Dear all,
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met in person in New York City
over March 8-11. The official Board of Trustees meeting was held on March
9. During the Board meeting, the Board approved the December meeting
minutes [1], and approved an update to the Talent and Culture Committee
composition, with Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight becoming the chair [2]. The
Board also approved the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
[3], as mentioned in Shani’s prior email to the list.
Also, the Product & Technology, Governance Committee, Community Affairs
Committee took advantage of the time together to conduct their own meetings.
Operational and committee updates were shared with the Board prior to the
meeting itself as a pre-read and did not require Board action, you can see
the board committee reports here [4]. The Board also received updates on
the Foundation’s annual planning process for the 2023-2024 fiscal year,
ahead of a first draft of the plan that will be shared with communities in
mid-April.
Following the Board meeting, there was a two-day planning meeting where the
Board was brought together with the Wikimedia Endowment Board and eight
representatives from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee for the first
time. The goal of this meeting was to engage in longer-term planning about
the work of the Foundation across multiple years. There were discussions
around the Foundation’s approach to fundraising and how that can evolve in
coming years, a long-term view on product and technology strategy aligned
with the three buckets of work that CPTO Selena Deckelmann has already
shared
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024/…>,
and Foundation support for other priorities around the movement using
education as an example. Importantly, the retreat enabled these groups to
engage with each other as partners.
The Board will meet again virtually in June and then in person at Wikimania
in Singapore, where I hope to see some of you as well. Until Wikimania, you
are all invited to meet the Board in the next Open Conversation with
Trustees, that will be hosted on May 18
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Comm…>
.
[1]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Minutes_Approval,_December…
[2]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Talent_%26_Culture_Committ…
[3]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Approval_of_Universal_Code…
[4] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-03-09
Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
*NOTICE: You may have received this message outside of your normal working
hours/days, as I usually can work more as a volunteer during weekend. You
should not feel obligated to answer it during your days off. Thank you in
advance!*
My Fellow Wikimedians,
Thanks you very much for your kind interest in submitting program
proposals. Program submissions officially closed at 29 March 2023 at 13:59
UTC.
We received 594 program submissions and we will remove the spam submissions
accordingly. Program subcommittee *may* announce soon another round of
submissions on poster sessions (depending on the result of the first batch
of poster proposals) and details of the Hackathon in Wikimania 2023.
Please take opportunity to refine and edit your program submissions on
Pretalx.com. The jurors will start screening your applications in April.
Don't take risk of editing it within the month April as you don't know if
your submission is already scored before your refinements/ edits.
Please check the program submissions wiki page and FAQ on what qualities we
are looking for a program content in Wikimania 2023 and the next steps.
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/Submissionshttps://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/FAQ
If you are interested on knowing the submitted program proposals, go to
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2023_Program_submis…
Kind regards,
*Butch Bustria*
Event lead, ESEAP Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team
Chair, Program Subcommittee
P.S.
*For direct inquiries, please contact us organizers on our group mail :
wikimania(a)wikimedia.org <wikimania(a)wikimedia.org>. We discourage you to
click "reply all" as this is a large mailing list*.
Hi Everyone,
As we are gearing up with the WikiForHumanRights activities in different
communities and regions, we want to ensure that we join forces to raise
awareness and create visibility for the community efforts you are leading
in the campaign.
*If you are organizing local activities for the WikiForHumanRights 2023
campaign and to make sure your community is not missing in our
communication strategy, please add your community details to this event
table here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Join_Community_Events>.*
*Also, ensure that you create your community program dashboard under the
campaign central dashboard here
<https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/wikiforhumanrights_right_to…>.*
*And this one is for the T-shirt lovers -- you have been gifted with an
amazing design for the community events here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Communications>. Feel
free to add this to all of the incredible energy you are building in the
campaign. We need all the loudness in driving change.*
Please help share in your communities!
Kindly,
Euphemia
Hi Everyone,
Today, Tuesday, March 28 is the final date of program proposal submission
for Wikimania 2023.
We are elated to receive more than 300 program proposal submissions for
Wikimania 2023.
This is not just for onsite in Singapore. Please consider submitting a
poster session proposal or a pre-recorded video session format. We love to
see your proposals under these session formats as well!
To submit one, just click the blue button at
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/Submissions
Kind regards,
*Butch Bustria*
Event Lead, ESEAP Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Wiki Advocates Philippines User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
The group aims to advocate for free knowledge through the different
Wikimedia projects, promoting the use of these projects primarily but not
limited to education and promoting equal gender representation.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Jeffrey Keefer
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Advocates_Philippines_User_Group
Hello Pascal,
Thank you for your feedback and taking time to join us. We are glad we
could help. We wish you all the best with the community event.
@alhassanawal77@gmail.com <alhassanawal77(a)gmail.com> thank you for joining
irrespective of your network interruptions. The training was
recorded and we will link it to our page soon. I will add you to the folder
for your swift use as well.
Wishing you the best in the final week. 💪🏾
Regards,
Joy
On Sun, 26 Mar 2023, 22:44 Mohammed Awal Alhassan, <alhassanawal77(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Please, is the recording going to be shared? I did join but the network
> wasn't good enough for me. I missed most of the things.
>
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 5:38 AM Chibueze Pascal <
> chibuezepascal2001(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thank you to the organisers of the virtual office hour, it was very
>> educating, looking forward to training my community more about feminism and
>> Folklore.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Pascal.
>>
>> On Sat, 25 Mar 2023, 17:05 Joy Agyepong, <joyagyepong(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there!
>>>
>>> It's time, kindly join via
>>>
>>> https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87691213632?pwd=clFzQ2FmVXZHbjAzbTFsYnJhNGRndz09
>>>
>>> Meeting ID: 876 9121 3632
>>> Passcode: FNF@123
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Warmly,
>>> Joy
>>>
>>> On Sat, 25 Mar 2023, 00:11 Joy Agyepong, <joyagyepong(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>>
>>>> This is a kind reminder that the office hour will be held today at 4pm
>>>> UTC.
>>>>
>>>> See you soon.
>>>>
>>>> Warmly,
>>>> Joy
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 21 Mar 2023, 04:05 Joy Agyepong, <joyagyepong(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear Community,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We invite you to join our office hour to build some skills as part of
>>>>> the ongoing *Feminism and Folklore 2023 Wikipedia Writing
>>>>> Competition. *
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Come and learn how to participate by using diverse tools on wiki to
>>>>> bridge the gender and folk gap on Wikipedia. You can read more from our
>>>>> blog here
>>>>> <https://medium.com/@openheritagefoundation/the-quest-to-close-the-gender-ga…>
>>>>> [1]and campaign page
>>>>> <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feminism_and_Folklore_2023> [2] to
>>>>> learn more about the competition.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Meeting Details*
>>>>>
>>>>> *Date:* Saturday 25th March, 2023
>>>>>
>>>>> *Time:* 4:00 pm UTC
>>>>>
>>>>> *Venue:* Zoom ( link is available on the event registration page)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Kindly sign-up here on meta
>>>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feminism_and_Folklore_2023_Office_Hour> [3]
>>>>> to confirm your participation.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> NB: Interpretation will be available in French, Spanish and Arabic.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Joy
>>>>>
>>>>> On behalf of the Feminism and Folklore Team
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]
>>>>> https://medium.com/@openheritagefoundation/the-quest-to-close-the-gender-ga…
>>>>>
>>>>> [2] https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feminism_and_Folklore_2023
>>>>>
>>>>> [3]
>>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Feminism_and_Folklore_2023_Office_Hour
>>>>>
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