[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Research Showcase] September 15, 2021: Socialization on Wikipedia

[Janna Layton]

This event will be starting in about 30 minutes.

On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 1:15 PM Janna Layton  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> The September Wikimedia Research Showcase will be on September 15 at 16:30
> UTC (9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme will be
> "socialization on Wikipedia" with speakers Rosta Farzan and J. Nathan
> Matias.
>
> Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVqabVvLIZU
>
> Talk 1
>
> Speaker: Rosta Farzan (School of Computing and Information, University of
> Pittsburgh)
>
> Title: Unlocking the Wikipedia clubhouse to newcomers: results from two
> studies
>
> Abstract: It is no news to any of us that success of online production
> communities such as Wikipedia highly relies on a continuous stream of
> newcomers to replace the inevitable high turnover and to bring on board new
> sources of ideas and workforce. However, these communities have been
> struggling with attracting newcomers, especially from a diverse population
> of users, and further retention of newcomers. In this talk, I will present
> about two different approaches in engaging new editors in Wikipedia: (1)
> newcomers joining through the Wiki Ed program, an online program in which
> college students edit Wikipedia articles as class assignments; (2)
> newcomers joining through a Wikipedia Art+Feminism edit-a-thon.  I present
> how each approach incorporated techniques in engaging newcomers and how
> they succeed in attracting and retention of newcomers.
>
> More information:
>
>- Bring on Board New Enthusiasts! A Case Study of Impact of Wikipedia
>Art + Feminism Edit-A-Thon Events on Newcomers
>,
>SocInfo 2016 (pdf
>)
>- Successful Online Socialization: Lessons from the Wikipedia
>Education Program , CSCW
>2020 (pdf
>)
>
>
> Talk 2
>
> Speaker: J. Nathan Matias  (Citizens and
> Technology Lab , Cornell University
> Departments of Communication and Information Science)
>
> Title: The Effect of Receiving Appreciation on Wikipedias. A Community
> Co-Designed Field Experiment
>
> Abstract: Can saying “thank you” make online communities stronger & more
> inclusive? Or does thanking others for their voluntary efforts have little
> effect? To ask this question, the Citizens and Technology Lab (CAT Lab)
> organized 344 volunteers to send thanks to Wikipedia contributors across
> the Arabic, German, Polish, and Persian languages. We then observed the
> behavior of 15,558 newcomers and experienced contributors to Wikipedia. On
> average, we found that organizing volunteers to thank others increases
> two-week retention of newcomers and experienced accounts. It also caused
> people to send more thanks to others. This study was a field experiment, a
> randomized trial that sent thanks to some people and not to others. These
> experiments can help answer questions about the impact of community
> practices and platform design. But they can sometimes face community
> mistrust, especially when researchers conduct them without community
> consent. In this talk, learn more about CAT Lab's approach to community-led
> research and discuss open questions about best practices.
>
> More information:
>
>-
>
>Volunteers Thanked Thousands of Wikipedia Editors to Learn the Effects
>of Receiving Thanks
>
> ,
>blogpost (in EN, DE, AR, PL, FA) 
>-
>
>The Diffusion and Influence of Gratitude Expressions in Large-Scale
>Cooperation: A Field Experiment in Four Knowledge Networks
>, paper preprint
>
>
> More information:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
>
> --
> Janna Layton (she/her)
> Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>


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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO

[Olushola Olaniyan]

Thank you, Natalia,for sharing the amazing piece of news.

We, welcome Maryana, to the movement and wishing her the very best in the
new engagement.

Regards.

Shola and Wikimedia UG Nigeria.


On Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 4:53 PM Nataliia Tymkiv  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
> has appointed Maryana Iskander as the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
> [1] [2].
>
> Since 2013, Maryana has served as the CEO of Harambee Youth Employment
> Accelerator [3], a South African non-profit social enterprise focused on
> building African solutions for the global challenge of youth unemployment.
> Prior to this, she spent six years as Chief Operating Officer of Planned
> Parenthood Federation of America [4], a volunteer-led social movement
> focused on access to women’s healthcare. Maryana has also worked in
> academia as the Advisor to the President of Rice University [5], an
> international research university based in the United States.
>
> Her professional career has been motivated by breaking down systemic
> barriers, creating opportunities for collaborative solution-building, and
> community empowerment. She has a proven track record for leading complex
> organisations shaped by shared decision-making.
>
> In looking for the next CEO, we on the Board convened a Transition
> Committee [6], primarily to guide us in finding the right person for this
> critical role and secondly to oversee the executive Transition Team. The
> Transition Committee conducted a far-reaching and competitive global
> search, receiving around 400 recommendations and speaking to about 50
> potential candidates. Throughout this selection process, Maryana impressed
> us as someone who is deeply inspired by the Wikimedia vision and who
> embodies the values of equity and community that inform all Wikimedia work.
> She has extensive leadership experience working with volunteer-led
> initiatives and building partnerships across public, private and social
> sectors. Maryana also brings expertise in technology-led innovation to
> accelerate meaningful social change. She does this with a global
> perspective: Maryana was born in the Middle East, educated in the United
> States and the United Kingdom, and has spent the last decade living and
> working on the African continent.
>
> Maryana joins the Wikimedia Foundation at a crucial time. The movement is
> larger than ever, and it has never been more relevant or more trusted. This
> is an inflection point, as decisions need to be made to execute a shared
> vision for where the Movement wants to be in 2030. We believe that Maryana
> is the right person to help lead the Foundation at this moment.
>
> As Maryana begins, her priorities will include supporting movement efforts
> to implement the Wikimedia 2030 recommendations, such as the development of
> a Movement Charter and the finalization of a Universal Code of Conduct. She
> will continue the Foundation’s focus on knowledge equity and exploring ways
> to address the gaps in content and the diversity of contributors to
> Wikimedia projects. She will be supported by the Board in this journey.
>
> Maryana will officially start at the Wikimedia Foundation on January 5,
> 2022, as she transitions from her current job. Until then, the Foundation
> will continue to be led by the Transition Team, with guidance from the
> Board. In my conversations with her, I have seen that Maryana is a fan of
> direct communication and excited to learn from the movement. In the coming
> weeks, she will share ways to connect. Please join me in welcoming Maryana
> (CCed) to the Foundation!
>
> PS. For translations of this message, or to help translate it into more
> languages, please visit Meta-Wiki [7]
>
> *[1]
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/09/14/wikimedia-foundation-appoints-maryana-iskander-as-chief-executive-officer/
> *
>
> *[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryana_Iskander
>  *
>
> *[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harambee_Youth_Employment_Accelerator
> *
>
> *[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood
> *
>
> *[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_University
>  *
>
> *[6]
> https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Creating_a_CEO_Transition_Committee_and_Transition_Team,_2021
> 
>  *
> *[7]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/14_September_2021_-_Welcoming_the_new_Wikimedia_Foundation_CEO
> 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: WMCUG Response for recent office actions

[William Chan]

They got the statement translated by themselves:

https://qiuwen.wmcug.org.cn/archives/403/on-wmf-office-action-en-1/

Interesting. They, if I remember correctly, already got conduct warnings
against them, as mentioned by them during the FRAM case.

https://archive.is/3Tffv

Regards,
William Chan


On Tue, 14 Sept 2021 at 16:30, Andreas Kolbe  wrote:

> Here is a machine translation, by DeepL.com (Google Translate produces
> gobbledygook by comparison!)
>
> Qiuwen - Wikimedians of Mainland China
>
> Drop the illusion and prepare for the fight - a comment on the
> Foundation's region-wide lockdown of Chinese Wikimedians and Maggie
> Dennis's "statement"
>
> Posted by Qiuwen on September 14, 2021 in Drop the illusions, prepare for
> the struggle - A comment on the Foundation's region-wide targeting of
> Chinese Wikimedians and Maggie Dennis' "statement"
>
> [This commentary, by Lu Zu, takes the form of an open letter and will be
> translated into English shortly.]
>
> September 13, 2021 will be remembered by all Chinese Wikipedians.
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation has locked out all Chinese Wikipedians, including
> members and liaison members of my group, for no apparent reason, and has
> removed the administrator and administrative privileges of many more
> Wikipedians. This decision was made by the Foundation at the instigation of
> some people in the Chinese wiki community, without any consideration,
> without listening to the views of the community, and without any basis for
> believing the slander of a small group of people.
>
> It is no accident that the Foundation has decided to take action at this
> point in time. The Foundation has torn off its mask of hypocrisy towards
> us, and indeed towards the entire mainland Chinese community, and has
> revealed its green fangs. Following the Foundation's decision, the
> perpetrators of this farce are rejoicing that their imagined greatest
> rival, our own Wikipedians of Mainland China (WMC), has been knocked off -
> just as they were four years ago when they were region-wide locked out at
> Watchtower Ai Meng.
>
> The Chinese government and the Communist Party of China have been
> criticized for blocking foreign websites and suppressing Wikipedia's
> development in China. But the Foundation has done what even the Chinese
> government has failed to do - the Chinese government has not stopped us
> from organising meetings or events, and has not declared our grey area,
> university club-like organisation an "illegal group". Zero Wikipedians have
> been arrested, threatened, or in any way obstructed by the Chinese
> government, and the Foundation has banned seven people and removed the
> administrative powers of 12 others with a single move.
>
> These people have done the dirtiest and toughest work in China, a country
> where Wikipedia has been blocked until now, to grow the community to its
> current size. Now, they have to be slapped backwards and bitten back by the
> Foundation.
>
> The Foundation has clearly learnt its lesson from when Fram, the
> administrator of the English Wikipedia, was banned in 2019. At that time,
> Fram's administrator was pulled from his post and was also banned from the
> English Wikipedia. This caused an uproar in the English Wikipedia community
> at the time. The Foundation never dreamed that the community would react so
> strongly to the banning of Fram. The foundation may have had an external PR
> team, but they didn't realise that it was the community that needed PR the
> most. It took the Foundation over a month to put out the fires in the
> community. Even though the vast majority of the English wiki community
> objected to the Foundation's forced involvement in the community, the
> Foundation did not budge: the Fram, who had his administrator privileges
> removed for no good reason, was not reinstated after weeks of protest and
> opposition from the community.
>
> We know that there are many people in the community who care about us, who
> want Wikipedia to be unblocked in China, who want the Wikimedia movement to
> grow in China, who recognise the efforts and even sacrifices that WMC has
> made for the development of Wikimedia in China, or at the very least, who
> think that the Foundation should not have banned so many administrators
> overnight and without warning. You may also be under the illusion that the
> Foundation has the possibility to admit its mistake or to retract their
> decision. The truth, dear friends, may have disappointed you. Like you, we
> hope that today is just a nightmare. However, I am here to give you a
> precautionary note: lose your illusions and prepare to fight.
>
> Having seen what happened with Fram, this time the Foundation accompanied
> the lockout and de-prioritisation with a "statement" in an attempt to
> obfuscate and justify its unjustified actions before the community could
> react. This "statement" by Maggie Dennis, the Foundation's community
> development officer, also officially sounds 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Extending Movement Charter Drafting Committee nomination period

[Kaarel Vaidla]

Hi everyone,

I am following up on the *Movement Charter Drafting Committee* thread to
announce that *we have closed the call for candidates
*
.
We will now focus on final checks and technical clean up (incl. removing
incomplete candidate statements) and are planning to share the next steps
update on Monday.

