Dear friends of free knowledge,
Wikimedia Commons is in crisis. There are numerous concerns and
complaints about our central media platform, for many years.
Therefore, this open letter asks the Wikimedia Foundation to Think
big! about the future of Wikimedia Commons.
In late August 2022, we at the Commons Photographers User Group talked
about Wikimedia Commons. The result of these and other talks is this
open letter.
We invite everyone to sign this open letter to show how important
Wikimedia Commons is to you. You may be a regular Commons contributor,
a Wikipedian, an editor of Wiktionary or Wikivoyage, or maybe you
represent an affiliation. We also strongly invite other people who are
involved with Commons directly or indirectly, maybe in the context of
a GLAM.
Please inform others about this open letter.
Kind regards,
Ziko van Dijk
Link:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Think_big_-_open_letter_about_Wi…
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Dr. Ziko van Dijk | zikovandijk.de
Autor von "Wikis und die Wikipedia verstehen"
Offizieller Wikipedia-Kulturbotschafter 2022-2024
Hello!
Last reminder, there are 2 days left (today and tomorrow) to submit
your Coolest
Tool Award <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award>
nominations. Please recommend your favorite tools!
Thanks!
Komla, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2022
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Seyram Komla Sapaty
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Cloud Services
Hello everyone,
The eighth workshop on the topic of "How to interact with Wikidata via
Pywikibot" is coming up - it will take place on Friday, October 7th at
16:00 UTC. You can find more details on the workshop and a link to join
here: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_intera…>
[1].
This workshop will summarise how to access and save information to
Wikidata, including through page generators and queries*, using Pywikibot.
It will also cover the Wikidata conventions about the bot editing,
including the bot approvals process (*queries not included, please bring
your own!). This session will be run by Mike Peel.
To participate in this workshop, you would need basic familiarity with
Wikidata and Pywikibot installation.
We look forward to your participation!
Best,
Srishti
On behalf of the SWT Workshops Organization team
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Workshops#How_to_intera…
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello
The Wiki Loves Women team launched a podcast a few weeks ago.
We have released 5 episodes so far, with a frequency of two episodes per
month.
All episodes are available on the usual podcast platforms, or may be
accessed on Wiki Loves Women website with additional notes about each
episode.
https://podcast.wikiloveswomen.org
The latest episode features Angela Lungati, current CEO of Ushaidi.
If you are interested to receive a brief message on your talk each time
a new episode is published, please drop your name here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/Podcast#Subscribe
Anthere
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About Inspiring Open
Inspiring Open is a podcast series about women from Wiki Loves Women
that celebrates the inspirational women whose careers and personal
ethics intersect with the Open movement. Each episode features a dynamic
woman from Africa who has pushed the boundaries of what it means to
build communities and succeed as a collective. As a podcast series, it
is available at anytime, anywhere to amplify the motivational stories of
each guest, as spoken in their own voice. Listen to their personal
journeys in conversation with host Betty Kankam-Boadu.
Join Inspiring Open as we raise the global visibility and profiles of
women who are redefining and reclaiming the Open sector.
Be inspired • Be challenged • Be bold!
Hi everyone!
Just a reminder that there are 7 days left to submit your Coolest Tool Award
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award> nominations.
Please recommend your favorite tools by October 12.
Thanks!
Komla, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2022
--
Seyram Komla Sapaty
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Cloud Services
Dear all,
Did you miss episode 16 of WikiAfrica Hour: *Wiki Identity*, due to the
technical issue we experienced on YouTube? Catch up on the episode as the
Director of Brand at Wikimedia Foundation, Zack McCune shares the evolution
of the Wikimedia brands and the future of Wikimedia brands, the activities
of the Brand Studio, while Erina Mukuta, Community Liaison for Wikimedia
Sound logo project, shares insight on the Wikimedia Sound logo contests.
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmLcuMNIhcQ
Regards,
Ceslause Ogbonnaya
*WikiAfrica Hour host*
While the Signpost is hosted on the English Wikipedia and started as very
much an EN Wiki venture, it aspires to be of more general interest. Looking
at that specific issue, yes there is much that is mainly English Wikipedia
focused, including a small contribution of mine. But some of the content,
such as about the WMF elections is of general community interest, and at
least one story is about Wikimedia Commons rather than Wikipedia.
WSC
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 16:35:35 +0200
> From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: The new Signpost is out!
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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> boundary="000000000000c55e2e05e9fa0636"
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> Hoi,
> De Signpost is een publicatie van de Engelse Wikipedia. Waarom wordt de
> Wikimedia mailing list daarmee lastig gevallen?
> Vriendelijke groet,
> GerardM
>
> On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 at 14:26, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Name: not available
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>
> End of Wikimedia-l Digest, Vol 613, Issue 1
> *******************************************
>
Dear all,
We are delighted to share with you the Top 20 images from the Wiki Loves
Africa 2022 *Home+Habitat* themed Int'l photo contest, selected from over
16,000 entries!
Enjoy the "Home+Habitat" view from across Africa:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLA_2022_International_Top_20_Short…
Regards,
Ceslause
Hello everyone,
You are invited to join us at our upcoming meetup for the South African
community that will be happening on Saturday 29 October 2022. Below are the
details for joining the 23rd online South African community meetup. If you
have any questions about Wikipedia, the community, what is going on
generally, or you just want to hang out you are welcome to join and
participate.
*Date: Saturday, 29 October 2022*
*Start time:10:00 AM SAST*
*End Time: 12:00 PM SAST*
*Location: Online Meeting*
We will still be using our new Discord channel as our meeting location this
time (see link below). If that does not work for you then don't worry, you
can still join via Zulip at the link below for a more text-based experience.
Link to Join
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/South_Africa/South_Africa_23>
For a more text-based experience.
Zulip <https://wikimediaza.zulipchat.com/login/>: Note registration is
necessary
Best regards,
