Thank you for the question! During the year our user group activities were
focused on only increasing contributions to Wikipedia. In 2021 we might
work on Wikisource as well; particularly Turkish Language Association was
interested in taking part in projects related to Wikisource, they have
expressed that WikiSource is one of the projects they benefited most in
their work. We also want to encourage high school students to contribute to
Wikisource, during the year we had events only in universities, we have met
with a small group of highschool students to talk about ways of
contributing projects for the first time today :) It was great!
-Best,
Basak
Satdeep Gill <satdeepgill(a)gmail.com>, 11 Ara 2020 Cum, 01:59 tarihinde şunu
yazdı:
> Thanks for so much for sharing this Başak. It's lovely to read about all
> the amazing activities that the UG did in this year.
>
> I am particularly interested in Wikisource. So, what's happening on
> Turkish Wikisource?
>
> Best
> Satdeep
>
Hi All!
The Annual report for Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey (WMTR) is
available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Turkey/Repor…
This was the first year after the lifting of the Wikipedia block in Turkey.
We are so happy to have free access to Wikipedia and proud to share our
report. Thank you everyone who supported us during the block and after the
lifting of it.
Best regards,
Başak Tosun
Dear all: Our annual report is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedians_of_Goa_User_Group#2020_updates
It's our first year as an affiliate, and liking it.
2020 updates[edit
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedians_of_Goa_User_Group&…>
]
Despite the pandemic, the year has been marked by quite a bit of activity
and some new welcome initiatives too. 2020 also marks the first year since
the Wikipedians of Goa User Group was approved, in mid-2019. We have seen
growth of the Wikipedia visibility in Goa and growth of Goa's visibility on
the Wikipedia. We hope that this trend can be sustained and see further
growth. Some initiatives from the last year or so:
- The Discoverer
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:The_Discoverer>, Isidore
Dantas
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Isidore_Dantas1&action=ed…>
, Konknni Mogi
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Konknni_mogi24&action=edi…>
and
other volunteers have been working assiduously on the Konkani Wiktionary
project, which aims at building an open and sharable Konkani dictionary in
cyberspace. A Wiktionary workshop and meet-ups were held at St. Xavier's
College, Mapusa in May and December 2019. Since they had been meeting their
monthly targets in the incubator to keep the project current, the Language
Committee of the Wikimedia Foundation approved the project on 27 March
2020. The Konkani Wiktionary moved to its newly-created site
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gom:> on 21 May 2020. The Wiktionary has
over 2300 entries as of November 2020. Congratulations!
- SerTanmay
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:SerTanmay&action=edit&red…>
, YourTara
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:YourTara&action=edit&redl…>,
Julius and team have launched and started the *Wikipedia Weekends*
initiative
on WhatsApp. This is a small group (currently about 14 members) of
coordinators, planners and active networkers who plan and undertake
activities of interest to wider groups and individuals in Goa.
- On October 17, 2020, the *Wikipedia Weekends* organised an hour-long
Google Meet event focussing on Wikimedia Commons and the hows, whys of
sharing content there. Some 26 interested members participated and stayed
with the event through much of it. We are hoping this will result in more
relevant photographs being shared on and from Goa
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goa&action=edit&redlink=1>.
- On October 18, 2020 (Sunday), another *Wikipedia Weekend* event was
held online, focusing on editing the Wikipedia. Over two dozen enthusiastic
participants took part.
- Fredericknoronha
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fredericknoronha>'s contribution
was acknowledged with his selection as the Wikipedia Editor of the Week
recognition on March 29, 2020.
- To build wider relevance about Goa on the Wikipedia, and greater
interest in Goa for the Wikipedia two initiatives were built offering
ambitious overviews related to the world of w:music
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/music> and w:animal rights
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/animal_rights> respectively. These are: List
of bands in Goa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bands_from_Goa>
and Animal welfare and rights in Goa
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_and_rights_in_Goa> It is
thought that these issues would not only highlight issues important to the
region of Goa, but also promote more Wikipedia-awareness in Goa itself.
- To promote the relevance of the Wikipedia at the grassroots in Goa, a
collaborative project is being undertaken to build and promote Wikipedia
pages for every village in Goa
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Villages_in_Goa>. This will mean
creating (or improving) for some 340+ villages here. Fredericknoronha has
undertaken to take responsibility for the villages of the sub-district (
*taluka*) of w:Bardez <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardez>, and
currently about seven out of 43 villages are remaining to be created.
- <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Joe_Biden.png>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Joe_Biden.png>
President Joe Biden by AngFerrao
WGUG has been encouraging photo enthusiasts, artists and other creative
persons to share photos and other material via the Wikimedia Commons.
Alongside is a digital artwork by AngFerrao, a Goan artist, caricaturist
and cartoonist, who shared her sketch of newly-elected w:President Joe
Biden <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_Joe_Biden>.
