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rupert THURNER | 1 Mar 2011 09:17
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2011 plan for wikimedia / openstreetmap bamako, mali, west afrika

hi mourad,

yes, in 2011 we would like to extend the work done with:

* dictionary bambara - francais
* further locations / streets in bamako
* establish cooperation with malian universities
* and with their help collect base data to help establishing a broader community
* leverage the investments in offline technology (openzim,kiwix). one idea is to provide an initial
set of memory sticks containing the french wikipedia to malian participants
* organize a meeting at wikimania to refine the wikimedia movements
global south strategy

in general, we try to align the activities as much as possible to support the wikimedia movements strategic plan, just to name a couple of links refer to [1][2][3][4].

[1] - strategy, summary:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-February/064177.html
[2] - increase reach:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summary/Increase_Reach
[3] - increase participation:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summary/Increase_Participation
[4] - chapters role:
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Movement_Strategic_Plan_Summary/The_Role_of_the_Wikimedia_Chapters

kr, rupert.

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 18:20, Mourad Ben Abdallah <mourad.benabdallah <at> wikimedia.ch> wrote:
>
> Hi Rupert,
>
> Thanks for sending us back an update about this project. I am happy to
> see WM CH support helped building more free content in Mali.
>
> Is there any specific project/initiative for 2011?
>
> Regards,
> Mourad
>
> Le 29/12/2010, "THURNER rupert" <rupert.thurner <at> wikimedia.ch> a écrit:
>
>>hi,
>>
>>after supporting the creation of wikimedia austria a couple of years
>>ago, wikimedia ch used again a small percentage of its budget to
>>directly support the wikimedia movement abroad. this year a wikimedia
>>center in bamako, mali, was supported by providing a free internet
>>connection to it. we also managed to attract a couple of volunteers to
>>help us - but of course we would be glad if additional people help as
>>well :)
>>
>>as a return we got:
>>* an ongoing effort to create a songhay - french dictionary, which contains
>>  more than 3'000 words already [1]
>>* bamako, the capital of mali, was a formerly empty spot on openstreetmap,
>>  which could be filled in [2]
>>
>>[1] http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:songha%C3%AF_koyraboro_senni
>>[2] http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=12.632&lon=-7.9998&zoom=12&layers=M
>>
>>a happy new year to everybody, and many thanks especially to christian
>>wagner from openstreetmap, renaud gaudin and collegues from kunnafoni
>>for making this possible.
>>
>>rupert.
>>
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>>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
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Manuel Schneider | 2 Mar 2011 12:17
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Wikimania-Stipendien / Scholarships

Liebe Mitleser, dear all (english version see below),

am 28. Februar endete die Bewerbungsfrist für die erweiterten 
Vereins-Stipendien, die von Wikimedia Deutschland, Schweiz und 
Österreich angeboten wurden.

In den nächsten Tagen werden die Bewerbungen an die jeweiligen 
Bewertungskommittees weitergeleitet werden. Dort werden die Bewerbungen 
bewertet und über die Vergabe der Stipendien beschieden - dies sollte in 
den nächsten Wochen relativ zeitnah passieren, so dass der Bescheid bis 
April ergangen sein sollte.

Informationen zur Zusammensetzung der Bewertungskommittees bzw. den 
Auswahlkriterien findet ihr unter:
* Deutschland: http://wikimedia.de/wiki/Stipendium_Wikimania_2011
* Österreich: http://mitglieder.wikimedia.at/Wikimania_2011
* Schweiz: http://wikimedia.ch/Wikimania_2011

Kleine Statistik:
Bewerbungen aus...
* Österreich + Slowakei:	7 + 1	(Plätze: 10)
* Deutschland:			47 	(Plätze: 16)
* Schweiz:			4	(Plätze: 5)

Anmeldungen zur Konferenz:
* Deutschland:			5
* alle anderen og.:		0

Wir hoffen natürlich, dass die Stipendien nicht nur die 
Beteiligungsmöglichkeiten an der Wikimania erhöhen, sondern auch 
praktische Auswirkungen auf die Wikimedia-Projekte hat.

Daher wünschen wir uns auch insbesondere spannende Beiträge für das 
Vortrags- und Workshopprogramm der Wikimania:
* http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation/de

Vielen Dank an alle Bewerber, Teilnehmer und Spender,

Manuel Schneider

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The application deadline for Wikimania scholarships provided by the 
chapters of Switzerland, Germany and Austria ended on February 28th.

In the next few days the Wikimania commitee will forward the lists of 
applications to the chapter's scholarships committees. They will score 
all applications and decide about approval / denial. This will happen 
soon, so confirmations should be send until April.

For further information about the selection criteria and members of the 
scholarships committee at Wikimedia CH see:
* http://wikimedia.ch/Wikimania_2011

Applications from Switzerland:	4
Available scholarships by WMCH:	5
Registrations from Switzerland:	0

We hope that the additional scholarships will not only increase the 
means for participation at Wikimania but also have a practical impact on 
the Wikimedia projects.

We also whish to have many interesting submissions for talks and 
workshops at Wikimania:
* http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Call_for_Participation

Thanks a lot to all applicants, participants and donors,

/Manuel
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Manuel Schneider | 6 Mar 2011 17:26
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Re: Wikimania-Stipendien / Scholarships

Hi, (deutsche Version siehe unten)

a short update from the Wikimania front (Dept. for scholarships):

WMCH received two applications for four scholarships.

The board has now to decide if it wants to score them and if there 
should be a minimum score be imposed. At least a serious interest and 
involvement in the Wikimedia movement should be visible.

Another option is that Wikimedia CH looks at the list of german 
applications - WMDE received 38 applications for 16 scholarships - and 
look for WMCH members among the applications to use the left over 
scholarships to take over the best two or three applications from WMDE. 
This way more scholarships could be granted in total.

Is there any opposition for this suggestion?

Deutsch:
Kurzes Update von der Wikimania-Front, Abteilung Stipendien:

Wir haben zwei Bewerbungen für vier Stipendien erhalten.

Der Vorstand muss nun entscheiden ob er diese nochmals bewerten möchte 
und welche Mindestkriterien angewandt werden. Mindestens ein ernsthaftes 
Interesse und irgendeine Art der Beteiligung in der Wikimedia-Bewegung 
sollten ersichtlich sein.

Eine weitere Option ist, dass Wikimedia CH unter den Bewerbungen von 
Deutschland Wikimedia CH-Mitglieder ausfiltert und damit seine noch 
freien Stipendienplätze vergibt. Damit könnten insgesamt mehr Stipendien 
vergeben werden, da Wikimedia Deutschland für 16 Stipendien 38 
Bewerbungen erhalten hat.

Lehnt jemand diesen Vorschlag ab?

Grüsse,

Manuel
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charles andres | 8 Mar 2011 14:37
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Call for Volunteer for the Next Wikipedia day

Dear all,

This is a call for volunteer regarding the organisation of Wikipedia day in Switzerland in 2012.

The idea is to organize two or three days of conferences and workshops around the thematic of Wikpedia and sister projects (as Commons or Wikisource).

If you are interested to be part of the organisation team of this event, please subscribe on http://www.wikimedia.ch/Wikipedia_Day_2012

Obviousely, such organization needs a lot of volunteers with very different level of involvement. So don't be shy, put your name on the list and indicate what you want to do to help! :-D

Charles
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Manuel Schneider | 9 Mar 2011 11:36
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Re: [openZIM dev-l] openZim export now part of collections extension

CCing Wikimedia CH as the main sponsor of openZIM...

On 09.03.2011 06:50, Tomasz Finc wrote:
> Today we enabled openZim (http://openzim.org/Main_Page) export to the existing PediaPress
collections extension on English Wikipedia and numerous others. In addition to PDF and ODF, you will now
see a new export option when browsing the Download section of the Manage Book interface. You can then
easily take these files and use them with the Kiwix offline reader (http://kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page).

thanks a lot for that awesome work and support!

It is really surprising that this all happened quietly in the background ;-)

I am really happy to see this.

