[Wikimedia-l] You're invited! Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom - open meeting

[Melissa Guadalupe Huertas]

Dear Wikimedians,

[Please, excuse the cross-posting!]

We know how crucial media and information literacy skills are in today's
world and we see the opportunities in the use of Wikipedia as a pedagogical
tool. So how can we continue to support educators to integrate Wikipedia
into their classrooms to foster these skills?

Last year, the Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation launched the Reading
Wikipedia in the Classroom

program in 3 pilot countries: Bolivia, Morocco, and the Philippines. We
worked with local coordinators from the Wikimedia affiliates in each
country to provide an online professional development opportunity to close
to 1000 secondary school teachers

with a localized curriculum

that aligns Wikipedia with UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy
framework.

We would like to invite you to an open meeting where the Education team and
the pilot’s local coordinators will share the experiences of the program:
the curriculum design, the methodology, the impact, and the next steps for
you to get involved!

You can join us on one of these two dates via Zoom:

   -

   Thursday, May 6, 13:00 UTC (link to join:
   https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/93678353815)
   -

   Friday, May 7, 17:00 UTC (link to join:
   https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/99326961118)

We are eager to share our learnings with you and to continue working
towards a critical inclusion of Wikipedia in education. In the meantime,
you can explore the teacher's guides and booklets developed for the program
available on Wikimedia Commons

.

Please, don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or doubts you might
have (or if you need an invite to the event for your personal calendar).

¡Gracias!

-- 

Melissa Guadalupe Huertas (she/her)

Senior Program Officer, Education

Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Pre-announcing Movement Strategy Implementation Grants

[Quim Gil]

Hi, here is the DRAFT call for Movement Strategy Implementation Grants. We
have published this draft to start the translation work. Also to allow
anyone interested to start preparing their applications and ask any
questions.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_2030/2021_Call_for_Movement_Strategy_Implementation_Grants

Watch that page! We will update it as soon as we are ready to start
receiving applications. We will let you know on this channel as well.

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Qgil-WMF
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] COVID-19 second wave and protection of our most valuable movement asset

[Andreas Kolbe]

Dear Bodhisattwa,

Thanks for letting us know, that sounds like a great beginning!

Do keep us posted.

Warmly,
Andreas

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 5:46 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Andreas and all,
>
> There is some good news. Wikimedia Foundation Community Resources team has
> given permission to CIS-A2K to allot funds to reimburse vaccines, send
> COVID protection kits and provide counselling for Wikimedia volunteers in
> India. CIS-A2K has consulted Foreign Currency Regulation Act expert lawyers
> and got confirmation that the program can be executed as per the law of
> India. With this progress, we are now good to go. We had formed a 5-members
> committee of physicians (4 of them) from the Indian Wikimedia volunteer
> community. They had their first meeting almost an hour ago to decide the
> next steps to provide support as quickly and efficiently as possible. The
> action points are noted from the meeting and within a few days, we are sure
> that we will be able to provide support to the volunteers.  A meta page is
> also being drafted, which will undergo expansion and modification in the
> next few years. The lnk is here -
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_support_for_Wikimedians/India
>
> Regards,
> Bodhisattwa
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 20:24, Andreas Kolbe  wrote:
>
>> Dear Bodhisattwa,
>>
>> Could I ask you to please keep us up to date on the further Wikimedia
>> response to your request?
>>
>> I would love to hear about anything good that is happening as a result of
>> your having asked here – and if nothing useful is happening, I would love
>> to hear about that too – here or by private email, if you prefer.
>>
>> I am very aware that the WMF ran its first fundraising campaign in India
>> this fiscal year, and that one of the fundraising banner messages asked
>> people ... "to donate. Show the volunteers who bring you reliable neutral
>> information that their work matters."[1]
>>
>> And as you can read in my other post today, it's not like the Wikimedia
>> Foundation is poor.
>>
>> Be safe.
>> Andreas
>>
>> [1]
>> https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/wikipedia-makes-an-awkward-request-for-donations-in-india-71596125951781.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Wikimedians,
>>
>>
>>
>> We (the community resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation) have been in
>> contact with colleagues from the Wikimedia movement in India and wanted to
>> share some of the preliminary outcomes of our discussions.
>>
>>
>>
>> Firstly, we want to acknowledge the disastrous effect COVID-19 has had on
>> Wikimedia communities and its members across the movement. The COVID-19
>> pandemic has affected many of us in both direct and indirect ways.
>>
>>
>>
>> As has been noted by others on this email chain, we all agree that
>> Wikimedia volunteers are the most valuable assets of our movement.  As
>> mentioned in the previous email, providing insurance support to Wikimedia
>> volunteers in India would not have been possible due to regulatory and
>> legal challenges. However, we are committed to provide other help and
>> service to ensure that the movement is supported.
>>
>>
>>
>> As discussed on this chain, we feel that our partners are the best placed
>> to understand the needs locally and regionally. We are therefore working
>> with colleagues from India directly to provide practical help and support
>> to the movement there including access to vaccines, PPE kits,
>> disseminating
>> knowledge and fighting misinformation. We will continue to partner with
>> them and others to establish criteria in line with our mission to support
>> the communities. These are exceptional times, indeed but together we will
>> be able to make a difference and support each other.
>>
>>
>>
>> For any questions about this initiative please feel free to contact:
>> communityresour...@wikimedia.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> On behalf of Community Resources Team,
>>
>> Tanveer Hasan
>>
>>
>> ಗುರು, ಏಪ್ರಿ 22, 2021 ರಂದು 02:41 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Bodhisattwa Mandal <
>> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > COVID-19 has hit hard in India again making it the leading epicentre of
>> > the disease caused by the new mutated strains. The infection and death
>> > tolls have reached record high and the health system in different parts
>> of
>> > the country is on the verge of collapse.
>> >
>> > Like other common people, many Wikimedians might have lost their jobs
>> last
>> > year. Like last year, this year too, many volunteers have been infected
>> and
>> > hospitalised. Some of them have lost their family members, relatives,
>> > friends and other dear ones.
>> >
>> > Volunteer online community is the heart of our movement and every
>> > dedicated, experienced and long-term volunteers are our most valuable
>> > asset. It is not at all exaggerating to say that many language Wikimedia
>> > projects or WikiProjects are dependent completely on one (or two or
>> > 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] COVID-19 second wave and protection of our most valuable movement asset

