Hiring Community Liaisons (Contract)

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Hey all,

For the last 18 months, the Engineering & Product Development department
has been experimenting with the role of “Community Liaison, Product
Development” - a staff member embedded in the Product team and tasked with
factoring community concerns into our software development process, keeping
editors informed about what we’re doing, and maintaining a dialogue between
those who write code and those who write articles.

While there is always room for improvement, I think this role has shown a
lot of promise.  We have a number of large projects coming down the
pipeline (e.g., visual editor, discussion systems) and we need more help
reaching out to our contributor communities, especially our non-English
speaking projects, as our outreach there has traditionally been challenged.
 We’d like to recruit a small number of English-speaking or multilingual
editors to do the Community Liaison job with different development teams
and focuses.

In particular we’re looking for people with a strong history of
contributions to our projects who can provide sound and reasoned judgment
and are trusted to do so by their community. Speaking other languages in
addition to English is a major plus, as one of the objectives here is to
ensure we can properly interact with and support non-English projects.
 I’ve included the full job description below.

Our immediate need is for help with the Visual Editor.  We’d like to hire a
few community liaisons to help inform different Wikipedia language
communities of the upcoming launch, create spaces for feedback and

UNESCO to make its publications available free of charge as part of a new Open Access policy

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/unesco_to_make_its_publications_available_free_of_charge_as_part_of_a_new_open_access_policy/

Great step done by UNESCO! If I understood well, only credit will be
necessary.

I am glad to see that, since in some conversations I've participated with
UNESCO folks or at their events, mainly about open education resources,
some didn't get why the non-commertial restriction is closed/non-free.

Tom

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Re: Patience

> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 12:47:08 -0700
> From: Michael Snow <wikipedia <at> frontier.com>
> To: wikimedia-l <at> lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Patience
> Message-ID: <519537BC.6000503 <at> frontier.com>
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> On 5/16/2013 11:52 AM, ENWP Pine wrote:
> > I agree that patience is a very important virtue in some situations, such as when we coach newbies or seek
consensus among many people. But it's sometimes not a virtue, such as in many crisis situations. As a
metrics and performance enthusiast, I feel that it's possible to have an appropriate mix of patience and
impatience, and people should be appropriately accountable for their performance.
> I suppose it depends what implications you attach to those words, but I 
> would not recommend using "impatience" when what you really want is 
> "urgency". In my experience, the self-discipline that goes into everyday 
> patience can actually remain a virtue in crisis situations as well, as 
> it may help you remain clear-headed and make better decisions than you 
> would if you let the circumstances overwhelm your ability to think 
> rationally. And as Fred points out, a big part of my message relates 
> especially to making emergencies out of things that are not.
> 
> I also do not believe that patience is in any way incompatible with 
> accountability. Patience does not require ignoring commitments, 
> discarding performance evaluation, or even disregarding agreed 
> timeframes. However, it does mean that the results of the evaluation 
> should be well-considered and any consequences appropriate to the 
> circumstances. Impatience tends to drive us to choose excessive 
> consequences, like a lot of the "somebody should be fired" kind of talk 
> over things that are honest mistakes.
> 

Draft ED Job Description Online

Hi Everyone

I have posted the draft ED job description online at the ED transition site.

If you want to comment on:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Executive_Director_Transition_Team/Position_description

Please do so before the end of Sunday (PST). Sorry for the rush, but its not a long document :) Along with other
members of the transition team I will be available to discuss this this weekend.

Thanks

Jan-Bart de Vreede
Chair ED Transition Team

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Re: Spanish Wikipedia first million

   Felicitaciones a la española Wikipedia! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fogos_artificiais.jpg

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Ask your WMF Board member

Hi,

On Sunday next week there will be an "open Sunday" with talks and
sessions, organized by Wikimedia Deutschland. [1]

As a Board member I take the chance to offer a session to "Ask your
WMF Board member". I collect questions in advance of this meeting, add
them to the questions in the meeting and publish the answers
afterwards.

If you have questions for me, maybe especially addressed to me as one
of the Chapters selected Board members, please feel free to add them
[2].

