF’s ED Sue Gardner in Brisbane, Australia’’ (Feb 17, 2013)
During a visit to Brisbane, Australia to speak at the ALIA conference at the State Library of Queensland, Sue Gardner spent time with a number of Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio programs. Conversations covered the Foundation’s work to recruit new editors and diversify our community, including a lengthy discussion with Australian radio personality Richard Fidler.
‘’A Victory for Free Knowledge and Wikivoyage’’ (Feb 15, 2013)
After five months of legal activity, the Foundation announced settlement of litigation with Internet Brands. The announcement was made on the Foundation’s blog and was followed by positive media coverage that repeated the mission and focus of the non-commercial Wikivoyage project.
‘’Mobile Wikipedia and Wikipedia Zero: 3 billion pageviews and free Wikipedia by SMS’’ (Feb 23, 2013)
A trio of blog posts and coverage relating to the Foundation’s mobile work made positive headlines in February. The push past 3 billion page views on our mobile WP site, coupled with coverage of our push for free Wikipedia via SMS attracted significant interest, particularly from tech and mobile industry blogs.
Infographic: An Amazing, Invisible Truth About Wikipedia | Fast Co. Design | Feb 11
Getting Wikipedia to the people who need it most | Knight Foundation | Feb 22
The Biggest Wikipedia Traffic Spikes Since 2010 Prove We’re All Morbid | Gizmodo | Feb 11
Forty-three blog posts in February, with bilingual posts in Arabic, Spanish, Greek, Ukrainian and Portuguese. Some highlights from the month:
How the Technical Operations team stops problems in their tracks
Engaging the local community in a school project on Commons
Egyptian student creates 68 new articles on the Arabic Wikipedia in less than a year
Wikipedia Teahouse Celebrates its First Birthday
For lots of detailed coverage and news summaries, see the community-edited newsletter “Wikipedia Signpost” for February 2013:
Volume 9, Issue 5, 4 February 2013
Volume 9, Issue 6, 11 February 2013
Volume 9, Issue 7, 18 February 2013
Volume 9, Issue 5, 25 February 2013
Sue Gardner giving a keynote at the ALIA Online Conference
Office of the Executive Director
Sue Gardner traveled to Australia in February, giving keynotes at two library conferences in Brisbane: The Sixth New Librarians Symposium (co-sponsored by Wikimedia Australia) and the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Online Conference. She also did several interviews with Australian media (see the Communications Report section above), in particular a long discussion with Richard Fidler, and had productive meetings with Australian Wikimedians.
Visitors and guests to the WMF office in February 2013:
Samantha Gaskin (Helms Briscoe)
Chris Cavanaugh (CCS Consulting Inc.)
Yvonne Ortmann (Reporter, t3n)
Eugene Eric Kim + guests (Consultant)
Iara Camardo (Professor, Wikipedia Education Program Brazil)
Rosa Jiménez Cano (Reporter, El Pais)
Kraig Parkinson (Thoughtworks consultant)
Marc Chenn (Salt Stack)
Thomas Hatch (Salt Stack)
Julie Jarratt (Cathay Pacific)
Maziebelle Riece (Cathay Pacific)
Ron Waliczek (JP Morgan)
Mike McKindey (JP Morgan)
Ryan McNeill (JP Morgan)
Sheldon Renan (Video crew)
Galen Cranz (Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley)
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] | Global warming is a severe problem affecting the environment worldwide, primarily due to the excessive consumption of fossil fuels for transportation, which accounts for a fifth of global carbon emissions. As a result, many environmentally conscious people are looking for sustainable alternatives to replace fossil fuels.
Enter electric bikes. They have shown great promise as an effective and environment-friendly transport solution. Not only are they affordable but they are easily portable as well.
They also cost a lot less than cars. The purchase cost of a fossil fuel-based vehicle is just one of many expenses. As soon as you buy a car, insurance fees, daily fuel expenses, and routine maintenance costs soon start to pile up.
By comparison, e-bikes are far cheaper and you don’t have to worry about any other running costs. By the time you reach 18 months of use, the bike would most probably have paid for itself. On top of the financial benefits, folding electric bikes are much more portable, easier to store, and require barely any space.
Yet the biggest advantage of electric bikes is that they allow you to significantly reduce your fossil fuel consumption. By owning an e-bike, you can minimize greenhouse gas emissions and your overall carbon footprint.
True, electric bikes need to be charged regularly, but even basic e-bikes offer a range of 20-30 miles on a single charge. That is more than enough for people to commute in cities. However, you can also find options that yield higher ranges. Mid-range electric trikes or bikes offer a traveling range of 50-70 miles on a single charge, whereas top-end bikes deliver a range of approximately 100 miles.
You don’t have to wait hours to get your bike fully charged, either. Because of rapid advancements in battery technology, you can get faster-charging speeds. Another benefit is that an e-bike charges if you pedal on easy roads rather than using the throttle.
Lowering CO2 emissions and easing traffic congestion
Major cities attract many people in search of new opportunities from different places. As the population increases, so do the number of cars and motorcycles on the road. This eventually leads to traffic congestion, stretching the time it takes for you to reach your destination.
Heavy traffic also increases the consumption of fossil fuels as cars have to keep moving at much slower speeds and for a longer time. This results in more emission of carbon monoxide (CO), which pollutes the air and harms our health.
Instead, you can take advantage of battery-powered bikes to cruise through city traffic with ease. E-bikes can significantly lower the traffic on the roads, cutting down the time required to get to places. Consequently, you can also do your part in lowering air pollution and helping the environment.
As people are getting more conscious about the consumption of fossil fuel, electric bikes and tricycles for adults are gaining popularity. Not only are they a more sustainable option for our environment, but they also help you adopt a healthy lifestyle despite a sedentary routine.
All in all, e-bikes are one of the best and most viable transportation solutions that empower you to decrease your environmental footprint and combat climate change on an individual level.
Some countries around the globe still consider an e-bike to be a bicycle. If you want to avoid the tedious and time-consuming process of vehicle registration, getting a license plate, or getting it insured, electric bikes are a splendid choice worth considering.
Unlike a gas-fueled car or motorcycle, you can visit your local dealer or cycle shop and purchase it without the hassle of getting the paperwork done.
As electric bikes are getting more accessible, cities across the world are planning to develop the infrastructure for public charging stations to encourage massive adoption.
And there is more.
By owning an e-bike, you can also adopt a healthy lifestyle by mitigating the side effects of a deskbound lifestyle. Electric bikes allow you to travel long distances, ensuring that you build endurance and give your muscles a steady workout.
Other health benefits of riding an e-bike include better cardiac health, lower stress levels, increased metabolism, better core muscle strength, improved coordination and increased blood flow.
The pedal-assist feature on bikes allows you to set the level of assistance from the electric bike motor, so you get a good workout even after using the throttle.
All age groups can easily use an electric bike, even the elderly. If you want to stay active despite your old age, you can do this by hopping on three-wheel bikes for seniors. The moving speeds of these bikes are relatively easy to control, but you can also restrict the speed limit if the elderly and children are to use them.
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Getting Started to enable these components you must turn on the mwEmbed gadget. You can turn it on by visiting your preferences page. Once you enable the gadget you should shift reload to ensure you have a fresh copy of the JavaScript. (note you will need to enable the gadget for each wiki you want to test (ie both for wikimedia commons and Wikipedia). Once enabled you can check out the following features:
Disclaimer You can always turn off the gadget the same way you turned it on. These components are still under development so your millage may vary.
Many media components are developed in an open source development partnership with Kaltura.com.
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Great features! Hope they will be available soon! Also in the Dutch wikia’s 🙂
It would be awesome if sub-titles in multiple languages could be added to video and audio so they can be searched and so they can be used in different language wikis.
In terms of multi-lingual support I should have something ready shortly that lets us request a given language of the js via the script-loader.
In terms of subtitles… this is something I also want to get in there soon as well. I have some code to support subtitles from the metavid.org work … but the interfaces need to be updated for multi-lingual subtitle translation and contribution.
What encoder settings are being used for conversion by FireOgg? I uploaded the same fil to test.wikipedia and tinyvid.tv and got different file sizes (wikipedia’s was about 20% smaller).
the firefogg encode settings are currently:
This may shift to much higher quality once we have a derivatives extension in place. That way a single File resource can be represented by several files at different bitrates.
What will the fallback option be if Firefogg is unable to convert the video? Also, it’ll probably be useful to log media information regarding unsuccessful encodings.
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] | Concerns about Bitcoin and its environmental impacts aren’t new, but a study from Technical University of Munich (TUM) is – and its authors conclude that the current carbon footprint is equal to that of the German city of Hamburg or Austria’s Vienna.
The scientists, led by Christian Stoll of TUM and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States, said they had to do a bit of detective work to arrive at what they say is the most detailed calculation to date of how much the cryptocurrency is costing the planet.
“Although the currency Bitcoin is virtual, the energy consumed for its use is real,” said the research team, whose work is newly published in the journal Joule. “The computer capacity used for this so-called mining of bitcoins has risen sharply in recent years. Statistics show that it quadrupled in 2018 alone.”
Their answer on emissions is between 22 and 22.9 megatons of carbon dioxide annually, making it comparable to Hamburg, Vienna, or the entire nations of Jordan or Sri Lanka.
First, the research team identified the network power consumption, which depends primarily on the ASIC miners equipment used for bitcoins. “In 2018, the three manufacturers dominating the market for ASIC miners planned to go public,” the TUM team said. “From the documents they had to publish, the team was able to calculate the market shares of each model.”
All told the energy impact involves 45.8 terrawatt hours, as of November 2018, but from there they had to tease out differences. Professional Bitcoin mining operations are set up as data centers that require cooling, for example, as opposed to individuals plying the trade at home, and they all had to be included in the accounting.
To understand the current power demands and impacts, they also needed to look at how and where the energy was being generated. “Speculations about the Bitcoin network’s source of fuel have suggested, among other things, Chinese coal, Icelandic geothermal power, and Venezuelan subsidies,” the authors said.
Yet the two largest Bitcoin “mining pools” showed TUM’s team that miner IPs came from their own or nearby countries. By following the trail, and using other methods to verify the results, the researchers found that 68 percent of the computing power used for Bitcoin networks was in Asian nations, with another 17 percent in Europe and 15 percent in North America.
“Bitcoin’s power consumption may only be the tip of the iceberg. Including estimates for three other cryptocurrencies adds 30 TWh to our annual estimate for Bitcoin,” the authors warned.
While there are plenty of emerging scenarios in which blockchain and cryptocurrency technologies are seen as climate solutions, the authors say much of the debate is focused on benefits and not enough attention is given to costs. These include the related carbon emissions, but also the concentration of power in the hands of a few cryptocurrency players and whether or when government control is warranted.
“Even though there are more important factors for climate change, the carbon footprint is so great that it offers reason enough to discuss regulation of crypto-mining at locations with CO2-intensive power production,” said Stoll. “To improve the ecological balance, for example, it would be possible to link more ‘mining farms’ to additional generation of renewable energy.”
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] | Germany’s economic growth has slowed significantly. Part of the reason is the country’s flawed energy strategy.
Is Germany’s energy strategy at risk?
By Sustainability Times on November 18, 2019
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Germany has long been the powerhouse of Europe’s economy, yet growth in the country has slowed significantly this year. Exports account for nearly half (47%) of Germany’s economy and sluggish growth elsewhere, which has dampened consumer confidence, and an intensifying global trade war have seen Germany’s economy grow by a mere 0.1% in the third quarter. This comes after negative growth in the previous quarter. In other words, the country has escaped recession – but only just.
It hasn’t helped that Germany’s energy industry has been thrown into disarray. Berlin has embarked on an ambitious transformation of the country’s energy mix, seeking to embrace low-carbon energy in lieu of coal, which currently provides most power in the country. Along with the phasing out of all coal-fired plants within two decades, Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged to shut down Germany’s 17 nuclear power plants by 2022 owing to safety concerns in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
Germany, which has the largest electricity market within the European Union, is banking on renewables, yet there is trouble on the horizon. Solar investments are down and Germany’s wind industry is in decline. Experts are warning that “Germany’s low-carbon future will come at a cost” to the country’s robust economy. Within the three years of planned nuclear phase-out Germany’s capacity of conventional energy will likely fall by a fifth, raising the economically ruinous prospect of frequent outages.
Image credit: Fraunhofer Institute.
Germany’s government argues that the shortfalls can be offset by improved energy efficiency, as well as expanded renewable energy capacity and further electricity imports. “Others are not as confident, including many utilities, network operators, manufacturing companies and analysts,” notes Reuters, citing an energy expert who calls the government’s strategy risky and prone to unforeseen consequences. The expert, Katharina Reiche, chief executive of the VKU association of local utilities, stresses that if the phaseout of coal-fired plants “was not accompanied by a mandatory, risk-oriented monitoring of supply security, it would be like ‘walking a tightrope without a safety net.'”
Germany’s government foresees a 65% share of the country’s power consumption for renewables by 2030, the date by which all coal-fired plants are to be shuttered. Between January and October this year the share of renewables reached a record of nearly 43%, which seems encouraging. At the same time, however, onshore wind power expansion has been slowing across Germany, which is raising doubts about the long-term viability of a strategy centered primarily on renewables like wind and solar.
The latter especially is of limited use in a country with long dark winters. German solar energy experts say industrial-size photovoltaic installations could work well in sunnier southern Germany, especially considering the plummeting costs of photovoltaic technology. Between 2010 and last year the average global cost of solar energy production dropped by 77%, as compared with a 35% decrease for onshore wind, Bloomberg observes. In Germany, the photovoltaic industry employs 49,000 people and boasts some 3.7 million installations, accounting for an emissions saving of more than 28 million tons of CO2 in 2018.
Yet despite impressive gains, renewables alone won’t be able to power Germany’s energy-dependent economy any time soon, others argue. By seeking to eliminate nuclear power from its low-carbon energy mix, pro-nuclear experts stress, Germany’s government is risking the country’s long-term economic stability.
In addition, the nuclear industry remains a robust wealth generator within the Europe Union, according to a study by the multinational accounting firm Deloitte. The EU’s nuclear industry provides more than 1.12 million jobs and generates €507 billion in the grouping’s collective GDP, which is equal to a 3-3.5% share of its current GDP, Deloitte says. “For more than 60 years, nuclear technologies have been providing Europe with a reliable source of low-carbon electricity,” comments FORATOM, a Brussels-based trade association for the nuclear energy industry in Europe.
NPP benefits. Image: Rosatom
Yves Desbazeille, director general of FORATOM, sees nuclear energy as a vital component of both the EU’s and Germany’s energy industry plans if economic growth is to be maintained. “We have observed the number of jobs our industry generates and is generating today is about 1.1 million in direct impact. We saw a level of skill that is quite high, and it is much higher than what you observe in other sectors. It shows we are an industry of very high skilled people,” Desbazeille explains in commenting on new study.
“It is also interesting to see that we are one of the biggest sectors today in the world, something which is widely ignored by policymakers in Brussels,” the energy expert adds. “We see here that we are somewhere between construction and the automobile industry in terms European GDP share (3.3%), which is something interesting,” he elucidates. “But now we also look to what we mean in terms of jobs and impact having some significant share of nuclear in 2050, so with the electrification it means we would also create new jobs and also have an increasing impact on GDP and also on trade surplus.”
For Germany, the fact that the renewable energy industry, particularly wind, is not performing as expected is worrisome news. Berlin needs to revise its approach to achieving a low-carbon economy, one that makes full use of a variety of low-carbon energy sources working in tandem to offset shortfalls and bridge supply gaps.
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] | It has already been a couple of weeks, but I wanted to explain and share some lessons learned about an edit-a-thon that Wikimedia Sverige and Wikimedia Polska organized in conjunction with the Europeana 1989 Collection Days in Warsaw, Poland.
The Collection Days are a series of events continuing through the end of 2014, where the public is invited to come and share their memorabilia of 1989, and have it digitized and uploaded online under a CC-BY-SA license. When I heard about this topic, I thought that the first Collection Days would be a perfect event for the Wikimedia movement to participate in because of the similarities of involving the general public and the use of the license. The idea was that we could try out the concept and see what worked and didn’t work, and by sharing this experience and gaining these contacts, we could help other European chapters in the Wikimedia movement to organize events in connection to future Collection Days.
With this blog post, I hope to do just that.
The goal with the edit-a-thon, in addition to writing articles together and making Wikipedia better, was to get new people and new organizations involved in the work of the Wikimedia movement. The idea is that the people who bring their objects to the Collection Days easily could stop by and learn how to edit Wikipedia and learn that their memorabilia of 1989 also might appear on Wikipedia.
The day before, I arrived with another Swedish volunteer to attend the kick-off event (with a bunch of VIPs present, who now have images on Commons!). We met with the Polish Collection Days’ organizers, prepared the venue and uploaded images that had been digitized during the day. The Polish chapter had been great at promoting the event in advance and had translated the event page to Polish.
On 9 June, six experienced Wikimedians from Poland and Sweden gathered in Warsaw for this international edit-a-thon to write about both Polish history in general and especially about the events that took place in 1989. Our goal was to use as many images that were digitized during the Collection Days as possible. I gave a short presentation about what we hoped to achieve there and then we started with fixing up some of the images uploaded the night before and writing articles (a few more images were uploaded from the event throughout the day that we worked on). The catering had some issues, but we had a great time and we were very productive, with nine new articles and 15 articles expanded on the Polish, Swedish and English Wikipedias.
We hope that other chapters will take the opportunity to organize edit-a-thons in their countries in connection with these events. After Poland, the Collection Days will be organized in the Baltic states (the plan is August, but the exact dates are still to be decided). So Wikimedia Eesti and all you volunteers in Latvia and Lithuania, be sure to contact me and I’ll help you to get in contact with the right people!
To make your work easier, I have compiled a list of lessons we learned that might help you to make the event a smashing success:
It’s really nice participating in these mass-scale digitization projects and seeing how they work! It gives you a chance to interact with GLAM professionals and get the behind-the-scenes perspective. Our suggestion is that you try to promote this opportunity to your volunteers (on wiki, on email lists, IRL, through blog posts and press releases).
It takes time for the Collection Days’ staff and volunteers to process the material that people bring there (they need to add metadata and upload the images to their site). Hence, the edit-a-thon should take place on the second day of the Collection Days so that the local material can be digitized and used. Also, be sure to localize and talk to the tech-person as soon as possible.
Help the organizations organizing the Collection Days in your country to communicate about the fact that the material can also be added to Wikipedia. Push for your involvement to be mentioned in all external communication! If done right, it’s my belief that this might attract more people to show up with their memorabilia (even if they might have had it digitized before–which is not unlikely, as there have been projects trying to do this before– they might hopefully see an added value to the memorabilia being used on Wikipedia).
A lot of the material that people bring might have copyright issues (orphan works) and might make it unusable. To solve this you should ideally have some volunteers who know copyright law very well (either present there or available online).
Try to involve the volunteers participating at the Collection Days. We were not successful with this, as we expected a lot of people to arrive there and did not expect these volunteers to have any spare time. This turned out to be wrong and when there weren’t that many people showing up with memorabilia, they might have liked to try editing. To increase the chances of this, they should have been informed about the possibility in advance and perhaps even have organized a workshop on how to edit before hand.
If the goal isn’t just to create great articles, but also to teach newbies how to edit, then you have to make sure that you have a spot at the venue in a prominent position. Bring your roll-up banner stand (if you have one) or a poster with an invitation to learn to edit and an explanation of who you all are. If you have extra laptops, you should bring them as well.
Thanks to this cooperation, it is possible to keep the cost of the edit-a-thon very low! The Collection Days’ organizers generously offered us both free snacks, coffee, tea and a light lunch, plus the venue without any cost. This should hopefully be possible in future Collection Days edit-a-thons. If not, and if you would like to organize a Collection Days edit-a-thon this year, then Wikimedia Sverige might be able to cover some of the costs for catering, etc. Just contact me and let me know your plans.
Project leader Europeana Awareness
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Some can be written in multiple scripts (such as Serbian in Cyrillic or Latin), and searches should match text written either way.
Some languages don’t use word spacing, like Chinese and Japanese. To let the search index know where word boundaries are, we have to internally insert spaces between some characters:
Then to add insult to injury, we need to fudge the Unicode characters to ensure things work reliably with older and newer versions of MySQL:
For a long time, this word segmentation wasn’t being handled correctly for Chinese in our default MySQL search backend, so searching for a multi-character word often gave false matches where the characters were all present, but not together.
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维基百科 -> +”u8e7bbb4 u8e59fba u8e799be u8e7a791″
Note that Wikimedia’s sites such as Wikipedia run on a fancier, but more demanding, search backend with a separate Java-based engine built around Apache Lucene. Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that third-party users will mostly be using the MySQL-based default, and oh boy it still needs some lovin’! 🙂
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] | Organic peas, farmed in Sweden, have around a 50% bigger climate impact than conventionally farmed peas.
Organic farming isn’t all that sustainable, a new study says
By Daniel T Cross on December 17, 2018
Organic farming is much better for the environment because fewer or no chemicals are used in crop cultivation. Or so it is commonly believed.
Yet because organic farming tends to have significantly lower crop yields, far more land is required to grow the same amount of food that intensive agriculture can produce, according to a recent study. To feed the billions of hungry mouths on the planet, going fully organic would entail reclaiming vast swathes of additional land for agriculture. Much of that extra land would have to be taken from forests, which would harm the environment.
An international team of researchers studied peas and wheat cultivated organically in an area of Sweden. They found that organically farmed food has a bigger climate impact than the conventionally farmed variety because organic farming requires significantly more land. As a result, organic farming can also lead to much higher levels of greenhouse gas emissions.
“Our study shows that organic peas, farmed in Sweden, have around a 50 percent bigger climate impact than conventionally farmed peas,” says Stefan Wirsenius, an associate professor from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden who was an author of the study. “For some foodstuffs, there is an even bigger difference – for example, with organic Swedish winter wheat the difference is closer to 70 percent.”
Organic food is worse for the climate than conventionally farmed food because the lack of fertilizer use results in much lower yields per hectare. That is why growing food organically and reducing carbon emissions at the same time is not a viable strategy. “A finite global land area implies that fulfilling these strategies requires increasing global land-use efficiency of both storing carbon and producing food,” the researchers write.
“The greater land-use in organic farming leads indirectly to higher carbon dioxide emissions, thanks to deforestation,” Wirsenius says. “The world’s food production is governed by international trade, so how we farm in Sweden influences deforestation in the tropics. If we use more land for the same amount of food, we contribute indirectly to bigger deforestation elsewhere in the world.”
There’s another aspect to this issue, however. Even though organic farming may be worse for the climate, at least on a large scale, it is better for local environments around farms. Toxins from chemicals used in fertilizers and pesticides often leach into water sources and accumulate in soils where they can wreak havoc with local ecosystems.
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] | We have begun exploring ideas for enhancing the visibility of a donate button, not only within Wikipedia and the Wikimedia main template, but also on every page of every Wikimedia project. We hope that enhancement will enable us to better informing our public that we are dependent on their donations as we promote the free and open knowledge movement.
As we saw in the last fundraiser, different messages and visual styles had different outcomes: different levels of gifts, origin of donors, and frequency of donations. We expect that a small change to the Wikimedia design template will result in a big returns in donations — increasing funds we use to keep the Wikimedia movement alive and growing. We expect that in return for a bit of enhanced visibility, we will see a daily increase of up to 20% in donations.
Working with the same designer that worked on last year’s donation page, we have culled his 30+ button ideas into 6 that represent some of the better designs.
We have posted several design options for your comments and input.
Design is only half of this change… words are equally important. We are also looking for input on messaging on the donate button and on most Wikimedia articles. What are the simplest words we can use? Can the text be easily translated into dozens of languages? We need text that will communicate that we are a non-profit and and express the importance of donations in keeping our projects active.
Join the discussions on our donation upgrades page and catch a glimpse of the upcoming improvements to our community fundraising efforts!
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The garishness of the button is inversely proportional to the likelihood of me pressing it.
Oh, and the text there is incorrect. Wikipedia’s content will remain free regardless of what happens to your foundation.
Based on my analysis of the last fund-raising cycle, I recommend a small, say 40×40 pixel photograph of Jimbo’s head.
I am serious. I am completely serious.
— with a link to the “personal appeal” letter.
If anyone claims I am not serious I will show them the regression model.
@Bob Please comment on the page so we can have all the feedback in the same place. Also, please try to give constructive comments to we can see how to make it better.
I think this would be a good idea to help support the foundation and the Wikimedia projects.
@Bob The content is free, yes, but the cost of running a server farm to serve that content (especially one as large as Wikimedia’s) most certainly is not.
Maybe include the fact that the donation is tax-deductible…
Oooooo and have it cycle through EVERY COLOR IN THE RAINBOW.
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While we would rather this weren’t necessary, it seems that the edits coming through tor are mostly unconstructive; and we’ve had all kinds of nasty harassment come through that way — the community feedback we asked for was overwhelmingly that the ideological benefits of allowing truly anonymous editing are outweighed by the pragmatic concerns of
To facilitate this, I will also be activating explicit IP block exemption on all wikis. Like on English Wikipedia and many other wikis, administrators will be able to add users to an “IP block exempt” group, which exempts its holder from IP blocks, range blocks and autoblocks, but not explicit user blocks. This is a helpful, albeit inaccessible way to defray some of the problems associated with
blocking Tor users carte blanche.
Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, concerns or suggestions about these changes!
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Does it mean that any user visiting the site via Tor will not be able to do _anything_ unless they has IP block exempted account?
Does it mean that any user visiting the site via Tor will not be able to do _anything_ unless they has IP block exempted account?
Unfortunately so, except, of course, reading.
What has happened to the CSS in Wikipedia as on my Mac it is not displaying properly!
Is there a new layout to Wikipedia!
What has happened to the CSS in Wikipedia as on my Mac it is not displaying properly!
Is there a new layout to Wikipedia!
Not really on topic for this comment thread. I would suggest you ask around in IRC, perhaps in #wikimedia.
Posted in Deployments, MediaWiki, TechnologyTagged Privacy, TOR, Wikimedia Blog (EN Archive)
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Known Issues: Accuracy of cursor positions using the article outline feature (aka Navigable Table of Contents) degrades in long articles and significant so if you use Firefox. We are also still working on the display issue of NTOC in Firefox2 on Vista. Bug 20669
The release details and discussion can be found in the Babaco discussion page of the usability project wiki. Looking forward to receiving your feedback.
Naoko Komura, Project Manager, Usability Initiative
Inserting link using link dialogue
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I’m really pleased to hear that it’s ready. Congratulations to the WUI team!
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Sustainable farming can revolutionize food security
By Jane Marsh on June 20, 2022
Agriculture Best Practices Food Security
When looking at the future, some people may have a bleak opinion of what might be left after years of farming. Sustainable food comes from responsible sources.
Yet not enough people may know how to find out whether their food was harvested or raised sustainably.
The way to create a sustainable future is to educate everyone on what to look for — and it may include changing their diet. Sustainability also calls on some farmers to alter their practices or change their processes entirely.
Still, though there may be some growing pains at first, these sustainable practices can ensure that there’s a future with food for everyone.
Why sustainable farming is important
Farming sustainably means leaving something to the earth rather than destroying the land by depleting it of nutrients for plants. When all the land resources are depleted in an area, that area is tthen ypically abandoned rather than rehabilitated, and it cannot be used for food again for years.
In a world where food insecurity, the lack of certainty that a household will obtain enough quality food to nourish it, is a looming threat, it is vital to ensure food creation and processing are sustainable.
When demand is high, sustainable practices often are not followed. More food has to be grown and harvested to catch up with the demand. Doing so can damage the land, sometimes beyond repair.
Those who grow food should always want to farm in a sustainable way that doesn’t severely damage the soil. People will want food to continue growing for years afterwards. To better help farmers adhere to sustainable practices, people should change their diets to be healthier, including limiting or omitting red meat altogether.
The problem with red meat is that cattle take up a lot of resources for very little return on investment. Much of red meat is not sustainable for several reasons. Some red meat might be exposed to hormones and pesticides, which then can harm people’s health.
Additionally, cattle need large spaces to graze, which means land needs to be cleared out, often via deforestation. They also emit methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Sustainable farming may need to step away from red meat and lean more towards plant-based meats or other types of meat like poultry.
Practicing sustainable farming can guarantee that people worldwide will have enough to eat. One way to ensure that there will be enough food for everyone in future is to create a change in the supply and demand process by having people alter the way they eat, therefore relying on less processed meat and more on natural, plant-based foods.
Pest control is another key area. There are several natural ways to prevent pests in your home, but when you run a large farm, it might be difficult to eliminate pests. Having professional pest control is essential to disrupting the breeding cycles of pests.
Professionals know how much of certain pesticides to use and where to use them to keep them from affecting you or anything else you may be worried about, such as crops. This way, you don’t have to spray pesticides directly on your crops, and you need not worry about pests getting into your food.
Electric farm equipment that releases zero carbon emissions will also become tools of the future. Transitioning off traditional equipment can save the world from tons of unnecessary carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and it can be cost-effective for the people who own them and a worthwhile investment for those looking for a growing sector to dip their money in.
Traditional farming equipment can be dangerous to the environment, but preparing for and harvesting crops by hand is not feasible. Electric farm equipment creates a happy medium that allows farmers and other workers to create food with relative ease while also causing less harm to the environment.
Raising healthier animals can help the meat farming industry. Technology is improving to the point where farmers can use it to detect any gene abnormalities in livestock. This way, farmers can prevent that livestock from breeding and find others worth the investment.
As technology improves and becomes more affordable every day it is set to become more widespread. Though sustainable farming may not be as common as it should be right now, there is hope for the future as technology evolves and sustainable practices become even easier to implement.
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We’ll have more news to share about the Wikipedia puzzle globe in the coming weeks, but for now we’re happy to be able to share the inside scoop on how this lovely sign came together.
Jay Walsh, Head of Communications
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Why is this globe different from the logo =D
Great !! . I think it means that Humans explore the world , and fix the missing parts .
I don’t think its really different, only some other colours.
yup~that really brings our new space together in an exciting way~`we can explore the world the knowledge together~~so cooool~haha
Is it available at a price in a more miniaturized size as a conversation piece, script identifier, jigsaw puzzle?
Wikipedia is a magical website on the www. I just did a donation to it and so you should do, too. Regards, Zauberer
working on this cool internet site globe.
i want to one of this !!!
There is no Indian banks we too can contribute right. Bcoz iam intrested
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People could participate in two categories: uploading photos to Wikimedia Commons (in a similar way as other photo contests like Wiki Loves Monuments) or writing reviews in Wikiviajes (Spanish Wikivoyage) from December 1, 2015 to January 31, 2016. Each category had three winners, which were chosen by a selected team of jurors. Additionally, the photos uploaded for the contest could be nominated for the Public’s Award during February —the most liked photo on Wikimedistas de Colombia’s Facebook Page would win.
The goal was not to limit the contest to monuments, churches, etc, but have more flexibility and make it easier to participate in the contest. People could participate around a general idea: tourist attractions, dishes, landscapes, places, costumes, or more. If you were spending your vacation time and found something interesting, you could take a picture and upload it via Wikimedia Commons. Alternatively, you could write about it, creating a new article or editing an already existing one, and win prices.
In the end, 175 people shared 4,311 photos from 305 different places. All of the files were released under CC BY-SA 4.0, meaning that anyone is free to share and adapt the work, even you.
Check out the pictures below and tell us your favorite one in the comments.
Second Place. Landscape from Pozos Azules Desert. Photo by Ludwig Snider Suárez.
Third Place. A woman seeing the beach of the Natural National Park Tayrona. Photo by Camilografo.
Runner-up. Panoramic view of the Chicamocha Canyon. Photo by Ludwig Snider Suárez.
Runner-up. Regattas in Tolú. Photo by Williamzarza.
Runner-up. Inírida Fisherman. Photo by AlexBMG123.
Runner-up. Marine Silhouettes in Tolú. Photo by Williamzarza.
Runner-up. Coveñas’ Landscape. Photo by Williamzarza.
Runner-up. Sunset in Tolú, Sucre. Photo by Williamzarza.
Runner-up. Snow Peaks Pan de Azúcar and Púlpito del Diablo. Photo by Djlego123.
Juan Sebastian Quintero Santacruz, Wikimedistas de Colombia
All photos in this post are freely licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Wow because this is very excellent work! Congrats and keep it up.|
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The update describes three main developments:
Guiding Principles, a set of principles guiding our research in knowledge gaps: knowledge equity, multi-project focus, community-driven research, machine-in-the-loop, inclusivity, privacy, and openness.
Consolidated Research Roadmap, consisting of three main directions: identify, measure, and bridge knowledge gaps.
Ideas for Future Research: big research questions, spanning a 5 to 10-year horizon, which we would like to share with the research community.
This post summarizes the key points of each development. For more in-depth information about our revised roadmap, please refer to the full update (or its pdf version on Commons), and stay tuned for follow-up posts! Please share suggestions and feedback on the talk page. We are looking forward to hearing your thoughts on our knowledge gaps research!
Principles Guiding Knowledge Gaps Research
Knowledge Equity. The Knowledge Equity principle is at the heart of the knowledge gaps research. Our aim is to provide tools and research to identify, measure, and address those knowledge gaps that prevent us from reaching knowledge equity.
Beyond one project. We conduct research for Wikimedia projects including but not limited to Wikipedia, such as Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource, and Wiktionary.
Community-driven research. We are inspired and influenced by Wikimedia communities. Our aim is to develop research and technologies that work in harmony with community principles and mechanisms.
Inclusive research methods. Knowledge equity starts from the technologies we develop. To support a diverse community, our outputs are inclusive by design, and scalable across platforms, content types, languages, and cultures.
Machine-in-the-loop. Our automated systems are designed to play a supporting role for editors, empowering them and improving their capacity. Editors and other users should keep full control of whether to adopt or reject algorithmic suggestions.
Privacy. Our research is guided by the respect for privacy that is core to all Wikimedia projects.
Openness. Freedom and Open Source is a guiding principle of our research. We follow the Wikimedia Foundation’s Open Access policy.
Our 3-5 years Research Roadmap: Identify, Measure, and Bridge Knowledge Gaps
This direction focuses on developing systematic definitions of knowledge gaps and their context as the first step towards operationalizing knowledge equity. Our research is focusing on four main goals:
The Knowledge Gaps Taxonomy V2, by Miriam (WMF) – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Define Knowledge Gaps. We developed and are continuously improving the first taxonomy of Wikimedia knowledge gaps, a structured, systematic list of inequalities in Wikimedia projects across readers, contributors, and content.
Define Barriers to Knowledge. We plan to create a taxonomy of barriers preventing people from accessing free knowledge.
Understanding Readers and Contributors. We are working on understanding in-depth reader motivation, navigation patterns, and curiosity, as well as contributor workflows, to help uncover and prioritize new and existing knowledge gaps..
The Role of Images and Multimedia. We are interested in studying the role of multimedia content in Wikimedia platforms, the extent of its presence, and its impact on navigation.
Once knowledge gaps are systematically defined, the next challenge is to develop ways to measure them. Our goals for this direction are as follows:
Quantify knowledge gaps. We defined high-level metrics, namely the tools, data, and logic needed to measure the knowledge gaps in the taxonomy, tested some readers and contributors metrics and we are currently working on metrics for the multimedia gap and the readability gap.
Create snapshots of the state of gaps over time. We are currently deploying 5 demographics content gap metrics and are fostering the creation of new tools and research to systematically generate data about disparities in content, contributors, and readers.
Build a tool to explore knowledge gaps data. We are building the knowledge gap index, an accessible and user-friendly interface, through which we hope to allow Wikimedians and researchers to monitor data about knowledge gaps, set targets and track the progress towards those goals.
This direction discusses ways to address Wikimedia knowledge gaps, informed by the systematic definitions and measurements described so far. We are working on two main research fronts:
Discover, prioritize, and tag Wikimedia Content. Operating in harmony with community practices, we are developing and encouraging research around tools for content recommendation (for example list, building, link recommendation, image recommendation and section recommendation), prioritization (based on article importance) and tagging (see topic filters) that can help communities address gaps.
Tools and systems to address knowledge gaps. Besides collaborating with WMF’s product teams to support the development of structured tasks, we are studying ways to promote equity and reduce biases through our recommender systems. We also developed a set of tools that facilitate the visualization and exploration of patterns in Wikimedia projects, and continue our collaborations with teams inside of WMF, the Wikimedia affiliates, and the developer community to build products that address knowledge gaps.
Beyond the 5-Year Horizon: Ideas for the Future
During our conversations, several ideas for research projects with a longer-term horizon emerged. We share them here with hope to generate interest and awareness around research questions that are crucial for the future of Wikimedia projects.
Learning. One of the main motivations bringing people to Wikimedia sites is intrinsic learning. But are our content, tools, and recommender systems designed to foster and maximize learning?
A Model of Wikipedia’s Complexity. Researchers have long studied ways to model complex systems such as climate change or social networks, and these models have been shown to be extremely useful in understanding the underlying mechanisms and providing quantitative forecasts. Can we have a model that reflects Wikipedia’s processes and can help answer questions about knowledge gaps and imagine extreme scenarios?
Named Entity Recognition in images. Named Entity Recognition is a well-established NLP task that, given a piece of natural language text, such as a Wikipedia article, extracts semantic entities in a knowledge graph such as Wikidata. The recognition of named entities in text has been widely explored in the natural language processing field. But how can we classify highly granular semantics in images?
New and External forms of knowledge While most of our work focuses on understanding gaps in Wikimedia spaces as of today, Wikipedia and its sister projects are in continuous evolution. Wikimedia projects do not live in isolation: they are an essential part of the larger web ecosystem. How does Wikipedia address the knowledge gaps of the broader web, and what forms of knowledge Wikimedia needs to acquire in order to fulfill its role in the web?
The Research team would like to thank everyone who has supported us throughout the years with the Knowledge Gaps research and who has given love and feedback to the Knowledge Gap projects: thank you all.
Funds for this research are provided by donors who give to the Wikimedia Foundation, by grants from the Siegel Family Endowment, and by a grant from the Argosy Foundation. Thank you!
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The Amazon’s trees are succumbing to climate change
By Daniel T Cross on November 13, 2018
As climates around the world continue to change, some species will be winners while others will likely cope much less successfully with changing weather patterns. It has always been like this in the history of life on the planet, but the current pace of change is almost unprecedented.
If we’ve needed any more proof of this, here it comes: numerous plant species in the vast Amazon region have already been losing out to climate change and will continue to do so in coming decades.
