Hi Everyone,
How is underrepresented knowledge on wikimedia projects addressed through
new ways of contributions? Intangible cultural heritage of different tribes
in Africa is one such knowledge facing underrepresentation on wikimedia
projects. As indigenous people migrate to cities; face an aging population
of cultural guardians and a strong tradition of oral storytelling, it is
important to save the voices of knowledge at the brink of extinction.
See how
<https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PLcKx0IEGrBKnp455hFAxxv5AFNz5GeY?us…>
the Wikimedia Foundation is supporting community efforts to digitize
endangered igbo dances in Nigeria through the AID project
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Audiovisuals_of_Igbo_Dances_(AID)_Project>.
Kind regards,
Euphemia Uwandu,
On behalf of the Project Team
Friends of education in the Wikimedia universe,
We in the Wikipedia & Education User Group are happy to share our 2022
annual report, now available: [[meta:Wikipedia & Education User Group/2022
Annual Report
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/2022_Ann…>
]]
Highlights include:
* Our diverse membership of 378 Wikimedians and 20 affiliates
** Not a member? Join us! [[meta:Wikipedia & Education User Group/Members
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/Members>
]]
* Open meetings of our membership, highlighting educational activities
happening all over the world
* Our mentorship program, with 36 participants this year
* Planning for the EduWiki Conference 2023, which will be held in Belgrade,
Serbia, in May
** Remember, the deadline for application to attend, with or without a
scholarship, is Sunday! More info: [[meta:EduWiki Conference 2023
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/EduWiki_Conference_2023>]]
* A forthcoming book chapter about the global Wikipedia Education Program
* And more!
We are happy to answer questions on the talk page.
LiAnna
Chair, Wikipedia & Education User Group
Hi Everyone,
*The WikiforHumanRights 2023 campaign is delivering capacity building
sessions *to support campaign organizers and participants to build their
capacity in leading the campaign.
*Are you a WikiforHumanRights 2023 organizer, participant or someone
interested in learning how to build a topic list using available tools?*
*The training sessions on 24 & 28 February are just for you.*
Register for both sessions in the links below:
*Tools for finding the right articles24 February 2023*
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIof-CqrjssGNz6wPUNUSZQAMAHj6vT…
*Building Article List with Petscan28 February 2023*
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAudeygqD8oEtFHDdxNypzLVeRz9_3b…
We are happy to answer any questions or comments you might have.
Best,
Euphemia
مرحبا بالجميع,
تقدم حملة ويكي تغير المناخ 2023 جلسات لبناء القدرات لدعم منظمي الحملة
والمشاركين لبناء قدراتهم في قيادة الحملة.
هل أنت منظم لحملة ويكي تغير المناخ لعام 2023 أو مشارك فيها؟ أو حتى تهتم
بتعلم كيفية إنشاء قائمة المواضيع باستخدام الأدوات المتاحة؟
الدورات التدريبية في 24 و 28 فبراير هي لك تماماً.
سجل في كلتا الدورتين في الروابط أدناه:
أدوات للعثور على المقالات الصحيحة
24 فبراير 2023
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIof-CqrjssGNz6wPUNUSZQAMAHj6vT…https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIof-CqrjssGNz6wPUNUSZQAMAHj6vT…
قائمة
المواضيع عبر أداة Petscan
28 فبراير 2023
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAudeygqD8oEtFHDdxNypzLVeRz9_3b…
(
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAudeygqD8oEtFHDdxNypzLVeRz9_3b…
تترددوا
بالتواصل معنا لأي استفسار..
Bonjour à tous,
La campagne WikiforHumanRights 2023 organise des sessions de renforcement
des capacités afin d'aider les organisateurs et les participants de la
campagne à construire leur campagne en la dirigeant.
*Êtes-vous un organisateur de la campagne WikiforHumanRights 2023, un
participant ou quelqu'un qui souhaite apprendre comment construire une
liste de sujets en utilisant les outils disponibles ?*
*Les sessions de formation des 24 et 28 février sont faites pour vous.*
Inscrivez-vous aux deux sessions en cliquant sur les liens ci-dessous :
*Outils pour trouver les bons articles*
*24 février 2023*
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIof-CqrjssGNz6wPUNUSZQAMAHj6vT…
*Construire une liste d'articles avec Petscan*
*28 février 2023*
https://wikimedia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAudeygqD8oEtFHDdxNypzLVeRz9_3b…
Nous sommes heureux de répondre à toutes vos questions ou commentaires.
