Hello Everyone,
I’m pleased to announce Wikiclubs pilots in India.
The WikiClubs pilot aims to enable the creation of WikiClubs at educational
institutions in India. The pilot project is a joint effort between IIIT
Hydrabad and Wikimedia foundation and will be led by IIIT Hyderabad and
supported by the Foundation. In the program, the participants will be
expected to start WikiClubs at their respective institutions, to contribute
to the growth and diversification of culture and heritage sources on
Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons in India, especially targeted around
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states of India, for more details visit
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiClubs_pilot_in_India
Sincerely
Kasyap (he/him)
IndicWiki Project Team - IIIT-H
9014120442 , kasyap.krupal(a)research.iiit.ac.in
Dear all,
Wiki Loves Africa Home+Habitat ISA tool MetaData drive has started!
There are prizes to be won as you add the metadata details to the images
after selecting your country! Spread the word!
Join the campaign here: http://bit.ly/WLA22_ISA
Deadline: January 15th, 2022
Regards,
Ceslause Ogbonnaya
Hello everyone,
Free Knowledge Africa is organising a campaign; Explore Africa Writing
Contest!
Are you interested in contributing to the open knowledge about tourism and
travelling in Africa?
This campaign is for you.
To promote tourism, there should be information, and Wikivoyage provides
the detailed travel information needed to have an enjoyable travel
experience.
Explore Africa is a campaign and contest to promote travel information and
tourism in Africa by creating articles about travelling in Africa. These
include itineraries, phrasebooks and destinations (cities, towns, parks
and game reserves) on English Wikivoyage.
Wikivoyage seeks to be the ultimate travel guide that aims to give tourism
a refreshing evolution.
Come join us this December in The Explore Africa Writing Contest on the
English Wikivoyage. There are amazing prizes to be won and also there will
be training sessions to help you get familiar with Wikivoyage.
Register here <https://bit.ly/exploreafrica2022>
Visit the project page on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Explore_Africa> to know more about the
contest and also watch this Youtube video <https://youtu.be/ruRBHGjGaHE> to
learn more about the contest.
Best regards,
Hopeabby
Associate, Free Knowledge Africa (FKA)
Dear Friends and Wikimedians,
We hope you are doing well.
The Afrocine Project core team would once again like to thank everyone who
contributed towards ensuring the success of the Months of African Cinema
Contest in 2021. Due to your valued efforts, the fourth iteration was a
success! Over 4,000 articles were created across various Wikimedia projects
and in 16 different languages
The Afrocine project is happy to inform you that we will be having the
Months of African Cinema Contest in the months of November and December. (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…
)
This year’s iteration comes in a style. We invite participants and
communities to improve content on Wikipedia, specifically infoboxes related
to African Cinema. To indicate your interest in participating, please list
your name or your communities names here. (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…
)
This year’s prizes will be as follows:
1st Prize – $150
2nd Prize – $100
3rd Prize – $50
Thank you once again! We are looking forward to your participation.
1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…
2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…
Kind regards,
Ebenezer Mlay,
On behalf of the Afrocine Project
THEME 2023 : Climate and Weather
Wiki Loves Africa 2023 will be relaunched soon. More info will come soon.
For the groups who need to make rapid grant requests, the deadline is
DECEMBER 1st.
Office hours next Tuesday and Wenesday in the evening. CHECK :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023/Participating_commun…
Wiki Loves Africa 2023 va bientôt redémarrer. Plus d’info très bientôt.
Pour les groupes qui ont besoin de faire des demandes de microfi, la
date limite et le 1 DECEMBRE
Premières réunions prévues mardi et mercredi soir. Plus d’info ici :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023/Participating_commun…
Florence
Dear all,
The WMF's audited financial statements are now available here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/2/26/Wikimedia_Foundation…
Some key figures from the page numbered 4 (page 6 in the pdf):
– Net invest income was negative: –$12M (down $16M)
– Total support and revenue was $155M (down $8M due to that negative
investment income)
– Total expenses were $146M (up $34M)
– Salaries and wages were $88M (up $20M)
– Net assets at end of year increased by $8M
For reference, the end-of-year increase in net assets forecast in the
third-quarter Finance & Administration tuning session deck published in May
2022 was $25.9M:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AF%26A_Tuning_Session…
Best,
Andreas
Hello everyone,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed Wednesday, November 16, at
9:30 AM PST/16:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1668619830>.
YouTube stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFanZoHjUnY
Members of the Research team will collect questions on IRC at
#wikimedia-research and YouTube.
This month's theme is 'Libraries and Wikipedia Knowledge.'
In the first talk, Laurie Bridges (Oregon State University) and Michael
David Miller (McGill University) will co-present on Wikipedia and Academic
Libraries.
Abstract: In 2021 an open-access edited book, Wikipedia and Academic
Libraries: A Global Project <https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11778416>, was
published, featuring 20 chapters from over 50 authors. In this
presentation, Laurie Bridges, one of the co-editors, will discuss the
process for creating and publishing an OA-edited book. Michael David
Miller, one of the chapter authors, will discuss his chapter about
contributions to local Québécois LGBTQ+ content in Francophone Wikipedia.
The second talk will be on Ethical Considerations of Including Gender
Information in Open Knowledge Platforms, presented by Nerissa Lindsey (San
Diego State University).
Abstract: In recent years, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums
(GLAMs) have sought to leverage open knowledge platforms such as Wikidata
to highlight or provide more visibility for traditionally marginalized
groups and their work, collections, or contributions. Efforts like Art +
Feminism, local edit-a-thons, and, more recently, GLAM institution-led
projects have promoted open knowledge initiatives to a broader audience of
participants. One such open knowledge project, the Program for Cooperative
Cataloging (PCC) Wikidata Pilot, has brought together over seventy GLAM
organizations to contribute linked open data for individuals associated
with their institutions, collections, or archives. However, these projects
have brought up ethical concerns around including potentially sensitive
personal demographic information, such as gender identity, sexual
orientation, race, and ethnicity, in entries in an open knowledge base
about living persons. GLAM institutions are thus in a position of balancing
open access with ethical cataloging, which should include adhering to the
personal preferences of the individuals whose data is being shared. People
working in libraries and archives have been increasingly focusing their
energies on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their descriptive
practices, including remediating legacy data and addressing biased
language. Moving this work into a more public sphere and scaling up in
volume creates potential risks to the individuals being described. While
adding demographic information on living people to open knowledge bases has
the potential to enhance, highlight, and celebrate diversity, it could also
potentially be used to the detriment of the subjects through surveillance
and targeting activities. In our research we investigated the changing role
of metadata and open knowledge in addressing, or not addressing, issues of
under- and misrepresentation, especially as they pertain to gender identity
as described in the sex or gender property in Wikidata. We reported our
findings from a survey investigating how organizations participating in
open knowledge projects are addressing ethical concerns around including
personal demographic information as part of their projects, including what,
if any, policies they have implemented and what implications these
activities may have for the living people being described.
You can also watch our past research showcases here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
We hope you can join us!
Warm regards,
Emily, on behalf of the WMF Research team
--
Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Hi,
We have a Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) meeting this 13
November 2022 (Sunday)
We have two meeting times to cater two major time zone blocks.
The two times are:
- 02:00 UTC <https://iw.toolforge.org/zonestamp/1668304800>, 2022-11-13
(Asia-Pacific friendly time)
- 16:00 UTC <https://iw.toolforge.org/zonestamp/1668355200>, 2022-11-13
(Europe-Africa-Americas friendly time)
The agenda are:
· Wikimedia Research Fund
· 2023 Ombuds commission and Case Review Committee appointments process
· Feedback on consultation and community session of the Movement Charter
Drafting Committee
· Wikimania
· Ideas/ suggestions for Wikimania 2023
· Expressions of interest for Wikimania 2024 and beyond
· Expressions of interest to join Wikimania Steering Committee
For signup and meeting link, go to the SWAN page at Meta-wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network
Thanks.
Kind regards
Butch Bustria