Hello everyone
Interested in learning about the work that was done across communities
during International Women's Day/Women's History Month?
We would like to invite you to this 90-minute *Celebrate Women
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women> 2024 learning debrief
conversation* session to:
- *Celebrate community efforts*
- We will hear from gender organizers from three regions about their
March campaigns' outcomes:
- Dian Agustín from Wikimedia Indonesia sharing on their Women's
Health campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Indonesia/Bulan_Wiki_Perempuan_20…>
with in partnership with UNFPA (ESEAP)
- Vic Sfriso from Wikimedia Argentina sharing more on ¡Alto!
Mujereshaciendo historia
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:%C2%A1Alto!_Mujeres_haciendo_historia>
(LAC region), and
- Bukola James from CodeforAfrica, sharing on the EmpowerHer
campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:EmpowerHer_Editathon_2024/Resources_a…>and
Ruby-D Brown from Africa Wiki Women, sharing on the Inspire
Inclusion 2024 campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Africa_Wiki_Women_IWD_-_Inspire_Inclusion_2…>
(Africa).
- Hear from you on what your community did this last March during
International Women’s Day!
- Reflect on Celebrate Women global campaign results
- Learn about *Wikipedia Needs More Women
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/open-the-knowledge/wikipedia-needs…>*
campaign
results
- Understand how the event registration tool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event_Center/Registration#Event_Registratio…>
helped
you improve your event registration experience
- Agree on how we want to work together for next year’s campaign and
what's the support needed from the Wikimedia Foundation
*REGISTER FOR THE EVENT HERE
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2024_learning_debrief…>*
*[ES] *TL;DR ¿Organizaste campañas y eventos para cerrar la brecha de
género el pasado mes de marzo de 2024 durante el Mes de la Historia de la
Mujer y el Día Internacional de la Mujer? Compartamos nuestros resultados y
aprendamos juntos: únase a nosotros el 27 de junio a las 12:00 UTC (REGÍSTRESE
PARA EL EVENTO AQUÍ
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2024_learning_debrief…>,
enlace de Zoom disponible al registrarse). Habrá interpretación disponible
en inglés, español, francés y portugués.
*[PT] *TL;DR Você organizou campanhas e eventos para eliminar a disparidade
de gênero em março de 2024, durante o Mês da História da Mulher e o Dia
Internacional da Mulher? Vamos compartilhar nossos resultados e aprender
juntos: junte-se a nós no dia 27 de junho às 12h UTC (INSCREVA-SE NO EVENTO
AQUI
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2024_learning_debrief…>,
link do Zoom disponível na inscrição). A interpretação estará disponível em
inglês, espanhol, francês e português.
*[FR] *TL;DR Avez-vous organisé des campagnes et des événements pour
réduire l'écart entre les sexes en mars 2024, pendant le Mois de l'histoire
des femmes et la Journée internationale de la femme ? Partageons nos
résultats et apprenons ensemble : rejoignez-nous le 27 juin à 12h00
UTC (INSCRIVEZ-VOUS
À L'ÉVÉNEMENT ICI
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2024_learning_debrief…>,
lien Zoom disponible lors de l'inscription). L'interprétation sera
disponible en anglais, espagnol, français et portugais.
*[EN] *Did you organize campaigns and events to close the gender gap last
March 2024 during Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day?
Let's share our outcomes and learn together: join us on June 27 at 12:00
UTC (REGISTER TO ATTEND HERE
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2024_learning_debrief…>,
Zoom link on registration). Interpretation will be available in English,
Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
Hope to see you there!
Masana
*Masana Mulaudzi (She/Her)*
Senior Manager, Campaigns Programs
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear fellow Wikimedians,
On Saturday, June 22, Wikimedia Deutschland held its 29th General Assembly in Berlin, again in a hybrid format.
