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Last day for voting on the Community Wishlist Survey 2022
by Gaurav Vaidya 10 Feb '22

10 Feb '22

Hi everybody! I wanted to send out a reminder that voting on the Community Wishlist Survey 2022 [1] will end tomorrow, Feb 11 at 18:00 UTC (1pm ET). You can find the list of all 325 proposals on Meta [2]. Cheers, Gaurav [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Proposals <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Proposals>

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North Carolina Wikipedians meeting THIS THURSDAY, 2/3, at 5:30pm
by E.S. Jack 03 Feb '22

03 Feb '22

Hi North Carolina Wikipedians! We'll meet this Thursday, Feb. 3, at 5:30p.m. Zoom link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/95351705226 We'll discuss the Board of Trustee elections and our spring photo project. Please send along any other agenda items you have! Emily

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NC Wikipedians: meeting notes, upcoming meetings
by E.S. Jack 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

Hello fellow NC Wikipedians! I hope you're all healthy and safe. Notes from our January meeting are available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/Monthly-Meeting#… Of particular note, we're planning a statewide, asynchronous photo project, hopefully for this spring. Our goal will be to improve coverage of state parks and historic sites across North Carolina. We'll discuss at our upcoming meetings. Speaking of which... based on what I've heard, our existing meeting timing is still the best option we have, so we'll stick with it for now. Our future meetings will be held at the following days and times. (All are Thursdays.) - February 3, 5:30 p.m. - March 3, 7:00 p.m. - April 7, 5:30 p.m. - May 5, 7:00 p.m. - June 2, 5:30 p.m. Zoom links will be forthcoming. Hope to see you all soon! Emily

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NC Wikipedians user group meeting Thursday at 7pm
by E.S. Jack 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Happy new year, fellow NC Wikipedians! We have a meeting scheduled for this *Thursday, January 6, at 7pm*. Zoom info copied below. Also, I'll be scheduling future meetings soon and wanted to ask about availability. I know there are a number of folks in the group whose availability changes with the academic calendar. Now that we're in a new semester, has anyone had a change of availability? Days/times you couldn't meet before but can now? Or days/times that were available that are no longer so? If so, please send me a message off list. If there are enough people with changes, we may do another meeting time poll. Otherwise, I'll stick with our Thursday time, alternating between 5:30 and 7:00pm. I hope to see some of you on Thursday! Emily -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emily Jack (she/her) is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: NC Wikipedians user group Time: Jan 6, 2022 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://unc.zoom.us/j/94520349941 Meeting ID: 945 2034 9941 One tap mobile +13126266799,,94520349941# US (Chicago) +19294362866,,94520349941# US (New York) Dial by your location +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 929 436 2866 US (New York) +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 945 2034 9941 Find your local number: https://unc.zoom.us/u/aeq6iql2i2

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Meeting this Thursday, 7pm
by E.S. Jack 08 Dec '21

08 Dec '21

Hello fellow NC Wikipedians! This Thursday is our last meeting of 2021. We'll meet *Thursday, Dec. 2, at 7pm* via Zoom. Link here: https://unc.zoom.us/j/91532002354 I've started an agenda -- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Wikipedians/Monthly-Meeting#… -- please add to it! Looking forward to talking to you then! Emily

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Thursday meeting CANCELED
by E.S. Jack 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

Hello NC Wikipedians! We were scheduled to have our monthly meeting this Thursday, but unfortunately I have to cancel. We'll meet again next month, on* Dec. 2*. at *7:00 p.m*. In the meantime, please feel free to send me agenda items you'd like to discuss at that meeting. Cheers, Emily

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Fwd: [Wikimediaus-l] REMINDER: Voting for Movement Charter Drafting Committee open until October 24, 2021
by Pharos 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Andrew Lih <andrew(a)andrewlih.com> Date: Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 3:25 PM Subject: [Wikimediaus-l] REMINDER: Voting for Movement Charter Drafting Committee open until October 24, 2021 To: Wikimedians Active in Local Regions of the United States (WALRUS) < wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> REMINDER Community voting to fill 7 of the 15 seats of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) is open and runs until the end of Sunday, October 24, 2021. This is a very important group that will help draft a charter for the Wikimedia Movement that will undergo community feedback and eventual ratification. BASICS Basic information about the MCDC is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee An "election compass" was created as a Q&A system to help voters evaluate how well the candidate's views matched their own. That official site is here: https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/ Voting happens with single transferable vote (SVT) using SecurePoll here until October 24: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Electio… ADDENDUM That is the base information. However, I am including more practical knowledge and wisdom from various sources. Why? There are 70 candidates for 7 seats. If that sounds daunting, you are correct. There has been widespread concern that the average voter cannot meaningfully evaluate the candidates. Therefore, here are some of the best practices and resources so far. These are all publicly available tools and content, but I am highlighting them here for the benefit of the community. - A table of all the candidates, locales, languages, and basic information. This was gleaned from the original candidate statements but is more easily viewable (and sortable) in table form. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candida… - Browse the full election compass results with this tool (full disclosure, it was created by one of the candidates, but it faithfully reports the compass answers in a different format). I would recommend browsing all the questions, but these specifically show the widest range of responses: 1, 6, 11, 24, 34, 45, 92 https://krehel.sk/Candidates_Drafting_Committee_Movement_Charter_Statements/ - A user perspective of how to navigate the election process from longtime Wikimedian Lodewijk Gelauff, posted on Facebook and publicly readable even without an account. https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediaweekly/posts/4382804991767298/ Regards, - Andrew (User:Fuzheado) _______________________________________________ Wikimediaus-l mailing list -- wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikimediaus-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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Movement strategy process
by E.S. Jack 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

Hi everyone -- I tried to send this message last night, but it disappeared into the ether. That means that what was once time-sensitive is now in the urgent category. There's also a lightning talk about this this afternoon in the 5:15 hour at WikiConference North America. *** Hello everyone, Thanks to everyone who was able to attend our meeting yesterday. If you weren't able, we hope to see you next month at our November meeting. Yesterday we discussed where things stand with the movement strategy process, and I didn't do a great job of explaining it. I just attended an info session with Xeno from the Wikimedia Foundation to learn more about this. The long and the short of it is this: - Members of the global Wikimedia movement have been collectively crafting a movement strategy for years. (You can learn more about that here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…> if you're curious.) - The next big step is drafting the movement charter, a process that will be done by a committee. But first! The movement charter committee must be elected. - The affiliates from each region will put forward one selector, and those selectors will vote on the charter committee members. The regions are big -- our region is North America (which, for the purposes of this process is defined as the US and Canada). So all of the US and Canada will choose just one selector, and that selector will work with the selectors from all the other regions to vote on the members of the movement charter committee. Did you get all that? It's a pretty elaborate process, and I've found it confusing until just now, meeting with Xeno. You can think of the selectors as the electoral college. We, the North Carolina Wikipedians, have to work with all the other affiliate groups across the US and Canada to choose *one* person to send to this electoral college. And the deadline is Monday. Oh, and nobody yet has self-nominated to be that selector! So! Here's what I'd like to know: - First, would anyone from our group like to nominate themselves to be a selector? I believe this would be a 5-10 hour commitment. The selector would read the bios of all 70 candidates <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candida…>, and then vote for the 13 they think would do the best job according to the priorities of the North American affiliate groups. Because nobody has self-nominated, there's a good chance that anyone self-nominating would end up as the selector representing all of the US and Canada. (But no pressure. 😉 ) - Second, whoever the selector ends up being, it would be great to tell them what our values are as a user group. If anyone has the time and the inclination to look at this list of "compass statements" <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Electio…> and respond to this message with what they think is important, I'll gather that info and add it to this talk page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter/Affiliates_by_Region/…> on behalf of our group. If you're inclined to do either of the above, please do so sometime this weekend -- the window closes soon! And let me know if anyone has questions! Emily

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WALRUS meeting tonight at 9pm, for anyone interested in the movement charter process
by E.S. Jack 11 Oct '21

