Hello everyone,
On behalf of the Community Affairs Committee, I am happy to invite you to
our next Conversation with the Trustees on 14 July at 18:00 UTC
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Comm…>
(find your local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1657821621>). You
are all welcome to talk with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees directly
about our work guiding the Wikimedia Foundation.
The call will be held on Zoom with a live YouTube stream
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYg9sJ4Ml3M>. Because we want these calls
to be interactive, we encourage you to join us directly on Zoom. Request
the Zoom link by emailing askcac(a)wikimedia.org.
We will be providing live interpretation into Spanish and Portuguese. If
you would like to request another language, email askcac(a)wikimedia.org.
We will add the agenda to the event Meta page and send it here in the
coming weeks. For now, please save the date and register for the Zoom room.
Hope you see you all there,
Shani.
Shani Evenstein Sigalov
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/>
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear all,
Tomorrow is my last day working at Wikimedia Indonesia. Goodbye is a thing
that we should celebrate. I am very grateful to have a wonderful chance to
collaborate with my local community, local organisation, and international
community also various chapters and affiliates. I will continue my
volunteering activity while enjoying my next journey as a master student in
Digital Humanities in Uppsala University, Sweden.
In the last 3 months, I have been doing collaboration work with Rachmat
Wahidi, our new Chair of the Board of Executive with his new teams. I am
sure WMID will achieve more in the future under his leadership with a more
diverse team, lots of local communities, strong grass root movement and
continuous support from the local community members, and our presence in
the ESEAP community makes us one of the biggest communities in the region.
You can always contact me via my personal email (biyanto.iyan(a)gmail.com).
From one of the sunniest cities in the Southern Hemisphere, Jakarta.
Best,
Biyanto
Dear Wikimedians and colleagues,
Join us today (in about two hours) for EduWiki Live with Dr Javiera Atenas
at 14:00 UTC. We will be live streaming on YouTube and Facebook Live, and
you can share your questions and comments there.
Youtube: https://youtu.be/sKV6N2-Tc7A
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam
^ EduWiki Live is a virtual event that aims to serve as a bridge between
the EduWiki community and the Education sector.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Best!
Sailesh
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From: Nichole Saad <nsaad(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 11:31 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Education] 🎉Join us for the next EduWiki Live with Dr.
Javiera Atenas on June 30th 14:00 UTC
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear EduWiki Community,
I'm excited to invite you to the next EduWiki live event on* June 30th from
14:00-15:00 UTC*. Add it to your calendar!
<
https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=M3Q2cTh2Z2FqM3Y2Nm9…
>Join
the Education Team and EWOC volunteers, Sandeep and Brahim, as we have a
conversation with Dr. Javiera Atenas about open pedagogies and open data in
Higher Education.
*YouTube and Facebook Live links will follow soon! *
Javiera Atenas is an Information Scientist with a PhD in Education and
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in UK (Advance HE). She is a
senior lecturer in learning and teaching enhancement at the University of
Suffolk, and education lead of the Latin American initiative for open data.
Her research is focused in two main areas: the development of critical data
literacy in HE grounded on the concept of ethics as a method and also, in
promoting the adoption of elements of data agency, ethics and privacy in
open education and digital education policies for the HE sector.
She is a co-founder of the Open Education Policy Lab, a member of the
UNESCO OER dynamic coalition and of the implementation working group at
Open Data Charter, a member of the European Open Education Policy Forum and
board of the Open Education Working Group, Open Knowledge International.
Also, she is a member of the committee for recognition and enhancement of
teaching skills for the Italian National Evaluation Agency for Universities
(ANVUR).
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Manager for Education
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Hi,
I'm curious as to what level of reading skill you are writing this for and
also what level of understanding/adulthood.
I see these as two different issues and both are likely to vary sharply
especially between different countries with very different education
systems.
A childrens' encyclopaedia written for nine year olds would surely be very
different than one written for thirteen year olds. And content that parents
of fourteen year olds thought was age inappropriate in Alabama might be
thought appropriate or even bowdlerised by parents of ten year olds in
London.
