[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana
Happy news for Botswana :) Congratulations everyone *Belinda Mbambo* Senior Manager: Global Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 6:10 AM Aboubacar Keïta wrote: > Bonjour a tous > Félicitations aux groupes d'utilisateurs du Botswana, un nouveau jour pour > l'Afrique et ses langues. > > Le mer. 3 avr. 2024 à 20:54, Affiliations Committee > a écrit : > >> Hi everyone! >> >> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized >> [1] Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. >> The group aims to to promote the use of Wikimedia and its sister projects >> by the residents of Botswana, and to also help in creating awareness on how >> the everyday Botswana can contribute to the pool of free knowledge, which >> is Wikimedia; most especially in the translation efforts into the major >> local languages (Setswana). >> >> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group! >> >> Regards, >> Jeffrey Keefer >> Chair, Affiliations Committee >> >> [1] >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Botswana >> [2] >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Botswana >> ___ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/3FOIZKGQNR7CWKUHF6GS56F2FKVONTUH/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > -- > > Cordialement > *Aboubacar Keita > <https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Aboubacarkhoraa>* > > * Président * > *Adresse: *Yattaya Marché <https://goo.gl/maps/d2iEoh2FQFC98TwB6>*, Ratoma, > Conakry* > > *Téléphone** : *+ 224 628 09 71 55 <+224628097155> - 654 30 70 40 > *De: *Wikimedia.GIN > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Guinea_Conakry> > > [image: https://m.facebook.com/wikimediaGN/] > <https://m.facebook.com/wikimediaGN/> > > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/J6PAHAWQNXMPR3EJPWXOKOKUAIITJJ3I/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/TS4MYKSQQZNMX6UDSEMRBHNFQOQ35CTH/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Recognition of Telugu Wikimedians User Group
Congrats Pavan and may you have a blessed Ugadi festival. *Belinda Mbambo* Senior Manager: Global Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 6:40 AM pavan santhosh wrote: > Namaskaram <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaste>/నమస్కారం > <https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82> > , > > As a Telugu Wikimedian, I'm delighted to see our user group get > recognition as an affiliate. We submitted our application to AffCom in > August 2022, and since then, the Telugu Wikimedia Community has made > remarkable leaps in defining its strategic direction. On this occasion, I'd > like to share some insights into our work in this area. > > Our community, the Telugu Wikimedia Community, organized a community-wide > conference. This event, enriched by studies, discussions, and > consultations, focused on assessing the quality and status of our projects, > as well as identifying the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead. > These efforts resulted in a strategic document that now guides the Telugu > Wikimedia Community's initiatives. The user group has enthusiastically > begun to undertake activities and projects aligned with this strategic > direction. > > For those interested, you can read our strategy and the journey to its > formation here > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tewiki_Pandaga-2024/Strategy>. > > Incidentally, this announcement comes just days before the Ugadi Festival, > "Telugu New Year," which is a significant festival in Telugu culture, > lending an even sweeter note to this news. > > Best regards, > Pavan Santhosh, > Member, Telugu Wikimedians User Group. > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 10:42 PM Affiliations Committee < > aff...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Hi everyone! >> >> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized >> [1] Telugu Wikimedians User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group >> aims to to grow and promote Telugu language in Wikimedia Projects including >> supporting Telugu Wikimedia communities in India. >> >> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group! >> >> Regards, >> Jeffrey Keefer >> Chair, Affiliations Committee >> >> [1] >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition >> of Telugu Wikimedians User Group >> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Telugu_Wikimedians_User_Group >> ___ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/ZUWYZFY4AU42HYU7J32JVN3AERMXOKWS/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > > -- > Pavan Santhosh. > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/UYSLJRS7HKMQDTQN4KWBUDOOL3FC7B2G/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/GTRBRTCUQQVLVYWCOPTXAQQREEZWELG7/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] Celebrating Alice Kibombo
Hello, Muli mutya! It’s no secret that librarians make amazing Wikimedians. Whether it is because of the shared passion for knowledge or superpowers in working with sources, databases and categories, or the simple fact that librarians are just great human beings, we know that they thrive in the Wikimedia projects. Today, we Wikicelebrate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/WikiCelebrate>a truly amazing Wikimedian and librarian: Alice Kibombo <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AKibombo> – a contributor to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikisource <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Uganda/WikiSource_in_Uganda_2022>, and the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, a #1lib1ref trainer <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3X_-w0tYp4=2854s>, and, in her Wikimedian in Residence role, personally trained ~180 English-speaking librarians in Wikidata!. From a common start as a Wikipedia reader to a transformative role as a teacher and community supporter, Alice Kibombo has become an inspiring figure in the pursuit of barrier-free access to the sum of human knowledge As she says: “Participating in the Wikimedia Movement has offered me the responsibility to be a more responsible contributor, a community resource person as well as a teacher.” Learn more about Alice on Diff <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/12/14/one-librarian-many-achievements-meet-alice-kibombo-librarian-extraordinaire/> as we WikiCelebrate her incredible dedication to free knowledge. 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 <https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/WikiCelebrate>them. Happy celebrating! Winnie, Natalia, and Belinda *Belinda Mbambo* Senior Manager: Global Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/QAHKIOZP65CVL4AGCCFC3KDPTXGJ3X44/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for Transparency Regarding WMF Staff in India