/Manuel
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Manuel Schneider | 11 Mar 2011 07:29
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Re: [openZIM dev-l] [Offline-l] openZim export now part of collections extension

Hi Tomasz,

On 10.03.2011 22:36, Tomasz Finc wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Manuel Schneider
>> <manuel.schneider <at> wikimedia.ch>  wrote:

>>> It is really surprising that this all happened quietly in the background ;-)
>>
>> I am not surprised, but this does make my day :)
>
> We've actually been posting about this quite actively in
>
> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/02/february-wmf-engineering-update/
> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/01/update-on-offline-wikimedia-projects/
> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/01/wmf-engineering-update/
> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/12/december-2010-wmf-engineering-update/
>
> and on mailing lists
>
> https://intern.openzim.org/pipermail/dev-l/2011-January/000549.html
>
> and we engaged with multiple community members to help us test the extension in its early form.
>
> If there was some other form of communication that was missed then please let me know and I'll make sure to
include it for further projects.

I didn't meant that I am missing a form of communication. Actually I 
missed the techblog, but that's a different story.

We were well aware of the idea that WMF and Pediapress wanted to work to 
make ZIM in Collection extension happen. I expected that there will be a 
lot of technical questions during the implementation phase which will 
show up on dev-l, and that didn't happen - what is a good sign.

So we knew that there was an idea and WMF and PediaPress wanted to work 
on it and it looks like the project wasn't ready yet - and suddenly, 
it's done, it's here, it works... that's amazing.

/Manuel
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Manuel Schneider | 12 Mar 2011 10:53
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Re: [Executive] Web site, proposals

Dear all,

today I approach you in my position as CIO of Wikimedia CH. In the past 
we had several discussions about a relaunch of the current website.

We have asked for input on content / features as well as ideas for a 
"swiss design":
* http://www.wikimedia.ch/Site_web
* http://www.wikimedia.ch/Website_2011

The list of features more or less is equal with that what the webteam 
has came up with in 2008 and that has been implemented in the current 
website. On the other hand we all agree that the current website needs a 
graphical relaunch - at the moment it doesn't have any graphical concept 
and neither Wikimedia CH in general has.

Ludovic and I have collected proposals for the relaunch. After a 
analysis of what we have received I have compiled a list and ask you for 
feedback:
* http://www.wikimedia.ch/Website_2011#Evaluation_of_Offers

As announced by our president, the website topic will be on the agenda 
at the General Assembly on April 30th
* http://www.wikimedia.ch/General_Assembly_2011

Thanks for your attention and input,

/Manuel

after having done an analyses of the quotations

On 25.02.2011 11:52, charles andres wrote:
> /I forward you this e-mail without the attachment, it seems that antivirus filtering block it. charles/
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I am sharing with you the attached documents that Ludo has submitted to
>
>
> the Board following his initiative on a new website.
>
> Please note the site hosting is a standard option for each of the offers,
> so this would be discussed later on. There is also an opportunity to
> implement the payment gateway about which we previously.
>
>
>
> Manuel, your input would be particularly interesting concerning these
> different aspects.
>
> Regards,
> Mourad
>
> http://board.wikimedia.ch/File:Evaluation_for_Web_site.pdf
>
>
>
> PS: individual offer can be send directly by mail just ask, to ludo or I.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Executive <at> wikimedia.ch
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Manuel Schneider | 12 Mar 2011 11:04
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Deutsch: Re: [Executive] Web site, proposals

Hallo zusammen,

heute melde ich mich mal in meiner Eigenschaft als IT-Verantwortlicher 
bei Wikimedia CH. In der Vergangenheit hatten wir verschiedene 
Diskussionen bzgl. einer Neugestaltung unserer Webseite.

Wir haben Euch um Vorschläge bzgl. Inhalt und Funktion sowohl um Ideen 
für ein "Schweizerisches Design" gebeten:
* http://www.wikimedia.ch/Site_web
* http://www.wikimedia.ch/Website_2011

Die Liste gewünschter Inhalte und Funktionen ist mehr oder weniger 
identisch mit dem, was 2008 vom Webteam erarbeitet und in der 
gegenwärtigen Homepage umgesetzt wurde. Andererseits sind wir uns alle 
einig, dass die Webseite eine grafische Neugestaltung benötigt - 
momentan haben weder die Webseite noch Wikimedia CH im allgemeinen ein 
grafisches Konzept.

