Hello everyone,
The Community Development team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development> at the Wikimedia
Foundation is hosting its first community call
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/Community_Calls> of
the year on Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 from 18:00-19:30 UTC on Zoom.
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/89685036085>
What are these calls about?
Our community calls are created to be a shared space for Wikimedians across
the movement to hear and speak about projects related to capacity building
&/or leadership development.
Who is coming?
-
WikiAcción Perú
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAcci%C3%B3n_Per%C3%BA> - a project
that seeks to make Peru visible in the free encyclopedia Wikipedia in
Spanish, Wikimedia Commons and other Wikimedia projects, with thematic
approaches of ecology, gender and culture. WikiAcción Perú
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAcci%C3%B3n_Per%C3%BA> will be
sharing their project in Spanish|español with simultaneous translation
provided, about their Laboratorio de Paseo Fotográfico | Photo Walk
Laboratory project.
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiAcci%C3%B3n_Per%C3%BA>
-
Leadership Development Working Group (LDWG)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leadership_Development_Working_Group>-
a 16 member group who has been working together since June 2022. Members
will be providing an overview of the group's work: leadership definition,
leadership development plan & guide the implementation of leadership
development.
Key Dates:
-
Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 at 18:00-19:30 UTC on Zoom.
<https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/89685036085> [
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/89685036085]
If you are interested in participating in future Community Development
community calls, please contact Cassie Casares ccasares(a)wikimedia.org.
We are excited to see and hear from you in our call!
Thank you,
The Community Development team
Cassie Casares
Program Support Associate
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org
Hi all,
You are invited to participate in a community meeting about the representation of gender and related information on Wikidata on February 1, 2023 at 9:30AM PT/12:30PM ET/17:30 UTC (time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1675272629>). Please see the attached calendar invite. Call details are also below.
The meeting will start with a brief overview of ongoing work to make gender-related information more precise, accurate, and ethical in Wikidata. We will identify current challenges and walk through a logic model on the handling of pronouns in Wikidata, as developed through the initial phase of this work. We welcome feedback, general discussion, and concerns from attendees with an eye towards collaboration on future work.
We hope to see you soon!
Alex Jung, Clair Kronk, and Crystal Yragui
________________________________
Date: February 1, 2023
Start time: 9:30AM PT/12:30PM ET/17:30 UTC (Time zone converter<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1675272638>)
Duration: 1.5hr
Agenda<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vEusRuCLAL7-JA8kp7LU2y28RHg7E7Uh9OTPShY…>
Zoom information:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/87971846222
Meeting ID: 879 7184 6222
Passcode: drinkwater
Hi everyone,
I'm forwarding this message by Franziska Putz to the Libraries mailing
list, as I believe this conference might be of great interest to many of
you.
If you have any questions, please, feel free to email me, Franziska, or
Douglas.
Best,
Giovanna
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer; GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Franziska Putz <fputz(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 3:45 PM
Subject: [Jan 23 - 27] Free & remote event on the Right to Research in
South Africa
To: <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Douglas Scott <Douglas.I.Scott(a)gmail.com>, Giovanna Fontenelle <
gfontenelle(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear all,
I hope this email finds you settling back in after the holidays (or
ideally, still on vacation).
I'm sharing an opportunity to join what should be a great event at the end
of this month!
You are warmly invited to register for the *free and hybrid* conference, "A
Right to Research in Africa?" which is hosted by ReCreate from January 23 -
27. Information about the conference is here [1] and you can still register
to attend virtually [2]. The conference will cover a week of debates on
copyright and access to knowledge, with discussions that range from
digitising heritage to accessing African Data on health and the
environment. Wikimedians will be hosting some of the sessions, including
Douglas Scott from Wikimedia South Africa and Wikimedia Deutschland will
also share some of their work around "public money - public good" [3].
Tune in for one or more sessions & please feel free to share with others
who you think might be interested.
All the best,
Ziski
______
[1] https://www.re-createza.org/
[2]
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9O1HKKOt9M9PFklJaXRo9eGyIbIBAcRR…
[3] https://www.wikimedia.de/2019/en/themen/public-money-public-good/
Franziska Putz (she/her)
Movement Advocacy Manager, Global Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
Fputz(a)wikimedia.org
*UTC timezone