Hello everyone,
Wikimedia Serbia held its General Assembly last night, when I formally
stepped down as the president of the chapter, after being in that
position for 6 years. Miroslav Loci (aka Mickey Mystique) was
unanimously elected as the new president of Wikimedia Serbia.
Marko Adam stepped down as a board member and Teodora Lukić is the newly
elected board member. Therefore, the board of Wikimedia Serbia now
consists of the following people:
1. Miroslav Loci - president
2. Đorđe Stakić - vice-president
3. Filip Maljković
4. Miljan Simonović
5. Bojana Satarić
6. Teodora Lukić
It has been a privilege to serve as the president of Wikimedia Serbia
and I'm certain that it will remain a stable and regionally strong
chapter in the following years.
Cheers,
Filip Maljković
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
Hello,
In the light of recent suggestions that these emails become shorter, this
week I will share only two comments of my own.
* I am thankful for useful feedback regarding these emails.
* I am thankful to someone who did a random act of kindness for me. Their
action felt like gentle sunshine amidst many challenges.
*Regarding translations*
* Additional translations of the subject line of this email would be
appreciated on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations>. Thanks to
Amire80 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Amire80> for the Russian
translation.
*Your turn*
* What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any
language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Hello all,
I’m writing to let you know that now there is a Partial block model policy1 on
Meta.
If your local wiki does not have a policy to cover partial blocks then the
model policy could be adapted for the wiki. Or if you have already written
a customized policy for your wiki, you can share it on the Meta page for
possible use by other wikis. There is also a page where you can share
examples of the way that you are using partial block on your wiki.
Please also ask a question or make comments about using partial blocks on
the talk page or by email.
Warm Regards, Sydney
1 Partial blocks model policy
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Partial_block_model_policy
2 Use Case examples
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Partial_blocks_use_case_examples
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Sydney Poore (she/her)
Strategist, socio-technical
Wikimedia Foundation
Trust and Safety team;
Anti-harassment tools team
Hi all,
On November 27th, 2019, the Assembly of Wikimedia Colombia met in
Extraordinary Assembly of members and partially renewed its Board.
Here is a brief presentation of the newly elected board members:
* Monica Paola Bonilla Parra, Mpbonillap or Gutemonik in Wikimedia
projects. She contributes in native language projects and open source
language. She was elected as the new president of our chapter.
* Frank Alexander Ballesteros Riveros, Baiji in Wikimedia projects, sysop
and long-time contributor in the Spanish Wikipedia and other projects since
2006. He was elected as the new treasurer of our chapter.
The other board members remain unchanged. This brings to a 50% the number
of women in our board. We also would like to thank Juan Sebastian Quintero
Santacruz and Ivan Quintero Santacruz for having worked hard with us. We
know you're still around.
Best regards,
>From the Board of Wikimedia Colombia
Hello!
I am thrilled to announce the inaugural members of the new Wikimedia
Foundation Communications Committee have been selected. These eleven
community members were chosen from an impressive group of applicants. We
carefully reviewed each candidate, and made our final selections based in
part on the overall diversity and skillset of the group as a whole.
Please join me in congratulating our inaugural members:
1. Fawaz Tairou (User:Fawaz.tairou) - Benin
2. Anne Clin (User:Risker) - Canada
3. Justice Okai-Allotey (User:Owula kpakpo) - Ghana
4. Paulina Lordméndez (User:Paulina Lordméndez) - Mexico
5. Maiken Hagemeister (User:Maiken Hagemeister (WMDE)) - Germany
6. Itzik Edri (User:Itzike) - Israel
7. Mohammed Sadat Abdulai (User:Masssly) - Ghana
8. Nahid Sultan (User:NahidSultan) - Bangladesh
9. Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (User:KCVelaga) - India
10. Habib Mhenni (User:Dyolf77) - Tunisia
11. Virginia Díez (User:Virginia Díez (WMES)) - Spain
The inaugural committee will begin working with the Wikimedia Foundation
Communications department in the coming months to develop key goals and
processes toward better collaboration between the department and community
leaders. We are hopeful and excited that this group will open new avenues
for discussion, sharing and highlighting the work of the movement. You can
find out more about the committee, its progress, and how to engage directly
with members via their Meta-Wiki page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComCom.
We also want to encourage folks interested in movement communications to
join the Movement communications group (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MoveCom), which has replaced the space for
large group discussion of movement communications served by the previous
iteration of this committee.
Again, congratulations to our inaugural members and thank you to everyone
who showed interest in joining!
-greg
--
Gregory Varnum (pronouns - he/his/him)
Communications Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
I'd like to share our current events page collaboration, covering Word AIDS
Day, which is today, December 1,with a compendium of events worldwide :
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Event:World_AIDS_Day_2019
I encourage anyone interested to edit and expand and update this page, and
to make it more complete in medicine and public policy areas, and
particularly to have better global coverage outside of the USA.
This effort is part of the current events project on Wikispore:
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Event_Spore
(You have to register a new account on Wikispore, you can just use you
Wikimedia username, but for security reasons use a different password. We
will merge the accounts later.)
For the Meta proposal for Wikispore of which the current events project is
a part, see and participate at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispore
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hi all,
On November 27th, 2019, the Assembly of Wikimedia Colombia met in
Extraordinary Assembly of Partners and partialy renewed its Board.
Here is a brief presentation of the newly elected board members:
* Monica Paola Bonilla Parra, Mpbonillap or Gutemonik in Wikimedia
projects. She use to contributes in native language projects and open
source language. She was elected as new president of our chapter.
* Frank Alexander Ballesteros Riveros, Baiji in Wikimedia projects, sysop
and long-time contributor in the Spanish Wikipedia and other projects since
2006. He was elected as new treasurer of our chapter.
The other board members remain unchanged. This brings to 50% the number of
women in our board. We also would like to thank Juan Sebastian Quintero
Santacruz and Ivan Quintero Santacruz for having worked hard with us. We
know you're still around.
Best regards,
>From the board of Wikimedia Colombia