[Wikimedia-l] WLE 2021 in Aus: Which photos were for you the most valuable in terms of what they contributed to wikimedia

[Margaret Donald]

 Dear Australian wikimedians

I am hoping that you might pick out the photos which for you were the most
valuable in terms of their contribution to wikimedia (that is, wiki
commons, wikipedia(s), and wikidata.

It may be that they motivated you to write an article, or to insert them in
an article. Or that they meant you needed to add many more items to
wikidata, or add new categories to commons (which meant of course, that you
had to go hunting for already uploaded items which satisfied that new
category).

(I have chosen four photographs, but I'll let you know which they were and
why, after you have had a think about this...)

Cheers,
Margaret
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[Wikimedia-l] Two-Day Submission Deadline Extension

[Winnie kabintie]

Dear Community Members,

We have seen all the efforts going on in various social media platforms as
the community tries to mobilize and fine-tune ideas for their session
proposals for Wikimania 2021
 and we are happy to
announce a 2-Day extension to give you some extra hours to conclude your
plans.

The office hours we had last week also opened room for the Wikimania Core
Organizing Team to engage with the community and clarify some programming
questions you had and we thought it would be fair to give room for the
participants to conclude their proposals.

Please be informed that we have extended the deadline to the end of  day Sunday
20th, June (24:00hrs Pacfific Standard Time)!

Also, some amazing news: If you are submitting a pre-recorded session in
another language other than english, you are no longer required to submit a
transcription in english.

Public Submissions

You can also view public submissions here


Office Hours

Thank you for attending the office hours so far! We look forward to seeing
you at the next one
!


Best Wishes,
Winnie Kabintie (User:Ms_Kabintie
), on behalf of the
Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sharing more details about the Equity Fund

[Andreas Kolbe]

As soon as I'd sent my earlier post, I regretted not having named a non-US
outlet (however fine a publication The Root is). I realise that this, in
part, is precisely the point of the equity fund: to get away from a US and
Euro-centric approach. Mea culpa.

The Knowledge Equity Fund page on Meta says, "The first round of grant
recipients will be chosen by the Equity Fund Committee, based on an
evaluation of their existing programmatic work and how it furthers racial
equity in the context of free knowledge."

I hope the eventual grantees will not all turn out to be pre-existing Tides
grant recipients.

Andreas

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 8:41 AM Andreas Kolbe  wrote:

> Hi Lisa and all,
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 3:13 PM Lisa Gruwell 
> wrote:
>
>> The links to the donor FAQ are there.  The smaller banners expand when
>> you click on a payment method.
>>
>
> You'll find that this information was already contained in the post you
> replied to.
>
> The point remains though: now that it exists, the knowledge equity fund
> needs publicity. At $4.5M, it is about half as much again as all the grants
> and awards disbursed to movement members in the 2019/2020 FY combined
> (which came to $9.2M, by my calculation: $22.9M total – $5M endowment –
> $8.7M Tides Advocacy). Relative to your overall annual grantmaking, this is
> a very substantial amount of money that is now available to non-affiliates
> working on racial equity issues.
>
> Moving forward, given that the decision has been made, how will racial
> equity organisations learn about the availability of this money? You are
> soliciting recommendations from Wikimedians on Meta, but surely you can't
> just rely on those and your own networks? I mentioned a blog post – to date
> there has not even been a tweet from the WMF about this. How about an
> article in The Root[1] or a similar publication?
>
> Andreas
>
> [1] https://www.theroot.com
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 3:06 AM Andreas Kolbe  wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for those links, Lisa. I note that the January press release[1]
>>> merely said,
>>>
>>>
>>> *"In addition, the Foundation recently developed a $4.5 million Equity
>>> Fund that will offer grants to advance more equitable, inclusive
>>> representation in Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia."*
>>>
>>> This tells the reader very little. In particular, it does not make clear
>>> that these are grants for recipients that would be ineligible for
>>> Wikimedia's traditional community grants.
>>>
>>> The 2019/2020 audit report[2] said, in the notes on page 14,
>>>
>>> *During the year ended June 30, 2020, the Foundation provided an
>>> unconditional grant to Tides Advocacy in the amount of of $8.723 million
>>> for the Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund. This fund will be used to invest
>>> in grant-making opportunities to increase the availability of free
>>> knowledge and counteract structural inequalities to foster a just and
>>> equitable representation of knowledge and people in the Wikimedia movement,
>>> and to fund the annual operating expenses of other Wikimedia chapter
>>> organizations in service of our mission of free knowledge. The Wikimedia
>>> Knowledge Equity Fund is managed and controlled by Tides Advocacy. For the
>>> year ended June 30, 2020, the amount funded is recorded in awards and
>>> grants expense.*
>>>
>>> Neither of these really provided enough detail to give the reader an
>>> adequate sense of these plans, or explained how the funds will be disbursed.
>>>
>>> $4.5 million is a substantial amount of money. It represents no less
>>> than 4% of total 2019/2020 expenses. In my view, this warrants more visible
>>> communication than a single sentence buried in a 1,000-word blog post that
>>> was about a different topic altogether, and an unpublicised page on Meta
>>> that no one but an insider is likely to find.
>>>
>>> Lastly, you say that every banner includes a link to the donor FAQ. When
>>> the Latin American fundraising campaign was announced on Spanish Wikipedia,
>>> Camille posted[3] the following to show the community what the banners
>>> would look like:
>>>
>>> Lo siento, envié URL obsoletas. Aquí están los actualizados. Desktop
>>> Large
>>> 
>>>  // Desktop Small
>>> 
>>>  // Mobile Large
>>> 
>>>  // Mobile Small
>>> 
>>>  --CDenes (WMF)  (
>>> discusión
>>> )
>>> 19:30 30 abr 2021 (UTC)
>>>
>>> Clicking on her links on my desktop, I find that only one of the four
>

