Hello everyone,
There is Wiki Loves Love competition to be organized on Wikimedia Commons
soon. For that, we are working on its Wikidata page. And I humbly ask for
your assistance in translating a tiny line in your respective native
languages:
WIKI LOVES LOVE
Feel free to add it here or at this Google sheet or in wikidata itself. The
links for them are as below:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wC2PK23lcVKplIdSGPq5vRxClKRyQ-quS7w…https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52286144
Regards
Rupika Sharma
Co-Founder
Punjabi Wikimedians
Email: ons3112(a)gmail.com
Phone- +918289087965
Hi
I have been proposed to give a conference about wikipedia and fake news
and to focus on very specific examples rather than general concepts. I
already have a few ideas but any pointers to particularly interesting
cases or discussions will be welcome.
Thanks for your help.
Florence
In the course of a 2015 talk at Yale, the prominent Indian journalist P.
Sainath says (comparing his People's Archive): "We are not the Wikipedia.
Just because anyone can contribute does not mean we will accept everything.
A lot of democratic decisions are democratically taken by me. Yeah, this is
not the Wikipedia. I did not work for 35 years in journalist to put up any
crap... with my name going on the credit."
This comes up at around minute 49. Please listen. We might need to clarify
this misunderstanding that the Wikipedia accepts "anything".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj-K7hpsdKw
- *"It's easier to fix bugs the same day you wrote the code. It can be very
hard and time-consuming to fix bugs a month later when you've forgotten
exactly how the code works." - Joel Spolsky, CEO/Founder of Stack Overflow*
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Hello everyone,
The next Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting will take
place on Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 6:00 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC
channel is #wikimedia-office on https://webchat.freenode.net, and the
meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube stream.[1] We’ll post the video
recording publicly after the meeting.
Please review the meeting's Meta-Wiki page for further information about
the meeting and how to participate:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_metrics_and_activities…
We will follow up early next week with the meeting agenda.
Thank you,
Lena
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vMFUaEeH3w
Lena Traer
Project Coordinator // Communications // Advancement
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello,
I read in a Facebook discussion about the Wikimedia Conference that
the Annual Plan Grants are being paused (or stopped or suspended or
something) shortly, presumably after the end of the Round 2
deliberations that are going on.
Can't see any information about this on the list, or the Grantmaking team pages.
Is this right? If so I wondered what the rationale might be?
Thanks!
Chris
[[Sorry for x-posting]]
Dear all,
I'm happy to report that the content submission process
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMTLV2018/Program/Submit> for the
GLAMWiki Conference 2018 is now open! Submissions will be accepted *till
April 30th*, so feel free to start drafting your proposals.
Please note that submissions for scholarships
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_TLV_2018/Scholarships> will open
tomorrow via a different process and the actual registration will take
place later on in June. We'll notify you every step of the way. :)
Looking forward to reading your submissions,
Shani (on behalf of the organizing team and the program committee).
>
> Dear all,
>
> On April 15, Wikimedia Portugal held an Extraordinary General Assembly
> over IRC, and a new board was elected.
>
> The new board is composed of:
>
> -
>
> Gonçalo Themudo, president
> -
>
> André Barbosa, treasurer
> -
>
> Béria Lima, secretary
>
>
> We also elected new members for the other official roles of the chapter:
>
> General Assembly
>
> -
>
> Paulo Santos Perneta, president
> -
>
> Carlos Barradas, secretary
> -
>
> João Carvalho, member
>
> Fiscal Council
>
> -
>
> Waldir Pimenta, president
> -
>
> Manuel de Sousa, secretary
> -
>
> João Lemos, member
>
>
> The meeting was attended by 12 of our members, and we were pleased to also
> welcome Dumisane Ndubane, from the Affiliations Committee, as an external
> observer.
>
> The general assembly also approved our annual report, which is now
> published at https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Relatórios/Anual/2017. An
> English translation will be provided at https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/
> Relatórios/Anual/2017/en.
>
> The log of the conversation and the minutes of the meeting will soon be
> available at https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reuniões (in Portuguese only).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gonçalo
>
Hi all,
During the past Wikimedia Conference and the preceding days, a lot of
Wikimedians came together and many of them did not know anyone and where
wondering who in the hotel also is a Wikipedian/Wikimedian.
To make it easier for users, a page has been published to help them:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_recognise_a_Wikipedian
The page describes what you can look for with the subsequent levels for a
higher level of recognisability.
Hopefully this page makes it easier to recognise other people you share the
same passion with.
Thanks all for the conference, see you soon again!
Romaine
His death caused 11,7 m accesses to his article in the last two days, 14
versions with more then 100000 accesses (enwp 5,7 M).
Impressive figures showing how global artists are nowadays, and how
natural it is to look into Wikipedia when things happen
Anders
https://tools.wmflabs.org/langviews/?project=sv.wikipedia.org&platform=all-…
Hi all,
Through various other channels I learned the unfortunate news that Craig
Franklin (Lankiveil) has recently passed away. He was a board member
(2011-2015) and president (2013) at Wikimedia Australia, longtime English
Wikipedian and admin, and until this month he was member of the Ombudsman
Commission.
Craig was a lively participant in many of our meetings/conferences, and it
was always a joy to see him enter a discussion.
Condoleances are being collected on his user talk page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lankiveil
Best regards,
Lodewijk