[Bodhisattwa Mandal]

Hello Andreas and all,

There is some good news. Wikimedia Foundation Community Resources team has
given permission to CIS-A2K to allot funds to reimburse vaccines, send
COVID protection kits and provide counselling for Wikimedia volunteers in
India. CIS-A2K has consulted Foreign Currency Regulation Act expert lawyers
and got confirmation that the program can be executed as per the law of
India. With this progress, we are now good to go. We had formed a 5-members
committee of physicians (4 of them) from the Indian Wikimedia volunteer
community. They had their first meeting almost an hour ago to decide the
next steps to provide support as quickly and efficiently as possible. The
action points are noted from the meeting and within a few days, we are sure
that we will be able to provide support to the volunteers.  A meta page is
also being drafted, which will undergo expansion and modification in the
next few years. The lnk is here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_support_for_Wikimedians/India

Regards,
Bodhisattwa




On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 20:24, Andreas Kolbe  wrote:

> Dear Bodhisattwa,
>
> Could I ask you to please keep us up to date on the further Wikimedia
> response to your request?
>
> I would love to hear about anything good that is happening as a result of
> your having asked here – and if nothing useful is happening, I would love
> to hear about that too – here or by private email, if you prefer.
>
> I am very aware that the WMF ran its first fundraising campaign in India
> this fiscal year, and that one of the fundraising banner messages asked
> people ... "to donate. Show the volunteers who bring you reliable neutral
> information that their work matters."[1]
>
> And as you can read in my other post today, it's not like the Wikimedia
> Foundation is poor.
>
> Be safe.
> Andreas
>
> [1]
> https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/wikipedia-makes-an-awkward-request-for-donations-in-india-71596125951781.html
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
>
>
> We (the community resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation) have been in
> contact with colleagues from the Wikimedia movement in India and wanted to
> share some of the preliminary outcomes of our discussions.
>
>
>
> Firstly, we want to acknowledge the disastrous effect COVID-19 has had on
> Wikimedia communities and its members across the movement. The COVID-19
> pandemic has affected many of us in both direct and indirect ways.
>
>
>
> As has been noted by others on this email chain, we all agree that
> Wikimedia volunteers are the most valuable assets of our movement.  As
> mentioned in the previous email, providing insurance support to Wikimedia
> volunteers in India would not have been possible due to regulatory and
> legal challenges. However, we are committed to provide other help and
> service to ensure that the movement is supported.
>
>
>
> As discussed on this chain, we feel that our partners are the best placed
> to understand the needs locally and regionally. We are therefore working
> with colleagues from India directly to provide practical help and support
> to the movement there including access to vaccines, PPE kits, disseminating
> knowledge and fighting misinformation. We will continue to partner with
> them and others to establish criteria in line with our mission to support
> the communities. These are exceptional times, indeed but together we will
> be able to make a difference and support each other.
>
>
>
> For any questions about this initiative please feel free to contact:
> communityresour...@wikimedia.org
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> On behalf of Community Resources Team,
>
> Tanveer Hasan
>
>
> ಗುರು, ಏಪ್ರಿ 22, 2021 ರಂದು 02:41 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Bodhisattwa Mandal <
> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > COVID-19 has hit hard in India again making it the leading epicentre of
> > the disease caused by the new mutated strains. The infection and death
> > tolls have reached record high and the health system in different parts
> of
> > the country is on the verge of collapse.
> >
> > Like other common people, many Wikimedians might have lost their jobs
> last
> > year. Like last year, this year too, many volunteers have been infected
> and
> > hospitalised. Some of them have lost their family members, relatives,
> > friends and other dear ones.
> >
> > Volunteer online community is the heart of our movement and every
> > dedicated, experienced and long-term volunteers are our most valuable
> > asset. It is not at all exaggerating to say that many language Wikimedia
> > projects or WikiProjects are dependent completely on one (or two or
> > three...) person's persistence to build it as a tall building from
> scratch
> > and if we lose some of those people, those projects might totally stop
> > forever. There are so many fantastic people in the movement who have been
> > doing incredible work in their volunteer capacity for such a long time
