Dear all,
Yesterday's WMF press release
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/05/03/wikimedia-foundation-launch…>
announced an African journalism award:
*Africawide – The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates
Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, is today launching the inaugural
Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards. Coinciding with the 30th anniversary
of World Press Freedom Day, this year’s awards celebrate the contributions
of journalists in Africa who prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion in
their reporting.*
This sounds great, until we come to the following line:
*Articles must have been published online and in English between January 1,
2022 and June 23, 2023.*
How is this compatible with the idea that we "prioritize diversity, equity
and inclusion"? The piece starts with the word "Africawide" ... surely we
are aware that about half of Africa is French-speaking?
I can understand that you might want to incentivise journalism in European
rather than African languages – simply because such journalism would be
more likely to find a volunteer with the time to add the information to
Wikipedia, and because of a lack of staff with the language skills required
to cover dozens of African languages.
But French, Portuguese and Spanish should be within the WMF's capabilities,
all the more so as machine translation these days is good enough to tell
even a non-French speaker whether a French article covers an interesting
subject.
I hope that next year, journalists writing in other languages will not be
completely excluded from consideration for this award. Relying on English
will only strengthen some of the existing biases in coverage.
Andreas
Dear all,
WikiAfrica Hour episode 25 is the launch of Wikimedia Foundation's *Open
the Knowledge Journalism Awards*! These awards will celebrate the
contributions of journalists who prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion
in their reporting, thereby adding to the ecosystem of fact-based stories
that the public can draw on to add and verify knowledge on Wikipedia and
Wikimedia projects.
This year’s awards will be focused on the African continent.
Guests include:
- Romeo Ramora - Member, *Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards* Working
Group
- Olaniyan Olushola - Member, *Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards*
Working Group
- Winnie Kabintie - Member, *Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards*
Working Group
- Gwadamirai Majange - Member, *Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards*
Working Group
Date:3rd May 2023.
Time:4pm UTC.
Details: http://w.wiki/5dft
Wikimedia,
Hello. I would like to share a hyperlink to a History Today article: What Do Historians Lose with the Decline of Local News? https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/what-do-historians-lose-decl…
“It’s bad news for local newspapers, with reports that they have reached their lowest numbers since the 18th century. How will historians study the provincial past when they can’t read all about it?”
My reason for sharing that hyperlink and for writing on these topics is that I hope that some ideas, e.g., (1) an ad-revenue-driven Wikinews model which compensates journalists, and (2) a Wikinews homepage which includes personalized local news for users, might be considered. Thank you.
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
Hi all,
Voting is now open in the seventeenth annual Picture of the Year
contest: <https://w.wiki/6bcP> - please vote! The first round of voting
will be open for 2 weeks. There are over 1,100 pictures being considered
this year and several new categories.
Any user with more than 75 edits before Jan. 1, 2023 is eligible to
vote; if you're not sure the voting tool will automatically check for you.
If you have any questions, please see the help page: <https://w.wiki/6bcQ>.
Thanks,
-- POTY Committee
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Hi everyone,
In response to the volume of questions we have been receiving, we wanted to
clarify that scholarship decisions are being communicated on a rolling
basis to successful applicants from now until mid May. By the end of May,
all applicants will receive a communication about the status of their
scholarship. We have clarified this on the Scholarship page on Wikimania
Wiki:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Scholarships#Important_dates.
Thank you for your patience while we continue the review!
Kind regards,
*Butch Bustria *
On behalf of the ESEAR Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team
Some months have gone since I started this topic in this list, and still, we can't know how much engagement we have at Wikipedia, because data is not available. Twitter is now owned by Elon Musk, things are changing, there are more accounts in Mastodon daily, but still Twitter matters. I have been looking at the Twitter activity in the last days for @Wikipedia and I'm still very worried about the (lack of) strategy followed here. A full team, with staff members, which only produces one tweet per day, a lonely message in the vastness of the ocean, and gets really poor engagement numbers.
A couple of weeks ago Pelé, one of the greatest football players of all time, died. (English) Wikipedia Twitter account needed 7 days to tweet about it, even if the article was changed in a few minutes after the death (https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/1611363972174778368). The tweet had 13.729 impressions (now we can know the number of impressions), 14 RTs and 129 likes. Wikipedia account has nearly 644.000 followers. If we divide these two numbers, we get a rate of 2,13% of impressions per follower.
The same day Pelé died, Basque Wikipedia made a tweet. Not a week after, just when it was news (https://twitter.com/euwikipedia/status/1608541274491211776). The tweet had 964 impressions, 3 RTs and 2 likes. Basque Wikipedia account has 7,956 followers. This is a rate of 12,11% of impressions per follower. x5.68 times larger, relatively than (English) Wikipedia Twitter account.
