Dear friends,
I would like to inform you that the Wikimedia CEE Meeting's Program
Committee has decided to extend the submission period for the conference
program. The new deadline for submissions is June 15. Please submit your
submissions by June 15th.
Please note that there will be no other extension of the deadline.
We hope to see you soon in Istanbul!
Best,
Caner
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Yılmaz Caner Özyayıkçı
Member & Designer
Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group
Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey
Wikimedia username: Kurmanbek
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[image: address] Türkiye (Turkey)
Hello Wikimedians,
You are invited to the official launch of the fourth(4th) edition of the Africa
Wiki Challenge
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2024>. The
annual competition seeks to project information about Africa on Wikipedia
and its sister projects.
Over the past three years, the campaign has been organized under different
themes including, "*Landmarks in Africa, Projecting Africa Culture, and
African Free Continental Trade."*
This year's theme "*Educate Africa: Nurturing Minds for the 21st Century" *is
in line with the African Union(AU) Day's theme. The AU under the African
Union’s Agenda 2063 <https://au.int/en/agenda2063/overview> seeks to create
revitalized, high-quality, and unified educational systems that meet the
needs of Africa, generate acceptable attitudes, values, knowledge, and
skills, and support the continent's participation in the international
economy of knowledge.
The objective of this year’s Africa Wiki Challenge
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2024> is to
highlight and recognize the diverse educational perspectives in Africa,
encouraging the sharing of information and expertise through engaging
content contributions on Wikipedia.
Are you ready to contribute your quota in bridging the content gap on
Wikipedia?
Join the launch as an individual, group, organizer, participant, or
spectator as we officially launch the Africa Wiki Challenge 2024
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2024>
globally!
Speakers:
Ama Serwah Nerquaye-Tetteh- Secretary General , UNESCO Ghana
*ER Mohammed Yussif Umaru* -*Lecturer, University of Mines and Technology
Ghana*
Theme:
*Educate Africa: Nurturing Minds for the 21st Century*
*Date: Friday 24th May, 2024*
*Time:* *3:00 pm UTC*
To confirm your attendance, kindly register by clicking the link below
https://rb.gy/ear90l
*NB: There will be interpretation for our Francophone family*
Best regards,
Jael Serwaa Boateng
Executive Director
Open Foundation West Africa
Dear Wikimedians,
We are delighted to announce the maiden edition of WikiConference Nigeria,
the national conference of all Nigerian Wikimedians.
WikiConference Nigeria, organized by a group of Wikimedia affiliates in
Nigeria, will be held in Nigeria's capital Abuja from 12th to 15th
September, 2024.
The primary aim of the conference is to promote the growth and
sustainability of Wikimedia projects in Nigeria, strengthen the
relationship between various Wikimedia communities across the country,
foster collaboration and engender cross-affiliate projects. The conference
will also serve as a platform for capacity building, knowledge sharing and
give room for aligning strategic discussions of Wikimedians in Nigeria to
the Movement Strategy 2030.
We invite all Wikimedians and individuals interested in open knowledge to
join us for this maiden edition of the conference.
*Programs*
Do you want to present your work or project or run a workshop? The
organizing team will seek for proposals for presentations, capacity
building workshops as well as panel
discussions. The conference will offer a wide range of session styles and
flexible time slots. We will announce the details for Program submissions
soon.
*Travel scholarship*
To support participation, scholarships for domestic travel are available.
We will share the details for the scholarship application process soon.
*Volunteers for Conference Committees*
The conference organizing committee is looking for interested volunteers to
join the various committees of the conference including Scholarship,
Logistics, Communications, Program, and Partnership. The application is
open at https://bit.ly/wikinigeria-call-for-volunteers. The deadline for
committee volunteers applications is 28th May, 2024.
We look forward to welcoming you in Abuja!.
Kind regards,
Ammar Abdulhamid,
On behalf of the Conference Organizing Team
Dear all,
please be informed that during the annual assembly of Wikimedia Italia,
held on May 18th, new board members were elected.
The new board composition is:
- Alessio Melandri, president
- Ferdinando Traversa, vice-president
- Elena Marangoni, secretary
- Marta Cecilia Pigazzini, treasurer
- Stefano Dal Bo, councillor
The next board election will take place in Spring 2025.
Best Regards
Stefano Dal Bo
WMI Board Councillor
What is May 17th?
The International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia was
created in 2004 to draw the attention to the violence and discrimination
experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex people and all
other people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities or
expressions, and sex characteristics. The date of May 17th was specifically
chosen to commemorate the World Health Organization’s decision in 1990 to
declassify homosexuality as a mental disorder. https://may17.org
One year ago in 2020 we started QueeringW in hope #1 Queering Wikipedia
conference would be happening with a year of delay...now we hope it is in
2022!
Meanwhile we are "Together, we Resist, Support, and Heal"
<https://twitter.com/may17org>
Happy #May17 #IDAHOT #IDAHOTBITQ
for those who celebrate and would support
https://www.instagram.com/QueeringW
@may17org <https://twitter.com/may17org> #IDAHOT
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/IDAHOT?src=hashtag_click> #IDAHOT2021
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/IDAHOT2021?src=hashtag_click>
https://twitter.com/QueeringW
Hi all,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed tomorrow, Wednesday, May
15, at 9:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1715790600>. The theme for this showcase is
*Reader to Editor Pipeline*.
You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-8CbpcwGV8. As usual, you can join the
conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
This month's presentations:
Journey TransitionsBy *Mike Raish and Daisy Chen*What kinds of events do
readers and editors identify as separating the stages of their relationship
with Wikipedia, and which of these kinds of events might the Wikimedia
Foundation possibly support through design interventions? In the Journey
Transitions qualitative research project, the WMF Design Research team
interviewed readers and editors in Arabic, Spanish, and English in order to
answer these questions and provide guidance to WMF Product teams making
strategic decisions. A series of semi-structured interviews revealed that
readers and editors describe their relationships with Wikipedia in
different ways, with readers describing a static and transactional
relationship, and that even many experienced editors express confusion
about core functions of the Wikimedia ecosystem, such as the role of Talk
pages. This presentation will describe the Journey Transitions research, as
well as present its implications for the sponsoring Product teams in order
to shed light on the way that qualitative research is used to inform
strategic decisions in the Wikimedia Foundation.
Increasing participation in peer production communities with the Growth
featuresBy *Morten Warncke-Wang and Kirsten Stoller*For peer production
communities to be sustainable, they must attract and retain new
contributors. Studies have identified social and technical barriers to
entry and discovered some potential solutions, but these solutions have
typically focused on a single highly successful community, the English
Wikipedia, been tested in isolation, and rarely evaluated through
controlled experiments. In this talk, we show how the Wikimedia
Foundation’s Growth team collaborates with Wikipedia communities to develop
and experiment with new features to improve the newcomer experience in
Wikipedia. We report findings from a large-scale controlled experiment
using the Newcomer Homepage, a central place where newcomers can learn how
peer production works and find opportunities to contribute, and show how
the effectiveness depends on the newcomer’s context. Lastly, we show how
the Growth team has continued developing features that further improve the
newcomer experience while adapting to community needs.
Best,Kinneret
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Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>