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Wikivoyage at Wikimania 2025: Share Your Impactful Travel Insights!
by Butch Bustria 20 Mar '25

20 Mar '25

Dear Wikivoyage Community, Wikimania 2025 is just around the corner! From August 6-9, 2025, with a pre-conference on August 5, we will gather in Nairobi, Kenya, to celebrate 20 years of Wikimania. This year’s theme, “Wikimania at 20: Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability.”, invites us to reflect on and contribute to the ways our community fosters inclusivity, drives meaningful impact, and ensures the sustainability of our efforts. We are thrilled to announce that the Call for Program Proposals is now open and will run until March 31, 2025. We invite YOU to share your knowledge, ideas, and experiences by submitting session proposals—whether you plan to join us onsite in Nairobi, present remotely from your home or workplace, or contribute through a pre-recorded presentation. You can submit your proposals here: Wikimania 2025 Program Submission Site. https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Program As avid contributors to Wikivoyage—a project dedicated to providing freely licensed travel information accessible in many languages—we believe you have unique insights to enrich this year’s program. To help spark ideas, here are a few topics that may align with the conference theme: ● How travel content in Wikivoyage can support inclusivity in global knowledge-sharing. ● Strategies for engaging local communities to ensure the sustainability of Wikimedia travel projects. ● The impact of collaborative travel knowledge on bridging cultural divides. For inquiries, comments, or assistance with your proposal, please email wikimania(a)wikimedia.org. Our team of dedicated volunteers will be happy to guide you. Additionally, to support you in developing your proposals, the Programme Subcommittee will host a consultation hour: 📅 Today, Thursday, 20 March 🕐 13:00 UTC (Find your local time at https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1742475600) 🌐 Video Call Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/84172058297 💬 Live Interpretation Available in Arabic, French, and Swahili Let’s make Wikimania 2025 an unforgettable event by bringing your unique perspectives and ideas to the global stage. We look forward to your contributions! Warm regards, Butch Bustria https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2025:Organisers

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Introduction to Let's Connect!
by Gorana Gomirac 09 Dec '24

09 Dec '24

Dear all, I wish you a successful start to the week! My name is Gorana Gomirac, and I am part of the Let’s Connect working group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect/Team> a team of movement contributors/organizers and liaisons for seven regions: MENA, South Asia, East, South East Asia, Pacific, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central & Eastern Europe, Northern & Western, and Latin America. Why are we outreaching to you? Wikimedia <https://www.wikimedia.org/> has 18 projects, and 17 are solely run by the community, other than the Wikimedia Foundation. We want to hear from sister projects that some of us in the Movement are not too familiar with and would like to know more about. We always want to hear from Wikipedia, but we also want to meet and hear from the community members in other sister projects too, like Wikivoyage. We would like to hear your story and learn about the work you and your community do. You can review our past learning clinics here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect/Calendar> . We want to invite community members who are: - Part of an organized group, official or not - A formally recognized affiliate or not - An individual who will bring their knowledge back to their community - An individual who wants to train others in their community on the learnings they received from the learning clinics. To participate as a sharer and become a member of the Let’s Connect community you can sign up through this registration form. <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdiea87tSYmB2-1XHn_u8RLe7efMJifJBz…> Once you have registered, if you are interested, you can get to know the team via Google Meets or Zoom to brainstorm an idea for a potential learning clinic about Wikivoyage or just say hello and meet the team. Please email us at letsconnect(a)wikimedia.org . We look forward to hearing from you :) Best, The Let’s Connect Working Group Gorana Gomirac *GLAM Manager, *Wikimedia Serbia *CEE Liaison, *Let's Connect

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Re: Wikimania 2023 and Wikivoyage: A great collaboration activity! We love to see your program proposals!
by Stefan Fussan 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

I have proposed a lecture about Wikivoyage, although it's a bit technical. It will be about our experiences of Wikidata usage. We use Wikidata intensively (up to 300 information accesses per article on voy/de). I also offered to be around the Wikivoyage desk all the remaining time during the conference See you there, Fussi

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Wikimania 2023 and Wikivoyage: A great collaboration activity! We love to see your program proposals!
by bustrias＠gmail.com 29 Mar '23

29 Mar '23

Hi Folks, We encourage each and everyone of you to create a program submission. You can submit an interactive workshop or panel, a lecture, a short lighting talk or a poster for our dedicated poster session. Submissions are catered to both onsite and online (live or pre-recorded) or a hybrid combination. We at the Core Organizing Team would like to see a program submission related to Wikivoyage. The theme for this year's Wikimania is Diversity, Collaboration, Future. Topics that strengthen collaboration on Wikivoyage are topics we like to see this year. These include photography outreach (photo walks, teaching participants on Urban Landscape Photography or Nature Photography), editathon on various travel destinations in the Asia-Pacific region. Singapore is one of a few countries where Freedom of Panorama exists. It is great way to collaborate with each other. There is also a spacious Wikimania Expo space where interactive activities such as editathon can happen. For participants joining virtually, we also have allocated online hours for you too to allow you to participate & present. Session submissions for Wikimania 2023 are open until 28 March. Visit the following links for further info: Wiki page: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Program/Submissions Diff post: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/28/be-part-of-the-wikimania-2023-program/ Program Submission Form: https://pretalx.com/wm2023/cfp Kind regards, Butch Bustria Chair, Program Subcommittee Event lead, ESEAP Wikimania 2023 Core Organizing Team

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Wikivoyage portal (www.wikivoyage.org)
by Amir Sarabadani 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

Hi, I have been updating project portals <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273179> (e.g. www.wiktionary.org) to the new coding infrastructure to avoid storing them in pages in meta ( m:Www.wikivoyage.org_template <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wikivoyage.org_template>) among other reasons including better search experience, consistent design, better look, etc. Now every project has been migrated except wikivoyage because its portal is completely different (the picture of sunset). I have been wondering if this is okay to change it to the standard portal design (like wikipedia.org) because: - This is not accessible, the contrast of the text is too low (because of the background image) for people with visual impairments. - The design is not following the Wikimedia standard ( https://design.wikimedia.org/style-guide) for example the blue is not #36c - The general look doesn't follow the standard all other projects follow, that's part of the movement's brand. - The current design doesn't really take into account that we might have more wikivoyage languages in the future, doesn't have proper space for them (unlike the standard design) - The current design is completely broken on mobile. I mentioned this in meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Www.wikivoyage.org_template> but didn't get any response. So I thought I bring it up here. Fixing this would take care of a lot of legacy infrastructure we have. Thanks! Best -- Amir (he/him)

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Can I have a Wikipedia article written about me?
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Subject: Can I have a Wikipedia article written about me? Good day from Singapore, Can I have a Wikipedia article written about me? I am looking forward to your reply. Thank you. Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individual in Singapore 28 July 2022 Thu Blogs: https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.com/ https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com/

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Survey: Help improve Kartographer
by Johanna Strodt 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Sorry for cross-posting Do you create interactive maps with Kartographer [1] (mapframe)? If your answer is yes, we would like to hear from you. Where do you run into problems using it? Which new features would you like to see? Please take part in our survey: https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Kartographer-Workflows-EN/ - The survey is open until March 31. - It takes 10-15 minutes to complete. - The survey is anonymous. You don't need to register, and we will not store any personal data which identifies you, such as your name or IP address. Language: Unfortunately, the survey is only available in English, but we have tried our best to use simple English and to add visual examples. If English is not your native language, it might help to use a translation tool in your browser. Project background: Wikimedia Germany's Technical Wishes team [2] is currently working on the Kartographer extension [1]. Over the last few months, we have been working on a solution to make this software usable on wikis where it isn’t available yet [3]. In the next phase of the project, we are planning to improve Kartographer itself. More information on our work with Kartographer and the focus area of Geoinformation can be found on our project page [4]. Thank you for your help! Johanna for the Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Kartographer [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191585 [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation -- Johanna Strodt Project manager community communications Technical Wishlist Wikimedia Deutschland

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Wikivoyage HBS proposed
by zblace＠mi2.hr 21 Jan '22

21 Jan '22

This does not seem to be an active list, but just to inform all Wikivoyage HBS (bosansko-hrvatsko-crnogorsko-srpski) is proposed https://w.wiki/4h3Z Best Z. Blace

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IP Masking Engagement - New Update
by Sandister Tei 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Hello Wikivoyage community, The Anti-Harassment Team has updates on IP Masking here <https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:IP_Masking_Engagement#IP_Masking_…>. In this update, there are details on the proposal for sharing IP addresses with those who need access and there’s also an update on tool development. Please pass by, check the new details out, and give your feedback. –– Sandister Tei (she/her) Community Relations Specialist (Anti-Harassment) meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:STei_(WMF)

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IP Masking engagement
by Sandister Tei 26 May '21

26 May '21

Hello Wikivoyage community, The Anti-Harassment Tools team wants to engage you in conversations about the masking of IP addresses. The point of the engagement is to know which tools you will need to be able to effectively govern the projects in absence of IPs. Please read more on the IP Masking project here <https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:IP_Masking_Engagement>. You can leave your comments on the discussion page <https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage_talk:IP_Masking_Engagement>. Thank you. –– Sandister Tei (she/her) Community Relations Specialist (Anti-Harassment) meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:STei_(WMF)

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