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Call for Proposals: ESEAP Conference 2026 & Offline Wiki Synergy
by Butch Bustria 20 Dec '25

20 Dec '25

Hi everyone, I am writing to share an important opportunity for the offline wiki community to shape the conversation in one of our most geographically and technologically diverse regions. The *ESEAP Conference 2026* (East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific) will be taking place in *Kaohsiung, Taiwan, from May 15–17, 2026*. The Call for Program Submissions is currently open, and the *deadline is December 20, 2025*. *Why this matters for us:* The theme for this conference is *"New Era of ESEAP: Pioneer the Future Together!"* There is perhaps no region where "offline" access is more critical to the future than ESEAP. From the remote archipelagos of the Pacific Islands where connectivity is often expensive or unreliable, to rural educational settings in Asia, the "last mile" is still a massive barrier to knowledge equity. If we want to "pioneer the future," we must ensure that the future includes the millions of people in this region currently disconnected from the sum of all knowledge. *Synergy & Language for Your Proposals:* If you are working on projects involving Kiwix, Internet-in-a-Box, WikiFundi, or local offline deployments, I strongly encourage you to submit a proposal. To help align your offline work with the conference theme, here are some suggested "synergy angles" and language you can adapt for your submission: - *Angle 1: The "Equity" Synergy* - *Language:* "Bridging the digital divide in the region is not just a technical challenge; it is an equity imperative. Offline access ensures that the 'New Era' of ESEAP leaves no community behind, regardless of their connectivity status." - *Focus:* Rights to information, indigenous communities (e.g., Manobo, Kadazan-Dusun), and rural education. - *Angle 2: The "Resilience" Synergy* - *Language:* "In a region prone to natural disasters—from typhoons in Asia to cyclones in the Pacific—offline knowledge databases serve as critical, resilient infrastructure when the grid goes down." - *Focus:* Climate change adaptation, emergency preparedness, and resilient networks. - *Angle 3: The "Education" Synergy* - *Language:* "Empowering the next generation of ESEAP editors starts in the classroom. Tools like Kiwix allow us to bring Wikipedia into schools in East Timor, Cambodia, Indonesia, and beyond, fostering digital literacy before reliable internet arrives." - *Focus:* Partnerships with local schools, Ministries of Education, and digital literacy programs. *Key Details:* - *Conference Wiki:* ESEAP Conference 2026 on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2026> - *Submission Page:* Program Submissions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2026/Program/Submissions> - *Deadline:* December 20, 2025 Let’s ensure that the *Offline* story is front and center in Kaohsiung. Please reply here if you are planning to submit so we can coordinate our message! Best regards, Butch Bustria ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is privileged and intended only for the recipients named. If the reader is not a representative of the intended recipient, any review, dissemination or copying of this message or the information it contains is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender, and delete the original message and attachments. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Update "press" (at large) page on meta
by Florence Devouard 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

Hi guys I did a bit of update on the meta pages of the UG. If you have significant press coverage, or diff articles, or presentations you did in conferences that reflect the State of the Offline, please update this page : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Press Cheers Flo

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FYI - WMF Board election update
by Stephane Coillet-Matillon 23 Oct '25

23 Oct '25

Hi all, For those of you who, like me, had missed it: https://www.thewikipedian.net/p/2025-wikimedia-board-election-controversy TL;DR: both Ravan al-Taie and Lane Rasberry were removed from the WMF board candidates pool after the election had started. Further discussion on Meta here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard… Best, Stephane

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Fwd: Birth of a new visualisation tool: join a workshop to discuss the first sketches
by Florence Devouard 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

-------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : [Wikimedia-l] Birth of a new visualisation tool: join a workshop to discuss the first sketches Date : Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:17:32 +0200 De : Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)gmail.com> Répondre à : Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Pour : Wikimedia Mailing List <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> BESIDES.... I'll host a workshop this Friday at 17h UTC+2 during which I will present the first sketches propositions of the tool. Please join to talk about it, criticize, propose changes, push for some features over others, and so on. 👉 *Register to the sketches workshop here : *https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:VIZWP_24_10_2025 IF YOU CAN NOT join the event (or do not want to), please have a look directly at the sketches proposed and give a feedback about each proposition. Please {{bebold}} ! 👉 *Look and comment the first sketches here : *https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visual_Analytics_for_Sustainability_and_Climate_Change/Tool/Co-design_activities Cheers Anthere --------- *Context*/ Visualizing Sustainability and Climate Change/is a research project aimed at identifying and visualizing knowledge gaps related to sustainability and climate changeon Wikipedia. The project helps visualize these knowledge gaps, supports communities in improving content on this important topic, facilitates collaboration among multilingual communities and partners, and strengthens the capacity of Wikipedia contributors to document and share information on climate change (as well as sustainability and SDGs). In practice, in collaboration with Wikimedia projects focused on sustainability and climate change,*the initiative will produce a visual tool*that allows users to evaluate and monitor the quality and quantity of articles related to sustainability and climate change on Wikipedia across different languages. In the long run, the tool is expected to serve beyond the specific « Climate change » topic ;) The projet is developped as part of a research project, promoted by SUPSI, funded by the SNSF, with the patronage ofWikimedia Italia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Italia>. On the Wiki Community side of things, the organizations involved areWikimedistas de Uruguay <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedistas_de_Uruguay>,Wiki in Africa <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_In_Africa>, andWiki Education Foundation. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation> If you are interested in knowing more of the project, I suggest you head here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visual_Analytics_for_Sustainability_and_Cli… If you want to see the first sketches, first definition of user requirements, the dataset we are working on, go there : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visual_Analytics_for_Sustainability_and_Cli… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visual_Analytics_for_Sustainability_and_Cli…> * * Warm Regards, Anthere for the VIZWP tool team

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Fwd: Birth of a new visualisation tool: please share your experience by answering a survey
by Florence Devouard 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

-------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : Birth of a new visualisation tool: please share your experience by answering a survey Date : Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:43:05 +0200 De : Florence Devouard <fdevouard(a)gmail.com> Pour : Wikimedia Mailing List <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello everyone You are warmly invited to answer a survey to help a team developing a new visualisation tool. Your answers will be incredibly useful for the team to move forward. The survey is about sharing how your evaluate the quality of articles, and what would be useful to you in terms of visualisation to analyse quality of a set of articles. Participating to the survey does not require you to do any investigating work on the future tool. But if you want to know more about the tool and the team please read below the context and follow the links 👉 *Access the survey** now: https://survey.linux.it/index.php/189183?lang=en* *Context*/ Visualizing Sustainability and Climate Change/is a research project aimed at identifying and visualizing knowledge gaps related to sustainability and climate changeon Wikipedia. The project helps visualize these knowledge gaps, supports communities in improving content on this important topic, facilitates collaboration among multilingual communities and partners, and strengthens the capacity of Wikipedia contributors to document and share information on climate change (as well as sustainability and SDGs). In practice, in collaboration with Wikimedia projects focused on sustainability and climate change,*the initiative will produce a visual tool*that allows users to evaluate and monitor the quality and quantity of articles related to sustainability and climate change on Wikipedia across different languages. In the long run, the tool is expected to serve beyond the specific « Climate change » topic ;) The projet is developped as part of a research project, promoted by SUPSI, funded by the SNSF, with the patronage ofWikimedia Italia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Italia>. On the Wiki Community side of things, the organizations involved areWikimedistas de Uruguay <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedistas_de_Uruguay>,Wiki in Africa <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_In_Africa>, andWiki Education Foundation. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Education_Foundation> If you are interested in knowing more of the project, I suggest you head here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visual_Analytics_for_Sustainability_and_Cli… If you want to see the first sketches, first definition of user requirements, the dataset we are working on, go there : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visual_Analytics_for_Sustainability_and_Cli… <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visual_Analytics_for_Sustainability_and_Cli…> * * Warm Regards, Anthere for the VIZWP tool team

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Annual Report publication of the Wikimedians for Offline Wikis User Group
by Florence Devouard 09 Sep '25

09 Sep '25

Hello everyone If interested by our Annual Report, it is published here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Reports/August_2025 Cheers Anthere

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IIAB for the US market
by James Heilman 30 Aug '25

30 Aug '25

Hey All We at Wiki Project Med have paused further shipping of IIAB to the USA due to tariff processes. We were getting about 80 US orders for IIAB per month. We continue to ship to the rest of the world. Basically we charged about 20 USD for assembly, managing postage, and shipping resulting in a total cost of 63 USD per unit. Wondering if there are folks in the USA interested in getting involved and managing that aspect? The boards come from the UK which sounds like it is tariff free but the uSD cards come from China which is at 55% tariffs. So we are still at the investigative stages on what makes sense. Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

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IIAB
by James Heilman 26 Aug '25

26 Aug '25

Hey All Looks like significant disruptions to trade are occurring in a week or so. I see Switzerland and thus Kiwix has stopped shipping mail to the USA. I think we in Canada are still a go, but will need to prepay 35% of the total cost to the US government. Thus we are increasing our prices to reflect this for US customers. https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:Internet-in-a-Box/Buy Best -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian

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[URGENT] : give your opinion about the Board of Trustees elections
by Florence Devouard 29 Jul '25

29 Jul '25

Hello guys Sj and I actually missed the first call for opinion of the UG with regards to candidates to the Board of Trustees. Sj saw the reminder today... and the deadline for the UG submission is on the 28th midnight. So time is short. Sorry about that. For your complete information, please see Ramzy email below (but you do not need to read it all if you do not with too) So what we need from you *A. Please check out the full list of all candidates to the BOT. This is here: * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candida… *B. For each of them, please give a grade from 0 to 5* 0 means: no support 5: super extra massive support If you do not mention the name or if you do not mention a grade, the person will get 0. To make it simpler for you, the list Abdul-Rafiu Fuseini <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>: Ahmad Ali Karim <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>: Bobby Shabangu : <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>James Alexander : <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>Jonathan Cardy : <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>Lane Rasberry : <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>Maxime Baidakov : <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>Michał Buczyński : <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>Mohammed Kamal-Deen Fuseini : <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>Ravan J Al-Taie : <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>Shahen Araboghlian : <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>Wojciech Pędzich <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>: *C: Send your votes, either to Sj or to me* We will compile. And the 6 most voted upon will be presented for the UG We will obviously not share your votes with anyone. Thanks ! Flo and Sj -------- IF YOU WANT MORE INFO, READ BELOW--------- Hello, You are receiving this message either as a primary or secondary contact <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups/User_Group_Primary_Co…> of a recognized Wikimedia movement Affiliate that is currently compliant with their reporting obligations (list of all Affiliates currently compliant <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates/Affiliates_St…>). This is a friendly reminder that the shortlisting process to produce 6 (six) final candidates that will be voted on by the wider community is open until Monday, July 28, 2025 at 23:59 UTC. Your group is eligible to participate in the shortlisting process based on the candidates’ alignment with the requirements and desired criteria for candidates <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Candida…>. * If your affiliate has identified your representative for the shortlisting process by filing out the LimeSurvey that was sent alongside the previous email, you can go ahead and participate in the shortlisting process. * If your affiliate did not manage to identify your representative for the shortlisting process in time (i.e. you did not fill out the LimeSurvey), we will accept votes only either from the primary contact or the secondary contact <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_user_groups/User_Group_Primary_Co…> of the Affiliate as listed in the Foundation’s database. * Please ensure that only one response per affiliate is submitted. Here’s the course of action for the shortlisting process: [Note: LimeSurvey is a third-party service that may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Legal:Board_Candid…>.] * Go to xxxurl * Fill out the following questions: o Name of the Affiliate o Name or username of the representative o Select up to 6 candidates that your Affiliate decided to be most aligned with the Board’s requirements and desired criteria o There will be a list of all 12 (twelve) eligible candidates, and you will be able to select a maximum of 6 candidates; these candidates are not ranked. o Documentation on the affiliate’s decision-making process to arrive at this selection. + This can be a description of your process, a link to a wiki page, Google Doc, Etherpad, or similar. You may also opt to email the documentation separately to electcom(a)wikimedia.org <mailto:electcom@wikimedia.org> o Comment (if there is anything else not covered by this form) * You may submit your vote until Monday, July 28, 2025 at 23:59 UTC. After the shortlisting process concludes, the 6 (six) candidates who receive the highest number of votes will be announced by the Elections Committee on Wikimedia-l and Meta-wiki, but without publicly mentioning their ranking. As mentioned on the Meta page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2024#Shortli…>, the results of this shortlisting process will be shared after the election closes, to avoid influencing the vote. If you have any questions, please reply all to this email. On behalf of the Elections Committee and the Governance Committee, Ramzy Muliawan Committee Support Specialist Wikimedia Foundation -- Ramzy Muliawan (he/him) Committee Support Specialist, Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:RamzyM_(WMF) My working day may not be your working day. Please don’t feel obliged to reply to this e-mail outside of your normal working hours.

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Annual Report... ahah !
by Florence Devouard 29 Jul '25

29 Jul '25

Hello I started a draft of the Annual Report, due in August. Please jump in and share your news about last year activities, successes, and challenges https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Reports/August_2025#Activi… On that note... I think we may have to incorporate the Affiliates Health Criterias in our report. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Affiliates_Strategy/Im… I prefer to be honest with you... I do not intend to do it. I feel the Affiliate Health Criterias is a Good Thing Generally... But not so much in the case of this UG... At least, not to the point for I to damage my brain trying to put some stuff in the boxes. But if anyone feel like doing it... please go ahead ! Cheers -- _*Florence Devouard*_ UTC+2 Skype: florence.devouard | Twitter: anthere Wikimedia <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere> | <https://www.linkedin.com/in/devouard/>LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/devouard/> | Website <https://www.devouard.org/> Hear my name <https://namedrop.io/florencedevouard>

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