Have a great continuation to your week!
Kaarel

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 5:48 PM Kaarel Vaidla  wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> The call for candidates for the Movement Charter Drafting Committee
>  has
> started well, and within 10 days there are already 21 candidates
> .
> This also means that we are heading towards the scenario of community
> elections in September (see the process page
> 
> for more info).
>
> At the same time the elections of the Board of Trustees of Wikimedia
> Foundation
> 
> have been postponed due to technical issues
> .
> We have assessed the implications of this postponement to the Movement
> Charter Drafting Committee nominations and elections and have come to a
> conclusion that:
>
>-
>
>It makes sense to have at least a 2 week gap between the elections of
>the Board of Trustees and the Movement Charter Drafting Committee. This
>means that the elections for the Drafting Committee should only happen in
>the second half of September to prevent election fatigue and support better
>turnout for the elections.
>-
>
>In relation to this we will extend the period of call for nominations
>by 2 weeks to September 14, as there is no reason to close the call
>prematurely.
>
>
> I am happy to answer any questions or specifications related to this
> extension!
>
> Wishing you all a great continuation to the month of Wikimania!
> --
>
> Kaarel Vaidla (he/him)
>
> Movement Strategy 
>
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>


-- 

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Movement Strategy 

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO

[Florence Devouard]

Welcome Maryana

I am pleased to hear about your joining us and I would like to send my 
thanks to the board and the transition committee.
We have indeed a lot of expectations and hope. I look forward to have 
the opportunity to discuss with you during the Listening Tour ;)



Florence / Anthere


Le 14/09/2021 à 17:35, Maryana Iskander a écrit :


Dear All,

Thank you for this opportunity to introduce myself to you.

When I read the job position [1] for the next leader of Wikimedia 
Foundation, I noticed that it opened with a seemingly simple 
statement: “Knowledge belongs to all of us.” Does it, really? It’s a 
striking statement. In an increasingly unequal and polarizing world, 
one in which almost nothing belongs to all of us, the idea that 
knowledge /must /belong to all is enough to capture anyone’s attention 
and imagination – certainly mine.


My story is shaped by a twin belief that knowledge can also set us 
free. Shortly after I was born in Cairo, Egypt, my parents left for 
the United States. During my time at university, graduate school, and 
law school, I was consistently pulled towards some of society’s 
toughest issues – women’s rights, civil rights, and the rights of 
prisoners. I was equally pulled by the need to be effective in making 
change – seeking out leadership positions and raising my hand and 
voice to change the institutions of power, not just protest against 
them. I learned that the opportunity to make meaningful impact often 
sits ‘in-between’ traditional spheres: in-between research and 
teaching at Rice University, in-between healthcare delivery and 
advocacy at Planned Parenthood, and in-between government and the 
private sector at Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator. My time at 
all of these organisations required listening to and learning from 
many diverse stakeholders – including volunteers – and using my 
position of leadership to champion often unheard voices.


In 2012, I followed my heart to South Africa and its very complicated 
society – a legacy of apartheid perpetuating deep inequality despite 
the resilience of communities full of potential and hope, and a 
country with one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world. 
A new organisation had just been formed with a big vision to close 
this opportunity gap. I signed up, first as an unpaid volunteer, and 
then for many years as the CEO. My job has been to cultivate a common 
space of trust for the collective assets of the society – from 
government, the private sector, civil society, and millions of young 
people – to work in a coalition to tackle one of the most daunting 
challenges of our time. To do this, we relied on an inclusive, 
multi-channel platform that leverages all forms of technology as a way 
to serve communities still riddled by a basic lack of access. Our 
successes came from the power of connection, partnership, and a 
collective belief that young people are the solution, not the problem. 
As I began my tenth year, I felt it was time to make space for new 
leaders.


Why am I joining the Wikimedia Foundation at this moment? There are 
many reasons: (1) this collective of projects is growing what is 
perhaps the most important commons infrastructure of our modern world. 
I am excited to add my time and talents to this vision. What will it 
take to create – not just imagine – a world in which every single 
human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge? (2) I have 
experienced first-hand that distributed leadership models can usually 
achieve more than any group of people can do on their own. I am eager 
to support processes that will make this even more true for our 
movement; and (3) I am drawn to working with people of integrity and 
commitment, who also appreciate humor and joy. I can already see that 
I will meet new colleagues like this from all over the world.


My former colleagues will say that I believe progress is enabled by 
culture: one that is founded on accountability, diversity and 
inclusion in all its forms, and a way of working led by values. It has 
informed an organisational humility in working with others and a 
relentless focus on getting things done the right way – while doing 
the right thing.


