WikiLovesMonuments February 2022

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Instagram and Creative Commons
by Andrea Zanni 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

Dear all, a doubt: is Instagram compatible with Creative Commons? Can I upload *my* Instagram pics on Commons (so could it be used for WLM)? Please consider that I'm not suggesting Instagram pics are good for WLM (they are filtered and all, probably not very suitable for illustrating monuments on Wikipedia) but is a legal matter. Aubrey

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Invitation to episode 10 of WikiAfrica Hour
by Ceslause Ogbonnaya 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

Dear Wikimedians, This is to invite you to episode 10 of WikiAfrica Hour where guests Candy Khohliwe from Wiki Loves Africa-Botswana, Sadik Shahadu from Wiki Loves Earth-Ghana and Douglas Scott from Wiki Loves Monuments-South Africa, share their experience in building communities through organizing photo contests locally. Join us on 25th February 2022, at 4:00 PM UTC. Details: https://bit.ly/WikiAfricaHour. Regards, Ceslause Ogbonnaya Links: 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica_Hour 2. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyG_DCysivx59E2olI_BEcQ ____________________ More about WikiAfrica Hour Wiki In Africa started WikiAfrica Hour, a monthly vodcast, to build the community of Wikimedians across Africa by: 1. Interacting with guest(s) and ask questions from the context of and relating to African Wikimedians; 2. Providing a platform for Wikimedians to discuss topics, issues, projects and collaborations to promote synergy and more advanced knowledge within the Wiki communities across Africa, and 3. Sharing current updates, and highlights of Africa Wikimedians activities undertaken by Africa Wikimedians with the African audience, and those globally who are interested, You can catch all our previous episodes here. <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvyE0yEt-BKjmaakYL31JfcT94GGKcDH9> WikiAfrica Hour is activated by Wiki In Africa <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_In_Africa> in support of Wikimedia user groups across the WikiAfrica <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica> movement. It has been initiated and facilitated by Wiki In Africa's Ceslause Ogbonnaya ( User:Ceslause <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ceslause>), Florence Devouard (User:Anthere <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere>) and Isla Haddow-Flood (User:Islahaddow <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Islahaddow>). > Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica_Hour

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Wikimedia Sverige can import your Wiki Loves Monuments datasets into Wikidata
by John Cummings 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

Dear all Wikimedia Sverige, through our new partnerships hub <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Content_Partnerships_Hub> want to help make documenting built cultural heritage on Wikimedia projects easier. We want to work with Wikimedia communities to help you write about your heritage, document it through Wiki Loves Monuments and other activities. To start we are importing the data from the Wiki Loves Monuments database into Wikidata, building on the work that the community has done over the last several years. Adding information about monuments to Wikidata has several benefits including: - It makes it much easier to run Wiki Loves Monuments and makes it possible to use other tools to run e.g. Monumental. For example, monuments lists can be generated automatically based on Wikidata data, instead of having to maintain them locally on-wiki. - It allows Wikipedia contributors to know what heritage is missing, for example we can create a redlist of the missing sites from Wikipedia. - It makes the monuments list easier to keep up to date by empowering more editors to edit the items, not only those active on the local Wikipedia version and fluent in its language. We are working on additional Wikidata documentation to support this. To do this we we would like to work with communities to better understand their local data before we upload it: 1. What is the state of the data? E.g when was it added, is it out of date? Have you manually added or changed the data from the original source? 2. Where did the data come from? Is it available publicly? Can we download it easily? 3. Are there any additional sources of data you would like to include in your Wiki Loves Monuments lists? We are currently updating the page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_WLM/Status, which contains an overview of all the datasets in the Monuments database, in order to identify the regions with largest gaps and find out what already has been done by the community. You can add your comments there or on the talk page. We have plenty of time until the next Wiki Loves Monuments, so we are looking forward to improving as much data on Wikidata as possible. Please get in touch with us by emailing Alicia.fagerving(a)wikimedia.se Many thanks John Cummings Wikimedia Sverige

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[Friendly reminder]: Meet the Community Development team
by Cassie Casares 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

Hello everyone, This is a friendly reminder that The Community Development team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Calls> at the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting our first ever community call on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 from 15:00 - 16:00 UTC on Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758?pwd=b1ZFNTMyaFdJRCtxbzIyaU13OWlmUT09> [meeting link] To join in the community call: - To attend the call, please find the link here <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758?pwd=b1ZFNTMyaFdJRCtxbzIyaU13OWlmUT09> . - Please ensure you have zoom downloaded on your personal device prior to the call. We are excited to see and hear from you in our first ever Community Development community call! Thank you, The Community Development team Cassie Casares Program Support Associate Community Development Wikimedia Foundation ccasares(a)wikimedia.org

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[Friendly reminder]: Meet the Community Development team
by Cassie Casares 23 Feb '22

23 Feb '22

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[Friendly reminder]: Meet the Community Development team
by Cassie Casares 15 Feb '22

15 Feb '22

Hello everyone, This is a friendly reminder that The Community Development team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Calls> at the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting our first ever community call on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 from 15:00 - 16:00 UTC on Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758?pwd=b1ZFNTMyaFdJRCtxbzIyaU13OWlmUT09> [meeting link] We want to thank those who have expressed interest in speaking during this call, we had an overwhelming response. Unfortunately we were only able to choose 3 speakers from the community. We will be sending invitations to those who have been selected to participate in the meeting shortly. At this time sign ups for speaking during the call have closed. To join in the community call: - To attend the call, please find the link here <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758?pwd=b1ZFNTMyaFdJRCtxbzIyaU13OWlmUT09> . - Please ensure you have zoom downloaded on your personal device prior to the call. We are excited to see and hear from you in our first ever Community Development community call! Thank you, The Community Development team Cassie Casares Program Support Associate Community Development Wikimedia Foundation ccasares(a)wikimedia.org

