Dear Community, 

As we announced during December,[1] this year’s WikiForHumanRights campaign will be arriving for Earth Day this year: April 15-May 15. The theme is “Right to a Healthy Environment” -- connecting the 20th Birthday “Human” theme with the global conversations about COVID-19, environmental crisis, like climate change, and human rights.You can learn more about the theme at our under-development home page. [2] 

The campaign will have two parts: a challenge, like the WikiGap Challenge, and decentralized digital and in-person events (where COVID-19 risk assessments allow).

We need your help organizing the decentralized events -- and will be supporting development of activities through mentoring and rapid grants.  

 

Do you want to be part of organizing?  The Campaigns Team at the Wikimedia Foundation invites you to: 

• the upcoming Wikimedians for Sustainable Development meeting on 21 February at 11:00am UTC [3] 

• Our next virtual office hour on 25 February 2021 at 3:00pm UTC via zoom.[4] 

 

If you are interested, but can’t attend the meeting: you can also join the Wikimedians for Sustainable Development communication channels for general updates [5] or the WikiForHumanRights telegram channel, where we will share more updates for organizers [6].

 

Please forward this information to movement organizers who you think will be interested. 

Looking forward to talking with you soon! 

 

Alex Stinson

 

[1] https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/10/wikiforhumanrights-2021-help-share-human-rights-knowledge-on-wikipedia-and-beyond/ 

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights

[3 ]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting 

[4] See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns/Foundation_Campaigns_Team#Office_Hour_4:_WikiForHumanRights_2021 or https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/97336292017

[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development#Communication_channels 

[6] https://t.me/joinchat/Ifp3xRo2fEIk_ecpZLdTEg 

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Alex Stinson 

Senior Program Strategist

Wikimedia Foundation

Twitter: @sadads

Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM