Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Wikimedia Community User Group Haiti [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
group aims to strengthen Haiti's presence across the Wikimedia projects by
developing Wikipedia in Haitian Creole, training contributors throughout
the country, and working to raise awareness among stakeholders and
institutions in Haiti.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wikimedia_User_Group_Haïti
Hi Everyone!
We encourage you to participate at the 2019 Wikipedia Asian Month this
November 1-30 either as a participant or a lead coordinator in your
language Wiki.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Asian_Month_2019#Communities_and_…
Wikimania 2020 will be in Asia (Bangkok, Thailand) on August 5-9, 2020 and
we will showcase the best coordinated work in this Wikimedia annual event.
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
Hi all,
I know I’ve sent several announcements to this list in recent months
regarding new members of the Wikimedia Foundation’s executive team. Today,
I’m excited to send the last in this series, and officially welcome Amanda
Keton as General Counsel to the Wikimedia Foundation. Amanda will be
starting on October 7, based in San Diego.
Amanda has dedicated her career to many of the same values we share as a
movement. She joins us from the San Francisco-based Tides Foundation, where
she served as General Counsel. Tides is a U.S.-based public foundation that
distributes donor-advised grants and investments with the mission of
building a world of shared prosperity and social justice. Tides was a
partner for us in 2016 as we established our endowment, which remains
hosted at Tides. Amanda also served as Head of Tides Foundation and People
Operations and the CEO of Tides Advocacy, the policy affiliate in the
Tides family of organizations.
Before her work at Tides, Amanda worked for Ernst & Young providing
nonprofit organizations with consulting, advisory, and compliance
services. She currently serves on the Network for Good board and has
previously served on a number of other boards dedicated to equity and
justice.
In Amanda's words, "My work in nonprofits and the values I developed as a
social justice advocate make me especially excited to contribute to
Wikimedia in its next phase of growth. I want to be part of ensuring that
everyone finds a sense of belonging in the free knowledge movement, and
together we serve and defend it exceptionally well. After living in the Bay
Area for 11 years, my family and I recently moved to San Diego to be closer
to family, as we welcomed our son in August. I am always on a quest to find
the perfect playground, a new author to binge read, or a fresh recipe to
try."
Wikimedia always has been unique in the centrality of legal work as a
strategic aspect of our movement. From the first days of the Foundation,
our legal team has helped defend the Wikimedia communities and the
integrity of free knowledge. They work closely with the community to
advocate on behalf of open licensing, freedom of expression, net
neutrality, privacy, and other critical enabling elements of our mission.
I expect the importance of our legal and policy work to continue as we work
toward 2030. Today we see expanding government censorship and increased
infringements on access to knowledge around the globe. We see threats to
community members on the ground, and threats to the integrity of
information online. Our ability to engage proactively on these issues,
through strategic counsel, policy and advocacy, and impactful litigation
will continue to grow in importance to the Wikimedia mission. I’m excited
for Amanda to lead the Foundation’s accomplished Legal department as we go
forward.
I also want to take a moment to personally thank and acknowledge Tony Sebro
for his excellent work serving as interim General Counsel and Secretary to
the Board of Trustees while we searched to fill the position permanently.
Tony was a deft and thoughtful partner in addressing issues ranging from
copyright policy to malicious DDOS attacks to board governance, and a
valued voice on the Foundation’s leadership team. Amanda will continue to
work closely with Tony as he resumes the position of Deputy General
Counsel.
Please join me in welcoming Amanda to the Foundation!
Katherine
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Katherine Maher (she/her)
Executive Director
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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So far about 60% of the commenters are administrators, which role comes
with an inherent and unavoidable conflict-of-interest. Although the
discussion is quite neutral, administrators are a minor part of the
community, thus hopefully editors will join the discussion as well, and
share their views and suggestions on the topic.
Aron
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from Nepal!
