This page is intended to lead to the identification of the Portuguese Wikipedia governance issues that have been thwarting the Portuguese Wikipedia and appropriate solutions to those problems.
Wikimedia Forum: Contributions are most welcome to the discussion and search for improvements to a problem which far exceeds a single Wikimedia project. Suggestions of other ongoing related projects would also be highly appreciated.
Please use either the English or Portuguese sections of the talk page for debate.
Wikimedia Public Policy Initiative
Background material
- Governance
- Governance reform
- Wikipedia Governance
- Conflicting Wikipedia philosophies
- Wiki personality type
- Wikipedia sociology
- Wikipedia:en:Governance reform
- Wikipedia:en:Governance review
- Wikipedia:en:If you could re-write the rules
- Wikipedia:en:Criticism of Wikipedia#Criticism of the community
- Wikipedia:en:Criticisms
- Wikipedia:en:Replies to common objections (only this one is available in pt)
- Wikipedia:en:Why Wikipedia is not so great
- Wikipedia:en:Why Wikipedia is so great
- Wikipedia:en:Wikipedia is failing
- Wikipedia:en:Wikipedia is succeeding
- Wikipedia:en:Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Administrator abuse on Wikipedia
Meta
- Requests for comment/Fredxavier and Ozalid Wikipédia PT / Bullying and sysop abuse (2007)
- Teles election for administrator (2011 06 15)
- Beria election for administrator (2011 06 29), nominated by Theo10011
- Ruy Pugliesi election for administrator (2011 07 03), nominated by Barras
- Beria runs for steward (2011 01 25), and withdraws
- Teles runs for steward (2011 08 24), and fails
- Ruy Pugliesi runs for steward (2011 09 07), and fails
- GAME OVER
Strategic planning
- strategy development project launched (July 2009)
- Philippe Beaudette appoints Eugene Eric Kim, himself, and four others as administrators (2009 08 09)
- Strategy development project ended (July 2010)
- Wikimedia Movement Strategic Plan (February 2011)
- Teles request for adminship approved by Theo10011 (2011 03 15)
- Ruy Pugliesi request for adminship approved by Theo10011 (2011 05 15)
- Vapmachado is blocked with an expiry time of infinite by Theo10011 (2011 06 01)
- Beria request for adminship approved by Theo10011 (2011 06 08)
- Mono request for adminship approved by Theo10011 (2011 06 21)
Wikimedia Outreach
- Castelobranco creates user page with links to his user pages in other Wikimedia projects (2010 10 22 and 23)
- Beria creates user page with links to her user pages in other Wikimedia projects (2011 01 16)
- Vapmachado enters and leaves the project (2011 02 21 to 03 01)
- Beria lists herself under "I am interested in this idea (Wikipedian Student Organizations) and would like to help" (2011 04 23)
- Castelobranco lists himself under "I am interested in this idea (Wikipedian Student Organizations) and would like to help" (2011 04 23)
- Castelobranco adds himself, because he "wants to be part of the team!" (2011 07 16)
- Teles creates user page with soft redirect to his Meta user page, his only contribution (2011 08 15)
- Administrators:
- Castelobranco
- Mono
- Theo10011
There are no governance issues?
RFP/Portuguese Wikipedia Qualitative Researcher
Page created Aug 29, 2011 (for a starting date of Sep 1, 2011?). Job opening closed Sep. 15, 2011.[1]
- Statement of Purpose
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is looking for a short-term researcher to conduct a series of qualitative analyses on the Portuguese Wikipedia to better understand the structure and dynamics of the PT:WP community. This research will be informed by and in conjunction with the quantitative research being conducted on PT:WP. The Qualitative Researcher will help steer the direction of the quantitative research and provide insight into any emerging numeric trends. The Researcher will help answer why the active editor base is not increasing at the same rates as in the past and provide specific recommendations to WMF and the PT:WP for what the PT:WP community can do about it!
- Background Information
The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten Internet property.
In December 2010, the Brazil Catalyst Project (BCP) began which developed open, documented and collaborative approaches through which the Wikimedia Foundation could support Wikimedia projects community in Brazil, with the goal of growing the contributor community and readership in Brazil. Ultimately, the project focused on creating a set of recommendations for initiatives and pilot projects that would help advance our collective mission in Brazil and generating systems, processes, and methods for advancing Wikimedia in other geographic areas. One outcome of the project was that there is a great need to improve the understanding of the structure and work dynamics of the Brazilian community in general and the Portuguese Wikipedia specifically. The research to be conducted by the Qualitative and Quantitative Researchers will help to establish this. The quantitative research will begin with a focus on the Editor Trends Study (for Portuguese), and then move into more specific areas regarding admin activity, new editor activity, and general editing stats. In parallel, a Qualitative Researcher will work on informing the quantitative work with specific community knowledge and provide insight into the actual causes of emerging trends.
- Scope of Work
- Analyze the outcomes of the quantitative information, and provide insight based on community-specific information, such as policies, bot activities, talk-page information
- Outline landscape of PT:WP, including general policies, overall processes, deletion policies, etc. Also, dig into users talk pages and identify the use of bots and templates, and assess their uses
- Map historical PT:WP information onto broader numeric trends, tying in, wherever possible, cause and effect relationships (e.g., how # of policies effects # of editors)
- As needed, recommend specific areas for improvement and change in the PT:WP to foster a healthy environment for new and old editors, and to create the highest quality information possible
- Communicate outcomes and implications of research to broader Wikimedia movement and PT:WP community specifically on a continuous basis (e.g., blogging, email, on wiki)
Expected output includes:
- A timeline indicating important points in PT:WP history
- The development and maintenance of pages on meta.wikimedia.org containing the information from the research in PT:WP, in Portuguese
- An executive summary highlighting results of analysis and recommended implications, in both English and Portuguese
- A more detailed report containing research results and outlining detailed recommended next actions
- A list of recommended items for further research
The work will be centered in Brazil, but the fellow may make one trip to WMF headquarters in San Francisco in order to engage with other staff and researchers.
- Term of Contract
The contract will be for a duration of ten (10) weeks beginning with an anticipated start date of September 1, 2011.
- Required qualifications
- Masters degree, PhD candidate or PhD in relevant field such as social science, history, or sociology strongly preferred.
- Experience wrestling with historical, sociological or anthropological questions pertaining to the success, growth and survival of communities, social movements and large scale collaborative work
- Experience wading through dense and complex historical archives or other textual social data
- Experience working with nonprofits or community driven projects
- Strong communications skills across various avenues and to various audiences
- Comfortable operating in new environments and dealing with ambiguity of a "startup"
- Passion for the mission of Wikimedia and positive can-do attitude
- Speaks both Portuguese and English
- Wikimedians/Wikipedians a huge plus!
- Payments, Incentives, and Penalties
The contractor will be paid USD $30 on an hourly basis. The contractor will need to cover all legally required deductions, taxes and benefits out of this amount. Approved out-of-pocket expenses may be invoiced for reimbursement.
About 20 hours per week is expected, with a maximum of 30hrs. Any charged hours over this amount must be approved by the supervisor.
- Points of contact for future correspondence
Jessie Wild, Special Projects Manager
rfp at wikimedia.org
RFP/Global Education Program
Page created, Aug 23, 2011, as RFP/Brazil Education Program (starting "as soon as possible"). Changed, Aug 25, 2011, to RFP/Global Education Program. Reviewed, Oct. 3, 2011.[2]
- Statement of Purpose
The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) is looking for a consultant to develop and implement a strategy for expanding its classroom-based Education Program globally.
- Background Information
In 2010 and 2011, the Wikimedia Foundation successfully executed an experimental pilot project (the Public Policy Initiative) to engage students in Wikipedia-editing as part of the curriculum. Professors at universities in the United States were participating in our initiative by asking their students to improve articles on the English-language Wikipedia. The Foundation is providing professors support in the form of instructional materials such as sample lesson plans, and Wikipedia Ambassadors, who are serving as mentors for the first-time Wikipedians.
Beginning in 2011, we will expand Wikipedia editing in university classrooms to institutions around the world. One of our priorities is to expand our Education Program to the Global South. Our goal is to increase the number of active Wikipedia contributors in the Global South significantly until June 2012.
