[Wikimedia-l] Re: Take Action for Truth during the 30th Anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi Commemoration

2024-04-11 Thread fjmustak 
Dear Derrick,
I salute you for keeping the memory of the atrocious genocide against the Tutsi 
alive: a genocide that went on while the world silently observed and 
trivialized; a true blotch on the history of humanity, among many others.

While some might say the Wikimedia movement is not a place to talk about 
genocide or sympathize with its victims, I beg to differ. We, Wikimedians 
should always be on the side of humanity. We should never be silent while 
atrocities are being committed before our eyes, and should not wait until it's 
too late and lament genocide in retrospect.

I call on Wikimedia Rwanda and our Rwandan colleagues to join the growing list 
of organizations and individuals calling for peace in Palestine, as Rwandans 
have either experienced -if they're old enough- or have heard about the horrors 
of thirty years ago.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Joint_Statement_on_Palestine
Indeed, together, we can combat misinformation, hate speech, and genocide 
denial!

#WikimediaAgainstMisinfo

#Rwanda30

#NeverAgain

#Kwibuka30

Peace and justice for all,
Farah
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Draft Annual Plan & Request for Input

2024-04-11 Thread Maryana Iskander 
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Hi all,

In my most recent email

in late February, I shared themes from an initiative called Talking: 2024
in which Foundation leadership, staff, and Trustees spoke with many of you
in conversations intended to shape our planning process. Earlier today, the
Wikimedia Foundation published the draft Annual Plan

for the upcoming 2024-2025 fiscal year.

This year’s Annual Plan comes at a time of growing uncertainty, volatility
and complexity for the world and for the Wikimedia movement. Globally, the
role of trusted information online is increasingly important and more under
threat than ever before. Organizations and online platforms must navigate a
changing internet that is more polarized and fragmented. New ways of
searching for information, including chat-based search, are gaining
traction. The ease of creating AI machine-generated content creates both
opportunity and risk for Wikimedia’s role as a human-led, tech-enabled
knowledge system, as well as for Wikimedia’s financial model.

A few observations about this year’s draft Annual Plan:


   -

   2030 Strategy:  As we face into these headwinds, the Foundation’s annual
   and multi-year planning continues to be guided by the movement’s 2030
   Strategic Direction. Changes in the world around us make this direction
   more relevant than ever.  A call to become the essential infrastructure of
   the ecosystem of free knowledge is more than just an inspirational
   statement – it is a mandate to continually assess the sustainability of our
   projects and organizations in response to the shifting landscape around us.



   -

   Multi-year to multigenerational planning:  And we must plan even further
   ahead. Looking beyond 2030 is vital to our mission, which requires the
   Foundation to help “make and keep useful information … available on the
   internet free of charge, in perpetuity.”  The shift from a link-based
   search architecture – which has served our projects and financial model
   well up to this point – to a chat-based search architecture is in its
   early days but is likely here to stay. We believe this is part of a
   generational shift in how people create and consume information online.
   What emerges is a strategic paradox: Wikimedia projects are becoming more
   vital to the knowledge infrastructure of the internet while
   simultaneously becoming less visible to internet users.  To ensure the
   success of the Wikimedia projects into the future, we must consider a
   multigenerational approach across key areas of future planning.



   -

   Trends: As we did last year, the Foundation started planning by asking,
   “What does the world need from us and the Wikimedia projects now?” We
   conducted research into external trends that are impacting our work,
   including a larger focus on immediate, bite-sized information; increasing
   presence of incentives, financial and otherwise, to attract contributors to
   some platforms; legal and regulatory threats, including platform
   regulations that can be weaponized against us and our contributors, as well
   as opportunities to positively advance the public interest; and issues of
   content veracity and the effect of AI on the information ecosystem.



   -

   Technology support:  This year’s plan also remains focused on the
   central importance of technology, given the Foundation’s role as platform
   provider for volunteers and readers around the world. The Foundation’s
   Product & Technology department shared their objectives last month before
   the full plan was ready, to signal how their priorities for the coming year
   are developing and invite feedback and questions. At a high level, our work
   for the coming year is focused on improving user experience on Wikimedia
   projects, providing the ongoing maintenance needed to support a top 10
   global website and making future-focused investments to meet a changing
   internet.



