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Re: GSoC

Hey Sumana,

I presumed IRC-style chats would be difficult, given the range of timezones and the fact that I have a ton of A-level examinations over the next fortnight. Regards email, then, 5 students answered the original call; I responded three or four weeks ago by telling them specifically what would be best. I have had two responses to that email. Given that they are, after all, volunteer programmers I have avoided reminders. Do you have any thoughts? - Jarry1250 ^{[Weasel? Discuss.]} 19:25, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

• Jarry1250, go ahead and remind them. They're volunteers but we want this coverage and I say it's ok to nag them a little.  :-)

Re: New Orleans Wikimedia Hackathon

As much as I like the idea, I think you might have me confused with someone else who is already involved in these projects? Or is this a subtle method of recruitment? :) --Joy [shallot] (talk) 18:42, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Good to know :) but the cost of plane tickets to New Orleans is prohibitive for us relative outsiders. If I may suggest an idea - start a sponsorship program like DebConf :) --Joy [shallot] (talk) 20:05, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

We do sometimes sponsor attendees. Thanks for the thought! Sumanah (talk) 20:14, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Some stroopwafels for you!

You are the bestestest. Mellsworthy (talk) 01:10, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello there!!

Sorry I've taken so long to respond! Last week was busy and I've been camping this weekend. About IRC, yes it would be good, I'm nearly always on freenode on #apertium as 'spectie', 'spectei' or 'spectre'. I'll add #mediawiki to my autojoin though. - Francis Tyers · 22:05, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

Hello

Hello - do you know that you are posting a red link to lots of people's talk pages? Maybe you meant it to be different? SmartSE (talk) 15:05, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Actually, you can ignore that - I fixed it by copying the content from User:Sumanah/UpcomingDevMeetings into {{User:Sumanah/UpcomingDevMeetings}}. SmartSE (talk) 15:08, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, you caught it before I could fix it! Thanks so much. Sumanah (talk) 15:10, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

No problem. SmartSE (talk) 15:20, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Invitation

Hey there. While I keep up on some of the WP stuff, based on my account I'm surprised there'd be any reason to promote the bot, template and gadget-maker events on my particular talk page. I was wondering (you know, for science) if the selection process was randomized and I just got lucky, of if I seem qualified in spite of so many months of inactivity :) Equalx (talk) 16:33, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

The "selection process" was not terribly sciencey. ;-) It started with me looking for people who had categorized themselves as having good template or other programming skills, and then widened as I saw who had spoken up about template or userscript/Gadget-related issues on those folks' Talk pages. I saw you on Cacycle's Talk page, followed up on your contributions, saw that you had edited a monobook.js file, and decided you should hear about the events despite the fact that you hadn't edited for a little while. I'm hoping to spread the word about these developers' events to everyone who shows an interest in customizing and improving MediaWiki. Hope that clears things up! :-) Sumanah (talk) 16:38, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Oh, interesting. I don't even remember all of that (It's been a long time). But thanks for the invite - I'm actually looking to start paying a little more attention to what goes on here again, and I'll pass the info along to a few friends who know more about this stuff than I do. Equalx (talk) 16:44, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

Hello Sumanah! Thanks for the invitation to join WikiMedia developers' days, I'll have to pop over at some point (depending on where I am at the time). All the best. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:13, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Template:User:Sumanah/UpcomingDevMeetings

That is a redlink. I think you might want to fix your settings on Twinkle so that doesn't show up in the summary. :-) Killiondude (talk) 00:36, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Blargh! I thought this problem had gone away/been fixed - not sure how it reappeared. Fixing, thanks. :-) Sumana Harihareswara, Wikimedia Foundation Volunteer Development Coordinator 00:41, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

I think it's because redirects from the Template: namespace to the User: namespace are frowned upon. It's probably better if you just fix your config file. No problem. Killiondude (talk)

Berlin Hackathon

Hey Sumanah, thanks for the invitation. =) I've still not decided if I would be willing to attend, but if I did, I would probably need a fair bit of support - I have no experience traveling abroad (I've never even left the state without being accompanied by family, and even in those cases it wasn't a trip of my own planning), no passport, and no money (gah, I'm just a bum! =O ). I'm sure attending would be an incredible experience for me, but I'm not at all convinced it would be worth the effort required to support me for whomever ended up doing so. =/ 「ディノ奴千？！」^{? · ☎ Dinoguy1000} 04:24, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Tulsi Gabbard

Hi Sumanah,

Nice work on the Tulsi Gabbard article. One question: you just added the following paragraph:

In February 2011, Gabbard faced harassment from Aniruddha Sherbow, who threatened her via text message and made abusive phone calls to her. She obtained a three-year injunction against Sherbow[18] and urged other harrassment victims to be strong, make that decision to fight back and hold people accountable for their actions — otherwise it won't stop."