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sharing more details about the Equity Fund

[Andreas Kolbe]

Hi Lisa and all,

On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 3:13 PM Lisa Gruwell  wrote:

> The links to the donor FAQ are there.  The smaller banners expand when you
> click on a payment method.
>

You'll find that this information was already contained in the post you
replied to.

The point remains though: now that it exists, the knowledge equity fund
needs publicity. At $4.5M, it is about half as much again as all the grants
and awards disbursed to movement members in the 2019/2020 FY combined
(which came to $9.2M, by my calculation: $22.9M total – $5M endowment –
$8.7M Tides Advocacy). Relative to your overall annual grantmaking, this is
a very substantial amount of money that is now available to non-affiliates
working on racial equity issues.

Moving forward, given that the decision has been made, how will racial
equity organisations learn about the availability of this money? You are
soliciting recommendations from Wikimedians on Meta, but surely you can't
just rely on those and your own networks? I mentioned a blog post – to date
there has not even been a tweet from the WMF about this. How about an
article in The Root[1] or a similar publication?

Andreas

[1] https://www.theroot.com




>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 3:06 AM Andreas Kolbe  wrote:
>
>> Thanks for those links, Lisa. I note that the January press release[1]
>> merely said,
>>
>>
>> *"In addition, the Foundation recently developed a $4.5 million Equity
>> Fund that will offer grants to advance more equitable, inclusive
>> representation in Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia."*
>>
>> This tells the reader very little. In particular, it does not make clear
>> that these are grants for recipients that would be ineligible for
>> Wikimedia's traditional community grants.
>>
>> The 2019/2020 audit report[2] said, in the notes on page 14,
>>
>> *During the year ended June 30, 2020, the Foundation provided an
>> unconditional grant to Tides Advocacy in the amount of of $8.723 million
>> for the Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund. This fund will be used to invest
>> in grant-making opportunities to increase the availability of free
>> knowledge and counteract structural inequalities to foster a just and
>> equitable representation of knowledge and people in the Wikimedia movement,
>> and to fund the annual operating expenses of other Wikimedia chapter
>> organizations in service of our mission of free knowledge. The Wikimedia
>> Knowledge Equity Fund is managed and controlled by Tides Advocacy. For the
>> year ended June 30, 2020, the amount funded is recorded in awards and
>> grants expense.*
>>
>> Neither of these really provided enough detail to give the reader an
>> adequate sense of these plans, or explained how the funds will be disbursed.
>>
>> $4.5 million is a substantial amount of money. It represents no less than
>> 4% of total 2019/2020 expenses. In my view, this warrants more visible
>> communication than a single sentence buried in a 1,000-word blog post that
>> was about a different topic altogether, and an unpublicised page on Meta
>> that no one but an insider is likely to find.
>>
>> Lastly, you say that every banner includes a link to the donor FAQ. When
>> the Latin American fundraising campaign was announced on Spanish Wikipedia,
>> Camille posted[3] the following to show the community what the banners
>> would look like:
>>
>> Lo siento, envié URL obsoletas. Aquí están los actualizados. Desktop
>> Large
>> 
>>  // Desktop Small
>> 
>>  // Mobile Large
>> 
>>  // Mobile Small
>> 
>>  --CDenes (WMF)  (
>> discusión
>> )
>> 19:30 30 abr 2021 (UTC)
>>
>> Clicking on her links on my desktop, I find that only one of the four
>> banners (Desktop Large), as displayed on the Wikipedia page that comes up,
>> includes a link, in small print, to the FAQ ("Preguntas frecuentes"). None
>> of the others do. Can anyone else see such links on the pages that come up
>> when you click on Camille's links?
>>
>> The recent Brazilian press screenshot available at
>> https://img.olhardigital.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Doacao-Wikipedia.jpg
>> lacks such a link as well, does it not? While it is in Portuguese rather
>> than Spanish, it matches the layout of what Camille posted precisely (with
>> the wording as adjusted following the recent community complaints at the
>> Portuguese Village Pump).[4]
>>
>> As far as I can see, the user will only ever be shown a small FAQ link if
>> and after they initiate the p