Hello Wikimedians!
The *Campaigns Product Team *will be hosting the next office hour to share
exciting updates on the Registration Tool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Product_Team/Registrat…>
and new proposed namespaces for events. We will also be sharing community
updates on the usability tests and design highlights of the latest mobile
and desktop wireframes.
Join us and share your thoughts on these developments!
Date: *March 31, 2022*
Time: 15:00 UTC
Zoom: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/82046580320
You may also watch Campaigns Office Hour: Introducing the Campaigns Product
Team <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jT8fRUWjfI> to learn more about the
Team and the previous wireframes.
Feel free to send us a message if you want to receive a reminder for this
meeting.
Thank you.
Best,
Imelda
--
*Imelda Brazal*
Senior Content Campaign Fellow
Campaign Product Team, Wikimedia Foundation
ibrazal-ctr(a)wikimedia.org
Hello everyone! [Sorry for the crossposting]
We are currently organizing a workshop with the title “Wiki-M3L: Wikipedia
and Multi-Modal & Multi-Lingual Research” at ICLR [1], in which we bring
together researchers working on topics around Wikipedia, with a focus on
multilingual projects as well as multi-modality (e.g., text and images). In
this workshop, we want to foster collaboration between researchers and the
Wikimedia community, so we allocated a session for researchers to exchange
with Wikimedians. Therefore we are looking for participants interested in
joining us at ICLR for the workshop and would like to exchange ideas and
answer some questions of researchers working on Wikipedia. The workshop
will happen virtually on the 29th of April 2022, and the session will take
around 30 minutes from 14:15 CET. Please reach out to us if you are
interested in participating!
Cheers,
Lucie and Tiziano
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki-M3L
Dear community members,
We are going into the last days of Wikimania 2022 survey but we still want to hear from you.
This is a reminder for you to please give us your event suggestions by March 31.
Read more via https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/17/save-the-date-and-help-us-create-wiki…
Wikimania 2022 is coming August 11-14!
Looking forward to your survey completion.
Thank you.
Kayode
Hello everyone!
Your friendly neighborhood Hackathon committee is thrilled to announce the
2022 Global Wikimedia Hackathon! We invite you to join us for three days of
collaborating, interactive sessions, and social fun from May 20-May 22. The
Hackathon will be held online and there will be grants available to support
local in-person meetups around the world. You can find more information
about this on our MediaWiki.org page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022>, which will
continue to grow over the next few weeks. For more details, read below.
Who: The Hackathon is for anyone who contributes (or wants to contribute
to) to Wikimedia’s technical areas - as code creators, maintainers,
translators, designers, technical writers and other technical roles. You
can come with a project in mind, join an existing project, or create
something new with others. The choice is yours! Newcomers are welcome.
We will send out more information on how to schedule a session in the
program soon. You can also add yourself to the participants list
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Participants>, and
mention if you would like to help with tasks such as facilitation or
welcoming newcomers. There will be scholarship stipends available- please
stay tuned for more information.
What: A Wikimedia Hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons> is
a space for the technical community to come together and work together on
technical projects, learn from each other, and make new friends.
When: May 20-May 22. The schedule will be announced shortly. We are trying
to plan events so that people in all time zones can participate
comfortably. There will be core hours several times a day when most events
will occur, and online social and hacking spaces open 24 hours a day
throughout the three days.
Where: The Hackathon will primarily be held online. However, very soon we
will share an application for local affiliates to apply for grants to host
in-person local meetups. Meetups can be anything from social gatherings
with food, to a party for watching the opening or closing ceremony, to a
pre-event workshop, to renting a venue where people can participate
together in the online event. Grants can range from 500-5000 USD. Stay
tuned for more information!
How (can you help)?:
1.
We are seeking another committee member! The commitment is around 3
hours per week. If you are interested, please contact hlepp(a)wikimedia.org
2.
We have an ideas page.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022>What are
you interested in? What would you like to see or do in this year’s
hackathon? Please share your ideas with everyone! This is a community
Hackathon and we will work together to put on a great event.
3.
Do you have any accessibility or translation requests? Please contact
hlepp(a)wikimedia.org
Cheers,
Your Hackathon Committee
Andre <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AKlapper_(WMF)>
Haley <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:HLepp_(WMF)>
Jay <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345>
Lucas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister>
Marios <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Magioladitis>
Neslihan <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Flanoz>
Selene
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:SYang_(WMF)&action=edit&re…>
Are there any projects in the vein of Geograph <https://geograph.co.uk/>,
OSM, Yelp, or Wikipedia for people remembering and preserving images and
information about cities, city blocks, buildings? Particularly for cities
that are damaged by disaster or war, this seems like a valuable thing to do
at the granularity of "the unit that individuals photograph, remember,
share with one another".
