Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User
Group. The group aims to promote and participate in the projects offered by
the Wikimedia Foundation and to organize the Turkic community. One of its
core missions is to aid and encourage people to collect, develop and
disseminate knowledge and other educational, cultural and historic content
in the public domain or other licenses that allows everyone to freely use
the knowledge, and to distribute and modify said content for free. Also, a
main goal is to develop Wikimedia projects in Turkic languages, as well as
to help and encourage Turkic-speaking users and communities.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Turkic_Languages_User_Group
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Wikimedia Community User Group CEE Spring [2] as a Wikimedia User
Group. The group is an annual event organised by Wikimedians and
Wikipedians who joined the Central and Eastern Europe collaboration with an
aim to support article creation about every country in the region on every
Wikipedia. Wikimedia CEE Spring aims to join local forces of free knowledge
to accumulate and distribute information about history, culture, traditions
and people in every corner of the region to support mutual acknowledgement
and understanding and to increase the quantity and quality of free
knowledge available about the CEE region globally.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_CEE_Spring
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Wikigrannies User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims
to promote the social adaptation of the elderly, their involvement in
Wikimedia projects. to popularize Wikiprojects among rural residents with a
limited circle of contacts, and their involvement in Wikiprojects.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikigrannies_User_Group
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
The group aims to work on all topics related to sustainable development,
including in particular the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
It aims to partner with organizations that are actively working towards a
world with sustainable development whether they are NGOs, academic
institutions, public bodies of different levels or even perhaps companies
in order to create, collect and curate knowledge.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
The group aims to promote Wikimedia projects to people living in,
interested in or connected to Myanmar and also its relations/connections to
the neighboring countries and around the world.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group
Regards,
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Chair, Affiliations Committee
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Wikimedians of United Arab Emirates User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User
Group. The group aims to support people interested in various topics
related with United Arab Emirates, across all Wikimedia projects in all
languages. And also — group for all Wikimedians who live in the region.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_United_Arab_Emirates_User_Gr…
Wikimedia Commons is proposing that April becomes a Month of Kindness.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#Votes,_mo…
The pandemic is affecting everyone and is likely to be very stressful
for many. This proposal aims to remind everyone throughout April to
make extra efforts to be kinder in their interactions, making our
Wikimedia project a kinder and more supportive space as our default.
Do any other projects fancy joining this initiative?
Fae
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faewik(a)gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
At last Sunday's London Meetup we discussed the situation and while not
wanting to seem over cautious (we were of course the dozen who'd decided to
attend). We realised that there was a good chance that the April and even
May meetings might need to go virtual.
Is there a recommended software solution for video/audio conferencing a
dozen to twenty people?
I took part in some not the wikipedia Weekly podcasts almost a decade ago,
but i'm assuming the technology has progressed since then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Not_The_Wikipedia_Weekly
Regards
WSC
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> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 08:48:48 -0400
> From: Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl>
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> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2020 Wikimania Scholarships now open
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> Hi,
>
> I believe it likely is too early to make a decision. We have a professional
> team at the WMF monitoring the situation, but the date is still 5 months in
> the future.
>
> It is reasonable to expect that we may need to make adjustments to the
> situation as it develops and in 2-3 months it will be much clearer where we
> stand.
>
> For now, I think it is already fair to say that the WMF leadership is not
> shying away from difficult decisions (the summit cancellation, closing down
> the office, canceling international travel for staff) and clearly
> prioritizes our safety.
>
> I trust the judgment of our staff when they communicate clearly that they
> are considering all options and will.make a decision in due time.
>
> Best,
>
> Dj "pundit"
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 00:45 Rehman Abubakr <rehman.wikimedia(a)live.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I too have cancelled all personal/work/wiki travel plans. The risks are
> > far too great.
> >
> > A single infection at the conference, depending on who/where, has the
> > potential to cause significant damage to the Movement.
> >
> > I understand the sheer effort that has already been put, but I strongly
> > hope the Foundation will postpone the conference or cancel this year's
> > conference for the safety of the volunteers, and to prevent the risk of
> > spreading it to more parts of the world.
> >
> >
> >
> > Yours truly,
> >
> > Rehman<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman>
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Wikimedia-l <wikimedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org> on behalf of
> > James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
> > Sent: 09 March 2020 22:51
> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] 2020 Wikimania Scholarships now open
> >
> > From a personal perspective, I have cancelled all future travel plans and
> > have requested that everyone I work with do the same. I am of course in
> > healthcare. Please note that this is not official advise.
> >
> > James
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 5:48 AM Toni Ristovski <toni91ehrlich(a)gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> *********************************
>
There is a lot that is making me happy this week. I'm happy that I'm back
to contributing to "On The Bright Side" and the "What's Making You Happy
This Week?" threads again because it's something I look forward to. It's
nice to think and reflect upon the positivity across the Wikimedia
movement. I'm also thankful to Pine for helping me send this email in plain
text formatting.
This week, I read an interesting article from Wired entitled "Wikipedia Is
The Last Best Place On The Internet". A link to the article can be found
here: [1]. I really enjoyed reading this, and I agree that Wikipedia really
has come a long way since 2007. The extent of Wikipedia's influence has
grown considerably and has had such an impact on the world today that I
really couldn't even imagine what the world would be like without it.
I am looking forward to the start of the Wikigap Challenge [2], which is
taking place on March 8, 2020. This challenge is receiving help from the UN
Human Rights Office [3] which is incredible and not something that happens
everyday. However, it seems like there's always something interesting going
on when I check Wikimedia-l, and that's thanks to the dedicated efforts of
countless editors.
Here's a photo of the launch of Wikigap 2020 in Naga City,
Philippines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WikiGap_PH_2020_launch.jpg.
The photo is by User:Filipinayzd. [4]
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.
Additional translations of the subject line of this email would be
appreciated on Meta at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations. Thanks
to User:Julle [5] and User:Vesihiisi [6] for the Swedish translation.
[1]
https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-online-encyclopedia-best-place-intern…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikigap_Challenge
[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_United_Nations_High_Commissione…
[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Filipinayzd
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Julle
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vesihiisi
--------
Clovermoss (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss) and
Pine (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine)
Wikimedia UK is not currently cancelling all in person events and meetings
and hasn't instituted a work from home policy, however the senior
management team and board are monitoring the situation carefully,
communicating with staff and partners regularly, and following advice from
the government and associated bodies such as Public Health England. We are
expecting a further announcement from our Prime Minister this evening so
the situation may change rather rapidly.
Best wishes
Lucy
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:58:23 -0400
> From: Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Practical implications of Coronavirus
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> Regardless of what platforms people might want to use for virtual meetings,
> it is my personal opinion that all movement organizations, groups (formal
> and informal) and the WMF itself immediately stop meeting in person. For
> the movement entities that have offices, work-from-home should be the
> standard (as it has been for the WMF for almost a week). Edit-a-thons and
> similar meet-ups should be cancelled for the foreseeable future. The broad
> movement has spent a lot of time talking about the safety and security of
> its communities, and this level of social distancing at this time is
> probably the best way to demonstrate that we really mean what we say.
> #CancelEverything is not just a cute hashtag - it's really serious, and our
> movement can be leaders in showing how it is done.
>
> I'm speaking from my own experience (having worked in a hospital with SARS
> patients and having participated in the development of pandemic plans for
> hospitals), so perhaps my perspective is different from other people's. But
> given there's very little downside to this proposal, there's no reason not
> to take these steps, at least for a few months while the world has a better
> sense of how this will all play out.
>
> Risker/Anne
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:31:54 -0700
> From: effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia branding
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> It looks like this list was skipped in providing an update in asking for
> feedback (or I missed something - in which case, my apologies). I'm just a
> random passer by who was wondering why this wasn't shared yet.
>
> The Wikimedia branding process seems to have moved to yet another phase on
> March 1 (I think?), allowing for a feedback phase to define one more
> 'concept' besides the 23 that have been defined (again: I think. The
> communication is a bit confusing to me, sorry). Deadline is March 17 (5-6
> days from now).
>
> The process should be explained here:
> https://brandingwikipedia.org/concepts/ (scroll down, the concepts are
> actually on that page below the text. Yes, those blocks.)
>
> It turns out that at the very bottom in the footer, there's a link to a
> wikipage where you should be able to engage:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…
>
> on that meta page however, they seem to rather recommend to engage on
> Facebook (a closed group
> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediabrandnetwork/>) or on Wikimedia
> Space (!sic).
>
> Anyhow, at a first glance those concepts look fine, but that'd be true for
> many sets of 23 buzzwords :). I don't have enough insights into the
> consequences of these choices, or how they got together, but hopefully the
> communications team can share that at some point better than me.
> Other people here may have more informed opinions than me.
>
> -- Lodewijk
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 06:54:51 -0400
> From: Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl>
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Practical implications of Coronavirus
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> Dear Risker,
>
> Many thanks for sharing - I know you're a professional in the field. This
> is pretty much what we're doing as the WMF, and the affiliates surely can
> follow suit.
>
> All universities I'm currently affiliated with (Harvard, MIT, Kozminski)
> cancelled all classes and move to virtual meetings only, too.
>
> Best,
>
> DJ "pundit"
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 00:54 Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Regardless of what platforms people might want to use for virtual
> meetings,
> > it is my personal opinion that all movement organizations, groups (formal
> > and informal) and the WMF itself immediately stop meeting in person. For
> > the movement entities that have offices, work-from-home should be the
> > standard (as it has been for the WMF for almost a week). Edit-a-thons
> and
> > similar meet-ups should be cancelled for the foreseeable future. The
> broad
> > movement has spent a lot of time talking about the safety and security of
> > its communities, and this level of social distancing at this time is
> > probably the best way to demonstrate that we really mean what we say.
> > #CancelEverything is not just a cute hashtag - it's really serious, and
> our
> > movement can be leaders in showing how it is done.
> >
> > I'm speaking from my own experience (having worked in a hospital with
> SARS
> > patients and having participated in the development of pandemic plans for
> > hospitals), so perhaps my perspective is different from other people's.
> But
> > given there's very little downside to this proposal, there's no reason
> not
> > to take these steps, at least for a few months while the world has a
> better
> > sense of how this will all play out.
> >
> > Risker/Anne
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:40:38 +0800
> From: "Roman Bustria Jr." <bustrias(a)gmail.com>
> To: "wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org"
> <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Joint Statement of the ESEAP Wikimania
> Organizing Team and Wikimania Steering Committee on COVID-19
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> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> I would like to share to you a statement:
>
>
> *Joint Statement of the * *ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team * *and Wikimania
> Steering Committee * *on COVID-19*
>
> 12 March 2020
>
>
>
> The ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee and the
> Wikimedia Foundation acknowledge the current COVID-19 threat
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic> and
> are taking this situation seriously.
>
> A joint decision on the fate of Wikimania 2020 based on a careful risk
> assessment will be forthcoming and we ask for your patience.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Butch Bustria
>
> Head of the Communications Committee
>
> ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team
>
>
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