Good day,
Yesterday, the James Webb telescope published its first image, called "Webb's Frist Deep Field" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb%27s_First_Deep_Field). An article about the image existis in 14 languages. The tweet announcing it has collected in less than a day more than 77.000 RTs and 275.000 likes (https://twitter.com/NASAWebb/status/1546621080298835970). The main object of the image didn't have any article at any Wikipedia (not an item at Wikidata) yesterday. Now we have an article in 8 languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMACS_J0723.3-7327 and a category in Commons.
Well, the Wikipedia twitter handle didn't tweet anything about this achievement, and didn't give any contest to the image. (https://twitter.com/wikipedia).
We could be answering questions. "By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge". We could be centering free knowledge at Wikimedia.
Best,
Galder
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] *Women in Religion User Group* [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group
aims to be *"a diverse group of people of faith, agnostics, and atheists,
from a variety of traditions and belief systems who are committed to
closing information gaps that have affected cis and transgender women
scholars, activists, and practitioners in the world's religious, spiritual,
and wisdom traditions, especially in Wikipedia*.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Religion_Wikimedia_User_Group
Regards,
*Camelia Boban*
*Chair*
*Affiliations Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>*
Hi Greetings,
The winners for Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is announced!
We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This
year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries.
Kindly find the winning images at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2022/Winners
Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized
local contests and photo walks for this project.
We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.
Thank you,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team.
On 18 June, Wikimedia Belgium held its <https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/2022-06-18_General_Assembly> annual general assembly. The
annual accounts were approved and a new board was elected.
We bid farewell to AnneJea as board member and thank her for her many years of commitment. Geert Van Pamel was re-elected president.
Dominique Labar became a new board member. Mike Nicolaije and Sam Donvil complete their second year as board members.
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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Date: Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 11:31 PM
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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!
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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,
Hello. I am pleased to share an exciting update regarding a proposal for a sister project, Wikifact - a resource for real-time collaborative fact-checking (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikifact).
The update is available here: https://github.com/w3c/mathml/issues/390 .
The gist of the new development is that end-users could select Web content in their browsers and then simply use context menus to invoke first-, second-, and third-party services. These services could include crowdsourced, wiki-based, services, e.g., Wikifact or some other new projects.
When I first proposed Wikifact, in 2021, I was thinking that some markup-related or template-related solutions would be useful for providing end-users with user interfaces upon relevant portions of content (e.g., statements, claims, or facts) in documents.
Today, I am thinking about end-users being able to select Web content and then use context menus to invoke first-, second-, and third-party services. These services might provide for end-users with proofs, arguments, justifications, or fact-checking-related information about the selected contents in new tabs. Today, I am also thinking about uses of Web Annotation technologies where end-users could toggle visualizing which content in Web documents already have proofs, arguments, justifications, or fact-checking-related information available for them.
In summary, end-users will be able to select arbitrary contents from across the Web and use context menus to invoke services, e.g., Wikifact or some other new projects, to explore proofs, arguments, justifications, and fact-checking-related information pertaining to the selected contents.
Thank you. I hope that these new developments are of some interest to you and that they might inspire you to continue to explore new uses of wiki technologies!
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
http://www.phoster.com
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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> >> 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. :-)
>
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> I dream of horses
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> > 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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