[Wikimedia-l] WikiYouthCon Update

[James Popoola]

Hi Everyone,


The Wikimedia Youth Conference 2023 scheduled to be held in Spain in
September will be the first youth conference in the movement.


The conference grant team is eager to provide all relevant support in order
to ensure that the conference is successful. But in order to do this, more
time other than what is available will be needed. Therefore, they did
recommend that the conference be moved to 2024 in order to avail more time
to work on addressing relevant needs where possible.


We are therefore advised to keep our preparations still going. We also
understand that we could use this additional time to strategize more on the
conference planning.


We know that we had made a call for the conference subcommittees. We will
reach out to the selected applicants to explain how the engagement could
look like given this circumstance.


Beyond that, we will still be working on the conference design and
planning. We hope to keep you informed of all the updates as they come.


We are happy to answer any questions or concerns.


Best regards,

James Popoola

On behalf of the WikiYouthCon COT.
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[Wikimedia-l] [Receiving Applications] Wikimedia Youth Conference 2023 Subcommittees

[James Popoola]

Hello Everyone,

We are seeking for volunteers to constitute the subcommittees for
organising the upcoming Wikimedia Youth Conference 2023.[1]

Interested applicants can now apply from now until 10th March 2023.[2]

Looking forward to reading your application.

Best regards,
James Popoola
On behalf of the WikiVibrance Core Team

[1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Youth_Conference_2023


[2]
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1T8GuJfIwX1pbu-qkYSxQWxsVR8To7ttwOAstURuF778
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing Wiki Loves Africa 2022 International Winners!!!

[James Popoola]

Congratulations to the winners 

On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 17:51, Risker  wrote:

> What wonderful images and videos!  Congratulations to all of the winners.
>
> Risker/Anne
>
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 09:20, Ceslause Ogbonnaya <
> cesla...@wikiinafrica.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> 2022 Winners Announced: Exquisite views of what “Home” means across
>> Africa are expressed in the International Wiki Loves Africa 2022 winners.
>>
>>
>>
>> 1st Prize US$2000.: A Nubia
>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Nubia.jpg> by Summering2018
>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Summering2018> (Egypt)
>> 2nd Prize US$1500: Home is My Work 2
>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Home_is_my_work_2.jpg> by Mohamed
>> Hozyen <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hozyen> (Egypt)
>> 3rd Prize US$1000: Planning Ahead
>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Planning_Ahead.jpg> by Ayorinde
>> Ogundele <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ayorinde_Ogundele>
>>  (Nigeria)
>> Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Best Video: Dream Home
>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dream_Home_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2022_By_Green_Wilfred_Somoni.webm>
>>  by Green Wilfred Somoni
>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Green_Wilfred_Somoni> (Nigeria)
>>
>> Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Special Collection: Myousry
>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Myousry> photo essay Windows
>> Stories
>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2022/Winners/Special_collection>Selected
>> from 16,265 entries by an international jury of 12 professional
>> photographers and Commonists, the Wiki Loves Africa 2022 winning images and
>> video can be found here: https://bit.ly/WLA22Winners
>>
>>
>> Thanks to all who participated! Through your lens, you are changing
>> perspectives of our incredible continent. Wiki Loves Africa is the annual
>> visual celebration of Africa, and is a project of Wiki In Africa.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ceslause Ogbonnaya
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Larissa Borck and Raimond Spekking appointed to the WMDE board

[James Popoola]

Congratulations to Larissa and Raimond.

On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 at 11:15, Alice Wiegand 
wrote:

> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>
>
> I am happy to announce that the  Wikimedia Deutschland supervisory board
> has appointed Larissa Borcka and Raimond Spekking as additional members to
> the board.
>
>
> Larissa is committed to the digital development of cultural institutions.
> As curator of digital development for the S?rmlands museum in Sweden, she
> is responsible for digitisation projects and cooperation with Wikipedia and
> Wikimedia Commons. On the board, she will bring the perspective of cultural
> institutions to Wikimedia projects such as Wikidata and Wikibase. Raimond has
> been a Wikipedian and a Commons photographer for many years, is active in
> the Volunteer Response Team and continues to develop the MediaWiki
> software. On our board, he strives to strengthen the community's
> perspective and contribute his expertise at the interface between content
> creation and technology.
>
>
> Both will be full members of the board until the next board elections at
> the general assembly in mid-2024 and we are very much looking forward to
> working with them.
>
>
> The Wikimedia Deutschland board consists of up to 9 members
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Deutschland>. Seven members
> are elected by the general assembly for a two-year term. After the
> election, the seven board members can appoint up to two additional members
> to the board. To complement the competences of the board after the
> elections in May, we were looking for two specific profiles: One in the
> field of "active Wikipedians"; a person who contributes content to
> Wikipedia and thus additionally strengthens this perspective in discussions
> and decisions. And one in the field of ?technology / open structured data?;
> a person with expertise and a feel for the developments and opportunities
> of open structured data in the digital ecosystem, ideally with expertise in
> Wikidata and Wikibase. I am delighted that with Larissa and Raimond we were
> able to attract two people with a lot of experience and passion for free
> knowledge to join our supervisory board.
>
>
> Please join me in welcoming Larissa and Raimond!
>
>
> Alice.
>
>
> Alice Wiegand
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Selena Deckelmann joins as Chief Product & Technology Officer

[James Popoola]

has dedicated her
>>> career to open source technologies for empowerment and inclusion.”
>>>
>>> At Mozilla, where she has been for nearly a decade, Selena currently
>>> leads the Firefox organization of more than 400 people responsible for all
>>> Firefox product and technology functions including desktop, mobile, web
>>> platform, and browser services. She oversaw some of the company’s most
>>> significant achievements including performance projects like Quantum Flow,
>>> architectural changes like Project Fission, key features like Enhanced
>>> Tracking Protection and Total Cookie Protection, and services such as
>>> Firefox Monitor. In her nine years at Mozilla, Selena held various other
>>> roles including Vice President for Firefox Desktop, Senior Director for Web
>>> Platform Engineering and Gecko Runtime, and Senior Manager for Gecko
>>> Security Engineering.
>>>
>>> Selena also brings experience from her previous roles as co-founder of
>>> Prime Radiant, a software as a service business that explored how to
>>> improve business processes at scale with checklist automation software, and
>>> as Consulting Director of Development for The Ada Initiative, an
>>> organization that was dedicated to increasing the participation of women in
>>> open source and technology communities. She was a major contributor to
>>> PostgreSQL, one of the largest free and open source databases in the world.
>>>
>>> “Open collaboration produces better solutions for the world, and
>>> technology is a critical enabler of making this true,” said Selena. “I look
>>> forward to contributing to Wikimedia’s inspiring free knowledge mission.”
>>>
>>> As Chief Product and Technology Officer, Selena will work with Wikimedia
>>> Foundation staff, technical contributors, volunteer developers,
>>> researchers, and communities to support Wikimedia’s 2030 Movement
>>> Strategy
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Direction>
>>> to advance free and open access to knowledge. The majority of the
>>> Foundation is focused on product and technology development in service of
>>> our mission.
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Congratulations to accepted candidates for Google Summer of Code 2022 & Outreachy Round 24

[James Popoola]

Well-done Gopa and congratulations to them all.

On Thu, May 26, 2022, 5:07 PM pavan santhosh 
wrote:

