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Wikimedia Community Group Math Activity Report

by Physikerwelt

Dear friends of math in Wikipedia, Last year our effort was focused on improving the W3C standard MathML; we shifted the focus this year back to the implementation of Math rendering. A new purely PHP and MathML-based math rendering pipeline is in the making and will be available as an opt-in by the end of the year, simultaneously with the shipment of MathML in the latest Chrome version. Since we do not want to carry on PNG images in the year 2023, we are currently removing them from the rendering pipeline. For 2023, we intend to improve speed and accessibility for mathematical formulae and enable popups (similar to the popups for references) that display semantics when hovering formulae. All the best André and Moritz PS: More information is available here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Math

1 year, 5 months

New WIKIMOVE Podcast #6: Regional and thematic hubs

by Eva Martin

Dear all, Our latest WIKIMOVE Episode on regional and thematic Hubs has just dropped! Check it out on our website and feel free to react to it on our meta page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WIKIMOVE> to continue the conversation: https://www.wikimedia.de/wikimove-site/podcast/episode-6-hubs/ What's in this episode? Regional and thematic hubs continue to be the hot topic among many Wikimedians pursuant to the strategy recommendations. Many affiliates and volunteers have done hub-like work for a long time, and hubs now seem to provide a vehicle to formalize and financially sustain that work. The idea of having structures that help people share resources, do fundraising together, and make decisions at the regional level reverberates with many. Today we have Johnny Allegre and Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska to give us updates on hub activities in Asia and Eastern Europe. Our guests are.... - Johnny Alegre, President of Philippine WIkimedia Community UG and member of the ESEAP Hub - Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska, Community Support Team Manager at Wikimedia Poland and member of the CEE Hub Interim Steering Committee If you haven’t done so already, please fill out our evaluation survey to help us adapt WIKIMOVE to your needs and wishes for 2023: https://lime.wikimedia.de/index.php/837944?lang=en We look forward to your reactions on our show! Your WIKIMOVE Team -- Eva Martin Project Assistant Movement Strategy and Global Relations Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 30 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/ Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

1 year, 5 months

Re: Dates announced: Wikimania 2023

by ESEAP Wikimania Core Organizing Team

Hi Everyone, For those who were reading the email in text based format and were NOT able to see the table, here is a text based-summary. The days will look like this: August 15, Tuesday: Pre-conference (Option day), other activities August 16, Wednesday: Opening plenary and other activities August 17, Thursday: CORE CONFERENCE August 18, Friday: CORE CONFERENCE August 19, Saturday: CORE CONFERENCE, closing plenary August 20, Sunday: Pre-conference (Option day), other activities ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject to change, per program committee planning For further inquiries, please write to wikimania(a)wikimedia.org. My apology. Thanks. Kind regards, Butch Bustria Event Leader, Singapore On behalf of the ESEAP Wikimania Core Organizing Team *Wikimedia ESEAP refers to East, South East Asia and the Pacific.* > > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 7:06 AM ESEAP Wikimania Core Organizing Team < > wikimania2023(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, Everyone! >> >> Mark your calendars! Singapore is calling. Wikimania 2023 will run from >> 16-19 August. >> >> This year’s theme is *Diversity. Collaboration. Future. * >> >> Diversity. Wikimania will be an opportunity to showcase ESEAP as an >> example of inclusion: different volunteer groups, individuals, and >> affiliates, at different stages of development, different cultures but >> closely involved in an equitable way. >> >> Collaboration. As a distributed growth mechanism, Wikimania will be a >> way to learn and share new knowledge like tools usage, organizing events / >> online campaigns, solving a Wiki-related problem and many others. >> >> Future. Wikimania is also significant to many Wikimedians as Wikimania >> 2023 will also be a forum to discuss implementing the Wikimedia Movement >> Strategy (#Wikimedia2030) and discuss other future-thinking topics. >> >> >> The days will look like this: >> >> Pre-conference >> >> >> *Option day* >> >> CORE CONFERENCE >> >> Post-conference >> >> >> *Option day* >> >> August 15 >> >> Tuesday >> >> August 16 >> >> Wednesday >> >> August 17 >> >> Thursday >> >> August 18 >> >> Friday >> >> August 19 >> >> Saturday >> >> August 20 >> >> Sunday >> >> Trainings >> >> >> Committee Meetings >> >> >> Regional and Thematic Meetings >> >> Summits >> >> Casual meet-ups >> >> >> Tech collabs, hacks >> >> >> Editathons, Datathons, >> >> Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc. >> >> >> Opening ceremony >> >> Trainings >> >> Committee Meetings >> >> >> Regional and Thematic Meetings >> >> >> Summits >> >> Casual meet-ups >> >> >> Tech collabs, hacks >> >> Editathons, Datathons, >> >> Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc. >> >> >> Opening reception >> >> Day of programming >> >> >> Lectures >> >> >> Round Tables >> >> >> Panel discussion >> >> >> Trainings >> >> >> Remote presentation >> >> >> Tech presentations >> >> >> Tech collabs, hacks >> >> Casual meet-ups >> >> Editathons, Datathons, >> >> Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc. >> >> Day of programming >> >> >> Lectures >> >> >> Round Tables >> >> >> Panel discussion >> >> >> Trainings >> >> >> Remote presentation >> >> >> Tech presentations >> >> >> Tech collabs, hacks >> >> >> Casual meet-ups >> >> Editathons, Datathons, >> >> Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc. >> >> Day of programming >> >> >> Lectures >> >> >> Panel discussion >> >> >> Remote presentation >> >> >> Tech presentations >> >> >> Tech collabs, hacks >> >> >> Closing ceremony >> >> Evening dinner & party >> >> Thematic culture and heritage day >> >> >> Casual tours and other activities such as commons photo walks, >> editathons, datathons, and many others. >> >> *Subject to change, per program committee planning* >> >> >> Scholarships and program submissions are opening in January. So start >> thinking about this year’s theme and how your work contributes to it. >> >> For further inquiries, please write to wikimania(a)wikimedia.org. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> *Butch Bustria* >> Event Leader, Singapore >> On behalf of the ESEAP Wikimania Core Organizing Team >> >> >> *Wikimedia ESEAP refers to East, South East Asia and the Pacific.* >> >> >> >> >>

