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WikiForHumanRights: Help us Organize the Campaign, November 15-January 30
by Alex Stinson 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

Hello all, and apologies for crossposting! I hope you are doing well! As you may have noticed when we announced the partnership in August [1]: the Wikimedia Foundation is working with the UN Human Rights to help expand the availability of knowledge about human rights online. As one of our first collaborations, we are going to be running a campaign from November 15 - January 30 to add and improve knowledge about human rights on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The initial focus of the campaign will be on improving articles about topics related to the UN Declaration of Human Rights and youth standing up for human rights. More information about the campaign is also available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights We would like to invite you to get involved in the campaign in one of several ways: Help us build the list! - We need your help identifying more topics related to youth involved in human rights that don’t have articles on Wikipedia or could use further improvement. We would like to represent many different languages and geographies in the campaign. To propose topics for the list, see instructions at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/List#Adding_a_topic_to_t… Organize an online or offline event! We need your help finding community leaders from throughout the Wikimedia to: - Host an online campaign on your language Wikipedia! To learn more about hosting a local topical campaign see the kit here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Campaign - Hold an in person editathon with local human rights organizations or partners! To learn more, check out the kit here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Editathon Promote the campaign starting Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day! Help us amplify your efforts around the campaign and publicize it to wide audiences. We’ll be sharing a communications toolkit (including graphics) soon with suggestions on reaching out to folks about the campaign. - Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading the word. - Promote the campaign on social media: We’ll be using #WikiForHumanRights to promote the campaign on social media, when we increase the communication to the public on 10 December If you want to help in other ways, let us know on the discuss space #human-rights tag <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…> or by emailing Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org and Luisina Ferrante < educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar> If you are interested, let us know by indicating your interest to organize in the Organize sections linked above! Note: We are still updating the communications assets for the campaign! To watch for those materials, add https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share to your meta watchlist. Have questions? If you have questions, we are going to be hosting an office hour next Tuesday <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/community-office-hour-wikiforhumanright…>, or you can ask questions on the discuss space #human-rights tag <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…> . Looking forward to your engagement with the campaign! Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation Luisina Ferrante, Wikimedia Argentina [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/16/wikimedia-and-un-human-righ… -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

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Remember Wikipedia Zero.. Where is the research about the effects of its demise?
by Gerard Meijssen 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

Hoi, The BBC shows how dramatically expensive internet is in Africa.. For in my opinion local political reasons Wikipedia Zero has terminated. That is ok up to a point; the point being that we understand the consequences from this action. Given that our data is NOT local, people have to pay a premium. What are we going to do to compensate for expensive Wikipedia that replaced Wikipedia Zero? Did we study the effects or are we not interested in the consequences of our actions? Thanks, GerardM https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-50516888

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Q2 Fundraising Update
by Joseph Seddon 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

Hey All Just wanted to give you a quick update. With upcoming fundraising in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the USA, and the United Kingdom; along with a completed fundraising campaign in France; Q2 sees us raise approximately half of the annual funds for the Wikimedia movement and as usual the team has been very busy. Starting back in October, our E-mail fundraising programme has been running in these countries. This programme focuses on asking previous donors to reaffirm their support to Wikimedia and our English campaign will continue steadily through the rest of this calendar year. October and November also sees us test and prepare for our main English fundraising banner campaign. We do this to explore new ideas, test systems, improve workflows etc all in time for the busiest period of the year. This year we will be looking to begin the main campaign on or around Monday, December 2 and will look to fundraise through the month of December. There are a number of ways you can help support the fundraiser: ---Message Ideas--- I’ll be following up with some asks later this week for ideas around themes and ideas the fundraising team should explore in it’s messaging. In the meantime, if you have specific ideas or stories we should tell via social media, banners, emails etc. Please add them to our fundraising ideas page. ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2019-20_Fundraising_ideas) ---Reporting Issues--- If you see any technical issues with the banners or payments systems please do report it on phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?template=118862 If you see a donor on a talk page, OTRS, or social media with questions about donating or having difficulties in the donation process, please refer them to: donate {{at}} wikimedia.org. Here is also the ever present fundraising IRC channel to raise urgent technical issues: #wikimedia-fundraising ( http://webchat.freenode.net?channels=%23wikimedia-fundraising&uio=d4 ) Many thanks -- Seddon Community and Audience Engagement Associate *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation*

