Hi everyone,
It’s time for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award!! 🎉
Tools play an essential role at Wikimedia, and so do the many volunteer
developers who experiment with new ideas, develop & maintain local & global
solutions, and enhance the experience for Wikimedia communities.
We’d like to invite you all to nominate your favourite & most used tools
and help us celebrate the people who create them!
To nominate your favourite tools, simply follow this link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award#Coolest_Tool_Award_2024.
Feel free to submit multiple nominations by completing the form as many
times as you'd like. The deadline for Nomination is* May 10th 2024.*
For further details on the nomination and selection process, the Coolest
Tool Award Academy, and the upcoming award ceremony, please visit
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award.
The award is organized & selected by the Coolest Tool Academy. We plan to
award the coolest tools in a variety of categories (see last year’s
categories for an example). Excitingly, we're returning to an in-person
event for the first time since 2019, with winners set to be unveiled at
Wikimania 2024.
Thank you immensely for your participation and recommendations. Together,
let's celebrate innovation and collaboration within the Wikimedia community!
Regards,
On behalf of the Coolest Tool Academy 2024
Dear Esteemed Wikimedians,
We at DCW trust this message finds you in good health and high spirits.
Your unwavering commitment to the Wikimedia movement has played a pivotal
role in shaping the world of open knowledge sharing, and for that, we
extend our heartfelt gratitude.
We are thrilled to extend a special invitation to you to participate in the
"Wikimedia Leadership Development and Skills Enhancement Survey." This
survey has been meticulously crafted to gather your valuable insights and
experiences regarding leadership development and skills infrastructure
within our community.
Survey Details:
Title: Wikimedia Leadership Development and Skills Enhancement Survey
Duration: Approximately 10 minutes.
Purpose: Your input will be instrumental in guiding our efforts to better
support and empower Wikimedians in their leadership journeys.
How to Participate:
Click on the survey link
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdv5ycHRfaod6wbj8zvhIfwO8Mq0pALeBC…>
here
to access the questionnaire.
Thoughtfully and candidly complete the survey by 5th October 2023. Rest
assured that your responses will be held in strict confidence and used
exclusively for research
purposes.
By participating in this survey, you become an integral part of the ongoing
evolution of leadership development and skills enrichment within the
Wikimedia movement and of DCW's ongoing project for the same. Your voice
matters, and your perspectives are essential.
We deeply appreciate your dedication to the Wikimedia community and your
willingness to help us continue to grow and thrive. Your insights will
directly impact the future direction of our project and movement.
Thank you for your time, commitment, and passion for open knowledge
sharing. We eagerly anticipate your participation in the survey.
Warm regards,
Affaf Nasir
Affaf(DCW).
Email address – affaf(a)dcwwiki.org
Dear Wikimedia Affiliates,
The WikiWomenCamp 2023 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp_2023>
(WWC 2023) organising team is excited to announce the opening of self-funded
affiliates attendance for the upcoming camp. We have 10 seats reserved for
affiliates.
If your affiliate is interested, kindly fill out the registration form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGxUpf1njEw3vmTNUsuN5TChj3qVIhVOB…>
by 8 August 2023, anywhere on earth. Please note that self-funded
attendance means participants will be responsible for their travel,
accommodation, visa (if required), and related expenses.
The form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdGxUpf1njEw3vmTNUsuN5TChj3qVIhVOB…>
will help us to screen the applications and fill the seats; it will ask why
you are interested in sending a representative of your affiliate to the
WikiWomenCamp 2023, and how their attendance would benefit other
participants.
WikiWomenCamp 2023 will take place from 20 to 22 October 2023, in New
Delhi, India.
We are looking forward to welcoming you at the camp.
Best Regards,
WWC Organisers
Dear Team,
My name is Mossab Banat (user:Avicenno ) I am writing regarding a
partnership proposal with our Wiki Loves
Folklore 2023 (WLF) International campaign.
Wiki Loves Folklore 2023 photographic competition, which aims to highlight
the folk culture
and its surrounding areas. The annual international photography competition
known as Wiki
Loves Folklore is held on Wikimedia Commons between the 1st of February and
the 31st of
March of each year. Photographers and people interested in folk culture
from all over the
world congregate at this time of year in order to showcase the folk culture
of their respective
regions by uploading photographs of local festivals, cultural practices,
and other events.