Meilleur,
Euphemia
Hi everyone,
To respond to the gender gap and create opportunities to strengthen the
gender diverse content on Wikipedia, the Gender Organizing community in the
Wikimedia Movement hosts an annual campaign
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women> during International
Women’s Month. This campaign is an important opportunity for the Wikimedia
movement to engage with the work of different communities highlighting the
gender gap in each Wikimedia project.
On 16 February 2023, the Campaigns Programs team held an office hour with
Gender Organizers from across the movement. Some key highlights from the
discussion included:
-
An overview of the volunteer-led Central Notice banner for this year’s
International Women’s Day campaign, with a request for translation support
for the banner and feedback.
-
An overview of the new event registration tool to support gender
organizers with an improved user-experience for newcomers joining events.
-
An overview of community planned campaign events surrounding gender on
the Projects for this year’s campaign.
Participants to the event also highlighted a desire for more strategic
support in:
-
Ensuring an intersectional approach to gender content on the Projects,
including facilitating gender visibility on key content areas such as
climate and sustainability, and elevating LGBTIQ+ content to ensure that
gender campaigning was inclusive, reflexive and expansive.
-
Facilitating and coordinating ongoing gender campaigning on Wikipedia,
and other projects (like WikiData), to ensure lively and ongoing content
curation in this important area beyond Women’s History Month (March).
-
Bringing in strategic partnerships at an international, regional and
local level to support and amplify gender campaigns on the projects e.g. a
similar partnership to the UNHRC and #Wiki4HumanRights.
Specific Product Support requested by gender organizers in the office hour
included:
-
A request for an on-Wiki calendar of events that allowed participants to
view and plan their contributions more systematically.
-
A request to review the Women in Red redlists
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/Redlist_in…>,
which are updated by Listeria Query service, but are not updating often any
more. This is an issue connected to ongoing maintenance of key
volunteer-built listbuilding tools.
You can learn more about the discussion by watching the recording here.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Women_History_Month_Conversation>
What happens Next?
As an immediate priority, there is a request for support with translating
the Central Notice <https://w.wiki/6NPg>banner, and adding planned campaign
events to the Event landing page.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women> There is also a request
for support for updating translations of the event page itself.
During March, there is also an opportunity to share your events with the
WMF for amplification with the movement and external audiences via social
media. Have an event you’d like to share or have profiled? Get in touch
with the Campaigns team <campaigns(a)wikimedia.org>for more information.
On 15 March 2023, you are also invited to join the Wikimedia Research
Showcase, <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Showcase> which
will be focused on gender and equity on Wikipedia. The session will feature
research presentations by Sneh Gupta, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha
University, and Jiao Sun, University of Southern California. You can join
the livestream <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4MzJgDIzo> and ask
questions in the chat..
Lastly, look out for future announcements for how we plan to address the
identified gaps and opportunities elevated in the Office Hour.
*Masana Mulaudzi (She/Her)*
Senior Manager, Campaigns Programs
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Hi Wikimedians,
I hope this email finds you well!
We are happy to share with you our annual report for the year 2022.
Here is the link to the report
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDRC-UG/Reports/Annual/2022>. We will
appreciate any feedback you might have for us.
Thanks and best regards,
Thanks to all mentors for their participation! Results are out - Wikimedia
got accepted as a mentoring organization in GSoC 2023. There is still a
month before the contributor application period begins (on March 20th), in
case you would like to propose more projects. All the finalized ideas are
published here: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2023>
[1]. For Outreachy, we have finalized two project ideas <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_26> [2]; contributors who
meet the eligibility criteria will be able to view the project details and
contribute from March 6th onwards.
Cheers,
Srishti, Sohom & Gopa (Wikimedia Org Admins)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2023
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_26
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 9:09 AM Susanna Ånäs <susanna.anas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. I am reposting the Wikidocumentaries proposal as I somehow managed to
> send it to a separate thread, so here we go!
>
> Thank you for the opportunity, we are excited to join this round of GSoC
> with this Wikidocumentaries proposal!
