[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Taiwan’s statement on the office actions of the Wikimedia Foundation on Chinese Wikipedia

[ktsquare]

Hello:

In a communication on Skype dated [3/7/2011], there were communication
beyond the zh.wikipedia.org website:
https://martinoei.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/%E7%B6%AD%E5%9F%BA%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E7%AE%A1%E7%90%86%E5%93%A1%E5%98%85%E6%A0%B8%E7%AA%81%E5%B0%8D%E8%A9%B1/
.

According to that communication in the link above, the user ffaarr who
started this thread was involved in that 3/7/2011 communication.

So I doubt whether what can be read on www.wikipedia.org is the the full
story, or not, on contents about users or community affairs. In other
words, there were some lost trust.

Thanks for reading.

Ktsquare





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[Wikimedia-l] Apply to join the Beta version of the Organizer Lab!

[Felix Nartey]

*Tl;dr: *Looking for a way to learn how to effectively organize around
sustainability? Join the beta version of the Organizer Lab on WikiLearn to
understand how to effectively organize a global campaign around
sustainability and climate change! Applications are open from Sep. 22 -
Oct. 19. Information session coming up on September 30 at 14:00 UTC
.

Dear Wikimedians,

The Campaigns Team
 at the
Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the beta version of a new
program called the Organizer Lab
. This call is
open to any Wikimedia community organizers with some local organizing
experience, who believe in the potential of the Wikimedia movement to
effectively mobilize around Topics for Impact
,
and who are keen to improve their skills to organize at the international
level.

Why an Organizer Lab?

Campaigns and other topic-based calls to action have been some of the most
impactful organized activities in the Wikimedia movement. However, as
observed consistently across Foundation grantmaking programs and in other
community settings, we hear organizers asking for additional support for
designing programs that successfully recruit and retain new contributors
drawn to address specific knowledge gaps on the projects, and which can
join with other movement activities beyond their local context.
Additionally, the Organizer Lab is aligned with other Movement Strategy
priorities and Foundation investment areas:

   -

   It is designed to generate replicable approaches to implementing
   elements of several Movement Strategy recommendations: Invest in Skills &
   Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact, and
   Evaluate/Iterate/Adapt.
   -

   It is will generate new insights and adoption opportunities for new
   event and campaign action software being developed by our close
   collaborators, the WMF Campaigns Product team
   
   -

   Its initial topic of focus also supports the Wikimedia Foundation’s
Sustainability
   Initiative
   

   .


The Organizer Lab will provide a structured way for organizers to refine
their abilities, learning how to design campaigns and other effective calls
to action to address strategic knowledge gaps on Wikimedia projects. Though
we hope to expand to support other topics and themes in the coming years,
the first cohort will be themed around a topic of rising interest across
the movement: Climate Change and Sustainability.

What can I expect from the Lab?

The Organizer Lab will be a 9-week online learning experience from the end
of October until mid-December that prepares participants to design
strategic calls to action around prioritized knowledge gaps and more
generalized Wikimedia organizing and campaign/event design skills.

Participating organizers will leave the course with:

   -

   A firm understanding of how to develop a locally-relevant topic list for
   a knowledge gap-focused campaign
   -

   A process for identifying local audiences and organizations who would be
   good candidates for activation and recruitment
   -

   Understanding of the menu of tactics, tools, and newcomer engagement
   strategies available for effective event design
   -

   A scalable and fundable project proposal for events or projects
   connected to a global campaign around Earth Day (April 2023) (building on
   #WikiForHumanRights )
   or other regional and international campaigns.


By the end of this program, successful participants will not only be able
to lead campaigns targeted at climate and sustainability but should also be
able to transfer these skills to other topics for impact areas.

Participants who complete the program will also have access to a special
pool of grant funding that can support their first implementation of a
campaign or topics for an impact project. Applications are open from September
22 - October 19, 2022.

Apply now or learn more

To apply to join the cohort, please read the instructions on Meta
, where you will
find: an application form, important dates, and general guidance. Also,
check out our publication on Diff
and
the campaign newsletter

for wider campaign organizing news and updates.

You’re also invited to join the information session on  September 30 

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open letter of support for Les sans pagEs

[Lane Chance]

A detailed response by LSP to questions raised on the French
Wikipedia, and a summary of the context of being subject to an
unpleasant pile on, and direct personal attacks on the team, was
published yesterday at:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs/Réponses_aux_questions_posées_à_l'association_LSP

If you can't read French, Google translate does a perfectly adequate
job to do the necessary reading everyone is expected to do as a *basic
courtesy*, before publishing opinions.

