Hello everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that the upcoming #SheSaid campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid> is scheduled to
run from October 1st to December 31st this year. For those of you who are
planning to organize a #SheSaid local event during this time, please take
note that the *deadline to apply for a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation*
is *September 1st, 2023*.
To ensure a streamlined and comprehensive process for your grant
application, we have prepared a grant request template
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nutGLLDBWr33wVvQ7oPE3qeTGBxndzb1qF-E6Za…>
for
you to use. We kindly request that you refrain from replying to the
document with your application. Instead, if you're ready to submit your
grant application, kindly complete the Fluxx form
<https://wmf.fluxx.io/user_sessions/new> linked for that purpose.
If you happen to have any specific questions or require assistance, we
encourage you to join our *Office Hour session today* at *3:00pm* *UTC* via
this link
<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81126530358?pwd=K3oxQ01DNFUzRi8zM2FFTDNuWXVOZz09>.
Your inquiries will be addressed there.
Best,
Afek
*Please forward this message to any Wikimedia mailing lists/channels or
individual editors who might be interested in attending. *
*This meeting announcement has been translated into Spanish below. A
Spanish translator will be present for the meeting. Thank you and hope to
see you then!*
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Wikimedia LGBT+ August User Group Meeting Information
The next Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group meeting is *Wednesday, August 9th at
4:00pm GMT/UTC+0 (9:00am PT/12:00pm ET)*.
Find your local time here: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1691596856
*Event information:*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT/2023-08-09
The agenda will be updated on the event page. We expect to have 2-3
presentations from invited community members, followed by a discussion of
dead name policies across the different Wikimedia platforms where we edit.
There will also be time for you to propose topics that we all can discuss.
You can also propose topics now on the event page. Anyone who contributes
to LGBT+ topics on Wikimedia platforms, or who might be interested in User
Group activities is welcome to participate.
*Join Zoom Meeting link:* https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82834966417
Meeting ID: 828 3496 6417
*There will be a meeting lobby. Message the Telegram group if you run into
trouble logging in.
_____________
La próxima reunión del Grupo Usuario Wikimedia LGBT+ es* el miércoles 9 de
agosto a las 4:00pm GMT/UTC+0 (9:00am PT/12:00pm ET).*
Encuentra tu hora local aquí: https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1691596856
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1690819225>
*Información del evento:*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT/2023-08-09
La agenda será actualizada en la página del evento. Esperamos tener 2-3
presentaciones de miembros de la comunidad invitades al evento, seguido de
una discusión sobre las políticas de uso del nombre muerto en las
diferentes plataformas de Wikimedia que editamos. También habrá tiempo para
que propongas temáticas que podamos discutir entre todes. Puedes proponer
temáticas ahora en la página del evento. Cualquiera que contribuya en
temáticas LGBT+ en plataformas Wikipedia, o que podría estar interesade en
actividades de Grupos Usuarios está invitade a participar.
*Únete a la reunión de Zoom con este link:*
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82834966417
ID de la reunión: 828 3496 6417
*Habrá una sala de espera en la reunión. Envía un mensaje al grupo de
Telegram si tienes problemas para unirte.
_____
Let us know if you have any questions!
Best wishes,
Dorothy Howard
Wikimedia LGBT+ Administrative Executive
dorothy(a)wmlgbt.org
Hi everyone,
To respond to the gender gap and create opportunities to strengthen the
gender diverse content on Wikipedia, the Gender Organizing community in the
Wikimedia Movement hosts an annual campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women> during International
Women’s Month. This campaign is an important opportunity for the Wikimedia
movement to engage with the work of different communities highlighting the
gender gap in each Wikimedia project.
On 16 February 2023, the Campaigns Programs team held an office hour with
Gender Organizers from across the movement. Some key highlights from the
discussion included:
-
An overview of the volunteer-led Central Notice banner for this year’s
International Women’s Day campaign, with a request for translation support
for the banner and feedback.
-
An overview of the new event registration tool to support gender
organizers with an improved user-experience for newcomers joining events.
-
An overview of community planned campaign events surrounding gender on
the Projects for this year’s campaign.
Participants to the event also highlighted a desire for more strategic
support in:
-
Ensuring an intersectional approach to gender content on the Projects,
including facilitating gender visibility on key content areas such as
climate and sustainability, and elevating LGBTIQ+ content to ensure that
gender campaigning was inclusive, reflexive and expansive.
-
Facilitating and coordinating ongoing gender campaigning on Wikipedia,
and other projects (like WikiData), to ensure lively and ongoing content
curation in this important area beyond Women’s History Month (March).