   -

   Consistent goals, iterative work:  The four overarching goals of this
   year’s plan also remain consistent with last year’s (Infrastructure,
   Equity, Safety & Integrity, and Effectiveness), while the work and
   deliverables within each goal iterate on the progress made in the current
   year.  Together, the four goals are a blueprint to

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Joint Statement on Palestine

2024-04-11 Thread Saqib Qayyum 
Seriously? While hailing from Pakistan might suggest an automatic alignment
with such a letter, and I do have all my sympathies for Palestinians but
it's crucial to recognize that Wikipedia, and even WMF are intended to
remain impartial. I believe supporting or denouncing political issues is
not appropriate on this mailing list. Wikimedia or WMF meant to be
unbiased, so let's leave it as it is.

--
Saqib Qayyum


On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 11:01 PM geni  wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 at 17:45, Shaba 50  wrote:
> >
> > Greetings Farah and fellow Wikimedians,
> >
> > I am writing to express my support for the Joint Statement on Palestine.
> I am deeply concerned about the humanitarian catastrophe in Palestine and
> believe that Wikimedia groups, affiliates, allies, and volunteers should
> unite in solidarity with humanity and demand an immediate and lasting
> ceasefire to halt the tragic loss of life and destruction of Palestinian
> cultural heritage.
>
> Whats special about this conflict? The second Darfur genocide is
> ongoing but you aren't making demands about that. The recent ethnic
> cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh was hardly a good thing and yet you
> remain silent. While I'm not upset of the outcome of the recent
> fighting around Myawaddy are you not concerned about the loss of life
> and destruction of cultural heritage in the area?
>
> > I also urge the WMF to take proactive measures to ensure the safety of
> volunteers,
>
> The WMF is not an oil company. It does not have merceneries on call
> and nor should it.
>
>
>
>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana

2024-04-11 Thread Mahuton Possoupe 
Welcome Botswana!

On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 2:57 AM Mamadou Oury Sow  wrote:

> Félicitations
>
> Sent from Outlook for iOS 
> --
> *From:* Levi Kambai Timothy 
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 6, 2024 3:17:43 PM
> *To:* Wikimedia Mailing List 
> *Subject:* [Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Wikimedia Community User
> Group Botswana
>
> Congrats, WCUG Botswana!
>
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2024, 5:02 pm Bobby Shabangu, <
> bobby.shaba...@wikimedia.org.za> wrote:
>
> Congratulations Botswana!
>
> Re thoholetsa mosebetsi wa lona o boima. Once again congrats.
>
>
>
> On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 04:50, Belinda Mbambo  wrote:
>
> Happy news for Botswana :) Congratulations everyone
>
> *Belinda Mbambo*
> Senior Manager: Global Movement Communications
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 6:10 AM Aboubacar Keïta 
> wrote:
>
> Bonjour a tous
> Félicitations aux groupes d'utilisateurs du Botswana, un nouveau jour pour
> l'Afrique et ses langues.
>
> Le mer. 3 avr. 2024 à 20:54, Affiliations Committee 
> a écrit :
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
> The group aims to to promote the use of Wikimedia and its sister projects
> by the residents of Botswana, and to also help in creating awareness on how
> the everyday Botswana can contribute to the pool of free knowledge, which
> is Wikimedia; most especially in the translation efforts into the major
> local languages (Setswana).
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Jeffrey Keefer
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Botswana
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Botswana
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Niger

2024-04-11 Thread Mahuton Possoupe 
Félicitations et bienvenue à la communauté du Niger !


On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM wikimedia Bénin user group <
wikimediens.be...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Toutes mes félicitations pour ce que vous avez accompli et surtout ce que
> vous accomplirez
> Bon courage à tous et toutes
> Mermoze Adodo
>
> Le lun. 8 avr. 2024, 08:40, Kangah Donatien KOFFI <
> donatien.ka...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>> Bonne arrivée à nos amis du Niger
>>
>>
>>
>> [image: Mailtrack]
>> 
>>  Sender
>> notified by
>> Mailtrack
>> 
>>  07/04/24
>> 19:30:20
>>
>> Le dim. 7 avr. 2024 à 19:07, Levi Kambai Timothy 
>> a écrit :
>>
>>> Congratulation à Wikimedia Community User Group Niger.
>>>
>>> On Sun, 7 Apr 2024, 3:55 pm Shaba 50,  wrote:
>>>
 Greetings Jeffrey,

 Thank you for sharing this exciting news! Congratulations to the
 members of the new Wikimedia Community User Group Niger. I wish them all
 the best in their endeavors.

 Best Regards,
 Aliyu Shaba.


 On Sun, Apr 7, 2024, 3:46 PM Affiliations Committee <
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> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
> recognized [1] Wikimedia Community User Group Niger [2] as a Wikimedia 
> User
> Group. The group aims to promote access to the free sharing of knowledge
> and build a community of contributors in Niger.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Jeffrey Keefer
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Niger
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Niger
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Dicussing the future of budget planning and funds distribution in the Wikiverse

2024-04-11 Thread Yael Weissburg 
Thank you for sharing this here, Philip. It's been very encouraging to have
these conversations together.

As you know, I think the participatory vision laid out by the CEE Hub would
help us shift in the direction of greater subsidiarity, enabling
professional movement structures like Hubs to guide that process and hold
the accountability for not only funds distribution in the regions, but also
impact, which is what ultimately we're all working towards.

I'm looking forward to continuing the conversations in Berlin.

Yael
*Yael Weissburg* (she/her)
VP, Community Growth
Wikimedia Foundation 
M: (+1) 415.513.6643
I work from San Francisco. My time zone is UTC -7/-8.
Book a call with me here
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 11:36 AM Philip Kopetzky 
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> over the last few weeks there have been many ongoing conversations about
> the current state of funds distribution in the Wikiverse and what a process
> built on subsidiarity and a more open planning phase could look like. The
> CEE Hub has been having discussions with the Wikimedia Foundation involving
> Steering Committee members and staff of the CEE Hub concerning this topic -
> for transparency reasons we have published a possible version of how
> regional networks and affiliates could/should be involved in funds
> distribution and budget planning.[1]
>
> Depending on the final version of the Movement Charter, parameters or
> responsible entities might change within our suggestion, but the basic
> principles of information flow from the bottom to the top of decision
> making, and a more collaborative and open approach to budget planning,
> would remain unchanged.
>
> We hope this document can help further a conversation about the future
> roles, relationships and representation that we want to share in Wikimedia.
>
> Best regards,
> Philip
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Dicussing the future of budget planning and funds distribution in the Wikiverse

2024-04-11 Thread Philip Kopetzky 
Dear all,

over the last few weeks there have been many ongoing conversations about
the current state of funds distribution in the Wikiverse and what a process
built on subsidiarity and a more open planning phase could look like. The
CEE Hub has been having discussions with the Wikimedia Foundation involving
Steering Committee members and staff of the CEE Hub concerning this topic -
for transparency reasons we have published a possible version of how
regional networks and affiliates could/should be involved in funds
distribution and budget planning.[1]

Depending on the final version of the Movement Charter, parameters or
responsible entities might change within our suggestion, but the basic
principles of information flow from the bottom to the top of decision
making, and a more collaborative and open approach to budget planning,
would remain unchanged.

We hope this document can help further a conversation about the future
roles, relationships and representation that we want to share in Wikimedia.

Best regards,
Philip

---
[1]:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Hub/Funds_Distribution_Vision
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Joint Statement on Palestine

2024-04-11 Thread geni 
On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 at 17:45, Shaba 50  wrote:
>
> Greetings Farah and fellow Wikimedians,
>
> I am writing to express my support for the Joint Statement on Palestine. I am 
> deeply concerned about the humanitarian catastrophe in Palestine and believe 
> that Wikimedia groups, affiliates, allies, and volunteers should unite in 
> solidarity with humanity and demand an immediate and lasting ceasefire to 
> halt the tragic loss of life and destruction of Palestinian cultural heritage.

Whats special about this conflict? The second Darfur genocide is
ongoing but you aren't making demands about that. The recent ethnic
cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh was hardly a good thing and yet you
remain silent. While I'm not upset of the outcome of the recent
fighting around Myawaddy are you not concerned about the loss of life
and destruction of cultural heritage in the area?

> I also urge the WMF to take proactive measures to ensure the safety of 
> volunteers,

The WMF is not an oil company. It does not have merceneries on call
and nor should it.





-- 
geni
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Joint Statement on Palestine

2024-04-11 Thread Shaba 50 
Greetings Farah and fellow Wikimedians,

I am writing to express my support for the Joint Statement on Palestine. I
am deeply concerned about the humanitarian catastrophe in Palestine and
believe that Wikimedia groups, affiliates, allies, and volunteers should
unite in solidarity with humanity and demand an immediate and lasting
ceasefire to halt the tragic loss of life and destruction of Palestinian
cultural heritage.

I urge the WMF to prioritize the impartial dissemination of information and
accurate, real-time documentation of the current human-caused humanitarian
disaster and erasure of cultural heritage. I also urge the WMF to take
proactive measures to ensure the safety of volunteers, communities,
partners, and knowledge and memory institutions from Palestine contributing
to the dissemination of knowledge.

Thank you for your leadership on this important issue.

In solidarity,
Aliyu Shaba.


On Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 5:01 PM Farah Jack Mustaklem 
wrote:

> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>
> On the 7th of April, a joint statement was published by Wikimedia groups,
> ally organization, and individual Wikimedians expressing concern over the
> humanitarian catastrophe in Palestine. The statement calls on "all
> Wikimedia groups, affiliates, allies, and volunteers to unite in solidarity
> with humanity and demand an immediate and lasting ceasefire to halt the
> tragic loss of life and destruction of Palestinian cultural heritage."
>
> Additionally, the signatories call upon the WMF to "prioritize the
> impartial dissemination of information and accurate, real-time
> documentation of the current human-caused humanitarian disaster and erasure
> of cultural heritage" and to "take proactive measures to ensure the safety
> of volunteers, communities, partners and knowledge and memory institutions
> from Palestine contributing to the dissemination of knowledge."
>
> Since the initial release, several additional groups and individuals have
> signed on to the statement, and others are kindly urged to do the same.
>
> The statement can be found and signed here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Joint_Statement_on_Palestine
>
> Peace and justice for all,
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[Wikimedia-l] Joint Statement on Palestine

2024-04-11 Thread Farah Jack Mustaklem 
Dear fellow Wikimedians,

On the 7th of April, a joint statement was published by Wikimedia groups,
ally organization, and individual Wikimedians expressing concern over the
humanitarian catastrophe in Palestine. The statement calls on "all
Wikimedia groups, affiliates, allies, and volunteers to unite in solidarity
with humanity and demand an immediate and lasting ceasefire to halt the
tragic loss of life and destruction of Palestinian cultural heritage."

Additionally, the signatories call upon the WMF to "prioritize the
impartial dissemination of information and accurate, real-time
documentation of the current human-caused humanitarian disaster and erasure
of cultural heritage" and to "take proactive measures to ensure the safety
of volunteers, communities, partners and knowledge and memory institutions
from Palestine contributing to the dissemination of knowledge."

Since the initial release, several additional groups and individuals have
signed on to the statement, and others are kindly urged to do the same.

The statement can be found and signed here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Joint_Statement_on_Palestine

Peace and justice for all,
Farah
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[Wikimedia-l] You are invited to the conversation hour with Community Resilience and Sustainability

2024-04-11 Thread Jackie Koerner 
Hi all,

You are invited to the quarterly Conversation hour

led by Maggie Dennis, Vice President of Community Resilience and
Sustainability, on 30 April 2024 at 18:00 UTC
.

Maggie and others from the team will address Trust and Safety, the
Universal Code of Conduct, Committee Support, and Human Rights.

If you are a Wikimedian in good standing (not Foundation or community
banned), write to let us know you will be attending the conversation or
share your questions if you cannot attend live. More information about
attending this conversation hour

and notes from previous conversation hours can be found on Meta-wiki
.

Best,
-- 

Jackie Koerner (she/her)

Communication Specialist, Community Resilience and Sustainability Location:
Midwestern US (UTC-5/-6)

Let's talk: https://calendly.com/jkoerner-wmf

Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia UK 2023-24 annual impact report

2024-04-11 Thread Daria Cybulska 
Dear all,

Wikimedia UK recently published its impact report for 2023 - you can read
it here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Wikimedia_UK_-_Funding_request_for_1st_February_2023_-_31st_January_2025/Yearly_Report_(2023)

There were quite a few learning resources that we produced in the course of
the year, for example

   -

   Getting Started with Wikimedia for the Heritage Sector
   

   ,
   -

   How to run an online Wikipedia editathon guide
   

   as part of the Connected Heritage Program
   -

   A free Changemakers Toolkit
   

   co-developed with the Sheila McKechnie Foundation
   -

   Democracy + Wikimedia research report
   
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_and_Democracy_-_Wikimedia_UK_report_2021_(full_report).pdf


Hope this is useful; any questions let us know.

Best wishes
Daria

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Director of Programmes and Evaluation

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