Hi all,
On November 16th, Wikimédia France held its annual General
Assembly and partialy renewed its Board. We are particularly glad and
proud of announcing that for the first time our chapter has reserved a
seat for a candidate appointed by the community.
Here is a brief
presentation of the newly elected Board members, including the
community-appointed seat ratified by the Assembly:
* Pascale
Camus-Walter, elected for 2 years: On Wikipedia since 2011, Pascale is a
Wikimédia France member since 2015.
* Jonathan Mouton, elected for 3
years: Registered on Wikipedia in 2007, Jonathan is the one elected as a
Board member by the community.
* Diane Ranville, elected for 3 years:
Wikimedian from Grenoble, Diane is committed in Wikimédia France since
2017.
* Carole Renard, elected for 3 years: Feminist, Wikimedian
since 2017, Carole is contributing on Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata and
Wikisource.
* Benoit Soubeyran, elected for 2 years: Wikimedian since
2012, Benoit has been a librarian and a blogger for several years.
This
brings the number of women on our Board to 4 on a total of 12 members
(Improvement in progress).
The other Board members remain unchanged,
as well as the executive bureau:
* Pierre-Yves Beaudouin: President,
whose turn will end in 1 year.
* Benoît Deshayes: whose turn will end
in 1 year.
* Julien Gardet: reelected for 3 years.
* Roger Gotlib:
whose turn will end in 1 year.
* Nadine Le Lirzin: Secretary, whose
turn will end in 1 year.
* Pascal Radigue: Treasurer, whose turn will
end in 1 year.
* Willie Robert: Vice-President, whose turn will end
in 1 year.
We would like to thank Marin Dubroca-Voisin, Pierre-Selim
Huard, Pierre-Antoine Le Page, Lucas Lévêque and Hélène Masson, whose
turns just came to an end, for having worked with us at restoring the
good health of the Association. We know you're still around :)
For the
Board of Wikimédia France,
Nadine Le Lirzin, Secretary
(crosspost)
Yours truly,
Rehman A.
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From: Wikilovesearth <wikilovesearth-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of Єлизавета Чеховська <liza.chekhovska(a)wikimedia.org.ua>
Sent: 03 December 2019 01:08
To: wikilovesearth(a)lists.wikimedia.org <wikilovesearth(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikilovesearth] Winners of the international WLE contest
Hi!
We are happy to reveal this year's Wiki Loves Earth winners. Surely it wasn't an easy task to single out only a few photos from all of the beautiful images uploaded throughout this year's contest, but our jury members managed to do it :)
Please check the photographs on our blog: http://wikilovesearth.org/2019-winners/
You can also share a FB-post with all the photos: https://www.facebook.com/interwle/posts/2529238557347109 (and subscribe to our Facebook page if you haven't yet).
The full report of the international jury, explaining the work of the jury, selection process and presenting the results together with the jury's comments, is available here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wle-jury-report-2019-hires.pdf (high resolution), https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wle-jury-report-2019-lores.pdf (low resolution)
Thanks to all the participants and volunteers who made the contest possible! Tune in for the 2020 edition.
--
З повагою / Best Regards
Єлизавета Чеховська / Liza Chekhovska
менеджерка проектів ГО «Вікімедіа Україна» / Project Manager at Wikimedia Ukraine
Hi all!
I'm glad to announce that the 3rd edition of the Bridges Across Cultures
contest has started.
"Bridges across Cultures" is an editing contest organized by different
Wikimedia affiliates with the goal to promote cultural exchange between
three regions of the world: Latin America, Russia and the Middle East &
North Africa (MENA). This is the first time that Russia will join, thanks
to the work of Wikimedia Russia, the Wikimedians of Bashkortostan and the
Wikipedians of North Caucasus user groups, who join different affiliates
part of Iberocoop and WikiArabia collaboration groups.
The contest will run till December 31st, 2019, and nine Wikipedias will
participate: Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Russian,
Bashkir, Lezgi and Chechen. Users of those projects will write articles
from other regions with the intention to increase cultural exchange and
break the bias towards Western European and North American contents.
