[Wikimedia-l] Resignation from Shared Knowledge's Executive Board

2019-05-29 Thread Kiril Simeonovski 
Dear all,

I would like to inform you about my resignation from the Executive Board of
Shared Knowledge, effective from 1 July 2019.

After spending almost ten years on the boards of Wikimedia Macedonia and
Shared Knowledge with the last five years as president of Shared Knowledge,
this was a difficult decision for me but, in order to allow the
organisation adapt to the ever-changing environment in the movement, it
seems like the right time to make this step has come. The reasons for my
decision to step down are mostly personal, including lack of time, lack of
motivation, and hunger for new challenges.

To give a better insight of my board experience, I can effectively divide
it to two different but related periods: the first five years spent as a
board member of Wikimedia Macedonia as a passive chapter were marked by
extensive learning about the movement and the programmes of the other
chapters with a limited amount of educational activities; the second five
years spent as president of Shared Knowledge as an active user group were
marked by executing the learning into practice with several programmes
abundant with projects and events.

The exact meaning of my resignation is, however, not retirement from the
movement but rather a substantial reduction of the time spent on some
activities. My future plans are to remain active in the movement in other
capacities.

I would like to thank you all for the collaboration so far and express my
hopefulness to extend it in my non-presidential role from now on. I will
not leave this mailing list and will continue following the news from the
movement.

Best regards,
Kiril Simeonovski
Chair of the Executive Board of Shared Knowledge
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[Wikimedia-l] Kedu ihe na-eme gị obi ụtọ n'izu a? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 26 May 2019)

2019-05-29 Thread Pine W 
 I was happy to read this announcement
 by
Amir regarding improvements for typing in African languages on Wikimedia
projects. (I hope that the translation of the subject of this week's email
is correct.)

I thought that this
 was
an interesting WMF Tech Talk regarding WMF and W3C. I felt that it was
encouraging that WMF staff on the call wanted to support the needs and
wishes of Wikimedia readers and contributors. Thank you to WMF for
publicizing this meeting and for collaborating with W3C.

Thank you to engineering and technical staff who take initiative to respond
to problems in a timely and constructive way. Someone who comes to mind is
James Forrester, who has endured years of complaints regarding
VisualEditor. Over time WMF has polished the tool's rough edges, greatly
improved its performance, and added significant functionality. I know that
hearing a barrage of complaints can be difficult, such as happens in this video
clip  from *Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine* that is hosted on Youtube. (Yes, another *Star Trek* video. The
title of the episode is shown at the start of the video, which is why it
displays "Honor Among Thieves".) I appreciate James' calm demeanor,
willingness to listen, responsiveness, patience, and perseverance.

What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any
language.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikidata Days 2019 - Portugal

2019-05-29 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta 
Hello,

Between 7 and 8 June 2019 Alexandre Soares dos Santos Library and Social
Sciences DataLab are organizing the Wikidata Days 2019 at NOVA SBE Campus
at Carcavelos, Portugal, under the theme: "Share, Collaborate, Transform:
shaping data in a changing world":
http://libraries.fe.unl.pt/index.php/wikidata-days-2019-share-collaborate-transform-shaping-data-in-a-changing-world

The organization asks all interested people to register (free) in the links
below:

7 June (Friday):
https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/bilhetes-wikidata-days-2019-talks-62139501923?utm_term=eventurl_text

8 June (Saturday):
https://www.eventbrite.pt/e/bilhetes-wikidata-days-2019-hackathon-62140678442?utm_term=eventurl_text

This event is supported by: NOVA School of Business & Economics, Fundação
para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Wikimedia Portugal and Wiki Movimento Brasil,
with hrant support from the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wiki Movimento
Brasil.

Atenciosamente,
Paulo Santos Perneta
Wikimedia Portugal
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Feedback requested for draft code of conduct for user group

2019-05-29 Thread camelia boban 
I do not understand how from a general proposal for a Code of Conduct for
user groups one goes on to talk about ideologies, personal retaliations,
irony about the politic situation of the countries of those who comment
etc.
Here we are discussing together whether or not we have a shared CoC.
We have different criteria for UG, do we have different rules for reports,
deadlines, obligations? No. So why not a CoC as much shared (and then maybe
specific CoCs for particular situations).
Sorry, but I don't see the meaning of this controversy.

