[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Hackathon: Call for Sessions

Hello all! Are you planning to attend the Wikimedia Hackathon from May 20-22 next month? We hope to see you there! The main event will be held online. We have an open call for sessions on our schedule page

[Wikimedia-l] notability and content gaps on Wikipedias (WAS: Re: An Open Letter to Maryana Iskander)

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 2:46 PM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi thanks for sharing! > > I would agree on many of the issues there, is why you think writing to > Maryana Iskander would make things change since the foundation has no > editorial rights on

[Wikimedia-l] Re: An Open Letter to Maryana Iskander

Hi thanks for sharing! I would agree on many of the issues there, is why you think writing to Maryana Iskander would make things change since the foundation has no editorial rights on Wikipedia ? Maybe the solution lies in a better system rating the articles. For me there would be no problem

[Wikimedia-l] Register for Contribuling – Conference on minority languages and free participative software

Dear all, If you speak a non-hegemonic language or are interested in minority languages in general, please come join us on April 22 at CONTRIBULING [1]! Wikimedia France [2] and Wikimedia Morocco [3] teamed up with the INALCO [4], BULAC [5], NTeAlan [6] and Idemi Africa [7] to put together this s

[Wikimedia-l] Re: An Open Letter to Maryana Iskander

Hi Some comments here too. While in general the points are important and relevant, the 7 and 8 continue to be based on a geographical separation that it's almost updated and is itself discriminatory. If you base the discussion to the war between Europa and America vs remaining world or to White p

[Wikimedia-l] Re: An Open Letter to Maryana Iskander

I sympathise with a lot of what you say, but do you have a workable alternative to reliable sources as currently defined? Peter From: Frederick Noronha [mailto:fredericknoro...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 April 2022 21:19 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: [Wikimedia-l] An Open Letter to Maryana Isk

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open letter on negating race and ethnicity as "meaningful distinctions" in the UCoC

Race and ethnicity have already proven to be controversial in this context, and will probably continue to be controversial, but maybe less so if appropriately defined. Anyway, those who make the decisions carry the ethical responsibility, even if they can avoid legal responsibility. Cheers, Pete

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open letter on negating race and ethnicity as "meaningful distinctions" in the UCoC

The comment from WJBScribe in May 2021 that the open letter mentioned is here: < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Universal_Code_of_Conduct/Policy_text#Concern_with_note_included_under_%22Insults%22> (he also raised it earlier during the English Wikipedia consultation). Was there a determinati

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Open letter on negating race and ethnicity as "meaningful distinctions" in the UCoC

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 1:06 AM Peter Southwood < peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > Definitions of terminology makes sense in any document that is intended as > an enforceable guide to behavior. Without them, whose definition applies? > Cheers, Peter > No document defines all its terms. It'