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Dear Wikimedians of India,
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met last week to decide on a
plan for the 2021 Board elections. The Board Governance Committee created a
proposal based on the report of Call for Feedback about Community Board
Seats
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Boa…>[1].
The
full proposal
<https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/8/83/BGC_Community_Truste…>[2]
is available on Foundation Wiki. The Board wants to thank the more than 800
volunteers that participated in the Call for Feedback in one way or
another. It has been very difficult to decide on every open question
considering the quantity and diversity of opinions received. We hope this
resolution feels sensible to everybody.
The summary of the proposal is as follows:
1. The Board drafts a call for candidates that includes details about
the skills and experience that are currently represented on the Board
(excluding trustees whose terms are expiring) and that the Board would like
the selected trustees to have.
2. The Foundation devotes resources to informing communities of the
trustee selection process and encouraging people from emerging and
underrepresented communities to run as candidates.
3. As part of their self-nomination process, candidates fill out the
trustee evaluation form.
4. The Foundation continues to devote resources to invite communities to
participate in the selection process by engaging candidates during the
campaign period and by voting.
5. Community members vote and their votes are counted using a *proportional
voting system* chosen by the Elections Committee.
6. The Foundation conducts the usual vetting of the selected candidates
(background check and communications review).
7. The Board appoints the selected candidates for whom the vetting
process did not reveal any significant issues.
This proposal does not suggest implementing quotas or hard requirements for
candidate skills or experience for the 2021 round of community trustee
selection. Instead, it relies on the more detailed information from the
Board in the call for feedback, the community outreach efforts, and the
proportional voting system to meet the Board’s needs in terms of skills and
diversity. However, it also contemplates potentially adding or changing
elements to the process for future rounds of trustee selection, based on an
assessment of the effectiveness this first time.
The draft timeline is as follows:
1. April 15: Board meets to consider and approve this proposal
2. April - May: Elections Committee and staff plan the details of the
selection process
3. June 1-2: Board meets and approves the call for candidates
4. June 8 - 29: Call for candidates; candidate outreach
5. June 29 - July 20: Candidates campaign and answer questions;
community outreach
6. July 20 - August 3: Voting; community outreach
7. August 3 - 10: Vote counting and processing
8. August 10 - 24: Foundation vetting of selected candidates
9. August / September: Board appoints selected candidates
*(tentative only, subject to change)*
Please go through the full proposal[2] for further details, and let me know
if you have any questions. In the upcoming days, the Board elections
facilitation team will share their ideas to support candidates and voters.
Best,
Krishna Chaitanya
[1] Call for Feedback report:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Boa…
[2] Full proposal:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/8/83/BGC_Community_Truste…
Hello Wikimedians,
We are all passing through a very difficult time as the second wave of
COVID-19 has hit hard throughout the country. It is a bitter and hard truth
that many of us have lost our loved ones, close friends, relatives,
neighbours already. Some of us have faced economic difficulties due to loss
of jobs, losses in businesses, huge hospitalization expenses etc.
In the midst of this crisis, a support program has been initiated to
provide some reliefs to our Wikimedia volunteers residing in India. The
program will support the following -
1. Reimbursement of vaccination costs
2. Sending of COVID-19 protection kits
3. Counseling by experts
The support will be provided by CIS-A2K. The vaccination expenses will be
reimbursed from as early as today or tomorrow. The COVID-19 protection kits
will get couriered within a week or more, depending on various logistical
factors. The team will try to support the more vulnerable section of the
community first.
Volunteers are requested to fill up this Google Form to request for support
-
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYcjEeuT7vUxP3NJg7KfIiZaude9IXLyC…
Please note that all your personal raw information will be kept private and
will not be shared publicly with anybody. Only the persons from CIS-A2K who
will be sending you the support will get access to your information to
process your request. After 120 days of processing, your raw information
will be deleted or aggregated.
If you do not need this kind of support but you know some volunteers from
your community who are in dire need, you can nominate them too through this
form or mail the support team directly. Affiliate contacts and community
leaders are also kindly requested to help identify the volunteers who need
the support the most.
You can find more details about the support program here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_support_for_Wikimedians/India
The support team would also like to emphasise that,
- there might be some delay in sending support as there are lockdowns in
different parts of the country and there is scarcity or non-availability of
different items in the market,
- there might be some unintentional or unexpected errors from the team,
as this is the first time, this kind of support is being set up for Indian
Wikimedia volunteers and the team does not have prior experience to deal
with this kind of global health situation before,
- the team members are also facing the same critical situation like
everyone else; there are possibilities that they can become sick sooner or
later, which might hamper the support to some extent.
That's why, the team would like to request you to understand the
limitations and assume good faith that any failure to serve sometimes would
be due to situations beyond control.
If you want to contact us directly for any questions, concerns,
suggestions, help etc. you can mail us directly at wmwm(a)cis-india.org .
Let's join hands to overcome this situation.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
On behalf of COVID-19 support team
The CAC meeting is on 13 May. Please read details below.
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Date: শুক্র, ৩০ এপ্রিল, ২০২১ ২:১৬ AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] First Community Affairs Committee office hour on May
13
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello, everyone.
TLDR:
The Board of Trustees’ Community Affairs Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Comm…>
(CAC) is hosting its first office hour on May 13, 2021 at 19:00 UTC (check
for your local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1620928828>)!
Now in more details:
What are we announcing?
The CAC is a new Board of Trustees
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees>
committee established to assess, explore and address current and future
community-related efforts. The Committee's Charter
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Affairs_Committee_Charter>
lists its full responsibilities, with the first 3 being a priority for this
coming year.
As part of our commitment to foster better communications with the
Wikimedia Movement Community, and based on feedback received from community
members requesting more availability from the Board of Trustees, the CAC
will be hosting its first Office hours.
When & Where?
The Office hours will be held on May 13 2021, at 19:00 UTC (check for your
local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1620928828>) via Zoom. At least
3 Trustees, as well as relevant WMF staff will be in attendance. The
session will be streamed live and recorded, so those who cannot participate
live will be able to watch later.
How will it work?
The meeting will last for 60 minutes and an additional 30 minutes of an
“open room”. The first 60 minutes will be divided into 45 minutes of
structured Q & A (based on either updates from the CAC and questions sent
by the community in advance). The final 15 minutes will be in the “ask us
anything” format, with live participation. We will be monitoring live
YouTube, Wikipedia Weekly Facebook group
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/553393111375191> and the Wikimedia General
Chat Telegram group <https://t.me/WikimediaGeneral> and the talk page on
Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Comm…>.
The structure is meant to enable the CAC to not only update the community
on current matters the Board is working on, but also hear directly from the
community, which will help inform the Committee’s future work.
Setting the agenda with your Questions
In order to be as efficient as possible, and since we anticipate that some
questions will require answers from WMF Staff, we are encouraging community
members to send questions in advance. Please send all questions to
askcac(a)wikimedia.org, by Friday, May 7th (midnight, whatever time zone you
may be in). The office hour agenda will be based on the main topics related
to the questions received. We will share this agenda on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Comm…>
on May 12, including final names of Trustees in attendance.
How to register?
For security reasons and specifically to avoid Zoombombing
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoombombing>, we will be sending the Zoom
link only to people who have registered in advance close to the meeting. In
order to register, please send an email to askcac(a)wikimedia.org, indicating
your name, username, affiliation if you have any. The title should be:
“Registration for the May 13th CAC Office Hours”.
Please note --
-
This is the first time that the Board is attempting something of the
sort. This is an experiment. We’ll see how it goes - how many people are
interested in attending, timing, translation needs etc -- and make
decisions about future meetings / changes to format accordingly.
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The session will be moderated based on the Universal Code of Conduct
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct>
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Universally blocked users will not be allowed in the room, but can still
participate by watching live and sending questions in real-time.
Please help us spread the word by sharing this message with your local /
online communities.
Hoping to see as many of you as possible,
Shani Evenstein Sigalov
Chair, Community Affairs Committee
Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation.
Shani Evenstein Sigalov
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/>
Board of Trustees
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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Sunday's (April 25, 2020) Wikipedia Weekends* session organized by the
Wikimedians of Goa User Group (WGUG) was a good one, with fair
participation, and quite a few first-time volunteers participating. We
could try to keep the momentum on this interesting series of events. May I
suggest some suitable topics which volunteers could consider taking up?
* Photography in the Goa I knew (1960s-1980s): Lui Godinho
* Konkani Wiktionary: an overview: Denzil Simoes
* Konkani Wikipedia, the road ahead: Denzil-Fr Luis & team
* Villages of Bardez: what needs to be done: group discussion
* Villages of Ponda: the road ahead
* Women on the Wikipedia: Aliya, group discussion
* Kannada-script Konkani issues on the Wikipedia; Anup Shanbhag
* Building Goa-related photo content on the Wikimedia commons
* Wikipedia in Goa's non-English, non-Konkani languages (M, H, P...)
* Getting started on the Wikipedia (talk for newbies)
* Making small edits on the Wikipedia (practical session)
* Where I got stuck on the Wikipedia (Q&A session), etc.
* Suggest your topic here... and resubmit the list
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Are you fluent in more than one language? Are you learning some more
languages? Join this evening's webinar on Wikipedia's Content Translation
tool [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation] Today SUNDAY
APRIL 25, 2021 from 7-8 pm. Contact by WhatsApp 9822122436 with JOIN
TRANSLATION SESSION in your message. Link for this session
https://meet.google.com/dvy-yfqo-mhg
Frederick Noronha
Wikipedians of Goa User Group
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