Hi all,
I am happy to announce that I have been selected as EduWiki Outreach
Collaborator for Sub Saharan Africa. In this volunteer role I would be
collating stories around Education programs within the Sub-Saharan
Africa region.
Do you have stories around your various education outreaches you want
to share with the rest of the movement kindly reach out to me on
owulakpakpo{(a)}gmail.com.
I look forward to working with you all and share your stories.
Thanks
FYI official release below.
Dear Wikimedians,
Join me to welcome the EduWIki Outreach Collaborators[1], we are joined by
a group of Wikimedia volunteers from various parts of the world. This
group brings expertise in working with different communities,
projects, and together they will support education leaders and other
stakeholders in our movement with better networking and communication
practices for growth on Outreach Wikimedia and associated platforms.
While we received many applications for different roles, we are still
looking for female Wikimedians to join for the role of Outreach Wiki
Experts. The application for it is still open![2] You can find more
details about it on the Outreach Wiki page[3].
Best!
Sailesh
[1]https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/EduWiki_Outreach_Collaborat…
[2] https://bit.ly/eduwikiccc
[3] https://w.wiki/WKR
Best!
--
*Sailesh Patnaik*
Program Associate, Education
--
*Regards*
*Justice Okai-Allotey*
*Freelance Digital Marketer*
Mobile: +233 (054) 039 4970 Skype: okai_allotey
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Hi all,
There have been talks about the need for a global set of conduct rules in
different communities over time, and finally, Wikimedia Foundation Board
announced a Community Culture Statement, enacting new standards to address
harassment and promote inclusivity across projects.
Since the universal code of conduct that will be a binding minimum set of
standards across all Wikimedia projects, will apply to all of us, staff and
volunteers alike, all around the globe, and will impact our work as groups,
individuals and projects, it’s of great importance that we all participate
in expressing our opinions and thoughts about UCoC, its nature, what we
think it should cover or include and what it shouldn’t include; how it may
develop, drawback or help our groups.
This is the time to talk about it. As you are a valuable contributor to the
Wikimedia movement, your voice counts. Before starting to draft the code of
conduct, we would like to hear from you; We invite you to devote some
minutes to take this survey; your answers will help us create a safer
environment for all on Wikimedia:
(English)
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd36dNdU3C5shXEkKp9itJOhuCTx9hZE5A…
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd36dNdU3C5shXEkKp9itJOhuCTx9hZE5A…>
It’s possible that you are a member of more than one affiliate; hence you
may receive this survey more than once, and you may have participated
previously in the discussions or filled out a previous survey during the
first round of consultations about UCoC which targeted Wikipedia/Wikimedia
communities. We apologize for this; it is really difficult to identify if a
Wikimedian belongs to multiple groups that work to spread free knowledge.
Looking forward to your thoughts and opinions and hoping that you can
respond within the next 2 weeks. If you have any questions about the
surveys or difficulties accessing the link, please contact me by email (
msalman-ctr(a)wikimedia.org)
Results will be considered during the drafting process for the UCoC
Thank you for your participation
--
*Regards*
*Justice Okai-Allotey*
*Freelance Digital Marketer*
Mobile: +233 (054) 039 4970 Skype: okai_allotey
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Sandister Tei
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Call/WhatsApp: 0204266290
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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Douglas Scott <douglas.i.scott(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2020, 4:01 pm
Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Fwd: [African Wikimedians] AfLIA is hiring a
Wikipedian in Residence & a Curriculum Development Consultant
To: wikimediaza <wikimediaza(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone,
A position of Wikipedian in residence has opened up as has another position
for a curriculum development consultant. Read the email below for
more details.
Regards,
Douglas.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Felix Nartey <fnartey(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 00:35
Subject: [African Wikimedians] AfLIA is hiring a Wikipedian in Residence &
a Curriculum Development Consultant
To: <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: AfLIA Communications <afliacomm(a)aflia.net>, Ingrid Thomson <
ingrid.thomson(a)uct.ac.za>, Pamela Ofori-Boateng <pambelle12(a)gmail.com>
Dear African Wikimedia communities,
I am excited to share an update on the recent partnership between AfLIA and
the WMF. [1] This partnership was secured as part of an outreach strategy
for 1Lib1Ref: facilitating Wikimedia community access to libraries who
offer expertise and access in national and continental knowledge, and often
make great allies for other local activities like editathons or GLAM
partnership.