1 year, 5 months

Dates announced: Wikimania 2023

by ESEAP Wikimania Core Organizing Team

Hi, Everyone! Mark your calendars! Singapore is calling. Wikimania 2023 will run from 16-19 August. This year’s theme is *Diversity. Collaboration. Future. * Diversity. Wikimania will be an opportunity to showcase ESEAP as an example of inclusion: different volunteer groups, individuals, and affiliates, at different stages of development, different cultures but closely involved in an equitable way. Collaboration. As a distributed growth mechanism, Wikimania will be a way to learn and share new knowledge like tools usage, organizing events / online campaigns, solving a Wiki-related problem and many others. Future. Wikimania is also significant to many Wikimedians as Wikimania 2023 will also be a forum to discuss implementing the Wikimedia Movement Strategy (#Wikimedia2030) and discuss other future-thinking topics. The days will look like this: Pre-conference *Option day* CORE CONFERENCE Post-conference *Option day* August 15 Tuesday August 16 Wednesday August 17 Thursday August 18 Friday August 19 Saturday August 20 Sunday Trainings Committee Meetings Regional and Thematic Meetings Summits Casual meet-ups Tech collabs, hacks Editathons, Datathons, Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc. Opening ceremony Trainings Committee Meetings Regional and Thematic Meetings Summits Casual meet-ups Tech collabs, hacks Editathons, Datathons, Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc. Opening reception Day of programming Lectures Round Tables Panel discussion Trainings Remote presentation Tech presentations Tech collabs, hacks Casual meet-ups Editathons, Datathons, Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc. Day of programming Lectures Round Tables Panel discussion Trainings Remote presentation Tech presentations Tech collabs, hacks Casual meet-ups Editathons, Datathons, Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc. Day of programming Lectures Panel discussion Remote presentation Tech presentations Tech collabs, hacks Closing ceremony Evening dinner & party Thematic culture and heritage day Casual tours and other activities such as commons photo walks, editathons, datathons, and many others. *Subject to change, per program committee planning* Scholarships and program submissions are opening in January. So start thinking about this year’s theme and how your work contributes to it. For further inquiries, please write to wikimania(a)wikimedia.org. Thanks. Kind regards, *Butch Bustria* Event Leader, Singapore On behalf of the ESEAP Wikimania Core Organizing Team *Wikimedia ESEAP refers to East, South East Asia and the Pacific.*

