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Ninth Annual Colorado Wiknic on Sunday afternoon, July 14, 2019
by Stephen Clif Brown 01 Jul '19

01 Jul '19

You are cordially invited to the Ninth Annual Colorado Wiknic from noon to 4:00 Sunday afternoon, July 14, 2019. We will host the Wiknic at our home at 8032 West 78th Circle, Arvada, Colorado. Full information is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Colorado/Wiknic/2019 Please call us at (303) 477-7139 for any further information or assistance. We look forward to seeing you, Buaidh(a)gmail.com & BikeSally(a)gmail.com (AKA Steve Brown and Sally Berriman)

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Fwd: [All-affiliates] ASBS results
by Gaurav Vaidya 13 Jun '19

13 Jun '19

Hi everybody, Here's the results of the ASBS elections from May! Congratulations to Nataliia Tymkiv and Shani Evenstein Sigalov! cheers, Gaurav ---------- Forwarded Message --------- From: Ad Huikeshoven <ad(a)huikeshoven.org> Subject: [All-affiliates] ASBS results Date: Jun 12 2019, at 5:58 pm To: all-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org Dear Wikimedians, We are writing to let you know the result of the election for the 2 Affiliate Selected Board Seats on the Wikimedia Foundation board. The successful candidates were Nataliia Tymkiv and Shani Evenstein Sigalov. A total of 122 affiliates voted, 85% of the 143 eligible to vote, which is a record. As you know the election was conducted under a variation of the Single Transferable Vote, which meant that prorated votes were redistributed between candidates to come up with the final result. In the 10th step of counting the final place, after Nataliia Tymkiv was elected, was between Shani Evenstein Sigalov (40.519678) and Richard Knipel (40.480322). We have put the full count narrative on meta so that others can verify it if they wish.[1] It is the closest ASBS result for some time, and all candidates brought very valuable perspectives to the work of the WMF. In the 9th step of counting Reda Kerbouche lost by a very small margin. Adding a ballot with rank #1 for Richard or Reda would result in them being elected instead of Shani. The same goes for removing a ballot. Changing the ranking on one of the ballots in a specific can way can result in a different outcome for the second seat. This is an election in which every vote counts. As in any election, there is a chance that some voters misinterpreted the instructions and voted wrongly. We don't see a justification for an action as extraordinary and controversial as opening votes for review after the vote period is over. The instructions were visible and clear: "Rank any candidate from 1 (your preferred candidate) to 11 (your least preferred candidate)." After voting, voters received a confirmation email stating the name of each candidate they voted with the number of their rank: Rank 1, Rank 2, ... The agency of voters should be respected. As part of the retrospective we may identify areas of improvements on our side, but still the process was quite simple and documented. Some voters realized they made a mistake and requested a new ballot. New ballots were issued in those cases. This choice was done because of the specific situation of this election, since the process was complex for new affiliates and participation, diversity and inclusion were a clear goal.[2] We have published on meta information about who got a new ballot within the voting deadline.[3] The Election Facilitators have been available nearly 24 hours a day monitoring the various communication channels to answer any questions affiliates might have. We did our best at answering all of them. After our own scrutiny of the data, and based on our experience in community processes, we strongly advise the community to respect the integrity of the process, and advise against allowing any modifications of votes at this point. If the votes had been reopened for modification with or without publishing vote results, that would have caused significant confusion and criticism that could have jeopardized the entire election. We will publish a debrief with recommendations for a next ASBS process on meta.[4] We invite all representatives of affiliates to a feedback session at Wikimania.[5] We would like to congratulate Nataliia Tymkiv and Shani Evenstein Sigalov and thank everyone who stood. Regards, Ad Huikeshoven, Lane Rasberry, Jeffrey Keefer, Neal McBurnett, Abhinav Srivastava, Alessandor Marchetti Election Facilitators [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Results [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/Resolution_2… [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/New_bal… [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Debrief [5] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/ASBS_Feedback _______________________________________________ All-affiliates mailing list All-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/all-affiliates

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Fwd: [All-affiliates] 100 hours left and links
by Gaurav Vaidya 30 May '19

30 May '19

Just a reminder that if you'd like to be on the Wikimedia Board, you've got about 98 hours left! cheers, Gaurav -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [All-affiliates] 100 hours left and links Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2019 20:02:00 +0200 From: Ad Huikeshoven <ad(a)huikeshoven.org> (mailto:ad@huikeshoven.org) Reply-To: Wikimedia Affiliates <all-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org> (mailto:all-affiliates@lists.wikimedia.org) To: all-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org (mailto:all-affiliates@lists.wikimedia.org) Dear All, Please post your nominations at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Nominat… within the next 100 hours. Limit your text to 500 words. Please pay attention to https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Questio…. Best wishes, Ad Huikeshoven Election Facilitator

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Soon we will vote on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees
by Gaurav Vaidya 14 Apr '19

14 Apr '19

Hello friends! As you may know, the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees is soon going to include two members elected by Wikimedia Affliates [1], including the Wikimedians of Colorado User Group (hereafter: "we" or "our" or "WM-CUG" if I'm feeling formal). A call for candidates to these positions is now open [2]. After May 8, we will be submit ONE VOTE in which we RANK the candidates we would like elected to the board in our order of preference. The ugly details are available here [3], but really this is just a Single Transferable Vote [4]. I'm currently listed as the primary contact for WM-CUG, so I'll make sure we can discuss this vote on-wiki and on this mailing list, decide on our final vote, and communicate that to the Wikimedia Foundation (hereafter: "thems"). If somebody else would like to take over this job, please holler! If you have any other questions, please let me know and I'll send it on to thems and see what thems say. Note that we're only eligible to vote because Isarra and Nealmcb completed and submitted our Annual Report 2018 [5], so thanks so much for that! cheers, Gaurav [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Call_fo… [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats_election_FAQ… [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_single_transferable_votes#Droop_quota [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Colorado_User_Group/Annual_R…

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Wikimedia Affiliates Summit, affiliate stuff in general?
by Isarra Yos 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Hi, all. So I made it to the summit, and so far I have this to report: help I want to go back to bed. Also uuuuh we're apparently an affiliate and have some say in affiliate-selected board seats?! But seriously, the focus of this thing seems a lot more specific than previous years, not that I'm particularly familiar with previous years either: it's all about Strategy. Movement process. 2030 stuff. That... discussion I maybe kind of sort of derailed a year or two ago on this same list (sorry about that). As such, I'm wondering if anyone does have any particular thoughts on this, or ideas as to stuff I ought to be looking into in particular that might affect us as a group/loosely affiliated lump of people in theoretical proximity to each other who occasionally organise things in theoretically relevant geological locations? Or if you actually want to read up it, it's probably this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20 As for the affiliate-selected board seats thing, I'm... honestly not really sure what the deal with that is - I've been signed up for a mailing list about it (possibly as the selected person for this conference? Not sure - was anyone else added to that?) but haven't been able to find out a whole lot about what's the deal with that onwiki, either, partly on account of being a bit distracted travelling all over and being ill. So, yeah, should I be representing us on that, too, does anyone know any more about that one, and what do we make of that?! -I

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Re: [Wikimedia-US-CO] [All-affiliates] A Message to all User Groups Representatives
by Isarra Yos 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

Forwarding for anyone who uses telegram and is interested: On 31/03/2019 10:08, Shani Evenstein wrote: > Dear all, > > > Continuing the process of "on boarding" User Groups to participate in > the upcoming election process (which started here on this mailing list > and continued in the WMSummit in Berlin), we have opened a telegram > group for User Groups. > The main purpose of the grouo is for you to have a platform to ask > questions relevant pnly to UGs, brainstorm together on how to engage > your communities, or just share you thoughts (and frustrations ☺). > > Here is a link to the new Wiki User Groups Affiliates group. So if you > belong to a User Group, please join the group and introduce yourself - > https://t.me/joinchat/Ee0ANBOp0AuT48mFpNweqg > Please note that more than one person can join the group (unlike this > maing list), so please share it with your communities. The more, the > merrier. ☺ > > Cheers, > Shani. > > _______________________________________________ > All-affiliates mailing list > All-affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/all-affiliates

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Annual report reminder
by Gaurav Vaidya 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

Hi everybody, Just wanted to remind you all that the annual report for Wikimedia-US-CO was due back on March 4 (I think)? In any case, it’d be nice to get one in before we get reminders this time! Annual reportingly yours, Gaurav --- Typed on a tiny phone.

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Fwd: [Wikimania-l] New Wikimania program design announced: call for proposals OPEN
by Deb Tankersley 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

Hello fellow Coloradans! Want to curate a room at this year's Wikimania for a day?! There is just a few more days to put in a submission to lead (or co-lead) a space during the event - the deadline is this Friday, March 22, 2019. We've gotten a few submissions, but not enough yet, so I'm bumping this thread to you all, hoping that it might spark some interest! You can read the public summaries here: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program_design#Submitted_proposal… and you can submit your proposal here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSehMAmSWuVI1FI0dJU3S_RznEEPAuqeQH0… Happy spring-time in the Rockies! Deb -- deb tankersley program manager, engineering Wikimedia Foundation ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 6:39 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] New Wikimania program design announced: call for proposals OPEN To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) < wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Bumping this thread... Have you ever wanted to curate a room at Wikimania for a day? With one week to go in the call for people to lead a "Space" during the conference, we have so far received submissions on these topic areas: Data Science Languages Diversity Health Education Environmental Sustainability Transcription You can read brief public summaries of these submissions here: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program_design#Submitted_proposal… If you think something's missing, and would like to add to those which are already listed, Go to that page and fill out the form to propose your topic! - Liam / Wittylama (program chair) On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 19:28, Eric Luth <eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se> wrote: > Hi all, > > The Wikimania organizing team is now happy to announce the *Program > Design* <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program_design> of > Wikimania 2019! > > We believe that this year’s conference theme > <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Theme> requires a format that > is *future-oriented, collaborative, active, and focused on practical > problem-solving. *The program will therefore consist of a series of > parallel *spaces* (or tracks), lead by *leaders,* and through practical > training, learning, idea-sharing and cross-cultural collaboration focusing > on different *topic areas*. > > The call for proposals for these *Leaders*, and what they would like to > do with those *Spaces*, is NOW OPEN. We invite you to visit the Program > Design page <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program_design> on > the Wikimania Wiki to read more. > > Best, > *Eric Luth* > Conference Manager, Wikimedia Sverige > eric.luth(a)wikimedia.se > +46 (0) 765 55 50 95 > > Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige. > Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l

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Fwd: Sunday Art+Fem in Denver
by Gaurav Vaidya 09 Mar '19

09 Mar '19

There's a Wikimedia edit-a-thon in Denver this Sunday, March 10! cheers, Gaurav ---------- Forwarded Message --------- From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com> Subject: Sunday Art+Fem in Denver Date: Mar 8 2019, at 2:45 pm Sharing this for Denver Sunday Mar 10 - http://www.mcnicholsbuilding.com/events/detail/art-feminism-wikipedia-edit-… https://www.eventbrite.com/e/art-and-feminism-tickets-57147781553 They seem to have put a $10 ticket on it, which is a little strange, but if anyone wants to volunteer I could probably get it waived for you. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)

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Wikipedia Day + 500 Women Scientists, Boulder, March 16
by Neal McBurnett 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

Thanks to the work of many people, we've finally got a head of steam up to have at least one big celebration of Wikipedia Day in Colorado, by tagging along with the great work of Maryam Zaringhalam from NY who is coming out for a 500 Women Scientists editathon on the 16th! Learn more, and sign up if you can so we get a sense for turnout, at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/women-in-stem-wiki-thon-with-500-women-scienti… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boulder/Wikipedia_Day_2019 https://www.facebook.com/events/391287854765368/ Thanks in particular to Pharos, Kevin and Abhay for stepping forward and keeping the momentum going. Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/

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