So says a team of more than 100 scientists from over 30 institutions worldwide who have set out to evaluate the impact of warming temperatures on thousands of tree species across the Amazon over a three-decade period. They did so by tracking the lifecycles of trees belonging to various species by the help of long-term records. Their findings are disheartening.
Since the 1980’s, global environmental change, including increased temperatures, prolonged droughts and higher levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, has had measurable impacts on the growth and mortality rates of trees. Moisture-loving tree species have especially been affected, succumbing to environmental changes more regularly than other species.
Nor are these trees being replaced with species more suitable to drier climates at a fast enough space.
Brazil nut trees like this one are especially good at capturing and storing carbon from the atmosphere. (photo: Pixabay)
“The ecosystem’s response is lagging behind the rate of climate change,” says lead author Dr. Adriane Esquivel Muelbert, from the School of Geography at Leeds University. “The data showed us that the droughts that hit the Amazon basin in the last decades had serious consequences for the make-up of the forest, with higher mortality in tree species most vulnerable to droughts and not enough compensatory growth in species better equipped to survive drier conditions.”
Taller trees, which are predominantly canopy species occupying the upper tiers of forests, are also outcompeting smaller plants, indicating that such canopy-dwelling tree could well become climate change “winners.”
This is because they benefit from increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which allow them to grow more quickly, often at the expense of other species. “This further suggests that higher carbon dioxide concentrations also have a direct impact on rainforest composition and forest dynamics – the way forests grow, die and change,” the researchers explain.
Such findings are invaluable in our quest to understand the impacts of climate change on arboreal ecosystems so we can better protect them from further harm at the hands of loggers and farmers. Called the “lungs of the planet,” the Amazon’s forests boast an estimated 16,000 species of trees with new species being discovered regularly. The health of local forests is key not only to local biodiversity but also to life on the planet in general, seeing as they provide vital carbon capture and storage services whereby they help regulate global temperatures.
Yet a recent study of local trees found, perhaps not surprisingly, that not all species boast the same natural carbon-capture and -storage capacities. An especially carbon-intensive local species is the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa), which can reach well over 30m in height and thus dwells in the canopy. These trees alone were found to contain 1.3% of a surveyed forest area’s carbon content. As a result, protecting such towering trees will be all the more important in coming years and decades if we are to keep global temperature rises within manageable limits.
“The impact of climate change on forest communities has important consequences for rain forest biodiversity,” explains Dr. Kyle Dexter, a scientist at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland. “The species most vulnerable to droughts are doubly at risk, as they are typically the ones restricted to fewer locations in the heart of the Amazon, which make them more likely to be extinct if this process continues,” Dexter adds.
There is a “need for strict measures to protect existing intact rainforests,” he stresses. “Deforestation for agriculture and livestock is known to intensify the droughts in this region, which is exacerbating the effects already being caused by global climate change.”
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Skateboarding is fun. It can also be ecofriendly
By Lily Hu on April 16, 2020
Skateboarders are called a lot of names: shredders, concrete surfers, hill bombers. Celebrated as a sport and a recreational activity and now seen as a mode of transportation, skateboarding has catapulted itself from the streets of Los Angeles to across the world.
It all started when surfers attached clay wheels to lumber boards and began skating across the new urban developments in southern California in the 1950s. Yet for decades skater counter culture has been intertwined with changes in the environment.
When a drought hit southern California, swimming pools dried up and the days of sidewalk skating suddenly found new habitats to flourish in. The empty pools, now abandoned in the wake of the drought, became grounds for skate tricks and flips to evolve. Street skaters utilized architecture and adapted to suburban and urban structures to perform tricks,
As one of the top alternative methods of transportation, the actual act of skating itself is sustainable. My friends use skateboards to get to class or to work and contribute fewer carbon emissions than their classmates who drive. Furthermore, manufacturing skateboards uses fewer materials than manufacturing bikes, and if its techniques are mastered, skateboarding can be faster than commuting on a bicycle.
Then why is skateboarding culture not environmentally friendly?
Skateboards can be made a lot more sustainable with a few tricks. (photo: Pixabay)
While skater culture continues to flourish in the form of fashion and new tricks, its reluctance to innovate and adapt to a world requiring sustainable solutions causes more environmental damage than its counterparts, the bicycle and the electric scooter.
By using public structures to land kickflips and ollies, skateboards erode benches and curbs, thereby causing urban decay. Skateparks, often composed of large cement structures and ramps, take up land and resources that could have been used for neighborhood gardens, parks, or fields.
The manufacturing of skateboards itself uses unsustainable materials. Many mainstream brands use maple wood as the primary material for building the deck of the skateboard, and this industry is one of the “leading contributors” in maple deforestation.
Deforestation is a major environmental issue; it causes natural habitat destruction by devastating local plant and animal populations and increasing carbon emissions. The loss of trees then increases soil erosion. Because the maple tree takes around 40 to 60 years to mature, the deforestation greatly reduces the Canadian maple tree population.
Replacing clay wheels with polyurethane wheels has made riding skateboards safer, but the environmental ramifications of producing polyurethane, which causes harmful emissions, leave room for improvement.
Recreational skating is also growing in popularity. In 2018, the skateboard market was valued at over $1.9 billion, and that number continues to grow. Breaking boards and tearing shoes are common in skate culture from general wear and tear to more extreme situations, such as accidentally smashing the board.
It’s normal for boards to be replaced after every couple of months, further contributing to increased demand of boards. Skate shoes wear out quickly, and must also be replaced periodically. These incidents increase the demand for shoes and skateboards, further contributing to carbon emissions.
As skate culture rises in popularity, many people are adding popular clothing brands, from Supreme to Thrasher, in their wardrobes, and fast fashion companies are scrambling to keep up with the demand. H&M and Forever21 mass produce baggy T-shirts, straight pants, and beanies, worsening the environmental impact of the fast fashion industry.
However, these impacts can be mitigated through innovative design, from the manufacturing process to redesigning skateparks. BambooSK8 designs boards made from bamboo, a fiber proven to be far more resilient and sustainable than commercial maple boards, at a similar price point. Iris Skateboards in San Francisco repurposes old skateboards into completely new decks.
Other companies such as Satori have piloted recycling programs to reduce unnecessary waste. They urge consumers to return worn out wheels and trucks to make new wheels from the recycled ones. Boards have also been repurposed entirely. Ada Cheung of Billy Would Designs crafts earrings and jewelry pieces out of recycled materials from skateboards. Deckstool makes furniture and home decor from worn-out decks. MapleXO uses old trucks to make bottle openers and other tools.
City planners are incorporating sustainability in skate park designs, planting trees and shrubbery within parks. This reduces the urban heat effect and storm water runoffs, filtering the much needed water back into the ground.
These projects, programs and initiatives demonstrate the potential for sustainable practices within the skateboarding culture. Now it’s up to skateboarders to adopt them.
Sk8er boys, your move.
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Wiki goes Caribbean workshop at the National Archives in the Netherlands
The Caribbean part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (the independent nations Curaçao, Aruba and Sint Maarten, and the territories Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius) is underrepresented on the Wikimedia projects. And people from these parts are underrepresented in our Wiki communities, so their voices, perspectives and knowledge don’t come through. We are working with GLAM and education institutes in the Dutch Caribbean to develop partnerships, and are supporting the Papiamento Wikipedia. We are working with institutes in the Netherlands to share content. And we are reaching out to communities in the Netherlands and the Caribbean to become involved. Of course, anyone can contribute in theory, but not everyone feels empowered to do so.
To be clear – and this is crucial! – this project does not specifically focus on the colonial past. The six islands in the Caribbean are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands – so this is our political and constitutional present. Three of the islands have the status of Dutch municipalities (Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius), the other three are independent nations with King Willem Alexander as their head of state. Dutch is an official language on all islands, and Papiamentu on some of them. So the Dutch-speaking Wikipedia should serve them just as well as it serves the people in the Netherlands and in the Flemish part of Belgium. For people for whom Papiamento is the everyday language the situation is even worse. There are very few editors and their Wikipedia is small.
The recent discussions around the colonial past of the Netherlands are also becoming relevant to us, and issues such a slavery and racism are being reexamined. We see it too in the GLAM world, where the wording in labelling of paintings and artifacts is being reconsidered, and the Dutch role in slave trade is getting more attention.
We as an organisation learn a lot through this long-term project. Also for me personally, I am only now fully realising how little I know about parts of my own country and its history. We have started with small projects, learn from them, build them up as we go. But to achieve “Knowledge Equity” the Wikimedia communities in the Netherlands and elsewhere will still need to reflect and discuss a lot and to reexamine the basic concepts of the Wikimedia projects: neutrality, notability, sources, the ‘anyone can edit’ principle. Things are moving.
Do you want to know more?
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Many well educated people, people with a university level education are effectively illiterate in their own language. For them a Wikipedia in their own language does not tempt them to get involved. They do not have the skills even though it would not be that hard for them to learn to read and write their mother tongue. What really helps is that writing the Indic languages is helped in two ways; the scripts are really phonetic and InScript, the dominant keyboard layout for Indic languages, ensures that the same sound is always in the same place.
When our goal is to get more people involved in the Indic languages, we can ask people to transcribe the scans of public domain books. We will be providing them with a keyboard mapping, the fonts that show their language. As these “illiterates” recognise the characters and reproduce them digitally, they learn not only to type their language they may even learn to read. When we recognise their effort in a thank you note accompanying the book, experience teaches us they are likely to help us in future projects.
The project that is already making a big impact in India in this way is the Malayalam Wikisource project.They published a CD with a years worth of sources and distributed it to the schools of Kerala. They produce software that ensures that the content looks really good. The software as well as the content is available on the internet but sadly this full experience can not be had on Wikisource itself.
When a new book becomes available, the Malayalam press mentions this often in their periodicals so much so that Wikisource is mentioned more often in the press than Wikipedia.
Similar projects for other Indic languages have been a popular topic at the WikiConference India; it was discussed at least for Sanskrit and Tamil. The discussion was not only about the organisation of such a project but also about internationalising the software that prepares the final product and about using Kiwix for presenting it. When you consider how much literature is available in the Indic languages that is already in the public domain, this is a project that will run and run.
Preparing sources in Wikibooks or Wikisource in a collaborative way makes sense in a Wiki. Once the work is done however publishing the content can be in all kinds of formats. This is important because we do want it to be read as widely as possible because this is how we optimally realise our objectives.
Jimmy is right when he said in his speech that the Indic language communities can learn from each other and do really well. However these best practices can be applied to any Wikisource or Wikibooks.
Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant
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Thanks for the blogpost and highlighting the work of Malayalam wiki source community. People from other indic languages can certainly leverage the work done, once their communities gain in strength in terms of active wiki contributors.
//Many well educated people, people with a university level education are effectively illiterate in their own language.// //When our goal is to get more people involved in the Indic languages, we can ask people to transcribe the scans of public domain books. We will be providing them with a keyboard mapping, the fonts that show their language. As these “illiterates” recognise the characters and reproduce them digitally, they learn not only to type their language they may even learn to read.// I find the above lines not only very offending but also far from truth. The people you see in… Read more »
What I am saying is that there are many people like this. I am not saying that everyone is like that. That would show how little I know and may even be considered insulting. Several of these people I met are interested in their culture and they may be tempted with literature that is well presented in their mother tongue. What I have learned is that Wikisource has a lot of potential. I very much want to see more projects do as well as the http://ml.wikisource.org . Opening up the literature that is already in the public domain or is… Read more »
//Many well educated people, people with a university level education are effectively illiterate in their own language.// Ravi, I don’t see why anyone can get offended with the above statement! This is a perfectly valid statement (sad, but true). Today, there are no doubt many Indians who have lost touch with reading/writing in their native language post-university education. Obviously there are many other Indians who are perfectly in touch with their native language, but it seems the project is to get the former pool of people on board. I really commend the project objective – it can only help save… Read more »
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Before a proposal can be created on the public website of Wikimedia Australia, at least two members of the organisation must be firmly committed to build the proposal, and a committee member must approve the concept.
Each committee member is empowered to make this decision quickly and individually, or may consult with the proponents and other committee members.
Once these prerequisites are met, the proposal can be drafted in the 'Proposal' namespace. Drafts will be dated and clearly marked to inform the reader that they are not officially approved.
The proposal must be published for seven days before any approval decision is sought.
After the seven days, any two members of the organisation can request that the committee vote on the proposal within 28 days, with the minutes to be published seven days after the vote.
Any two members can also add a proposal to the agenda of the next general meeting. If the proposal was rejected by the committee, a special resolution is required. If the proposal has not previously been rejected by the committee in its current form, a show of hands with a simple majority is sufficient for the proposal to be approved.
As provided in rule 10, a special general meeting can be called on request by 5% of the membership.
Proposals by committee members
This policy also applies to committee members, with the exception that committee members may submit proposals through the committee decision making process. Should the committee not accept the proposal through the committee process, the committee member is expected to use the process in this policy to obtain feedback from the members and formally table the proposal for the committee to vote on.
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Waterborne toxic pollutants can affect fish for generations
By Daniel T Cross on June 29, 2020
The effects of some forms of chemical poisoning acquired from the environment can pass down three generations. At least in fish.
Small fish that get exposed even to low levels of synthetic endocrine-disrupting chemicals that have become common in many freshwater sources can end up passing on the genetic impacts of these chemicals to their offspring that were never directly exposed to the same chemicals, say researchers at Oregon State University in the United States.
This phenomenon can impact three generations of fish, which is equivalent to having grandparents that come in contact with pollutants in their environment passing the effects on to their grandchildren, the scientists explain in a study published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science.
Endocrine disruptors mimic hormones in the body and can lead to adverse biological effects in aquatic and other animals by triggering changes in their development, behavior and fertility rates.
These chemicals are used in a myriad of household and industrial products, including flame retardants, food items, toys, cosmetics and pesticides. They often leach into water sources where they then accumulate. Even in small quantities they can have a marked impact. It has been shown previously that when fish are exposed to these chemicals in their environment their populations can end up suffering from altered sex ratios, lower fertility rates and various deformities.
In their own research the scientists in Oregon examined how the chemicals impacted generations of inland silversides (Menidia beryllina), a small fish native to estuaries in the eastern part of North America and the Gulf of Mexico where they feed largely on zooplankton. These little fish are an important source of food for birds and predatory fish.
In an experiment the scientists exposed inland silversides to the equivalent of just a few drops of endocrine disruptors in an Olympic-size swimming pool, which is a relatively low concentration. They then set about studying three generations of fish for 21 months to see if the effects of the chemical passed from generation to generation.
To their surprise they found marked changes across three generations, even though only the first generation was exposed to the endocrine disruptors for a few weeks in early life. The growth and development of subsequent generations were also found to be affected. Needless to say, that is a disconcerting finding.
“It’s really important to understand how animals can deal with stress in the environment, particularly when we are introducing new stressors on a daily basis,” stresses Susanne Brander, an assistant professor and aquatic toxicologist at the university’s Department of Fisheries and Wildlife.
“Our research helps show what animals do to respond to these changes and how quickly they can respond to them. That’s going to help us understand our impact on the environment in the long run,” she adds.
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Solar technologies that produce electricity can be classified into two main categories: solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal. The former produces electricity directly from the sun while the latter relies on the sun’s heat. Solar PV remains the dominant solar technology used to produce electricity in the United States.
The definition of a solar PV system is an array of solar-collecting panels, often seen on rooftops or mounted on the ground, which capture solar radiation and converts this into usable power. More specifically, solar PV captures solar radiation in direct current (DC) form and changes the nature of the power through an inverter to match alternating current (AC) used on the power grid.
Many incentives serve to lower the cost of solar power and bring the technology into competition with other forms of energy generation.
One such incentive in the U.S. is the solar energy investment tax credit (ITC), which has been a major driver of solar energy uptake across the country since its inception in 2006. Extended two times and reshaped in 2015, the 30% federal ITC is one of the most important federal policy mechanisms to support the deployment of solar energy in the U.S.
Prior to 2000, most installed solar panels were for research and development (R&D) or demonstration projects. These projects were small in scale due to very high costs associated with the technology at the time. However, in the early 2000s, supportive policies came into force in Europe and the U.S., which began to bring costs down.
In Europe, particular countries (such as Germany, Italy, and Spain) opted to drive the adoption of renewable energy sources with feed-in tariffs (FiTs). These payment mechanisms operate like long-term fixed price power purchase agreements (PPAs) and last 10 to 25 years with a price well above market. These agreements have driven significant renewable energy buildout.
In the U.S., states opted for a more auction-based system driving state-level compliance called renewable portfolio standards (RPS). Formally, an RPS is a state-level policy which requires utilities to procure certain amounts of energy from renewable sources.
Some RPS requirements contain provisions for specific renewable energy type carve-outs (e.g., wind, solar, biomass). Additionally, compliance timelines vary for RPS requirements, and as a result, did not necessarily trigger the same pace or level of solar investments as seen by Europe’s generous subsidies.
Learning from Germany’s expensive FiTs, the U.S. preferred a market-based solution to promote the adoption of renewable technologies. RPS requirements created demand for large solar investments, most predominantly in California and the Southwest U.S., an area rich with potential. Coupled with the 30% ITC and other incentives, this provided means for lowering costs.
However, RPS programs rely on the most cost-effective renewable resource through bidding processes and are not handed out on a first come-first served basis like FiTs in Europe. Competitive auctions, long-term contracting and financing make RPS a more equitable distribution of subsidies based on economic-competitiveness.
Other incentives have helped along the way as well. They include a 30% federal investment tax credit (ITC); a Temporary Cash Grant; loan guarantees; state-level incentives like PACE loans, favorable sales and property tax exemptions; Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs); MACRS depreciation and special bonus depreciation allowances; and net energy metering (NEM) policies.
Use of Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS depreciation) provides a more favorable depreciation schedule for solar projects. The accelerated depreciation treatment allows a 5-year depreciable life. Taking advantage of timing differences, MACRS and bonus depreciation reduce a qualifying solar project’s taxable income in its early years, thereby leading to a lower levelized cost of electricity (LCOE).
Solar energy is gaining ground across the United States.
Cost is often seen as a major deterrent to wide-scale adoption of solar, yet it has now become a tailwind for solar PV under certain circumstances. Two technologies, crystalline silicon and thin film PV, account for the vast majority of the global solar market today. Due in large part to on-going subsidies, technology improvements, falling costs, favorable borrowing rates, and economies of scale, many utility-scale (2+ MW) solar PV projects have become cost competitive with alternatives.
In fact, total installed costs have fallen over 60% in the nine years from 2009 to 2018, with further decreases anticipated. The costs are particularly attractive for utility-scale solar in certain regions of the U.S. with high solar resources. In a 2015 study, the Brattle Group examined the cost disparity between residential solar PV and utility-scale solar PV in Xcel Colorado’s service area.
The results found that the cost of generating 300 MW from utility-scale solar PV is roughly half the cost per MWh of the equivalent output from 60,000, five kW residential-scale systems. (For reference, 1 MW = 1,000 kW.) The Brattle study found the primary reasons for the cost disparity are economies of scale and the increased output resulting from the optimized placement and orientation of panels.
Few utility companies own solar projects directly and often take power through power purchase agreements with third parties. This occurs primarily because of the tax normalization policy utilities must abide by under the Internal Revenue Code.
What are some cost challenges for utilities to own solar power?
One hindrance has been the cost-effectiveness of regulated utilities to invest in solar projects which they own and operate. Due to normalization procedures, utilities do not have the ability to offset their tax liability from the year the project is placed in-service.
Normalization is an accounting system provided for by Treasury regulations which require regulated public utilities to reconcile the tax treatment of the ITC. In effect, these tax credits must be recognized over the depreciable life of the asset and not upfront like non-regulated entities enjoy.
Regulated utilities use rates set by a public regulator which accounts for depreciation on utility assets and the tax expense associated with them. Normalization rules in the Internal Revenue Code require the calculation of tax depreciation expense to vary from how utilities file their returns.
For the purposes of the ITC, normalization requires the tax expense to be depreciated over the economic useful life of the asset. In the case of solar, often 30 years. Therefore, the ITC loses its effectiveness on a net present value basis and makes utility-owned solar project less cost-effective than 3rd-party owned solar.
Importantly, the ITC and other incentives have served as major drivers for lowering the cost of solar power in the U.S. Similar incentives can work their charm in other countries as well.
This is an excerpted version of an article that first appeared on the blog “Young and the Invested.” The original version of it is available here.
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“At heart, I am a cultural anthropologist,” said Rosie, a prolific Wikipedia editor and content contributor who edits as User:Rosiestep. “Once I started college, I wanted to be a cultural anthropologist. I wanted to follow in the steps of Margaret Mead.”
As Rosie entered college, her desire to study cultural anthropology was checked by her father, who wanted her to be “a pharmacist or an accountant, something that a woman who would eventually get married and have children could do part time,” she said. “He was being practical.” Rosie went on to study business, eventually obtaining a Masters degree. Despite her college education, she still couldn’t suppress her desire to pursue her passion as a cultural anthropologist.
Then, several years ago, Rosie’s son Sean edited a Wikipedia article about a town in the Ukraine he was stationed in while working with the Peace Corps. “I’d never thought of actually making a contribution myself. I just figured other people were doing it,” Rosie said, “but when he said that, I thought it was fabulous.”
Later in the same year, Rosie searched Wikipedia for a group of books published by the Book League of America. While the publisher no longer exists, Rosie possessed an impressive collection of the Book League’s texts. She was surprised to find that there was no entry about the company on Wikipedia. It was then that she decided to contribute. “I thought, you know what, Sean edited Wikipedia, I bet I could do that too. Let me see how to do it. And so I tried to figure it out.”
Rosie had no way of knowing that this single contribution would eventually lead her to become the woman ranked with the highest number of Did You Know articles on English Wikipedia and the number four ranked Wikipedian in total (she has 697 DYKs and more than 67,000 edits).
“I edited and edited and edited, thinking you could just kind of keep doing this, just keep looking stuff up and keep writing,” she said. “At some point, I started thinking wow, I’m building up a body of work here.”
This compulsion to edit is passed down from her grandmother, Paulina Lebl-Albala, the first president of the Yugoslav Association of University-Educated Women. Her grandmother was known for her work editing textbooks for the local university and for the translations she made of the German author Herman Hesse.“I feel this genetic pull to her,” Rosie said. “She edited textbooks, I edit Wikipedia. I feel this sense of connection with her. I think Grandma would be proud of me.”
Rosie finds inspiration in the example of her grandmother who became prolific in an area normally dominated by men. In turn, Rosie hopes that her example will inspire more women to edit Wikipedia. She admitted her shock at the ever-dwindling number of Wikipedia’s female editors. “I’ve read the statistics of how few women edit,” she said. “It needs more women.”
She hopes that other women will develop a similar love and passion for contributing to Wikipedia, that contributing to knowledge overwhelms the discomfort they may feel from the occasionally confrontational remarks made on their talk pages by male editors.
To Rosie, contributing to Wikipedia is important because it means that you are helping others receive what she describes as the “freedom of all knowledge on the planet.”
“I’m hooked.” She said, “I’m addicted, I love to do this, I’m driven to do this.”
Wikipedia, she said, finally gave her the possibility of fulfilling her childhood aspirations. “Wikipedia has given me an opportunity to be that cultural anthropologist,” she said. “I study very interesting places and interesting people, and write all these articles.”
She continued, “I can’t not do this. I think there is a sense that I want my kids to be proud of me, to know that I am doing something that I think is really important.”
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Mom, I am so proud of you.
You make the world a better place in so many ways, thank you.
Congrats on being #4, that’s huge!
What an inspiration for women and all! I bet her family is SO proud of her.
What an impressive accomplishment! You are an inspiration! Keep knocking out those articles and edits.
An inspiration to your kids, their friends and the whole world. Good work Rosie!
what a badass lady!
Rosie, Congrats. What a nachiver!!! Fantastic. Please keep it up.
Cheers and all the best wishes
Inspired to start editing!
What an amazing way to contribute! Keep it up, Rosie! This is really Inspiring.
What an inspirational story! Sean was recently talking about how proud he is of you. Thanks for your contribution to our planet!
thanks alot! i realized that not to make errors in articles to the extent possible in order to reduce the burden of such highly and valued inspiring person!
Congrats! I find this article very inspiring!
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] | Wikipedia’s representatives – Jimmy Wales, Lila Tretikov, Patricio Lorente, Lourdes Cardenal, Ravan Jaafar Altaie, and Jeevan Jose (see below for more information) – receive the Princess of Asturias Award on Friday in Spain. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia España.
On Friday, October 23, Wikipedia was formally presented with the highly esteemed Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, honoring the Wikimedia movement vision of allowing everyone, everywhere to freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
Established in 1980, the Spanish Princess of Asturias Awards annually recognize eight individuals and organizations from around the world for their scientific, cultural and social achievements in the arts, communication and humanities, social sciences, literature, sports, technical and scientific research, concord, and international cooperation.
The Princess of Asturias Foundation’s award jury chose Wikipedia as an “important example of international, democratic, open and participatory cooperation” and took note of the thousands of volunteers who “selflessly” contribute to the Wikimedia projects. They compared Wikipedia to France’s famous Encyclopédie, saying that Wikipedia “has managed to make universal knowledge available to everyone along similar lines to those achieved by the encyclopedic spirit of the 18th century.” Previous recipients of the international cooperation award include the World Health Organization and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales accepted the award on behalf of Wikipedia at the Princess of Asturias Foundation ceremony in Oviedo, Spain, presided over by the King and Queen of Spain. Jimmy was joined by Lila Tretikov, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Patricio Lorente, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, and Wikimedians Ravan Jaafar Altaie of Iraq, Lourdes Cardenal of Spain, and Jeevan Jose of India.
“Cooperation is what Wikipedia is all about, and it is a tremendous honor to be recognized by the Princess of Asturias Awards,” said Jimmy Wales. “I hope this inspires more people to become involved in the mission to share in the sum of all knowledge with the world.”
Wikimedians are volunteer contributors to Wikipedia and its sister projects. Ravan, Lourdes, and Jeevan represent a joyful dedication to knowledge and the global character of the Wikimedia community. Ravan is a engineer from Erbil, Iraq, and a passionate contributor to the Arabic Wikipedia. Lourdes is a representative of the Spanish Wikipedia community, serving as Spanish Wikipedia’s longest-running active editor and administrator. Jeevan, who prefers “Jee,” is a naturalist from a small village in southern India, where he contributes stunning nature photography to Wikimedia Commons.
“We are honored to be recognized in the category of international cooperation, which is at the heart of our mission,” said Lila Tretikov. “On Wikipedia, knowledge knows no borders. An image of a butterfly one photographer takes in an Indian forest helps editors around the world write articles on the species in their language, so half a billion people from every corner of the globe will learn about a rare species. This award honors the people that make Wikipedia possible.”
As a recipient, Wikipedia received a Joan Miró sculpture as a symbol of the award, a diploma, an insignia, and a prize of 50,000 euros.
Jimmy Wales – Founder of Wikipedia
Lila Tretikov – Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation
Patricio Lorente – Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
Ravan Jaafar Altaie – Wikimedian
Lourdes Cardenal – Wikimedian
Jeevan Jose – Wikimedian
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] | “This picture I took is nothing special, it’s just the result of someone who took a moment to notice the beauty all around them,” said William Harader.
Many of the Wikimedia Commons contributors who promoted the image as a Featured Picture, and subsequently the Picture of the Day for 23 June, might respectfully disagree with him, as they’ve deemed the image one of the finest in the freely-licensed database.
While doing conservation work for the Biosphere Coalition, Harader was driving around documenting the loss of wetlands around Baca Grande in Crestone, Colorado, USA, when he noticed the sunlight on the Narrowleaf Cottonwoods (Populus angustifolia). He said that it was “an easy shot to take,” it was one of those situations where he was presented with an exceptional opportunity for good photography and was there at the “right place and at the right time.”
“Every plant and every animal is a work of art in itself, and yet so many people don’t even notice this in their daily lives,” said Harader.
Harader works as a graphic designer and although he considers photography a hobby, he does get paid for some of his work. Initially, he started out taking pictures with a film camera but was unsuccessful in mastering the technique. It wasn’t until he borrowed his parents’ digital camera that he devoted more attention to photography, starting out by capturing macro images and slowly expanding to other types. He especially enjoys capturing “people simply living their lives and acting as they naturally would.”
“It’s actually a rather difficult subject to capture, as most people behave differently when they know they’re being photographed. They become very self-conscious and want to pose for the image, instead of just being themselves,” said Harader.
American hover fly (eupeodes americanus)
Harader began contributing to Wikimedia Commons shortly after he became an editor on English Wikipedia in 2006. He supports the principles of free licensing and believes “that society has more to gain from sharing than from competition.” Interestingly enough, Harader said he has received more offers from people wanting to buy prints of his images because they’ve seen his work on Commons than he has through his personal website.
Among many beautiful photos he has contributed to Commons, several of Harader’s pictures were nominated as Pictures of the Year, including the American Hover fly at left.
(To see more of Harader’s work, visit his user page)
Jordan Hu, Communications Intern
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March 8th is International Women’s Day, a holiday around the world that celebrates the accomplishments of women in all walks of life, as well as a collective reminder of past and continuing efforts to eliminate inequalities faced by women.
On the Main Pages of Wikipedias in every language, there is a longstanding tradition of presenting a list of holidays and anniversaries. For a few, Wikipedia projects curate special content that is relevant to that event. Perhaps the most famous example is the epic April Fool’s Day Main Page sections.
In consideration of the current discussion and community organizing around the Wikimedia movement’s own gender gap, we’d just like to take a moment and recognize the great encyclopedic content that was showcased on Wikipedia for International Women’s Day.
The first standout entry is Mary Wollstonecraft’s sequel to The Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman, which is assessed as a Featured-quality article on English Wikipedia and is the selected Featured Article of the day for March 8th, appearing front-and-center on en.wikipedia.org (until March 9th rolled around, in UTC time).
There are also nine solid entries in the “Did you know…” section of the English Main Page, ranging from abolitionist Anna Murray-Douglass to artist Claire Falkenstein.
Off of the front page of English Wikipedia, there is also an in-depth interview with community leaders from WikiProject Feminism in the latest edition of community newspaper The Signpost. That WikiProject is one of several now devoted to women-related topics, with WikiProject Women’s History as a second great example.
While the topic of gender is relevant to the evolution of the encyclopedia anyone can edit, this kind of activity is also something that goes on every day at Wikipedia regardless of the topic: people who care about a subject show up to participate and share free knowledge.
International Women’s Day is about focusing conversation on one problem that we face as a global society. Hopefully Wikipedia can be a place where we can support that conversation by providing neutral, verifiable information written by women and men in collaboration.
Steven Walling, Wikimedia Foundation Fellow
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I have birthday at 8th. of March.
Hey, wonderful news, thanks you too!
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] | On May 24th and 25th, the Wikimedia Foundation hosted a CiviCRM coding sprint in our San Francisco office. CiviCRM is the premier open source constituent relationship manager; WMF uses it to store donor and contribution information. Our CiviCRM database contains more than a million contact records and a million contribution records.
CiviCRM, The Free and Open Source Solution for the Civic Sector
The Foundation’s Arthur Richards, a fundraising engineer, enthused: “Any software tool, open source or not, comes with headaches; the beauty of tools like CiviCRM is that we can solve our own problems. Thanks to having some great hackers in one place, we managed to mitigate one of our biggest CiviCRM pain points in a matter of hours.”
You can read more details about the sprint on Donald Lobo’s CiviCRM blog.
Richards was especially excited to “highlight how awesome it is working with other open source projects and using other open source tools. We get to scratch each other’s backs, which helps support a sustainable, healthy ecosystem of software/communities. Also, using open source tools like CiviCRM – while not without their (often big) pain points – is great because we can fix the software ourselves. While the tools are free to use, with a little bit of elbow grease and some resources, they can be molded and fixed to meet our needs much easier (and likely much cheaper) than relying on proprietary tools. Plus, the CiviCRM community has been instrumental in helping us troubleshoot, solve problems and add new features to meet our usage requirements.”
The CiviCRM community is planning to run another code sprint in the fall in Northern California; please contact them if you’d like to participate or even host it. In the meantime, Wikimedia and thousands of other nonprofits will enjoy the CiviCRM improvements developed in May.
Volunteer Development Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
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Replanting the Philippines’ forests one tree at a time
By Daniel T Cross on July 26, 2019
The Philippines, a picturesque archipelago home to 105 million people, is among the most biodiverse countries in Southeast Asia. Yet extensive deforestation has wreaked havoc with local ecosystems, pushing numerous species of flora and fauna to the edge of extinction, including hundreds of endemic species.
Over the past century most local forests, which once covered more than two-thirds of the country, have been felled. Today only a fifth of the Philippines is covered in forests and illegal logging continues to take its toll on remaining forests around the country.
One Tree Planted, a non-profit based out of Vermont, has been planting trees in the tropical rainforests of Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines in an effort to try and restore some of the local forests to their former glory. In the process, the nonprofit says, it seeks “to improve water quality, create jobs, and protect and revive the livelihoods of indigenous communities surviving off of rainforest conservation.”
Matt Hill, a self-described environmental evangelist, set up One Tree Planted in 2014 with the aim of enabling and encouraging people to “give back to the environment.” Planting trees is one of the simplest ways people can give back to their environment, he believes. Last year alone his nonprofit planted 1.3 million trees from the United States all the way to Indonesia.
Hill has spoken to Sustainability Times.
Sustainability Times: The numbers about the rates of deforestation in recent decades paint a bleak picture in the Philippines. How bad would you say the situation is?
Matt Hill: The Philippines suffers from deforestation perhaps more than any other country, not only in the scale of forest loss but also in the rate at which forests are being cut down. Just in the last 100 years the Philippines has lost close to 10 million hectares of forest, taking it from some 70% forest coverage down to a mere 20%. According to Conservation International, this extreme rate of deforestation means the Philippines ranks as the 4th most threatened forest hotspot in the world.
ST: How badly have local ecosystems been affected?
Matt Hill is founder of One Tree Planted (photo: courtesy of Matt Hill)
Matt Hill: The dramatic loss of forest cover in the region has a multitude of effects on the land and population. The lack of trees is causing major erosion, which has depleted the soil’s nutrients. At least 50% of the topsoil has been lost in most regions, causing much lower crop yields and higher food insecurity. Erosion also severely affects many critical watersheds. With a lack of trees to properly filter and retain the groundwater, the quantity and quality of the cities’ water supply has diminished.
Less forest coverage also means the landscape is more vulnerable to environmental disasters such as typhoons, further exacerbating the ecological damage to the region. The Philippines is one of the most ecologically diverse regions in the world, home to more than 400 endangered species. The destruction of the forests reduces these species’ habitats and, ultimately, brings down their chance of survival. Beyond the impact on local biodiversity, there are also indigenous communities who rely heavily on the forest to support their livelihoods and who are largely not at fault for the country’s shrinking forests coverage.
ST: What drives large-scale deforestation in the country?
Matt Hill: Throughout the 20th century, the Philippines became known for exporting timber. In the 1970s President Ferdinand Marcos encouraged the growth of timber in the country’s timber industry by issuing eight times more logging licenses than previously. By the end of his 20 years in office more than half of the thriving forest he had inherited was cut down. This amounts to about 7.2 million hectares of forest lost over two decades.
Other causes of deforestation include slash-and-burn agricultural practices, forest fires, typhoons, and even volcanic eruptions. As with many regions around the world, an increasing population has only exacerbated these issues. More mouths to feed inevitably leads to a higher demand for agricultural land. On top of this, rapid expansion of urban centers continues to encroach on forested areas. All these factors add up to a lot of trees getting cut down.
ST: Deforestation rates have been far beyond sustainable levels not only in the Philippines but across much of the tropics from Southeast Asia to the Amazon. What can be done to protect remaining forests from further harm?
Matt Hill: In short, keep planting! Replacing the trees we’ve lost is the fastest way to getting our forests back. There is a famous Chinese proverb that says “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” Planting trees in targeted areas is a key factor in addressing specific problems.
In our new Philippines project we are tackling biodiversity loss by partnering with Endangered Species International and planting at Mount Matutum, which is home to many endangered species such as the Philippine eagle and the Philippine tarsier. Other important ways to protect forests is by finding a healthy equilibrium where the demand for food and land can be met while balancing the needs of nature.
Introducing sustainable farming practices and helping farmers transition to agroforestry have already proven successful in other areas around the world such as Brazil and Guatemala. Helping farmers obtain carbon credits in exchange for growing trees on their land is another effective method to discourage logging in countries like Tanzania, Kenya, and Rwanda.
ST: How does One Tree Planted seek to make a marked difference?
A Philippine tarsier perches on a branch at a captive breeding center in Bohol Province. (photo: Flickr)
Matt Hill: By keeping things simple. One-dollar plants one tree. It’s that easy. Making it simple for people to get involved means we are able to act quickly and support the projects around the world that need it most. Plus, it’s a measurable impact that most people can afford. We want people to feel inspired, to feel positive about the future, and to enjoy taking part in making the planet a greener, healthier place.
Part of this is about encouraging our supports to not only donate, but to take action and get involved with their communities through our schools and tree ambassador programs, as well as the many volunteer planting events we host throughout the year. This is a way for just about anyone to get their own hands in the dirt close to home.
In the end, planting a tree is a tangible step to helping protect our planet, especially when you do it yourself. You know the impact that tree will have now and into the future. It’s something we can all connect with. That’s why we want to make it easy for people and businesses to make that connection with the environment. When they do, other shifts towards sustainable actions come naturally.
ST: Are you optimistic about the future of forests in the Philippines and elsewhere in the region?
Matt Hill: Absolutely! In the last three decades the Philippines has already regained about 16% of its forest coverage thanks to large-scale reforestation efforts. Over the next year our project is planting another 20,000 trees to restore 247 acres of deforested land in the Mt. Matutum area. Not only is this providing habitat for endangered species, but we are also working in conjunction with the B’llaan tribe, whose ancestral lands are being restored by the project.
We are also working in other countries throughout Asia, such as Vietnam, Indonesia, and India. This year alone we are planting a total of 362,800 trees across the region so we are happy about the amazing strides forward we are making in our global reforestation efforts.
Recent research out of Switzerland found that the planet could benefit from 1 trillion more trees, and those trees could reduce the excess carbon emissions in our atmosphere by up to 60 percent. Although we are not at 1 trillion trees just yet, by the end of this year we aim to plant over 4 million trees worldwide. Each year we plant more and more trees, so we are confident that we can play a major role in creating a healthier environment throughout the world.
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Should we be afraid of nuclear power?
By Joshua S. Goldstein on March 2, 2020
Radioactivity is part of nature. The incredible energy of a supernova explosion billions of years ago locked away energy as matter, in uranium (and similar) atoms. These atoms give back that energy over billions of years as radioactivity.
It’s a miracle battery. For billions of years, this steady heat has kept the Earth’s core liquid, allowing the magnetic field and the atmosphere to exist. Without radioactivity, we wouldn’t be here.
Nuclear fission converts matter back to energy, and so offers an extremely concentrated source of power. Because it does not generate carbon pollution like fossil fuels, nuclear power has unique potential for solving climate change.
Many energy experts – and climate scientists like James Hansen who best understand the magnitude of the challenge – have concluded that decarbonizing the world economy by 2050 requires a major expansion of nuclear power worldwide, among other actions.
Yet preventing nuclear from going truly mainstream is a widely shared misperception.
Why this fear of nuclear power?
Nuclear power is uniquely suited to decarbonization. It is the most practical replacement for coal, which is the world’s leading energy source, because it provides round-the-clock power. And it is so concentrated that it can expand rapidly. France switched its grid from fossil fuel to nuclear power in just 15 years, halving its electricity costs compared to Germany.
Objectively, nuclear power is far safer than other energy sources and it has far smaller and less dangerous waste streams. Built at scale, it could also be affordable.
Yet, fear of nuclear power is widespread. A substantial bloc of public opinion opposes nuclear power in many countries, driving a policy framework that tries to regulate radiation to zero, making nuclear power needlessly complex and expensive. That fear is thus a major obstacle to a nuclear power expansion that might quickly displace fossil fuels.
A hot spring in Mazandaran Province in Iran (photo: Wikimedia Commons)
In reality, low levels of radiation are not harmful. We live in a soup of natural radiation every day, and radiation levels vary from place to place. A radiation hotspot, in Ramsar, Iran – which is the site of radium hot springs – has more than 50 times the world’s average level of radiation. Yet local people show no adverse health effects despite living there.
The whole fear of low-level radiation, and the regulatory framework that accompanies it, comes from extrapolating down from very high levels of radiation, specifically the atomic bombings in Japan in 1945. Fatally high radiation levels were also received by workers sent into the heart of a radioactive meltdown without protective gear, in Chernobyl in 1986.
By contrast, radiation from the 2011 Fukushima accident did not kill anyone. The tsunami did. Members of the public never received radiation above the safety level set for medical and industrial workers, which is far below the level in Ramsar in Iran. Yet an epidemic of fear ensued.
In response to the nonlethal “disaster” of Fukushima, Japan closed all nuclear power plants and turned to coal to help fill the gap. The smoke from that additional coal has now killed an estimated 10,000 people. Worldwide, coal pollution kills something like a million people a year, and sickens many millions more. Nuclear power could save these lives if people didn’t fear it so much.
Phobias about radiation are rooted in the generational trauma of the Cold War threat of civilizational annihilation by nuclear weapons. Radiation was one of the distinctive features of nuclear war, and its danger was played up by opponents of the arms race in the 1950s.
Hollywood picked up the theme with dozens of movies about the dangers of nuclear radiation. Pop culture created nuclear-empowered monsters like Godzilla and radioactive superheroes like Captain Atom. Films like The China Syndrome and Silkwood painted the nuclear power industry as nefarious entities endangering the public for profit. Breathless news coverage of nonlethal accidents (Three Mile Island and Fukushima) contrasts with sparse coverage of the health effects of coal and other fossil fuels.
The one actual lethal nuclear power accident in 60 years, at Chernobyl in Ukraine, got its own HBO mini-series more than 30 years after the event, generating a new round of anxiety about nuclear energy. Television has also spawned mutant creatures like the three-eyed fish living near the nuclear power plant in The Simpsons.
There is no such thing as “no thresholds, no safe dose”
The idea of low-level radiation causing harmful mutations is a dated notion, however. In the 1920s, American geneticist Hermann Muller showed that high doses of radiation could damage genes in fruit flies. He received the Nobel Prize in 1946 at a time of concern over nuclear-weapon radiation effects. Muller also believed that even very low doses of radiation would harm genes.
The 2019 television miniseries Chernobyl reignited fears about nuclear energy. (photo: HBO)
But Muller tested only high doses, and then extrapolated the effects to low doses along a straight line with no threshold – no “safe dose.” Later science did not back up this view. In fact, the structure of DNA turned out to be a double helix, with self-repairing mechanisms for everyday radiation damage.
Modest variations in radiation levels are unlikely to harm our bodies, which evolved on a planet filled with uranium and bombarded by both sunlight and cosmic rays.
Death and disease result only from high radiation exposure. By analogy, regular jumps up and down to and from a small height will probably strengthen your legs, but one single jump from a large height will likely kill you.
Yet according to Muller’s “linear no-threshold” hypothesis, they are equivalent jumps. And, incredibly, that principle guides safety regulation for nuclear power reactors to this day.
Nuclear waste in perspective
Radiophobia reaches its ultimate conclusion in the widespread aversion to nuclear waste. Spent fuel contains radioactive elements that will emit radiation for hundreds of thousands of years. And however careful we are in burying it, it cannot be guaranteed that it will remain isolated from the biological world for that long. True enough, but this ignores three important considerations.
First, the volume of waste is extremely small because nuclear power is so concentrated – thousands of times smaller than the coal waste that is produced now because we don’t replace coal with nuclear. In fact, all the spent fuel from America’s 60 years of nuclear power production would, if collected, fit in a Walmart.
Second, the lethally toxic arsenic, lead, and mercury in coal waste lasts forever – even longer than slowly decaying nuclear waste – yet we dispose of it heedlessly.
Third, and most importantly, when bits of radioactive material leak out in the far future, they are unlikely to harm people or ecosystems much, but will have only low-level, local effects. This is because radioactivity is actually not like a virus that can “get out” in the world and destroy everything.
The potential harm from nuclear waste, thousands of years from now, in no way compares to the ongoing harm from coal waste, nor to the disaster that climate change will inflict on coming generations.
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4 of the 5 members of the taskforce meeting
At Amical Wikimedia we have started the process of thinking about, and writing down, our 2014–2018 strategic plan for the next five years, and also our 2013–2014 annual activity plan (our activities are linked with the educational calendar instead of the calendar year). We are trying apply both the principles and values of our association (shared with the global Wikimedia movement) and the lessons learned at the Program Evaluation June workshop in Budapest, which our GLAM ambassador Kippelboy attended. Thus, the key words defining all this process could be collaboration, efficiency and self-reflection.
First step: including all the voices
We made a collaborative effort to include all the voices within the association and the community of editors in the main plan. First, we opened a public proposals page to collect all the ideas coming from any interested person about the long term evolution of Amical Wikimedia. Secondly, we hosted an online chat meeting via IRC to ask our members’ thoughts about the plan goals, their questions about the priorities and their suggestions about which should be the most important social sectors to address with our activities. Later, we had a few in-depth interviews with some users who are especially committed to Amical.
Then we created a special task force of five members of different profiles to start the effective actual composition of the plan. After some offline and online meetings and developing previous working documents, we had an all-day session –hosted by the University of Girona– where the taskforce members met and used the specific methodology learned in Budapest, working as a community and implementing evaluation strategies in our programme activities. We shared and evaluated our thoughts and proposals before starting to write down the final document.
Our strategy plan is now ready and is being shared on our internal wiki, so all the Amical members can add, remove, change, discuss or challenge its assumptions. The result at the end, which will published in September, will surely reflect the collaborative spirit of our community and all the reflections around what should we become.
This graph explains the relation between our key words and paths
Although the process has not finished yet, we can now present some partial results: Amical’s Strategy Schema and the main intended work tracks. You can see the intersection of goals and actions of our plan in this graphic (still under construction, as is the whole wiki world). On top, there are the five key words which summarize the association’s focus in the next years:
Cohesion: We want to keep the community binding and strong personal ties that make possible to work together.
Discourse: Since we would like to spread the word about what we do and think to participate in the global debate.
Content: Obviously the central point is to help to add content to Wikimedia projects – that should be the main goal for all the chapters and associations.
Territory: We want to be active in all the Catalan-speaking countries.
Readers: We want to explain the world in Catalan and make the people read it.
Below are the three paths to attain these goals: Activities (programmed projects for the next years), Internal (the sometimes invisible but crucial work to keep the community alive and growing) and External (how we relate with other users, Wikimedia groups and the non-wiki reality).
As for the Activity Plan, several initiatives were suggested by the community: continue the work with museums, extend our presence at universities and schools, promote Wikimedia sister projects, prepare a multilingual contest on Wikipedia focused on Catalan culture and history, increase the number of libraries that we are already collaborating with, explore new possibilities to attract editors… We are really excited to see what comes next, because surely at Amical we have plenty of work to do!
— User:Barcelona, Amical Wikimedia
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i would suggest adding 4th step – external evalution (orient with principles); and then another round starting at step one. i’m sure you are doing this spiral, but good to have explicit outline.
Thanks for sharing. I very much appreciate you telling everyone the process that you are using and the way it was developed. There is much that other organizations can take from it.
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And so a team of researchers at the University of Southern Australia has decided to harness the power of the sun for creating freshwater. They have done this by fine-tuning a process to derive freshwater from seawater or polluted water through highly efficient solar evaporation.
Their technique allows a family of four to get enough fresh drinking water daily from just one square meter of seawater, brackish water or contaminated water, as the case may be.
The new system, which can be produced from inexpensive materials, is based on a photothermal structure placed on the surface of a water source to convert sunlight to heat and aid in the evaporation of the top layer of the liquid, which can then be harnessed as freshwater.
Although similar photothermal technologies have been designed before, the Australian team’s new version is far more efficient, according to its creators. That is thanks to the new design’s three-dimensional heatsink-like evaporator, which is shaped like a fin.
The design “shifts surplus heat away from the evaporator’s top surfaces, distributing heat to the fin surface for water evaporation, thus cooling the top evaporation surface and realising zero energy loss during solar evaporation,” explain the scientists, who describe the technique in a new paper.
“This heatsink technique means all surfaces of the evaporator remain at a lower temperature than the surrounding water and air, so additional energy flows from the higher-energy external environment into the lower-energy evaporator,” they add.
The method makes it possible to derive anywhere between 10 liters and 20 liters of fresh water per each square meter of water each day.
“Previously many of the experimental photothermal evaporators were basically two dimensional; they were just a flat surface, and they could lose 10 to 20 per cent of solar energy to the bulk water and the surrounding environment,” explains Haolan Xu, an associate professor at the university who led the research.
“We have developed a technique that not only prevents any loss of solar energy, but actually draws additional energy from the bulk water and surrounding environment, meaning the system operates at 100 per cent efficiency for the solar input and draws up to another 170 per cent energy from the water and environment,” Xu adds.
Importantly, the system is inexpensive and it is also easy to construct and deploy. In addition, it is easy to maintain as the design of the photothermal structure prevents salt and other contaminants building up on the evaporator surface, the scientists say.
As a result, the new technology can provide a low-cost alterative to more expensive desalination techniques because it can easily be set up and run. “[B]ecause it is so simple and requires virtually no maintenance, there is no technical expertise needed to keep it running and upkeep costs are minimal,” Xu says.
“This technology really has the potential to provide a long-term clean water solution to people and communities who can’t afford other options, and these are the places such solutions are most needed,” he stresses.
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As an active contributor to Wikimedia Commons, Spaniard David Corral Gadea understands the advantages of taking part in a community of fellow photo enthusiasts. For him, the project serves as a tool for sharing the wonders of his own culture and history with the rest of the world.
Although he is not a photographer by trade, Gadea has been able to utilize his skills in his work as a graphic designer and a web designer. He explained that his parents introduced him to the world of photography, as they took an interest in the process of capturing and collecting images as amateurs. However, he attributes his growing interest in photography to the encouragement of his partner, who gave him the confidence to share his photos with the world. “It was my partner who has been encouraging me to introduce my photos to competitions and enhance that facet of my creativity,” said Gadea. “I think she made a good point because it hasn’t been going badly.”
Since publicly displaying his images on Commons, Gadea has had personal success within the larger community. Not only has his image of the Roman Aqueduct in Segovia, Spain, been chosen as the Commons Photo of the Day, but it has also been awarded second prize in the worldwide Wiki Loves Monuments photo competition. To capture the image, Gadea took advantage of a family vacation. “I have been fortunate to be in interesting places, while always having my camera with me,” he said.
“The day I took this photograph there was a spectacular blue sky. It was a beautiful day of summer with good weather and we had a fantastic night wandering around the old town, taking pictures and enjoying the friendliness of the people of Segovia,” he said.
Gadea also explained how he has always been drawn to images with an epic quality about them, which has greatly influenced his own work. In his Aqueduct photo, Gadea utilized a low angle to create a larger-than-life quality, while still focusing on the beauty of the natural world around him. “I have always been struck by the pictures that are out of the norm, spectacular photographs that take you to cry, WOW!” he explained.
Gadea expressed his surprise upon learning of his placing in the Wiki Loves Monuments competition. He added that he hopes similar competitions will inspire more amateur photographers to contribute to Commons and Wikipedia.
“It was a pleasant surprise to discover that my picture had been awarded,” he said. “I am very proud that my contribution has helped bring attention once again to an emblematic monument as the Aqueduct of Segovia. I warmly thank the effort and work of each and every one of the people who have made and will enable these projects and many others that will do so in the future.”
Jawad Qadir, Communications Intern
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I was fascinated by the photo of the Segovia aqueduct. Tank you Mr Gadea and congratulations! J.Leliard.
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How red tape hampers nuclear – and the climate
By Daniel T Cross on April 10, 2019
Even as several European countries are transitioning to low-carbon energy sources, they’re turning their backs on nuclear power – despite nuclear being widely seen by experts as a reliable form of low-carbon energy. The reasons for this aversion? Fears about costs and nuclear safety. The two are intricately linked, since the costs of new reactors and plants often balloon because of exacting safety regulations. While coherent and rigorous regulatory frameworks do need to be in place to ensure safety, overly particularized red tape is often hampering nuclear energy’s viability.
Globally, nuclear power has the safest track record of any power source; it’s also one of the most efficient. Yet this good performance history notwithstanding, “regulatory burdens on nuclear plants are making them expensive,” stresses the Institute for Energy Research (IER), a think tank that analyzes energy markets. This is particularly the case in the West. For example, “The American Action Forum (AAF) found the average nuclear plant bears an annual regulatory burden of around $60 million — $8.6 million in regulatory costs, $22 million in fees to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and $32.7 million for regulatory liabilities.”
Such financial burdens mean that nuclear plants – in the US, Europe or elsewhere – are often unable to compete with other forms of energy, like coal, natural gas or heavily subsidized solar, despite inflicting far less harm on the environment. Consequently, the IER identifies regulatory costs as “clearly contributing to the premature retirement of nuclear plants” while discouraging new build.
These costs are symptomatic of uncertainty: for instance, when regulators introduce new requirements while a plant is already under construction, thereby shifting the regulatory goal posts and causing cost overruns. It is not surprising then that Western countries are slowly moving away from nuclear. Of 51 reactors currently under construction, only three are in Western and Central Europe (UK, France and Finland), seven are in Eastern Europe (Belarus, Slovakia and Russia) and two are in the US.
As such, overregulation in the sector is not only counterproductive – but often counterintuitive. This is repeatedly stressed by advocates of nuclear energy who hope to see it more widely deployed to reduce CO2 emissions and fight climate change. “The most dangerous nuclear reactor is the one that isn’t built because a fossil plant is likely to be built instead, which comes at the cost of increased air pollution and the onward march of climate change,” Eric G. Meyer, founder and director of the nuclear advocacy nonprofit Generation Atomic, tells Sustainability Times.
Eric G. Meyer, founder and director of the nonprofit Generation Atomic. (photo: courtesy of Eric G. Meyer)
“Nuclear plants take extraordinary efforts to keep radiation levels ‘as low as reasonably achievable.’ Meanwhile, coal plants are allowed to put hundreds of times more radiation into the environment because they successfully lobbied the Environmental Protection Agency to classify their radioactive emissions as NORM, or ‘naturally occurring radioactive material,’” Meyer explains.
“Is there a difference? No. Should we be scared of the radiation from nuclear plants? No. It’s not really enough to hurt anything, but we should definitely be concerned about the other fossil particulates that cause asthma, heart conditions, and cancer,” Meyer warns. “Globally, these particulate emissions from fossil plants kill about 10,000 people a day, far more than has ever been harmed by nuclear energy.”
A reason for this discrepancy is that the dangers associated with nuclear have been widely exaggerated for years, which has compelled regulators all over the world to introduce safety requirements due to growing public pressure. Consequently, nuclear builders and operators are required to abide by certain redundant regulations.
In Germany, NPPs need to be built so as to resist direct impact of a plane crash, be it through an accident or terrorist attack, after a pressure group in 2013 argued no German NPPs were prepared for such a contingency. Although the standard reactor containments have been shown to resist direct impact of a plane, the exploration of measures to fortify the plants or deter terrorist attacks, and subsequent tests and inspections have added millions to operators’ expenses – all the while such an event is regarded as extremely difficult to pull off and therefore considered highly unlikely.
Other regulations pertain to safety in waste disposal. For example, “Regulations on permanent waste repositories force [nuclear plants] to prove that the highest dose the public could ever receive from the waste is .015 millisievert per year,” Rod Adams, head of Atomic Insights, tells Sustainability Times, citing one regulation that he sees as unwarranted. “The background radiation in most places in the world is between 1.5 to 3.5 millisievert. This leads to all kinds of crazy overbuild like titanium drop shields and more. It’s a lucrative business for the people designing and building these things but doesn’t help anyone else.”
Of course, nuclear technology should be rigorously regulated, pro-nuclear experts stress. But regulations should be streamlined so as not to place unreasonable burdens on constructors and operators. “The speed at which regulatory agencies work can be a large impediment to the development and deployment of nuclear energy. … it takes many years, sometimes over a decade, for the NRC to license a new reactor,” says Nicholas Thompson, a nuclear scientist who works at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire in Paris, France.
“However, nuclear energy is a technology which should be strictly regulated and inspected to ensure safety,” Thompson emphasizes. “With the Boeing 737 Max, we are currently witnessing the results of a failure to regulate and inspect complex technologies,” he adds, referring to new passenger aircraft in which onboard software glitches are linked to deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
While Boeing may be an example of under-regulation and lacking enforcement, what the experts make clear is that in order to achieve the highest standards of nuclear safety, not every single requirement is necessary. Regulators should instead seek to eliminate those that are far from useful and that only add costs without leading to safety gains.
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Two years ago today, the Wikimedia community was shocked by the death of Adrianne Wadewitz from injuries suffered during a rock-climbing fall. Adrianne was a well-known and popular editor on the English Wikipedia, where she authored 36 featured articles and organized edit-a-thons in Los Angeles. She served on the board of the Wiki Education Foundation, and was a vocal public Wikipedia advocate on HASTAC, an online group that works with scholars in the humanities, arts, and sciences on innovative collaborations on new modes of learning and research in higher education.
Adrianne was born on 6 January 1977, and graduated from high school in North Platte, Nebraska, a railroad town of about 25,000 people. She attended college at Columbia University, a prestigious institution in the heart of New York City, and graduated in English with the honor of magna cum laude. After receiving a PhD in British literature from Indiana University, in 2013 she took up a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She had recently accepted a position at nearby Whittier College where she was recruited to help “develop their digital liberal arts program.”
Adrianne took up rock climbing in the summer of 2013, and she blogged about how it changed her:
For me, one of the most empowering outcomes of my year of climbing has been the new narrative I can tell about myself. I am no longer ‘Adrianne: scholar, book lover, pianist, and Wikipedian’. I am now ‘Adrianne: scholar, book lover, pianist, Wikipedian, and rock climber’. This was brought home most vividly to me one day when I was climbing outdoors here in Los Angeles and people on the beach were marveling at those of us climbing. Suddenly I realized, I used to be the person saying how crazy or impossible such feats were and now I was the one doing them. I had radically switched subject positions in a way I did not think possible for myself. That, I realized, is what I want my students to experience—that radical switch and growth. It is an enormous goal and I would love to hear how others work at achieving it with their students.
On Wikipedia, Adrianne was one of the early editors; she registered on 18 July 2004 as “Awadewit” when she was attending graduate school. She wrote quite a few articles, but zeroed in on her favorite, Mary Wollstonecraft, an 18th-century English writer and women’s rights advocate. Over the course of a year, Adrianne wrote most of the entry and shepherded it through several reviews until it became one of Wikipedia’s then 1700 featured articles. She worked on an entire series about the author, including all of Wollstonecraft’s major works and a timeline of her life. In 2008, Adrianne spoke to the Signpost about Wollstonecraft: “When I first looked at [her] article on Wikipedia, one of the subjects of my dissertation, it looked something like this. I was appalled! One of the first feminists! Dissertations tend to make a person think a topic is the most important thing ever, so, of course, I thought it was a travesty that Wollstonecraft’s biography was reduced to this bland recitation of a few facts. I resolved to change that.”
Shortly after Wollstonecraft received its featured status, she agreed to be interviewed on episode 35 of the Wikipedia Weekly podcast by Wyatt. It was titled “Secretly Famous,” as it described her as an editor “who has to hide her activities [on Wikipedia] for fear of jeopardizing her career”:
Wyatt: So you’re worried that if you publicize … your interest and experience on Wikipedia, that you won’t get a job because you’ll be laughed out of town?
Wadewitz: I’m very concerned, actually. … I’m concerned that people will think that perhaps I’ve wasted time that I could have spent on my dissertation, time I could have spent publishing articles.
Wyatt: That’s truly sad.
Wadewitz: It is, because I really view that the time I have spent working on things for Wikipedia, which is really just what I’m studying, as sort of public service, as part of being a public intellectual, because I’m often engaged in conversations with people on Wikipedia where I feel like I’m explaining what it means to be a scholar, and I’m explaining even down to the level of well, here’s how you write a paragraph, or here where you write a sentence. Right? Is that a waste of time? No. I don’t think so. Because that’s what I do all the time.
—Liam Wyatt and Adrianne Wadewitz, Wikipedia Weekly, episode 35, 8:33 (condensed)
It was after this interview that Adrianne became a high-profile member and advocate for Wikipedia in scholarly circles. Liam Wyatt reflected on the 2007 interview in a tribute on Adrianne’s talk page, reminiscing that “Not long after [the interview,] you ‘came out’ and made your wiki-work a core part of your career—using it … to bolster your academic CV.” She would later attend Wikimania 2008 to give a presentation about her use of Wikipedia in the classroom.
Aside from her prolific article writing, Adrianne was a champion for Wikipedia’s use in the digital humanities, believing it offers one of the best places for research that will have an impact on the public.
Adrianne became a prominent voice in the academic community. The Wiki Education Foundation (Wiki Ed) said in a statement that “Her pathbreaking essay on teaching with Wikipedia, “Wiki-hacking: Opening up the academy with Wikipedia“, served as the basis for the preliminary pilot of the program”, the Public Policy Initiative. They continued: “Adrianne was one of the first people to volunteer to help support university instructors looking to incorporate Wikipedia as a teaching tool in their classrooms; over the last four years, Adrianne has supported more than 20 courses as a Wikipedia Ambassador as well as teaching two courses herself.” She later became a founding board member for the then-fledgling foundation.
Perhaps even more importantly, she became the face of Wikipedia editing (literally) when her photo was featured on the cover of the first printed “Editing Wikipedia” brochure put out by the Wikimedia Foundation.
She related how her Wikipedia work had benefits in the classroom: “My ‘coolness factor’ as a teacher has risen. I frequently use Wikipedia as a teaching tool in an effort to explain what a reliable web source is and to teach basic copyediting skills. While discussing these rather mundane topics, I often tell little Wikipedia stories. That I write Wikipedia articles is apparently ‘awesome’. I also dramatically rose in my students’ estimation when Mary Shelley appeared on the main page on 30 October 2008.”
Adrianne’s HASTAC blog became a prominent voice in communicating and encouraging academic involvement in Wikipedia. An example of her work there comes from 2013, when she responded to the sexist “American women novelists” category: “If only there were more women on Wikipedia, the argument goes, this would not have happened. But no one has talked to the women who actually are on Wikipedia.”All of this underlines the fact that Adrianne was one of the strongest proponents of Wikipedia’s efforts to attract more female editors—her wish to enable better communication of underrepresented minority-related content.
In addition to this active public voice, she researched the place of humanities method and process within Wikipedia, a product of her extensive collaborations with a number of Wikimedians and academics. Wikimedian Alex Stinson, who considered Adrianne his mentor in thinking about Wikipedia’s role in the digital humanities and co-wrote an academic paper with her, wrote “the common mission we shared bridging Wikipedia and Digital Humanities community has gotten unimaginably harder. Her contribution was tireless and compelling and finding anyone to fill her shoes will be nigh impossible.” HASTAC’s Cathy Davidson wrote “she is a natural leader, an inspiration to us all … she represents the best of academe.”
Her drive was the inspiration for a plethora of edit-a-thons held in her memory in 2014 and 2015. Her partner, Peter B. James, wrote on the first anniversary of her death that people have “carried on with a memory of her passion, dedication, and tenacity to help move Wikipedia forward, and worked to continue her legacy of inclusive advancement of knowledge.”
It is a torch that will never be put out.
This tribute has been adapted and shortened from an obituary published in the Signpost in April 2014. A number of tributes can be read there.
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Lovely post. Might need to unwrap this acronym: “the fledgling WEF”
Jake: it’s earlier up in the paragraph: The Wiki Education Foundation (WEF)
It’s fine, that the WMF honors disceased long time Wikimedians. But we have here the same problem as usual: the WMF sees always and only the volunteers from en:WP and there are mostly Americans. I would like to see also for example a person like Joachim “Bradypus” Miesbauer honored. Long time high quality author at german langiage Wikipedia, co founder of the austrian Chapter an long time board member. Family father and at least one of the finest Wikimedians I haver had the honor to meet.Or the long time back bone Martin Vogel. The phantastic Geos. The hard working Sabine… Read more »
Hey Jake–I clarified the acronym after your comment but forgot to note it here. Apologies!
Hey Marcus–I’ll follow up with you via email. I would be very interested in putting together a post on one or more of those people. Thank you–and I mean that–for commenting here.
What a shame this marvellous lady is no longer gracing the world with her being. How sad, but what a lot of good she did in the time she had!
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For Miguel Zuñiga Gonzalez, working with university students on improving the Spanish-language Wikipedia is not just a job, but a passion and a way to give back to the world. “It’s a great chance to teach young people that it’s important to give something back for everything you get,” he says.
A native of Mexico City, Miguel is an architect and a Spanish as a Foreign Language teacher working with public universities in Mexico, as well as a Wikipedia contributor of nine years. During the 2015 Wikimania conference held in his hometown, he shared details of his everyday work with medical students on Wikipedia and discussed various ways in which the flagship project can be developed further.
As a self-professed unregistered editor, Miguel’s first suggestion relates to the value of anonymous Wikipedia contributors. “We need to work hard to tell people not to be afraid to edit,” he says. “Being able to edit without logging-in is a great opportunity for people to start to get involved. In certain areas of the Spanish Wikipedia, such as history and the humanities in general, it is often difficult to make changes if you are a logged-in user. Edits made by unregistered users are given more consideration and are not removed as often, and it creates less pressure on people,” he reports.
Asked to choose one issue that he would like to change about Wikipedia, Miguel decides on the somewhat popular perception of the project’s verifiability. “For many teachers nowadays, it is hard to believe that Wikipedia has accurate information. They don’t even give themselves a chance to explore it, treating it almost like the devil incarnate because there is no brick-and-mortar institution behind [it] to support it,” he points out.
As an editor of the Spanish-language Wikipedia, Miguel notices the differences between the encyclopedia’s various language editions, of which there are now more than 290. “When reading an article on the English Wikipedia, you can see many things that it puts the emphasis on which are not highlighted in the Spanish version, and vice versa. You wouldn’t believe we all have the same goal, because we try to reach it in so many different ways,” he says. “I don’t think I really understood what intercultural communication was before I started editing Wikipedia.”
Another concern Miguel has is the lack of involvement of the general population with the project. “In Mexico, we all use Wikipedia for a lot, but we don’t contribute to it. Even if we find an error, we don’t do anything about it,” he says. “For all Latin American people, the Spanish Wikipedia needs a lot of help.” True to his teaching soul, however, he sees the possibility of change in the younger generations. “Young people are more inclined to share their knowledge with the world. Students, actually, get very motivated when they publish their work on Wikipedia as part of a paper. For them, it’s a challenge. Telling them that it will be for the whole world to review gives them even more of a reward.”
There are other advantages to this approach, too. “When students do research for their articles, they find practical uses from what they’re learning at the moment, such as the ability to search scientific databases,” says Miguel. “When a reference is properly used, it also gives them a chance to expand their knowledge. When they improve things even a little bit, by adding five or six references to an article, they make a big contribution by ensuring everything is reviewed.”
“It’s important to convince young people that it’s easy, that you don’t need to be this girl or that guy to create change one step at a time.”
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Convertible Beetles were usually nicer than their roofed counterparts. According to Wikipedia, the Beetle convertible was “generally more lavishly equipped than the sedan with dual rear ashtrays, twin map pockets, a visor vanity mirror on the passenger side, rear stone shields, and through 1969, wheel trim rings. Many of these items did not become available on other Beetles until … 1970. ”
For more information, visit the Wikipedia article about the Volkswagen_Beetle.
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The Journal wrote that the Foundation, “represents a path-breaking example of what an NGO can achieve in the Internet era. Working with relatively meagre resources and committed to a funding model based on mass private donations as opposed to large institutional grants, the organization continues, through an innovative application of new technologies, to have a deep and abiding impact on the lives of millions around the world.”
The Journal also noted that Wikipedia is localized in 285 languages and it praised the commitment we’ve made to expanding access to those Wikipedias, particularly in developing countries.
Global Journal had ranked us at the top of the list last year, but that honor went to BRAC, the Bangladeshi development organization and the largest NGO in the world, with over 100,000 employees, 70 percent of whom are women.
Our hearty congratulations to BRAC and our thanks to Global Journal for recognizing the Wikimedia Foundation. This recognition underscores the hard work of our global volunteer community of 100,000 active contributors, whose dedication makes Wikipedia and its sister sites successful.
Lisa Gruwell, Deputy Chief Revenue Officer
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26 April 202225 April 2022 by Iryna Yehiazarova
Since 2014, dozens of countries around the world have organized annual photo contests devoted to their natural heritage within the international Wiki Loves Earth contest. In 2013 we held WLE in Ukraine for the first time, and in 2014 it went international. Overall, WLE collected 767k free photos of protected areas, with around 180k being used in the wikiprojects.
In 2021, we introduced the Human rights and Environment special nomination supporting the initiative Wiki4HumanRights, which partners with the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Its goal is to raise awareness of nature protection and human impacts on nature.
In 2021 the contest united 34 countries and territories, with 9 of them joining Wiki4HumanRights and receiving submissions for the new nomination. Last week our jurors had a final round evaluating the pictures, and we are delighted to present the top-5 of the Human rights and Environment special nomination!
1st place: photo 1, photo 2, photo 3 by Mario Barroso, CC BY-SA 4.0
These pictures taken in the Emas National Park make a powerful triptych referring to the immense challenges Brazil is facing regarding the conservation of its natural ecosystems. The country has experienced unprecedented wildfires in the last decade. The Emas National Park is a part of the Pantanal Biosphere Reserve and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the states of Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil. It covers 1,320 square kilometers of cerrado savannah. Wildfire is a natural factor shaping tropical savannahs and has been present in the cerrado for thousands of years.
2nd place: photo by Robson de Oliveira, CC BY-SA 4.0
Another picture from Brazil depicts a wildfire in Serra do Gandarela National Park. It is situated within the Espinhaço Range and holds the largest intact remnant of Atlantic Forest in Minas Gerais. This transition region between the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado biomes contributes to species diversity.
3rd place: photo by Olegandros, CC BY-SA 4.0
“On November 22, beavers built a house under the walls of the National Commission for State Regulation of Energy in protest of the threat of deforestation in Polissia region, Ukraine. Beavers are convinced that cutting down forests to burn them at thermal power plants is an unacceptable blow to the nature of Polissya and the climate on the planet”, — tells the author of picture about the “Don’t burn our houses!” action to protect the forests of Polissia, in particular Polissia Nature Reserve.
4th place: photo by Paneos77, CC BY-SA 4.0
The author caught a mysterious view of Thousand Trees location, Doiran Lake, Greece. One of the jurors, Monica Iyer, comments: “The image alone conveys a powerful representation of human interaction with nature and the threats posed by rising waters. The lake was in danger of drying out and now is flood-prone because of human manipulation of the water supply”.
5th place: photo by Miguel G. C. Domingos, CC BY-SA 4.0
The photo shows us a stunning view at sunset from the top of Serra de Montejunto, a protected landscape in the Montejunto-Estrela mountain range, Portugal. We can see some wind farms on neighboring small hills and Serra da Arrábida in the distance. This mountain range, Serra da Arrábida, is a part of Arrábida Natural Park which comes into contact with the ocean.
The 10th edition of the Wiki Loves Earth contest is starting in one week, and we are happy to say that we will keep the Human rights and Environment special nomination this year!
We are grateful to our amazing jurors:
Benjamin Schachter. Human Rights Officer and the focal point for climate change and the environment at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Prior to joining OHCHR, he worked as an attorney in the United States and as a Research Assistant to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples at the University of Arizona.
Lukas Mezger. Attorney and climate activist from Germany. As a longtime Wikipedian, he currently serves as the chair of the Wikimedia Deutschland supervisory board.
Monica Iyer. Human rights attorney, advocate, and researcher with a particular interest and expertise in human rights and the environment.
Oleksiy Vasyliuk. Chairman of the Board of Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group. Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, he has been working to help the occupied national parks and rescue the environmentalists from the war zone. In peacetime, he is involved in various initiatives to help protected areas and designs new national parks.
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] | Time constraints. Weather. Short periods of daylight. Such were the issues faced in visually capturing Silesia, a historic region primarily located in rural southwestern Poland, for use in Wikipedia article. Still, 3,600 images have now been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, 300 of which are currently in use on various-language Wikipedias.
The odyssey started in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. Two Wikipedians jumped into a shared car and drove to the far eastern side of the country, stopping in Opava, the historical capital of Silesia. The region was chosen due to its remote location, being far from major cities in the Czech Republic and Poland, and its lack of active Wikipedians. These factors made it a perfect location for a systematic photographic event.
The team stayed in major towns at night and traveled around all the villages during the day. From the lowlands to the High Ash Mountains, everything that could be covered was done—hundreds of pictures per day. The major focus was on settlements that were not well-photographed on Wikimedia Commons. Between 25 and 28 villages were photographed per day, with the evenings reserved for editing, sorting, describing, categorizing and uploading the data. Night photography was also part of the Wikiexpedition.
After day five, our Polish colleague and third participant, who had traveled a whole day across entire Poland, joined us in Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland. He focused on railroads and transportation infrastructure, while Czech members continued to photograph settlements in the area, which added a new dimension to the expedition.
Photo by Juandev, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Still, these wikiexpeditions are not simple to organize or execute. First, planning these trips means figuring out what has already been adequately photographed. Second, once you’ve planned them, those plans can be wrong; automatically obtained data can be erroneous, misinterpreting, and sometimes completely useless. Time saved in preparation can be lost when photographing, as it is easy to get stranded in a sandpit or in the middle of a field where one was expecting a village. The geographic coordinates are, after all, only numbers interpreted by Wikidata and Open Street Map.
Third, the photography is hurried in order to fit in as many areas as possible within a short amount of time. Fourth, the processing, sorting, and describing of the data—plus the actual uploading process—takes quite a long time. Keeping ordered lists of what you photographed is a must.
Photo by Aktron, CC BY-SA 4.0.
With this successful Wikiexpedition as an important milestone, we have arranged another for 2017. This so-called Wikiexpedition West (Wikiexpedice Západ) incorporated more people, covered broader topics (such as natural reserves and historical monuments) and represented another step in our learning process. Nine locals participated, and we were able to create four teams. We are now processing images uploaded to Commons and placing them in Wikipedias.
Further plans include other regions and countries. Poland, as a large country, remains in the focus for the summer season. So another event in central or southern Poland might take place. In the meantime, Shared Knowledge and Wikimedia User Group Greece plan a joint event in September 2017.
Wikiexpeditions can be fun, they are essential to Wikimedia projects such as Commons or Wikipedia, and they also bring the community together. They can have interesting side effects, such as promotion of the encyclopedia in rural areas or engaging volunteers in remote places. Our good practice encourages followers in other countries. Most of the world is still missing on Wikipedia – both pictures and text, and we all have a chance to change this.
If you’ve got interested, please read our manuals, follow us on Facebook (Wikiexpedition group) or join the upcoming expeditions planned for the Central European region.
Let’s illustrate Wikipedia together!
Jan Lochman, Wikimedia Czech Republic
Jan Loužek, Wikimedia Czech Republic
Tomasz Ganicz, Wikimedia community member
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The public broadcaster teamed up with the Danish Society for Nature Conservation and the Growing Trees Network Foundation for the event, which has been billed as the world’s first-ever climate telethon. Other partners include WWF and the Danish Nature Fund, which will use 20 percent of the €2.4 million raised by the event to protect existing forests in both Denmark and Uganda.
“I think it is amazing to see how throughout Denmark we have created a focus on climate and the importance of trees for our globe,” said TV 2 channel manager Lotte Lindegaard. “Of course, this is not done with tree planting alone. We must also work to preserve the existing forest, but this is literally a shovel in the right direction.”
The event was held at the Gisselfeld Klosters Skove forest, about an hour away from Copenhagen, where Danes have invested in conservation with features that welcome humans to contemplate nature. A new Camp Adventure Tower there, designed by Effekt, adds to a setting named by Time Magazine in August as one of the World’s 100 Greatest Places for 2019.
Yet as lovely as the setting was, it served to illustrate the point of the program hosted by Puk Elgaard and Mikkel Kryger. They were aided in their mission by comedian Andreas Bo, tennis player Frederik Federlein, former elite soldier B.S. Christiansen, and musicians Medina, Nicklas Sahl and Anne Dorte Michelsen.
For every 20 kroner donated, the program will be able to plant one tree with a set-aside for forest preservation. Organizers said the event raised enough money to plant 914,233 trees, with money donated by individuals and companies alike. The telethon partners, along with city governments and other groups, will help to determine where the trees are going and plan for their planting.
Organizers said the project was important because forests are one of the most effective means of absorbing CO2, and much needed to achieve global climate emissions targets and protect biodiversity.
