[Wikimedia-l] Training series for event organizers: Incorporate faciliation into your events

[Rachel Farrand]

Hello!

The WMF Community Events team are proposing a short training series *for
Wikimedia community event organizers* (volunteers and affiliate staff)
where we will bring in *an expert facilitator and event producer both with
international event experience to discuss the importance of incorporating
quality facilitation into your events and how to do it.* This will likely
be a two part series of 75 - 90 minute sessions where *each session will
include training, active facilitation practice and modeling, and some
discussion around how this fits specifically into the Wikimedia context and
how this can help strengthen your community building efforts with diverse,
multi-modal facilitation best practices*.

Depending on the interests of the participants we will focus more heavily
on in person or remote events - but both event types will be covered.

Please read more about this training series and express interest here *before
April 2: *
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events_Team_Portal/FacilitationSeries

Questions welcome on the talk page!

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[Wikimedia-l] WMF Community Events office hours: March 18

[Rachel Farrand]

Hello everyone!

The Wikimedia Foundation Community Events Team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team> will
continue hosting monthly office hours for any community members who are
interested. This is a place where movement event organizers can join and
share ideas and lessons with each other for upcoming and past events.

This iteration of the office hours will take place on Thursday March 18,
2021 at 14:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1616076055>and will last
for an hour. Find the link to join on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team/OfficeHours#Upcoming_office_hours>.


*This month is open with no pre-set topic. You are welcome to bring any
questions or discussion points related to community events that you like
and we will keep the hour informal. *

You can find more information about upcoming officer hours and add your
comments and questions here and on the talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team/OfficeHours

Please pass this invite to others who may be interested in joining! We hope
to see you there! If you would like to host a specific topic or event
debrief at a future office hours please let me know!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community events office hours: February 11

[Rachel Farrand]

*Time correction: tomorrow's office hours are taking place at 18:00 UTC
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1613066418>*
The link to join is on meta.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team/OfficeHours#Office_hours_schedule>

This is a reminder to come and join us tomorrow to hear and discuss about:

   - Some upcoming international women's day community efforts
   - How to incorporate the Friendly Space Policy into your virtual events.

See you tomorrow!

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 1:25 PM Rachel Farrand 
wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation Community Events Team
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team> will
> continue hosting monthly office hours for any community members who are
> interested. This is a place where movement event organizers can join and
> share ideas and lessons with each other for upcoming and past events.
>
> This iteration of the office hours will take place on February 11, 2021
> at 19:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1613066418> and will last
> for an hour. Find the link to join on meta
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team/OfficeHours#Upcoming_office_hours>
>  or
> email me directly if you would like to be added to the ongoing calendar
> invite.
>
> *This months topics are:*
>
>- *Friendly Space Policy in a virtual context *(Léa and Cornelius)
>- *International Womensday and gender gap activities *(Ceill)
>- *Bring your own general questions and discussion *
>
> You can find more information about upcoming officer hours and add your
> comments and questions here and on the talk page:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team/OfficeHours
>
> Please pass this invite to others who may be interested in joining! We
> hope to see you there!
>
> --
> Rachel Farrand
> Senior Program Officer
> Community Events Team
> Wikimedia Foundation
>


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[Wikimedia-l] Community events office hours: February 11

[Rachel Farrand]

Hello everyone!

The Wikimedia Foundation Community Events Team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team> will
continue hosting monthly office hours for any community members who are
interested. This is a place where movement event organizers can join and
share ideas and lessons with each other for upcoming and past events.

This iteration of the office hours will take place on February 11, 2021 at
19:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1613066418> and will last for an
hour. Find the link to join on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team/OfficeHours#Upcoming_office_hours>
or
email me directly if you would like to be added to the ongoing calendar
invite.

*This months topics are:*

   - *Friendly Space Policy in a virtual context *(Léa and Cornelius)
   - *International Womensday and gender gap activities *(Ceill)
   - *Bring your own general questions and discussion *

You can find more information about upcoming officer hours and add your
comments and questions here and on the talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team/OfficeHours

Please pass this invite to others who may be interested in joining! We hope
to see you there!

