[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2021 Updates: Save the date and Core Organizing Team

[Iolanda Pensa]

[Sorry for cross-posting the following]

Dear Wiki Community,

It is with great pleasure that we - the Wikimania Steering Committee[1] - 
announce that Wikimania will be hosted virtually from August 13-17th, 2021 [2] 
and that the Core Organizing Team (COT) has been selected and fully onboarded. 
Since 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia, Wikimania 2021's theme is 
20 years of Wikipedia and all the humans that make it possible. We'll look back 
at our history and celebrate our future.

We thank everyone who applied to the call for volunteers [3] - it was a tough 
selection process given the impressive number of strong applicants we received. 
However, The Wikimania Steering Committee is  pleased to announce that after 
due deliberation and assessment, we selected a total of 9 individuals from our 
broad community who will lead the way in organizing the first ever virtual 
Wikimania. 

The official Core Organizing Team members are the following:
Vanj Padilla
Anna Torres (Anna Torres (WMAR)
Susanna Mkrtchyan (WikiTatik)
Winnie Kabintie
Lea Lacroix (WMDE)
Yamen Bousrih (Yamen)
Gnangarra
Bodhisattwa
Lodewijk (Effeietsanders)

We trust that each COT member has the skills, dedication and willingness to 
come together and bring to life our very first virtual edition of Wikimania and 
to help create the necessary spaces for our community to continue to thrive and 
work together. We had originally foreseen the need for 4-6 individuals to form 
the COT but after such strong applications, we decided to extend that number to 
9 individuals, given the great team that we identified could work together and 
flourish. 

We invite you all to participate in Wikimania 2021 and to contribute to its 
content and success. The COT will be reaching out to some applicants who marked 
their availability to be volunteers in their application, but we also encourage 
you to let us know if you would like to be considered for volunteer roles and 
opportunities for Wikimania 2021. 

With this said, as the functioning Wikimania Steering Committee, we would like 
to make public our endorsement of the Core Organizing Team and our trust that 
they will move forward with the great responsibility and excitement of bringing 
to life Wikimania 2021. 

The COT will soon be announcing more information around Wikimania 2021 and how 
you can get involved - so please stay tuned. Please save the dates in your 
calendars, we hope to see you there!

Sincerely,
The Wikimania Steering Committee

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee 

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2021 
 
[3] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Call_for_volunteers 
 

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Enterprise Office Hours

[Liam Wyatt]

On Friday 16th @1500 UTC - exactly one week from the time that this email
was sent - the *Wikimedia Enterprise *team will be hosting the April
edition of our monthly 'Office Hours'. You are most welcome to join us.

Details for how to join are available at our documentation homepages
[[Wikimedia Enterprise]] on MediaWiki.org
, and on Meta
.

Equally on Meta are instructions for requesting a separate call for your
community group (at a time and technical platform of your choosing); and
the videos of the recordings of the two office-hours meetings from March.

Relatedly, the team will be presenting at the forthcoming EMWCon Spring 2021
 conference
 later in April.

Details: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Enterprise

Sincerely,

*Liam Wyatt [Wittylama]*
WikiCite  Program Manager & Wikimedia
Enterprise  Community Liaison
Wikimedia Foundation
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