Martin Rulsch (WMDE)

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RfCN

Hi, I've granted you the CN adminship as requested. Guess you know how it works already. ;-) -Barras talk 14:13, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! ;-) Cheers, Martin Rulsch (WMDE) (talk) 14:15, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

WMDE scholarships

Hi, I have no idea what your edit means... What does "travel budget" stand for? Is "30" the total number of scholarships WMDE will assign with their own process? What does "additional" mean? Nemo 10:56, 8 January 2016 (UTC)

"To the moon"

I noticed you created the "too the moon" page. I am not sure who to turn to for this, but it seems people really want to know some more technical information, i.e. what kind of disc we're dealing with, what compression format we'd use, etc. The Technical unclearities section asks some of the best questions related to this. I hope someone with some details like these could share them with the community, so that we have a better idea what the specifics are. this section may also be of interest. Most of the talk page consists of less interesting discussions, though people simply disapproving of the idea in its entirety is common.

I wasn't sure what to do with this, but I feel like the talk page discussions are going nowhere without some input from people more closely related to the project. ~Mable (chat) 14:32, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

My colleague Michael responded to the latter link, after Wikimedia Conference I need some time to get an overview on the discussions first. Best, Martin Rulsch (WMDE) (talk) 14:25, 25 April 2016 (UTC)

Dear User:Martin Rulsch (WMDE), Thank you soooo much for starting the Moon discussion and taking up the torch. I tried to get Wikipedia off the ground and into space before at Wikipedia_likes_Galactic_Exploration_for_Posterity_2015. Some of that discussion in the talk pages can shed some light on the technical and cultural ramifications of your current project. After all, why reinvent the rocket ship. Please feel free to reach out on my EN:user:geraldshields11 talk page or email me if you need more information. Geraldshields11 (talk) 13:34, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

Nice idea! I forwarded Michael your proposal and the discussions around it. He will look deeper into this at times. Cheers, Martin Rulsch (WMDE) (talk) 12:16, 9 May 2016 (UTC)

Request for Input - New Central Notice request process

Hello!

Back in February I emailed the CN-admin list regarding part of my role to look into the Central Notice process and see where we could make improvements including: the campaign process; its functionality or lack thereof; and fundamentally the documentation that supports it. You can see many of the issues that I identified at CentralNotice/Process_Review. If there is anything additional that you feel has been left out then please feel free to leave any comments on the talk page.

My first task is to improve the requesting of campaigns by communities and affiliates. I am looking to set up a more formal request process, similar to those used in many projects. The aim is to: increase the transparency of Central Notice; improve the support provided to affiliates (including making such support more consistent); to provide a forum for community input into campaigns.

I have been working on a very rough strawman version of the process and I would be interested in hearing you comments about what such a process should involve and what you think it would require. Please feel free to leave such comments at the process talk page section. I would like to have a working page in place by the end of May. This would not need to be a final version. The process can be improved upon over time as we learn about how well it works.

Given your role as a Meta Administrator who is actice in the area of Central Notice, I encourage you to:

• Review the strawman request page and request template and make changes as you feel necessary
• Leave comments
• Join the centralnotice-admins mailing list
• Feel free to contact me to discuss this further via: my talk page, jseddonwikimedia.org or on IRC (Nick: Seddon)

Regards

Jseddon (WMF) (talk) Advancement Associate (Community Engagement) -- 02:49, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

(Double Posted for both as Staff and Volunteer role)

CentralNotice/Request/Dewiki Occasional Editors Campaign

I'm very curious about this campaign and the background and rational behind it, but can't find anything about it in Wikipedia:Wikimedia Deutschland/Neue Ehrenamtliche/Übersicht/Aktuelles. What date should I be looking for? Ciell (talk) 09:17, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

It's now added. Best, Martin Rulsch (WMDE) (talk) 13:35, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Campaigns Product Update #1

• We will be hosting our first Campaigns Product Office hour with the Product team on September 9, 2021 at 3 PM UTC (join us on Zoom: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/87427100681) . The Office hour will focus on the introduction of the Product team and its choice of of a first feature focused on Event Registration. For more information see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Programs_Team#Office_Hours
• We have published our first document about the first feature: event registration.  You can find the document on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Registration . We provided first responses to initial feedback last week. If you responded before, consider reviewing the talk page and adding to the conversation.
• We had several presentations at Wikimania:
  • Ilana Fried presented the Campaign Product team as part of a larger conversation about Wikimedia Foundation Product Strategy. Campaigns product start at 18:12 time:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57GzJ4GEvCQ&t=1103
  • Alex Stinson facilitated a session on the role of partners in International Campaigns:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1k8_6QWPY

What is next? At the office hours, we will share our first version of the designs for the Registration feature, and be asking for feedback. Additionally we will be onboarding our engineering team who will be building the registration feature.

Please invite  other organizers to subscribe to this newsletter or to unsubscribe at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Subscribers  

The Campaign Product Team

Banner errors

Hi User:Martin_Rulsch_(WMDE)! I'm currently looking at JavaScript errors and there was a significant spike relating to one of the banners

MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-wmde foerderung bewerben 02 MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-wmde foerderung bewerben 05 MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-WMDE vssurvey fall 2021 full MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-wmde foerderung bewerben 03

In each of these the code:

var articlecategories = mw.config.get('wgCategories');

must be replaced with

var articlecategories = mw.config.get('wgCategories', []);

as wgCategories is not defined on all pages.

Can you help me get these fixed? I don't have the right edit rights to help with this right now.

Jon (WMF) (talk) 21:23, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

@Jon (WMF): Thanks for the note. Only MediaWiki:Centralnotice-template-WMDE vssurvey fall 2021 full is active which I have fixed now. Best, Martin Rulsch (WMDE) (talk) 21:38, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Campaigns Product Update #2

Hello Campaigns Product Newsletter subscribers! We are excited to share our updates:

• Request for Feedback: We have shared our project principles, wireframes for the desktop version, and open questions for you about the team’s event registration project. See the latest status updates here.

Wireframes are design tools that imagine the future interface of the software. We haven’t built anything yet. We need your feedback on these designs so that we can make better product decisions. You can give feedback on the talk page regarding the design and features of the wireframes. We would love to hear your comments to help us establish the next necessary steps for the project.

Please share with us your feedback!

• Presentations: The Campaign Product team participated in WikiArabia 2021 and WikiConference North America 2021 to give a brief introduction on how the team works. Senior Program Strategist Alex Stinson gave an overview about campaigns and how we can scale the organizing experience within the Movement. Senior Product Manager Ilana Fried gave an introduction about the Product Team and the project wireframes of the first campaign software solution: the on-wiki registration tool. View the recorded presentation here.

• Team update: We have hired our first team engineer, JCarvalho and our campaign organizing fellow, IBrazal. Newsletter updates will be done by IBrazal and she will be coordinating with you! We hope to have the rest of the engineering team onboard soon! For those of who missed the last Campaign Office Hour, you may watch the recording to know more about the Campaign Product Team.

What is next?

Testers Needed! We will be partnering with YUX, a design research agency, to learn how our team can improve the experience of Wikimedia campaign organizers and participants in Africa. For this reason, we are looking for community members who are willing to be part of the rapid testing sessions. Preferably, we want organizers and editors who have worked in an African context. If you would like to participate in testing, please email ibrazal-ctrwikimediaorg.

Upcoming Conferences. Wiki Indaba 2021. This year, the conference will be held virtually on November 5-7, 2021 with the theme "Rethink + Reset : Visions of the future". Read more about the conference here or register to join the event. We will be presenting the registration features on Sunday November 7.

We will also be attending Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2021, which will be held virtually again this year on November 5-7, 2021. We will be presenting the registration tool on November 6 as part of our communication and sharing process.

Translation Support. We are also beginning to translate the updates on Registration. If you think your language community would benefit from updates, please translate here.

Invite other organizers to subscribe to this newsletter for updates!

The Campaign Product Team

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:26, 28 October 2021 (UTC)

On-wiki Registration Wireframes (Request for Feedback)

Hello!
We are very excited to share with you the wireframes for the desktop version of the On-Wiki Registration Tool. Feel free to share your feedback on this update. Results of these feedback will help determine the next steps we take. Thank you in advance!

Creating registration for event


View full Registration Form

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First-Version Features

Viewing, deleting, and messaging participants	Managing Registrations
Participants Registration

Access full project principles and wireframes documentation here.

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Feel free to share your feedback!

	Feedback
Do you see any advantage or disadvantage of any sort of our proposed event registration system?
Will it provide ease of access and use to you as a campaign organizer?
Does the proposed event registration provide convenience for registering participants?
What are the essential features this first version needs to have so that you can use it?
When you are running a campaign, what information do you typically send to participants, and where do you usually send it (e.g., talk page, email, social media, etc)?
Do you prefer that we build the desktop version first or the mobile version of the registration system first?
Is there anything else you would like to add?

Thank you!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:51, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

On-wiki Registration Wireframes (Request for Feedback)

Hello!
We are very excited to share with you the wireframes for the desktop version of the On-Wiki Registration Tool. Feel free to share your feedback on this update. Results of these feedback will help determine the next steps we take. Thank you in advance!

Creating registration for event


View full Registration Form

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First-Version Features

Viewing, deleting, and messaging participants	Managing Registrations
Participants Registration

Access full project principles and wireframes documentation here.

---

Feel free to share your feedback!

	Feedback
Do you see any advantage or disadvantage of any sort of our proposed event registration system?
Will it provide ease of access and use to you as a campaign organizer?
Does the proposed event registration provide convenience for registering participants?
What are the essential features this first version needs to have so that you can use it?
When you are running a campaign, what information do you typically send to participants, and where do you usually send it (e.g., talk page, email, social media, etc)?
Do you prefer that we build the desktop version first or the mobile version of the registration system first?
Is there anything else you would like to add?

Thank you!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:15, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

GEO, Wikipedia Library

Hello,

GEO is listed under social sciences. However, the monthly issues also cover natural science topics. E.G.: [1]

GEO wird unter Sozialwissenschaften geführt. In den monatlichen Ausgaben werden allerdings auch Naturwissenschaftliche Themen behandelt. Z.B.: [2]

Greetings, Kogge

@Samwalton9 (WMF): Can you add another tag for Geo as proposed here: natural science. What would be the right way to propose that in the future? Phabricator? Best, Martin Rulsch (WMDE) (talk) 16:51, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

Campaigns Product Update #3

Hello Campaigns Product Newsletter subscribers!

We are excited to share our updates:

• Proposal to create new namespaces: We have proposed to create two namespaces, which are “Event” and “Event talk.” This way, we can easily create an Event Center that pulls data from event pages. This Event Center may include tools to create event pages with registration support, a calendar of events, and event statistics, among other features. More importantly, the Event Center will highlight organizing as an essential part of the Wikimedia movement. Please give us feedback on Phabricator or Meta about our proposal to create two new namespaces.

• Engineering updates: We are excited that we have finished hiring for our engineering team! Three engineers and an engineering manager have joined our team since our last update. In the last few months, they have conducted technical planning and launched the building phase of the project. They are now building the registration tool. You can see the updated team on meta.

• Design updates: We conducted usability tests with a small group of testers for early feedback on the desktop wireframes. After collecting this feedback, we have developed a new version for desktop wireframes, which will be ready to share in the next few weeks. These desktop wireframes display the user flow of two experiences: one for organizers who want to add registration to their event pages, and another for participants who want to register for an event. Additionally, the design team is also currently working on the first version of mobile wireframes, which will be shared during the next office hour.

1. View the latest desktop wireframes in Figma for Campaign Organizer Prototype and Participant Registration Prototype.

2. Leave us some feedback on the desktop wireframes. Note that we haven’t posted the newest version of the desktop wireframes on the project page yet, but we will soon (and you can feel free to add feedback on any version you have seen).

• Ambassador updates: Three product ambassadors for the Arabic, French and Swahili communities have now joined our team! They will help us collect feedback from Wikimedia communities about the project and understand the needs of organizers, through gathering first-hand information. These ambassadors are immersed as actual members of these communities, so they will also help us identify the needs of the organizers in our pilot communities. The ambassadors are: M. Bachounda for Arabic communities, Georges Fodouop for French communities, and Antoni Mtavangu for Swahili communities.

What is next?

Next Office Hour: We will be holding an office hour on March 31, 2022 at 15:00 UTC, which will be conducted via Zoom. We invite everyone to attend, and we really hope to see you! The focus will be on the Registration Tool. The team will also be providing community updates on the usability test findings and design highlights for the wireframes. We will also share our current Project timeline and answer any questions you may have. Join us and share your thoughts on these developments!

In a few months, we are expecting to have the early testable version of the tool. By then, the team will be doing the first round of general testing and gathering feedback. We are looking forward to adding more features on the tool such as communication support, potentially by the end of this year. If you know other organizers that might be interested in following these developments, please recommend that they subscribe to the newsletter. We want to receive as much feedback as we can.

Thank you!

The Campaign Product Team

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:26, 22 March 2022 (UTC)

Campaign Product Team Office Hour - March 31, 2022

Hello Campaign Product Newsletter subscribers!

The Campaign Product Team will be hosting the next office hour to share exciting updates on the Registration Tool and new proposed namespaces for events. We will also be sharing community updates on the usability tests and design highlights of the latest mobile and desktop wireframes.

Join us and share your thoughts on these developments!

