Hello gals and guys
In case you missed it, I wanted to inform you of the forthcoming Africa
Destubathon
What ?
The idea is simple: blast away as many of our 37,000 + Africa stubs as
possible! There will hopefully be a prize to the editor who fleshes out
the most stubs from every country of Africa.
All that is required for this is basic article expansions and
improvements. To "destub" an article all you have to do is ensure it's
minimum 1.5 kb (1500 characters) readable prose in total
The existing text and text you add is expected to all be verifiable and
adequately sourced to reliable sources, with the expected
Wikipedia:Citations drawn up. Whoever "destubs" the most articles for a
given country wins a prize, and whoever wins the most "destubs" for the
most countries will be crowned the overall winner.
Where ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/The_Africa_Destu…
When
Starting Oct 15
Anything special ?
There will be special prizes for whoever destub the more African Women
articles
*We need your help NOW*
Advices (on the talk page) and endorsement (on the grant page) are
welcome *(if you feel like it is a good idea of course)*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/The_Africa_De-stubathon
Anthere
Forwarding.
Best,
Isaac
Hello all,
Today we opened a discussion asking for community input
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0> on a
proposed change to the Wikimedia Terms of Use to upgrade to Creative
Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license
<https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/>. The new license is
easier to read and more internationally friendly, so we hope it will ensure
that people can easily and freely share or remix Wikimedia content. The
amendment to our Terms of Use is currently available in German, French,
Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and we welcome further translations and
discussion in any language.
For your review, you may find the proposed amendment and background
information here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/
Creative_Commons_4.0/Legal_note
Please join the discussion on the talk page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Talk:Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and comments.
Best,
Stephen
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From: "Léa Lacroix" <lea.lacroix(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Oct 5, 2016 01:20
Subject: [Wikidata] Wikimedia Foundation directly funding Wikidata
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:
Hello folks,
An information that you could find useful : since the beginning of
Wikidata, the project and the development team (led by Wikimedia Germany)
were funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, through the Funds Dissemination
Committee, and by third parties. From now, the Wikimedia Foundation will
directly fund expenses for Wikidata software development. The two
organizations signed an agreement to have direct funding at least for the
next 3 years. This is good news, showing the strong support of our project
by the Foundation and will allow us more stability in the future.
You can read the full blog post here: https://blog.wikimedia.org/
2016/10/04/supporting-the-future-of-wikidata/
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/10/04/supporting-the-future-of-wikidata/>
Thanks for making Wikidata more and more awesome every day :)
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Hello Fellow Wikipedians/Wikimedians,
We wish to your notice that the upcoming conference “Wiki Indaba 2016” will
likely hold in January 2017. The WMF is requesting this change of date to
allow them work closely to build a suitable program for the conference. We
have been asked to require all prospective participants meet some
conditions in order to be afforded the opportunity to attend. Also to be
eligible for funding the WMF wishes to see as much endorsements as possible
from the African Community via this link <https://goo.gl/Ej9CEb> -
https://goo.gl/Ej9CEb
Below are some issue and concerns that were raised;
1.
To be eligible for a travel scholarship, groups must fill out the questions
and needs page <https://goo.gl/5pvHo4> - https://goo.gl/5pvHo4
2.
The program will focus on a limited number of topics identified from the
questions and needs page, and will include several substantive capacity
building workshops.
3.
People who receive scholarships must agree to either host a training
when they return to their home community to share something they learned at
the conference, or take responsibility for following up one action item
from a conference session.
4.
The conference should be delayed until at least January 2017 to ensure
that communities have time to discuss their needs and prepare effective
workshops and programs.
We ask that all prospective partcipants (members of potential communities,
community leaders, project leaders and active editors) review the above
criteria and leave a comment on the endorsement page <https://goo.gl/Ej9CEb>
- https://goo.gl/Ej9CEb if you agree to participate in the conference
planning and post-event follow up that has been proposed.
Please if you have any concerns and do not hesitate to contact me or the
team via wikiindabateam(a)googlegroups.com.
We thank you for your cooperation.
