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Wikimedia Foundation launches Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards on World Press Freedom Day
by Andreas Kolbe 06 May '23

06 May '23

Dear all, Yesterday's WMF press release <https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/05/03/wikimedia-foundation-launch…> announced an African journalism award: *Africawide – The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, is today launching the inaugural Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards. Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, this year’s awards celebrate the contributions of journalists in Africa who prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion in their reporting.* This sounds great, until we come to the following line: *Articles must have been published online and in English between January 1, 2022 and June 23, 2023.* How is this compatible with the idea that we "prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion"? The piece starts with the word "Africawide" ... surely we are aware that about half of Africa is French-speaking? I can understand that you might want to incentivise journalism in European rather than African languages – simply because such journalism would be more likely to find a volunteer with the time to add the information to Wikipedia, and because of a lack of staff with the language skills required to cover dozens of African languages. But French, Portuguese and Spanish should be within the WMF's capabilities, all the more so as machine translation these days is good enough to tell even a non-French speaker whether a French article covers an interesting subject. I hope that next year, journalists writing in other languages will not be completely excluded from consideration for this award. Relying on English will only strengthen some of the existing biases in coverage. Andreas

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Invitation to WikiAfrica Hour episode 25
by Ceslause Ogbonnaya 06 May '23

06 May '23

Dear all, WikiAfrica Hour episode 25 is the launch of Wikimedia Foundation's *Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards*! These awards will celebrate the contributions of journalists who prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion in their reporting, thereby adding to the ecosystem of fact-based stories that the public can draw on to add and verify knowledge on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. This year’s awards will be focused on the African continent. Guests include: - Romeo Ramora - Member, *Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards* Working Group - Olaniyan Olushola - Member, *Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards* Working Group - Winnie Kabintie - Member, *Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards* Working Group - Gwadamirai Majange - Member, *Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards* Working Group Date:3rd May 2023. Time:4pm UTC. Details: http://w.wiki/5dft

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Rapport annuel 2023 - Wikimédiens du Benin User group
by wikimedia Bénin user group 05 May '23

05 May '23

Bonjour, Nous avons le plaisir de partager avec vous le rapport annuel 2023 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9diens_du_B%C3%A9nin_User_Group/R…> de Wikimediens du Bénin User group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9diens_du_B%C3%A9nin_User_Group>. Si vous avez des questions, nous sommes disponibles. Cordialement. Pour le bureau exécutif, Mermoze Adodo -- *WIKIMEDIA BENIN* Promoting free knowledge in Bénin *Phone*: +229 97 29 80 54 / +33 (0) 7 51 45 92 81 * Email*: wikimediens.benin(a)gmail.com

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Wikinews, Local Journalism and History
by Adam Sobieski 05 May '23

05 May '23

Wikimedia, Hello. I would like to share a hyperlink to a History Today article: What Do Historians Lose with the Decline of Local News? https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/what-do-historians-lose-decl… “It’s bad news for local newspapers, with reports that they have reached their lowest numbers since the 18th century. How will historians study the provincial past when they can’t read all about it?” My reason for sharing that hyperlink and for writing on these topics is that I hope that some ideas, e.g., (1) an ad-revenue-driven Wikinews model which compensates journalists, and (2) a Wikinews homepage which includes personalized local news for users, might be considered. Thank you. Best regards, Adam Sobieski

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[Wikimedia Announcements] Voting open in the seventeenth annual Picture of the Year contest
by Kunal Mehta 04 May '23

04 May '23

Hi all, Voting is now open in the seventeenth annual Picture of the Year contest: <https://w.wiki/6bcP> - please vote! The first round of voting will be open for 2 weeks. There are over 1,100 pictures being considered this year and several new categories. Any user with more than 75 edits before Jan. 1, 2023 is eligible to vote; if you're not sure the voting tool will automatically check for you. If you have any questions, please see the help page: <https://w.wiki/6bcQ>. Thanks, -- POTY Committee _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list -- wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikimediaannounce-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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Update to Wikimania 2023 scholarship applicants
by Wikimania 03 May '23

03 May '23

Hi everyone, In response to the volume of questions we have been receiving, we wanted to clarify that scholarship decisions are being communicated on a rolling basis to successful applicants from now until mid May. By the end of May, all applicants will receive a communication about the status of their scholarship. We have clarified this on the Scholarship page on Wikimania Wiki: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Scholarships#Important_dates. Thank you for your patience while we continue the review! Kind regards, *Butch Bustria * On behalf of the ESEAR Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team

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Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter
by Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga 02 May '23

02 May '23

Some months have gone since I started this topic in this list, and still, we can't know how much engagement we have at Wikipedia, because data is not available. Twitter is now owned by Elon Musk, things are changing, there are more accounts in Mastodon daily, but still Twitter matters. I have been looking at the Twitter activity in the last days for @Wikipedia and I'm still very worried about the (lack of) strategy followed here. A full team, with staff members, which only produces one tweet per day, a lonely message in the vastness of the ocean, and gets really poor engagement numbers. A couple of weeks ago Pelé, one of the greatest football players of all time, died. (English) Wikipedia Twitter account needed 7 days to tweet about it, even if the article was changed in a few minutes after the death (https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/1611363972174778368). The tweet had 13.729 impressions (now we can know the number of impressions), 14 RTs and 129 likes. Wikipedia account has nearly 644.000 followers. If we divide these two numbers, we get a rate of 2,13% of impressions per follower. The same day Pelé died, Basque Wikipedia made a tweet. Not a week after, just when it was news (https://twitter.com/euwikipedia/status/1608541274491211776). The tweet had 964 impressions, 3 RTs and 2 likes. Basque Wikipedia account has 7,956 followers. This is a rate of 12,11% of impressions per follower. x5.68 times larger, relatively than (English) Wikipedia Twitter account. (English) Wikipedia Twitter account has nearly 81 times more followers than the Basque one. English Wikipedia is more visible, because it has a (now golden) verified account symbol, so tweets are more often promoted. English has 1.500 million speakers around the world. Basque has fewer than one million. English Wikipedia should have around 1.000 more followers than Basque Wikipedia. English Wikipedia article about Pelé had 2,5 million pageviews in the two days after his death. Basque had 250 pageviews. This is 10.000 times more pageviews. @Wikipedia has 644.000 followers, and @euwikipedia has nearly 8.000. Audience of English Wikipedia is 10.000 times larger for the same event. Why Wikipedia is not 10.000 times larger? Why doesn't Wikipedia account have 80 million followers? YouTube's Twitter account has 78 million followers. "By 2030, Wikimedia is to become the central infrastructure for Free Knowledge on the Internet.". How could we if Youtube's account has 100x more followers than we have? How can think that we are in a good shape if our tweets are only seen by less than 2% of our followers? I hope that 2023 comes with a change. A change to open these accounts, have a fresh way of thinking on social media ,and building engagement, both with momentum, not losing opportunities, and promoting good content. Sincerely Galder ________________________________ From: Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <galder158(a)hotmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 3:21 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter Dear all, Some weeks ago, we had a discussion here about the different approaches we have for the @wikipedia account at Twitter. We don't know yet how many interactions does the account has, but as I said in the discussion, we try to find ways to measure our work at @euwikipedia. Today I want to share with you that this account was ranked last week as the most influential social-movements account in Basque language (https://umap.eus/ranking/gizartea) and the 10th most influential account in all categories (https://umap.eus/ranking/orokorra). This is a good metric we use to know if we are doing fine or not. Sincerely, Galder ________________________________ From: Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> Sent: Friday, August 5, 2022 8:50 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: @Wikipedia losing opportunities in Twitter On Mon, 18 Jul 2022 at 18:48, Lauren Dickinson <ldickinson(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Also, Andy, we will follow up this week regarding your questions > about the @WiktionaryUsers and @Wiktionary accounts. Three working weeks have passed since the above was written; I've seen no such follow-up. Have I missed something? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing https://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ 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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You are invited to the conversation hour with Community Resilience and Sustainability
by Jackie Koerner 01 May '23

01 May '23

Hi all, You are invited to the quarterly Conversation hour led by Maggie Dennis, Vice President of Community Resilience and Sustainability, on May 2, 2023 at 18:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1683050403>. Maggie and others from the team will discuss Trust and Safety, the Universal Code of Conduct, Committee Support, and Human Rights. If you are a Wikimedian in good standing (not Foundation or community banned), write to let us know you will be attending the conversation and share your questions. More information about attending this conversation hour <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resilience_and_Sustainability/Con…> and notes from previous conversation hours can be found on Meta-wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:CR%26S_meetings>. Best, -- Jackie Koerner (she/her) Communication Specialist, Community Resilience and Sustainability Location: Midwestern US (UTC-5/Daylight savings UTC-6) Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Wikimedia Chile General Assembly and new board
by Dennis Tobar 01 May '23

01 May '23

*English version below* Hola, un saludo desde Chile. El pasado 15 de abril, Wikimedia Chile reunió su Asamblea Ordinaria de Socios para revisar las actividades y estados financieros de nuestro organización. En este encuentro además fue electo un nuevo directorio -órgano directivo de Wikimedia Chile-, resultando electas las siguientes personas: * Dennis Tobar - presidente * Martín Pérez Comisso - vicepresidente * Carlos Figueroa - secretario * Luis Cristóbal Carrasco - tesorero * Ximena Cuevas - directora * José Ignacio Gallardo - director El periodo de este nuevo directorio será de 12 meses, debido a que estamos actualmente en una transición de estatutos que modernizan varios aspectos de nuestra organización y la forma reunirnos. Queremos expresar nuestra gratitud a los directores que dejan el directorio de Wikimedia Chile, Osmar Valdebenito, Claudio Loader y Roberto Muñoz. Un abrazo desde el sur de mundo para todos ustedes. ~~~~~~ Hello, greetings from Chile. Last April 15, Wikimedia Chile met its General Assembly to review the activities and financial statements of our organization. In this meeting was also elected a new board of directors -the governing body of Wikimedia Chile-, resulting elected the following people: * Dennis Tobar - president * Martín Pérez Comisso - vice-president * Carlos Figueroa - secretary * Luis Cristóbal Carrasco - treasurer * Ximena Cuevas - director * José Ignacio Gallardo - director The term of this new board will be for 12 months, as we are currently in a transition of bylaws that modernize several aspects of our organization and the way we meet. We would like to express our gratitude to the directors who are leaving the Wikimedia Chile board, Osmar Valdebenito, Claudio Loader and Roberto Muñoz. A hug from the south of the world to all of you. -- Dennis Tobar Calderón

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Celebrating Meenakshi nandhini!
by Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska 01 May '23

01 May '23

Wikimedia projects would not be possible without the work of the countless volunteers, passionately working on bringing free knowledge to the world. Each month we WikiCelebrate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate> one of those volunteers and their amazing work. [1] This weekend, WikiCon India <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2023> [2] happened in Hyderabad. It was an opportunity for strengthening bonds, storytelling and sharing experiences. But also for celebrating someone from the Indic community, Malayalam Wikipedia admin Meenakshi nandhini <https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95…> [3]. She is an author of 8,762 articles in Malayalam and believes that *Wikipedia is a treasure for the future. Spending an hour on Wikipedia can benefit millions*. Visit WikiCelebrate to learn more about Meenakshi <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate/Meenakshi_Nand…> and congratulate her [4] or read about her on Diff <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/30/what-do-the-capital-of-surinam-oscar-…>. [5] Each month we will celebrate a different Wikimedian, acknowledging the great people that have contributed so much to bringing us to where we are today, and continue to do so. We warmly invite you to write about the people celebrated each month. If you know them, share some wiki love. If there’s an outstanding Wikimedian that you think should be celebrated, recommend them <https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/WikiCelebrate>. [6] Happy celebrating Natalia and Mehrdad [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2023 [3] https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%95… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate/Meenakshi_Nand… [5] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/30/what-do-the-capital-of-surinam-oscar-… [6] https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/WikiCelebrate -- *Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska* (she/her) Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (European Region) Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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