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Fwd: Structured Data on Commons and Wiki Loves... campaigns: wishes for UploadWizard?
by Sandra Fauconnier 15 Apr '19

15 Apr '19

I have sent this e-mail to the general Wiki Loves Monuments list first, but this request is relevant for all of you who organize Wiki Loves... campaigns and who work with UploadWizard in this process! All feedback welcome! Sandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Sandra Fauconnier <sfauconnier(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 12:54 PM Subject: Structured Data on Commons and Wiki Loves... campaigns: wishes for UploadWizard? To: <WikiLovesMonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello everyone! I hope all is well :-) Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (SDC) will become available this year. With SDC, Wikimedians can add data from Wikidata directly to files on Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/About Benefits include multilinguality of Commons files (users can find and describe files on Commons in many languages), and machine-readable data with better APIs, that offer more advanced possibilities to build applications like Monumental - https://tools.wmflabs.org/monumental/ In the not so far future, you will also be able to organize Wiki Loves... (Monuments, Earth, Africa, Art, Love, ...) campaigns on Wikimedia Commons with structured data. (This is entirely optional, but maybe some of you are already keen to do this, especially if you already have monument or other data in Wikidata!) In the course of 2019, the SDC development team wants to improve Wikimedia Commons' UploadWizard to support the campaigns that want to be powered by Structured Data 'new style'. Do you have ideas and wishes for this? The team wants to hear which structured data features you want to see in UploadWizard, and we are now organizing a consultation about this over the next two weeks. This page gives more context, and links to where you can leave feedback. We're collecting this first round of input until April 17. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee… Many thanks in advance! Warmly, Sandra -- Sandra Fauconnier (she/her) Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @glamwiki How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

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[offline] UserGroup update
by Florence Devouard 09 Apr '19

09 Apr '19

Hello everyone, *About the Offline UserGroup* There have been many efforts to distribute offline snapshots to places with little connectivity, via schoolservers, wikireaders, and pocket-sized servers that run on batteries. * We created astatic content initiative <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Static_content_group>early on; * Anoffline mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l>has been around for many years; * Kiwix has provided a stable toolchain for creating and viewing offline snapshots; * At various times (2011-12, 2016-) the WMF has staffed or supported offline teams testing and developing toolchains for translation and article selection, including one simply called "Offline". * A number of community grants from WMFR, WMDE, WMF and other foundations have supported offline deployments and focused translations for that purpose. This user group is a shared community for people using the mailing list and developing any of these related initiatives! *Objectives of the UserGroup* + Consolidate and support offline snapshots of wiki knowledge, and deployments of them in schools, clinics, and rural communities. + Update and maintain theoffline projects portal <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_projects>here on Meta. + Advocate for better distribution of and awareness of offline wikis, in all parts of the world where internet access is restricted, expensive, or unavailable: including schools, clinics, prisons, refugee camps, disaster areas. *Activities* * Development of offline distributions with Kiwix * Support for editors compiling modern snapshots of wikipedia, such as WP 1.0 * Offline distributions to rural clinics, schools, and libraries * Offline editing with WikiFundi * Development of synchronizing solutions * Past events: 2017 offline hackathon in NY * Future events: Offline meetup @ Wikimania, Kiwix hackathon *Membership ***Following the last update during Wikimedia Summit regarding WMF board seats selection [1], the UserGroup needs to clarify its membership. For those already members in 2018, please confirm whether you are still a member of the Offline UserGroup in 2019. If you were not yet a member and want to be, add your name ;) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_offline_wikis#Membership_in… Anthere

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Structured Data on Commons and Wiki Loves... campaigns: wishes for UploadWizard?
by Florence Devouard 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Hello everyone Please read this email from Sandra, which may be of interest to you if you are a participant or an organiser of a Wiki Loves contest. Our input is welcome, and even desired. Please provide feedback before April 17th. Cheers Florence -------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : Structured Data on Commons and Wiki Loves... campaigns: wishes for UploadWizard? Date : Thu, 4 Apr 2019 12:54:45 +0200 De : Sandra Fauconnier <sfauconnier-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA(a)public.gmane.org> Répondre à : Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition <wikilovesmonuments-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r(a)public.gmane.org> Pour : WikiLovesMonuments-RusutVdil2icGmH+5r0DM0B+6BGkLq7r(a)public.gmane.org Groupes de discussion : gmane.org.wikimedia.wikilovesmonuments Hello everyone! I hope all is well :-) Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons (SDC) will become available this year. With SDC, Wikimedians can add data from Wikidata directly to files on Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/About Benefits include multilinguality of Commons files (users can find and describe files on Commons in many languages), and machine-readable data with better APIs, that offer more advanced possibilities to build applications like Monumental - https://tools.wmflabs.org/monumental/ In the not so far future, you will also be able to organize Wiki Loves... (Monuments, Earth, Africa, Art, Love, ...) campaigns on Wikimedia Commons with structured data. (This is entirely optional, but maybe some of you are already keen to do this, especially if you already have monument or other data in Wikidata!) In the course of 2019, the SDC development team wants to improve Wikimedia Commons' UploadWizard to support the campaigns that want to be powered by Structured Data 'new style'. Do you have ideas and wishes for this? The team wants to hear which structured data features you want to see in UploadWizard, and we are now organizing a consultation about this over the next two weeks. This page gives more context, and links to where you can leave feedback. We're collecting this first round of input until April 17. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee… Many thanks in advance! Warmly, Sandra -- Sandra Fauconnier (she/her) Program Officer, GLAM and Structured Data, Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @glamwiki How Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums work with Wikimedia communities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

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Montage Tool" for WLA 2019.
by Rajeeb Dutta 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Greetings , Hope all of you doing well in life and are having a good time with Wiki Loves Africa competition. I am writing to all in reference of usage of "Montage Tool" for WLA 2019. First, I like to thank the National Coordinators of Zambia, Ghana, Guinée for signing up to have the montage tool for their respective country. National Coordinators who like to setup the Montage tool for their respective country kindly sign up on the below link at an earliest time and date. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage#Montage_and_Wiki_Lo… Disclaimer:- Anyone not using the Montage Tool, you can still work without it and do let us know. For any query whatsoever do contact me at an earliest time and date. Best regards, Rajeeb Dutta. Member of Continental Organizing Team WLA 2019.

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languages of Mozambique
by Amir E. Aharoni 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

Hello, Following the terrible news of the natural disasters in Mozambique, I looked at which languages are spoken there. As in many other African countries, the official language is a European one, Portuguese. There's a large Wikipedia in it, but less than half of the people in Mozambique actually know it (according to Ethnologue, https://www.ethnologue.com/country/MZ/languages ). I could find only one native languages of Mozambique in which there is a Wikipedia: Tsonga. This Wikipedia is very small, but it has a small group of dedicated editors. All the other languages of Mozambique don't have any Wikipedia at all: Makhuwa, Lomwe, Tswa, Mwera, and others. They don't even have an Incubator. So, this is a very long shot, but I'll mention this anyway: If, in the wake of this catastrophe, or at any other point and for whatever reason, someone raises the idea of writing Wikipedia articles in any of these languages, please remember that the fact that there is no Wikipedia or incubator in them *now* is not an excuse for not doing it. Anyone who can write in them can be the first person to do it. An Incubator can be created at any point in any language, and I'll be happy to assist anyone who is interested in doing this. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] [Movement Strategy] Your perspectives are needed to scope our future.
by Kaarel Vaidla 19 Mar '19