-
Bringing in strategic partnerships at an international, regional and
local level to support and amplify gender campaigns on the projects e.g. a
similar partnership to the UNHRC and #Wiki4HumanRights.
Specific Product Support requested by gender organizers in the office hour
included:
-
A request for an on-Wiki calendar of events that allowed participants to
view and plan their contributions more systematically.
-
A request to review the Women in Red redlists
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_in…>,
which are updated by Listeria Query service, but are not updating often any
more. This is an issue connected to ongoing maintenance of key
volunteer-built listbuilding tools.
You can learn more about the discussion by watching the recording here.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Women_History_Month_Conversation>
What happens Next?
As an immediate priority, there is a request for support with translating
the Central Notice <https://w.wiki/6NPg>banner, and adding planned campaign
events to the Event landing page.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women> There is also a request
for support for updating translations of the event page itself.
During March, there is also an opportunity to share your events with the
WMF for amplification with the movement and external audiences via social
media. Have an event you’d like to share or have profiled? Get in touch
with the Campaigns team <campaigns(a)wikimedia.org>for more information.
On 15 March 2023, you are also invited to join the Wikimedia Research
Showcase, <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase> which
will be focused on gender and equity on Wikipedia. The session will feature
research presentations by Sneh Gupta, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha
University, and Jiao Sun, University of Southern California. You can join
the livestream <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4MzJgDIzo> and ask
questions in the chat..
Lastly, look out for future announcements for how we plan to address the
identified gaps and opportunities elevated in the Office Hour.
*Masana Mulaudzi (She/Her)*
Senior Manager, Campaigns Programs
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi everyone
Sending across a reminder for the Women's History Month Office Hour *happening
today at 4pm UTC. *
Please visit this link for log in information:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Women_History_Month_Conversation
More details below.
To respond to the gender gap and create opportunities to strengthen the
gender diverse content on Wikipedia, the Gender Organizing community in the
Wikimedia Movement hosts an annual campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women> during International
Women’s Month. This campaign is an important opportunity for the Wikimedia
movement to engage with the work of different communities highlighting the
gender gap in each Wikimedia project.
We invite you to a conversation hour!
For this reason (and many more), we are excited to invite you to a
Campaigns Programs Office Hour on Gender Organizing as a Wikimedians. Here,
I hope to listen to your experiences of gender organizing across the
WikiProjects and share some exciting tools that we’ve developed to support
your work! Join this conversation hour to:
-
Share what your community is doing in campaign organizing on the Gender
Gap during International Women’s Day and beyond.
-
Learn about this year’s volunteer-led Central Notice banner and central
calendar and how you can give feedback on the pages.
-
Learn how the new event registration tool
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xb6-ZElpN4&ab_channel=WikimediaFoundation>can
help improve your registration experience for newcomers joining events.
Please join the Office Hour to connect and share.
International Women’s Day Office Hour
16 February 2023
1600 UTC
Register here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Women_History_Month_Conversation>
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Masana Mulaudzi <mmulaudzi(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 4:02 PM
Subject: Women's History Month Conversation
To: <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi Wikimedia Organizers,
My name is Masana Mulaudzi and I recently joined the Wikimedia Foundation
as the new Senior Manager for the Campaigns Programs team. Before joining
the Wikimedia Foundation I worked extensively in the gender justice
movement across Africa, and in solidarity with feminists around the world
in economic and social justice campaigning. I am really humbled to be
joining the Movement and to learn and act in solidarity with gender
organizers in this vibrant community.
To respond to the gender gap and create opportunities to strengthen the
gender diverse content on Wikipedia, the Gender Organizing community in the
Wikimedia Movement hosts an annual campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women> during International
Women’s Month. This campaign is an important opportunity for the Wikimedia
movement to engage with the work of different communities highlighting the
gender gap in each Wikimedia project.
We invite you to a conversation hour!
For this reason (and many more), we are excited to invite you to a
Campaigns Programs Office Hour on Gender Organizing as a Wikimedians. Here,
I hope to listen to your experiences of gender organizing across the
WikiProjects and share some exciting tools that we’ve developed to support
your work! Join this conversation hour to:
-
Share what your community is doing in campaign organizing on the Gender
Gap during International Women’s Day and beyond.
-
Learn about this year’s volunteer-led Central Notice banner and central
calendar and how you can give feedback on the pages.
-
Learn how the new event registration tool
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xb6-ZElpN4&ab_channel=WikimediaFoundation>can
help improve your registration experience for newcomers joining events.
Please join the Office Hour to connect and share.