>
> Wikidocumentaries[1] is a website that provides a language-independent way
> of browsing Wikimedia projects based on Wikidata items. It displays media
> from external repositories and integrates them as part of the pages. The
> idea is to allow the users to find relevant open content and contribute it
> to the Wikimedia projects by using the content for their purposes.
>
> So far, Wikidocumentaries has not been enabled for contributions to
> Wikimedia projects. The goal of the GSoC project is to establish the entire
> process for retrieving media from a given media repository related to the
> currently viewed topic in Wikidocumentaries, displaying it in
> Wikidocumentaries and uploading it to Wikimedia Commons, adding structured
> data statements to it.
>
> When this workflow has been completed, it will be possible to make
> available further features to match, enrich or organize the data. It is
> possible to expand the work to these areas, based on the interests of the
> intern.
>
> Tech: The UI code is created with Vue, and the API code is JavaScript. The
> work focuses on Structured Data on Commons, therefore understanding of the
> MediaWiki API, Wikidata and Structured Data on Commons is needed.
>
> * Mentors: TuukkaH, Susannaanas
> * Codebase: GitHub[2]
> * Phabricator: Ticket[3], Project[4], Microtasks[5]
> * Documentation website[6]
>
> Looking forward to tackling these issues together!
>
> Cheers
> Susanna & Tuukka
>
> [1] https://wikidocumentaries-demo.wmcloud.org/
> [2] https://github.com/Wikidocumentaries
> [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329023
> [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikidocumentaries/
> [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329256
> [6] https://wikidocumentaries.wmcloud.org/wiki/Main_Page
>
> la 14. tammik. 2023 klo 1.31 Srishti Sethi (ssethi(a)wikimedia.org)
> kirjoitti:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> TLDR; Wikimedia will soon be applying as a mentoring organization to *Google
>> Summer of Code 2023* <
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2023> [1] and *Outreachy
>> Round 26* <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_26> [2]. We
>> are currently working on a list of interesting project ideas to include in
>> the application. If you have some ideas for *coding or non-coding
>> (design, documentation, translation, outreach, research) projects*,
>> share them by* February 7th* here: <
>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326991> [3]. For non-coding projects
>> that can be promoted via Outreachy, there are only two available slots,
>> which will be allocated to mentors on a first-come, first-serve basis.
>>
>> *Timeline*
>> As a mentor, you will engage potential candidates in the application
>> period for both programs between March and April. You will help candidates
>> make small contributions to your project and answer any project-related
>> queries during this time. You will work more closely with the accepted
>> candidates during the coding period between May and August.
>>
>> *Tips for proposing projects*
>> * Follow this task description template when you propose a project in
>> Phabricator: <
>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects> [4].
>> You can also use this workboard to pick an idea if you don't have one
>> already. Add #Google- Summer-of-Code (2023) or #Outreachy (Round 26) tag.
>> * Project should require an experienced developer ~15 days and a newcomer
>> ~3 months to complete.
>> * Each project should have at least two mentors, including one with a
>> technical background.
>> * Ideally, the project has no tight deadlines, a moderate learning curve,
>> and fewer dependencies on Wikimedia's core infrastructure. Projects
>> addressing the needs of a language community are most welcome.
>>
>> Learn more about the roles and responsibilities of mentors on
>> MediaWiki.org: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors> [5], <
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Mentors> [6].
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Srishti
>>
>> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2023
>>
>> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_26
>>
>> [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326991
>>
>> [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/outreach-programs-projects/
>>
>> [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Mentors
>>
>> [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Mentors
>>
>> *Srishti Sethi*
>> Senior Developer Advocate
>> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>>
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>
Hello everyone,
Our next Conversation with the Trustees
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Community_Affairs_Comm…>
coming up on 23 February at 19:00 UTC (check your local time
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1677178854>). Please save the date, and we
will have the agenda posted on the Meta page closer to the meeting.
As always, the call will be 90 minutes and will have project updates, and Q
& A, either live or sent in advance.
It will be held on Zoom with a live YouTube stream
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGqHUrpU2Rc>. Request the Zoom link or
submit your questions ahead of time by emailing askcac(a)wikimedia.org. You
can also request interpretation up to five days before the event by
emailing askcac(a)wikimedia.org.
Thanks, see you there!
Best regards,
Victoria
--
Victoria Doronina
Trustee
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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