> > (sometimes more than a decade) to make what Wikimedia 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF transfers $8.7 million to "Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund"

[Julia Brungs]

Hi Andreas,

Thank you for bringing these questions together here. As you are aware the
questions and answers are also on meta (both the talk:Endowment [1] and the
talk:Fundraising [2]) and we expect to post further answers to those
talkpages during the US West Coast daytime today.

Thank you very much.
Best wishes,
Julia

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Endowment#Questions_(from_Wikimedia_Enterprise_discussion)
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising
-- 
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Senior Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation 

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 4:01 PM Andreas Kolbe  wrote:

> Hi Lisa and all,
>
> Could you provide any update on what is happening with the $8.7 million in
> the Tides Advocacy fund? I asked about it on the Endowment talk page on
> Meta two weeks ago, and while many other questions there have been
> answered, this one has not.
>
> I also asked on Meta how much money the WMF had contributed to the
> Endowment to date. Amy Parker just replied it had been $20 million,[1] but
> that can't be right, as in the audited 2019/2020 financial statements
> published last year (page no. 14), it was already $25 million ($5 million
> p.a. over five years).[2]
>
> A curious side-effect of the Endowment is that money the WMF pays into its
> own Endowment shows up as an Awards and Grants *expense* in the audited
> statements, reducing the revenue surplus. Money flowing into the Endowment,
> on the other hand, is included neither in Revenue nor Net Assets, as it is
> legally separate.[7]
>
> So according to the financial statements for the last five years, the WMF
> had a revenue surplus of over $100 million over that time period (measured
> as increase in net assets, from $77.8 million to $180.3 million). But over
> the same period, the Foundation also accumulated $100 million in Tides
> Foundation funds (i.e. the Endowment, reported[6] to have passed $90
> million in early February, and the $8.7 million in Tides Advocacy).
>
> This means that the Foundation has actually had a revenue surplus of more
> than $200 million over the past five years, averaging over $40 million per
> annum.
>
> Could you provide an update on exactly how much many money is in the
> Endowment and the Tides Advocacy fund at the moment? The Endowment is not
> very transparent. I understand the only page showing how much money has
> accumulated in the Endowment is the page on Meta, and this has only
> sporadically been updated. In this edit,[3] for example, it jumped from
> $62.9 million to $90 million. Before that, the total had last been updated
> more than six months prior.[4]
>
> Would it be possible to provide, say, monthly updates for the Endowment on
> Meta? (If I have missed any other pages  or documents containing such
> information, I would ask you to kindly provide a link.)
>
> In the discussions on Meta, Pats Peña pointed me to the FAQ[5] for the
> most recent financial statements. One thing I miss in these FAQs is any
> reference to the $100 million held by the Tides Foundation. Readers of the
> FAQ will remain unaware that the actual amount of investments the WMF was
> the beneficiary of in July 2020 substantially exceeded the figure of $170
> million given in the audited financial statements the FAQ refers to –
> including the Tides funds, by well over $70 million when the FAQ was
> published.
>
> I also cannot see any reference to the fact that the expenses noted in the
> FAQ include $5 million that the WMF paid into its own endowment. Could this
> be remedied in this and future FAQs?
>
> Finally, if we were trying to provide a best estimate of the Wikimedia
> Foundation's current total net assets (last reported as $180 million,
> excluding money in the Tides Foundation), would $200 million be in the
> right ballpark, for a grand total of $300 million if we include the Tides
> Foundation money?
>
> I understand that fundraising this fiscal year already exceeded the
> combined year goal for the Foundation and endowment after the first six
> months, followed by the year goal being raised, and exceeded again before
> the end of the second quarter.[8] As fundraising continues (currently in
> Mexico, I understand), it seems certain the WMF net assets are once again
> likely to have risen substantially by the end of the fiscal year,
> especially given that once again, many physical events will have had to be
> cancelled owing to the pandemic.
>
> Best wishes,
> Andreas
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Endowment=21395254=21391565
> [2]
> https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_Foundation_FY2019-2020_Audit_Report.pdf=16
> [3]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Endowment=21014846=21012384
> [4]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Endowment=prev=20317968
> [5]
> 

