Namaste Wikimedians,
Hope this email finds you well. As you may know, WikiConference India 2023
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2023> organizing team
is hosting regular calls with the communities to engage and involve in the
discussion.
In continuation to our previous community calls, we are planning to host
the sixth Open Community Call on 16 April 2023, (Sunday) to answer any
questions, or concerns, from the communities and give a few updates related
to the conference from our end along with current ongoing community
activities. For more details of the meeting like agenda, etherpad, and
timings, please check the Open Community Call
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2023/Open_Community_Ca…>
meta page.
Please add the following to your respective calendars and we look forward
to seeing you on the call.
[WCI 2023] Open Community Call
Date: 16 April 2023
Time: 1800-1900 [6 pm to 7 pm] (IST)
Google Link: https://meet.google.com/ubk-ugun-qzu
Please join the General Chat telegram group <https://t.me/+X9RLByiOxpAyNDZl>
to share your ideas, thoughts, inputs, suggestions, or questions.
Alternatively, you can also leave us a message on the Conference talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2023>.
Look forward to connecting with you all,
Thank you!
On Behalf of,
WCI 2023 Organizing team.
Apologies for crossposting, but we want to make sure that regional
communities get a chance to participate!
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From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 1:35 PM
Subject: Join the #WikiForHumanRights Launch Webinar on April 18
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi Wikimedians,
As we approach Earth Day (April 22) next week, I wanted to remind you about
how you can contribute to the #WikiForHumanRights Campaign.
Each year we partner with the UN Human Rights and UN Environmental program,
to focus on the key issues related to the human impacts of the global
environmental crises.
Join our launch webinar!
On 18 April at 15:00 UTC, we invite you to join the launch of this year’s
#WikiForHumanRights campaign, with a special focus on the Pollution
crisis. Register
here on Zoom
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/event/wikiforhumanrights-launch-webinar-focus-on…>
.
This panel explores how improved public knowledge, through platforms like
Wikimedia projects, can help both global and local communities better
understand and exercise their right to a clean, healthy and sustainable
environment in efforts to prevent, minimize and remedy pollution. Join
panelists Monika Stankiewicz (Executive Secretary of the Minamata
Convention on Mercury <https://mercuryconvention.org/en>), Jo Banner
(Co-Founder & Co-Director, Descendents Project
<https://www.thedescendantsproject.com/>) and Soledad Mella Vida (Asociación
Movimiento Nacional Recicladores de Chile <https://anarch.cl/>) as they
discuss how public knowledge can play an important role in protecting human
rights and the environment.
The event will include live translations in Spanish, Portuguese, French,
and Arabic.
Register here on Zoom
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/event/wikiforhumanrights-launch-webinar-focus-on…>
.
Contribute to the campaign!
The heart of every Wikimedia campaign are contributions to Wikimedia
communities. Join us in one of the actions.
-
Join the Writing Contest
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Join_the_Challenge>—
help us create local knowledge on key human rights and environmental
knowledge topics in more languages, this year the special focus is on
-
Connect with Local Communities
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Join_Community_Events>—
Join an event in your language or community
-
Join the Human Rights Interest Group
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1imdKKVlWcZ91BY6ou4t3ZzdJkBHflH2qaSUxp5CTHV…>
— advise the Wikimedia Movement on addressing human rights
-
Share the campaign with your communities! -- Help us share the campaign
with your community, by sharing the blog post on Diff:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/30/join-the-wikiforhumanrights-campaign-…
Looking forward to you joining the campaign!
The International WikiForHumanRights Team
--
Alex Stinson
Lead Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors
through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns
--
Alex Stinson
Lead Program Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation
Twitter: @sadads
Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other
Wikimedia projects create calls to action to invite new contributors
through campaigns: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Campaigns
Dear community members,
I would like to inform you all about the upcoming annual Wikimedia
Foundation fundraising campaign in India.
The fundraising campaign will have two components.
1.
We will send emails to people who have previously donated from India.
The emails are scheduled to be sent between the 2nd of May and the 1st
of June.
2.
We will run banners for non-logged in users in India on English
Wikipedia itself. The banners will run from the 30th of May until the
27th of June.
Prior to this, we are planning to run some tests in April and May, so you
might see banners for 3-5 hours a couple of times before the campaign
starts. This activity will ensure that our technical infrastructure works.
I will be in touch again in the next few weeks, to share with you a community
engagement page where we will outline more detail around the campaign,
share some banner examples, and give you space to engage with the
fundraising campaign.
I will also be hosting a community call during April (date to be confirmed)
to which you can bring your questions and suggestions.
Generally, before and during the campaign, you can contact us:
-
On the talk page of the fundraising team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising>
-
If you need to report a bug or technical issue, please create a
phabricator ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?template=1188…>
-
If you see a donor on a talk page, VRT
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Volunteer_Response_Team> or
social media having difficulties in donating, please refer them to
donate[image:
@]wikimedia.org
Thanks you and regards,
Julia
--
*Julia Brungs*
Senior Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hello Dear Wikimedians,
We hope you are doing well!
