Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Dehalvi Wikimedia Community User Group

[Dr. Manavpreet Kaur]

Congratulations to the team. All the best.

On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, 18:23 Gopala Krishna A,  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is great news. Congratulations to all who worked hard behind this. All
> the best.
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 11:47 AM Bodhisattwa Mandal <
> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > It's so great to see another user group emerging in India, bringing
> forward
> > another diverse community representation and voice. Hope the UGs in
> India,
> > together, will further strengthen the open knowledge movement.
> >
> > Best of luck and congratulations, Dehlavi Wikimedia Community UG.
> >
> >
> > Bodhisattwa,
> > on behalf of
> > West Bengal Wikimedians UG
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, 04:25 Kirill Lokshin, 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone!
> > >
> > > I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has
> recognized
> > > [1] the Dehalvi Wikimedia Community User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User
> > > Group. The group aims to promote Urdu-language Wikimedia projects in
> > India.
> > >
> > > Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Kirill Lokshin
> > > Chair, Affiliations Committee
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Dehalvi_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group
> > > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dehalvi_Wikimedia_User_Group
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the extension of funding by the Basque Government

[Dr. Manavpreet Kaur]

Amazing news. Congratulations to the whole team.

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019, 21:55 Jorge Vargas,  wrote:

> ¡Felicidades, Galder! Buenísimas noticias.
>
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 9:19 AM Isaac Olatunde 
> wrote:
>
> > Good news and thanks for sharing. We'd like to replicate this in our
> > country.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Isaac
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 5:12 PM Florencia Claes <
> florenciacl...@wikimedia.es
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Great news, Galder  And congrats for your fabulous work!
> > >
> > > El mié., 18 sept. 2019 a las 16:18, Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga (<
> > > galder...@hotmail.com>) escribió:
> > >
> > > > Dear wikimedians,
> > > > Three years have gone since we started with the Basque Wikimedians
> User
> > > > Group Education Program, funded by the Basque Government. After two
> > years
> > > > and a half of great enhancing of Basque Wikipedia (more than 2.500
> > > students
> > > > adding more than 1.5 million words on fundamental topics) the Basque
> > > > Government has announce us today the extension of the funding for
> four
> > > more
> > > > years.
> > > >
> > > > In this four years we will try to strengthen our Educaton Program but
> > > also
> > > > open to new areas in order to make our knowledge equity vision
> > possible.
> > > By
> > > > 2024 we will have taken sure steps towards creating a free knowledge
> > > > ecosystem centered at Wikimedia.
> > > >
> > > > Sincerely,
> > > >
> > > > Galder
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[Wikimedia-l] WikiWomenCamp 2020 Community Engagement Survey-2

[Dr. Manavpreet Kaur]

Dear Wikimedians,


I am writing to invite all women (by gender or sex) to participate in
the *Community
Engagement Survey-2* (https://forms.gle/jgrokJf9CwX6iAZU9)  for
WikiWomenCamp2020. The intention of this survey is to identify the
respondent's interests and preferences in order to plan the event more
effectively.

After taking consent from the women wikimedians from different groups and
affiliates (Pre-event survey), we are going to submit a grant request to
organize it in the month of October in India. You can find details about
the Camp here- WikiWomenCamp 2020
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp_2020>. Please feel free to
share your ideas, suggestions and help us update the page. We would also
appreciate any kind of support that you may offer to plan and draft the
proposal.

*Note: The survey will be open until 23:59 hrs IST of 10 February 2020.*

* Please ignore if already done.*
Regards,
Manav
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Member, Affiliations Committee

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[Wikimedia-l] WikiWomenCamp 2020 - Grant Request

[Dr. Manavpreet Kaur]

Hello everyone,


I am glad to share with you all that we have submitted our proposal and
grant request for WikiWomenCamp 2020- Grants: WikiWomenCamp 2020
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WikiWomenCamp_2020> to
the Wikimedia Foundation. The details about the camp and progress so far
are available on the meta page- WikiWomenCamp 2020
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp_2020>. We would really
appreciate you reviewing the proposal and sharing your suggestions/comments
on the Grants:WikiWomenCamp 2020-Talk Page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Conference/WikiWomenCamp_2020>.
If you support the proposal, please endorse the submission with a
supporting statement at-Grants:WikiWomenCamp 2020-Endorsements
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WikiWomenCamp_2020#Endorsements>
.

According to the timeline of the Conference and Event Grants program, the
community can review until 14 February 2020, after that we will start
working on incorporating suggestions, making required changes and polishing
the proposal.

As this is an event where we bring together women from different countries
of the Wikimedia movement, leaders of their respective communities and with
strong experience and proven engagement with the gender gap topic, we seek
your support and guidance to plan and organize this better.

Thank you in anticipation of your much-valued inputs and support.

Regards,

Manav
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New collaboration with the World Health Organization

[Dr. Manavpreet Kaur]

This is amazing. This gives motivation to so many who have been working
tirelessly to provide Covid information on Wikipedia projects. Thank you
and Congratulations to all who made it possible.

Regards,
Manav

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:36 PM Frederick Noronha <
fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to convince more international non-profits and government
> organisations (especially taxpayer-funded research organisations) that it
> would be in their interest as well to share the findings under some
> Creative Commons licenses? FN
>
> SEE:
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/health/wikipedia-who-coronavirus-health.html
>
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 at 20:14, Samuel Klein  wrote:
>
>> *fantastic*.  Thanks all for this, and thanks Jorge for the update.
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:32 AM Jorge Vargas 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Following up on my earlier thread about this, we are excited to announce
>>> a new collaboration between the Wikimedia Foundation and the World Health
>>> Organization (WHO). The collaboration will initially focus on releasing WHO
>>> content such as public-health related infographics, videos, and other
>>> COVID-19 resources under a free license (CC BY SA 3.0) to be shared on
>>> Wikimedia Commons. We are hopeful that these resources will be useful for
>>> volunteers writing about COVID-19 across language wikis and further expand
>>> access to knowledge about the pandemic to people around the world.
>>>
>>> You  can read more about the collaboration announcement in the press
>>> release we published earlier today [1], and see the first batch of content
>>> uploads from WHO on Wikimedia Commons [2]. If you want to help share the
>>> collaboration news on social media, please retweet the Foundation’s account
>>> [3] or share your own post using this toolkit [4].
>>>
>>> I want to give a major thank you and shout out to the volunteers
>>> (including Doc James, Dr. Netha Hussain, John Cummings, and many others)
>>> who have been moving these conversations with WHO forward for years, as
>>> well as to the many Wikimedians providing accurate and relevant coverage of
>>> COVID-19 on the projects that this collaboration hopes to support. We are
>>> so excited to finally reach this milestone with WHO.
>>>
>>> In the coming months, Alex Stinson, from our Community Programs team,
>>> will be working with volunteers to continue sharing details of the WHO
>>> content available on Commons and collaborating with volunteers to
>>> understand how WHO resources might help address information needs and gaps
>>> about COVID-19 on the projects. We need your help identifying the most
>>> useful content. Please join us on the project page on Commons to request
>>> WHO materials, and ask questions or give feedback on the project [5].
>>>
>>> We are excited to celebrate this important achievement in making more
>>> knowledge about COVID-19 freely available to everyone in such a critical
>>> time in the world. Thank you to all who made this possible!
>>>
>>> Feel free to reach out on this thread or to Alex and I directly in case
>>> you have further questions about this collaboration.
>>>
>>> Jorge Vargas
>>> Sr. Manager, Regional Partnerships
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2020/10/22/world-health-organization-and-wikimedia-foundation-expand-access/
>>>
>>> [2]
>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_Health_Organization_COVID-19_Disinformation_Infographics
>>>
>>> [3] https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1319263874303037442
>>>
>>> [4]
>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SCc0uXewzL5CUD2JPQYSYIDs3B63KxdLjprSBsn4kvA/edit?usp=sharing
>>>
>>> [5] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:World_Health_Organization
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:41 AM Zana Strkovska <777.z...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
 The same video translated on Macedonian language is on national
 television
 in my country several days already.
 Regards,
 Zana

 On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, 19:30 James Heilman,  wrote:

 > I have been asking WHO to release COVID19 content (specially videos)
 under
 > open licenses since since Feb 2020.
 >
 > I have spoke with Aleksandra Kuzmanovic who has been involved in their
 > collaboration with Facebook and Twitter etc.
 >
 > They say maybe. But despite a bunch of follow up emails have not
 seemed too
 > keen. It is really a lost opportunity for both of us :-(
 >
 > James
 >
 > On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 9:47 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l <
 > wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
 >
 > >  Some of us sent an email when it was (only apparently) less
 serious but
 > > we got no reply, as far as I know. It was sent by the UG of
 Washington DC
 > > and I contacted WMCH doing that, because they might reach their
 central
 > > office quickly in Geneva if necessary.
 > > Changing some licenses was one of the things I hope