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing an academic conference on Wikipedia translation

[Hillun Vilayl Napis]

Dear Mark,

I am Hillun from Wikimedia Indonesia. We are interested to join the
conference. If we participate online, will the costs be the same as what is
stated on the website ?




Regards,

--
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Wakil Sekretaris (*Deputy General Secretary*), Manajer Hubungan Masyarakat
dan Komunitas (*Manager of Public Relations and Community*)
Wikimedia Indonesia
Surel: hillun.na...@wikimedia.or.id
Akun pengguna: Hillun Vilayl Napis (WMID)
-
Wikimedia Indonesia adalah organisasi nirlaba dan merupakan mitra lokal
dari Wikimedia Foundation, pengelola situs populer dunia Wikipedia dan
proyek-proyek wiki lainnya. Wikimedia Indonesia berdedikasi untuk mendorong
pertumbuhan, pengembangan, dan penyebaran pengetahuan dalam bahasa
Indonesia dan bahasa daerah yang dipertuturkan di Indonesia secara bebas
dan gratis.

Dukung upaya kami membebaskan pengetahuan

https://wikimedia.or.id/sumbangan/


On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 11:32, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH 
wrote:

> Dear friends and colleagues
>
> Please permit me to publicise an academic conference that we're holding at
> Hong Kong Baptist University on 15-17 December 2021.
>
> The conference will be an ideal forum in which to discuss research
> methodologies, issues of collaborativity, theoretical frameworks that have
> proven valuable for the study of Wikipedia translation, the use of
> Wikipedia in the translation classroom and by translation professionals,
> and the nature of Wikipedia translation and how it differs not only from
> other more traditional types of translation but also from other newly
> emerging types. While the conference's main focus is interlingual
> translation within the online encyclopaedia, we are also interested
> in research into the multilingual Wikipedia that makes no explicit
> reference to translation issues.
>
> The conference will be online, face-to-face or mixed mode, depending on
> prevailing circumstances. Please see the conference website at
> https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/ for full details and the Call for
> Papers.
>
> I hope to see some of you there!
>
> Mark
>
> Professor Mark Shuttleworth 夏致遠
> Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies
> Hong Kong Baptist University
> Phone: +852 3411 6641
> http://www.tran.hkbu.edu.hk
> https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia are officially online !

[Joyce Chen]

Hi  All,

Many thanks! I will pass all of your wishes to the two community!

and David,
Thank you, we felt very excited too!
There will be more Taiwan's indigenous language go live on Wikipedia!

to Galder,
Good question! I should learned more form the community rather than being
their communicator.

to Johan,
You must be saying something that is seediq. Thanks for your appreciation.