- Goan expat artist Dom Martin has also donated a
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sita_Valles_by_Dom_Martin.jpg>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sita_Valles_by_Dom_Martin.jpg>
Sita Valles by Dom Martin
copyright-free sketch on Sita Valles, a locally little-known Goan figure
until an entry from the Portuguese Wikipedia got translated into English
and her very unusual story got a lot of attention here.
- Keeping in mind Goa's multilingualism, efforts are being made to work
among different language groups. Besides English and Konkani, the Wikipedia
in Marathi, Portuguese and other languages is also relevant to readers in
Goa, and this has been kept in mind. Potential contributors to different
language groups are invited for events here, while online interaction is
conducted with the PT (Portuguese) Wikipedia members through email and also
a couple of their groups on Telegram.
- Newer Wikipedians have been encouraged to feel at home by encouraging
them to work on themes and topics which they feel strongly about. Some such
initiatives have resulted in the significant improvement of pages devoted
to villages such as w:Raia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raia> and
w:Nachinola <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachinola>, both prominent
villages in Goa, undertaken by LaughingJoe and Sharbelle, respectively.
- Appeals were publicly made via Facebook and other digital fora in the
case of Raia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raia&action=edit&redlink=1>
for
the sharing of photographs related to the area. This not only build greater
awareness about the work done by the Wikipedia locally, but actually led to
the contribution of a number of suitable photographs, which have also been
used on the relevant page.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipidiecho_Tinto.jpg>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipidiecho_Tinto.jpg>
Wikipidiecho Tinto, community page for the Konkani Wikipedia
- There is an acute yet challenging need to promote the Konkani
Wikipedia http://gom.wikipedia.org
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gom:> which
has been facing difficulties due to a lack of sufficient volunteers, and a
possible gap between techies and language experts. It is hoped that the
overall attempts in promoting Goa-related content could also promote some
growth in the Konkani Wikipedia, though more clearly needs to be done on
this front.
- Efforts have also been underway to build visibility for the Wikipedia,
and its approach of creating shareable knowledge, within the Goa region.
YourTara
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:YourTara&action=edit&redl…>
has
helped take the message to the media through timely press releases and
updates. The newspapers have also shown an interest in understanding
initiatives undertaken by the WGUG to build a better Goa presence on the
Wikipedia.
- One issue we sometimes face is a difficulty in convincing some English
Wikipedia administrators about the importance of Goa-related issues which
we see as important. Being a small society, which has long lacked an active
media and online media (except more recently), finding suitable citations
even for locally-important issues and institutions or individuals can be a
challenge.
- Efforts were made to encourage people to contribute to the Wikipedia
fundraising drive.
For WGUG
Fredericknoronha
Hi all,
As many of you know, Wikipedia is celebrating a big milestone next month
with the 20th birthday on January 15th, 2021. In honor of the birthday, we
will be hosting a virtual birthday party for the global communities on
January 15th from 4-5 pm UTC (check out your local time [1])! Please join
us on a Youtube livestream [2] where we will celebrate all of the
volunteers and community members who have built this movement over the last
20 years.
This celebration will include remarks from community members about how they
have seen the movement grow over the 20 years and their wishes for the
future, as well as from Jimmy Wales and Katherine Maher.
We’d also love to hear from all of you! This celebration is a chance for us
to come together and to recognize the people behind our projects that make
this all possible. We’ll be highlighting community milestones and
achievements over the past year. Tell us what you’ve been working on, and
big moments you’d like to call out from the past year! You can share
details on the Meta page for the 20th virtual birthday party [3] and we’ll
include those during the virtual event. We’ll also be sharing more details
soon about other ways to participate.
This virtual birthday party is just one of many activities that are being
planned around the movement for the 20th birthday. You can check out the
Wikipedia 20 birthday hub [4] to learn more about local and regional
events, birthday images, media activities and other resources for community
celebrations. If you have any questions, you can also reach the Wikimedia
Foundation’s 20th birthday committee at wikipedia20(a)wikimedia.org.
We are looking forward to celebrating with you! Thank you on behalf of the
Wikipedia 20 team,
Nadee Gunasena
Communications
Wikimedia Foundation
[1]
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Wikipedia+20+Cele…
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzGAGfSObOw&feature=youtu.be
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Global_event
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20
--
*Nadee Gunasena*
Executive Communications Manager
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
ᐧ
Hi Everyone!
The second edition of the Coolest Tool Award
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award> will happen online on
Friday 11 December 2020 at 17:00 UTC[^1].
The awarded tools will be showcased in a virtual event, with broadcasted
video and chat channels for socializing. We will send more details soon.
Save the date, and join us celebrating the great work volunteer developers
do for the Wikimedia communities.
We hope to see you there!
