[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Commons-l] [Wiki Loves Africa] - Announcing Results and Statistics for 2023
Congratulations everyone who organized this year! These images and videos are fantastic and relevant: it's so cool to see such good (and creative) documentation of the climate crises, other weather events and the environment of Africa! Cheers, Alex On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 10:38 AM Wilson Oluoha wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > > I hope this email finds you well. > > I am excited to share with you the amazing results and statistics of the > 2023 Wiki Loves Africa contest. Wiki Loves Africa > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023> aims > to celebrate the richness, diversity and beauty of Africa by encouraging > participants and contributors to upload their media to Wikimedia Commons > for subsequent use on Wikipedia. > > > The 2023 iteration of the project, which ran from 1st March to 30th April > with the theme *Climate & Weather*, received an overwhelming response, > with a total > <https://ptools.toolforge.org/uploadersincat.php?category=Images+from+Wiki+Loves+Africa+2023> > of *13,385* submissions from* 785* uploaders representing *53 African > countries > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023>*. > It's been truly inspiring to witness the continental response to the > concept of climate and weather as it concerns Africa through this > initiative. > > > Today, we are excited to announce the *winning media entries > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023/Winners>*, > which were selected by our esteemed panel of judges. Also, this year, we > introduced a Video jury (first ever in the Wikimedia space) to help us > select the winning uploads for the various video categories. > > > > *The International prizes:* > > *Photography:* > *1st prize:* US$2000 - Auyo village flood by Sani Maikatanga > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auyo_village_flood_06.jpg> > (Nigeria) > *2nd prize:* US$1500 - Stormy day in somalia by Mohamed Nasr > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stormy_day_in_somalia.jpg> > (Somalia) > *3rd prize:* US$1000 - Kids and the river by Mohammed Osman > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kids_and_the_river.jpg> (Sudan) > > > > > *Media (Video, Audio, Graphics, Photo Essays):* > *Best audio :* US$ 750 - Change Immersion by Abdullahi Tanimu Abubakar > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Change-immersion.ogg> (Nigeria) > *Best video prize :* US$ 1,000 - GOOD YESTERDAYS WIKI LOVES AFRICA 2023 > by Green Wilfred Somoni > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GOOD_YESTERDAYS_WIKI_LOVES_AFRICA_2023_By_Green_Wilfred_Somoni.webm> > (Nigeria) > *Africa Environment Video Prize* (Best video representation of the impact > of climate change) : US$ 2,000 - Last Stand by Alamin Mohammed > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Last_Stand.webm> > *Africa Environment Special Collection Prize:* Collection of 13 videos by > Wiki Loves Africa Fan Club Cote d'Ivoire > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire_Fan_Club> > > > > *Useful links:* > > > Click to see best photos from the contest > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Best_images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023> > . > > > Click to view Quality photos from the contest > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Quality_images_from_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023> > . > > > Click to see the Top 20 photo considerations from the contest. > <https://youtu.be/njrJyQwLeBI?feature=shared> > > > Click to view the National winners from several local contests. > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023/National_winners> > > > > On a final note, we would like to acknowledge the support of all our > partners, jury, organizers and volunteers whose tireless efforts, > assistance and contributions made this year's contest a success. We are > immensely grateful for your dedication and passion to supporting Wiki Loves > Africa. We look forward to your continued participation in future endeavors. > > > If you have any questions or would like further information, please do not > hesitate to reach out via wil...@wikiinafrica.org. Thank you once again > for your interest and support. > > > > Warm regards, > > > *Wilson* > > On behalf of the International team Wiki Loves Africa > ___ > Commons-l mailing list -- common...@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to commons-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > -- Alex Stinson Lead Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the comm
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Tool to find articles to create or improve in non-English Wikipedias
this importance >>>with ~700 bytes. >>>- For Wikiproject Poland and target of Dutch Wikipedia, you get [1] >>>saying article of "Ignacy Mościcki" is missing in Dutch Wikipedia while >>>existing in 38 other languages (and many more articles to create or >>> improve) >>>- For Wikiproject Computer Science and target of Vietnamese >>>Wikipedia, you get [4] saying article of "Alonzo Church" exists in 50 >>>wikipedias but not in Vietnamese Wikipedia (and more articles to create >>> or >>>improve in field of computer science) >>>- and many more but you get the idea. >>> >>> It is not perfect, for example the concept of importance and what >>> articles belong to them is not perfect but it's better than nothing. >>> >>> I find this useful in events and editathons where a newcomer asks "I'm >>> interested in topic X what can I do?" and you can give them at least >>> something to work on. Or for small or medium wikis to find gaps in their >>> content in given topics. >>> >>> Noting that there are more than 2,800 WikiProjects in English Wikipedia, >>> the topics to pick are quite broad. From Olivia Roderigo [5] to Rome [6] to >>> Soap Operas [7] to Trains [8]. Hope that'd be useful for you. >>> >>> If anyone is feeling comfortable to help maintain or add features to it, >>> please let me know. I wrote this in four or five hours, it's quite basic >>> and more of a PoC of what it could become. >>> >>> [1] https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=nl=Poland=Top >>> [2] https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=hu=Physics=Top >>> [3] https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molekulap%C3%A1lya >>> [4]: >>> https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=vi=Computer+science=Top >>> [5] >>> https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=fa=Olivia+Rodrigo=Top >>> [6] https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=fa=Rome=Top >>> [7] >>> https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=fa=Soap+Operas=Top >>> [8] https://whattodo.toolforge.org/?lang=fa=Trains=Top >>> >>> Best >>> -- >>> Amir (he/him) >>> >>> ___ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >>> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> Public archives at >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/5VOM5VRRWZSWCW3XBNBSIS3DLQ5CTYJL/ >>> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >> >> ___ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/ZC32OOAR3RXAXBQWM5CLGVAI5KYT6C33/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/MRODWX6QZNKSSWXBMHVD23PIYGXVV6RD/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org -- Alex Stinson Lead Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/Z6RDNX765FZJXTZJMRZKAWQ6YK5GSIP4/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Join the #WikiForHumanRights Launch Webinar on April 18
Hi Wikimedians, As we approach Earth Day (April 22) next week, I wanted to remind you about how you can contribute to the #WikiForHumanRights Campaign. Each year we partner with the UN Human Rights and UN Environmental program, to focus on the key issues related to the human impacts of the global environmental crises. Join our launch webinar! On 18 April at 15:00 UTC, we invite you to join the launch of this year’s #WikiForHumanRights campaign, with a special focus on the Pollution crisis. Register here on Zoom <https://diff.wikimedia.org/event/wikiforhumanrights-launch-webinar-focus-on-pollution/> . This panel explores how improved public knowledge, through platforms like Wikimedia projects, can help both global and local communities better understand and exercise their right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment in efforts to prevent, minimize and remedy pollution. Join panelists Monika Stankiewicz (Executive Secretary of the Minamata Convention on Mercury <https://mercuryconvention.org/en>), Jo Banner (Co-Founder & Co-Director, Descendents Project <https://www.thedescendantsproject.com/>) and Soledad Mella Vida (Asociación Movimiento Nacional Recicladores de Chile <https://anarch.cl/>) as they discuss how public knowledge can play an important role in protecting human rights and the environment. The event will include live translations in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Arabic. Register here on Zoom <https://diff.wikimedia.org/event/wikiforhumanrights-launch-webinar-focus-on-pollution/> . Contribute to the campaign! The heart of every Wikimedia campaign are contributions to Wikimedia communities. Join us in one of the actions. - Join the Writing Contest <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Join_the_Challenge>— help us create local knowledge on key human rights and environmental knowledge topics in more languages, this year the special focus is on - Connect with Local Communities <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Join_Community_Events>— Join an event in your language or community - Join the Human Rights Interest Group <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1imdKKVlWcZ91BY6ou4t3ZzdJkBHflH2qaSUxp5CTHVM/edit> — advise the Wikimedia Movement on addressing human rights - Share the campaign with your communities! -- Help us share the campaign with your community, by sharing the blog post on Diff: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/30/join-the-wikiforhumanrights-campaign-and-contribute-knowledge-that-connects-human-rights-with-solutions-for-a-sustainable-future/ Looking forward to you joining the campaign! The International WikiForHumanRights Team -- Alex Stinson Lead Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/3LGKHHRRP3UKDVYVVIE4DONIQBBS6TI3/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Apply to join the Beta version of the Organizer Lab!