all the best to all of you,
Joyce


Johan Jönsson  於 2021年4月22日 週四 下午8:54寫道：

> Nice! Welcome! Ini ku kela rmengo kari seediq, but I'm very happy to see
> it as a new Wikipedia.
>
> //Johan Jönsson
> --
>
> Den tors 22 apr. 2021 kl 11:38 skrev Joyce Chen  >:
>
>> *Dear All, *
>>
>> *Wikimedia Taiwan has a great news to share with all of you! *
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *We are so happy to announced that the two of Taiwan's indigenous
>> languages, the Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia are officially online!
>> In 2015, the Taiwan Ministry of Education launched the Indigenous languages
>> Wikipedia project. Sakizaya Wikipedia was the first language release their
>> Wikipedia in 2019. On April 15, 2021, Hitay-Payan and Lituk Teymu, who are
>> another two languages Wikipedia project convener were happy to announce
>> that Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia were online.Since November 22,
>> 2019, the release day of Sakizaya Wikipedia, there have been 1,840 clauses
>> added. The Wikimedia Taiwan and the Center for aboriginal studies of NCCU
>> joined the Sakizaya Wikipedia workshop hosted by Sakizaya language
>> organization on March 11-12, 2021 at the Hualien City. During the workshop,
>> we taught Sakizaya people how to migrate Chinese modules into Sakizaya, and
>> they translated all of them into Sakizaya. There are 50 pictures from
>> Wikimedia Commons was enhanced by Sakizaya and over 100 Wikidata item and
>> properties were translated into Sakizaya. Moreover, the Sakizaya hashtag
>> "szy" for other Wikipedia sister projects was ready as well. *
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia were released on March 16, 2021,
>> including the previous Sakizaya language, these are the 3 languages which
>> first included in Wikipedia, there are in total 16 indigenous languages
>> recognized as aboriginal by the Council of Indigenous People, Taiwan. The
>> new Wikimedia language hashtag for Atayal (tay) and Seediq (trv) not only
>> expanded the usability within Wikipedia but also between other Wiki
>> projects, such as Wikimedia Common and Wikidata. We are happy to preserve,
>> promote and reuse Taiwan's indigenous languages through the release of the
>> Wikimedia project, this is an milestone for all of us. We hope to assist
>> all Indigenous continue finding ways to preserve their legacy and bring
>> their languages and culture to the world.  Check out our meta-wiki page:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/IncuWPTA
>> *
>>
>> *sincerely,*
>> *Joyce*
>>
>> --
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[Wikimedia-l] 2020 Report submission of Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group

[Kyi Phyo Htet via Wikimedia-l]

Hello!
Greetings from the Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group.

I would like to submit the 2020 Activity Report[1] on behalf of the Myanmar
Wikimedia Community User Group.[2]

We apologize for the delayed submission of the report because of the
current crisis and internet restriction in Myanmar.

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group/Report/2020
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group


Best regards,



*Kyi Phyo Htet*

*Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group
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[Wikimedia-l] AfroCROWD Events Bulletin

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the afrocrowd bulletin for april / may 2021
catch up & connect with afrocrowd: the initiative to increase awareness of the 
wikimedia and free knowledge, culture, and software movements among potential 
editors of african descent!

we are hosting free and open virtual training opportunities on wikipedia and 
other wikimedia projects. learn more at [1] afrocrowd.orgor sign up for an 
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afrocrowd as we discuss caribbean content gaps on wikipedia and wikimedia 
commons with a focus on the environment. the virtual event takes place on zoom 
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the soul of reason: a celebration of new york black culture radio

new york university (nyu) libraries, the nyu institute of african american 
affairs & center for black visual culture (iaaa/cbvc) and afrocrowd are coming 
together to bring attention to black culture and the african diaspora on 
wikimedia platforms.

the event is inspired by iconic 1970s nyc radio show soul of reason, which 
centered on african american affairs and culture, and was hosted by new york 
university's dr. roscoe c. brown jr.  participants will receive free training 
in wikipedia, wikidata, and wikimedia commons. this virtual event takes place 
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more on the soul of reason radio show: soul of reason was a half-hour radio 
show that aired from 1971-1986 on both the commercial radio station wnbc and 
the university’s radio station, wnyu. the show’s host, dr. roscoe c. brown, 
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affairs at new york university at the time. soul of reason showcased unique and 
vital conversations with leaders, politicians, writers, activists, and artists 
of african descent in new york city during the civil rights and black power and 
arts movements. recordings of soul of reason episodes that aired between 
1971-1978 are part of the records of the institute of african american affairs 
in nyu special collections.

following two community transcribe-a-thons held in 2020 to edit transcripts of 
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the episodes and read the transcripts, this time while enriching information 
about the show and its subjects in wiki platforms.

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[Wikimedia-l] Episode1 of WikiAfrica Hour Vodcast with Katherine Maher

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Hello fellow wikimedians! 

Hot on this wonderful interview with Trevor Noah, we are honoured to be
able to ask you to join us today for the launch of WikiAfrica Hour,
where Ceslause Ogbonnaya will interview Katherine Maher on her journey
through Wikimedia and her impressions of and hopes for Africa's
Wikimedians will be expressed. Please join us today! ... more details:
https://bit.ly/WikiAfricaHour . 

