Hi,
We have a Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) meeting this 13
November 2022 (Sunday)
We have two meeting times to cater two major time zone blocks.
The two times are:
- 02:00 UTC <https://iw.toolforge.org/zonestamp/1668304800>, 2022-11-13
(Asia-Pacific friendly time)
- 16:00 UTC <https://iw.toolforge.org/zonestamp/1668355200>, 2022-11-13
(Europe-Africa-Americas friendly time)
The agenda are:
· Wikimedia Research Fund
· 2023 Ombuds commission and Case Review Committee appointments process
· Feedback on consultation and community session of the Movement Charter
Drafting Committee
· Wikimania
· Ideas/ suggestions for Wikimania 2023
· Expressions of interest for Wikimania 2024 and beyond
· Expressions of interest to join Wikimania Steering Committee
For signup and meeting link, go to the SWAN page at Meta-wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Wikimedia_Affiliates_Network
Thanks.
Kind regards
Butch Bustria
Dear Wikimedia Asia Chapters,
The Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Revisions committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>
is requesting comments regarding the *Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines
for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>.
This review period will be open from *8 September 2022 until 8 October
2022.*
The Committee collaborated to revise these draft guidelines based on input
gathered from the community discussion period from May through July, as
well as the community vote that concluded in March 2022. The revisions are
focused on the following four areas:
1. To identify the type, purpose, and applicability of the UCoC training;
2. To simplify the language for more accessible translation and
comprehension by non-experts;
3. To explore the concept of affirmation, including its pros and cons;
4. To review the balancing of the privacy of the accuser and the accused
The Committee requests comments and suggestions about these revisions by *8
October 2022*. From there, the Revisions Committee anticipates further
revising the guidelines based on community input. You can find the Revised
Guidelines on Meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>,
and a comparison page in some languages.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>
Everyone may share comments in a number of places. Facilitators welcome
comments in any language on the Revised Enforcement Guidelines talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Universal_Code_of_C…>.
Comments can also be shared on talk pages of translations, at local
discussions, or during conversation hours.
There are a series of *conversation hours*
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>
planned about the Revised Enforcement Guidelines. We will host an
Asia-Pacific time zone-friendly conversation hour on *Friday, 16 September,
10:00 UTC*. Live interpretation in *Chinese* and *Japanese* will be
provided.
The facilitation team supporting this review period hopes to reach a large
number of communities. If you do not see a conversation happening in your
community, please organize a discussion. Facilitators can assist you in
setting up the conversations. Discussions will be summarized and presented
to the drafting committee every two weeks. The summaries will be published
here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Code_of_Conduc…>.
On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,
Ramzy
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Ramzy Muliawan (he/him)
Movement Strategy and Governance Facilitator, Wikimedia Foundation
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:RamzyM_(WMF)
Hey Folks,
We at ESEAP are at the brainstorming / planning stage of our first
in-person Wikimania in 4 years. The virtual conferencing and satellite
event setup also had increased your participation to our annual event.
We opened a Wikimania Wiki page to allow you, our valued participant to
share your ideas and wishes for the 18th edition of Wikimania.
These can be products/ software/ application to use, timelines, program
types and many others!
The wiki page is:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Ideas
We will look to your ideas and see how it will come to life!
Kind regards
Butch Bustria
ESEAP Wikimania Core Organizing Team
Fellow Wikimedians,
We are delighted to announce the formation of the Core Organizing Team
(COT) for Wikimania 2023.
We are also calling for volunteers to be a member of its sub-committees
such as Scholarship, Programming, Trust&Safety, Multimedia/virtual
environment.
Go to the meta wiki link below for details.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2023
Note: Please be explicit on the committee you prefer to join. We will first
reach out to those who had indicated a committee they like to join.
Do ensure that your user account preferences on meta wiki have your email
address enabled so that organizers would reach back to you for the result
of your submitted expression of interest.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
On behalf of the Wikimania 2023 COT
Hi everyone,
The Wikimedia sound logo contest has officially launched
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/09/13/the-call-is-out-wikimedia-sound-logo-…>,
welcoming scores of submissions from around the world. From 13 September to
10 October, everyone, everywhere is invited to play a part in The Sound of
All Human Knowledge <https://soundlogo.wikimedia.org/>.
Please revisit your on-wiki space
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Sound_Logo> for a video
introduction to audio production, a collection of sounds to get you
inspired, the campaign toolkit to help vibrate the call through your
networks, free and open source tools, and frequently asked questions. And
earmark this, on 29 September, we will be having a drop-in clinic to help
your submissions along.
Many community members have provided us with valuable input and guidance
along the journey of this project – from an initial concept exploration to
the recent contest proposal. Thank you. With so much expertise in
international contests and visual logo searches in the movement, we are all
curious to learn how sound and audio production will play out in harmony
with our values, scaling up our projects for accessibility and audio
devices. Read more about it on Diff
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/15/you-cant-see-the-puzzle-globe-on-an-a…>.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
On behalf of the sound logo project team,
Biyanto
PS: If you need any kind of support or want to have an offline promotional
event, let me know and contact me directly.
Hello Friends!