Probably I'm not able to answer all the questions because they are for
example part of the ED's job or because they relate to an area of
interest where other Board members know better. Then it may take a
little bit longer to get the answer, but the question will be heard.

I'm interested in what interests you and it would be wonderful to have
a wider range of questions including those of Chapters and individuals
from all over the movement.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Offener_Sonntag
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland/Offener_Sonntag#Frag_dein_WMF_Board-Mitglied

Thanks,
Alice.

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Exit Interview - Sue

Hi

A few weeks ago MZMcBride proposed an exit interview for Sue on Meta. I
believe his intention was something similar to Reddit's IAmA. I thought
that this was a good idea and supported it. Sue has been at the helm for a
long while, it would be interesting to get her reflection on all the
changes, and give everyone who missed the last IRC office hour session, a
chance to ask any lingering questions.

Sue graciously accepted to do an exit interview a couple of weeks ago. The
page is already set up on Meta[1] for this, and we have a few questions
already. So far, things are organizing themselves pretty well with everyone
voting on what questions are finally picked. Please understand that we want
this to be a slow process, so everyone has time to see the questions and it
can take weeks to get your answer.

I would like to invite everyone reading this to have a look at the page.
Please feel free to post your questions or vote for the ones already
listed. Signpost, Wikinews or any other project/group that wants to use the
exit interview is welcomed to follow that page and add to it. Thanks to MZ
for getting things rolling on Meta and Sue, for accepting to do this.

Regards
Theo

[1]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_exit_interview/Sue_Gardner
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Spanish Wikipedia first million

Hi folks!

Maybe many of you have it already noticed. Nevertheless, spanish speakers
wikimedians want to share with you our joy of that the spanish version of
Wikipedia has surpassed the million of articles.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Estad%C3%ADsticas

Thanks and congratulations to all volunteers that make it possible.

Let's party!

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FDC Letter of Intent due June 8 & IRC office hours

Dear members of the Wikimedia community,

You will have seen an email recently from Patricio Lorente and Jan-Bart de
Vreede, the Board Reps to the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC), about
the FDC's new Letter of Intent process. The Letter of Intent (LOI) is the
first step in applying for funds from the FDC, as outlined in the FDC
Framework. [1] This upcoming year (2013-2014) will be the first time we
institute the LOI process. As you heard from them, we anticipate the LOI
will be a helpful planning tool for the FDC as well as offering us a chance
to begin working with entities in advance of the FDC proposal deadline.  We
hope it will allow us to work closely with applying entities and to address
questions and concerns (and clear up any misunderstandings) significantly
before the proposal deadline.

Interested entities must submit an Letter of Intent in order to apply for
FDC funding. For Round 1 of 2013-2014, the LOI is due on June 8. The LOI
asks potential FDC applicants to state their intentions to apply and to
include a notional dollar figure (or local currency figure). The
Letter of Intent
can be created on the FDC portal [2], and a sample is here for your
reference [3]. The LOI is non-binding, but it is required in order to be
able to submit a proposal for Round 1.

In anticipation of the LOI's June 8 deadline, the FDC staff is holding
office hours twice to respond to questions. We welcome entities considering
applying for Round 1 funding to join us. Our two office hours will be held
on #wikimedia-office on:

* Tuesday, May 28 at 0:00 UTC
* Wednesday, May 29 at 15:00 UTC

[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 9, Issue 19 -- 13 May 2013

News and notes: WMF–community ruckus on Wikimedia mailing list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/News_and_notes

In the media: PR firm accused of editing Wikipedia for government clients; can Wikipedia predict the stock market?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/In_the_media

Featured content: A mushroom, a motorway, a Munich gallery, and a map
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/Featured_content

WikiProject report: Knock Out: WikiProject Mixed Martial Arts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/WikiProject_report

Arbitration report: ''Race and politics'' opened; three open cases
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-05-13/Arbitration_report

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Re: Patience

I agree that patience is a very important virtue in some situations, such as when we coach newbies or seek
consensus among many people. But it's sometimes not a virtue, such as in many crisis situations. As a
metrics and performance enthusiast, I feel that it's possible to have an appropriate mix of patience and
impatience, and people should be appropriately accountable for their performance.

Pine
 		 	   		  
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