Chers Wikimédiens,
Wiki Indaba est la conférence régionale officielle de la Wikimedia
Foundation pour les Africains de l'intérieur et de la diaspora qui
s'intéressent au continent africain, ainsi que pour d'autres activateurs de
la connaissance ouverte qui sont alignés sur la mission de partage de
l'information ouverte. Les sujets de présentation et de dialogue
comprennent les projets Wikimedia tels que Wikipedia, d'autres wikis, les
logiciels libres, la connaissance libre, le contenu libre et la façon dont
ces projets affectent le continent africain.
L'édition 2020 de la conférence devait se tenir à Kampala, en Ouganda, mais
elle a été reportée et se déroulera sous la forme d'un événement virtuel
organisé par le Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda du 5 au 7 novembre
2021.
Que vous soyez un membre de la communauté de l'un des projets Wikimedia
(tels que Wikipedia, Wikidata ou autres), ou un autre créateur ou
consommateur de contenu ouvert, le comité d'organisation local (LOC) en
Ouganda vous invite à participer à cette enquête afin d'identifier les
thèmes et les sujets qui seraient non seulement inclusifs, mais aussi
d'intérêt pour vous et votre communauté.
Veuillez nous faire part de vos commentaires au plus tard le 12 août 2021
en remplissant cette enquête http://shorturl.at/ltPR7
Sincères amitiés,
Geoffrey Kateregga
Responsable communication,
Wiki virtuel Indaba 2021
Hi folks,
I am forwarding this note from MIT to share the sad news of Professor Jing
Wang's death, because in addition to being a distinguished scholar, she was
also at one time a member of the Wikimedia advisory board (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Board). She was also generally a
supporter of open culture. Condolences to those who knew her.
-- Phoebe
*From:* L. Rafael Reif <office-of-the-president(a)mit.edu>
*Sent:* Thursday, July 29, 2021 11:09 AM
*To:* Phoebe Ayers <psayers(a)mit.edu>
*Subject:* Professor Jing Wang (1950–2021)
Sharing the news of Professor Jing Wang’s passing
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[image: Letterhead for MIT President L. Rafael Reif]
To the members of the MIT community,
With great sadness, I share the news that Jing Wang, S.C. Fang Professor of
Chinese Languages & Culture and professor of Chinese media and cultural
studies, died on Sunday following a sudden health emergency.
Professor Wang’s interests ranged from the classical literature of
premodern China – the subject of her first book, the award-winning *The
Story of Stone* – to groundbreaking work on contemporary Chinese culture,
including the role of advertising and the nuanced ways that activists use
social media to inspire societal change.
After earning a bachelor’s degree in foreign languages and literatures from
National Taiwan University, Jing completed her education in the US, earning
her PhD in comparative literature from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst.
She spent 16 years on the faculty at Duke, rising to chair the Department
of Asian and African Languages and Literature and to direct the Center for
East Asian Cultural and Institutional Studies. In 1996, she published her
second solo volume, *High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology
in Deng's China*.
In 2001, Jing arrived at MIT, beginning with an appointment in Foreign
Languages and Literatures (now Global Languages), a group she would head
from 2005 to 2008. Intense and inspiring, Jing earned the Levitan Award for
Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching honor in MIT’s School of
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (SHASS), and was a relentless advocate
for women in academia.
As she developed her ideas for two more provocative books – *Brand New
China: Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture* (2008) and * The Other
Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web* (2019) – she
found an additional intellectual home in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
(CMS/W). Since 2019, CMS/W was her primary appointment. She also went out
of her way to serve the Institute, including providing guidance to MIT on
working in China and, this summer, joining the advisory committee to
identify a new dean for SHASS.
You can read more about her life and work
<http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AMwAAKqL8X0AAcrqnbAAAAA83MsAAAAAGqoAJUNBAAiQzwBhAsSM…>
on MIT News.