The cooperation includes several projects aimed at introducing librarians
to the Wikimedia community as well as ensuring librarians can support our
communities across Africa. As part of this partnership we piloted a
localized version of 1Lib1Ref (African Librarians Week) [2] which exceeded
our expectations and is currently engaging more than 842 librarians. Thanks
to our regional ambassadors (*Georges, Pamela, Ingrid & Ayo*) who played a
key role in the success of the May campaign.
We realized early on that AFLIA was eager to train more of their community.
We supported them to apply for a project grant, because we knew how
resource intensive it could be to develop successful, large scale library
training.[3] The grant has been approved and AfLIA is looking forward to
working closely with our communities to provide training and onboarding
librarians within their networks into the respective Wikimedia communities
on the continent.
We want to make sure that all of the existing Wikimedia community groups
throughout the continent benefit from this partnership. The goal is to
train librarians so that they can become part of all our communities, the
partnership will likely continue to bring:
-
Opportunities to advise on the training in the grant, and use the
professional training materials
-
Connections with regional and national library associations
-
Connect with enthusiastic library leaders in your context
The team for the project is hiring a *Wikipedian in residence (WiR)*
and a *Curriculum
Development Consultant*.[4][5] Please follow the links to apply for any of
the roles if interested.
Reach out to me or Alex Stinson (astinson(a)wikimedia.org) if you would like
to be part of the conversation with AfLIA and take advantage of their
network in your respective countries.
Best,
[1] - https://web.aflia.net/
[2] - https://twitter.com/hashtag/AfLibWk
[3] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/AfLIA/Wikipedia_in_African_L…
[4] - https://web.aflia.net/job-opening-wikipedian-in-residence/
[5] - https://web.aflia.net/job-opening-curriculum-development-consultant/
--
Felix Nartey
Community and Partnerships Coordinator, Campaigns
*Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>*
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司道格
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Good morning.
As many community members globally continue to kick against the renaming of
our movement's elements, we need to vote as a group on whether Wikimedia
Foundation brand team should pause and listen to our concerns first, or go
ahead. Deadline is 7 July 2020 23:59 GMT
Steps to voting
1. Visit this meta page.
2. Log into your Wikimedia/Wikipedia acc
3. Scroll to the option you like. Support/Oppose/Undecided
4. Click the "Edit Source" which is on the same line with the option you
like
5. Move to any unused asterisk symbol you see
6. Type 4 tilde symbols (~~~~) beside the asterisk. Save the page.
Best regards,
Sandister Tei
––
#DiscoverWikipedia <https://wmgh.org/> with Wikimedia Ghana User Group
| m: +2334266290
| stei.home.blog
Certainly, once we pick a date and time, I can send a Google Meet link,
which allows up to 250 participants, so absolutely anyone is welcome to
join.
Thank you, Masssly, for that relevant recording! I hadn't known about it.
A.
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 7:57 PM Mohammed Sadat Abdulai <masssly(a)ymail.com>
wrote:
> The deletion process can get quite complex, I know many folks get
> discouraged by it. My experience in the matter has been to avoid a
> defensive stance although the entity might be * clearly * notable. It
> works sometimes for me :)
>
>
>
> Since this is obviously a matter many people struggle with, other folks
> are probably going to want to join the call too.
>
>
>
> @Justice Okai-Allotey <owulakpakpo(a)gmail.com> Might you be interested to
> organize something larger so Asaf can talk to the community at large.
>
>
>
> If this doesn’t happen, A+F recorded a session recently about “engaging in
> deletion discussion” that could be helpful to many:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Art_%2B_Feminism_Community_Hours_-_…
>
>
>
> -Masssly
>
>
>
> *From: *Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, April 21, 2020 2:47 PM
> *To: *Wikimedia Ghana User Group <wikimedia-gh(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Wikimedia-GH] Deletion of Article
>
>
>
> Okay, yes, let's separate these two issues, because they are actually
> quite distinct:
>
>
>
> 1. Notability is a yes/no question, which needs to be established (just
> once, for the entire lifetime of the article) using only reliable sources,
> dealing directly with the subject, but independent of the article subject.
> (This was also covered in the training in Ghana.)