Date: March 31, 2022

Time: 15:00 UTC

Zoom Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/82046580320

You may also watch Campaigns Office Hour: Introducing the Campaigns Product Team to learn more about the Team and the previous wireframes.

Feel free to send a message to ibrazal-ctr@wikimedia.org if you want to receive an email reminder for this meeting.

Thank you.

The Campaign Product Team

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:37, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Event Registration Tool: Demo and Invitation to Test

Hello Subscribers!

The Campaigns Product Team from the Wikimedia Foundation will be hosting two office hours to demo the new Event Registration Tool, and train organizers how to use it. In these office hours, you will learn how to:

• Create an event page in the new event namespace (as an event organizer)
• Enable registration on your event page (as an event organizer)
• Collect data on who registered for your event (as an event organizer)
• Register for an event on the event page (as an event participant)

You can attend one office hour or both, depending on your availability on the following dates:

• Session 1: Thursday, July 21, 2022 at 5:00 PM UTC
• Session 2: Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 12:00 PM UTC

These events will be multilingual, with live interpretations in Arabic, English, French, Italian, and Portuguese, and Swahili. Note that Portuguese will be available on the 21st, but not the 23rd. We strongly encourage you to join and share your feedback on the tool. Your feedback will help us improve the tool so that Wikimedians can have a better event experience. To register, please reply to this email or sign-up to our page, by adding your signature.

Thank you!

IBrazal (WMF) (talk) 06:21, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Campaign Product Team Office Hour - July 21, 2022

Hello Campaign Product Newsletter subscribers!

The Campaign Product Team will be having an office hour today, July 21, 2022 at 17:00 UTC via Zoom to demo the first release of the Event Registration Tool.

You may join the office hour using this meeting link.

We look forward to your participation.

Thank you.

Best,

The Campaign Product Team

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:46, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

Translate markup

Dear Martin,

@Xaosflux has quickly granted you as a Translation admin, however I noticed some issues in pages (1, 2) you marked for translation, considering Meta:Internationalization guidelines:

• You may/should include heading markup in heading units because some translators prefer to know whether the unit is a heading, and this often lighten translate markup on source page.
• You should not include two distinct block parts in the same unit, because that would break language-aware wrapping when the page is partially translated (2020 syntax requirement).
• You should wrap link target in tvar, this is much easier to translate.

Regards, -- Pols12 (talk) 19:59, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

@Pols12 FWIW, the expedited grant was due to already holding this access on an alternative account. Your notes above are still useful though! — xaosflux ^Talk 20:10, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

As xaosflux said, I know the translate extension pretty well, having held various presentations about. ;) Those pages mentioned are very specific and one of them was due to be sent substituted to village pumps (which made future translations not very useful). In my opinion, it made way more sense for me to put less effort into super-correct translation tags when there was only one target language to be expected, my very own translation. Of course, the situation is a very different one for projects like Wikipedia to the Moon which require very sensitive work on translation tags (back then with different quality, of course). I hope you will understand these circumstances here. … Can you give an example for the second bullet point? I'm not sure if I fully understood what you mean. Best, Martin Rulsch (WMDE) (talk) 09:32, 6 September 2022 (UTC) PS: I'm not a huge fan of breaking texts into (more or less) distinct parts. In particular when they are expected to be translated by multiple people. In my opinion, this contradicts the en:skopos theory which we considered a useful one during my language and translation studies at university. And sadly, bad translations urges literary scholars like me to spend tons and tons of extra hours to make some acutal sense out of such texts which feel more like the medieval interlinear translations we had to deal with in our studies (a very common phenomenon with WMF-given translations). However, it's still the best tool we have.

• I usually point markup issues on RFA pages, to ensure they are well understood by requesters; but I have no opposition to grant this second account, I trust you to do this job properly. 🙂
• About 2-blocks-in-same-unit segmenting, I spoke about including closing HTML tag without the opening one. Since the two parts are not the same sentence, we should wrap them in 2 different units, excluding HTML tags from translation.
• To get high-quality translations, you’re surely right: translators should translate the page as a whole. However we are on a wiki: content are massive (so much pages to translate!), and regularly edited. To keep translations up-to-date easily, and to facilitate newcomer first steps (increasing the count of translators), keeping translation units short is probably the best way.

-- Pols12 (talk) 19:11, 6 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the explanations and thoughts! The second bullet point indeed is weird. I'm pretty sure that I have marked it as you suggested for the very same reasons. I avoid taking HTML tags into translation units in general (including <br />; instead, the source text should be improved, in my opinion). Therefore, it was either an actual mistake or a strange hiccup of the software. Anyways, it's fixed now! Thanks for the open eyes. Best, Martin Rulsch (WMDE) (talk) 09:47, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

Campaigns Product Update #4

Hello Campaigns Product Newsletter subscribers!

