Wren March 2020

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WREN Wed Apr 1 interim meeting
by Pharos 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

Hi fellow Wikimedians-in-Residence, We talked a bit during the last call about doing a second meeting 2 weeks afterward, which would be Wednesday April 1. This would be the regular hour, noon New York time. The idea is to bring people together, mutually support and strategize during this time of isolation. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos)

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Summit 2020] Preparing a virtual Wikimedia Summit
by Jackson, Esther 20 Mar '20

20 Mar '20

Hello everyone, Here is an update on the Wikimedia Summit process and planning. I will share more information as it is made available to me. For now, our meeting has been pushed from April until May, and it will be virtual. Best, Esther ---------------------------- EstherJackson Public Services Librarian The New York Botanical Garden 2900 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10458 O: 718.817.8827, 8834 ejackson(a)nybg.org nybg.org ---------------------------- NYBGSig This message contains information that may be confidential and privileged. If you are not the named addressee, you should not use, copy, or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in the message. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, or destroyed; arrive late or incomplete; or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message that arise as a result of e-mail transmission. ---------------------------- Begin forwarded message: From: "Cornelius Kibelka" (via wmsummit-list Mailing List) <wmsummit-list(a)mailing.wikimedia.de<mailto:wmsummit-list@mailing.wikimedia.de>> Subject: [Wikimedia Summit 2020] Preparing a virtual Wikimedia Summit Date: March 20, 2020 at 3:02:04 PM EDT To: Wikimedia Summit Participants mailing list <wmsummit-list(a)mailing.wikimedia.de<mailto:wmsummit-list@mailing.wikimedia.de>> Reply-To: wmsummit-list(a)mailing.wikimedia.de<mailto:wmsummit-list@mailing.wikimedia.de> Dear all, Thank you for your patience in these unique times. The good news is: there will be a virtual Wikimedia Summit. We need time to plan, design, and work with you all on preparation. We are currently looking at dates in May, and will keep you informed as we move forward. This means, you can let go of the blocked dates in your calendar, 3-5 April. The virtual Wikimedia Summit will be the first in a series of virtual events that move from engaging with the recommendations and closing phase 2 of Movement Strategy and transitioning into implementation, phase 3. These events will be held over a period of 30-60 days after the Summit. For the virtual Wikimedia Summit, we won’t change the participant structure. We would like to use the Summit framework to engage with movement organizations and groups, and work with them on creating an understanding of the recommendations, taking their local or thematic contexts into account. The following virtual events after the Summit will be focusing on implementation, and will be tailored to meet the needs of different movement stakeholders. We will work with experienced facilitators and co-design the events with the respective target groups from across the movement. We have never hosted such a virtual conference – so it’s something completely new for us, and maybe also for you. We aim for a program that is focused on interaction and participation, and not one-directional. I want to give you some insights into what we are thinking about: * To use the “virtual in person” most efficiently, we will ask participants to prepare beforehand; * To accommodate different time zones, we aim to hold repetitive sessions at different times of day; * To accommodate language difficulties, we are looking into subtitling or language specific break-out rooms; * We want to pay special attention to engaging everyone equally, and find ways to support the diverse contexts and habits of people working together online. Please understand that’s all we have to share at this point, and we will keep you all updated with news and next steps. We hope you and those around you are well. Please all take good care of yourselves. See you on the Internet :) Cornelius -- Cornelius Kibelka Internationale Beziehungen | International Relations Vorstandsteam | Office of the ED Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de<http://wikimedia.de/> Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia, Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German): Subscribe now<https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/>. Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207

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[WREN] 🧼 👏 Wed Mar 18 2020 1600 UTC /noon EST monthly meetup...
by Lane Rasberry 18 Mar '20

18 Mar '20

Please join the monthly Wikimedians in Residence Exchange Network for the March 2020 meetup. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_in_Residence_Exchange_Network/m… Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/723771630 Meeting ID: 723 771 630 The event is Wednesday 18 March 1600 UTC, noon in New York City. This is a special COVID-19 meetup where everyone is invited to share news of all the events they are not organizing. Add any discussion items to the agenda. -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 lane(a)bluerasberry.com

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[Brand Project] Collaborating on a new brand identity for our movement
by Samir Elsharbaty 18 Mar '20

