[Wikimedia-l] 2019 Wikipedia & Education User Group Annual Report

[Filip Maljkovic]

Hello everyone,

The 2019 Annual Report of the Wikipedia & Education User Group is now
published on meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group/2019_Annual_Report

Thanks,
Filip Maljković
Wikipedia & Education User Group
President


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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Serbia board members

[Filip Maljkovic]

Hello everyone,

Wikimedia Serbia held its General Assembly last night, when I formally
stepped down as the president of the chapter, after being in that
position for 6 years. Miroslav Loci (aka Mickey Mystique) was
unanimously elected as the new president of Wikimedia Serbia.

Marko Adam stepped down as a board member and Teodora Lukić is the newly
elected board member. Therefore, the board of Wikimedia Serbia now
consists of the following people:

1. Miroslav Loci - president
2. Đorđe Stakić - vice-president
3. Filip Maljković
4. Miljan Simonović
5. Bojana Satarić
6. Teodora Lukić

It has been a privilege to serve as the president of Wikimedia Serbia
and I'm certain that it will remain a stable and regionally strong
chapter in the following years.

Cheers,
Filip Maljković



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[Wikimedia-l] Join Wikipedia & Education User Group

[Filip Maljkovic]

Hi everyone,

Wikipeda & Education User Group [1] was formally approved recently and
we have started with our work! We want to help facilitate, support, and
advocate for educational work in the Wikimedia community and if you want
to support us in that, please join our user group by filling in a simple
form. [2]

We from the group's board are still in the process of setting things up
for the user group, but we want as many people as possible joining us,
especially people that believe that Wikimedia belongs in education,
because there's a lot of education things to do in our movement.

Also, don't let the user group's name fool you: we support all Wikimedia
projects and all Wikimedians and Wikimedia friends are welcome! :)

Cheers,
Filip Maljković
Wikipedia & Education User Group Membership Admin

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group

[2] https://goo.gl/forms/lPURTqy3wAOtM0B13



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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Ray Saintonge has died

[Filip Maljkovic]

On 09/13/2016 06:00 PM, Milos Rancic wrote:

He died yesterday. As he was an important member of our community, I
think we should make something appropriate so he would be remembered.


Oh dear, very sad news indeed :(

I remember meeting him at Wikimania 2006, and on many more subsequent 
Wikimanias. He was always nice and thoughtful.


My condolences to his family.

Filip

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017

[Filip Maljkovic]

Hello everyone,

I noticed on [1] that we're a bit behind schedule when it comes to 
Wikimania 2017.


The Wikimania 2017 jury call for volunteers should have gone in August, 
but I don't think one was sent (or at least I missed it). September 2015 
is the time when jury selection should be announced (which can hardly be 
done if there was no public call for jury members), and also the bidding 
is supposed to open. I see two unofficial bids so far: Bali and Perth. 
The former is filled with "Lorem ipsum" text and the latter is just 
plain empty.


Did we forget about Wikimania 2017? Do we still want it? Who is in 
charge of this process? Is this timeline accurate (since the only edit 
on that page was done by a non-WMF person; however, the process 
corresponds to the one from 2014 in terms of the timeline)? Is there an 
underlying problem that is causing bidding fatigue (since there are no 
valid bids so far)? Is it too early to go into this process altogether 
(and am I just being too dramatic)?


[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2017

Cheers,
Filip Maljković

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017

[Filip Maljkovic]

On 10/01/2015 03:26 AM, Ellie Young wrote:

The Wikimania Steering Committee is in the process of discussing and making
a proposal about our changing the process of how hosts are selected for
future Wikimanias.  We will be asking for the community's input.  I didn't
update the wiki pages to reflect this.   There will be an announcement soon
about this.   We haven't forgotton about 2017!

Thanks for your patience and we expect to make an announcement in the next
few weeks.

Ellie Young
Events Manager, WMF


Thanks Ellie,

Glad to hear that something's going on. :)

Cheers,
Filip

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference[1] 2015

[Filip Maljkovic]

On 10/16/2014 04:22 AM, Asaf Bartov wrote:

Hello, everyone.

Weeks go by, and the previous conversation was throughly derailed, so out
of a profound interest in ensuring a high-value event, I am bringing this
up again: we[3] *need to make progress* with planning the
working-meeting-featuring-Wikimedia-affiliates-and-WMF-and-the-WMF-Board-and-AffCom[4],
whatever we may end up calling it[1].

In the interest of moving on to focus on more substantive issues, and in
light of there being only a single bid submitted so far[5], may I
boldly *suggest
that it be accepted* and that we devote the rest of the time until the
spring to ensuring the lessons[6] of the previous years be heeded in
*significant
preparatory work* by the program team and the affiliates?

