সুধী,
উইকিপিডিয়া ও উইকিমিডিয়া প্রকল্পের বিভিন্ন ওয়েবসাইটগুলোর অনলাইন কার্যক্রমে
বিভিন্ন বার্তা আদান-প্রদান ও আদান-প্রদানকৃত তথ্যের নিরাপত্তা বৃদ্ধি ও এ
সংক্রান্ত সচেতনতা বৃদ্ধি করতে উইকিমিডিয়া বাংলাদেশ কর্তৃক একটি আলোচনাসভা
আয়োজন করা হয়েছে। মূলত এ সংক্রান্ত নিরাপত্তা ও তদসংক্রান্ত ঝুঁকির বিভিন্ন
দিক নিয়ে আলোচনাই এই সভার উদ্দেশ্য।
আলোচনাসভাটি অনুষ্ঠিত হবে আগামী ২৯ মে ২০২১ তারিখ, বাংলাদেশ সময় সন্ধ্যা ৭:০০
– ৮:৩০ পর্যন্ত।
আপনার সময় অঞ্চলে সময়টি জানতে দেখুন:
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1622293226
আলোচনাসভায় অংশ নিতে চাইলে অনুগ্রহ করে নিচের ফর্মটি পূরণ করুন (আবশ্যক):
https://forms.gle/VrnfHkXu8mBbkxt28 (গুগল ফর্ম)
ফর্মটি পূরণ করার সময় অনুগ্রহ করে আপনি নিয়মিত ব্যবহার করেন এমন একটি ই-মেইল
ঠিকানা দিন, কারণ আলোচনা সভা শুরুর আগের দিন জুম মিটিং লিংকটি ই-মেইলে
পাঠানো হবে।
এছাড়া উইকিমিডিয়া বাংলাদেশ উইকির পাতায় একটি কার্যক্রম পাতাও তৈরি করা হয়েছে।
ফর্ম পূরণের পাশাপাশি আপনি সেখানেও আপনার নাম যোগ করতে পারেন। পাতার লিংক:
https://bd.wikimedia.org/s/1zj
আশা করি আপনারা অংশ নেবেন। সবাই ভালো থাকুন, সুস্থ থাকুন।
শুভকামনাসহ,
তানভির
Hello, everyone.
TLDR:
The Board of Trustees’ Community Affairs Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Comm…>
(CAC) is hosting its first office hour on May 13, 2021, at 19:00 UTC (check
for your local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1620928828>)!
Now in more details:
What are we announcing?
The CAC is a new Board of Trustees
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees>
committee established to assess, explore and address current and future
community-related efforts. The Committee's Charter
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Affairs_Committee_Charter>
lists its full responsibilities, with the first 3 being a priority for this
coming year.
As part of our commitment to foster better communications with the
Wikimedia Movement Community, and based on feedback received from community
members requesting more availability from the Board of Trustees, the CAC
will be hosting its first Office hours.
When & Where?
The Office hours will be held on May 13 2021, at 19:00 UTC (check for your
local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1620928828>) via Zoom. At least
3 Trustees, as well as relevant WMF staff, will be in attendance. The
session will be streamed live and recorded, so those who cannot participate
live will be able to watch later.
How will it work?
The meeting will last for 60 minutes and an additional 30 minutes of an
“open room”. The first 60 minutes will be divided into 45 minutes of
structured Q & A (based on either update from the CAC and questions sent by
the community in advance). The final 15 minutes will be in the “ask us
anything” format, with live participation. We will be monitoring live
YouTube, Wikipedia Weekly Facebook group
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/553393111375191> and the Wikimedia General
Chat Telegram group <https://t.me/WikimediaGeneral> and the talk page on
Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Comm…>.
The structure is meant to enable the CAC to not only update the community
on current matters the Board is working on, but also hear directly from the
community, which will help inform the Committee’s future work.
Setting the agenda with your Questions
In order to be as efficient as possible, and since we anticipate that some
questions will require answers from WMF Staff, we are encouraging community
members to send questions in advance. Please send all questions to
askcac(a)wikimedia.org, by Friday, May 7th (midnight, whatever time zone you
may be in). The office hour agenda will be based on the main topics related
to the questions received. We will share this agenda on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Comm…>
on May 12, including the final names of Trustees in attendance.
