Dear EDUWiki enthusiasts,
Voting for the Wikipedia & Education User Group Board concluded on November
10th.
After carefully examining the votes, here are the results:
* Out of 77 votes (after removing 3 duplicates), only 24 were valid votes
made by the User Group's members -
53 votes were counted out as invalid, as they were not made by members.
I encourage all of you to check if your username appears on the membership
list
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_G…>
.
If it is not, please apply for membership
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeglKZ4Ex5W7PjhDIkWsTNrFJqxnjLV1Bf…>,
so you can better engage with the User Group and cast your vote during the
next election process. Although the candidacy was made after the call for
candidates had expired, the Board chose to allow it and the voting form
included an option to vote for 6 candidates.
* Out of the 24 valid votes, here is the distribution of votes:
14 votes supported the current 5 Board members (LiAnna Davis, Susanna
Mkrtchyan, Ziko van Dijk, Filip Maljkovic and João Alexandre Peschanski)
remaining as the Board.
10 Votes supported 6 candidates: the 5 existing Board members mentioned
above, and Bukola Olutola James, who presented her candidacy during the
General Assembly.
As the majority of members voted to keep 5 seats, the Wikipedia & Education
User Group Board for the coming two years is: LiAnna Davis, Susanna
Mkrtchyan, Ziko van Dijk, Filip Maljkovic and João Alexandre Peschanski.
Additionally, as the Board was impressed by Bukola's desire to join the
Board and engage more with the UG's activities, the Board has offered
Bukola to be an advisor to the Board, which she has accepted. This role
will allow her to learn more about the Board's work and the UG's activities
first hand, and apply as a candidate in a timely manner in a future
election round.
I'd like to thank the Board for its continued work and hope you join me in
wishing them all another productive and successful term!
Sincerely,
Shani Evenstein Sigalov
Special Advisor to the Wikipedia & Education User Group Board
Hello everyone,
Abd Alsattar Ardati (University of St Andrews) and collaborators are
studying online Wikipedia training and editing to prototype and
evaluate a *collaborative
training tool that can support Wikipedia trainers to train newcomers to
Wikipedia remotely*, and we want to *invite you* to participate in our
*research
study anonymously*.
If you agree to participate in this study, please click on the following
questionnaire link so we can find out how familiar you are with Wikipedia
and whether you have any experience in Wikipedia editing. *It will take ~2
mins to complete*.
At the end, *you will be redirected to an online social ideation and voting
tool called Tricider* to *view, comment, and vote on others' ideas about
designing an online Wikipedia training tool* and to add your ideas for
others to discuss and vote on. Please beware of the Tricider website's
adverts that would look like part of the listed ideas.
https://standrews.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8GuEdzPOGFaFrRc
Your contribution is important. Thank you.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact the researchers. Their
details are below:
*Contact Details*
Researchers:
Abd Alsattar Ardati (aaa8(a)st-andrews.ac.uk)
Dr Sara Thomas (sara.thomas(a)wikimedia.org.uk)
Dr Richard Nevell (richard.nevell(a)wikimedia.org.uk)
Dr Kirsty Ross (ksrh1(a)st-andrews.ac.uk)
Supervisors:
Prof Ian Gent (ian.gent(a)st-andrews.ac.uk)
Dr Alexander Voss (alex.voss(a)st-andrews.ac.uk)
Dr Uta Hinrichs (uh3(a)st-andrews.ac.uk)
Dr Angela Miguel (arm14(a)st-andrews.ac.uk)
School of Computer Science
University of St Andrews
Jack Cole Building
North Haugh
St Andrews KY16 9SX
+44 1334 46 3262
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Dr Richard Nevell (he/him)
Programme Coordinator and Connected Heritage Project Lead
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Dear community members,
During the 2022 Wikimedia Summit, the Movement Charter Drafting Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee> (MCDC)
presented the first outline of the Movement Charter, giving a glimpse on
the direction of its future work, and the Charter itself. The MCDC then
integrated the initial feedback collected during the Summit. Before
proceeding with writing the Charter for the whole movement, the MCDC wants
to interact with community members and gather feedback on the drafts of the
three sections: *Preamble*, *Values & Principles*, and *Roles &
Responsibilities* (intentions statement). The Movement Charter drafts will
be available on the Meta page here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Content> on 14 November
2022. Community wide consultation period on Movement Charter will take
place from 20 November to 18 December 2022. Learn more about it here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Community_Consultation>.
