Hi all,
Wikimedia Research Showcase [1] is almost six years old and we're
using the birthday opportunity to step back and reflect on the past,
celebrate the contributions by more than 70 speakers and many of you
who participated in the discussions, and plan for its future.
We would like to ask for your input as we're thinking about the future
of the Research Showcases. We want to hear from those of you who
participated in the showcases and/or watched them, as well as those of
you who decided this is not something for you. :) In order to gather
your input, we have put together a survey that we'd appreciate if you
participate in.
Link to survey (please note that the link will take you to Google
Forms [2]): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecgn8cMu5IfTYRgn93bfOiJVEIL09RRf_…
Your contributions to this survey can help us in our thinking as we
move forward. Please submit your responses by 2019-11-22.
Sincerely,
Jonathan Morgan and Leila Zia
Research, Wikimedia Foundation
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase
[2] If you want to participate but not through Google Forms, ping me
off-list and I'll send you a pdf file you can fill and send back to me
(it won't be anonymous though. sorry.). I'm not attaching it to this
email as some lists may put my email in the moderation queue with an
attachment. (And I don't /think/ I can upload it to Commons.)
Librarians and library lovers,
>From *January 15th to February 5th* we will be joining together around the
world to make Wikipedia more reliable. You can participate in *#1Lib1Ref *by
simply adding a citation to Wikipedia's content!
That's all we ask and imagine: a world in which every librarian (or
archivist, reference professional, and scholar) adds 1 more reference to
Wikipedia. This is the fifth year of the #1Lib1Ref campaign and we couldn’t
be more excited to support another year of activities.
Full resources and guides for participating are available on the campaign
website <http://1lib1ref.org> (http://1lib1ref.org).
If you are planning to host a coffee hour
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Coffee_Kit>
or a edit-a-thon focused on #1Lib1Ref, and you need funding for the event,
you will be able to apply for a Rapid Grant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid>. For the best chance
of approval, requests should be made in the month of November, since
requests related to #1Lib1Ref will be given priority by the Grants team
during November.
You can make sure your contribution is counted by using the Program and
Events Dashboard for your event, institution, or region, and using the
#1Lib1Ref
hashtag in your edit summary. Login to start a new event or join an
existing one for the January campaign here:
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_january_2020/overv…
Please tell your library and library-loving friends about #1Lib1Ref in
January. We need everyone's help to make Wikipedia more reliable!
You can join the 1Lib1Ref community via the Libraries (
libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org), and 1Lib1Ref (1lib1ref(a)lists.wikimedia.org)
mailing lists, or by joining the Wikimedia + Libraries User Group:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_and_Libraries_User_Group
You can learn about last year's campaign and what we learnt in our recently
released blog post on Wikimedia Space:
https://space.wmflabs.org/2019/10/29/what-we-learned-from-1lib1ref-2019/
Cheers,
The Wikipedia Library team
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*Felix Nartey*
*Global Coordinator*
*The Wikipedia Library
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>*
*Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>*
*fnartey(a)wikimedia.org <fnartey(a)wikimedia.org>*
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*Skype:Flixtey*
FYI
https://www.wikimedia.cat/2019/11/13/statement-about-the-spanish-new-royal-…
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Statement about the Spanish new Royal Decree-Law of public security
On November 5th, The Official State Gazette (BOE) published the Royal
Decree-Law 14/2019
(https://boe.es/boe/dias/2019/11/05/pdfs/BOE-A-2019-15790.pdf), which
was passed on October 31st, whereby the General State Administration
reserves the right to suspend, exceptionally and precautionary, the
transmission of data and the connection to Internet claiming reasons of
public order.
According to Chapter IV, modification of the Law 9/2014 of General
Telecommunications, the State reserves the right to take over any types
of infrastructure, network, service or digital resource that may affect
public security within the framework of national defense. The power of
immediate action is granted to the Government of Spain for the closure
of websites and other services through the Ministry of Economy and
Business, as well as the control and operation of all networks during
transitory periods described as exceptional. No prior judicial
requirement is needed.
