Wikimedia UK is not currently cancelling all in person events and meetings and hasn't instituted a work from home policy, however the senior management team and board are monitoring the situation carefully, communicating with staff and partners regularly, and following advice from the government and associated bodies such as Public Health England. We are expecting a further announcement from our Prime Minister this evening so the situation may change rather rapidly.
Best wishes Lucy
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- Re: Practical implications of Coronavirus (Risker)
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- Joint Statement of the ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team and Wikimania Steering Committee on COVID-19 (Roman Bustria Jr.)
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:58:23 -0400 From: Risker risker.wp@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Practical implications of Coronavirus Message-ID: < CAPXs8yR+NsvBDq9p2vOgibUo-7rc-cEGn-Li+Lp-k0X3nzNsXw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Regardless of what platforms people might want to use for virtual meetings, it is my personal opinion that all movement organizations, groups (formal and informal) and the WMF itself immediately stop meeting in person. For the movement entities that have offices, work-from-home should be the standard (as it has been for the WMF for almost a week). Edit-a-thons and similar meet-ups should be cancelled for the foreseeable future. The broad movement has spent a lot of time talking about the safety and security of its communities, and this level of social distancing at this time is probably the best way to demonstrate that we really mean what we say. #CancelEverything is not just a cute hashtag - it's really serious, and our movement can be leaders in showing how it is done.
I'm speaking from my own experience (having worked in a hospital with SARS patients and having participated in the development of pandemic plans for hospitals), so perhaps my perspective is different from other people's. But given there's very little downside to this proposal, there's no reason not to take these steps, at least for a few months while the world has a better sense of how this will all play out.
Risker/Anne
Message: 2 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:31:54 -0700 From: effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Mailing List Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia branding Message-ID: < CACf6BetsgmS_Zwm9YfmmXuK86oGMeUEWwJUMJVbeft20QDmeWg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
It looks like this list was skipped in providing an update in asking for feedback (or I missed something - in which case, my apologies). I'm just a random passer by who was wondering why this wasn't shared yet.
The Wikimedia branding process seems to have moved to yet another phase on March 1 (I think?), allowing for a feedback phase to define one more 'concept' besides the 23 that have been defined (again: I think. The communication is a bit confusing to me, sorry). Deadline is March 17 (5-6 days from now).
The process should be explained here: https://brandingwikipedia.org/concepts/ (scroll down, the concepts are actually on that page below the text. Yes, those blocks.)
It turns out that at the very bottom in the footer, there's a link to a wikipage where you should be able to engage:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movemen...
on that meta page however, they seem to rather recommend to engage on Facebook (a closed group https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediabrandnetwork/) or on Wikimedia Space (!sic).
Anyhow, at a first glance those concepts look fine, but that'd be true for many sets of 23 buzzwords :). I don't have enough insights into the consequences of these choices, or how they got together, but hopefully the communications team can share that at some point better than me. Other people here may have more informed opinions than me.
-- Lodewijk
Message: 3 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 06:54:51 -0400 From: Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Practical implications of Coronavirus Message-ID: <CADeSpGWkjpfDU89GMwhNE_vkcLMAfnhN-WLg_7=+ pqky8MzVUw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Dear Risker,
Many thanks for sharing - I know you're a professional in the field. This is pretty much what we're doing as the WMF, and the affiliates surely can follow suit.
All universities I'm currently affiliated with (Harvard, MIT, Kozminski) cancelled all classes and move to virtual meetings only, too.
Best,
DJ "pundit"
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 00:54 Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Regardless of what platforms people might want to use for virtual
meetings,
it is my personal opinion that all movement organizations, groups (formal and informal) and the WMF itself immediately stop meeting in person. For the movement entities that have offices, work-from-home should be the standard (as it has been for the WMF for almost a week). Edit-a-thons
and
similar meet-ups should be cancelled for the foreseeable future. The
broad
movement has spent a lot of time talking about the safety and security of its communities, and this level of social distancing at this time is probably the best way to demonstrate that we really mean what we say. #CancelEverything is not just a cute hashtag - it's really serious, and
our
movement can be leaders in showing how it is done.
I'm speaking from my own experience (having worked in a hospital with
SARS
patients and having participated in the development of pandemic plans for hospitals), so perhaps my perspective is different from other people's.
But
given there's very little downside to this proposal, there's no reason
not
to take these steps, at least for a few months while the world has a
better
sense of how this will all play out.
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Message: 4 Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:40:38 +0800 From: "Roman Bustria Jr." bustrias@gmail.com To: "wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org" wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Joint Statement of the ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team and Wikimania Steering Committee on COVID-19 Message-ID: <CAGTLcfMq68VLnWr2EtxA3v-m5yFcwAE+CTpPrZegAcPDjv5+= w@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
Dear Wikimedians,
I would like to share to you a statement:
*Joint Statement of the * *ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team * *and Wikimania Steering Committee * *on COVID-19*
12 March 2020
The ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation acknowledge the current COVID-19 threat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic and are taking this situation seriously.
A joint decision on the fate of Wikimania 2020 based on a careful risk assessment will be forthcoming and we ask for your patience.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
Head of the Communications Committee
ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team
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