Mbch331

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Superprotect letter update

Hi Mbch331,

Along with more hundreds of others, you recently signed Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer, which I wrote.

Today, we have 562 signatures here on Meta, and another 61 on change.org, for a total of 623 signatures. Volunteers have fully translated it into 16 languages, and begun other translations. This far exceeds my most optimistic hopes about how many might sign the letter -- I would have been pleased to gain 200 siguatures -- but new signatures continue to come.

I believe this is a significant moment for Wikimedia and Wikipedia. Very rarely have I seen large numbers of people from multiple language and project communities speak with a unified voice. As I understand it, we are unified in a desire for the Wikimedia Foundation to respect -- in actions, in addition to words -- the will of the community who has built the Wikimedia projects for the benefit of all humanity. I strongly believe it is possible to innovate and improve our software tools, together with the Wikimedia Foundation. But substantial changes are necessary in order for us to work together smoothly and productively. I believe this letter identifies important actions that will strongly support those changes.

Have you been discussing these issues in your local community? If so, I think we would all appreciate an update (on the letter's talk page) about how those discussions have gone, and what people are saying. If not, please be bold and start a discussoin on your Village Pump, or in any other venue your project uses -- and then leave a summary of what kind of response you get on the letter's talk page.

Finally, what do you think is the right time, and the right way, to deliver this letter? We could set a date, or establish a threshold of signatures. I have some ideas, but am open to suggestions.

Thank you for your engagement on this issue, and please stay in touch. -Pete F (talk) 18:50, 26 August 2014 (UTC)

Global user page migration

Hello Mbch331. I deleted your local user pages on all wikis as you requested via Synchbot. You can see the full log on your archive page. :) —Pathoschild 05:02, 28 February 2015 (UTC)

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Plagiarism detection

Hi! You voted for improving plagiarism detection as an important suggestions in the community wishlist survey last year. I'm pinging people who showed interest in that task to tell them we have some suggestions for how things could look, if you'd like to glance at them and give us some feedback. They're available here: phab:T120435#2266283. It's easiest if comments are left in Phabricator, since that's where much of the development is happening, but they can be left on Meta too, of course. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 17:15, 13 May 2016 (UTC)

2016 Community Wishlist Survey

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You’re getting this message because you participated in the 2015 Community Wishlist Survey and we want to make sure you don't miss it this year – or at least can make the conscious choice to ignore if it you want to. The 2015 survey decided what the Community Tech team should work on during 2016. It was also the focus of Wikimedia hackathons and work by other developers. You can see the status of wishes from the 2015 wishlist at 2015 Community Wishlist Survey/Results.

The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey is now open for wishes. You can create proposals until November 20. You will be able to vote on which wishes you think are best or most important between November 28 and December 12. /Johan (WMF) (talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Presenting Community Engagement Insights survey report: Tuesday, October 10, 1600 UTC

Hi Mbch331,
I am reaching out to you because you signed up to receive updates about the Global Wikimedia survey.

We will be hosting a public event online to present the data, a few examples on how teams will be using it for annual planning, and what are next steps for this project. The event will take place on Tuesday, October 10, at 9:00 am PST (1600 UTC), and the presentation will be in English. You can watch the livestream here, and ask question via IRC on #wikimedia-office.

If you are unable attend, you can also find the report on meta, and watch the recording of the event at a later time.

We hope to have you join us online! -- María Cruz 23:28, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

Input op het trainen van ML-systemen

Hallo Mbch331,

Er wordt een paper geschreven over de samenwerking tussen de gemeenschap en ontwikkelaars, voor het bouwen van een kwaliteitsmodel voor artikelen voor nlwp. Zou jij eens mee willen kijken met je kennis van nlwp, maar ook met je technische achtergrond, naar Research:On the collaboration with Wikimedia Communities in the context of building Machine Learning Systems? Zijn de stappen volledig beschreven denk je, of missen we nog iets?

Dank voor je tijd alvast! Ciell (talk) 22:06, 7 March 2021 (UTC)

Repo for Wikiportrait

Hi,

Where can I find the code repo for Wikiportrait? We are looking at implementing something similar and want to see if we can reuse your code. Sebastian Berlin (WMSE) (talk) 08:02, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Looks like a quick search on Github was all I needed🙂, but please let me know if you have any information that may not be documented there, e.g. if there is support to translate messages. Sebastian Berlin (WMSE) (talk) 08:15, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

There is not translation support yet. That was something we wanted to implement, but there wasn't much international interest so far. Mbch331 (talk) 09:12, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply.

We have a few additional questions:

1. What is the upload process like for the VRT agent? Are they presented with a pre-filled form where they can just click a button to upload the image to Commons?
2. From what we could find, the VRT agent sends an email to verify the information that was entered in the tool, uploads the image once it's been confirmed and adds it to Wikipedia. Is there anything else that they need to do? We'd like to know when we ask the Swedish VRT agents if they are interested in the tool.
3. What's the overall state of the code? Are there any updates that would be needed to make sure it's stable and secure? Is it worth investing in adding support for Translatewiki?

Sebastian Berlin (WMSE) (talk) 14:30, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

1. When an VRT agent accepts the image he can click on the upload link in the backend. He gets a pre-filled form on Commons. There they can check if they need to fill in other information. And finish the upload process on Comons.

2. Process is: Visitor uploads an image. When it is approved by a few automated checks (e.g. is the person uploading, not the same as the person on the photo) it gets uploaded to the Wikiportret server and an e-mail is sent to the VRT Wikiportret queue. All communication with the uploader will be done through VRT. After uploading to commons, it's a question of adding it to Wikipedia and if needed to Wikidata.

3. Code is stable and secure. There are features that are wanted and they might get added. If there is interest in multiple communities, adding Translatewiki support would be a good investment. Mbch331 (talk) 14:43, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Reminder to vote now to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter

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