Lane
On Tue, 20 Sept 2022 at 07:34, Todd Allen  wrote:
>
> It is hard to determine what is being complained about, when the letter does 
> not actually link to any of the threads it complains about. If it did that, 
> it would be much more easily possible for someone to look into the substance 
> of it. It states that it has been linked to "continual bad-faith arguments" 
> (itself concerning; that's not a neutral summary) of discussions "on the 
> project’s talk page, on the administrators’ bulletin and on Le Bistro and a 
> formal RFC — including calls for the disestablishment of the project on the 
> basis of concerns around Conflicts of interest and Paid editing."
>
> Where are the links to those discussions? Where can I see what concerns were 
> raised? If there is paid editing going on, that's a substantial concern, as 
> is COI. If the arguments are in bad faith, well, that should be readily 
> apparent, too. But where are the links?
>
> Todd
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 5:17 AM Lane Chance  wrote:
>>
>> Responding to LGBTQ minority communities raising legitimate, evidence
>> based, concerns of systemic bias with "stay in your lane"?
>>
>> I don't think I've read anything more tone deaf.
>>
>> The give away is "Without having looked into the actual substance". Do
>> the research before rushing to punch down the voice of minority
>> groups.
>>
>> Lane
>>
>> On Mon, 19 Sept 2022 at 01:25, Yair Rand  wrote:
>> >
>> > Without having looked into the actual substance of whatever dispute is 
>> > going on among frwiki and LSP, I want to put forward some good general 
>> > principles:
>> > * The individual hiring and firing decisions of our organizations should 
>> > be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the entities assigned those 
>> > responsibilities. Public community pressure should not be able to get 
>> > someone fired or hired, or prevent any particular hiring or firing 
>> > decision. A public protest against someone's hiring is unproductive and 
>> > damages the collaborative environment.
>> > * Responding to a community's attitude by sending out a monodirectional 
>> > communication, organized off-wiki and listing supporters' affiliate 
>> > positions, is basically the most conflict-oriented way possible to 
>> > approach this.
>> >
>> > How an affiliate manages their individual hires is the affiliate's 
>> > business. HR activities are complicated, and do not need to be handled in 
>> > the public sphere. If an affiliate wants to hire whoever, the community 
>> > doesn't get to veto it.
>> >
>> > How a community reacts to an affiliate's actions is their own business. 
>> > Affiliates do not get a say in local community affairs. A usergroup's or 
>> > chapter's collective opinion is completely irrelevant in a community 
>> > dialogue. If the community wants to ban someone, or even the entire 
>> > membership of a group, they can do that, and affiliates don't get to veto 
>> > it.
>> >
>> > (Seriously: It doesn't matter if you're the WMF's Board Chair, the CEO, or 
>> > whatever, you don't get an extra vote in an RfC.)
>> >
>> > (It should go without saying that hostile/uncivil behaviour, harassment, 
>> > and accusations of bad faith are not acceptable.)
>> >
>> > Everyone, please stay in your lane. This is like the only place on 
>> > Wikimedia where we clearly even _have_ obvious distinct lanes, it should 
>> > be manageable.
>> >
>> > -- Yair Rand
>> >
>> >
>> > ‫בתאריך יום ו׳, 16 בספט׳ 2022 ב-4:30 מאת ‪WM LGBT‬‏ 
>> > <‪wikimedial...@gmail.com‬‏>:‬
>> >>
>> >> Link: 
>> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_letter_of_support_for_Les_sans_pagEs
>> >>
>> >> Over 35 Wikimedia organisations and many individual Wikimedians have
>> >> signed in support of the initiative of our Wikimedia Affiliate Les
>> >> sans pagEs professionalising their work by hiring Nattes à chat as
>> >> executive director to continue their longstanding work addressing
>> >> systemic bias on Wikipedia and our sister projects and groups.
>> >>
>> >> Les sans pagEs should be free and supported to create a better
>> >> quality, more complete French-language encyclopedia, representative of
>> >> different perspectives and lived experiences, instead of having to
>> >> defend their work against baseless accusations of malpractice.
>> >>
>> >> Please ask on the meta discussion page if you would like to add your
>> >> Wikimedia organisation or name in support.
>> >>
>> >> On behalf of
>> >> Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group
>> >> https://meta.wikimedi

[Wikimedia-l] The English language Wikipedia's 1,111,111,111rd edit

[WereSpielChequers]

Congratulations to User:NicoV whose bot
 has contributed
the English language Wikipedia's 1,111,111,111th edit
. An anonymous
server kitty is claimed to have said *"that's an awful lot of 1s in the
same place, hopefully nothing similar will happen for about fifteen years
when we expect to need the same number of 2s"*. The Mayor of Vayres, Gironde
 is probably unaware of the
special status his commune has just acquired in the English speaking world.

The precise time of this edit was  *11:19, 9 19 2022 *in the 21st year of
the pedia.

Regards

WereSpielChequers
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[Wikimedia-l] New WIKIMOVE Podcast: Content and Knowledge gaps

[Eva Martin]

Dear all,

WIKIMOVE comes back from summer break with a new episode around content and
knowledge gaps in the Wikimedia projects.



What’s in this episode?

In this episode

we talk with three Wikimedians who are trailblazers for including
marginalized voices into the Wikimedia projects. Lucy Crompton-Reid, Daniel
Bögre Udell and Kiril Simeonowski are active in different but complementary
projects that implement Recommendation 8, Topics for Impact. You can find
out about new formats for creating oral citations, a toolkit in the works
for surfacing marginalized knowledge and first ideas on helping to create
Wikipedias with marginalized language communities. Join us for this and to
find out about Wikidata’s 10th Birthday!

Our guests are…

Kiril Simeonovski
Kiril is president of Shared Knowledge and a leading Wikimedian from the
region of Central and Eastern Europe and has been actively contributing to
the Wikimedia projects since 2008.

Daniel Bögre Udell
Daniel is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Wikitongues, which
supports language revitalization projects on every continent.

Lucy Crompton-Reid
Lucy joined Wikimedia UK as Chief Executive in October 2015. She is on the
British Library Advisory Council and sits on the board of The Audience
Agency and Visible Theatre.

You can find the audio podcast on our website
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