[Wikimedia-l] Episode 4 of WikiAfrica Hour! Save the date!

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hello everyone, 

With the 2021 editions of Wikimania and WikiIndaba coming up...ever
imagined how it benefits you and your work and what is involved in the
organizing process...all unpacked! Find out on the Episode 4 of
WikiAfrica Hour, titled "WikiEvents Unpacked". Save the date! 30th July
2021, at 4pm UTC! Details:http://ow.ly/87Fu50FvlUg [1] 

Regards, 

[[User:Ceslasue]] 

* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_In_Africa [2] 
* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica_Hour [3]
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Commons_Photographers_User_Grou
[4]p
* https://www.youtube.com/c/wikipediaweekly
* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyG_DCysivx59E2olI_BEcQ [5]

 

Links:
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[1]
http://ow.ly/87Fu50FvlUg?fbclid=IwAR2pEt2TStEd6IkFOHqKUR41Agqh-a1_8Z21OACmnRLtBwpBkIo9LzSnUkI
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_In_Africa
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiAfrica_Hour
[4]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Commons_Photographers_User_Group
[5] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyG_DCysivx59E2olI_BEcQ___
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[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Africa 2021-WPWP campaign prize categories

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Hello everyone! 

We are glad to inform you about the Wiki Loves Africa 2021-WPWP campaign
prize categories. 

Every year, thousands of images are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
database as part of the
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa Wiki Loves
Africa photo contest. 

Most of these images end up on...let's say English Wikipedia, but we
believe it would be great to use these same images in the equivalent
articles in different languages! 

So this year, we invite you to take some time to use Wiki Loves Africa
images to illustrate Wikipedia articles in various languages. And there
are prizes for the most involved! 

1st prize - US $100 gift card 

1st to 3rd prizes - WLA souvenirs (if the post office is more efficient
than it has been in the recent 18 months...) 

All Wiki Loves Africa years are eligible (All pictures are available
here
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Africa_All_Images)...
BUT the first prize will consider edits made to any language except
English and French. 

To be eligible: 

* you must add #WLA as a hashtag to your edit (as well as #WPWP)
* you must have registered your account before January 2021
* you must have made at least 300 mainspace edits to any language
Wikipedia before 1st June 2021.

To get more information and also see suggested images for improving
various language wikis, please click
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2021/WPWP 

Ensure the WPWP campaign guidelines are followed too
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Pages_Wanting_Photos_2021 

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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation annual plan published

[Elena Lappen]

Hi everyone,

Sending that reminder about the Annual Plan Conversations happening with 
Foundation executives and senior leaders next week and the week after. Bring 
your questions and comments, and chat about how Foundation priorities can feed 
into your work this upcoming year.

26 July at 18:00 UTC: Legal and Talent and Culture Departments. Amanda Keton 
(General Counsel), Maggie Dennis (Vice President of Community Resilience and 
Sustainability), Vignesh Ashok (Vice President of Global Equity, Diversity and 
Inclusion), & Robyn Arville (Chief Talent and Culture Officer)

28 July at 15:00 UTC: Product and Technology Departments. Toby Negrin (Chief 
Product Officer) and Tajh Taylor (Vice President of Data Science and 
Engineering) 

29 July at 17:00 UTC: Finance and Administration and Advancement Departments. 
Jaime Villagomez (Chief Financial Officer) and Lisa Seitz Gruwell (Chief 
Advancement Officer)

2 August at 17:00 UTC: Communications Department. Anusha Alikhan (Senior 
Director of Communications) and Mayur Paul (Director of Movement Communications)

More information on the Annual Plan Meta page: 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019/Annual_Plan_2021-2022#Annual_Plan_Conversations

Hope to see you there!
Elena


--
Elena Lappen (she/her)
Senior Movement Communications Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation 