18 Mar '20

Dear WREN UG members, My name is Samir Elsharbaty. I'm a community brand and marketing coordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm reaching out with an update and an invitation to join us in the movement brand project. Last year, we started the movement brand project <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…>; a project to evolve the Wikimedia movement’s brand identity system. To do this we have partnered with Snøhetta <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sn%C3%B8hetta_(company)>, an international branding and architecture agency. Through workshops, exercises, and requests for feedback, Snøhetta is working with Wikimedia communities to create an updated naming convention and design, which will be used by the Wikimedia Foundation and will be opt-in for affiliates. As a Wikimedia affiliate organization, WREN UG is an important stakeholder in this project. I would like to invite you to become part of a process to shape our global shared brand identity. Participation is not time consuming but crucial to direct our work ahead. Over the next five months, the brand team will be helping Snøhetta gather community feedback at key moments. Your involvement would revolve around receiving updates and providing feedback on proposals for a naming convention and brand design. If you are interested, please select one or two people from WREN to act as a Liaison between our team and your group during this process. We will send important updates and all feedback opportunities to that person so that they can share with the group and collect your feedback. This process will arrive at a new branding system that you will be able to adopt if you choose, so we hope that you will decide to participate. In the meantime, here are main hubs for updates and discussion on this project: 1. The brand network on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediabrandnetwork>. 2. Snohetta’s project hub, brandingwikipedia.org. 3. The project page on meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_moveme…> . Please reach out to us with any questions or thoughts you may have. I’m looking forward to collaborating with you! Best regards, Samir Samir Elsharbaty (he/him) Community Brand and Marketing coordinator Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Re: [Wren] WikiJournal User Group open meeting Feb 27th!
by WikiJournal of Science contact 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

Hello! Thank you to all who came to the meeting. We currently plan to do something similar every 3 months or so. - *Meeting notes <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group/Meetings/2020-02-27>* - *15 min summary presentation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiJournal_Open_Meeting_2020.pdf>* For those more generally interested: - *Mailing list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikijournal-en>* - *On-wiki discussion <https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Talk:WikiJournal_User_Group>* Hope to see you at the next one! On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 5:25 PM WikiJournal of Science contact < contact(a)wikijsci.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Please join us for an open webinar on the present and future of the > WikiJournal User Group and its projects! > > *8pm UTC 27th of Feb > <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=WikiJournals+Open…>* > *Jitsi attendance link <https://meet.jit.si/WikiJournalUserGroup>* > *Meeting plan and agenda > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HtYenGjKds_JMyL7uIgT8kXKELGwVKeZyZsB5De…>* > > - 20 mins - Presentation, summary & update of the current project > status > - 40 minutes - Discussion, questions, ideas & feedback open to all > participants > > We look forward to seeing you there! > > > > *Bac**kground:* > The WikiJournal User Group runs a set of peer reviewed academic journals > <https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group> that have the > unique feature of being highly Wikipedia integrated. Papers can include > links to Wikipedia pages, figures are all uploaded to Commons, and > suitable material (or even whole articles) can be copied over to Wikipedia. > In fact, Wikipedia pages have even been submitted to the journals for peer > review. > > > The concept is to couple the rigour of academic peer review with the > extreme reach of the wiki ecosystem. This improves the accuracy of the > encyclopedia and its sister projects, and rewards authors with citable, > indexed publications. Authors are treated the same whether they are > professors or students, with a focus on the article’s accuracy and > referencing. > > Peer reviews are public (example > <https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/DwZlCgZovLtAQBXkCxR07G?domain=na01.safeli…>) and > 75% of reviewers agree to have their identities open. > > > Article formats are flexible and have included: > > > - Broad review article that also becomes a Wikipedia page (example > <https://doi.org/10.15347/wjs/2019.001>) > - Existing Wikipedia page submitted for peer review (example > <https://doi.org/10.15347/wjh/2019.001>) > - Focused review articles that have images or text added to Wikipedia > pages (example <https://doi.org/10.15347/wjm/2017.002>) > - Technical reviews that can accompany a Wikipedia page (example > <https://doi.org/10.15347/wjm/2019.008>) > - Stand-alone research articles (example > <https://doi.org/10.15347/wjm/2019.007>) > > *Can't get enough?* > > Follow us at twitter on @WikiJMed <https://twitter.com/WikiJMed> | @ > WikiJSci <https://twitter.com/WikiJSci> | @WikiJHum > <https://twitter.com/WikiJHum> > > See out application to the WMF to found a sister project site > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sister_Project_application_for_Wiki…> > > Join the WikiJournals general mailing list > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikijournal-en> > > Read this piece in the *Signpost* > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-06-30/In_fo…> >

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