From Amical Wikimedia we hereby express our profound disagreement with
this new decree and our growing concern for the restriction of digital
rights in Spanish territory. First of all, the lack of debate on this
law in Parliament, its approval under a caretaker government, during the
electoral campaign and under the formula of a royal decree-law
represents a drastic regression of the freedom to information in key
moments. Secondly, vaguely defined concepts such as “national security,”
“public order,” “transitional period,” or “exceptional situation” allow
for indiscriminate action based on political interests for the
repression of ideological dissent.
Thirdly, we are concerned that the preamble of this law contextualizes
and aims to justify the adopted measures for the ongoing socio-political
mobilizations in different areas of the Spanish territory. Amical
Wikimedia, in this regard, has previously declared itself in favor of
the organization of actions that defend basic civil rights and the
freedom of expression throughout all the Catalan-speaking areas. The
abovementioned decree seriously violates the freedom of information,
which should be open and accessible to the public as is the case of
Wikipedia and its sister projects. Article 19 of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights upholds that “Everyone has the right to
freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold
opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart
information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”.
There are recent precedents of digital censorship which have had very
serious social impact. In February 2014, the Turkish parliament passed
the Law No. 5651, granting new powers to the state telecommunications
authority regarding Internet regulation. A few years later, on April
2017 and making use of this law, access to all idiomatic versions of
Wikipedia were blocked based on Turkish Government claims of
state-funded terrorism on the English Wikipedia.
For all these reasons, Amical Wikimedia reaffirms its rejection of this
decree-law and demands its immediate withdrawal. Our organisation stands
unequivocally in favor of digital freedom and the human rights of
expression, peaceful assembly, and access to information.
--
Toni Hermoso Pulido
Amical Wikimedia
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https://www.wikimedia.cat
(La version française suit.)
Good day all,
A few weeks ago, I announced the new composition of the Board of Directors
of Wikimedia Canada. Now, I would like to introduce its new Executive
Committee, including a new President, that was nominated at the last Board
meeting on November 4th.
The new Executive Committee of Wikimedia Canada is composed of:
- President: Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf (User:Lea-Kim
<https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lea-Kim>)
- Vice President: Michael David Miller (User:BiblioQC
<https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BiblioQC>)
- Secretary: Amber Berson (User:13ab37
<https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:13ab37>)
- Treasurer: Guillaume Lafrance (User:Glafrance
<https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Glafrance>)
Our new President, Lëa-Kim, is a librarian at the Direction des
bibliothèques of Montreal City and a long-time Wikimedian. She is a member
of the Board of Directors since 2017 and was the Vice President for the
last year.
She will announce her vision and her priorities for Wikimedia Canada in the
next few days on the main page of WMCA's wiki [1]. She is currently in
Cambridge, Massachusetts participating in the WikiConference North America
[2].
Until then, here are the main priority axes of Wikimedia Canada for the
upcoming year:
- Developing the Wikimedia projects in the indigenous languages of Canada,
and improving content on Wikimedia projects about the indigenous peoples of
Canada.
- Increasing the diversity of contributors to free knowledge from Canada,
especially working towards reducing the gender gap on Wikimedia projects,
both in terms of contributors and content.
- Continuing to maintain a high level of corporate maturity and
professionalism within Wikimedia Canada, and obtaining the charity status
with the federal government in order to diversify our revenue streams.
- Expanding the activities of Wikimedia Canada across the country.
If you have any questions about Wikimedia Canada, do not hesitate to
contact me, to use our main talk page [3], or to join our general mailing
list [4].
Thanks,
(Version française)
Bonjour à toutes et à tous,
Il y a quelques semaines, je vous ai annoncé la composition du nouveau
conseil d'administration de Wikimédia Canada. Maintenant, j'aimerais vous
présenter son nouveau comité directeur, incluant sa nouvelle présidente,
qui a été nommé lors de la dernière réunion du conseil d'administration le
4 novembre.
Le nouveau comité directeur de Wikimédia Canada est composé de :
- Présidente : Lëa-Kim Châteauneuf (Utilisatrice:Lea-Kim
<https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lea-Kim>)
- Vice-président : Michael David Miller (Utilisateur:BiblioQC
<https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BiblioQC>)
- Secrétaire : Amber Berson (Utilisatrice:13ab37
<https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:13ab37>)
- Trésorier : Guillaume Lafrance (Utilisateur:Glafrance
<https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Glafrance>)
Notre nouvelle présidente, Lëa-Kim, est une bibliothécaire de la Direction
des bibliothèques de la ville de Montréal et une Wikimédienne de longue
date. Elle est membre du conseil d'administration depuis 2017 et était la
vice-présidente depuis la dernière année.
Elle annoncera sa vision et ses priorités pour Wikimédia Canada au cours
des prochains jours sur la page principale du wiki de WMCA [1]. Elle est
présentement à Cambridge (Massachusetts) pour participer à la
WikiConférence nord-américaine [2].
Jusque là, voici les principales axes prioritaires de Wikimédia Canada pour
l'année à venir :
- Développer les projets Wikimédia en langues autochtones du Canada et
améliorer le contenu des projets Wikimédia au sujet des peuples autochtones
du Canada.
- Accroître la diversité des contributrices et des contributeurs au savoir
libre provenant du Canada avec un focus particulier pour réduire le fossé
des genres sur les projets Wikimédia, tant en termes de contributrices que
de contenu.
- Continuer à maintenir un haut niveau de maturité corporative et de
professionnalisme au sein de Wikimédia Canada et obtenir le statut de
bienfaisance auprès du gouvernement fédéral afin de diversifier nos sources
de revenus.
- Étendre les activités de Wikimédia Canada à travers tout le pays.
Si vous avez des questions au sujet de Wikimédia Canada, n'hésitez pas à me
contacter, à utiliser notre page de discussion principale [3] ou à
rejoindre notre liste de diffusion générale [4].
Merci,
Jean-Philippe Béland
Wikimedia Canada / Wikimédia Canada
[1] https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
[2] https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2019/Main_Page
[3] https://ca.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_talk:Discussions
[4] https://discussions.wikimedia.ca/lists/listinfo/general
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] the Wikimedians of Mali User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
group aims to promote the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects in Mali,
and to support and encourage people to collect, develop and disseminate
knowledge and other educational, cultural and historic content under free
licenses or in the public domain.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Mali_User_Group
Hi all,
The Analytics team at the Wikimedia Foundation [0] has recently
started releasing monthly data that gives you some information about
the count of active editors [1] per country contributing to the
different Wikipedia language editions. You can review the full
announcement [2] and play with the data [3].
I'm sharing this information on this list as many of the activities of
affiliates and volunteers of Wikipedia are focused on specific
geographies (through organizing events such as editathons, building
partnerships, running contests such as Wiki Loves *) and you may be
interested in monitoring how the geography of the editors in your
projects change over time.
If you think the data is of interest to you and you need help using
it, I have some pre-baked news for you. ;) The Research team, which
I'm a member of, will start (experimental) monthly IRC office hours
starting January and you can drop by and ask for help to use the data.
(I also just noticed that Analytics will start their own office hours
in January [4] though I'm less sure about the scope of theirs.)
Best,
Leila
[0] https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/analytics/
[1] Active is defined based on two categories of contributions: 5-99
edits/month and 100 or more edits/month.
[2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2019-November/006702.html
[3] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/geoeditors/
[4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics#Contact
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] the Wikipedians of North Caucasus User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User
Group. The group aims to promote Wikipedia editions in the languages of the
North Caucasus; to develop content related to the North Caucasian
languages, culture and communities in Wikimedia projects in different
languages; and to recruit new participants into the Wikimedia movement,
especially in the regions of the North Caucasus.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedians_of_North_Caucasus_User_Group
Dear Wikimedians,
We are delighted to announce that the registration for the Wikimedia Summit
2020 [1], which will be held in Berlin from Friday, April 3, through
Sunday, April 5, is now open!
