Hi
Code the City (of which I am trustee) are hosting an Environment-themed hack weekend, this Saturday and Sunday.
We have a couple of proposed projects, and attendees can pitch their own. Those taking part then form teams to work on a project for the weekend.
We know that one of the team is going to be working on a major push of data to Wikidata for Household Waste Recycling Centres for both Scotland and England. Hence my sending this to the mailing list for others who might be interested in the project or in learning about using tools such as Quick Statements to add bulk data to Wikidata.
Details can be found here: https://codethecity.org/code-the-city-22-the-environment/? <https://codethecity.org/code-the-city-22-the-environment/?> and sign-ups are still open.
The event runs Saturday 09:30 to 4pm and Sunday 09:30 to 3pm approx.
Attendance is free, and it is all on Zoom, Miro (supported by Slack if needed)
Hopefully we’ll see some of you there
Ian
Ian Watt
ianwatt(a)gmail.com
Hi all
We've done a series of interviews with some great women who are closing the
gender gap on Wikipedia and its sister projects for Women's History Month.
They'll be released every Monday in March at 4pm on our YouTube.
First up is Kira Wisniewski, Executive Director at Art+Feminism, going live
here <https://youtu.be/F4DQnwnFrqM>. Then we'll have Rebecca O'Neill from
Wikimedia Community Ireland, Victoria Leonard from the Women's Classics
Committee, Alice White our Wikimedian in Residence at the Wellcome Trust,
and finally Lucy to round up the month and Wikimedia UK's activities.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend in the sunshine.
Best wishes
Katie
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Katie Crampton (she/her)
Communications & Governance Coordinator
<https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/>
Wikimedia UK <https://beta.wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for
the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement.
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Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827.
Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London
SE1 0NZ
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Good morning all,
I recently sent out the annual Community Leaders survey (which some of you
might know as the Volunteer survey). It's gone to all those we have listed
as leading volunteers (people who've run events, those who've supported
office work, done public speaking on behalf of WMUK, etc) and lead contacts
at partner organisations. If you think that you should have received this
but haven't, please reply off-list to me and I'll send it on.
Many thanks,
Sara
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Dr Sara Thomas
Scotland Programme Coordinator, Wikimedia UK
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikimedia_in_Scotland
*I work part time and am not in the office on Mondays. *
*Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open
knowledge movement.
<https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/>
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. (England &
Wales), SC048644 (Scotland). Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 -
11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ
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.
Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The
Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
Hi all
I'm excited to introduce George Colbourn as the newest member of the
Development and Communications team here at Wikimedia UK.
Alongside Katie Crampton in her role as Communications and Governance
Coordinator, George joins to strengthen our voluntary income approaches as
Fundraising Development Coordinator.
To find out a bit more about George's previous experience and motivation to
join us please see our newest blog
<https://blog.wikimedia.org.uk/2021/02/george-colbourn-fundraising-developme…>
.
I'm sure you will all join me in welcoming George to the team and where
possible support him as fundraising develops and grows.
Many thanks and best wishes
Natasha
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Natasha Iles MCIOF (Dip)
Head of Development & Communications
Wikimedia UK
<https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/>
*Wikimedia UK <https://beta.wikimedia.org.uk/>* is the national chapter for
the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement.
Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513.Company Limited by
Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827.
Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London
SE1 0NZ
<https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gm…>
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Dear all
I hope you are keeping well during these strange, and seemingly
interminable times...
As I'm sure some of you will have already seen, the Wikimedia Foundation
has published a call for feedback about the process for promoting and
choosing community candidates for their board of trustees:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call…
There are several ways to participate in the call, as follows:
- Discuss in the Talk page for each idea, or in this talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees…>
for
general comments
- Discuss in the Telegram group chat <https://t.me/wmboardgovernancechat>
created for this call for feedback
- Join a conversation or an online meeting
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Boa…>
near
you
I'm emailing you all firstly to make sure that you are all aware of the
call for feedback, but secondly to gauge the level of interest in
organising an online call about this, either at a UK or English Wikipedia
level (or indeed, for another relevant community). If you would personally
be interested in attending such a meeting, please do let me know.
