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Next meeting: 1/26 at 7pm
by E.S. Jack 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Hey Wikipedian friends! We'll meet next Thursday, 1/26, at 7pm, at this Zoom link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/99430814205 On the agenda: thinking ahead to the coming year, and anything else that's on your minds. Hope to see you then! Emily

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Annual report + meeting on 1/26 + are you eligible to vote?
by E.S. Jack 05 Jan '23

05 Jan '23

Happy new year, NC Wikipedian friends! I hope the year is off to a great start for all of you. First, my deep, deep gratitude to Morgan for taking the lead on getting our annual report together. You can see a draft here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/reports#2021 If you have any additions to make, this is your last call. I'm going to submit it on Friday (1/6). Thanks for your patience with our meeting hiatus while I go through a long, exhausting move back into my house. As a reminder, we'll meet again on Thursday, January 26, at 7pm. Zoom link forthcoming. In the meantime, feel free to email with any news, updates, questions, or concerns. I have one update about the Universal Code of Conduct <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct>. A vote is coming up from 1/17 to 1/31 to ratify the proposed enforcement guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct. (The guidelines prescribe the actions that are taken when community members violate the Universal Code of Conduct.) All community members, and members of affiliates (that's you!) are invited to vote. Mervat Salman, WMF Movement Strategy and Governance Facilitator, sent a message, looking for the user names of members of our group who may be eligible to vote based on their membership in the North Carolina Wikipedians. (Mervat's message is copied below, and you can find the list of voting criteria for affiliate members here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Revised_enforceme…> .) You may be eligible to vote based on your # of edits and community standing. You can determine that using the account eligibility tool <https://meta.toolforge.org/accounteligibility/63>. If you are not eligible based on those factors (e.g. you don't have enough edits), and are interested in voting, and are a member of the user group, please send me your user name *by tomorrow* and I will pass it along to Mervat. (Sorry for the late notice. Hopefully they'll grant us a little leeway if we send those names a wee bit late!) Let me know if you have any questions! Cheers, Emily --- --- --- --- Hello Wikimedia Affiliates; We want to update Wikimedia movement affiliates on the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct, one of the recommendations of the Movement Strategy process that many of you are familiar with. Recently, the UCoC enforcement guidelines have been updated to reflect the feedback that the community provided during the consultation period earlier this year. Now, the final ratification is due. All community and affiliate members are invited to vote from 17 January 2023 until 31 January 2023 23:59:59 (UTC) via SecurePoll . Members of affiliates might be eligible to vote even if they do not meet other criteria. Please review the voter eligibility criteria <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Revised_enforceme…> and share this information with your membership. Your membership can also verify their individual eligibility using the Account Eligibility Tool <https://meta.toolforge.org/accounteligibility/63>. These criteria are the same as those used for the recent Board of Trustees election. Please reply to this email with the list of usernames who should be eligible to vote by January 5, 2023. There is no need to include people who are eligible under the other voter eligibility criteria. We will update Affiliates in January with more information on the upcoming vote, Thank you for your time, and your cooperation is appreciated. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. On behalf of the Trust & Safety - UCoC Team *Mervat Salman (She/Her)* Movement Strategy and Governance Facilitator

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Checking in + annual report
by E.S. Jack 19 Dec '22

19 Dec '22

Hello Wiki friends! I've been in the midst of a very strange and busy season. A house project that was supposed to last just the month of September is finally wrapping up and has become all-consuming. The month of December has pretty much slipped through my fingers. So! Our meeting hiatus is going to last until January. I propose we meet again on Thursday, January 26, at 7pm. Please let me know if you'd like to attend but have any conflicts or concerns. In the meantime, we are still behind on our annual reporting, and now have a make-or-break deadline to submit by the end of the month (or else we become un-user-grouped). If you have activities to submit or are willing to jump in there and make any additions, please do! The link is here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/reports#2021> and I put in some placeholders a while back. Note that the reporting dates are May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2022, so the photo project will go in *next* year's report. I look forward to reconnecting in the new year. In the meantime, wishing you all safe and happy holidays! Emily