>
>
>
> 2. NPOV, on the other hand, is *not* a yes/no question, but a general bar
> you have to meet *in each and every sentence of the article* (except inside
> quotations etc.), and that can rely on all sorts of sources and even no
> sources at all. (e.g. "X is a Ghanaian singer" is perfectly *neutral* even
> without sources. It won't be enough to establish *notability*, but those
> are separate questions.)
>
>
>
> I deliberately asked about NPOV, because I recognize that Notability is
> made tougher to establish for African subjects because of relative paucity
> of sources on the one hand, and possible bias on the other hand. This
> person may or may not be notable -- I have no idea and haven't done
> research myself -- but it is concerning that your article was also found to
> be promotional. The reason I am concerned is that *even though* the two
> questions are logically distinct and, properly, should be judged
> separately, in practice if a patroller sees an article with what they
> perceive as a blatantly promotional tone, they *would* be a lot more
> suspicious of the article's notability as well.
>
>
>
> So, you can obtain the article text via [[WP:UND]], and then we can
> perhaps schedule a call to rebiew it and have a discussion, and either fix
> it if it needs fixing, or learn from it if it can't be fixed and look for
> more notable subjects. I am generally flexible these days, and am in the
> UTC+3 time zone. Are there days/times that would be particularly
> convenient for you (plural, any of you who may be interested)?
>
>
>
> A.
>
>
>
> *Asaf Bartov *(he/him/his)
>
> Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
>
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
>
> https://donate.wikimedia.org
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 5:13 PM Justice Okai-Allotey <
> owulakpakpo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Asaf,
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have a save text of the article I wrote for Michael
> Aboya and no I wasn't paid to edit that article, I made a judgement of
> notability from what I saw about him online.
>
>
>
> Also, I made sure everything I wrote was from a neutral point of view, I
> sent it to a few experienced editors in our community to check my text if I
> had missed something and from the response, I got it wasn't promotional.
> For Michael Aboya I found so many articles from secondary sources speaking
> about him but it still got deleted because to those editors he should have
> done something major. He won a global photography competition so I thought
> that is something noteworthy to write about.
>
>
>
> I would be glad to get a refresher on NPOV but a lot of the times it has
> more to do with Notability and how to determine it within the several
> contexts.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Justice.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 1:57 PM Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> As the article has already been deleted, I can't see and judge for
> myself. But there was mention of promotional language in the discussion
> about Michael Aboya, at least. Was there indeed promotional language? If
> so, how come? I know for a fact you know how to write NPOV text, because I
> remember personally demonstrating it in Ghana, with you in the room. Was
> indeed a paid editing job? Did you not notice you were using non-NPOV
> language?
>
>
>
> (If it's the latter, I am happy to offer a call where we can go over this
> again -- perhaps even fix the article, if you have a saved copy -- to make
> sure future efforts of yours don't end up with text that is
> encyclopedically unacceptable.)
>
>
>
> I'm interested in helping resolve this. Obviously, resolving this can't
> require breaking Wikipedia's rules, though.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> A.
>
>
>
> *Asaf Bartov *(he/him/his)
>
> Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
>
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
>
> https://donate.wikimedia.org
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 4:00 PM Justice Okai-Allotey <
> owulakpakpo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I started a conversation on our Telegram chat group about getting my
> articles (User:Owula kpakpo) tagged for deletion by one editor (
> User:Versace1608 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Versace1608>) and
> other editors like (User:Kwamevaughan) also expressed same sentiments about
> getting articles his written tagged for deletion.
>
>
>
> In other to settle this and get a community response to such issues in the
> future and how we can settle issues of notability criteria within our
> contest as Ghanaians. Another volunteer (User:Enock4seth) asked that it be
> shared here so we can properly document such discussions for later.
>
>
>
> Find links to the various articles under scrutiny below. Also, feel free
> to add any further information to this discussion so we can properly deal
> with it moving forward.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Justice.
>
>
>
> [1]
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Draft:B4b…
> <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Miscellany_for_deletion/Draft:B4b…>
>
> [2]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Ghana
>
> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Camidoh
>
> [4]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Michael_Aboya
>
>
>
> --
>
> *Regards*
>
> *Justice Okai-Allotey*
>
> *Freelance Digital Marketer*
>
>
>
> Mobile: +233 (054) 039 4970 Skype: okai_allotey
>
>
>
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>
> |Social Media Lead - Wikimedia Ghana User Group
> <https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaGhanaUG/>|
>
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> | Facebook: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.facebook.com/wyzzlewany>
> | Twitter: @Owula_Kpakpo <https://twitter.com/Owula_Kpakpo> |
>
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>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>
> --
>
> *Regards*
>
> *Justice Okai-Allotey*
>
> *Freelance Digital Marketer*
>
>
>
> Mobile: +233 (054) 039 4970 Skype: okai_allotey
>
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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FYI
Greetings MoveCom!