Hi all, reminder that we are starting the information session now: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/89032870014 Alex Stinson On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 3:32 PM Felix Nartey wrote: > *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 > <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/89032870014>. > > Dear Wikimedians, > > The Campaigns Team > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Programs_Team> at > the Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the beta version of a new > program called the Organizer Lab > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/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 > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations/Identify_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 ><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team> >- > >Its initial topic of focus also supports the Wikimedia Foundation’s > Sustainability >Initiative > > <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/06/27/wikimedia-foundations-carbon-footprint-report-for-2021/> >. > > > 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 ><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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. Application
[Wikimedia-l] Re: December 14 Conversation hour about organizing for #WikiForHumanRights 2022
Hi all, Reminder that the conversation hour for #WikiForHumanRights starts in 2 hours at 1500 UTC. If you are interested in organizing for this next year, we hope to see you there, Cheers, Alex Stinson On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 2:39 PM Alex Stinson wrote: > > *TL:DR --* Join us for a Conversation hour December 14 at 1500 UTC to > learn how to organize for WikiForHumanRights 2022. > > Hello Everyone! > > #WikiForHumanRights: Right to a Healthy Environment 2022 [1]is back! From > April > 15 through to June 14 2022 we encourage local affiliates, individuals or > organizations interested in the campaign to organize activities around the > intersecting themes of human rights and the environment. > > If you are interested in organizing your community for the campaign, > please join us for a conversation hour on December 14 at 1500 UTC [4] > (more details below) to learn how you can participate. > > > Why the Right to a Healthy Environment? > > This October, the Right to a Healthy Environment was formally recognized > [1] by the United Nations Human Rights Council. According to Michelle > Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: > > "A safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is the foundation of > human life. But today, because of human action – and inhuman inaction – the > triple planetary crises of climate change, pollution, and nature loss is > directly and severely impacting a broad range of rights, including the > rights to adequate food, water, education, housing, health, development, > and even life itself."[2] > > The environmental crisis is getting more complex. Humanity needs to make > thousands of big and small decisions to address it. As the UN Environmental > Program described it, we need to make “Peace with Nature”[3] and protect > the human rights of the most vulnerable. > > Wikipedia and other platforms need to fill the knowledge gaps at the > intersection of sustainability and human rights in every context and > language. The world needs access to reliable information about the link > between environmental sustainability and human rights. > > What can you do? Help us organize! > > We need your help! The campaign will officially launch on April 15 (one > week before Earth Day), but we need your help now to begin preparing this > global call to action. > > Last year we had 24 community-led editathons, workshops, webinars, and > writing contests, with contributions to over 2000 articles in more than 40 > languages. To match (and hopefully exceed) these impacts, we need your help > to organize your local communities! > > Activities related to human rights and sustainability are good topics for > local communities to both a) identify new partners, b) recruit enthusiastic > participants and c) fill key topics for impact in their own language or > context. > > Join the Conversation to learn more! > > Join us for 1.5 hours of conversation Tuesday the 14th December 2021 > 15:00 UTC on Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509> [4], to learn > more about: > >- > >How you can participate in this campaign and organize local events in >your community or region. >- > >Which topics this campaign will target, and how you can connect with >subject matter experts, partners, and other resources to support successful >content creation activities. >- > >How the Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns team can support you in >designing your event and doing targeted outreach to potential contributors >drawn to these topics. > > Organizers can find more information at this (still under development): page > on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights>[5] > > If you want to join us as an organizer, please join our Telegram Group > <https://t.me/joinchat/k_W9SVMG5K44YjJh>[6] > > If you have any questions send us an email at campai...@wikimedia.org > > > Looking forward to hearing you in the conversation, > > Ruby Damenshie-Brown and Alex Stinson > > > > [1] https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1102582 > > [2] > https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27443 > > [3] https://www.unep.org/interactive/making-peace-nature/ > > [4] https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509 > > [5]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights > > [6] https://t.me/joinchat/k_W9SVMG5K44YjJh > > -- > Alex Stinson > Senior Program Strategist > Wikimedia Foundation > Twitter: @sadads > > Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other > Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors > through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedi
[Wikimedia-l] December 14 Conversation hour about organizing for #WikiForHumanRights 2022
*TL:DR --* Join us for a Conversation hour December 14 at 1500 UTC to learn how to organize for WikiForHumanRights 2022. Hello Everyone! #WikiForHumanRights: Right to a Healthy Environment 2022 [1]is back! >From April 15 through to June 14 2022 we encourage local affiliates, individuals or organizations interested in the campaign to organize activities around the intersecting themes of human rights and the environment. If you are interested in organizing your community for the campaign, please join us for a conversation hour on December 14 at 1500 UTC [4] (more details below) to learn how you can participate. Why the Right to a Healthy Environment? This October, the Right to a Healthy Environment was formally recognized [1] by the United Nations Human Rights Council. According to Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: "A safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is the foundation of human life. But today, because of human action – and inhuman inaction – the triple planetary crises of climate change, pollution, and nature loss is directly and severely impacting a broad range of rights, including the rights to adequate food, water, education, housing, health, development, and even life itself."[2] The environmental crisis is getting more complex. Humanity needs to make thousands of big and small decisions to address it. As the UN Environmental Program described it, we need to make “Peace with Nature”[3] and protect the human rights of the most vulnerable. Wikipedia and other platforms need to fill the knowledge gaps at the intersection of sustainability and human rights in every context and language. The world needs access to reliable information about the link between environmental sustainability and human rights. What can you do? Help us organize! We need your help! The campaign will officially launch on April 15 (one week before Earth Day), but we need your help now to begin preparing this global call to action. Last year we had 24 community-led editathons, workshops, webinars, and writing contests, with contributions to over 2000 articles in more than 40 languages. To match (and hopefully exceed) these impacts, we need your help to organize your local communities! Activities related to human rights and sustainability are good topics for local communities to both a) identify new partners, b) recruit enthusiastic participants and c) fill key topics for impact in their own language or context. Join the Conversation to learn more! Join us for 1.5 hours of conversation Tuesday the 14th December 2021 15:00 UTC on Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509> [4], to learn more about: - How you can participate in this campaign and organize local events in your community or region. - Which topics this campaign will target, and how you can connect with subject matter experts, partners, and other resources to support successful content creation activities. - How the Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns team can support you in designing your event and doing targeted outreach to potential contributors drawn to these topics. Organizers can find more information at this (still under development): page on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights>[5] If you want to join us as an organizer, please join our Telegram Group <https://t.me/joinchat/k_W9SVMG5K44YjJh>[6] If you have any questions send us an email at campai...@wikimedia.org Looking forward to hearing you in the conversation, Ruby Damenshie-Brown and Alex Stinson [1] https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1102582 [2] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27443 [3] https://www.unep.org/interactive/making-peace-nature/ [4] https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509 [5]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights [6] https://t.me/joinchat/k_W9SVMG5K44YjJh -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/J2YUY5CDKTOA7YRYEQM57S5JL62ZZWHF/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Campaigns Product Team Office Hour: September 9 2021
A reminder that our office hours are upcoming, in a little less than three hours at 3PM UTC. On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 5:47 PM Alex Stinson wrote: > Hi Movement Organizers, > > The Wikimedia Foundation Campaign Product team will be hosting our first > Campaigns Product Office hour on September 9, 2021 at 3 PM UTC (join us > on Zoom: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/87427100681) . The Office hour will > focus on an introduction to the Product team and the choice of a first > feature focused on Event Registration. [1] > > For more information about our focus on Event Registration, see: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Registration > > > > For more information about the Campaigns Product Team, see: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team > > If you would like to subscribe for further updates from the Campaigns > Product team, we invite you to subscribe for newsletter updates at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Subcribers > > > Looking forward to your participation! > > The Campaigns Product team > > [1] For a full list of previous WMF Campaigns office hours see: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Programs_Team#Office_Hours > > > > -- > Alex Stinson > Senior Program Strategist > Wikimedia Foundation > Twitter: @sadads > > Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other > Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors > through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns > -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/JJCJBAEODZXIN6E2P3CWFELCKZDAPFUH/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Campaigns Product Team Office Hour: September 9 2021
Hi Movement Organizers, The Wikimedia Foundation Campaign Product team will be hosting our first Campaigns Product Office hour on September 9, 2021 at 3 PM UTC (join us on Zoom: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/87427100681) . The Office hour will focus on an introduction to the Product team and the choice of a first feature focused on Event Registration. [1] For more information about our focus on Event Registration, see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Registration For more information about the Campaigns Product Team, see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team If you would like to subscribe for further updates from the Campaigns Product team, we invite you to subscribe for newsletter updates at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Subcribers Looking forward to your participation! The Campaigns Product team [1] For a full list of previous WMF Campaigns office hours see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Programs_Team#Office_Hours -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/FEVRAUBNBBLQF4GGCHFTZBERKS4LHVBH/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Update on #WikiForHumanRights Launch Event, community events and challenge
Hi all, One last major update before #WikiForHumanRights "right to a healthy environment" launches next Thursday. Apologies for cross-posting. To learn more about the campaign see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights *Join the launch event! * We are hosting a launch event April 15 at 1500 UTC available with live translation in UN languages: learn more at https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/04/02/live-event-join-us-for-the-launch-of-wikiforhumanrights-right-to-a-healthy-environment/ *Edit in the challenge!* Like the WikiGap Challenge, we encourage you to join our international editing competition focused on topics related. We have international topics identified by UN Human Rights, UN Environment and UNICEF. Come create or expand those articles or bring your own! Join us at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights_Challenge *Join community events! * There is a list of community events for the campaign, many of which are digital and available for all: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/2021/Events More events will be coming soon, and if you would like to organize -- please see my previous email: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2021-March/096344.html *Promote in your community!* Please share this in your communities where possible! Thank you! Alex Stinson -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing 'Wiki for X'
Hi Phillipe and Tulsi, As you may or may not be aware, I have been guiding an effort to pilot Wikimedia Foundation capacity for supporting community content campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Campaigns_Team So we have seen a wide range of different naming conventions for community campaigns. Wiki Loves typically include photography campaigns, while Wiki for (or 4) campaigns are typically writing activities with a focus on an advocacy topic with broad international agreement i.e. representation of women, SDGs or Human Rights (as Phillipe notes advocacy positions are complicated ). There are of course exceptions to this pattern (i.e Wiki Loves SDGS: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki_Loves_SDGs_Nigeria ) because the conventions are accidental cultural phenomena rather than planned and deliberate . However, suggesting that there needs to be a uniform naming convention isn't very helpful across widely divergent campaigns with different goals, different audiences, and different communication contexts (i.e. languages or cultures). For me, the more important concern is helping organizers choose the right name for the audiences they want to engage (that, for example, activists need to know we are supportive of SDGs, Climate action or representation of Women rather than trying to document something en-mass i.e. Butterflies or Monuments). For example, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, WikiGap, Black Lunch Table and InvisibleWikiWomen all have very deliberate communication and branding choices behind their names. If new organizers need help thinking through naming for their own campaigns -- it's worth exploring the various bits of documentation we are gathering at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns or reaching out to my colleague Felix Nartey or myself. Glad that we are thinking publically about how we show up in campaigns :) Cheers, Alex Stinson On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 1:41 PM Philippe Beaudette wrote: > I have hesitations. First of all, “for” implies “in support of”. > Therefore, wiki for COVID-19 could be read as “wiki in support of > covid-19”, which I don’t believe is the message you are trying to convey. > > Thats why the “loves” works so well. May I ask why you think we need a new > system for naming conventions here? > > Philippe > > On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:57 AM Tulsi Bhagat > wrote: > >> Hello, >> Greetings! >> >> I hope you're doing well. I would like to introduce 'Wiki for X', a >> new general format for naming various sorts of Wikimedia community events >> and outreach campaigns; For instance, we have 'Wiki Loves X' as such 'Wiki >> for X', where X is whatever the coordinators wish to call the campaign. >> This is because i believe change is necessary. I hope we can create some >> brand new impactful ideas for outreach campaigns across the globe with this >> new general format. >> >> With regard to, I've organized Wiki For COVID-19 >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_For_COVID-19> on Jun 01-Sep 30 >> 2020 and I see there's another event WikiForHumanRights >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights> starting on >> April 15-March 15 2021 to celebrate Earth Day. >> >> Can we please give continuity to this new general format? I really >> appreciate your input and opinions on this. Thank you for your >> consideration! >> >> Kind regards, >> Tulsi >> ___ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > -- > Philippe Beaudette > phili...@beaudette.me > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
[Wikimedia-l] Help us organize for #WikiForHumanRights!