Following Katherine’s and Abraham’s invitation, we would like to provide
you with important information regarding the eligibility for participation,
participant number regulation, registration procedure, specifics in regards
to the travel and hotel booking as well as the visa application process.
== Eligibility criteria and participant number regulation ==
The eligibility criteria for participating in the Wikimedia Summit 2020 are
aligned to the Affiliates’ Agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Chapters, Thematic Organizations, and User Groups must have shown signs of
recent activity (within the past six months as of September 30, 2019) and be
up-to-date on their reporting by the eligibility deadline (December 1, 2019).
[2] Moreover, affiliations need to have been officially recognized by the
Wikimedia Foundation before January 1, 2019. Before registering for the
conference, please check the eligibility and status overview of your
affiliate as well as the participant number regulation on meta [3].
== Registration information ==
We invite all eligible Wikimedia Affiliates to take part in the Wikimedia
Summit. To ensure that we use the in-person time as best as possible, we
ask Affiliates to only send delegates who will come with a good
understanding of the movement strategy process and the draft
recommendations, and are ready to take agency and responsibility to design
and implement the recommendations in collaboration with every part of the
Movement and our partners.
People, who are selected by their organization to represent them at the
conference, need to register via the registration form.[4] The registration
deadline is Monday at midnight CET, December 16, 2019. Please note that we
won’t be able to accept and process registrations
after this deadline.
We are looking forward to welcoming members of the Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees and staff as well as the Affiliations Committee in
Berlin. We see a huge advantage in having their representatives participate
on site. Please also register via the registration link [4].
In addition to the core-conference, a post-conference “Train the trainers”
is organized by the WMF Community Development team. Should you be
interested in participating in this event, you can indicate your interest
in the registration form.
Further information on the registration process can be retrieved from meta
[5].
== Hotel and travel booking ==
The Wikimedia Summit will take place at the Seminar Campus Hotel in
Berlin’s green neighbourhood Dahlem.[6] A high number of hotel rooms
directly located in the same building have been reserved for the
conference participants. Based on WMDE’s great experiences at WikidataCon
and following our aim to reduce the environmental impact of this event, we
will provide vegetarian catering only during this event.
Representatives of affiliates with an annual plan grant (group 1) will need
to book and pay for their hotel rooms as well as travel individually. Our
hotel group code and price information can be found on meta [7].
Affiliates, which don’t receive funding via an annual plan grant (group 2),
will be supported by WMDE for their hotel needs and travel booking.
Members of the WMF Board, AffCom or WMF staff (group 3) receive travel and
hotel booking support by the WMF travel department.
As for additional participants specifically invited by the Program Curator,
Cornelius, to complement the conference program (group 4), WMDE will assist
you with your hotel and travel booking.
We advise you to check meta [3] to which group you belong to.
== Visa information ==
Please visit the website of the Department of Foreign Affairs in Berlin [8]
to find out whether you need a visa for travelling to Germany. In case you
are in need of a visa, we advise you to register until December 1, 2019, so
that WMDE can assist you with the application process and send you the
required visa documents sufficiently in advance. All relevant information
and necessary steps to undertake are also described on meta [9].
Wikimedia Deutschland is looking forward to welcoming you in Berlin in
April!
Please do not hesitate to reach out to us any time via
wmsummit(a)wikimedia.de should you have any questions or comments.
Best regards,
Jana, Florian, and Cornelius
Wikimedia Summit Organizing Team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Eligibility_Criteria
[4] https://forms.wikimedia.de/apps/wmsummit2020/form.html
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Registration_Informat…
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Venue_and_Hotel
[7]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Travel_and_Hotel_Book…
[8] http://wmde.org/germanyvisa
[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020/Visa_Process_and_Assi…
--
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
