We wanted to share this project with US affiliates, and with regional
Wikimedians generally.
The edit-a-thon is "live" for its launch Saturday starting at 12pm Eastern
/ 9am Pacific, and runs for two hours. However, it includes a monthlong
campaign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MetAfrofuturist
Though the art exhibition is in part about the specific African American
history of New York City, it also ties into national and global art and
culture of the African diaspora.
As well as viewing the livestream, we'd also welcome people to join the
Discord channel for this edit-a-thon on the Wikimedia NYC server all month
long.
Would also welcome more events to be listed at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Black_WikiHistory_Month#February_20…
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
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From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 1:09 PM
Subject: Saturday Feb 5: ONLINE Met Afrofuturist edit-a-thon (and monthlong
campaign)
To: New York City Wikimedians <wikimedia_nyc(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wiki-Yorkers,
You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for a virtual
Metropolitan Museum of Art edit-a-thon Saturday afternoon (12-2pm) with
partners AfroCROWD and Black Lunch Table. To join the livestream from your
computer or smartphone, just watch at the YouTube link below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MetAfrofuturisthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUx7YltS598 (livestream at 12-2pm Saturday)
Our focus will be on the exhibition Before Yesterday We Could Fly inspired
by Seneca Village, and featured art, artists, history and culture of the
African diaspora.
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2021/afrofuturist-period-room
We look forward to seeing local Wikimedians, but would also like to invite
folks from the greater New York metropolitan area (and beyond!) who might
not typically be able to join us in person!
We are also running a Met Afrofuturist chat channel on our Wikimedia NYC
Discord server for the whole monthlong campaign, you can join here and get
help with working on articles on these topics together:
https://discord.gg/gqSFqrY7bS
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Tonight at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific:
We're going to cover finishing the budget items and getting the videos
properly uploaded, plus future events like Meta Day (on Friday!), Wikipedia
Day and WCNA 2022.
Meeting will be here:
https://meet.google.com/anj-qnmo-pnm
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
WALRUS/Canada meeting, on Mon Nov 15, at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific:
In addition to editing campaigns like Wiki Loves Monuments and Wikipedia
Asian Month, we will have 3 main topics for this meeting:
* The idea of a "North American Hub" (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hubs/Workshop_November_27,_2021 ) and how
to support decentralized smaller usergroups
* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter (and what should go in
it)
*Post-WikiConference North America review (there will also be a core group
meeting for this Tues evening)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85904798020
Meeting ID: 859 0479 8020
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Meeting ID: 859 0479 8020
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kUzlueJnf
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
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)
A result has been decided in the process to choose a "selector" for the
North American region to help determine six members of the Movement Charter
Drafting Committee (MCDC). LiAnna Davis was named by the majority of North
American affiliates and will join eight other regional selectors to help
choose the full 15 member MCDC. Thank you to all who participated in the
meetings and deliberations on a very rushed timetable. Thanks should go out
to a team of WikiConference North America volunteers who helped facilitate
this process at the request of the Movement Strategy team.
It should be noted that feedback was given to the WMF showing great concern
about the lack of time to properly determine a result that included all
stakeholders and about the inherent ambiguity of the process, given "North
America" as a region of representation is a new and novel construct. In
short, we tried to make the best out of a highly suboptimal arrangement and
asked the Wikimedia Foundation to improve its practices so we are not put
in the same situation again.
Full information can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Affiliates_by_Region/North…
-Andrew
NOTICE OF MEETING: WED, Oct 13, 2021, 9pm EDT/6pm PDT
TODAY IS THE FINAL VOTE DEADLINE to choose a Movement Charter Drafting
Committee selector for North America (NA). Via their representative, NA
affiliates can register their choice for selector from the two eligible
candidates, and also find additional info about the process.
For those interested, we will have an optional call this evening to answer
any questions or discuss any issues related to the process or candidates.
Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/imo-xryg-dgr
Page for information and voting:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Affiliates_by_Region/North…
Thanks!
-Andrew
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…
More information on the general MCDC process can be found here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Set_Up_…
Note: Latin American and Caribbean have another process, so this call is
focused on US/Canada.
-Andrew
User:Fuzheado