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Fwd: [Commons-l] Voting open in the sixteenth annual Picture of the Year contest
by Gaurav Vaidya 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

Voting is now open in the 16th annual Picture of the Year contest on the Wikimedia Commons! Cheers, Gaurav > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Kunal Mehta <legoktm(a)debian.org> > Subject: [Commons-l] Voting open in the sixteenth annual Picture of the Year contest > Date: November 13, 2022 at 9:16:24 PM EST > To: wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Reply-To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > Hi all, > > Voting is now open in the sixteenth annual Picture of the Year contest: <https://w.wiki/5xRn> - please vote! The first round of voting will be open for 2 weeks. > > Any user with more than 75 edits before Jan. 1, 2022 is eligible to vote; if you're not sure the voting tool will automatically check for you. > > If you have any questions, please see the help page: <https://w.wiki/5xSZ>. > > P.S. You may notice this is the 2021 edition, we fell behind on starting the contest. We can always use more volunteers to help, please let us know if you're interested in helping in the future. > > Thanks, > -- POTY Committee > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list -- commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to commons-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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NC Wikipedians check-in & November plans
by E.S. Jack 12 Nov '22

12 Nov '22

Hello NC Wiki friends! I'm staring down a particularly busy November and would like to propose that we hold off on meeting until early December. In lieu of a meeting, there are a handful of things for user group members to do in the next month -- both synchronously and asynchronously. - First, don't forget that *Wikiconference North America <https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2022/Main_Page> is coming up* the weekend of Nov. 11-12. This is "the annual conference of Wikimedia enthusiasts and volunteers from throughout North America, including Canada, the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean." This year's event is free and online. I encourage you to attend if you're interested! - Second, *we are late in creating our 2021 annual report!* Don't let that keep you up at night; we're always late with our annual reports. Nevertheless, staying current with reporting is an important part of our remaining compliant -- and therefore existent -- as a user group. If you participated in any Wiki-related activities in the reporting year May 1, 2021 to April 30, 2022, please *add them to our report <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/reports> by Nov. 15*. (This is fairly easy, and just requires copying and pasting the formatting from previous years. I've created the structure for the report so it should be super simple.) - Third, there's a ton of *photo clean-up still to be done from our spring photo campaign*. Please chip in and help! Step-by-step instructions are here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SHz0G8jS2QqAZR4MLUF6JUndpKPsB8q_NLI-AXF…>; reach out if you have questions! - Finally, at our December meeting, we'll talk about goals and projects for the 2023 calendar year. *Think about what we might work on together;* it'll be fun to discuss! I'll schedule the meeting for our typical time -- a Thursday evening at 7:00. If you'd like to attend, *let me know if certain Thursdays are better or worse for you.* Thanks for all you do! I look forward to seeing you all again soon! Emily

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Info to register for WikiConference North America
by E.S. Jack 30 Oct '22

30 Oct '22

Coincidentally, this just came through! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kevin Payravi <kevinpayravi(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 5:03 PM Subject: WikiConference NA 2022 - Registration now open! To: info <info(a)wikiconference.org> Hello, Thank you for attending WikiConference North America 2021 last year! WikiConference North America 2022 <https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2022/Main_Page> is happening virtually November 11-13, held jointly with OpenStreetMap US's Mapping USA <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Events/Mapping_USA/2022>. Our theme this year is open knowledge allies. Registration is now open here <https://pretix.eu/openstreetmapus/wcna-mappingusa/>! Please register by the 10th so that we can set everyone up online on our platform. Like last year, we are planning on using Hopin. Our schedule is currently being finalized and should be available in the next few days. We have an exciting line-up of sessions related to Wikimedia, OpenStreetMap, and the intersection of the two projects. Stay tuned! Local meet-ups are also being organized in Indianapolis and New York City - if you're interested in attending either of these, you can find more details here <https://wikiconference.org/wiki/2022/Local_Events>. If you want to connect with other participants or have questions, please join us in our Telegram channel here <https://t.me/+vG-v8DpF9dI5MDc5>. This is the last email we'll be sending to WikiConference North America 2021 participants. Please register to continue receiving 2022 updates. On behalf of the WCNA organizing team, Kevin Payravi (aka SuperHamster)

