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Latest comment: 3 years ago5 comments2 people in discussion
Status: Done
In the Organizational Information Form for Affiliates (after clicking an “update” button on Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal/Organizations Information – I tried it with WMDE), the Social Media and Blog/News section has three fields (see screenshot) which aren’t labeled. If I remove the values (or, I suppose, if I was adding a new organization instead of editing an existing one), I can see the placeholders: “Facebook URL...”, “Twitter URL...”, and “Blog/News page...”. But if there are any values in the inputs, I can’t see that, and am left to guess whether these are supposed to be three arbitrary URLs or if they fulfill distinct roles. I think these placeholders (and possibly others in the gadget, I haven’t reviewed it thoroughly) should be replaced with proper labels, and then real placeholders that look like the intended values (e. g. https://example.com) could be added. (Code-wise, the first part should be as simple as replacing placeholder: with label: in parts of MediaWiki:Gadget-reportOrgInfoForm.js.) --Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) (talk) 18:31, 6 March 2020 (UTC)Reply
@Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE): As a quick solution for now, I'm circling back to you to let you know that, we've added tool tips per input field to say what each field would contain but we'll stream down the form in phase II of the project and include labels as you've suggested. Thanks for your suggestion and have a great day! --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 17:31, 7 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 5 years ago6 comments2 people in discussion
Status: Done
Hallo :) I suggest making 2 changes.
The "M&E staff submissions" div is only useful for (and usable by) Monitoring and Evaluation staff, but it is currently the 3rd div on the page. I suggest converting it into a plain-text section at the very bottom of the page, so that normal users aren't distracted by it. E.g. A ==See also== section and 2 list-item links.
The icons in the corners of the 4 divs are confusing, because in other contexts clicking on a "(i)" icon will make a tooltip pop-up. I suggest adding |link= to these images, so that they cannot be clicked on (cf mw:Help:Images#Altering the default link target, and note that these icons are licensed as CC-0 so do not need to be linked elsewhere on the page for attribution).
Hi Quiddity (WMF), point 2 (you suggested and been done). As for point one, attempting to keep the design, do you think a stackable card rearrangement will do? See image: WADP rearrangement of stackable cards. On mobile view, the M&E related stackable card will be at the bottom and not distract users and on desktop, it will be on the bottom right hand corner, enabling what is used by users to be shown first. Do you think this direction is good in order to keep the design intact? --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 16:27, 6 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
@Quiddity (WMF): Thanks for confirming. I've completely processed this feedback. Point 1 & 2 as suggested done. Please let us know if there is more feedback you have in the future to make the system better. Have a great day! --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 17:12, 6 April 2020 (UTC)Reply
[Design] WADP main OOUI form grey background to skyblue
Congratulations on launching the WAD Portal! It must feel great for all of your hard work to have finally paid off. It really looks amazing!
We have one tiny (I think) request...if it's not tiny, then just tell us :)
For the WAD Query Results pop-up, can you make the band behind the result at the top a color other than grey? Maybe a shade of blue? Visually, grey makes things recede into the background so its good for sidebars and instructions, but for highlighting the results, I think a blue or even black with white font would be better.
Latest comment: 4 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Status: Done
There are two things I'd suggest:
- Please track language versions. If multiple languages are available, it would be nice if they can be connected. It would also be helpful to identify languages in the report.
- Be generous with the 'other' option. For example, you now only allow monthly and annual reports. Would you discourage quarterly reports to be shared? Or three-year reports? I know those may not be required by WMF, but they may be produced for different purposes. I imagine you would want those to be shared too?
Latest comment: 4 years ago18 comments5 people in discussion
Status: Done
I am very surprised that each time I view a form, it makes an edit on my behalf. For instance, I have just clicked on Search affiliates data, and this page made an edit on my behalf here. I checked with my bot to make sure I did not agree with it without noticing (I clearly never viewed this page and did not approve anything with my bot account) and it made an edit as well. This form does the same for unregistered editors.
This is a blatant violation of the Privacy policy and usual Wikimedia rules, as it was never stated that there will be a public record associated with my account that I viewed this specific page at this specific time. Even worse, I could have made it anonymously from my corporate VPN yesterday (why would I log in if I am not making any edits?) and accidentally disclose my IP address. There are at least two major problems:
No script should make edits on my behalf without my explicit agreement. Even scripts where I am supposed to implicitly agree (e.g. WiDaR) ask me each time to provide permission on a special page on MediaWiki. This script must explicitly ask me to provide permission to edit pages on my behalf.