With the fifth anniversary of Wiki Loves Folklore, the international team
is excited to support
the national edition in Greece. We would like to extend an invitation to
Wikimedia Greece to host the Wiki Loves Folklore event in Greece
and help contribute more content related to your culture to the internet.
Please find the project page of this year's edition at
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2023>
The page to sign up is at
<
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2023/Organize
>
To see an example of the page, please refer to
<
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2023_in_Malta>.
In
case you feel comfortable to have the local edition in either of the two
months (Feb-March)
instead of both months as most of the affiliates are organising WLF in,
please let us know.
If organizing the campaign at such short notice is difficult, would you be
agreeable to the
following:
*Create a page on commons in the regional language for your country
edition. See example.
*Sign up on the International commons page here.
*Light promotion of WLF over social media and regional channels where the
user group
does awareness work in the local community and general public.
If the jury work and consequent funding required for country prizes is not
possible this year,
we as an international team will be doing the jury work for incoming media
for [Country
Name] already.
Feel free to contact us via our project Talk page [Link] or email at
support(a)wikilovesfolklore.org. In case, your team wishes to connect via a
meeting to further
discuss this collaboration, please let us know. We have office hours on the
date and time.
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks and Regards,
Mossab Banat
GP
Wikipedia Admin
On behalf of (Wiki Loves Folklore International Team)
Mossab Banat
GP
Wikipedia Admin
Dear Community,
I hope this email finds you well and that you don’t mind me reaching out.
I’m Valentina from the Global Advocacy team at WMF. I’m working with
Costanza, our Anti-Disinformation Strategy Lead, to help Wikimedians
counter disinformation. We’re reaching out to learn about your experience.
If you are working on disinformation or have combated disinformation on any
Wikimedia project in the past, we want to learn from you. This
conversation would be part of a larger project.
Context: We’re speaking with volunteers and community members to understand
what initiatives, activities, and tools you may have already deployed to
counter disinformation. We want to crowdsource best practices and help you
amplify them so that they can be helpful to other members of our community.
The goal is to create a public map
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/08/09/help-wikimedia-counter-disinformation/>
of existing activities and tools, and in the process to better understand
what each community needs and how we can support and connect.
If you have experience with disinformation across Wikimedia platforms,
would you have 30 minutes in the next two weeks to speak with us?
Please extend this invitation to anyone in your network, or let us know if
there’s someone else you think we should contact.
Looking forward to scheduling time to talk,
Valentina
--
Valentina Vera Quiroz
Human Rights, Tech, and Policy Fellow
Wikimedia Foundation
1 Montgomery Street, Suite 1600
San Francisco, CA 94104
vveraquiroz-ctr(a)wikimedia.org
NOTICE: This message might have confidential or legally privileged
information in it. If you have received this message by accident, please
delete it and let us know about the mistake. For legal reasons, I may only
serve as a legal fellow for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not
give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members,
volunteers, or staff members in their personal capacity.
Dear friends,
This is a gentle reminder email, we have the 2nd Regional Education Meeting for
the CEE region on the 17th of June 2022 at 15:00 CET
Meeting Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84136854845
*Meta Page: *
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Regional_Meeting/CEE
We are looking forward to seeing you at the meeting.
Best!
Небојша Ратковић
менаџер образовног програма, Викимедија Србије
m: 060 74 54 771 a: Кнеза Милоша 80, Београд
s: rs.wikimedia.org e: nebojsa.ratkovic(a)vikimedija.org
Замислите свет у коме свака особа на планети има слободан приступ
целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.
Dear Friends,
We are inviting you to the 2nd Regional Education Meeting for the CEE
region. These regional meetings serve as an opportunity to learn and share
projects, tools, or ideas with the education community from the region.
Regional education meetings are planned by the Community Specialists
of the EduWiki
Outreach Collaborators
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborators>
(EWOC) and the Wikimedia Education Team. This is an opportunity to
strengthen the EduWiki network, explore collaboration opportunities, and
identify common practices or challenges faced by our community members in
different regions of the world. We encourage you to participate, share your
ideas, and help this become a fully community-led initiative.
