Good morning,
We're excited to announce the release of the *July 2024 issue of
the CEE Newsletter*! Once again we have captivating stories, community
highlights, and collaborative achievements from across the Central and
Eastern Europe region in the Wikimedia movement.
Read the Newsletter here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/July_2024>
*In This Issue:*
- *International Updates:* Stay informed with the "Wikimedia
International Update Corner", covering key developments, events and
initiatives in the international Wikimedia space for 2024.
- *CEE in the News:* Discover notable mentions of CEE region activities
in "This month in Education" and "This month in GLAM" newsletters.
- *Reader's Digest:* Catch up on the latest insights and stories from
around the globe with the "Reader’s Digest".
- *Open calls and consultations: *Voice your opinion! These topics are
open to discussion. Also, please take a look at the open calls and apply!
- *Updates from Communities:* Learn about the successful second quarter
of Wikimedia MKD and the first half of 2024 of Wikimedia Ukraine, read
more about the Third Ionian Wikithon 2024, review activities in the past
months of the Wikimedia Serbia, read the report from the event in the
Buffer Zone on Cyprus, discover the new area of focus for Wikimedia Poland,
and many more community updates.
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We hope you enjoy this issue and find inspiration in the diverse stories
and impactful work being done by our CEE communities. Thank you for being a
part of our journey toward promoting free knowledge and collaboration.
You can read the full newsletter here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/July_2024>. We hope you
enjoy the inspiring stories and achievements showcased by our
vibrant CEE communities.
Happy reading!
Toni Ristovski | Тони Ристовски
*CEE HUB | Program Officer*
Tel. +389 72 565 409
Web. www.wmceehub.org
Hello everyone,
After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the Charter
Electoral Commission is pleased to announce the final results of the
Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.
As communicated by the Charter Electoral Commission
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter#Thank_you_for_your_pa…!>,
we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time
the vote closed on July 9, 23:59 UTC. We thank all 2,451 individuals and
129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your
votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement
Strategy.
The final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter> ratification voting held
between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:
Individual vote:
Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have
been accepted as valid votes. Among these, 1,710 voted “yes”; 623 voted
“no”; and 113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count
towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter
(1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).
Affiliates vote:
Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC),
129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these, 93 voted “yes”; 18
voted “no”; and 18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t
count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the
Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).
Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted not to ratify the proposed
Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of
the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Natalia Tymkiv, shared the result
of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/Boar…>
.
With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is not
ratified.
We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our
movement’s governance.
The Charter Electoral Commission,
Abhinav619, Borschts, Iwuala Lucy, Tochiprecious, Der-Wir-Ing
Dear Wikimedians,
On behalf of the Kashmiri Wikimedians User Group
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_Wikimedians_User_Group>, I am
pleased to announce that our annual activity report for the fiscal year
2023-2024 has been published on Meta-Wiki. You can access the report here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kashmiri_Wikimedians_User_Group/Annual_Repo…>
.
We welcome your feedback and look forward to collaborating with affiliates
and individuals. Additionally, we extend our heartfelt thanks to every
member of the Kashmiri Wikimedia community, Wikimedia staff, and all those
working towards the betterment of the Kashmiri language and the wider
Wikimedia movement.
Best regards,
511KeV <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:511KeV>
Kashmiri Wikimedians User Group
Hi everyone,
I’m just following up here, because it has been brought to our attention
that not everyone has access to the SecurePoll data dump, and therefore are
missing the feedback that was collected through the voting ballots for the
recent Movement Charter ratification vote.
Voter feedback
Staff has now listed all comments (65 comments from the affiliates voters
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Ratification/Voting/Result…>
and 447 comments from the individual voters
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Ratification/Voting/Result…>)
on Meta-wiki. They are displayed in sortable tables, but since this is the
raw data, especially the page with comments from individuals, it can take
some time to load.
We are also still working on a summary of this feedback that will be
published before we come together at Wikimania, yet we know that some of
you want to prepare now and not wait for the publication of this piece, so
we are publishing the comments first.
