Hello all,
Here is a quick update on Outreachy Round 25: we recently concluded the
final call for projects and mentors and are now promoting 6 projects led by
14 mentors. If you know someone who cleared the Outreachy's initial
eligibility check, encourage them to explore the Wikimedia projects below:
- Create a web application for editing Toolhub records, mentored by:
Slavina Stefanova, Damilare Adedoyin, Roy Smith
- Develop features for Wiki Loves Monuments app, mentored by: Ederporto,
Mike Peel
- Rewrite Imagebulk tool to scale up, mentored by: Jay Prakash,
Sudhanshu Gautam
- Write a Ruby gem for analyzing Wikidata edits, mentored by: Sage Ross,
Will Kent
- Develop a web app for patrolling based on the new ML-based service to
predict reverts, mentored by: Diego Saez-Trumper, Muniza A.
- Hybrid event production for QueeringWikipedia 2023, mentored by: Z.
Blace, Owen Blacker, Freddy eduardo
If you are interested in any of these projects, you can either subscribe to
the related Phabricator tickets or share your ideas and suggestions in a
comment.
Learn more here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_25> [1]
Cheers,
Srishti
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_25
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear friends of math in Wikipedia,
Last year our effort was focused on improving the W3C standard MathML;
we shifted the focus this year back to the implementation of Math
rendering.
A new purely PHP and MathML-based math rendering pipeline is in the
making and will be available as an opt-in by the end of the year,
simultaneously with the shipment of MathML in the latest Chrome
version.
Since we do not want to carry on PNG images in the year 2023, we are
currently removing them from the rendering pipeline.
For 2023, we intend to improve speed and accessibility for
mathematical formulae and enable popups (similar to the popups for
references) that display semantics when hovering formulae.
All the best
André and Moritz
PS: More information is available here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Math
Dear all,
Our latest WIKIMOVE Episode on regional and thematic Hubs has just dropped!
Check it out on our website and feel free to react to it on our meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WIKIMOVE> to continue the conversation:
https://www.wikimedia.de/wikimove-site/podcast/episode-6-hubs/
What's in this episode?
Regional and thematic hubs continue to be the hot topic among many
Wikimedians pursuant to the strategy recommendations. Many affiliates and
volunteers have done hub-like work for a long time, and hubs now seem to
provide a vehicle to formalize and financially sustain that work. The idea
of having structures that help people share resources, do fundraising
together, and make decisions at the regional level reverberates with many.
Today we have Johnny Allegre and Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska to give us
updates on hub activities in Asia and Eastern Europe.
Our guests are....
-
Johnny Alegre, President of Philippine WIkimedia Community UG and member
of the ESEAP Hub
-
Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska, Community Support Team Manager at Wikimedia
Poland and member of the CEE Hub Interim Steering Committee
If you haven’t done so already, please fill out our evaluation survey to
help us adapt WIKIMOVE to your needs and wishes for 2023:
https://lime.wikimedia.de/index.php/837944?lang=en
We look forward to your reactions on our show!
Your WIKIMOVE Team
--
Eva Martin
Project Assistant Movement Strategy and Global Relations
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 219 158 26-0
https://wikimedia.de
Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia,
Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German):
https://www.wikimedia.de/newsletter/
Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V.
Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter
der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für
Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.
Hi Everyone,
For those who were reading the email in text based format and were NOT able
to see the table, here is a text based-summary.
The days will look like this:
August 15, Tuesday: Pre-conference (Option day), other activities
August 16, Wednesday: Opening plenary and other activities
August 17, Thursday: CORE CONFERENCE
August 18, Friday: CORE CONFERENCE
August 19, Saturday: CORE CONFERENCE, closing plenary
August 20, Sunday: Pre-conference (Option day), other activities
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject to change, per program committee planning
For further inquiries, please write to wikimania(a)wikimedia.org.
My apology. Thanks.
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
Event Leader, Singapore
On behalf of the ESEAP Wikimania Core Organizing Team
*Wikimedia ESEAP refers to East, South East Asia and the Pacific.*
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 7:06 AM ESEAP Wikimania Core Organizing Team <
> wikimania2023(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Everyone!
>>
>> Mark your calendars! Singapore is calling. Wikimania 2023 will run from
>> 16-19 August.
>>
>> This year’s theme is *Diversity. Collaboration. Future. *
>>
>> Diversity. Wikimania will be an opportunity to showcase ESEAP as an
>> example of inclusion: different volunteer groups, individuals, and
>> affiliates, at different stages of development, different cultures but
>> closely involved in an equitable way.
>>
>> Collaboration. As a distributed growth mechanism, Wikimania will be a
>> way to learn and share new knowledge like tools usage, organizing events /
>> online campaigns, solving a Wiki-related problem and many others.
>>
>> Future. Wikimania is also significant to many Wikimedians as Wikimania
>> 2023 will also be a forum to discuss implementing the Wikimedia Movement
>> Strategy (#Wikimedia2030) and discuss other future-thinking topics.
>>
>>
>> The days will look like this:
>>
>> Pre-conference
>>
>>
>> *Option day*
>>
>> CORE CONFERENCE
>>
>> Post-conference
>>
>>
>> *Option day*
>>
>> August 15
>>
>> Tuesday
>>
>> August 16
>>
>> Wednesday
>>
>> August 17
>>
>> Thursday
>>
>> August 18
>>
>> Friday
>>
>> August 19
>>
>> Saturday
>>
>> August 20
>>
>> Sunday
>>
>> Trainings
>>
>>
>> Committee Meetings
>>
>>
>> Regional and Thematic Meetings
>>
>> Summits
>>
>> Casual meet-ups
>>
>>
>> Tech collabs, hacks
>>
>>
>> Editathons, Datathons,
>>
>> Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc.
>>
>>
>> Opening ceremony
>>
>> Trainings
>>
>> Committee Meetings
>>
>>
>> Regional and Thematic Meetings
>>
>>
>> Summits
>>
>> Casual meet-ups
>>
>>
>> Tech collabs, hacks
>>
>> Editathons, Datathons,
>>
>> Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc.
>>
>>
>> Opening reception
>>
>> Day of programming
>>
>>
>> Lectures
>>
>>
>> Round Tables
>>
>>
>> Panel discussion
>>
>>
>> Trainings
>>
>>
>> Remote presentation
>>
>>
>> Tech presentations
>>
>>
>> Tech collabs, hacks
>>
>> Casual meet-ups
>>
>> Editathons, Datathons,
>>
>> Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc.
>>
>> Day of programming
>>
>>
>> Lectures
>>
>>
>> Round Tables
>>
>>
>> Panel discussion
>>
>>
>> Trainings
>>
>>
>> Remote presentation
>>
>>
>> Tech presentations
>>
>>
>> Tech collabs, hacks
>>
>>
>> Casual meet-ups
>>
>> Editathons, Datathons,
>>
>> Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc.
>>
>> Day of programming
>>
>>
>> Lectures
>>
>>
>> Panel discussion
>>
>>
>> Remote presentation
>>
>>
>> Tech presentations
>>
>>
>> Tech collabs, hacks
>>
>>
>> Closing ceremony
>>
>> Evening dinner & party
>>
>> Thematic culture and heritage day
>>
>>
>> Casual tours and other activities such as commons photo walks,
>> editathons, datathons, and many others.
>>
>> *Subject to change, per program committee planning*
>>
>>
>> Scholarships and program submissions are opening in January. So start
>> thinking about this year’s theme and how your work contributes to it.
>>
>> For further inquiries, please write to wikimania(a)wikimedia.org.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> *Butch Bustria*
>> Event Leader, Singapore
>> On behalf of the ESEAP Wikimania Core Organizing Team
>>
>>
>> *Wikimedia ESEAP refers to East, South East Asia and the Pacific.*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
Hi, Everyone!
Mark your calendars! Singapore is calling. Wikimania 2023 will run from
16-19 August.
This year’s theme is *Diversity. Collaboration. Future. *
Diversity. Wikimania will be an opportunity to showcase ESEAP as an example
of inclusion: different volunteer groups, individuals, and affiliates, at
different stages of development, different cultures but closely involved in
an equitable way.
Collaboration. As a distributed growth mechanism, Wikimania will be a way
to learn and share new knowledge like tools usage, organizing events /
online campaigns, solving a Wiki-related problem and many others.
Future. Wikimania is also significant to many Wikimedians as Wikimania 2023
will also be a forum to discuss implementing the Wikimedia Movement
Strategy (#Wikimedia2030) and discuss other future-thinking topics.
The days will look like this:
Pre-conference
*Option day*
CORE CONFERENCE
Post-conference
*Option day*
August 15
Tuesday
August 16
Wednesday
August 17
Thursday
August 18
Friday
August 19
Saturday
August 20
Sunday
Trainings
Committee Meetings
Regional and Thematic Meetings
Summits
Casual meet-ups
Tech collabs, hacks
Editathons, Datathons,
Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc.
Opening ceremony
Trainings
Committee Meetings
Regional and Thematic Meetings
Summits
Casual meet-ups
Tech collabs, hacks
Editathons, Datathons,
Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc.
Opening reception
Day of programming
Lectures
Round Tables
Panel discussion
Trainings
Remote presentation
Tech presentations
Tech collabs, hacks
Casual meet-ups
Editathons, Datathons,
Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc.
Day of programming
Lectures
Round Tables
Panel discussion
Trainings
Remote presentation
Tech presentations
Tech collabs, hacks
Casual meet-ups
Editathons, Datathons,
Content Translations, Wikisource, Citation Hunt, etc.
Day of programming
Lectures
Panel discussion
Remote presentation
Tech presentations
Tech collabs, hacks
Closing ceremony
Evening dinner & party
Thematic culture and heritage day
Casual tours and other activities such as commons photo walks, editathons,
datathons, and many others.
*Subject to change, per program committee planning*
Scholarships and program submissions are opening in January. So start
thinking about this year’s theme and how your work contributes to it.
For further inquiries, please write to wikimania(a)wikimedia.org.
Thanks.
Kind regards,
*Butch Bustria*
Event Leader, Singapore
On behalf of the ESEAP Wikimania Core Organizing Team
*Wikimedia ESEAP refers to East, South East Asia and the Pacific.*
Hello wikimedians!
The annual report of Whose Knowledge? for the period September 2021 - September 2022 is available on Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Whose_Knowledge%3F/Reports/2022
Here is a brief summary of what you will find there:
- 2022 marked the 5th edition of the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign. The 2022 campaign brought over 1100 images to Wikimedia Commons so far.
- This year, we brought the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign physically to the Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa #FIFAfrica2022, in Lusaka Zambia.
- We launched the State of the Internet's Languages report in an online event with the participation of contributors, partners and allies.
- We published “Decolonizing the Internet’s Structured Data – Summary Report”, a collective analysis of the power dynamics of online structured data, with translations to Spanish and Portuguese.
- We co-organized the Decolonizing the Internet East Africa (DTI-EA) convening, that took place in Lusaka, Zambia, in collaboration with the pan-African feminist network FEMNET.
- Our initiative Honouring Our Guardians continues centers the leadership of Indigenous women activists, policy makers and scholars from different parts of the world through an international/translocal community of praxis for climate justice.
- We are consolidating our program Decolonizing the Internet’s Archives (Whose Digital Archives?) and supporting the partners in developing their projects.
- In 2022, we engaged in critical conversations in the Wikimedia movement around knowledge justice and the inclusion of the marginalized majority of the world.
Please visit the full report to learn more and access our thematic reports and multimedia materials.
Stay tuned through our website (https://whoseknowledge.org/), social media channels (@whoseknowledge on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook) and consider
subscribing to our newsletter (https://whoseknowledge.org/join/), or reach out us in our discussion page on Meta (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Whose_Knowledge%3F).
In solidarity,
Mariana and the Whose Knowledge? team
Hi all,
As part of an ongoing The Future of Meetings (TFOM) x Science For the
Public Good (S4PG) event series, we're hosting a Wikimedia-focused event
on the 29th November, featuring Cristian Consonni, Amanda Jurno, and
Daniel Mietchen.
The TFOM x S4PG series of free events aims to initiate discussions about
what Science for the Public Good may look like and how it can be
achieved, and to showcase how mixed reality approaches can improve how
we interact and share our research. We've already had some fantastic
discussions around citizen science, and diversity and inclusion, and our
next event is fast approaching.
This next event will happen on 29th November 2022 at 13:00 UTC (00:00
AEDT), and it will be focused on Open Data, Wikimedia and Science for
the Public Good. We'll be hearing from experts in this space on creating
positive outcomes for the public good through dissemination of and
access to scientific data and knowledge, including as open tools for
education.
The event will take place in Altspace, and you can participate in the
event with a VR headset or through a computer via the Altspace
application. You can also watch it on a livestream, and ask questions
via Slack.
Accessibility grants are also available for, e.g., care arrangements
during the event, internet connectivity, or to subsidise the cost of
buying a VR headset. For more information, please see
https://s4pg.tfom.org/accessibility-grants/
For more information on the series and to register for this event,
please see eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/s4pg-x-tfom-themed-gathering-open-data-wikimed…
and our website: https://s4pg.tfom.org/
Thanks,
Mike, on behalf of TFOM
Hi,
Over the past year I've had the pleasure to serve on one of WIkimedia's
regional funding committees
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Committees>. Together, these
committees get to allocate several millions of grant funding on behalf of
our movement.
As I tried to have conversations about that, I noticed that the actual
amounts that each committee is allowed to allocate in their region, is not
published. I asked about this, and the response I get is that this is
"internal information" and it might make things cluttered (I don't know if
this is because the question got stuck in bureaucracy or because there is
an actual concern for clutter - I do have to admit that the grants pages
can be terribly confusing, but don't see how these numbers would change
that).
I believe that it is important for transparency reasons, if not essential,
that we all know how much money in grants we are spending and will be
spending over the years in the various regions. Is there a stronger reason
to keep this information confidential/secret?
Thanks!
Lodewijk
Hi everyone,
We are glad to announce that Wikimedia Deutschland has published the
event report for the Wikimedia Summit 2022 on Meta.[1] Besides general
information and financial reporting, we also shared some crucial
lessons learned from organising the first global hybrid Wikimedia
event. We hope that others can learn from our experience and develop
new standards and guidelines to run hybrid events in the future. Part
of the report is also the evaluation of participants’ feedback
(PDF).[2]
If you haven’t looked at the event documentation yet, we also invite
you to read our full report on the Summit program.[3]
Happy reading!
Nicole
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2022/Event-report
[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Resultst_of_the_Wikimedia_Summit_20…
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2022/Documentation
--
Nicole Ebber
Director Movement Strategy and Global Relations
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 577 11 62-0
https://wikimedia.de
Keep up to date! Current news and exciting stories about Wikimedia,
Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in our newsletter (in German):
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Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.
V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts
Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig
anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin,
Steuernummer 27/029/42207.