[Wikimedia-l] Re: Announcing an academic conference on Wikipedia translation

2021-06-02 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Hi Mark, I strongly suggest that the organizers request a budgetary support through a WMF grant while there is still ample time before the event. Kind regards, Butch Bustria On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 1:40 PM Subhashish wrote: > I totally agree with Rajeeb too. A Wikimedian who is otherwise > v

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chat

2020-08-31 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Hi Amir, Thanks for this great innovation! Looking forward to use this tool in our events from small groups to large ones. For those interested or belong to Asia & the Pacific, you may go to: https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/asia-pacific Kind regards, Butch Bustria On Sun, Aug 30,

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation proposal to call ourselves as the Wikipedia Network, Wikipedia Movement or simply Wiki

2020-06-21 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Hi Folks, There is a proposal initiated by the Wikimedia Foundation to call ourselves the "Wikipedia Network", "Wikipedia Movement" or simply "Wiki". I strongly suggest that the Foundation should allocate time & resources with the Wikimedia community fully involved in *identifying and resolving t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] [Covid-19] Postponing Wikimania Bangkok until 2021

2020-03-18 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Thank you Katherine for this update. We at ESEAP confirm that Wikimania will not happen this year. We appreciate your support and understanding on this recent development. We will continue to collaborate with the Wikimania Steering Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation with the remaining tasks t

[Wikimedia-l] Joint Statement of the ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team and Wikimania Steering Committee on COVID-19

2020-03-12 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Dear Wikimedians, I would like to share to you a statement: *Joint Statement of the * *ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team * *and Wikimania Steering Committee * *on COVID-19* 12 March 2020 The ESEAP Wikimania Organizing Team, Wikimania Steering Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation acknowledge

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Summit 2020 in Berlin cancelled

2020-02-28 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Hi Abraham & Katherine, We understand the decision and it is for the general safety of not just the participants of that meeting, but the communities they represent as well. To Everyone, There is a wiki page that was shared to us in one forum and we wish this page be collaboratively expanded for

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania Scholarships starts February 17!

2020-02-08 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Hello Everyone! As you may know, Wikimania 2020, will happen on 5–9 August 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand. The *Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program* is offering a limited number of scholarships to cover the cost of selected individuals’ travel, conference registration fee, and accommodation to at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing the inaugural members of our new Communications Committee

2019-12-04 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Hi, Best wishes to the founding members of the Comm Comm! Kind regards, Butch Bustria ESEAP On Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 9:06 PM camelia boban wrote: > Nice people, congratulation 🎉 and best wishes on the new role to all. > > Best, > Camelia > > -- > *Camelia Boban* > > *| Java EE Developer |* > >

[Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Asian Month Edit-a-thon : November 1-30, 2019 --- Come and join us!

2019-11-01 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Hello Fellow Wikimedian, We encourage you to participate in the 2019 Wikipedia Asian Month from 1 November to 30 November! Wikipedia Asian Month is an annual Wikipedia contest focused on the promotion of Asian content on various language-specific Wikipedias. Each participating community runs a mo

[Wikimedia-l] Come and join the 2019 Wikipedia Asian Month (Nov 2019)!

2019-10-20 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Hi Everyone! We encourage you to participate at the 2019 Wikipedia Asian Month this November 1-30 either as a participant or a lead coordinator in your language Wiki. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Asian_Month_2019#Communities_and_Organizers Wikimania 2020 will be in Asia (Bangkok, Th

[Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2020 will be on August 5-9. Bangkok, Thailand.

2019-10-08 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Dear Wikimedians, I am delighted to announce that Wikimania 2020 will happen from 5-9 August, 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand. We will announce other details in the upcoming weeks. For now, you may start planning your Asian tour iterinary. You may consider doing a side trip in other ESEAP countries li

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

2019-07-18 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Congratulations to User Group Math! We look forward to have collaboration between User Group Math and the Asian communities in the near future! Butch On Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 7:15 PM Rajeeb Dutta wrote: > Great news and thanks for sharing, all my best wishes to both the > usergroups. > > Best R

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiIndaba conference announcement

2019-07-17 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Hi Bobby, Congratulations to the host and for those behind for ensuring WikiIndaba would be a continuous annual event! We are happy that the community of Africa is growing and improving its footprint in the Wikimedia movement. Like this, WikiArabia, Iberocoop and CEE, we hope that WMF seriously

Re: [Wikimedia-l] อะไรที่ทำให้คุณมีความสุขในสัปดาห์นี้ / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 23 June 2019)

2019-06-27 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Hi Pine, ESEAP Regional Cooperation is very delighted to host Wikimania 2020 with Wikimedia Thailand as chair of the organizing committee. We will be converging this Saturday in Bangkok for ESEAP Strategy Summit (Regional Salon) and also to celebrate the Wikimania announcement and Wikimedia Thail

Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiNusantara

2019-05-08 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Hi Biyanto! Congratulations for a successful conference! Hoping to share your best practices to the entire Eseap group! Kind regards Butch On Thu, May 9, 2019, 10:05 AM Sydney Poore wrote: > Fantastic news. Really pleased to hear of the conference with 100 > participants in Indonesia. 💐

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing our newest chapter, Wikimedia Korea

2019-04-23 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
In behalf of the East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Cooperation (ESEAP) we would like to extend our congratulations to our member country for being elevated as a fully recognized chapter! We are looking forward to our future regional meeting and collaboration! Kind regards, Butch P

Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Foundation events team

2019-03-06 Thread Roman Bustria Jr.
Congratulations to the new events team! Though the East and Southeast Asia and Pacific (Eseap) Wikimedia Community was disheartened by its exclusion in the conference grants program, we are looking forward for better collaboration this time. We have a lineup of regional events and programmes in pl