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Next meeting 10/13 AND photo clean-up
by E.S. Jack 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

Dear NC Wikipedian friends, Mark your calendar: We'll have our next meeting on Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7pm. Zoom link and agenda to come. Also! It's time for some fun asynchronous photo editing. At our last meeting we spent some time looking at the 564 photos (!!!) that were uploaded to Commons during the WikiPixNC photo campaign. There's a bit of cleanup to do for each photo, and we decided that we'll work on them asynchronously as we're able. You can find the instructions for doing that in this Google doc <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SHz0G8jS2QqAZR4MLUF6JUndpKPsB8q_NLI-AXF…>. If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask! (And thanks to Gaurav for making this inspiring spreadsheet!) See y'all in a few weeks! Emily

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Fwd: [Commons-l] Have you heard? The sound logo contest launches on September 13
by Gaurav Vaidya 12 Sep '22

12 Sep '22

Begin forwarded message: > From: Mehrdad Pourzaki <mpourzaki(a)wikimedia.org> > Date: September 12, 2022 at 2:31:57 PM EDT > To: commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Commons-l] Have you heard? The sound logo contest launches on September 13 > Reply-To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Hi everyone, > > Tomorrow is the launch of the Wikimedia sound logo contest and we couldn’t be more excited. We'll be in session soon and accepting submissions. > > On behalf of the organizing team and community liaisons, we are grateful to Commons community members and others who participated in the different phases of this project – from an initial concept exploration to a contest proposal – providing us with valuable guidance to help shape an open, global contest. With so much expertise in international photography contests and visual logo searches in the movement, we are curious to learn how sound and audio production will play out for us, in harmony with our values. > > This is just a heads up and a thank you note. More information to come. We'd love to welcome scores of submissions from around the world, so please help the contest call vibrate through your networks. And of course, submit one yourself. There are free and open source tools that can help us capture sound and create that unique sound logo for our movement. And you don't have to be pitch perfect, we'll be having an audio production drop-in clinic with our expert partner MassiveMusic on 29 September @ 15:00 UTC. We'd love to hear from you. > > Ok, I think I have included enough sound-related puns in this email. Wishing you all well and once again, a heartfelt thank you. > > On behalf of the sound logo team, > Mehrdad > > > > Mehrdad Pourzaki > Lead Movement Communications Specialist > wikimediafoundation.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Commons-l mailing list -- commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to commons-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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Meeting next Thursday + Board of Trustees election
by E.S. Jack 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

Hey NC Wikipedian friends! First, just a reminder about our meeting on *Thursday, Sept. 8, at 7pm*. We'll open with some brief updates, talk about the N&O article <https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article263366173.html>, and spend some time working through the photos submitted during WikiPixNC. Zoom link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/96140241835 I'll send another reminder this week. Second, voting for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is ongoing. We voted as a user group, but I wanted to remind you that eligible community members are also invited (and encouraged) to help choose the best candidates for the role. Voting is open until *Tuesday, September 6 at 7:59 p.m. *Here's the link to verify your eligibility and vote <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Communi…>. Please let me know if you have any questions about the election. I hope you all have a lovely (hopefully long) weekend! Emily

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Next meeting 8/25, 7pm
by E.S. Jack 23 Aug '22

23 Aug '22

Hey NC Wikipedians! Last night's meeting was a fun one -- we got to connect remotely to a biergarden hangout with members of the NYC chapter. Mark your calendars: Our next meeting will take place on *Thursday, August 25, at 7pm.* This will also be a fun one: We'll use it as a working session to review the photos that were submitted during WikiPixNC and take care of some other event follow-ups (including sending user page messages to photo submitters). If you love editing with groups of people, this one's for you! Zoom link to come. Emily

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