Hello everyone,
A few weeks ago, we announced the course on the learning platform,
WikiLearn, on how to upload and edit files on Wikimedia Commons using
OpenRefine: *OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics*
<https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2023/…>
.
Today, we are happy to announce two translations of the course: Spanish and
French!
- OpenRefine para Wikimedia Commons: conceptos básicos
<https://app.learn.wiki/learning/course/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_G…>
(Spanish
/ Español)
- OpenRefine pour Wikimedia Commons : les bases
<https://app.learn.wiki/learning/course/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_G…>
(French,
Français)
This course can be easily translated into other languages (more about the
translation process here
<https://studio.learn.wiki/meta_translations/discover_courses/> and here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_on_how_to_translate_course…>).
More translations, such as Italian, Portuguese, and Basque, are being
worked on.
Just like the English course, the Spanish and French versions are available
at any time, for free. You only need a Wikimedia account and the course can
be followed at your own pace, with computer-graded exercises. A certificate
is awarded at the end and an average of 6 to 8 hours is needed to complete
the course.
Please, feel free to share these translations with people who speak these
languages and who you think might be interested in learning more about
OpenRefine or Wikimedia Commons.
Thanks, Carla Toro and Reda Kherbouche, for their amazing work translating
these courses!
Best,
Giovanna
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer, Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi Everyone,
As the movement leverages the opportunity provided by the
WikiForHumanRights 2024 new theme of Knowledge for a Sustainable Future to
explore relevant local topics, we want to empower you with exciting ways of
building this knowledge on different Wikimedia projects.
*Join us here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Adding_Sustainability_Perspectives_to…>
to learn how you can use the campaign to contribute sustainability
perspectives to Wikivoyage on 29 April 2024 at 15:00 UTC.*
We look forward to another moment of learning with you.
Kindly,
Euphemia
We have Interactive graphs from OWID working on Basque Wikipedia, following
a consent popup.
https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haurdunaldi#Nerabezaroa
Still need to figure out a way to make them multilingual.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
Dear all,
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal
Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9,
2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta [1] to learn more
about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global
group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of
the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for
the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter [2]
Please share this message with members of your community so they can
participate as well.
1.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…
2.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
Keegan
--
Keegan Peterzell (he/him)
Lead Committee Support Specialist
Committee Support
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello,
Persian Wikipedia (fa.wikipedia.org) which recently celebrated its 20th
birthday just passed its 1,000,000 article milestone.
Many volunteers have built, contributed, protected and loved this wiki for
the past two decades and here's to many more decades to come.
It has been a bumpy road but providing a free source of information to more
than 130M Persian language speakers has always been a pleasure, especially
when the concepts of fact and truth are under threat like never before.
Persian Wikipedia is being viewed by around 30M people monthly and has had
350M page views every month while only ~1,500 active editors [1] and ~35
admins have been keeping it alive and protecting it from all types of harm.
[1] Users making more than five edits in the past 30 days
https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/fa.wikipedia.org/contributing/active-editors/…
Here is to volunteers of Persian Wikipedia
--
Amir (he/him)
Hi everyone,
I'm Ziski from the Wikimedia Foundation's Global Advocacy team. I’m writing
with an update about how the Foundation and a group of Wikimedia affiliates
have engaged with the Global Digital Compact
<https://www.un.org/techenvoy/global-digital-compact>, which is an effort
of UN Member States to develop a shared set of principles that aim to
support an “open, free, and secure digital future for all.”
The Global Digital Compact is similar to the UN’s Sustainable Development
Goals <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Development_Goals> in that
it will become the blueprint for how UN Member States shape their internet
policies and develop regulation at the country level. Those policies and
regulations will impact Wikimedia projects and will define what the
internet will look like for decades to come.
That's why today, twelve affiliates and the Foundation published an open
letter
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2024/04/23/open-letter-protect-wikiped…>
advocating
for UN Member States to include three critical points in the Compact. We
believe that the inclusion of these commitments will help protect
community-governed, public interest projects like the Wikimedia projects
into the future, both at an international as well as a national level. The
open letter builds on efforts over the past two years from affiliates and
the Foundation to help shape
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/07/17/contributing-to-build-an-open-free-an…>
the Compact. The three principles we emphasize in the letter are:
-
Protect and empower communities to govern online public interest
projects.
-
Promote and protect digital public goods by supporting a robust digital
commons from which everyone, everywhere can benefit.
-
Build and deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)
to support and empower, not replace, people who create content and make
decisions in the public interest.
Read more about the full scope of these commitments and sign the open
letter here
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2024/04/23/open-letter-protect-wikiped…>
. For more information about the Global Digital Compact and its potential
impact on Wikimedia, take a look at our Diff post
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/04/23/wikimedians-have-some-advice-for-the-…>.
You can also ask questions, leave comments, or get involved in our efforts
to shape the Compact on the collaboration page on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Digital_Compact_Wikimedia_Advocacy_C…>
.
Kind regards,
Ziski *on behalf of* *WMF, Wikimedia Georgia, Wikimedia User Group
Nigeria, Wikimedia Ghana User Group, Wikimedia Chile, Wikimedians of the
Caribbean User Group, Wiki Movimento Brasil, Wikimedia Australia, Wikimedia
UK, Wikimedia Europe, Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia Czech Republic,
and Wikimedia Sverige.*
Franziska Putz (she/her)
Senior Movement Advocacy Manager
Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Fputz(a)wikimedia.org
UTC Timezone