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Coming up: A Knowlege Equity Calendar
by Cornelius Kibelka 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

Hi all, I’m delighted to pre-announce a small communication initiative called “Knowledge Equity Calendar” for the upcoming weeks: Back in 2017, the Wikimedia Movement agreed on its Strategic Direction with its core goal to be the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge until 2030.[1] One priority to achieve this goal is called "Knowledge Equity" (As a social movement, we will focus our efforts on the knowledge and communities that have been left out by structures of power and privilege. We will welcome people from every background to build strong and diverse communities. We will break down the social, political, and technical barriers preventing people from accessing and contributing to free knowledge.). But what does that mean in your context? What are others already doing to translate “Knowledge Equity” from the strategic to the programmatic level? In the light of the last days and weeks of the year, we'd like to adapt the German tradition of the “Advent calendar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_calendar>” counting the days towards Christmas (December 1 to 24), and share one story per day via Meta[2] and Wikimedia Space blog[3] on how Wikimedians are working towards achieving Knowledge Equity in their respective context. The idea is mainly to inspire Wikimedians what other Wikimedians are already doing. We’ll use Wikimedia Deutschland's Twitter and Facebook accounts to accompany that. On Meta, the translation extension is activated – so if you like, chip in and translate the stories to your language. Or just share the stories with other Wikimedians to show what kind of cool and inspiring initiatives and projects working towards Knowledge Equity we already have in the Wikimedia movement. If you have any questions about the initiative, the stories, or what an Advent calendar is, feel free to send me a message. Happy reading and sharing, Cornelius [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Equity_Calendar [3] https://space.wmflabs.org/blog/ -- Cornelius Kibelka Internationale Beziehungen | International Relations Vorstandsteam | Office of the ED Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Stellen Sie sich eine Welt vor, in der jeder Mensch an der Menge allen Wissens frei teilhaben kann. Helfen Sie uns dabei! http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207

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Fundraising needs your help
by Joseph Seddon 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

Hey all, (reposting due to filter rejection) Fundraising are looking for ideas and suggestions for our writing team to explore for our messaging in this years fundraiser. I only need a minute of your time to answer the following question: --- What’s your favorite thing about Wikipedia that you wish our readers and donors knew? --- We'll use the responses to generate new test ideas Post your answers on list or directly to me :) Thanks in advance -- Seddon *Community and Audience Engagement Associate* *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation*

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Brief request for advice about "What's making you happy this week?"
by Pine W 30 Nov '19

30 Nov '19

Hello colleagues, I would like to ask for your advice about one issue with the "What's making you happy this week?" emails. I was hoping that people would frequently comment in the email threads and/or on the talk pages of WMYHTW publications in *The Signpost* to share what is making them happy, in the Wikiverse or elsewhere. However, comments are somewhat rare. I am concerned that some people may feel too intimidated to comment. I understand that communicating in public requires courage, but I believe that people who try to be respectful will have their comments received well by the community if they comment in these threads. Perfection is not a requirement for WMYHTW. Also, I think that public communication becomes easier with practice, and these threads would be good places for people who want to become more experienced with public communication on Wikimedia-l to practice. Is there something else that you think could be done to facilitate participation in WMYHTW? I would appreciate your advice and input. Thank you, Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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[Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 15, Issue 11 – 29 November 2019
by Wikipedia Signpost 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

>From the editor: Put on your birthday best http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-11-29/From_t… News and notes: How soon for the next million articles? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-11-29/News_a… In the media: You say you want a revolution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-11-29/In_the… On the bright side: What's making you happy this month? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-11-29/On_the… Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-11-29/Arbitr… Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-11-29/Traffi… Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-11-29/Techno… Gallery: Winter and holidays http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-11-29/Gallery Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-11-29/Recent… Essay: Adminitis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-11-29/Essay >From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-11-29/From_t… In focus: An update on the Wikimedia Movement 2030 Strategy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-11-29/In_foc… Special report: How many people edit in your favorite language? Where are they from? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-11-29/Specia… Single-page view https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single https://facebook.com/wikisignpost https://twitter.com/wikisignpost -- *Signpost* team http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost> _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fundraising needs your help
by Damon Sicore 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

