Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Western Armenian Language User Group

2020-09-04 Thread Rajeeb Dutta 
My heartiest congratulations to all the members of Wikimedians of Western 
Armenian Language User Group, thanks Rosie for the update.

Best Regards,
Rajeeb.
(U: Marajozkee)
(Sent from my iPhone pardon the brevity) 

> On 05-Sep-2020, at 5:43 AM, Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> 
> 
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] Wikimedians of Western Armenian Language User Group [2] as a Wikimedia
> User Group. The group aims to empower and engage Western Armenian speakers
> around the world to collect and develop free content in Western Armenian on
> the Wikimedia projects. Promote the creation of other Wikimedia projects in
> Western Armenian, such as Wiktionary, Wikisource.s as well as other open
> projects that allow sharing and accessibility of free knowledge.
> 
> 
> 
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> 
> 
> 
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedians_of_Western_Armenian_Language_User_Group
> 
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Western_Armenian_Language_User_Group
> 
> Respectfully,
> 
> Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (she/her)
> 
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
> 
> 
> 
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[Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of Western Armenian Language User Group

2020-09-04 Thread Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight 
Hi everyone!



I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] Wikimedians of Western Armenian Language User Group [2] as a Wikimedia
User Group. The group aims to empower and engage Western Armenian speakers
around the world to collect and develop free content in Western Armenian on
the Wikimedia projects. Promote the creation of other Wikimedia projects in
Western Armenian, such as Wiktionary, Wikisource.s as well as other open
projects that allow sharing and accessibility of free knowledge.



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



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

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Western_Armenian_Language_User_Group

Respectfully,

Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight (she/her)

Chair, Affiliations Committee



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[Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustees elections, membership, quorum, and

2020-09-04 Thread Bill Takatoshi 
How long can the Foundation legally postpone Board of Trustees elections?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2020#Postpone?
has a comment from April saying, "Once things get moving again,
appopriate [sic] date for the election will be decided and an
announcement will be made."

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees#Current_members
suggests that five board members terms end on "Wikimania 2020" -- but
is that accurate?

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Term_Limit_Proposal_for_Bylaws
is clear that "All Board terms are three years" and "the term of each
such appointment shall not exceed three years."

Who are the current members of the Board of Trustees?

Can the board achieve a quorum in its present state?

Who is the Chair currently?

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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - August Newsletter

2020-09-04 Thread Jan Ainali 
This is our ninth newsletter, covering August 2020. This issue has news
related to SDGs 3, 4, 6, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 17.

*Meetings*

   - Upcoming: Online meeting - 2020-09-06 (SDG all) [1]
   - Upcoming: Online meeting - 2020-09-20 (SDG all) [1]
   - Past: Online meeting - 2020-08-02 (SDG all) [2]

*Activities*

   - Ongoing: The 'Climate Translation Project' celebrated its first
   published translation: 'Réchauffement climatique en Afrique', a French
   translation of the English Wikipedia article 'Climate change in Africa' by
   User:J. N. Squire in French (SDGs 4, 13) [20]
   - Past: World Water Week ISA campaign (SDG 6) [21]
   - Past: Editathon about Covid-19 in Swedish (SDG 3) [22]
   - Past: Editathon about water in Swedish (SDG 6) [23]

*News*

   - Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the
   site is handling it. (SDG 3) [12]
   - Adding biographies of female oceanographers (SDG 14) [13]
   - Wiki Education participants improve COVID-19 local response articles
   (SDG 3) [14]
   - Wikimedia Policy Brief - COVID-19 - How Wikipedia helps us through
   uncertain times (SDG 3) [15]
   - Personal perspective on the forming of the user group (SDG all) [19]

*Research*

   - Wikipedia, The Free Online Medical Encyclopedia Anyone Can Plagiarize:
   Time to Address Wiki-Plagiarism (SDG 3) [3]
   - Wikidata-focused presentations at the Workshop "Data Science in
   Climate and Climate Impact Research
   
"
   taking place on 20-21 August 2020 in Zurich and online. (SDGs 4, 13, 17)
   [16] [17]

*Videos*

   - Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data
   Perspective (SDGs 4, 13, 17) [18]
   - Video: Wikipedia Weekly Network - LIVE Wikidata editing about water
   #17 (SDG 6) [24], [25]

*Featured content*

   - Vermilion flycatcher (SDG 15) [4]
   - Canada lynx (SDG 15) [5]
   - Meteorological history of Hurricane Dorian (SDG 11) [6]
   - Leeches (SDG 15) [7]
   - Gigantorhynchus (SDG 15) [8]
   - List of World Heritage Sites in Iceland (SDG 11) [9]
   - Ursidae (SDG 15) [10]
   - Mephitidae (SDG 15) [11]
   - Orangutan (SDG 15) [32]
   - Horseshoe bat (SDG 15) [33]
   - Hurricane Willa (SDG 11) [34]
   - List of World Heritage Sites in Lithuania (SDG 11) [35]

*New Wikidata properties*

   - extinction date (SDG 15) [26]
   - Monumentbrowser ID (SDG 11) [27]
   - Nasjonalt skoleregister ID (SDG 4) [28]
   - American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus ID (SDG 11) [29]
   - Sculptures and cities database ID for sculptures (SDG 11) [31]

*New Wikidata query examples*

   - Bar chart showing the number of research output (articles, etc)
   annotated with a SARSCoV2 proteins as 'main subject' (SDG 3) [30]

*Links*

   - [1]
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Next_meeting
   - [2]
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Meeting_minutes_20200802
   - [3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12109-020-09750-0
   - [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion_flycatcher
   - [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_lynx
   - [6]
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorological_history_of_Hurricane_Dorian
   - [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech
   - [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantorhynchus
   - [9]
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Heritage_Sites_in_Iceland
   - [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursidae
   - [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephitidae
   - [12]
   
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/07/wikipedia-covid-coronavirus
   - [13]
   
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/08/06/adding-biographies-of-female-oceanographers/
   - [14]
   
https://wikiedu.org/blog/2020/08/04/wiki-education-participants-improve-covid-19-local-response-articles/
   - [15]
   
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Policy_Brief_-_COVID-19_-_How_Wikipedia_helps_us_through_uncertain_times.pdf
   - [16] Sarasua, Cristina, & Mietchen, Daniel. (2020, August).
   Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Community
   Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994272
   
   - [17] Mietchen, Daniel, & Sarasua, Cristina. (2020, August).
   Multilingual Structured Climate Research Data in Wikidata - The Data
   Perspective. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3994266
   
   - [18] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntI6hmT-rRc
   - [19]
   https://wikimedia.se/2020/08/19/wikimedians-for-sustainable-development/
   - [20]
   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_translation_project
   - [21] https://isa.toolforge.org/campaigns/77
   - [22] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik-e-meet/6_augusti_2020
   - [23] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wik-e-meet_27_augusti
   - [24]