Hi everyone,
I'm announcing a proposal I posted about improving Wikipedia content related to corruption, and an opportunity to experiment with direct mentorship of less experience Wikipedia editors.
Please see the proposal here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Masssly/Wikimedia_Ghan…
Feel free to askquestions. Feedback and comments are welcome.
Thanks
-[[User:Masssly]]
FYI, there are two job openings for the next phase of the Strategy project.
A.
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From: Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 8:41 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy core team news: We're recruiting
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
I am happy to share another update on the movement strategy process. As we
resume work, we’re planning to put together a team to design and facilitate
the next phase of the movement strategy process. This team will be
responsible for shaping the overall process in a way that supports
participation and engagement of the diverse constituents and stakeholders
of our movement.
As I mentioned in my last email, I’ve asked Nicole Ebber of WMDE to take on
the role as Process Lead for this next phase. She has been busy mapping out
the team and skills we will need to move forward, including writing
descriptions for each role, which you can find on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Team>
[1].
In clarifying these roles, it became evident that there are some people who
have played a major role in the process to-date and who bring much-needed
skills and insight to the team. As a result, we’ve asked two people from
the first phase to formalize their collaboration in the Strategy Process
Architect and Process Support Lead capacity and join this next phase as
core team members. *We’re still finalizing details, but I look forward to
announcing them soon!*
We are still looking for people for two of the other roles in the core
team. In the first phase of the process, last year, we worked with a number
of consultants from outside the movement.
For this phase, *I am very interested in building a team from within our
movement* -- bringing together people with a passion for our movement, the
necessary skills for the work we need to do, and an interest in helping us
solve some of our most challenging questions. I believe that this is an
exciting opportunity to take on a leadership role, develop their skills,
and work on an essential priority for the future of our movement. *I
strongly encourage people from all across the movement to apply. *
*We are looking for candidates for these two positions: *
- *Information & Knowledge Manager* - A person with experience in
managing the flow of large amounts of qualitative information. They will
be
responsible for ensuring the effective, yet inclusive, collection of
inputs
from movement stakeholder discussions around key questions and themes of
Phase II. They will be responsible for making sure community has clarity
about the process itself and its goals, for ensuring a steady information
flow to critical stakeholders, and for effective communication of the
status and results through movement-wide communication. (Application link
<
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1096509?gh_src=cclqxfvl1#.WsT-D…
>
[2]
<
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1096509?gh_src=cclqxfvl1#.WsT-D…
>
)
- *Project Manager* - A person with experience in project management and
evaluation. They should be comfortable with navigating high-volume
information flows, multiple competing stakeholders, and situational
ambiguity and complexity. This person will be responsible for
coordinating
and managing human and financial resources, coordinating activities
within
the strategy team, as well as strategy process related activities within
the wider Wikimedia movement. This person will be in charge of tracking
progress against goals, deliverables and milestones, as well as managing
timely status updates and reporting and is expected to ensure fluent work
streams within the process as well as managing the overall process
budget. (Application
link [3]
<
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1096480?gh_src=3pmbq6q21#.WsT-H…
>
)
*We strongly encourage applications from members of our extended Wikimedia
community. *Some additional notes:
- Both of these roles are meant to be 40 hours/week for a period of
approximately 24 months.
- Contractors in both roles can be located almost anywhere, with support
for travel as appropriate.
- Because we want people from across the movement to consider applying,
please note that these roles require you be comfortable working in
English,
but do not require English as a native language. Particularly for the
Project Manager role, the emphasis is on functional comfort, rather than
fluency.
- We are especially interested in candidates from our emerging
communities.
If you are interested but uncertain and would like to know more, please
reach out to me or Nicole. If you know someone who would be a perfect fit
but might not think they are eligible, please encourage them to apply. We
are hoping to finish hiring for both these roles by the end of April, with
the plan that they will continue through mid-2020.
*Next steps*
Each step of the process will be created with and enriched by, individuals
and groups from across and beyond the movement. This means that in the
course of the process, we will again be calling for a steering committee,
advisors, and liaisons to take many different perspectives and experiences
into account.
I am excited that we can now kick off the first steps of the process with
these team members and prepare for the first essential milestone in the
upcoming phase - the Wikimedia Conference and its movement strategy track.
We will share more information and details about that in our next update.
*Okay, that’s it -- don’t forget to apply!*
Cheers,
Katherine
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Team
[2]
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1096509?gh_src=cclqxfvl1#.WsT-D…
[3]
https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1096480?gh_src=3pmbq6q21#.WsT-H…
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Hi all,
My name is Leila and I'm a senior research scientist at WMF and the
technical lead for the Research team. I gave a talk in Research Showcase
session in Wiki Indaba over the weekend and am sharing with you the notes
from that session at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LZia_(WMF)/Trip_reports#Wiki_Indaba_20…
I hope you find them helpful. And if you were in the session and I
misunderstood a conversation, please call it out. :)
I'm looking forward to working more closely with you in the coming years.
Please feel free to reach out with questions or comments.
Best,
Leila
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Leila Zia
Senior Research Scientist
, Lead
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Hi African Wikimedians!
There is going to be a GLAM-Wiki conference this fall: we would love to
have your participation! It will be a great opportunity to learn more about
different kinds of GLAM projects, and to learn about how Wikidata and
Structured Data on Commons can help you advance partnerships!
Both the scholarship and submission process are opening this week (see the
organizer email below)!
Cheers,
Alex
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From: Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 2:33 PM
Subject: [GLAM] GLAMWiki Conference 2018: Content submissions are now open!
