Dear ALL, EuroPride 2024 program in Thessaloniki started
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsXUemqGJlc
and so is our Wiki Loves (Euro)Pride campaign on Meta
(supported by Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group and few partners)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_EuroPride_2024
Our aim this year is to
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 11:58 PM Željko Blaće wrote:
> What is May 17th?
>
> The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia was
> created in 2004 to draw the attention to the violence and discrimination
> experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,
@ Valerio
@ ALL
+1
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Hi George - would you be able to help with this?
(I came across same issue but for lower amount of images)
On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 5:21 PM Andy Mabbett
wrote:
> I have come across two cases in recent weeks, where Flickr users have
> hundreds of potentially useful images that they are willing to
Very interesting direction in communication to wider audience by
acknowledging mistakes and failures.
I hope for others in the field will follow and extend towards more
authentic communication and we see less PR tricks.
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Hi Srishti - thank you for advancing this work with a meeting. It has
been much needed for many of us that work in small language or small
projects, where internal capacities are not enough to resolve issues.
I hope this will be at least bi-monthly event.
On the other hand I see a bit of a same
Thank you for sharing this. It was a much needed episode with dozens
of excellent points made by all. Excellents insights as always by
Andrew, but extra applause for fresh eyes and sobering inputs shared
from Elisabeth. We need more informed and experienced people entering
the movement to get the
On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 9:34 AM Gnangarra wrote:
> Hi Z
> Gisca co-ordinated the process using a group of volunteers to cut the daily
> recordings into single events. Some of them did upload to Commons but the
> majority of that effort came from Butch.
Hi Gnangarra
I do not know who Gisca is
On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 1:44 PM Johan Jönsson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> The videos from the Wikimania sessions are now available on Commons:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2023_conference_video_recordings_by_day
> Huge thanks to everyone who helped make them available –
+1 Erik (all true and well said)
-1 David (probably before pandemic)
I do not see a reason why at least existing corporate social media
posts would not be mirrored?
Also (from the less positive glass is half empty perspective)...
as it took a year of 'evaluation' for WMF to do this,
it is
This really brings joy *(and hope)...
https://wikimedia.org.au/wiki/Announcing_our_First_Nations_Wikipedian_In_Residence
Thank you Wikimedia Australia for doing it!
Thank you Julia for adding it to MS2023 Forum,
though it was not the summary made exclusively for it.
Best Z.
p.s.
should be
Dear Participants and friends of Queering Wikipedia 2023
Today is day #2 of our 3 day event.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/QW2023/Schedule
Aside from our main bi-lingual zoom sessions
(to which you can still subscribe from the main page)
or just watch over channel https://youtube.com/@QueeringW,
Sorry to keep bringing this up every few months,
but if there is no self-discipline and/or moderation over list,
can we at least change List REPLY settings to not default to all
but to be a specific email sender?
Thank you for considering!
On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 4:08 PM Belinda Mbambo wrote:
>
UPDATE:
In exactly a week from now we will open QW2023
and you can be in first rows if you check program,
check in and register now or this weekend...
otherwise we can not guarantee your registration
will be processed and checked (safety regulations)
in time and approved for priority access.
In 10 days on Friday May 12th at noon (UTC)
we are going to open the Queering Wikipedia 2023 Conference
with a keynote of Dr. Nishant Shah +6 hours of online program
https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/qw2023-1-day-dia/3042
...then following Sunday 14th and Wednesday 17th same time
Next Office Hour of QW2023 is in Spanish (with EN translation)
and is slightly later tomorrow to center on Latin America,
so please reach out to fellow Wikimedians and LGBTIQ+
activists that might want to have a good overview of all
and see how they can contribute and participate!
As always
is in an online call next week with Board members
who are interested and would have something specific to share?
Best Z. Blace
Best
>
> VIctoria
>
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 10:01 PM Željko Blaće wrote:
>
>> In the countdown to the last 30 days to QW2023
>> we will b
In the countdown to the last 30 days to QW2023
we will be publishing updates on our
event plans, program, participants,
information and inspiration
to join us.
Also
please consider
to spread the word
follow our socials/federate
https://wikis.world/@QueeringW
-eriksson/connect-to-port-53-join-the-dns-hackathon-2023/
...
... consider to join forming a proposal
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332971
Best wishes - Z. Blace
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 6:52 PM Željko Blaće wrote:
>
> I just got in touch with RIPE.net folx who have a conference now in
In 2 months from now Queering Wikipedia 2023 Conference
will be held (in hybrid mode online with offline 'nodes')
as trans-local events on 3 days of May:
Friday 12th, Sunday 14th and Wednesday 17th
- known for International Day Against Homophobia.
