[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to Episode 2 of WikiAfrica Hour

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Hello everyone! 

Last month we launched the WikiAfrica Hour with our first ever episode
featuring outgoing Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Katherine Maher. Join us on
28th May 2021, at 4pm UTC, for the episode 2 where we will be discussing
the role photography plays within a Wikimedia context, with experienced
guest speakers from Wiki Loves Earth, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos
(WPWP), Nos Jardins and Commons Photographers User Group. For more
details:https://bit.ly/WikiAfricaHour [1] 

Regards, 

Ceslause Ogbonnaya

1.https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_In_Africa [2]  

2.https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica_Hour 

3.https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Commons_Photographers_User_Group
[3]  

4.https://www.youtube.com/c/wikipediaweekly 

5.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyG_DCysivx59E2olI_BEcQ [4] 

Links:
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[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_In_Africa
[3]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Commons_Photographers_User_Group
[4] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyG_DCysivx59E2olI_BEcQ
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2021 Session Submission Forms are Live

[Winnie kabintie]

Dear Wikimedia Community Members,

We have been so hard at work that we are just now peeking our heads out of
our computer screens! However, we have some exciting news to share with you
around Wikimania 2021!

Here are some updates and important information:

   1.

   Session Submission forms are now live! If you’re looking  to lead a
   session at Wikimania 2021, please review the following links:
   1.

  Program Submissions
  
  1.

 Session Submission Guidelines
 
 2.

 FAQ 
 2.

   Wikimania 2021 Wiki Page  is
   now LIVE, you can now refer to this page for all information regarding
   Wikimania 2021! However, it is a live and under construction page - any
   suggestions on how to improve it? Message us!


We look forward to receiving your submissions and suggestions.

Have a great weekend and see you all soon.

Best Wishes,

Winnie Kabintie (User:Ms_Kabintie
), on behalf of the
Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing an academic conference on Wikipedia translation

[Rajeeb]

Dear friends and colleagues,

Hope my mail finds you all in the best of health and spirit. It is good
news that the conference is happening and not put off due to the pandemic,
I would like to thank the organizers for taking the conference to 100%
online.

Though not happy as one needs to pay for the registration fee especially
when the event is online and due to pandemic people are and have lost jobs.

I would like to request the organizers to give a thought on this matter.

Namaste,

Rajeeb.

On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 13:45, Risker  wrote:

> While I understand that this could be a concern if it was a large fee, it
> works out to about $13 USD/11 Euros for observer status, and double that
> for presenter status.  This does not sound outrageous; it pays for the
> equipment, software, staffing, technical support, and bandwidth, as well as
> the maintenance and storage of presentation materials.  Even online
> conferences have some costs, and those costs are often not being absorbed
> by sponsors to the extent that they have been in the past.
>
> It may be worthwhile for the WMF to agree to take a certain number of
> slots and pay for them, and then allot them to people with a significant
> history of translation on our projects on a first come/first served basis;
> honestly, they could support the registration fees for 25 editors for less
> than 500 USD.  That's a bargain, especially if they want to shift the focus
> to translation into smaller projects.
>
> I hope that the conference goes well.
>
> Risker/Anne
>
> On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 03:42, Željko Blaće  wrote:
>
>> Also interested in contributing, but registration fee is something that
>> puts me off when approaching academic conferences, especially now when
>> online so much of the cost is reduced.
>>
>> Best - Z. Blace
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 9:22 AM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l <
>> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mark,
>>>
>>> This is really interesting. I take care of les sans pagEs community on
>>> fr-wikii and we translate a lot from English, a little from Spanish and
>>> Italian. I would keen to participate, thanks for sharing!
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Nattes à chat
>>>
>>>
>>> Le 27 mai 2021 à 07:47, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH  a
>>> écrit :
>>>
>>> Dear friends and colleagues
>>>
>>> Further to my message at the end of last month and the queries that one
>>> or two of you made, I'd like to notify you of the following:
>>>
>>> 1. the conference will now be 100% online
>>> 2. the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to 30th
>>> June 2021
>>>
>>> Full updated details and Call for Papers can be found on the conference
>>> website at https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Mark Shuttleworth
>>>
>>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 12:13, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Dear friends and colleagues

 Please permit me to publicise an academic conference that we're holding
 at Hong Kong Baptist University on 15-17 December 2021.

 The conference will be an ideal forum in which to discuss research
 methodologies, issues of collaborativity, theoretical frameworks that have
 proven valuable for the study of Wikipedia translation, the use of
 Wikipedia in the translation classroom and by translation professionals,
 and the nature of Wikipedia translation and how it differs not only from
 other more traditional types of translation but also from other newly
 emerging types. While the conference's main focus is interlingual
 translation within the online encyclopaedia, we are also interested
 in research into the multilingual Wikipedia that makes no explicit
 reference to translation issues.

 The conference will be online, face-to-face or mixed mode, depending on
 prevailing circumstances. Please see the conference website at
 https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/ for full details and the Call
 for Papers.

 I hope to see some of you there!

