Hello all, and apologies for crossposting!
I hope you are doing well!
As you may have noticed when we announced the partnership in August [1]:
the Wikimedia Foundation is working with the UN Human Rights to help expand
the availability of knowledge about human rights online.
As one of our first collaborations, we are going to be running a campaign
from November 15 - January 30 to add and improve knowledge about human
rights on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The initial focus of the
campaign will be on improving articles about topics related to the UN
Declaration of Human Rights and youth standing up for human rights. More
information about the campaign is also available here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
We would like to invite you to get involved in the campaign in one of
several ways:
Help us build the list!
-
We need your help identifying more topics related to youth involved in
human rights that don’t have articles on Wikipedia or could use further
improvement. We would like to represent many different languages and
geographies in the campaign. To propose topics for the list, see
instructions at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/List#Adding_a_topic_to_t…
Organize an online or offline event!
We need your help finding community leaders from throughout the Wikimedia
to:
-
Host an online campaign on your language Wikipedia! To learn more about
hosting a local topical campaign see the kit here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Campaign
-
Hold an in person editathon with local human rights organizations or
partners! To learn more, check out the kit here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Editathon
Promote the campaign starting Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day!
Help us amplify your efforts around the campaign and publicize it to wide
audiences. We’ll be sharing a communications toolkit (including graphics)
soon with suggestions on reaching out to folks about the campaign.
-
Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public
can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading
the word.
-
Promote the campaign on social media: We’ll be using
#WikiForHumanRights to promote the campaign on social media, when we
increase the communication to the public on 10 December
If you want to help in other ways, let us know on the discuss space
#human-rights tag
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…>
or by emailing Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org and Luisina Ferrante <
educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar>
If you are interested, let us know by indicating your interest to organize
in the Organize sections linked above!
Note: We are still updating the communications assets for the campaign! To
watch for those materials, add
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share to your meta
watchlist.
Have questions?
If you have questions, we are going to be hosting an office hour next
Tuesday
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/community-office-hour-wikiforhumanright…>,
or you can ask questions on the discuss space #human-rights tag
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…>
.
Looking forward to your engagement with the campaign!
Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation
Luisina Ferrante, Wikimedia Argentina
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/16/wikimedia-and-un-human-righ…
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Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
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https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
For all groups interested in joining Wiki Loves Africa this year
1. A telegram channel has been created : join here :
https://t.me/joinchat/DS2I3BepmnMxK0-7HDVCLA
2. To indicate your interest in participating : add your country and
contact name there :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2020#Participating_countr…
3. Funding. For those of you who needs funding, it is possible to ask
funds to Wikimedia Foundation in asking for a rapid grant.
Warning though: this will only be possible for a request done between
1st of December till 15th of December.
So, this is quite urgent :)
To make a grant request :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid
To inspire yourself from last years applications from other countries :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2020#Funding_for_wikimedi…
If you are new to this, feel free to contact me and ask questions
(better use fdevouard/(a)/anthere.org or Telegram), but please start a
draft before hand. That's easier to discuss on and review.
4. There are many many many other questions. Such as :
* Should I create my own landing page where participants will upload
their pictures : the answer is no, please do not.
* Other places I need to connect myself to understand what is going on :
Right now... only here and Telegram channel. More info coming soon.
* Can I create my own team page for WLA. Yes you can but please wait a
bit for more info coming on the matter
Thanks
Anthere
Dear African Wikimedians,
We are excited to invite you to join
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesafrica> the Wiki
Loves Africa mailing list.
This mailing list is for coordination between the people, groups, and
chapters organizing the Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) international photography
contest.
Please click here
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesafrica> to subscribe
to the mailing list using your email address.
Thank you
Isaac Olatunde
On behalf of Wiki Loves Africa Organizing Team.
Dear African Wikimedians,
Warm greetings from Uganda, this message comes as a follow up from the
meet-up for Wikimedians interested in Sports [1].
Incase you missed Wiki Indaba or were not able to participate in the above
meet up, please find the general notes/outlines on etherpad (you are kindly
requested to *read this brief background*
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Meet_up_for_Wikimedians_interested_in_Spor…>
and feedback)
Another feedback channel [2] has been created for your input (*the form
<https://forms.gle/ghUHVfiN1x5GtCgo6> takes less than two minutes to fill*),
it's being shared with Wikimedians on other channels *(apologies for cross
posting)*, and will be shared with more communities in the open/free
knowledge Movement.
Your responses are highly appreciated, and results will be shared back with
you:
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2019/Meetups
[2] https://forms.gle/ghUHVfiN1x5GtCgo6
Regards,
*Please note*
*This form is meant to understand and plan community activities (events,
projects, e.t.c) by and with Wikimedians who have a passion in association
football. Results will be used to avoid duplication, create collaboration
or create new Wikimedia Community initiatives among affiliates and project
communities within the open and free knowledge movement*
*Wikimedian volunteer in Uganda
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Uganda> *
*Ssebaggala Douglas | **Skype: douglo.m |** Twitter**:* @douglaseru
<https://twitter.com/douglaseru> | *Mob - Uganda: +256 772 422524*
https://savedotorg.org
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Sujet : Re: .org TLD for sale?
Date : Sun, 24 Nov 2019 13:44:08 -0500
De : Samuel Klein <meta.sj-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w(a)public.gmane.org>
Répondre à : Wikimedia Mailing List
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Groupes de discussion : gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation
Références :
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<CABR1GJvL1V-CPXLzBbBHotLnLCD83Ckf-x9x2beuH9y-U1K1mA(a)mail.gmail.com>
I wrote up a short summary. who other than ICANN has to approve this
sale?
http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/11/23/a-tale-of-icann-and-regulatory-captu…
On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 6:13 PM Erik Moeller <eloquence(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for sharing this, Andy. This appears to be a major governance
> failure on the part of ICANN (sadly, not for the first time). I'm glad
> Wikimedia is among the first orgs on this list.
>
> I don't think it's too late to stop this, especially as all evidence
> points to corrupt inside wheeling-and-dealing. I would normally not
> link to El Reg, but the connections Kieren has dug up deserve further
> investigation by more reputable outlets.
>
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/11/20/org_registry_sale_shambles/
>
> Utterly unacceptable attempt to enclose the commons. Please do help
> continue direct attention to this.
>
> https://savedotorg.org/
>
> Warmly,
>
> Erik
>
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Hi Ingo,
I continue to think about some of your concerns this afternoon,
particularly the concerns that most images uploaded as part of WLA are not
in used on Wikipedia articles.
I thought of how to solve this problem and three (3) ideas came to my
mind.
1. Communities or individuals should organize events that will primarily
focus on use of images uploaded as part of WLA on Wikipedia articles
2. Organize a sperate contest that will focus on use of images uploaded as
part of WLA on Wikipedia articles
3. Have the next theme focus on using images uploaded in past editions on
Wikipedia articles.
I don't know what the contest organizers think of these ideas but I'd
probably open a sperate discussion with them on what they think might work
best.
Regards
Isaac
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 4:09 PM ingokoll <ikollgmx(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Isaac, thanks for your interesting take on the image competitions. I
> shared here a year or 2 years ago my (random) evaluation of usage of image
> coming out from Wiki Loves Africa etc. I saw then that the vast majority of
> these images was not used anywhere on wikipedia. My impression was they
> were not used because they were -even if sometimes beautiful- rather
> useless for an encyclopedia, and that the vast majority probably will never
> be used. So from this evaluation, I thought it does not look productive
> to spend time, effort and money on collecting encyclopedically useless
> pictures.
>
> Maybe things have changed? What is the percentage nowadays of competition
> images used anywhere?
>
> I thought that the main focus could be "closing the white spots on the
> digital map of knowledge of Africa". Whatever helps is great ! Images of
> which nobody can tell where, what, who is pictured - do they help?
>
> Hopefully ISA can help to save a bit of that material. I gladly do my
> share (if I get the language setting to Swahili working)
>
> Cheers, Ingo
>
>
>
> Am 13.11.2019 um 09:15 schrieb Isaac Olatunde:
>
> Hello Ingo,
>
> It would be counterproductive to not accept images that are not properly
> described or categorized. Most participants of WLX (WLA, WLE, WLM) are new
> people who probably does not understand the importance of proper
> description and categorizations. Thus, if the organizers of WLA has come up
> with ISA to solve some of these problems, I honestly think we can support
> them as a community.
>
> Regards
>
> Isaac
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 6:43 AM Ingo Koll <ikoll(a)gmx.de wrote:
>
>> Hi, I logged in twice to ISA yesterday and today and tried to change the
>> language preference. Was told every time "Something Went Wrong! Isa might
>> be undergoing maintenance".
>>
>> Is that functional?
>>
>> Besides: I commend the attempt to clean up but in future we should not
>> have to clean up. I had proposed earlier that there is no point inviting
>> and accepting images which are not properly described and categorized.
>>
>> Cheers Ingo - Kipala
>>
>>
>> Am 13.11.2019 um 04:49 schrieb
>> african-wikimedians-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org:
>>
>> t Play on ISA
>> (Adjoa Linda Fletcher)
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
>>
>
The 2020 Community Wishlist Survey is now accepting votes! This survey is
the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should
work on over the next year. From now until 2 December, you can vote for
which proposals you want us to address. We'll accept the top 5 wishes into
our plans for next year.How to vote: Use the "Support" button at the top of
each proposal. You can vote for as many proposals as you like. You're also
allowed to canvas and encourage other editors to vote for a particular
proposal.If you have questions about the survey, you can check out the
survey page. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your votes!Links:
• Survey Page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020
• Voting Rules:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020#voting
• Proposals (click on a proposal to cast your vote):
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2020/Tracking
Dear African-Wikimedians Community members,
I am writing as an admin of the mailing list to inform you about Wikimedia Space (here is a quick intro to this new platform).
