[Wikimedia-l] Video tutorial regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor

2019-02-25 Thread Pine W
Hello colleagues, *Overview* A video tutorial for creating references on Wikipedia with VisualEditor is in development for English Wikipedia and possibly also for Spanish Wikipedia. Publication is likely to happen in March 2019. If this tutorial is well received then additional tutorials may

[Wikimedia-l] Books & Bytes – Issue 32, January – February 2019

2019-02-25 Thread UY Scuti
*Books & Bytes – Issue 32, January – February 2019* Highlights: - #1Lib1Ref - New and expanded partners - Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update - Global branches update - Bytes in brief *F*rench* version of Books & Bytes is now available on

[Wikimedia-l] Reviewing our brand system for our 2030 goals

2019-02-25 Thread Zack McCune
:: Apologies for cross-posting to multiple mailing lists. We want to ensure we spread the word about this opportunity to as many people as possible. :: Hi all, We are writing today to invite you to be a part of a community review on Wikimedia brand research and strategy. Recently, the Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CIS-A2K January Newsletter

2019-02-25 Thread Srishti Sethi
Thanks, Ananth for sharing these events and updates! This is exciting :) If you need any help in designing a curriculum, or gathering tools or resources for running a technical workshop/event, feel free to reach out to the Developer Advocacy team:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CIS-A2K January Newsletter

2019-02-25 Thread Samuel Klein
+++ Thanks for these updates, as always :) SJ On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 9:07 AM Shani Evenstein wrote: > This is great! > So wonderful to see such wonderful activity from India! > Keep up the good work! > > Shani. > > --- > *Shani Evenstein Sigalov*

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia+Education Conference programme announced

2019-02-25 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga
Dear all, The Wikimedia+Education Conference 2019 will happen soon in Donostia, Basque Country. The programme has been announced: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia%2BEducation_Conference_2019/Programme We will host more than 50 events about the relationship between education and our

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Education SAARC conference -2019

2019-02-25 Thread Ananth Subray
Greetings from CIS-A2K, I am writing this email to inform you about the Wikimedia Education SAARC conference which is going to be organised at Christ University on 20-22 June 2019. The CIS-A2K team has been working with the language department of Christ University and other institutions to enrich

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Albania

2019-02-25 Thread Kiril Simeonovski
Hi Greta, Thank you for the explanation. This reminds me a lot to what happened in Macedonia, albeit with different names of the recognised user groups. The artificially created problem by the Aff Com has eventually ended up in two user groups being eligible for WMF grants (another contentious

Re: [Wikimedia-l] CIS-A2K January Newsletter

2019-02-25 Thread Shani Evenstein
This is great! So wonderful to see such wonderful activity from India! Keep up the good work! Shani. --- *Shani Evenstein Sigalov* * Lecturer, Tel Aviv University. * EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School of Medicine,

[Wikimedia-l] CIS-A2K January Newsletter

2019-02-25 Thread Ananth Subray
Dear All, We are glad to inform that CIS-A2K has published our newsletter for January 2019. *Events* - *Mini MediaWiki Training Theni:* Indic TechCom members and CIS-A2K decided to reach out to students with the Computer science background and help them understand how to contribute on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Albania

2019-02-25 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
Hi Greta, Thank you very much for your clarifications and insight into this question. This is very similar with what happened in Brazil, when the 2013 chapter-like UG (Grupo de Usuários Wikimedia no Brasil) and its clone UG (Wiki Educação Brasil) approved by AffCom in 2015 ended up competing for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Affiliates] Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Albania

2019-02-25 Thread Greta Doçi
Dear everyone, First, we want to thank everyone who contributed in this discussion. We want to start with the first conflict, which is the name. If you read carefully Affcon's email above, and you check the info online as claimed by Affcon, you will see that actually Affcon itself has confused