Dear All,
The Access to Knowledge (A2K) team at CIS has been engaged with work on
research on Indian language Wikimedia projects as part of the APG since
2019. This year, following up on our learnings from work so far, we are
undertaking a needs assessment exercise to understand a) the awareness
about research within Indian language Wikimedia communities, and identify
existing projects if any, and b) to gather community inputs on knowledge
gaps and priority areas of focus and the role of research in addressing the
same.
We would therefore request interested community members to respond to the
needs assessment questionnaire here: https://forms.gle/2xGAUBKSVJTK7Wks9
Please respond in any Indian language as suitable. The deadline for this
exercise is February 20, 2021. For any queries do write to us on the
CIS-A2K research talk page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Research
User:Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Centre for Internet and Society (CIS)
Access to Knowledge
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From: Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <kcvelaga(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 8:10 PM
Subject: WIRED story about Wikipedia in India | Request
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone,
A journalist from Wired <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_(magazine)>[1],
Omer Benjakob reached out, as he is working on a story related to Wikipedia
in India. He is interested in talking to a few editors working on Wikipedia
specifically. The story is mostly related to on-Wiki content focused around
disinformation and how political tensions pan out on Wikipedia, in the
context of India. If anyone is interested, please email him directly
at omerbj[at]gmail.com or send a direct message at
https://www.facebook.com/omerbj/, before Saturday.
Thank you,
KC.
Hi everyone,
I hope this email finds each and everyone of you well.
This is a cordial reminder for the regional South Asia call
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/South_Asia_Movement_Strategy_Call>
happening this *Friday October 30 at 19:30 IST. *
The purpose for the call is to discuss how communities in South Asia and
Indian Wikimedians can shape the future of our movement and be involved in
implementing the Movement Strategy recommendations
<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Wikimedia_Movement_Stra…>.
Katherine Maher, the CEO and Executive Director of the Wikimedia
Foundation, and Ryan Merkley, Chief of Staff and former CEO of Creative
Commons, will both be present as special guests to say hello and to hear
directly from you. Sunil Abraham will facilitate this community-led event.
Many thanks to the excellent organizers. We look forward to welcoming you
on Friday. In the meantime, please don't hesitate if you have any questions
or comments.
Regards,
Mehrdad
*Mehrdad Pourzaki*
Community Relations and Communications
Movement Strategy
2030.wikimedia.org
*"By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the
ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able
to join us." *
***Apologies for cross-posting***
Distinguished colleagues, friends, greetings!
I hope this email finds you all well.
The time has come to put Movement Strategy into work and in the service of
communities. Colleagues from the region are organizing a casual call for
South Asian groups, Indian Wikimedians, and other enthusiasts on *Friday
October 30 @ 19:30 IST *[1]. Please join us with your questions and ideas,
or just to say hi. [2]
South Asia - both in terms of demographic and technological trends - is key
for the future growth and sustainability of the Wikimedia movement. The 10
Movement Strategy recommendations [3] and 45 initiatives [4] have a lot of
great ideas to guide us for the next 10 years. Right now though, we need to
figure out what we should work on first in 2021. We are asking communities
and affiliates to identify their priorities for implementation, as well as
the required resources and capacities. In late November, we will all come
together in global meetings to create a movement-wide implementation plan.
Before the call on Oct. 30, think about: what is work that you're already
doing that is aligned with Movement Strategy? What are priorities for you
and your community in 2021? What resources will you need? What are things
we should all work on globally?
Please don't hesitate if you have any questions or comments.
Best,
Mehrdad
[1] Friday October 30 @ 19:30 / 7:30pm IST -
http://meet.google.com/qpn-xjrm-irj
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/South_Asia_Movement_Strategy_Call
[3] Movement Strategy recommendations:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Wikimedia_Movement_Stra…
[4] Movement Strategy initiatives:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…>
*Mehrdad Pourzaki*
Community Relations and Communications
Movement Strategy
2030.wikimedia.org
*"By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the
ecosystem of free knowledge, and anyone who shares our vision will be able
to join us." *
Hello,
Today the Wikimedia Foundation would like to introduce a new community
blog. It's called "Diff" (diff.wikimedia.org) and is a blog by – and
for – the Wikimedia volunteer community to connect and share
learnings, stories, and ideas from across our movement. We'd like to
encourage you to learn more about Diff and how it can help you in
sharing and learning from your fellow Wikimedians.
Everyone is invited to contribute!
