Wikimedia-l June 2022

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Global Conversations on Regional and Thematic Hubs on June 24, 25 and 26
by Cornelius Kibelka 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

Hello everyone, thanks for being patient with us. As announced previously, WMF's Movement Strategy and Governance team will host a *global conversations event on regional and thematic hubs <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hubs> on June 24, 25 and 26 (Meta page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hubs/Global_Conversations_June_24-26,_2022>)* After a revision of the program, the event will focus on the discussion around the proposed *Minimum Criteria for Hub Pilots* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hubs/Minimum_Criteria_for_Pilots>*.* It is intended to be a space to gather feedback on the criteria and build consensus among participants to develop and fine-tune the draft, while taking into account concerns and disagreements shared by participants before and at the event. To enable more participants to participate and share their opinion, the event consists of three sessions of 120 min each, organized across different time zones (on June 24, 25 and 26 a session each). We will provide *interpretation *for Arabic (June 24+25), Spanish (June 24+25), French (June 24+25), Russian (June 24), and Portuguese (June 25) Registration for the event is now open, it closes on June 23. Please find all details on our event page. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hubs/Global_Conversations_June_24-26,_2022> If you can’t wait until the event to discuss the hub matters, join the discussion on meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hubs>, on Telegram with Movement Strategy <https://t.me/+U-4hhVPaxKGHseva> or Hubs specific <https://t.me/+cwcxAJg6yrBjOGRk> groups or *the very newly available **MS Forum <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/c/ensure-equity-in-decision-making/hubs…>.* Best regards, Cornelius -- Cornelius Kibelka (he/him) Event Coordinator Movement Strategy + Governance 2030.wikimedia.org <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate. <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>* <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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14 July Conversation with the Trustees
by Shani Evenstein 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

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/>

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Goodbye and see you around
by Biyanto Rebin 04 Jul '22

04 Jul '22

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

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Education] 🎉Join us for the next EduWiki Live with Dr. Javiera Atenas on June 30th 14:00 UTC
by Sailesh Patnaik 04 Jul '22

04 Jul '22

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 ---------- Forwarded message --------- 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! -- *Nichole Saad* Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Manager for Education nsaad(a)wikimedia.org user: NSaad (WMF) _______________________________________________ Education mailing list -- education(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to education-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org -- Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him/His) Program Officer, Education Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Re: Small joy of the day: Txikipedia
by WereSpielChequers 01 Jul '22

01 Jul '22

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 On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 at 13:03, <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: Small joyy: Txikipedia of the da(Neurodivergent Netizen) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > 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> > Message-ID: <8C62ADA1-09EE-46FF-B27D-389B6BB3E54C(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="Apple-Mail=_9EEB7F4B-E2E5-42FB-AED5-C7C07107CEF2" > > >> 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]] > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, > guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > >> Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… > >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… > > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >

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The new Signpost is out
by Andreas Kolbe 28 Jun '22

28 Jun '22

Hi all, It is the end of June and a new Signpost issue has been published: - News and notes: WMF inks new rules on government-ordered takedowns, blasts Russian feds' censor demands, spends big bucks <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/News_…> - In the media: Editor given three-year sentence, big RfA makes news, Guy Standing takes it sitting down <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/In_th…> - Special report: "Wikipedia's independence" or "Wikimedia's pile of dosh"? <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/Speci…> - Discussion report: MoS rules on CCP name mulled, XRV axe plea nulled, mass drafting bid pulled <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/Discu…> - Opinion: Picture of the Day – how Adam plans to ru(i)n it <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/Opini…> - Featured content: Articles on Scots' clash, Yank's tux, Austrian's action flick deemed brilliant prose <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/Featu…> - Essay: RfA trend line haruspicy: fact or fancy? <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/Essay> - Recent research: Wikipedia versus academia (again), tables' "immortality" probed <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/Recen…> - Serendipity: Was she really a Swiss lesbian automobile racer? <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/Seren…> - News from the WMF: Wikimedia Enterprise signs first deals <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/News_…> - Traffic report: Top view counts for shows, movies, and celeb lawsuit that keeps on giving <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/Traff…> - Gallery: Celebration of summer, winter <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/Galle…> - Humour: Shortcuts, screwballers, Simon & Garfunkel <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-06-26/Humour> * *Read this Signpost in full <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost>* * Single-page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Single/2022-06-26> *

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Invitation to Wikimedia Research Office Hours July 5, 2022
by Emily Lescak 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

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 -- Emily Lescak (she / her) Senior Research Community Officer The Wikimedia Foundation

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SWAN (Strategic Wikimedia Network) July 2022 Virtual Meeting
by Butch Bustria 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

My Fellow Wikimedians, Our next SWAN meeting will be on *3 July* at similar times. 03:00 UTC – 2022-06-05 (Asia-Pacific friendly time) https://iw.toolforge.org/zonestamp/1656817200 18:00 UTC – 2022-06-05 (Europe-Africa-Americas friendly time) https://iw.toolforge.org/zonestamp/1656871200 You may add your names in the list. This virtual meeting is open to all living species that understand Wikimedia! You may share this to other Wikimedians! Meeting link and agenda is also on the page below. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network Here are our etherpad notes: - https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/SWAN_2022_07_meeting_1 - https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/SWAN_2022_07_meeting_2 Kind regards, Butch

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WIKIMOVE Ep#3: UNLOCKing innovation - now available on Spotify, Soundcloud, Stitcher & more
by Eva Martin 24 Jun '22

24 Jun '22

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/ 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.

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March Wikimedia Foundation Board Meeting Outcomes and June 23 agenda items
by Nataliia Tymkiv 23 Jun '22

23 Jun '22

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!*

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