Passionate about using knowledge to improve people’s lives, Jing founded
the MIT New Media Action Lab
<http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AMwAAKqL8X0AAcrqnbAAAAA83MsAAAAAGqoAJUNBAAiQzwBhAsSM…>,
to help non-profits and communities in developing countries explore the
potential of new media, and launched NGO 2.0
<http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AMwAAKqL8X0AAcrqnbAAAAA83MsAAAAAGqoAJUNBAAiQzwBhAsSM…>,
an ambitious effort based in Beijing and Shenzhen to promote the use of
information communication technology to help activists achieve their social
goals. On the advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation since 2010, she
also chaired the International Advisory Board of Creative Commons
<http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AMwAAKqL8X0AAcrqnbAAAAA83MsAAAAAGqoAJUNBAAiQzwBhAsSM…>
for China.
Having lost her daughter, Candy
<http://inj9.mjt.lu/lnk/AMwAAKqL8X0AAcrqnbAAAAA83MsAAAAAGqoAJUNBAAiQzwBhAsSM…>,
tragically two decades ago, Jing was keenly attuned to the struggles of
others. Warm, caring and generous, she was a gifted cook who made sure that
students from far away had a welcoming place to go for Thanksgiving.
May we honor her memory by making room at our own tables – and by reaching
out now to the many friends, colleagues and students grappling with her
loss.
With sympathy,
L. Rafael Reif
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave | Cambridge, MA 02139
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If you've used — or are interesting in using — Programs & Events
Dashboard to organize and track metrics for editathons, education
programs, editing contests, wikidata projects, and other events,
please consider taking our user survey:
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/surveys/3
Wiki Education's annual plan
(https://wikiedu.org/blog/2021/06/30/announcing-our-2021-22-annual-plan/)
calls for significantly increasing our support for and development of
Programs & Events Dashboard over the next year, and this survey will
help prioritize that work and develop a roadmap. The survey has up to
14 questions, most of which are optional. (You can preview the survey
on-wiki: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programs_%26_Events_Dashboard/2021_survey)
We'll also be sharing the survey data with WMF's new Campaigns team,
and coordinating with them to improve the tool ecosystem for
supporting program organizers across the movement.
Thanks!
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Sage Ross
User:Sage (Wiki Ed) / User:Ragesoss
Wiki Education
https://wikiedu.org
Hi
I'd like to invite All Affiliates to sign up to
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Community_Village#Table_Sign_Up>
host their own table in Building 1, there are 140 tables available please
consider sharing with a neighbor or region.
As an example in Nigeria there are 5 Affiliates, they could have a table
called Nigerian Affiliates with every community collaborating to share the
space. It also could reflect a common association like Australia and New
Zealand, who have always supported each other.
Every table is fitted with a Miro whiteboard where links, videos, notes and
a host of awesome gadgets will enable you to reach your community. The
Whiteboard is your digital staff member, you dont require anyone to be
stationed there during the event. We'll put out more information about
using the whiteboards soon but for now you can view its capabilities at Miro
<https://miro.com/>
The Community Village will be in Building 1, which is also where all the
plenary sessions will be hosted. Each table will be named to reflect the
community. For meetups put a notice on the white board with details of
when and where in the unconference space.
See you all at Wikimania
- Community village:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Community_Village#Table_Sign_Up
- unconference table bookings:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference
- miro: https://miro.com/ <https://miro.com/>
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*Wikimania 2021*
*Celebrating 20 years of Wikipedia*
*acknowledging our Past, Present, and Future*
our virtual global conference
13–17 August, 2021
hosted by Every community
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Wikimedia Australia Inc. is an independent charitable organisation which
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donations keep the Wikimedia mission alive.
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Gnangarra
M: +61 0434 986 852
*Wikimania 2021*
*Celebrating 20 years of Wikipedia*
*acknowledging our Past, Present, and Future*
our virtual global conference
13–17 August, 2021
hosted by Every community
gnangarra(a)wikimedia.org.au
http://wikimedia.org.au
Wikimedia Australia Inc. is an independent charitable organisation which
supports the efforts of the Wikimedia Foundation in Australia. Your
donations keep the Wikimedia mission alive.