“In popular terms, the forests are the lungs of the earth,” said the Growing Trees Network Foundation, citing data from the United Nations climate reports. “At the same time, they protect our groundwater reservoirs, create new habitats for plants and wildlife, and new areas of recreation for citizens.”
The show may be over but organizers are still accepting donations at this link.
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The animation shows a global map of edits made on May 10, 2011.
This first version allows users to see where edits are coming from for a given day. Right now, the day is fixed but fairly recent.
You can control the parameters of this interactive visualization by using keyboard shortcuts available in a “Help” menu (press ‘H’). For example, ‘E’ switches between different event markers.
Hit ‘M’ to switch to a black background, and ‘E’ to switch between different styles of event markers. Here, language codes are shown instead of bubbles.
The data behind these graphics comes from our Squid logs, that usually record about 400,000 edits a day. See Erik’s post to read more about how the visualizations were made.
By zooming on a particular area (‘+’ or mouse scroll), or filtering the edits by language (‘N’ or space bar), interesting things can surface. For example, bubble maps and heat maps reflect densely populated areas with easy Internet access.
Hit ‘N’ or the Space bar to display a specific language. Here, edits to the English Wikipedia are shown on a bubble map (‘2’).
Three types of displays are available, all showing the spatial distribution of edits over time in a different way: an accelerated animation of edits over a day (‘1’), a bubble map of the same edits over a day (‘2’), and a heat map of edits over a day (‘3’).
The animation over the course of the day also shows the levels of activity depending on the time it is in various timezones. Compare for example the activity of the Spanish Wikipedia in Spain and Latin America over the course of the day.
Hit ‘3’ to switch to the heat map of edits combined on a single day. This heat map shows edits to the Spanish Wikipedia, mostly distributed in Spain and Latin America.
Similarly, the map shows that most edits to the Chinese Wikipedia are made from outside of mainland China (Hong Kong and Taiwan):
Zoom in using the + key, or the mouse scroll.
Open the visualization and play with it yourself!
In the tradition of free software that Wikimedia is attached to, this visualization was entirely created using HTML5 (canvas) and JavaScript, and no proprietary tool is necessary to view the animation.
The visualization works in the most recent browsers. If for some reason it doesn’t work for you, below is a short video to give you an overview of what it looks like when animated.
[vimeo 24020104 w=700 h=394]
The video is also available on Wikimedia Commons, along with more screenshots.
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Visulation of wikipedia is very fantastic!
i wish see where visitors come from to my izmir oto kiralama site.
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This means: “a user named ‘TheBestEditor’ added some content to the English Wikipedia’s Special Olympics page on March 7, 2017 at 9:31am”.
While composing this blog post, we sought visualizations that use EventStreams, and found some awesome examples.
Open now in Los Angeles, DataWaltz is a physical installation that “creates a spatial feedback system for engaging with Wikipedia live updates, allowing visitors to follow and produce content from their interactions with the gallery’s physical environment.” You can see a photo of it at the top, and a 360 video of it over on Vimeo.
Sacha Saint-Leger sent us this display of real-time edits on a rotating globe, showing off where they are made.
Ethan Jewett created a really nice continuously updating chart of edit statistics.
EventStreams is not the first service from Wikimedia to expose RecentChange events as a stream. irc.wikimedia.org and RCStream have existed for years. These all serve the same data: RecentChange events. So why add a third stream service?
Both irc.wikimedia.org and RCStream suffer from similar design flaws. Neither service can be restarted without interrupting client subscriptions. This makes it difficult to build comprehensive tools that might not want to miss an event, and hard for WMF engineers to maintain. They are not easy to use, as services require several programming setup steps just to start subscribing to the stream. Perhaps more importantly, these services are RecentChanges specific, meaning that they are not able to serve different types of events. EventStreams addresses all of these issues.
EventStreams is built on the w3c standard Server Sent Events (SSE). SSE is simply a streaming HTTP connection with event data in a particular text format. Client libraries, usually called EventSource, assist with building responsive tools, but because SSE is really just HTTP, you can use any HTTP client (even curl!) to consume it.
The SSE standard defines a Last-Event-ID HTTP header, which allows clients to tell servers about the last event that they’ve consumed. EventStreams uses this header to begin streaming to a client from a point in the past. If EventSource clients are disconnected from servers (due to network issues or EventStreams service restarts), they will send this header to the server and automatically reconnect and begin from where they left off.
EventStreams can be used to expose any useful streams of events, not just RecentChanges. If there’s a stream you’d like to have, we want to know about it. For example, soon ORES revision score events may be exposed in their own stream. The service API docs have an up to date list of the (currently limited) available stream endpoints.
We’d like all RecentChange stream clients to switch to EventStreams, but we recognize that there are valuable bots out there running on irc.wikimedia.org that we might not be able to find the maintainers of. We commit to supporting irc.wikimedia.org for the foreseeable future.
However, we believe the list of (really important) RCStream clients is small enough that we can convince or help folks switch to EventStreams. We’ve chosen an official RCStream decommission date of July 7 this year. If you run an RCStream client and are reading this and want help migrating, please reach out to us!
EventStreams is really easy to use, as shown by this quickstart example in JavaScript. Navigate to http://wikimedia.org in your browser and open the development console (for Google Chrome: More Tools > Developer Tools, and click ‘console’ on the bottom screen, which should open on the browser below the page you are visiting). Then paste the following:
// This is the EventStreams RecentChange stream endpoint
var url = 'https://stream.wikimedia.org/v2/stream/recentchange';
// Use EventSource (available in most browsers, or as an
// npm module: https://www.npmjs.com/package/eventsource)
// to subscribe to the stream.
var recentChangeStream = new EventSource(url);
// Print each event to the console
recentChangeStream.onmessage = function(message) {
//Parse the message.data string as JSON.
var event = JSON.parse(message.data);
You should see RecentChange events fly by in your console.
That’s it! The EventStreams documentation has in depth information and usage examples in other languages.
If you build something, please tell us, or add yourself to the Powered By EventStreams wiki page. There are already some amazing uses there!
Andrew Otto, Senior Operations Engineer, Analytics
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] | Our fellowships program is growing, and I’m pleased to announce Jon Harald Søby as our newest Community Fellow. Jon brings 6 years of experience in the Wikimedia community to his fellowship: he is an active editor, translator and vandal fighter for several Wikimedia projects, an admin and bureaucrat for Norwegian Wikipedia, and in the past has also been a steward, board member for Wikimedia Norge, member of the election committee for Wikimedia Norge and Wikimedia Sverige, and OTRS volunteer.
Language and localization are a major area of interest for Jon. Not only does he help translate the MediaWiki interface and extensions, he’s also a founding member of the Language Committee and is finishing up a BA degree in Linguistics from Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has traveled widely and is always thinking from a global perspective. All of this makes Jon a great fit for his fellowship project, which is focused on piloting a new model for volunteer translations in the 2011 Fundraiser. (Full disclosure: Jon started working with WMF earlier this summer as a Fundraiser Production Coordinator, but we just had to make him a Community Fellow when we saw how much potential there was for this project!).
Jon’s fellowship will run until February 2012. His project priorities include recruiting and coordinating more translators for more languages, building pages and processes that make it easier for new volunteers to get started, and improving systems for producing high-quality translations. To learn more about the project or volunteer to help, please visit the 2011 Fundraiser Translations page and sign up to be a translator.
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For this reason the translation of the terms of use is essential. There is a recurring need for the translation of texts and this translation work is done by volunteers. This work is really important to get our message out, making it as easy and efficient as possible is one way of showing our appreciation for the work that these volunteers do.
Translation is made easy because the user interface will just work in the language set in the preferences.
Details like the languages that have a translation are all shown in the language set in the preferences.
Even with the best preparation, a text may change over time. As the text is broken into separate fragments that need translation, it is possible not only to indicate what needs to be revisited by a translator, it is also possible to indicate the changed text in pink in the readable text.
Volunteers are masters of their own time. They choose how much they want to do in one go. Making the translated text immediately available is one way in which we show appreciation for the work that is done and, at the same time it is an invitation to other volunteers to complete the work that still needs doing.
With all the Translate functionality in place, we expect that it is easier to translate, we hope that more people will be involved and that important texts like the “terms of use” will become available in as many languages as we can find translators for.
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In a way it seems like a minor thing but consider;
MediaWiki can serve help texts for its functionality
this help text may differ based on the language of the user
the help text can be translated
a new community for MediaWiki help text translation is needed
functionality like Narayam will surely get its user documentation in the near future
It will be a challenge to other developers and developer teams to adopt and refine the way assistance to our users is provided. We learned at translatewiki.net that documentation did improve the quality of the localisations. We hope that user documentation will reduce confusion and makes for happy editors and readers.
The WebFonts user documentation was deployed last Tuesday. This and some other changes can be found in the deploy list. As the holiday season is in full swing, sprint 6 has started; it will run into the new year.
In this sprint stories will be developed that will make “Translation review” feature complete. When this is implemented, it will help translators and localisers review each others work and assign a status to their work for further considerations. As you can imagine, the different statuses themselves will become available for translation; card 326 defines this and will make this possible. This is just one of many stories that make up this feature.
For the localisers of the MediaWiki software a long held ambition will be realised; card 206 will see “plural” support implemented for JavaScript. When this functionality is deployed, it will result in a long list of future changes that will see changes to the actual messages.
The new year will bring us many new challenges and opportunities to the many many language communities. The Wikimedia Localisation team will work hard to provide you with the tools to be efficient in any language to get our message out and provide information in any language. For some of us the new year starts at a different moment so it will be very much business as usual; we welcome you to have a look at our sprint backlog (user:guest password: guest) and bug us in bugzilla with whatever needs fixing.
Internationalization / Localization outreach consultant
Archive notice: This is an archived post from blog.wikimedia.org, which operated under different editorial and content guidelines than Diff.
“WebFonts is the first extension that gets user documentation served from MediaWiki.org.”
Ahem… Out of the ones that have their own help namespace entry:
* Help:Extension:ParserFunctions (Created: 24 December 2008)
* Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs (Created: 29 January 2009)
* Help:Extension:Cite (Created: 3 February 2009)
* Help:Extension:LiquidThreads (Created: 15 October 2009)
* Help:Extension:WebFonts (Created: 19 December 2011)
* Help:Extension:Translate (Created: 30 December 2011)
Plus the numerous others that have their documentation included only on their Extension page.
There is a difference between documentation and user documentation. The last two entries in your list were created by the Localisation team but only the WebFonts help text is served in translation as part of the application and its localisation at this time.
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* Timeline for developments in Northstowe and Frequently Asked Questions - site owner: South Cambridgeshire DC, Communities Team
* FAQs on Northstowe developments - site owner: Homes England
* Northstowe.com - general information about Northstowe with information on developers when considering buying a home; community information and leisure information - site owner: Homes England
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* Active New communities - Northstowe: overview of Sport clubs etc. - site owner: Living Sport
* Northstowe - travel information - with links to walking and cycling routes/maps. Site owner: Homes England, with Cambridgeshire County Council's Smart Journeys
* BizBike - Community E-bike hire in Northstowe
* Active New Communities - Northstowe - Family-friendly Cycling routes around Northstowe. Site owner: living Sport.
* Stagecoach - information about the Guided Busway
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* EDUCATION: Pathfinder Primary School Northstowe Secondary College Martin Baker Academy (special needs provision).
See also: Northstowe Learning Academy
HEALTHCARE: Willingham Medical Practice and Longstanton Branch Surgery - contact details
LIBRARY: The mobile library bus comes to the Green in Northstowe on the 2nd Friday each month, from 3:20 - 4:20pm.
ALLOTMENTS: to find out about getting an allotment in Phase 1, please check with the Northstowe Horticultural Association
If you find that links are broken, or particular websites are missing, please do let us know, we would love to hear from you.
Disclaimer: the fact that the Town Council includes a link to an external page does not necessarily mean it endorses the website or its content, and the Town Council is not responsible for third party's content, nor can it be held responsible for any issues that may stem from clicking through to third party's websites.
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Video of the monthly Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting covering the month of May (June 5, 2014)
3.1 12 new individual engagement grants
3.2 Inviting anonymous editors to join the Wikipedia community
3.3 Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) recommendations announced
5.1 Major Gifts and Foundations
6.1 Annual Plan Grants (Funds Dissemination Committee)
6.2 Project and Event Grants
6.2.1 Grants funded in May 2014
6.3 Travel & Participation Support
6.3.1 Requests awarded in May 2014
6.3.2 Reports accepted in May 2014
6.5 Learning and Evaluation (including Program Evaluation)
6.5.2 Grants Operations and tools
9 Legal & Community Advocacy Department
9.1 LCA Report, May 2014
10 Communications Report, May 2014
10.2 Major Storylines through May
Global unique visitors for April:
465 million (-6.00% compared with March; -9.92% compared with the previous year)
(comScore data for all Wikimedia Foundation projects; comScore will release May data later in June)
20.654 billion (-0.2% compared with April; -1.6% compared with the previous year)
(Server log data, all Wikimedia Foundation content projects including mobile access, but excluding Wikidata and the Wikipedia main portal page.)
(Database data, all Wikimedia Foundation projects.
Note: These numbers were recently adjusted to correct a bug involving IPV6 addresses.)
Report Card (integrating various statistical data and trends about WMF projects):
Wikimedia Foundation YTD Revenue and Expenses vs Plan as of April 30, 2014
Wikimedia Foundation YTD Expenses by Functions as of April 30, 2014
(Financial information is only available through April 2014 at the time of this report.)
All financial information presented is for the Month-To-Date and Year-To-Date April 30, 2014.
Revenue for the month of April is $8.24MM versus plan of $1.71MM, approximately $6.53MM or 383% over plan.
Year-to-date revenue is $49.19MM versus plan of $46.76MM, approximately $2.43MM or 5% over plan.
Expenses for the month of April is $3.19MM versus plan of $4.69MM, approximately $1.50MM or 32% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, FDC grants, and payment processing fees partially offset by higher legal fees, outside contract services, and travel expenses related to community convening events.
Year-to-date expenses is $33.51MM versus plan of $41.06MM, approximately $7.55MM or 18% under plan, primarily due to lower personnel expenses, capital expenses, internet hosting, legal fees, payment processing fees, staff development expenses, grants and travel expenses partially offset by higher outside contract services.
Cash and Investments – $55.6MM as of April 30, 2014.
Demo video for “ZoomProof”, a tool that will facilitate proofreading work on the Armenian Wikisource – one of the 12 new IEG projects
12 new individual engagement grants
The Foundation’s Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) support projects from individuals or small teams to organize, build, create, research or facilitate something that enhances the work of Wikimedia’s volunteers. The 12 winning grants from the first round of 2014 were announced on May 30.
Test of a message inviting anonymous editors to create an account, displayed after they have made an edit (presentation slide)
Inviting anonymous editors to join the Wikipedia community
On the English, German, French, and Italian Wikipedias, the Foundation’s Growth team conducted two experiments to test user interface changes for encouraging anonymous editors to create an account and join the community of registered users. In the first test, a recommendation to create an account was shown when the user clicks “edit”, and in the second test, the invitation was displayed after the user saved an edit. Preliminary data strongly suggested a positive effect on new registrations.
Overview over the FDC proposals from round 2 (presentation slides)
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) recommendations announced
In May, the nine-member Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC) met for its face-to-face deliberations and published its recommendations to the WMF Board of Trustees on proposals from four organizations (three chapters and the Foundation) on how to spend Wikimedia donation money. The Board will make its decision on these recommendations by 1 July. The Advisory Group to the FDC also met in Frankfurt for their final meeting, to provide the Executive Director of the WMF with a recommendation on whether or not the FDC process (begun in 2012) should continue, and if so, what modifications should be made. They unanimously agreed to recommend to continue the process.
A detailed report of the Tech Department’s activities for May 2014 can be found at:
Major news in May include:
changes to the mobile site to better show the editors behind the curtain;
the announcement of CyrusOne in Dallas as the location of the new Wikimedia data center;
the Zürich hackathon and Lila Tretikov’s perspective on it;
experiments by the Growth team to encourage more contributors to register;
the one-year anniversary of the launch of Tech News;
the launch of Wikipedia Zero in Nepal in partnership with NCELL;
the launch of a second request for proposals for the release management of MediaWiki for third-party users.
In May, the VisualEditor team worked on the performance stability of the editor, rolled out a major new feature to help users better edit articles, and made some improvements to other features to increase their ease of use and understandability, fixing 75 bugs and tickets. The new citation editor is now available to all VisualEditor users on the English, Polish, and Czech Wikipedias, with instructions on how to enable it on other wikis. The citation and template dialogs were simplified to avoid technical language and some outcomes that were unexpected for users. As part of this, the citation icons were replaced with a new, clearer set, and the template hinting system now lets wikis mark template parameters as “suggested”, as a step below the existing “required” state. The formula editor is now available to all VisualEditor users, and a new Beta Feature giving a tool that lets you set the language of content was made available for testing and feedback. Following a new set of user testing, the toolbar was tweaked, moving the list and indent buttons to a drop-down to make them less prominent, and removing the gallery button which is rarely used and confused users. The mobile version of VisualEditor, currently available for alpha testers, was expanded to also have the new citation editor available, and had some significant performance improvements made, especially for long or complex pages. Work continued on making VisualEditor more performant and reliable, and key tasks like keyboard accessibility have progressed. The deployed version of the code was updated five times in the regular release cycle.
Progress was also made on Parsoid, the parsing program that works behind the scenes of VisualEditor. The team continued with ongoing bug fixes and bi-weekly deployments. Besides the user-facing bug fixes, we also improved our tracing support (to aid debugging), and did some performance improvements. We also finished implementing support for HTML/visual editing of transclusion parameters. This is not yet enabled in production while we finish up any additional performance tweaks on it. As part of the Google Summer of Code program, one student is working on a wikilint project to detect broken/bad wikitext in wiki pages.
In May, the Flow team prepared the new front-end redesign of this new discussion system. We completed work on sorting topics on a board by most recent activity, and changed hidden post handling so that everyone can see hidden posts. Back-end improvements include optimizations on how we handle unique identifiers and generate standard URLs. We also accepted Special:Flow (a community-created improvement that makes it easier to create redirects to Flow boards) and made fixes for topic submission and replies for users without JavaScript.
Growth team presentation slides from the monthly Metrics meeting
The Growth team launched its A/B test of two methods for asking anonymous editors to sign up on the English, German, French, and Italian Wikipedias. Full analysis of the test results is expected in June, though preliminary data strongly suggests a positive impact on new registrations. Last but not least, Growth released two smaller enhancements to our data collection regarding article creation, including adding page identifiers to MediaWiki’s deletion logs and tracking page restorations across all wikis.
This month, the Mobile Apps team worked on a series of navigation improvements to the iOS and Android alpha apps, focusing on the interface for searching, saving and sharing pages, and navigating to the table of contents. We also worked on restyling the global navigation menu and article content—typography, color, and spacing—to create a standardized experience across the mobile web and apps. In preparation for the launch of the Android app in June, we tackled a number of user-reported crashing bugs to ensure a more stable and reliable experience for our users.
The Mobile web team continued to build out the basic features of VisualEditor for tablet users, providing the ability to add references via VisualEditor. We hope to finish refining the add and modify references workflow in preparation for graduating VE for tablets to the stable mobile site sometime in July. On the reader features side, we’ve made a number of tablet-related styling improvements (typography, spacing, and Table of Contents) to the stable mobile site. This should greatly improve the reading experience for tablet users who are already accessing the mobile version of our projects, and it is one of the last pieces of work we planned to get done before we begin redirecting all tablet users to the mobile site mid-June.
The Wikipedia Zero team worked on restructuring ZeroRatedMobileAccess into several extensions, and added support for graceful image quality reduction, and worked on a proposal to use GIF images for Zero banners instead of ESI. We also added necessary library support to the reboots of the Wikipedia apps, performed limited app code review, added support for Nokia (now MS Mobile) proxies, and started work with the Design team on the final polish for the Wikipedia Zero experience in the forthcoming apps.
In May we launched Wikipedia Zero with Ncell in Nepal, Sky Mobile (Beeline) in Kyrgyzstan and Airtel in Nigeria. We also added Opera Mini zero-rating in Umniah in Jordan. We served roughly 67 million free page views in May across 30 partners in 28 countries. We met with community members from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Jordan, as well as prospective partners in Brazil, and kicked off the carrier portal design with Noble studios.
Major Gifts and Foundations
The Major Gifts team welcomed Sylvia Ventura to the team as a Development Consultant on a 3 month contract. Sylvia will be helping plan our fall fundraising events and further developing our relationships with international donors.
We are working on an event at St. James Palace in London to support Wikimania the last week of June.
The online fundraising team ran low-level banner tests world-wide. Emails were sent to previous donors in the Czech Republic and Norway. Approximately $700,000 USD was raised in May (preliminary numbers as donations are still settling).
The team held focus groups with donors in the US, primarily focused on optimizing mobile and email fundraising.
The team prepared translations of fundraising messages into multiple languages for upcoming international banner campaigns. If you would like to help with the translation process, please get involved.
The fundraising tech team successfully deployed a new credit card processor allowing us to process payments more efficiently internationally, fully customize forms, and have credit card processing redundancy.
Annual Plan Grants (Funds Dissemination Committee)
In May, the nine-member FDC met for its face-to-face deliberations and published its recommendations to the WMF Board of Trustees on 2013-2014 Round 2 proposals. The Board will make its decision on these recommendations by 1 July. A more detailed calendar on the process, including upcoming milestones and deadlines, is available on Meta.
In addition, the Advisory Group to the FDC also met in Frankfurt for their final meeting. Their goal was to provide the Executive Director of the WMF with a recommendation on whether or not the FDC process should continue, and if so, what modifications should be made. Their unanimously agreed to recommend to continue the process; more detailed recommendations are forthcoming.
The FDC is currently accepting four new members. To that end, self-nominations are accepted through June 15. Four new members will be appointed by the Board of Trustees, and will be announced in July. If you should have questions about the process, contact FDCsupport wikimedia.org.
Project and Event Grants
3 new requests were funded in May 2014.
Grants funded in May 2014
The logo for Wikipedia Summer of Monuments.
Indigenous Knowledge for Wikipedia: To support a workshop and the development of case studies examining the use of oral citations for improving Wikipedia articles.
Summer of Monuments 2014: To support Wikimedia US-DC in organizing a photo campaign targeted at select Southern US states to improve coverage of nationally-recognized monuments on Wikipedia.
Wikimedia Estonia office rental: To support Wikimedia Estonia with their rental office space.
Travel & Participation Support
3 new requests were funded and 2 reports were accepted in May 2014.
Requests awarded in May 2014
Three requests involving participation in the 2014 Open Source Bridge Conference to fund:
Niharika’s talk on a compact interlanguage selector tool that supports the many languages on Wikipedia.
Rjain’s hack session on Extension Development with Mediawiki.
Netha’s presentations at both the Ada Camp and Open Source Bridge conferences. At Ada Camp, Netha will hold discussions surrounding the topic of increasing participation in women with plans on tying in ideas to her proposed diversity workshop at Wikimania 2014. At the OSB, her talk is on “The joy of volunteering with open technology and culture”.
Reports accepted in May 2014
Presentation slides about new Individual Engagement Grants
12 new Individual Engagement grants were selected and announced in May! These grants, which range from $600 to $22,600, will support 16 grantees from 10 countries with countless volunteer participants from around the world. Grantees will build tools and partnerships, conduct research, and engage in online community organizing. Some new investment areas in this round include funding mobile app development, Wikipedia research, and projects aimed at improving Wikivoyage and Wiktionary. The round 1 2014 projects are:
Making Telugu Content Accessible, led by Santhosh, funded at 104,000 Rupees.
Medicine Translation Community Organizing, led by CFCF, funded at $10,000.
Open Access Reader, led by Edward Saperia, funded at $6550.
Optimizing Wikimedia Category Systems, led by Paul J. Weiss, funded at $9750.
Promoting Wikivoyage, led by Tammy Bennert, funded at $600.
Pronunciation Recording, led by Rillke with participation from Ungoliant MMDCCLXIV and Infovarius, funded at €1450.
Reimagining Wikipedia Mentorship, led by I JethroBT, Soni and Gabrielm199, funded at $22,600.
Senior Citizens Write Wikipedia, led by Vojtěch Veselý with participation from Vojtěch Dostál, Václav Šulc, and Jan Sokol, funded at 160,000 CZK.
Tools for Armenian Wikisource and beyond, led by Xelgen with participation from HrantKhachatrian and Mahnerak, funded at $7600.
The Wikiquiz, led by Addis Wang, Mys 721x, and Ericmetro, funded at $1070.
WikiTrack, led by Hari Prasad Nadig, funded at $2500.
Women and Wikipedia, led by Amanda Menking, funded at $8075.
Program Head Siko Bouterse attended the Wikipedia Education Program Hackathon in Jordan to meet with Arabic Wikipedians. While there, we launched the Arabic Wikipedia Library, participated in a group generating a list of online Arabic research materials for use in editing articles, and presented about grantmaking to a group of educators and Wikipedians.
Siko also facilitated an IdeaLab workshop at Wikiconference USA, where about 15 participants collaborated to develop a handful of ideas into action plans.
User scripts for an add-me gadget and a new Lua info-box template have been created to facilitate joining and endorsing ideas, as part of the ongoing IdeaLab worksprint. The team is wrapping up bug-fixing on the initial scripts before moving to beta test as gadgets on Meta.
Learning and Evaluation (including Program Evaluation)
In May, much of the L&E teams time was set on developing the L&E logic model and also bringing in new team member Maria Cruz! Also, much time was spent on prepping for the FDC deliberations and advisory group meeting and the revamp of the IdeaLab.
Migrated the Evaluation portal to the Grants namespace, as part of our ongoing efforts to re-integrate Learning & Evaluation and Program Evaluation.
Collaborated with the IEG program officer, contract developer Jeph Paul, and designer Heather Walls on the IdeaLab revamp project. See IEG section above for more info.
Assisted IEG grantee Ocaasi with a 6-month retrospective data analysis of The Wikipedia Adventure.
Worked with Analytics to develop a framework for gathering active editor geodata.
In addition to participating with the full Learning and Evaluation team in strategy sessions related to our integration under Grantmaking, the program evaluation and design team members:
Initiated a community dialogue around the evaluation initiative, its evaluation, and grantmaking and posting/linking of Wikimetrics Brainstorm, a metrics dialogue and development prioritization activity, initiated at Wikimedia Conference.
Posted two blogs: Beginning to Understand What Works: Measuring the Impact of Wikimedia Programs (2 May 2014) and A Collaborative Definition of Impact: Building Metrics Together (30 May 2014).
Two team members attended WikiConference USA in New York City and presented a two part session Growing the awesome in your Programs overviewing the evaluation tools and resources and providing a demonstration of Wikimetrics.
Hired Maria Cruz on contract for Program Evaluation Community Coordinator.
Began L&E Twitter feed @WikiEval (gathered 75 followers in week one).
Survey of GAC members
Annual Plan Grants: completed impact analysis for the first round of funding, FDC year 1. Prepped materials for the FDC advisory group (to be published); published financial overviews for the entities applying for funds in Round 2, 2013-14.
Project & Event Grants: finalized consulting engagement with pro-bono consulting group Inspire. Key topic areas:
Survey of GAC members, resulting in ongoing discussion on meta with GAC members (facilitated by the PEG team).
Analysis of the pain points in the grants reporting and application processes; improvements to these areas forthcoming.
Grants Operations and tools
Migrated the Evaluation portal to a new address at Grants:Evaluation making its contents searchable by default.
Conducted research on available commercial QDA (Qualitative Data Analysis) solutions.
Worked with Fluxx labs on fixing major bugs in Fluxx site including bank info, budgets, currencies and others.
Documentation of GrantsBot! GrantsBot is a critical tool used by the grantmaking team to update and maintain a variety of pages and portals throughout the Grants namespace.
IdeaLab revamp is underway! See IEG section above.
Closure of the Wikimedia board governance survey developed with of WMF Board, Wikimedia Chapters, and AffCom. Analysis to be done in June. Thank you to all the participants!
A visualization of users’ interaction to the Grants namespace talk pages on Meta (generated using Gephi)
Prepared a Gephi visualization of users’ interaction on the Grants namespace on Meta-wiki. Future development and interpretation anticipated (ideas welcome!)
Open questions to the broader community around grantmaking metrics (see Program Evaluation below).
Represented the Wikimedia Foundation at The Funder’s Role in Collective Impact forum.
The Wikipedia Education Program team is establishing a baseline of Wikipedia education initiatives worldwide. The team is conducting a large outreach effort to more than 60 programs worldwide that are using Wikipedia in education. Currently, the outreach consists of one-on-one talks with all program leaders to understand their educational initiatives, activities, goals, and potential support needs. Since beginning our outreach efforts in April 2014,Floor, Anna, Tighe, and Rod have spoken to 32 initiatives worldwide that are using Wikipedia in Education.
The Wikipedia Education Program continues its support for the Education Cooperative, a group of program leaders worldwide committed to working together to share leanings and experiences using Wikipedia in education. Coop members, together with the Wikipedia Education Program team, are currently working on four initial areas for the Coop: Communications, Resources, Recognition and Mentoring. Check out these works in progress:
Restructuring of the education portal on Outreach wiki continues as we bring together five separate educational portals into one site, combining trainings, materials and brochures, learnings and worldwide Wikipedia in Education efforts. See: Update on the education portal. We’ll be working on the content for each of the pages in the upcoming months.
Improvements to the monthly community-led newsletter, This Month In Education, including an email subscription option and a single-page edition, resulted in several new subscriptions as well as a significant increase in page views.
Floor Koudijs, Manager of the Wikipedia Education Program, attended WikiCon USA 2014, in New York from May 30 to June 1.
Volunteers from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Lebanon and Jordan gathered for a two-day hackathon in Amman. Photo: Samir I. Sharbaty CC-BY-SA-3.0
Arab World Education Program Manager, Tighe Flanagan, organized the Wikipedia Education Program hackathon in Amman, Jordan from 16-17 May, 2014 with support from Dr. Nidal Yousef and Isra University; WEP sponsored the participation of 11 volunteers from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Lebanon in addition to over 20 local volunteers from Jordan.
35 volunteers (Wikimedians, educators and student ambassadors) worked on tasks to improve the Wikipedia Education Program in the region, documenting their teams and work on-wiki; the Editing Wikipedia Brochure was partially translated into Arabic and several new institutions were added to the Education Extension to track student activity and contributions on-wiki.
Siko Bouterse from Grantmaking and Adele Vrana from Wikipedia Zero helped facilitate the Jordan Hackathon from the Wikimedia Foundation.
Egyptian students celebrated the accomplishments of the previous semester, featured in the This Month in Education Newsletter.
Armenian students enjoy editing Wikipedia (May 7)
Wikipedia Education Program students keep editing in Arabic long after their assignments are finished (May 6)
We supported F&A in the finalization of the WMF annual plan for submisson to the board. We hired two employees, Elena Hernandez, who began with us as benefits and wellness coordinator, and a recruiting coordinator who will begin in June. We completed preparation work for the annual reviews and compensation adjustments, and all the hiring and onboarding for nine new req holders as well as managing our portfolio of immigration-related work.
Conversions (Contractor to Requisition)
Ralph Torres (Office IT)
Consuelo Jimenez (Office IT)
Sylvia Ventura (Office IT)
May Total Plan: 196 (full req#, with stage-gating and out of plan)
May Filled: 9, Month Attrition: 1,
FYTD Filled: 58, FYTD Attrition: 27
Remaining Open positions to fiscal year end
20 → reflects 4 total out of plan req#s 193-196 (for finance)
In the month of June, the Wikimedia Foundation will be issuing an RFP (Request for Proposal) for investment advisory services.
Beginning June 14 and ending June 30, the 6th floor or the Wikimedia Foundation office will be undergoing improvements which will shift staff to the 3rd floor and offsite locations.
The Annual Plan of the Wikimedia Foundation has been reviewed by the Chair of the Audit Committee (Stu West) and is being prepared for submission to the Board of Trustees for approval.
Legal & Community Advocacy Department
LCA Report, May 2014
Following the closing of a 5.5 month-long community consultation in February, the new draft privacy policy was approved by the WMF Board of Trustees and will go into effect upon completion of an appropriate notice period on 06 June 2014.
After the vigorous debate during the 5.5 month-long community consultation closed and significant changes were made based off of community feedback, the WMF Board of Trustees approved the new draft Access to Nonpublic Information Policy, which will go into effect upon completion of an appropriate notice period. Importantly, the new Access to Nonpublic Information Policy contains no identification requirement by members of the community who are entrusted with administrative rights that grant them access to certain nonpublic information, but provides clear guidance about the responsibilities that come with those rights and maintains pre-existing minimum age requirements as the previous Access to nonpublic data policy contained.
Request withdrawn : 1
Approval not needed : 5
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We said goodbye to our spring interns, Shaila Nathu, Jessica Tam, and Marshall Olin. We thank them for all of their hard work and wish them the best in the adventures that await them in the future.
We welcomed our new summer interns, Mark Verstraete, Joe Jung, Chuck Roslof, and Eric Holmes. We are very excited to have them join the Foundation for the summer and look forward to tackling interesting projects with them.
Roshni, a WMF privacy legal fellow, shared her experience about attending Yale’s Big Data Symposium in a blog post.
Wikimedia made its debut on the EFF’s annual Who Has Your Back report, earning 4 stars.
Yana published a blog post announcing our support for the 13 Principles that demand that governments respect human rights in their surveillance actions, which earned Wikimedia an EFF star in the Who Has Your Back report.
Legal interns published notes in Wikilegal on Copyright Status of Wikipedia Page Histories, Authorship and Copyright Ownership, Uploading UK Banknotes to Wikipedia.
We updated the Wikimedia Legal Disclaimer to better explain the role of the Legal Team and allow us to more freely discuss legal related issues.
Manprit is working with OTRS to help them deal with questions from users regarding legal topics. Manprit published a document clarifying trademark related issues often faced by OTRS volunteers. The document is the first of a series meant to provide OTRS volunteers with a resource to consult when legal questions arise to hopefully ease the burden they face.
Communications Report, May 2014
The major news story for the beginning of May was the announcement of the new Executive Director, which resulted in stories in the Economist, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, among others. A ruling by the European Court of Justices in early May on the ‘right to be forgotten’ led to a flood of articles citing the impact of the ruling on Wikipedia. In the UK, it was discovered that vandalism on an article about the Hillsborough stadium disaster could be traced back to government computers, promting numerous articles detailing the way Wikipedia works, including how editors revert such vandalism. A study released at the end of May on the “accuracy” of top-ten medical articles garned wide coverage, but was dismissed as inaccurate and misleading by editors from WikiProject Medicine. A ruling in Chile on the country’s Net Neutrality provisions prompted articles critiquing the potential impact on projects such as Wikipedia Zero. Throughout the month, the Communications team worked to support the onboarding of the new Executive Director, the rollout of the Terms of Use, the launch of Wikipedia Zero in Nigeria, and preparations for Wikimania, as well as finalized the Communications Narrative for the Annual Plan for 2014-2015.
Airtel offers Nigerians free access to Wikipedia (29 May, 2014)
Wikimedia Foundation names Lila Tretikov as its new Executive Director (01 May, 2014)
Major Storylines through May
Lila Tretikov becomes the Wikimedia Foundation’s new Executive Director
Wall Street Journal (01 May, 2014) [1]
New York Times (01 May, 2014) [2]
Jimmy Wales and the EU Courts of Justices ruling
Jimmy Wales describes the ruling on the “right to be forgotten” as “ridiculous.”
NY Times (blog) (30 May, 2014). [3]
BBC News (15 May, 2014). [4]
International Business Times (15 May, 2014). [5]
CNET (14 May, 2014). [6]
Hillsborough Wikipedia entries scandal
Wikipedia page dedicated to the 1989 disaster in which 96 people died was vandalized using government computers.
The Telegraph (21 May, 2014). [7]
International Business Times (21 May, 2014). [8]
Mirror (20 May, 2014). [9]
The Boar (9 May, 2014). [10]
Study claims that medical articles on Wikipedia contain inaccuracies.
ABC News Radio (28 May, 2014). [11]
Yahoo (small business advisor) (28 May, 2014) . [12]
Huffington Post (Tech) (27 May, 2014). [13]
The Telegraph (27 May, 2014). [14]
Time (27 May, 2014). [15]
The Independent (27 May, 2014). [16]
”Wikipedia is a masterclass in digital democracy”
Wired (22 May, 2014) [http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-05/22/digital-democracy/
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FiveThirtyEight (30 May, 2014) [17]
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Quartz (30 May, 2014) [18]
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Forbes (28 May, 2014) [19]
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Blog.wikimedia.org published 32 posts in May 2014. Six posts were multilingual, with translations in English, Spanish, Nepali, Russian, Polish, German, French, Italian, Czech, Catalan, Chinese, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Greek, Turkish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Malay.
Some highlights from the blog include:
Happy Birthday, Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki (May 26, 2014).
Donating his estate to the Wikimedia Founation: The story of Jim Pacha (May 12, 2014).
“No interviews. Except for Wikipedia!” – Documenting the Eurovision song contest on Wikimedia Commons (May 10, 2014).
Launching a privacy policy built the Wiki way (May 07, 2014).
Announcing our new Executive Director Lila Tretikov (May 01, 2014).
Media contact through May 2014: wmf:Press room/Media Contact#May 2014
For detailed coverage and news summaries, see the community-edited newsletter “Wikipedia Signpost” for May 2014:
Volume 10, Issue 17, 07 May 2014
Volume 10, Issue 18, 14 May 2014
Volume 10, Issue 19, 21 May 2014
Volume 10, Issue 20, 28 May 2014
The legal team is creating guidelines for app developers to follow when they create apps that integrate use our projects’ names or content. One of the guidelines is how to create app logos that are not confusingly similar to our trademarks or our own application logos. We developed a few logos to provide as examples. We also created some logo templates for Wikimedia User Groups.
We expanded the endorse gadget on Meta from last month with another function to make it easy for people to join a project page in various roles. Jonathan Morgan and Heather developed a Lua-based infobox to summarize information across ideas and projects (see also the Individual Engagement Grants section).
The staff handbook continues to be shaped on the Office wiki.
Visitors and guests to the WMF office in May 2014:
RAY KING (TL Design)
Tom Hehir (CCSC Inc.)
Rishi Sharma (Paul Hastings)
Peter Cooper (Paul Hastings)
Priscilla Imboden (Swiss Radio)
Melissa Cliver (Melissa Cliver Design and Research)
Charlene Music (Boundless Media)
Tom Hehir (CCSC Inc.)
