[Wikimedia-l] You're invited! Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom - open meeting

2021-04-28 Thread Melissa Guadalupe Huertas
Dear Wikimedians, [Please, excuse the cross-posting!] We know how crucial media and information literacy skills are in today's world and we see the opportunities in the use of Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool. So how can we continue to support educators to integrate Wikipedia into their

[Wikimedia-l] Pre-announcing Movement Strategy Implementation Grants

2021-04-28 Thread Quim Gil
Hi, here is the DRAFT call for Movement Strategy Implementation Grants. We have published this draft to start the translation work. Also to allow anyone interested to start preparing their applications and ask any questions.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] COVID-19 second wave and protection of our most valuable movement asset

2021-04-28 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Dear Bodhisattwa, Thanks for letting us know, that sounds like a great beginning! Do keep us posted. Warmly, Andreas On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 5:46 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Andreas and all, > > There is some good news. Wikimedia Foundation Community

Re: [Wikimedia-l] COVID-19 second wave and protection of our most valuable movement asset

2021-04-28 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal
Hello Andreas and all, There is some good news. Wikimedia Foundation Community Resources team has given permission to CIS-A2K to allot funds to reimburse vaccines, send COVID protection kits and provide counselling for Wikimedia volunteers in India. CIS-A2K has consulted Foreign Currency

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF transfers $8.7 million to "Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund"

2021-04-28 Thread Julia Brungs
Hi Andreas, Thank you for bringing these questions together here. As you are aware the questions and answers are also on meta (both the talk:Endowment [1] and the talk:Fundraising [2]) and we expect to post further answers to those talkpages during the US West Coast daytime today. Thank you very

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing an academic conference on Wikipedia translation

2021-04-28 Thread Hillun Vilayl Napis
Dear Mark, I am Hillun from Wikimedia Indonesia. We are interested to join the conference. If we participate online, will the costs be the same as what is stated on the website ? Regards, -- Hillun Vilayl Napis (She/Her) Wakil Sekretaris (*Deputy

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Atayal Wikipedia and Seediq Wikipedia are officially online !

2021-04-28 Thread Joyce Chen
Hi All, Many thanks! I will pass all of your wishes to the two community! and David, Thank you, we felt very excited too! There will be more Taiwan's indigenous language go live on Wikipedia! to Galder, Good question! I should learned more form the community rather than being their

[Wikimedia-l] 2020 Report submission of Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group

2021-04-28 Thread Kyi Phyo Htet via Wikimedia-l
Hello! Greetings from the Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group. I would like to submit the 2020 Activity Report[1] on behalf of the Myanmar Wikimedia Community User Group.[2] We apologize for the delayed submission of the report because of the current crisis and internet restriction in

[Wikimedia-l] AfroCROWD Events Bulletin

2021-04-28 Thread AfroCROWD
96 the afrocrowd bulletin for april / may 2021 catch up & connect with afrocrowd: the initiative to increase awareness of the wikimedia and free knowledge, culture, and software movements among potential editors of african descent! we are hosting free and open virtual training opportunities on

[Wikimedia-l] Episode1 of WikiAfrica Hour Vodcast with Katherine Maher

2021-04-28 Thread ceslause
Hello fellow wikimedians! Hot on this wonderful interview with Trevor Noah, we are honoured to be able to ask you to join us today for the launch of WikiAfrica Hour, where Ceslause Ogbonnaya will interview Katherine Maher on her journey through Wikimedia and her impressions of and hopes for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WLE 2021 Q announcement

2021-04-28 Thread Olga Lidia Paredes Alcoreza
Hi Anastasiia! >From Bolivia we have the intention to be par of this year edition, what we have to do? Hugs, Olga El mar, 6 abr 2021 a las 16:16, Anastasiia Petrova (< anastasiia.petr...@wikimedia.org.ua>) escribió: > Dear Wikimedians, > > The international WLE team is delighted to share

[Wikimedia-l] COVID-19 second wave and protection of our most valuable movement asset

2021-04-28 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Dear Bodhisattwa, Could I ask you to please keep us up to date on the further Wikimedia response to your request? I would love to hear about anything good that is happening as a result of your having asked here – and if nothing useful is happening, I would love to hear about that too – here or

[Wikimedia-l] You can now login to Diff with your Wikimedia account

2021-04-28 Thread Chris Koerner
Hello I have an update to share about Diff, the Wikimedia community blog.[0] You can now log in with your Wikimedia account to submit comments, draft posts, and translations to Diff. Visit the login page and select "Login with MediaWiki". [1] Try out the new Wikimedia login feature by leaving a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF transfers $8.7 million to "Wikimedia Knowledge Equity Fund"

2021-04-28 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Hi Lisa and all, Could you provide any update on what is happening with the $8.7 million in the Tides Advocacy fund? I asked about it on the Endowment talk page on Meta two weeks ago, and while many other questions there have been answered, this one has not. I also asked on Meta how much money

[Wikimedia-l] Mailman3 is now deployed to production, mailing lists are upgrading

2021-04-28 Thread Amir Sarabadani
Hello, TLDR: Mailman3 is now available for general use, all mailing lists will be migrated in the next couple of weeks, providing everyone with a much better mailing list experience. You will notice some changes, let us know if you run into issues. Long version: We're happy to announce that