Dear all,
The next WMF metrics and activities meeting will take place on Thursday,
April 3, 2014 at 6 PM UTC (11 AM PDT). The IRC channel is #wikimedia-office
on irc.freenode.net and the meeting will be broadcast as a live YouTube
stream.
The current structure of the meeting is:
* Review of key metrics including the monthly report card, but also
specialized reports and analytic
* Review of financials
* Welcoming recent hires
* Brief presentations on recent projects, with a focus on highest priority
initiatives
* Update and Q&A with the Executive Director, if available
Please review
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings for further
information about how to participate.
We'll post the video recording publicly after the meeting.
Thank you,
Praveena
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Executive Assistant to the VP of Engineering & Product Development
+1 (415) 839-6885 ext. 6689
www.wikimedia.org
On 2 January 2014 04:24, James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> I would like to invite submissions[0] proposing presentations, panels,
> tutorials and workshops for Wikimania 2014 in London this coming August.
>
> Note that the deadline is the end of March; we hope to have final
> decisions about the programme by the end of April.
>
>
[0] – https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
>
All,
A reminder that this deadline is just over *one week away* – by the end of
31 March.
Note that a complete submission is required, including an abstract of 300
words or more that explains to the Programme Committee why you think your
proposal should be accepted over others.
(For the curious, we will accept submissions up to 23:59 UTC−12:00 on 31
March 2014, which is 11:59 UTC on 1 April 2014, but not later.)
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Chair, Programme Committee
Wikimania 2014
jdforrester(a)gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
capacity)
Re: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014
I had thought that to ensure the cost of the conference was kept to a
healthy level that organizations would send no more than 2
representatives plus one optional guest. This seems to not be the case
looking at the proposed attendee list[1] with the UK sending a massive
party of 8 people (excluding Wikimania representatives), significantly
larger than any other Chapter or Thorg.
Could we please be modest with the movement's money and than some of
these proposed names are withdrawn? I propose setting an absolute
maximum of 3 representatives from any chapter, thorg or user group and
that is enforced rather than a vague guideline.
There will be video conferencing available, costing the movement nothing.
Links:
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2014/Participants
Fae
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Hi everyone,
As you might know, or not, tomorrow nght the round 2 of this year FDC
proposal will close.
Our proposal is on meta :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/Wikim…
and we're copy editing it.
In the past it has been brought to our attention that our proposal did
include slight mistakes.
If anyone has the courage to help us proofread our proposal, your help
will be much appreciated.
In the mean time, if you spot errors or parts you don't totally get,
please tell us, we'll do our best to improve it before tomorrow
evening.
Also, if you have any questions regarding our programs for next year,
don't wait tomorrow to ask us questions about it.
Thanks for anyone who will help us improve our proposal.
Best,
--
Christophe
Dear fellows,
The following message is just to keep you informed about the activities
developed in February by Amical Wikimedia.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/February_2014
Kind regards,
David Parreño Mont
User:Davidpar
Communications, Amical Wikimedia
----
*Source:* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Amical_Wikimedia/February_2014
GLAM-WIKI
- 1st February -- Wikipedia editing workshop at Almenar's public library.
ESM
- 1st February -- Meeting with Secció de Ciències del Museu de Mataró
(Science section of Mataró Museum) to explore ways of collaboration.
Vàngelis Villar, Papapep, Dvdgmz
- 11th February -- GLAMwiki talk at *Update. Actualiza tu
patrimonio*("Update". Update your heritage), a course aimed at GLAM
professionals held
in Seville. ESM
- 13th February -- Follow-up meeting at Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona) to
extend the current wikiproject until mid-May. Kippelboy, ESM
- 18th February -- Wikipedia follow up Meeting at the Tarragona Public
Library Kippelboy
- 19th February -- Participation in the talk *Del templo al mundo* (From
the temple to the world), given in a Social Media Week Barcelona session.
ESM
- 20th February: Meeting with Libraries of the Pompeu Fabra University.
Davidpar
- 22th February: Meeting with Begur Library and Archive. Davidpar
- 24th February: Wikipedia and GLAMWiki Workshop to Public Servers of
the Cultural Ministry of the Catalan Government Kippelboy
- 28th January to 14th April -- Il·lustraciència Award from Associació
Catalana de Comunicació Científica (Catalan Asociation of Science
Comunication) give to the participants the option to accept Wikimedia
Commons upload of their artworks. Post in the blog 12th february[1].
Education
- 4th February Wikipedia editing workshop at Esmuc to lauch a
educational project Kippelboy, Marionaaragay
- 6th February - Meeting with MACBA & Fundació Joan Brossa to prepare
october's edit-a-thon on Joan Brossa[2], Kippelboy
- 10th & 14th Febryary - 2 Wikipedia workshop for 350 students during
the Kick off of the Museu del Disseny Wikiproject, where 13 design schools
will improve content on Wikipedia.Kippelboy
- 10th February - Meeting with CCCB to lauch educational projects
barcelona, Kippelboy
- 14th February - Meeting with the Dean of Computers Information of the
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya to lauch educational projects KRLS,
Kippelboy
- 19th February - Wikipedia editing workshop at Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona to lauch the educational project #Viquiclàssics Kippelboy,
Marionaaragay
- 20th February - Viquitexts workshop for teachers and Wikipedia
workshop to 25 students of the University of València. KRLS, Kippelboy
- 24th February - 2 Wikipedia workshops to 75 students of the University
of Barcelona. 2nd edition of Wikimodernisme project kick off Kippelboy
- 26th February - Meeting with Open University of Catalonia to lauch
Wikipedian in Residence project Kippelboy
- 27th February - Meeting with the Open Knowledge team of the University
of Castelló (Jaume I) to draft an eduwiki collaboration Kippelboy
- wikiArS initiative:
- February 5th -- Wikijunior:Let's Talk about Crystallization in the
Naica Mine[3] translated into English. Catgirl
- April 6th -- Llotja Design Degree. Class about free licenses and how
to use Open Street Maps and other sources to produce urban parks maps for
Wikipedia. Dvdgmz
- February 6th -- Meeting at Art del Treball School with Markitus
Serra & Carlota Rodríguez, students, and Josep Cuello,
mycologist adviser.
Dvdgmz
- February 10th -- 3 scientific illustrations of fungui published by
Markitus Serra. First use of Campaign:wikiArS.
- February 14th -- Meeting in Pau Gargallo with teachers Jordi Badal,
Paulina Muchart and Paula Cuadros, and student David Valle. Dvdgmz
- During the month: 4 students from Pau Gargallo School of Art
working in scientific illustrations; 9 students from Llotja working in
portraits and illustrations of animals; in internship with Amical. 2
students from Art del Treball and edRa working in graphics related with
Ancient Egypt; and 4 students from Tarragona School of Art and Design
working in Roman age recreation images. Contacts with Catalan Libraries
Network about the travel exhibition calendar.
Research
- February 6th - Meeting of the Catalunya Dades group for organizing
"Big Data Week" 2014 in Barcelona. Amical Will lead a panel on Open
Heritage. Kippelboy
Other
- 26th February - Follow up meeting with the Women Catalan Institute to
plan 2014 projects Kippelboy
Organization
- 4th Febrary: Nomination to Martí Gasull Award by Plataforma per la
Lengua. The jury considered that "success of the Catalan Wikipedia is the
voluntary and collective success result of the dynamics of a society that
wants to put the Catalan language to the highest international standards".
Other nominees were Assemblea de Docents de les Illes Balears (winners) and
Joan-Carles Martí i Casanova.
- 24th Febrary: Amical starts a draft agreement with Fundació Puntcat
(.cat domain) to share their offices.
Media
- 3rd February: "Hi ha un error a la Viquipèdia"[4], Núvol. Banyeres
- 4th February: Report[5] on P2PValue (min 48'30" a 53'00") at 3/24.
- 5th February: 15 min interview at TV Girona about "Catalan in the
Internet and the Wikipedia project". Arnaugir
- 14th February: Recording of the podcast *Bibblioteques* on Wiki Loves
Libraries. Davidpar
- 18th February: Interview[6] to QuimGil at *El Punt Avui*.
- 20th February: Report[7] on Catalan Wikipedian community at *Ara*.
Davidpar
- Martí Gasull Award coverage: Plataforma per la Llengua, El Punt Avui,
Núvol, El Punt Avui, VilaWeb, Ara, Llibertat.cat, VilaWeb, Núvol, TV3, El
Punt Avui, Barcelona TV, La Vanguardia, Ara.
- Víctor Balaguer Museum GLAM-WIKI project coverage: Eixdiari.cat,
lafura.cat, Diari de Vilanova
[1]
http://www.wikimedia.cat/2014/02/12/il%C2%B7lustraciencia-convida-als-parti…
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Brossa
[3]
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:Let%27s_Talk_about_Crystallization…
[4] http://www.nuvol.com/opinio/hi-ha-un-error-a-la-viquipedia/
[5] http://www.tv3.cat/videos/4886512/2324---04022014
[6]
http://www.elpuntavui.cat/noticia/article/13-comunicacio/20-comunicacio/717…
[7] http://www.ara.cat/premium/escriu-Viquipedia_0_1088291166.html
Dear colleagues, collaborators and friends of free knowledge,
After three eventful years I left the board of Wikimedia Nederland;
yesterday was the General Assembly in Utrecht. This means a 'goodbye'.
In this time, I had the privilege and pleasure to work with many great
people in many different organisations. We saw a lot of small steps
and some bigger ones directed to our common goal, the support of free
knowledge. Certainly, not everything we as a movement or parts of the
movement was achieved, though.
