Hello dear readers of the list,
This week I have been very happy to discover the Meta page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Social_Suite
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Social_Suite>
It aims to census libre tools that are used by our community to
communicate, as opposed to channels using non-libre tools, hosted by the
foundation.
I started to contribute with a classification, and took the party to
also add tools hosted by affiliated chapters. Please feel free to add
more libre tools that you are aware of. If you do so, try to group
different instances of the same tool or similar services together, and
specify the software name as well as the hosting organization name.
Cheers,
psychoslave
Hello. I have the pleasure to inform that last Friday, 19th February
2021, Wikimedia España was recognized as a charity (entidad de utilidad
pública) in Spain by the Ministry of the Interior and it was published
at the Boletín Oficial del Estado (Official State Gazette). This is a
recognition of the hard work the association has been doing last 10
years in Spain. To be recognized, it has been a long process, and we
were waiting for an answer for this application since the end of 2019. I
want to say thanks to all people who worked to achieve that.
Here you have a short entry in our website about that:
https://www.wikimedia.es/2021/02/19/wikimedia-espana-declarada-entidad-de-u…
Here the text of the Boletín Oficial del Estado:
https://www.boe.es/diario_boe/txt.php?id=BOE-A-2021-2626
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Santiago Navarro Sanz
Presidente
Wikimedia España
www.wikimedia.es
After ten years, I believe this is a great achievement!! Congratulations to
all the Wikimedia Spain community. :D
Alhen
alhen at most places.
Coordinator at Wikimedistas de Bolivia
On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 2:29 PM Mattias Blomgren <
mattias.blomgren(a)wikimedia.se> wrote:
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Hi all,
Earlier this year when we decided to cancel Wikimania 2020, many of us were
hopeful that we would be able to postpone it a year to 2021. I was looking
forward to connecting with all of you in Bangkok in August for our first
ever Wikimania in Southeast Asia.
However, as we look forward, in spite of promising developments in vaccine
research it seems unlikely that we will all be able to travel freely and
convene together by August 2021. Over the past several months, the
Wikimedia Foundation Events team has been meeting with the Wikimania
Steering Committee[1] and the ESEAP Core Organizing Team (East, South East
Asia and Pacific regions)[2] to discuss how we can move forward with
Wikimania in 2021. Together, these stakeholders have decided that next
year’s Wikimania will be a virtual event. Instead of being hosted by the
ESEAP Core Organizing Team, this virtual Wikimania will be hosted by a
wider group of community members. Since there still is a strong wish to
host Wikimania in the future from the ESEAP team, they will remain the
hosts for the next in-person edition of Wikimania.
For many of us, hearing that we won’t be gathering in person at Wikimania
in 2021 is disappointing news. But I am encouraged by the success and
creativity of all of the recent virtual movement events, from regional
events like itWikiCon to the Wiki 20 event in Asia Pacific event to
celebrate Wikipedia’s 20th birthday and the Movement Strategy Global
Conversations held in December. I have gotten to hear from more of you over
the past months than I could have imagined at the beginning of this
pandemic. As always, Wikimedians have adapted and found new ways to connect
with each other.
We believe that this new virtual format will create opportunities for more
people within our movement to be involved in putting together a movement
event than ever before. We will further build on the collaborative, open
process for creating a Wikimania program that we started during Wikimania
in Sweden last year. Since this is our first virtual Wikimania, we will
also be able to learn from this experience and hopefully include options
for virtual participation in future in-person Wikimanias as well. Wikimania
2021 may not happen as any of us initially imagined, but it will still be
an opportunity for celebration, especially as Wikimania 2021 will happen
during Wikipedia’s 20th birthday year.
We welcome ideas for this virtual Wikimania and in January, we plan to
share more information about how you can get involved in the planning
process. We will also be able to share more information in the coming
months about what this means in terms of invitations, submitting sessions
and scholarships. In the meantime, please share your thoughts, ideas and
suggestions with the Wikimania Steering Committee on Meta[3].
As a movement, we value those opportunities to connect together in person,
and look forward to when we can all gather in person again. Until then,
stay safe and take care!
Janeen Uzzell, on behalf of the
- ESEAP Core Organizing Team
- Wikimania Steering Committee
- Wikimedia Foundation Events Team
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Hub
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2021
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*Jáneen Uzzell*
Chief Operating Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
@janeenuzzell
Hello folks!