This is Tulsi Bhagat, and I've recently discovered "Wikimedia Diary" <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diary>. Let me tell you,
Wikimedia Diary is a public memory book (notebook) in which Wikimedians
from all over the world are free to write any worth noting
event/activities/experiences by them or community in this Wiki World.
As we all know, a diary is a book in which diarist keeps a daily record of
events and experiences. Likewise, the basic idea of Wikimedia Diary is that
we do many activities here in wiki world which we are proud of, but
unfortunately it became only the history anytime. So, It is meant to record
those activities on the happened date with a signature (~~~~) which is
worth noting, and letting fellow Wikimedians know about what inspirational
you've did/felt. It would motivate users from all around the world to keep
on cool activities and publish a note there on the page.
I am looking forward to hear from you if you have anything to say about it.
Please share your comment, and I hope you guys will definitely publish a
note on the Diary. Feel free to create your own subpage either for yourself
and/or for your community.
Kind regards,
Tulsi Bhagat
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tulsi_Bhagat>
Wikimedia OTRS Support Team
Hi all,
As I mentioned in an earlier thread [1], we will be running reader
surveys across a number of Wikipedia languages to learn about the
reader needs and motivations in these languages as well as some of
their demographic information (and perhaps the correlations between
demographics and user motivations and characteristics).
If your language community is interested to have statistics on the
distribution of reader gender, age, education, native language, and
geographic region (rural/urban) in your language (and depending on how
much data we collect in your language, perhaps more insights), this is
your chance to indicate interest at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research_talk:Characterizing_Wikipedia_Read…
I initially communicated 2019-02-15 as the deadline to sign up. Since
then, we have run a pilot test on enwiki and we are investigating some
of the results to see if any changes in the survey questions are
needed. You have now time until 2019-03-15 to indicate interest.
As always: this call is primarily a service to your language
community. If you like it, take action on it. If you don't, no action
is needed. :)
Best,
Leila
[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2019-February/091762.html
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation Communications department has completed the
transition of the old Communications committee to the Movement
communications group. The members of the original group were invited to
rejoin, and more than half have done so. We are now ready to open
membership up to new members from across the movement.
The Wikimedia movement communications group is an opportunity for members
of the Wikimedia community to discuss topics related to movement
communications. Topics of discussion can be raised by any member of the
group, including those from the Wikimedia Foundation Communications
department. Conversations in the group may range from brainstorming
opportunities to advance the movement to chatting about a problem faced by
a specific community to coordinating communications efforts on major events.
The Movement communications group is open to anyone in the Wikimedia
community working on communications for Wikimedia activities or communities.
For more information or to join, visit the group's Meta-Wiki page:
https://w.wiki/7x7
The signup form is available on Meta-Wiki: https://w.wiki/7x6
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Thank you!
-greg
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Gregory Varnum (pronouns - he/his/him)
Communications Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed next Wednesday, October
16, at 9:30 AM PDT/16:30 UTC.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ35weAVlIU
As usual, you can join the conversation on IRC at #wikimedia-research. You
can also watch our past Research Showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
This month's presentations:
Elections Without Fake: Deploying Real Systems to Counter Misinformation
Campaigns
By Fabrício Benevenuto, Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal
de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil
The political debate and electoral dispute in the online space during the
2018 Brazilian elections were marked by an information war. In order to
mitigate the misinformation problem, we created the project Elections
Without Fake <http://www.eleicoes-sem-fake.dcc.ufmg.br/> and developed a
few technological solutions able to reduce the abuse of misinformation
campaigns in the online space. Particularly, we created a system to monitor
public groups in WhatsApp and a system to monitor ads in Facebook. Our
systems showed to be fundamental for fact-checking and investigative
journalism, and are currently being used by over 150 journalists with
editorial lines and various fact-checking agencies.
