Dear Wikimedia colleagues,
I'm pleased to submit the 2023 annual report for the North Carolina
Wikipedians User Group:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/reports#2023
Highlights of the year include an uptick in in-person meetups, several
educational outreach activities, and the addition of new members to our
regular meetings.
Cheers,
Emily
It’s time let’s kindly join!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Join us today for ongoing the session on ''Adding Sustainability
Perspectives to Wikivoyage'' at 15:00 UTC.
Join us here - https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/89233194261 We look forward to
learning with you.
Please help spread the word! 😊
Best,
Ruby
Hello everyone,
A few weeks ago, we announced the course on the learning platform,
WikiLearn, on how to upload and edit files on Wikimedia Commons using
OpenRefine: *OpenRefine for Wikimedia Commons: the basics*
<https://learn.wiki/courses/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_GLAM001+2023/…>
.
Today, we are happy to announce two translations of the course: Spanish and
French!
- OpenRefine para Wikimedia Commons: conceptos básicos
<https://app.learn.wiki/learning/course/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_G…>
(Spanish
/ Español)
- OpenRefine pour Wikimedia Commons : les bases
<https://app.learn.wiki/learning/course/course-v1:Wikimedia-Foundation+WMF_G…>
(French,
Français)
This course can be easily translated into other languages (more about the
translation process here
<https://studio.learn.wiki/meta_translations/discover_courses/> and here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tutorial_on_how_to_translate_course…>).
More translations, such as Italian, Portuguese, and Basque, are being
worked on.
Just like the English course, the Spanish and French versions are available
at any time, for free. You only need a Wikimedia account and the course can
be followed at your own pace, with computer-graded exercises. A certificate
is awarded at the end and an average of 6 to 8 hours is needed to complete
the course.
Please, feel free to share these translations with people who speak these
languages and who you think might be interested in learning more about
OpenRefine or Wikimedia Commons.
Thanks, Carla Toro and Reda Kherbouche, for their amazing work translating
these courses!
Best,
Giovanna
Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
Program Officer, Culture and Heritage
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi Everyone,
As the movement leverages the opportunity provided by the
WikiForHumanRights 2024 new theme of Knowledge for a Sustainable Future to
explore relevant local topics, we want to empower you with exciting ways of
building this knowledge on different Wikimedia projects.
*Join us here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Adding_Sustainability_Perspectives_to…>
to learn how you can use the campaign to contribute sustainability
perspectives to Wikivoyage on 29 April 2024 at 15:00 UTC.*
We look forward to another moment of learning with you.
Kindly,
Euphemia
We have Interactive graphs from OWID working on Basque Wikipedia, following
a consent popup.
https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haurdunaldi#Nerabezaroa
Still need to figure out a way to make them multilingual.
--
James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
Dear all,
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal
Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9,
2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta [1] to learn more
about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global
group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of
the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for
the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter [2]
Please share this message with members of your community so they can
participate as well.
1.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…
2.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
Keegan
--
Keegan Peterzell (he/him)
Lead Committee Support Specialist
Committee Support
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello,
Persian Wikipedia (fa.wikipedia.org) which recently celebrated its 20th
birthday just passed its 1,000,000 article milestone.
Many volunteers have built, contributed, protected and loved this wiki for
the past two decades and here's to many more decades to come.
It has been a bumpy road but providing a free source of information to more
than 130M Persian language speakers has always been a pleasure, especially
when the concepts of fact and truth are under threat like never before.
Persian Wikipedia is being viewed by around 30M people monthly and has had
350M page views every month while only ~1,500 active editors [1] and ~35
admins have been keeping it alive and protecting it from all types of harm.
[1] Users making more than five edits in the past 30 days
https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/fa.wikipedia.org/contributing/active-editors/…
Here is to volunteers of Persian Wikipedia
--
Amir (he/him)
