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!
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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:
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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
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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.
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Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public
can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading
the word.
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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…
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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
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
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*
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/
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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
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*
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 )
> 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*
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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…
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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.
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*