Hi everyone,
I wanted to share some updates from movement strategy with you. We are
currently integrating feedback into the recommendations and finalizing
them. However, due to the impact of COVID-19, we have adjusted our work
plan and timeline [1] a little.
== Updates to the movement strategy timeline ==
The COVID-19 pandemic is having an enormous effect on people and their
day-to-day lives, and I want to give the core team, strategy liaisons, and
integrators and writers ample space to adjust to this and take some time
for themselves if needed. This means we have slowed down the pace of our
work and now aim to publish the final recommendations in April.
Discussions about implementation will start at the virtual Wikimedia Summit
[2], which will be held online in May (dates are to be confirmed). This
will be the first in a series of virtual events that move from engaging
with the recommendations and transitioning into implementation. We will, of
course, share further updates about this as soon as possible.
== Status update on the recommendations: integrating feedback ==
Over the past few weeks, a team of Wikimedians [3] has been working to
integrate feedback received from the Movement, the Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees, and former working group members who have been reviewing
the content [4]. They have used this to make the ideas and the language
more concise and clear; identify overlaps in content and combine ideas
where applicable; as well as address areas of debate. A lot of rich input
was received from across the Movement, and this has helped improve the
recommendations further. We are grateful for all the feedback. We are
almost there and excited to share the final recommendations with you in
April.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.
Stay safe and healthy,
Nicole
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Overvie…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Summit_2020
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working…
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Leiterin Internationale Beziehungen
Program Manager Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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Hello friends,
We invite you to join us in a 2 week long WikiGap Online Writing contest
starting today 29 April to 13 May.
Amazing prizes are available for participants.
The contest is organized in partnership with the Swedish Embassy in
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Stay Safe
Olaniyan Olushola
A great news and a proud moment for all Indians. Congratulations Dr. Netha.
All my best wishes.
Thanks Subha for sharing.
Best Regards,
Rajeeb.
(U: Marajozkee)
(Sent from my iPhone pardon the brevity)
> On 29-Apr-2020, at 9:03 PM, Parul <sri.parul(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Congratulations, Netha! So proud of you and this award this very well deserved.
>
> Thank you for sharing, Subhashish.
>
>> On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 8:59 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Congratulations Dr. Netha !!
>>
>> And thanks Subha for the update !!
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 8:48 PM Subhashish <psubhashish(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hope everyone is keeping safe and well in a difficult time like now. There is a good news - Netha Hussain has won the 2020 RedHat Women in Open Source Award. [1][2]
>>>
>>> Congratulations Netha - this is such a proud moment for all of us!
>>>
>>> Also, see WikiProject COVID-19, where Netha is a leader, for those who are interested to contribute on coronavirus-related articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19
>>>
>>> 1. https://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source
>>> 2. https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1255513602951430145
>>>
>>> Subha
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It is said quite often that the Wikimedia-movement is apolitical. In
strongly believe the movement with its goal has never been, and never will
be apolitical. When we say that knowledge should be free and fully
available for everyone, then we make a political statement. It may not
align with you favorite love/hate political party, but it is still a very
strong political statement.
So please, don't claim the movement to be apolitical. We may not align with
any specific political party in any specific country, but we are still not
apolitical.
/jeblad
Dear Wikimedia-l colleagues,
I am writing to share the news of the passing of User:Kattenkruid. He
was an administrator on Dutch Wikipedia who made over 73,000
contributions.
His final edit to Dutch Wikipedia placed a welcome template on another
user's talk page.
His user talk page on Dutch Wikipedia,
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overleg_gebruiker:Kattenkruid, holds
more information regarding his passing. Many comments have been left
there.
May he rest in peace.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
Hey,
"Wikimedia Meet" [0] (https://meet.wmcloud.org), is a project in Wikimedia
CloudVPS for Wikimedians to meet virtually instead of using commercial
services like Zoom which might have security and privacy implications
[1][2]. Currently it's a jitsi (jitsi.org) installation.
If you want to just use/test it, let me know and I create you a user and
password. You can share the username and password with anyone you want to
meet but please do not post it publicly. In your email you can also give me
your desired user and password. **Do not reuse any password**. You can also
contact any of the ticketmasters instead of me:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet#List_of_ticketmasters
In order to make this project more robust, I'm looking for Ticketmasters
too, Ticketmasters create accounts for others (It doesn't require any
technical knowledge, you fill a form in web for others)
If you want to help maintaining it (which would be greatly appreciated) let
me know and I give you the needed access. I put the technical documentation
in mediawiki.org [3]. There are several bits you can help with, like
puppetizing it, scalability, observability, improving authentication,
trying to see if BBB can be used as well, and so much more. You can find
the tickets in the phabricator board and assign a ticket to yourself if you
feel like helping out.
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet
[1] https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/
[2]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security…
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet
Hope that would be useful for our users :)
Best
--
Amir (he/him)
>>> The people who are loudest in their demands for consensus
>>> do not represent the Wikimedia movement.
>>
>> The voices loudest for the WMF doing something against the
>> Trump administration are not representative of the Wikimedia
>> movement either....
>
> Is the Community Process Steering Committee currently
> prepared to "engage more 'quiet' members of our community"
> with a statistically robust snap survey to resolve this question?
Anyone can go to Recent Changes and send a SurveyMonkey link to the
most recent few hundred editors with contributions at least a year
old, to get an accurate answer.
Will a respected member of the community please do this? I would like
to know what the actual editing community thinks of the travel ban and
their idea of an appropriate response. I don't want to see community
governance by opt-in participation in obscure RFCs.
I would offer to do this myself, but I value keeping my real name
unassociated with my enwiki userid.
-Will