Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Wikimedia Community User Group Cyprus [2] as a Wikimedia User Group.
The group aims to to empower and engage people to collect and develop
educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to
disseminate it effectively in Cyprus.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Jeffrey Keefer
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Cyprus#2020
Hey All
We just finished our first official board meeting of the year. I would like
to take this opportunity to welcome our two new board members Tesleemah
Abdulkareem and Deb Rotman, with myself and Anjna Harrar returning for
another term. I would also like to send my gratitude to Alaa Najjar who is
transitioning off the board to a position of special adviser.
https://mdwiki.org/wiki/WikiProjectMed:Board
Positions on the board are:
Chair: James Heilman
Treasurer and Vice-chair: Stuart Ray
Membership admin: Mossab Banat
Secretary: Lane Rasberry
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James Heilman
MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Telugu Wikimedians User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group
aims to to grow and promote Telugu language in Wikimedia Projects including
supporting Telugu Wikimedia communities in India.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
Regards,
Jeffrey Keefer
Chair, Affiliations Committee
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
of Telugu Wikimedians User Group
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Telugu_Wikimedians_User_Group
Wikimedia,
Inspired by computational-notebook technologies including Project Jupyter<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Jupyter> and Jupyter AI<https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyter-ai>, I am pleased to share some ideas for a new Wikimedia sister project: Wikinotebooks.
A Wikinotebooks project would enable new, wiki-style, multi-user collaboration scenarios with respect to notebook-based computing in a way tightly integrated with the Wikimedia software ecosystem.
With notebook-based computing, multimedia resources could be generated by people and AI, these resources including: 3D graphics, animations, audio, charts, diagrams, figures, graphs, images, infographics, maps, mathematical expressions, pictures, and video.
Editors would be able to log on to Wikinotebooks, create a new notebook, query data from Wikidata, run some program logic (e.g., JavaScript or Python) on that data to generate a chart, save that chart to Commons, and then add that chart to a Wikipedia article.
As envisioned, computational notebooks would be stored on Wikinotebooks, generated multimedia resources would be stored on Commons, and these notebooks and multimedia resources would remain interconnected. Persisted interconnectivity between data, queries, computational notebooks, and multimedia resources would streamline providing deliverables. For instance, updates to backing data could result in automatic updates to multimedia resources, e.g., charts, and/or in notifications to interested editors that new revisions were available.
A Wikinotebooks project would, additionally, enhance the development of another proposed sister project: Wikianswers<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikianswers>.
In the event of any interest, I could write a fuller proposal for a Wikinotebooks project on Meta-Wiki<https://meta.wikimedia.org>. Thank you.
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
Dear all,
I am observing the inflow of programme submissions for Wikimania 2024 and I
could not be a happier programme lead than now. However, I know that there
are some session proposals that are still being developed, so we are
extending the deadline to submit your programme proposals until April 10,
2024, 12:00 UTC.
Make it the most memorable learning experience with other Wikimedians by
submitting sessions that are relevant to the Wiki-world and which bring the
Collaboration of the Open, this year's spirit, to Katowice, Poland, and
online!
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program
Best regards
Wojciech Pędzich, Head of Programming, Wikimania 2024
The Call for Submissions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2024/Submissions>
for the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Meeting_2024> is now open.
You can submit your session proposals until 31 May. If you have something
to say or share with the Central and Eastern European and Central Asian
communities, you can do so at our annual meeting in September.
This year's session proposals can be submitted as lectures, panels,
workshops, lightning talks, roundtables with a standardized duration, and
posters. Also, this year, we will have a new session format -
Demonstration, during which one presenter introduces the methods of working
with a tool, a workflow, or a program. The total time for a demonstration
(including questions and comments) will be 60 minutes.
The Wikimedia CEE Meeting is an annual conference centered on Wikimedia
projects in Central and Eastern European countries (also in Central Asia).
The 2024 meeting will take place in Istanbul, Türkiye, on 27-29 September,
organized by Wikimedia UG Türkiye
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Turkey>.
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Yılmaz Caner Özyayıkçı
Member & Designer
Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group
Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey
Wikimedia username: Kurmanbek
[image: emailAddress] caner.ozyayikci(a)wmturkic.org
[image: website] https://wmturkic.org/
[image: address] Türkiye (Turkey)
Hello all,
I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First,
the report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating
Committee (U4C) Charter ratification is now available
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Coordinating_Comm…>.
Secondly, the *Call for Candidates for the U4C* is open now through April 1.
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 are invited to submit their applications for
the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
please review
the U4C Charter
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Coordinating_Comm…>
.
Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large
seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity
of the movement.
Read more and submit your application on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Coor…>
.
Best,
Patrick
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Patrick Earley
Lead Trust & Safety Policy Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
pearley(a)wikimedia.org