Hello all,
I would like to inform you that I have published a report related to
Wikimedia Regional Hubs
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hubs/Implementation/Regional_Hubs_Draft_Plan>
from the perspective of the Arabic speaking community. The report is ready,
and complies background of the region, as well as different opinions and
analysis of the community views on hubs, before providing recommendations
on the way forward. It was funded by a rapid grant from the Wikimedia
strategy & governance team.
I believe that this report can be useful for all of you interested in the
implementation of Wikimedia hubs, and in the Wikimedia strategy in general.
I am also encouraging those who can to create similar reports for their
regions, so that experiences and insights are shared.
If anyone has a question, please feel free to contact me (through email or
on Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Anass_Sedrati>), and I will
be happy to discuss this further.
Have a good evening/day everyone!
Best regards,
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*Anass SEDRATI*
Wikimedia MA User Group
Dear all,
It’s time for our third edition of the Coolest Tool Award!
Tools play an essential role at Wikimedia, and so do the many volunteer
developers who experiment with new ideas, develop & maintain local &
global solutions and enhance the experience for Wikimedia communities.
We’d like to invite you all to nominate your favorite & most used tools
and help us celebrate the people who create them!
As no one can possibly know all the cool tools out there, we’re looking
for some help and inspiration: please point us to the tools that you
think are great - for any reason you can think of!
Please go to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award
to recommend tools by October 27, 2021. You can nominate as many tools
as you want by filling out the form multiple times.
Thank you very much for your ideas & recommendation(s)!
The award is organized & selected by the Coolest Tool Academy 2021. We
plan to recognize the greatest tools in a variety of categories (for
examples, see last year’s categories). The award ceremony will take
place virtually again this year and we will provide more details soon
about the specific logistics and dates.
We will continue to spread the word over the next week, but if you get
the chance, please feel welcome to share this information with others
too!
Thanks :-)
Andre, for the Coolest Tool Academy 2021
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Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate
https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Wikimedia Small Projects User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
group aims to gather Wikimedians of distinct projects and their communities
with the aim to promote them, improve their development and diffusion,
collaborate between this group and coordinate actions in association with
Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata as well as also collaborations with
other chapters, thematic organisations, and user groups to execute such
purposes.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Small_Projects_in_Spanish/en
*Kindly,---*
*Mehman Ibragimov*
*Vice-Chair*
*Affiliations Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>*
Hi all,
To help bridge Wikipedia’s visual knowledge gaps, the Research team
<https://research.wikimedia.org/> at the Wikimedia Foundation has launched
the “Wikipedia Image/Caption Matching Competition
<https://www.kaggle.com/c/wikipedia-image-caption>”.
Read on for more information or check out our blog post
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/13/the-wikipedia-image-caption-matching-…>
!
Images are essential for knowledge sharing, learning, and understanding.
However, the majority of images on Wikipedia articles lack written context
(e.g., captions, alt-text), often making them inaccessible. As part of our
initiatives <https://research.wikimedia.org/knowledge-gaps.html> to address
Wikipedia’s knowledge gaps, the Research <https://research.wikimedia.org/>
team at the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting the “Wikipedia Image/Caption
Matching Competition <https://www.kaggle.com/c/wikipedia-image-caption>.”
We invite the communities of volunteers, developers, data scientists, and
machine learning enthusiasts to develop systems that can automatically
associate images with their corresponding captions and article titles.
In this competition (hosted on Kaggle <https://www.kaggle.com/>),
participants are provided with content from Wikipedia articles in 100+
language editions and are asked to build systems that automatically
retrieve the text (an image caption, or an article title) closest to a
query image.The data is a combination of Google AI’s recently released WIT
dataset <https://github.com/google-research-datasets/wit> and a new dataset
of 6 Million images from Wikimedia Commons that we have released
<https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/datasets/one-off/caption_competit…>
for this competition. Kaggle is hosting all data needed to get started with
the task, example notebooks, a forum for participants to share and
collaborate, and submitted models in open-sourced formats.
We encourage everyone to download our data and participate in the
competition. This challenge is an opportunity for people around the world
to grow their technical skills while increasing the accessibility of
Wikipedia.
This competition is possible thanks to collaborations with Google Research
<https://research.google/>, EPFL <https://www.epfl.ch/en/>, Naver Labs
Europe <https://europe.naverlabs.com/> and Hugging Face
<https://huggingface.co/>, who assisted with data preparation and
competition design. Check out our blog post
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/13/the-wikipedia-image-caption-matching-…>
for more information! The point of contact for this project is Miriam Redi.
You're welcome to reach out with questions or comments at
miriam(a)wikimedia.org.
Cheers,
Emily Lescak, on behalf of the Research team
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Hello everyone,
The annual #1Lib1Ref campaign invites librarians, researchers, book lovers
and wikimedians across the world to add missing references to articles,
helping make the encyclopedia more reliable and useful.
Are you excited about the 2022 edition of 1Lib1Ref as we celebrate 21 years
of Wikipedia in January 2022? Do you have any ideas on how to invite more
people to participate? Would you like to help organize and promote the
campaign in your communities?
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>.
Check out the Meta-Wiki page for more details:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref
Feel free to reach out to me at *sgill(a)wikimedia.org <sgill(a)wikimedia.org>.*
Best
Satdeep
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Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Culture
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all,
I’m happy to announce the publishing of our annual fundraising report that
summarises fundraising activities for the financial year covering July 1,
2020 - June 30, 2021.
Fiscal year 2021 was an extremely pivotal time for the Wikimedia
Foundation’s commitment to providing reliable and neutral information to
the world. The COVID-19 pandemic shaped many of our experiences during this
time, and as the world moved online, we experienced a significant increase
in Wikipedia’s traffic as well as donor support. The 2020-2021 Fundraising
Report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2020-21_Report>
provides insight into our revenue model and the strategy that goes into
creating an impactful fundraising campaign to ensure the Wikimedia movement
has the resources it needs to thrive.
We would like to send an immense amount of gratitude to everyone who
supports our mission. We wouldn't be able to deliver a successful
fundraiser without the support from our volunteer community, affiliates,
and generous donors and readers around the world. Special thank you to
everyone who contributed and collaborated on this report: the fundraising
teams, Legal, Communications, Finance, Product Analytics and more!
We welcome your feedback and questions on the talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising/2020-21_Report>. [1]
Thank you,
Pats
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising/2020-21_Report
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*Pats Pena (she/her) *
Sr. Director, Online Fundraising I Wikimedia Foundation
1 Montgomery Street I San Francisco, CA 94104
ppena(a)wikimedia.org I +1 (415) 816 3349
*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate.
<https://donate.wikimedia.org/>*
Please Note: If I am emailing after hours or on the weekend, it's because
Wikimedia allows me an awesome flexible schedule. Please do not respond
until reasonable business hours in your timezone, unless of course I am
shouting for help ;-)
Good day friends
The 2021 affiliates data survey report [1] is out! This is the third report
on affiliates and trends around, governance, demographics, governance, and
general awareness around resources and other support available to
affiliates.
This year we went a step further and answered a question we kept hearing,
which is: "Do affiliated editors show higher editing activities across
wikis compared to unaffiliated editors?" What the data told us is both
interesting and inspiring.
The report is available to read on meta, and you can also download a pdf
copy.
Link:
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Data_and_Insights_Team/Our_Reports/2…
We trust that you will enjoy reading this report, as much as we enjoyed
researching and compiling it!
Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us
Yours in service
Dumisani Ndubane
Governance Committee Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear fellow Wikimedians,
In no more than 24 hours we'll set the stage for the participants of the
UNLOCK Accelerator 2021 to showcase their open source / free knowledge
project results at this year’s virtual Demo Day!
Your access to the UNLOCK Demo Day:
When: October 6, 4-5.30 pm CEST
Where: www.wikimedia.de/unlock/
In no more than three months the five project teams have developed
prototypes that offer concrete and scalable solutions to the free knowledge
and this year’s challenge of (re)building trust in the digital age, ranging
from a crowdsourced directory that will help you find every official
governmental online account around the globe, a tool exposing and educating
on technology supply chains, to an open toolkit for language archivists on
how to create permanent, accessible and inclusive audiovisual archives [1].
Join us, get inspired and seize the opportunity to meet the teams! We can’t
wait to have you with us.
Warmest regards
Kannika and the UNLOCK Team
👉 Stay up to date and follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/UNLOCK_Acc
[1] https://www.wikimedia.de/unlock/projects/
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Kannika Thaimai (she/her)Leitung / Lead UNLOCK Accelerator
UNLOCK Accelerator: We accelerate your ideas. Together we build the
future of Free Knowledge.
www.wikimedia.de/unlock
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