How to register?
For security reasons and specifically to avoid Zoombombing
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoombombing>, we will be sending the Zoom
link only to people who have registered in advance close to the meeting. In
order to register, please send an email to askcac(a)wikimedia.org, indicating
your name, username, affiliation if you have any. The title should be:
“Registration for the May 13th CAC Office Hours”.
Please note --
-
This is the first time that the Board is attempting something of the
sort. This is an experiment. We’ll see how it goes - how many people are
interested in attending, timing, translation needs etc -- and make
decisions about future meetings / changes to format accordingly.
-
The session will be moderated based on the Universal Code of Conduct
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct>
-
Universally blocked users will not be allowed in the room, but can still
participate by watching live and sending questions in real-time.
Please help us spread the word by sharing this message with your
local/online communities.
Hoping to see as many of you as possible,
Krishna Chaitanya
সুধী,
আশা করি কুশলে আছেন। আপনারা জানেন গত ২০২০ সালের বার্ষিক সাধারণ সভা কোভিড-১৯
অতিমারির জন্য বিলম্বিত হয়ে যায় যা বিলম্বিত সাধারণ সভা হিসেবে ৮ই এপ্রিল ২০২১
সালে অনলাইনে অনুষ্ঠিত হয়। উক্ত সভায় ২০২০-২০২১ সালের জন্য নির্বাহী পরিষদের
জন্য ৯ জন্য সদস্য সর্বসম্মতিক্রমে নির্বাচিত হন।
পরিষদের নয় সদস্য হচ্ছেন-
১। মুনির হাসান
২। আলী হায়দার খান
৩। তানভির রহমান
৪। তানভীর মোর্শেদ
৫। মাসুম আল-হাসান
৬। এ কে আল মহিউদ্দিন
৭। সুব্রত রায়
৮। অংকন ঘোষ দস্তিদার
৯। শাবাব মুস্তাফা
টীকা: এর মধ্যে অতিসম্প্রতি মুনির হাসান তার ব্যস্ততার কারণে দায়িত্ব পালনে
তার অপাগরতা জানিয়ে স্বেচ্ছা অব্যাহতি নেন। বর্তমানে তার পদটি খালি রয়েছে।
আমাদের সাংগঠনিক কাঠামোতে সাধারণ সভায় নির্বাচিত নির্বাহী পরিষদের সদস্যগণ
নিজেরা নির্বাচন করে থাকেন যে দপ্তর নির্বাহী (Office Bearer) পদগুলোতে কে কে
দায়িত্ব পালন করবেন। সেই নির্বাচন শেষে ২০২০-২০২১ সালের মেয়াদে নতুন দপ্তর
নির্বাহী হিসেবে নির্বাচিত হয়েছেন:
১। সভাপতি - তানভির রহমান
২। সম্পাদক (ভারপ্রাপ্ত) - অংকন ঘোষ দস্তিদার
৩। কোষাধ্যক্ষ - মাসুম আল-হাসান
নতুন দপ্তর নির্বাহী গণের জন্য অনেক শুভকামনা।
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Shabab Mustafa
T. @tarunno
S. shabab.mustafa
W. https://shabab.me
Dear Wikimedians of Bangladesh,
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met last week to decide on a
plan for the 2021 Board elections. The Board Governance Committee created a
proposal based on the report of Call for Feedback about Community Board
Seats
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Boa…>[1].
The
full proposal
<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/8/83/BGC_Community_Truste…>[2]
is available on Foundation Wiki. The Board wants to thank the more than 800
volunteers that participated in the Call for Feedback in one way or
another. It has been very difficult to decide on every open question
considering the quantity and diversity of opinions received. We hope this
resolution feels sensible to everybody.
The summary of the proposal is as follows:
1. The Board drafts a call for candidates that includes details about
the skills and experience that are currently represented on the Board
(excluding trustees whose terms are expiring) and that the Board would like
the selected trustees to have.