> On Nov 27, 2019, at 4:08 PM, Joseph Seddon <jseddon(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > --- What’s your favorite thing about Wikipedia that you wish our readers > and donors knew? --- That Jimmy Wales and WMF sold the rights to the Wikipedia trademark to Apple for $40k back in the early 2000s, and that Apple has the right to use it forever and the agreement cannot be cancelled without legal cause. This is why Wikipedia is embedded in every iOS search result. That Apple and Google make billions and billions of dollars off of Wikipedia content annually and that WMF refuses to charge them for their exclusive use and access. Which means that the $70mil or so in donations from Wikipedia users is really a scam because WMF lacks the courage to stand up to those corporations and charge them $1billion each per year to guarantee Wikipedia’s success. > > We'll use the responses to generate new test ideas > > Post your answers on list or directly to me :) Thanks in advance > > -- > Seddon > > *Community and Audience Engagement Associate* > *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation* > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Movement Strategy: New roles for working group members, synthesis underway, and more
by Nicole Ebber 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

Hi everyone, I’m happy to share an overview of what’s been happening in movement strategy lately. == New roles and bringing the recommendations together == >From now until the end of the year, the focus will be on identifying the overlaps in the 89 recommendations produced by the nine thematic area working groups. The goal here is to create one synthesized set of recommendations and an accessible, digestible Movement Strategy document to be shared publicly in January. To do this, we asked working group members in October to let us know if they’d be interested in continuing to contribute to the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy in one of the following roles: Writer, connector, or reviewer.[1] 15 have signed up to be writers, 10 as connectors, and 17 as reviewers. Writers will look for overlaps and similarities in the existing content to see where multiple recommendations could be merged and unified. Connectors will work closely with writers to help them improve and expand the content and assess how and where to best integrate phase 1 material, research, and community input. Reviewers will go through the synthesized recommendations and provide specific additional perspectives, expertise, contexts, and advice as needed. The writers are currently in a high period of activity, which began in early November and will run through December, with ongoing support from the connectors. Alongside bringing together the existing recommendations, they are also defining principles that underpin and guide the content of these recommendations. The writers will come together in Berlin in the first week of December to work intensively on consolidating the recommendations and finalize the work. == Next steps == When the synthesized recommendations are ready and published in early 2020, a final round of movement conversations will take place. Movement stakeholders will have a chance to understand the path towards these recommendations and to review the semi-final document. The final recommendations will be presented to the Board of Trustees in March and subsequently to the movement for approval. The first step towards implementation will be discussing prioritization and sequencing of the recommendations, as well as agreeing upon responsibilities for bringing each recommendation to life.[2] We’ll keep you posted on future developments and more concrete steps towards approval here and on Wikimedia Space, so stay tuned! Best wishes, Nicole [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Overvie… -- Nicole Ebber Leiterin Internationale Beziehungen Program Manager Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können. Helfen Sie uns dabei! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland — Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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Wikimedians involved in association football
by Douglas Ssebaggala 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

Dear African Wikimedians, Warm greetings from Uganda, this message comes as a follow up from the meet-up for Wikimedians interested in Sports [1]. Incase you missed Wiki Indaba or were not able to participate in the above meet up, please find the general notes/outlines on etherpad (you are kindly requested to *read this brief background* <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Meet_up_for_Wikimedians_interested_in_Spor…> and feedback) Another feedback channel [2] has been created for your input (*the form <https://forms.gle/ghUHVfiN1x5GtCgo6> takes less than two minutes to fill*), it's being shared with Wikimedians on other channels *(apologies for cross posting)*, and will be shared with more communities in the open/free knowledge Movement. Your responses are highly appreciated, and results will be shared back with you: [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2019/Meetups [2] https://forms.gle/ghUHVfiN1x5GtCgo6 Regards, *Please note* *This form is meant to understand and plan community activities (events, projects, e.t.c) by and with Wikimedians who have a passion in association football. Results will be used to avoid duplication, create collaboration or create new Wikimedia Community initiatives among affiliates and project communities within the open and free knowledge movement* *Wikimedian volunteer in Uganda <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Uganda> * *Ssebaggala Douglas | **Skype: douglo.m |** Twitter**:* @douglaseru <https://twitter.com/douglaseru> | *Mob - Uganda: +256 772 422524*

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