Abbreviated as QW2023 the event is following
Forwarding this as important and missing on this list also.
(thank you Levon!)
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Date: Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 1:43 PM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Re: Confirming being re-subscribed
To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) <
OK now I feel that a bit of Subject-line change was due :-)
Thanks for bumping this up via Moz efforts David
and all for picking this up for the Wikimedia bubble.
On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 3:35 AM Kunal Mehta wrote:
> On 12/20/22 16:16, David Gerard wrote:
> > Legoktm runs https://wikis.world
Are there any good practices of using
Wikimedia MediaWikis for Blogging
or good reasons not to do it?
(I see Meta/Outreach/MediaWiki.org
have no Special:CreateBlogPost)
I see big benefits if blogging is about Wikimedia.
Shortcomings I can imagine are potentially with:
vandalism, limited visual
Dear Olga and WLM Ukraine - your work is impressive and your efforts to
bring visibility and point to issues with WLM in 2022 are also.
I can empathize with the feeling one gets when others are benevolent to
recognize and act on what seems obvious *(as someone who experienced war
aggression in
Hi Kosta!
I think Paulo was aware of this process (but not details),
but maybe was not super clear in critique around aesthetics
(where I agree most submissions are sub-optimal for use)
and around priority with resources allocated...
>From what I see in the team listing (from N. America and UK),
Funny how most of them follow the same sonic structure, but miss the
elegance of Windows 95 startup sound done by Brian Eno.
https://themusicnetwork.com/the-odd-story-of-how-brian-eno-composed-the-windows-95-startup-sound/
If there is no obvious winner, maybe we can ask to release for wikipedia
Thank you Camelia!
Is anyone interested in extending work on this theme at least on Wikidata
and Commons (or across Wikimedia) I would be interested to work on Sport
and Equity outside beyond just Wikipedia and competition format.
On 10/20/22, Željko Blaće wrote:
> Dear ALL,
> Wikimedia LGBT+ and organizing team of Queering Wikipedia is holding a
> Queering Wikipedia 2022 Meeting for LGBT+ Wikimedians and allies.
>
> The program will start with an informative* and inspirational,
> social and cultural
Dear ALL,
Wikimedia LGBT+ and organizing team of Queering Wikipedia is holding a
Queering Wikipedia 2022 Meeting for LGBT+ Wikimedians and allies.
The program will start with an informative* and inspirational,
social and cultural activity on Friday 21st October at 18:00 UTC
and working sessions
Dear Yair Rand (saying this honestly not as a form), with all respect to
your much engaged and always informative contributions on many topics (from
which I learned so much), I would have to respond this time with some extra
positions you and others might want to consider as inline comments and
On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 7:15 AM Gergő Tisza wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 8:22 AM Samuel Klein wrote:
>
>> + Automatic translation of discussions is essential, tangibly useful for
>> our communities, and very satisfying.
>> --> how can we bring this to Mediawiki? This is a core question
This is sad to hear and brings back memories of filling similarly myself.
To keep thinks very pragmatic I would advise that IFA.de and/or local
Goethe Institute be contacted and invited to both part take and help with
this. Both are likely to be willing and interested in support WMDE as they
do
Good Morning!
I have to say there is much to learn from this...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgbwm/chinese-woman-fake-russian-history-wikipedia
...but also maybe something to imagine and develop?
(beyond VICE's imagination of bored Chinese housewife photo)
If Wikimedia was a well resourced
I just got in touch with RIPE.net folx who have a conference now in Berlin
and they seem to be interested in helping.
John would be in a good position as former RIPE now WMF staff to evaluate
this and follow up.
Best wishes - Z. Blace
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 5:05 PM Florence Devouard
wrote:
>
My 2 cents in this telegraph short email
#1 it is a common situation in Bosnia and Croatia, likely in
other CEE countries of CEE where providers are 'cheap' with IP addresses. I
know an amazingly constructive and dedicated, but not proactive editor who
failed to get unblocked on EN, as he could
On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 2:46 PM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hi thanks for sharing!
>
> I would agree on many of the issues there, is why you think writing to
> Maryana Iskander would make things change since the foundation has no
> editorial rights on
On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 6:34 AM effe iets anders
wrote:
> Thank you Stella,
>
Thank you Lodewijk for voicing a critical perspective. Hope you do not mind
me adding a few points inline.
> Thank you for sharing, I'm looking forward to an evaluation of how this
> vote was executed, so that we can
Very interested in this and pardon my potentially wrong interpretation,
but would an even shorter summary of your short summary be something like:
*WMF's (Community Development) is to train future community leaders, while
under some kind of supervision of an elected Task Force?*
By the way...
On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 6:50 AM Željko Blaće wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 6:33 AM Samuel Klein wrote:
>
>> ZB -- Just seeing this excellent idea. Yes, it is a good time to revisit
>> and envision what might be possible if this were a much broader and more
>> univers
Thank you for engaging with this topic in public and doing the translation
and sharing here (adding open-glam list).
Aside from being a nice Sunday read I think this is a super useful case
study for people working in the cultural sector and advocacy for open. Was
this published elsewhere in
Interesting discussion but away from the focal point of what Christian
shared.
Hope both can be useful and continue but in separate email threads.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 4:04 AM Risker wrote:
> Andreas -
>
> First off, contract employees are employees. There were 82 of them. (Part
> V, line
Thank you for the report Mariana.
Decolonising Wikidata was one of the high points of 2021 Wikimedia vectors.
This looks impressive, inspirational and I hope we catch up soon as we did
in 2021 for CEE Spring special session.
Super curious over State of the Internet's Languages - there is so much
On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 1:47 AM James Heilman wrote:
> Well the story around Osmosis has further details... They released their
> first 300 or so vidoes under an open license and they were within Wikipedia
> articles for a while. You can still see them on Commons here:
>
>
On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 11:10 PM F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
> It is definitely so sad to see those many abandoned tickets in
> Phabricator, like the ones Galder has been sharing along this thread. The
> same for the very interesting -and quite
support via regional partners, would
> elevate the principles, the focus on improving public knowledge, and the
> practice of self-organization and learning-by-participating that makes us
> tick.
>
OK - I did not hear of it, but curious for sure.
Best Z. Blace
> SJ
>
> On Wed, D
-overview
On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 11:48 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I would be great to continue discussing this on Meta if someone would
> solve the issues. I doubt this is going to happen. Ever.
> --
> *From:* Žel
Dear ALL -
this was informative discussion on several issues,
but I fear the mailing-list is likely an inadequate way
to see all the structural problems and this complexity
with adequate distance (beyond single issue discussions).
Now I wonder if it makes more sense maybe, to use
(sorry for being
Nice. This looks much better than before. Previously it felt so many people
had high hopes for projects that are outside of capacities that are
committed to this project. I feel this needs to be a super clear fact from
the start and not ask for the global community to commit XYZ number of
hours in
Before this last 21st day in the 21st year of 21st century
is globally over, I try to re-initiate re-thinking
on this 15 years old proposal for a Wikipedian-in-residence
http://original-research.blogspot.com/2006/12/wikipedian-in-residence-proposal.html
but also articles in (only) 27 language
On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 4:07 PM Satdeep Gill wrote:
> Hello fellow Wikimedians, librarians, and bibliophiles,
>
> I hope you are doing alright, staying healthy and gearing up for the
> upcoming festive season. I am excited to share that we are bringing you
> another iteration of the 1Lib1Ref
Hi All - it is an interesting discussion to have and compare experiences.
For smaller languages the situation is much worse both on the level of
technology (DeepL covers only a few languages, GoogleTranslate gets worse)
and communities (having less human resources to correct on wikis and train
Dear Mark and conference organizers - it totally slipped my mind that the
conference started yesterday and lasts till tomorrow late.
Would the recording of the conference be available in any shape and form?
Best Z. Blace
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 12:32 PM Mark SHUTTLEWORTH
wrote:
> Dear Friends
Happy Human Rights Day to all!
Maybe this is not the worse day to reflect if Wikimedia
and different language instances of Wikipedia
have a CivilSociety content gap? How big is it?
My intuition from observing just a bit is that there is one,
especially when compared to institutions and
Hi All
I am interested in contributing to this development but also like
Riskier have this day fixed long ago (so could likely only join as an
observer for part of it). Think that the agenda for 27th is ambitious
especially if it includes many people and all of the mentioned open
questions. It
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 9:03 PM Pharos wrote:
> Meta-Wiki is marking *20* years on Friday, 19 November 2021.
>
> Let's use it as an opportunity to celebrate and revisualization our
> best/worst project!
>
> *RSVP here:* https://meta.wiki20.org
>
> With virtual hosting support by WikiConference
Maybe a good approach would be also to have a global rename of the user
account to add something like _(.) so it is systematic and 'obvious' across
all Wikimedia projects - no?
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> Best,
> Andreas
>
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 11:26 AM Željko Blaće wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 6:16 PM Maggie Dennis
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Community “capture” is a real and present threat. For years, th
On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 6:16 PM Maggie Dennis wrote:
> Community “capture” is a real and present threat. For years, the movement
> has been widely aware of challenges in the Croatian Wikipedia, with
> documentation going back nearly a decade. The Foundation recently set up a
> disinformation
On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 5:47 AM Butch Bustria wrote:
> Congratulations to the 4 winners.
