Re: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you + see you around!

[Gnangarra]

Kaya Katherine

Thank you for taking the movement from its past, to help us work in the
present, and to look towards the future. You have created a legacy that is
as significant as every contribution look forward to seeing you around our
campfires sharing your knowledge in the future.

Boodarwun
Gnangarra

On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 09:47, Katherine Maher  wrote:

> Hi friends, fellow Wikimedians,
>
> [Apologies in advance, this note is very long, and written in my native
> English speaker style. Normally I try for shorter and more ESL friendly,
> but it was hard to do this time. Thank you for indulging or at least,
> tolerating, me.]
>
> It has been my life’s joy and pleasure to be a part of this movement with
> you for the past seven years.[1] I came into the Wikimedia movement as a
> believer in open culture, open source, and free knowledge. I leave my work
> at the Foundation today knowing the Wikimedia movement stands for those
> things, and something even greater.
>
> To be a Wikimedian is to embrace humanity’s curiosity and fallibility, our
> generosity and irascibility. It is to look across a world that we’re told
> is divided -- by arbitrary borders, linguistic conquest, fear of the
> unfamiliar -- and instead see our common interest. It’s to know that we are
> each flawed, unreliable narrators, and to believe that the best remedy to
> our intrinsic failings is to patch our individual flaws with our collective
> strengths.
>
> In the spring of 2016, I shared a pizza in Berlin with (our then-future,
> now former, board chair) Christophe Henner. We were attending Wikimedia
> Conference one month into my role as interim executive director, and had
> just finished a challenging day of plenary meetings that brought us
> together as a community in catharsis. Christophe was a candidate for the
> Wikimedia Foundation board. He asked me, “What are we here for?”
>
> I didn’t know what he wanted me to say, so I just told him what I thought.
> “We’re here to make the world better.” It was a cliche answer, but true for
> me. He laughed and leaned back in the chair. “Yes.”
>
> This has always been what I read into the unstated part of our vision.
> “Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge.” This is a spectacular, inspiring, aspirational
> ambition, but it is also missing something critical. For the past seven
> years, I have imagined this world every day. And every day, I have asked
> myself, “Why?” Why does free knowledge vision matter? What happens then?
> What change have we effected in the world?”
>
> Even after I leave, I’ll keep asking myself this. And as you continue your
> work here, as colleagues, as contributors, as volunteers, I ask all of you
> to ask yourselves as well -- with all that you do, and all that you
> contribute, and all that you build. What are we here to do? Do our values,
> our structures, our practices, and our constructs serve our purpose? And
> how do we ensure they remain as alive and vital as our projects and vision?
>
> The former president of Wikimedia Chile, Marco Correa, would say, “The
> knowledge may be neutral, but the act is not.” I always understood him to
> mean that while our projects endeavor to serve the most accurate,
> verifiable, and neutral knowledge, our movement has never been impartial.
> We have always stood proudly for a set of values: freedom of inquiry,
> expression, and assembly, the right to privacy and memory, and the
> foundational value and dignity of every human. We have defended them under
> duress and must continue to do so.
>
> We should never lose sight of how revolutionary the act of producing free
> knowledge is in the first place. I’ve always been struck by the myriad
> motivations that bring people to this movement. There are those who write
> their language into the future, their identity into public consciousness,
> who use our projects to grapple with historical injustice. There are some
> who edit Wikipedia because an act of fact is itself an act of
> self-determination in places where information is used to suppress and
> subject.
>
> If we let ourselves believe that we’re simply a free encyclopedia, we risk
> losing sight of the power and possibility of our work. Knowledge has always
> been a tool of power -- great empire and wealth have been built with its
> service, and great injustice has been done in its name. The very idea of
> liberating knowledge from power, decoupling it from access and wealth, and
> placing its construction, utility, and value in the hands of every person
> on the planet is fundamentally radical.
>
> Wikimedia itself is a radical act. It is a verb, a constant action of
> interrogation, revision, and evolution. It upends history, it challenges
> the status quo. It is the confidence to ask ourselves why we believe what
> we believe and whether our knowledge may change in the future. It is the
> conviction to defend our values against pressure and threat, while 

[Wikimedia-l] Thank you + see you around!

[Katherine Maher]

Hi friends, fellow Wikimedians,

[Apologies in advance, this note is very long, and written in my native
English speaker style. Normally I try for shorter and more ESL friendly,
but it was hard to do this time. Thank you for indulging or at least,
tolerating, me.]