Hello all, We are excited for #WikiForHumanRights -- at the office hours and afterwards community groups throughout the movement have already connected with us about organizing. This year we are going to focus on the "right to a healthy environment" and we need your help! What can you do? If you like to organize an event, we have created a list of ideas at: https://w.wiki/33kh. You can also learn more about kinds of activities from our last office hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_QEE60hcFk Keep in mind that we are support rapid grants to help you go further by means of financial support rapid grants will be available through April 15 -- please apply any time during that window through the application process. If you are organizing an event, please add it to the table at: https://w.wiki/35gK We will also have a content-writing challenge with prizes from April 15 - May 15 you can learn more about the challenge and sign up for the challenge at: https://w.wiki/35gE We also have developed a draft list of articles to be created or enriched with UN Human Rights: https://w.wiki/33ki . We hope these inspire you to think about what your community could do to fill the gaps on your wikis about the right to healthy environment: this could include topics related to human rights, climate or environmental justice, communities impacted by environmental health issues, or similar. We encourage working on Wikipedia and on sister projects: Commons, Wikidata, Wiktionary ... etc. If you have a question, you can send us an email (Alex Stinson: astin...@wikimedia.org, Michel Bakni: mbakni-...@wikimedia.org), or you can attend the support and mentoring meeting we are organizing on Zoom on at 14:00 (GMT) 18 March 2021. [1] Alex Stinson and Michel Bakni Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns Team [1] https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/95654457998?pwd=ajQ5V3pabExuUnU2VmdvT2RKMURKdz09 -- Forwarded message ----- From: Alex Stinson Date: Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:53 AM Subject: WikiForHumanRights at Campaign Team Office Hours and upcoming WMSusDev meeting To: Wikimedia Mailing List Dear Community, As we announced during December,[1] this year’s WikiForHumanRights campaign will be arriving for Earth Day this year: April 15-May 15. The theme is “Right to a Healthy Environment” -- connecting the 20th Birthday “Human” theme with the global conversations about COVID-19, environmental crisis, like climate change, and human rights.You can learn more about the theme at our under-development home page. [2] The campaign will have two parts: a challenge, like the WikiGap Challenge, and decentralized digital and in-person events (where COVID-19 risk assessments allow). We need your help organizing the decentralized events -- and will be supporting development of activities through mentoring and rapid grants. Do you want to be part of organizing? The Campaigns Team at the Wikimedia Foundation invites you to: - the upcoming Wikimedians for Sustainable Development meeting on 21 February at 11:00am UTC [3] - Our next virtual office hour on 25 February 2021 at 3:00pm UTC via zoom.[4] If you are interested, but can’t attend the meeting: you can also join the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development communication channels for general updates [5] or the WikiForHumanRights telegram channel, where we will share more updates for organizers [6]. Please forward this information to movement organizers who you think will be interested. Looking forward to talking with you soon! Alex Stinson [1] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/10/wikiforhumanrights-2021-help-share-human-rights-knowledge-on-wikipedia-and-beyond/ [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights [3 ] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting [4] See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Campaigns_Team#Office_Hour_4:_WikiForHumanRights_2021 or https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/97336292017 [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development#Communication_channels [6] https://t.me/joinchat/Ifp3xRo2fEIk_ecpZLdTEg ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiForHumanRights at Campaign Team Office Hours and upcoming WMSusDev meeting
Hi all, One of the zoom links was invalid, please try: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/97336292017 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/97336292017=D=calendar=1614697226587000=AOvVaw3K_b9yP3FRP9wuidhBVpTT> if it didn't work. Cheers, Alex On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 10:21 AM Alex Stinson wrote: > Just a reminder that the campaigns office hour is in about 1.5 hours. Hope > to see you there -- we will be talking about #WikiForHumanRights and can > discuss other questions about campaigns. > > Cheers, > > Alex > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:53 AM Alex Stinson > wrote: > >> Dear Community, >> >> As we announced during December,[1] this year’s WikiForHumanRights >> campaign will be arriving for Earth Day this year: April 15-May 15. The >> theme is “Right to a Healthy Environment” -- connecting the 20th Birthday >> “Human” theme with the global conversations about COVID-19, environmental >> crisis, like climate change, and human rights.You can learn more about the >> theme at our under-development home page. [2] >> >> The campaign will have two parts: a challenge, like the WikiGap >> Challenge, and decentralized digital and in-person events (where COVID-19 >> risk assessments allow). >> >> We need your help organizing the decentralized events -- and will be >> supporting development of activities through mentoring and rapid grants. >> >> >> >> Do you want to be part of organizing? The Campaigns Team at the >> Wikimedia Foundation invites you to: >> >>- >> >>the upcoming Wikimedians for Sustainable Development meeting on 21 >>February at 11:00am UTC [3] >>- >> >>Our next virtual office hour on 25 February 2021 at 3:00pm UTC via >>zoom.[4] >> >> >> >> If you are interested, but can’t attend the meeting: you can also join >> the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development communication channels for >> general updates [5] or the WikiForHumanRights telegram channel, where we >> will share more updates for organizers [6]. >> >> >> >> Please forward this information to movement organizers who you think will >> be interested. >> >> >> Looking forward to talking with you soon! >> >> >> >> Alex Stinson >> >> >> >> [1] >> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/10/wikiforhumanrights-2021-help-share-human-rights-knowledge-on-wikipedia-and-beyond/ >> >> >> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights >> >> [3 ] >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting >> >> >> [4] See >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Campaigns_Team#Office_Hour_4:_WikiForHumanRights_2021 >> or https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/97336292017 >> >> [5] >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development#Communication_channels >> >> >> [6] https://t.me/joinchat/Ifp3xRo2fEIk_ecpZLdTEg >> >> >> -- >> Alex Stinson >> Senior Program Strategist >> Wikimedia Foundation >> Twitter: @sadads >> >> Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other >> Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: >> https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM >> > > > -- > Alex Stinson > Senior Program Strategist > Wikimedia Foundation > Twitter: @sadads > > Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other > Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: > https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM > -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiForHumanRights at Campaign Team Office Hours and upcoming WMSusDev meeting
Just a reminder that the campaigns office hour is in about 1.5 hours. Hope to see you there -- we will be talking about #WikiForHumanRights and can discuss other questions about campaigns. Cheers, Alex On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:53 AM Alex Stinson wrote: > Dear Community, > > As we announced during December,[1] this year’s WikiForHumanRights > campaign will be arriving for Earth Day this year: April 15-May 15. The > theme is “Right to a Healthy Environment” -- connecting the 20th Birthday > “Human” theme with the global conversations about COVID-19, environmental > crisis, like climate change, and human rights.You can learn more about the > theme at our under-development home page. [2] > > The campaign will have two parts: a challenge, like the WikiGap Challenge, > and decentralized digital and in-person events (where COVID-19 risk > assessments allow). > > We need your help organizing the decentralized events -- and will be > supporting development of activities through mentoring and rapid grants. > > > > Do you want to be part of organizing? The Campaigns Team at the > Wikimedia Foundation invites you to: > >- > >the upcoming Wikimedians for Sustainable Development meeting on 21 >February at 11:00am UTC [3] >- > >Our next virtual office hour on 25 February 2021 at 3:00pm UTC via >zoom.[4] > > > > If you are interested, but can’t attend the meeting: you can also join > the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development communication channels for > general updates [5] or the WikiForHumanRights telegram channel, where we > will share more updates for organizers [6]. > > > > Please forward this information to movement organizers who you think will > be interested. > > > Looking forward to talking with you soon! > > > > Alex Stinson > > > > [1] > https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/10/wikiforhumanrights-2021-help-share-human-rights-knowledge-on-wikipedia-and-beyond/ > > > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights > > [3 ] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting > > > [4] See > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Campaigns_Team#Office_Hour_4:_WikiForHumanRights_2021 > or https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/97336292017 > > [5] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development#Communication_channels > > > [6] https://t.me/joinchat/Ifp3xRo2fEIk_ecpZLdTEg > > > -- > Alex Stinson > Senior Program Strategist > Wikimedia Foundation > Twitter: @sadads > > Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other > Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: > https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM > -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
[Wikimedia-l] WikiForHumanRights at Campaign Team Office Hours and upcoming WMSusDev meeting
Dear Community, As we announced during December,[1] this year’s WikiForHumanRights campaign will be arriving for Earth Day this year: April 15-May 15. The theme is “Right to a Healthy Environment” -- connecting the 20th Birthday “Human” theme with the global conversations about COVID-19, environmental crisis, like climate change, and human rights.You can learn more about the theme at our under-development home page. [2] The campaign will have two parts: a challenge, like the WikiGap Challenge, and decentralized digital and in-person events (where COVID-19 risk assessments allow). We need your help organizing the decentralized events -- and will be supporting development of activities through mentoring and rapid grants. Do you want to be part of organizing? The Campaigns Team at the Wikimedia Foundation invites you to: - the upcoming Wikimedians for Sustainable Development meeting on 21 February at 11:00am UTC [3] - Our next virtual office hour on 25 February 2021 at 3:00pm UTC via zoom.[4] If you are interested, but can’t attend the meeting: you can also join the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development communication channels for general updates [5] or the WikiForHumanRights telegram channel, where we will share more updates for organizers [6]. Please forward this information to movement organizers who you think will be interested. Looking forward to talking with you soon! Alex Stinson [1] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/10/wikiforhumanrights-2021-help-share-human-rights-knowledge-on-wikipedia-and-beyond/ [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights [3 ] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting [4] See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Campaigns_Team#Office_Hour_4:_WikiForHumanRights_2021 or https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/97336292017 [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development#Communication_channels [6] https://t.me/joinchat/Ifp3xRo2fEIk_ecpZLdTEg -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wiki4Climate Editathon starting next week