In other words, are you sure that one single childrens' encyclopaedia is
the answer to either the problem of reading age or age appropriate content?
Where I think that Wikipedia could and should change re this is in our use
of jargon. To my mind a "general interest" english language encyclopaedia
should be written in plain English. I suspect other language versions have
similar issues. Perhaps if we focussed more on this we would make it
easier for those who wish to create childrens' versions.
Regards
WSC
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> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 17:13:33 -0700
> From: Neurodivergent Netizen <idoh.idreamofhorses(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Small joy of the day: Txikipedia
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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> >> That wouldn't be a wise choice that WMF host such a wiki if it brings
> the risk of being legaly attacked on that ground, even for bad reasons and
> unsuccessfully, whereas it never happened to Vikidia in 15 years (and very
> few kind of bad buzz like "look what they teach to the children").
>
> And of course, any WMF-affiliated wiki would be more at-risk simply
> because of the association with the more well-known Wikipedia.
>
> > The document is not really public yet. :-)
>
> I think I can wait until it’s public and proofread. :-)
>
> From,
> I dream of horses
> She/her
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Jun 22, 2022, at 1:45 PM, Ziko van Dijk <zvandijk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > At the moment I am working on a document that extensively explains how
> > we work on the Klexikon. If someone is interested, please send me a
> > private message. The document is not really public yet. :-)
> > Kind regards
> > Ziko
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Klexikon
> >
> > Am Mi., 22. Juni 2022 um 19:27 Uhr schrieb Mathias Damour
> > <mathias.damour(a)gmx.fr>:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> De: "Neurodivergent Netizen" <idoh.idreamofhorses(a)gmail.com>
> >> I think a particular hurdle for a standalone WMF-affiliated kidipedia
> project is the COPPA, and other similar laws both in the US and elsewhere
> that could potentially increase civil liability. Another hurdle is that
> America is very aware, perhaps overly aware, of the potential safety risks
> when children are involved in websites. Then you add in the fact that kids
> are likely to continue editing Wikipedia instead of Kidipedia, and it’s not
> worth the extra effort. This effort would include hiring/reassigning staff
> so you can have a team of people for just Kidipedia, along with the
> background checks and identity verification needed. None of that are
> obstacles that aren’t in the way of kids editing the existing projects.
> >>
> >> I predict a WMF-affiliated kidipedia would largely be abandoned quite
> quickly.
> >>
> >> You are probably right. I would say COPPA may not be the biggest
> hurdle, yet the british "UK Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006" is
> another one, and moreover the fact that "America is very aware, perhaps
> overly aware, of the potential safety risks when children are involved in
> websites" (and I would also say that "America" weight more the right of
> parents to control what is taught to their children and less the right of
> the children to inform themselves - the latter being upheld by the
> Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the US didn't ratificate -
> compared to other countries).
> >> We reviewed it on https://en.vikidia.org/wiki/Vikidia:Legal_matters
> >>
> >> That wouldn't be a wise choice that WMF host such a wiki if it brings
> the risk of being legaly attacked on that ground, even for bad reasons and
> unsuccessfully, whereas it never happened to Vikidia in 15 years (and very
> few kind of bad buzz like "look what they teach to the children").
> >>
> >> You tell about "hiring/reassigning staff so you can have a team of
> people for just Kidipedia", well, that's quite exactly the point I adressed
> on this blog post :
> >> Vikidia, l’anti-professionnalisation
> >> https://www.wikimedia.fr/vikidia-lanti-professionnalisation/
> >> ...to tell that the vision of children needing to be only alongside
> their closed family and professionals workers - and that it should be the
> same if a wiki for children is set (that we would need professionnal
> educators either to write the articles, to design the project or to manage
> the community or all that together) - did cause much delay to the wiki
> encyclopedias for children, and how we do otherwise on Vikidia.
> >>
> >> Reminder, the Wikikids project was developped on this page and subpages
> :
> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikikids
> >>
> >> Envoyé: mercredi 22 juin 2022 à 12:37
> >> De: "Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga" <galder158(a)hotmail.com>
> >> À: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> >> Objet: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Small joy of the day: Txikipedia
> >> From our experience, is just the opposite: Wikipedia is not asking any
> extra step nor age confirmation, and legally you can have an account even
> if you are underage. Children are consulting Wikipedia without limits, and
> they can find adult content easily. We don't have any advice about that,
> nor filters at Commons, where you can find even porn using words that were
> not intended for that. The place is open, and we have massive visits from
> children, so providing them a better place, thought for them (as our
> strategic direction says) is better that not providing at all.
> >>
> >> I can only agree!
> >>
> >>
> >> Mathias Damour
> >> [[User:Astirmays]]
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Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours Tuesday, 2022-07-05. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1657036800>.
To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set
agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad
[3]. You are welcome to add questions / items to the etherpad in advance,
or when you arrive at the session. Even if you are unable to attend the
session, you can leave a question that we can address asynchronously. If
you do not have a specific agenda item, you are welcome to hang out and
enjoy the conversation. More detailed information (e.g., about how to
attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves available to answer
research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors,
organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and
initiatives. Here are some example cases we hope to be able to support you
with:
-
You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
in my wiki?
-
You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour. However, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
-
You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
of you interested more closely in this space.
-
You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Emily, on behalf of the WMF Research Team
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org
[2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Dear all,
We are excited to be dropping the 3rd episode of WIKIMOVE
<https://www.wikimedia.de/wikimove-site/>, our podcast on everything
Wikimedia Movement Strategy. In this episode we talk about innovation and
explore the opportunities created by the UNLOCK accelerator within our
movement and beyond.
Good news!
Our podcast is now available with RSS Feed on Acast
<https://shows.acast.com/wikimove/episodes>, Spotify,
<https://open.spotify.com/show/7olhgddgj7KpWGOzSkPOQJ?si=8907893eb0cd402f&nd…>
Soundcloud,
<https://soundcloud.com/user-536754242?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&…>
Stitcher <https://www.stitcher.com/show/wikimove> and Castbox
<https://castbox.fm/channel/WIKIMOVE-id4979039?country=de>. More podcast
platforms will follow.
The video version of our show is also available on Youtube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTlskaMYR-M> with english subtitles.
What’s in this episode?
We are looking back at years of complaints about how Wikimedia technology
is outdated and exclusive. Non-encyclopedic forms of knowledge are still
impossible or hard to insert into our existing formats. The last big
innovation from our movement is Wikidata, which is now almost ten years
old. Movement Strategy calls on us to innovate our technical and social
systems so that new and marginalized communities can join and share their
knowledge. We talk about the UNLOCK accelerator program, how it is being
implemented in collaboration with WMS and WMDE this year, and explore how
the movement can become more of an innovation ecosystem.
Our guests are…
Kannika Thaimai, Program lead of the UNLOCK accelerator at Wikimedia
Deutschland
Ivana Madžarević, Program and Community Support Manager at Wikimedia Serbia
Please visit our meta page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WIKIMOVE> to
react to the episode and subscribe to our newsletter to get notified of
each new release.
We wish you all a summer break and will be back in August with our next
episode!
Cheers,
Nicole, Nikki & Eva
--
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/
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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.
Dear all,
I have not been writing to the list for a while, so please bear with me:
this will be a long one.
== March Board Meeting ==
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met in New York City over March
22-24. This was the first time the Board met in person since 2020 because
of the pandemic, and the first time many of us had ever met in person. It
is good to know that with the lifting of all Covid-19 related travel
restrictions with Foundation Grant funding we are going to have more
offline community events now.
So, the Board’s official meeting was on March 23. During this session, the
Board approved the December 8, 2021 meeting minutes [1], the updated
Community Affairs Committee charter [2] to align with the other Board
Committee charters, and approved the updated Conflict of Interest Policy
[3].
The Board also approved a temporary reassignment of Esra’a Al Shafei’s
roles as Board Vice Chair and Product and Technology Committee Chair, and a
permanent reassigning of Esra’a’s positions as Elections Committee Liaison
and a member of the Board Selection Task Force [4].
