Hello everyone,
Applications for the WikiLearn: Online learning pilot
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Development/WikiLearn> are
officially closed. Applicants will receive acceptance emails by January 18,
2021 with onboarding information. The launch date for the Online learning
pilot is February 1, 2021. For those who were not able to apply or were not
selected this time for an online learning pilot, you will still be able to
access all curriculum outlines and knowledge after the pilot has been
completed.
If you have previously applied, please submit or resubmit an email address
due to an error on the application to comdevteam(a)wikimedia.org or complete
this quick form.
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLqWM6YHAu4ihGCTAnarD-QPkJsKJjgda…>
Best,
The Community Development Team
Cassie Casares
Project Coordinator
Community Development
Wikimedia Foundation
ccasares(a)wikimedia.org
Dear friends,
Wikipedia is turning 20 in a world that is increasingly cynical about the
place of technology to make our lives better, but that overwhelmingly
believes Wikipedia is one of the actually good places on the internet. And
that’s because of you!
Kindly join WikimediaZA to celebrate every human who clicks, reads, edits,
codes, donates, and shares Wikipedia's vision of free knowledge accessible
to all.
The event is taking place virtually on 15 January at 13:00 - 14: 00. UTC
(South African Time)
Click here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20/Events/South_Africa#Programme>
to learn more about our event.
Looking forward to your presence.
Link below:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/91927400671?pwd=d01UQmgyRDJEaUlEME9udlVSV3Q0UT09
Meeting ID: 919 2740 0671 Passcode: 860401
Kind regards,
Bobby Shabangu
WikimediaZA President
To commemorate Wikipedia's birthday, we will once again be adding citations
to improve the reliability of the platform. This year's 1Lib1Ref campaign
however is very different as Wikipedia turns 20; we are celebrating the
humans that make Wikipedia possible, highlighting their contributions and
commitment to the platform. In view of this we are asking every human out
there to join us in the celebration by gifting Wikipedia a citation to make
it more reliable, starting from the 15th Jan to 5th Feb 2021!
We are adding a new layer of contribution to celebrate the humans that
contribute to the success of the platform as part of the Wikipedia20
celebrations. Join the #1Lib1Ref Human Challenge by contributing citations
to improve the quality of articles around human rights on Wikipedia and
with top contributors receiving swags from the Wikimedia Store.[1]
How can I contribute?
Add a citation
1.
Let the tool suggest a citation needed statements for you, or use the
search menu at the bottom to choose a category (Wikipedia's version of a
tag) of an article that you have a special expertise in (for example,
British novels or Provinces of Afghanistan ).
2.
Go to the article, find the statement
3.
Click edit in the section header
4.
Add the source following the source guidelines
5.
Remove the "Citation needed" template (highlight and backspace in Visual
Editor, or remove the template which adds that tag (it looks like
{{citation needed}} ))
6.
Add the hashtag #1lib1ref to your edit summary
7.
Save the page.
Visit the participate page to learn more.[2]
Communicate
-
Share a post from our communicate and share page.[3]
-
We will be sharing a post on diff on Friday, as part of the Wikipedia
birthday communication, keep an eye out for that.
Help organize?
If you are from the CEE don’t miss out on the 1Lib1Ref CEE regional
competition, contact Gorana Gomirac WMRS (gorana.gomirac(a)vikimedija.org )
and Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska WMPL (natalia.szafran(a)wikimedia.pl ) for
more information.[4] You can also find an activity around you as some
countries and institutions such as Canada, Israel, France, Spain, AfLIA,
etc. are organizing their own activities.[5]
If you are organizing, add your event to the 1lib1ref Event Dashboard or
your virtual event to digital events list to enable people across the world
participate in your activity.[6][7]
It is not too late to schedule an event -- the campaign runs through
February 5th and in past years organizers have run #1lib1ref events year
round or scheduled activities for #1lib1ref May during the January
campaign.
Remember to add #1Lib1Ref in the edit summary of your contribution to help
us track your activity!
Happy 20th Birthday!
Felix Nartey
[1] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate#…
!
[2] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate
[3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Share
[4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/1Lib1RefCEE_campaign
[5] -
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_january_2021/overv…
[6] -
https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_january_2021/overv…
[7] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Virtual_Coff…
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Felix Nartey
Community and Partnerships Coordinator, Campaigns
*Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home>*
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
https://donate.wikimedia.org
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From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 7:53 PM
Subject: Wikimedia Clinic featuring a presentation from the Growth team
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
This is a reminder that *tomorrow, Wednesday, Jan 13th, at 6pm UTC*, we
will have Wikimedia Clinic #012, this time featuring a presentation from
the Wikimedia Foundation's Growth team, on the latest developments and
findings from their work.
The call will be held in English, using *Google Meet*, and the link is
*https://meet.google.com/kdr-ufce-qxh*
<https://meet.google.com/kdr-ufce-qxh>
As in all Clinics, after the presentation (which will include time for
questions and answers), there will be time to bring up *your own topics,
questions, or short presentations*.
For more information about the program, see its Meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Clinics>. You may also be
interested in the recent *retrospective*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Clinics/Retrospective> we
published about the program so far.
See you tomorrow!
A.
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
https://donate.wikimedia.org
Dear all
Happy 2021! To start off the new year with a bang, Wiki In Africa, the non-profit behind Wiki Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Women (among a few other things) is searching high and low for a paid intern to work remotely with their core team.