Otherwise, I would encourage those of you with ideas about this to
contribute to one of the channels outlined above.
With best wishes
Lucy
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Lucy Crompton-Reid
Chief Executive
<https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk/>
Wikimedia UK <https://beta.wikimedia.org.uk/> is the national chapter for
the global Wikimedia open knowledge movement.
Wikimedia UK is a Registered Charity No.1144513.Company Limited by
Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827.
Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London
SE1 0NZ
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Dear all
The Wikimedia Foundation is running an Affiliate Membership survey that
they have asked me to share with Wikimedia UK members. Looking through the
questions, this feels most appropriate for active Wikimedia contributors,
rather than people who are members but don't volunteer their time. I would
therefore be grateful if those of you who tick both of these boxes felt
able to complete the survey, the deadline for which is, I believe, *Friday
29th January*.
There are two ways of taking the survey:
Anonymously, through the following link (making sure not to close your
browser until you have finished):
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e5s72QFWkLzUm8t
<https://wikimedia-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1-3kRsyecb7zLUoU…>
Or via a personalised link sent to your email address. To request this, go
to:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4UdVzTCXbnwqgcZ
The survey should take 20 - 30 minutes to complete, and you can find
the questions
asked in the survey on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Data_and_Insights_Team/Our_Reports/2…>
if you want to read/download before starting the actual survey.
Many thanks, and best wishes
Lucy
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Chief Executive
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 203 372 0762
*Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open
knowledge movement, and a registered charity. We rely on donations from
individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you
considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk
Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered
No. 6741827
Registered Charity No.1144513
Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London
SE1 0NZ
The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent
non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility
for its contents.
Hi all
Hope you had a good break, and happy new year to you all!
As many of you will know, Wikipedia turns twenty on the 15th January. We're
having a party at 5-6pm on Zoom, with a talk from Jimmy Wales and short
lightning talks from the UK community. Sign up here
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikipedias-20th-birthday-party-tickets-13291…>
if you'd like to join us.
We'll also be running a #WikiLovesCakes GBBO-style competition on
social media over the birthday weekend from the 15th - 18th January. If
you'd like to join our judging panel (no tasting required!) please let
me know. Photos of cakes will be judged on:
1) Wikipedia story or connection
2) How the panel think they will taste
3) Appearance / decoration
The Wikimedia Foundation has asked us to pass on a message about birthday
wishes from the UK: *We’d love to have Wikimedia UK and volunteers in the
UK participate in a birthday montage video that we will be presenting
during Wikipedia’s birthday party on January 15th. All you need to do is
record a short clip (under 30 seconds) via your phone or computer, saying
Happy Birthday or sharing birthday wishes to Wikipedia in your preferred
language. You can Click here <https://www.tribute.co/wikipedia/> to record
a video to be a part of Wikipedia’s birthday montage. Deadline to submit a
video is January 11th.*
Let me know if you have any questions.
Best
Katie
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Katie Crampton
She/her
Communications & Governance Coordinator
Wikimedia UK
+44 (0)203 372 0761
*Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open
knowledge movement. We rely on donations from individuals to support our
work to make knowledge open for all. Have you considered supporting
Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk
Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and
Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered
Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London SE1 0NZ
<https://maps.google.com/?q=5+-+11+Lavington+Street,+London+SE1+0NZ&entry=gm…>
.
Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The
Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
Wikipedia, amongst other projects).
*Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*
Dear all
I know some of you will have seen this announcement already but I wanted to
share it with this list to make sure everyone had done so.
The Wikimedia Foundation is launching WikiLearn (Online Learning Pilot)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/WikiLearn> and
volunteers from anywhere in the world are welcome to apply. See the email
below for more details but note the deadline of 1st January 2021.
Best wishes
Lucy
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Cassie Casares <ccasares(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 19:42
Subject: [MoveCom] New online learning courses on Building Partnerships and
Identifying and Addressing Harassment
To: <movecom(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all,
The Community Development
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development> team at the
Wikimedia Foundation is launching the WikiLearn (Online Learning Pilot)
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/WikiLearn>, a
capacity-building project. This project will deliver two courses over an
8-week period that will begin on February 1, 2021. Courses are free to take
part in and will be hosted on Moodle <https://moodle.com/>. During this
pilot project, each course will be taught, and assignments are to be
prepared, in English. At the end of the pilot, we will be making course
materials available for anyone interested in self-study, and for
translation.
The two courses we will be launching on February 1, 2021, are:
1.
Identifying and Addressing Harassment
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/WikiLearn/Identifying…>:
This course will focus on developing skills that will help volunteers
respond to on- and off-wiki harassment.
-
This course will combine scheduled sessions and independent study.
The weekly commitment of this course is 2-3 hours per week.
-
Target Audience: Volunteers with administrator or other advanced user
rights.
1.
Partnership Building:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/WikiLearn/Partnership…>
This
intensive course will provide an in-depth curriculum on how to develop
meaningful programmatic and organizational partnerships within the movement
and with external partners.
-
This course will consist of scheduled sessions and individual
assignments with a weekly total commitment of up to 6 hours.
-
Target Audience: Volunteers with intermediate-level experience
contributing to Wikimedia projects and beginner-level experience with
building partners with Non-Wikimedia groups and organizations.
To ensure our small team can provide each learner individual support, we
are limiting each course in this pilot to 40 participants. We ask that all
interested applicants commit to attending weekly for the full course.
All efforts will be made to ensure that scheduled sessions are time-zone
friendly to the greatest number of enrolled participants. However, with the
wide distribution of volunteers, that may not always be possible.
Key Dates:
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Applications open Today (December 15, 2020) and will close on January 1,
2021.
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Successful applicants will be notified on January 18, 2021.
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The first session for each course will be held on February 1, 2021.
To Take Part in the Online Learning Pilot:
To participate in the Partnership Building online course, fill out this
application form
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cYEpR0q2CoodQTX>.
To participate in the Identifying and Addressing Harassment Online course,
fill out this application form
<https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_e99EaQJPKUlhwDX>.
For more details on the Online Learning Pilot, please see our Meta page.
Feel free to ask questions on the project Talk
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Community_Development/Wik…>
page or contact us at comdev(a)wikimedia.org.
Best,
The Community Development Team
Cassie Casares
Project Coordinator
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org
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+44 (0) 203 372 0762
*Wikimedia UK* is the national chapter for the global Wikimedia open
knowledge movement, and a registered charity. We rely on donations from
individuals to support our work to make knowledge open for all. Have you
considered supporting Wikimedia? https://donate.wikimedia.org.uk
Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered
No. 6741827
Registered Charity No.1144513
Registered Office Ground Floor, Europoint, 5 - 11 Lavington Street, London
SE1 0NZ
The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate
Wikipedia, amongst other projects). Wikimedia UK is an independent
non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility
for its contents.
Hi folks
Just forwarding on an event that may be of interest to anyone looking at
issues of news literacy and open knowledge. They're trying to increase
geographic diversity (...sadly it'll be 4am in Sydney so no good for me).
Best
Simon
Wikimedians Strengthening Knowledge
and News Credibility on the Internet
https://www.wikicred.org
Hi everyone,
Join us, Wikimedians, and other journalists, professionals, academics from
the credibility space for the second WikiCred Demo Hour on Tuesday,
December 1st at 12 pm EST / 5 pm UTC.
Here's the event agenda
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Blz4OAXypJe8yqMHFt4nQDufan2ZcmTWvHs5uXW…>.
You can sign up
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEpva_wwZA9xIjtTni7-y0tZ_VgXW8nzV…>
here and we will send you a Zoom link a few days before the event.
*About WikiCerd*
"WikiCred" is an initiative by Hacks Hackers and several other partners
such as the Credibility Coalition, MisinfoCon, and Wikimedians interested
in the conversation about credibility and trust in the entire information
ecosystem.
*About WikiCed Demo Hour*
The WikiCred Demo Hour is a regular monthly online meetup that brings
together members of the Wikimedian community, open-data and open-knowledge
enthusiasts, academics, journalists, researchers, and professionals from
the online credibility space and reliable news. Our calls are held on the
first Tuesday of every month, with ongoing discussions on our Slack channel.
Ahmed + WikiCred Team
wikicred.org