11 Oct '21

... but no obligation to attend if you're not interested. I'm planning to attend and will report back. Emily ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Richard Knipel <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 10:46 AM Subject: Invitation: WALRUS/Canada Special Meeting for Movement Charter Drafti... @ Mon Oct 11, 2021 9pm - 10pm (EDT) (emilysjack(a)gmail.com) To: <emilysjack(a)gmail.com> *You have been invited to the following event.* WALRUS/Canada Special Meeting for Movement Charter Drafting Committee NA selector deadline on Oct 13 *When* Mon Oct 11, 2021 9pm – 10pm Eastern Time - New York *Where* https://meet.google.com/imo-xryg-dgr (map <https://www.google.com/maps/search/https:%2F%2Fmeet.google.com%2Fimo-xryg-d…> ) *Joining info* Join with Google Meet meet.google.com/nmn-jgpo-urf <https://meet.google.com/nmn-jgpo-urf?hs=224> Join by phone (US) +1 513-666-7224 <+1-513-666-7224;798231387#> (PIN: 798231387) More phone numbers <https://tel.meet/nmn-jgpo-urf?pin=6296180887465&hs=0> *Calendar* emilysjack(a)gmail.com *Who* (Guest list has been hidden at organizer's request) more details » <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NW1ybzl1YmU2b21w…> Dear Wikimedia US (WALRUS) and Wikimedia Canada folks: You are invited to a special meeting for North American (NA) affiliates on Monday, October 11, 2021, 9 pm Eastern/6 pm Western to discuss quick action that is needed by October 13. Short version: The NA affiliates must choose a "selector" that will help select individuals for the 15-person Movement Charter Drafting Committee (MCDC) – this is after 7 seats have been filled by community voting and 2 determined by the WMF. The original deadline for NA's selector was October 10, but because of some process shortcomings, we have been granted an extension to October 13 in order to gather nominations (self or otherwise) and have affiliates vote. We are proposing a very quick special process for choosing this selector. This call will be used to make the North American community more aware of this and to field any questions or feedback. Please join if you can for your input and questions, especially those in affiliate leadership. If you cannot join, we will also try to have all the details on the wiki and talk pages. We are asking affiliates to be prepared to make a decision by Wednesday, October 13, 2021. To join the video meeting: https://meet.google.com/imo-xryg-dgr Join by phone, dial +1 904-900-0446 and enter PIN: 406 876 667# To view more phone numbers: https://tel.meet/imo-xryg-dgr?hs=5 Thanks, On behalf of a group of Wikiconference North America organizers The specific North America process is here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Affiliates_by_Region/North_ America <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMove…> More information on the general MCDC process can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Set_Up_ Process <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMove…> Note: Latin American and Caribbean have another process, so this call is focused on US/Canada. -Andrew User:Fuzheado Going (emilysjack(a)gmail.com)? *Yes <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=RESPOND&eid=NW1ybzl1YmU2b…> - Maybe <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=RESPOND&eid=NW1ybzl1YmU2b…> - No <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=RESPOND&eid=NW1ybzl1YmU2b…>* more options » <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NW1ybzl1YmU2b21w…> Invitation from Google Calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/> You are receiving this email at the account emilysjack(a)gmail.com because you are subscribed for invitations on calendar emilysjack(a)gmail.com. To stop receiving these emails, please log in to https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ and change your notification settings for this calendar. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer and be added to the guest list, or invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or to modify your RSVP. Learn More <https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding>.

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Movement strategy process
by E.S. Jack 09 Oct '21

09 Oct '21

Hello everyone, Thanks to everyone who was able to attend our meeting yesterday. If you weren't able, we hope to see you next month at our November meeting. Yesterday we discussed where things stand with the movement strategy process, and I didn't do a great job of explaining it. I just attended an info session with Xeno from the Wikimedia Foundation to learn more about this. The long and the short of it is this: - Members of the global Wikimedia movement have been collectively crafting a movement strategy for years. (You can learn more about that here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…> if you're curious.) - The next big step is drafting the movement charter, a process that will be done by a committee. But first! The movement charter committee must be elected. - The affiliates from each region will put forward one selector, and those selectors will vote on the charter committee members. The regions are big -- our region is North America (which, for the purposes of this process is defined as the US and Canada). So all of the US and Canada will choose just one selector, and that selector will work with the selectors from all the other regions to vote on the members of the movement charter committee. Did you get all that? It's a pretty elaborate process, and I've found it confusing until just now, meeting with Xeno. You can think of the selectors as the electoral college. We, the North Carolina Wikipedians, have to work with all the other affiliate groups across the US and Canada to choose *one* person to send to this electoral college. And the deadline is Monday. Oh, and nobody yet has self-nominated to be that selector! So! Here's what I'd like to know: - First, would anyone from our group like to nominate themselves to be a selector? I believe this would be a 5-10 hour commitment. The selector would read the bios of all 70 candidates <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candida…>, and then vote for the 13 they think would do the best job according to the priorities of the North American affiliate groups. Because nobody has self-nominated, there's a good chance that anyone self-nominating would end up as the selector representing all of the US and Canada. (But no pressure. 😉 ) - Second, whoever the selector ends up being, it would be great to tell them what our values are as a user group. If anyone has the time and the inclination to look at this list of "compass statements" <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Electio…> and respond to this message with what they think is important, I'll gather that info and add it to this talk page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter/Affiliates_by_Region/…> on behalf of our group. If you're inclined to do either of the above, please do so sometime this weekend -- the window closes soon! And let me know if anyone has questions! Emily

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