Craig Aaron (Free Press)
Josh Levy (Free Press)
Rachel Connors (Yellow Leaf)
Joe Demin (Yellow Leaf)
Myleen Hollero (Myleen Hollero Photography)
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Murshteyn and his parents immigrated to the United States in 1994, when he was 11 years old. Previously, they lived in Yekaterinburg, Russia, where his father worked as a chemist and his mother taught at a high school. After moving to the United States, Murshteyn quickly became fluent in English and adapted to living in American society, but it was harder for his parents to do the same. “This happens to every single immigrant in the history of America,” said Murshteyn. “They feel shut out because they cannot communicate.”
When Murshteyn was in college, he discovered Wikipedia, which quickly became more than just a free encyclopedic resource for him. With articles in both English and Russian, Wikipedia became a way for Murshteyn to overcome the language barrier and better connect with his parents. “As I grow within the society and I can communicate on a level that is far beyond anything they can do, I use Wikipedia to be able to communicate back with them and to translate for them,” he said.
For instance, one day Murshteyn heard an inspirational quote from Thomas Aquinas that he wanted to share with his parents. However, they had both never heard of Thomas Aquinas, although they suggested that perhaps he meant ФoMa AkBиHckий. “It seemed implausible to me that they would not know who Thomas Aquinas was,” said Murshteyn, “and ФoMa just sounded like the wrong person.” So Murshteyn looked up the article on English Wikipedia, scrolled down to click on the Russian link in the Languages section of the left-hand toolbar, and found that Thomas Aquinas was indeed the same as ФoMa AkBиHckий. He and his parents were then able to have a long discussion about the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. “Without Wikipedia, the conversation that one might wish to have is impossible to continue because the concepts have not been translated,” said Murshteyn. “Wikipedia is unique, it allows me to switch concepts from one language to another. Thomas Aquinas isn’t something that you look up in a dictionary easily.”
Murshteyn has found Wikipedia to be an especially useful resource for him to learn about scientific concepts, which has helped him feel more connected to his father. “My dad was a scientist, and I never became one,” he said. “This always dismayed him.” When they first came to the United States, his parents purchased a Russian physics textbook, hoping Murshteyn would read it and develop an understanding and a passion for physics. “But because I never even looked at it so much–I hadn’t looked at it until a few years ago–they never took me seriously, my dad in particular, never took me seriously when I discussed physics or any [scientific] topics.”
In recent years, Murshteyn has developed more of an interest in science, especially in physics. After he graduated from university with a degree in social thought and political economy, he started working in commercial real estate, where he brokers deals for renewable energy projects. It was this involvement with renewable energy that first prompted Murshteyn to want to learn more about physics. As he learned more, he naturally wanted to discuss these topics with his father, and he feels that many of these conversations could not have happened without the aid of Wikipedia as translator. “I feel cut off because [my parents] learned it in Russian, the concepts are called different things and I can’t relate to them,” he said. “I was able to discuss with my dad only because I was able to look up these concepts in English that I’ve barely heard of in Russian.”
“I showed him that I actually understand a few things better than he thought I did. I think my father has learned that my interests are broader than he believes,” said Murshteyn, “and this makes him happy, and it makes me happy because he’s happy.”
While his parents still won’t use Wikipedia themselves, Murshteyn feels they now understand and appreciate the value of it, and he has even convinced them to donate. “My mother never really looked at Wikipedia as a resource that was serious. When I first showed her an article, she saw that it didn’t have any references, and she thought that was weak,” said Murshteyn. “With time, I showed her that references started appearing. Her views on the encyclopedia have changed. Now, they’ll ask me intermittently to understand something, and my mom will say, ‘Well, maybe that’s something that would be in Wikipedia,’ and sort of gives me a hint to check and see if it’s there.”
For Murshteyn and his family, Wikipedia is more than the sum of its millions of articles, it’s a cultural communications tool. “[Wikipedia] allows me to connect with people I value dearly and to have conversations at times when there is no opportunity to relate and connect to each other,” he said. “It’s relating the knowledge one culture has to another in order for them to be able to converse in one language, and feel that they’re talking in one language, not two.”
Elaine Mao, Communications Intern
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John,* a Wikimedia volunteer in Venezuela, has witnessed years of political, economic, and social crises, and says that people invest “great effort” when leading their lives in the country today.
An economist from a small town near the capital, John emphasizes that uncontrolled inflation, which has led to the decreased purchasing power of the Venezuelan bolívar, has left the majority of the country without basic goods like bread, toilet paper, flour, butter, and even medicine. The unemployment rate has skyrocketed, along with crime and corruption. Hunger and health care have reached what Human Rights Watch has termed a “humanitarian crisis.”
While John says that the conditions have made him and his colleagues feel “very lonely in delivering the mission of free knowledge,” he also takes care to note that “resiliency is vital in coping with the daily stress of living in such conditions.” One part of that is making sure that complete and informative Wikipedia articles are there for a country where nearly half of the adults in the country have never completed a year of secondary education, and less than half of the children attend a secondary school. “Filling this educational gap is a key part of building a new nation,” John says, “where education becomes an issue of national interest.”
It can also involve advocacy, in his view. John agrees with the broad goals of the demonstrators and actively participates in some of them; he believes that “The mission of bringing free knowledge to all citizens of a country is contrary to the precepts that a totalitarian regime may seek to impose on a society.”
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Some similar challenges are being confronted in Ukraine, which has gone and is going through a period of severe public unrest (“Euromaidan”), a revolution, the War in Donbass, and the Russian annexation of Crimea.
Ukrainian Wikipedia volunteer editors recall the violent challenges of a country in turmoil all too well, as one of their own was killed by a sniper while protesting against the government in February 2014. Several others participated in those same events, many of which carried cameras to visually document the protests—images that are now categorized by month on Wikimedia Commons, and available for anyone to use under free licenses.
Vira Motorko of Wikimedia Ukraine recalled some of her free time at the Euromaidan protests, and was surprised at how well they were run. “I once spent a night in a Euromaidan warehouse to sort clothes we received,” she said, and noted that the operation “was organized like a small country.” Motorko found that the developing conflict changed what readers came to read about on the Ukrainian Wikipedia, as they flocked to articles like “Blondeau slug,” a form of ammunition that was being used on civilians during the protests.
Even though the war is primarily confined to Donbass, located in the eastern portion of the country, 1.4 million Ukrainians have been internally displaced (as of 2015), and tens of thousands have been killed or injured (as of last month). That’s why volunteer editor Бiлeцbkий B.C.—the individual with the highest number of edits on the Ukrainian Wikipedia—told us that the war has affected every Ukrainian in some way, including Wikipedians.
The local Wikimedia chapter has attempted to reach out to the war-torn part of the country with 21 different events, including a series of editing workshops at various libraries and schools in Luhansk Oblast, the province at the heart of the War in Donbass. “The tour was intended to show that Wikipedia cares about the region,” Motorko said. “It is sometimes said that different regions do not hear each other in Ukraine. In order to be heard, someone needs to talk, and there are few Ukrainian Wikipedia editors from the east.”
These efforts, and those of hundreds of other Wikipedians in conflict or crisis zones around the world, are not easy. But as Motorko says, “Wikipedia is a place for all kinds of information”—and that’s because of the people who volunteer their time to find reliable sources and document the world around them. You can join them today.
Ed Erhart, Editorial Associate
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] | One of my research papers had recently been accepted and later presented at the Wiki Workshop 2021; and in this article, I shall be providing a general overview of the study. Wiki Workshop is one of the leading venues for researchers around the world exploring various aspects of the Wikimedia project(s). The research article titled “A Brief Analysis of Bengali Wikipedia’s Journey to 100,000 Articles”, conducted on behalf of Wikimedia Bangladesh, presents an analysis of Bengali Wikipedia’s nearly 17-years journey with respect to various parameters (link given below). The workshop was planned to be organized in Ljubljana, Slovenia, but later got shifted to the online platform due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The workshop was held on April 14, 2021 (surprisingly, the first day of Bengali new year!).
My motivation was simple: the desired line of 100,000 articles has been crossed, now is the time to look back – how was the journey? What were the probable positive catalysts? Did everyone get a chance to join this journey?
I started working in December. When I started looking back – gathering information, reading through the archives, I got amazed to see the speed of our journey. Although it was really sluggish in the beginning phase, its improvement in the last five years is quite noticeable. The number of active editors, total articles, etc., has all grown up conspicuously. It was also encouraging to see the positive results of the programs organized at different times are having impacts. The number of active editors jumped a lot during the article contests 2017, 2018, 2019, special edit-a-thon 2020, etc. All the newcomers joining these events do not contribute to Wikipedia later on (expected, right?), but some of them stay – which is apparent from the overall picture in months after the contest is over. There are similar optimistic statistics on the number of newly registered users, meaning many more are getting interested in contributing to this open encyclopedia. This is really encouraging – our goal is not only to enhance Wikipedia’s content but also to boost people’s knowledge about it.
Active editors of Bangla Wikipedia from January 2004 to December 2020. Generated from Wikimedia Statistics.
But the next statistic is not a relief. Globally, the number of female contributors to Wikipedia is much lower than the number of male contributors, and Bengali Wikipedia is not an exception in this regard. A study published in 2013 found that 4.09% of registered users in Bengali Wikipedia identified themselves as women in the last two and a quarter years. In 2019-20, this number reached 6.41%. Although a slight increase is observed, the improvement in this sector is insignificant compared to other sectors (growth rate of new articles, active editors, etc.) – which is unfortunate. Many studies have shown that gender gaps can lead to differences of opinion in Wikipedia articles, as well as latent biases on decision making, which are highly undesirable.
Percentage of registered users in Bengali Wikipedia who expressed their gender as female in different timelines.
There are many more parameters to be analyzed in Bengali Wikipedia, gaps are not limited to the ones described here; but they are kept as potential future works.
In the early years of Wikipedia, one of the main goals was to increase the amount of content, as has been the case in Bengali Wikipedia too. But now that we have a growing community, it’s time to fill up the blanks too. It is also very important for the organizers of various activities (contests, meetups, edit-a-thons, etc.) that we can ensure an environment where everyone can feel safe and don’t lose motivation. As a recommendation of this study, I’d say it is important to carefully look at future activities – we should encourage participation and focus on the existing gap at the same time, with equal importance.
Above all, I shall be glad if this research study and its results can be helpful for Bengali Wikipedia and also for other Wikipedia in other languages.
Link to the paper (pdf): https://wikiworkshop.org/2021/papers/Wiki_Workshop_2021_paper_4.pdf.
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Some residents of New Zealand have long pushed for a move away from their current flag and for the use of a more distinguishable flag to represent them. The debate has recently led to a series of referenda in which citizens will vote for a new design, before voting on whether to change at all. This week, four flag designs were shortlisted to go to a public vote later this year. However, critics argue that changing the national flag is low on the public’s list of issues, and say the money put into the referendum plan might have been better used elsewhere.
Learn more in these related Wikipedia articles: New Zealand flag debate
Google’s latest logo matches their new Alphabet branding. Image a trademark of Google Inc, available under public domain as not meeting threshold of originality.
Tech giant Google topped its recent restructuring into Alphabet Inc with a new logo mirroring that of the new umbrella company. The logo, announced today (September 1), switches to a sans-serif typeface—the tailor-made Product Sans—for the first time in the company’s history, as well as softening the colour palette. It is the first major change to their logo in sixteen years. The announcement was made, in part, through a “Google Doodle” for which their search engine is famous.
Learn more in the related Wikipedia article: Google logo
The renaming ends a forty-year dispute. Image by Dubhe, freely licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
This week, Mount McKinley, a mountain in Alaska named after assassinated U.S. president William McKinley in 1917, was officially renamed back to Denali. “Denali”, which translates to “the high one” in the Athabaskan languages spoken by Alaska Natives living around the mountain, has been in common use in the state despite the renaming. In 1975, the state began a dispute to have the mountain renamed back to Denali, a move oft blocked by Congressional delegation from McKinley’s home state of Ohio. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced the name change on Sunday, August 30.
Learn more in the related Wikipedia article: Denali–Mount McKinley naming dispute
World Athletics Championships conclude
Ashton Eaton, pictured in 2011, set a new world record score in the Men’s Decathlon. Image by Erik van Leeuwen, freely licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
The 2015 World Championships in Athletics, hosted by Beijing, China, concluded on Sunday, August 30, following a week of competition. 43 nations made it to the medal table, which was topped by Kenya for the first time in the event’s history; the African country ended with seven gold medals over the week. The event saw the debut competition for new IAAF member state Kosovo; South Sudan‘s first athlete did not show up. American decathlete Ashton Eaton set a new world record for highest points tally with 9045, breaking his own record set at the 2012 US Olympic trials.
Learn more in the related Wikipedia article: 2015 World Championships in Athletics
Temple of Bel destroyed in Syria
The temple is one of the many cultural artifacts now destroyed by the group. Image by Bernard Gagnon, freely licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
The Temple of Bel, located in Palmyra, Syria, was one of the best-preserved ruins in the ancient city. It was dedicated in 32 AD, and was a major temple in Palmyrene culture. On Sunday, August 30, the temple was attacked by jihadist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, causing severe damage to the main building as well as to a row of columns nearby. The destruction of the temple follows a similar attack earlier in the year on the nearby Temple of Baalshamin; both attacks have been condemned by world leaders and UNESCO.
Learn more in these related Wikipedia articles: Temple of Bel, Destruction of cultural heritage by ISIL
Photo montage credits: “NZ flag Photo.jpg” by Edward Hyde, freely licensed under CC-BY 2.0; “Ashton Eaton 2 Daegu 2011.jpg” by Erik van Leeuwen, freely licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License; GoogleLogoSept12015.png” a trademark of Google Inc, available under public domain as not meeting threshold of originality; “Temple of Bel, Palmyra 02.jpg” by Bernard Gagnon, freely licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0; “0751 – mckinley.jpg” by Dubhe, freely licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. Collage by Joe Sutherland
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Bayrak bir milletin temsili olması değerine değer katmaktadır. Ve çok ince çalışılıp detaylandırılmalıdır.
Amerika bayrağı hakkında her şeye sayfamızı takip ederek ulaşa bilirsiniz. On üç çizgi içinde yer alan kurucu devletleri ise Delawere, Connecticut, Maryland, Gerogia, Massashusetts, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Viginia kurucu devleti olmuştur. . Bu on üç devlet bayrakta resmi olarak yerlerini almışlar ve Amerikan bayrağı tam olarak 4 Temmuz 1960 yılında resmi olarak kabul edilmiştir.
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] | I would like more people to upload sound files with the sounds of the streets, the sounds of animals, the music they hear in the places where they live, soundscapes such as Murray Schafer … but with sounds of markets and squares. Sounds are alive and part of humanity. When we share them, we give them life.
Since joining the Wikimedia movement three years ago, Luis Álvarez has contributed thousands of edits on the Spanish Wikipedia, in addition to photos that he took and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository.
Furthermore, he has invested much time in recording and uploading different types of audio files. His sound contributions include self-composed music that accompanies educational videos (like the one below), ambient sounds that can add life to relevant Wikipedia articles or be remixed for different purposes, sound effects that he made, sonic experiments, recording public domain music performances, and more.
Separate from his composing, Álvarez is a university teacher at the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes. He is presently working on his PhD in Sociocultural Studies.
Álvarez learned about Wikipedia and its sister projects while studying for his first university degree in communications. Later on, he became more interested in the culture of sharing and decided to devote more time to it.
“Upon starting my postgraduate studies, I immersed myself in studying the Remix phenomenon,” Álvarez recalls. “I started with music and sounds, but then I realized that there are other communities doing the same thing in other fields, like free software and remixing videos. I was searching for a project with a more stable community that was creating a valuable product. When I met the Wikimedia community in Mexico, I felt that it could be what I was looking for.” He continues:
I became part of that community, which has changed my life completely. I used to like the idea of sharing what I did, and learning from what others did, but now I can practice it every day by uploading files, editing and creating articles.
Video by Kameraprojekt Graz, CC BY-SA 4.0. Music and sound effects by Luis Álvarez.
Álvarez’ use of audio files has developed from “recording sounds and mixing them with music, poems, or any other sound,” to using sound as a documenting tool. A quote from the American composer John Cage has really resonated with him: “When I hear traffic, the sound of traffic—here on Sixth Avenue, for instance—I don’t have the feeling that anyone is talking. I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I love the activity of sound.”
An illustration of sound as a documenting tool can be found in Wikipedia’s article on the Church of San Marcos, where Álvarez added a recording of the church bell. The sound gave a dynamic tone to the article.
“I would like more people to upload sound files,” Álvarez explains, “with the sounds of the streets, the sounds of animals, the music they hear in the places where they live, soundscapes such as Murray Schafer … but with sounds of markets and squares. Sounds are alive and part of humanity; if we share them, we give them more life.”
Some of the pieces of music Álvarez made for projects outside the Wikimedia movement were uploaded by him to Wikimedia Commons. “I try to upload samples or several tracks that compose one musical piece to make them easier to reuse,” he explains.
So far, Álvarez has uploaded over 5,000 files to Wikimedia Commons, of which nearly 150 are audio. Different media outlets have used some of his photos, but he is frustrated that they often don’t attribute this work to him. “I write to them to rectify this, not only because I want the recognition, but to help them understand that identifying the author is part of … the culture of sharing,” says Álvarez.
To Álvarez, free knowledge sharing is not only providing an easier option for knowledge seekers; it is a way to give everyone the opportunity to stand up for their unique views.
“We have been told that we must be spectators,” says Álvarez, “when we can also be ‘spect-actors’ as Augusto Boal, founder of the Oppressed Theater, said. Being part of history is what allows us to share; and though it seems trivial, uploading a photograph that we like or a sound that evokes a feeling helps this community grow.”
Samir Elsharbaty, Digital Content Intern
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] | If so we have an upcoming change this week that you should be aware of. We’re in the final part of our new device detection testing that will automatically redirect any mobile agent we recognize over to its corresponding .m mobile gateway.This means that if your app declares a mobile UA as recognized by WURFL and connects directly to us we will redirect that traffic to .m.wikipedia.org and NOT .wikipedia.org.
Those apps that use an intermediate gateway which don’t have a mobile user agent will not be affected. If on the other hand your app does all of your logic then you will need to explicitly identify your UA to us. Or, ensure that your UA contains “bot” to bypass redirection.
If this is not the behavior that you want then please let us know at know on meta or come find us on freenode #wikimedia-mobile.
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For years, animals confiscated from poachers and traders were released back into the wild without proper rehabilitation. Indonesia loses up to 10,000 pangolins and thousands of slow lorises a year to illegal trade, although the numbers could well be even higher.
As the trade has largely moved from the street to the Internet, it is even more difficult to estimate the real volume of trafficking in exotic wildlife. What is undeniable, however, is that pangolins and slow lorises are quickly disappearing from Indonesian forests.
The problem lies not in local environmental laws, which are fairly good, but in insufficient enforcement of them. Even though enforcement authorities confiscate live animals or the parts of dead ones, the poachers, traffickers, sellers and buyers are rarely punished. This sends a clear message that they can continue their business as usual without much risk.
In addition, the island of Sumatra, which, according to a 2017 report by the anti-trafficking network TRAFFIC, is a hotspot of the illegal trade in pangolins, does not have any specialized facilities for confiscated animals. Pangolins and slow lorises usually end up in small cages without proper rehabilitation and when they are released back into the wild, no one monitors their progress. It is highly probable that the majority of these animals die.
A slow loris is rescued from a cage in Sumatra by the Kukang Rescue Program. (photo: the Kukang Rescue Program)
The situation on Sumatra has been improving, however, thanks to the Kukang Rescue Program, the first and only specialized rescue and rehabilitation center locally for pangolins and slow lorises. The construction of the center started in 2015 and is still underway and has two separate departments.
The Kukang Rescue Program focuses on slow lorises and has a capacity of 30 animals while the Trenggiling Conservation Program, which is currently being built, is dedicated to saving pangolins.
“Establishing a rescue center with a well-designed rehabilitation and release program is an absolute necessity,” explains František Příbrský, a Czech conservationist who founded the first rescue center specialized in confiscated pangolins and slow lorises in North Sumatra.
The confiscated animals undergo a veterinary inspection, after which they are put into quarantine for a minimum of six weeks. Afterwards, the animals go through a rehabilitation process, which can take several months. Healthy animals are moved to an enclosure in their area of release where they continue to be monitored with a collar equipped with a transmitter so that after several months of monitoring it can be determined how well they have adapted to their new home.
After a few years of conservation work František and his team realized that they should work closer with the local community as many locals hunted and poached wild animals to gain extra incomes. In 2017, the conservationists decided to employ two former poachers to help protect hundreds of animals that would have otherwise been hunted.
That same year they started the Kukang Coffee Project for farmers who live in the area of the natural habitats of protected animals. Farmers are taught to produce high-quality coffee, which is bought by the Kukang Rescue Program for a higher price than they would get on the market. On exchange for this, locals promise not to hunt slow lorises and pangolins.
Sunda pangolins in Sumatra are critically endangered. (photo: Flickr)
The farmers work with the two former poachers who ensure that the farmers do indeed keep their promise. To further raise awareness about animal protection and nature conservation, the team has also started a environmental school for local children.
Besides these efforts, the Kukang Rescue Program and the Trenggiling Conservation Program also cooperate with various zoos in the Czech Republic and elsewhere, with international zoo associations, and with other conservation-focused NGOs in order to raise awareness of the illegal wildlife trade.
Příbrský is a member of the Stolen Wildlife campaign, which warns people about the causes and consequences of the wildlife trade.
By saving wild animals, people will also be saving themselves, Příbrský stresses.
“It strikes me that all the world is currently so concerned only about the protection of people against the COVID-19. I understand that vaccination is now topic number one but almost nobody talks about the real cause of the problem, which is the illegal wildlife trade. It’s absurd how little attention this topic is given in the mainstream media,” Příbrský says.
“The current pandemic has shown that the trade in some wild animals and their parts, namely bats and pangolins, is a global issue. If we don’t do anything about stopping the trade, we can cause many even deadlier pandemics that will threaten each of us,” he adds.
According to an IPBES Pandemics Report, some 1.7 million still undiscovered viruses exist in mammals and birds, of which up to 827,000 could have the ability to infect people. Almost all new viral outbreaks, including HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Zika and COVID-19, are zoonotic diseases that have spread by close contact between wild animals, livestock and people. Black markets for wild animals are hotspots of transmissions.
Combating the illegal wildlife trade is a difficult task, but as conservationist efforts like the Kukang Rescue Program demonstrate it is doable.
“Building ties with locals and offering them financial remuneration for nature conservation bears fruit,” Příbrský says. “Since 2017 the hunting of protected and threatened species in the area where we work has completely stopped, farmers are satisfied with their extra income, former poachers have found stable employment and the end product cheers up coffee lovers.”
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Year-to-date expenses is $15.46MM vs plan of $17.78MM, approximately $2.31MM or 13% under plan, primarily due to personnel expenses, internet hosting, travel expenses, and capital expenses partially offset by higher legal expenses, bank fees, and awards and grants.
Cash position is $41.17MM as of December 31, 2012.
New program offers financial support for projects by individual Wikimedians
The Foundation’s Individual Engagement Grants program launched on January 15. While most WMF grants have so far gone to organizations like chapters, the new program will finance initiatives by individual Wikimedians or small teams to improve Wikimedia projects. The first application period lasts until February 15. During the first two weeks, 31 ideas, drafts, and proposals were submitted. An “IdeaLab” has been set up where draft proposals can be discussed, and applicants can get help to turn their ideas into complete proposals.
Successful migration to new data center
On January 22, Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia sites were migrated to the Foundation’s new primary data center in Ashburn, Virginia (US). The prior data center in Tampa, Florida had been the main hosting site since 2004; it will remain on standby to take over in case the new data center experiences an outage. The switch worked nearly without any problems. The Operations Team attributes this success to the careful preparation since 2011. This involved reviewing, improving and documenting the configuration of the servers (currently about 885) in a way that has already improved stability in 2012, and will make it possible to set up new data centers much faster.
New partnership grows the reach of Wikipedia Zero to 330 million mobile users
VimpelCom, the sixth largest mobile network operator in the world, joined the Wikipedia Zero program in January, raising the number of mobile users who are eligible to access Wikipedia without data fees by 100 million, to 330 million worldwide. Among the countries serves by VimpelCom are Russia, Ukraine, Armenia and other countries of the former USSR.
Wikivoyage becomes newest Wikimedia project
On January 15, the 12th anniversary of Wikipedia, Wikivoyage was officially launched as the newest project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The free travel guide that anyone can edit is already available in nine languages – Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish – with more being added. There are more than 50,000 articles, which are edited and improved by a core group of approximately 200 volunteer editors.
A detailed report of the Tech Department’s activities for January 2013 can be found at:
Major news in January include:
the successful migration of our main services to our data center in Ashburn, Virginia (see general “Highlights” section)
new features available in our mobile beta;
progress on input methods and our upcoming translation interface;
the announcement of GeoData, a feature to attach geo-coordinates to Wikipedia and Wikivoyage articles;
a testing event to assess how VisualEditor handles non-Latin characters.
Roan Kattouw presenting about VisualEditor and Parsoid (slides)
In January, the VisualEditor team worked primarily on reviewing and cleaning up the code that was enabled on the English Wikipedia in December. They spent time with their colleagues in the Parsoid team planning the next phase of development, which aims to make the VisualEditor the default editor for all Wikipedias from July 2013. The alpha version on mediawiki.org and the English Wikipedia was updated twice, fixing a number of bugs reported by the community and making some adjustments based on feedback.
The Parsoid team (who are creating the parsing program that translates plain wikitext into HTML annotated for easy editing, and vice-versa) also cleaned up their code and fixed bugs. Parsoid’s features were overhauled to be more robust and extend support for wikis in various configurations (including in languages other than English). The team also discussed the longer-term strategy in the Parsoid roadmap, in which they decided to focus their efforts on performance improvements and HTML storage for the existing implementation, instead of the performance-oriented C++ version of Parsoid.
Demo screenshot of guided tours
This month, the Editor engagement team stepped up development on the Notifications project Echo, and updated the first experimental release on mediawiki.org. The user experience for core features was improved (such as the badge, fly-out, all-notifications page and email notifications) and development started on new features, like preferences. The team completed work on HTML emails and started development of a more robust job queue. A first release on the English Wikipedia is expected by the end of March; in the meantime, users can try the current version on mediawiki.org.
Flow, a feed-like interface to enable users to better interact with their projects, entered the product design phase in early January. It has several “modules”, one of which is a design for a structured user-to-user communication system. User research began in order to learn how user-to-user talk pages are handled, and how to improve them. Engineering discussions started about potential back-end and performance difficulties, the possible use of Wikidata’s ContentHandler, and the evaluation of Wikia’s MessageWall. A consultation with the community is planned for February, with experienced and newer users alike.
Regarding Article Feedback v5 (a quality assessment feature), its code was cleaned up in January, and new features (simpler moderation tools and better filters) were developed. An internal feedback evaluation study suggests that about 39% of the feedback collected can be used to improve articles. Discussions happened on the English and French Wikipedia regarding the future use of the tool, and the German pilot program is expected to continue until May.
The Editor Engagement Experiments team (“E3”) launched guided tours on the English Wikipedia, a feature allowing developers and Wikimedians to build tours to guide newer users. The team also tested the Getting Started landing page and task list, measuring the effect it had on driving new contributions. Analysis showed that the onboarding experience is leading to small but statistically significant increases in new English Wikipedians attempting to edit, as well as saving their first edit. In addition to measuring the effects of the guided tour associated with this project, immediate plans are to redesign the landing page and add additional task types, to entice more new contributors. Work also continued on refining the reliability and precision of the data collected from the EventLogging extension. In particular, it was migrated to a dedicated database, and the team began collecting data to measure, for example, account creations on desktop and mobile.
Maryana Pinchuk demonstrating mobile photo uploading (slides)
After its soft launch in December, GeoData was officially announced this month; this functionality, which attaches geo-coordinates to articles, will be particularly useful for the mobile “Nearby” feature (enabled on an experimental version of the site), to help contributors identify articles in need of photos not far from their location.
This month, the mobile web team also finished work on the watchlist feature, and focused their efforts on photo uploads by first adding basic uploading functionality: uploading images to Wikimedia Commons. A workflow was put in place to allow users to add a thumbnail of an image they just uploaded to the appropriate article on their local Wikipedia or sister project. These features are currently live on the Beta mobile site and are set to be released to the full mobile site in February.
Uploading photos was also the focus of the newly created “Apps team”, who started to develop iOS and Android versions of an app to upload photos to Commons. The two basic apps can already upload, share and show the user’s contributions.
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Clip from the upcoming documentary “Web”, showing how Wikipedia has impacted a small village in Peru
Sent the Thank You email for donors including a link to the ‘The Impact of Wikipedia’ video
We reached our $6 million annual goal for Major Gifts!
Major Gifts and Foundations
We reached our $6 million annual goal
Received a $500,000 gift from the Milner Foundation.
The Thank You email to donors included a link to the ‘The Impact of Wikipedia’ video ) on Youtube, which features Wikipedia editors from around the world, and a clip from Michael Kleiman about how Wikipedia has impacted a small village in Peru, taken from his upcoming documentary ‘Web’. Public responses to the videos on YouTube have been almost entirely positive. Here is one example: “Your videos are amazing. Thank you for sending them out. I have given donations in the past because I appreciate Wikipedia. Now, I have a much stronger commitment to support you. Thank you for giving us a fuller picture of the worldwide impact of knowledge made available through WIkipedia.”
The fundraising team prepared banners, translations, and donation pages to begin 2013 testing in various languages and countries that were not included in the year-end 2012 campaign.
Reconciliation: The Fundraising and Finance teams are creating tools and establishing best practices for funds reconciliation.
The donor services team pulled reporting numbers on top payment method requests and major issues from the fundraiser. Disseminated this information to the rest of team to set 2013 implementation priorities.
Donor messaging: The team spent time collaboratively editing, revising, and translating new donor messages based on feedback from the 2012 fundraiser. The goal is to give donors all the information they need to make easy, successful online donations.
Launch of the Individual Engagement Grants program, which support Wikimedians to complete projects that benefit the Wikimedia movement, lead to online impact, or otherwise serve our mission, community, and strategic priorities.
Launch of the new Grants Portal
Launch of the 2013 Wikimania Scholarships. Working with a committee of 8 volunteers to review and select between hundreds of applicants worldwide.
Welcoming FDC Senior Program Officer Katy Love and Head of the Education Program Rod Dunican
Free Wikipedia Zero Page Requests
Global South Active Editors (5+ edits in main namespace)
Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
The FDC proposal form was reviewed and minor edits were made to make it more user-friendly for applicants and the FDC. These suggested edits came largely from the FDC members, entities, and FDC staff. All are welcome to continue to make suggestions about the proposal form on the Talk page.
In anticipation of the second round of funding, the FDC proposal creation tool has now been launched on the FDC portal. Eligibile entities must close their eligibility gaps by Feb 15 2013 in order to apply for Round 2 FDC grants. Please contact the FDC support team with any questions or comments.
Senior Program Officer Katy Love joined the Wikimedia Foundation staff last month. Katy’s role, specified in the framework, is to facilitate the FDC process from start to finish, ensuring a smooth and effective process. Feel free to reach out to Katy on her talk page.
Siko Bouterse presenting about WMF Grants
Improvements to the Grants:Index include more detailed pages describing WMF Grants Program policies and procedures and improved templates to track the status of submissions and reports. The status of submissions and reports may also be viewed at Grants:Table.
Policy change: Grant reports will now be due within 60 days of the project completion date listed on the approved grant submission (this will apply to grants with agreements signed after 31 January 2013).
Grants approved in January 2013
The Wikimedia Foundation has funded a meetup and seminar with the the Arts Council Norway, organized by Wikimedia Norge, where winners of Wiki Loves Monuments, the worlds largest photo contest, were celebrated. Wikimedia Norge’s collaboration with the Arts Council has produced over 35 editing events with more than 600 participants.
Grants:Shipmaster – Community of Arabic Wikipedia/Producer Prize-2013
Wikimedia Foundation grant for the “Producer Prize” to encourage quality content creation on Arabic Wikipedia
Reports accepted in January 2013
Grants:WM NO/Nordic Chapter Meeting 2012/Report
Grants:Ciphers and Shipmaster – Community of Arabic Wikipedia/Producer Prize/Report
Participation Support requests approved in January 2013
Participation:Nicola/International Cycling History Conference
This new program launched on January 15 with a request for grant proposals and volunteer committee members to help select the first round of grantees. We also launched an IdeaLab to offer help to potential grantees in turning ideas into complete proposals. In the first 2 weeks of what will be a month-long RfP, 31 ideas, drafts, and proposals have been submitted. 15 candidates have signed up for the committee. (see also general “Highlights” section)
January was the end of the Fellowships program at WMF. Tanvir Rahman and Sarah Stierch completed their projects, and all fellows final reports will be available on Meta.
We’ve launched a search for a Conference Coordinator to act as point of contact for WMF in supporting the Wikimania teams each year.
Launch of the Wikimania Scholarships Program: These are full scholarships for anyone to attend Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong. See the Wikimania Scholarships page and encourage quality volunteers to apply!
Editor Growth and Contribution Program
Logo of the Editor Growth and Contribution Program
A new project proposal on Geo-targeted Editors Participation was posted on English Wikipedia. The new project proposal aims at experimenting with new ways to increase participation of editors on English Wikipedia from underrepresented geographies where the most likely contribution language for editors is English.
US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator
The role of Lori Byrd Phillips as 2012 US Cultural Partnerships Coordinator has ended on Dec 31st, and a final report about her year as USCPC is forthcoming.
Hiring of Data and Experiments consultant: finalized hiring process in Brazil, still under approval process. Results to be announced soon.
Hiring of a short term, part time community member contractor, to develop data analysis projects in partnership with the community and the new Data and Experiments consultant
Rental of a co-working space for an experimental three months period in São Paulo, where the team will be able to work together more often
Update of the annual planning and budget Learn more
WMF and Wikimedia Brasil promoted activities in Campus Party 2013, an event held in São Paulo, with the participation of 7 volunteers and 2 WMF staff members. Two lectures have been presented (one by Mateus Nobre, volunteer from Mossoró (RN) and one by Everton Alvarenga, coordinator of the Education Program). Additionally, WMF had the opportunity to contact possible future partners at this event, such as the Mozilla Foundation which will launch the new Firefox OS in Brazil including the Wikipedia app by default. Read more about the Campus Party activities.
Organization of the Wiki Meet-up at Digitalia, a digital culture event in Salvador (Bahia). Digitalia brings together academians, artists and activists to debate and propose projects and research on digital culture. The event, organized with the support of the Wikimedia Brasil Community, had 25 attendees on Wikimedia Workshops and 8 new Wikipedia accounts created as one of its results. More details will be included in the February report. Wiki Meet up in Salvador
Check out more information about Digitalia 2013
The 2012 report summarizing the results, achievements, key findings and activities of the Education Program in Brazil can be accessed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ezalvarenga/Report#Results
Wikiprojects revamp: Health Wikiproject development with the participation of experienced Wikipedia editors and medicine students, professors and researchers. They already started editing.
Translation of articles in partnership with Gama Filho University
Interview with Everton by a national radio station: Listen to it (in Portuguese)
Article on the Education Program at [3].
Kul Wadhwa presenting about Wikipedia Zero (slides)
Kul Wadhwa explaining Wikipedia via Text
Launched a new partnership with VimpelCom to provide Wikipedia Zero to at least 100 million additional customers this year (WMF press release)
In January, the Wikimedia Foundation was awarded a grant in the Knight News Challenge for our work in expanding Wikimedia mobile projects. Part of this grant ($600,000 for two years) will be used for Wikipedia Zero and the SMS/USSD projects to improve access to knowledge in the developing world. Press releases: WMF, Knight Foundation
Wikipedia Zero was of the 2012 winners of the African News Innovation Challenge for making information available free of charge on mobile phones to Africans in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, and Uganda.
On other mobile platforms, we’ve begun to explore ways to reduce the memory and processor requirements of our J2ME app, to increase the number of phones that can use this application; we are also finishing work on capturing the metrics from the SMS server to learn usage numbers and determine how many sessions are completed.
Blog profiles design professor in Brazil
The Wikimedia Foundation blog published a profile of Iara Camargo, a professor of design in Brazil who participated in the Wikipedia Education Program last term. She joined students in her Editorial Design course in improving articles on the Portuguese Wikipedia about subjects such as designers, design concepts, and publishing houses. Iara wrote an article on book design as part of her work with her students. Learn more about her experiences by reading the post.
Brazil program organizes Campus Party activities
Mateus Nobre presents at Campus Party in Brazil.
Wikimedia Brasil together with the Wikimedia Foundation organized activities supporting the use of Wikipedia in education in Brazil through Campus Party. Mateus Nobre, a Wikimedia Brasil volunteer, talked about Wikipedia and Free Culture, giving a general panorama on the history of encyclopedias, from the medieval to the information age, where we have Wikipedia as part of the free culture movement. The coordinator of the Wikipedia Education Program in Brazil, Everton Zanella Alvarenga, also talked about Wikipedia and the Future of Education. Learn more about the Campus Party activities.
U.S., Canada Thematic Organization proposed
A group of Wikipedia Ambassadors and program instructors known as the Working Group have developed a plan for supporting the Wikipedia Education Program in the U.S. and Canada starting in Summer 2013. The group is in the process of applying for Thematic Organization approval through the Affiliations Committee. All current instructors and Ambassadors are encouraged to stay up-to-date on the next few months’ progress. If you plan to continue using Wikipedia in the classroom in the U.S. and Canada and would like to become a member of the new organization, please sign up on the interest list linked from the proposal! To read more about the current plans, see the current proposal and feel encouraged to provide and feedback or ask questions on the talk page.
Welcome (back), Rod Dunican!
Rod Dunican re-joined with Wikimedia Foundation family last month as the director of the Wikipedia Education Program. Frank Schulenburg, the former director, had been promoted to Senior Director of Programs in December 2012. Rod was previously the project manager for the Public Policy Initiative, the pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States, so he is extremely familiar with the program and the Wikimedia projects. In his new role, Rod is responsible for building systems that enable quality at scale in different educational environments. Leave a welcome note for Rod on his talk page.
Migrated the former global development dashboard into a new Grantmaking & Programs dashboard! Shifting into the new version of Limn (the visualization software) now.
Pull up review of the advancement towards annual goals based on the board meeting. To summarize:
Mapped the last 6 months of grantmaking: $8.7M allocated globally via FDC, grants, and participation support, primarily to Europe. This includes 18 project based grants, 11 annual planning grants (via FDC), and 8 participation support grants (travel)
During the months of heavy activity of the Cairo Education Program, contributions from the Education Program comprised 3-4% of total bytes added to Arabic Wikipedia.
Migrated team over to Asana for evaluation requests
WMF managers have been conducting their mid-year employee reviews. HR has been supporting Finance and Administration in preparing staffing baselines for the WMF annual planning process, and facilitating a senior management team 2-day meeting to kick-off the annual planning process. The purpose of the meeting was to coordinate and build alignment on priorities and interdependencies, so that we work with better assumptions as we move into the annual planning process. HR also staffed up our recruiting function.
Doreen Dunican, Travel Manager (Administration)
Rod Dunican, Global Education Program Director (Grantmaking and Programs)
Yuvi Panda, Software Developer – Mobile (Engineering)
Ram Ramanath, Senior Software Engineer – Platform (Engineering)
Emily Blanchard (Human Resources)
Heather McAndrew (Human Resources)
Tools Lab Operations Engineer (Contract)
Jan Total Plan: 172
Jan Filled: 4, Month Attrition: 1,
YTD Filled: 36, YTD Attrition: 17
1 Position canceled for FY
Remaining Open positions to fiscal year end
42 (8 of which are on hold)
Real-time feed for HR updates
The Wikimedia Foundation has begun its Annual Planning process. We now have a master calendar which will result in Board review and approval of the annual plan by June 29 and be released to the community on July 1.
Legal and Community Advocacy
Phillippe Beaudette presenting about Community Advocacy work (slides)
Community Advocacy announced the expansion of the ombudsman commission and will be working with the new team to streamline processes.
One of our observations: The OTRS team processed more than 50,000 pieces of mail last year! See the full report. OTRS admins also announced updates to their recruiting processes.
We’ve been taking a close look at staff advanced permissions on wiki (together with Engineering and HR) and implementing training and auditing schemes.
Philippe and Geoff will be joining the election committee (Philippe for the fourth time!) to support that team in organizing the Board and FDC election processes.
Since September 2012, we have worked with Compass Partnership and WMUK in providing information relevant to the governance report, which was released February 7, 2013. For details, please see: http://diff.wikimedia.org/2013/02/07/wikimedia-uk-and-wikimedia-foundation-release-compass-partnership-report/
The draft conflict of guidelines discussion is presently scheduled to close on February 15, 2013 (after international outreach). People should feel free to provide feedback and suggestions. See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Guidelines_on_potential_conflicts_of_interest
Favorable German decision addressing the German right of personality of a deceased individual was upheld after withdrawal of appeal. See update at the bottom of the blog here
Developed grant templates for FDC grants, WMF individual grants, and WMF individual engagement grants. We are presently updating the WMF organizational grant template.
Case summary on Flava Works, Inc. v. Gunter – Missy Black
Communications Report, January 2013
January was a busy month for WMF Communications. The follow-up coverage of the annual campaign, four major announcements (including the launch of Wikivoyage), and media stories kept the team and communications contacts around the globe active. January saw our first public promotion of the Wikimedia Shop as well, which resulted in close to 500 orders over two days with English-project messages encouraging users to celebrate Wikipedia day with WP fan gear.
The Wikimedia Foundation launches Wikivoyage, a free, worldwide travel guide that anyone can edit (15 January 2013)
Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director Sue Gardner named to the Board of Directors at Global Voices (16 January 2013)
Wikimedia Foundation winner of Knight News Challenge (17 January 2013)
VimpelCom partners with the Wikimedia Foundation to offer free mobile Wikipedia access through Wikipedia Zero (25 January 2013)
Major Storylines through January
‘’Wikipedia losing editors, says another study’’ 4 January
Aaron Halfaker’s University of Minnesota study of declining participation on Wikipedia gained considerable coverage in early January, owing largely to a high-profile AFP wire story that carried the story to dozens of outlets. Mostly negative/neutral tone stories repeated the main findings in Halfaker’s study, few of which outlined the Foundation’s ongoing work to tackle editor decline.
‘’WikiVoyage takes flight under the Wikimedia flag’’ 15 January
Considerable media coverage in January of the successful launch of a new Wikimedia project, Wikivoyage. Mostly positive tone coverage discussed how the project came into being, and speculated on the opportunities for the new, non-commercial platform.
‘’Fictional article on Bicholim Conflict makes global headlines’’ early January
Global media spent time highlighting the story of a high profile Wikipedia hoax, the long-standing but fictional article about an alleged Portugal/India war, ‘Bicholim Conflict’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Bicholim_conflict). The majority of coverage repeated the details from other mainstream media stories, with some critical stories attacking the credibility of Wikipedia and its editor community.
‘’Remembering Aaron Swartz’’ 12 January
The sad news of the passing of Aaron Swartz dominated headlines throughout the US and around the world through late January. An active Wikipedian and proud defender of free culture, Aaron’s legacy and impact on our projects was well known amongst Wikimedians. Media coverage frequently cited his involvement with the project.
WMF Blog post: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2013/01/12/remembering-aaron-swartz-1986-2013/
Sue Gardner op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, 13 January
“Wikipedia, the people’s encyclopedia: If anyone can write and edit Wikipedia, how do we know it’s accurate?”
Jimmy Wales, featured guest on Colbert Nation, 7 January
Mashable’s top ten most interesting Wikipedia stories of the year, 3 January
Forty-five blog posts in January – an active month, with posts reflecting a high degree of news and announcement activity as well. Through January 2013 the Communications team and other WMF staff conducted the first-ever WM blog survey. With around 200 respondents we gathered first-time input from our readers on views and perceptions of the blog. A final top-line review will be posted later in February, but we’re now aware that roughly 60% of readers are Wikimedia editors, and lots of readers arrive via the Planet Wikimedia aggregator or other RSS feeds.
Some highlights from the blog in January:
Can beginners write high-quality articles? Czech students prove yes again!
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum announces first Wikipedian in Residence
Wikimedia Foundation winner of Knight News Challenge
Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa
For lots of detailed coverage and news summaries, see the community-edited newsletter “Wikipedia Signpost” for January 2013:
Volume 9, Issue 1, 7 January 2013
Volume 9, Issue 2, 14 January 2013
Volume 9, Issue 3, 12 January 2013
Volume 9, Issue 4, 28 January 2013
Visitors and guests to the WMF office in January 2013:
Cindy Hawley (Arthur J. Gallagher)
Brendan Quinla (Arthur J. Gallagher)
Ted Dulittle (Arthur J. Gallagher)
Jim Giles (New Scientist)
Denise Larsen (Concern: EAP)
Ann Wagner (Concern: EAP)
James Raffell (unhosted e.V.)
Ellie Young (The Ada Initiative)
Cindy Hawley (Arthur J Gallagher)
Jon Kate (Wikipedia editor)
Jake Orlowitz (Wikipedia editor)
James Heilman (Wikipedia editor)
Koen van Praet (Global Collect)
Doug Lambert (Global Collect)
Patricia Reed (Global Collect)
Valerie Aurora (The Ada Initiative)
Shane Quivey (Licom EQIX)
Berylnn Bell (Blue Shield)
Mandy Lee (SITZMANN MORRIS & LAVIS INSURANCE AGENCY)
Sam Harnett (NPR Marketplace)
Dariusz Jemielniak (FDC Member)
Ian Blei (Optimized Results)
Kathy Ramsey (The Ada Initiative)
Brendan Corriga (JP Morgan)
Ryan McNeil (JP Morgan)
Charu Gorrepati (JP Morgan)
Rebecca Kankei (JP Morgan)
Ting Chen (WMF Board of Trustees member)
Kat Walsh (Chair, WMF Board of Trustees)
Jan-Bart de Vreede (Vice Chair, WMF Board of Trustees)
Bishakha Datta (WMF Board of Trustees Member)
Stu West (WMF Board of Trustees Member)
Jimmy Wales (WMF Board of Trustees Member)
Samuel Klein (WMF Board of Trustees Member)
Alice Wiegand (WMF Board of Trustees Member)
Patricio Lorente (WMF Board of Trustees Member)
Jove Oliver (Minassian Media)
Chris Cavanaugh (CCS Consulting Inc.)
Roland Navas, Jr. (Travelers Insurance)
2013/02/18: Fixed position of the “Grantmaking” subheading
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] | Rob Ford‘s 2013 began to go haywire in late March, when reports surfaced of the Toronto mayor smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine. That revelation kicked off months and months of incredible and often complicated plot twists in Ford’s year, which included tales of drugs, drunken stupors, gangs, kidnapping and murder.
To research the ins and outs of this, you would have to read through 194 (and counting) articles, police reports, radio transcripts and other documents pertaining to the mayor. Or you could read the “Timeline of Rob Ford video scandal” on the mayor’s Wikipedia entry.
Rob Ford at the Mayor’s 2011 Levee at City Hall. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
“It’s like a Dickens novel,” says The Four Deuces, one of the primary editors of the timeline. “It’s a complex story involving a large number of characters, high and low, centered around a mystery.”
It’s easy to read, but to create what Wikipedians call a Biography of Living Persons is much more difficult. The Four Deuces started the breakout Timeline section on June 12, a day before police stormed the west-end apartment buildings in a pre-dawn drug raid and recovered a video of the mayor smoking crack.
Before that, there were many editors contributing articles about Rob Ford, but none had taken that step.
Among those who’ve edited Ford’s page since its creation in 2005, writing about his controversies has been delicate territory. In Toronto, the unspoken consensus was not to create a separate page for Ford’s extracurricular activities unless they became too substantial to fit on the page. One benchmark was whether the Ford misdeeds could rival that of Kwame Kilpatrick, the former Detroit mayor incarcerated on corruption charges.
“The talk pages behind the Rob Ford article detail the extended discussions we had about that,” says Alex Lainey, or Alaney2k on Wikipedia. “It was a good idea to put the crack video scandal in its own timeline article. I supported that and kept that article going during the time period after Ford’s denials and the Toronto Police revealing the video did exist.”
The debates on the talk pages were the same going on all over Toronto. For months, it was a they said/they said battle between media outlets – mostly Gawker and the Toronto Star – and Rob Ford and his councillor brother Doug. The media kept pushing the matter of the crack tape, the Fords kept denying it. Who you believed in the war of truths often came down to where your political sympathies lay.
On Wikipedia, editing all this back-and-forth is next to impossible. So the near 200 references for the one article is deliberate.
“The various newspapers in Toronto have different opinions and relationships with Rob Ford,” says Lainey. “So the sources of the article are as widespread as feasible.”
Another part of the challenge for Wikipedians was keeping track of what was notable, and what was not.
For instance, Slurpy, a Rob Ford lookalike who was being goaded into creating a phony crack video to fool the press, is referenced on the page, while the Steak Queen, a restaurant police say the mayor ate at frequently while inebriated, was not.
(One bit of trivia that made the page: it is not well known that the radio station NewsTalk 1010 – the station the Fords had a weekly radio show on – had considered buying the crack tape at the same time as Gawker and the Toronto Star. “It was important to note that,” argues Lainey.)
Of course, like any Biography of Living Persons entry, the history of Toronto’s mayor is still being written. On January 2, 2014, Ford officially declared his candidacy for re-election, possibly lengthening his mayoralty and his Wikipedia entry.
Already Ford’s page, like his tenure as Toronto mayor, is quite exceptional. The main article and the timeline combined have been viewed more than a million times in since October 31, with edits coming in almost daily. With the attention being paid to it, each edit becomes all the more important.
“It’s a bit scary,” says Lainey. “Sometimes I read a newspaper story or watch a TV report or comedic skit, and I can tell that they have skimmed this article for information.”
This article has been submitted by Joshua Errett, an active Wikipedian. The observations made in the post do not represent an explicit opinion of Rob Ford, but instead illustrate the nature of Wikipedia in relation to breaking and headline news.
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A gardening boom shows how gardens can cultivate public health
By The Conversation on April 25, 2022
As lockdowns went into effect in the spring of 2020 to slow the spread of the coronavirus, reports emerged of a global gardening boom, with plants, flowers, vegetables and herbs sprouting in backyards and on balconies around the world.
The data backs up the narrative: An analysis of Google Trends and infection statistics found that during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, country-by-country interest in gardening, from Italy to India, tended to peak just as infections peaked.
Why did so many people find themselves being pulled toward the earth in a time of crisis? And what sort of effect did gardening have on them?
In a new study conducted with a team of environmental and public health scholars, we highlight the extent to which gardening became a coping mechanism during the early days of the pandemic.
Even as restrictions related to COVID-19 have eased, we see some real lessons for the way gardening can continue to play a role in people’s lives.
To conduct our study, we used an online questionnaire to survey more than 3,700 respondents who primarily lived in the U.S., Germany and Australia. The group included experienced gardeners and those who were new to the pursuit.
More than half of those we surveyed said they felt isolated, anxious and depressed during the early days of the pandemic. Yet more than 75% also found immense value in gardening during that same period. Whether done in cities or out in the country, gardening was almost universally described as a way to either relax, socialize, connect with nature or stay active.
More than half of the respondents reported a significant increase in the amount of time they were able to spend gardening. Other respondents found some value in growing their own food, but few felt financially compelled to do so.
Instead, most respondents saw gardening as a way to connect with their community and get some exercise.
People with more personal difficulties due to COVID-19, like the inability to work or struggling with child care, were more likely to spend more time gardening in their spare time than they had in the past.
The garden as a refuge
In our analysis of written responses to the survey, most gardeners seemed to either experience a heightened sense of joy and reassurance or feel more attuned to the natural world. This seemed to have positive therapeutic and psychological benefits, regardless of age or location.
To many people, gardening became a sort of safe space – a haven from daily worries. One German gardener started seeing their garden as a sanctuary where even “birds felt louder.”
“Gardening has been my salvation,” a respondent from the U.S. noted. “I’m very grateful I can surround myself with beauty as a buffer to the depressing news COVID brings each day.”
Another German gardener wrote that their garden became their “little safe universe in a very uncertain and somewhat dangerous time. … We have learned to appreciate the so far very high value of ‘own land, own refuge’ even more.”
As life returns to normal, work ramps up and obligations mount, I wonder how many pandemic gardens are already being neglected.
Will a hobby born out of unique circumstances recede into the background?
I hope not. Gardening shouldn’t be something that’s only taken up in times of crises. If anything, the pandemic showed how gardens serve a public health need – that they’re not only places of beauty or sources of food, but also conduits for healing.
In fact, several countries like New Zealand, Canada and some in Europe now allow “green prescriptions” to be issued as alternatives to medication. These are directives from doctors to spend a certain amount of time outdoors each day or month – an acknowledgment of the very real health benefits, from lowered stress to better sleep and improved memory, that venturing into nature can offer.
I also think of the people who never had a chance to garden in the first place during the pandemic. Not everyone has a backyard or can afford gardening tools. Improving access to home gardens, urban green spaces and community gardens could be an important way to boost well-being and health.
Making seeding, planting, pruning and harvesting part of your daily routine seems to open up more opportunities, too.
“I never previously had the time to commit to a garden,” one first-time gardener told us, “but [I’ve] found such satisfaction and happiness in watching things grow. It has been a catalyst for making other positive changes in my life.”
This article was written by Alessandro Ossola, an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis. It is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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(photo: Thomas Nilsson via Flickr)
We can still restore depleted marine life to its former glory
By Daniel T Cross on April 9, 2020
Best Practices Fisheries Natural preservation
Overfishing, plastic pollution, climate change and other manmade stressors have dealt massive blows to the planet’s oceans.
Numerous coral reefs are dying off in acidifying tropical waters. Large swathes of the oceans have turned into oxygen-deprived dead zones. Iconic species like the Atlantic bluefin tuna are being fished into near-extinction. Mass tourism has wrought havoc on previously pristine coastal waters.
Time to despair? Not necessarily.
The state of marine life across much of the planet is precarious, yet there is still time to save beleaguered ecosystems. Marine life has shown remarkable resilience and with improved protection measures fragile marine ecosystems can rebound within a relatively short period.
Take Maya Bay in Thailand’s south, which came to fame as a location for the 1999 Hollywood movie The Beach, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. After becoming a popular tourist destination with thousands of frolicking visitors daily, the small beach’s marine ecosystem suffered grievous harm. Yet once local authorities closed the area down to tourism in 2018, marine life began to recover noticeably within months.
Similar feats of conservation and preservation can also be pulled off on a much larger scale. Restoring the health of oceans will require foresight and dedication, but it is doable. In fact, within just three decades we could “rebuild” marine life, argue the authors of a new study published in the journal Nature.
“We are at a point where we can choose between a legacy of a resilient and vibrant ocean or an irreversibly disrupted ocean,” stresses the study’s lead author Carlos Duarte, a marine scientist at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.
The study provides examples of the successful recovery of marine populations, habitats and ecosystems as a result of effective conservation. Drawing on such successes, we can implement similar measures across the planet. As an example, the experts cite humpback whales, which have bounced back from critically low population levels since a ban on whaling was put in place in 1985.
Around the oceans effective conservation measures, the authors stress, could help restore depleted marine ecosystems to their former state, or near it, by mid-century. Salt marshes, mangroves, seagrasses, coral reefs, underwater kelp forests, oyster reefs, fisheries, megafauna and deep sea habitats could all benefit from stepped-up protection.
“We have a narrow window of opportunity to deliver a healthy ocean to our grandchildren’s generation, and we have the knowledge and tools to do so,” Duarte explained. “Failing to embrace this challenge — and in so doing condemning our grandchildren to a broken ocean unable to support high-quality livelihoods — is not an option,” he added.
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T93047 Create vagrant role for master-slave DB setup
T59583 Make deployment prep have continuous replication lag
T62058 implement master-slave DB for beta labs
T180531: Attempt to replicate replag issue in a simple piece of code to allow upstreaming of bug
rMWVA4e06a30240db: Set $wgDBservers to reveal some slag lag issues in testing
T87220: Minimize infrastructure differences between Beta Cluster and production
rMWfbfb509df557: * Introduced LBFactory -- an abstract class for configuring database load…
T90183: Set up replication lag environment
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Nikerabbit created this task.Aug 2 2012, 8:38 AM2012-08-02 08:38:00 (UTC+0)
tstarling added a comment.Aug 2 2012, 11:14 PM2012-08-02 23:14:47 (UTC+0)
You mean like a labs instance with MediaWiki and two instances of MySQL on it, a master and an artificially delayed slave?
Nikerabbit added a comment.Aug 3 2012, 9:48 AM2012-08-03 09:48:30 (UTC+0)
Something like that, yes. I don't know how to implement such thing technically, but I read once that some MySQL versions (probably not ours) have configuration option to add replication delay.
The features I am looking are:
artificially increased delay to make it easier to catch the issues
easy access for developers - should not be necessary to have someone else approve and deploy your commits while testing possible fixes
Aklapper added a comment.Dec 31 2012, 3:07 PM2012-12-31 15:07:44 (UTC+0)
Sounds like something for Wikimedia to me, but not necessarily MediaWiki codebase.
Krinkle added a comment.Apr 9 2013, 2:16 AM2013-04-09 02:16:42 (UTC+0)
What kind of bugs would we catch with this?
Having the environment is one thing, but what kind of tests do you have in mind (and how to run them).
Krinkle added a comment.Apr 9 2013, 2:18 AM2013-04-09 02:18:50 (UTC+0)
Filed under continuous integration for now.
Depending on the kind of issues you want to test for and how it is implemented, it may be more suitable to have QA test this from the outside instead of with PHPUnit from Jenkins.
Nikerabbit added a comment.Apr 9 2013, 7:33 AM2013-04-09 07:33:17 (UTC+0)
I was more concerned about actually reproducing the issues reliably and having possibility to debug them easily to understand the causes and to also to come up and test fixes without going through gerrit. I'm doubtful that you can do that with QA tests.
Krinkle added a comment.Apr 10 2013, 6:33 AM2013-04-10 06:33:27 (UTC+0)
Right, so if I understand you correctly, you're looking for an environment where you can work on fixing bugs and testing bugfixes related to replication lag.
In other words, a wiki (say, lagged.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org) to do things with (as a human being).
Not a build step for continuous integration environment. Not a test suite for MediaWiki core.
If so, lets move this to as a feature request for labs. To set up a wiki there that is artificially lagged.
siebrand added a comment.Oct 31 2013, 10:44 AM2013-10-31 10:44:30 (UTC+0)
Adding some information from an email by Sean:
Nothing built into MariaDB 5.5, but Percona Toolkit has a decent tool:
However it will depend on how accurate a delay is needed to be useful. The tool starts and stops the replication SQL thread predictably but the minimum time granularity is one transaction, which fluctuates, obviously.
Essentially a delay in the order of minutes is easy to maintain. Seconds... sort of.
Oracle's MySQL 5.6 has slave delay built-in using CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_DELAY = . The next MariaDB major relase may get that port -- havn't checked -- but that doesn't help us today.
the DB are Ubuntu Lucid instances with MySQL installed manually (aka no puppet class applied)
Ubuntu has percona toolkit packages in our repos. At least coredb have them installed by default. Only depends on perl.
Nikerabbit added a comment.Nov 2 2013, 8:04 PM2013-11-02 20:04:58 (UTC+0)
Labs would be nice, but something that allows debugging and tweaking of the code would be even nicer. I wonder if it would be possible to do this with MediaWiki-Vagrant.
faidon added a comment.Nov 4 2013, 1:30 PM2013-11-04 13:30:03 (UTC+0)
I doubt it but I know little about Vagrant; adding Ori to the loop.
hashar added a comment.Aug 21 2014, 1:25 PM2014-08-21 13:25:51 (UTC+0)
When we migrated the beta cluster from pmtpa to eqiad, Sean Pringle added a master / slave setup on beta. Apparently the slave is usually laggy.
It seems to be possible to make it always lagged. Someone can reach out with Sean to figure out how to make it happen.
Nikerabbit added a comment.Aug 21 2014, 2:46 PM2014-08-21 14:46:11 (UTC+0)
According to my latest knowledge the replication delay setting only exists in recent MySQL [1] and not in MariaDB - unless the feature has been added recently.
[1] I created a three server setup with replication manually. Unfortunately it did not survive an upgrade so it was broken before we got the chance to use it.
hashar added a comment.Aug 21 2014, 2:52 PM2014-08-21 14:52:51 (UTC+0)
That might depends on the percona toolkit + some custom setup. I think production has slaves which have a 24 hours delay.
Someone should talk about it with Sean Pringle.
Springle added a comment.Aug 22 2014, 5:08 AM2014-08-22 05:08:39 (UTC+0)
Production has slaves delayed by 24h using the MariaDB event scheduler [1] to start/stop the replication threads. This is fine for a coarse lag values of a few minutes, but inaccurate for anything less.
The MySQL 5.6 CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_DELAY = N; (seconds) can be more accurate, roughly ~10s, but still highly dependent on the traffic generating the replicated events. Have also not seen it in action on our traffic, so... pinch of salt.
A series of 10+ second writes such as our periodic bot update/delete traffic on recentchanges or links can confuse both methods for short delays, with lag cycling between 0 and N*2.
It might be possible to achieve finer granularity on beta slave by interleaving something like FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK on another thread (or another event) to ensure the slave thread does not catch up so easily.
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Nemo_bis merged a task: T90183: Set up replication lag environment.Feb 21 2015, 7:52 AM2015-02-21 07:52:51 (UTC+0)
Nemo_bis added a comment.Apr 1 2015, 7:52 AM2015-04-01 07:52:23 (UTC+0)
Something was done for vagrant in 4e06a30240dbd87c7ce6629768e16517fb4ab7ca
hashar assigned this task to Nikerabbit.Apr 1 2015, 10:04 AM2015-04-01 10:04:35 (UTC+0)
So that is done by passed in $wgDBservers the option 'fakeSlaveLag'. The feature got introduced in MediaWiki core back in 2008 when Tim introduced LBFactory fbfb509df557ca9eef812f6645459c483149f186
The code in includes/db/LoadBalancer.php
$db->setLBInfo( $server ); if ( isset( $server['fakeSlaveLag'] ) ) { $db->setFakeSlaveLag( $server['fakeSlaveLag'] ); }
It is only supported by MySQL includes/db/DatabaseMysqlBase.php and let one return the given value when invoking getLag(), fake the getSlavePos() and cause masterPosWait() to sleep.
That is quite nice.
@Nikerabbit can you take the lead on this and figure out with rest of devs / Beta Cluster users whether it is a feature we should enable? I am all for it since it matches your use case, but I am wondering what other people will think about. If not just unassign yourself but I guess we will decline the task since it would lack a champion.
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T59583 is a dupe?
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Nemo_bis added a comment.Sep 17 2015, 1:30 PM2015-09-17 13:30:19 (UTC+0)
In T40945#1648855, @Reedy wrote:
T59583 is a dupe?
That's a proposed solution, AFAIK.
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Since 10.2 (we are migrating away from 10.1 to 10.4) we have this integrated on mariadb: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/delayed-replication/
CHANGE MASTER TO master_delay=3600;
Krinkle mentioned this in T59583: Make deployment prep have continuous replication lag.Apr 16 2021, 7:18 PM2021-04-16 19:18:13 (UTC+0)
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In T59583#7010410, @Krinkle wrote:
To do this by default [in Beta Cluster] seems incompatible with T87220. However, having an easy and documented way to induce lag seems useful indeed. Perhaps something one can [temporary] cause by running a CLI command form a beta host. Or by having a depooled replica that is always lagged that can be selected via a WikimediaDebug option perhaps.
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Update (July 13): On July 9, the European Parliament voted on the Reda Report. The paragraph addressing the Freedom of Panorama was ultimately deleted from the report. This means that for now, nothing has changed: countries that had Freedom of Panorama rights under their domestic laws still have them. Countries that lacked Freedom of Panorama rights under their domestic laws still do not have them.
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Thanks, good post; “the version of freedom of panorama now under consideration” is actually an active “prohibition of panorama”, as I say.
Thank you for keeping track of potential changes like this and informing people like me who would be affected, but otherwise never know of their existence.
“The Little Mermaid statue, the work of Danish–Icelandic sculptor Edvard Eriksen, can be shared online under the country’s freedom of panorama laws. Photo by Avda-berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0”
This is problematic. Denmark has freedom of panorama for architecture, and freedom of panorama for NON-commercial use of images of sculptures with the sculpture is the main object. It cannot be share commercially. I regard the CC BY-SA as problematic.
It is explained in the Danish Wikipedia https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophavsret#Fotografier_af_skulpturer
There is now freedom of panorama in Belgium – Wikimedia Blog
[…] led to large, European-wide campaign to overturn this decision. Hundreds of Wikimedians participated by sharing images of blacked out buildings demonstrating the consequences of such a change (example at top). Volunteers and staff talked to […]
There Is Now Freedom of Panorama in Belgium – infojustice
[…] led to large, European-wide campaign to overturn this decision. Hundreds of Wikimedians participated by sharing images of blacked out buildings demonstrating the consequences of such a change (example at top). Volunteers and staff talked to […]
Launching the Wikimedia Public Policy site – Wikimedia Blog
[…] year, Wikimedians advocated together to preserve the freedom of panorama so Wikimedians can upload outdoor images without fearing unfair […]
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] | Currently, system administration tasks are spread over our other tech staff and volunteers, who have to split their time with software development, data center management, and network planning. A full-time system administrator will let us be more responsive to site issues when they happen, and more importantly be more proactive about planning for and averting problems before they affect the folks back home.
We’ve got operating systems to upgrade, configurations to document, software installations to automate, and a lot of service data that needs to be monitored and digested… if you think you’ve got the chops for it, send us your CV by the end of January!
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Merchandise has been something that both community members and the public have asked for since the projects kicked off over ten years ago. Before the new store the only way to get your hands on Wikipedia or Wikimedia merchandise was a CafePress store with limited (and generally low quality) merchandise, or at special events such as Mediawiki Hackathons or the 10th Anniversary parties in 2011. Now the goal is to make it possible for Wikimedia project contributors and users to get their hands on merchandise that lets them show off how much they love the movement.
The shop has been open for business for the past couple of months, but we have only advertised its presence within the relatively small editor community so that we could get more feedback on how the shop worked and what was lacking. To take the next step, we’re starting to push it out a bit more, putting a link on the sidebar of English Wikipedia for the United States only. Over time we want to make that link visible for more and more of the world, for other Wikimedia projects and eventually for other languages.
We set up the shop with the specific purpose of getting quality merchandise to anyone who wanted it as cheaply as possible. It is specifically designed not to be a significant money-making operation, but to help our mission by getting the Wikimedia brands out into the public and into the hands of the thousands of volunteers who make all of the projects run. Over the next year we plan to give away up to 1000 merchandise packages to community members and hundreds of “party packages” for local groups that want to have Wikimedia or Wikipedia related events.
This week at Wikimania 2012, we’ve set up a shop booth in the Continental Ballroom at the event venue. We will be selling merchandise and soliciting feedback from the community who has helped to make the projects grow. If you’re going to the event, please come check out prototype designs, help draw your own design idea and give feedback on what you like and don’t like about what we’ve done so far.
We hope you’ll check out the shop and stop by our booth at Wikimania.
James Alexander, Wikimedia Merchandise Manager
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Wikimedia became commercial company! Do not you have enough money from donators?
The shop is not designed to make money. We are selling at a razor thin margin (and mostly losing money right now) and if we get any margin it is earmarked to help give free merchandise to community members who can’t afford it. People have asked for good, quality, merchandise for years and years and we wanted to give it to them.
Shop is shop anyway. At first any shop works without a profit.
Why don’t you make something like a foam ball/stress ball? I don’t know what those are called, but they sound like a good idea. Only problem? Wikipedia globe logo technically doesn’t have a back.
Shop is Not shop anyways.
Nik, you’re right that many shops may not start out profitable,
but This one Is different in that they’re not even trying to be.
Also, I personally wouldn’t mind if they Did try to turn a profit with merchandise, as, if anything, those proceeds would be going back into keeping the -Free- Wikipedia well maintained and accessible. Donations are not so plentiful and easy to come by; I am frankly quite impressed and happy the the Wikimedia foundation has managed to do as much as they have with the resources they’re able to get.
@longbyte, it does have a back:
My complaint is that one can not say “the only way to get your hands on Wikipedia or Wikimedia merchandise was a CafePress store with limited (and generally low quality) merchandise”. I call this blaming an efficient work partner which had no fault if WMF was not able to produce more decent gadgets in _ten years_. If I were James I’d apologize for that.
Wikimedia otwiera sklep z gadżetami, pracuje nad digitalizacją herbarium | Cały czas zycie gra ja nawijam
[…] że podczas konferencji pojawiały się gadżety firmowane przez Fundację, ale jak sama pisze na blogu, często były one kiepskiej […]
Wikipédia lança loja de souvenirs; camiseta custa R$ 30 by AGREGA LINK – Agregador de Noticias e Informações
[…] “Mercadorias têm sido algo que tanto os membros da comunidade [de editores] quanto o público em geral vem pedindo, desde que começamos nosso trabalho, dez anos atrás”, escreveu o gerente de produtos da Wikimedia, James Alexander, em comunicado. […]
Wikipédia lança loja oficial com camisetas e chaveiros exclusivos by AGREGA LINK – Agregador de Noticias e Informações
[…] Fonte: Wikimedia Blog […]
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] | Ops magnate Mark Bergsma has completed his thesis and is able to come up for air again. Welcome back Mark and congratulations!
Mark has been testing performance of Squid proxies backed by solid-state disk drives… so far so good!
Ariel has continued background cleanup of our media fileservers to prevent recurrence of the performance problems we saw last month.
The Wikipedia Usability Initative team has rolled out their opt-in beta program to get more people trying out the updated site theme and edit toolbar.
We’ve announced plans to form and hire a new Wikimedia CTO position to free up Brion for more development time as Senior Software Architect
Flagged Revisions extension is being tested on Help and Manual pages for www.mediawiki.org
The Wikimedia Foundation board election finishes tonight at midnight UTC! Go vote while you can…
A testing configuration for Flagged Revisions on English Wikipedia will be deployed on a test site soon!
Planning to bring the site up to date with development trunk by the end of the week…
Tomasz is in progress getting our data dumps mirrored to Amazon’s public data sets
August 25-28: The annual Wikimania conference in Buenos Aires will include a code-a-thon developer sprint — join us in person or via IRC!
Brion Vibber, Lead Software Architect
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i will join in IRC for this conference 🙂
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New Delhi is banking on nuclear, but will it succeed?
By Pulkit Mohan on April 28, 2020
India’s rise in the global nuclear order has been tumultuous in the past few decades. As a result of India’s nuclear tests in the 1970s, the country was isolated from the international community for a significant time. The sense of isolationism prevailed through subsequent tests conducted by India (in 1998) and with the establishment of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), which was created as a direct response to India’s 1974 nuclear test by nuclear supplier countries to prevent further nuclear proliferation.
A boost to India’s status in the global nuclear dialogue came as a result of the strategic dialogue between India and the United States, and the fact that India presently has civil nuclear agreements with 14 countries, has been instrumental in India’s rise. Even so, India continues to hold an interesting position in the global nuclear order as it is neither a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), nor is it a member of the NSG. This relative isolation is just one of a number of factors that pose barriers to India’s rapid rise in the global nuclear order.
For New Delhi to truly establish its role in the sector, it is crucial to actively pursue civil nuclear engagement with new actors as well as to strengthen existing relationships. Deeper engagement with allies such as the US and France would help encourage more countries to enter in civil nuclear partnerships with India.
Climate and clean energy offer avenues for engagement
India’s energy deficit and the success of the country’s climate action policies are important factors to consider in the push for greater commitment to the nuclear energy sector and international alliance building. Given India’s ever-growing energy demand, the pressure is on New Delhi to strike a balance between economic growth and adhering to the requirements of the Paris Agreement.
At present, India’s primary energy source is coal, but the country’s coal reserves are rapidly declining. These two factors make coal use unsustainable in the long run, necessitating a shift towards more reliable and long-term energy supplies. At the same time, nuclear energy contributes merely 2% to India’s total energy requirements. As of March 2020, India has 22 operable reactors, with 7 more under construction.
The opportunities to expand this sector through international agreements are therefore abundant. Indeed, while NPPs require large investments in the set-up, the longer-term payoff is important to account for, especially when India’s energy deficit and need to implement successful climate action policies are considered.
An uneven road to global acceptance
Reaching out, however, is not easy for India due to its complex position in the global nuclear order. Several barriers need to be overcome to do so successfully, both on the international and domestic level. Resulting from its relative isolation, Indian nuclear technology has been a result of indigenous development and subsequent in-house improvement, but even so, nuclear sector growth has been traditionally stunted. However, the 2005 India-U.S. civil nuclear agreement and the 2008 NSG waiver have been instrumental in facilitating India’s entry into the field as a potential stakeholder and key supplier.
A number of India’s agreements – notably with the United States, Russia, France and Japan – include the exchange of expertise, technologies and personnel. Russia continues to be a key supplier of nuclear fuel to India, and helped construct more reactor units at the Kudankulam site. In 2019, the two countries also announced the intention to set up over 20 Russian-designed nuclear reactors in India over the next two decades. France and Japan also have been key in development of expertise and have boosted India’s interaction with key global players.
Since India had to rely on indigenously developed technology, its nuclear technology base has been somewhat dated. A shortage of fuel for reactors to operate at optimal capacity slowed India’s rise in the global nuclear order as well. Although cooperation with Russia, Japan and France has boosted civil nuclear abilities, it is important to expand India’s cooperation in order to set up more technologically advanced foreign-built units and increase supply for fuel from key supplier countries.
Given the implications of this cooperation, it’s a shame that Indian policymakers have been slacking in building ties with the international community. Although India has made immense strides in establishing itself as a responsible nuclear power through a self-moratorium and a distinct separation of its civil and military nuclear endeavours, it is important for policymakers to work towards overcoming concerns of key actors in its security practices. Accession to the IAEA safeguards agreement was a step in the right direction, but to stifle security concerns, much more proactive engagement with the global nuclear security culture is indispensable.
Lacklustre engagement: not just an international issue
A similar issue applies to the domestic level, where the nuclear energy sector is controlled by the state-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL). Although the government allowed private enterprises to provide nuclear power, the engagement between NPCIL and the private sector has been scant.
It is of paramount importance that policymakers delve deeper into engagements with key stakeholders in the civil nuclear energy sector. A better relationship and deeper engagement between the public and the private sector in nuclear energy would substantially and expeditiously improve India’s capacity to produce nuclear power, as well as develop and improve upon the country’s indigenous personnel and expertise.
Clearly, this is a domestic policy debate with implications for international actors as well. Particularly nuclear liability has posed a direct challenge to India’s engagement with the global nuclear order, because India’s domestic laws put the responsibility of liability of the suppliers – international norms put the onus on operators. Although India has dealt with liability issues on a case-to-case basis, there is apprehension amongst interactional players to deepen cooperation as long as the international standard is not adopted.
Coming in from the cold
Although India’s presence in the global nuclear order has been fairly small, its accomplishments in the face of the limiting factors mentioned above should be acknowledged. However, policymakers are nonetheless plagued with a number of issues in advancing India’s position as a key and responsible actor – issues that need to be quickly overcome in the face of growing energy demand and pressing sustainability goals.
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] | Scientists looking at next-generation green technologies are also eyeing some ancient practices that work.
Ancient ‘windcatcher’ cooling tech is the new low-carbon AC
By Laureen Fagan on January 8, 2019
Best Practices CO2-Emissions Sustainable Housing
When it comes to reducing some greenhouse gases, the new year has started off on the right foot as the Kigali Amendment went into force on January 1. The amendment to a 1987 Montreal agreement to reduce the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), negotiated in Rwanda in 2016, seeks to limit damage to the recovering ozone layer and curb the release of greenhouse gases from air conditioning and other cooling technologies.
The United Nations environment agency (UNEP) estimates that full compliance with the Kigali protocols will avoid 0.4°C in global warming this century, with more than 80 percent of HFC use eliminated. That leaves “a window to redesign cooling equipment that is more energy efficient, further increasing the climate gains,” said UNEP.
Scientists and engineers will be looking toward next-generation technologies, but in some cases they’re already building on ancient practices that work. Among them is a modern interpretation of the “windcatcher” used in Middle Eastern architecture as an alternative to air conditioning. These chimney-like towers, called badgir, have been used for centuries to deliver passive cooling in arid desert regions and still dot the landscape today in places like Iran.
Researchers at Weber State University in the United States say the first evidence of these passive systems appeared more than 3,300 years ago in the archaeological record of Egypt. The structural features of buildings included thick adobe walls and few sun-facing windows to naturally reduce the solar heat gain. They also used venting towers that draw in a fresh breeze from the prevailing winds and then release the hotter, rising air from inside on the opposite wall.
Iranians improved on the idea – and named the badgir – by adding water ponds on the intake side to further cool the air headed indoors. The high-desert city of Yazd in central Iran, a UNESCO registered site, is known for its badgir.
“Both of these systems were eventually refined to the point that they could, at times, reach refrigeration temperatures,” the authors said, citing previous research. They also point the way to 21st-century adaptation. “A modern example of utilizing wind catchers and other ‘green technology’ for public buildings can be found at Zion National Park Visitors Center (ZNPVC) in Utah,” they added. The center uses a windcatcher system to reduce heat that, on an observed summer day that reached a low-humidity 39°C outside, kept the inside of the Zion center at 23°C with higher, more comfortable humidity levels.
They’re not the only ones interested in the wisdom of ancient engineers, who appeared to understand the aerodynamics involved in the Coanda effect – part of the underlying science that makes desert windcatchers work – long before the name was coined by Romanian engineer Henri Coandă in the 1900s.
At Princess Nora Bint Abdul Rahman University (PNU) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the same principles are applied in a cooling-tower project that blends the traditional with new technology. Dr. Susan Roaf, a leading British academic on sustainability and renewable energy at Heriot-Watt University, completed her doctoral thesis on a study of windcatchers.
And Roaf’s colleague Dr. Ben Hughes – now at University of Sheffield – became an expert in natural ventilation and passive cooling. His work led to commercially available products in the UK that are based on the ancient badgir towers and marketed through Free Running Buildings, an award-winning startup founded by Hughes and his partners. So as the world seeks to move away from HFCs in meeting its Kigali obligations, there are architectural options to consider beyond new chemical alternatives, some of them as old as they are new.
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] | Offline use of Wikimedia content is a strategic goal for the Wikimedia Foundation. Kiwix is an offline app that allows user to read content without an internet connection, and it can now be localized into many languages on translatewiki.net.
There are many instances where people do not have an Internet connection available, or where it is cheaper to work offline, notably in the “Global south”.
Data from Wikimedia projects can be exported to the openZIM format, and then read offline on Kiwix, the only openZIM client.
Several projects with local developers invested a considerable amount of time creating their own offline app for their language, their script or for special requirements like formatting for books.
With the localization of Kiwix on translatewiki.net, it is now much more of an option to work on such features in Kiwix. Customizations like including fonts with a package or having specific formatting for a book or a source remain possible.
We hope our community will help localize Kiwix in the 270+ languages we currently support with Wikimedia projects. Please start translating the interface and let us know how it goes.
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] | Arctic countries are increasingly looking to alternative energy sources to power Arctic development in a sustainable way.
With the Artic melting, sustainable development must be a priority
By Sustainability Times on September 22, 2021
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The Arctic is known for its glacial temperatures and pristine ice shelves – in short, for its eternally frozen beauty. However, it’s common knowledge that this environmental magnificence is changing rapidly as Arctic temperatures are rising at an ever-faster pace, to the extent that, according to the Russian meteorological service, Arctic ice cover is now five to seven times thinner compared to the 1980s, contributing to the Arctic Ocean being increasingly ice-free during the summer.
Temperatures in the Arctic are currently rising three times faster than the global average, resulting in a more accessible Arctic – one that is not only expected to surrender its natural resources, but that will inevitably be subject to greater socio-economic development as well. While the push for development in lockstep with rising economic opportunities is regarded all but inevitable, the looming question is how this can be done sustainably.
Indeed, all Arctic nations, which include Russia, the United States, Canada, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Denmark, are thus facing an intricate dilemma: having to square the circle between making use of a changing Arctic and doing so in a way that avoids destroying one of the last nearly untouched natural environments on the planet.
Russia, more so than other countries, is expected to make long-term investments in its Arctic territory with a view to develop the Northern Sea Route (NSR), which would not only diversify worldwide logistics routes but also cut shipping times between Europe and Asia. During Russia’s “Arctic Day” in July, nuclear energy company Rosatom committed to building sustainable shipping infrastructure along the NSR as part of long-term investments designed to promote environmentally sensitive regions to commercial shipping.
While these commitments highlight the pressing need for sustainability, the NSR-project represents what is the core of the dilemma faced by Russia and other Arctic countries: the fact that this development – characterized by significant investments into the expansion of extractive industries and, importantly, a growing modern population well-versed in modern technology – requires lots of energy and the construction of relevant infrastructure. But burning more fossil fuels to achieve these changes is not a desirable option, and neither should non-renewable energy sources be used to extract more oil and gas, feeding only a vicious circle that is already spinning out of control.
For this reason, the Arctic countries are increasingly looking to alternative energy sources to power these transformations. Besides renewables, countries like Russia, the United States and Canada are exploring the possibility of using nuclear energy in the form of small modular reactors (SMRs) as a sustainable long-term energy source in the Artic. According to Rauli Partanen, a Finnish expert and analyst of climate change and energy systems, this is an ideal solution: “Nuclear power in general is and can be designed to work well in almost any environment, so in that sense it is an ideal technology also for harsh conditions”, Partanen tells Sustainability Times.
SMRs in particular offer an excellent alternative energy source for local communities, because their application goes beyond simple energy production. “New types of advanced and small reactors now under development are often designed with other uses than merely electricity production in mind”, Partanen explains. As a result, they can also be used for industrial activities that would otherwise require the use of fossil fuels.
“Smaller size and higher temperatures make them good for producing energy services such as industrial steam, high temperatures for more efficient electrolysis for hydrogen and P2X production and combined heat and power for electricity and district heating, for which there is a lot of demand in the Arctic region.”
Importantly, SMRs can also answer another development challenge, namely that of being able to build infrastructure in the harsh Arctic climate. In fact, the current lack of infrastructure and the difficulties in developing it is considered one of the biggest hurdles to energy investments. In recent years, this challenge has been compounded by thawing permafrost which is making the ground too unstable for heavy structures and large-scale power grids. However, floating SMRs, such Russia’s Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s first fully operational ship-based SMR, provide a viable solution to such issues.
“One option for coastal locations is to have floating offshore or near-shore nuclear power plants, such as the Akademic Lomonosov that Russia built a couple years ago”, argues Partanen. “The Akademik Lomonosov offers a great proof of concept of the idea of a floating power plant, and in the future, this concept can be further honed, and costs cut by designing the vessel and reactors for this use right from the start. And with lower costs, this market expands to an enormous one, as most large cities are on the coast and have a rapidly growing need for many energy products, from electricity to district heating to desalinated water and even synthetic fuels.”
Due to their lightweight and small size compared to conventional power plants, nuclear and otherwise, SMRs can be placed at the center of off-grid communities, making long-distance transportation infrastructure, including transmission lines or pipelines, largely unnecessary in favour of localized micro-grids – an idea that many of the new nuclear developers had in mind from the start.
Next to the Akademik Lomonosov design, Oklo’s concept from the US is another case in point. “Oklo’s microreactor design was conceived specifically for isolated grids around mines and smaller towns and villages. The advantage here is that although they will likely cost more than mainstream electricity production, they are competing with imported diesel and generators which are very expensive. Similar arguments can be made for islands that are not connected to mainland-grids and often rely on diesel generators and expensive, imported fuel”, Partanen tells Sustainability Times.
The fact that new nuclear solutions can easily replace fossil fuels is an important one, especially in light of criticism that SMRs cannot compete in terms of costs against said fossil fuels and renewables. But according to Partanen, such criticism is missing the greater picture: “In the short term, SMR’s don’t need to compete with fossil fuels in general, but the more expensive ones like imported diesel. Renewables like wind and solar can’t offer local communities reliable energy at low cost either, especially as there is no cheap import option available that countries like Denmark and Germany currently rely on to keep their grid reliable.”
What this means in the grand scheme of things is that a low-carbon, sustainable development of the Arctic region is certainly possible, and among experts there is a growing consensus that no path will lead past the deployment of small modular reactors. With global warming affecting the Arctic at an accelerating rate, policymakers must ensure that the human impact on the Arctic environment will be mitigated as much as possible going forward.
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Perhaps the biggest challenge for our project today is how to convert more readers into contributors. To me, the most important group to reach, and the one I will discuss a little in my short post here, are the internet users who have not yet discovered the fascinating concept of the “free encyclopedia that anybody can edit”. This concept is embodied in precisely those terms at the top of every Wikipedia article, beneath the article’s title. But there are only 25 Wikipedia editors for every *million* speakers of the English language, and Wikipedia is one of the most popular websites in the world. Evidently, we need to do more to get more of our readers to give a little back, too.
The basic premise of Wikipedia is fantastic: it is a website that any person can improve upon or add to. This collaborative model had me fascinated from the start, and, I am sure, has done the same for thousands of others. (If you are new to the Wikimedia Foundation’s projects, or never thought about where those millions of articles came from, then the briefest summary of the Wikimedia family would be that it is a volunteer-written and not-for-profit group of projects that aims to codify the world’s knowledge.)
I joined Wikipedia many years ago, when it was a different project, as many early contributors found it: by stumbling across an article entry through a Google search. I managed to add some information (all of which had to be ‘translated’ into the proper format by an experienced contributor, of course) and hit “save”. When I saw that my change was immediately visible on a page searchable by over half of the world, I was hooked. I registered an account, which I use to this day, and made a number of other alleged “improvements” (which more experienced editors also had to correct!).
I eventually found our help pages, and learned how to properly use the site. And whilst things are much easier now for new editors because of our better editing interface and help pages, Wikipedia is still a complex place; this is something that we must work on if we are to turn more readers into contributors. Moreover, many readers who do manage to edit a few pages or correct a few mistakes simply get bored and leave. We do not place enough emphasis on WikiProjects, Portals, and categories – all of which help to co-ordinate efforts at improving articles within related topics.
If you want to give your time to anything, then Wikipedia surely is a good choice. I continue to contribute for these reasons: Wikipedia is a fantastic project with a mission I genuinely believe is of value to humanity. Much of my work, as someone who is now an experienced editor, is in the field of resolving disputes about article content, which is an essential component of Wikipedia because as all decisions on the project are made by consensus—that is, by majority agreement of whichever editors have chosen to work on the article in question. I am part of the Wikipedia Mediation Committee, which provides formal mediation for disputes about article content that have not been resolved by simple discussion (as most disputes are on Wikipedia) or by earlier steps in the dispute-resolution process.
For those of you who do not know much about mediation on Wikipedia, I will briefly explain. Dispute-resolution works on a “carrot and stick” model: whereas the Arbitration Committee is the ‘stick’ (in that it hears evidence, then drafts a binding decision that adjudicates the dispute with a degree of finality), the Mediation Committee is the ‘carrot’ (in that it assigns a mediator to a dispute, who then hears the arguments of all the parties and then helps them draft a mutually acceptable compromise).
The Mediation Committee complements the work of the other mediation body on Wikipedia. Both are vital components of Wikipedia, and perpetually need more editors to work as neutral mediators. If you are a Wikipedia editor with a neutral, balanced temperament, please consider volunteering for the MedCab; anybody can! If you are experienced in dispute-resolution and have a few hours a week free, then consider submitting a nomination to the Mediation Committee. In either case, you’d be making a substantial contribution to the writing of the encyclopedia.
Wikipedia attracts contributors of almost every country in the world, and of every age. The project is a great way to work alongside others and do something genuinely good—for two minutes, or two hours, and for one night a week, or seven. If you’re reading this and you aren’t already part of the project, then please join. I’m glad I did, and I’m sure you will be too.
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Nuclear power and the energy transition
By Eugene Shwageraus, Nathaniel Read and Paul Cosgrove on July 28, 2020
Addressing climate change will require an energy system transformation so enormous that we cannot afford to say “no” to any technology that reduces CO2 emissions. It is often claimed that nuclear energy is not essential for decarbonisation, as renewables, particularly solar and wind, are “faster” and “cheaper” than nuclear. However, this ignores a key principle in energy system design: the cheapest or fastest way to decarbonise the next megawatt-hour of electricity is not necessarily the best next step on the path to net-zero.
Supposing that wind or solar generating capacity can be built quicker than a nuclear power plant (NPP) does not necessarily mean that the grid can be fully decarbonised faster if we exclude nuclear. In fact, history suggests otherwise. France and Sweden’s nuclear buildouts permitted decarbonisation at a much faster rate and to a far greater extent than in the renewable revolutions of Germany or California.
Some studies have suggested that variable types of renewable energy could supply a net-zero grid on their own— and at a lower cost than those featuring nuclear. Such scenarios, however, carry often-unacknowledged uncertainty and have not been demonstrated anywhere in the world. They generally depend on risky enabling technologies such as long-term grid-scale energy storage, the widespread adoption of hydrogen as an energy carrier, or combined cycle natural gas turbines (CCGT) with carbon capture and storage (CCS).
The recent report of the UK Government Committee on Climate Change, for example, relies heavily on the assumption that CCS is available for enabling a renewables-dominated energy system. However, it has yet to be demonstrated that CCS can perform at the level required to bear out this assumption. In addition to the uncertainty of achieving the required carbon capture efficiency of close to 100%, more empirical evidence is required to be confident that carbon sequestration will not fail. Obtaining conclusive outcomes from the relevant geological science needs time which we do not have, given the urgency of combating climate change. Imperfect CCS and other residual emissions must be offset by carbon-negative processes such as direct air capture of carbon dioxide, but these are likely to be extremely expensive.
Nuclear energy, on the other hand, has no technological uncertainty associated with any aspect of its life cycle. It is ready to be deployed at the necessary rate to curb carbon emissions, as the world moves towards major electrification of heating, transport, and industrial processes. Nuclear could also provide heat directly to industrial processes, a capability not generally found in renewable sources. The more nuclear is included in future energy scenarios, the less we are forced to rely on uncertain new technologies.
The question of costs – and how to reduce them
Regarding cost, it is again vital to think in terms of system design rather than marginal costs. Studies, like the Nuclear Energy Agency’s system costs analysis (2019), have shown that in a renewables-dominated grid – including firm low carbon sources, such as nuclear or hydro – reduces overall costs even if the firm sources are much more expensive than renewables on a per-unit-energy basis.
It’s currently indisputable that building nuclear power plants is an expensive endeavour. Some recent projects have become notorious for their cost overruns—although this is quite common to all mega-projects. Nuclear technology is mature and well-optimised, while currently available reactor designs are much more efficient in every respect compared to those built a few decades ago. Yet, they are more expensive than ever. Why?
Progressively more stringent safety requirements have led to increasingly complex reactor designs. An improvement of several orders of magnitude in the safety of modern reactors – which goes beyond regulatory requirements – necessarily escalated the costs. To counter this, plants were made bigger, seeking economies of scale. However, the size and unfavourable construction management of some recent projects has led to a high capital cost, making large nuclear plants practically impossible to finance. It is not that nuclear projects are vastly riskier than other infrastructure investments; the main issue is that a single, undiversified investment of tens of billions of dollars cannot sit comfortably on the balance sheet of even the world’s largest utilities. Government intervention is therefore a necessity.
Simply reducing the size of the upfront investment can therefore improve financing prospects. This is one goal of the recent pursuit of smaller designs. In addition, modular construction practices, moving activities from construction sites to factories, and producing large numbers of standardised modules would reduce the costs of labour, improve quality control, and maximise learning effects. Small modular reactors have a greater availability of suitable sites, as well as greater flexibility in grid connections and access to cooling water. Project management is also easier with smaller projects, avoiding the seemingly inevitable overruns associated with mega-projects.
Another avenue for cost reduction is through reducing financing costs. Around half of the cost of a typical large nuclear project is the cost of financing. Governments around the world routinely finance large national infrastructure projects. Affordable, predictable, low-carbon energy sources can be considered as essential infrastructure, enabling economic growth and prosperity, making government investment in such a “public good” justifiable. Financing nuclear projects at government borrowing rates immediately makes even current large designs economically competitive, while the risk burden between government and contractor can be more evenly distributed through cooperative approaches.
Nuclear power is expensive, but it does not have to be. Opportunities for cost reductions are real and can be achieved through consistent, ideally internationally coordinated, energy policies. It is a vital tool for enabling a net-zero carbon future. Consistent long-term energy policy with a firm commitment to nuclear new builds also promotes substantial cost savings through learning, observed empirically in many countries, including France, South Korea, China and Russia.
No energy source is perfect, but nuclear is the most ethically responsible form of energy generation. It takes care of all externalities associated with its operation – from uranium mining, through operation, to used fuel disposal. This cannot be said of any other energy source. It relies on a virtually inexhaustible fuel resource, if recycled in advanced reactors or by using uranium extracted from seawater, making the resource base large enough to power humanity for many millennia. It is objectively safer than any other form of electricity generation, causing the smallest number of fatalities per unit energy produced. And because of its high energy density, it has the smallest footprint.
All this makes nuclear the least intrusive to the environment, leaving more land available for a wide range of human activities or to remain as wilderness. Given the substantial reductions in emissions required to keep the global temperature increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius, as laid out in the Paris Agreement, such a versatile energy source cannot be ruled out.
The article was co-authored by Nathaniel Read and Paul Cosgrove.
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In recognition of the role Wikipedia played in the success of Watson in the Jeopardy! Challenge, the IBM team has asked AAAI to donate the award prize of $10,000 accompanying the Feigenbaum Prize to the Wikimedia Foundation. IBM Research said they were motivated to donate the prize to recognize and support the Wikimedia Foundation’s work, especially on Wikidata, which aims to become a part of providing everyone – whether human or machine – with easier access to the sum of all knowledge.
“Watson embodies a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence by applying a novel architecture to aggregate data and information from many different sources, including the full text of Wikipedia,” said Chris Welty of IBM Research.
The text and structured content of Wikipedia was analyzed using natural language processing methods. In addition, structural elements of Wikipedia – links, infoboxes, categories – were extracted and added to the massive knowledge base that Watson drew on during the game of Jeopardy!
We’re grateful to IBM for their kind consideration and look forward to seeing what remarkable new feats the Watson team accomplishes next.
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Oppose the decommissioned nuclear plant, which is encased in a giant sarcophagus to prevent radiation, sprawl the solar panels of a new 1 megawatt solar farm. The photovoltaic project dubbed Solar Chernobyl started operating on October 5, only about 100 meters from the old nuclear reactor.
Evhen Variagin, chief executive of the company Solar Chernobyl LLC, which is behind the project, stressed the symbolism of the selected location for the new solar farm. “It’s not just another solar power plant,” Variagin insisted. “It’s really hard to underestimate the symbolism of this particular project.”
The farm, which cost €1 million and is a joint venture by the Ukrainian company Rodina and Germany’s Enerparc AG, ensures that the infamous site produces electricity again. The solar farm is expected to meet the energy needs of about 2,000 households. Plans are underway to boost the site’s capacity to 100 MW in future.
Ukraine is investing heavily in renewables, adding more than 500 megawatt of capacity between January and September this year, which is more than twice the capacity added all of last year.
Valery Seyda, head of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, has welcomed the new solar farm at the site. “Now we are seeing a new sprout, still small, weak, [but one that is] producing power on this site and this is very joyful,” he enthused.
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It’s time to start thinking beyond the technology and asking deeper questions about the development and use of energy in our societies. As renewables become the new norm, it doesn’t mean they are sustainable by default. Even solar and wind require resources that aren’t renewable, while renewable energy storage solutions are contributing to environmental degradation.
Most of the outdated equipment in renewables also remains unrecyclable or unrecycled globally.
So can a further destruction of ecosystems be a legitimate reason for humans exploring their fullest potential? The answer comes only from our shared morality, which is bound to become increasingly global and shaped by the process of cultural negotiation, political debate and the resetting of legal boundaries for action.
And beyond ecosystems’ health, there will be no shortage of other troubles. Renewables will increasingly face the question of justice. Not all the 29 metals required to produce renewables are equally abundant, for example. Thus, at some point, the prices of renewables might well start going up again to a point where large-scale new renewables capacity might stall. A shortage of required materials will then impact already vulnerable groups and nations the most.
The success of the Paris Agreement and resilience of the energy future will depend on how quickly we turn towards renewables. Yet they also depend on the broader impacts of increasing energy availability on shifting lifestyles patterns, pressures of 24/7 human societies in busy urban settings as well as novel challenges connected to the further overuse of natural resources.
In a quest to expand renewables globally, we need to bear in mind that prices are only glimpses of analytical insight. They do help us make better choices, yes, but they are poor guideposts when it comes to many ethical and political choices. To make the future of renewables sustainable, we will need to consider a broader vision of energy and its role in our lives.
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The connection between renewables and agriculture also supports President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan. His administration hopes to achieve national carbon-neutrality levels by 2040 using clean electricity. When farmers install solar panels, they can increase food production and power the emission-free electric grid.
Currently, 80% of America’s energy supply comes from fossil fuels. During the combustion process, the elements release greenhouse gases into the environment.
These gases alter the atmosphere’s composition. The planet relies on a strategic atmospheric consistency to produce and regulate specific surface temperatures supporting the global ecosystem. As the composition changes, Earth struggles to maintain life-sufficient conditions.
Naturally, Earth absorbs infrared radiation and produces heat, warming its surface. Then, the atmosphere gathers extra energy and sends it to space. Greenhouse gases change the process by raising the atmospheric sunlight-to-heat conversion rate.
Emissions also trap excess energy on Earth, refiltering it through the heat production process. Over time, the gases increase the planet’s temperature. Solar power decreases these adverse effects by producing an abundant energy supply without releasing emissions.
Another contributing factor to the enhanced greenhouse effect is agricultural processes. Raising cattle increases the rate of methane emissions polluting the atmosphere. Methane is a more potent air pollutant than carbon dioxide.
The farming industry also affects Earth’s ecology by exploiting natural lands and resources. The overproduction of crops uses excessive quantities of water, erodes soil and depletes the ground’s nutrient levels. Covering regions of farms and water sources with solar panels can increase clean energy production and support land conservation for agricultural development.
Farmers struggle to produce many light- and heat-intolerant crops as the global temperature increases. High-demand vegetables like tomatoes, broccoli, leaf lettuce, spinach, squash and more require shade to reach optimal growth cycles. Farmers can utilize solar panels to shade their low-light plants, increasing the abundance of their yields.
Environmentalists coined the term agrivoltaics, signifying farming processes using solar panels. The panels protect the crops from light-related damage, as the plants cool off the solar systems when they perspire. Renewable devices decrease in efficiency when they overheat so low-light crops can preserve their production rates.
The agricultural industry is also using solar panels to conserve necessary natural resources. Farming requires vast quantities of fresh water. The evaporation rate follows as the global temperature rises, leaving regions in extended droughts.
Environmental engineers and scientists developed a sustainable solution by placing panels over canals. Agricultural professionals plan on installing solar systems over the water sources supporting California’s farms. Researchers predict the project may save nearly 65 billion gallons of water annually by reducing evaporation effects.
Other engineers developed photovoltaic (PV) panels that float, helping protect all water sources from the effects of climate change. PV technology works by converting solar radiation into a direct current of emission-free electricity. Because the panels float on water surfaces, professionals named them floatovoltaic systems.
The floatovoltaic panels can increase the national clean energy supply and the abundance of fresh water for agricultural development. Together, the industries can minimize harmful ecological effects and improve resource conservation efforts.
The enhanced greenhouse effect also limits agricultural production due to animals overheating. Grazing livestock like cattle and sheep require shade when temperatures rise. Farmers can utilize solar panels in their fields to provide their animals with sufficient shelter.
While solar panels seem simple to support agricultural production, many farmers resist adopting the technology. Many agricultural professionals can’t see the benefits of placing systems on their open fields. They believe the panels take up too much land and limit production rates.
Other professionals in rural areas view solar as a political statement. Researchers found that fewer Republican citizens support renewable energy systems because they fail to recognize their environmental values.
The US can support the cross between solar and agricultural production by creating effective educational programs. When individuals better understand the benefits, they may feel compelled to adopt the system. The program can highlight the financial advantages of using solar power on farms.
Solar is the most affordable energy source in the country, helping farmers minimize their utility costs. Agricultural professionals can also sell excess clean electricity to the grid and develop a form of passive income. Farmers may additionally support their livestock’s health by strengthening local air quality with renewables.
Finally, people can teach farmers about the production benefits of using panels to increase shade in their fields. While the transition may take time, it can effectively improve crop yields and decrease atmospheric degradation.
When farmers are ready to shrink their carbon footprints and utility bills, they can purchase and install solar panels. Agricultural professionals can apply for the solar investment tax credit (ITC) to financially support their purchases, minimizing initial costs. They may also locate a manufacturer specializing in agricultural installations to increase the efficiency and longevity of their systems.
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Climate change is another factor. The Earth is projected to be around 2°C hotter by 2050 and the world’s ice sheets are already melting at much higher times than in the last century, contributing to rising sea levels. At the same time, the planet is losing much of its biodiversity, which scientists say will cause “unforeseen and unpredictable” consequences to life on Earth.
With all this in mind, global sustainability initiatives are more urgent now than ever. Fortunately, we can turn to advanced technological tools to address the most pressing concerns. One technology that has an emerging role in sustainability is blockchain.
Blockchain is best known as the underlying technology behind digital currencies like bitcoin, but it has applications well beyond that. Tech writer Daniel Ling compares blockchain to a digital ledger where nodes see, manage, and record transactions. These digital records create virtual blocks (hence, the name blockchain) that remain intact despite the failure of a node or two.
If that seems too technical, consider how PulseLocal Digital’s Vice President Paul Dughi describes blockchain using the spreadsheet analogy: Think of a spreadsheet duplicated across a network of multiple computers. Information is then entered into the individual cells of these spreadsheets.
Blockchain technology can aid in sustainable and transparent business practices. (photo: Pxhere)
Blockchain technology offers a system of recording information in a way that makes it very hard or near-impossible to alter or hack.
That’s because records of every new transaction need to be added to each of several ledgers (actually, hundreds or even thousands) before the transaction is verified and recorded.
To change anything in that transaction, therefore, would require changing details in every ledger. This system is what makes blockchain virtually impossible to hack.
Blockchain as a key to sustainability
Blockchain is having an emerging role in sustainability by helping foster collaborations between consumers and producers, by assisting people in adopting more sustainable lifestyles, and by helping companies improve their sourcing and recycling practices.
Another major benefit of blockchain technology is that it can ensure transparency. Put simply, blockchain provides a verifiable record as to who buys what from whom. This means that companies’ claims of being resource-positive and reducing their environmental impacts can be counter-checked and verified.
More and more customers demand sustainable practices in the choice of products they buy. Forbes notes that around 60% of consumers are likelier to buy products with clearly defined sustainability policies. This is most evident in the success of fashion brands like Allbirds and Veja, both of which are known for their sustainable business practices.
Blockchain and a circular economy
Crucial to sustainability is the concept of the circular economy and its three R’s: reducing materials and waste, reusing products, and recycling materials. This paradigm ensures that products and services are traded in closed loops or cycles, meaning that nothing goes to waste so we can better preserve Earth’s natural resources.
Blockchain can help in this regard, too. Aside from transparency, the technology ensures traceability. Together, transparency and traceability facilitate fast and easy provenance of items. Consequently, distinguishing authentic products from fake ones helps combat counterfeiting and the negative strain it causes to our natural resources, not to mention fair work practices.
Just as importantly, thanks to blockchain technology consumers can have adequate information about truly sustainable products, enabling to make informed choices.
Finally, blockchain is streamlining the supply chain through immutable, time-based databases for every stage: production, collection, transportation, arrival, and even disposal. A streamlined supply chain, like that of Walmart, Amazon, and IBM, then helps companies optimize processes, come up with innovations, and increase productivity.
These result in reduced operating costs and, more importantly, reductions in waste. They can also aid in the conservation of resources. However, blockchain technology is relatively nascent, which means that it might take some time yet before more companies around the world figure out how to use it effectively for the sake of sustainability.
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Judge vows to ban polluting cruise ships from U.S. ports
By Laureen Fagan on April 14, 2019
Cruise lines promise their guests a dream vacation, but that tourism often means a nightmare in terms of environmental impact. Now a United States federal judge is threatening to ban one cruise line from using any U.S. port because of its flagrant disregard for environmental laws that it’s already on probation for breaking.
What Seitz is referring to is Carnival’s noncompliance with environmental monitoring that’s required under a five-year probation that began in 2017. That, along with a hefty USD$40 million fine – the largest ever imposed by the U.S. for intentional vessel pollution – is part of a court-ordered penalty after ships in Carnival’s Princess Cruise line were caught dumping oil in the ocean for eight years.
They were finally stopped by a whistleblower, a new crew engineer, who in August 2013 reported the oil dumping in UK waters to the British Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). The crew member got off in Southampton and quit, while the UK and U.S. authorities worked together to build the case.
Now, more than five years later, Carnival’s top company executives didn’t even bother to appear on April 10 for the hearing on their probation violation, and Seitz warned that she expects them to be there when she makes her final ruling in June. If she makes good on her threat, Carnival ships will not be allowed to dock at U.S. ports.
That’s a lot of U.S. ports, but Carnival Corporation is one of the biggest names in the global cruise industry and has 102 ships all over the world. The Company’s nine brands include Holland America Line N.V., Cunard, P&O Australia, the Germany-based AIDA and the Seabourn cruises on the Mediterranean.
The Friends of the Earth (FOE) rated 17 cruise lines and 171 specific ships in 2016, as part of their effort to raise awareness about the heavy footprint of these holidays. Seabourn, for example, got an “F” for its air pollution reduction and its corporate transparency; P&O got an overall “F” for air, sewage and more.
“Most travelers don’t realize that taking a cruise is more harmful to the environment and human health than many other forms of travel,” the FOE said. Their environmental advocacy counterparts at NABU in Germany published a 2017 report with findings that the emissions of one ship are like millions of cars.
Carnival has responded by saying that sustainability is its highest priority, but its track record of violations dates back to at least 2002. Among other things, the company has been cited for dumping plastic trash in the sea, and illegally discharging grey water into protected areas of Alaska, with obstruction of justice charges for trying to cover their tracks. Yet it’s by no means alone in posing a severe threat to the environment.
“The pollution in this case was the result of more than just bad actors on one ship,” said Assistant Attorney General Cruden of the U.S. Department of Justice, at the time of Carnival’s December 2016 guilty plea for the cruise line. “It reflects very poorly on Princess’s culture and management. This is a company that knew better and should have done better. Hopefully the outcome of this case has the potential not just to chart a new course for this company, but for other companies as well.”
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“The need to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and pollutants can only be achieved by reducing hydrocarbon consumption,” says Michel Péry, the president of the Neoline company in Nantes. “This reduction requires an engineer’s approach, but also that of a logistician and a sailor in order to make the most of a technique that is directly available and uses inexhaustible energy.”
Yes, sailing, and Captain Péry is a man who would know. He spent 25 years in command of merchant marine cargo ships, many of them “ro-ro” vessels so named because they’re designed for transporting vehicles that are driven on and off the ship. That’s a natural fit for Renault, which says it sends about 60 percent of its finished vehicles, parts and components around the world via marine transportation.
Yet Péry also spent time on the Belem, a three-mast French tall ship built in the late 19th century. It began life shipping sugar from the West Indies, but is now used as a sailing school, living maritime museum and attraction. Between the two experiences, Péry developed a vision for wind in a new era.
Péry and his partners have designed a hybrid cargo ship, 136 meters long and 24.2 meters wide, with a project spec of 4,200 square meters of sail surface added to the usual deadweights and displacements. The high-tech sails are optimized for aerodynamic performance and retractable for port operations. They serve as main propulsion, with a 4000 kW auxiliary diesel-electric system to back it up.
When the sails are deployed at sea, they’re expected to reduce GHG emissions by up to 90 percent on an Atlantic Ocean crossing while eliminating the nitrogen and sulphur oxide pollution common to the shipping industry. Neoline expects the pilot runs to begin from Saint-Nazaire in western France, shipping to Charleston and Baltimore on the eastern coast of the United States, and then stopping in the St-Pierre and Miquelon territories before making its return journey across the Atlantic.
Neoline says the plan is two trips per month by 2021. As its first partner, Renault says the wind-driven cargo ships will help the company to achieve its goals of reducing its carbon footprint by six percent in 2022, from its 2016 baseline. The targeted reduction is 25 percent from 2010 levels.
For Neoline, it’s another step towards 2030 and their goals for a wide range of clean-energy maritime transport options.
“We are especially pleased that Groupe Renault, a key player in accessible and sustainable mobility for all, is the first partner to join us on board our journey by trusting in Neoline’s maritime transport solution,” said company CEO Jean Zanuttini. “Considering that the traditional sea freight accounts for nearly three percent of CO2 emissions in Europe, Neoline aims to build an innovative French solution to address a global environmental challenge while remaining within an industrial and competitive framework, with the support from its partners.”
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International Mother Language Day recognizes the importance of languages, diversity, and multilingualism. For Bangladesh, the day holds special significance. It reflects our love, passion for our mother tongue, which is deeply rooted in our Bengali culture. Wikimedia Bangladesh has been organizing an article contest almost every year to observe this day and increase the qualitative articles in Bengali Wikipedia. Our motto is “Let’s put the things we love, in our own language.”
The aim of the contest was to improve the quality of articles that are already present but holds negligible information. In this year’s contest, we specially invited the participants to work on the articles representing women, their rights, and violation of those rights in the week of International Women’s Day. A list was created mainly from the stub article category. There are many articles on Bengali Wikipedia with no significant information, but the importance of those articles is indisputable as they are some really fundamental topics. It has been a long-term community desire to organize something like this. Through this contest, articles on different areas including science, technology, biography, environment, philosophy, etc. are chosen and improved. Articles like Sound, Environmental engineering, Electric current, Sadness, Edgar Allan Poe, etc. were improved through this contest. In the week of International Women’s day, a new category was added and the participants improved the articles like Wife, Domestic violence, Equality feminism, etc.
It is a challenging time for all of us. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, schools, colleges, and universities have shut down their campus activities. Students constitute the largest part of Bengali Wikipedia contributors, and they always participate the most in these contests. But due to the closure, many of them are residing in their own areas with poor network conditions, and we were worried as they might not be able to participate. Although the obstacle was present, the contest ran really well. More than 1000 users registered for the contest. The contest was not easy, as individual participants had to translate at least 2000 words-long articles into Bengali; but considering various aspects, it was much needed to ensure the quality of these articles. A total of 220 articles from 127 contributors got improved in the whole contest. According to the rules of the contest, contributors need to translate the whole article from English to Bengali; and following them, a total of 114 articles got accepted for the contest. The articles were reviewed by the experienced Wikipedians and further checked by the organizing team.
A glimpse of the result:
Third place: T. Galib
It is a pleasure to note here that User:Hasnat Abdullah is a complete newcomer and he joined Wikipedia during the contest. As mentioned before, the experienced Wikipedians were highly active to check the submitted articles from time to time. Among them, User:SHEIKH reviewed 40 articles alone!
It has been a wonderful learning opportunity for the organizers to arrange something like this in the time of the pandemic. The contest attracted many newcomers. Bengali Wikipedia got the fourth-highest number of monthly active editors in the month of March since its beginning! Considering both content and non-content pages, the active editor number was the highest this month. Heartfelt thanks to all the participants, reviewers, and to the whole Bengali Wikipedia community for making this happen!
The number of active editors (content and non-content) in Bengali Wikipedia since the beginning. Generated from Wikimedia Statistics.
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25 May 202127 May 2021 by Ted Chien
Since Sakizaya Wikipedia was released in November 2019, there are over 1,840 articles added during the period. Soon after, together with the Center for Aboriginal Studies of National Chengchi University, Wikimedia Taiwan visited the office of Sakizaya Language Promoting Organization located in Hualien City. The purpose of the visit was to respond to the will from tribes that they want to utilize some feature modules from other Wikipedia projects and to conduct the education on migrating and translating modules into Sakizaya Wikipedia.
Wikimedia Taiwan has successfully lead the tribe translating multiple modules from Chinese Wikipedia to Sakizaya Wikipedia during the workshop, and the translation was completed by the tribe themself, such as “taazihan mitudung” refers to module and “cudad” refers to description. There were 4 modules translated in a single day. More in-depth information can be found in: taazihan mitudung:Birth date and age, taazihan mitudung:Death date and age, taazihan mitudung:Age, taazihan mitudung:BD.
Besides the migration of modules, the language tag “szy” on Wiki-meta has started to function due to the launch of Sakizaya Wikipedia. Especially in Wiki Common and Wikidata, “szy” already served for the use of cross-language property.
Wikimedia Taiwan also taught people in the tribe on how to use Wiki Common and Wikidata during the workshop. There are 50 images edited with Sakizaya descriptions, and over 100 Wikidata items and properties were translated. More achievements can be found here: Dashboard, Category:Images have sakizaya descriptions.
In the past most people of Taiwan’s ethnic languages did not create their pages across Wikimedia projects, they could only work on translation and editing Wikipedia pages. But now, we are able to reach a more diverse range! We expect more and more culture can be preserved through Wikimedia projects.
Recently Atayal Wikipedia (tay) and Seediq Wikipedia (trv) are also released, and we welcome everyone to keep track of these Taiwan’s ethnic language achievements.
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UN mass extinction report highlights urgency of decarbonization
By Daniel T Cross on May 14, 2019
Life on Earth is in a parlous state, according to a new United Nations report, which warns of an impending global mass extinction. Unless we change our ways, UN experts say, life on Earth as we have known it will cease to exist in coming decades.
A rapid transitioning to clean energy sources will be a key part of mitigation efforts, not least because by 2100 we’ll likely be using well over twice as much electricity globally as we do today and we’re using plenty already as it is. And apart from renewables, nuclear power is seen by most experts as one of the best options to achieve large-scale decarbonization.
“A study by climate scientists at NASA estimated that by displacing more polluting energy sources, nuclear power has saved 1.8 million lives (and counting),” the expert adds. “Even solar and wind cause more deaths per unit of energy produced than nuclear. This is partly down to the energy density of uranium,” he elucidates. “A small plant produces a massive amount of electricity. By relying on diffuse sources of energy like the sun and the air, much more construction and maintenance is required, and inevitably there are accidents.”
By comparison, out of the three nuclear accidents ever no one died from radiation at Three Mile Island in the United States and Fukushima in Japan, while at Chernobyl in Ukraine 31 people died during the accident and some 200 people later died of cancer. “This pales in comparison to accidents from other energy sources such as hydroelectric dam collapses and gas explosions,” Watson stresses.
The collapse of a hydropower dam in Laos last year, for instance, caused hundreds of deaths among impoverished locals and led to the displacement of entire communities. In addition, hydropower dams can adversely impact local ecosystems by subverting the natural flow of streams and rivers. And air pollution from coal-fired and biomass-burning facilities are major causes of death and diseases such as lung cancer.
Saving wild animals and their habitats will require us to embrace nuclear energy, many environmentalists say. (photo: Pixnio)
However, numerous environmentalists remain opposed to nuclear power, largely over what experts like Watson see as misplaced concerns. “Science shows nuclear is a uniquely capable and safe low-carbon tech, but being anti-nuclear has been a core part of many environmentalists’ beliefs for so long that changing minds is proving hard,” Watson notes.
“Nuclear energy is an emotive topic where facts alone don’t change minds,” he observes. “That is why it is important for environmentalists who do see the technology’s value to speak up about how nuclear is sustainable and can protect our planet against fossil fuel pollution and the industrialization of wild spaces through renewables.”
Still, as the issue of climate change becomes more pressing with every passing year, some environmentalists are changing their minds and speaking up in favor of nuclear energy. “When compared objectively with alternatives, nuclear power performs as well [as] or better than other options in terms of safety, cost, scalability, reliability, land transformation and emissions,” stress two Australian environmental scientists, Prof. Barry W. Brook of the University of Tasmania, and Prof. Corey Bradshaw, of the University of Adelaide.
In an open letter, Brook and Bradshaw have called on their fellow environmentalists to give nuclear energy a fair go. “Although renewable energy sources like wind and solar will likely make increasing contributions to future energy production, these technology options face real-world problems of scalability, cost, material and land use, meaning that it is too risky to rely on them as the only alternatives to fossil fuels,” they argue.
“Nuclear power — being by far the most compact and energy-dense of sources — could also make a major, and perhaps leading, contribution,” they add. “As scientists, we declare that an evidence-based approach to future energy production is an essential component of securing biodiversity’s future.”
Nuclear energy could be a boon to conservation efforts because of its comparatively low environmental impact. Modern nuclear plants make limited use of local water sources and land areas, which means they can operate even in or near protected wildlife habitats. The same cannot always be said of solar and wind farms. Solar farms can take up large swathes of land while wind turbines can pose grave threats to migrating birds and insects.
“Nuclear is uniquely capable of protecting wild spaces from industrialization,” Watson argues. “I think activist Meredith Angwin had it right: Renewables require us to harvest energy from forests, air and rivers. With nuclear we leave rivers to be rivers, not hydro plants. We leave forests to be forests, not biomass farms. We reserve high ridges for soaring eagles, not wind turbines,” he adds.
It is clear that in order to prevent the worst effects of climate change, renewables are important, but they need to be balanced with use of nuclear power, especially since it is not only just about the climate, but about biodiversity and natural habitats as well. “Deserts aren’t barren places primed for solar farms; they are a precious home for endemic reptile and plant species”, Watson says. In our fight against climate change, these words are to be heeded.
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The year was 1979, and Howard Morland had just uncovered a secret that would change the world’s understanding of atomic weaponry.
“I was on assignment for the Progressive Magazine when I discovered what is known as the H-Bomb Secret,” said Morland (User:HowardMorland). “It was the goal of the Progressive Magazine to take the veil away from this hidden part of the nuclear industry and let people know how the bomb is made, where it’s made, and where it’s deployed–everything about it.”
The U.S. government tried to issue an injunction to stop the Progressive Magazine from publishing the article, but after six months in court, the magazine prevailed. Morland’s article ran in its original form and, he argued, had an impact on the future use of nuclear weapons.
“It gave the anti-nuclear movement a lot of credibility in 1979. I think we played a role in the fact that, just a few years later, there was a worldwide outrage against nuclear weapons,” said Morland. “On June 12 of 1982, there were a million people marching in New York City to protest the bomb. We kind of brought the bomb into the anti-nuclear movement.”
More than twenty years later, Morland found himself engaged in the nuclear arms discussion once again–this time on Wikipedia.
Morland met a truck driver named John Coster-Mullen, who had self-published a book on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. “He had no expertise in science at all, but he had this weird idea that he would start going to reunions of the people who dropped the bomb, even though he wasn’t even their generation,” said Morland. “But he went there, he started making friends with these people, talking to them; they started telling him what they knew about the Hiroshima bomb and the Nagasaki bomb.”
In particular, Coster-Mullen’s book included an explanation of how the Hiroshima bomb worked, which contradicted the explanation in every encyclopedia in the world at the time. Morland, who has long had an interest in physics, looked at Coster-Mullen’s evidence and was convinced that his was the correct explanation.
“I told John, ‘The Wikipedia article is wrong–do you want to fix it?’ And he said, ‘I already tried.’” Coster-Mullen had submitted a correction to the Little Boy article, but another user told him it was not credible information because every other book in the world contradicted him.
“I said, ‘Well I think we can fix that.’ Even though I knew nothing about [Wikipedia]– this was my introduction–I said, ‘I think we can fix that.’” Morland recruited several others in this effort, including Richard Rhodes, who authored the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, and Stan Norris, who wrote the biography of Leslie Groves–the general who directed the Manhattan Project–and in his book had cited Coster-Mullen as a source.
Morland then posted on the talk page, saying, “We’ve read this guy’s book and we think he’s right and everybody else is wrong.” The other user who was initially concerned by the preponderance of contradictory literature relented and Morland made the change to the article.
This was back in March 2007, and Morland has been an active editor on Wikipedia since. “I figured, well, I’ll go fix all the nuclear weapon articles on Wikipedia,” he said. “Lately I do a lot of kayaking, [so] I thought, well, I’ll just do the kayaking articles.”
He finds it rewarding to contribute to Wikipedia because he feels it allows him to share his knowledge with a massive audience. “I know people who write books, especially in the nuclear weapons field. They are read by very few people,” he said, “but the Wikipedia article that I wrote on Nuclear weapon design gets 600 hits a day. Nobody’s book gets that much exposure. I don’t get any money for it, but I produce this information and somehow it’s getting out there and people are looking at it.”
Moreland’s estimates for the Nuclear weapon design article traffic were modest and combined, his contributions to the world’s understanding of the history of atomic energy is significant.
“Wikipedia is one of the most amazing institutions I’ve ever encountered. I don’t know anything like it,” said Morland. “It’s a testament to the desire of people to know things and to share information, despite the fact that from the beginning of time, when people started learning how to do stuff, I’m sure they tried to keep it secret. And I think that’s sort of part of human nature that we want to learn the truth and then share it with people.”
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Published a detailed plan for collecting metrics and impact measurement criteria for our work. Please provide us feedback after reviewing these criteria.
Conducted a translation rally at translatewiki.net. According to preliminary results 180 translators contributed to 65,000+ translations on different Wikimedia related projects in 115 languages. 54 users will share the bounty sponsored by Wikimedia Nederlands, the Dutch Wikimedia chapter.
Improved prototypes for Translate workflow user experience and completed user tests. You can check out test results. If you are a translator and wish to help us test the prototypes, please sign up.
Met with the Wikimedia Deutschland Wikidata team about moving ahead with ULS for Wikidata language selection.
The Georgian alphabet is now supported in Extension:Narayam.
All Marathi wiki projects now have input method to Narayam deployed.
Tim Starling wrote a php parser for the CLDR plural rule definitions. Some time back we had written a JavaScript parser for this. Soon the plural support in MediaWiki localisation messages will be based on CLDR plural definitions.
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I really love the thing, i just have one small issue left.
I don’t like those 2 letter shorts for the different parts of the world. For instance, I started typing “Neder”
I had 5 options. At the top is a section SA. I guess it means “Southern Africa” ??? but it’s confusing to me.
You’re completely right, Derk-Jan. This is a todo that we are quite aware of.
The two capital letters represent “North America”, “Latin America”, “South America”, “Europe”, “Middle East”, “Africa”, “Asia”, “Pacific” and “Australia”, the codes used for language region in the language database[1].
We’re working on completion of jquery.i18n[2] before we can internationalise the language selector. Have a look at the specifications[3]. Help is welcome implementing them.
Completely agree with you DJ and Siebrand. Sometimes I also confused on such presentation. I started keeping them writing down on my note book for not losing any thing while reading 🙂
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] | No, it’s not democracy on wheels… Mobile Asia Congress, or MAC, is the top annual fiesta for the GSM Association in (you guessed it) Asia. GSMA is a global trade group representing more than 750 mobile operators across 218 countries and territories-more than 86% of the world’s mobile phone connections.
I was honored to be invited to speak at a panel at MAC last month in Macau, China. You might be asking yourself why a busy guy like me would sit on a plane for 15 hours, surrounded by screaming babies, to fly half way around the world to talk to executives of the mobile communications industry. Well, it wasn’t for the frequent flier miles (though those were nice too). The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to spreading knowledge to more people in more ways. If you look at how people are connecting with information these days, mobile devices are becoming more and more important. In developing countries, a lack of infrastructure and internet access means mobile devices are sometimes the only way that people can access information online.
My panel was on Monetising the assets of mobile for a new Internet – location, charging and demographics. That may sound strange, seeing as we don’t charge anyone to use or edit Wikipedia or any of our other projects. However, all the terrific content on Wikipedia can add a lot of value to the mobile experience.
* Imagine GPS-powered software automatically offering up Wikipedia content based on your trip to London or Tokyo
* Or photo-recognition software providing the Wikipedia article based on your mobile-phone picture at the Golden Gate Bridge.
We’re exploring partnerships with prominent mobile carriers, device makers, application developers, etc., to make these kinds of dynamic experiences a reality. It’s all about giving people the most relevant knowledge, whenever and wherever they need it.
While I was in Asia, I also had the opportunity to visit dedicated Wikipedians in Hong Kong, Macau and Japan. We already have a chapter in Hong Kong, and Macau is on it’s way to forming one. The Japanese Wikipedians are thinking about starting up a chapter and I was able to help them out with some Dos and Dont’s (such as DO buy the Head of Business Development a round of Kirin; DON’T stop at one round). We’re excited to expand the Wikipedia presence in Asia, where it’s growing faster than monkeyweed on Miracle Grow (also known as Japanese knotweed).
It was a lot of fun to meet all the smart, committed people working to make Wikipedia bigger and better. Wikipedia is currently accessible by people in mainland China and it growing at a rapid rate due to all the Chinese speaking contributors from every corner of the world. Japanese Wikipedia is our sixth-biggest language, with more than 540,000 articles. I want to thank all the Wikipedians that took the time to meet with me: Jerry (Hong Kong); Agostinho and Albert (Macau); and, Shun, Kotaro, Kazuhiro, and Tomoaki (Japan).
Also, a special thanks to Simone Craig, Lisa West, Andy McGuire, and everyone at GSMA for making me part of their great event.
Kul Wadhwa, Business Development
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The best place in Asia will probably Vietnam.
What sort of steps can Wikimedia take to ensure China Wikipedia is censored or blocked as little as possible within China?
What sort of steps are you taking to ensure China Wikipedia is censored or blocked as little as possible?
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13 September 2022 by Wikimedia Foundation
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29 July 2022 by Melinda Seckington
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9 May 2022 by Jazmin Tanner
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In less than five years, Wikimedia Deutschland’s yearly fundraising efforts grew from € 700,000 to € 8,200,000. That is an astonishing development. But fundraising is not just about money.
Wikimedia Deutschland has been running professional fundraising campaigns since 2010. In previous years, all fundraising was undertaken by volunteers. With the creation of the non-profit Wikimedia Fördergesellschaft in 2011, we now have the institutional requirements in place to forward donations received in Germany to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Five factors of successful banners
1. Relevance: No association, no donation. Our results show that a personal appeal in banners, the use of key words, and particularly references to current events make our appeals more relevant and therefore more persuasive to potential donors.
2. Visibility is something one has to fight hard for. The time span we have in which to draw attention to our message is very short. This Fundraising Report presents findings relating to when is the best time for the banner to appear and analyzes various design decisions, including color scheme.
3. Closer to the reader: If there is one thing that the entire donation process should be–from reading the appeal through to completing a donation–it’s straightforward. The fewer clicks required, the better. This fact is nothing new, and it certainly does not only apply to us, but this report will explain the concrete application of this knowledge in the creation of successful banners.
Bank transfers as a payment method are getting more important each year. Graph by Till Mletzko, CC-BY-SA 4.0
4. Donation obstacles should be kept to a minimum. Two findings in particular have emerged from our previous years’ work: Firstly, including suggested donation amounts on the banner has proven to provide effective guidance for donors. The lower the sum, the higher the number of people who donate–and the overall success of a campaign is greater when more donors give smaller amounts. Secondly, the option to donate anonymously is very important to many donors.
5. Raising the campaign profile: It pays to communicate fundraising goals and show the progress of donations. In 2014 in particular we saw how effective the creation of dramatic moments within a campaign can be. This report also touches on a surprising topic: the principle of “social proof” demonstrates how the behavior of a group can motivate others to act in the same way, yet Wikimedia Deutschland’s fundraising campaign made good use of the reverse of this effect.
Looking back, the five factors all played a crucial role in the success of our campaigns; and looking ahead, their importance for the international movement stretches far beyond monetary matters. We should all see fundraising as the start of a relationship – one that requires continuous care and attention.
Fundraising is not about banners only
Our goal for the future is to persuade donors to become long-term supporters of free knowledge and the Wikimedia movement. This report provides a glimpse into our strategy on how to maintain and consolidate our donor relationships, which are built on three main pillars: regular contact, targeted appeals, and personal dialogue–all things that are not possible through communication via banners alone. This report discusses the enormous benefits that stand to be gained from attracting long-term support for the Wikimedia mission.
Using the example of donation certificates, this report will show how we benefit from taking the wishes and expectations of donors seriously. Our postal and electronic mailings are proof of how target-group-specific content and communication strategies can ensure long-term success. The fundamental importance of a well-functioning customer service team should also not be overlooked. During the last fundraising campaign in Germany, for example, we received hundreds of calls and answered well in excess of 5,000 e-mails. Contact is therefore not merely an additional service; it is the very basis of future relationships.
Looking ahead to future challenges, the report ends with a call to intensify donor relationships, to focus on donors’ needs, and to further diversify fundraising communications.
Read the whole Fundraising Report on Meta.
Till Mletzko, Wikimedia Deutschland
Tobias Schumann, Wikimedia Deutschland
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On March 16, 2001, two months after Wikipedia’s creation, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales announced and launched the first Wikipedia projects to be written in languages other than English, starting with the German and Catalan Wikipedias. The Wikimedia Foundation now hosts over 900 wikis in hundreds of languages, covering ten subject areas; this includes Meta-Wiki, the global community site, and MediaWiki.org, the website for development and documentation of the software that runs the Wikimedia wikis.
The rapid growth of the projects presented a problem early on — one that is finally being solved this month with Single-User Login: accounts created on one wiki used to only work on that wiki. If you wanted to edit a different wiki, you had to register a new account. Sometimes, and with growing frequency over the years, your account name was already registered by someone else on that different wiki. Lack of single-user login required you to register a different account name, splitting your identity across the wikis. This caused problems in software development, making it hard to develop global notifications or global watchlists, for example. The lack of persistent identity across the wikis also caused problems with users being mistaken for other users: users blocked on one wiki were sometimes assumed to be the same person on another, for instance. As of last month, there were 2.8 million accounts with conflicting, identical usernames, out of over 90 million local accounts.
As early as May 2004, while proposing Wikimedia Commons as a free media repository, Erik Moeller (User:Eloquence) put forward the idea of using Commons as a place to unify all usernames. In June of 2005 the first specifics were proposed to establish and use “global accounts.” The Wikimedia Foundation committed software architect and engineer Brion Vibber to work on that project. Due to various complications, the resulting global log-in system, CentralAuth, was not ready for general use until 2008 — and only in 2009 were new account name requests checked against those that registered their global name. Following a community request in 2012 to complete single-user login and make all accounts global, the Wikimedia Foundation provided more resources for that task. In the spring of 2013, James Forrester was tasked with unifying and globalizing all accounts, and early planning began. Dan Garry took over the project at the end of 2013, and throughout the summer of 2014 he led the engineering work to complete the task. I, Keegan Peterzell, took over the project once most engineering challenges had been met, at the end of October 2014.
The move to all-global accounts has been taking place in stages over the past eight months. In August 2014, we started migrating all local accounts that did not conflict with another local account or a global account, making them global across all wikis. In September 2014, the ability to rename accounts moved from local requests to a global group, to prevent local renames that would separate an account from its global owner. In November and December 2014, we tested new global rename processing tools. In January 2015, GlobalRenameRequest was deployed on all wikis, with the special queue where requests are sent for processing. This special page allows users to request a new name from the wiki on which they are logged in, using localized, translated text. The form is short and allows global renamers to smoothly process requests from all wikis. In February 2015, we focused on preventing the ability to create an account that conflicted with a global account by anyone, as well as contacting over 80,000 accounts with unconfirmed email addresses to request confirmation. In March 2015, a script was run over all the remaining clashing accounts, based on a rename selection scheme to determine the final global accounts and which other accounts needed to be renamed.
On March 17, 2015, we started contacting the 2.8 million accounts being renamed. Since being contacted, over 1.34 million accounts have been connected to their global accounts and will no longer need to be renamed; and over 10,000 accounts have been renamed to a new global account name of their choosing. This week, we will begin the process of renaming the remaining 1.46 million accounts – those which have not responded to all attempts at outreach. That process is expected to take approximately one to two weeks. Once renamed, account owners will still be able to log in using their old credentials and will be shown information about the renaming. At any point after being renamed, all affected accounts are free to request a new name of their choice, using GlobalRenameRequest. To learn more, visit this help page.
Once finalization is complete, every account on Wikimedia projects will be unique in all projects. Any confusion about user identities will be addressed by setting up a global user page for your account in the unified world; and software developers will be able to start projects that had been put on hold for over a decade due to this ongoing issue.
As a result of Single-User Login, cross-wiki collaboration and communication should improve, which should help the health of the overall Wikimedia movement. I look forward to sharing this new, unified wiki experience with the rest of you. The wait and the work should all be well worth it.
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Congratulations! This is a big deal, and will pave the way for a lot of features.
hello, since the day you mentioned, i still see no one got renamed
I would like to thank you for the efforts you’ve put in penning this site.
I am hoping to view the same high-grade content from you later on as well.
In truth, your creative writing abilities has inspired me to
get my own website now 😉
Cross-wiki notifications unite a world of messages in one window – Wikimedia blog
[…] when the SUL finalization project was finished in 2015 did cross-wiki notifications become technically feasible. The […]
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How can we engage volunteers to contribute in important yet monotonous tasks? Over the past year, Wikimedia Sverige (Sweden) has been experimenting with ways to strengthen its community on translatewiki.net — a little-known project that nevertheless benefits hundreds of millions of people each month.
Translatewiki is a platform for translating the texts that appear in open source software, including the MediaWiki software used on Wikipedia. These translations make it possible for you to get all the buttons and system messages on Wikipedia in your preferred language; it is preparatory work to make it as easy as possible for writers and readers to use Wikipedia and other open source software.
Translating technical messages is therefore a very important task, but it is often rather isolated and and independent work. Wikimedia Sverige aimed to change that, to make it fun to jointly produce an effort which differs from the regular activity, and therefore invited Translatewiki‘s volunteer translators to a “Translation Rally” for nine days in mid-May with a sum of 500 euros to be divided between all participants reaching more than 500 translations of some of the most important messages. This concept was originally developed by Wikimedia Nederland (Netherlands).
We initially aimed to complete the messages in MediaWiki’s core software—the central messages used on the Wikimedia projects. When finished, the participants could continue with 11 other selected projects. There are almost 65,000 messages to translate to each language, of which MediaWiki constitutes approximately 24,500. Some are only one word long (e.g. “Save”), while others may be several sentences long. As the translations are completed by volunteers, some languages are almost completely translated—but others are almost entirely untranslated. Many even lack translations of the core messages. Participants were given the opportunity to either keep the money for themselves or donate them to Translatewiki‘s continued operation. The majority of the translations were made into non-European languages, but these languages also benefited; for example, hundreds of messages were translated into Swedish.
Number of edits during the Translation Rally in May 2015. Graph by Translatewiki.net, freely licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prior to the Translation Rally, an email was sent to all registered users asking them to join; this was an important step, as it brought in older users whose activity had dropped off over the years. During the rally’s nine days, the website’s activity was around four times higher than normal. 201 users contributed at least one new translation, and a massive 44,844 messages were added.
Sites using MediaWiki software are now easier to use in the 116 languages improved; it is clear that a much higher activity was achieved thanks to the Rally. However, most of the volunteers did not reach the minimum of 500 translations and couldn’t claim a slice of the 500 euros; 23 of them had valid claims and will split the prize. The winner with the most qualified translations are yet to be appointed.
A remaining question is if this type of activity has a positive or negative effect on the community in the long term. The benefit for community engagement is that people are invited and engaged in something new and exiting; you can create a noticeable buzz. However, there are potential risks when adding money or prizes into the mix. Will that reduce interest to participate in the long run, when there are no more prices? Can conflicts increase because of this? Will participants be more sloppy with their translations (this seem to have happened this time)? What can we then do to mitigate these risks? These types of predictions are notoriously hard to do without proper research, as different methods might have different problems and gains. We would greatly welcome more studies in this area.
The only thing we can say with some certainty right now is that for a limited cost, there has been a massive short-term positive effect, especially for languages spoken in poorer countries. From the graphs we developed, you can see that activity has regressed to its previous norm now that the rally ended.
The Translation Rally was organized and sponsored by Wikimedia Sverige, with a generous support from Internetfonden, and the rally itself was run by Siebrand Mazeland at the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Is it me, or a link to the actual rally is missing? https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Project:Rally-2015-05 (not the first time I make such comments…). Interesting initiative, BTW.
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] | 13 June 2022, San Francisco — The Wikimedia Foundation today announced the appointment of Selena Deckelmann as Chief Product and Technology Officer. Selena is currently serving as Senior Vice President of Mozilla, where she was responsible for Firefox. She will officially join on August 1, 2022.
Selena will lead the product and technology teams at the Wikimedia Foundation. These teams support the technology infrastructure and innovation that powers Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, one of the most visited websites in the world with more than 16 billion pageviews per month. They also enable more than 300,000 global volunteers to edit Wikimedia projects each month.
“Selena has a proven track record of delivering results by enabling individuals and teams to tackle unique and often complex challenges,” said Maryana Iskander, CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. “She has dedicated her career to open source technologies for empowerment and inclusion.”
At Mozilla, where she has been for nearly a decade, Selena currently leads the Firefox organization of more than 400 people responsible for all Firefox product and technology functions including desktop, mobile, web platform, and browser services. She oversaw some of the company’s most significant achievements including performance projects like Quantum Flow, architectural changes like Project Fission, key features like Enhanced Tracking Protection and Total Cookie Protection, and services such as Firefox Monitor. In her nine years at Mozilla, Selena held various other roles including Vice President for Firefox Desktop, Senior Director for Web Platform Engineering and Gecko Runtime, and Senior Manager for Gecko Security Engineering.
Selena also brings experience from her previous roles as co-founder of Prime Radiant, a software as a service business that explored how to improve business processes at scale with checklist automation software, and as Consulting Director of Development for The Ada Initiative, an organization that was dedicated to increasing the participation of women in open source and technology communities. She was a major contributor to PostgreSQL, one of the largest free and open source databases in the world.
“Open collaboration produces better solutions for the world, and technology is a critical enabler of making this true,” said Selena. “I look forward to contributing to Wikimedia’s inspiring free knowledge mission.”
As Chief Product and Technology Officer, Selena will work with Wikimedia Foundation staff, technical contributors, volunteer developers, researchers, and communities to support Wikimedia’s 2030 Movement Strategy to advance free and open access to knowledge. The majority of the Foundation is focused on product and technology development in service of our mission.
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] | The CheckUser extension stores information about each change to the wiki for a fixed period of time (by default, three months). This information includes the following database fields for each action to the wiki:
cu_changes.cuc_user – account ID of the user performing an action; this would be used for self-lookups; it's indexed [(cuc_user,cuc_ip,cuc_timestamp)] cu_changes.cuc_ip – IP address [IPv4 and IPv6] cu_changes.cuc_xff – XFF data cu_changes.cuc_agent – User-Agent data
By default, MediaWiki core also stores private information in the recentchanges table:
In the interest of freedom of information and enhancing account security, it should be possible for users to see the private data stored about themselves at any time.
The implementation of this idea will be done though an extension (Extension:AccountInfo).
For more details see Retained account data self-discovery RfC.
Related: T29242: Allow users to see their own stored private information ("self-CheckUser")
T208636: Allow users to access their user data via an API
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csteipp added subscribers: Qgil, csteipp.Mar 26 2015, 6:08 PM2015-03-26 18:08:49 (UTC+0)
@Qgil, can you explain in more details what you're thinking when you say,
"In the interest of... enhancing account security". I'm not sure I'm seeing the security benefit from this. If anything, I see a strong weakening of security-- a user who's password is guessed suddenly gives the attacker access to all their checkuser data.
If a user sees that "they" have been making edits that they didn't make, I'm not sure knowing the IP address where it came from would affect their response.
Legoktm added subscribers: MZMcBride, Legoktm.Mar 27 2015, 6:01 AM2015-03-27 06:01:37 (UTC+0)
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I took a look at the RfC and while I personally appreciate the motivation for the proposal and am not fundamentally opposed to it, I think there are some important aspects that haven't been discussed yet. I have left more detailed comments on the RfC talk page about:
Providing an opt-out or making the feature op-in, considering that there are quite a few situations where users could be pressured by others to access the data and provide it to them
Existing examples or best practices (are there any?)
Implications on password security (already mentioned by Chris above), considering that we will be supercharging the existing credentials of hundreds of thousands of users (those who have made edits in the past 3 months) with access to data that is considered highly sensitive by many community members.
Again, I think none of this is insurmountable, but it seems to me that this is a pretty big step and should not be rushed.
• Tbayer added a comment.Apr 5 2015, 8:49 AM2015-04-05 08:49:06 (UTC+0)
PS: It's not clear to me how much the proposal was also motivated by a desire to provide better scrutiny on the work of checkusers, but I do think it might impact their work in some (not necessarily bad) ways. So they should be considered to be stakeholders here; I have notified the Checkuser-l mailing list.
Billinghurst added a subscriber: Billinghurst.Apr 5 2015, 9:47 AM2015-04-05 09:47:20 (UTC+0)
What problem are we solving?
What information are we providing that cannot be sourced by the user currently on the internet?
What are the benefits of the change to the broader community?
Do the risks introduced outweigh the perceived benefits?
Is the additional set of preferences progressing in the direction that WMF has expressed as a desire to simplify Special:Preferences?
Trijnstel added a subscriber: Trijnstel.Apr 5 2015, 2:42 PM2015-04-05 14:42:52 (UTC+0)
Trijnstel added a comment.Edited · Apr 5 2015, 2:46 PM2015-04-05 14:46:59 (UTC+0)
In T387#1180482, @Billinghurst wrote:
What problem are we solving?
Exactly my question. This sounds to me like solving a non existent problem, which could only cause other problems imo.
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NickK added a comment.Edited · Apr 5 2015, 9:11 PM2015-04-05 21:11:30 (UTC+0)
I also wonder what problem whe are solving.
In theory it should help very paranoic users who are afraid of using their account elsewhere (although edits or actions by someone else can be easily detected publicly, and user will not get anything else from this tool anyway). Thus I wonder if anyone really needs this option.
On the other hand, I see two serious issues:
problem for users whose accounts where hacked. It doesn't make sense to hack an account now, but if it will contain IPs and UAs, it will make much more sense to hack it (and as we don't use two-step verification, a keylogger will be enough to get this information). Or it will be enough to leave the session open and let a paranoic family member get the information.
problem for checkusers fighting long-term abuse. Obviously users who know how to hide their data will benefit from this option to check what data will be visible to checkusers, thus bringing the value of checks on them to zero.
Given such drawbacks, I am not sure this feature should be implemented as is, or at least it should be implemented with two-step verification and limited information (e.g. IP and last access date) to avoid abuse.
saper added a subscriber: saper.Apr 5 2015, 9:41 PM2015-04-05 21:41:58 (UTC+0)
MarcoAurelio added a subscriber: MarcoAurelio.Apr 5 2015, 10:04 PM2015-04-05 22:04:40 (UTC+0)
I join to the above users inquiring about which problem is to be solved with this proposed change. @Billinghurst raised interesting points.
The way I see it, if we provide the users with the CU data they're stored about them, this will be a direct torpedo to the boat's keel, that is, the CheckUser tool and its function as a tool to prevent abuse (see @Tbayer above). Malicious users will be given the data we use to track them down, thus, hindering our functions. We already had a couple of precedents of this, and the level of abuse was big, leading to a global WMF ban on one of these people.
I'm sure that we can find a way to satisfy the needs of some users to know what data is stored about them and our function to prevent abuse on the projects. I plea not to rush on this one and carefully consider all options before making a move.
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Jalexander added a comment.Apr 5 2015, 10:25 PM2015-04-05 22:25:05 (UTC+0)
What would people think about something much more specifically oriented towards copying what a couple other major sites have done for security reasons? I have significant concerns about just dumping every checkuser table row we have.
As an example of something I could see a good use for:
Your most recent actions come from:
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NickK added a comment.Apr 6 2015, 1:02 AM2015-04-06 01:02:44 (UTC+0)
In T387#1181038, @Jalexander wrote:
As an example of something I could see a good use for:
Your most recent actions come from:
If you notice anything unusual we recommend you immediately change your password [linked] and then log out [linked] and log back in to ensure someone other then you is unable to use your account.
This is still enough to be harmful to a user, and this should not come without two-step verification and/or stronger requirements on passwords. Like in Google, if you have anything to hide, you can activate two-step verification to protect your data.
IPs and their locations are a kind of data you may want to hide for a number of reasons (e.g. you told to your employer or your partner that you were in Berlin but you went to London instead). At the moment getting access to an account of someone else (either by hacking it, by getting their password using a keylogger or just because they did not log out) is almost valueless. If you can get access to their IPs over the last three months, you get a quite valuable data, thus a much better protection than now is needed.
In adddition, as passwords can be just one character long now, you can try to brute force them and for at least some users you will get their IPs connected with their logins, which is definitely not acceptable.
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This is far too much risk for far too little benefit. It places the user at risk, by making accessible sensitive data (as has been raised above, in some scenarios, extremely sensitive), and raises the possibility that a user could be forced to provide such data or that it could be stolen in the event of account compromise.
On the other side, it places at risk the projects, too. Right now, malicious users don't know exactly what's in about them. It only takes one slipup, or use of the wrong fake address and useragent on one account rather than another, to expose them. And they don't know for certain if an older IP is still in the database or not. This will let them know all of that, making sockpuppeting easier for determined and skilled abusers. Those are the exact people we need not to have access to such data.
The benefit is...what, exactly? The likelihood that a user will detect an account compromise using this tool is extremely remote. The only reason to compromise an account would be that you intend to use it somehow, and the minute it takes an action that the legitimate user knows they didn't do, there's a sign of trouble far clearer than an odd IP in the logs. This would actually create a reason to compromise an account quietly and sit on it, to build up a picture of the user's activity over a period of time. Right now, compromising an account and sitting on it isn't worth anything at all. You have access to the account, but if you never take any action with it, that doesn't even matter, and you run the risk they'll change the password, so you'd use it immediately. This proposal is "solving a problem" that it actually creates.
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DoRD added a comment.Apr 6 2015, 1:23 PM2015-04-06 13:23:45 (UTC+0)
In T387#1181038, @Jalexander wrote:
What would people think about something much more specifically oriented towards copying what a couple other major sites have done for security reasons? I have significant concerns about just dumping every checkuser table row we have.
As an example of something I could see a good use for:
Your most recent actions come from:
A difference between Wikipedia and say, Google, is that the checkuser extension doesn't record all online activity. It doesn't do anything if someone logs in, browses the encyclopedia, fiddles around with their preferences (including viewing/changing their email address), etc.
As it is, it's easy to look at one's contributions to see if there are any unrecognized edits, no matter where they were made from, so I'm still left thinking that this is a solution to a nonexistent problem. I agree with other commenters in that if we really want to enhance security, we would insist on strong passwords and implement 2 factor authentication.
MZMcBride added a comment.Apr 6 2015, 3:16 PM2015-04-06 15:16:48 (UTC+0)
I posted this to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Retained_account_data_self-discovery as well, but copying here.
The views expressed by Wikimedia CheckUsers in this task and on the RFC talk page are fairly representative of the established view, I think. However, my sense is that the tide is turning. To me, it seems like people are more and more:
(a) interested in what specifically sites are privately storing about them;
(b) interested in why their IP addresses seemingly must be exposed in the MediaWiki interface if they edit while logged out (cf. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Exposure_of_user_IP_addresses); and
(c) interested in account session management (seeing which sessions are currently active for their account and disabling sessions as necessary).
MZMcBride mentioned this in T29242: Allow users to see their own stored private information ("self-CheckUser").Apr 6 2015, 3:36 PM2015-04-06 15:36:14 (UTC+0)
Billinghurst added a comment.Apr 6 2015, 3:44 PM2015-04-06 15:44:34 (UTC+0)
In T387#1182228, @MZMcBride wrote:
I posted this to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Requests_for_comment/Retained_account_data_self-discovery as well, but copying here.
The views expressed by Wikimedia CheckUsers in this task and on the RFC talk page are fairly representative of the established view, I think. However, my sense is that the tide is turning. To me, it seems like people are more and more:
I think that the views are those of people who have dealt with vandals and those trying to game the wikis, and it is the established view due to it having a level of credibility, reality through an evidence base. It is the other side of the coin to the proposal, and needs to be taken into account with the proposal. Classical risk assessment says look at the consequences of decisions prior to an implementation.
I understand that CUs can be jaundiced about long term abusers, and wishing to give LTAs no break at all. It is a small component of wiki-life, though it is an important one and one that gives CUs some mechanisms for the anti-vandal attacks. Some of these LTAs are sophisticated in their attacks, and it is the CU tool that often breaks these cases.
(a) interested in what specifically sites are privately storing about them;
Tell them and it is no different from any other website where you login, and waaaaaay less than twitter, facebook, etc, where people give their life story.
(b) interested in why their IP addresses seemingly must be exposed in the MediaWiki interface if they edit while logged out (cf. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Exposure_of_user_IP_addresses); and
Displaying in Special:preferences is not going to help them if they are logged out. Not sure of the comment and its relevance to this ticket.
(c) interested in account session management (seeing which sessions are currently active for their account and disabling sessions as necessary).
So you mean telling the when they logged in, and the articles that they edited, if any? Then maybe that should be researched and demonstrated that it is the case, and not rely on supposition. I still think that if you asked the users on what they wanted developers to work upon, they will have higher priorities than this.
I still don't see how the addition of this extra information fits in with your previous commentary about removing aspects of complexity in Special:Preferences.
csteipp added a comment.Apr 6 2015, 4:13 PM2015-04-06 16:13:36 (UTC+0)
Point a) seems to be the only relevant issue. The others, if desired, would
be better solved other ways that don't have the side effects that have been
To a), I think we do a good job telling people what we collect and
outlining how we use it. What benefit do they get by being able to see the
actual values? Even if this would let some users scratch their curiosity
itch, I would argue the potential for abuse of it outweighs the benefit to
a large enough extent that it would be borderline irresponsible for us to
provide it, unless its access was contingent on compliance with a strong
password policy and 2fa.
I think there is some benefit to users in point c). If we want to focus on
that (and show country/city of active logins, with the ability to delete
them and log those sessions out), I would support that. Although 2fa is
higher priority, since I think it will give more security value to our
daniel removed daniel as the assignee of this task.Apr 17 2015, 1:19 PM2015-04-17 13:19:44 (UTC+0)
Unassigning myself, since I don't think there is anything I can do here right now.
From the discussion, it seems like the benefit is dubious, and there is quite a bit of risk.
I'll put this back up for triage.
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Diabetes is one of the most common non-contagious diseases in the world. This disease is the fourth or fifth cause of death in most developed countries. The relationship between tuberculosis and diabetes had been introduced years ago and diabetes is considered a threatening factor in tuberculosis in the research history. Not only tuberculosis is prevalent among diabetic persons, but also diabetes can affect the appearance of imaging of tuberculosis. This is a kind of analytic study, a case-control study, which was carried out between the years 2014 and 2015 in Zabol City. In this study, the radiographic findings from the patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis in diabetic patients and not diabetic patients are compared. These radiographic were handed to a radiologist and the radiologic findings of these graphs from the anatomic location (upper and lower half of the right and left bellows), Presence or absence of cavities, nodules, density and pleural involvement were recorded and compared with the diabetic and non-diabetic group. After gathering of the data using SPSS software, descriptive statistics were presented in the form of (frequency, percent) graphs and a chi-square test (p<0.05) was used to analyze and comparing of the results of diabetic and un-diabetic patients. The population of the study consisted of Chest radiographs for 124 TB patients which 61 (49.19 %) were suffering from diabetics. In this study, 45 (71.43%) non-diabetic and 42 (65.85%) diabetic patients were women (p=0.7). There were 12 diabetic TB patients (19.67%) and 3 non-diabetic- TB patients (4.76%) with the consolidation of middle part of left lung (p=0.01) and 8 (13.11%) diabetic TB and 1 (1.59%) non-diabetic TB with reticulonodular infiltration of lower part of left lung (p=0.02). There was no significant difference in the rest of the radiographic results. The findings of this study indicate that reticulonodular infiltration and consolidation of lower &middle parts of the lung in TB diabetic patients is more than in TB non-diabetic patients and diabetes can affect the findings of pulmonary tuberculosis radiography.
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Behzadmehr, R., & Rezaie-Keikhaie, K. (2022). Evaluation of Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Among Women With Diabetes. Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 2(1), 56-63. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2022.336572.1036
Razieh Behzadmehr; Khadije Rezaie-Keikhaie. "Evaluation of Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Among Women With Diabetes". Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 2, 1, 2022, 56-63. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2022.336572.1036
Behzadmehr, R., Rezaie-Keikhaie, K. (2022). 'Evaluation of Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Among Women With Diabetes', Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 2(1), pp. 56-63. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2022.336572.1036
Behzadmehr, R., Rezaie-Keikhaie, K. Evaluation of Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis Among Women With Diabetes. Cellular, Molecular and Biomedical Reports, 2022; 2(1): 56-63. doi: 10.55705/cmbr.2022.336572.1036
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