The Inuka team [1] and the Wikistories pilot project team [2] are delighted
to announce that we have launched the first version of the Wikistories
tool, which is now available on the Bahasa Indonesian Wikipedia, as a beta
feature.
Wikistories is a new tool used to create visual format content that
combines images and short text from Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia.
Presently, the Wikimedia Indonesia community is running a Wikistories pilot
testing campaign that will help the Wikistories team evaluate the outcome
of this version, improve the tool and get ready to engage with other Wiki
communities that would like to incorporate this content format in their
projects.
We are so excited about the possibilities of this tool and would like you
to learn more about it in this blog post [3] and the Wikistories FAQ page
[4] (you can also help with the translation of the page to your language).
Please feel free to provide feedback, comment, and ask questions about the
tool on the Wikistories talk page [5].
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://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/07/25/wikistories-a-new-visual-content-form…
[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikistories/FAQ
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikistories
My Fellow Wikimedians,
I am delighted to announce that the Wikimedia East, South East Asia and the
Pacific also known as* ESEAP* will be having an in-person conference in
Sydney, Australia on November 18-20.
The goals for the conference are:
- *Strategic discussions:* ESEAP Hub governance, process of moving from
an informal group to more formal structure aligned with the Hubs/Minimum
Criteria for Pilots
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hubs/Minimum_Criteria_for_Pilots>
- *Partnership, Tools & Skills*: Outreach and community collaboration
support networks; building a network of skill sets so that communities in
the region can provide extra outreach support and collaboration across the
region; and
- *Leadership development* through building networks that encourage* new
and wider diversity *of participants to enable future growth
For more information, please visit https://w.wiki/5RVH or at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2022.
Scholarship application is ongoing. You may go to
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ESEAP_Conference_2022/Attend to know
more. Deadline for scholarship application is on* 24 July* (Sunday) at
12:00 UTC.
We also call for volunteers to the following committees:
- Scholarship committee
- Program submissions review committee
- Communications committee
- Onsite & technical volunteers
For inquiries, please reach us at eseap.conf[image: @]wikimedia.org.au.
Thank you!
--
Kind Regards,
Butch Bustria
in behalf of ESEAP
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Dear Friends,
We are inviting you to the 2nd Regional Education Meeting for the ESEAP region. These
regional meetings serve as an opportunity to learn and share projects, tools, or ideas
with the education community from the region.
Regional education meetings are planned by the Community Specialists of the EduWiki
Outreach Collaborators (EWOC) and the Wikimedia Education Team. This is an opportunity to
strengthen the EduWiki network, explore collaboration opportunities, and identify common
practices or challenges faced by our community members in different regions of the world.
We encourage you to participate, share your ideas, and help this become a fully
community-led initiative.
The second regional education meeting will be held on the 25th of June 2022 at 09:00 UTC.
I, Agus, Community Specialist for the ESEAP community will lead the session. If you want
to volunteer to interpret this meeting for your community members in a local language,
please let us know. Find more information on the meta page.
Meeting Time: 9:00 AM UTC, 25th June 2022
Meeting Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/87062890034
During this regional education meeting, we will have the opportunity to learn more
about:
Wikipedia and the Aotearoa New Zealand History Curriculum - Recently completed WMF funded
research project. James Taylor - Auckland Museum
Edit-a-thons in Philiphine - Joseph "Jojit" Ballesteros - Hablon User Group
If you have other ideas, topics, or questions you want to ask, you can add them to the
agenda here. We will try to answer them during the meeting. We are looking forward to
seeing you there! This event will be live-streamed from Wikimedia Foundation Education
Team’s Facebook Page. You can also join the event through the Zoom link, meeting link is
available on our event page.
Best!
Agus, EWOC Community Specialist Team, and Education team
Dear Friends,
We are inviting you to the 2nd Regional Education Meeting for the ESEAP region. These regional meetings serve as an opportunity to learn and share projects, tools, or ideas with the education community from the region.
Regional education meetings are planned by the Community Specialists of the EduWiki Outreach Collaborators (EWOC) and the Wikimedia Education Team. This is an opportunity to strengthen the EduWiki network, explore collaboration opportunities, and identify common practices or challenges faced by our community members in different regions of the world. We encourage you to participate, share your ideas, and help this become a fully community-led initiative.
The second regional education meeting will be held on the 25th of June 2022 at 09:00 UTC. I, Agus, Community Specialist for the ESEAP community will lead the session. If you want to volunteer to interpret this meeting for your community members in a local language, please let us know. Find more information on the meta page.
Meeting Time: 9:00 AM UTC, 25th June 2022
Meeting Link: https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/87062890034
During this regional education meeting, we will have the opportunity to learn more about:
- Wikipedia and the Aotearoa New Zealand History Curriculum - Recently completed WMF funded research project. James Taylor - Auckland Museum
- Edit-a-thons in Philiphine - Joseph "Jojit" Ballesteros - Hablon User Group
If you have other ideas, topics, or questions you want to ask, you can add them to the agenda here. We will try to answer them during the meeting. We are looking forward to seeing you there! This event will be live-streamed from Wikimedia Foundation Education Team’s Facebook Page. You can also join the event through the Zoom link, meeting link is available on our event page.
Best!
Agus, EWOC Community Specialist Team, and Education team