During the recruitment process, I met with a leading academic in the 
United States named Rebecca. She told me a story of her primary school 
teacher asking the students to raise their hands if they did not have 
an encyclopedia at home. She was one of those students, and it made 
her feel, for the first time, that maybe she didn’t have equal access 
to the resources needed for her education.  The work of this 
collective community, should we achieve our vision, will make it 
unnecessary for a teacher to ever ask that question again. I then 
returned to South Africa and spoke to another Rebecca. This young 
woman grew up in a rural area where it was a struggle to afford text 
messaging, never mind any meaningful access to the digital world. She, 
too, did 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Announcements] Welcoming the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO

[Ashwin Baindur - User AshLin]

Welcome, Maryana. We hope you have a successful tenure and take the
community along with you. We have a lot of expectations and hope. All the
very best.

On Tue, 14 Sep, 2021, 9:22 pm Nataliia Tymkiv, 
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
> has appointed Maryana Iskander as the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation
> [1] [2].
>
> Since 2013, Maryana has served as the CEO of Harambee Youth Employment
> Accelerator [3], a South African non-profit social enterprise focused on
> building African solutions for the global challenge of youth unemployment.
> Prior to this, she spent six years as Chief Operating Officer of Planned
> Parenthood Federation of America [4], a volunteer-led social movement
> focused on access to women’s healthcare. Maryana has also worked in
> academia as the Advisor to the President of Rice University [5], an
> international research university based in the United States.
>
> Her professional career has been motivated by breaking down systemic
> barriers, creating opportunities for collaborative solution-building, and
> community empowerment. She has a proven track record for leading complex
> organisations shaped by shared decision-making.
>
> In looking for the next CEO, we on the Board convened a Transition
> Committee [6], primarily to guide us in finding the right person for this
> critical role and secondly to oversee the executive Transition Team. The
> Transition Committee conducted a far-reaching and competitive global
> search, receiving around 400 recommendations and speaking to about 50
> potential candidates. Throughout this selection process, Maryana impressed
> us as someone who is deeply inspired by the Wikimedia vision and who
> embodies the values of equity and community that inform all Wikimedia work.
> She has extensive leadership experience working with volunteer-led
> initiatives and building partnerships across public, private and social
> sectors. Maryana also brings expertise in technology-led innovation to
> accelerate meaningful social change. She does this with a global
> perspective: Maryana was born in the Middle East, educated in the United
> States and the United Kingdom, and has spent the last decade living and
> working on the African continent.
>
> Maryana joins the Wikimedia Foundation at a crucial time. The movement is
> larger than ever, and it has never been more relevant or more trusted. This
> is an inflection point, as decisions need to be made to execute a shared
> vision for where the Movement wants to be in 2030. We believe that Maryana
> is the right person to help lead the Foundation at this moment.
>
> As Maryana begins, her priorities will include supporting movement efforts
> to implement the Wikimedia 2030 recommendations, such as the development of
> a Movement Charter and the finalization of a Universal Code of Conduct. She
> will continue the Foundation’s focus on knowledge equity and exploring ways
> to address the gaps in content and the diversity of contributors to
> Wikimedia projects. She will be supported by the Board in this journey.
>
> Maryana will officially start at the Wikimedia Foundation on January 5,
> 2022, as she transitions from her current job. Until then, the Foundation
> will continue to be led by the Transition Team, with guidance from the
> Board. In my conversations with her, I have seen that Maryana is a fan of
> direct communication and excited to learn from the movement. In the coming
> weeks, she will share ways to connect. Please join me in welcoming Maryana
> (CCed) to the Foundation!
>
> PS. For translations of this message, or to help translate it into more
> languages, please visit Meta-Wiki [7]
>
> *[1]
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2021/09/14/wikimedia-foundation-appoints-maryana-iskander-as-chief-executive-officer/
> *
>
> *[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryana_Iskander
>  *
>
> *[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harambee_Youth_Employment_Accelerator
> *
>
> *[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood
> *
>
> *[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_University
>  *
>
> *[6]
> https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Creating_a_CEO_Transition_Committee_and_Transition_Team,_2021
> 
>  *
> *[7]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/14_September_2021_-_Welcoming_the_new_Wikimedia_Foundation_CEO
> *
> 