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF Community Events Team office hours: January 14

[Rachel Farrand]

Remember that this month's Community Event Team office hours start in 1
hour!
I am afraid that the person who was planning to do Punjabi, and Hindi
translation for us is no longer attending.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:30 PM Rachel Farrand 
wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation Community Events Team
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20Foundation%20Events%20team>
> will continue holding monthly office hours for any community members who
> are interested. This is a place where movement event organizers can join
> and share ideas and lessons with each other for upcoming and past events.
> The Wikimedia Foundation Events team will be there as well to join in the
> discussions, answer questions you might have for us and to facilitate.
>
> This iteration of the office hours will take place on Thursday January 14
> at 13:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1610629253> and will last
> for an hour. Find the *link to join on meta
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20Foundation%20Events%20team/OfficeHours#Upcoming%20office%20hours>.
> *
>
> *This months topics:*
>
>-
>
>Andrew Lih will be joining us to a review of how the recent virtual
>WikiConference North America
><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_North_America/2020>
>went from an organizing perspective.
>-
>
>The WMF events team will be presenting our new meta Events Portal
><https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events_Team_Portal>
>-
>
>Time for any questions or discussion points from attendees
>
> *This months supported languages are: *
>
>- *English, Hebrew, Dutch, Spanish, Punjabi, and Hindi.* We will maybe
>support *Japanese* this is to be confirmed on the meta page within the
>next few days.
>
> We will *continue to change the time of the meeting each month* in order
> to be inclusive of more timezones. We will also continue to adjust these
> office hours as we go based on community feedback and are very open to
> changing the scope of these office hours over time or incorporating
> community theme requests, presentation requests or requests for outside
> speakers.
>
> You can find more information about upcoming office hours and add your
> comments and questions here and on the talk page:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team/OfficeHours
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20Foundation%20Events%20team/OfficeHours>
>
> We hope to see you there! Please pass this invitation to anyone in your
> communities who might like to join monthly international event organization
> discussions.
>
> --
> Rachel Farrand
> Senior Program Officer
> Community Events Team
> Wikimedia Foundation
>


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[Wikimedia-l] WMF Community Events Team office hours: January 14

[Rachel Farrand]

Hello everyone!

The Wikimedia Foundation Community Events Team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20Foundation%20Events%20team>
will continue holding monthly office hours for any community members who
are interested. This is a place where movement event organizers can join
and share ideas and lessons with each other for upcoming and past events.
The Wikimedia Foundation Events team will be there as well to join in the
discussions, answer questions you might have for us and to facilitate.

This iteration of the office hours will take place on Thursday January 14
at 13:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1610629253> and will last for
an hour. Find the *link to join on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20Foundation%20Events%20team/OfficeHours#Upcoming%20office%20hours>.
*

*This months topics:*

   -

   Andrew Lih will be joining us to a review of how the recent virtual
   WikiConference North America
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_North_America/2020> went
   from an organizing perspective.
   -

   The WMF events team will be presenting our new meta Events Portal
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Events_Team_Portal>
   -

   Time for any questions or discussion points from attendees

*This months supported languages are: *

   - *English, Hebrew, Dutch, Spanish, Punjabi, and Hindi.* We will maybe
   support *Japanese* this is to be confirmed on the meta page within the
   next few days.

We will *continue to change the time of the meeting each month* in order to
be inclusive of more timezones. We will also continue to adjust these
office hours as we go based on community feedback and are very open to
changing the scope of these office hours over time or incorporating
community theme requests, presentation requests or requests for outside
speakers.

You can find more information about upcoming office hours and add your
comments and questions here and on the talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team/OfficeHours
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%20Foundation%20Events%20team/OfficeHours>

We hope to see you there! Please pass this invitation to anyone in your
communities who might like to join monthly international event organization
discussions.

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Senior Program Officer
Community Events Team
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Conference Grants Program Updates

[Rachel Farrand]

Hello everyone!

We would like to announce the dates for our next two upcoming rounds for
our Wikimedia Foundation conference grants program.


   -

   If you would like to apply for funding to hold an event between July -
   December 2021 your application deadline is: February 8, 2021
   -

   If you would like to apply for funding to hold an event between January
   - June 2022 your application deadline is: September 27, 2021


The majority of events in 2021 will likely be mostly or fully remote events
unless anything major changes in our COVID-19 risk assessment protocol
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Risk_assessment_during_COVID-19>.
Following this protocol, some local events are possible in regions with low
COVID risk.

So far we have gained a lot of experience organizing remote events and
working alongside remote event organizers and are happy to meet and chat
about options and ideas for your community before you apply. We have
created some remote event guidelines here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Remote_Event_Guidelines>.
You can also read about some community efforts at Wikiproject: remote event
participation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject_remote_event_participation>.