> On Jul 15, 2021, at 3:45 PM, Elena Lappen  wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Kelsi mentioned this in her first email, but I wanted to say a bit more about 
> the Annual Plan Conversations (office hours) that we are coordinating with 
> executives and senior leaders to give you a chance to chat with them about 
> the Annual Plan. Please feel free to bring any questions or comments to the 
> sessions, or submit questions ahead of time. Information about submitting 
> questions and joining the sessions are on the Meta page [1], but I have 
> copied the schedule below. I will record and post the conversations, along 
> with the transcripts, for those that cannot attend.
> 
> I will also send out a reminder about joining closer to the dates. Thanks and 
> hope to see you there!
> 
> Annual Plan Conversations schedule:
> 
> 26 July at 18:00 UTC: Legal and Talent and Culture Departments. Amanda Keton 
> (General Counsel), Maggie Dennis (Vice President of Community Resilience and 
> Sustainability), Vignesh Ashok (Vice President of Global Equity, Diversity 
> and Inclusion), & Robyn Arville (Chief Talent and Culture Officer)
> 
> 28 July at 15:00 UTC: Product and Technology Departments. Toby Negrin (Chief 
> Product Officer) and Tajh Taylor (Vice President of Data Science and 
> Engineering) 
> 
> 29 July at 17:00 UTC: Finance and Administration and Advancement Departments. 
> Jaime Villagomez (Chief Financial Officer) and Lisa Seitz Gruwell (Chief 
> Advancement Officer)
> 
> 2 August at 17:00 UTC: Communications Department. Anusha Alikhan (Senior 
> Director of Communications) and Mayur Paul (Director of Movement 
> Communications)
> 
> 
> Best,
> Elena
> 
> [1] 
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019/Annual_Plan_2021-2022#Annual_Plan_Conversations
> 
> --
> Elena Lappen (she/her)
> Senior Movement Communications Specialist
> Wikimedia Foundation 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jul 15, 2021, at 3:21 PM, kstiner...@wikimedia.org wrote:
>> 
>> A few responses to questions raised here about the annual plan:
>> 
>> Thanks Mike for your question about community input into the annual plan, 
>> which I answered briefly on Meta [1]. Yes, you are correct that the annual 
>> plan is a finalized product as it has been each year since the launch of the 
>> Foundation’s Medium Term Plan (MTP) in 2019 [2]. Basically, the Annual Plan 
>> is a set of commitments on areas of work along with goals. It is produced 
>> through Foundation teams connecting the long term ambitions voiced through 
>> collaboration with volunteer communities with our budget, staff, legal and 
>> fiduciary requirements, technical systems, and other constraints. It’s not 
>> meant to be a list of activities that we’ll do - this level of detail is 
>> worked out (and evolves a lot!) throughout the year in collaboration with 
>> volunteers within individual projects. But the annual plan guides Foundation 
>> teams in building their strategies and work plans throughout the year. 
>> 
>> Andreas - yes, you are correct that the Foundation’s annual budget has 
>> increased by $38 million this year, with the largest part of this growth 
>> going to supporting a  thriving Wikimedia movement. The Foundation  has 
>> budgeted for a 157% increase in “Thriving Movement” from last year, meaning 
>> this budget category has roughly doubled in size as part of the Foundation’s 
>> overall budget. These new funds include an overall grants budget for the 
>> movement that has almost doubled (from roughly $8 million to $15.6 million) 
>> and support for initiatives like movement governance, movement strategy,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Research Showcase] July 21: Effects of campaigns to close content gaps

[Željko Blaće]

Overlapping with Art+Feminism session presenting research on almost the
same topic :-/

Again - calendar synchronization and wikimedia are not at level needed :-(

Best Z. Blace


On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, Janna Layton  wrote:

> The Research Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes.
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:59 PM Janna Layton 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am
>> PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to
>> close content gaps on Wikipedia, and speakers will be Kai Zhu from McGill
>> University and Isabelle Langrock from the University of Pennsylvania.
>>
>> Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ
>>
>> Talk 1
>> Speaker: Kai Zhu (McGill University, Canada)
>> Title: Addressing Information Poverty on Wikipedia
>> Abstract: Open collaboration platforms have fundamentally changed the way
>> that knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed. In these systems,
>> contributions arise organically with little to no central governance.
>> Although such decentralization provides many benefits, a lack of broad
>> oversight and coordination can leave questions of information poverty and
>> skewness to the mercy of the system’s natural dynamics. Unfortunately, we
>> still lack a basic understanding of the dynamics at play in these systems
>> and specifically, how contribution and attention interact and propagate
>> through information networks. We leverage a large-scale natural experiment
>> to study how exogenous content contributions to Wikipedia articles affect
>> the attention that they attract and how that attention spills over to other
>> articles in the network. Results reveal that exogenously added content
>> leads to significant, substantial, and long-term increases in both content
>> consumption and subsequent contributions. Furthermore, we find significant
>> attention spillover to downstream hyperlinked articles. Through both
>> analytical estimation and empirically informed simulation, we evaluate
>> policies to harness this attention contagion to address the problem of
>> information poverty and skewness. We find that harnessing attention
>> contagion can lead to as much as a twofold increase in the total attention
>> flow to clusters of disadvantaged articles. Our findings have important
>> policy implications for open collaboration platforms and information
>> networks.
>>
>> Talk 2
>> Speaker: Isabelle Langrock (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
>> Title: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions
>> Abstract: Wikipedia has a well-known gender divide affecting its
>> biographical content. This bias not only shapes social perceptions of
>> knowledge, but it can also propagate beyond the platform as its contents
>> are leveraged to correct misinformation, train machine-learning tools, and
>> enhance search engine results. What happens when feminist movements
>> intervene to try to close existing gaps? In this talk, we present a recent
>> study of two popular feminist interventions designed to counteract digital
>> knowledge inequality. Our findings show that the interventions are
>> successful at adding content about women that would otherwise be missing,
>> but they are less successful at addressing several structural biases that
>> limit the visibility of women within Wikipedia. We argue for more granular
>> and cumulative analysis of gender divides in collaborative environments and
>> identify key areas of support that can further aid the feminist movements
>> in closing Wikipedia’s gender gaps.
>>
>> --
>> Janna Layton (she/her)
>> Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
>> Wikimedia Foundation 
>>
>
>
> --
> Janna Layton (she/her)
> Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [Wikimedia Research Showcase] July 21: Effects of campaigns to close content gaps