Asaf

[1] or whatever we may choose to rename it.  The previous thread was
successfully killed by the digression into the event's name.  Let's try to
keep this one on track, and discuss the name ELSEWHERE[2], shall we?
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Conference_2015
[3] yes, not all the hundreds of people on this mailing list.  But this is
still the channel that reaches the greatest number of Wikimedia affiliates.
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015
[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015/Bids
[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Future_of_the_Wikimedia_Conference

Yes, please.

Cheers,
Filip (WMRS)

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Chapters] Wikimedia Serbia Executive Director

[Filip Maljkovic]

On 10/16/2014 07:12 AM, Salvador A wrote:

Great news! Congratulations!

I hope WMRS could tell us how was the experience and difficulties of
choosing a new ED. Such kind of storytelling might be the basis for future
best practices on getting staff.


Thanks! :)

Well, to me (someone who was involved in the process from the get-go and 
through the entire thing), the greatest difficulty was the sheer amount 
of submissions -- 224.


So, our process was as follows: we announced the job opening on two 
relevant sites and accepted submissions during the course of 3 weeks. 
After reviewing all the CVs, the committee (originally consisting of 3 
persons) members gave their ternary grades (+, -, or ?) for each 
candidate. Those with not enough positive votes weren't considered 
anymore, but those with any sort of significant support were discussed 
at a long meeting, where we finally made a list of people who would be 
invited in the first round of interviews.


Around 30 people participated in the first round, and that was spread 
throughout 3 days (about 12 hours in total, so about 20 minutes per 
candidate). After that, we made a shortlist for the second round and 
that included 6 best candidates. We were quite strict with some 
criteria, but we had to be in order to narrow things down significantly.


The second round was held during the course of one afternoon, and the 
committee was broadened by a few board members. The second round 
consisted of a short test (literacy and general knowledge) and a half 
hour interview, that was broader in scope than the first one: we gave 
each of the candidates one of the project proposals we got from our 
volunteers for the Annual Grant 2015, so the candidates had to comment 
them and try to see how the project fit in our mission, what should be 
changed etc.


After the interviews, we had some deliberations that lasted longer than 
anticipated, but after about a week, one candidate bubbled up and we 
selected him -- Ivan.


That's the process in short (there were some other peculiarities, but 
they aren't quite relevant for this venue).


Cheers,
Filip

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Serbia ED

[Filip Maljkovic]

Dear friends,

We would like to inform you that Wikimedia Serbia board of trustees and 
Wikimedia Serbia Executive Director, Mile Kiš, have mutually decided to 
part ways and to end Mile's employment at the position of ED. Mile will 
remain Wikimedia Serbia ED until September 1.


We would like to thank Mile for many years of cooperation and all the 
effort that he put into developing Wikimedia Serbia and its projects. 
His work was crucial in the initial steps of professionalization of 
Wikimedia Serbia. We wish him the best of luck in his future 
professional and personal endeavors.


We plan to post a job opening soon, so that we could find a new ED, but 
in the meantime, that job will be carried out by Ivana Madžarević, 
Project and Community Manager of Wikimedia Serbia.


On behalf of Wikimedia Serbia Board,
Filip Maljković
President of Wikimedia Serbia

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Serbia office

[Filip Maljkovic]

Hello everyone,

I'm writing to inform you that Wikimedia Serbia has opened an office in 
Belgrade starting November 1, thanks to the grant by WMF [1]. That means 
that we have our first employee, which is very exciting for us, but also 
brings a lot of responsibilities.


So, the office is located in Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra (King Alexander 
Boulevard) 20, which is in the city center, on the fifth floor, with a 
view on the National Assembly building, the main post office building, 
church of Saint Mark and Trg Nikole Pašića, one of the two central 
squares. Anyone who's been to Belgrade can attest that this is one of 
the most central and most beautiful parts of the city. :)


The office space is about 95 square meters and we're still in the 
process of buying furniture and equipment, but our conference room is 
pretty much set. We'll use the antechamber (which is quite large by 
itself) to display the 15 finalist photos from the WLM contest 2012 
(we've just had a ceremony of announcing winners and exhibiting them in 
a local gallery).


Our employee is Mile Kiš, our General Secretary. He's been a tremendous 
help for us in the past years and he's been doing more than full time 
work for us as a volunteer, so I'm especially glad that he's going to be 
able to help us as an employee, as well as be able to work on his 
personal professionalization.


[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_RS/Annual_plan_2012-2013

Cheers,
Filip Maljković
Vice-president
Wikimedia Serbia

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