This email is regarding spreading the information on the pre-conference
activities planned by the program team members of WikiConference India
2023. As earlier notified in the previous month’s Open Community Call, we
are planning two parallel activities for communities to collaborate and
participate in the pre-conference activity from 1 April to 30 April. For
more details on pre-conference activity, please visit the dedicated meta
page at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2023/Pre-Conference_Ac…
.
For the initial engagement of different language communities and user
groups, we are having an open call on *31 March 2023 at 6 pm IST*. Please
add the following to your respective calendars and we look forward to
seeing you on the call.
[WCI 2023] Pre-Conference Activity Discussion
Date: 31 March 2023, Friday
Time: 1800-1900 [6 pm to 7 pm] (IST)
Google Link: <https://meet.google.com/yqw-uevi-uhp>
https://meet.google.com/zru-jnob-afh
If you are interested to be a part of the pre-conference activity,
join the telegram
group <https://t.me/+X9RLByiOxpAyNDZl> and share your ideas, thoughts,
inputs, suggestions, or questions. Your participation in the call and the
execution of pre-conference activities will be highly appreciated.
Together, let’s make it a fruitful engagement!
Thanks and regards,
WCI 2023 Programs team
Hello all, an important update on the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines:
The vote on the Enforcement Guidelines in January 2023 showed a majority
approval of the Enforcement Guidelines. There were 369 comments received
and a detailed summary of the comments will be published shortly. Just over
three-thousand (3097) voters voted and 76% approved of the Enforcement
Guidelines. You can view the *vote statistics on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>*
.
As the support increased, this signifies to the Board that the current
version has addressed some of the issues indicated during the last review
in 2022. The Board of Trustees voted to ratify the Enforcement Guidelines.
The resolution can be found on Foundation Wiki
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Approval_of_Universal_Code…>
and
you can read more about the process behind the 2023 Enforcement Guidelines
review on Diff
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/03/21/the-enforcement-guidelines-received-s…>
.
There are some next steps to take with the important recommendations
provided by the Enforcement Guidelines. More details will come soon about
timelines. Thank you for your interest and participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>)
Facilitator, South Asia, Movement Strategy and Governance
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance> (MSG)
Hello all,
It is planned to host an online Indic Wikisource meetup on March 25, 2023,
at 7:30 PM (IST) on behalf of the Indian Wikisource community. This online
meetup is organized to discuss and plan the coming Indic Wikisource Indic
Wikisource proofread-a-thon April 2023.
So I request that Indic Wikisource admins and active proofreaders willing
to participate in the Indic Wikisource proofreadthon please join this
meetup. This will fulfil the following things.
- Show your Wikisource Status to the all-India community.
- Share the standard practice followed by your community.
- Queries regarding Indic Wikisource Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon
April 2023.
- Suggest anything regarding the contest procedure.
- Gift and prizes.
Online Indic Wikisource meetup on March 25, 2023, - 7:30 PM (IST)
Saturday, March 25 · 19:30 – 20:30
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/qav-obyu-ezh
For details and updates, please follow the event page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Community/Online_meetup_25…
Coming Indic Wikisource proofreadthon:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_proofread-a-thon_April_2023
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
CIS-A2K
Greetings Wikimedians,
This is a reminder to inform the fifth Open Community Call which is
scheduled on 19 March 2023 (Today) will start in an hour at 6 pm to answer
any questions, concerns, or clarifications and give a few updates related
to the conference from our end.
We have also created a dedicated Meta page for Open Community Call
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2023/Open_Community_Ca…>,
where we will be sharing the details of the meeting like agenda, etherpad,
and meeting timings.
Please add the following to your respective calendars and we look forward
to seeing you on the call.
[WCI 2023] Open Community Call
Date: 19 March 2023
Time: 1800-1900 [6 pm to 7 pm] (IST)
Google Link: https://meet.google.com/yqw-uevi-uhp
If you are interested to be a part of WikiConference India 2023, join
the telegram
group <https://t.me/+X9RLByiOxpAyNDZl> and share your ideas, thoughts,
inputs, suggestions, or questions. Alternatively, you can also leave us a
message on the Conference talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2023>.
Look forward to connecting with you all!
Thank you!
On Behalf of,
WCI 2023 Core organizing team.
Namaste Wikimedians,
As you may know, we are hosting regular calls with the communities for
WikiConference
India 2023 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2023>.
This email is a reminder for the fifth Open Community Call which is
scheduled on 19 March 2023 (Today) to answer any questions, concerns, or
clarifications and give a few updates related to the conference from our
end.
We have also created a dedicated Meta page for Open Community Call
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2023/Open_Community_Ca…>,
where we will be sharing the details of the meeting like agenda, etherpad,
and meeting timings.
Please add the following to your respective calendars and we look forward
to seeing you on the call.
[WCI 2023] Open Community Call
Date: 19 March 2023
Time: 1800-1900 [6 pm to 7 pm] (IST)
Google Link: https://meet.google.com/yqw-uevi-uhp
If you are interested to be a part of WikiConference India 2023, join
the telegram
group <https://t.me/+X9RLByiOxpAyNDZl> and share your ideas, thoughts,
inputs, suggestions, or questions.
Alternatively, you can also leave us a message on the Conference talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2023>.
Look forward to connecting with you all,
Thank you!
On Behalf of,
WCI 2023 Organizing team.