Hope you can all join!
Osmar Valdebenito
Wikimedia Chile
Hey All
Just wanted to give you a quick update. With upcoming fundraising in
Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the USA, and the United Kingdom;
along with a completed fundraising campaign in France; Q2 sees us raise
approximately half of the annual funds for the Wikimedia movement and as
usual the team has been very busy.
Starting back in October, our E-mail fundraising programme has been running
in these countries. This programme focuses on asking previous donors to
reaffirm their support to Wikimedia and our English campaign will continue
steadily through the rest of this calendar year.
October and November also sees us test and prepare for our main English
fundraising banner campaign. We do this to explore new ideas, test systems,
improve workflows etc all in time for the busiest period of the year. This
year we will be looking to begin the main campaign on or around Monday,
December 2 and will look to fundraise through the month of December.
There are a number of ways you can help support the fundraiser:
---Message Ideas---
I’ll be following up with some asks later this week for ideas around themes
and ideas the fundraising team should explore in it’s messaging. In the
meantime, if you have specific ideas or stories we should tell via social
media, banners, emails etc. Please add them to our fundraising ideas page. (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2019-20_Fundraising_ideas)
---Reporting Issues---
If you see any technical issues with the banners or payments systems please
do report it on phabricator:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?template=118862
If you see a donor on a talk page, OTRS, or social media with questions
about donating or having difficulties in the donation process, please refer
them to: donate {{at}} wikimedia.org.
Here is also the ever present fundraising IRC channel to raise urgent
technical issues: #wikimedia-fundraising (
http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=%23wikimedia-fundraising&uio=d4
)
Many thanks
--
Seddon
Community and Audience Engagement Associate
*Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation*
Hi all,
I’m delighted to pre-announce a small communication initiative called
“Knowledge Equity Calendar” for the upcoming weeks:
Back in 2017, the Wikimedia Movement agreed on its Strategic Direction with
its core goal to be the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free
knowledge until 2030.[1] One priority to achieve this goal is called
"Knowledge Equity" (As a social movement, we will focus our efforts on the
knowledge and communities that have been left out by structures of power
and privilege. We will welcome people from every background to build strong
and diverse communities. We will break down the social, political, and
technical barriers preventing people from accessing and contributing to
free knowledge.). But what does that mean in your context? What are others
already doing to translate “Knowledge Equity” from the strategic to the
programmatic level?
In the light of the last days and weeks of the year, we'd like to adapt the
German tradition of the “Advent calendar
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_calendar>” counting the days towards
Christmas (December 1 to 24), and share one story per day via Meta[2] and
Wikimedia Space blog[3] on how Wikimedians are working towards achieving
Knowledge Equity in their respective context. The idea is mainly to inspire
Wikimedians what other Wikimedians are already doing. We’ll use Wikimedia
Deutschland's Twitter and Facebook accounts to accompany that.
On Meta, the translation extension is activated – so if you like, chip in
and translate the stories to your language. Or just share the stories with
other Wikimedians to show what kind of cool and inspiring initiatives and
projects working towards Knowledge Equity we already have in the Wikimedia
movement.
If you have any questions about the initiative, the stories, or what an
Advent calendar is, feel free to send me a message.
Happy reading and sharing,
Cornelius
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Calendar
[3] https://space.wmflabs.org/blog/
--
Cornelius Kibelka
Internationale Beziehungen | International Relations
Vorstandsteam | Office of the ED
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
http://wikimedia.de
Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen
Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
http://spenden.wikimedia.de/
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207
Hey all,
(reposting due to filter rejection)
Fundraising are looking for ideas and suggestions for our writing team to
explore for our messaging in this years fundraiser. I only need a minute of
your time to answer the following question:
--- What’s your favorite thing about Wikipedia that you wish our readers
and donors knew? ---
We'll use the responses to generate new test ideas
Post your answers on list or directly to me :) Thanks in advance
--
Seddon
*Community and Audience Engagement Associate*
*Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation*