Hi all,
Please raise awareness about the Wikimedia Research Fund if you know
researchers who are interested to conduct research on the Wikimedia
projects and can benefit from financial support. More details in the email
below.
Best,
Leila
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From: Leila Zia <lzia(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 9:27 AM
Subject: Submit research proposals for funding - Wikimedia Research Fund
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <
wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Benj. Mako Hill <makohill(a)uw.edu>, Emily Lescak <elescak(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
We're really excited to announce the launch of the second *Wikimedia
Research Fund *with the goal of diversifying the network of Wikimedia
researchers globally and supporting the Wikimedia Movement in deeper
understanding of the projects, decision making, and building new
technologies.
If you are a Wikimedia researcher or you are interested in becoming one,
you can apply for research funds (USD 2K-50K) until December 16, 2022.
While all research proposals related to Wikimedia projects are welcome, we
particularly encourage research studies on medium to small size languages
and communities, as well as in low resourced languages and projects. You
can even propose to repeat a past study in a given language in another
language!
More info at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Tech…
.
*Apply by December 16, 2022* and/or spread the word!
If you have questions, please reach out to us at research_fund(a)wikimedia.org,
Meta-Wiki [1], here, or in one of our upcoming office hours (schedule will
be shared in [2] soon!)
Best,
the Research Fund committee chairs
Benjamin Mako Hill (University of Washington)
Leila Zia (Wikimedia Foundation)
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Start
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Research_%26_Tech…
Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_letter_of_support_for_Les_sans_pagEs
Over 35 Wikimedia organisations and many individual Wikimedians have
signed in support of the initiative of our Wikimedia Affiliate Les
sans pagEs professionalising their work by hiring Nattes à chat as
executive director to continue their longstanding work addressing
systemic bias on Wikipedia and our sister projects and groups.
Les sans pagEs should be free and supported to create a better
quality, more complete French-language encyclopedia, representative of
different perspectives and lived experiences, instead of having to
defend their work against baseless accusations of malpractice.
Please ask on the meta discussion page if you would like to add your
Wikimedia organisation or name in support.
On behalf of
Wikimedia LGBT+ User Group
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_LGBT
Congratulations to User:NicoV whose bot
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WikiCleanerBot> has contributed
the English language Wikipedia's 1,111,111,111th edit
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1111111111>. An anonymous
server kitty is claimed to have said *"that's an awful lot of 1s in the
same place, hopefully nothing similar will happen for about fifteen years
when we expect to need the same number of 2s"*. The Mayor of Vayres, Gironde
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vayres,_Gironde> is probably unaware of the
special status his commune has just acquired in the English speaking world.
The precise time of this edit was *11:19, 9 19 2022 *in the 21st year of
the pedia.
Regards
WereSpielChequers
Dear all,
WIKIMOVE comes back from summer break with a new episode around content and
knowledge gaps in the Wikimedia projects.
What’s in this episode?
In this episode
<https://www.wikimedia.de/wikimove-site/podcast/episode-4-content-and-knowle…>
we talk with three Wikimedians who are trailblazers for including
marginalized voices into the Wikimedia projects. Lucy Crompton-Reid, Daniel
Bögre Udell and Kiril Simeonowski are active in different but complementary
projects that implement Recommendation 8, Topics for Impact. You can find
out about new formats for creating oral citations, a toolkit in the works
for surfacing marginalized knowledge and first ideas on helping to create
Wikipedias with marginalized language communities. Join us for this and to
find out about Wikidata’s 10th Birthday!
Our guests are…
Kiril Simeonovski
Kiril is president of Shared Knowledge and a leading Wikimedian from the
region of Central and Eastern Europe and has been actively contributing to
the Wikimedia projects since 2008.
Daniel Bögre Udell
Daniel is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Wikitongues, which
supports language revitalization projects on every continent.
Lucy Crompton-Reid
Lucy joined Wikimedia UK as Chief Executive in October 2015. She is on the
British Library Advisory Council and sits on the board of The Audience
Agency and Visible Theatre.
You can find the audio podcast on our website
<https://www.wikimedia.de/wikimove-site/podcast/episode-4-content-and-knowle…>and
a video version with english subtitles on Youtube
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PLP9HhdIKw>. Please visit our meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WIKIMOVE> to react to the episode and
subscribe to get notified of each new release. You can also follow us on
Twitter <https://twitter.com/wikimove> to continue the conversation.
Our next episode around peer support in our movement will be released on
October 20th, stay tuned!
Best,
Nicole, Nikki & Eva from Wikimedia Deutschland
--
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.
Hello everyone,
This email serves as a quick reminder of our upcoming meetup for the South
African community that will be happening on Saturday 24 September 2022.
Below are the details for joining the 22nd online South African community
meetup. If you have any questions about Wikipedia, the community, what is
going on generally, or you just want to hang out you are welcome to join
and participate.
*Date: Saturday, 24 September 2022*
*Start time:10:00 AM SAST*
*End Time: 12:00 PM SAST*
*Location: Online Meeting*
We will still be using our new Discord channel as our meeting location this
time (see link below). If that does not work for you then don't worry, you
can still join via Zulip at the link below for a more text-based experience.
Link to Join
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/South_Africa/South_Africa_22>
For a more text-based experience.
Zulip <https://wikimediaza.zulipchat.com/login/>: Note registration is
necessary
Best regards,
TL;DR: The draft leadership definition[1] prepared by the Leadership
Development Working Group is ready for community feedback! Please share
your feedback on Meta[2], the feedback form[3] or the Movement Strategy
Forum[4]. You can also directly mail us at
leadershipworkinggroup(a)wikimedia.org. The feedback will be collected till
October 6, 2022.
Hello everyone!
I hope you are aware that the Leadership Development Working Group[5] has
been working over the past few months to formulate and find ways to nurture
the leadership of our movement. The Leadership Development Working Group
(LDWG) is a group of Wikimedia volunteers representing different
communities, languages, roles, and experiences. We are pleased to inform
the community that our draft definition of leadership is now available for
community feedback. This first draft definition of leadership was written
after months of discussion, learning, and sharing from our community
perspective. The Wikimedia Movement, which is by nature diverse and
distinctive in its own way, is expressly addressed by this definition.
Please consider going through the definition and letting us know what you
think by October 6, 2022. The draft definition includes a general
definition of leadership and subcategories that elaborate on the actions,
qualities, and outcomes of good leadership.
There are many places where you can express your ideas, suggestions, and
comments, such as the meta talk page[2], the feedback form[3], and Movement
Strategy Forum Post[4]. You can also directly mail us at
leadershipworkinggroup(a)wikimedia.org.
You can check if the general definition, and the subcategories align with
your idea of leadership in the movement. You can also try finding the gaps,
maybe some qualities of a leader or anything else are missing in the draft
definition or you can check if the definition applies to all cultural,
linguistic, community or other contexts of the movement and share your
thoughts with us.
Together, let's celebrate the movement's diverse and distinctive
leadership!
Cheers!
[1] Link to the draft definition on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leadership_Development_Working_Group/Content>
[2] Link to meta talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Leadership_Development_Working_Group>
[3] Link to the feedback form <https://forms.gle/o7a4FYV8ZkisJF3KA>
[4] Link to the Movement Strategy Forum post
<https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/leadership-development-working-group/…>
[5] Link to the meta page of LDWG
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leadership_Development_Working_Group>
--
*Iván Martínez*
*Voluntario - Wikimedia México A.C.User:ProtoplasmaKid *
// Mis comunicaciones respecto a Wikipedia/Wikimedia pueden tener una
moratoria en su atención debido a que es un voluntariado.
// Ayuda a proteger a Wikipedia, dona ahora: https://donate.wikimedia.org
Hello all,
At the start of the year we selected seven promising teams
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/07/12/unlock-2022-new-ideas-addressing-know…>
[1] to join the third edition of the Wikimedia Accelerator UNLOCK and to
turn their ideas for Free Knowledge into working prototypes. As you already
may know, this year UNLOCK has a regional focus - Western Balkan along with
German-speaking region. The teams are working on solutions for greater
knowledge equity, breaking down technical and social barriers so that more
people can access, use, contribute and share knowledge.
Recently we marked half time for the 2022 edition. To mark this occasion
the participating teams presented their mid-term results and even demoed
first mockups.
We asked each team to reflect on Sprint #1 and share with us their main
activities and challenges. You can take a closer look at their achievements
thus far within a diff blog post
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/09/15/how-much-can-be-achieved-throughout-t…>
[2]. Feel free to comment and give suggestions that can be used to improve
their work.
Best,
Ivana (WMRS) & Kannika (WMDE)
[1]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/07/12/unlock-2022-new-ideas-addressing-know…
[2]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/09/15/how-much-can-be-achieved-throughout-t…
Ивана Маџаревић
менаџер пројеката и заједнице, Викимедија Србије
p: 011 3348 468 m: 060 74 54 773 a: Кнеза Милоша 80/14, Београд
s: rs.wikimedia.org e: ivana.madzarevic(a)vikimedija.org
*Замислите свет у коме свака особа на планети има слободан приступ
целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.*
Dear all,
I wish to invite you to episode 16 of WikiAfrica Hour, titled "*Wiki
Identity*."
The episode is focused on sharing details about how the various Wiki
projects are identified, as regards logo/brand designs/modifications.
The following guests have been invited to make the episode very engaging:
1. Erina Mukuta - Wikimedia Sound logo community liaison
2. Zack McCune - Director of Brand, Wikimedia Foundation
3. Amir Sadabani - Member, Code of Conduct committee/MediaWiki volunteer
Date: 23rd September, 2022
Time: 4pm UTC
Details: w.wiki/5dft <https://t.co/c9ZueUzjTW>
Regards,
Ceslause Ogbonnaya
*WikiAfrica Hour host*