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BoT Election 2022 - Voting Reminder
by Wiki World Heritage User Group 30 Aug '22

30 Aug '22

Dear WWH members, This is a reminder about the voting for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. Voting has begun already and will close on *September 6, 2022 23:59 UTC*. Please use this link <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Communi…> to verify your eligibility and to vote before the deadline. Thanks WWH

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Training session: Improving Wikidata for World Heritage
by Wiki World Heritage User Group 27 Aug '22

27 Aug '22

Dear WWH UG Members! I hope you are all doing great! Please save the date for our next training session dedicated to Wikidata and World Heritage During this session, which is a collaboration with the *WikiClassics User Group,* our friend Alessandro Marchetti will show us how we can improve Wikidata items related to World Heritage. Below the details of the meeting: Wiki World Heritage is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. *Topic: Improving Wikidata for World HeritageTime: Aug 27, 2022 02:00 PM Universal Time UTC* Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85405178834?pwd=a0cyTFE0YU8yRW1Yc1hZbDNVSnBVUT09 Meeting ID: 854 0517 8834 Passcode: 571445 Best Regards WWH

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2022 Board of Trustees Community Voting Period is now Open
by Chitraparna Sinha 26 Aug '22

26 Aug '22

Dear community members, The Community Voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote: - Try the Election Compass <https://board-elections-compass-2022.toolforge.org/>, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics. - Read the candidate statements <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> and answers to Affiliate questions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> - Learn more about the skills the Board seeks <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> - Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> . If you are ready to vote, you may go to SecurePoll voting page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/Wikimedia_Foundatio…> to vote now. *You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC.* To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> . Regards, Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>) Facilitator, South Asia, Movement Strategy and Governance <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance> (MSG)

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[Invitation] Join the Movement Strategy Forum
by Chitraparna Sinha 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

Dear community members, On 24 May 2022, the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team launched <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/movement-strategy-forum-community-rev…> a proposal for a new Movement Strategy Forum <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/> (MS Forum). The MS Forum is a multilingual collaborative space for all conversations about Movement Strategy implementation. It enables collaboration across communities, projects, and languages. Currently, 500+ volunteers are collaborating on the forum using its 100+ language capacity. We are inviting all community members to check out the MS Forum. You can login with your Wikimedia account. Join MS Forum <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/>. PS: Volunteers also participated in a community review process. You can read the report here <https://forum.movement-strategy.org/t/ms-forum-community-review-report/1436> . Regards, Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>) Facilitator, South Asia, Movement Strategy and Governance <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance> (MSG)

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WWH Capacity Building Program 2022
by Wiki World Heritage User Group 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

Dear WWH members, We hope you are doing well! As part of building a new edition of our capacity-building program, we would like to invite all the members to fill out the following form in order to help us define the learning priorities. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdWu-L58e9MhWz3dMx1Fc-CSUGz2NzWfr0… Don't hesitate to add new tools and topics if they are not listed in the form. Thanks Best Regards

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WH2B (World Heritage To Be) photo walks
by yamen bousrih 17 Aug '22

17 Aug '22

Dear WWH members, We hope you are doing well! As part of the project WH2B (World Heritage To Be) [1] , our group is planning to organize with the collaboration of local partners 5 photo walks to cover 5 World Heritage sites from the UNESCO tentative list. To explore the heritage sites on the tentative list of your country, please check the following link: https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/ A budget of 450 USD will be allocated to each Photowalk, to cover the organization costs (300USD) and 2 prizes (100$ and 50$). If you/your local affiliates are interested in coordinating one of these photo walks please get in touch with us via this email address wh2b(a)wikiworldheritage.org before the 17th of September 2022. PS: a non-exhaustive campaign has been created on Commons [2], if you would like to add a site from your country in the campaign in order to upload photos please get in touch with us. [1] Project page on meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_World_Heritage_User_Group/WH2B [2] WH2B campaign on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WH2B Thanks Yamen

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Movement Strategy Forum & Community Review (until 24 July)
by Chitraparna Sinha 27 May '22

27 May '22

Dear community members, The Movement Strategy and Governance team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance/Team> is inviting community members to review the Movement Strategy Forum proposal <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Forum/Proposal>. Built using the Discourse multilingual platform, the intention is to improve community collaboration on the implementation of Movement Strategy Recommendations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…>. The forum could help to diversify global conversations around Movement Strategy. Forum - http://forum.movement-strategy.org/ - community members can login with their Wikimedia account. Community Review The community review period is till 24 July 2022. If the global community feedback is positive, the forum will officially launch before Wikimania 2022. If not, we will analyse the feedback to either make changes to the proposal or to close it. Regards, Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>) Facilitator, Movement Strategy and Governance <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance>, SAARC, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Call for Candidates: 2022 Board of Trustees Election
by Chitraparna Sinha 28 Apr '22

28 Apr '22

Dear community members, The 2022 Board of Trustees elections <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022> process has begun. The Call for Candidates <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Announc…> has been announced. The Board of Trustees oversees the operations of the Wikimedia Foundation. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees. The Wikimedia community will vote to elect two seats on the Board of Trustees in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board of Trustees. Kindly submit your candidacy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Apply_t…> to join the Board of Trustees. Regards, Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>) Facilitator, Movement Strategy and Governance <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance>, SAARC, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Invitation | Join the Community Resilience and Sustainability Conversation Hour with Maggie Dennis
by Chitraparna Sinha 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Dear community members, The Community Resilience and Sustainability <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resilience_and_Sustainability> team at the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a conversation hour led by its Vice President, Maggie Dennis <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mdennis_(WMF)>. Topics within scope for this call include Movement Strategy, Board Governance, Trust and Safety, the Universal Code of Conduct, Community Development, and Human Rights. Come with your questions and feedback, and let's talk! You can also send us your questions in advance. The meeting will be on 24 March 2022 (Thursday) at 15:00 UTC (local time <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1648134035>). More details are available on Meta-Wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2022-03-24>. Regards, Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>) Facilitator, Movement Strategy and Governance <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance>, SAARC, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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2022 projects and WWH members meeting
by Yamen Bousrih 05 Mar '22

05 Mar '22

Dear members, I hope you are all doing well! Sunday 27/02, we had a board meeting and we are very happy to inform you that we have finished all the procedures related to the 2022 annual grant with the foundation and our fiscal sponsor Kiwix. Please find below the grant application: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Wi… More details on the grant will be provided during our next members meeting (c.f. details below). Following the grant decision and based on the recommendations received from the foundation, the board took some governance decisions including a new opening position to be hired for which an announcement will be made available on the 1st of March. We will be happy to provide more details on the decisions taken and the next activities with you during our next meeting next Saturday the 5th of March at 14:00 utc. https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MXNpbWVtZGpwbXFyMGJ… Best Regards Yamen (on behalf of the board).

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