We are excited to announce the release of version 0.4 of VideoCutTool
<https://videocuttool.wmflabs.org/> [1].
VideoCutTool helps users to edit videos in commons and also converts MP4
videos on the user's device to Wikimedia Commons accepted formats (i.e
WebM/OGV) and upload/re-upload them to Commons on-the-fly.
In the last few years, we have been tirelessly working to improve our tool
and we believe that VideoCutTool will help you enjoy your video editing
experience! Special thanks to our team Pratik Shetty, Hassan Amin, James
Heilman, Jayprakash, and all the volunteers for their contributions!
*About VideoCutTool*VideoCutTool is a video editing tool that helps to
provide various types of editing processes on videos that are currently in
Wikimedia Commons and also the videos present in the user devices. It is
deployed on Wikimedia VPS. Cropping, Trimming, Audio Disabling, and
Rotating are the current features of the tool. From the tool, the edited
videos can be either downloaded or re-upload to Wikimedia Commons.
VideoCutTool work's similar to the CropTool
<https://croptool.toolforge.org/> [2]. More info about the tool is
available on Commons: VideoCutTool
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:VideoCutTool> [3].
VideoCutTool is also available as a gadget in Wikimedia Commons, You can
turn it on from Preferences -> Gadgets -> Check on VideoCutTool -> Save!
Try out VideoCutTol from here: https://videocuttool.wmflabs.org/
*Changes in version 0.4*
- Support of i18n - Localisation and Internalisation.
- Optional Dark mode - handy to use!
- Mobile responsiveness.
- Fixes to various minor bugs.
If you notice any bugs or want to request any feature please feel free to
open a ticket in phabricator and add the tag #videocuttool to the same, Our
phabricator workboard is here:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/videocuttool/ [4].
[1] https://videocuttool.wmflabs.org/
[2] https://croptool.toolforge.org/
[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:VideoCutTool
[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/videocuttool/
Regards
Gopa Vasanth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Gopavasanth>
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham <http://www.amrita.edu/> | Blog
<https://gopavasanth.wordpress.com/>
amFOSS <https://amfoss.in/@gopavasanth> | GitHub
<https://github.com/gopavasanth> | Gerrit
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/gopavasanth>
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
Dear ALL -
Especially #forQuestioningUCoC this is what working on Wikipedia is in
2021 even to a tech savy folks:
"While it was an overall positive experience, we also had hiccups
including getting Zoom bombed by racist trolls, and dealing with
immediate deletions of articles for various reasons. In Italian
Wikipedia, an editor is arguing that Amazon worker organization has no
encyclopedic value! See the discussion at
it:Discussione:Organizzazione dei dipendenti di Amazon."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Organized_Labour/Online…
Best Z
Hello, Namaste, Namaskara, Assalam ‘Alaykum, Sat Srī Akāl , Vanakkam*
We just concluded the second day of the Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021.
Tomorrow, 21 February 2021, is the International Mother Language Day. This
is also our third day of the program.
These are the details of three tracks and the sessions are below:
* Language Track: Learn about Digital Archiving in Kannada and other
languages, Spell4Wiki tool, LinguaLibre tool, Section translation on mobile
devices
* Community Track: Internship Program in Tamil Wiki Projects, 100wikidays,
Rules that Every Wiki Needs, Relicensing initiatives in Maharashtra etc,
* Skill building Track: Wikisource training, Wikivoyage training, Building
a diamond open access journal on Wikimedia platform etc,
Tomorrow on the occasion of International Mother Language Day during the
closing session, we'll talk about: "International Mother Language Day - The
love for Language and a sound of silence "
Please join the sessions,
See the program schedule:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Program#Day_3…
Instant registration option is open still for Wikimedians, see the
procedure:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Registration#…
Regards
* "Greetings" (see in different languages:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45594 )
ইতি,
টিটো দত্ত
(মাতৃভাষা থাক জীবন জুড়ে)
Hi all,
We are at the moment working hard for the preparations for this year's
WikiGap Campaign. As with most campaigns and events in the movement, we are
working hard to adapt to a completely digital campaign.
I wanted to give a few updates.
First, we are working hard to develop some guidelines for a successful
virtual WikiGap event. Our hope is that it can easily be modified to work
for any digital editathon. The goal is to have it finalized and distributed
by early next week.