Further information:
- Wikimedia Movement Strategic Plan Summary
- Information about the Public Policy Initiative (including links to progress reports and case studies)
- Information about the Global Education Program on the Wikimedia Outreach wiki
- Global Education Program A–Z on the Wikimedia Outreach wiki
- Wikimedia Blog, Frank Schulenburg: For Wikipedia in education, the future is now
- Scope of Work
Duties include, but are not limited to the following:
- Developing a strategy for building a classroom-based education program in the Global South;
- Exploring and documenting incentives for teachers, students and institutions in Higher Education to participate in the program;
- Recruiting teachers who are eager to use Wikipedia as a teaching tool in their classes;
- Recruiting and selecting volunteers who are willing and able to help newcomers with their first steps on Wikipedia;
- Providing training, guidance and direction for new Campus and Online Ambassadors;
- Creating guidelines and standards in order to achieve a shared understanding of the goals of the Wikimedia Education Program;
- Documenting and communicating best practices and lessons learned;
- Initiating and overseeing the translation of existing support materials into Portuguese and Spanish;
- Developing and tracking measures of success and creating progress reports.
- Outcome and Performance Standards
We will consider the project a success if we will be able to successfully launch pilot projects in at least two countries of the Global South. Both teachers and students shall have a positive experience with using Wikipedia in the classroom. Guidelines and support documents and the creation of an effective Ambassador Program shall help the participants in contributing to Wikipedia. Our program shall be implemented in cooperation with the existing community of editors.
- Term of Contract
Your initial contract will be for a duration of 6 months, and will commence as soon as possible. At the end of the contract we will consider to transition the consultant to a full-time employee.
- Payments, Incentives, and Penalties
Rate will be determined by level of experience and expertise. Please submit bid proposal.
- Required qualifications
- Strong written and oral communication skills;
- Thourough understanding of the university teaching and learning environment;
- Must be confident, engaging and adept in communication with teachers and university administrators;
- Experience in working with volunteers is a major plus;
- Exceptional project management and time management skills;
- Ability to speak in front of groups and lead events is a major plus;
- Must be comfortable in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment;
- Ability to work effectively and meet deadlines even while traveling;
- Fluent in English; fluency in Portuguese or Arabic is a plus;
- Must have a strong affinity for the Wikimedia mission.
- Process Schedule
Please submit the following documents:
- CV that highlights your understanding of the university teaching and learning environment;
- A paper (not exceeding 8 pages in length) that explains
- Why growing our editor community in countries of the Global South is important for fulfilling the Wikimedia Foundation's mission;
- How you envision to work with teachers, students and volunteers to achieve the goals of the project.
- Evaluation
The submitted documents will be evaluated against the following criteria (in no specific order):
- Understanding of the mission and values of the Wikimedia Foundation;
- Understanding of the Foundation's strategic goals for increasing our community of active editors in the Global South;
- Demonstrated history of working with higher education and non-profits;
- Ability to work with Wikipedia's existing community of volunteers;
- Overall willingness and eagerness to undertake a highly complex challenge.
- Points of contact for future correspondence
Please submit your documents electronically as PDF to Frank Schulenburg, Global Education Program Director, rfp at wikimedia.org
External links
- Sue Gardner's Blog (unkown to present)
- Is something fundamentally wrong with Wikipedia governance processes? (2008 01 07 to present)
- Directory:The Wikipedia Point of View (2008 to present)
- millosh's blog (2007 07 to present)
- Wikipedia Review: Opinions and Editorials (2007 07 to present)
- David Gerard: arrogant pontification (2007 03 to present)
- Top 10 Reasons Not to Donate to Wikipedia Wikipedia has too much power (2007 to present)
- Top 10 Reasons Not to Donate to Wikipedia Wikipedia is more a roleplaying game than an encyclopedia (2007 to present)
- Directory:Wikimedia Foundation/Grand Donors (2007 to present)
- WikiChix (2006 to present)
- Critical views of Wikipedia (2006 to present)
- The Spanish Fork: Wikipedia's ad-fuelled mutiny (2011 01 20)
- Wikipedia Comes of Age (2011 01 07 to 02 04)
- Who here actually contributes to wikipedia articles? (2010 08 05 to 2010 09)
- Is Wikipedia a Cult? Wikipedia strikes back (2010 06 16)
- Tech cult No. 3: The High Priests of Wikipedia (2010 06 07)
- The Wikipedia Cult (2010 05 28)
- The Wikipedia Cult (2010 05 28)
- Corruption of Wikipedia (2010)
- 'Move Along Now, Nothing to See Here': The Private Discussion Spheres of Wikipedia (2009 08 29)
- The Wikipedia's Sins Revisited (2009 08 28)
- The Six Rotten Pillars of Wikipedia Bad governance– the reign of the lords of misrule (2008 10 30 to 2009 05 17)
- The Governance Model of Wikipedia: A review of Wikipedia's popular practice of blocking and banning adversarial editors (2009 01 27)
- Wikipedia needs a business model not donations: plead for business model (2009)
- Wikipedia scandals Essjay is not a professor (2007 to 2009)
- Wikipedia scandals Heidi Wyss editing as Gwen Gale (2007 to 2009)
- Wikipedia scandals David Boothroyd, sockpuppet admin (2007 to 2009)
- Law Lord (2008 12 21 to 28)
- Knol: So The Pushiest Loudmouths Don't Always Win (2008 07 31)
- Wikipedia's school for scandal has plenty more secrets to reveal (2008 03 27)
- Criticism of Wikipedia (2008)
- Parker Peters (2007 01 15 to 12 07)
- The Wikipedia - Can Teenagers write an Encyclopedia? (2007 07 31)
- In Wikipedia we trust? (2007 05 23)
- Sand Castles of Knowledge (2007 05 05 to 14)
- Idea of Paid Entries Roils Wikipedia (2007 01 25)
- He's the "God-King," but you can call him Jimbo (2007 01 15)
- Wikitruth (from? to 2007?)
- Google-Wikipedia-MySpace - How Teenagers Hijacked the Internet (2006 10 19)
- Guerrilla Wikipedians rate rival's chances (2006 09 23)
- Wikipedia and the Credibility of Online Information (2006 07 12)
- The Six Sins of the Wikipedia (2006 07 02)
- Nature mag cooked Wikipedia study: Britannica hits back at junk science (2006 03 23)
- Antiwikipedia 2 (2006)
- The Faith-Based Encyclopedia Blinks (2005 12 14)
- The FUD-based Encyclopedia (2005 03 28)
- The Book Stops Here (2005 03)
- On Getting It: The Faith-Based Encyclopedia and Me (2005 02 01)
- Antiwikipedia (2005)
- Wikipedia Watch (from? to?)
- Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism (2004 12 31)
- When information access is so easy, truth can be elusive (2004 12 27)
- The Faith-Based Encyclopedia (2004 11 15)
- Wiki Patterns
- Meatball Wiki
- Video
- Colbert Vs. Wikipedia (2007 01 30)
- The office: Michael explains why Wikipedia is so awesome (2008 01 03)
- Professor Wikipedia (2008 09 24)
- wikipedia Heart (2009 05 25)
- NetSquared n2y4: Wikimedia Foundation Part I (2009 05 26)
- NetSquared N2Y4: WIkimedia Foundation Part II (2009 05 26)
- wikipedia is NOT an encyclopedia (2010 01 24)
- Steven Walling - Why Wikipedians are the Weirdest People on the Internet (2010 03 04)
- Interview: Mathias Schindler, from Wikimedia Foundation (2010 06 10)
- Wikipedia: Encyclopedia or Scam? (2010 08 19)
- Truth In Numbers - The Wikipedia Movie | trailer US (2010) (2010 10 28)
- Wikimedia Foundation propaganda for 2010 fundraising and earlier
- Wikipedia: Contribute (2010 11 22)
- Wikipedia: Great Feeling (2010 09 24)
- Wikipedia: Edit Button (2010 09 23)
- Wikipedia: Nice People (2010 09 22)
- Wikipedia: Username (2010 09 21)
- Wikipedia: Verifiability and Neutral point of view (2010 04 15)
- Inside Wikimedia (2009 01 26)
- Free Access To All Human Knowledge (2008 10 29)
- Wikipedia: an introduction (2010 11 18)
- Wikipedia: an introduction, part II (2010 11 24)
- Wikipedia: an introduction, part III (2010 11 29)
- Wikipedia: an introduction, part IV (2010 12 05)
- INSIGHT: Sue Gardner - Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation - Pt 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (2010 12 21)
- Sue Gardner wonders why so few women edit Wikipedia (2011 02 03)
- How can I block thee? (2011 04 17)
- The movie