[African Wikimedians] Fwd: Help us organize for #WikiForHumanRights!

Apologies for crossposting, see the opportunity below. Cheers, Alex ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 10:23 AM Subject: Help us organize for #WikiForHumanRights! To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello all, We are excited for #WikiForHumanRights -- at the office hours and afterwards community groups throughout the movement have already connected with us about organizing. This year we are going to focus on the "right to a healthy environment" and we need your help! What can you do? If you like to organize an event, we have created a list of ideas at: https://w.wiki/33kh. You can also learn more about kinds of activities from our last office hour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_QEE60hcFk Keep in mind that we are support rapid grants to help you go further by means of financial support rapid grants will be available through April 15 -- please apply any time during that window through the application process. If you are organizing an event, please add it to the table at: https://w.wiki/35gK We will also have a content-writing challenge with prizes from April 15 - May 15 you can learn more about the challenge and sign up for the challenge at: https://w.wiki/35gE We also have developed a draft list of articles to be created or enriched with UN Human Rights: https://w.wiki/33ki . We hope these inspire you to think about what your community could do to fill the gaps on your wikis about the right to healthy environment: this could include topics related to human rights, climate or environmental justice, communities impacted by environmental health issues, or similar. We encourage working on Wikipedia and on sister projects: Commons, Wikidata, Wiktionary ... etc. If you have a question, you can send us an email (Alex Stinson: astinson(a)wikimedia.org, Michel Bakni: mbakni-ctr(a)wikimedia.org), or you can attend the support and mentoring meeting we are organizing on Zoom on at 14:00 (GMT) 18 March 2021. [1] Alex Stinson and Michel Bakni Wikimedia Foundation Campaigns Team [1] https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/95654457998?pwd=ajQ5V3pabExuUnU2VmdvT2RKMURKdz09 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:53 AM Subject: WikiForHumanRights at Campaign Team Office Hours and upcoming WMSusDev meeting To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear Community, As we announced during December,[1] this year’s WikiForHumanRights campaign will be arriving for Earth Day this year: April 15-May 15. The theme is “Right to a Healthy Environment” -- connecting the 20th Birthday “Human” theme with the global conversations about COVID-19, environmental crisis, like climate change, and human rights.You can learn more about the theme at our under-development home page. [2] The campaign will have two parts: a challenge, like the WikiGap Challenge, and decentralized digital and in-person events (where COVID-19 risk assessments allow). We need your help organizing the decentralized events -- and will be supporting development of activities through mentoring and rapid grants. Do you want to be part of organizing? The Campaigns Team at the Wikimedia Foundation invites you to: - the upcoming Wikimedians for Sustainable Development meeting on 21 February at 11:00am UTC [3] - Our next virtual office hour on 25 February 2021 at 3:00pm UTC via zoom.[4] If you are interested, but can’t attend the meeting: you can also join the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development communication channels for general updates [5] or the WikiForHumanRights telegram channel, where we will share more updates for organizers [6]. Please forward this information to movement organizers who you think will be interested. Looking forward to talking with you soon! Alex Stinson [1] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/10/wikiforhumanrights-2021-help-share-hu… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights [3 ] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Nex… [4] See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Campaigns_Team#Office_… or https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/97336292017 [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development#Com… [6] https://t.me/joinchat/Ifp3xRo2fEIk_ecpZLdTEg -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: @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