Hello all,
The *last date to submit* session proposals for Wikimedia Wikimeet India
2021, the upcoming online wiki-event which is to be conducted from 19 – 21
February 2021 during the occasion of International Mother Language Day is
just after 6 days i.e. on *24th January 2021*.
If you are interested to present, run a workshop or organize a panel
discussion, you can check this link and submit a session proposal.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Submissions
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
On behalf of WMWM India 2021
Dear all,
Over the course of November 2020, the committee of Wikimedia Community
Ireland held 4 meetings dedicated to the development of the group's first 3
year strategic plan. It was formally adopted by the committee on 11 January
2021, and can be found on Commons here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Community_Ireland_Strateg…>
.
We are very excited by many of the elements of the new plan, and would love
to hear from anyone interested in working with us to achieve the goals set
out.
Hope everyone is enjoying Wikipedia's big day!
(Next January Vicipéid, the Irish language Wikipedia turns 18, so watch
this space!)
Kind Regards,
Rebecca O'Neill
on behalf of Wikimedia Community Ireland
--
PhD in Digital Media
Project Coordinator Wikimedia Community Ireland <http://wikimedia.ie>
Vice Chair of Women in Technology and Science <https://witsireland.com/>
Secretary of the National Committee for Commemorative Plaques in Science
and Technology
She/Her
Hello everyone,
I am pleased to announce the Steward Elections 2021 [1]. We are now taking
nominations from eligible candidates. Interested candidates can check their
eligibility and procedure to submit the nomination on the guidelines page
[2]. We are open to candidate submissions till January 31, 2021, 23:59
(UTC).
As always, the confirmation of existing stewards [3] will take place at the
same time as the election, which begins on February 5, and will finish on
February 26, 2021.
Please remember, the voting has not yet begun and will not until February
5, 2021, 14:00 (UTC). We will poke you once again when the voting starts.
If you have any questions regarding the elections, feel free to contact me
or any other member of the Election Committee. You can also ask any
question in the #wikimedia-stewards-elections-chat IRC channel, or watch
updates in #wikimedia-stewards-elections.
Best regards,
Martin Urbanec
(On behalf of the Election Committee)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2021
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2021/Guidelines
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Confirm/2021
Hello everyone,
Applications for the WikiLearn: Online learning pilot
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/WikiLearn> are
officially closed. Applicants will receive acceptance emails by January 18,
2021 with onboarding information. The launch date for the Online learning
pilot is February 1, 2021. For those who were not able to apply or were not
selected this time for an online learning pilot, you will still be able to
access all curriculum outlines and knowledge after the pilot has been
completed.
If you have previously applied, please submit or resubmit an email address
due to an error on the application to comdevteam(a)wikimedia.org or complete
this quick form.
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLqWM6YHAu4ihGCTAnarD-QPkJsKJjgda…>
Best,
The Community Development Team
Cassie Casares
Project Coordinator
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org
Greetings,
We write to thank you for your immense contribution so far to our event
titled *"Wikipedia 20th celebration the way I & my family feels"
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…>*
To give more time to participate we have decided to extend the contest for
four additional weeks and continue the celebration.
So the new date is now 14th February 2021.
To know about already submitted creative work, kindly visit here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_20th_birthday>
For more information, kindly have a look at the event page: '*"Wikipedia
20th celebration the way I & my family feels
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…>"*
Let's all be creative and celebrate Wikipedia20 birthday, *"the way I and
my family feels"*.
If you are interested to contribute please participate. Do feel free to
share the news and ask others to participate.
Namaste,
Rajeeb.
(U:Marajozkee)
Hello everyone!
The Wikimedia Foundation Community Events Team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20Foundation%20Events%20team>
will continue holding monthly office hours for any community members who
are interested. This is a place where movement event organizers can join
and share ideas and lessons with each other for upcoming and past events.
The Wikimedia Foundation Events team will be there as well to join in the
discussions, answer questions you might have for us and to facilitate.
This iteration of the office hours will take place on Thursday January 14
at 13:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1610629253> and will last for
an hour. Find the *link to join on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20Foundation%20Events%20team/Offi…>.
*
*This months topics:*
-
Andrew Lih will be joining us to a review of how the recent virtual
WikiConference North America
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_North_America/2020> went
from an organizing perspective.
-
The WMF events team will be presenting our new meta Events Portal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events_Team_Portal>
-
Time for any questions or discussion points from attendees
*This months supported languages are: *
- *English, Hebrew, Dutch, Spanish, Punjabi, and Hindi.* We will maybe
support *Japanese* this is to be confirmed on the meta page within the
next few days.
We will *continue to change the time of the meeting each month* in order to
be inclusive of more timezones. We will also continue to adjust these
office hours as we go based on community feedback and are very open to
changing the scope of these office hours over time or incorporating
community theme requests, presentation requests or requests for outside
speakers.
You can find more information about upcoming office hours and add your
comments and questions here and on the talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team/OfficeHours
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20Foundation%20Events%20team/Offi…>
We hope to see you there! Please pass this invitation to anyone in your
communities who might like to join monthly international event organization
discussions.
--
Rachel Farrand
Senior Program Officer
Community Events Team
Wikimedia Foundation
To commemorate Wikipedia's birthday, we will once again be adding citations
to improve the reliability of the platform. This year's 1Lib1Ref campaign
however is very different as Wikipedia turns 20; we are celebrating the
humans that make Wikipedia possible, highlighting their contributions and
commitment to the platform. In view of this we are asking every human out
there to join us in the celebration by gifting Wikipedia a citation to make
it more reliable, starting from the 15th Jan to 5th Feb 2021!
We are adding a new layer of contribution to celebrate the humans that
contribute to the success of the platform as part of the Wikipedia20
celebrations. Join the #1Lib1Ref Human Challenge by contributing citations
to improve the quality of articles around human rights on Wikipedia and
with top contributors receiving swags from the Wikimedia Store.[1]
How can I contribute?
Add a citation
1.
Let the tool suggest a citation needed statements for you, or use the
search menu at the bottom to choose a category (Wikipedia's version of a
tag) of an article that you have a special expertise in (for example,
British novels or Provinces of Afghanistan ).
2.
Go to the article, find the statement
3.
Click edit in the section header
4.
Add the source following the source guidelines
5.
Remove the "Citation needed" template (highlight and backspace in Visual
Editor, or remove the template which adds that tag (it looks like
{{citation needed}} ))
6.
Add the hashtag #1lib1ref to your edit summary
7.
Save the page.
Visit the participate page to learn more.[2]
Communicate
-
Share a post from our communicate and share page.[3]
-
We will be sharing a post on diff on Friday, as part of the Wikipedia
birthday communication, keep an eye out for that.
Help organize?
If you are from the CEE don’t miss out on the 1Lib1Ref CEE regional
competition, contact Gorana Gomirac WMRS (gorana.gomirac(a)vikimedija.org )
and Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska WMPL (natalia.szafran(a)wikimedia.pl ) for
more information.[4] You can also find an activity around you as some
countries and institutions such as Canada, Israel, France, Spain, AfLIA,
etc. are organizing their own activities.[5]
If you are organizing, add your event to the 1lib1ref Event Dashboard or
your virtual event to digital events list to enable people across the world
participate in your activity.[6][7]
It is not too late to schedule an event -- the campaign runs through
February 5th and in past years organizers have run #1lib1ref events year
round or scheduled activities for #1lib1ref May during the January
campaign.
Remember to add #1Lib1Ref in the edit summary of your contribution to help
us track your activity!
Happy 20th Birthday!
Felix Nartey
[1] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate#…
!
[2] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate
[3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Share
[4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/1Lib1RefCEE_campaign
[5] -
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_january_2021/overv…
[6] -
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_january_2021/overv…
[7] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Virtual_Coff…
--
Felix Nartey
Community and Partnerships Coordinator, Campaigns
*Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>*
Hi everyone,
After more than 3 years of movement-wide collaboration, we are putting
movement strategy into action. And what a great time to celebrate this
accomplishment as we near Wikipedia’s 20th birthday.
Quick recap
Despite a challenging and unprecedented 2020, we came together to discuss
what initiatives from the recommendations should be prioritized in 2021 and
began identifying steps to put those initiatives into action. Around 600
people took part in the discussions.
The initiatives began emerging first based on priorities from nearly 60
communities, affiliates, and groups
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…>
[2]. At the Global Conversations in November, community members from around
the world further discussed those priorities to select the most important
ones to work on in 2021. Together we identified 8 sets of initiatives
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…>
[3] from the recommendations. For more detail, please see the report from
November
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…>
[4].
At the Global Conversations in December
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…>
[5], on wiki, and at community events since, Wikimedians are discussing the
next steps for implementing the top initiatives. There is a dedicated
discussion space
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…>
[3] for each set of initiatives. You can find text and video summaries as
well as the interested communities listed.
Global Council priority
The Movement Strategy team is happy to share plans for finalizing the
transition to implementing the movement’s recommendations. From the
conversations that took place in small and large communities around the
world, it is clear that the Global Council, Movement Charter, and Interim
Global Council are top priorities. They are the important first steps to
enabling more global decision-making and distributed leadership. Global
Conversations for establishing the Interim Global Council will take place
on January 23 and 24 — please register early
<https://forms.gle/FwEBS5TbA2EPbmFt7> [1].
What’s next
The approach for implementation will vary from one initiative to another
depending on the contexts and community priorities. At follow-up
discussions in January and early February, interested communities and
affiliates will come together with different teams from the Wikimedia
Foundation to plan the next steps for the 18 months ahead. We have plans
to communicate further information on these meetings soon.
The Wikimedia Foundation is committed to resourcing the movement’s top
priorities, including the Interim Global Council, and the discussions that
will help shape them. The path forward for some of the initiatives is
clear. Others need further discussions to narrow the scope or to select
from different ideas to experiment and learn.
How to prepare
Conversations are open and ongoing
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…>,
so please help to enrich them and express your interest to join follow-up
discussions [3]. Join follow-up discussions of your interest with your
thoughts and suggestions.
We will be communicating the dates and times for the other follow-up
discussions very soon. In the meantime, please don’t hesitate to reach out
to Support Team with your questions, comments, or ideas at
strategy2030{{at}}wikimedia.org
On behalf of the Support Team,
Kaarel
[1] Register for global conversations on the Interim Global Council:
https://forms.gle/FwEBS5TbA2EPbmFt7
[2] Map and table of priorities from communities, affiliates and groups:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…
[3] Discussion space for each of the top 8 sets of initiatives:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…
[4] The report from the November Global Conversations:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…
[5] The report from the December Global Conversations:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…
--
Kaarel Vaidla (he/him)
Movement Strategy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/2030>
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
The English Language Wikipedia passed an interesting milestone a few hours
ago.
The thousand millionth edit was at 1:03 AM this morning
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Death_Breathing&oldid=1000000000
the article on the album Death Breathing was amended by Wikipedian Ser
Amantio di Nicolao, one of over 3.9 million edits done by the Wikipedian
with the highest edit count other than bots.
Pedants may be aware that this is only the thousand million since the move
to MediaWiki software and not all of the hundreds of thousands of previous
edits have since been reloaded. So if we could work out the true counts
since edit one it probably came one, maybe two days earlier.
But Death Breathing got the edit with the thousand million counter.
Happy editing everyone.
WSC