[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] July 21: Effects of campaigns to close content gaps

2021-07-15 Thread Janna Layton
Hello all, The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to close content gaps on Wikipedia, and speakers will be Kai Zhu from McGill University and Isabelle Langrock from the University of

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan published

2021-07-15 Thread Elena Lappen
Hi everyone, Kelsi mentioned this in her first email, but I wanted to say a bit more about the Annual Plan Conversations (office hours) that we are coordinating with executives and senior leaders to give you a chance to chat with them about the Annual Plan. Please feel free to bring any

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan published

2021-07-15 Thread kstinerowe
A few responses to questions raised here about the annual plan: Thanks Mike for your question about community input into the annual plan, which I answered briefly on Meta [1]. Yes, you are correct that the annual plan is a finalized product as it has been each year since the launch of the

[Wikimedia-l] Announcing The New Grants Strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation

2021-07-15 Thread Kassia Echavarri-Queen
Dear Wikimedians, The Community Resources team is excited to announce on Diff the launch of the new Wikimedia funding strategy focused on decentralized decision-making, regional committees and reaching

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimania 2021 Registration Open

2021-07-15 Thread Joyce Chen
hi Winnie, Because Wikimania 2021 do provide Chinese (and other languages) translation for most of the event ... which is great. We were expecting that registration and data collection will also be thoughtful of the diversity of languages. Is there anything my affiliate can be helpful with a