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Date: Wed, May 15, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Subject: Mon March 20 call for North American Wikimedians
To: Wikimedia U.S. Chapter <wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
You are invited to join North American Wikimedians for our call next Monday
evening, May 20 at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific, as the NARWHAL rides again!
Add to the agenda, and we encourage you to RSVP on meta-wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/NARWHAL/May_2024https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81093059340
Thanks,
Richard
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From: Pharos <pharosofalexandria(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 4, 2022, 12:55 PM
Subject: Mon Dec 5 Movement Charter call for US + Canada
To: Wikimedia U.S. Chapter <wikimediaus-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
You're invited to join a call on the Movement Charter draft on Monday Dec
5, at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific!
This call is for people in the US and Canada to discuss the sections of the
draft that have been published so far, with your members of the Movement
Charter Drafting Committee (including me and Risker!).
Monday Dec 5, 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific:
* Zoom link:
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/j/88407930105?pwd=VVpBaFpKRThtd29mVzk5RCtOa1FaUT09
Note that we will have a separate call one week later, on Mon Dec 12, to
cover the related topic of proposal options for a US / North American Hub.
Here are the draft sections for your review:
* Preamble
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Content/Preamble
* Values & Principles
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Content/Values_%26_Princip…
* Roles & Responsibilities
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Content/Roles_%26_Responsi…
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Announcing AfroCROWD Intro to Wikimedia and How to Edit Wikipedia
workshops at New York's Brooklyn Public Library. Please email me if
you would like to discuss bringing one of these to your city. Please
also excuse cross-posting to various lists as we try to network across
the United States.
WHEN:
Saturday, February 7th 12:30 -3PM
Sunday February 8th 1-3:30PM
EVENTBRITE (better reading format):
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/afrocrowd-intro-to-wikimedia-how-to-edit-wikip…
If you plan to view via Livestream from a different city, please let
me know of your interest at alice.backer(a)gmail.com.
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ANNOUNCEMENT:
http://bklynlib.org/15tFUphhttp://bklynlib.org/15tGPGd
PROPOSAL:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/AFROcroWd_and_Interglider.ORG/Ou…)
BACKGROUND:
Against the backdrop of Black History Month, the workshops seek to
further the International Decade for People of African Descent’s
development and education goals and Wikimedia’s goal of increasing its
reach. Technology companies Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo and Twitter have
recently reported that their workforce is 2% Black, a figure
non-proportionate to the 13% of Blacks living in the United States.
The Black Twitter phenomenon shows that Afrodescendants have
successfully taken to social media as an organizing tool. Exposing
more Afrodescendants to Wikimedia has the potential to take this foray
a step further and transfer skills that might deepen Afrodescendant
exploration of online technology. But beyond it all, editing Wikipedia
alone or as a group is a constructive and rewarding way to spend time
online.
The workshops will be the first in a series of activities by Afro Free
Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD), a new initiative which
seeks to increase the number of people of African Descent who actively
partake in the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software
movements. The workshops are open to all Afrodescendants including but
not limited to individuals who self-identify as African,
African-American, Afro-Latino, Biracial, Black, Black-American,
Caribbean, Garifuna, Haitian or West Indian.
Although the February workshops will be held in English, they will
take into account that many Afrodescendant groups in the United States
might find that access to Wikipedia’s multilingual crowdsourcing
platform can help them transfer free knowledge to populations of
African descent outside of the United States that they are connected
to through origin or direct familial bonds. Multilingual
Afrodescendants may also want to use such platforms to develop and
maintain online bodies of relevant knowledge in native languages such
as Garifuna, Haitian Kreyòl, Igbo, Spanish, Twi or Yoruba, thereby
contributing to the survival of and increasing their proficiency in
those languages while also feeling more culturally grounded.
WHERE:
Brooklyn Public Library
Main Branch
10 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn. NY
http://www.bklynlibrary.org/
(Subway: 2,3, 4 to Grand Army Plaza)
FOUNDERS
AfroCROWD founders are Alice Backer, founder of www.kiskeacity.com,
www.haitianbloggers.com, and Global Voices Lingua, a Brooklyn-based
lawyer, blogger and free knowledge and culture enthusiast who has been
aggregating and disseminating Haitian online expression since 2005 and
has launched citizen media campaigns in Haiti, the Caribbean, Africa
and the United States and Milos Rancic, founder of Anarchopedia,
veteran Wikimedian with over 10 years in the movement, Wikimedia
Language Committee member and chair of Interglider.ORG. Milica
Gudovic, Interglider.ORG's CEO, participant to the process of
localization of Creative Commons Licenses for Serbia and experienced
feminist activist of 20 years, has lended considerable time and
expertise to our grant proposal and will help us with training in the
coming months.