Applications close on 22nd January.
So many more details can be found at this link: bit.ly/WIAIntern
We look forward to hearing from you!
warmest
Isla
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Date: Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:21 AM
Subject: We're seeking an Africa-based coordinator to co-lead the
#VisibleWikiWomen campaign!
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*Africa-based campaign coordinator*
*Whose Knowledge? is seeking a campaign coordinator to co-lead the
#VisibleWikiWomen global campaign and support Africa based partners to add
images of notable women to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.*
*More about us:*
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is a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities
(the majority of the world) on the internet. Most public knowledge online
has so far been written by white men from Europe and North America. To
address this, we work particularly with women, people of color, LGBTQI
communities, indigenous peoples and Global South communities to build and
represent more of all of our own knowledge online.
*The Project:*
Women’s knowledge and contributions to the world are invisible in so many
ways. When we look at women’s invisibility online, Wikipedia is a good
proxy to explain why this is such a critical issue. Less than a fourth of
Wikipedia biographies represent women. Many biographies of notable women
don’t exist or are incomplete.
More often than not, women biographies don’t have images. We estimate that
less than 20% of Wikipedia articles of important women have pictures. And,
when women’s faces are missing from Wikipedia, that invisibility spreads. Half
a billion people read
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in the world, so gaps in Wikipedia have a big impact on the broader
internet.
Whose Knowledge?, in partnership with the Wikimedia movement, feminist and
women’s organizations, GLAM institutions and allies around the world, have
hosted the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign every year from March to May since
2018, to add more images of women to Wikipedia and the broader internet. So
far over 15,000 images have been used across Wikipedia and the different
Wikimedia projects as a result of this campaign. However, Wikipedia (and
the broader internet) are still missing many images of important and
influential women, especially black, brown, indigenous and trans women.
A special focus is what we call #womenofcolors, our targeted effort to
increase the number of images of influential black, brown, indigenous and
trans women, especially from the Global South that are uploaded to
Wikipedia as part of the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign.
*Role:*
A regional coordinator who will co-manage the campaign globally with our
existing coordinator based in Latin America and focus on developing new
connections and partnerships in Africa, helping make the #VisibleWikiWomen
2021 campaign a success!
This is a paid, part-time contractor role, 10-20 hours per week, for 4
months (February - May).
*Responsibilities:*
- Act as a first point of contact for local partners and selected global
partners
- Coordinate and support communications, media and publicity
- Keep website up to date, help showcase stories and successes along the
way
- Facilitate communications with Wikimedians, partners and allies
- Prepare materials, resources, and toolkits for partners
- Support participants on Commons and Wikipedia as images are uploaded
- Analyse the effort after completion, and communicate outcomes and
learning to partners and broader audiences
*Our ideal candidate has:*
- Experience with Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons
- Experience facilitating international groups or networks, coordinating
volunteers, etc
- Ability to clearly communicate virtually
- Previously worked in multicultural/multilingual online spaces
- Proficiency in English. Other language skills relevant in the African
context would be highly desirable
- Interest and experience in working with visual materials (photographs,
art work, and other visual forms)
- Initiative to start things, move projects forward, and manage tasks
independently
- A feminist, anti-colonial perspective
*Candidates must be from and reside in the African continent!*
To apply, please send an email with Subject: *#VisibleWikiWomen Coordinator
Africa* to *visiblewikiwomenATwhoseknowledgeDOTorg*, Application deadline
is *January 25th. 2021*. Include your CV and tell us why you're interested
and a good match for this role.
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and with marginalised communities, so that the internet we build and defend
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things".Barack Obama"... God must become an activity in our
consciousness"...Joel s. Goldsmith"In the end we will conserve only what we
love. We will love only what we understand.We will understand only what we
are taught." Legendary Senegalese Conservationist Baba Dioum*
* "You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind."*
*Anonymous*
*"Our pathway must be up through the soil, *
*up through swamps, up through forests, *
*up through streams and rocks, *
*up through commerce, education, and religion! *
*In my opinion, we cannot begin at the top to build a house. *
* If we try to do this, we shall reap in the end the fruits of our
folly."Booker T. Washington*
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*"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."*
*....we shape our lives and we shape ourselves...the choices that we make
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*Socrates*
Happy New Year to All!
Following a successful pilot testing phase, AfLIA wishes to announce that
registration has opened for applicants to enroll in the Wikipedia in
African Libraries (#WikiAfLibs) Course - Cohort 1.
AfLIA therefore, invites all African library educators and librarians in
all library types and from every country on the continent to apply and be
part of the online learning program, fully funded by the Wikimedia
Foundation
Among others, the Course will teach African librarians how they can better
assist their user communities to use Wikipedia, tell their stories by
themselves on a very visible global platform and also nurture relationships
between Wikipedia communities in Africa with libraries.
For registration details go to:
1. English:
https://web.aflia.net/wikipedia-in-african-libraries-course-cohort-1-regist…
2. French / Portuguese:
https://web.aflia.net/cours-sur-wikipedia-dans-les-bibliotheques-africaines…
We are interested in reaching many others from your country, who may
equally be interested in benefiting from this important initiative. We
encourage you to circulate news about the Call among your colleagues,
friends, supervisors, instructors, students etc. in the library and
information sector.
For enquiries, feel free to send us a mail at afliacomm(a)aflia.net
Best regards,
AfLIA Communications
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