[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse - applications still open until May 12!

2019-05-01 Thread Melissa Guadalupe Huertas 
Hola everyone!

Sorry in advance for cross-posting. As many of you are aware, last April
5th the Education team at the Wikimedia Foundation announced the launch of
the Wikimedia & Education Greenhouse (w.wiki/385). The W Greenhouse is a
fully immersive co-learning experience that lasts 9 months and is designed
for emerging education leaders in our movement who believe in the value of
Wikimedia projects in education. It will equip participants with the
skills, knowledge, and support to bring their ideas to life and scale them
into high-impact education initiatives in their community.

The W Greenhouse has two modalities of participation: as a team (
w.wiki/3A$) and as an individual(w.wiki/3NY). Applying as a team means that
you present an idea for an education project you want to develop in your
local community. One team will be selected to receive seed funding for
their project, on-site mentoring from WMF staff, and access to a free
project management online course. Applying as an individual means
completing a short form expressing your interest and motivation, and this
will give you access to the free online course.

So far we have received 1 team application and over 60 individual
applications from all over the world. Additionally, we have a great team of
experienced Wikimedia education leaders collaborating in the development of
this initiative. There are still two weeks left to apply (deadline is May
12) and we are very excited to keep reading about the amazing education
projects you want to develop! We have prepared some additional resources to
support applications during these final weeks and we have compiled them
into this slideshow (w.wiki/3NZ), including a short video guide for team
applications.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Melissa
Guadalupe Huertas via email: mguadal...@wikimedia.org. We appreciate you
sharing this among your networks and we look forward to reading more
applications.

Cheers!

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[Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Spaces and call for submissions for Wikimania 2019 Stockholm

2019-05-01 Thread Liam Wyatt 
Dear Wikimaniacs, Wikimedians, and friends of the Wikiverse!

On behalf of the Wikimania 2019 Stockholm organising team, I am pleased to
announce two things:

- The list of accepted "Spaces".

- That the Call for Submissions is now OPEN.

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Submissions

Please join me in congratulating the Leaders of each of the accepted
Wikimania 2019 Spaces! As per the program design[1], Wikimania this year
has the format of "Spaces", each with its own group of "Leaders" - all of
who made a proposal to host a Space back in March. The core team has been
working with the Leaders since then to prepare an interesting, diverse, and
coherent conference. Each Space has its own topic area, and in their own
way they all of them help address the conference theme: "Stronger together:
Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals".[2]

Each Space will have its own room for a period of time in the conference to
curate and coordinate as they see fit.[3] You can read about what each
Space is planning to achieve, and who is Leading it, at the link above. In
English-alphabetical order they are:

   -

   Accessibility (A11y): Components and Standards
   -

   Global Advocacy for Free Knowledge: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
   -

   Community Growth
   -

   Diversity
   -

   Education
   -

   Environmental sustainability
   -

   GLAM - cultural partnerships and Wikimedia
   -

   Growing Wikimedia’s readership worldwide
   -

   Health
   -

   Languages
   -

   Libraries belong in Wikimedia projects
   -

   Multimedia knowledge
   -

   Partnerships
   -

   Quality
   -

   Research
   -

   Thriving in Safety
   -

   Strategy for Wikimedia 2030 – The path towards our future
   -

   Transcription
   -

   Technology outreach & innovation

And of course the Poster session, which will be a plenary event.

For 2019, there is no 'central' program committee nor a single submission
form. To make a submission, visit the page of the Space which most relates
to your proposal, read its instructions for what kinds of submissions the
Leaders of that Space wish to receive. Then click the submission button.

Each Space is looking for different kinds of content or format. So it is
important that people wanting to propose a presentation/workshop/panel/etc
at Wikimania read the information that the Leaders of each Space have
provided.

Once again, the link to the list of all the accepted Spaces, each with its
own submission form, is here:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Submissions#Spaces

Please feel free to share/forward this email.

Sincerely,

- Liam Wyatt (Volunteer program chair), and Eric Luth (Conference Manager,
Wikimedia Sverige)


[1] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program_design

[2] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Theme

[3] Note that the Spaces do NOT all have the same room capacity, or
duration. Thus the content of the Wikimania program is not intending to be
'evenly spread' across these topic areas.
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost – Volume 15, Issue 4 – 30 April 2019

2019-05-01 Thread Wikipedia Signpost 
News and notes: An Action Packed April
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/News_and_notes

In the media: Is Wikipedia just another social media site?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/In_the_media

Discussion report: English Wikipedia community's conclusions on talk pages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/Discussion_report

Featured content: Anguish, accolades, animals, and art
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/Featured_content

Arbitration report: An Active Arbitration Committee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/Arbitration_report

Traffic report: Mötley Crüe, Notre-Dame, a black hole, and Bonnie and Clyde
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/Traffic_report

Technology report: A new special page, and other news
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/Technology_report

Gallery: Notre-Dame de Paris burns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/Gallery

News from the WMF: Can machine learning uncover Wikipedia’s missing
“citation needed” tags?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/News_from_the_WMF

Recent research: Female scholars underrepresented; whitepaper on Wikidata
and libraries; undo patterns reveal editor hierarchy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/Recent_research

>From the archives: Portals revisited
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/From_the_archives

Humour: Jimbo and Larry walk into a bar ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/Humour

Opinion: The gaps in our knowledge of our gaps
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/Opinion

Interview: Katherine Maher marks 3 years as executive director
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/Interview

Community view: 2019 Wikimedia Summit gathers movement affiliate
representatives to discuss movement strategy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-04-30/Community_view


Single-page view
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signpost/Single


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