To: Cultural Partners - ML <cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>,
glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org, libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Chapters Mailing
List <chapters(a)wikimedia.ch>, Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Education ML <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[[Sorry for x-posting]]
Dear all,
I'm happy to report that the content submission process
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAMTLV2018/Program/Submit> for the
GLAMWiki Conference 2018 is now open! Submissions will be accepted *till
April 30th*, so feel free to start drafting your proposals.
Please note that submissions for scholarships
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_TLV_2018/Scholarships> will open
tomorrow via a different process and the actual registration will take
place later on in June. We'll notify you every step of the way. :)
Looking forward to reading your submissions,
Shani (on behalf of the organizing team and the program committee).
_______________________________________________
GLAM mailing list
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--
Alex Stinson
GLAM-Wiki 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
Dear all ,
Trust you are fine.
We are glad to share the video production of Wikimedia UG Nigeria
collaboration with World of Knowledge (WOK) the owner of WikiMaster
We regret the "Typo" in the first paragraph...
"the app was created by WOK and not Wikipedia".
We have informed the publisher for correction...
Do bear with us.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-43383026
Dear Admins, I sent this on March 9. As in the past that messages were
passed on fast I wonder if there is something about this topic ? I would
like something soon in followup.
Cheers Ingo
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Betreff: African-Wikimedians Digest, #WikiGap
Datum: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 15:27:24 +0100
Von: Ingo Koll <ikoll(a)gmx.de>
An: kipala(a)web.de
On March 8 was International Women`s Day and Swedish embassies worldwide
had organized editathon events for their initiative "#WikiGap", aimed at
adding women related content to wikipedia.
(see
http://www.government.se/press-releases/2018/02/sweden-to-increase-gender-e…).
I would like to hear
1) which wikimedia groups around Africa were involved in these events and
2) what was the outcome, especially
3) how much of the uploaded content did survive.
I had written already back in February but then my contribution to this
almanach ws not forwarded (overlooked? did I write too critical??). I
was sceptical about the project when I heard from Tanzania how it had
been started and now see that indeed much content (about 60-70%) which
was uploaded in Dar es Salaam ran immediately into the "speedy delete"
situation and was erased. Obviously this is a pity and a disappointment
for the new contributors who joined that event.
So I would be happy to hear where else in Africa something took place
connected to our groups.
Cheers
Ingo -Kipala
The Swedish embassy locations in Africa are:
Algeria, Algiers (Embassy)
Angola, Luanda (Embassy)
Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou (Embassy)
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa (Embassy)
Egypt, Cairo (Embassy)
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa (Embassy)
Kenya, Nairobi (Embassy)
Liberia, Monrovia (Embassy)
Mali, Bamako (Embassy)
Morocco, Rabat (Embassy)
Mozambique, Maputo (Embassy)
Nigeria, Abuja (Embassy)
Rwanda, Kigali (Embassy)
South Africa, Pretoria (Embassy)
Sudan, Khartoum (Embassy)
Tanzania, Dar es Salaam (Embassy)
Tunisia, Tunis (Embassy)
Uganda, Kampala (Embassy)
Zambia, Lusaka (Embassy)
Zimbabwe, Harare (Embassy)
Congrat Samuel! Hope that you'll do great things.
I'm planning to have such event here in Congo by the end of this year.
Cheers,
Abel Lifaefi Mbula
Free Software Dev
Free Culture Enthousiast
Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send
OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/
On 12 February 2018 at 12:05, Abel MBULA <bam6192(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Congrat Samuel! Hope that you'll do great things.
>
> I'm planning to have such event here in Congo by the end of this year.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Abel Lifaefi Mbula
> Free Software Dev
> Free Culture Enthousiast
>
> Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send
> OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/
>
>
>
> On 12 February 2018 at 11:22, Samuel Guebo <samuelguebo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Dear all,I am excited to inform you that the African Wikimedia
>> Developers Project (AWMD)
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>
>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers_Project>[1]
>> will have its second training session in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. This event
>> was made possible thanks to a close collaboration between Wikimedia
>> Community User Group Côte d’Ivoire (WCUG-CI) and Open Foundation West
>> Africa, along with other local partners.From February 16 to 17, around 25
>> developers will learn how to improve or develop on the Mediawiki software
>> as well as the overall technical infrastructure of Wikimedia projects.
>> Following the training session in Accra last year and its encouraging
>> outcomes
>> <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/19/african-wikimedia-developer-community/>[2],
>> the step of Abidjan intends to build on the lessons learned so far and
>> continue to expand the volunteer community of the Africa Wikimedia
>> Developers Project (AWMD). As a reminder, AWMD is a project that focuses on
>> recruiting volunteer African Developers for the benefit of the Wikimedia
>> Movement. Its main goal is to increase the number of volunteer developers
>> who can solve related Wikimedia issues on the continent and in the movement
>> at large. Stay tuned for more updates soon!Cheers,*
>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Africa_Wikimedia_Developers_Project
>> [2] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/10/19/african-wikimedia-
>> developer-community/
>>
>> *_______________________________________________________*
>>
>>
>> *Samuel Guebo*
>>
>>
>>
>> *Vice-chair of Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d'Ivoire
>> <http://wikimedia.ci> (WCUG-CI)GLAM-WIKI Coordinator in Côte d'Ivoire*
>>
>> *(225) 77 34 17 21 / 40 27 28 37**Join me on : Facebook
>> <http://facebook.com./samuel.guebo> / Twitter
>> <http://twitter.com/samuelguebo> / Blog <http://samuelguebo.co>*
>>
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