[Wikimedia-l] Re: Emerging human rights concern related to invasion of Ukraine

[Pierre-Yves Beaudouin via Wikimedia-l]

Thank you Maggie for your message.

Let us know when the movement
should communicate about this terrible news. I'm sure that a lot of
affiliates would be happy to communicate on that topic, contact our
governments and human rights NGOs, but we don't want to make things
worse for Pessimist2006 and others editors living in Belarus, Russia and
Ukraine. 

Best regards,

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PIERRE-YVES BEAUDOUIN 
_MEMBRE DU CONSEIL
D'ADMINISTRATION_

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WIKIMEDIA FRANCE
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connaissance
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Le 2022-03-11 22:45, Maggie Dennis a écrit :

> Hello, all. 
> 
>
I'm writing to update you all on an emerging human rights concern
related to the invasion of Ukraine. We are concerned that an effort is
being made to identify Wikipedia editors whose activities are seen as
opposing the Russian narrative of the war. 
> 
> I wanted to let you
know that we are aware, we are monitoring, and we are acting in various
ways already. While we cannot discuss the details for the safety of all
involved, over a year ago, we hired a Human Rights Lead [1] with
experience in individual safety to help us with such situations. This
includes partnerships with allied organizations experienced in human
rights interventions as well as connecting with appropriate community
groups and functionaries to provide safety support. We care about the
safety of Wikimedians, and I know that you do, too. We have heard as
much from many of you directly. 
> 
> I want to take this opportunity to
raise your awareness of the need to protect yourselves and each other
online. It's such a cliche that I'm almost hesitant to write it, but in
this world, sharing information is sometimes a radical act. Because of
this, we ask you all to please be aware of what information you share
about yourself on Wikimedia platforms and how your Wikimedia activities
can be connected to your personal identity. Some Wikimedians have chosen
to operate transparently. Others have chosen to operate under
pseudonyms. Whatever path you've chosen, there are best practices for
your personal protection. Some guidance has been gathered here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Voices_under_Threat [2] 
> 
> At the
same time as I share these recommendations, I want to firmly assert that
all who try to get people vital information in times of crisis - whether
Wikimedian or otherwise - should be celebrated. At the core of our
movement is the belief that knowledge belongs to everyone, and the
Foundation is firmly against efforts by anyone to stand in the way of
the flow of verifiable information in whatever forum it is shared. I
believe, as is the way with all Wikimedians, that the path to a better
world is to ensure people everywhere have access to knowledge, and that
we, as collective societies, should provide them the tools to assess the
accuracy of the information they encounter. Censorship is not the
solution. 
> 
> If you have information to share about this situation or
about other potential threats of persecution to the safety of Wikimedia
volunteers due to their good faith contributions to the projects, please
share with talktohumanrig...@wikimedia.org. The team is quite busy and
may not be able to respond to all communications because of that, but
they do read them, and your emails do matter. 
> 
> I wish the best for
all of you who read this and for all seekers of information and sharers
of information in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and beyond. We will share
updates of the situation here as we are able within the framework of
prioritizing people's safety. In the meantime, I'd like to take the
opportunity to highlight the efforts of some Wikimedians related to the
invasion of Ukraine [3].  
> 
> Warm regards, 
> 
> Maggie 
> -- 
> 
>
Maggie Dennis 
> She/her/hers 
> Vice President, Community Resilience &
Sustainability
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 
> 
>
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[1]
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[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Voices_under_Threat
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
[4]
http://www.wikimedia.fr/
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[Wikimedia-l] New board of Wikimédia France

[Pierre-Yves Beaudouin via Wikimedia-l]

Dear all,

The new board of Wikimédia France is almost the same as the
last one. The only change is the departure of Benoît Deshayes. The board
is composed of 10 people (4 women and 6 men). 

The list and our
contacts are on meta:


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikim%C3%A9dia_France/Gouvernance/Conseil_d'administration#Composition


Best regards, 

Pierre-Yves Beaudouin
President 

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Annoying ads

[Pierre-Yves Beaudouin via Wikimedia-l]

We should create a rule that state that each discussion on wikimedia-l
will end with "it's the fault of WMF!" ;)

The problem of viewing
several banners at the same time happens because some community members
still use Sitenotice. I think that it's a bad idea and that they should
only use Centralnotice. 

Pyb

Le 2020-05-04 17:26, Robert Fernandez a
écrit :

> I know this might sound crazy, but have you considered
logging in?
> 
> On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 10:56 AM John Erling Blad
 wrote:
> 
>> Often I surf Wikipedia without being
logged in, and so I did right now. I
>> got the usual banners, but this
time they popped up repeatedly in several
>> locations. This quickly
gets extremely annoying, and I find it unwise.
>> Create one banner, and
stick with that. Several banners are simply way over
>> the top.
>> 
>>
/jeblad
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wiki Cemeteries User Group

[Pierre-Yves Beaudouin via Wikimedia-l]

Great news! 

We can do a lot of things in this area. For example, an
app for the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The app is based on
Wikidata, Wikipedia and Commons. I've started improving Wikimedia
projects and then try to find a dev to write an app or a website. I was
lucky to find a dev specialised on iOS.


https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/super-lachaise/id918263934 

Pierre-Yves


Le 2020-02-17 20:21, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight a écrit :

> Hi
everyone!
> 
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations
Committee has recognized
> [1] Wiki Cemeteries User Group [2] as a
Wikimedia User Group. The group
> aims to collaborate around the scope
of cemeteries with existing
> Affiliates; connect with new partners and
editors, especially in the field
> of traditional genealogy; understand
cultural sensitivities around the
> theme of cemeteries; understand
cemetery culture, including the role of
> caretakers, specialty items
(e.g. flags for veterans, flower wreaths), and
> so forth.
> 
> Please
join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> 
>
Regards,
> 
> Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
> 
> Chair, Affiliations
Committee
> 
> [1]
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wiki_Cemeteries_User_Group
>

> [2]  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Cemeteries_User_Group
> 
>

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[Wikimedia-l] First Diversity and Francophonie Projects Manager of Wikimédia France

[Pierre-Yves Beaudouin via Wikimedia-l]

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce a new position at Wikimédia France
(WMFR): Diversity and Francophony Projects Manager. Adélaïde Calais [1],
already working for us on WikiFranca and the French speaking
Wikiconvention, is in charge on that. This new position contains 3 main
areas: 

A. Support the structuration and development of francophone
cooperation efforts 'WikiFranca' : Since 2013 and the creation of
WikIFranca by members of Wikimedia Canada, Wikimedia Switzerland,
Wikimedia Belgium and Wikimedia France [2],  we are committed to other
French affiliates of the Wikimedia movement in a logic of mutual
support. The WikiFranca [3] network has welcomed and supported the
emergence of Wikimedia communities in other French-speaking countries by
organizing unifying events. WMFR would like to continue to support the
WikiFranca French-speaking collaborative network and develop friendly
relations with the Francophone affiliates of the movement. 

Ongoing
projects: Francophone Contribution Month, French speaking Wikiconvention
[4], Learning Days in French, rapid grants open to all French speaking
wikimedians [5], WikiClubRFI [6]... 

B. Languages diversity: We will
focus on a territorial linguistic community and develop an annual
project with the help of local associations. In 2019-2020, this will be
the Occitan community whose version of Wikipedia has about 85,000
articles for 5 administrators. We hope to build a development and
support project that will be transferable to other linguistic
communities living in metropolitan France. This project also concerns
the tool Lingua Libre [7] which has been developed to allow the oral
contribution on Wikimedia projects especially for people who speak
regional and minority languages. Since then, the project has evolved,
grown and reached a stage of development sufficient to initiate
recording workshops. It reached 150 000 recordings after a only year
being up and meets expressed needs. We will, therefore, continue to
support it, but we must also look at its future and its usefulness for
the Wikimedia movement, particularly in the context of the 2030
strategy.  

Ongoing projects: Lingua libre, Lingua Libre Sign-it (a
Sign Language project that will be announced later), funding of MOOCs in
Arabic and Shawiya... 

C. Diversify participation in the Wikimedia
movement: In 2018, WMFR launched a specific program for the overseas
territories with the first edition of the contest "Photograph the
Overseas" [8], in partnership with the French Ministry of Overseas and
the French Development Agency. The objective of the Overseas project is
to develop the participation coming from overseas territories in order
to improve the contents on the Wikimedia projects related to these
territories. They represent about 18% of the whole of the national
territory, counting 2 million inhabitants. Overseas territories are as
diverse as the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon off Canada, Antillean
islands or the kingdoms of Wallis and Futuna in the Pacific Ocean. 

In
order not to disperse our forces and thus weaken our fight against the
gender gap on Wikimedia projects, Wikimedia France supported the
activities of gender gap-bridging projects (Les sans pagEs [9]) and a
monthly Wikisource editathons on women writers [10]. 

Ongoing projects:
Photograph the Overseas, funding of gender gap-bridging projects...


I'm also thrilled to have Emma Vadillo [11], doing an internship of 8
months on Lingua Libre. Emma recently graduated from Science Po Paris
and Columbia University in New York where she also worked at the
Endangered Language Alliance documenting endangered languages. She wants
to pursue studies in linguistics but before that, she is here to apply
her knowledge of indigenous languages of Latin America and linguistic
policy to developing Lingua Libre in its goal of facilitating the
publication of audio content on Wikimedia projects. She hopes this will
enable linguistic communities of regional and/or minority languages to
share their knowledge more easily with the world, as well as appropriate
themselves the new technologies of information and communication to be
able to use them in their own language and for their own benefit. 

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ad%C3%A9la%C3%AFde_Calais_WMFr 
[2]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francophones_meetup_at_Wikimania_2013.jpg

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiFranca/en 
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConvention_francophone/en 
[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_France/Micro-financement 
[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiClubRFI 
[7] https://lingualibre.fr

[8] https://outremer.wikimedia.fr 
[9]
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Les_sans_pagEs 
[10]
https://visiautrices.hypotheses.org/ 
[11]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Eavqwiki 

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Beaudouin

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WIKIMEDIA
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