Hello all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st
at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Language_engineering/…
>.
This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific
updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues
related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions.
For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine
translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently
supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical
challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your
project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during
the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another
language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(a)wikimedia.org and add
agenda items to the document here: <
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-may-2024>.
We look forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Jon, Mary, Oscar, Amir and Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi all,
The scrutineers have finished reviewing the votes and the elections
committee have certified the result for the Universal Code of Conduct
Coordinating Committee (U4C) election.
I am pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members
of the U4C, who will fulfil a two-year term:
* Northern and Western Europe
o Ghilt
* Middle East and North Africa
o Ibrahim.ID
* East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
o 0xDeadbeef
I am pleased to announce the following individuals as community-at-large
members of the U4C, who will fulfil a one-year term:
* Barkeep49
* Superpes15
* Civvì
* Luke081515
Thank you to everyone who participated in this process and much
appreciation to the candidates for your contribution and dedication to
the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and plan out their
next steps. You can follow their work on Meta-Wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Coordinating_Comm…>.
Regards,
KTC
On behalf of the Elections Committee and the UCoC project team.
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Katie Chan
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- Heinrich Heine
Hi everyone,
I am delighted to announce that Wikimedia Deutschland’s Annual Report 2023
has been published.[1]
We have packed a comprehensive selection of your projects, topics and
events into four main articles. These highlight the many areas in which the
association is fundamentally committed to Free Knowledge and what we have
achieved together over the past year in particular. You can also look
forward to the first photo gallery in the annual report.
For our association, 2023 has been a year of giving Free Knowledge a voice
on many important platforms where Wikimedia has helped either to drive or
to challenge political and technological decisions over the past year. Our
work focuses on supporting the volunteers, further developing the free
knowledge database Wikidata and lobbying for better political conditions.
Have a look!
Nicole
[1] <https://www.wikimedia.de/2022/en/homepage/>
https://www.wikimedia.de/2023/en/
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Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 577 11 62-0
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Dear friends,
I would like to inform you that the Wikimedia CEE Meeting's Program
Committee has decided to extend the submission period for the conference
program. The new deadline for submissions is June 15. Please submit your
submissions by June 15th.
Please note that there will be no other extension of the deadline.
We hope to see you soon in Istanbul!
Best,
Caner
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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] TĂĽrkiye (Turkey)
Hello Wikimedians,
You are invited to the official launch of the fourth(4th) edition of the Africa
Wiki Challenge
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2024>. The
annual competition seeks to project information about Africa on Wikipedia
and its sister projects.
Over the past three years, the campaign has been organized under different
themes including, "*Landmarks in Africa, Projecting Africa Culture, and
African Free Continental Trade."*
This year's theme "*Educate Africa: Nurturing Minds for the 21st Century" *is
in line with the African Union(AU) Day's theme. The AU under the African
Union’s Agenda 2063 <https://au.int/en/agenda2063/overview> seeks to create
revitalized, high-quality, and unified educational systems that meet the
needs of Africa, generate acceptable attitudes, values, knowledge, and
skills, and support the continent's participation in the international
economy of knowledge.
The objective of this year’s Africa Wiki Challenge
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2024> is to
highlight and recognize the diverse educational perspectives in Africa,
encouraging the sharing of information and expertise through engaging
content contributions on Wikipedia.
Are you ready to contribute your quota in bridging the content gap on
Wikipedia?
Join the launch as an individual, group, organizer, participant, or
spectator as we officially launch the Africa Wiki Challenge 2024
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Africa_Wiki_Challenge_2024>
globally!
Speakers:
Ama Serwah Nerquaye-Tetteh- Secretary General , UNESCO Ghana
*ER Mohammed Yussif Umaru* -*Lecturer, University of Mines and Technology
Ghana*
Theme:
*Educate Africa: Nurturing Minds for the 21st Century*
*Date: Friday 24th May, 2024*
*Time:* *3:00 pm UTC*
To confirm your attendance, kindly register by clicking the link below
https://rb.gy/ear90l
*NB: There will be interpretation for our Francophone family*
Best regards,
Jael Serwaa Boateng
Executive Director
Open Foundation West Africa