Hello everyone,
As we are starting a new year, we hope that one of your goals for this year
is to help ensure representation and participation of your community in
very important discussions and processes such as elections, within the
Wikimedia Movement.
If yes, we are looking for you to serve as an Election Volunteer.
Election Volunteers should have a good understanding of their communities
and have interest in activism work. The facilitation team sees Election
Volunteers as doing the following:
1.
Promoting the upcoming board election in their communities’ channels
2.
Organizing discussions about the board election in their communities
3.
Translating Board Election messages for their communities
*If you want to be an Election Volunteer please sign up here:
**https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Meetings/New_Year_Conversation_with_Election_Volunteers
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Meeting…>**
to attend the Sub-Saharan African EV Conversation this Saturday January 22,
2022. *If you are unable to attend the conversations, please reach out to
me directly for more details.
Best,
Zita
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Zita Ursula Zage (she/her)
Facilitator, Movement Strategy & Governance
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Wikimedians,
The Wikimedia Board of Trustees is preparing a call for feedback about the
upcoming Board Elections, from January 7 - February 10, 2022.
While details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed
at least two questions that will be asked during this call for feedback:
- What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging
communities among the Board?
- What involvement should candidates have during the election?
While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and
Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates
to consider and prepare ideas on the above confirmed questions before the
call opens.You can find more information about this upcoming call for
feedback here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call…>
.[1]
Reach out if you have any questions or concerns. The Movement Strategy and
Governance team will be minimally staffed until January 3. Please excuse
any delayed response during this time. We also recognize some community
members and affiliates are offline during the December holidays. We
apologize if our message has reached you while you are on holiday.
Best,
Zita
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call…
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Zita Ursula Zage (she/her)
Facilitator, Movement Strategy & Governance
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Greetings from Afrocine Project,
It is already the end of the Months of African Cinema global contest and a
lot has been achieved! We have been able to get over 4,000 articles created
in 16 languages!
We are about to constitute the International Jury team, which will consist
of members from all the languages that participated in the global
contest/edit-a-thon. If you would like to join us in the Jury team, please
let us know by 31 December 2021 by filling this form.[1]
Thanks for all your contributions this year and congratulations to you!
Together we are bridging the content gap and improving on the systemic
bias, in-respect of the African continent.
Regards,
Ebenezer Mlay
Community Liaison – Afrocine project
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScrt_xGsVNV1rJthKrEQvRlPOTAlgTU0Iz…
Dear All,
I am pleased to invite you to the Ghana Histo-Cita-thon 2.0 on Friday 17th
December 2021.
The Ghana Histo Cita-thon 2.0 Seeks to introduce participants on how to
source for reference and cite from open Books and Journals and use it in
creating and improving Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items.
The workshop will be followed by a month-long online contest.
Kindly make your reservation by signing up here👇
https://forms.gle/UXnsUQJRV46GupEz8
For more info: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ghana_Histo_Cita-thon_2.0
Best regards,
Stephen Dakyi
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Lead,
Ghana Histo Cita-thon Project
Apologies for cross posting -- join us to Decmber 14th to learn more!
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From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 2:39 PM
Subject: December 14 Conversation hour about organizing for
#WikiForHumanRights 2022
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
*TL:DR --* Join us for a Conversation hour December 14 at 1500 UTC to learn
how to organize for WikiForHumanRights 2022.
Hello Everyone!
#WikiForHumanRights: Right to a Healthy Environment 2022 [1]is back!
From April
15 through to June 14 2022 we encourage local affiliates, individuals or
organizations interested in the campaign to organize activities around the
intersecting themes of human rights and the environment.
If you are interested in organizing your community for the campaign, please
join us for a conversation hour on December 14 at 1500 UTC [4] (more
details below) to learn how you can participate.
Why the Right to a Healthy Environment?
This October, the Right to a Healthy Environment was formally recognized
[1] by the United Nations Human Rights Council. According to Michelle
Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights:
"A safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is the foundation of
human life. But today, because of human action – and inhuman inaction – the
triple planetary crises of climate change, pollution, and nature loss is
directly and severely impacting a broad range of rights, including the
rights to adequate food, water, education, housing, health, development,
and even life itself."[2]
The environmental crisis is getting more complex. Humanity needs to make
thousands of big and small decisions to address it. As the UN Environmental
Program described it, we need to make “Peace with Nature”[3] and protect
the human rights of the most vulnerable.
Wikipedia and other platforms need to fill the knowledge gaps at the
intersection of sustainability and human rights in every context and
language. The world needs access to reliable information about the link
between environmental sustainability and human rights.
What can you do? Help us organize!
We need your help! The campaign will officially launch on April 15 (one
week before Earth Day), but we need your help now to begin preparing this
global call to action.
Last year we had 24 community-led editathons, workshops, webinars, and
writing contests, with contributions to over 2000 articles in more than 40
languages. To match (and hopefully exceed) these impacts, we need your help
to organize your local communities!
Activities related to human rights and sustainability are good topics for
local communities to both a) identify new partners, b) recruit enthusiastic
participants and c) fill key topics for impact in their own language or
context.
Join the Conversation to learn more!
Join us for 1.5 hours of conversation Tuesday the 14th December 2021 15:00
UTC on Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509> [4], to learn more
about:
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How you can participate in this campaign and organize local events in
your community or region.
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Which topics this campaign will target, and how you can connect with
subject matter experts, partners, and other resources to support successful
content creation activities.
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How the Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns team can support you in designing
your event and doing targeted outreach to potential contributors drawn to
these topics.
Organizers can find more information at this (still under development): page
on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights>[5]
If you want to join us as an organizer, please join our Telegram Group
<https://t.me/joinchat/k_W9SVMG5K44YjJh>[6]
If you have any questions send us an email at campaigns(a)wikimedia.org
Looking forward to hearing you in the conversation,
Ruby Damenshie-Brown and Alex Stinson
[1] https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1102582
[2] https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=27443
[3] https://www.unep.org/interactive/making-peace-nature/
[4] https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84871090509
[5]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights
[6] https://t.me/joinchat/k_W9SVMG5K44YjJh
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Alex Stinson
Senior Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors
through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns
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Alex Stinson
Senior Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors
through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns
Dear Friends,
The Wiki World Heritage User Group and the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group are organizing a writing contest on Yoruba Wikipedia in order to document World Heritage cities as part of the project Told Cities.World Heritage cities are amazing and rich sites telling a lot of stories. They belong to the humanity and in Africa we count many cities listed as WH.
In the link below you can see the missing articles in Yoruba and we invite you to join us to document these beautiful sites and tell their story on Wikipedia. The winner will win a 100$ voucher.Link : https://w.wiki/4Xqj
Best RegardsYamenCo founder and board member of the Wiki World Heritage UG.
Dear Friends,
The Wiki World Heritage User Group and the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group are organizing a writing contest on Yoruba Wikipedia in order to document World Heritage cities as part of the project Told Cities.World Heritage cities are amazing and rich sites telling a lot of stories. They belong to the humanity and in Africa we count many cities listed as WH.
In the link below you can see the missing articles in Yoruba and we invite you to join us to document these beautiful sites and tell their story on Wikipedia.Link : https://w.wiki/4Xqj
Best RegardsYamenCo founder and board member of the Wiki World Heritage UG.