Dear Jayantilal, The organizers of WikiConference India have already shared <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2023/Discussions_and_Feedback> more details about the event including staff engagement. Others invited you <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org/message/NFZWXYLNF74FOEL2YIELHD4QKZDPU3J6/> to follow up on the talk page. CIS also responded to your question <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org/message/BH2BUNYSV7BCNJFNMUW3MFTDGQKDEW3W/> on the list. For your thoughts on their proposal, you can follow up on the grant page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Centre_for_Internet_and_Society%27s_annual_work_plan_for_2023-2024>. Please note decisions about funding are made by the regional funding committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Regions/South_Asia#Regional_Committee> of volunteers and not by Wikimedia Foundation staff. For your questions about hiring practices, you can read more here <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/05/03/building-a-global-staff-community-at-the-wikimedia-foundation/>. If you have a question about existing projects, do feel free to contact that project's leads. Your latest question about scholarships combines affiliate staff and contractors with Foundation staff and contractors. To clarify, staff and contractors of the Foundation are not eligible for scholarships based on their paid work. Often though, staff and contractors of the Foundation come from the community itself and actively contribute to community initiatives as volunteers, and represent that work during different conferences. Best regards, *Belinda Mbambo* Senior Manager: Global Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> -- Forwarded message - From: Jayantilal Kothari Date: Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 3:58 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for Transparency Regarding WMF Staff in India Dear Maryana Iskander and Wikimedia Foundation, I hope I am not disturbing you or have asked you to be in some place which I should not have. Please note that my concerns are only in good faith and not anything more. Earlier also WMF staff have asked community members to respond on the mailing list and I have not done anything new. Why can't you reply ? If you cannot reply then why you cannot atleast acknowledge. Staff continues to take over community work. Some staff are on scholarship to the Education Conference in Europe as volunteers, some for Wiki Loves Monuments Team discussion, some CIS staff in Universal Code Committee etc. Everything cannot be like they are doing in their individual capacity. Please note WMF contractors also take salaries which are higher than the average Indian salary. It is high time that a policy needs to come up on this with community discussion. Many people have said the same on this mailing list. Even if they are allowed, let there be a clear cut policy. Everything cannot be done by saying what they are doing in their individual capacity. If you cannot have volunteers who are only volunteers and not any full time or contractor or with CIS then what is the point. One more person who was a volunteer at Wiki Conference has now become CIS staff. Job announcement came on 31st July 2022 and recruitment in May 2023. So late but they do not care to reply back. I also wanted to ask them if they will do hardware support in their grant but they did not reply. They have a budget of 1 Crore, 75 Lakhs, 82 Thousand and 4 Hundred. This is too much. If they do not want to give hardware then they should atleast talk to the community and share a plan. I will repeat from what I had said before, "This message is a reminder about the necessity of listening when the community needs to be heard, not just when it's convenient. It's a plea for transparency and accountability—cornerstones of our community and the Wikimedia movement.” On Thu, 18 May 2023 at 2:51 AM, effe iets anders wrote: > Hi Jayantilal, > > as I'm reading this, mostly as an outsider from a different community who > has great appreciation for everything that has been accomplished in various > communities in India, I can feel the tension. This is unfortunately nothing > new, and it's an ongoing balance that has to be struck between helping out > as a staff member on one hand, and not undercutting the community to > organize itself on the other. This is a challenge, even with the best of > intentions. This only gets harder when there is a (real or perceived) > struggle for influence/power. I have come to understand that India is an > even more complex situation, due to the influence of CIS. > > I noticed that the WCI organizers have put forward > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2023/Discussions_and_Feedback > in > response to th
[Wikimedia-l] Re: Invitation to WikiAfrica Hour episode 25
Hi Ces, how are you ? Can you talk on mobile right now\? *Belinda Mbambo* Senior Manager: Global Movement Communications Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 10:45 PM Ceslause Ogbonnaya < cesla...@wikiinafrica.org> wrote: > Dear all, > > WikiAfrica Hour episode 25 is the launch of Wikimedia Foundation's *Open > the Knowledge Journalism Awards*! These awards will celebrate the > contributions of journalists who prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion > in their reporting, thereby adding to the ecosystem of fact-based stories > that the public can draw on to add and verify knowledge on Wikipedia and > Wikimedia projects. > > This year’s awards will be focused on the African continent. > > Guests include: > >- Romeo Ramora - Member, *Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards* >Working Group >- Olaniyan Olushola - Member, *Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards* >Working Group >- Winnie Kabintie - Member, *Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards* >Working Group >- Gwadamirai Majange - Member, *Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards* >Working Group > > Date:3rd May 2023. > Time:4pm UTC. > Details: http://w.wiki/5dft > ___ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/IEEQEZ6P4STKPI44LU7LMXECHMRZUMXZ/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/W3JAKQQN3LHDXLNKMH7JUQK66OETALU7/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
