[Wikimedia-l] Re: Learn how to develop bots in small wiki toolkit workshops

Hello everyone, Thank you for participating in the first Small wiki toolkits workshop last week! We had a bit of a delay in the kick-off. My sincere apologies if you missed the session due to an error in handling logistics on our end. We have added the video recording and the slides on the

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

Hello, OSM Poland community is working on enriching map of border with Ukraine to help Ukrainian refugees access reception points. https://dopomoha.pl/en/#map=7/50.538/24.055 Pull request can be submitted here. https://github.com/openstreetmap-polska/ua-2022-map As Wikimedians, we could do

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

Have proposed that EN Wikipedia adopt a logo in support of Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Switching_our_logo_to_one_in_support_of_Ukraine James On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 3:53 PM Andy Mabbett wrote: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 22:20, Valentin Nefedov >

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 22:20, Valentin Nefedov wrote: > More than 70 Russian Wikipedians wrote open letter to us on our village pump > where they condemned the invasion This is really heartening. I am pleased - but not in the east surprised - to see the signatories include several people I count

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

Thanks for your support! The best "sanctions" WMF can implement is raising awareness about the whole situation. For example, the promotion of Ukraine's Cultural Diplomacy Month 2022 . About Russian Wikipedia: unfortunately,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

I wonder if a banner raising awareness regarding the existence of offline apps specifically Kiwix for when communication goes down would be useful? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile=en_CA=US We also have Internet in a Box, with instruction on how to build your

[Wikimedia-l] Our World in Data (OWID)

We at Wiki Project Med are working to get Our World in Data (OWID) working within a mediawiki environment. 1) We have created a mirror of their website on WMF servers . Hopefully this has allowed us to address security and privacy

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

+1 on the "what can we all do to help?" question. On the VPN topic, I suspect the functionary teams will be pretty open to granting IPBE for folks editing from that region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IP_block_exemption#Used_for_anonymous_proxy_editing has details if anyone needs it.

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

By the way, Andy, should you not have seen this: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/03/01/wikimedia-foundation-calls-for-continued-access-to-free-and-open-knowledge-as-ukraine-crisis-continues/?fbclid=IwAR0k14v7WgnBC33QJOzucOQABp90amfHoXFiKzPgGftLhOXtmFRF3POFSVc Kind regards Ziko Am Di.,

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

A great question! Dear renvoy, antanana and others in Ukraine, please stay safe. Not only, what is WMF doing, but what an we all do to help? Here's a potential Ru block in the works, and a request for better VPN support for editors in the region.

[Wikimedia-l] Sanctions against the Russian Federation; support for Ukrainian Wikimedians

How do US, Geman/EU (for Wikidata) and other sanctions affect our movement and its projects? How is WMF supporting Wikimedians in Ukraine? And - where sanctions allow - supporting Wikimedians in Russia, who are trying to disseminate facts and fight censorship and propaganda? -- Andy Mabbett