[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2018 Call for Submissions

2018-02-04 Thread Liam Wyatt 
Dear Wikimedia community,

We are pleased to announce that Wikimania 2018 is now accepting proposals
for workshops, discussions, presentations, or research posters to give
during the conference. To read the full instructions visit the event wiki
and click on the link provided there to make your proposal:
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions

The deadline for submissions is 23:59 UTC on *Sunday March 18, 2018*.
This is approximately 6 weeks away. Whether you are a community member of
one of the Wikimedia projects, or a fellow open content creator or
consumer, we welcome your proposal for a session.

*Theme*
This year, the conference will be taking place in Cape Town, South Africa,
where the organisers are giving this Wikimania a unique flavor — an
explicit theme based in African philosophy:

“Bridging knowledge gaps, the *ubuntu* way forward.”
Read more about this theme, why it was chosen, and what it means for the
conference program at the Wikimedia blog:
*https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/02/05/wikimania-cape-town-ubuntu/
*

Throughout the conference program, this theme will be tightly held, but
loosely defined - in order to encourage a diverse range of responses to the
theme. It is our hope that this theme will give us the opportunity to
further our goal of creating the “sum of human knowledge”, by encouraging
greater diversity and inclusion in who participates and what we discuss at
Wikimania.

To learn more, and to make a proposal for the conference, please visit:
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions

Please forward this announcement to other lists and groups across the
Wikimedia movement.

We look forward to reading your submissions. Sincerely,

*Program committee co-chairs Emna Mizouni, Felix Nartey, and Liam Wyatt.*
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 4 February 2018)

2018-02-04 Thread Yaroslav Blanter 
I think it is good to let them going for the time being.

Cheers
Yaroslav

On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 3:08 PM, Fæ  wrote:

> On 4 February 2018 at 06:13, Pine W  wrote:
> > P.S. Do people like these "What's making you happy this week" emails? Few
> > people respond to them, so I don't know whether people like them, feel
> that
> > they are a nuisance, or are indifferent. If you would like to share
> > feedback, you can email me off-list or leave a message on my Meta talk
> page
> > . If you like these
> threads
> > then you are welcome to contribute your own Wikimedia-related good news
> to
> > them, which I would be glad to read.
>
> I like them and on the whole are informative.  It makes a
> change to read positive messages which have content, as most other
> positive messages tend to be pile on congratulations-spam, which can
> be pretty irritating if they make your email ping ten times in the
> same day. 
>
> What's making me happy this week is finding my upload project stopped
> by getting IP blocked by the Library of Congress, but then discovering
> their rather good improvements to making all records publicly
> available in JSON format, in turn making the upload project give
> better results on Commons.[1]
>
> Links
> 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/LOC
> --
> fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 4 February 2018)

2018-02-04 Thread Fæ 
On 4 February 2018 at 06:13, Pine W  wrote:
> P.S. Do people like these "What's making you happy this week" emails? Few
> people respond to them, so I don't know whether people like them, feel that
> they are a nuisance, or are indifferent. If you would like to share
> feedback, you can email me off-list or leave a message on my Meta talk page
> . If you like these threads
> then you are welcome to contribute your own Wikimedia-related good news to
> them, which I would be glad to read.

I like them and on the whole are informative.  It makes a
change to read positive messages which have content, as most other
positive messages tend to be pile on congratulations-spam, which can
be pretty irritating if they make your email ping ten times in the
same day. 

What's making me happy this week is finding my upload project stopped
by getting IP blocked by the Library of Congress, but then discovering
their rather good improvements to making all records publicly
available in JSON format, in turn making the upload project give
better results on Commons.[1]

Links
1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/LOC
-- 
fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 4 February 2018)

2018-02-04 Thread Peter Southwood 
They are harmless and occasionally interesting. Greatly preferable to a lot of 
the other messages. Cheers, Peter

-Original Message-
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Pine W
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] What's making you happy this week? (Week of 4 February 
2018)

I liked the Metrics and Activities Meeting in Berlin 
 that was hosted by Wikimedia 
Deutschland. The change in focus to affiliates was interesting. Perhaps 
affiliates would like to hold meetings like this in parallel to the WMF 
meetings in the future.

I also liked this post in the WMF Blog

about structured data on Commons.

This overview

of Wikipedia birthday celebrations was fun to read. There were reports from 
Armenia, Poland, Israel, India, Tunisia, Macedonia, Egypt, Bangladesh, Ghana, 
Algeria, Bulgaria, and the United States.

What's making you happy this week?

Pine 

P.S. Do people like these "What's making you happy this week" emails? Few 
people respond to them, so I don't know whether people like them, feel that 
they are a nuisance, or are indifferent. If you would like to share feedback, 
you can email me off-list or leave a message on my Meta talk page 
. If you like these threads 
then you are welcome to contribute your own Wikimedia-related good news to 
them, which I would be glad to read.
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[Wikimedia-l] Serbian Wikipedia 15

2018-02-04 Thread Filip Maljković 
Hello everyone!

I am writing here because we have a great landmark ahead of us. Namely,
Serbian Wikipedia turns 15 years of age in less than two weeks, so that's
naturally an important event for both Serbian Wikipedia and Wikimedia
Serbia. The birthday is on February 16, but we will be celebrating it on
February 19 with a formal event. For the past 15 years, we have been
working hard and putting a lot of effort into creating one of the largest
South Slavic encyclopedias. Let's celebrate that!

With this in mind, we are organizing various birthday activities. They are
the ones which represent the diversity of our vast community, and the
impact which we can achieve when we unite in sharing free knowledge. That
is why we are now addressing the entire movement, because we want to
celebrate this jubilee together and feel that we are all together part of
an important story of mankind.

The idea is very simple, it does not take much time, and our community will
be encouraged to continue creating free content on Wiki projects. We would
like our friends from chapters, thematic organizations and other entities
to write the message "Happy birthday to Serbian Wikipedia! from {{{country
name}}}," to take pictures with it and put that image in the Serbian
Wikipedia 15 category on Wikimedia Commons [1] and social networks with the
hashtag #vikipedija15. We will then share it on our social network profiles
and finally make a slideshow at the celebration event. Therefore, this
message will be a gift to the community from their friends and associates
from all over the world. It would be ideal, but not necessary, if you could
be photographed next to a particular landmark / symbol of the country which
you are coming from.

We hope you will help us surprise our volunteers by showing them how rich
and diverse our movement is, and the number of friends around the world
with whom they are working on the largest collaborative project. We want to
give them encouragement for the next 15 years at least! :)

Thanks in advace,
Filip Maljković
on behalf of Wikimedia Serbia

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Serbian_Wikipedia_15
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