Dear Wikimedians,
Scholarship application for WikiConference Nigeria 2024 is now open.
Wikimedians can now apply for a scholarship to attend the maiden edition of
the conference which will take place in September in Abuja, Nigeria.
More details about the scholarships and all questions in the application
form can be found on the scholarship page on Meta-wiki: https://w.wiki/AFzW
To apply for a scholarship, fill out the application form on:
https://forms.gle/VvXav52CasbkFCfG7
The deadline for submitting a scholarship application is June 15.
Applicants will be notified of decisions in July.
Best,
Ammar
On behalf of the Conference Scholarship Committee
Dear all,
I would like to kindly inform you that the deadline for registering
Affiliate/Community Delegates for the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2024 is
approaching. You can register by June 15th. Please note that the deadline
for registration will not be extended, and the organizers will not be able
to provide you with a scholarship after this date.
Best,
Caner
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Yılmaz Caner Özyayıkçı
Member & Designer
Wikimedians of Turkic Languages User Group
Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey
Wikimedia username: Kurmanbek
[image: emailAddress] caner.ozyayikci(a)wmturkic.org
[image: website] https://wmturkic.org/
[image: address] Türkiye (Turkey)
Hi all,
Today Wikimedia Ukraine, the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia
and free knowledge in Ukraine, turns 15.
We are really grateful to everyone in the Wikimedia movement who've
supported us and participated in our projects over the years – whether by
lending a hand at the onset of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, by
writing about Ukraine on Wikipedia within Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy
Month or CEE Spring, by sharing your experience with us and learning from
ours, and in countless other ways.
To mark the anniversary, we prepared a brief Diff post listing ten of
Wikimedia Ukraine's achievements over the past years & four perspectives
about what WMUA means to our volunteers:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/31/celebrating-15-years-of-wikimedia-ukr…
We would love to hear your stories about Wikimedia Ukraine and its projects
if you have them. Share your memories on social media with the hashtag
#WMUA15 and tag us in your posts – https://x.com/wikimedia_ua;
https://www.facebook.com/Wikimedia.Ukraina/;
https://www.instagram.com/wikimedia_ukraine/.
Hope to see everyone at Wikimania 2030 in Kyiv ;)
Best Regards
Anton Protsiuk
Programs Coordinator at Wikimedia Ukraine
Hello all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st
at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can sign up on this wiki page: <
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Language_engineering/…
>.
This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific
updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues
related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions.
For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine
translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently
supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical
challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your
project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during
the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another
language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(a)wikimedia.org and add
agenda items to the document here: <
https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-may-2024>.
We look forward to your participation!
Cheers,
Jon, Mary, Oscar, Amir and Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Dear all
I wanted to share with you some short animations that Wikimedia UK has
recently launched to better communicate our work.
There are four different animations. The first is a general introduction
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2CIllUMt_8> to the chapter, which is
about 90 seconds long. The other three are about half that length, with
each tackling one of our strategic themes of knowledge equity
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA1TdXweNjs&list=PL66MRMNlLyR7rmF0ylT0fIWxE…>,
information literacy <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7GJGLCw0J0> and
climate <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFWS7hfetZk>.
The target audience for these are people outside of the Wikimedia movement,
but I thought some of you may like to watch them :) They were funded from
historic Gift Aid claims (a form of UK tax relief on charitable donations)
that we received late last year.
Best wishes
Lucy
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Lucy Crompton-Reid
Chief Executive