Hi there, New England Wikimedians!
As recently announced, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is
organizing a call for feedback about community-and-affiliated seat
selection processes between February 1 and March 14. You can find all the
information on Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Boa…
I wanted to reach out personally to connect with you. We are offering
multiple channels for questions and feedback. With the help of a team of
community facilitators, we are organizing multiple conversations with
multiple groups in multiple languages. I am the community facilitator for
English language communities and Meta discussions about the Board
Governance updates.
During this call for feedback we will publish weekly reports and we will
draft the final report that will be delivered to the Board. With the help
of this report, the Board will approve the next steps to organize the
selection of six community seats in the upcoming months. Three of these
seats are due for renewal and three are new, recently approved.
We are looking for a broad representation of opinions. We are interested in
the reasoning and the feelings behind your opinions. In a conversation like
this one, details are important. We want to support good conversations
where everyone can share and learn from others.
*How to participate*
You can choose your preferred language and way of participation. A team of
facilitators is watching multiple channels and capturing the outcome of
conversations in weekly reports (see below).
- Discuss in the Talk page for each idea, or in this Talk page [1] for
general comments. Translated pages welcome discussions in their respective
languages.
- Discuss in the WM Board Governance Telegram [2] group created for this
call for feedback.
- Join a conversation or an online meeting near you. We are organizing
multiple conversations on wiki projects, with affiliates, and other groups.
If there are no conversations or meetings organized for your project or
your affiliate, contact us here, on Telegram, or via email at
community-board-seats-cff(a)wikimedia.org. A facilitator will contact you to
organize one.
Please do not hesitate to reach out if there is anything you suggest to
better help me connect and gather feedback from your community. Thanks for
taking the time to participate in this process.
Best,
Jackie
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*Jackie Koerner*
*she/her*
Communication Facilitator, Board Governance
*English language communities and Meta*
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees…
[2] https://t.me/wmboardgovernanceannounce
Dear all,
Just a reminder about some virtual events coming up:
* This Friday, Jan 8, MIT Libraries will host a Wikidata edit-a-thon! Join
us at 1pm to learn about to edit Wikidata, explore Wikidata items related
to MIT, and learn more about Wikidata queries and tools. We'll also
introduce some works that are coming into the public domain, and explore
editing with these. Learn more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Wikidata_and_public_d…
and register here: https://libcal.mit.edu/event/7330070 in order to get the
zoom link
* Also on Friday Jan 8, if you want to learn more about the public domain
and determining copyright status, my colleague Katie Zimmerman, Director of
Copyright Strategy at MIT Libraries, will be offering a workshop on this
topic from 3:00-4:30. Register here:
https://calendar.mit.edu/event/is_it_in_the_public_domain_2020_intellectual…
* Friday, January 15 we will celebrate Wikipedia's 20th birthday! Watch the
global celebration from 11-12 and then join us from 12:30-2 for a panel
with contributors and editors of the MIT Press book "Wikipedia @20". Then
we'll have an informal gettogether and toast at 5pm.
Find out more here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Wikipedia_20
Registration is not required to watch the panel, but if you want a reminder
email you can register here:
https://libcal.mit.edu/calendar/events/wikipedia20
* And finally, on Sunday January 17 at 6:30p there will be a public domain
day edit-a-thon, details here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Public_Domain_Day_202…
Hope to see you at any or all of these!
Phoebe