Our members elected a new Supervisory Board, which consists of 7 elected members:
* Alice Wiegand (chair, re-elected)
* Friederike von Borries (treasurer)
* Jens Ohlig (re-elected)
* Kamran Salimi (re-elected)
* Larissa Borck (re-elected)
* Nora Circosta (re-elected)
* Valerie Mocker (re-elected)
I would like to wholeheartedly thank our departing treasurer Daniel Reisener and board members Christina Dinar and Raimond Spekking for the outstanding work and their commitment to Wikimedia over the past years.
Axel Zehrfeld and Andreas Ettwig were elected as auditors. My gratitude to our departing auditors Renate Duerr and Lenia Zinßer.
The new board will reconvene shortly to get started and I am very much looking forward to working together with the new team.
Kind regards,
Alice
Vorsitzende des Präsidiums | Chair of the Supervisory Board
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
<https://wikimedia.de/>
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Dear Wikimedians,
We hope this email finds you well. We invite you to join the next episode
of WikiAfrica Hour "Does the Wikimedia movement contribute to the SDGs?”
We are very excited to discuss this topic with the episode guests and your
joining is very valuable.
*What can you expect from the episode?*
This episode will discuss:
-
The SDGs and what role the Wikimedia movement plays.
-
Community-driven projects related to sustainability.
-
What else Wikimedia communities can do to support the SDGs.
*Who are the guest speakers?*
We have 4 guest speakers:
- *Jan Ainali:* Co-founder of Wikimedians for Sustainable Development.
- *Emmanuelle Guebo Kakou*: General coordinator of Wikimedia Community
User Group Côte d'Ivoire.
- *Sandra Hanbo:* Arabic-speaking Communities coordinator for
WikiForHumanRights
campaign
- *Romeo Ronald Lomora:* WikiForHumanRights podcast coordinator
*Hosting them:*
Ruby Damenshie-Brown: dedicated open knowledge enthusiast. She serves as
the Anglophone Africa Regional Coordinator for the WikiForHumanRights 2024
campaign.
*When and where will the episode take place? *
Data: Friday 28th June
Time: 16:00 UTC
Join us LIVE on Youtube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B6VI20qopk>.
You can also register in the event tool here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:WAH_Episode_36_-_Does_the_Wikimedia_m…>
Looking forward to seeing you!
--
*Donia*
WikiAfrica Hour Production Coordinator
& Wiki In Africa Tools Community Facilitator
Hello everyone,
Given the current situation and discussions around the BoT-MCDC liaisons'
statement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org…>
about their intention to recommend that the *BoT not ratify the Movement
Charter and still move forward with the community vote*, I decided to
organize the Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) *meeting on 23
June (THIS SUNDAY) – meeting link on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network/2024…>*
.
*T**L;DR – Quick catch-up*
Board of Trustees liaisons to MCDC (Natalia Tymkiv and Lorenzo Losa)
announced they *will not recommend* the BoT to ratify the charter in its
current form and *will recommend* the development of new concrete and
time-bound next steps to "*evaluate progress*". The reason stated is that
the "*proposed Charter** does not address the significant concerns*" raised
by the Board earlier this year (February
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter/Archive_5#Wikimedia_F…>
and May
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter/Archive_5#Wikimedia_F…>
).
*Each of the 3 voting blocks: community, affiliates, and the BoT needs to
approve the Charter to ratify it*, meaning that each of them has the power
to veto the Charter if they vote against it.
*Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) meeting on 23 June* There
are two meeting times to cater to two major time zone blocks.
