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

[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:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy.

Best,
Srishti

*Srishti Sethi*
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation 



On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 8:24 AM Samuel Klein  wrote:

> +++   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*
> > * Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
> > * EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler
> School
> > of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
> > * PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
> > * OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair
> >  on Technology,
> > Internationalization
> > and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
> > .
> > * Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation
> > .
> > * Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
> > .
> > * Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
> > .
> > * Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda .
> > +972-525640648
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:36 PM Ananth Subray 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 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 MediaWiki. As a pilot
> > > project, we
> > >reached out to Nadar Saraswathi College of Engineering and
> Technology
> > > and
> > >organised a two-day long Mini MediaWiki training for the students on
> > > 22nd
> > >and 23rd of January 2019.
> > >
> > >
> > >- *Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops: * CIS-A2K started
> > collaborating
> > >with State language dept. in 2017. In the first series
> > > of workshops, we conducted three
> > >workshops. In the second series 
> in
> > >2018, we conducted six workshops out of a total of 17 workshops
> > > conducted
> > >across the state. In the year 2019, the awareness spread to more
> > >educational institutions located in different regions of the state.
> > > In this third
> > >series , CIS-A2K conducted five
> > >workshops out of a total of 21 workshops
> > >- *Wikisource training Bengaluru: * During the Indic Wikisource
> > >Community Consultation at Kolkata, India on 24–25 November
> > > 2018,User:Shubha
> > >requested to conduct a Wikisource specific Workshop for Sankrit
> > > Wikisource
> > >Team at Bengaluru Samkrit Bharati. The CIS-A2K Team conducted a
> > workshop
> > >for Sanskrit Community at Bengaluru, Karnataka on 23 - 24 January
> > 2019.
> > >- *TWLCon (2019 India): * TWL Con or the Wikipedia Library
> conference
> > >was supported by the CIS-A2K. The aim of the conference was to
> spread
> > >awareness about TWL among the Indian languages community, understand
> > and
> > >identify different challenges of the movement in India.
> > >- *1lib1ref session at Goa University: * Marathi language department
> > and
> > >faculty from other languages organised the #1lib1ref event at Goa
> > >University. The practice of Marathi typing in Unicode was carried
> out
> > >through preparing articles as a Word document. The students selected
> > the
> > >articles on the history of Goa, writers & artists of Goa, Tourism in
> > Goa
> > >and villages in Goa. Total of 37 editors actively participated in
> the
> > >workshop. They learnt basic editing skills, adding references and
> > > uploading
> > >on Commons.
> > >- *Punjabi Wikimedians meetup: * Punjabi Wikimedians had an online
> > >meeting on 27 January 2019. 11 participants joined this meeting.
> > >
> > >
> > > *Upcoming Events: *
> > >
> > >- *Project Tiger Community Consultation: * Project Tiger Community
> > >Consultation is a consultation program that will take place on 2-3
> > March
> > >2019 at Chennai (most probably).
> > >- *Gujarati Meetup & Workshop, Ahmedabad: * CIS-A2K along with the
> > >Gujarati Wikimedia community is planning the Gujarati Wikisource
> > > Workshop
> > 

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

[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 Foundation set out to better understand how the
world sees Wikimedia and Wikimedia projects as brands.[1] We wanted to get
a sense of the general visibility of our different projects, and evaluate
public support of our mission to spread free knowledge.

We launched a global brand study to research these questions, as part of
our planning toward our 2030 strategic goals.[2] The study was commissioned
by the Board, carried out by the brand consultancy Wolff Olins, and
directed by the Foundation’s Communications team.[3][4] It collected
perspectives from the internet users of seven countries (India, China,
Nigeria, Egypt, Germany, Mexico and the US) on Wikimedia projects and
values.

The study revealed some interesting trends:

- Awareness of Wikipedia is above 80% in Western Europe and North America.

- Awareness of Wikipedia averages above 40% in emerging markets,[5] and is
fast growing.

- There is awareness of other projects, but was significantly lower. For
example, awareness of Wikisource was at 30%, Wiktionary at 25%, Wikidata at
20%, and Wikivoyage at 8%.

- There was significant confusion around the name Wikimedia. Respondents
reported they had either not heard of it, or extrapolated its relationship
to Wikipedia.

- In spite of lack of awareness about Wikimedia, respondents showed a high
level of support for our mission.

Following from these research insights, the Wolff Olins team also made a
strategic suggestion to refine the Wikimedia brand system.[6] The
suggestions include:

- Use Wikipedia as the central movement brand rather than Wikimedia.

- Provide clearer connections to the Movement projects from Wikipedia to
drive increased awareness, usage and contributions to smaller projects.

- Retain Wikimedia project names, with the exception of Wikimedia Commons
which is recommended to be shortened to Wikicommons to be consistent with
other projects.

- Explore new naming conventions for the Foundation and affiliate groups
that use Wikipedia rather than Wikimedia.

- Consider expository taglines and other naming conventions to reassert the
connections between projects (e.g. “__ - A Wikipedia project”).

This is not a new idea.[7][8]

By definition, Wikimedia brands are shared among the communities who give
them meaning. So in considering this change, the Wikimedia Foundation is
collecting feedback from across our communities. Our goal is to speak with
more than 80% of affiliates and as many individual contributors as possible
before May 2019, when we will offer the Board of Trustees a summary of
community response.

We invite you to look at a project summary [9], the brand research [10],
and the brand strategy suggestion [11] Wolff Olins prepared working with us.

For feedback, please add comments on the Community Review talk page [12] or
email brandproj...@wikimedia.org with direct feedback. You can also use
either of these channels to request to join a group meeting.

We know this is big topic and we’re excited to hear from you!


- Zack McCune and the Wikimedia Foundation Communications department


[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/02/07/how-does-the-world-see-wikimedia-brands/

[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20

[3] https://www.wolffolins.com/

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications

[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Engagement/Defining_Emerging_Communities

[6]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/02/26/leading-with-wikipedia-a-brand-proposal-for-2030/

[7] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-May/029991.html

[8]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AStrengthening_and_unifying_the_visual_identity_of_Wikimedia_projects_-_a_step_towards_maturity_-_Wikimania_2007.pdf=56

[9]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_research_and_planning/project_summary

[10]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Wikipedia_and_Wikimedia_Brand_Research_Report.pdf

[11]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Wikimedia_brand_strategy_proposal_for_2030.pdf

[12]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_research_and_planning/community_review



-- 

Zack McCune (he/him)

Senior Global Brand Manager

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

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*Books & Bytes – Issue 32, January – February 2019*
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   - #1Lib1Ref
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[Wikimedia-l] Video tutorial regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor

[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 follow.

If you would like to receive notifications regarding the availability of
draft or finished tutorial products, or to learn additional information,
then please continue reading below.

*How can I request notifications for when drafts or finished products are
ready for review?*

If you would like to receive a notice when a draft or finished product is
ready for public review then I invite you to go to the the project talk
page and follow the link to the newsletter subscription page [1]. During
the development of this single tutorial the newsletters are likely to be
short. I am likely to send approximately 3 to 6 notifications to
subscribers between now and the end of this mini-project.

(The reason that I am not including a link to the newsletter's subscription
page directly in this email is that I may change the name of the newsletter
in the future, and I prefer to minimize any potential confusion and the
number of redirect pages, so I think that including a link from this email
to the talk page is preferable because the location of the talk page is
likely to remain stable.)

*Background information*

Some of you may remember the project that was originally named LearnWiki
[2]. For various painful reasons that project was not completed within the
original schedule and budget. However, I continue to believe that video
tutorials Wikimedia projects could be very useful for new contributors, and
also for helpers who could use the videos to demonstrate concepts to new
contributors. I think of this project as being a pilot iteration for
"LearnWiki version 2.0", or maybe "LearnWiki 2.0 beta 1",  with a major
change between this effort and the original LearnWiki project being how the
project is executed. The goal for this tutorial remains aligned with the
original vision for LearnWiki. I believe that I know more about project
management than I did when I attempted LearnWiki version 1.0.

WMF approved a rapid grant for me to develop a single tutorial module [3]
regarding creating Wikipedia references with VisualEditor. This tutorial is
in development, I and I plan to publish the finalized script and video in
March 2019. Depending on the amount of remaining funds after development of
the English version of this tutorial and on whether WMF agrees, in addition
to an English version of the tutorial I may also produce a Spanish version
within the budget of the current rapid grant. Additional translations or
derivative versions would be welcome from anyone who would like to create
them.

If this first tutorial is well received then I may request funding for
additional tutorials.

Within the next few days I plan to publish the first complete draft of the
script for the referencing tutorial. I will place a link to that draft on
the project talk page [1], and I am likely to create links from the same
talk page to further drafts and additional tutorial products. If you would
like to receive project updates then please watch the talk page and/or
subscribe to the newsletter.

I welcome any comments or questions that you have, either on a mailing list
or on the project talk page [1].

Yours in service,

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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation_of_educational_video_and_website_series

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Motivational_and_educational_video_to_introduce_Wikimedia

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

[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*
> * Lecturer, Tel Aviv University.
> * EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
> of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
> * PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
> * OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair
>  on Technology,
> Internationalization
> and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
> .
> * Chairperson, WikiProject Medicine Foundation
> .
> * Chairperson, Wikipedia & Education User Group
> .
> * Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society
> .
> * Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda .
> +972-525640648
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:36 PM Ananth Subray 
> wrote:
>
> > 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 MediaWiki. As a pilot
> > project, we
> >reached out to Nadar Saraswathi College of Engineering and Technology
> > and
> >organised a two-day long Mini MediaWiki training for the students on
> > 22nd
> >and 23rd of January 2019.
> >
> >
> >- *Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops: * CIS-A2K started
> collaborating
> >with State language dept. in 2017. In the first series
> > of workshops, we conducted three
> >workshops. In the second series  in
> >2018, we conducted six workshops out of a total of 17 workshops
> > conducted
> >across the state. In the year 2019, the awareness spread to more
> >educational institutions located in different regions of the state.
> > In this third
> >series , CIS-A2K conducted five
> >workshops out of a total of 21 workshops
> >- *Wikisource training Bengaluru: * During the Indic Wikisource
> >Community Consultation at Kolkata, India on 24–25 November
> > 2018,User:Shubha
> >requested to conduct a Wikisource specific Workshop for Sankrit
> > Wikisource
> >Team at Bengaluru Samkrit Bharati. The CIS-A2K Team conducted a
> workshop
> >for Sanskrit Community at Bengaluru, Karnataka on 23 - 24 January
> 2019.
> >- *TWLCon (2019 India): * TWL Con or the Wikipedia Library conference
> >was supported by the CIS-A2K. The aim of the conference was to spread
> >awareness about TWL among the Indian languages community, understand
> and
> >identify different challenges of the movement in India.
> >- *1lib1ref session at Goa University: * Marathi language department
> and
> >faculty from other languages organised the #1lib1ref event at Goa
> >University. The practice of Marathi typing in Unicode was carried out
> >through preparing articles as a Word document. The students selected
> the
> >articles on the history of Goa, writers & artists of Goa, Tourism in
> Goa
> >and villages in Goa. Total of 37 editors actively participated in the
> >workshop. They learnt basic editing skills, adding references and
> > uploading
> >on Commons.
> >- *Punjabi Wikimedians meetup: * Punjabi Wikimedians had an online
> >meeting on 27 January 2019. 11 participants joined this meeting.
> >
> >
> > *Upcoming Events: *
> >
> >- *Project Tiger Community Consultation: * Project Tiger Community
> >Consultation is a consultation program that will take place on 2-3
> March
> >2019 at Chennai (most probably).
> >- *Gujarati Meetup & Workshop, Ahmedabad: * CIS-A2K along with the
> >Gujarati Wikimedia community is planning the Gujarati Wikisource
> > Workshop
> >and Gujarati Wikimedia Meetup in Ahmedabad. The goal of the meetup is
> to
> >introduce Wikisource and help the community better understand the
> scope
> > and
> >future of Wikisource.
> >- *Train the Trainer-2019(Bids): **The bids for Train-the-trainer
> >program 2019 has already taken place. Currently, the jury members are
> >deciding the place for the TTT 2019. TTT 2019, the 6th iteration of
> the
> >Train-the-trainer program. *
> >
> > You can find the meta version of the newsletter at:
> > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January_2019
> >  >
> >
> > 

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

[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 both UG
names, crediting events to the other UG, that actually are done by our UG (
WoALUG
)
and vice versa.

After the new UG was recognized and people started raising questions in
this thread, we received an email by Affcon to explain to them what we
thought was the overlapping. We did send our activities and explained why
we thought there was overlapping. Reading Camelias and Sami email above,
clearly that email was ignored.

Exactly during the time that the new UG was applying, the old one (WoALUG)
was applying for the annual simple grant, which btw took us at least 4
months to complete, all our activities in Albania were clearly stated, and
GLAM and EDUCATION were our main goals. There are also institutions
mentioned and details of what we wanted to do in Albania. So, claiming that
theres no overlapping of activities is not valid.

WoALUG goes beyond Albania or Kosovo, because some Albanian contributors
who don't live in Albania created it at the first place, so we wish we can
help Albanian speakers in diaspora to continue to contribute, and if they
need information, sources or whatever, our team present in Albania, Kosova,
Macedonia, or Arberesh in Italy, will use our resources to make that
happen. Our UG means to be inclusive of what is a small Wikimedia language
community anyways.

GLAM and Education institutions are depended on public institutions. To
collaborate with an institution, let's say Historic Museum of Albania, you
need to get permission from the Ministry of Culture. Think about the
scenario (which is currently happening): one UG requests to collaborate
with Museum of Elbasan and the other UG want to collaborate with Museum of
Tirana, both should sent the request to Ministry of Culture. Wikipedia is a
new thing (still) in Albania, considering that is already hard to establish
collaborations with public institutions, confusing the UGs will result in
bad outcome for both UGs.

And of course, for the other private institutions, it is a competition who
is going to contact them first.

Splitting institutions is also not an option because for sure we will aim
the same ones, since there's not that many of them.

We were confused, we still are and none of our members have the time to
follow this even after a year.

on behalf of Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group

.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 7:30 PM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin <
f...@yandex.com> wrote:

> Dear Kiril and Paulo,
> Thank you for explanations.
>
> You have my deepest respect for showing your concern for our fellow
> colleagues from Albania, so they avoid repeating the mistakes that have
> been made previously elsewhere. Just like you, I certainly hope that our
> volunteer-colleagues serving in AffCom did their best to assess and
> minimize possible risks that might come in case of competition. As for
> Albanian language & Albania centered multilingual UGs, let's hope they are
> getting along well and work hand in hand on the aspects in which they can
> help advancing each other's missions.
>
> Our current situation is actually encouraging us to consider developing
> Russian-speaking UGs in all regions of Russia, and my home Republic might
> be one of the first ones where this will be useful. Our chapter consist of
> representatives of various Wikimedia projects, languages & ethnic groups,
> but our weakness is rather low regional representation and empowerment,
> which we hope to balance through UGs. The world is in constant flux, so
> eventually we might also witness similar competition for attention that you
> are talking about. We currently don't seem to have reasons for conflict
> between Wikimedia Russia chapter and Russian & other language or
> territorial UGs because:
> * UGs have representatives in the national chapter
> * National chapter meetings are broadcast live on YouTube,
> * Chapter leadership prioritizes country-wide tasks of importance for
> growing the movement,
> * Wikimedia projects in Russian and other languages are not that famous
> yet,
> * neither affiliates, nor individuals in Russia get their grant requests
> approved by WMF (there are reasons for that), and
> * Russian language is teaching us to be anarchic inside (affiliate
> structures are nothing more than just legal tools), whilst locals have
> centuries-old history of living together in Hunnic Empire, Cumania,
> Mongolic Empire, Golden Horde, Russian Empire, Soviet Union & now Russian
> Federation (something we remember despite the fact that Golden Horde and
> earlier ones don't get much 

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

[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
the same activities and partnerships.

Hopefully this time AffCom will not have the reckless approach they had
with Brazil, extinguishing both groups to try to solve a problem they
created themselves, and our wikimedian friends from Albania and Albanian
Language will be spared the destruction of their community.

I believe that we, as the broad community, really should do something to
prevent this kind of thing which is mining and destroying parts of the
Wikimedia Movement. It is not possible that we have to stay here quietly
seeing AffCom dealing with all those cases in such an incompetent and
reckless way. If it's obviously not working, why keep it that way?

Best,
Paulo

Greta Doçi  escreveu no dia segunda, 25/02/2019 à(s)
12:34:

> 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 both UG
> names, crediting events to the other UG, that actually are done by our UG (
> WoALUG
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Albanian_Language_User_Group
> >)
> and vice versa.
>
> After the new UG was recognized and people started raising questions in
> this thread, we received an email by Affcon to explain to them what we
> thought was the overlapping. We did send our activities and explained why
> we thought there was overlapping. Reading Camelias and Sami email above,
> clearly that email was ignored.
>
> Exactly during the time that the new UG was applying, the old one (WoALUG)
> was applying for the annual simple grant, which btw took us at least 4
> months to complete, all our activities in Albania were clearly stated, and
> GLAM and EDUCATION were our main goals. There are also institutions
> mentioned and details of what we wanted to do in Albania. So, claiming that
> theres no overlapping of activities is not valid.
>
> WoALUG goes beyond Albania or Kosovo, because some Albanian contributors
> who don't live in Albania created it at the first place, so we wish we can
> help Albanian speakers in diaspora to continue to contribute, and if they
> need information, sources or whatever, our team present in Albania, Kosova,
> Macedonia, or Arberesh in Italy, will use our resources to make that
> happen. Our UG means to be inclusive of what is a small Wikimedia language
> community anyways.
>
> GLAM and Education institutions are depended on public institutions. To
> collaborate with an institution, let's say Historic Museum of Albania, you
> need to get permission from the Ministry of Culture. Think about the
> scenario (which is currently happening): one UG requests to collaborate
> with Museum of Elbasan and the other UG want to collaborate with Museum of
> Tirana, both should sent the request to Ministry of Culture. Wikipedia is a
> new thing (still) in Albania, considering that is already hard to establish
> collaborations with public institutions, confusing the UGs will result in
> bad outcome for both UGs.
>
> And of course, for the other private institutions, it is a competition who
> is going to contact them first.
>
> Splitting institutions is also not an option because for sure we will aim
> the same ones, since there's not that many of them.
>
> We were confused, we still are and none of our members have the time to
> follow this even after a year.
>
> on behalf of Wikimedians of Albanian Language User Group
> <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Albanian_Language_User_Group
> >
> .
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 7:30 PM Фархад Фаткуллин / Farkhad Fatkullin <
> f...@yandex.com> wrote:
>
> > Dear Kiril and Paulo,
> > Thank you for explanations.
> >
> > You have my deepest respect for showing your concern for our fellow
> > colleagues from Albania, so they avoid repeating the mistakes that have
> > been made previously elsewhere. Just like you, I certainly hope that our
> > volunteer-colleagues serving in AffCom did their best to assess and
> > minimize possible risks that might come in case of competition. As for
> > Albanian language & Albania centered multilingual UGs, let's hope they
> are
> > getting along well and work hand in hand on the aspects in which they can
> > help advancing each other's missions.
> >
> > Our current situation is actually encouraging us to consider developing
> > Russian-speaking UGs in all regions of Russia, and my home Republic might
> > be one of the first ones where this will be useful. Our chapter consist
> of
> > representatives of various Wikimedia projects, languages & ethnic groups,
> > but our 

[Wikimedia-l] CIS-A2K January Newsletter

[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 MediaWiki. As a pilot project, we
   reached out to Nadar Saraswathi College of Engineering and Technology and
   organised a two-day long Mini MediaWiki training for the students on 22nd
   and 23rd of January 2019.


   - *Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops: * CIS-A2K started collaborating
   with State language dept. in 2017. In the first series
    of workshops, we conducted three
   workshops. In the second series  in
   2018, we conducted six workshops out of a total of 17 workshops conducted
   across the state. In the year 2019, the awareness spread to more
   educational institutions located in different regions of the state.
In this third
   series , CIS-A2K conducted five
   workshops out of a total of 21 workshops
   - *Wikisource training Bengaluru: * During the Indic Wikisource
   Community Consultation at Kolkata, India on 24–25 November 2018,User:Shubha
   requested to conduct a Wikisource specific Workshop for Sankrit Wikisource
   Team at Bengaluru Samkrit Bharati. The CIS-A2K Team conducted a workshop
   for Sanskrit Community at Bengaluru, Karnataka on 23 - 24 January 2019.
   - *TWLCon (2019 India): * TWL Con or the Wikipedia Library conference
   was supported by the CIS-A2K. The aim of the conference was to spread
   awareness about TWL among the Indian languages community, understand and
   identify different challenges of the movement in India.
   - *1lib1ref session at Goa University: * Marathi language department and
   faculty from other languages organised the #1lib1ref event at Goa
   University. The practice of Marathi typing in Unicode was carried out
   through preparing articles as a Word document. The students selected the
   articles on the history of Goa, writers & artists of Goa, Tourism in Goa
   and villages in Goa. Total of 37 editors actively participated in the
   workshop. They learnt basic editing skills, adding references and uploading
   on Commons.
   - *Punjabi Wikimedians meetup: * Punjabi Wikimedians had an online
   meeting on 27 January 2019. 11 participants joined this meeting.


*Upcoming Events: *

   - *Project Tiger Community Consultation: * Project Tiger Community
   Consultation is a consultation program that will take place on 2-3 March
   2019 at Chennai (most probably).
   - *Gujarati Meetup & Workshop, Ahmedabad: * CIS-A2K along with the
   Gujarati Wikimedia community is planning the Gujarati Wikisource Workshop
   and Gujarati Wikimedia Meetup in Ahmedabad. The goal of the meetup is to
   introduce Wikisource and help the community better understand the scope and
   future of Wikisource.
   - *Train the Trainer-2019(Bids): **The bids for Train-the-trainer
   program 2019 has already taken place. Currently, the jury members are
   deciding the place for the TTT 2019. TTT 2019, the 6th iteration of the
   Train-the-trainer program. *

You can find the meta version of the newsletter at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January_2019


Thanks and Regards,


*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*

MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)

Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society


Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group


Co-founder of Lakshya


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

[Shani Evenstein]

This is great!
So wonderful to see such wonderful activity from India!
Keep up the good work!

Shani.

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* EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School
of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
* PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
* OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair
 on Technology, Internationalization
and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 3:36 PM Ananth Subray 
wrote:

> 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 MediaWiki. As a pilot
> project, we
>reached out to Nadar Saraswathi College of Engineering and Technology
> and
>organised a two-day long Mini MediaWiki training for the students on
> 22nd
>and 23rd of January 2019.
>
>
>- *Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops: * CIS-A2K started collaborating
>with State language dept. in 2017. In the first series
> of workshops, we conducted three
>workshops. In the second series  in
>2018, we conducted six workshops out of a total of 17 workshops
> conducted
>across the state. In the year 2019, the awareness spread to more
>educational institutions located in different regions of the state.
> In this third
>series , CIS-A2K conducted five
>workshops out of a total of 21 workshops
>- *Wikisource training Bengaluru: * During the Indic Wikisource
>Community Consultation at Kolkata, India on 24–25 November
> 2018,User:Shubha
>requested to conduct a Wikisource specific Workshop for Sankrit
> Wikisource
>Team at Bengaluru Samkrit Bharati. The CIS-A2K Team conducted a workshop
>for Sanskrit Community at Bengaluru, Karnataka on 23 - 24 January 2019.
>- *TWLCon (2019 India): * TWL Con or the Wikipedia Library conference
>was supported by the CIS-A2K. The aim of the conference was to spread
>awareness about TWL among the Indian languages community, understand and
>identify different challenges of the movement in India.
>- *1lib1ref session at Goa University: * Marathi language department and
>faculty from other languages organised the #1lib1ref event at Goa
>University. The practice of Marathi typing in Unicode was carried out
>through preparing articles as a Word document. The students selected the
>articles on the history of Goa, writers & artists of Goa, Tourism in Goa
>and villages in Goa. Total of 37 editors actively participated in the
>workshop. They learnt basic editing skills, adding references and
> uploading
>on Commons.
>- *Punjabi Wikimedians meetup: * Punjabi Wikimedians had an online
>meeting on 27 January 2019. 11 participants joined this meeting.
>
>
> *Upcoming Events: *
>
>- *Project Tiger Community Consultation: * Project Tiger Community
>Consultation is a consultation program that will take place on 2-3 March
>2019 at Chennai (most probably).
>- *Gujarati Meetup & Workshop, Ahmedabad: * CIS-A2K along with the
>Gujarati Wikimedia community is planning the Gujarati Wikisource
> Workshop
>and Gujarati Wikimedia Meetup in Ahmedabad. The goal of the meetup is to
>introduce Wikisource and help the community better understand the scope
> and
>future of Wikisource.
>- *Train the Trainer-2019(Bids): **The bids for Train-the-trainer
>program 2019 has already taken place. Currently, the jury members are
>deciding the place for the TTT 2019. TTT 2019, the 6th iteration of the
>Train-the-trainer program. *
>
> You can find the meta version of the newsletter at:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January_2019
> 
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
>
> *ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
>
> MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
>
> Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society
> 
>
> Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group
> 
>
> Co-founder of 

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia+Education Conference programme announced

[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 movement.

Thank you very much

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

[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 decision), then a raising concern that the
WMF can not extend funds to two user groups in a small country serving
community with a small number of speakers and finally a substantial
reduction of the annual grants approved for 2019 and threat that no grants
will be extended for 2020 if the conflict does not get resolved. My kind
advice for you is to start thinking about external funding for the next
budget year (though it is not an easy task in our region) because this is
something that the WMF might do for Albania as well.

I also strongly agree with Paulo that we need to start thinking about
preventing this from happening in the future. The problem is not only that
people do not care about the consequences from their decisions in a
volunteer community but that they just bagger off after complicating things
and simply leave the issue to be solved by the volunteers who did not want
it to happen. I was thinking about introducing a complaint process on Meta
where people from the communities can directly complain about similar
instances of problems created by the WMF, the Aff Com, the grantmaking
committees or any other decision-making party. Frankly speaking, my
impression is that the movement migrates from decisions about big things
made through community-based discussions to a centralised decision-making
process made entirely within the WMF or the committees that do not seem to
serve all communities equally.

Best,
Kiril

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 2:17 PM Paulo Santos Perneta <
paulospern...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> the same activities and partnerships.
>
> Hopefully this time AffCom will not have the reckless approach they had
> with Brazil, extinguishing both groups to try to solve a problem they
> created themselves, and our wikimedian friends from Albania and Albanian
> Language will be spared the destruction of their community.
>
> I believe that we, as the broad community, really should do something to
> prevent this kind of thing which is mining and destroying parts of the
> Wikimedia Movement. It is not possible that we have to stay here quietly
> seeing AffCom dealing with all those cases in such an incompetent and
> reckless way. If it's obviously not working, why keep it that way?
>
> Best,
> Paulo
>
> Greta Doçi  escreveu no dia segunda, 25/02/2019 à(s)
> 12:34:
>
> > 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 both UG
> > names, crediting events to the other UG, that actually are done by our
> UG (
> > WoALUG
> > <
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Albanian_Language_User_Group
> > >)
> > and vice versa.
> >
> > After the new UG was recognized and people started raising questions in
> > this thread, we received an email by Affcon to explain to them what we
> > thought was the overlapping. We did send our activities and explained why
> > we thought there was overlapping. Reading Camelias and Sami email above,
> > clearly that email was ignored.
> >
> > Exactly during the time that the new UG was applying, the old one
> (WoALUG)
> > was applying for the annual simple grant, which btw took us at least 4
> > months to complete, all our activities in Albania were clearly stated,
> and
> > GLAM and EDUCATION were our main goals. There are also institutions
> > mentioned and details of what we wanted to do in Albania. So, claiming
> that
> > theres no overlapping of activities is not valid.
> >
> > WoALUG goes beyond Albania or Kosovo, because some Albanian contributors
> > who don't live in Albania created it at the first place, so we wish we
> can
> > help Albanian speakers in diaspora to continue to contribute, and if they
> > need information, sources or whatever, our team present in Albania,
> Kosova,
> > Macedonia, or Arberesh in Italy, will use our resources to make that
> > happen. Our UG means to be inclusive of what is a small Wikimedia
> language
> > community anyways.
> >
> > GLAM and Education institutions are depended on public institutions. To
> > collaborate with an institution, let's say Historic Museum of Albania,
> you
> > need to get permission from the Ministry of Culture. Think about the
> > 

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Education SAARC conference -2019

[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 the content of Indic
Wikimedia projects with the help of students.

Wikimedia Education SAARC conference will be the first of its kind
conference in SAARC countries which will engage students, education program
leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free
knowledge movement. This conference will allow us to understand the
different efforts made by the communities involved in the Wikimedia
Education movement.

We're thankful to Christ University for helping us to the host the event,
for more details and further updates, Please have a look at this page
[1].

[1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference

Thanks and Regards,


*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*

MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)

Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society


Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group


Co-founder of Lakshya


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