I hope that you are all staying safe, doing well, and washing your hands a
lot. As you all know, there is a lot going on in our movement, and we hope
to hear from more of you soon about these developments (in the meantime,
check out the Meta-Wiki COVID-19 portal)[1]. For now, I have a quick update
on some of the Wikimedia Foundation's planned Earth Day activities
beginning this week. We also would like to hear what others are doing for
Earth Day. If your group is engaged in some Earth Day activities - let us
know here!
Next Wednesday, 22 April, people around the world are celebrating Earth
Day. The Wikimedia Foundation is providing staff with the day off to
encourage them to participate in a variety of projects taking place in
support of climate change. We are also showing our support for this effort
by once again participating in a campaign hosted on the Foundation's
website (wikimediafoundation.org). This campaign is affiliated with the
same group that coordinated the September 2019 Digital Climate Strike that
we also participated in with the Foundation's website. It’s part of an Earth
Da <https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/>y Live
<https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/> [2] initiative to support COVID-19
relief; since the pandemic means no public events, youth activists are
throwing a massive three-day livestream to celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary of Earth Day, featuring celebrities, activists, musical
performances.
The campaign is similar in operation to the 2019 Digital Climate Strike.
>From now until Earth Day (22 April) a small banner will appear on the
Foundation's website notifying them of our participation in the Earth Day
Live 2020 campaign,[2] and inviting them to participate in a variety of
online efforts. On Earth Day, a full page banner will be displayed on the
Foundation's website inviting people to join efforts to promote climate
change. Visitors to the website will have the ability to close the banner,
the banners will only appear on the Foundation's website, and we are
following that site's existing Privacy Policy.
While many within the Foundation have held strong commitments to
sustainability efforts for several years, the organization has more
formally been engaging in and supporting those efforts since the Board
passed a resolution in 2017 stating our commitment to environmental
sustainability.[3] We have since continued to expand our efforts and find
new ways to both raise awareness of this issue and decrease any negative
impacts we may be having on the planet's climate.[4] The staff and
contractors of the Foundation have shown a great deal of enthusiasm for our
Earth Day plans this year, and while we have a lot more left to do, real
progress is being made.
We have also posted a notice on Phabricator about this banner appearing in
case anyone fears it was not intentional. If you have any questions related
to our activities, please let me know. And again, please let us know about
what Earth Day activities you are engaged in. It is helpful for us when
preparing things for the press who ping us with inquiries.
Thank you, please stay safe and wash your hands!
-greg
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19
[2] https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/
[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Environmental_Impact
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sustainability
--
*Regards*
*Justice Okai-Allotey*
*Freelance Digital Marketer*
Mobile: +233 (054) 039 4970 Skype: okai_allotey
|Avenger - Urithi Labs <https://www.facebook.com/urithimedia/>|
|Social Media Lead - Wikimedia Ghana User Group
<https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaGhanaUG/>|
|Linkedin: Justice Okai-Allotey
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/justice-okai-allotey-306b6354?trk=hp-identity-n…>
| Facebook: Justice Okai-Allotey <https://www.facebook.com/wyzzlewany> |
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Dear Wikimedia communities,
The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic is a reminder of our global human
interconnectedness, and the responsibilities we have to one another. It is
also a moment that reminds us of how essential free and open knowledge is
around the world.
With roughly half the world under some form of restriction, traffic to the
Wikimedia projects has surged. Last Sunday, April 5th, we counted over 673
million page views in a single day across our projects, a five-year high
(from when we started using these measurements), and an increase of 30.5%
above the same day last year. At the time of this writing (Wednesday, April
8th) that was a new record for our projects. On Sunday, March 29th, we
counted over 650 million page views in a single day across our projects, a
record five-year high (from when we started using these measurements), and
an increase of 31.5% above the same day last year. Articles related to the
coronavirus and COVID-19 are among the most popular articles across dozens
of language Wikipedias.
