[Wikimedia-l] Re: Roses are red, Salicyna made their links blue and we are here, to Wikicelebrate her with you!

[Wilson Oluoha]

This was a beautiful read.

My interest in Polish Wikipedia and life in rural Poland has just piqued.

Congratulations Salicyna, You've got a new fan.

Thank you Natalia for writing so beautifully too.

Best,


On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 5:28 PM Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz <
macieknadzikiew...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations Salicyna, you deserved it!
>
> For those of you who don't edit Polish Wikipedia (you really should,
> people there are amazing!), if you see an article edited by Salicyna you
> can be sure that it meets all the criteria. Most of her DidYouKnow articles
> go through confirmation without any discussion and corrections. It is a
> pleasure working with her.
>
> I hope you can meet her this summer at Wikimania 2024 in Katowice, Poland!
>
> Cheers,
> --
>
>
> Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz (He/him)
>
> Wikimania 2024 Poland – Team Lead
>
> Wikimedia Europe Board Member
>
> Wikipedia Administrator
>
> User:Nadzik 
>
> ᐧ
>
> wt., 12 mar 2024 o 13:21 Natalia Szafran 
> napisał(a):
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Once again we celebrate an exceptional Wikimedian, this time - an admin,
>> a contributor, a person with many roles in Wikimedia projects.
>>
>>
>> Salicyna knows the
>> struggle of lacking access to knowledge all too well. Growing up in rural
>> Poland, she was a passionate reader with no access to well-stocked
>> libraries and cultural institutions. This was still in the pre-Internet
>> times, and her family, struggling financially, couldn't provide the
>> resources she yearned for. "I remember this unsatisfied hunger for
>> knowledge as stronger and more severe than the physical hunger," she
>> reflects. “Sadly”, she says “millions still face this very knowledge hunger
>> today, restricted by geographical location, poverty, disabilities, or
>> illness”. Salicyna sees Wikimedia projects, with their free access to
>> knowledge and culture, as a powerful tool to help alleviate this yearning,
>> at least partially.
>>
>> Driven by a desire to offer others what she lacked as a child, Salicyna
>> has become a prolific contributor to the Wikimedia movement, boasting over
>> 680,000 contributions across various projects. She wears many hats: a
>> Wikisource admin, an author of well-regarded medical articles on Wikipedia,
>> a Wikibooks contributor, and a passionate photographer on Wikimedia
>> Commons, specializing in roses and seedlings.
>>
>> Today we WikiCelebrate
>>  her
>> contributions to the Wikimedia Movement!
>>
>> Learn more about her Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource contributions and
>> her story on Diff blog
>> 
>> (available in English, French, Polish, Spanish) or Meta
>> 
>> (where you can also congratulate Salicyna!).
>>
>> Each month we WikiCelebrate a different Wikimedian, acknowledging the
>> amazing community, the pillars of our movement. We warmly invite you to
>> participate in the celebrations. If there’s an outstanding Wikimedian that
>> you think should be celebrated, recommend them
>> .
>>
>> Happy celebrating!
>>
>> --
>> *Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska* (she/her)
>> Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (European Region)
>> Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Roses are red, Salicyna made their links blue and we are here, to Wikicelebrate her with you!

[Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz]

Congratulations Salicyna, you deserved it!

For those of you who don't edit Polish Wikipedia (you really should, people
there are amazing!), if you see an article edited by Salicyna you can be
sure that it meets all the criteria. Most of her DidYouKnow articles go
through confirmation without any discussion and corrections. It is a
pleasure working with her.

I hope you can meet her this summer at Wikimania 2024 in Katowice, Poland!

Cheers,
--


Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz (He/him)

Wikimania 2024 Poland – Team Lead

Wikimedia Europe Board Member

Wikipedia Administrator

User:Nadzik 

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wt., 12 mar 2024 o 13:21 Natalia Szafran 
napisał(a):

> Hi all,
>
> Once again we celebrate an exceptional Wikimedian, this time - an admin, a
> contributor, a person with many roles in Wikimedia projects.
>
>
> Salicyna knows the
> struggle of lacking access to knowledge all too well. Growing up in rural
> Poland, she was a passionate reader with no access to well-stocked
> libraries and cultural institutions. This was still in the pre-Internet
> times, and her family, struggling financially, couldn't provide the
> resources she yearned for. "I remember this unsatisfied hunger for
> knowledge as stronger and more severe than the physical hunger," she
> reflects. “Sadly”, she says “millions still face this very knowledge hunger
> today, restricted by geographical location, poverty, disabilities, or
> illness”. Salicyna sees Wikimedia projects, with their free access to
> knowledge and culture, as a powerful tool to help alleviate this yearning,
> at least partially.
>
> Driven by a desire to offer others what she lacked as a child, Salicyna
> has become a prolific contributor to the Wikimedia movement, boasting over
> 680,000 contributions across various projects. She wears many hats: a
> Wikisource admin, an author of well-regarded medical articles on Wikipedia,
> a Wikibooks contributor, and a passionate photographer on Wikimedia
> Commons, specializing in roses and seedlings.
>
> Today we WikiCelebrate
>  her
> contributions to the Wikimedia Movement!
>
> Learn more about her Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource contributions and
> her story on Diff blog
> 
> (available in English, French, Polish, Spanish) or Meta
> 
> (where you can also congratulate Salicyna!).
>
> Each month we WikiCelebrate a different Wikimedian, acknowledging the
> amazing community, the pillars of our movement. We warmly invite you to
> participate in the celebrations. If there’s an outstanding Wikimedian that
> you think should be celebrated, recommend them
> .
>
> Happy celebrating!
>
> --
> *Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska* (she/her)
> Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (European Region)
> Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection

[Dariusz Jemielniak]

Dear all,

(This message is also available in Arabic, French, Igbo, and more 
here)

This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on 
the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board 
invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and 
vote to fill those seats.


The Elections 
Committee
 will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The 
Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from trustees who 
cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee 
selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al 
Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3].  The group is tasked 
with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for 
keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections 
Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].

Here are the key planned dates:

 *   May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions

 *   June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 
15 or fewer candidates apply) [5]

 *   June-August 2024: Campaign period

 *   End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting 
period

 *   October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates

 *   Board’s Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated

Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, 
the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - 
on this Meta-wiki 
page.

Election Volunteers

Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election 
Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and 
their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and 
mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this 
Meta-wiki 
page.

Thank you!

[1] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Results#Elected

[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter

[3] 
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Minutes:2023-08-15#Governance_Committee

[4] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles

[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the 
shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates 
because the 1–3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized, and it would 
be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only 
eliminate 1–3 candidates from the candidate list.


Best regards,

Dariusz Jemielniak

Governance Committee Chair
Board Selection Working Group

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[Wikimedia-l] A Red Wikibase for every Wikipedia

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The two biggest technical changes that had a huge impact on all our
projects were first Commons and then Wikidata. Commons centralised pictures
in one location and this saved Wikimedia a huge amount in storage costs.
Wikidata centralised all the interwiki links in one database and it stopped
the biggest generator of edits in all the Wikipedias.

I have toying with the idea of combining each Wikipedia with its own
Wikibase. It will improve the functionality of both blue and red links.
Disambiguation will be improved. It enables synchronisation with Wikidata.
We link to the OpenLibrary where books can be read by an
international public. Books and scholarly papers will be known at Wikidata
as well enabling the signalling of retractions and citations.

I blogged about this and a more complete expose can be read..

https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-red-wikibase-for-red-blue-and-black.html
https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-red-wikibase-disambiguation-on.html
https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2024/03/another-red-application-epidemiologist.html
https://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-red-approach-to-wikipedia-references.html

What do you think, what is not to like?
Thanks,
  GerardM
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Dagbani Wikimedians User Group 2023 Annual Report

[Abdul-Rasheed Yussif]

Hi Florence,

Thank you very much for the compliments. We are grateful!

