Hi there,
The Movement Charter Drafting Committee is happy to announce that the full
draft of the Movement Charter will be published on April 2nd, 2024. This
will kick off the community engagement period from April 2nd to April 22nd.
The Movement Charter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter> is
a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the
members and entities of the Wikimedia Movement, including to lay out a new
Global Council for movement governance.
Everyone in the Wikimedia Movement is invited to share opinions on the full
version of the Charter draft – this is the last chance to offer feedback
before the Charter draft is updated for the ratification vote in June 2024.
How to share your feedback?
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share your message or question on the Movement Charter Talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter#>;
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attend a community drop-in session
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Community_Consultation#Mon…>
on April 4 at 15.00-17.00 UTC (details forthcoming);
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or email movementcharter(a)wikimedia.org.
Read the Committee's latest updates
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Updates> for
more information.
On behalf of the MCDC,
Anass
Hi all,
I’m writing to let you know that Wikimedia Ukraine published and submitted
our annual reports for 2023.
In 2023 we continued to live under Russia’s full-scale military invasion.
On the one hand, the past year was more stable than 2022, and we were able
to bring back many of the projects that had to be cancelled at the
beginning of the all-out war, as well as start brand-new ones. For example,
we brought back Ukraine’s local edition of the Wiki Loves Earth photo
contest, as well as CEE Spring and WikiGap article campaigns.
On the other hand, the war continued to have a significant negative impact
on the Ukrainian wiki community and its capacity, and as a result on
Wikimedia Ukraine’s work. At the same time, apart from our traditional
programs, we continued work around supporting the community under wartime
conditions and expanded to cover Ukrainians abroad e.g. during our annual
Wikimarathon campaign.
Our full report (in Ukrainian) is available here:
https://ua.wikimedia.org/?curid=9363
You can read a Diff post with key highlights in English (and Japanese!)
here:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/02/01/wikimedia-ukraines-work-in-2023-in-10…
Other English-language materials that shed light on our work in 2023:
* Stories of Ukrainian Wikimedians during the war: https://w.wiki/5ZLi
* Our presentations at Wikimania 2023: https://w.wiki/9X3w
* Insights from Wikimarathon 2023, a nationwide-turned-worldwide series of
events for Ukrainian Wikipedia’s birthday:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/29/35-events-1900-wikipedia-articles-how…
* Short report from Ukraine’s annual Wikiconference:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/11/08/ukraines-annual-wikiconference-brings…
* Results of our first-ever mass open online course for educators:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/10/19/reading-wikipedia-in-the-classroom-in…
Best Regards
Anton Protsiuk
Programs Coordinator at Wikimedia Ukraine
Dear Wikimedians,
We hope this message finds you well and that you are in good spirits. We
are the Let’s Connect working group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect/Team>- a
team of movement contributors/organizers who are liaison representatives of 7/8
regions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_regions>. We are
connecting with you to see if you are interested in and/or know about the
peer-to-peer program, Let’s Connect
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect>!
The program creates an open and safe learning space for any Wikimedian who is
part of an organized group to share and learn different skills
(organizational/interpersonal / grant related / learning & evaluation ...)
with other peers to add value and contribute collectively to the community.
The purpose is to further develop skills, share knowledge and promote human
connections and mutual support between different groups and communities, in
alignment with the Movement Strategy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy>.
Every month, we host 2-3 live 2-hour learning clinics
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect#Live_learn…>
with interesting topics selected by our team and our interested sharers.
Our live learning sessions have up to 4 interpreters translating the clinic
for our participants. Our main languages are Spanish | Arabic | French |
Portuguese. If there is a specific language you would like to see in the
calls, we are happy to see how we can accommodate it.
Let’s Connect is directed at Wikimedians in all regions that are part of
organized groups (this can range from a group of individuals that are not
formally organized user groups, chapters and mission-aligned
organizations). Please see our Meta page for more criteria
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect#Who_is_Let…>.
To participate as a sharer, you can register in this initial registration
form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiea87tSYmB2-1XHn_u8RLe7efMJifJBz…>
where you can register your learning and sharing interests and state if you
want to share your knowledge through Learning Clinics.
Below, you will find our team of 8 who are excited to meet with you if you
are interested. Please email our team at letsconnect(a)wikimedia.org if you
have any questions :)
We look forward to hearing from you.
Best,
The Let’s Connect Working Group
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03/19/24,
11:52:00 PM
Hi everyone,
The next Research Showcase will be live-streamed on Wednesday, March 20, at
9:30 AM PST / 16:30 UTC. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1710952200>. In line with Women's History
Month, the theme for this showcase is *Addressing Knowledge Gaps*.
You are welcome to watch via the YouTube stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6wrr9WShTk. As usual, you can join the
conversation in the YouTube chat as soon as the showcase goes live.
This month's presentation:
Leveraging Recommender Systems to Reduce Content Gaps on WikipediaBy *Mo
Houtti*Many Wikipedians use algorithmic recommender systems to help them
find interesting articles to edit. The algorithms underlying those systems
are driven by a straightforward assumption: we can look at what someone
edited in the past to figure out what they’ll most likely want to edit
next. But the story of what Wikipedians want to edit is almost definitely
more complex than that. For example, our own prior research shows that
Wikipedians prefer prioritizing articles that would minimize content gaps.
So, we asked, what would happen if we incorporated that value into
Wikipedians’ personalized recommendations? Through a controlled experiment
on SuggestBot, we found that recommending more content gap articles didn’t
significantly impact editing, despite those articles being less “optimally
interesting” according to the recommendation algorithm. In this
presentation, I will describe our experiment, our results, and their
implications - including how recommender systems can be one useful strategy
for tackling content gaps on Wikipedia.Bridging the offline and online-
Offline meetings of WikipediansBy *Nicole Schwitter*Wikipedia is primarily
known as an online encyclopaedia, but it also features a noteworthy offline
component: Wikipedia and particularly its German-language edition – which
is one of the largest and most active language versions – is characterised
by regular local offline meetups which give editors the chance to get to
know each other. This talk will present the recently published dewiki
meetup dataset which covers (almost) all offline gatherings organised on
the German-language version of Wikipedia. The dataset covers almost 20
years of offline activity of the German-language Wikipedia, containing 4418
meetups that have been organised with information on attendees, apologies,
date and place of meeting, and minutes recorded. The talk will explain how
the dataset can be used for research, highlight the importance of
considering offline meetings among Wikipedians, and place these insights
within the context of addressing gender gaps within Wikipedia.
Best,
Kinneret
--
Kinneret Gordon
Lead Research Community Officer
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear friends
A few days ago, in a diff article (1), we told you the story on how we
improved the ISA Tool (2) during a co-organized Hackathon (3).
Key outome is... we are happy to announce that a new version of the ISA
Tool is now available on toolforge for you to use. Whilst the tool would
still welcome your technical attention, we were able to fix critical
bugs and to implement some improvements.
After nearly a year dormant, ISA is back !
*
What is the ISA Tool ? *
ISAis a fun, multilingual, mobile-first/microcontributions/tool, that
makes it easy for (groups of) people to addstructured data
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Structured_da…>to
images on Wikimedia Commons.
With ISA, you can choose a pre-defined set of images on Commons and then
ask contributors to 'tag' these with multilingual structured metadata.
Points are counted for each contribution, and therefore it is possible
to organize 'tagging' or microcontributions competitions or challenges
with ISA. Or you can compete against yourself :)
ISA was originally built to provide better multilingual and structured
descriptions of Wiki Loves Africa images (4). But it is also developed
to be useful to all of the Wiki Loves X competitions, and eventually
ended up being meant forall media fileson Wikimedia Commons. More info
here: (5)
*Campaign #300*
To celebrate both the relaunch AND Women's Rights Month, and to
demonstrate how the ISA tool works, we are launching an ISA campaign
about Women in Art.
This is happening here : https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/300
Your contributions, small or big, are welcome to improve the
category:Women in Art
*Create your own campaigns ?*
You are welcome to create your own campaigns (or join older ones). Just
make sure to log-in and you are good to go.
A piece of advice though... make sure not to create very big campaigns
with thousands and thousands of images. Toolforge does not digest huge
sets very well.
500 is ok. 8000 is ok. 200 000 images... is beyond its capacity. We are
still testing and improving. If you see anything weird or broken, please
report here (7)
Best regards
Anthere
(1) the diff article :
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/03/13/the-triumph-of-wiki-mentor-africas-fi…
(2) the tool : https://isa.toolforge.org/
(3) the January hackathon :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wiki_Mentor_Africa_Hackathon_2024
(4) the tool page on Commons :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:ISA_Tool
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:ISA_Tool>(5) opportunity to
remind that Wiki Loves Africa is happening right now :
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2024
(6) women in art campaign : https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/300
(7) phabricator: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/3981/
Hello everyone,
The call for proposals for Wikimania 2024 is now open. We are looking for
session proposals that help bring to life this year's spirit: Collaboration
of the Open. We want to hear from you - what work are you doing to foster
collaborations across regions, languages, disciplines, and beyond? How are
you and your community contributing to building the open ecosystem?
Apply to lead a workshop, host a panel, present a poster, or run a tool
demonstration that helps us all see the power of openness and collaboration.
You can apply to speak in person, virtually, or in a hybrid format. More
information, including FAQs and the full list of questions from the call for
proposals, is available <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program>
on the Wikimania Wiki.
Best regards
Wojciech Pędzich, COT member, Wikimania 2024 Programme Lead
Dear Wikimedians,
It has been a year since we were formally recognized, and we are grateful
for all the volunteers who have contributed to making our program a
success. We also appreciate the supportive Wikimedians who have
collaborated with our efforts and have always been on our side in promoting
our activities. On behalf of the Wiki Advocates Philippines User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Advocates_Philippines_User_Group>, I
would like to present our 2023-2024 annual report on Meta.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Advocates_Philippines_User_Group/Repor…>
Best regards,
*Anthony Diaz*
*Wiki Advocates Philippines Inc., Co-founder*