*http://wikimedia.org.au/Donate <https://wikimedia.org.au/Donate>*
Hello Wikimedians,
Just one day before the 2021 Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and
Promoters(COSCUP) <https://coscup.org/2021/en/> ! [1]* (7/31-8/1 (UTC+8))*.
This year, the event is completely live on YouTube
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqfib4St70XPwnlDHUJerK5c7SQKsgWhS>
[2] , open to a wider audience on the internet. (The conference is mostly
in Chinese)
We are thrilled to announce that the Wikimedians in Taiwan hold two sections
<https://coscup.org/2021/en/session>[3] at the COSCUP, and we will share
the Wikimedia movement of Taiwan in the past years, and present in several
local languages(Taiwanese, Hakka and Aboriginal). Wikidata is also one of
the focus.
COSCUP is an annual conference held by Taiwanese Open source community
participants since 2006. It’s a major force of Free software movement
advocacy in Taiwan. COSCUP’s aim is providing a platform to connect Open
Source coders, users, and promoters, and promote FLOSS with the annual
conference.
Wikimedia sessions are on July 1st, 2021, Room TR411 and TR412-2, followed
by below topics...
- TR411 (10am-04pm) Live: https://youtu.be/KpC3IK6gx5c
- From Wikipedia consciousness to the crisis consciousness of Payuan
- The hope of bilingual Sakizaya
- Let the language faraway be transformed into the project close to
life
- Pleased to see the reborn of Seediq language
- View of Bân-lâm-gú Wikipedia from a Taiwanese Hokkien speaker
- My Way to Write Wikipedia in Taiwanese
- ...and more
- TR412-2 (10am-03:40pm) Live: https://youtu.be/Sr3pTulB_9M
- Wikidata Basic Editing Teaching
- Using open data on Wikidata to develop the website
- Developing web maps with ProtomapsJS
- Zelfvacc: a Self-financed vaccine map based on OSM & Wikidata
- ...and more
Do not hesitate to join us !
[1] https://coscup.org/2021/en/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqfib4St70XPwnlDHUJerK5c7SQKsgWhS
[3] https://coscup.org/2021/en/session
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*陳禹先 **Yuhsien Chen, Joyce ** (she/her/hers)*
*User : growtw*
*社團法人台灣維基媒體協會 Wikimedia Taiwan*
Email: yuhsien.chen(a)wikimedia.tw <allenwang(a)wikimedia.tw>
Dear Community Members,
Wikimania is only two weeks away (Aug. 13-17) and we are very excited to
welcome each of you. The program is shaping up well and we look forward to
sharing that with you very soon. Registration remains open
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Registration>. We surpassed 1800
registrants today! Registering is the best way to enjoy the virtual
experience, to take part in social activities, and to start receiving
information from the organizers.
I would also like to invite movement groups and affiliates to sign up for a
table in the virtual Community Village
<https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Community_Village> space. You
can learn more about the available resources and times, as well as sign-ups
on the page. Each table will be equipped with a digital Miro
<https://miro.com/> whiteboard where you can share text, images and videos
about your work and community. You do not need people to be at the tables.
There are 140 tables available, so please consider sharing with a neighbor
or region.
The Unconference <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Unconference>
space is also open and you can sign up to host a session there. If we were
not able to include your submission as part of the main programming, you
are more than welcome to host it here. Unconference is a great opportunity
to connect with fellow Wikimedians in a more intimate and casual setting.
You can learn more on the page.
Thank you very much and see you all at Wikimania.
Best Wishes,
Winnie Kabintie (User:Ms_Kabintie
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ms_Kabintie>), on behalf of the
Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team.
Good day,
This is a notice that the 2020 annual activity report of the Wikimedians of
North American Indigenous Languages User Group was posted on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_North_American_Indigenous_La…
Please do not hesitate to reach me if you have any questions, comments or
suggestions.
Thanks,
User:Amqui