Hello all!
As a reminder, it's time to submit your nomination and submission for
*WikidataCon
2021*.
During last *WikidataCon* in Berlin, *WikiProject India* had won the *Community
Building award*. This time to you can nominate your favorite Wikidata
projects for the community awards. It can be any tools, WikiProjects,
events, initiatives. Feel free to add anything you like before 10th of
October.[1]
We have seen many cool gadgets/tools that have been created/developed by
the community which are very useful for the community members for editing
and interacting with Wikidata. I believe many community members are
interested in discovering new gadgets and scripts during this WD
conference. So if you are a tool developer or experienced tool user you are
invited to submit a proposal for a presentation for WikidataCon 2021. If
you are interested, you can find information about how to submit a session
proposal at [2], and you can access the submission form here at [3].
And finally you can also create birthday presents 🎁 for Wikidata’s ninth
anniversary! You can prepare a present, with a team or on your own, and
present it during the birthday presents lightning talks session. If you
would like to book a slot, make sure to fill in this form before October
16th.[4]
[1]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Contribute/Communit…
[2]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikidataCon_2021/Program/Day_2_and_3…
[3] https://pretalx.com/wdcon21/submit/fJyHGM/info/
[4] https://wolke.wikimedia.de/index.php/apps/forms/fDNqML83gPE2kZnt
Regards,
Jinoy
User:Gnoeee
(On behalf of WikidataCon 2021)
Dear Wikimedians,
I am reaching out to you in regarding the Movement Charting Drafting
Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee>setup
and to have a selector on behalf of the South Asian region (SAARC).
Although the representatives of the region's affiliates have been notified
in advance, I would like, upon requests, to extend the information to the
community that the decision on the selector from South Asia should be made
by *10 October*.
In order to help make a decision, a meeting has been proposed on *October
9, 2021, *to be facilitated by Wikimedia Bangladesh, during which we hope
that decision will be reached. More details about the meeting and the
process are on the *SAARC selection page*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Affiliates_by_Region/SAARC>
on Meta.
The chosen selector will be one of 9 selectors who will select, on behalf
of affiliates, six members of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candida…>.
The process is an opportunity to take part in choosing the members of the
committee, who will be responsible for writing a governance document that
is expected to be of much importance to affiliates and for the Wikimedia
Movement's future.
Please note that this announcement is regarding a process that is *limited
to Wikimedia affiliates (only local user groups and chapters*). The
wikiproject communities will be able to cast their votes for the Movement
Charter's Drafting Committee through a separate election process that will
open on 11 October.
Apologies if this information comes a bit late. Please feel free to share
around in the relevant spaces, and let me know if there's anything I can
help with.
All the best,
Abbad.
--
Knowledge Management Coordinator
Strategy Team
Hello,
From today, WLM India team will start the review process of the
photographs submitted
in the competition
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Monument…>.
There was a delay of 6 days in initiating the review process because the
judging tool which we use, had some major issues and was not allowing us to
log in the tool. The developers had rolled out few fixes and the tool is
working now.
Like previous years, the organizers will review first 2-3 rounds to filter
out images with obvious issues like out of scope, presence of watermarks or
timestamp, bad tilt, blurry images, over-processed images etc and then
forward the filtered images to the jury members who will take another 2-3
rounds to finish the review and declare results. As we have started a week
late to review, we might finish a week late compared to previous years.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(On behalf of WLM India 2021 team)