2. The Foundation devotes resources to informing communities of the
trustee selection process and encouraging people from emerging and
underrepresented communities to run as candidates.
3. As part of their self-nomination process, candidates fill out the
trustee evaluation form.
4. The Foundation continues to devote resources to invite communities to
participate in the selection process by engaging candidates during the
campaign period and by voting.
5. Community members vote and their votes are counted using a *proportional
voting system* chosen by the Elections Committee.
6. The Foundation conducts the usual vetting of the selected candidates
(background check and communications review).
7. The Board appoints the selected candidates for whom the vetting
process did not reveal any significant issues.
This proposal does not suggest implementing quotas or hard requirements for
candidate skills or experience for the 2021 round of community trustee
selection. Instead, it relies on the more detailed information from the
Board in the call for feedback, the community outreach efforts, and the
proportional voting system to meet the Board’s needs in terms of skills and
diversity. However, it also contemplates potentially adding or changing
elements to the process for future rounds of trustee selection, based on an
assessment of the effectiveness this first time.
The draft timeline is as follows:
1. April 15: Board meets to consider and approve this proposal
2. April - May: Elections Committee and staff plan the details of the
selection process
3. June 1-2: Board meets and approves the call for candidates
4. June 8 - 29: Call for candidates; candidate outreach
5. June 29 - July 20: Candidates campaign and answer questions;
community outreach
6. July 20 - August 3: Voting; community outreach
7. August 3 - 10: Vote counting and processing
8. August 10 - 24: Foundation vetting of selected candidates
9. August / September: Board appoints selected candidates
Please go through the full proposal[2] for further details, and let me know
if you have any questions. In the upcoming days, the Board elections
facilitation team will share their ideas to support candidates and voters.
Best,
Krishna Chaitanya
[1] Call for Feedback report:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Boa…
[2] Full proposal:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/8/83/BGC_Community_Truste…
Dear Wikimedians of Bangladesh,
As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we would like
to announce the third workshop of this year on “Designing responsive main
pages”. The workshop will take place on 30 April (Friday). During this
workshop, we will learn to design main pages of a wiki to be responsive.
This will allow the pages to be mobile-friendly, by adjusting the width and
the height according to various screen sizes.
Participants are expected to have a good understanding of Wikitext/markup
and optionally basic CSS.
Details of the workshop are as follows:
- Date: 30 April (Friday)
- Timings: 18:30 to 20:00 (BST)
- Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/zfs-qfvj-hts
- to add this to your Google Calendar, please use click here
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NmR2ZHE1bWF1cWQyam4…>
.
If you are interested, please sign-up on the registration page at
https://w.wiki/3CGv.
Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops,
for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More
information on this can be found on the registration page.
Regards,
Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers
Dear Wikimedians,
The Community Resilience & Sustainability
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resilience_and_Sustainability>
team at the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a new office hour led by its
Vice President Maggie Dennis
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mdennis_(WMF)>. Topics within scope
for this call include Movement Strategy coordination (recently transferred
to CR&S), Trust and Safety (and the Universal Code of Conduct), Community
Development, and Human Rights. Come with your questions or feedback, and
let’s talk! You can also send us your questions in advance in any language.
The meeting will be on April 17 (Saturday) at 15:00 UTC (check your local
time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1618671635>).
You can check all the details on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2020-04-17>. If
you want to participate verbally from the Zoom call, please ask for the
link at answers(a)wikimedia.org, at least an hour in advance of the meeting's
start (please use "Office hour" as the subject line).
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya
Hello everyone,
As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, the workshop on
"*Debugging/fixing template errors*" will be on upcoming Saturday (*27
March*). We will learn how to address the common template errors on wikis
(related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua,
etc.).
Details of the workshop are as follows:
- Date: 27 March
- Timings: 4 pm to 5:30 pm BST
- Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/cyo-mnrd-ryj
- *to add this to your Google Calendar, please use click here
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MjgzaXExcm9ha3RpbTB…>.*
If you are interested, please sign-up on the registration page at
https://w.wiki/36Sg.
Regards,
Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers