[Wikimedia-l] An update from Movement Strategy

2020-07-10 Thread Kaarel Vaidla 
Hi everyone,

I’m excited to share an update from Movement Strategy. It’s been two months
since the final recommendations were shared [1] and we remain indebted to
numerous individuals from across our movement that brought us to this
milestone. We have 10 recommendations and 10 principles to work with and
collaboratively create the future that we want for our movement. This
necessitates building on our strengths and creating cultural and structural
changes where needed.

The recommendations and principles as well as blogs and other supporting
materials have been prepared in text, audio, and video formats and in a
variety of languages so they can be accessible for many. [2] Familiarize
yourself with them at your own time, if you haven’t already.

The Wikimedia Foundation is planning a series of virtual events from
September to November where, as a movement, we will transition to
implementing the recommendations. Organizing online events at such a scale
requires a lot of thinking and consideration. How to make sure everyone
interested can participate? How to provide language, technical, and
facilitation support to overcome participation barriers? How to allocate
resources and nurture commitments for implementation? For this, we have
convened a collaborative Design Group [3] that over the next two months
will create a plan for the transition events. We have also assembled a
small team to support this work. [4]

Design discussions are underway and will be open and shared on-wiki for
concurrent input. [5] There will also be a more dedicated feedback sprint
planned for the initial draft in early August. This way we can prepare for
transition events that are inclusive and transparent for deciding what
ideas from the recommendations will be implemented when, in what order, by
whom, and with what resource and support structures. [6] All interested
individuals are encouraged to participate in the design discussions as
reviewers and later in the actual transition events that will shape
implementation. Watch our page as we continue to share materials and
updates.

Many of the ideas in the recommendations stem from longstanding discussions
in the movement that predate movement strategy. It has been one of the
purposes of the process to provide a clear and public platform for these
conversations. These ideas include better coordination mechanisms for
individuals and affiliates, organizational structures for a more equitable
movement, enhanced skill building, movement-wide generation and allocation
of resources, researching our impact in the world, and evaluating ourselves
and our work. Advancing these complex and essential topics needs learning
and experimentation. As examples, the Universal Code of Conduct [7] and
OKAPI [8] [9], which are also part of the recommendations and under the
umbrella of our Strategic Direction, are progressing with movement
consultations. We can learn from these discussions and integrate lessons
learned in the planning for the implementation of other initiatives in the
recommendations during the transition.

In short, a summary from the first Design Group discussion has been
uploaded. [5] and we look forward to a fruitful design period ahead and
lively implementation discussions starting in September.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts in our meta space or at the
virtual events later this year!

On behalf of the Support Team,

Kaarel

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recommendations#Want_to_experience_this_content_in_another_format?

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/People

[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition/People#Support_Team

[5]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition#Working_session_#1_summary

[6]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Transition

[7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct

[8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OKAPI
[9] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OKAPI

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Kaarel Vaidla (he/him)

Movement Strategy 

Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Invitation for Education Office hours, July 2020

2020-07-10 Thread Sailesh Patnaik 
Hi everyone,

Join us for the July education office hours on 16th July 2020 at 12:00 PM
UTC! The office hours are a dedicated time and an online space to have
conversations and discussions related to Wikimedia and education
activities, listen and learn from each other's projects and experiences.

We will be having discussion around Community communications collaborators,
get more information here: https://w.wiki/WKR  and also how to use Wikidata
in education. If you are interested, join us! You can find more details to
join the meeting here:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Hours/July_16_2020

Looking forward to seeing you all then, Please let me know if you have any
questions.

Do you want to reach out to the education team for a 1:1 consultation?
Request for a slot for consultation for your education work (
ttps://outreach.wikimedia.
org/wiki/Education/About/Office_Space
 ) by
filling this google form ( http://bit.ly/EduOfficeSpace )

Dhanyabaad!
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board update on Branding: Briefing postponement

2020-07-10 Thread João Alexandre Peschanski 
Thanks for the update Nataliia. I hope he or she is feeling better. Best,
João

Em qua., 8 de jul. de 2020 às 14:44, Nataliia Tymkiv 
escreveu:

>  Hello! Just a quick update: the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees was
> notified by staff on the night of July 7th that the briefing of July 8th
> needs to be rescheduled because of the illness of one of the key staff
> members. We are looking for a new date before the August board meeting, and
> we shall share an updated timeline in a few days.
>
> Best regards,
> antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
> Vice Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
>
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-10 Thread Andy Mabbett 
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 10:05, Tomasz Ganicz  wrote:
>
> czw., 9 lip 2020 o 18:53 Andy Mabbett 
> napisał(a):
>
> > On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 07:46, Tomasz Ganicz  wrote:
> >
> > > > I’m unable to answer this due to the Confidentiality Agreement all OTRS
> > > > agents sign.
> >
> > > Well, please do not create conspiracy theories...
> >
> > It's not a conspiracy theory if there is evidence of a conspiracy.

> What evidence?

* OTRS policies, stored on the OTRS wiki, are not public

* The questions asked in February have still not been answered

*  A post from Jonatan to this list, saying "I'm unable to answer this
due to the Confidentiality Agreement all OTRS agents sign."

> General copyright rules, procedures and copyright agreement templates are
> made public in most wikis

Again; that is not what is being asked.

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Operation and oversight of OTRS system

2020-07-10 Thread Tomasz Ganicz 
czw., 9 lip 2020 o 18:53 Andy Mabbett 
napisał(a):

> On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 07:46, Tomasz Ganicz  wrote:
>
> > > I’m unable to answer this due to the Confidentiality Agreement all OTRS
> > > agents sign.
>
> > Well, please do not create conspiracy theories...
>
> It's not a conspiracy theory if there is evidence of a conspiracy.
>

What evidence? Again - OTRS wiki contains mainly technical stuff - such as
some basic advices how to answer properly to e-mails,  how to avoid typical
mistakes, boilerplates for typical, redundant questions + some discussions
about technical boundaries of what could be accept and what not regarding
copyright agreements (for example how to be sure that agreement comes from
person who can really sing it) and when and how to add OTRS  copyright
templates. This is made not public - first of all as discussions about
disputable cases contain quite often personal details, and there are some
"tricks" how to recognize fraudulent agreements, which if made public,
could have made life easier for potential  impositors.

General copyright rules, procedures and copyright agreement templates are
made public in most wikis, and that are real rules that are followed by
OTRS agents responsible for  permission queues. See for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requesting_copyright_permission

or

https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomoc:Pozwolenia_na_wykorzystanie

and most complicated - on Commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:OTRS



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