Regards, 

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WLE 2021 Q announcement

[Olga Lidia Paredes Alcoreza]

Hi Anastasiia!

>From Bolivia we have the intention to be par of this year edition, what we
have to do?

Hugs,


Olga

El mar, 6 abr 2021 a las 16:16, Anastasiia Petrova (<
anastasiia.petr...@wikimedia.org.ua>) escribió:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> The international WLE team is delighted to share that the 9th edition of
> Wiki Loves Earth is coming soon!
>
> Wiki Loves Earth is an international photo contest devoted to nature
> heritage. WLE aims at raising public awareness about protected areas and
> creating the biggest database of free photos of them. After 8 years of
> local competitions all around the world, WLE resulted in more than 700k
> free photos of nature monuments, with around 160k being used in the
> wikiprojects.
>
> Are you interested in joining WLE by organizing your local contest? Do you
> have any questions about this process? The international Wiki Loves Earth
> team will answer your questions and tell you all the details you want to
> know about WLE during our online Q
>
> When: April 11 at 12 pm (UTC), the event will last about 1 hour.
> Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/rmj-abzo-ovj
> If you are interested in this event, please complete this short form:
> https://forms.gle/CNPUVoDzr3EUCYJk7. Also, please fill out the form if
> you cannot join this time, but you want to ask us something or be notified
> about other upcoming Q events.
>
> Also, check out the main steps of organizing WLE in your country/region in
> our infographic attached to the email (high quality:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_to_organize_WLE_2021.png,
> feel free to share it with your community.
>
> Looking forward to meeting you at our Q, have a great week!
>
> Best regards,
> Anastasiia Petrova
> Project Manager for International Wiki Loves Earth
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[Wikimedia-l] COVID-19 second wave and protection of our most valuable movement asset

[Andreas Kolbe]

Dear Bodhisattwa,

Could I ask you to please keep us up to date on the further Wikimedia
response to your request?

I would love to hear about anything good that is happening as a result of
your having asked here – and if nothing useful is happening, I would love
to hear about that too – here or by private email, if you prefer.

I am very aware that the WMF ran its first fundraising campaign in India
this fiscal year, and that one of the fundraising banner messages asked
people ... "to donate. Show the volunteers who bring you reliable neutral
information that their work matters."[1]

And as you can read in my other post today, it's not like the Wikimedia
Foundation is poor.

Be safe.
Andreas

[1]
https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/wikipedia-makes-an-awkward-request-for-donations-in-india-71596125951781.html






Dear Wikimedians,



We (the community resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation) have been in
contact with colleagues from the Wikimedia movement in India and wanted to
share some of the preliminary outcomes of our discussions.



Firstly, we want to acknowledge the disastrous effect COVID-19 has had on
Wikimedia communities and its members across the movement. The COVID-19
pandemic has affected many of us in both direct and indirect ways.



As has been noted by others on this email chain, we all agree that
Wikimedia volunteers are the most valuable assets of our movement.  As
mentioned in the previous email, providing insurance support to Wikimedia
volunteers in India would not have been possible due to regulatory and
legal challenges. However, we are committed to provide other help and
service to ensure that the movement is supported.



As discussed on this chain, we feel that our partners are the best placed
to understand the needs locally and regionally. We are therefore working
with colleagues from India directly to provide practical help and support
to the movement there including access to vaccines, PPE kits, disseminating
knowledge and fighting misinformation. We will continue to partner with
them and others to establish criteria in line with our mission to support
the communities. These are exceptional times, indeed but together we will
be able to make a difference and support each other.



For any questions about this initiative please feel free to contact:
communityresour...@wikimedia.org



Regards,

On behalf of Community Resources Team,

Tanveer Hasan


ಗುರು, ಏಪ್ರಿ 22, 2021 ರಂದು 02:41 ಅಪರಾಹ್ನ ಸಮಯಕ್ಕೆ ರಂದು Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> ಅವರು ಬರೆದಿದ್ದಾರೆ:

