Hello 👋🏽
I'm Benedict Nnaemeka Udeh from Nigeria, a recently hired Community
Relations Specialist (CRS
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Relations_Specialists>) for
Wikidata and Commons.
I'm a member of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group, the Founder of IG Wikidata
Hub, and the Founder of Wiki Mentor Africa, a mentorship program that seeks
to bring more African developers and technical writers into the technical
space of Wikimedia. I'm passionate about community growth and capacity
building. Like you, I'm incredibly spirited about the free knowledge
movement.
In my new position as CRS, I will focus on collaboration and communication
with you about Wikidata and Commons product development, the user-facing
changes and roll-outs, and sometimes on projects with special needs for
collaboration with Volunteers. In other words, I am here to serve you (the
editors, contributors, and readers of Commons and Wikidata projects) and
the working groups at the Foundation that support Commons and Wikidata.
I've already started sharing some updates; you can find them on the Product
and technical support for Commons Portal
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Product_and_technical_support_fo…>.
Please feel free to use the discussion page
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Product_and_technical_suppo…>
to discuss these updates.
I look forward to working with and for you all and can't wait to see the
fantastic things we will do together.
Benedict Udeh
Community Relations Specialist
Hi everyone,
Crowds, pages turning, drums, chimes, vocals, and the sound of keyboards
typing. Wikimedia is alive with sound, music, and everything in between.
Voting <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Sound_Logo_Vote> in the
Wikimedia sound logo contest has started. From December 6 to 19, 2022, play
a part and help identify the Sound of All Human Knowledge. Voting is open
until 19 December, 23:59 UTC. Learn more on Diff.
The sound logo team is grateful to everyone who participated in this global
contest. We received 3,235 submissions from 2,094 participants in 135
countries. We are incredibly grateful to the team of volunteer screeners
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/10/31/screening-3235-sound-submissions/>
and the selection committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo/Contest_proposal#…>
who, among others, helped bring us to where we are today. It is now up to
Wikimedia to choose its sound logo.
Best wishes,
The sound logo team
*Mehrdad Pourzaki*
Lead Movement Communications Specialist
wikimediafoundation.org
Hi all,
Voting is now open in the sixteenth annual Picture of the Year contest:
<https://w.wiki/5xRn> - please vote! The first round of voting will be
open for 2 weeks.
Any user with more than 75 edits before Jan. 1, 2022 is eligible to
vote; if you're not sure the voting tool will automatically check for you.
If you have any questions, please see the help page: <https://w.wiki/5xSZ>.
P.S. You may notice this is the 2021 edition, we fell behind on starting
the contest. We can always use more volunteers to help, please let us
know if you're interested in helping in the future.
Thanks,
-- POTY Committee
Hello Everyone,
I’m pleased to announce Wikiclubs pilots in India.
The WikiClubs pilot aims to enable the creation of WikiClubs at educational
institutions in India. The pilot project is a joint effort between IIIT
Hydrabad and Wikimedia foundation and will be led by IIIT Hyderabad and
supported by the Foundation. In the program, the participants will be
expected to start WikiClubs at their respective institutions, to contribute
to the growth and diversification of culture and heritage sources on
Wikisource and Wikimedia Commons in India, especially targeted around
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states of India, for more details visit
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiClubs_pilot_in_India
Sincerely
Kasyap (he/him)
IndicWiki Project Team - IIIT-H
9014120442 , kasyap.krupal(a)research.iiit.ac.in
Greetings, Everyone!
The WMF Inuka team [1] would like to thank everyone who attended the
Wikistories office hours, provided feedback, and asked questions about our
exploration to incorporate the Wikistories workflow in Commons [2]. We
received valuable input from the office hours participants who attended the
different office hours, and we have summarized the discussions here:
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Wikistories_Office_hours_with_WikiCommons
Takeaways from the discussions
Most questions asked during office hours were aimed at understanding the
tool's features and its moderation in Commons. We answered the questions
based on our design thoughts; some other comments were insights for the
Inuka team into areas of consideration while working on the initiative to
optimize the tool's usage when it is developed.
Therefore, the above suggests curiosity from Commons contributors about the
Wikistories initiative. The Inuka team sees this as a sign to proceed to
the next step of this project unless the community collectively thinks
otherwise.
What next?
We are allowing other community members to read the office hours note, ask
follow-up questions or provide feedback about the initiative for the Inuka
team’s awareness and engagement as we proceed on this project. The Inuka
team will post periodic updates to help the WikiCommons community stay
aware and involved during the project phases.
Best regards
Uzoma Ozurumba
On behalf of the WMF Inuka team
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Inuka_team
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikistories_on_Commons
Greetings, everyone!
The WMF Inuka team [1] is exploring having the Wikistories tool [2] on
Commons, so we want to get your feedback.
*Our proposal*
The Inuka team believes the Wikistories tool would significantly increase
our projects' visual form of knowledge if we introduce a Wikistories
workflow in WikiCommons. The above is because the Commons is a repository
of freely licensed media files that is discoverable across other projects
and languages. We have outlined our goals for this initiative on the
project page [3], and we are optimistic about a good outcome. However, the
Wikistories on Commons initiative is still a proposal that will require the
WikiCommons community's feedback/ input on our design explorations before
we commit to the work.
*Our request *
In the next three weeks, the Inuka team would want you as a member of the
Commons community to:
- Read more about the initiative.
- Attend our proposed office hours, where we will present our design
exploration and discuss our plan with this proposal.
- Give feedback on this initiative and share your input about the design
exploration on the talk page [4] we have created.
We have provided three spots for office hours.
- Wednesday, 26th October at 10:00 UTC [5]
- Saturday, 29th October at 15:00 UTC [6]
- Monday 31st October at 06:00 UTC [7]
Please click on the date that works for you and register to attend the
office hour. If you can't attend, that is fine. However, we will appreciate
your feedback about the design exploration [8] and the Wikistories on
Commons proposal on the talk page.
We, the Inuka team, are excited about this work's possibilities, and we
look forward to having you all onboard at every phase.
Thank you!
Uzoma Ozurumba
On behalf of the WMF Inuka team
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Inuka_team
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistories
[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wikistories_on_Commons
[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wikistories_on_Commons
[5]
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvdemprDsiE93WQgjs9i-EIEaXe4tR…
[6]
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZModuqpqTspHdA3bB25tL07XqKoXkcn…
[7]
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtcumhrzooH91PC2B0MZAKzpz1Ymuv…
[8]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikistories_on_Commons_-_WMF_Inuka_…