We are happy to announce that we have approved two events for the first
half of 2021:

   -

   Arctic Knot: A Wikimedia Languages conference
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMNO/Arctic_Knot:_A_Wikimedia_Languages_conference>
   organized by Wikimedia Norge
   -

   WP20 Aniversario
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WMES/WP20Aniversario>
   organized by Wikimedia España
   -

   We are in final discussions with two other organizing groups for
   possible events during this time frame and will update our meta page
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/Browse_applications>
   if and when they are approved.



Finally, we are also looking for any community members with event
organizing experience from Asia or South America who might be interested in
joining our conference grants committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference_Grants/Committee> as we
currently don’t have representation from those regions. Once you read more
about our committee, you can apply on meta directly or email us back and
ask any questions you have.

Thank you & happy end of the year!

Rachel Farrand & Chen Almog


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[Wikimedia-l] WMF Community Events Team first office hours: Thursday December 10

[Rachel Farrand]

Hello everyone!

The Wikimedia Foundation Community Events Team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team> will
begin holding monthly office hours for any community members who are
interested. To start, this will be a place where people can come ask us
questions, get to know us, and have discussions. If only a handful of
people show up it will be completely informal but if a larger number of
people show up we will add a little bit of structure.

The first office hours will take place this Thursday, December 10 starting
at 15:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1607612429> and lasting for
an hour. Find the link to join on meta
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team/OfficeHours#Upcoming_office_hours>
.

Our Team Members who will be attending and general topics which we will
each be able to speak to:

   -

   Rachel Farrand, Senior Program Officer: Conference grants (thematic and
   growth events), accessibility, remote events in the Wikimedia context,
   planning for future office hours
   -

   Chen Almog, Senior Program Officer: conference grants (regional events),
   risk assessment, capacity building, the new Events portal
   -

   Joël Letang, Senior Events Strategist: event strategy, Wikimania,
   scholarships


We will move the time of the meeting around month-to-month in order to be
inclusive of more timezones. We will also be adjusting these office hours
as we go based on community feedback and are very open to changing the
scope of these office hours over time or incorporating community theme
requests, presentation requests or requests for outside speakers. In some
cases we will be using these office hours to test out different options for
remote conference software.

You can find more information about upcoming officer hours and add your
comments and questions here and on the talk page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Events_team/OfficeHours

We hope to see you there!

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Senior Program Officer
Community Events Team
Wikimedia Foundation
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[Wikimedia-l] Adding wording to the Wikimedia Foundation Friendly Space Policy around virtual events

[Rachel Farrand]

Hello everyone,


In order to adapt to current events and make the Wikimedia Foundation
Friendly Space Policy <
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy> inclusive of
virtual events, we are proposing to add the new wording found at the end of
this email to the policy.

We are very open to any alternative wording suggestions that extend the
coverage of these policies to include virtual conferences/events and will
wait two weeks 15 July, 2020 before making the changes. If you would like
to discuss different wording ideas please do so on the discussion page of
the Friendly Space Policy on meta. <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Friendly_space_policies#Adding_wording_to_the_Wikimedia_Foundation_FSP_around_virtual_events
>

Proposed changes:

First sentence now:

The Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to providing a harassment-free venue
and conference experience for everyone….

First sentence proposed change:

The Wikimedia Foundation is dedicated to providing a harassment-free
venue, virtual
event, and conference experience for everyone….

Last sentence now:

We expect participants to follow these rules at Wikimedia Foundation
venues, all conference venues, and conference-related social events.

Last sentence proposed change:

We expect participants to follow these rules at Wikimedia Foundation
venues, all conference venues, virtual events, and conference-related
social events.

This effort is done on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Conference Grants
program and was reviewed by WMF legal and WMF Trust and Safety
representatives.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions,


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Tech Talk: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners [including non-techies!]

[Rachel Farrand]

Reminder! This talk starts in 1 hour!

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Rachel Farrand <rfarr...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:

> Please join for the following talk:
>
> *Tech Talk**:* A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners
> [including non-techies!]
> *Presenter:* Asaf Bartov
> *Date:* February 09, 2017
> *Time: *19:00 UTC
> <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+A+Gentle+Introduction+to+Wikidata+for+Absolute+Beginners+%5Bincluding+non-techies%21%5D+=20170209T19=1440=3>
> Link to live YouTube stream <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrAx3AmUvA>
> *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office
>
> *Summary: *This talk will introduce you to the Wikimedia Movement's
> latest major wiki project: Wikidata. We will cover what Wikidata is, how to
> contribute, how to embed Wikidata into articles on other wikis, tools like
> the Wikidata Game, and how to query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples).
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Hackathon 2018: Looking for Proposals

[Rachel Farrand]

Hello!

Is your organization interested in hosting and co-organizing the 2018
Wikimedia Hackathon? We are looking for proposals!


Hackathon information:

Specific to the 2018 Hackathon


   - *https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2018_Decision_Process
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/2018_Decision_Process>*
   - 
*https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon#Hackathon_location_decision_process_for_2018
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon#Hackathon_location_decision_process_for_2018>*


All Hackathons


   - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons
   - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathon_101
   - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Hackathon_tips_for_organizers


This year’s Wikimedia Hackathon 2017
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017> will be held in
Vienna, Austria from 19-21 May. Ideally we will announce the host for 2017
before the end of March, 2017 so that the 2018 organizers can attend the
Vienna Hackathon and start gathering ideas. If multiple chapters or
organizations are interested, we hope to work together to figure out the
the best solution.

Any organizations interested in hosting should please create a Phabricator
ticket and associate it with the Developer-Relations project. Srishti and I
are happy to assist if needed.

Examples: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96826,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127050

Include as much information as possible from: proposing a hackathon
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons/Proposing_a_hackathon>

Please email me at rfarr...@wikimedia.org with any questions or concerns. I
am not on the chapters@ list, so if there is anything that I should respond
to, make sure to keep me on CC. Also please forward this email anywhere you
think it might be useful.


Looking forward to hearing from you!

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Events and Program Manager
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[Wikimedia-l] Tech Talk: A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners [including non-techies!]

[Rachel Farrand]

Please join for the following talk:

*Tech Talk**:* A Gentle Introduction to Wikidata for Absolute Beginners
[including non-techies!]
*Presenter:* Asaf Bartov
*Date:* February 09, 2017
*Time: *19:00 UTC

Link to live YouTube stream 
*IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office

*Summary: *This talk will introduce you to the Wikimedia Movement's latest
major wiki project: Wikidata. We will cover what Wikidata is, how to
contribute, how to embed Wikidata into articles on other wikis, tools like
the Wikidata Game, and how to query Wikidata (including SPARQL examples).
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Kevin Gorman has passed away

[Rachel Farrand]

You can add info here if you knew him and some of his Wikimedia work and
accomplishments:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-08-04/Obituary

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Ryan Kaldari  wrote:

> I was friends with Kevin and talked to him often over email. He was a
> tireless advocate of addressing the gender gap on Wikipedia and making the
> projects less toxic. Besides his significant volunteer work on-wiki, he was
> also a moderator of the gendergap mailing list (a difficult and thankless
> job). He was always an advocate for those whose voices were not being heard
> or those who were afraid to speak up due to fear of being attacked. He ran
> for English Wikipedia ArbCom last year, and addressed some of these issues
> in his candidate statement: "Our encyclopedia aims to encompass the sum of
> all human knowledge - a lofty goal that we cannot possibly accomplish
> unless we take steps to ensure that, to borrow from a recent public
> comment, we’re sending no demographic into a cultural buzzsaw."
>
> Kevin was one of the countless unsung heroes of our movement, and his
> passing is a tragic loss. I hope we can pay tribute to his memory by
> continuing to work towards addressing the gender gap and eliminating
> harassment on our projects.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Paris

[Rachel Farrand]

So glad to hear that, Alex. <3 to you all at WMFR and please take care and
stay safe.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Sydney Poore 
wrote:

> Alex, thanks for sharing this information. My thoughts are with Wikimedians
> and their family and friends.
>
> Take care,
> Sydney
>
> Sydney Poore
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[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Join the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016

[Rachel Farrand]

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From: Rachel Farrand <rfarr...@wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:05 AM
Subject: Join the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
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Hello!

The Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016 will be taking place in San Francisco,
CA between January 4th and January 6th, 2016.

Registration is open along with the call for participation.

*Deadline for travel sponsorship requests and the call for participation is
October 2, 2015.*

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016

Hope to see you in San Francisco!
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Subject for Wikimedia Hackathon(s) 2014-2015: CoSyne

[Rachel Farrand]

Yep, if you look at the Hackathon schedule you should see that it has been
scheduled for Thursday afternoon at 2pm. Hope you can make it!


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:03 AM, Emeric Vallespi emeric.valle...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Hello,

 Does anyone have planned a meeting during Wikimania about next Hackathon's
 organization ?
 I believe it would be useful to know who of us still want to organize,
 after informations which was forwarded by former organizers, and how we
 could collaborate to choose the next (co-)organizer.

 I will be around the Wikimania Hackathon this afternoon and tomorrow, let
 me know if you're interested with this discussion.
 (Jean-Frederic  Sylvain are also available)

 --
 Emeric Vallespi
 Vice-treasurer
 Wikimedia France

 emeric.valle...@wikimedia.fr
 Twitter: @evallespi



 On 16 juil. 2014, at 21:00, Emeric Vallespi emeric.valle...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  Hi,
 
  WMFr is still thinking about organizing Wikimedia Hackathon in 2015. We
 are currently identifying the technical, financial and especially human
 resources needed to make it a success.
 
  Frans, could you provide me/us your documentation or the link (Meta ?) ?
 It would be very useful.
 
  Wikimedia France really wants to organize an international event in 2015.
 
  Anyway, we believe that if another chapter wants to organize Hackathon
 it could be a waste of time for one of us to position our proposals against
 until the result.
 
  So if a sister entity positions herself clearly and seriously to
 organize Wikimedia Hackathon we can discuss it.
 
  Best regards,
  --
  Emeric Vallespi
  Vice-Treasurer
  Wikimedia France
 
  emeric.valle...@wikimedia.fr
  Twitter: @evallespi | Mob. +33 (0)6 61151312
 
  On 14 juil. 2014, at 20:38, Frans Grijzenhout fr...@wikimedia.nl
 wrote:
 
  Hi Balázs, WMNL hosted the international hackaton in 2013.
 Documentation is
  archived and thus still available and we are more than willing to help
 you
  in preparing the international hackaton in 2015.
  Regards, Frans
 
 
 
  *Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair
  fr...@wikimedia.nl
  +31 6 5333 9499
  http://www.wikimedia.nl/
 
  *Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland*
  *Postadres*: *Bezoekadres:*
  Postbus 167   Mariaplaats 3
  3500 AD  Utrecht3511 LH Utrecht
 
  ABNAMRO NL33 ABNA 0497164833 - Kamer van Koophandel 17189036
 
 
 
 
  2014-07-14 16:56 GMT+02:00 Balázs Viczián balazs.vicz...@wikimedia.hu
 :
 
  Hi,
 
  WMHU would be interested in *hosting *a Hackathon in Hungary
 (anywhere) but
  we would need a couple of international volunteers to help filling the
 core
  of event (finding topics and speakers or building up the content in
  general). In exchange, the rest (from side events to the smallest
 details)
  can be left with us :)
 
  Balazs
 
 
  2014-07-14 14:53 GMT+02:00 Frans Grijzenhout fr...@wikimedia.nl:
 
  Hi Romaine, this is to remind you that the CoSyne project was a
 research
  project, sponsored by the EU and conducted by different partners. The
  research has been concluded and the results have been reported early
  2013..The technical infrastructure has sinds then been dismantled, so
 it
  will not be that easy to restart CoSyne. Regards, Frans
 
 
  *Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair
  fr...@wikimedia.nl
  +31 6 5333 9499
  http://www.wikimedia.nl/
 
  *Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland*
  *Postadres*: *Bezoekadres:*
  Postbus 167   Mariaplaats 3
  3500 AD  Utrecht3511 LH Utrecht
 
  ABNAMRO NL33 ABNA 0497164833 - Kamer van Koophandel 17189036
 
 
 
 
  2014-07-09 23:44 GMT+02:00 Romaine Wiki romaine.w...@gmail.com:
 
  I doubt if these tools are similar. But I do think they can benefit
  from
  each other.
 
  Romaine
 
 
  2014-07-09 16:03 GMT+02:00 Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr:
 
  Le 09/07/2014 14:33, Romaine Wiki a écrit :
  As a subject of one/more hackathons I would like to recommend
  CoSyne
  [1].
  CoSyne is translation and multilingual synchronisation tool. The
  project
  was set up by Wikimedia Netherlands together with several
  universities
  and
  other partners, including the EU. The tool makes it possible to
  translate
  much more easier from one Wikipedia (etc) to another with much
  better
  quality translations than existing translating tools. It does not
  matter
  if
  an article is already written, it is possible with this tool to
  expand
  existing articles and to update articles with a new section when on
  one
  Wikipedia this was added. It makes it possible to exchange
  information
  in
  more languages and helps users to keep the articles up-to-date.
 
  I have tested the Bèta version of this tool and these tests were
  very
  successful.
 
  [1] https://nl.wikimedia.org/wiki/CoSyne
 
  Romaine
 
  Hello,
 
  Seems it is very similiar to the content translation Wikimedia i18n
  team
  is working on:
 
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation
 
  Demo video: