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Béria Lima | 1 Feb 01:13
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Re: Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

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On 31 January 2012 22:05, Béria Lima <berialima <at> gmail.com> wrote:
The Wikimedia chapters are seeking to appoint two candidates to sit on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees for two years, starting 1 July 2012. The two new members of the board will help to decide the future direction of the world’s leading non-profit website. Wikimedia project are constructed by hundreds of thousands of volunteers worldwide, supported by a growing number of staff and an international network of chapters. Board membership is unpaid.

The chapters wish to appoint two excellent board members and believe this can best be achieved by selecting from a large number of varied and skilled candidates. Therefore, the chapters call for nominations by everyone who believes they or someone they know would be suitable. The chapters ask that this call for candidates be distributed as widely as possible through such forums as mailing lists, village pumps, and blogs.

The successful candidates will be committed to the Wikimedia mission and willing and able to engage constructively with the stakeholders of the movement, including the volunteers and the chapters that provide it with essential support. The successful candidates will have:
  • The ability to provide expertise to the board in its goal of implementing a coherent vision on how the projects’ communities, the foundation, the chapters, and other affiliated groups work together;
  • Sensitivity to complex issues surrounding the multiplicity of languages, cultures, and jurisdictions served by the foundation’s projects;
  • Knowledge and understanding of the governance of international non-profit organizations, balancing autonomy and subsidiarity;
  • The ability to think strategically and to work both as part of a team and independently;
  • A good standard of written and oral English (fluency in additional language would be well regarded);
  • Sufficient time to devote to the role of board member, and the ability and willingness to travel.
Increasing the geographical diversity of current board membership would be an advantage.

The selection process is set out here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats

Nominations must be sent to the moderator Béria Lima (Wikimedia Portugal) and deputy moderators Milos Rancic (Wikimedia Serbia) and Mardetanha (Wikimedia steward from Iran) by 23:59 UTC, 29 February. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else, please see the instructions here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/2012/Nominate

Béria Lima,
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norman mackay | 9 Feb 05:31
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Béria Lima | 9 Feb 05:36
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Re: Remove from Mailing List

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On 9 February 2012 02:31, norman mackay <normackay <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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Guillaume Paumier | 12 Feb 14:42
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Upcoming deployment of MediaWiki 1.19 to Wikimedia sites.

Greetings,

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki, the
software powering Wikipedia and its sister sites, to its latest
version.

The upgrade will happen in several stages over the month, starting this week.

You can still help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid
disruption and breakage.

More information:
* Announcement on the Wikimedia blog:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/11/mediawiki-1-19-deployment/
* The announcement in other languages:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.19/Deployment_announcement

Thank you for your understanding.

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norman mackay | 13 Feb 03:47
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Béria Lima | 13 Feb 04:28
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Re: Remove from mailing list

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aude | 14 Feb 05:28
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Wikimania scholarship deadline: Feb 16

Reminder that the deadline to apply for a Wikimania 2012 travel scholarship is February 16 (23:59 UTC).  We encourage you to apply!

http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships

Full travel scholarships, funded by the Wikimedia Foundation and chapters (France, UK, Israel, Austria), will cover transportation, hostel accommodations, and conference registration. Partial scholarships are also offered by WMF (and Wikimedia Hungary).

Wikimania 2012 will take place July 12-15 at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.  The call for participation is also open now (deadline: March 18), and registration is open.

Cheers,
Katie
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David Gerard | 21 Feb 00:11
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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Using computer vision to categorize images at Commons

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From: Maarten Dammers <maarten@...>
Date: 20 February 2012 21:08
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Using computer vision to categorize images at Commons
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Hi everyone,

Some time ago I played around with computer vision to get images
categorized on Commons. I documented this at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Using_OpenCV_to_categorize_files
. I don't think I'm going to spend time on it soon, but the results
were quite promising, so maybe someone else feels like working on
this? Would probably be a pretty nice student project or just fun to
do.

Maarten

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Daniel Schwen | 21 Feb 00:51
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Re: Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Using computer vision to categorize images at Commons

Funny, I did the same thing three years ago, using ImageSeek
http://www.imgseek.net/isk-daemon

I had a sample dataset of ~30000 images on the toolserver (deleted it
just a month ago to save space). Let me see if I can restore it. I had
some promising example queries. (remnants here:
http://toolserver.org/~dschwen/woodeye/imgseek01.html "Project
Woodeye", inspired by the then new "Tineye"...)

The problem with content based image search is the large amount of
computing resources it takes. The toolserver could not handle it. And
back then ImageSeek needed a cluster of computers to handle datasets
of the size of commons image base.

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:11 PM, David Gerard <dgerard@...> wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Maarten Dammers <maarten@...>
> Date: 20 February 2012 21:08
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Using computer vision to categorize images at Commons
> To: wikitech-l@...
> Cc: pywikipedia-l@...
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> Hi everyone,
>
> Some time ago I played around with computer vision to get images
> categorized on Commons. I documented this at
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Multichill/Using_OpenCV_to_categorize_files
> . I don't think I'm going to spend time on it soon, but the results
> were quite promising, so maybe someone else feels like working on
> this? Would probably be a pretty nice student project or just fun to
> do.
>
> Maarten
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WereSpielChequers | 27 Feb 08:40
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The categorisation backlog

In case anyone on this list isn't aware of it, we have a very large categorisation backlog on Commons. The Geograph load of UK images alone includes hundreds of thousands of uncategorised images, and as many only categorised by bot.

However there are some recently improved tools out there that people may not be aware of, so I thought I'd email the United Kingdom and Commons lists to make sure everyone knew about the changes. The UK mailing list is relevant because we have a very large part of the Common categorisation backlog, and it has come up as a problem for our Wiki loves monuments plan.

There have been two major enhancements to Catalot in the last few weeks.

It now has an autoprompt/complete feature similar to Hotcat to make it much easier to add categories, and crucially for our Geograph backlog, it is now possible to use  Cata a lot on uncategorised Geograph images such as in the categories in http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Geograph_British_Isles_project_needing_categories_by_grid_square (Ok you have to copy rather than move as you are replacing a template with a category rather than moving from one category to another).

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot


The other big change is that Rillke has written some code to change the way that Hotcat works, so that if you open an a Geograph image that needs its categories checked you can confirm the categories eiter with one click or by using Hotcat to ad or remove a category. Previously Hotcat would remove the Geograph uncategorised template but not the partially categorised template, so if bots  had added some categories you couldn't remove the cats need review template other than by editing. The Rillke's js code can be accessed by installing importScript('User:Rillke/checkCat.js');

Details at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:HJ_Mitchell#Check-categories-autoremoval_when_categorizing_with_HotCat

I've been using it, it works well and is many times quicker than confirming categories manually. If everyone who is active on Commons installs it I think we'll see the backlog reduce quite noticeably.

Regards

WereSpielChequers

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