Moments of uncertainty are often moments in which our movement shines.
Every day, every hour, thousands of Wikimedians are working diligently to
keep the world informed, from combing through medical updates in real-time
to make sure our COVID-19 articles are as accurate as possible, to creating
data models around COVID-19 patterns on Wikidata, to teaching people how to
contribute from the safety of their home.
At the Wikimedia Foundation, we have the honor of supporting all of your
work. We see its importance hundreds of millions of times each day as
people around the globe seek information. We hear from donors, readers,
educators, partners, journalists, and advocates around the world about how
much you matter.
*Today, I want to express our gratitude for what you have created on these
sites and in this movement. Thank you.*
We also want to hear how you are doing and what you need as volunteers,
organized groups, or affiliates during the pandemic. Please share and
discuss what you will need on this Meta-Wiki talk page:
Meta-Wiki:Talk:COVID-19 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:COVID-19>
If you are interested in what the Foundation is doing, we have set up a
Meta-Wiki page with this information, where we invite others to contribute
additional information from across the movement: Meta-Wiki:COVID-19
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/COVID-19>
This is a moment in which not only what we do, but how we do it, will make
a meaningful impact on the world. We are so grateful for all that you do as
a movement to continue to rise to the challenges of our moment. On behalf
of all of us at the Wikimedia Foundation, thank you for your work and
dedication, your commitment to the Wikimedia vision, and your care for
people around the world.
Yours,
Katherine
--
*Regards*
*Justice Okai-Allotey*
*Freelance Digital Marketer*
Mobile: +233 (054) 039 4970 Skype: okai_allotey
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Hello there,
I hope you are well and observing all life-preserving advice whether you
are staying at home, or providing an essential service and hence have to be
out.
Now that we have cancelled all offline Wikimedia activities Wikimedia Ghana
User Group starting Monday, April 6, 2020, with the help of some
volunteers, will be holding online Wikipedia 101 and Wikidata 101 classes.
These will be for editors who see themselves as beginners.
Experienced editors are invited to help maintain the 2020 coronavirus
pandemic in Ghana Wikipedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Ghana> page.
Links to breaking news stories are shared on our Telegram page daily
<https://t.me/joinchat/CAWfZhODEsRaMSo59xft4Q>, and experienced editors can
make use of that, to update the wiki.
To register for the training, please fill this form
<https://forms.gle/xCxmKPqcVyQhN9qG7>.
We know editing and volunteering for this community has been one of the
ways you have spent your leisure time and we hope these measures will keep
you engaged for now.
For more details, you can email Wikimedia Ghana User Group via
community(a)wmgh.org.
Best regards,
Sandister Tei
––
Curator Media & Journalism, re:publica Accra | Citi FM/TV | Wikimedia Ghana
UG | Purple Peoplem: +2334266290 tw: @SandisterTei
<https://twitter.com/SandisterTei> ig: @s.andister
<https://www.instagram.com/s.andister/>
Hi all,
FYI.
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From: Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 20:57
Subject: [Wikimania-l] [Covid-19] Postponing Wikimania Bangkok until 2021
To: Wikimania General List, (open subscription) <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear everyone,
As a part of the Wikimedia movement’s ongoing response to the COVID-19
pandemic, we are postponing Wikimania Bangkok 2020. This decision was made
with the full support of the ESEAP host team and Wikimania Committee.
Together, we will hold Wikimania in Bangkok in 2021.
We are filled with sadness to not see you all in Bangkok in August.
However, we are confident that this is the best possible decision for the
well-being of our global community and public health overall. This decision
was proposed by the ESEAP organizers in line with their countries’ response
to the COVID-19 pandemic and is in line with recommendations from the World
Health Organization (WHO).
You are certain to have many questions. We hope to answer some of your
questions below. We will continue to answer questions on the Wikimania
Meta-Wiki page and on the Wikimania Telegram group chat (more information
below).
*== What does “postponing” Wikimania mean? ==*
We will not host an in-person Wikimania in 2020. We are rescheduling
Wikimania Bangkok until 2021. The ESEAP organizing team[2] will continue
their work as a regional collaborative between affiliates in the East,
South East, and Pacific regions to host us in Thailand next year.
