Re: [Wikimedia-l] Invitation to WMF September 2017 Metrics & Activities Meeting: Thursday, September 28, 18:00 UTC

[Lena Traer]

REMINDER: This meeting starts in 30 minutes.


On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Lena Traer  wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take
> place on Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC
> channel is #wikimedia-office on https://webchat.freenode.net, and the
> meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream.[1]
>
> During the September metrics meeting, we'll hear from different community
> members about how the Wikimedia movement works within the broader ecosystem
> of free and open knowledge in the world today. Speakers will present and
> discuss collaborations with outside institutions in the knowledge
> ecosystem, including in the area of public policy as well as collaborations
> with librarians.
>
> Meeting agenda:
>
> * Welcomes, theme introduction
> * Movement update
> * Wikimedia and public policy
> * Wikipedia and (US Public) Libraries: Connecting Communities of Knowledge
> * Executive update
> * Questions and discussion
> * Wikilove
>
> Please review
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
> metrics_and_activities_meetings
> for further information about the meeting and how to participate.
>
> We’ll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
>
> Thank you,
> Lena
>
> [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6xxlUmxKM8
>
> Lena Traer
> Project Assistant // Communications // Advancement
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Emerging Communities: a proposed new definition

[Eduardo Testart]

Hi all,

In my personal opinion, the term "emerging communities" is much more
healthy and acceptable than Global South, which always sounded patronizing
and diminshing.

And I also like and celebrate the initiative to create our own definition :)


Cheers!
P.S.: The map in the link needs a thorough review ;)

El sept. 28, 2017 7:09 AM, "Gerard Meijssen" 
escribió:

> Hoi,
> For me this initiative raises more questions then it answers. As I
> understand it, it is a change in vocabulary and it defines when a
> Wikipedia  community is big enough to get "official" attention.
>
> My problem is that it is very much standalone; it does not connect with
> other practices. It does mention "incubating languages" but it does not
> mention the incubator. In the language committee we have had organisations,
> educational organisations who want to champion a language in their school.
> This makes them bigger than the limit of 10 editors. At this time we do not
> have a way to accomodate such requests. In my opinion for all the wrong
> reasons. The wrong reasons because we know how effective schools are in
> providing basic facts in a Wikipedia..
>
> Once the Wikimedia Foundation had a group of technical people who worked on
> language technology. Most of these people are still working at the WMF but
> they are no longer involved in language tech. This became obvious when a
> really worthy improvement for the Bashkir language, collation, was
> implemented by a volunteer and Amir blogged that he had supported it as a
> *volunteer*.. (he made a point of this). Particularly in the smaller
> languages issues like collation are areas where the Wikimedia could make a
> big difference. It is quite obvious that when we advertise the quality of
> our language support (and because of our existing font support it is
> already quite good) we can gain a lot of adventurous people.
>
> In the current approach to languages and support it is imho very much
> Wikipedia as we know it. We do not leverage the content in Wikidata as much
> as we could. There has a lot of acrimoniousness regarding the Cebuano
> Wikipedia. Millions of articles were generated as fixed text and
> consequently it is currently impossible to maintain it.  The root cause is
> our inability to cooperate. When this information was imported in Wikidata
> (and cooperate with the original source) we could generate the text and
> serve it as cached content. When the data is improved, the cached text gets
> changed. The fact that such things are not considered is proof perfect of
> opportunities wasted. Opportunities open to any language.
>
> So it would be really cool when we consider how we can "share in the sum of
> all our available knowledge". This is attainable if we dare to think
> through what we can achieve and how we can make the most out of our
> communities and the knowledge they hold.
> Thanks,
>GerardM
>
> On 27 September 2017 at 19:28, Asaf Bartov  wrote:
>
> > Dear Wikimedians,
> >
> > Years ago, as part of the first Strategy process of 2009-2010, a
> > distinction entered our lives, between Global North and Global South
> > countries.  That distinction was borrowed from a United Nations agency
> > named ITU, and it was used as shorthand to refer to communities the
> > Foundation considered to need additional resources and help to achieve
> > impact on our mission of creating and sharing free knowledge.
> >
> > However, the distinction was never a very good fit for us.  It was based
> on
> > UN notions like the Human Development Index, and gave much weight to
> > nation-wide economic conditions.  Its binary nature did not allow for
> > distinguishing between countries where Wikimedia work is possible and
> > happening, albeit with difficulty, and ones where no Wikimedia work, or
> > next to none, is happening, or possible.  It also looked only at
> geography,
> > whereas much of our work is defined by language communities and not by
> > geographies.  And it was political and alienating to many people.
> >
> > In short, it was both not as useful as we needed it to be as well as
> > unloved and rejected by many.
> >
> > The Community Resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been
> thinking
> > about replacing that distinction with a more nuanced one, that would be a
> > much better fit with our needs, would take into account the actual state
> of
> > editing communities, would consider multiple axes beyond geography, and
> > would be less controversial.
> >
> > We began using the term "emerging communities" two years ago, first as a
> > replacement for the term Global South, but it has always been our
> intention
> > to define Emerging Communities ourselves.  Finishing the proposed
> > definition took a back seat for a while due to other priorities, but we
> are
> > ready to share the proposed definition today:
> >
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/
> > Defining_Emerging_Communities
> >
> >
> > We welcome your thoughts, on 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Diversity Award for the mentoring program of the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna

[Tanweer Morshed]

Congratulations to Wikimedia Austria!




On Thursday, September 28, 2017, Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia Nederland <
rient...@wikimedia.nl> wrote:

> Congratulations!
>
> Sandra Rientjes
> Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland
>
> tel.(+31) (0)30 3200238
> mob. (+31) (0)6  31786379
>
> www.wikimedia.nl
>
> *Postadres*: *
> Bezoekadres:*
> Postbus 167Mariaplaats 3
> 3500 AD  Utrecht Utrecht
>
> 2017-09-28 15:39 GMT+02:00 Claudia Garád  >:
>
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > We wanted to share some good news with you: Our international team around
> > the Wikimedia Hackathon mentoring program won the first Austrian Open
> > Source Award in the category "Diversity" [1].
> >
> > The Austrian Open Source Award was established this year in order to
> raise
> > awareness and visibility for our local Open Source Communities and their
> > projects. The jury consisted of representatives from across the various
> > Open Communities in Austria (Open Knowledge, Linux, and Drupal among
> > others) and honoured outstanding projects in the categories Open Data,
> Open
> > Software, Open Hardware, and Diversity.
> >
> > The Jury particularly mentioned our comprehensive documentation under a
> > free license which enables other event organizers to apply our ideas and
> > concepts and to build on them [2] [3].
> > We are very happy about this positive signal for inclusive events, which
> > make it easier for all newcomers to join our great communities and we
> hope
> > it encourages even more people to also make our other Wikimedia events
> more
> > and more newcomer friendly. A special thanks goes to our awesome mentors
> > who were the heart and soul of the mentoring program and the Hackathon!
> >
> > For more information about what we learned around the mentoring program
> > you can also check out our post from the Wikimedia Blog [4].
> >
> > [1]: https://www.openminds.at/
> > [2]:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook
> > [3]:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/
> > Mentoring_Program
> > [4]: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/31/vienna-hackathon-learnings/
> > --
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> > Executive Director
> >
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> > 1070 Wien
> > www.wikimedia.at
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Diversity Award for the mentoring program of the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna

[Sandra Rientjes - Wikimedia Nederland]

Congratulations!

Sandra Rientjes
Directeur/Executive Director Wikimedia Nederland

tel.(+31) (0)30 3200238
mob. (+31) (0)6  31786379

www.wikimedia.nl

*Postadres*: * Bezoekadres:*
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2017-09-28 15:39 GMT+02:00 Claudia Garád :

> Hello everyone!
>
> We wanted to share some good news with you: Our international team around
> the Wikimedia Hackathon mentoring program won the first Austrian Open
> Source Award in the category "Diversity" [1].
>
> The Austrian Open Source Award was established this year in order to raise
> awareness and visibility for our local Open Source Communities and their
> projects. The jury consisted of representatives from across the various
> Open Communities in Austria (Open Knowledge, Linux, and Drupal among
> others) and honoured outstanding projects in the categories Open Data, Open
> Software, Open Hardware, and Diversity.
>
> The Jury particularly mentioned our comprehensive documentation under a
> free license which enables other event organizers to apply our ideas and
> concepts and to build on them [2] [3].
> We are very happy about this positive signal for inclusive events, which
> make it easier for all newcomers to join our great communities and we hope
> it encourages even more people to also make our other Wikimedia events more
> and more newcomer friendly. A special thanks goes to our awesome mentors
> who were the heart and soul of the mentoring program and the Hackathon!
>
> For more information about what we learned around the mentoring program
> you can also check out our post from the Wikimedia Blog [4].
>
> [1]: https://www.openminds.at/
> [2]:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook
> [3]:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/
> Mentoring_Program
> [4]: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/31/vienna-hackathon-learnings/
> --
> Claudia Garád
> Executive Director
>
> *Wikimedia Österreich*
> Stolzenthalergasse /1
> 1070 Wien
> www.wikimedia.at
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Diversity Award for the mentoring program of the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna

[Anna Torres]

Congrats on behalf of Wikimedia Argentina!!!