The international Wikimedia community might be interested in this upcoming event -- CDKN is a collaborator with WMZA (see previous event: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/African_Climate_Change_edit-a-thon ) and the movement that has been growing their outreach to the international climate communication community. Cheers, Alex Stinson --- Dear colleagues, The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) invite you to participate in an online climate change edit-a-thon, Wiki4Climate - A week of editing on climate change topics from 24 November - 1 December 2020. Wiki4Climate aims to mobilise a community of climate change professionals (researchers, practitioners and communicators), climate and community organisers, and existing Wikipedia editors and volunteers, to edit and update climate change articles on Wikipedia. The event has four specific goals: 1. To enhance climate change content on Wikipedia, particularly related to the Global South, 2. To increase awareness on the value of contributing to the platform, 3. To enhance the confidence and skills of climate change professionals to edit Wikipedia, and 4. To build a community of climate change editors, particularly women and editors from the Global South. For more information about the edit-a-thon and to sign up, visit our Wikipedia project page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online_edit-a-thon_on_climate_change_-_November_2020 Please share this opportunity with your networks and anyone you know who may be interested in joining. We hope to see you there! Emma Baker, on behalf of the Wiki4Climate organising team e...@southsouthnorth.org www.cdkn.org www.futureclimateafrica.org -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Wikidata Query Service Tutorial
Wow! So cool -- there have been so many different trainings on the query service -- its great to see such a large set of documentation. Cheers, Alex On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 6:06 PM Toni Ristovski wrote: > Wow, impressive. Thank you for sharing this. > > Additionally, I'm very interested to translate this into Macedonian. > Please share details about translation. > > This will be very helpful and useful for smaller wikis as we have many > members with little knowledge into Wikidata. > > Best, > Toni > Shared Knowledge > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, 21:59 Asaf Bartov, wrote: > >> Wow, what an excellent tutorial! The detailed outline is really helpful >> for people who just want a reminder of syntax, and the embedded queries are >> great for trial and error. >> >> I encourage everyone who hasn't yet learned how to query Wikidata to give >> this tool a try, and if you speak a language other than English or Hebrew, >> to contribute to translating this excellent resource! >> >> Kudos to Wikimedia Israel for the initiative and execution! >> >>A. >> >> Asaf Bartov (he/him/his) >> >> Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities >> >> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >> >> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the >> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! >> https://donate.wikimedia.org >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:44 PM Revital Poleg >> wrote: >> >>> In 2019 Wikimedia Israel (WMIL) decided to develop instructional >>> material for the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). The background for this >>> decision was that we see audiences to whom we introduce Wikidata become >>> especially enthusiastic when we present the *Wikidata query service >>> tutorial <https://wdqs-tutorial.toolforge.org/> *, which offers quite a >>> unique feature within the landscape of information services available >>> today. This enthusiasm often dampens when audiences discover that querying >>> is not done using natural language but rather requires learning SPARQL. >>> >>> We believe learning SPARQL is not rocket science, even for audiences >>> with no programming background. We created a step-by-step tutorial website >>> to give users an introduction and some basic lessons on how to use the >>> query service. While WDQS has a great Help section, this section might not >>> be so helpful to users who are new to Wikimedia platforms. We therefore >>> built the tutorial website on the WordPress platform which has a more >>> familiar design to most users. We believe this website will make the WDQS >>> more accessible, and hope this will be a way to expand Wikidata to new >>> audiences. >>> Currently the site is in English but we are open for collaborations to >>> add the tutorial in other languages. >>> We are also keen to hear feedback from those involved in Wikidata >>> Outreach. >>> >>> We hope you'll find it useful. >>> All the Best >>> Revital Poleg >>> Executive Director, WMIL >>> >>> Revital Poleg >>> >>> Executive Director, WMIL >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ___ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >>> >> ___ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
[Wikimedia-l] Help us Communicate #WikiForHumanRights
Hi everyone, Today, since it's International Human Rights day we’re starting some public promotion of the #WikiForHumanRights campaign, and we would appreciate your help in spreading the word! On social media this week, we’re highlighting community edit-a-thons and events, facts about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and asking everyone to reflect on the role of human rights in their own lives. We’ll be promoting the campaign throughout December and January, so there are plenty of opportunities to get involved. If you are interested in sharing the campaign’s messages on social media, please retweet and share from @Wikipedia and @Wikimedia on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. You can also find draft messages, hashtags, and campaign gifs in the “communicate and share the campaign!” section of the campaign page on Meta.[1] If your local community isn’t yet engaged in the campaign, you can learn how to organize and get involved online on the Organize page on Meta. [2] Thanks! Alex [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share [2]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 2:36 PM Alex Stinson wrote: > Hello all, and apologies for crossposting! > > I hope you are doing well! > > As you may have noticed when we announced the partnership in August [1]: > the Wikimedia Foundation is working with the UN Human Rights to help expand > the availability of knowledge about human rights online. > > As one of our first collaborations, we are going to be running a campaign > from November 15 - January 30 to add and improve knowledge about human > rights on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The initial focus of the > campaign will be on improving articles about topics related to the UN > Declaration of Human Rights and youth standing up for human rights. More > information about the campaign is also available here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights > > > We would like to invite you to get involved in the campaign in one of > several ways: > > Help us build the list! > >- > >We need your help identifying more topics related to youth involved in >human rights that don’t have articles on Wikipedia or could use further >improvement. We would like to represent many different languages and >geographies in the campaign. To propose topics for the list, see >instructions at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/List#Adding_a_topic_to_the_Youth_Lists > > > > Organize an online or offline event! > > We need your help finding community leaders from throughout the Wikimedia > to: > >- > >Host an online campaign on your language Wikipedia! To learn more >about hosting a local topical campaign see the kit here: >https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Campaign >- > >Hold an in person editathon with local human rights organizations or >partners! To learn more, check out the kit here: >https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Editathon > > > Promote the campaign starting Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day! > > Help us amplify your efforts around the campaign and publicize it to wide > audiences. We’ll be sharing a communications toolkit (including graphics) > soon with suggestions on reaching out to folks about the campaign. > >- > > Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public > can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading > the word. > - > > Promote the campaign on social media: We’ll be using > #WikiForHumanRights to promote the campaign on social media, when we > increase the communication to the public on 10 December > > > If you want to help in other ways, let us know on the discuss space > #human-rights tag > <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-for-wikiforhumanrights-let-us-know/1948> > or by emailing Alex Stinson educac...@wikimedia.org.ar> > > If you are interested, let us know by indicating your interest to organize > in the Organize sections linked above! > > Note: We are still updating the communications assets for the campaign! To > watch for those materials, add > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share to your meta > watchlist. > > Have questions? > > If you have questions, we are going to be hosting an office hour next > Tuesday > <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/community-office-hour-wikiforhumanrights/1949>, > or you can ask questions on the discuss space #human-rights tag > <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-for-wi
[Wikimedia-l] WikiForHumanRights Update: Communications tools and a guide for running events
Hello all! I want to give a brief update on the WikiForHumanRights Campaign which began its soft launch last Friday! We are already seeing multiple online events starting and several in person editathons. Special thank you to the communities in Argentina and Armenia who are already editing! Looking forward to more activities being shared at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize Also, Wikimedia Argentina created a kit for working with partners to run in person events for Human Rights! Check it out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Sensitive Additionally, we updated the communications toolkit for the campaign at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share . We are going to begin increasing Social Media starting around December 10th! As you see the campaign being talked about from @Wikimedia and on the hashtag #WikiForHumanRights -- we need your help to share it. If you have any questions or are considering organizing an event, please let us know. Cheers, Alex Stinson -- Forwarded message - From: Alex Stinson Date: Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 2:36 PM Subject: WikiForHumanRights: Help us Organize the Campaign, November 15-January 30 To: Wikimedia Mailing List , Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public] , Mailing list for African Wikimedians , Wikimedia India Community list , Wikimedia & Libraries , Wikimania 2019 < wikimani...@wikimedia.org> Cc: Luisina Ferrante Hello all, and apologies for crossposting! I hope you are doing well! As you may have noticed when we announced the partnership in August [1]: the Wikimedia Foundation is working with the UN Human Rights to help expand the availability of knowledge about human rights online. As one of our first collaborations, we are going to be running a campaign from November 15 - January 30 to add and improve knowledge about human rights on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The initial focus of the campaign will be on improving articles about topics related to the UN Declaration of Human Rights and youth standing up for human rights. More information about the campaign is also available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights We would like to invite you to get involved in the campaign in one of several ways: Help us build the list! - We need your help identifying more topics related to youth involved in human rights that don’t have articles on Wikipedia or could use further improvement. We would like to represent many different languages and geographies in the campaign. To propose topics for the list, see instructions at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/List#Adding_a_topic_to_the_Youth_Lists Organize an online or offline event! We need your help finding community leaders from throughout the Wikimedia to: - Host an online campaign on your language Wikipedia! To learn more about hosting a local topical campaign see the kit here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Campaign - Hold an in person editathon with local human rights organizations or partners! To learn more, check out the kit here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Editathon Promote the campaign starting Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day! Help us amplify your efforts around the campaign and publicize it to wide audiences. We’ll be sharing a communications toolkit (including graphics) soon with suggestions on reaching out to folks about the campaign. - Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading the word. - Promote the campaign on social media: We’ll be using #WikiForHumanRights to promote the campaign on social media, when we increase the communication to the public on 10 December If you want to help in other ways, let us know on the discuss space #human-rights tag <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-for-wikiforhumanrights-let-us-know/1948> or by emailing Alex Stinson If you are interested, let us know by indicating your interest to organize in the Organize sections linked above! Note: We are still updating the communications assets for the campaign! To watch for those materials, add https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share to your meta watchlist. Have questions? If you have questions, we are going to be hosting an office hour next Tuesday <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/community-office-hour-wikiforhumanrights/1949>, or you can ask questions on the discuss space #human-rights tag <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-for-wikiforhumanrights-let-us-know/1948> . Looking forward to your engagement with the campaign! Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation Luisina Ferrante,