1 year, 5 months

Whose Knowledge? User Group annual report 2021-22

by mariana＠whoseknowledge.org

Hello wikimedians! The annual report of Whose Knowledge? for the period September 2021 - September 2022 is available on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Whose_Knowledge%3F/Reports/2022 Here is a brief summary of what you will find there: - 2022 marked the 5th edition of the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign. The 2022 campaign brought over 1100 images to Wikimedia Commons so far. - This year, we brought the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign physically to the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa #FIFAfrica2022, in Lusaka Zambia. - We launched the State of the Internet's Languages report in an online event with the participation of contributors, partners and allies. - We published “Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report”, a collective analysis of the power dynamics of online structured data, with translations to Spanish and Portuguese. - We co-organized the Decolonizing the Internet East Africa (DTI-EA) convening, that took place in Lusaka, Zambia, in collaboration with the pan-African feminist network FEMNET. - Our initiative Honouring Our Guardians continues centers the leadership of Indigenous women activists, policy makers and scholars from different parts of the world through an international/translocal community of praxis for climate justice. - We are consolidating our program Decolonizing the Internet’s Archives (Whose Digital Archives?) and supporting the partners in developing their projects. - In 2022, we engaged in critical conversations in the Wikimedia movement around knowledge justice and the inclusion of the marginalized majority of the world. Please visit the full report to learn more and access our thematic reports and multimedia materials. Stay tuned through our website (https://whoseknowledge.org/), social media channels (@whoseknowledge on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook) and consider subscribing to our newsletter (https://whoseknowledge.org/join/), or reach out us in our discussion page on Meta (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Whose_Knowledge%3F). In solidarity, Mariana and the Whose Knowledge? team

1 year, 5 months

Invitation to episode 18 of WikiAfrica Hour

by Ceslause Ogbonnaya

Dear Wikimedians, It's my pleasure to invite you to the episode 18 of WikiAfrica Hour, titled "*How different user groups are run*". The session aims to share details about how organised groups transcend into a user group, how to navigate a user group, how to revive a defunct user group, and how user groups are officially recognised by the Affiliations Committee. Guests include: 1. Tochiprecious <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tochiprecious> - Co-founder, Igbo Wikimedians User Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_Group> 2. Candy Khohliwe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shoodho> - Program Coordinator, Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Botswana> 3. Manavpreet Kaur <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Manavpreet_Kaur> - Staff liaison, Affiliations Committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee> Date: 25th November 2022 Time: 4pm UTC Details: http://w.wiki/5dft Regards, Ceslause Ogbonnaya *Host, WikiAfrica Hour*

1 year, 5 months

Mixed reality Wikimedia event on Monday 29th November

by Mike Peel

Hi all, As part of an ongoing The Future of Meetings (TFOM) x Science For the Public Good (S4PG) event series, we're hosting a Wikimedia-focused event on the 29th November, featuring Cristian Consonni, Amanda Jurno, and Daniel Mietchen. The TFOM x S4PG series of free events aims to initiate discussions about what Science for the Public Good may look like and how it can be achieved, and to showcase how mixed reality approaches can improve how we interact and share our research. We've already had some fantastic discussions around citizen science, and diversity and inclusion, and our next event is fast approaching. This next event will happen on 29th November 2022 at 13:00 UTC (00:00 AEDT), and it will be focused on Open Data, Wikimedia and Science for the Public Good. We'll be hearing from experts in this space on creating positive outcomes for the public good through dissemination of and access to scientific data and knowledge, including as open tools for education. The event will take place in Altspace, and you can participate in the event with a VR headset or through a computer via the Altspace application. You can also watch it on a livestream, and ask questions via Slack. Accessibility grants are also available for, e.g., care arrangements during the event, internet connectivity, or to subsidise the cost of buying a VR headset. For more information, please see https://s4pg.tfom.org/accessibility-grants/ For more information on the series and to register for this event, please see eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/s4pg-x-tfom-themed-gathering-open-data-wikimed… and our website: https://s4pg.tfom.org/ Thanks, Mike, on behalf of TFOM

1 year, 5 months

Grants budgets

by effe iets anders

Hi, Over the past year I've had the pleasure to serve on one of WIkimedia's regional funding committees <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Committees>. Together, these committees get to allocate several millions of grant funding on behalf of our movement. As I tried to have conversations about that, I noticed that the actual amounts that each committee is allowed to allocate in their region, is not published. I asked about this, and the response I get is that this is "internal information" and it might make things cluttered (I don't know if this is because the question got stuck in bureaucracy or because there is an actual concern for clutter - I do have to admit that the grants pages can be terribly confusing, but don't see how these numbers would change that). I believe that it is important for transparency reasons, if not essential, that we all know how much money in grants we are spending and will be spending over the years in the various regions. Is there a stronger reason to keep this information confidential/secret? Thanks! Lodewijk