Camelia


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Il giorno mer 29 mag 2019 alle ore 05:22 Dennis During 
ha scritto:

> Would anyone care to specify or, at least, provide examples of "such
> ideologies" as would not be "allowed in our movement"?
>
> I have the feeling that the focus should not be on thoughts, beliefs, or
> attitudes, but rather on behavior.
>
> I get scared ("feel unsafe") whenever discussions take the turn that this
> one has, condemning people for past beliefs, for example. I am already
> feeling the silent menace of labellers on me for objecting to this line of
> discussion.
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 6:16 PM Paulo Santos Perneta <
> paulospern...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Mister Thrapostibongles,
> >
> > I would believe so. However, after knowing a case where a WMF staff was
> > fired after their denounce of such a situation caused a fuss in the
> target
> > community, I'm not so sure the WMF shares that understanding. Until there
> > is some strong standing from the WMF about such ideologies not being
> > allowed in our movement, to me that still is a grey area in the CoC.
> >
> > Paulo
> >
> > Mister Thrapostibongles  escreveu no dia
> > terça,
> > 28/05/2019 à(s) 16:33:
> >
> > > Paulo
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm curious if non discriminating anyone politically could imply a
> > group
> > > or
> > > > community being forced to accept people from the extreme right or the
> > > likes
> > > > of it, with public (but not onwiki) views against migration,
> promoting
> > > > racial discrimination, and revisionism, for instance?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Surely if a participant in a project is known to be an adherent of a
> > > murderous ideology, with a history of genocide, that takes the view
> that
> > a
> > > certain class of person should be discriminated against, treated as
> > > inferior or subject to violence or extermination -- then any member of
> > the
> > > class discriminated against would have reasonable, eve strong, grounds
> > for
> > > feeling threatened by that participation?
> > >
> > > Thrapostibongles
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the Spaces and call for submissions for Wikimania 2019 Stockholm

2019-05-29 Thread Liam Wyatt 
Announcing the new EXTENDED DEADLINE for Wikimania program submissions:
June 9!


All the details are at:
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Submissions


Please spread this news, and encourage people you know are attending to
think about sharing their voice and perspective by presenting a workshop,
presentation, poster...


-- Liam / Wittylama, volunteer program chair & Eric Luth, WM-Sweden event
coordinator

On Thu, 2 May 2019 at 02:26, Liam Wyatt  wrote:

> Dear Wikimaniacs, Wikimedians, and friends of the Wikiverse!
>
> On behalf of the Wikimania 2019 Stockholm organising team, I am pleased to
> announce two things:
>
> - The list of accepted "Spaces".
>
> - That the Call for Submissions is now OPEN.
>
> https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Submissions
>
> Please join me in congratulating the Leaders of each of the accepted
> Wikimania 2019 Spaces! As per the program design[1], Wikimania this year
> has the format of "Spaces", each with its own group of "Leaders" - all of
> who made a proposal to host a Space back in March. The core team has been
> working with the Leaders since then to prepare an interesting, diverse, and
> coherent conference. Each Space has its own topic area, and in their own
> way they all of them help address the conference theme: "Stronger
> together: Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals".
> [2]
>
> Each Space will have its own room for a period of time in the conference
> to curate and coordinate as they see fit.[3] You can read about what each
> Space is planning to achieve, and who is Leading it, at the link above. In
> English-alphabetical order they are:
>
>-
>
>Accessibility (A11y): Components and Standards
>-
>
>Global Advocacy for Free Knowledge: Trends, Challenges, and
>Opportunities
>-
>
>Community Growth
>-
>
>Diversity
>-
>
>Education
>-
>
>Environmental sustainability
>-
>
>GLAM - cultural partnerships and Wikimedia
>-
>
>Growing Wikimedia’s readership worldwide
>-
>
>Health
>-
>
>Languages
>-
>
>Libraries belong in Wikimedia projects
>-
>
>Multimedia knowledge
>-
>
>Partnerships
>-
>
>Quality
>-
>
>Research
>-
>
>Thriving in Safety
>-
>
>Strategy for Wikimedia 2030 – The path towards our future
>-
>
>Transcription
>-
>
>Technology outreach & innovation
>
> And of course the Poster session, which will be a plenary event.
>
> For 2019, there is no 'central' program committee nor a single submission
> form. To make a submission, visit the page of the Space which most relates
> to your proposal, read its instructions for what kinds of submissions the
> Leaders of that Space wish to receive. Then click the submission button.
>
> Each Space is looking for different kinds of content or format. So it is
> important that people wanting to propose a presentation/workshop/panel/etc
> at Wikimania read the information that the Leaders of each Space have
> provided.
>
> Once again, the link to the list of all the accepted Spaces, each with its
> own submission form, is here:
> https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Submissions#Spaces
>
> Please feel free to share/forward this email.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> - Liam Wyatt (Volunteer program chair), and Eric Luth (Conference
> Manager, Wikimedia Sverige)
>
>
> [1] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Program_design
>
> [2] https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Theme
>
> [3] Note that the Spaces do NOT all have the same room capacity, or
> duration. Thus the content of the Wikimania program is not intending to be
> 'evenly spread' across these topic areas.
>
>
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