[Wikimedia-l] North-west Russia Wiki-Historians User Group Annual report on 2021

Greetings all! Our UG have published an annual report on 2021 here  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/North-West_Russia_Wiki-Historians_User_Group/Annual_reports/2021 . It is originally published in Russian and translated to English, so, I hope it’ll be understandable for most of subscribers of

[Wikimedia-l] Call for projects and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2022 and Outreachy Round 24 is ongoing!

Hello everyone, TLDR; Wikimedia will soon be applying as a mentoring organization to Google Summer of Code 2022 [1] and Outreachy Round 24 [2]. We are currently working on a list of interesting project ideas to include in the

[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Folklore 2022

Dear All, Wiki Loves Folklore is back this year on Wikimedia commons to be held from 1st of February till the 28th of February 2022. We need your support in participation and translation of project pages to share a word in your native language. Concurrently with the photo contest we will be

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Luis Bitencourt-Emilio Joins Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

On 14/01/2022 02:01, Luis Bitencourt-Emilio wrote: I was born and grew up in Brazil, under vastly different circumstances than today. There was a critical moment in my life when my father placed me, at 8 years old, in a BASIC programming course which I would practice on our x286 hidden away

[Wikimedia-l] Re: "content was" when deleting pages - is it useful?

The main advantage I can see, is that it requires a conscious decision to not be transparent, rather than a conscious effort to be transparent. There are many cases where deletion is warranted, but the content is not of the type that including a sample would be harmful. So from the point of view