[Wikimedia-l] ZH > HR Wikipedia (WAS: Regarding a series of serious office actions / 有关于一系列的办事处行动)

[Željko Blaće]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 6:16 PM Maggie Dennis  wrote:

> Community “capture” is a real and present threat. For years, the movement
> has been widely aware of challenges in the Croatian Wikipedia, with
> documentation going back nearly a decade. The Foundation recently set up a
> disinformation team, which is still finding its footing and assessing the
> problem, but which began by contracting an external researcher to review
> that project and the challenges and help us understand potential causes and
> solutions for such situations.[4]
>

Dear Maggie - thank you for writing this, but I fear it can be wrongly
interpreted *(already did to a few people who got in touch) as it was
worded in a non/explicit way. I would like to point that:

#1 both WMF and Wikimedians were aware of issues with HR Wikipedia and
nothing has been done for a decade, aside from handful last year to remove
4 of right-wing admins*(Wiktionary and Wikisource, are still with rightwing
admin control)...
WMF actions are sadly post-festum and with a very limited scope.

#2 HR was not abducted by some well organized and resourced entity, but by
handful of extreme rightwingers (one unmerried couple + their closest
neo-nazi friend and 3 submissive mediocrats...including 40+ proven but
likely 60+ sock puppets) with silent and passive conservative 'center'
majority of woters.

#3 an external researcher contractor was not really reviewing the full
project, but mainly content *(very little on social dynamics and
capacities) and in doing so failed to understand the challenges of
under-resourced and asocial 'community'... This is why solutions suggested
in findings included impossible language and project merges, rather than
anything that would enable self-governance, expansion of the pool of
contributors and sustainable and ambitious work *(like in Serbia for
example).

Hope with these distinctions it is more obvious the difference between the
two and if /how/when/where the learning is applicable or not...

Thank you for your professional work.

Best Z. Blace
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Regarding a series of serious office actions / 有关于一系列的办事处行动

[Isaac Olatunde]

Hello ytcontact07,

Maggie has apologised for the translation in this thread and a better
translation has now been provided on meta Wiki (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Office_actions/September_2021_statement/zh
).

The translation concerns have been addressed and I believe they would be
more careful in the future. It's unhelpful to continue to flog a dead
horse.

Regards

Isaac

On Wed, 15 Sep 2021, 10:18 Gnangarra,  wrote:

> Hello ytcontact07
>
> It is just like evacuating a village before a typhoon hits, or a volcano
> erupts. It's going to inconvenience a few people but it's better than doing
> nothing.  Some people may not return to the village but the villagers were
> saved and they'll be ready if it happens again even taking proactive steps
> beforehand.
>
> On Wed, 15 Sept 2021 at 16:19,  wrote:
>
>> Hello Maggie,
>>
>> First of all, as others have pointed out, this English-Chinese
>> translation is horrendous. I am pretty certain even Google translate
>> wouldn't contain this much of misused characters. Please revise this
>> translation.
>>
>> Second, you have made some very serious allegations in this statement but
>> with little substantiating evidence of any sort. I do not know what kind of
>> organizational and administrative power Wikimedia Foundation has over the
>> Wikipedia community, regional communities, and others; but even if the
>> power demonstrated in this statement is correctly vetted, there is still
>> tremendous burden of proof to explain this action. Otherwise this statement
>> would be simply another misguided political attempt in a community that it
>> does not belong, as well as further damaging the communities of Wikimedians
>> in a region that really should have received much more support in order to
>> extend the reach of free knowledge.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Regarding a series of serious office actions / 有关于一系列的办事处行动

[Gnangarra]

Hello ytcontact07

It is just like evacuating a village before a typhoon hits, or a volcano
erupts. It's going to inconvenience a few people but it's better than doing
nothing.  Some people may not return to the village but the villagers were
saved and they'll be ready if it happens again even taking proactive steps
beforehand.