The team at Wikimedia Spaces propose to mirror African-Wikimedians in Space. We explain in detail what this means at Integrating mailing lists to Wikimedia Space.
This means that a "African-Wikimedians" subcategory has been created in the Space forum, and any emails sent to the mailing list would appear there as well. Think of this as a web archive: users are able to read but no reply or start new topics. For that, they would need to use the mailing list exactly as it is done today. For the mailing list subscribers everything would stay the same.
Please check
https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/c/mailing-lists/african-wikimedians-list
The public mailing lists have been mirrored to Space to improve the exchange of information across the movement. The topics mirrored in Space appear in the Latest list and in the search results. Users can tag topics and "like" comments. If a subscriber of the mailing list is registered in Space with the same email address, they will earn the "likes" to their messages and this will help them build their trust in Space, without doing anything extra.
Please let us know what you think. If you have questions, let's talk. If you have more general questions or feedback about Wikimedia Space, please ask, there will be someone to answer or offer guidance
Best regards,
Kayode Yussuf
Hello all!
I want to give a brief update on the WikiForHumanRights Campaign which
began its soft launch last Friday! We are already seeing multiple online
events starting and several in person editathons. Special thank you to the
communities in Argentina and Armenia who are already editing! Looking
forward to more activities being shared at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize
Also, Wikimedia Argentina created a kit for working with partners to run in
person events for Human Rights! Check it out:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Sensitive
Additionally, we updated the communications toolkit for the campaign at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share .
We are going to begin increasing Social Media starting around December
10th! As you see the campaign being talked about from @Wikimedia and on the
hashtag #WikiForHumanRights -- we need your help to share it.
If you have any questions or are considering organizing an event, please
let us know.
Cheers,
Alex Stinson
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From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 2:36 PM
Subject: WikiForHumanRights: Help us Organize the Campaign, November
15-January 30
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia &
GLAM collaboration [Public] <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Mailing list for
African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia &
Libraries <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimania 2019 <
wikimania19(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: Luisina Ferrante <educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar>
Hello all, and apologies for crossposting!
I hope you are doing well!
As you may have noticed when we announced the partnership in August [1]:
the Wikimedia Foundation is working with the UN Human Rights to help expand
the availability of knowledge about human rights online.
As one of our first collaborations, we are going to be running a campaign
from November 15 - January 30 to add and improve knowledge about human
rights on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The initial focus of the
campaign will be on improving articles about topics related to the UN
Declaration of Human Rights and youth standing up for human rights. More
information about the campaign is also available here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
We would like to invite you to get involved in the campaign in one of
several ways:
Help us build the list!
-
We need your help identifying more topics related to youth involved in
human rights that don’t have articles on Wikipedia or could use further
improvement. We would like to represent many different languages and
geographies in the campaign. To propose topics for the list, see
instructions at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/List#Adding_a_topic_to_t…
Organize an online or offline event!
We need your help finding community leaders from throughout the Wikimedia
to:
-
Host an online campaign on your language Wikipedia! To learn more about
hosting a local topical campaign see the kit here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Campaign
-
Hold an in person editathon with local human rights organizations or
partners! To learn more, check out the kit here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Editathon
Promote the campaign starting Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day!
Help us amplify your efforts around the campaign and publicize it to wide
audiences. We’ll be sharing a communications toolkit (including graphics)
soon with suggestions on reaching out to folks about the campaign.
-
Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public
can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading
the word.
-
Promote the campaign on social media: We’ll be using
#WikiForHumanRights to promote the campaign on social media, when we
increase the communication to the public on 10 December
If you want to help in other ways, let us know on the discuss space
#human-rights tag
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…>
or by emailing Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org and Luisina Ferrante <
educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar>
If you are interested, let us know by indicating your interest to organize
in the Organize sections linked above!
Note: We are still updating the communications assets for the campaign! To
watch for those materials, add
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share to your meta
watchlist.
Have questions?
If you have questions, we are going to be hosting an office hour next
Tuesday
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/community-office-hour-wikiforhumanright…>,
or you can ask questions on the discuss space #human-rights tag
<https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…>
.
Looking forward to your engagement with the campaign!
Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation
Luisina Ferrante, Wikimedia Argentina
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/16/wikimedia-and-un-human-righ…
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Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM
--
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Senior Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM