Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Café - Sat 25 April 2020...

2020-04-24 Thread Pine W 
Hi RhonosF1,

Thanks for the comment. I like the idea too.

Coincidentally, a subject for discussion at the upcoming Café is
obtaining non-WMF funding for community projects. A constant problem
is that the community has a limited supply of people and time, and an
extensive list of tasks and projects that we cannot complete with our
current human resources capacity.

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

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-24 Thread Todd Allen 
Had the WMF just mentioned Earth Day, I don't think there would have been
any trouble with that. The issue here is the support of an explicitly
political organization, not just of Earth Day. I can't imagine anyone could
have had an issue with an anodyne banner saying something like "Remember
our environment on Earth Day!".

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 2:27 PM Robert Fernandez 
wrote:

> FFS who is against Earth Day?   Every organization and company
> probably mentions it or observes it in some way.  Get over yourselves.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-24 Thread Frank Schulenburg 
Given that this page

https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/vote/

clearly aims at influencing the election of political candidates to
public office and "build political pressure", can we expect the Wikimedia
Foundation to file Form 1120-POL as mandated by the IRS?

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/political-activities-of-exempt-organizations

Thanks,

Frank

Am Fr., 24. Apr. 2020 um 14:14 Uhr schrieb Samuel Klein :

> Everyone supports Earth Day.
> Earth Day Live was confusingly different... in a strange time.
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:42 PM Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l <
> wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > Adding onto this, it appears the WMF is proudly and publicly displayed on
> > the participants, which may as well be endorsements, page for Earth Day
> > Live: https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/get-involved/
> >
> > I'm simply astounded by this. Never would I have expected the WMF to take
> > such a strong political position on the American left.
>
>
> Ah yes, alongside such noted pillars of the American left as...  
> KDE, Vivaldi, Tumblr, Imgur, and Mapbox*.*
>
> Benjamin Lees writes:
> > I think we should avoid keeping "campaign" banners (even those which
> aren't expected to be controversial)
> > hidden away until the last minute.
>
> Good point.
>
> SJ
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-24 Thread Samuel Klein 
Everyone supports Earth Day.
Earth Day Live was confusingly different... in a strange time.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:42 PM Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l <
wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Adding onto this, it appears the WMF is proudly and publicly displayed on
> the participants, which may as well be endorsements, page for Earth Day
> Live: https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/get-involved/
>
> I'm simply astounded by this. Never would I have expected the WMF to take
> such a strong political position on the American left.


Ah yes, alongside such noted pillars of the American left as...  
KDE, Vivaldi, Tumblr, Imgur, and Mapbox*.*

Benjamin Lees writes:
> I think we should avoid keeping "campaign" banners (even those which
aren't expected to be controversial)
> hidden away until the last minute.

Good point.

SJ
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-24 Thread Ziko van Dijk 
Hello,
this is about different things. One is an opinion about Earth Day, one is
an opinion about the organization behind a specific event, and one is an
opinion about whether the WMF should link to this specific event.
For example, I am not against protecting the climate. I might have some
criticism about certain aspects of "Fridays for Future". I would be
definitely against my "Association of Historians in Germany" linking in
such a way to "Fridays for Future".
Kind regards
Ziko





Am Fr., 24. Apr. 2020 um 22:27 Uhr schrieb Robert Fernandez <
wikigamal...@gmail.com>:

> FFS who is against Earth Day?   Every organization and company
> probably mentions it or observes it in some way.  Get over yourselves.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-24 Thread Yaroslav Blanter 
We have this article as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day_Live

Best
Yaroslav

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:31 PM Michael Peel  wrote:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day is not the same as
> https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/ - but the link was to the latter.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> > On 24 Apr 2020, at 21:26, Robert Fernandez 
> wrote:
> >
> > FFS who is against Earth Day?   Every organization and company
> > probably mentions it or observes it in some way.  Get over yourselves.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-24 Thread Michael Peel 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day is not the same as 
https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/ - but the link was to the latter.

Thanks,
Mike

> On 24 Apr 2020, at 21:26, Robert Fernandez  wrote:
> 
> FFS who is against Earth Day?   Every organization and company
> probably mentions it or observes it in some way.  Get over yourselves.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-24 Thread Robert Fernandez 
FFS who is against Earth Day?   Every organization and company
probably mentions it or observes it in some way.  Get over yourselves.
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-24 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga 
It has been deleted. They TL has some RTs done in the previous days.

From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of Gereon 
Kalkuhl 
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 4:47 PM
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org 
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

The Twitter link does not work.

Am 24.04.2020 um 15:16 schrieb Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga:
> Mmm... again?
> https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1253670025426202624
> 
> From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of 
> Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga 
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 11:26 AM
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism
>
> The concept "apolitical" does not exist if there is a goal.
>
> Nevertheless, for the future, a link to the article about "Earth" in all the 
> languages Wikimedia has would be the best solution.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Galder
> 
> From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of Yair 
> Rand 
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:27 AM
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism
>
> This would not have happened had there been any oversight (community or
> otherwise), and it could have been pulled down quickly enough had there
> been any community members with the ability to edit the site. Perhaps it's
> time to reconsider how the WMF corporate site operates.
>
> I appreciate that the WMF is committed doing more thorough due diligence in
> the future. It's very important to do so. There's a very good reason why
> community consultation is required when dealing with any Collaborative
> Advocacy, but given that even existing requirements weren't followed, I'm
> not very optimistic that this new commitment holds weight.
>
> Also importantly, the Foundation's Policy and Political Association
> Guideline, which was written by WMF Legal in the aftermath of SOPA to iron
> out clear boundaries on activism, explicitly rules out any political
> activism relating to environmental issues, stating:
>> Policy and political associations should protect and advance Wikimedia’s
> mission “to empower and engage people around the world to collect and
> develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain,
> and to disseminate it effectively and globally.” Accordingly, we will not
> support causes unrelated to or inconsistent with that mission. For example,
> no support should be given to: environmental issues; [...]"
>
> The WMF just inadvertently threw its weight behind dozens of controversial
> causes that have nothing to do with our mission. I hope that the WMF will
> manage to operate more appropriately in the future.
>
> --Yair Rand
>
> ‫בתאריך יום ו׳, 24 באפר׳ 2020 ב-1:18 מאת ‪Gregory Varnum‬‏ <‪
> gvar...@wikimedia.org‬‏>:‬
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am responding on behalf of the Foundation in my capacity handling
>> movement communications, including managing any campaigns on
>> wikimediafoundation.org.
>>
>> As others from the Foundation have stated on this mailing list in the
>> past, from time to time the Wikimedia Foundation engages in public policy
>> matters which are aligned with the advancement of the Wikimedia mission or
>> our values as an organization.
>>
>> Having said that, we agree with some of the criticisms you have raised. We
>> had understood the Earth Day Live campaign to be both global and
>> apolitical. However, we agree that the final campaign was both more
>> US-centric and more political than we had understood in advance. The banner
>> is no longer running, and in the future we will do more thorough due
>> diligence.
>>
>> We remain strongly committed to climate sustainability as a value of the
>> Wikimedia Foundation. We will continue to advocate on behalf of it and
>> other values that uplift and advance free knowledge globally.
>>
>> I hope you all had a productive and safe Earth Day, and wish you all
>> continued health and safety.
>>
>> Yours,
>> -greg
>>
>> ---
>> Gregory Varnum
>> Communications Strategist
>> Wikimedia Foundation 
>> gvar...@wikimedia.org
>> Pronouns: He/Him/His
>>
>>> On Apr 23, 2020, at 3:07 AM, RhinosF1 -  wrote:
>>>
>>> Should this be posted on wiki for others to sign?
>>>
>>> Samuel
>>>
>>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 07:51, Fæ  wrote:
>>>
 OPEN LETTER

 Dear Katherine Maher,

 The WMF home website landing page (https://wikimediafoundation.org)
 yesterday featured a full-page banner directing all visitors globally
 to https://www.earthdaylive2020.org. This is a site used for Americal
 political lobbying, refer to the email discussion attached.

 Could you, or the responsible member of your management team, please
 explain exactly how this happened?

 There is zero doubt that this was a serious operational error, misuse
 of WMF development time and a misuse of the Wikimedia brand. It is
 certain that you will agree that the buck stops with the CEO. The
 decision

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-24 Thread Gereon Kalkuhl 

The Twitter link does not work.

Am 24.04.2020 um 15:16 schrieb Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga:

Mmm... again?
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1253670025426202624

From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of Galder 
Gonzalez Larrañaga 
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 11:26 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

The concept "apolitical" does not exist if there is a goal.

Nevertheless, for the future, a link to the article about "Earth" in all the 
languages Wikimedia has would be the best solution.

Cheers,

Galder

From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of Yair Rand 

Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:27 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

This would not have happened had there been any oversight (community or
otherwise), and it could have been pulled down quickly enough had there
been any community members with the ability to edit the site. Perhaps it's
time to reconsider how the WMF corporate site operates.

I appreciate that the WMF is committed doing more thorough due diligence in
the future. It's very important to do so. There's a very good reason why
community consultation is required when dealing with any Collaborative
Advocacy, but given that even existing requirements weren't followed, I'm
not very optimistic that this new commitment holds weight.