It has been my life’s joy and pleasure to be a part of this movement with
you for the past seven years.[1] I came into the Wikimedia movement as a
believer in open culture, open source, and free knowledge. I leave my work
at the Foundation today knowing the Wikimedia movement stands for those
things, and something even greater.

To be a Wikimedian is to embrace humanity’s curiosity and fallibility, our
generosity and irascibility. It is to look across a world that we’re told
is divided -- by arbitrary borders, linguistic conquest, fear of the
unfamiliar -- and instead see our common interest. It’s to know that we are
each flawed, unreliable narrators, and to believe that the best remedy to
our intrinsic failings is to patch our individual flaws with our collective
strengths.

In the spring of 2016, I shared a pizza in Berlin with (our then-future,
now former, board chair) Christophe Henner. We were attending Wikimedia
Conference one month into my role as interim executive director, and had
just finished a challenging day of plenary meetings that brought us
together as a community in catharsis. Christophe was a candidate for the
Wikimedia Foundation board. He asked me, “What are we here for?”

I didn’t know what he wanted me to say, so I just told him what I thought.
“We’re here to make the world better.” It was a cliche answer, but true for
me. He laughed and leaned back in the chair. “Yes.”

This has always been what I read into the unstated part of our vision.
“Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge.” This is a spectacular, inspiring, aspirational
ambition, but it is also missing something critical. For the past seven
years, I have imagined this world every day. And every day, I have asked
myself, “Why?” Why does free knowledge vision matter? What happens then?
What change have we effected in the world?”

Even after I leave, I’ll keep asking myself this. And as you continue your
work here, as colleagues, as contributors, as volunteers, I ask all of you
to ask yourselves as well -- with all that you do, and all that you
contribute, and all that you build. What are we here to do? Do our values,
our structures, our practices, and our constructs serve our purpose? And
how do we ensure they remain as alive and vital as our projects and vision?

The former president of Wikimedia Chile, Marco Correa, would say, “The
knowledge may be neutral, but the act is not.” I always understood him to
mean that while our projects endeavor to serve the most accurate,
verifiable, and neutral knowledge, our movement has never been impartial.
We have always stood proudly for a set of values: freedom of inquiry,
expression, and assembly, the right to privacy and memory, and the
foundational value and dignity of every human. We have defended them under
duress and must continue to do so.

We should never lose sight of how revolutionary the act of producing free
knowledge is in the first place. I’ve always been struck by the myriad
motivations that bring people to this movement. There are those who write
their language into the future, their identity into public consciousness,
who use our projects to grapple with historical injustice. There are some
who edit Wikipedia because an act of fact is itself an act of
self-determination in places where information is used to suppress and
subject.

If we let ourselves believe that we’re simply a free encyclopedia, we risk
losing sight of the power and possibility of our work. Knowledge has always
been a tool of power -- great empire and wealth have been built with its
service, and great injustice has been done in its name. The very idea of
liberating knowledge from power, decoupling it from access and wealth, and
placing its construction, utility, and value in the hands of every person
on the planet is fundamentally radical.

Wikimedia itself is a radical act. It is a verb, a constant action of
interrogation, revision, and evolution. It upends history, it challenges
the status quo. It is the confidence to ask ourselves why we believe what
we believe and whether our knowledge may change in the future. It is the
conviction to defend our values against pressure and threat, while robustly
debating among ourselves whether those values continue to serve the world.
It is the humility to cooperate, collaborate, and learn from others.

Someone asked the other day, “what is the biggest challenge Wikimedia
faces?” My answer was the same as on my very first day. Our biggest
challenge is ourselves. Our success, our complexity, our size -- it could
be easy to believe that we’ll endure forever on our current momentum, to
see ourselves as a website rather than a global movement, or to accep

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community Resilience & Sustainability office hour

[Cornelius Kibelka]

Hi friends,

This is a kind reminder that the Community Resilience & Sustainability
Office Hour takes place on Saturday, 15:00 UTC. You can find all info on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2021-04-17

You can ask questions via Youtube or Telegram or IRC or Email (e.g., if you
can't attend the meeting itself). Notes will be posted afterward and the
video will be made available.

Come & join us,
Cornelius

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 4:28 PM Cornelius Kibelka 
wrote:

> Hi friends,
>
> The Community Resilience & Sustainability
> 
> team at the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a new office hour led by its
> Vice President Maggie Dennis
> . Topics within scope
> for this call include Movement Strategy coordination (recently transferred
> to CR&S), Trust and Safety (and the Universal Code of Conduct), Community
> Development, and Human Rights. Come with your questions or feedback, and
> let’s talk! You can also send us your questions in advance.
>
> The meeting will be on April 17 at 15:00 UTC (check your local time
> ).
>
> You can check all the details on Meta
> 
> .
>
> Cheers
> Cornelius
>
> --
>
> Cornelius Kibelka (he/him)
>
> Process Support Coordinator
>
> Movement Strategy
>
> 2030.wikimedia.org
>
> 
>
> *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate.
> *
> 
>


-- 

Cornelius Kibelka (he/him)

Process Support Coordinator

Movement Strategy

2030.wikimedia.org



*Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate.
*

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] [All-affiliates] New board of Wikimedia España

[João Alexandre Peschanski]

Queridas compañeras y compañeros, reciban un fuerte abrazo desde Brasil.
Tengan un lindo momento, empoderador y transformador, en la dirección de
WMES y que logremos juntos caminar en la consolidación de la Wikimedia.
Suerte! João

Good luck! Have fun!

João

Em qui., 15 de abr. de 2021 às 14:10, Santiago Navarro <
santiagonava...@wikimedia.es> escreveu:

> Hello! Last Saturday, April 10th 2021, Wikimedia España celebrated its
> General Meeting where a new board was elected after the end of the
> period of three years for the last one. The meeting was celebrated
> on-line due to restrictions because of COVID-19.
>
> The new board is constituted as following:
>
> President: Florencia Claes (user:Florenciac), former Vicepresident
> Vicepresident: Mentxu Ramilo Araujo (user:Mentxuwiki), new in the board
> Secretary: Ana Porras (user:Escalafandra), new in the board
> Treasurer: Pedro Pacheco (user:Pedro J Pacheco), same position than in
> the last board
> Member: Ester Bonet (user:Tiputini), new in the board
> Member: María Bolado (user:Trastolillo), same position than in the last
> board
> Member: Santiago Navarro Sanz (user:Millars), former President
>
> The new board was elected by unanimity and it is the first time when we
> have a woman for the position of President and also the first time with
> a majority of women in the board.
>
> Thank you very much to the board members who will not continue after
> many years: Jorge Sierra Canduela (user:Lucien leGrey), Miguel García
> San José (user:Rastrojo) and José Emilio Mori Recio (user:-jem-). In the
> meeting we remembered Elena Sanz, former secretary, who passed away last
> year.
>
> In the meeting we also approve the activity and economical report for
> 2020 and the plan of activities and the budget for 2021.
>
> The report for 2020 as a pdf file is linked here:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Informe_Anual_WMES_2020.pdf
> You can read a blog post about the new board in our website:
> https://www.wikimedia.es/2021/04/12/nueva-junta-directiva-2021/
>
> Best regards!
>
> --
> Santiago Navarro Sanz
> Wikimedia España
> www.wikimedia.es
>
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[Wikimedia-l] New board of Wikimedia España

[Santiago Navarro]

Hello! Last Saturday, April 10th 2021, Wikimedia España celebrated its 
General Meeting where a new board was elected after the end of the 
period of three years for the last one. The meeting was celebrated 
on-line due to restrictions because of COVID-19.


The new board is constituted as following:

President: Florencia Claes (user:Florenciac), former Vicepresident
Vicepresident: Mentxu Ramilo Araujo (user:Mentxuwiki), new in the board
Secretary: Ana Porras (user:Escalafandra), new in the board
Treasurer: Pedro Pacheco (user:Pedro J Pacheco), same position than in 
the last board

Member: Ester Bonet (user:Tiputini), new in the board
Member: María Bolado (user:Trastolillo), same position than in the last 
board

Member: Santiago Navarro Sanz (user:Millars), former President

The new board was elected by unanimity and it is the first time when we 
have a woman for the position of President and also the first time with 
a majority of women in the board.


Thank you very much to the board members who will not continue after 
many years: Jorge Sierra Canduela (user:Lucien leGrey), Miguel García 
San José (user:Rastrojo) and José Emilio Mori Recio (user:-jem-). In the 
meeting we remembered Elena Sanz, former secretary, who passed away last 
year.


In the meeting we also approve the activity and economical report for 
2020 and the plan of activities and the budget for 2021.


The report for 2020 as a pdf file is linked here: 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Informe_Anual_WMES_2020.pdf
You can read a blog post about the new board in our website: 
https://www.wikimedia.es/2021/04/12/nueva-junta-directiva-2021/


Best regards!

--
Santiago Navarro Sanz
Wikimedia España
www.wikimedia.es

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