[Wikimedia-l] WikiForHumanRights: Help us Organize the Campaign, November 15-January 30
Hello all, and apologies for crossposting! I hope you are doing well! As you may have noticed when we announced the partnership in August [1]: the Wikimedia Foundation is working with the UN Human Rights to help expand the availability of knowledge about human rights online. As one of our first collaborations, we are going to be running a campaign from November 15 - January 30 to add and improve knowledge about human rights on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The initial focus of the campaign will be on improving articles about topics related to the UN Declaration of Human Rights and youth standing up for human rights. More information about the campaign is also available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights We would like to invite you to get involved in the campaign in one of several ways: Help us build the list! - We need your help identifying more topics related to youth involved in human rights that don’t have articles on Wikipedia or could use further improvement. We would like to represent many different languages and geographies in the campaign. To propose topics for the list, see instructions at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/List#Adding_a_topic_to_the_Youth_Lists Organize an online or offline event! We need your help finding community leaders from throughout the Wikimedia to: - Host an online campaign on your language Wikipedia! To learn more about hosting a local topical campaign see the kit here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Campaign - Hold an in person editathon with local human rights organizations or partners! To learn more, check out the kit here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Editathon Promote the campaign starting Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day! Help us amplify your efforts around the campaign and publicize it to wide audiences. We’ll be sharing a communications toolkit (including graphics) soon with suggestions on reaching out to folks about the campaign. - Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading the word. - Promote the campaign on social media: We’ll be using #WikiForHumanRights to promote the campaign on social media, when we increase the communication to the public on 10 December If you want to help in other ways, let us know on the discuss space #human-rights tag <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-for-wikiforhumanrights-let-us-know/1948> or by emailing Alex Stinson If you are interested, let us know by indicating your interest to organize in the Organize sections linked above! Note: We are still updating the communications assets for the campaign! To watch for those materials, add https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share to your meta watchlist. Have questions? If you have questions, we are going to be hosting an office hour next Tuesday <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/community-office-hour-wikiforhumanrights/1949>, or you can ask questions on the discuss space #human-rights tag <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-for-wikiforhumanrights-let-us-know/1948> . Looking forward to your engagement with the campaign! Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation Luisina Ferrante, Wikimedia Argentina [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/16/wikimedia-and-un-human-rights-partner-to-expand-wikipedias-knowledge/ -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Board of Wikimedia Canada
Congratulations! Also really exciting to see a lot of folks who have come through Library and GLAM outreach joining the board. Alex On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 3:35 PM Jean-Philippe Béland wrote: > Good day all, > > Wikimedia Canada held its Annual General Meeting 2019 [1] on 19 October in > Montreal, Quebec with online participation as well. > > We would like to introduce you 4 newly elected Board members and one > re-elected Board member: > - Amber Berson > - Jean-Michel Lapointe > - Lëa-Kim Chateauneuf > - Sarah Severson > - Stacy Allison-Cassin > > The following 3 Board members are continuing their 2-years terms until next > year: > - Benoit Rochon > - Ha-Loan Phan > - Michael David Miller > > Wikimedia Canada is proud to have a majority of women on its Board. We > believe that we are the only Wikimedia chapter in this situation, please > correct me if I'm wrong. We are also happy to welcome a member of the Board > from Western Canada. We are convinced that this will help us to increase > the diversity of contributors on Wikimedia projects from Canada, especially > in regards to the gender gap, and to expand Wikimedia Canada's activities > and reach across all of Canada. > > The Board will elect its new Executive Committee [2], including its > President, at its next meeting on 4 November 2019. > > If you have any questions about Wikimedia Canada, do not hesitate to use > the main talk page on our wiki [3] or to send me an email directly. > > Wikimedia Canada would like to thank all members that participated at the > AGM and all the volunteers of the Wikimedia movement in Canada for their > contributions. If you would like to stay updated about Wikimedia Canada, > please join our mailing list [4] or visit our wiki [5]. > > Thank you, > > > Jean-Philippe Béland > > Institutional Advancement Manager, Wikimedia Canada > > > [1] https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Annual_General_Meeting_2019 > [2] https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Executive_Committee > [3] https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_talk:Discussions > [4] https://discussions.wikimedia.ca/lists/listinfo/general > [5] https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the extension of funding by the Basque Government
Thats Fantastic! Congratulations! Cheers, Alex On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 10:20 AM Asaf Bartov wrote: > Fantastic news, Galder! Kudos to everyone involved! > >A. > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 5:17 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < > galder...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear wikimedians, > > Three years have gone since we started with the Basque Wikimedians User > > Group Education Program, funded by the Basque Government. After two years > > and a half of great enhancing of Basque Wikipedia (more than 2.500 > students > > adding more than 1.5 million words on fundamental topics) the Basque > > Government has announce us today the extension of the funding for four > more > > years. > > > > In this four years we will try to strengthen our Educaton Program but > also > > open to new areas in order to make our knowledge equity vision possible. > By > > 2024 we will have taken sure steps towards creating a free knowledge > > ecosystem centered at Wikimedia. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Galder > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > Asaf Bartov > Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > https://donate.wikimedia.org > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you and farewell
I want to echo Seddon's comment: you are one of the most capable, incisive and strategic thinkers at the Foundation. Our movement is weaker with the loss of both your insight and your ability to embody the individual voices from throughout the movement channelled through your research. You have created a powerful legacy. I know you will do amazing things with whatever is next! Cheers, Alex On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 9:49 AM Florence Devouard wrote: > Hello Sati > > I am sorry to hear about your departure. You were an important asset of > the Wikimedia Foundation. Farewell Sati and thank you for your > contributions during the journey ! > > Florence > > > > Le 16/05/2019 à 22:21, Sati Houston a écrit : > > Hi All, > > > > After almost 5 years at WMF, I’ve decided to move on from the Foundation. > > My last day will be June 4th. > > > > These last few years have been an unexpected journey. When Anasuya > Senguta > > and Jessie Wild recruited me in 2014, I didn't know what awaited me. I > > didn't know that I could learn so much about epistemology, power, > > resilience, and community in such a short period of time. I couldn't know > > how indelibly I would change - in my perspectives, my approaches, and my > > beliefs. > > > > But I have learned *so much*. From the countless conversations I've had > and > > observed. From working with hundreds of staff and volunteers to > understand > > different community needs > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development>[1], > build new > > tools <https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/>[2], reflect > > < > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Strategy/Wikimedia_Foundation_grantmaking_review/Intro > >[3] > > on > > current programs, understand the breadth and depth of our gaps > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_equity_report_2018>[4], > understand > > our longer-term impact <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Impact > >[5], > > and find the path forward. > > > > And because we are Wikimedia, it's unsurprising that I leave having > learned > > the limits of my own knowledge, the power of collective discourse > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemaking>[6], and the weight of my own > > power and privilege in seeing systemic, cultural change happen. > > > > This journey honestly wasn’t an easy ride. I laughed and cried, triumphed > > and despaired, argued and made up; I felt supported and isolated, > powerful > > and powerless. I saw the tremendous beauty that Wikimedia creates and the > > long road still to come. > > > > But despite the rough ride, when I think back on my time here I will > always > > treasure the kaleidoscope of small moments that brought me joy: grammar > > advice from Asaf, introducing Felix to Korean food, learning that many of > > you are artists or musicians or poets, learning wikitext (yes, I actually > > enjoyed that), dancing until my feet hurt, learning to love karaoke, > > impromptu lunches and dinners, and many *many* walks and virtual coffee > > chats. > > > > So thank you all for sharing your wisdom, humor, and time with me. Thank > > you Wikimedia for being a place that I could grow and learn. I will still > > be around on the interwebs (and in San Francisco if you ever are in > town), > > and look forward to watching how you grow. > > > > For now, I leave you with this quote: > > > > "In a complex, technological world, most of us are experts at something. > > More importantly, being a true expert means having a healthy dose of > > humility. If you have really studied something and really gone deep into > > how it works, then you should come away knowing how much you don't know. > *In > > a sense, that is the real definition of an expert — knowing the limits of > > one's own knowledge.*" - Adam Frank, National Public Radio [7] > > > > With much love, > > Sati > > > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Capacity_Development > > [2] https://eventmetrics.wmflabs.org/ > > [3] > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Strategy/Wikimedia_Foundation_grantmaking_review/Intro > > [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_equity_report_2018 > > [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Impact > > [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensemaking > > [7] > > > https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/04/07/522992390/why-expertise-matters > > > > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Sverige receives a total of USD 500, 000+ in funding for three new projects, and a cost reduction of USD 30, 000/year