We never publicly record that this specific person (account or IP) viewed this specific page at this specific time. Sharing this information publicly (that's what this script does) is not justified with any provision in Privacy policy#When May We Share Your Information?. While I am completely fine with my visit to this page being recorded for analytical purposes, I am not OK with it being publicly recorded and associated with my username.
It's really not clear where this is actually happening. I've emailed the team to flag it and point them to your post. Reedy (talk) 17:06, 6 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
It is unacceptable to store a public log of PageView information - the script has been removed from the gadget list and the privacy-leaking page has been removed from the history. I think I don't need to blank the entire offending gadget page. — regards, Revi17:22, 6 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
@Reedy:, @NickK: & @-revi:, the gadgets are making reports submissions on behalf of the users who submitted the report, this is a alatered form of preserving page revision history. We are interested in simple analytics of system usage and query views. We are switching off the gadget trackers while we figure out how to count the edits/views without logging the usernames. We will update this section once that has been corrected. thank you for bringing this to our attention.-- DNdubane (WMF) (talk) 18:01, 6 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
I am probably going to be pretty busy for rest of this week, so if (any of) NickK, Reedy, other interface admins, or anyone with MediaWiki Core +2 permission says they're fine with the current status, you have my blessing to proceed. — regards, Revi14:15, 8 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
@Reedy: or @-revi:, Checking if any of you are able to assist with this. We have the interface rights (Derick has) to activate the form, but would rather get that done by one of the community stewards, or at least get all checks clear before we do! -- DNdubane (WMF) (talk) 17:09, 22 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
And to elaborate on my message - I'm not sure why that list contains entities which IIRC are no longer recognized. I can't find a list of former affiliates as well so that I could exclude those from communications. Thanks. --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 10:35, 24 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 4 years ago9 comments2 people in discussion
Status: Pending/To-Do
Hey, when contacting affiliates, I would like to be mindful of their language preferences. While all of them are supposed to have some proficiency in English, I'd like to be able to answer questions such as "Which groups have Arabic as native language?" or "Which groups would rather be contacted in fallback language here rather than in English?". TYVM. (cc DNdubane (WMF).) --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 17:12, 24 September 2020 (UTC)Reply
Elitre (WMF), thanks for these ideas. The geography part is already covered and we've implemented into the system. All we need to do is add more queries/sub-queries to match a certain reasonable request to a user wanting to find insights into the data. What is missing is the country part which will be implemented soon.
All you need to do is write down the kind of questions (queries) that you want to see implemented feeding on the geography data and we'll implemented those :) --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 16:28, 14 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
When you say it's implemented, that doesn't mean I should already be able to use it, correct? (Because in case, I haven't figured out how :p ) I think that the questions above kinda cover what I usually need to know about affiliates. I think there's also a question of "what's the best way to contact one or more of them privately and without going through WMF staff first"... --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 16:34, 14 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
The usage of "country" and "geographical region" depends on the questions you want to ask. You can check the query module and see that some queries are geographically related. For example "How many recognised Wikimedia Affiliates exist?". I've recorded the 2 questions you proposed above. But if you have more, let us know :) --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 17:18, 14 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
OK, confession time - I really did not expect that a query about "how many" would also tell me "where they are". I'm seeing that picking that question opens the stage to actually getting more data, and that's at the same time great and, again, unexpected! Consider this a usability issue report, then :p --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 17:25, 14 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
Okay Elitre (WMF), thank you very much. The idea was to have queries and sub-queries. We can have as many queries as we want and many sub-queries as we want. There are a lot of query ideas but we just need to structure them so that they're easily navigable and under the right category. Please let us know if you find any query or sub-query that isn't under the right category.
But yes, the idea of having more queries per region or country is also good and we'll work on it. NOTE: We can really have so many queries depending on what insight we want to get. --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 20:07, 14 October 2020 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much for the changes you made on the WADP main page. Sorry I reverted them but there is a better way we can play with this. Can we do it using a sandbox then copy paste the changes onto the main page?
I'm planning to work on this page soon as it's not very pretty at the moment but if you want to make improvements, you can do it on a sandbox page and then copy paste it over to the main page to not break things when the system is being used. Thanks! :)
@DAlangi (WMF) Not sure about you, but this is how the page currently looks for me. I found out that removing the <div style="width:75%;float:left;height:auto;" class="mobile-width-reset"> which was only containing another div with the same parameters as well as a right-float div removed the overlapping elements at least, but if you're planning to fix this yourself soon in some way I will not interfere. ~~~~ User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)12:25, 3 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
I really appreciate you bringing this up @1234qwer1234qwer4. I'm not especially proud of the UI on some screens, let me show you how it looks over here. On smaller screens, it doesn't render properly but on larger screens it does. I'll invest sometime today to actually fix these issues, I'll revert back to you with progress so you can test and let me know. Thank you very much! --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 12:38, 3 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, it does indeed look more similar to your version if I set my font size to 90 % (I normally use 120 %). Note that the leftmost element's content is far from being centered even in your screenshot, though, which was the reason for my second edit. ~~~~ User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk)12:43, 3 September 2021 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 3 years ago9 comments4 people in discussion
Status: Done
Hello!
Currently, the translation system is broken on this page, because content has been moved to a template by a copy-paste instead of a real page move. To fix it, I see two possibilities.
As I don’t understand why the content should be located in Template namespace, I recommend to simply replace whole Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal content with template one. I would already apply this fix if the page would not be protected.
However, if you want to keep current system (main page only contain a template call, and a template has the full content):
It's true that the page can't be translated now since it's been moved to a template and transcluded back to the main page. Now, I think the way forward is just translating the template directly here: Template:Wikimedia_Affiliates_Data_Portal and the translations will be reflected on the main page.
After reading the steps you suggested above, it looks like that will work so I'll go ahead and do it right away and leave a feedback here if everything works okay. Thank you very much, I appreciate! --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 12:49, 22 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
Pols12 & Minorax, I've done the migration but the only issue now is that the translatable pages in the template isn't showing in the main page, only English is showing, any way to resolve this? Thank you for your assistance. --DAlangi (WMF) (talk) 14:15, 22 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
According to logs, a problem unfortunately occurs during the move and source page has not been moved. All translations seem to have well been moved, I hope that’s OK.
Also, I don’t understand why you used PageMigration for French translation because this tool is expected to import pages which did not use Translate extension (typically pages created before 2013), this is not the case here. You should use this tool carefully because it needs an extensive manual check of the imports (this is currently the mess in /fr page, but fortunately easily fixable).
Anyway, there is no need to be in Template namespace to work with TemplateStyles, they well work in main namespace too (I admit the name “TemplateStyles” is confusing). Since the page has no content (only a template call), it cannot be “translated”, that’s why we can’t change the language.
So, since you have removed the protection, I am moving back the “template” to main namespace to fix this final issue.
Latest comment: 3 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
The report form is very cumbersome for affiliates that cover a large region or a thematic topic. It does beg the question why the report form is fixated on affiliates that only cover one language or one community. Would it be possible to ask more relevant questions of thematic or regional affiliates in a different form? Braveheart (talk) 16:47, 4 April 2022 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 1 year ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Dear all, do we have comparative information about board members (number, duration and election mode i.e. rotation) and executive director (who has it and mandate)? As Wikimedia Italia we would like to change our charter and to do it we would like to have a look at other chapters. Thanks for letting me know. maybe @Laurentius do you already have data about it? iopensa (talk) 13:55, 23 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Iopensa: I don't know if there is a systematic overview. Regarding specifically the executive directors, a few years back I made a survey of the mandates and approaches to evaluation (mostly the second one) across different organizations. If I remember correctly, I put some materials in the board's shared directory in Wikimedia Italia's Nextcloud. It's 5+ years old though, and many things changed in the meantime. Laurentius (talk) 18:07, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply
We really think WikiConference North America is up to date as of early 2024
Latest comment: 11 months ago2 comments1 person in discussion
I submitted the WCNA 2023 report months ago, and it is listed on the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal page. In that same row however, still the column at right says "Report past due." I have emailed multiple times about this, which does not seem to have been an efficient approach. How am I supposed to report this small problem in a way that corrects it? Hasn't the report been accepted by AffCom? Please change this table to say "Up to date" or "Compliant" or some such thing, or send advice if we are supposed to do something. This may become a tense point soon as our 2024 grant has been approved and we do want to be in good standing so as to be able to receive its money. -- econterms (talk) 21:19, 2 May 2024 (UTC)Reply
Doing... -- Pols12 (talk) 22:08, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
Done That seems OK this time. 
Can you review the page, @DAlangi (WMF) please?