Regards,
Abdul-Rasheed

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:16 PM Florence Devouard 
wrote:

> Abdul-Rasheed...
>
> I am so impressed by the quality of your annual report... and generally by
> the excellent maintenance of your UG pages on meta...
> it is not so frequent and it pleases me as I like it when things are clear
> and neatly organized. So I wanted to really underline my appreciation to
> the group generally and to yourself in particular (as the main author of
> the report).
>
> Warm regards
>
> Flo
>
>
> Le 11/03/2024 à 16:56, Abdul-Rasheed Yussif a écrit :
>
> Dear fellow Wikimedians,
>
> On behalf of the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, I am thrilled to share
> with you our 2023 annual activity report.
>
> The year 2023 was a period marked by impactful projects implemented by the
> Dagbani Wikimedians User Group. These projects were carried out
> collaboratively with the User Group's sister language communities, namely,
> the Moore ,
> Kusaal ,
> Gurene , and
> Dagaare  language
> communities. The year also witnessed a significant increase in content
> creation, skills development, knowledge sharing, and leadership growth.
> Kindly read more about it here
> 
> .
>
> Thank you.
>
> Warm regards,
> *Abdul-Rasheed Yussif*
>
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[Wikimedia-l] Roses are red, Salicyna made their links blue and we are here, to Wikicelebrate her with you!

[Natalia Szafran]

Hi all,

Once again we celebrate an exceptional Wikimedian, this time - an admin, a
contributor, a person with many roles in Wikimedia projects.


Salicyna knows the
struggle of lacking access to knowledge all too well. Growing up in rural
Poland, she was a passionate reader with no access to well-stocked
libraries and cultural institutions. This was still in the pre-Internet
times, and her family, struggling financially, couldn't provide the
resources she yearned for. "I remember this unsatisfied hunger for
knowledge as stronger and more severe than the physical hunger," she
reflects. “Sadly”, she says “millions still face this very knowledge hunger
today, restricted by geographical location, poverty, disabilities, or
illness”. Salicyna sees Wikimedia projects, with their free access to
knowledge and culture, as a powerful tool to help alleviate this yearning,
at least partially.

Driven by a desire to offer others what she lacked as a child, Salicyna has
become a prolific contributor to the Wikimedia movement, boasting over
680,000 contributions across various projects. She wears many hats: a
Wikisource admin, an author of well-regarded medical articles on Wikipedia,
a Wikibooks contributor, and a passionate photographer on Wikimedia
Commons, specializing in roses and seedlings.

Today we WikiCelebrate
 her
contributions to the Wikimedia Movement!

Learn more about her Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource contributions and her
story on Diff blog

(available in English, French, Polish, Spanish) or Meta

(where you can also congratulate Salicyna!).

Each month we WikiCelebrate a different Wikimedian, acknowledging the
amazing community, the pillars of our movement. We warmly invite you to
participate in the celebrations. If there’s an outstanding Wikimedian that
you think should be celebrated, recommend them
.

Happy celebrating!

-- 
*Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska* (she/her)
Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist (European Region)
Wikimedia Foundation 
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: [WikiForHumanRights 2024] Learn how to identify topics for the campaign!

[Euphemia Uwandu]

Hi Everyone,

Happy New Week :)

A reminder that the WikiForHumanRights Topic identification workshop is
happening this week on Friday 15 March 2024 at 15:00 UTC. Register

to
join if you haven't already.

We are excited for another opportunity to share the space with you.

Kindly,
Euphemia

On Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 6:48 PM Euphemia Uwandu  wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> The WikiForHumanRights 2024 new theme *‘’Knowledge for a Sustainable
> Future’’* presents an opportunity for us to organize around new topics
> for impact that are relevant for a sustainable future. We want to empower
> organizers and participants to be able to identify such topics that are
> relevant in their context and important for the future.
>
> *This is why we are excited to invite you to register for the topic
> identification workshop
> 
>  happening
> on 15 March 2024 at 15:00 UTC. You will find the workshop useful if you are
> a regional coordinator, local organizer, campaign participant or even
> someone seeking to learn how to identify relevant topics for campaign
> organizing. *
>
> We look forward to connecting and learning with you.
>
> Best regards,
> Euphemia
>
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