[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to Episode 8 of WikiAfrica Hour

Hello everyone, I hope this meets you well. This is to invite you to the episode 8 of WikiAfrica Hour, where we'll be engaging special guests driving projects to help put faces to the faceless and the unseen individuals. Join us on 9th December 2021 at 16:00 UTC! Regards, Ceslause Ogbonnaya

[Wikimedia-l] Approval of Human Rights Policy

Hello, The Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Advocacy team is excited to announce the approval of the Human Rights Policy by the Board of Trustees on 8 December 2021. Please read our blog post

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Approval of Human Rights Policy

Criticism of the process: * No public consultation or even announcement was done before the policy was finalized. No opportunity to influence the outcome was given. * The policy was preceded by a human rights impact assessment, commissioned by the WMF. The report was given to the WMF in July, but h

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Approval of Human Rights Policy

Given the topic of human rights, I would like to point out that we have not had any reply on what happened to the $500k UAE award Jimmy Wales pledged he would use – every last penny – for human rights work with his Jimmy Wales Foundation. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/jimmy-wales-uae-prize-money/

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Approval of Human Rights Policy

Greetings, This is an interesting topic. I feel there is a slight possibility (some) questions asked may be misunderstood as "questions against human right (implementation)", which is not true. The questions are about the process, and not on the subject. The Diff blog post mentions: "Our Human Rig

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Approval of Human Rights Policy

On Dec 9, 2021, 7:26 AM -0800, Richard Gaines , wrote: > Hello, > The Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Advocacy team is excited to announce the > approval of the Human Rights Policy by the Board of Trustees on 8 December > 2021. Please read our blog post about the policy and what it means for the >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Approval of Human Rights Policy

Nice to hear about the excitement. It looks like reading the policy and checking links in the supplied document would take around 45 minutes to do thoroughly, plus joining the meeting with the two WMF teams would take another hour. It is unfortunate that the invitation is with less than 1 days not

[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Research Showcase] Online Learning

Hello all, The next Wikimedia Research Showcase will be held Wednesday, December 15 at 17:30 UTC (9:30 PT / 12:30 ET / 18:30 CET). You can view the livestream here: https://youtu.be/HKODaHgmQWw

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Approval of Human Rights Policy

Hi, I find a human rights policy based on major human rights documents of the world very conflicting and equally amusing in an organization which grows itself in an inherently exploitative system feeding on volunteer works. While volunteers from around the world, who generate contents and technolo