2017-09-28 10:41 GMT-03:00 Pierre-Selim :

> Kudos to the whole hackathon team!
>
> Le 28 sept. 2017 15:39, "Claudia Garád"  a
> écrit :
>
> Hello everyone!
>
> We wanted to share some good news with you: Our international team around
> the Wikimedia Hackathon mentoring program won the first Austrian Open
> Source Award in the category "Diversity" [1].
>
> The Austrian Open Source Award was established this year in order to raise
> awareness and visibility for our local Open Source Communities and their
> projects. The jury consisted of representatives from across the various
> Open Communities in Austria (Open Knowledge, Linux, and Drupal among
> others) and honoured outstanding projects in the categories Open Data, Open
> Software, Open Hardware, and Diversity.
>
> The Jury particularly mentioned our comprehensive documentation under a
> free license which enables other event organizers to apply our ideas and
> concepts and to build on them [2] [3].
> We are very happy about this positive signal for inclusive events, which
> make it easier for all newcomers to join our great communities and we hope
> it encourages even more people to also make our other Wikimedia events more
> and more newcomer friendly. A special thanks goes to our awesome mentors
> who were the heart and soul of the mentoring program and the Hackathon!
>
> For more information about what we learned around the mentoring program you
> can also check out our post from the Wikimedia Blog [4].
>
> [1]: https://www.openminds.at/
> [2]:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook
> [3]:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/
> Mentoring_Program
> [4]: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/31/vienna-hackathon-learnings/
> --
> Claudia Garád
> Executive Director
>
> *Wikimedia Österreich*
> Stolzenthalergasse /1
> 1070 Wien
> www.wikimedia.at
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Diversity Award for the mentoring program of the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna

[Pierre-Selim]

Kudos to the whole hackathon team!

Le 28 sept. 2017 15:39, "Claudia Garád"  a
écrit :

Hello everyone!

We wanted to share some good news with you: Our international team around
the Wikimedia Hackathon mentoring program won the first Austrian Open
Source Award in the category "Diversity" [1].

The Austrian Open Source Award was established this year in order to raise
awareness and visibility for our local Open Source Communities and their
projects. The jury consisted of representatives from across the various
Open Communities in Austria (Open Knowledge, Linux, and Drupal among
others) and honoured outstanding projects in the categories Open Data, Open
Software, Open Hardware, and Diversity.

The Jury particularly mentioned our comprehensive documentation under a
free license which enables other event organizers to apply our ideas and
concepts and to build on them [2] [3].
We are very happy about this positive signal for inclusive events, which
make it easier for all newcomers to join our great communities and we hope
it encourages even more people to also make our other Wikimedia events more
and more newcomer friendly. A special thanks goes to our awesome mentors
who were the heart and soul of the mentoring program and the Hackathon!

For more information about what we learned around the mentoring program you
can also check out our post from the Wikimedia Blog [4].

[1]: https://www.openminds.at/
[2]:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook
[3]:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/
Mentoring_Program
[4]: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/31/vienna-hackathon-learnings/
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*Wikimedia Österreich*
Stolzenthalergasse /1
1070 Wien
www.wikimedia.at

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[Wikimedia-l] Diversity Award for the mentoring program of the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon in Vienna

[Claudia Garád]

Hello everyone!

We wanted to share some good news with you: Our international team 
around the Wikimedia Hackathon mentoring program won the first Austrian 
Open Source Award in the category "Diversity" [1].


The Austrian Open Source Award was established this year in order to 
raise awareness and visibility for our local Open Source Communities and 
their projects. The jury consisted of representatives from across the 
various Open Communities in Austria (Open Knowledge, Linux, and Drupal 
among others) and honoured outstanding projects in the categories Open 
Data, Open Software, Open Hardware, and Diversity.


The Jury particularly mentioned our comprehensive documentation under a 
free license which enables other event organizers to apply our ideas and 
concepts and to build on them [2] [3].
We are very happy about this positive signal for inclusive events, which 
make it easier for all newcomers to join our great communities and we 
hope it encourages even more people to also make our other Wikimedia 
events more and more newcomer friendly. A special thanks goes to our 
awesome mentors who were the heart and soul of the mentoring program and 
the Hackathon!


