Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan FY2016-2017

2016-04-01 Thread Anna Stillwell 
Rock on.
/a

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Katherine Maher 
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>
> The Foundation is pleased to announce that our Annual Plan is now on
> Meta.[1] This year's plan focuses on improving support for--and
> consultation with--community, responding effectively to changing user
> needs, and addressing strategic challenges facing our movement. We're
> investing in areas that we believe the Foundation is uniquely positioned to
> address, including readership and reach, volunteer retention and
> engagement, and support for knowledge creation.
>
> Thank you to everyone who contributed earlier this year to the strategy
> consultations, which helped guide our thinking.
>
> We look forward to your feedback!
>
> Warmly,
>
> Katherine
>
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2016-2017/draft
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia CEE Spring 2016

2016-04-01 Thread Ivana Madžarević 
Thanks Nikola for this review. I've shared it with our community. :)

Cheers!

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*Замислите свет у коме свака особа на планети има слободан приступ
целокупном људском знању. То је оно на чему ми радимо.*

2016-03-31 23:54 GMT+02:00 Nikola Kalchev :

> Dear Wikipedians from all over the world,
>
> for 10 days now the arguably largest article writing contest has been
> taking place in Central and Eastern Europe - Wikimedia CEE Spring [1]. For
> 72 days Wikipedians from 29 communities [2] will be writing about the
> culture, history, important persons and much more about the region on their
> Wikipedias. The contest aims at closing content gaps about countries,
> regions [3] and languages [4] from the region. Each community created a
> list of at least 100 articles [5] which it would like to see written in all
> languages and all other communities are doing so with fervour! Communities
> as large communities as the Russian, Ukrainian and Polish ones, and as
> small as the Sakhan, Estonian and Macedonian ones, have joined. Highly
> motivated local organisers and guys with magical technical skills have
> emerged from all the communities and have made organising the contest an
> easy task.
>
> At the moment of writing the Ukrainians are leading the pack when it comes
> to the highest amoung of created and significantly expanded articles [6]
> and most articles have been written from Hungary's lists [7]. Participants
> are gladly sharing their articles with their friends via a Facebook page
> [8]. Over 1000 articles from the lists and over 1400 in total have been
> created or significantly expanded during the first 10 days [6][7].
>
> Some communities have special prizes aiming at closing the content gender
> gap, too. Most countries have put notable women in their wished topics. The
> project is funded by an international grant [9] which covers expenses for
> books and other source materials for writing articles on Wikipedia and its
> sister projects of up to 400 Euro per community.
>
> Spread the word and write some articles about CEE!
>
> Nikola Kalchev / User:Лорд Бъмбъри / Wikimedians of Bulgaria User Group
> On behalf of the international organising team
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016
> [2] We started with 21, but more and more are joining!
> [3] CEE politics is complicated
> [4] We claim the Esperanto language for ourselves
> [5]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016/Article_Lists
> [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:BaseBot/CEES/MMXVI/Wikis (not all
> Wikipedias included)
> [7]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CEE_Spring_2016/Structure/Statistics
> [8] https://www.facebook.com/WCEESpring/
> [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Wikimedia_CEE/CEE_Spring
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