Also importantly, the Foundation's Policy and Political Association
Guideline, which was written by WMF Legal in the aftermath of SOPA to iron
out clear boundaries on activism, explicitly rules out any political
activism relating to environmental issues, stating:

Policy and political associations should protect and advance Wikimedia’s

mission “to empower and engage people around the world to collect and
develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain,
and to disseminate it effectively and globally.” Accordingly, we will not
support causes unrelated to or inconsistent with that mission. For example,
no support should be given to: environmental issues; [...]"

The WMF just inadvertently threw its weight behind dozens of controversial
causes that have nothing to do with our mission. I hope that the WMF will
manage to operate more appropriately in the future.

--Yair Rand

‫בתאריך יום ו׳, 24 באפר׳ 2020 ב-1:18 מאת ‪Gregory Varnum‬‏ <‪
gvar...@wikimedia.org‬‏>:‬


Hi all,

I am responding on behalf of the Foundation in my capacity handling
movement communications, including managing any campaigns on
wikimediafoundation.org.

As others from the Foundation have stated on this mailing list in the
past, from time to time the Wikimedia Foundation engages in public policy
matters which are aligned with the advancement of the Wikimedia mission or
our values as an organization.

Having said that, we agree with some of the criticisms you have raised. We
had understood the Earth Day Live campaign to be both global and
apolitical. However, we agree that the final campaign was both more
US-centric and more political than we had understood in advance. The banner
is no longer running, and in the future we will do more thorough due
diligence.

We remain strongly committed to climate sustainability as a value of the
Wikimedia Foundation. We will continue to advocate on behalf of it and
other values that uplift and advance free knowledge globally.

I hope you all had a productive and safe Earth Day, and wish you all
continued health and safety.

Yours,
-greg

---
Gregory Varnum
Communications Strategist
Wikimedia Foundation 
gvar...@wikimedia.org
Pronouns: He/Him/His


On Apr 23, 2020, at 3:07 AM, RhinosF1 -  wrote:

Should this be posted on wiki for others to sign?

Samuel

On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 07:51, Fæ  wrote:


OPEN LETTER

Dear Katherine Maher,

The WMF home website landing page (https://wikimediafoundation.org)
yesterday featured a full-page banner directing all visitors globally
to https://www.earthdaylive2020.org. This is a site used for Americal
political lobbying, refer to the email discussion attached.

Could you, or the responsible member of your management team, please
explain exactly how this happened?

There is zero doubt that this was a serious operational error, misuse
of WMF development time and a misuse of the Wikimedia brand. It is
certain that you will agree that the buck stops with the CEO. The
decision to use the Foundation's website for American lobbying is in
conflict with your not for profit status and is in conflict with the
charitable status promoted to donors worldwide.

If the management team and yourself are going to continuing political
lobbying and using WMF resources to raise funds for Americal political
organizations which have no agreed relevance to the mission of the
Foundation, there must be a published transparent governance review by
the WMF board of trustees to examine and agree on this significant
operational change to the public Foundation

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-24 Thread Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l 
Gregory,

Thank you for your response.

I am happy to hear that the intent was apolitical. However, it was quite
clear from the minute the campaign went live that they had no intention of
being apolitical. Though most of the political propaganda was propagated by
people in the live-streams, the website literally had a form asking people
to pledge to vote in the American presidential elections.

If there was any intention to keep to the Foundation’s own policy, if there
was any oversight, or even just asking the operators of Earth Day Live
before allowing them to place the WMF’s logo under “participants”, this
would not have happened.

On the 18th of this month, this was recorded by the Internet Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200418204146/https://www.earthdaylive2020.org/

The webpage quite plainly states, “Strike, divest, and vote for our
future.” That’s political.

It also states, “...we must strive toward the longer term goal of building
a society rooted in sustainability and justice.” Sustainability, sure;
justice, a very subjective adjective, is clearly political.

The “RSVP to the livestream” but also appears to refer to the managing
organization as the US Climate Strike.

Also, of the two press links given, one is for “strikewithus.org” and the
other “stopthemoneypipeline.org”. Those are inherently political.
Considering that the WMF is listed as one of the program’s
participants/supporters, I’d assume that at some point a WMF employee
emailed one of those addresses to inform them. Did they think it was
apolitical?

It is, of course, too late now to change anything. However, in the future,
please stray away from political activism not directly and specifically
related to the movement.

Best Regards,
Chris Gates
(User:Vermont)


On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 01:18 Gregory Varnum  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am responding on behalf of the Foundation in my capacity handling
> movement communications, including managing any campaigns on
> wikimediafoundation.org.
>
> As others from the Foundation have stated on this mailing list in the
> past, from time to time the Wikimedia Foundation engages in public policy
> matters which are aligned with the advancement of the Wikimedia mission or
> our values as an organization.
>
> Having said that, we agree with some of the criticisms you have raised. We
> had understood the Earth Day Live campaign to be both global and
> apolitical. However, we agree that the final campaign was both more
> US-centric and more political than we had understood in advance. The banner
> is no longer running, and in the future we will do more thorough due
> diligence.
>
> We remain strongly committed to climate sustainability as a value of the
> Wikimedia Foundation. We will continue to advocate on behalf of it and
> other values that uplift and advance free knowledge globally.
>
> I hope you all had a productive and safe Earth Day, and wish you all
> continued health and safety.
>
> Yours,
> -greg
>
> ---
> Gregory Varnum
> Communications Strategist
> Wikimedia Foundation 
> gvar...@wikimedia.org
> Pronouns: He/Him/His
>
> > On Apr 23, 2020, at 3:07 AM, RhinosF1 -  wrote:
> >
> > Should this be posted on wiki for others to sign?
> >
> > Samuel
> >
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 07:51, Fæ  wrote:
> >
> >> OPEN LETTER
> >>
> >> Dear Katherine Maher,
> >>
> >> The WMF home website landing page (https://wikimediafoundation.org)
> >> yesterday featured a full-page banner directing all visitors globally
> >> to https://www.earthdaylive2020.org. This is a site used for Americal
> >> political lobbying, refer to the email discussion attached.
> >>
> >> Could you, or the responsible member of your management team, please
> >> explain exactly how this happened?
> >>
> >> There is zero doubt that this was a serious operational error, misuse
> >> of WMF development time and a misuse of the Wikimedia brand. It is
> >> certain that you will agree that the buck stops with the CEO. The
> >> decision to use the Foundation's website for American lobbying is in
> >> conflict with your not for profit status and is in conflict with the
> >> charitable status promoted to donors worldwide.
> >>
> >> If the management team and yourself are going to continuing political
> >> lobbying and using WMF resources to raise funds for Americal political
> >> organizations which have no agreed relevance to the mission of the
> >> Foundation, there must be a published transparent governance review by
> >> the WMF board of trustees to examine and agree on this significant
> >> operational change to the public Foundation strategy and the terms for
> >> the CEO.
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance.
> >>
> >> Link to Phabricator task to implement the banner:
> >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250508
> >> CC: María Sefidari as WMF Chair.
> >>
> >> Fae
> >>
> >> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 05:50, K. Peachey  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250508
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 23 Apr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-24 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga 
Mmm... again?
https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1253670025426202624

From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of Galder 
Gonzalez Larrañaga 
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 11:26 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

The concept "apolitical" does not exist if there is a goal.

Nevertheless, for the future, a link to the article about "Earth" in all the 
languages Wikimedia has would be the best solution.

Cheers,

Galder

From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of Yair 
Rand 
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:27 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

This would not have happened had there been any oversight (community or
otherwise), and it could have been pulled down quickly enough had there
been any community members with the ability to edit the site. Perhaps it's
time to reconsider how the WMF corporate site operates.

I appreciate that the WMF is committed doing more thorough due diligence in
the future. It's very important to do so. There's a very good reason why
community consultation is required when dealing with any Collaborative
Advocacy, but given that even existing requirements weren't followed, I'm
not very optimistic that this new commitment holds weight.

Also importantly, the Foundation's Policy and Political Association
Guideline, which was written by WMF Legal in the aftermath of SOPA to iron
out clear boundaries on activism, explicitly rules out any political
activism relating to environmental issues, stating:
> Policy and political associations should protect and advance Wikimedia’s
mission “to empower and engage people around the world to collect and
develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain,
and to disseminate it effectively and globally.” Accordingly, we will not
support causes unrelated to or inconsistent with that mission. For example,
no support should be given to: environmental issues; [...]"

The WMF just inadvertently threw its weight behind dozens of controversial
causes that have nothing to do with our mission. I hope that the WMF will
manage to operate more appropriately in the future.

--Yair Rand

‫בתאריך יום ו׳, 24 באפר׳ 2020 ב-1:18 מאת ‪Gregory Varnum‬‏ <‪
gvar...@wikimedia.org‬‏>:‬

> Hi all,
>
> I am responding on behalf of the Foundation in my capacity handling
> movement communications, including managing any campaigns on
> wikimediafoundation.org.
>
> As others from the Foundation have stated on this mailing list in the
> past, from time to time the Wikimedia Foundation engages in public policy
> matters which are aligned with the advancement of the Wikimedia mission or
> our values as an organization.
>
> Having said that, we agree with some of the criticisms you have raised. We
> had understood the Earth Day Live campaign to be both global and
> apolitical. However, we agree that the final campaign was both more
> US-centric and more political than we had understood in advance. The banner
> is no longer running, and in the future we will do more thorough due
> diligence.
>
> We remain strongly committed to climate sustainability as a value of the
> Wikimedia Foundation. We will continue to advocate on behalf of it and
> other values that uplift and advance free knowledge globally.
>
> I hope you all had a productive and safe Earth Day, and wish you all
> continued health and safety.
>
> Yours,
> -greg
>
> ---
> Gregory Varnum
> Communications Strategist
> Wikimedia Foundation 
> gvar...@wikimedia.org
> Pronouns: He/Him/His
>
> > On Apr 23, 2020, at 3:07 AM, RhinosF1 -  wrote:
> >
> > Should this be posted on wiki for others to sign?
> >
> > Samuel
> >
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 07:51, Fæ  wrote:
> >
> >> OPEN LETTER
> >>
> >> Dear Katherine Maher,
> >>
> >> The WMF home website landing page (https://wikimediafoundation.org)
> >> yesterday featured a full-page banner directing all visitors globally
> >> to https://www.earthdaylive2020.org. This is a site used for Americal
> >> political lobbying, refer to the email discussion attached.
> >>
> >> Could you, or the responsible member of your management team, please
> >> explain exactly how this happened?
> >>
> >> There is zero doubt that this was a serious operational error, misuse
> >> of WMF development time and a misuse of the Wikimedia brand. It is
> >> certain that you will agree that the buck stops with the CEO. The
> >> decision to use the Foundation's website for American lobbying is in
> >> conflict with your not for profit status and is in conflict with the
> >> charitable status promoted to donors worldwide.
> >>
> >> If the management team and yourself are going to continuing political
> >> lobbying and using WMF resources to raise funds for Americal political
> >> organizations which have no agreed relevance to the mission of the
> >> Foundation, there must be a published transparent governance review by
> >> the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Winner of WikiGap Challenge 2020 announced

2020-04-24 Thread Eric Luth 
Hi again,

I managed to post the Swedish language blogpost. Here is the post in
English:
https://wikimedia.se/2020/04/24/who-is-the-winner-of-wikigap-challenge-2020/

Best,
*Eric Luth*
Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
Advocacy
Wikimedia Sverige
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Den fre 24 apr. 2020 kl 12:11 skrev Eric Luth :

> Dear all,
>
> From 8 March to 8 April, the second edition of the WikiGap Challenge
>  took place. The
> WikiGap Challenge is a challenge aiming to create or improve articles about
> women on Wikipedia. It is a part of the WikiGap campaign, organized by
> Wikimedia Sverige, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Swedish
> embassies and Wikimedia affiliates across the world. This year, we teamed
> up with the UN Human Rights office, who proposed a list of 20 women human
> rights defenders 
> that had no Wikipedia articles (or in only a very few languages). These
> articles gave bonus points in the challenge.
>
> It took some extra time this year to finalize the results from the WikiGap
> Challenge , but now
> we’re done! And I must confess that we are quite happy with the results.
>
> General outcome
>
>-
>
>72 competitors with actual edits (90 signed up)
>-
>
>3,224 articles created or improved.
>-
>
>461 Wikidata objects improved
>-
>
>Edits made in 38 languages.
>-
>
>Editors have contributed 61,591,425 bytes, or roughly 61,5 megabytes.
>
> Human Rights articles
>
>-
>
>There are 20 women in the list.
>-
>
>338 articles were created about these women during the challenge.
>-
>
>The articles have in total been created in 32 different languages.
>-
>
>The article about Bogaletch Gebre
> is available in the
>highest amount of languages, 24 languages.
>-
>
>Anna Sharyhina has the largest total size among all languages, with
>192,918 bytes (192kb).
>-
>
>The largest individual article is the article about Anna Sharyhina in
>Ukrainian
>
> 
>.
>
> We can now also announce that the winner of the WikiGap Challenge this
> year is Andriy Gritsenko – who also won last year! During the WikiGap
> Challenge 2020, Andriy wrote or improved 416 articles about women during
> the month. You can read more on his motivation and engagement in a piece on
> our blog: [link]
>
> Andriy gets to visit the UN Human Rights office in Geneva when the world
> so permits, as the first prize. Congrats, Andriy!
>
> His entries, and the rest of the top 10, can be found here:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/Results
>
>
> We also wrote a piece on the Wikimedia Sverige blog about it, which can be
> found here:
> https://wikimedia.se/2020/04/24/vem-blev-vinnare-i-wikigap-challenge-2020/
>
> Best,
> *Eric Luth*
> Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
> Advocacy
> Wikimedia Sverige
> eric.l...@wikimedia.se
> +46 (0) 765 55 50 95
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Winner of WikiGap Challenge 2020 announced

2020-04-24 Thread Camelia Boban 
Wow, Andriy again. Sincere congratulations and thank you

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Il giorno ven 24 apr 2020 alle ore 12:12 Eric Luth 
ha scritto:

> Dear all,
>
> From 8 March to 8 April, the second edition of the WikiGap Challenge
>  took place. The
> WikiGap
> Challenge is a challenge aiming to create or improve articles about women
> on Wikipedia. It is a part of the WikiGap campaign, organized by Wikimedia
> Sverige, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Swedish embassies and
> Wikimedia affiliates across the world. This year, we teamed up with the UN
> Human Rights office, who proposed a list of 20 women human rights defenders
>  that had no
> Wikipedia articles (or in only a very few languages). These articles gave
> bonus points in the challenge.
>
> It took some extra time this year to finalize the results from the WikiGap
> Challenge , but now
> we’re done! And I must confess that we are quite happy with the results.
>
> General outcome
>
>-
>
>72 competitors with actual edits (90 signed up)
>-
>
>3,224 articles created or improved.
>-
>
>461 Wikidata objects improved
>-
>
>Edits made in 38 languages.
>-
>
>Editors have contributed 61,591,425 bytes, or roughly 61,5 megabytes.
>
> Human Rights articles
>
>-
>
>There are 20 women in the list.
>-
>
>338 articles were created about these women during the challenge.
>-
>
>The articles have in total been created in 32 different languages.
>-
>
>The article about Bogaletch Gebre
> is available in the
>highest amount of languages, 24 languages.
>-
>
>Anna Sharyhina has the largest total size among all languages, with
>192,918 bytes (192kb).
>-
>
>The largest individual article is the article about Anna Sharyhina in
>Ukrainian
><
> https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0
> >
>.
>
> We can now also announce that the winner of the WikiGap Challenge this year
> is Andriy Gritsenko – who also won last year! During the WikiGap Challenge
> 2020, Andriy wrote or improved 416 articles about women during the month.
> You can read more on his motivation and engagement in a piece on our blog:
> [link]
>
> Andriy gets to visit the UN Human Rights office in Geneva when the world so
> permits, as the first prize. Congrats, Andriy!
>
> His entries, and the rest of the top 10, can be found here:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/Results
>
>
> We also wrote a piece on the Wikimedia Sverige blog about it, which can be
> found here:
> https://wikimedia.se/2020/04/24/vem-blev-vinnare-i-wikigap-challenge-2020/
>
> Best,
> *Eric Luth*
> Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
> Advocacy
> Wikimedia Sverige
> eric.l...@wikimedia.se
> +46 (0) 765 55 50 95
>
> Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige.
> Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se
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[Wikimedia-l] Winner of WikiGap Challenge 2020 announced

2020-04-24 Thread Eric Luth 
Dear all,

From 8 March to 8 April, the second edition of the WikiGap Challenge
 took place. The WikiGap
Challenge is a challenge aiming to create or improve articles about women
on Wikipedia. It is a part of the WikiGap campaign, organized by Wikimedia
Sverige, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Swedish embassies and
Wikimedia affiliates across the world. This year, we teamed up with the UN
Human Rights office, who proposed a list of 20 women human rights defenders
 that had no
Wikipedia articles (or in only a very few languages). These articles gave
bonus points in the challenge.

It took some extra time this year to finalize the results from the WikiGap
Challenge , but now
we’re done! And I must confess that we are quite happy with the results.

General outcome

   -

   72 competitors with actual edits (90 signed up)
   -

   3,224 articles created or improved.
   -

   461 Wikidata objects improved
   -

   Edits made in 38 languages.
   -

   Editors have contributed 61,591,425 bytes, or roughly 61,5 megabytes.

Human Rights articles

   -

   There are 20 women in the list.
   -

   338 articles were created about these women during the challenge.
   -

   The articles have in total been created in 32 different languages.
   -

   The article about Bogaletch Gebre
    is available in the
   highest amount of languages, 24 languages.
   -

   Anna Sharyhina has the largest total size among all languages, with
   192,918 bytes (192kb).
   -

   The largest individual article is the article about Anna Sharyhina in
   Ukrainian
   

   .

We can now also announce that the winner of the WikiGap Challenge this year
is Andriy Gritsenko – who also won last year! During the WikiGap Challenge
2020, Andriy wrote or improved 416 articles about women during the month.
You can read more on his motivation and engagement in a piece on our blog:
[link]

Andriy gets to visit the UN Human Rights office in Geneva when the world so
permits, as the first prize. Congrats, Andriy!

His entries, and the rest of the top 10, can be found here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge/Results


We also wrote a piece on the Wikimedia Sverige blog about it, which can be
found here:
https://wikimedia.se/2020/04/24/vem-blev-vinnare-i-wikigap-challenge-2020/

Best,
*Eric Luth*
Projektledare engagemang och påverkan | Project Manager, Involvement and
Advocacy
Wikimedia Sverige
eric.l...@wikimedia.se
+46 (0) 765 55 50 95

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-24 Thread Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga 
The concept "apolitical" does not exist if there is a goal.

Nevertheless, for the future, a link to the article about "Earth" in all the 
languages Wikimedia has would be the best solution.

Cheers,

Galder

From: Wikimedia-l  on behalf of Yair 
Rand 
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 8:27 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

This would not have happened had there been any oversight (community or
otherwise), and it could have been pulled down quickly enough had there
been any community members with the ability to edit the site. Perhaps it's
time to reconsider how the WMF corporate site operates.

I appreciate that the WMF is committed doing more thorough due diligence in
the future. It's very important to do so. There's a very good reason why
community consultation is required when dealing with any Collaborative
Advocacy, but given that even existing requirements weren't followed, I'm
not very optimistic that this new commitment holds weight.

Also importantly, the Foundation's Policy and Political Association
Guideline, which was written by WMF Legal in the aftermath of SOPA to iron
out clear boundaries on activism, explicitly rules out any political
activism relating to environmental issues, stating:
> Policy and political associations should protect and advance Wikimedia’s
mission “to empower and engage people around the world to collect and
develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain,
and to disseminate it effectively and globally.” Accordingly, we will not
support causes unrelated to or inconsistent with that mission. For example,
no support should be given to: environmental issues; [...]"

The WMF just inadvertently threw its weight behind dozens of controversial
causes that have nothing to do with our mission. I hope that the WMF will
manage to operate more appropriately in the future.

--Yair Rand

‫בתאריך יום ו׳, 24 באפר׳ 2020 ב-1:18 מאת ‪Gregory Varnum‬‏ <‪
gvar...@wikimedia.org‬‏>:‬

> Hi all,
>
> I am responding on behalf of the Foundation in my capacity handling
> movement communications, including managing any campaigns on
> wikimediafoundation.org.
>
> As others from the Foundation have stated on this mailing list in the
> past, from time to time the Wikimedia Foundation engages in public policy
> matters which are aligned with the advancement of the Wikimedia mission or
> our values as an organization.
>
> Having said that, we agree with some of the criticisms you have raised. We
> had understood the Earth Day Live campaign to be both global and
> apolitical. However, we agree that the final campaign was both more
> US-centric and more political than we had understood in advance. The banner
> is no longer running, and in the future we will do more thorough due
> diligence.
>
> We remain strongly committed to climate sustainability as a value of the
> Wikimedia Foundation. We will continue to advocate on behalf of it and
> other values that uplift and advance free knowledge globally.
>
> I hope you all had a productive and safe Earth Day, and wish you all
> continued health and safety.
>
> Yours,
> -greg
>
> ---
> Gregory Varnum
> Communications Strategist
> Wikimedia Foundation 
> gvar...@wikimedia.org
> Pronouns: He/Him/His
>
> > On Apr 23, 2020, at 3:07 AM, RhinosF1 -  wrote:
> >
> > Should this be posted on wiki for others to sign?
> >
> > Samuel
> >
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 07:51, Fæ  wrote:
> >
> >> OPEN LETTER
> >>
> >> Dear Katherine Maher,
> >>
> >> The WMF home website landing page (https://wikimediafoundation.org)
> >> yesterday featured a full-page banner directing all visitors globally
> >> to https://www.earthdaylive2020.org. This is a site used for Americal
> >> political lobbying, refer to the email discussion attached.
> >>
> >> Could you, or the responsible member of your management team, please
> >> explain exactly how this happened?
> >>
> >> There is zero doubt that this was a serious operational error, misuse
> >> of WMF development time and a misuse of the Wikimedia brand. It is
> >> certain that you will agree that the buck stops with the CEO. The
> >> decision to use the Foundation's website for American lobbying is in
> >> conflict with your not for profit status and is in conflict with the
> >> charitable status promoted to donors worldwide.
> >>
> >> If the management team and yourself are going to continuing political
> >> lobbying and using WMF resources to raise funds for Americal political
> >> organizations which have no agreed relevance to the mission of the
> >> Foundation, there must be a published transparent governance review by
> >> the WMF board of trustees to examine and agree on this significant
> >> operational change to the public Foundation strategy and the terms for
> >> the CEO.
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance.
> >>
> >> Link to Phabricator task to implement the banner:
> >>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF political activism

2020-04-24 Thread Yair Rand 
This would not have happened had there been any oversight (community or
otherwise), and it could have been pulled down quickly enough had there
been any community members with the ability to edit the site. Perhaps it's
time to reconsider how the WMF corporate site operates.

I appreciate that the WMF is committed doing more thorough due diligence in
the future. It's very important to do so. There's a very good reason why
community consultation is required when dealing with any Collaborative
Advocacy, but given that even existing requirements weren't followed, I'm
not very optimistic that this new commitment holds weight.

Also importantly, the Foundation's Policy and Political Association
Guideline, which was written by WMF Legal in the aftermath of SOPA to iron
out clear boundaries on activism, explicitly rules out any political
activism relating to environmental issues, stating:
> Policy and political associations should protect and advance Wikimedia’s
mission “to empower and engage people around the world to collect and
develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain,
and to disseminate it effectively and globally.” Accordingly, we will not
support causes unrelated to or inconsistent with that mission. For example,
no support should be given to: environmental issues; [...]"

The WMF just inadvertently threw its weight behind dozens of controversial
causes that have nothing to do with our mission. I hope that the WMF will
manage to operate more appropriately in the future.

--Yair Rand

‫בתאריך יום ו׳, 24 באפר׳ 2020 ב-1:18 מאת ‪Gregory Varnum‬‏ <‪
gvar...@wikimedia.org‬‏>:‬

> Hi all,
>
> I am responding on behalf of the Foundation in my capacity handling
> movement communications, including managing any campaigns on
> wikimediafoundation.org.
>
> As others from the Foundation have stated on this mailing list in the
> past, from time to time the Wikimedia Foundation engages in public policy
> matters which are aligned with the advancement of the Wikimedia mission or
> our values as an organization.
>
> Having said that, we agree with some of the criticisms you have raised. We
> had understood the Earth Day Live campaign to be both global and
> apolitical. However, we agree that the final campaign was both more
> US-centric and more political than we had understood in advance. The banner
> is no longer running, and in the future we will do more thorough due
> diligence.
>
> We remain strongly committed to climate sustainability as a value of the
> Wikimedia Foundation. We will continue to advocate on behalf of it and
> other values that uplift and advance free knowledge globally.
>
> I hope you all had a productive and safe Earth Day, and wish you all
> continued health and safety.
>
> Yours,
> -greg
>
> ---
> Gregory Varnum
> Communications Strategist
> Wikimedia Foundation 
> gvar...@wikimedia.org
> Pronouns: He/Him/His
>
> > On Apr 23, 2020, at 3:07 AM, RhinosF1 -  wrote:
> >
> > Should this be posted on wiki for others to sign?
> >
> > Samuel
> >
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 07:51, Fæ  wrote:
> >
> >> OPEN LETTER
> >>
> >> Dear Katherine Maher,
> >>
> >> The WMF home website landing page (https://wikimediafoundation.org)
> >> yesterday featured a full-page banner directing all visitors globally
> >> to https://www.earthdaylive2020.org. This is a site used for Americal
> >> political lobbying, refer to the email discussion attached.
> >>
> >> Could you, or the responsible member of your management team, please
> >> explain exactly how this happened?
> >>
> >> There is zero doubt that this was a serious operational error, misuse
> >> of WMF development time and a misuse of the Wikimedia brand. It is
> >> certain that you will agree that the buck stops with the CEO. The
> >> decision to use the Foundation's website for American lobbying is in
> >> conflict with your not for profit status and is in conflict with the
> >> charitable status promoted to donors worldwide.
> >>
> >> If the management team and yourself are going to continuing political
> >> lobbying and using WMF resources to raise funds for Americal political
> >> organizations which have no agreed relevance to the mission of the
> >> Foundation, there must be a published transparent governance review by
> >> the WMF board of trustees to examine and agree on this significant
> >> operational change to the public Foundation strategy and the terms for
> >> the CEO.
> >>
> >> Thank you in advance.
> >>
> >> Link to Phabricator task to implement the banner:
> >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250508
> >> CC: María Sefidari as WMF Chair.
> >>
> >> Fae
> >>
> >> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 05:50, K. Peachey  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250508
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 09:53, Chris Gates via Wikimedia-l
> >>>  wrote:
> 
>  Hi,
> 
>  It seems that they just gave a link to that website, which...eh...
>  When I opened it, I heard one