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/welcome-to-diff-a-community-blog-for-…
The name “Diff” is in reference to the wiki interface that displays
the difference between one version and another of a Wikipedia page. It
also reflects the “difference” our communities and movement make in
the world every day.
For some background, Diff builds on lessons and experiences from the
Wikimedia Blog, the Wikimedia Foundation News, and Wikimedia Space;
previous posts from these channels are archived on Diff. The channel
is primarily intended for community-authored posts, in which
volunteers can share their stories, learnings, and ideas with each
other.
Diff offers a simple and accessible editorial process, moderated by
Foundation communications staff and open to volunteers, to encourage
participation from all — especially emerging and under-represented
communities. Additionally, content on Diff can be written and
translated into languages to reach a wide audience. Diff also has a
code of conduct and comments can be flagged and moderated.
Still curious to learn more?
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/welcome-to-diff-a-community-blog-for-…
Yours,
Chris Koerner (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello Wikimedians
In these difficult times many of us miss the chance to connect in person
with other Wikimedians. We miss the events and meetings where we could
learn from and about each other. So we thought to use this time to learn
more about the great people that make up our communities. We would like to
give some of them a bit of a spotlight in our virtual spaces like our blogs
and social media in the absence of physical connection points.
Do you know a community member who has accomplished something new or
inspiring in the last year? Someone who you think the rest of the community
should know about? If so, please take a few minutes and nominate them in
the survey below.
Let us know about their inspiring work, whatever form it took, online or
offline. This can include but is not limited to adding important content
directly to one of our projects, encouraging and supporting others in
adding content, teaching the public about Wikipedia or other Wikimedia
projects, building partnerships, or organizing events and helping your
local community thrive. We are also curious to learn about the different
ways people enrich our movement!
Use the following link to take the survey.
-
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0plqKWa1o1ztZ1b?target=List-in
<https://wikimedia-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1_JszED7z9mHJlC_…>
Thank you in advance for helping us highlight more wonderful people and
accomplishments from all over the world!
Your privacy is important to us and is governed by the linked privacy
statement. In this survey, we will request your contact information and
that of the individual you are nominating. Please be sure that the person
you are nominating understands you are providing us with their information.
We will use this information to get in touch with nominees, should they
meet our selection criteria. We will retain this contact information
indefinitely unless you or the person you nominate request its deletion or
update it in a subsequent survey; please see the privacy statement
<https://wikimedia-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1_JszED7z9mHJlC_…>
for details.
Kind regards,
Chris Koerner (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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Dear Affiliate Representatives and community members,
The launch of our final round of community conversation is finally here! We
are excited to have the opportunity to invite you to take part.
tl;dr: The recommendations have been published! Please take time over the
next five weeks to review and help us understand how your organization and
community would be impacted.
What Does This Mean?
The core recommendations document [1] has now been published on Meta in
Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Spanish. This is
the result of more than a year of dedicated work by our working groups, and
we are pleased to share the evolution of their work for your final
consideration.
In addition to the recommendations text, you can read through key documents
such as Principles [2], Process [3], and the Writer’s Reflections [4],
which lend important context to this work and highlight the ways that the
recommendations are conceptually interlinked.
We also have a brief Narrative of Change [5] which offers a summary
introduction to the recommendations material.
How Is My Input Reflected In This Work?
Community input played an important role in the drafting of these
recommendations. The core recommendations document [1] reflects this and
cites community input throughout in footnotes.
I also encourage you to take a look at our community input summaries [6].
These texts show a further analysis of how all of the ideas you shared last
year through online conversations, affiliate meetings, and strategy salons
connect to recommendations. Many of the community notes and reports not
footnoted in the core recommendations document are referenced here as
evidence of the incredible convergence of ideas that have brought us this
far.
What Happens Now?
Affiliates, online communities, and other stakeholders have the next five
weeks to discuss and share feedback on these recommendations. In
particular, we’re hoping to better understand how you think they would
impact our movement - what benefits and opportunities do you foresee for
your affiliate, and why? What challenges or barriers would they pose for
you? Your input at this stage is vital, and we’d like to warmly invite you
to participate in this final discussion period.
Affiliates and individuals interested in hosting these discussions, please
connect with me directly so that I can be sure your input is collected and
used.
After this five week period, the Core Team will publish a summary report of
input from across affiliates, online communities, and other stakeholders
for public review before the recommendations are finalized. You can view
our updated timeline here [8] as well as an updated FAQ section [9] that
addresses topics like the goal of this current period, the various
components of the draft recommendations, and what’s next in more detail.
Thank you again for taking the time to join us in community conversations,
and we look forward to receiving your input. Happy reading!
Best,
Rupika
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…
[7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/…
[8]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Frequen…
[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Frequen…
Rupika Sharma
Community Strategy Liaison, Movement Strategy
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."
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Hello all!
Greetings! Wishing you a very happy new year!
We have an update for the next steps of the Movement Strategy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20>!
We're preparing for a final round of community conversations with Wikimedia
affiliates and online communities around a synthesized set of draft
recommendations to start around 20th January. In the meantime,
recommendations’ writers and strategy team has been working on integrating
community ideas and feedback into these recommendations. Thank you, for all
of your contributions!
What's New?
The recommendations writers have been working to consolidate the 89
recommendations produced by the working groups. They met in Berlin a few
weeks back for an in-person session to produce a synthesized
recommendations document which will be shared for public comment around
20th January. A number of common areas for change were reflected in the
recommendations, and the writers assessed and clustered them around these
areas. The goal was to outline the overall direction of the change and
present one set that is clearly understood, implementable and demonstrates
the reasoning behind each.
What's Next?
We will be reaching out to you to help engage your affiliate in discussing
this new synthesized version and helping the recommendation writers as well
as the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees understand how they will
affect your community and what final changes should be made before going
forward. Your input in helping us refine and advance key ideas will be
invaluable, and we are looking forward to engaging with you for a period of
roughly six weeks, starting some time between January and February.
Please share ideas on how you would like to meet and discuss the final
draft recommendations when they are released near Mid January whether
through your strategy salons & meetups, joining us at global and regional
events, joining online conversations, or sending in notes from affiliate
discussions. We couldn't do this without you, and hope that you will enjoy
seeing your input reflected in the next draft and final recommendations.
This will be an opportunity for the movement to review and respond to the
recommendations before they are finalized.
Warmly,
Rupika
Rupika Sharma
Community Strategy Liaison, Movement Strategy
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
"Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment."
Please find the survey link here: https://forms.gle/YkA9UfcbXo3c637M6.
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From: pavan santhosh <pavansanthosh.s(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:08 PM
Subject: [WikiConference India 2020] Community Engagement Survey
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone,
I hope everyone is doing great.
I am writing this email to invite you all to participate in the Community
Engagement Survey for WikiConference India 2020. The Community Engagement
Survey is one of the key requirements for drafting the Conference & Event
Grant application for the Wikimedia Foundation.
The survey will have questions regarding a few demographic details, your
experience with Wikimedia, challenges and needs, and your expectations for
WCI 2020. The responses will help us to form an initial idea of what is
expected out of WCI 2020, and draft the grant application accordingly.
Please note that this will not directly influence the specificities of the
program, there will be a detailed survey to assess the program needs after
funding.
Please fill the survey at; https://forms.gle/YkA9UfcbXo3c637M6. The survey
will be open until 23:59 hrs of 22 December 2019.
Please pass on this message to your community mailing lists, and it would
be great if you post on the Village Pumps of your local Wikis. Looking
forward to all of your active participation.
Let me know if there are any questions.
Best wishes,
Pavan Santhosh.
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Pavan Santhosh.
Hello everyone,
Please find survey link here: https://forms.gle/YkA9UfcbXo3c637M6
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From: pavan santhosh <pavansanthosh.s(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:08 PM
Subject: [WikiConference India 2020] Community Engagement Survey
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone,
I hope everyone is doing great.
I am writing this email to invite you all to participate in the Community
Engagement Survey for WikiConference India 2020. The Community Engagement
Survey is one of the key requirements for drafting the Conference & Event
Grant application for the Wikimedia Foundation.
The survey will have questions regarding a few demographic details, your
experience with Wikimedia, challenges and needs, and your expectations for
WCI 2020. The responses will help us to form an initial idea of what is
expected out of WCI 2020, and draft the grant application accordingly.
Please note that this will not directly influence the specificities of the
program, there will be a detailed survey to assess the program needs after
funding.
Please fill the survey at; https://forms.gle/YkA9UfcbXo3c637M6. The survey
will be open until 23:59 hrs of 22 December 2019.
Please pass on this message to your community mailing lists, and it would
be great if you post on the Village Pumps of your local Wikis. Looking
forward to all of your active participation.
Let me know if there are any questions.
Best wishes,
Pavan Santhosh.
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Pavan Santhosh.