> Congratulations to all the successful candidates and mentors!!!
>
> 26 మే, 2022, గురు 17:08కి, Vasanth Gopa  ఇలా
> రాశారు:
>
>> Hello Folks,
>>
>> Please join me in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google
>> Summer of Code 2022 and Outreachy Round 24!
>>
>> *Google Summer of Code 2022*
>>
>>1.  Nivas Ramisetty, India,   Campaigns Retention Metrics Dashboard
>> 
>> Mentors: KCVelaga, Jayprakash12345.
>>
>>2.  Ayan Sarkar, India,  Improve the picture selector of the Commons
>> Android app
>> 
>> Mentors:  Syced, Aditya.
>>
>>3.  Lalit Suthar, India,  Extending the WikidataComplete plugin for
>> enabling data donations, recommendations, and gamification
>> 
>> Mentors: Gabinguo 
>> , Aleksandr Perevalov 
>>
>>4.  Ankit Gupta, India,  Edit Request Wizard
>> 
>> Mentors: Enterprisey
>> , SD0001
>> .
>>
>>5.  Shashwat Khanna ,
>> India,  Modernize JavaScript build process and dependencies for Wiki
>> Education Dashboard ,
>> Mentors: Sage (Wiki Ed)
>>   .
>>
>>6.   Lennard Hofmann
>> , Germany, Rewrite
>> the Wikidata Infobox on Commons in Lua
>> ,
>>  Mentors: Mike Peel
>> .
>>
>>7.  Amal Paul, India,  Command-line interface for Canasta
>> ,
>> 
>> Mentors: Jeffrey Wang
>> , Yaron Koren
>> 
>>
>> *Outreachy Round 24*
>>
>>1.  Vaidehi Atpadkar,  Add support for tracking specific namespaces
>> to Programs & Events Dashboard
>> 
>> Mentors: Sage Ross.
>>
>>2.  Nazia Tasnim,   Build Python library to work with html-dumps
>> 
>> Mentors: Martin Gerlach, Isaac Johnson.
>>
>>3.  Feliciss,  What's in a name? Automatically identifying first and
>> last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata
>> 
>> Mentors: Mike Peel
>> , Pigsonthewing
>> .
>>
>>4.  Luis Roberto,  What's in a name? Automatically identifying first
>> and last author names for Wikicite and Wikidata
>> 
>> Mentors: Mike Peel
>> , Pigsonthewing
>> .
>>
>> We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on
>> this thread, share with us where they are coming from and give a brief
>> overview of the project they will be working on.
>>
>> We’re so proud of the contributions they have made so far to our
>> community,
>> and we look forward to having a wonderful time working with them over the
>> summer! Also, a huge shout-out to the project mentors for their enthusiasm
>> and commitment!
>>
>> Thank you to Srishti, Jay Prakash
>>  and Aisha Khatun
>>  for coordinating this
>> round along with me!
>>
>> [1] Google Summer of Code 2022:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2022
>> [2] Outreachy Round 24: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Round_24
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gopa Vasanth 
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>>  | Gerrit
>> 
>>
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda

[James Popoola]

Congratulations   

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022, 12:38 PM Ruby Damenshie-Brown <
rdamenshiebrown-...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Great news! Congratulation to the team! 
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 8:40 AM Handgod Abraham 
> wrote:
>
>> Welcome to User Group Rwanda !
>>
>> Le jeu. 10 févr. 2022 à 17:11, Nanour Garabedian <
>> garabedian.nanour.w...@gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>>> *Congratulations* *Wikimedia *
>>> *Rwanda! *
>>> *Welcome aboard!*
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Nanour
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 9:44 AM Camelia Boban 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Hi everyone!

 I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
 recognized [1] *Wikimedia Community User Group* *Rwanda *[2] as a
 Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to improve articles on Wikimedia
 Foundation project websites and promote free and open access to knowledge
 locally in Kinyarwanda & English. They also invest in projects that
 sensitize and train different communities in Rwanda about Wikipedia with
 much emphasis on Kinyarwanda Wikipedia*.*

 Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

 [1]
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Rwanda

 [2]
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Rwanda


 Regards,



 *Camelia Boban*
 *Chair*

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

[James Popoola]

Thanks for the reminder!

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021, 8:25 PM Janna Layton  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Just a reminder for our upcoming Research Showcase.
>
> 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.
>>
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>> Janna Layton (she/her)
>> Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
>> Wikimedia Foundation 
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> Janna Layton (she/her)
> Administrative Associate - Product & Technology
> Wikimedia Foundation 
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