STAY UPDATED VIA FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/afroCROWD
A L I C E B A C K E R
Haitian Blog Aggregator: http://haitianbloggers.com
LOF1804 Podcast: http://www.kiskeacity.com
Blog: http://www.kiskeacity.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kiskeacity
Newsletter: Kiskeácity Daily
skype: alicebacker
Dear Anna,
Thank you for encouraging words.
> *Because your proposal suggests creating and improving health and medical
> content, it would be good if you would coordinate with WikiProject Medicine
> (on English Wikipedia):
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine> *
Thanks for suggestion, will definitely look into the same.
> *And because your proposal involves outreach to university students, it
> would be good if you and I could discuss your plans, too. *
Looking forward for your guidance and support. :-)
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Warm Regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
User:AbhiSuryawanshi
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Anna Koval <akoval(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Dear Abhishek,
>
> Thank you for sharing your IdeaLab proposal. And thank you for wanting to
> improve the Indic language content on the Wikimedia projects.
>
> Because your proposal suggests creating and improving health and medical
> content, it would be good if you would coordinate with WikiProject Medicine
> (on English Wikipedia):
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine
>
> And because your proposal involves outreach to university students, it
> would be good if you and I could discuss your plans, too.
>
> I look forward to talking with you soon.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Anna Koval, M.Ed.
> Manager, Wikipedia Education Program
> Wikimedia Foundation
> +1.415.839.6885 x 6729
> annakoval.wiki on Skype
> akoval(a)wikimedia.org
> education.wikimedia.org
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Abhishek Suryawanshi <
> i.abhishek.suryawanshi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Happy New Year everyone! :)
>>
>> We are planning Indic Language Wikipedia workshops in U.S.
>> Please go through Project Link :
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Indic_Language_Wikipedia_Out…
>>
>> Project idea What is the problem you're trying to solve?
>>
>> Indic languages represent a large portion of languages used worldwide.
>> The number of contributors for Indic languages has been lagging other
>> language families for a variety of reasons. Internet connectivity in India
>> being limited/expensive is a major reason among them. Indic wikiprojects
>> have beens working to encourage more contributors for Indic Languages.
>>
>> There are a number of areas on Indic wikipedias where content is either
>> lacking or is of poor quality. Health-related content is a prime example of
>> this.
>> Potential for solution
>>
>> There is a strong and diverse Indian diaspora in the United States.
>> Eastern Seaboard has a large number of Indian expats that have either
>> settled there or live there for work/business. This was evidenced by the
>> 20,000+ people attending a speech in Hindi by the Prime Minister of India
>> at Madison Square Garden, New York.
>>
>> In general, the Indian origin community in the United States has very
>> high literacy rates. They are also well-versed in English as well as at
>> least one of Indic languages. Access to Internet is not an issue for this
>> demographic. Enthusiasm for advancement of Indic languages is also evident
>> by the many initiatives being pursued by this group.
>> What is your solution?
>>
>>
>> 1. Dedicated workshops for Indian Languages in United States of
>> America.
>> 2. Informal User Group to conduct periodic meetings/offline events.
>> 3. Collaboration with local chapters and editors to improve Offline
>> Wikipedia in Indian Languages.
>> 4. Special content (health related articles/essential medicines info
>> etc) on Indic Wikipedia can be improved by specialized dedicated group of
>> Indian medical students in U.S.
>> 5. Collaboration with (U.S based) like minded individuals and
>> organizations dedicated to improve Open Knowledge movement in India.
>>
>> Pilot Project
>>
>> Outreach events in
>>
>> - New York,
>> - Washington D.C,
>> - Boston
>> - Colorado Springs
>>
>>
>> - A session here will serve as an aide to developing and/or
>> fine-tuning presentations and sequence of activities.
>>
>>
>> - San Diego.
>>
>> Goals
>>
>> - Reach out to more Indians to increase their understanding of how
>> Indic Language Wikimedia projects work, and enable them to pass this
>> knowledge on to others.
>> - Improving and building upon contributions to Wikimedia projects in
>> English, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Commons etc.