Ratification quorum, turnout and threshold (clarification)
After the publication of the results of the affiliate and individual votes,
we also noticed some discussion about the participation quorum and the
approval threshold of the ratification vote. We’d like to take this
opportunity to clarify the process:
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The participation quorum is how many people should cast any sort of vote
(yes/no/neutral). After the April 2023 feedback round, we realized, both
from comments and from experience in the Universal Code of Conduct votings,
a minimum % based on previous single-choice votes made sense. Initially, we
were operating from the assumption that the individual voter eligibility
pool would be around 60-70K individuals, similar to previous Board
elections. However, when we generated the voter list, it came out to be
around 117K individuals. Here, a small change made all the difference: in
previous elections (that had 60-70K eligible voters), the voting criteria
allowed for a duration of 6 months (in the 2022 Board elections, it was
Jan 2022 - July 2022
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Voter_e…>)
to make 20 edits, whereas the voter criteria for this ratification vote
allowed for a duration of 2 years (May 2022 to May 2024
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Ratification/Voting/Eligib…>)
to make 20 edits, deeming more voters to be eligible to vote. To maintain
the same number of voters (>2400), we changed the percentage from 4%, to a
threshold of 2% of the eligible voter pool.
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The voter turnout was lower than in WMF Board of Trustees elections,
because of the topic of the vote (not everyone would have been as familiar
with the concept of a Movement Charter, as they are with the bi-annually
occurring Board of Trustee elections), and also largely because the
extraordinary mechanism of mass-emailing all eligible voters was not used.
The choice not to use this tool was a deliberate decision by the MCDC, made
early on in the drafting process and in collaboration with WMF's
communications department, because while very effective in getting people's
attention, mass mailing is considered a rather intrusive method of
communication and is only to be used in exceptional circumstances.
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The approval threshold is how many voted in support of ratification.
Originally, the ratification methodology placed this as 50%+1, but after
feedback from the community, it was increased to 55% (but complemented with
the addition of the quorum as described in the first bullet above).
It was further agreed upon between the MCDC and CEC, and communicated to
the community, that a neutral (–) vote counted as participation, but not
towards the approval threshold; a neutral vote would not count in favor of
or in opposition to ratification.
Had we, as some proposed, counted the neutral vote anyway, the results of
the votes would have been the following:
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Individual vote = 1710 “yes” votes / 2446 total votes = 69.91% approval
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Affiliate vote = 93 “yes” votes / 129 total votes = 72.09% approval
Both of the votes would still pass the approval threshold if we counted the
neutral votes in the total.
We hope the information in this email provides additional clarity and
context.
On behalf of the MCDC and CEC,
Borschts
Dear Farah,
Thank you for your message. We have been following recent news from Bangladesh, including internet disruptions. As you noted, the Wikimedia Foundation is a member of the KeepItOn Coalition <https://www.accessnow.org/campaign/keepiton/>, which is a group of like-minded organizations that collectively work towards protecting freedom of expression - among other human rights - by tracking and advocating against internet shutdowns and sharing important information and data in near-real time as it becomes available.
Our own data confirmed that traffic to Wikimedia projects drastically declined during the period of the reported shutdown, with a 99.8% drop in page views as compared to the previous week. However, traffic to the Wikimedia projects appears to have returned to near-normal levels as of 01:00 UTC on 24 July and the traffic pattern since then shows a steady upward trend.
Foundation staff have also been in touch with some Wikimedians to check on their safety and we have seen messages from others on community channels. The Foundation will continue to monitor events in Bangladesh in the coming days and remain in contact with our volunteers.
As the situation evolves, we are resharing this guide to internet outages <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/10/25/the-internet-outages-guide/> and other digital security resources <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Legal/Community_Resili…>. Volunteers experiencing safety threats can reach out to emergency(a)wikimedia.org. Please do what is needed to remain safe.
Thank you,
Ricky Gaines
Human Rights Policy & Advocacy Lead
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear Let’s Connectors,
On behalf of the whole Let's Connect team, we wanted to send you this
email.
We want to invite you to participate in our evaluation survey to get a
better understanding of how you have participated, what is working and what
we need to do better! Please respond by August 2nd, 2024.
Please follow this link to fill in the evaluation survey, which takes
around 10 minutes and is mobile friendly: Lets Connect Feedback Survey 2024
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82MA60i4qV3mu4m>. The survey
is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Arabic.
You can also copy and paste the following URL into your internet browser:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82MA60i4qV3mu4m.
This survey is guided by the following privacy statement.
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Let%27s_Connect_Participants%27…>
Best,
Let’s Connect Working Group
[French]
[Enquête] Invitation : Enquête de rétroaction de Let's Connect 2024
Chers Connecteurs Let's,
Au nom de toute l'équipe de Let's Connect, nous tenions à vous envoyer ce
message.