For more information about what we learned around the mentoring program 
you can also check out our post from the Wikimedia Blog [4].


[1]: https://www.openminds.at/
[2]:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Handbook
[3]:https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017/Mentoring_Program
[4]: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/05/31/vienna-hackathon-learnings/
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Executive Director

*Wikimedia Österreich*
Stolzenthalergasse /1
1070 Wien
www.wikimedia.at

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Emerging Communities: a proposed new definition

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
For me this initiative raises more questions then it answers. As I
understand it, it is a change in vocabulary and it defines when a
Wikipedia  community is big enough to get "official" attention.

My problem is that it is very much standalone; it does not connect with
other practices. It does mention "incubating languages" but it does not
mention the incubator. In the language committee we have had organisations,
educational organisations who want to champion a language in their school.
This makes them bigger than the limit of 10 editors. At this time we do not
have a way to accomodate such requests. In my opinion for all the wrong
reasons. The wrong reasons because we know how effective schools are in
providing basic facts in a Wikipedia..

Once the Wikimedia Foundation had a group of technical people who worked on
language technology. Most of these people are still working at the WMF but
they are no longer involved in language tech. This became obvious when a
really worthy improvement for the Bashkir language, collation, was
implemented by a volunteer and Amir blogged that he had supported it as a
*volunteer*.. (he made a point of this). Particularly in the smaller
languages issues like collation are areas where the Wikimedia could make a
big difference. It is quite obvious that when we advertise the quality of
our language support (and because of our existing font support it is
already quite good) we can gain a lot of adventurous people.

In the current approach to languages and support it is imho very much
Wikipedia as we know it. We do not leverage the content in Wikidata as much
as we could. There has a lot of acrimoniousness regarding the Cebuano
Wikipedia. Millions of articles were generated as fixed text and
consequently it is currently impossible to maintain it.  The root cause is
our inability to cooperate. When this information was imported in Wikidata
(and cooperate with the original source) we could generate the text and
serve it as cached content. When the data is improved, the cached text gets
changed. The fact that such things are not considered is proof perfect of
opportunities wasted. Opportunities open to any language.

So it would be really cool when we consider how we can "share in the sum of
all our available knowledge". This is attainable if we dare to think
through what we can achieve and how we can make the most out of our
communities and the knowledge they hold.
Thanks,
   GerardM

On 27 September 2017 at 19:28, Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> Years ago, as part of the first Strategy process of 2009-2010, a
> distinction entered our lives, between Global North and Global South
> countries.  That distinction was borrowed from a United Nations agency
> named ITU, and it was used as shorthand to refer to communities the
> Foundation considered to need additional resources and help to achieve
> impact on our mission of creating and sharing free knowledge.
>
> However, the distinction was never a very good fit for us.  It was based on
> UN notions like the Human Development Index, and gave much weight to
> nation-wide economic conditions.  Its binary nature did not allow for
> distinguishing between countries where Wikimedia work is possible and
> happening, albeit with difficulty, and ones where no Wikimedia work, or
> next to none, is happening, or possible.  It also looked only at geography,
> whereas much of our work is defined by language communities and not by
> geographies.  And it was political and alienating to many people.
>
> In short, it was both not as useful as we needed it to be as well as
> unloved and rejected by many.
>
> The Community Resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been thinking
> about replacing that distinction with a more nuanced one, that would be a
> much better fit with our needs, would take into account the actual state of
> editing communities, would consider multiple axes beyond geography, and
> would be less controversial.
>
> We began using the term "emerging communities" two years ago, first as a
> replacement for the term Global South, but it has always been our intention
> to define Emerging Communities ourselves.  Finishing the proposed
> definition took a back seat for a while due to other priorities, but we are
> ready to share the proposed definition today:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/
> Defining_Emerging_Communities
>
>
> We welcome your thoughts, on the talk page (ideally) or on this thread.
> The definition is already our working definition, but we are open to
> incorporating changes to both wording and substance through October 31st.
>
> Be sure to take a look at the FAQ supplied at the bottom of the page, too.
> :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Asaf
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Emerging Communities: a proposed new definition

[Andrea Zanni]

FWIW, I always liked the term "emerging communities"
because it's very broad, and it can be applied not just to countries but
also cultures, minorities, sub-communities of any sort.

For example,
I would very much like to call the Wikisource community an "emerging" one,
because it needs the exact care/attention/incubation that the WMF is trying
to provide with this program.
I know it's a bit stretched, but maybe it's a sort of helpful frame for
sister project communities.