Joaquin, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2020
[^1]: 17:00 UTC is 9:00 PST, 18:00 CEST, 22:30 IST. More timezones in
timeanddate.com
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20201211T17>
--
Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
Developer Advocate - Wikimedia Foundation
Hoi,
Wikimedia is now associated with a project where trees are planted.
In many ways the notion of planting new trees is great.
However, very often it is not. In Europe grazers are actively introduced to
prevent shrubs and trees from growing. Reasons for this abound. The first
is that it helps biodiversity. Second, trees often create a fire risk.
Third, when trees are in the seed bank, you do not have to plant them, they
will grow when they are left alone to grow. When they are not in the local
seed bank, trophic rewilding will introduce the species that distribute
seeds and/or you can plant trees as a starter for a seed bank.
When you really really want to make a difference, you protect marshes,
prevent peat from burning or being exploited. You can prevent water rushing
to sea by introducing leaky weirs/beavers and adding swales to prevent
water to rush downstream. There is plenty of literature to be found on
these subject in Wikidata. For Wikipedia there is a recent template that
links a reference in a Wikipedia article to the item for the paper in
Wikidata.
When you really care to understand a paper, you use the Scholia for a paper
to learn more about what the publication is about.. Yes, more effort to
expose scientific papers would be cool. This [1] is an example of a paper I
am working on at the moment.
Thanks,
GerardM
[1] https://scholia.toolforge.org/work/Q51696994
Dear Wikimedians,
I am writing to share a unique GLAM-Wiki job opportunity at the Smithsonian Institution in the U.S. for a Data Specialist for Visual Arts and Women’s History. It is a three-year term, FT position that can be performed 100% remotely.
JOIN THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AND HELP TO ADVANCE WOMEN’S HISTORY RESEARCH
Applications due by Friday, December 18, 2020
The Smithsonian Institution is seeking a metadata expert and digital project coordinator with an interest in advancing women’s history research. The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and American Women’s History Initiative (AWHI) are offering a position for a Data Specialist to provide coordination and support for the use of digitized art and art-related collections data with the goal of advancing women’s history research at the Smithsonian and around the world.
The incumbent will coordinate, develop, and manage the sharing of digital collections data and metadata about women in the Smithsonian museums and research units, working collaboratively with AWHI and museum staff, and supporting interchange with third-party platforms and communities such as Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects.
See details and apply at https://americanart.si.edu/about/careers/job-data-specialist. Questions may be sent to SAAM-data-job(a)si.edu.
Best,
Sara
Hello, all. :)
My name is Maggie Dennis. I am the Vice President of Community Resilience &
Sustainability,[1] and I am hosting another Community Resilience &
Sustainability Office Hour on Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 20:00 UTC. I
work directly under the General Counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation, Amanda
Keton, who hopes to join us as well. Topics within scope for this call
include Trust and Safety (and the Universal Code of Conduct, with a second
phase launching in January), Community Development, and Human Rights. This
is not a presentation; it is an open invitation to come with your questions
or feedback and talk!
The meeting will be on December 10 at 20:00 UTC — see
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1607630459 for your local time.
This call will be streamed and available on demand at
https://youtu.be/oyEYwjio72c
We will host this office hour on Zoom, taking questions from the Zoom chat,
Telegram, IRC, and YouTube, as well as collecting them in advance over
email.[2]
We will be taking notes to go alongside the video recording. I will be
fielding questions from Wikimedians in good standing (that is, not
Foundation or community banned) and will follow up with anything I can't
get to during the meeting in writing after the call.
The caveats from before remain in place, which I will repeat for
convenience:
-
I can't and won't discuss specific Trust & Safety cases. Instead, I can
discuss Trust & Safety protocols and practices and approaches.
-
I can talk civilly about our work even if you disagree with me or I
disagree with you. I will not respond to comments or questions that are
disrespectful to me, to my colleagues, or to anyone in our communities. I
won't compromise on this.
You can read the notes from our two previous calls here (June 2020)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2020-06-04>[3]
and here (October 2020)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2020-10-15>
.[4]
I hope to see you there.
Best,
Maggie
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resilience_and_Sustainability
[2] Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/DOlGIB1FRLUWqW9iB3qfTQ; IRC:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#How_to_participate; email
questions to answers(a)wikimedia.org with "Office hours" in the subject line.
We have a limited number of spaces in the actual Zoom call. If you want to
participate verbally, please ask for the link at answers(a)wikimedia.org, at
least an hour in advance of the meeting's start (please use "Office hour"
as the subject line).
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2020-06-04
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2020-10-15
--
Maggie Dennis
Vice President, Community Resilience & Sustainability
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist
Survey[1]. You can vote until 21 December for as many different wishes as
you want.
In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors
are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes.
We will start with the most popular ones.
We, the Community Tech[2], are one of the Wikimedia Foundation[3] teams. We
create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is
decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you
can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're
most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some
of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.
We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Surve…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Tech
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation
Kind regards,
Szymon Grabarczuk (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