Secondly, we have started a Facebook group for WikiGap organizers,
participants, and supporters. If you are interested in organizing or taking
part in a WikiGap event, you can join the Facebook group. We will give more
regular updates there. Here is the link:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/858908041562951
Thirdly, we summarized the outcome from last year's campaign a few days
back. In spite of Covid-19, which forced a large amount of the events to be
either canceled or entirely digital, 1,500 editors created or improved more
than 20,000 articles, articles that in 2020 had more than 42 million views.
Well done to everyone who took part!
Wish you all a nice weekend!
*Eric Luth*
Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
Advocacy
Wikimedia Sverige
eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se
+46 (0) 765 55 50 95
Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se
Hello everyone,
Following the recent news that 2021 Wikimania will be virtual
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2021-January/096141.html>
[1], the Wikimania Steering Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee>[2] wanted to follow
up with some updates and opportunities to be involved in the planning for
Wikimania 2021.
TL;dr: *The Wikimania Steering Committee has begun planning for Wikimania
2021, and we are looking for 5-6 people to be on the core organizing team,
plus additional volunteers for other roles.* If you would like to be part
of the core team for organizing this year's virtual Wikimania, please let
us know by applying by *March 1.* Details are here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2021/Call_for_volunteers
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2021/Call_for_volunteers>or read
on!
==Hosting Wikimania 2021==
As there’s no physical location for this year's Wikimania, there are no
geographically based hosts. Instead, the Wikimania Steering Committee and
the Core Organizing Team (details below) will serve as an international
team of community organizers for Wikimania 2021. The Foundation will be
providing infrastructure, logistics and organizational support.
We invite you to join us and help produce this event for the community, by
the community.
==What we've done==
In order to help imagine and design a virtual event, in January 2021 the
Wikimania Steering Committee engaged in a series of design sprints that
were facilitated by event design experts. The goal of our design sprints
was to collaboratively start designing a few formats for a virtual
Wikimania experience to bring back to the wider community. You can read
more about the process, the people involved, and the outcomes of our design
sprints here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2021/Event_design_process_narrati…>.[3]
==Theme & Dates==
Since this year marks the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia, and celebrations
are ongoing, Wikimania 2021’s theme will also celebrate 20 years of
Wikipedia. We’ll look back at our history and imagine our future.
We’re planning for the conference to be held in August 2021, following the
precedent set by past Wikimanias. Exact dates will follow soon.
==What about scholarships?==
Since an in-person event scholarship cannot be awarded for a virtual event,
there is an opportunity for us to look into repurposing the scholarships
program to enable participation and promote accessibility. A feasibility
study will be completed to develop how the scholarships program can be
repurposed, and the Core Organizing Team will help decide on the best
course of action.
==How to get involved==
For supporting the organization of Wikimania, we will need help from
community members around the world. To begin, we've identified roles that
will be part of the Core Organizing Team.
We are inviting nominations and self-nominations for the Core Organizing
Team for Wikimania 2021. This team will help lead the development and
production of the overall event, focused on the conference program, and
will be supported by technical and project staff at the Wikimedia
Foundation and the Wikimania steering committee. Volunteers will need to
commit time each week between now and August to make the event a success.
There will be additional calls for volunteers in other roles in the coming
months as well. If you have an idea for how you might be able to contribute
to Wikimania organization in other ways, please let us know by filling out
the application form
<https://survey.wikimedia.it/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=856642>.
If you have organized past events in person or online, or are interested in
hosting international Wikimedia events in the future, we need you! Planning
Wikimania is an amazing way to meet and collaborate with other Wikimedians
from all over the world. This group will need people who are strong
collaborators, communicators, and solution-oriented and who are able to be
consistently involved through the conference.
If you have thoughts, ideas, or questions before applying, feel free to add
your comments on this meta page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2021 [4]
==So what are we looking for?==
Total number of people we are looking for
- Organizing core team members: minimum of 2, maximum 3 community
representatives
- Programming core team members: minimum of 2, maximum 3 community
representatives
- These will be joined by 1-2 steering committee liaisons and staff from
the WMF, including a project manager and virtual event producer
What are the responsibilities of Organizing core team members (2-3
people)?:
-
- Help choose the right format for a virtual Wikimania - using prior
design work to set the length and outline of the event
- Help shape/decide the outcome of the recommendations of the
Scholarship Feasibility Report
- Keep our international community up to date and involved throughout
planning phase
- Help coordinate communications, the Wikimania wiki, and other
volunteers
What are the responsibilities of Programming core team members (2-3
people)?