Occasionally, Trustees need to step away from Board work to focus on
professional or other concerns. The Board feels it is important to
accommodate these requests when possible. Esra’a Al Shafei had requested a
brief sabbatical and returned to her full responsibilities on June 1, 2022.
It also helped to shift responsibilities a bit, and give more visibility
and experience to trustees who joined recently, which is overall good for
planning roles succession on the board.
The Board also discussed governance issues and checked its progress against
the 2019 governance review [5]. We have made progress on some of the items
in the governance review, and we also discussed areas where we can continue
to improve, such as Board operational processes and communication about
Board activities. The Board also met with Maryana and other Foundation
staff to review the Foundation’s Values and Guiding Principles, as part of
Maryana’s priorities to elucidate values for the Wikimedia Foundation.
Conversations about this are ongoing, and you might expect to hear more on
this by the end of the year.
This was also an opportunity for the Board Committees to meet in person, as
their meetings are usually happening online. In order to make communication
about outcomes of the board meeting clearer, we have decided to have
separate committees reporting to the movement about their spheres of
responsibility. For example, Dariusz, as the chair of the Governance
Committee, has already sent a letter on 2022 Trustee Selection and renewal
of my appointment to the Board of Trustees [6]. The Board of Trustees has
formally concluded [7] the work of the Funds Dissemination Committee (FDC)
with gratitude and appreciation for all of the dedication of its members
over the years. More on the Diff from Shani as the chair of the Community
Affairs Committee (CAC) [8].
I want to thank the Foundation’s Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums
(GLAM) team, especially Ben Vershbow and Fiona Romeo, for their work on
planning a Learning Day visit to New Museum with some of our largest GLAM
partners in New York City, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and
Rhizome, on March 22. During this meeting, the Trustees learned more about
GLAM work done by volunteers and challenges they face. We also met with
several community leaders, including Eliza Myrie and Jina Valentine (Black
Lunch Table), Kira Wisniewski (Art + Feminism), Sherry Antoine (AfroCROWD),
and Andrew Lih. Thank you to all the participants - you made our first
Learning Day visit a success; it was a nice way to kick off the Board
meeting.
I also want to use this opportunity to thank Victoria, Rosie, and Lorenzo,
for fully engaging with their new transitioning roles and responsibilities.
== June 23 Board meeting ==
The Board’s next meeting will be online today, on June 23, and the main
topic on the agenda will be the Annual Plan [9]. Also there would be
discussion on working capital reserve policy, and updates about the
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). Two Movement Charter Drafting Committee
(MCDC) members will join the meeting as visitors [10]. After the meeting
itself the Board will have a Q&A session with the Foundation staff. The
outcomes of this meeting will be shared to the list in the coming weeks.
The Board plans to meet again in September in Berlin in conjunction with
the Wikimedia Summit. I hope to see some of you there as well.
[1]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Minutes_December_8,_2022
[2]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Affairs_Committee_Charter
[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest_policy
[4]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Adjusting_Board_Roles,_Mar…
[5]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Board_Veritas_Governance_Recomme…
[6] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:2022_Trustee_Selection,
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Renewing_Nataliia_Tymkiv%E…
[7]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Dissolving_the_Funds_Disse…
[8]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/06/23/thanking-the-members-of-the-funds-dis…
[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2022-2023/…
[10]
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Inviting_visitors_to_a_Boa…
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Inviting_visitors_to_a_Boa…>
Best regards,
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
*NOTICE: You may have received this message outside of your normal working
hours/days, as I usually can work more as a volunteer during weekend. You
should not feel obligated to answer it during your days off. Thank you in
advance!*
Reminded today of how beautifully this kids encyclopedia has worked out:
Txikipedia:Azala <https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Txikipedia:Azala> (main
page), Txikipedia:Gengis_Khan
<https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Txikipedia:Gengis_Khan>
More languages should try that. a) simple skin hack, b) loving and lovely
idea, c) more compelling to me than the standalone kidipedia projects :)
Anyway, thanks for improving my weekend, Txikipedians. SJ
(posting to wm-l since wp-l is gone now...)