*Tl;dr: *Looking for a way to learn how to effectively organize around
sustainability? Join the beta version of the Organizer Lab on WikiLearn to
understand how to effectively organize a global campaign around
sustainability and climate change! Applications are open from Sep. 22 -
Oct. 19. Information session coming up on September 30 at 14:00 UTC
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/89032870014>.
Dear Wikimedians,
The Campaigns Team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Programs_Team> at the
Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce the beta version of a new
program called the Organizer Lab
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Organizer_Lab>. This call is
open to any Wikimedia community organizers with some local organizing
experience, who believe in the potential of the Wikimedia movement to
effectively mobilize around Topics for Impact
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…>,
and who are keen to improve their skills to organize at the international
level.
Why an Organizer Lab?
Campaigns and other topic-based calls to action have been some of the most
impactful organized activities in the Wikimedia movement. However, as
observed consistently across Foundation grantmaking programs and in other
community settings, we hear organizers asking for additional support for
designing programs that successfully recruit and retain new contributors
drawn to address specific knowledge gaps on the projects, and which can
join with other movement activities beyond their local context.
Additionally, the Organizer Lab is aligned with other Movement Strategy
priorities and Foundation investment areas:
-
It is designed to generate replicable approaches to implementing
elements of several Movement Strategy recommendations: Invest in Skills &
Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact, and
Evaluate/Iterate/Adapt.
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It is will generate new insights and adoption opportunities for new
event and campaign action software being developed by our close
collaborators, the WMF Campaigns Product team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team>
-
Its initial topic of focus also supports the Wikimedia Foundation’s
Sustainability
Initiative
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/06/27/wikimedia-foundations-carbon-footprin…>
.
The Organizer Lab will provide a structured way for organizers to refine
their abilities, learning how to design campaigns and other effective calls
to action to address strategic knowledge gaps on Wikimedia projects. Though
we hope to expand to support other topics and themes in the coming years,
the first cohort will be themed around a topic of rising interest across
the movement: Climate Change and Sustainability.
What can I expect from the Lab?
The Organizer Lab will be a 9-week online learning experience from the end
of October until mid-December that prepares participants to design
strategic calls to action around prioritized knowledge gaps and more
generalized Wikimedia organizing and campaign/event design skills.
Participating organizers will leave the course with:
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A firm understanding of how to develop a locally-relevant topic list for
a knowledge gap-focused campaign
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A process for identifying local audiences and organizations who would be
good candidates for activation and recruitment
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Understanding of the menu of tactics, tools, and newcomer engagement
strategies available for effective event design
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A scalable and fundable project proposal for events or projects
connected to a global campaign around Earth Day (April 2023) (building on
#WikiForHumanRights <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights>)
or other regional and international campaigns.
By the end of this program, successful participants will not only be able
to lead campaigns targeted at climate and sustainability but should also be
able to transfer these skills to other topics for impact areas.
Participants who complete the program will also have access to a special
pool of grant funding that can support their first implementation of a
campaign or topics for an impact project. Applications are open from September
22 - October 19, 2022.
Apply now or learn more
To apply to join the cohort, please read the instructions on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Organizer_Lab>, where you will
find: an application form, important dates, and general guidance. Also,
check out our publication on Diff
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/09/22/join-the-organizer-lab-beta-be-part-t…>and
the campaign newsletter
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Subscribe…>
for wider campaign organizing news and updates.
You’re also invited to join the information session on September 30 at
14:00 UTC <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/89032870014> where we’ll share more
details and answer questions. A recording will be made available after the
info session. If you have any further queries ahead of this event, please
don’t hesitate to reach out to the team via campaigns(a)wikimedia.org.
We look forward to seeing you there!
--
Felix Nartey
Senior Program Officer, Campaigns
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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!
Dear all,
You are warmly invited to the Global Advocacy/Public Policy team's monthly
conversation hour. The topic this month is *anti-surveillance.*
We are hosting two calls in different time zones:
- *September 24 @ 8:00 UTC* (check your local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1664006456>)
- *September 29 @ 17:00 UTC* (check your local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1664488851>) *Might move 30 mins earlier
In the first half of the call we will discuss anti-surveillance approaches
within the Free Knowledge Movement. Our guest speakers are Andri Humardhani
(Board of Wikimedia Indonesia) and Pepe Flores (President of Wikimedia
Mexico) and Kate Ruane (WMF). The rest of the call is up to you!
The conversation hour will be on Zoom and will be recorded. The recording
will be uploaded to our Meta-Wiki page. All details including how to add to
the agenda can be found on on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Public_policy/Conversation_hours_and_Events…>
.
Hope to see you there!
Ziski & the Global Advocacy Team
***Help us improve our conversation hours! We're accepting feedback via
the MSG Forum
<https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/feedback-requested-for-pilot-public-p…>.
You can also comment via our Meta talk page, or by emailing Ziski directly
(fputz(a)wikimedia.org <fputz(a)wikimedia.org>). *
Franziska Putz (she/her)
Movement Advocacy Manager, Global Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
Fputz(a)wikimedia.org
*UTC timezone
Hello Everyone,
It’s the time of the year again. We are excited to invite you to join the
second Eduwiki Sub-saharan regional meeting. Together with the Wikimedia
Education team we will offer you the opportunity to learn about some
wonderful projects happening across the continent, learn about new
projects, and exciting opportunities.
We want you to be involved in the broader story storytelling and
contribution to the growth of the Eduwiki community.
Date: Tuesday 27th September 2022
Time: 15:00 UTC/GMT
Join via Zoom here-
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/89225378677?pwd=L2dFbG1rRDA2bnBiS1RlYzA4OTJPUT09
Register/submit a session using this link -
https://forms.gle/4d3Hh18qeS3TktAV6
Listen to the latest podcast and learn more about the Eduwiki-Collaborators
network - https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/onjdWYNf8sb
Please share and invite members from your communities.
See you soon.😍
Hi all-
It’s time for the fourth edition of the Coolest Tool Award!
Tools play an essential role at Wikimedia, and so do the many volunteer
developers who experiment with new ideas, develop & maintain local & global
solutions and enhance the experience for Wikimedia communities.
We’d like to invite you all to nominate your favorite & most used tools and
help us celebrate the people who create them!
Please go to: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award
to recommend tools by October 12, 2022. You can nominate as many tools as
you want by filling out the form multiple times.
Thanks a lot for your ideas and recommendation(s)!
The award is organized & selected by the Coolest Tool Academy 2022
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award/2022>[0]. We plan to
award the coolest tools in a variety of categories (see last year’s
categories <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award/2021>[1] for
an example). The award ceremony will take place virtually again this year
and we will provide more details about the specific logistics and dates
when we get closer to the event :-)
We’ll continue to spread the word over the next days and weeks, but any
help sharing this information with others is much appreciated :-)
[0]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award/2022
[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award/2021
Thanks-
Komla, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2022
--
Seyram Komla Sapaty
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Cloud Services
Hello everyone
I wanted to share the link to the youtube version of the last episode of
WikiAfrica Hour : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmLcuMNIhcQ
The last episode took place last Friday, but a technical glitch broke
the live session display on youtube :(
We uploaded a new clean and complete version earlier today.
The episode was about : How are Wikis easily identified? Why are these
identities important? It's a round table discussion with the teams
behind the respective identities associated to various Wikimedia projects.
The topic of this month was of interest to the entire community. The
guests were : * Zack McCune, Director of Brand, Wikimedia Foundation *
Erina Mukuta, Wikimedia Sound Logo community liaison
The record is one hour long, but chapters allow you to go to specific
moments in the record.
Florence
More about the WikiAfrica Hour :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica_Hour
Hello all,
As you may be aware, in December 2020 the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation
resolved to adopt a policy regarding conduct on all Wikimedia projects and
spaces called the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct>.
The UCoC was created to provide a global baseline of acceptable behavior
for the entire movement without tolerance for harassment. It was created
through a collaborative process through two phases.
After the ratification of the policy, Phase 2 has focused on drafting
Enforcement
Guidelines
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Revised_enforceme…>.
The drafting committee has been revising the enforcement guidelines based
on community feedback from a community-wide vote in March of 2022, and
staff are engaging with the community
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Revised_enforceme…>
until the beginning of October for feedback on the revisions before the
committee reconvenes again to ingest and implement further changes.
In the course of conversations, it was raised that a footnote within the
policy itself
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal_Code_of_Conduct&oldi…>,
specifically within section 3.1, created equity issues within our community
and did not meet its intended purposes of supporting a safe and inclusive
environment
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal_Code_of_Conduct&oldi…>
.
In April 2022, the Community Affairs Committee of the Foundation’s Board of
Trustees asked staff to lead review of the note to the Board-ratified
Universal Code of Conduct policy (UCoC) section 3.1 “Harassment - Insults”.
After reviewing community sentiment on this note at the community
discussion and other venues, the Board of Trustees has resolved that it be
removed from the Universal Code of Conduct.
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Revising_Universal_Code_of…>
The UCoC project team will implement this change directly.
Other potential changes to policy will be reviewed in upcoming rounds of
consultation as it moves into the implementation stage and we are able to
observe the policy in action. This particular provision was felt by a
number of people to be directly harmful to the policy’s goals and
unnecessary for the function of the policy. For that reason, we have
expedited review and action.
We want to thank everyone who contributed to conversations on this text and
worked to improve the UCoC policy.
Best,
Shani Evenstein Sigalov, on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of
Trustees.
Shani Evenstein Sigalov
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/>
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Chair, Community Affairs Committee
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello everyone,
Join us in congratulating 11 interns who successfully completed a project
via GSoC 2022 & Outreachy Round 24 with support and guidance from 20
mentors:
- Wikidata infobox rewrite in Lua for Commons by Lennard Hofmann.
Mentors: Mike Peel
- Edit request wizard by Ankit Gupta. Mentors: Enterprisey, SD0001
- Javascript build process and dependencies modernization for Wiki
Education Dashboard by Shashwat Khanna. Mentors: Sage Ross, Dhruvdutt Jadhav
- Custom picture selector improvements for Commons Android app by Ayan
Sarkar. Mentors: Nicolas Raoul, Aditya Srivastav
- Canasta CLI and Kubernetes template stack by Amal Paul. Mentors:
Jeffrey Wang, Yaron Koren
- WikidataComplete plugin extension for enabling data donations,
recommendations, and gamification by Lalit Suthar. Mentors: Andreas Both,
Dennis Diefenbach, Aleksandr Perevalov, Kunpeng GUO.
- Campaigns retention metrics dashboard by Nivas Ramisetty. Mentors: Jay
Prakash, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, Alex Stinson
- Tracking support for specific namespaces for Programs & Events
Dashboard by Vaidehi Atpadkar. Mentors: Sage Ross
- Python library to work with html-dumps by Nazia Tasnim. Mentors:
Martin Gerlach, Isaac Johnson
- Bots for automatically identifying first and last author names for
Wikicite and Wikidata by Feliciss & Luis Roberto. Mentors: Mike Peel, Andy
Mabbett
You can learn more about these projects here:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Past_projects#2022>
[1],
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Past_projects#Round_24> [2].
Cheers,
Wikimedia organization administrators (Srishti, Aisha, and Gopa)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Past_projects#2022
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Past_projects#Round_24
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>