Hello,
We just concluded day one of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021. Some of the
participants, presenters attended the session during odd hours. Thanks for
the support, and participation.
Tomorrow (20 February) is day two and we have interesting sessions as well.
* Special morning session: We have a special morning session: 10:30 to
11:00 am IST / 5:00 am to 5:30 UTC /10:30 am. Wikimedia Foundation
Executive director Katherine Maher will share remarks about the future of
the movement, movement strategy, and support for emerging communities. She
will be joined by Amanda Keton, General Counsel, and a member of the
Wikimedia Foundation’s Transition Team for open Q&A.
* Main session: Our Main Session starts at 2:00 pm IST and we have sessions
in the Technical and Wikimedia Strategy track. Please see all programs of
day 2:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Program#Day_2…,
All the sessions will be recorded.
Hope to see a similarly enthusiastic response. You may see the "Quick
registration" option:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Registration#…
ইতি,
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Hello all,
Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 is going to start the day after tomorrow and
we have some updates for you.
- The event will have the opening speech from *Asaf Bartov*, the title
being "*India: Looking back, looking ahead*". Asaf has been observing
and supporting Wikimedia efforts in India since 2009, first as a volunteer,
and later as a Wikimedia Foundation grants program officer and capacity
builder. In this talk, he will offer some thoughts on the Indian Wikimedia
journey so far, and on the road that still lies ahead, from his
perspective. Please find the entire program schedule here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Program
- We closed the registration of participation yesterday. However, for
the *experienced WIkimedians*, who have missed that deadline due to
whatsoever reason, we have kept the option for *instant registration* at
the last minute. For more details, please check here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Registration#…
- We have sent necessary details and links to join the event to all
selected participants. Please check your spam folders, if you have not
found our mail. For any query, please reach out to us at
wmwm(a)cis-india.org
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
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WIKI WORLD #MondayFixGoa on 15 Feb 2021 (today) at 7.40 pm on Zoom.
A glimpse into the fascinating world of Wiki editors. The
team of Goa Wikipedia editors will share their experience of
building up a repository of information on every village in
Goa, starting with Bardez and moving on to Ponda.
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Date: Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 9:11 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Surveys using third party tools on Wikimedia projects
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As a consequence of the promotion of a Google forms based survey this
week by a WMF representative, a proposal on Wikimedia Commons has been
started to ban the promotion of surveys which rely on third party
sites like Google Forms.[1]
Launched today, but already it appears likely that this proposal will
have a consensus to support. Considering that Commons is one of our
largest Wikimedia projects, there are potential repercussions of
banning the on-wiki promotion of surveys which use Google products or
other closed source third party products like SurveyMonkey.
Feedback is most welcome on the proposal discussion, or on this list
for handling impact, solutions, recommended alternatives that already
exist, or the future role of the WMF to support research and surveys
for the WMF and affiliates by using forking open source software and
self-hosting and self-managing data "locally".
Links
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Hello,
Hope this email finds you well. Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021[1] will take
place from 19 to 21 February 2021 (Friday to Sunday). Here is some quick
important information:
* A tentative schedule of the program is published and you may see it here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Program There
are sessions on different topics such as Wikimedia Strategy, Growth,
Technical etc. You might be interested to have a look at the schedule.
* The program will take place on Zoom and the sessions will be recorded.
* If you have not registered as a participant yet, please register yourself
to get an invitation, The last date to register is 16 February 2021.
* Kindly share this information with your friends who might like to attend
the sessions.
Schedule link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Program
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021
Thanks
Tito Dutta
On behalf of Wikimedia Wikimeet and A2K team
*(long email incoming)*
Dear Indic Wikimedians,
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for
feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March
14. Below you will find the problem statement and various ideas from the
Board to address it. We are offering multiple channels for questions and
feedback. With the help of a team of community facilitators, we are
organizing multiple conversations with multiple groups in multiple
languages.
During this call for feedback we publish weekly reports and we draft the
final report that will be delivered to the Board. With the help of this
report, the Board will approve the next steps to organize the selection of
six community seats in the upcoming months. Three of these seats are due
for renewal and three are new, recently approved.
*Participate in this call for feedback and help us form a more diverse and
better performing Board of Trustees!*
*Problems:* While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown
about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes
have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a
problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the
movement’s diversity. This problem was identified in the Board’s 2019
governance review, along with recommendations for how to address it.