The two times are:
- *03:00 UTC*, 2024-06-23 (Asia-Pacific friendly time) – Check your
timezone <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1719111600>
- *16:00 UTC*, 2024-06-23 (Europe-Africa-Americas friendly time) – Check
your timezone <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1719158400>
*The agenda is:*
- Update on the Movement Charter process
- Discussion on the Wikimedia Foundation statement on the Movement
Charter
- Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Board liaisons reflections
on final Movement charter draft
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/Boar…>
*For the signup and meeting link*, go to the SWAN page at Meta-wiki:
-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network/2024…
*The Movement Charter vote is scheduled to start in just 76 hours! Join us
at the discussion.*
Cheers,
--
Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz (He/him)
Wikimania 2024 Poland – Team Lead
Wikimedia Europe Board Member
Wikipedia Administrator
User:Nadzik <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nadzik>
Dear wikimedians,
Nearly one year ago, the Graphs extension was disabled from all wikis, because there was a security issue that should be solved (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334940). A wide team from the WMF worked on a solution for some weeks, but after Northern Hemisphere spring ended, summer came, then the monsoon season, and now it is again summer in the Southern Hemisphere... and Graphs are still disabled. All the solutions proposed have been dismissed, but every two months there's a proposal to make a new roadmap to solve the issue. We have plenty of roadmaps, but no vehicle to reach our destination.
Seven years ago, we were discussing our Strategy for 2030. We used thousands of volunteer hours, thousands of staff hours and millions of dollars to build a really well-balanced strategy. There we concluded that "By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge". We also made some recommendations to improve the User Experience (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Recommendations/Improve_U…) and claimed that we wanted to Innovate in Free Knowledge (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Recommendations/Innovate_…). Well, the situation is now worse than it was seven years ago, let me give some examples:
* Graph extension is used in thousands of pages, some of them highly relevant, as COVID or Climate Change information. There are thousands of graphs broken now, and the only partial solution give is loading these graphs as images, instead of promoting an interactive solution.
*
Meanwhile, a place like Our World in Data has been publishing data and interactive content with a compatible license for years. (Remember, "By 2030, Wikimedia will become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge"). Trying to add this data and graphs to Wikimedia projects has been done by WikiMed, and it is technically possible, but still blocked to deploy (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T303853).
* Wolfram Alpha is like a light year ahead us on giving interactive solutions to knowledge questions, even the silliest ones (https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=how+many+oranges+fit+in+the+Earth%3F). We have good technical articles about a lot of things, but sometimes "becoming the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge" needs to provide solutions to exact problems, like the answer to an equation, and how to solve it. That's also "free knowledge".
*
Brilliant (https://brilliant.org/) is brilliant if you want to learn lots of things, like geometry or programming. Way better than Wikipedia. But... you need to pay for it. How could we even try if we can't add anything interactive to our platforms?
* We can build interactive timelines using Wikidata, but we can't embed them at Wikipedia. Weird, because I can do it in any external page. Hopefully, Histropedia will do it better. http://histropedia.com/<http://histropedia.com/>
* We could have something very special: inline links in video and audio subtitles. We used to have them, but the new video infrastructure doesn't allow it. Imagine a world where you can watch a video and link a link in the subtitles just to know more about that.
* ...
The list can go on an on ("which phase the moon is today?"), but I think that the idea is clear. We could have interactive content, but we are going in the opposite direction, and every year we are further from our goal, because other platforms are doing it better, way better. And this seems like some wild ideas, but then I read the 2023-2024 annual plan section called "Wiki Experiences" (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2023-2024/…) and it looks like we should be going there. But we aren't.
I'm sorry if this e-mail feels bitter. My experience in the last years is that we are now further of what we need that we were before, even if many chapters and volunteers are trying to overturn it.
Thank to everyone who have been trying.
Galder
Hello everyone,
Thank you to everyone who participated in today's Strategic Wikimedia
Affiliates Network
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network/2024…>
meetings
on this very important subject – the ratification of the Movement Charter.
*Summary*
Over 90 people participated in both conversations, expressing their
concerns, comments, and feelings about the Movement Charter process and the
current situation following the announcement of the BoT liaisons to the
Movement Charter Drafting Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/Boar…>
earlier
this week in which they recommended that the *Board of Trustees not ratify
the Movement Charter*.
The notes from the meetings are already partially available and can be read
on the Meta, and the same goes for the Jamboards. Based on the discussion
and the (very active) chat, we will work later today/tomorrow to have them
prepared fully.