[Janna Layton]

The Research Showcase will be starting in about 30 minutes.

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:59 PM Janna Layton  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> The July Research Showcase will take place on July 21, 16:30 UTC (9:30am
> PT/ 12:30pm ET/ 18:30pm CEST). The theme is the effects of campaigns to
> close content gaps on Wikipedia, and speakers will be Kai Zhu from McGill
> University and Isabelle Langrock from the University of Pennsylvania.
>
> Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otN3H-hIImQ
>
> Talk 1
> Speaker: Kai Zhu (McGill University, Canada)
> Title: Addressing Information Poverty on Wikipedia
> Abstract: Open collaboration platforms have fundamentally changed the way
> that knowledge is produced, disseminated, and consumed. In these systems,
> contributions arise organically with little to no central governance.
> Although such decentralization provides many benefits, a lack of broad
> oversight and coordination can leave questions of information poverty and
> skewness to the mercy of the system’s natural dynamics. Unfortunately, we
> still lack a basic understanding of the dynamics at play in these systems
> and specifically, how contribution and attention interact and propagate
> through information networks. We leverage a large-scale natural experiment
> to study how exogenous content contributions to Wikipedia articles affect
> the attention that they attract and how that attention spills over to other
> articles in the network. Results reveal that exogenously added content
> leads to significant, substantial, and long-term increases in both content
> consumption and subsequent contributions. Furthermore, we find significant
> attention spillover to downstream hyperlinked articles. Through both
> analytical estimation and empirically informed simulation, we evaluate
> policies to harness this attention contagion to address the problem of
> information poverty and skewness. We find that harnessing attention
> contagion can lead to as much as a twofold increase in the total attention
> flow to clusters of disadvantaged articles. Our findings have important
> policy implications for open collaboration platforms and information
> networks.
>
> Talk 2
> Speaker: Isabelle Langrock (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
> Title: Quantifying and Assessing the Impact of Two Feminist Interventions
> Abstract: Wikipedia has a well-known gender divide affecting its
> biographical content. This bias not only shapes social perceptions of
> knowledge, but it can also propagate beyond the platform as its contents
> are leveraged to correct misinformation, train machine-learning tools, and
> enhance search engine results. What happens when feminist movements
> intervene to try to close existing gaps? In this talk, we present a recent
> study of two popular feminist interventions designed to counteract digital
> knowledge inequality. Our findings show that the interventions are
> successful at adding content about women that would otherwise be missing,
> but they are less successful at addressing several structural biases that
> limit the visibility of women within Wikipedia. We argue for more granular
> and cumulative analysis of gender divides in collaborative environments and
> identify key areas of support that can further aid the feminist movements
> in closing Wikipedia’s gender gaps.
>
> --
> Janna Layton (she/her)
> Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
> Wikimedia Foundation 
>


-- 
Janna Layton (she/her)
Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2021 Scholarship Acceptances & Digital Assets

[Winnie kabintie]

Dear Community Members,


We are pleased to inform you that the first round of scholarships to
facilitate attendance for this year's virtual Wikimania has been accepted
and the funds are being distributed.


As previously announced, the scholarships for the 2021 Wikimania are only
being channeled through affiliates. This was a complex decision and
something that we will build on for next year. Individuals who are not in a
community with an affiliate but would wish to receive support like data,
mobile top-off, and childcare can request a nearby affiliate for support.


We have so far received 22 Scholarship applications.


We appeal to all affiliates to be supportive of nearby regional communities
that may need help and reach out to the COT should there be need for
further guidance.  Scholarship applications close on 31 July 2021
.(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2021/Scholarships)


Digital Assets

We also invite you to work with this Wikimania’s digital assets, which
include high-resolution graphics and virtual backgrounds. Access the
digital assets HERE
 and
have fun.



Best Wishes,

Winnie Kabintie (User:Ms_Kabintie
), on behalf of the
Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team.
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