(English) Wikipedia Twitter account has nearly 81 times more followers than the Basque one. English Wikipedia is more visible, because it has a (now golden) verified account symbol, so tweets are more often promoted. English has 1.500 million speakers around the world. Basque has fewer than one million. English Wikipedia should have around 1.000 more followers than Basque Wikipedia. English Wikipedia article about Pelé had 2,5 million pageviews in the two days after his death. Basque had 250 pageviews. This is 10.000 times more pageviews.
@Wikipedia has 644.000 followers, and @euwikipedia has nearly 8.000. Audience of English Wikipedia is 10.000 times larger for the same event. Why Wikipedia is not 10.000 times larger? Why doesn't Wikipedia account have 80 million followers? YouTube's Twitter account has 78 million followers. "By 2030, Wikimedia is to become the central infrastructure for Free Knowledge on the Internet.". How could we if Youtube's account has 100x more followers than we have? How can think that we are in a good shape if our tweets are only seen by less than 2% of our followers?
I hope that 2023 comes with a change. A change to open these accounts, have a fresh way of thinking on social media ,and building engagement, both with momentum, not losing opportunities, and promoting good content.
Sincerely
Galder
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From: Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder158(a)hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 3:21 PM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter
Dear all,
Some weeks ago, we had a discussion here about the different approaches we have for the @wikipedia account at Twitter. We don't know yet how many interactions does the account has, but as I said in the discussion, we try to find ways to measure our work at @euwikipedia. Today I want to share with you that this account was ranked last week as the most influential social-movements account in Basque language (https://umap.eus/ranking/gizartea) and the 10th most influential account in all categories (https://umap.eus/ranking/orokorra). This is a good metric we use to know if we are doing fine or not.
Sincerely,
Galder
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From: Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, August 5, 2022 8:50 PM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter
On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 18:48, Lauren Dickinson <ldickinson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Also, Andy, we will follow up this week regarding your questions
> about the @WiktionaryUsers and @Wiktionary accounts.
Three working weeks have passed since the above was written; I've seen
no such follow-up. Have I missed something?
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
https://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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Hi all,
You are invited to the quarterly Conversation hour led by Maggie Dennis,
Vice President of Community Resilience and Sustainability, on May 2, 2023
at 18:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1683050403>.
Maggie and others from the team will discuss Trust and Safety, the
Universal Code of Conduct, Committee Support, and Human Rights.
If you are a Wikimedian in good standing (not Foundation or community
banned), write to let us know you will be attending the conversation and
share your questions. More information about attending this conversation
hour
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resilience_and_Sustainability/Con…>
and notes from previous conversation hours can be found on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CR%26S_meetings>.
Best,
--
Jackie Koerner (she/her) Communication Specialist, Community Resilience and
Sustainability Location: Midwestern US (UTC-5/Daylight savings UTC-6)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
*English version below*
Hola, un saludo desde Chile.
El pasado 15 de abril, Wikimedia Chile reunió su Asamblea Ordinaria de
Socios para revisar las actividades y estados financieros de nuestro
organización. En este encuentro además fue electo un nuevo directorio
-órgano directivo de Wikimedia Chile-, resultando electas las siguientes
personas:
* Dennis Tobar - presidente
* Martín Pérez Comisso - vicepresidente
* Carlos Figueroa - secretario
* Luis Cristóbal Carrasco - tesorero
* Ximena Cuevas - directora
* José Ignacio Gallardo - director
El periodo de este nuevo directorio será de 12 meses, debido a que
estamos actualmente en una transición de estatutos que modernizan varios
aspectos de nuestra organización y la forma reunirnos.
Queremos expresar nuestra gratitud a los directores que dejan el
directorio de Wikimedia Chile, Osmar Valdebenito, Claudio Loader y
Roberto Muñoz.
Un abrazo desde el sur de mundo para todos ustedes.
~~~~~~
Hello, greetings from Chile.
Last April 15, Wikimedia Chile met its General Assembly to review the
activities and financial statements of our organization. In this meeting
was also elected a new board of directors -the governing body of
Wikimedia Chile-, resulting elected the following people:
* Dennis Tobar - president
* Martín Pérez Comisso - vice-president
* Carlos Figueroa - secretary
* Luis Cristóbal Carrasco - treasurer
* Ximena Cuevas - director
* José Ignacio Gallardo - director
The term of this new board will be for 12 months, as we are currently in
a transition of bylaws that modernize several aspects of our
organization and the way we meet.
We would like to express our gratitude to the directors who are leaving
the Wikimedia Chile board, Osmar Valdebenito, Claudio Loader and Roberto
Muñoz.
A hug from the south of the world to all of you.
--
Dennis Tobar Calderón