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Adding Wiki Love Folklore to Wiki Loves Competition Tools
by Toni Sant 15 Feb '22

15 Feb '22

Dear fellow Wikimedians - List members will be aware that Wiki Loves Folklore is taking place right now. [1] I'm not a member of the international WLF team but I'm suggesting that it would be really good to centralize basic general statistics/metrics for this on the Wiki Loves Competition Tools. [2] This is controlled through a Scribunto module page written in the Lua programming language. So someone who knows Lua well enough (sadly not me) can (easily?) add Wiki Loves Folklore on the relevant Commons module. [3] I've mentioned this to the WLF international team during a meeting for WLF organizer that took place last week and I proposed asking for help; our friend Lodewijk/effe iets anders has suggested that this would be a good place to ask for help. Any direct action or suggestions on how to go about this will be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Toni ___________________________ User:ToniSantWikimedia Community Malta Web: http://www.wikimalta.org [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore[2] https://wikiloves.toolforge.org [3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:WL_data

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Announcing WLM Office Hours
by Ciell Wikipedia 03 Feb '22

03 Feb '22

Hi everyone, It’s time to pick up the WLM Office Hours again. During these office hours you can expect to talk with other WLM organizers about different aspects of organizing the WLM competition. We’ll start this year off with a first block (in 2 time slots to allow optimal geographic coverage) on the research for DEI en are looking forward to discussing issues of accessibility and disparity of resources, changing local cultural contexts related to monuments/heritage, government or bureaucratic restrictions to participation, and other such issues that hinder inclusivity and diversity in WLM. Please join us on the weekend of 29 and 30 January for an exchange of experiences, after a brief introduction/presentation by Mesha (a researcher that supports the international team). Whether you have experiences to share, or are just curious about Wiki Loves Monuments and the research, please join us for the call. When: Sat. 29 Jan 9:00 am (UTC) and Sun. 30 Jan 18.00 (UTC) Where: Google Meet We would appreciate it if you could indicate your interest on this page on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022/Office…>: 12 hours before the start of the office hour we will share the link for the call on this page. On a final note: the international team will be planning more office hours again and we have some ideas about the topics that could be covered, but we of course would like to hear if you have ideas about this! Wikidata, organizing your first photowalk, or the jury process: what would you like to talk about? Let us know. Best, Ciell

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Meet the Community Development Team
by Cassie Casares 03 Feb '22

03 Feb '22

Hello everyone, The Community Development team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development> at the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting our first ever community call on February 23, 2022 from 15:00 - 16:00 UTC on Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758>. The purpose of the community call is to provide a space for volunteers to meet the Community Development team. The five-person Community Development team is responsible for developing accessible opportunities for volunteers to grow critical capacities and leadership skills for movement sustainability and growth. The community call is also a shared space for all volunteers to hear or speak about projects related to capacity building & leadership development in the Wikimedia community. Our first call, Meet the Community Development Team will include a sign up sheet <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIiyAlq7uKBp4eqmnbyVr9Zmi3LBjCQgZ…>for those who would like to speak for 5-10 minutes about their individual/community capacity building work. If you would simply like to attend and listen, join the Zoom link at the scheduled call time, please find the link here <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758>. Although the primary language of the call is English, we are committed to providing simultaneous translation to the best of our ability. Please use the same sign up sheet <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIiyAlq7uKBp4eqmnbyVr9Zmi3LBjCQgZ…> to indicate your language preference so that we can best accommodate translation support as needed. Some may be asking, what is capacity building and why is the Community Development team supporting this work? What is capacity building? Capacity building is any activity aimed at developing a skill or capability in others; it can take many forms, ranging from formal training through online self-study courses to individual mentorship. The “Invest in Skill and Leadership Development” <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…> recommendation of the 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…>encourages movement-wide capacity building as a necessity to achieve our strategic commitment to Knowledge Equity. Capacity building has the ability to encourage diversity, redistribute and share resources, welcome newcomers and grow communities. Community Development is launching this series to ensure we can hear directly from volunteers who are interested in or who already are leading capacity building work in their communities. This is one one way we plan to create a space for direct conversations with volunteers about the different contexts, challenges, and opportunities in capacity building across the movement. How do our projects relate to capacity building and leadership development? Our team's portfolio is a curation of online and offline learning programs and resources that aim to enable skill development and resilience in the movement. Some of our recent capacity building projects include the Wikilearn Online Learning Pilot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/WikiLearn>, Board of Trustees Candidate toolkit <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/Candidate_Re…>and the 2021 Wikimania Speaker Series <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/What_we_do>. In order for us to continue building relevant curricula and programming, we need to hear from the Wikimedia movement. Please visit the Community Development team page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development> to learn more about our capacity building and leadership development projects. Key Dates: - First community call: February 23, 2022 from 15:00 - 16:00 UTC on Zoom <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758> - Sign up <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIiyAlq7uKBp4eqmnbyVr9Zmi3LBjCQgZ…> to speak at the first community call. The application closes on February February 14th, 2022. To participate in the community call: - To attend the call, please find the link to the call here <https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84302371758>. - Please ensure you have zoom downloaded on your personal devicer. - Use the sign up sheet to confirm your interest to speak about your work in capacity building here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdIiyAlq7uKBp4eqmnbyVr9Zmi3LBjCQgZ…> We are excited to see and hear from you in our call! Thank you from the Community Development team Cassie Casares Program Support Associate Community Development Wikimedia Foundation ccasares(a)wikimedia.org

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