[Wikimedia-l] WIKIMOVE Podcast on the Governance of Wikipedia

2023-04-04 Thread Eva Martin 
Hi everyone,


We are releasing today a new WIKIMOVE podcast on the *Governance of
Wikipedia, *with two experienced volunteers from our Movement: Florence
Devouard and Martin Rulsch.


You can find this podcast on our website

and share ideas for future topics and guests on our meta page.


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What's in this episode?

We talk with two veteran functionaries about the system of governance for
Wikipedia and what the challenges are. We learn about IP blocks and
notability criteria. We ask provocative questions like… does Movement
Strategy make everything worse? Does the system need to change or do the
people need to better learn to obey the rules? What can be done to
strengthen our community governance and the people holding it up?

*Note: this will not be the last conversation we will host on these issues,
as other voices should be surfaced too.*


*Our guests are...*

   - *Florence Devouard*, co-executive Director of Wiki in Africa, former
   Steward and WMF Chair, active Wikipedian since 2002


   - *Martin Rulsch*, Wikimedia Steward (volunteer) and project manager at
   Wikimedia Deutschland (employee), active Wikimedian since 2004



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You can reach out to us by email via wikim...@wikimedia.de to share your
feedback. We hope you enjoy this episode!


Your WIKIMOVE Team

Nikki, Nicole, Eva
-- 
Eva Martin
Program Coordinator
Movement Strategy and Global Relations

Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

2023-04-04 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga 
Dear all,
You may know the concern I have with this topic. Now, that we can see Twitter 
adding a Dogecoin icon in order to push a fraudulent pyramidal scheme and how 
the verified accounts won't be relevant anymore if they don't pay is a good 
moment to do two movements: joining Mastodon and bulding a new communications 
scheme where diversity, content and the community is in the center. We know 
that the word for crisis is not opportunity 
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_word_for_"crisis;), but, indeed, we are 
seing how the Titanic sinks and we have a good opportunity to move away and 
start to build good practices.

As always, some volunteers will be here to help in this travel.

Galder

From: Erik Moeller 
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 7:23 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Mozilla's social media pledge

The latest announcement from Twitter is that the site is going fully
pay-to-play -- to be in recommendation feeds or even vote in polls,
you will need to be a subscriber. [1] While it remains to be seen
whether the site will follow through, these plans are consistent with
the relentless promotion of a subscription-based model under the
company's current leadership.

While new alternatives are launching every month, Mastodon remains the
primary place folks are migrating to. This Dewey Square report is a
good read on recent developments, including the Mozilla Mastodon
instance, the Medium.com one (which is rapidly closing in on 10K
users), and the Flipboard one.
https://www.deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-Twitter-Migration-March-2023.pdf

Being open source and community-based, Mastodon should be a perfect
fit for Wikimedia, and I still very much hope that Wikimedia
Foundation will set up an official presence in the fediverse, much
like many chapters/affiliates already have.

Warmly,
Erik

[1] 
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/27/23659351/elon-musk-twitter-for-you-verified-accounts-polls
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