International Women’s Day Office Hour
16 February 2023
1600 UTC
Register here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Women_History_Month_Conversation>
*Masana Mulaudzi (She/Her)*
Senior Manager, Campaigns Programs
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi Wikimedia Organizers,
My name is Masana Mulaudzi and I recently joined the Wikimedia Foundation
as the new Senior Manager for the Campaigns Programs team. Before joining
the Wikimedia Foundation I worked extensively in the gender justice
movement across Africa, and in solidarity with feminists around the world
in economic and social justice campaigning. I am really humbled to be
joining the Movement and to learn and act in solidarity with gender
organizers in this vibrant community.
To respond to the gender gap and create opportunities to strengthen the
gender diverse content on Wikipedia, the Gender Organizing community in the
Wikimedia Movement hosts an annual campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women> during International
Women’s Month. This campaign is an important opportunity for the Wikimedia
movement to engage with the work of different communities highlighting the
gender gap in each Wikimedia project.
We invite you to a conversation hour!
For this reason (and many more), we are excited to invite you to a
Campaigns Programs Office Hour on Gender Organizing as a Wikimedians. Here,
I hope to listen to your experiences of gender organizing across the
WikiProjects and share some exciting tools that we’ve developed to support
your work! Join this conversation hour to:
-
Share what your community is doing in campaign organizing on the Gender
Gap during International Women’s Day and beyond.
-
Learn about this year’s volunteer-led Central Notice banner and central
calendar and how you can give feedback on the pages.
-
Learn how the new event registration tool
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xb6-ZElpN4&ab_channel=WikimediaFoundation>can
help improve your registration experience for newcomers joining events.
Please join the Office Hour to connect and share.
International Women’s Day Office Hour
16 February 2023
1600 UTC
Register here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Women_History_Month_Conversation>
*Masana Mulaudzi (She/Her)*
Senior Manager, Campaigns Programs
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Title says it all...
For the third year, you are warmly invited to join #SheSaid till the end
of calendar year. Head to wikiquote (http://www.wikiquote.org if you
have never done that), think of relevant women, add entries, link
to/back Wikipedia. That's it !
Starting point is here :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women/SheSaid
Please do not hesitate to relay the information in your groups
There is a webinar next saturday at 11 AM UTC+2
See talk page for further details :)
Cheers
Flo
(Read this message in other languages on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leadership_Development_Working_Group/Call_f…>:
español • Русский • বাংলা • 한국어 • Português • العربية •हिन्दी • עברית
• Ìgbò • català• Yoruba)
TL;DR: The draft leadership definition[1] prepared by the Leadership
Development Working Group is ready for community feedback! Please share
your feedback on Meta[2], the feedback form[3] or the Movement Strategy
Forum[4]. You can also directly mail us at
leadershipworkinggroup(a)wikimedia.org. The feedback will be collected till
October 6, 2022.
Hello everyone!
I hope you are aware that the Leadership Development Working Group[5] has
been working over the past few months to formulate and find ways to nurture
the leadership of our movement. The Leadership Development Working Group
(LDWG) is a group of Wikimedia volunteers representing different
communities, languages, roles, and experiences. We are pleased to inform
the community that our draft definition of leadership is now available for
community feedback. This first draft definition of leadership was written
after months of discussion, learning, and sharing from our community
perspective. The Wikimedia Movement, which is by nature diverse and
distinctive in its own way, is expressly addressed by this definition.
Please consider going through the definition and letting us know what you
think by *October 6, 20**22.* The draft definition includes a general
definition of leadership and subcategories that elaborate on the actions,
qualities, and outcomes of good leadership.
There are many places where you can express your ideas, suggestions, and
comments, such as the meta talk page[2], the feedback form[3], and Movement
Strategy Forum Post[4]. You can also directly mail us at
leadershipworkinggroup(a)wikimedia.org.
You can check if the general definition, and the subcategories align with
your idea of leadership in the movement. You can also try finding the gaps,
maybe some qualities of a leader or anything else are missing in the draft
definition or you can check if the definition applies to all cultural,
linguistic, community or other contexts of the movement and share your
thoughts with us.
Together, let's celebrate the movement's diverse and distinctive
leadership!
Thank you.
[1] Link to the draft definition on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leadership_Development_Working_Group/Content>
[2] Link to meta talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Leadership_Development_Working_Group>
[3] Link to the feedback form <https://forms.gle/o7a4FYV8ZkisJF3KA>
[4] Link to the Movement Strategy Forum post
<https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/leadership-development-working-group/…>
[5] Link to the meta page of LDWG
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leadership_Development_Working_Group>
Cassie Casares
Program Support Associate
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org