 Mark

 Professor Mark Shuttleworth 夏致遠
 Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies
 Hong Kong Baptist University
 Phone: +852 3411 6641
 http://www.tran.hkbu.edu.hk
 https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/

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[Wikimedia-l] Invitation for Wikimedia Research Office hours June 01, 2021

[Martin Gerlach]

Hi all,

Join the Research Team at the Wikimedia Foundation [1] for their monthly
Office hours on 2021-06-01 at 16:00-17:00 UTC (9am PT/6pm CEST).

To participate, join the video-call via this link [2]. There is no set
agenda - feel free to add your item to the list of topics in the etherpad
[3] (You can do this after you join the meeting, too.), otherwise you are
welcome to also just hang out. More detailed information (e.g. about how to
attend) can be found here [4].

Through these office hours, we aim to make ourselves more available to
answer some of the research related questions that you as Wikimedia
volunteer editors, organizers, affiliates, staff, and researchers face in
your projects and initiatives. Some example cases we hope to be able to
support you in:

   -

   You have a specific research related question that you suspect you
   should be able to answer with the publicly available data and you don’t
   know how to find an answer for it, or you just need some more help with it.
   For example, how can I compute the ratio of anonymous to registered editors
   in my wiki?
   -

   You run into repetitive or very manual work as part of your Wikimedia
   contributions and you wish to find out if there are ways to use machines to
   improve your workflows. These types of conversations can sometimes be
   harder to find an answer for during an office hour, however, discussing
   them can help us understand your challenges better and we may find ways to
   work with each other to support you in addressing it in the future.
   -

   You want to learn what the Research team at the Wikimedia Foundation
   does and how we can potentially support you. Specifically for affiliates:
   if you are interested in building relationships with the academic
   institutions in your country, we would love to talk with you and learn
   more. We have a series of programs that aim to expand the network of
   Wikimedia researchers globally and we would love to collaborate with those
   of you interested more closely in this space.
   -

   You want to talk with us about one of our existing programs [5].


Hope to see many of you,
Martin on behalf of the WMF Research Team

[1] https://research.wikimedia.org/team.html

[2] https://meet.jit.si/WMF-Research-Office-Hours

[3] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Research-Analytics-Office-hours

[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research/Office_hours
[5] https://research.wikimedia.org/projects.html

-- 
Martin Gerlach
Research Scientist
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing an academic conference on Wikipedia translation

[Risker]

While I understand that this could be a concern if it was a large fee, it
works out to about $13 USD/11 Euros for observer status, and double that
for presenter status.  This does not sound outrageous; it pays for the
equipment, software, staffing, technical support, and bandwidth, as well as
the maintenance and storage of presentation materials.  Even online
conferences have some costs, and those costs are often not being absorbed
by sponsors to the extent that they have been in the past.

It may be worthwhile for the WMF to agree to take a certain number of slots
and pay for them, and then allot them to people with a significant history
of translation on our projects on a first come/first served basis;
honestly, they could support the registration fees for 25 editors for less
than 500 USD.  That's a bargain, especially if they want to shift the focus
to translation into smaller projects.

I hope that the conference goes well.

Risker/Anne

On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 03:42, Željko Blaće  wrote:

> Also interested in contributing, but registration fee is something that
> puts me off when approaching academic conferences, especially now when
> online so much of the cost is reduced.
>
> Best - Z. Blace
>
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 9:22 AM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l <
> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> This is really interesting. I take care of les sans pagEs community on
>> fr-wikii and we translate a lot from English, a little from Spanish and
>> Italian. I would keen to participate, thanks for sharing!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Nattes à chat
>>
>>
>> Le 27 mai 2021 à 07:47, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH  a écrit
>> :
>>
>> Dear friends and colleagues
>>
>> Further to my message at the end of last month and the queries that one
>> or two of you made, I'd like to notify you of the following:
>>
>> 1. the conference will now be 100% online
>> 2. the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to 30th
>> June 2021
>>
>> Full updated details and Call for Papers can be found on the conference
>> website at https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Mark Shuttleworth
>>
>> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 12:13, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear friends and colleagues
>>>
>>> Please permit me to publicise an academic conference that we're holding
>>> at Hong Kong Baptist University on 15-17 December 2021.
>>>
>>> The conference will be an ideal forum in which to discuss research
>>> methodologies, issues of collaborativity, theoretical frameworks that have
>>> proven valuable for the study of Wikipedia translation, the use of
>>> Wikipedia in the translation classroom and by translation professionals,
>>> and the nature of Wikipedia translation and how it differs not only from
>>> other more traditional types of translation but also from other newly
>>> emerging types. While the conference's main focus is interlingual
>>> translation within the online encyclopaedia, we are also interested
>>> in research into the multilingual Wikipedia that makes no explicit
>>> reference to translation issues.
>>>
>>> The conference will be online, face-to-face or mixed mode, depending on
>>> prevailing circumstances. Please see the conference website at
>>> https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/ for full details and the Call for
>>> Papers.
>>>
>>> I hope to see some of you there!
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> Professor Mark Shuttleworth 夏致遠
>>> Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies
>>> Hong Kong Baptist University
>>> Phone: +852 3411 6641
>>> http://www.tran.hkbu.edu.hk
>>> https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/
>>>
>>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing an academic conference on Wikipedia translation

[Željko Blaće]

Also interested in contributing, but registration fee is something that
puts me off when approaching academic conferences, especially now when
online so much of the cost is reduced.

Best - Z. Blace


On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 9:22 AM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> This is really interesting. I take care of les sans pagEs community on
> fr-wikii and we translate a lot from English, a little from Spanish and
> Italian. I would keen to participate, thanks for sharing!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Nattes à chat
>
>
> Le 27 mai 2021 à 07:47, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH  a écrit :
>
> Dear friends and colleagues
>
> Further to my message at the end of last month and the queries that one or
> two of you made, I'd like to notify you of the following:
>
> 1. the conference will now be 100% online
> 2. the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to 30th June
> 2021
>
> Full updated details and Call for Papers can be found on the conference
> website at https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/.
>
> Best regards
>
> Mark Shuttleworth
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 12:13, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear friends and colleagues
>>
>> Please permit me to publicise an academic conference that we're holding
>> at Hong Kong Baptist University on 15-17 December 2021.
>>
>> The conference will be an ideal forum in which to discuss research
>> methodologies, issues of collaborativity, theoretical frameworks that have
>> proven valuable for the study of Wikipedia translation, the use of
>> Wikipedia in the translation classroom and by translation professionals,
>> and the nature of Wikipedia translation and how it differs not only from
>> other more traditional types of translation but also from other newly
>> emerging types. While the conference's main focus is interlingual
>> translation within the online encyclopaedia, we are also interested
>> in research into the multilingual Wikipedia that makes no explicit
>> reference to translation issues.
>>
>> The conference will be online, face-to-face or mixed mode, depending on
>> prevailing circumstances. Please see the conference website at
>> https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/ for full details and the Call for
>> Papers.
>>
>> I hope to see some of you there!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> Professor Mark Shuttleworth 夏致遠
>> Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies
>> Hong Kong Baptist University
>> Phone: +852 3411 6641
>> http://www.tran.hkbu.edu.hk
>> https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/
>>
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing an academic conference on Wikipedia translation

[Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l]

Hi Mark, 

This is really interesting. I take care of les sans pagEs community on fr-wikii 
and we translate a lot from English, a little from Spanish and Italian. I would 
keen to participate, thanks for sharing!

Kind regards, 

Nattes à chat


> Le 27 mai 2021 à 07:47, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH  a écrit :
> 
> Dear friends and colleagues
> 
> Further to my message at the end of last month and the queries that one or 
> two of you made, I'd like to notify you of the following:
> 
> 1. the conference will now be 100% online
> 2. the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to 30th June 
> 2021
> 
> Full updated details and Call for Papers can be found on the conference 
> website at https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/ 
> .
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Mark Shuttleworth
> 
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 12:13, Mark SHUTTLEWORTH  > wrote:
> Dear friends and colleagues
> 
> Please permit me to publicise an academic conference that we're holding at 
> Hong Kong Baptist University on 15-17 December 2021.
> 
> The conference will be an ideal forum in which to discuss research 
> methodologies, issues of collaborativity, theoretical frameworks that have 
> proven valuable for the study of Wikipedia translation, the use of Wikipedia 
> in the translation classroom and by translation professionals, and the nature 
> of Wikipedia translation and how it differs not only from other more 
> traditional types of translation but also from other newly emerging types. 
> While the conference's main focus is interlingual translation within the 
> online encyclopaedia, we are also interested in research into the 
> multilingual Wikipedia that makes no explicit reference to translation issues.
> 
> The conference will be online, face-to-face or mixed mode, depending on 
> prevailing circumstances. Please see the conference website at 
> https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/  
> for full details and the Call for Papers.
> 
> I hope to see some of you there!
> 
> Mark
> 
> Professor Mark Shuttleworth 夏致遠
> Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies
> Hong Kong Baptist University
> Phone: +852 3411 6641
> http://www.tran.hkbu.edu.hk 
> https://ctn.hkbu.edu.hk/wikiconf2021/ 
> 
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[Wikimedia-l] Invitation to Episode 2 of WikiAfrica Hour

[ceslause]

Hello everyone! 

Last month we launched the WikiAfrica Hour with our first ever episode
featuring outgoing Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Katherine Maher. Join us on
28th May 2021, at 4pm UTC, for the episode 2 where we will be discussing
the role photography plays within a Wikimedia context, with experienced
guest speakers from Wiki Loves Earth, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos
(WPWP), Nos Jardins and Nigeria Commons Photographers User Group. For
more details:https://bit.ly/WikiAfricaHour [1] 

Regards, 

Ceslause Ogbonnaya

1.https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_In_Africa [2]  

2.https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica_Hour 

3.https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Commons_Photographers_User_Group
[3]  

4.https://www.youtube.com/c/wikipediaweekly 

5.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyG_DCysivx59E2olI_BEcQ [4] 

Links:
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[1] https://bit.ly/WikiAfricaHour
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_In_Africa
[3]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Commons_Photographers_User_Group
[4] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyG_DCysivx59E2olI_BEcQ
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