>> - Increasing visibility, reach and access to Wikimedia projects
>> amongst Indian Americans, especially in students.
>> - Sign up students interested in our various activities & any other
>> training workshops planned.
>> - Conduct outreach sessions in universities, student fests, fairs etc.
>>
>> Other benefits
>>
>> - A strong, diverse and engaged students community.
>> - Growth in editorship and readership from U.S.
>>
>>
>> We look forward to hear from you. Kindly share your views here -
>>
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Indic_Language_Wikipedia_Out…
>>
>> Keep Supporting, Keep Inspiring :-)
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Warm Regards,
>>
>> Abhishek Suryawanshi
>> User:AbhiSuryawanshi
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Education mailing list
>> Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Education mailing list
> Education(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education
>
>
Hello,
Happy New Year everyone! :)
We are planning Indic Language Wikipedia workshops in U.S.
Please go through Project Link :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Indic_Language_Wikipedia_Out…
Project idea What is the problem you're trying to solve?
Indic languages represent a large portion of languages used worldwide. The
number of contributors for Indic languages has been lagging other language
families for a variety of reasons. Internet connectivity in India being
limited/expensive is a major reason among them. Indic wikiprojects have
beens working to encourage more contributors for Indic Languages.
There are a number of areas on Indic wikipedias where content is either
lacking or is of poor quality. Health-related content is a prime example of
this.
Potential for solution
There is a strong and diverse Indian diaspora in the United States. Eastern
Seaboard has a large number of Indian expats that have either settled there
or live there for work/business. This was evidenced by the 20,000+ people
attending a speech in Hindi by the Prime Minister of India at Madison
Square Garden, New York.
In general, the Indian origin community in the United States has very high
literacy rates. They are also well-versed in English as well as at least
one of Indic languages. Access to Internet is not an issue for this
demographic. Enthusiasm for advancement of Indic languages is also evident
by the many initiatives being pursued by this group.
What is your solution?
1. Dedicated workshops for Indian Languages in United States of America.
2. Informal User Group to conduct periodic meetings/offline events.
3. Collaboration with local chapters and editors to improve Offline
Wikipedia in Indian Languages.
4. Special content (health related articles/essential medicines info
etc) on Indic Wikipedia can be improved by specialized dedicated group of
Indian medical students in U.S.
5. Collaboration with (U.S based) like minded individuals and
organizations dedicated to improve Open Knowledge movement in India.
Pilot Project
Outreach events in
- New York,
- Washington D.C,
- Boston
- Colorado Springs
- A session here will serve as an aide to developing and/or fine-tuning
presentations and sequence of activities.
- San Diego.
Goals
- Reach out to more Indians to increase their understanding of how Indic
Language Wikimedia projects work, and enable them to pass this knowledge on
to others.
- Improving and building upon contributions to Wikimedia projects in
English, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Commons etc.
- Increasing visibility, reach and access to Wikimedia projects amongst
Indian Americans, especially in students.
- Sign up students interested in our various activities & any other
training workshops planned.
- Conduct outreach sessions in universities, student fests, fairs etc.
Other benefits
- A strong, diverse and engaged students community.
- Growth in editorship and readership from U.S.
We look forward to hear from you. Kindly share your views here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Indic_Language_Wikipedia_Out…
Keep Supporting, Keep Inspiring :-)
--
Warm Regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
User:AbhiSuryawanshi
Hi all,
The UC Riverside libraries are holding three edit-a-thons as part of
Wikipedia Loves Libraries, on Oct. 12, Oct. 26, and Nov. 23 (all are
Saturdays).
Details are here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Riverside/WLL/2013
The edit-a-thons will focus on the very cool special collections at the
Riverside libraries, including the Eaton Collection of Science Fiction and
Fantasy: http://eaton.ucr.edu/ -- "the largest publicly-accessible
collection of science fiction, fantasy, horror and utopian literature in
the world."
Other special collections that editors might want to use include the Water
Resources Archive (http://library.ucr.edu/wrca/), and a collection on the
Tuskegee Airmen archive (http://library.ucr.edu/tuskegee/). And of course
all of the other UCR library resources will be available as well.
This is a fantastic opportunity to take advantage of a great library and
librarians who are eager to share their collections! If you can attend in
person please do, or if not consider participating remotely -- feel free to
make reference requests on the talk page :) And please encourage your
friends in southern California to attend.