On Wed, 15 Sept 2021 at 16:19,  wrote:

> Hello Maggie,
>
> First of all, as others have pointed out, this English-Chinese translation
> is horrendous. I am pretty certain even Google translate wouldn't contain
> this much of misused characters. Please revise this translation.
>
> Second, you have made some very serious allegations in this statement but
> with little substantiating evidence of any sort. I do not know what kind of
> organizational and administrative power Wikimedia Foundation has over the
> Wikipedia community, regional communities, and others; but even if the
> power demonstrated in this statement is correctly vetted, there is still
> tremendous burden of proof to explain this action. Otherwise this statement
> would be simply another misguided political attempt in a community that it
> does not belong, as well as further damaging the communities of Wikimedians
> in a region that really should have received much more support in order to
> extend the reach of free knowledge.
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Taiwan’s statement on the office actions of the Wikimedia Foundation on Chinese Wikipedia

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On behalf of Wikimedia Taiwan, we would like to say that this is long overdue. 
For more than half a decade, good faith volunteers from Hong Kong, the Chinese 
mainland, and Taiwan have raised concerns about dangerous members of that 
organization, including in the Signpost(1) (repeatedly(2)). It is not the kind 
of threat that communities or even larger ones, like our wiki, can deal with 
entirely on their own. We have been having very exhausting years.
 
Now there is some hope. But we have a lot of work ahead of us as a volunteer 
community, and we call upon the Foundation to meet its commitment of support as 
we do. We need to rebuild an inclusive wiki that welcomes everyone from all 
places who wants to contribute to Chinese language Wikipedia in good faith. 
Many people have felt very unsafe for years, so restoring a shared sense of 
comfort will likely take a long time. Doing this work is very important to get 
back to focusing on knowledge and Wikipedia’s five pillars that should unite 
our community.

Yuan Chang,  Chairman of Wikimedia Taiwan

(1) 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-10-31/In_focus
(2) 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-07-25/Special_report
 

中文版本: 
在此僅代表台灣維基媒體協會聲明，這個行動是遲來的努力。多年來，香港、中國大陸和台灣的用戶一再呼籲對該組織中的危險成員與行為的關切，包括但不僅止於之前於Signpost報導(1)
 (另一則報導(2))中所提及。這不是社群，或甚至整個中文維基，可以自行處理的威脅。這些年我們心力交瘁。 
現在的處置，讓我們覺得終於有了一些希望。但作為志願者組織，我們仍有很多工作要做，並希望基金會能大力支持。我們需要重建一個具有包容性的維基百科，歡迎來自所有地區，願意真誠貢獻中文知識的參與者。這幾年來，許多參與者感到不安，要恢復原本平和的氛圍，需要相當長時間的努力。這個工作非常重要，有助於我們把心力集中在知識，以及團結我們社群的維基百科的五大支柱上。

台灣維基媒體協會理事長  張遠

(1) 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-10-31/In_focus
(2) 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2021-07-25/Special_report
 

Original Link of the statement:   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Taiwan/Declaration/Wikimedia_Taiwan%E2%80%99s_statement_on_the_actions_of_the_Wikimedia_Foundation_on_Chinese_Wikipedia
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Regarding a series of serious office actions / 有关于一系列的办事处行动

[ytcontact07]

Hello Maggie,

First of all, as others have pointed out, this English-Chinese translation is 
horrendous. I am pretty certain even Google translate wouldn't contain this 
much of misused characters. Please revise this translation. 

Second, you have made some very serious allegations in this statement but with 
little substantiating evidence of any sort. I do not know what kind of 
organizational and administrative power Wikimedia Foundation has over the 
Wikipedia community, regional communities, and others; but even if the power 
demonstrated in this statement is correctly vetted, there is still tremendous 
burden of proof to explain this action. Otherwise this statement would be 
simply another misguided political attempt in a community that it does not 
belong, as well as further damaging the communities of Wikimedians in a region 
that really should have received much more support in order to extend the reach 
of free knowledge.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Welcoming the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO

[Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l]

Welcome to the wikimedia movement Maryana ! 

