[Wikimedia-l] INVITATION TO JOIN THE AFROSOUNDS MEET UP 2.0

2023-02-01 Thread Isaac Ayodele 
Sorry about the omission in time zone.

The Afrosounds Meet-Up 2.0
Saturday, February 4 · 10:00am – 2:00pm West Africa Standard Time (GMT+1)
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/mgq-otzx-ogt
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[Wikimedia-l] INVITATION TO JOIN THE AFROSOUNDS MEET UP 2.0

2023-02-01 Thread Isaac Ayodele 
THE AFROSOUNDS MEET UP 2.0

Hello Friends,
Trust this mail meets you well. We're inviting you to join our campaign - The 
Afrosounds Project.

The Afrosounds Project hopes to build a community and network of volunteer 
editors who are willing to bridge the knowledge and content gap as it concerns 
African music and sounds on open source, and also correct misrepresentation of 
information pertaining to African music topics existent on free knowledge, 
starting with Wikimedia Projects.

Join our next meet-up and training session virtually through the Google Meet 
link provided below to understand our objectives, exchange interactions, engage 
in conversations about innovating in free knowledge through this context and 
contribute knowledge of African music to global knowledge;

The Afrosounds Meet-Up 2.0
Saturday, February 4 · 10:00am – 2:00pm
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/mgq-otzx-ogt

A contest campaign to further promote the contribution of content by 
participants would run from 4th February - 28th February, 2023. Top 3 
contributors would be rewarded with prizes.

Please, register here to be a part of the community.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeP1qD84JxpZSYvXU1okvnnaYxERaBmIcMzJgFv-kdxRrvpZw/viewform?usp=sf_link

We can't wait to host and learn with you!

The Afrosounds Team
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[Wikimedia-l] January 2023 Newsletter - Wikimedians for Sustainable Development

2023-02-01 Thread Jan Ainali 
This is our twentythird newsletter, covering January 2023. This issue has
news related to SDGs 3, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16.

== Meetings ==

Upcoming: 19 February - User group meeting (SDG all) [10]
Past: 15 January - User group meeting (SDG all) [11]

== Activities ==

Ongoing: Wiki Loves Plants (SDG 14) [18]
Ongoing: 365 climate edits (SDG 13) [27]
Upcoming: The 2023 Bug of the Year Edit-a-thon (SDG 14) [20]
Past: Lexeme challenge Urology (SDG 3) [1]
Past: Swedish Wikipedia weekly challenge - Frogs versus lizards (SDG 14)
[13]
Past: Three hundred episodes of Critter of the Week (SDG 14) [14]
Past: Wikidata Queries around the SARS-CoV-2 virus and pandemic (SDG 3) [21]
Past: Women in Climate Change 2022 (SDG 5 & 13) [26]

== News ==

The stories behind the Wiki Loves Earth 2022 photos from Türkiye (SDG 14)
[5]
Announcing our funding support from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Institute (PCORI) (SDG 3) [8]
Jumping for science: how Wikipedia assignments inspire STEM students (SDG
14) [9]
Birds of NYC Photo Contest Winners announced! (SDG 14) [12]
Using Wikidata to Connect Constituents With Their Government (SDG 16) [23]
Wiki Loves Earth 2022 presents the winners of the special nomination “Human
rights and environment”! (SDG 10 & 14) [25]
Equity, diversity & inclusion in affiliate governance (SDG 5 & 10) [28]

== Resources ==

Building a Life Sciences Knowledge Graph with a Data Lake (SDG 3) [24]

== Videos ==

Editor uses Wikidata to find new uses for existing drugs and speed up
approval process for new treatments (SDG 3) [6]
WikiForHumanRights Information Session (SDG 10) [19]

== Featured content ==

English Wikipedia: List of birds of Tuvalu (SDG 14) [15]
English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Laos (SDG 11) [16]
English Wikipedia: List of World Heritage Sites in Bangladesh (SDG 11) [17]

== New Wikidata properties ==

NIP (SDG 16) [2]
NSR doctor ID (SDG 3) [3]
UniProt disease ID (SDG 3) [4]
Strazha ID (SDG 16) [7]
United States House of Representatives ID (SDG 16) [22]

== Links ==

[1] https://dicare.toolforge.org/lexemes/challenge.php?id=74
[2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11429
[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11402
[4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11430
[5]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/01/05/the-stories-behind-the-wiki-loves-earth-2022-photos-from-turkiye/
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HW6YxXRL18
[7] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11446
[8]
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/01/05/announcing-our-funding-support-from-the-patient-centered-outcomes-research-institute-pcori/
[9]
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2023/01/04/jumping-for-science-how-wikipedia-assignments-inspire-stem-students/
[10]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
[11]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20230115
[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Birds_of_NYC_Photo_Contest/Winners
[13]
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Veckans_tävling/Grodor_versus_ödlor
[14]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/December_2022/Contents/New_Zealand_report#Three_hundred_episodes_of_Critter_of_the_Week
[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_of_Tuvalu
[16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Laos
[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Bangladesh
[18] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Plants
[19]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiForHumanRights_Information_Session_2023.webm
[20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Dunedin_5
[21] https://zenodo.org/record/7521891#.Y9p6MdLMKw4
[22] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P11500
[23]
https://anchor.fm/civichackerpodcast/episodes/Using-Wikidata-to-Connect-Constituents-With-Their-Government-e1or922
[24]
https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/01/26/building-life-sciences-knowledge-graph-data-lake.html
[25]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/01/23/wiki-loves-earth-2022-presents-the-winners-of-the-special-nomination-human-rights-and-environment/
[26] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Climate_Change_2022
[27]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/365_climate_edits
[28]
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/01/19/equity-diversity-inclusion-in-affiliate-governance/