- Create and manage the call for program contributions
- Manage programming and establish programming framework
- Coordinate community submission/acceptance process
- Assist with programming logistics and communications
- Help coordinate program volunteers
What does the commitment look like?
- 60-90 mins active weekly participation (possibly more or less in some
weeks depending on tasks). Times and dates for meetings will be chosen by
Core Organizing Team members, and will be inclusive of all timezones.
- Starting in March 2021, ending in September
If you would like to help but do not want to be a part of the core team,
you can also use our volunteer form below to let us know!
Is there an incentive for volunteering my time?
- For active core team members (as detailed above), a full scholarship
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ> [5] (travel,
lodging, registration fees) to the next in-person Wikimania will be
awarded.
What kind of qualifications are we looking for?
- For organizing members: event organization experience of virtual,
in-person or hybrid events; previous organizers of events such as regional
events, thematic events, meetups or Wikimanias
- For programming members: experience with the programming of
international community events; experience as previous program chairs,
program committee members
- Past or future Wikimania organizers are welcome
- Collaborative approach as a principle
- In good standing with the community and the Foundation
- Members from anywhere in the world are welcome; the working language
of the committee will be English
*How to apply*
- Send your application to WMSC using this form
<https://survey.wikimedia.it/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=272925&lang=en>
[6]
- You can use the application form for the Core Organizing Team
- You can also use the form to provide your availability for other
volunteer roles
- By March 1 2021
- Members announced by March 8th 2021
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2021-January/096141.html
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2021/Event_design_process_narrati…
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimania_2021
[5] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ
[6] https://survey.wikimedia.it/index.php?r=survey/index/sid/856642&lang=en
<https://survey.wikimedia.it/index.php?r=survey/index/sid/856642&lang=en>
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gmail.com *
Hi everyone,
The movement strategy transition team is happy to share summaries from
follow-up discussions that took place in January and February.
The aim of the discussions was to come up with objectives for implementing
each initiative or cluster of initiatives that communities had previously
prioritized. The needed steps as well as challenges and anticipated
resources were also discussed to varying degrees.
We kindly ask you to review the summaries
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…>[1]
by March 15, particularly for initiatives that are a priority for you and
your community, and to help finalize the draft plan. This is also where we
invite you to indicate your interest to be part of working groups that will
be convened for each initiative to take the work forward. More information
below.
Quick recap
In November
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…>
[2] and December
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…>
[3], the Movement Strategy team hosted global conversations to identify
priority areas for collaboration in 2021. Distributed governance, resources
for underrepresented communities, improved user experience, addressing
content gaps, and facilitating skill development in the movement were among
the top priorities.
Our promise had been to host at least one follow-up discussion for each
initiative. Thanks to your participation and support from community members
and affiliates from around the world, this was successfully achieved.151
people participated in large discussions for the Interim Global Council and
90 for hubs. An average of 60 people participated in each of the other
follow-up discussions that took place from January 22 to February 7.
Commitment to equity in decision-making
Distributed leadership, global governance, and inclusive decision-making
were key threads in the movement strategy recommendations. This has been
reiterated in local and global discussions since and the Wikimedia
Foundation is committed to supporting the realization of this vision and
the establishment of a Global Council - by the way of an interim council
that will draft the Movement Charter. The exact structure and set up of
this Interim Global Council will continue to be shaped by communities in
virtual and on-wiki discussions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…>
.[4]
Next steps
Until March 15, we invite community members, affiliates, and strategy
enthusiasts from the whole movement to help finalize the first ever
implementation plan for movement strategy:
-
How can the stated objectives become realistic and inclusive steps for
implementation?
-
Did the discussions miss anything?
You can continue to indicate on meta, under respective initiative sub-pages
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…>
[5], if you would like to take part in the next steps of developing the
initiatives and in their implementation. In upcoming months we are planning
to convene working groups with contributing community, affiliate, and
Wikimedia Foundation staff members to be tasked with scoping their
respective initiative and taking the work forward. We will keep everyone
who has indicated their interest on meta in loop and will share more
specific information regarding ways to participate in our future updates.
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]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transit…