With the goal of ensuring that people are well informed to fully
participate in the conversations and are empowered to equitably contribute
their perspective on the Movement Charter, three *“Ask Me Anything about
Movement Charter"* sessions have been scheduled for different timezones.
Everyone is invited to attend these conversations. The aim is to learn
about Movement Charter - its goal, purpose, why it matters, and how it
impacts your community. MCDC members will attend these sessions to answer
your questions and hear community feedback.
The “Ask Me Anything” sessions accommodate communities from different
timezones. Only the presentation will be recorded and shared afterwards,
conversation will not be recorded. Below is the list of planned sessions:
- *Asia/Pacific*: 4 November 2022 at 09:00 UTC (your local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1667552400>). Interpretation is
available in Chinese and Japanese.
- *Europe/MENA/Sub Saharan Africa*: 12 November 2022 at 15:00 UTC (your
local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1668265257>). Interpretation
is available in Arabic, French and Russian.
- *Latin America/North America/ Western Europe*: 12 November 2022 at
15:00 UTC (your local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1668265257>).
Interpretation is available in Spanish and Portuguese.
You will find more details on the Meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Community_Consultation>;
Zoom links will be shared 48 hours before the session.
*Call for Movement Charter Ambassadors*
Individuals or groups from all communities who wish to help include and
start conversations in their communities on the Movement Charter are
encouraged to become Movement Charter Ambassadors
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance/Movement_C…>
(MC
Ambassadors). MC Ambassadors will carry out their own activities and get
financial support for enabling conversations in their own languages. Regional
facilitators
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance/Team> from
the Movement Strategy and Governance team are available to support
applicants with MC Ambassadors grantmaking. If you are interested, please sign
up
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance/Movement_C…>
.
If you have specific questions, you can reach out to me (
csinha-ctr(a)wikimedia.org), write to the MSG team (strategy2030(a)wikimedia.org),
or write on the MS Forum <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/>.
Regards,
Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>)
Facilitator, South Asia, Movement Strategy and Governance
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance> (MSG)
Dear all,
Thanks to those of you who were able to attend the *General Assembly today!*
If you weren't able to attend, you can* watch the recording here*.
<https://youtu.be/AABAFHRDljc>
As part of the Assembly, we kicked off *voting for the user group's board*.
*All five existing board members* (LiAnna Davis, Susanna Mkrtchyan, Ziko
van Dijk, Filip Maljkovic, and João Alexandre Peschanski) are running
again.
*Another candidate*, Bukola James, was nominated during the meeting; she
introduced herself to voting members beginning at 25:55 in the YouTube
recording.
Since she was not nominated prior to the start of the meeting, she is not
included in the form, but you are welcome to write her in -- If you select
"no" to the full re-election question, you will get an opportunity to write
in candidates.
According to the User Group's by-laws, there can be up to 7 board members,
so you can vote for all six candidates running if you'd like; simply write
in their names.
*Voting will be done via this Google Form
<https://forms.gle/BMDGU5NzFnxb9i7q6> *and is open to anyone who was a
member of the user group at the time voting began. Please check if
your username
is listed on this page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_G…>
under
"Members List", and if so, please feel free to participate and vote!
*Voting is open until 16:00 UTC on Tuesday, November 10 *(one week from the
start of the meeting). As a special advisor to the group, I was asked to
oversee the process. I will therefore be analyzing your votes and
announcing the results.
All the best to all the candidates!
Shani.
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Shani Evenstein Sigalov
Special Advisor, Wikipedia & Education User Group.
Wikimedia & Education enthusiasts,
The Wikipedia & Education User Group cordially invites you to attend our
next meeting, scheduled for Thursday, November 3 at 16:00-17:30 UTC (see
your start time here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1667491243).