*Next steps*
The participants expressed a clear sentiment that the *Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees must officially commit* to changing the current
power/decision-making process and funds division; through an official
statement or a resolution, as the current commitments are believed not to
be respected or are seen as insufficient.
In addition, we are 28 hours from the start of the community/affiliate
vote. Participants requested that the Board of Trustees consult with the
MCDC and decide on the next steps in the ratification process based on the
feedback received. Most participants expressed support for the community
vote continuing (to allow for the gathering of comments via SecurePoll),
but specific changes to the timeline, order of the votes, and the overall
process should be made following the Friday announcement. The Board members
present (Victoria Doronina, Lorenzo Losa, Rosie Stephenson-Goodnight)
have *agreed
to **come back with a statement in the next 24 hours**, informing the
community about the Board's decision and the next steps *(17:30 UTC, 24 Jun
2024).
Thank you all for participating and engaging on such short notice. I hope
the next SWAN call will happen for a reason other than the need to discuss
something officially with the Board.
Cheers,
--
Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz (He/him)
Wikimania 2024 Poland – Team Lead
Wikimedia Europe Board Member
Wikipedia Administrator
User:Nadzik <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nadzik>
sob., 22 cze 2024 o 19:30 Wikipedysta Nadzik <pl.wikipedia.nadzik(a)gmail.com>
napisał(a):
> Hello everyone,
>
> on behalf of the Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN)
> coordinators, *I would like to invite you to our meeting tomorrow (23
> June)*.
>
> Given the current situation and discussions around the BoT-MCDC liaisons'
> statement
> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org…> about
> their intention to recommend that the *BoT not ratify the Movement
> Charter and still move forward with the community vote*, together with
> the Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN), we decided to organize
> the *meeting on 23 June (THIS SUNDAY) – meeting link on Meta
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network/2024…>*
> .
>
> *T**L;DR – Quick catch-up*
>
> Board of Trustees liaisons to MCDC (Nataliia Tymkiv and Lorenzo Losa)
> announced
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/Boar…>
> they *will not recommend* the BoT to ratify the charter in its current
> form and *will recommend* the development of new concrete and time-bound
> next steps to "*evaluate progress*". The reason stated is that the "*proposed
> Charter** does not address the significant concerns*" raised by the Board
> earlier this year (February
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter/Archive_5#Wikimedia_F…>
> and May
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter/Archive_5#Wikimedia_F…>
> ).
>
> *Each of the 3 voting blocks: community, affiliates, and the BoT needs to
> approve the Charter to ratify it*, meaning that each of them has the
> power to veto the Charter if they vote against it.
>
>
> *Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) meeting on 23 June*
>
> There are two meeting times to cater to two major time zone blocks:
>
>
> - *03:00 UTC*, 2024-06-23 (Asia-Pacific friendly time) – Check your
> timezone <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1719111600>
> - *16:00 UTC*, 2024-06-23 (Europe-Africa-Americas friendly time) – Check
> your timezone <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1719158400>
>
> *The agenda is:*
>
>
> 1. Overview of how we got to where we are now, a short history of
> Movement Charter ratification
> 2. Personal remarks and comments about the situation
> 3. Discussion on the Wikimedia Foundation statement on the Movement
> Charter
> 1. *WMF representatives are invited from this point onwards*
> 2. Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Board liaisons
> reflections on final Movement charter draft
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/Boar…>
> 4. Next steps
>
> *For the signup and meeting link*, go to the SWAN page at Meta-wiki:
>
>
> -
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network/2024…
>
>
> *The Movement Charter vote by the community and the affiliates is
> scheduled to start in just 55 hours! Join us at the discussion.*
>
> Cheers,
> --
>
>
> Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz (He/him)
>
> Wikimania 2024 Poland – Team Lead
>
> Wikimedia Europe Board Member
>
> Wikipedia Administrator
>
> User:Nadzik <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nadzik>
>
--
*User:Nadzik <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nadzik>*