Raphael on behalf of the Wiki Indaba 2016 Team
*Raphael Berchie*
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Loves Women) <http://www.wikiloveswomen.org/about-the-project/who/>
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Hi All,
Deadlines are fast approaching for the second call for project grants. If
you have a great idea of a project to pursue in the next few months and you
need some funding, now is the time to apply for a grant.
You can read more about the call below
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From: Marti Johnson <mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open call for Project Grant proposals (Sep
12-October 11)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
There is just over a week left to submit a Project Grant proposal <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project> by the October 11
deadline. If you have ideas about how you could enhance the work of
Wikimedia volunteers, start your proposal today! Please encourage others
to apply as well. Support is available if you want help turning your idea
into a grant request.
-
Submit a grant request <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Apply>
-
Learn from examples of completed Individual Engagement Grants <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-engaging> or Project and
Event Grants <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Requests#
Grants_funded_by_the_WMF
>
If you have any questions or would like to brainstorm with us about your
proposal, we're hosting a few help sessions this month in Google Hangouts:
* Tue, Oct 4, 2200 - 2300 UTC
* Tues, Oct 11, 0200 - 0300 UTC
* Tue, Oct 11, 1600 -1700 UTC
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project#Upcoming_events>
Please feel free to get in touch with me (mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org) or Alex
Wang (awang(a)wikimedia.org) with questions about getting started with your
idea.
Warm regards,
Marti
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*Individual Grants*
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Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Marti Johnson <mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation Project Grants program launches its second open
> call today, September 12. We will be accepting proposals through October
> 11 for new ideas to improve Wikimedia projects.
>
> Funds are available to support individuals, groups and organizations to
> implement new experiments and proven ideas, whether focused on building a
> new tool or gadget, organizing a better process on your wiki, researching
> an important issue, coordinating an editathon series or providing other
> support for community-building.
>
> Ideas from the current Inspire Campaign on addressing harassment are very
> welcome. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire>
>
> Do you have have a good idea, but would like some feedback before
> applying? Put it into the IdeaLab, where volunteers and staff can give
you
> advice and guidance on how to bring it to life. <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab> Once your idea is ready,
> it can be easily migrated into a grant request.
>
> Marti Johnson and I will also be hosting weekly proposals clinics via
> Hangouts for real-time discussions about the Project Grants Open Call.
> We’ll answer questions and help you make your proposal better. Dates and
> times are as follows:
>
> * Fri, Sep 16, 1400- 1500 UTC
>
> * Tues, Sep 20, 0100 - 0200 UTC
>
> * Wed, Sep 28, 1400 - 1500 UTC
>
> * Tue, Oct 4, 2200 - 2300 UTC
>
> * Tues, Oct 11, 0200 - 0300 UTC
>
> * Tue, Oct 11, 1600 -1700 UTC
>
> Links for Hangouts are available here: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/
> wiki/Grants:Project>
>
> We are excited to see your grant ideas that will support our community and
> make an impact on the future of Wikimedia projects. Put your idea into
> motion, and submit your proposal between September 12 and October 11! <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Apply>
>
> Please feel free to get in touch with me (mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org) or Alex
> Wang (awang(a)wikimedia.org) with questions about getting started with your
> project!
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Marti
>
>
> *Marti JohnsonProgram Officer*
> *Individual Grants*
> *Wikimedia Foundation <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>*
> +1 415-839-6885
> Skype: Mjohnson_WMF
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share
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> it a reality!
> Support Wikimedia <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>
>
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Sujet : [Correspondants] Appel à candidatures "Formations des jeunes
entrepreneurs numériques dans l'espace francophone"
Date : Wed, 21 Sep 2016 08:52:41 +0200
De : Yves Miezan Ezo <miezanezo(a)gmail.com>
Bonjour,
Pour information ; n'hésitez pas à diffuser largement
*Appel à candidatures : **"Formations des jeunes entrepreneurs
numériques dans l'espace francophone"*
*Conditions de participation :*
* Sessions nationales
* *Pays *: Bénin, Magadascar, Sénégal, Togo
* Lieux de réalisation des ateliers : Cotonou, Antananarivo, Dakar, Lomé
* Remplir et soumettre le formulaire de candidature en ligne *avant le
30 septembre 2016*
* Nombre de participants par pays : *20*
*Voir le détail sur le lien
<http://survey.businesstrategie.com/index.php/782886/lang-fr>*
Cordialement,
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FYI,
Best,
Isaac
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From: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de>
Date: Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 6:11 PM
Subject: [Affiliates] Fwd: Wikimedia Foundation is doing large online
surveys in December.
