Re: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal

[Pine W]

Hello Dumisani ,

I would like to remind you of the questions in this thread, although I
understand that there may be some delays in getting responses due to
the issues with Covid-19.

I have not looked into the new portal and I don't have an opinion
about it, but I hope that affiliates will find it to be an
improvement.

I have one point that I would like to make. Protection of a page is an
administrative action, and I do not believe that any WMF staff should
make content administrative actions on Meta unless under exceptional
circumstances such as a legal mandate. If WMF wants a page on Meta to
be protected, then WMF should make a request to a community
administrator for page protection, which the administrator may
independently decide whether to grant. If WMF wants more control over
content, then a more appropriate venue for affiliate reports would be
one of the WMF wikis instead of a (mostly) community wiki. I feel that
it is important that WMF staff not encroach on the jurisdiction of the
community such as by making administrative actions, however small,
that can and should be done instead by community administrators.

Thanks,

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Places for cross-project and multilingual coordination for Covoid-19 related topics

[Jason Moore]

Don't forget WikiProject COVID-19 at English Wikipedia, if you'd like to
keep editors aware of activities elsewhere:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19

Jason / User:Another Believer

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 1:38 PM Pine W  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to suggest a few places where people can do cross-project and
> multilingual coordination for Covoid-19 related topics.
>
> * The Wikimedia Medicine mailing list:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-medicine
>
> * On Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19. This page appears
> to be a work in progress that was started by WMF. Both the "main page"
> and the talk page could be useful there, and people can set up
> subpages.
>
> * There may also be some discussions on Commons on Wikidata which will
> affect multiple projects, such as for maps.
>
> Some people may have additional suggestions.
>
> Ever onward,
>
> Pine
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Places for cross-project and multilingual coordination for Covoid-19 related topics

[Pine W]

* Covid-19. It helps if I'm not trying to do multiple things at once.
Sorry about that.

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 8:37 PM Pine W  wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to suggest a few places where people can do cross-project and
> multilingual coordination for Covoid-19 related topics.
>
> * The Wikimedia Medicine mailing list:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-medicine
>
> * On Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19. This page appears
> to be a work in progress that was started by WMF. Both the "main page"
> and the talk page could be useful there, and people can set up
> subpages.
>
> * There may also be some discussions on Commons on Wikidata which will
> affect multiple projects, such as for maps.
>
> Some people may have additional suggestions.
>
> Ever onward,
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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[Wikimedia-l] Places for cross-project and multilingual coordination for Covoid-19 related topics

[Pine W]

Hello,

I'd like to suggest a few places where people can do cross-project and
multilingual coordination for Covoid-19 related topics.

* The Wikimedia Medicine mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-medicine

* On Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19. This page appears
to be a work in progress that was started by WMF. Both the "main page"
and the talk page could be useful there, and people can set up
subpages.

* There may also be some discussions on Commons on Wikidata which will
affect multiple projects, such as for maps.

Some people may have additional suggestions.

Ever onward,

Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

[Samuel Klein]

Thanks for starting this!  And the Wikidata project is awesome also.
Hopefully we can get more of this data into wikidata itself...

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 6:01 PM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

>  I took images of an almost empty Milan Central train station even before
> i think there were any specific social distancing rule
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Milano_Centrale_train_station_during_2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Italy
> ... and created few days later
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Social_distancing
> but overall I think the topic will be covered, on line there are always
> many images with the right licenses.
>
> I am more interested in people taking nice images of empty towns now that
> it's possible. For example when you walk for basic chores, stop for few
> minutes.
>
> Alessandro
>
>
>
>
> Il domenica 15 marzo 2020, 22:53:59 CET, Paulo Santos Perneta <
> paulospern...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>  I photographed the COVID-19 isolation room at our local university (it's
> precisely in front of the cabinet I usually work in), and created the
> category for COVID-19 isolations:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:COVID-19_isolations
>
> Best,
> Paulo
>
> Yaroslav Blanter  escreveu no dia domingo, 15/03/2020
> à(s) 21:46:
>
> > Just to remark that I went today to a supermarket to take a picture of
> > empty shelves and eventually to upload it to Commons. Which I did (and
> > eventually I added one of the photographs to an English Wikipedia
> article),
> > just to discover that several people had the same idea before me,
> including
> > one in my city. Still, the number of relevant pictures is laughably
> small,
> > and now it is good time to take pictures for example of places which are
> > normally overcrowded by tourists and now are empty. Or queues at the
> > airports due to cancellations, We need to document the event (obviously
> not
> > compromising on the safety), and anybody with a cell phone can easily
> > contribute.
> >
> > Best
> > Yaroslav
> >
> >
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Empty_chips_shelves_in_AH_Delft_02.jpg
> >
> >
> >
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Empty_butter_shelves_in_AH_Delft_01.jpg
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 10:12 PM Pine W  wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > May I suggest that the discussion regarding the name take place
> > > somewhere other than Wikimedia-l? I think that a talk page of one of
> > > the relevant articles on English Wikipedia, a WikiProject Medicine
> > > talk page, or the WikiProject Medicine Mailing List, would all be
> > > reasonable venues.
> > >
> > > Pine
> > > ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
> > >
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[Wikimedia-l] Update Wiki Loves Africa

[Florence Devouard]

The Wiki Loves Africa photographic contest is currently running, for the
6th year, under the theme "Africa on the Move"

It should be made clear that the goal of the contest is not limited to
collecting freely licenced images to illustrate wikipedia articles
(though of course, there is also that...). It is also the opportunity to
recruit and train new contributors. It is also the opportunity to
promote the wikimedia projects in countries where the awareness can
still benefit from improvements. It is also the opportunity for tiny new
groups to join the larger community and increase their knowledge of our
mouvement.
Naturally... this implies that a large part of the photo contest
operations usually take place in offline (face-to-face) events
(edit-a-thons, photo walks, upload sessions etc.). Which obviously is
currently a problem...

So... we have just announced some modifications to the contest rules and
operations.

This is due to the global health crisis with all Wikimedia related
events being cancelled.
And this is due to a context... with rather few cases in most African
countries, the population in Africa is currently not following the
recent recommandations to practice social distanciation or even to stay
at home.

First note that all offline activities are being cancelled as expected.
Second, winners ceremonies will be either cancelled (and gifts sent by
postal mail to winners) or will be delayed till... later (we recommand
to maintain the ceremonies and host them after the crisis is over)
The entry deadline for Wiki Loves Africa has been extended to *15th
APRIL 2020* to accomodate the following changes :
We suggest people to upload already existing, archived, images that are
sitting on their hard drives at home.
We will also be hosting some ONLINE events and activities to ensure that
participants and teams are all supported and can still enter. Bear with
us... this will be an experiment ;)

We also decided to urge people to stay at home using the hashtags
#StayAtHome 
and #RestezChezVous and hope that this will help local teams further
spread this message locally for the sake of all.
We have created a bunch of visuals to improve communication in those
directions, which will be used in the next few days.


Links
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2020
* https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica/
* https://twitter.com/wikilovesafrica


The team
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year 2019 competition is now open

[Steinsplitter Wiki via Wikimedia-l]

Dear Wikimedians,



We are happy to announce that the 2019 Picture of the Year competition is now 
open.

 The Commons Picture of the Year is a competition that was first run in 2006. 
It aims to identify the best freely licensed images from those that during the 
year have been awarded Featured picture status. This is the fourteenth edition 
of POTY.



Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on 
Commons (FP) during the year 2019, to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international 
Wikimedia Commons community. From professional animal and plant shots to 
breathtaking panoramas and historically relevant images, Commons features 
pictures of all flavors.

For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories.


Two rounds of voting will be held:

  *   In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The 
first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the 
final.

  *   In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must 
decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.


To vote, you must be an established Wikimedia user with more than 75 edits 
before January 1, 2020.


To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2019 page on Wikimedia
Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:POTY/2019/VOTE

Round 1 begins on 8 March 2020, 15:00 and ends on 22 March 2020, 23:59:59 [UTC]
Round 2 begins on 5 April 2020, 15:00 and ends on 19 April 2020, 23:59:59 [UTC]

Thanks,

POTY 2019 committee


THIS MAIL AS HTML/PDF: 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiProject COVID-19 (English Wikipedia) is started

[AZ Mayank]

That's great Idea 

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 2:56 AM Pine W  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> May I suggest that the discussion regarding the name take place
> somewhere other than Wikimedia-l? I think that a talk page of one of
> the relevant articles on English Wikipedia, a WikiProject Medicine
> talk page, or the WikiProject Medicine Mailing List, would all be
> reasonable venues.
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikigrannies User Group

[Hamish Shing Shing Chau]

Congratulations to everyone!

在 14 Mar 2020 00:41, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight 写道:

Hi everyone!



I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Wikigrannies User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims
to promote the social adaptation of the elderly, their involvement in
Wikimedia projects. to popularize Wikiprojects among rural residents with a
limited circle of contacts, and their involvement in Wikiprojects.



Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!



Regards,

Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight

Chair, Affiliations Committee



[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikigrannies_User_Group

[2]  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikigrannies_User_Group
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Sincerely,

Hamish


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia during a quarantine

[Ανώνυμος Βικιπαιδιστής]

Hello from Greece I hope everyone is safe and well, and congratulations for
your work these difficult times.

Wikipedia Community Schools Association Greece Group is starting Webinars
through Skype for people who are in quarantine because of the epidemic.

So far the interest for the webinar is going very well.

This is the link from our Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/1735432253352075/posts/2644767095751915/

Stay safe, stay strong

Regards
Ανώνυμος Βικιπαιδιστής

Στις Δευ, 16 Μαρ 2020, 2:24 μ.μ. ο χρήστης Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder...@hotmail.com> έγραψε:

> Hello!
> Millions of students are in forced quarantine these days, so in the Basque
> Wikipedia we are doing an effort to offer teachers activities they can do
> with their students online. It's being a hard work, but this crisis is a
> good opportunity to spread the relationship between Wikimedia
>
> You can see our main education page here:
> https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari:Hezkuntza
>
> Are you doing similar efforts in your countries?
>
> Thanks
>
> Galder
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[Wikimedia-l] Update Wiki Loves Africa

[fdevouard]

The Wiki Loves Africa photographic contest is currently running, for the 
6th year, under the theme "Africa on the Move"


It should be made clear that the goal of the contest is not limited to 
collecting freely licenced images to illustrate wikipedia articles 
(though of course, there is also that...). It is also the opportunity to 
recruit and train new contributors. It is also the opportunity to 
promote the wikimedia projects in countries where the awareness can 
still benefit from improvements. It is also the opportunity for tiny new 
groups to join the larger community and increase their knowledge of our 
mouvement.
Naturally... this implies that a large part of the photo contest 
operations usually take place in offline (face-to-face) events 
(edit-a-thons, photo walks, upload sessions etc.). Which obviously is 
currently a problem...


So... we have just announced some modifications to the contest rules and 
operations.


This is due to the global health crisis with all Wikimedia related 
events being cancelled.
And this is due to a context... with rather few cases in most African 
countries, the population in Africa is currently not following the 
recent recommandations to practice social distanciation or even to stay 
at home.


First note that all offline activities are being cancelled as expected.
Second, winners ceremonies will be either cancelled (and gifts sent by 
postal mail to winners) or will be delayed till... later (we recommand 
to maintain the ceremonies and host them after the crisis is over)
The entry deadline for Wiki Loves Africa has been extended to *15th 
APRIL 2020* to accomodate the following changes :
We suggest people to upload already existing, archived, images that are 
sitting on their hard drives at home.
We will also be hosting some ONLINE events and activities to ensure that 
participants and teams are all supported and can still enter. Bear with 
us... this will be an experiment ;)


We also decided to urge people to stay at home using the hashtags 
#StayAtHome  
and #RestezChezVous and hope that this will help local teams further 
spread this message locally for the sake of all.
We have created a bunch of visuals to improve communication in those 
directions, which will be used in the next few days.



Links
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2020
* https://www.facebook.com/wikilovesafrica/
* https://twitter.com/wikilovesafrica


The team

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