Thank you for your statement making the issues of diversity a strong and 
central point of your endeavour. 

You wrote « I will of course first ask you what you think: about our vision, 
mission, impact, strategy, how we relate to the rest of the world, as well as 
our current and future ways of working and achieving our aspirations. « 

These questions are interesting, as a wikipedian  what matters to me most is to 
ensure that any person can contribute safely to our projects, whatever their 
age, origin, gender identity, religion and language, and that people in the 
movement make a significant effort recognizing and stopping harassement and 
microaggressions affecting minorities (which includes women in our movement 
because there are so few).

There can be no « knowledge belongs to all » without « knowledge can be built 
by all in our movement », and so we need a strict enforcement of the UCOC. As 
has been shown in the open source and free software community there is nothing 
worse than a code of conduct which is not applied because it sends a wrong and 
ambiguous message. If people belonging to minorities face micro aggressions, « 
capture » , osctracisation and rejection by prominent and influent members of 
the OSS community, there can be no free knowledge for all. 

These are my two cents, welcome to our wikimedian communities which are so rich 
and diverse !

Warm regards, 

Nattes à chat, les sans pagEs (francophone Wikipedia)








> Le 15 sept. 2021 à 07:16, Ivan Martínez  a écrit :
> 
> Welcome on board Maryana!
> All the best,
> 
> El mar, 14 sept 2021 a las 17:43, Camelia Boban ( >) escribió:
> Welcome to our movement Maryana.
> 
> Il giorno mar 14 set 2021 alle ore 17:42 Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga 
> mailto:galder...@hotmail.com>> ha scritto:
> Welcome: https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryana_Iskander 
> 
>  
> You will have time to get to know the wikimedians, but writing or improving 
> someone's biography in Wikipedia
> is perhaps one of the most heartfelt and sincere welcome that a Wikipedian 
> can give.
> 
> 
> Camelia & WikiDonne UG
> 
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> | Java EE Developer |
> 
> WikiDonne | Wikimedia Diversity Ambassador | AffCom
> 
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> Wikipedia  | WikiDonne UG 
>  | WikiDonne Project 
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> 
> Il giorno mar 14 set 2021 alle ore 23:17 Risker  > ha scritto:
> Welcome, Maryana.  We can all look forward to getting to know you better, and 
> for you to get to know us, too.
> 
> Feel free to reach out to people with your questions, your ideas, and your 
> concerns. 
> 
> Risker/Anne
> 
> On Tue, 14 Sept 2021 at 11:36, Maryana Iskander  > wrote:
> Dear All, 
> 
> Thank you for this opportunity to introduce myself to you.  
> 
> When I read the job position [1] for the next leader of Wikimedia Foundation, 
> I noticed that it opened with a seemingly simple statement: “Knowledge 
> belongs to all of us.” Does it, really? It’s a striking statement. In an 
> increasingly unequal and polarizing world, one in which almost nothing 
> belongs to all of us, the idea that knowledge must belong to all is enough to 
> capture anyone’s attention and imagination – certainly mine. 
> 
> My story is shaped by a twin belief that knowledge can also set us free. 
> Shortly after I was born in Cairo, Egypt, my parents left for the United 
> States. During my time at university, graduate school, and law school, I was 
> consistently pulled towards some of society’s toughest issues – women’s 
> rights, civil rights, and the rights of prisoners. I was equally pulled by 
> the need to be effective in making change – seeking out leadership positions 
> and raising my hand and voice to change the institutions of power, not just 
> protest against them. I learned that the opportunity to make meaningful 
> impact often sits ‘in-between’ traditional spheres: in-between research and 
> teaching at Rice University, in-between healthcare delivery and advocacy at 
> Planned Parenthood, and in-between government and the private sector at 
> Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator. My time at all of these organisations 
> required listening to and learning from many diverse stakeholders – including 
> volunteers – and using my position of leadership to champion often unheard 
> voices.
>  
> In 2012, I followed my heart to South Africa and its very complicated society 
> – a legacy of apartheid perpetuating deep inequality despite the resilience 
> of communities full of potential and hope, and a country with one of the 
> highest