1 year, 5 months

Wikimedia Summit 2022 – Event report has been published

by Nicole Ebber

Hi everyone, We are glad to announce that Wikimedia Deutschland has published the event report for the Wikimedia Summit 2022 on Meta.[1] Besides general information and financial reporting, we also shared some crucial lessons learned from organising the first global hybrid Wikimedia event. We hope that others can learn from our experience and develop new standards and guidelines to run hybrid events in the future. Part of the report is also the evaluation of participants’ feedback (PDF).[2] If you haven’t looked at the event documentation yet, we also invite you to read our full report on the Summit program.[3] Happy reading! Nicole [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2022/Event-report [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Resultst_of_the_Wikimedia_Summit_20… [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2022/Documentation -- Nicole Ebber Director Movement Strategy and Global Relations Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 30 577 11 62-0 https://wikimedia.de Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/ Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

1 year, 5 months

Re: Is GoogleTV violating Wikipedia's license?

by Nicholas Perry

As others mentioned in the thread, WMF can't enforce this directly as it is not the copyright holder. However, in past instances, we have raised the issue with Google (similar to the KPN example) and will do so for this one as well. I am meeting with Google later today and will flag this to remind them of the copyright obligations that come with using this text. Thanks for surfacing this, Nicholas On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:58 PM <wikimedia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Send Wikimedia-l mailing list submissions to > wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikimedia-l.lists.wikimedia.org/ > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikimedia-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimedia-l digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Is GoogleTV violating Wikipedia's license? (Peter Southwood) > 2. Re: Is GoogleTV violating Wikipedia's license? (Ciell Wikipedia) > 3. Re: [Small Wiki Toolkit] Writing Wikidata Queries Using WDQS Tool > Workshop On Tuesday, August 30th, 16:00 UTC > (Seyram Komla Sapaty) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 11:18:53 +0200 > From: "Peter Southwood" <peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net> > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Is GoogleTV violating Wikipedia's license? > To: "'F. Xavier Dengra i Grau'" <xavier.dengra(a)protonmail.com>, > "'Wikimedia Mailing List'" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <002201d8bc51$8963c6a0$9c2b53e0$(a)telkomsa.net> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0023_01D8BC62.4CF06730" > > If I understand the CC-by-sa licence correctly, Wikipedia and WMF > themselves do not own the copyright, it is owned by the contributors who > created the text. They can take this up with Google, the WMF cannot. If you > are one of those contributors you can approach Google as misusing your > copyright. > > Cheers, Peter > > > > From: F. Xavier Dengra i Grau via Wikimedia-l [mailto: > wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org] > Sent: 29 August 2022 19:00 > To: Wikimedia Mailing List; legal(a)wikimedia.org > Cc: F. Xavier Dengra i Grau > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Is GoogleTV violating Wikipedia's license? > > > > Hi all, > > > > I want to bring a legal concern here on Google's misuse of our content. It > came up today < > https://twitter.com/epineda/status/1564143156702199813?s=20&t=z2xu6PMB29vvk…> > on Twitter that the GoogleTV app had linked a movie description text in > Catalan language (which in principle it should be good news regarding > language normalization). However, shortly after a wikipedian colleague > realised that the text was fully taken by the Catalan Wikipedia. Once I > downloaded the app by myself, I double-checked that Google does not specify > anywhere (or at least that I could find minimally visible) that those lines > belong to Wikipedia: neither the origin, the license, nor a link to the > full article or to the CC license. > > > > I'd like to recall the licensing footpage on Wikipedia (Text is available > under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 < > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attributio…> > ) and its conditions, as well as to ask others to check whether there's > more situations like this one. It's worth noting how wrong this is to > minoritised language Wikipedias: not only the legal issue itself, but also > the lack of legitimate clicks and views that we end up losing, the > confusion and misunderstandings from the readers that think this is a win > by Google (the example I shared, with both screenshots enclosed), and even > a subsequent chicken-and-egg situation that can lead to deleted articles by > some users thinking that the content was stolen from Google and not > actually the opposite. > > > > I remember that there was a previous thread here, not so long ago, about > the problems of Google taking over our data and therefore diminishing > clicks to the Wikimedia projects. Considering that I am fully against the > GAFAM-drift that the WMF is increasingly adopting by benefiting from Google > in our human, economical and digital structures, I prefer to share it here > as well -and not only to the legal team of the WMF (cced). > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Xavier Dengra > > > > > > > > > < > http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> > width= > > Virus-free. < > http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> > www.avg.com > > > >

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