Ludovic und ich haben verschiedene Angebote zur Neugestaltung gesammelt. 
Nach Analyse der Angebote habe ich eine Liste zusammengestellt und bitte 
um Eure Rückmeldungen:
* http://www.wikimedia.ch/Website_2011#Evaluation_of_Offers

Wie von unserem Präsidenten angekündigt ist die Webseite auch Thema 
unserer kommenden GV am 30. April
* http://www.wikimedia.ch/General_Assembly_2011

Vielen Dank für Eure Beteiligung

/Manuel

On 25.02.2011 11:52, charles andres wrote:
> /I forward you this e-mail without the attachment, it seems that antivirus filtering block it. charles/
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I am sharing with you the attached documents that Ludo has submitted to
>
>
> the Board following his initiative on a new website.
>
> Please note the site hosting is a standard option for each of the offers,
> so this would be discussed later on. There is also an opportunity to
> implement the payment gateway about which we previously.
>
>
>
> Manuel, your input would be particularly interesting concerning these
> different aspects.
>
> Regards,
> Mourad
>
> http://board.wikimedia.ch/File:Evaluation_for_Web_site.pdf
>
>
>
> PS: individual offer can be send directly by mail just ask, to ludo or I.
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Executive mailing list
> Executive <at> wikimedia.ch
> http://lists.wikimedia.at/listinfo/executive

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Emmanuel Engelhart | 12 Mar 2011 15:53

Questions about the "New Web site" project

Hi,

it seems that people are motivated by improving our Web site and also
maybe more. See last email from Manuel.

I have tried in the past hour to understand better what wanted to be
improved? Why? in which way? by who? etc.

I didn't really find answers to my questions, so I simply write them all
here:
* What is the scope: create visual guidelines, improve the Web site
engine, improve the web site content (I ask because this page
http://www.wikimedia.ch/Website_2011 speaks a lot about the visual
guidelines and not really about the Web site)?
* Who are the sponsors and the project leader(s)?
* What is the timeline and the decision process?
* What is exactly wrong with our current Web site (did not find something) ?
* What are the business requirements (I have only find
http://www.wikimedia.ch/Site_web#Goal but this is too fuzzy and I guess
for this reason I feel our current solution is already matching them)?

Having an answer to these questions is mandatory to have a chance to
work on a successful IT project.

Thank you for your help.

Emmanuel

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Manuel Schneider | 12 Mar 2011 17:56
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Re: Questions about the "New Web site" project

Hi Emmanuel,

thanks for your questions. I think I can answer a few of them.

On 12.03.2011 15:53, Emmanuel Engelhart wrote:
> * What is the scope: create visual guidelines, improve the Web site
> engine, improve the web site content (I ask because this page
> http://www.wikimedia.ch/Website_2011 speaks a lot about the visual
> guidelines and not really about the Web site)?

refering to the discussions we had on the board mailing list the 
graphical design is the major problem.

I have asked that question as well. In 2008 the webteam has done 
extensive brainstorming and clustered all the ideas to a concept which 
has lead to the current website. We never took care of the graphical 
design though. The brainstorming that has taken place on 
http://www.wikimedia.ch/Site_web comes up more or less with exactly the 
same things and what we already have.

Apart from the website Wikimedia CH does not have a corporate design. 
Logically we first develop a corporate design which works for everything 
and then make the website look accordingly.

> * Who are the sponsors and the project leader(s)?
> * What is the timeline and the decision process?

This is all unclear to me. As CIO this falls into my responsibility but 
the "project" was imposed by the board, all I could do so far was 
commenting on discussion that happened on the board mailing list. I have 
asked to communicate to the webteam but this didn't happen so far. From 
that I can only assume that no project has been defined yet. The board 
my confirm or clarify.

> * What is exactly wrong with our current Web site (did not find something) ?

See my first answer.

> * What are the business requirements (I have only find
> http://www.wikimedia.ch/Site_web#Goal but this is too fuzzy and I guess
> for this reason I feel our current solution is already matching them)?

Well, as I said in the first answer, I have the same impression and the 
discussions on the board mailing list lead to the same conclusion.

Except for the design. And that's a more general thing. But the website 
will be indeed the first thing to be adopted, also the presentation of 
the information needs to be made clearer and less cluttered (main page 
for instance).

> Having an answer to these questions is mandatory to have a chance to
> work on a successful IT project.

Sure. That's why I started this discussion.

/Manuel
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