[Wikimedia-l] Wiki Loves Africa 2022 new deadline

Dear Wikimedians, On behalf of Wiki In Africa, the organizer of Wiki Loves Africa, I wish to inform you all that the deadline for submitting entries for Wiki Loves Africa 2022 themed *Home + Habitat*, has been extended to *30th

[Wikimedia-l] Join #WikiFrHumanrights Launch Webinar_ April 14

Dear Wikimedians, The wait is over!!!朗 The Multilingual Launch Webinar for #WikiForHumanRights is happening live tomorrow 14th April 2022 14:00UTC via zoom. Don’t forget to register- https://bit.ly/36FIJIJ Read more about the event on diff- https://bit.ly/3NCTv3b All are cordially invited!

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open letter on negating race and ethnicity as "meaningful distinctions" in the UCoC

Dear all, Thanks for reading and responding to our concerns, including with thoughtful questions and comments. We’re writing with a brief response to the different messages, with the two key aspects that have been raised. What we propose: In case it wasn’t already super clear, we confirm that

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2022 election - updates

Hi everyone, The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met between March 23-24 for our first in-person meeting in over two years. It was an opportunity to welcome our new CEO and several new trustees who have recently joined the Board. Further updates from the meeting will be shared soon, I am

[Wikimedia-l] An Open Letter to Maryana Iskander

Frederick, The paragraph in your letter that resonated most with me was this one: (9) The Wikipedia movement also seems to be shifting away from its volunteer model. This is what gave it its strength and vitality. We seem to be moving to an NGO/funded or even corporate model of operations.

[Wikimedia-l] Check out the first episode of our new Podcast WIKIMOVE

Dear Wikimedians, We are excited to be dropping the first episode of WIKIMOVE , the new podcast on everything Wikimedia Movement Strategy. What’s in this episode? We introduce the concept of the pod and then chat about the latest news in our movement.

[Wikimedia-l] Update: Extended application deadline for Wikimedia Summit 2022

Dear Wikimedians, I wanted to share a quick update following Wikimedia Deutschland’s announcement of the Wikimedia Summit 2022 last week. I am Cornelius, Event Coordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation’s Movement Strategy and Governance team, and the contact person for all things around the Summit

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software

Thanks Remy, Natacha, That abstract was useful. Do you know of any articles on any Wikipedia covering the topic? closest I can find on en: is Cultural hegemony Cheers, Peter From: GERBET Remy via Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org] Sent: 13 April 2022 11:15 To:

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software

Hi Peter, :) Thank you Natacha for your answer. You're right. Non-hegemonic languages are the ones that are not associated with a country or people that imposes itself on other cultures or claims any kind of control over the rest of the world. So that would be most existing languages. I used the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software

Hi, maybe this can explain a little https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1056492612444316 I think basically Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, French and English can be categorized as hegemonic. Kind regards, Nattes > Le 13 avr. 2022 à 10:24, Peter Southwood a > écrit : > >  > Hi

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software

Hi Remy, It might help if you defined what you mean by a non-hegemonic language. I would not think it a term familiar to most readers, and it is poorly covered by a google search. Cheers, Peter From: GERBET Remy via Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org] Sent: 12 April 2022