From Clovermoss
I'm thankful this week for discovering an interesting task force: Women in Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIG. The goals of this task force involves creating GA-class articles on women and women's works. One of the goals for this year is 20 new GAs. I've known about Women in Red https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red for awhile now, and I'm thankful for the work everyone has put into both Women in Green and Women in Red. I'm amazed at the hard work that went into the creation of 14,480 articles for January-July 2019, and I'm looking forward to updated statistics for WiR for August-December 2019.
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"The Inter-Allied Women's Conference (also known as the Suffragist Conference of the Allied Countries and the United States) opened in Paris on 10 February 1919. A parallel conference to the Paris Peace Conference, it was convened to introduce women's issues to the peace process following the end of the First World War." https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inter-Allied_Women%27s_Conference.png The English Wikipedia article about the conference is a featured article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles, and is listed in the Showcase for Wikiproject Women in Red https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Showcase. (The quoted text is from the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Allied_Women%27s_Conference; see that page's history for attribution.) -
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The logo for Women in Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Women_in_Green_logo.svg
From User:Pine
This week marks the 19th anniversary of the launch of Wikipedia. I would like to highlight a 2019 editorial by Tim Berners-Lee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee, the creator of the world wide web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web, that was published in The New York Times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times. The title of the editorial is, "I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It." Berners-Lee writes, "I wanted the web to serve humanity. It’s not too late to live up to that promise... I had hoped that 30 years from its creation, we would be using the web foremost for the purpose of serving humanity. Projects like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and the world of open source software are the kinds of constructive tools that I hoped would flow from the web." Berners-Lee goes on to advocate for making improvements to the Web. I invite you to read the entire editorial https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/24/opinion/world-wide-web.html.
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A https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sharing_a_drink_in_Lisbon.jpg toast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_(honor) in Lisbon, Portugal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon -
The world's first web server https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NeXTcube_first_webserver.JPG -
A https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorldWideWebAroundWikipedia.png cluster diagram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_diagram of websites’ relations to Wikipedia in 2004 -
The current Wikipedia logo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-v2.svg -
The current OpenStreetMap logo https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Openstreetmap_logo.svg -
Tim Berners-Lee announcing the launch https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berners-Lee_announcing_W3F.jpg of the World Wide Web Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web_Foundation -
Web servers https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Servers-8055_35.jpg of the Wikimedia Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation
Closing comments
What’s making you happy this week? You are welcome to write in any language. You are also welcome to start a WMYHTW thread next week.
Additional translations of the subject line of this email would be appreciated on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine/WMYHTW_translations. Thanks to User:Pols12 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pols12, an IP editor https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/90.112.6.46, and User:Salvidrim! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Salvidrim! for the French translation.
Best wishes,
Clovermoss (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Clovermoss) and