<div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-09fe71a9-8551-40c9-8b38-611ecf153110"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Hi all, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">(Pardon the cross-posting)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Starting today, we want to show Wikimedia some love in a very special way: talking about diversity! [1]</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Diversity in Wikimedia projects is key to achieve our shared vision: that anyone can contribute in the sum of all knowledge. We know many efforts have been made to bridge many gaps. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Have you:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">* preserved your cultural or national history through photo contests and editing events?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">* worked to enrich a particular language or cultural group on Wikimedia?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">* studied diversity issues in online communities?</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">_What have you learned when trying to encourage diversity on Wikimedia?_</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The Learning and Evaluation team invites all community members to share what they know about bringing diversity on Wikimedia projects. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This initiative seeks to create a body of knowledge around diversity outcomes for events, projects and programs, in a way to give support to Grantmaking’s Inspire Campaign  (coming up the first week of March). If you worked to make Wikimedia projects more diverse, in content or community, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">what has worked for you? what has not worked?</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Share what you know with the world!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There are multiple ways to engage: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1. Share a problem</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2. Share a solution</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3. Endorse problems and solutions to vote them up in importance</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4. Writing a Learning Pattern (that addresses any of the problems/solutions shared)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We will be awarding our brand new L&E Barnstars[2] to contributors during this special campaign =)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Visit the </span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">campaign page [1] to contribute and discuss, and if you are twitter user, use #ILoveDiversity to promote the campaign for others to participate. </span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Happy editing!</span></p><div><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div></span><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><br><div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><b style="color:rgb(68,68,68)">María Cruz </b><font color="#999999"> </font><font color="#000000">\\</font><font color="#999999">  </font><font style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Community Coordinator, PE&D Team</font><font style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"> </font><font color="#000000">\\</font><font color="#999999"> </font><font color="#999999">Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.               <br></font></font></div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font color="#999999" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><a href="mailto:mcruz@wikimedia.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">mcruz@wikimedia.org</a>  </font><font color="#999999" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><font color="#999999" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">| </font> <img src="http://cl.ly/OWj3/twitter.png">:  <a href="https://twitter.com/marianarra_" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">@marianarra_</a></font></div></div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><br></div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[1] </span><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Project/Diversity_learning_patterns_campaign" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Project/Diversity_learning_patterns_campaign</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">[2] </span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Learning_and_Evaluation_barnstars" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Learning_and_Evaluation_barnstars</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></p></div></div></div></div>
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