> I saw that the STV system unveiled how the 4th and 5th positions (appears to
> be from a G7 country and a non G7 country) had switched. I am interested to
> know from which sector/s or Wikimedia project
...considering recent discussions on Wikimania and here, this is maybe a
useful opinion piece from https://
UNDARK.org/2021/08/12/wikipedia-has-a-language-problem-heres-how-to-fix-it/
It is packed with good insights and while I do not agree with all this, the
final sentence feels kind of
Overlapping with Art+Feminism session presenting research on almost the
same topic :-/
Again - calendar synchronization and wikimedia are not at level needed :-(
Best Z. Blace
On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, Janna Layton wrote:
> The Research Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes.
>
>
On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 11:17 PM Dggenwp wrote:
> The projects are the route by which content is added to Wikipedia. The
> purpose of Wikipedia is not to have an organisation—the purpose is to have
> and distribute free content. Everything else is superstructure—everything
> except the
EVENTBRITE (corporate data capture) as the only option?
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On Tuesday, July 6, 2021, Ciell Wikipedia wrote:
> Thank you Bill, I always find organisation charts very much enlightening,
> and have been missing something like it for the WMF for some time now.
>
I feel the same. We need much much more of diagramatic content and higher
level of
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 10:45 PM Željko Blaće wrote:
>
> Thank you for publishing this, but in all honesty it feels as a bit
> too little too late.
>
> After a quick reading of the summary I am somewhat disappointed that
> the investigation commissioned by WMF was so reduc
Thank you for publishing this, but in all honesty it feels as a bit
too little too late.
After a quick reading of the summary I am somewhat disappointed that
the investigation commissioned by WMF was so reductive in presenting
the complexity of the situation (it is not all about the language) and
On 6/13/21, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2021/06/board-member-of-wikimedia-foundation.html
Good for you Gerard. However it would be better if your inputs would
not consistently direct away from Wikimedia infrastructure for
communication and publishing to the one
Also interested in contributing, but registration fee is something that
puts me off when approaching academic conferences, especially now when
online so much of the cost is reduced.
Best - Z. Blace
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 9:22 AM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
What is May 17th?
The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia was
created in 2004 to draw the attention to the violence and discrimination
experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex people and all
other people with diverse sexual orientations, gender
On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 9:11 AM Ted Chien wrote:
> I agree child care should be one of the scholarship options.
>
I fully agree, but also not just care for babies and kids,
but also elderly and sick which are much more in danger in a pandemic.
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Brilliant!
This needs translations and localizations asap :-)
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 19:32, matteo ruffoni wrote:
> Beautiful! Thanks a lot for your work, I hope we can do the same for
> Italian language
>
> Il lun 1 mar 2021, 13:42 Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
> ha scritto:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
ed fairly quickly the worse of it.
I the moment of discussion over UCoC I felt that sense of urgency to fix
things practically and fast got lost.
Best Z. Blace
On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 6:13 PM Željko Blaće wrote:
>
>> Dear ALL -
>> Especially #forQuestioningUCoC this is what working on
Dear ALL -
Especially #forQuestioningUCoC this is what working on Wikipedia is in
2021 even to a tech savy folks:
"While it was an overall positive experience, we also had hiccups
including getting Zoom bombed by racist trolls, and dealing with
immediate deletions of articles for various reasons.
Thank you for the reminder!
If session is not recorded on your side is it OK to do it on our side?
These are business hours for CEE and not all work on/for with Wikimedia are
free :-/
Best Z
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 09:59, Sailesh Patnaik
wrote:
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> This is a gentle
Has Limesurvey been patched since?
(asking as I see it widely used among
some very ethical and tech literate projects)
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 8:52 AM Asaf Bartov wrote:
> That tool was Limesurvey.
>
>A.
>
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, 08:59 Philippe Beaudette
> wrote:
>
>> I would also like to
user or userbox got deleted?
if it was only userbox gone...
...anyway. think assuming good faith is not easy when you have to report
these things often and hope that those in power take action. croatian
wikipedia still has pro-nazi admin (one is banned finnaly after 7years) and
at least 3 maybe 5
It would be awesome if this list could either have basic moderation and/or
an option to opt out of threads.
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 23:37, Chris Keating
wrote:
> I think it would be great if this sub-thread could come to an end and we
> could stop having the list clogged up with questions about
On 10/22/20, Kaarel Vaidla wrote:
> How to participate
...
> * Join our Telegram group [2].
It would be amazing if we could embody the values of movement strategy
whenever we can. Using only Telegram group as recommendation is NOT*.
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