-- Phoebe
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Phoebe Ayers
Wikimedia Foundation | UC Davis Libraries
http://phoebeayers.info
Forwarding to a few chapter mailing lists, please feel free to forward to
any that I might have missed!
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From: Howie Fung <hfung(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 18 May 2013 06:58
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Hiring Community Liaisons (Contract)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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Hey all,
For the last 18 months, the Engineering & Product Development department
has been experimenting with the role of “Community Liaison, Product
Development” - a staff member embedded in the Product team and tasked with
factoring community concerns into our software development process, keeping
editors informed about what we’re doing, and maintaining a dialogue between
those who write code and those who write articles.
While there is always room for improvement, I think this role has shown a
lot of promise. We have a number of large projects coming down the
pipeline (e.g., visual editor, discussion systems) and we need more help
reaching out to our contributor communities, especially our non-English
speaking projects, as our outreach there has traditionally been challenged.
We’d like to recruit a small number of English-speaking or multilingual
editors to do the Community Liaison job with different development teams
and focuses.
In particular we’re looking for people with a strong history of
contributions to our projects who can provide sound and reasoned judgment
and are trusted to do so by their community. Speaking other languages in
addition to English is a major plus, as one of the objectives here is to
ensure we can properly interact with and support non-English projects.
I’ve included the full job description below.
Our immediate need is for help with the Visual Editor. We’d like to hire a
few community liaisons to help inform different Wikipedia language
communities of the upcoming launch, create spaces for feedback and
discussion, synthesize feedback for the Visual Editor team, and other
activities required to support the Visual Editor launch later this year.
If this is a role that would interest you, please e-mail Philippe Beaudette
at pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org<
https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=pbeaudette@wikimedia.org
>.
And if you know someone else who might fit the role, let them know about
it :-). We’re provisionally interested in hiring 2-3 liaisons, at an hourly
rate commensurate with experience. This can be a part-time role, but we’ll
need at least 15 hours/week for the length of the engagement (minimum 3
months). Please do apply if you think it’s a role that suits you, and if
you find places we haven’t notified, spread the word!
Thanks.
Howie
*
_________________________
Howie Fung
Director of Product Development
Wikimedia Foundation
*
Community Liaison Job Description
Background Information and Statement of Purpose
The Wikimedia Foundation’s Engineering & Product Development Department is
looking at ways to more effectively incorporate broad community
perspectives in decisions and hold dialogues with our editors about the
scope, pace and features of upcoming changes to Wikimedia projects. As part
of this, it is hiring additional Community Liaisons from our volunteer
community.
Scope of Work
Support and improve our ongoing software development projects, in
particular:
-
Building up a network of volunteers from both English language and
non-English language wikis, increasing the number of projects we can
interact with;
-
Engaging the community in the software development process, by acting as
a conduit for community questions, bugs and and feature requests, talking
to editors about our work and how they can participate in it effectively,
and recruiting them for workgroups and studies;
-
Being available from time to time to provide expertise and knowledge
about our projects, including but not limited to training
externally-sourced staff in the way our projects work, answering their
questions, and providing expert advice on an ad-hoc basis;
-
Ensuring that our community is represented in the decision-making
process and that our planned software adequately reflects user needs;
-
Monitoring Wikimedia projects, with the assistance of a network of
volunteers, for emerging issues that have an impact on Engineering
programmes; and
-
Other duties as needed.
Requirements
Effective Community Liaisons will be:
-
Experienced users of Wikimedia projects, capable of representing our
community within the Foundation and vice-versa.
-
Strong communicators (both verbally and with the written word), able to
explain our products to different groups of users with different levels
of
technical understanding.
-
Able to focus on the larger picture, understanding which concerns and
views are widespread and which are marginal or individual.
-
Approachable, as both users and product developers must be able to trust
these people for the relationship to function.
-
Self-motivated - they will be given important projects and expected to
execute with little to no supervision.
-
Strongly empathetic - they excel at understanding the perspectives of
others and bridging the gap between different approaches to the world.
-
Willing and able to remain resilient in the face of frustration from our
users, in order to get the job done.
Pluses
Other positive attributes or areas of knowledge include:
-
Diverse language skills. While the Wikimedia Foundation communicates
internally in English, we aim to be able to talk to our different
communities natively.
-
Experience with the software development process. You will be thrown
into teams that are actively working on new features; having a background
that reduces the slope of your learning curve is a plus.
- Familiarity with multiple Wikimedia projects is a major plus; we are
about more than just Wikipedia.
*
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