To solve the problem of capacity, we have agreed to increase the Board size
to a maximum of 16 trustees (it was 10). Regarding performance and
diversity, we have approved criteria to evaluate new Board candidates. What
is missing is a process to promote community candidates that represent the
diversity of our movement and have the skills and experience to perform
well on the Board of a complex global organization.
Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats
have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the
leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and
experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the
ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a
fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America
and Western Europe. Meanwhile, our movement has grown larger and more
complex, our technical and strategic needs have increased, and we have new
and more difficult policy challenges around the globe. As well, our
Movement Strategy recommendations urge us to increase our diversity and
promote perspectives from other regions and other social backgrounds.
In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint
three more community members in the new seats. What process can we all
design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are
prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?
*Ideas:* The Board has discussed several ideas to overcome the problems
mentioned above. Some of these ideas could be taken and combined, and some
discarded. Other ideas coming from the call for feedback could be
considered as well. The ideas are:
1. *Ranked voting system*. Complete the move to a single transferable
vote system, already used to appoint affiliate-selected seats, which is
designed to best capture voters’ preferences.
2. *Quotas*. Explore the possibility of introducing quotas to ensure
certain types of diversity in the Board (details about these quotas to be
discussed in this call for feedback).
3. *Call for types of skills and experiences*. When the Board makes a
new call for candidates, they would specify types of skills and experiences
especially sought.
4. *Vetting of candidates*. Potential candidates would be assessed using
the Trustee Evaluation Form and would be confirmed or not as eligible
candidates.
5. *Board-delegated selection committee*. The community would nominate
candidates that this committee would assess and rank using the Trustee
Evaluation Form. This committee would have community elected members and
Board appointed members.
6. *Community-elected selection committee*. The community would directly
elect the committee members. The committee would assess and rank candidates
using the Trustee Evaluation Form.
7. *Election of confirmed candidates.* The community would vote for
community nominated candidates that have been assessed and ranked using the
Trustee Evaluation Form. The Board would appoint the most voted candidates.
8. *Direct appointment of confirmed candidates*. After the selection
committee produces a ranked list of community nominated candidates, the
Board would appoint the top-ranked candidates directly.
*Call for feedback:* The call for feedback[1] runs from February 1 until
the end of March 14. We are looking for a broad representation of opinions.
We are interested in the reasoning and the feelings behind your opinions.
In a conversation like this one, details are important. We want to support
good conversations where everyone can share and learn from others. We want
to hear from those who understand Wikimedia governance well and are already
active in movement conversations. We also want to hear from people who do
not usually contribute to discussions. Especially those who are active in
their own roles, topics, languages or regions, but usually not in, say, a
call for feedback on Meta.
You can participate by joining the Telegram chat group[2], and giving
feedback on any of the talk pages on Meta-Wiki. We are welcoming the
organisation of conversations in any language and in any channel. If you
want us to organize a conversation or a meeting for your wiki project or
your affiliate, please write to me. I will also reaching out to communities
and affiliates to soon have a focused group discussions.
An office hour[3] is also happening tomorrow from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm (IST)
to discuss this topic. Access link will be available 15 minutes before the
scheduled time. In case if you are not able to make it, please don't worry,
there will more discussions and meetings in next few weeks.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call…
[2] https://t.me/wmboardgovernancechat
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call…
Hello everyone,
I hope this email finds you well. As you know CIS-A2K is going to organise
an online large scale event which called “Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021.”
It will be 3-days-long event and dates are 19, 20 and 21 February 2021. On
21st February, there is an International Mother Language Day and we will
celebrate that day during the event. For the celebration of the same, we
are planning for a pre-event as a part of WMWM.
It will be one-day Wikidata event which called Label-a-thon. The date for
the event is 6 February 2021. During this event, we will create Labels,
descriptions and alias about Indian Languages, Indian Dialects, Indian
authors (from any Indian language), translators etc in our local languages.
The queries for the items are already given on the event page (please note
we are still working on it). Interested participants add their name on the
event page which is given below. If you have any questions or issues
regarding the event, please feel free to contact. Please have a look on the
event page and add you name and also spread a word with your community or
friends as well.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/Events/Internation…
Thank you
Nitesh Gill