The hotel and venue[3] in Bangkok will remain the same. We have not yet
finalized dates for 2021. We will work with the ESEAP team and Wikimania
Steering Committee to confirm new dates. We will let you know these dates
by the end of 2020.
The good news is that Wikimania 2021 will coincide with Wikipedia’s 20th
birthday year. We expect this to be a truly memorable Wikimania -- an
opportunity to celebrate reconnection after a year apart, along with the
remarkable accomplishment of two decades of free knowledge.
*== Will there be an alternative to the in-person event? ==*
There are no plans by the 2020 Wikimania hosts to organize a virtual,
online event. Hosting Wikimania is a lot of work. The ESEAP team is
committed to hosting the best possible in-person event in Bangkok in 2021.
Therefore, they will not have the capacity to organize a virtual Wikimania
this year.
However, the Wikimania committee, the ESEAP host team, and the Wikimedia
Foundation all recognize that other members of the community may be
interested in organizing a remote, global Wikimedia event for 2020.
Although the Wikimedia Foundation does not have the capacity at this time
to lead the organizing of a virtual online conference, we recognize others
may have the desire to do so.
We welcome discussion about online events. Interested parties are welcome
to contact the Wikimania Steering Committee and Wikimania Foundation staff
for advice on the Wikimania Meta-Wiki page[1].
We are also considering proposals for improving the capacity of communities
to organize local virtual convenings, and for how we can support
communities in organizing impromptu local and regional Wikimedia events
once the pandemic passes. As the situation has been changing rapidly we are
still working on specifics and will share more information in the coming
weeks.
*== What does this mean for scholarship applications? ==*
We are working on a plan for how to process Wikimania 2020 scholarship
applications.[4] We will share more information in the coming weeks.
*== How was this decision made? ==*
This recommendation was made by the ESEAP organizers based on what we know
about the current COVID-19 global health pandemic and current WHO
guidelines. The decision was made together with the ESEAP team in
consultation with the Wikimania Steering Committee and Wikimedia
Foundation. Together we are fully and unanimously aligned around this
decision.
Although we are genuinely sad to not have the opportunity to see you all
this year, we also are fully supportive of this decision in all of our best
interests. It allows our ESEAP community hosts to focus on the immediate
needs of their families, local Wikimedia communities, and local communities
as a whole. It is in line with global public health guidance and aligns the
Wikimedia movement as a responsible actor in support of our common public
good.
We want to thank all volunteers and affiliates that have been involved with
planning Wikimania. We’re especially appreciative of the ESEAP for their
leadership, flexibility, and compassion, as we have worked together to make
some difficult decisions on this important event.
*== Where can I learn more about Wikimania 2021? ==*
There are a number of channels where Wikimania is regularly discussed and
where plans for 2021 will be posted as they develop. We welcome all
interested participants to bring together our collective wisdom and
creativity to discuss what happens next with Wikimania. You can find these
channels here:
- Wikimania wiki: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania
- Wikimania mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
- Freenode IRC channel: #wikimania
- Telegram group chat: https://t.me/wikimaniachat
*== Where can I learn more about COVID-19 and Wikimedia? ==*
We know the Wikimedia community as generous and altruistic. Unsurprisingly,
many volunteers have started applying their skills and attention to this
current global pandemic. The Foundation created a page on Meta-Wiki where
we can share and document the steps the Foundation and movement members are
taking and ways to participate. We invite you to join us in documenting
more about our collective response: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19
*== Thank you ==*Our world, and many of our lives, have changed rapidly
over these past few weeks. Yet we can look to history to take comfort that
crises are also often moments when people put aside differences, prioritize
community and care, and find ways to connect. The sense of community and
purpose within the Wikimedia movement is a powerful rejoinder to these
uncertain times.
This is a moment in which not only what we do, but how we do it, will make
a meaningful impact on the world. We are so grateful for all that you do as
a movement to continue to rise to the challenges of our moment.
Please, stay safe and take care.
Katherine, on behalf of the:
- ESEAP Core Organizing Team
- Wikimania Steering Committee
- Wikimedia Foundation Events Team
P.S. You can help translate and share this message via Meta-Wiki: <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2020>
You can also find additional information about Wikimedia's other actions
regarding COVID-19 on Meta-Wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2020
[2] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2020:Organizers
[3] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2020:Venue
[4] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarship_Committee
--
Katherine Maher (she/her)
Executive Director
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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