The second regional education meeting will be held on the 17th of June 2022
at 15:00 CET. I, Nebojša, Education Manager at Wikimedia Serbia, and
Community Specialist for the CEE community will lead the session. If you
want to volunteer to interpret this meeting for your community members in a
local language, please let us know. Find more information on the meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Regional_Meeting/CEE>.
-
Meeting Time: 3:00 PM CEST, 17th June 2022
-
Meeting Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84136854845
During this regional education meeting, we will have the opportunity to
learn more about:
-
Education activities in the Czech Republic - Senior Write Wikipedia, a
flagship program by the Wikimedia Czech Republic, Lucie Schubert
-
Education activities in Georgia - Ministry of Education Partnership,
Wikimedia Georgia User Group, Mehman Ibragimov
If you have other ideas, topics, or questions you want to ask, you can add
them to the agenda here. <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CEE_Meet_II> We
will try to answer them during the meeting. We are looking forward to
seeing you there! This event will be live-streamed from Wikimedia
Foundation Education Team’s Facebook Page
<https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam>. You can also join the
event through the Zoom link, meeting link is available on our event page.
Best!
Nebojša, EWOC Community Specialist Team, and Education team
Небојша Ратковић
менаџер образовног програма, Викимедија Србије
m: 060 74 54 771 a: Кнеза Милоша 80, Београд
s: rs.wikimedia.org e: nebojsa.ratkovic(a)vikimedija.org
Замислите свет у коме свака особа на планети има слободан приступ
целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.
Dear Greek Community members,
The 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election[1] is coming soon,
this is the time when four seats of the Board of Trustees are elected. In
September the Board is expected to appoint its new members.
The Board has asked us, the Board Election Facilitation Team, to take care
that all communities in the movement are aware of the elections. Since the
very beginning of Board elections in 2004, voter turnout has been always
low, according to our data around 10%. The goal is to raise the globally
somewhat low voter turnout significantly and to make the board more
representative of the communities worldwide. With the help of more than 70
election volunteers from all over the world and some chapters, we are
reaching out to many communities already.
Regrettably, we were unable to find election volunteers in the Greek
community. The Facilitation Team is striving to fill such gaps on its own,
but due to language barriers, we are unable to serve the Greek community
properly by ourselves. This is a pity, as the Greek community is among the
Top 50 of the biggest communities at all and in 2017 had a voter turnout of
only *8.70*%.
That is why we are getting to you: We kindly ask you for some basic
support. A few of the coming messages are of the utmost importance. Right
now it is about the Call for Candidates (June, 9 - June, 29).
We would be glad if you could help out by translating the announcement on
meta (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/2021-06…)
and spreading it along your channels and in the major channels of your
communities (Village pumps, Telegram groups, etc.). We would appreciate it
a lot, if we might get back to you with a similar request when voting
starts on August 4th?
Though we do not expect this to take more than one hour, we know that we
are asking a lot. Be assured, that we would not do this if it weren’t for
our wish to make the Greek community a part of this as much as it deserves.
We hope that you can agree on its importance and forgive us for our late
and urgent approach. We kindly ask for your support and would be glad to
hear from you soon.
Best regards,
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021
--
*Mehman Ibragimov* (him/his/they/their)
User:Mehman (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mehman+(WMF)>
Board Governance Facilitator
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear Konstantinos (User:Geraki),
We are inviting the Wikimedians of Greece to participate in *Wikipedia
Pages Wanting Photos 2021
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos_2021>*, a
global contest scheduled to run from July first through August 31, 2021:
Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then
add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the
Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki
Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.
In its first year (2020), 36 Wikimedia communities in 27 countries joined
the campaign. Events relating to the campaign included training organized
by at least 18 Wikimedia communities in 14 countries.
The campaign resulted in the addition of media files (photos, audios and
videos) to more than 90,000 Wikipedia articles in 272 languages.
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) offers an ideal task for recruiting
and guiding new editors through the steps of adding content to existing
pages. Besides individual participation, the WPWP campaign can be used by
user groups and chapters to organize editing workshops and edit-a-thons.
The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP
participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level (geographically
or thematically) or for a language WP. We’d be glad for you to reply to
this email, or sign up directly at WPWP Participating Communities
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos_2021/Partici…>
.
Thank you,
Deborah Schwartz Jacobs (User:Deborahjay / debjay.wpwp(a)gmail.com)
Communities liaison coordinator
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign
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