[Wikimedia-l] Muslim prayer room

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Dear friends. I'd like to inform whome it may concern that there will be
prayer rooms for Muslims in wikimania venue. Further details in the link:

https://wikimania.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/2023:Muslim_prayer_room?fbclid=IwAR0-yezviKbDoFQuWEU2vTvpqsbV2X56uSnLF9TOqOiaHkOt_dH8o1Yd84Q

The page will be modified to reflect latest updates. Don't hesitate to
contact me for any further inquiries. Best

Mossab Banat
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Wikimania 2023 program subcommittee member
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Outcomes of June Board meeting + Wikimedia Foundation updates + Board

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Thank you very Much for this highlight. Just want to note that links at "*This
message is being translated into other languages on Meta-wiki" does not
show any translations. I can understand English but just for your
knowledge. Best*

Mossab Banat
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Wikipedia Admin

في الخميس، ١٣ يوليو ٢٠٢٣, ٦:٠٧ م Nataliia Tymkiv 
كتب:

>
> *This message is being translated into other languages on
> Meta-wiki‎العربية • español • français • português • 中文
> *
> *You can help with more languages
> *
>
> Dear all,
>
> Following the June 21 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees meeting,
> Maryana and I wanted to share outcomes from the meeting as well as other
> updates from the Board of Trustees and the Foundation.
>
> == June board meeting outcomes ==
>
> The board held its regularly scheduled June meeting, focusing on approval
> of the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual plan as well as other governance
> matters and strategic topics
> . As the Board
> is making its work more visible, three observers from the Movement
> Charter Drafting Committee joined the board meeting once again, and there
> was also an open Q&A session with Wikimedia Foundation staff immediately
> following the board meeting.
>
> As a part of housekeeping, the Board approved the March meeting minutes
> [1]. Operational and committee updates were shared with the Board prior to
> the meeting itself as a pre-read and did not require Board action; you can
> see the board committee reports here [2].
>
> Trustees unanimously approved the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023-2024 Annual
> Plan
> .
> This year’s plan remains anchored in the 2030 strategic direction, and
> builds on movement strategy recommendations ranging from improving the user
> experience to safety and inclusion to equity; it also expands focus on
> product and technology as well as the Foundation’s own effectiveness.
>
> The plan was informed by a month-long community feedback process that
> began in April. The Foundation collected feedback both off and on-wiki,
> with translations provided on projects in 30+ languages (an increase from
> 14 languages last year). The long-form narrative plan also saw a 203%
> increase in page views on Meta
> 
> from last year to 34,604 this year. Nearly 700 Wikimedians across the world
> also participated in five online conversations with interpretation support
> in 14 languages (AR, EN, ES, FR, HI, ID, PA, PT, PL, RU, SW, UR, JA and
> ZH). I want to thank all volunteers and Foundation and affiliates’ staff
> who helped shape the feedback
> 
> to improve this year’s plan.
>
> Following this, the Board considered a number of topics that support the
> multi-year strategic planning process that I shared in my March email [3].
> In reflecting on Wikimedia’s financial model, the Board received a briefing
> on Wikimedia Enterprise’s governance processes [4], and heard about the
> success of increased collaboration between the Foundation’s fundraising
> team and various language communities on regional banner campaigns. The
> fundraising team will soon be launching its collaboration page for the
> English campaign, building on what was learned last year.
>
> As part of a global socio-technical knowledge ecosystem, Wikimedia’s
> approach to generative AI (artificial intelligence) has been a topic of
> interest amongst many of you, as well as with Wikimedia partners, allies,
> and the public. Chief Product and Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann 
> reflected
> on emerging opportunities and challenges
> 
> we face as a movement, a vision informed by volunteer-led discussions in
> May that highlighted the critical role of human motivation in the field of
> machine learning / artificial intelligence.
>
> == Board recruitment ==
>
> Board recruitment is one of the responsibilities of the Governance
> Committee. The Committee has also spent time on proactively considering how
> future Trustees can learn more about the role and its expectations. This is
> helping to improve the selection process for community- and
> affiliate-selected  seats (the updated Elections Committee membership was
> mentioned here [5]) and build a pipeline for board-selected seats
> recruitment
> 
> .
>
> Currently, the Board

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Blocking users for Palestinian flag

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The name of the file is free Palestine but the picture is just the flag of
the country without any political aspects. Even though I don't find
anything wrong in adding a political point of view to a userpage. Best



في الأربعاء، ٣٠ حزيران، ٢٠٢١ ١:٠٤ ص Gereon Kalkuhl 
كتب:

> Dear 4nn1|2,
>
> Thank you for informing us about the incident. But to be clear: You write
> that it's about a Palestinian flag. Yet actually it's about a flag with a
> statement: free Palestine. There's a difference. And a member of the
> Persian Wikipedia removed the deletion request on Commons and kept the file
> on the same day. I'm not judging anything here, but please be more precise
> in your accusations.
>
> Thank you,
> Gereon
>
> Am 29.06.2021 um 20:34 schrieb Amir Sarabadani:
>
> If anyone is interested to know about this incident. Send me a private
> message and I can explain better.
>
> Best
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 8:17 PM 4nn1l2 <4nn1l2.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Wikimedians,
>>
>> Persian Wikipedia has reached a new level in their arbitrary and
>> nonesense adminship. They have blocked me for placing a Palestinian flag on
>> my userpage (of course they have already removed it from my userpage and
>> you need to see a previous revision of my userpage).
>>
>>
>> https://fa.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1:4nn1l2&oldid=32191672
>>
>> Another user has nominated the file for deletion on Commons!
>>
>> I am admin on Commons myself and I'm fed up with how fawiki is managed.
>> They block users for the most friviolous reasons.
>>
>> What does this mean?
>>
>> Yours faithfully,
>> User:4nn1l2
>>
>>
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> --
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia&Education during a quarantine

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In Wikipedia education program in Jordan i have started call for
participation for all my university students and professors to convert
their courses into Wikipedia online dashboard education:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3086842424700143&id=137597386291343

Mossab Banat
Wikipedia Admin

في الإثنين، ١٦ مارس، ٢٠٢٠ ٢:٢٤ م Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder...@hotmail.com> كتب:

> Hello!
> Millions of students are in forced quarantine these days, so in the Basque
> Wikipedia we are doing an effort to offer teachers activities they can do
> with their students online. It's being a hard work, but this crisis is a
> good opportunity to spread the relationship between Wikimedia&Education.
>
> You can see our main education page here:
> https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari:Hezkuntza
>
> Are you doing similar efforts in your countries?
>
> Thanks
>
> Galder
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Cooperation between Arabic Wikipedia and Taibah University

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Great news My friend. Good for you and thanks for your efforts. Regards

User:Avicenno
Mossab Banat


في الإثنين، ٣٠ ديسمبر، ٢٠١٩ ١١:٠٣ م Ala'a Najjar 
كتب:

> Hello,
>
> I’m Alaa (my Wikipedia account<
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%D8%B9%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A1>).
> This is the first time to post here, as I've been following silently for a
> while. (Thanks for Abbad Diraneyya<
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9>
> -  shown me this mailing list).
>
> Today, we(1) completed our cooperation between Arabic Wikipedia and Taibah
> University in Saudi
> Arabia, as 42 students from the linguistics and Translation Department have
> written 42 articles on Arabic Wikipedia between 21 November 2019 – 30
> December 2019.
>
> You can found the articles list here
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Articles_created_by_Taibah_U._Students.jpg
>
> Arabic Wikipedia tweet about this cooperation
> https://twitter.com/ArabicWikipedia/status/1211717690416603137
>
>
>   1.  4 users from Arabic Wikipedia:
> User:Reemnaif1413
> User:Mishary Al-Dhufeeri
> User:Bander7799
> User:علاء  (Me 😃)
>
> Regards,
> Alaa
>
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