[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Ukraine's annual report for 2023

2024-03-22 Thread Anton Protsiuk
Hi all, I’m writing to let you know that Wikimedia Ukraine published and submitted our annual reports for 2023. In 2023 we continued to live under Russia’s full-scale military invasion. On the one hand, the past year was more stable than 2022, and we were able to bring back many of the projects

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Urgent attention required because Commons is blocked in Pakistan

2024-03-22 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Dear Mr. Stephen LaPorte Thank you for commenting. Recently, I have been in contact with several journalists who have expressed their interest in covering this issue and have been attempting to reach out to WMF for an official statement. but unfortunately, they have reported difficulty in

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Outcomes from the March Meeting for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

2024-03-22 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Hi! Concerning the point about the WMF BoT's perspective on the Global Council, the European affiliates discussed these perspectives at a recent online meeting last Monday. Here's a summary of this discussion (the points I highlight here are my personal editing choice, you can find a link to the

[Wikimedia-l] The full draft of the Wikimedia Movement Charter will soon be shared

2024-03-22 Thread Movement Charter Drafting Committee
Hi there, The Movement Charter Drafting Committee is happy to announce that the full draft of the Movement Charter will be published on April 2nd, 2024. This will kick off the community engagement period from April 2nd to April 22nd. The Movement Charter

[Wikimedia-l] Re: We need more interactive content: we are doing it wrong

2024-03-22 Thread Felipe Schenone
Hi everyone, good news! Thanks to this humble change (deployed today) it is now possible to load a specific gadget when a specific template is used in a page. This opens the door (or perhaps a window?) to interactive

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Urgent attention required because Commons is blocked in Pakistan

2024-03-22 Thread Benedict Udeh
Dear Saqib, If you receive press enquiries, you can ask journalists to email pr...@wikimedia.org and our external communications team will provide them with the relevant information. They don’t usually post statements on long-running issues like traffic disruptions unless there's more clarity on