So many congratulations John and Wikimedia Sverige team! Its super exciting the path you are going down with each of the projects! The movement is going to benefit from that work. Cheers, Alex On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 11:05 AM Samuel Klein wrote: > Wonderful. Wikispeech will be amazing :) > > On Thu., 28 Mar. 2019, 6:31 am John Andersson, < > john.anders...@wikimedia.se> > wrote: > > > Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of three new grants > totaling > > around USD 500,000. We hope to work with many of you as part of these > > projects. If you are interested in getting involved or receiving updates > > please let me know. > > > > Furthermore, the chapter also has a new heavily subsidized agreement for > > our office space. > > > > Project 1: Wikispeech – The Speech Data Collector > > > > The first project is a continuation of the Wikispeech[1] project, a > > text-to-speech (TTS) system that converts written text into speech. From > > September 2019 to April 2021 we aim to finalize building the MediaWiki > > extension and to build tools to collect speech data to add pronunciations > > to Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikidata and to add more languages to the > > text-to-speech solution. The tools should also be possible to use for > oral > > citations. > > > > The work happens in partnership with the Royal Technical Institute, STTS > (a > > language processing company), Mozilla Foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland > and > > the Swedish Dyslexia Association. > > > > As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish): > > > > > https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikispeech_–_Talresursinsamlaren_2019/Ansökan > > > > Project 2: Wikipedia in Libraries > > > > From 2019 to 2020 Wikimedia Sverige, together with the National Library > of > > Sweden, will develop an online training module for Swedish librarians > > focused around free knowledge and the Wikimedia platforms. This will be a > > mandatory training for all of Sweden's 5,000 public librarians. Our hope > is > > to give all of them a basic understanding of the Wikimedia projects, as > > well as to complement the online training with advanced courses for the > > most dedicated. The advanced courses will give them the tools to > ongoingly > > organize activities and events independently at their libraries across > the > > country. > > > > Furthermore, the librarians will be engaged in the #1Lib1Ref and > > FindingGLAMs campaigns. > > > > There is a great potential to receive continuous funding over the coming > 3 > > years if successful. > > > > As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in Swedish): > > > https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Wikipedia_i_biblioteken_2019/Ansökan > > > > Project 3: Bibliographical data on Wikidata > > > > We continue our work to include bibliographical data on Wikidata. The > > project details are still being negotiated with the funder. The project > > will start in mid-2019 and last until 2020. > > > > Cost reduction > > > > Starting from March 2019 we have a new agreement in place for a heavily > > subsidized coworking space office from the Swedish Internet Foundation. > > Through the agreement we will save us around USD 30,000 per year compared > > to when we had an office of our own. > > > > We have received this generous subsidy because Wikipedia is considered so > > important for the infrastructure of the Internet. We are very happy that > > the agreement does not have an end date and that we have the possibility > to > > grow significantly over time as well (while keeping the generous > subsidy). > > > > Please contact John Andersson (john.anders...@wikimedia.se) if you have > > any > > questions. > > > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikispeech > > > > Best, > > > > John > > > > - - - - > > > > John Andersson > > > > Executive Director > > > > Wikimedia Sverige > > > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > > > > Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se > > > > Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > >
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [GLAM] Wikimedia Sverige receives $55k+ in funding for project on audio files
Congratulations John! Its awesome that you are spending so much energy on developing case studies and examples of collaboration for the movement. Cheers, Alex On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:38 AM John Andersson wrote: > Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be the recipient of $55,000 in support from > the grant-giving organization Kulturbryggan (Culture Bridge) for a > project investigating how to best include audio files on Wikimedia Commons. > > Our work will focus on batch uploading audio files onto Wikimedia Commons > (with a focus on music recordings). In preparations for this, we will > investigate how the metadata can be included in a way that is best suited > for Structured Data once it gets deployed. This is a pilot project where > we aim to discuss with the community what to include and what to exclude. > The discussions and the requests from the community will form our planning > around future work with uploading audio files onto Wikimedia Commons. We > look forward working with the community and with the Structured Data team > at Wikimedia Foundation on how metadata about audio files can be included > in a well-structured and useful way. > > This project will connect very closely to the FindingGLAMs project[1] and > will form one of the case studies included in it. In the case study we will > provide guidance for other GLAMs and Wikimedia affiliates who want to > upload audio files in the future. > > The project also connects closely to Wikimedia Sverige’s planned project > aimed at building tools to collect speech recordings. The recordings, > illustrating how words are pronounced etc., will then be used to improve > the quality of Wikispeech[2], a text-to-speech (TTS) system that converts > written text into speech. We want to see what type of speech recordings can > and should be stored on Wikimedia Commons and what kind of metadata should > be included there; this project will help us clarify the needs. > > Please contact John Andersson (john.anders...@wikimedia.se) if you have > any questions. > > As always, you can find the full application available on our wiki (in > Swedish).[3] > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FindingGLAMs > > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikispeech > > [3] > https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Fri_musik_p%C3%A5_Wikipedia_2019/Ans%C3%B6kan > > Best, > > John > > - - - - > > John Andersson > > Executive Director > > Wikimedia Sverige > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > > Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se > > Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm > > > ___ > GLAM mailing list > g...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam > -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] fallout from 2018 Wikimedian of the Year announcement
- Regional > > Minister for InfoComm wanted this to take place during one of the annual > > regional government delegation visits to California). President > Minnikhanov > > is a co-chair of the Association of Innovative Regions of Russia, as well > > as Russia-Islamic World Strategic Vision Group, so I think we can use > > Jimmy's well-timed pass to score well: spreading Wikimedia movement > > popularity throughout Russia and the Islamic world even further, helping > in > > unblocking Turkey in the process. > > > > "Imagine the world in which every human is a Wikimedian. That's my > > commitment!" > > > > regards, > > farhad > > > > -- > > Farkhad Fatkullin - Фархад Фаткуллин http://sikzn.ru/ Тел.+79274158066 / > > skype:frhdkazan / Wikipedia:frhdkazan > > > > 09.08.2018, 09:09, "Pine W" : > > > Hi Farhad, > > > > > > Thank you for your generosity with your time as you respond to the > > requests > > > and new opportunities. > > > > > > I like Andy's suggestions. Wikimedia Armenia crossed my mind also as > > > potentially a good organization to contact for ideas, because I have > the > > > impression that they have a good (but not excessively close) > > relationship > > > with their national government, and because they have a very > successful > > > Wikipedia Education Program. > > > > > > Although there seem to be many opportunities for you in the short > term, > > my > > > guess is that you will be unable to take advantage of all of them, and > > that > > > some that you try will be more successful than others. That is all > okay. > > > > > > Please avoid burning yourself out. Hopefully you can work at a pace > > that is > > > reasonable for you and will lead to long-term successes. Also, > hopefully > > > you can find people who want to help you, and have the time and the > > skills > > > to do so. You might try to contact people that you have met on-wiki > who > > > could help you as you consider the opportunities and how you would > like > > to > > > move forward. I have the impression that you already know many > > Wikimedians > > > who work on Russian Wikipedia, so hopefully you can get some help from > > them. > > > > > > If you could share occasional updates about your progress, maybe by > > sending > > > an email to Wikimedia-l with once per quarter, I think that at least a > > few > > > people would be interested to read what you share. > > > > > > Good luck, > > > > > > Pine > > > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 8:55 PM, Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin < > > > f...@yandex.com> wrote: > > > > > >> Dear colleagues, > > >> > > >> This is a request for your input and possible ideas (if any) > > regarding my > > >> management of the fallout from Jimmy's announcing myself as a 2018 > > >> Wikimedian of the Year. > > >> > > >> Emails below are a copy of my ongoing consultations with Wikimedia > > >> Foundation staff and other Wikimedians I personally know, as well > as a > > >> report on what's already brewing in my region of Russia after this > > >> unexpected outcome. > > >> > > >> I would be grateful, if you can advise me on how to properly steer > the > > >> enthusiasm of behalf of regional government, mass-media, NGOs, etc. > > which > > >> have just discovered about the possibility of participation in > > Wikimedia > > >> movement (think anything from U.S. is not getting much in-depth > > coverage in > > >> Russian by sources that regional public figures, NGOs, teachers or > > general > > >> regional journalists read) & are now placing great hopes on teaching > > whole > > >> of Tatarstan about how to Wiki & also engaging all Tatars globally > > (3/4 > > >> outside of Tatarstan, 1/5 outside of Russia). > > >> > > >> regards, > > >> farhad > > > > > > ___ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New message
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Sverige receives $65k+ in funding for our Library Data project
Congratulations John! Library data is such a powerful first step for engaging partners, and we definitely need more case studies on this! Cheers, Alex On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 9:48 AM, John Andersson wrote: > *Hi everybody and sorry for crossposting,Wikimedia Sverige is proud to be > the recipient of $65,500 in support from the Swedish National Library for > our project Library Data.We will work in collaboration with the Swedish > National Library to include a number of datasets onto Wikidata, such as > data about authors, libraries and different special databases of > bibliographies[1]. This is a pilot project where we aim to discuss with the > community what to include and what to exclude. Based on the discussions and > the requests from the community we will design a continuation of this > project (if this first part is deemed successful continuous funding is > possible for 3-4 more years).We started investigating a possible long term > partnership with the National Library in 2017 when Wikimedia Sverige > delivered inputs to the new National Strategy for the Library Sector on how > Sweden's libraries can work with Wikimedia for mutual benefits.[2] The > National Library has just made history as the world's first national > library to fully transition to Linked Open Data (BIBFRAME 2.0),[3] so the > timing could not have been better; we are now in position to examine how > this move can benefit Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects.Please contact > the project manager André Costa (andre.co...@wikimedia.se > ) or the developer Alicia Fagerving > (alicia.fagerv...@wikimedia.se ) if you > have > any questions. As always, you can find the full application on our wiki (in > Swedish): > https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_ > inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_på_Wikidata_2018/Ansökan > <https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projekt:Strategisk_ > inkludering_av_biblioteksdata_p%C3%A5_Wikidata_2018/Ans%C3%B6kan>[1] > https://libris.kb.se/deldatabas.jsp <https://libris.kb.se/deldatabas.jsp> > [2] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Sverige_-_ > Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_ > Sverige_-_Wikipedia_och_biblioteken_i_Sverige.pdf> > (in Swedish)[3] > http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/ > pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to- > fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975 > <http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/kungliga_biblioteket/ > pressreleases/kb-becomes-the-first-national-library-to- > fully-transition-to-linked-data-2573975> > * > Kind regards, > > John > - - - - > John Andersson > Executive Director > Wikimedia Sverige > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 > Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se > Visiting address: Goto10, Hammarby Kaj 10D, 120 32 Stockholm > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- Alex Stinson GLAM-Wiki Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Commons-l] Classification/Categorization games for Commons?