Après plus de deux ans d'existence, je vous invite à participer à notre
enquête d'évaluation afin de mieux comprendre comment vous avez participé,
ce qui fonctionne et ce que nous devons améliorer! Veuillez répondre avant
le 2 août 2024.
Veuillez suivre ce lien pour répondre à l'enquête d'évaluation, qui prend
environ 10 minutes et qui est adaptée aux téléphones portables : Lets
Connect Feedback Survey 2024
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82MA60i4qV3mu4m>. L'enquête
est disponible en anglais, espagnol, portugais, français et arabe.
Vous pouvez également copier et coller l'URL suivante dans votre navigateur
internet : https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82MA60i4qV3mu4m.
Cette enquête est guidée par la déclaration de confidentialité suivante
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Let%27s_Connect_Participants%27…>
.
Meilleur,
Groupe de travail "Let's Connect
[Spanish]
[Encuesta] Invitación: Encuesta Let's Connect 2024
Estimados Let's Connectors,
En nombre de todo el equipo de Let's Connect, queríamos enviaros este
mensaje.
Después de más de dos años de existencia, me dirijo a vosotros para
invitaros a participar en nuestra encuesta de evaluación para conocer mejor
cómo habéis participado, qué está funcionando y qué necesitamos mejorar.
Por favor, responda antes del 2 de agosto de 2024
Por favor, siga este enlace para rellenar la encuesta de evaluación, que
dura unos 10 minutos y es apta para móviles: Lets Connect Feedback Survey
2024 <https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82MA60i4qV3mu4m>. La
encuesta está disponible en inglés, español, portugués, francés y árabe.
También puede copiar y pegar la siguiente URL en su navegador de Internet:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82MA60i4qV3mu4m.
Esta encuesta se rige por la siguiente declaración de privacidad
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Let%27s_Connect_Participants%27…>
.
Lo mejor,
Grupo de Trabajo "Conectemos
[Portuguese]
[Inquérito] Convite: Inquérito de Feedback Let's Connect 2024
Caros conectores da Let's Connect,
Em nome de toda a equipa da Let's Connect, gostaríamos de vos enviar esta
mensagem.
Após mais de dois anos de existência, estou a contactar-vos para vos
convidar a participar no nosso inquérito de avaliação, a fim de compreender
melhor a vossa participação, o que está a funcionar e o que temos de
melhorar! Responder até 2 de agosto de 2024.
Siga esta ligação para preencher o inquérito de avaliação, que demora cerca
de 10 minutos e é compatível com dispositivos móveis: Lets Connect Feedback
Survey 2024 <https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82MA60i4qV3mu4m>.
O inquérito está disponível em inglês, espanhol, português, francês e
árabe.
Também pode copiar e colar o seguinte URL no seu navegador de Internet:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82MA60i4qV3mu4m.
Este inquérito é orientado pela seguinte declaração de privacidade
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Let%27s_Connect_Participants%27…>
.
Melhor,
Grupo de Trabalho Vamos Conectar
[Arabic]
[استطلاع] دعوة: استطلاع آراء المشاركين في برنامج "لنتواصل" 2024
أعزائنا أعضاء برنامج "لنتواصل" الكرام،
بعد التحية،
نرسل لكم هذا البريد الإلكتروني نيابةً عن أعضاء فريق برنامج "لنتواصل"
بأكمله.
بعد مرور أكثر من عامين على إطلاع البرنامج، ندعوكم أخيرًا للمشاركة في
الاستطلاع لتقييم برنامج "لنتواصل"، إذ يساعدنا الاستطلاع على معرفة أفضل
الطرق لمشاركتكم معنا وما المطلوب لتطوير البرنامج على أحسن وجه! يُرجى الرد
بحلول 2 أغسطس 2024
يُرجى زيارة الرابط الآتي للمشاركة في الاستطلاع الذي قد يستغرق حوالي 10
دقائق. ويمكنكم المشاركة عبر الهاتف المحمول: استبيان آراء المشاركين في
"لنتواصل 2024" <https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82MA60i4qV3mu4m>.
الاستطلاع متاح باللغات العربية والإنجليزية والإسبانية والبرتغالية
والفرنسية.
كما يمكنكم نسخ ولصق عنوان الـ URL التالي في متصفح الإنترنت الخاص بك:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_82MA60i4qV3mu4m.
يتبع هذا الاستطلاع بيان الخصوصية التالي
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Let%27s_Connect_Participants%27…>
.
كل الشكر والتقدير،
فريق عمل برنامج "لنتواصل"
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