It would be good to have a freely-licensed structural history of a city in
this fashion, block by block. And something that refugees from a crisis
could do to preserve areas they frequented.
SJ
--
@metasj w:user:sj
Hi everyone,
As many of you will recall, in 2019 we filed a petition with the European
Court of Human Rights
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/05/23/wikimedia-foundation-petiti…>
to lift the nearly three-year block of Wikipedia in Turkey. While the block
was lifted in 2020 following a ruling
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/12/26/turkish-constitutional-cour…>
from the Turkish Constitutional Court, our case proceeded in order to
evaluate whether the Turkish law used to issue the block violated free
expression rights. Our objective was to utilize the case to further our
efforts to protect the Wikimedia projects and free knowledge more broadly
from censorship going forward.
Today, the European Court of Human Rights announced
<https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#%7B%22itemid%22:[%22003-7293454-9940966%22]%…>
that it is dismissing the case, while still recognizing the importance of
our concerns at the time of our filing. It cited three reasons for this
dismissal: 1) the block was lifted in 2020; 2) the block was deemed a human
rights violation by the Turkish Constitutional Court in its December 2019
ruling
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/12/26/turkish-constitutional-cour…>;
and 3) the Court believes the Turkish Constitutional Court capable of
effectively
addressing future problems related to violations of free expression online.
Additionally, the Court provided guidance that the over two years taken by
the Turkish Constitutional Court to address the violation may in the future
be seen as an excessive delay for governments to take action in cases of
website blocking.
Because our primary goal when we filed the case was to restore access to
Wikipedia in Turkey, we understand the Court’s decision and still see this
outcome as a win. The Court acknowledged a human rights violation in our
case, and affirmed that restoring access was an important step in
addressing the violation.
However, we also recognize that this ruling comes at a time when access to
knowledge continues to be under threat around the world, including in
Russia where authorities recently demanded the removal of content on
Wikipedia
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/03/03/wikimedia-foundation-stands…>
related to the Russian government’s invasion of Ukraine. We will continue
to work with you all to defend the right of everyone to freely access and
participate in knowledge, today and into the future.
Read more about the decision in our statement
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/03/24/european-court-of-human-rig…>
and help amplify the message using our social media resources on Diff
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/24/european-court-of-human-rights-dismis…>
.
Best,
Leighanna Mixter
--
Leighanna Mixter (she/her)
Senior Legal Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
San Francisco, California, USA (UTC -7)
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Hello all,
The Celtic Knot organizing team is very happy to announce that the
conference dedicated to minoritized languages on the Wikimedia projects
will be back for its 6th edition, on July 1-2, 2022
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022>.
Broader than the Celtic family languages, the event gathers people from
communities and languages that are underrepresented on the Wikimedia
projects. It is a place where people working on growing and maintaining
their communities can meet, learn from each other, and support each other
on topics like community growth, technical tools, or collaboration with
partners. Wikidata, as the platform to centralize, organize, and distribute
multilingual content, is a strong focus of the event.
For the Celtic Knot 2022
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022>, we want to
build a light and sharp program, with a *strong focus on skills and
knowledge exchange*. Thanks to the input from the community, we identified
several important topics that we will address during interactive workshops
and guided discussions. We will make sure that participants can connect
with people from like-minded growing communities, share their experiences
with others, and bring back what they learned to their communities.
This year, we’re experimenting with a *hybrid format for the conference*:
while the core program will take place entirely online on Friday, July 1st,
and Saturday, July 2nd, we will encourage local groups and language
communities to organize onsite events before, during or after the
conference. The core program will be available in replay to make sure that
the content is accessible asynchronously.
The program of the conference is still under construction, as well as the
concept for onsite events, participants support, and various other
logistical aspects. We will regularly post updates on the talk page of the
event on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Celtic_Knot_Conference_2022>.
The core organizing team is composed of Daria Cybulska, Richard Nevell
(WMUK) and Léa Lacroix (WMDE). If you have ideas or suggestions, if you
would like to get involved in the conference as a helper, feel free to
contact any of us.
We’re looking forward to seeing you at the Celtic Knot!
On behalf of the organization team,
--
Léa Lacroix
Community Engagement Coordinator
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.
Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24
10963 Berlin
www.wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.