19 Mar '19

Dear colleagues, I am excited to forward you some of the latest news from the Movement Strategy Process. Looking forward to your engagement, integrating your perspectives and building the future structures of Wikimedia together. Have a great week ahead! Kaarel ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Nicole Ebber <nicole.ebber(a)wikimedia.de> Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:43 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] [Movement Strategy] Your perspectives are needed to scope our future. To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear fellow Wikimedians, In 2017, we set ourselves an ambitious goal of becoming the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge, and now we need a path for how we get there. In the spirit of what got us started – we will work together to find our path. We now have a fundamental tool in place to help us get there: scoping documents have been finalized and are now live on Meta[1]. These will help us dive deeper into our movement’s structures than ever before and discover exciting opportunities for our future. The scoping documents have been created by the nine working groups of the Movement Strategy Process. I would like to thank them wholeheartedly for their enormous effort and dedication to making this first step happen.[2] These documents are a focused reflection of the discussions about our future that have been happening for some time. The working groups have captured these and boiled them down into a set of questions that will guide their work going forward. These are the essential questions of our movement. Now, we have the chance – and the mandate – to answer them together. Identifying how we need to adapt our structures and maximizing our movement’s potential lie at the heart of these questions. We encourage you to read the scoping documents about the topics you care about and bring your ideas for possible solutions in to the the global conversation about our future. The documents have been translated into eight languages already, and we are working on translating more of our meta content into more languages over the next couple of weeks. I would also like to introduce a new addition to the core team, our Community Relations Specialist Kelsi Stine-Rowe. Kelsi will be working with members of Wikimedia communities and organized groups to facilitate community conversations on the scoping documents. Join in! Here’s how can you get involved: * Sign up as a Strategy Liaison for your organized group and ensure that your group’s perspectives are heard.[3] * Take part in our community conversations happening until mid-April on Meta, via survey, and within several communities.[4] Kelsi will also be in touch later today with more concrete information about joining the community conversations. We look forward to hearing your voices and your perspectives. Best wishes, Nicole [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Partici… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working… [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/2019_Co… -- Nicole Ebber Adviser International Relations Program Manager Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- *Kaarel Vaidla* Process Architect for Wikimedia Movement Strategy 2030.wikimedia.org

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Wiki Loves Africa: ' How to Nominate'
by Erina Mukuta 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

Dear national coordinators, Thank you for the wonderful work done in the past weeks organizing an amazing competition in more than 50 countries! We have seen amazing images being submitted This year Wiki Loves Africa competition will be based on a federalized model: there's a national competition in each country, with a national organizing team, a national jury and national winners. The national jury determines up to (maximum) 10 images that will be submitted to the international finale. These ten images should be submitted via email to the wiki loves africa jury coordinator before the deadline:18th April 2019. When submitting your finalists, please take these instructions into account: * Submit no more than ten images per (national) competition. It is OK to submit less images, for example if you don't find enough images of high quality. * Submit the images to: erinamukuta(a)gmail.com, and include in the CC at least one (additional) jury member besides yourself. Please also include marajozkee(a)gmail.com in the cc. * If the results are still not public (if you plan to announce them later publicly), please add the planned announcement date. Please note that we will announce the international winners in June. * Submit for each image: URL, File name on Wikimedia Commons and Author username * Check basic information about the images: ** that the author has activated their email function on Wikimedia Commons ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser) ** that the image is freely licensed *If you want to use the jury tool, please sign up for it( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Montage#Montage_and_Wiki_Lo… ) Thanks a lot for your cooperation. . With warm regards, *Erina Mukuta*Wiki Loves Africa Jury Coordinator

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Re: [African Wikimedians] (help)
by ike yeb 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

Please i wanted to know if i won the competition. On Mar 16, 2019 04:32, "ike yeb" <iympaapa1998(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I wanted to know if i won the competition > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > African-Wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians > >

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Write for the rights editathon
by Houssem Abida 17 Mar '19

17 Mar '19

Hi all, I hope you are all doing fine. This is an invitation to join our editathon next weekend from the 22nd to the 24th of March, to write and improve Wikipedia Content related to LGBTQ+ communities in the MENA region and African content. Please check the meta page to find out about the topics we want to write about exactly, and also the resources section where you will find many references and other tools that can help you when editing about this theme. We count on your participation to help reducing the language gap existing in Wikipedia when it comes to LGBTQ+ content, and to give more visibility of the movements resisting and trying to make a change in the communities. Please feel free to reach out to me for more questions or request. Thank you so much. Best regards, Houssem

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(no subject)
by ike yeb 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

I wanted to know if i won the competition

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