Hi Aron,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. However, I think that the more
appropriate mailing list for this is WikiEN-l. I'm forwarding this thread
there.
Regarding your second point, I think that many admins are not selfish
people and are often willing to criticize other admins, so I am not
concerned that admins are participating in this discussion. I would be
concerned if I felt that admins as a group are power hungry and are more
interested in defending each other than in working for the best interests
of the encyclopedia, but that is not my impression. I think that many
admins are highly skilled, generous with their time, and willing to
volunteer for thankless and sometimes personally risky activities. Those
admins that cause problems are, sooner or later, usually in trouble with
the Arbitration Committee. That is not to say that I'm opposed to a new
desysop procedure, but I believe that most English Wikipedia admins are
competent and act in good faith.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Aron Manning <aronmanning5(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 10:06 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] RfC: binding desysop procedure on English Wikipedia
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/2019_community…
So far about 60% of the commenters are administrators, which role comes
with an inherent and unavoidable conflict-of-interest. Although the
discussion is quite neutral, administrators are a minor part of the
community, thus hopefully editors will join the discussion as well, and
share their views and suggestions on the topic.
Aron
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Early warning of planned technical maintenance window for ENWP.
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From: Manuel Arostegui <marostegui(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 9:20 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] s1 (enwiki) primary master switchover (read-only
required) 14th Nov 05:00 AM UTC
To: Operations Engineers <ops(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia developers <
wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello,
We have requested a 30 minutes read-only window for s1 (enwiki) (T234801)
for the 14th November from 05:00-05:30 AM UTC to switchover that section
primary database master (T234800)
db1067 is an old host and out of warranty that will be decommissioned
(T217396). The new master will be db1083
We are going to do this on Thursday 14th Nov from 05:00 to 05:30 AM UTC (we
do not expect to use the 30 minutes window, if everything goes as expected).
Impact: Writes will be blocked on the following wiki:
enwiki
Reads will remain unaffected.
Communication will happen at #wikimedia-operations
If you are around at that time and want to help with the monitoring, please
join us!
Thanks
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Forwarding in case this is of interest to others.
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From: Janna Layton <jlayton(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 9:58 PM
Subject: [Analytics] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] October 16, 2019 at 9:30
AM PDT, 16:30 UTC
To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, October
16, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ35weAVlIU
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can also watch our past Research Showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
This month's presentations:
Elections Without Fake: Deploying Real Systems to Counter Misinformation
Campaigns
By Fabrício Benevenuto, Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal
de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
The political debate and electoral dispute in the online space during the
2018 Brazilian elections were marked by an information war. In order to
mitigate the misinformation problem, we created the project Elections
Without Fake <http://www.eleicoes-sem-fake.dcc.ufmg.br/> and developed a
few technological solutions able to reduce the abuse of misinformation
campaigns in the online space. Particularly, we created a system to monitor
public groups in WhatsApp and a system to monitor ads in Facebook. Our
systems showed to be fundamental for fact-checking and investigative
journalism, and are currently being used by over 150 journalists with
editorial lines and various fact-checking agencies.
More info on second talk by Francesca Spezzano to come
--
Janna Layton (she, her)
Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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