To: affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: Edward Galvez <egalvez(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi Affiliates, I am forwarding this email on behalf of Edward Galvez
from the WMF, whom I am sure many of you know. Cheers, Nicole
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From: Edward Galvez <egalvez(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 19 September 2016 at 18:23
Subject: Wikimedia Foundation is doing large online surveys in December
To: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de>, Christof Pins
<christof.pins(a)wikimedia.de>
Dear Wikimedia User Groups, Thematic Organizations, and Chapters,
I am emailing to let you know that the Learning & Evaluation team at
the Wikimedia Foundation is coordinating the launch of Community
Engagement Insights—a collection of surveys to four different audience
groups in the Wikimedia movement. The surveys are specifically going
out to active editors, very active editors, Wikimedia program leaders
and affiliates, and volunteer wikimedia developers. The surveys will
be launched on December 1st. We wanted to give you advanced notice
that we will be using a few methods to send out this survey, including
the central notice banner to logged-in users.
These surveys seek to improve the alignment between Wikimedia
Foundation and Wikimedia communities, gathering information about: (1)
feedback about the foundations's programs, projects and services, (2)
needs of Wikimedia communities (3) input to future projects and (4)
measuring impact of our work. We hope that by listening better to
Wikimedia communities, we will get better as an organization at
serving the movement. You can find more details about this project on
meta.[1]
We need your help! We know that language is a big challenge to
participate in the foundation's surveys, and we'd like to help change
that for this survey. While we have some staff capacity to translate,
we will need the help of affiliates and individual volunteers to make
sure we can get the surveys and information translated. I will reach
out again in early October with more information about how you can get
involved with translation.
Thank you so much for your time. I am very excited to see us do more
to listen to our communities. If you have any questions about this
project--or about surveys in general--you can reach me at
surveys(a)wikimedia.org or egalvez(a)wikimedia.org.
All the best,
Edward Galvez
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement_
Insights/About_CE_Insights
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Affiliations Committee Liaison
Learning & Evaluation
Community Engagement
Wikimedia Foundation
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Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei!
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To cast your proposal
Pour faire votre proposition
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016
Looks like Egypt, Nigeria and Cameroon are still missing :)
Thanks to all for your participation !!!
I'll drop comments in the propositions talk pages today. Please keep an
eye open :)
Cheers
Florence
FYI,
Best,
Isaac
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From: Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl>
Date: Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 5:54 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] FDC appointments
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
We are pleased to inform you that the WMF Board of Trustees has come to a
decision about which four candidates to appoint to the FDC for the next 2
years. It wasn't easy, as the caliber of candidates[*] was extremely high,
and their range of skills and expertise extremely impressive.
The resolution is now published in
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Funds_
Dissemination_Committee_Membership_2016
We have selected four appointees as follows:
1) Garfield Byrd (User:Gtbiv)
2) Anne Clin (User:Risker)
3) Bishakha Datta (User:Bishdatta)
4) Candelaria Laspeñas (User:Cande_laspe)
On behalf of the Board, we want to thank Dumisani, Matanya and Osmar for
their service to the FDC. We deeply appreciate the years they have served
the committee and all the work they have done during many rounds of FDC
recommendations. Their insights, perspectives and experiences have been
invaluable to the work of the committee, and have gone a long way in
shaping the development of the APG process into a successful and important
part of grant-making in the Wikimedia world.
We hope they will continue to remain engaged in the movement in different
ways in the years ahead.
We also want to thank all the candidates that participated in this round of
nominations, and encourage them to consider re-applying for the committee
next year, when new members will be elected to serve on the committee.
Best,
Dariusz & Guy
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