Hi Greetings,
The winners for Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 is announced!
We are happy to share with you winning images for this year's edition. This
year saw over 8,584 images represented on commons in over 92 countries.
Kindly find the winning images at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Folklore_2022/Winners
Our profound gratitude to all the people who participated and organized
local contests and photo walks for this project.
We hope to have you contribute to the campaign next year.
Thank you,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team.
On 18 June, Wikimedia Belgium held its <https://be.wikimedia.org/wiki/2022-06-18_General_Assembly> annual general assembly. The
annual accounts were approved and a new board was elected.
We bid farewell to AnneJea as board member and thank her for her many years of commitment. Geert Van Pamel was re-elected president.
Dominique Labar became a new board member. Mike Nicolaije and Sam Donvil complete their second year as board members.
Dear all,
Tomorrow is my last day working at Wikimedia Indonesia. Goodbye is a thing
that we should celebrate. I am very grateful to have a wonderful chance to
collaborate with my local community, local organisation, and international
community also various chapters and affiliates. I will continue my
volunteering activity while enjoying my next journey as a master student in
Digital Humanities in Uppsala University, Sweden.
In the last 3 months, I have been doing collaboration work with Rachmat
Wahidi, our new Chair of the Board of Executive with his new teams. I am
sure WMID will achieve more in the future under his leadership with a more
diverse team, lots of local communities, strong grass root movement and
continuous support from the local community members, and our presence in
the ESEAP community makes us one of the biggest communities in the region.
You can always contact me via my personal email (biyanto.iyan(a)gmail.com).
From one of the sunniest cities in the Southern Hemisphere, Jakarta.
Best,
Biyanto
Dear Wikimedians and colleagues,
Join us today (in about two hours) for EduWiki Live with Dr Javiera Atenas
at 14:00 UTC. We will be live streaming on YouTube and Facebook Live, and
you can share your questions and comments there.
Youtube: https://youtu.be/sKV6N2-Tc7A
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WikimediaEducationTeam
^ EduWiki Live is a virtual event that aims to serve as a bridge between
the EduWiki community and the Education sector.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Best!
Sailesh
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From: Nichole Saad <nsaad(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 11:31 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Education] 🎉Join us for the next EduWiki Live with Dr.
Javiera Atenas on June 30th 14:00 UTC
To: Wikimedia Education <education(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear EduWiki Community,
I'm excited to invite you to the next EduWiki live event on* June 30th from
14:00-15:00 UTC*. Add it to your calendar!
<
https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=M3Q2cTh2Z2FqM3Y2Nm9…
>Join
the Education Team and EWOC volunteers, Sandeep and Brahim, as we have a
conversation with Dr. Javiera Atenas about open pedagogies and open data in
Higher Education.
*YouTube and Facebook Live links will follow soon! *
Javiera Atenas is an Information Scientist with a PhD in Education and
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in UK (Advance HE). She is a
senior lecturer in learning and teaching enhancement at the University of
Suffolk, and education lead of the Latin American initiative for open data.
Her research is focused in two main areas: the development of critical data
literacy in HE grounded on the concept of ethics as a method and also, in
promoting the adoption of elements of data agency, ethics and privacy in
open education and digital education policies for the HE sector.
She is a co-founder of the Open Education Policy Lab, a member of the
UNESCO OER dynamic coalition and of the implementation working group at
Open Data Charter, a member of the European Open Education Policy Forum and
board of the Open Education Working Group, Open Knowledge International.
Also, she is a member of the committee for recognition and enhancement of
teaching skills for the Italian National Evaluation Agency for Universities
(ANVUR).
We look forward to seeing you there!
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*Nichole Saad*
Wikimedia Foundation | Senior Manager for Education
nsaad(a)wikimedia.org
user: NSaad (WMF)
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Sailesh Patnaik (He/Him/His)
Program Officer, Education
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Wikimedia,
Hello. I am pleased to share an exciting update regarding a proposal for a sister project, Wikifact - a resource for real-time collaborative fact-checking (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikifact).
The update is available here: https://github.com/w3c/mathml/issues/390 .
The gist of the new development is that end-users could select Web content in their browsers and then simply use context menus to invoke first-, second-, and third-party services. These services could include crowdsourced, wiki-based, services, e.g., Wikifact or some other new projects.
When I first proposed Wikifact, in 2021, I was thinking that some markup-related or template-related solutions would be useful for providing end-users with user interfaces upon relevant portions of content (e.g., statements, claims, or facts) in documents.
Today, I am thinking about end-users being able to select Web content and then use context menus to invoke first-, second-, and third-party services. These services might provide for end-users with proofs, arguments, justifications, or fact-checking-related information about the selected contents in new tabs. Today, I am also thinking about uses of Web Annotation technologies where end-users could toggle visualizing which content in Web documents already have proofs, arguments, justifications, or fact-checking-related information available for them.
In summary, end-users will be able to select arbitrary contents from across the Web and use context menus to invoke services, e.g., Wikifact or some other new projects, to explore proofs, arguments, justifications, and fact-checking-related information pertaining to the selected contents.
Thank you. I hope that these new developments are of some interest to you and that they might inspire you to continue to explore new uses of wiki technologies!
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
http://www.phoster.com
Hi all,
Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours Tuesday, 2022-07-05. Find your local time here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1657036800>.
To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set
agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad
[3]. You are welcome to add questions / items to the etherpad in advance,
or when you arrive at the session. Even if you are unable to attend the
session, you can leave a question that we can address asynchronously. If
you do not have a specific agenda item, you are welcome to hang out and
enjoy the conversation. More detailed information (e.g., about how to
attend) can be found here [4].
Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves available to answer
research related questions that you as Wikimedia volunteer editors,
organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in your projects and
initiatives. Here are some example cases we hope to be able to support you
with:
-
You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
in my wiki?
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You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
harder to find an answer for during an office hour. However, discussing
them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
-
You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
of you interested more closely in this space.
-
You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].
Hope to see many of you,
Emily, on behalf of the WMF Research Team
[1] https://research.wikimedia.org
[2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours
[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html
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Emily Lescak (she / her)
Senior Research Community Officer
The Wikimedia Foundation
Hello everyone,
On behalf of the Community Affairs Committee, I am happy to invite you to
our next Conversation with the Trustees on 14 July at 18:00 UTC
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Comm…>
(find your local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1657821621>). You
are all welcome to talk with the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees directly
about our work guiding the Wikimedia Foundation.
The call will be held on Zoom with a live YouTube stream
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYg9sJ4Ml3M>. Because we want these calls
to be interactive, we encourage you to join us directly on Zoom. Request
the Zoom link by emailing askcac(a)wikimedia.org.
We will be providing live interpretation into Spanish and Portuguese. If
you would like to request another language, email askcac(a)wikimedia.org.
We will add the agenda to the event Meta page and send it here in the
coming weeks. For now, please save the date and register for the Zoom room.
Hope you see you all there,
Shani.
Shani Evenstein Sigalov
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/>
Vice Chair, Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>