This will be a joint General Assembly for our user group as well as our
event to celebrate Wikidata's 10th birthday! We hope you can make it.
Agenda:
* Introductions
* General Assembly
** User Group activities review
** Board election
** Update on forthcoming EduWiki Conference
* Wikidata 10th birthday celebration
** Guest speaker: Ewan McAndrew, Wikimedian in Residence, University of
Edinburgh
Ewan will speak about his experiences with Wikdiata in his role as
Wikimedian in Residence at the University of Edinburgh. He's been in the
role since January 2016 supporting the university’s commitment to open
knowledge, and developing 21st century information literacy and digital
research and data skills. The University hosted the first 'Celtic Knot'
Wikipedia Language Conference in 2017, won a Herald Higher Education Award
in 2019 for its Wikipedia in the Curriculum work and produced a booklet of
Case Studies of Wikipedia in UK education in 2020 (newly updated in 2022).
Latterly, Ewan has joined the University's GenderEd steering group and
submitted a chapter for the open access book, Wikipedia and Academic
Libraries, on "Changing the Way Stories Are Told" based on the University's
gender equality work. Prior to this, Ewan has worked as an English and
Media teacher in the Far East (Japan, Singapore and South Korea) and in
Scotland. He completed an Information Management degree in 2018,
volunteered with the Glasgow School of Art archives on their WW1 Roll of
Honour project, and has continued to manage a series of student internships
which have created, and updated, am Open Ed Global award winning website to
pull all the best resources together for understanding Wikipedia and its
sister projects as well as an open data Map of Accused Witched in Scotland
website.
This meeting will be held via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89734385766
If you'd like to be added to the calendar invitation for the meeting,
please email me offlist!
LiAnna
Chair, Wikipedia & Education User Group
Wikipedia & Education User Group Members,
Thanks for your ongoing engagement with our user group! Our mentorship
program is in full swing, we're eagerly planning our EduWiki Conference
2023 (see more:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Wikimedia_Serbia/EduWiki_…),
and we're happy to showcase our community's great work in our regular Open
Meetings.
Our next Open Meeting will be Thursday, October 27, at 16:00 UTC (see in
your time zone: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1666886434). We're having a
joint Open Meeting and General Assembly, where we'll also ask our
membership to vote for Board members. Please save the date and plan to
attend!
If you're interested in running as a candidate for the Board of the
Wikipedia & Education User Group, please let me know off list by Sunday,
October 2.
LiAnna
Chair, Wikipedia & Education User Group
Hello everyone,
The Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Revisions committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>
is
requesting comments regarding the *Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for
the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>.
This review period will be open from *8 September 2022 until 8 October
2022.*
The Committee collaborated to revise these draft guidelines based on input
gathered from the community discussion period from May through July and the
community vote that concluded in March 2022. The revisions are focused on
the following four areas:
1. To identify the type, purpose, and applicability of the UCoC training;
2. To simplify the language for more accessible translation and
comprehension by non-experts;
3. To explore the concept of affirmation, including its pros and cons;
4. To review the balancing of the privacy of the accuser and the accused
The Committee requests comments and suggestions about these revisions by *8
October 2022*. From there, the Revisions Committee anticipates further
revising the guidelines based on community input.
*Find the Revised Guidelines on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>
and
a comparison page in some languages.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>*
Everyone may share comments in several places. Facilitators welcome
comments in any language on the Revisions Guideline Talk Page. Comments can
also be shared on talk pages of translations, at local discussions, or
during conversation hours. There are planned live discussions about the
UCoC enforcement draft guidelines.
*Conversation Hours*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>
The facilitation team supporting this review period hopes to reach a large
number of communities. If you do not see a conversation happening in your
community, please organize a discussion. Facilitators can assist you in
setting up the conversations. Discussions will be summarized and presented
to the drafting committee every two weeks. The summaries will be published
here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>
.
Regards,
~ On behalf of the UCoC project team,
Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>)
Facilitator, South Asia, Movement Strategy and Governance
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance> (MSG)