We are excited to share our updates:

• Event Registration v0

We have successfully launched Event Registration tool V0 on beta cluster and collected feedback from the first batch of testers. This tool is part of a more comprehensive organizing solution, the Event Center, which hopes to support movement organizers. Through this registration solution, organizers can collect useful data on campaign participants and their needs while respecting participant privacy.

Testing update. In our first round of feedback collection, testers were composed of different types of organizers around the movement with a language focus on Arabic, French, English, and Swahili communities. Most of the testers successfully created their test event registrations and signed up for a test event registration created by other organizers. Simple, easy to use, and aids in managing event participants were the common feedback we received from first-time users. In contrast, access and proper localization of the tool were the points for improvement identified. We are working on V1, which will include communication support and integration with the Programs and Event Dashboard. This will be released on Meta-Wiki soon. We hope to address accessibility during this launch and improve localization problems once the tool has been deployed in local wikiprojects.

The tool is still available for testing on the beta cluster. Feel free to leave feedback on our project talk page or this form.

• Organizer Lab
  Looking for a way to learn how to effectively organize around sustainability? Join the beta version of the Organizer Lab on WikiLearn to understand how to effectively organize a global campaign around sustainability and climate change! Applications are open from September 22 - October 19, 2022. The Organizer Lab will be a 9-week online learning experience from the end of October until mid December that prepares participants to obtain knowledge about the topics that they wish to create, a call to action for strategic knowledge gaps, as well as more generalized Wikimedia organizing and campaign/event design skills.

Read more about the program!

What's Next:

• Organizer Lab Information Session. We invite you to join our information session for the Organizer Lab on September 30, 2022 at 14:00 UTC via Zoom. Join this session!
  

• Organizer User Rights. We are reaching out to a pool of administrators from Arabic, French and Swahili communities to collect feedback on what is the best way to define organizer user rights, what privileges to give to community organizers, and what are the limitations of these privileges. Feel free to reach out to our product ambassadors or send an email to ibrazal-ctr@wikimedia.org if you are interested to be part of these conversations.

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Community Feedback:

"Participants have been always asking the organizers are asked by participants whether they are registered, now participants will just look directly if they are registered, Thank you for creating the system"
- French Organizer

“I think that the platform will facilitate the process of promoting events and searching for participants”
- Arabic Organizer

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Thank you!

The Campaigns Product Team

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:30, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Campaigns Product Team Office Hour - December 2022

Hello Campaigns Product Newsletter subscribers!

The Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns Team invites you to join our upcoming office hours. In each session, we will introduce V1 of Event Registration Tool, so you can begin using it for real events on Meta-wiki.

In V1, the following new features will be includedː

• Support for the organizer to specify an event timezone
• Automatic confirmation emails after participants have registered
• Private registration: the option for participants to register and only display their registered username to organizers of the event and we will teach you how you can use it yourself.

Office Hour Sessions:

• 1st Session: December 5, 2022 @ 18:00 UTC via Zoom
• 2nd Session: December 10, 2022 @ 12:00 UTC via Zoom

Join us and share your thoughts on these developments!

These office hours will be multilingual, with live interpretations in Arabic, English, French, and Swahili. Email us @ ibrazal-ctr@wikimedia.org or sign-up here if you want to receive a reminder for this meeting.

Thank you.

The Campaigns Product Team

Organizer Tools Office Hours & Event Discovery Project

(Lire ce message en français); (Ver este mensaje en español); (Angalia ujumbe huu kwa Kiswahili); (إقرأ هذه الرسالة بالعربي) Please help translate to your language .

The Campaigns team at the Wikimedia Foundation has some updates to share with you, which are:

We invite you to attend our upcoming community office hours to learn about organizer tools, including the Event registration tool (which has new and upcoming features). The office hours are on the following dates, and you can join one or both of them:

• Saturday, October 7 at 12:00 UTC (Register here)
  • Languages available: Arabic, English, French, Swahili
• Tuesday, October 10 at 18:00 UTC (Register here).
  • Languages available: Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili

We have launched a new project: Event Discovery. This project aims to make it easier for editors to learn about campaign events. We need your help to understand how you would like to discover events on the wikis, so that we can create a useful solution. Please share your feedback on our project talk page.

Thank you, and we hope to see you at the upcoming office hours!

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:54, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

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