Aubrey

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Strainu  wrote:

> I would like to thank the Community Resources team for dropping the highly
> discriminatory division into North and South and for proposing a more
> nuanced approach.
>
> I would also urge the remaining teams within the WMF that still use the
> terms to consider less offensive alternatives suitable for their particular
> purposes.
>
> Strainu
>
> În 27 septembrie 2017 20:28:52 EEST, Asaf Bartov 
> a scris:
> >Dear Wikimedians,
> >
> >Years ago, as part of the first Strategy process of 2009-2010, a
> >distinction entered our lives, between Global North and Global South
> >countries.  That distinction was borrowed from a United Nations agency
> >named ITU, and it was used as shorthand to refer to communities the
> >Foundation considered to need additional resources and help to achieve
> >impact on our mission of creating and sharing free knowledge.
> >
> >However, the distinction was never a very good fit for us.  It was
> >based on
> >UN notions like the Human Development Index, and gave much weight to
> >nation-wide economic conditions.  Its binary nature did not allow for
> >distinguishing between countries where Wikimedia work is possible and
> >happening, albeit with difficulty, and ones where no Wikimedia work, or
> >next to none, is happening, or possible.  It also looked only at
> >geography,
> >whereas much of our work is defined by language communities and not by
> >geographies.  And it was political and alienating to many people.
> >
> >In short, it was both not as useful as we needed it to be as well as
> >unloved and rejected by many.
> >
> >The Community Resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been
> >thinking
> >about replacing that distinction with a more nuanced one, that would be
> >a
> >much better fit with our needs, would take into account the actual
> >state of
> >editing communities, would consider multiple axes beyond geography, and
> >would be less controversial.
> >
> >We began using the term "emerging communities" two years ago, first as
> >a
> >replacement for the term Global South, but it has always been our
> >intention
> >to define Emerging Communities ourselves.  Finishing the proposed
> >definition took a back seat for a while due to other priorities, but we
> >are
> >ready to share the proposed definition today:
> >
> >https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/
> Defining_Emerging_Communities
> >
> >
> >We welcome your thoughts, on the talk page (ideally) or on this thread.
> >The definition is already our working definition, but we are open to
> >incorporating changes to both wording and substance through October
> >31st.
> >
> >Be sure to take a look at the FAQ supplied at the bottom of the page,
> >too.
> >:)
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Asaf
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Emerging Communities: a proposed new definition

[Strainu]

I would like to thank the Community Resources team for dropping the highly 
discriminatory division into North and South and for proposing a more nuanced 
approach. 

I would also urge the remaining teams within the WMF that still use the terms 
to consider less offensive alternatives suitable for their particular purposes. 

Strainu

În 27 septembrie 2017 20:28:52 EEST, Asaf Bartov  a 
scris:
>Dear Wikimedians,
>
>Years ago, as part of the first Strategy process of 2009-2010, a
>distinction entered our lives, between Global North and Global South
>countries.  That distinction was borrowed from a United Nations agency
>named ITU, and it was used as shorthand to refer to communities the
>Foundation considered to need additional resources and help to achieve
>impact on our mission of creating and sharing free knowledge.
>
>However, the distinction was never a very good fit for us.  It was
>based on
>UN notions like the Human Development Index, and gave much weight to
>nation-wide economic conditions.  Its binary nature did not allow for
>distinguishing between countries where Wikimedia work is possible and
>happening, albeit with difficulty, and ones where no Wikimedia work, or
>next to none, is happening, or possible.  It also looked only at
>geography,
>whereas much of our work is defined by language communities and not by
>geographies.  And it was political and alienating to many people.
>
>In short, it was both not as useful as we needed it to be as well as
>unloved and rejected by many.
>
>The Community Resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation has been
>thinking
>about replacing that distinction with a more nuanced one, that would be
>a
>much better fit with our needs, would take into account the actual
>state of
>editing communities, would consider multiple axes beyond geography, and
>would be less controversial.
>
>We began using the term "emerging communities" two years ago, first as
>a
>replacement for the term Global South, but it has always been our
>intention
>to define Emerging Communities ourselves.  Finishing the proposed
>definition took a back seat for a while due to other priorities, but we
>are
>ready to share the proposed definition today:
>
>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Defining_Emerging_Communities
>
>
>We welcome your thoughts, on the talk page (ideally) or on this thread.
>The definition is already our working definition, but we are open to
>incorporating changes to both wording and substance through October
>31st.
>
>Be sure to take a look at the FAQ supplied at the bottom of the page,
>too.
>:)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Asaf
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