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WMF Transparency Report Accounting[edit]
During our discussion on Katherine Maher, the comms team shared resources on cases where WMF intervenes on content and policy decisions and I had some follow up questions. For example it's showing 89 requests on English Wikipedia, 33 by USA in H1 2021 . How do we see which content was affected? cc @LDickinson (WMF) Tonymetz 💬 22:07, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- No content was affected. All of the requests were denied. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:16, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- I don't believe that's true, because @WMFOffice has contributions that are a subset of the above report, so there are some changes that are recorded and some that are not yet accounted for. Tonymetz 💬 23:28, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- What are you talking about? Most of WMFOffice's edits are marking users as globally banned (a process that has nothing to do with anything in the transparency report). None of it's extremely few other edits have anything to do with third-party requests for removal or alteration of content. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:36, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- can you share more context on that? The transparency report doesn't seem to show that Tonymetz 💬 23:32, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
- Scroll up to the very top of your link:
Content alteration and takedown
0 Requests granted
276 Total requests
* Pppery * it has begun... 23:36, 10 June 2024 (UTC)- thanks i use a screen reader and the section i was using seemed to show alterations vs deletions. I'll see about the section you were talking about. Tonymetz 💬 20:14, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- Scroll up to the very top of your link:
- I don't believe that's true, because @WMFOffice has contributions that are a subset of the above report, so there are some changes that are recorded and some that are not yet accounted for. Tonymetz 💬 23:28, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin: an experiment[edit]
Hi all. We invite your feedback on a proposed way to improve communication from and about the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is an experiment to establish a more standardised format and cadence. It would include headlines and links from the Wikimedia Foundation's technical work; Foundation activities with communities and affiliates; as well as with other stakeholders like readers, donors, regulators, the media, and the general public.
A short overview of the concept itself is on Meta at m:Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin, with the first “trial” issue at m:Wikimedia_Foundation_Bulletin/2024/06-01 - also copied below. You can subscribe to the bulletin via talk page delivery on any Wikimedia wiki. Depending on the feedback received, we might start this as a regular Bulletin for the coming fiscal year (which starts July 1).
This is an experiment: we want to know what you think, what is missing, what is too much, and whether this is something that we should consider investing more time and effort into. Please post your feedback on the Bulletin talk page - on the concept itself, and suggestions on anything from the design to specific words used would also be helpful. You can also provide feedback in this thread; by email to askcacwikimedia.org; or at the next Conversation with the Wikimedia Foundation’s Board of Trustees on 27 June at 18:00 UTC.
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee, MPeel-WMF (talk) 18:38, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
- I've put the second issue below as well, and have signed this page up to receive them automatically in the future. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 12:38, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
Bulletin June 2024[edit]
- Upcoming and current community conversations
Talking: 2024 continues
- Open AffCom Office Hours on Affiliates Strategy Implementation (June 19 at 14:00 UTC)
- Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle: Call for feedback (through June 23)
- Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Langauge and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org
- Improvements for editors with extended rights - Edit Check, PageTriage, Edit Patrol on Android, Release Rights improvements in Upload Wizard, and the Watchlist on iOS.
- Responding to other community needs with Edit Recovery, QR share, Multiblocks schema changes, AutoSuggestSiteLink and bringing back The Who Wrote That Extension.
- Voting on Community Wishlist Survey renaming (through June 20)
- Scholarship Applications for the Wikimedia Technology Summit (WTS-2024) are open (through July 10)
- Wikimedia Enterprise updates: Realtime Streaming Updates: Parallel Connections and Restart Support (June 14)
- AI for the people: How machines can help humans improve Wikipedia
- Designing the typography of Wikipedia
- Latest Tech News
- Annual Goals Progress on Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta
- Upcoming Wikimania (7–10 August, Katowice, Poland): the Program will be soon announced!
- Africa Growth Pilot: feedback is invited for Module 2: 101 Ways to Contribute to Wikimedia
- Let's Connect: about the new Event Registration Tool and a Women's Health in Wikimedia Projects
- WikiLearn: Check out some of our newest courses such as Open Refine for Wikimedia Commons
- WikiCelebrate: Celebrated the work of B20180, a prolific administrator of Thai Wikimedia projects and a content contributor in Thai and beyond!
- Community conferences: submission deadline for Round 1 applications: September 2.
- Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Inclusion
See also blogs: Global Advocacy Blogs · blogs
- Final draft of the Movement Charter published on June 10. Movement Charter Launch Party on June 20. Ratification: June 25–July 9
- Evaluation of the U4C election results (ongoing)
- “Don’t Blink”: Protecting the Wikimedia model, its people, and its values in April 2024 (June 4)
- Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: quarterly Metrics Reports
- Feedback welcome on community collaboration page for annual banner fundraising campaign on English Wikipedia in India for non-logged in readers (planned for Aug 13 to Sep 10)
- Banner fundraising campaigns started in Japan, Spain (also on Catalan Wikipedia), Greece, Malaysia, Portugal, South Africa, and Sweden (through June 25)
- Progress on the plan: How the Wikimedia Foundation has advanced on its 2023-2024 Annual Plan goals – Part 3 (June 12)
- Wikimedia Endowment updates
- The Wikimedia Endowment 2022–2023 annual report published
- First grantees – Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions, Kiwix, the Wikimedia machine learning project and Wikidata
- Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- 2024 Board Selection: Call for Questions for candidates ended on June 12
- Affiliates strategy: Affiliate Health Criteria and changes to the User Group recognition process (June 12)
- Upcoming Board meeting: June 20 (agenda)
- Upcoming Conversation with Trustees: June 27
- In the media
- Elections 2024: How Wikimedia is combating misinformation using AI, human intervention (June 2)
- AI ‘gold rush’ for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text (June 6)
- ‘We’re writing history’: Spanish women tackle Wikipedia’s gender gap (June 12)
- Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Wikimedia blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:
- Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
- Wikimedia Projects: Communities newsletter · Milestones · Wikidata
- Regions: Central and Eastern Europe
Previous editions of this bulletin are on Meta. Let askcacwikimedia.org know if you have any feedback or suggestions for improvement!
MPeel-WMF (talk) 18:38, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin June Issue 2[edit]
Upcoming and current events and conversations
Talking: 2024 continues
- Register now for Wikimania Katowice (7–10 August 2024).
- Editing team community conversation - CopyVio Check and Real-time Checks (03 July 2024, in English)
- Growth team community conversation - New tasks for newcomers and patrollers' burden (16 July 2024, in Spanish)
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org
- Wikimedia Hackathon 2024: Good projects and good people!
- MediaWiki 1.42 general release.
- The Community Configuration extension is released to more Wikipedias.
- The Trust & Safety Product team published the Incident Reporting System MVP User Testing Summary and a project update on temporary accounts.
- Recent changes from the latest Tech News.
- Reference Check to be rolled out on all Wikipedias. Read the initial results from the Edit Check project.
- Concluded voting on Community Wishlist Survey renaming; new name now Community Wishlist.
- “Add an image” suggested edit was released to Wikipedia iOS app & Donation through native GPay is now available on the Wikipedia Android app.
- Talk pages permalinks are now available at all wikis.
- A new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graphs with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Charts.
- Wikimedia Enterprise Quarterly technical update focusing on machine readability, content integrity, and API usability.
- Proposal for a Product & Tech Advisory Council.
Annual Goals Progress on Equity
See also a list of all movement events: on Meta
- Highlights and achievements & future plans from Wikisource Loves Manuscripts Project.
- Learn how to edit and upload to Wikimedia Commons with OpenRefine.
- Watch the recording of the 11th edition of Wiki Workshop where research sessions on topics like Disinformation, Reliability, Representation and Gender, Governance and Policy, were held.
- First edition of WikiLearn News released, highlighting opportunities and progress in the area of skills development.
- The WikiData tools everyone is talking about during the 2023 LD4 Conference on Linked Data.
- The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member of the Unicode Consortium.
Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Inclusion
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- Evaluation of the U4C election results (ongoing)
- Building a public policy network from both sides of the Pacific: Lessons from the 1st Global Wiki Advocacy Meet-up.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: quarterly Metrics Reports
- Thoughts on the Wikimedia Foundation's annual plan from the Japanese Wikipedia community.
- Where is Wikimedia in the Climate Crisis? – a recap of sustainability work across the movement and at the Foundation for 2023. Foundation Sustainability metrics for 2023 also available on Meta.
- The Wikimedia Foundation's revamped social media strategy is available on Meta.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Wikimedia Foundation Board liaisons published reflections on final Movement Charter draft.
- June 27 Conversation with Trustees Wikimedia Foundation Community Affairs Committee/2024-06-27 Conversation with Trustees: notes & recording including outcomes of the 20 June Board meeting and a discussion of the movement charter.
- Ratification vote on Movement Charter until July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC
- 2024 Board Selection: Candidates have answered community questions selected by the Elections Committee.
- Affiliates strategy: Affiliate Health Criteria and changes to the User Group recognition process (feedback page)
- Feedback on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle finished on June 23. The revised version was published. Updates in July
Foundation statements
Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:
- Topics: Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library
- Wikimedia Projects: Milestones · Wikidata
- Regions: Central and Eastern Europe
Previous editions of this bulletin are on Meta. Let askcacwikimedia.org know if you have any feedback or suggestions for improvement!
Mike Peel (talk) 12:38, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
what is status of movement charter drafting commission (mcdc)?[edit]
what is the current status of the movement charter drafting commission (mcdc)? can someone please post an update here, on the status of this process? I'm somewhat surprised that an update has not been posted here, for the current stage of the process. Sm8900 (talk) 19:37, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
- In § Bulletin June 2024, see the item starting with "Final draft of the Movement Charter published on June 10." isaacl (talk) 00:45, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
Researcher right[edit]
A permission that hasn't been granted in awhile (and has historically been assigned by the WMF) is being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship#Temperature check: Applying for the Researcher right. I figured this probably has wider interest than just the RfA crowd and that it may be worth posting about it here, as it gives people the ability to see deleted material. Clovermoss🍀 (talk) 01:21, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) § Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote[edit]
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) § Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote. –Novem Linguae (talk) 14:03, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
- @Novem Linguae as you know, I opened a discussion there on how people should vote, in my opinion. is this location okay for some discussion on this topic, as well? Sm8900 (talk) 15:05, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- I think we should discuss it at the other location to keep things centralized. –Novem Linguae (talk) 15:55, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- ok, noted. that sounds fine. Sm8900 (talk) 17:23, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- I think we should discuss it at the other location to keep things centralized. –Novem Linguae (talk) 15:55, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
WMF has our back[edit]
There's been some news coverage and controversy over the recent RfC on the reliability of the Anti-Defamation League. Regardless of how any editor feels about that consensus, it's always nice that the WMF consistently sticks up for editors and for our editorial process - see their statement here. Their press releases on controversies like this are always accurate, informative to those who are unclear about the WMF:Wikipedia relationship, and unhesitant in their defense of what we do. Never any mealymouthing or backtracking. So as an editor, I wanted to say that I appreciate it, WMF! —Ganesha811 (talk) 14:21, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- I agree that's a great statement and applaud the WMF for it. What I do find interesting is they talk about "Wikipedia", not "English language wikipedia". We're always being told (correctly) that enwiki is just one project out of many. It seems odd that this statement blurs the distinction. RoySmith (talk) 15:51, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- +1 –Novem Linguae (talk) 16:44, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- Saw the coverage in the Washington Post, and thought it was a clear and accurate account of how decisions are made on Wikipedia. I'm happy that the Foundation issued their statement, and that WaPo presented it so clearly. Donald Albury 18:05, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- For those without subscriptions (you'll still need to give them an email address): Wikipedia defends editors deeming Anti-Defamation League ‘unreliable’ on Gaza RoySmith (talk) 18:30, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
- What I also liked with the WaPo article was the "ADL is on the WP:RSP-page, like these sources:..." comparison, I've seen other coverage on this making comparisons to Newsmax, Russian state media, amazon.com user reviews etc. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:46, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- However, "Wikipedia’s volunteers also added the ADL to a public list of sources to be avoided on certain topics" isn't quite right, but I don't know if any source who mentioned it noticed that ADL was there already:[1] Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:56, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Appreciate the nuance regarding reliability for certain topics too, although I was previously surprised to see a number of external publications had briefly mentioned this (obviously not the ones the WMF is correcting), and hopefully it helps all external sources that the WMF included a slightly longer explanation of the distinction. CMD (talk) 01:09, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
English banner fundraising campaign 2024 - community collaboration starting now[edit]
Dear all,
We would like to share with you the community collaboration page around the English fundraising banner campaign 2024. This page is for volunteers to learn about fundraising and share ideas for how we can improve the 2024 English fundraising campaign together. On this page you'll have messaging examples and spaces for collaboration, where you can share your ideas for how we can improve the next campaign together.
The fundraising banner pre-tests phase on English Wikipedia starts in mid-July with a few technical tests, using messaging that was created with the community during the last campaign. We will regularly update the collaboration page with new messaging ideas and updates on testing and campaign plans as we prepare for the main campaign that will launch at the end of November.
Generally, during the pre-tests and the campaign, you can contact us:
- On the community collaboration page
- At an in-person event (see more details on the collaboration page)
- On the talk page of the fundraising team
- If you need to report a bug or technical issue, please create a phabricator ticket
- If you see a donor on a talk page, VRT or social media having difficulties in donating, please refer them to donatewikimedia.org
Best wishes, JBrungs (WMF) (talk) 11:06, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) § The Community Wishlist is reopening July 15, 2024[edit]
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) § The Community Wishlist is reopening July 15, 2024. –Novem Linguae (talk) 20:47, 4 July 2024 (UTC)