Sent on behalf of Wikimedians for Sustainable Development by Jan Ainali
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: One Year Update

2023-02-01 Thread The Cunctator 
Thank you so much; I'm impressed by the work you are doing and your
approach. One part of the Wikimedia mission that I hope returns to the fore
in the coming year is defense of copyleft; ensuring that users of Wikimedia
copyrighted content respect the license and share alike.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 4:09 PM Maryana Iskander 
wrote:

> This message is being translated into other languages on Meta-wiki.
> ‎العربية • español • 中文 • deutsch • français • português•
> You can help with more languages.
> 
>
> Hi everyone - This month marked my official one-year anniversary as CEO of
> the Wikimedia Foundation. Based on some feedback from this list,  I have
> tried to send a regular update every few months (see January
> ,
> April
> ,
> June
> ,
> September
> ).
> I wanted to send another one today to reflect on my first year, and share
> upcoming work we have planned at the Foundation.
>
> Some of you may recall that I prepared for joining Wikimedia with a
> two-month listening tour
> 
> that led me to talk to a few hundred volunteers and Foundation staff across
> 55 countries. This shaped the five puzzles
> 
> and three priorities
> 
> that I shared with you when I started. These puzzles continue to guide what
> I believe are the biggest questions we must answer collectively, especially
> the question of, "what does the world need from us now?"
>
> I also completed the three priorities I outlined last January: (1)
> reimagining the Foundation's annual plan
> 
> to be more firmly anchored in our movement's strategic direction; (2)
> recruiting a capable Chief Product & Technology Officer
> 
> for the Wikimedia Foundation; and (3) starting to refresh the Foundation's 
> organizational
> values  to
> guide our ways of working with each other, and with all of you.
>
> English Fundraising Campaign
>
> As 2022 came to a close, a Request for Comment (RfC) launched on English
> Wikipedia
> 
> to propose changes to the messaging of year-end fundraising banners. The
> Wikimedia Foundation accepted the guidance provided by the RfC, and
> established a co-creation page
>  to
> seek volunteer input on banner messaging from community members. Throughout
> the fundraising campaign, the Foundation team posted regular updates to
> this co-creation page. In brief, over 450+ banners were tested during this
> year's campaign, and $24.7M of revenue was raised compared to the original
> $30M goal (a shortfall of $5.3 million). During the first few days, the new
> banners resulted in about 70% less revenue than on the corresponding days
> in the prior year. Additional information on the campaign results are
> posted here
> .
> The fundraising team will continue to work with all language communities on
> banner messaging in the year ahead, and we look forward to building on what
> we learned in this campaign.
>
> The RfC raised a much wider range of issues than just fundraising banners. 
> While
> anticipated revenue shortfalls made this a difficult period for the
> Foundation, I believe we tried to hear these broader concerns, many of
> which are shared across communities beyond English Wikipedia.
>
> One concern was about the very rapid budget growth of the Foundation,
> which has stabilized in the last year. Given the revenue gap from this
> year's English campaign, we are reviewing and lowering our

[Wikimedia-l] [Final call] Wikimania Scholarship Application

2023-02-01 Thread Slavina Stefanova 
The *deadline* for applying for a Scholarship to attend Wikimania 2023 in
Singapore on August 16-19 is:

** Sunday, 5 February 2023 23:59 AoE
 **

Please spread the word to anyone you know who might qualify.

A full scholarship covers travel, accommodation, and registration. There
are also partial scholarships. To learn more:

https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Scholarships


To apply for a scholarship, fill out the application form on:

https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/799477

** Special call for technical contributors **

If you are a tool creator, maintainer, user, or otherwise contribute to our
movement’s technical ecosystem and are willing to teach and mentor others,
collaborate on technical projects, and help onboard tech folks new to our
technical communities – please do apply and make sure you elaborate on what
technical mentorship you could contribute in your application. This will
greatly increase your chances to be selected.

If you have any questions, please contact:

wikimania-scholarsh...@wikimedia.org or leave a message at: 2023
talk:Scholarships

Thank you,

Slavina, on behalf of the Wikimania Scholarship Committee


--
Slavina Stefanova (she/her)
Software Engineer - Technical Engagement

Wikimedia Foundation
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