It has a close-quote but no open-quote. What's being quoted, and who from? Thanks! --JBL (talk) 15:41, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that, JBL. Fixed, I believe. Also, I hadn't realized that policy is to use the current last name even when talking about what a person did under a previous name -- I want to avoid confusion. Can you point me to a good example of an article that negotiates this kind of problem gracefully? Thanks! Sumana Harihareswara 15:58, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks! Well, to be honest I have no idea what policy is here. I poked around a bit and was surprised to find (e.g.) that Hillary Clinton goes back and forth between being "Rodham" and "Clinton" in her article, depending what part of her life is under discussion. But obviously that's not quite parallel, since it's a single maiden->married name change. I haven't been able to think of anyone who took a married name and later dropped it for comparison :(. I personally find it confusing when an individual is referred to by multiple names, but perhaps I'm unusual. Probably you should just do whatever feels right to you, since you're doing such a nice job with the article otherwise. --JBL (talk) 16:18, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words. I'll follow the example of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and use different names depending on what part of the subject's life is being discussed. Thanks! Sumana Harihareswara 20:46, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Can We Link It & Toolserver

I noticed your message on Nickj's talk page. Was source code access an issue? because this mailinglist archive still seems to have a working link to a early (2006-06-22) version of it. V (talk) 21:20, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Stub tags

Please take care not to add {{stub}} to an article like Mahamanina Falls which already has a specific stub tag (here it was {{Madagascar-geo-stub}}). It just wastes other editors' time. Thanks. PamD 09:27, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

I shall attempt to do so; thanks for the heads-up. Sumana Harihareswara 13:35, 17 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikilove vs. thanks

Hey Sumanah, regarding your question about a pointer to measurements of the influence of WikiLove:

• mw:WikiLove/Analysis
• http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AbuseLog&wpSearchFilter=423
• WikiLove usage statistics, en:Wikipedia:Database_reports/WikiLove_usage
• WikiLove data dashboard - Toolserver

There are more thanks notifications than wikilove:

• Thanks notifications stats ( it seems that "thanks" notifications have fallen from ~400 thanks daily to ~250 thanks daily (since around June 11). I partially blame this on the formulated confirmation text ;-) which should be improved.)

See also some ideas about this kind of positive feedback especially for newbies (and "gesichtete Versionen") at mw:Extension_talk:Thanks#Early_thoughts and de:Benutzer:Atlasowa/WikiDank-EditLob (german, sorry, I hope you can manage with googletranslate).--Atlasowa (talk) 16:04, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Happy New Year Sumanah!

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Hi

Hi Sumana, I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed watching your conference talk on video. Your point about hospitality versus liberty was really well made, and I loved the idea of having paid representatives to do the "emotional labour" in certain conflict situations. There are lots of situations on Wikipedia where that's exactly what we need. Thank you so much for a wonderful and thoughtful presentation. SlimVirgin ^(talk) 00:32, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

@SlimVirgin: - I am so thoroughly happy to have given you some useful ideas and lenses and (I hope) tools! I hope you also take a look at the Ada Initiative's recommendations and consider advocating for them when you see the opportunity. Thank you for your message and for letting me know how my talk affected you; it was wonderful to hear. Sumana Harihareswara 13:12, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi, Sumana,
I just wanted to let you know that I applied to Hacker School really because of your presentation at WikiConUSA. I don't have a lot of programming experience and I'm doubtful that I'll be accepted but I wanted to let you know that because of your talk, my life could be heading in a very different direction. I'm so glad I went to the conference and heard your talk. Thank you! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:56, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Liz, I'm very grateful to have been able to help you learn of a new opportunity. I am glad you got a lot out of my talk! And best wishes in enjoying programming and learning more! Maybe we'll get to pair program sometime. Sumana Harihareswara 04:28, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

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Nice work there

Hi there Sumana, great work with your editing. Keep it up. Happy editing, hope to co-edit an article with you, Cheerio. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 13:41, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

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Seeking info on FEMA independent study courses.

Hello! I'm trying to archive some FEMA independent study courses on some important topics, and in my quest to figure out their system, I stumbled on your MF question about the exact issue (https://ask.metafilter.com/376738/Printable-versions-of-FEMA-independent-study-online-courses). Rather than reinventing the wheel, I thought I might check in to see if you had made any progress on the issue?

Like you, I found there were some courses that have a easy "download course materials" link, but others don't.

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Hi! Sorry but no, I did not work on that and so I didn't make any further progress on the issue. Thanks for your work on this and good luck! Sumana Harihareswara 19:53, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on May 8. Please help translate.

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Highlights

• Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
• Digital Public Goods: The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).
• Better bot detection: A trial of hCaptcha on several Wikipedias, including English, French, and Japanese, showed it can effectively detect and deter bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards signals to look into. Based on these results, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis. See the project page for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

Example of the Attribution Framework recommendations.

• A better way to give credit: The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.
• Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge: The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.
• Account security: The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.
• Incident reporting form: The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.
• Encouraging account creation: Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.
• Wikimedia Android App: The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: Community, featuring refreshed Explore content, and For You, with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The For You feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.
• Better discovery of images: The Image Browsing beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article’s images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
• Reading Lists feature: The Foundation is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18 on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and will run for a month.

A design mockup of what the share card looks like.

• Testing Suggestion Mode: Suggestion Mode was released as an A/B test for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias. The experiment will measure its impact on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. It will also evaluate the feature’s impact on editor retention and monitor changes in revert and block rates.
• Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references: References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.
• Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia: The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta.
• Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
• Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 20, 21, 22, 23 include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• Tech blog moved to Diff: The migration of the Techblog to Diff is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.
• What’s new in the Wikipedia Library: Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library.
• New course on WikiLearn: A free self-paced online course, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.
• Wiki Mentor Africa: The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.
• Let's Connect Learning Clinic: If you missed it, you can now watch the recording of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.
• Community Conferences: Registration for WikiConference North America and Queering Wiki Conference is now opened. Call for Speakers for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

• Sharing the Form 990s: The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read the highlights on Form 990 for the Foundation and Form 990 for the Endowment on Meta-Wiki.
• Wikimedia Enterprise: Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.
• Structured Contents: How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia to Markdown with Python.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board selection process: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation on 16 June at 17:00 UTC, and share your ideas on the talk page.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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