> Hi,
>
> COVID-19 has hit hard in India again making it the leading epicentre of
> the disease caused by the new mutated strains. The infection and death
> tolls have reached record high and the health system in different parts of
> the country is on the verge of collapse.
>
> Like other common people, many Wikimedians might have lost their jobs last
> year. Like last year, this year too, many volunteers have been infected
and
> hospitalised. Some of them have lost their family members, relatives,
> friends and other dear ones.
>
> Volunteer online community is the heart of our movement and every
> dedicated, experienced and long-term volunteers are our most valuable
> asset. It is not at all exaggerating to say that many language Wikimedia
> projects or WikiProjects are dependent completely on one (or two or
> three...) person's persistence to build it as a tall building from scratch
> and if we lose some of those people, those projects might totally stop
> forever. There are so many fantastic people in the movement who have been
> doing incredible work in their volunteer capacity for such a long time
> (sometimes more than a decade) to make what Wikimedia is today.
>
> I would like to urge people with power and money in the movement to find a
> way to protect these assets. We not only cannot afford to lose them, but
> also need to proactively protect them. Maybe a small step to provide
> personal or family COVID-19 insurance might help a lot. Maybe sending
money
> to buy COVID-19 vaccines might save some of them. Who knows?
>
> If we can spend millions of dollars for conferences or a couple of hundred
> thousand dollars to celebrate 20 years of Wikipedia during Wikimania, can
> we not spend a few thousand dollars to protect at least some of the people
> around the globe to some extent who made it possible to turn Wikipedia
into
> its 20th birthday?
>
> Disclaimer: I had tried to convince the grants team from my personal
> capacity last year when COVID-19 was spreading rapidly in India but was
> denied due to their legal concerns regarding insurance registration as
> well as settlement and liability issues. Few others tried to convince them
> too but failed. I am reaching out to the community to start a conversation
> this time and find a way together.
>
> I am sorry for my long mail. I could not help it.
>
> Regards,
> Bodhisattwa
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[Wikimedia-l] You can now login to Diff with your Wikimedia account

[Chris Koerner]

Hello I have an update to share about Diff, the Wikimedia community blog.[0]

You can now log in with your Wikimedia account to submit comments, draft
posts, and translations to Diff. Visit the login page and select "Login
with MediaWiki". [1]

Try out the new Wikimedia login feature by leaving a comment on the Diff
version of this announcement. [2] Please let us know if you see any bugs or
have any questions. [3]

That's it. That's the entire message. Unless you want to know more about
Diff, then keep reading including how you can subscribe by email! [2]

Yours,
Chris K.

P.S. The code used to create this authentication feature is an open-source
WordPress plugin. You can find the code in Diff's public Github repository.
[4]

[0] https://diff.wikimedia.org
[1] https://diff.wikimedia.org/login
[2] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/04/28/wikimedia-log-in-comes-to-diff/
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Diff_(blog)
[4] https://github.com/wikimedia/diff-blog

Yours,
Chris Koerner (he/him)
Movement Communications Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF transfers $8.7 million to "Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund"

[Andreas Kolbe]

Hi Lisa and all,

Could you provide any update on what is happening with the $8.7 million in
the Tides Advocacy fund? I asked about it on the Endowment talk page on
Meta two weeks ago, and while many other questions there have been
answered, this one has not.

I also asked on Meta how much money the WMF had contributed to the
Endowment to date. Amy Parker just replied it had been $20 million,[1] but
that can't be right, as in the audited 2019/2020 financial statements
published last year (page no. 14), it was already $25 million ($5 million
p.a. over five years).[2]

A curious side-effect of the Endowment is that money the WMF pays into its
own Endowment shows up as an Awards and Grants *expense* in the audited
statements, reducing the revenue surplus. Money flowing into the Endowment,
on the other hand, is included neither in Revenue nor Net Assets, as it is
legally separate.[7]

So according to the financial statements for the last five years, the WMF
had a revenue surplus of over $100 million over that time period (measured
as increase in net assets, from $77.8 million to $180.3 million). But over
the same period, the Foundation also accumulated $100 million in Tides
Foundation funds (i.e. the Endowment, reported[6] to have passed $90
million in early February, and the $8.7 million in Tides Advocacy).

This means that the Foundation has actually had a revenue surplus of more
than $200 million over the past five years, averaging over $40 million per
annum.

Could you provide an update on exactly how much many money is in the
Endowment and the Tides Advocacy fund at the moment? The Endowment is not
very transparent. I understand the only page showing how much money has
accumulated in the Endowment is the page on Meta, and this has only
sporadically been updated. In this edit,[3] for example, it jumped from
$62.9 million to $90 million. Before that, the total had last been updated
more than six months prior.[4]

Would it be possible to provide, say, monthly updates for the Endowment on
Meta? (If I have missed any other pages  or documents containing such
information, I would ask you to kindly provide a link.)