Two thoughts directly to this: On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 3:43 PM, Gnangarra wrote: > I'd be more concern that the game throws up very generic and vague > descriptions like, person, ship, cat, dog, tree, flowers, street. Which in > itself might seem helpful but may not even highlight the important aspect. > Pushing images into narrower, but still generic, topic areas allows folks who know more about, for example, ships or dog species or whatever, to narrow the topic into something specific. We already do this in many ways within the way folks use the category system on Commons -- it could be done with structured data as well. We would also want some type of confidence factor, I would think, especially if we want the tool to appeal to newer folks in the community -- with less depth of experience working in our information structure. Zooniverse and other similar visual-identification crowdsourcing projects, usually have 2-3 volunteers confirm something before adding it directly to the record. > >- I would hope many of the GLAMs have embedded keywords in the meta >data/camera info which could be extracted like co-ords are. > > You would be surprised at how bad the metadata is in most collections -- only the most high profile collections will have good metadata (and one perceived benefit of sharing GLAM content in public venues is the chance to enrich metadata, by discovering details about the objects, that previously the staff didn't know how to recognize). Wikimedia projects are really good places to get mildly obscure collections (such as archival photos, or under-researched museum objects) into the context of Wikimedia content. Moreover, it's really hard to assess how to map these metadata concepts to Wikimedia categories. We actually saw this come up again and again in the GLAM stakeholder research for commons: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Supporting_Commons_contribution_by_GLAM_institutions > > On 7 June 2018 at 02:07, Alex Stinson via Commons-l < > common...@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hey Yaroslav and Asaf, >> >> From the SDC team perspective, I think it would definitely be preferable >> for such a tool to include/anticipate the need for structured data on >> Commons, or default to filling in Depicts and/or other structure data >> fields. Building more tools which generate categories by default would >> definitely be a bit counter-productive (and hard on multilingual >> contributors). One option, might be designing such a tool to work with >> Artworks and other unique objects (like photographs) already on Wikidata, >> and then have it prepared to hook up with the Wikibase/Structured data >> features that will go live on Commons in the fall. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Alex >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Asaf Bartov >> wrote: >> >>> Absolutely; I wanted to know if such a tool perhaps already exists. If >>> one >>> does not, then definitely, if we develop a tool, it should look to the >>> future and be based on Structured Data on Commons already! >>> >>>A. >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:54 PM Yaroslav Blanter >>> wrote: >>> >>> > I think it is pretty similar to what we have built in Wikidata, Do >>> > Structured Commons folks want to comment? >>> > >>> > Cheers >>> > Yaroslav >>> > >>> > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Asaf Bartov >>> wrote: >>> > >>> > > Hi, folks. >>> > > >>> > > It occurs to me there are tens or hundreds of thousands of images >>> donated >>> > > en masse (GLAM etc.) that are only categorized as "image from X >>> > collection" >>> > > or "Files donated by X", i.e. essentially uncategorized by content. >>> > > >>> > > This obviously greatly reduces the likelihood of discoverability and >>> > > re-use. But it's hard to find such files, and the massive categories >>> > > (thousands of files, often) don't make organizing the work easy. >>> > > >>> > > I'm think of a gamified interface -- à la Wikidata Game -- that would >>> > let a >>> > > volunteer (after OAuth identification) pick a category (from a >>> pre-fed >>> > list >>> > > of massive categories of donated files) and show one photo from the >>> > > category that has only that category listed (i.e. has no >>> categorization >>> > by >>> > > content), and let the volunte
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Classification/Categorization games for Commons?
Hey Yaroslav and Asaf, From the SDC team perspective, I think it would definitely be preferable for such a tool to include/anticipate the need for structured data on Commons, or default to filling in Depicts and/or other structure data fields. Building more tools which generate categories by default would definitely be a bit counter-productive (and hard on multilingual contributors). One option, might be designing such a tool to work with Artworks and other unique objects (like photographs) already on Wikidata, and then have it prepared to hook up with the Wikibase/Structured data features that will go live on Commons in the fall. Cheers, Alex On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote: > Absolutely; I wanted to know if such a tool perhaps already exists. If one > does not, then definitely, if we develop a tool, it should look to the > future and be based on Structured Data on Commons already! > >A. > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:54 PM Yaroslav Blanter wrote: > > > I think it is pretty similar to what we have built in Wikidata, Do > > Structured Commons folks want to comment? > > > > Cheers > > Yaroslav > > > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Asaf Bartov > wrote: > > > > > Hi, folks. > > > > > > It occurs to me there are tens or hundreds of thousands of images > donated > > > en masse (GLAM etc.) that are only categorized as "image from X > > collection" > > > or "Files donated by X", i.e. essentially uncategorized by content. > > > > > > This obviously greatly reduces the likelihood of discoverability and > > > re-use. But it's hard to find such files, and the massive categories > > > (thousands of files, often) don't make organizing the work easy. > > > > > > I'm think of a gamified interface -- à la Wikidata Game -- that would > > let a > > > volunteer (after OAuth identification) pick a category (from a pre-fed > > list > > > of massive categories of donated files) and show one photo from the > > > category that has only that category listed (i.e. has no categorization > > by > > > content), and let the volunteer type (with auto-complete, like HotCat) > > some > > > appropriate categories and hit Save, and the categories would be added, > > and > > > the next file shown. > > > > > > (Optionally, a second layer of verification could be added, where > > > volunteers would [also] be invited to vet or change previous > volunteers' > > > categorization, and actual change to categories on Commons would only > > take > > > place after 2 (or N) users approved the categories. I'm not at all > sure > > > this is needed, and I think we can start without it and see how it > goes.) > > > > > > So, does something like this exist? If not, who wants to build it? :) > > > > > >A. > > > ___ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > ___ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Alex Stinson GLAM-Wiki Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Publicpolicy] Wikimedia Sverige vs. the Visual Copyright Society in Sweden (BUS)
Well bummer. I hope that you can figure out a good lobbying next step. Cheers, Alex On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 11:41 AM, John Andersson <john.anders...@wikimedia.se > wrote: > Today we received some bad news in Sweden. The Swedish Patent and Market > Court ruled against Wikimedia Sverige in a lawsuit filed by Visual > Copyright Society in Sweden <http://bus.se/en> (BUS). The case concerns > images of public art online, more specifically in the case of our website > Offentligkonst.se <http://offentligkonst.se/>, a service created by > Wikimedia Sverige using images from Wikimedia Commons. > > The ruling means that Freedom of Panorama is eroded and the public space > is diminished. It is a detrimental loss for our projects. Next we will > talk to our lawyers and WMF legal team to see what our remaining legal > options are. Our lawyers however believe that success is not very likely if > we would decide to move forward. > > Intensive efforts to advocate for our elected officials to change the > outdated and problematic clauses in Swedish copyright law will be initiated > during the year. > > We have also started a crowdfunding campaign to cover some of the cost of > the legal expenses and fines of about 750,000 SEK stated in the verdict > (around 89,000 USD) and for future national and international lobbying > efforts. Please consider making a donation at > http://wikimedia.se/en/donera, <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>ev > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>en <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera> i > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>f <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>it > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera> i <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>s > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>a <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>sy > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>mb <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>ol > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>ic <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera> s > <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>um <http://wikimedia.se/en/donera>. Simply > add “BUS” in the comment, and all the money will be used for these costs. > > Some useful links (in Swedish): > >- > >The legal argumentation from the court: > > <http://www.hogstadomstolen.se/Domstolar/hogstadomstolen/Avgoranden/2016/2016-04-04%20%C3%96%20849-15%20Beslut.pdf> >http://www.bildupphovsratt.se/sites/default/files/upload/sto >ckholms_tr_pmt_8448-14_dom_2017-07-06.pdf > > <http://www.bildupphovsratt.se/sites/default/files/upload/stockholms_tr_pmt_8448-14_dom_2017-07-06.pdf> > > <http://www.hogstadomstolen.se/Domstolar/hogstadomstolen/Avgoranden/2016/2016-04-04%20%C3%96%20849-15%20Beslut.pdf> >- > >Our press release: > > <http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressreleases/hoegsta-domstolen-vaeljer-att-krympa-det-offentliga-rummet-istaellet-foer-att-gaa-paa-wikimedia-sveriges-linje-1360834> >https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/wikimedia-sverige/pressrelease >s/domslut-krymper-det-offentliga-rummet-i-sverige-2054679 > > <https://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/wikimedia-sverige/pressreleases/domslut-krymper-det-offentliga-rummet-i-sverige-2054679> > > <http://www.mynewsdesk.com/se/pressreleases/hoegsta-domstolen-vaeljer-att-krympa-det-offentliga-rummet-istaellet-foer-att-gaa-paa-wikimedia-sveriges-linje-1360834> >- > >A timeline of what has happened: https://se.wikimedia.org/wiki/ >Offentligkonst.se/Stämning > > > Best, > > John > > - - - - > > John Andersson > > Executive Director > Wikimedia Sverige > > Phone: +46(0)73-3965189 <073-396%2051%2089> > > Email: john.anders...@wikimedia.se > > Skype: johnandersson86 > > ___ > Publicpolicy mailing list > publicpol...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy > > -- Alex Stinson GLAM-Wiki Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: http://glamwiki.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exciting update about development of structured data on Commons
Specifically in response to Pete's questions about documents: We have posted the Grant application materials on Foundation Wiki, with a section linking to them on the Commons Grant Information page.[1] Cheers, Alex Stinson [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Sloan_Grant#What_did_the_grant_application_look_like.3F > Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 12:52:57 -0800 > From: Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Exciting update about development of > structured data on Commons > Message-ID: > <CAGWts0GK8VErKG7tuPN3hQDHHXvq2_1RbYqh_xJp0+6W03=inQ@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Structured data on Commons is a huge and important area -- for one thing, > the whole Media Viewer project would have gone much more smoothly if there > were underlying structured data to rely on. Kudos to WMF and Sloan for the > focus on this issue! > > If I'm not mistaken, this is by far the most extravagant restricted grant > in the history of the WMF. I believe the Stanton Foundation's usability > grant ($890k in 2008)[1] and Public Policy Initiative grant ($1.2 million > in 2010)[2] are the only ones that comes close. In the past, WMF board > members have expressed great skepticism about -- specifically -- the Sloan > Foundation's influence, when it sought to place an observer in WMF board > meetings. A former WMF Executive Director has written at length about the > dangers of restricted grants. > > It appears there is a new theory in play around restricted grants. Will > somebody be expressing it publicly? Will the past practice of publishing > the details of the grant expectations be followed?[3] > > -Pete > -- > [[User:Peteforsyth]] > > [1] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2008/12/03/improved-usability- > in-our-future/ > [2] > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/May_ > 2010_Wikimedia_Foundation_will_engage_academic_experts_ > and_students_to_improve_public_policy_information > [3] > https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_Policy_ > Initiative_project_details > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Wes Moran <wmo...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Hello Wikimedia community, > > > > It’s our delight to inform you that we received a US$3,015,000 grant from > > the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation> [1] to > expedite > > development of structured data on Commons. The grant will be given over > the > > course of three years, and will allow us to develop a team, in > > collaboration with the Wikidata team at Wikimedia Deutschland, that can > > focus on integrating the structured data features of Wikidata into > > describing the media files on Commons. > > > > This work will allow us to expedite features both on the Wikidata > > development roadmap, and in other products supported by the Wikimedia > > Foundation. The grant also provides funding to ensure that movement > > stakeholders, like Wiki Loves Monuments and GLAM-Wiki program leaders, > and > > external partners who contribute heavily to Commons, such as GLAMs, can > be > > involved in the development. > > > > We have drafted a high level overview of the grant and its scope, > available > > on Commons > > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Sloan_Grant> > > [2]. A blog post about the grant is also available on the Wikimedia blog > > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/09/sloan-foundation-structured-data> > > [3]. > > > > We are currently in the process of identifying the technical lead for the > > project. If you have questions, Alex Stinson, the Foundation’s GLAM-Wiki > > strategist, will be leading the community engagement and communications > for > > the project until we hire a community liaison as part of the grant. Stay > > tuned for more details about the project in the coming months. > > > > We’re excited to be able to support this project, and look forward to > your > > participation in its development. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Wes Moran and Maggie Dennis > > > > *Wes Moran, Vice President of Product* > > *Maggie Dennis, Interim Chief of Community Engagement * > > *Wikimedia Foundation* > > > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan_Foundation > > [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/ > Sloan_Grant > > [3] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/01/09/sloan-foundation- > structured-data > > __
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Elsevier?
Teemu, As a followup: We would love to be more aligned with Open Access publishers, but at this point, we have yet to find a demonstrably *repeatable* and *scalable* model of programming which we could promote to the entire movement and the Open Access community. When OA publishers already set the standard for Open knowledge, its less clear where to intervene (whereas, supporting GLAM, EDU, STEM and TWL outreach are about unlocking hard to find or closed access material for our community to take advantage of). We do have a relationship with PLOS at WMF: - We have been including contacts within PLOS on a collaboration to improve the Wikimedia ecosystem for citations and research, including looking at structured data in Wikimedia citations (something we are beginning to explore with Wikimedia Research, WikiProject X, WikiProject Source Metadata, WMDE, CrossRef and others). You should hear more about this in the next 4-6 months, as it becomes actual collaboration among these groups. - We are also reaching out to PLOS to participate in Dark Traffic Research: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy and they are further connected to us via our relationship with CrossRef. - We have had several calls with the PLOS partnerships team as The Wikipedia Library, and have seen a bit of stalled trying to figure out how both our community and theirs could benefit from a partnership more extensive than a WIR or volunteer led content drive, programatically -- and those kinds of individual leadership roles are outside what we develop at the WMF (see our criteria for new projects in Program Capacity and Learning: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Program_Capacity_and_Learning) . So the question is: what are the best ways to collaborate with Open Access publishers? And who can lead in these initiatives? We would be happy to mentor any volunteers or affiliates who want to develop these program models on behalf of the movement. If you have ideas, we would encourage sharing them with WikiProject Open Access (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access), or on IdeaLab (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab). Cheers, Alex Stinson > > On 15.2.2016, at 18.07, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Apart from brand affiliation, what do you see as a potential benefit from > > partnering with PLoS? > > I think brand affiliation would be a good start and could help PLoS, that > is not so well known as the Wikipedia. > > I wouldn’t be agains giving PLoS some financially supported, too, because > they are like-minded non-profit organization with very similar mission as > we have (and I am saying this without knowing anything about their > financial situation). > > - Teemu > -- > Teemu Leinonen > http://teemuleinonen.fi > +358 50 351 6796 > Media Lab > http://mlab.uiah.fi > Aalto University > School of Arts, Design and Architecture > -- > ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Elsevier?
Hi all, As always, we are happy to see the conversations about the publishing and research industry within the Wikimedia community. We very much believe that our readers, and other researchers, should, whenever possible, have open, or at least toll-free, access to materials when possible. We share the open-access communities values, and I highly recommend exploring the two links shared by Keegan [1] and Pete[2], to better understand our position. As a matter of transparency: we have provided access to nearly 80 accounts so far via our Elsevier partnership; we have also distributed access to over 500 accounts via JSTOR. These partnerships have been ones which we continue to value and cultivate, because they are high-demand resources from large percentages of our volunteer community-- not because of a moral judgement about their business practices. If there were an overwhelming consensus among our patrons (editors who have access to those resources), to return their access in boycott (or to not use it), I can understand and would support that volunteer effort: after all our community is values-based. However, as long as we continue to get access requests: building the encyclopedia and our other free knowledge projects is our first priority, because it unlocks at least some of the locked content in these databases as summaries in our projects. However, we also recognize that these partnerships give us more than just access, its also gives us opportunities to influence the publishing industry from the inside. For example, both JSTOR and Elsevier are going to be part of research into how our https change last June created dark traffic for research databases, and this work will be giving us access to referral data that is quite hard to get from anyone in the publishing industry [3]. With this data from industry leaders, we will better be able to influence open access, and make arguments for our editors and library allies to use Wikimedia projects to promote open materials. As for supporting Sci-Hub: that is an interesting concept from TWL's perspective of providing access to research for our community. We would be happy to support community consensus on how to use the tool in our research processes. Thus far, we have tried to cooperate with established institutions that work within the existing system to help create long-term stable versions of academic resources, like partnering closely with libraries, advocacy and industry groups like CrossRef and SPARC, and supporting development of tools to create Wikimedia use metrics for the open-access community (more on this hopefully coming in the next few months). Sci-hub is a great short term tool for creating pressure for change in this industry, but the publishing community also needs to figure out the best long term solutions for creating and persistently accessing academic work.[4] As for legal support, that is not within the mission of The Wikipedia Library, and in my personal opinion, this probably should be pursued through direct engagement with aligned organizations whose mission is to promote these efforts: like OKF and SPARC. Cheers, Alex Stinson Project Manager The Wikipedia Library [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/16/open-access-in-a-closed-world/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-cF7433aT4 [3]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikimedia_referrer_policy [4] Open access does not solve all the problems of academic publishing. For example, academic monographs in the humanities and social sciences, for instance, do cost university presses over 20,000 USD to publish and maintain persistently available, this amount of money is not readily available in non-scientific fields. Open access communities still haven't fully figured out how to solve this problem, when they are crucial to the output of those academics: http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/forum15-walters-emerging-models-humanities-publishing.pdf . Moreover, in my last job, I worked with a William Blake scholar who worked on a free to use Digital humanities project, but who thought Open access journals undermined his copyright and the prestige of his publications in tenure applications. We are still a long way off from making Open Access, as a long-term solution for academic publishing. On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Shani <shani.e...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would love to hear what the Wikipedia Library Project team has to say on > the issue. > > Pinging Jake Orlowitz & Alex Stinson. > > Shani. > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:46 AM, Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> As the panel moderator, I felt there was a rather strong consensus (from >> the various communication channels -- wiki pages, blog & Facebook posts >> and >> discussions, and the panel) that went a bit beyond what Robert said (which >> is certainly an important piece. >> >> A number of people also felt tha
[Wikimedia-l] Help us keep #1lib1ref energized through January 23!
Hi Wikimedians! The Wikipedia Library is really excited about the #1lib1ref campaign taking off -- we seem to have found a concept that will excite the global libraries community to talk more with us, about our common mission: helping the world get access to reliable knowledge. Please explore the hashtag on Twitter and other social media: we have several dozen websites, library organizations, and individuals blog and reflect on their experience. For example: https://twitter.com/search?q=%231Lib1Ref . I have included a preview of some of our tracking below for a sense of our scale. Please use the campaign to promote the exciting GLAM, research, and Wikimedia community projects you think librarians would be interested in. We still need your help: - Keep sharing and emphasizing the hashtag #1lib1ref. Try to pair your posts with #Wikipedia15 when you can. - Help translate the main page of the campaign into more languages: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref - Note: We use some of the headers and sentences in this page, to generate multilingual social media posts. - The campaign technically starts on Friday, but we need to continuously remind the global libraries community that they a) can start adding references now, and b) should continue adding references all next week. Oh, and its not just librarians who are adding references for the campaign -- that's just our target audience :) - Publish blogposts talking about Wikmedia’s opportunities with libraries. Here are a small sample blog posts that might help inspire your work: - From our Italian Colleagues : http://librarianscape.com/2016/01/09/wikipedia-un-posto-per-bibliotecari/ - From DLF: https://www.diglib.org/archives/11060/ - From our Catalan colleagues: http://blogcrai.ub.edu/2016/01/13/el-crai-de-la-universitat-de-barcelona-sadhereix-a-la-campanya-1lib1ref/ - Reach out to the librarians using the hashtag: some of them are even hosting lunch gatherings, or small editing events that engage library staffs. These librarians are potential leaders for local events and GLAM-Wiki activities. If successful, we hope to run a similar campaign next year, with more direction and leadership from a volunteer committee (this year we decided to move quick, and test the concept alongside #Wikipedia15 ). If you are interested in helping organize, let us know at wikipedialibr...@wikimedia.org . Give feedback on the campaign and resources that would be helpful for next years campaign on the talk page on meta : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref Thank you so much for those who have already stepped up to lead on social media and translating the meta page! Alex Stinson Project Manager The Wikipedia Library What impact are we seeing? We are tracking several different elements of this campaign: - Usage of the hashtag in social media -- over 600 tweets have used the hashtag since January 4. We are also tracking the hashtag on facebook and linkedin -- both of which are major networks for librarians. - Our facebook event is beginning to spread - https://www.facebook.com/events/975178119187954/ -- please invite more people from your library networks - Page views - we are seeing between 400-600 pageviews, with nearly 7000 views in the last month on the English Version of the campaign page, and Italian, French and Spanish are seeing 40-60 views a day. Moreover, Catalans page, which is on ca.wikipedia, has seen over 2000 visits in the last month: http://stats.grok.se/ca/latest/Viquiprojecte:Bibliowikis/1Lib1Ref - We are beginning to see hashtag used on English Wikipedia’s edit summaries http://tools.wmflabs.org/hashtags/search/1lib1ref . Based on other social media discussions, we think this represents <60% of the activity so far. - We are working with Stephen LaPorte to help the tool support top 20 language Wikipedias, and Wikipedias like Romanian where we know community members are sharing the campaign. Let us know if you don’t think your language will be in that group. - A new phabricator item has been -- it would be incredibly useful for other kinds of campaigns: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123529 . Please leave feedback and use cases. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