More info on second talk by Francesca Spezzano to come
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Janna Layton (she, her)
Administrative Assistant - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce a new position at Wikimédia France
(WMFR): Diversity and Francophony Projects Manager. Adélaïde Calais [1],
already working for us on WikiFranca and the French speaking
Wikiconvention, is in charge on that. This new position contains 3 main
areas:
A. Support the structuration and development of francophone
cooperation efforts 'WikiFranca' : Since 2013 and the creation of
WikIFranca by members of Wikimedia Canada, Wikimedia Switzerland,
Wikimedia Belgium and Wikimedia France [2], we are committed to other
French affiliates of the Wikimedia movement in a logic of mutual
support. The WikiFranca [3] network has welcomed and supported the
emergence of Wikimedia communities in other French-speaking countries by
organizing unifying events. WMFR would like to continue to support the
WikiFranca French-speaking collaborative network and develop friendly
relations with the Francophone affiliates of the movement.
Ongoing
projects: Francophone Contribution Month, French speaking Wikiconvention
[4], Learning Days in French, rapid grants open to all French speaking
wikimedians [5], WikiClubRFI [6]...
B. Languages diversity: We will
focus on a territorial linguistic community and develop an annual
project with the help of local associations. In 2019-2020, this will be
the Occitan community whose version of Wikipedia has about 85,000
articles for 5 administrators. We hope to build a development and
support project that will be transferable to other linguistic
communities living in metropolitan France. This project also concerns
the tool Lingua Libre [7] which has been developed to allow the oral
contribution on Wikimedia projects especially for people who speak
regional and minority languages. Since then, the project has evolved,
grown and reached a stage of development sufficient to initiate
recording workshops. It reached 150 000 recordings after a only year
being up and meets expressed needs. We will, therefore, continue to
support it, but we must also look at its future and its usefulness for
the Wikimedia movement, particularly in the context of the 2030
strategy.
Ongoing projects: Lingua libre, Lingua Libre Sign-it (a
Sign Language project that will be announced later), funding of MOOCs in
Arabic and Shawiya...
C. Diversify participation in the Wikimedia
movement: In 2018, WMFR launched a specific program for the overseas
territories with the first edition of the contest "Photograph the
Overseas" [8], in partnership with the French Ministry of Overseas and
the French Development Agency. The objective of the Overseas project is
to develop the participation coming from overseas territories in order
to improve the contents on the Wikimedia projects related to these
territories. They represent about 18% of the whole of the national
territory, counting 2 million inhabitants. Overseas territories are as
diverse as the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon off Canada, Antillean
islands or the kingdoms of Wallis and Futuna in the Pacific Ocean.
In
order not to disperse our forces and thus weaken our fight against the
gender gap on Wikimedia projects, Wikimedia France supported the
activities of gender gap-bridging projects (Les sans pagEs [9]) and a
monthly Wikisource editathons on women writers [10].
Ongoing projects:
Photograph the Overseas, funding of gender gap-bridging projects...
I'm also thrilled to have Emma Vadillo [11], doing an internship of 8
months on Lingua Libre. Emma recently graduated from Science Po Paris
and Columbia University in New York where she also worked at the
Endangered Language Alliance documenting endangered languages. She wants
to pursue studies in linguistics but before that, she is here to apply
her knowledge of indigenous languages of Latin America and linguistic
policy to developing Lingua Libre in its goal of facilitating the
publication of audio content on Wikimedia projects. She hopes this will
enable linguistic communities of regional and/or minority languages to
share their knowledge more easily with the world, as well as appropriate
themselves the new technologies of information and communication to be
able to use them in their own language and for their own benefit.
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ad%C3%A9la%C3%AFde_Calais_WMFr
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francophones_meetup_at_Wikimania_20…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiFranca/en
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConvention_francophone/en
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_France/Micro-financement
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiClubRFI
[7] https://lingualibre.fr
[8] https://outremer.wikimedia.fr
[9]
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs
[10]
https://visiautrices.hypotheses.org/
[11]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Eavqwiki
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Pierre-Yves
Beaudouin
Président
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WIKIMEDIA
FRANCE Association pour le libre partage de la
connaissance
www.wikimedia.fr [1] 40 rue de clery, 75002 Paris [2]
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