In the discussions on Meta, Pats Peña pointed me to the FAQ[5] for the most
recent financial statements. One thing I miss in these FAQs is any
reference to the $100 million held by the Tides Foundation. Readers of the
FAQ will remain unaware that the actual amount of investments the WMF was
the beneficiary of in July 2020 substantially exceeded the figure of $170
million given in the audited financial statements the FAQ refers to –
including the Tides funds, by well over $70 million when the FAQ was
published.

I also cannot see any reference to the fact that the expenses noted in the
FAQ include $5 million that the WMF paid into its own endowment. Could this
be remedied in this and future FAQs?

Finally, if we were trying to provide a best estimate of the Wikimedia
Foundation's current total net assets (last reported as $180 million,
excluding money in the Tides Foundation), would $200 million be in the
right ballpark, for a grand total of $300 million if we include the Tides
Foundation money?

I understand that fundraising this fiscal year already exceeded the
combined year goal for the Foundation and endowment after the first six
months, followed by the year goal being raised, and exceeded again before
the end of the second quarter.[8] As fundraising continues (currently in
Mexico, I understand), it seems certain the WMF net assets are once again
likely to have risen substantially by the end of the fiscal year,
especially given that once again, many physical events will have had to be
cancelled owing to the pandemic.

Best wishes,
Andreas

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Endowment=21395254=21391565
[2]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_Foundation_FY2019-2020_Audit_Report.pdf=16
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Endowment=21014846=21012384
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Endowment=prev=20317968
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Foundation_reports/Financial/Audits/2019-2020_-_frequently_asked_questions=21317632
[6]
https://www.axios.com/exclusive-the-end-of-the-maher-era-at-wikipedia-c1ed1408-bab7-4308-9407-db093e24c80d.html
[7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Endowment=21366511=21366424
[8]
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Wikimedia_Foundation_second_quarter_2020-2021_tuning_session_-_Advancement.pdf

On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 5:54 PM Lisa Gruwell  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the questions. We intend to announce the Knowledge Equity Fund
> in early 2021, once we have a bit more details and specifics worked out.
> However, we can share the overall intention today.
>
> Some background: Our fiscal year runs from July through June, which means
> that the second half of last year was heavily affected by the 

[Wikimedia-l] Mailman3 is now deployed to production, mailing lists are upgrading

[Amir Sarabadani]

Hello,

TLDR: Mailman3 is now available for general use, all mailing lists will be
migrated in the next couple of weeks, providing everyone with a much better
mailing list experience. You will notice some changes, let us know if you
run into issues.

Long version:
We're happy to announce that Mailman3 is available for general use and some
have already been migrated. You can find the current mailing lists that
have been migrated at [1] and their archives in "hyperkitty"[2].

Mailman3 is a full rewrite of our previous mailing list software
(Mailman2), and the migration is long overdue. Some key new features that
we want to highlight:
* One user account (no more monthly password reminder emails or list
passwords)
* Ability to search through archives
* Posting through a web interface
* A web interface that doesn't look like its from the early 2000s
* Better security of accounts and messages

The first mailing list migrated was LGBT@ and you can see its mailing list
page in [3]. We are going to slowly migrate the rest of mailing lists (all
+700 of them), you can track the work in [4]. All new mailing lists from
now on will be only on Mailman3.

This means:
* We will send an email to admins of any mailing list right before
starting the upgrade process, and once it's finished.
* The link to subscribe to lists will change, please update your wiki
pages, documentation, etc. We will provide redirects though.
* Links to old archives for public mailing lists won't break. It will
stay at it is now and will become redirects shortly. But URLs of archived
emails of private mailing lists will break. This is necessary for improving
security of mailing lists. Keep it in mind that in the new system you can
easily search in the archives.

Given that in Mailman3, you can simply have one central account for all of
your mailing lists. We highly encourage you to make one [1], that way, you
can easily control what mailing lists you are subscribed to, easily join
new mailing lists and much more. This also makes administrating and
moderating mailing lists much easier.

If you have any questions or you encounter any issues, let us know! You can
create a Phabricator ticket ("Wikimedia-Mailing-lists" project) or ping us
on IRC in #wikimedia-tech.

We hope that Mailman3 brings much needed love to our mailing lists without
breaking your workflows (like reading mails by piping telnet into less or
something like that).

The umbrella ticket for the work: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52864

[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/
[2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/
[3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/lgbt.lists.wikimedia.org/
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280322

Best,
Kunal (Legoktm) and Amir (Ladsgroup)
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