Between many WMNL members and me, there were two grades of separation:
coming from the humanities, my geekiness differs a little from the
average Wikipedianess; having the German Wikipedia as my home wiki, I
was never a very active or 'true' part of the Dutch editing community.
And when I quoted in my speeches from medieval quests or Prussian
literary realism, I received therefore some strange looks from some
members.
But I remain firmly convinced that good governance and respect have no
nationality. Indeed, stroopwafels do have, and so I adopted the Dutch
custom to bring them with me to Wikimedian meetings abroad.
Wikimedia Nederland has experienced and overcome a difficult period of
transition. Office space and employees, more members including more
members without Wikipedia background, more activities, more money,
more responsibility; more need for an association to mature and focus
on what is necessary (and not always easy, cool or fun). We achieved
that as a collective, slower than previously expected, but with the
appropriate pride and good feelings about the future.
Goodbye - and Hello: I am looking forward to see many of you again at
whatever wiki, chat or real life meeting.
Kind regards
Ziko
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland
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Dr. Ziko van Dijk
Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
Postbus 167
3500 AD Utrecht
http://wikimedia.nl
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Dear Wikimedians,
I am glad to share with you the detailed work plan of CIS-A2K for the
period July 2014-July 2015 [1] . This work plan consists of 21 plans
across 6 verticals.
These are:
* 7 Language Area Plans
* 3 Community Strengthening Initiatives
* 8 Stand-alone Wikimedia Projects
* Creating Movement Resources
* Publicity, Research and Documentation
* General Support and Service to the Movement
The work plan includes details of aims, objectives, programme activities
and expected outcomes. Most of the language area plans were put together
in active consultation with the respective Wikimedia language
communities. Various inputs and ideas contributed, opportunities
provided, and challenges thrown at the CIS-A2K program during the last
year by the Wikimedia communities in India, our institutional partners,
Executive Committee (EC) of Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) and the
Wikimedia Foundation's Grantmaking Team have significantly informed our
work plans.
Each plan has an independent budget and is closely mapped on to the
implementation plan. An attempt is made to correlate why we are spending
a certain amount on a certain activity. Thus all these budgets are very
optimally planned and the overall budget is an assimilation. CIS-A2K
believes that this will give mission level transparency to our work and
provide a clearer structure of accountability to the movement and the
community.
Please do share your feedback and inputs on the respective plan
discussion pages. We would be glad to correct ourselves if you could
point out to any major omissions and errors in plans. We will be
approaching the FDC requesting support for this work plan [2].
Thanks,
Vishnu
(Program Director, CIS-A2K)
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_J…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_C…
Hi Cristian,
Yes. I sort of expected WMDE to be the ones implementing the 2+1
'rule' and if there was to be any exceptions for this to be discussed
before they added names to the registration page.
Anyway, I've already posted quite a bit on this thread, so I'll step
back a little - it's not like I'm even going myself. :-)
Fae
On 31 March 2014 14:45, Cristian Consonni <kikkocristian(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 2014-03-31 11:47 GMT+02:00 Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com>:
>> This seems to not be the case
>> looking at the proposed attendee list[1] with the UK sending a massive
>> party of 8 people (excluding Wikimania representatives), significantly
>> larger than any other Chapter or Thorg.
>
> Well, the question then is "can WM-UK explain the rationale for
> sending such a large representation?"
>
> C
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FYI
> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>
> On 23 March, 36 Wikimedia CH members met for the 8th General Assembly at the Youth Hostel in Zurich, the same location where the next Wikimedia Hackathon is going to be held in May. The total membership has increased by 66% to 387 members at the end of 2013.
>
> The annual activity report presented the major achievements of the year under the slogan „Closer to the Wikimedians, closer to the Wikimedia Projects“, emphasizing that community support has become the main priority for the Swiss chapter. It has seen an increase in staff from one to four employees plus a part-time IT contractor. This additional manpower has been helpful to carry on various successful projects in the GLAM and education areas, and to promote Wikipedia offline (for example Kiwix in jail). The Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest was another success story, with the unexpected first place of a Swiss railway picture in the international selection.
>
> Several of the bylaws modifications proposed by the Board have been accepted, while others have been rejected by the members present.
>
> There were 8 candidates for 6 open seats on the Board. The future composition of the Board after the election:
> Patrick Kenel, President (reelected)
> Frédéric Schütz, Vice President (reelected)
> Bagawathram Maheswaran, Treasurer (reelected)
> Gabriel Thullen (reelected)
> Mauro Cassina (reelected)
> Stéphane Coillet-Matillon (new)
>
> Matina Hämmerli, who has been elected as a new member one year ago, was not reelected. We thank her for the time she spent to work with us on the Board. In accordance with the bylaws, the new Board will take over its one-year term 60 days after the GA.
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> Patrick Kenel
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